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What is Spec Work?
Speculative Work (or "spec work") is work performed with no expectation or arrangement for compensation. Anyone who engages in spec work invests uncompensated time and resources with no guarantee of payment.
Ok I get it, but what's the difference?
You might ask, "Well what's the difference between spec work and say, 'giving back to the community', or 'donating work to a charity'?"
I'm glad you asked. Let's break down the difference between the three scenarios so you can see that, in fact, one of these things is not like the others.
Professional work (i.e. design) is inherently valuable and can be donated as something that is of worth.
Contributing to the Community says:
Professional work (i.e. design) is inherently valuable and can be given to a community as something of worth that benefits the community.
Spec Work says:
Professional work (i.e. design) is only valuable if it is "liked" or "chosen" by a contest holder.
Notice the odd one out? The issue is the value, or lack of value, attributed to professional work, and by association, its industry. When you give a gift, the recipient does not view the gift as being worthless, they view the gift as being something of value that was given to them. Donating time or resources to an organization is the same as writing them a check. It is giving them something of value out of charity and they are receiving it as such.
It Comes Down to Value
The spec work mindset is detrimental to the industry. Those who hold contests to solely benefit the contest holder and one participant are devaluing the profession of all participants. Those who participate in such contests are devaluing their own profession as well as that of others in their industry.
Professionals should always be compensated for their work. Professional work is inherently valuable and demands payment. Again, if someone chooses to give something of value (e.g. design, time, resources, money) to an organization, that is the right and choice of that person to do so. Because the company is receiving a donation from the individual they are acknowledging the inherent value of the donation.
Donating design, time, or resources to non-profits is NOT spec work
There is no such thing as "donating" your time to a spec work contest. The nature of speculative contest work is built upon the misguided belief that professional work is worthless unless "liked" or "chosen" by the contest holder. If you think that you are simply "donating" your time to these "contests", you are sadly mistaken and do nothing more than declare the worth of your work as having no real value.
Are Legitimate Contests Possible Then?
Yes. There are legitimate contests, and not all contests are evil. In order to determine if a contest is legitimate and not spec work, you must find out who is benefitting from the collective work. If the answer is the contest holder, then it is spec work. If the answer is the community or industry as a whole and the contest holder does not benefit from the work, then it can be a contest.
A prime example of detrimental spec work was Moleskine's Logo Contest. Because the contest holder, Moleskine, would benefit from the unpaid collective work, it was not a contest; it was spec work.
Update: Thanks to the upstanding folks in the design community, our outcry was heard and Moleskine conceded, apologizing for disrespecting the design community. For this, they are reconciled.
In contrast, Unmatched Style's CSS Off exemplifies the ideal legitimate contest. In this case, the community gets the benefit from this contest rather than the contest holder. The contest holder values the entrants' work and releases the work to the public under the Creative Commons License for educational and industry-benefitting purposes.
What Can I Do to Help?
The most obvious way is to refrain from participating in speculative work. By standing up for the inherent value of your work, you retain not only your own dignity and establish yourself as a professional, but also the dignity and reputation of those in your industry.
A more proactive approach to the issue would be to get involved in the AntiSpec campaign and put your face with the group that boldly says NO to spec work.
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I have some cuttings from 2 varieties of Salvia that I'm overwintering. They're all healthy and growing, the red variety is actually blooming. For the remainder of the Winter, should they be kept in: 1) an unheated utility room with a bright, north-facing window, temps stay in the 50-60 degree range, or 2) a heated room with a bank of south-facing windows and Gro lights for cloudy days? TIA
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I'm not sure if these are coccineas or more likely, a microphylla. I would definitely go with the warm sunny room with the gro lites because they do not have roots. Definitely remove the flowers, since they will sap the energy that should go to root development Do not root in water, but use a sterile porous and damp rooting media. Bottom heat will speed up rooting. When they have been potted up and growing has resumed, then they can go into the cooler room |
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Have to say that I have some pineapple sage sitting in a glass of water on my kitchen window sill with a very extensive root system. And a couple of flowers. Hope to get it potted up - maybe today? The Golden Delicious pineapple sage, that I rooted in a glass of water and then potted, is now a very substantial plant. |
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Artichokes and Carrots in Lemon Sauce Recipe
Posted on 4th of April, 2011 by Lévana
Artichokes and Carrots in Lemon Sauce
Artichokes are a Sephardi favorite. In Morocco they are a staple, and I remember a variety I haven't seen anywhere else: tiny, with pointed leaves as sharp as thorns, which we used to eat by the dozen at the end of a meal as dessert, much as the Japanese eat pickles. Another thing we find occasionally, mostly in Italian markets, are the long fuzzy artichoke stalks, called cardoons, which have an intriguing, bitter flavor and taste delicious cooked with chicken or lamb. Preparing artichoke hearts can be a thankless task that leaves your hands streaked with black lines for hours; fortunately, frozen artichoke bottoms are easy to find and absolutely delicious, and lend themselves to numerous dishes in addition to this one (stuffings, soups, salads).
Makes 8 servings.
¼ cup olive oil
1 medium size onion, chopped fine
½ teaspoon turmeric
2 good pinches saffron
2 pounds very thin carrots, about 16, peeled (not baby carrots)
11/2 pounds frozen artichoke bottoms
½ cup pitted green olives
salt and pepper to taste
2 cups water
¼ cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
juice and zest of 2 lemons, or less to taste
Heat the olive oil in a heavy wide bottom pot, and add the onion. Sauté until translucent. Add the turmeric, saffron, carrots, artichokes, olives, salt and pepper and water, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium and cook covered until the vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. Uncover, add the parsley, lemon juice and zest, and cook for just a few more minutes, until the sauce is thick. Serve at room temperature, as a first course or a side dish with chicken or meat.
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Project 365 - Week 18
22 comments:
- Classy Fab Sarah said...
Your mom is gorgeous and you look so much like her!! Lucky girl!
- May 11, 2010 at 3:34 AM
- Virginia Belle said...
Looks like it was a great week! I love going to the farmer's market and coming up with meals incorporating the fresh produce. Your salad looks delicious!
- May 11, 2010 at 5:52 AM
- Lindsey said...
What a fab week! Your mom and you look so much alike!
- May 11, 2010 at 6:38 AM
- Becca said...
Ok your mom and your sister are so pretty - it must run in the family :-)
And that chicken salad looks yummy! - May 11, 2010 at 6:54 AM
- Heather said...
I love hearing about your weeks!! Your mom and sister are gorgeous! I had rose bushes at my old house that my nanny would have to come and help me with, apparently I am a wimp when it comes to thorns! Yours are beautiful!
- May 11, 2010 at 7:19 AM
- PinkSass said...
I love Tuesdays at Tales of Trees. :)
- May 11, 2010 at 7:26 AM
- California Wife said...
That lime chicken salad looks great, and your rose bushes are so pretty!
- May 11, 2010 at 7:39 AM
- Bev said...
Love, Love, Love the pic of your mom and your sister! Great Shot!
- May 11, 2010 at 8:02 AM
- THE Stephanie said...
The roses are beautiful!!
And please post that lime chicken recipe. It looks yummy :) - May 11, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- the rigdons said...
yeah- i'm gonna need that lime chicken salad recipe.
- May 11, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- Lauren said...
What a great pic of your mom & sister! Love rose bushes...mine is going crazy and they're so easy to maintain!
- May 11, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- Lauren Kelly said...
Your sister and Mom are so pretty!! Always look forward to your weekly pics and so wonderful that you've kept up with it this long!!! :)
- May 11, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- Whitney said...
You should probably share that recipe before I salivate all over my computer keyboard. Ha! Your mom and sister are gorgeous!
- May 11, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Piper Jacquelyn said...
What a wonderful post - it was honestly relaxing to read about all your fun activities! That chicken salad does look wonderful - I'm with the others in saying that you should share the recipe! And you girls are all so pretty, what a lovely fam!
- May 11, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- Mrs. Bear said...
What GORGEOUS roses... and Momma and sister! You are definitely a beautiful family! Also... you must post that recipe asap so I can steal it and put it on my cooking blog (obviously with you as the author) for my foodie friends. =0)
- May 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM
- ~Mrs. Guru~ said...
That salad looks amazing!
- May 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM
- Susan said...
Great pictures, really not bad from the phone either!!
Looks like you had a good week♥ - May 11, 2010 at 5:12 PM
- EmmyLou said...
you and your mom are beautiful! you have been busy :) hope you're enjoying yourself!
- May 11, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- Jennifer said...
You and your mom look so much alike! All 3 of y'all are so pretty!
Looks like you had a great week! Glad you lived to tell about the bad weather! :) - May 12, 2010 at 10:58 AM
- writing4612 said...
Your mom and sister are gorgeous! You definitely look like your mom. :)
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that is so fun that Luke got to come to lunch with you! and please tell us more about that salad :) i love that you guys got up early to go to the farmer's market, so neat, i wish we had one around here!
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Crystal ball: Data-only carriers to destroy the telco industry RSN
Under the covers though it's all just 1's and 0's and it's been that way for a while - Australia turned off it's analog mobile network (AMPS) while I was still there and like here in Europe uses the Global Standard for Mobiles (GSM). This shares the limited airwaves with timeslices (TDMA) and over in the US they do a similar thing with code (CDMA), probably because TDMA has timing problems when you get out to tens of kilometers (irrespective of the strength of the signal) and the US has a lot of land to cover. Point is that under the covers it's all data. Of course things have changed a bit since I was helping design Australia's first digital mobile network - now we've got 3G, LTE, WiFi, WiMax, etc. to play with too.
Traditional telephony was what we call "circuit switched", which means it was about creating a dedicated connection between two endpoints. First these were hardwired, then switched manually by operators, then clicks on the line would operate mechanical switches at the exchange, more recently tones (DTMF) would tell chips what to do and nowdays connections are set up out-of-band over data connections. But it all still revolves around circuits, even though these days we're not tying up a pair of copper for the duration of the call, rather sending as much data as we need to when we need it (silence often uses little or no bandwidth but then we have to simulate background noise at the other end so as not to confuse the human).
That is to say it's time we stopped thinking about circuits which tend to be billed by time (after all, the resource could not be shared when you were using it) and start thinking about data (which is typically billed by quantity transferred or bandwidth available). In other words we are paying (generally more) for our communications because of technological limitations that have long since been removed. Even Skype go to great lengths to identify which country you are calling from so as to impose the legacy billing system we are used to (so many cents per minute depending on the country) rather than take advantage of what the Internet has to offer in terms of being unaffected by geography.
Then there's texts which are an even bigger rort. These were basically an afterthought which are sent out-of-band over the relatively limited control channel - the one that's used to set up calls and so on (that's why they take a while to send and why you can jam a phone by sending/receiving too many). Knowing that everything is 1's and 0's anyway, did you ever stop to think about how many texts a minute of voice is worth (even using strong compression)? It's a *lot* but let's work it out. Full rate GSM consumes 13Kbps or just shy of 100,000 8-bit characters per minute assuming my maths are correct. Each SMS is 140 8-bit (or 160 7-bit) characters or around 700 texts per minute. In Australia those texts cost $0.25 each so we're paying $175.00 a minute to consume the bandwidth as texts when we'd pay around $0.50 to consume it as voice. You can see why they love them now, can't you!
The telcos have been on the gravy train for long enough at our expense and it's long since been time for the next generation of carrier to take over. There's a massive opportunity here for someone to enter the market with a data-only service and in doing so destroy the existing industry literally overnight. We've already got devices (iPhones, Android) that are more than capable of doing everything we need over data, but which are being deliberately crippled by hardware and software vendors in order to protect the legacy carriers. That's not to say that Apple and Google are to blame for contracts they are almost certainly forced into by the likes of AT&T, but seeing Google taking the high road while having to concede that "individual operators can request that certain applications be filtered if they violate their terms of service" is disappointing.
Why can't we have Google Voice on the iPhone? Or use Skype over 3G (without jailbreaking and installing 3G Unrestrictor)? Or open source/open standard SIP telephony for that matter? Why are we sending texts when we have instant messaging? Or dialing in to retrieve voicemails that could just as easily be translated and/or emailed? Why are we paying for silence on the line when we should be paying for bandwidth and/or quantity of data? Why do we pay for minutes at all?
The telcos will tell you it's to protect their networks, and ultimately to protect you, no doubt from the evils of illegal filesharing, terroristing and child pornography. There's an element of truth to this (it only takes a few greedy customers to ruin it for the rest and as always 10% of the users use 90% of the traffic), ut there are simple, effective solutions for this too. People will pay more for a premium/priority service and at the end of the day you can always reign in abusers with packet shaping. The fairest mechanism I can think of comes in the form of a logarithmic bandwidth policy whereby the more you use the slower you go, but the point is that there are solutions so this is pure FUD. My "unlimited" data connection was just throttled from 3G+ to 3G speeds at 800Mb and again at 1000 Mb (so much for unlimited), but I'd happily pay more for a more "unlimited" service if it meant I could say goodbye to minutes and texts forever.
It will happen - it's just a case of when (and where first). Australia's regularly used as a test market and capped ($99 all you can talk) style plans took over by storm a few years ago, so let's just help an existing innovative carrier like 3 or a new one altogether teach the incumbents a lesson, with any luck by the time I get back there.
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The point is that it would be indiscriminate - if you're over your quota then all of your traffic will suffer. Net neutrality is more about futzing with one type of traffic while leaving another alone (eg throttling certain sites or traffic types and/or prioritising others).
Mobile networks certainly do seem to be taking the piss when it comes to net neutrality though... it would be great to see them reigned in.
SamThe much sought Data-only carrier has little options to avoid huge costs, i am afraid. Either be a VNO on an existing network (the same guys who are to be beaten!), or to participate in frequency spectrum auctions organized by very greedy state institutions, and subsequently roll out of own infrastructure. The first option only offers very restricted data plans (probably also regulated...), the 2nd runs into the billion$ for even a country as small as the Netherlands where i live....
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Not too bad right? Let us thinks to United Commercial Bank for their nice service.
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How are your Halo Hydrangeas doing now that we are transitioning from summer to fall? Does anyone have a very recent picture or can give an update on how they did? I am curious to see pictures showing the blooms as they appear today. Have the blooms turned green yet? Is the halo still present in the green blooms? Are you satisfied? Not impressed? TIA, Luis |
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blooms are green with the markings--my plants mostly died wxcept a large 3 foot one planted last year--it is doing well--others were failures for me.... perhaps the plants need a few year--if the survive the winter--they seem to need a fair mass of old wood to survive--- |
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Golden Valley High, Sequoia Charter welcome new leadership.
Salvador Frias Jr., who has been an assistant principal at Golden Valley High School for the past two years, has been named the school's new principal, replacing founding principal Jacque Snyder, who is retiring this June. The appointment was confirmed by the Hart District Governing Board at its meeting Wednesday night, along with the appointment of Kathy Hunter as new principal of Sequoia Charter School.
Frias came to the Hart District in 2002 as an assistant principal at Sierra Vista Junior High. He also served as assistant principal at Canyon High School from 2004 to 2006. Before coming to the Hart District, he was assistant principal and then principal at Mojave High School. He also has been a teacher, coach and athletic director in previous assignments.
He was named Secondary Co-Administrator of the Year in 2005-2006 by the Association of California School Administrators for Region XV. He also received the Hart District's English Language Learners Administrator of the Year Award through the Los Angeles Office of Education.
"Sal is a perfect match for Golden Valley," said Rochelle Neal, assistant superintendent of human resources and student services. "He embraces change and growth as an opportunity to learn and expand. He is dedicated to improving student learning and equity for all students. An enthusiastic leader, he is committed to bridging the achievement gap and developing a culture of rigor, relevance and respect."
Frias holds a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from California State University, Chico, and earned his master's degree in administrative education from CSU, San Bernardino. He is bilingual in Spanish and English.
Hunter has been with the Hart School District from 1998 to 2001 and again from 2003 to 2006, as a special education teacher. She has served as a program specialist in the Hart District since 2006. As the new principal at Sequoia, Hunter replaces Lori Andrews, who is moving on to a district office assignment.
Hunter holds a bachelor's degree in education with a minor in psychology, and a master's degree in school counseling, plus an administrative credential. In her current position, Hunter has offered support, workshops and mentoring to special education teachers across the district. Sequoia is a small charter school which serves students with severe emotional disturbances and others who do not function well in a large school environment.
"The Hart District if very fortunate to have Kathy Hunter move into this position," Neal commented. "She is highly skilled and experienced in working with all levels of special education students. She has a vast knowledge of special education law and programs. Kathy is innovative, student-centered, and collaborative. She is excited about transforming Sequoia into a model special education school."
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I had a user who's Outlook had apparently deleted the Trash folder from the IMAP server improperly. Outlook functioned okay, but any other email client would barf. The mail client would report a "filesystem error" when you tried to access the Trash folder, and wouldn't delete anything. The server would constantly log:
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I'd noticed the log entries a long time ago, but given that his Outlook was still working fine I didn't stress over it. Now that he's switched to Thunderbird, it became a problem.
The fix was simply to run the following on the mail server:
sudo su - su - cyrus /usr/sbin/cyrreconstruct -rf user.john
If you don't use the dot separator, it would look like:
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Rodrigo Santoro shines in the title role, a figure at once dislikable yet hard not to watch. Santoro goes through the rise-and-fall scenario convincingly, as the arrogant, attractive footballer who likes to boss around his teammates, manager and even his wife and girlfriends, but who does not see the trap he has set for himself. Heleno's hubris leads to fights with his bosses and fellow players, womanizing and drinking, ignoring his young son, and living beyond his means. Fonseca depicts all this by jumping back and forth between Heleno's early glory days and his later downward spiral—which eventually lands our anti-hero in a sanatorium to treat a debilitating venereal disease.
On the plus side, Santoro turns Heleno into a compelling figure, as opposed to a purely pitiable or repellent one. The actor apparently looks like the soccer player and he never overplays a part crying out for an operatic performance; in a nod to Scorsese's Raging Bull, Fonseca uses opera on the soundtrack in addition to the moody black-and-white camerawork. In fact, cinematographer Walter Carvalho's chiaroscuro evokes the expressionistic films of the period during which the story takes place. At the very least, his assured, textural photography makes a distasteful subject much easier to watch.
On the debit side, the film's other performances are adequate but not especially memorable, the production design never convinces us we are really in the 1940s or '50s (the two decades look identical here), and the crosscutting between past and present events doesn't help our attempt to understand Heleno, except as a pathetic man we should not emulate. Perhaps Fonseca's failure to show Heleno on the soccer field, doing what he did best, could be the director's way of underlining the fact that what is most important about one's life is not career and glory.
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From my last round of story/novel queries, all my rejections are finally back. So it's time to send another bunch of stuff out into the ether. I've gone through my work again and done some more tweaking and polishing, some of the results of which I've uploaded here on my blog.
"The Kid Who Had It All" has received a makeover. It's the story of a kid whose family perennially disappoints him. But suddenly, on the other side of the backyard gooseberry bush, he finds himself in an amazing new world of astronauts, ballerinas, as well as a very unnerving laser show.
Blind Spot is a novel that I've shopped around for a year or so. An editor at Random House loved it! But times are difficult in publishing right now, and it's tough to find a market for a book with such a prickly narrator. Nevertheless, meet Luke, who appears here in Chapter 1, which is now fully revised. This is the one part of the book that had troubled me, largely because it had adopted an excessively laconic tone, which was not entirely representative of the rest of the book. Now it is fixed. I hope.
I've also started work on a new project called Independence Corner. Who knows how long it will last, given these early and perilous days.
Not on the subject of fiction, I've added another article to my publications page. It's about a drug treatment camp in the Alberta Rockies. Called "Road to Recovery," it was published in summer 2007.


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Captive hunts, also known as "canned hunts," are the very opposite of fair chase. Shooters at captive hunts pay to kill animals—even endangered species—trapped behind fences.
Animals from breeders, dealers, and even zoos or circuses may end up at captive hunts. Often the animals are hand-raised and bottle-fed, so they aren't afraid of people.
The animals are often accustomed to being fed in certain areas at regular intervals—and shooters will be there waiting. Captive hunts are so unsporting that hunting groups like Boone & Crockett, Pope & Young, and the Izaak Walton League oppose them. Captive hunts also threaten cattle and wildlife with disease, while the owners earn big fees.
There are more than a thousand captive hunts in this country.
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If you missed the "Animal Planet Investigates" segment devoted to an HSUS investigation of captive hunts, you can see some of our undercover footage at the link below.
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October 7, 2014
Indiana Study Committee Votes to Support Captive Hunting
The introduction of legislation to legalize captive hunting operations has been recommend by the Indiana Legislature's Interim Study Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
March 18, 2014
Indiana's Animal Advocates Celebrate Defeat of Two Harmful Bills
With the close of Indiana's legislation session, animal advocates celebrate the defeat of two bills that would have been harmful to animals:
February 14, 2014
North Carolina Considers Allowing Reckless Practice of Bear Baiting
North Carolina black bears could be subjected to the unnecessary, unsporting and inhumane practice of bear baiting, in which bears are lured by piles of food for an easy kill. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is considering a proposal to authorize bear baiting, which is generally prohibited in the state. The Humane Society of the United States and hundreds of North Carolina residents submitted comments urging the commission to keep bear baiting out of the Tar Heel state.
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Indiana Senate Votes Down Captive Hunting Bill
The Indiana Senate shot down legislation that would legalize captive hunting operations. S.B. 404 would have allowed privately-owned facilities to stock deer and elk for trophy-seekers, letting them pay to shoot the semi-tame animals trapped in enclosures for guaranteed kills.


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David Paine
President, Standard Life Investments (Real Estate) Inc.
David joined Standard Life in 1982 and has been with Standard Life Investments since its inception. He is extensively experienced in all aspects of real estate investment management and development of real estate assets. David has been responsible for portfolio establishment, development management, portfolio management and business development into new markets. He heads our real estate team which comprises over 120 investment and real estate specialists based in Edinburgh, Toronto, Paris, Boston and Hong Kong.
Blair McCreadie
Head of Canadian Real Estate
Blair McCreadie is responsible for the overall operation of Standard Life Investments (Real Estate) Inc. in Canada including oversight of the Standard Life Real Estate Fund portfolio management team, together with product development, marketing and business development for Canadian real estate fund products being marketed to investors.
Blair has a considerable breadth of direct real estate expertise including property valuations, leasing, asset management, financing and acquisitions and dispositions. He began his career as a project manager for a Toronto municipality, which was followed by several years as a property appraiser and consultant with two Canadian real estate companies before he joined the Standard Life Group in 1997. Blair spent several years as a mortgage lender and appraiser before taking a prominent role in the real estate department at Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada in 2001. In 2006, he joined Standard Life Investments (Real Estate) Inc. where he has been ever since. Until his recent promotion to Head of Canadian Real Estate, as a senior member of the real estate team in Canada, Blair has been focusing on acquisitions and dispositions as well as oversight and leadership for the SLREF. Blair has also been actively involved in the launch of the new Canadian Real Estate Fund (CREF) where Blair will be the Fund's manager.
Blair is a graduate of York University and an Accredited Appraiser Canadian Institute (AACI) with over 20 years of experience in a variety of real estate related roles.
William Secnik
Fund Manager
William Secnik is Fund Manager for the Standard Life Real Estate Fund. He is responsible for the overall strategy and performance of the fund.
William has over 17 years of progressive experience focused on national real estate investments related to income, redevelopment and development/greenfield assets. With over $2.5 Billion in transactional activity, he has an extensive history involving acquisitions, financings, repositionings and dispositions on behalf of investment vehicles (core and opportunity funds) and leading TSX-Listed firms. Prior to joining Standard Life Investments (Real Estate), William was a senior member at First Capital Realty, focused on growing their mixed-use portfolio while divesting non-core assets.
William is a graduate of Ryerson University and University of British Columbia's Urban Land Economics Program. He is also a Registered Salesperson under Ontario's Real Estate and Business Brokers Act.
Glenn D'Silva
Portfolio Manager
Glenn D'Silva is responsible for the overall performance of the Fund's assets under management. His responsibilities include actively reviewing the overall Fund strategy including acquisitions and dispositions, performance of the investments by product type, policy and guideline requirements, and regional location.
Glenn has over 23 years of real estate experience in Treasury, Project Financing, Institutional Advisory and Portfolio Management. Prior to joining Standard Life Realty Advisors in April 2005, he worked at The Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada in their Real Estate group for over 10 years in a number of progressive roles. He started his career in real estate in 1988 in the Treasury department of Markborough Properties Inc.
Glenn holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Windsor.
Greg Martin
Property Finance Manager
Greg Martin is part of the Standard Life Investments global real estate finance and operations team and provides overall financial management and support to the Canadian real estate team in the areas of financial reporting and compliance, fund operations, fund administration, taxation and investor reporting. Prior to joining Standard Life Investments, Greg held the position of Senior Manager Accounting Policy and Finance Head, Corporate Real Estate at the BMO (Bank of Montréal). He also held the position of Controller of the Retail Division at Vornado Realty Trust, based in New York. Along with his accounting and finance expertise, Greg brings a strong, strategic, business acumen to the Canadian Real Estate team.
Greg is a Chartered Accountant and also holds an MBA in International Accounting from Saint Mary's University in Halifax.
Warwick Marchant
Portfolio Manager
Warwick Marchant is focused on specific value add projects with a view to driving financial performance within the portfolio. This includes designing and implementing capital improvement, leasing and repositioning strategies on individual assets; with resulting gains ultimately crystallized through a disposition. Warwick also adds strength to our active acquisition program and enhances our capabilities to place new investment capital into the market.
Warwick joined Standard Life Investments Inc. in March 2010, bringing more than 15 years of multi-disciplinary commercial real estate experience to the team, including brokerage investment sales experience, as well as more than 10 years of progressive positions with Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust leading to Associate Vice President, active in Leasing, Asset Management and Acquisitions. He holds a B.A. Economics from Queens University.
Manuela Sarnecki
As Analyst, Manuela Sarnecki supplies analytical support to the team. Manuela has over 10 years experience in the field of commercial real estate, holding positions in research, asset management and acquisitions. Since joining Standard Life in 2004 Manuela has worked on 71 acquisition transactions with a total volume of $597,873,000 and has also been involved with dispositions of assets for the pooled fund that equates to 12 transactions totaling $31,713,000.
Manuela began her career in real estate in 1997 at Colliers International. Prior to joining Standard Life Realty Advisors, Manuela held analyst positions with Jones Lang LaSalle and The Beer Store. Manuela holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Geography from Ryerson University and a Masters in Urban Planning from McGill University.


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Obese lab mice with severe type 2 diabetes had their blood glucose levels restored to normal and experienced a doubling in physical activity when sensitivity to the hormone leptin was restored to a portion of their hypothalamus.
The dramatic improvements came without any changes in the animals' diets or weight. This means that scientists may have found a way to use the brain itself, rather than diets, conventional weight control measures, or drugs aimed at other organs, to control glucose output and metabolism, as well as increase exercise.
Investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston wanted to see how a big a role in weight and appetite is played by certain neurons in the hypothalamus that are receptive to leptin. Discovered in 1994, leptin is a hormone involved in the central nervous system's regulation of weight and appetite.
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Interview attire guidelines for men and women | |
Suit: A two piece matched suit is always the best and safest choice. |
Conservative colors / fabric: Navy, dark gray (and black for women) - are safe. Other color trends may come and go; avoid the extremes. Solids or very subtle weave patterns or plaids (the kind that look solid across a room) are safest. Wool, wool blends, or good quality micro fiber for women only, are generally the best fabrics in all seasons. Avoid acetate / rayon blends. |
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Interview attire specifics for men | |
Suit: A two-piece matched suit is always the best and safest choice. Don't combine a suit jacket with pants that don't match. |
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Ties: Tie styles come and go. Select good quality silk ties. Avoid fashion extremes, like character ties, in interviews. Notice what men in your industry wear on the job, at career fairs, at information sessions, when they meet with clients. |
Shirts: Long-sleeved shirts, even in summer. Choose white or light blue solid, or conservative stripes. |
Socks: Dark socks, mid-calf length so no skin is visible when you sit down. |
Shoes: Leather, lace-up or slip-on business shoes, preferably black or cordovan. Invest in a good pair; even if you don't wear them daily on the job, you'll need them for other occasions and you should expect to get lots of years out of good shoes. |
Belt: Black or cordovan leather, to match your shoes. |
Facial hair: If worn, should be well-groomed. Observe men in your industry if you are unsure what's appropriate or are considering changing your look. |
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Details: Everything should be clean and well pressed. Suits typically have tacking stitches to hold vents - on the jacket back and on sleeves - in place before the garment is purchased. Cut them off if your retailer / tailor doesn't. And that tag stitched on the outside of your sleeve is not meant to stay there like a Tommy Hilfiger label - cut it off! Carefully inspect clothes dangling threads, etc. |
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Color / fabric: Navy, dark gray, brown and black are safe. Other color trends may come and go; avoid the extremes. Women generally have more options with suit color than men. For example, while a women could look conservative in a slate blue or light gray suit, these colors would be inappropriate for men. Choose a solid or very subtle weave pattern or plaid (the kind that look solid across a room). Wool or a wool blend is the best choice. Microfibers are acceptable. |
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The winningest season in program history ended for Lockport in heartbreaking fashion Saturday as the Porters fell 9-8 to Homewood-Flossmoor in overtime.
Lockport finished 28-5.
"I wish it would have went the other way but it's just one of those things," Lockport coach Joe Lewandowski said. "It goes to show that the postseason is a whole different animal. We knew that our record coming in didn't matter. H-F is a great, well-coached team. (H-F coach Tim Caldwell) does a great job."
Lockport's high-powered offense was slowed down as H-F made it a physical game and controlled the tempo.
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For the third time this season, Lincoln-Way North came up just a little short against rival Lincoln-Way Central as the Phoenix fell 9-7 in Saturday's sectional championship.
"We had a lot of balance and we played a great game," North coach Kendra Will said. "This is the farthest we've ever advanced in a sectional. It was a great run."
North couldn't get over the hump against the Knights this season, but it had plenty of success against just about everyone else it played.
The Phoenix finished 25-5 and ran away with its second straight SouthWest Suburban Red title.
"We had a big senior class that we're really going to miss," Will said. "We had 10 seniors on varsity or JV. A lot of them were on varsity as freshmen. They walked in and started playing when we had only seven players. We've come a long way thanks to them."
The varsity seniors included Kelly Pender, Keriann Clarin, Katie Ripp, Paige Macek, Caitlin McCully, Cheyenne DeGraff, Sam Klosak and Olivia Krakowski.
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Seeding for the loaded Andrew Sectional is out and the top four teams shouldn't come as a surprise. In order, it's Lincoln-Way East, Lincoln-Way North, Sandburg and Brother Rice.
Lincoln-Way Central, behind Ball State recruit Austin Overby, notched the five seed.
Marist is sixth and Richards is seventh.
One of the most interesting regional semifinals on paper pits upstart Stagg (No. 8 seed) against Providence (No. 9). The match will feature two of the best outside hitters in the area in the Chargers' Kamil Barnas and the Celtics' Brendan Surane. The winner of the match should clash with East for the Marian Regional crown.
Another intriguing semifinal match could be between Marist and Oak Lawn (No. 12 seed) at the Brother Rice Regional.
Marist has a deep roster, led by the outside play of John Yerkes and Morty Berglind.
The Spartans counter with All-Area hitter Marc Hansen, and their resume shows they've been under-seeded all season, evident by a sixth-place finish at the 24-team Downers Grove South Invite after being seeded 17th.
Hansen blasted 50 kills in that tournament to lead Oak Lawn to solid victories over Naperville North and Glenbard East.
Logan Malloy
Boys Track and Field
Getting to the state meet will be the goal at six sectionals that involve local teams. The top two finishers in each event and individuals or relays that equal the qualifying standard advance to the May 23 through 25 finals at Eastern Illinois.
Class 3A: Providence will be among the leaders Thursday at the 16-team Homewood-Flossmoor Sectional. The meet also includes T.F. North, Bloom, Marian Catholic, Crete-Monee, Lincoln-Way East, Lincoln-Way North, Lincoln-Way Central, Thornton, T.F. South, Rich Central, Thornwood and Andrew. ... Sandburg will bring its relay and distance strength Friday to the Downers Grove North Sectional. The 17-team field also includes Eisenhower, Brother Rice, Marist, Lemont, Lockport, Oak Forest, Oak Lawn, Richards, Shepard and Stagg. ... Mount Carmel, St. Rita, Reavis and Argo will chase state qualifying berths Friday at the 16-team Lyons Sectional.
Class 2A: Hillcrest and Crete-Monee will be among the 17-school field Thursday at the Thornridge Sectional. Morgan Park, Illiana Christian, Bremen, Rich East, Rich South and Tinley Park are the other Southland teams. ... St. Laurence and Evergreen Park will be the Southland squads Thursday at the Fenwick Sectional.
Class 1A: Beecher's Grant Nykaza, state champ in the 1,600-meter run in 2012, will be the top runner Friday at the Seneca Sectional.
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