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Monday, May 10, 2010
Another Max Martin's worldwide hit?
Katy Perry's back! And this girl knows necessary people to put on a record to make it successful. After "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot n Cold" making her one of the biggest names in world's pop-music she makes comeback with another Max Martin's hit "California Gurls" - pleasant summer electro-pop hit that she wrote as well with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Luke, Benny Blanco involved in production of the new single. Not that pop-rock song you probably expected but nice however!
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Black Friday is the biggest blowout sale day of the year and is approaching quickly like a month away. If you're going to capitalize on the huge savings, you're going to need a plan, a store to buy your stuffs and enough savings to purchase. Hence there is need to know what to shop for and where to do this shopping.
If you know what to shop for and where to go make this shopping, you can save hundreds of dollars on high-quality items that will make great gifts. These 5 places are the must places you should buy your goods on Black Friday if you're looking for great deals.
Cabela's Inc. is a direct marketer and specialty retailer of hunting, fishing, boating, camping, shooting, and related outdoor recreation merchandise, based in Sidney, Nebraska. The company was founded by Richard N. Cabela in 1961 and went public in 2004, with that fiscal year's revenue reaching $1.56 billion, a 50% growth since 2001. Cabela's has a distinctive look to its retail operations, a look which turns its retail stores into tourist attractions. The stores are more like cavernous showrooms, bringing the outdoors inside. They feature museum-quality displays of taxidermied wildlife, large aquariums, indoor mountains, and archery ranges.
Cabela's has produced several series of video games for a variety of gaming platforms, including Cabela's Big Game Hunter series, Cabela's Dangerous Hunts series, and Cabela's Outdoor Adventures series.
GameStop is a chain of stores that offer a wide variety of video games, electronics, strategy guides, and gaming consoles. Shop items both new and used at affordable prices. GameStop, is an American video game, consumer electronics, and wireless services retailer. The company has retail stores in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. The company's retail stores primarily operate under the GameStop, EB Games, and Micromania brands.
GameStop introduced a new store GameStop Kids. The brand focus on children's products, and carried only games rated "Everyone" by the ESRB, along with merchandise of popular franchises aimed towards the demographic.
Dollar tree
Dollar Tree competes in the dollar store and low-end retail markets. Each Dollar Tree stocks a variety of products including national, regional, and private-label brands. Departments found in a Dollar Tree store include health and beauty, food and snacks, party, seasonal décor, housewares, glassware, dinnerware, household cleaning supplies, candy, toys, gifts, gift bags and wrap, stationery, craft supplies, teaching supplies, automotive, electronics, pet supplies, and books. Most Dollar Tree stores also sell frozen foods and dairy items such as milk, eggs, pizza, ice cream, frozen dinners, and pre-made baked goods.
Abt Electronics is an independent retailer in the United States of consumer electronics, major appliances and furniture. Abt currently offers free shipping on thousands of items on our website. Just look for free shipping logo on the product page to see if what you want qualifies for free shipping.
True value
True Value is a dominant retail brand. It's a brand that's recognized, understood and respected in the marketplace, a brand that is trusted because it stands for quality, value and expertise. Consumers have given True Value top ratings in providing expert advice and knowledgeable, friendly service. They are affiliated with black Friday deals also.
True Value Company is not a franchise. It is a member-owned cooperative providing services to its members. All stores are independent and free to conduct their business operations as they choose.


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In this posting we will continue to dissect the most common methodology to execute projects, the Critical Path Method. Again, I want to thank Bruce Nelson and my son John for writing much of what is to be posted in the next 4 or 5 postings.
CPM attempts to guard against uncertainty by using a sort of "fudge factor." In the early stages of project planning, durations for each of the individual tasks are estimated by those resources that are responsible for executing them. These same resources then add a safety factor to each task duration, in order to protect the task from the inevitable and unknown sources of uncertainty. For example, suppose the realistic estimate of time for an individual task is one week. Typically the resource will add his or her own safety factor of their own to guard against "things" that might happen that would delay completion of the task. So, for example, it's not unusual for the original one week to be quoted as two weeks. Resources react this way because they know from experience, that as soon as they give the project manager an estimate, it automatically becomes a commitment that they must meet!
A typical project manager then adds up all of the individual, inflated time estimates and add his or her own safety factor. Why is this done? Project Managers know from experience that at some point in the project Murphy will strike and some of the tasks will be delayed, so to counter this, they add a safety factor to protect the project from being late. Keep in mind that every resource inflates every task, so it's not uncommon for the estimated duration to be in the neighborhood of fifty percent greater than it takes to actually complete the task. So with all of this built-in safety, the project should be completed on time….right? So it seems, but the statistics on project completions don't bear this out.
In traditional project management tracking (CPM), the progress of the project is typically done so by calculating a percentage of individual tasks that have been completed and then comparing that percentage against the due date. For example, if there are 200 individual tasks assigned to a project and 180 of them have been completed, then the project is 90% complete. Sounds reasonable, but is this the right way to track progress? The problem with using percentage of tasks completed is that not all tasks have equal duration estimates. By that I mean, comparing a task that has an estimate of one day to a task that should take one week to complete is an invalid comparison. Compounding this problem is the mistaken belief that the best way to ensure that a project will finish on time, is to try to make every individual task finish on time. This too sounds reasonable, but later on you will see why this isn't so.
So if individual project tasks have all of this extra time imbedded in them, then why are the projects coming in late? This is partially explained by two, very common human behaviors. The project resources know that they have built in this "safety" into their tasks, so knowing this, work on their tasks can be delayed and they'll still have time to complete their tasks on time. Remember back to your high school days, when you were given a due date for a paper for Thursday, when did you start working on it? Wednesday? Or you knew you had a test scheduled for Friday, when did you actually start studying for it? Thursday? Dr. Goldratt coined the term, Student Syndrome, to help explain these behaviors as to why the apparent built-in safety gets wasted. It's called procrastination. When the task start is delayed and Murphy strikes, the task will be late because the built in safety was wasted through this procrastination..
The other human behavior that lengthens projects is referred to as Parkinson's Law. Parkinson's Law is defined as work expands to fill the available time. Resources instinctively know that if they finish a task ahead of its scheduled due date, then the next time they have the same or a similar task to complete, they will be expected to finish it early. So to protect against this, when a task is finished early, the resource doesn't notify the project manager until the original due date. The resources' credibility is on the line here, so to protect it, early finishes are never reported. The key effect on projects of this behavior is that delays are passed on, but early finishes aren't.
While these two behaviors clearly negatively impact project schedules, there are other explanations as to why projects seem to always come in late. If you're like many organizations today, you have multiple projects going on at the same time and it's not unusual for projects to share resources. In fact, many project managers tend to "fight over" these shared resources because they believe that their project is the one that is most important. At the same time, there is a belief that the sooner a project is started, the sooner it will be completed. The result of this thinking is that projects are "pushed" into the fray without considering the capacity of the organization to complete the work. As a result of these two actions, conceivably the most devastating problem of all associated with project completion occurs……bad multitasking! But wait a minute….I thought we'd all been taught for years that multitasking is a good thing? Good multitasking is good, but bad multitasking is not.
In my next posting we'll talk more about bad multitasking and continue our comparison of CPM and CCPM.
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Mark Tremayne, ed. Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media. London: Routledge, 2007. xix + 287 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-97940-5; $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-97939-9.
Reviewed by Stephen Byers
Published on Jhistory (February, 2009)
Commissioned by Donna Harrington-Lueker (Salve Regina University)
The Blogging Revolution
This is an online (new media) review of an edited book (old media) about blogging (new media), and, as such, captures the dilemma of media in 2008. At a time when this review can be published virtually instantaneously--like the subjects of this book, blogs--the book itself required months, if not years, to complete the editing and publishing process. The book perfectly illustrates the dichotomy of media today. It is about blogs, which are evolving seemingly overnight, but the technology required in producing a book means that its account must necessarily take months or years to prepare. Authors must conduct their research and write their chapters, editors and reviewers must analyze each chapter with the usual give and take required to prepare chapters for print, the printer must set up the presses, the distributors must get the books to sales locations, etc.
As a practical matter, that means the book's information is old--at least in new media terms. For example, chapter 3 reports excellent scholarship by D. Travers Scott analyzing political winds in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. As a historical study, it's fine, and I loved reading it (although I teach journalism, my Ph.D. is in urban studies with a history emphasis, so, by training, I am a historian and inclined to love this sort of "slice of time" study). But, as a student of journalism, I notice that as I write this review another presidential election is well underway, and it may well have concluded before the finished review is published. Thus, this chapter works fine for historians, but does not offer a timely critique of blogging today.
Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media, edited by Mark Tremayne, assistant professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, offers fourteen essays on various aspects of blogging, divided into three parts: research using content analysis; examination of blog use, antecedents, and consequences; and five essays examining the impact of blogging on journalism. All are good examples of scholarship, but all suffer from the same problem: timeframe. When print literacy replaced oral-based communication, time horizons changed for audiences as the new communication medium was permanent rather than locked in time. A book about blogging, the most immediate and personal aspect of the new media, it seems to me, emphasizes the limitation of writing, which locks knowledge into the time of publishing, while blogs can be and often are updated within minutes. A blog entry, even if just a few hours old, often seems overwhelmed by events. A book, by its very nature, becomes a historical artifact almost as soon as it is printed, and a book on blogging seems overwhelmed by the fact that it is locked in time. That does not mean that books on blogging are not important or valuable. Even when thought of as an artifact, this book is quite satisfying. The essays are uniformly informative and the essayists seem well-chosen.
Tremayne's Blogging is divided into three sections. The first section uses various content analysis studies to examine a variety of blogs. Tremayne starts out by addressing the hurdles of writing about blogs with a nice chapter by Susan C. Herring, Lois Ann Scheidt, Inna Kouper, and Elijah Wright that presents a longitudinal content analysis of blogs--but one that demonstrates the problems of reporting on this ephemeral medium. After offering their analysis of blog content, including, among other results, that external events have a strong impact on blogging, they report that "the random selection service [used in their study] has been discontinued, however, constraining our ability to extend the methodology of this this study to later samples" (p. 17). So, although their study could have been a good baseline, changing technology makes it problematic.
Scott's look at blogs and the 2004 presidential election offers important insights, finding that political blogs, although frequently not offering much original reporting, still perform traditional journalistic functions. Especially interesting is his observation that blogs seem to be performing surveillance on the media, having taken "the tools of the fourth estate and used them on [his emphasis] the fourth estate" (p. 142)
The middle third of the book offers four chapters on blogs and citizenship. Notable is Barbara K. Kaye's study utilizing uses and gratifications theory to study blogging motivations of both providers and audience. While not breaking new ground, this study reinforces observations of blog community-building functions as well as its role in reinforcing bloggers' preexisting opinions.
The final part overcomes some of the limitations of old media "time freezing" with a good discussion of the impact of blogging on journalism through the lens of legal issues (both domestic and international) and civic and citizen journalism. Again, not especially new, but perceptive is Laura Hendrickson's observation of how technology brings the cost of publishing down to a level that can turn anyone into a publisher. After all, blogs can be easily set up at the cost only of accessing the Internet, something that can be done for free at most libraries. She sees blogs with the advantages of both old and new media: inexpensive but with the power to reach many, giving them the potential to dramatically change journalism.
Still, perhaps most valuable to scholars are Tremayne's introduction and his final chapter, "Harnessing the Active Audience: Synthesizing Blog Research and Lessons for the Future of Media," as bookends for scholars. The backward-looking introduction, as is common in such volumes, sums up the core essays, but presents them within the context of a useful description of the history and structure of blogs. The forward-looking final chapter (chapter 14) both sums up the current state of blogging (at least at the time of publication), and uses the book's scholarship to venture some predictions on blogging and the new media. Among the more interesting (and, in some cases, problematic) are two: "Blogging ... will not replace the functions of traditional journalism" (p. 268). He says that unless bloggers begin covering much more news--and on a daily basis--they will not replace mainstream media. As Web-based media (this seems not just blogging) moves more and more "hyperlocal," most of the content "will come from the audience" with a key to journalism's future being "the citizen journalist," he writes (p. 269).
"Citizen journalist" is one of those trendy terms that today's media loves so well. It is a handy catchall phrase used not only by Tremayne but also many other writers on new media topics for virtually all nonmainstream-media Web content providers. An earlier chapter in the book defines "citizen journalism" as a label "used to describe a form of media that involves moderated reader participation" (p. 240). This comes from a twenty-page chapter describing efforts to generate, moderate, or control "citizen journalism," and offers a useful discussion of a process that "reverses the sender-receiver process of traditional journalism," whereby the audience becomes the gatekeeper in selecting and presenting news with the journalist in a role of "shepherd," seeking out community voices and submissions (pp. 240-241). The problems faced here, as well as elsewhere in the literature, revolve around definitions. If "citizen journalism" is "moderated" reader participation, where does that leave bloggers Matt Drudge or Perez Hilton or a host of local political bloggers, all of whom seem to generate much of their own material? They both generate and moderate that material (even if all they are doing is commenting on news of the day), thus they are "citizen journalists" without the moderating function. Also, if that "audience" that Tremayne sees providing most of the content in the future is comprised of "citizen journalists" as described in the earlier chapter (and observed daily on the Web), where is the "journalism" part of citizen journalist? It isn't the journalism taught by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel in The Elements of Journalism (2001) with their emphasis on verification and on Walter Lippman's "journalism of verification."
Communication scholars have built a strong case for revolutionary changes in media resulting in revolutionary changes in content. Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media is a footbridge on the path that today's media is traveling, however unwillingly on the part of some, bridging the land mass of the old world of media and the still unexplored new frontier of blogging and the Internet.
If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at: https://networks.h-net.org/jhistory.
Stephen Byers. Review of Tremayne, Mark, ed, Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media.
Jhistory, H-Net Reviews.
February, 2009.
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Sierra Club attacks Sen. Lincoln
By Juliet Eilperin
The Sierra Club launched a hard-hitting radio ad against Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) on Monday, questioning her decision to join Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in trying to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases.
The 60-second ad, called "Choosing Sides," will run for the next two weeks in the Little Rock and Fort Smith media markets.
Sierra Club's executive director Carl Pope said the group decided to target the moderate Democrat, who's up for reelection this year, because "not only has Senator Lincoln helped stall comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation, now she wants to take us backwards and gut the Clean Air Act, too."
"Senator Lincoln's actions could prevent President Obama from protecting the well-documented threats to public health and welfare presented by global warming pollution," Pope said in a statement. "The legislation she supports would bail out Big Oil by halting the president's plans to save 1.8 billion barrels of oil by increasing fuel economy standards and would also prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from cleaning up dirty coal plants and other big polluters like oil refineries."
The script is as follows:
"Record job losses... foreclosures... rising costs... Arkansas is hurting.
"In these tough times, we need strong leaders to stand up to special interests, and help get our economy back on track.
"But NOW, instead of standing up for Arkansas's future, Senator Blanche Lincoln is co-sponsoring legislation to roll back the Clean Air Act laws that protect us from polluters putting poison into the air we breathe.
"Health experts say that Lincoln's action will undermine one of our country's greatest health and environmental laws.
"They're urging senators to oppose it.
"And if this wasn't bad enough, a major national newspaper reports that the legislation Lincoln supports was done at the behest of lobbyists.
"Senator Lincoln, it's time to choose sides.
"Lobbyists and Washington insiders -- or the health and welfare of Arkansas families?
"Call Senator Lincoln at 501-375-2993.
"Tell her Arkansas needs more jobs and clean air. NOT more favors for special interest lobbyists.
"Paid for by Sierra Club of Arkansas."
Lincoln's campaign could not be reached for comment Monday morning -- when they have a response, it will go up in a separate Post Carbon item.
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There''s a HUGE difference between 'facts or evidence' that are "well-documented" and those that are merely often repeated. The AGQ Alarmists - now that their long-term cooking the books and baking the data has been revealed - are relying on repetition and volume to overwhelm skeptics who fail to make the leap of faith from stories well and often told to useful, reliable data.
The Sierra Club may have good intentions, but they don't (or no longer) have enough trustworthy facts on their side to push for the 'banishment' of those who don't buy in to AGW as deeply as they have.
Posted by: dbsinOakRidge | February 16, 2010 12:14 PM
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Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995.
* Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
* There has been no global warming since 1995
* Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes
Posted by: ANTILIB | February 16, 2010 12:13 PM
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"Cap & Trade" or "Cap & Tax" was nothing more than a scheme to rip-off taxpayers, either directly or indirectly, to feweds the Government coffers and financially reward the dew and "spread the wealth' to less developed nations and those who fostered the belief in "Global Warming."
King Obummer's staged "Dog & Pony Show" showing the "Centrist Democrats" "challenging" King Obummer's rules were a joke. One thing that King Obummer doesn't get is that "We the People" see through this baloney.
We need to drill. Having the Sierra Club, WWF, Earth First or some other similar organization, tying up progress, until a "donation" or like kind is made, is a shakedown.
The time has come that when such an organization that blocks progress, that they be subject to lawsuits, for losses incurred by not drilling or excavating and have them raked over the coals and not rewarded, but have them pay the freight, since we all suffer from thee acts of the few.
Posted by: Computer_Forensics_Expert_Computer_Expert_Witness | February 16, 2010 11:52 AM
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The Obama Administration illegally reached an "endangerment finding" that ruled greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health, and as a result can be legislated under the Clean Air Act.
This is a perversion of the Clean Air Act to circumvent Congress and administratively act on global warming. The Sierra Club should lose its tax exempt status and the EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson should be removed from office.
Posted by: alance | February 16, 2010 11:42 AM
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Looks like Blanche knows she's in trouble with the elections coming up in November, so trying to some positive press for the consevatives.
Sorry Ms Lincoln, but may just be,too little too late.
Posted by: doowopdago | February 16, 2010 11:03 AM
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By Melanie O | @melanieobar on Twitter
A blog is a great way to get the word out about your organization, letting people learn about the goods and services you offer. What's more, by posting regularly to your blog, you have a better chance of appearing fresh in the view of search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo.
Your blog will help you attract the attention of potential customers, clients, investors and members of the news media. A company blog is also useful for bringing current employees up to speed about your operations, as well as serving as a promotional tool to help you recruit new job candidates.
Here are the first 5 tips on how NOT to blog (the second 5 will be posted separately).
1. Don't Always Rely on the Free Stuff
While it can be tempting to use freebies such as blog themes or even free hosting for your blog, prudent webmasters soon realize that it's not always wise to rely on freebies.
For one thing, if you use standard blog themes, you run the risk of your organization's blog looking just like hundreds or even thousands of other blogs that are already publishing. There are plenty of good web designers out there with very reasonable prices for blog designs. Have a look at WebDesign-Inspiration.com for some brilliant design inspiration.
Self-hosting your blog can ensure reliable service and excellent tech support, but only if you choose wisely. You can use WhoIsHostingThis.com to assist you. This is a free resource that enables you to quickly find a better or even the best web host for your blog, by reading informative reviews from genuine users.
2. Don't Skimp on Research
Offering bland, low-density content or irrelevant material is going to discourage people from reading your blog. You need to set aside some time to do research for your posts to help make them vital and interesting and relevant to your readers.
This doesn't have to take hours or cost a fortune. Just by checking your site on Alexa.com you'll get an idea of who your audience is and in turn what content you should be writing. Sign up for a Pro account to get more in-depth information.
3. Don't Post Rambling or Vague Material
Plan each blog post. Think about what other content your readers might enjoy and why. It's more than likely that whatever it is, it's well written. Ensure your posts are to-the-point, but that doesn't mean skimping on depth; write about what's useful and interesting too.
Hiring someone who is experienced in writing copy would be beneficial, but if you've not got the budget, Moz has some super copywriting tips.
4. Don't Forget to Tag Each Post
Use tags in each post to help people find your text more easily when they are browsing and searching the Web.
For example, use "product demonstration" as a tag when you are writing about how to use a new product, or use a tag such as the name of one of your products to index them in your blog. When someone clicks on a tag in your post, he or she will see a list of other related posts for further reading.
5. Don't Ignore the Power of Social Media
Don't be shy. It's important to promote your blog. If you haven't already set up social media accounts for your organization, you will want to do so immediately.
Every time you put another post on your blog, tweet about it, post about it on Facebook and Google +. Help spread the word about your blog and get on all the social media platforms you can - and maintain them. Allow your readers to share your content by adding social buttons to your blog. ShareThis.com enables you to easily choose what social buttons you want.
Five more tips are coming soon, so stay tuned.


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BOSTON -- Doubling down on the progressive politics that have defined the Senate over the past three years, Sen. Karen Spilka declared herself the "Senate president-elect" on Thursday, though there appeared to be some disagreement over when the transition of power should happen.
Spilka, an Ashland Democrat and chair of the budget-writing Ways and Means Committee, met the press Thursday afternoon for the first time as the presumptive next president of the Senate. A day earlier, Spilka claimed sufficient support to succeed Senate President Harriette Chandler and end months of jockeying for the top leadership position.
"I look forward to working with Senate President Harriette Chandler, my colleagues both Democrat and Republican, to ensure a respectful yet smooth transition as the year goes on and we work forward to accomplish all of the bills, the budget, the Senate priorities," Spilka said.
Flanked by Chandler to her left and her chief rival for the presidency Assistant Majority Leader Sal DiDomenico on her right, Spilka said that social and economic justice, education and global climate change will remain front burner issues under her presidency.
"The Senate has been a leader in the state in progressive values and progressive ideas and this will not change as the year goes forward under the leadership of all of us here working together," Spilka said.
She listed social justice, economic justice, income inequality, education, civil rights, transportation, global climate change and net neutrality as issues she was interested in addressing. "I mean, there are so many critical issues before us to tackle and I really look forward to working with my colleagues to tackle them in a progressive, comprehensive way," she said.
She also pledged to continue a style of leadership that came to be known as "shared leadership" under former Senate President Stan Rosenberg, meaning a less top-down approach that empowers individual senators to help steer the policy direction of the branch.
"There has been a vision of leadership empowering senators and I want to build on that even further," Spilka said. "I think it's important that we continue to build on the foundation, the groundwork that was laid. Out of that I believe the Senate and Massachusetts can continue to be a leader not only on policy in Massachusetts but on the nation and I think that's very exciting for all of us to be a part of here."
Spilka's emergence as the likely next Senate president comes just over a month after Senate Democrats decided to install Chandler as the permanent president for the remainder of the year.
The Senate became immersed in turmoil last year after Rosenberg relinquished the presidency in December when the Senate opened an Ethics Committee investigation into whether the Amherst Democrat violated Senate rules in connection with allegations of sexual harassment against his husband, Bryon Hefner.
The decision in February to remove "acting" from her title and move forward with Chandler this session appears to be colliding with the unexpectedly swift coalescing of Democrats behind Spilka's candidacy.
"It happened, I think, a little bit sooner than folks anticipated," Spilka said.
Asked whether she preferred to have a vote now or wait until the next session in January, Spilka said, "I honestly haven't sat down with the Senate president to talk about this, and colleagues. This is something that we need to have a respectful, smooth transition. People need to be together on this."
Chandler then interjected on a follow-up question about whether it might be more beneficial to make the transition now by stating that it's her hope that she will continue as president "until the end of this term."
"I think this would not be the best time to transfer any kind of power. I think the point is she has the votes, we know there's a great deal of certainty here now. There's not the uncertainty you've seen before, so my hope is we will continue to go along as we are," Chandler said.
Spilka was then asked whether she agreed with Chandler's timeline: "Again we will discuss the repsectful smooth transition. This is something that I think all of our members need to be a part of as well," Spilka said, contradicting the president.
As Ways and Means chair, Spilka is responsible for writing the budget for fiscal 2019 that the Senate will debate in May, and she said at this point it is her expectation that she will continue to lead that process moving forward.
"The Will of the Body"
It is possible Spilka could still spearhead the budget process from the president's office.
Other options for the transition of power include making the switch after the budget debate concludes, after the end of formal sessions in July or waiting until the new Senate takes office in 2019 after the November elections. Rosenberg sewed up the votes to become president in July 2013, a full 17 months before then-Senate President Therese Murray gave up the top post when she hit her eight-year term limit as president and did not seek re-election.
It was unclear Wednesday where the majority of Democrats stood on the timing of the transition.
"Whatever the will of the body is," Sen. Jamie Welch told the News Service.
Meanwhile, Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Pacheco suggested on Twitter that he's inclined to wait: "Congratulations to @KarenSpilka on securing votes to become our next @MA_Senate President. I look forward to working with her in Ways & Means for the remainder of the session, then seeing her on the rostrum as #MadamePresident to continue to move the people's priorities forward," he Tweeted.
Asked whether serving until the end of the term meant staying on as president through the calendar year or just formal sessions that wrap up on July 31, Chandler said, "That's something I think we have to talk about and at this point we'll have to see how things go," Chandler said.


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Change can be a thing of the past as state of the art parking machines installed in Diss
A new system at South Norfolk Council-run car parks means change can be a thing of the past.
Motorists can now pay with a credit or debit card, or via a mobile phone when parking in Diss, Wymondham and Loddon. Car parks have been categorised to short and long stay but the first hour remains free.
The machines will still accept coins. People can pay by phone, via RingGo, or a new check-in, check-out option. Drivers check-in by tapping their credit card on the terminal. They then key in their car's registration number and when they return, by tapping the terminal with their card, they only pay for the exact time used.
Council cabinet member Lee Hornby said: "The council does not make a profit from car parks and the introduction of short and long stay option is the first change in parking changes in ten years."


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Burien City Council Places Consideration of Districts/Wards on Hold until June
The Burien City Council will take up again in June the divisive question of whether individual council members should be elected from districts/wards rather than city wide.
Council members agreed at their March 25 study session to delay further consideration until after the current legislative session.
State legislators in Olympia now have before them House Bill 1413 – the Washington Voting Rights Act – which would make it easier for voters to seek a change from at-large to district-based municipal elections.
Supporters of HB 1413 say this would give better representation for all residents of a community, which is similar to what Burien council members who favor a change to districts/wards for local elections are saying.
What the Legislature does with the Washington Voting Rights Act could influence what the Burien City Council does on this issue.
"This is a very complicated proposal," said Councilwoman Rose Clark. "I feel that we at this point in time do not have time to do this issue justice."
She suggested that a study committee and a facilitator be appointed to consider it with a date certain to report back to the council.
Councilman Gerald Robison agreed with Clark, saying "I sense a lot of fear over this."
But, he continued, in the past Burien has had a "disproportionate vote" for council members and changing to districts/wards "is a way to even that."
Robison then questioned whether state law allows for a public vote on switching to council districts/wards."
City Attorney Craig Knutsen agreed that such a decision likely is the sole province of the council, then allowed that this "doesn't mean we can't have an advisory ballot" for city voters.
"Previous councils didn't opt for advisory ballots," observed Councilwoman Joan McGilton, not even on the issue of North Highline annexations.
Nevertheless, McGilton stressed, five city council members from west of Ambaum Blvd. and only one north of the downtown "points to great bias….
"There is not a representative from the newly annexed area or the east side of the city. These areas truly are not represented."
Earlier in the study session, Councilman Jack Block Jr. said "the council should not make this decision. I feel strongly that this is a decision that should be made by the voters."
Following the discussion about the limitations of state law on the proposed action, Block said "the citizens have a right to at least tell us if they favor" or oppose council districts/wards.
He also asked, "Are we doing everything we can to attract people to this job? We need to address [raising] council compensation," which is now $600 a month for three council meetings plus committee meetings and homework.
Jim Clingan told council members that whether the question is changing to a strong mayor form of government or changing to districts/wards, "I believe that every option needs to have a public vote."
Mayor Brian Bennett declared "this issue is worth considering. Part of the concern I've heard from people who favor districts is that they are not represented."
Bennett said some of them say "they are not even able to communicate with certain council members."
Council members then agreed to delay further discussion until after the Legislature takes its final action on HB 1413.


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12 Genetic Risk Factors for Diabetes
"Once we know the exact causes of type 2 diabetes, we can develop more effective prevention and therapy strategies," said Dr. Thomas Illig, research group leader at the Institute of Epidemiology of Helmholtz Zentrum München and one of the corresponding authors of the study. Dr. Cornelia Huth, who played a key role in the selection of the study participants and the analyses of Helmholtz Zentrum München, added: "What enabled us to identify these factors with a high level of confidence is the large number of investigated subjects in this collaborative study. Each factor by itself contributes only slightly to the entire diabetes risk. But to find out more about the pathogenic mechanisms of the disease, even these slight contributions are important." Dr. Christian Herder and Dr. Wolfgang Rathmann, both of whom are research group leaders at the German Diabetes Center, pointed out: "One important finding of the new study is that some of the gene loci associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk are also risk variants for other diseases such as coronary heart disease, autoimmune diseases and cancer. This suggests that specific proteins could be relevant for several diseases at the same time."
Type 2 diabetes is a disorder of glucose homeostasis. Characteristic features of this disorder are that the effect and sufficient production of the hormone insulin become lost. The pathogenic mechanisms of this disease are not yet fully understood. It is known, however, that the combination of genetic susceptibility and lifestyle factors leads to diabetes. In Germany alone, not less than seven percent of the population has been diagnosed with the disease – altogether almost six million people. Additionally, studies show that several million men and women in Germany suffer from as yet undiagnosed and thus untreated diabetes.


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How to lay down the law to a staff member
Most employees act with their organisation's best interests at heart. Inevitably, however, managers sometimes have to take disciplinary action against an errant employee. It is then important that the disciplinary action achieve a positive response from the employee. Any retaliatory, get-even, disgruntled reaction is a clear indication that the manager did not handle the matter well. The following guidelines will better prepare you for reprimanding employees in future...
1. Make sure the rules are known and understood.
Not only must you be thoroughly familiar with the organisation's rules and policies, but you must also ensure that your employees know and understand them as well. Don't fall into the trap of assuming they know the rules because they once received a printed copy of them. You must make sure that employees are reminded of them from time to time.
2. Get the facts before you act.
Before you take any disciplinary action, make sure you know what happened and when, and why it happened and how. Never make a hasty decision. Be aware of the employee's past record and know how similar situations were handled in the past. Don't accept hearsay evidence or go on general impressions.
3. Know your authority and operate within it.
What actions an you take without checking with anyone higher up? What can you only recommend to higher authority? Can you send an employee home, with or without pay, while an investigation is carried out? Are there others who should be advised of any actions - your boss, an equal opportunity officer, or personnel officer. You should know these things before you take any action. And finally, remember the advice of General Norman Schwarzkopf - 'Rule 13: When in command, take charge.'
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Duke's Revisited
Councillor Adam Vaughan has been working diligently to help address the difficulties in the redevelopment of these properties. This is what he found….
" Through the process of working with the six property owners of these buildings in the aftermath of the fire, I have discovered that any new buildings constructed on the fire site would pay property taxes at the full CVA rate, and would be ineligible for capping protection. The reality of the significant tax increases facing these property owners threatens the viability of redeveloping these properties with street-related commercial uses. The longer the fire site remains vacant, the more severe the social and economic impacts facing Queen West and the broader neighbourhood become. This is why it is in the City's interest to facilitate a timely and appropriate replacement of the lost fabric of this street. "
Think about this. It is not viable to rebuild commercial space on Queen West, on land that is already owned. If the redevelopment of these properties had included the need to purchase the land also, it would have only compounded the problem and made it even more un-viable. The added cherry on top is that the calculation of the new tax burden were based on the 2008 MPAC assessments. In the case of Dukes cycle (623-625 Queen St. West) it was woefully under-assessed. The 2008 assessment has these properties valued at $ 654,975.00. As someone who is very familiar with the area, this assessment does not reflect the market. The Cameron house, a much smaller building of similar age is currently listed for more than 2 million. In light of this it is fair to say that being un-viable at a full CVA tax rate of $ 26,598 per year, think about what might happen with a more realistic assessment. If the commercial portion of the assessment was updated to a more realistic 1.5 million, the taxes would rise to more than $60,000 per year.
How sad. It is barley viable to rebuild commercial space on Queen West, one of the most vibrant retail streets in Toronto, on land that is already owned. With a undervalued assessment and a million dollars in insurance money. If the redevelopment of these properties had included the need to purchase the land, had a realistic assessment, and a greater need for financing, the notion to rebuild would be dead in the water.
If your wondering about how a property that is un-viable retain it value, there is a answer to this. MPAC!. MPAC will heavily rely on comparable sales, instead of income, for valuing small properties. On the one hand, this makes sense. Market value is reflected by recent purchases. What MPAC does not do is account for two extremely important issues. Firstly, there is the speculative value of such properties. Properties such as these sell at a premium to their value if one was to rely solely on projected income (Cap values). The reason for this is their value is not captured in there present form, but once they can be converted to residential condos. Secondly MPAC is oblivious to the fact that the rate of tax itself has an effect on value. Even though this is a well covered area in academia and reality….
3 comments:
- John Duncan said...
Would a rebuild of Duke's be viable if Toronto's commercial tax rate was more comparable to the 905? The numbers you've put up make even that seem unlikely.
What do you think might solve the MPAC problems you've identified?
Backing away from market-value assessment would address them but raise other issues too. i.e. last sale price leaves neighbours paying vastly different amounts based on when they bought in.
A less amendable OP combined with secondary plans could reduce speculation and its effect on property values, but would require more city planning staff and a more predictable OMB. Both of those seem unlikely any time soon.
- April 7, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- Glen M said...
If the tax rate was the same (both city and education) as Mississauga's then it would most likely be viable.
As far as MPAC is concerned, what it should do is value commercial properties on an income approach (current). This would remove the speculative influences from assessment amounts. Using comparative sales data is distorting. Most sales of smaller properties are for redevelopment into residential. Large office towers do not have this problem. They are assessed on an income approach. When drafting the city wide C.I.P. plan, staff noted this dynamic...
"The redevelopment of existing industrial properties, in particular, is economically
challenging. A key reason is that for the land component of a project there is often
substantial price hurdle because of the upward pressure on values attributable to the
speculative potential of alternative more valuable uses such as retail and residential."
As you can see though, that in this case (Dukes) even retail development faces a large tax hurdle.
- April 7, 2010 at 3:42 PM
3.59 is the rate in Toronto.
VS say 2.4 in Mississauga (the rates are similar throughout the 905).
So we're talking about 1.2% difference per year - so per million that amounts to about $12,000. Which may not seem significant in that light but the actual amount paid in the 905 is 24,000 vs 36,000.
The interesting part is the opposite can be seen in residential tax rates but this doesn't really say much - people don't make decisions regarding where to live based on this as much, a lot of people even think Toronto has higher residential tax rates for that matter.
- June 14, 2010 at 8:44 AM


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On Friday, 11-19-2011, at approximately 1919 hours, officers were dispatched to the Ketchikan General Hospital Emergency Room; reference an adult female being assaultive with nursing staff. Officers arrived and contacted TERRI ENSIGN, AKA TERRI DICHOSO, 43 years of age, of Ketchikan, Alaska. After interviewing the nurse Ms. Ensign was arrested for Assault in the Fourth Degree and booked at the Ketchikan Correctional Center and held on $1,000.00 bail
On 11/19/11 at approximately 2345 hour's officers responded to an Alaska Ave. address for a report of possible domestic assault in progress. Police officers arrived and contacted CARL W. SOPER JR, 22 years of age, of Ketchikan Alaska. Upon investigation Mr. Soper was arrested and charged with Assault in the Fourth Degree (Domestic Violence). He was transported to Ketchikan Correctional Center where he was held without bail.
On Sunday, 11-20-11 at approximately 1653 hours, officers responded to an Inman Street address on a report of a domestic assault in progress. During the investigation officers contacted GUY TAVARES, 41 years of age, of Ketchikan Alaska, who was arrested for Assault in the Fourth Degree (Domestic Violence). He was taken to the Ketchikan Correctional Center where he was held without bail.
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but there's a power and a vital presence
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What makes a woman, a woman? #InfertilityNotATaboo
What makes a woman, a woman?
'A woman is a human who is generous, full of compassion, affection; possess grace with lots of patience. She has a strong will power.'
How a man can't be defined with these characteristics?
'Well yes, but woman is associated with everything that is love.'
But still, why you call someone a woman?
'Man and a woman have different anatomies. A Woman is called a woman because she creates new life. She gives birth.'
What if she can't?
(poker face, don't know the answer)
If she can't give a birth, she is not a woman?
(still searching for the answer)
This week, I put people around me in a situation where they responded in the way, you just read.
A Woman, or a female of the species, is someone who carries a child in her womb and gives birth. Man or a male who gives sperm for the reproduction process. What if a man or a woman for any given reason is not capable to reproduce?
Infertility is considered as a taboo. It is as hurting for a man as for a woman. When we are living in a society where it's a habit of encroaching somebody's personal problem and brutally trolling them in public that it actually becomes a curse for them, one can imagine how abusive it can go for women.
Women who are infertile are considered inauspicious and not allowed to perform certain rituals. Many times they are not welcomed at celebrations and festivities in families, in the fear that their presence will bring bad luck to the host family. Why are infertile men not treated this way? Why no one stops socializing and chuck them out of the society as any infertile woman is subjected to? This is a bizarre thing to not invite a woman who can't have a baby (and in many cases who doesn't want to have a baby at that phase of her life) to a baby shower ceremony. A female doesn't get pregnant or lose her ability to get pregnant by touch or presence of some person in the room or the house!
The focus here is not to compare as who is treated how, the pain they are going through is same, whether being a man or a woman. It's a personal issue; problem arises when others start making it a big deal and go on to label the woman as 'Banjh'
It's a personal issue; problem arises when others start making it a big deal and go on to label the woman as 'Banjh'
Infertility is a disease
A human body has many systems that make it function and work properly. Digestive system, Circulatory System, Endocrine system, Exocrine system, Immune system, Skeleton system, Nervous system, Urinary system, Respiratory system and Reproduction system. If any system does not work the way it is meant to be, we call it as a disability or a disease.
We take care of blind people, physically handicap, people who are going through depression and various other ailments. Unfortunately, people who have medical problems with their reproduction system are chucked out from the society instead of helping them. I look for a logical reason and found none.
If a person who is not able to speak, hear or see things due to their disability is not put down as 'bringing disgrace' to their family, then how a woman who is not fertile can be cornered like that. Till the time we educate our own society against this prejudice, that infertility is a disease, not a curse, we inadvertently add misery to a woman's (and in some cases a man's) life. These women have already lost their mental peace, confidence, some relationships and a huge amount of money in treatments, isn't it enough?
I look for a logical reason and found none.
A woman's nightmare
I met this lady who has just turned 38, some days back. She is married for 6 years and is now in dilemma. She wants to have a baby but at the same time is no rush for now. Her husband is quite okay with this, in fact, they together took this decision. They do not want a baby till last year because of their professional struggle and financial crunch. Now they are trying but not that desperate. Her doubt is, as her biological clock is ticking and if she is not able to conceive, her husband may leave her and marry someone else.
Theirs is a love marriage. During this sensitive discussion, while she was opening up and sharing her fears and dilemmas, I was thinking it's all in her head and nothing of this intensity is going to happen. Now, my rational mind backed this thought. They both have not met any doctor. They do not know the issue if there is any and with whom. It might be not their right alignment with the time to have a baby.
It was difficult to sleep that night. Her question kept bothering me 'my husband may leave me, to marry someone else.' They were not trying earlier because of both of their financial insecurity. If they need a treatment and they delayed it for some reason, how is it her fault? Why she will be shown out the doors?
How a woman becomes 'not a good wife' if she can't deliver a baby?
I understand when one decide to end the marriage on grounds of infidelity, compatibility, lack of love, cruelty etc. What I don't understand is after so many years of marriage one decides to divorce the partner because they cannot produce a baby. How can a relationship break over not having a child? Does she stop loving and supporting her husband? Does she stops taking responsibilities of a wife and daughter in law? Does she stops being the kind of sane person she used to be? Does she become inhuman? She remains the same. She can be going through depression, partly because she is upset with herself, partly because of the treatment of the society. All she needs is a support not isolation.
Solutions and Scars
Our medical sciences have advanced so much and now there are many treatments that a woman can undertake to be able to have a baby (other than suggested fasts and rituals by the society). All these methods are extremely painful and horribly expensive. One can take years and years to respond to them and results are not always guaranteed. Both husband and wife get drained themselves and deplete all their savings in the hope. They are already going through a lot. We as a society should take the responsibility of not taunting them all this while #InfertilityIsNotATaboo .It is plain simple medical problem and the couple is already taking treatment for that.
If nothing works, adoption is also a solution. What more beautiful can be, to be parents to someone who needs them. Unfortunately, adoption is also scrutinized by some in society. They go one labeling the woman as 'banjh' and abusive titles for the child.
Adoption is a personal choice. A woman may not want to give birth, it's her choice. In any situation, her motherly feelings are not lost. She will play with kids, love them the same way. Motherhood is experiencing or raising a child. Infertility has nothing to do with behavior, likes, dislikes and emotions. She is still a woman if she can't give birth.
So I finally ask again
What makes a woman, a woman?
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Great post! Quite touchy and well elaborated. Let's support the Noble cause. Women infertility is still a taboo but, on the filp side, society seems to be more tolerant of men infertility. I as let be men or women let's help and support both because they deserve it!
Thank you for this.
Just to let you know that I was here to read and appreciate your contribution.


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Barbara Hannigan was asleep in her Paris apartment when the messages and emails started pouring in. It was 5 p.m. in the afternoon. That morning, she'd returned from New York, and jetlagged and exhausted, she wasn't quite sure at first what was happening. And then it hit her: all of the notifications and notes were offering congratulations for her Grammy nomination for best vocal classical album.
"I was dancing around my apartment with my boyfriend," Hannigan tells CBC Music, laughing over the phone from Amsterdam, where she's currently rehearsing for her upcoming tour with the Ludwig Orchestra, a collective of young musicians that is making its recording debut with Crazy Girl Crazy. "For me it's great but for such a young orchestra to have this feather in their cap — I was so thrilled because I thought it's a great way to start our tour. Of course it would be wonderful to win it but just the nomination and having the awareness that will be created by the nomination is fantastic."
With its provocative title and ambitious repertoire, Crazy Girl Crazy is Hannigan's most audacious, risky, confident record to date. Hannigan, a former Torontonian, is a world-famous coloratura soprano who also began conducting in 2011. Crazy Girl Crazy represents the first recording on which Hannigan both sings and conducts — already a groundbreaking achievement without considering her daring and daunting repertoire.
The album takes its wild heart from the character of Lulu, the complicated, passionate young woman who is the subject of Alban Berg's incomplete 1937 opera of the same name. Released in September, Crazy Girl Crazy features music from Gershwin's Girl Crazy — in a new arrangement by the multi-award-winning American composer Bill Elliott — and Berio's gruelling, innovative Sequenza III for solo voice, as well as Berg's Lulu Suite.
It all comes back to Lulu, a former "street urchin" who has successfully reinvented herself and become a doctor's wife, but there are also a number of men in love with her including an artist, a much older newspaper editor, and the editor's son. Lulu's doctor husband dies and she accepts a proposal from the artist, but then the editor also becomes engaged and she's troubled. It's revealed that the editor actually raised her, "rescuing" her from the streets, and that they had a "relationship." Further complications arise, the body count is high, and somehow Jack the Ripper ends up making an appearance.
CBC Music spoke with Hannigan a few days after her Grammy nomination to talk about her connection with Lulu, authority and respect in the classical world, and her efforts to reclaim the word "crazy."
Congratulations on the nomination!
I was laughing because for the Grammys I'm sure they were sitting there and they were like, "Um what category should we nominate her in?" They chose best vocalist but, by the way, I'm also conducting the album but they don't have a category for a person who conducts their own album! [Laughs]
There is absolutely an argument to be made that this could be considered a very interesting jazz album as well on some level
Well it's nice you say that because certainly it's crossover but I think it's more, like, crossover into the beyond, rather than crossover into another definable genre. It's got its own special place and we're saying, "Don't put me in a box, don't put me anywhere, just let me be free" and that's what Lulu is all about. She's a free spirit you know and she's the center of the CD, the character of Lulu.
I was listening to Sequenza III and I was like, wow this is like listening to Bjork.
In a way it's performance art but in the true sense of the word. So not performance art from the '70s, '80s, '90s but I mean performance art really in the highest sense of what that term can actually mean and you can think of the Berio as an actor's monologue, you can think of it as a structured improvisation. I think of it more as an actor's piece than a singer's piece, but then you get into the Lulu Suite and that's like — I mean you've got to have chops, both to conduct it and to sing it. It's absolutely legit but it also uses jazz elements and modern music and romantic elements so it's crossing three different styles actually and then you've got the Gershwin, which is also crossing styles because we're using elements of the late Romantic period plus whatever Gershwin was.
How many times have you been called crazy?
[Laughs] I don't listen to gossip about myself, and nobody tells you what they say behind your back. I mean certainly when I took "crazy girl crazy" to title the CD, it was almost like I wanted to reclaim that word on many, many levels because referring to women as crazy is also a way of undermining their authority. So, I wanted to take back the word and celebrate it because we also say, "Oh my God, that's crazy," like in a complementary way and that's how I'm using it. I'm using it like in the most vibrant, exciting — like the word as absolutely full of possibility, you just don't know where it's gonna go.
Lulu's journey is extraordinary. When did you first become familiar with her story?
When I was a student in Toronto, the Canadian Opera Company did a production of Lulu. Rebecca Cain, who was famous for singing Christine in Phantom of the Opera for two years in Toronto, took a year and a half off and learned the role of Lulu and sang Lulu at the Canadian Opera Company. It seemed that it wasn't the music that got to me so much at the time — I think I wasn't really ready to understand it — but seeing Rebecca sing it because she was such a fantastic physical performer. I thought, whew, if that's opera, I want to do that! I was already studying classical singing but it just opened my eyes to something that I hadn't really imagined before. It wasn't until I was in my mid-30s — and now I'm in my mid-40s — that I started thinking about singing the role of Lulu and other people started suggesting to me that it was time for me to take that on. The company that gave me my chance was Brussels, la Monnaie, which is a gorgeous opera house, in 2012.
That was the first time I sang her but of course you're booked several years in advance, so I knew several years before that I was going to sing it and then of course learning it. It's three-plus hours of music and you're onstage the whole time so I started learning it well in advance. With a role like that, there's only one way and that is to "incorporate," using the corpus as the root of the word. You have to take it completely into your entire body and psyche. To sing a role like that — she consumes you, she consumes everyone around her and she consumes the person who sings her and if you make it, you're changed forever.
When I have big, big questions I'm like, "What would Lulu do?" I can't call her, but I can kind of put that question out to the universe.
Lulu has that sort of magic about her that commands people.
She's charismatic.
And so many artists and composers treat those types of people as muses. They are consumed by them, although arguably they are consuming their muses as well.
I think it's a symbiotic relationship. I gave my first world premiere when I was 17, so that's almost 30 years ago. I've been a muse for composers for almost 30 years. You really start to understand that relationship and when I started out, I was definitely much more passive than I am now.
Now I really feel that it's a collaborative process and we need each other. I have different ways of dealing with the different composers with whom I'm working. Some of them want a lot of interaction and contact and speaking or singing or demonstrating. Others want to have an initial conversation or meeting and then they don't want to have anything to do with you until they've finished the piece, and I think both are valid.
Did you expect at all that you would end up with a Grammy nomination?
[Laughs] I didn't, but my sister did. Sheila Hannigan, she's a cellist and she plays in Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal. In fact, they're on a European tour right now so I got to hear her play two nights ago at the concert in Amsterdam because I'm in Holland, also to rehearse at the moment. It was really funny when I told her we got the Grammy. She was like, "I told you you were gonna get nominated for a Grammy!" She was absolutely sure when she heard it. She does a lot of recording sessions and so I was absolutely thrilled. And I was thrilled partly because this is a really daring CD and it's a daring program, so that was already a kind of triumph to have that repertoire recognized. Also for this Orchestra Ludwig, who are a collective and I consider myself part of the collective, they're virtually unknown outside of Holland and we managed to get this nomination. We're rehearsing now and we're about to embark on a European tour, so for this nomination to happen just before we start our European tour, it's a thrill for everybody.
You've been a conductor for a number of years. Was it Lulu that inspired you to make Crazy Girl Crazy the first CD where you both sang and conducted?
I started conducting shortly before I sang Lulu [the first time], so around 2011. Singing Lulu gave me the strength to really dig into the conducting career because I realized I didn't need to adhere to any particular path, I needed to follow my own path and that's what I'm doing and I felt very strongly that Lulu had to be part of it, choosing the other repertoire. Gershwin was something that was created especially for concerts and for the CD recording, that special arrangement and the Berio was kind of a late addition I had been thinking about recording. You know the movie Psycho? This wonderful composer Bernard Herrmann wrote the music for it and there's a suite from Psycho that I kind of thought could be interesting but then I didn't want Lulu to be associated with a psychopath because she's not, and although I like that music and it's very exciting, I thought, no, I don't think I want to go down that route.
So then I did something really strange, which was instead of to include a third orchestral piece on an orchestral album, I just went only for the solo voice with the Sequenza. That piece worked really well because it's kind of a look at Lulu from before she really knew herself and before she really found her own voice.
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Set in the crater of a long-extinct volcano, the Pilanesberg Game Reserve is one of the premiere sites in South Africa to see the "Big 5," meaning that a safari trek through these vast grounds will bring you in contact with lions, buffalo, rhinoceroses, leopards, and elephants. Not that these are the only animals you'll see: expect zebras, hyenas, wildebeest, and an exceptional number of bird species to round out your foray into the savannah.
The fourth largest park in South Africa, there is plenty of land to cover, although one necessary stop includes the Mankwe Dam, where you can hop out of the Jeep and enjoy views that are unmatched. Then again, why use a Jeep at all when you can literally see the park from the back of an elephant? A few hours on this unique perch may be worth the novelty at a cost of about $45 USD.
If you're looking to enjoy accommodations on the grounds, there are four lodges, all of which will set you back quite a bit more than your usual youth hostel. Then again, you can stay the night at nearby Sun City, a massive resort complex known for its casino, water park, and the longest zipline on Earth. No matter what how you choose to adventure and where you choose to sleep, you'll find that this is not a budget traveler-friendly destination. Still, where else can you see some of the most majestic creatures on Earth from a hot air balloon? In few other places than Pilanesberg; it'll just cost you about $400 USD for an hour in the air. For more information, check out the included park website.
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Things are certainly warming up at here at OURganic Gardens this month , we are watching everything spring into life and getting a bit of that vavavoom back in the bones !!
We had a great success with the tiny homes event delivered by Suzie Cahn from Carraig Dulra in March with people coming from all over to participate in a natural building workshop exploring the idea of downsizing and living more in a more sustainable way . With the smells of homemade lunch and laughter filling the air it truly was a special day and a real celebration of all the hard work that has gone on to achieve the first workshop held at the garden.
We are delighted to have joined forces with Gairdín Gort a Choirce which is a new community enterprise based here at the garden, the team at Gairdín Gort a Choirce will be taking care of the community end of things at the garden and will be in charge of the of running various projects as well as the monthly community garden . Joanne Butler will be the volunteer coordinator taking care of the day to day running's tying in various new and existing projects and aiming to get the local and wider community involved as much as possible .
Going forward from that the monthly community garden that got underway in January is now in full swing welcoming gardeners all over to the garden. In February we had Ewan Barry at the garden demonstrating live willow weaving and then this month (March) we had Cary Meehan doing a wonderful woodland foraging walk and cookery demonstration. Next month we look forward to an introduction to home herbalism which takes place April 25th .
The other community based project that Gairdín Gort a Choirce is running is the amazing SEED project . This is a new Social Enterprise Enabling Development project that gets volunteers involved in growing seeds for community gardens and tidy towns . This is a pilot project that aims to create a sustainable in-house way of self funding a community project . If successful other gardens and projects can follow the model and in-turn sustain there own projects . So far we have reached over 50% of our target so we are delighted . We do however need more volunteers to help with transplanting so every Thursday 11-1 here at the garden we welcome anyone looking to help .
So just as the seeds spring into life and the soil warms up , we look ahead as seedlings ourselves and embrace what's around the corner here at OURganic Gardens. In the coming months we look forward to more exciting events and plans are well underway ,we are open for visits on Tuesdays and Thursdays and soon we will have a program of events aswell as an updated website !
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Corner of the hothouse on which a kiwi grows. It didn't produce any kiwis yet as it takes 3 to 5 years. The kiwi is originally from China and when it came to NZ in 1904 it was called Chinese Gooseberry.
The shrub on the left is a lilac which has a lovely smell. I received it as a small plant on my birthday years ago.


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University of Puget Sound
Puget Sound women receive at-large berth, will face Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in NCAA Division III tournament
Turns out, the University of Puget Sound women's basketball team did not have to hold its collective breath for very long in finding out where — or if — it was going in the NCAA Division III tournament.
Watching a closed-circuit televised broadcast of the selection show, the 18th-ranked Loggers were the third school revealed Monday morning — and will face Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (24-3) on Friday at 5 p.m. PDT in the opening round.
At least UPS (23-4) will be familiar with the site — the Wheeler Sports Center in Newberg, Oregon. It is the home court of undefeated Northwest Conference champion George Fox, which will host the four-team playoff.
"We are excited to go right down the road where we have been twice already this season," Loggers coach Loree Payne said. "It is comforting to get that (a familiar site) in the excitement of the national tournament where a lot of different emotions come into play."
UPS is also somewhat familiar with the Athenas. The two teams played a non-conference game last season in Tacoma, in which the Loggers won, 86-65, in November of 2013.
"They are an up-and-running team, and that is what we do," Loggers forward Amanda Forshay said. "I remember from last year they are a good team with a lot of weapons. And clearly they are really good (this season) — they made it to the NCAA tournament.
"Now that we know who it is, we can start preparing."
On a 20-game winning streak, the Athenas rolled through the SCIAC. They also won their conference tournament a week ago, defeating Redlands in the semifinals, and California Lutheran in the finals.
Claremont averages 62.5 points per game with senior guard Kimberly Scamman as the team's leading scorer at 15.8 points per game. Sophomore forward Kris Brackmann, a Mercer Island High School grad, is second at 12.9 ppg.
The UPS-Claremont winner will face the George Fox-Penn State-Abington winner in the second round Saturday at 6 p.m. The Loggers have lost to the NWC rival Bruins three times this season — the most recent coming in a 66-61 loss in the conference championship game Saturday.


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He wrote and directed the award-winning film Children of the Struggle, which was shown in film festivals across the country, on PBS station KQED for three years to commemorate Black History Month, and is seen in high schools and colleges nationwide. It was also recognized by the NAACP Film Commission for its "true and poignant portrayal of the fight for black voting rights".
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