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Tuesday 20th December 2011
All in all, 2011 has proven to be a challenging year, complete with adventure, mis-adventure, friendship and tragedy. Sadly this blog post is being written outside an intensive care unit where I and various family have been camped out for some days keeping vigil for a close family member. I'm getting occasional 'net access at Starbucks next door and would like to apologise to anyone who hasn't heard back from me for a while. I'll catch up on emails and calls eventually.
2011 began with a superb business trip to south India with Nick Kemp. Initially we were visiting to teach just one workshop, but we ended up presenting at the Indian Psychological Association, to the psychology department of a local women's college and we made an appearance on Indian television on a current affairs show about psychological issues. India is that kind of country where opportunity awaits around every corner and you can never be quite sure what is going to happen next. We had a whirlwind trip of amazing hospitality, fantastic food and adventure around every corner for which I will be eternally grateful to the incredible Dr. Abraham for all is help and organisation. Both myself and Nick will be heading back to India in October 2012 for workshops in Kochi, Kerala. Details of this and my other India workshops and events can be found here: India NLP Training.
Following various UK workshops, I was invited to Sweden by Eva Hols for a Metaphors of Money workshop and also a presentation to the superbly attended Swedish NLP Association. Present at the Metaphors of Money workshop was a journalist from Svenska Dagbladet which landed me a fantastic review in the Swedish press.
Tragedy struck in March, with the unexpected death of one of my closest friends and on my way from the funeral to Swindon for the IEMT workshop, I briefly did an impression of a rocket-bike when my motorcycle burst into flames in the fast lane of the dual carriageway. It took me a moment to work out what was going on. I first saw the smoke behind me and thought, "Uh oh, someone is in trouble." The next thing I became aware of was a frantic flashing of lights from cars behind me and the honking of horns. My next thought was, "Oh, might be worthwhile getting out of the way," and it was when a car drew up alongside me with a woman leaning out of the window waving her arms furiously and quite literally screaming that I realised that all the excitement was being caused by me. One of my overloaded panniers had been in contact with the exhaust pipe and my laptop, spare clothes, seminar hand-outs and posters where all merrily alight.
Fortunately, I escaped without injury and I can honestly say that the whole episode was the most exciting thing I have ever experienced.
As a really strange aside, my budget laptop (I tend to drop them so I only ever buy cheap ones) which hardly resembles a laptop any more with nearly all the casing melted away, the disk drive no longer present (it fell out) and all ports except for the power socket completely melted, the thing actually still works. It's an Advent, in case anyone wonders.
In April I travelled to Boulder, Colorado to stay with the wonderful Steve and Connirae Andreas to present the first four day Metaphors of Movement workshop which went better than I could have imagined. Whilst there, I filmed four client sessions on the same day, and the unedited sessions form the basis of, "Building The Rainbow Machine" a DVD set is designed to open the doors to a typical day in my clinical practice. Recent circumstances have delayed the release of this set, but details can be found here: Building The Rainbow Machine DVD Set.
In May, another USA trip took me to Rochester, New York for the IEMT practitioner and advanced practitioner, hosted by the unstoppable James Cervelloni and Lucia Pinizotti, from the Mindopoly Center for Change and then onto Washington DC for a 2 day weight loss event hosted by the wonderful and up and coming Gaye Gunes. Both these events went so well, I'll be back in Rochester and Washington in September 2012.
In June I had one of the most unusual and brilliant experiences of my professional life when I was invited to participate in a theatre production by the improvisation group, Improbable. The improvised show ran for two nights in a completely sold out small theatre. The first night was one of the funniest things I could have imagined; the second night was positively sinister. The nature of improvised shows is that you never know quite what is going to happen. Whilst I couldn't have been more stressed by the whole thing, the audience loved it and getting everyone to go home after the show proved quite difficult.
Then in June it was off to sunny Poland for a workshop on depression and also Metaphors of Money, hosted by my good friend Artur Krol, and from there straight on to the monsoon rain in Bangalore, India for a number of events hosted by the legendary man known simply as GS. I'd not been to Bangalore for several years and it was great to be able to explore the greenest city once again.
An unholy dose of airline food-poisoning put me in bed for 2 weeks which gave rise to a temporary set of neurological symptoms that I never care to experience again but the two weeks in bed gave me time to develop a new module in the, "Metaphors of…" series which I will present in experimental form towards the end of next year.
Adding to the list of personal challenges, in September I presented at a medical conference in Turkey and on the way to the coast following my presentations a near fatal car accident had our taxi leaving the road and over the edge of a cliff where incredibly our descent was broken by a small group of trees growing out of the cliff side. I escaped largely unhurt, but Laura was admitted to hospital for a few days with head and neck injuries. This incident has proven to be pivotal in a number of ways. Two weeks of feeling rather jittery and sensitive to loud noises ended quite suddenly with a rather dramatic nightmare, which in a strange kind of way, was a re-enactment of the accident. I awoke from this nightmare, startling Laura in the process and instantly felt back to normal. Much like the food poisoning incident, this gave me first-hand experience of symptoms I have only ever seen second hand previously. For me the interesting part of the aftermath of the accident was the low level PTSD. Realistically, it was low level because really not a lot happened apart from a very-scary-thing. No one was killed, no one was seriously injured (i.e. no life altering injuries), there was no crime, blame or aggression in the incident. It was a simple accident caused by a driver driving too fast (he survived too). For me what was interesting was the manifestation of post-incident guilt/shame/regret/remorse, but nothing that was obviously related to the accident. I found it very difficult to concentrate, felt exhausted all the time and found myself very sensitive to loud noises and was easily startled. I found myself remembering things from childhood, from my nursing days, from school. My mind would wander to the most abstract things and I would replay events from long ago in my mind in ways I'd never done before. I first became conscious of this when trying to read the newspaper in the bath one morning. I have no idea why, but I suddenly remembered flicking a bit of snot at someone at school, it wasn't as a joke, it was simply an act of bullying, the recipient was a common victim of other children's juvenile nastiness, and I felt quite terrible about that. I almost cried.
Later the same day, Laura was putting the cutlery away, and the noise of that action really irritated me. I actually wanted to suggest that she did the chores more quietly, I was about to shout something when she beat me to it asking me if I wanted a cup of tea. I was straight back to feeling guilty again.
Having worked with a large number of PTSD patients, many of whom have experienced and survived some really horrible stuff, I'd never considered that the associated problems with guilt etc. may not necessarily connect to the incident but may manifest in other ways. I slept soundly, without dreams. This for me is unusual, I normally have vivid dreams that often turn into major adventures. I'd wake up exhausted from each dreamless sleep.
A number of people asked me if I did any therapy on myself or Laura to resolve this. I didn't. Nor did I do any on myself. I was quite surprised at how often I was asked this and a couple of times I lied and said, "of course, and everything is fine now" just to get rid of the questioning and unhelpful suggestions. Time and repeated experience have done little to diminish my exasperation at just how intrusive some "therapists" can be with their questioning and ideas and how some people are utterly incapable of taking a polite hint to bugger off.
A couple of people with experience in working with PTSD did contact me to offer their services should they be needed, and I am grateful for that. Thank you.
What has been interesting is that since waking up from that particular nightmare, is just how I feel remarkably relaxed about everything. I see so many things differently now than before, and it feels good. It almost makes the whole thing quite worthwhile.
October and November saw me travelling around the UK delivering more Metaphors of Movement workshops, including some experimental workshops where I trialled new material for 2012 MoM events.
Also in November, I finally managed to release, "The Complete IEMT Sessions" DVD set which sold out on pre-orders before I'd even received the stock copies and a second print run had to be ordered. As stock levels stand at the moment, I have just 1 copy left. I'll be restocking after Christmas in the New Year.
When I put together the material for the IEMT workshop, I had no expectation for what was going to happen with the work, but the popularity of the model has exceeded all of my expectations and it is being taught and practiced internationally and the field continues to grow. IEMT is being experimented with and developed by a number of professional trainers in the areas of business management, allergy and psoriasis, pain management and trauma.
2012 promises to be a busy year with much overseas travel for events across the USA, Canada, Poland, India, Sweden as well as some planned collaboration with notables such as Lucas Derks and others to be named as details are confirmed.
But that is all for the near future. For now, with hours spent each day in hospital visitors' rooms, I am witnessing and experiencing the strength and courage of strangers in difficult times as I get to know a little of the families of other patients in the intensive care unit – some of whom will inevitably survive and recover, and others who probably won't. There is a sense of realistic hope in places like this, with much support offered both by staff and by the other people who share difficult circumstances. It is the little and often silent gestures that make a difference and the determination of people to maintain morale in the face of tragedy that enables others to cope. Shared humour abounds. Yesterday, a couple of us watched the "Christmas Message" videos put out by various life coaches and howled with laughter. Life coaches and NLP trainers ought to take note of this – some of your youtube videos are providing much entertainment and relief to people in genuine distress, and not for the reasons you necessarily intended.
There, I had to say it. An Andy Austin blog post would be complete without a little rant. So, all is that is left for me to say is that I wish you all a safe and festive holiday season and I hope Santa brings you something nice.
Andy Austin
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At the Iceland Airwaves Music Fest, Björk Proves to Be the Next Björk
Last weekend I flew to Reykjavik for Iceland Airwaves, a twelve-year-old music festival that's a fifth the size of this week's CMJ. While there, I asked every native Icelander I met why their island nation of 320,000 has perhaps the world's highest bands-per-capita index. "The weather is so terrible," they'd invariably say, "there's nothing to do." (This meteorological observation was confirmed immediately upon arrival.) But these locals usually added another causal phenomenon: "Everything changed after Björk." These explanations both reassured me, as I'd traveled to Iceland on the brink of its bleak winter darkness mainly to see Björk, and not the other 250 bands that were playing.
But before seeing Björk — in her second gig since the release of her highly inventive but uneven new album, Biophilia — I sampled about a dozen of her indigenous successors: Some two thirds of the festival's 250 bands were local. (Making the trek from America were Beach House, tune-yArDs, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr, and James Murphy, doing a powerful D.J. set for a lucky and patient few.) Among the Icelandic bands, the level of competence was impressive, and their musical reference points were easy to find. The three kids in Satanic shawls and kohl eye makeup who formed the electronic group Samaris played well beyond their teenage years, marrying the style of the XX to Tricky's laziest beats. The band Lay Low* sounds like Camera Obscura with a country twang. There were too many solid post-rock droners in the wake of Mogwai and Icelanders Sigur Ros (Björk's successors in crossover acclaim) to even name, and the energetic, ska-tinged Lara Runarsdottir finds her analogue in Gwen Stefani, though with a cutesier appeal. The undisputed "next big thing," per everyone in Iceland right now, was Of Monsters and Men: Their incredibly catchy single, "Little Talks," had packed crowds screaming along during both of their festival performances. (The song is currently overplayed on Icelandic radio.) They've been compared to Edward Sharpe and Mumford & Sons, and they also have the cult-leading energy of Arcade Fire at its folksiest. And that, in a way, might be the problem with all these next big Icelandic things. The country's last two breakthroughs, Björk and Sigur Ros, have one thing in common: They don't sound like anyone else, and they never really tried.
Björk is impossible to imitate, even though she is a member of Iceland's mythological pantheon. Among all the ancient Viking artifacts at the National Museum of Iceland on the outskirts of Reykjavik (in other words, a ten-minute walk from city hall), the only pop music item is an album cover from Björk's real debut album, a piano recital she recorded in 1977, when she was 12. It looks trippy and Orientalist. One night, while I waited in a lounge for James Murphy's D.J. set, a thin Icelander wearing a strange leather necklace began talking to me without prompting. After sharing his intimate knowledge of Brooklyn neighborhoods, he explained that the Icelandic D.J. we were listening to, Hermigervill, was doing a pastiche of pre-Björk pop that every Icelander understood on a visceral level. This chipper sprite (who never gave his name) was also the first person on my trip to offer a reason other than bad weather for Iceland's band explosion: "We didn't have any pop music of our own until about 40 years ago. We had to learn everything incredibly fast, and we're still learning." In a land that seems to prize individuality and wears its strange geographic location and volcanic eruptions as badges of honor, the road to true musical uniqueness has long been paved with imitations of every subculture since World War II. Björk, my new friend said, had baffled Icelanders for years. "She was just this weird screamer."
On Sunday night, Björk performed in Reykjavik's striking, Olafur Eliasson-designed Harpa concert hall. Biophilia and its accompanying apps have received middling reviews, but in a small venue like this, she was able to project her personality into pure showmanship. Her hybrid instruments hummed and sparked and boomed around her — a computer-pipe-organ, a trio of turtle-ish kettle drums, four giant pendulums, an enormous electrode — while a choir of two dozen in gold and blue swayed above and below her like some Art Nouveau freeze. The woman herself resembled a gold and gray fish in a dress made of scaly sequins and gill-like fabric, topped with a yellow-orange Brillo wig. Her voice was pitch-perfect even in those fabled tearing screams. Given the pseudoscientific trappings and all the bells and whistles that come with her new concept album, I'd been expecting bombastic pyrotechnics. Instead there was deep and loving strangeness.
Since she performed in the round, Björk would sing each song to a different quadrant of the audience, addressing not a group, it seemed, but each individual. Her lyrics, which generally make little to no sense, took on some greater meaning in the context of her position as grandmother and godmother of the music scene that swirled around her. "The best way to start anew is to fail miserably," she sang to her would-be successors, from "Moon" on her new album. And she finished her encore with a song I'd never really liked before, from Volta, an album I never bothered to buy, but its powerful invocation was the perfect closer: "Declare Independence!"
If there truly is a new Björk in Iceland, it might be one of the 160 bands I missed. Or it might just be Björk.
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Nico Rosberg is still trying to get his head around the set-up of his W05 after being sidelined midway through Friday's first practice.
Putting in the laps at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Rosberg complained that it was feeling a bit "hot" around his seat.
Heading back into the pits, Mercedes discovered an ERS cooling issue that meant he sat out the second half of FP1.
Back on track later in the afternoon, Rosberg covered 36 laps in FP2 and finished second quickest to his team-mate Lewis Hamilton.
The Championship leader, though, was almost half a second off the pace.
"My hopes are still there that it could still become a normal weekend," he said.
"It wasn't such a massive setback, but yes at the moment we are still running behind a little bit and I haven't found my way with set-up. That's what I'm trying to get my head around at the moment.
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"It was a difficult start to the weekend and we have a lot of work to do. I'm not feeling so comfortable, but mainly [the problem] in the long run I had a lot of traffic and was always stuck in traffic. That made it very tough and to summarise it, I'm still trying to find my balance."
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|Emerald Yoga
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15 Columbia Road
Pembroke, Massachusetts
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300 Oak Street, Unit 155
Pembroke, Massachusetts 02359
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Charles David Spa building
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|Whidden's School of Fitness, Inc.
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822 Webster St.
Marshfield, Massachusetts 02050
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|Yoga Style: Kripalu
110 Stagecoach Drive
Marshfield, Massachusetts 02050
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|Dreams Come Troup
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293r Washington St.
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|Yoga Style: Hot Yoga, Power Yoga, Restorative, Ashtanga & Certification
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55 Pacific st
Rockland, Massachusetts 02370
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11 Hollett Street
Scituate, Massachusetts 02066
|781-545-0340 ext.2
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|Center for Stress Management/ Maha Yoga Center
|Yoga Style: Hatha, Ashtanga
992 Bedford St/ PO Box 303
Bridgewater, Massachusetts 02324
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|Sanctuary Studios
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47 Main St
Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360
|Contact:Michelle Fleming
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Police say the driver of a 2006 Chevrolet Impala lost control of his car, crossed over the center line and traveled into the opposite lane, where it collided with a Chevrolet Trailblazer.
The driver of the Impala, identified as 46-year-old Frederick Washington Jr., of Keyser, W.Va., was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Trailblazer was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Company says it wants to focus on new 'major product'.
Google announced on Wednesday (20) via its official blog that is ending the activities of Google Labs. The project gathered at an experimental stage products created by engineers of the company so that users could test them. According to the company, the reason of closing of Google Labs is part of its strategy to "prioritize other important products."
In a message on the site, Bill Coughran, vice president of research and systems infrastructure at Google, said it would require "more focus if the company wants to make the most of opportunities that arise ahead." He said many of the products which have emerged in Labs and are available in Android Market application store the operating system of the company, continue to be available. "Labs Products can still be incorporated into other areas," he said.
Google Labs has about 56 products like Swiffy, which converts Flash files for HTML5 , Scribe, text editor that suggests words to streamline the production of content, and the Body, a 3D model of the human body. Google Goggles, which uses images to perform web searches, appeared in Google Labs.


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Pogo Mine pours two-millionth ounce of gold
Pogo mine refinery operators pour molten gold from the 2,300 degree induction furnace into the molds. The heavy weight of the gold settles it in the molds while the lighter impurities, called slag, flow over top down into the slag pot.
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Delta Junction, Alaska – On July 31, 2012 the two-millionth ounce of gold was poured at the Sumitomo Pogo Mine near Delta Junction.
Kennedy noted that the company maintains high safety and environmental standards and while gold production is the goal, human safety and adherence to environmental commitments are core values. "Milestones like this are only achieved when safety and environmental performance remain at the forefront of everyone's minds. No ounce of gold is worth harming a person or the environment and I am proud of our team for their performance," said Kennedy.
An aerial view of Pogo Mine shows the Goodpaster River in the background, the mill and processing facilities with the "blue tube" conveyor belt that travels up from the underground mine, and the camp, administration, and maintenance facilities in the foreground. (Judy Patrick Photography)
Pogo Mine is an underground gold mine located 38 miles northeast of Delta Junction, Alaska. The mine feeds gold ore to the mill at a rate of approximately 2,500 tons per day and the property produces between 350,000 and 380,000 ounces of gold annually. The currently expected mine life projects operations through 2019, but significant exploration work is underway with the hope of extending the mine life. Current reserves are in excess of 2.7 million ounces of gold.
The gold bar containing the 2,000,000th ounce of gold was the 2,766th bar of gold poured at Pogo Mine. The bar contained 744 troy ounces and is approximately 93.6% gold." (Judy Patrick Photography)
The mine is operated by Sumitomo Metal Mining Pogo LLC, a Joint Venture between Sumitomo Metal Mining Company and Sumitomo Corporation with 85% and 15% ownership shares respectively. Final Permits and Authorizations were issued for the Pogo Mine in December 2003. Mine construction was completed in 2006 and commercial production was achieved in April 2007. The one millionth ounce was produced in October 2009. Pogo Mine maintains a workforce of more than 330 direct employees and an additional 150 contractors.
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My organization would like to conduct a fundraiser, how do we contact Social Services Department?
Social Services Department was dissolved in 1997 as a Department and put under the Los Angeles Police Commission, Commission Investigation Division, Charitable Services Section, located at 200 North Spring Street, Room 1513, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
My organization is a non-profit charity. How do we go about having a fundraiser?
A Notice of Intention to Solicit Contributions [PDF] needs to be completed and returned to Charitable Services Section at least 15 days prior to the beginning of your solicitation or advertisement of your fundraising activity. A Notice of Intention can be faxed or mailed to your organization.
What documents does my new charity need to submit?
The documents are (1) Corporation Articles (and Amendments), (2) Bylaws, (3) Internal Revenue Service letter of income tax exemption and (4) Franchise Tax Board (State of California) letter of income tax exemption, and (5) the Charitable Trust (CT) number issued by the State of California, Office of the Attorney General.
Is there a fee to solicit in the City of Los Angeles ?
Yes, the amount is $42.00
Who is the Person in Charge of Appeal?
The Information Card will be sent to the person named at the end of Notice of Intention as the person in charge of appeal. That name will be put on the Information Card along with a telephone in which they can be contacted regarding the appeal or event.
After I have completed the Notice of Intention, how long does it take to get my permit?
Charitable Services Section issues an Information Card. The Information Card has an identifying number and will be issued within 15 days of receipt of the Notice.
What is an Information Card?
The Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC) requires any person or organization soliciting or holding a special event in the City to obtain an Information Card from Charitable Services Section of the Los Angeles Police Commission prior to the event or appeal. The IC provides important information to the donor so they may make an educated decision whether to support that organization.
Where can I get the Los Angeles Municipal Code?
You can find the Los Angeles Municipal Code, City Charter and Rules and Code on the Los Angeles City website. www.lacity.org.
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Each solicitor must possess and display upon request a copy of the Information Card to all persons solicited. Mail appeals must contain a replica of the Information Card or the information contained on the card. The Information Card must be displayed at the site of special events.
What should be done with the form Report of Results of Activity [PDF]?
The form must be completed and submitted with the signatures of two officers of the organization and filed with Charitable Services Section, Los Angeles Police Commission within 30 days after the close of the solicitation.
How can our 501(c)(3) become an Endorsed Agency?
Comply with the provisions of Section 44.15(a)(1) through (9) of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC). Submit an Application for Endorsement [PDF] to Charitable Services Section, Los Angeles Police Commission.
Is the Information Card Permit Issued by the City of Los Angeles valid in other cities and jurisdictions (Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, etc..)?
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It is unlawful to conduct or play a game of bingo in the City of Los Angeles without a valid bingo license issued pursuant to Article 4.5 Bingo of the Los Angeles Municipal Code.
What are the necessary steps in order to request a charitable bingo license?
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Bingo may only be conducted no more than three days per week. No bingo session shall exceed six continuous hours and any one licensee shall permit not more than one bingo session in one day.
What hours of the week may a licensed charitable organization conduct bingo?
Bingo may only be conducted between the hours of 12:00 noon and 12:00 midnight. No bingo session shall exceed six continuous hours and any one licensee shall permit not more than one bingo session in one day.
Where do I purchase my Bingo supplies?
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I really like almost EVERY song by the GazettE, but this one is probably one of my top 10.
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Ruki is a fuckin genius!
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Make a meal in minutes with this instant peanutty satay flavored ramen. Just add hot water. Once its finished cooking, try adding thin slices of meat or vegetable for a hearty soup.
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Soup Base: Salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, autolyzed yeast extract, soy sauce powder (soybeans, wheat, salt), garlic powder, hydrolyzed soy protein, onion powder, caramel color, coconut cream powder, ginger powder, white pepper powder, black pepper powder, curry powder (coriander, fennel, turmeric, chili, cumin), five spice powder (star anise, fennel, anise, cinnamon, clove), rice oil, slicon dioxide, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, turmeric powder.
Seasoning Sauce: Satay sauce (soybean oil, halibut, shrimp), sesame sauce (sesame seeds, peanuts, sesame oil), artifical satay flavor, vegetable oil (rice oil, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, palm oil), peanut sauce (peanuts, salt, sugar), natural onion flavor, natural tomato flavor, garlic, dried chili, paprika color, white pepper powder, black pepper powder, shallot, tocopherols (preservative).
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Sony and E Ink are Making a Digital Paper Notepad and it Looks Awesome (Video)
May 17, 2013 | 12:15 pm
By Matthew Marchesano
I'm an all-day note-taker—my day's or week's itinerary, messages to give to someone else, story ideas, ramblings, etc. Unfortunately I'm also a bit of a messy … well, unorganized person, I admit. And as you may guess, those two personality traits usually add up, for me, to lots of unorganized, folded pieces of paper in my pockets or around my house and office, and also a library of notebooks of compiled thoughts and ideas with real order.
So needless to say, I'm anticipating Sony's A4-sized (8.3-inches x 11.7-inches) digital paper slate to be rather beneficial in my life. Unveiled last week, their ongoing collaborative project using E Ink's latest flexible Mobius technology provided a prototype that weighs only 358-grams. And at only 6.8mm thick, with a 1200×1600 pixel display, portability is key, though usability is not to be compromised.
The device was demoed at the Educational IT Solutions Expo in Tokyo earlier this week. Check out the video below, grabbed by DigInfo TV:
Impressive, right? Special for the device, Sony created a high-precision thin film that can handle E Ink digital writing capabilities, omitting glass material—along with choosing a plastic bezel and casing to keep the device lightweight and very portable. It uses a stylus to write at a thickness comparable to a normal ballpoint pen. There's no word on specs, pricing or wireless connectivity yet.
Sony has the next-generation classroom assistant targeted at school systems worldwide, perhaps with a potential to replace traditional paper notebooks altogether. Of course, not immediately. But the functionality is clearly available and that's exciting. With technology such as this (packing a battery life of about three weeks, I should add) it seems pointless to waste real paper any longer.
It's easy to see what my opinion about all this is—how do you think the future for E Ink notebooks is looking?
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wow – this looks fantastic!
That's just cool.
This is an interesting product that I'll be keeping my eyes on. But I've spent some time with a Wacom tablet with Sketchbook Pro, and the key to productivity and low frustration is to be able to select bits and move them around. Haven't seen that discussed for the Sony yet. Granted, my use case is note taking plus visual problem solving with diagrams and models and I'm not much of an artist.
Without that type of feature and some other basics, I still trying to understand how it would be any more useful than paper except for (of course) the handy electronic storage of pages. It's usage seems to be more like a boogie board plus some special tasks such as pdf forms or the like.
Btw, Adobe also has some interesting ideas for sketching on tablets with "Mighty" and "Napoleon".
Impressive, particularly the size, lightness and long battery life. News about the death of ePaper is greatly exaggerated. It should be great for proofing texts. A stand that'd let it be placed alongside a regular display, serving as an additional screen, would be great too. And I'd love to see a screen like this become the built-in back of a smartphone for reading or messaging. There's already and add-on for iPhones that does that.
I fail to understand this gushing about flexibility though. That plastic makes it thinner and lighter is great. But flexibility just means it has to be put in a case to make it stiff. I don't want a reading or writing surface that wobbles and wiggles.
I want one!
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The Carnegie Mellon Filmmaking Club is hosting it's 16th annual Student Film Festival this Friday. We've gone with a bike-in theme and we're showing the films on a big outdoor screen. Should be lots of fun. The details are at www.rackfocusfest.com . Check it out if you're in Pittsburgh. Films start at 8pm in front of the College of Fine Arts.


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Temple Square (pictured last year). We're going to enjoy a slower pace, more time to play, and more holiday food.
PS Happy Boxing Day to all you lucky folks who get to celebrate Boxing Day.
Hope you had a good Christmas! Agreed the time in between is so very quiet now!ReplyDelete
LOL! I agree, too! No parties, no last minute gifts to buy or finish, no cooking ... just kicking back and enjoying the season! Merry Christmas! :)ReplyDelete
I love this time also, you are so right it is wonderfully quiet and relaxed.ReplyDelete
have a wonderful time this week! and YAY for Boxing Day which is also my brother's birthday. I always like to remind people about Boxing Day...considering they don't know about it around here. thanks for the cute christmas card! you guys are wonderful.ReplyDelete
I so miss the temple square lights. We just moved away from utah and I don't miss a lot of things but I actually miss snow and the temple square lights. This is my favorite week, too. No commitments, no parties, just family.ReplyDelete
I agree...this is the most relaxing week of the year!ReplyDelete
We're heading to Temple Square tomorrow night as well! We have the grandson and a ride on Trax mixed with a ton of Christmas lights will be exactly what will make his little eyes light up!ReplyDelete
As an occasional visitor I just wanted to wish you a happy and healthy 2011.ReplyDelete
i thought i recognised those pics.. I would LOVE to go back for Christmas.. Temple Square looks amazing!!ReplyDelete
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A suspected suicide bomber on a motorbike has killed at least eight Afghan security personnel and wounded 27 in an attack near the country's parliament in Kabul.
The Afghan Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Al Jazeera's Sue Turton, reporting from the capital Kabul, said that the attack on Wednesday targeted a bus that was carrying Afghan security forces.
"The motorbike detonated next to what appeared to be a normal bus, but government officials have confirmed that it was actually carrying security forces," our correspondent said.
"We are seeing a wave of suicide attacks as the Taliban is coming off the battle field and using suicide bombings and assassinations on what they see as legitimate targets."
The powerful blast on a busy street during Kabul's early morning rush hour shattered the windows of dozens of houses and buildings nearby, while the bus and two private vehicles were damaged.
The suspected bomber's body and his destroyed motorbike lay nearby.
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Too bad a holding penalty against Corey Graham will prevent it from being remembered for the ages.
At 1-2, the Bears are searching for an offensive identity and they're two games back of the defending Super Bowl champion Packers and upstart Lions in the NFC North.
A week after there were just 12 rushes and 11 running plays called in a beat down at New Orleans, the Bears had 12 rushes and called only nine running plays. They managed only 13 yards rushing, the fewest in franchise history since at least 1960, and 12 more than they had on Oct. 26, 1952, against the Los Angeles Rams. The 12 carries tied for the second-fewest ever.
Have you seen this game plan before?
"I don't audible," said quarterback Jay Cutler, who propped up the running totals with three scrambles for 11 yards. "You're going to have to ask someone else about that. I don't do the game plan."
OK. Can it work?
"We are 0-2 doing this," Cutler said. "So, it's not looking very good."
Matt Forte carried nine times for 2 yards. He was stopped in the backfield for a loss on six of the carries behind the makeshift offensive line general manager Jerry Angelo said he went to all lengths to upgrade.
"We took a step back," Forte said. "When we first came out the first week, I felt like we made a couple strides forward in where we are going. Last week, I think we took a little step back and this week we took a major step back."
Martz explained that he went into 2-minute mode too early against the Saints, a story that didn't necessarily fit game circumstances. This time, the Bears struggled with the run early, got behind 17-7 in the second quarter and never got going.
"We didn't run the ball because we weren't able to," said Forte, who was limited to 80 yards on seven receptions. "We just played bad out there. Obviously, when they're shutting the run down, we're going to try to throw the ball a little more. It just didn't happen."
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (28-for-38, 297 yards) threw three touchdown passes to tight end Jermichael Finley and running back Ryan Grant gained 92 yards on 17 carries. Green Bay went up and down the field with ease from the start, reminiscent of the NFC championship game in January, gaining an early 14-0 lead.
While Rodgers patiently picked apart the secondary and the Cover-2 scheme with Greg Jennings, who caught nine passes for 119 yards, the Bears only got a few big plays. Johnny Knox caught four passes for 84 yards and Devin Hester had three for 62 yards.
There were some shots downfield here and there, including a 32-yard touchdown strike to Kellen Davis to bring the Bears within 10 with 11:46 to play, but Martz's crew was out of sync. The Bears converted only 3 of 12 third downs and didn't get it right against a defense that Panthers rookie Cam Newton had shredded a week earlier. Two passes targeted for Roy Williams were picked off by safety Morgan Burnett.
Martz, in the final year of his contract, is an easy target, but he works for Lovie Smith, who is on his third offensive coordinator. Cutler had time to throw and didn't deliver. Blame can be cast to all corners of Halas Hall.
"Offensively, we had opportunities," Smith said.
They even had a chance to make it a game when Knox and Hester orchestrated a brilliant play designed by special teams coordinator Dave Toub.
Knox lined up to jam a gunner at the line and then sprinted back. He fielded Tim Masthay's punt in the corner while Hester pretended to be catching the ball on the other side of the field. Green Bay's coverage team converged on Hester while Knox had an easy 89-yard run for a touchdown, wiped out by a holding call against Graham way away from the play.
If the touchdown had counted, the Bears would have been an onside kick and a field goal away from overtime.
"That was the most incredible play I've ever seen," Rodgers said.
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Ex-cop's claim he was given rifle is totally false says Auburn chief
Prosecutors dropped charges against retired Auburn police lieutenant David Flight two weeks before he was to go on trial for felony theft charges. (COURTESY)
Picard also rejected claims by Flight's attorney that there were other officers given weapons from the evidence room.
"I am sitting here and telling you today it's the furthest thing from the truth," Picard said during an interview Thursday. "Why would I give him something that wasn't mine to give?"
The prosecution against Flight dissolved last Tuesday when the state Attorney General's Office dropped felony theft charges alleging he took the high-powered rifle from a police evidence room sometime after Dec. 7, 1992. Before the charges were dropped, Flight's defense lawyer, Eric Wilson, suggested to a superior court judge that Picard gave Flight the weapon as payment for storing other firearms seized by the department.
"David Flight has a propensity for manipulating the truth," Picard said. "These claims that other officers were given weapons are totally false. The only advantage that David Flight had was that he had a good lawyer."
Picard said he had no doubt there was plenty of evidence about the alleged theft to put before a jury, despite the opinion of state prosecutors who felt that they could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. Picard said he planned to write Gov. Maggie Hassan to voice his disappointment in the handling of the case, and for the Attorney General's Office not fully disclosing to the public their reasons not to prosecute.
He said the AG's investigation into Flight took hundreds of hours over the course of a year, and produced direct evidence, witness testimony and records that would have proven the case.
"I was extremely disappointed because this was a year-long investigation that expended a lot of resources. They talked to every police officer in the department," Picard said. "They definitely dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's. They left no stone unturned."
Picard said even officers no longer working at the department were interviewed.
Flight, a former evidence officer and department prosecutor, was scheduled to go on trial Monday in Rockingham County Superior Court on charges of theft by unauthorized taking and receiving stolen property.
"If (Flight's) whole case was that he was going to put me on the stand, I was ready for it," Picard said.
Documents cited
Deputy Attorney General Ann Rice said Thursday that the defense's motion asking a judge to dismiss the charges, which included suggestions Picard gave Flight the weapon, had "nothing to do with" the decision not to take the case to trial.
"We located some documents late in the game that created some problems with proving the elements of the case," Rice said.
She refused to disclose the exact details of that evidence, despite the case being closed.
"I'm not going to go into all the rationale," Rice said.
Respected chief
Picard said he was told by state prosecutors last week that they had concerns about the statute of limitations in the case. He said defense witnesses would have included Flight's ex-wife, who would have been called to testify she was told by her former husband that the gun was a gift. Picard said Flight never stored weapons on behalf of the Auburn Police Department.
David Dion, chairman of Auburn's police commission, said he believes Flight would never have been able to offer any evidence that he or other officers were given firearms.
"I would stake my life or my family's life on it that the chief never, ever told him to keep that gun," said Dion, who has known Picard for 20 years.
He said that Picard is a widely respected figure in New Hampshire's law enforcement community, known for maintaining his integrity and high ethical standards.
Flight retired from the department in November 2010 after a town audit returned inconclusive results on missing inventory from the evidence room. Dion said that even the 2010 matter was referred to the Attorney General's Office for review at the suggestion of Picard.
When Auburn police sergeants first linked Flight to the missing rifle last January, they turned the matter over to the state Attorney General's Office to avoid any suggestion that Flight was getting special treatment, he said.
AG stands by decision
Picard said he would be open to having another law enforcement agency review the decision to drop the prosecution against Flight, but expressed doubt that it would lead to charges being re-filed.
"I would be inclined to do that, but what chance would they stand if the Attorney General's Office, the state's top cop, decided not to go forward with the case?" Picard said.
Rockingham County Attorney James Reams said Thursday that he is not authorized to review a decision not to prosecute, unless it was requested by the attorney general.
"I don't have any authority unless I'm asked," Reams said. Reams said that there have been instances where the Attorney General's Office has asked county attorneys to give cases a second look. Reams said he did not know the details about the decision not to prosecute Flight, but noted prosecutors are often faced with competing versions of facts, and doubts raised by the defense.
"There's really no guarantees in life," he said "There's always a risk with a jury trial."
Rice said her office "absolutely" stands by the decision to drop charges in the case, and said they had an ethical obligation not to pursue charges any further.
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California businessman William Platz, President of the Paso Robles-based propane corporation Delta Liquid Energy, was recently elected to serve as Chairman of the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), a national board authorized by the United States Congress to promote the use of propane as a preferred energy source. He will volunteer his time and travel expenses to oversee PERC's $45 million budget and to lead the Council as it initiates its National Energy Conversation—a campaign which will educate energy decision-makers about how increased propane use in replacement of other energy sources reduces U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
Platz comes to the position after a two-year term of service as PERC Treasurer, and three and half years as a councilmember. His many years of experience in extending propane use—as former Chairman of the Propane Vehicle Council (2003-2004), President of The Propane Promotion Consortium, Inc. for the last seven years, and active board member of The National Propane Gas Association and the Western Propane Gas Association—will aid him in his term as PERC Chairman.
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A California native and graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Platz has worked in the third-generation family business of Delta Liquid Energy (DLE) since 1986. He and his father have dedicated their adult lives to leading the industry in promoting cleaner air through the use of propane as an engine fuel. Today, most of Delta's fleet runs on propane (producing up to 80 percent fewer emissions than their gasoline or diesel counterparts) and the Platz family devotes many resources to advocating the development and commercialization of propane-powered equipment, vehicles and refueling stations.
The Council's first steps of the new term under Platz's leadership will be to help form an alliance with T. Boone Pickens, a leading advocate of alternative and renewable fuels. PERC authorized the President and CEO Roy Willis to continue negotiations that would make propane an integral part of the "Pickens Plan," a multimedia campaign to promote energy independence, expand the use of domestic alternative fuels, and reduce the impact of energy-use on the environment.
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