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Well, I have my own website and while the website itself isn't complete, I spent several hours today setting up my WordPress blog on it. I found a free theme that I really like (I tried several) and just finished tweaking it to my satisfaction (at least for now). If you subscribe to my RSS feed or via email, you will need to go to my new blog and subscribe there. I'll see you over at my new blog!
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope that my fellow friends in the US had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day yesterday! I haven't blogged until now because I have been so busy prepping for Thanksgiving. Our family had a wonderful day with our "crazy ass family". 🙂 My husband mentioned that everyone at Thanksgiving dinner either lives with us or has lived with us at some point in our seven years here. My dad was not able to make it down here this year due to finances. While he was missed I kept focused on all the wonderful people in my life that were there to celebrate with us.
I have many many things to me thankful for and I truly do think about all the things that I am thankful and grateful for nearly daily. You never know when life is going to throw you a twist to change those things. When we all went around the table to say what we were thankful for, I did proclaim that I am thankful for my "crazy ass family". We had seven people at dinner: myself, my husband, my other partner, my brother, my step-daughter, and my ex-boyfriend's mom & son. That is a crazy group of people! And what is so awesome about it is how well everyone gets along and how low key the family actually is. There isn't much drama around here and I am so grateful for the eclectic mix of people I get to celebrate with each year.
While the mix of people at the table is anything but traditional, we do a pretty traditional Thanksgiving feast around here: roasted turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, rolls with butter and "stuffing" (we cook it separately and don't actually stuff our turkey with it). Dessert was pumpkin pie with whipped cream and apple crisp with vanilla ice cream.
Yes that is my bottle of Mt Dew at the table. We're a bit laid back around here 🙂
This year was the second consecutive year that Micah and I cooked Thanksgiving dinner. We are both pretty good cooks and we often cook dinners together. It is so wonderful to have a fellow cook in the kitchen (especially one you work so well with) on Thanksgiving day. Although Jim doesn't do much cooking, he helped immensely with Thanksgiving preparations. He did a lot of housework including miraculously getting our living room carpet cleaned (our sweet little dog is now diapered), dusting the foyer chandelier that is WAY up high and doing a lot of the last minute clean up/vacuuming the day of). To have two wonderful, wonderful men to assist me on Thanksgiving day (and every other day of the year) is such an incredible blessing.
I was stressed in the two weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. Even with the help of the entire household there was a lot of house and food prep to be done. In retrospect, the stress I was feeling was probably a little disproportionate – we did so much prep leading up to the day that while we were bust the day of, Thanksgiving day flowed very smoothly and everything turned out wonderful! In fact, it went so well that Micah and I decided that next year we will do the same dinner but add another "experimental" dish. Maybe a different type of side or a different stuffing or perhaps another dessert. I love all of the dishes we make now so rather than replace an item, we are going to add a dish with an unusual twist (that way if it is a flop or not to everyone's taste, all the classics are still there).
Now it is the day after Thanksgiving and I am thankful that I have today to clean up and recover and then I still have an entire weekend before going back to work. Since I started stressing and prepping two weeks prior to Thanksgiving, I stopped working in my studio. Here's what my worktable looks like after the two week hiatus. Now it is time to raid the fridge for leftovers and then it is time to clear off my worktable and get back to creating art!
Yes I am an artist!
Since April, I have been meeting with a great group of women bi-monthly at our women's circle. I love our women's circle. Ir provides the eight of us with a safe place to express our feelings and check in with each other. We also do various things like meditation, movement, EFT, breath work etc. This past week I was saying something about my chakra paintings or studio and one of the women excitedly said, "Are you an ARTIST?!" I started fumbling/stuttering. All of these thoughts were going through my head and I was trying to say things to minimize it like "oh I just…" or "Kind of…" and as I fumbled for a moment trying to minimize it, I realized what I was doing and took a breath and just said "Yes!" Everyone busted out laughing and started clapping for me. I was so glad I realized that I was trying to minimize it instead of just proudly saying, "Yes, I am an artist!" and it felt so wonderful to do just that.
A few days later, I bought the book Creative is a Verb: if you're alive, you're creative by Patti Digh. I recently became aware of Patti, her books, and her blog, 37 days through an small (online) creative community I belong to, Creative Coconuts. When I saw Creative is a Verb at my local Barnes & Noble the other day, I just had to get it! I started reading the introduction and I immediately connected with what Patti had to say! It reminded me so much of my own struggles to proclaim "I am an artist!" In the introduction, Patti shares a story about a time she had minimized herself as a writer. Patti's business partner, David, asked her why, when people ask what she does, she doesn't say that she is a writer. The next day Patti and David were out and an acquaintance asked Patti what she did. She answered, "I'm a writer" (Yay!) But when asked what she writes, she answered, "Oh, nothing, really. I just write these little essays every Monday." The rest of the introduction talks about how we minimize ourselves in so many ways, diminish our SHINE, and deflect away from our accomplishments. Indeed it is time for us to let our lights shine, to be fully present and fully ourselves! Except when surrounded by those closest to me, I still struggle with being me and not minimizing who I am. It is something I am mindful of and working to change. There is freedom in sharing who you are rather than trying to diminish who you are. What areas of your life have you been minimizing?
5 Tips for a Stress-Free Thanksgiving Feast
Organized is not a word I would use to describe myself – neither is "Type A". However, a few years ago when I was preparing to host my first ever holiday meal, Thanksgiving dinner for 9 people, I became very organized and "Type A"-ish in my planning and preparation. I knew from past experiences that I can easily get overwhelmed and if I didn't have a well thought out plan, I and my eight guests would either be eating Thanksgiving dinner at 7 PM or not at all.
I learned a great deal about the many benefits of planning ahead that first Thanksgiving and I've put what I've learned to good use every Thanksgiving since then.
It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is now less than three weeks away. Now is the time to get planning in order to have a fabulous, minimally stressful Thanksgiving dinner. Here are my top five tips for a stress-free Thanksgiving.
- Make room in your pantry and fridge now – I use this time of year to go through items in my pantry and fridge and toss out things like opened 1/2 boxes of stale crackers, old spices and expired condiments in the fridge. I enjoy this yearly clear out. Not only am I making room for the onslaught of food that accompanies Thanksgiving but I know that I don't have relish, mustard, etc. that are years old in my fridge.
- Delegate – You should not have to, nor be expected to, cook the entire feast. Delegate appetizers and desserts to friends and family members. I have a brother in his mid-twenties who lives alone. Even with his minimal cooking skills and sparsely equipped kitchen I found a dish to delegate to him – pumpkin pie! I gave him the Eagle Brand Perfect Pumpkin Pie recipe which is a very simple recipe that even a bachelor in his twenties can handle!Also, on the day of Thanksgiving, if anyone stayed in my kitchen for more than 45 seconds, they were immediately given a job to do (refill the ice bucket, bring these chairs into the dining room, set this on the table, take out the garbage, etc. etc.). It worked great to keep people from hovering and being in my way and things were getting accomplished too. I highly recommend this method.
- Use your slow cooker– Better yet, use two of them! There are plenty of recipes out there that can be made in a slow cooker on Thanksgiving. This saves valuable stovetop and oven space. If you don't have a Crockpot or slow cook (or two) then borrow one from a friend or family member. Every year I make Sweet Potato Casserole in the slow cooker (and I always double the topping listed in the recipe). I've also made this Slow Cooker Stuffing recipe in the past and it turned out very well.
- Make items ahead of time – Not everything needs to be made the day of Thanksgiving. In the days leading up to Thanksgiving, make some of your dishes ahead of time. If you are unable to make a dish ahead of time, at least do some of the prep work such as chopping and measuring ahead of time.
If you didn't delegate your pumpkin pies to your bachelor brother then you can make the pies a couple of days before Thanksgiving (if your household is anything like mine, you may find you have to threaten bodily harm to anyone that dares eat them before the big day!). Here is a great mashed potato recipe that you can make several days in advance. One reviewer of this recipe wrote that she made these mashed potatoes the Monday before Thanksgiving and reheated them in a slow cooker Thanksgiving day. I think I am going to try that this year! Last year I tried a new stuffing recipe (Sausage, Dried Cranberry and Apple Stuffing) that can be made two days ahead. It turned out very well! Both my dad and grandfather are picky eaters. My dad was watching me make the stuffing and he wasn't so sure he'd like it but he didn't say anything at the time. It turned out so delicious that both he and my grandfather had second helpings!
- Have a detailed schedule for the day – This is where I become "Type A"-ish. Three years ago, I found a great "Holiday Dinner Timeline" from http://foodieview.com. I adjusted the timeline to break everything down into 15 minute intervals and by oven, Crockpot #1, Crockpot #2, Stovetop Burner #1, and Stovetop Burner #2. Yes it is extremely detailed but it helps me avoid having a meltdown the day of. Here is my timeline from last year: Thanksgiving Day Timeline
Thanks to The Graphics Fairy for the image used at the beginning of this post!
Dress Up – September and October
As I mentioned in my previous post, September and October have been crazy months for me. I've been catching up on projects in my studio. Below are my submissions for the Dress Up Link Up that Margaret is hosting this year over at Alice and Camilla.
Around here school starts in August but I grew up in Upstate New York where school starts the Tuesday or Wednesday after Labor Day. Because of that, I still associate school with September.
I hope you will check out the other wonderful October Dress Up submissions as well!
I am the type of person that gets both distracted and overwhelmed easily. I rarely finish a book or a project because I usually move onto something else new and shiny before said book/project is finished. Organized is not a word I would use to describe myself. Cluttered is much more accurate.
In late August I decided that it was time to be more organized and actually establish routines so that I can accomplish what I want to accomplish in life rather than always being 1 1/2 steps ahead of chaos. I started the Fly Lady system and was over a week into it going strong when several things happened that had me derailed. First, my dad visited for 8 out of 11 days (there was a 3 day reprieve between visits), the following week I had jury duty, the week after that I had a bad cold, the week after that I thought my dog was dying (He is very old and has chronic renal failure. I thought it was the end for him but he actually bounced back and I think he will be with us for several more weeks and possibly months). And then there was last week when my husband was hospitalized with heart problems (he had angioplasty back in May with a stent put in. It turns out the stent closed up which happens about 10% of the time and had to be reopened. He's been home for 5 days and is feeling much better).
Somewhere in the middle of all of that I was telling Micah how I was doing well with establishing routines and then things went to s&#t. I said that I just wanted a normal week so I could get back to it and he mentioned something about the universe letting me know there is no such thing as a normal week and that is the reasons for routine, to help you through rough weeks. I'm pretty sure I gave him my "crinkly nose face" because it wasn't what I wanted to hear and I kept waiting for a normal week.
A couple of days before Jim went into the hospital, I decided to go back to using a paper planner so I went to DIY Planner to print some calendar pages and other forms that I wanted to use in my planner. I had printed out everything but had not yet decided how to set up my planner when Jim went into the hospital. By now I realized that what Micah said was true and I had to work on organization/routines despite how my days/weeks are going. I was able to get my planner set up while spending time with Jim in the hospital.
My intent this past Sunday was to do things that would make me less stressed for the week ahead. This involved stuff like doing laundry and meal planning complete with grocery shopping (yes this is stuff that I regularly put off and it does lead to a lot of chaos during the week). On Sunday evening I looked at my various project lists and came up with a game plan for the week. There are so many things I want to get done that usually I just spin my wheels and accomplish very little. By focusing on what I felt could realistically get done and also by not adding too many things to the week (because I can always add more if I get through what I've planned) I now have something to assist me with staying on track.
I feel like I am back to establishing routines/being more organized and I went back to it while my world was upside down rather than waiting for a "normal week". My advice is to not put off something for a "normal week" otherwise the universe may decide to not give you a normal week for several weeks!
Wine Birdhouse
This week I decorated this adorable 5" high birdhouse with a wine themed decorative napkin, tissue paper colored with alcohol inks, and some embellishments.
When I started the process, I wasn't sure how it would look but I love how it all came together. I will be launching a shop on Etsy this month and this birdhouse is going into the shop. I can't wait to make other themed birdhouses and see how they turn out! I am linking up to the Creative Spirit Challenge on Cindy's blog and also to Hodgepodge Friday.


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Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Look me in the cybereyes
Today, when we speak or write about the cybernetic eyes, we think of something like that.
On the first sight (sic!) there is no mistake that technology has been used for visual augmentation; it's pretty much obvious that the user is wearing an electronic device.
There is a similar issue with the invasive retinal implants, just like this one.
Briefly: a chip, 3 mm in diameter, 1500 pixel resolution, is implanted beneath the retina, in the proximity of macula lutea. Its task is to restore sight. The trials are conducted on the patients with retinis pigmentosa. On the lab website you can find a few movies with the trial's participants; at the very best, they regain the ability to recognize simple shapes and human silhouettes; they can even read letters no smaller than the A5 paper sheet. Of course this is an amazing improvement in comparison to the total blindness, but it is still not quite the thing we want the bionic eyes to do, and moreover, we don't know for how long can the chip be used.
This model does not require the user to wear external camera-glasses, a solution present in the other types of "cybereyes".
But it's necessary to wear a source of energy in your pocket, and a cable sticks out of your head, which is also not that comfortable. The future models are planned to employ a subcutaneous power device, just like with the cochlear implants.
In the case of retinal degeneration, however, there might be another solution looming in the future, as discrete as the artificial lens.
A the FENS 2012 conference in Barcelona, which I had the pleasure to attend in July, I've listened to an extremely interesting lecture. I think we have a breakthrough in retinal implants and even if this one won't pan out, a certain thought barrier has been crossed. I'd love it to work. Maybe in twenty or thirty years we'll have retinal implants as available as LASIK surgery.
This is the link to the final paper.
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So what is it about? The researchers have cultured the primary rat neurons on a polymer with photovoltaic properties. Just like the ones people use to produce solar power panels. We excite the polymer with light, the neurons spike with activity. Voila. The whole bio-organic hybrid was maintained live for as long as the primary neurons can be maintained in good shape in the cell culture. And it was still working.
The long standing goal is to produce a miniature photovoltaic panel, that will replace the function of the damaged photoreceptors. Without the aid of camera or any need to provide current. Now the researchers are implanting a polymer-covered material to the albino rats with a damaged retina.
There was no results yet from the animal experiment in Barcelona. I wonder if this works; by now, we can't tell for sure, and I don't want to encourage false hope.
As you can see however, cybereyes don't have to be seen.
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Task identity is the overall extent to which - a job is done from the start point A to finish point B. The extent to which the outcome is predicted or visible. Task identity is an important and critical element of job satisfaction. Here in the entire job is viewed from a holistic view and not viewed for its components. Task identity is one of the five elements of job characteristics - skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, feedback.
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16 WordPress Sites to Help You Build a Better Blog
So you finally decided to step up your blogging game and build yourself a site with WordPress. You've install a pretty good free theme and have a few posts under your belt. After a few days, you get seriously bored with the "My blog kinda looks like everyone else" syndrome and start your search for some creative ways to make your blog stand out from the crowd.
In this article, I will help you on your journey by showing you the 16 best places to find WordPress tutorials, hacks, themes and design inspiration to take your blog to the level it deserves.
1. Yoast
Yoast is the home of blogger and developer Joost de Valk. He has released over 20 WordPress plugins on his site and several other tools for webmasters and online marketers. If you are looking for a plugin for SEO or to track your site visits, Joost will certainly have exactly what you need. You can find all his plugins on the WordPress page of his blog. If you consider yourself a more advanced WordPress user, then I suggest you read through his "Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog". You will certainly see a difference in search engine traffic if you implement just a few of the tips that Joost shows you. I personally use the Breadcrumbs plugin and have implemented almost everything he has mentioned in that article.
2. WPBeginner
Are you a total WordPress novice? Perhaps you've been using another publishing platform such as Drupal or Joomla! and want to see what the fuss is all about with WordPress. Have I got the perfect site for you. WPBeginner offers tips, tools, resources, and suggestions to WordPress users. Check out the Tutorials section for all the help you will need when doing customizations to your blog. If you need help with installing WordPress, then WPBeginnner also has a service where they will install your blog for free. Prefer to learn about WordPress on your own? Visit the Beginners Guide and you will be an expert before you know it.
3. WPSwitch
WPSwitch is kind of like a Premium WordPress Theme on crack. In other words, if you're searching for a sweet theme for your blog, design tips, or WordPress hacks or tutorials, this is the place you need to be. WPSwitch has all the top Premium WordPress themes from the most prominent designers in the world. You literally need to go nowhere else. Be sure to pay this one a visit whether you are a complete newbie or consider yourself the king of all that is WordPress.
4. WordPress Tavern
WordPress Tavern is a thriving community focused on all things WordPress. Those interested in the software can hang out with fellow WordPress'ers to engage in enlightening discussions. On WordPress Tavern, you'll find reviews, news, screencasts, guest blog posts from some great community members and much more. Be sure you hook up to the WordPress Weekly podcast to keep up with all the latest hot WordPress topics.
5. WpRecipes
WpRecipes is a great place to find quick, clear and concise WordPress recipes. When you really need that little piece of code to do a certain thing, these handy, little snippets will do the job. I consider this site to cater to the more advanced WordPress user as a lot of these recipes involve diving into the code. There's also a forum where you can ask a question to get help or even request a recipe.
6. WordPress.tv
WordPress.tv is "Your Visual Resource for All Things WordPress". There are hundreds of How-To videos that cover a range of topics to help you have a better blog. If you missed any of the Wordcamp's, you can also view some of the speakers lectures at the events.
7. WP Topics
As WordPress has become mainstream, the number of news sources and tutorial blogs has become overwhelming. WP Topics only publishes feeds from established WP sites that provide useful, meaningful content on a regular basis. Here you will find the most relevant WordPress news, useful tutorials and influential voices in the WordPress universe — all in one place. This is a must-see resource for those who need to be in the loop of the latest WordPress trends.
8. Weblog Tools Collection
If you have ever used WordPress, you have more than likely seen this feed coming through your admin page. Weblog Tools includes the latest plugins, theme release and general WP news. This is great for the beginner, as you stay updated with new themes and potential plugins that make blogging even easier. I highly recommend keeping this site in your admin arsenal.
9. WordPress Hacks
WP Hacks is a place to discuss all things WordPress. In addition to featuring a large variety of WordPress themes and providing reviews of WordPress plugins, WordPress Hacks was set up to cover the world surrounding WordPress, including the latest WordPress hacks, news, tips, tricks, and how-to's of the popular open source blogging software.
10. Hongkiat WordPress Category
If you are any kind of Web guru, you have at one time or another visited the blog of Hongkiat. When visiting this popular design blog it is an absolute necessity to take a trip to the WordPress category. Hongkiat covers a wide range of topics from inspiring blog designs, all the way to the detailed hacks. If you are a fan of WordPress at any level, this is definitely a place you want to go.
11. Pro Blog Design
Pro Blog Design writes about web design (blog design in particular!), coding, and WordPress (Yay!). They cover all the technical bits that bloggers should know, so they can get the most out of their blogs. For sake of this article, you should definitely browse their WordPress category as it offers numerous hacks, the best plugins to use, and super design techniques relative to your WordPress blog.
12. WPSeek
A WordPress search engine for developers and theme authors is what WPSeek.com is all about. You can find all kinds of code snippets for WordPress using this search site. This includes various WordPress functions, template tags, function sources, and random user notes. I would definitely say that this site is for the advanced WordPress developer.
13. WP Engineer
Three WordPress Junkies who love WordPress, created WP Engineer. They show various ways to make WordPress a little bit better, more convenient, more flexible or in short – just awesome! You'll find some very in depth tips and tricks to really build a better blog. Some of these are very simple for the beginner and some can get pretty in depth to the WordPress core.
Where to find WordPress Design Inspiration
These sites are showcases of WordPress-powered sites to inspire your next blog design. They all feature an up-to-date collection of websites created using WordPress.
14. We Love WP
15. WP Inspiration
16. WP Float
Where do you go for all your WordPress hacks, tutorials, and design inspiration?
If you have a favorite WordPress site that I have not listed here, I would love to see it. I hope that there are some great finds out there that a lot of people don't know about. Tell us all about it in the comments below!


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Understanding Liskov Substitution Principle
The Liskov Substitution Principle, in its simplified, object oriented language way, says that:
Derived classes must be substitutable for their base classes.
The principle looks simple and obvious; at first look we are tempted to question that the opposite is true: can one make a class that is not substitutable for their base class? Technically speaking no. If one makes a derived class and the compiler does not complain everything should be fine. Or is it not?
Let's see a simple example:
public class MusicPlayer { public virtual void Play(string fileName) { // reference implementation for playing } } // Optimized mp4 player public class Mp4MusicPlayer : MusicPlayer { public override void Play(string fileName) { if (Path.GetExtension(fileName) != "mp4") throw new ArgumentException("can only play mp4"); // optimized implementation for playing } }
In the above example we have a reference implementation for a music player. The reference implementation would play all types of files but maybe not with the best performance or quality. An optimized player for a certain type of file, for example for a MP4 file type, is as far as the c# interface is concerned a specialized type of music player.
So what's the problem? The above Mp4MusicPlayer class just violated the Liskov substitution principle. One cannot substitute MusicPlayer with Mp4MusicPlayer bacause the later works only with certain specific music files. Where MusicPlayer would work with a MP3 file, the Mp4MusicPlayer would throw an exception and the program will fail.
Where did this go wrong? As it seems, there is more to an interface that meets the eye. In our case the preconditions of the derived class are stronger than those of the base class and even if in c# the interface does not contain in it's definition the preconditions you will have to keep them in mind when designing the inheritance tree.
But there is more than that. The above is only one way in which the Liskov substitution principle can be violated. In a more general terms is a problem of abstractions. When one defines a base class or an interface it actually defines an abstraction. And when one makes a derived class implicitly agrees to satisfy the same abstraction.
In the example above the MusicPlayer abstraction is "something that can play any music file"
But Mp4MusicPlayer abstraction is "something that can play MP4 music files"
The abstractions are different, and this is the root cause of the problem. When the abstractions are not appropriate the situation can get nasty.
There are multiple ways in which the abstraction can be broken. A wrong abstraction can be hacked in simple cases but eventually it will come back to byte you. We might be able to install an electronic device on the wooden horse in the right of the above image if we need the "horse" abstraction to neigh but we will never persuade it to eat a hand of hay.
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Implementing a Simple Generic Repository with LinqToSql
The Repository pattern
The Repository is a design pattern often used in Domain Driven Design (DDD) to help the domain layer access data needed from the underlying persistence layer.
The Repository pattern was described by Martin Fowler as:
A Repository mediates between the domain and data mapping layers, acting like an in-memory domain object collection. Client objects construct query specifications decoratively and submit them to Repository for satisfaction. Objects can be added to and removed from the Repository, as they can from a simple collection of objects, and the mapping code encapsulated by the Repository will carry out the appropriate operations behind the scenes. Conceptually, a Repository encapsulates the set of objects persisted in a data store and the operations performed over them, providing a more object-oriented view of the persistence layer.
In DDD the repository is tightly linked with the aggregate notion. The aggregate is a hierarchy of objects that are treated as a unit for the purpose of data changes. The aggregate components are accessed only from its root object. A repository is usually build around an aggregate.
As an example we may have a Car aggregate that has a collection of Wheels.
In our domain we will never refer to a wheel directly but first get a car and have access to its wheels.
Most of the time we need just a couple of operations to deal with aggregates on the repository. With the above example we would have to implement in the repository methods to:
- Add a new Car
- Remove a Car
- Get the Car by Id
- Get a filtered list of Cars
Implementing this in LinqToSql is pretty straightforward but it has its catches.
Add and Remove
The simplest to implement are the add and remove methods:
public class Repository<T> where T : class { CarsDataContext _dataContext = new CarsDataContext(); public void Add(T entity) { DataContext.GetTable<T>().InsertOnSubmit(entity); DataContext.SubmitChanges(); } public void Remove(T entity) { DataContext.GetTable<T>().DeleteOnSubmit(entity); DataContext.SubmitChanges(); } }
Nothing special here. The generic GetTable of the LinqToSQL data context is used to insert/delete the entity and then SubmitChanges is called to send the changes to the database. The methods can be used like this:
Repository<Car> carRepository = new Repository<Car>(); // create a new car and add it Car newCar = new Car(); carRepository.Add(newCar); // get an existingCar, then remove it Car existingCar = ... carRepository.Remove(existingCar);
Get By Id
Implementing the get by id method is a little more challenging. The first thing is to ensure that the model has the 'Id' notion. By default the LinqToSql classes do not have a direct way of exposing an identifier meta-data. We can have this by adding an interface and ensure the classes implements it:
public interface IIdentifiable { int Id { get; } } public partial class Car : IIdentifiable { }
All the classes that need to be get by Id will have to implement the IIdentifiable interface. This is done in the code above by adding a partial class that implements the IIdentifiable interface. There is a catch here. If a consistent naming convention is used and all the classes have an 'Id' property then the above code is all we need.
With the classes prepared we can then write:
public class Repository<T> where T : class, IIdentifiable { public T GetById(int id) { T entity = DataContext.GetTable<T>().SingleOrDefault(e => e.Id.Equals(id)); return entity; } }
Please note the e.Id.Equals(id) above. LinqToSql does not know how to generate the == operator when interfaces are involved but it knows to generate the proper expression tree with Equals.
The GetById method can then be used like:
Repository<Car> carRepository = new Repository<Car>(); Car existingCar = carRepository.GetById(1);
The generated SQL contains what we expect, a parametrized query:
exec sp_executesql N'SELECT [t0].[Id], [t0].[Make], [t0].[Year] FROM [dbo].[Car] AS [t0] WHERE [t0].[Id] = @p0',N'@p0 int',@p0=1
Getting Aggregate Elements
As LinqToSql supports lazy loading so all is needed is to access the elements from the root.
Car car = carRepository.GetById(1); Console.WriteLine(car.Make); Console.WriteLine(car.Wheels.Count); // additional query will hit the database
Clean and easy. For more complex scenarios where one would need to control the loading behavior the DataLoadOptions of the LinqToSql can be used.
Get a Filtered List
The simplest to implement this is to allow expression filters as parameters:
public IQueryable<T> GetByFilter(Expression<Func<T, bool>> filter) { return DataContext.GetTable<T>().Where(filter); } // and this can be used like: IQueryable<Car> cars = carRepository.GetByFilter(e => e.Year == 2009 && e.Make == "Ford");
An IQueryable is returned to allow simple UI integration. For example using a GridView with a LinqToSql source will automatically have sorting and paging implemented with this approach. The downside of this approach is that the DataContext will remain open up to the UI layer and this might introduce performance penalties. The alternative would be to return an IEnumerable instead and let the UI handle the pagination and sorting.
The solution presented is not without flaws. The biggest one is the tight link between the DB implementation and the model, forced by the LinqToSql architecture. There is also the inconvenient of having all primary keys named 'Id' and having to write partial classes for implementing the IIdentifiable interface. But there are also a couple of nice things like a very simple and clean usage, the possibility to use generics with aggregates and, maybe the best one, the possibility of avoiding boiler plate code.
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Chris Putnam knew very little about meningococcal disease before watching her 18-year-old daughter Jennie fight for her life. Jennie fully recovered without any long-lasting effects; however, if she had not received prompt medical treatment, she may not be alive today. Chris and her family feel extremely lucky that Jennie survived, but know that not all families touched by meningococcal disease are so fortunate.


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Today's Topic: This week is all about music and books. We previously did books we'd give theme songs to so feel free to do that! Or 10 songs I wish that were books.
Such an interesting choice of topic this week! For my own spin on this topic I've gone with My Top 10 Literary Themed Songs :)
Apparently Paul McCartney wrote this song as a response to an aunt who complained that he only wrote love songs. It has a killer bassline!
For me this song is one of The Smiths' most underrated and I think it really showcases Morrissey's brilliance as a lyricist. How many artists and bands would think to write a song about the joys of cemetery-visiting and debating favourite writers?! :)
3. All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan (Jimi Hendrix version)
Some critics have speculated that this song was inspired by Biblical scripture (the Book of Isaiah 21:5-9) while others think that the song references the scene in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein where the monster kills Victor Frankenstein's wife while he's in a watch tower. Either way it's a fantastic song! I've gone for the Jimi Hendrix cover rather than the original Bob Dylan version though because as much as I have the utmost respect for Dylan as a lyricist his, erm, "singing" tends to grate on my ears. As a result I usually prefer listening to cover versions of Dylan's songs, some of my other favourite Dylan cover versions are Adele's Make You Feel My Love and Sam Cooke's Blowing in the Wind.
4. Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush
This song is obviously about the Emily Bronte novel and features Kate Bush doing awesome dance moves on the moors like the goddess she is. I love it!
5. The Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin (featuring Sandy Denny)
Both Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and John Bonham are from Birmingham, England (my hometown!) and there are quite a few Led Zeppelin songs that reference famous Birmingham author J.R.R. Tolkien :) This song of theirs references the Ringwraiths and Sauron. There are other Led Zeppelin songs I could have picked for this post but I chose this particular one because of the gorgeous mandolin work from Jimmy Page and the lovely singing from Sandy Denny.
6. Oxford Comma by Vampire Weekend
I associate this song with a really happy time in my life so whenever I hear this song I get taken back to that :) This song might be a controversial pick though since its opening line is "Who gives a f*** about an oxford comma?" :D Now as it happens I don't really have any strong feelings about the oxford comma either way but I know for some people it's a sore subject!
7. Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey
I could have picked a few Lana del Rey songs for this topic (Ultraviolence, Body Electric) but in the end I had to pick the song she wrote for The Great Gatsby soundtrack. It's gorgeous and deserved an Oscar nomination!
8. Tales of Brave Ulysses by Cream
And now for some classic 60s' rock about the voyage of Ulysses (or Odysseus if you prefer the Greek) in Homer's The Odyssey.
9. Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons
There are quite a lot of Mumford & Sons songs that reference Biblical scripture but in the end I chose this song because of its lines that reference Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. Also one of my favourite moments in Nothing Much To Do (a modern-day web series adaptation of the play) was when one of the characters mentioned that he was a fan of this band. The meta!
10. Sweet Ophelia by Zella Day
The title of this song is an obvious reference to the character Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Zella Day is my most recent musical discovery on this list - I think her songs are fabulous. I especially love her song Shadow Preachers.
Are you a fan of any of these songs/artists? What are your favourite literary-themed songs? :)


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Several years ago, this newspaper ran a photograph taken at the county line on Highway 155 going into Louisville. The purpose of the picture was to illustrate the seemingly never-ending string of cars that crossed the border each day, taking their occupants to jobs elsewhere.
Of course, that was prior to the recession of 2008, when Spencer County was repeatedly listed as the fastest growing county in the state of Kentucky, and one of the fastest growing in the entire U.S.
Kentucky is embarking on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in more than 50 years – developing a robust, reliable, fiber "backbone" infrastructure that will bring high-speed Internet connectivity to every county of the Commonwealth.
The network, called KentuckyWired or the I-Way in eastern Kentucky, will break down geographic and financial barriers to education and economic development by providing affordable, high-quality Internet service to connect Kentuckians to the world.
After spending several days abroad and purposely disconnected from any news, I was startled upon returning to learn of the jailing of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis. I was aware of the possibility, but jail? Really? Perhaps my return flight landed me in the wrong country—one foreign to its founding ideals, namely the one promising religious liberty.
Kentucky lost another law enforcement officer late Sunday evening when State Police Trooper Joseph Cameron Ponder, 31, was shot and killed by a suspect who opened fire on his cruiser following a high speed chase.
Sadly, reports are now surfacing that Ponder, a Navy veteran who graduated from the KSP academy in January, was initially going to give the 25-year-old suspect a break.
While I love our little hometown paper, I often get frustrated with the coverage. The amount of coverage that certain sports are always receiving is upsetting. This week, I opened the sports page and immediately saw a picture and a nice article about the win this past Friday over East Jessamine that's continued on page 9. That is approximately one and a half page coverage on football alone. Volleyball and Soccer had a couple pictures and little coverage and Cross Country had a little snippet.
The Obama Administration recently unleashed its latest attack on Kentucky coal jobs, miners, and their families by unveiling the final version of its so-called Clean Power Plan, which seeks to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. This move demands and deserves a forceful response from those of us who seek to protect Kentucky coal.
Political Correctness—the emphasis of sensitivity over truth, and the sometimes watering down of straight talk to preserve people's feeling, is in the news again thanks to the pugnacious and attention-grabbing GOP frontrunner who told a crowd in Cleveland earlier this month "the big problem this country has is being politically correct."
While Americans put a cap on the summer and enjoyed a three day weekend, Kim Davis sat in a Kentucky jail cell for refusing to act in a way she said would violate her first amendment freedom of religion.
Much has been said and written about the plight of Davis. There are plenty who detest the Rowan County clerk, and yet there are an equal number of folks who admire her. Count me among the latter.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin has been criticized by the Attorney General Jack Conway and his supporters for actions they consider shady. By doing so, the Conway campaign has opened the door to the daylight on the corruption in Kentucky.
With Kentucky's instant-racing machines crossing the billion-dollar threshold earlier this spring, and as Kentuckians spend billions of dollars more each year at casinos along the Ohio River, House Speaker Greg Stumbo said "that the time has come for voters to decide the expanded-gaming issue once and for all."
Earlier this summer, President Obama announced a deal had been struck between Iran and the United States and other countries that purports to curtail, but not end Iran's nuclear program. Kentuckians have the right to know whether this deal will actually make America and her allies safer. I want to assure those in the Commonwealth that America's safety will be my foremost concern when the U.S. Senate takes up this issue and gives the proposed deal a thorough and fair review in the coming weeks.
One of this interim period's hot button issues is finding a way to stabilize the Kentucky Teachers Retirement System (KTRS) and the Kentucky Employee Retirement System (KRS). KTRS was debated in the waning days of the last General Assembly, and the momentum continues. As a member of the Public Pension Oversight Board, I have had a seat at the table on these issues, continuing to deliberate with the various stakeholders and legislators who want to find a solution.
Wanted to give a shout and thank you to the road maintenance department. We live off Hochstrauser near Plum Ridge. They paved the road, bridge, and several areas. It's nice and smooth now and a pleasure. Thank you very much.
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The Spencer County High School Site-Based Decision Making Council really had little choice last week when they approved a new club at the school. The club, Spectrum Advocacy for Equality, was initially proposed to give a voice to LGBT students. However, after some concern about focusing solely on sexual orientation, the club was renamed and repurposed as an organization that will oppose bullying of all types and promote tolerance for all students.
Two weeks ago, I wrote an opinion letter published in the Magnet about a proposed tax increase being discussed by the Fiscal Court. My letter was critical of the justification and process (drip spend, drip raise taxes, drip repeat).
An email on this subject was received, essentially informing me that I was wrong (all inclusive). Also the email indicated that all could have been explained if I had availed myself to scheduling a meeting with the sender.
I believe there are two types of pride. There's the pride that comes before the fall, as the Bible defines. But there's also the pride that helps pick us back up when we have fallen. The latter is not arrogance, but a recognition that we weren't made to be failures.
It's ok for communities to have pride as well, especially when the object of that pride are the people who share it with us. Of course, sometimes the actions or inactions results in shame. Here's a few examples:
Attorney General Jack Conway is right: the state Board of Education violated Kentucky's open-meetings law when an ad hoc committee it hastily created in April conducted business in unannounced, closed-session conditions while hiring a search firm to aid in finding a replacement for outgoing commissioner Terry Holliday.
In case anyone forgot how incredible the people are in our small town, I would like to remind everyone.
My husband passed away at the end of July. I have two children. I lost my father when I was 13 and remember how lost I felt. When I went back to school, nobody showed any kind of support. I was so worried that my children would feel the same way.
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Sinn Fein shamed by their deal, says SDLP's Colum Eastwood
New SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has launched a stinging attack on Sinn Fein over their 'Fresh Start' deal with the DUP to save Stormont.
In his first extended response to last week's agreement, the man who replaced Alasdair McDonnell said his main electoral rivals should be "ashamed" over their "complete capitulation" in handing welfare reform back to Westminster.
Writing exclusively for the Belfast Telegraph today, he argued it was the first instance of republicans handing back hard-won powers to the British Government.
"Much of that deal has now been proven to be so transparently awful that Sinn Fein's chief negotiators are finding it difficult to hide their shame. And ashamed they should be," he said.
The Foyle MLA, just two weeks into office, also revealed that behind the scenes his party submitted seven papers to the 10-week negotiations which resulted in 'Fresh Start', while Sinn Fein did not present any.
Opening up the battleground between the two main nationalist parties for the next Assembly election in May, he hit out: "That inability to put in the hard yards of policy development has led to Sinn Fein being sold this pup of a deal."
In his central theme, Mr Eastwood said that Sinn Fein's claim to be the "best negotiators" in the land had come to an end.
"After promising for two years that they'd stand up to the Tories and fight the good fight, they've not only completely capitulated on their promises, they've surrendered their responsibilities.
"Worst of all, their negotiators walked away from dealing with the past."
After forming an extensive part of last year's Stormont House Agreement, so-called legacy issues are missing from Fresh Start.
Mr Eastwood called for the publication of proposed legislation which he said Sinn Fein rejected because of Government strictures on 'national security'.
"After swearing they'd never abandon victims and survivors, it is telling they have not called for the British Government to publish the Bill. We have," he said.
There was no immediate comeback from Sinn Fein yesterday, but a spokesman said a statement was being formulated and may be issued over the weekend.
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Hulu has had plenty of success getting TV networks onboard -- 130 in all. But neither ABC nor CBS has yet signed on. ABC's excuse is that it distributes video only on sites that accept its proprietary video player from Move Networks, such as Veoh and AOL. CBS? Well, we don't know why CBS isn't distributing through Hulu, except maybe that it is developing its own TV portal, TV.com, into a competitor.
But if ABC won't distribute on Hulu, it definitely sees NBC Universal and News Corp.'s joint venture as a competitor. Broadcasting & Cable's Alex Welprin noticed that ABC is running promo ads on Hulu shows for its sitcom "Better Off Ted," including the option of watching a full trailer of the show, in exchange for getting "King of the Hill" commercial-free.
Why do this? When a Hulu user searches for an ABC show, such as "Desperate Houseweives," Hulu links to ABC.com's player -- so ABC is fully aware of how much traffic Hulu is sending its way and how many Hulu users are looking for ABC content on Hulu. If ABC considers Hulu a significant enough source of viewers to advertise, how long before ABC drops its player requirement and starts distributing directly through Hulu?


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About Dotty Molt
Thank you for visiting my Gallery of images from here to there and back again. I'm based in the mountains above Reno, Nevada, "The Biggest Little City in the World", so you'll find many images from Lake Tahoe, and the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. Being an explorer at heart, my gallery has expanded over the years to include the National Parks of the Desert Southwest, Europe, Hawaii, Alaska, California, Maine, and of course, images from my native state, Florida.
You can find my images in numerous publications including:
- Reno Magazine
- Tahoe Quarterly
- Nevada Magazine
- Cascades Journal
- Hawaii Magazine
- Nevada Sesquicentenniel Commemorative Book
- 2015-2016 Guide to the Nevada State Legistlative publication
- 2016 Reno Diagnostic Center Calendar
- 2017 Reno Diagnostic Center Calendar
- 2016-2017 Reno Philharmonic Season Classix Six Brochures
...and hanging on the walls of numerous restaurants and offices, The Toiyabe Country Club in Washoe Valley, The Nevada Senate Building, and private homes in Nevada and California.
Kanaloa, an image from Kauai taken in 2014, recently received the Speakers Choice Award in the 2015 Shooting the West Photography Competition and won top prize in the Outdoor Category of Hawai'i Magazine's 2016 Photo contest. Kanaloa can be found in my Coastal Colors Gallery. I've held a number of photography workshops for the Galena Park Visitor's Center, and was a featured speaker for the 2016 Shooting the West Photography Symposium in Winnemucca. I'm also a featured Alumni with Aperture Academy, you can read about me here:
Aperture Academy April Alumni Spotlight
In April of 2014, I drove from Reno, Nevada through the Valley of Fire, Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Moab, Arches and Canyonlands, Monument Valley, Antelope Canyon, Page, South Coyote Buttes, Death Valley, Yosemite, Antelope Poppy Preserve, Mono Lake, and back to Reno. 3000 miles in 10 days. It was the best adventure I've ever experienced ! Making upturns, exploring places I'd never seen before, discovering that the world really is an amazing place, diverse, colorful, inspirational. I liked it so much that I went back again in November, this time attending a workshop focused on photographing the Anasazi Ruins in Eastern Utah. Off the Grid and into the outback. After all those hours on the road, I've decided that it's time to organize more trips like that, and bring along people with like interests. My first trip was held in September 2015, and focused on exploration, combining "extreme adventures" with hiking, yoga and photography. Emphasis on Fun ! We walked in the Virgin River, watched the stars emerge at night from the top of a mountain, wandered through slot canyons, hiked down into the Grand Canyon, made U-Turns, and had an awesome adventure!
This summer, I'll be offering one day Lake Tahoe hiking, yoga, and photography workshops. Friend me on Facebook at Dotty Molt Photography, and I'll keep you posted so you can be one of the first people to sign up!
Carpe Diem...Every Day!!!
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"Sananda", "Archangel Michael", "One Who Serves" channeled by James McConnell
"Adama" channeled by Dr. Susan Sammarco
(Note: these messages were given during our 1st Sunday of the month Ancient Awakenings joint call with Hollow Earth Network over Blog Talk Radio in Glendale, AZ on July 3, 2016).
Also note that only the main messages are included here. If you wish, you can listen to the question/answer portion by going to our website or the HEN website and listen to the audio files.
This is "Sananda".
Wonderful to be with you again in this way, to be able to share in these messages and to be able to spread the word in every way we can. Please understand that throughout this planet, many are receiving these messages and to the various groups who resonate to the words that come through.
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BOSTON (CBS) – An I-Team investigation reveals allegations that a high-profile lawyer running for public office has a disturbing past.
The I-Team has the police reports and an exclusive interview all coming to light for the first time.
Kevin Marr says he will never forget Robert LeBlanc. Marr says, "I don't think a person like him should be in a position of power."
LeBlanc is an attorney, a former town manager, a lawyer for the state Democratic Party and he's now running for City Council in Methuen.
But to Kevin Marr, LeBlanc is a man he says stalked him and propositioned him at his job when Marr was a high school senior in 2005.
Marr says, "He asked me if I wanted a massage and I was like absolutely not, it's totally inappropriate."
Marr says LeBlanc gave him a slip of paper with his name and phone number. He explains, "He gave that to me and told me to call him if I changed my mind."
Marr says LeBlanc only stopped harassing him after he filed a police report. Marr's high school also sent a no trespassing letter to LeBlanc ordering him to stay away from the school or face arrest. The letter was sent after Marr told school officials he'd seen LeBlanc at his school, apparently there for a meeting.
"I was nervous, yes, I was nervous," Marr recalls.
LeBlanc also received a no trespassing letter from Barnes and Noble, ordering him to never set foot in any of their stores.
That no trespassing letter came two years after a police report in 2000. A male customer at Barnes & Noble told police LeBlanc followed him into the men's room "… And while [the customer] was in the stall, LeBlanc stood in front of the urinal and allegedly [touched himself inappropriately]." (Continued…)
The customer said he "… Didn't actually see [it] but that he knows what it sounds like." The police spoke with LeBlanc and " … Determined that no violation occurred."
We asked Robert LeBlanc about all the incidents and no trespassing letters.
He told us, "I don't know what you're talking about." We asked LeBlanc, "How about this letter here that says you're banned from the Greater Lawrence Technical School?" LeBlanc responded, "I've never seen that before."
We pointed out it was addressed to him and LeBlanc said, "That's not my address."
Actually that was the address of LeBlanc's law office at the time and a sign still stands outside.
LeBlanc told a local newspaper all he could remember about Barnes & Noble was an unpleasant encounter with a store manager after he fell asleep reading and was heard snoring.
We brought the police reports and no trespassing letters to Wendy Murphy, a former prosecutor who specializes in child abuse and sex crimes cases, and asked for her reaction.
Murphy said, "I think it's really offensive that a man with this background would be arrogant enough to think he deserves a position of trust."
LeBlanc's lawyer told the I-Team his client is not the man described in any of the police reports. He produced a travel itinerary which he says shows LeBlanc was out of state on one of the days Marr says LeBlanc was stalking him.
But there is police report of another alleged incident of LeBlanc stalking Marr. It states police confronted LeBlanc and identified him "… By his MA license as Mr. LeBlanc."
We showed Kevin Marr our video of LeBlanc and asked him, "Is there any doubt that is the same person?" Marr responded, "No, that is 100% the person."
We told Kevin Marr that LeBlanc says this never happened and we have the wrong person. "I think he's an absolute liar," Marr says.
LeBlanc has not been charged with any crimes as a result of these allegations.


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Organisation Improvement: Co-operative Communication
The workplace is a complicated place. Imagine a spider web of people, managers, supervisors and staff members who need to work together, interacting in various ways to fulfil the organisation's mandate. Disagreements and conflict are bound to occur; between staff members, between staff and management, and between clients and members of your organisation.
As a result of working with thousands of government employees to help them acquire and use defusing hostility skills, we have concluded that a good amount of bad feelings, organisational problems, destructive conflict and inefficiency result from a lack of skill in the WAY that people communicate with each other. This isn't that surprising if we consider that our society tends to glorify the confrontational, John Wayne type heroes. And, that as children learn language, they tend to learn confrontational, negative language before they learn how to get along with others.
Co-operative communication, or the skills needed to get along in the workplace, or, for that matter, anywhere else, are in relatively short supply, because we simply don't teach them to children or adults. So we get unnecessary conflict and friction. We get arguments that are more oriented towards winning than solving problems, and we get the so-called personality conflict, a convenient phrase that allows everyone to avoid responsibility for interpersonal problems. We get teams that don't work well because they lack the skills. We get meetings where the majority of time is wasted because people don't interact effectively. We get clashes with clients and customers that occur as a result of both parties moving into confrontational ways of interacting.
We've moved forward in defining the elements of co-operative communication so that they can be taught to people. But what is co-operative communication?
What Is Co-operative Communication
Some ways of communicating increase friction and anger. Other ways of communication tend to cause people to work WITH us, and not against us. While it is clear that blatant accusations, name-calling and personal attacks are confrontational (the opposite of co-operative), there are many more subtle ways to ruin a communication. To illustrate some of the techniques of co-operative communication, let's take a look at the following sentences:
"You never finish the work on time."
"It seems like you are having some difficulty with the timelines. What can I do to help?"
Which of these phrases do you think is more likely to elicit a productive dialogue? Clearly the first at least "sounds" antagonistic", while the second doesn't. Another example: "If you had bothered to read the report, you would know...."
It might be that the report wasn't clear on those points. Would you like me to explain?
What are the co-operative rules here? In our first set of examples, the initial statement uses an absolute word "never", and as a result tends to cause the other person to argue. In addition the phrase sounds blaming. The replacement phrase lacks those confrontational characteristics, uses a qualifier "seems", and offers to work together. In the second phrase set, the key word is "bothered", which suggests that the person is lazy, or uncaring, and that is what will be heard. It also is a blaming statement. In the replacement phrase, we introduce another qualifier "might", followed by an offer to solve the problem.
In both phrase sets, the first phrases are likely to create argument and personalised conflict while the replacement phrases are more likely to result in real problem solving.
There are a number of other aspects of co-operative communication, far too many to outline in a single article. However, co-operative communication involves the use of techniques that are designed to prevent destructive conflict, enhance workplace morale, and save considerable time and energy.
How Do People Learn Co-operative Communication?
Our estimates are that between 5-10% of people consistently communicate in co-operative ways, although that estimate is certainly not scientific. A minority of people acquire these skills through experience, but unfortunately, experience is a slow, unreliable teacher.
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Estancia San Nicolás
Located in Santa Fe province, at 45 km from Rosario Port and at 300 km from Buenos Aires Port.
Its soil is apt for all kinds of grain production, allowing adequate land rotation and moderation of climate risk.
Nowadays this farm produces special commodities like popcorn, green peas and lentils, among others.
Pioneer in the use of the direct sowing system, applied since the early 90's, and found today all over the farm surface.
The application of the mentioned technique, together with other technological updates, such as genetic improvements and adjusted fertilizing, allows the company to have consistent increasing yields.
San Nicolás has a grain storing plant with a capacity of 24.000 tons, and another process plant with a capacity of 100 tons per day.
The offices used as Central Administration are also located in San Nicolás.
Glicina (Chinese Wisteria) at San Nicolás in a rainy day


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The third installment of Interactive Vision's popular helicopter rescue simulation series once again gives players the opportunity to participate in Coast Guard rescue operations. SaR3 features over 100 new missions and a career mode. You must follow Coast Guard regulations as you undertake such daring maneuvers as lifting victims out of turbulent ocean waves. Also new to the series are such additions as a searchlight, a transparent cockpit option, and new helicopters that handle according to real-life specifications. It takes steady nerves to fly into the face of danger, but that's what you have to do to save others from it.
Also known as: Search and Rescue 3, SAR 3
Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 22, 2001
Publisher: Global Star
Search & Rescue 3 at IGN
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Search & Rescue 3 at GameStats


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"A book like this comes along once a decade, if not a century…."
Here. Just this exact spot, throughout time.
What if we could see this one place as it was at the beginning of time, prehistoric times, ancient times, historically, recently, in the near future, and the distant future?
What if it was (now) a living room, but in Revolutionary times it was a front farm of a historic mansion, and used to be a Native American hunting ground, and before that was primordial soup?


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Dietitian Spotlight: 10 Healthy Foods for Spring
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Apr 14th, 2017
Spring has sprung, bringing warmer weather, sunshine and a variety of seasonal foods. We reached out to our registered dietitian, Annessa Chumbley, for the inside scoop on her top 10 healthy foods for spring! Annessa also filled us in on some of the key nutrients in each food, what makes her pick healthy and a few pro tips, too! Be sure to incorporate these colorful, vibrant seasonal foods into your diet this spring, and try some of our favorite recipes featuring these incredible foods.
Annessa's Nutrition Highlights & Tips:
- Asparagus offers digestive support by providing prebiotics. Prebiotics can be thought of as food to nourish probiotics— the healthy bacteria that lines the gut wall. If you want to keep probiotics healthy, eat asparagus!
- Asparagus is also an excellent source of vitamin K and folate.
- Since asparagus is a "living" food, it needs to be used rather quickly after purchase. I recommend using it within 48 hours. It is best stored with a damp paper towel around the ends, to retain freshness.
Recipe Spotlight: Yoga Instructor Toast
Annessa's Nutrition Highlights & Tips:
- I love to refer to pineapple as "nature's candy," because it comes in the perfect package— nature almost always pairs natural sugar with fiber. This helps your body receive the fuel from sugar in a slower, more consistent format, as opposed to a sugar rush.
- Pineapple contains bromelin, an enzyme that lowers inflammation. It breaks down protein and is good for digestion, as well.
- It is also an excellent source of vitamin C— the body's primary water-soluble antioxidant.
- Pineapple has a higher sugar content at it's base and core, so you will find the sweetest parts with more tender texture there.
- Look for pineapples that are heavy for their size. Pineapples do not ripen further after being picked, but leaving your pineapple on the counter for 1 to 2 days before slicing will make it softer and juicier.
Recipe Spotlight: Banana Split Blender Muffins
Annessa's Nutrition Highlights & Tips:
- Spinach is my favorite superfood! It is an excellent source of vitamins K, C, B2, B6 and E, along with folate, magnesium, potassium and vitamin C. WOW!
- Easily sneak more spinach into your diet by adding it smoothies, sautés, salads and more. Look for as many ways as possible to eat more spinach!
- There are only 14 calories in 2 cups of spinach, along with 2 grams of both protein and fiber.
Recipe Spotlight: Farro Power Bowl
Annessa's Nutrition Highlights & Tips:
- Avocados are high in mono-unsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs). In fact, 1/2 cup contains 7 grams of MUFAs! These healthy fats are good for cardiovascular health, help control blood sugar and keep you feeling full and satisfied.
- Use the healthy fat in avocados to help you absorb other fat-soluble vitamins. For example, vitamin A, D, E, and K need a fat to be absorbed. So by including avocado, you are increasing your nutrient intake in more ways than one!
- The highest concentration of beneficial plant nutrients is in the greenest part of the avocado (near the skin), so be sure to scoop that part out for optimal nutrition.
- Avocados will ripen after being picked: simply set the avocado on the counter, and you will know it is ready to use when it yields to gentle pressure. Store avocados in the refrigerator to slow down the ripening process.
Recipe Spotlight: No-Bake Shake
Annessa's Nutrition Highlights & Tips:
- I call lemon the "liver-helper." It's another food that is being studied for it's benefit of fighting free radicals in the body.
- Lemons are an excellent source of vitamin C and help build a strong immune system.
- They are also a powerhouse when used to bring out the flavor of other foods— that's why I often use lemon zest in my recipes! It's a healthy way to brighten up any recipe.
Recipe Spotlight: Refreshing Lemon Zest Smoothie
Annessa's Nutrition Highlights & Tips:
- Salmon is an excellent source of Omega-3 fatty acids, which are needed for and used in the brain, heart and eyes.
- Salmon is also a good source of an antioxidant called astaxanthin, which may help protect the spinal cord and nervous system. This antioxidant is what creates the beautiful, bright "orangish"-pink color of the salmon— so the deeper the color of the salon, the richer it is in this antioxidant!
Recipe Spotlight: Crispy Salmon Burger
Annessa's Nutrition Highlights & Tips:
- Carrots come in a variety of colors: purple, yellow, white, red and orange. Their color signifies which antioxidant they are rich in— all playing different roles in health.
- Orange carrots are high in beta-carotene, which helps support eye and skin health. The deeper the orange color of the carrot, the more beta-carotene it has.
- Naturally sweet, try roasting carrots to bring out the natural sugars even more prominently. The natural sweetness also makes them an excellent snack for kids!
- 1 cup of carrots is only 50 calories and packs 4 grams of fiber.
Recipe Spotlight: Carrot Cake Batter Smoothie
Annessa's Nutrition Highlights & Tips:
- Beets are in the same family as chard, spinach and quinoa.
- The antioxidants in beets, called betalains, help support the body's natural detoxification process.
- Use the beet greens (the tops of the beets themselves)! They are a rich source of lutein and zeaxanthin, two antioxidants that support eye heath. They are delicious sautéed and scattered on top of roasted beets and sweet potatoes.
- Use raw beets in a smoothie or shaved and topped on a salad.
Recipe Spotlight: Sweet Beet Smoothie
Spring Onions
Annessa's Nutrition Highlights & Tips:
- Onions of all kinds are being shown to help protect against different types of cancer.Spring onions are a healthy way to add flavor to any meal.
- They are also a good source of biotin— the "hair, skin, nails vitamin"
- 1 cup is only 19 calories!
Recipe Spotlight: Sweet Potato Breakfast Squares
Annessa's Nutrition Highlights & Tips:
- Strawberries help fight inflammation.
- Use strawberries quickly after purchasing and store them with a paper towel underneath to absorb any moisture, so they stay fresher longer.
- Did you know that after being cleaned, the entire strawberry can be tossed in and blended into a smoothie? Green tops and all!
- 1 cup has just 46 calories and 3 grams of fiber.
Recipe Spotlight: Berries & Cream Swirl
Stop by your local store to shop these healthy spring foods and create these nutritious recipes!


text: The newly resurrected Ice Cream skate team has been making a lot of noise lately mainly because of their young, shining star Andre Beverley. Hailing from Brooklyn New York; Andre has quickly established himself as one of NYC's up and coming young skaters. Check out the video above for more and be on the look out for Ice Creams new skate video coming soon.