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"Philips Design's Co-Creation Experience in Second Life has resulted in a wealth of input regarding people's values and motivations in virtual immersive environments. Dialogue between Philips Design and the so-called 'Philips Design Friends Group' shows that Second Life residents have a greater than average interest in interactive participation and co-creation activities. The insights from the research also reveal how communication and the unwritten rules of engagement used in virtual spaces are enabling people to become more societal in their real lives. Feedback from companies and stakeholders show an increased interest from businesses to enter these worlds for a multitude of reasons. This can be characterized as a Second Wave of Business involvement. The focus is thereby shifting to engagement with people, internal business collaboration, more enhanced brand experiences, and more interest from a Business to Business perspective."
Mobile banking must overcome consumer doubts
"South Bay residents Curtis McGovert, Dave Ritter and Leon Mendiola have at least three things in common. They own cell phones. They bank at Wells Fargo. And they didn't realize that they effectively have an ATM in their pockets that they now can use to do some of their banking – anytime, anywhere.
Make that four things in common: As intriguing as "mobile banking" sounds to each of them, none is dying to try it. They either don't see a clear need for it or worry that it's vulnerable to hackers.
"I'm just a basic user," said McGovert, a 33-year-old personal trainer from Milpitas. "I'm not into all the high tech. I'm old school."
And there, in a nutshell, is the challenge that banks face as they race to roll out the next big thing for on-the-go consumers. To succeed, they must show customers it's convenient and easy to use their cell phone to check balances, transfer money and watchdog their finances even if they're miles from a computer."
Although a good introductory article to the issue, it doesn't contain a word on Africa, where mobile banking has taken off quite spectacularly and where mobile banking services are much more innovative than in the Bay Area.
Query the obscure
When it comes to common searches that repeat millions of times like "Britney Spears" or "Hybrid Cars," returning the most appropriate results, or advertisements, is not difficult. But what about queries that are exceptionally rare and may never repeat more than a single time? Clearly, these queries are infinitely harder for the search engine to understand.
Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research Fellow and Vice President of Search Technology and Computational Advertising, and a team of Yahoo! researchers set out to tackle this problem. Their work is outlined in a paper called Robust Classification of Rare Queries Using Web Knowledge, that appeared in SIGIR 2007.
To address the problem, the Yahoo! team proposed a methodology for using search results, as well as information available on the Web, as a source of external knowledge. To this end, they sent rare queries to a search engine and assumed that a majority of the highest-ranking search results were relevant to the query. Categorizing these results allowed the team to classify the original query with high accuracy.
The results definitively confirmed that using the Web as a repository of world knowledge contributes valuable information about the query, and aids in its correct classification. "We discovered the best source of information to understand what these rare queries are about is to look at the search results," Broder explains. "If you look at each returned page as a vote on what the query is about, you find that the majority tends to be correct even though many individual pages are wrong."
The crisis of success in design/innovation
In his speech, Nussbaum says that design seems to provide a lot of value in a society of massive change and asks what the consequences of this success might be.
"Should designers become managers? Is design innovation? Will managers take over design? Does beauty trump strategy? Are blondes better than smarty-pants design thinkers? Should industrial design become international design? Is design education failing? Are B-Schools taking over the field of design? What the heck is design thinking anyway? Is the media hyping design or reflecting its growing influence in business and society? Is design and innovation just a fad? Is a backlash underway?"
The long wow
"Notably great experiences are punctuated by a moment of 'wow,' when the product or service delights, anticipates the needs of, or pleasantly surprises a customer. OXO's Good Grips Angled Measuring Cup triggers such a moment of wow. A set of angled markings on the OXO cup lets you quickly measure liquids for recipes without having to stop cooking and bend over. Suddenly a little part of your life is easier, because OXO thought carefully about the way you cook. This delightful surprise resonates because it feels tailored to your needs."
(via the Satisfaction blog)
Dott 07 goes global with Ezio Manzini
"The idea of well-being that has been promoted until now and unfortunately is still the mainstream is that well-being is production for consumption: – you consume well-being – that you enjoy well-being by consuming it but here we see a different kind of well-being: a well-being that is not a product to be consumed but a condition to be constructed. This is a constructive idea of well-being: we build our well-being. Of course we can be helped to do this; we can be enabled to build this well-being and this is really an important story."
Read transcript of Manzini's speech (available on the Dott website)
IMS and user-centred design
Users can connect to an IMS network in various ways, all of which use the standard Internet Protocol (IP). Direct IMS terminals (such as mobile phones, PDAs and computers) can register directly on an IMS network, even when they are roaming in another network or country. Fixed access (e.g., DSL, cable modems, Ethernet), mobile access (e.g. W-CDMA, CDMA2000, GSM, GPRS) and wireless access (e.g. WLAN, WiMAX) are all supported. Other phone systems like plain old telephone service , H.323 and non IMS-compatible VoIP systems, are supported through gateways.
Martin Sauter hints at some of the services we can expect. His outline is very much focused on voice and business services.
Somewhat related to this is this article on the new Verizon service offerings.
At Experientia we have been doing some people-centred scenarios for a main telecom provider on the implications of this technology.
Though it is all covered by NDA, we do know that IMS is going to be big and that it will need much more subtle, refined and relevant user-centred scenarios than are currently available to make sure that all these investments make sense for people (and therefore for the businesses that reach out to them).
ComDays07 / Stefana Broadbent: The 20 people we communicate with
"In traditional marketing research, she says, if you ask what the main constraints on usage of communication services are, the obvious answer would probably be price and some personal attitudes towards tech. But what we find in our research, observing people closely, is that actually the real discriminants are time and social networks.
Time: we collect hundreds of timelines and logs, we ask people to reconstruct with us their previous day of communication: who they communicated with, how, etc. We ask them to describe their social environment. Let's consider teenagers. The image adults have about teenagers online is lots of friends, connected all the time, etc. Swiss teenagers: all use instant messaging; e-mail is used only for communicating with adults and institutions; all of them have a mobile phone and send SMS daily; more than 50% have a profile page on social networking sites; they read blogs and use Youtube etc. BUT there is something very specific to the Swiss educational system. In Switzerland, there is a high proportion — 75% — of professional/vocational training ("apprentices"). Teenagers are in a professional setting; receive a salary; they are in constant contact with adults during the day; etc. If we compare the structure of the day of the teen apprentices and that of their parents, it's often not that dissimilar, except for the evening hours. And their patterns of communication are also very similar: balancing between work and private life; have a rather limited set of contacts. Apart from instant messaging, in Switzerland from 13 to 50 year old the patterns of usage of communication channels are very similar.
The other factor that has an impact on communication behavior is social networks. The close circle of contacts is composed of about 20 people: 7 in the "intimate circle", 13 in the "close circle". A further 37 are "weaker ties". This core of 20 is a number that's consistent across countries in Europe and the US. Who's in this core? About 60% are "given" contacts (family, schoolmates, work colleagues, neighbours), only 40% are "chosen". If you look with whom people communicate, 3/4 of the contacts happen with the people within those 20 "core" contacts. What does this mean? It may look obvious, you only communicate with the people you know. But to me it means: those 20 people are our (telecom operator's) playing field. When we think of services for our customers, we have to keep in mind that their space is 20 people wide."
The future of presence
The debate on movement started from the assumption that the movement of people and goods around the world consume vast amounts of matter, energy, space, and time – most of it non-renewable. Question that arise are: Should sustainable development therefore be concentrated in cities, where economic progress can most feasibly be de-coupled from transport intensity? Or are there ways to ensure that rural communities have access to services by using transport resources more smartly? And could new forms of sustainable tourism be enabled by access to territorial and cultural assets that already exist?
The session began with a keynote from Anthony Townsend, research director at the Institute of the Future in Palo Alto, California, who has now posted his entire presentation online.
"What I want to talk about is not the future of mobility but rather, the future of presence. By 'presence' what I mean, is that if movement or travel is a means – then presence is the end. And so I want to broaden the discussion of mobility to include technologies and practices of telecommunication – ways of being "present" at remote locations."
Townsend believes in the future of virtual worlds, telerobotics, and high-definition videoconferencing. But does presence really always require such high-end technologies?
Townsend's talk was followed by a review of Dott 07's Move Me project, which explored the potential to transform transportation resource efficiency in one village, Scremerston, in Northumberland, and by a review of three Dott 07 projects – Sustainable Tourism, Welcomes and Mapping the Necklace.
California College of the Arts launches MBA in Design Strategy
CCA Provost Stephen Beal states, "Our goal is to create a center of thought on the synthesis of design and business and to train the next generation of leaders in the rapidly changing business environment."
The college expects to draw students from the worlds of both business and design. Leaders in these industries realize that effective innovation requires acumen in both fields. In a recent speech, Bruce Nussbaum of BusinessWeek declared, "CEOs and managers must know design thinking to do their jobs. CEOs must be designers and use their methodologies to run companies." Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO and a member of the program's advisory council, comments, "Business is a uniquely powerful force for change in the world, and designers have never had more opportunity to create positive impact than they have today by influencing what business does. The more designers understand about business, the more influential they will be."
Nathan Shedroff has been appointed chair of CCA's groundbreaking program. Shedroff is a pioneer in experience design, an approach that encompasses multiple senses and examines the common characteristics in all media that make experiences successful; he also works in the related fields of interaction design and information design. As a business consultant, he helps companies build better, more meaningful experiences for their customers. Shedroff speaks and teaches internationally, and he has written extensively on design and business issues. He authored Experience Design 1 in 2001, and his latest book, Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Customer Experiences (co-written with two members of the Silicon Valley–based strategic consultancy Cheskin) explores how companies can create products and services specifically to evoke meaning in the eyes of their audiences and customers.
The program's approach encompasses performance, strategy, innovation, and the encouragement of meaningful, sustainable social change. The curriculum combines lectures and seminars in business strategy, organizational development, management communication, leadership, entrepreneurship, and sustainability with practical studios and sponsored projects that put theory into practice in a dynamic, team-centric experience. Multiple media and approaches are used to explore customer and market needs, challenge assumptions, devise effective solutions, and communicate opportunities across a wide range of stakeholders.
To offer maximum flexibility to working professionals, the program is conducted through five once-a-month, four-day weekends of instruction and interaction, with online and networked study between these residencies. The schedule allows participants from all over the United States to maintain their careers while keeping in close contact with team members, faculty, and program staff.
The program has dedicated studio space on CCA's San Francisco campus for local students. Also available are model-making facilities, metal and wood shops, a laser cutter, a 3D-prototyping machine, paint booths, and studios for editing digital media, film, video, and sound.
Seoul Named 'World Design Capital' for 2010
The capital designation was proposed by the council President Peter Zec to "promote and encourage the use of design to further the social, economic and cultural development of the world's cities."
Torino of Italy was named the WDC pilot city [2008], but Seoul was selected as the first official one. Seoul will play the role of the world's capital of design for one year.
- Read full story
– Links: ICSID | World Design Capital | Torino 2008, World Design Capital
"Much has been made of the potential of Second Life as an environment for entertainment, marketing or even terrorist financing. But the Serious Games Institute, a center for the development of "serious" applications of video game technologies and virtual worlds for businesses, security agencies and other users, says that it is one of the first places dedicated to helping businesses enhance their own operations by harnessing virtual worlds for things like training, communication and emergency planning.
The institute, which is affiliated with Coventry University and funded in part by a regional economic development agency, has a handful of tenants set to take up residence in November. It plans to operate as an "incubator," helping these companies grow, as well as serving as a hub for networking and research. […]
Coventry, in the former industrial heartland of England, may seem like an unlikely location for an institute devoted to cutting-edge technologies. The spire of Coventry Cathedral, which rises above the landscape of postindustrial office parks, survived a German bombing raid in 1940. Car factories, which used to be the area's economic backbone, survived a few decades longer, but have now mostly been shut.
But Wortley said the automotive industry also left a legacy of industrial design, which is now being put to use at the institute."
Read full story (International Herald Tribune)
Participle, a new type of social enterprise
The two other Participle co-founders are Charles Leadbeater, the internationally renowned thinker and innovator, and author of the book We-Think, and Colin Burns, designer and formerly the CEO of IDEO London. The initiative is supported by NESTA, where Participle has its offices.
Participle designs public services that provide systemic solutions not only to the persistent problems of inequality, poverty and exclusion but also to the 'new' problems resulting from changing demographics, new lifestyles and global resource constraints: chronic disease and long term health conditions, learning cultures beyond the school, new approaches to crime and security, new approaches to community collaboration and social isolation and new energy systems. A brief presentation is available for download (pdf, 560 kb, 3 pages).
The Participle methodology is one of transformation design (pdf), a hybrid approach which combines people-centred methodology with systemic policy thinking:
"We start from the individual, unlocking a unique set of insights and motivations, which we then apply to the broad systemic problems we are seeking to answer.
Our hybrid approach also means we test and scale in a different way. We rapidly apply our thinking and insights to the development of 'prototypes'. Prototypes differ from pilots: they involve early service models developed in situ, which are then tested and improved in rapid cycles, again in situ. This approach reduces risk and tends to result in new services that work and can be scaled as well as important new policy insights.
Our hybrid approach and our person centred starting point enables us to work beyond existing service silos, efficiently harnessing a broader set of resources contributing to the development of affordable whole system solutions."
In an interview I conduced last week, an extremely fast talking Hilary said:
"In a situation where now one in five Britons has got a chronic disease it will be more important to think about how we begin to design new services which engage with people's behaviours, emotions and lifestyles and help them either prevent the onset of a chronic disease or at least manage better that disease within their daily lives. […]
What is really important is that we can very rapidly move concepts into action [by using] a design process. The way designers prototype and mock up things very fast in real time, is very different from the traditional piloting approach in the policy world, where models are often built in a very artificial environment, which then usually do not scale very satisfactorily."
A full text version of the interview with Hilary, who has a social sciences background and once worked for the World Bank, will be published shortly on the website of Torino World Design Capital.
Given the dire state of UK healthcare, Participle has got work to do.
Forbes Magazine on our lack of insight into the future
The issue is full of articles explaining this lack of foresight capacity, but only pays scant attention to contextual research, scenario-based planning, or the concrete value of strategic foresight for companies. But here are some interview quotes that I liked. They are not about the future, but about the now:
David Brin (link)
"I certainly expected that, by now, online tools for conversation, work, collaboration and discourse would have become far more useful, sophisticated and effective than they currently are. I know I'm pretty well alone here, but all the glossy avatars and video and social networks conceal a trivialization of interaction, dragging it down to the level of single-sentence grunts, flirtation and ROTFL [rolling on the floor laughing], at a time when we need discussion and argument to be more effective than ever.
Everybody is still banging rocks together, while bragging about the colors. Meanwhile, half of the tricks that human beings normally use, in real world conversation, have never even been tried online."
Esther Dyson (link)
"What's happened (though I can't say I'm totally surprised) is that a newer generation of users has a totally different attitude to personal data. They don't worry about privacy as much; they just assume that they can control their personal data (though they may be wrong in this belief). They are more interested in distributing it widely–in essence, establishing their presence around the Internet. If e-mail is for communication, a transaction between two (or more) people, "presence" is being there (in an online profile), available for your friends to catch up with at any time. Then if they want a response, they ping or poke or message you in some way (but usually not by e-mail)."
Gates wants to make his presence felt
Anyone who has ever used an instant-messaging program has seen the basic idea of presence. That little status bar that says "available," "away," "out to lunch" or "cursing the Mets" is your presence–the computer's understanding of how and under what means you are available.
Today, that information is stored on the computer, but is mostly acted on by other people. Perhaps you see that someone's status is busy, so you send them an e-mail asking them to call rather than pestering them with an IM. Or, you see that someone is available on their mobile, so you know they are out of the office and send an SMS.
But Bill Gates has been urging folks inside Microsoft to make far more use of that information. Computers should be able to take actions on their own based on a user's presence. Essentially, he says, the computer as an "intelligent agent," basically the personal assistant that most of us just wish we had. If the computer can determine, based on a user's calendar, that she only has an hour at the desk, it can prioritize a collection of tasks, e-mail and voice mail that appear to be most urgent based on what it knows to be her priorities.
What if instead presence could be enriched with such things as location information and also be made application and device independent?
Book: "Authenticity" by Gilmore and Pine
Contrived. Disingenuous. Phony. Inauthentic. Do your customers use any of these words to describe what you sell–or how you sell it? If so, welcome to the club. Inundated by fakes and sophisticated counterfeits, people increasingly see the world in terms of real or fake. They would rather buy something real from someone genuine rather than something fake from some phony. When deciding to buy, consumers judge an offering's (and a company's) authenticity as much as–if not more than–price, quality, and availability.
In "Authenticity," James H. Gilmore and B. Joseph Pine II argue that to trounce rivals companies must grasp, manage, and excel at rendering authenticity. Through examples from a wide array of industries as well as government, nonprofit, education, and religious sectors, the authors show how to manage customers' perception of authenticity by:
- recognizing how businesses "fake it";
- appealing to the five different genres of authenticity;
- charting how to be "true to self" and what you say you are; and
- crafting and implementing business strategies for rendering authenticity.
The first to explore what authenticity really means for businesses and how companies can approach it both thoughtfully and thoroughly, this book is a must-read for any organization seeking to fulfill consumers' intensifying demand for the real deal.
Review in Publishers weekly (copied from here)
This eye-opening but muddled volume tells companies to "remain true to self" or, at least, to appear genuine, arguing that "in a world increasingly filled with deliberately and sensationally staged experiences… consumers choose to buy or not buy based on how real they perceive an offering to be." Everything that forms a company's identity—from its name and practices to its product details—affects consumers' perceptions of its authenticity. Juggling philosophical concepts, in-depth case studies and ad slogans, Gilmore and Pine (The Experience Economy) run into trouble with a chapter called "Fake, Fake, It's All Fake," which eviscerates the entire idea of authenticity: "Despite claims of 'real' and 'authentic' in product packaging, nothing from businesses is really authentic. Everything is artificial, manmade, fake." The argument is unexpected and perhaps brilliant—yet rather confusing, since most of Authenticity argues that businesses should strive to not only appear authentic but to be so. The book's bullet points, charts and matrices add to the tangle, as the authors' early advice ("your business offerings must get real") becomes a demand for furrowed-brow soul-searching. Still, the prose is snappy and conversational, and the book is densely packed with insights and provocations, and may inspire some executives to consider how consumers see their company. (Nov.)
- Publisher's page | Amazon page
– Download table of contents and first chapter (pdf, 170 kb, 12 pages)
Siemens on factories of the future and seamless communication
Two topics stand out: "Factories of the Future" and "Seamless Communication".
Factories of the Future is about making it possible to design products in the virtual world and to design and test their associated production processes there as well. If you are interested in spimes or the mechatronic challenge, this pretty enthusiastic engineering prose is reading material for you. But don't expect a critical discourse about how this all matters to people.
What we're moving toward is a virtual representation of the entire value chain — everything from raw materials to lifetime maintenance, remote service and product and production planning in a holistic, seamless product lifecycle and supply chain management environment," says Paul Camuti, president of Siemens Corporate Research. "In twenty years the real and virtual worlds will be seamlessly integrated. Our simulations will duplicate reality down to the last detail. The result will be virtually limitless manufacturing flexibility."
The result could also be a revolution in retailing and consumer purchasing. Already, some clothing stores provide "mass customized" personalized items. But as simulation technology matures, high-tech kiosks and "walk-in Websites" that link us to manufacturers and their suppliers may allow us to profoundly and realistically individualize, test and even experience the appearance and personalities of everything from phones and scooters to clothing and the design and decoration of our homes. We may even venture into virtual worlds ourselves.
Seamless Communication makes much of the Siemens collaboration with Nokia. Jarkko Sairanen, responsible for Nokia's business strategy and technology planning, talks about the usability challenge (page 82-83). But there is also an article about the smart home which adapts to user profiles (page 86-87); and an insight piece on how to prevent production plants from being hacked (page 94-95) – I am not making this up.
Download report (pdf, 3.7 mb, 55 double pages)
Book: "Why designers can't understand their users"
Why designers can't understand their users:
Developing a systematic approach using cognitive psychology
Dr. Leonard Verhoef
228 pages, 38 euro
"Why designers can't understand their users: Developing a systematic approach using cognitive psychology" explains why computers are user-unfriendly and how to design user-friendly computers. First applied cognitive psychology is analysed. This science should know how to design user-friendly computers. A synthetic approach, including traditional ergonomic topics as character size and contrast is elaborated. The approach is tested on the design of ticket vending machines and dynamic train indicators. The results found are applied to a broad range of interfaces including computer interfaces. A comparison with other cognitive psychological approaches is used for a theoretical validation. Finally the approach is tested using the approach itself. It is suggested not technicians, designers or managers are to blame for user-unfriendly designs but cognitive psychology.
Summary | Contents | Introduction | Order
(via DdUX)
Design Reaktor Berlin
In a two-week series of workshops held earlier this year, the experimental links between trades, materials, technologies and tools provided by 52 companies produced hundreds of ideas. After an assessment of their feasibility and market potential, 52 products were developed further in cooperation with the involved companies.
Design Reaktor's website contains a gallery of the results, some of which are ready for production while others are more speculative.
Two eye catching products are Garden Gun by Jakob Diezinger, Markus Dilger and Rayk Sydow (which doesn't need much explanation) and Music Drop by Noa Lerner, a tiny music player shaped as a drop. The drop contains one song which can be used only one time.
Interestingly, except from Music Drop, all 52 designs appear to be stand-alone products. No experiences or services were developed.
(via Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog and Guerrilla Innovation)
Communication is king and presence is a prince
"At Nokia's own internal thought leadership conference in Helsinki nearly two years ago they had Andrew Odlyzko, mathematician and Internet philosopher, explain the future dynamics of the Internet and broadband. One central part of his thesis is that communication is king; content is secondary. When I take a photo of my kids at the zoo, and share it with my parents, that's communication, not content.
Douglas Galbi (an FCC economist) takes the model one step further, with three basic modes of communication: presence (the sensuous sense of the other person being with you, as social bonding); storytelling (which includes the narrative of a game, the lyrics and emotions of a song, or the scenes of a movie); and pure information transfer (I want a taxi! What's tomorrow's weather?).
"Presence" (which here includes gossiping on the phone as you drive home, not just smiley on/off icons) is what users have historically been most willing to pay for. We're still just hairless apes with a tribal grooming instinct.
Read full story (the interesting part starts after the heading "Content is king")
(via the blog All about Mobile Life)


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Given there are more breakdowns that anything else in a game of rugby, there is a natural focus on the tackle area during training at England's five-day pre-RBS 6 Nations camp in Leeds.
Forwards Coach Graham Rowntree leads on that area in England's integrated coaching set-up and he is setting high standards after the team displayed a previously unseen level of controlled aggression in the record victory over New Zealand last time out.
Led by towering flanker Tom Wood, who blasted into 39 breakdowns that December afternoon, England forced uncharacteristic errors out of the world champions and Rowntree is aiming to reach a level of physicality that strikes fear into their opponents.
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He said: "We set a level of intensity that we've not show before and that now has to be our benchmark going forwards in terms of the breakdown, and especially their breakdown, which is on the back of our line-speed.
"It's an area where we want to be physically dominant, almost scaring people.
"You want that, so we'll keep working on it, little and often and in all the sessions. Going into the Six Nations it is a big area of the game, because there are more breakdowns than anything else.
"Our accuracy has got to be good, particularly on our ball, but also on opposition ball because we want to stop them having the juicy quick ball they want."
A swift appreciation of how each official wants to run the breakdown is crucial to success in modern rugby and, in addition to pre-game meetings with individual referees, Rowntree travelled to London last night to meet IRB referee bosses.
And the value is immediate, with Rowntree, Andy Farrell and Mike Catt shaping today's session accordingly.
Rowntree said: "Before every competition there are directives the IRB are going to be very tight on, which is always the basics – the tackle area, the scrum. It is invaluable to know what the referees want so we can coach the lads in the right way.
"We've already shown them a few clips of what the referees want to see at the breakdown, because we all want quick ball, so we could come out and do specific training today."
With heavy snow in the north, England have spent the last two days training on a rubber crumb pitch at West Park Leeds Rugby Club, with the main pitch covered in think snow.
And while the groundstaff, volunteers from Leeds University Rugby Club and England management have worked hard to get the grass pitch ready for training tomorrow, Rowntree added that the 3G pitch has been more than sufficient for their needs.
"It's a great facility," he added. "We've done everything – tackling, tackle competition. Leeds Carnegie played on this very pitch at the weekend, it's a good surface, it makes everything very accurate.
"In this weather, in the mud, you can lose a bit of accuracy at scrum and lineouts."


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Lotus plays down Räikkönen divide
1 November 2013 – Gerard Lopez, head of Lotus team owners Genii Capital, has moved to play down suggestions of a divide with Kimi Räikkönen, describing their relationship as "good".
Heading into this weekend's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the spotlight has been on both parties after a heated team radio exchange in India, during which Räikkönen was ordered to "move out of the f***ing way" as team-mate Romain Grosjean closed in.
But although Räikkönen is believed to have been heavily frustrated by the situation, Lopez says it does not ruin a rapport that has been steadily built up over two seasons.
"Good. I speak with Kimi more than a lot of people probably realise and we rarely speak about Formula 1," said Lopez, when asked about the current situation. "Of course, recently a lot was made about the comments between Alan Permane and Kimi during the course of a tense moment in a race, but this was just one exchange taking a matter of seconds in the course of a two-year relationship.
"It wasn't the most beneficial few seconds, but you have to step back and accept that everyone is passionate about racing and sometimes these things do happen."
Lopez went on to discuss the planned investment deal with Quantam Motorsports, initially outlined back in June when the group was known as Infinity Racing. Although it could not be signed in time to secure Räikkönen's services for the 2014 campaign, it should allow the outfit to hire desired replacement Nico Hülkenberg from Sauber.
"We have preliminary agreements with the company we want to partner with, and we're just waiting for this to be concluded," said Lopez, discussing the ongoing negotiation process. "This is a very detailed process. The history is that we decided to offer a minority stake to an investor. We consider this approach as the best way forwards, just like any other Formula 1 Team.
"Deals like this do not move at the speed we're used to in Formula 1 and we're hopeful that we'll conclude it in the near future. With our current performance on track and the fact that there are very few Formula 1 teams that can offer an investment opportunity like we do we are constantly being contacted by interested parties, but for now we are pursuing our preferred option."
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- Anne Jagger said...
Love your bird Sarah. You're right, the poor thing needs some company now - can't wait to see what appears next.
Those Journal pages are all fantastic!
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- Julie said...
Love your artwork on the wall, Sarah--come to my house and be artistic--I'd love some of your beautiful work all over my house!
Looks like you taught the ladies well--those pages are beautiful! Hope you're having a lovely day!
- Monday, November 30, 2009
- Michele said...
Fab journal pages! Love the bird on your wall - as Anne says, I can't wait to see what appears next x
- Monday, November 30, 2009
- Julie Ranae said...
Looks like that workshop was a great success...wish I were there.
The bird is so YOU! What a great ongoing project for the two of you!
Will you let Wendy have a go?
- Monday, November 30, 2009
- Sue said...
OK so is that a challenge then??? LOL I think "watch this space" is the expression!
- Monday, November 30, 2009
- Chriss Rollins said...
luv that big bird.
please do join us in this months ATC challenge set by Sue Roddis.
chriss x
- Tuesday, December 01, 2009
- Rein said...
What a lovely bird, beautiful colors!
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- Jennie said...
What a great bird! Have you started a trend at WEndy's? lol
Love what you have been doing, I really must do some journalling.. maybe I should take one of your classes, now that would be fun!
- Tuesday, December 01, 2009


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Hi all,
I'll be in DC for 4 nights at the beginning of April and I'm looking for nice restaurants for lunch and dinner. A lot of our meetings will only give as 1-2hrs for meals so spots within easy distance of the Woodley Park-Zoo metro stop would be helpful.
But nicer restaurants worth at trek across town are welcome too, as we may have 1-2 nights to check them out.
I generally enjoy a good gastropub, or creative French or American usually keeps me entertained. Asian or Mediterranean options are welcome as well. I know there are a few Ethiopian places a short cab ride away but have trouble deciding which ones are good.
In any case suggestions are welcome, and thanks in advance for the help!
PS- Coming from CA where foie gras is banned, so wouldn't mind finding a place that serves it, especially if it's done properly.
South of the zoo there are a number of places (clustered around the intersection of Connecticut and Calvert but I haven't tried any of them.
Go one metro stop north to Cleveland Park and you will have more good choices than you will need. Start with Ardeo/Bardeo, which always has great, creative food and excellent service. Palena is not-to-be-missed. Everyone raves about Dino. These are the three higher-end choices up there, but for faster/less expensive, there is a very good pan-Asian called Spices,a Vietnamese place called Nam-Viet, and many others all within a couple of long blocks.
I don't think it is a short cab ride to Little Ethiopia from your part of town if you have only an hour for a meal. Assuming traffic and traffic light miracles, it would be at least 15 minutes each way. Even with two hours, you might be rushing. In any case, it seems lately like the consensus on best Ethiopian is Ethiopic, which is down near UnionStation.
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Emphatically agree about Ardeo/Bardeo. Nam-Viet used to be okay, but quality seriously declined. Spices is mediocre at best.
About a 15 minute walk (or a shorter cab ride) will take you to either Adams Morgan or Cleveland Park and lots of options.
In Adams Morgan go to the wonderful Mintwood Cafe. Cashion's Eat Place is also very good.
In Cleveland Park you can try Ardeo, Ripple, Spices, Dino, or Palena (the cafe or the more formal dining room).
In Woodley Park proper Open City is good for a quick diner-style bite to eat. Also Mama Ayesha's is a good middle eastern restaurant.
For Ethiopian a shorter cab ride would be to U Street and Etete which is great! I also went to Ethiopic recently and was very impressed---but it's a longer cab ride since it's H Street, NE.
I haven't made it there yet, but I hear Bryan Voltaggio's new restaurant, Range, has a good foie gras. It's about 3 metro stops north, so it's not difficult to get to but it falls into "across town" category. Reservations may be scarce, but I think they have some walk in tables.
The restaurants at that metro stop are terrible. Go north one metro stop and there is Lavandou, a very nice southern French restaurant with good service and some of the most reliable, if not spectacular food. On the same black is Dino, a decent, over rated restaurant that serves satisfying meals with a large wine list.
A short cab ride is Bistro Lepic in upper Georgetown. It is a genuinely European restaurant that serve rogons. It tends to bewilder the hipster crowd in DC, but is full of Europeans nightly, and they have a large list of half bottles, so paring per course is easy. Sometimes they have foie gras.
Adams Morgan had some interesting quality years ago, but is a tired neighborhood these days. Another short cab ride is to MacArthur Blvd for either Black Salt (seafood) or Makota, (sushi) Because of trendyness, Obama ate at Black Salt, so it may not be good anymore; I haven't eaten there since.
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Have you been to Adams Morgan lately? Because if not than you are missing out on one of the best new restaurants in DC--Mintwood. It is anything but tired. Also Perry's has a new chef and is putting out good stuff and Cashion's is as good as always. 18th Street might be crazy on the weekend but one street over some of the best cooking in DC is taking place. Much closer than the far away Black Salt (which is great but a pain to get to).
re: Elyssa
"Also Perry's has a new chef and is putting out good stuff and Cashion's is as good as always"
In what way? Can you be specific?
re: law_doc89
I personally haven't been to Perry's with the new chef but my friends (who are trusted foodies) have made this there go to spot in the neighborhood. They said the menu is fresh and seasonal with lots of nice options.
The last time I was at Cashion's I had a really nice rabbit dish which was perfectly cooked with a delicate sauce. They also continue to have a great brunch (although Mintwood is giving them a run for their money on that front). Cashion's is the perfect neighborhood restaurant. Good service, good wine list and reliable delicious cooking in a comfortable environment.
Is that specific enough?
re: Elyssa
Hm! Not really, how was it cooked? What was the sauce and how was it flavored?
re: law_doc89
I wasn't in the kitchen cooking it so I couldn't really give you the details and it was a few months ago. Guess you are just going to have to take my (and others) word for it.
re: Elyssa
Thanks, Elyssa, That's actually super helpful. I'll try to hit up Cashion's when I'm there, provided there's time to sneak it in.
PS- I LOVE a good bunny, especially when it's cooked with a nice sauce. Hope they still have it when I'm there.
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They change their menu fairly often so you might want to call and see. This was months ago that they offered that particular dish so it might not be on there at the moment.
Though I haven't tried it yet, I've heard Taan, the new ramen place in Adams Morgan, is very good. That would be a 10 minute walk across the Calvert Road bridge.
The new Pho 14 on Columbia Road (note there are several locations), also in Adams Morgan, is very good and casual.
Doener Bisto, also on Columbia Road, could be good for a quick meal as well.
For Ethiopian, I recommend Zenebech Injera. It would be a 15-20 minute taxi ride. Hole in the wall atmosphere.
Agree with other posters re coming up to Cleveland Park. In Woodley Park, I recommend District Kitchen - IMO the only place in the strip that stands out at all. http://districtkitchen.com/
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Perhaps you could report back on your experience?
Hi all,
Just got back from the trip. For the most part dinners were set directly next to the conference center just because of time constraints. The group hit up sushi and Indian on the strip, which were passable but not really much of note. We did go to the Afghan Grill which was a fairly pleasant surprise. Really nice roasted squash, spinach, and eggplant dishes, plus the wine was better than I normally would expect for that type of restaurant.
On the nicer end of things Open City diner was a great choice for breakfast (but not super quick). My friend got chai waffles and I had a standard but lovely American breakfast of poached eggs, grits, sausage, and hashbrowns. Being Southern I was happy to see grits again.
District kitchen was great food- nice sweetbreads, a really rich but dairy-free mushroom soup, assorted pickles made in house, roasted duck. The real win though was the cocktails. My sister had a "Yoda Soda" (lime, fruit, vanilla) and I had "Till the bitter end" (dark rum, mole bitters). I took my Boss there the next day and he was raving about their version of a Manhattan. They also had a dry rose, which I generally like on a warm afternoon. As a place for cocktails and snacks I'd recommend it if you happen to be anywhere in the area.
We also made it up to Bryan Voltaggio's Range. I'd been to his brother's restaurant Ink in LA (very different, more asian flavors and molecular gastronomy) so I wanted to try it out. The food was by all accounts amazing. The menu is extensive and has so much variation. Duck galantine, beef heart in chimichurri, sweet pea ravioli with edible flowers, smoked grits, spiced oven roasted potatoes, pan roasted white fish, potted foie. The amount of offal and other unusual dishes was pretty impressive. Overall I'd say the food was pretty mellow with a soul food feel, but with really nicely nuanced flavors.
The restaurant is also massive, and parts of the kitchen are open with bar seats right next to the chef-- likely a good spot for solo dining in the evenings and for date night (there's a movie theater across the street). I absolutely recommend it.
In any case, thanks for all your nice recs, and I'll keep the rest of them on file for my next trip to DC, which hopefully will have more leisure time for dinners!


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- Portuguese European - Normalized and Produced by the Science Academy of Lisbon. This is spoken in Portugal and all Portuguese speaking countries except Brazil.
- Brazilian Portuguese - Normalized and Produced in Brazil with different rules from the European Portuguese. Brazil started it's own Portuguese Language production in 1937 and has only signed treaties based on Orthography which don't cover semantics, grammar and other aspects of the European Portuguese Branch.
* From a L10N interpretation, Portuguese comes in two flavours: pt_PT and pt_BR. This is one of the most important things why we can run 2 separate forums as we can segment the audiences.
Those cover the importance on Language, eventually for site structures I would advice not to use a L10N approach and pt_PT and pt_BR are just not easilly recognized by the major population and would probably advice the community to establish the following, use recognized international codes for the countries, which are established by IANA on RFC 1561 (i think, not sure though) in which:
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I'm not placing this suggestions regarding 'Portuguese' because I want segregation, but instead to provide an easy way of providing accurate contents and promoting correctly the communities.
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The One Hit Wonders
- 4 piece bandeoke party band
- 200+ songs to choose from
- 36 piece lighting rig, smoke, haze and snow
- 5000 watt P.A. system with 2 fold back monitors for singer
- All words displayed on a screen
- Themed nights available
- New songs learned on request
- Covers service provided
Price Range
Prices range from £600 to £1500
The One Hit Wonders - The Bandeoke Band. Sing your favourite song with a live band of professional musicians. Offering around 200 songs there is always a song for every taste and age. If your favourite song is not listed then request it and they will learn it for your event!
They are a proper band. There are no add on musicians or extra players, they practice as a group and know what singers need when getting on stage to sing. With a lyrics screen displaying the words and 2 foldback monitors for the singer, there are no annoying pieces of paper to hold allowing you to just rock out. They do not play to a backing track or click instead they follow the singer, which means they can take the song at your pace, repeat choruses and allow you to milk your moment in the spotlight. This also means that if you get lost or make a mistake then they can go around the riff and bring you back in.
They are professional musicians with a vast amount of gigging experience, including headlining the NEC Birmingham, The Cavern Club and supporting bands such as The Libertines and Pigeon Detectives. When they are not gigging they are music teachers, producers and session musicians. If you have ever wanted to sing with a real life rock band then this is likely to be the closest you will ever come.
The only bandeoke or covers band that allows you to decide their entire set list! With Pick 'n' Mix covers you choose what songs you want them to play, simply select your favourites from their song-list. You can even decide the order and request extra songs to be learnt if you wish.
Providing a 5000 watt PA system and fully controlled lighting rig your evening will put most professional venues to shame, and make you feel like a true rock star.
There are no confusing bolt-ons, everything needed to make your night unforgettable is included in the price. Usual sets last 4 hours but the price secures the band for as long as you need. Lighting and sound is included in the price, as is Request a Song and Pick 'n' Mix covers.
Where are they based?
The One Hit Wonders are based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. They regularly play around the West Midlands and travel all over the country performing at a variety of different events.
Shropshire is pretty much in the centre of England and this means they have access to travel to anywhere in the UK without excessive expense or aggravation. They are willing and happy to travel to anywhere in the country or abroad.
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The wine was barrel fermented in 75% French Burgundian oak barrels and 25% stainless steel barrels and aged on the lees for just less than 11 months. This is a Chardonnay with attractive honeyed tropicial fruit and toasty oak. These flavors are beautifully balanced with copious amounts of tangy tart apple and lemon giving the wine a refreshing yet lengthy finish.
BLEND: 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot, 3% Malbec
The grapes were grown in vineyards located in St. Helena, Rutherford, Calistoga, Yountville and Oak Knoll and harvested in October. The wine was aged in a combination of American and French oak barrels for 20 months and blended to attain balance. This striking 2011 Cabernet is loaded with bright, vibrant fruit and has exceptional body to match. A great wine to enjoy today but will also improve through cellar aging beyond 2020.
BLEND: 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petit Verdot,4% Malbec
This wine is a blend of the winery's Fawn Park Vineyard and Leonardini Vineyard fruit. The small amounts of Malbec and Petit Verdot add color, depth and complexity to this classic offering. The wine was aged in 80% French and 20% American oak barrels for 24 months.
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BLEND: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
The 2005 St. Helena Cabernet Sauvignon utilized fruit from Whitehall Lane's Fawn Park and Leonardini Vineyards. The Leonardini Vineyard produces ripe, powerful fruit on the valley floor while the Fawn Park Vineyard is a gently sloping hillside vineyard that produces complex, jammy fruit. The wine was initially aged for 16 months as three separate barrel lots before being blended together. After 25 months in 100% French Oak. Wonderful to enjoy now, but this offering will continue to evolve and improve through 2019.
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Model, rock royalty and possessor of perfect pins, Georgia May Jagger has been working away in front of the camera for the latest in her series of Hudson jeans campaigns. The English rose was posing in various denim configurations – and in an added twist – Hudson have instagrammed the whole thing for our benefit.
Not only Miss Jagger, but another of the rock 'n roll clan is featured, Georgia's brother James as well as her extremely photogenic boyfriend, Josh McLellan who is James's bandmate in the band Turbogeist. Awww. What a cute couple they are. Hudson explained; 'Georgia and James are extremely close and have a fun relationship and that was important to us… to harness that energy,' about the campaign which was shot in cool locales around London, like Abbey Road Studios, Sweetings fish and chips restaurant, and Camden Market.
Hudson's brand CEO, Peter Kim, explained just what it is the brand love so much about Georgia May; 'We like the fact that we have a real enduring relationship with Georgia. We were her first campaign. Since 2009, HUDSON and Georgia have grown and evolved and we love the fact that we have been able to do it together.' Hear hear.
They certainly know how to get our attention – as well as the groovy denim, and stripey monochrome jeans, there's nothing we like more than an Instagram snap or a celebrity couple being cute together. SO instgram snaps of a celebrity couple is pretty much our idea of perfection. . .
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701 S. Rampart St., New Orleans, LA 70113
Carolina Panthers at New Orleans Saints
Sun, Dec 7 8:00am + 5hr after event
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Upon arrival, please place the ParkWhiz parking pass face-up on your dashboard.
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"1 block away from Hyatt Regency. A good alternative for the hotel's valet."
"Close to the event site."
"The parking lot is close to the Smoothie King Center (formerly known as the New Orleans Arena) and the Mercedes Superdome. On the down side, the only sign identifying the lot as 701 S. Rampart is a small one on the self-pay kiosk. A larger sign identifying the lot's street address, near the lot entrance, would be nice."
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This surface level parking lot covers an entire square block between Girod St and Julia St on the north and south and Loyola Ave and Rampart St on the east and west. The perfect location for tailgating, and just minutes from the Superdome!
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This location is a commercial parking lot.
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WASHINGTON - Late-night study sessions and the soft light of a desk lamp can set the mood for romance, and some schools do it better than others.
InsideCollege.com polled its users to find which schools have a higher chance of finding your love.
The local schools that made the list (in alphabetical order):
- American University - Washington, D.C.
- Catholic University of America - Washington, D.C.
- Christendom College - Front Royal, Va.
- College of William and Mary - Williamsburg, Va.
- Georgetown University - Washington, D.C.
- Liberty University - Lynchburg, Va.
- Stevenson College - Stevenson, Md.
- George Washington University - Washington, D.C.
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Global Capital Fight Threatens as Refi Bubble Looms: CFO Study
Deloitte survey of 1,000 finance execs sees intensifying debt picture, with economic pressures on CFOs of leveraged firms to "convince boards and CEOs to recapitalize."
In other findings, the study determined that, even with $9 trillion in cash reserves across the 9,000 large companies examined, those reserves are unevenly distributed, and are mainly found in the financial services industry, with only about $2 trillion of cash outside financial institutions. Most of the maturing debt is found in the Americas, with $5.7 trillion of the $11.5 trillion total globally. Not surprisingly, Asia has the lowest debt level -- although the highest share of outstanding debt matruing, with 69% set to mature in the next five years.
CFO surveys have been showing recently that 62% of finance chiefs plan to maintain or increase their debt levels over the next three years, Deloitte said, and half plan to use cash reserves to pay down debt.


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Exclusive clip from LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles
Posted October 9, 2013 by Rick in Movie News
The only thing better (well, nerdier) than Star Wars? LEGO Star Wars! Which is why we're rather excited about this exclusive clip from the new DVD LEGO adventure, The Yoda Chronicles. Our clip only features the teeniest glimpse of the super-powered, green boglin-alike, but it's Palpatine who steals the show, getting very confused with the Wars-iverse's beloved holographic video-conferencing tech. Enjoy a rather ranty Palpatine below… Star Wars Lego The Yoda Chronicles out now on DVD from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Posted Thursday, January 31, 2013 --- 1:23 p.m.
Incident Report from the Madison Police Department:
Incident Type: Fraud
Incident Date: 01/30/2013 - 1:59 PM
Address: 901 E. Johnson St. (Burnie's Rock Shop)
Arrested: Tracey D. Franklin, age 43, no permanent address
Ms. Franklin was arrested for Attempted Fraud, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Retail Theft.
Franca M. Wheeler, age 18, Cottage Grove
Ms. Wheeler was arrested for Attempted Theft - Party To A Crime.
Jermaine B. Bradley, Jr., age 19, no permanent address
Mr. Bradley was arrested for Resisting and Bail Jumping.
Details: The MPD responded to Burnie's Rock Shop Wednesday afternoon after two women attempted to buy merchandise with a counterfeit $100 bill.
Both were contacted as they walked away from the store. One, the 18-year old listed above, had the fake bill in her pants. An officer noted it was about 3/4 the size of a real bill. The other suspect had items that had been shoplifted from the rock shop. A man associated with the women ran from police and was arrested following a short foot chase.
Employees at two other businesses: Madison Food Mart, 902 E. Johnson St., and Cork N Bottle, 855 E. Johnson St. also reported having the women in their stores, and that they also attempted to pass a phony $100 bill during attempted transactions.
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Bollywood starlet Rakhi Sawant on Thursday said that she is going to contest the Lok Sabha election from the Mumbai North-West constituency on the plank of restoring women's safety in the metropolis.
Rakhi's rivals would be Congress's Gurudas Kamat, Shiv Sena's Gajanan Kirtikar, actor-director Mahesh Manjrekar of MNS, and Mayank Gandhi of AAP.
When asked if she would be standing as an independent, she said a political party had offered her a ticket, and she would soon reveal its name.
Rakhi Sawant appeals people to vote for Modi in 2014 poll
"I don't know how to play politics. I am here to solve the problems of common man. My aim is to do good work for the society. I am not striving to become a politician. People want me to fight the election and hence I am here," she said.
"I have been doing a lot of social work for the last seven years. My aim is to bring back women's safety. I don't want Mumbai to become like Delhi. I want to arrange self-defence and karate classes for women so that they can protect themselves," she said.
Rakhi had been offered a BJP ticket from Srirampur in West Bengal, but she said she declined it as she didn't know the local language.
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Jay-Z Makes Personal Chef The New Executive Chef Of 40/40 Club
Jay-Z fans can now eat some of his favorite dishes as Jay's personal chef has become the new Executive Chef of the 40/40 Club in Manhattan.
It will reportedly cost $10 million to renovate the 40/40 Club in Manhattan and Jay-Z has been an integral part of this change. Jay has been such an important part of this renovation that he has also appointed his personal chef, Mike Shand, the new Executive Chef of the club.
Chef Mike Shand is now in charge of the menu. He landed the position after being Jay's personal chef for years. In a recent interview with TMZ, a representative for Shand spoke about why Jigga selected him.
"[Jay-Z] knew that Mike would be able to improve upon the current menu in ways that had the Jay-Z seal of approval because many are dishes that he eats himself on a daily basis," the rep noted.
According to the site, one of these dishes is the Baja-style catfish.
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An interdisciplinary option is open to students who wish to integrate the study of sociology with that of another discipline or to apply sociological theory and methods to the data of another discipline.
Students electing this option would take:
- 21 credit hours of sociology, including all required courses
- plus 6 credit hours of advanced work (300 or 400 level) in another discipline
- Students are then required to apply what they have learned in a directed readings and research course in which they prepare an extensive study and for which they receive an additional 3 credit hours in sociology.
Examples of areas that lend themselves to this approach are:
- the sociology of formal organizations or the sociology of work (with business and economics courses)
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'House of Lords Journal Volume 6: 30 December 1643', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 6: 1643 (1767-1830), pp. 355-356. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37420 Date accessed: 22 November 2014.
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DIE Sabbati, videlicet, 30 die Decembris.
Forrett versus Phillips.
Smart's Petition, for his Son Ogle to have his Liberty to assist him in his Cause.
Conference to prepare a Letter to the Lord General, to be ready to assist Sir William Waller.
Message to the H. C. with it.
Deputy Lieutenants for Sussex.
Assessment of the Assistants of this House.
Papers concerning Scotland.
Sir Clipseby Crewe; a Pass.
Letter from both Houses to the Lord General, to advance his Army towards Windsor, to be ready to assist Sir William Waller.
Lords present this Day:
Ds. Grey de Warke, Speaker.
Upon reading the Petition of David Forrett against
Fabian Phillips: It is Ordered, That Mr. Doctor Heath
shall bring in the Depositions taken by him in this Cause
by Tuesday next come Sevennight; at which Time Publication thereof shall be made, unless the said Phillips
shall shew Cause to the contrary.
Upon reading the humble Petition of Peter Smart;
shewing, "That, in regard of his Son Ogle's Absence,
by his Imprisonment, he cannot prosecute, or prepare for the Hearing of his Cause, which is shortly
to be in this House; therefore he humbly beseecheth
their Lordships, that the Keeper of Winchester House
may be commanded to suffer the said Ogle to go
abroad with a Keeper until the Day of Hearing, and
that he be present thereat."
Ordered, That this House grants the Prayer of this
The Earl of Northumb. reported to this House,
That whereas this House referred the Consideration
of Sir Wm. Waller's Letter to the Committee for the
Safety, how he may be supplied with Forces to withstand the Forces under Hopton; the Committee are
of Opinion, That the Garrison of Newport Pannell
being settled, that the best Way will be to send to the
Lord General, to draw his Forces into these Parts,
that so he may be in a Place convenient to assist Sir
Wm. Waller upon all Occasions:" Which Consideration this House approved of.
Ordered, That the Earls of Northumb. and Sarum,
and the Lord Wharton, shall presently make a Draught
of a Letter to be sent to the Lord General, from both
Houses, and to desire the Concurrence of the House of
Commons therein.
These Lords withdrew; and being returned, the Earl
of Sarum reported, "That the Committee have drawn
a Letter, to be sent to the Lord General, from both
Houses, to be signed by the Speakers of both Houses."
The Letter was read; and it being put to the Question, it was Resolved, That this House agrees to this
A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by
Sir Edward Leech and Mr. Page:
To desire their Concurrence in the Letter to be sent
to the Lord General; and that it may be signed by the
Speakers of both Houses.
Ordered, That Hall Havenscroft, Tho. Middleton,
Wm. Michelborne, Anthony Fowle, Henry Shelley, Harbert
Hay, John Baker, Lawrance Ashbornham, John Busbridge,
and Peter Farndon, Esquires, are hereby nominated and
approved of, to be Deputy Lieutenants for the County
of Sussex.
Ordered, To send to the House of Commons, to desire their Concurrence therein.
Ordered, That the Committee formerly appointed
for the assessing of the Assistants of this House, according to the Ordinance of Parliament for the Twentieth
Part, shall meet on Wednesday Morning next, and take
into Consideration the assessing the Assistants of this
House; and if any of the Assistants have any Thing to
offer in Behalf of themselves, they may be then heard.
Ordered, That this House will take into Consideration the Papers concerning the Business of Scotland;
on Monday Morning next.
Ordered, That Sir Clipseby Crewe Knight shall have
a Pass, to transport himself into France, with such Necessaries as are convenient for him.
"May it please your Excellency,
"There is Advertisement come from Sir William
Waller, giving Notice of the Preparation the Enemy
makes to relieve Arundell Castle, and the Necessity
that there is of his present Supply; the Mischief
which will else follow upon the whole Kingdom is
easily to be foreseen: It is therefore desired that your
Excellency will forthwith remove that Way with
your Army, to Windsor, or to such other Place as
you shall judge convenient, leaving Newport Pagnell
as well secured as the present Occasions will permit:
Both Houses conceive it so absolutely necessary, that
any Delay will be dangerous. This being all we have
in Charge to recommend to your Excellency's Care,
and your Zeal for the Public Service, we take our
Leave, and rest
"Your Excellency's
Humble Servants."
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