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Emeritus College Launches New Art Exhibition Series "Inside/Out 1"
Posted Jan. 8, 2016, 7:16 am
The Santa Monica College Emeritus Art Gallery will present "Inside/Out 1," the first in a new series of recurring exhibitions featuring art from inside the Emeritus College community presented alongside art from established outside professionals.
Life And Arts, Seven Days, Theater, Santa Monica
Santa Monica's Morgan-Wixson Theatre Presents "Private Eyes"
Posted Jan. 8, 2016, 7:13 am
Nothing is ever quite what it seems. Matthew's wife, Lisa, is having an affair with Adrian, a British theatre director. Or perhaps the affair is part of the play being rehearsed. Or perhaps Matthew has imagined all of it simply to have something to report to Frank, his therapist.
News, Seven Days, Santa Monica
Annenberg Community Beach House To Celebrate 'Happy Birthday Marion' Sunday
Posted Jan. 8, 2016, 7:06 am
It's a party, and you're invited! On Sunday, Jan. 10, join a Happy Birthday Marion! Celebration at the Annenberg Community Beach House to celebrate Marion Davies, the silent film star whose effervescent personality was likened to the "bubbles in a glass of champagne."
Seven Days, Theater, Santa Monica
Modern Romance "Jack and Jill" On Stage At Santa Monica Playhouse
Posted Jan. 7, 2016, 9:05 am
A new production of "Jack and Jill" at Santa Monica Playhouse reunites a trio of artists who achieved critical acclaim and popular success with their previous collaboration, a mounting of "The Rainmaker" in 2013 that ran for nearly a year and was hailed by a number of publications.
News, Seven Days, Theater, Music, Santa Monica
7th Annual Fireside At The Miles Returns Jan. 8
Posted Jan. 7, 2016, 9:00 am
Santa Monica Cultural Affairs will present the 7th annual Fireside at the Miles performance series at the historic Miles Memorial Playhouse from Jan. 8 – Feb. 26.
News, Life And Arts, Seven Days, Santa Monica, Smc
Winter Constellations & Mysteries Of Comets Featured At SMC
Posted Jan. 7, 2016, 8:58 am
The Santa Monica College John Drescher Planetarium will present its schedule of Winter 2016 feature shows and special telescope-viewing sessions, which begin on Friday, Jan. 8.
Life And Arts, Seven Days, Theater, Santa Monica
CTG & Playwrights Horizons Present the Actors Theatre Of Louisville Production Of "The Christians"
Posted Dec. 22, 2015, 9:16 am
Pretend that it's Sunday morning and you are tuning in to your favorite Evangelistic preacher. The Mark Taper Forum stage has been transformed into such a typical televised church setting, well done by set designer Dane Laffrey, augmented by Ben Stanton's lighting design.
News, Life And Arts, Seven Days, Santa Monica
Laura Korman Gallery To Host Opening Reception Today For 'Venice Beach Sunsets'
Posted Dec. 12, 2015, 9:50 am
Venice-based photographers Danny Rice and Andrew Karl will host their first gallery exhibition with an opening reception today at Laura Korman Gallery.
News, Seven Days, Video, Holiday, Santa Monica
VIDEO: Check Out These Fun Holiday Happenings On The Westside
Posted Dec. 11, 2015, 10:06 am
The Westside is gearing up for plenty of Holiday Happenings now through the end of December.
Seven Days, Santa Monica, Life
Santa Monica Symphony To Present Free Concert This Saturday Night
Posted Dec. 11, 2015, 9:45 am
The Santa Monica Symphony continues its 71st season of free classical music concerts for the community tomorrow night, Saturday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 pm in Barnum Hall, on the campus of Santa Monica High School.
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SMC Presents Annual Holiday Art Sale This Friday Through Sunday, Dec. 11 - 13
Posted Dec. 10, 2015, 12:23 pm
Santa Monica College's 38th Annual Holiday Student Art Sale, featuring a wide range of works in various media, will be a three-day event again this year.
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Holiday Hop Along Pico Boulevard In Santa Monica Returns Saturday
Posted Dec. 4, 2015, 9:20 am
Here comes Santa Claus and the Holiday Hop Along Pico – this year's event takes place this Saturday, Dec. 5 from noon to 4 pm on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, with festivities for adults and children who will enjoy entertainment, refreshments, and shopping.
Life And Arts, Seven Days, Santa Monica, Art
Renowned Photographer J.J. L'Heureux Shows A Different Side In Santa Monica Exhibit
Posted Dec. 4, 2015, 9:16 am
The art of J.J. L'Heureux will be featured in a solo exhibit at BUILDING BRIDGES ART EXCHANGE in Santa Monica (Bergamot Station Arts Center) starting next Saturday, Dec. 12.
Life And Arts, Seven Days, Theater, Santa Monica
John Patrick Shanley's "Outside Mullingar" On Stage At The Geffen Playhouse
Posted Dec. 4, 2015, 9:08 am
As a rule, a review doesn't begin with a "thank you" note. That said, I feel compelled to express my deep gratitude to Irish playwrights, poets, and novelists – Irish American and those writers who live or lived in the Emerald Isle.
News, Seven Days, Holiday, Santa Monica
Celebrate The Holiday Season At 'Meet Me Under The Fig Tree'
Posted Dec. 4, 2015, 8:54 am
The spirit of the holidays will be in full swing this Sunday, Dec. 6 during Meet Me Under the Fig Tree, a free annual community event hosted by Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows and MSD Capital from 2-5 pm at the hotel, 101 Wilshire Blvd.
Life And Arts, Seven Days, Santa Monica
Santa Monica Conservancy To Host Annual Holiday Party On Saturday
Posted Dec. 3, 2015, 8:19 am
Santa Monica Conservancy is gearing up for its annual Holiday Party, a favorite annual tradition and thank you event for its wonderful members. This year's celebration will take place at 1720 Carlyle Ave. in the Gillette's Regents Square area of northern Santa Monica.
News, Life And Arts, Seven Days, Music, Santa Monica
Dream Orchestra's Two Concerts Of Handel's "Messiah" To Take Place This Thursday, Friday
Posted Dec. 1, 2015, 9:10 am
The Dream Orchestra's performance of Handel's "Messiah" was so popular last year that two concerts are planned this year. The performances will be held this Thursday and Friday, Dec. 3 and 4, at St. Monica Catholic Church, 725 California Ave., Santa Monica.
News, Life And Arts, Seven Days, Video, Santa Monica
VIDEO: Enjoy The Best "Messiah" Concert In Town With The Dream Orchestra
Posted Nov. 26, 2015, 9:35 am
The Dream Orchestra presents two performances of Handel's Messiah Dec. 3 and 4 at beautiful St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica. Its Brass Ensemble sets a festive mood before the concert.
Life And Arts, Seven Days, Theater, Santa Monica, Smc
Santa Monica College To Stage "M. Courage"
Posted Nov. 24, 2015, 9:58 am
The Santa Monica College Theatre Arts Department will present "M. Courage" Dec. 4-13 at the Theatre Arts Main Stage on the SMC main campus, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica.
Life And Arts, Seven Days, Theater, Santa Monica, Dance
The Nutcracker: Holiday Tradition Begins Nov. 28 At The Broad Stage
Posted Nov. 20, 2015, 6:00 am
In its 5th decade of performances, Westside Ballet of Santa Monica, with live music by Santa Monica College Symphony Orchestra, returns to present its enchanting rendition of the holiday classic, "The Nutcracker."
News, Life And Arts, Seven Days, Music, Video, Santa Monica
VIDEO: Enjoy The Best "Messiah" Concert In Town With The Dream Orchestra
Posted Nov. 20, 2015, 6:00 am
The Dream Orchestra presents two performances of Handel's Messiah Dec. 3rd and 4th at beautiful St. Monica Catholic Church in Santa Monica.
News, Life And Arts, Seven Days, Music
New West Symphony Music Director To Conclude Tenure At End Of 2016 Season
Posted Nov. 18, 2015, 11:21 am
Marcelo Lehninger, who helped guide the New West Symphony (NWS) through its 20th anniversary celebration a year ago and who has been highly-praised for his conducting skills, will be concluding his tenure as music director at the end of the 2016 season, it was announced today.
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Want To Jog Through Los Angeles Auto Show Before It Opens On Thursday, Nov. 19?
Posted Nov. 12, 2015, 1:00 pm
The Los Angeles Auto Show and Fit Fathers invite runners to start their engines at the Los Angeles Convention Center in advance of the LA Auto Show's opening to the public.
Life And Arts, Seven Days, Santa Monica
"Quilting By the Sea" To Look Back On 25 Years
Posted Nov. 11, 2015, 8:24 am
The Santa Monica Quilt Guild will present a craft boutique to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Guild's existence this Saturday, Nov. 14, from 10 am to 4 pm. It will be held at the First United Methodist Church located at 1008 11th St., Santa Monica.
Life And Arts, Seven Days, Music, Santa Monica
New West Symphony's "Scottish Fantasy" Comes To Santa Monica
Posted Nov. 6, 2015, 9:36 am
GRAMMY-nominated violinist Caroline Goulding will make her New West Symphony debut as guest soloist in "Scottish Fantasy," an all-Mendelssohn program to be presented by the orchestra on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 4 pm at Santa Monica's Barnum Hall. Also featured will be National Geographic photojournalist Jim Richardson's stunning imagery of Scotland, with the acclaimed photojournalist present at the performance.


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Mark Krueger Completes Estancia Community Land Sale
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GOBLES, MI — Authorities removed a 2-year-old from a home in the 300 block of East Main Street Monday night when they were called to a domestic upset and found several meth labs on the property, they said.
At about 10 p.m. Monday, deputies investigating a report of a domestic disturbance found that a 24-year-old man had left but the the 29-year-old woman there appeared to be under the influence of methamphetamine, according to a news release from the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office.
Because of the mother's symptoms, deputies called Van Buren County Child protective services to take the woman's little girl.
In the process of executing a consent search of the home they found several one pot methamphetamine vessels and gas generators in the garage of the residence.
The methamphetamine lab components were collected and disposed of by the Van Buren County Narcotics bureau and their report will be forwarded to the Van Buren County Prosecutor's Office for consideration of charges of operating and maintaining a methamphetamine lab and other appropriate charges.


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Syracuse, NY - Crews will be out again doing highway clean up along I-690 today.
Today's operations will take place between the Thruway exit and the Hiawatha Boulevard exit along I-690 eastbound. The work will force the closing of the left lane of traffic between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m., state Department of Transportation officials said.
On Wednesday, crews conducted clean up work between the I-695 exit and the Thruway exit. On Tuesday, crews were cleaning up between Van Vleck Road/State Fair Boulevard and the New York State Thruway interchange.
Transportation officials are asking motorists to help keep roads clean by not throwing trash from their vehicles. Businesses and organizations that want to help with clean up can check out Adopt-A-Highway information online or by calling 315-672-8151.


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What if the history of America's largest Indian nation is actually a polite modern fiction, one invented by "anthropologists and other friends"? In this sweeping revisionist study of the Cherokee Indians, a scholar trained in classical philology and the new science of genetics discloses the inside story of his tribe.
Combining evidence from historical records, esoteric sources like the Keetoowah and Shalokee Warrior Society, archeology, linguistics, religion, myth, sports and music, and DNA, this first new take on the subject in 100 years guides the reader, ever so surely, into the secret annals of the Eshelokee, whose true name and origins have remained hidden until now. The narrative starts in the third century BCE and concludes with the Cherokees' removal to Indian Territory in the 19th century, when all standard histories just begin. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, Romans and Phoenicians have long departed from the world stage. After more than 2,000 years the Cherokee remain and are their heirs.
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"Story Time with Tribal Elders"
Around the Campfire after chores and meals, the children gather to listen to the Elders tell the old stories about the old ways. As I listened to Rich Crankshaw, I was transported into the Dreamtime, sitting with the children while the fire crackled and the smoke swirled. The sound of his voice rhythmic as the drums beat took me back til I saw the paddle dip as the rowers of the boat moved across the water. Could I be an Old Soul?
Could you?
Secrets and traditions of the tribe are handed down this way; by Oral Traditions. The Enemy could not steal what was in your head. Seven is a sacred number. Cherokee mothers plan for the 7th generation. More and more you see writings about the Cherokee.
Sharing the story is important. It is written in the Stars and in our DNA. The Ancient History of the Cherokee is told by Donald Yates, in the way only he can. Donald uses
Genealogies of People who trace their lineage with historical facts as one can find them to reconstruct the Oral Traditions, analyzing scientific data in DNA. He takes you more into the story behind Old World Roots of the Cherokee a companion book of the detailed research. The Cherokee People are unique in their cultural practices and artisan pursuits.
They exchanged much along their journey and with the South American cousins bringing it with them to North American. Listen yourself to be transported.
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India's mysterious Modi reveals Nepal foster son
August 5, 2014, 12:00 am TWN
KATMANDU--When India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi traveled this week to Katmandu on a historic visit, he stunned observers by bringing along a surprise guest, his Nepalese foster son.
The 63-year-old prime minister is known to be extremely secretive about his personal life, and only acknowledged he was married a month before winning national elections in May.
But in a rare display of openness, Modi posted a series of tweets about the previously unknown Jeet Bahadur Magar, whom the premier has been assisting since discovering him as an 11-year-old boy in western India.
"I started showing my concern for Jeet Bahadur. Gradually, he took interest in academics, sports & even learnt (to speak) Gujarati," Modi tweeted.
The premier funded the boy's education and years later asked Nepalese business magnate Binod Chaudhary, head of the Chaudhary Group, to help him find his family in Nawalparasi district, about 250 kilometers southwest of Katmandu.


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For the first time I have selected two Adventurers of the Month! Congratulations to Sonia (age 8) and Devin (age 5), siblings who attend Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School in Washington, DC – one of our Buddy Bison schools. Their family recently took an amazing trip to Kauai, one of the islands of Hawaii. Here is what 2nd grader Sonia had to say about the trip:
"My family and I went to Kauai, which is one of the islands of Hawaii. We took Buddy Bison on a helicopter ride to a waterfall called Manawaiopuna. We had to wear blue cover-up shoes and lifejackets for safety when we were in the helicopter. Buddy learned that when it rained a lot at Manawaiopuna it created floods. Did you know that the fall's water was only rainwater and that it rained the most in Kauai than anywhere else in the world? When Buddy Bison was at the waterfall, he was plugging his ears because the fall sounded so loud; it sounded like turning a big rain stick really fast. Buddy also saw lots of cool plants around the island. He loved the bobo tree."
Sonia and Devin will both receive a Buddy Bison T-shirt and official Adventurer of the Month certificate! Are you my next Adventurer of the Month? All you need to do is write a summary of one your recent adventure and have your parents or teacher send it to firstname.lastname@example.com!


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The Magnetic Fields Tour Diary, Part 3
April 30, 2012 | by Emma Straub
There comes a point on every tour—very early on, after about the third show—when I completely forget that my traveling companions play music. We sit in airports together, we ride in crowded minivans, we play games, we eat both terrible and amazing meals. I think of them as my older siblings, some of whom are grumpy in the morning, others who always want to chat. What happens onstage is so separate from the rest of the experience that I really do forget that they all speak this other language—when I duck into the crowd every night, for just a few minutes here and there during the down times at the merch booth, it's like waking up and realizing that the rest of my family is fluent in Japanese.
When all together, we talk about the merch more than the music. That is not a joke or an exaggeration. Is that because it's easier to talk about T-shirts (a quantifiable object) than the experience of playing music? I don't know. But it was bothering me, this distance, so I decided to ask the band what they enjoy about the act of playing music. The first three responses came to me live, while we were all sitting in our hotel's lobby bar in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Because they were (sick? warm? perverse? besotted?) individuals, the people in charge of the hotel sound system played nothing but the Magnetic Fields for the entire first day of our stay, and so while we were talking, we were also listening to their albums, played on shuffle. When there was an unusually long pause between songs, Stephin Merritt said to me, "We are listening to the absence of ourselves."
On Tour with the Magnetic Fields: Part 2
April 3, 2012 | by Emma Straub
The People Behind the People
This tour is the biggest the Magnetic Fields have ever done, in terms of the number of people traveling. In addition to the five members of the band and one eighteen-month-old baby, there are five members of the crew: me and my husband (merch, blog, Twitter), Jason Thompson (tour manager), Mike Yesenosky (sound), and the very lovely Julia Knapp (nanny). That brings the grand total to eleven people, and with all the suitcases, instruments, and gear, we are a small society all our own. Someone is always holding the leftover snacks from the previous night's greenroom, and someone is always holding assorted painkillers and stomach remedies. We are all getting very good at traversing airport terminals and hotel lobbies en masse, like a pack of nomads, or zombies, depending on the amount of sleep achieved the night before.
The Hotel Life
This tour is more grueling than the last few I've done with the Magnetic Fields, and we are rarely in one place longer than a day. This means less time for exploring the cities and more confused moments in the middle of the night when one wakes up and needs to pee. Stephin Merritt (vocals, harmonium, melodica, kazoo) told me a story about their last European tour, during which he was staying in a room so small that when he opened what he thought was the door to the bathroom in the middle of the night, he in fact had opened the door to the hallway and promptly locked himself out. In the last ten days, we've stayed in six different hotels, and so in addition to having no clue what day of the week it is, I also now have no clue where the bed is in relation to the door or what floor my room is on.
Of course, there are perks to staying in so many hotels. At heart, I am not a kleptomaniac, but when it comes to hotels, I can't help myself.
On Tour with The Magnetic Fields: Part 1
March 27, 2012 | by Emma Straub
I've worked for the band the Magnetic Fields for the past ten years and have sold their merchandise on every tour since they released i, in 2004. Their latest tour, for their new record, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, began last week, and, as is my wont, I've been taking notes. After a warm and fuzzy show in Hudson, New York, the first completely positive experience in Philadelphia in recent memory, and a very quick trip to Minehead, England, for All Tomorrow's Parties, the Magnetic Fields took the Tour at the Bottom of the Sea to Austin, Texas, for their first-ever appearance at South by Southwest, the juggernaut music festival that turns the entire city into a beer-and-taco-stained pair of jeggings. Half the band and crew flew in from New York, and the other half from Boston, meeting up in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport for the puddle jumper to Austin. We shared the plane with several members of the E Street Band, which made Sam Davol (cello) quiver with excitement. When we landed, the steamy Texas air relaxing our synapses, Sam asked E Street violinist Soozie Tyrell for her autograph, and I made a proclamation: in Austin, I was going to find a) Bruce Springsteen or b) Timmy Riggins, my very favorite fictional character on Friday Night Lights, played by heartthrob and Austin resident Taylor Kitsch. I find that wishes are more likely to come true when spoken aloud. Read More »


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MUSKEGON, MI – Ideas from sexual ethics, socially responsible investing to collaborative competition were "ideas worth spreading" at Thursday's TEDxMuskegon.
A dozen presenters provided various perspectives on "reinvention" at the afternoon event in the Beardsley Theater of the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Muskegon.
TEDxMuskegon is a locally produced event under license with TED – the global idea-generating series of events that produce the famous TED Talks on the Internet. More than 120 people gathered to hear about reinvention in Muskegon and dozens more watched the event live-streamed on the Internet.
"From an individual standpoint, we heard so many personal stories that we learned you can reinvent yourself," TEDxMuskegon Chair Renae Hesselink said. "From a community standpoint, we learned that we must operate as an entire county. To succeed, we must rally around everyone."
Here are three ideas from the third annual TEDxMuskegon that are "worth spreading":
"Don't fear Muskegon Heights."
Muskegon Heights native and current mayor pro tem of the city, Patrice Johnson, told of a city with great history and pride that has been neglected in recent years. She compared her beloved Muskegon Heights to a "secret garden" that needs love and tending.
She described going to Michigan State University for five years to return home to boarded-up buildings, stressed local governments and a failing school system. But life remained in her urban home.
"I found out still something was growing when you pulled back the weeds," Johnson said. "There is hope in this garden. Muskegon Heights is filled with creativity … a history of activism, music, legends and culture."
Pointing out signs of recovery and rebirth, Johnson concluded: "I dare you to be fearless."
"Your opponent is an ally not an enemy."
Mona Shores High School football coach and English teacher Todd Conrad outlined the problems associated with competition, preaching collaborative competition. A one-on-one contest in sports or cancer research can be unproductive and dehumanizing, he argued.
Competition has led to socio-economic inequality that can stress individuals. Competition can led people to be other than what they would want to be as educational assessment testing cheating scandals have shown, he said.
Conrad said that 20 years of teaching and coaching kids has taught him that the outcome of competition – win or lose – should not be seen as a measure of personal value. He asked that people begin to see competition as a way of self-improvement for all competitors.
"We need to begin to think of our opponents as allies not our enemies," Conrad concluded. "If we see that person (in competition) as an obstacle rather than someone just like me, you compromise your humanity."
"When given lemons, make lemonade."
No one gave a more personal and compelling story of reinvention than Dr. Joe Salisz, a local urologist. Salisz used a series of "bags" to tell his story of facing down prostate cancer that ended in the removal of his bladder.
Salisz presented himself as a husband, father, fisherman, hunter, skier and local physician. The story of being diagnosed and treated for his cancer had spiritual underpinning based on his faith in God.
He bluntly went through the issues involved in his surgery that resulted in a stoma and a need for a "bag."
"It put me on the ground … right down," he said of the aftermath of his treatment that for the first time in his medical career didn't allow him to be in control. "I was humiliated and I was humbled."
The story ended with his journey in dealing with the bag attached to his abdomen – it showed, it was uncomfortable and it smelled. For the later, Salisz and his team of supporters worked with a Muskegon manufacturer to create a bag cover that used charcoal to eliminate the odor.
In the end, it was a community – one that he said "made things" – that pulled him through a life-changing event. He credited friends in his medical office, those at church and those at the school where his kids attended.
"People praying for us felt like we were walking on air," Salisz said during his darkest days of dealing with his personal reinvention. "That's what a community can do for you."
The Johnson, Conrad and Salisz TED Talks and all of those presented at TEDxMuskegon can be seen on the organization's website: www.tedxmuskegon.com. The videos will be uploaded in the next week, Hesselink said.
Dave Alexander covers business and local government for MLive/Muskegon Chronicle. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.


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Girl Scout Daisy Troop 42161 gathers coats for the homeless
The five members of Girl Scout Daisy Troop 42161 of Langley collected 70 coats to distribute to homeless people in Seattle.
The coats, all laundered and folded, were collected at drop-off points throughout South Whidbey as part the nationwide One Warm Coat Program.
The coats were turned over to St. Vincent de Paul in Seattle.
"We are thrilled to be thought of for these coats," said Daria Roche, of St. Vincent de Paul, who came to Langley recently to meet the Scouts, explain the program and collect the garments.
"The need is great this year," she added.
The Daisy Scouts, all 6- or 7-year-old first-graders, are Kristen Riley, Alison Nikula, Kayla Johnson, Krisann Turnbull-Agnew and Rachel Harder.
Coordinating the project for the girls were Donna Riley and Christina Agnew.
One Warm Coat began in 1992 as a Thanksgiving weekend coat drive in San Francisco. Since then, more than 1 million coats have been donated in thousands of local communities across North America.
The Langley Scouts wrapped large grocery boxes and placed them throughout South Whidbey asking people to donate "new or gently used coats."
"It's amazing to see what little 6- and 7-year-olds (and their parents) can do to make a difference," Riley said.
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The Golden State Warriors' young shooters have been unable to deliver in the clutch. For the fourth time in two weeks, a missed 3-pointer that would have tied the game or given them a lead in the closing seconds.
Trailing the Los Angeles Lakers 124-121 with 3.9 seconds remaining Monday, Golden State rookie guard Stephen Curry missed an open 3-pointer.
Despite leading the Los Angeles Clippers with a 18.9 scoring average, starting center Chris Kaman has averaged just 11 points in the previous five games. He was held to eight points on 3-of-15 shooting on Monday against the New Orleans Hornets.
Phoenix Suns' 152 points against the Minnesota Timberwolves Tuesday night was the most scored by a team this season. The Suns shot 56 percent from the field and had 79 points by halftime. They made 15 3-pointers.
The Denver Nuggets welcomed back coach George Karl after he underwent cancer treatment with a 97-87 victory against the Washington Wizards Tuesday.


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Big Gator Head Premieres At Miami Art Fair
One of the nation's largest art fairs is Art Basel Miami Beach. It's a city-wide event that has spawned dozens of satellite shows. The large alligator celebrates the artist Christo who used the power of art to cleanup Biscayne Bay.


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Welcome to this week's special edition of Slightly Indulgent Tuesday – healthier snacks. I get so many requests for quick and nutritious snacks that I thought it fitting to make today a theme.
I know it can be a hassle to come up with a special dish for a round up, so if you didn't no big deal. Please link up anyway. For those of you who did, thanks so much. I think we'll help some people.
A Healthy Snacks to Go Give-Away
Contest is now closed: 7/4/10
My friend Katie, from Kitchen Stewardship, recently released her first e-book – Healthy Snacks to Go. She's put together over 30 nutritious, frugal snacks you can make with little time. Also included are tips for storage and transport, average cost, healthy upgrades, and helpful icons that denote allergy friendly recipes.
Not all recipes are sugar-free or gluten-free but at least 12 are. Her ideas about using less sugar are inspiring and I'm confident her recipes can be successfully created gluten-free.
She's got some fabulous Mommy snacks, like applesauce fruit roll-ups, popeye bars, lunchbox veggie dip, and tater skin crispies. You can view a complete table of contents at Kitchen Stewardship.
Do These Healthy Snacks Really Go?
I had the opportunity to see of her healthy snacks would really work on the go when I was in NYC at The Fancy Food Show. I take food with me on every trip, and generally make my own version of LaraBars. (I wonder why I've never posted them…) Regardless, I whipped up a Katie's German Chocolate Power Bars in 5 minutes an hour before I had to leave for the airport.
Honestly, I was skeptical at best about using unsweetened chocolate. But I have faith in Katie so I went for it. So glad I did. These bars are fantastic. I did make a couple modifications, though. Somehow I can never stop myself from putting my own twist on things.
- I doubled the coconut. I love coconut. Next time, I'm going to triple it.
- She calls for a teaspoon of coconut oil. I used 1/2 teaspoon but think it wasn't necessary. The bars were already sticking together really well.
- I pressed the bars into an 8×4 loaf pan which created four perfect sized snack bars. They went directly into the freezer so I could cut them once chilled, a tip from Katie.
- Because of the nuts, the bars are a little sticky and oily. So, I coated them in shredded coconut, wrapped them in waxed paper, and put them in my carry on.
They traveled very well. If you can't keep them refrigerated, a fine dusting of unsweetened cocoa powder would help absorb the natural nut oils.
German Chocolate Power Bars
from Healthy Snacks to Go by Katie Kimball at Kitchen Stewardship
½ ounce unsweetened chocolate
1/3 cup pecans
1/4 cup almonds
½ cup dates
2 teaspoons cocoa powder
2 tablespoons coconut
1 teaspoon coconut oil until sticky (I didn't need any coconut oil in mine.)
Place unsweetened chocolate, pecans, and almonds in the bowl of your food processor fitted with a steel blade. Pulse several times until the nuts are roughly chopped. Add in the dates, cocoa powder, and coconut and grind until a dough forms, or the mixture sticks together itself. Add the coconut oil if you need more sticking power. Press into an 8×4 loaf pan and chill for 10 – 15 minutes. Remove with a rubber spatula and cut into desired size. Keeps best refrigerated in an airtight container.
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Dudek makes his picks
The Academy Awards are the Super Bowl of film. Which makes the Oscar statue itself the equivalent of the Vince Lombardi Trophy.
So the only question is, which film will play the role of the Green Bay Packers?
I'm not making flagrant references to a team of local interest to increase the number of hits this story gets online.
Well, that's not the only reason.
But the playoffs are over. Lesser movie groups have had their say, handing out awards at ceremonies as insignificant as the Pro Bowl. Measuring what? Hype? Celebrity? Box office?
The Academy Awards, which will be held Sunday night, are a yardstick in a world full of 12-inch rulers, and are the only standard worth consulting in the fields of film art and performance.
And this year, each major category has a front-runner, which makes picking the winners as easy as playing poker with marked cards. Only the best director category makes filling the inside straight a challenge.
What would Clay Matthews pick?
Supporting actor
John Hawkes' gnarly backwoods meth dealer in "Winter's Bone" and Jeffrey Renner's trigger-happy bank robber in "The Town" are a bit obvious. Kenosha native Mark Ruffalo's sperm donor to a pair of lesbians in "The Kids Are All Right" is their complex antithesis - likable yet corrosive. And Geoffrey Rush lends levity and insight to "The King's Speech." But "The Fighter" has the strongest ensemble of any film. And its center of gravity is Christian Bale's charismatically jagged junkie, whose bobbing and weaving performance is the best of an impressive group.
Will win: Christian Bale, "The Fighter"
Should win: Christian Bale, "The Fighter"
Should have been nominated: Mark Wahlberg, "The Fighter"
Supporting actress
It was a fine year for women's roles, and the most powerful female performances are in this category. Hailee Steinfeld's formidable but vulnerable pioneer girl in "True Grit" is a striking debut. Helena Bonham Carter gives a performance of loving dignity in "The King's Speech." And Amy Adams' cheeky barmaid gave as good as she got in "The Fighter." Melissa Leo's bleached-blond, chain-smoking matriarch in "The Fighter" is a tamed-down version of Jacki Weaver's feral version of a similar character in the Australian film "Animal Kingdom." But Leo has the name recognition in an Oscar-nominated film.
Will win: Melissa Leo, "The Fighter"
Should win: Melissa Leo, "The Fighter"
Should have been nominated: Lesley Manville, "Another Year"
Best actor
Javier Bardem gives a fierce performance as a dying hustler in the mournful "Biutiful," which few people saw and has yet to play here. But he already won when he married Penélope Cruz. Jeff Bridges of "True Grit" is beloved, but Oscar voters could hold "TRON: Legacy" against him. And he won last year. Is James Franco a dabbler or Renaissance man? In either case, the real star of "127 Hours" is that severed arm. In "The Social Network," Jesse Eisenberg is the mouthpiece for Aaron Sorkin's staccato dialogue. And Colin Firth is equal parts insufferable and inspirational as a tongue-tied royal in "The King's Speech."
Will win: Colin Firth, "The King's Speech"
Should win: Colin Firth, "The King's Speech"
Should have been nominated: Ryan Gosling, "Blue Valentine"
Best actress
All of the performances are in niche, or specialty, films: Nicole Kidman as a woman grieving the death of her child in "Rabbit Hole"; Jennifer Lawrence as a backwoods teen seeking her meth-dealing dad in "Winter's Bone"; and Michelle Williams as a woman in a dying marriage in "Blue Valentine." That "The Kids Are All Right," about lesbian parents, including nominee Annette Bening, is the most mainstream of the bunch shows how much times have changed. But "Black Swan," about a deranged ballet dancer, became a surprise hit, thanks to a physically and emotionally strenuous performance by Natalie Portman.
Will win: Natalie Portman, "Black Swan"
Should win: Natalie Portman, "Black Swan"
Best director
All the nominees in this category also received a best film nomination. And the films of four of the five - or five out of six, if you count dual directors Joel and Ethan Coen - would not exist without their creative vision. Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan" is a riveting hallucination; the biggest comeback in "The Fighter" is David O. Russell's, after an infamous meltdown filming "I ♥ Huckabees"; David Fincher's storytelling and style in "The Social Network" are as innovative as the subject matter; and the Coens' lyrical "True Grit" is made in their image, not in that of John Wayne. Only Tom Hooper tells a literal, performance-driven story in "The King's Speech." This distinction has won in the past, but does it still have currency today? He did win the Directors Guild award.
Will win: Tom Hooper, "The King's Speech"
Should win: David Fincher, "The Social Network"
Should have been nominated: Christopher Nolan, "Inception"
Best picture
Ten films into five directors does not go. So eliminate the films whose directors were not nominated - "The Kids Are All Right,""127 Hours,""Toy Story 3,""Winter's Bone" and, inexplicably, "Inception." The arguments for and against the remaining five - "The King's Speech,""The Social Network,""The Fighter,""Black Swan,""True Grit" - are similar to those made on behalf of the directors; each is uniquely conceived and told, except for "The King's Speech," whose "Masterpiece Theater" quality and exceptional performances will win the day.
Will win: "The King's Speech"
Should win: "The Social Network"
What: 83rd Annual Academy Awards
When: 7 p.m.
Where: ABC


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Surf Competitions & Events
The growing interest in Phuket as a surfing destination has led to more competitions, wider media coverage and new international sponsors. Big-brand international surfing competitions share the stage with local club competitions throughout Phuket's surfing season.
Thailand Surf Competition
Date: 28-29 July 2012
Location: Patong Beach
- Longboard Contest
- FREE surf lesson by Surfing Thailand
- Night surf and BBQ party
- Surf shops on the beach
Quicksilver Thailand Surf Competition
Date: 12-15 September 2012
Location: Patong Beach
Website: www.quiksilverthailand.com
The annual event is part of the Asian Surfing Championship and can attract some well known competitors from the region. Promotional Video From 2010:
Kamala Go Surfing Contest
Date: August/September 2012
Location: North Kamala Beach
Running since 2002 and organised by local surfers, Kamala Go Surfing Club, this event has a much less commercial and more local feel.
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Chuy here, I'm starting a series of interviews called "Stock Soldiers."
A fast growing group of pro surfers/soldiers have been ripping on our boards and state that our stock boards are working better than the custom PU surfboards that they have been riding.
These interviews will give you an insight on how fast our brand has connected with great surfers from all over the world.
Enjoy and thanks for the support.
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- Please tell me your Name, Age, hometown and Occupation:
- Sean Holmes, 32, Cape Town, Professional Surfer and Marketer
- How did you discover Firewire?
- Thru the passion and desire for speed…
- What is your take on Firewire Tech/boards?
- The technology is great and proof is in the spate of results achieved by team riders on Firewire Boards.
- Can you share a story where you were blown away by your board, like a maneuver, a contest result etc.
- I have been blown away on many occasion but most memorable was a session down the east coast where it felt as if my board became a natural extension of my legs. I was able to do whatever I wanted. It was crazy!
- I'm trying to get people to understand that boards made out of foam can and will break under the right impact; do you have any broken board stories?
- I have broken a number of boards and ultimately there is no decisive reason why they broke? Most my boards have broken in 2ft surf and I put it all down to poor timing on the wave. Breaking surfboards is part of the game and the harder you go the more you will break, irrespective of what they are made of.
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Ricky Gervais' return engagement as Golden Globes host may be his last. A Hollywood Foreign Press Association insider tells Popeater.com that the organization's bigwigs were furious about Gervais' relentless potshots at celebrities (many in attendance) and at the group's current head.
"Ricky will not be invited back to host the show next year, for sure," the source says. "For sure any movie he makes he can forget about getting nominated. He humiliated the organization last night and went too far with several celebrities whose representatives have already called to complain."
His targets included Charlie Sheen (hey, fair game), Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp for their (nominated) bomb "The Tourist," HFPA president Philip Berk ("I just had to help him off the toilet and pop his teeth in"), the well-preserved ladies of "Sex and the City 2" ("I was sure the Golden Globe for special effects would go to the team that airbrushed that poster. Girls, we know how old you are. I saw one of you in an episode of 'Bonanza'"), and rumored gay Scientologists.
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Development Team Best Practices
I wanted to put together some thoughts on high level best practices for your dev shop. These practices will skew towards larger dev shops inside of big corporations but can also be applied to 1-2 man teams. These thoughts are inspired by a combination of The Pragmatic Programmer and The Joel Test. I read both of these sources early in my career and they have continuously provided inspiration on what kinds of practices highly effective dev team should follow. Futhermore I've found it surprising how many shops I've worked with that break these practices. Following these practices will increase your dev team's effectiveness, making for happy developers and manager. Breaking these practices will result in a slower development velocity and frustrated developers and managers.
- Streamline your local build process.
Do you think your build process is pretty fast? It could be faster. If it takes more than a few seconds to redeploy your code you lose your train of thought – and there is a cost to putting that train back on the rails. As someone who has spent a lot of time doing Enterprise Java development, it often amazes me what developers will put up with in their build processes. Here are a couple of tips to decrease build time:
- Your environment probably supports some sort of hot swap method where you don't need to do a full build after every change. Java's JVM Hot Swap feature allows this for some cases. I've also heard very good things about JRebel.
- If you have a medium to large sized application, you probably don't need to rebuild the whole thing all of the time. Make sure you're not rebuilding more components than necessary. Here are some kinds of things I've seen automatically included in a full build that could be excluded from a "fast" version of your build: code generated from wsdl/xsd, database migrations, unit test suite execution, minification/obsfucation of js/css. In Java, the war/ear step will package all of your files into a war/ear. When you deploy that war/ear to your application server it will unpackage all of the files. You can eliminate a step by just copying your war/ear directory directly into your application server.
- Use a debugger.
Do you test your application by inserting new log statements and redeploying? Stop it! One of the best ways to cut down on redeploy time is to not have to redeploy. Every single commercially used language supports debugging. Here are a few links to get you started using a debugger with your language
- Automate your QA builds and minimize QA downtime
Your QA build process should be quick and painless. I would shoot for a combination of automated QA builds (2 or more times per day) and one-click, on-demand deployments. The outage to a QA environment needs to be small – 5 minutes or less – to keep the deployments painless enough to not disrupt the workflow of the QA staff.
Doing frequent, automatic QA builds does a couple of great things for your IT organization- it sets a precedent that your team has the ability to quickly turn around fixes. It also minimizes the impact of bugs in your QA process; After all, if your team finds a bug, it's not a huge deal since the bug might be resolved in a few hours.
Contrast this approach with an organization I recently worked with that only did two QA builds per week because their build process took so painfully long to complete. Every bug became a news headline. The management team would often choose not to fix bugs because of the huge turnaround time and the risk of additional lost time in case a bug fix was not successful.
- Treat database schema updates like source control
SQL is code, and your database structure is the product of that code. In the same way that every developer working on a project needs to be able to run the software on their local system, those developers also need to be able to run their own copies of the database. Database changes should be part of your normal build process, and like your code, your database schema needs a version so you know which changes have been applied. This helps keep your development, test, and production environments all in a sane state.
It's easy to fall into the trap where a database is very difficult to create so you end up running one development database for all of your developers to share. The problem comes when you need to support multiple work streams at the same time – this means you need to simultaneously run multiple versions of the schema at the same time. You can work around this problem by adding more schemas and more hardware, but the overhead involved may make it really difficult for developers to do the kind of risk taking and rapid iteration required to reach a high velocity.
I recommend using flyway or liquibase to manage database changes for most technology stacks. Rails has built in support with Active Record Migrations.
That's all for now. Please send feedback in the comments if this post has helped provide value for your team, or even if it seems too rudimentary. I'd be happy to do a deeper dive on any one of these topics if there is interest.
BeerDogging: a cross-platform mobile app with Phonegap and AngularJS, disected
Beer Dogging is a member organization committed to the promotion of Craft Beer. Recently the owner of Beer Dogging, Don DiBrita, asked me to build him an app to his members deals to local bars and other Craft Beer related venues. I wanted to share the process that went into building it since the results turned out pretty decent and within a short timeframe.
Overall Goals
-Give users quick access to beer dogging deals, sorted by proximity
-Keep Costs Low
App concept
As you can tell from the tile of this post, the technology stack includes Phonegap and AngularJS, but we also have a server components using Rails. I believe that this stack gives you the maximum amount of exposure for the lowest cost, at least for small to medium sized apps.
Mobile Client: Phonegap, AngularJS, Topcoat, Google Analytics
The app is built in Phonegap, so that it can work on both Android and IOS platforms without much trouble. The latest version at the time was Phonegap/Cordova 3.3.0. Cordova as a platform has gained a lot of maturity over the last couple of years but still has a ways to go. I'm pleasantly surprised at how well their new command line tools help you manage your project across multiple platforms, but still find some gaps in the workflow, and cases where plugins just stop working unexpectedly and need to be re-installed. I stayed away from Phonegap Build on this project, opting instead to use the native SDKs on my OSX environment – it's just faster IMO. I also wanted to share my phonegap development workflow; hopefully it will help someone out there since it took me a while to figure out myself.
- Create the project with command line tools
- Add the android and IOS 'platforms' with command line tools
- Start a Ripple Emulator for your android platform.
- Setup a grunt task to automatically sync your web resources to the android platform
- Modify web resources in the www/ folder. After they sync to to your android platform, refresh your ripple emulator to test the changes.
- Repeat until you're ready to test on a physical device or a platform emulator
- Build & test on a native SDK (XCode or Anroid SDK)
I'm using the Google Analytics Phonegap plugin (GAPlugin) for metrics gathering, and was happy about the amount and quality of metrics it gives you for not a lot of work. This plugin allows GA to recognize your phonegap application as a real 'mobile app' instead of web app.
To polish off the UI and give the app that 'mobile' feel I used Topcoat .
Server Side : Rails, Heroku, Postres, Geocoder, RABL
On the server side we're using a low-frills Ruby on Rails web application, who's sole purpose is to serve JSON data about places and deals to the mobile application. It also has an admin web interface where an admin creates/updates/deletes places and deals. I used the RABL gem to format the JSON responses.
Geocoder is a ruby gem that helps you do geolocation queries (find all places within a 10 mile radius of me). It is a must if your Rails app has any kind of location data. I also use it in http://findmybeer.com.
I used Heroku for application hosting both for ease of use and cost. We are using the single free instance today and have the ability to scale up to meet demand. On the database side I'm using the free instance of postgreSQL that heroku provides. It works for me and supposedly has pretty good geo query performance.
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I want to talk for a minute about some of the design choices we made during the creation of this app. Unlike a lot of sites with a membership component, you are not required to login or verify your membership status on the app in order to view or try to redeem deals. We purposely decided to take a low-tech approach to this problem for now; Beer Dogging members already have physical wallet sized member cards, so in order to redeem an 'Alpha Dog' deal you have to show your member card in addition to showing your server/bartender the deal within the app. This choice aligns with our Lean product development philosophy, and allowed the client to keep the cost down during initial development. It is something we can add in the future when this app starts to take off.
Full Text Search for the enterprise with Oracle Text
You work in software and your stack includes an Oracle database. One day the business approaches you and says 'I want a search page for our product/order/customer data. Make it work like Google'. You think to yourself, "If I could make a search page work like Google I would work at Google"!!! Fear not, developer. This problem has been solved many times in the past. In this blog post I'm going to show you how to approach this problem, and show you a shortcut in case your environment's stack includes an Oracle database.
Approaching Full Text Search
The problem you're solving has a name and that name is Full Text Search. The problem is that your Relational database, while presumably well normalized, is not good at searching for single words across huge data sets. You need a different kind of database which is optimized for full text search. A Search database will physically store the data differently so that it can quickly look up your search terms and return some metadata associated with those terms. In your RDMBS, records are identified by keys. In your Search index, they keys are the search terms.
There are several well known full text search solutions. The bare minimum list you should probably know about is Solr/Lucene, Sphinx, and ElasticSearch. These are all great full text search solutions, but they all require a lot of overhead to operate. New servers, new software to install, new syntaxes to learn, admin consoles, and new interfaces or libraries to build into your front end application.
Oracle Stack Solution: Oracle Text
One drawback of each of the aforementioned search solutions is that you will likely want to run it on a dedicated machine (or VM). If you work in an Oracle shop it likely means that you work in an enterprise where provisioning hardware (even virtual hardware) can be annoyingly difficult and time-consuming process. I this environment, Oracle Text jumps out as a really nice solution. Oracle Text is a full text search solution that is built in to all modern version of Oracle's database. This means that you don't have to request a new machine, and request for new software to be installed on that machine in each of your QA and Production environments (or request for root access to do it yourself). With Oracle Text you just run some DDL to create the index and start using it!* The only hardware issue you should consider is the amount of disk in use on your Oracle database.
Here's a simple example of how to take advantage of an Oracle Text search index. Let's assume that I have a database with products and reviews (a product has many reviews) and I want to be able to return search results for both at once.
The most straight-forward way to start is to gather all of the data you want to index into a single VARCHAR2 column named SEARCH_TEXT on our PRODUCT table. If you need to index more than 4000 characters, use a CLOB.
alter table PRODUCTS add SEARCH_TEXT varchar2(4000);
Now we need to populate that column with the search data we want to index from the PRODUCTS and REVIEWS tables We are going to fetch the data into the search text column as a big space delimited string. The below query is called a correlated update, and is specific to Oracle. You can accomplish the same thing with a procedure but I find this more concise.
update PRODUCTS set SEARCH_TEXT = (
select P.name ||' '|| P.description ||' '||R.title ||' '||R.review_text
from PRODUCTS P, REVIEWS R
where P.ID = R.PRODUCT_ID
) where PRODUCTS.id = P.ID;
Next we create Oracle Text index on that column. The important part is the ctxsys.context at the end of this statement. Context is one of the three types of text indexes that oracle offers, but the best one for blocks of structured text.
create index PRODUCT_REVIEW_SEARCH_IDX on PRODUCT(SEARCH_TEXT)
indextype is ctxsys.context;
It is worth noting that you can configure the index to use a separate tablespace so that you can control where on the disk your index lives. See the docs for more info.
Next we we run a command to 'sync' the index. This actually indexes the data for the first time. Run it again after you've inserted or updated data to update the index. In fact, you should plan on running this command periodically as part of a dbms_scheduler or whatever your enterprise's favorite scheduler is.
Now we can run a full text search query and see some results. A statement like this will return all product records which have the word 'paper' in the title, description, or reviews. yay! It's pretty awesome that we can run searches on this index in our existing RDBMS and apply whatever filters, sorts, and joins we want without having to call out to another system.
select * from PRODUCTS where contains(SEARCH_TEXT, 'paper') > 0;
Finally, we create a job to periodically 'optimize' the index. According to the docs your index gets fragmented and slower over time and this will fix it up. I've had luck with running this nightly but YMMV.
ctx_ddl.optimize_index(PRODUCT_REVIEW_SEARCH_IDX, 'FULL');
After you've got your index up and running you can get some useful info and stats out of it with the CTX_REPORTS package. Among other things it will tell you how fragmented your index is, and what words are the most frequently indexed.
I've really just scratched the surface to show you how to get a text index up and running fast. Oracle has a ton of options to tune the index, and search features like fuzzy searching, stemming, and wildcards.
*Ok, maybe you should still consult a DBA first if you have access to one.
How to Teach Your Old Business New Tricks – Lean Startup Style
You have an established business built around a mature product. Customers are buying, revenue is being generated, and presumably there are multiple people making a comfortable living to ensure that things stay that way. Inevitably what follows is a culture of devotion to the status quo, or perhaps to marginal improvements (like process improvement and cost reduction). The organization becomes extremely risk averse. While the market around your business never stops changing, your slow-moving company can either adapt or die.
One day an innovator in the organization identifies a new business opportunity and approaches you with it.
Hey, there's a new market we could capture. It's big. We just need to take a little risk to get to it.
Senior Management may say "We're not in the business of taking new risks. We're in the business of selling what we have." And we can't blame senior management for this response. It's political – and the stakes are huge. If a senior executive gets behind a new risky initiative and it fails, they are fired, or at least their career takes a big hit. Even if there were a large reward potential the risk may not be worth it to the executive.
What if we optimized this problem and reduce the risk by limiting the potential downsides? Let's start by identifying the major risks:
- Brand Risk. What if you release your new product and it is a total failure? Your company's name will be forever tarnished, and sales of existing product will get hurt as a result.
- Financial Risk (both capital and opportunity costs). To avoid Brand Risk we should put extra effort into making sure that the product is fully polished and ready for prime time. We will need teams of people working for multiple months (or even years) on the product development.
- Personal/Political Risk. If I've championed this project and it turns out to be a flop, I will suffer public embarrassment and will likely get fired/asked to resign. Hmm, maybe instead I should play it safe and let someone else take that risk if they want to.
Tarnishing your brand, losing money, and getting fired. Yep, those are giant risks. What if I told you that you could reduce each of these risks to manageable amounts? Within a small pocket of your company you can create a culture of innovation. Within this pocket you must encourage experimentation and celebrate failure in the interest of learning. Treat pocket of innovation like a small startup inside your larger organization.
We can solve this problem together. To get started building our new innovation culture we must first accept the fact that we will NOT get the product right on the first try. In fact, you have no idea how many iterations you need to make to get it right.
Failing often is OK as long as we limit the scope of our failures. We are not talking about orders failing to emerge after a lengthy product development cycle and advertising campaign. We're talking about showing a customer a drawing of the product and hearing that it doesn't quite do what they need. By limiting the scope of our failures we can decrease the duration of these business model experiments and increase their frequency. Under these conditions innovation is free to thrive.
How liberating! The first try is not what matters – what matters is that you iterate over your business model until you get it right, ultimately achieving Product-Market Fit (hopefully before your competitors and definitely before you run out of money). The other key is to limit spending until you've achieved product-market fit – for example, don't spend money on advertising until you're confident that the product is viable.
Once the organization accepts this idea it can start making rational choices to minimize the risk associated with the new business opportunity. Let's look at each of our major risks and see out how to minimize them given these new assumptions about our uncertainty in achieving product-market fit.
- Brand Risk is non-existent. If you build a product that nobody wants (and you haven't advertised it yet), then nobody even cares! Just resist the urge to create 'buzz' around your product launch until you're pretty sure you've gotten it right. You can't fail to meet expectations if you don't create any. To further protect the original brand, you could release your new product under a different brand, and only attach the parent brand when you've proven the success of the new product.
- Financial Risk – limit spending until achieving Product-Market Fit. The solution to mitigating financial risk is the Minimum Viable Product. The basic idea is to build only what is absolutely necessary in order to validate your assumptions about your business model. If we disprove an assumption, we come up with new assumptions and modify the MVP accordingly in order to validate the new assumptions. Then repeat. Eric Ries calls this the Build-Measure-Learn cycle, and it is the basis for the Lean Startup movement (fig A)We spend as little money as possible on the MVP, and we don't spend money on advertising activities until we've proven product-market fit. Sometimes this means building a single landing page to see how many people click on the 'sign up' button. Sometimes it means building a non-functioning prototype and taking it to a few customers to get their feedback. Still, even if we've only got a couple of people working to iterate on the MVP, money is being spent, and it can be tough to quantify progress to senior management. The bottom line is that it doesn't take that many resources to prove whether or not a business idea is viable (and if the idea is not viable you should kill the project).
- Personal/Political Risk can minimized. We've minimized brand risk and financial risk, so the political risk for the project champion is also minimized. Under these conditions, senior management should be able to reassure the project champion that her career is safe even if this business experiment does not achieve Product-Market Fit. This gives the project champion the confidence she needs to run without constantly having to watch her back.
The result is a framework for creating innovations in your company, ensuring that it will always be able to move with the market and capitalize on new opportunities.
This article was inspired by the works of Eric Ries's book, The Lean Startup and Steve Blank's Customer Development Methodology. For pragmatic advice on implementing the Customer Development Methodology, check out Mike Fishbein's article on Customer Development Questions.
Making Software that Doesn't Suck – With Automated Testing
I've seen a lot of different attitudes towards automated testing over the years. They range from zealous acceptance to complete rejection. I would like to cut through the rhetoric, pre-conceptions, and mis-conceptions, and start the conversation from the only place that makes sense.
First, a couple of definitions:
Unit Tests – Low level tests for application logic. Inputs will be mocked or stubbed. These do not make calls to services or external databases. They must run quickly, easily, and frequently. Example: testing a method that calculates taxes based on a matrix of product types and zip codes.
Integration Tests – Application logic tests that may make calls to external services or databases. These are slower and may run less frequently. Example: testing payment submission such that a payment gateway is called, a successful response is received, and that the response is logged to the database.
Functional Tests – Tests that run from a user perspective. Usually this will mean invoking a user interface and testing that it reacts appropriately. Example: testing that the user can login, place an order, and receive a confirmation email. These tests are not the focus of this article
The Business Case: How Does Building Unit Tests Help Me Make Money?
Make no mistake: there are costs associated with building tests, and may require a large upfront investment before any benefit is realized. In fact, to the non-technical manager, this combination of fuzzy benefits and clear costs may make testing seem like a poor investment. That line of thinking is at best short-sighted, and at worst, blatantly negligent to your product's future costs.
Testing helps your product development cycle move faster
This may be counter-intuitive. As it turns out, a the whole team has much higher confidence that the new features have not broken existing features when those existing features are continuously and automatically tested. The result is a QA cycle with less defects, which finishes faster and gets the product to market quicker. The business gains more confidence in product quality during each product development cycle. The tech team also gains confidence – unafraid to jump in and modify critical parts of the system to meet the latest business need. The tests got yo back.
Tests provide historical proof about how the application is supposed to function
One client I had actually opposed maintaining a unit test suite for their enterprise system. When it came time to make some minor enhancements to the billing system it turned into a big project. The billing logic had become un-maintainable spaghetti from years of monkey patching by developers who had come and gone over the years. In some cases the business people couldn't even tell us how it was supposed to work. We were literally afraid to modify it. We limped through the project, but started planning a rewrite of the building system as a future project, involving not just the tech team but also business resources to properly document the functionality.
We test because we care about our customers and because we care about our software.
If you've read this far, check out my latest project: FindMyBeer , where you can find who sells or serves craft beer near you.
Download Sources for SpringSource Tool Suite and Grails 1.3.7
Grails is a great framework framework that enables rapid development with Java. Like with any framework however, you sometimes get stuck and need to take a look under the covers to solve a problem.
Today I was fighting with mapping a many-to-many relationship (a common occurrence in grails), and needed to figure out exactly why Grails and Hibernate were not doing what I expected. One of the great things about Java is that nearly the whole stack is open source so you can just step through the code to see what is going on, as long as you can find the code (and navigate through injected dependencies, but that is a different story).
Eclipse Maven plugins provide great tools to 'Download Sources' start viewing them immediately when you step into some third party library code. I am developing a Grails application on SpringSource Tool Suite (STS, v2.8.2 as of this writing), which is becoming the industry standard IDE for Spring and Grails based applications. Since Grails uses a Maven-like dependency management system, you would expect STS to be able to download sources for for any of the grails dependencies easily, right?
Not quite.
While this is a feature that might work for Grails 2.0, if you're using Grails 1.3.7 then you will find a plugin named eclipse-scripts that enables you to download sources and then configure your projects so that STS can find the sources. Here's what you do:
1234 grails install-plugin eclipse-scriptsgrails compilegrails download-sources-and-javadocsgrails sts-link-sources-and-javadocs
Then restart STS and refresh your project. Now you can navigate into your project's Grails Dependencies and view their source through STS!
I found the solution here: https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-1440?focusedCommentId=36879&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-36879
Credit for creating the eclipse-scripts plugin to Lari Hotari
Groovy Lunch and Learn
I gave a talk at the Geneca office back in July and did not realize that it was available on the internet until today.
Linky: http://genecalal.posterous.com/groovy-talk-thursday-july-21
Performance Optimization: Doing Science
I couldn't hold a candle to Brian Green on such topics as Quantum Entaglement, Higgs Boson, or Grand Unified Theory (despite obtaining a B.A. in Physics), however I can apply the scientific method to improving the performance of your software.
In this article I will explain a basic, but often overlooked foundation for improving the performance of any software application.
Much of software development is an art, but performance tuning is a science. I've seen a lot of good developers waste time significant amounts of time on performance with little to show for it, or just as bad, improve performance without knowing exactly which change had the desired effect.
Do you remember talking about the Scientific Method from your high school science class? The diagram on the right is a refresher. The scientific method is the repeatable process on which all scientific exploration is based. It gives scientists across the world a common language and framework to compare the process and outcomes of experiments.
The scientific process provides a few of important points that can be applied to software performance optimization:
- Repeatable process – use the same process for every performance enhancement you make
- Only modify one variable at a time – Do not make multiple tweaks at the same time.
- Record the results of each optimization. Track what you did and how much it helped.
This sounds simple right? It is. The tough part for software developers is to never break these rules during a round of optimizations. To the right I've also included a more detailed diagram of what the scientific process looks like when applied to performance optimization. Let's call it the Performance Optimization Method.
But I know what I'm doing! Why shouldn't I make multiple tweaks at once?
Lets say you do make two changes at once. You optimize two queries and drop the page load time from 3s to .1s. Do you know how much relative impact the changes had? Did each change reduce the cost by the same amount (50%/50%)? Did one query account for most of the cost (75%/25%)? Or did one of the changes not even have any impact (100%/0%)? What if the two changes were somehow interdependent? For the most part these questions are impossible to answer unless you use a repeatable process and only modify one variable at a time. There are exceptions *(there are always exceptions. If you have a good profiling tool that tells you exactly what two different method calls cost and you are absolutely sure they are not somehow related then you could cut a corner and make multiple changes at once. If the results do not turn out as expected you still need to go back and make the changes one at a time). By the way, I hope you are testing against a volume of data you expect in production.
Don't forget to record the result of each optimization. This way you can throw your results into a table, and with a little explanation about the process and results you turn it into a report and send it to management so they can see how you're spending their budget (and how good you are at science). Having these sorts of metrics reports also makes it easy for stakeholders to justify the time spent on performance optimization activities.
The law of diminishing returns applies to performance enhancements. At some point you will have picked all of the low-hanging fruit and enhancements start to get progressively more expensive. Stakeholders need insight into how this is progressing on your project so they can make decisions on how much more to spend on performance. Metrics reports should provide sufficient detail for stakeholders to make those decisions.
Ultimately you will end up with a faster application and a clear story of how you got there. Isn't science fun?
Reducing JBoss's Memory Footprint
I am working on a project to convert a handful of J2EE applications from an Oracle OC4J application (no longer supported) server to JBoss 5.1.0. Among the many challenges in the conversion is the fact that JBoss's default profile has a significantly larger memory footprint than OC4J. In the past I have just accepted that Jboss uses over 400MB of heap space before you even deploy anything. This time however we were hoping to reuse the same hardware from the old application server with the new application server. When the test system started paging and eventually using up all of the physical memory available, we were forced to choose between ordering more memory and trying to tune jboss to reduce the memory footprint.
We ended up having a lot of success reducing the footprint through tuning. Bottom line: we reduced the memory footprint by 120MB, and the startup time from 53s to 24s
Here were the steps taken
|Heap Size (MB)
|Used (MB)
|Reduction in Used (MB)
|Starting Heap
|commented out debug level MBeans annotation in deployers.xml
|removed ejb3 services
|removed messaging folder & props
|removed seam & admin-console
|Removed xnio-deployer and xnio-provider
|removed ROOT.war
|removed management
|removed jbossws.sar
The instructions for each step can be found : http://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBoss5xTuningSlimming
Notes on my environment and testing process:
- Windows XP, JDK 1.6.0_22,
- JBoss 5.1.0.GA. Xmx=512M , Xmx=256 (this is why heap didn't drop below 256)
- I used jvisualvm to watch the heap and "used" memory values
- For the "Used" memory, I took the maximum observed value while JBoss was starting. If you understand that a time vs. memory usage graph follows a sawtooth pattern as objects are instantiated and garbage collected, then I took the value from the tip of the highest tooth.
Eliminating Blog Waste
I've recently bought into the idea that the best design is achieved when you can no longer find anything to eliminate while still achieving your goals. This idea also aligns well with the concepts of Lean process improvement, and the constant elimination of waste.
With this in mind, I simplified my blog UI today, switching to this theme from iNove (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/inove). Its not a big change, but its an improvement.


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The Nitpicker Is Sick of Perfume in Restaurants
Welcome to The Nitpicker. Jason Kessler loves to complain almost as much as he loves to eat. Join him on his journey through the imperfect universe of food.
When I was in high school, I decided that it was time to start wearing cologne. I didn't come to this decision lightly. It was only after months of smelling other high school dudes parade past me in clouds of Polo Sport and Acqua di Giò that I realized I smelled like nothing. And nothing is a bad thing to be in high school. One day, I heard a rather cute redhead remark on how much she liked boys who wore cologne—and that was it. I went to the bank, took out some of my $4/hour wages from Navo's Pastaria, and bought a bottle of HUGO by Hugo Boss. Did it get me any girls? Absolutely not. Did it make my 15-year-old self feel like a real man? Yes, although at the time I didn't know that the kind of real man I felt like was the kind of jerk who wears a ton of cologne.
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real boy! grown-up, I have learned the hard truth about cologne and perfume: they're fully and completely terrible, everywhere, all the time. But the worst is when that stink comes into restaurants. We've all been there, right? You're sitting down to a nice meal somewhere, when Muumuu Mimi plods by wearing Flop Sweat by Jessica Simpson. All of a sudden, that plate of fish tacos you were about to devour starts to smell like a plate of garbage tacos and trust me, nobody but a raccoon wants to eat garbage tacos. Don't you realize what you've done, Mimi? YOU'RE RUINING DINNER FOR EVERYONE. Sure, it's Mimi's right to stink, but the aroma is going to distract the rest of us for the duration of the meal. And that is not fair!
I therefore propose a nationwide ban on smelly diners—if necessary, a Constitutional amendment. If your odor wafts more than five feet in any direction, then you won't be allowed to eat at that establishment. It's like those baggage-sizers that airlines use to see if your wheelie will fit in the overhead compartment. If an offender chooses to leave and eradicate the offensive olfactory factor, they'll be welcomed back with open arms. If not, there's always the drive-thru. (Yes, even at Per Se.) This plan would also apply to B.O., although that gets a little trickier due to medical conditions and such. We'll have to convene a special session with the ACLU to figure out where to draw the line with that one.
Eating out requires a social contract. We all need to respect the fact that we're trying to enjoy a private dinner in public—a scenario chock-full of pitfalls. It all boils down to this: I don't want to know you're there. Don't talk loudly. Don't talk to me. And don't stink up my dinner! In return, I won't ruin yours—by, say, humming "Mambo No. 5" loud enough to drown out your Chanel No. 5.
Lou Bega to the rescue. Again.


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An ore boat that almost stuck in the muck at the bottom of the Cuyahoga River has introduced the public to a problem that might otherwise seem prosaic: the dredging of sediment from one of our city's most important economic assets.
Luckily, the crew of the Pathfinder was able to avoid running aground last month by offloading some ore before continuing upriver to finish unloading at the ArcelorMittal blast furnace dock.
But officials say it was the first time a buildup of muck had prevented a ship from reaching the steel mill without a planned lightening of its load. Surprises like that serve as a harbinger of what will happen if a new plan to dispose of dredged Cuyahoga River sludge doesn't get off the table soon and into the real world.
Talks involving the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, the city, the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are mired in disagreements over who will pay for what. The federal government now requires that local sources provide 25 percent of the costs of dredge disposal, while the costs of sequestering that dredge keep going up.
After months and months of meetings, the Corps has issued a preliminary plan with an innovative solution: trucking muck to two idled landfills. Local ports CEO Will Friedman believes that will solve the disposal problem for the next six to seven years.
The bad news: The Army Corps insists that instead of the current 75-25 cost split that applies to dredged sediment discharged near the water into what are called confined disposal facilities, trucking to landfills would require a 50-50 split.
That's a nonstarter: The local port would have to pony up as much as $3.1 million over the next three years while the Corps would kick in between $3 million and $3.7 million. Friedman won't sign a letter of commitment under those terms.
For now, the Corps will begin dredging ahead of schedule to restore shipping lanes clogged with sediment from unusually heavy spring rains and snow melt. That's critical for operations at ArcelorMittal.
But serious, long-term solutions need to be agreed on soon to show companies that rely on the river that the waterway will remain a vital and dependable mode of transportation for many years to come.


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Don't stand in front of the bus | Letters
After seeing the disgruntled group of Outlying Field Coupeville protesters pictured on the front page of a Seattle newspaper on Dec. 23 and reading a myriad of letters on the OLF topic, I wish to express some views of my own. It has become abundantly clear that the major issue is home values and not "noise." Folks who bought homes in Admiral's Cove did so because of a couple of reasons, very affordable prices as opposed to other areas and the great view of the Olympics and the sound. When my wife and I first moved here in 1980, one of the first areas we considered was Admiral's Cove — very affordable, nice homes, great views. But our realtor said that it could be a very noisy area in that there is a Navy airfield nearby and to "come down here when the planes are flying." The realtor told us that the home we were interested in had a $5,000 "bounty" she would be paid by the seller if she sold the home, apparently for that very reason, noise. Just the other evening I had a friend and former realtor tell me that one of the people that is always complaining in the Whidbey News-Times about the noise was in the process of buying a home in Admiral's Cove in 1985. This realtor advised him that it was very noisy down there (around OLF and surrounding area), but the person bought a home there anyway because of the price and said "the noise wouldn't be a big deal." Apparently he has changed his tune.
The fact is that these same folks are the same type who buy near a major airport, train tracks and gun ranges and then complain about the noise. They're not kidding anyone, they bought because of lower home values. The same idea goes for the people who got the Kettle's Trail built and then complained about the seasonal hunting there. They refuse even to stop using the trail during the short hunting season and then using it the other major portion of the year. No, they wanted hunting banned all together. (No, I am not a deer hunter.)
Additionally how does one group get off calling itself "Citizens of Ebey's Reserve?" Isn't that Federal Park Land and how many actually live on that land? One comment has been made about the Commissioners "throwing us (COER) under the bus?" No, not true at all, for you stood in front of the bus and got run over because you didn't do your homework like the rest of us. We bought in Dugualla Bay; yes, another "noise zone" but our realtor gave us a map showing the area and what we could expect from plane noise. We made an informed decision, and bought based on all the facts.
As for noise, our Navy aviators are training so you will not be subjected to the noise of enemy bombs dropping, rockets and bullets flying into your home. Yes, and roadside bombs can be quite noisy as well. Never heard one but they are quite loud.
And you say "We are not against the Navy." You say you are not, but if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it probably is a duck. So don't say you are not against the Navy because you sure sound like it since you have filed a lawsuit against the Navy. It would seem to me that you should be making a case against your realtor who ill advised, or worse, didn't advise you like mine did back in 1980, against buying near OLF. Go Navy ... but not from OLF.
Fred Stilwell
Oak Harbor
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Wednesday 10 April 2013
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South Asian Dance powerhouse Akademi presents an intimate dance experience that unites the stillness of Zen meditation with the rapturous motion of Sufi dervishes.
Sufi Zen is choreographed by Gauri Sharma Tripathi with the support of Jonathan Lunn and Mavin Khoo. It merges multiple dance styles, including kathak, contemporary and ballet.
Set to a score by Shrikanth Sriram, this performance reflects Akademi's longstanding reputation for presenting modern perspectives on traditional South Asian dance forms in unusual and distinct spaces.
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UPDATE: Michigan State Police detective sergeant: Marked car pursuit of suspect in fatal crash lasted just 10 seconds
FLINT, Michigan — A 13-year-old girl died last night from injuries she sustained after being struck by a van, Michigan State Police said.
The van, which was fleeing police, struck the teenager around 4:55 p.m. Wednesday as she was crossing Saginaw Street.
The girl died shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday, said Detective Sgt. Jeff Bauermeister.
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Nykeda Belton and her family are without a home for Thanksgiving. Fire damaged her home on Avenue O in Birmingham 10 days ago. It started in the kitchen where she had been cooking, and she and her family were left with only the clothes on their backs. "Everything got ruined," said Belton, 27. "All of our furniture, clothes. My house is not livable." Her mother, sister and brother were living with her because their home in Brighton was damaged by sewage flooding about two months ago. They were just rebounding after losing their possessions to the sewage damage. Since the fire, the family has been living in a motel, thanks to charitable donations from the American Red Cross and Bridge Ministries. They didn't have insurance. Belton, who said she recently lost her housekeeping job, wonders what will happen to her family, including her 6-year-old twin boys and 5-month-old niece. But they are thankful no one was hurt in the fire and grateful for the charity assistance they received. "We just have each other," Belton said. "We will be praying and hoping it will be all right. That's all we can do right now." More "I am thankful" stories Share your reasons for being thankful by clicking comment below
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