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Blogger Trish Burgess writes for the Free Press
It's a funny old thing, blogging. I initially started writing online as a way to publicise SADOS shows. Once I had got the hang of it, the idea of an online diary, sharing episodes of our family life and, in particular, our holidays, began to take shape. I would take a notebook on holiday, scribble things down then write up the notes on our return, as much as a record for my family than any specific need to share with the world.
However, once these stories were shared, I began to feel very much part of a wider community of bloggers. I have readers from the United States, Panama and South Korea and with many I have begun an online friendship as we discuss trips, parenting and music; bound together by our shared love of writing.
A few years ago I started chatting to one blogger in Chicago and we instantly formed a connection. I only knew her as Toni from 'Expat Mum' but It transpired, some weeks later, that she was actually my second cousin. We had attended the same school in Newcastle, had both moved away then 30 years later were reunited through the internet.
Coming out from behind the computer to meet up with other bloggers was an important step. After attending a conference in 2012, where I won an award for my travel blogging, things moved to another level. Opportunities began to come my way as brands realised I had a voice and a following. Recently I worked with Visit Scotland, reviewing family attractions in Glasgow and Edinburgh in the run up to the Commonwealth Games later this summer.
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to speak for a second time at BritMums Live, a conference in London for 700 parent bloggers. I would be on a panel discussing travel issues with a fellow blogger, Emma Raphael, who writes 'A Bavarian Sojourn'; Steve Keenan, social media expert and former online travel editor of The Sunday Times and, special guest, Simon Calder, travel editor for The Independent and TV expert for all things travel-related.
The conference was inspiring. I listened to speakers such as Emma Freud and Stella Creasey MP plus journalists Eleanor Mills and Bryony Gordon. On the second day, the travel session was well-attended and, as I sat on the sofa with Simon Calder, speaking into the microphone to a vast room of writers, I did have to pinch myself. It seemed such a leap from being a mum at home trying to write funny stories about our holidays to being a panellist with a clipboard and a lanyard sharing travel tips with the big names in the industry.
If anyone reading this has ever thought about writing a blog then my advice is to give it a go. It's a great way to record aspects of your life, share views with others and, if you're very lucky, you might find the odd long-lost relative along the way.
You can follow Trish on Twitter @mumsgoneto and read her blog at www.mumsgoneto.blogspot.com


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Star-studded Flamenco Dinner Show
Saturday Jun 29, 2013
Contact:Cosmo Tapas Restaurant
Phone: 505-232-0535
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With Mina Fajardo and Juan Siddi dancing, and Jaime Martinez on vocals.
Cover for the performers is $12 ($10 min. consumption). A Chuscales concert is an experience that audiences take with them. Mina Fajardo has performed in Japan, New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Denver, Houston, Maryland and NM. Siddi danced and co-choreographed with Compañia Flamenca Alhama and Noches de Amor productions on international tours including: Vienna; Berlin; Sevilla, Zurich; and also throughout the United States.

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StyleBlazer Approved: 15 Fancy Flats To Rock Right Into The Holidays
It's safe to say we have a love-hate relationship with flats. They don't quite deliver that heavy dose of high-octane, feminine sex appeal that a pair of heels can. But they're so darn convenient and practical. On second thought, maybe it's us and not them.
There is such a wide variety of flats available for our choosing. The classic ballerina flat for a sweet, demure look. The oxford flat for delivering that masculine, 'woman in charge' effect. The d'orsay flat for a chic, but flirty feel. Or the flat loafer that is all the polish and sophistication you can cram into one shoe. And those are just your signature designs. Talking about the details would be a whole other conversation in itself. With that considered, it's hard to think there isn't a perfect pair of flats for each of us that we can wear confidently without feeling like we're going to our third grade recital.
Since we're well into fall, with winter and the holidays right around the corner, we're all about fashion that's warm, robust, and luxurious—even when it comes to flats. And that's exactly the kind of styles we were in search of when we shopped these 15 fancy flats to rock now and right into the holidays.
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Traditional concepts of good and evil may be made obsolete by the technology revolution.
First published in Angels and Visitations. Reprinted in Smoke and Mirrors.
Original title: Cold Colors
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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Technology
This work is a subwork of the following works : Angels and Visitations: A Miscellany (1993) [Collection] Author: Neil Gaiman
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions (1998) [Collection] Author: Neil Gaiman


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This is what climbing in Sedona is like.
If it weren't so absolutely incredible, Sedona would be one of the worst places to climb in the world. Hell, it IS one of the worst places to climb in the world. If you're only talking about the quality of the rock, I mean. But when you're running it out on some disgusting offwidth, twenty feet above your last piece (which would probably tear out if you fell on it anyway), I can't think of a more beautiful spot to be in trouble.
Which doesn't necessarily make things any better when you ARE in trouble.
But it certainly helps out when you're not.
It was a bright, sunny winter day and I was heading for the summit of an imposing butte marked on the map only as 6634. There are many unnamed spires and peaks in Seonda like this; the steepness and abruptness of the cliffs here means that you can often find several separate summits within an area that's only three miles square. 6634's own summit is within a few miles of a trail (as the proverbial crow flies), but so protected by sheer cliffs that there's no evident way to reach it.
I'd reached the base of the first set of cliffs. 6634 has two such walls, stacked on top of each other. You can see it in the picture: the first sandstone cliff is a couple hundred feet high; above that is a sloping area with vegetation and more redrock – sort of a plateau atop the first level. And above that, the second wall, much higher than the first and towering imposingly above it. I guessed that this one would present me with the biggest problem.
For a while, it seemed I wouldn't even solve the challenge of the first wall. For an hour or so I circumnavigated the butte, looking in vain for a way up. But the walls stayed sheer, and the few cracks and breaks in the cliff always seemed to be overhanging or holdless. I found what looked to be a site with an Indian ruin, but there wasn't much there and it could easily have been constructed by modern-day Americans rather than ancient natives. Not far past this spot, I got cliffed out and had to turn around. I'd try the other side of the butte.
Here, there was a way up; a break in the cliffs. It was choked with nasty, spiky, hard cacti and other vegetation that Sedona is legendary for, but it went. A huge agave opened a bloody gash in my left arm, but other than that I was able to struggle to the top of the break unscathed. It went at 3rd/4th class or so, and I marked the spot with a cairn.
Hiking over the sloping plateau was fairly easy, although I did have to backtrack once or twice when I ran into cllifs. Here I found a second ruin site, built under a sandstone overhang like the first. Most of the ruins here are Sinagua – a native people who lived in the area some eight or nine hundred years ago and left a number of cliff dwellings. The name comes from the Spanish "sin agua," due to these people's ability to live in an area where there was often little or no water.
When I first hiked in Sedona, you could still find relics in the ruins – pottery, ancient corn, and even spearpoints or arrowheads. But all of the accessible ruins have long since been looted, and you rarely see anything in them anymore. Even petroglyphs have sometimes been chopped out of the rock.
Like the first site, this one had been heavily visited. No artifacts remained, and it looked like the walls had been built up by someone else much later; there was no mortar between the stones. And no smoke marks darkened the overhang – perhaps the Sinagua hadn't even built this place.
I headed around the butte to the west again; it was obvious that there was no weakness in the walls above me. For another hour or so I moved around the butte with huge cliffs towering over me. It didn't look good.
But persistence paid off; on the other side of 6634 a weakness appeared – a steep gully that slanted upward between sandstone walls. It was high-angle, but far more doable than the cliffs. And of course, like everything else here it was so full of trees and vegetation that I couldn't see more than twenty or thirty feet into it. It looked to stop short of the summit, but I couldn't tell much more from here. So up I went, hauling myself upward as much by yarding on trees and bushes as by any hold on the rock.
I pried a branch out of my path and it lashed back, slapping my face. Iron-hard manzanita branches clawed at my denim-covered legs, delivering solid blows to well scarred shins. I always wear jeans to climb in Sedona; nothing else I've owned has ever been strong enough to withstand the vegetation there. Once, on an excruciating climb of Bear Mountain, I made the mistake of wearing my venerable Gramiccis. While they served with distinction on rockclimbs in the Tetons, the Gramiccis were no match for the Sedona backcountry. By the time I got back to a trail they were hanging in rags from my waist. A passing hiker stared wide-eyed at me and asked, "Dude, what happened to you?"
Head ducked, eyes practically squeezed shut, I forced my way through another dense thicket and suddenly stumbled into a tiny clearing along the northern wall. Just ahead of me was a smoke-blackened overhang with a low wall directly under it and another behind. Sinagua ruins!
There wasn't much here – a few walls squeezed into a pocket in the cliff, and they'd been overgrown through the years. But it was a genuine ruin, and certainly one that very few people knew about. Normally I would've loved to check the site out, look for artifacts and that kind of thing (I don't ever keep them, but they're fun to find). Unfortunately, the late start, difficult climb, and continual traversing around the butte had conspired to use up most of my time, and the sun was sinking toward the west wall of the canyon. In fact, if I didn't make the summit soon I'd have to turn back. Promising to return, I fought back up the accursed gully.
I was only bleeding in about three more places by the time I reached the top – not bad at all. And the only painful one was a place where a catclaw had sunk into my right forearm near the elbow joint and snapped off. I could feel it in there but didn't have the tools or the time to take it out right then. Worse yet was the view… in front of me, the gully abruptly dead-ended in a ledge just below an overhang which looked to go at about 5.12 or so. I doubted I could have climbed it trad, much less soloed it.
Still, things weren't hopeless. The ledge ran on both to the right and left, following the walls which framed the gully. On the left side it petered out and disappeared in the immense cliff on the north side, but on my right the ledge kept running, getting higher and higher above the gully as it went. Exposed, but not terribly technical. I followed along it, looking for a better way up.
For a while it appeared promising; the rock above the ledge got easier and the wall got shorter. I passed a few mid-fifth class sections as I headed further out. But then the ledge abruptly ended and I was looking a thousand feet down the west face of the butte into the canyon. Little dots that were hikers moved far below me. So I turned and picked one of the shorter fifth class sections. It was pretty vertical but a decent crack snaked up it.
Twenty feet of 5.5 or so and then it eased off. I went up the wall without incident and found to my delight that I was now over most of the cliffs that had been so intimidating from below. There was some steep ground between me and the summit, but it looked to be less technical than what I'd just come up.
This proved to be the case. The last few hundred feet to the summit was a totally enjoyable scramble over rock that never got harder than easy fifth. And then I was on the summit, a narrow limestone ridge topping the sandstone (if you climb high enough in Sedona, you'll climb out of the redrock and into the limestone above it). And here there were, of course, incredible views of Sedona….
Nothing too thrilling to mention about the way down; it all went fairly smoothly. The 5.5 part proved a bit funky from above so I took off my heavy pack and dropped it to await me; unfortunately it bounced smack into a pricky pear, and I ended up picking spines out of the pack and myself for much of the rest of the day. But the way down was also quicker, since I knew exactly where I had to go this time. I alit at the bottom of the first cliff less than two hours later; the sun had disappeared behind the canyon walls and it was getting chilly. But I was off the hard part of the climb, and all that remained was a nice sunset stroll back to the truck.
February 2007
Flagstaff, Arizona


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The Effects of Modern Communication Equipment on Secretarial Performance
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Babara (1986) said," long before machine existed, people found ways to calculate with their hands, or orange stones in files wrote with hands, or arranged stones in files, wrote with feathers, sited stick etc, all, these in order to keep track of quantities" inspite of the increasing availability of technology or perhaps because of it as the generation and accumulation of data was made easier more and more work piled in the offices. However, some early pioneers were acutely aware of this potential effects of technology upon the manufacturing industries and other organisation.
Leo computers ltd (1957) stated "Nevertheless, a fully automated high speed computer cannot be purchased and installed in an office as simply as equipped of more orthodox type, By its nature, it is not ancillary to the office, potentially it is the office or rather the routine part of it.
As a result of new trend in manufacturing industries world wide, they strive to give better product and better services so as to remain in business. The need for more information and circulation transaction exchange, distribution, book-keeping, records, payrolls communication, copies of documents etc. motivated managers to procure modern office equipment which facilitates work and ultimately led to greater output.
Geoffery white 91973) did explain that the early attempts were made by Thomas Alva Edison and others who used needles to pierce the letter shaped in a paper stencil, but, it was really tasking.
David Gestetner (1877) wgose name became associated with the duplicating process invented a whecled pen with sharp teeth which gave the name "cyclostyle". Later in the 1890's duplicating process came about replacing the copy clerks in the offices.
Standwell, (1976), stated that, " The xewrography process was invented in 1978. the popular model, the Xerox 914, was introduced into England in 1960 by Rank Xerox. Development during the coming years increased the speed at which multiples of copies could be made. In 1968, the Xerox 3600, a copier duplicator was introduced which produced copies at a speed of one per second".
B.H. Walley, (1968), emphasized that accounting machines were introduced as a result of problems observed in the hand written system.
In another development, standwell (12978) explained that the first automatic machine, the "auto typist" was invented 1932 in America. These automatic typewriters were operated by the use of electricity. They type already prepared text in a pre-determined display without a typist stricking the keys, returning the carriage or operating any of machine control.
Warson et al (1978) stated that the automatic type writer produce copies from the original typewriter produced copies from the original typescript at he spped of up to 145 words per minute or above, each of which look like original copy creating good impression when letters are sent to organisation and individual customers.
On this issue of modern quality automation Fuari (1977) stated:
"The advent of the industrial resolution and ever-increasing amount of data to be processed, gave rise to the need for faster, cheaper and more efficient method of processing words and data".
For this reason, word processors were constructed to solve the problem. Another author, in the name of Elendu (1985) also gave his own opinion routine book-keeping and related tasks in a single operation.
Johnson (1982 also emphasized that during the 20th centuring, IBM developed the first electric typewriter to increase the speed in production. This is known as automatic type writer.
The world' fastest growing major business in the manufacturing industries have had its precedental growth and development since 1950's. The first generation (1950-1955) used vacuum tubes and the in-put device which consists of punch cards and stored programme were limited to magnetic drums and cores.
Most organisation made use of early computer in converting their existing manual to mechanical accounting and derical functions so as to obtain savings in the office of personnel required to do the work, to secure increased accuracy, the simplicity their procedure and to provide computer capacity that would absorb expected maximal production.
In effect the advent of technology in organizations dated back to the seventeenth century and had since gradually improved as a result of continued changes. This conclusion is in line with the words of forster (1990) that the first to handle money column was Burroghs 1988
It may be necessary to emphasize the new trend in technological sphere, since equipment and as a result make certain contribution to the effective and efficient discharge of secretarial duties. These contributions are the reasons for the modern office equipment and they are as follows:-
1. SPEED: Modern office equipment prform most duties at unique speed. These, they process information needed by the managemnt in policy making and decision taking. Warsan et al (1978) stated that copying machine is a quick and simple method of making copies of documents. A single copy or a number of copies can be made depending on the size of the machine one is using.
Walley (1968) stated that an efficient secretary making use of electronic typewriters produces work at twice or three times the speed of a clerk using manual typewriter.
Warson et al (1978) said that as exact copies or the original are made by the duplicating machine, they (the copies) do not need to be checked. This saves time. He also said that the mistakes which are too many in hand writer method of recording data especially calculations are invariably difficult to locate and much valuable time and money can be spent in searching for them. Such delays means that information available to management is neither readily obtained nor up-dated. Also these delay may prove costly since statement sent out late mean late statement of account, extending credit and increased risk of bad debts. But machines like the computer system has facilities to spot and correct errors present in a text.
3. ACCURACY: It is a clear and well established fact that modern office equipment have the ability to produce more reliable out-put, once correct data are feed in Walley (1968) stated that in carrying-out multi-entries, alla the entries are similar and therefore correct. There would be less need to spend time correcting errors and customer's goodwill will improve as typing of invoice are more likely to be accurate.
4. MEMORY STORAGE: computer system, word processors, IBM Electronic typewriter etc, have the ability to store information within built mechanism itself and filed for future use.
Forster (1990) explained that the active storage of the computer holds the operating programme and data which is used by the secretary.
5. LOWER COSTS: The validity of this benefit of modern office equipment is dependent on the visitation of any office with developed automation Forster (1990:79) disclosed that procuring an equipment like the computer or word processor has a great impact on the number of copy-typist employed by a large organization (manufacturing industries)
6. MORE INFORMATION: The use of modern office equipment makes information available to the management at the desired period. Terry (1970) stated that among the most important, versatile and widely used office machines are the punched card machines, which put information in such a form that it can be easily handled for any member of subsequent operation. Office automation and technology into office operations has made a secretarial duties less ardous and its mental strain reduced the impact of modern office equipment on the job performances of secretaries in organizations can be summarized into less physical effort, higher skills and aptitudes, removal of neptitude tasks, better salaries, usefully busy and so on.
The use of modern office equipment by a secretary using manual or under-developed equipment. Highly skilled personnel is soughts for in manufacturing industries nowadays. And to this effects, Russon, Mulkene and half man advocated that the more productive a secretary is, the more the industries can afford to pay within reasonable limits and hence more employment opportunities for secretaries.
According to Elender (1983) he advocated that "office equipment minimizes likely frauds which could arise from the numerous mathematical calculations done in the offices".
Hence the main consideration were based on cost, speed and
convenience afforded by the use of these machines. Frequent manual work causes fatigue, which consequently leads to low productivity, however, with the expansion of office and its activities, these manual means of carrying out work become inadequate so, the introduction of modern office equipment- brought about a revolution in office occupation.
Onasanya (1990) pointed out that the invention of word processor has a significant impact on the job performances of secretaries in manufacturing industries.
Azikwe (1990) agrees that the introduction of modern office equipment was necessitated by the need to cope with the increased work in the office. He also pointed out that the cost of procuring the modern machines like electronic typewriters, word processors, computers and so on are very expensive, because of the presence of these modern equipment, convenience is assured in the discharge of most secretarial duties as it relieves much physical and mental effort. Consider for instance.
The use of manual typewriter as compared with the IBM electronic typewriter. Particularly in returning of carriage. Ronald Warson et al (1976) emphasizes such rigit. They further stated that the secretary is capable of working faster and more efficiently with the minimum of fatigue as no thrust of the key is necessary. The carriage is retuned-automatically with the touch of a button.
In the course of discharging secretarial duties, the secretary can either use directly or come in contact with the problems encountered in secretarial profession thereby making the work less burdensome and more enjoyable.
Few of such equipment are the word processor, electronic typewrier, computer, dictating machine, photocopying machine, electric typewriter, typewriter, duplicating machine etc.
(a) WORD PROFESSOR: The function like a computer it is made up of the keyboard, the visual display unit (VDU), the magnetic storage, the printer, this equipment not only increases productivity, but also reduces costs and makes work less tedious.
The word processors have an in-built dictionary which is used to locate wrong spellings so as to correct them. This is of great help to the secretary who may have a lot of other work to do and need not retype text thereby dirting the paper if she was using ordinary manual type writer in producing a text.
B. Electric Typewriter: According to Warson et al (1978) Electric type writer has gained steady popularity both to the employer and athe secretary who use them. This machine is an improvement on the manual stypewriter and hece has a lot of advantages. It is electrically operated and works automatically. However, it's advantages is evidenced on its dependence on power, heaviness and cost.
(C) ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER: this is the latest
development in the advancement of electric typewriters. A secretary who has this equipment within her reach will be relieved of much burden of the job. It also works automatically. The latest models have Du which can display 210 3 more lines.
(D) DICTATING MACHINE: This type of machine is used for recording documents by secretaries especially if the messages are technical, confidential or different from the secretary's understanding without face to face explanation. Routine dictation is handled by this machines thus saving the time the secretary will sped in training notes
This equipment is very advantageous in the sense that he executives time is saved. The recorded disc is mailable and a permanent record ort dictated matter is made. On the other hand, the disadvantages are evidence in its possibility to break down and dependence on power. It may also result to the loss of the speed of the secretary.
e. PHOTOCOPYING MACHINE: This reproduces a replica of documents and the method is of course quick. Warson et al (1978) maintained that he great advantage of copiers is that there is no need to re-write or re-type. The secretary is saved from the resultant burden of repeating works.
f. FASCIMILS TRANSCEIVERS: This the electronic mail system which facilitates and efficient communication. It transmits and receives exact copies of any kind of original document especially those that have to do with either typed, written or drawn diagrammatic information over everyday telephone lines a minute. The original document is placed into the machine and the recipient then places a blank sheet of paper in his machine ready to receive a copy of the original document
g. ADDRESSING MACHINE: this is used where repetitive information has to be written into documents and lists. Warson et el (1978) states that the addressing machine can be used for addressing envelopes, gumed labels, circulars, postcards, statement etc. the advantage inherent in the use of this machine is that it allows for the use of same name and address or any repetitive data to be reproduced as many times as required data to be reproduced as many times as required from one master plate.
H TELE PRINTER: this is used to distances. Warson et al (1978) described the machine as having resemblance of typewriter and reproduces messages simultaneously on both sending and receiving machines.
I. DUPLICATING MACHINES: every secretary is in constant use of this machine in the office. This machine has replaced hand coping, typing and making carbon copies which were methods long employed in the offices and capable of producing rapidly and in-expensively any given number of copies of forms, circular and many other documents which may be needed at any point in time. It make use of stencil or spirit.
J. ACCOUNTING MACHINE: This machine is known to perform routine bookkeeping and related tasks in a single operation. This machine helps the secretary in discharging her duty in the work place with much brain work and multiple mistakes.
K. CALCULATING MACHINE: This machines perform very easily the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division operations, thus enabling the management to be provided with an immediate source of information thereby eliminating likely time wastage on the part of the office work. The types of calculating machine used in the offices depend mainly on the needs of the offices.
In discussing these problems, reference is made to the view of some authors who have death with this topic.
Terry (1970) stated that, the problems, associated with the use of modern office equipment he heavily with the cost of maintenance. The cost of repairing and maintaining most modern office equipment is very high, that they are dumped in the office making secretaries who are acquainted with the equipment handicapped to tackle their tasks.
Onasanya (1990) explained that relevant expenses in the form of cost of stationery ink, training of staff and special pay for such staff are problems of procuring modern office equipment.
He further said that these modern office equipment reduces in-efficiency on the part of the secretary, so a break down of the machines could reveal such inefficiency.
Warson et al (1978) pointed out that the problems secretaries encounter in the manipulation of some of these modern office equipment such as electric typewriter and infact all electrically driven equipment lie in the fact that power supply is not always constant and can disappoint the secretary by getting her stucked in the midst of carrying out a task.
Elendu (1983) said that secretaries prefer taking shorthand dictation and transcribing it on their own than using dictating machines because of loss of speed and damages oaf tapes on transit.
He pointed out also that inter personal relationship is minimized between a secretary and her boss.
It is necessary to note that since the cost of producing these modern office equipment, is high and secretaries cannoat work effectively because, of break-down of most of these equipment, business organizations should train personnel who are specialists in the repair aof these machines. The organisation should endeavour to get power generators to off-set the effect of power failure on the performance of secretarial duties.
In athis chapter, the researcher discussed extensively the cross-fertilize vews of reputed authors concerning the issue of the modern office equipment and its effects on the job performance of secretaries in am orgnaisation. The history of some of these modern office equipment was briefly mentioned. From the available data, it was gathered that he growth of technology in office operation was dated back into the seventeenth century. The benefits of these equipment were also discussed.
The old and new equipment were compared. The comparison was made in terms of cost, labour saving, time saving, speed etc.
Finally, the over-time of the equipment was given and the problems encountered by the secretaries were also mentioned together with possible solutions.
The Effects of Modern Communication Equipment on Secretarial Performance.
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