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Saturday, May 13, 2000
I didn't get much sleep. I was too wired with everything going on. I slept an hour or two but was wide-awake at 2 a.m. I got on the Internet and surfed until 4 a.m. before becoming sleepy enough to go back to bed. I was also eagerly awaiting a phone call from my mother or brother.
My sister had finally contacted them before they left Charlotte. She had told them I would be going back to Madison and to call me from the Hotel in London as soon as they arrived. I had thought I had asked for them to call me from Gatwick so I was expecting a call from them between 4 and 5 a.m. By 7 a.m. I had still not heard from them so I left a message on my answering machine for them to call my sister to get the information I needed to let them know.
Luckily, they had all the vouchers for the hotel and airport transfers with them. I wasn't sure how I would get from Gatwick to London but I knew I would find a way. My initial plan was to take the Gatwick Express to London and then take a Taxi to the Hotel.
I only had one bag and one carry-on, but my one bag was HEAVY. I actually had my old reliable red bag that I have used for years. This I fit into a second canvas bag (that fit like a second skin). This way, I would have one completely empty bag I could fill with goodies in England.
My bag was so heavy that I actually left a few items at home that I decided I didn't need. Plus, I wasn't looking forward to carry this bag all over London while trying to get to the hotel.
I called Sheila and gave her a list of information to pass on to Mom and Alan. This included: 1) exchange some money at the airport ($100 or so); 2) buy an all day tube pass to get around the city; 3) use the tickets to Les Miserables that were at the theater; 4) talk with the people who run the airport transfers and see if I could get a transfer for Sunday morning.
Dwayne took me back to the bus stop where I caught the 7:30 a.m. bus to Chicago. Once again the trip was non-eventful. I managed to sleep most of the way. This time the bus let me off at the opposite end of the terminal from the ticket desk. Fortunately, I was able to grab a luggage cart left on the sidewalk. At the check-in desk, I asked for an exit row or a bulkhead seat for my flights. I was assured that I had these seats for both flights (first flight was to Philadelphia and then to Gatwick).
I stopped to call my sister, Sheila. Mom and Alan had arrived in London and made it to the hotel. Sheila had passed on all the information that I had left with her, and I should see them tomorrow morning. She also said that someone had stolen my mother's pre-paid phone card number and had used up 450 of the 500 minutes on the card. So she had given them her card number that had 500 minutes available. They had also arranged transportation for me from the airport to the hotel using the shuttle service.
I then went to the gate to await my flight. While waiting I had a very pleasant talk with a lady who would be on the same flight. I include her story just to remind myself that regardless of my misfortune, others had a worse time.
It seems she had been scheduled to fly out the previous day to Philadelphia, and her flight had been cancelled due to the weather. She, and many others, had been rebooked on an American flight scheduled to depart at 7 p.m. that night. The American flight was delayed an hour or so. They finally boarded, only to be told that due to a mechanical problem, the flight would be delayed several more hours. I forget all of the details but eventually around 2 a.m. in the morning (they had repeatedly been told that the flight would soon leave) the flight was cancelled because the Pilots had reached their 12 hour limit. They were then told that there would be a flight out at 6 a.m.
Of course, this meant that it wouldn't be worth trying to get to a hotel. Everything around the airport was full and it would take an hour to get into town, leaving less than two hours at a hotel before having to return to the airport. The 6 a.m. flight was cancelled and finally they were rebooked back on USAir. This lady had kept calm throughout all of this. She did tell me that there were many very irate people.
An hour before the flight was to leave we were informed that it would be delayed for 45 minutes. Oh no, not again! With only this slight delay, we were soon on board and on our way to Philadelphia. It was a nice smooth flight, and I managed to sleep some on the way. We were also served a small box lunch consisting of a sandwich, chips, and dessert.
As we came in over Philadelphia, I had a beautiful view of the city. I saw the football stadium and the Naval ship yards. Seeing the Mothball fleet of old cruisers was very interesting. Philadelphia airport is huge. At least, it seemed that way. I am not sure how well it is laid out, but it seemed I had to walk a mile or more to get to my international departure gate.
I stopped to take a picture of Hymie's Delicatessen (the name of a friend's pet, Hymie that is, not delicatessen). I also purchased a bottle of water and sat down to wait for my next flight. During this time, the monitor suddenly changed to show that the flight was leaving an hour late. Arggghhh! Then, it suddenly changed back to show everything was on time. They are trying to mess with my mind.
The plane we were using was a Boeing 767. This is a huge plane. It takes a long time to board everyone. I found my seat and it was neither an exit row nor a bulkhead. It was one row behind the bulkhead. This plane has 2-3-2 seat configurations. The left two seats of the bulkhead row in the middle section were empty. I asked the flight attendant if I could move to one of these seats. She said fine as long as no one else had been assigned the seat.
Eventually, the plane was completely filled except for these two seats. Finally, my luck had changed. Not only did I have a bulkhead seat with the extra legroom; I also had an empty seat beside me. As we taxied out, the Pilot came on and announced that we would be waiting 45 minutes to take off (here we go again). Fog was forecasted for Gatwick at 6 a.m. so instead of getting there and circling until the fog lifted, we would wait on the ground here and leave when we could arrive at 7 a.m. instead.
I was seated with a man who had a very pronounced accent. I asked if he was from England and was shocked when he said he was from Connecticut. We ended up talking for half the flight about all kinds of things. I found out he was a manager in Computer Ops so we had common backgrounds. I was amazed to find out he was 42 when he looked no older than I did.
Across the row on the right side of the plane was a young black teenager. I had first noticed him at the airport. He was wearing a very large gold chain and was dressed in "gang style" clothes. At the airport I noticed an older white gentleman and his wife talking with him while we waited to board. And while on board he was continually helping people, showing them how to operate the bathroom doors (more below). So while I had initially judged him one way, I had an entirely different opinion by the end of the trip.
I will say this for USAir. They have the nicest flight attendants I have met. Throughout the flight, they were continually bringing the drink cart around. I did enjoy a gin and tonic and got another gin to add to my collection at home. The dinner was very good. It was a chicken and potato dish, cake, salad, crackers and cheese. The movie was a waste of time. I think it was called "Topsy Turvey" or some such. I only watched a few minutes.
Throughout the flight there was a continual line of people at the toilets. And none of them seem to know how to open the door or tell if they were occupied. We repeatedly showed them where to push to open the door or if they were in use. A few people also tried to use the extra room in my row as a way to cross from one side of the plane to the other. I finally slumped down in the seat and put my knees against the bulkhead thus preventing anyone else from asking.
After dinner I slipped my shoes off, took out my inflatable pillow, and managed to sleep several hours. Towards the end of the flight, a light breakfast was served. Looking out the window I could see several other planes in a holding pattern around the airport. After circling once or twice we began to descend. It was so foggy that I didn't see the ground until the wheels hit. We then taxied for 20 minutes to reach the terminal. I was just hoping that another plane wouldn't land and plow into us.


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Requirements. The most crucial part of development. You can overcome poor planning; you can overcome poor coding. But nobody has ever succeeded with poor requirements. Requirements are the underpinnings for whatever you intend to build, whether it be software, hardware, consumer product, service or anything else. Simply put, only the right requirements will get you the right solution.
Requirements discovery is no longer about producing large, unreadable (and often unread) specifications. Requirements today is about uncovering the real needs of the problem space, understanding the needs of the people who use your solution, the environment for the solution, and then, in a timely manner, delivering requirements that are concise, clear and testable.
"Absolutely fantastic course, will be extremely useful for me." — Leanne O'Connor, Application Development Officer, Mt. Eliza Business SchoolThis workshop — presented by a real business analyst — gives you a thorough and well-established process for uncovering the real requirements, testing them for correctness, and ensuring that all the requirements have been discovered. The process is used with variations by both agile and traditional projects. It starts with the business, for it is only within the business that you discover the real needs. When you know the real needs, it becomes possible to determine what will best serve those needs, and to write the requirements or stories to build the right solution.
You Will Learn How to:
Is This for Me?
Yes, if you want to be involved in delivering the right systems — the ones that get used. Your title is probably business analyst, systems analyst, product owner, project leader or manager, requirements engineer, consultant, product or program manager or similar. Team members on agile projects benefit from understanding how requirements are best done in agile projects.
"The continual use of real examples and experience made it all come to life. The best course I have ever attended. All questions were answered and none dodged". — Wes Mar, Senior Analyst, Insurance Australia Group.
Users, software customers and business stakeholders have found that this course equips them to participate more effectively in the requirements process, and so ensure that the end solution matches what they really need.
What will I learn? What will I be better at?The Requirements Process
Project Blastoff
The course begins with an overview of the process. It looks at how agile and traditional projects both need requirements but are done differently, the requirements food chain, and the topics to be covered by the course. Students discuss with the instructor their particular problems and objectives for the course.
Trawling for Requirements
The blastoff builds a foundation for your requirements project by establishing its scope, its stakeholders and the goal. The scope is the problem space or the business area to be studied. The stakeholders are the people with an interest in the outcome. The goal is testable, and ensures that the project will deliver stakeholder value. The Blastoff is also there to ensure that the project is viable and worthwhile.
Functional Requirements
At the core of any requirements process is the ability to get people to tell you what they really need, rather than their perceived solution, or what they think you might be able to deliver. We show you how to use business events, apprenticing, use case workshops, interviewing, brainstorming, personas and other techniques to discover exactly what your stakeholders do, and what they need to do it.
This section introduces the brown cow model that gives the business analyst different ways of thinking about the problem, and allows the essence, the real problem to emerge. We also look at innovation – fresh thinking about the problem – and how it is a necessary component of any requirements process.
"The course not only treated the technical aspects but also the softer subjects in requirements gathering like psychological aspects". — Ron Buskens, Oce Technologies
Non-functional Requirements
Functional requirements are the things the product must do. You discover them by understanding the real work of the organisation, and determining what part of that work your solution can best do.
The solution is usually established using scenarios – these are great if you need a sign-off – and then specified by well-formed requirements or stories.
Requirements for Agile Projects
Non-functional requirements are properties the product must have. These include the desired look & feel, usability, performance, cultural, conformance, and so on. Non-functional requirements often determine the success or failure of solutions, so this section demonstrates their importance, and how to find and then precisely specify the qualitative requirements for your solution.
Prototypes and Deviations
Requirements are equally important for agile projects if your solution is to match the real business needs. Effective agile projects understand that there are two parts: Discovery and Delivery. Discovery involves understanding the real work and the real problem to be solved if you are to deliver the value proposition. It uses business stories to communicate the Discovery findings. Delivery focuses on iterative development and how a story map provides the best guide to the product under development. We also teach you how to write better, more effective stories.
"It was a great pleasure for all of us to take part in this training. James is very professional, training materials are great, and we all enjoyed the three days. It was also very inspiring for every Wargamer who was there and I know we will improve our work using what we learned." — Tatiana Labkovich, Wargaming
Writing Requirements
Prototyping is a way of discovering requirements by sketching wireframe solutions. Here you assess the merits of low and high-fidelity prototypes, and how scenarios can be used to discover previously-hidden requirements. You also look at the wanted alternatives, unwanted exceptions and potential misuses of the product.
There is a need to communicate requirements – how to formulate them and how to include an unambiguous fit criterion. The fit criterion makes the requirement measurable and testable, as well as ensuring the implemented solution precisely matches the client's expectations.
The Quality Gateway
Managing Your Requirements
Testing is most effective when it is done early in the development cycle. Here we demonstrate how to test requirements so that the developers receive the correct requirements. The Quality Gateway assesses the requirements and rejects any that are out-of-scope, gold-plated, non-viable, incorrect or incomplete.
Your Requirements Process
Requirements are the lynchpin of any development effort, and so must be managed effectively. You are given strategies for your requirements management, the requirements knowledge model, how to prioritise requirements, and how to resolve conflicting requirements. We take a quick look at tools to help manage requirements.
You discuss and determine how to make your own requirements process as effective and efficient as possible. This involves incorporating your own organisational processes into the requirements activity. You build a demonstration of how you will use what you have learned when your return to your own workplace.
"The course is grounded in the real world of requirements elicitation. It measures excellently." — John Purssey, ProQual Consulting.
We want you to be able to use this right away. Each of the teaching chapters is reinforced with a workshop where you apply the concepts presented in the seminar. You work in a small team to scope the problem space and then discover, specify and evaluate requirements for the solution.
There's More . . .
Learning from Experience
This course was written by James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson, creators of the Volere requirements techniques.
"Excellent! Great delivery from experienced business analysts (not a "trainer") with up to date work practices and examples." — Sandra Pilgrim, CGU Insurance.
Suzanne Robertson is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process, Third Edition: Getting Requirements Right (Addison-Wesley 2012) a book that provides guidance on finding requirements and writing them so that all the stakeholders can understand them. Her other requirements book, Requirements-Led Project Management (Addison-Wesley 2005) addresses how to use requirements as input to planning and management. She is also co-author of the Volere approach to requirements engineering.
She has more than 30 years experience in systems specification and building. Her courses on requirements, systems analysis, design and problem solving are well known for their innovative workshops and practical applicability. Current work includes research and consulting on finding and involving the right stakeholders, the building of requirements knowledge models and running audits for assessing requirements specifications. She is a principal and founder of The Atlantic Systems Guild and is founding editor of the Requirements column in IEEE Software magazine.
James Robertson is a consultant, teacher, author, project leader whose area of concern is the requirements for products, and the contribution that good requirements make to successful projects. James is a leading proponent of the principle of introducing creativity into the requirements process. His controversial article "Eureka: Why Analysts Should Invent Requirements" in IEEE Software has provoked heated discussion and has been widely quoted. Before becoming a systems engineer, James trained as an architect and his experience in that profession provides inspiration for his work on innovation and creativity. He is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process, Third Edition (Addison-Wesley 2012), Requirements-Led Project Management (Addison-Wesley 2005), the Volere approach to requirements engineering, and Complete Systems Analysis: the Workbook, the Textbook, the Answers (Dorset House, 1994), a two-volume text and case study that teaches the craft of systems analysis.
Join the Move to Better Requirements
If you want to join the elite band of software developers whose systems are used-and enthusiastically used-then come and participate when one of the industry's most respected names explains how you can get the most value from your requirements gathering activities.
It will take three days out of your schedule, and we will give them back to you with interest (think how much extensive modification and abandoned systems cost you). We know that when you use a better requirements process, you will save months of maintenance effort, be more responsive to user requests, and avoid building systems that end up as shelfware.
Find out how you can gather requirements that deliver your systems earlier, and ensure that they are used, and useful.
Download a pdf copy of this course description. (320 KB)
For more information ...
For information about in-house or public courses, consulting or other services, contact us or your nearest agent. Scheduled public courses are shown in the Volere events column of the Home page.


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Performing Arts
Zoetic Stage's 'Clark Gable' looks at Hollywood through darkly comic glasses
Wild things happen behind many a hotel room door, but most such shenanigans are tame by comparison to the craziness playwright Michael McKeever has dreamed up for his newest dark comedy, Clark Gable Slept Here.
The play, which will get its Zoetic Stage world premiere in the Arsht Center's Carnival Studio Theater this weekend, has at least four big surprises layered into the script, and those twists are hush-hush.
Still, it's safe to reveal that the play starts off with a bang (well, post-hookup, anyway): A naked, dead male prostitute has been discovered lying on a bedside rug in the Chateau Marmont suite of Hollywood's biggest action star. It's the night of the Golden Globes, and the "happily" married star is up for a best actor award that could make the world take his talents more seriously. Yet, as always, everyone else — in this case his agent, the hotel manager, a Hollywood fixer and the maid — is left to clean up the superstar's mess.
"As comically terrible as the situation is, I wanted the characters to be as glamorous as possible," says McKeever, who plays agent Jarrod "Hilly" Hilliard. "I wanted to give insight into how the world of the play works, the almost casual way that an emergency is handled by people in the know."
Clark Gable Slept Here is, as Arsht executive vice president Scott Shiller notes, the fifth world premiere from a company that is just over three years old. As he sees it, that "really illustrates the success of the partnership, two creative organizations sparking a creative relationship."
Staged by Stuart Meltzer, Zoetic's artistic director and McKeever's longtime partner, Clark Gable features Zoetic veterans and newcomers.
Carbonell Award winner Lela Elam, who appeared in the Zoetic world premiere of McKeever's Moscow, plays fixer Morgan Wright, a role McKeever crafted for her. Clay Cartland, fresh off playing John Hinckley in Zoetic's Assassins, is nervous hotel manager Gage Watkins. Robert Johnston, who will star in Slow Burn Theatre's High Fidelity this summer, is the dead guy Travis. And Vanessa Elise, who graduated a year ago from Miami's New World School of the Arts, is the Chateau Marmont maid Estella.
Originally, McKeever says, he had intended to make the character of the fixer (a problem solver a bit in the style of Showtime's Ray Donovan) a man. But once he changed Morgan's gender, he kept hearing Elam's voice.
"She needed to be someone who is in absolute control, a presence, beautiful to look at," the playwright says. "When you have an actor like Lela in mind, it gets easy. I know the wide array of tools she has."
Elam, an actor who doesn't leave her house unless her hair, makeup and outfit are just right, says she was "blown away" by the fact that McKeever crafted the part for her. She thinks the world sees her as having Morgan's strength (she begs to differ), but she loves being the first actor to play a woman she calls "a tough chick."
"I'm having a good time being bad," Elam says, laughing.
Elise, who grew up in the Dominican Republic, is a fluent Spanish speaker who translated the lines McKeever wrote for Estella. But that didn't make delivering them any easier.
"I've never played a character who speaks Spanish for that length of time," she says. "You have to find what feels comfortable in your mouth. Spanish is a tricky language; when you change from English to Spanish, sometimes the order of the words changes. I had to make sure that the intentions weren't lost. But a lot of it I physicalize, so people who don't understand Spanish know what's happening. We call it the Estella ballet."
The hotel manager Gage, says Cartland, "becomes the audience's point of view on what's happening. He's everyone's moral compass, but no one listens to him.… He's very straight-laced and probably has general anxiety disorder. He likes things a certain way."
Travis, whose nakedness is one reason Clark Gable isn't recommended for anyone younger than 18, represents a new challenge for Johnston, who has never done onstage nudity before.
"It's so easy to think you will do something until you're presented with the opportunity," the actor says. "I had a friend who always got nervous at auditions, so he'd just repeat to himself over and over how excited he was to audition, and it worked. Really, it's like a cold pool. You just jump in."
Meltzer and McKeever have numerous projects going on, separately and together, including putting together the 38th annual Carbonell Awards show and ceremony at the Broward Center March 31. Their hectic schedules, Meltzer says, make living together a bonus.
"When we drive, we talk about concepts, characters, moments," the director says. "There's luxury in a spousal relationship."
Though their working relationship might cause Meltzer as the director to ask McKeever as the playwright to cut or rework lines, that's not a problem. McKeever says he's perfectly willing to "kill my babies" or rewrite. And he does.
"He's amazing. All he wants is for the play to work," Meltzer says.


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Well, kiddos, Yours truly, The Gentleman Caller, is on a CLEANSE. Yes, a CLEANSE. I know, it sounds terrifying, doesn't it?
It's actually not that bad. I usually encourage the 80/20 philosophy in life. 80% of the time you eat properly, healthfully. The other 20% GO HOG FREAKING WILD.
Most of what I present to you here are for the 20% times. So while I am on the CLEANSE, I am offering you some healthy alternatives to favorite food items.
A good many people are turned off by the notion of "healthy" and turn their noses up at the mere insinuation of "sugar-free." Or "fat-free." Or "gluten-free." Free your mind from those negative connotations. Would The Gentleman Caller lead you astray?
This bread is not super-sweet. If you want a sweeter bread, use 1 1/2 tsp stevia. The way I am presenting it is more versatile; it's not necessarily sweet or savory. You could make croutons, or an egg sandwich out of this.
Now go wash your dirty mitts and let's get cooking!
What you need:
- 2 very, very ripe bananas
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups unsweetened applesauce
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground stevia
- 3 tbsp molasses
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp arrow root powder
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh nutmeg
- 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 3/4 cup chick pea flour
*This would be extra delicious with 1 cup of golden raisins. My CLEANSE does not allow raisins, but if yours does, by all means!
Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees.
Toast the pecan pieces on a hot sauce pan. You'll be able to smell the nuttiness ever so slightly. Watch that you don't overdo it!
Mash them bananas. Mash them to a smooth consistency, and stir in the applesauce. Add eggs, vanilla, and molasses.
Combine salt, stevia, baking soda, baking powder, arrow root flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and chick pea flour in another bowl.
Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients.
Spoon into 4 greased loaf pans. These would also make great little muffins!
Put a piece of aluminum foil on a cookie sheet; place the pans on the foil. The foil is prophylactic. It's there in case the batter overflows.
Bake for 25 minutes in the 375 degree oven. Checking at 20 minutes won't hurt. It will probably take 25.
Allow to rest until the pans are cool enough to deal with.
Slice and ENJOY!
If you are dieting or low-carb-ing, this really will take the edge off your cravings. It's very satisfying and very tasty.
Also, you all know I like to make my own jam, BUT if you want a little more satisfaction, Smuckers makes a very nice sugar-free jam sweetened with sucralose (Splenda). It's really not bad.
Enjoy this healthy "bread" treat!
The Gentleman Caller


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If you've got a growing family, this Houston home could be perfect for you.
The recently-listed home features four bedrooms and five bathrooms in more than 5,100 square feet of living space. Inside, you'll find a cozy library, large family room and a third-floor play room.
The $1.8 million home is located at 2503 Avalon Place in Houston.


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In this video, you are going to discover 3 quick weight loss tips that will help you melt the fat and reveal ripped six-pack abs.
Fitness model Troy Adashun is an expert at burning fat and sculpting an incredibly chiseled beach body. This video reveals 3 easy fat loss diet hacks that will help you transform your body quickly.
Protein + Veggies + Water = 6 Pack Abs
If you want to get shredded six-pack abs and lose weight quickly, you have to live by the acronym PVW = 6. Protein, veggies, and water with every meal is the winning formula for getting ripped and achieving six-pack abs. This is an easy fat loss diet hack that you should be implementing with every single meal right away to lose weight efficiently.
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Faulk Proposes Evaluation Reform for Tennessee Teachers
State senator Mike Faulk has filed a bill that would look to reform the Tennessee teacher evaluation process by allowing high value-added student test scores to count more in the assessment, writes Rick Wagner at Times News.
Under the proposed legislation, teachers and principals with superior value-added growth data scores would have the option to use those scores to count towards half or more of their evaluations. The current regulations allow these scores to amount for between 35 to 50 percent of the total assessment.
Faulk's proposal would also see fewer classroom observation evaluations for teachers who have already scored well on student value-added assessments.
"The highest level of achievement shall permit student growth data to be up to 100 percent of the evaluation," states Senate Bill 2165.
Faulk has criticized the current system that allows students' value-added growth just 35 percent of a teacher's evaluation score, with 15 percent tied to another measure agreed upon by the teacher and their supervisor, saying that the change will "rewards results, not method."
Last year the state passed bipartisan legislation — the First to the Top Act — to create a rigorous teacher and principal evaluation system. The move was backed by unions, the business community and a wide range of education stakeholders alike.
"When it comes to improving public schools, ideas can only take us so far. It's effective implementation of those ideas that yields results," says Jocelyn Huber, director of teacher advocacy for Democrats for Education Reform.
But Huber warned:
"Watering it down or delaying its implementation would be a tremendous disservice to Tennessee's children, teachers and principals."
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INTRAVENAL SONG by Diamanda Galás
Kategori: Allmänt, Diamanda Galás, Music, Wild Women with Steak Knives
This music is concerned with tendencies towards excessive behavior. An obsession, extremes omnipresent and encroaching upon the other, within microseconds, coalescing one moment and dissolving the next, towards an ultimate dissolution, which is the soul's own Implosion. You do not go to a hospital to inspire the recreation of your own Death onstage. You know it by heart. This need, this voracity for the extremes of consciousness I return to. An actor may simulate the desired emotive state through a skilled manipulation of external object materials, or he may use the raw materials of his own soul in a process which is the immediate, the direct experience of the emotion itself. This second concern is felt by performers who, not just professional, are Obsessional performers.
In 1975 I decided upon the creation of a new vocal music which employs an unmatrixed production of vocal sound as the most immediate representation of thought. The primary concern is with the execution- sequentially, chordally, or contrapuntally- of different processes of severe concentration, "mental" or "sentient" states, for which vocal sound is used as the fundamental physical coordinate.
A prechoreographed navigation through specified mental & sentient states, underscored by a subtext of personal and rather cinemato-graphic writing, determines the sonic/linguistic content/gesture. In this way, I immediately establish a contextual basis for the compositional interconnection among sonic & linguistic elements, an interconnection which, at the outset, is a part of the production of the individual materials themselves. During performance, I endeavor to move elastically through many different "states of severe concentration" or "trance states" with complete obedience to the rigor of each state, and simultaneously attend to the temporal demands of the macrostructure of the piece. . endeavors and concerns which reflect an obsession with the shared and unshared pleasures of both flagellant and flagellee.
Wild Women with Steakknives is a kind of bloodless and unmerciful brain surgery, a kinesthetic representation of the mind diffracted into an infinity of crystals... .the subtractive synthesis of mental entropy into various bands of absolute and mere schizophrenia.
Theatrically, this diffraction of the mind is made infinite through a ceaseless navigation of the following variables: physical body effort & shape; changing light series which are choreographed; vocal timbre chains; incremental change of room reverberation; manipulation of sonic spatial coordinates and trajectories through the use of four microphones sent to a triphonic sound system. With the exception of the changing light series, the performer has control over all of the above during performance. An obvious advantage of the use of multimikes is their service as a micromodel for the plastic performance space itself, also choreographed by the performer.
About virtuosity... A vocal-timbral mapping onto this mental diffraction requires a huge repertoire of vocal sound at one's disposal as well as a completely elastic vocal ability, which enables the rapid navigation through these timbral elements. This is certainly not a new idea, but the absolute accuracy, the absolute detail I am referring to requires a virtuosity, a versatility with the instrument that has not been yet approached. The most minimal or the most maximal increment of timbral change over the smallest unit of time is required and, in many ways, resembles what is attempted in subtractive synthesis of white noise, wherein highly specified pitch/'timbre bands may be heard suddenly alone, in quick succession, or simultaneously. The question here is not one of a simplistic development of vocal virtuosity. Rather, it involves a redefinition of a most (cciurate sonic representation of thought via the most accessible, direct, and sophisticated music-making apparatus.
1Prefatory performance notes read at the conference on "The Oral Mode in Contemporary Art and Culture", Center for Music Experiment, UCSD, La Jolla, California, February 20, 1982. Perspectives of New Music,Vol. 20, No. 1/2 (Autumn, 1981 - Summer, 1982), pp. 59-65.
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Holiday Shopping Panic! Nintendo's eShop Offers Solace
It's October, and that means it's time for something scary… that's right… the beginning of holiday shopping season!!!
You used to think that holiday shopping started on "Black Friday." Well forget that, it's Halloween time, and the holiday stuff is hitting the shelf hard and fast. And with the invention of console online systems, Nintendo can thrust its stuff on the virtual shelf earlier and earlier.
Bad for retailers, great for video game fans. And even greater is the copious amount of games slated for the Nintendo 3DS. The company has announced several classics, new titles, and even previously-released cartridges in virtual form.
Releases on Nintendo 3DS's eShop will include:
→ New titles such as action-puzzlers NightSky, Tokyo Crash Mobs, and Crashmo, the sequel to the critically-acclaimed Pushmo.
→ Virtual console titles such as the original Ninja Gaiden, Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels from the Super Nintendo's Super Mario All-Stars, and the infamous Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.
→ Previously-released 3DS games in digital form, including Super Mario 3D Land, StarFox 64 3D, and Mario Kart 7.


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On January 31st (Tu B'Shvat) Emunah Israel English Speaking Chapters held a very successful Annual National Volunteers Day Luncheon at Vitrage in Nes Ziona with awards to outstanding volunteers to
Shirley Weiner, Delia Yaeger, Martelle Gavarin, Allane Decinal, Sandy Ironi, Eleanor Leibowitz, Linda Schlosberg, Jeanette Persoff, Mildred Margolis, Sharon Levy, Betty Warach and Anne Klausner.
The highlight of the event was the reviting lecture by attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the Founder and President of Shurat Hadin.
Her subject was "Fighting Against Terrorism and For Israel in Court." She received a standing ovation and loud applause at the end of her Talk from the 200 plus women and men who were present.
Preceding her talk, certificates were presented to various Emunah ladies for their outstanding volunteerism for Emunah by the National Chairman of the English Speaking Chapters, Evelynne Goldman.
Prior to the Luncheon there was a Bazaar where vendors gave donations for their sales. We also had delightful entertainment provided by the choir and drum ensemble of the Emunah Neve Landy Boys' Village
in Even Shmuel, making the whole day a memorable occasion.


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You are: Link
You are a more solitary person. It's not that you hate other people, you just work better alone. You are fairly light hearted, and love a good joke and
playful attitudes. You realize that violence is something that will always be around, and you've made sure that you are prepared for it, but you don't wallow in it. You tend
to like gizmos and gadgets and other various intricate devices. You fight the good fight against evil, and you never turn your back on a friend. You have a fondness for the
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Artist: Misled Convoy
Title: Translations
Label: Dubmission Records
Released: 1st April
This release is a selection of re-mixes from Pitch Black's Mike Hodgson under his Misled Convoy moniker, which covers a broad pallet of styles from long established and up-and-coming artists across the globe.
The album commences with the scanner mix of 'Nuerotrash' from London disco-punks Feral Five which is a dubbed out electro-rock that seems to retain all the original punk vocal elements to good effect.. While the earth will have two suns re-mix of Holotronica's (Stuart Warren Hill of Hexstatic) 'Super Nova' takes you on a journey into space tinkering with scientific monologue and bubbly electro-dub. This is followed by the borrowed time mix of 'Do You Know Where Your Going?' by Japan's Supercozi (Zen Lemonade) a chilled out dub which utilises a lyrical reggae vocal that works better when dubbed out for me.
Moving across to Mike's homeland with the next track re-working 'Please Wake Up' by the Adults a Kiwi rock supergroup formed by Shihad frontman Jon Toogood of which I am blissfully unaware. I'd never have had this down as a rock original to me it comes across something akin to the afx re-mixes of Seefeel in the early 90's which is no bad thing. Some of the previous styles meet somewhere in the middle with a dubbed out re-mix of 'Sufi' by the U.K.'s Flies + Flies which seems to stitch together elements of gothic, arabic, ambient, shoegaze and industrial dub fairly seamlessly.
The re-mix of 'Lost in the Valley of Scintalla Strings' by Sheffield's ambient audio-visual duo Animat, is a deep and atmospheric piece which combines dub techno with a cinematic and classical feel. In contrast the pastscape re-mix of Banco De Gaia's 'Wimble Toot' takes you on an elongated intro of ambient voices and sound, before the bass line is employed and the horns take the piece into the realms of dub reggae. Then moving back across to the other side of the globe Mike then gives one of his own Misled Convoy tracks 'Leap Beneath' a re-rub in the far more expected reggae style to close.
To summarise I'm really impressed with this collection it's a real mixed bag of genres and styles at times ambient and atmospheric others industrial and rock-edged. However, the common link thread is as ever the dub.
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Been a while since my last post. I've been feeling a little sad because this was a month that my family lost a beautiful little soul. If you lost anyone in your life then you understand how difficult it is to not remember those love ones. Now I never really met her but was reminded how much we looked alike. I'm sure she was a person all her own with characteristics that I'm sure made us different. But my heart broke when her grandparents looked at me with such love that I'm sure she might of gotten several times before she was called home.
I sometimes wonder how she would of felt in my arms, her baby lotion skin, combing her dark silky hairs, and maybe her sweet giggles on a cool afternoon. I'm the type that doesn't grieve until a few months or year after. Now I didn't get that professionally diagnosed or anything. Although it probably was a habit I accumulated from all the many goodbye I had to adapt to as a child. Moving and such.
I always told myself that if I stayed busy I wouldn't have to deal with the emotions and it won't hurt as much. But it only became evident that it only knock me down like a truck hitting a wall.
I remember cleaning the bedroom and as the sheets were thrown in the air and as I watched it slowly float down covering the mattress. Tears suddenly stream down my face and then the memory of my best friend's laughter made me weak to my knees. I thought I was going to die but it was My heart breaking. I still missed her after so many months and I could still hear her laughing. I know she is in a better place now. So maybe I haven't gotten the hang of how to deal with this whole thing called loosing, but Hope that talking about my feeling can sooth the pain a little.
To anyone who maybe going thru difficultly of moving to a new school, home, dealing with sickness, breakup or lost a love one, my heart goes out to you. My prayer is that God would give you strength to carry on. Surround yourself with love ones and tell someone. Just remember "You are not alone!"


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For the artichokes: Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
Cut the lemons in half and squeeze the juice into a large bowl of water. Reserve the squeezed lemon halves. Using a sharp knife, cut off the top two-thirds of the artichoke and remove the stem. Shave off the tough skin at the base. Remove the layers of tough leaves until you arrive at the inner, softer, light green ones. Then rub the cut end with a lemon half to keep it from browning. With a spoon, scoop out the choke (the fuzzy stuff) from the center to create a bowl. Place the artichoke into the lemon water to prevent it from discoloring while you finish preparing the remaining artichokes.
Place the hearts in a large roasting pan or baking dish. Add about 1/2-inch of the acidulated water. Cover with foil. Steam in the oven until the tender, 25 minutes; test doneness with the tip of your knife. Remove from the water and pat dry. Drizzle with olive oil.
Preheat the broiler.
Cook the artichokes until browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Set aside to cool. These will be the bowls for the stuffing.
For the stuffing: Return the oven to 300 degrees F. Heat the grapeseed oil in a medium skillet set over medium heat. Add the sausage and saute, breaking it up with a wooden spoon as it cooks, until browned and cooked through, about 10 minutes. Drain the excess grease from the skillet and stir in the parsley and sage. Cover and keep warm.
Spread the bagel pieces on a baking sheet and toast for 10 minutes. Remove to a large bowl and pour in the melted butter. Mix thoroughly to ensure the butter is absorbed.
Combine the tomatoes, cranberries, sugar, apples and onions in a medium saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the ingredients soften and the flavors meld, about 10 minutes. Remove 16 of the cooked tomato halves and reserve for garnish.
Add the sausage and the tomato-apple mixture to the bagel cubes. Season with salt and white pepper. Toss gently to mix.
Dump the stuffing into the bowl of a food processor fitted with the blade attachment. Pulse until the stuffing breaks down but is not mushy, 3 to 4 times. Return the stuffing to the bowl. Stuff each artichoke with 1/3 cup of the stuffing. Garnish each with 2 reserved tomato halves and sprinkle with the spinach and pine nuts to serve.


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Hi My Name is Gracie, and I'm a Bad Blogger
Ok, so I can't believe it has been so long since I have posted!! I'm such a bad person! We have been so busy and I keep thinking I've posted and I haven't.
But, first things first, the baby is doing well. I had an appointment last Friday and everything is great. He/she is starting to move a decent bit, not all the time, but if I'm able to be still, at least once a day. I'm starting to feel a lot more pregnant these days. Which is good, because I'm tired of the "she looks chunky" phase. We scheduled our big u/s for the 15th of June. Which I am so excited for! I can't wait to find out if it is a boy or girl.
16.5 week pictures - I'm 17 weeks and 3 days today, so pretty close.
Also, a FO!
I really enjoyed this little sweater, once I finally sat down to work on it it didn't take too long! I've been trying to work on some baby blankets so those have taken precedence to clothes lately.
As of the past few weeks, we have 4 new floors in our house. Yes, 4 out of the 7 are completely different. We tiled the pool room downstairs so Philip can finally get his pool table. And, my Dad and Philip put bamboo floors in our bedroom, the office/guest room, and the baby's room this past weekend. All we have left is the baseboards and I have to touch up paint. So, our house is a small disaster area! But, they look so fabulous! Whenever I find the camera again (I think it is somewhere in the baby's room) I'll take pictures.
Oh, and a special thank you to Caitlyn for my RAOK! She sent me 3 balls of Debbie Bliss for the baby! It was so so sweet. When I find the camera again, I'll take a picture.
Off to paint! Have a fabulous day everyone!


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The School of Business, Equine and Sport Studies is seeking applications for a full-time, Assistant Professor of Marketing, to teach undergraduate and graduate courses face-to-face and online.
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The successful candidate will develop and teach courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; Courses will be taught in face-to-face and online formats. The candidate must be able to communicate effectively and work cooperatively with colleagues in the School of Business, Equine and Sports Studies. All faculty are expected to participate in advising of students and be engaged in campus life.
Ph.D. in management, ABD will be considered. Experience teaching both graduate and undergraduate classes is highly desirable. A strong commitment to teaching excellence and student engagement is also expected.
Review of applications will begin October 15, 2018. Position will remain open until filled.
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A professor of computer science at Stanford, John Ousterhout, is quoted on the official Google blog offering his thoughts after a recent Google faculty retreat:
If we want to maintain the leadership position of the U.S., we must find ways to make as much information as possible freely available. There will always be vested commercial interests that want to restrict access to information, but we must fight these interests. The overall benefit to society of publishing information outweighs the benefit to individual companies from restricting it.
It's a wonderful statement because of the clarity and openness with which it calls for putting the needs of "the U.S." and "society" over "individual companies." In a sense it's reminiscent of how President Obama asked the Chrysler bondholders to sacrifice their individual rights in favor of the needs of America to have a healthy auto industry. It's a slippery slope, though. If national interests trump corporate interests, do global interests trump national interests? What if the United Nations showed up and said, "There will always be vested national interests that want to restrict access to information, but we must fight these interests. The overall benefit to global society of publishing information outweighs the benefit to individual nations from restricting it"?
And just what constitutes "information"? Does it include the secret recipe for Coca-Cola? Does it include Google's own precious and confidential search algorithm? Some information may be created, stored, or aggregated by companies hoping to profit by doing so. Society may benefit from the free flow of information, but there is also a societal benefit generated by individuals and companies knowing that they have the right to choose how to price and distribute the information they create or gather. If society deprives companies of that freedom to price and control the distribution of information, the consequence may be that less information becomes available. Professor Ousterhout seems to gloss over the fact that Google itself is a commercial interest that has benefited greatly from making information available freely. Its investors may be motivated in part by a desire to maintain the leadership position of the U.S. and benefit society, but they are also motivated by a desire to profit. Google may want to be careful with making this argument that "the U.S." and "society" should take precedence over "vested commercial interests," because it is the same argument that federal anti-trust prosecutors are going to invoke when they go after Google. Once that happens, Google may find itself arguing that Professor Ousterhout's dichotomy between the interests of society and individual companies is a false one, and that leaving choices about pricing and distribution in the hands of individual companies is actually the system that, in the end, works best for both America and society overall.


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Chris Lever has been involved with organising the London Zine Symposium – in one way or another – since it started in 2005. Here he recounts the happy headaches the Symposium has given him and why he keeps doing it. It's one of the many stories and comics that are in the London Zine Symposium book, Tales from the first five years!
One Night Stand in North Dakota are an acoustic two-piece outfit made up of Daniel Ellis and Nathan Griffin from County Durham, and part of a thriving North-East scene, that is eagerly awaiting discovery.
This is a tale of how our counterculture is rapidly finding its way to the sales counter, and of how our desire to rebel has caught the attention of marketing mavens keen to co-opt our tactics. After exploring some examples of corporate enterprises striving to offer dissenters 'new clothes,'
Hi there. My name's Chris, I'm twenty-three and I have a confession to make. Whilst it might be a slight faux pas on my account to own up to this in front of all you streetwise professors, I went to Morecambe in the summer of 2004 for the first time in my life. It was great…
Outsider has never been an alien word to these guys. Since I first caught earshot of the band on Punk 'O' Rama III and the other truly great Epitaph bands like Zeke and Osker, I started to sense that these guys didn't really fit in. Therefore I wasn't surprised to hear that their brief stint at the prolific Sub Pop Records was made somewhat awkward when their guitarist He Who Cannot Be Named thought it would be good for a laugh to fake his own death.
The Epoxies. Interviewed in the summer of 2004 soon after they'd released the Fat Wreck Chords debut album.
An interview with Planes Mistaken For Stars conducted in the spring of 2004
The HorrorPops came pretty much out of nowhere. There aren't many bands out at the moment with a upright bass. Fewer still play refreshing rockabilly punk rock, with a heavy nod back to surf, that makes you smile ever single time that you hear their record. It's like the Teen Idols reformed, improved by about [...]
Part One – as interviewed by Edd at the London Garage.
RN: Does it surprise you to be able to come all this way and be able to play these kind of venues?
E: It's weird – I'll wait to see how many people show up though! But, no, it is weird, the last couple of times [...]
"Obviously we Don't Agree on What's Obscene" Vanilla Sex by NOFX
It's time the porn wars ended, and the argument within feminism moved on to another level of tolerance and exploration. Leading 70s anti-porn feminist Andrea Dworkin once described pornography as "Dachau brought into the bedroom and celebrated, and it's the prehistoric viewpoints of these individuals [...]


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The battle over Issue 7, whether or not to renew the sin tax on alcohol and cigarettes, revenues from which finances upgrades to our professional sports facilities, ended up being the main event in Tuesday's primary here in Cuyahoga County. Ultimately, Cuyahoga County residents voted 56%-44% to continue the tax for another two decades.
The arguments for and against the sin tax, at least as it is currently defined, have been laid out quite effectively and ad nauseum; I'm not here to rehash them. It was nearly impossible for anyone watching, listening to, or attending a Cavs or Indians game to avoid being hit over the head with pro-Issue 7 ads.
The Browns, Cavs, Indians, and their allies – particularly the Greater Cleveland Partnership and The Plain Dealer (which basically acted as the official media mouthpiece of the campaign) – outspent the ragtag anti-Issue 7 crowd 170-to-1; the groups spent roughly $1.2 million and $7,000, respectively. While the anti-Issue 7 campaign mounted an effective charge on social media and built a solid, if motley, coalition around the issue, the group never really stood a chance against those odds.
In a post yesterday, Cleveland Magazine reporter Erick Trickey argued that this debate perfectly encapsulated how politics works in Northeast Ohio. Lines don't really break down according to party affiliation – this is one of the most Democratic counties in the country. Rather,
The best way to understand most Cleveland political debates isn't party politics. It's, do you believe in spending tax money on "public-private partnerships" that draw people and business downtown? Or do you thinks that's corporate welfare, giveaway of money better spent on other needs? That debate has run through our politics for decades, from tax abatement in the '80s through Gateway in 1990 through the convention center debate in 2007, to the sin tax rematch yesterday.
This got me thinking about the political economy of this issue. We already know that all sin taxes are inherently regressive; they are consumption taxes assessed equally, regardless of income, ensuring that the poor pay more than the wealthy as a share of their income. Accordingly, it's perhaps not surprising that, while the sin tax had already passed twice in Cuyahoga County, it failed each time in Cleveland.
Given these facts, I wanted to explore the relationships between per capita income and Issue 7 results. Below, you will see the correlation between median household income from 2006-2010 (5-year average) and the percentage of voters voting yes on Issue 7 (PDF). Income data are drawn from the American Community Survey (via NEO-CANDO), and elections results are from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
As you can see, the relationship is quite strong (the correlation coefficient is .607). As income increases, so too does the percentage of voters supporting the sin tax. But, as you can see, there are a few municipalities on the right side of the chart that may be skewing the data due to their extremely high income levels. These include Bentleyville and Hunting Valley, where the median household income is $191,250 and $250,001, respectively. For comparison, the median household income for Cuyahoga County was $59,583 for this period.
In order to account for this potential skew, I removed the five municipalities who had incomes more than 2 standard deviations greater than the mean. These were Moreland Hills, Gates Mills, Pepper Pike, Bentleyville, and Hunting Valley – your extremely tony eastern suburbs. (On a related note, Gates Mills also has the highest household carbon footprint of any municipality in the region). As you see below, when I remove these five outliers, the correlation becomes even stronger (correlation coefficient of .621).
Issue 7 only failed in six municipalities; these had an average income of $47,744, more than $11,000 less than the median for the County as a whole. Five of these cities are middle class, inner-ring suburbs located just south of Cleveland; the other two are the city of Cleveland and Valley View. Shockingly, East Cleveland, easily the poorest city in the County, actually voted forthe sin tax 53%-47%.
Clearly, there is a major income divide over this issue, with lower-income voters, who will bear the burden of the tax, far less likely to support it than higher-income voters. Maybe that would have made a difference if voter turnout in Cleveland wasn't 13.85%. But it is what it is, at this point.
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This cute boy turned 7 today !
He came out of his room with a huge grin and I don't think that has stopped yet ! We gave him his presents, colin gave him a pokemon duvet cover(dekbedhoes) and we gave him 2 Wii games Avatar and Barnyard (which was a great deal last month so we've had them ready for a while) before we went to school with his treats (we made pokemons from candy which he loved seeing this morning) and he chose the restaurant for this evening which will be Burger King (sorry weight watchers LOL).
Tommorow we will host his Pokemon Party and on sunday the big Pokemon birthday bash (notice a pattern LOL).
Please leave him a message on his blog, he just loves it when the counter goes up, but even more if he has a comment ;). Thanks !
* ps. the photo is from Florence Bavinck Photography.


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There's an expression in Washington about politicians and agencies that find themselves in hot water: It's not the crime, it's the cover-up.
In the case of the Social Security Administration's massive breach of confidentiality, it wasn't a crime, but incompetence, and not so much a cover-up as total inaction by the agency.
SSA failed to inform tens of thousands of Americans that over the past 20 years their names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers had inadvertently been released to a publicly available database widely used by business.
The agency's failure to inform the at-risk parties ignored government guidelines and recommendations for dealing with security breaches and violates the intent, if not the letter, of the U.S. Privacy Act.
The database is called the Death Master File and contains the records of 90 million dead Americans; it was begun in large part at the urging of business. Administered properly, the death file is a useful tool in preventing con artists from assuming the identities of deceased Americans.
The problem is that each year the names and other personal information of 14,000 living Americans are mistakenly entered in the file. Since the SSA declines to issue warnings, the first inkling many Americans have of the release of their private information is when they become victims of identity theft. ...
Forty-six states make disclosure of confidentiality breaches mandatory for state and local agencies. The White House Office of Management and Budget has urged a federal policy of public admission and individual notification. Clearly, Congress should make that policy mandatory, too.
—Marietta Daily Journal


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Hemel Stags have unveiled their 2015 season kit, welcoming a major new sponsor on board in the shape of Hemel Hempstead law firm Underwoods Solicitors.
The Stags, who ply their trade in National League 1 – the third tier of Rugby League – showed off their new jerseys at the town centre premises of another of the club's sponsors, Chiquen.
The event was attended by directors of the club, who presented Underwoods Solicitors CEO Kerry Underwood with his own playing shirt.
Also at the launch were some of the staff from Underwoods and a handful of Stags players, along with Hemel Hempstead MP Mike Penning.
Hemel Stags CEO Bob Brown said: "We are delighted that a highly respected and successful firm such as Underwoods Solicitors have agreed to support the Stags and we look forward to what we are sure will become a long and enjoyable partnership.
"Underwoods are known to be keen supporters of local sports and we are honoured that they are helping the club in such a tangible way."
Underwoods are also proud sponsors of another of the town's other major sports teams, Hemel Hempstead Town Football Club.


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50% or 30%, That is the Question.
For visitors who have seen this page before, you may have noticed that the figure of Americans leaving Israel within 5 years of arrival has changed from 50% to 30%.
A representative of the AACI (Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel) pointed out that the source used for the 50% figure (an Israeli newspaper) was somewhat inaccurate (actually wildly inaccurate with no basis in fact would be a better way of putting it). As the accepted experts in the area of north American immigration their statistics in this area (taken from the latest available, that being 1997) have the greatest chance of being accurate and I have adjusted the page to their figure.
Relevant Links
Israel Central Bureau of
Statistics, 1998 Abstracts


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Is there an easy-to-use system for accepting occasional credit card payments for RL and RP? Please share!
On both my RL and RP shops, currently I only accept PayPal and money orders. All but one person so far has used Paypal. On the guidance of another shop owner, I tried using the google credit card system, but since only one person used it, I really could not remember and navigate the process; I ended up losing the sale while I fumbled around. Since I don't use layaway, and don't plan to, I'd like another option that allows buyers to pay on their own schedule. Thanks for any help.
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Do you use PayPal's credit card program?
Another option is squareup.com, which I use for mobile sales. It's an iphone or droid app, with a card reader for in-person purchases. I also use it for RL customers who would prefer to give me their card directly and not go through the checkout process, for whatever reason.
Thanks - I signed up for Paypal's credit card program, but that also seemed clunky to me and I was paying for something that was not being used by my buyers. Do you have many buyers that chose the credit card over Paypal?
Re: squareup.com: I don't quite understand what you are saying, but I'll go to this site and read up. I do have an iphone, but must confess that in the six months I've owned it, I have not yet figured out how to make the apps work. I can use the rest of it, so am not a total zero, but have had password issues that I haven't resolved and haven't been very motivated to use apps anyway. Perhaps this is the kick in the pants I needed.
I am now set up and ran a successful "test purchase" with my daughter. I love how easy it is to use! My question now is a concern about the lack of security involved in folks giving me all their key credit card information - not just their numbers but also their CVV. If I were not honest, it would seem easy to use their information. Although I state that I will delete it all, still, if I were a buyer I would not give out that information! Do you take it over the phone? It would not be secure for them to provide it in an ordinary email, or worse, via ruby lane's communication system. How do you respond to buyers who express legitimate security concerns about providing you this information? Or, is there a way to up the security level that I am not considering?
we take credit card numbers over the phone, or in a couple of emails, most of the time people perfer phone.
also people I think have 1 billing cycle to rebunk (not sure if that is the right term) or dispute the charge on there cards,
I know I am thinking of the square, but I will have to change phone systems, tho my contract is up right now.
Craig Phillips
B & C Emporium antiques and original hardware and supplies
On the Jewel Collect blog, I read a number of complaints about the cost of various credit card systems. I signed up, then cancelled PayPal's credit card system because it was unwieldy by phone and I just don't do much person-to-person sales. I haven't used Square yet with a real customer, but it was definitely very user friendly to set up, the test run went well and only took a minute to input info and send my "fake buyer" a phone (or I could have chosen email) receipt for purchase. Most of my questions were answered on their website. It looks fantastic for personal sales, with a quick swipe and low cost. I will be interested to see just how willing buyers are to give out that kind of info over the phone! I wouldn't do it. No initial costs and no contracts with Square. Oh, and it is domestic sales only (which is fine with me; I want international buyers to use Pay Pal).
Anyone else out there in Ruby land with credit card processor experiences to share??
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I was able to get ISO burning working just fine in Windows 7, but I'm having trouble with burning regular files (using the built-in Explorer burning functionality). In Vista, I think I selected the files I wanted to burn and just clicked Burn in the toolbar.
However, when I click Burn in Windows 7, it ejects my tray with a "please insert a writeable DVD" message even though I have a blank CDR in there already. Do I need to format it firsT? Vista would detect and offer to format it as part of the process. I don't want a rewritable or open filesystem disc, I'm just trying to burn some .mp3s to CD to play in my car.