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{week 39} holy 9 months pregnant & just a week from my due date – eek! how did we possibly get here? it seems like we were just finding out I was pregnant…
we have had some summer heat these past few days, though running fans seem to do the trick. I just wish I had a swimming pool to float around in! while I dream of a pool, I am working furiously {but super slowly} to get us mostly moved back into the house & all the baby stuff organized. the carpal tunnel in my hands & my feet swelling thru-out the day keeps me in check, but I still feel like I am being productive. my own form of nesting, I guess!
the strangest thing is that this babe could come at any time. wait, what? our hospital bags are packed & in the car, but we are still sort of all over the place. I guess this is what all expectant parents do, right? wait & go on with normal life…
the baby was great at my last check-up. still head down with a slower heartbeat on the doppler which is apparently perfectly normal & expected as it is a sign of the baby growing & maturing – yay!
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The Hudson Valley also has been coined "The Napa Valley of the East". Laura Pensiero, chef/restaurateur of Rhinebeck's acclaimed Gigi Trattoria has penned this wonderful cookbook. The message promotes what we've been hearing all along: "Eat local, eat seasonal." Worth every cent. I highly recommend it. Support your local farmers' markets and follow Laura's lead.
RECIPE: Goodbye-Winter Choucroute
Pages 52-3
Makes 12 to 14 Servings
"What a dramatic and aromatic presentation this dish makes in the dead of winter! On particularly cold nights, we prepare our Mediterranean version (seasonal with pancetta and prosciutto) as a special for our customers. At the last of winter, we kick the season away with a full-on party at my farmhouse, serving the choucroute with crusty breads, pickled vegetable, and Alsatian cheeses and wines and beers. We use all sorts of fresh, cured, and confit meats from local producers. The ingredients list is long (and flexible). But the presentation is really not fussy; you chop the vegetables and meats into large rustic-looking chunks and cook the choucroute slowly for several hours, melting the vegetables, tenderizing the meat, and perfuming the house. Enjoy the whole process.
3 pounds sauerkraut, preferably organic
1 medium onion, studded with 12 to 14 cloves
¼ cup olive oil
6 ounces nitrate-free bacon, cut into 2-to-3 inch chunks (I use Mountain Products Smokehouse slab bacon, or pancetta)
1 pound pork shoulder, trimmed and cut into 3-inch-long segments (I use Mountain Products Smokehouse)
7 ounces bratwurst, sliced into 3-inch-long segments
6 ounces kielbasa (I use Northwind Farms), sliced into 3-inch-long segments
One 8-ounce end piece of prosciutto
3 celery stalks, chopped
1 large carrot, chopped
1 large onion, chopped
1 tablespoon dried juniper berries
1 cup Alsatian white wine, such as Riesling or Gewürztraminer
1 bouquet garni (our mix: 6 parsley sprigs, 6 thyme sprigs, 6 fresh sage leaves, 2 bay leaves, and a cinnamon stick, tied together with string)
4 cups chicken or beef stock or reduced-sodium broth, heated
Rinse the sauerkraut thoroughly, and drain it. Spread the sauerkraut over the bottom of the an attractive 6-quart casserole, preferably one with a lid (otherwise have aluminum foil ready to cover). Place the clove-studded onion in the center. Set aside.
Preheat the oven to 275? F.
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and cook, stirring occasionally, until slightly browned, about 5 minutes. Add the pork shoulder and cook until the pork and bacon are nicely browned, another 5 minutes. Add the bratwurst, bockwurst, and kielbasa, and continue to cook until all the meats are well colored, 5 to 7 minutes. Finally, add the prosciutto chunk and the celery, carrot, onion, and juniper berries.
Cook, stirring often for 5 minutes, Add the wine and cook, stirring to deglaze the skillet, until the liquid is reduced by half, 2 minutes.
Transfer the meat, vegetables, and pan juices to the casserole. Add the bouquet garni. Pour the stock over the meat and vegetables. The liquid should come to about 1 inch below the top of the meat and vegetables; add water or more stock if it doesn't. Cover the casserole with a lid or foil, transfer it to the oven, and bake for 3 to 4 hours (this is a dish that will only improve with more cooking). Add a bit more liquid, ½ cup at a time, if needed, during the cooking time to prevent drying.
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I spend 40 plus hours a week at my job, working for a company that claims that both shopping and working there is an enjoyable experience. We are paid to cater to and kiss the butts of the rudest and most demanding group of people that I have ever seen. Our store is a high end grocery store, and the majority of the employees that work there shop elsewhere because they can't afford to do business with their own employer.
We all take pride in our work (that is a job requirement). We try to give the best presentation possible to every cut of meat, fish, and lamb, chicken…it goes on. But when some rude and careless customer comes over to our case and trashes it looking for a cut of meat or chicken, then walks away from his or her mess, it really ire's us to no end. But we bite our tongues lest we lose our jobs. Believe me, with the prices we charge, these customers are eager to complain about anything just to get something for free. People even rip off the meat labels because they think we are hiding something under it.
It is not just our department. The other full service departments like bakery and the deli experience the same things and we all seem to vent on each other about the morons that we have to cater to.
But we have one dissident among us, and for the sake of this writing, I will refer to her as Deidra. She is the woman that stands in the front of the store and cooks samples of food for the customers as they walk in. She has a very haughty attitude, is very demanding of all of the departments to bring her what she needs when she needs it, and has little respect for her co-workers as well as herself. And just like the customers, she is the first one to complain to management if she doesn't get her way.
Unlike all other co-workers who tell the meat department ahead of time what they need cut so it is ready when they get off in the evening, Deidra waits until she is finished with her duties before placing an order. Now you have to realize that Deidra is in and out of the meat department all day long, barking orders without authority, but says nothing about a special request. But at 8PM, long after we have cleaned and sanitized the equipment so we can go home, Deidra comes to the window demanding to have a bone-in ham sliced on the saw, or a special roast cut, or whatever. It has been the catalyst of many discords between her and us. What is her argument? "I am a customer right now and you will give me what I want when I want it!"
This has lead to many meetings in the manager's office since she has complained about our attitude towards her. It was resolved; however, that Deidra was to put her requests in early. She was not satisfied with that, and has now called on the help of a friend to come in as she got off work and place the special orders for her. We still have to dirty the equipment all over again. I asked her why she does this, and her reply was "I am a customer, and I expect to be treated like one. What if another customer came in late and wanted something cut?"
"It depends on what their attitude was or what they looked lke. We may not have what they need in stock." A young co-worker replied. I smiled at his remark. So as she walked off, she rooted through the meat case and left it a mess. I just shook my head.
It has become a fact of life in my profession that rude and inconsiderate people are everywhere. But it is the few that are considerate and understanding of your efforts that make the job worthwhile. While some customers will purposely trash the display with you standing right there hoping that you will say something, others will actually clean up after them for us. Those kinder, more compassionate people are remembered when it comes time for their special requests.
When you are in a grocery store shopping, and you find yourself messing things up a bit, think about one thing: What if someone came to your place of business and trashed your work area? What if this happened over and over again, several times a day on a daily basis? I bet you'd be pretty annoyed.
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Dude, I know where you are coming from! I been doing this kind of work for 25 years, and these people wont never change. We need more of us to speak up and be herd. Maybe somethig like this will get the word out!
I think that From Whole Foods to Wall mart the rudeness remains the same unfortunately. I try to remain polite and clean and make the employees smile because they only deserve respect. I used to have a conversation with the Fresh Fish and Seafood section at Whole foods, once a week. Unfortunately some employees have been treated so poorly by clients that they don't even smile. It's sad.
I CAN RELATE I HAVE WORKED ALL TYPES OF HARD WORKING JOBS.iAM ASERVER NOW AND THE RUDE PEOPLE THAT COME IN AMAZE ME THEY WANT FREE FOOD OR RUN YOU TILL YOUR CRAZY .


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Kilmarnock recorded their first away win in Europe since Dec 21st 1966, having beaten the Belgians La Gantoise 2-1, almost twenty-five years ago!
Chris Innes chose the perfect moment to double his scoring tally in his three years at Kilmarnock, heading home a Garry Hay free kick three minutes into stoppage time to break the hearts and end the hopes of a team crippled by cramp after their exhaustive efforts.
What should have been a formality transpired to be a fraught encounter against a team or battlers in the first leg of the UEFA Cup qualifier, and Bobby Williamson's relief was understandable. "We knew it was going to be a hard game because Irish teams always put up a good fight," he said, "but I felt that if we were going to score, it would be from a set-piece."
In an effort to increase productivity in attack - the main failing during last weekend's creditable if ultimately fruitless performance against Celtic - Williamson offered Michel Ngonge support in the shape of another of his recent acquisitions, David Merdy.
The Franco-Belgian forward line offered hope of a much sought-after away advantage as Glenavon's defensive guardsmen struggled to temper their bombast in the early, erratic exchanges. Ngonge, who managed to keep Joos Valgaeren, Olivier Tebily, and Johan Mjallby on their toes for much of Saturday night's 1-0 defeat, again looked Killie's best hope of a breakthrough against the Irish league's surprise package of last season with his pace and power belieing his 34 years.
However, the early promise soon subsided as the home side found their feet, with Gerry McMahon, the former St Johnston midfielder, pivotal to their positive play.
Kilmarnock's Achilles heel, a plethora of passes with no penetration, reared itself again, with Merdy particularly spurnful. His first attempt may well have been net-bound but for a timely intervention by Brian Mallon, a deflection not noticed by the referee, whose award of a goal kick was met with a chorus of disapproval. Merdy's next effort, though, summed up the shaggy-haired striker's evening. Having been played through by Ally Mitchell, Merdy, with only the keeper to beat from 12 yards, took his eye off the ball and succeeded only in executing an embarrassing miskick.
To Williamson's dismay, the advertising boards plastered across the top of the west stand were at greater risk than Stuart Addis' goal, and after darting from the directors' box to the dugout, the manager's bark suggested Merdy would soon be put out of his misery.
None the less, the near miss roused the home support to life and provided Glenavon with renewed belief.
McMahon was the conjurer of the closing chance of the half, with another dynamic delivery missed by a matter of inches by the outstretched leg of Glenavon's very own Kevin Keegan.
Williamson resisted the strong temptation to shuffle his pack at the interval, but it did not take long for his patience with Merdy to snap, with Christophe Cocard sent on in his place shortly after the restart.
The alteration almost paid off immediately with Cocard providing hitherto unseen purpose to the attack. He weaved an opening for the ineffectual Andy McLaren, but the midfielder's shot was swatted away by Addis.
In the closing stages, Kilmarnock played as though racing against the clock and in their haste to net an away goal, conducted a cavalry charge on the Glenavon penalty box which paid off deep into injury time when Hay's free-kick was headed home by Chris Innes to delight the visitors, and their 1,500+ travelling diehards.
Kilmarnock: Marshall, Canero, Innes, Dindeleux, Hay, Mitchell, Mahood, Calderon, McLaren, Merdy, Ngonge. Substitutes Cocard, Meldrum, Reilly, Hessey, Pizzo, Fowler, Di Giacomo.
Bobby's Post Match Comments
"We had a lot of set-pieces and I felt if we were going to score that it was going to come from a set piece, They were well-organised, they defended in numbers and limited us to few chances. We had a lot of the ball, but didn't create as much as I would have liked. I knew it was going to be difficult - the Irish teams don't make life easy for you at all. They work hard for each other, they're very proud of each other and you saw a few lads going down with cramp towards the end and that's credit to them for running their socks off. I can never fault our lads for effort, but some of them didn't play as well as they can play. It's all hypothetical, but we've won the game 1-0. The supporters were fantastic, they never stopped until the end of the game. That helped to encourage us on and we finally got the goal. Games like this are always a hiding to nothing. Scottish teams have a tendency to slag themselves off when we don't produce, but we got the result and now we're in the driving seat to get us into the next round."
Malone's Post Match Comments
"I'm disappointed with the result. I thought we did enough to get the draw and I'm pleased with my own team's performance - they worked their socks off. At the end of the day the fitness told and they managed to run us down.It was very cruel, but we only lost 1-0. It's always difficult away from home, but if we can go to Rugby Park and get an early goal then we're right back in it."
Alan Mahood's Post Match Comments
"The feeling inside the dressing room at the end of the game was one of sheer relief. It was a very frustrating match for us and we struggled to create any real clear-cut chances. Our final ball into the area wasn't good enough, but it is always difficult to break down a team with nine or 10 men behind the ball. At the time, I wasn't aware that it was the last minute of the game when Chris Innes put us in front with a good header. Now we must perform better in the return leg in two weeks time and make sure we progress to the next stage."
Chris Innes's Post Match Comments
"Defenders like myself, Frederic Dindeleux and Peter Canero are just looking to keep a clean sheet, so to score a goal was a bonus. It's only my second for Killie and it's been a long time coming. I've been getting slaughtered for not getting enough goals so it is a weight off my mind." nders like myself, Frederic Dindeleux and Peter Canero are just looking to keep a clean sheet, so to score a goal was a bonus. It's only my second for Killie and it's been a long time coming. I've been getting slaughtered for not getting enough goals so it is a weight off my mind."


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Why Your XaaS Company Needs PKI
Before getting started, I wanted to quickly share with you what I mean by XaaS. When I talk about 'X' as a service I am including; software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, identity as a service, communication as a service and much much more. Think of things like website creators, cloud hosted services where the subscription is accessed on a unique URL in the web browser, virtualized computing services over the internet, VoIP or internet telecommunications services.
With today's market for cloud-based services so fiercely competitive, it can be hard to stand out from the crowd. Managing a service that you believe in is great when you're selling loads of it, but when you are just starting to launch it, you need key competitive differentiators which may be outside your normal offerings.
I know this all too well and hear this every day from my customers and prospects. Product managers just want to make their product and service AMAZING. A place where customers never have to leave the platform, they can do what they need, with ease and to the point where they couldn't imagine a world where your product didn't exist. That's the dream!
I want to explain one very effective way you can take another big leap towards this dream by creating differentiation in your marketplace and getting everyone shouting about your new product feature – PKI (Public Key Infrastructure).
PKI is very much about encrypting and securing communications, something that's on everyone's mind these days. Security and privacy are becoming vital ingredients to any cloud-based service and your customers need them. Why not offer security built-in to your service?
In 2016, Gemalto published a report suggesting that consumers hold businesses responsible for data protection. Two thirds of respondents would be unlikely to shop/do business with an organization that experienced a breach where their personal or financial information was stolen. Just think of the huge loss Talk Talk had after their breach. They claimed it was £60m and 101,000 customers they lost, but the loss of reputation and integrity in the market is also a factor – it's just more difficult to put a number on.
If consumers are worried, you should be too. Because now, more than ever, your customers need to secure their data and be able to prove it.
What Are the Business Drivers for PKI?
Before going into the discussion around how PKI can benefit your business, I want to discuss the business drivers for adopting PKI into your XaaS solution or service.
As well as an increased consciousness around cybersecurity, your customers need assurance that they are protecting their organizations, users and customers when using your service. It is not enough to know that the data is encrypted because hackers can still intercept that traffic and pose as a trusted organization or entity.
What Can Adding PKI to Your Service Do?
Web and Server Security –using SSL/TLS certificates to encrypt data and prove identity on websites being visited by customers.
- Secure Email – Digitally signing and encrypting emails with S/MIME certificates to prove identity of sender and reduce phishing, email snooping and data loss.
- Document Signing – Ability to digitally sign and certify PDFs or word documents with an identity to eliminate wet ink signatures, enable a paperless work environment and protect document contents from tampering.
- Timestamping– Use a third party service to achieve non-repudiation around when a transaction took place.
One of the most compelling business drivers for PKI is, of course, legislation. Depending upon how your customers are using your service, there will be different legislation that they may need to adhered to. However, there are a couple regulations that will affect any and all organizations that do business in Europe. These are eIDAS and GDPR.
We have already posted plenty of content around eIDAS and what it means for businesses. So, without going over old ground, I will touch on the regulation from your customers' perspective.
In a paperless office environment, a certain level of trust is needed. Similarly, a certain level of trust is needed if I sign a document with a pen and paper. You know the signature is mine but there is a small possibility of a forgery always involved. Digital Signatures give that added trust that a pen and ink signature cannot give.
If I sign a document using a third-party-verified Digital Certificate that only I am in possession of, we can be sure that it was indeed me who signed the document. eIDAS requires all organizations to use Digital Signatures in this way and classifies two levels of assurance (advanced and qualified), which have a higher level of identity verification that PKI can provide.
As a result of this regulation, standard wet ink signatures will start to migrate over to certificate-based signatures in order to gain more assurance.
The General Data Protection Regulation is one I expect to be fully on your radar already. It's quite rare that a regulation this strong on privacy and data comes out. However, the point is to make a change to the way companies use and handle personal data. In order to make such a large shift in business patterns and behavior, regulation must be a driving force.
The basics of the regulation are around the protection, transparency of processing and safe handling of EU citizen's personal data (that is any one of several pieces of information that can identify an individual citizen). Penalties for non-compliance are cited as being 4% of annual revenue or 20 million EUROS, whichever is higher.
As a XaaS provider, it will be vital to display not only compliance of the regulation on how you are handling and securing your customers' data but the ability to implement innovative product solutions that can help your customers also be compliant with the regulation. If you haven't already, now is a great time for a product meeting or road map.
Industry Regulations
Much like legislation, being compliant with industry regulations is a must for any businesses that wants to be doing business with its customers and be seen as trustworthy. If you work in a particular industry, the benefits of showing compliance with industry regulation in your service are a must!
Some examples of regulations that will be affecting specific industries are PCI DSS (financial industry), UK Land Registry and Electronic Documents (Scotland) Regulations 2014.
The UK Land Registry, for example, has a new system which requires eSignatures to be certificate-based (Advanced Electronic Signatures under eIDAS) so that a conveyancing company can connect to the tool and control the platform and workflow.
Another example of something similar is the UK water and utilities industry. Water suppliers have been offered the ability to provide water to any commercial property as part of something called the Open Water Programme. In order to open up services, water companies must login to something called the Central Market Operating System (CMOS), for which authentication through a Digital Certificate is needed.
Risk Mitigation
Every business comes with risks such as that of a data breach, a lawsuit or a cyber-attack. Businesses can be closed as quickly as they are opened if something goes wrong and that's why we always need someone balancing the potential gains against the potential risks to decide where the business is directed. This is why many businesses conduct audits internally and through external industry regulators.
PKI is a great way to mitigate the risks I have mentioned above. It does this by encrypting communications and data transmissions, authenticating identities of users and other endpoints, and protecting data from being altered.
An example of this working today is an educational institution handing out qualifications where PKI is used to verify that the qualifications they are handing out are indeed real and cannot be falsified.
Best Practice
While best practice might not be the easiest driver to bring to the board, coupled with regulatory and compliance drivers, it's a win.
Even if a regulation is not strictly enforced in an industry, compliance can be a huge benefit in the long term. If more companies were compliant with the Data Protection Act (DPA) then perhaps the workload for GDPR would have been cut in half.
Your customer's are looking for companies like you, who are managing their data effectively and putting enough precautions in place to ensure risk of a data breach is mitigated. If they can trust you enough to be secure, they can trust you enough to do business with you.
This is the same reason people get ISO or ISMS certifications, use Identity and Access Management, S/MIME, authentication and more.
Benefits of Using PKI in Your XaaS Service
Business drivers aren't the only factor that should apply when you're looking to add PKI to your XaaS solution, business benefits are also worth mentioning too.
Technology is improving at a fast rate, allowing us to digitize our processes and provide faster and more effective services to our customers. Digitization is currently making huge strides in the banking and IoT sector.
XaaS providers are all about serving customers in a digital form, while making their processes faster and easier. Who said certificate management needs to be any different? With automated certificate renewal processes, encryption, authentication, signing and timestamping processes can continue to happen effectively without being ground to a halt every time a certificate needs to be renewed or expires.
Competitive Edge
Giving your service something that your competition does not have allows you to gain market share. Alternatively, your competitors could all be offering something that you are not and you might need PKI to jump on board and close a gap in your product/market.
You could be offering a competitive edge by simply keeping your customers inside your platform by offering the security service they need. If your customers can sign, encrypt and authenticate using your service, they have no reason to leave the platform and their processes become more efficient as a result.
Customer Experience and Satisfaction
As I mentioned above, keeping your customers inside the platform can improve processes and efficiency. This in turn, makes for a much happier customer. If you are able to reduce time off your customer's working day or delight them by giving them ability to do something easily when it was once before a painstakingly long process, you are winning over hearts and minds. Your customers will be more inclined to stay with your service when they are happy – enabling you to reduce customer churn and the high cost of constantly needing to acquire new customers.
Corporate Governance
The system of rules and processes that control a business involving the balancing interests of many company stakeholders can be, in part, solved with PKI. Take the example of a company called Passageways, an online board of directors meeting portal. In order to make governance simpler, they created an app where board meetings can be documented and shared for collaboration during and in between meetings.
In the old way of doing things, minutes would be paper-based. Today directors are mobile and often not in the same room so they need a platform they can use like Passageways. More than 200 hours are spent a year on board meetings, often sensitive topics are discussed. With the introduction of an online platform, security measures have to be put into play to authenticate users and encrypt information as well as digitally sign final board meeting minutes. PKI is enabling this as it is built-in to their service.
Making XaaS and PKI Mix
If you're as convinced as we are that PKI will help you solve challenges, meet compliance and give you a competitive edge, the next step is to convince your stakeholders. Please get in touch and I can work with you to create a pitch.
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Updated June 5, 2018
GlobalSign respects your right to privacy. This privacy policy has been developed to inform you about the privacy practices followed by GlobalSign in connection with its websites, products and services. This privacy policy does not apply to GlobalSign services offered by or through our partners, resellers or other third parties, or other third party services or websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy policies of those parties.
This privacy policy will inform you about what data is collected, how we use such data, where data is processed, how you may opt out of your data being used, the security provisions around storing your data and how to correct, update or delete your data.
1. Data Controller
The data controller for personal data collected within the EU is GMO GlobalSign, Ltd., having its registered offices at Springfield House, Sandling Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 2LP, United Kingdom. All questions or requests regarding the processing of data may be addressed to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
2. Collection of Personal Information
We collect information from you when you (i) place an order for a GlobalSign digital certificate product or other product or service, (ii) scan your servers for digital certificates using our Certificate Inventory Tool (CIT), (iii) apply for access to our managed service platforms, (iv) subscribe to our newsletter, (v) use our online chat service, (vi) download a white paper, (vii) register for a webinar, (viii) respond to a survey, (ix) fill out a form for pre/post sales assistance, (x) open a support ticket, or (xi) your use of social media.
GlobalSign is a Certification Authority and trusted third party. To fulfill requests for digital certificates or other products or services, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, physical address, phone number, credit card information and/or organizational details or other personal information.
- - Contact information such as your name, email address, physical address, and phone number.
- - Relationship information that helps us do business with you, such as the types of products and services that may interest you, contact and product preferences, languages, marketing preferences and demographic data.
- - Transactional information about how you interact with us, including purchases, inquiries, customer account information, billing and credit card information, organizational details, transaction and correspondence history, and information about how you use and interact with our website.
We may develop and acquire additional information about you using third-party (public and private) data sources such as third party databases and government agencies, as well as your browsing and purchasing history in order to process orders for certificates and to improve our services.
GlobalSign treats personal information as confidential, except for the information included in an issued digital certificate. Such information may be verified using third party commercial and government resources, and as such, is deemed to be public information.
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Your information is used to provide our products and services and order processing as well as to conduct business transactions such as billing.
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Within GlobalSign: GlobalSign is a global organization with business processes and technical systems in various countries. As such, we may share information about you within our group company and transfer it to countries in the world where we do business in connection with the uses identified in section 3 above and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In cases where your personal data is transferred to countries that do not provide an adequate level of protection according to the European Commission ('adequacy decision'), we ensure your data is protected by entering into agreements containing standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission with each of our group companies. A copy of these agreements may be obtained by contacting us as outlined in section 15 below.
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It is our policy to notify customers of requests for their data from law enforcement unless we are prohibited from doing so by statute or court order. Law enforcement officials who believe that notification would jeopardize an investigation should obtain an appropriate court order or other process that specifically precludes member notification, such as an order issued pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §2705(b).
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To meet public CA audit requirements as detailed in the GlobalSign Certification Practice Statement, personal data used to fulfill verification of certain types of digital certificate applications will be retained for a minimum of 10 years depending on the class of product or service and may be retained in either a physical or electronic format. Please refer to the GlobalSign Certification Practice Statement for full details.
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After a transaction, your transaction-related information will be kept on file to meet audit requirements and facilitate renewals. We do not retain any credit card details.
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LG G7 specs, release date, and price leaked. According to what leaked from inside the company, the G7 is the most powerful LG smartphone ever made by the South Korean giant. Incredible specs and amazing LG G7 design here.
LG G7 specs and features
Firstly, let's make it clear to you that this might be the most powerful LG phone of for the past 10 years. The upcoming LG G7 handset is launching probably in June 2018 with the same processor as the Samsung Galaxy S9. Meaning that the G7 also runs on Snapdragon 845 Soc. The good thing is that it comes with two different model, one with 64GB ROM/4GB RAM and 128GB ROM with 6GB RAM.
In terms of display feature, the LG G7 phone delivers a 6.1-MLCD+ screen with an HDR10 touchscreen with 800-nit brightness. Additionally, This type of new feature consumes 35% less power than the current IPS LCD screens. The upcoming G7 mobile phone is build up with IP68 Certification " Waterproof and Dust resistant". What you will really enjoy is the new photography technology it offers.
New LG G7 cameras come with a dual 16+16MP shooter on the rear and 8MP for selfies. Besides, this phone also runs on Android Oreo 8.1 as the operating system. LG has not officially said how battery power this phone will come with, but you can expect something like " 3500mAh". There is also an audio jack and new music recording technology that make the recording smooth. You can check the Galaxy S9 vs LG G7 flagship in the link.
LG G7 Price >>>
In conclusion. rumors are running around that this LG phone will be called the LG G7 Judy. Well, let's wait and see what is going to happen in June when it launches. LG G7 price is not official yet, but we believe that the phone will be in the range of $ 699 for one unit. What else are you expecting from this phone? Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below.


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MU Extension > Northwest Missouri Horticulture > Newspaper Articles > News release: Riparian Forest Buffers and Silvopasture, Oct. 3, 2013
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Release date: Oct. 3, 2013
Title: Riparian forest buffers and silvopasture
In my last column, I introduced the topic of agroforestry. Since agroforestry has five areas of interest, I thought I would go into a little more detail on these practices over my next few columns. This week I would like to discuss riparian forest buffers and silvopasture.
Riparian forest buffers involve the use of trees, shrubs, warm seasons grasses, and other plants to protect the areas next to streams, lakes, or other wetlands. There are several advantages of using a correctly-designed riparian forest buffer.
First of all, is the obvious reduction of erosion. At a recent training that I attended, there were many photos shown of areas where farmers were losing parts of their fields to stream erosion. In the more serious cases, engineers might be needed to design streambank bioengineering or other structures to correct the problem.
The better approach is to try to stop that kind of loss before it gets started. A good riparian forest buffer will have trees with strong root systems that help stabilize soil near the stream. As you move away from the stream, you will use smaller woody species such as shrubs. And further away, next to your crop or pasture, will be native grasses and forbs. With a system like this, wildlife habitat and water quality will be improved as well.
A riparian forest buffer system can reduce flood damage. Woody buffers reduce the flood water velocity, and help keep debris from entering cropland.
Finally, there is an opportunity to introduce species that produce income. Nut crops, berries, or even craft materials can be grown in a riparian forest buffer.
Silvopasture involves the use of animals in combination with trees and forage in a designed rotational grazing system. Turning out livestock into a forest setting without proper management is not considered silvopasture. Silvopasture uses good management under a designed plan.
Silvopasture practices may be initiated by establishing trees into existing pasture, or by establishing forages into existing woods that have been thinned to increase light penetration. For many producers, silvopasture systems can be a good supplement to their existing pastures. When used properly, they can reduce stress and improve weight gain on your livestock, as well as provide products from the trees.
On a recent field trip, a good example of how a silvopasture system works was described by Dr. Michael Gold, Professor of Agroforestry at the University of Missouri. In research at an MU Experiment Station, Dr. Rob Kallenbach had found that cattle spending 25% of their time under a rotationally grazed silvopasture system, and the rest of their time under regular rotationally grazed pasture, actually outperformed livestock that spent 100% of their time on pasture under rotational grazing. This is because cool season grasses actually grow better in a well-designed silvopasture setting in hot weather. At the same time, the livestock found the shade to be less stressful in hot weather. This translated into higher weight gains. In addition, the trees offer a windbreak for winter weather. Eventually, the trees in that system will be harvested for lumber. Now that's a well-designed system, I think.
In my next column, I will discuss alley cropping and windbreaks, two more of the five agroforestry practices.
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Presumably most New Jersey citizens know that their state government is based upon the same three-branch system as that upon which the federal government is based. The founding fathers of the United States based the federal government on a three-branch system so that the power of one branch could be checked and balanced by the powers of the other two branches; in order to work there could be no control of any two branches by the same force. New Jersey government is corrupt specifically because all three branches are presumably connected and controlled by a few unelected bosses. The bosses of New Jersey obviously do not control state government for altruistic reasons; the bosses control state government in order to drain as much money as possible from the state treasury.
Consider the premise that New Jersey government has the most corrupt state government in the country; this premise is inconsistent with the existence of an honest judiciary, yet there has not been an impeachment of a judge in New Jersey within recent memory. It is clear that a corrupt judiciary enjoys the protection of the executive and the legislative branches of government.
I had no doubt that Ocean County (New Jersey) state senators Andrew Ciesla and Christopher Conners were part of the same corrupt machine that controls the corrupt Ocean County judiciary; nevertheless I presented both senators with the evidence of judicial corruption in my case that included the evidence of corruption of the state supreme court. Of course both Ciesla and Connors ignored my evidence, and neither one of them responded to my claim of judicial corruption.
I provided tangible evidence of judicial corruption and cover up to all the members of the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee none of whom responded to my request that the evidence be addressed.
One of the members of the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee to whom I provided evidence of judicial corruption is Monmouth County senator Jennifer Beck who ignored the overwhelming evidence of judicial corruption; Beck is clearly a part of the organized governmental corruption that infects New Jersey.
I presented the tangible evidence of judicial corruption and cover up to my state representatives (from Ocean County) David Wolfe and James Holzapfel; of course they did not respond to my request to address that evidence. Clearly both Wolfe and Holzapfel are part of the same political machine that controls the corrupt Ocean County judiciary.
Richard Codey is president of the New Jersey senate, and is presumably a responsible legislator who will not tolerate a demonstrably corrupt state supreme court; that presumption is wrong. I presented to Codey the tangible evidence that the New Jersey Supreme Court not only covered up the egregious corruption
of subordinate courts, but that the state supreme court corruptly defeated the legislative intent in my case of the whistleblowing law. Codey did not respond to my request that the evidence of corruption be addressed.
It is my understanding that the Speaker of the New Jersey Assembly Joe Roberts has the sole authority to ask the New Jersey Assembly to decide whether or not to impeach the state supreme court. Accordingly I presented the facts of my case to Roberts' office, and demonstrated that the New Jersey Supreme Court brazenly disregarded legislative intent. I never received a response from Robert's office to my request.
My case demonstrates a completely corrupt, unchallenged New Jersey judiciary that perverts and disregards the law in order to serve political interests. My case also demonstrates posturing politicians who refuse to address overwhelming evidence of judicial corruption; New Jersey arguably has the most corrupt state government in the country because of that willingness to ignore and/or cover up tangible evidence of corruption.
Legislators have an obligation to ensure that their constituents are served by an honest judiciary, and the ignoring by legislators of tangible evidence of judicial corruption is a betrayal of trust at least, and is evidence of their (the legislators') corruption at most.
I never thought that I would be forced to enter the legal/justice system, and I am ashamed to admit my belief prior to that entry in the honesty of that system. Voters who cannot imagine their victimization by an unchallenged, corrupt judiciary will without doubt return the aforementioned legislators to office.
To paraphrase the script from the motion picture The Magnificent Seven, God would not have made the voters of New Jersey sheep if He did not want them fleeced by New Jersey's bosses.
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Here is a message from Rudy's Mexican restaurant about the recent closure of Rudy's in Paseo Nuevo:
To the city of Santa Barbara:
The Rudy's family would like to thank each and every one of the community members, students, working commuters, as well as our dedicated travelers and tourists from the city of Santa Barbara. To properly thank you for your loyalty, we wanted to inform you of some alterations we will be making with our Rudy's locations. Thanks to everyone's patronage, support, and dedication, from our beginnings on Montecito Street, where we first began our business of making our famous tacos and large burritos, and of course, the Rudy's burger, to our newest venture in the city of Camarillo, we have been in business since 1976.
We are pleased to have catered to all of you throughout these years, and we look forward to continuing the tradition. However, with a lot of consideration, our family has decided to close our Paseo Nuevo location in lieu of our new venture.
Our locations are as far north as Buellton, and extend down the coast of California to Carpinteria, and now down to beautiful Camarillo. Since opening our doors there this past September, the city of Camarillo has been wonderfully welcoming thanks to the great reputation the city of Santa Barbara has given us.
Again, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all of our loyal customers for supporting us throughout the years, and we welcome you to visit us at one of our six other locations, as we would be more than happy to serve our outstandingly faithful patrons. We look forward to continuing the tradition throughout the generations to come.
Thank You,
The Rudy's Family


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Operation Coexist, Inc. is a nonprofit organization formed under Section 501(c)3 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code working to improve the quality of life through the healing power of music. We host and sponsor concerts and music festivals to raise money to provide funding for music education programs for children in the local foster care system.
Our team assists in promoting the local music scene by creating opportunities for musicians and music lovers to give back to the community through performing, volunteering and attending our events. Students are given the opportunity to perform in these events with local and national acts to help with outreach for our cause.
"Young music fans aren't just being lazy and avoiding real life issues and avoiding getting a real job, they are out changing the world by taking action. Many people's misconception about our new generation will quickly change when they learn about the music community and all of the young people who are changing the world." – Hopeless Records, Take Action
Operation Coexist is governed by a board of directors dedicated to increasing music education programs in the Tampa Bay area. It is our priority to provide the keys for life long success for our students transitioning out of the foster care system through their music education. We believe that if anything is going to change this world then it has to be done through music.
Operation Coexist is working in a collaborative effort with the Noisemakers Music School and the Music Education Department at St. Petersburg College to create a program that provides instruments and weekly music lessons to kids in foster care in the Tampa Bay area at no cost to the foster family. Students are given the option to take a variety of different lessons including voice, piano, percussion, and guitar, to name a few.
Students that stay in the program for at least one year they are placed into student bands with other kids in their age range and skill level. Our goal is to help our students with their transition out of the foster care system by graduating from high school and continuing to pursue their music education with opportunities for scholarship at SPC.
Students are given the opportunity to perform in concerts and showcases featuring local and national artists. They also have the opportunity to make live recordings in a professional recording studio.
All lessons take place at the Noisemakers Music School at 5511 Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida. Lessons are given by student interns provided by the Music Education Department at SPC. See application for additional information.
A child can apply through a caseworker, a foster parent, or another volunteer who is involved in working with the child. The child has to be actively in the foster care system and between the ages of 6 to 17 years old.
-We offer lessons in voice, piano, guitar, drums, bass, violin, ukulele, saxophone and many others. All lessons take place at the Noisemakers Music School in St. Petersburg, Florida. The teachers are working as student interns which are provided by the MIRA program at SPC. Each lesson is 30 minutes in length on a weekly basis and schedules may vary depending on the specific needs of the student and the teacher.
Yes, lessons are free and instruments are donated at no cost to the student. Transportation must be individually provided unless special circumstances are otherwise arranged. In some cases, public transportation and bus passes can be made available to the student at no cost by the organization.
Don't miss our next show! We party with a purpose.


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Morning friends!
I hope you and yours had a very merry, merry christmas.
It was swell for us. Celebrating our first christmas in our first home.
Very. blessed.
Speaking of our home... I'm in the process of adding some gadgets and gizmos to this little blog of mine and one of the things I have added so far is a little tab for you to follow along in our home remodeling process. (Because this process will take a while, let me tell you).
So over there on the right hand side ---------------->
you will find a little frame of our home. Once we begin adding things you will be able to click that and see all of the little changes we've made to each room.
That's all for now. Get back to your coffee drinking, Today Show watching self!


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Schalk Family History
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Schalk Name Meaning
German: from Middle High German schalk 'servant', hence an occupational name for a servant or, more specifically, a jester. Later the word came to be used as a term of reproach, 'knave', and some cases of the surname may reflect this use. Dutch: from the Germanic personal name Scalco, a pet form of compound names formed with -schalc (see 1).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Schenk, Schatz, Schall, Schaaf, Schaab, Scholl, Schaal, Schrank


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We invite you to join us for our exclusive five-course wine dinner featuring Flora Springs Winery on Tuesday, June 27 at 7 p.m.
In addition to serving several of its family estate wines, we will also serve its single vineyard cabernet, St. Helena Rennie – a wine so highly allocated that only a few cases are currently in Texas. To make the evening even more special, our dessert course will be paired with their 2002 Vintage Port which can otherwise only be tried at their winery as it's not sold anywhere.
Seating is limited. Please call (281) 203-5641 for reservations.
- Tuesday, June 27 at 7 p.m.
- $125 per person
- Flora Springs Dinner Menu
About Flora Springs
Flora Springs was founded in 1978, but their legacy dates back to the late 1800s when wine grapes were first planted on the Napa Valley property that is now their estate home. The depth of this history reminds them that as stewards of this land, their family's commitment to its health and vitality will be felt far into the future.


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This week marks the quarter way point through the second half of my manual therapy training (so technically it's an eighth, but I like quarter because it sounds bigger). Yesterday we had our first student clinic, where we were unleashed on real live members of the public, and challenged to do our best work yet.
It seemed to go quite well. I had been anxious and apprehensive, and spent most of Sunday lolling about wondering how on earth to get myself out of this pickle, and considering whether I could pass off my ever so mild cough and cold as serious illness (when, in fact, it's a combination of dust and cat hair), and thus fabricate a reason not to go to Seattle in the morning.
I'm glad I went. My client was suffering from frozen shoulder, which was a juicy therapeutic issue for me to think about while I worked. The general relaxation thing, of which I can see the many merits, does not excite me in any way as a practitioner. If all you want is a nice rub, please go to the spa place and spare me the boredom. However, if you have an interesting problem for me to think about and tackle, please come along.
The weeks feel long, as I am now away from home more than I am there, or so it seems. School days blur into an afternoon spent on the computer at an internet hotspot. My current favourite is Panera Bread, which has not bad tea (a little strangely sweet), and pretty decent salads, although is a little pricey. I am trying to eat less cake and fewer buns, and less chocolate (because let's be honest: American chocolate just isn't that enjoyable), as I am suddenly mindful that there is a dress of specific dimensions waiting for me back in the UK.
It is easy to spend the four days in Seattle resting on my buttocks in various locations. Said buttocks have lost the shapely er… shape that Mark the Magician whipped them into last summer, and I rather miss them. Of course, there is nothing to stop me taking my buttocks to a park and doing a bunch of squats and lunges, except that I have no self-discipline whatsoever. I like to think that I am working up to the self-motivation to go to the part and do squats and lunges, but in reality I am just avoiding it.
At home, we are about to undergo a rather huge change, which I'm reluctant to talk about until it is completely finalised, in case I jinx it… It means we will have busy weekends full of activity, all very hands on and vigorous, and it also affords Cowboy the opportunities that we have been striving for for the last year.
As March winds down, we are also a quarter of the way through the year. It's an insignificant sort of milestone. Who cares what time of what year it is? In a way, it is strangely comforting to look at the expanse of 2015 calendar still unmarked and view it as a green grassed land of optimistic successes. It was equally comforting to take my pen this afternoon and scrub out the weeks of school that have already passed this semester. What is it about scratching out the physical evidence of time that is so cathartic? To see that quarter of the semester already behind me gives me hope in the upcoming weeks, that they might pass as quickly and painlessly as those five have done.
I try not to think too hard about how long those five weeks have felt. I instead focus on how monumental they have been. My doubts about my ability to thrive as a manual therapist have been put to one side. I might not be good at general relaxation, but by golly, my clinical reasoning is sound, my anatomy knowledge is fairly solid, give or take a few origins and insertions, and a complete stranger was happy with the work I put in to her tissue yesterday. The end is in sight, and I am seeing a reasonable career at the end of it. A chance to recoup the investments of money and time, both of which have been hard to swallow.
The urge to spill the beans about what is going on in life is almost overwhelming, so I am going to try to restrain myself and stop here… Watch this space.


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Introduction to Work and Energy: The Hopper Popper Surprise
This activity has benefited from input through a review and suggestion process.
This activity has benefited from input from faculty educators beyond the author through a review and suggestion process as a part of an activity development workshop. Workshop participants were provided with a set of criteria against which they evaluated each others' activities. For information about the criteria used for this review, see http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/compadre/devactivities/reviewcriteria.html.
This page first made public: Apr 27, 2010
This material is replicated on a number of sites as part of the SERC Pedagogic Service Project
This activity is designed to provide qualitative understanding of the Work-Energy Theorem. Students are expected to have read introductory material regarding the theorem, and are tested on this with a short online quiz prior to class. After a brief discussion a "warm-up" demonstration is conducted with student participation. A question is then posed regarding the height a "Hopper Popper" will reach if launched from a thumb instead of a hard flat surface. After initial responses are presented, discussion groups are formed to achieve consensus and provide justification of conclusions. This is followed by a confirming demonstration with surprising results.
Learning Goals
Context for Use
Setting: High school or college, all class sizes. This in an Interactive Lecture Demonstration classroom activity.
Time required: 15 to 20 minutes.
Special equipment: Marshmallow blow guns, overhead or lcd projector, audience response system, Hopper Poppers.
Pre-requisite knowledge: Forces, Newton's Laws, work, kinetic and potential energy, and introductory reading on the Work-Energy Theorem.
Description and Teaching Materials
If students do not demonstrate understanding on the reading quiz that positive work will increase the kinetic energy of an object, additional time must be spent on the definition of work. Examples drawn from earlier discussions on Newton's Second Law, recast in terms of work and energy will help. Specifically, emphasize that positive work results in positive acceleration and an increase in speed, and thus kinetic energy, and that negative work results in negative acceleration (deceleration) and a decrease in speed and kinetic energy.
If students do not demonstrate understanding that an increase in the distance over which a force is applied will increase the change in kinetic energy or speed of an object, the Marshmallow Blow Gun demonstration and/or additional Newton's Second Law examples recast in terms of work and energy will be helpful.
If students show significant grasp of the Work-Energy Theorm, go straight to the Hopper Popper Surprise interactive demonstration. If there is some confusion, the Hill and Haystack concept test question and discussion prior to the demo may help. For either, pose the question as a peer instruction activity, preferably with an audience response system. Have each student answer individually, then divide the class into discussion groups to arrive at a consensus. Have each group present their answer and reasoning. Follow this with a second polling of the question and discussion prior to actually doing the demonstration.
Teaching Notes and Tips
After the Hopper Popper Surprise demo, a launch of the popper from hard surfaces both concave and convex will help students understand the behavior of the popper, as will attempting to launch it from your fist with a quarter-sized opening below the center of the popper.
A follow-up lab using fan carts or may be useful.


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With a background in experimental theater, Shelli Ainsworth became attracted to making films because of the way that they can preserve a moment in time. "Theater is like a flame," Ainsworth says. "Film lasts — it's indelible, it remains." She says that as a young artist, when she'd come to the end of a theater production, it was always a melancholic and somewhat harrowing experience.
For her latest project, a television series called "Aunt Phyl," she intends in telling Phyl's story to trace the history of working women in the years after World War II. At the same time, in the progression of episodes, she hopes to show the history of television itself. It's not a personal narrative, but the series draws upon Ainsworth's memories of growing up in Akron, Ohio, and the obstacles she faced as a woman with artistic aspirations.
"The past is like walking through a house," Ainsworth says, using a metaphor that nods to the loci method of memory retrieval, through the visualization of spaces. "I'm at an age now where I'm very interested in looking at the past, and how one's history informs right now."
Ainsworth will host a staged reading of the first two episodes of "Aunt Phyl" at the Waters Edge Cinema in Provincetown tonight at 7:30 p.m. as part of Women's Week. It's free and open to the public. She'll also be part of the Provincetown Film Society's fourth annual Women Filmmakers' Residency Brunch at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Inn at Cook Street. The brunch, now a regular part of Women's Week, aims to raise awareness and funding for the Gabrielle A. Hanna Provincetown Film Institute's residency program for women filmmakers. Ainsworth was a resident filmmaker during the program's first year, along with Jennie Livingston and Stacie Passon.
"One of the reasons we chose Shelli for the residency was because she is a mother of a son with autism," says Christine Kunewa Walker, who is CEO of the film society and executive director of the Provincetown International Film Festival. "Women with children unfortunately have less opportunity as filmmakers than men with children."
Walker met Ainsworth at a screening of Ainsworth's short film, "This Is Destiny," and became a fan of her work in both film and theater. She served as producer of Ainsworth's first feature film, "Stay Then Go," which screened at PIFF in 2014.
"Shelli has a distinctly female voice," Walker says. "And she writes suburban moms who aren't afraid of speaking in a voice that's distinctly female."
Ainsworth began work on "Aunt Phyl" during her residency here in Provincetown and has continued to develop the series out of her home in Minneapolis. "It was a really powerful experience," Ainsworth says of the residency. "It was a great mixture of having time to work and having time to be with great people that I care about."
The first episode of "Aunt Phyl" takes place in Akron in 1949. During the early postwar era, Ainsworth says, the town was a bastion of middle-class values. "Phyl is a character who comes from a time when the expectations were so oppressive. Most young women wanted to work in a factory and then get married. Phyl doesn't want any of those things. She's really smart and rebellious and wants to find a place for herself. It is the story of a woman moving toward transcendence."
Ainsworth's character anticipates the second wave of feminism (after the suffrage movement), because her vision of the American Dream doesn't jibe with the working-class world in which she lives. "She wants to have a really nice apartment in a city, but there are things about her that don't fit with that identity," Ainsworth says. "She never becomes a housewife, so she just continues to have friction with the times that she's a part of."
"Aunt Phyl" explores struggles of class and gender — Ainsworth says she is heavily influenced by Marxist feminism — through the prism of the Golden Age of Television. In 1949, TV did not resemble the movies, which in terms of production were vastly more sophisticated. In shooting television, she says, "Things were set in a proscenium, with the idea of a fourth wall and very limited camera movements. The series will reflect how the medium of television evolves as Phyl evolves. There will be between eight and 12 episodes, which will take us to the late 1980s."
The staged reading will be supplemented by real TV episodes from the era, to provide some context. "There was this one show called 'Mr. I. Magination,' and one of the episodes of that show that has really stayed in my head and heart was an early one dealing with suffragettes. I just love that piece. It's very simply done — painted backdrops. It's very obvious that they're on a stage."
Understanding the media of the past is an essential part of looking back. "You can't change anything about the past, but you can explore it," Ainsworth says. "Now that I'm older, I'm ready to take that on."