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Thanks to author Tiffany Carmouché for stopping by and sharing the inspiration for her Alaskan Heart Saga, including her newest book, Blood of an Angel. Enjoy!
Pushing Past the Pain – Bestselling Author Tiffany Carmouché Tells How She Used the Nano Challenge and Turning to the Arts to Learn How to Live Again.
In reflection of the recent tragic suicide of Robin Williams.
"When you are young you dream of fairy tales. Of Princesses and castles and happily ever afters. When I married my high school sweetheart I thought I would live out my dreams but soon my fairy tale became a nightmare.
I will spare you the bruises, the drunken rages, the lies and the details of how after many years of marriage, I woke up to the family business being closed, the bank accounts emptied, the house in foreclosure and the fact I had to figure a way to pick up the pieces alone and find a way to keep a roof over my daughters' heads.
I'm not going to lie, I was a hot mess. And as I now search for answers as to why someone as talented, rich and amazing as Robin Williams would take his life, I remember the time in my life I didn't have much to live for and I myself contemplated ending the pain. Depression— such a nasty beast.
Thankfully I had two wonderful daughters who made life worth living. I knew for me, suicide would be the easy way out, but if I was gone, it would be my daughters who would have had to collect all the fragments. I had to be strong.
I had to pick myself up and dust myself off and tell life, "You hit like a bitch! Bring it on!"
During all of the turmoil my Niece, Deanna, told me about the Nano Write a Book in a Month Challenge. I hadn't written in years and knew I didn't have a book in me, but I challenged myself to write 10,000 words.
What the hell. It was certainly healthier than spending countless hours planning how I would hunt down my ex and hang him upside down by his toenails. I have to say it was a little embarrassing, sitting in church as my ring tone went off incredibly loud. I tried to look innocent in the pew as, "I dug my key into the side of his pretty little supped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats…" sang from my purse. Yes, at the time Before He Cheats was my theme song. That and Pink's "I lost my husband I don't know where he went."
Maybe, I was a little upset, just saying…but somehow I convinced myself instead of planning my revenge, I would write about the time I escaped the abuse and went to Alaska with my best friend. And then I began to think…"What if…"
I wondered what life would have been like if I hadn't come back home to marry him. I began to relive the beauty of Alaska and what it felt like to be in my early twenties and leave everything I knew to travel to a place half way across the globe. And then I remembered… the stalker I had to escape from. "What if…he was a serial killer?" Perhaps writing about the serial killer was a form of displaced anger, LOL, but somehow it did the trick.
Instead of spending my time feeling sorry for myself, I bleed on paper. I allowed myself to disappear as I scribbled words to life in black and white and you know what? I didn't have time to care who he was sleeping with. I didn't have time to worry what he was spending our money on. I didn't have time to worry where he disappeared to. Sure my troubles didn't go away and I had a lot to figure out, like how to keep the lights on, but when I wasn't solving a problem that COULD be solved, I wrote. And before long I exceeded the 10,000 word count and I challenged myself to write even more each day.
I loved the little widget in NANO that would grow as I got closer to my goal and it kinda obsessed me. Instead of getting locked up for going mad, or getting even, I wrote a book. I didn't just write the 50,000 words of the challenge, I wrote 80,000 and The Impostor, the first book in the Alaskan Heart Saga, was born.
Was it ready to be published at the end of that thirty days? Hell no! That is really when the fun began. FUN? What? Edits Fun?
YES! It is all about your attitude. When you finish your book it is like giving birth, but you still need to feed it to watch it grow. Please do not kid yourself into thinking you are finished unless it's poetry. There is certain rawness and pureness to the words that you release in a poem and often the muse pours the words out as they should be written. But a novel, no matter how good of a writer you are, needs to be edited and countless more hours need to be spent in revisions.
I try and think of it as it is more time I get to spend with my characters. And sometimes they do the damndest things! Soon my suspense became a suspenseful romance and my 10,000 word story expanded to 100,000 for the first book, The adventure I had with my best friend many years ago has sparked a Saga that has been read all over the world.
The fifth book, Blood of an Angel will be released this October in honor of Domestic Violence Month. The book is written and ready to be released but there is a certain beauty in releasing the book during a time to honor all the people who have fallen victim to cruelty as a means of reminding us there is life after abuse.
The series is a about a woman who escapes an abusive relationship to find herself again and provide a better life for her daughter. (Yes, there are hot guys and romance woven in, but the books are a reminder of our strength) Many times we find that as we stand up, we are often tripped again or even straight up pushed down to what we think is our breaking point.
We need to remember the story is only over when we say, 'The End.' I am still stunned at the news Robin Williams committed suicide. Such a tragedy! If he had lived, he was such a talented man, there is no doubt he would have brought much more entertainment and laughter to us. But because he took his life his gifts will never again be shared. Internationally we grieve his loss. I can only imagine the sorrow of his family.
If I had taken my life, I would never have had the honor of knowing the fans all over the world whose letters bring smiles to my face! I wouldn't have seen my daughter Rochelle get married or my daughter Martina leave for college!
Did the Nano challenge save my life? Maybe that is stretching it a little bit, but I know that writing the book in the month was the beginning stage in finding me again. I have since rediscovered the artist, the dancer, the adventurer…I am learning to live again, step by step, and you know what? If I hadn't made that 10,000 word goal, perhaps my saga would have never been written. My mission is now to help others find their essence. In words, in dance, in brushstrokes…in life…BE BOLD! Be Brilliant! BE YOU!
For even broken, we are beautiful…pick up the pieces…just look at the beauty in a stain glass window next time you question your magnificence. Find your essence. Let your light shine. And do what brings YOU LIFE!
Make each breath count. ~Tiffany Carmouché
PS Join me in participating in #HOLDON2HOPE, to spread awareness for ending suicide this September held by Author Rochelle Maya Callen.
PSS I do love to hear from my readers. Please do not hesitate writing me if you have read any of my books. I enjoy hearing what you think. Some readers write me as they are reading my books. That is so much fun, especially when they say, "No!"
PSSS If you have escaped an abusive relationship and would like to be a part of the Out of the Shadows book or Conference, please contact me to get more information.
PSSSS ( I used to do this as a kid on my letters.) Sign up today for my newsletter for news, contests, interviews and more! Be the first to see the cover reveal of the next book in the series and be the first to know the release date of Blood of an Angel!"
Want to learn more about Tiffany Carmouché and her books? Visit her web page and Facebook page.
Tiffany's books are available at Amazon, Amazon UK, and Barnes & Noble.
Thanks again to Tiffany Carmouché for her guest post. Watch Whimsical Words for more guests, Quotable Wednesdays, Owl Posts, blogs from me, and occasional Readers & Writers Recipes. Have an inspired day! – Vonnie


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Good morning. A sudden resignation at the White House, a Russian plot in Macedonia and an unusual invitation from North Korea.
Here's the latest:
• Fatigue.
That's a reason cited by Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., in announcing she would resign at the end of the year, according to people close to her. White House staff were caught off guard. People familiar with her thinking say she aims to make some money in the private sector.
"It was a blessing to go into the U.N. with body armor every day and defend America," she said, with President Trump in the Oval Office, above. Mr. Trump said that she had let him know months ago, and that he'd name her replacement in coming weeks. He said he had five candidates in mind, and even discussed the possibility of nominating his daughter Ivanka.
Ms. Haley, who was one of the few women in the cabinet, was an outspoken envoy for the U.S. and a popular figure in Washington, but she had collided recently with the national security adviser, John Bolton. She has also long been considered a potential presidential candidate — but she insists she isn't running in 2020.
Our interactive plots the unprecedented staff turnover within the Trump administration.
• Psychological warfare in Macedonia.
We have the inside story of a rare blow against Russia's global campaign of disinformation and subversion.
This summer, American intelligence officials say, they spotted the Kremlin undermining a referendum in Macedonia on whether to rename the country "North Macedonia." The change would placate Greece over a historical dispute and enable NATO membership, exactly what Russia doesn't want.
So the U.S. transmitted secret information to Greece, persuading it to expel two Russian diplomats even as President Trump cozied up to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
In the referendum last month, Macedonians voted overwhelmingly in favor of changing the name. But turnout was low — just as Russia, in stoking a boycott, had hoped — and Parliament will have to make the final call. Above, a woman voting in the referendum.
• "It is like 'Pulp Fiction.'"
A senior Turkish official told us that Turkey believes the highest levels of the Saudi royal court ordered the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi dissident who has vanished.
He was last seen entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, and that's where the Turkish official says a team of Saudi agents dismembered him with a buzz saw. They left the country 15 hours later, the official says. Another person familiar with the matter says Turkey has video of Mr. Khashoggi being killed. Above, protesters outside the consulate.
Saudi Arabia denies any role in Mr. Khashoggi's disappearance, saying he freely left the consulate. Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has demanded evidence of this.
Here's a timeline of what we know so far.
• "A blurring of distinctions."
British intelligence agencies have recently taken a back seat to armchair investigators.
"This is a new frontier in terms of internet activism, or internet research," one expert said. "States are increasingly losing their monopoly over spying."
Bellingcat, an investigative group founded by a blogger, Eliot Higgins, above left outside Parliament, briefed reporters on Tuesday on the poisoning of a former Russian spy, Sergei V. Skripal, and his daughter. The group has identified two Russian men, a military doctor and a colonel, as culprits.
British officials refuse to comment on Bellingcat, and Russian officials call the group "uncouth goons" and a potential front for Western intelligence.
Its findings in another case have been backed by international prosecutors, and equally angered Russia. Bellingcat claimed to have traced the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over Ukraine to Russian action.
• No obsolescence here: London's Olympic Park, above, has defied the tendency of such infrastructure to fall into disuse, providing a template for future host cities like Tokyo, Paris and Los Angeles.
• European leaders are actively working to help Iran get around new sanctions, widening a rift with the U.S.
• Tech employees concerned their products are being deployed for government surveillance or censorship around the world are increasingly asking their employers how the technology is being used. And in the Philippines, a start-up on the front lines against fake news is overwhelmed by the sheer volume of it.
• Google's new gadgets: glass-bodied Pixel smartphones, a smart speaker with a built-in screen and a tablet that doubles as a personal computer.
• China holds more than a trillion dollars in U.S. debt. Economists are quietly asking whether an escalating trade war could tempt the country to wield its so-called nuclear option.
• Here's a snapshot of global markets.
In the News
• Kim Jong-un has invited Pope Francis to visit North Korea. It is unlikely the pope will accept, given the country's suppression of religious freedom. [The New York Times]
• Hurricane Michael is on track to hit Florida with powerful winds, torrential rains and potentially devastating storm surge. [The New York Times]
• A decades-old plastic bottle washed up on a beach in Britain almost unscathed, illustrating the lasting impact of plastic pollution. [The Guardian]
• Richard Branson said that his company Virgin Galactic would "be in space within weeks," that he would go in "months" and that others would be "not too long after that." [BBC]
• Rick Gates, a top Trump campaign official in 2016, requested proposals from an Israeli company for using fake online identities and social media manipulation to win the election. [The New York Times]
• To the surprise of many in India, an eruption of sexual harassment accusations against men in entertainment and journalism has had quick results. [The New York Times]
• "Generation sensible": Underage drinking has dropped sharply among European youths, most of all in Britain, and no one is entirely sure why. [The New York Times]
Smarter Living
Tips for a more fulfilling life.
• Recipe of the day: Keep dinner light and flavorful with a spicy shrimp salad.
• It's time to get real about time management. Here's how.
• Should you tip your Uber driver? If so, how much?
• Counting down the hours: At Tate Modern in London, our correspondent watched a full day and night of the hit video installation "The Clock" so that you don't have to.
• On São Tomé and Príncipe, the dual-island nation off Africa's west coast, nature beats mankind. The sparse human population lives among rain forests, volcanoes and beaches — but our 52 Places traveler found that makes for a tight-knit community.
• Neri Oxman, a professor at the M.I.T. Media Lab, weaves together science, technology and art to create startling structures, from a mask made of facial tissue to 3-D printed glass. Her strange and wonderful discipline has captured the attention of Bjӧrk and Brad Pitt.
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Print isn't dead.
In fact, it's throwing its most significant annual party.
The Frankfurt Book Fair kicks off today, bringing hundreds of thousands of people in publishing and related fields together for days of wheeling, dealing, seeing and being seen.
The tradition dates back some 800 years — long before Johannes Gutenberg turned out Europe's first printed page in 1454.
Frankfurt was a flourishing medieval commercial crossroads. In 1240, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II decreed that no one should harass travelers to its autumn fair, where wine, gold, horses and more were bought and sold.
Handwritten manuscripts began selling there, a forerunner to the book trade. Frankfurt held its earliest recorded book fair in 1462.
Then as now, it was a place where people mingled and ideas flowed.
Henri Estienne, a French man of letters, praised the fair in 1574 for bringing together so many scholars.
The effect, he said, was a modern-day Athens: "In reality, it should be happening in that city where once bloomed the most celebrated intellectual life in all of Greece."
The Frankfurter Buchmesse's 2018 guest of honor? The nation of Georgia, which saw more than 150 of its books translated into German this year.
Nancy Wartik wrote today's Back Story.
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November 18, 2012
A Fair Price to Pay
A couple of weeks ago I was asked for information on the salary band for a manager responsible for 600 volunteers. I'm not really the best person to ask, but the question set me thinking, again.
The first thing I note is that the topic of pay packages for managers of volunteers is like a squeaky wheel that never gets oiled. There are regular queries and laments, but resolution always remains in the too-hard-basket. Some themes of the debate can be found in articles listed in Energize archives.
International data from the Global Volunteer Management Survey (2008) revealed the extraordinary range of full-time annual salaries: $US9,600 – $US90,000. The average yearly income was $US45,296: New Zealand managers of volunteers earned 10 – 15% less than this average. For 63% of respondents the handicap to growing volunteer management is that "volunteer managers would never be paid the equivalent of other professions who manage people".
Management Matters, New Zealand-based research (2009), found the median annual salary of full-time managers is in the range of $NZ40,000 – $NZ59,000 ($US32.792 – $US49.183). At this time the mean income in New Zealand was $NZ43,836 ($US35,919).
In 2011 a professional survey attempted to establish real market value for managers of volunteers in New Zealand but results were inconclusive.
Aside from research, there's a rule of thumb that reckons NFP salaries are 10% lower than for-profit businesses, and you can take off another 10% to get the going rate for a manager of volunteers. The devil is in the detail, the complex nature of the sector, the range of responsibilities, job titles and hours of work.
Managers of volunteers may be employed full-time, part-time or be an unpaid 'volunteer manager' or coordinator (full- or part-time). A full-time employee may be assigned part-time responsibilities for managing volunteers. They can be known variously as manager, director, administrator, or coordinator. The scope of the role is relative to the nature of the organisation's mission and scale of operation, and operating budget. Being a manager of volunteers can be part human resource management, part line management, part strategic development. It may include skills in community organisation and project management, and certainly communication and relationship skills. And it will be nothing without leadership ability.
All these factors influence pay rates. The Managers Matter survey also found salary differences relative to job title: 'Managers of Volunteers' attracted higher rates than 'Volunteer Coordinators', regardless of paid/unpaid, full- or part-time status.
As for the numbers game, I cannot find a correlation between numbers of volunteers and manager salaries. The Managers Matter study showed that even with 200+ volunteers there were still 23% of managers unpaid. We need added information on how the volunteers are engaged: for weekly assignments or for annual events, a fixed term or ongoing involvement. We also need to take into account those people who squeeze volunteer responsibilities alongside other areas of work.
The concerns for low pay levels and unrealistic expectations remain.
So I was pleased to see included in the Volunteering New Zealand Best Practice Guidelines the following clause: Paying people with responsibility for volunteers a salary comparable to other managers with similar responsibilities within the organisation.
Which just begs the question: who, in the organisation, has similar responsibilities? Who else undertakes the range of tasks, covers the territory, and handles various roles like the manager of volunteers does – whether paid or unpaid? Is there anywhere an equivalent job?
Looks like the problem goes back to the too-hard-basket again.
But there is more to think about. It's not just the complexity and the variations in organisation size and function, and the job title and employment status of the manager. There's a perception that NFPs relying on the charity dollar should not be profligate in spending on salaries. Some organisations lack understanding and appreciation of volunteers, which is too easily carried over to the pay and respect accorded to their manager.
It is going to take more than the efforts of managers of volunteers to make a difference. It's going to take the whole organisation. Discovering the true worth of managers of volunteers will also tell us more about how volunteering is valued.
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Thanks Sue, this information reinforces that from other sources. Interestingly here in Whangarei there are efforts to set up a Volunteer Whangarei centre, there is quite some support, and ofcourse no funding at this time, a wait and apply for funding game, again; ofcourse.
I once worked with a job evaluation system which recognised managing volunteers – as far as I remember managing 0 – 5 volunteers was regarded as equivalent to managing 1 worker. It was imperfect as a system, but it did help promote volunteer management by colleagues – they could see a direct impact on the evaluation of their role and therefore potentially on their salary band. The system couldn't cope with volunteering staff who had oversight of large numbers of volunteers, but who didn't directly manage very many.
I keep an eye on what's out there, and some of the UK salaries strike me as shockingly low given what the recruiting organisations are requiring of them.


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But what if we see them as common human responses to life? (Some addictions can be serious and life-threatening and in no way to I want to make light of them, but point to aspects that underlie addictive patterns.) What we label "addiction" can be seen as a means to an experience of something besides the present moment, because that present moment is too painful, uncomfortable, unbearable or causes suffering. We ultimately want relief, an escape, a release, more peace, or to be more comfortable.
Emotions can be extremely uncomfortable. Sorrow, sadness, anger, grief, frustration, or even intense pleasure or joy can be very uncomfortable for some. Physical pain - either from extreme injuries, serious disease, or low-level chronic illnesses- can be unbearable and cause suffering. Even our thoughts can be self-sabotaging, self-critical, or somehow keep us from achieving our goals in life. These human experiences can be too much for us to handle. So we find something to help.
A friend recently shared this Tim Ferriss interview with one of the world's leading addiction experts, Dr. Gabor Maté. Dr. Maté worked for many years with people struggling with addiction. He's also an advocate for using plant medicine (in some cases) to help people overcome their addictive patterns.
"Addiction", as Dr. Maté defines it, is when there is a craving for a pattern (or substance), a negative long-term impact of engaging in it and the inability to give it up. After his work in treating addiction over many years, he saw that addictive patterns start in childhood, as we develop coping mechanisms in response to our environment. The patterns helped us at one time deal with difficulties early in life, but are no longer helping us in the present to live the life we are desiring. We respond to our current environment in automatic patterns that began as our brains developed as children. Dr. Maté emphasizes that NOTHING IS WRONG with us to have these reactions, emotions, or sensations and for reaching for something to help. What if our addictive patterns are our responses to something arising in our consciousness that we don't know how else to deal with? He also encourages us to refrain from blaming the environment, but to accept is as it was (or is in the present). If we see nothing is wrong with us or our environment, we start to get curious about how we are responding.
Many addictive behaviors are automatic and unconscious, we don't even know we are doing them…until we do. I've found myself reaching for the 2nd or 3rd cup of caffeine (or alcohol), chocolate, tobacco, or diverting my attention to endless internet surfing, etc.
Once I notice, sometimes, I stop and catch myself, remembering what is happening and drop into the experience of discomfort. Other times, I notice, and yet the pattern is so strong, it still plays itself out. But what HAS shifted, is that I don't blame myself, shame myself, beat myself up or punish myself anymore (or anyone else). I simply see it as a pattern, accept it and take a moment to drop in further. What is it I am avoiding that is leading me to this? What is this pattern trying to show me right now? Might it simply be an old pattern from childhood replaying itself over and over again? What is actually needed in this moment beyond the addictive pattern?
With the curiosity, I feel more empowered. I get to explore what is underlying my response and addictive pattern - a call for deep healing. I see how the pattern is impacting me - the truth of the impact. And I get to learn what it is ultimately trying to teach me - my higher self knocking on the door.
Supportive people can welcome and accept us as we are, and point us in the direction of expansion and growth. Some can even help us repair the old wounds, so that we do not have to live in the outdated pattern anymore. Other non-humans, such as plants, herbs and animals, can also offer us support, through their presence, acceptance and non-verbal ways of teaching us who we are.
Having practices we routinely return to, can also help us in the healing journey. We naturally have practices we gravitate towards to bring more ease and peace. These practices can be spending time in nature, listening to music, making art, yoga, meditation, qi gong, mantra, prayer, and any other rituals where we slow down from our normal lives to pay attention to something else. These practices help us develop our inner healing capacity and expand expand our consciousness. We can grow our own inner resources to be with ourselves in the painful and uncomfortable experiences, and can shift the old patterns into ones that better serve our life path.
One powerful tool that isn't the right fit for everyone is the use of psychedelics and plant medicines. Plant medicines have been an integral part of my own healing journey. Anyone feeling called to work with these medicines, I would highly advise doing your research on any medical contraindications, finding reputable healers and guides, and to prepare for proper committed psychological preparation and integration. (I have been helping people prepare and integrate their plant medicine experiences for the last 5 years. You can read more about one of my own early plant medicine experiences in this blog post and learn more about my work here.) I agree with Dr. Maté when he says that these experiences can open doors in healing, because they quickly bypass the ego (the formed, conditioned mind that holds these automatic responses). He cautions they can not be taken in isolation and that these experiences have to be integrated into our lives with the support of others and development of practices. Otherwise they can become only a memory of experience and not useful in healing on a deeper level.
It's in finding the right mix of support and practices, that we can shift these old patterns. It is most commonly a gradual process over time (possibly with miraculous leaps too!) that bring us to a healthier, up-to-date operating system where we have access to our true potential.
At times, it might not be the time to dive into our pain and discomfort, sit with it, process it, and heal it. Especially traumas - deep physical, emotional and psychological wounds- can be intensely debilitating to experience again, without the proper support. The things we turn to can be medicine, supporting us with qualities we need in the moment: grounding, pain relief, nourishment, energy, or simply a break. However, the spectrum of what we at one time use as a medicine, can become a poison or turn into an addiction without conscious awareness.
It's up to us to determine where that line and balance is. How do we come to terms with the range of impacts? Can we tell ourselves the truth- are we actually able to give them up? With some of the so-called hard addictions, the long-term negative impacts may not only be consequential to living our lives, but also life-threatening, and yet we are still unable to let them go. For some softer addictions, we may be able to let them go - for a day, a week, a month at a time- working through the pattern with moderation. Sometimes, this can in fact teach us at a more sustainable pace, bringing stability to new patterns.
Here, we find at least a moment of peace and truth, free from the pain and suffering we were experiencing. This is an important moment- in that moment, we are a reminded of how it feels to live without suffering. While some addictive patterns numb us out, we are free of the suffering for a moment. With other patterns, we may have access to other parts of ourselves that get overshadowed by the pain. Maybe we have more creativity, realizations and insights, we feel more comfortable and safe in our bodies, or we can see clearly what actions to take. Our higher wisdom is not only pointing us to healing, but to what we are beyond the healing, beyond the addiction, beyond the pain.
The journey through and beyond addiction is the teacher, teaching us about our humanity. There is nothing wrong with us, but everything perfectly human about us. Each and every one of us.
Many blessings for our journeys,
Jaime Lehner
Protectress of Mother Earth, Energy Healing, Plant Medicine Integration, Coach, Writer
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Lathrop Gage is pleased to welcome Associate Bobby Sahachartsiri to the firm's Boston office, joining the Intellectual Property Transactions team. Sahachartsiri is a registered patent attorney who focuses his practice on patent prosecution in the Biotechnology & Life Sciences industry.
Previously, Sahachartsiri practiced with a New York City-based boutique intellectual property firm, where he focused on patent preparation, prosecution and client counseling in the areas of pharmaceuticals, biochemistry, organic chemistry and biotechnology.
Sahachartsiri also worked as an intellectual property consultant for a clinical-stage antibody mimetics biotechnology company in the fields of immuno-oncology and respiratory diseases, where he managed the company's global patent portfolio and provided freedom-to-operate and strategic IP analyses to support executive decisions and business development activities.
Prior to his legal career, Sahachartsiri was a scientist at University of California – Los Angeles, the University of California – San Francisco, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Sahachartsiri's scientific research experience spans a broad range of disciplines, including molecular biology, cell biology, immunology, biochemistry, and synthetic biology.
Sahachartsiri received his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, 2017, where he was an editorial staff member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal. Sahachartsiri received his M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, from the University of California, Los Angeles, 2013, and his B.S, summa cum laude, in Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, from the University of California, Los Angeles, 2007.
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"Trainwreck" does a better-than-average job of fleshing out Amy's personality and relationships, but watching Schumer surrender to even a modified version of a marriage plot has left some of her fans discomfited. It's a reaction that highlights just how much we ask from female entertainers. We want them to be perfect revolutionaries, even if we're not exactly storming the barricades in our own lives.
"Amy Schumer seems like a milkmaid in a Mel Brooks movie or on Benny Hill. So whenever she goes to churn butter, she'll always do it as though she's actually making something else," wrote Wesley Morris, Grantland's movie critic, in his review of "Trainwreck." "It's not just sexism and self-hate that Schumer wants to bring down, it's cute, half-a—- romantic fantasies. But 'Trainwreck' turns out to be too much of that kind of fantasy. The milkmaid isn't that filthy after all. She actually is just making butter."
And writing here in The Post, my colleague Lisa Bonos, who writes our terrific blog about living single, mourned Schumer's on-screen and fictional graduation from the singleton sisterhood. "In the rom-com polishing of Schumer's shtick, we lose that slutty, crazy friend we were just getting to know and love," Bonos lamented. "In the process of cleaning up her act — throwing out the bottles of booze, chucking the weed and learning to be monogamous — Schumer loses her edge. She begins to look more like the woman who's about to plan a wedding. And we've fallen for the one who obsessively plans breakups."
It's absolutely true that the Amy of "Trainwreck" is more conflicted about her wildness than some of Schumer's stand-up anecdotes or the characters in her sketches on "Inside Amy Schumer." But even on her Comedy Central show, Schumer's characters — including a woman from the first season who hosts an orgy in the name of feminism only to be unnerved by the men who respond to her advertisement for it — often feel a gap between what they're supposed to want and what they actually do.
In "Trainwreck," that gap is defined less by what Amy actually takes pleasure in and what her hookups think she should want (in fact "Trainwreck" exists in a gender-flipped world, where all of Amy's one-night stands seem to want to commit to her) than by her father Gordon who, sensing Amy's happiness with Aaron, begins to rag on him. "He's got about a month left before you give him the boot," Gordon tells his daughter. "Your pattern is my pattern." That's an interesting and specific dynamic; Amy's relationship with Gordon was one of the best things about "Trainwreck," and one that makes it difficult to fit the film neatly or completely into an ideological narrative.
That doesn't mean that "Trainwreck" doesn't have politics, of course. Buzzfeed's Anne Helen Petersen analyzed the movie in the context of postfeminism. She defines that school of thinking as the idea that "now that the 'work' of feminism has been achieved we can all focus on having fun…And as manifest in 'Pretty Woman,' 'Bridget Jones's Diary,' 'Sex and the City,' and dozens of other pop culture artifacts of the time, postfeminism suggested that empowerment was best achieved through self-objectification, shopping, and sublimating anything that resembling engaged feminist politics."
Petersen places "Trainwreck" in a category with shows like "The Mindy Project" and "Girls" arguing that these stories are "Unflattering mirrors, in part because they make visible the ideologies that have become so natural as to simply feel like "the way that it is." Guys don't treat you like a human being worthy of respect? That's just the 'new dating.' Sex without pleasure? The way we have sex now. A work environment characterized by low-grade sexual harassment? The price of advancement. Making money by reproducing sexist rhetoric? Just playing by the rules."
But she argues that the movie isn't as retrograde as the people who were disappointed in it imply. "It's not as if Amy disposes of wry intelligence or eviscerating insight to win the man. She doesn't lose weight, or buy a new wardrobe, or express anything like self-hatred. She just disposes with the behaviors she did out of fear," Petersen writes. "In this way, 'Trainwreck' suggests that neither romance, children, sex, shopping, jobs, sick apartments, nor even friendship with LeBron James can provide a shortcut to happiness."
As I've thought about "Trainwreck" in the weeks since I've watched it, I think my feelings about the movie lie somewhere between the excellent case Petersen makes for it and the wounded rage of a writer like IndieWire's Peter Knegt, who lamented that "For me, Amy Schumer has felt like this icon for people who — for whatever reason — have not found themselves representing societal norms by their thirties…There's absolutely nothing wrong with being in a stable relationship, or wanting one. But the problem with 'Trainwreck' is its suggestion that it's the only f—— way."
Amy's grand gesture and her reunion with Aaron at the end of "Trainwreck" feel disappointing to some viewers because these were conventional story beats. But I also think that they complicate the film's politics in ways that make "Trainwreck" both more human and more uncomfortable. The heart of the plot is Amy's decision to pursue a monogamous relationship that's a step away from the postfeminist push for women to be more sexually available to men. But what does it mean that she's doing so by making a gesture that feels right out of the postfeminist playbook: dressing up in a cheerleading outfit and dancing for Aaron's entertainment?
But I love the cheerleading scene, in all its contradictory glory. Amy starts the routine in step with the Knicks dancers, but as it progresses, she falls further and further behind them. And while her face is initially locked into the giddy, accommodating rictus that cheerleaders wear as part of their uniform, Amy's expression changes, and so does the scene. Her smile becomes hopeful and nervous and real. She can't break off the routine to talk to Aaron, but the pleading expression in Amy's eyes communicates everything she'd say with words if she had the breath left for them. Amy's not offering herself up as a cupcake. She's doing something ridiculous, and unlike the executors of grand gestures almost everywhere else in pop culture, she knows it.
In this scene, Schumer's not the political thesis she so often embodies on her Comedy Central show. She's a woman, and an extremely appealing one. And instead of providing us with a road map, as Schumer does so frequently on her sketch comedy show, Amy's right there in the struggle with us.
"Trainwreck" ends on an ambiguous note: it doesn't clarify whether Amy and Aaron end up with a picket fence and kids, or whether he starts smoking pot with her, or whether they end up in some kind of open relationship. Leaving us with the euphoria of their reunion is delightful movie-making. But I can completely understand why someone would watch that scene and think "We fought the revolution for this?" It's exhausting to tear down an ideology like post-feminism and to end up back where we started, with what seems to be the same stark choice between domesticity and wildness.
Schumer isn't the first female artist to walk the loop of this circle. Writing about "Sex and the City" in the New Yorker in 2013, Emily Nussbaum pondered that series' ending, which like "Trainwreck," united its anti-heroes, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mr. Big (Chris Noth), in a grand gesture, this one in Paris. "What would the show look like without that finale?" she wondered, raising some of the same issues that have vexed the critics of "Trainwreck" who feel that Schumer's sold her comedic power short. "What if it were the story of a woman who lost herself in her thirties, who was changed by a poisonous, powerful love affair, and who emerged, finally, surrounded by her friends? Who would Carrie be then? It's an interesting question…We'll just have to wait for another show to answer it."
The show or romantic comedy that does provide that answer will do a courageous thing, one that resists the gravitational pull of a century of movies and centuries of literature before that. One of the best things about "Spy," Paul Feig's very funny parody of the espionage genre was the way it ended with newly-minted super-agent Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) turning down dinner with her long-term crush Bradley Fine (Jude Law) in favor of a girls night with her handler, Nancy B. Artingstall (the divine Miranda Hart). That evening did end with Susan in bed with arrogant spy Rick Ford (Jason Statham), but that didn't mean that she'd chosen romantic love over the bonds of friendship — just Susan was enjoying herself immensely in all areas of her life.
Feig made "Spy" after giving us "Bridesmaids," a movie that pulled its heroine out of a sour sinkhole of depression and envy and re-awakened her to the possibility of love and ambition. Maybe now that Schumer's given us "Trainwreck," a movie that pushes back against the still-persistent idea that drinking and having had a lot of sex renders a woman unlovable, the box office success of this first effort will give her the space to make a movie about a genuinely happy libertine who doesn't want or need love and relationships at all. I want to believe we'll get that great leap for womankind. It might just take some wobbly, half-drunk steps on our stiletto-blistered feet to achieve liftoff.


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After he lost much of his hearing last year at age 57, the composer Richard Einhorn despaired of ever really enjoying a concert or musical again. Even using special headsets supplied by the Metropolitan Opera and Broadway theaters, he found himself frustrated by the sound quality, static and interference.
Then, in June, he went to the Kennedy Center in Washington, where his "Voices of Light" oratorio had once been performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, for a performance of the musical "Wicked."
There were no special headphones. This time, the words and music were transmitted to a wireless receiver in Mr. Einhorn's hearing aid using a technology that is just starting to make its way into public places in America: a hearing loop.
"There I was at 'Wicked' weeping uncontrollably — and I don't even like musicals," he said. "For the first time since I lost most of my hearing, live music was perfectly clear, perfectly clean and incredibly rich."
His reaction is a common one. The technology, which has been widely adopted in Northern Europe, has the potential to transform the lives of tens of millions of Americans, according to national advocacy groups. As loops are installed in stores, banks, museums, subway stations and other public spaces, people who have felt excluded are suddenly back in the conversation.
A hearing loop, typically installed on the floor around the periphery of a room, is a thin strand of copper wire radiating electromagnetic signals that can be picked up by a tiny receiver already built into most hearing aids and cochlear implants. When the receiver is turned on, the hearing aid receives only the sounds coming directly from a microphone, not the background cacophony.
For complete story http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/science/24loops.html?_r=2.
– Thanks to Brenda Estes, Endependence Center and John Tierney, NY Times, 10/23/2011.


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Burma (formerly Myanmar) is a huge country in south eastern Asia which borders on Thailand and China, and also has close ties to India via the sea. The country has a long and turbulent history, and has been colonized by the British never long ago. It is via British colonization and ties into the western world that Burmese cats found their way to homes around the globe. In fact the colonization of much of the planet in the 19th century did much to disperse most of the cat strains, without ties to the western world people would not like these cats now.
Interestingly, all the Burmese cats in the USA are assumed to have only one common ancestor, that kitty's name is Wong Mau, and he had been brought into the U.S. sometime in the 1930's by a man named Joseph Thompson. Abyssinian Cat Breeders Dallas Tx
If you have one of these cats, then perhaps you'll want to construct a small makeshift altar to your little buddy's great ancestor, the illustrious Wong Mau.
There are three separate breeds of Burmese-the Contemporary, the Traditional, and also the European; they're all a little bit different. The European variety is thinner, for example, and the conventional look most like the original cat attracted over from Burma (the famous and prolific Wong Mau). Each one of these cats are quite muscular and also have a short coat, which makes great sense knowing that Burma is a tropical country where a long haired cat would not be advantageous.
Buying Burmese kittens in most regions of north America should be rather easy as it is a pretty common breed, the only thing which we ask of you is that you check to find out if the breeder is licensed and trusted since occasionally in the pet industry there is some shadiness happening. Abyssinian Cat Breeders Dallas Tx
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Living Downtown is for the Super-Elite
The luxury condos that take up the top 10 floors of the 24-story Grand Hyatt hotel, announced this week that 80 percent of its units have been sold.
Pricing and availability of the condos
The community's first residents moved in in 2010, according to Express-News archives. In all, there are 146 units at 10 E. Market St., which means there are about 30 condos left.
The remaining inventory is a combination of one and two bedrooms starting at around $390,000, according to a press release. According to an Express-News article in 2011, units started at $299,999 and plateaued at $2.5 million.
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text: For no particular reason we had been looking for a 60″ loom. Then we found one, but it was far away, near a friend's home. They agreed to pick it up for us. We gave them instruction of what to look for. They phoned from the site when they were there. They brought it to us this Easter weekend. But it was not a 60″ loom; it was a 45″ Leclerq Fanny, which we already have. That was disappointing since we had asked them to measure it to make sure. Oh well. It is in pretty rough shape and will need to be stripped and polished, but the heddles and the reeds are in good shape. One of the reeds is a 5 count reed which will be good for rugs, so it will become a dedicated rug machine, which is fine. The refurbishing will take place next winter. The loom will go into a protected shed and the metal will stay inside. It was a good price.


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04 September, 2018
Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
Optimal non-volatile memory for real-time data logging such as 3D positioning data of event data recorder
Yokohama, Japan, September 4, 2018 – Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited today announced that it has developed the MB85RS4MT, a 4Mbit FRAM that has the highest density in Fujitsu's serial interface family of FRAM non-volatile memories. Mass-produced products are currently available.
In a changing environment, with increasing volume of sensor information data and expanding edge-computing, there are a number of requests from the customers that they prefer increased read/write cycles, shortened data writing times, and increased memory density.This new product is a solution to meet the requirements of customers who are not satisfied with existing EEPROMs.
The MB85RS4MT is optimal for various applications requiring real-time or frequent data logging, such as driving/navigation recorders, industrial robots, computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools, measurement equipment, smart meters, and consumer equipment.
Today Fujitsu Semiconductor launches a new 4Mbit FRAM product, the MB85RS4MT, that has the highest density in our FRAM lineup of serial peripheral interface (SPI) products. For around 20 years, Fujitsu Semiconductor has mass-produced FRAM non-volatile memory products featuring high read/write endurance, high-speed write operation, and low power consumption.
MB85RS4MT SOP Package
Applications suited for MB85RS4MT
This FRAM product features a guaranteed 10 trillion read/write cycles, which is about 10 million times of that competitive non-volatile memory, EEPROM.
Therefore, the guaranteed read/write cycle limit does not become a bottleneck in customer product design, even if the MB85RS4MT is used for memory for frequent data logging of sensor information in edge-computing. (Fig.1)
Fig.1: Read/Write Cycles Comparison
The FRAM product also features high-speed write operation by writing data with an overwrite sequence with no erase operation. While conventional non-volatile memories like EEPROM and flash memory require additional time for the erase operation in addition to normal write operation.
This fast write operation helps to protect data against sudden voltage drops such as power outages during writing. (Fig.2)
Fig.2: Write Time Comparison (at voltage drop)
Since the MB85RS4MT operates within a wide power supply voltage range, from 1.8V to 3.6V, it can be used in customer end-products with other peripheral electronics components operating at either 1.8V or 3.6V. Its operating currents are very small, with a maximum operating current of 250μA at 1MHz operation and a maximum standby current of 50μA. This means, this FRAM product has the advantage of low power consumption, due to its low operating voltage and low operating current.
The FRAM product is in an industry-standard 8-pin SOP package, making it easy to replace existing EEPROM in 8-pin SOP. This enables customers to switch to FRAM products without requiring major design changes to motherboards in end-products.
Fujitsu Semiconductor announced new FRAM products operating at −55°C in April and new 8Mbit parallel FRAM products in June. This time it has developed new 4Mbit serial FRAM products with SPI interface. Fujitsu continues to develop memory products that are optimized for various applications in order to solve customer problems.
Ferroelectric random-access memory. A type of memory that uses a ferroelectric file as capacitors that store data. Retains contents even when power is removed. Combines benefits of both ROM and RAM, with fast write speed, low-power consumption, and high read/write cycle endurance. Also known as FeRAM. Produced by Fujitsu Semiconductor since 1999.
About Fujitsu Semiconductor
Fujitsu Semiconductor Group includes a system memory group that is focused on high quality, high performance Ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM), wafer foundry group that has excellent technology and support, and the sales business of Fujitsu Electronics and overseas sales companies. Headquartered in Yokohama, we established as a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited on March 21, 2008. Through its global sales and development network, with sites in Japan and throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas, we offer semiconductor solutions to the global marketplace.
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If Ebola Isn't Very Contagious, Why Are Healthcare Workers Getting It?
If Ebola doesn't spread easily in the general public, then how did the African epidemic occur? There are a few fundamental differences that contribute to the contagiousness of Ebola in Africa.
In some African nations, it is quite common to care for very ill (even dying) relatives at home. Sometimes this is done because there aren't healthcare facilities nearby or the available facilities have been overwhelmed. Sometimes it's because of fear or mistrust of healthcare workers and facilities. Sometimes it's just a deeply rooted cultural practice. For a whole host of reasons, many Ebola patients are cared for in the home, drastically increasing the risk for spread in the general public.
Here's another key difference: Here in the United States, we have very little contact with dead bodies. However, in some African cultures, friends and family prepare and bury their dead themselves. There is often touching and kissing of the body. Since Ebola levels are extraordinarily high in dead bodies, these practices are very risky.
Unless you care for someone who is extremely ill with Ebola, your risk of contracting the virus is very small. Having contact with someone who is just starting to show symptoms is unlikely to result in transmission of the virus.
Case in point: Think about Thomas Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. The people near him when he was mildly ill did not get Ebola. Instead, it was the nurses who cared for him when he was extremely sick (and dying) in the hospital who ended up with the virus.
Yes, it's possible for someone to transmit the virus before they are sick enough to go to the hospital, but it's just not likely.
What can you do to lower your chances even further? Learn and use good infection control and prevention practices. Wash your hands and teach your kids to wash their hands. Carry hand sanitizer for times when hand washing isn't possible. Try to train yourself to break the habit of constantly touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. Use gloves when cleaning up bodily fluid messes, and be sure to disinfect surfaces contaminated by bodily fluids. These practices are simply smart ideas for everyday life. If you and your family do these simple things, you'll all likely stay much healthier.
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Dowell SF, Mukunu R, Ksiazek TG, Khan AS, Rollin PE, Peters CJ. Transmission of Ebola hemorrhagic fever: a study of risk factors in family members, Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995. Commission de Lutte contre les Epidémies à Kikwit. J Infect Dis 1999;179 Suppl 1:S87-91.
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Ebola virus disease information for clinicians in U.S. healthcare settings (n.d.). CDC Web site. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/clinician-information-us-healthcare-settings.html. Accessed October 11, 2014.
World Health Organization (WHO). Ebola virus disease (September 2014). WHO Web site. Available at: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/. Accessed October 2014.
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Aconity3D is a provider of flexible laboratory metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) systems. The company is located in Aachen, at the heart of technology hubs such as RWTH University and Fraunhofer research institutes.
The company's core business is dedicated to the development of 3D printing of metal parts through the combination of open architecture software and hardware systems.
This synthesis allows for further integrating on-line process control tools, drawing extended information directly from the process. Finding new solutions and partnering with customers towards innovating this vast growing field of research brings along further business units, such as Consulting, Job shop, Testing Facilities and Material Distribution.
In this spirit, Aconity3D has decided to develop its 3D printing activities in the USA, a first internationalization directly out of Europe. Yves-Christian Hagedorn, Managing Director of the company explains the choice of this destination. #OpinionoftheWeek
Aconity3D chose to expand its activities directly out of Europe. Why the USA, especially Texas?
The USA have always been one of our main markets. Therefore, it just came naturally to extend our activities there which mainly consist in improving servicing of our present systems and increasing sales of new systems.
The choice of Texas, especially the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is due to our special ties with the University, well before the first days of Aconity3D itself.
We strongly believe that trust is one of the most important drivers behind a cooperation, which is why we have chosen El Paso and the team at the W.M. Keck center at UTEP – a team that is acknowledged for its 3D printing research entities.
With regards to your collaboration with UTEP, could we say that your priority on the American market will firstly be research?
Aconity3D has started out as mainly serving the market for research systems. This is mainly driven by the open architecture of the systems, which allows to extend the state of the art dramatically.
However, the capability of having access to absolutely all process parameters has also proven to be a major enabler for many industrial applications. Especially applications in which no "out of the box" approach exists are perfectly suited for our systems.
This holds for instance for customers, who need to develop their individual unique selling point; This can be done by extending the scope of applicable materials by application of a high-temperature preheating, improving part quality by online-sensing and increasing productivity by adopting process parameters, just to name a few.
The cooperation with UTEP and the W.M. Keck center is mainly driven by their acknowledged competences in R&D as well as their output of young talented personnel, which we hope to be able to excite for our cause. The latter is especially important as finding trained personnel for AM represents one crucial bottleneck.
The USA market is very promising and competitive. Tell us about three characteristics that will distinguish your 3D printers from others of the same range.
Our machines distinguish themselves as having an open architecture and being highly modular, suiting each individual customer and his application. Our systems allow full control of every parameter within the machine. Furthermore, we offer a high-temperature preheating of up to 1200 °C, which represents a strong tool for sophisticated material research in this field.
Other benefits are complete control of the optical path and the possibility of manipulating the spot size.
According to you, what's the company's biggest strength on the USA market? If you had to mention the company's weakness/apprehension on that market, what would it be?
Speaking about our strengths, I would say our flexibility and capability of addressing customer wishes for individual applications combined with our experience in business.
However, such flexibility and build-to-order capability lead to one of our main weaknesses – the fairly long lead-time of about 20 weeks. One weak point, we are trying to tackle within the next few months.
Could we expect another internationalization strategy in a European country?
Sure, like pointed out before, improving service is one of our main drivers, therefore, we want to be wherever our customers are.
Tell us about an interesting challenge you faced in one of your case studies. How did you overcome it?
The beauty of what we do is that it's all really interesting as pretty much all our endeavours are new and have never been tried before. Probably one more interesting approach was the conjoined development of a capability to print very small structures of < 50 µm wall thickness. This approach calls for interdisciplinary work, as providing adapted optics, for smaller spot sizes, an adapted powder deposition unit, capable of distributing really fine particles and extensive parameter studies, aimed at decreasing the energy input.
The outcome is amazing and might open up completely new applications, possibly within the medical sector.
Your last word?
Sure, thank you 3D Adept for this interview. Also, we would like to express our gratitude to Fraunhofer ILT which gave us great support during our first days. Furthermore, we would like to thank Prof. Ryan Wicker the founder of the W.M. Keck Center and Dr. Natalicio the President of UTEP for making this extraordinary cooperation possible. Thank you and see you next time.
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Who: De Wine Spot
Where: Brooklyn, New York City
What we love about De Wine Spot:
De Wine Spot is a boutique wine store based in Brooklyn, which is home to a vast collection of small batch wines, spirits and sakes. Led by creative, Ilya Dorfman, the team at De Wine Spot are truly taking advantage of the ever changing world of technology. Through their candid blog, wine novices to wine experts are able to learn valuable life skills (such as how to saber champagne) and increase their confidence in wine-selecting. We caught up with co-founder Mischa to hear more about their experiences in running an omni-channel wine paradise.
How did your journey begin?
De Wine Spot is a project of two people who could not be more different. Ilya is a second generation oenophile. Ilya's father has built an impressive wine distribution business from the scratch, which has been in business for the last 25 years. Being around wine all of his adult life, Ilya took over De Wine Spot in 2011 with hopes of transforming a hip, but lacking in direction store, into the local go-to place for wine and whiskey lovers. With an eye for affordable, high quality wines (especially small-batch wines) and hard-to-get bourbons, Ilya was able to guide De Wine Spot to prominence in the local community. In July of 2012, understanding the huge untapped business potential of online sales, Ilya discussed a possibility of expanding his business online with a friend, Michael Nagdimunov. The two friends had met years earlier playing soccer, but never discussed going into business together. However, with Michael's background in marketing and sales combined with his love for technology, it was a match made in heaven. After five intense months of building an online home for the De Wine Spot, dewinespot.co launched (in beta release) on December 24th, 2012.
We are always looking to innovate and bring new helpful features to our customers. To that end, our website now offers a Bitcoin checkout option, in addition to more traditional payment choices (i.e. PayPal and credit cards).
We also try to pay back to the community that supports us. We donate to various charities and have free wine and bourbon tastings every Friday and Saturday nights. On those nights, the store resembles a hot spot with locals "pre-gaming" before their night out.
How would you describe your local community?
We get people from all walks of life in the door – from renowned artists that live in the neighborhood who know exactly what they want and fellow oenophiles that are always on the prowl for that "next big thing", to wine newbies that rely on our recommendations. One thing they all have in common – they all live in Brooklyn, which is becoming not only the hipster capital of the world, but also a home to some of the best restaurants in the metro NYC area. It is safe to say that all of our clientele are experienced foodies.
How did you stumble upon Vend?
Back in 2012, we chose an e-commerce site as a platform to build our online store around. We knew that managing inventory in two places (online and our old POS system) would be very cumbersome. So that set us on the path of looking for alternatives. It was extremely important for us to be able to integrate our retail sales channel with the online one, especially when it came to inventory management. Moreover, the "perfect" POS system also needed to integrate with the one we already had.
Vend does all that pretty well and being a cloud based system it also provided us with an ability to always be on top of our business from anywhere in the world. It allows us to publish products to our website with a single push of a button right from the Vend system.
The features that it currently has, outstanding customer service and the flexibility that it allows saves us a lot of time. We estimate that it would take us an additional 8 hours a week just to enter our products into 2 different systems and then try to reconcile them every week. As it stands, Vend does this pretty well, and allows us to concentrate on what we do best instead – finding amazing wines and bourbons for our customers!
Being an omni-channel retailer, how do you keep your image consistent both online and offline?
Aesthetic is really important to us. All people that work in the store are of creative variety, and the store shows it. It was really designed with our community in mind – it has the hipster feel to it, with nice dark brown wooden wine cabinets taking up most of the space in the store.
Online, our minimalistic look was born out of the simple idea of making our products the stars of the site and bringing down the rest of the site "noise" down. The other major element of the site, the Wine Finder, was created to make the wine buying experience fun and hassle free. I believe it does just that, and we are still working on expanding it even further.
As far as the rest of our online presence goes, we really wanted to create a sense of community. We weren't really interested in creating different social media accounts just for the sake of creating them. What we wanted to do is create an engaging and educational content that will hopefully help people become just as passionate about wine and hooch as we are. Different social channels then become tools with each suited best for specific tasks.
And it worked – since we launched the site, we have built a pretty loyal online customer base. People constantly call in to inquire about items from all over the country. This is the business that we would have never got before. Moreover, based on demand, we've had to create a distribution list for people that are looking for highly allocated (and, therefore, hard to find) bourbon and whiskeys. These folks are willing to pay premium for such items and are notified of availability ahead of general public.
Do you have any advice for new retailers?
Our advice is really comes down to the old adage – love what you do. Be a professional at what you do. Love your customers.
1. "Love what you do". It's hard running a business. It's even harder when it's a chore and not a passion. Having a passion for what you do radiates to people and customers around you and draws them to your store, not to mention that it makes the more mundane aspects of running a business more tolerable.
2. "Be a professional at what you do". There is no room for dilettantes in your business. It's pretty obvious that people that make crucial decisions better know what they are doing. It's your job as a store owner to coach them and motivate them to the point they feel good about their contributions to both customers and to your business.
3. "Love Your Customers". If you won't, someone else will. It's that simple. It really stems from knowing your customers first. Being a neighborhood store, we know most of our customers on a first name basis. When it comes to online sales, it's our store policy to respond to customers inquiries within an hour of receiving them. People appreciate being taken care of. And we try to treat our customers the way we would like others to treat us.
If you do those three things, rewards will follow. Peeking into the future, we are working on a slew of new features, that we hope will make a hooch buying experience that much easier, more educational and fun. Stay tuned!
– Mischa Nagdimunov, Co-Founder and Technoenophile (Technophile + Oenophile), De Wine Spot
About Grace O'Hara
Grace is a Marketing Assistant at Vend and helps make cool things happen behind the scenes. She enjoys talking to incredible Vend retailers from around the world and making the world a better place with her side projects. You can get in touch with Grace by email or connect with her on Google+.


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Happy Sunday everyone! We're still doing good with our food spending even though we probably spent a little too much last week. We really need to start eating the things we already have in our fridge. Our fridge is packed full of food but lately we've never been hungry for anything in it.
Last week I said that I was going to try sticky wings again, and for some reason they turned out DISGUSTING again! Some of you also said that you tried making something similar as well and it never turns out right. So if there are any wing making pros out there, please share your expertise 🙂
Here's what I plan on making as our main course for each dinner:
- Monday – Taco Soup
- Tuesday – Spaghetti
- Wednesday – Pesto Chicken and Pasta
- Thursday – Steak Tacos
- Friday – Out to eat
- Saturday – Out to eat
- Sunday – Steak
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Since I've been gone on and off for weeks, the food supply in the house has been minimal and there is much more of the chef's food than mine, but who can blame him. So this weekend with LISTS and coupons in hand I visited I've been flirting with siggi's for months now, but the price hasn't been right for me to take it out on our first date. I don't have a problem taking the first step….we probably wouldn't be married today if I didn't ask the chef out on a date, and 14 years later…I digress, this is for another post. So after months of eyeing and ogling each other, we went out and I fell in love ( I am back to talking about siggi's). Siggi's is an icelandic style skyr, strained non-fat yogurt, all natural, made from grass fed cows, with quite a bit of protein – 17gr, not so much sugar, and no artificial sweeteners. YIPPEE!!!! It was so smooth, like butter. It won me over, that's for sure. Now I just have to figure out how to afford this expensive obsession on a weekly basis….I shed a tear when I made the OIAJ the other morning as it was the last of the "Dark Chocolate Dream" that was left and it was the first thing that I put in the cart when I arrived to the Fresh Market. Just please don't ask me if there is any left after a week of having a spoonful here and there. But I've gotten smarter, I bought more than one jar this time. I just won't admit exactly how many.I have to admit, it wasn't only food that I bought. A couple of non-edible items made their way into my grocery cart. But as you can see they still have to do with food. My favorite cook book of all time has two new books out – America's Test Kitchens Cookbook and ATK's "Cooking for Two". The photography is AMAZING, BREATHTAKING, oh I am so IN LOVE, kind of a feeling. You know how some people have coffee books (arts, travel, etc,) on their coffee tables, well I put my ATS books in our living room. Hoping that the chef will finally realize that it's only the two of us eating and not the whole army….he has a slight problem of cooking for two as he always makes enough food for six…..And this beauty, oh I bought it for the pictures only. And who says you don't judge a book by it's cover. I DO!!!! And the final purchase of my weekend – the salad spinner. I have been wanting one FOREVER. I talked about it all the time, but somehow I never got it until this weekend, and I can say with certainty – it has changed my life. I think I have already saved half a roll of paper towels. I see a very bright future for us…It was a great weekend filled with many visits to all of my favorites places, walking the aisles, waiting in lines and bringing it all home. The happiness it gives me must be like a mother feels when she brings a new baby home. Wait, I wouldn't know how that feels. Maybe the same feeling as when I bring a new pair of shoes home and I admire them in the shoe closet as they glisten and smile at me. Trust me when I say there were bags and bags filled to the top with food. Several trips to the car to say the least. If any of my neighbors saw me, they probably thought we were having a party. I guess it's kind of true – but I was the only participant. But for the sake of preventing a chef from having a heart attack, I will not post the pictures, as it's all nicely put on the pantry shelves and in the fridge. And we all know I am a master of packing and organizing so it really doesn't look like that much. Or I am just hoping he won't notice that everything that I bought is exactly what I like.And that's it folks….I certainly fed my shopping addiction in more than one ways and now it's time to eat. And guess what I am doing next – eating out for dinner, as if I don't have enough at home… Call me crazy!!!! OK, please don't, just a bit on a crazy side…..grocery shopping
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said they won't grant an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline in southern North Dakota, and will instead find another route, bringing nervous relief to the thousands of protectors that have been fighting to protect the clean water source.
Corps spokeswoman Moria Kelley stated in a news release Sunday that the administration will not allow the 3.8 billion pipeline to be built under Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir where construction was put on hold.
Assistant Secretary for Civil Works Jo-Ellen Darcy said that the decision was based on the need to "explore alternate routes" for the pipeline's crossing. The route has been the center of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and thousands who have joined to support them.
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Jo-Ellen Darcy said she based her decision on a need to explore alternate routes for the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing. Her office had announced on November 14, 2016 that it was delaying the decision on the easement to allow for discussions with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose reservation lies 0.5 miles south of the proposed crossing. Tribal officials have expressed repeated concerns over the risk that a pipeline rupture or spill could pose to its water supply and treaty rights.
'Although we have had continuing discussion and exchanges of new information with the Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access, it's clear that there's more work to do,' Darcy said. 'The best way to complete that work responsibly and expeditiously is to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing.'
Darcy said that the consideration of alternative routes would be best accomplished through an Environmental Impact Statement with full public input and analysis.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is an approximately 1,172 mile pipeline that would connect the Bakken and Three Forks oil production areas in North Dakota to an existing crude oil terminal near Pakota, Illinois. The pipeline is 30 inches in diameter and is projected to transport approximately 470,000 barrels of oil per day, with a capacity as high as 570,000 barrels. The current proposed pipeline route would cross Lake Oahe, an Army Corps of Engineers project on the Missouri River.
But is it really over? Many are reluctant to say this is the end. "America…..This is not over. Rejoice and relax today. For tomorrow the movement continues. It may not be at Standing Rock. Look to Palm Oil, Look to the oil pipe lines around the world. Our work is not done…Yet," Sandi Anderson, a #NODAPL advocate told heavy.
"I sit here with foggy eyes and leaks running down my face to know that the access had been DENIED to go under the River is Awesome, Johnny Littlewolf exclaimed. "However I will not fully believe it until the drill is taken away and the roads are opened back up."
"What a wonderful day it was today," Bucky Harjo said. "We'll continue on. We need to turn to greener energy. We'll stop every pipeline they try to put in the ground. No more oil. We shouldn't be dependent upon that. We're in the 21st century now and we have technology." Take a look at the videos above as water protector Bucky Harjo explains his thoughts.


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The average UK citizen will spend 90,000 hours at work during their lifetime. That's nearly one-third of your whole lifespan. It's tricky to think of anything that else that consumes so much of our lives and influences so many different areas of it. But the one area that may often go overlooked is just how much our jobs can impact our health. Whether it's mental or physical, our working life can, and most likely will at some point, have a tangible effect on health. So here are 5 ways that your career may be affecting yours.
We've already established how many hours you will spend at work in your lifetime. Now picture all those hours spent staring at a laptop with your shoulder hunched and imagine just how much damage that's doing to them. Is it any wonder all those aches and pains start creeping up on us? Practise sitting up straight with your shoulders back. It's a small change, but one you will be grateful for in the long run. And if you're already starting to feel the effects of all those hours sat in an office chair, don't be afraid to ask your employer to order chair support attachments, they're designed to alleviate back pain and improve your posture. Remember to look after your back – you won't get another!
A good night's sleep truly can work wonders for our general wellbeing, as well as providing our bodies the chance to fully rest and recuperate. Being well-rested improves our cognitive capability, our immunity, and even fertility! But our jobs can get in the way of this. So whether yours is keeping you up all night worrying about tomorrow's to-do list, or you're arriving at the office early and staying late which is cutting into your sleep time, it's time to start prioritising your sleep. The NHS warns that failing to do so can increase your risk of obesity, heart disease and high blood pressure. If you struggle to switch off, get into the habit of writing everything you need to do the next day down in a diary to empty it from your mind.
In a study taken by CareerBuilder, 45% of respondents reported that they had put on weight whilst at work. Whilst those afternoon biscuits may not seem so harmful at the time, once they become a habit that's where you might start to be in trouble. We're not saying never have a treat at work (we know full well that some days it's needed!), but just be wary of how often you are reaching for that biscuit tin. It might be cliché to say, but when you need that sugar fix, try fruit instead and see how you feel after it. You could also try going for short walks at lunchtime to take a break from all that sitting – it might help clear your mind a little too.
In 2017 we did a study that revealed that 1 in 4 people in the UK are unhappy at work. So for anyone who is dealing with high stress levels or increased anxiety as a result of their workplace, know that you're not alone. But also be aware that things don't have to stay this way. If your work load is weighing you down or you're having issues with a colleague, talk to a manager or someone you trust. You'll feel better for getting things off your chest and they may be able to help you find a solution. You know what they say, a problem shared is a problem halved. And stop checking those work emails on weekends or days off.
A job that makes you happy can do wonders for your mental and physical health. Finding a role where what you do all day leaves you fulfilled can add a spring in your step and walking tall. But more than that, it can give you a great sense of wellbeing and pride in what you do, boosting those serotonin levels right up. So if you're unhappy in your current position, maybe it's time to make a significant career change and find a job that truly speaks to you.
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