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Have you ever considered using a buddy pass?
Buddy pass travel is a perk that airline employees can share with those they choose. Almost every employee who works for an airline gets several buddy passes each year, it's one of the perks of working for an airline (click here for 5 tips on using buddy passes). Buddy passes (or pass riders) are standby tickets that can be used by family and friends in order to travel at a very reduced rate.
You can't buy a buddy pass from an airline, you can only get them from an airline employee. Buddy passes are not supposed to be sold for profit, you are only supposed to pay the taxes on the flight you want to take and nothing more.
For instance, if the taxes on a buddy pass are $150.00, that is all you should pay. You shouldn't be asked to give the employee anything more, but there are many employees that do expect to be given cash in order for you to use their pass. People have misconceptions about flying with a buddy pass, and the 5 listed below are the ones I hear most often.
- You have a guaranteed seat
I have seen the look of surprise on people's faces when they don't get on the flight they thought they were going to get on.
A buddy pass does not guarantee that you will get on the flight. It is only a guarantee that if there is enough open space, you will be able to fly. When you fly on a buddy pass you are at the bottom of the priority list unless you are traveling with the employee who gave you the pass, then you get to fly with their priority.
What happens if you don't get on the flight? If you only take a carry-on bag (which I highly recommended) you won't have to worry about luggage. Make sure to have your devices charged up and you won't have to worry about trying to fight for one of the plugs in the boarding area.
2. You can wear whatever you want
No. There are dress codes for every airline when it comes to pass riders (buddy passes/companion passes) so please make sure you know the standards before you try to board. I have been told I couldn't board a flight if I didn't change my clothing because I didn't adhere to the standards of the airline. It wasn't a big deal, I simply went into my carry-on bag (which had my packing cubes, of course) and got an appropriate outfit.
Contrary to popular belief, the standards are set in place and must be followed. If not, you can be denied boarding. It is better to know and follow the rules than not know them and not be able to fly.
3. Buddy passes are great when you are planning a trip in advance
No. This is not true at all. Buddy passes are great for last minute trips because there is a substantial difference between buying a last minute ticket and buying a buddy pass. For instance, if someone lets you have a buddy pass, you only pay for the taxes. The taxes are the same if you buy the pass a year in advance or an hour in advance.
If you want to go to Europe at the last minute, your taxes can be around $500 (of course taxes will vary from airline to airline) but that price is the same whether you decide to pay for your buddy pass a couple of days in advance or a hour in advance.
Have you ever priced a last minute trip to Europe? It's several thousand dollars. Isn't paying around $500 instead of $5,000 worth standing by? However, if you have exact dates you need to stick to, or you are planning your trip months in advance, you are better off buying a ticket because there is always a chance when you fly standby that you won't get on the flight you want to be on.
4. You don't have to abide by the same rules as everyone else when it comes to luggage
Yes, yes you do. While we do sometimes get perks like not getting charged for an extra bag, or maybe not having to pay for heavy bags, we still have to follow all the rules just like everyone else. A friend of mine told me that one of his family members asked if they could take a piece of checked luggage as a carry-on. Um no. You cannot. We are still under all the rules and regulations of TSA and we can't carry anything in our bags that isn't allowed.
5. Flying standby is hard
No it is not. I have flown standby for the past 11 years and I can count on one hand the times I wasn't able to get on the flight I wanted. Flying standby is pretty easy once you understand how to work the system. Trust me, I am not a morning person and I hardly want to fly in the early hours of the morning, but I am almost always on the earliest flight because that is usually the best for me to get on the plane.
I don't mind checking flights when I am on vacation and maybe having to leave a day or two earlier than I originally thought because the flight I wanted to go on is getting full. It shouldn't bother you at all because instead of focusing on the fact that you have to leave early, focus on the fact that had it not been for the buddy pass, you may not have been able to travel to the destination you are in.
I have literally traveled all over the globe with standby status, it isn't hard. You sometimes have to have a bit more patience but isn't the reward of traveling at such a reduced rate worth it?
Here is an extra tip for you:
You can fly any time of the day you want to
No you cannot. I almost always put my buddy pass riders on the earliest flight out because those are usually the flights that have the most open seats. I have had people I have given buddy passes to tell me, "I really want to be on the afternoon flight and not the early morning one. That's so early!" Well yes, that's true. But if you want to take advantage of the privilege of using a buddy pass you must do what the airline employee tells you, ok?
It is always better to fly out on the earliest possible flight when you have a buddy pass. Early flights are the best chance to fly out because many people oversleep and don't make it to the airport on time. When you get a buddy pass, you give up the right to choose what time is best for you to fly. You have to fly when you have the best chance to get on the plane.
I told this to one of my girlfriends who was flying to Los Angeles but she didn't want to get on the flight I told her to because she wanted to sleep in so she tried for a later flight. Well, she eventually got to her destination but it literally took her all day. Had she listened to me she could have flown direct and been in her destination in 5 hours. Instead, she had to connect in Philadelphia, have a long layover and she didn't get into Los Angeles until late that night.
Have you flown standby? Did you have any trouble?


text: On Thursday 24 January 2008 11:37:50 jim stockford wrote: > now that we know guido's giving a talk on py3, > maybe there's something to moving the date? > myself i'm in sympathy with _NOT_ letting candy > companies push me around (i.e. keep the date), > but the politics of romance and family is strong > stuff. > opinions? I'll be there regardless. But it would allow life to be more peaceful if it's on some date other than the 14th. -- Aaron Maxwell http://redsymbol.net

subset: commoncrawl


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We know that many sufferers of systemic odour conditions have bloodbourne halitosis and/or TMAU. We need to keep raising awareness among others. It would be a good idea to target dental organisations to raise awareness of these conditions so that people can be directed to the support networks they need and not waste time and money going to 'specialists' who claim they can cure halitosis.
Please e-mail the contacts below with a brief account of your experiences (frustrations at looking for cures etc) and perhaps paste in the MEBO Research international petition link also so that the extent of the problem can be appreciated by the recipient.
It would be great to make this an international effort and I would happily e-mail/contact any contacts in the US, Australia or anywhere else which others may provide.
firstname.lastname@example.com (British Dental Association)
firstname.lastname@example.com (Faculty of General Dental Practice)
email@example.com (British Association of Dental Nurses)
online form to be submitted at http://www.General Dental Council
online form to be submitted at http://www.British Dental Health Foundation
online form to be submitted at http://www.NHS Choices
online form to be submitted at http://www.British Association of Dental Therapists
The link below is a petition created by the registered charity MEBO Research which can be signed online to help raise awareness of the condition internationally.
http://www.bloodbornebodyodorandhalitos ... nding.html
Please join in with this initiative whether you have halitosis or TMAU or not. It will help us all in the long run.


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We Live In A One Party State.
We Live In A One Party State and labour party member David Lammy says the EU vote was only advisory and wants parliment to overturn it next week.
We live in a one party state in the UK because 90% of all elected members wanted to stay members of the EU.
There was a 72% turnout and the people voted 52% to leave in all the UK in Scotland 62% of all votes were for remain.
The people of Scotland is more confused than ever before now we have it from the unionists the only way for Scotts to be in Europe was to vote NO in the 2015 indy vote only to now find out that was one big fat lie!
It now turs out Scottish labour and Scottish Tory activists now wants to have another indy vote to stay in the EU Family.
Of-course we were told in 2015 if we left the UK we were also out of Europe, yet here we are now being told by some EU sources we would be welcomed with open arms and legs.
Project fear and the leader of the free world stated the UK would be at the back of the cue 48 hours later now we are being told that was wishful thinking, what is going on here?
Was we all told a pack of lies?
Jim Sillars predicted all of this and the SNP leadership said he was crazy, perhaps they will be eating their words now, moreover if the SNP wins the next indy vote the chances are England will see the benefits of staying in and its in the EU's best interests to see Scotland remain in the EU family and not get thrown out along with the rest of the UK.
We Live In A One Party State as labour/Tories are one of the same, Scotland is in effect a one party state right now with the SNP in charge.
If there is another indy vote its a fact SNP will win but this blog thinks any other EU vote will also fail as most supporters of remain only did so to force another indy vote and the one party states never mentioned this thus far!


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Lipkin notes that Montoya lets the data drive the research, rather than hypothesis. Some researchers will tweak the data to prove what they want to prove, but not Montoya. "We have people who are wedded to organisms", but Montoya is correct, to let the data lead.
Even when research fails, we ARE excluding causes. Just by doing that we're getting closer to what it might be. Every time we test and DON'T find something, it can be just as important as what we do find.
The cost of human genome sequencing is coming down. It's now $1800 / 1400 euros. Which means they're doing more of it.
Central nervous system auto-antibodies / bacterium-induced mental illness
Sometimes what looks like an infection is not -- it can be an "intoxication" that results in an autoimmune disorder. He noted that in a slaughterhouse, the workers who were exposed to myelin had an autoimmune response.
Some people respond to carbohydrate reduction, some don't -- different body chemistry means different food reactions. So just because your friend had success with dietary changes does not mean you will.
Absence of evidence of Borna virus in Swedish patients with CFS -- J.Neurobiology 1999.
retrovirus 85%, annellovirus 75%
IL17 and IFNy in patients sick less than 3 years, higher; but Eotaxin in all patients
In the Q&A, Lipkin stopped seeing patients in 2001; he's now mostly the spokesman for the researchers. But, in response to a specific question, "I'm pretty good on neuropathy"
70% of encephalitis is untestable -- only a post-mortem brain biopsy will find it
There is zero evidence that XMRV infects humans
There is 5x the risk of autism if the mother has a fever in early pregnancy
If there were a single agent, someone might have found it by now.
We need to look in other places.
The agent need not be replicating -- it could be something that acts one time and serves as a trigger for an autoimmune response.


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Earlier this year, I froze my eggs. It was a very spur of the moment decision. I woke up one morning and thought, "I'd like to freeze my eggs." My next thought was "I'd like to eat a strawberry chicken salad for lunch today." And I made both things happen. I didn't think much of it at the time, but now I think my subconsciousness was telling me that this was something smart to do before I turned 30.
I'm really happy I did this. I unfortunately don't have any interest in having children now. Most of my co-workers have children and they are wonderful parents as they spend a lot of time with their children and are very involved with their lives. Previously, the idea of children was very abstract to me. But now that I've observed what it's actually like to be a good parent, I have a much better idea of what it entails. Freezing my eggs will buy me time to make this decision.
The actual process of freezing my eggs wasn't that bad at all. I just called the fertility office, set up an initial consultation appointment, and got the go-ahead after they checked my ovarian reserve, which is the functional capacity of my ovaries, and ran some blood tests. Everything looked good and I was on my way. One of the first things to do is to spend a ridiculous amount of money on fertility medication, which you can pick up at your local drugstore.
Once I started the fertility shots, things really got underway. The shots weren't bad at all. There are instructional videos online that teach you how to administer them yourself. You don't even think about them anymore after a few days, it just becomes second nature.
Around the sixth day, there was a feeling of heaviness and I felt like there was something growing inside me. I felt like Noomi Rapace in Prometheus when she finds out there's an alien growing inside her, she climbs into the medpod, the medpod cuts her open, yanks out the alien octopus baby like a claw crane yanking out an overpriced toy, and then staples her back up. Note to all the ladies reading this: DO NOT watch the clip if you plan to have your eggs frozen. Bad idea.
During the last few days of shots, the heaviness feeling just got stronger. My tummy also got more bloated. I didn't exactly look pregnant but around the fifth or sixth day, my pants didn't zip all the way up. I went in every morning around the last week for an ultrasound so the nurse could monitor how the follicles were growing in my ovaries and administer some more blood tests. Things were growing at a good pace and the doctor kept adjusting the dosage of fertility shots I would inject myself with every day. I felt a little weird but there was no pain.
But during the morning of the procedure, I woke up feeling incredibly nauseous and quite terrible. I had never felt this nauseous before in my life. The heaviness feeling started to feel overwhelming. I guess that alien octopus baby wanted out RIGHT NOW.
I made my way to the fertility clinic and once I got on the operating table, the anesthesiologist got to work and I conked out. "100, 99 … ZZZZZZZZ …. Electric sheep. " When I woke up, the doctor told me how many eggs he retrieved. I gave him a high five.
I felt great if a little groggy. The nausea and feeling of heaviness had completely gone away. I didn't feel any bad side effects after. I honestly felt fantastic. The hills are alive with the sound of music!
Just to be clear, freezing an egg doesn't mean you'll automatically have one baby. It's not like a magician waving a wand and then suddenly, TA-DA! Presto, chango, this egg has transformed into a baby. Frozen eggs are like baby sea turtles making their way to the ocean. Not all of them make it. There's always a jerk hawk that swoops in out of nowhere and eats the baby sea turtle.
When you thaw the eggs, some go bad. When you mix the egg with the sperm to create an embryo, not all embryos are good. When the embryo is implanted in the mother, not all of the implantations take. There's this stat that 10-20 frozen eggs means one healthy child. (That stat varies based on how old you are when you froze your eggs - the younger, the better - but gosh, that's a pretty tight funnel). I don't plan on having more than one kid, if any, so I figure I'm good to go.
Having said all this, I am confident I made the right decision for myself. If you are a young woman reading this and you have the financial means to do so, this might be something to consider. My entire out of pocket cost (for the procedure, the medication, the ultrasounds, the blood tests) was around $12K (not including the annual egg storage costs after, which are several hundred dollars / yr). My health insurance, surprisingly enough, covered some of it. Egg freezing costs have actually gone down over the past few years and I think it may even go down more in the future. Companies like Apple and Facebook are even covering that cost for their employees.
In the past, women who wanted to have children unfortunately had to stick to a strict timeline. In your 30s, it's now or never. I believe that freezing your eggs will give you more control over your life and hopefully help you make smart decisions about who to have children with.
Good luck, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Baby You're a Rich Man
Ending of the "The Social Network" directed by David Fincher; song is "Baby, You're a Rich Man" by The Beatles
I've never seen the The Social Network (2010) by David Fincher but I hear it's pretty good. I'll get to it someday. I was reading the synopsis on wikipedia and the ending intrigued me.
Mark Zuckerberg has "won." He's won the numerous lawsuits filed against him, built the largest social network in the world, and is the youngest billionaire ever. But at the end of the day, he is alone. He sits in a dark room by himself and thinks about the one thing he can't ever have - his ex-girlfriend. At the end of the day, despite everything he has achieved, he's still searching for a connection. A real one.
I think a lot about money and what it can buy - a lovely home in a great neighborhood, freedom, independence, etc. But I also learned a few years ago that there are some things that money will never be able to buy you. A real, genuine connection. You can obviously buy companionship but if you know deep down that it's not real, then what's the point? It reminds me to be fully present when I'm with people I appreciate and am very fond of. I'm lucky I have those people in my life and I hope I'll always remember to never take them for granted.
"Be worthy of your advantages ... Dream big. Work hard. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency ..." -David Mccullough Jr
Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal are two of my favorite movies of all time. Both are definitely in the top 20 list. I vaguely remember reading the book Hannibal, written by Thomas Harris, when I was younger, but I think because I loved the movie so much, the book was a bit of a let-down. But there was one thing I remembered. Hannibal Lector had stashed large sums of money around the world knowing that if he ever had to go on the run (like what happened at the end of Silence of the Lambs), he'd just retrieve the money and be okay, wherever he was. I am OBVIOUSLY NOT ADVOCATING that anyone become a cannibal or commit crimes but the idea that even Hannibal Lector was aware of how financial independence can get you out of a sticky jam.
Lately, I've been listening to a lot of commencement speeches. I guess it's that time of year again. Everyone always talks about how you shouldn't be afraid to fail but no one ever talks about the importance of saving and investing, about how that will help cushion the fall and help you get back up.
If I were ever asked to give a commencement speech, I would spend the entire 20 minutes talking about saving and investing your money. But I'd make it really fun. I'd tell a lot of jokes, jump around the stage, wave my arms around, do a song and dance number directed by Baz Luhrmann himself, all the while wearing a tophat, a long silver cape, and ruby-encrusted disco shoes. I just really want students to know that they should start investing their money NOW, that time is on their side.
But these commencement speeches are still pretty good. Below are some of my favorites:
1) Conan O'Brien 2000 Harvard Class Day Speech
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cFY0-IFcwc
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErZVczhKIss
Transcript: http://allowe.com/laughs/book/COBspeech2k.htm
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I left the cocoon of Harvard, I left the cocoon of Saturday Night Live, I left the cocoon of the Simpsons. And each time it was bruising and tumultuous. And yet every failure was freeing, and today I'm as nostalgic for the bad as I am for the good. So that's what I wish for all of you—the bad as well as the good. Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.
If you'll indulge me for just a second, I'd like to read a little something from just this year. "Somehow, Conan O'Brien has transformed himself into the brightest star in the late-night firmament. His comedy is the gold standard, and Conan himself is not only the quickest and most inventive wit of his generation, but quite possibly the greatest host ever." Ladies and gentlemen, class of 2000, I wrote that this morning. As proof that when all else fails, you always have delusion.
2) Conan O'Brien 2011 Dartmouth Commencement Address
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELC_e2QBQMk
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There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized. I went to college with many people who prided themselves on knowing exactly who they were and exactly where they were going. At Harvard, five different guys in my class told me that they would one day be President of the United States. Four of them were later killed in motel shoot-outs. The other one briefly hosted Blues Clues, before dying senselessly in yet another motel shoot-out. Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course.
3) Conan O'Brien's Speech 2006 Stuyvesant High School Graduation Speech
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAMkUE9Oxnc
Transcript: http://travelgeekonline.blogspot.com/2010/02/conan-obriens-speech-to-stuyvesant-high.html
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I don't want to freak you guys out, but twenty five years ago, I could have been any one of you. I went to a public high school, and I was a bright, ambitious, hard working kid who wanted more than anything to go to a good college. The only problem is, I was much more interested in succeeding than in really learning. When you're a smart kid in a competitive school, it's an easy trap to fall into. So I did a lot of things in high school not because I enjoyed them but because I thought they look good on an application. I think you know what I'm talking about. I was on a debate team — hated it. I ran track — I was terrible, I got so bored running the two mile that I tried to talk with my opponents during the race. "what are you gonna do later, I mean you gonna be doing something later?" I joined school government — hated it. Of course, like many of you I worried obsessively about my GPA and my SAT scores. And of course, it worked. I got into the college of my choice and to this day I'm proud of the work I did in high school.
But old habits die hard. Once I got into college, I had every intention of joylessly grinding away again. I was gonna turn college into just another step on the road to being successful, whatever that meant. I told people my plan was to go to graduate school in law or government, just because I thought that's what smart people were supposed to do. And then something really weird happened. My roommate — by the way, he was the weird roommate — my roommate was going to an orientation meeting at the Harvard Lampoon, the school humor magazine, and I decided for some reason to tag along. I wrote one piece, then I wrote another piece, then another. Before long, I was running the place. The only difference was, I was joyously happy. I was succeeding at something because I loved the process, not because I was trying to get anywhere. I had found the thing I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and I honestly didn't care where it took me or what it paid.
So when I graduated form college in 1985 I told my parents "thanks for the amazing Ivy League education, now I want to be a comedian." Later, in the emergency room after they woke up, they said they were fine with my decision, and I was on my way. I've had a lot of highs, I've had my share of lows, but if I hadn't allowed myself to experiment and risk doing something without a clear career payoff, I might have missed out on so much.
4) David Mccullough Jr 2012 Wellesley High School Graduation Speech
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfxYhtf8o4
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Resist the easy comforts of complacency, the specious glitter of materialism, the narcotic paralysis of self-satisfaction. Be worthy of your advantages. And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principal, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer...
The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life, is an achievement, not something that fell into your lap because you're a nice person or Mommy ordered it from the caterer.
5) Drew Houston MIT 2013 Commencement Speech
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inri5ggyK4
Transcript: http://news.mit.edu/2013/commencement-address-houston-0607
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They say that you're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Think about that for a minute: who would be in your circle of 5? ... One thing I've learned is surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard. Can you imagine if Michael Jordan hadn't been in the NBA, if his circle of 5 had been a bunch of guys in Italy? Your circle pushes you to be better.
I used to worry about all kinds of things, but I can remember the moment when I calmed down. I had just moved to San Francisco, and one night I couldn't sleep so I was on my laptop. I read something online that said "There are 30,000 days in your life." At first I didn't think much of it, but on a whim I tabbed over to the calculator. I type in 24 times 365 and — oh my God, I'm almost 9,000 days down. What the hell have I been doing? … So that's how 30,000 ended up on the cheat sheet. That night, I realized there are no warmups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Every day we're writing a few more words of a story. And when you die, it's not like "here lies Drew, he came in 174th place." So from then on, I stopped trying to make my life perfect, and instead tried to make it interesting. I wanted my story to be an adventure — and that's made all the difference.
6) JK Rowling Harvard 2008 Commencement Speech:
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGqp8lz36c
Transcript: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/
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I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
7) Phil Knight 2012 Stanford Business School Graduation Speech
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRN9FwWQY8w
Favorite quotes:
Two "nines" working together will beat two "tens" working for their own careers, every time. Ability and desire almost always trump money and power. If you can't get financing, don't be afraid to go 7,000 miles from home. Government is part of business, any business. There is such a thing as managing creativity. And dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground. And where there is no struggle, there can be no art.
And finally, there is this thought. Ten years from now, the first of you will be asked to give the commencement speech to what will then be the finest class in the school's history. You'll be a bit torn. You are multi-tasked to the max. Two kids. One has an ear infection and needs to get to the doctor right away. Your husband is more needy than usual. And he has a flight in the morning to Europe for 10 days. Your company is at a critical point in its strategic planning and everybody looks to you for what the answers will be. Plus, the company has a PR crisis. And you have TV appearances scheduled for five days straight. And that golden lab that you've had for all of two years has all of a sudden decided he's not housebroken.
There is no time. There is no time. And then you'll accept -- because of the honor, because it's a chance to have some influence on the most able, best-prepared young people on the planet. And you'll accept, though it's hard to see now, because there is a part of you that longs to go back to a place and a time and a self, forever gone. And in looking for things to say, include in your consideration moments from the school's history. You might even look back to that time in the deep past, that moment over six decades before, when Frank Shallenberger, the professor of entrepreneurship, said the words that meant so much to me, the words that became the mantra for his class, the words that said, "The only time you must not fail, is the last time you try."
8) Sherry Lansing 2008 Penn State Graduation Speech
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNo-9rLXclY
Favorite quotes:
Please don't be afraid to fail. Fear of failure leads to mediocrity. I've often thought that people who have the greatest success can also tell you a story about their great failures, but instead of being defeated by their failures, they learned from their mistakes. They paid attention to their mistakes. You know, they often say that good judgment comes from experience, and of course experience comes from bad judgment. Mistakes are going to happen. They have to. If they don't, you're not trying hard enough. You're just playing it safe, you're being complacent. But the important thing is a mistake should not be a permanent setback. Instead, you should use it, you should use it to learn from and to grow from. I failed as much as I succeeded.
9) Stephen Colbert 2011 Northwestern Commencement Speech
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6tiaooiIo0
Transcript: https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2011/06/colbert-speech-text.html
Favorite quotes:
You have been told to follow your dreams but .... what if it's a stupid dream?
For instance Stephen Colbert of 25 years ago lived at 2015 North Ridge with two men and three women in what I now know was a brothel. He dreamed of living alone. Well, alone with his beard in a large barren loft apartment, with lots of blonde wood, wearing a kimono, with a futon on the floor and a Samovar of tea constantly bubbling in the background, doing Shakespeare in the street for homeless people. Today, I am a beardless suburban dad who lives in a house, wears no-iron khakis and makes Anthony Wiener jokes for a living and I love it! Because thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it you haven't failed and you're not some loser. But just as importantly, and this is the part I may not get right and you may not listen to, if you do get your dream, you are not a winner.
10) Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Transcript: https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
11) Will Ferrell 2017 USC Commencement Speech
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfjGmBVAL-o
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By the spring of 1995 producers from Saturday Night Live had come to see the current show at the Groundlings. After two harrowing auditions and two meetings with executive producer Lorne Michaels, which all took place over the course of six weeks, I got the word I was hired to the cast of Saturday Night Live for the '95-'96 season.
I couldn't believe it. And even though I went on to enjoy seven seasons on the show, it was rocky beginning for me. After my first show, one reviewer referred to me as 'the most annoying newcomer of the new cast.' Someone showed this to me and I promptly put it up on the wall in my office, reminding myself that to some people I will be annoying. Some people will not think I'm funny, and that that's okay.
The venerable television critic for the Washington Post Tom Shales came up to me during my last season of the show. He told me congratulations on my time at the show and then he apologized for things he had written about me in some of his early reviews of my work. I paused for a second before I spoke, and then I said, 'How dare you, you son of a bitch?' I could tell this startled him, and then I told him I was kidding, and that I'd never read any of his reviews. It was true, I hadn't read his reviews. In fact I didn't read any reviews because once again, I was too busy throwing darts at the dartboard, all the while facing my fears.
10) And lastly, this following speech by Jodie Foster isn't a graduation one but it's still a very lovely speech she gave while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 2013 Golden Globes.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6plBl7wFHRk
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The Meaning of Life
What is the meaning of life?
And that, my friends, is the $1,394,476,285.89 question. Everyone has asked this. Poets, scholars, people high on LSD.
Lucky for all of you, I've figured it out. The answer is below. There will be a test on this later, so read carefully. (But don't worry, it's multiple choice).
The meaning of life can be bucketed into three key groups - love, taking leaps of faith, and happiness.
Let's start with love.
First, find and cultivate relationships with friends that you trust and love and try your absolute damn hardest to keep them in your life. Think you're too busy to keep in touch? You're not. You know who's busy? Elon Musk is busy. You know who else is busy? An emergency medical responder is busy. You know who else is busy? A working parent is busy. You are not busy. Sure, there will be moments when you're super busy, but trust me, you're not busy enough to not keep in touch with your best friends.
So what constitutes a best friend? Someone who inspires and teaches you new things, someone who gives good no-bullshit advice, someone who pushes you off your high horse when you get too full of yourself, someone who makes you fall over laughing. Someone who has your best interests at heart, someone you would call to get bailed out of jail, someone who is there for you when things get tough, someone who likes you for you. When you find one, latch on to them like a hangry killer shark. They are rare, and trust me, there will only be a few (very, very few) that also feel the same way about you. Remember, this is a two way street.
Second, don't be afraid to fall in love. Love is a wonderful, wonderful thing. Love is also quite possibly the most rare thing you will ever encounter because again, just like your best friends, love is also a two way street. Both of you have to want to sign up for the same dance at the same time. If you are lucky enough to find the Mulder to your Scully, the Diane to your Jack, the Harry to your Sally, hold on for the ride, and don't let go.
Be careful to not fall into the trap of thinking that you can constantly upgrade, or that something better will always come along. (Trust me, that doesn't happen in real life). Relationships take work so don't be so quick to dismiss someone. Remember, this goes both ways. For every person you dismiss, someone will probably dismiss you.
Oh and by the way, you'll probably fall in love multiple times in your life. We're all going to live for a very long time. You will change quite a bit as you get older. You will meet different people throughout your life. So just keep that in mind.
Next, let's talk about taking leaps of faith.
I have a best friend who is one of the most prominent and successful people in his industry. But he came from practically nothing and was on his own at a very young age. He said he always approached everything with a "I have nothing to lose attitude," and that is ultimately what made the difference. When you've spent your whole life doing the right thing (going to the right schools, working at the right jobs), failure sounds absolutely terrifying ("jump under the bedcovers and cower" terrifying) and thus keeps you from trying new things.
I believe very strongly that in order to live a full life, you have to take those leaps of faith. They can be anything - getting a new job in a more interesting but challenging field, starting your own business, asking someone out, doing something that your intuitive gut and rational brain disagree on.
Unfortunately, most leaps of faith probably won't work out. You'll fall on your ass, get your heart broken, get punched in the face, or a combination of all three. But you know what? When things do work out (and yes, this is WHEN and not IF), you'll be so much happier than you would have been than if you had never tried at all. If you're ever going to regret anything, regret what you did, not what you didn't do. Think about how awesome it will be when you're on your deathbed and think, "Holy cow, I have had the most amazing life! I really lived."
Lastly, let's talk about happiness.
Happiness is different for everyone. We all want different things and it's important to respect that. But I promise you that if you have these three things, you'll be happy no matter what.
1) Feeling fulfilled - No matter what you're doing with your life (working at a corporate job, traveling the world, staying at home with children, whatever), try your absolute hardest to find meaning in what you're doing everyday. If you are not happy with the day to day goings-on, you won't be very happy with many other things.
2) Being financially independent - If you are ever lucky enough to become financially independent (through an inheritance or good old fashioned saving and investing), think carefully about what you want to do with your life. It's totally fine to stay at your job. But think about what else you might want to do. Start a business. Invest in other startup ideas. Hang out more with your family and best friends. Spend money on your family and best friends. Buy 80 gold chains and go ignant. Whatever you want. Just remember that you can't take the money with you when you die so spend it loud and spend it proud.
3) Understanding and accepting the fact that luck has a large part in everything you do. Stupid, dumb, blind, random, uncontrollable luck. Some people are lucky enough to be born into rich families and never have to worry about money, some people are lucky enough to be born incredibly good-looking, some people are lucky to have been early investors in Amazon, some people are lucky enough to be genuinely happy all the time. Luck will always be a critical component in whatever you do so just accept that, and you'll feel much more at peace.
All this, dear reader, is the meaning of life. Don't overthink it. Have a good attitude, be open-minded, and keep in mind that the story is never really over (just like the killer is never really dead in the movies). Onward!
"What would you tell your 30-year-old self?" "It doesn't get easier." -Sophia Amoruso
There is a massive glut of business books / self-improvement books out there today. I've read several and I have to say, they're all pretty much the same.
A more interesting one that caught my attention in the recent years was Sophia Amoruso's "Girlboss."
Now, I don't go around hashtagging "Girlboss" and I don't refer to myself in such a manner. I even tried watching the show on Netflix but couldn't get into it. But the book and Sophia herself has stayed in my mind because I think she has a very interesting story.
Sophia was a community college dropout, she shoplifted in her youth, she dumpster-dived for food, she worked at blue collar jobs. No one, including Sophia, could have predicted that she would create Nastygal and the whole "Girlboss" phenomenon.
There has, of course, been a dichotomy between the story we hear and what actually happened (Sophia raised a ton of venture capital to grow Nastygal but it went bankrupt, Sophia is trying to position herself as a feminist powerhouse even though Nastygal didn't have a reputation for treating its female employees in the best manner, etc), but in a weird way, that's life. Human beings behave in ways that don't fit with the ideal narrative that others have constructed.
Despite all that has happened to Sophia and Nastygal, you really have to give her credit for creating a successful, multi-million dollar business (in the early years) and for having the naivete (some mistake it for fearlessness) to go through with something big.
I believe that is why Sophia has resonated with so many people. She didn't have the standard, conventional upbringing. She doesn't have any fancy school degrees. But she had grit. She had enough business and marketing savvy to grow Nastygal into a successful brand. And that is something that very few people have.
Sophia did a very interesting interview with Tim Ferriss on his podcast. One of the questions he asked her was, "What would you tell your 30 year old self?" And Sophia's response was, "It doesn't get easier." Taking on millions in venture funding doesn't suddenly mean business success. Seeing explosive revenue growth in the earlier years doesn't automatically mean that this rocket ship trend will continue. Getting married doesn't mean that you're suddenly "done" on the relationship front. (Nastygal went bankrupt the same time that Sophia's one year marriage ended. If that doesn't make you want to hide under the bedcovers and cry for about a week straight, I don't know what will).
I love her answer because it is so true. (It's probably not the most popular answer but it's the most honest answer). If you are constantly challenging yourself to grow, if you're trying new things that scare you, it doesn't get easier. You will start to feel more secure in your own skin over time but things don't get easier. New complications crop up all the time. Things are never "done" - there is always the next thing to worry about.
I'm not advocating this as the right way to live life (because it sounds stressful), but it's perhaps a way to ensure that when you're on your deathbed, you'll look back and realize that you lived a full and meaningful life.
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For everyones enjoyment, I'd like to present a bite-sized serving of funny. Following that, I will proceed to gloriously over-think the implications of Mr. Stanhope's astute observations. But first, Doug Stanhope:
Don't you hate when someone else puts something into words that you've been trying to express your whole life? I happen to be just PAST partying age, among the last Americans born in the 1970's, and I've been torturously wondering if it was really just me getting old, or if the kids really WERE getting more and more lame. We already know they're getting more clueless, but that's not really their fault (maybe). But surely they couldn't be growing LESS rambunctious, could they? That didn't make sense.
ABOVE: THE 70's
But Stanhope nailed it. He provided the missing link to my aged dilemma. When I was a young and growing Reagan Baby, I brought out the grump in my parental generation with NWA, Iron Maiden, and anything else that could be played at volumes GUARANTEED to fuck up our hearing later in life. There were films that got personally denounced by the Pope, and musical groups whose entire careers HINGED on the legal trouble they produced just by saying some shit on a record. What's the "edgiest" thing young people are into today? Emo? Is that even still around? What the FUCK?
Where are the teenagers I can be ANGRY at, instead of just feeling sorry for? Where's the Beastie Boys I can feel my blood pressure spiking over when it blasts out of a car window? I want some young'ns I'd be PROUD to chase off my lawn with a shotgun, but these dipshits don't even know which end of the spray can the paint comes out of. It's not enough to say they don't care anymore. Every generation since the 60's has made it a point not to give a shit about the things the last generation did. THESE assholes wouldn't even know what to care ABOUT. And if they ever tried, they'd probably only end up making feeble attempts to mimic the issues, themes, and genres of their elders, just like they do with their music.
The terrible conclusion I draw from all this is very similar to what Stanhope alluded to. Perhaps an end or reversal of the cycle of perpetual deviance represents the bottoming out of the soul market, if you will. This could well be a significant sign of declining culture. I have to wonder at what point some Roman generation or another looked at their children, sighed, and started complaining in the opposite direction?
In the interest of providing a possible light to the end of this depressingly sobering tunnel, I'd like to explore an opposing hypothesis. Perhaps this process is less linear than cyclical. Perhaps pussification in Western society simply skips a generation, through mechanisms not yet fully understood. It would make a certain degree of sense if you think about it broadly enough. It could be said the WWII generation were shocked by their Baby Boomer children's "deviancy", but the impression I get is that those complaints were immediately followed by a sneering of the "soft" label on top of it. After all, that was a generation that got all their youthful aggression and toil out in a five year period of either killing the shit out of people they'd never met, or working in a factory to build shit to kill people they'd never met. If those were YOUR formative years, would you really be shocked and appalled at hippies for children, or just generally disgusted? It COULD be that the majority of parental outrage that existed that time period had quite a different character than what's been related to us. I'm just saying.
Now, I'm a long way from claiming that my generation had to endure anything like a Depression and a World War, but with a lack of that we damn sure seemed to turn our destructive tendencies outward in a PLETHORA of creative ways. The government was actively declaring a War On Fun from both sides, and that lasted pretty much through 9-11. Today, most of the bullshit rules trying to curb the excess of the Reagan Babies are so indoctrinated people think it's always been that way. I'm one of the last Americans who remember a time before police acted like the military, when America looked across the vast sea and pretty much counted on doomsday at any minute, when there was FROM BIRTH a sense of imminent destruction and nothing left to do but blow your fucking mind out on whatever drugs you could find (or invent) and ride the wave into oblivion. If it wasn't gong to come from the Soviets (in the 80's), it was gonna come from somewhere, dammit (90's to the millennium).
ABOVE: THE 80's
So maybe once every few generation the progress is going to kick out a softening up level of pansy to pad the flow of time. Maybe evolution knows something we don't, and that inserting a recessive nutless gene keeps the constant progression of badassery from ripping civilization off it's hinges. Maybe the CHILDREN of the current crop of dickcheeses will be so fed-up with Mommy and Daddy's entitlement-minded Ritalin and Prozac rattled brainpans, they'll LONG to see some ass kicking again. Maybe, with careful guidance from their crazy-as-fuck grandparents and great uncles and shit, they'll embark on a magnificent quest to make this country FUN again. Parental advisories will be pissed on, cigarettes will be fired up indoors, and PG movies will show tits again! Maybe…
That would be morning in America AND change I could believe in.
So to any unborn fetuses out there that aren't being dosed with a lethal amount of sedatives because your mother is an idiot, and can one day grow to read this… Listen to your old people. We'll be in our fifties and sixties when you come of age. Know this… the world wasn't always this boring. We can show you a different way.
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The largest annual trade show event in the UK for the painting and decorating industry, this year's National Painting and Decorating Show, is not to be missed.
To be held from 9.30am to 4pm on Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 November 2013 at Jaguar Hall 1, Ricoh Arena, in Coventry, the show promises more exhibitors, more products and more demonstrations than ever before in its 19-year history.
Painting and decorating professionals, trainees and apprentices from across the sector will be able to browse new products, network with others from the industry and watch live presentations and practical demonstrations of new equipment and tools.
As well as the very latest ideas and innovations from both UK and overseas manufacturers, the event will also offer tradesmen and apprentices discounts and special offers across a wide range of products.
Run in conjunction with Painting and Decorating News (PDN), the online news resource for professional painters and decorators, the show will feature exhibitors from all over the world, from countries including America, Germany, Holland, Italy, Sweden and Romania. Crown Paints, Building Adhesives, Decorshade, Dulux Trade, Flex Tools, Leyland Paints and One Piece Wallpaper are just some of the brands that will feature at this year's show.
Event manager at the Ricoh Arena, Chris Owen, confirmed that the show just keeps on getting bigger and better. "The exhibitors list is a who's who of the painting and decorating world with all the top suppliers from the UK and overseas attending," he said of last year's show.
"There are also plenty of experts to give advice and information on boosting business as well as up-to-date legal information about sustainability and the environment," he added, heightening expectations about this year's event, which is said to be tipped to attract more visitors than ever before.
Entry to the show is free while tickets are still available, so visit www.paintshow.co.uk for more information.


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Team members update the task board continuously each sprint; if someone thinks of a new task ("test a new machine learning algorithm"), she writes a new card and puts it on the wall. Either during or before the daily scrum, estimates are changed (up or down), and cards are moved around the board.
Each row on the Scrum board is a user story, which is the unit of work we encourage teams to use for their product backlog.
During the sprint planning meeting, the team selects the product backlog items they can complete during the next Spring. Each product backlog item is turned into multiple sprint backlog items. Each of these is represented by one task card that is placed on the Scrumboard.
- Story (User Story): The story description ("As a user we want to…") shown on that row.
- Ongoing: Any card being worked on goes here. The programmer who chooses to work on it moves it over when she's ready to start the task. Often, this happens during the daily scrum when someone says, "I'm going to work on the boojum today."
- Testing: A lot of tasks have corresponding test task cards. So, if there's a "Code the boojum class" card, there is likely one or more task cards related to testing: "Test the boojum", "Write FitNesse tests for the boojum," "Write FitNesse fixture for the boojum,"
- Done: Cards pile up over here when they're done. They're removed at the end of the sprint. Sometimes we remove some or all during a sprint if there are a lot of cards.
Optionally, depending on the team, the culture, the project and other considerations:
- Notes: Just a place to jot a note or two.
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Everybody has problems in their lives; consequently, we're all looking for solutions. If you want to make money, you need to figure out a way to solve your readers' problems something that they'll pay for. It sounds really simple, but it isn't; just ask any blogger who's tried to make money online.
A couple of years ago, Sonia Simone of Copyblogger read a Newsweek editorial that featured celebrity blogger Daniel Lyons, also known as Fake Steve Jobs. This is a man who entertained lots and lots of readers for two years by pretending to be Apple CEO Steve Jobs and posting humorous blog entries. Lyons said that there was no money in blogging. As proof, he cited his best day, on which he received 500,000 visitors. What did he make in AdSense earnings on that day? About $100. For that entire month, he hardly broke $1,000 in AdSense earnings.
What does it mean if a celebrity blogger can't make money at it? It could mean there's no money in blogging...or it could mean that he wasn't solving anyone's problems. Simone correctly pointed out that we're used to not paying for entertainment online and entertainment is really all that Fake Steve Jobs provided. His readers aren't coming to his site to solve any kind of real-world problem, other than 'how can I kill 10 minutes before my boss gets back from lunch?' Simone noted.
True, Fake Steve Jobs was using AdSense. Many content-focused sites include AdSense. We're used to the ad-supported model from television, but it doesn't always work well online with AdSense. Simone noted that it usually works best when the reader is coming to the site to figure out a solution to a problem. If an ad presents a relevant solution to that problem, the ad can be effective. But it's very hard to get that kind of perfect match.
If you want to reach your readers, and make money doing it, you need to offer solutions to their problems. How do you know what their problems are? Think about what keeps you awake at night. Find out what keeps them awake at night. Then find a way to fix the issue. As Simone observed, The real Steve Jobs sells beautiful, easy-to-use, lovable tools that make his customers' lives better. If Fake Steve Jobs wanted to make money, he would have had to do some work to figure out how he could do the same.
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Alice Through The Looking Glass - DVD Review
Review by Rob Carnevale
IT seems like an age since Tim Burton first delivered Alice in Wonderland, earning over a billion at the global box office and paving the way for Disney to roll out more live action updates from its animated library.
A sequel has been inevitable ever since but while James Bobin's follow-up retains many Burton-esque qualities, this latest trip to Underland proves something of an anti-climax.
The problems are manifold, starting with a curious lack of emotional investment and extending to missed opportunities with the material, to name but two.
The film starts brightly enough, at sea, with Alice (once again played by Mia Wasikowska) now the captain of her father's ship and mid-chase with some pirates. It's slickly executed and visually stunning.
Once back on dry land, however, Alice is faced with losing her vessel in order to save her Mother's home. Dismayed, she also finds herself lured back to Underland where The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) has fallen gravely ill. In order to save him, she must find his parents, even though they were thought to have perished at the hands of The Jabberwocky, and so heads back in time in an attempt to uncover the truth about their fate.
In doing so, Alice finds herself battling Time (Sacha Baron Cohen) himself and discovering hidden truths about some of the other inhabitants of Underland.
As high as these stakes sound, however, Bobin's film struggles to keep viewers as gripped as it should. The middle section lacks momentum, while the characters feel less interesting this time around.
Admittedly, a lot of CS Lewis' source material from Through The Looking Glass was milked by Burton first time around, meaning there's ground to make up. But while this could have been fertile in terms of what it could have said about feminism, ends up feeling tokenistic at best. Worse, a lot of the emotion feels forced and spoon-fed.
Bobin, who has previously impressed with The Muppets and Borat, is more interested in spectacle or eccentricity. But while the film looks good visually, the quirks irritate.
Depp's Mad Hatter lacks sympathy, Wasikowska's Alice doesn't really grow as a character, Anne Hathaway's mannerisms feel over-exaggerated and Helena Bonham Carter's tantrums are much less fun and menacing second time around.
Cohen's Time, meanwhile, is the oddest creation of the lot – part man, part clock parts, he's by turns camp and sinister, yet struggles to convince as either. His accent, meanwhile, is too diverting, emerging as a cross between Austrian filmmaker Werner Herzog and 'get me to the chopper' Schwarzenegger.
Bobin does at least ensure the final race against time does excite and his film does briefly awake from its slumber. But the final few moments revert back to cheap sentiment and message making about the importance of family and time. If you take the one about not wasting time at its word, you may well want to skip this entirely.
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Since my last post in November recording the milestone of our first wedding here at 10 Fitch, Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Years Day have all come & gone. We closed the inn for 3 days at Thanksgiving & Rodney's mom, stepdad, one sister & niece came and spent the holiday with us. Christmas we were closed for 4 days and our boys Raith & Ryan, as well as my sister, her husband and their 4 young children came to visit and saw 10 Fitch for the first time. My brother, his girlfriend and her daughter also made the 5 hour drive to spend the day after Christmas with us. Our granddaughter Raythy, came and spent 5 days with us the week before Christmas and we had a marvelous time with everyone! Here are some photos of us playing outside with Raythy.
Here is a photo of grandma Sally & Raythy that I took while they were coloring in the library. Can you believe those baby blues?
We were open for New Year's and past guests Colleen & Craig Prince brought their close friends Linda & John Shwartz to spend a few days and ring in the New Year at 10 Fitch together. It was great seeing Colleen & Craig again so soon and meeting their friends.
Just before Christmas we hired a company to totally re-do the 10 Fitch website but it's been slow moving because I haven't sent the photos over to them to work with. I'm just figuring out how to use the new camera I got before Lee & Gary Alger were wed here in November and I had some knee surgery about 4 weeks ago that laid me up for a bit. But, now I'm back on track and hope to get everything in order for Acorn so they can get going on the new site. I hope that they are able to have it completed by the end of May.
Yesterday I was working on the photos here at my desk and I looked out the window and saw a deer foraging for food at the edge of the property. I grabbed my new camera and snapped a few photos. It just amazes me that we have so much wild life here in our back yard. We are in the middle of the historic district in the city of Auburn and yet we have had deer, wild turkeys, raccoons, and a groundhog visit us from time to time. I took these photos right inside the kitchen through the glass of the sliding doors that go out onto the deck.
It's the middle of a long, cold winter here in the FInger Lakes and business, quite frankly, is slow. We are longing for spring as I'm sure everyone is, and decided to run a special now through the end of March. Come and stay in our beautiful spring-like suite, Garden View, at 10 Fitch 2 nights or more Sun-Thurs and get the special price of only $90 a night including breakfast! That's a real bargain at half off the regular room rate.
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
On bright side
Remember that every situation has a bright side.
It just depends on your attitude and how you look at the situation. Be wise.
I woke up to the cold and rainy morning almost every day. I wouldn't mind at all if I could sleep in a bit longer. Thank god that school holiday has just begun and everyone could sleep in.
Last weekend's weather was the opposite; just nice and warm.
The kids even had time for a little dip in the pool while I enjoyed the breezy and glorious evening sky.
Kids. They always have the energy and need outdoor fun to let go of themselves.
We had a short walk in the park few Sunday ago.
Expecting a warm day today as it was foggy this morning when I got up from the bed.
We couldn't ask for a better day. (and beautiful weather)
Posted by Rose world at 1:33 PM
9 comments:
Not going to see the father, spend a week there?
- March 12, 2016 at 2:48 PM
- Yannie said...
Happy weekend,Rose.
- March 12, 2016 at 3:38 PM
- Nancy Chan said...
I too would love going for a walk in the park. You have a beautiful park there. The weather here is very hot!
- March 12, 2016 at 10:35 PM
- Królowa Karo said...
"Every situation has a bright side"... very clever sentence.
- March 13, 2016 at 5:46 AM
- Lei Angeles said...
Seems like a perfect weather Rose. Love the photo of the Calachuchi flower.
- March 13, 2016 at 10:44 AM
- mun said...
Good that sometimes the weather is just nice for a good walk in the park or a swim in the pool. Letting the children have some exercises in the open air sure is a change. Hope you get to sleep in during the holidays now.
- March 13, 2016 at 1:41 PM
- Somewhere in Singapore said...
Oh ya, this week is school holiday...
- March 13, 2016 at 8:41 PM
- Huai Bin said...
Looks like a beautiful day! :)
I hear a heatwave is coming though, keep reading about it in the papers. It was very hot today in KL.
- March 14, 2016 at 1:50 AM
- Sharon D said...
Wise words indeed! :D
- March 26, 2016 at 9:45 PM
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
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- jodi said...
These are glorious...the primrose reminds me that I don't have any in the house yet, (it's still going to be weeks before there are any blooming outdoors around here.
- Ki said...
Hi Jodi,
All of our outdoor primroses are nowhere near blooming either, save one. We have a purple flowered one which has tried to bloom almost all winter. I hurriedly glimpsed a flash of purple when I passed the plant. The indoor ones look a bit ratty because we put back the really nice ones when we saw we could buy 5 past bloom plants for the same price. :) Thanks for your comment.
- Pam/Digging said...
It looks like spring has sprung. Lovely flowers!
- Ki said...
Hi Pam,
I had trouble earlier today accessing your web site. It has happened sporadically before too so I thought I'd let you know. It came up nicely when I clicked your comment link now.
Indeed, spring is grudgingly awakening from its slumber. But still no blossoms on the usual harbinger the forsythias and certainly not anywhere close to your wonderful garden which seems to be like our garden in May! Thanks for stopping by.
- Entangled said...
Yay! Snowdrops are nice, but crocuses are colorful. I'm so tired of gray and brown.
I was at a garden center yesterday and they were well-stocked with spring annuals - pansies, violas, and....primroses. Very colorful.
- Ki said...
Hi Entangled,
We planted quite a few of the snowdrops but these are the only plants which seemed to have survived. I think we had 3 flowers last year and the same amount this year. I envisioned a carpet of white nodding flowers. ;(
Isn't this kinda early for garden centers to sell outdoor plants? I guess it really is so much warmer in VA. It does seem like the stores are putting out plants much sooner than before - I guess to capitalize on the pent up desire for live plants and flowers. Anything to make more money eh?
- Entangled said...
Ki, this particular garden center has a large covered area (sort of like a greenhouse with removable walls and roof) where they display the annuals very early. But around here, places like Lowe's will set out a rack of pansies on the first warm day. I was tempted to pick up a few pansies, but I think I'll wait a couple more weeks.
- Ki said...
Rats, I write a reply and I receive a Blogger message saying there was an error in posting the message this has happened more than once since yesterday.
Maybe the pansies in the garden center are the cold tolerant variety. We planted some a few falls ago and they started to bloom the following spring almost as soon as the earliest bulbs. They aren't long lived though nor did they re-seed so we don't have them anymore. However the wild Johnny-jump-ups we have are already blooming.
I'll make a copy of this reply so I won't have to type it again. ;)
- lisa said...
Hooray for spring! Congratulations...we are having temps in the mid-30's...at least...finally. :)
- Ki said...
You got walloped this year. I hope all your plants survived. Our crocus are playing peek a boo with the alternating 3 day intervals of warm and cold temps. Other plants are only grudgingly setting forth buds.
Did you ever get the orchid order from Shooting Star Nursery?
- Blackswamp_Girl said...
Beautiful... and great pictures. I love the slanting light.
- Ki said...
Thanks Kim. The maple trees are setting out their leaf buds too. Spring is near. Can't be soon enough for you mid-westerners though?
- mss @ Zanthan Gardens said...
Those crocus photographs are especially stunning.
- Ki said...
Thanks MSS. I just saw that the light lilac colored crocus has produced a tiny plant about 2 feet from the mother clump. I only noticed it because it's producing a very tiny flower. I don't know if the plant started from seed or more likely by transplanting a bulblet when digging around the mother plant. :) The accidental gardener.
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A Rutherglen teenager who suffers from a rare genetic condition is set to play his part in the biggest fairytale tie in Scottish football history.
Jordan Mount (15) will lead out his beloved Celtic in Sunday's historic tie with East Kilbride FC at Airdrie's Excelsior Stadium.
Leading out the non-league side will be his best pal, Max McGhee.
Both boys have battled the odds. Jordan was born with the rare genetic condition Hurler Syndrome for which he has received two bone marrow transplants while Max was diagnosed with a drug-resistent form of epilepsy, Lennox Gastaut Syndrome, which causes frequent and multiple seizures.
As well as attending the same East Kilbride school, Sanderson High, Jordan and Max play football at the EK Sunday Club at K-Park, which is supported by East Kilbride Community Trust (EKCT).
It will be the second time Jordan has been mascot for Celtic. Last year he led the team out in the league cup final at Hampden against Dundee United, with the Hoops running out 2-0 winners.
"Jordan just lives for Celtic but he really didn't expect to be a mascot for a second time," said mum Jackie. "He and Max are such close friends it couldn't be any more special for the two of them – although Jordan is pretty confident of a Celtic win – 3-0 is his prediction.
"Myself and his dad will be there on Sunday – I don't usually go to the football but I couldn't miss this, I am so proud.
"And everyone at the school is so pleased for the two of them – all the other pupils and staff are so supportive and always encourage each other in whatever they do."
At the end of last year Jordan got to meet the stars of Manchester United as part of the Manchester United Foundation's 'Dream Day' scheme for youngsters with life-limiting illnesses.
Max's mum, Seonaid, reckons the fact his best pal will be beside him on the day will make it an even better occasion for the pair: "He loves his football and this is such a special day not only for Max, particularly as his best friend Jordan will be out there with him, but for the town.
"There is a good bit of friendly banter between the two but if EKFC were to pull off a shock win over Celtic that would really be the icing on the cake."
EKCT are taking over 600 additional support needs (ASN) children from local bases as well and their families along with mainstream pupils to the game on Sunday.
Monique McAdams, Chief Executive of EKCT, said: "We are delighted to be able to support these wonderful children and their fantastic families, who are part of the bigger East Kilbride Football Club.
"We were honoured when East Kilbride FC picked us to be their charity for the day and it seemed completely fitting that two of the children we work with during the year would be put forward to be the mascots for the game."


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You're a Panther. And you love Roary. Every time you see him at football games, you cheer. When you find Roary-themed memorabilia in the bookstore or off-campus, you have to take a closer look. And, yes, you probably have a collection of Roary items scattered around your house – from t-shirts and folders to stuffed animals.
But, how much do you actually know about Roary? For most of us, we only know he's our mascot.
But today is Roary Day. It's only fitting that we get to learn more about Roary and celebrate him for who he is – not just for what he does around campus.
Name: Roary
Campus: All of them! I go wherever Panther territory is.
Hometown: I'm a Miami kid. And, yes, I plan to stay in Miami at FIU always! They say home is where the heart is, right? And my heart is at FIU!
What do you do in your role at FIU? In a nutshell: I share my enthusiasm for FIU at sports games, parades and campus events! I get to remind people what it means to be blue and gold! If there's one thing you should know about me: I stand for things I believe in, and I believe in FIU.
Number of years at FIU: All my life. I began as the mascot in August of 2002.
What is your favorite place on campus? That's a hard one. I've got several.
My days are pretty busy, so when I need to just relax or have a quiet moment, I like to sit by any of the ponds and just take in the scenery. I could literally sit for hours and watch the scene from the Bayview Student Living at FIU apartment complex overlooking the bay at BBC. And watching the sunrise from there – yep, it the best seat in the house. There's also this one pond and a bridge at MMC – you've probably heard of it – where you get to watch turtles and fish and stuff. It's called the Kissing Bridge, and it's one of my favorite spots – if you know what I mean.
Of course, I like hitting the gym at both campuses, and the Cage at FIU's football stadium is also one of my favorite training spots – I run up the stadium stairs there (great workout!).
And, now that Vicky's Café is open at MMC, you might catch me with a pastelito and cafecito in hand at 3:05 p.m.
Words that best describe you: Enthusiastic. Outgoing. Optimistic. Loyal. Some people say I'm cute. I prefer debonair. Or cool.
First paying job: Mascot– landed my dream job as soon as I joined the workforce!
Favorite things to watch: Pink Panther, Rocky, He Got Game and Mighty Ducks 2
Fun facts about you: I run 35 miles an hour (I've heard that makes a great cross country runner); I work out three times a week; and I'm the 12th Panther at football.
I'm also friends with many of the other mascots in Florida: Billy the Marlin, Stanley the Panther, Burnie the fireball and TD the dolphin. They even came to one of my birthday celebrations earlier this year. Good times.
What do you do when you are not working at FIU? I love taking long walks on the beach on moonlit nights… Alright, fine, I like going to the beach. And, while I'm there I make sure to get a good tan. People expect my fur to be golden.
What do you enjoy most in your position? Sharing my enthusiasm – joy is contagious, and that's what I do! Wherever I go, I make people smile, I help them find the passion to cheer and laugh and be proud of being a Panther!
Spreading enthusiasm is rewarding. Just take a look at this photo. Look at these awesome kids at the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Parade. Look at the happiness on their faces. Maybe they think they're kind of lucky to meet me. But the truth is, I'm the one lucky enough to meet them. There's nothing else I could do in the world that would make me feel as accomplished as this.
What do you think your fellow Panthers should know about FIU? There's lots of pretty awesome people at FIU, and they're doing great things. Just a few examples: Student Jose Fernando Rojas Sanchez interned at the Audi lightweight design center in Neckarsulm, Germany; T.Y. Hilton, who played FIU football a few years back, now plays for the Indianapolis Colts in the NFL; Dr. Aileen Marty, a faculty member at the Wertheim College of Medicine, fights Ebola and Zika; and thousands of students ready to make a difference graduate every semester (4,950 graduated at the end of fall 2016). So, how can I not cheer for FIU? How can I not be enthusiastic about everything we do here and who we are?
Come help me cheer tonight at 7 p.m. at the men's basketball game against Middle Tennessee State University at the FIU Arena.
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Sometimes it's easy for me to forget, but I'm not really a pessimist or much of a realist either. When I learned to read, books became my escape from the world. I traveled around the world and to places unknown-labeled fiction. I witnessed battles and acts of heroism. And I experienced sadness, joy, and love alongside my favorite characters. Then there were the dreams that persisted when I closed my eyes at night. I could fly. Most important of all I could be loved in these dreams; unconditionally.
Even now when I have nightmares more than dreams, I take comfort in the fact my brain is still creating. And whenever so often a dream does blossom overnight, I enjoy the simplicity. I enjoy the fact that my dreams aren't corrupted by sex, fear, insecurities. Honestly, it's like I still have a part of me left from childhood that is innocent and hopeful; that doesn't exist anywhere else.
So at the end of the day, when I'm complaining about the world, or people, it's not because I truly hate either but because I love both so much that I can't let them…not live up to their potential. I'm critical out of love and concern and because I have faith. ((Apathy would be the opposite of love.))
I feel like that is something my family doesn't get about me. If I thought the world was even half as awful as they like to believe it is, I wouldn't be here.
On a similar note, I've been thinking a lot about fairytales and true love and happiness. (and yes! I am currently watching Once Upon a Time and Grimm.)
5 years ago, the old me, believed completely in all of the above. Yeah I was annoyed that I was single. And that I had no close friends to share my problems with but I still thought abstract concepts like true love existed and that one day maybe that could happen to me.
Reality is a bitch. When do I give up on dreams? Love?
I sometimes have this doubt that maybe I'm placing my life too much into the What if catergory.


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General Off-Topic Board / Re: Plants 'recognize' their siblings« on: June 15, 2007, 02:00:15 PM »
Well once the vegetarians realize what they are doing to the plants, and stop eating them, they will grow weak from starvation. Then we can swoop in and eat them. Problem solved. Until we run out a vegetarians, then we can start eating illegal immigrants. Two problems solved with one stone, thats what they call thinking like a lawyer. I like it.Illegal immigrants are too stringy. It comes fron a small diet and strenuous physical activity. It'll have to be politicians. They're as juicy as veal!


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Grace Marie is the main character of The Last Breaths. She's young, determined, and quite wise for her age. I threw her into the beginnings of a zombie apocalypse (what I've deemed "the plague" and "necromorbi") to see how she would fare. It's interesting, to be sure.
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Author: D. L. Hathaway
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Age: 23
Date of Birth: 15 March 2009
Place of Origin: Lafayette, Indiana
Currently Located: Coshocton, Ohio
Height: 5' 7''
Weight: 146 lbs
Hair Color: Light brown
Eye Color: Hazel
Occupation: Student, Customer Service Representative
Nickname(s): Gracie
Appears In: The Last Breaths
Born in Lafayette, Grace's parents were contemplating moving when she was still a young child. On one of many trips out of state, Grace was left with her grandfather. Her parents were scoping out the area. They never returned. Grace's father was confirmed dead at the scene of a car accident involving their car, but her mother was never found.
Afterwards, Grace's grandfather took her and her older brother, Aric in. The man raised Grace, for the most part. Aric, however left as soon as he was able. With the help of her grandfather, Grace was able to put herself through a few semesters of school before she finally got herself on her feet financially.
She moved out of her grandfather's house at age 20, renting a house a few cities away. Shortly thereafter, she adopted a tortoiseshell cat from an animal rescue who had named her Calleigh. Grace quickly took a liking to the name.
Grace is generally a kind and caring woman. She looks in on her older neighbors frequently. Despite this, she has been known to be a little short when it comes to patience. She likes her routine, though she adapts to change rather easily. She would like to think that she isn't very judgmental. While she isn't as judgmental as others, she certainly passes judgment - especially on the main female news anchor who reports on her favorite news station.
Skills and Abilities
Grace is especially skilled at singing. She's good with computers and animals, as well. She has exceptional people skills, simply because she knows how to fake being friendly even when she is stressed and frustrated. She doesn't have any "special" skills, as this story takes place in a very human, though slightly futuristic Earth.
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Marie Perret was born in London. As a child she loved painting and drawing and dreamed of being an artist & archaeologist. She did not follow traditional art studies. After studying literature at university she decided to explore her feelings and intuition. This led her to an intensive study of the body/mind connection and to training in Iyengar yoga and also as a body psychotherapist. She then went on to an in depth study and practice of Transpersonal Psychology, Meditation,and Spiritual Healing at Psykisk Centre in Denmark.
In 1986, whilst living in Switzerland and struggling to learn German she discovered Spontaneous Painting. She painted very regularly for four years and to her delight discovered that this was freeing her own creative energy and leading her to explore the depths of her own being.
Painting was an amazing liberation for me.It was as though I had had a great river dammed up inside me and spontaneous painting was like opening a sluice gate and letting the waters flow freely again.
Marie became fascinated by the creative process and its natural healing potential. With her understanding of subtle energy and her practice and experience of meditation, she realised that creativity was not a luxury but of vital importance in human life.
Spontaneous creativity gives the means to free vitality & life energy from restrictions. Besides the great joy in being free to choose colours and forms and play with art materials, a real self-healing process happens. When practised regularly, it is an extraordinary tool for self-exploration, taking us beyond blockages into a contact with our own wisdom and spiritual dimension.
Besides continuing to paint regularly, Marie has explored other forms of spontaneous creative expression – intuitive singing, clay modelling and movement – in her search to understand the healing aspect of creativity.
Marie has worked therapeutically with individuals and groups for many years. She has taught in England, Switzerland, France & Ireland in a variety of settings. She continues to share her fascination with creativity and lead others into a process of colourful self-discovery in her Art Synthesis groups and in individual sessions. She also gives slide show/talks using her own paintings & talks about Creativity and Healing. She has written a book about her work with creative expression that has been published in German by Drachen Verlag in 2008 and in English by Books on Demand.
I feel as if finally I did become an art archaeologist, helping people to explore their inner depths and connect to the beauty of life through creativity.


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Where Can I Find Free Online Computer Engineering Courses?
You don't have to pursue a career in information technology to study computer engineering. Increasing your knowledge of this field can help you understand the design and function of your own PC. Use the free online courses discussed here to learn more about computer engineering. Schools offering Computer Engineering degrees can also be found in these popular choices.
What You Need to Know
Accredited universities offer free, non-credit computer engineering courses online. To help you fully understand the concepts presented, courses may include video lectures, lecture notes, readings, assignments, projects and exams. Your course may focus on topics, such as software engineering, hardware engineering or programming languages. It's important to note that since these classes involve hands-on design projects, the full scope of what on-campus students learned may not be provided to you in the free versions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Courses in computer engineering that were once taught to students on campus are now available for free online study through MIT's OpenCouseWare (OCW). These classes include downloadable materials to assist you in your learning.
Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving
Open to both undergraduate and graduate students, this class was originally offered in Fall 2012. This course can provide you with foundational knowledge in areas like object-oriented software design and development.
What Will I Learn?
You'll explore computer and software design applications for engineering, management and science. You might study programming and numerical methods, graphical user interfaces and data structures.
What Assignments Can I Complete?
Assignments include 11 problem sets, some with accompanying Zip files. Quizzes and final exams from five different semesters are included as well. You can complete reading assignments in course textbooks if you choose. These textbooks may be purchased via Amazon.com.
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Computer System Engineering
This is another free OCW course offered in a non-credit format. Two professors originally taught this undergraduate class at MIT.
What Will I Learn?
You'll study computer software and hardware engineering concepts related to client and server design, system reliability and computer memory. The course covers the influence of computers on society.
What Assignments Are Included?
You might decide to complete two computer system design projects. Six assignments that involve using a computer to solve system engineering problems are also discussed. Instructions for two optional written assignments are provided.
Can I Use Any Course Materials?
You can access lecture notes and accompanying slides, videos of most lectures and Part II of the course textbook. Quizzes from the 2009, 2008, 2007 and 2006 versions of this course are available; solutions are included.
Computer Language Engineering
This class was originally taught to undergraduates by two professors. Exams and projects are also included in this course.
What Will I Learn?
You could learn to troubleshoot problems involved with implementing advanced programming languages. The course covers topics, such as the structure and function of compilers, software building tools and program optimization.
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Three practice quizzes without solutions are available. The course provides instructions for five projects involving the design and implementation of a computer program called a compiler.
What Materials Are Provided?
Lecture notes are available in PDF format. Audio and video presentations of some lectures are available as well. You can also access a list of websites that are relevant to course topics.
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