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How News Orgs Used Social Media to Pay Tribute to Whitney Houston
When the news broke that Whitney Houston had died, the world was shocked.
Social media sites lit up. On Twitter, hashtags related to Houston and her name itself dominated the trending topics. YouTube's News channel featured her videos. Fan pages were created on Facebook. On Pinterest a search for "Whitney Houston" revealed dozens and dozens of pins. Videos and photos, from album and magazine covers to more candid ones, created what Poynter's Julie Moos termed a "scrapbook of her career."
While some news organizations covered it in the usual way with the standard obituary, videos, and slideshows of photos, others took Houston's untimely death as an opportunity to experiment with using social media to pay tribute to the artist. A few outlets, such as Mashable, created Spotify playlists to honor Houston.
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Photo of Whitney Houston in casket releasedFebruary 22, 2012 @ 12:10 pm (Updated: 12:53 pm - 2/22/12 )
The National Enquirer has released a photo of the open casket at Whitney Houston's funeral.
"She looks like Whitney Houston," said producer Jake of the image.
"They always make sure the person looks lovely," said Dori.
Dori and Jake debated putting the picture on the show blog.
"This is the blessing and the curse of doing a radio show, because the immediate thought is - oh, do we put this on our blog? Do we link this up for our listeners?" said Dori.
The National Enquirer is running with the picture on the cover. Dori didn't feel comfortable forcing it out in that manner.
"If there's somebody who doesn't want to see it, I don't want to just shove it up in their face," said Dori, acknowledging he was curious when he heard about it. "In all honesty I was curious. I was curious about that photo. So if I'm curious about it I assume other people are curious about it."
"My feeling always was it's not our job to censor stuff from our listeners," said Dori.
They decided it best to feature the photo on the blog as a link, so those that wanted to view it could click off to see the image, but it wouldn't automatically appear for those that might object to seeing it.
"As soon as she passed away and as soon as I knew they were having this open casket funeral I was wondering how many days it would be before we saw this picture. Because somebody was going to take a picture and they did," said Jake.
Dori said he wonders about the type of person that would sell such an image.
"I think it's human nature to be curious about seeing the photo. But the person who took the picture probably with the intent of selling it to an outlet like the National Enquirer," said Dori. "What kind of a soulless person?"
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In the restaurant industry, the Lenten season typically triggers a flurry of seafood promotions -- from McDonald's Filet-O-Fish to Del Taco's crispy shrimp taco.
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Wienerschnitzel, based in Irvine, is offering three fish items through April 4 at all 350 locations: the Sea Dog, the Fish Wrap and Fish nâ Chips.
All items target diners observing Lent, the chain said. The Sea Dog fish fillet sandwich was first introduced last year. At the time, it was the first-ever seafood product sold by the chain.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (July 2005) – Meetings & Conventions magazine recently announced The Renaissance Resort at World Golf Village has won the prestigious "Gold Tee Award" for 2005. The award was presented to Terry Crawford, general manager of the 300-room resort.
The highly respected award is given annually to the world's finest golf resort properties. Winners of the Gold Tee Award were nominated and selected by the readers of the magazine based on the overall experience, including overall staff attitude, quality of guest service, range of recreation facilities, quality of the guest rooms and meeting facilities, proficiency of handling reservations, and availability of technical/support equipment.
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Definitions for judoˈdʒu doʊ
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word judo
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
ju•doˈdʒu doʊ(n.)
a martial art based on jujitsu but differing from it in banning dangerous throws and blows and stressing the athletic or sport element.
Category: Sport
Origin of judo:
1885–90; < Japn jūdō < MChin, = Chin róu soft +dào way
Princeton's WordNet
a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan
A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujutsu.
Judo is a modern martial art, combat and Olympic sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the objective is to either throw or takedown an opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue an opponent with a pin, or force an opponent to submit with a joint lock or a choke. Strikes and thrusts by hands and feet as well as weapons defenses are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice. The philosophy and subsequent pedagogy developed for judo became the model for other modern Japanese martial arts that developed from koryū. The worldwide spread of judo has led to the development of a number of offshoots such as Sambo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Judo practitioners are called judoka.
Translations for judo
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
a Japanese form of wrestling
He learns judo at the sports centre.
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This short-film by Interdisciplinary Fashion Designer Nancy Tilbury and Visual Artists 125 Creative gives us a glimpse at what they think fashion in 2050 might look like:
Couture becomes a biological experience, gowns are assembled by gas and nano-electronic-particles, where tailoring and cosmetics are constructed by 3D liquid formations, including swallowable technologies exciting the mind, body and soul through physical expression. It is a time when couture will be cultured and farmed as fashion facets of human flesh. A Fashion Futures Film to provoke…
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Stories put your ability to connect into overdrive. People are wired for storytelling, and the easiest way to someone's heart is not through their stomach but through storytelling.
Unfortunately, it's easy to tell a story badly. You've probably been subject to rambling storytellers that take forever to get to the point — or worse, don't seem to have a point at all. On occasion, you've probably also been one of those storytellers on occasion (sorry!)
Fortunately, it's also easy to tell a story well — if you know how. There's just three things you need to remember.
Grab Them From The Get-Go.
The Sound Of Music was wrong — the beginning is not a very good place to start.
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Instead, show why the story is important before you start telling it. For instance, if you're going to tell the story about the time you found a possum in your bed, don't just start telling the story — say something like "Ok, let me tell you about the weirdest thing I ever woke up next to." Now you've got their interest, and they'll stay tuned in while you tell the story.
It's often a good idea to use vivid words like "weird" or "funny" when introducing your story. For instance, "Let me tell about how I met my wife" is not as good as "Let me tell you about the weird way I met my wife." The audience will stay tuned in to find out what was weird.
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Storytelling is all about imagination, so invite your audience to imagine.
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You can also invite them to imagine what happens next. For example, "I opened the door to the basement — what do you think I found there?"
Make sure these questions are not too open-ended but also not just asking a yes or no response. For instance, if you were telling the story of Cinderella:
- "Do you think my sisters enjoyed seeing me at the ball?" is not good, because it's a yes or no question.
- "I walked in the ball — what do you think happened?" is not good, because it's very broad.
- "The prince walked over to me — and what do you think he said?" is good, because it's a good middle ground of being open-ended but not too broad.
One more tip: instead of describing everything, give one vivid detail, and let the audience imagine the rest.
For instance, instead of spending several sentences describing how opulent your hotel room was, just say "It was a beautiful hotel room — the sheets were the smoothest I've ever felt." With that detail, the audience can easily imagine the rest of the hotel room.
Vary Your Voice
Your voice is a powerful tool for storytelling, and it's easy to use.
Don't worry about actually sounding sad, or angry, or whatever — you're probably not an actor. Instead, just raise or lower the volume of your voice, or speed up or slow down the tempo of your voice.
A loud and/or fast voice communicates excitement/energy, while a slow/soft voice communicates seriousness.
This is a great technique to play with — deliver stories in the mirror or during your commute and practice vocal variety. The more your practice, the more natural your vocal variety will sound.
There you have it — everything you need to take your conversational storytelling to the next level. Have any storytelling tips of your own? Share them in the comments!


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Wonderful prose encapsulates an excellent story about maintaining a way of life in an age of rapid industrialization. Well worth reading.
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This book is a strange beast in that I hated it for the first 150 pages and had to force myself to keep going. And then, like a light bulb, something switched on and I absolutely loved the remainder of the story and eventually considered it one of my favorites. My book group had mixed feelings about McCarthy's writing style, but most of us agreed it was an adventure worth taking.
I read this as part of a challenge, expecting to dislike it because I don't much care for Westerns and expected McCormac to be too dark for my tastes. Instead I was entranced with the trek taken by John Grady Cole and Lacy Rawlins as they searched for a place in Mexico where they could live the only life they wanted forever, as cowboys surrounded by horses and land. The quest for their dreams leads them to experiences both wonderful and terrifying, and McCormac allows you to live right along with them. McCormac writes like a poet. In the end, I fell in love with his beautiful writing and the incomparable John Grade Cole.
BORING!! The only reason I finished it was for book club. His other books are much better.
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Not Cormac McCarthy's greatest novel (that would be Blood Meridian), but this is a fantastic novel of the southwest that avoids a lot of the usual Western cliches. A great introduction to a great writer.
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|Beverly M. Anderson was elected to the School Board in November 2012. She retired from VBCPS in June 2012 after a 36-year career as an elementary school teacher. Her community involvement is varied. Throughout Anderson's years with VBCPS, she served as: president of the Nimitz Officers Wives Club; vice president of the Pembroke Elementary PTA; secretary, board member and faculty representative for the Virginia Beach Education Association; board member of Atlantic Soccer Club and board member of the Hampton Roads Sand Soccer Council. Over the years she volunteered with the PTA at Trantwood Elementary, Lynnhaven Middle and Alanton Elementary. Anderson also volunteers for Relay for Life and the Noble Women of Virginia Beach. She graduated from Concord University with a bachelor's of science degree in education. She and her husband, William, have two sons who graduated from VBCPS.
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|William "Bill" Brunke was appointed by the Virginia Beach School Board on June 3, 2008 to fill the vacant seat representing District 7 Princess Anne and was re-elected in 2008 and 2010. In February 2010 he was elected to serve as the School Board's vice chairman. Brunke is a certified public accountant (CPA) who has owned a public accounting firm in Virginia Beach since 1992. Brunke has a long history of community involvement. He has served on numerous boards and committees including the Virginia Beach Community Services Board and the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce. Currently he is a board member for the Virginia Beach Education Foundation, serving on the finance and grant review committees. Additionally, Brunke was named the school division's 2007-2008 Central Office Volunteer of the Year. He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Dominican College of Blauvelt in Orangeburg, New York. Among his accomplishments, Brunke lists his work as a CPA, his experience as a youth softball coach and most importantly his role as a father and husband.
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|Daniel D. "Dan" Edwards was elected to the School Board in 1998 and re-elected in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. He is serving his 16th annual term as School Board chairman. Edwards is the former owner of a small manufacturing company in Virginia Beach. He had a 25-year career in the U.S. Navy, serving both at sea and working ashore largely in public finance. Edwards serves on the board of directors, as the treasurer and as the director of youth programs for the 1,700-member Tidewater Striders Running Club, and serves as the treasurer of the Road Runners Club of America, an organization of over a thousand running clubs across the nation. He also serves as a board member and treasurer for the Virginia Beach Crime Solvers, and on the boards of the Tidewater College Access Foundation and the Virginia Beach Education Foundation. He is also immediate past president of the Virginia Beach Rotary Club and president of the Kempsville Ruritan Club. He has been an active member of the Virginia Beach PTA since 1984. Edwards earned a bachelor's degree in education from Northwestern University and holds a master's degree in business administration from The College of William and Mary. Both his children are graduates of VBCPS.
|Ms. Dottie Holtz
1304 Downs Lane
Virginia Beach, VA 23455
January 2011 - December 2014
|757.460.2440 (home)
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|Dottie Holtz was elected to the School Board in November 2010. Holtz retired from VBCPS in 2008 after a 30-year career, serving as a teacher and computer resource specialist at Thoroughgood Elementary. In 2002 Holtz was named Thoroughgood Elementary's teacher of the year. Prior to teaching for VBCPS,Holtz taught for eight years. Her community involvement is diverse. Over the years she has been involved with organizations to include: the Chesapeake Bay Foundation; Lynnhaven River NOW; Tidewater Arts Outreach; the Sierra Club; Virginia Organizing Project; League of Women Voters; Relay for Life and Salvation Army. Holtz is a lifetime member of the Virginia Beach Education Association and serves on the 3rd Precinct Police Advisory Committee, Technology Hampton Roads Council and the Virginia Beach Reading Council. She holds a bachelor's degree in education from Fordham University and a master's in elementary education, with a concentration in technology, from Old Dominion University. Holtz's three children graduated from VBCPS.
|Mr. Joel A. McDonald
P.O. Box 62765
Virginia Beach, VA 23466
District 3 - Rose Hall
January 2013 December 2016
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|Joel McDonald was elected to the School Board in November 2012. From 2006 to 2012, he was employed by VBCPS as the Data Support Specialist at Luxford Elementary, where he also served as a School Improvement Coordinator for the 2011-12 school year. While at Luxford, he served as an active member and executive officer of the Luxford Parent Teacher Association, a building representative for the Virginia Beach Education Association and was recognized for his effectiveness and efficiency by the VBCPS Superintendent. Currently, McDonald provides web design, development and communications consulting through his business, Comit Strategies. He is a 2003, and second generation, graduate of Bayside High School and an alumnus of the Cisco Networking Academy at the Advanced Technology Center, where he earned his Cisco Certified Networking Associate certification. McDonald earned his Associate of Arts in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix, and his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Old Dominion University.
|Mr. Bobby Melatti
520 S. Independence Blvd.
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
November 2012 - December 2014
|757.463.1940 (work)
757.425.9283 (fax)
[email protected]
|Bobby Melatti was elected to the School Board in November 2012. Melatti is employed as the program director of Beachevents and is involved in providing entertainment for visitors to the city's oceanfront area. During his term as program director, Beachevents was named a Model Partner of VBCPS and remains an active participant in activities held at Salem High School and the Visual and Performing Arts Academy where his wife, Eva, works as the academy coordinator. Melatti is the current chair of the Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission where he has served for the past 12 years. He also serves on the Resort Advisory Commission and is an active member of the Oceanfront Enhancement Committee, as well as the Sustainability Committee. Melatti is a lifelong student of history, and during the 2007 Jamestown 400th Anniversary celebration he produced the History Festival that honored Virginia Beach's rich contribution to the history of the nation. He holds a bachelor's degree in History from Old Dominion University and is currently completing his master's degree in history at the same institution. His three children have all graduated from VBCPS.
|Mr. Sam Reid
1533 Virginia Beach Boulevard
Virginia Beach, VA 23454
District 6 - Beach
January 2011 - December 2014
|757.284.1067 (home)
[email protected]
|Sam Reid, a life-long resident of Virginia Beach and graduate of First Colonial High School, was elected to the School Board in November 2010. Reid served 20 years in the U.S. Navy in the electronics field and also worked for VBCPS in the Office of School Plant Services as a carpenter. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Reid is an avid volunteer in the Virginia Beach community. Presently, he serves on several committees to include the Virginia Beach Transit Extension Study Citizens Advisory Committee, the Headquarters Hotels Taskforce and the Oceana Land Use Conformity Committee. Since 2007, Mr. Reid has held the position of president for the Virginia Beach Council of Civic Leagues. He is a founding member and president of the Oceana Gardens Coalition Civic League and has served as president of the Lake Placid Civic League. Reid's past volunteer experience includes serving on the Citizens BRAC Committee. He is a member of the Virginia Beach Historical Society.
|Mrs. Elizabeth E. Taylor
928 Queen Elizabeth Dr.
Virginia Beach, Va 23452
January 2013 - December 2016
|757.663.6706 (home)
[email protected]
|Elizabeth "Betsy" Taylor was elected to the School Board in November 2012. She retired from VBCPS in February 2009, with 40 years of experience as a teacher, assistant principal, principal and Assistant Superintendent of Elementary School Education. She is a past president and secretary of the Virginia Beach Association of Elementary School Principals, the Tidewater Zone Director of the Virginia Association of Elementary School Principals and has served as a board member of the Virginia Association of Elementary School Principals. A long-time participant in the PTA, Taylor received the PTA Lifetime Membership Award, The PTA Distinguished Service Award and the PTA President's Honor Award. Taylor is a certified pet therapy dog handler who visits libraries and schools with her dog, Beaufort, to emphasize the importance of reading to children. Taylor has a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Old Dominion University and a master's degree in Supervision and Human Relations from George Washington University. Taylor is married to Henry W. Taylor, Jr., who is retired from the United States Marine Corps.
|Mr. Leonard C. Tengco
281 Independence Boulevard, 5th Flr
Virginia Beach, VA 23462
District 1 Centerville
January 2013 - December 2016
|757.499.8971 (office)
757.456.5445 (fax)
[email protected]
|Leonard C. Tengco was elected to the School Board in November 2012. He is a practicing attorney who focuses his practice in real estate, civil litigation and business/corporate law. Tengco is a product of VBCPS in the Centerville District, having attended Centerville Elementary School, Brandon Middle School and Tallwood High School. He was awarded a debate scholarship to attend James Madison University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in Economics in 2004. Before earning his Juris Doctor at Michigan State University College of Law in 2007, Tengco was elected to serve as vice president of the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association. Since then, he has served as the law clerk for the Third Judicial Circuit of Virginia, assistant commonwealth's attorney for the city of Portsmouth, and assistant appellate defender in Richmond. Tengco is also designated by the U.S. Green Building Council as a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP). In 2011, Tengco was selected for class membership to the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia's flagship Political Leaders Program. In 2012, he was recognized for significant service by the Virginia State Bar Young Lawyer's Conference for his role as chair of the Hampton Roads Minority Pre-Law Conference hosted at Regent University School of Law. Tengco remains an active leader in various community organizations throughout Hampton Roads.
|Mrs. Carolyn D. Weems
1420 Claudia Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23455
District 4 - Bayside
December 2009 - December 2014
July 2002 - December 2009
|757.464.6674 (home)
757.363.8281 (fax)
[email protected]
|Carolyn D. Weems was elected to the School Board in May 2002 and was re-elected in May 2006 as an At-Large member. On December 8, 2009, the School Board appointed Mrs. Weems to fill the District 4 Bayside seat vacated by the resignation of former Board member Dan Lowe. In 2010 she was re-elected. A former tennis coach at Old Dominion University, Weems has served as a volunteer for VBCPS and the Virginia Beach community. She has held the position of PTSA president at Bayside High School, served on numerous PTA boards and has been a member of the Planning Councils of Thoroughgood Elementary, Independence Middle and Bayside High schools. Weems has served in the capacity of youth leader, Sunday School teacher, speaker for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and volunteer counselor for the Crisis Pregnancy Center. Weems earned a bachelor's in administrative management from Clemson University. She and her husband, Billy, have five children four of whom have graduated from VBCPS and one who is currently an eighth grade student.
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Scott Spencer's ardent third novel, ''Endless Love,'' featured sex-besotted 17-year-old David Axelrod coming to grips with his self-destructive passion for the enticing 16-year-old Jade Butterfield; its rich writing caused a sensation when it was published in 1979. Spencer's arresting but flawed eighth book, A Ship Made of Paper, centers on 36-year-old Daniel Emerson becoming obsessed with -- and unraveled by -- Iris Davenport, a captivating married mom. Though not literally a sequel (David never got beyond high school, while Daniel has a Columbia University law degree), ''A Ship Made of Paper'' is a psychological successor to Endless Love. Hormone-high teenagers slipping around on their parents to risk all for love have morphed into parents hiding out from their own preschool children to relish ''the grim geometry of infidelity.''
The geometry here involves two couples. Iris and Hampton are married with a 4-year-old son, Nelson. Kate and Daniel are live-in lovers. No matter that Ruby, Kate's 4-year-old daughter, is from an earlier marriage. It is Daniel, believing with ''fervency'' in parental love, who acts as Ruby's dad, and spends more time nurturing her than Kate does. He even drives her to the day-care center every morning, where she meets up with her best buddy, Nelson (who is dropped off by Iris).
Spencer is a savvy cartographer of America's cultural landscape. That romance blooms between Daniel and Iris in the car-pool line is the kind of touch, insightful and cynical, that marks this novel's tone. When a book introduces a place of innocence called My Little Wooden Shoe, as the day-care center in question is dubbed, one can bet there will be somebody dropping off his kid, about to drive through the looking glass of destructive passion.
Were ''A Ship Made of Paper'' only about adultery -- Daniel and Iris are soon devouring each other in Iris' house during a blizzard, in Daniel's law office, at a cheap motel -- the novel would be a notable addition to that melancholy literature of classy couples cheating on their partners in New York's exurban villages. But Spencer adds varying degrees of pigmentation to Updike country. Daniel is a white man who fled Manhattan -- and brought Kate with him -- when he admitted, after a traumatic incident, that he was ''afraid of black people.''
Iris and Hampton are black.
Heightening the polarity, Spencer sets his domestic drama against the backdrop of the O.J. Simpson murder trial. When Kate, a novelist who's churning out O.J. columns for magazines, jealously admits to a confidante that she feels like ''O.J.-ing'' Iris, her words capture the harsh tenor of the times.
It is ironic, of course, to have the O.J. trial on TV as Daniel and Iris burn through their illicit romance while Kate and Hampton agonize over being left out in the cold. Plot twists and character distinctions that play off racial themes, however inventive, pile up conspicuously. Daniel grooves on Ray Charles, while Iris likes Fleetwood Mac. Daniel left the the big city fearing black people, but lusts over pictures of Afreaka and Downtown Sugar Brown at the porno magazine rack. Iris and Daniel meet up during a party at an estate, and feel staggered by desire in the cellar that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. Kate and Daniel seek out a couples therapist, where Kate, who believes that Daniel has ''always wanted to be black,'' will confront him about his affair with Iris. The therapist is black.
Spencer is brilliant at limning the hearts and minds of his characters, black and white, male and female, but sometimes the narrative bends in service to its overt themes. He gives surprisingly short shrift to Iris, the pivot of his story. We are 90 pages into the novel before we see the world through her eyes, and we return to her perspective only sporadically. Even as their affair ignites, Daniel admits to finding her ''opaque... exotic, and unknown.'' She is a good mom, an inquisitive graduate student, and a woman who feels guilt-wracked at making reliable Hampton an unwitting cuckold. Her opacity, though, continues throughout the book, as though she can never quite be free of Daniel's fantasy image of her: ''The danger is, of course, an aphrodisiac -- an Afro-disiac, Daniel thinks, but does not say it. Iris has made it clear that she is not going to be his Black Girlfriend.''
As the passion of ''A Ship Made of Paper'' invites ultimate ruin, with black-white themes the dangerous shoals Spencer sets down at every possible turn, it is the author's searching and propulsive prose that keeps the craft on its heartbreaking course. David Axelrod, still grieving over his own endless love, would probably understand.


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Noisy, alive, chaotic, commercial, Hanoi won't leave you indifferent. Rich with street food, dangerous for the driving, crossing its roads is an interesting experience. Will come back.
February 16, 2012
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I'm from Hanoi. Thank you for such great pics. I miss "my" city so much :x
Comment by YunaCrystal — February 21, 2012 @ 19:04
It was great seeing your pictures, and I almost feel a bit shameful because I visited Hanoi 4 months ago, and sadly I really disliked the city. I'm really sorry to say so, and I'd wish it wasn't the truth. But, sadly, the completely insane traffic killed everything charming about the city. The beauty and fascination disappeared because of the constant LOUD traffic noise, the constant risk of getting traffic-killed and the polution. Leaving Hanoi I went to Hong Kong which felt like some kind of tiny village traffic-wise compared to Hanoi … :-)
But I'm really glad to see your pictures and to read other comments from people who love Hanoi. I'm glad that you do! And I'd wish that I had the same feeling – because Vietnam is such a beautiful country – I discovered that on a day-tour a few hours away from the city. That was such a beautiful experience.
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liked the water puppet photograph and the way photographs of street seller are captured. How water puppet works ? In my country India, Rajasthan's Thread Puppet show is very popular and interesting.
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Street food is awesome fun! Looks like a lot of pollution?
Comment by Ryan — February 22, 2012 @ 10:21
beauty never die!!!!!
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I really love your pictures! Thankx for sharing!
Gracias desde España!
Comment by anna — February 22, 2012 @ 16:36
Wow, these photos bring back a lot of memories. I was studying abroad in Hanoi in 2001, and I recently scanned/uploaded the photos from 10 years ago:
It's amazing to see what's changed (people more stylish), but how some things stay the same (street markets, food, water puppets).
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iAUTO function that analyzes the current composition and optimizes camera settings automatically.
"Shadow Adjustment Technology" that detects faces of subjects and optimizes focus and exposure accordingly.
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These are some great shots! I like your preference for privacy and independence from the grid. Smart move… Sorry about the wind turbine. I always loved the concept of a domed home that rotates with the sun… You could set up a telescope in one of those and follow the sky without buying a clock drive. The sun! That's where all the energy is… Gee, I hope we don't suck that dry too :O(
Welcome to our our home. Life in The Woods – "It costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon . . ." Henry David Thoreau
"The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built." Frank Lloyd Wright
Back in 1978 as a young student studying architecture at BC Institute of Technology I was inspired by Wrights concept of organic architecture. "The only answer to life today is to get back to the good ground," he wrote in his classic book, The Natural House.
With my granddaughter creating cookie art The upper dormer
St. Fiacre – the patron saint of gardeners (and taxi drivers ), watches over us.
At the tender age of 21, with my Diploma of Building Technology and Natural House bible in hand, I went out to the country. "Go way out to the country, what you regard as too far," Wright had advised . . . "ten times as far as you think you ought to go – and when others follow – move on."
The largest windows are oriented south west for passive solar gain. A large alder tree lets sunlight penetrate to the interior during winter and leafs up to shade the building in summer.


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Web Services Yields Fresh Approach on Perishable Product
Bill Strauss, chief executive of e-commerce
Company Provide Commerce, the parent of online florist ProFlowers, has come to rely on Web serviceseven though he can barely define what they are.
"I'm not even sure I can explain Web services," he says, "but I've made it a point to have the right people in technology who start out asking what problem we're trying to solve."QUESTION: What is the biggest challenge involved with getting technology workers to deploy Web services? Learning the technology? Or learning how the business operates? Tell us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
A couple of years ago, the company, which sells perishable goods such as flowers, meat and fresh fruit through its ProFlowers, Uptown Prime and Cherry Moon Farms Web sites, was facing a few challenges.
Provide Commerce operates an electronic marketplace that links a consumer directly with suppliers, eliminating intermediaries such as wholesalers and importers. The theory: Goods that make fewer stops on the way to consumers are fresher. It's a business that depends on choreography between the merchant and a global network of suppliers to ensure that goods stay as fresh as possible and hit target delivery dates such as, in ProFlowers' case, a birthday or Valentine's Day.
Back in 2003, Provide Commerce was growing at 20% to 30% a year and its systems, a mix of manual and automated processes, couldn't keep up with spikes in demand, says Kevin Hall, Provide Commerce's chief information officer.
Today, however, the company has deployed Web servicessoftware that enables two computers to automatically speak to each other and carry out functions such as credit card processing over the Internetto improve customer service and keep information-technology costs under control.
The system it uses can handle almost a half million orders a day, some 50 times more than the 8,500 orders projected daily, and stores the records of 4.3 million registered customers.
Provide Commerce has come a long way since its 1998 launch. Back then, it built proprietary systems using Microsoft .NET and Java technology to tie together its network of suppliers via the Web. Its systems were broken into six primary areascommerce, supply chain, customer relationship, transaction processing, data warehouse/reporting and user interface.
These systems were loosely coupled through eXtensible Markup Languagea standard that allows data to be shared over the Internetand communicated through a messaging infrastructure that shuttled instructions built by Sonic Software.
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Before the Web services-based system, ProFlowers scanned its Microsoft SQL database daily in batches to find orders that might be waiting to be processed. That technique worked during slow periods, but Strauss says ProFlowers missed some orders when the company scanned for periods with spikes in order volume, say, the day before Valentine's Day.
If a husband misses his wife's birthday because of a processing error, it's unlikely he'll be a repeat customer. Strauss couldn't quantify how many orders were missed, but anecdotal stories from customer service representatives tipped him off to the problem.
Hall calls his former system "monolithic" and attributed the problem to a series of unconnected manual and automated processes employed for things like picking suppliers and shipping goods. The automated processes were bogged down by balky components such as new orders that could only be scanned at certain times, information embedded in databases, and applications that were hard to revamp without an overhaul.
In other words, the company had a mishmash of systems and lacked a trigger to automatically set off a chain of events such as finding a supplier, processing a payment and finding the most appropriate shipper.
This was a problem that Strauss had to solvequickly.
Provide Commerce needed a system that could automate orders placed well in advance, say, a request for a dozen roses on Valentine's Day made the previous September. The company also didn't want to spend more than 3% of sales on information technology.
"We are a retail company that deals with time-sensitive material, produce that can't last when it's cut," says Bharat Gogia, vice president of information systems at ProFlowers, reporting to Hall. "So, we have to keep products in our supply chain for the most minimal time possible."
When Hall and Gogia pitched Strauss on the idea of using Web services, the team focused on two points: Customer service and Strauss' goal of keeping technology spending to 3% of revenue. Gogia proposed a Web services-based system that could expand easily, automate orders and break down the business into manageable components that would make ProFlowers respond better to orders that were in the queue more than a week ahead of delivery date. Today, when the order is ready, the Web services system sends a message to begin processing, instead of database queries trying to find the order.
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The idea, which made a lot of sense to Strauss, cut Provide Commerce's business down to a series of modules such as payment processing, shipping notification and finding the right suppliers. Web services modules could be built for each process and then connected.
Why did that appeal to Strauss? Provide Commerce could change modules without rewriting code for multiple systems, within an enterprise suite for an investment Hall describes as "very low six figures." In the previous system, eliminating a few steps in a process required a change in the business rules underlying a database that might touch multiple systems.
Provide Commerce can now focus on one problem, say, credit card processing steps, and change one module instead of installing financials-processing software or an enterprise planning system.QUESTION: What is the biggest challenge involved with getting technology workers to deploy Web services? Learning the technology? Or learning how the business operates? Tell us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Once these Internet services modules were perfected, manual processing could be cut, thereby reducing errors in orders. "We don't want to throw big dollars at technology," Strauss says. "The alternative to what we did was to get some Oracle or SAP system with a big mainframe architecture."
Gogia's team was charged with building the messaging systems between the components of the company's business, and automating everything from payment processing to credit card authorization to picking Federal Express or United Parcel Service packages for shipping.
Provide Commerce automated its payment processing in 2003 by simplifying processes and installing Sonic's software. Its supplier communications network was automated in 2004, and its shipping systems followed last year.
Both Gogia and Strauss say the biggest hurdle in implementing a Web services system is training technology workers. The architecture requires technology staffers to know the business, break down functions step by step, and then follow up and monitor the system to make sure it continues to work. Training I.T. workers to think in terms of specific business processes "requires more thought," Strauss says.
Have Web services delivered a return? Strauss says they have, but acknowledges it's hard to quantify items like enhanced customer service. Gogia says automation will cut down on errors and returned packages, and speed order processing. Provide Commerce wouldn't disclose figures on these particular metrics.
But if it saves a nickel on each one of 8,500 daily orders, it can save $155,125 a year, in line with Hall's low-six-figure price tag.
More important, Web services have allowed Strauss to meet his 3% tech-spending goal. For the year ended June 30, the company spent $5.54 million on technology systems, or 3.13% of its $177 million in annual sales. In 2004, Provide Commerce spent $4 million on technology systems, or 3.10% of $128.8 million in annual sales. For 2003, it spent $3.56 million on technology, or 4% of its $88.68 million in sales.
And there won't be a big enterprise planning system expenditure on the horizon. AMR Research estimates that a planning system for a company of Provide Commerce's size would run roughly $700,000.
Meanwhile, any upgrades or technology changes will focus on functions, or processes within functions, to keep projects modest and spending within the 3% target.
It's not that Strauss isn't open to big ideas, but he prefers to keep spending in line and get returns in increments. As he puts it: "If you come in with a plan to spend big dollars, you'd better have a bunch of little dollars in savings."


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