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NEW YORK CITY, August 31, 2013 — Fast-food workers are organizing, protesting, and striking across the nation for a wage increase. They want full-time work to earn a living wage. Conservatives, above all others, should be cheering them on.
Conservatives often oppose hikes in the minimum wage on the theory that the additional cost will reduce market employment. This would do more harm than good to those at the bottom of the economy.
SEE RELATED: Raising the barricades at McDonald's: Let them strike
Increased wages will eventually cut overall employment, but the small increase that is being needed for a living wage is not likely to be a heavy burden on most firms. On the other hand, a better wage for hardworking low-skilled laborers will hit the sweet spot for most centrists and conservatives: It will provide incentives to work.
A Pennsylvania study showed that a person on public assistance can accumulate the equivalent of over $57,000 a year by staying home and taking advantage of all the different handouts from the government. These include food stamps, Medicaid, and Section 8 Housing.
The Cato Institute, using a different formula, confirms that for those who have become government dependents, it is more profitable to reject minimum wage jobs and just stay home on the dole.
An unemployed person in Washington could make the equivalent of $43,000 from government subsidies. In Massachusetts it is $42,000, while Hawaii comes in at $49,000. Consequently, there are millions of Americans pondering the question, why work for 40 hours a week at minimum wage and bring home just $15,000 before taxes? It simply doesn't add up.
SEE RELATED: Why raising the minimum wage may be Obama's worst idea yet
Americans once preferred to do what they could to avoid Social Services because of the stigma that came with it. But that stigma has largely vanished.
Indeed, the Obma Administration is spending taxpayer dollars to promote films and PSAs to convince people that they should aggressively seek out food stamps and any other government subsidy they can find.
One way or the other, those on the lower end are going to get enough money to survive. The question is whether it will come from money they earned or money that is taken from taxpayers.
Isn't it better to put a working person over the poverty threshold by adding a few cents to the price of a Big Mac rather than having the taxpayers make up the difference when the salary falls short?
SEE RELATED: DC Council passes anti-Walmart "living wage"
Working for minimum wage gets you about $60 for the day. Subtract transportation and day care costs if you are a working mom, and you are working for almost nothing. Where is the incentive? Not all these workers are 17-year-olds, holding these positions for a year or two.
Many of these workers are unskilled, mature men and women who are just trying to scrape by.
We have it all backwards. A recent Fox News segment included an interview with a California surfer who bragged that he thought it foolish to get a job when he could hit the waves all day and then rock out with friends, all while filling his belly with sushi paid for by his food stamp card.
He all but said you'd have to be a sucker to work for minimum wage. We've given credence to that opinion by encouraging such abhorrent behavior through our increasingly unchecked welfare state.
Still, there are millions of Americans who refuse this easy way out, because despite efforts to de-stigmatize reliance on the state, they have a sense of pride and self respect. It's time to throw bums like that surfer to the curb and allow hardworking minimum wage employees know that they can make more than the poverty level if they are willing to work a 40-hour week.
Steve Levy served as Suffolk County Executive 2004-2011, and as a NYS Assemblyman. Levy is now President of Common Sense Strategies, a political and business consulting firm.
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French dance-pop purveyors Yelle have recently returned with their long awaited second album, the exotically addictive Safari Disco Club (out now, V2/Cooperative Music). They were also were asked by Katy Perry to remix her hit single "Hot n Cold" which has led to them supporting her UK tour in the spring of 2011.
Yelle is fronted and named by Yelle, nee Julie Budet, a sparky gamine with a deceptively demure schoolgirl voice. Joined by producers GrandMarnier (Jean-Francois Perrier) and Tepr (Tanguy Destable), Yelle first arrived amid a flurry of 80's inspired pop, with the likes of CSS and New Young Pony Club all revered for their take on brightly colored electro.

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From Mulberry to Asia: Soybean Plant Benefits River Valley Community
by Chris Bahn
Posted 2/4/2013 12:00 am
Updated 2 years ago
Mulberry is situated between exits 20 and 24 off Interstate 40. Proximity to larger communities — Ozark is 14 miles to the east and Alma 12 miles to the west — often makes Mulberry an afterthought for motorists traveling through the Arkansas River Valley.
There is reason to believe, however, the overlooked town of 1,655 will soon become the centerpiece of edamame production in the United States. American Vegetable Soybean & Edamame Inc., owned by JYC International of Houston, opened one of the country's first edamame processing plants there in July.
AVSE had been working with the University of Arkansas to develop edamame — young, green soybeans popular in Asian cooking — that could be grown and harvested in the United States. Relationships developed through that process led to the company setting up shop in the state and building a 30,000-plus-SF facility worth more than $5 million in Mulberry's industrial park.
Access to I-40 provides for easy shipping of the product across the country. Nearby farmland offers ideal growing conditions for the product pronounced "edda-MAH-may."
"Working with university representatives, we were able to get introductions to key growers in the area and state development agencies who helped us secure funding," AVSE co-owner and CFO Raymond Chung said. "The city of Mulberry was incredibly supportive, giving us land on which we built the plant. This is why we chose the location that we did."
Soybeans have been a staple crop for Arkansas farmers for years. More than 3 million acres are harvested in the state, but until last year edamame was not included in those figures.
That should change, thanks to AVSE efforts in Mulberry. Chung's father, J.Y. "Gene" Chung, has expressed his hope to make Mulberry the edamame capital of the country and, perhaps, the world.
Edamame has been popular in Asian countries for years. The young soybean pods are low in carbohydrates but high in protein and fiber. Proponents of soy products point to a number of other health benefits, including studies that claim reduced risk for heart disease.
Consumption of edamame is growing in the U.S., but production has been mostly handled outside the country. According to a study published on Non-GMOReport.com, a site dedicated to organic and non-genetically modified organisms, 97 percent of edamame consumed in the United States is imported from China and other Asian countries. Recent breakthroughs in growth and harvesting have made edamame easier to produce locally.
Raymond Chung said edamame is planted like a conventional soybean but "harvested and processed like a vegetable." Following harvest, the beans are blanched and individually quick-frozen. The product is stored in a nearby community until retail orders need to be filled.
How many orders were filled and how much edamame made its way through the Mulberry facility is unknown. Chung declined to get specific, but acknowledged production is expected to grow this year. A 2012 release from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture regarding the facility said the company had contracted with local farmers to grow about 900 acres of edamame. That production, according to the release, could double for 2013.
Landing AVSE, which reportedly employs close to 50, has been big for Mulberry. It's given additional life to the tiny Crawford County town, which until recently has perhaps been best known for its Bluff Hole Park on the Mulberry River.
Mayor Gary Baxter proudly points out the recent completion of a $1 million senior activity center. Across the street is a city park being developed on 12.5 acres. Other companies, like Hausner's, a precast concrete company that specializes in storm shelters, have recently moved into the town's industrial park, and Baxter said a poultry producer based in Mexico owns 100 acres in Mulberry.
It is Baxter's hope that AVSE will thrive and encourage other manufacturers to consider the town.
"AVSE has impacted Mulberry in a great, positive way," Baxter said. "And when you get one thing going, there's the potential for another, then another. People are going to find out we are in a great location."


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Still, we have to respect the ambition. Maybe Kanye can pull it off?
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Update 2013-10-19: Check out https://github.com/pymander/evernote-mode for a possibly better way to do things. =)
This is totally raw and needs a lot of hacking, but look, I can dump subtrees from my Org notes into Evernote using Emacs Evernote Mode. The desktop app handles these perfectly, although the Android app does funny things to the whitespace if you edit the note. Still, great as a reference!
(defun sacha/org-get-subtree-region () "Return the start and end of the current subtree." (save-excursion (let (beg end folded (beg0 (point))) (if (org-called-interactively-p 'any) (org-back-to-heading nil) ; take what looks like a subtree (org-back-to-heading t)) ; take what is really there (org-back-over-empty-lines) (setq beg (point)) (skip-chars-forward " \t\r\n") (save-match-data (save-excursion (outline-end-of-heading) (setq folded (outline-invisible-p))) (condition-case nil (org-forward-same-level (1- n) t) (error nil)) (org-end-of-subtree t t)) (org-back-over-empty-lines) (setq end (point)) (list beg end)))) (defun sacha/org-post-subtree-to-evernote (&optional notebook) "Post the current subtree to Evernote." (interactive) (let ((title (nth 4 (org-heading-components))) (body (apply 'buffer-substring-no-properties (sacha/org-get-subtree-region)))) (with-temp-buffer (insert body) (enh-command-with-auth (let (note-attr) (setq note-attr (enh-command-create-note (current-buffer) title notebook nil "TEXT")) (enh-update-note-and-new-tag-attrs note-attr))))))
In other news, I now have book notes from 156 books in my Evernote notebook. Mwahahaha! Time to add more.
My bicycle's rear wheel has a fast leak. I pumped it up this morning, and by the time I returned to my bike after a good day at the office, it was as smooshy as a cat on a hot day. I refilled it with the pump I carry in my emergency kit – first time to use it! – and headed home, which is about an hour's ride. (Mostly due to one steep hill near the end; it takes me about forty minutes the other way). Flat again when I got home.
W- will help me fix my bicycle this weekend. He used to be a bike courier, and he knows all sorts of things. =)
The neat thing is that this experience shows me that I don't have to worry too much about a flat tire, especially on a decent day. Good to know!
This should be the last of the major gadget changes for a while. Lots of changes, so the next few weeks will be packed with learning as I figure out new capabilities and workflows.
I switched to WIND Mobile's Back to School unlimited data plan ($29) because it was cheaper than my voice and texting plan with Fido. Coverage seems to be pretty good, although it was hard to call from within MEC (but it's always hard to call from MEC). The porting process finished within seven hours, and I hope the termination of my previous plan is uneventful as well.
Along the way, I decided to upgrade from the Google Nexus One to the Samsung Galaxy S3. I've been looking forward to playing around with newer versions of Android, especially when it comes to mobile development. The front-facing and back-facing cameras might be handy, too. Also, the S3 has these awesome motion-based actions! I feel like the future is here.
The Nomad Brush stylus has arrived, too, and I've been playing around with it on my tablet. I ordered the stylus with two tips: one is a long brush made with conductive fibers, and the other is a smaller, more constrained version of the same that is more useful for detailed work. Both brush tips feel great, but it's a pity that none of the drawing apps I tried were comparable to the layered, pen/touch-focused awesomeness of Autodesk Sketchbook Pro on my Lenoxo X220 tablet PC. Although Autodesk Sketchbook Pro for Android uses the same painting engine that the desktop version uses, it's not as responsive or as handy. (I miss the lasso tool and juggling lots of layers.) Still, the brush seems great. Now I have to learn how to paint.
I'll give the new phone about two weeks or so, and then I'll look into selling my old phone. People are advertising them on Craigslist for $160 or so. I'll probably sell it for cheaper – maybe $100 or $120 – because the battery's a little run down, but it would be nice to have it out there being used by someone instead of just languishing in a drawer. (Although I suppose one could always brainstorm uses for a small WiFi device that has Bluetooth and a touchscreen…)
With the new phone and the Asus Infinity TF700 I've been getting used to, I'm definitely kitted out. No more tech buying for the next little while. I have to learn to use what I have first!
Lots of tech changes! Getting the hang of using my tablet. Upgraded to a new cellphone with a data plan.
[X] Earn: More community prototyping; bring on Shad Valley student
[X] Connect: Have lunch with Eric
[-] Connect: Attend "Decoding Gen Y Online Communities" – skipped in favour of mobile dev meetup
[X] Build: Learn more about Android development
[X] Build: Keep tweaking my TF700 setup
[X] Change my SFO itinerary
[X] Go to Elena's birthday picnic
[X] Do some gardening
[X] Write about tablet
[X] Figure out how the tablet fits into my workflow
[ ] Earn: Migrate more of my work to other people
[ ] Connect: Host Quantified Self Toronto meetup
[ ] Connect: Prepare Quantified Self conference talk (short, Ignite-style)
[ ] Connect: Reconnect with project O
[ ] Build: Learn more about Android development
[X] Build: Compile MobileOrg and install
[ ] Get together with Emily Winerock and other grad school friends
[ ] Celebrate W-'s birthday
[X] Plan get-together with friends
[ ] Move more seedlings into the garden
[ ] Get the hang of cellphone and tablet
[ ] Get shed installed
If you want to use your Android device to work with your Org-mode files, there's MobileOrg and there's MobileOrg NG. MobileOrg seems to have more recent activity and more contributors, but NG has a more tablet-optimized layout and better support for navigating large files, so it would be good to apply some of the ideas from NG to the main MobileOrg project. Might be a useful way for me to learn more about mobile development.
Here's how to build MobileOrg (the matburt version).
Because the .project file hasn't been set up, you'll need to import the project using a different wizard. However, there's an Eclipse bug that can make this a bit of a hassle, so this is what you should do to get the projects set up in your system.
mobileorg-android subdirectory from your Eclipse workspace directory to a different directory that is not in your workspace.
mobileorg-android folder.
Now you should have a bunch of projects in your system. You may need to adjust the libraries and build paths.
com.matburt.mobileorg.Gui.OutlineActivity project and choose Properties.
src folder has loaded the sources. Right-click on the
src folder and choose Refresh in order to get the sources recognized by Eclipse.
Re-detect the Git connection by doing the following:
com.matburt.mobileorg.Gui.OutlineActivity project and choose Team – Share Project.
I also had to remove some code from AndroidManifest.xml because you're apparently not supposed to have more than one action in an intent-filter:
diff --git a/AndroidManifest.xml b/AndroidManifest.xml index 01c4f1e..9fc3eb1 100644 --- a/AndroidManifest.xml +++ b/AndroidManifest.xml @@ -64,14 +64,11 @@ android:name=".Gui.OutlineActivity" android:label="MobileOrg" android:theme="@style/Theme.MobileOrgActionbar" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> - <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> - - <action android:name="com.matburt.mobileorg.Synchronizer.action.SYNC_UPDATE" /> </intent-filter> </activity> <activity android:name=".Gui.NodeViewActivity" android:label="Org View"
Hope that helps!
MobileOrgNG is kvj's fork of matburt's MobileOrg for Android. It has a better layout for large devices and a useful outline view, but doesn't have some of the other features in the main branch. Here's how you can build it in Eclipse.
In order to be able to get all the libraries you'll need, install the Subversive SVN plugin for Eclipse.
Now you can check out the MobileOrgNG source code and other modules. MobileOrgNG is set up as an Eclipse project, so importing it is easier than importing the original MobileOrg. Here's how to get MobileOrgNG:
In addition to MobileOrgNG, you will also need the
android-actionbar and
android-file-dialog libraries. Here's how to get
android-actionbar directory in your workspace. You can deselect the actionbar example if you wish.
Here's how to get
Confirm that the libraries are detected.
mobileorg-android project and choose Properties.
The Dropbox API key isn't part of the source code, so you'll need to apply for your own at https://www.dropbox.com/developers/start . After you get the API key, add it to your project:
dropbox_consumer_key and the value from the Dropbox webpage.
dropbox_consumer_secret and the value from the Dropbox webpage.
MobileOrgNG should now compile without errors.
Last month, I wrote:
In July, I'd like to deliver a talk, sketchnote three more events,
learn more about EPUBs, and put together a small graphical ad for my
book. I'm also looking forward to learning more about accounting.
… and I did! I gave a well-received talk on Quantified Self at the Toronto Girl Geeks meetup. I took sketchnotes of four events. I experimented with converting my e-book into EPUB and MOBI, and I released it for sale in the Amazon Kindle store. I've also been learning more about Quickbooks, and I think I'm starting to get the hang of it.
Summer is definitely in full swing. Aside from a few non-biking days because of weather or flat tires, I've been pedaling to work and around town. The garden is growing well, too; neat clusters of cherry tomatoes, bulging cucumbers dangling from the vines, and a profusion of basil that's just waiting to be turned into pesto.
After a ton of consideration, I bought an Android tablet and have started integrating it into my life. It opens up a few interesting possibilities that I'd like to explore. With the new cellphone and data plan I'd bought in early August, I've got plenty of incentives to learn more about mobile development.
I'll be celebrating my 29th birthday this August. I'm looking forward to getting together with friends, writing and illustrating my yearly review, preparing for the conference in September, and winding down my consulting engagement.
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From Tuesday: I spent most of the long weekend learning about Android development by working on the MobileOrg for Android open source project. When it comes to learning new technologies, I like working on existing projects more than starting from scratch. There's plenty of sample code to draw on, and there's enough functionality to inspire me to think about how to tweak it to fit my needs.
The first two days were really slow in terms of progress. It took me a while to figure out how to build both MobileOrg and MobileOrgNG, and I blogged the instructions in case someone else needs them in the future. After I figured that out, I started fiddling with the settings menu. I made the system more consistent, updated the look and feel to the latest design guidelines, and learned a little more about how everything tied together.
I'm starting to feel more comfortable with Android development. There are still tons of things to learn, of course, but I'm getting the hang of where things are, what things are called, and how things flow together. It's an amazing thing, feeling the concepts click into place. As you learn more things, the possibilities grow combinatorically.
I should take care of a few other tasks before I move on to the next steps. I have to prepare a presentation for the Quantified Self conference in September. It'll be an Ignite-style presentation, which is good – clear constraints make it easier to put something together. I also want to do an annual review in preparation for my birthday on Sunday.
After I finish those tasks, what do I want to do next in terms of Android development?
If I have a year of days like this, I think I'll be able to learn and do a lot.
After seeing me lug my tank of a bicycle up and down six steps all spring and summer, W- decided to get a bigger shed. Now I can store my bicycle in the shed! (Well-locked, I hope.) I have my very own shed key. By golly.
He had folks come in and install it, which was good because it took much less time than it would've taken us to build it ourselves. The garden tools are there now, too, and we're looking forward to moving some of the less-frequently used items to the shed as well.
In other news, the garden is doing pretty well.
After allowing a few months just in case there was any doubt about the residency calculations, I've finally sent in my application for Canadian citizenship. This is important to me because I don't want to ever get stuck on the wrong side of an immigration counter, or to sweat over renewals and paperwork like I did before. Both Canada and the Philippines permit dual citizenship, so I don't have to give up being Filipino (as if that were possible!
The government website says 80% of applications are processed within 19 months. Time enough to learn history and geography and politics.
I've lived in Toronto for a little over seven years now. I'm getting the hang of where things are, and have gotten to the point of also having old friends here. I know! Boggle. The multicultural diversity of Toronto means I don't feel out of place, although I'm conscious that I don't hear or speak as much Tagalog as I probably should. Always a little awkward with it even back home, except in the relaxed and freeflowing company of friends, and here, just unexpected conversations at banks and on the street. Facebook and blogs and Skype chats with family, news articles and charity and trips home… If I don't have those spontaneous connections, I just have to make my own.
All people who move find their own balance.
Celebrating my 29th birthday this week! =)
[X] Earn: Migrate more of my work to other people
[X] Connect: Host Quantified Self Toronto meetup
[X] Connect: Prepare Quantified Self conference talk (short, Ignite-style)
[X] Build: Learn more about Android development
[X] Build: Compile MobileOrg and install
[X] Get together with Emily Winerock and other grad school friends
[X] Celebrate W-'s birthday
[X] Plan get-together with friends
[X] Move more seedlings into the garden
[X] Get the hang of cellphone and tablet
[X] Get shed installed, yay shed!
[ ] Earn: Learn how to create animations
[ ] Connect: Attend Girl Geeks Toronto meetup on Arduino (Mon)
[ ] Connect: Return video camera to Eric
[ ] Connect: Attend small business networking meetup at the Toronto Reference Library (Tue)
[ ] Build: Troubleshoot emacs-evernote-mode
[ ] Check on friends
[ ] Clear my inbox
[ ] Watch Batman, eat ramen
[ ] Help organize the shed
[ ] Capture more book notes
Today I turned twenty-nine years old! This is fantastic. I'm making good progress towards my goal of becoming a little old lady living an awesome life. =) Here's the bird's-eye view, with links to annual reviews whenever I remembered to write them:
Life as a 27-year-old was about preparing, and life as a 28-year-old was about taking more risks based on those preparations. With the stability of a warm and loving marriage to support me, the savings from a job I excelled at, and a deeper understanding of how I invest my time and money thanks to the self-tracking I'd been doing, I felt ready to take on the risk of starting a new business in order to explore the possibilities of more family-friendly work. That's been going tremendously well, and I think we're in as good a place as anyone could be for the next step.
I invested some of my earnings into new tools, and I've been teaching myself more about drawing and Android development. I have a tidy collection of sketchnotes, and people sometimes talk to me about my notes during meetups. I've also learned more about electronics, building myself a handy USB foot pedal using the Arduino and then converting it to a Teensy. I'm learning new ways to create value, and it's great. Sometimes I'm intimidated by the skills of people who've been practising these things for much longer, but all things come with time and experience, so I keep practising and learning.
I've been working on being more social, and it's getting easier and easier. We helped J- and her friends with math study groups, and we spent some time volunteering at Free Geek Toronto as well. We celebrated my sister's wedding in the Philippines, and it was great to see everyone again. She and her husband are expecting their firstborn a few months from now – my parents' first grandchild, so we're all excited. I've also been reaching out to friends, going to picnics, and just spending time hanging out. This is good.
The more I experiment, the less I know what the next year might look like, and the more confident I am that things will be wonderful anyway.
Wearable computing artist Erin Lewis, SenseBridge entrepreneur Eric Boyd, and Site 3 co-founder Alex Leitch shared their Arduino-based projects with a crowd of around thirty women at the Girl Geeks Toronto event on August 13, 2012.
Erin started by introducing the different kinds of Arduino boards that are out there. She brought a few different boards, extensions, and wearable computing materials, passing them around for us to take a look. Erin also described the art projects she built using the Arduino, data sets from nature (windspeed, the northern lights), and various crafts (knitting fiber optics! felting conductive wool!). The video she'd made of her Kegel Organ was one of the oddest applications I've seen for electronics. Mind-boggling, but it's good that people think of doing things like that!
Eric talked about open hardware and the Really Bare Bones Board, an Arduino clone. He shared some of the projects he'd built with the RBBB and later with his own circuit designs. He built the North Paw, an anklet that lets you constantly sense where north is, to explore the possibilities of extending human senses. Because he was curious about how people would react to normally invisible information, he built the Heart Spark, a pendant that flashes in time with your heartbeat.
Alex started her talk with the story of why and how she co-founded Site 3, a coworking space with plenty of tools and a passionate art- and engineering-focused community. She shared the lessons she learned while building an Arduino-based device for making coloured flames safely – well, relatively safely compared to the existing way to do it. There were lots of great pictures, amusing anecdotes, and practical tips for surviving dangerously fun projects.
The three talks focused on interesting applications of the Arduino. If you'd like to get started with the Arduino, check out Getting Started with Arduino. You can get the Arduino from Sparkfun, or head over to Creatron (College and Spadina) to check out their boards and accessories. People have made many interesting and useful things with the Arduino board, and there are many more projects on the Web. Have fun!
So I spent Monday figuring out how to create three simple narrated one-minute sketch animations. My clients loved the videos, so this evening I finished three more in the course of about two and a half hours. I'd already written the script and thought about the storyboard. Today was just about recording the narration, cleaning it up, drafting the sketch, tracing over it with Artrage Studio Pro, processing the Artrage script file with Emacs, and synchronizing the images with audio using Windows Movie Maker. 45-60 minutes per finished video minute is pretty workable. :)
No public samples yet, but I'm delighted to have a good workflow, and I'm looking forward to putting together some personal animations after this. It'll be fun!
Level up. :)
One of the brainstorming exercises I picked up from our workshops at IBM was the idea of a "wild success story" – imagining a great future and backtracking from there to the present. It's useful in personal life, too. For example, this is what I blogged in 2009:
I wake up at 5:00 AM to opera, light, colors, cats, kisses, or whatever gives me a great start to my day. I exercise a little to get my blood flowing, and I have a healthy breakfast of steel-cut oats or fresh fruit. Then I gear up for a morning of creative work, settling into a comfy chair or setting up on the kitchen table for a four-hour session of brainstorming, writing code, and preparing articles and presentations. I snack on fruit and nuts along the way. I have a light lunch or head out to lunch with friends. Then I tackle more routine tasks: responding to mail, following up, editing and formatting documents, testing code, taking care of chores, reviewing delegated work, and other things. I make dinner and enjoy it with people I love, and spend the rest of the evening reading or enjoying people's company. After tidying up and taking care of other things, I go to bed, happy with the work I did that day.
I'm close to that, but I'm not quite there yet. My Fridays are shaping up that way, though, and we'll see how things go in September.
On a larger scale, what would a wildly successful 29th year look like? Looking back on the eve of my 30th birthday in 2013, I'd like to be able to say:
A number of people I know are in transition, looking for their next job. Some people are giving the independent lifestyle a try. What can I do to support people?
Let me break this question down in order to make it easier to think about.
What do I know? I know about building a reputation and growing your network by sharing what you know and what you're learning online. Many people are curious about this, but don't know where to start. I can help them start sharing. This isn't something for immediate payoffs, but it's a great professional habit. I also know the basics of consulting, and I can help people get started. I know about lots of books on career advice and entrepreneurship, too. I know Web development with Drupal, Rails, and WordPress, and I can help people learn. I know what it's like to be an immigrant, and what it's like to be introverted.
Who do I know? I know tech meetup organizers and participants in Toronto. I know enterprise social business consultants. I know mobile, web, and open source developers and designers. I know marketers. I know writers and bloggers. I know independent consultants, freelancers, and startup founders. I know sketchnote artists and illustrators. I know virtual assistants. I can help people with informational interviews, and I want to get even more organized in terms of keeping notes on what people want and what people can offer.
What do I have? I have sketches and notes from business and technology books, meetups, and products. I have a place where people can get together. I have a website where I can share ideas. I have a fledgling that's doing well. I have blog posts from my business experience.
What can I do? I can keep in touch with people, especially those who feel suddenly cut off from their professional networks. I can help people get started in freelancing by coaching them, referring clients, and connecting them with people who have complementary skills. I can help people brainstorm ideas, stay motivated, and improve their communication. I can share what I'm learning from business. I can cheer them on as a friend.
Are people around you in between opportunities too? How can you help?
A good-type-of-busy week, people-wise. Lots of things learned, like animation. Getting there!
[X] Earn: E1 Learn how to create animations
[X] Connect: Attend Girl Geeks Toronto meetup on Arduino (Mon)
[-] Connect: Return video camera to Eric
[X] Connect: Attend small business networking meetup at the Toronto Reference Library (Tue)
[X] Build: Troubleshoot emacs-evernote-mode
[X] Check on friends
[X] Clear my inbox
[X] Watch Batman, eat ramen
[X] Help organize the shed
[X] Capture more book notes
[ ] Earn: Start wrapping up E1
[ ] Build: Share quantifiedawesome.com source code online
[ ] Build: Pull in MobileOrg changes
[ ] Build: Work on new version of slides (Friday?)
[ ] Build: Follow up on talk
[ ] Build: Put together a mobile app that extracts the URL from a shared text in order to get around Evernote and BigOven being all fancy
[ ] Connect: Drop by Hack Lab on Tuesday
[ ] Connect: Attend Toronto B2B Marketers meetup, perhaps?
[X] New recipe: honey garlic chicken wings
[ ] Host watermelon party and birthday get-together
[ ] Re-read blog posts, put together annual review
[ ] Dictate more book notes
I find that I quite enjoy slowing down and spending time with friends, bringing people together for conversation. I still stress out a little beforehand, but thinking of the people makes it easier to tidy things up and get things ready. Then it's different; it's like preparing and wrapping a gift.
It's a pleasure to see friends becoming friends with each other, too. It makes conversations easier, and I learn more about people because I can see all these other aspects.
I'd like to give this sort of care to friends far away, and to new ones as well. David's figured part of this out – he has good friendships around the world. There's much to learn, but it's good to do so.
One of the reasons why I like working with the Android operating system is that you can build little tools that interact with the other apps on your system. It's like the reason why I like Emacs, although Emacs lets you go ahead and redefine routines. Anyway. =)
So here was my motivation: When you share a recipe from the BigOven recipe app, it sends the URL instead of the text. This is inconvenient, so I wanted to make a small tool that extracted the URL and opened it in the browser. That way, I could pass it to Evernote and save the recipe for later searching.
Android stitches different applications together through the idea of an Intent. An application can send an intent to another application in order to get it to do something. It can broadcast an intent to notify other applications that have registered to receive that event. An app can also register to receive various events.
To add something to the Share menu, I needed to write a small application that receives and processes the SEND intent. After trying to figure out if I should use a BroadcastReceiver or a Service or whatever, I settled on using an Activity instead. I might extend this to let me select one of multiple URLs, or recognize phone numbers and things like that too. We'll see.
Anyway, source. =)
Small steps forward!
I'm curious about this because I'll need it in order to scale, and because it's one of those universal things. How do people learn how to manage? How can I learn? I've read tons of books and blog posts. I've heard lots of advice and stories. We have a sense of what good management looks and feels like, and we're all too familiar with examples of bad management. How do you bridge the gap from theory to practice?
How do you grow into becoming a good manager or a great one? Do we leave it to people who figured out the rules in grade school – "natural leaders"? We don't get lots of practice or lessons in managing, probably because it's so easy to step back and let other people make decisions. But the lack of management skills can get in the way of making good things happen, so it's good to learn how to manage.
What does it look like to consciously develop this skill of orchestrating people's work and energy? How can you gradually learn it in low-risk situations instead of waiting for workloads to force your hand?
I want to learn more about how to align people and help them grow while creating more value than one could create alone. The world is this candy store of people with awesome skills and possibilities. There's just so much out there that I'd like to be able to draw on.
On one of my consulting engagements, we have a high school intern who's doing wonderfully. I'm delighted to have the opportunity to help pick some of his tasks and delegate some things I've been working on. I learn from the way he does things, and I enjoy looking for ways for him to make the most of his internship. I haven't been paying much attention to my outsourcing experiments over the last few months, but I bet that I could learn a lot if I paid close attention to it, going beyond transactions to help people grow. I've done that in the past with other assistants, and I really liked the results.
Here's what wild success might look like: I find good people and help them grow their skills, either working on things I'd like to see happen or good things that people are willing to pay for. Success would be a great fit between the person and the work that needs to be done. They might grow enough to be able to handle these things on their own, in which case I can grow a network of freelancers, or they might prefer the benefits of working with a team. I find clients who have flexible timelines (so that I have time to coach or even do the work if necessary) and are okay with me delegating the work so that people grow, or I find a project I believe in strongly enough to fund and bootstrap until it's been fleshed out enough to be worth investing in.
Step 1 might be to map people's interests, skills, and growth plans. Step 2 is trickier. How can I put on training wheels so that I can try things with friendly clients on non-risky projects without taking on too much risk myself? I'm scaling down my consulting work, but I can postpone part of my next experiment if contracting is a better way to learn this. What if I focus on, say, Rails or WordPress stuff, with the understanding that I'll pair-program with someone, maybe like the apprenticeship systems of the past? I'm fine with Rails, Drupal, and WordPress development, but new to independent contracting, so maybe I should approach it as a learner first – partnering up with someone for a few projects?
What about non-web development ways to learn this? I can delegate more of my processes, and see if other people would be interested in delegating or expanding theirs. That's something I'm curious about, actually. People need help learning how to give good instructions and build working relationships. It'll be interesting to see if I can do that in a way that adds value. I think that might actually be more promising than development because I won't be distracted by the technical side of things. I'll need to find out if people are looking for help in getting started with delegation. In terms of alternate business models, it might be an agency structure, process libraries, and e-books. Hmm… That would look like phone or Skype conversations about what people want to do, then coordinating with service providers. There are quite a few companies that do this already, but process libraries, automation, and growth might make a difference.
Worth thinking about some more…
A short note now, and more this week. I've been thinking about what I want to learn over the next six months of my business experiment, and where I want to get to in the next five years. The first six months have been an amazing start, pretty much as good a start as anyone could ask for. How else do I want to grow?
I'm curious about different ways of doing business. I've tried a few already, and if I can put together my notes, that might help other people get started. If I think of this stage as an iterative learning process to help me prepare for the next one, then it makes a lot of sense. I'm trying different things so that I can find a scalable way to create value that's family-friendly. For example, I've tried consulting, contracting, and information products (very briefly – I'd like to dig into that some more). I'm also curious about delegation, automation, application development, subscriptions, plugins, support plans, and performance-based compensation. I don't need to aim for 100% coverage – I'm not particularly keen on storefront businesses or real estate flipping, for example – but it would be interesting to sample different models and methods, and to connect with people who have gone deeper. So much to explore!
If I happen to come across ways that W- might also enjoy exploring, or save up enough to help with his own experiments, so much the better. That's why I need to keep exploring instead of settling into the first obvious success. I'm fortunate that I have flexible clients who are willing to experiment right along with me, so I can build success on success and have the goodwill to deal with the occasional flop. :)
It's like putting together a personal micro-MBA in lifestyle businesses. There are quite a few books and role models in this area now, so that'll make it easier to learn a lot.
Exciting times!
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At today's TorontoB2B Marketers Meetup, Sweeney Williams told us about Canada's upcoming anti-spam legislation, Ian Fleming shared different approaches to mobile website design, and Scott Armstrong talked about how they're working on a program-based marketing playbook at Brainrider.
I've just put my Evernote sketchnote collection online, and you can browse and search within it on the Web. If you use Evernote, you can add the notebook and browse through it there. =) Enjoy!
Like these? Check out the sketchnote for the previous #torontob2b meetup (lead generation, Q&A) or my other sketchnotes!
It's hard to say no when you can clearly see how much you can help a client, but I'm making myself learn how to do it. I'd love to be in two or three places working on these amazing and useful things. I haven't yet figured out how to clone myself, although that's on the to-do list under "learn how to train people to have and surpass my skills". If I want to learn the things I set out to learn, I have to pull myself out of the easy wins and head toward the uncertanties.
Consulting is wonderful. Digging deep, making a difference, and learning new skills gave me the same thrills I'd enjoyed in my previous (awesome) job at IBM, with more flexibility and more influence on how I wanted to grow.
I had prepared for spending the first year just finding my bearings and establishing my business, so I'm delighted with the running start. I'm ahead of my savings targets and have been resisting the temptation to inflate my spending. I have an even better foundation for further experiments.
That's why I have to keep pushing forward to learn more about different areas instead of stopping with the first success. There's much more to learn. I'm taking September off in order to learn more about tracking and Quantified Self, explore mobile development, and catch up with family and friends in California. I've promised myself that in October and November, I'm going to spend the majority of my time creating value outside the time=money equation. I might scale back even further after that. It's going to be a big shift for me and I expect to feel confused along the way, but other people have figured this out, so I probably can too. :)
It's easy to respond to other people's requests, and it's harder to create the space for your own curiosity. I'm looking forward to doing that, though, and I hope I can learn many useful skills and share many useful things along the way.
There's paint in my hair, but that's okay. It matches the shed.
[X] Earn: Start wrapping up E1
[X] Build: Share quantifiedawesome.com source code online
[X] Build: Pull in MobileOrg changes
[-] Build: Work on new version of slides (Friday?)
[X] Build: Follow up on talk
[X] Build: Put together a mobile app that extracts the URL from a shared text in order to get around Evernote and BigOven being all fancy
[X] Connect: Drop by Hack Lab on Tuesday
[X] Connect: Attend Toronto B2B Marketers meetup, perhaps?
[X] New recipe: honey garlic chicken wings
[X] Host watermelon party and birthday get-together
[-] Re-read blog posts, put together annual review
[X] Dictate more book notes
[ ] Earn: Wrap up E1
[ ] Earn: Send R1 timesheet
[ ] Connect: Attend QS Toronto organizer meeting
[ ] Connect: Meet Craig Flynn and Ian Garmaise
[ ] Connect: Revise slides for Quantified Self conference
[ ] Connect: Set up Google Hangout to discuss blogging and delegation
[ ] Build: Improve delegation processes
[ ] Build: Write/draw six month business review, plans for next six months
[X] Help W- paint shed
[ ] Cook lots of food
[ ] Check out farmers' market
[ ] Re-read blog posts, put together annual review
We painted the shed. Level up – I learned more about proper brush technique when painting edges, although my first few edges were sloppy because I didn't know how to do them well yet. =)
It took almost exactly one large paintcan for the main part and a small paintcan for the trim (Martha Stewart: Kiln, Sandpiper), although there was some mad scrambling at the end to stretch the paint all the way to cover the back wall. But we did it – a full day of painting!
We spent Sunday recuperating, doing the laundry, and cooking a few meals in advance. It's great to check things off the to-do list, especially when we get to do them together.
I had a good conversation with Craig Flynn and Ian Garmaise over bowls of ramen at Kenzo. We talked about visual communication and business practices. Craig has been doing a lot of consulting and training based on Toyota management practices, and he's interested in helping people improve their visual communication skills.
One of the tools Craig mentioned was the feedback or suggestion sheet – a single sheet of paper that describes how things currently are, how they can be improved, and other notes. The company might compile hundreds or of these sheets. A decision-maker would then review them, spending about ten seconds each to classify the suggestion as relevant, irrelevant, something to do right away, something to investigate later, and so on.
Craig talked about how his descriptions were more complicated and less elegant than the ones that his mentor made, and how he was learning to make his descriptions clearer and more visual.
Ten seconds is an interesting limit. My sketchnotes let me review meetups and books quickly (see my Evernote notebook or the slideshow on my blog). I can apply Craig's idea to that process library I've been thinking of building for a while.
Might be an excellent way to practice!
Here I resolve to use book darts more often, to review my notes more deliberately, and to try sketchnoting ideas instead of being intimidated by the task of summarizing an entire book on a single page. I'm happy with the ones I did, but they're hard to do because they require a much closer reading! <laugh>
I like drawing about how I do things. It's more fun than describing the process with text, and I can annotate it with opportunities for improvement.
I'm starting to use Evernote for more of my little notes, such as the follow-up notes after conversations. I like the way it can auto-title notes based on the current calendar event, and the search can pull in business card images as well as text snippets.
I'm taking all of September off from consulting so that I can present at a conference, spend time with family, and work on other skills. This five-month consulting engagement has been absolutely wonderful. It turns out that you can create tremendous value as a generalist with technical, business, and design skills, and that good engagements help you refine and pick up even more skills. :) I look forward to returning for two days a week throughout October and November, but I also want to make sure I keep pushing myself to learn about business models. It'll be a good adventure.
Six months into my business experiment, I'm delighted with what I'm learning and how I'm learning it. It was the right time to start. Earlier, I wouldn't have had such a good foundation to build on. Later, inertia and comfort might have kept me where I was until I absolutely needed to shift.
I haven't been able to focus my evening time and my personal days as much as I thought I might. I think it's because my consulting work involves a lot of novelty and creativity – a good thing – and that means I focus on other things during the evenings. I should crunch the data to see what it has actually been like instead of just how I perceive the last few weeks.
I'm looking forward to doing a more thoughtful review over the Labour Day long weekend. Much to reflect on! :)


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Ken Tucker on Spike Lee's powerful Hurricane Katrina documentary
1. Spike Lee in When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts
(HBO, Aug. 21 and 22, with numerous reruns)
He's there not just as a director, but also as an off-camera voice, asking quick follow-up questions to New Orleans residents who survived Hurricane Katrina. While there is nothing in Lee's voice that suggests the fervent anger that fuels this magnificent, heartbreaking documentary about the human causes of the Katrina tragedy, Lee's urgent questions and there aren't many, spread over four hours, but they're key fully convey the sympathy, rage, disbelief, and shock that registers anew, over and over, as you listen to how these Americans respond to him, his voice, and his cameras.
2. The Temptations, ''Ball of Confusion''
As heard on commercials for HBO's The Wire
No narrator speaks, telling you to watch the new season starting Sept. 10 I mean, if you're stupid enough to subscribe to HBO and not watch The Wire, what hope is there for you? but instead, there's a montage of tantalizing scenes, with characters familiar and new, more black faces than you've ever seen in any other TV series, more excitement, more humor and passion, more chaos. No wonder the only song that could convey all this is the Temptations' 1970 Norman Whitfield-produced hit, one of the rare songs of the psychedelic era that used the notion of a ''bad trip'' to convey a world of exhilarating pain. Just like…The Wire.
3. ''52''
(DC Comics)
As in an issue-a-week, for 52 consecutive weeks, part of DC Comics' realignment of its superhero universe. If you're not a comics fan, should you care? Yes: Normally, I have an aversion to big, multicharacter projects like this, and I barely know Black Adam from Animal Man (well, I do, but I'm trying to convince you of the accessibility here). However, writers Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid have come up with plots about transformation, betrayal, love, and commitment that are enhanced by the myth-making superpowered characters. Now 16 weeks in, this is as addictive as any good TV series, any good mystery-novel series, any good comic-book series.
4. Slayer, ''Flesh Storm'' on Christ Illusion
(American Recordings)
Usually don't have much use for this kind of thrash-metal I need more rhythm, more sensuousness, in my music, and my inner-adolescent rage gets channeled elsewhere but the leadoff cut here, ''Flesh Storm,'' is a superfine antiwar, anti-news-media anthem.
5. Conan O'Brien hosting The Emmy Awards
(NBC, Aug. 27)
Come on, you know Conan is going to be terrific, and you can finally get excited about someone winning an Emmy award, because both Jean Smart and Gregory Itzin, the First Lady and the President from 24, are nominated and they will win, won't they?


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Using an overhand, shoulder-width grip, hang at arm's length from a chinup bar with your shoulder blades pulled together and down. Pull your chest to the bar. Pause and lower yourself, keeping your shoulder blades together, until your arms are straight. If you can do more than three pullups with your body weight, then do them using a dipping belt with a weight plate or a dumbbell attached. On the other hand, if you can't perform this exercise, follow our steps to master the pullup.
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Chances are you know someone who has a story about their struggle with or efforts to fight hunger.
One of the most important ways to combat hunger is to remove the stigma around those who suffer from it. Sharing your story with the community brings people together and inspires change. Tell us how you've experienced hunger in your life.
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It seems the entire automotive media world is caught up with high-dollar cars that most car crafters can't afford. Since CC has always been about affordable street cars and doing the work yourself, we've run across a buildup that's budget conscious and fun. We've accompanied Steve Strope and his Pure Vision shop through several past adventures, and while his shop could be correctly accused of building those aforementioned image cars, he also understands that not everyone travels in those circles. That includes his stepson, Seth. So when it came time for this high school senior's first car, they rejected the typical Honda route, choosing instead to go for a worthy, if not slightly abused, mid-'60s Mopar. We decided to follow along on Seth's rite of passage that from the beginning has been filled with more than a few bumps, dents, and creases. But that's what makes the story worth telling.
The Dodge 440 The plan started out simply enough. Steve's friend Daryl Finch owns Mopar Flats (760/963-7809), located in the high desert north of Los Angeles, and is well known in the Mopar fraternity as having either the car or the parts you need. Amid his collection of rare Pentastar performers was an interesting '66 Dodge 440 B-Body. While you might think this means it also came with a big-block powerplant of the same displacement, you'd be wrong. The Dodge 440 moniker merely identifies this as a two-door hardtop that looks a lot like a '66 Dodge Charger with an abbreviated roof line. This Dodge 440 happened to be powered by the last of the polyspherical combustion-chambered 318 A-engines.
While less than impressed by its baby-blue hue and Bondo-smeared hoodscoop, Steve and Seth saw great potential in the forlorn cruiser and were encouraged by the fact that the car had an intact and relatively rust-free floorpan and trunk floor. They settled on a price of $2,000, and the car soon found its way to the Pure Vision shop, where Steve and Seth immediately took on the task of stripping the Mopar of its drivetrain and paint in search of a pristine body. What they found, as with most old-car body resto efforts, was more work than anticipated. It goes with the territory.
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Survey shows parents are open to using tech to monitor unsupervised kids
Privacy issues are a big topic in America right now, but for kids under 17 privacy is almost always going to be dependent upon their parents. There are no unlawful search and seizure laws governing parents, and a new survey indicates that Big Mother and Father may soon be watching. The survey, conducted by the home automation and security company Piper, shows that a majority of parents interviewed would be willing to use technology to monitor their unsupervised children.
Of the 500 parents interviewed for Piper's survey, 60 percent indicated they were open to the idea of using technology to monitor their kids when they're unsupervised at home. Still, those kids are probably doing their homework, right? Mom and Dad apparently aren't so sure, as only 5 percent of surveyed guardians said they thought kids would stay on track and complete their homework if left alone.
With that in mind, their concern is understandable; these kids are spending a lot of time alone. 40.6 percent of respondents said their children spend four to five days a week unsupervised after school, while 35.2 percent reported their kids spent at least one to two afternoons unsupervised.
Interestingly, while 60 percent of these parents are open to monitoring, only half of them think it would actually work. When asked if remote monitoring would make their kids more or less likely to follow the rules at home after school, 47 percent said it wouldn't make a difference. Kids will be kids, after all.
What are your feelings on monitoring your children? Should modern technology give parents more control over keeping track of their kids? Are freedom, trust, and autonomy an important part of a youth's development? Let us know in the comments.
Source: http://getpiper.com/
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Since 1974 Ye Olde Donut Shoppe has been serving Champaign-Urbana with the highest quality handmade donuts. Real fudge, real maple. Fresh, never frozen. Since the shop closed in 2013, Ye Olde Donut has opened a food truck - catch them at the Farmer's Market and other community festivals!
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Wyldewood Cellars Winery
Wyldewood Cellars, a family-owned and operated winery, started in Kansas and expanded here to Illinois, produces over 40 different types of wine. What began as a small Elderberry winery has blossomed into an internationally recognized and awarded winery. Since their beginning, they have won over 400 international awards for their Elderberry Wines, Grape Wines, as well as their other varietals. Wyldewood Cellars Spiced Elderberry Wine was featured and served at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah and was awarded the Best Non-Grape Wine in North and Latin America, among many other Gold Medals. Sample and purchase their gourmet wines at their Illinois location where they produce, bottle and label their family's nostalgic wine.
CITY: Saint Joseph
Woori Jib Restaurant
Campus location. Try your hand at some of the best Korean cuisine served up within the campus limits of the University of Illinois!
CITY: Champaign
Campus location and great stop for trying the best hot dogs of the University of Illinois. Serving up all kinds of "Dogs". Primarily busy around lunch time rush hour (12-1 p.m.), and August-May when students are on campus; student establishment.
CITY: Champaign
Walnut Street Tea Co.
Although this shop is located in downtown Champaign, it does not sit directly on the strip that gets the bulk of foot traffic, and thus it might be easily overlooked. Don't be afraid to go for a walk on the beautiful streets of downtown Champaign, and sooner or later you'll find this fine little establishment producing all sorts of tea beverages a tea lover would love to get their hands on!
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Village Pub and Steakhouse
Enjoy the "best steak and prime rib dinners in Central Illinois". Try their ribs, chops and seafood.
CITY: Atwood
Urbana Garden Family Restaurant
Stop off of Interstate 74 to grab breakfast at this prime location for travelers off the major roadway, around the corner from the Super 8 Motel in Urbana.
CITY: Urbana
The Stop Bar & Grill
We serve ice cold beer and offer daily drink specials, as well as $5 lunch specials Monday - Friday. The Stop Bar & Grill are biker friendly, but everyone is welcome and the only requirement is to have fun!
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The Spicery Tea Room
Specialized in casseroles, quiches, soups, salads and desserts all made from scratch on premises. Setting: a 1901 Sears-Roebuck ordered catalogue house.
CITY: Tuscola
The Seaboat Restaurant
The Seaboat is a landmark restaurant in Champaign-Urbana, IL where Midwest hospitality meets great food in a casual environment. Famous for serving Tasty Fish and Chicken Delights, all of The Seaboat's entrees are cooked to order using the finest ingredients.
CITY: Champaign
The Original Pancake House
Wake-up to one of the ORIGINAL pancake houses located in the Midwest. Specifically opened just for serving breakfast (closes at 2 p.m.) try all types of pancakes they offer at the original pancake house! The Original Pancake House is a second and third generation family business, which takes great pride in maintaining the high standards that make our food so outstanding.
CITY: Champaign
The Homestead Bakery
We are very pleased to continue bringing all our valued customers the freshest, made-from-scratch delights such as caramel-iced cinnamon rolls, dinner rolls, honey white and wheat breads, sweet and specialty breads, a variety of cookies, iced cut-out cookies and classic angel food cakes of various flavors. And we feature specialty pumpkin items in the fall. Load up on baked goodies, as well as all the other scrumptious items that we stock on our shelves. These include a substantial assortment of mustard's, pickled vegetables, relishes, salsas, jams, jellies, butter spreads, noodles and a generous selection of fine candies and fudge.
CITY: Arthur
The Great Impasta
The Great Impasta features fine Northern Italian food as well as Italian-American nouveau cuisine. Our lunch, dinner and dessert specials change regularly so your choices are abundant. Located in Urbana's historic Lincoln Square Mall it's the Italian place for you while visiting Champaign County!
CITY: Urbana
The Cookie Jar
The Cookie Jar...in the heart of the University of Illinois campus! We carry a full line of unique handmade iced decorated cookies and gourmet cookies each one handmade one by one. We have all occasion and holiday designs for special dates such as Valentine's Day, Halloween, Birthday, Christmas, and more. Come on in to our webstore and take a look around. We know that you will find exactly what you are looking for! Our cookies are made with natural ingredients with no change in flavor, presentation or biological characteristics. Our company meets all government agencies standards required to produce and export edible products. We have been appointed with all the necessary permits to bake, operate and sell our products Quite Possible the World's Best Cookies!!
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CITY: Arthur
Thara Thai Pan-Asian Restaurant
Stop off for lunch, dinner, or just to have drinks with friends. In a great location just off of Interstate 74, and the other side of the interstate bridge from Prospect Avenue.
CITY: Champaign
Tang Dynasty
Tang Dynasty offers authentic Chinese cuisine to the Champaign and Urbana communities. Conveniently located in the Lincoln Square Mall, our elegant yet casual atmosphere is perfect for a business lunch, a family party, a romantic date, or a gathering of close friends. And our traditional Mandarin and Cantonese-style food is prepared by our szechwan-trained chef.
CITY: Urbana
Sweet Indulgence Bakery
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CITY: Champaign
Super Wok
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CITY: Champaign
Sunny China Buffet
Choose your classic Chinese cuisine and keep returning to the buffet line while visiting this fine Chinese cuisine establishment.
CITY: Urbana
Strawberry Fields
Strawberry Fields is the premier natural food store in East Central Illinois, serving our community since 1974. We offer an astounding variety of organic produce, vitamins, supplements and natural body care products as well as an in-house bakery, coffee bar and catering services.
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For all those who are looking for an alternate to cannabis smoking for treating various ailments; Green and Greener Grow Collective (G&GGC) now brings you medical marijuana edibles that are easy to consume and yet remains as much effective as marijuana smoke-able medicines.
These cannabis edibles are finished products that can be eaten by patients for quick pain relief and muscle relaxation. These products are available in number of forms and flavors to suit the different tastes of patients, ranging from brownies, to chocolate crispies, and more.
The marijuana edibles supplied by G&GGC are hundred percent natural and safe for consumption. And, despite the fact that people will not smoke the marijuana as done in most cases, and eat it instead, the marijuana will still remain as much effective as it was when in medicine form.
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Whether a smoker or a non smoker, brownies are enjoyed by most people alike, and keeping in mind its popularity, we have formulated this special chewy bud brownie. It is made of high quality ingredients and then each brownie is packed individually.
Each brownie gives a potency of 1.5 gram per treat. It is made of all natural ingredients like sugar, flour, cannabutter, cocoas, corn starch, soybean and some non fat milk.
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The next in line of our edible products is the rice crispy treats that are sure to be savored by patients, who want to avoid smoking cannabis and yet enjoy the benefits of its medicinal properties.
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Each serving of the bar gives you a dose of 1 gram. Made from hundred percent natural ingredients, it includes whole grains, sesame, soy, whole wheat, sugar, rice wheat gluten, freeze dried strawberries, and cannabutter.
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In Washington, the contest between House of Representatives and President Barack Obama over increasing the federal debt ceiling is approaching a July 22 deadline. But it may be that there is no need of any action at all; that no expenditures need be cut and no revenues need be enhanced.
Some are arguing that federal debt ceiling laws are unconstitutional, and that the executive can act without them to safeguard the nation's credit.They cite the fourth section of the Reconstruction-Era 14th Amendment, the pertinent portions of which are boldfaced:
Section 4
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Do you think this section of the 14th Amendment applies to the current battle over the debt ceiling?
The wealthiest people in the US can't pay a larger percentage of taxes on their wealth? Doesn't seem fair to me. Obama may have the law behind him, but he has to do something to create a compromise or we're going to end up dirt poor. Even those top guys with all the money will lose if the US can't pay its debt and put people to work here in the states.


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Summer business course helps students market themselves
Steve Jobs did it. Donald Trump does it. And Aaron Rogers is in the process of doing it. But you don't have to be famous to "brand" yourself.
A new summer 2012 course offered by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Department of Management and Marketing will teach students how to successfully marketing themselves to employers and other stakeholders.
In the BSAD 191 Special Topics course, Personal Branding: The Art & Science of Selling Yourself, students will learn how to facilitate personal goal achievement through the development of customized marketing plans built on their strengths and life interests. The three-credit course, which meets June 18 through July 6, 2012, is open to all UW-Eau Claire students as well as eligible area high school students. Chuck Tomkovick, PhD, a two-time recipient of the UW-Eau Claire Excellence in Teaching award, will instruct the course.
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Definitions for notoriousnoʊˈtɔr i əs, -ˈtoʊr-, nə-
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word notorious
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
no•to•ri•ous*noʊˈtɔr i əs, -ˈtoʊr-, nə-(adj.)
widely and unfavorably known:
a notorious thief.
publicly or generally known:
a notorious scandal.
* Syn: See famous.
Origin of notorious:
1540–50; < ML nōtōrius evident = L nō(scere) to get to know (see notify ) +-tōrius -tory1
Princeton's WordNet
ill-famed, infamous, notorious(adj)
known widely and usually unfavorably
"a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
notorious(adjective)ʊˈtɔr i əs, -ˈtoʊr-, nə-
famous for being bad or doing bad things
a notorious criminal/crime; a restaurant notorious for its bad service; a notoriously dangerous area
Widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.
Origin: First attested 1548, from notorius, from notus, perfect passive participle of nosco. Negative sense appeared in seventeenth century.
Webster Dictionary
generally known and talked of by the public; universally believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice
Notorious is a 1946 American thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation. It was shot in late 1945 and early 1946, and was released by RKO in August 1946. Notorious marks a watershed for Hitchcock artistically, and represents a heightened thematic maturity. His biographer, Donald Spoto, writes that "Notorious is in fact Alfred Hitchcock's first attempt—at the age of forty-six—to bring his talents to the creation of a serious love story, and its story of two men in love with Ingrid Bergman could only have been made at this stage of his life." The film is known for two scenes in particular. In one of his most famous shots, Hitchcock starts wide and high on a second floor balcony overlooking the great hall of a grand mansion. Slowly he tracks down and in on Ingrid Bergman, finally ending with a tight close-up of a key tucked in her hand. Hitchcock also devised "a celebrated scene" that circumvented the Production Code's ban on kisses longer than three seconds—by having his actors disengage every three seconds, murmur and nuzzle each other, then start right back up again. The two-and-a-half minute osculation is "perhaps his most intimate and erotic kiss".
Translations for notorious
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
well-known for badness or wickedness
a notorious murderer.
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- مَشْهور بِسوء السُّمْعَهArabic
- всеизвестенBulgarian
- famigeradoPortuguese (BR)
- nechvalně známýCzech
- berüchtigtGerman
- berygtetDanish
- διαβόητοςGreek
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- kurikuulusEstonian
- بدنام رسواFarsi
- pahamaineinenFinnish
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- יָדוּע לְשִמצָהHebrew
- कुख्यातHindi
- na zlu glasu, zloglasanCroatian
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- terkenal jahatIndonesian
- alræmdur, illræmdurIcelandic
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- 悪名高いJapanese
- 악명 높은Korean
- liūdnai pagarsėjęsLithuanian
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- 聲名狼籍的Chinese (Trad.)
- горезвісний, сумнозвіснийUkrainian
- بدنامUrdu
- tai tiếngVietnamese
- 声名狼藉的Chinese (Simp.)
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Following my most recent workout, I'm starting to believe that for building chest strength, the dumbbell fly is much better than the bench press.
It kinda makes sense. The function of the pectoralis major is to "flex, adduct and rotate the arm medially." The bench press accomplishes this, but it also utilizes a tricep extension in the process.
I propose that by taking the triceps out of the equation entirely and just doing a heavy dumbbell fly for your main chest workout, you can work the chest much harder. The triceps can be worked separately anyway if you're trying to be a bodybuilder, and are often worked in other pressing exercises by default.
Yesterday I did 3 sets of 10 flat bench dumbbell fly, 50, 60 and 70 pounds respectively, and today my chest feels more sore than it did after years of heavy bench pressing and dipping and so forth. I can't even compare it really, the feeling is worlds apart. I can tell this will really blow up my chest.
Everyone here wants big chesticles too, what are your thoughts on the issue? Assuming an otherwise well rounded program, is there any reason a person shouldn't use the dumbbell fly as the basis for their chest work rather than the bench press?
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Testosterone is an important hormone, which performs a variety of functions. If there is an imbalance of testosterone in your body, it will result in many health issues.
The main functions of testosterones are:
- Muscle regulation
- Optimal bone density regulation
- Promote mental clarity
- Enhance feelings of masculinity
- Develop healthy sex drive
- Keep your body perfect by increasing the metabolic rate and insulin sensitivity
These are the reasons why men are keen to know about their testosterone levels. When the production of testosterone decreases in the body, you need to take prompt action.
How can you enhance your testosterone level?
Men start taking unnatural substances such as steroid injections to increase the level. These substances come up with different undesirable side effects and once you discontinue this treatment, your body stops the natural production of testosterone.
Instead of this, the better option is to turn to natural testosterone booster that mainly works on to increase the normal production of the hormone rather than stopping it. However, this method is most powerful, but along with this, you need to concentrate on your diet, lifestyle and the workout program. Given here are some smart supplements that give you better results:
Vitamin D:
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D-Aspartic Acid (DAA)
This is an amino acid, which plays an integral role in improving the release of testosterone. D-Aspartic acid (DAA) sends a message to your testes from the brain for testosterone production. This acts as a precursor for testosterone production so you need to include D-Aspartic acid (DAA), rich food in your diet.
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