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If you're a parent whose kid likes toy cars, you've probably got toy car clutter. A cheap, DIY solution to ditch that clutter: A shoe rack.
If you're a parent whose kid likes toy cars, you've probably got toy car clutter. A cheap, DIY solution to ditch that clutter: A shoe rack.
Things we perceive to be virally popular online are often not. Sometimes we fall victim to an illusion emerging from the nature of social networking that makes rare things seem common. Read the rest
Piketty's bestselling economics book is seismic, a vital infusion of data into the ideological debate over economics -- but it's also 700 pages long. Read the rest
Coolors is "the super fast color scheme generator for cool designers." Just hit the space bar to see a new palette, and get inspired. Read the rest
September has come and gone, but let's all pretend this was published on time. It's the sixth episode of GME! Anime Fun Time, in which Clarissa and Gerald of Anime World Order join me to talk about Princess Jellyfish. Topics of discussion include embarrassing real-life otaku experiences, in-group vs. out-group behavior, the way perception and self-image shape social interactions, and whether there is an intrinsically gendered component to the concept of character growth. CLICK HERE or on the promotional image above to download our review of the show.
We sort of forgot to mention that Kuranosuke's uncle (that's him on the left) is the Prime Minister of Japan.
Fortune's Kieran Snyder surveyed women who left tech, and finds that "the industry's culture is the primary culprit, not any issues related to science education." Read the rest
We highlight a number of free online courses in our Lifehacker U series, but this free course from MIT on documentary photography and photojournalism is completely free, open to the public, and will teach you to improve your photography skills, even if you're not trying to catch a scoop.
Last week, Amazon informed us that for ten dollars per month, Kindle users can have unlimited access to over six hundred thousand books in its library. But it shouldn't cost a thing to borrow a book, Amazon, you foul, horrible, profiteering enemies of civilization.
For a monthly cost of zero dollars, it is possible to read six million e-texts at the Open Library, right now. On a Kindle, or any other tablet or screen thing. You can borrow up to five titles for two weeks at no cost, and read them in-browser or in any of several other formats (not all titles are supported in all formats, but most offer at least a couple): PDF, .mobi, Kindle or ePub (you'll need to download the Bluefire Reader—for free—in order to read ePub format on Kindle.) I currently have on loan Alan Moore's Watchmen, Original Sin by P.D. James, and The Dead Zone by Stephen King.
Perhaps you would prefer to download books onto your Kindle, and keep them there permanently. In that case, please hie yourself over to Project Gutenberg, which has been offering free public domain e-texts since 1971. There, you may download any of over forty-five thousand books onto your Kindle. Or one of thousands of Librivox audiobook recordings made by volunteers, all in the public domain. (R.I.P. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg and one of the Internet's greatest benefactors.)
You can do anything you like with the public domain books and recordings you download from Project Gutenberg or the Internet Archive: Make a literary Girl Talk-type mashup with them, hide Satanic messages in there via "backmasking," make letterpress reprints of the books and illuminate them by hand with gold leaf like a medieval monk and sell the results on Etsy. It's all free and legal. That is what "public domain" means. (By the bye, I wrote to the PR contact supplied by Amazon in the subject press release, and asked how many of these six hundred thousand titles offered through Kindle Unlimited are in the public domain and therefore, already free to the public, but did not receive an answer.)
Are you interested in borrowing the most recent titles? Perhaps you belong to a public library. I live in Los Angeles, and am a grateful and loyal patron of the Los Angeles Public Library, and of all the lucky things in this world, I live about ten minutes' drive away from our gloriously beautiful and fantastic main library downtown. But maybe I don't feel like driving ten minutes—in which case I can use my Kindle to check out e-books from the library, zillions of them. There are all different e-book programs, such as OverDrive, and countless recent popular books to check out, including Insurgent, which is the sequel to that daft Divergent book. (I saw the movie on the plane, I don't know! I can't help myself.)
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Maria Bustillos is a writer and critic in Los Angeles. She also started an auction site for rare books, once upon a dot com.
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The Star Trek Mirror Mirror beach towel ($20) features Juan Ortiz's retro-art celebrating one of the greatest classic Star Trek episodes, and the origin of the evil-twin/goatee trope.
Although we've covered many ways of getting free books and music before, Noisetrade has a huge selection of both—and it's all legal.
If you've ever wondered who contributed to your Congressional delegation, you could use public records to look it up. Brian Clifton has created a web site that will do all that looking up for you.
Security journalist Brian Krebs documents a string of escalating extortion crimes perpetrated with help from the net, and proposes that the growth of extortion as a tactic preferred over traditional identity theft and botnetting is driven by Bitcoin, which provides a safe way for crooks to get payouts from their victims. Read the rest
I'll have to try this out to see if the particular service works, but this sort of free or extra cheap access to digital versions of stuff you bought physically is a thing that should happen.
Bitlit works with publishers to get you free or discounted access to digital copies of books you own in print: you use the free app (Android/Ios) to take a picture of the book's copyright page with your name printed in ink, and the publisher unlocks a free or discounted ebook version.Read the rest
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Amazing Ribs offers this recipe for making festival-style smoked turkey legs. Unnaturally, there is some additive to get that gross color: Prague powder.
The worries are exaggerated: Only 7% of young adults with student debt have $50,000 or more. http://t.co/Aavawc8KpC
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) June 24, 2014
Doesn't that sound like a fact? Well, it's something that might be a fact.
The Brookings
Institute Institution (!!!) is here to tell you that the whole fable of debt-panicked young people in America is a lie! And their study comes complete with a huge announcement in the New York Times, which puts a rather snide slant on the whole thing. It's all in your head, millennials! "Only 7 percent of young-adult households with education debt have $50,000 or more of it," summarizes the Times up top. (There's a quiet and enormous caveat in that sentence, which we'll get to shortly!)
But then they must backtrack from this tale a bit:
The first thing to acknowledge is that student debt has risen over the last two decades. In 2010, 36 percent of households with people between the ages of 20 and 40 had education debt, up from 14 percent in 1989. The median amount of debt—among those with debt—more than doubled, to $8,500 from $3,517, after adjusting for inflation.
So let's see: people with college debt saw their debt double, and also the number of those households with debt more than doubled. That is not exactly undermining this supposedly fake narrative of the increase of student debt! What's more, the Times notes, tuition and fees at public colleges are up 50% in the last ten years.
Then they must come to this graph.
Do you see where that says "based on households with people between 20 to 40 years old with at least some education debt"? That's actually quite a bit of a fudge!
What's the deal with these numbers? GLAD YOU ASKED. It's not what it sounds like!
• Those aren't households with people between 20 and 40; those are households headed by people between 20 and 40. Which is to say, this data excludes all people living in households headed by, say, their parents, or other adults. The way Brookings put this is: "households led by adults between the ages of 20 and 40." Just another way to say it excludes all households led by anyone over 40! (Those households might be identical in student debt to "young" households! Or they might not? WHO KNOWS!)
• One effect of this age spread sample is that it includes college graduates from up to almost 20 years ago. This is literally not at all a study of college graduates of the last five years, or even ten years. We're talking about people up to the age of 40, well into Gen X.
• Also, in this survey, when there are multiple people in the household, the Brookings Institution simply divided the amount of college debt by number of people in the household. So one person's $20,000 college debt becomes two people's $10,000 college debt. This works out mathematically, of course, but not structurally.
• And finally: The number of the people making up this data is quite small.
Where does it come from? GLAD YOU ASKED.
All this data comes from the Survey of Consumer Finances, which is conducted by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Department of Treasury. It takes place every three years, since 1983. It samples about 4500 households in the U.S., usually, but recently expanded to 6500 households. And this isn't new data; this is the data from their 2010 survey. (The 2013 survey will be published in 2015.)
Of all the households in that study, only about 1711 have "household heads" that are younger than 40. That's what they're extrapolating from. (And, intriguingly, a small number of those have a head of household younger than 18.) This is not a big sample!
What, obviously, does this data completely omit? Well, one obvious thing is… households who are headed by someone who is not under 40. One thing we know is that, in 2012, 36% of Americans aged 18 to 31 were not their head of household, because they were living with their families.
This survey also clearly combines family and non-family households. (Also, there's some unknown amount of statistical imbalance from same-sex households; 31% of same-sex households are likely to have two college-degreed people, compared to 24% of opposite-sex married households and just 12% of opposite-sex cohabitating households.)
And finally… this survey is, essentially, of rich people. No, literally!
We apply survey weights throughout the analysis so that the results are representative of the U.S.
population of households. The use of survey weights is particularly important in the SCF because
the sample design oversamples high-income households to properly measure the full distribution of
wealth and assets in the United States. This high-income sample makes up approximately 25 percent of
households in the SCF.
Literally what they are saying there is that the information on which they are basing a sweeping assessment of American student loan debt is based on a sample in which 25% of those surveyed were "high-income households." This is insane. (Update: I wanted to clarify that I get it that they are weighting this over-representation down to represent the population at large; that's not my beef, entirely. Mostly I think it shows a further weakness in their non-rich sample at large.)
Here's a fun footnote in the actual Brookings Institution report:
These statistics are based on households that had education debt, annual wage income of at least $1,000,
and that were making positive monthly payments on student loans. Between 24 and 36 percent of
borrowers with wage income of at least $1,000 were not making positive monthly payments, likely due
to use of deferment and forbearance….
So… they… set aside as much as 1/3rd of people in the survey sample because they weren't paying off their student debt. That's an intriguing class of debtors, don't you think? They claim that dismissing these people from the sample did not "qualitatively alter the pattern of results reported above"; so why dismiss them at all?
It's shocking that the Times presents this survey in this way. This study does actually tell us things! It's not actually a pack of lies. It just doesn't tell us necessarily what people are saying it's telling us. And no one of course will actually read the whole survey, so its repackaging will now enter the narrative, thanks to bloggers….
Great @dleonhardt piece on research by @chingos and @bethakersed suggesting the sky isn't falling on student debt http://t.co/R7eOuCQJPY
— Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) June 24, 2014
The new DC parlor game: Find some random economic or social shift. Blame it on student loan debt. Ignore data. Repeat yourself. Meme started
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) June 24, 2014
… and professional policy wonks alike. And that's a huge disservice.
I wanted to specifically call attention to this criticism at Quartz, which actually… doesn't really disagree with anything either here or in the report. It's full of good points, but what it's not is any kind of defense of either the Brookings Institution study or of the marketing of that study. Saying that it's a small-ish percentage of debt-havers that are carrying massive amounts of debt isn't controversial or unreasonable. It's actually probable! But presenting a definitive landscape of America's student debt based on heavily sampled data most recently updated in 2010 and heavily weighted to "reflect" America as a whole is lot less useful. (Have we not been through this on a daily basis with the Huffington Post Science section, after all?)46 Comments
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We've already covered what some of the best buys are at Costco and Trader Joe's , but another popular shopping destination is Whole Foods. Believe it or not, some items are cheaper at Whole Foods when compared with other stores.
An anonymous angel from New York delivered a wonderful public service today: "a phone line that automatically reads quotations from bell hooks." From our savior, via email:
The idea came to me after the NYPost printed bikini photos of the woman who "spurned" Elliot Rodgers. Despite the fact that she was only 10 years old at the time they met, she was portrayed as having romantically rejected Rodgers.
The idea is to pass that off as one's own number if you're in a dicey situation, afraid to give out your personal cell phone number or outright reject somebody. The number is 669-221-6251. (We originally wanted 669/UGH-ASIF, but it was taken…)
It will automatically respond to text messages as well as calls! That way, you don't have to deal with a threatening person, *and* they get some free feminist lessons thrown in.
We are thinking of putting up a gmail account too, which would automatically respond with "Thank you for your note. However, I am away on vacation — from the patriarchy."
Give it a try, and then promptly memorize the number: 669-221-6251. [Feminist Phone Intervention, screengrab via Bitch Media]17 Comments
Zack writes, "From the horse's mouth, so to speak (read: author Peter S. Beagle): A line of clothes based on Beagle's classic fantasy novel, memorably adapted as a 1982 animated film and an IDW graphic novel. If you've ever wanted 'Schmendrick Leggings,' or a 'Red Bull Poncho Tank,' now's your chance.
The Last Unicorn (Thanks, Zack!) Read the rest
Robbo writes, "My friend, SF author J.M. Frey, posted this curious thing she found where a detail in Hieronymus Bosch's painting 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' features musical notation inscribed on some dude's ass. Of course, someone has taken the time to transcribe these notes and have now presented to the interwebs a piano interpretation of the 600 Year Old Butt Music From Hell of Hieronymous Bosch. Feel free to gavotte along." Read the rest
Harvard University's libraries own at least one book bound in human skin, they allow. Arsène Houssaye's Des destinées de l'ame underwent a series of forensic tests, and the conclusion was anthropodermic bibliopegy:
"The analytical data, taken together with the provenance of Des destinées de l'ame, make it very unlikely that the source could be other than human..."
This note helps clarify the story.
Here's the book's front cover:
Let's take a closer look, shall we?
Such fine texture. What a surface! Sometimes beauty is skin deep.
(thanks to Jesse Walker, Steven Kaye, and other Infocult ghouls)
Sadly I think this will only work for device charging cables and not a lot of PC cables (like monitor or desktop power cables) but still. Most adorable cable management yet.
Who knew that LEGO designed their figures' hands perfectly to hold Apple lightning and other types of cables? Stick a LEGO brick on your desk, attach LEGO figure(s), and, voilà, an ingenious cord-catching solution.
Congratulations to Game of Thrones and its infinitely frustrating creator: The show is now the "most popular series in HBO's history." That's an average audience 18.4 million compared to 18.2 for The Sopranos.
Speaking of history! HBO has a strange sense of its own. The network has, for the last ten years, minimized its pre-Sopranos existence as much as possible, full as it was with late night softcore porn and of-the-moment comedy specials. Now, with HBO Go, the company has been given a chance to fully rewrite its story, and it has taken it: The "All Series" section of HBO Go presents what looks and feels like an exhaustive look back at HBO's original programming history (Little Britain USA is right there next to The Wire). The popular series you're looking for is probably there. There's porn and boxing and documentaries and children's programming. The network's rotating lineup of movies gets a section, as does HBO Latino.
But "All Series" does not mean "All Series," or anything close. The further back you go, the thinner things get relative to HBO's actual catalog, until there's almost nothing at all (there seems to be an unofficial soft cutoff at about… Oz). This is intuitive enough: Potential viewership for 1st & Ten is low, and rights issues seem like they would be more complicated over time—I mean, I don't know, if some HBO executive said these things to me I would think, ok, sure, that explains why there's no Tales From The Crypt on my Apple TV. But a lot of the network's older shows are genuinely interesting, both as entertainment and as curiosities. I'd love to revisit Tanner '88, maybe, for an episode or two! (I suppose I can, but only on Hulu Plus or DVD.) I would also like to take a look at Dream On, the show that gave us the ubiquitous HBO static intro. The Larry Sanders Show certainly holds up well: I know because I watched the entire thing on Netflix, from which it has since been removed, and then began watching it again on Amazon before it was removed from that, too. Amazon recently inked a fresh deal with HBO, which seems to mirror HBO Go's content, but which does not include Larry Sanders. Garry Shandling has been written out of HBO's past.
And what about Mr. Show? Here's what its creators said about the show's exclusion from Go in a q&a last year:
(Bob here) HBO has a hate-hate relationship with the show.
(Brian here) They are not aware that we did the show.
(David, back) They hate having to google Mr. Show.
A legitimate cult classic! But again, these are shows from the before times, pre-David Chase and prior to cable's prestige programming rush. It is not unusual for old shows from any network to be sent to the licensing and syndication glue factory for processing and extraction. HBO's treatment of more recent shows, however, is outright revisionist. Luck, which was available as it was airing on HBO Go, has been removed. There's no John From Cincinnati (though David Milch can still revisit old episodes of Deadwood, if he wants). Funny or Die Presents has been pulled, as has The Life and Times of Tim. HBO is actively curating Go like some sort of premium cable dating profile: Carnivale wasn't there and then it was; In Treatment just showed up one day, mysteriously, just like Tell Me You Love Me. Pulled shows exist in HBO Go's search results, but any attempt to watch them returns an "Unknown Error."
This is always what happens when data gets vacuumed up into some new app or service, even the ones that imply completeness; Google does not actually "organize the world's information;" Wikipedia is a great summary of information about the world that was already on the internet; Spotify and iTunes are staggering resources with no deliberate sense of history or context. The Kindle library is arbitrarily selective but purports, or at least feigns, to serve as the be-all, end-all of words on pages.
But HBO can do whatever it wants, all it has to do is digitize and host its own shows. It's a TV network's job to figure out what to write out of its future, not what to delete from its past. Give us the bad stuff with the good! HBO, own your turds! They're better than most of what's on Netflix, anyway, and I'm getting tired of clicking.4 Comments
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When someone says salad, your first thought is probably a bunch of leaves, like lettuce or spinach or kale, plus some other stuff, and a dressing. Here's the thing about the word "salad": it means nothing. It doesn't mean something cold; it doesn't mean something raw; it doesn't mean something with lots of different ingredients; it doesn't mean something vegetable-based; and it CERTAINLY doesn't mean a pile of leaves.
Leaves, even the stronger-tasting ones, are filler. No one has ever once thought, "Dang, this salad is good, but it'd be more good with more lettuce in it." This idea of a leafy salad is perpetuated by make-your-own-salad joints that ask you to pick which kind of leaves you want. Do you want the spinach? How about the baby spring mix? Have you ever said "no leaves, thanks?" THIS WILL FLUMMOX MOST SALAD-MAKERS.
But there are a lot of reasons to ban leaves from salads! They go bad quickly, forcing you to consistently throw out half of each bag of salad greens you buy; they wilt even once they're in the salad; they cannot be kept as leftovers, ever, since they rapidly turn into slimy organic compost. Also, making your salad consist of anywhere from thirty to sixty per cent leaves really limits your creativity. So let us forgo leaves. Let us not require our salads to rely on our least-favorite ingredient. Let us shape our own salad destiny.
Here are some good leaf-free summer salads.
1. Some version of a som tam salad.
Som tam is a Thai salad consisting of green, unripe papaya as its base. Other essential ingredients include peanuts and a lime/fish sauce dressing. Here is a good recipe. But it, like all salad recipes, is flexible. If you can't find green papaya (I usually cannot!), you can substitute pretty much anything that's crunchy and mild. Cucumber, zucchini, summer squash, sugar snap peas, and green beans all work very well when raw or very lightly cooked. You can substitute brown sugar for palm sugar, sambal oelek for fresh chili, and omit the dried shrimp if you can't find any. The dressing—savory from the fish sauce, tart from the lime juice, sweet from the sugar, and spicy from the chili—is PERFECT. It can be hard to go back to vinaigrettes after you've made it. Note: this can also be done as a stir-fry (AKA "hot salad"): stir-fry some garlic, ginger, scallions, and chili in the bottom of a wok, add peanuts, then add in whatever (non-cucumber/mango) vegetable you're using. Top with the same dressing.
2. Israeli salad
Israeli salad can and should only be made in the summertime, when you can get good tomatoes. Do not make this with bad tomatoes! If you do you'll eat it and be like "IDK that was fine, I guess." At its core, it is very simple: chopped tomato, cucumber, red onion, and parsley, with lemon juice and olive oil. But you can add lots of things to it: chickpeas for protein or feta cheese for salt and creaminess or bits of toasted pita chips for more crunch are both very good. This recipe recommends adding sumac. I've never done that, but sumac is good as heck; maybe I'll try it and maybe you should too.
3. Non-leaf Caesar salad
Caesar salad is, like, really delicious, if it's done right. That anchovy-mustardy-lemony dressing is pretty amazing. So don't ruin it by dumping it on some dumb Romaine lettuce that can never really appreciate its charms. Caesars are great with pretty much any raw vegetable, but right now is asparagus season, so let's do that! Here's a good recipe.
4. Potato salad
I like the supermarket jugs of near-mashed mayo-y picnic salads as much as anyone, and I appreciate that potato salad has no leaves, but I think—as with coleslaw—that a vinegar-based dressing makes for a better, more refreshing, less-likely-to-make-you-feel-like-you're-gonna-ralph salad than mayonnaise. Mark Bittman has a good recipe for a potato salad with a mustard vinaigrette, which I have tried and which is excellent. This salad is also good with pickled red onion/shallot.
5. Celeriac remoulade
This is a Jurassic-era French recipe, the kind of thing Julia Child would make and that I feel like you'd have a hard time finding in Paris today. I first had it in Montreal, where they still serve a lot of these old-ass uncool French dishes, and MAN IT IS DELICIOUS. Celeriac, or celery root, is the, um, root of the celery plant. It looks like a dumb idiot gnarled cancerous root system, but if you cut away all that nonsense and peel it, it turns out to be this fragrant delicious root vegetable that's reminiscent of, but not quite like, celery. Celeriac remoulade calls for raw, grated celeriac, plus a very sour mayonnaise (the sourness coming from mustard and lemon juice). It's kind of like French coleslaw! Here's a good recipe.
6. Fruit salad
I LOVE FRUIT SALAD. Never ever buy a fruit salad. Always make your own fruit salad. If you make your own fruit salad, you will never again eat cantaloupe or honeydew with the flavor and texture of a raw Idaho potato. You are garbage, prepackaged fruit salad melon! Get in the garbage! Anyway, the key to fruit salad is to not be lazy. Don't put a segment of orange or grapefruit in there with the pith or skin still on it. Supreme your citrus. Do not put whole strawberries in there; trim and slice them. Fruit salad should have a dressing, and it should have fresh herbs, like chopped-up basil and/or mint. Always. It's also good to squeeze a little bit of lime juice and maybe some honey over the top to add some extra kick. As for ingredients, I don't care, add literally whatever you want, but try to have a variety of flavors and textures. If you have something sweet and soft, like a banana, try to add something crunchy and tart, like a Granny Smith apple. Also, avocado is a fruit. Add it to fruit salad! Especially if you have grapefruit in there too.
7. Chana chaat
Chana chaat is an Indian chickpea salad, although I don't think they refer to it as a salad? it seems like a salad to me. Anyway, chana chaat is basically chickpeas with a dressing, often with tamarind. This recipe is pretty good, although obviously you can use canned chickpeas and cumin powder (instead of toasting and grinding whole cumin seeds). Sure, it'd be better if you made your own chaat masala spice blend with whole spices and sure it'd be better if you used asafoetida (a spice which smells like actual poop), but, like, you don't need to. Mostly this salad is about the chickpeas and the tamarind dressing, which is spicy and sour and sweet all at once. (Tamarind paste can be found in Indian and Mexican markets or Whole Foods, obvs.) I'd recommend adding a few things to this recipe (not leaves!), like sliced radish or cucumber or carrot or cauliflower for some crunch, and maybe some boiled potatoes because potatoes are good.
Armed with these recipes you can go forth and ENJOY your salad, rather than just eating it because it's salad and you're supposed to eat it to look thin and beautiful even though it looks and tastes like something you raked up. Eat good salads! Leave Leaves Behind!
Dan Nosowitz is a freelance writer/editor who lives in Brooklyn. He has serious opinions about the MTV Real World/Road Rules Challenge.
Photos by Dwight Sipler, Young Sok Yun, Lynn Gardner, Jacqueline, tracy benjamin, Daniel, madlyinlovewithlife, and Garrett Ziegler, respectively, via Flickr Creative Commons17 Comments
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Does YouTube stutter and buffer poorly when you try to stream a video? If you're in the USA, check out Google's new Video Quality Report, in which major internet service providers are ranked on the quality of their YouTube stream delivery.Read the rest
Elliot Rodger, UCSB shooter
CREDIT: Screenshot of YouTube video
A woman attacked with acid. A teenager stabbed to death. A woman raped and beaten. Women smashed in the head with bowling balls and glass bottles.
Those are real life examples of violence that women have experienced after they rejected the sexual advances of men — when they refused to flirt with them, dance with them, go on a date with them, or have sex with them — being collected by a new Tumblr page called "When Women Refuse." The recent mass shooting in Santa Barbara, which was perpetrated by a young man who wanted to punish the women who weren't attracted to him, is the latest example of a tragedy that fits this profile.
"We still don't view gender based violence as a large cultural issue — we tend to think of these as isolated incidences," Deanna Zandt, the co-founder of the digital strategy group Lux Digital and the feminist activist who started the Tumblr, explained in an interview. "We still don't view it as a larger problem within rape culture."
After news broke about this weekend's shooting rampage, Zandt said that many of the men in her social networks were quick to assume that the perpetrator, Elliot Rodger, represents an extreme outlier. She wanted to do something to help people realize that what happened in Santa Barbara is actually all too common, thanks to our culture of violence and misogyny against women. So when she noticed the writer Kate Harding collecting similar news stories on her Facebook page, Zandt decided to house them on a public site, and "When Women Refuse" was born.
The site took off. Twitter users were quick to share it under the hashtag #YesAllWomen, which has emerged as a space for women to share their own personal experiences with violence and misogyny in the aftermath of the shooting.
"There's been a really positive reaction from both men and women," Zandt said. "I think it's been really eye opening for many people. The most common response has been — 'oh my god, I had no idea.' "
Thanks to the online tools that are now available to feminist activists, social media users are increasingly taking the opportunity to drive conversations about victim-blaming and gender-based violence. Earlier this year, feminists used Twitter to amplify women's experiences with rape culture — a concept that was once relegated to the feminist blogosphere, but that has recently gained recognition in more mainstream circles. Now, the coverage around the Santa Barbara shooting has put a spotlight on the "Pick Up Artist" (PUA) community, which has a long history of treating women like objects that men are entitled to.
"The fact that this conversation is happening now is a huge indicator of the structural connectivity work that online feminists have been doing for years," Zandt noted. "We're in a different place than we were five years ago… We're creating a space for these discussions."
The post Chilling New Website Documents What Happens To Women Who Reject Men's Sexual Advances appeared first on ThinkProgress.
Jamie from Vodo writes, "We've launched the Really Creepy Bundle, a brand new collection of terrifying, chilling and downright disturbing indie creativity that includes four highly-rated games (Oknytt, Finding Teddy, The Path and Sang Froid), award winning fiction (Nebula nominee Stranger In Olondria, and a month subscription to Nightmare magazine), four spooky short films, an 8 track compilation from LA's Not Not Fun Records, laden with doom plus the definitely disturbing and massively entertaining graphic novel (The Furry Trap) -- which Boing Boing rated one of the best damn comics of the year in 2013.Read the rest
"To proudly claim the veteran and disown the slaveholder is patriotism à la carte. A nation outlives its generations."—What is an ambitious, bold, beautifully written magazine cover story worth in 2014? That is to ask: Can it still force people to talk, or is the power of the information void such that it will be merely processed and forgotten, filed away in the abandoned longform warehouse? This is as good a month as any to find out.5 Comments
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BB contributor Mark Dery, who is busy penning a biography of Edward Gorey to be published by Little, Brown, points us to Christopher Seufert's Kickstarter for The Edward Gorey Documentary Project, a feature-length film containing unseen interviews and fantastic cinema-verite footage of Gorey in his native habitat!
Robbo sez, "The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just released almost 400,000 visual works in an online searchable database. The images are high rez (10 megapixels) and free to download.Read the rest


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unMET - Opera for the 21st Century - at Oberon
Presented by Juventas New Music Ensemble at OBERON
October 31, 2012
Leave your opera glasses at home and forget that stodgy tenor in 18th-century garb! Juventas New Music Ensemble invites you to experience opera of the future over an evening drink. Scenes from new operas by emerging composers will explore ghosts, extinction, love and magic, placing you directly in the middle of the action. AND this very special Halloween edition of unMET features a costume contest with rockin' prizes!
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Cambridge, MA 02138
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text: I do the same as Mark and cut 50 or so sheets are a time on my rotary cutter. Since I like borderless prints I usually don't worry about the size too much as long as the sheet is "long enough." I then cut the print to size after I am finished processing it. The only real difference in my process is that I unroll, say, 20 feet from the roll and put the rest back in the box just in case lights would get turned on so only that much paper would be spoiled. I don't worry about any waste that much - I just use it for smaller pieces. After cutting the sheets are stored in a paper safe of a light proof bag.


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Tired today but still progress. Best attempt came off at the (crux for me, at the moment) move up to the good RH crimp before the break.Nick Russell - Lead dog - 27/Jun/15
Worked out all the linking ground. Only one of the new moves is really hard - should go soon.Nick Russell - Lead dog - 21/Jun/15
Hidden - Lead β - 14/Mar/15
Could easily have finished milky bar if I'd wanted to but couldn't be bothered as it's shit. This was much more rewarding.Bates - Lead RP - 13/Dec/14 with Chris holister
Just 7c+ - IMO harder than the 2 '8a's' either side of Brean Topping.James Marshall - Lead RP - 02/Oct/14 with sash
Hidden - Lead RP - 17/Jun/14
Didn't have the energy for milky bar kid so though I would tick this. well worth it great link up!holister - Lead RP - 29/Mar/14 with pete, andy
1st redpoint. Low in the grade. Definitely worth doing!Ellis Butler-Barker - Lead RP - 31/Oct/13 with Charlotte Warner
Couple dogs last week, dog to get draws up an 1st redpoint. Good link, worth doing peaches69 - Lead RP - 12/May/13 with luke
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Good link up. Better than bullworker original I think, packs in more hard climbing. Cailean Harker - Lead RP - 04/Feb/13
Hidden - Lead rpt - 21/Oct/12
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Takes in the best bits of both routes. (2nd RP)_m.cox_ - Lead RP - 11/Apr/12 with Gary
a very nice lineGavinsymonds - 01/Mar/12
not really an onsight as i have done the original routes before but it went 1st go. good link worth doing, not sure if it's 7c+ thoughwestyb3 - Lead O/S - 13/Jan/12 with Gav Symonds
A good link-up. packs in a tough start before the bullworker crux, sustained. Ricky Rocks - Lead RP - 07/Nov/10 with rich smith
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Thu 16 Aug 2012
Interview: Nicholas Lee Huff Has EDF's Top Story for July
Posted by Jim Harrington under GENRE, INTERVIEWS, Process
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by Thomas Jay Rush
Flash Fiction Chronicles interviewed Nicholas Lee Huff about Every Day Fiction's top story for July "Smitten," and about goosebumps, revisions, and the secret of life.
FFC: Thank you for agreeing to an interview. Congratulations on winning Story of the Month for July.
Nicholas Lee Huff: Thank you!
FFC: I loved your story. One of the striking things about it is the poetic repetition and parallel construction. I'm going to conjecture this aspect of the piece arrived in early drafts. Is that true or did you develop the repetition as you revised. Talk a bit about your drafting process. Did this piece go through a lot of drafts? I'm always interested in the drafting/revision process a piece takes to its final form.
NLH: My writing process is so simple it is almost not worth mentioning. The piece is assembled in a first pass. It gets a second to clean up big mistakes and a third to patch smaller holes. After that it gets put away and I revisit it in a few days or weeks to see how it reads.
Adjustments happen in the last edit as needed. If I give it more than four passes it begins to sound stiff and over-analyzed to me.
When I write, the only thing that occupies my mind is the storyline itself and the voice of the piece. It gets read aloud during the edits. That is critical. I can always tell if something doesn't sound right. But the idea of specifically using repetition, or some other writing device, never enters my mind. At least it is never a conscious decision.
FFC: More than just a few of the comments on the website mentioned goose-bumps, several mentioned shivers down their spine, one mentioned the secret of life. Question: Do you have the secret of life? If not the secret of life, then the secret of giving goose-bumps? I agree with your readers, somehow you touched a nerve, but you didn't fall into sentimentality. Talk for a moment about how you skirted the edge of sentimentality.
NLH: I do have the secret of life. I'll tell anybody about it if they come to Seattle and buy me expensive cups of coffee at my favorite coffee shop.
Being able to find a story or a piece of music that gives you that tingling sensation is fantastic. If it happens with anything I write, it is only because I stumbled on it while following the story's path. Everything is an accident. If I knew how to deliberately give a reader goosebumps, I'd own the keys to the kingdom by now.
I am convinced that writing a love scene is a walk on a tightrope. Too little effort makes it sound hollow, too much makes it sound maudlin. The distance between the two is paper thin. You have to weigh every word. For that reason alone, it is a foolish endeavor. I don't know what I was thinking when I took on "Smitten."
FFC: I read the piece five times. Every time I got to the sentence where the narrator says, "When you are gone, I will disappear in this world," I got a lump in my throat. That sentence, I think, reveals a lot about the narrator. Caroline's death in the story is sad of course, but I think it's the narrator being left behind that cuts to the reader's heart. Please tell us that this sentence came to you only after an excruciating amount of hard work-and that someday all of our own hard work will eventually pay off.
NLH: No, it came on fast. Sorry, I have no idea where it came from either. Just popped into my head. I think I was eating a Reuben sandwich at the time.
FFC: There are so many other things I could ask you about (your use of second person, the turn in the piece where the narrator asks Caroline to marry him, etc.) but I wanted to ask you about your history as a writer. How long have you been writing? Have you been published elsewhere. Where do you hope to go with your writing?
NLH: When I was in my late 20's, for some stupid reason, I decided to become a professional writer. I had published a piece in a college journal and, later on, won second place in a writing contest. So the idea didn't seem that crazy at the time.
There was an old closet in my house. It was about six feet by four feet. I cleaned it out and put a tiny desk and a computer in there. Then began to write stories and send them out.
This was before the Internet, so rejection letters still came in envelopes instead of E-mail. Each time a letter came, I tacked it to the wall. Then I told myself I would either be published or cover the walls from floor to ceiling with letters. After a few years the walls were covered and I quit.
The only problem is the storyteller in me did not want to stop. Ideas would enter my mind when they were least expected. Characters, plots and devious little twists. Sometimes these would go away as quickly as they had come. Other times they would hang around in my memory. If one haunted me more than the others, it would get written down.
Now I write when I can. Often it happens late at night when I can't sleep. That happens a lot. I don't think I suffer with insomnia. It is more like I have the circadian rhythm of a 1930's Chicago Jazz musician.
FFC: That's funny. My last question is more of a comment. The piece is posted on a site called Every Day Fiction, but it comes across as neither every-day nor fiction. So I just wanted to extend my condolences (if they're necessary), and ask, is this fiction?
NLH: For me, this story was a departure from the norm. My genre of choice is Horror and I seldom write about the human heart, unless it is being served at a dinner party.
The inspiration for "Smitten" came to me while watching a relative care for his wife during the final stages of her terminal illness. They had been married over a half century. Although the bond between them had always been strong, it intensified with the final days of their life together.
Caring for a dying family member is a terrible drain upon the spirit and well-being of the one by their side. It represents an ending without hope and the inescapable uncertainty of a new life spent alone. Add to it the 24 hour a day responsibilities of patient care, medications, doctor visits and so on. And, trust me, you have not suffered until you try to sleep a litany of nights in the stone-hard chairs found on the 10th floor oncology ward.
One might think the relationship would dissolve, or at least crumple a little under such duress. In this case it did not. Their devotion to one another only seemed to grow. By the time it was said and done it had presented me with a mystery that I wanted to write about. Why would a person go so far for anybody? Especially when the outcome could only be tragedy. How does it differ from the heat and life of new love? What has to take place between the beginning and the end of a relationship to bring about this conclusion?
Most of all, in 1000 words or less, I wanted to map out the possibility that love can endure death. That is how this story was born.
FFC: Thanks so much for taking the time to answer my questions and congratulations on writing such a great story.
NLH: Thank you.
When not writing, Nicholas Lee Huff is an engineer and the owner of a technology consulting firm based near Seattle, Washington. He has won a small handful of writing awards and published a slightly larger handful of short fiction pieces and poetry.
Thomas Jay Rush has been a house painter, a carpenter, an oil well roustabout, an actuarial analyst, a researcher at IBM's Watson Research Center, and the owner of his own software company. Then, he figured out what he wanted to do: write poetry and pick flowers like Ferdinand, which is what he does now. He lives with his wife and three children in Southeast Pennsylvania. Jay is half-way through the MFA program in Creative Writing at Rosemont College.
5 Responses to " Interview: Nicholas Lee Huff Has EDF's Top Story for July "
Congrats to Nicholas for having the top story and for being such a good interview and thanks to Jay for ask the best questions.
By coincidence, I'm on a flight to Seattle right now. Maybe we'll run into each other; I plan to visit many coffee shops. Loved the story, loved the interview, and I think I already know the secret of life.
A sparkling, informative interview. Both parties came across as honest, intelligent and likeable. I enjoyed learning about how this story came into being and hope Nicholas Lee Huff continues to carve out time to write.
Terrific story and interview. Congratulations to both the interviewee and the interviewer.
Thanks for everything Sue Ann.


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Identification of a conserved linear B-cell epitope in the M protein of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
1 Division of Swine Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No.427 Maduan Street, Nangang District, Harbin, 150001, China
2 College of Veterinary Medicine, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, No.306 Zhaowuda Street, Huhhot, 010018, China
Virology Journal 2012, 9:225 doi:10.1186/1743-422X-9-225Published: 1 October 2012
The major structural protein of coronaviruses, the membrane (M) protein, can elicit the formation of protective antibodies, but little information is available about the M protein of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV). Identification of epitopes on the PEDV M protein will be helpful in the elucidation of the antigenic properties of this protein.
One hybridoma cell line secreting anti-M protein monoclonal antibody (McAb) was generated and designated 4D4. To map the epitopes on the PEDV M protein, a total of 17 partially overlapping fragments covering the C-terminus of M protein were expressed as fusion proteins with a 6×His tag or a GST tag. A linear motif, 193TGWAFYVR200, was identified by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and western blot (WB) analysis using McAb 4D4. The motif 195WAFYVR200 was the minimal requirement for reactivity, as demonstrated by removing amino acids individually from both ends of the motif 193TGWAFYVR200. The result of WB analysis showed that the 4D4-defined epitope could be recognized by PEDV-positive serum, but not transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV)-positive serum. Furthermore, this epitope was highly conserved among different PEDV strains, as shown by alignment and comparison of sequences.
A McAb, 4D4, directed against the M protein of PEDV, was obtained, and the 4D4-defined minimal epitope sequence was 195WAFYVR200. The McAb could serve as a candidate for development of a McAb-based antigen capture ELISA for detection of PEDV. The epitope identified provides a basis for the development of epitope-based differential diagnostic techniques and may be useful in the design of epitope-based vaccines.


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Palestinian Politics of Car Bombs ; Political Parties Vying for Market Share Are Finding It Increasingly by Attacks on Israel
Cameron W. Barr writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
In some ways, it was an unremarkable little car bomb.
It exploded around midnight last Saturday in downtown Jerusalem, terrifying people in the vicinity and scorching a tree. No serious injuries or deaths resulted.
But the attack was soon claimed by a blast from the past: the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Once the second- ranking Palestinian faction, the PFLP gained a perverse international glamour three decades ago for hijacking airplanes.
Now it competes with a half-dozen third-tier Palestinian political parties to escape the quicksand of irrelevance. One crucial tactic is its resumption of militant action against Israel.
As US diplomats struggle to get Israelis and Palestinians to back away from conflict, the thinking of the PFLP and some other Palestinian parties suggests a grim reality: Violence against Israel has become smart politics. This trend is likely to complicate any attempt by Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to calm the situation.
Despite Israel's announcement of a policy of "restraint" last week, Mr. Arafat so far has made no reciprocal gesture. In public and presumably behind the scenes, US officials have pressured him to do so, without success.
The PFLP's military wing, dormant for years, is now detonating car bombs, firing mortars at Israeli targets, and attacking Israeli settlers.
"In the face of Israeli military occupation," says Abed al-Rahim Mallouh, the head of the PFLP's political department, "resistance is not only a legitimate right, it is also a duty."
He and other PFLP members say that their political credibility depends in part on their image as a militant organization that can fight the Israelis. But the times have not always been so brutish.
During the peace process of the 1990s, says Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian analyst who heads the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center, groups vying for public support didn't feel armed struggle was a political necessity. Given the air of confrontation today, he continues, violence "is useful for any faction to survive and to grow."
"For an organization that's been as marginalized as the PFLP has over the past decade," adds Mouin Rabbani, the director of the Palestinian American Research Center in Ramallah, "this is a very convenient way for them to reestablish their presence."
Nonviolence still viable
At least two small parties are opting against militant confrontation, suggesting that political viability is indeed possible without violence.
But the PFLP and the two biggest Palestinian factions - Yasser Arafat's Fatah and the Islamist party Hamas - are engaged in armed conflict, sometimes openly and sometimes anonymously. The same goes for a smaller Islamist group, Islamic Jihad.
"Fatah's resort to militant action provided a cover for other organizations to do so," says Mr. Rabbani. "It made it legitimate."
Rabbani says Fatah's resumed militancy - during the peace process it abstained from such action - is one factor, though not the determining one, in what he calls the party's "spectacular" rebound in Palestinian public opinion. …


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After four Sandusky Bay Conference and sectional titles and three trips to state, it's not often that Oak Harbor senior Ashley LaFountain accomplishes a career first.
LaFountain took her first district crown Saturday to qualify to Columbus for the fourth time.
"It's awesome," she said. "Every year I've gone up against some great competition. I played some tough girls (Saturday).
"It was nice to kick some rust off after not being challenged too much during the season. Hopefully that will help me going down to state.
"Normally, I can go out and if I get my serve in I usually win the point. It's not about pushing and waiting for a mistake (at districts).
"It's a different mental state and you really have to set up points. I got to go out there and put that to use."
The weather conditions were not as windy as Thursday.
"I could set up the opponent and go for some shots I've been working on," LaFountain said.
"That will be big for state. I'm trying to hit with power this season and dictating points was a big part of (Saturday)."
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"I'm trying to keep it low-key so I won't get psyched out," she said. "I think I'll focus better and treat it like any other tournament where I'd play these girls (in the summer).
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The three new and exclusive eight-day programs aboard the 18-cabin cruiser M/S PRINCESS ALOHA are priced from $1,648 per person to $1,759 per person with an $185 supplement for Main Deck Cabins and 80% of the price for single supplements. Scheduled departures take place in April, May, June, August, September, and October 2013.
All breakfasts and lunches are included on board. Each morning, the M/S PRINCESS ALOHA's nine-member staff buys freshly-caught fish, shops in farmers' markets, and local bakeries to provide guests with freshly baked breads, and local cheeses, and produce, to prepare their tempting menus.
The cruise itineraries arrive in time to see the highlights of the season such as the 64th edition of Dubrovnik's International Summer Festival, visits to UNESCO World Heritage sites such as the ancient city of Trogir, the Hvar's Old Town, the Makarska Riviera, go for swim off the island of Bol or in the Peljesac bay, a region said to be the origin of Zinfandel wine, visit the island of Mljet, part of which was proclaimed a National Park, and visit Marco Polo's birthplace on the island of Korcula, known as "Little Dubrovnik."
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Sailing aboard the M/S PRINCESS ALOHA means no need to dress up for breakfast or lunch (unless you want to); dining on fresh seasonal ingredients, plenty of incredible seafood; a salon-restaurant-bar on the Upper Deck with sweeping panoramic views; a sundeck for lounging; comfortable air-conditioned cabins; wi-fi throughout the cruiser, and a multilingual, friendly and well-informed crew, ready to offer assistance and suggestions when asked. And best of all, passengers can hop off the cruiser's platform [or climb down the ladder] to swim in the temperate Adriatic Sea.
Kompas International Holidays sells vacations from 7 to 19 days in duration with escorted tours and city stays throughout Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as additional sailing cruises on the Adriatic Sea. Customized itineraries to all of these destinations are available upon request for Group travel.
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Video: Investigator: Money for needy veterans goes unused
CUYAHOGA COUNTY -- Veteran's groups are demanding a review of a county commission that's supposed to look after former armed service members following a Channel 3 News investigation exposing allegations of mismanagement and questionable spending at the agency.
The Cuyahoga County Veterans Service Commission has routinely returned up to $1 million a year to the county's general fund because it cannot find veterans in need of assistance, The Investigator Tom Meyer found. In addition, nearly 60 percent of their taxpayer-funded budget goes to overhead costs such as salaries, benefits and rent.
Veterans' advocate Ray Saikus said the commission's inability to find needy veterans is inexcusable given that more than 14 percent of the county's homeless served in the military.
"That's an ultimate sin for an organization like that," said Saikus, of the Joint Veterans' Commission of Cuyahoga County. "We have been trained to search out the enemy. We can also search out fellow veterans."
A group of vets investigating commission spending statewide believes veterans service commissions in every county should be examined.
"We believe that Ohio's veterans have been denied $600 (million) to $700 million and maybe close to a billion dollars in the past 10 years," said Luke Patrino, a Vietnam War veteran.
Patrino says veterans are forced to jump through hoops when they apply for help.
"It's the humiliation they force them to go through to get relief," Patrino said. "It's bad enough you have to beg."
A county judge appoints members to the Cuyahoga County Veterans Service Commission. Presiding Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst, who now oversees the appointments, said she is recommending the commission undergo an audit.
Channel 3 News found that the commission spends only 46 percent of its budget on assisting veterans. The rest goes to overhead, including a $132,000 salary for its executive director, Robert Schloendorn -- making him one of the highest paid administrators in the county.
The commission also employs 29 full-time individuals and eight part-time workers. Commission employees have received pay raises, longevity pay, and tuition reimbursements at a time when county employees have been laid off, forced to take furloughs, or had their pay cut. It spends $490,000 a year on office rent.
Schloendorn defended the commission's spending.
"We are trying to find them as best we can," said Schloendorn, who did admit the commission could be more aggressive in locating eligible veterans.
Schloendorn said that he has asked the county government for help conducting an audit.
County officials say they could examine the commission's books on their own, or they could bring in an outside group, like the state auditor.
But county officials say it is up to the commission whether the audit will simply make sure its financial statements are sound or whether the audit will do a top-to-bottom review of how the commission is doing its job.


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As a freelancer and small business owner (you'd probably be surprised at how often those two coincide), I've spent some time looking for ways to track how much I'm working and what I do with my days. For me, this has a couple purposes. If my hours are billable (they're usually project-based, but once in a while I bill by the hour), I can keep track of how much money I'm owed. The second purpose is simple time management — it's a lot easier to keep on task and on track if you know where your time is going.
I've recommended a couple different apps for the latter — my favourite is still iDoneThis — but I haven't had a chance yet to talk about the former. With Ding, I've finally found an app that really hits the spot for tracking billable hours. Let's talk about what makes Ding worthwhile for freelancers and why you might be interested in adopting it for your own small business.
When working in a team, what tools do you need? You want a task management solution to keep track of what's to be done, what's being done and what's been done. Of course, you also need a project management space to keep track of the broader goals and teams. And some sort of system to analyse all of this. A calendar would be nice to group all of those important dates in one place. How about a section to share important notes? Obviously, you'll need a cloud storage account to put important files in, which everyone can access, and some data encryption to keep it safe. Plus, if you have all these things, it just makes sense to chat with your colleagues easily.
Meet Strikebase, your one-stop solution for all your team management needs. And for some reason, it's eerily similar in design to Facebook. There's the left sidebar that expands upon scrollover, and even that top bar with notifications and search — both in a colour that seems like an FB-ripoff.
Project management apps are great for working with teams, both local and remote. They allow for easy communication and sharing of information and assets, and even allow clients to participate in conversations and stay on the same page all through their projects. However, most of these apps have thus far failed to address the need for sharing visual feedback that's so important for creatives like designers and content developers.
ProofHub hopes to be the solution we've all been looking for: the new kid on the project management block offers all the features necessary for planning and executing tasks as a team, with the vital addition of an image proofing tool that allows professionals and clients to mark up images to share ideas and feedback. ProofHub is also competitively priced and features a fresh look borrowing from the current trend of flat design. But is it good enough to take on the heavyweights in this domain? Let's use it to plan a website build and find out.
I am a functionality-over-form kind of guy. I'll use Windows and Android because of the programs I can run rather than the beautiful walled gardens of OSX and iOS. I prefer an LG television set with better USB options than a stunning Sony Bravia. And I'm all for buying ill-fitting pants if it means they offer more comfort.
As long as it's not downright ugly (and granted, ugly is a subjective term), I will always pick a product that offers more functionality than the one that is designed better.
And that's what Wrike is. In terms of design chops, it's got nothing going for it. In fact, there will be many who find it ugly. But it has so much power under the hood that to describe it, I can overlook the looks to feature the features.
Having to juggle both household responsibilities and work, productivity is always in flux for me. I'd usually sit down and focus for more than two hours, but there are instances when I'd get so distracted that the day ends with so much left undone.
I've tried reading up on several productivity systems, one of which is David Allen's infamous work-life management system, Getting Things Done®. This system works well for so many people to such an extent that they would use GTD apps to fit it into their workflow. Nozbe is a web app that adheres to the GTD productivity system and has since helped thousands of people become more productive since its inception in 2007. What's more, the app recently got a design overhaul that aims to sharpen its core feature set and introduce new features as well.
Let's see what the latest version of Nozbe (1.7) has to offer, how it works, and if it is successful in helping users apply and adopt basic GTD principles.
As the sole proprietor of my own business, I find it can be really hard to stay on task and get work done. In fact, even writing this review, I have other things I want to do. That being said though, it's important to have end goals set in mind. Lots of studies show that people who work towards something are happier than people who just go to work and try to make it through the day.
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My mother, an avid music lover, would play her albums for my siblings and me. As the music played, she encouraged us to dance, sing, draw and otherwise interpret what we heard. In this way, I learned how to emotionally feel everything from Copland to Rachmaninoff; to Menotti right on up to Bernstein and then some (Janis Joplin comes to mind).
I actively participated in choral ensembles since the fourth grade in West Seneca. I toured the Eastern U.S. with my college choir and performed professionally throughout Europe with the Schlierbacher Motettenchor. I still sing every Advent season with the Community Advent Chorale in East Aurora.
As general manager of Heidelberg, Germany's Schlierbacher Kammerorchester (now Heidelberger Sinfoniker), I traveled extensively in Europe promoting historically informed performance practice (HIP) from Vivaldi to Brahms. I was very fortunate to work with great musicians including conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and pianists Micheal Ponti and Bruno Leonardo Gelber.
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DAYTONA BEACH -- The view from the back of Faith Covenant Church, a tattered beachside chapel surrounded mostly by slumping rental houses, isn't what anyone would call the Ocean Center's good side.
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For more than a year, projects editor Derek Catron led a team seeking answers to the question that's plagued Daytona Beach for 30 years: How do you fix beachside blight? The information in this series was gleaned from interviews with nearly 100 people and a review of hundreds of pages of government reports and newspaper archives.
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It certainly isn't what Volusia County boasts about when it's promoting the convention facility -- a big, publicly funded event venue that sits just 400 feet from the ocean.
No one brags about the 400 feet and beyond in Faith Covenant's direction.
That's why you'll often find the church's members walking door to door with Bibles and bottled water, ever hoping (and, so far, failing) to make things better.
"I think we've got a boiling pot right now," Covenant pastor Josh Bishop said recently of the bleak neighborhood around his 77-year-old church building, which has been up for sale and tented for termites over the past few months. "All this drug activity, all the prostitution going on, it's going to erupt at some point."
The church sits on the outskirts of Daytona's core tourist zone -- a depressed area that stretches across several city blocks bordering riverfront land that used to be some of the region's most prized real estate. Today, officials driving or directing visitors to the county-owned Ocean Center generally avoid the neighborhood altogether.
When the congregation walks through it, they aren't surprised to see, for instance, five police cruisers parked outside a rundown rental property that was already busted a few weeks prior.
"Nobody's going to kill anybody, nobody's really raping anybody, nobody's breaking into houses -- number one, because there's nothing to steal," Bishop said. "But also because no one wants to rock the boat. All the crimes they're committing, they're easily hidden. They've found their groove. They can hide prostitution way better than burglaries. Everybody's making money just doing what they're doing -- somebody's selling drugs, somebody's selling sex -- and why stop a good thing?"
The neighborhood hasn't always been this way. It was there long before the Ocean Center, which opened in 1985. The church was built 50 years earlier, expanded gradually, and is worth about half a million dollars today -- a tiny fraction of the roughly $220 million it cost to build, finance and expand the Ocean Center down the street.
That 2009 expansion brought the convention venue even closer to the church and the neighborhood around it, magnifying the conditions there.
"Many of us get discouraged, because things do not happen overnight," said Frank Heckman, a longtime resident and head of the Beachside Neighborhood Watch, a group of mostly retired residents who have their own quasi-police precinct fully staffed by volunteers. "It takes a long time to take a dilapidated property and have it removed."
In the meantime, that means the dilapidation gets worse. Bishop has been inside some rentals to witness caved-in floors, sagging ceilings and crumbling walls with sunlight shining through the cracks -- issues he says go unnoticed or ignored by the landlords.
"He's just propping that house up to get another 500 bucks here and 500 bucks there, just from whatever crack addict he can get," the pastor said. "It gives new meaning to the word 'slumlord.' "
The city's police readily acknowledge those squalid rentals -- a glut of old houses split into two or four or more cheap apartments -- have created a haven for drugs and prostitution.
"It's the same (expletive)-heads all the time up there," Police Chief Mike Chitwood said while driving through the beachside last year. "That's what the most frustrating thing is. They move from Hollywood (Avenue) to Oleander to Wild Olive. The whole beachside's like that. ... You'll hit it with a search warrant, and there's like eight (expletive) people living in there."
A map at police headquarters shows the vast majority of beachside parcels (about 85 percent) between Oakridge and International Speedway boulevards are non-homesteaded.
David LaMotte, the manager at Salty Dog Surf Shop on Atlantic Avenue, had lived in the same beachside area for 25 years -- his three homes in that timeframe have all been within two miles of each other -- until recently. He moved away to be closer to Ponce Inlet.
"It's just not the desirable place to live that it used to be," LaMotte said of the beachside. "And that's coming from a lifelong resident."
The deteriorating properties don't attract buyers, even for demolitions. Many of the renters who take their place end up interacting with the church. One of Bishop's first Sunday-night services, he said, was interrupted by a drunk man who stumbled into the parking lot with an open stab wound from a potato peeler.
Another day at the church halted when Bishop and another member spotted a drug dealer approaching a house where an ex-addict was weaning herself off methamphetamine. They leaped a fence and chased him off.
"The neighborhood is attacking the decent people in the area," Bishop said. "The problem is the neighborhood got older, and the leadership allowed the subdividing of houses, and it just became a haven for the drug culture. We're stuck with that kind of condition, and it's killing Daytona.
Bishop and his wife both grew up in Ormond Beach and are lifelong residents of the area but were still shocked at what they found when he came to the church.
"We were utterly amazed and terrified all at the same time," he said. "But we love it here. We want it to progress, we want it to get better. That's why we're still here."
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Here's an illustration I made for the upcoming Designers Against Child Slavery charity auction in New York on 3rd December. The theme for the show is "Reclaim". The show has a facebook page and tickets are being sold here.
Here's an illustration I made for The Kung Fu Daily Times. It was a lotta fun to make. You can see a much bigger one here.
Here's an illustration I did for .Cent magazine. It accompanies a little story that is too long for me to explain here. The general gist is that a load of people get separated from their loved ones and then try to find them again.
Yosh! Here is the full story of the boy in the jungle. This four page comic type thing was made for Faesthetic #11, the "Ghost Story" issue. My first comic since primary school!
Here is my illustration for the last ever issue of plan B magazine. The article was a review of the new Fire on fire album, "The Orchard".
and me in paradise. Here's page one of a set of four pages I did for the latest edition of Faesthetic magazine. It is Faesthetic #11, and the theme is "Ghost Story". The mag consists of 128 pages by 40 artists in two colours. Have a look see at what it looks like see. My chunk of the mag is a little story involving a man and a jungle jaguar.
Here's my illustration for the February issue (out 29th Jan) of Bearded magazine. The article is a feature with Pagan Wanderer Lu. I was told that Mr Lu spoke about his new LP like this: "It jumps all over the place: it's a bit weird, noisy and more downbeat. The songs change, but they change slowly like a majestic moose evolving from a lowly shrew." My brief was pretty much to do something based around the moosey shrew idea.


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There was a story that was circulating on social media in January about a couple in Thunder Bay who were charged for animal cruelty.
The story was sad, and I agree that no defenseless animal should ever have to suffer so much. Animals deserve respect and a loving home, and a lot of the reactions from the general public were of outrage.
They wanted blood.
Some social media users publicly outted the faces and names of the couple that were charged, and the things that were said about the couple were so horrible it made me stop reading a lot of the comments.
I don't condone animal cruelty. I hated reading about what happened, but what I started to notice were the other posts about the topic.
Some started to question, why so much outrage over this animal cruelty case but so little outrage over the missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada?
Wasn't it just 13 months ago that a local woman was reported to have been kidnapped, raped, beaten, strangled, and left for dead in the woods here in Thunder Bay?
I don't remember seeing anywhere near the amount of outrage over that brutal attack that I did over the animals.
The two people at the center of the animal cruelty case have been charged, they're "caught."
But the two men behind the December 2012 rape are still unknown, walking around free with that on their conscience.
Or maybe it's not on their conscience at all.
Isn't that even scarier? Isn't that worth 10 times the amount of outrage and disbelief? To think you could be standing in line at a gas station or grocery store beside one of these rapists, who have no sense of remorse at all for what they did, should be frightening.
And what about the person, or persons, who murdered Sandra Johnson, whose body was found on the frozen Neebing-McIntyre floodway on Valentine's Day in 1992 in Thunder Bay?
That murder is still unsolved. The killer is still walking free, over 20 years after Sandra's demise, with that on their shoulders. Sandra's sister Sharon has been holding the Full Moon Memory Walk on Valentine's Day for the memory of her sister for the last five years; this year will be her sixth year.
I am unsure if Sharon will never be able to let something like that go without any real closure on what happened to Sandra. How do you recover from the loss of a sister, a best friend, a mother, a cousin, a loved one? Especially one who died in such a tragic way?
Does Sandra's death, the December 2012 assault victim, countless other assault victims, and the recently documented 824 missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, not deserve at the very least the same amount of outrage and calls to action from the general public as the two abused animals did?
I feel it does. I feel it matters just as much, if not more. I feel that the issue is not something that should only be addressed when another women has gone missing, or another woman is found dead, or another woman is the victim of violence, or when any news outlet needs a story.
I feel the story of missing and murdered Aboriginal women never ends until someone is found, until a killer is caught, until someone is brought home safe, until our women and children are safe, and until all of the broken hearts are healed.
There is an Amnesty International poster I have up in my office that has a young woman on it who is holding a sign that reads "Aboriginal women are loved and valued."
Sometimes I can't help but wonder why does this country need a sign to remind them of that?
And why do I need to look at that sign every day at work to remind myself of that?
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Public Legal Education and Information in Ontario Communities: Formats and Delivery Channels (August 2013)
This research takes a focused look at effective ways to deliver public legal education and information to diverse communities in Ontario, particularly those that face barriers to meaningful access to justice. We talked to community workers in a variety of sectors to find out what PLE formats and delivery options work for their communities. The research report is available on the PLE Learning Exchange. Read more
Exploring the Expansion of CLEONet: Final Project Report to The Law Foundation of Ontario (November 2009)
In 2009, CLEO conducted a review of research and consultations on a legal information website for the public. This report details the findings which called for a site with accessible, accurate information to help people understand their legal rights. Read more
Multilingual Legal Information: Issues in Development and Delivery (March 2009)
In this report, CLEO reviews and expands upon the research it conducted for the Linguistic Access Report in 2005. Read more
Tapping the Community Voice: Looking at Family Law Self-Help through an Access to Justice Lens (June 2008)
This report summarizes discussions and recommendations from a one-day think tank that looked at the effective use of family law self-help materials for low-income Ontarians. Read more
Aboriginal Peoples and Access to Legal Information (May 2006)
This executive summary of a longer report provides details and outlines recommendations that came out of a research project CLEO undertook looking at how it could improve access to legal information by Aboriginal communities. Read more
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Myself, and David Williams went fishing for Northern Snakehead, with our "sexy frogs" and kayaks loaded...We caught two out of Port Tobacco! I got a Citation size 33.5 inches 11.5 lbs.!!! Woo Hoo!
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In Michigan, we sometimes assume that business is, and always has been, big. Now that our culture is encouraging entrepreneurs to take a shot at reinventing our economy, this "big thinking" is a big interference.
Investors can often be like a neighbor who brought a CAT bulldozer to help you work on your garden for a Saturday afternoon.
This big thinking began in the 20th Century when Michigan occupied the commanding heights of an industrial boom. Massive organizations grew and consolidated, forming intricate bureaucracies and detailed plans. These businesses knew the problems they were ...


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Great stuff. Enjoyed you on Reverb Nation. I am a fan. ALso wanted to thank you for becoming my fan on there as well.Suthun Musik Company is a fledgeling project that I am trying to get off the ground. May be calling on you someday for an interview. Check out my website http://www.suthunmusik.com for more details. Thanks again and God Bless.
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Brendan Dinneen led the Mighty Macs (1-6, 0-1) with two goals while Dante Tuscai and Tom Hartney each posted one goal. Patrick Durso, Joe Keller and Zach Krytzer added one assist apiece.
Immaculata goalkeeper Andrew Sim made 13 saves in the loss. Cabrini used four different keepers. Kevin Chenoweth started for the Cavaliers and played the first half making four saves for the win in the circle.
The Cavaliers (7-3, 3-0) were paced by Scott Reimer's five goals while Casey Grugan tallied a team-best six points on three goals and three assists. Jordan Coeyman also recorded a hat trick in the effort for Cabrini


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To begin the show, Teddy Long called out Christian and talked to him about the shady finish of his match with Randy Orton at Capitol Punishment. Christian demanded another title match because he got screwed. Teddy Long told Christian that he would have to EARN another title match. And that opportunity would come later tonight against... Kane!
In the first match of the night, Sin Cara beat Ted Dibiase, Jr. A cameraman actually had to point to where Sin Cara was supposed to be looking at the end of the match. Wow...
Next, Cody Rhodes beat Daniel Bryan . The "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes was used as part of Daniel Bryan's pre-match promo. I caught Booker T & Michael Cole joking around with a paper bag during the match. Ted Dibiase, Jr. came out mid-way through the match to be in Cody's corner. At this point, I thought Cody received the biggest heat of the night, until... (more on that later)...
Next, Mark Henry attacked Big Show in a backstage segment.
Then Big Zeke beat Wade Barrett clean in a rematch for the Intercontinental Title. Afterwards, Gabriel & Slater were making fun of Wade backstage.
Gabriel & Slater come out and beat the Uso's.
Yoshi Tatsu was beaten up in the ring by Jinder Mahal & The Great Khali. Mahal cut a promo, which I believe earned him the biggest heat of the night (surpassing even that of Cody Rhodes earlier). Much like Sin Cara, a cameraman actually had to point to where Mahal was supposed to be looking after his promo.
Christian & Kane were having a pretty good match with A LOT of near falls. At the end, Mark Henry ran out to attack Kane, causing a DQ and a very upset Christian. Teddy Long came out and said that Christian had just lost the match (implying that he would not receive another title shot), but then Teddy said that Christian had a chance to "redeem" himself in a tag match. Christian/Henry vs. Kane/Orton. If Christian's team wins, he earns another title shot.
The tag match went on for awhile, before it ended with a Mark Henry pin on Randy Orton, allowing Christian's team to win, and therefore give Christian one more title opportunity (presumably at Money in the Bank). The show ended with Christian standing in the ring, holding the title, on top of a fallen Randy Orton.
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