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Happy New Years Eve everyone! Just think, in just a few hours from now, we can say adios to the year 2016!
And it is here that we pick up our look back at 2016 with the best and worst of music from that time period.
And, well...let's not beat around the bush. 2016 was a HORRIBLE year for the music industry. I can't think of another year in which we lost so many musicians such as David Bowie, Prince, Glenn Frey, Merle Haggard, George Michael, and many many more. 2016 was definitely the grim reaper of years for music. I'll go over the full list of all of the musicians that died when I do my recap on the news and events of 2016 tomorrow, but man, what a year.
In fact, when it comes to 2016, I found it extremely lackluster. The music was boring as far as my opinion is concerned, and half of the artists that had a #1 song this year are artists that I haven't even HEARD of! Have a look at the list of songs that charted at #1 and see what I mean.
Sorry/JUSTIN BIEBER
Love Yourself/JUSTIN BIEBER
Sorry/JUSTIN BIEBER
Love Yourself/JUSTIN BIEBER
Work/RIHANNA featuring DRAKE
One Dance/DRAKE featuring WIZKID and KYLA
Work/RIHANNA featuring DRAKE
One Dance/DRAKE featuring WIZKID and KYLA
Can't Stop The Feeling!/JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Cheap Thrills/SIA featuring SEAN PAUL
Closer/THE CHAINSMOKERS featuring HALSEY
Black Beatles/RAE SREMMUND featuring GUCCI MANE
Cheap Thrills/SIA featuring SEAN PAUL
Closer/THE CHAINSMOKERS featuring HALSEY
Black Beatles/RAE SREMMUND featuring GUCCI MANE
Okay, so I'll make the conclusion that the later we get into the year, the less familiar that I am with the artists. I've never even heard of the people who did the song "Black Beatles"!
And while the Chainsmokers had the top song of the year (it was #1 on the charts for a whopping twelve weeks), I actually had to Google them to figure out who they are! As it turns out, they're the group responsible for that annoying selfie song a couple of years ago. Though, I suppose the song is okay. Not really my cup of tea, but then again I found 2016 to be a rather disappointing year.
In fact, I found 2016 so disappointing that I can't believe that a pair of Justin Bieber singles are among my picks for some of the best songs of the year! There's something catchy about "Sorry" that makes you want to get up and move. I can't quite explain it. And "Love Yourself" definitely shows that Justin Bieber - in spite of all the silly stuff he's done - is slowly maturing. I'm not afraid to admit that he surprised me this year...but in a really good way! Here's hoping he can continue on the road to positivity and release some more mature music.
Another Justin also had a song that I absolutely adore. "Can't Stop The Feeling" is a song that comes from the "Trolls" soundtrack, and I will readily admit to grooving along to this tune whenever it comes up. I had a feeling that Justin Timberlake would sort of follow in Michael Jackson's footsteps, and you know, this song may cinch that for him. Here's hoping that Justin Timberlake surpasses his 50th birthday!
Adele also had a decent year with her song "Hello" dominating the early part of the year. She also had a hit with what I consider my all time favourite Adele song to date, "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)". It just shows that Adele's voice is powerful and lovely enough to be accompanied by a simple guitar and have it be beautiful. Hell, she could sing along with a kazoo backing her and she'd still have a smash single!
And Zayn Malik proved that he had more than just "one direction" to go when he launched his solo career at the beginning of this year. His single "Pillowtalk" was a #1 hit worldwide in the spring of 2016, and as 2017 approaches, it is really anybody's guess as to what direction he'll be going next.
Drake also had a pretty decent 2016. On the heels of the success of "Hotline Bling", his collaboration with Rihanna scored him a #1 hit for both of them...and Drake's own song "One Dance" dethroned "Work" three weeks later! Not bad for the former Degrassi: The Next Generation actor.
All right, we've heard some selections from the #1 songs of 2016. But which artists took home a Grammy this past year? Here's a selection of the winners. Congratulations to all!
RECORD OF THE YEAR: Uptown Funk/MARK RONSON f. BRUNO MARS
SONG OF THE YEAR: Thinking Out Loud/ED SHEERAN
BEST NEW ARTIST: Meghan Trainor
BEST ROCK ALBUM: Drones/MUSE
BEST R&B ALBUM: Black Messiah/D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD
BEST RAP ALBUM: To Pimp a Butterfly/KENDRICK LAMAR
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM: Traveller/CHRIS STAPLETON
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM: Sound & Color/ALABAMA SHAKES
SONG OF THE YEAR: Thinking Out Loud/ED SHEERAN
BEST NEW ARTIST: Meghan Trainor
BEST ROCK ALBUM: Drones/MUSE
BEST R&B ALBUM: Black Messiah/D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD
BEST RAP ALBUM: To Pimp a Butterfly/KENDRICK LAMAR
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM: Traveller/CHRIS STAPLETON
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM: Sound & Color/ALABAMA SHAKES
Okay, so right off the bat, some of you might be wondering why Taylor Swift took home so many awards for an album that came out in October 2014? Well, much like Adele last year, Taylor Swift's 1989 album was released after the cutoff date, so she was not really eligible for too many awards in 2015. But in 2016, 1989 became eligible. And why not? Love her or hate her, the album that saw Taylor switch music styles was a huge success, and I think I lost track of how many singles she released from 1989 alone.
And, does it come as no surprise that "Uptown Funk" took home the award for "Record of the Year"? It was just a couple weeks shy of breaking the record for longest #1 song on the Billboard Charts EVER. And even though we're almost at 2017, the song is still heavily played. I guess whether you like it or not, "Uptown Funk" is here to stay! And as for Bruno, his latest song "24K Magic" is doing well, and it looks like 2017 could be another banner year for him. Time will tell.
While her music has definitely taken a bit of a switch lately, I must say that Meghan Trainor's acceptance speech was one of the more emotional ones ever given at the Grammy Awards, and you could tell that she was genuinely shocked and grateful for the award. And you know, I'll give Meghan Trainor a ton of credit for standing up for positive body imagery. When she noticed that she had been edited to look thinner in her video for "Me Too", she said NO, and took the video down until it was restored the way it was filmed. I say that it's about time more people stood up for positive body image regardless of size. Good job, Meghan!
And remember how bummed I was that Ed Sheeran got shut out of the major awards last year? In 2016, that was finally remedied when he won an award for "Thinking Out Loud". I truly think that Ed is a gifted artist and I look forward to seeing what he'll plan on doing next!
Okay, let's have a look at the other events that took place in the world of music in 2016, shall we? There's some good, and some bad...but all of it is interesting.
Okay, let's have a look at the other events that took place in the world of music in 2016, shall we? There's some good, and some bad...but all of it is interesting.
I want to congratulate the following bands for being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016! Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, N.W.A., and Steve Miller were all recognized for their work in the music industry. As far as I am concerned, all these bands deserve to be in there!
Celine Dion had a really tough year. In January 2016, she lost both her husband and her brother just a few days apart. But one thing I will say about her was that she showed so much strength and courage through it all, and she was extremely strong for her children. And on top of all that, she spent the rest of the year performing for her fans and being incredibly candid about her fears for the future as well as finding new hopes. Here's hoping that 2017 is a much better road for the French-Canadian chanteuse.
In what many fans might have considered a final farewell, David Bowie released his final album, "Blackstar" on his 69th birthday. He passed away just two days later, and as I'll be talking about in tomorrow's entry, his death was the first of many from the music industry this year. Perhaps the haunting video for "Lazarus" was almost David's way of letting his fans know that he was going to be all right...wherever he was going.
Lady Gaga had a rather eventful 2016. She performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl 50 (where Coldplay were the halftime performers), and she did a medley of David Bowie songs in full Ziggy Stardust makeup at the Grammy Awards. And later in 2016, she released her fourth studio album "Joanne", which instantly became a success. I am almost waiting to see what 2017 holds for her, because she's one entertainer that always switches things up when you least expect it.
Lady Gaga's singing partner at one time, Tony Bennett, turned 90 years old this year, and in celebration of the event, he released a brand new album featuring artists from Billy Joel and Diana Krall to Stevie Wonder and Elton John. A television special celebrating his 90th birthday aired on NBC on December 20, 2016! It's nice to know that some musicians are still going strong during this past year!
Gwen Stefani had a rather interesting 2016 as well. Her marriage to Gavin Rossdale went kerblammo, but she found new love with Blake Shelton. And if you ever wanted to know some of Gwen's thoughts while she was going through that tumultuous time, you could listen to her album "This Is What the Truth Feels Like". I don't know how honest she is in the songs on that album, but it was her first solo album since 2006's "The Sweet Escape", so it was definitely worth the wait.
Guns N Roses did something that I didn't think would happen in years. They got back together! The fact that it took place on April 1 was incredible irony, but it was no April Fools joke. Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagen got together one more time for a concert at the Troubadour - the first time in twenty-three years since they last played together! I wonder if they did a cover of "Reunited" by Peaches and Herb?
Always the queen of the unconventional song releases, Beyonce shocked the world yet again with the dropping of her first visual album. Imagine an album of nothing but music videos. That's exactly what she did. And when we all sampled some of her "Lemonade", we actually found that it was a nice blend of sweet and bitter. Sweet because she still had that voice...and bitter because of her feelings towards Becky with the good hair.
Unfortunately, Beyonce's performance with the Dixie Chicks at the CMA Awards was not welcomed with such fanfare, with country singer Travis Tritt blasting the former Destiny's Child singer for not being country. I'll admit the performance was sort of strange, but it's not the first time a pop singer collaborated with a country star. Look at Shania Twain and Mark McGrath with the song "Party for Two". Or, Kenny Chesney and P!nk with "Setting the World on Fire". Or, hell, let's go way back to the 1980s when Kenny Rogers sang "We've Got Tonight" with Scottish pop singer Sheena Easton! I'm not saying that I liked Beyonce with the Dixie Chicks, but I am saying that Travis Tritt could have used a better argument.
Unfortunately, Beyonce's performance with the Dixie Chicks at the CMA Awards was not welcomed with such fanfare, with country singer Travis Tritt blasting the former Destiny's Child singer for not being country. I'll admit the performance was sort of strange, but it's not the first time a pop singer collaborated with a country star. Look at Shania Twain and Mark McGrath with the song "Party for Two". Or, Kenny Chesney and P!nk with "Setting the World on Fire". Or, hell, let's go way back to the 1980s when Kenny Rogers sang "We've Got Tonight" with Scottish pop singer Sheena Easton! I'm not saying that I liked Beyonce with the Dixie Chicks, but I am saying that Travis Tritt could have used a better argument.
I should mention that Sia also had a great 2016 as well. She was handpicked to do the theme song for "Finding Dory" - a cover version of the Nat King Cole single "Unforgettable". And she also made history in 2016 when her single "Cheap Thrills" hit the top of the charts - the first time a woman in her 40s has had a #1 single since Madonna in 2005. Nicely done, Sia.
The television show "The Voice" has been in the news a lot lately, some for good things, and some for not so good things. When it comes to the good things, it proves that sometimes you can have a second chance to rebuild your career. For Voice winner Alisan Porter (who played Curly Sue in the movie "Curly Sue"), and Voice runner-up Billy Gilman (who had a career when he was just a kid), it was a chance for both to reinvent themselves, and I think they both succeeded. And congratulations to Sundance Head, the second winner of the year.
But tragically, a former contestant on "The Voice" - Christina Grimmie - was shot and killed following a concert she performed in Orlando, Florida (just two days before the Pulse massacre). She was just twenty-two years old.
Christmas did not bring any harmony for the group "Fifth Harmony". It was announced that Camila Cabello would be leaving the group in December 2016, but reports circulated that the split was not amicable, and that Camila's departure caused the other four members of the group to get angry. One thing is for certain, I'm sure this story isn't over yet.
Continued thoughts go out to Michael Buble this year, as his son was recently diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing treatments. This coming on the heels of the release of his brand new album which contains the infectious first single "Nobody But Me". Give it a listen...it's quite good!
And finally, I can't wrap up the look back on music in 2016 without discussing the Tragically Hip. The Canadian band which had entertained audiences for three decades called it a day following the announcement of Gord Downie's battle with terminal brain cancer. The group released one final album together before embarking on a small cross-country tour as a final thank you to their fans for sticking around. Despite the fact that scalpers were selling tickets at outrageous prices, the shows were a phenomenal success, and CBC simulcast the band's final show in their hometown of Kingston, Ontario over live television so that every Canadian could watch the show. You could tell that Gord Downie was filled with so much emotion - fear, anger, hope, happiness, contentment. I don't know what the next year will bring for him, but one thing is for sure...2016 will forever be the year of the Downie.
That's a wrap for the music flashback of 2016. Tomorrow will be the first day of 2017, and with that comes a post about the news and events of the past year (of which I will be needing at least a couple of pages just for the celebrity obituaries).
See you next year! :)


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Argentine Tegu
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- Family: Teiidae
- Adult Size: 2½ to 4 feet total length
- Range: Southern South America
- Habitat: Adaptable to a wide range of terrain from meadows to open forest of temperate climates.
- Captive Lifespan: 12 to 20 Years
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These powerful, terrestrial predators shelter in burrows after being active by day. The black and white tegu, or Argentine tegu, emerges with the warming sun and actively prowls its territory in search of any small animals that it's capable of catching and devouring. Prey is subdued in the black and white tegu's powerful jaws until all struggling ceases. Large food items are ripped apart with the aid of sharp claws; smaller items are swallowed whole.
In captivity, domestic rodents can provide the bulk of the black and white tegu's diet. Raw eggs, chicks, or other small animals can supplement the diet. Keep your fingers clear when offering food because black and white tegus often display a voracious feeding response to anything that moves. Aside from feeding time, black and white tegus often tame down well and may make docile pets.
A spacious cage or outdoor pen will allow for black and white tegus to dig with their strong claws. Black and white tegus typically retire to their burrows for many months each season when temperatures dip below the low 70s Fahrenheit, whether you want them to or not. Black and white tegus may remain completely dormant, refusing food, and often stay hidden the whole time.
Females deposit 12 to 30 eggs, which they guard jealously. Hatchlings are finger-thick and 7 to 10 inches in length. Black and white tegus often sport brilliant green coloration which gradually fades to tones of black and white as they mature over several years.

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Take a look at the first scan of Drakengard 3.
The Drakengard series is awesome. Cant wait to see more from this game
SQUEE whered this come from i was just thinking of drakengard
Oh shit, Square Enix is doing something right this time? I'm surprised. I just hope it gets released here because it's about time they made a 3rd Drakengard game.
Great to hear. Maybe this opens things up for a NieR sequel of sorts?


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NHTSA Hosts Public Session on Data Modernization (7/18/2013)
NHTSA is undertaking a modernization effort to upgrade the National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) by improving the information technology (IT) infrastructure, updating and prioritizing the data collected, reselecting the sample sites and sample sizes, re-examining the electronic formats in which the crash data files are made available to the public, and improving data collection methods and quality control procedures, among other activities. This project is called the Data Modernization (DataMod) Project.
NHTSA has reached the next phase of the design and held a public listening session on July 18, 2013, to solicit information and comments on: (a) adding, deleting or changing the current NASS data elements for DataMod, and; (b) recommendations for changing or improving the NASS data collection methodology.
On June 21, 2012, NHTSA published a Federal Register notice (77 FR 37471-72) soliciting comments from NASS users on the current data elements, proposed new data elements, suggestions on the research design and data collection protocol for the modernized study, and any other ideas NHTSA should consider to improve crash data. To see the comments that were submitted, please go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for docket number, NHTSA-2012-0084.
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Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) Welcomes Jorge Buenfil as a Doctoral Fellow
Jorge Buenfil has been selected as a SERC ARDEC Fellow. Buenfil, who is a Systems Engineer with the U.S. Army Armaments Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), headquartered in Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey will focus his research on optimizing networked sensors utilizing Systems Engineering best practices.
The SERC and ARDEC signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in May 2013. The MOU was signed by Dr. Dinesh Verma, Executive Director, SERC and Barbara Machak, Acting Director, ARDEC.
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Soundcheck: Breath and Burning, Passing Through, Foam, Frost, Sugar Shack, Ruby Waves (unconfirmed and possibly incomplete)
SET 1: AC/DC Bag > 555 > Ocelot > Sample in a Jar, Stash, The Wedge, Frost, Halley's Comet > Ruby Waves[1], Lawn Boy, You Enjoy Myself
SET 2: Plasma -> The Final Hurrah > Wingsuit > Golden Age > I Always Wanted It This Way > Prince Caspian > If I Could > 46 Days
ENCORE: Drift While You're Sleeping
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Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
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Star Reviews Performance by "Fiery Trumpeter" Pharez Whitted '82
December 17, 2012
"Pharez Whitted is about as steeped in Indianapolis and its jazz history as anyone, but he seems to have really blossomed, like so many other talented Hoosiers, after establishing himself elsewhere," opines Jay Harvey in an Indianapolis Star review. Of Whitted, a 1982 graduate of DePauw University, Harvey writes, "Always a fiery trumpeter with lots of musical integrity, he has become a bandleader and composer of substantial achievement through years of residence in Chicago. He displayed the high standard he's established for himself with his regular sextet in the first of two sets Friday night at a packed Jazz Kitchen."
The piece notes, "Whitted focused mainly on original compositions from his new CD, For the People (Origin). The five pieces we heard all had something catchy to say and provided fertile ground for improvisation."
You'll find the complete text -- headlined "Pharez Whitted's jazz skills are on display at Indy CD release party" -- at IndyStar.com.
A 1982 graduate of DePauw University, Whitted was a music major and played football. He has performed with such notables as Nancy Wilson, Freddie Hubbard, Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Branford Marsalis, Johnny Griffin, David "Fathead" Newman, George Duke, John Mellencamp, Patti Austin, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Ari Brown and Ramsey Lewis. Learn more in this previous summary.Back


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Oct 25, 2016 - Genotypic
Neha Gujaria; Ashish Kumar; Preeti Dauthal; Anuja Dubey; Pavana J Hiremath; BhanuPrakash Amindala; Andrew D Farmer; Mangla Bhide; Trushar Shah; Pooran M.Gaur; Hari D. Upadhyaya; Sabhyata Bhatia; Douglas R. Cook; Gregory D May; Rajeev K. Varshney, 2016, "Transcript map of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)", https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/TOYQD2, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1A transcript map has been constructed by the development and integration of genic molecular markers (GMMs) including single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), genic microsatellite or simple sequence repeat (SSR) and intron spanning region (ISR)-based markers, on an inter-specific map...
Oct 25, 2016 - Genotypic
Pavana J Hiremath; Ashish Kumar; R. Varma Penmetsa; Andrew D Farmer; Jessica A. Schlueter; Siva K. Chamarthi; Adam M. Whaley; Noelia Carrasquilla-Garcia; Pooran M.Gaur; Hari D. Upadhyaya; P. B. Kavi Kishor; Trushar M. Shah; Douglas R. Cook; Rajeev K. Varshney, 2016, "Chickpea genetic map comprising 1328 marker loci", https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/YC6QWG, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1A second-generation genetic map comprising 1328 marker loci including novel 625 CKAMs, 314 TOG-SNPs and 389 published marker loci with an average inter-marker distance of 0.59 cM. CMap Visualization Links: 1328 loci map DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1467-7652.2012.00710.x
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Mahendar Thudi; Abhishek Bohra; Spurthi N. Nayak; Nicy Varghese; Trushar M. Shah; R. Varma Penmetsa; Nepolean Thirunavukkarasu; Srivani Gudipati; Pooran M.Gaur; Pawan L. Kulwal; Hari D. Upadhyaya; P. B. Kavi Kishor; Peter Winter; Günter Kahl; Christopher D. Town; Andrzej Kilian; Douglas R. Cook; Rajeev K. Varshney, 2016, "Genetic map data of ICC 4958 (C. arietinum) × PI 489777 (C. reticulatum) with 1291 markers", https://doi.org/10.21421/D2/A9Y3ZC, ICRISAT Dataverse, V1This dataset contains genetic map data developed based on recombinant inbred line (RIL) population ICC 4958 (C. arietinum) x PI 489777 (C. reticulatum). This map consists of 1,291 markers on eight linkage groups (LGs) spanning a total of 845.56 cM. The number of markers per linka...
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Agenda: August 16, 2012 Community Involvement PEG Meeting
Community Involvement Policy Expert Group
Meeting No. 3
Date: August 16, 2012
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Pettygrove Room
Meeting objectives
- Understand the types of projects and processes that are guided by, and make findings to, the Comprehensive Plan
- Obtain ideas, knowledge of best practices and input on policy options and areas for policy improvements to achieve community involvement Transparency for Comprehensive Plan projects and processes
- Hear perspectives from PEG members on how the PEG meetings are going, if members are getting everything they need to be successful in the group, concerns or issues that need to be addressed
Welcome, Meeting Overview and Introductions (6:00 p.m. / 5 minutes)
Presenter: Deb Meihoff, facilitator
Process updates (6:05 p.m. / 10 minutes)
Presenters: Paul Leistner, Office of Neighborhood Involvement and MartyStockton, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability / PEG Co-leads
- Work and progress from the PIAC Comprehensive Plan Work Group from August 14 meeting
- CI-PEG outreach update
- Introduction to the new PEG meeting evaluation program
Related Materials:
- Evaluation Forms
- Outreach Survey (final)
Review of updated CI PEG work plan (6:15 p.m. / 5 minutes)
Presenters: Paul Leistner, Office of Neighborhood Involvement and Marty Stockton, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability / PEG Co-leads
- Elements of Good Public Involvement - check in on outcome from July meeting and what is needed for the October discussion draft?
- Revised work plan, aligned with Elements
Related Materials:
Presentation: Purview of the Comprehensive Plan on projects and processes (6:20 p.m. / 30 minutes)
Presenter: Marty Stockton, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability/PEG Co-lead, Michelle Kunec, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Courtney Duke, Portland Bureau of Transportation, and Emily Roth, Parks and Recreation
Description: The different types of land use, development review, and capital project planning processes that are guided by the Comprehensive Plan
Related Materials:
- Handout: What is the Comp Plan?
- Handout: How is the Comp Plan Currently Used
PEG CI Element Discussion: Transparency (6:40 p.m. / 60 minutes)
Presenter: Marty Stockton, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability and Deb Meihoff, facilitator
- Review of PEG's discussion on Transparency at the July meeting; introduction to existing policy and regulatory framework related to Transparency
- Group discussion. Based on your understanding of current processes, barriers to good community involvement, and best practices to achieve Transparency:
- What existing policies should carry forward into the draft Comprehensive Plan update? Are there modifications that need to be made?
- What new policies should be included in the update?
- Are there any new shifts or trends that should be considered when drafting the updated policy?
- What else is needed to achieve Transparency?
Related Materials:
- Deterring Fake Public Participation (J.H. Snider, International Association for Public Participation)
Public Comment (7:40 p.m. / 10 minutes)
Next Steps (7:50 p.m. / 5 minutes)
Presenter: Deb Meihoff, facilitator
- Topic(s) for next meeting
- PIAC - Comprehensive Plan Work Group
- Community Outreach
- PEG Co-leads
PEG Check-in (7:55 p.m. / 5 minutes)
- Are you getting the information and support needed to be effective?
- Is the process working / what changes do we need to consider?
- Please complete PEG process and CI PEG Evaluation Forms
For more information, please contact either Marty Stockton, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability at 503-823-2041 or firstname.lastname@example.com; Paul Leistner, Office of Neighborhood Involvement at 503-823-5284 or email@example.com; or Deb Meihoff, Facilitator at 503-358-3404 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


text: Earth has no shortage of animals that amaze, frighten, and perplex us. But what if we could combine species and create even more terrifying hybrids? This compilation of imaginary critter combos we'd love to see in the wild (from a safe distance) was inspired by our readers, who seem to be very interested in everything we write about spiders or sharks. Thus, the spidershark. With the help of friends, colleagues, readers and followers, the list grew to include a horde of monstrosities ranging from strangely adorable to intensely scary. But why sit around and argue about whether the spider shark would have eight fins or eight additional leggy appendages or eight eyes or all of the above? We needed artists to bring these hybrids to life, and we knew just where to find them. The Science Illustration Program at CSU Monterey Bay is a training ground for artists who love science and nature. We enticed 11 alums and current students to take on our fictional creatures and make them look real. Their awesome talent and creativity resulted in the beautiful, awe-inspiring, and sometimes terrifying visual creations in this collection. Above: Spidershark This has to be one of the best and scariest species of landshark ever imagined. And also, it's completely adorable. How can you not want to hug this many-eyed creature? As the original inspiration for this gallery, the elasmorachnid occupies a special place in this pantheon of preposterous critters. Illustration: Copyright Calene Luczo [Portfolio]Pandaroo Behold the pandaroo, a bouncy creature with a taste for bamboolyptus. "Think of the stuffed animal possibilities," said Robert Irion, who suggested the pandaroo. "Jumping pandas with pockets!" Illustration: Copyright Maayan Harel [Portfolio]Flying Squirwolf Sailing from tree to tree, the flying squirwolf casts quite the shadow on unsuspecting meals below. "An awesome predator," said Dirk Hanson, who suggested the flying, lupine fortress. Squirwolves, with their ability to glide long distances, can launch coordinated aerial assaults, often organizing hunts while tiptoeing through the treetops. Unlike the werewolf, a larger, land-bound cousin, squirwolves are not restricted to hunting during the full moon. Illustration: Copyright Natalia Wilkins [Portfolio]Taranturaptor A large, spiderlike creature, the Taranturaptor (Escensu aranea) has a legspan that can span 4 meters across. That's, like, 20 times the size of your face. "Spend enough time scouring the dense rain forests of Belize and you are bound to come across signs of the Taranturaptor," wrote Kyle Hill, who dreamed up the critter. "While you are deep in the jungle, a Taranturaptor likely has its eyes on you." The creature's huge and valuable exoskeleton makes it a target for poachers, Hill notes, meaning its population hovers between 5,000 and 10,000 individuals. "While efforts to save the species and information campaigns to clear their fearsome reputation have been moderately successful, few zoos want to take on the risk in displaying this beast to the public," Hill writes. "The San Diego Zoo is still paying out civil suit settlements." Illustration: Copyright Alex Babakitis [Portfolio]Cuttlephant Here be the cuttlephant, an amphibious, multi-trunked, color-changing beauty. The elephantine creature comes with a self-defense bonus: According to Elizabeth Preston, who suggested the amphibious cephaloderm, the cuttlephant possesses "the camouflaging skills and killer instincts of a cuttlefish, to protect it from poachers." She also points out that its cousins could include the cuttleoceros and goruttlefish. Illustration: Copyright Meghan Rock [Portfolio]Stomatopetrel Combining the mantis shrimp's rainbow-colored countenance, super-sightedness, and I'll-punchisize-your-face-for-free attitude with the blatant badassery of giant petrels yields a lethal creature that could only be called a stomatopetrel. "That's a mantis shrimp with wings," tweeted Ed Yong, who suggested the evil beast. "THEN YOU WILL ALL PAY." Illustration: Copyright JL Hirten [Portfolio]Piranhatee Hey, manatee patriots: We dare you to ride one of these. "Manatees might be the most defenseless animals out there, but piranhas are the badasses of the freshwater world," said Kate Shaw, who suggested the toothy sirenian. "Give the poor sea cows a giant, razor-sharp set of teeth and an appetite to match, and we'll see if anyone messes with them." That includes you, Cannonball Guy. Illustration: Copyright Justine Shih [Portfolio]Pterodactwhale The exuberant breach of a humpback whale is a wonder of nature. But I wanted to know what it would look like if that airborne hulk then unfurled its leathery wings and soared into the sky, bellowing a strange, mashed-up version of humpback songs and pterodactyl screeches. And now I do. Illustration: Copyright Laurel Mundy [Portfolio]Dinoflagellate Starling "Imagine a murmuration of bioluminescent starlings, flowing across the sky in a series of phase transitions," said Jessamyn Fairfield, who suggested the glowing birds. "Sounds better than fireworks to me." Us, too. Looping swirls and shimmering, avian clouds? Yes, please. Illustration: Copyright Katie Bertsche [Portfolio]Fire-Dog A combination of firefly and dog, with a blinking, yellow butt. And why shouldn't the fire-dog's head to light up too? The better to walk you with, my dear. Fire-Dog was imagined by George Aranda, who'd like to take his pup for evening strolls, "lit by his bioluminescence." Illustration: Copyright Kelly Lance [Portfolio]Gazelligator "Scary fast," said creator Lewis Wallace. That is all. Zip-zip-chomp. Illustration: Copyright Lucy Conklin [Portfolio]


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still learning, but I've finished the memrise initial grammar and trying to read and build bigger phrases.
I created a twitter handle @wasotoki to try things out as well.
I'm sure I'll be asking lots of questions once I get into it.
Also looking for a good python parser library for the language to try out some automated chatbots in the language if anyone has links.
My names Mark so I think I'll go with Jan Make.
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Quality Awards V: Spectra Logic reigns supreme
Spectra Logic tops both the midrange and enterprise tape library categories in our latest Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards survey.
When Spectra Logic Corp. shows up for the Storage magazine/ SearchStorage.com Quality Awards for tape libraries, it doesn't fool around. Leading the field for both midrange and enterprise-class libraries by substantial margins, Spectra Logic adds a couple of new notches to its belt to complement its two previous wins in the midrange group, as well as a win and a second-place finish for enterprise products. In all other cases -- three enterprise and two midrange surveys -- Spectra failed to tally enough responses to be among the finalists.
If they're in it, they win it . . . or just miss, as with Spectra's second-place overall ranking in the last enterprise tape libraries survey. This time, Spectra's overall score bested its nearest competitor in the enterprise group by nearly a full point: 7.40 to IBM's 6.47. Quantum Corp. (6.39), Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. (6.24) and Oracle Corp. (6.16) rounded out the list of five finalists. It should be noted that all the scores were very good, and any of them would have been high enough to take top honors on at least one our past surveys.
|About the survey
The Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. Results are derived from a survey of qualified readers who assess products in five main categories: sales-force competence, initial product quality, product features, product reliability and technical support. Our methodology incorporates statistically valid polling that eliminates market share as a factor. Indeed, our objective is to identify the most reliable products on the market regardless of vendor name, reputation or size. Products are rated on a scale of 1.00 to 8.00, where 8.00 is the best score. A total of 331 respondents provided 372 midrange and enterprise-class tape library evaluations.
In the midrange group, Spectra made it back to the winner's podium after missing the finalist cut in our previous two tape library surveys (but finishing first in the first two surveys). Its overall score of 6.84 was a bit less impressive than its enterprise ranking, but it was more than enough to once again beat IBM, which notched a fine score of 6.43; filling out the midrange field were Dell Inc. (6.33), HP (6.25) and Sony (5.46).
One respondent referred to Spectra as "the most overlooked tape vendor in the market." If there's any truth to that distinction, it's bound to change soon.
The "steady and solid" award (if we had one) would have to go to IBM. Over the course of the five surveys we've fielded in the past five years, the company has snagged just one enterprise win but perennially finishes second or third in both tape library categories -- a demonstration of consistency unmatched by other library vendors and rare among any of our Quality Award product categories.
|Products in the survey
The following vendors/model lines of midrange and enterprise-class tape libraries were included in this Quality Awards survey. The total number of responses for each finalist is included in parentheses after the product names.
Midrange tape libraries
Enterprise tape libraries
*Received too few responses to be included among finalists
Making the buy
With tape being relegated to a more limited and specialized data protection role in most shops, it would seem to be harder than ever for a tape library salesperson to get their foot in the door. Nonetheless, they seem to be doing a pretty good job of determining a customer's needs and delivering. For midrange libraries, Spectra Logic's 6.78 led the pack in the sales-force competence section of our survey; IBM and HP tied for second with a score of 6.26. Spectra's 7.25 for the statement "The vendor's sales support team is knowledgeable" was the highest, and only 7.00-plus, mark, propelling it to the highest rankings for all the statements in the rating category.
In the enterprise tape library division, Spectra Logic again swept, but with scores above 7.00 for all statements on the way to a 7.36 category rating -- an astonishing feat when you consider that the highest score we had seen previously in this category was a 6.53, which Spectra earned on the last survey. The keys for Spectra, again, were a knowledgeable sales support team (7.61) and a 7.50 rating for "My sales rep is knowledgeable about my industry."
IBM had another strong showing in sales-force competence with a total score of 6.34 highlighted by a 6.62 for the knowledgeable sales support team statement. Quantum rode three 6.00-plus and three high-5.00 ratings to a solid 6.09 third-place finish.
Click here to get a PDF of the Quality Awards V: Enterprise Tape Libraries standings.
Out of the box
It's been said there's nothing in a data center with more moving parts than a tape library. If any of those parts fails to mesh properly or misses its mark, a poor first impression is inevitable. The initial product quality section of our survey measures how quickly and easily a tape library got up and running and in production. The good news is that tape library vendors have risen to the occasion despite the mechanical nature of their products; when averaging all ratings for all vendors, this survey's roster of vendors received the highest scores ever for initial product quality in both the midrange and enterprise tape library categories.
Continuing its tour de force, Spectra Logic topped both groups with an even 7.00 in the midrange group and another eye-popping 7.50 to lead its enterprise peers. In the midrange group, Dell's very impressive 6.70 placed it second followed by another outstanding score of 6.61 from IBM. In the enterprise sector, HP's 6.52 earned second place, with Quantum just behind at 6.45 -- scores that could have been category winners in the past.
For enterprise tape libraries, respondents registered their particular satisfaction with high scores across the board for "I am satisfied with the level of professional services this product requires," "The product requires very little daily intervention" and "This product is easy to use." Midrange users gave their highest scores to the statements related to easy installation and configuration, as well as ease of use.
Features and functions
What a library can -- and can't -- do is the bottom line, and modern tape libraries are far from the one-trick ponies of yesteryear. Here again, Spectra Logic led a very strong group of product lines to some of the best scores yet in the product features rating category, with a midrange score of 6.82 and an enterprise score of 7.42.
For enterprise tape libraries, Quantum nosed out IBM for second (6.65 vs. 6.59), with HP (6.43) and Oracle (6.29) not far behind. Midrange scores were also striking; IBM's 6.59 trailed only Spectra, while Dell (6.38) and HP (6.36) were in a virtual tie for third.
Statements related to good design, scalability and management features were among the highest scorers for all vendors, but the blanket "Overall, this product's features meet my needs" statement came out on top for enterprise tape libraries. Spectra dominated with the only 7.00-plus scores, ranging from 7.00 to 7.63 for the eight statements in the category.
Midrange users were also pleased with overall feature sets, and rated design and management features highly. In a rare occurrence for these survey results, Spectra failed to sweep the features statements, thwarted by IBM's 6.52 for "This product loads and ejects tape efficiently."
Click here to get a PDF of the Quality Awards V: Midrange Tape Libraries standings.
Steady performers
There's no test like time when measuring the reliability of a product, and our survey results indicate that tape libraries are doing a better job than ever at the daily grind of data center operations. For our enterprise tape libraries, the average of all scores is the highest yet on the five surveys we've conducted, and the midrange group's score was second to only one previous survey.
Spectra's 7.26 score in the product reliability category led the enterprise pack by a substantial margin (IBM was second with a 6.34 followed by Quantum's 6.18). While the midrange group was a little more competitive, Spectra's 6.67 placed it in front of IBM and Dell.
The enterprise-class tape libraries seem to be a step ahead of their more modest brethren in the product reliability ratings. All the enterprise vendors' product lines scored well across all eight statements in this category, with the top scores generally given for "This product requires very few unplanned patches/updates" and "The product meets my service-level requirement."
For all products and all statements, there were only five sub-6.00 scores.
With a narrower margin of victory than in other categories, Spectra Logic's midrange entries scored highest on six of the statements, ceding to IBM for "This product is rarely the cause of backup failures" and to Dell for "This product experiences very few bugs."
Safety net
One product may have a great feature list and be easy to get up and running and manage, but the day it decides to hiccup -- and that day will come -- the most important part of the product is likely to be how well it's supported. Most users can easily overlook minor problems if they're resolved quickly and effectively, but if they have to jump through hoops or search for missing manuals, even an otherwise exemplary product can quickly go south.
In the technical support category, Spectra Logic locked up its clean sweep in both the midrange and enterprise groups, resoundingly so, with the highest scores recorded to date for tape libraries. Its 7.45 anchored a strong overall showing in the enterprise group, followed by IBM's solid 6.63 and Quantum just a hair behind with a 6.58 rating. Spectra topped 7.00 for eight statements in the category, with its highest marks for "This product is easy to service" and "Vendor's support personnel are knowledgeable." All vendors netted high ratings for having knowledgeable support personnel, punctuated by Quantum's 6.97 and IBM's 6.83 for that statement.
We found midrange tape library users to be almost as satisfied with the support their vendors provide. Dell posted a 6.47 as overall runner-up to Spectra Logic's 6.91, and tied Spectra with a 6.67 rating for the "Problems are resolved in a timely manner" statement.
Click here to get a PDF of the Heavy Hitters standings.
Repeat performance
In all our Quality Awards surveys we ask if respondents, armed with the knowledge they have now, would buy the same product again. Sometimes, these "buy again" results run counter to the overall survey scoring, suggesting that even if somewhat disappointing, the familiar is preferable to the unknown.
But this time the percentage of users who said they would make a repeat purchase hews closely to the rating category scores. In the enterprise group, 95% of Spectra Logic users said they would buy another tape library from that vendor -- hardly surprising given the other results. But IBM (86%), Quantum (83%) and HP (81%) also earned loyalty points among their users. Oracle was the laggard at 66%, perhaps reflecting some confusion over the management handoffs from StorageTek to Sun to Oracle over the past few years.
For midrange tape libraries, the level of satisfaction was equally encouraging for vendors, with Spectra Logic (88%) leading a tightly bunched group with scores all in the range of 82% to 88%. 2
BIO: Rich Castagna (firstname.lastname@example.com) is editorial director of the Storage Media Group.


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Chiefmonkey brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 98 Designs von 44 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We're wanting a fresh logo for our Business Development Company. Turning Factor is the Happy Pill to the recession Blues. We'd like a logo that is Aspiring in its suggestion, Corporate in it's appeal, and Funky in its creativeness. We're wanting a logo that looks original and does not look ilke a "tick" or a "Target with an Arrow in it" or a "Profit Graph Going Up". Something along the lines of Virgin Media possibly, or a person turning into a money sign, or ? morphing into !. We would prefer abstract but we only suggest this as the Logo must Ultimately Be Memorable.
We're a very versatile business Development Company that promotes Personal Development and Business Growth. The winning design will probably be Simple but Memorable. Currently we just have the name Turning Factor but it needs imagery to support our vision of turning businesses around. We are a very Entrepreneurial in nature and indeed promote that within our company and our staff. All of our staff go through a personal development program the same as the Training Programmes we put other companies staff through. We then promote those companies through Online Marketing and Telesales. We also encourage our staff to build their own businesses and promote themselves online. Its an exciting place to work. Our website is currently under development but you can see it at http://www.turningfactor.com
- Primary Coulour is Purple plus other complimentary Colours- Include our Company Name- Tag Line - Growing Your Company Inside and Out- Replace Our Current Header Image on Website- White Background
- Profit Graph going upwards- Target with an Arrow stuck in it- Anything Too Complicated- Black Background
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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By Dev Suroop Kaur
There are countless things we can say about the remarkable power of mantra. Chanting mantras can take us from low spirits to high, can be the tool that helps us clear out old, gnarly, seemingly-impossible-to-bust-loose patterns, or can simply be a way to experience joy and bliss by letting the voice flow freely.
With a smorgasbord of healing opportunities available to us in the mantras of Kundalini Yoga, we can release fear, heal the wounds of love, and remember that we truly are timeless, deathless beings.
What is so truly amazing about sound, mantra, and chanting is that each one of us holds this power of transformation within us. We don't have to go to a place or to another person to access this power. Our very own body is the instrument of transformation.
So how do we activate the power of mantra? Some of the key methods are to chant the mantra in the proper rhythm, pronounce the mantra properly, project the voice, and vibrate and resonate deeply.
Yet there is an even more fundamental means to enhance your personal experience of chanting, and that is to deeply listen. After many years of chanting, playing kirtan, teaching sound and mantra, and training Kundalini Yoga teachers, I have concluded that listening deeply to the sound of your own voice—and simply the practice of listening deeply, period—is the primary key to unlocking the power of mantra and chanting.
The benefits of this very fundamental action are profound. One beautiful result is that when you practice and train yourself to listen deeply, you suspend thought. You cannot listen and think at the same time. The world of limitation and maya is silenced for a bit and the higher consciousness has some room to breathe. Nice! Yogi Bhajan says it beautifully:
"It is most powerful when we chant and listen to our sound at the same time. If we chant only, it has half the power. Chanting and listening to the chant at the same time engages the higher consciousness, the circulatory system and the nervous system. When you develop this listening power, you will be able to analyze what is good for you and what is not whenever another person talks. It is a very simple way to have knowledge"
-Yogi Bhajan, 2/13/01, Espanola, NM
To put this into action, I offer two very simple yet profound techniques. The first will get you warmed up, and the second will allow you to go deep into your chanting experience.
Listening Meditation
The first technique is a listening practice that Yogi Bhajan taught me in 1989 and remains a foundation of my personal daily sadhana to this day. This practice develops intuition, stills the monkey mind, and enhances the flow of communication. It is also a fabulous foundation for developing your capacity to chant more deeply. Here it is:
Posture: Sitting quietly, eyes closed and focused gently at the brow point.
Focus: Listen deeply. Isolate and identify each sound that you hear.
If, for example, a car passes outside, mentally identify the sound by stating "a car is passing outside"… "I can hear the hissing of water underneath the tires." Then move on to the next sound…a fly buzzing, the sound of your breath through your nostrils as you inhale and exhale, the sound of someone clearing their throat.
If you feel that you have identified every sound possible, continue isolating every sound that strikes your ears, even if you have already identified it once. Break it down into its subtle parts. Listen to the sounds within the sounds, the sounds within you, the sounds near to you, and the sounds very far away.
Allow every sound. Some sounds may seem unpleasant. Listen to them anyway. You may find that you tend to block certain sounds. Turn your awareness to those sounds, open up your listening ears and listen to them as well.
If you find that your mind starts to wander, simply return to deeply listening.
Time: Continue isolating and identifying every sound for 3 to 11 minutes.
Meditation to Conquer Fear
After you have deeply and thoroughly practiced listening, follow it up with this meditation for conquering fear. Yogi Bhajan taught this meditation to Sat Nirmal Kaur in Espanola in 2002. By closing your ears with your fingers while you chant, you will find that you truly get the experience of listening to the sound of your own voice. You can then more easily translate that experience into all of your chanting experiences.
Posture: Close your ears with fingers or you may use earplugs.
Mantra and Focus: Out loud, chant Wa - Hay - Guru. Wa is at the navel center (3rd Chakra), Hay is at the heart center (4th Chakra), Guru is at the throat (5th Chakra).
Yogi Bhajan's Comments: "Your inner ear is out of balance. If you do this kriya, you will never have phobia. It will conquer your fear. Teach this to everyone."
Practice deeply listening and listening deeply to the sound of your own voice as you chant. Find out for yourself the great benefits of this simple practice. I know it will take you to new and wonderful places.
Dev Suroop Kaur delights in sharing the pure practicality of nurturing a successful and deeply authentic life. An accomplished musician, recording artist, and Lead Trainer in the KRI Aquarian Trainer Academy, Dev Suroop Kaur strives to break it down, keep it real, and guide students to their own empowered authenticity.
Blessed to study directly with Yogi Bhajan for most of her adult life, she gratefully shares what she has learned—and continues to learn—about how to love, work, and live better in the world. She deeply enjoys training students and teachers of Kundalini Yoga in the science of Naad Yoga, women's teachings, and how to access the beauty and power of their personal voice. She currently lives with her husband in Espanola, New Mexico and, in addition to her teaching and music activities, works to maintain a peaceful mind as a business executive.


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Friday, 7 December 2012
Deck the halls with boughs of lunacy
God knows. Maybe I'm procrastinating (yes, I am). Maybe I just really like Christmas. I am certainly experiencing my yearly momentary craving for a cheap, oversweetened mince pie and a carol concert right now. There are no good Belgian carols as far as I can elicit: just creepy St Nicolas placating songs about being as good as a sheep. I want to taste once more the wild anticipation of the foggy York Christmases of my youth, when Prog Rock and I would go down to his Favourite Shop Full of Shite on Gillygate and buy deformed cat mugs and highly polished slices of stone and tiny decorative pen knives for all the family. A highly pragmatic shopper who likes to concentrate efforts in one trip/place, Prog Rock mourns deeply whenever one of his favourite retail destinations shuts, viz. the museum of automata, hideous favourite tat shop, etc and is thrown into uncertainty and well, Waterstones. This is obviously a characteristic shared by males of my acquaintance, since my father always used to go to his office Christmas lunch, then buy all his Christmas presents in a half hour of expansive, highly flammable bonhomie in the Science Museum shop. As a result, my childhood was filled with spaceman food, several of those space pens, the odd Newton's cradle and on one memorably tragic teenage year, the Times Encyclopaedia of World History. I admire the solo destination shopping whilst knowing myself to be constitutionally incapable of ever doing such a thing.
In any event, to further my online shopping travails, today I had a long, slow, ludicrous conversation with a nice man with a West Country accent at the Hawkin's Bazaar call centre. Hawkin's Bazaar, for the uninitiated, is a shop and website where they sell all manner of cheap, tasteless plastic novelties of the kind greatly loved by small boys. If it is filled with goo, or if it farts, or if makes an unbearably annoying noise, you will find it on the dayglo shelves of Hawkin's and there will probably be a three for two on something unspeakable like "toilet putty" or "hilarious prank vomit". Despite this, I have a great affection for Hawkin's, at least since the Tridias catalogue, where me and my sister's stockings were always sourced without fail, died. It rarely lets me down with the garish tat my family craves.
It sounded quite busy when someone finally answered the phone at Hawkin's. I imagine the Hawkin's Bazaar Christmas call centre to be a rather cosy, tinsel strewn place with flock reindeer and tins of Quality Street and people who are quite slow to get started in the mornings and require a good half hour debrief on last night's telly and two tea rounds.
(Incidentally, Roses are much better than Quality Street, due to the Caramel Barrel, so why have they become the Betamax of cheap seasonal chocolate? Why can I not get Roses in this benighted country? My mother's first gay husband - long story - used to live in Glasgow upstairs from a rather elegant, formidable retired academic called Margaret, who was always getting into trouble of one kind or another, falling over or setting fire to things. She lived in a large high ceilinged flat permanently wreathed in in a dense cloud of Sobranie smoke and cat hair and when we went down to visit it was always time for gin, or sherry, and for me there was always a bowl of Roses slightly softening by the sweltering heat of the gas fire. I thought it was the absolute pinnacle of sophistication and always assumed when I was grown up I would have my own bowl of Roses on a doily on the polished walnut sideboard. Actually, I think if you had asked me at any time up to about 25 what I thought adulthood looked like, it would have featured living alone with cats and Roses and Sobranies and a frequently replenished bottle of amontillado. Currently I have a half eaten Kinder Egg and some clementines of very dubious freshness as well as a full portfolio of mammalian responsibilties. I suppose there is still time for the Sobranies and cats and genteel decay and Roses at some point. I certainly hope so. )
Anyway, in my mind's eye, Hawkin's customer service is peopled by jolly Somerset ladies talking about what they're having for lunch and mercilessly teasing the student Christmas temps. I think I am slighly craving a job there, actually. How could anything ever go wrong in the Hawkin's Bazaar customer service department? Apart, obviously, from delivering the wrong stuff.
I told my amiable interlocutor that I had been sent a box containing a pointless selection of crap for consumerist hippies plus a bonus puzzling box of twelve rather upmarket "birthday boy" badges, that look like something you might get as a runner up in a golf tournament. They are in plain navy blue presentation boxes and have an enamel finish. I am utterly unable to think of a single thing to do with them. Ebay? Fly tipping?
"Oh dear" he said with engaging honesty. "This is going to be a pain. God, I've only just got here".
Then he put me on hold while he went to get a cup of tea and I listened to the Light Classics for five minutes and watched the wet snow fall on the skylight and picked at my dessicated lips, idly.
Eventually he came back on line and told me I could keep my box of poi bothering equipment and they would send me a new order, but he had to place it again.
"So. You wanted two splat frogs?"
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At this point I start to get slightly giggly.
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"Two Fools Gold"
"One stretchy caterpillar"
"One crazy shaking keyring".
"Erm, yes"
"Classic Range Fake Dog Poo - two of those?"
And so it went on for a very, very long time and it was almost certainly the high point of my day.
If it ever comes, which seems vanishingly unlikely given my current delivery luck, I'm keeping it all for myself, I reckon. No one ever buys me astronaut food any more and I feel certain a pull 'n' shake goldfish would fill that psychic hole.
Oh. Here's an actual question. You know those Japanese paper flowers we (well, I and several others) used to get in a little paper envelope that you floated on a saucer of water and then they opened out MAGICALLY (for a really quite limited value of 'magic')? Has anyone seen them in the last twenty years? Can one still obtain them or were they made from monkey skin and asbestos?
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You can still get those flowers!
In my substantial experience of purchasing things of that ilk, they can often be located in stores that also sell fortune telling fish, chinese paper pandas, bacon bandaids and those trees that grow out of salt crystals.
- 7 December 2012 at 22:46
- Waffle said...
Yes, the salt crystal trees seem much easier to locate. I will persist, in the patchouli scented, waving cat lined back streets of Europe. Let me know if you spot any.
- 7 December 2012 at 23:03
- Curry Queen said...
I bemoan the passing of the acetate fortune-telling goldfish that curled up on your slightly damp palm!
- 8 December 2012 at 08:49
Up here they've taken your 'no govt.' and applied it to post offices, of which there are now none. Packages are mailed from places where you pick up magazines and cigarettes, so we can all breathe a collective (as Calvin would have it) sigh of relief.
After much standing in a pool of sweat, both recent (if you consider a delivery time of several months to be recent) packages--jewelry, and socks with little pints of Guinness on them--have arrived safely...so it can happen.
- 8 December 2012 at 11:56
Please will you tell us about your mother's first gay husband? Please?
- 8 December 2012 at 13:23
more of Margaret. Please.
- 8 December 2012 at 17:16
There used to be such a thing as a clamshell held shut by a paper hinge, a real clamshell I believe, and you dropped it into a glass of water and later came back and the clamshell was open and a flower had grown out of it.
It wasn't as exciting as it sounds, even, but I still loved those clamshells. Do THEY exist?
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- 8 December 2012 at 19:01
- Laurel said...
YES I remember those flowers, and didn't until you mentioned them, so thank you for that memory back!
But they looked different than the ones linked to above.
I saw someone mention in a post from a few years ago that they could still be found... in the stocking stuffer section of Hawkin's. Which I'd never heard of but looks fabulous. Sort of a British Archie McPhee.
I think they were called water lilies, no?
- 9 December 2012 at 03:15
Curry Queen I saw the fish yesterday in the V&A shop, but sadly no paper flowers.
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I wasn't surprised to find that the most upvoted question on Stack Overflow had only 5,452 favorites.
"Big number," one might think. Think again. This number is fractional to the amount of views the question has gotten, which is 475,893.
That means that of the 475,893 unique users that visited the question, only 1.1% of them actually favorited the question.
I did some broader research and tested this with averages of nine questions of varying vote and view counts.
The average number of views of these nine questions is 89,448.89, and the average number of users who favorited the question is 644.12.
This means that only 0.7% of the population of users that browse questions actually uses the favorites feature.
In light of this (small) study, I think the favorites feature is obsolete and impractical now. Jeff Atwood recently confirmed that favoriting a question will subscribe you to notifications about new answers and edits to existing answers, but that feature has been inactive for almost two months. Is it safe to doubt the return of this feature, given Jeff's current absence?
Why don't we just get rid of it? I doubt that the relatively small amount of people that use it will be very concerned if it goes away, and since it's not being used by the majority of the population, why keep it at all?
I personally use the feature rarely. I have one question favorited on Meta and one on SO. (Pretty sure it's the same across all my accounts).
What do you guys think? What's the next step? Do we ignore it or take steps forward?
EDIT: Let me clarify. I am a supporter of the favorites feature but feel that it is just lacking in several aspects. From simple observation it's somewhat apparent that there is no real attention towards the improvement of this feature on the part of the main programmers behind the sites. I'm open to having a userscript that accomplishes this—this way, the people that want the feature get it, and the people that don't don't need to worry about it. And the beauty of it would be that anyone could change their mind at any time.