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July 27, 2017
Murfreesboro Art League
JULY News
NOTE: The gallery is open to the public on Saturday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and Sunday from 1:00 to 4:00 pm and also still open on Monday nights 7:00 to 9:00 pm! . The gates will be open for parking in the Cannonsburg Village on Monday nights. Do not park on any sidewalk. Don't park on the inner circle, so fire truck can get through. Don't park past end of garden, so fire truck can get to the hydrant. Thanks!
>The Gallery is open 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Saturday, and 1:00 to 4:00 pm on Sunday from May through November. Member Sign-up sheets available at Gallery!! Suzanne maintains Google Sheets document to sign up as well.
>Our regular meeting nights are Monday from 7:00 to 9:00 pm – come join us. July is open studio and we will be open on July the 3rd (4th of July weekend). See Murfreesboro Art League's class agenda below (for the year, see the event Calendar at http://murfreesboroartleague.blogspot.com.)
>Members will be hanging new art work in July so come and check us out.
>July 7 & 8, 2017 are the Uncle Dave Macon Days –Friday, July 7th and Saturday, July 8th. The Gates open on Friday at 11:30 am and Saturday at 9:00 am. The Gallery will be manned from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm each day.
>Murfreesboro Art League Summer Art Camp 2017 for students going into the 3rd grade and older is scheduled for 9:00 to noon daily with Suzanne LeBeau - COST IS $60 PER WEEK as follows: Beginner's classes are July 10-14 and July 17-21. Advanced classes (prior Summer Art Classes or previous art tutoring required) is July 24-28. The Deadline for application: July 5 - Beginners and July 19 - Advanced. Supplies included along with a sketch book for each. Applications and more information available – contact email: email@example.com .
>The Boro Art Crawl is Friday, August 11th, from 6-9:00 pm. The Deadline for entry except Gallery is July 15th. See email@example.com . The Gallery is participating in the Boro Art Crawl in August.
>August Classes are on August 7, 14, and 21. The 7th is colored pencil with Suzanne LeBeau and Kylee Harrison; the 14th is Beverly Hall with watercolor on "Yupo" paper; and the 21st is Phyllis Razo with water soluble colored pencils. Bring your own supplies except for the Yupo paper that will cost each person from a $1.00 to $1.50, depending on cost. Members attend free!!!
Non-members - 1st class is free and $15.00 afterward! Come join us!
> September 2017 classes will be acrylic painting with Mark Jackson and October classes will be pastel art with Reba Hinkle-more later.
>The Great American Race day was on June 26th- at Cannonsburg Historic Village. Lots of antique cars and people! The food trucks were great and we had four to six members painting at the Murfreesboro Art League's Gallery!!!
>Check out Phyllis, Suzanne and other artist's exhibits at the Shabby 2 Chic Salon, Spa & Boutique art show at 1265 Rock Springs Rd., Smyrna, TN on July 14th from 6:30 to 10:00 pm.
>The Murfreesboro Art League building committee will meet at Barnes and Noble at the Avenue on Tuesday, July 11th at 6:30 pm.
>Linebaugh Library Artists for the month of July is Reba, August is Suzanne, September is Phyllis, and October is Michael.
>Featured Artist at Gallery for June/July will be Phyllis Razo.
Dates to remember:
· July at Gallery: July 3rd, 10th, 17th Monday nights is Open Studio. July 24th is our monthly business meeting and July 31st is our "Eatin & Greetin" night.
· July 7th & 8th –Uncle Dave Macon Days and the Gallery will be open.
· July 2017 Summer Art Camp: Beginners –July 10-14 and 17-21, and Advanced – July 24-28 from 9:00 am to Noon.
· August At Gallery – Classes in colored pencil and watercolor classes on Monday nights, August 7th, 14th and 21st, and monthly business meeting, August 28th.
· September Classes – Pastel art – September 4th, 11th, and 18th – more info later as to supply cost. Monthly business meeting – Sept. 25th.
Future planned events:
>An annual event is being planned for this year and will be discussed at the July 24th Business Meeting.
>Plein air event being planned for next year sometime in October 2018– paint out and maybe chuck wagons?? Phyllis Razo is in charge of this event planning.
· President-Mark Jackson;
· Vice President-Norma Holden;
· Treasurer-Phyllis Razo;
· Corresponding Secretary-Reba Hinkle
· Recording Secretary - Kylee Harrison.
· Board members are Kathleen Phillips, Danny Jones, and Bobbie Bittner.
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Injuries Outside of Training
Aside from trauma or overuse, a lot of us put undue stress on our backs and knees when we sit. We sit at work, during commutes and at home. Hours and hours of holding the same position will cause the body to conform and stiffen. A lot of pretty serious health and athletic performance issues stem from sitting too much. So it's best to, whenever possible, alternate between sitting and standing.
Here's another quick tip: While sitting, think about sucking your belly button all the way back to your spine. This will set the muscles of the abdomen and lower back, helping you maintain good posture. Do this a few times an hour while you work or sit and your body will thank you for it.
Non-Athletic Footwear
Clearly there are a lot of choices when it comes to athletic footwear and everybody's got an opinion. But what about the shoes you're wearing the rest of the time? For instance, are the shoes you wear to work, or the shoes you wear when you go out with your friends and family actually comfortable?
Ideally, all of your footwear should keep your feet neutral. Neutral meaning your shoe doesn't have an elevated heel or a confining, restrictive toe. High heels especially are just no good. When in doubt about purchasing a shoe, ask yourself "do my feet feel comfortable and neutral?"
Keep in mind that all of your choices affect your body. The decisions you make while not training will accumulate over time and have a big effect on your health and overall ability. Being kind to your feet at home and work is just one form of preventative maintenance that will ultimately allow you to train more efficiently.


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RAF Avro Vulcan ModelMagnificent and original 1950s painted cast metal alloy Avro Vulcan delta Wing 'V' bomber in RAF livery, on original stand. By the renowned model making firm of Westway Models.Enquire
An early example; the wing shape appears to be the second iteration (phase 2) and the tail is the original design, before it was modified with a new radar jamming system fitted into the later "fat" tailcone.
Dimensions: 22.75 cm/9 inches (length) x 24.5 cm/9⅝ inches (wing span) x 15 cm/5⅞ inches (height on stand).
The iconic Vulcan was a strategic bomber in service with the RAF from 1956 until 1984. It was designed to provide a crucial part of the United Kingdom's airborne nuclear deterrent and played a major role during the early period of the cold war. The Vulcan was a 'new-technology' aircraft. It was essentially a bomber which was designed to evade interception by enemy fighter aircraft through flying fast and high. It is, however, perhaps best remembered for its conventional long range bombing raids during the 1982 Falklands war.#Price £2,400.00 inc. VAT
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Adoption Process
Adoptions between Ireland and Vietnam are now progressing again. For up to date information about the Adoption Process from Vietnam please visit the websites of Helping Hands and the Adoption Authority of Ireland where you will find the most up to date information. HHAMA website also has up to date statistics on adoptions.
A new Adoption Agreement between Ireland and Vietnam was signed today, Monday 24th September 2012. At this time we do not have any further information as to what the new process will be. We will update the website with any changes as we are aware of them.
Here is a link to the announcement with video footage of the actual signing.


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9 April 2015: Gayatri Rajapatni – The Woman Behind the Glory of Majapahit April 30, 2015 – Posted in: Newsletters
This book brings to life some of the most colourful women in history. The author depicts the court which ruled the largest empire ever to appear in Southeast Asia in a believable and accurate way. I hope that this novel will attract more people to learn about the fascinating history of this region. – Dr John N. Miksic (Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore)
The kingdom of Majapahit, once centred in present-day Java, Indonesia, grew to become one of the country's most glorious empires. From the late thirteenth century until the early years of the sixteenth century, Majapahit slowly expanded its reach, incorporating parts of Sumatra, Malaysia and Bali into its realm, as well as many other regions along the Straits of Malacca. Its rich history includes tales of battles with and against the Mongols, of wise kings and queens, and of an inclusive spiritual tradition; its legacy includes Indonesia's greatest works of sculpture, a unique architectural style still to be found in Bali, and epic poems such as the Nagarakrtagama. Many historians have shown that the Majapahit kingdom and its great Prime Minister Gajah Mada first united the many islands of Indonesia together under one rule. By searching through the literature of the era, author and historian Earl Drake found that one historical figure played a key role from the beginning of the Majapahit kingdom until its glory days under King Hayam Wuruk: Gayatri Rajapatni. Born a princess in her father's kingdom of Singhasari, she married Majapahit's first king, gave birth to its first queen, and was grandmother to Hayam Wuruk, its most successful leader. She witnessed the rise of the kingdom, was beloved by its people, and was greatly praised by all after her death. In Gayatri Rajapatni: The Woman Behind the Glory of Majapahit, Drake imaginatively re-creates Gayatri's world, placing her at the centre of Majapahit's great history. Rich in historical detail and dramatic prose, Drake's story sheds light on one of Indonesia's forgotten leaders, and one of its most powerful kingdoms.
Author Earl Drake spent most of his long career as a diplomat trying to promote cooperation and understanding between Canada and other countries, mostly in Asia. He gradually worked his way up from mid-rank assignments in Pakistan, Malaysia and Burma to senior positions as Canada's Executive Director at the World Bank in Washington and then as Ambassador, first to Indonesia and later to China. During his international career, he never forgot his academic training in history and his early days as a university lecturer, an archivist, and a commissioned author of a civic history book. After retiring from Canada's Foreign Service in 1992, he took up new positions initially at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University and later at the University of British Columbia. These have enabled him to combine his interest in history with his career focus on fostering Western understanding of Asia.
This work transports us to an exposition of a historical figure who was instrumental in the rise of a dynasty which became the largest imperium in the Nusantara. With an attractive narrative and the use of primary sources on Majapahit such as Nagarakrtagama and Pararaton, this book is most suitable as an introduction for all those who are interested in the classical period of Asia. Adrian Perkasa (Executive Director, Indonesian Heritage Trust), author of Orang-Orang Tionghoa dan Islam di Majapahit (The Chinese and Islam in Majapahit)
Gayatri Rajapatni is now available from Areca Books. RM40 (hardcover)/RM30 (paperback)
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Native Oysters Making a Comeback
Olympia oyster sites in West Sound:
Liberty Bay near Scandia: Nearly 300 cubic yards of oyster shell was laid down as substrate for Olympia oysters. Remarkable success in 2005 and 2006 has led the group to plan an expansion next year and beyond.
Brownsville: A total of 130,000 oyster seed were spread in 2000 and 2002 with good success.
Dogfish Bay, Poulsbo: A total of 89,000 seed spread in 2000 and 2002 with good success.
Discovery Bay, Jefferson County: A total of 183,500 seed spread in 2003 and 2004. Because of silt, survival is poor.
Sandy Hood on Agate Passage: A total of 59,000 seed were spread at Kiana Lodge in 2002 and 2006. New baby oysters are setting naturally.
Lemolo Shore and Dogfish Bay, Poulsbo: A total of 79,200 seed were spread at the two sites in 2006. Results are uncertain.
Belfair State Park: Plans are to spread 500,000 native oysters next year.
Federal officials recognize the success of the Puget Sound Restoration Fund.
By Christopher Dunagan
@TEXT Dateline:Bainbridge island Ten years ago, Puget Sound Restoration Fund was trying to figure out how a single nonprofit organization could improve Puget Sound.
After a few years of working on streams and wetlands, the Bainbridge Island-based group launched a major effort to restore the Olympia oyster to its natural place in the ecosystem. This small, native species had largely disappeared and was all but forgotten after the Pacific oyster was imported from Asia in the 1920s and became a commercial success.
By forming partnerships with shellfish growers and the U.S. Navy, Puget Sound Restoration Fund has planted oysters and laid down oyster shells to rebuild Olympia oyster populations throughout Puget Sound. Olympia's Budd Inlet and Poulsbo's Liberty Bay were among the first and best places to be planted, according to Betsy Peabody, the group's executive director.
Much has been learned since those first efforts in 1999, Peabody said.
"We've discovered Olympia oysters in some surprising places, including a saltwater swimming pool on Bainbridge Island," she said.
Another abundant cache was found in a lagoon at Manchester Fuel Depot.
Since then, more than 7 million oysters have been placed at about 80 sites.
At first, those involved with the organization embraced the idea of placing baby oysters, known as "oyster seed," wherever they would grow, Peabody said. But experience has proven that many areas needed only an adequate substrate, such as oyster shells, on which oyster larvae can set and grow.
"I would say," said Peabody, "that the strategy has shifted toward habitat enhancement and away from seeding."
Oysters, which are filter-feeders, efficiently clean up waters where they live, removing algae that can affect eelgrass beds and create low-oxygen conditions. Peabody calls the little shellfish "ecological superstars."
In February, Puget Sound Restoration Fund will celebrate its 10th anniversary, following on the heels of a federal Community-based Restoration Program. The federal program, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary by planting oysters on property near Olympia owned by Jay Manning. Manning, a Kitsap native, is director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
At part of the celebration, Peabody and her group were recognized with a federal Excellence in Restoration Award.
The federal program has provided funds to help groups restore more than 680 acres of wetland, streamside and shoreline habitats in Washington state, according to NOAA officials. More than 8,000 volunteers have been involved in related groups.
Peabody says her group will continue to work on Olympia oyster restoration, while using the larger Pacific oysters for selected water-quality projects. One such effort is a recent pilot project in Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island.
"We have done some work with abalone in the San Juan Islands, where natural recovery may be unlikely," she said. "We're very interested in getting involved with that."


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text: Adrian Maurice Henri, British poet and artist (born April 10, 1932, Birkenhead, Cheshire [now Merseyside], Eng.—died Dec. 20, 2000, Liverpool, Eng.), was one of the three "Merseybeat" poets who gained renown when their works were published in The Mersey Sound (1967), which remained a best-seller. He was primarily a painter, however, and he also led the Liverpool Scene rock and poetry band, taught, and wrote children's books and stage and television plays.


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The Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) regional office for Southern Africa calls on interested individuals from the SADC region to apply for their participation in a regional "future workshop" to be held from 21 to 24 April 2013 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Applying the future workshop methodology, the four-day meeting will seek to identify critical topics around and innovative approaches towards resource governance in the Southern African region.
The workshop forms part of a global process leading up to an international Alternative Resources Summit in September 2013 that will seek to develop visions and strategies for future action with regards to resource extraction and consumption.
Suitable candidates must meet the following criteria:
- The applicant is a SADC citizen and below the age of 35 years.
- The applicant has English language skills sufficient for following the proceedings and also for contributing actively.
- The applicant has proven experience (through work, voluntary activities or research) in the field of resource governance in one of the following sectors: oil/ gas, minerals, land, water, forests and biodiversity.
- The applicant has the ability and willingness to step back from his/ her organisation's viewpoint, think outside the box, and is able to look beyond his/ her own field of expertise.
Applications should be completed in English and include an up-to-date CV as well as an essay or an artwork with a synopsis on the state of natural resource governance today and a vision for the future in context of any individual SADC country (between 700-1000 words).
Applications must be submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com by the 15th of February 2013.
For more detailed information check out the following PDFs:
Feel free to contact HBF for more info.
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*Why a series on the Unabomber now?*The same week Theodore Kaczynski pled guilty to murdering three people and injuring many more, the Monica Lewinsky scandal erupted in Washington. Even without a sensational Presidential crisis, it's doubtful that Kaczynski would have captured the media's imagination for long after the conclusion of his case. But with the emergence of a scandal involving sex, the US president, and a young intern, the story of the reclusive bearded murderer, bombs, and technology's value vanished almost instantly.
But the Unabomber and his story are still stuck in my mind and in my imagination.
Kaczynski, in his murderous rampage and rambling manifesto, hoped to raise issues about technology and its complex, controversial role in all of our lives. He intended for his trial to be a forum, even to the extent that he was prepared to face the death penalty rather than declare his ideas and writings to be the work of an insane person.
The reporters covering the trial were never interested in that debate, however, and once he struck a deal with the government, he vanished completely from sight, probably never to reappear. It's hard to picture him chatting with Barbara or Diane anytime soon. Enough time has passed since his arrest and conviction to give us some perspective on him and on the issues he so rashly tried to raise.
I wrote this series haunted by the idea that the Unabomber business was unfinished, both for the sake of his victims and for the many issues raised by his dreadful work. This is as good a place as any to bring some of it into focus, especially since that isn't likely to happen anywhere in our so-called mainstream media.
In 1995, in an astounding act of media manipulation, a serial killer identifying himself as a member of an anarchist faction called the Freedom Club prevailed upon The Washington Post and The New York Times to publish a 35,000-word essay, "Industrial Society and Its Future," that came to be known as the Unabomber Manifesto. If the papers published his tract, he promised in an accompanying letter, he wouldn't kill any more.
From his manifesto, and from the extended murderous rampage that preceded it - three dead, more than a score injured - it's clear that Theodore Kaczynski hoped that his campaign of terror would finally focus attention on the subject he cares most about: the damage that technology causes.
As rambling and convoluted as the manifesto is, its message is simple - the world is being destroyed, and technology is the means with which human beings are destroying it. Technology and the people who create, advance, and use it must, therefore, be halted by any means, including maiming and murder.
"Many people understand something of what technological progress is doing to us yet take a passive attitude towards it because they think it is inevitable. But we don't think it is inevitable," the manifesto says. "We think it can be stopped."
Despite his isolation, in some ways Kaczynski had his finger on the public pulse: there is enormous unease about technology. We sometimes seem obsessed with technology's manifestations - from fertility drugs and cloning to pornography on the Internet. But Kaczynski was wrong if he thought we wanted to talk about it.
Sandwiched between those other media explosions, the death of Diana Spencer and the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the captured Unabomber was on the public stage only briefly. Though he'd succeeded brilliantly for years in avoiding arrest and punishment for the pain and suffering he'd caused, he stumbled badly when it came to grasping the ethos of modern media and the American public's short attention span.
In the journals FBI agents found in his tiny Montana cabin, modeled after Thoreau's, Kaczynski wrote of his fear that his campaign against the technologically driven industrial society would ultimately be trivialized as the work of a "sickie." Had Kaczynski known as much about media as he did about bombs, he would have seen that such a fate was inevitable. It was the chase, not the message, that fascinated the press.
Kaczynski was so determined to avoid being marginalized that he pled guilty to murder without any chance of parole, rather than pursue the only option that might conceivably have freed him one day - an insanity defense.
But when Kaczynski finally agreed to the plea, eliminating the need to stand trial, he left not only the stage but our consciousness. He never did get to make the argument begun in the manifesto, to launch the national debate about technology he desperately wanted to have - and that we sorely need.
Ironically, that may have been the most severe penalty our society could have inflicted. Kaczynski seems certain to languish in near-obscurity for the rest of his life as our culture rushes forward, scoring one technological breakthrough after another, spared the tedious business of having to ponder their consequences.
We can't seem to get comfortable with technology. Movies from The Net to Terminator to Dark City portray bleak futures ruined by technology and its evil uses.
One book and article after another warns that our society is becoming de-civilized, our culture demeaned, our children endangered by the Information Revolution. "The technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ride into the unknown," the Unabomber wrote in one passage. Plenty of anxious parents, uneasy academics, and moral guardians in Washington share that sentiment.
Technology's impact on any one of these issues - medicine, media, family, education, environment, economy - could occupy platoons of scientists, ethicists, and historians for months. Kaczynski was ready to engage them all.
In his monomania, he thought his existence in itself might be important enough to spark such discussions. Once he was in custody, however, he was not nearly glamorous enough to excite journalists for long.
One of Kaczynski's victims even argued that to permit the Unabomber to argue about technology was to reward him for homicide.
In his book Drawing Life, Surviving the Unabomber, Yale computer scientist David Gelernter, permanently injured by one of Kaczynski's bombs, bitterly criticized the media's portrayal of the Unabomber as in any way thoughtful or interesting.
He cited People magazine's naming Kaczynski as one of "the most fascinating people" of l996, and a newspaper's running Gelernter's and Kaczynski's views on technology side by side, as examples of Unabomber coverage pushing beyond obnoxiousness into the realm of evil.
In his book, Gelernter complained that "the payoff this particular criminal sought (and it's the same with other terrorists) was attention for his ideas, in hopes of our dignifying them with serious discussion. It was up to us: Would crime pay or not? We thought it over and decided yes."
From his perspective, Gelernter's views are entirely understandable. But they leave us without the means or opportunity to focus on technology and whether it is a good witch or a bad witch, or both.
As political scientist Langdon Winner reminds us in Autonomous Technology, from medieval times to the rise of the Industrial Revolution to the Hiroshima bombing, technology has always provoked puzzlement, disorientation, and fear. In England, the Luddites took up arms to try to halt the impact of the onrushing Industrial Revolution.
In a much less rational way, Kaczynski saw himself as taking up arms to stop technology and what he deemed its devastating effect on human and ecological life. It's understandable why the bomber's victim might not care to kick around the rationale behind these murderous assaults. But the question for the rest of us, is who, precisely, will?
Next: Kaczynski as both Dr. Frankenstein and monster.
Related links:
David Gelernter interviewed on HotSeat
HotWired's Unabomber Special Report
Katz's Netizen column after Kaczynski's capture
This article originally appeared in HotWired.


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Illuminotronica: The Unique Italian Event on Solid State Lighting
LED technology is getting more and more pervasive, being able to provide, to those who know how to use it properly, high benefits in terms of light quality, color rendering, flexibility and energy savings. A technology that has to be controlled, modulated and driven by electronics and that can bring light where before it was not possible. In a market, that of Solid State Lighting, which is still growing very fast.
Growing market, advanced technologies, lower costs and new performances represent new business opportunities. Opportunities that Assodel (the Italian Association of Electronic Suppliers, that represents more than the 85% of the electronic components market) is ready to seize by promoting the unique professional event in Italy addressed to the LED world.
The lighting supply chain on stage
At its fourth edition, Illuminotronica - from 9th to 11th October in Padua - represents the effective benchmark to understand LED lighting industry dynamics and to get qualified answers by selected specialists.
The lighting supply chain and professionals play a major role in the fair: in fact, the event is aimed at those who install, design, produce or apply SSL (components for lighting suppliers, luminaires manufacturers, installers, system integrators, lighting designers, architects, industry/public administration/trade buyers).
Illuminotronica, with its lectures, debates, workshops, arenas, roundtables, BtoB meetings, free training courses, demo areas in addition to publications, directory, awards, exhibitions and events, aims at informing and sensitizing the Lighting Community on three priority drivers:
1. Technologies
Components and functional elements, driving, power supply, control, thermal dissipation sub-systems, sensors, regulations and standards; photometry and colour; new technologies and materials etc.
2. Applications
Equipments and lighting systems; planning and design, analysis. Focus on Contract/Commercial - or the commercial spaces, hotels, restaurants, stores, offices, public spaces lighting.
3. Market
National and international data and market trends; components cost and availability; benefits and savings with energy efficiency; economic calculation but also international opportunities for the lighting industry.
Efficiency, design and innovation awards
Illuminotronica is not only the Solid State Lighting marketplace, but also an opportunity to enhance innovation and design "made in Italy".
Even in 2014, three awards will recognize excellence in products and installations, in order to increase LED lighting culture.
The Ecohitech Award, in its sixteenth edition, is addressed to public administrations and municipalities which adopted LED technology in urban lighting, obtaining significant results in terms of energy savings, reduction of CO2 emissions and citizens' well-being.
The LEDin Award (along with the Custom Prize) strives on young talents and new ideas, offering the possibility to realize a lighting project or product, thanks to the collaboration of manufacturers.
Last but least, the Codega Prize – International Light Design Prize, focuses on creativity, enhancing LED installations in the Contract/Commercial sector. The Codega Prize is assigned to lighting designers and professionals who presented remarkable projects and solutions in Commercial (*) applications.
A prize promoted in Venice by professional authorities, in occasion of Illuminotronica, pointing to projects and solutions using SSL - Solid State Lighting - technologies.
Note concerning the etymology: From the greek "odegos" (guide), Codega was the name given in Venice to the "carrier of light" after that a law, in 1450, had imposed on citizens the use of a light for people walking in the city after three in the morning, because of the darkness and the increasing aggressions.
Further information: www.illuminotronica.it


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Songstress extraordinaire Patti LaBelle has reportedly agreed to pay New York mom Roseanna Monk (pictured below) $100,000 to settle a lawsuit over claims that she hurled a bottle of water at the woman, then went into a tailspin using curse words and abusive language in front of the woman's young child, Genevieve, reports the New York Post.
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The two women had a heated exchange in a New York City apartment building lobby back in November 2010. Reportedly, LaBelle became infuriated when Monk decided to let her 18-month-old daughter play in the Upper West side apartment building's lobby. The New York Post reports that the Grammy Award-winning singer allegedly used the f-bomb and referred to Monk, a former kindergarten teacher, as a c**t.
During the out-of-control confrontation when Monk accused LaBelle of making Genevieve hysterical, the 68-year-old singer had to allegedly be held back by her security team, then forcibly swept into a waiting vehicle.
When LaBelle refused to apologize for her alleged belligerent antics, the mom and her husband decided to go the legal route and sue.
After the suit was filed in the Manhattan federal court last year, LaBelle did not feel that she was to blame for the child's "personality changes, sleep disorder" and "increased fear of stranger(s)" which were alleged in the suit. LaBelle also denied that she was "liable in any way for any alleged claims of injury" and said the Monks were "more than 50 percent at fault."
The Monks $100,000 out-of-court settlement will be donated to the Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund. Monk told the New York Post, "This is an opportunity for Patti LaBelle to help a lot of children, and I feel good about that," she said.


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Moving up to University
A series of top tips to help you survive the first few weeks of university! Good Luck!
- Created by: Rachel Coleman
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Top Tip:
Uni washing machines will often only take £1 and 20p coins - have a 20p pot and save them up!
(and any that you end up not using can go towards your food budget on your last week!)
Part Time Job
Getting a part time job alongside your studies is recommended, as long as it doesn't interfere with your lectures!
It also gives you chance to get some work experience for when you leave uni and go out into full time work.
Get started ASAP before all the jobs go!
In Self-Catered Halls, your budget will probably mean that most of your food will be cheap, unhealthy junk food.
Try to make meals in batches and freeze portions for another day which saves time, effort and money!
Choose supermarket basic or own brand products if you can as it is normally considerably cheaper than branded foods and they taste the same!
Midnight Snacks
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Drink plenty of water before you go to bed and try to resist the temptation of the kebab on the way home.
If you wake up in bed with said kebab... you might want to take heed and use it as a warning to stop the late night nibbles!
Make sure you attend all of your inductions; such as the library, online information and your modules. It's also the best time to get to know people on your course.
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Liberty Counsel activists Mat Staver and Matt Barber are jubilant over a court ruling that a Houston nondiscrimination ordinance must be put up for a popular vote, even after the city found that opponents had not gathered enough valid signatures to put it on the ballot.
Barber declared on a recent episode of LC's "Faith and Freedom" program that not only was the Texas Supreme Court decision a "victory for the rule of law," but it was a victory for women and children who will no longer be in danger of being attacked by "perverts" in "miniskirts."
"This is a victory for those of us who are standing firm for the rights of children and women not to have their privacy violated by men in miniskirts who are pretending to be women," he said. "Who knows what sort of perverts and potential predators we're talking about here, placing women and young girls at risk, primarily."
Staver added that Houston's Mayor Annise Parker, "this pro-open-lesbian" pursued the nondiscrimination policy because, like President Obama, she has no "moral compass."
"You get these kinds of people in power," he said, "and it's dangerous because they don't have any parameters of moral compass that will direct them to do what's right, even though it goes against heir personal opinion. They just want to achieve an objective."


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Faith Works 10-11-08
Jeff Gill
Sing, Shout, Celebrate, Support
Ephesians 5.19 reminds us of the role "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs" have in Christian communities, from the earliest days of the church.
Spiritual songs may have been an assortment of things in the earliest days of the Christian church, but the musical label "spirituals" is the unique blend of African traditional forms carried to this continent by the unwilling immigrants aboard slave ships, mixed with the Scots-Irish traditional music of congregational singing in the southern highlands.
While early urban and cultured American worship still hewed close to the classical forms of the Old World, the participatory art form of congregational singing, encouraged by traditions out of Welsh singing and northern European Pietist practices, helped to bring about the art form that we now call "Gospel music."
Gospel music is a wide river with many tributaries, flowing down out of the highlands and down through verdant swamps, coming together into a Big Muddy of gospel music rolling power, drawing so many sources into a single deep expression.
Gospel can have a country sound among white folk, a distinctly African form with rural black hymn singing, and all these streams converge in the roots of blues and jazz and rock and roll, but the idea and ideal of "Gospel music" endures for all races and ethnicities in this country.
So if you go to a Gospel music concert, you may hear what you expected, or you may hear something more; you are almost certain to hear music that takes you beyond your expectations.
The Licking County Coalition of Care, a co-operative outreach ministry of 43 Christian congregations in this county (43 and counting!), has put together a Gospel Celebration for Sunday, November 2nd, at 4:00 pm in Newark's Midland Theatre. You can click to www.midlandtheatre.org for ticket information, if you go to "tickets" and look under "Gospel Celebration" for Nov. 2.
They've got Vintage Voices, Christian Apostolic Church's Sanctuary Choir, a quartet from First United Methodist Church in Newark, the choir from Shiloh Baptist Church, the Granville High School Chamber Singers, and even more groups scheduled to sing between 4 and 6 p.m.
Churches that purchase a block of 20 seats can get that chunk of theatre for $15.50 apiece, but you'll be buying individual seats the "day of" for $17. So check www.midlandtheatre.org or call 345-LIVE. You can buy single tickets for that amount on Nov. 2, but why not buy a block of 20 seats now, and gather up the faithful to come and fill them?
It won't surprise anyone to hear that in the last few weeks, this faith-based group has heard from an average of over 100 families a month, people needing support for their efforts to keep the lights on and stay under a roof. The Coalition of Care has tried in their first couple years of existence to meet and pray with families asking for aid, spending an hour and a half in follow-up conversation with households that average 4.3 persons per home.
"Putting God's love into action" is the emphasis this community group keeps as their priority; The Coalition of Care works to maintain an ongoing level of conversation and communication with those they assist, using funds offered by local congregations through the co-ordination of the Coalition of Care.
You can learn more about their mission and plans at www.coalitionofcare.com, or call 670-9700. But right now, they need people and particularly churches to buy up blocks of seats immediately (20 seats @ $15.50 each, vs. $17 per otherwise), and then make sure to fill those 20 or more seats with church members and friends – put people in those seats who need not only a little spiritual boost from listening to the superlative singing of spirituals, but also the chance to get excited about the coalitions and collaborations that mark Licking County charitable outreach.
And your columnist has been invited to participate, not as a singer – it's safe to come listen, then – but as your Master of Ceremonies. Wa-hooo! I hope to meet many of you on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 2, for a marvelous afternoon of Gospel music in all the forms that wonderful art can take, from 4:00 pm forward. I suspect that the wrap-up will give us all a chance to sing along a bit, and between the economy and the election, we could all use a little singing together.
"Joyful Voices, Helping Hands" – watch for the posters and flyers, and come join us that afternoon. I'll be the one singing just a little bit off-key, off to one side!
Jeff Gill is a writer, storyteller, and supply preacher around central Ohio; he's looking forward to preaching at St. Paul Lutheran tomorrow where we'll "recall" the old Trinity Episcopal building that's been in the news lately. Tell him a tale of history at email@example.com.
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NemoPhoto- how do you connect the 5D MK4 to the laptop?What I want to do is carry around a flash unit and fire that from my phone while checking the results on the phone.So this needs to work with a smartphone and have more than a few feet of range.
You need a long USB 3.0 cable with the micro connector (not the square-ish block). In the States, there's a site called tethertools.com that sells 15 ft long USB cables. I'm not sure, though, why you'd want to connect to a laptop, but use your phone? It is possible with Canon iPhone/iPad app, though I don't use it since it's really not productive for me and as I mentioned, seems to use more battery. You can use the phone like a remote release, if my memory serves me well, as well as review images (on iTunes, Canon Camera Connect). If I'm going to tether, and shoot RAW especially (which I do 99% of the time), a physical connection is still the best and fastest route. I wish Canon had put an Ethernet port into the 5D4 as they have on the 1Dx. When I tether with that camera, I usually use a 50 ft. cable and transfer speed are way faster. My suggestion, honestly, is to abandon the use of the phone, unless you are using it as a "client review tool". I have done that with my iPad when I had to tether and shoot in the studio. But, I've found it buggy and slow. I usually will use the smallest JPEGs sent to the mobile devise while I save RAW to the laptop.


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Have you noticed the cheerful song of the dawn chorus recently? The warmer weather and longer days has spurred most male bird species into song, hopeful to attract a mate. This means we will be out on-site undertaking breeding bird surveys until the end of August. As all bird species are protected while nesting it is important to establish there are none utilising sites before work begins.
There are numerous bird species in West Yorkshire but identifying all of them can be difficult (especially when they're always so fast and far away which is why a good pair of binoculars is always on hand for breeding bird surveys). Here is a small flavour of the bird species that could be nesting in your area:
The house sparrow Passer domesticus
One of commonly seen birds, the house sparrow has actually been experiencing a gradual decline over recent years which means it is important to maintain sparrow nesting sites. They are communal nesters, and can often be found nesting in crevices on the walls of buildings.
How to identify:
A small robust bird, the males are easily recognisable from their grey caps and white cheeks. Female house sparrows are better camouflaged than their male counterparts but still bear distinct stripes in buff and tan on the back of their wings.
It is good to know exactly how a sparrow looks and then when something else more unusual but also small and brown appears you'll know it's not a sparrow!
(Photo:Andrea Eichler, CC BY-SA 3.0, wikimedia)
The black bird Turdus merula
One of the most recognisable and lovely songs is the one sung by the blackbird. Not fussy about where they build their nest you can find an untidy looking cup of grass and twigs anywhere from hedges/trees to outbuildings or even on the ground.
How to identify:
The males are distinctively glossy black with bright yellow/orange bills and eye rings. The females are dark chestnut brown with lighter dapples on the throat and chest. Their bills are brown with a hint of yellow along the edge.
Blackbird nest
Photo:Andrea Eichler, CC BY-SA 3.0, wikimedia
The barn swallow Hirundo rustica
Often found nesting in barns and stables they build their cup shaped nests from mud and dried grass. A well known migrator swallows arrive in the UK in April from Africa to breed.
How to identify:
Often mistaken for the similar house martin or swift. Swallows have deeply forked tail with long streamers and a rusty-red chin patch.
Barn swallow in flight
Barn swallow with chicks
Photo:Andrea Eichler, CC BY-SA 3.0, wikimedia
Western Jackdaw Corvus monedula
Our smallest member of the crow family, commonly seen in mixed flock stealing all the food from garden feeders. They are famous for their use of old churches to build their nests but also commonly roost in chimneys.
How to identify:
A small black corvid with a grey nape and distinctive white eyes. Both males and females appear the same.
Photo:Andrea Eichler, CC BY-SA 3.0, wikimedia
The wren Troglodytes troglodytes
One of our smallest garden birds. The male wren makes several bell-shaped nests (sometimes up to 12) to attract a mate who then chooses her favourite and lines it with soft feathers and hair. Nests are often tucked into holes in walls or buildings or in bushes or ivy.
How to identify:
A very small squat brown bird with short wings and a short tail.
Distinctive shape of a wren nest
Photo:Andrea Eichler, CC BY-SA 3.0, wikimedia
The blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus
A well-known cheerful garden guest, the female builds a nest from moss in any suitable hole she can find. These can include cracks in walls, open vents and even unused post boxes!
How to identify:
One of the most recognisable of our birds with their white cheeks, yellow breasts and bright blue crowns. Smaller than most other tit species.
Blue tit
Photo:Andrea Eichler, CC BY-SA 3.0, wikimedia
If you think you may have one of these or another bird species nesting on your site then give our ecology team a call to discuss how to proceed.
Photographs by Andrea Eichler


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Backstage Diving
Searching for rock revelations.
By Shelly Ridenour
MAY 26, 1998: Exposés have long been a part of the music business, not because truth is the hail hail holy grail of rock 'n' roll, but because we're all voyeurs. AC/DC speaks for the 17-year-old hedonist in all of us. Glamorous, seductive and nihilistic, it's the American dream of all the sex, drugs and power chords you can scoop up in fifteen minutes. But what goes on backstage, in the land of the All Access pass? Are our heroes - and villains - really as untouchable and bewitching as they seem on MTV, onstage and in Rolling Stone?
Like "The X-Files," the truth is out there; or at least exclusive and dubious interviews with wives, husbands, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, long-long uncles, distant cousins, groupies, maids, therapists, and hairdressers are out there. Anyone remotely associated with an artist is ripe for the publishers' picking. Francis Bacon once said, "No pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage-guard of truth." The more salacious and sensational that truth, the better. As ex-Eagle Don Henley wryly sings, "It's interesting when people die. Give us dirty laundry."
It used to be that fans were content simply refusing to believe their dead rock icons were six feet under. Jim Morrison is anonymously growing old on some tropical isle, while Elvis lives his life-after-death haunting Burger Kings across the country. There seems to be little contention that Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain is indeed dead as a doornail, however. So the bone Ian Halperin and Max Wallace worry in their new book, "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?," is a good old-fashioned murder conspiracy. Depending on how you look at it, the bone is either ridiculously lean and clean or intriguingly streaked with fat.
Did Seattle police bungle the city's most famous suicide case? Did grunge widow Courtney Love have her hubby offed because he was threatening to leave her, or leave Nirvana, or leave rock 'n' roll for good? And did the butler - er, nanny - do it? Halperin and Wallace, a pair of award-winning investigative journalists from Canada, don't so much answer these questions as they do dance around them with a spotlight, coyly raising their eyebrows all the while. The circumstantial evidence comes from Tom Grant, a Los Angeles private dick originally hired by Love; convinced she was actually hampering his investigation, Grant removed himself from the case but continues his probe to this day.
His findings, as seen on "Unsolved Mysteries" and countless tabloid "news" shows, are certainly intriguing. No fingerprints were found on the 20-gauge shotgun Cobain used to kill himself, nor were any fingerprints lifted from the pen supposedly used in writing the suicide note. The heroin levels in Cobain's blood were triple a lethal dose; forensic pathology experts say it would be impossible for someone who had just shot up this much heroin to pull the trigger - in essence, Kurt should've been dead before he killed himself. Also, the late El Duce of the Mentors, a legendary punk rock nihilist, claimed Love offered him $50,000 to off Cobain - and passed a polygraph test stating as much.
"None of these [findings] by themselves prove a murder took place," the authors admit, "but certainly offer a compelling justification for a new investigation or, more accurately, a first investigation."
An interesting, fleshed-out, and well-told story, "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" also vividly recounts the singer's childhood in what he referred to as "the white-trash hell" of Aberdeen, Washington. Devastated by his parents' divorce, shuttled back and forth among half-interested family members, and suffering from debilitating stomach problems, Cobain spent his adolescence disappointing his athletic father, experimenting with narcotics and basement-brewed beer, and hanging out at early Melvins' practices. Kurt is painted as the poor, misunderstood soul (the chapter on his childhood is even titled "Lost Boy"), while Courtney comes across the scheming, manipulative, too-smart-for-her-own-good bitch. Maybe that's true, but Halperin and Wallace's words carry the weight of bias and a tone of disdain, crossing the line of journalistic integrity into the popular sport of Courtney-bashing.
Subjects who cooperated with the authors (Love wasn't one of them) get much more sympathetic treatment, and their credibility is certainly suspect. Love's father, former Grateful Dead manager Hank Harrison, has strong anti-Love opinions about the case and is ready to tell anyone who'll listen, even hitting the lecture circuit promoting his own book on Cobain. Harrison, long estranged from his daughter, never even met his son-in-law. Yet he calls Cobain a "Zen master," and, as Harrison see it, "Zen masters don't kill themselves."
By nature, then, "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" is a skeptic's book. But even for those wary of the author's insinuations and sources, the book remains a thoroughly fascinating and entertaining read. Shorter on substance and long on, well, wind, is the revised edition of Boze Hadleigh's wannabe tell-all tome, "Sing Out - Gays and Lesbians in the Music World." Hadleigh has made a career out of chronicling rumors and accusations about silver-screen celebs in books such as "Gays in Hollywood" and "Lesbians in Hollywood." "Sing Out," first published in 1991, ostensibly strives "not solely to dish dirt or expose the secret lives of America's performers," but also to "chronicle the ways in which gays and lesbians have changed the face of the music world."
Unfortunately, Hadleigh flits about among not-so-juicy tidbits, largely focused on stars who were big decades ago. Less Rudy Vallee, more Melissa Etheridge, please. Conversely, blues legends Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Moms Mabley surely deserve more than a page (for a better source, see Eric Garber's "Tain't Nobody's Business - Homosexuality in Harlem in the 1920s"). And a single chapter doesn't do justice to the topic of gay composers (according to Hadleigh, running the gamut from Tchaikovsky, Handel and even Beethoven to Copland, Foster and Mahler).
Maybe to make more room he should've left out bits on hetero stars rumored to be gay: Alice Cooper ("the adopted female first name" led to "lavendar innuendos"); Hall & Oates ("both were attractive, so the rumors were strong"); and Duran Duran ("when the individual members contracted marriage, the groom was inevitably prettier than the bride"). And maybe Hadleigh got his book revisions mixed up; how else can you explain the endless ruminations on John Travolta, Lily Tomlin, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, et al? What "Sing Out" could use is a good editor. Hadleigh's writing style wants to be chatty and catty, but is instead flighty, flat and uncohesive. The book follows no particular timeline or logical pattern, often repeating itself as if telling a story for the first time. Too often, what Hadleigh calls evidence is both embarrassing and a set-back to efforts by groups like GLAAD. The worst: a single-sentence (but twice-told) bit about Bruce Springsteen in which the Boss was photographed leaving Tower Records with the rental video "Kiss of the Spider Woman." Hadleigh teases lamely, "perhaps Bruce is as open-minded as he is broad-minded?" Oh boy.
Anyone just looking for the naughty bits will be tantalized by seemingly well-substantiated reveals about David Cassidy, Rick Nelson and Sammy Davis, Jr. - but you can just pick up a copy of Star for that.
Hadleigh could take some lessons from NPR contributor Bruce Feiler, who expertly employs three subjects (superstar Garth Brooks, evolving diva Wynonna and rising hat-wearer Wade Hayes) to illustrate "the changing face of Nashville" in his book "Dreaming Out Loud," an above-board and behind-the-scenes look at contemporary country music. Feiler pulls no punches, offering a real warts-and-all look at a genre that, for all its drinkin' and cheatin' and heartbreakin', usually puts on a front of sequins, spangles and big hair. He never uses his pen to airbrush over the artists' insecurities or egos, even if you can occasionally read between the lines to hear his true feelings and frustrations. Country music fans will enjoy "Dreaming Out Loud" for its insider's view of artists in the studio, back stage, in the management offices and at photo shoots. Garth Brooks comes across as a big-hearted, introspective, down-to-earth family man, an image questioned by industry insiders accustomed to his ruthless, stubborn business acumen. Wynonna, on the other hand, is still suffering from public perception as a pouty, reckless business naif, trapped under mama's thumb. Behind the scenes, though, she assumes a sort of spiritual serenity.
Newcomers to the country music hayride will no doubt be amused by colorful tales of Fan Fair ("the annual backstage festival-cum-family reunion in which 24,000 die-hard country music lovers flock to Nashville in early summer for the chance to rub cheeks with their favorite stars"); the CMA awards (and the promo tactics the stars resort to); and an autograph-signing at a rural Okie Wal-Mart - at first kitsch, but ultimately pure entertainment. And both sides will enjoy Feiler's zippy, straight-forward style (occasionally bleeding into rainbow prose), which steps back and allows the performers' personalities to come through. Simply by describing the people and their actions, he never has to pass judgment.
Feiler has a remarkable eye and ear when it comes to recounting a scene, and a vividly distinctive voice with which to recount it. "Think of Faulkner's Snopeses hanging out at the food court," he writes, "eating fried chicken, and simultaneously cozying up to and smothering one another, and you get a sense of what it's like being around most country artists when they come in contact with even their most casual fans." Even better for readers looking for good dish, Feiler - an admitted late convert to country music - was granted a remarkable level of access to his subjects on all levels, from home and family to backstage and in the studio to business dealings with label heads and marketers. "Dreaming Out Loud" is impressively researched, thorough and credible. Feiler is the rare pop-culture author who, after turning over rocks, guitars and dead bodies, has found the truth: that is, he kept his eyes focused on both his subject and his own aspiration - entertainment.
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Big news on Gudrun V: Liz moved to Auckland last week Sunday. She had stayed on board a lot longer than originally planned (18 months vs 6 months), and together we crossed the Pacific from the Galapagos to the Marquesas. A journey of 23 days without sight of land - not bad for a big-city girl that doesn't like the sea. Thanks for hanging on tough girl!
But now that we are in Polynesia we have a little conflict of interest. Liz wants to get to New Zealand as quickly as possible. Her family and preparations for our new life (and the wedding) are waiting. I am also very much looking forward to stepping back on land. But I don't want to pass these unique islands without getting to know some people or without exploring their underwater world. While for me this is the chance of a lifetime, all that diving is a little repetitive for her. I guess you have to be a little crazy about diving and photography to want to do it day after day. So we decided that while I'm spending time with the fishes, she'll spent some time with her family. With the option to come back on the boat and sail between the islands.
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Next-generation IT leaders take heed: Everyone hates process. The evidence is all around you. From the help desk to the corner office, employees do their best to subvert even the best-intentioned processes whenever they seem inconvenient.
The solution isn't a process-free IT organization -- that way lies chaos. It's knowing how to bypass your processes when they don't fit the situation, yet not lose control. After all, next-generation IT should be focused on creating value in collaboration with the rest of the business, a mandate that requires both a firm hand and flexibility.
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IT practices vs. IT processes
Small IT shops rely more on practices than processes, and as I've argued before, organizing some key functions into "practices" is a key component of next-generation IT, even for the biggest IT organizations.
"Process," you'll recall, refers to a way of organizing work that relies on a well-defined sequence of steps that lead to repeatable, predictable results. Sounds good, doesn't it? Sadly, the more organizations rely on well-defined processes, the more rigid, bureaucratic, and overly formal they feel, both to the employees who staff them and to everyone who works with them. They increase overhead, too (aka the cost of keeping the lights on).
"Practices," in contrast, rely much more on individual initiative and creativity. As a result, they feel less formal and more fun. They also, as it happens, increase adaptability and reduce fixed costs.
This doesn't mean practices are superior to processes. It means most people, most of the time, like them better. One look at the traditional help desk shows you all you need to know.
Learning from the help desk
As IT organizations grow, it's something of a tradition that they do everything they can to discourage users from calling their favorite IT analyst when they encounter a tech problem.
First they establish a formal "service desk," (the official, ITIL-approved synonym for "help desk") equipped with incident tracking software to make sure no problem falls into the cracks. Then they define a standard incident management process for analysts to follow, down to the sequence of troubleshooting steps, including the invariable first one: insisting that callers reboot their computers. When the knowledge base of troubleshooting procedures is exhausted, help desk analysts escalate the incident to the proper queue of theoretically interchangeable problem-solvers.
Meanwhile, "favorite analysts" -- those who have established reputations for solving problems quickly -- are instructed to refuse any and all calls for assistance. They may only work on incidents the help desk escalates to them.
When an IT organization institutes this sort of incident-management process, there's only one certainty: Everyone will hate it, for the same reasons everyone hates all business processes. It traps everyone into a one-size-fits-no-one way of dealing with situations, and because the help desk is the part of IT that everyone has the most contact with, all of IT's reputation suffers.


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The Best of B&O – Top Frog Series – Volume 8
Green Frog Productions
Format: DVD
Length: 55 minutes
Time Period: 1950's – 1990's
Locations: Chicago, Louisville, Blue Island, Toledo, Delray Jct., Marion, Pittsburgh…
Sources: Bill McClellan, Emery Gulash, Jerry Carson, Roger Koenig, Steve Neff, Frank Schlegel, Gene Miller
Green Frog has assembled B&O film from it's huge catalog. There are some familiar photographers and seasoned fans will be able to tell some of the identities by some trademarks. Emery Gulash film pops out with that beautiful 16 mm film. Jerry Carson prefers, but not always, low angles and he sometimes shoots tight to the track. Quality ranges from good to excellent.
All the shots are narrated and depending what program they were on originally , you have the varied voices. The scenes jump around, keep in mind, this is a best of… type program. The convenience of having all this material in a single DVD, makes up for some inherent choppiness.
We start with a snip of black and white , proceeding to all color film. Fantastic B &O steam action, in color. At Chicago, steam types: 4-8-2, 2-8-2, 0-8-0. Steam fan trips leaving the city. Fast freight service with T-1, 4-8-2 Mountain type on freights. Two Doubleheaded T-1 freight trains! Nice segment.
Passenger trains are heavily shown. The name trains such as: The Capitol Limited, Cincinattian, Metropolitan. Amtrak era George Washington behind B&O E8 units. Shenandoah, Cherry Blossom Special, are some others. Heavyweight cars are plentiful. E8 locomotives wear a variety of paint: original, sunburst, solid blue, blue and gray. I like the GP9 torpedo geep in the sunburst scheme, with an F7A in original paint! All of these constant passenger trains do get repetitive.
Way too many Cincinattian. Otherwise, the assorted equipment, paint, weather, and locations of the other trains, keep it liveable…more or less.
There is some good freight action within the show. Not enough early freight for myself. I always want more freight trains. Starting to wonder if there just isn't much film of B&O freight in the vault. Still there are: GP30, SW7, GP9, F7A,F7B, NW2, … in the 1960's. C&O checks in with a GP30 and a pair of GP9's. Chessie System, CSX
The show is in chronological order, for the most part. You'll recognize some of the shots from previous Green Frog programs. Much of the steam and those 1960's freight, I haven't seen before. Another shot was from Michigan Fast Freight ( a great show), St. Louis Sojourn, and footage from Penn Central shows, also appears. You'll probably see some shots that are new to you.
There is a great shot of four Blue Sunburst GP30's leading a piggyback Trailer-Jet train.
Chessie System 4144 arrives with a freight at Riverdale along with 2 B&O painted units. That GP40 is a real eye opener after 20 odd years of blues. It was just the same effect, when the scheme first appeared, and became an instant classic. Good moment.. The Frog!
This is a fine show for B&O, Chessie and CSX fans. Also a good one for young and/or newer railfans as it does portray the evolution of this railroad. A very good train video.
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When Lynn Athavimol had lunch three decades ago at a Union City Thai restaurant, she had no idea that a plate of rice noodles was about to change her life. The chef there, a former policeman who exchanged his gun for a set of cooking knives, had made Lynn a plate of pad Thai. At first bite, she thought, "I have to marry this guy."
About three years later, she wed Pyrote Sawangwan. The couple, who have been at the forefront of the North Bay's Thai-restaurant scene since the late '80s, recently opened Lynn's Thai in Cotati's Apple Valley Plaza. Pyrote works his magic in the kitchen; Lynn runs the front of the house.
Old friends and new fans of the couple's restaurants are finding a warm welcome at Lynn's Thai. Regulars praise the authentic Thai food they came to love when Lynn and Pyrote owned Thai House in Santa Rosa from 1991 until 2004. They keep coming back for Lynn's convivial company, and newcomers rejoice when they discover Pyrote's dishes.
"I think we've eaten in just about every Thai place in the county, and this is the best," said Philip Tamarkin, eating for the first time at the restaurant. Tatiana Tamarkin said she appreciated the "beautifully presented dishes" and "lovely" soup. "They got the spices just right," Tatiana says.
Stopping in for a lunch special recently, I was greeted with a steaming little bowl of tom kha gai, a coconut-milk soup with cilantro, kaffir lime leaf, lemongrass and the pungent gingerlike Thai spice called galanga. The soup was rich but not heavy, satisfying but not too filling, allowing me to enjoy the artfully presented red curry chicken.
The entrée was served on two plates: one had a fresh mixed-green salad topped with a sprig of parsley, a pair of sliced spring rolls with dipping sauce, and a little pyramid of brown rice. Alongside the appetizer plate was a square bowl of red curry with strips of skinless chicken, bamboo shoots, zucchini and other veggies in a savory sauce. Like the kind of real Thai food served in Thailand, it had a hint of sweetness to complement the chili but wasn't cloying. The lunch combo cost $9.25, an excellent value.
The restaurant's atmosphere is clean and light, with a few framed prints of the Buddha, Thai scenes and wine country images. Even the kitchen, visible from the dining room, seems serene. "The Buddha is calm," Lynn says. "We don't want to bang pots and pans because the Buddha likes a quiet peaceful place."
Unlike some restaurants that make you feel they're doing you a favor by letting you eat at their establishments, Lynn's diners feel they're part of an extended family. That's why so many were disappointed when Lynn and Pyrote sold Thai House in 2004. The restaurant had a loyal following, but Lynn and Pyrote had earned some time off.
Coming to the United States as immigrants, they had worked grueling jobs. Lynn toiled for five years as an inspector at Teledyne, checking microwave parts under a microscope for $3.15 an hour and doing piece work in a clothing factory, getting paid 2 cents to sew cuffs, 50 cents for a collar. Pyrote had labored at a friend's restaurant, first sweeping the parking lot, then washing dishes before working himself up to the cooking line. Owning their own restaurant was a big step that left the couple with little free time.
After working long hours for almost 20 years, Lynn says, "We thought, why not take a vacation? We were working like slaves, we had no kids, so why not travel while we still have energy? If we'd had kids, we probably would not have gone back to Thailand."
Lynn and Pyrote were the loving parents of a baby who died when just 14 months old. "I got pregnant again but had a miscarriage, and then another miscarriage," she remembers. "I was 42, and I said that's it." At that time, she says, "I felt we'd come to this earth for nothing, but we picked ourselves up." Alchemically, Lynn seems to have transformed the devastating loss of her child into a greater sense of family she extends to her customers.
After selling Thai House, Lynn and Pyrote shipped some of their worldly goods to Thailand, where they planned to settle, and sold the rest. Then they embarked on a world tour that took them to France, Switzerland, Italy, Israel, Jordan, Australia, China, Cambodia and Vietnam, mostly places they'd never seen.
They rented a car in Europe, leading to typical travel spats. Given the challenges of driving in Europe, "the travel agent said it's amazing we're still married—we argued all the time!" Lynn says. The couple landed in Chiang Mai, a much smaller (population 170,000), less polluted and easier to navigate city than Lynn's native Bangkok (population 10 million).
Embracing their never-ending love affair with food, the couple took cooking classes in Chiang Mai. Friends from the North Bay visited, and Lynn took them on elephant rides and to anaconda shows, as well as to vibrant open-air food markets.
After four years of living the good life in northern Thailand, Lynn and Pyrote, both in their early 50s, decided they were too young to retire. They returned to the North Bay and opened Lynn's Thai in October. Monday, the only day they close, isn't quite a day off.
"In Thailand, it's easy to find ingredients," Lynn said, "but here we have to go to Asian markets" in Santa Rosa or San Francisco. The couple often spend Mondays on Clement Street in the Richmond, shopping and then eating at friends' restaurants to compare recipes and cooking styles.
Today, Lynn noted, Thai places are numerous, but Lynn recalls that when she opened her first restaurant most people had no idea what Thai food was all about. "When the first Thai House opened [in 1989 in Rohnert Park], we had one customer," Lynn says, "and he didn't come into eat—he was looking for a bus. We gave him a tea. We made 85 cents that first day."
To bring in customers, Lynn invited people from Thai temples to stage Thai classical dance shows in the restaurant. "We offered $15 for dinner and dance performances; there was a line out into the street," she says. Today, Lynn doesn't need to hire dancers to lure customers. It's Pyrote's food, and Lynn herself, that keep them coming back.
Lynn's Thai Restaurant, Apple Valley Plazaon Highway 116 just west of Highway 101, 8492 Gravenstein Hwy., Ste. M, Cotati. 707.793.9300.
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The output for most animators is measured in frames/second/feet of animation. When I started in this business I was a little dubious about quota. It seemed to me to put a lot of pressure on the artists. It also is a rather blunt tool. Not every frame is the same amount of work. On the first productions I led we had no quota. On the productions I run now we barely have a quota. The problem with the quota for most studios or productions is that it doesn't answer the question, "what is it for?"
The reason that animators need to make a certain amount of animation is to stay on schedule. The schedules are based on assumptions like, 12 animators animating 30 seconds/week, the episode will be done in 2 weeks. This all makes sense, except when an animator can't make 30 seconds/week. Again not all frames are equal.
While I don't use quota in my productions. I still follow this reasoning. I make my schedules based on this rate of production. Instead of using it as a quota we use it as a benchmark. We track our rate of production to this benchmark. We track it on an episode basis. It looks something like this.
We like this because it gives us context. It tells us when we're behind and when we're ahead. We can adjust accordingly and hit the deadline. It takes the pressure off the individual and spreads it across the team. I hope other people try out this method too.


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Welcome to Camping Cap Sud, your 3 star campsite at Alenya!
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The CAP SUD campsite is located at Alenya, 4 km from St Cyprien and 250 metres from the village, near to shops (bakery/convenience store, post office, pharmacy and doctors).
An authentic village located between sea and mountains, 4 km from the beaches of fine sand of the Mediterranean and the Canet pond (home to pink flamingos, egrets and kingfishers). Don't miss the magnificent sunsets! Welcome to the Catalan region, a region full of wealth (natural, archaeological and historic sites, Cathar castles). Near to the sea, our campsite enjoys a privileged location.
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The campsite offers you different accommodation, mobile homes, cottages, Bengali tents, chalets and shaded pitches for a friendly atmosphere!
The snack bar is available throughout the season: mussels with chips, pizza, salads, takeaway dishes. Not forgetting the themed nights with various activities: bingo, pétanque, karaoke night, Catalan skittles tournaments. In July and August, children's entertainment is offered from Monday to Friday for around an hour, a moment of leisure for young and old on the swimming pool terrace in the shade of the palm trees…


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2004: The year of the Digital SLR?
Mike Tomkins
(Friday, December 12, 2003 - 11:19 EST)
A 16 page report published by Popular Photography and Imaging Magazine this month makes a number of significant predictions for the immediate future of the digital imaging marketplace - a new Minolta Maxxum Digital SLR, possibly two new SLR and lens lines from Pentax, two new 4/3-type SLRs from Olympus, new medium-format digital bodies from Mamiya and Pentax and a lot more besides.
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, based on a visit by three or their editors to tour the Japanese Photo Industry's big names, for the full story. In brief though, these are what we see as the key points they've made - as for their validity, only time will tell (items listed in the order Pop Photo chose to put them):
Fujifilm is aiming for longer battery life and wider lenses on point and shoot cameras. It also believes that retailers may be overpricing CDs of digital images, and says that the total cost of digital prints and a CD should be no more than that of film prints and processing. The company is working on enhancing its Frontier labs to attract more customers with features like automatic redeye removal.
Nikon is apparently set on using APS sensors in its Digital SLRs, believing that they can still gain sufficient image quality. However, they are apparently continuing 24x36mm sensor research regardless. Nikon projects that the next round of digital SLRs will have resolutions of 8 megapixels or higher.
Canon has decided to settle on 24x36mm sensors for its pro SLRs, and APS for the amateur models. Reasons for choosing the larger (and more expensive) sensors for pro cameras are better saturation, greater ISO range, less noise and better wide-angle possibilities. With the exception of some special wide-angle lenses, Canon is not intending to make a line of lenses aimed at its APS-sensor digital SLRs.
Minolta may be about to make the plunge into the DSLR world with a 90% operational sample of a Digital Maxxum by PMA 2004, to be on the market by Photokina (September / October 2004). This camera will apparently have "a big surprise" feature.
Pentax is envisioning two digital SLR lines - one that is even smaller, lighter and cheaper than the *ist D (possibly as light and small as their film SLRs), and another line that is feature-rich and will offer image stabilisation (either in the camera body or lenses).
Olympus is planning two more 4/3-type Digital SLRs to follow its pro-oriented E1 - a medium priced version (probably to be shown at Photokina), and one aimed at amateurs (target date unknown). Both cameras will likely have built-in flash, and an independent lens manufacturer may soon begin producing a line of 4/3 lenses.
Kyocera is putting its DSLR plans on hold temporarily, but is considering an APS-sensor camera in the future. In the meantime, the company is concentrating on its point and shoot cameras, with the goal of reducing shutter lag as close to zero as possible.
Unlike Canon and Nikon who do image stabilisation in-lens, other manufacturers are looking at putting either mechanical or optical stabilisation functionality into the camera body where *all* lenses would benefit. Nikon is also considering putting stabilisation into its point and shoot cameras, whereas Canon apparently feels the feature is not necessary in such models.
Mamiya is considering a new 10+ megapixel medium format digital camera, and possibly new anti-shake lenses to go with it. Pentax is also considering a new medium format digital, but may opt for a 24x36mm sensor to reduce costs.
Unsurprisingly, industry execs want to see digital cameras and their manuals become simpler to use, fearing that potential customers are being scared away by the complexity.
Camera phones may soon be due for optical zoom lenses and built-in flash from power-friendly LEDs, with the suggestion being that camera phones will kill the market for 2-3 megapixel point and shoots.
Ricoh is dropping camera stores in favor of selling its products through its Business Equipment Division
All in all some very exciting stuff, and we've only summarised certain key points - for the full story,
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The Bachelor's Women Tell All: What You Didn't See
Get off-camera scoop on Chris Harrison, Courtney, Shawntel and Casey's ex-boyfriend
The Bachelor and The Bachelorette specials are edited together from clips of a marathon day of alcohol-fueled bickering, bawling, bad-mouthing and broken hearts. And The Women Tell All installment for Ben Flajnik's season, which taped Feb. 24 in Hollywood, did not disappoint when it aired Monday.
It was the first time a contender still in the running for the final rose appeared on the reunion and, considering the fireworks that occurred when the women confronted Courtney, it was well worth it.
As controversial and dramatic as it played out on television, there were memorable moments (and even more profanity, courtesy of the "chihuahua" Samantha) that did not air. As Blakeley told PEOPLE after the show, "It was pretty darn crazy in there." Here are five things you didn't see on TV:
1. The host was sick: Chris Harrison knows the show must go on even when he has the flu. His decreased stamina and fading voice led to more chaos than usual, but even a sick host has a breaking point. When Casey was defending Courtney, someone blurted out that she was only sticking up for her because "she's getting you modeling gigs." Harrison replied, "When you slide your jabs in and talk over each other, you are no better than the girl you are slamming."
2. Stuck in the spotlight: In the middle of Courtney's emotional segment, Harrison felt faint and retreated to his dressing room for 30 minutes, leaving the mopey model in the hot seat. But a field producer came over to comfort her. Their brief conversation included mentions of cigarettes, smeared makeup and what she wanted to say. As her tears dried up, she thanked the producer. "I'm a deer in headlights," she said. "I'm glad you came out here. You made me feel better. I'm not feeling emotional now."
3. A concerned grandmother: Shawntel revealed that the negative comments about her wide hips and thick thighs when she returned to the show hurt her feelings and made her grandma worry. "She called me the night the show aired and said, 'You're going to eat tomorrow, right?' " Shawntel said.
4. It's all an act: Jennifer gave a demonstration (which spanned the entire length of the studio floor) of Shawntel's ("offensive," according to numerous contestants) entrance the night she returned to woo Ben. "I've been practicing the walk," Jennifer said. She also showed of her anti-Courtney T-shirt that looked like a play on the Ghostbusters logo.
5. Casey is single. Ben said he regretted Casey's barefoot exit when it was discovered she might still be in love with her ex, but there was no official update on her romantic status. After the show, however, she told her side of the story exclusively to PEOPLE.
According to Casey, her relationship ended when she left for The Bachelor. She is no longer dating the man in question but she says he now wants to get married. "I was completely livid with Michael for intruding on me trying to move on. He ruined that opportunity for me," she said. "He's apologized a lot for that and I've tried to accept that. … I want to do my own thing and have fun. It feels convenient that he's suddenly ready for marriage when he sees me moving on very publicly. If he's still saying the same thing in two years, then we can revisit the issue."
And what about the shoes? She got them back about a month later.


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Lumbarda is a small resort on the island of Korcula. It used to be a county destination of the Korculan bishop and noblemen while today it exudes country atmosphere. Over the course of history, Lumbarda has been a meeting point between different nations and cultures. The swimmers are attracted to sandy beaches and an archipelago of about 20 islands near Lumbarda. Sports and recreation fans can enjoy sailing, swimming, diving, handball, beach volleyball as well as numerous other activities. Gastronomy enthusiasts can savor the delicacies of the island in the restaurants "Feral" and "More", as well as in taverns "Bebic" and "Lovric". While staying in Lumbarda, do not miss to visit the Mediterranean jewel, the town of Dubrovnik, as well as other ancient towns along the Adriatic coast, such as Hvar, Korcula, Split and countless others.
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The town of Korcula consists of the old town located on an elliptic peninsula and newer parts along the coast, east and west to the old center. The first information of the existence of this town is brought by the Byzantine historic and emperor Konstantin Porfirogenet, in the 10th century.
The entire island of Korcula is a true revelation for sports and recreation fans – you can enjoy almost all kinds of water sports in this clear and beautiful sea, for example sailing, surfing, water skiing, swimming, diving and numerous other activities. The island of Korcula offers numerous fun and entertainment possibilities during summer. Every place on the island creates its own program so you can discover something new every evening and have fun. The town hosts numerous and also popular traditional fishing festivities which offer homemade food, homemade wine and Dalmatian songs. Those in search of a rich nightlife and fun until the early morning hours can go to countless night bars and disco clubs. On the other hand, those in search of a quieter atmosphere can visit one of the taverns or restaurants and enjoy the Dalmatian folk music.
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