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City of Breckenridge tightens watering restrictions
BRECKENRIDGE, Texas - Watering restrictions are being tightened in Breckenridge.
Because of low lake levels, Breckenridge is going to that bans non-essential water use, its city manager said Tuesday.
Landscape irrigation now will be on alternate days only. Even-numbered houses can water only on even-numbered days. Odd-numbered houses can water on odd days of the month.


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John Mercer is fed up.
"I went bankrupt 'cause the banks ran me out of money."
Fed up with the system that he says landed him there. Eighty years old and retired, Mercer says his income simply hasn't kept up with his expenses. So his banks cut his credit lines in half.
"I don't know where I'm gonna be, 'cause I ran out of money, period. Everything I had I spent trying to live the last six months."
He's not alone. Seniors across the state -- and indeed the country -- are struggling to balance their checkbooks, as costs of living soar while their incomes remain flat.
The main culprits?
"Changes in retirement, increases in health-care costs or lack of affordable housing are pushing many of our seniors into deprivation," said Kate White, director of Elder Law of Michigan.
Advocacy groups for the elderly gathered Thursday at the state capitol to unveil new statistics highlighting precisely that problem. And their findings are shocking.
Here's the breakdown:
Avg. Yearly Expenses for Elder Person (with Mortgage)
Ingham County: $23,000
Jackson County: $25,000
Eaton County: $24,000
Median Income in Retirement
Michigan Men: $21,000
Michigan Women: $15,000
Average yearly expenses for an elderly individual living in Ingham, Eaton and Jackson counties all topped out above $20,000.
The median income for those same folks? $21,000 for men -- just $15,000 for women. In other words, they're breaking even.
"I will either come out ahead, or I will go below," Mercer said.
The problem? The state's already facing a $1.7 billion budget deficit for next year. But organizers say there are cheaper solutions for aiding seniors.
"I think lawmakers can use some of the economic stimulus funds that we have to expand affordable, low-income housing," White said.
Organizers say Michigan should also push more aggressively for federal funding and food assistance.
John Mercer just hopes the help comes sooner rather than later.


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Stop me if you've heard this one, Pranksters, but did you have any idea that raising children was a lot of work? Because holy fuckballs, is it ever! If I'd have known that, I might have stuck with hamsters. Actually, no, because the last hamster I had (and I am not kidding here) actually threw his own excrement at you if you walked near his cage.
So depending on who you asked, I was either the BEST hamster owner or the worst. Because, OBVIOUSLY.
The way I see it, when you pop out a couple of crotch parasites, it seems that one of the adults in the family–should you be lucky enough to have more than one parent–has to put their own life on the back burner to attend to said crotch parasites.
Well, in our family, I was the one who put my own life on the back burner, because, let's face it Pranksters, I wasn't exactly batting 100% with stellar life choices and The Daver's star was on the fucking rise. So the decision to shelve my nursing career was pretty much a no-brainier for everyone involved and it was frankly kind of a relief because then I didn't have to pretend that I was going to squeeze a turd into a tutu anymore.
Since I've been home, I've done everything I said I was going to do, besides date a cabana boy named Carlos (mostly because I have no cabana), and I've been waiting for it to be my time. It's all been a matter of "when I can do what I want to do again" spoken in terms of years from now, not days or even weeks from now. Long term goals are great, but mine have always been "don't die," not "go back to school in 5 years" or even worse, "keep waiting for your own life to begin."
Because my life as Mommy (or "Becky" as Alex calls me right before he scampers off so that I chase him around the house with my Tickle Claw out) is all of those crocheted platitudes and more, but it's not all that I am. It can't be. Mommy and Aunt Becky will exist together because they have to.
I don't think I was ready before, but I do now. Change is in the air and it is throwing poop at my head. Universe, let's do this.
I'm ready to find out what comes next. I'm playing "Eye of the Tiger" and punching the air. I'm doing visualization exercises and drinking green tea. diet coke. I'm ready, Universe.
I just hope it doesn't involve poo-throwing hamsters.
How do you find balance, Pranksters? Better yet, how do you train a hamster to throw poo at someone RELIABLY?
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God bless you for using the phrase "crotch parasites". At least the parasites don't throw their poop at you as you pass their room…
I had two goldfish commit suicide by frying themselves to death. They somehow jumped through the little jole in the plastic and adhered their little bodies to the lighbulb in the aquarium.
I don't know what it says about me that goldfish would rather have their very own fish fry than live with me.
It's not just you, Amy. My fish regularly commit suicide. I think my longest lasting victim is about 8 months, and then only because my husband found him flopping on the floor and tossed him back into the water a couple times before his self-termination could actually take place. I am Darla from Finding Nemo over here.
You got a hampster to throw poo? There is nothing I can teach you – the world is your oyster.
I'm balanced cause its all about ME!
No, really I just remind myself that life is too short. So GO HARD or GO HOME.
: )
I think the Universe's grand joke is this: YOU are the poo-throwing hamster. You keep throwing the poo and one day, it's going to stick somewhere. Just keep it fresh, girl.
Maybe this is the same thing Wicked Shawn said, but with more poo. Maybe.
P.S. I didn't answer your question. I found balance (I think?) by laying back and falling into motherhood, realizing these days won't last forever. I won't be needed in this same way forever. I feel a lot more joyful about it and somehow still have time to do things I like. My family's good about helping me with that, also.
Oh, right. Not that what you're putting out there is POO, because, as you would say, OBVIOUSLY. You are fantastic. It was the image of the hamster…completely irresistible to me. Okay. Just to be clear. Also? I need to stop replying to myself on your blog. Is it obvious I didn't talk to a grown-up all day?
I think a hamster that throws poop is a hell of a lot better than a dog who is so dumb she can't be housebroken. We quickly dubbed her Taffy Turdpile.
Can I hitch a ride of your rising star? I promise to beat down anything that tries to stop it.
This is like asking "How do you find love?" The answer, of course, is, who in the hell knows. It's different for everyone. For me, it was to stop forcing it. I just had to stop trying so hard and let it happen. I don't mean like toss my hands in the air and backpack around Europe for 3 years, although, damn wouldn't that be the shiznet, but just, realize that it will happen as long as I keep up my end of the bargain. You will get there too, just keep up your end of the bargain, keep being the mom, wife and writer with aspirations, it will happen, trust me, the poop will fly regularly, without a doubt.
Who the hell knows! I just try to be thankful for the little moments I would otherwise miss and remind myself that their goofy dirty faces is what makes it all worthwhile. Most of the time it helps. When it doesn't, well that's what wine/vodka is for.
I found myself much in your position when mine were 5 and 3…I was going insane thinking about the fact that I had never really gotten to use my degree (I worked in a winery for 2 years after graduation – go, BA in English!) and would not for the foreseeable future. So I got a part-time job at a special-collections library at the university, put the wee one into day care in the mornings, and thought about what I wanted to do.
I decided to do the following:
1. Divorce my husband
2. Work full-time at the library
3. Go back to get my PhD.
I wouldn't recommend number 1 for YOU, obviously, but I can say that the girls are teenagers now and are doing very well. No scarring, no psychological issues.
So you might test the waters in regards to working part-time, or taking classes towards what you really want to do.
you're gonna come out big, yo.
btw – carlos is ready for you with a frosty rum runner and plushy towels when your cruise stops by his little island. he can also "get your back" with sunscreen. say yeah!
I went through the extreme version that involved ditching the baby daddy (who wants an extra whining mouth to feed right?) started a home based sewing business and then run away to another city 4 years later so the parasites could go to school in the Big city. Work for a temp agency for 8 years (why get married to a job when you can date it instead).
<3 You rock. That's all I got. But find that you time. You know what I'm talking about. Git outta the house.
Balance??? Ugh….I don't think that is truly possible. That would be like expecting your life to be perfect and I don't know about you but I think perfection is fucking overrated. I like things being slightly askew. As long as my kids always know that I fucking ADORE their little asses then I'm OK. That is not to say they don't tell me on a daily basis what a horrible mean Mommy I am for not letting them do shit like bring sticks into the bath with them or willingly allow them to drop kick each other off of the deck for fun…..they SAY they dislike me but we all know the truth.
Anyway, balance is for the people who live in those fancy houses made of granite counters and whirlpool tubs. Those people are nice but that just ain't me, brutha;).
I'mma get a job, it's gonna suck for a while, people (mainly my kids) are gonna be pissed, it'll all blow over, it'll all get better……and then we'll all be in love with each other again.
I love that Alex calls you Becky. Zeph writes "S-a-r-a" and says "Look! It says Mommy!!"
"Don't die" is the number one item on the top of my to do list everyday. Followed directly by "Don't kill anyone". Anything accomplished after that is merely icing on the proverbial cake.
One day, those will get bumped down to items 4 or 5, but I'm also on hold with life, so who knows when that will happen.
As for training poo-chucking hamsters, I've got 'nuthin. I hate rodents of any variety.
At the beginning of my time as Mommy, I had tons of help. As time went by, I still had help, but much less and my husband was the one who took up most of the slack. I was in a career I loved and was very centered on that. But then I lost everything at once. My marriage ended, I left my job soon after, and then I became the go to parent.
I'm still getting all the pieces together now, but I've found that there's always one place that matters most. Before, it was work for me. Now it's home. I love my job, but my family always comes first.
Love your use of "crotch parasites"! I was the lucky one in my house that had to both take care of the kids and further my career going to school and all, being as my crotch parasites only had sperm donors, not fathers (and I don't mean that in the awesome artificially inseminated way…) I feel like I burnt out in my late 20's and now at 31 I'm wanting something more. Will I go back to school and decide what I want to be when I grow up? Yeah probably at some point, I'm just not there yet…. Everyone figures it out eventually though. Good for you for having that clarifying moment!
Shit, I don't know…I was just going to wait for you to figure it out and then I was going to ask YOU!
I'm demanding a picture of you jogging up a flight of stairs with a sweatband on and your fist in the air. Converse would help. Thank you.
So funny that Alex calls you Becky, we used to call my dad by his first name and finally he and my mom had to tell us to call him dad so people would know he is our dad and not some stranger we are hanging out with haha.
I don't have kids yet so I was interested in reading the replies you got. Knowing the type of person I am I don't think I can be a full time stay at home mom, I think the person who said to get a part time job you enjoy may be on to something. Sometimes you do have to be selfish and put yourself first or the world will eat you up and spit you out and throw you like the hamster throwing poo. You need balance and I think your husband and your kids will get used to that if you just give it time. Good luck!
Love your site by the way, I quote you all the time and my friends are like "who are you" haha I love it though, you make me laugh so hard!
I have nothing for the poo-throwing hamster. I do have fish and cats. The fish don't last long with cats. I have murderous cats. It's inventive how they have killed the fishies.
For balance? You just find your own, as it's been stated. Myself, I find my balance when I've passed right the fuck out in the shower from wearing myself so thin for weeks on end of not eating right, not sleeping enough, and stress. Pass out, take a day off, and then start all over. Except, fuck, that probably is not the kind of balance you are looking for, huh? Yeah, and maybe it's not working so well for me either….Let me know what you figure out, spread the knowledge to us other unbalanced moms.
Aunt Becky, I JUST wrote about the same thing! I don't know how I find balance, like the yoga-zen variety. I just am basically giving up sleep,and squeezing me in there. I find that if I don't, I basically break down on tears and get super emotional (usually on Sunday, go figure)! So I basically am saying FUKC IT! I am not going to feel guilty anymore. . . .like a wise woman once said (and I am paraphrasing) why am I made to feel guilty for writing or checking my facebook if I am taking care of my kids all day. That same wise woman has totally inspired me to bring me back! So thanks a bunch!
"Change is in the air and it's throwing poop at my head…" Aunt Becky, that is pretty eye opening, getting beaned in the head with the poops. Time to get some things going…
Just while we are on the subject of poop….lately after Mea goes poop, she'll get off the toilet, and lean waaaayyyy over, and ask, "Mommy is there poop hanging off my butt?" I think its so funny, and because I laugh she is doing it each time she goes potty now….she'll probably do it until she's 10.
I taught my hamster to put himself away…he would just crawl right back into his cage. Too bad the bastard couldn't learn to shut the door, because my sister apparently taught her cat to eat hamster head. RIP Sugar
You get organized – you figure out what you want to do, and then you rearrange your schedule so you have time for it. Daycare, babysitters, unwitting friends, teaching Alex to take dictation and Mimi to fetch coffee (or Diet Coke) – whatever it takes. You gotta chase after some things, while others just come along.
Your endless analogies to forward progress being made are so much freaking better than mine and I'm somehow happier knowing that.
I'm thinking those little mini blowtorches, the kind they use to fry the top of your creme brulee need to be involved in the hampster training. Also we may need to kidnap Justin Bieber, because I believe he is actually the Hampster King. And because he's on my mind today…
You COULD be like my friend A and her hubby S. HE was the stay-at-home-daddy and just when he was thinking he would get back into things…she got knocked up! Now the kids are 6, 4 and 1…I think he is about to lose his mind though.
just sayin'
My youngest is a little over 4 now and I'm just starting to reclaim my life. I started back to school 3 weeks ago… and I love it. I need to find a job too because we're supposed to eat, I guess, while I pursue my dream. *Sigh* But I'm not giving up the dream this time.
After reading this, I no longer feel guilty for daydreaming for the days of full time school schedules for the little ones. If I had a gold star, I'd give it you.
This is a story my mother told me several years ago:
She was going horseback riding in Central Park NYC with a few friends. I need to mention that my mother had never ridden a horse in her life prior to this incident, off they prance for a lovely day in the park. Only my mothers horse wasn't having it and came to a dead stop a couple of miles into the ride. My mother nudged the horse who in turn turn its head and bit her leg. She nudged him again and the horse bit her again. Finally my mother gets off the horse cursing, screaming and waving her arms trying to get the damn thing to move.
After about 20 minutes of trying she finds a payphone and tells the stable where she left the horse and to come and get the goddamn thing. Then she promptly made her way to the subway and went home.
Balance? What's that? I often feel like my live has been turned upside down and is spilling out every which way.
I stay home with my kids but I work at Target in the evenings for well lets say freedom! haha I love the people I work with and will have to figure out what I want to do when my kids are all in school. So, even though I still could use my degree (Recreational Therapy… I have a degree in "why its good to play") when my youngest is in school, am not sure what I want to do with my life. Plus kids are damn expensive. I gotta get decent paying job! So, all will work itself out… why… because I said so!
Holy shit…I just wrote about my VERY non-balancing skills today and now I'm reading this. Kinda freaks me out a little.
Since I became a mommy…I can not for the life of me figure out the balance of the three…wife, mommy, and ME!
When I start feeling like I'm losing me…I FREAK out.
I honestly don't know what to do aside from see a freakin therapist.
Good for you! I think all SAHM's must struggle with this. I know I've finally started doing some stuff for me.
I'd like to see an animated version (like Rhino from Bolt) of your poo-throwing hamster hurling poo and insults like a fast ball in the big leagues.
Ah! I was (am) a registered nurse, too- and nothing sounds more unreasonable or unappealing than a 12 hour night shift at a stinky hospital. What am I supposed to do for work / personal cultivation when my only experiences are in private practice and working with underprivileged teens? Plus, I have been unbalanced from the time of conception. Who wants to hire some crazy mom? Forgive me- I know, I should save that one for therapy. The universe hears you, Aunt Becky. Your time will come. And if you are answered before I am, please share the love.
I occasionally get a babysitter and go out and do things like perform a burlesque show or do a sexy photo shoot with a nationally recognized photographer.
No, seriously. I have like a stage name and everything.
Other than that…well…all I can ever remember really wanting to be is a mommy. I know that is totally anti-feminist, and you wouldn't think it to look at me, but it's true. It's only been 3 months, so maybe I'll feel differently eventually, but rather than losing myself I feel like I've found myself.
(You may commence gagging, now.)
I had a hamster once who masturbated constantly. I probably should have bought him a female companion, but didn't want to deal with multitudes of hairless hamster babies.
I am so right there with you! In fact, unbeknowst to my husband, (although I do believe he might have at least one foot on the clue bus) this year is all about ME! Me, me, mE, MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
It all started in January when my hubbie and I were in the middle of a "discussion". I had overracted, gotten incredibly mad at him, ranted, raved, and then cried hysterically. It was then that I realized that this fight, was simply because I was not happy being just a wife and a mom, and I need ME back. After my display commenced, my hubbie wanted to air his grievances, and I simply didn't want to hear them. So I said, as kindly as possible, "No thanks, really, this is all about me."
The next day I started a blog.
It is about figuring out who the fuck I am (reading your blog makes me feel like cursing…which used to be my favorite past time – thanks for that!) since I entered into this whirlwind of motherhood.
The trouble with balance is that something always gives. At the moment in this house it is cleanliness.
The trouble with balance is that something always gives. At the moment in this house it is cleanliness.
You are already doing it. The writing, its going to happen. And when Mimi starts school, the world is your oyster. I know its going to happen, because you are a supah star!
I find my balance through my volunteer work with my dog group. Otherwise, between the offenders and my own kiddos it seriously would be 24 hours of straight parenting. Both at work and at home, ugh!!
Balance is all about stealing "me" moments whenever they present themselves. Here's to you stealing as many "me" moments as possible, duder. That change you feel is coming? Publishers. I know it.
Last night I had a dream that I was watching Oscar play with his toys. It was very soothing. I woke up and went to work in a happy mood, ready to tackle a huge project. I got sidetracked by some very annoying busy work and by some stupid students, then spilled diet Coke all over my computer. Then I went into a rage at the grocery store because I couldn't separate two shopping carts. So I came home and cooked and ate a frozen pizza and watched Oscar playing with his toys.
What, what was the question again?
I had hamsters once upon a time; one of them looked at me one day when I was cleaning out their cage and flung itself off of the table and killed itself. I never had another one.
Yes, raising crotch parasites (love it) is amazingly harder than I ever imagined. The stamina required. The giant sucking sound of finances, libido and travel. No wonder parents expect so much gratitude. I can say that because mine don't read blogs.
OK. It's time I make my love for you official.
I have grabbed one of your buttons.
well,OBVIOUSLY……. you're SUPPOSED to be off balance when you have small munchkins……then slowly the universe evens it back out….and you emerge and think…..who the shit was i before job, marriage, kids? ( Oh yeah, i was crazy, dumb, naive…..it's a miracle i survived).
YOU, aunt becky, are OBVIOUSLY a fuckin gifted writer!!! (in spite of, …or..because of ….your 'other roles'???…doesn't really matter, you got one heart.)
Anyway, your post reminded me of lyrics in a song….
"First a mother bathes her child then the other way around
The Scales always find a way to level out"
Hi there, I've been reading your blog, commented once or twice but never introduced myself. I'm Katie, pleasure to meet you 🙂
I don't have any ankle-biters, but I do know a little about getting knocked on your ass and having to start over again. And I think you have the two things that are essential to starting over: the will to do so, and a community of people who want to see you succeed. in my experience when you have those, and you can take over the world.
You can do it!
You WILL get your life back. I was a stay at home mom with my two youngest daughters (13 months apart, mind you). It was crying and screaming all day long. Toys being hurled across the room. Sleep deprivation, (youngest one had colic). My nerves were shattered. Nobody tells you how hard it's going to be. Would I have kids 13 months apart ever again? Hell no. I would rather slide down a razor blade into a pool of alcohol. My girls are 11 and 12 now. I love them to pieces, but I clearly remember that feeling of thinking I'll never have a life again. Hang in there, baby.
I find my balance at the bottom of wine glass, the only real problem is I can't be doing that all day every day while I am at work.
If I have to take a half hour to do my thing while the girls are present, I figure it is teaching them that I have a work ethic and perservence for doing something (blogging) that I get no $$$ from.
I'm supposed to b balanced? Really?
Hmmmm. Well I do work, and I get home with enough time to spend about an hour by myself everyday – and about 4 hours on Fridays. And I do – because I can.
Wow – I just re-read my comment and I sound kind of snotty. But I didn't mean it like that. Damn.


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The Michael Nyman Band
Alexander Balanescu: violin
Malcolm Bennett: bass guitar
Andrew Findon: baritone sax
Barry Buy: double bass
John Harle: soprano, alto, tenor sax
Ian Mitchell: clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax
Michael Nyman: harpsichord, piano
Elisabeth Perry: violin
Steve Saunders: bass trombone, euphonium
Keith Thompson: tenor sax
My music for The Draughtman's Contract neatly draws together some musicological loose-ends of 1967 with some not-so-loose compositional ends (and means) of 1982. The setting of the film -England c.1695- suggested the use of (then) contemporary music, and immediately that of Henry Purcell not merely because he died in 1695 but because he was a better composer than anyone else in England at that time (and more or less ever since). My musicological connection with Purcell runs back to the mid-60s when Thurston Dart presided over my (still unfinished) Ph.D. thesis on 16th and 17th century English repetitive and systems music -that is, rounds, canons and catches. In 1967 my edition of Purcell's Catches was published by Stainer and Bell -the first to put the dirty words back since around 1740.
But whereas as a musicologist my prime concern was with the meticulous reconstruction of as 'correct' a musical text as possible from the printed sources of Purcell's day, as a composer there was obviously never any question of sticking to the letter of Purcell's music, or even necessarily to its spirit (though it is possible that my transformations may represent an ideal of how I would like to hear his music performed). Nor did Peter and I consider indulging in the pointless activity of musical pastiche usually found on the soundtracks of films located in the 'historical past' -The Draughtman's Contract could only erroneously be seen as pastiche (and who's interested in reproduction antiques anyway?). So we agreed on a score that would be on the one hand 'Purcell' and on the other 'Nyman' and simultaneously both, and when more recognisably the latter would nonetheless never stray too far from the former: 1982 going on 1695.
There was a precedent for this in my In Re Don Giovanni (1977) which takes to pieces the texture of the first 16 bars of the 'Catalogue Song' from Don Giovanni and puts it together again, retaining every note of the original while transforming both its sound and its feel, as it refers back to Mozart and forward to 70s minimalism, process music and rock. For The Draughtman's Contract score a not dissimilar process of reconstruction, renovation, renarration, refocussing, revitalisation, rearrangement -or just plain rewriting- would be applied to a carefully sifted, narrow range of Purcell material (the range limited both by the requirements of the film and my own requirements as a composer): at all points the harmonic basis of the chosen music and quite often its melodic or rhythmic features would be apparent even to the not-particularly-attentive listener (though at no point did I usa all the components as I did in In Re Don Giovanni -some of Purcell's melodic writing remains stubbornly 17th century).
Accordingly I returned to the Purcell Society Edition of the Complete Works of Purcell for the first time in 15 years (remebering yet another unfinished project -a new scholarly edition of the Two- and Three-Part Songs), and rooted out ground basses and chaconnes, or lifted prozed details which stood out from the page which I then turned into ground bass surrogates. Ground basses were chosen for three reasons:
such repetitive harmonic schemes often drew the best out of Purcell: 'Dido's Lament', 'Sound the Trumpet', 'Music for Awhile', for instance, though none of these were used in my score since they were all too well known (my aim was to provide a memory of Purcell, not specific memories);
they are closest to the infinitely repeatable / variable / recyclable / layerable harmonic structures that I customarily work with;
(and crucially in the context of this particular film) these closed harmonic systems could be interpreted as making a musical parallel with the organisational and temporal constraints that the draughtsman Neville imposes on the Herbert household as he goes about his task of completing the 12 commissioned drawings of the house and the grounds. The initial plan for the score was to assign a different ground bass to each of the two sets of six drawings (to help with the 'reading' of each of Neville's designated viewpoints) and allows each piece to grow and develop as each drawing progressed over six days. This fine plan was shot to pieces by the practicalities of film length, the editing process and the invariable problems of balancing the demands of dialogue, sound effects and music; so that some of the music prepared was not composed, some composed and not used, some used only in part. The concert score restores all the music originally composed and develops some of the material further than was possible in the film score.
One of the delights of working with Peter Greenaway is the possibilities it gives me of providing a 'service' and working precisely the same way I do when writing my 'concert music'; but without The Draughtman's Contract there would have been no opportunity to return, gratefully, to the music of my past, that of Henry Purcell.
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Saeed: Just a quick thought: as a product manager, who do you spend most of your time working with? Probably developers and sales folks. If a PM book doesn't take the time to talk about how you can get the most out of those relationships (and keep both parities from fighting), then it's really missed the main challenge of being a product manger.
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Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs—the people who found and own businesses—enjoy some pretty big perks: the corner office, first dibs on morning office coffee, and personal assistants they can order around. But that doesn't mean it's all apple pie and golf course tee times.
Entrepreneurs also face a number of challenges.
Less Stability
If you have a 9-to-5 job—even a crappy one—your employer is required by law to pay you. If you're an entrepreneur working for yourself, you don't have that kind of guarantee.
Have a client who doesn't pay? Tough break, champ. You're going to have to go after them yourself. Not earning anything because no one's buying your widgets, chocolate covered pretzels, or web design services? Then you don't get paid.
We hope you stocked up on Ramen noodles.
High Rates of Risk
If you have a traditional job, you're going to get paid until you get fired or until the company goes under. As an entrepreneur, you have higher rates of risk.
A lot of new businesses don't make it past the first year. If that's you, you're out on your butt. It's even worse if you've borrowed money to open your company because now you owe cash, and you don't have any money coming in to pay for that debt.
Not great.
Putting Others First
You wouldn't think that business person in the BMW is all about putting other people first, but as an entrepreneur you're probably going to be pouring most of the money you make back into your business or spending it on services—such as web design and accountants—rather than on yourself. Everything else comes first when you're building up a business, and that might mean there's very little left over for you at the beginning.
The payoff? Once you start succeeding, you get the big bucks.
Taxes and Overhead
Running your own business comes with a loss of expenses. The government is going to be really interested as soon as you open your doors, and the IRS will want their cut of the pie. On top of that, you're going to have to pay for really boring things like utilities, web hosting services, and everything else you need to keep your doors open (and lights on). All of that cuts into the money you could be spending on yourself.
To start any business, you're going to need some capital. Some of that will be intellectual capital—like the brilliant idea and patent you have for a new cell phone that levitates—and some of that will be cold, hard cash.
Paying wages for engineers and buying a cell phone manufacturing plant aren't free, you know. Coming up with $100 million or more to launch a tech business is pretty tough. In fact, if you had $100 million lying around, you might not feel the need to launch your own company.
You're probably going to have to take out loans, rely on angel investors, try venture capital, or sell shares of the company to pay for it all. And all of this is before you even have anything to show for it.
If you decide to get capital by selling stocks or shares of your company, you're going to be dealing with dilution. That means that the more shares you sell, the more money you will raise—but the less of your company you'll own.
At the start, you'll own 100% of your business. It'll be your baby. But after raising $100 million through ten rounds of financing, you might wind up owning only about 2% of the company: the rest belongs to your shareholders. And all those shareholders are going to want to have their say into how the company is run.
Yes, entrepreneurs get some major perks. If you launch a brilliant business and manage it well, you could end up with the next Snapchat or Instagram on your hands. You'll be rolling in millions and have tons of employees you can boss around while you put in more time on the serious business of vacation.
But along the way, there are lots of speed bumps you need to look out for. Better buckle your seat belt.


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Definition of sugar of lead in English:
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Lead acetate, a soluble white crystalline salt.
- Chemical formula: Pb(CH3CO2)2.
Example sentences
- It shouldn't have been, but white lead was used to make bread whiter and sugar of lead to make wine sweeter.
- Litharge and sugar of lead are used to-day only rarely as drying agents, having been displaced by the liquid manganese siccatives, which are easy to handle.
- Unlike most other salts, this type of lead acetate has a sweet rather than a salty taste, resulting in its sometimes being called sugar of lead and its use in ancient Rome as a wine sweetener.
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The Ferry That Tweets
The Internet of Things is one of those phrases that is entering the lexicon, but like so many new ideas, it is rather hard to pin down exactly what it means.
Essentially it means adding Internet connectivity to everyday objects in order to make them more useful. Andy Stanford-Clark, who enjoys the job title of master inventor and distinguished engineer at IBM Inc., is as classic a geek-evangelist as you are going to find. Speaking at the Internet of Things conference held at the University of Cambridge on June 27, he gave a great example of what the Internet of Things means.
Mr. Stanford-Clark lives on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England. The only way to get to and from the island is by ferry. The problem, said Mr. Stanford-Clark, was that sometimes ferries would be delayed, or even canceled, and there was no way of knowing without turning up at the port.
"The [ferry] company had a recorded hotline, but the guy who records the message didn't get to work until 9 a.m.," he said. "Before that it was saying what it said the night before, which often wasn't correct."
One day, Mr. Stanford-Clark got to the port to find the boat was delayed.
"I was sitting there thinking, 'Internet of Things, instrumentation, intelligence. Must be able to do better than that,'" he said. "It so happened there is a thing called AIS [Automated Identification System], which all boats have to have. It broadcasts out a boat's GPS coordinates and the name of the boat."
There were people who were pulling that data out of the air, he said, and making it available in a data feed. "Sitting there with my laptop on my knee, I wrote a program to fish out all the ferries by name." By using the AIS data he was able to work out if that boat was leaving or arriving at the ferry port; that information could then be fed into a Twitter stream. There was now a live, real-time service telling passengers where each ferry was.
All of this was done without the assistance of the ferry company. The company has since bought the service from IBM and enhanced it.
While Mr. Stanford-Clark admits the story is a bit old now–it happened in 2009–he says it's still a great example of how the Internet of Things should transform people's lives.
But this isn't just about reducing the waiting times for passengers; it has a real business application, said Mr. Stanford-Clark. "People who have refrigerated trucks can receive an alert warning them. You won't be sitting in our car park with your chillers running for an extra half an hour. It has a knock-on effect on the supply chain," he said.


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GBCI: 0910000357New developments in sustainable and ecological building, new technology sewage, and waste disposal
Published on: June 25, 2014
With new developments in sustainable and ecological building, new technology sewage and waste disposal has emerged. The concept is to upcycle waste as valuable resource instead of flushing it away and allowing it to cause ecological damage on important aquatic ecosystems. Emerging technologies can be aesthetically pleasing, viably retrofit, and sanitary. In addition, the use of these technologies can save water, capture important nutrients as fertilizers for grounds, and are cost effective.
This course is a recording of a live webinar hosted on May 28, 2014.
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- Choose appropriate sustainable sewage options for existing and new construction buildings
- Understand the maintenance and biological requirements for systems
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Georgi Zatloka
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This presentation had great descriptions of alternative technologies that are not often seen or discussed but are a huge opportunity for sustainable development and/or operations. The presenter is obviously passionate about sustainability and I appreciate that she doesn't let the stigma of the topic keep her from discussing this important topic.
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Steve Peterson
Mechanical Engineering Department Manager, Burns & McDonnell Engineering
presenter was excellent handling a foul subject with tact and import
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Orlando Pacheco
Purchasing Agent/Energy Manager, City of Haverhill
This was very informative! I was pleasantly surprised by the level of information and how smooth it was presented.
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Orlando Pacheco
Purchasing Agent/Energy Manager, City of Haverhill
This was very informative! I was pleasantly surprised by the level of information and how smooth it was presented.
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Jason Kliwinski
CEO/Founder, The Green Building Center
This is noted as a basic presentation and is appropriate to that level as noted in other comments. A couple of critiques of the presentation itself:
1. On one slide a 1.6gal flush toilet is noted as a 'low flush' toilet. This is a bare minimum code compliant toilet, not low flush. Low flush is considered 1.28 or less typically. Some of the technical information needs to be checked. More discussion on building codes and restrictions/approvals to use alternate fixtures would be beneficial to include as noted.
2. Many slides stay on the screen for 1-5 minutes a time while being talked over. There are a lot of bits of useful information being discussed but it is not captured in the slides. I would suggest that more slides be added to this presentation and they move quicker to demonstrate all the points. Looking at the same slide for this length of time and trying to pick up on all the information being discussed is not as engaging as it could be and difficult to keep the listener's interest in my opinion.
3. A substantial amount of time is spent talking about urine diverting toilets. I believe that Atara actually is involved in the sales and distribution of these fixtures through Rosie's Natural Way. Any product that they sell which is discussed in this presentation should be clearly disclosed as part of the presentation either at the beginning or the end I think. This is a potential conflict of interest and a bit 'commercial' otherwise.
4. The words 'UMM' and 'AHH" are used a lot throughout this presentation. I counted well over 30 instances in last 30 minutes of the presentation alone. These should be eliminated. A lot of times people don't realize they are doing it.
5. End of the presentation includes 15 minutes of Q&A from the webinar. Screen is blank during this time and host and speaker are having a dialog. Not sure this should be included or not. Most webinars I have ever taken do not have this.
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Scott Bowman
Owner - Building Sage, Integrated Design + Energy Advisors, LLC
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Agree with Prasad, this is an introductory presentation on waste-water reduction systems. Many systems are described and touched upon to give an overview of what is currently available. There is a mix of applications to homes versus commercial buildings.
More information is needed on the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) issues, and how to resolve them through partnerships and education. Specific applications are mentioned, but not described in very much detail.
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Prasad Vaidya
LEED Fellow, LEED Faculty, Principal,, zenerG
Pro Reviewer
This is a basic level course that points out some of the waste-water (black-water) reduction and treatment technologies available. Its well-rounded as an introduction that would be useful to building owners, users, designers, contractors and maintenance personnel.
If you are looking for technical details for on-site waste-water management, you won't find them here. The course is a little light on the policy side where the presenter explains that the waste-water treatment issues are sensitive for the local municipalities, but there is little explanation about the different types of building codes in the country (or world) that are helpful to, or hinder black-water reduction strategies.


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Experimental food research slowly changes from an individual activity to a collective activity. This certainly is true for food research at the Top Instituut Food & Nutrition TIFN. At present, cooperation between researchers mostly takes place at the level of small teams, or -in case of a finished experiment- by publishing research results to the scientific community. Nevertheless, a continuous sharing of research questions, materials, protocols, intermediate results (data, methods, models, et cetera) is at least as important as performing new experiments and writing publications. The phrase "better three days in the laboratory then 1 hour at a computer" starts to become old-fashioned and counter-productive.
To meet the demands of collaborative research, we have created Tiffany.
Tiffany is the name of the web application that supports the researchers of TIFN in sharing and finding research data. Tiffany helps to structure the research process according to the research workflow. The most noticable features of Tiffany are:
Researchers formulate their research questions in Tiffany and add experimental data, conclusions, publications and presentations to the system during their research work. The research questions are organised in a tree structure consisting of main questions and subquestions.
All information in Tiffany can be tagged with one or more terms to better retrieve the information in a later moment. Existing tags are offered as suggestions during the tagging process and during searching of information.
Tiffany uses a role-based access model that determines which information is available for which user. The access depends on the role of the user (project leader, researcher, guest) and the information status of the item (draft, shared with the team, approved, public).


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Bridge to Terabithia
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"I'm scared, Jesse. I'm too scared."
"'Course you're scared. Anybody'd be scared. You just gotta trust me, OK? I'm not gonna let you fall, May Belle. I promise you." (13.21-22)
Jess finally realizes that it's all right to "be scared," and tells May Belle that too. There are some circumstances that would scare everybody. Even though they're both afraid, that doesn't stop him from acting bravely. We could argue that he actually acts more bravely because he's determined to deal with the circumstances and overcome his fear.


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I am a graduate if GMIT, having specialized in Painting. I am currently exhibiting my work. In the coming months i will be entering my old primary and secondary school as an artist to do some creative projects with them. I will also begin an after school Art class.(with kids and Adults) Throughout this time spent in the schooling environment i will be monoriting and evaluating my own practice but also their work as an ongoing project.
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At the moment i am exhibiting my work in Galway and in Leitrim. I have received great feedback from my work and this encourages my to explore to a greater dept. My work is based on the Landscape we see before us. One can take this as a metaphor for everyday life,memories,emotions and sensations that may fall upon us at an time. My " Landscapes" are based on my memories, my emotions and the way i precieve life. My work has taken an oriental turn as i regard the way Japanese Artists percieve the world around them.


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Safety Valve: Letters from our readers
Stop noxious weeds
I have several comments in response to the article by Betsy Steele published on the Community Connections page of The Wenatchee World on April 30. While it is true that noxious weeds impact our natural resources, a large portion of Chelan County's economy is dependent, either directly or indirectly, on agriculture. Yes, the sign erected by the Chelan County Noxious Weed Board can be scoffed at in a narrowminded way, not much corn growing around here. With a broader view, the message of the sign should be clear. "Weed 'em and Reap" means that there are economic benefits to controlling noxious weeds.


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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet", says Juliet, in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, assuring Romeo of her love for him. Anglo-Dutch FMCG giant, Unilever, presumably believes the Indian public, like Juliet, will love it regardless of whether it is called Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) or Hindustan Unilever Ltd. Hence its willingness to risk the goodwill built up over the years by HLL in favour of the new unfamiliar HUL.
The board of directors of the company is reportedly all set to approve the change in name on Tuesday. The argument is that this will enable the Indian subsidiary leverage the global scale and reputation of Unilever with its consumers and other stakeholders in India. No doubt, the name Hindustan Unilever will put the Unilever stamp on its Indian subsidiary and make it abundantly clear that HLL is part of the larger Unilever brand.


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Photography Techniques
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Make your own passport photos
Why is it when we go on holiday and need a passport photo we rely on that robot booth to churn out automated pictures at a tune of over £3 per shot? Peter Bargh shows you how to shoot, prepare and print pictures for your passport with ease.
- 1 Jan 2003
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Introduction To Hand-Held Light Meters
See how a hand-held light meter will help you get better exposures, even if you are using a digital camera.
- 27 Nov 2011
- 14 Comments
Using layer masks with Photoshop
Peter Bargh explains how you can use the valuable Layer Mask option of Photoshop to make better colour changes and selections, in this step by step image editing technique.
- 30 Nov -0001
Enhancing Eyes using Photoshop
The eyes are one of the most important parts of a portrait, and usually the first thing we notice. Therefore, a small amount of enhancement on the eyes can go a very long way to producing a portrait with real zing.
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Four Easy Ways To Create A Vignette In Photoshop
Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one in Photoshop.
- 6 May 2016
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How To Use A Neutral Density Filter
Attaching a neutral density filter to your camera lens will bring you several benefits, as Peter Bargh explains.
- 18 Nov 2011
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Black & white high key effects in Photoshop
The famous high key effect is one of the most interesting, yet simple, effects you can achieve in digital photography
- 30 Nov -0001
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Depth-of-field explained
Once you grasp the basic principles of focusing your photographs will take on a whole new depth.
- 6 Jan 2002
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Watermarking your photos in Photoshop 7 and CS
Photoshop expert, Terry Steeley, kicks off the first of a new series of tutorials for ePHOTOzine that looks at how to watermark our digital images to protect them from being used without our consent.
- 30 Nov -0001
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Create a pop art photo Andy Warhol style using Gimp
Andy Warhols work features one of the most recognisable styles of print in the art world and his silk screen prints of stars as famous as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor are iconic. Here Michael Bates recreates the effect for using the free image editing program, Gimp.
- 12 Jun 2008
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8 Top Ways To Use A Telephoto Lens For Photography
Here are 8 tips on how to use and what to shoot with a telephoto lens.
- 3 Aug 2016
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Garden Macro Photography Tips - Dew Drops
Get up early and explore your garden with your macro lens to capture interesting waterdrop images.
- 24 Mar 2016
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Four Easy Ways To Create A Vignette In Photoshop
Vignettes are a simple yet subtle way to guide the eye through a shot and here are four ways to create one in Photoshop.
- 6 May 2016
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Use your computer to create a silhouette
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Improve Your Black & White Landscapes Instantly By Following One Simple Rule
Learn the one main rule that'll instantly improve your black & white landscapes.
- 5 Jan 2016
Tips On Photographing Storms
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Beginner's Guide To Moving Images In Photoshop
You can create interesting images by simply moving several images into one document as this tutorial will show you.
- 17 Mar 2012
Photographing Canals
Spend an hour or two with your camera at the side of a canal and you'll soon have plenty of images.
- 27 Aug 2016
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Selective Sharpening in GIMP
Michael Bates shows us how to sharpen up our images in Gimp.
- 18 Sep 2008
How To Use Blur To Create A Sense Of Action
Read on to see how blur isn't always a bad thing as it can help emphasis speed and create action in a shot.
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FATF: 'Significant Progress' by Canada on AML Program
The Financial Action Task Force said Monday that Canada "made significant progress" in addressing deficiencies in its anti-money laundering program, and recommended it no longer face annual FATF audits.
The FATF said in a statement it had placed Canada on its annual follow-up list after a peer evaluation in 2008 that found issues with several of the country's anti-money laundering regulations, including problems with requirements on reporting beneficial owners, conducting due diligence and taking risk-based approaches. But in the report issued Monday, the FATF said deficiencies over rules governing beneficial ownership and ongoing due diligence "have been substantially addressed."
In addition, the FATF said Canada strengthened its financial intelligence and reporting units, required money-services businesses to register with the government, and expanded coverage of its anti-money laundering regime to additional non-financial businesses, such as notaries and dealers in precious metals and stones.
The FATF, an international body that sets standards on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing policy, met in Paris last week for its semi-annual plenary session, where officials discussed a panoply of issues, including the adoption of universal procedures for its latest round of country evaluations.
On Friday, the FATF also recommended Austria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Aruba to no longer follow up every year on their progress.
Kenya and Tanzania moved up to the FATF's gray list Friday after both made progress with implementing plans they each made with the FATF to address anti-money laundering and terror financing issues. Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Antigua and Barbuda will no longer be subject to monitoring, the FATF said. Afghanistan and Cambodia aren't making sufficient progress, the FATF said, threatening blacklisting if the two countries don't take enough action by June.
Countries that fail to implement FATF recommendations run the risk of being labeled as high-risk or uncooperative jurisdictions, thereby making it more costly and difficult for those nations to do business with the banking systems of FATF member states.
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At root in Copper is the question who's going to run New York? Who will have power? What will the future look like? "It really was tribalistic back then," explains Kelly. "In 1776 they wrote that all men were created equal. Except for you guys and you guys. But the insane radical notion of democracy is being fought out on the streets in this show 75 years later."
In this season of Copper the fight takes us to Tammany Hall. The Irish were a huge part of that story. "In the last season we learned most of the characters were Irish but the famine was not mentioned! That's incredible because the Five Points was the bastard creation of the potato famine. This year we address the Irish back-story more. As well as the issues that shaped and created this world."
Tammany for all its sins was a force for amazing good in society, Kelly argues. "It was institution on a large scale level to deal with the needs wants and desires of impoverished immigrants. Most of our taken for granted social legislation originated in Tammany Hall. Whether it was eight hour work days or child labor laws."
In particular Tammany used to fight and win for the underdog. Today the main parties either ignore or fight against the underdog, Kelly feels. Politics is now more of a money game than it ever was.
The questions that play out in Copper are still playing out on New York's streets. "Manhattan is becoming unrecognizable," says Kelly. "There's no middle class left, there's no working class. It's a place where people of means are able to live a fun little life."
So what were the Irish doing then that they're not doing now? "Sticking together," Kelly answers. "They had to. They didn't want to," he laughs. "Copper's is a great bit of storytelling. For readers of the Irish Voice it will resonate since its basically telling the story of your readers."


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ETPM Micro Focus COBOL Licenses
By Joe Brulle on Oct 10, 2011
A common question/issue that many projects have is what Micro Focus COBOL license do they need. It primarily depends on what you are doing on your implementation. If you need to create or update new COBOL programs then you need one of the Express licenses (Server Express for Unix or Net Express for Windows). This allows you to compile COBOL programs on your implementation. If your implementation does not need to compile COBOL code then you only need the runtime license.
The runtime license is included with the ETPM license fee. When you install ETPM it will come with a 30-day temporary license. You will need to obtain a permanent license from the Oracle License team. You will need your Customer Support Identifier Number (CSI) and ask for the appropriate license. Since most of our tax clients are not developing COBOL this will be the Micro Focus Runtime license for ETPM. You mail this information to email@example.com
The license team will then send you the zipped file that will contain the script and instructions on how to install the permanent license.


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In the Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka
The Officer
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Depending on how you read the penal colony itself, the officer will change, too. In Warren's view (see "Reading the story allegorically" above), the officer is something of a priest figure, and definitely the hero of the story, standing up for his true beliefs. If the penal colony is a totalitarian state, the officer is just a thoroughly brainwashed goon who buys into the system and kills people with no bad conscience. In the "traditional religious society" reading, he can be a priest-like figure or a "true believer."
On the other hand, if you want a much more dramatic allegorical reading of the officer, you could see him as a Christ figure. The machine, with its excruciating and very long procedure, and the wounds it inflicts on the body of the prisoner, might make you think of the crucifixion. Plus, like Christ, the officer sacrifices himself and suffers an excruciating death. Of course, if you want to go this route, the question is "For what does the officer sacrifice himself?"


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Devi Kroell's One-Woman Show
Here's a brand you probably haven't heard of yet: Dax Gabler.
This is the line's first season. Designer Devi Kroell, who is still in legal battles with her former investors at eponymous Devi Kroell, designed it in her home, and it is an entirely one-woman show.
She flew to Asia to arrange for manufacturing, taught factories how to make more luxurious knitwear, and priced it herself before her presentation on Wednesday in New York's art gallery district in Chelsea. Ms. Kroell said she was also planning to sell the line…herself.
"Right now it's just me, myself, and I," she said. Since the line was new, she had no committed sales, just a calendar full of market-week appointments.
Like Roland Mouret and Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Ms. Kroell left her Devi Kroell brand last April after disagreements with her investors. Like them, the move landed her in hot legal water, and her investors with a designerless designer brand.
Her new line costs far less than the luxury Devi Kroell line — prices range from $250 to $900. The most expensive item in the collection is a $900 hand-knit sweater. The looks are earthy and comfortable, flat boots and shoes that look as though they cost twice the price. Knit sweaters and bags that bridge the gap between what Coach was in the old days and what Prada is now.
It's quite a fabulous line from a woman leading a precarious life.
Dax Gabler does need to do some expanding, though, to dress real mannequins. "I'm going to add categories," said Ms. Kroell. "As you can see, there are no pants under the sweaters."


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Contact me here.
Born: May 28, 1975
Hometown: Arcadia, CA
Current home: Hong Kong
Occupation: Founder & CEO, MWI, currently focused on MWI Hong Kong. Contributor to TechCrunch, Mashable, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and other publications. Speaker at TEDx and various marketing industry and startup events.
Hobbies: Family, friends, skateboarding, reading, writing, triathlon, trail running, drawing.
Religion: Mormon
Books: Chief Marketing Officers at Work, Apress (March, 2016), also see here.
Copy and paste bio (edit as needed): Josh Steimle is speaker, writer, and entrepreneur. He has written over 200 articles for publications like Forbes, Mashable, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, and Time, and is the author of Chief Marketing Officers at Work. He is the CEO of MWI, a digital marketing firm he founded in 1999 with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and the U.S. Steimle regularly presents to business groups, industry associations, and at events like ClickZ Live, Echelon, Ad:Tech, CommunicAsia, Social Media Week, and the Content Marketing Conference. Entrepreneur magazine recognized Steimle as one of 50 Online Marketing Influencers To Watch in 2016, and data from social media research firm Leadtail recently ranked Steimle #11 on their list of People Most Mentioned and Retweeted by CMOs. Steimle has been interviewed for national TV and radio on topics related to technology, and in Asia Steimle consults with leaders in government on topics related to entrepreneurship and startups. He has held various board positions on or otherwise worked with non-profit entities related to adoption, education, entrepreneurship, economics, and government policy. Steimle holds a Masters of Information Systems Management from Brigham Young University (BYU). Steimle started his marketing agency while a student at BYU where he won the BYU Business Plan Competition in 2001. Steimle was also named the Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 by the Utah chapter of the Small Business Administration. Steimle lives in Shenzhen, China with his wife and two children, and is an avid reader, trail runner, triathlete, and skateboarder. He is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka "Mormons") and served a mission for his church to Manaus, Brazil. He is fluent in English and Portuguese.
Brief Non-Marketing Bio: I was born and raised in Arcadia, California, the youngest of four children. My dad was a rocket scientist for NASA and my mother was a public school teacher. Based on results, my favorite activity as a kid was breaking my arms (1 mountain biking, 2 skateboarding). I grew up reading voraciously, doing some creative writing, drawing a lot, and skateboarding. The only thing I thought I could do for a career was art, so I planned to study at Art Center in Pasadena after high school and perhaps a year or two doing general studies somewhere else. But I'm Mormon, and so at age 19 I went to serve a two-year mission for my church in Brazil where I learned Portuguese. Being in the Amazon jungle for two years changed my mind about a few things, and I decided that when I came back to the US I would study business instead of being an artist. I had run a skate shop while in high school and loved the business side of things, but hadn't realized until I was in Brazil and was looking at a college pamphlet a friend of mine had that you could study business in college.
I ended up getting a Masters of Information Systems Management from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. But two years before I graduated, while working for the startup that would become Omniture, I decided I couldn't wait to graduate and started a web design firm. That was in 1999 and today that company is MWI, which I still run. It's the only job I've ever kept for more than five months. Today MWI still does web design, although our focus is on the entire gamut of online marketing services. We like to get involved with our clients as their virtual online marketing department and handle everything from strategy to execution. We make it easy by allowing clients to pay a fixed monthly rate, and in return they get everything taken care of that's related to online marketing, and a nice set of monthly reports that show that everything is going well. MWI is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, but I am currently living in Hong Kong where I'm opening a branch office of the firm.
I've been privileged to write for various publications including Fast Company, Business Insider, VentureBeat, South China Morning Post, TechinAsia, Mashable, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, and Forbes. If you would like me to write a guest post for your blog or publication please contact me, I'd love to.
I'm married to a beautiful, smart woman and we have two young children who have replaced our TV as our source of entertainment. I still enjoy skateboarding, reading, and drawing, and have added trail running and triathlons to my list of hobbies.


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This is something that shouldn't be news, but has appeared in a few stories (like this one today in The Washington Post) since last week. The "American Family Association" (AFA) is at it again with another boycott. This time they're up in arms over McDonald's joining the Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, placing an executive on their board of directors.
So the AFA has issued a boycott, telling members to contact the company and avoid Happy Meals in the meanwhile. The AFA asked McDonald's to remove itself from the chamber, but they have declined. And they had this to say:
"Hatred has no place in our culture," McDonald's USA spokesman Bill Whitman said. "That includes McDonald's, and we stand by and support our people to live and work in a society free of discrimination and harassment."
"McDonald's is associated with countless local and national affinity groups. . . . We have a well-established and proud heritage of associating with individuals and organizations that share the belief that every person has the right to live and work in a community free of discrimination."
Well I say kudos to McDonald's for standing up for equality and fairness! Being summer time, I've been trying to avoid carbs, but I just might need to go have a Big Mac after reading this.


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Political Wisdom: Sarah Palin Can Have Star Power Too!
Here's a summary of the smartest new political analysis on the Web:
By Sara Murray
If Barack Obama can make being wildly inexperienced seem like no big deal thanks to his mesmerizing presence, why can't Sarah Palin do the same thing? Well maybe she can – and she'll probably have to, writes The Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer. John McCain's strongest attack against Obama was Obama's total lack of experience. But then he chose Palin. "The gamble is enormous. In a stroke, McCain gratuitously forfeited his most powerful argument against Obama. And this was even before Palin's inevitable liabilities began to pile up," Krauthammer writes.
"McCain has one hope…In a year of compounding ironies, the McCain candidacy could be saved, and the Palin choice vindicated, by one thing: Palin pulls an Obama. Obama showed that star power can trump the gravest of biographical liabilities…Palin does not reach Obama's mesmeric level. Her appeal is far more earthy, workmanlike and direct. Yet she managed to banish a week's worth of unfriendly media scrutiny and self-inflicted personal liabilities with a single triumphant speech," he points out. So here's the bottom line: "if she too can neutralize unreadiness with star power, then the demographic advantages she brings McCain — appeal to the base and to Reagan Democrats — coupled with her contribution to the reform theme, might just pay off. The question is: Can she do the magic — unteleprompted extemporaneous magic, from now on — for the next nine weeks?"
Well, it's pretty tough to say whether Palin can make magic in the next few weeks when she's still refusing to talk to reporters, ABC News' Jake Tapper writes. "Given the importance of the job she accepted Wednesday night in her nomination speech, it's entirely reasonable for voters to expect Palin to answer questions from journalists about her positions and her record. If Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., or Joe Biden, D-Del., refused to answer questions from the press, the RNC and the McCain campaign would never stop carping about it — and rightly so."
Apparently the campaign disagrees. One Time magazine reporter pointed out that it would be nice of Palin to prove that "she knows things about domestic and foreign policy that presidents and vice presidents need to know." It seems, however, that Palin (and the McCain campaign) will be the ones controlling that conversation. "So what does that mean, practically speaking?" Tapper wonders. "Will the woman seeking to be a heartbeat away from the presidency avoid talking to the media? Obama sat down for an interview with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly Thursday — hardly friendly terrain. Is Palin willing to do the same? So far I haven't heard back from the McCain-Palin campaign about this question."
Now let's take a moment and focus on, oh I dunno, the actual Republican nominee for president. Brookings' William Galston puts his two cents in on the McCain speech, basically boiling it down to one word: paradox. "McCain spoke eloquently about the need to retool policies and institutions created before the end of the Cold War and the rise of the global economy. But the substantive proposals he listed were less than forward-looking…This apparently minor detail symbolizes a larger problem: there was little in McCain's agenda to create a foundation for the bipartisanship he seeks. It is not easy to see how he would deal effectively with what is certain to be a Democratic Congress, or how he would break the gridlock he deplores. It is likely, rather, that he would have to redeem his pledge to use his veto pen, over and over again," Galston writes.
Meantime all the convention fun is over and it's time to go home – and tear down the 63,000 miles of security fencing around St. Paul. So Dave Barry, writing for the National Journal, says his goodbyes to Minnesota. "I feel bad for St. Paul. I mean, this is a city with a fascinating history. The first inhabitants were Native Americans, who came here more than 1,500 years ago, then died and formed burial mounds. After that pretty much nothing happened until this week, when the Republican convention showed up," Barry writes.
"This was supposed to be St. Paul's big moment to shine, but the fence kept most of the visitors inside the convention center. When they left, they were bused out of St. Paul, most of them back to restaurants and hotels in Minneapolis, a fact that really frosted St. Paul's civic shorts. Minneapolis is St. Paul's bitter arch-rival city, because Minneapolis thinks it is just so sophisticated and 'hip' with its slick Minneapolis ways. OK, I'm exaggerating. Nobody here is bitter or angry. As far as I can tell, nobody in Minnesota ever gets riled up about anything. Minnesotans really are, as the expression goes, 'Minnesota nice.' They are beyond nice. They make Mister Rogers look like Hitler."
Sure, that last little blurb was just for fun – and to make you feel like you were in Minnesota too. Last thing: In case you guys missed it, it seems the Republicans don't exactly love the media. So, in the spirit of Political Wisdom's good natured — and slightly cheeky — weekend edition, we're including this charming video about the Eastern media elite, courtesy of The Washington Post's Dana Milbank.


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About Us
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway operates steam and heritage diesel trains along an 18 mile line between the market town of Pickering and the village of Grosmont, through the heart of the North York Moors National Park and on to the mainline to Whitby covering 24 miles of track. The railway passes through a variety of scenery, from wooded valley to heather clad moorland. It also calls at picturesque villages along the way and offers access to unspoilt countryside and the sea for walkers and cyclists.
The NYMR is one of the earliest and most historic lines in the North of England. Its origins go back well over a century and a half, and was an important trade link between Pickering and Whitby. Following a meeting in 1831 George Stephenson was asked to report on building the line of simplest construction for the employment of animal power. The complete 24 mile stretch of line was fully opened in May 1836.
The line operated for well over a century during which modifications were gradually made and steam locomotives took over. In the 1950's traffic began to dwindle and by 1965 the line operated its last passenger service.
Interest however was in favour of trying to keep the line across the moors open and in 1968 a meeting was held by people keen to re-open the line. Through a major fund raising scheme and help from the County Council, sufficient funds were raised to re-open the line in stages until 24 May 1975 the line was again open between Grosmont and Pickering. As progress was made, so the interest in running to Whitby increased. Occasional trains were introduced to try the Market, being operated by an outside operator. It was thought that these trains were successful enough to run more and now we operate over 100 days a year under our own Train Operating Licence and using our own Locomotives.
For the well-being of all our customers and staff, please note that NYMR has a 'No smoking' policy throughout all public areas, including the use of electronic cigarettes.


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The AM Roundup: Civilian Trials, Goldman, Internet Gambling, More
Terror trials: President Barack Obama issued an order Tuesday giving civilian investigators broad power to handle the cases of U.S. terrorism suspects despite a law passed late last year favoring military custody. WSJ
Insider trading: Federal criminal authorities are investigating whether a top Goldman Sachs manager, David Loeb, passed inside information about technology stocks to the firm's hedge-fund clients. Loeb declined to comment, as did Goldman. WSJ
Internet gambling: U.S. prosecutors netted one of their biggest prizes in their crackdown of online gambling, shutting the website Bodog.com, which had built up a business by brazenly advertising itself on billboards and TV, thumbing its nose at regulators. WSJ
Um, no: A trademark appeal board denied applications for the term "CrackBerry" for different types of goods and services. The board found the trademarks would dilute RIM's BlackBerry mark. NLJ (reg req)
Eminent domain: The House Tuesday approved a bill that would wipe out the 2005 Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which gave state and local governments eminent domain authority to seize private property for economic development projects. AP


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Critical Patch Update for October 2010 Now Available
By Robert Farrington-Oracle on Oct 12, 2010
The Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2010 was released on October 12th, 2010. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible.
The Critical Patch Update Advisory is the starting point for relevant information. It includes a list of products affected, pointers to obtain the patches, a summary of the security vulnerabilities, and links to other important documents.
Supported Products that are not listed in the "Supported Products and Components Affected" Section of the advisory do not require new patches to be applied.
Also, it is essential to review the Critical Patch Update supporting documentation referenced in the Advisory before applying patches, as this is where you can find important pertinent information.
The Critical Patch Update Advisory is available at the following location:
The next four Critical Patch Update release dates are:
- January 18, 2011
- April 19, 2011
- July 19, 2011
- October 18, 2011


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