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There are lots of ways to determine the doneness of meat that you are grilling or roasting in your oven. (Notice I didn't say "BBQing." Where I come from BBQ is a noun, not a verb.) In addition to meat thermometers and a nifty little iPhone app that I've reviewed lately, sometimes it's best to go old school. The cooking… Read More ›
Tag Archive for 'Kitchen Gadgets'
Keep Your Beer Cool and Your Tunes Loud with the Marshall Fridge
This Marshall Fridge is pretty amazing. It looks like an Marshall amp, but it hides something tastier than great tunes. Yeah, it holds a few six packs or anything else that you might need to keep cold — although beer is much more fun than milk. As the description on Werd notes, You're never going to play guitar like Stevie… Read More ›
Just Chill Out with Bottle on Ice Wine Cooler
Contrary to popular belief, you're not supposed to drink red wine at room temperature or white wine straight out of the refrigerator. Most whites taste best after being allowed to warm up about twenty minutes after being removed from the fridge, and your better Chardonnays and White Burgundies really shine at cellar temperature, which is about 55°. Red wines generally… Read More ›
Keurig Introduces the New Keurig Vue Brewing System
Most of the Gear Diary team and many of my friends know that I love my Keurig machine. Brewing many different hot drinks from coffee to cocoa, my Keurig is my morning friend, and I've even been known to fire it up in the evening? However, there's one thing that my Keurig can't do — milky drinks like latte's and… Read More ›
Get a Grip on Alder & Co's Maple Salad Hands
I think that we can all agree that sometimes it's the little things which make a meal special, and these solid Vermont maple 'Salad Hands' by Alder and Co. look like they could instigate a few appreciative comments from around the dinner table. For $34, they can handle your greens. Alder & Co. — Maple Salad Hands.
iGrill + Omaha Steaks' Steak Time App = Meat Magic
Now far be it from me to tell a man (or a woman for that matter) how to use their BBQ grill. Like politics and religion, grilling is a topic where advice is rarely appreciated or even more rarely followed. I'm sure you're great at cooking a steak over charcoal or gas, and I wouldn't tell you to your face… Read More ›
If You're Gonna Get Bombed Anyway, Try the 'Bombs Away' Shot Glasses from ConvenientGadgets.com
So does anybody actually still do shots anymore? In my younger day, I might have tipped a few back, and I do see the young folks dropping a Jägerbomb every now and then at my local watering hole. But for the most part, I like to sip my drinks rather than snapping my head back and pouring one down my… Read More ›
Smoke Like a Pro with the Peg Leg Porker BBQ Kit
I've loved pork for a long time – waaay before the hipsters made bacon worship popular. One of my favorite ways to spend a Saturday afternoon is to put a pork butt on the smoker first thing in the morning and watch college football all day while the meat soaks up the hickory goodness. Since you have to add new… Read More ›
Yum Log: The Key to an Awesome Margarita
Early in December we'll be heading down to our timeshare for a week of sun. Each day there has a fairly typical routine that includes being back in one of the timeshare apartments playing Scrabble, cards, reading and, of course, having afternoon drinks. It for that reason that one of the items I may be packing this year is a… Read More ›
The Belkin iPad Kitchen Cabinet Mount Review
Long-time Gear Diary fans may remember me from my stint a few years back as our resident "Stunt Reviewer." Well, like a bad penny, I've turned up again and Judie and the gang have been nice enough to welcome me back to contribute the occasional review or announcement, specifically for the "Yum Log" section where we take a look at… Read More ›
iPad Accessory Review: Belkin Chef Stand and Wand
It comes as no surprise to anyone who lives on this planet that the iPad is finding its way into pretty much every aspect of our lives and certainly into pretty much every room of the house. Among the places where it can come in particularly handy is the kitchen. Thanks to the iPad, the days of needing a special… Read More ›
iPad Accessory Review: Rain Design iRest for iPad and iPad 2
There are some companies that understand that it is not form OR function but rather form AND function. Such companies, few in number, have an ability to design products that look great but also function with a simplicity that makes you wonder how you ever went without. Of course Apple leads the pack in this regard but there are others… Read More ›
Belkin's Cooking with iPad Kitchen Accessories
I've written it before and I'll write it again, the iPhone and the iPad are like eRorschachs; the device and what it can do changes depending upon what app you are using. Want a school device? It is one. Want a good GPS? It can handle it. And the list goes on and on. And as the iPad becomes useful… Read More ›
Food Sanitation Just Got a Lot Easier with the CleanCut Touchless Automatic Towel Dispenser
A few years ago Elana trained as a chef at the Natural Gourmet Cooking School. One of the most important lessons she learned had to do with food sanitation. (She's a nut about it which is a good thing. She also once commented that "If you knew what went on in some restaurant kitchens you would never eat out again.")… Read More ›
The Stump Stand Review – Sometimes Simplicity Is Best
Sometimes the simplest accessories are the best accessories. That's right, something it doesn't need to be complicated for it to be remarkably useful. That's the case with this new tablet/eReader stand The Stump. The Stump is what it claims to be – it is a stump of rubber. It looks like a tree trunk that's been cut down at an angle…. Read More ›
Onion Goggles Keep You from Crying in the Kitchen
I tear up when I am chopping onions, and even though sometimes it's just a sniffle, there have been times — like when I am on a marathon chopping streak while making multiple freezer lasagnas — when the tears just started to flow. What in the world is happening? According to Mental Floss (a fantastic magazine and blog): 1. When… Read More ›
Review: PadTab iPad Mounting System
When the iPad 2 was released I went to put my original iPad 64GB + 3G on eBay. I was immediately presented with an option to sell it directly and, in the process, pay no shipping or fees. I loved the idea of not having to hassle with an auction and the possibility of being scammed so I accepted the… Read More ›
iPad Accessory Review: ProClip's MultiStand
In just a few days Apple is expected to announce the iPad 2 (or whatever they end up calling it). Yes, Apple's runaway success with its first entry into the tablet market is nearing its first anniversary. Along the way I've had the opportunity to look at a wide variety of different mounting solutions for the first-generation iPad. Some have been… Read More ›
The Keurig Mini Plus Personal Brewer Review
Given the long hours I spend editing and writing, there are a few things that I need to have available at all times: a good desktop or laptop computer, a decent camera for taking pictures, a comfortable chair, and an ever flowing source of caffeine. The refrigerator behind me takes care of my Diet Cokes, I have a canister of… Read More ›
iPad Accessory Review: Amzer Foldo Stand Up
There are a ton of different stands now available for the iPad. They come in different shapes, sizes and materials and all make using the tablet an even better experience. Some of the stands we have reviewed have been a bit pricy. For example, the Jadu Skadoosh stand has an MSRP of $69.99, and the ElementCase Joule has an MSRP… Read More ›
Review: Duracell myGrid Charging Pad
Our world seems to become continually more mobile. With all of these mobile gadgets comes a need to charge and charge often. Unfortunately, devices have not adopted a standard for charger connectors so that leaves many of us with a ton of plugs throughout the house. We have a vase on the kitchen counter near a set of wall plugs… Read More ›


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Thank you for your replies;
Ian and Jerevan; the aperture above the lamps is simply an open hole, the only glass is in the frame which sits within the brass around the edge.
Ian, I think you may be on the right track concerning the type of tubes. When I bought them I thought I had done enough homework and purchased the right tubes. They are marked as UVA but perhaps it should be the blue coloured ones you suggest which may be UVB (or something else). I shall go off now, make further enquiries and see how I go.
Vlad; yes, I started with the facial tanning lamp also but thought I would build my own in the hope it would be better! Obviously not the case. It will be interesting to find the exact type of tubes fitted to the Philips tanner. Again, I'll go and check.
Ian, thank you for your offer and if things get seriously difficult I may well take you up.

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text: By BOBBY WARREN Staff Writer WOOSTER -- While Wayne County's wastewater department strives to be more efficient and cost-effective, there are still some lingering issues with a couple of plants. Terry West, supervisor of Environmental Services, said the Eastwood wastewater treatment plant continues to have a problem with pumps. Since the plant opened in 2010, about seven have burned up. The pumps installed at the plant were not what the construction specifications called for, but the county was assured they would work. Well, they haven't, so the vendor continues to replace the pumps. West said there was an urgency in getting the plant opened and the larger pumps called for in the plans would have delayed the opening by two months, so smaller pumps were used. Despite the pump problem, West said the plant is operating fine, and there are no issues with the effluent coming out. The Eastwood plant is also helping the county save money. West told the commissioners the lab built there is saving about $20,000 a year. Those savings, along with hauling sludge to Dalton and eliminating a position has cut about $100,000 out of the Environmental Services budget, West said. "It needed to be done," Commissioner Ann Obrecht said. The county is in the process of sending sewer being treated at the Hillcrest plant to Wooster for treatment. West said it will likely be another year before the county ties into the system. He is currently in the process of upgrading the pump at Hillcrest. The county considered sending the sewage to the Eastwood plant, but ultimately reached an agreement with Wooster officials. Reporter Bobby Warren can be reached at 330-287-1639 or email@example.com. He's @BobbyWarrenTDR on Twitter.


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The right half of the brain has a number of divergent capacities and properties, not all of which are directly related to emotional functioning. Visual and pictorial imagery, making inferences, visual closure, and deducing the whole from an abundance of seemingly unrelated parts, geometrical analysis of visual space, and even some aspects of dreaming are made possible by the functional integrity of the right brain.
Many capacities, such as reading and dreaming, require both halves of the brain. For example, in dreaming, the right brain provides the visual imagery and the emotional coloring, and the left brain provides the dialogue or narrative. Just as it takes both halves of the brain to make music (the right providing melody, the left rhythm), we also need both brains in order to dream.
Similarly, although the right brain appears to be the more creative aspect of the mind, for example, in the form of artistic expression, creativity is possibly a product of having two brains and two minds. Indeed, the creative process itself is perhaps made possible, at least in part, by the interpretation and guesswork that occur when the two


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Underground Blogger Jack Brown is "The Part-Time Martial Artist," offering a full-time fan's perspective on UFC and major MMA news, developments, and hypotheticals.
In his lastest Underground Blog, he covers the Joe Rogan Experiece, again.
Six months ago, I gave you volume one, but there have been many more episodes of the JRE podcast since then. At the beginning of July, Joe, and producer and co-host Brian Redban, were up to episode 236. Six months later, they're on episode 306. Over the course of those seventy episodes there have been multiple appearances by the comics that JRE fans have come to know and love (Andrew Dice Clay, Ari Shaffir, Bert Kreischer, Joey Diaz, Bryan Callen, Duncan Trussell, Tom Segura, Doug Stanhope, Dom Irrera, Dave Attell, and many more). There have also been some mind-blowing guest appearances (Dr. Peter Duesberg – episode 282, John McAfee – episode 290, Dennis McKenna – episode 298, just to name a few). But don't worry, UG, there have also been a bunch of MMA-related episodes for you to enjoy. I've listened to every minute of every episode and pulled out the best for you. So once again, consider me your humble shaman as I guide you through everything MMA that has occurred on the JRE since mid-summer.
MMA-related guests and episodes
Tito Ortiz – episode 247
Mac Danzig – episode 267
Tait Fletcher – episode 269
Victor Conte – episode 277
Eddie Bravo – episode 292
Josh Barnett – episode 302
Matt Vengrin – episode 303
Updated wish-list for future MMA-related guests
In Volume one, my wish-list for future guests included Dana White, Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar, the Diaz brothers, Chris Leben, War Machine, and Steven Seagal. Not one has yet appeared on the JRE, but I still look forward to the possibility that they will one day join Joe and Redban. In the meanwhile, here are some more individuals that I'd like to see/hear on the JRE:
Rener and Ryron Gracie
Dan Hardy
Kenny Florian
BJ Penn
Quinton Jackson
Who do you want to hear on the JRE?
Please follow me on Twitter to let me know where in the world you are.
Thanks for reading,
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Recent Comments »
3/23/13 8:26 AM by Hammerfister
This will need updating soon - Justin Wren, Bas's second visit, Dana White, etc!
1/10/13 11:24 AM by Paquet90
good list but you missed one the mix master mike and russel peter podcast that happend not long ago had a hour rant about MMA i loved it check it out if you missed it
1/10/13 11:05 AM by XcessiveZ
Thanks Joe for the great job!
1/10/13 10:56 AM by lastcall
really enjoy JRE
1/10/13 1:50 AM by Team GDP
agreed. jimmy is a great commentator and i'd love to hear what he has to say. it's interesting that he is a guest right now, due to the fued between bellator and the ufc. i know rogan's show is independant of the ufc but i wonder if anyone from zuffa has called joe and tried to put the kibosh on having jimmy as a guest. then again I am really high right now so this could be a non sensical line of thinking.
1/10/13 1:39 AM by Augie Max
I'm excited for that Jimmy Smith one.
1/10/13 1:04 AM by Gooner H Smith
You win the Internet today.
1/9/13 11:04 PM by chauda
Possibly my favorite line of any MMA related JRE podcastJosh Barnett: You don't know anybody who knows anybody who knows anybody that can kick my ass!
1/9/13 8:21 PM by LShaman
Herb Dean would be dope, as would Michael Bisping.Other than that it's Cecil Peoples or go fuck your mother!


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You know, it's not often that those of us here at the Lync Server PowerShell blog get the chance to show off our knowledge. OK, admittedly, that might be because we don't actually have much knowledge to show off in the first place. Still, it's nice to get the chance every now and then to demonstrate that we do know something, even if that something has very little to do with either Lync Server or with Windows PowerShell.
Good question: what are we talking about? Well, suppose you run the following PowerShell command in the Lync Server Management Shell:
Get-CsImFilterConfiguration –Identity Global
If you do run that command, you'll probably get back output that looks something like this:
Identity : Global
Prefixes : {callto:, file:, ftp., ftp:...}
AllowMessage :
WarnMessage :
Enabled : False
IgnoreLocal : True
BlockFileExtension : False
Action : Allow
Pretty good, except for one thing: note the three dots following the prefixes:
Prefixes : {callto:, file:, ftp., ftp:...}
Are those three dots supposed to mean something? We are so glad you asked that question!
Yes, the three dots do mean something. The three dots are known as an ellipsis (and less commonly known as a suspension point), and are a grammatical device used to denote the fact that there are some missing words in our sentence (or, in this case, in our output). Supposedly, the ellipsis was first used by writers of the Old Norse language somewhere around the year 200 BC, which means that no sooner did people begin to learn how to write than they were already looking for ways to write less. Did the Old Norse also invent OMG, LOL, and BFF? That remains a source of heated debate within the academic community.
Note. In all fairness, we should probably point out that Old Norse looked a lot like this:
En er fram liðu stundir, þá ójafnaðisk mannfólkit: váru sumir góðir ok rétt trúaðir, en myklu fleiri snerusk eptir girndum heimsins ok órœktu guðs boðorð, ok fyrir því drekti guð heiminum í sjávargangi ok ǫllum kvikvendum heimsins nema þeim er í ǫrkinni váru með Nóa.
With that in mind, it might not be too surprising that the Old Norse almost immediately began looking for ways to leave out words.
Oh, and in case you're wondering, trúaðir is a past participle, nominative plural masculine of trúa (ð), meaning to have faith in.
But, then again, you probably already knew that.
To be honest, we don't know whether or not the Old Norse invented Windows PowerShell. We don't think they did but every now and then you see a PowerShell command that looks like this:
pclip | %{[Regex]::Split($_,'(.{0,60}(?:\s|$))')}|%{if($_){"> $_"}}
Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Whether or not the Old Norse invented PowerShell, it does appear that the Windows PowerShell team was heavily influenced by the Old Norse; after all, PowerShell consistently uses the ellipsis to indicate the fact that information has been omitted from the display. Remember this line of output:
Prefixes : {callto:, file:, ftp., ftp:...}
Well, just like it did in Old Norse, the ellipsis indicates that there's more information. That output kind of implies that there are only four items listed in the Prefixes property: callto:, file:, ftp., and ftp:. However, our global IM filter configuration actually contains 17 prefixes:
The ellipsis indicates that there are more prefixes in the Prefix property than the four that are shown. They just wouldn't all fit on screen.
Any other questions about the ellipsis before we call it a day? Hey, that's one we never thought of: how do you deal with the ellipsis in Windows PowerShell? That sounds like something that might actually be worth knowing about.
Option 1: The ExpandProperty parameter
As you could probably guess, trying to work around the ellipsis can be a little tricky; in large part, it depends on how many different properties you need to work with. For example, let's suppose we're only interested in the Prefixes property for the global IM filter configuration settings. In other words, we'd be perfectly happy with output that looks like this:
If that's the case then we have a very simple solution for you: the Select-Object cmdlet and the ExpandProperty parameter. As you probably know, the Select-Object cmdlet enables you to specify the property values you want to display. (If you didn't know that you should take a peek at our article Dealing with Information Overload, Part 1.) In turn, the ExpandProperty parameter lets you "expand" the values stored in a single property. (And yes, we did say "a single property." We'll discuss that limitation in a minute or two.) For example, what do you think will happen if you run this command:
Get-CsImFilterConfiguration -Identity Global | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Prefixes
If you said, "I bet all the prefixes stored in the Prefixes property will be displayed on screen," well, congratulations; you're absolutely right:
And you thought this was going to be hard! As you can see, it's not hard at all.
Option 2: Using ForEach-Object
But (and there's always a "but," isn't there?) that's due, in part, to the fact that we only cared about one property for one collection of IM filter configuration settings. Suppose we have two collections of IM filter configuration settings, one at the global scope and one at the site scope, and we'd like to see all the prefixes for both of these collections. Is this command going to help much:
Get-CsImFilterConfiguration | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Prefixes
Well, it kind of depends on what you mean by "help." This is the output we get:
As it turns out, all the prefixes for all the collections are there; it's just difficult to tell where one collection leaves off and the other begins, and even more difficult to tell which collection is which. No problem, you say? We'll just expand the Identity property along with the Prefixes property, you say? You mean like this, right:
Get-CsImFilterConfiguration | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Identity, Prefixes
OK, let's run that up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes:
Select-Object : Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to the type 'System.String'
required by parameter 'ExpandProperty'. Specified method is not supported.
At line:1 char:45
+ Get-CsImFilterConfiguration | select -expand <<<< Identity, pref*
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Select-Object], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgument,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SelectObjectCommand
Hmmm, not exactly the output we were hoping for. That's because PowerShell only lets you expand a single property. (If you don't believe us, run the command Get-CsImFilterConfiguration | Select-Object -ExpandProperty * and see what happens.) And before you ask, no, this command won't work either:
Get-CsImFilterConfiguration | Select-Object Identity, -ExpandProperty Prefixes
If you run that command Select-Object will ignore the Identity property altogether and just expand the Prefixes property.
Which leaves us right back where we started.
But here's a little tip for you. Any time we find ourselves stymied by Windows PowerShell we say to ourselves, "What would the Old Norse do in this situation?" We have a feeling that the Old Norse would do something like this:
Get-CsImFilterConfiguration | ForEach-Object {$_.Identity; $_.Prefixes; Write-Host}
What's going on here? Well, to begin with, we're using Get-CsImFilterConfiguration to return all the IM filter configuration collections currently in use in our organization. We're then taking the returned information, piping it to the ForEach-Object cmdlet, and asking ForEach-Object to do three things:
· Take the first collection of settings, and display the value of the Identity property ($_.Identity).
· Display the values stored in the Prefixes property ($_.Prefixes).
· Print a blank line (Write-Host), then grab the second collection of settings and repeat the process.
The net result is output that looks a little like this:
Those Old Norse thought of everything, didn't they?
Option 3: Out-GridView
The problem we ran into when working with the IM filter configuration cmdlets is that there were too many values stored in the Prefixes property to display onscreen. Sometimes you'll encounter a different problem: a property will contain only a single property value, but that lone value will be too long to fit onscreen. Need an example of what we're talking about? OK, try running this command:
You'll no doubt get output that looks like this:
Status Name ActivityLevel
------ ---- -------------
Running MASTER
Running REPLICA
Running RTCSRV Incoming Requests per Second=0,Messages In ...
Running RTCCAA Concurrent Calls=0
Running RTCCAS Concurrent Conferences=0
Running RTCRGS Current Active Calls=0
Running RTCPDPAUTH
Running RTCPDPCORE Active Client Connections=0,Active Edge Co ...
Running RTCCPS Total Parked Calls=0
Running RTCIMMCU Active Conferences=0,Connected Users=0
Running RTCDATAMCU Active Conferences=0
Running RTCAVMCU Number of Conferences=0,Number of Users=0
Running RTCASMCU Active Conferences=0,Connected Users=0
Running RTCACPMCU
Running RTCMEDSRV Current Outbound Calls=0,Current Inbound ...
Running RTCMEETINGMCU Active Conferences=0
Running FTA
Running RtcProv
As you can see our old friend the ellipsis pops up several different times in the ActivityLevel property. So will the ForEach-Object technique we just showed you take care of the problem here? You bet it will; just run this command and see what happens:
Get-CsWindowsService | ForEach-Object {$_.Name; $_.Status; $_.ActivityLevel; Write-Host}
But in a case like this one (that is, a case when we're not dealing with a multi-valued property) there's another little trick you might find useful: the Out-Gridview cmdlet.
Note. If you take a look at the article on multi-valued properties you might be thinking, "Wait a minute: isn't that article awfully similar to this article?" Well, it's definitely similar. However, based on some questions we've received over the past couple of months, we decided to do this second article, one that goes a bit beyond the simple ExpandProperty approach we discussed in the original article. As we've found out, ExpandProperty won't always work.
Out-GridView (which we really should do an article on one of these days) is one of the more useful yet less-known Windows PowerShell cmdlets. When Windows PowerShell was first released, users loved the technology itself; however, they didn't always love the console window output. As a result, an entire cottage industry (no doubt based on techniques originally pioneered by the Old Norse) arose devoting to creating functions and scripts that enabled users to output their data to Microsoft Excel.
In response to this, when Windows PowerShell 2.0 was released it included a new cmdlet, Out-Gridview, which – wonder of wonders! – could display data in a grid view. It wasn't Excel, needless to say, but it was definitely Excel-like output. And you could use it on any computer running Windows PowerShell, even if Excel wasn't installed on that computer.
And in response to that – well, in response to that nothing much really happened: hardly anybody uses Out-Gridview. Be that as it may, it can still be a handy little cmdlet to know about. To see what we mean, try running this command:
Get-CsWindowsService | Out-Gridview
You should get back something that looks like this:
Well, what do you know: complete, and completely readable, output for the ActivityLevel property. Could it get any better than that?
At any rate, Out-Gridview is just something to keep in mind. It's not always going to work; for example, if you try using it with the Get-CsImFilterConfiguration cmdlet (or any other cmdlet that includes multi-valued properties) you'll be a bit disappointed:
That's all we have time for in this article. Thank you for reading and, as the old Norse used to say, "Knúta flesk búfé!"
Note. OK; as all you fluent speakers of Old Norse know, that actually translates as "Knuckle-boned bacon farm cattle." But you know what we mean.


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Retail Clinic. A retail clinic is a bare-bones operation, set up to cast a wider net than a boutique practice and serve less-affluent clients. We can see this model already in operation in the medical field. QuickHealth has opened retail medical clinics in Northern California, offering primary care, pay-as-you-go clinics for working families. Drugstore giant QVC has followed suit.
A retail clinic focuses on the affordability of sessions (no insurance involved) and ease of access. This model requires therapists who can counsel families and individuals for a range of generic mental health care issues: in a single day, a therapist may treat depression, anxiety, couples problems, parenting issues, and addiction concerns. Market share is critical, because in a retail clinic, a constant flow means the difference between feast or famine. Often 25 percent of total expenses in spent on advertising. One psychotherapist outside of Chicago finds clients primarily through a large ad in the yellow pages that costs her $10,000 each year, but effectively promotes her reasonable, flat fee of $49.95 (cash only, no insurance accepted) for a 35-minute counseling session. Her office is in a retail strip mall. It isn't fancy. She returns calls within 24 hours by using a low-cost answering service that also schedules her sessions. She has a waiting list and employs two associates. All are trained in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which makes managing the shorter sessions possible. She can accommodate 30 or more clients each day at the clinic, because shorter session times allows for increased volume. Last year, her clinic grossed $325,000. She asks each client to fill out a pre- and post-therapy survey, loaded on a computer in the waiting room, to track client satisfaction session by session. So far, the clients resoundingly approve of this easy, consumer-based, affordable approach.
Product-Driven Practice. A product-driven practice attracts clients who are interested in the specific therapy method being offered. Therapists have many training options available to them, and usually select one or several based on clinical decisions. Bringing a business mind-set to the choice of training means looking for a vendor who offers solid marketing that helps promote the method to the public and provide referrals. Examples include the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, whose website lists certified CBT practitioners and a long list of media-placed articles, and EEG Spectrum International, whose website lists neurofeedback practitioners, with journal articles and case studies geared to referring professionals. Building market share then becomes an endeavor shared by the organization offering the training and the practitioner's efforts. Therapists must employ "due diligence" to discover how much promotion the training organization will do on their behalf. This might mean seeing a written contract and contacting others in the referral network to find out if referrals have resulted from the training.


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College of Magic
|David Gore
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|Cape Town, South Africa
The College of Magic is a non-profit organization (007-517 NPO/NGO) based in Cape Town, South Africa that teaches magic to people from various levels of society with the goal of creating social empowerment. The organisation's projects address key community concerns at grassroots level.
The Director, David Gore, has been with the organisation since its inception.
It is the current holder of 17 national and 2 international awards. College of Magic graduates perform throughout South Africa, and the world. The College of Magic is a member of the International Jugglers' Association (IJA).
The College of Magic opened its doors on 23 February 1980, and is the only one of its kind in the world. It was established with the aim of providing performance arts training for aspirant entertainers from all sections of Cape Town's community.
In 1992, the College of Magic moved into its present home, a renovated Victorian house in Claremont, Cape Town. Officially opened in 1995 by the Ministry of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology as the Magical Arts Centre, the College – with the help of the community – has restored the building and developed its facilities for their unique teaching and training needs.
- To provide skills training in the magical and theatrical arts.
- To promote and improve leadership potential and excellence.
- To offer access to information, performance and employment opportunities, services and resources.
- To empower young people, enabling them to gain the respect of their families and community and to promote interaction and moral regeneration.
- To inspire students to be creative and productive through developing their skills, thereby contributing to wealth creation and career development.
The College of Magic is engaged in performing arts education and training, and specialises in training young people – children from the age of 10 years and upwards – in the art of magic and the allied arts of juggling, ventriloquism, mime and clowning.
The unique curriculum consists of six core courses that are structured hierarchically, with each course increasing in complexity, expectations of the learner and skill mastery. In the first three years, students are introduced to the basics of magic including presentation skills, the theory of entertainment and the essential elements of controlling an audience. During the fourth, fifth and sixth years, the curriculum becomes substantially more demanding in terms of the technical requirements and the theoretical aspects of entertaining. Students focus on entertaining children, sleight of hand, close-up magic, stage magic, magic with animals and stage illusions.
The courses are geared to encouraging individuality and innovation; hence workshops are frequently included as part of the course, where students can build their own props and experiment with new ideas. The nature of the courses is instructive, where opportunities for learners to continually "go back" – i.e. to refine, rehearse, improve and become more competent "magical" performers at that particular level – is fundamental. Embedded in each course is a cycle of action that includes:
- demonstration,
- practice,
- presentation,
- reflection,
- refinement,
- practice, and
- presentation.
The syllabus of each course is regularly assessed and upgraded wherever necessary. The required standard of performance is monitored closely so that uniformity and excellence is maintained. Lessons are held on Saturday mornings, and tutorials are arranged at other times directly with the instructors.
The staff can be segmented into the following categories:
1. The Non-Executive Board of Management - The College of Magic is governed by an experienced board of trustees, who are responsible for all decision-making in line with the organisation's constitution. Both their chairperson and their treasurer are graduates of the organisation. The executive director and founder of the College, David Gore, has served the organisation for 27 years.
2. The Administrative Staff - The administrative staff is responsible for the day-to-day running of the organisation.
3. The Voluntary Teaching Staff - The College started with a teaching staff consisting of three people. It has since grown to include professional magicians, experienced teachers, specialists in the various allied arts, graduates of the College, administrative staff and visiting lectures (local and international). The expertise and nurturing approach offered at the College has continued to grow over the years with staff development courses being run on an ongoing basis. The staff are responsible for all aspects of the course they are teaching, including syllabus development, lesson preparation, one-on-one tutorial sessions and grading of student progress. The teaching staff is the backbone of the organisation[citation needed], and all 14 members are volunteers.
The Magical Arts Centre[edit]
The College of Magic is currently resident in its own premises situated on Lansdowne Road in Claremont Cape Town. These premises were officially opened as the "Magical Arts Centre" (MAC) on 24 February 1995 by the then Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology.
The MAC consists of a double-story Victorian house with a wrap-around porch upstairs and downstairs, and is situated on 1840m2 of property. The building has a very homely feel with a large entrance foyer and a mini-theatre that can comfortably seat forty people. Five rooms are used for teaching purposes and two further rooms are available for tutorials when required. One of the teaching rooms is a fully equipped video studio which provides an excellent medium for training. There are sound and recording facilities available, as well as limited lighting equipment that is used to provide students with an all-round knowledge of show business. There is a kitchen-come-staff room and four offices, one of which doubles as a reception area. There is a library-come-social room where students can socialise and take out books and videos. This library is one of the largest magic museums in South Africa and houses five collections of books: the Museum library, the Cape Magician's Circle Library, the Junior Library, the Senior Library and the extensive Staff Library. There is also a collection of videotapes and DVDs, which form an integral part of the teaching process.
The building has a courtyard in which the College's animals are kept and two large shipping containers in the back garden. One stores the extensive collection of stage illusions, magical props and costumes; the second is a fully equipped workshop for the students, and was developed through the sponsorship of the Old Mutual Foundation.
While the organisation's human resources is by far its most valuable asset, there is a desperate need to consolidate and develop its physical resources:
- A substantial amount of money is outstanding on the existing building, placing considerable strain on the organisation's cash reserves.
- While the building itself has been extensively restored, many necessary items and features are still missing.
- Space is at a premium, with the College struggling to accommodate its current student body, project-participants and visitors.
The Solution[edit]
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 The College of Magic (007-517 NPO) launched a capital fundraising campaign, entitled "13 Magical Milestones". The campaign target has been set at 1.3 million South African Rand (approx. $186,000 US Dollars), and will cover the costs of constructing and furnishing the "Imagination Centre and Secret Garden" development; necessary extensive renovations to the existing building and grounds; and the amount owing on the building.
The SARMOTI Grant[edit]
In 1997 the Siegfried & Roy SARMOTI Grant was established enabling disadvantaged young people to join the college and experience the world of magic. Delivered in person by their emissary and coordinator, Lynette Chappell, the Siegfried & Roy SARMOTI Grant heralded a new era for the College of Magic.
Called the Magic in the Community project, it allows a group of students to be transported for weekly lessons from their destitute homes in the Cape Flats to the fantasy-fulfilling world of the college.
College of Magic Film Documentary[edit]
In 2007, director Daniel Roth filmed a feature-length documentary entitled "Do You Believe In Magic?" on the College of Magic. The film follows the lives of students Lesley and Mfundo as they struggle to realize their dream of winning the school's annual competition in order to advance to the annual World Teenage Magic Championship in Las Vegas.
"Do You Believe In Magic?" premiered at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles on 9 February 2008, and it was also selected for the 2008 International Film Festival of South Africa.


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The 13th annual Tulipanes Art & Film Festival is more than a week away, but excitement was evident at Thursday's annual gala fundraiser at the Holland Area Arts Council.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to accurately reflect the nationality of Lucila Giagrande (Argentina) and the traditional cookies she makes from her startup bakery in Chicago.
The 13th annual Tulipanes Art & Film Festival is more than a week away, but excitement was evident at Thursday's annual gala fundraiser at the Holland Area Arts Council.
Six free movies, music, art, dance and a multicultural worship service will be showcased Sept. 10-15.
Bert Jara reminded the crowd of Sept. 10's kickoff, a "tapas and a movie night," featuring traditional Spanish small-plate dishes with the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," the story of an obscure Detroit folksinger who was legendary in South Africa. Tickets cost $15.
Jara and others said Tulipanes wouldn't be possible without support of many sponsors, including the Brooks Family Foundation, Request Foods, Milargro Six and Fifth Third Bank.
"There's a good mix of people from the community here," noted Josh Tremblay, interior design director for GMB A+E. "I see young, old, different cultures and everybody is having a good time."
Kirsen Doolittle, Tulipanes' gala committee chairwoman, said gala ticket sales exceeded expectations, "so I guess it's 'lucky 13' for Tulipanes."
Liz DeLaLuz, Greater Ottawa County United Way's director of community impact, said Tulipanes allows her to blend a love of volunteering with a chance to celebrate and share her ethnic heritage.
Daphne Myers, owner of Lakeshore Natural Skin Care in Zeeland, said Tulipanes "is my favorite (charitable event). ... It's big enough to be a great fundraiser but small enough so that you can talk to the people you know and meet new people."
Tulipanes board member Jean Ramirez, Westshore Mall's general manager, said this year's festival benefits from research done on other film and arts festivals.
"We hired Lori Gramer to write a grant for educational purposes," Ramirez said. "We used it to go to a Chicago festival and we learned so much there."
They convinced Chicagoan and startup baker Lucila Giagrande, a native of Argentina, to deliver the traditional Argentine cookie she makes, alfajores, to Thursday's Tulipanes gala.
Park Township resident Merrill Taylor said she had never encountered the delicate, dulce de leche-filled treat at the many fundraisers she attends.
"I don't eat sugar and this," she said, holding a cookie and smiling, "is my second one."
A $25 box of the delicacies was auctioned off for $200, stunning Giagrande.
Learn more about the 13th annual Tulipanes Latino Art & Film Festival at tulipanes.org.
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Friday Feb 17 2012
Are Auburn kids too wired or just tech-savvy?
By: Sara Seyydin Journal Staff Writer
Technology aides learning at EV Cain
Julann Brown admits it can be difficult to pull her sons away from a video game or the computer screen. While the Auburn mom of two says gadgets of the 21st century — smartphones, video games, computers and mp3 players — do have their drawbacks, they have also allowed for a convenient way to gather information. To Brown, no electronic or digital item could replace real-life experiences, though. "I see technology as a double-edged sword. I think boys in particular tend to get addicted to technology. I have no way of knowing if statistically this proves out," Brown said. "Getting my kids to stop using the computer or stop playing a video game once they have started is a struggle — it can be a huge time suck." Some local teachers say rather than pull kids away from technology; they integrate it into many of their programs to help keep kids engaged and teach them valuable technical skills. For Brown, the question, "are kids today too wired?" has a complex answer. While she can appreciate its benefits, Brown said technology has caused some kids to lose the ability to create outside of the virtual world. "I think that technology too often replaces hands-on experiences that are crucial to a young child's mental, social and physical development," Brown said. "For a number of years, I held art classes for the very young and school-age children and found it disturbing that many children had not had the real life experience of working with their hands to create or build, though they had already used the computer to play games and 'build' things." When it came to her two boys, Avery, 15, and Jeremy, 12, getting their own pieces of technology, the Browns waited as long as they could. "We resisted for quite a while and my boys were some of the last kids to get to use the computer, get a cell phone and get video games," Brown said. "They felt it was a great injustice, but I am glad we waited and held off as long as we did!" That doesn't mean she doesn't enjoy playing the Wii with her family or checking out an occasional YouTube video. Middle School using tech to teach Even more exciting, Brown said are classes like Olivia Conn's, a multimedia and language arts teacher at E.V. Cain Charter Middle School. "I applaud this. I think that technology is an amazing tool that can open up the world to them and engage kids more than a text book ever could," Brown said. "For instance, Mrs. Conn at EV Cain has the kids view Ted Talks videos and respond to them online. I enjoy the videos as well; the whole family does. It encourages family discussion." Conn said she also has her multimedia students create stop motion animation videos and her language arts students create pages of their work online as a digital portfolio. "What you see here at our school is technology is being incorporated into their regular curriculum," Conn said. One student, Haley McKee brought a story she read to life by using the program Blabberize. In it students can record their voice to make it look as if a character in a photo is moving its lips. "This is one of the characters in my story," McKee said of a black and white drawing of a man behind bars, speaking with her voiceover. Conn said the exercise helps her students understand different point of views in literature, a seventh grade standard. Conn and fellow teacher Suzanne Scotten wrote grants to the Auburn United Indian Community and Auburn Education Foundation to help fund the cost of multimedia equipment, including video cameras and laptops. Scotten's eighth grade students make documentary films about their personal heroes. She said one student, Derek Ikeda, learned one set of his grandparents were in Japan during the nuclear bombing in Hiroshima, while another were in an internment camp in the United States. She said it was the technology projects that got him asking questions. The project keeps her students engaged in learning until the end of the school year. "This happens after S.T.A.R. testing. When often kids are checked out," Scotten said. "When you watch these (videos) kids that are 11 are dealing with sex trafficking, genocide. It is amazing." Getting 'unplugged' still a priority. Despite all of the positive learning that technology can be a platform for, Brown said she still encourages her kids to get outside and be "unplugged." "In general, we try to limit their 'screen time' this includes computer, TV, Wii, iTouch, etc. We insist they sit and read a real book, go outside and get physical exercise and are participating in sports," Brown said. "It's all about balance, though sometimes, admittedly, we get out of balance and they get too much technology and I see it affect their moods." Reach Sara Seyydin at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hey everyone. First post but won't be my last.
I hadn't been cycling for nearly 25 years (I am 45) but I am trying to be fit and get more active and I live a mile from a 15 mile bike trail so
I bought a bike. It was a hybrid mountain bike ideal for concrete biking trails. It was used but in good condition.
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He was screaming under my car one night ,while I was putting up Halloween decorations .
The vet and I suspect his mom is dead ,given how starved he was.
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This week. He's grows in leaps and bounds . Huge paws. He will be a big cat.
Utter sweetheart. He likes to sleep on my head,which will be an issue when he's older .ahem .
I considered calling him Godzilla,given how loud he was ,but he's not a Godzilla.
I later thought Candycorn ,given he's orange and white,and a Halloween baby ,but he was already answering to what we picked.
Cthulhu .
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You read Ayn Rand in your teens? Ouch. I'm reminded of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' for some reason... I'm sure you're nothing like that.
The New Topographics photographers took a documentary approach to the landscape, and I believe Gursky's work to be derived aesthetically from New Topographics, but without the concerns - which leaves it pretty empty! Of course, Stephen Shore has been productive outside of his association with that movement, as has Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz, but being concerned with representation of landscape, that's how I know him.
Anyone can be a photographer, but more problematic is the idea that anyone can be an artist... with any photograph.
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Philadelphia Class Frigate
Time is a fickle thing. Where once there is peace, war can erupt without the slightest notion. On the other side of that same coin are the strategists, planning every move of the fleet, and trying to get an insight into what is going to happen now, soon, or not so soon.
Enter the Philadelphia Class. This warship, constructed not so long after the Wells class intervention cruisers, has a more obvious role than the last: deliver a punch, and deliver it hard. At the brink of the 30th century, when the Na'Kuhl opposed the Temporal Accords and war erupted, this class of ship was pitched in the front lines. Not as elegant as a Wells, but far cheaper and easier to produce, this became the first platform of choice to combat the Na'Kuhl across different timelines. To cut down on costs the ship is equipped with a model of temporal transporter that can span less time than the Wells' transporter, but this was deemed enough: if it would be needed, the ship would jump to the timeframe itself and then initiate transport.
Being a ship of war, it is equiped with two heavy temporal disruptors on the front and several phaserstrips across the hull, as well as being able to fire Mk. IV temporal chroniton torpedoes, able to chase a timejumping ship at least a few centuries; in one case, a Na'Kuhl heavy cruiser was destroyed when it jumped back five centuries to escape a Philedelphia wing, only to be surprised off-guard by a chasing chroniton torpedo. It's 110 meters are filled with equipment that can aid the personell in their fight, though it has less volume compared to a Wells. A shuttlebay is absent: the ship is too small to cary an Aeon anyway. A temporal pod is present, though.
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So... This here ship is being made for SCN's sub 200 meter starship competition. Perhaps the most exotic project of this whole competition, even more so than my slipstream ship. This is unknown territory, though still Federation. The ship came out a little bit different compared to the sketch but it came out better than I'd hoped for. I know that there's some errors in the model but I'm still busy perfeting it. I hope you all can get into my mind with this one, because... well, yeah, this ain't your daddy's Star Trek (or your son's, or great-great-great-grandson's, for that matter ;) )
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SCN? competition? Please, do tell more!
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SCN is the forum affiliated with Ex Astris Scientia; that name should ring a bell. The objective for the competition is to create a ship which has a maximum length of 200 meters. It doesn't matter how small it is otherwise, which timeframe it comes from, you name it, so it's really cool to see everybody busy. Hop on over to the Artwork & Design forum to see the other works; Clawhammer is participating as well :)
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That´s a sexy ship my friend!
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Hmm, guess I have good timing with my Safari class! Maybe I'll enter.
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Well... The only BUT in this case is that you've got to create a ship specifically for this contest, without using a pre-existing design. If you would rebuild a design from the ground up especially for the contest, now that's another story...
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I'll ask for clarification before posting there.
Edit: curious, do you have the sudivide/smooth plugin for Sketchup? How do you get such fluid shapes? I use soapskin/bubble sometimes but it is hard to get clean meshes out of.
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Good ol' manual labor. I used one shape I wanted as hull and another as the floor, and then continuisly pushed the shape and then morphed that shape over and over to get the desired hull; this was true for the small spot of hull between the aft and front.
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Yea, I have used that method too. The time involved sucks. lol. My problem with it is trying to go from one shape to another. For example a circular cross section to a square cross section.
Then again, I am getting really good at spinning profiles ("lathing" in other programs), then cutting/morphing them into unique shapes.
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Here's a little update. I added the secondary hull, which was more a pain than any of you could probably think. Not sure if it stays this way but I kind of like it :)
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Wow really... just... wow!
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I like the concept sketch, though I'll admit I've never really liked the whole "timeship" idea. While I can respect the notion of a future Federation/Starfleet seeking to prevent major shifts in history, I think giving them this level of technology is just silly. There's too much temptation to misuse it, and you can't say for certain that any particular action or future outcome is necessarily wrong.
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Across the Universe they travelled. To the Gallifrey System. There they settled on their new Home Gallifrey, and in the arrogance born from their ability to manipulate space and time, they created a new caste of people. They called themselves Time Lords.
From that point on, a whole new series of really cool and fun adventures began with an outcast Time Lord known only as The Doctor.
So it all makes perfect sense now.
Okay, okay- on topic. I can't really say much about the ship in this post. We need more images. So get to work, BorgDude!... I mean, BorgMan.
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;) By your command! I should have the wings on her within a few days if all goes right :)
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