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The Latest News On The API Economy
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Facebook Launches Continuous Live Video API
Facebook has launched a new Continuous Live Video API that enables developers to broadcast long and persistent streaming video to the world's largest social network. Previously, Facebook Live streams were limited to 90 minutes, but thanks to the new API, third parties can broadcast longer events.
Google Maps Provides API Release Note Updates via RSS Feeds
The Google Maps API team maintains many Google Maps APIs and SDKs. Manually tracking updates across the various sets of Release Notes presents a challenge for developers. Google now offers auto-updates to Maps Release Notes via RSS feeds. RSS feeds for all Maps and Places APIs are available.
Cloudinary Simplifies the Delivery of Video Content
Video is an increasingly important component for websites and apps, as consumer demand for and consumption of video content is growing. Companies still pre-transcoding video or working with in-house transcoding systems may want to consider cloud-based API solutions such as Cloudinary.
Add Interactive Animated Weather Forecasts with Windyty API
YouTube Adds Historical Data to Reporting API
Now that YouTube's Reporting API has been live for roughly half a year, YouTube has started adding new features. The latest new feature is historical data. Historical Data provides a 180 day lookback from a particular job's schedule date. Historical data is available beginning July 1, 2015.
How to Search Locations by Travel Time With the iGeolise TravelTime API API University
When developing a location-based application, displaying the most relevant information is the key to success. Countrywide.co.uk managed to increase their conversions by up to 300 percent when delivering points of interest by travel time. In this article, we'll explain how to search and display
YouTube Introduces 360-Degree Live Streaming
A year after YouTube introduced 360-degree video, it has added a live-streaming option. YouTube enhances immersive video experiences by supplementing 360-degree live streaming with spatial listening (a feature that mimics in-person listening by accounting for depth, intensity, and distance).
How to Geocode With the LatLon.io API API University
Maps are powerful tools that can be used in a variety of situations, from visualizing where customers live, to defining sales territories, to plotting crime patterns in neighborhoods. The first step in creating a map is to convert street addresses to latitude and longitude coordinates through a
Why Netflix Moved to a Microservices Architecture API University
In 2008 when Netflix announced plans to move to the cloud, most observers were dubious. Now Netflix has become one of the first major companies to exist completely in the public cloud and their architectural shift to cloud based microservices led to many successes in performance and scalability.
3D Mapping Platform Provider eeGeo Releases Points of Interest API
eeGeo has released a Points of Interest API that allows developers to submit and manage custom points of interest to be used primarily with the eeGeo example app. The API also allows outdoor POIs to be created and includes search query options such as free text search and category search.
Google and Twitch Introduce Streaming Game Play at GDC
Google and Twitch announced major service offerings in the world of game play streaming at the annual Game Developers Conference. Twitch's Stream First development approach, and Google's new Video Recording API are meant to create a collaboration between game, player, and audience.
8 Ways the Google Maps API Can Improve Your Ridesharing App API University
If you're in the market for a Web mapping API and you've chosen to use Google Maps, I think you've made a smart choice. If you're looking for tips on how to optimally implement Google Maps API into your transportation app, such as a taxi or ridesharing service, then you're in the right place.
Instagram Cuts API Access to Popular New iOS App Being
Being, an iOS app that allows users to browser Instagram as someone else, has had its access to the Instagram API cut off. In the first week following its launch, Being reached the Best New Apps section of the App Store's front page and was used to view more than 500,000 Instagram feeds.
Google Aligns Places API with Maps Search Results
Developers have requested that Google better align the Places API and Google Maps search results. Google has answered the call by integrating the Places API with Google Maps search. The move offers better search quality, but developers need be aware the changes may affect current installations.
How to Implement Basic Search with Google Maps API API University
As the Google Earth API Shutdown Nears, What Are Your Options?
The previously popular Google Earth API is being deprecated and is due to shut down in early 2016, signalling the end of access to its 3D imagery via the API. This post by Timothy Whitehead for Google Earth Blog looks at four applications that used to use the API, and what they are using now.
Sickweather Opens Illness-Mapping API
Sickweather is known for its real-time illness tracking. Where hospitals and government agencies take weeks to report illness trends, Sickweather scans social media outlets for real-time tracking and reporting. Now, Sickweather has made the API behind the tracking service available to developers.
How to Manage the Risk of Losing API Access API University
The recent experience of mapmaker RouteBuilder highlights one of the key issues that needs to be addressed when consuming APIs: how to manage the risk associated with an API becoming unavailable? Businesses consuming open APIs in their products need to take these risk management actions.
Daily API RoundUp: Plone, Get Five Stars, VIDCOIN, Mailrelay, Clever Banking
Six APIs have been added to the directory in categories such as Banking, Content Management, and Advertising. Included today is the Plone CMS API, which allows programmatic access to the open source content management system. Here, we summarize the new additions and how they can assist developers.
Facebook Announces API for Embedded Video Player and oEmbed Support
Earlier this year, Facebook launched an embedded video player. To ease integration between the player and third party websites, Facebook has now announced API access to the player. In addition to the API, Facebook now supports the oEmbed open standard, which simplifies embedding Facebook material.


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As the leading manufacturer of stainless products for the foodservice industry, Wasserstrom's endless selection of standard stainless steel products provide the quality, durability, versatility and dynamic performance features you demand. From state-of-the-art facilities, our engineers and skilled craftsmen use only the highest grade stainless steel, the finest fabricating equipment and the strictest quality control to design and manufacture the perfect stainless steel equipment. We can even combine stainless steel with other materials such as wood and granite for the ultimate in design and durability.
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When you have a unique need, we are the leading manufacturer of custom stainless steel equipment for the foodservice industry. We can custom fabricate whatever you can imagine, and help to simplify your equipment needs – all at a competitive price. With decades of experience, we always integrate food safety with the function and design of quality equipment for preparation, processing and presentation. We can even combine stainless steel with other materials such as wood and granite for the ultimate in design and durability.
- NSF-, ETL- and UL Listed
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MANCHESTER, Tenn. — When it's remarked to Jeff Tweedy while walking backstage at the recent Bonnaroo Music Festival that it's a shame he won't have time to catch most of the festival's other acts, he turns and smiles.
"Yeah, well, I don't really like music."
The Wilco songwriter and frontman is, of course, an obsessive music listener. And on the band's new album, "Wilco (The Album)," Tweedy exuberantly expresses his love of both rock music and its fans.
On the album's tongue-in-cheek opener, "Wilco (The Song)," Tweedy sings: "Do you dabble in depression?/ Is someone twisting a knife in your back? ... Wilco will love you, baby."
The song — like the album's arch title — is a bit of a goof. But it's also an earnest ode to Wilco's fans and, more generally, to rock music fandom.
Tweedy says the song isn't necessarily about Wilco loving you, but the feeling of connecting with any musician. At one point, he planned an extended part of the song where he rattled off J.Lo, Nick Lowe and Devo — and even briefly pursued getting them to sing on the song.
"Does music provide a consolation that you can't find anywhere else in most people's lives? I would say yes," says Tweedy. "I don't see any reason not to acknowledge that in an exuberant kind of way."
A Wilco 'Whitman sampler'
On Wilco's seventh album — and first to retain the same lineup — Tweedy & Co. have seemingly arrived at a plateau in their career: confident, relaxed and not afraid to, say, perform on the "Tonight" show dressed in country music-style sequin suits — as they did in a recent appearance.
Tweedy calls the record a "Whitman sampler of the different aspects and obsessions of Wilco." He believes that came out of a five-night residency they held last year in their hometown, Chicago, that forced the band — which includes the expert guitarist Nels Cline — to lay "some claim of ownership" to the varied Wilco catalog.
Rolling Stone magazine called the album "a thrilling triumph of determined simplicity by a band that has been running from the obvious for most of this decade."
The Wilco mythology was forged on their 2002 album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." It was hailed as an experimental classic and as exhibit A for the senselessness of the music industry. Wilco's label, Reprise Records, didn't like the album and released them from their contract. Nonesuch Records picked it up and it went on to sell more than 500,000 copies. Their next album, 2004's "A Ghost Is Born," won a Grammy for best alternative music album.
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Each Wilco album has seemed like part of an ongoing narrative for the band — a new direction on each. Tweedy, though, thinks their progressiveness has been overstated.
On each record, he sees the ramshackle, psychedelic alt-country associated with 1996's "Being There," the impressionistic, chopped-up approach of "Foxtrot," and the laid-back folkiness of 2007's "Sky Blue Sky."
"This record kind of illustrates that all these records that people have always looked at as being so wildly different from each other, aren't really that different from each other," says Tweedy. "They all contain a song that is sort of like 'Jesus Etc.' All of 'em, even 'A.M.' (Wilco's 1994 debut). There's always been a softer, pop, kind of folky tune. ... every other record has a fair amount of dissonance."
More confident, lighter in mood
If Tweedy and Wilco have in recent years seemingly moved lighter and more confidently, it hasn't been easy to arrive at such a point.
The 41-year-old singer has suffered chronic migraines his entire life and ignored the problem until he had developed a dependence on painkillers. He entered rehab in 2004 and since has been able to keep the migraines in check. He also gave up smoking and drinking.
Tweedy, who's married and has children ages 13 and 9, says his creative life was always a functional, "relatively conflict-free zone." He thinks the idea of the tortured artist or drug-abusing rock star is "such a thought distortion."
"If anything, all the other stuff really inhibited it and made it harder," says Tweedy. "The problems and suffering grew out of an unwillingness to suffer, to face things that needed to be faced — an unwillingness to grow up."
On May 24, Jay Bennett, who left the band acrimoniously shortly before the release of "Foxtrot," died at the age of 45 of an overdose of a painkiller. Just weeks before, he had sued Tweedy, claiming he was owed royalties.
"I don't have any experience with any other type of loss in my life that compares. I haven't talked to the guy in eight years and certainly a lot of ambivalence built up over time," says Tweedy. "The bottom line is: It is tragic. ... He's a brilliant musician and a smart guy and he should still be around."
Like Tweedy, drummer Glenn Kotche feels Wilco has arrived at a good place.
"It's almost a bit unnerving that things are going so well," jokes Kotche. "A lot of the issues in the past were because of membership changes or certain individuals or, obviously, personal issues with everyone and Jeff having to go into rehab.
"Since all of those things are sorted out and we've got an ensemble now that we all like each other as people and respect as musicians and communicate on stage — it seems like things are really pretty smooth."
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Lyra Network is a fintech group founded by seasoned payment experts, supported by industrial investors that provides innovative billing and payment solutions to internet merchants. Our "on-top" and distributed solution allows e-merchants to collect any kind of billing process, in any currency, from any country, through any existing or future payment means, which works on any device with a single generic integration. Our SaaS service targets developer communities and fraud & payment experts within e-merchants organizations, amongst which we especially dedicate our efforts to improve high volume / high growth / highly internationalized e-merchants' convertion rates.
Our technology stack uses:
We also (really) take care of quality, using last continuous integration tools and technologies:
Our team is small with a flat organization. You will be directly in contact with the founders and participate to technology design meetings. Our main working languages are Spanish and English, French could be a plus.
You will participate the following projects:
You will be part of the core team. You will participate to the full development cycle (from conception to production).
Skills described below are not mandatory but a plus for the company.
The company is located in Barcelona. The position requires developers in site.


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Working in the New Administration (R or D)
We had a great turnout at last week's program with Dean Edley and Maria Echaveste on how to land a job in the next administration.
Click here for a recent article on the transition process.
We also wanted to provide you with links to information on both the White House Fellows Program (Feb 9th deadline for 3L students) and the White House Summer Internship Program. (The deadline for the Summer 2009 program has not yet been established; however, the deadline for the 2008 summer internship program was Feb. 26th).
Please feel free to contact Eric Stern in our office for questions on careers in government, public policy and advocacy organizations.
In case you weren't able to make it to the program with Dean Edley and Maria Echaveste, a webcast is available on the CDO's Guides and Webcasts page (click on "Other Resources" then "Guides and Webcasts" — it's entitled, appropriately enough, "How To Get A Job in the Next Administration.")
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Below you can find the ASTRON logo in JPEG and PNG.
Contact ASTRON when you need a logo in a different format (e.g. .eps):
phone: +31 (0)521 595 204+31 (0)521 595 204 or pr [at] astron [dot] nl.
LOFAR, SKA and NWO logo's are available below.
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research: NWO (English), NWO (Dutch)
Square Kilometre Array: with box and without box
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Well the results are out from the 2012 survey of divers carried out by Sports Diver Magazine (USA). The Philippines was in the top five destinations in nearly all categories. This is how the Philippines scored in the Pacific and Indian Ocean Region
- Best Destination for Diving = 1st place (tied with Malaysia);
- Best Shore Diving = 2nd place;
- Best Destination Overall = 3rd place (tied with Thailand);
- Best Marine Life = 3rd place;
- Healthiest Marine Environment = 4th place;
- Best Macro = 4th place;
- Best Wreck Diving = 5th place.
Photograph of pygmy seaqhourse compliments of Estelle Giorand-Bucaille
Best Shore diving
The survey results noted that Cebu's Moalboal has a handful of mini walls that offer some of the best diving in the country
Healthiest Marine Life
In December 2011, the United Nations Environment Program launched the Green Fins Project to all the dive centers in Moalboal. This project, which has already been successfully implemented in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Philippines (Puerto Galera), aims to:
- "to protect and conserve coral reefs by establishing and implementing environmentally friendly guidelines to promote a sustainable diving tourism industry".
This has been done by introducing a Code Of Conduct for good diving practices and protocol for all divers who dive in Moalboal. This is done with the support of the Dive Center owners, through education of all of the dive masters and other dive staff making them aware of diving does and don'ts. The education is backed up by posters and briefing guides that are shared with visiting divers.
The national government agencies (Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Philippine Commission on Sports Scuba Diving) are backing this project. The local government of Moalboal has given their full support to this project by passing a new ordinance that gives a penalty divers and dive centers who cause damage to the coral reef.


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In the second installment of this two part series on Gamification, Face Facts talks to Research Through Gaming CEO and Founder Betty Adamou about her innovative vision for the future of research.
Read Part One Now!
Although it is clear that members of the public have been engaged when interacting with existing examples of Gamification, once the novelty wears off do you think that this method of retrieving data will face the same issues as traditional methods of data collection such as surveys? How do you suggest the industry could address this potential pitfall?
The short answer is no.
If ten years later people are still taking those awful grid surveys then they would still take Gamified surveys in another 10 years. People have been playing games for decades, so there is no reason why a game-like survey wouldn't survive with our respondents.
You can gamify a survey in two ways. Gamify the survey itself, which Research Through Gaming does, or gamify the entire experience of participating in research, which Research Through Gaming are doing this year 2012.
If understanding your contribution to research and it's wider causes, comparing your opinions with others, gaining and growing rewards for your participation and using rewards to do things you enjoy will ever be boring, then I will eat my hat.
Besides, all the technological developments mean we can constantly update the look and feel of our ResearchGames if we really wanted/needed to.
All games are designed to eventually become boring because there is an END. Once you achieved all you have to achieve and reached your penultimate goal, you stop playing right? That's why some games are shorter, eg, games for a mobile device, and some games are longer, like MMORG's.
If a respondent plays one of our ResearchGames on a Monday, and plays again on a Wednesday, no, I won't expect them to be as excited about seeing it as they were the first time round, BUT the constant build-up of achievements, rewards and bragging rights mean they will keep coming back, as do all players with games they love.
By introducing levels of achievement which unlock rewards and ensure there are rewards/recognition at every stage (so the respondent always has something to work towards) is always recognized for their participation and understand their contribution, we are able to address problems of over-familiarisation with this methodology.
Do we constantly need to evolve this method to ensure we keep it fresh and therefore keep respondents engaged?
Yes and No. It depends what you've started off with.
Using gamification has its own 'set of tools' if you like. If you've found a way to imbue goals, rules, feedback and sharing options so much so that your respondents voluntarily come to your gamfied research experience, then you can GROW that AS A GAME, by perhaps allowing respondents to unlock more achievements for other efforts they make, for instance, such as posting up their own questions. Growing your game is, of course the right thing to do and perfect. This is what FarmVille do so successfully with things like seasonal offers and graphics and bonus in-games.
At Research Through Gaming we're building a gamified research experience in our Playspondent™ Playground, which will allow respondents to gain achievements on not just how many ResearchGames™ they've taken part in, but also how many they've recommended, how long they spent taking part in a ResearchGame, how many brand battles they begin and how many they join. As our ideas grow, so will the game. We're already looking at how the respondent Avatars can visibly improve the more they are rewarded for their efforts. Of course, if we think of other ideas we'll implement those, and that can make for a fresher, more enjoyable experience.
If we are constantly evolving our methods what impact does this have on costs? – Based on this is Gamification still a viable option?
This question has a two-fold answer.
If you think about how much money we LOOSE on drop-outs, low incidence rates and active panelists vastly becoming inactive, and then how much money we spend as an industry recruiting more panelists and buying panel from third-party suppliers because the incidence rates are low – then I would say realistically, you should give another methodology a shot.
I have a client at the moment who's global survey is really struggling response-rate wise and in some countries they've had to use up to 4 third party suppliers to top-up their panel. This is costing them a fortune. But, this kind of thing happens every day with many, many research companies. On the surface, the panel companies might seem like competitors but we know all too well that they supply to one another, just because there isn't enough panel to go around!
Also, we spend a lot of money as an industry imbuing Flash-tools (which don't even show up on mobile devices) to try and get those bored respondents more interested in our surveys.
So, with that in mind, I would say put all the money you LOSE together and then spend that on gamifying the experience for your respondents and let your researchers get creative.
Is there anything else you think that Market Research professionals should know about Gamification?
Yes, there is plenty to let Market Researchers know about Gamification! It is an entire industry, as well as there being an entire gaming industry too so I could really sit here for a year and never finish talking about it!
I offer workshops on Gamification in Research (and Gamification generally) which is a great way to introduce yourself to the subject, get to know about some core case-studies and even have a go at gamifying your own survey in one of the workshop activities we do. I do these for the MRS and ARK group but I did a one-off at NetGain for the MRIA conference.
Any closing thoughts?
Yes. In two conferences I've done now (ESOMAR Best of Croatia and MRIA NetGain) I ask the researchers in my audience to stand up. I ask them to stay standing depending on their answers to some questions I have.
I say "Stay standing if you enjoy your job". Everyone stays standing at this point.
I say "Stay standing if you like working in research". Again, everyone stays standing.
I then ask the respondent to stay standing if the answer is YES to the following questions:
'Do you speak to your clients every day?',
'Do you speak to your respondents?',
'Do you read the surveys you send out?
'Would YOU take the surveys that you send out?'
In the few times I've done this, one person is always left standing, I think that say's a lot.
Betty Adamou is CEO and Founder of Research Through Gaming
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Gabose Korean & Japanese Restaurant
Feast on spicy Korean comfort food in Lauderhill
Gabose means "let's go" in Korean, and you'll want to go to Gabose Korean & Japanese Restaurant in Lauderhill for do-it-yourself barbecue, jungol (hot pot casseroles), noodle dishes and other authentic fare. Every country has a defining dish, and in Korea it is dolsot bibimbap or mixed rice. The version here comes in the traditional hot stone bowl, which continues to cook the rice as you eat it, forming a toasted crust on the bottom. The rice is topped with vegetables, rib-eye bits and a fried egg sprinkled with sesame seeds. Everything is swirled together with gochujang (fermented red chile paste) using slender metal chopsticks.
Eun Suk Hong opened Gabose in 2000 with her husband and does the cooking. Her daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Fred Kim, run the front. The Hongs are from Wonju, just east of Seoul, and started out in South Florida 20 years ago as vegetable vendors. Fred's parents left Seoul for Maryland, where his dad was a minister. Susan went to culinary school in New York, and makes the tofu and desserts.
Try the steamed tofu topped in a spicy sauce with crisp seaweed flakes and scallions, or start with tukpoki (also spelled dukboki), a street food snack made with doughy rice cakes, chewy fish cakes, veggies and clear yam noodles in a fiery sauce. There are two ways of cooking the marinated meats here: over a bucket of charcoal set in a hole in the table or on a flat gas grill. Thick cuts and beef short ribs are best over fire, while pork belly and thin cuts work best with gas. Cook the meat and wrap it in a lettuce leaf with denjange (miso-like dip).
Barbecue meals come with panchan, small bowls of side dishes including paechu kimchi made with Napa cabbage, mung bean jelly slabs, sautéed potato slices with chili powder, baby oyster mushrooms with jalapeño and ribbons of pickled daikon radish. Spicy slices of skate are tossed with cold buckwheat noodles, and grilled saltwater eel is glazed in a pungent semi sweet sauce. Cool the sizzle with Susan's buttery tasting popcorn ice cream or silky tofu flan drizzled in dark brown sugar syrup.
More Information
Gabose Korean & Japanese Restaurant
4991 N. University Dr, Lauderhill (in the Maderos Plaza)
Hours: 11:30am-10:30pm Monday-Thursday, 11:30am-11pm Friday-Saturday, 1-10pm Sunday
Prices: Barbecue $15.95-$24.95, rice bowls $11.95-$18.95, noodles $11.99-$15.95
FYI: There are only seven charcoal tables, so it is best to reserve.
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- Grille 401 debuts sushi & sake bar on Las Olas
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Texoma might see a warm up this week, but winter is still just around the corner which means you may need to start bundling up, and Faith Refuge wants to help you stay warm.
Volunteers are feverishly making some fashionable fleece scarves.
The winter must-haves range in styles and prints some with frayed edges and others with cheetah patterns.
The scarves will be available to purchase at the annual Christmas Magic event at the MPEC.
It's this coming Friday from 9 to 7 and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m.
The scarves cost just $12 for one or two for $20.
The money raised from the scarf sales will go towards the operating costs of Faith Refuge which officials say runs around $34 thousand per month.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post6905568252321073784..comments2016-11-24T13:10:01.762+00:00Comments on Alternative Chat :: A Warcraft Blog: Dirty Little SecretAlternative email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-90550026224954194902013-01-22T16:21:36.985+00:002013-01-22T16:21:36.985+00:00I have 2 transmute alchemists and I haven't ha...I have 2 transmute alchemists and I haven't had a single living steel proc since MOP release ;p Plenty of trillium though so eh.

Thanks for the tip btw, I've been too busy with the grindy achievements I'm still after to look at PTR, time to start actually landing and grabbing all the ghost iron I currently ignore on my miners!

Katzbalger-Arthas (US)firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-20477685517613385432013-01-22T14:34:14.893+00:002013-01-22T14:34:14.893+00:00Oddly enough I picked up about 600 ghost iron bars...Oddly enough I picked up about 600 ghost iron bars over the weekend as the price crashed. Normally they sell for much more than the trillium I need to feed my living steel habit. Trillium needs a use. It has slowly been getting less useful for a while.
BTW process rate for transmutes is same as other masteries. Just seems low because it is done less frequently. I like it though. Makes me feel happy when it goes bang.Andrew Sutherlandhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-70193363736090689862013-01-22T12:25:50.147+00:002013-01-22T12:25:50.147+00:00@YOCO: Will keep an eye on the popup :D@YOCO: Will keep an eye on the popup :DThe Godmotherhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-26036692049979969402013-01-22T12:06:36.824+00:002013-01-22T12:06:36.824+00:00@Nev. Yeah that proc. ^^ Not exactly earth shatter...@Nev. Yeah that proc. ^^ Not exactly earth shattering on Living Steel at any point since the Expansion began or indeed for my gems. In fact, the proc has been and continues to be depressingly small. But I take the point.

Post amended accordingly.The Godmotherhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-49549103660256584272013-01-22T11:30:28.964+00:002013-01-22T11:30:28.964+00:00Duh, Nev beat me to the point ... :)Duh, Nev beat me to the point ... :)Yocohttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-32368444065838788852013-01-22T11:27:57.538+00:002013-01-22T11:27:57.538+00:00Wouldn't it make more sense to send all ghost ...Wouldn't it make more sense to send all ghost iron bars to the transmute specialist (assuming you have one, of course)?

The trillium transmute doesn't affect the living steel or other cooldowns, so a chance for extra trillium is always better, no? As said, Trillium transmute is not on any cooldown - if you have a bag full of ghost iron bars, just select the trillium transmute recipe and hit "create all" and grab a cup of coffee while watching the transmuter do all the hard work :)

And a completely different topic: seeing how you are still going for Master of All: can you check if you actually get an achievement popup once you get there? I have the achievement, but was mightily disappointed that I never got the popup for it. It just happened to be in my achievement log the next time I logged in after I got the last trade to 600...Yocohttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-77440769938453337232013-01-22T11:27:47.087+00:002013-01-22T11:27:47.087+00:00don't send it to your potion/flask specs hon -...don't send it to your potion/flask specs hon - you'll be missing out on the procs from your transmute spec. It can really add up, especially if you are producing a lot of trillium! Just put your transmute specialist to crafting & go do something else for a lil while :)Nev Joneshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-54818521166677927622013-01-22T11:10:59.160+00:002013-01-22T11:10:59.160+00:00@Yoco: I have discovered this morning one of my th...@Yoco: I have discovered this morning one of my threesome doesn't know it anyway, so I'll need to do a wee bit more discovery on that front.

I have a Potion and a Flask Specialist who aren't doing anything so it makes sense to send Ghost Iron to them as well for the task. Having looked at the stuff I'm going to need to level my Engineer, Trillium's quite high on that list as well, and I am sure the same will be true of my Blacksmith. This is the perfect way for me to wake everyone up and start organising myself to get those last two professions maxxed...The Godmotherhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-7115413652603933192013-01-22T10:44:58.398+00:002013-01-22T10:44:58.398+00:00Quote: "... and using all three of my transmu...Quote: "... and using all three of my transmuters"

Eh, why 3? Why not 1? The trillium transmute doesn't have a cooldown (unlike living steel), so I don't see a reason why you would want to spread the load across multiple characters.

Unless of course blizzard changes the requirement to 40 Living Steel instead of 40 Trillium... (that kind of surprises have popped up before, usually upon patch day ...)Yocohttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-62663810478317493972013-01-22T10:19:26.286+00:002013-01-22T10:19:26.286+00:00ooo thats a good heads up to get prepared for the ...ooo thats a good heads up to get prepared for the materials, will be sending my little wolfie out ore collecting!Kaitzhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-47270167592028114312013-01-22T09:15:40.028+00:002013-01-22T09:15:40.028+00:00@CATS and 1300g x the hundreds of folk on your ser...@CATS and 1300g x the hundreds of folk on your server that needs to buy the trillium bars isn't a gold making opportunity?Evlyxxhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-3101035774249831442013-01-22T08:53:46.698+00:002013-01-22T08:53:46.698+00:00@CATS: Yes, it's a big deal, because I'm n...@CATS: Yes, it's a big deal, because I'm not on your server :PThe Godmotherhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-7760045806279470652013-01-22T08:48:55.577+00:002013-01-22T08:48:55.577+00:00That's a big deal? 40 Trillium bars cost 1300g...That's a big deal? 40 Trillium bars cost 1300g on my server, that's next to nothing. Might be good to stockpile a bit email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9142294.post-26168679607622722162013-01-22T08:27:48.841+00:002013-01-22T08:27:48.841+00:00Spoilers like this I don't mind. Time to start...Spoilers like this I don't mind. Time to start sending out the miner to go mine (and level!), methinks.

"Yes, that's FOURTY Trillium Bars"

Or even FORTY. :-)Jonathanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Everyone has watched the Nets seemingly make improvements to their roster. On paper they look like they're ready to take on the Heat. Bulls will have D Rose back and Indy now has some playoff experience. Where does this leave the Knicks? I don't think last years squad can compete on the highest level, let alone win a championship. Melo needs a Pippen and like it or not, right now that is JR Smith.
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Here's an update to a tutorial I made a year ago. Though, it's more than an update as I walk you through using TFD with the built-in particles and Thinking Particles. I show how to render TFD with both particle systems as well as using TFD simulations to drive particle simulations.
This is just scratching the surface of combining particles and Turbulence FD. The combo is also great for clouds, explosions and galaxies to name a few. More to come.


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"Standing United with the People of Gaza" is the theme of the Fifth Annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW). Needless to say efforts have been made by influential Zionists and their friends in the Canadian media to disrupt and undermine this year's events.
The comparisons between Israel and apartheid South Africa don't just relate to discriminatory treatment of Palestinians and human rights abuses in the occupied territories - or to the genocidal onslaught on Gaza - the ties are historical and very real. During the apartheid era in South Africa, Israel and the South African racists were tight. Israel trained South African security forces and supplied the white regime in Pretoria with weapons.
One man who won't easily forget this is former South African intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils. He understands what persecution is about. At the beginning of the last century his parents escaped from the anti-Jewish pogroms in Tzarist Russia and immigrated to S.Africa.
Kasrils is scheduled as one of the guest speakers in Toronto - the birthplace of Israel Apartheid Week.
Stateside Nir Harel of Israel's Anarchist's Against the Wall is in New York. Another prominent Israeli activist is Matan Cohen who has done great work in the drive to implement a divestment campaign against Israel at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
Meanwhile the boycott effort has been gathering steam. Some boycott updates from electronic intifada:
Professors and university employees in Quebec, Canada, endorsed the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees' call to boycott Israel.Unfortunately a lot of the events associated with IAW will go under reported in a Canadian media that for the most part has chosen to demonize the event.
SJP's actions at Hampshire College follow similar moves by the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education in the UK.
In London, students held sit-ins at Goldsmith University and the London School of Economics, among other institutions. Similar protests have spread throughout the UK, with some winning concessions from university officials.
At Manchester University, about a thousand students joined a campaign equating Israel with apartheid-era South Africa, and called on the administration and student union to boycott Israeli companies and support Gaza and the BDS movement.
In Australia the University of Western Sydney's Student Association recently joined the international BDS campaign. International trade union support for political action against Israel has been seen from Spain to South Africa.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, under directive of the Council of South African Trade Unions, refused recently to unload an Israeli ship which docked in Durban, despite threats and pressure from both management and the Israeli lobby.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, with 600,000 members in 55 unions, is preparing to start a boycott of Israeli goods.
Meanwhile, the biggest trade union in Canada's Ontario province, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), was forced under pressure to moderate its call for a boycott of all academic institutions in Israel. Instead it called for a boycott of Israeli institutions engaged in research which aided the Israeli military.
Underneath are links to a few sites that are involved in the BDS campaign:
Also link here for Naomi Klein's January boycott call in the UK Guardian.


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Arachnophobes May Want to Avoid This Image of PS4 Title Deep Down
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If you're the type of person that sobs like a frazzled Mariah Carey when a miniscule money spider has the indecency to crawl into your peripheral vision, you may not be overly appreciative of this brand new Deep Down screenshot. Revealed by Japanese gaming rag Famitsu, the image shows an armoured warrior – from the future no less – battling an eight-legged foe with a wobbly sword.
The free-to-play dungeon crawler is getting a lot of promotion in Sony's native Japan, and is becoming one of the must-play titles for the platform holder's next-gen console – despite its digital-only availability. A beta is set to wriggle onto the device around the same time as the system's Eastern launch. Is this game getting under your skin? Itch away in the comments section below.
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Gingrich and the Fine Art of Political Suicide
Newt Gingrich is the fastest GOP presidential candidate political suicide since Mitt Romney's old man George Romney cratered in the Republican Presidential primaries in 1968 after claiming that he had been "brainwashed" into supporting the Vietnam War. Gingrich has received near universal conservative condemnation for attacking Paul Ryan's budget plan on Sunday on "Meet The Press" on NBC and seeming to endorse a form of ObamaCare. How ironic that Gingrich, who has always prided himself on his futuristic innovative thinking, was done in by attempting to appease non-conservatives on a low rated show of the increasingly irrelevant lamestream press. The new media, talk radio, blogs and conservative outlets on the net, ran with it, Gingrich is now political toast and he simply can't believe what has happened to him in such a short time span.
In response to this, Gingrich released this incredibly delusional statement:
The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding. Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment's cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won't be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.
Gingrich is living proof that one can be rather bright and have all the judgment of a stunned duck. This is why we have campaigns to sort the wheat from the chaff, and Gingrich has given ample proof of what category he falls into. Begone Newt, stop embarrassing yourself and wasting our time.
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Newt Gingrich is a new Catholic convert. I suspect that he has thus been taken in by the blathering about social justice and the common good that goes on in what passes for theological thinking within much of the Church in the West. I could be wrong, but why else would such an ostensible conservative as Gingrich sell his soul like this?
I will now remind all the liberal readers of one immutable fact: there is NO social justice, NO common good without righteousness and holiness, repentance and conversion. You do the later before you get the former. The Kingdom of Heaven is about saving souls, NOT feeding bellies. Should we as Christians feed bellies? Absolutely! BUT that is NOT the goal. Jesus Christ is the goal.
I'm Catholic, but I could never vote for Gingrich. He has too much moral baggage, and he's a recent convert who needs to do a little more growing up before he aspires to higher office.
I thought Gingrich was going to be the #1 guy this coming election, then he opened a can of worms with this one. Unless Rick Perry does indeed run for Presidency, we may be stuck with Mitt Romney.
Gingrich is living proof that one can be rather bright and have all the judgment of a stunned duck.
You crack me up, Kyle!
As long as he lives there exists the fervent hope that he (and all of us!) confesses; does penance , amends his (our lives) life and through good works glorifies Almighty God, through Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior, who lives and reigns with God the Father Almighty in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
That Gingrich "hound don't hunt." Newt placed himself squarely in the "politics of personal destruction bear trap."
The dems have nothing positive about which to "brag." So they will as usual 24/7 and with $$$ billions in free campaign air time provided by their MSM propaganda organs, assassinate Gingrich's character.
Why must the GOP eat its children and serve as an echo chamber for lying, liberal detractions?
Gingrich is living proof that one can be rather bright and have all the judgment of a stunned duck.
What else is there to say?
I could vote for a new Catholic, a new ex-Cathoic, a bad Catholic, or anyone else who has not lived his life in perfect standing with the Church. Given a choice between two identical candidates, I'd vote for the Catholic, but a candidate's religion wouldn't be among my top ten considerations.
How about the rest of you?
I voted for George Bush in 2004 primarily BECAUSE John Kerry was Catholic. I would have voted for almost anyone over John Kerry because I didn't want a President claiming to be Catholic while also supporting abortion.
but a candidate's religion wouldn't be among my top ten considerations
1. To what extent does the candidates formal affiliation influence his thinking and behavior?
2. One's understanding of creed and code influences one's thinking on social questions. To what extent are the candidates conclusions within a range of permissible conclusions?
3. To what extent are the candidates views when getting down to the brass tacks congruent with views that might have been reached beginning with the premises of the Church?
4. What does the candidate's affiliation indicate to you about how he will approach questions as yet unaddressed?
Affiliations of all kinds are salient bits of information about how and what a candidate thinks, what he fancies is respectable, and to whom he wishes to appeal.
Art, those are some good questions. In a perfect world, my answer to all four would be "Bill Bennett". I don't think that there are many politicians with an integrated set of principles which animate their faith and political beliefs, though. So I think that with regard to the first question, the answer is going to vary a lot.
With the second and third questions, I'd bet that a random evangelical or Mormon would be as likely to govern consistently with the Catholic Faith as a random Catholic would. They might not catch every nuance, but they'd be more likely to be clear on the basic rules of civilization.
I've been thinking in terms of policy so far, but your fourth question opens the door to another consideration, character. I know that's not exactly what you asked about, but the unexpected mistakes an elected official makes are more often matters of character than of unforeseen policy issues. I wish that we could judge a man's character by his creed, but there are too many people like me who believe all the right things but can't be trusted to do anything right.
but a candidate's religion wouldn't be among my top ten considerations.
I wouldn't necessarily put a candidate's religion in my top ten considerations, but in others situations I might.
That the politician had recently had a high profile change in religion (depending on how he explained it) might tend to push it up on my list of considerations, whether positive or negative.
I'd just like to denounce everything Pinky said (that jerk!). If the head of the budget committee is exchanging letters with the Archbishop of New York, maybe more people understand the relation between religious and political thought than I typically assume.
In the blink of an eye, Gingrich morphs from maverick, to the wizard of oz, to the leader of the tinfoil hat brigade.
I am very impressed. That must have taken some work!!!! LOL.
As a lifelong Catholic, I can't for the life of understand what part of Catholicism (other than to Catholic Vote) that fits with Newt Gingrich's personal and political views. The part of the Trinity I worry about with him is Three Wives and Three Faiths.
I find him part of a growing segment of Elitist Converts to Catholicism for nothing more than political gain,,,,, whose experience they feel can help the catholic Church add new members to dwindling parishes.
As a Graduate Student of Politics interested in the effect of Religion in Politics, when Newt entered the political arena, he was moved to convert from Lutheran to Southern Baptist who was baptized by Influential Southern Baptist Leader G. Avery Lee.
He entered the Catholic Church after his marriage to politically connected Catholic Callista while creating non-profit organizations aimed at religious conservatives, Renewing American Leadership, or ReAL, appointing to the board evangelical leaders such as Jim Garlow of Skyline Church in California and David Barton of the Texas-based WallBuilders.
"Vote Gingrich. Are You Better Today Than You Were Three Wives Ago? "
Kurt,,, cute — gives new meaning to "MOURNING in America", doesn't it????
What a mess.
Gingrich lost MY potential vote when he abandoned his first wife right after her cancer surgery. I don't think he can possibly win the Republican nomination, but if he does, you can be SURE the Dems will (hypocritically) play up his moral failings and enough women will be unable to hold their noses and vote for him. Worst possible outcome: a second term for The Obammunist.


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The September playoff push is right around the corner, as this season's stretch run promises to be a good one with 16 teams legitimately still in contention and two extra playoff spots up for grabs.
This is the time of year when teams lean on their superstar players and those guys truly earn their multi-million dollar contracts.
However, this is also the time when role players have a chance to make themselves household names by coming through when it matters most.
No one expected anything from Dan Johnson last season and he hit one of the biggest home runs in the final game of the year with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, forcing extra innings and setting the Rays up to walk off into the postseason.
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A Novice's Guide to Draping
Added Apr 14, 2011
by joboenvogue
Suburbia, Illino...
Step 3
You need a strong foundation for a house, and it goes the same with clothing, especially for when you're hanging an entirely different piece of fabric onto your clothing. If your base isn't strong enough, the whole piece will flop over! I decided to underline my bodice with muslin first--that way my dress will be able to hold up the skirt, the draping, and so on. Unless you're already using a very sturdy fabric, I'd seriously consider underlining it. Pin your foundation piece to your dress form. [NOTE: it'll be hard to drape without one of these--even my horridly lopsided dummy worked wonders!]
Now, onto the draping!
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Jan 9, 2012, 01.39 PMby Smiley100
Thank you very much! Now i understand you!! Thanks!!
Jan 8, 2012, 10.47 AMby Smiley100
Yes, that's what I mean! I'm sorry that you couldn't understand it! It is very complicated if you have to describe something in English that is hard to describe even in German. And through your reply I learned the word "attach"!
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Jan 8, 2012, 09.14 PMby joboenvogue
Awesome! Sewing terms are hard to translate, I'm sure! In the simplest terms: I draped the front and the back serparately, then sewed the two together. The draping wasn't continual all the way around, and there are two seams on the sides where the front and the back meet. I tried to make the draping meet symmetrically at the seams to make it look nicer. I hope this helps, and much love from the US!
Jan 7, 2012, 03.31 PMby Smiley100
How did you put the back at the draped part? Can you give me an advice? Thank you!
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Jan 7, 2012, 08.35 PMby joboenvogue
Hey there! I don't know if I completely understand your question. Do you mean how did I attach the back to the draped part? Let me know—I'd love to give you some advice!


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KANSAS CITY, MO – Former Sprint Nextel Executive Gary Forsee took over as President of the University of Missouri last month. He spoke with KCUR's Elana Gordon. Forsee says he's experienced a high learning curve during his first weeks on the job. He also says UMKC's position as Kansas City's only public university is important for both the region and the university system.
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John Henry Bradley Storrs papers, 1790-2007, bulk 1900-1956
Storrs, John Henry Bradley, b. 1885 d. 1956
Painter, Sculptor, Engraver
Active in Paris, France; Chicago, Ill.; Orléans, France
This site provides access to the papers of John Henry Bradley Storrs in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2006. The bulk of the papers have been scanned and total 28,647 images.
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Collection size: 19.8 linear feet
Collection Summary: The papers of sculptor, painter, and printmaker John Henry Bradley Storrs measure 19.8 linear feet and date from 1790 to 2007, with the bulk of the papers dating from 1900 to 1956. The collection documents Storrs' career as an artist and his personal life through biographical material, correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues, personal business records, forty-eight diaries and other writings, printed material, photographs of Storrs and his family and friends, artwork, scrapbooks, estate records, and audio visual material. There is also a substantial amount of Marguerite Storr's correspondence as well as scattered correspondence of other members of the Storr's family.
Biographical/Historical Note: John Henry Bradley Storrs (1885-1956) was a sculptor, painter, and printmaker, from Chicago, Illinois and Mer, France. Storrs studied with Lorado Taft at the Chicago Art Institute and with Charles Grafly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts upon his return from a trip abroad, 1907-1908. He returned to France in 1912, where he studied with Auguste Rodin. He turned from traditional representation to machinelike forms in 1920. After 1921, he and his wife, French writer Maguerite Deville Chabrol, lived in their chateau Chantecaille in Mer, France. Between 1941-1944, Storrs was arrested and imprisoned several times by the Gestapo.
The John Henry Bradley Storrs papers were donated in several installments from 1979 to 2011 by Storrs' daughter, Monique Storrs Booz, and her daughter, Michelle Storrs Booz. A portion of these papers were loaned for microfilming in 1977 and subsequently donated in 1980.
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
How to Use this Collection
- Read the Finding Aid for this digitized collection
- The collection was digitized in 2010 and 2013 and is available on the Archives of American Art website.
- Use of original papers requires an appointment. Glass plate negatives are housed separately and closed to researchers.
- For more information on using the Archives' resources, see the FAQ or Ask Us.
Also in the Archives
- John Henry Bradley Storrs scrapbook and studio book, 1909-1972, 1909-1938 (bulk dates)
- Image and Media Gallery items from other collections related to Storrs, John Henry Bradley
Related MaterialsThe Booz family also loaned approximately 1,000 drawings by John Storrs and select family photographs for microflming. Loaned material is available for viewing on reel 1555, but is not described in this container listing of this finding aid.
Also available at the Archives of American Art is the Noel Frackman research material on John Henry Bradley Storrs, 1972-2003. In addition, Archives of American Art microfilm reels 1463 and ND/S-1 contain the John Henry Bradley Storrs scrapbook and studio book, 1909-1972.


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Cleveland Browns live updates from Berea, Rob Chudzinski interviews as team prepares for the Kansas City ChiefsCleveland Browns coach Rob Chudzinski named the starting quarterback for Sunday's game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium prior to Wednesday's practice at the team's Berea headquarters. Coach Rob Chudzinski said he made the change because… (more)
Videos: Jason Campbell to start vs. Chiefs - Cleveland Browns Berea reportWatch as Mary Kay Cabot and Tom Reed discuss the news from Berea Wednesday. Plus a video with Jason Campbell on being named the starter Sunday.
Chudzinski names Campbell starting QBOn Wednesday morning, Cleveland Browns coach Rob Chudzinski announced that Jason Campbell will be the starting quarterback for Sunday's game against the Kansas City Chiefs.Source: clevelandbrowns.com
Cleveland Browns' head coach Rob Chudzinski faces the definition of a quarterback dilemma - Bud Shaw's Sports SpinThe Browns don't have a quarterback controversy as much as they have a quarterback dilemma.
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With all the time I have on my hands since letting my emails go unanswered, you may wonder what I'm up to? Netting figs! And on a less glamorous note, I am caring more for my home and family (this last one is a "sentimental" note). Read on.
courriel (kohr-ee-el)
: email
courriel = le courrier électronique
Le courrier électronique existait avant Internet et fut un outil précieux lors de la création de celui-ci. Email existed before internet and was a useful tool when creating it (internet).
Beautifully renovated and decorated home in the Luberon. 4 bedrooms and a study with a sofa bed, each with ensuite (full) bath. This villa comfortably sleeps 7-9 adults.
A Day in a French Life... by Kristin Espinasse
In France, a translation for electronic mail exists (for the record it's "courriel") though the majority of French people I know use the English term. French or English, email is a force that rules our our emotions, which can go up and down like a mail-truck on a montagne russe.
Apart from our heartstrings, email sometimes rules our lives. After beginning this blog in October of 2002, I had the privilege and honor of hearing from people from all over the world. My inbox grew by the year and I answered every single letter, interacting with a rainbow of readers. From a retired artist in Australia to a 12-year-old in my home town of Phoenix, I got to know complete strangers endearingly. Births, marriages, retirements, illnesses, deaths--times a hundred, two hundred. Meantime, in the background, loomed my close-knit family. And then a string came undone. And another....
(Insert, in this paragraph, a host of events that led the the dramatic denouement of The Email Balancing Act.)
Sitting here now, as upright as a half-knit sock, I am trying to mend loose ends after an ambitious decade of electronic correspondence. I am trying to re-prioritise. To remember my father's birthday this year.
Please excuse this erratic story. I meant to post a rerun--then make lunch, take my daughter back-to-school shopping, and prepare for a family dinner tonight (with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law, we're going to talk about my belle-mère's situation.)
As for email, I'm signing off for good--unless your name is Mom or Dad or Best Friend or "State Lottery Official." (Just kidding! ...about the State Lottery Official.)
(Writing today's letter was as hard as saying "no." If you do reply to this post, via the link at the end, please do so with support. I need it, just as you do.)
New rental in Provence. In the charming village of Sablet--this spacious home is the perfect place to return to after sightseeing, bicycling or hiking. Click here for photos.
French Vocab
montagne russe = roller coaster
la belle-mère = mother-in-law
That pomegranate tree I told you about. The fruit needs more time to ripen, so we took my mother-in-law a hand-picked bouquet of flowers instead (bougainvillea and sunflowers. It was sweet!)
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Goodbye, Ruby
Last year, on our last full day in the country, Ruby took the testimony of one of the founders of the Committee. I was incredibly sick so I stayed at the house. Unfortunately, incredibly unfortunately, something went wrong and Side B didn't record. That is, after the point in which she was put in a truck and captured, there was nothing recorded.
So on Monday we redid it, her testimony. The worst part of the hardest testimony we've heard. I want to talk about it, but it seems inappropriate on something as impersonal as a blog. I don't know who's reading and who's not and what they're getting out of it, but I want to say this: this shit is not easy. It weighs on me. You may have noticed my lack of details in writing these posts? Maybe you haven't, because you haven't heard it and don't know what I could be telling you but am not. Well, it's not because we're not being told details, it's because I don't think about the details. While I'm here, I don't name the details. Right now, as I'm writing this, only one detail from her testimony comes to mind unbidden, and it's the one detail I've spoken aloud: that of the soldiers who captured her, before taking her out of her house, burning her underwear and raping her with their rifles. This is before taking her, this is the precursor to her capture.
I'm really glad it's my last week. I don't think about the details and I don't talk about the details while I'm here because I don't think I can. I don't think I can think about it in the evening and then get up in the morning and do it again. But, after three weeks and a lot of details, I can't not think about it and I can't not talk about it and I need to go home and sleep on a mattress which isn't box springs and I need to not eat meat every day and I need to talk about it.
This morning I said goodbye to Ruby and Alex, who both fly today. I wanted so badly to go with them. I don't want to be here alone and I don't want to come in to the office tomorrow and I don't want this work. Someone else, take it, please. Write this book for me, carry these details for me. –Which is of course precisely why I don't talk about it in detail with 99% of people I know: no one should have to hear these stories and carry them every day. I don't want to put that on anyone.


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Inside Winchester
Table of Contents
Winchester--Village and Town
The Recreation Department operates under the direction of the Town Manager. There are four full time staff, the Director, the Program Coordinator and two secretaries.
The Department conducts an extensive assortment of program services for both youth and adults including a day camp for ages 3 to 5, the operation of a Town swimming area, numerous instructional programs in recreational activities and all Community Education programs. The Department is also responsible for the use and scheduling of 33 recreational facilities, including a 15-clay-court tennis complex (Packer Courts) and numerous ballfields. The Department works closely with the private youth and adult organizations within the Town that provide specialized programs in soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, and tennis. A complete listing of available services for the four seasons can be obtained at the Recreation Department Office located in the Sanborn House at 15 High Street. Brochures are published four times a year, in August, December, March and May.
The Winchester Youth Center is open to adolescent youth ages 13-18 years. The Center, which is located at McCall School, operates under the guidance of the Town-appointed Council on Youth and under the supervision of the Recreation Department. The Center features drop-in hours for casual recreation/social activities, Monday - Friday from 2.30-4pm. Youth Center staff also work cooperatively with the Middle School to sponsor dances and other evening activities. Two youth groups meet weekly for special programs.
Community Use of Schools
Town facilities are often available for community programs. The Recreation Department uses school resources for many of its indoor sports and craft activities. School auditoriums are available for a nominal fee for use by community organizations.
Programs for Senior Citizens
Winchester has an active Council on Aging, eleven citizens appointed by the Selectmen. Under its auspices, senior citizens are assisted in finding or dealing with service agencies, in obtaining identification cards for discounts, reservations for various recreational and leisure activities and health services, counseling, social activities, visitor and telephone contact services. The focal point for the activities is the Jenks Senior Center at 109 Skillings Road, on the Aberjona River.
Conservation Areas
Winchester owns or has access to several conservation areas which are open for recreational use. Between Wickham Road and North Gateway is the Town Forest, 28 acres of woodland used by hikers, cross-country skiers and Scout groups. Smith Pond, on Ridge Street, is an area supervised by the Conservation Commission and used for nature walks. Winter Pond, on Woodside Road, is supervised by the Town. There are two public swimming areas; Borggaard Beach on Palmer Street is Town supervised; and, Sandy Beach, on the Upper Mystic Lake, is controlled by the Metropolitan District Commission. The Aberjona Bikeway is a public, marked bike path which follows the course of the Aberjona River from the Woburn line to the Mystic Lakes. The Middlesex Fells Reservation, three hundred acres of woodland abutting the Town on the eastern side, offers miles of woods and trails and bridle paths, as well as Long Pond where ice skating and nature walks are available. The Upper Mystic Lake offers fishing and non-power boating.
Other Recreational Programs
Besides public programs, Winchester enjoys several sponsored by interested citizens and town merchants. These include baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, ice skating, and ice hockey. A tennis clinic is sponsored by the Tennis Association. Packer Courts on Palmer Street is the scene of several tournaments during the warm months. Girl and Boy Scouts have active groups in Town. The Winchester Chess club, open to all ages, offers instruction, games, and tournaments.
Private Clubs and Commercial Facilities
The Winchester Boat Club, 65 Cambridge Street, on the Upper Mystic Lake, offers swimming and sailing activities oriented primarily toward families. The Winchester Swim Club, 105 Johnson Road, with a swimming pool and six tennis courts, is also popular with families. The Winchester Country Club, Cambridge Street on the Arlington Town line, has an 18 hole golf course, a swimming pool, tennis courts, a curling rink, and a bowling green. For interested gardeners, there are three garden clubs; the Winchester Garden Club, The Winchester Estates Garden Club, and the Winchester Home and Garden Club. On East Street is a 14 court public tennis complex, the Winchester Indoor Lawn Tennis Center.
Service Organizations
Winchester has a large number of service organizations which contribute substantially to community life. Among them are:
The League of Women Voters of Winchester: The League is a non-profit organization which seeks to promote informed and active participation in government. It sponsors a varied program of study of issues chosen by its members, action on behalf of legislation of interest to the League, and public programs on matters of concern for the League and to townspeople. Through its Voter Service, the League provides factual information on the structure and function of government, on voting procedures and on election issues and candidates.
The Winchester Historical Society: The Society maintains the Town archives which are open to the public. It holds three general meetings a year and sponsors monthly field trips to sites of historical and architectural interest.
The Newcomers Club: the Club helps new residents become acquainted with the community and with their neighbors. General meetings are held monthly, often with a speaker from Town Hall or another active civic organization. A variety of special interest programs are offered, such as bridge, tennis, and gourmet cooking. Several time a year, The Club sponsors a social event, perhaps a pot luck supper. Maximum membership is for five years.
Winchester Trails: a volunteer organization operating in cooperation with the Conservation Commission and the School Department. It offers an active program of nature walks and nature study for school children, as well as sponsored short courses and guided walks for other interested Winchester residents. Winchester Trails publishes pamphlets and trail guides to the Fells and other conservation areas.
Friends of Winchester Hospital. This official auxiliary organization of the Winchester Hospital is staffed by volunteers offering approximately 22 different services. It is open to all who would help the hospital. A traditional feature of Winchester is the Friends Annual Ball, held each autumn to raise funds for its activities.
Friends of Winchester Public Library: an association of interested townspeople who advocate a strong public library.. The Friend volunteer their time to support the library by helping with used book sales, sponsoring cultural and information programs, and providing volunteer help for library projects.
The En Ka Society: an organization to provide service and financial support to charitable organizations in Winchester. EnKa works with Tri-Community Health and with the State Welfare Department to aid those in the community needing assistance; it sponsors a summer camping program for all children and provides volunteer services at the Winchester Hospital. Funds for its programs come from the EnKa Exchange, a thrift shop on Main Street, and from the EnKa Fair, an annual carnival held each May. Membership in EnKa is by invitation only. The Winton Club: The purpose of this organization is to support the Winchester Hospital It provides financial assistance each year from the proceeds of the Winton Club Cabaret, a home talent variety show which fills the town hall auditorium each night during the last week in January. Besides providing linen for the Hospital, the Winton Club volunteers staff the hospital gift shop and provide assistance in the coffee shop. membership in the Winton Club is by invitation only.
In addition to such local organizations, Winchester has a variety of larger organizations: The Rotary Club, The Lions, Club, Elks, Knights of Columbus, Sons of Italy, the American Legion, VFW., American Red Cross, alumnae and alumni clubs for various colleges, and several political organizations.
The Studio Guild, a club of 25-30 residents interested in painting, with a studio on Mt. Vernon Street.
The Music Society a performing group of amateurs and professionals who meet several times a year to present informal programs.
The Winchester Community Music Program provides lessons for all ages in all phases on music at the McCall Middle School.
The Cooperative Theater for Children presents year round musical productions.
The Winchester Players; a drama group open to all, puts on several plats during the year at the Unitarian Church on Main Street.
Winchester Chamber of Commerce
The Winchester Chamber of Commerce is a business and professional organization comprised of firms co-operatively working to solve the economic and community problems in the Winchester area. The Central objective of the Chamber is to provide members with unified voice and to effectively direct this voice toward resolving those issues that impact on our area businesses.
The Board of Directors, comprised of local business and professional people, is the policy setter for the Chamber. Reporting to the Board is the Executive Director who administers the many projects undertaken by the Chamber.
The Chamber invites you to visit or call its office at Waterfield Road, if you have a problem, need special information, desire personal assistance or have an opinion on any business or community issue.
Information on these and other organizations, such as the Welcome Wagon. Winchester College Clubs, and the Multicultural Network, as well as church services is available through the Town Book, Winchester Community Connection, a local telephone and service directory sent free to all residents. Extra copies are available at book Ends, Ann Blackham & Co. and Cradock Apothecary.
The next two pages are an organizational chart of town government.