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On the 20th of May, my bestie took me to Dream It, Do It as a birthday present. Nicola, a.k.a The Naked Blondie had mentioned it on Snapchat. She was hosting it along with Fiona Dillon (Hunters Lodge). I'd followed Nicola for a while on Snapchat, then stalked her out on Facebook and Instagram. I love her story and think she's a real inspiration, after losing over 7stone and now has her own business derived from her new love of healthy eating and a bid to be happy and healthy for her son. I'd briefly mentioned to Ash that Nicola had an event coming up, that I'd love to go but didn't really think any more about it.
It was such a nice day. Ash picked me up at 8 and we headed to the Airfield Estate in Dundrum. It was so weird being so dressed up at 8 in the morning. I text Ash before we left…are you wearing proper make up? Yep! Ah ffs!! Gimme 10mins to paint me face! Well we were going to a fashionable, motivational event, I suppose we needed faces to match. Sadly we didn't get to look around Overend House, which Corrina from Stone Travel gave us a brief insight to. It was so weird going in and seeing these people we only watch/chat to through SC….it was like meeting 'slebs. One of my favourites, Sue Jordan a.k.a CherrySue was also speaking that day…delira! Ash's fav's Tom & Jeeny from My Nutrition Ireland were also there.
Oooh we got goodie bags filled with loadsa stuff…well we got a goodie bag and a COOLER bag filled with Glenisk yogurts, which were amazing!! After trying to calmly nose through our bags, I saw a familiar face come in…omg…omg…it was Jen from Jensgymlife. Or was it? I was used to seeing Jen in her gym gear with hair pulled back, I almost didn't recognise her (no offence Jen). She was here just like me, to be motivated.
Nicola was lovely, she seemed taller on Snapchat though and her eyebrows looked well…if you follow her you'll know of her constant battle with them…although she seems to be on a winner these days. She's constantly cooking up a storm with some really om-nom-nom recipes, she even has own own brand of sausages! I really can't tell you enough how much I'm impressed by her journey, if you don't know her look her up on FB or SC. She really makes me feel like I can achieve my goals…well weight related anyway…my head is still a muddled mess regarding life goals. I'm not sure how anyone will sort through that.
I'd heard Nicola mention Fiona from Hunters Lodge a few times but still hadn't
checked her out, after hearing her story, I was in there like swimwear. Sixteen years ago, Fiona and her family went from, I guess (seemingly) having it all to losing it all and she went back to basics. They moved from the city to the country and Fiona basically learned to be a farmer. She started with chickens and now has a whole array of animals including one Mahatma Gander. The woman even learned to be a bee keeper!! Fiona is the CEO of her company, she's written the Freddy Buttons series of kids books, she reviews restaurants, she writes for Farmer's Journal, she's a radio correspondent, a Mammy of four…..she's some kinda superwoman….like how would you not be inspired?
Now lads listen, the food, the FOOOOOD alone is worth going for! OMG!! The sandwiches were sooo yum! You got three different types on your plate…maybe bread, maybe a roll, maybe a wrap and the fillings were scrum. There were little pots of Glenisk yogurt based desserts too…all I can say is om nom nom!! There was three to choose from….I had two!! 🙂 One was like an Eton mess type and the other a banoffee effort! #salivating! During the break we got to have a mooch about. The Dotty Lemon had a stand there full of gorgeous bit and pieces, Ash won a fab mug in the FREE raffle.I took selfies with Jen (who fyi, at
43 is training for her first bodybuilding comp!!!). We also had a great chat with Tom and the gorgeous Jeeny, who were so nice and more than happy to take pics til we all looked great in them. These guys are so passionate about what they do, I lovvve the fact that they're really pushing for food awareness to be instilled into children early. I don't mean cut out all the sweets and stuff but you know, just for kids and even parents now to be aware of what we're all eating. On another note, who couldn't listen to Jeeny all day? I'm pretty sure the live on the borders of Tir Na nOg too!
CherrySue, saying Sue Jordan seems weird now, is amazing! I love listening to her, I feel like she tells me the truth all the time and there's no bullcrap. Sue chose to bring up son, single handedly and miss out on college but that didn't stop her. She knew where she wanted to be and she got up and got there. I actually felt a little bit scared going over to say hi, as I didn't feel "big" enough and I don't mean in height, but she was really nice and had time to talk to me about my little bloggy woggy and how to become a Snapchat queen (still a serious work in progress). Sue loves her beauty products and seems to be an infinite fountain of info on them….actually on a lot of things really! Her sister Corrina (of The Mammy Van) also spoke at the event and had some brilliant advice on travel (which she shares on Sue's blog)…as she says having a "prada holiday on a penneys budget".
Jen from Too Dolly Make Up then gave us a makeup masterclass and turned Fiona's already gorgeous daughter even more gorgeous. Not only is Jen gas but she can wing eyeliner with her eyes closed! Jealous.com!
Ooh I should also mention the only other man at our event, Keith from Wicklow Rapeseed Oil.Rapeseed oil, has a higher smoke point than most other popular cooking oils as well as being the lowest in saturated fats.
Dream It, Do It ended with us all gathering around Tom so he could brown his friends with a picture of him and 50 women. I say it ended there…it didn't, there was loads of time at the end to meet all of the speakers and take selfies. I came out feeling a mix of positive and filled with questions to myself…like what the hell am I doing? Where AM I ACTUALLY going and what to I want to achieve from the "one hit wonder" that is my life? I think if you need inspiration or an inclination that there's light at the end of the tunnel, then I'd recommend attending DIDI, there's alot of hope and positivity knocking about in that room. For now, I'm working on building up and being more frequent my blog, here, on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. (I tweet now and again and although I'm on Bloglovin, I haven't a clue how it works).
To end the day, Ash drove us out to Bray for fish 'n' chips. We didn't really need them after our fab lunch but when you're at the seaside with just your bestie, which is a rare thing, it would be rude not to. (I know…it makes no sense when you've come from somewhere about clean eating! 😀 )
Head on over to snappy chatland and check these people out ;
Nicola – Thenakedblondie
Fiona – hunterslodge
Jeeny – mynutrition1
Sue – itscherrysue
Corrina – stonetravel
Jen – toodollymakeup
Jen (gymlife) – jenser01
Tata for now peeps,
P.S as my phone died, Ash and Nicola were kind enough to let me use their pics too…thanks Ladies xx


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Hemp Hearts (Hulled Hemp Seed/ can also be called a nut)
Can be blended to anything, adding amazing nutrition. Including all omegas, protein, fat. Mom and dad, add it to your smoothies, salads, berry yogurt and cottage cheese parfaits, you deserve it!
Milled Chia Seed
Like hemp, chia is another raw superfood! This ancient seed was cultivated by the Azteks. It can be used a an egg substitute in some baked recipes and is one of the healthiest things you can feed your little one. Read an earlier blog post about how to prepare it, here.
Milled Flax Seed
Soak it for up to 3 days or simply add before or after blending when child is over 8 months. Flax is insoluble fiber and a constipation remedy especially effective combined with prune water.
To ease diarrhea, feed instead homemade brown rice cereal, banana, avocado, apple and other soluble fibers.
Eat raw oatmeal in moderation but it is do-able!
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The artisanal roots of the company are reflected in each project, each piece of furniture and in a profound commitment to quality: this is Lema, its identity and its philosophy. For more than forty years the company has been developing a unique range of home furnishings always focusing on the care and quality of the product from the very beginning. The strong connection with the designers allows the company to follow each and every step of the production from the first drawings up to the final result.
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Zumba to Maintain Weight
When your exercise routine is fun, you're more likely to come back to that routine time after time. With a slogan that says "Ditch the Workout, Join the Party," it's clear that Zumba classes place a lot of focus on fun while not sacrificing the calorie-burning benefits you get from other types of exercise. If Zumba is your chosen form of exercise, you can use it to maintain or lose a little weight. Just create a plan that ensures you're getting enough exercise each week.
What It Is
When you attend a Zumba class or use Zumba DVDs, expect to learn a myriad of Latin dance steps, including cumbia, salsa, merengue, flamenco, reggaeton, mambo and salsa. In the beginning, you may be so engaged in learning the steps that you'll discover you've broken a sweat without even thinking about it. A typical class starts out with a slower-paced warmup song, but it quickly speeds up and incorporates more fast-paced movements. If you need more of a warmup, get there a little early and do some dynamic stretches, such as jumping jacks, arm circles and leg swings. At the end of class, you'll often do a cool-down exercise including static stretching, allowing your heart -- which will likely be beating pretty fast -- to return to its normal rhythm gradually.
Exercise Recommendations
Whatever exercise you're choosing to maintain your weight, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has some fairly specific recommendations. It recommends all adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic exercise each week. On top of that, adults should do strength-training exercises two times a week. Since most Zumba sessions are 30 minutes to an hour long, going to three to five classes a week -- or using Zumba DVDs -- will help you meet the CDC recommendations for maintaining weight and good health.
Calories Burned
One way to determine whether you're doing the right amount of exercise for maintaining weight is to count calories. According to a study conducted by the American Council on Exercise, Zumba participants burned an average of 369 calories during sessions that lasted anywhere between 32 and 50 minutes. That's more calories burned than classes such as power yoga, aerobics or kickboxing, says ACE. The number of calories a person should consume each day to maintain weight is different for everyone, based on weight, height, age, gender and the amount of activity you do each day. According to the American Council on Exercise, you can calculate the number of calories you should be consuming each day through the following formula:
Male daily calorie intake = 9.99 x weight in kilograms + 6.25 x height in centimeters - 4.92 x age + 5.
Female daily calorie intake = 9.99 x weight in kilograms + 6.25 x height in centimeters - 4.92 x age - 161.
You can also use any number of online calculators to do the same thing, which often allow you to factor in your physical exercise. Use these calculators to get your recommended calorie intake, and then adjust your daily food intake accordingly to maintain your weight.
Adding Intensity
To get more intensity out of your Zumba workouts, make sure you're doing each move with a full range of motion. For example, when you go into a squat position, squat as deeply as you can instead of just dipping down slightly. Jump a little higher during the jumping moves. Add arm movements even if the teacher isn't using them. Talk to your teacher about using faster-paced music choices or including more complex steps. Check your pulse from time to time or use a heart-rate monitor watch to ensure that your heart is beating at about 50 to 85 percent of your maximum heart rate -- a good sign that you're exercising with enough intensity.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Physical Activity
- American Council on Exercise: How Many Calories Should I Eat and How Often Should I Exercise for Optimal Weight Loss?
- American Council on Exercise: Zumba: Sure It's Fun But Is It Effective?
- MayoClinic.com: Metabolism and Weight Loss: How You Burn Calories
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The Volunteer Centre runs a series of projects designed to promote volunteering and enhance the lives of people and communities in Chesterfield & North East Derbyshire. Here's a guide to our projects and the work they do:
Elderfriends – be a befriending champion
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This project recruits volunteers within the community to befriend people who have a diagnosis of cancer.
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Information Security for the Open Source Business*
Learn how to address the unique information security challenges that open source businesses face.
Information security is a concern for all businesses, but most small businesses don't have the resources for dedicated information security staff. Coupled with the security concerns that customers often have around open source software, the small to mid-sized open source business faces real difficulty in providing security assurance.
This talk will look at ways that open source businesses can build an information security program that doesn't break the bank or disrupt the core business, yet still delivers the assurance that more and more customers want with open source software.
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Kevin KenanK2DD
- Website: http://www.k2dd.com/
- Twitter: kevinkenan
Kevin Kenan is the Managing Director of K2DD where he specializes in application and database security and encryption. He is the author of "Cryptography in the Database" and is a former senior manager in Symantec's Information Security department. He has developed software professionally for many years, though much of his current work focuses on helping small to mid-sized businesses develop appropriate and effective information security programs.
- Title: Information Security for the Open Source Business
- Track: Business
- Room: Steel
- Time: 2:45 – 3:30pm
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I am not that well practiced in landscape photography but I do enjoy it immensely. For a long time I have been needing a wide angle lens. Not just for landscapes but for everything. I like a wide perspective as I tend to enjoy photo journalism more than any other type of photography. That being said, the go to lens for a photo journalist would probably be a 50mm lens which I already have. This lens is kind of middle of the road in all aspects. It is a great lens and lives on my camera probably about 90% of the time. But again, I do love a wider perspective for a few reasons.
So as I said, I love wide angle shots. Before now I didn't have anything wider than a 50mm though. Actually, that is a lie. I did have a 35mm lens that I bought a long time ago for my Nikon D5000. Or was it my D3000? I don't know. But this lens was meant for those crop sensor cameras meaning that, on them, the field of view was actually more like 50mm on a non cropped full frame sensor camera. When I bought my full frame camera, I kept the 35mm thinking it would be fine. I was right and I was wrong. The lens worked just as it was intended to but since it was designed to be used on smaller sensors, there was a lot of vignetting (dark corners) when put on full frame. I was editing my photos that I took with that lens one day and noticed I had taken the same photo with both my 35 and 50. When I saw my edit of both they looked exactly the same. Because there was so much vignetting I was actually cropping the 35mm image so much to get rid of those dark corners that I was ending up with a 50mm field of view anyways. So I reluctantly sold my 35mm... I loved that lens but there was just no purpose for it unless I get another crop sensor body as a back up or something.
So once I sold it, I had my 50mm as my widest lens. I knew this was going to be a problem, but I didn't know how much of one until I went on my trip to Taiwan. This photo on the left is from that trip. It was taken with my 50mm, the widest lens I owned. While it looked fine, there is a whole lot more to that place that wasn't represented because of my lack of a wider lens.
Recently I was in Seoul and I decided to head to my favorite part where new and used camera gear is sold in Namdaemun. This place is awesome because there is just this long row of camera stores waiting for you to go and play with all the toys you can drool over. For camera geeks like me this is definitely our red light district. Anyways I went with the intention of getting a reasonable price on a used wide angle and it wasn't very hard to find one. I bought a Nikon 28mm f2.8D. An older lens, but that means nothing to me really, sometimes the older lenses are better. This one had a few superficial cracks on the body but the glass was fine.
Unfortunately rain had me running for cover the whole weekend I was in Seoul and I inevitably didn't get to test my new toy much except for the last day I was there when it all cleared up. I grabbed a few shots here and there, but nothing I really thought was noteworthy.
With that in mind I dedicated this whole weekend to just practicing with this lens. It really is a game changer when you switch from 50mm-200mm perspectives all the way down to 28mm. It requires a lot of practice which I was excited about as it kind of changes things up for me and keeps things fresh. Below I will include some shots taken with the 28mm this weekend. All shots in this blog post (except the Taiwan shot) were taken with the 28mm.
Okay so what do I think of the lens? I am not too sure to be honest. I wasn't expecting this to be a top performing lens at all. It is quite an old lens and definitely not one of the best lenses Nikon has ever produced. With that said, it is not a very sharp lens. Especially in the corners but in all actuality I don't mind a slightly less sharp lens. There is some noticeable barrel distortion which I also don't mind. I mean, it is a wide angle after all. There is also a lot of vignetting and light fall off toward the edges. It is far better than the 35mm though and seems more... natural. The vignetting on the 35 just looked very harsh and dark. Vignetting on the 28mm just makes it look like an old lens, which it is. However, I was very shocked at how poorly it renders color, how terrible the contrast is, and the amount of terrible color fringing. These are not deal breakers, but it does mean that shooting something against a bright wall or something is not going to look good, and post processing to get colors and contrast right is going to be a bit tricky. Also, I don't know if it is my camera's light meter or the lens but my light meter keeps overexposing some scenes and underexposing others. Not by a lot but it is all over the place.
Overall I am happy with the lens. If I had the money I would definitely get something better performing but I am happy nonetheless. Here are some shots I took this weekend with it. Tell me what you think about them.
Also I am going to try and post to my flickr and instagram more often so please do check that stuff out as well. If you like my photos please do me a solid and share my stuff with your friends and family, I'd like more viewers/readers if at all possible.


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Yesterday, I talked to a person who uses mostly C++, trying to show him my current project in CL. It was really a mess – there are almost no current Debian- or ASDF-Packages, the whole stuff is full of bugs and hard to use for someone not familiar with it, and well, in the end we gave up. It was simply not possible to compile it on that computer without really having to put in huge efforts – only to show my alpha-code. Well, maybe I should try to begin using clbuild. Seems like clbuild could make that part easier.
Anyway, that person then noticed that one has to load Packages into "the compiler", which is – to a person using C++ – unfamiliar. To me, this was interesting, because it was the same problem I had when beginning to use Common Lisp. There are no makefiles, and there is no really clean way of compiling. In fact, there is not even a real distinction between the program itself, the lisp-runtime and the compiler. When using SBCL, CLISP or ALISP, you will simply produce coredumps. You can put this production of executable coredumps inside some Makefile or Build-Script. But still, this is something different from compiling, at least intuitively. "Compiling" is done almost every time when you define a function in the REPL or in some file. The compiled code is then stored somewhere in your heap. The coredump then contents all these functions, but in the end its just a dump of everything you have defined so far.
Well, as seen from C++ (and most other mainstream-languages), this isnt "clean". For the ordinary programmer, there may be scripting engines which do not need any transformation, but in general, you have your code, which you can modify, then you have a clearly seperated process of compiling (maybe applying a few preprocessors before), and then afterwards the clearly seperated process of running the program. Compiling is seen as some kind of "cleanup". You can put comments in your code, modify it, choose namings for variables and functions, transform it, but as soon as you compile, most of this is dropped and only a clean blob of machine code remains, where the place of every byte is – even though by too many definitions to keep track for a human – clearly determined. That is, running the same compiler on different systems should (mostly) produce the same code.
When coredumping with Common Lisp, you cant say much of where the bytes are put. In theory, a small changing of the code in some macro which does not even affect the return-value of this macro, and thus does not change the code of the functions that are run in the program you create in any way, could lead to an additional garbage-collection-cycle, which could dramatically change the contents of the core-image, even though the program is supposed to do the exactly same thing. Of course, in general this doesnt happen, I am not even sure if there is can happen in any CL implementation anyway. But there is no guarantee, and most of the lisp-programmers wouldnt care. Of course, there could be C++-Compilers which do something similar. But thats unusual, and well, C++-Programmers would most probably care.
The main difference here lies – in my oppinnion – in the programmer's interpretation of the process of compilation. For a C++-Programmer, compilation is an intrinsic part of programming. Maybe its some kind of ritual, maybe its some possibility of gaining more free time, maybe its for technical reasons, but its something that comes with programming. For the CL-Programmer (at least for me and some others I know), compiling is just a process of optimization. There is no difference between interpreting a script-file and compiling it and then executing it, except that a compiled binary is usually faster, but is usually not supposed to be changed afterwards. Most implementations of CL have various optimization settings between just interpreting and compiling, i.e. converting into some faster interpretable bytecode, compiling only parts of the code, but also shift things that are clear, asserting to the compiler that you dont do some things.
Well, ok, one could say that these are different points of view, a different understanding of how programming should work, different directions the researchers took, one going more into the direction of Smalltalk, the other one going into the direction of Cobol or whatever. Actually, this might be true for a lot of other facets, but in that case, I think the major misunderstanding lies in the difference itself. For a C++ Programmer, Compiling means nothing else than for a Lisp Programmer, namely transforming the code into something the machine understands better. But most C++ Programmers will know (and accept) Scripting Languages for some special purposes, i.e. using bash for simple scripting, embedding scripting engines like lua or rhino. Namely for parts where flexibility is more important than runtime speed. The only real difference in that case is that you actually use other languages for doing this. Of course, you could build a scripting engine for a C++-Like language, but C++ is complicated, takes long to compile, and has too many concepts that do not fit into a scripting language. While bash has too much concepts that would not fit into a compiled language. In contrast, Common Lisp can do both, which brings a lot of advantages, but – of course – also drawbacks. You can produce code that is very efficient with Common Lisp, but lowlevel-stuff is – even though it is indeed possible to do – a lot harder than in C++. And of course, in your coredump, you will have a lot of boilerplate-stuff you will never need. In CLISP, a binary takes about 4+x Megabytes, while in SBCL, you wont get binaries under 24 Megabytes. For huge projects this is no problem (in times when a simple feedreader is 50 Megabytes huge). But for a little shell-tool, this is way too much. On the other hand, CL is not made to create little shell-tools. For Common Lisp, the REPL is what the Shell is for the C++-Programmer. In the REPL, you can define a small function, which you can simply run there and which doesnt really take away much place. While a C++-Programmer uses a lot of distinct processes of its OS to produce his software, a CL-Programmer needs mostly its CL-Runtime, which then runs everything else he needs. CL is more like an operating system in that sense.
Still, both kinds of programmers actually do the same thing and actually have the same oppinion about. Compilation is something you do to produce efficient code.


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Our College Calendar is now available under the "News & Events" tab and then by clicking "Calendar"
Viewbank College is committed to child safety. We have a zero tolerance of child abuse. All staff, volunteers, council members and parent associations of Viewbank College observe child safe principles and expectations for appropriate behaviour towards and in the company of children as outlined in the school's Child Safe Code of Conduct. The school actively works to protect children, empower them, and provide a safe and inclusive learning environment. The school also takes appropriate action when responding to allegations or concerns.


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Saturday, February 23, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Plant Terrariums & Mushrooms..my favs!
|A beautiful Maid Fern I tucked behind glass to keep it warm.
It's that wonderful time of year to plan out the coming planting season and pray that your houseplants survive through the winter chill - so, I hit the thrift stores and picked up some hurricane glass shades and vases (and a cute mini-terrarium) to hold my new ferns, ivy and palm plants......
|The cold has nipped at this English Ivy a little, but I'm guiding it now to curl around the cage bars!
|This mini-palm needed a little space of its own to flourish.
I came upon an adorable idea, a Mushroom Pin Board
in the book:
"Stitched Whimsy"
by Heidi Boyd....
Check out Mine:
This project actually took me a while longer then expected, but I am pretty happy with the results :) Check out the book: Stitched Whimsy for yourself, it is full of awesome ideas to try!!
Till Next time,
Wicked jypsi
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Alex is an experienced technology professional. He has the ability to take complex business needs and translate them into a solution using modern web technologies while focusing on the user experience as well as overall system performance. He has conducted numerous workshops and led the development and delivery of many training courses for his Base22 team members as well as developers and engineers from across Latin America.
Prior to joining Base22 he was part of the Web Innovation and Technology Department in Puebla State Government in Mexico; he was responsible for managing and developing solutions based on open source frameworks and content management systems. He was also engaged in server configurations and security analysis and design.
His background includes:
Web Technologies: Semantic Web (RDF, OWL), MVC Frameworks (Laravel, CakePHP, CodeIgniter). Open Source Content Management Systems: (Drupal, WordPress, Joomla). IBM Technologies: IBM Web Content Manager®, IBM Portal®. Front-end Technologies and libraries: jQuery, Angular, Task Runners (Gulp.js, Grunt), NPM, CSS3, HTML5, mobile web, Web Servers (Nginx, Apache), Application Servers (Tomcat, IBM WebSphere Application Server®), UNIX-like Operating Systems, and, Research: Complex Systems (Cellular Automata in specific), Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics and Computer Simulation to create computer models of living.
Re-design of Base22 website
MyTeamKFC portal for employees and franchise owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Implementation of the Enterprise Portal Blueprint at Base22
Integration of Yum! OwnYourHealth portal for YUM Brands
Backend services (RESTful API) for mobile applications for the CNH Industrial Global Dealer Portal, using Apache Solr, Spring MVC and Java EE.
Backend REST services to populate the CEMEXpedia navigation (CEMEX), using Spring MVC, Hibernate and Java EE.
A PDF exporter Java application to generate PDF documents using the IBM® Web Content Manager 8 API and JRC repositories (KFC).
Java Proxy to consume external services for the Parts Support Dashboard (CNH Global Dealer Portal).
Front-end application to display the Parts Support Dashboard (CNH Global Dealer Portal).
WPS TRICARE Beneficiaries portal (© 2016 Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation).
WPS TRICARE Beneficiaries Overseas portal (© 2016 Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation).
WPS MEDICARE Portal (© 2016 Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation).
Single Page Application to visualize data streams and recording sessions for autonomous driving. Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. (HRI-US).
Redesign of main website of Puebla State Government: http://puebla.gob.mx
Portal for transparency in Government of Puebla State: http://transparencia.puebla.gob.mx
New website for services for citizens: http://tramitapue.puebla.gob.mx
More than ~50 websites for dependencies and entities of Puebla State Government: http://transparencia.puebla.gob.mx/sujetoobligado.html
Apache and Zabbix configuration.
MySQL databases servers.
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A poorly seal pup was rescued from the beach at Seaford last week.
Two rescuers from the East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service were called out by the British Divers Marine Life Rescue.
The people who found the young Harbor Seal pup had picked it up off the beach and put it in the boot of their car until help arrived.
The seal was very underweight and had an injury to its muzzle which was swollen.
WRAS took the seal to RSPCA Mallydams in Fairlight where the poorly pup was bedded down in the centre's specialist seal facilities.
WRAS has also received several calls regarding seals at Sovereign Harbour this week.
One caller reported a seal with what appeared to be blood around its head.
However WRAS says this was just staining from a red coloured silt which can be found further along the coast.
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Ceramica White Stripe Bath Panel Pack 1700mm / 700mm
5 reviews
£94.94 (Inc. VAT)
The Ceramica White Horizontal Stripe Bath Panel offers a striking alternative to the standard plain white bath panel. This panel features metal strips that contrast beautifully with the radiant white finish of the panel to draw the eye and make a centrepiece of your bath.
Bath panels are used to conceal unsightly under bath plumbing and the underside of the bath itself. You can do it in style, by using this ultra-modern style bath panel that will be a great addition to any contemporary bathroom. Refreshing older bathrooms, or accessorizing new bathrooms perfectly.
The panel is made from good quality MDF and finished with a beautiful gloss white paint. Included with the panel is also a handy plinth that can be used to increase the height of the panel.
Combine both the front and end panels for a wonderful bath panel solution for any gorgeous new bathroom suites.
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- Side Panel Length: 1700mm
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perAlpine Observatory
The preAlpine Observatory is jointly coordinated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Helmholtz Center Munich (HMGU). This observatory comprises the "River Ammer catchment", the long term silvicultural research platform "Höglwald Forest", and the long term agricultural research farm "Scheyern".
Picture 1: Overview of the Bavarian Alps/pre-Alps Observatory
The main objectives followed at this observatory are characterization and quantification of climate change effects on
- Coupled C-/N-cycles and C-/N-storage
- Biosphere-atmosphere exchange (trace gases/energy flux/albedo)
- Vegetation and microbial biodiversity and of the temporal dynamics of matter turnover and exchange associated with this change in biodiversity
- Terrestrial hydrology (alpine water budget, precipitation variability, extreme hydrometeorological events (floods/droughts), seepage water quality/quantity, water retention capacity) in prealpine ecosystems particularly sensitive to changes in climate, nutrient deposition and land use/management (wet grasslands/fens, forests and agricultural systems).
The "River Ammer catchment" is located in Bavaria, southern Germany, covering an area of 709 km2. The highest point is at 2185 m a.s.l. in the Ammergau Alps and the outflow is at 533 m a.s.l. Due to the complex topography, the catchment is characterised by large north-south differentiations in soils, land-use and climate. Long-term mean annual precipitation in the northern part is around 1100 mm/a while the southern part with the summits of the Ammer Alps receives more than 2000 mm/a. Maximum precipitation is in summer. The mean annual temperature is around 7-8 °C in the alpine forelands and approx 4-5 °C in the southern mountainous part of the catchment. Its area includes the Hohenpeissenberg and thereby benefits from the long-term hydrometeorological observations of the DWD observatory (since 1781).
At the River Ammer catchment a lysimeter network is realized (36 lysimeters), in which soil monoliths with grassland vegetation are transplanted along the existing natural gradient in temperature and precipitation, in order to gain - in a frame work of a long-term in situ study - information about the effects of regional climate change on the coupled C and N cycles, the plant biological and microbial processes/populations/biodiversity involved in C and N-cycling as well as C- and N-trace gas production, consumption and emission, and on terrestrial hydrology and water quality.
Picture 2: Installation of 18 lysimeters at the Fendt site within the "River Ammer catchment"
For this, the Ammer catchment region at three elevations will be equipped with climate stations, eddy covariance systems, 36 lysimeters, isotope laser systems for determination of water vapour and CO2 fluxes, TDL-systems for N2O and CH4 flux measurements and closed chamber measuring systems for determination of CO2, N2O and CH4 fluxes at the soil atmosphere interface, and a rain radar.
Picture 3: Installation of EC station at the Fendt site within the "River Ammer catchment"
Picture 4: X-Band rain radar in Geigersau (Mount Kirnberg) within the "River Ammer catchment"
In cooperation with the Bavarian Avalanche Alert Service and Bavarian environmental and water authorities, detailed snow measurements will be performed.
The "Höglwald Forest" observation platform (11°11'E and 48°30'N) is an approx. 100 years old spruce plantation located 40 km north-west of the city of Munich. At this platform the long term effects of atmospheric N input and the consequences of forest conversion on greenhouse gas balances are studied. The climate is suboceanic, with a mean annual precipitation for the period 1984 to 2001 of 933 mm and a mean annual temperature of 7.7°C. The forest is part of a region which is characterized by an intensive mixture of forested and intensively used agricultural areas.
The Höglwald-Forest long term research platform is equipped since 1993 with fully automated measuring systems (chambers) for continuous year round flux measurements of N2O, CH4, CO2, NO/NO2 between the soil and the atmosphere at three experimental sites; tower (50 m high) based EC measurements for determination of water vapour and net ecosystem CO2-exchange are running continuously since 2004.
Picture 5: Measuring tower at the "Höglwald" Forest site
In order to study trace gas fluxes/exchange at the agro-forest interface, an identical set of fully automated chamber systems for determination of trace gas fluxes at the soil/atmosphere interface will be installed in an agricultural field in direct vicinity to the forest site. Furthermore, a NH3-TDLAS-instrument will be set up which will be used e.g. for the determination of NH3 deposition from the agricultural fields into the forest site.
The research farm "Scheyern" is a 150 ha cloister estate located 40 km north of the city of Munich at an altitude of 445-498 above sea level. The farm land is used already since more than 5 centuries and is situated in the tertiary hills, a landscape demonstrating typical problems associated with intensive agricultural use, such as erosion, soil compaction, groundwater contamination, impoverishment of flora and fauna. Since 1992 two farming systems, an integrated crop production and an organic farm system, were installed and permanently monitored to analyse the ecological and economical sustainability of the agricultural systems. In particular the impact of reduced N input on the production systems itself and neighbouring ecosystems is studied. Average annual precipitation is 803 mm and mean annual temperature is 7.4°C.
The research farm Scheyern is equipped since 1992 with hydrological observation systems and automated chambers to measure N2O, CH4, CO2 concentrations at the soil surface. The measurement systems include soil hydrological stations, groundwater multi-level wells, groundwater gages, weirs and drains, surface runoff and erosion measurement devices and several plots to monitor crop production systems depending on soil cultivation type. To study trace gas fluxes between soil and atmosphere the research farm will be equipped for TERENO with additional climate stations, a rainscanner, TDL-systems for N2O and CH4 flux measurements, runoff and soil erosion observation systems, a wireless soil moisture sensor network, a lysimeter station and a soil heating system.


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Lili & the snowman
Character development for Cineplex and hornet inc
Super awesome project I had the opportunity to work with Hornet Inc for Cineplex. I worked in 6 versions of lily with my friend Javier Leon. I was responsible for blocking the characters and then work in the faces/hairs/hands for production. I did some renders of the characters and some enviroment modeling, like shrubs, trees, etc.
I also had the opportunity to design the couple for the umbrella shot.


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Well, temperatures have finally dropped in Texas. Perhaps not by much, but I really did for-really-real light my first fire of the season this week. And with the cooler weather I really find myself craving a great bowl of soup, so today I'm sharing one of my favorites: Tomato Red Pepper Soup.
This is a variation of a recipe I found in a cook book by Kelis. Probably more well known for her song "Milkshake," her recipes really do bring the boys to the yard. I'm sure I'm not the first person to make that joke, and yes I do realize it was bad. I really enjoyed going through her book, which sadly does not have a recipe for milkshakes. If you're interested in some interesting recipes for the more experienced home cook, definitely check it out. It's called My Life on a Plate and can be found here.
I've always loved a good tomato soup and it wasn't until I started making it at home that I realized, hey it's actually pretty easy. Forget the halfway decent stuff from a box or a can (blech) and give this easy recipe a shot.
It's got a really lovely flavor infused with herbs, but it's the roasted red pepper that really makes it pop. Also important with this is the herb satchet. Kelis' recipe says to dump it all in the pot. Don't do that. You can get the same flavors without having to pick out twigs and leaves for daysssss.
And of course we can't talk about Tomato Soup without mentioning the one perfect companion: the grilled cheese sandwich. Head to the specialty cheese section of the store and pick out some butterkase. Put that on a good, dry bread like sourdough and you'll wind up with an amazing grilled cheese. Trust me on that one.
Until next time. X
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Tomato Red Pepper Soup
- 1/4 c. unsalted butter
- 1 medium or large yellow onion, diced
- 3 tsp salt
- 8 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 c. flour
- 3 c. chicken or vegetable broth
- 2 lbs vine ripened tomatoes
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 5 basil leaves
- 4 dried bay leaves
- 1 fresh rosemary sprig
- 2 fresh thyme sprigs
- 2 fresh oregano sprigs
- 1 1/2 TB smoked paprika
- 1 c. heavy cream
Things you'll need:
- Cheesecloth
- Kitchen Twine
- Cut the tops off of the tomatoes and the bell pepper and broil in an oven, flipping them often so that all sides are soft and charred. Set aside to cool then remove the skins, cores and seeds.
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.
- Add the onions and season with 1 tsp of the salt and saute for about 8 minutes, until the onion is soft and translucent.
- Add the garlic and continue to cook for about 1 minute longer, stirring often so the garlic doesn't burn.
- Whisk in the flour, stirring constantly for 3 minutes.
- Slowly add the broth, stirring so that there are no lumps.
- Add the tomatoes and red pepper. Create an herb satchet using the cheesecloth and kitchen twine (cut a piece of cheesecloth large enough to hold the basil, bay leaves, rosemary, thyme and oregano, then join all of the edges at the top, herbs inside, tying off with a piece of kitchen twine).
- Add the satchet of herbs to the pot and season with the remaining salt, black pepper and paprika. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 25-30 minutes.
- Remove the herb satchet then transfer the mixture to a food processor or blender and puree until smooth. Add the heavy cream and stir or pulse until just combined.
- Serve warm with my favorite, a grilled cheese sandwich.
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Homeschooler's Day at Woodlands Nature Station
March 29, 2015 | Press Release from Land Between The Lakes
GOLDEN POND, KY – Woodlands Nature Station at Land Between The Lakes hosts Homeschoolers' Day on Friday, April 24, from 10am-3pm. Home educators and their families are invited to spend a day getting up close and personal with Nature Station's resident mammals. All of the day's activities and programs are included in the Nature Station's regular admission: $5 for adults, $3 for children ages 5-12, and free for children 4 and under. For more information, call Nature Station at 270-924-2299. Everyone is welcome.
"Homeschoolers will learn what makes a mammal a mammal during our 'Marvelous Mammals' program which repeats throughout the day," says Shannon Brockway, Naturalist at Nature Station. "Hands-on activities and crafts incorporate concepts of science, art, English, and math for a fun and exciting day of learning."
April is Homeschoolers' Month across Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area. Everyone is invited to participate. Throughout the month, take advantage of unique learning opportunities, hands-on exploration activities, and take-home materials. Pick up an "Explorers Passport" at Homeplace 1850's Farm, Woodlands Nature Station, or Golden Pond Planetarium. Take the passport to each attraction and complete activities to earn an official Explorer Patch and Certificate. View a complete listing of Homeschoolers' Month programs at http://www.landbetweenthelakes.us/calendar/homeschool-month/2015-04-01/.
The following link will take you to Flickr where you will find the photo included in this news release, along with photo credit, caption, and additional photos for downloading: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lblkytn/sets
Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area manages more than 170,000 acres in western Kentucky and Tennessee as part of the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture's public lands program. Land Between The Lakes offers outdoor recreation, lake access, land management, and environmental education to over 1.4 million visitors annually. The Friends of Land Between The Lakes works in partnership with the Forest Service providing program services, funds development, and volunteer support.
To find more information about Land Between The Lakes, log on to the official website at www.landbetweenthelakes.us or call toll-free at 1-800-LBL-7077 or local at 270-924-2000. For more information on the Friends of Land Between The Lakes, log on to www.friendsoflbl.org. To subscribe to the official electronic newsletter, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Land Between The Lakes official Twitter accounts include @LBLScreechOwl, @LBLNature, @LBLHomeplace, and @LandBtwnLakes.
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At Spielfeld Digital Hub we help established industries master digitalization and develop the skills to stay ahead of the game. Learn more about us.
Located in a formal postal distribution centre in the heart of Berlin, Spielfeld Digital Hub is split across three floors with over 2500² of space, several event spaces, eight meeting rooms, three corporate satellites, +100 desks, new technology spaces, three kitchens and large breakout areas.
"Spielfeld is the perfect intersection point where startups and corporates can come together to network and share experiences"
Spielfeld Digital Hub can be found in the district of Kreuzberg, the heart of Berlin's start-up ecosystem. Historically a rebellious epicentre of the city, it continues to be so in the digital age, harbouring the highest density of businesses accepting bitcoins in the world.


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How might we provide students with the opportunity to learn how to launch a successful startup?
More than twenty high school students attended a three day crash course of all things startup–the good, the bad, the so-obsessed-with-your-idea-you-forget-to-eat at Boise's inaugural Startup Weekend. Startup Weekend is a global program designed to equip budding entrepreneurs with the tools they need to be successful.
The weekend kicked off with a speed-pitch. Students brought their own business, social venture, nonprofit, and product ideas and shared them in rapid fire pitches. The top five ideas as voted by peers became the team topics for the weekend. Students self-selected into teams around their favorite idea and began the entrepreneurial process. Students heard from experts in the community about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how to use the business model canvas, how to critically consider customer feedback, and what makes a great pitch. They worked through the weekend under the guidance of a community coach to bring the student idea to life. Startup Weekend ended in a "Shark Tank" style competition, with teams pitching their ideas to a panel of judges representing various sectors across the Treasure Valley community.
The five teams that participated in Startup Weekend were all invited to continue working on their idea with the help of New Venture Labs. The winning team was invited to join One Stone's Solution Lab to build on their idea and start making it a reality. Students reported enjoying the team aspect of Startup Weekend as well as learning about local startups and community involvement.
In Their Own Words:
Highly motivational!
"I gained lots of knowledge and insight on the world of business and startups, as well as the inspiration to potentially pursue heading my own startup."
"I gained a better understanding of what it takes to run your own business, as well as confidence in being able to run my own business in the future. Also I gained some pretty amazing friendships from One Stone's Startup Weekend and great connections to people who can help me in the future."


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of InterCloud Systems Inc. (ICLD) are higher by 7.16% to $6.14 on Monday after the company announced it was awarded a $4.9 million distributed antenna system project in downtown Chicago.
The company, which provides specialty and end-to-end outsourced networks and infrastructure services to the wireless and wireline telecommunications industry, said the multi-phase project will begin this month and expects it to be completed by the end of the year.
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Henry L Morehouse biography and publications
Biography of HENRY LYMAN MOREHOUSE
By Lathan A Ceandall, D. D. Published March, 1919
Editorial: The Talented Tenth
by Henry L Morehouse
The American Missionary Volume 0050 Issue 6 (June 1896) / Volume 50, Issue: 6, Jun 1896, pp. 182-183
Digitalized by Cornell University as part of its "Making of America" series
Evil its own destroyer :
A discourse delivered before the united societies of the Congregational and Baptist churches at the Congregational church, in the city of East Saginaw, April 19th, 1865, on the occasion of the death of President Abraham Lincoln
"All these -exhibitions of malignity are the fruits of that one spirit engendered by the system of human slavery..."
-HL Morehouse
Christian Educators in Council: Sixty Addresses by American Educators, National Education Assembly
Ocean Grove NJ, August 9-12, 1883, p 71-72; Work of the Northern Baptist Among the Freemen Since the War p 195-197
America as a Field of Opportunity (1903), In The American Baptist pulpit at the beginning of the twentieth century
Introduction to The General Education Board Archives, Rockefeller Center by Kenneth W. Rose ADD LINK
"As the head of the ABES, the Rev. Frederick T. Gates guided Rockefeller through the intricacies of university development at the University of Chicago and smaller colleges throughout the Midwest and the South, while the Rev. Henry L. Morehouse at the ABHMS persuaded Rockefeller to support denominational schools serving the needs of African Americans and Native Americans. "
Henry L Morehouse Contributions
The Founding of the University of Chicago
"It was absolutely crucial to John D. Rockefeller that a disinterested, national body of Baptists be in charge of the deliberations about where to create a new college. Had Henry Morehouse not created the Education Society and then personally appointed Frederick Gates as its strategic leader, it is no exaggeration to say that there would have been no second or new University of Chicago to begin with."
The College of the University of Chicago "Not As a Thing for the Moment, But for All Time": The University of Chicago and Its Histories By John W. Boyer, p 121


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Illustration for Christmas season Postcard.
Every illustrator has his own studio. This one is mine.
Illustration for Ladies Tea Party Invitation.
Vintage Illustration of New York.
This is a selection of some beautiful small breed dogs.
Illustration of Canada, Alaska and Greenland. This image will be part of a World´s map project.
When winter comes it´s better to be around with good friends singing french songs and eating donuts.
Also in great heights you can cook, listen to music and read.
This is a selection of the most beautiful animals from our planet turned into stickers.
Some houses are smaller than others. And sometimes they´re as small as a kettle! But it doesn´t matter how small they are as long as you feel comfortable.
A selection of some beautiful animals from winter season.
This are some Christmas stickers to share with your friends.
Drawing food is as enjoyable as eating it.
Pack of 32 stickers made by Federico Bonifacini for Link. The theme was Valentine´s Day.


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text: Canan Dagdeviren was born in 1985 in Istanbul, Turkey. As a Fulbright Doctoral Fellow, she received her Ph.D. degree in Material Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dagdeviren developed a conformable, piezoelectric, energy harvester that converts mechanical energy from internal organ movements into electric energy to power medical devices. It is soft and flexible and conforms to the heart as well as other soft tissues. This technology could extend the battery life of implanted electronics or eliminate the need of battery replacement, sparing patients from repeated operations and the risk of surgical complications. Beginning in January 2017, she will assume the role of assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she will direct the Conformable Decoders research group.


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"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill."
~Charles Swindoll
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The views expressed on this blog and its related web sites or podcasts are mine alone and do not reflect the views of my employer, clients, investors, wife, children, pets, parents, friends, friends-of-friends or anyone else with whom I may be acquainted.
"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill."
~Charles Swindoll
"Never forget that failure isn't bad. Failure isn't final. Don't let the fear of failure stop you from achieving the success you deserve. If you're struggling, keep hustling. Keep taking at least one big action step each day."
~Craig Ballantyne
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
~Dale Carnegie
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people."
~Randy Pausch
I always make sure I have some cash on hand to pay the neighborhood kids to shovel snow after a storm, and Nemo was no exception.
Am I wealthy enough to afford to pay people for all my household chores?
Am I so damn lazy that I have to others do it?
Updated on Monday, November 5, 2012 at 6:21PM by jf
Almost exactly a year ago, we were without power (And heat. And fresh water.) for almost five days.
My wife and I vowed that we would never go through that again if we could help it, so we planned to buy a generator and transfer switch for this year's storm season so that we could power our home's basic necessities (heat, hot water, sump pump, fridges).
Long story short, we didn't. The money we budgeted for a generator went toward replacing our broken hot water heater, but we vowed to get a generator as soon as it made sense for our budget.
Then we started tracking Hurricane Sandy.
Thursday night, my wife said, "We should get a generator tomorrow."
Powering our sump pump is critical for us, especially after installing a new hot water and heater and, six months earlier, replacing a broken washing machine - both of which are located in our relatively wet basement.
At 7 AM on Friday I began calling around, looking for generators. Most retailers laughed at my request while others were sympathetic to my search - but they still couldn't help me as there weren't generators in stock, anywhere.
So I started to do some research to find a creative solution. Here's what I came up with.
I really want an iPad mini.
The only reason I upgraded from an iPad 2 to the iPad 3 (or whatever it's called now) is because I could get LTE tethering from Verizon, which has been a gift from the universe on the few occassions that I've needed it.
However, ever since I got the first iPad and gave my wife my first generation Kindle, I've missed the smaller form factor of the Kindle eReaders.
Updated on Saturday, September 22, 2012 at 12:56PM by jf
Updated on Friday, September 28, 2012 at 3:29PM by jf
I love my Apple TV. Not just because of the video it allows me to watch, but the music it lets me play from our iPhones or Macs using Airplay.
I really want whole-house audio (a la Sonos, without the ridiculous cost) and Apple's Airplay can help me do that.
I have a bunch of high-quality stereo speakers from a variety of sources (PC speakers, home stereos, etc.) that I can place all over my house, but the only way that I can get whole-house audio is to purchase and install an Apple TV in every room while outputting audio to each via the TOS (optical) audio connector on the Apple TV.
But I really don't want to spend $99 per room to make this happen - plus an additional $30 for a TOSLink adapter for each set of these analog speakers.
I got to thinking: how small can Airplay device really get? Maybe someone makes one?
So, I started trawling the Interwebs and here's what I found: nothing. (At least as far as Airplay goes.)
What I did find was a product in the form factor that I wanted, but one that uses Bluetooth instead of Airplay.
It's called the WaveJamr from RadTech.
My favorite mail app (for both Mac and iPhone) was just acquired by Google. Or should I say, acq-hired.
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Jason DeGray is a transportation engineer as well as a member of both Strong Towns and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). Jason is also a product of Springfield, Massachusetts, scene of the tragic incident which motivated Chuck's Just Another Pedestrian Killed. As a member of ITE's advocacy committee he brought the charge levied against the engineering profession by Chuck in his piece back to the ITE Community to be explored. The resulting internal dialogue led to the development of the op-ed below which was published in the March 2015 edition of the ITE Journal, their international publication, and is reprinted here with his permission. Jason is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) and Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE).
Transportation engineering is a numbers game. LOS, ADT, V/C, crash rate, K factor, lane& shoulder widths, clear zone, etc. These are the current variables of our profession's values based engineering system and they mandate a bias to one set of users.
This system was established as an architecture for suburbia and the fate of our profession resides with it as long as we adhere to it.
The alternative is to proactively choose to advocate for a new vision. If ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers) were to be nimble enough we could pivot and fill a palpable leadership void, one worthy of the honor and dignity of the Institute. For this to happen though we will need to undergo a period of dramatic growth. This Institute needs to make a choice about its future and come of age. This is a values based discussion. But how do you effectively discuss values?
A case study arose recently which afforded an opportunity. You may have seen it under the title of Just Another Pedestrian Killed on the ITE Community All Member Forum which was in response to a Strong Towns blog of the same name. Of debate was the ethical responsibility of the engineer in the decision to provide a crosswalk traversing a four lane roadway between a noted, urban public library and its parking lot directly across the street. This set against the backdrop of the death of a seven year old child.
What ensued was both frenetic and cathartic.
Many pointed out the challenges of navigating the political and social climates in which we operate, but few seemed comfortable defining an ethical responsibility. Some deflected the ethical question by asserting that transportation engineers should serve only as the tool by which public policy is implemented. We, without bias, implement and guide investment in line with endorsed policy plans, standards and legislation. While this line of reasoning does remove all culpability from the profession, I am not sure it satisfies ITE's Canon of Ethics which prescribes we use professional knowledge and skill for the advancement of human welfare.
The problem is that while engineers may not be experts in values, we can certainly educate the public discourse as to the results of "values" based investment over time. We choose not to. This is where we lose the ethical argument. Conventional values for a number of decades promoted auto based development in support of the narrative of a suburban ideal which allured the collective vision of the nation. Yet now we can measure the impact of these choices on public health, the environment and civic finances. Are we not allowed to leverage these findings? Would the decision regarding the crosswalk on State Street have been different if we accounted for these factors?
Does the suburban narrative still prevail as the American ideal? Perhaps, but it certainly doesn't sit alone as it once did. A more urban American narrative is emerging complete with its own values set, and the rate at which the American populous is choosing it accelerates every day.
There are many that believe the suburban experiment is unsustainable in its current form. I certainly do. The economic model simply cannot address the maintenance liability all of this infrastructure represents. A daunting thing to realize, but it is a fundamental truth that needs to be reconciled. We are unwittingly fragile.
What is more, the new economy is forming and we are not a part of it. This new paradigm is redefining the optimum economy of scale along with the underlying prescribed values which support it. These values call for a robust transportation system that is truly embracing of all, promotes safety and social equity, acknowledges environmental realities and strives to be sustainable.
There is a group of transportation professionals scattered among various fields and organizations that are searching for means to coalesce around this new vision. Could ITE be the conduit? Certainly, but it would require standing the system on its head, a move ITE has shown little capacity to undertake.
The current evolution of the transportation system does not represent an outward expansion, a first for us. Rather this is a large scale revitalization project. These projects are predicated upon sound design, linking form and function uniquely as each specific place requires. There are no equations which can be dogmatically applied. We need an entirely new system, one that is nimble, can speak in a number of different languages and truly respects context.
Yet we still play the numbers game. We seem to think we can hedge our bets and operate as if both the old and the new paradigms are of equal footing. Our current philosophy seems to be to just tweak the equations to fit our needs, not recognizing that it is this very approach which needs to change. The problem with the numbers game is it breeds more numbers games. Those who owe their careers to the numbers will find it much easier to abide in them than to reject them. This is the pitfall of a bureaucracy, when the system needs to change only bold leadership will suffice.
ITE's Canon of Ethics requires each member to uphold and advance the honor and dignity of the profession. How depends upon the values which underlie our ethical understanding of the world. Whose do we choose?
Engineering Ethics. Read one way this phrase implies the moral principles that guide our profession. I find it more interesting though to consider engineering to be a verb. In which case, the syntax insinuates the act of design reflecting values relating to human conduct - the rightness and wrongness of certain actions. This is what we do, and we need to acknowledge values change as society does.
And if you agree with that I suggest you make your voice heard, less this organization continue to be a passive observer of its own demise. The institute needs you.


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May 2015: Clay Head Nature Trail/
Block Island, Rhode Island
David and Elise Lapham first visited Block Island for a vacation in 1951. Over the next decade they kept returning and finally decided to buy five acres on the island's north end. While looking at a small parcel of land across the road they ended up instead with almost 200 acres atop the clay bluffs gouged out by retreating glaciers some 10,000 years prior. David Lapham discovered he had an affinity for trail building. He picked up a chopping machine and began clawing out brush and thickets in every direction. One day he set out to measure his walking paths and found out he had nine miles of trails on his property. With his trail system complete the Lathams began decorating the footpaths. Over the years more than 7,000 daffodil bulbs went into the ground. Thousands of trees were planted. From the beginning, the Laphams wanted to share their land with its spectacular setting. When they decided to leave the property in the stewardship of the Nature Conservancy it was with the proviso that the public would have access to the trails.
David Lapham's trail system has come to be known as "The Maze." These grassy trails are unmarked but well-maintained and a delight for your dog. You can pop out at a stone wall or one of the best views on the East Coast. The Clay Head Nature Trail runs for about one mile along the top of the 70-foot bluffs. It is easy going but will be one of the longest miles you've ever taken your dog on when you factor in the frequent stops for watching the crashing waves or charting the progress of a passing vessel.
Setting out from the northern terminus of the Clay Head Trail you can reach the North Light with your dog after about a 20-minute walk on a sandy beach. Dangerous shoals and frequent fog banks made the passage around Block Island a tricky affair for mariners. Between 1819 and 1839 alone fifty-nine ships wrecked on or near Block Island. The current granite lighthouse dates to 1868 and was the fourth light to be built here. The first three, dating to 1829, fell victim to shifting sands, faulty design and voracious waves.
From Old Harbor, head north on the Corn Neck Road (the only road to the north end of Block Island) to the trailhead at a post marker about 2.5 miles from town.


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Monday, March 31, 2008
flirty apron swap!
i finished my apron! my partner said her favorite color was pink, i hope she meant it! i included recipes for princess pudding with cappuccino whipped cream & spicy cinnamon crackles, a hot pink silicone hot mat, and a hand knit washcloth in "pink lemonade" colorway. i wish i'd had more time for photos, as usual i shook hands with the deadline. but i am super happy with it, i love the ruffle on the bottom and the ties are extra long, so you can tie them in front.
i know i am my own worst critic, but if you can't be honest with yourself - maybe the waist band could have been a little wider... the reverse should have had a floral pocket or some rick-rack... and my ruffling needs improvement. but i still love it!
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- Abigail said...
Oh my! We used the same fabric :)
- April 1, 2008 at 12:50 PM
- tammiemarie said...
i LOVE this floral. i am planning a dress for my daughter out of it too. it's not my normal style, and i have a huge pile of other fabrics, but i keep coming back to this one!
- April 1, 2008 at 2:27 PM
- Elizabeth said...
That is a beautiful floral! The apron turned out really pretty.
- April 10, 2008 at 6:26 PM
- Shawnee said...
Hi Tammie -- Did you RECEIVE your apron yet?
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@all the dev haters
I just want to point out I started a discussion train about tractoring 15-16 being too hard to train. This was 5 days ago. Devs already took action.
Good job devs I see many many improvements going on for the game.
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Nice. Appreciate and look forward to reading the upcoming info dissemination explaining the soon to be changes.
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PSA for Fleet Commanders with the reset and patch
Dont forget that all your existing fighters will be BOUND TO THE SHIP they are currently stored in. So you may want to move a core number to your main FC ship so they can be used after the patch. If my understanding of this is wrong a dev should correct me please.
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Fighters will no longer need to be bought or built. They will instead be generated by Fighter Generators. These Generators will be available through the same means that Fighters were. Blueprints that built Fighters will have their costs adjusted and build Fighter Generators instead, AI stations that sold fighters will sell Fighter Generators instead, etc. Generators will be relatively large in size, however the Fighters will be size 0, bound to the ship they were generated on and unsellable. Getting rid of unwanted fighters is easy, simply right click and "Destroy".
(This also means that to make the transition phase from the old to the new system less inconvenient, you should move all your current fighters to the ship you want to use them on! In case you find yourself with misplaced Fighters shortly after the changes hit the live server, feel free to send in a Support Ticket or contact Bobbo directly. The changes we are implementing are significant and we'd like to reduce the inconvenience caused to a minimum.)
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The server hosting the AndroidForums.com Web site was recently compromised, and the Web site's database was accessed.
"Phandroid.com, which operates Androidforums.com, told users that hackers had breached a back-end database that powers AndroidForums.com, an online bulletin board for Android users and developers," writes Threatpost's Paul Roberts. "In a post on the forum, an administrator using the handle 'Phases' said that hackers breached the forums using a known exploit and that a list of AndroidForums.com users was accessed and possibly downloaded."
"This was, in our current opinion, most likely an e-mail harvesting attempt," an official notes states. "A spammer could theoretically attempt to bulk e-mail all AF users with the user database. Luckily, Gmail and similar e-mail services offer a 'spam' button that helps it to collectively identify and automatically filter potential spam. It's also absolutely possible that nothing of consequence happened. There is some chance they did not get enough of the database to matter, did this for fun to see if they could, or will not move forward with any plans after finding out we're actively investigating. This is a serious offense and you can best bet we are doing just that."
"The data that was accessed includes usernames, e-mail addresses, hashed passwords, registration IP addresses, and other less-critical forum-related information," writes ZDNet's Emil Protalinski. "At the time of writing, the forum listed 1,034,235 members. If you are one of them, you should change your password: go to your UserCP or use the Forgot your password? function. Furthermore, if you use the same e-mail address and password combination elsewhere, you should change it there as well."


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Now, we would never recommend you drink enough to get a hangover, but let's face it – at some point, despite our best intentions, we've all ended up feeling ever so slightly worse for wear the morning after the night before.
So when we read this week that North Korea has claimed to have invented hangover-free alcohol, we were intrigued to say the least!
An article in the state-controlled Pyongyang Times reported that scientists in the country have concocted a brew from a kind of indigenous ginseng called insam and "scorched, glutinous rice", which is used in place of sugar. They claim the result is a drink without bitterness or any hangover effects – despite its 30%-40% alcohol content.
The article reads: "Koryo Liquor, which is made of six-year-old Kaesong Koryo insam, known as being highest in medicinal effect, and the scorched rice, is highly appreciated by experts and lovers as it is suave and causes no hangover."
The "suave" tipple, apparently produced after many years of research at the state-controlled Taedonggang Foodstuff Factory, is also said to "exude national flavour" and the Pyongyang Times claims, "has already been registered as a national scientific and technological hit."
But before you get too excited, it's probably worth nothing that the media in North Korea is known for making somewhat bold claims about national achievements – including relating to ginseng.
For example, as NK News reported, state media channels announced last year that medical products containing extracts from the insam ginseng plant could cure Mers, Sars and even Aids.
Andray Abrahamian, who travels to North Korea on business for Chosong Exchange, told the UK-based NK News website that insam liquors were "OK" but he is "not that keen on it as a tasty treat".
"There are some high quality liquors made in North Korea, though in my experience there is no such thing as hangover-free booze anywhere in the world," he said.
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Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Snow Leopard Landscapes of Asia
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Miss Van shares shots of her studio, work in progress & new work from her upcoming show, Twinkles at Magda Danysz gallery in Paris. Her seductive poupees (meaning dolls in French) live in a darker palette but still seductive as ever.
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No Mayan Apocalypse: But There Are Career Lessons Anyway
In honor of the Mayan non-apocalypse, AOL Jobs decided to ask: If there was an actual, impending apocalypse, would you still go to work?
"No way" and a belly laugh is most people's likely reply, but AOL Jobs blogger Laura Vanderkam offered a twist on the question: Aren't we all facing an impending apocalypse? You know, mortality?
So the question isn't really would we go to work (we need foods, and clothes, and roofs, after all); it's are we approaching our work lives in the right way, given that our entire existence, on the cosmic scale, is the equivalent of one those flies that only lives for 30 minutes?
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I just installed OpenLDAP ('slapd-2.4.11') and 'ldap-utils' on my Ubuntu 8.10 using Synaptic Manager.
I have following queries related to configuring LDAP on Ubuntu. First & Foremost I am completely new to LDAP so please don't mind if my questions are really funny
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2. What is my default root node address and how to change it?
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Glen Drover's "Metalusion"
"I had been out of Megadeth for a few months, and I started to get a little antsy," says shredder extraordinaire and former Megadeth and King Diamond guitarist Glen Drover. "So I figured, I have a full studio in my house, I may as well use it!" The result of Drover's urge to burn is Metalusion [Magna Carta], a ten-song extravaganza (which features five originals and five covers from the likes of Al Di Meola, Frank Zappa, and Jean-Luc Ponty) that showcases Drover's relentless, ultra-musical assault that runs the gamut between full-bore shred and liquid legato lyricism. Drover—who engineered, mixed, and mastered the release—also added fellow mega-shredders Vinnie Moore, Jeff Loomis (Nevermore), Steve Smyth (Forbidden, Testament), Fredrik Åkesson (Opeth), and Chris Poland to the festivities.
"This album took over two-and-a-half years to make, but it was recorded very sporadically, basically tracking whenever I was inspired," explains Drover, who was with King Diamond for two years (he can be heard on 2000's House of God album), before he began his stint in Megadeth, which lasted a little more than three years (Drover's playing is exceptional on the band's 2007 release, United Abominations). "The making of Metalusion went really smoothly, especially considering that, and I'm very proud of the fact that everything was tracked separately. No two people were ever in the room at the same time. The drums were done in one studio, the bass was done in another, I did all of my guitars at my home studio, and all of the guest guitarists did their parts in their own studios. We just sent the files back and forth over the Internet. Yet it wasn't difficult to make the record sound cohesive. Everyone had top-notch equipment and got great sounds. I love being able to collaborate like that." Although Drover shares the spotlight, Metalusion is clearly his album as his lethal blend of classic power metal melodicism and terrifying technical mastery are front and center.
Who are your formative influences?
When I started seriously playing the guitar I was 11, and I was really into Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath. I'd play along with We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll and then Heaven and Hell, and that's how I got my initial chops—by stringing the parts together and jumping from a solo back into the rhythm. I played to records a lot, and I still do a little bit. After Sabbath, I was into albums like Iron Maiden's Killers, Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengeance, and Def Leppard's High'n' Dry. From there, I went to the shred things like Tony MacAlpine's Maximum Security, Yngwie's Marching Out, and Al Di Meola's Casino.
Did you take lessons?
I never had formal lessons, but I'd learn from older guys at school or in the neighborhood. I think most people do that. Nobody showed me what I should or shouldn't be doing, that's for sure. For example, I have a weird picking style—I hold the pick with my thumb and middle finger instead of my index finger. I started noticing all of my heroes weren't holding the pick that way, and it took a ton of chromatic exercises to help strengthen my picking hand because the second finger isn't as strong. Even now, if I go a while without practicing I have to pay attention to my picking and whip it back into shape.
Would you say you're a schooled player as far as theory goes?
I'm schooled to a point, but I think I'm more of a street player. I learned theory from videos and stuff and grabbed what I needed along the way. Vinnie Moore's first video back in the late '80s was a really good one for me as far as getting into theory and tons of great techniques. Ritchie Kotzen's first video was also very inspirational for getting into legato. Man, that guy is the legato king! A lot of people say, "Oh you need to learn this or that chord progression or technique"—no thanks—I play what I want to play. If I don't think it's something that will help me play how I want to play, I won't bother with it. I don't like Perry Como, so why would I try to play a Perry Como song?
Did you work any of the solos out for Metalusion or are they off-the-cuff?
No. I find out where the solo section is and I start playing. It's very loose. Jon Lord from Deep Purple said once that his best solos were usually his first ones. When he tried to recapture them by doing take after take, they would inevitably get worse as by then he'd lost all of the original fire of the idea. That's how I work. If I start dissecting it, it starts sounding like I dissected it.
Did either Megadeth or King Diamond want you to work your solos out?
Yeah, Megadeth did. That's why some of them I like and some of them I don't. They would force me to work stuff out and I feel some of it sounds processed and lifeless. The listener can hear if a guy has played something a zillion times. But as a professional you have to adapt to the situation. King Diamond wasn't strict with the solos.
The thing with Megadeth is they wanted me to sound like Marty Friedman. Marty is great, but if you play guitar in that band, you always have to try and be Marty—it's a drag. I understand it's important to pay tribute to the solos that came before you, but at the same time, you need to inject your own thing into them. If you play them note-fornote, it sounds like you're reading the parts off of a piece of paper. I always tried to get close to the original solo, but also to have spots where I did my own thing and got my identity in there.
What did you use to track Metalusion?
I used Dean guitars. I mostly used the Cadillac, but I've also been playing the Deceiver and the Vendetta. I always put Seymour Duncan pickups in them—a Distortion in the bridge and a '59 in the neck. For amps, I used a Randall V2 head paired with a Randall 4x12 cab loaded with 70-watt Celestions. I also used a DigiTech GSP1101 preamp. That thing is killer. I would run it direct and through an amp. I didn't use a ton of effects, but I occasionally plugged into a BBE Soul Vibe rotary speaker emulator, a Seymour Duncan SFX-03 Twin Tube Classic overdrive, and an MXR GT-OD overdrive.
Did the fast, heavy rhythmic thing come easy to you?
It did. I always found it fun to play. When I was in Megadeth, I would play to old Exodus albums before we went on tour to make sure to get the machine gun thing happening.
Do any non-guitarists influence you?
Totally. [Keyboardist] Jon Lord is probably the biggest. I've taken bits of his solos and incorporated them into mine. I've also listened to a lot of Jean-Luc Ponty. I pick up stuff from those guys—especially their phrasing— and try to make it my own to a certain extent. Years ago all I did was to listen to metal and fast guitar stuff, but you have to evolve, right?
You don't use the whammy bar as much on Metalusion as you have in the past.
Yeah, I think I'm playing the fixed-bridge guitars more because I teach a lot, and people come in who want to learn something in dropped-C, then something tuned to Eb, then dropped-D, so I need to be able to tune and retune quickly. I just got out of the habit of reaching for the bar.
Do you have a specific practice routine or time set aside everyday to practice?
No. It's whenever I have time. Between teaching, recording, and my family, well, let's just say I don't have the time I did in my early 20s. In between lessons or if someone cancels, I'll get some time in. I just try to get in a half-hour or hour a day if I can. My practice routine is I just start playing. I'll start with some slow melodic sequences, but nothing specific. I really ad-lib. I'm not a very structured person.
You did some touring with Testament last year filling in for Alex Skolnick. Do you have any desire to get into another big band?
It would have to be right. I almost didn't do Megadeth because I had just gotten married and we had a two-year-old son. Plus, I had just gotten out of King Diamond a couple years earlier and I didn't want to tour anymore. Touring is great for some people, and I love to go out and play, but when it's nine months out of the year, no way!


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