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Several major trends are emerging that affect interaction design. With the advent of post-PC devices like the iPad, cheap sensors and microcontrollers like the Arduino, and services like Kindle Wispersync, we're in the middle of a shift towards ubiquitous computing, tangible interaction, and cloud services. Because of these trends, our field must consider the integration of the traditionally separate areas of screen and tangible interaction design.
Of particular significance is the shift away from the generic computation typified by the "personal computer," which never really achieved the individuality or specificity implied by the term "personal." In short, we're experiencing the emergence of The New Ecology of Things, where a network of heterogeneous, smart objects and spaces are replacing our current design context.
The Past – The Personal Computer Has Made Us Soulless
There are signs that all is not well with our day-to-day work life. John Hockenberry's 2008 review of photographer Michael Wolf's The Transparent City contemplates the crushing homogeneity and conformity of modern work. Among Wolf's beautiful images of life seen through Chicago's skyscrapers, Hockenberry observes "12 random floors of eggshell white, computer screens on brown desks, and wall-hung bookshelves."
The article goes on to discuss how the environment for "knowledge work" is unlike factories or workshops where the spaces are specifically suited to the activity of making things. The knowledge-working context has devolved to the point where "offices have become stacks of boxes for people who get paid to think out of them." But I believe this is not only a problem of architecture and environmental design. Our daily activity has been squeezed into the narrow channel of interaction with the personal computer and its attendant posture, furniture, and detachment from the needs of the person. The digital tools we use have played a large role in creating this disembodied, deadening uniformity.
Similarly, Matthew B. Crawford has been driven out of the office and into his motorcycle repair shop as described in "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work." Crawford discusses how knowledge work has become vague and disconnected from the concrete, meaningful outcomes of manual labor. Again, I'd argue that it's not only the kind of work, but also the manner in which the work is accomplished.
This disconnection from the physical isn't limited to paper-pushing knowledge workers. It afflicts architects, designers, recording engineers and others whom we think of as having "satisfying" jobs where things are made. As creative workers, we've seen our day-to-day work compressed from a productive, bodily-engaged studio environment down to the almost motionless "mouse-crouch" that plugs us into the virtual. Seduced by the power of the personal computer, we've morphed from active, engaged, social, interactive people to sedentary, soulless slugs, perched in front of our glowing screens.
The personal computer and the interactions designed for it create a homogenous and context free environment removing the meaningful and productive character of acting and thinking in the embodied, physical environment. This needs to change.
The Emergent – Slabs: A Step Towards Re-Engagement
Android, Monome, the iPad, and soon Sifteos represent a new form of computing device that I call the slab. Slabs are hand-held, generic platforms with a range of sizes and capabilities – touch screen, GPS, accelerometer, gyro, WiFi, speaker, mic, etc. that, in effect, turn into something new with each different application they run.
Slabs are different from personal computers. First, because they have a smaller, simpler form factor and a direct, touch based interaction. Second, the device effectively becomes the app once it's launched, and the separation between software, hardware and interaction dissolves. When you switch apps on a slab, you get a whole new device that engages you as a unified, tangible object. The app is the device. Third, slabs will be cheap enough to use multiple, networked devices simultaneously during an activity.
Finally, with slabs we can begin to disconnect from soulless trap of the (im)Personal Computer. We can re-engage with our environment and feel the physical consequences of our activity. Instead of being tied to a "workstation," we move around the workspace, utilizing multiple slabs and their spatial relations to one another. We use specialized tools and work practices as slabs morph to the needs of each activity. We touch things again. Instead of losing ourselves in the virtual, we re-engage with people and things in the world. "Here, look" and "take this and work on it" become literal statements once again. Over time, we build a set of specialized tools appropriate to our practice (see the bespoke objects discussion below)
In addition to their embodied character, slabs excel at leveraging the affordances of computation and networks. Our digital work is no longer tied to a single workstation. The cloud enables our materials to manifest in different forms, on different devices, with activity-specific functionality.It's the best of both worlds. A graphic designer could have a large, worktable slab for standing and working on layouts. Plus a lap sized slab to sit and edit an image in concentration. A narrow slab might sit on a table to keep track of a to-do list. And of course, the designer would use several 8 1/2″ x 11″ slabs at a client meeting to pass around the table for discussion.
The Emergent – Sofducts: A Challenge for Designers
The slab presents an interesting set of design challenges. Apps are screen-based software. Yet the app becomes more like a physical product once launched. This merging of app + slab leads to a hybrid I call the sofduct (software/product).
For example, GPS navigation systems have been sold in a box, physically shipped, with a warranty card and customer service phone number. Now, the sofduct version gives you the exact same functionality but is downloaded and runs on a slab as a piece of software. To the user, the end result looks and feels just like the traditional physical product. The sofduct is very disruptive in this way.
For one, whole business models are being destroyed by the sofduct. You can now buy the MotionX-GPS Drive app for $0.99, and get turn-by-turn navigation for $2.99 a month or $20/year. Moreover, in-app purchasing of add-ons and features creates a modular "product" model, where the sofduct is actually a range of product possibilities that can be selected and customized by the user. Can traditional GPS units and other physical products survive this kind of competition?
Screen designers need to re-frame practices understanding that a sofduct has to meet the expectations for a traditional product. Users will assume the high-finish aesthetics, ergonomics, tangibility, and conceptual integrity of physical product design. Likewise, simplicity and clarity of interaction are critical. The perception of "product-ness" will also influence user expectations for reliability and customer service – we want our products to simply work. Making this happen is traditionally the realm of product designers.
On the other side, product designers entering the sofduct realm need to understand the traditions and expectations for screens and software. The integration of dynamic media content is different from the static character of physical products, requiring a deep understanding of interaction, typography, content strategy, information architecture and visual design that's the domain of screen-based interaction designers.
Plus, users want constant and rapid upgrades. Product design tries to get it perfect before launch, since there's no turning back after you send the device to manufacturing. But with a sofduct, it may be better to put out a really good, but simpler version on the market quickly, and use a software model for product planning where upgrades are rolled out on a strategic schedule.
Sofducts are a new category for design, merging the focus, situated character, and physicality of an object with the malleability and media richness of software. This requires an integration of odd-couple disciplines – software practices with product design, screen design with haptics, interaction design with materials aesthetics, and content strategy with physical interactions. Further, new business and design opportunities emerge, and require a complete rethinking of design strategy and implementation.
The Future – Bespoke Objects
While slabs and sofducts are an emerging design landscape today, interaction designers need to prepare for further disruptions and repositioning of their skills in the future. Soon, trends in hardware and software will open up the possibility for low-cost, custom-built systems for individuals and specific applications. In the same way that one can have a bespoke suit tailored to a perfect fit and style, it may soon become possible to have a bespoke object with the hardware, software and interaction design tailored to the perfect fit and style for you and your intended use.
By this, I don't mean the custom manufacturing typified by NIKEiD and others in recent years. What I do mean something literally like the local tailor, working out of a shop around the corner, who develops a personal and meaningful relationship with their customer and their needs. The production of bespoke objects on the local level is becoming possible because of rapid advances in desktop 3D printing, system-on-a-board components, open-source software and hardware, open source 3D parts libraries like Thingiverse, and the DIY culture growing around these trends.
With cheap, off-the-shelf computational components (e.g. the just announced Android Open Accessory Kit that works with Arduino) and the ability to print 3D parts, the digital tailor will soon be able to hang their sign out and make individual or short-run custom objects full of ubicomp goodness. People will want these because a generic, mass-produced device won't always be suited to their particular circumstance or activity. Moreover, having a custom designed ensemble of complementary, networked objects, specifically crafted to your way of working will be the hallmark of the enthusiast and professional alike. We'll want to assemble our own unique ecologies of things, from watch-sized objects, through tablets, to interactive environments.
What does this mean for the interaction designer and design firms? In the same way sofducts are already disrupting design practices and business models, the decentralized, local model of bespoke objects will create additional changes for design.
I see a few opportunities. First, digital tailors are designers. Just because many components are off-the-shelf, bespoke objects will naturally have custom forms, behaviors and systems designed for a specific person or task. That's the job of an interaction designer. So in the future, interaction designers may be the small business owners around the corner, selling both locally in person and internationally online.
Second, the off-the-shelf interactions, interfaces, systems-on-a-board, 3D models, etc. – i.e. the ecosystem around the bespoke object – all need design, and a market will develop for organizations to design and produce the virtual and physical components that enable the digital tailor to operate.
The New Ecology of Things
Twenty years ago, Mark Weiser published his seminal paper on ubiquitous computing in Scientific American, "The Computer in the 21st Century". This remarkably prescient work predicts much of what's becoming a reality today (and perhaps Apple's iPad name is a tip-of-the-hat to Weiser's taxonomy of tabs, pads, and boards). Yet this vision, along with Microsoft's 2019 video have a homogeneity and sense of virtuality that does not capture the tangible, gritty, idiosyncratic, embodied, productive, and mythic character I hope for in The New Ecology of Things.
I think one of the most interesting challenges for interaction designers is to look beyond the screen, and imagine how we can help make digital life and work more engaged. We need to learn to design groups of computationally enhanced objects with interaction expressed not only through screens, but also through texture, kinetic behavior, haptics, sound, animism, light, and spatial location. This means bridging and synthesizing screen and tangible interactions in an evolved form of left+right brain, analytic+aesthetic, virtual+tactile Interaction Design.


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Abhinav & Vidhi's stunning destination wedding was at the beautiful Chunda Palace in Udaipur, the place is situated near lake pichola and surrounded by hills. – A more than perfect setting.
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Shareholder Reactions to Model S Pricing, Functionality and Options
Shareholder Reactions to Model S Pricing, Functionality and Options
A wonderful thing about capital markets is that the answer to questions like yours, Dan, is measurable. TSLA closed at $27.90 on Dec. 20 (before the pricing and options was released; it closed at $28.56 today. Volumes traded have been basically flat. There was a one-day dip in the stock on the 21st, to $27.57 (down 1.2%), but the NASDAQ was also down 1.0%, and Tesla is a high-beta stock, so it's not clear that this is a news-related event or just market-tracking.
On the other hand, since Dec. 20, TSLA is up 2.4%, while the NASDAQ is up 0.1% and the DJIA is is up 0.9%. Given TSLA's greater volatility, it's hard to read too much into these numbers, I'll grant you, but overall the market seems to be neutral to positive about recent TSLA news.
Personally, I agree with the market on this. Tesla came in squarely in line with my personal expectations, exceeding them in some places and falling a bit short in others. On aggregate, I think my investment is still well placed, as is my reservation.
Sheesh Dan. You're railing here, you're volunteering to join lawsuits on Tesla's facebook page. Either give it a rest or go get a lawyer.
Agree with RB
Since P&O release the stock price is rebounding from the JP Morgan downgrade. Signature reservations have accelerated to a blistering pace not seen prior to P&O release. So it would appear expectations have been met. I do believe some aspects of the release could have been handeled better but is seems, as a whole, the market and customers are satisfied.
+1 with RB. Both as a stockholder and prospective owner of a Signature Performance Model S, I'm very happy with the way things are progressing.
In my opinion, the vast majority of the sales of 160 mile cars will be perfectly fine without "supercharging". They'll just be glad to have a car like the Model S at that price.
@DanD...keep going since it's good to get your thoughts out. I know you are on the fence, so way to hang in there! After an hour long discussion with a good friend tonight, who is a gearhead and not a believer in the "value" of EV's yet but did feel that the options pricing was good as he uses online "build yours" configurators more than I do, I know how diffucult it might be for some to see this through. Once we get the full details you'll either get a great car or all your money back + your appreciated stock holdings if you decide to realize profits.
and +1 to MyCroft...
I was hoping for more of a "bump" from options, but anticipated getting more details, so in short, happy with the current appreciation.
But, any money I make from the stock is going back into the car so it's a win win for TM.
So if the stock hits $44 when I get the call to place my final order I'll be getting Carbon Fibre...if ya know what I mean!
Your gains from stock price increases won't make any difference to TM, as you were going to pay for the car anyhow. They don't much care where you sourced the $$!!
@Brian H: I think some people are planning on spending TSLA capital gains on buying upgrades to their Model S, in which case Tesla does stand to gain. We know, however, that Tesla management has much more tangible reasons for wanting to see high TSLA values.
I also agree with Robert. I'm s sig res and stockholder. I'm pleased with Tesla's responses and stock stability/projected growth.
BTW, I'm hoping to hold onto my stock until at least after the model x production roll out and then re-evaluate. So, i hope to be in for at least a few years. Of course, if the bottom falls out my plans will change! But, that's not going to happen...right Elon?!
In light of recent criticism, I've been reviewing formal communications from Tesla to investors. There're some interesting nuggets that we didn't spot at the time:
Presaging the power differences among the batteries, slide 10 of the Aug 23 Company Overview has an interesting footnote qualifying the statements regarding the battery module, power electronics, and motor: "Planned. Metrics reflect 230-mile range Model S." http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/1596840991x0x494001/d...
Same presentation, slide 14: "0-60 in ~6 seconds." "Up to 300 mile range." Truth in advertising; all 3 packs do 0-60 in 6 seconds +/- 0.5 seconds.
p.37, 10-Q for Q3 2011: There can be no assurance that we will be able to design future models of performance electric vehicles that will meet the expectations of our customers or that our future models, including the Model S, will become commercially viable. To the extent that we are not able to build the production Model S to the expectations created by the early prototypes and our anticipated specifications, customers may cancel their reservations, our future sales could be harmed and investors may lose confidence in us. Sounds like any investor was forewarned about the risk that production vehicles might not match expectations.
I didn't find in any investor document specific representations about all packs having a particular performance characteristic, although it's certainly the case that various representations were made in the numerous interviews.
Not sure where this leads me, except that again, I don't think Tesla was out to mis-represent its product, but may have talked about the prototypes a little too loosely and freely. The benefit of their having done so is that they got a lot of direct consumer feedback. The downside is that some reservation holders (and some investors) now see a gap between their expectations and Tesla's delivery.
All those shareholder documents say is Tesla has competent corporate form lawyers.
Thanks for the link. I think I've read it before but I'm reviewing it again. One quick observation is that page 8 clearly shows that the 300 mi range is from the EPA 2-cycle test, answering that question that had been floating around the forums.
" One quick observation is that page 8 clearly shows that the 300 mi range is from the EPA 2-cycle test, answering that question that had been floating around the forums."
* - Estimated
+ - EPA 2-cycle city/highway test
† - EPA derived 5-cycle test
Sorry Robert,
but a closer look shows that the Model S range is *estimated, and it is the Roadster range that is from the EPA 2-cycle city/highway test .
However after I wrote this I looked at notes again, and saw both an * and a + by the Model S. Therefore I guess the 300 mile range is an "estimated" EPA 2 cycle city/highway test
I was hoping for more upside reaction. Nevertheless, I'm still long a few thousand shares.
Good Tesla piece published on Seeking Alpha earlier today:
Cybercop -- haha, yep. It's form fodder (especially the last one).
@Peak...Seeking Alpha article was good and this might ring for folks on the fence as Model S is 6.5 seconds for only $900 more base price...
Compare it to the BMW 528i at $49,000 with acceleration 0-60 in 6.9 seconds and efficiency of 18.4 mpg. Tesla's Model S is the first mass production electric car to beat its competition on performance at the same price point.
I think TSLA can do significantly better than the $44 price target recently proposed by Morgan Stanley.
BUT, there are two major threats to TSLA price:
1) if TM misses its delivery date this July
2) if the Model S suffers from some (unknown) and publicized quality issue a la the Volt or Fisker
Ironically, a heroic attempt to meet delivery dates could lead to a quality issue, if TM isn't VERY careful.
The early quality and performance reports on the Model S are bet-your-business critical for TM. They get only one chance to get this right.
Soflauthor - I've actually been quietly stressing over the possibility of a Volt/Fisker type issue. I hope not.
The Roadster has been on the roads for a number of years, and as to be expected they've been in accidents. In that time there have been no reported safety issues with the batteries. Although anything is possible, I'm not too concerned about batteries issues.
I agree that achieving the release dates is critical, but I think that Tesla will do fine. My concern is that after the early adopters and EVanglists make their purchases will there be enough continued demand from the normal driving public for a relatively expensive car to sustain the target of 20,000 cars per year? I'm hoping that when people see the car and hear about it in the news, that there will be "cool factor" that will the automotive equivalent of the iPhone.
There are other, macro forces that could hurt Tesla's business model. Revocation of the $7500 federal tax credit, combined with a decline in gasoline prices, would hurt the demand for EVs.
@Robert.Boston: Good point about macro forces, but TM has little, if any, control over them. It does have control over on-time delivery, product quality and long-term support. If it does those things well, I believe it will succeed, even if macro forces align against it. For example, the Model S is being introduced during the worst economic downturn in multiple generations (a macro force) and yet, TM has 7,000 pre-orders. Go figure.
Total: 9,074 - January 2, 2012
Minus perhaps 5% dropped/shuffled/duplicate orders.
...a decline in gasoline prices, would hurt the demand for EVs.
Hi Robert,
Likewise, if the demand for EVs is high it is likely that gasoline prices will decline anyway, at least in the short-term.
Maybe, but EV production is going to be too slow for some time to affect gas prices. But one day, I can dream.
I think the great thing in Tesla Model S is it that it is not just a great EV it is a great car. Even if it were a ICE Model S it would still be a great car if it had same interior, same performance and same trunk space. Being EV is just a bonus (a big one).
This is a car for normal people, not just treehuggers and green fanatics.
...thinking process interrupted.
I think that if Tesla manages to break the public preconception of EV being just for green people and them being glorified golf carts, it doesn't matter what gasoline prices do, Tesla EV:s would still sell very well. It is that preconception that is in the way, and it looks like it is getting weaker and weaker every day. Especially with enough fast chargers installed so that "range anxiety" gets removed.
Another point that hasn't been mentioned is insurance rates. Unlike ICE cars, parts are plentiful and easily replaced at many dealers and service shops.
The Model S is going to be a very technologically complex car, which even in "minor" accidents could end up being extremely expensive. Please note I'm not talking about Model S safety issues but rather replacement costs, especially if there happens to be any battery damage. This has not been factored in by the insurance companies at this time.
I know I pay less insurance for my Roadster than my Audi Q7 (you figure), but I'm honestly shocked at that. Its not as if you could easily replace any non-cosmetic damage.
I think Model S is actually technologically very simple car compared to modern ICE car. Way less parts in way less vulnerable positions. Only thing that could make it cost more is aluminum body which costs more to fix than traditional steel one.
I'm not in the insurance industry (and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) but the costs that eat the insurance companies alive are the medical and liability components of the policy.
The hard thing for them to figure out will be the value of the car over time along with the rate at which cars will be "totaled" based on the repair costs and the residual value of the vehicle versus simply needing repairs. There will be plenty of arguments regarding the payout value of a damaged Model S that the insurance companies decides has been totaled.
Getting back to the thread, as we pour over the 3Q overview to stockholders, let's not forget the initial slide, "Forward Looking statements". That is standard boiler plate in the securities industry, and tells you (and your lawyers) not to take it as gospel. Basically it says these are our intentions but it may not work out, so don't expecct to hold us responsible if it doesn't.
Having said that, I am content with where Tesla is, where my reservation is (P2884), where the pricing is, and where my Tesla stock investment is.
Exactly. Poring (note sp.) over the legal boilerplate and disclaimers is of interest only insofar as it identifies the fairly obvious market forces that might intervene and kick any projections into a cocked hat. I suppose it's somewhat interesting to see how implausible some of them are, and if you can come up with any others!


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Gladiator sandals have been around for several seasons now and it looks like they're here to stay, so if you want to try the trend or replace your old gladiators with something more fashion forward, then read on to find out how to wear them this summer.
Consider Your Height
If you're long and tall then you can get away with wearing gladiator sandals with almost any outfit, but if you're on the shorter side they can end up making your legs look disproportionate.
To combat this, avoid sandals with lots of heavy strapping around the ankles and opt for a variety which starts lower down on the foot as this will elongate your legs. Choose a sandal with a slight wedge or something with a t-strap to make your legs look even longer and more toned.
Consider The Occasion
Sometimes flat shoes can seem a bit too casual for a night out – but some strappy metallic gladiators will look great with any clubbing or bar hopping outfit. Team your metallic shoes with a dress in a bright tropical hue and match your accessories and handbag for an extra bit of sparkle.
Match With Your Maxi
Maxi dresses are everywhere and gladiators are the ideal sandals to wear with them. For a boho look, choose gladiators in leather or even an animal print that clashes with your maxi's fabric.
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Gladiators work perfectly with shorts, no matter what height heel you select. If you choose a longer sandal that stretches up your leg you'll really stand out from the crowd, so keep your outfit in check by keeping your accessories neutral and simple. Long gladiator sandals work well with cut-off denim shorts and loose tops.
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This year's hot colour trend is neon, but if you don't want to end up looking like you've just stepped out of 1985, why not give a nod to the trend with some acid yellow or shocking pink gladiator sandals rather than opting for a brightly coloured dress? They'll work really well with your little black dress or alternatively teamed with tribal or floral fabrics.
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In case you didn't know, I have an Etsy shop. In case you don't know what Etsy is, it's a website where people sell handmade and vintage items. It's fantastic! I cannot say how much I have enjoyed being a seller on Etsy and how exciting it has been to have my little shop! (Hover over the "creating" link above for a link to my Etsy shop and check it out!) One aspect of Etsy that I love, and didn't really expect or know about, is the sense of community that you can find there. There are tons of people who are similar to me selling their amazing goods and products. I have been able to encourage and be encouraged by many shop owners in my year of being a part of Etsy. You can read the story of many shops and how they came to be in their "About Page." It's just a really great site to shop, and I highly encourage you to shop handmade on Etsy! **Side note, my friend Dana from Happy Little Lovelies (another awesome Etsy shop!) posted a fantastic blog post today about why shopping handmade is great, and how you can make it more affordable! Check out the article here.** In an effort to shine a light on how awesome Etsy is, and to show you some amazing handmade items, I am going to start sharing some of my favorite shops and items with you all here! Whenever I stumble across something amazing, or find a great new shop I'll let you know about it! And I have a perfect shop to share with you today!
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I have corresponded with the sweet lady behind this shop before, and I love EVERYTHING that she has for sale! Her items are full of scripture and displayed in the beautiful chalk board art style. She has prints, these magnets, and other items for purchase!
One thing that I love about this shop is why it was started. Adoption is a beautiful thing, but it's also an expensive thing. To help raise the funds that adopting their child from Ethiopia cost, this Etsy shop was born! Buying items from this shop goes directly to helping them with the cost of their adoption. I just love that! That's one of the great things about buying handmade items.Your money goes to support the person directly. Maybe it's dance classes that your money helps pay for. Maybe it's someone's power bill or a tank of gas. Or, maybe it's to fund their adoption. I just love knowing that when I buy from a handmade seller, I know exactly who my money is going to! So go check out "To Such as These" on Etsy and see all the great things she has to offer there! And, if any of you receive a card from me in the future with a print like this, you'll know where I got it from! ~Heather **Do you love shopping handmade items? Have any great Etsy shops you're a fan of? I would love to know!


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PM approves plan for PIA's revival
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved in principle a plan for revival of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), aimed at bringing the national flag-carrier, currently running in losses of billions of rupees, to a break-even level within a year, by increasing revenue and taking cost-cutting measures.
Under the plan, 20 new generation, narrow-bodied and fuel-efficient planes will be inducted into the fleet with Airbus 320 and Boeing 737 as the preferred options, besides getting four Boeing 777 and then same number of ATR 72-500 aircraft on 'dry lease'.
The decision comes at a time when all eyes are on the proposed privatisation of PIA.
The government has given a written assurance to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that 26 per cent shares of PIA will be sold by the end of this year.
An official, when asked if the decision to invest heavily in PIA meant a shift in the plan to privatise the state owned airline, said the restructuring and privatisation could go together.
Chairing a meeting held on Sunday to review the reform and restructuring plan, including strategic partnerships, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said that over the years, mismanagement and structural inefficiencies in the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) had marred public sector governance.
"Continuous injection of resources into the SOEs is fiscally not sustainable on an indefinite basis and the most viable option available is to structure them through strategic partnership with the private sector after 26pc off-loading of shares," he said.
The Prime Minister's Special Assistant on Aviation Shujaat Azim told reporters after the meeting that three planes had been obtained on lease, while tenders for getting 10 narrow-bodied aircraft had been floated and the bids were to be opened on March 7. He said that subsequently another seven planes would be inducted.
He said induction of new planes into the fleet was expected to generate annual revenue of Rs72 billion at 85pc seat factor and 12.5-hour utilisation per day.
He said there were 34 aircraft in PIA's fleet, of which 24 were operational. The fleet includes seven 26-year-old Boeing 747 and 737 and 12 20-year-old Airbus A310 planes. The average fleet age comes to around 17 years.
Mr Azim pointed out that the average fleet life of international airlines was less than 10 years.
Selling the four Boeing 747 and 12 Airbus aircraft after induction of the new fleet is also part of the plan.
He said the present fleet was geared for medium- and long-haul routes while 62pc passengers travelled on short routes. Induction of suitable aircraft can considerably cut the fuel cost.
He said wrong use of 777 aircraft on short sectors due to non-availability of short-haul planes also incurred a high cost on engine overhaul which was based on flight cycles. An engine overhaul costs $8 million.
The special assistant said the turnaround strategy also involved restructuring of the airline and creation of strategic business units.
Of the PIA passengers, 16pc travel on long routes, including the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Europe. The medium routes used by 22 pc passengers include Saudi Arabia and the Far East. The bulk of the traffic goes to and from the Gulf, regional countries and on domestic routes.
Mr Azim said the fuel cost for old A310 came to $5,500 per hour, while the new 737 900ER would consume fuel worth $2,500 to $2,600.After the fresh induction into its fleet, the PIA plans to use 777 aircraft for long haul routes, A320-232 on medium haul routes and A320, 737NG and ATR for domestic, gulf and regional routes.
Giving details of other steps being taken to reduce losses, he said aircraft parts' procurement would be made only from original equipment manufacturers, all off-line stations were being closed, performance of all general sales agents was being reviewed and the practice of free seat upgrades and excess baggage had been stopped.
With 19,418 employees, PIA has one of the highest employee-aircraft ratio in the world of 776. The average ratio worldwide is around 150.
When asked about reports that over 35 PIA employees were drawing salary of over Rs1 million per month, Mr Azim said the government had decided to go for a performance audit of the airline through international firms and shun favouritism and nepotism.
He said all the perks and privileges, including free trips, of present and past board members and their families and the chairman had been stopped. "Gone are the days when they used to enjoy free tickets and free stay at PIA hotels abroad."
He said the prime minister had approved a plan to expand Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport.
It has been decided to increase the number of counters at the departure lounges of the Lahore and Islamabad airports and introduce a passenger-friendly immigration system.
He said there was no plan to relocate the new Islamabad airport from Fateh Jang to Rawat. "Around Rs69 billion has already been spent on the new airport."
He said the prime minister had ordered that a passage to the new airport should be provided directly from the motorway and not through private housing societies.
Since the new airport will be completed by the end of 2016, the Benazir International Airport will be upgraded. A taxiway will be ready in a couple of months by linking the additional runway with the main one. The kiosks inside the main lounges will be moved out of the building.
At the Karachi airport, the Civil Aviation Authority has served notices to all airlines to remove their junk by the end of this month and clear the space.
He said the prime minister would announce a national aviation policy in April and a conference of international experts would be held in Islamabad this month.
He indicated that there would be a change in the rules for getting a licence for airline operations.


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One of the main things that take the Father or Mother and older children away from the family is lack of income. We are providing about 8 dollars of food for 3 hours of work for one day, one day a week. The normal daily wage for a laborer is from $2.50 to $4 dollars (8 to 10 hour days).
We are giving them payment in food that is equivalent to what they would be paid for two days -of work. For people at this level of income, this small aid in providing high-protein food, even if it only helps them with 5 or 6 meals a week, helps them stay together as a family.
We also help local people buy baby fish, baby chicken and fruit trees. A common way a government will help its people is to provide subsidized programs like these, as rural, agriculture improvement projects. The prices are kept low, but still not affordable for some. T.S.H.I. will therefore support these programs when an NGO or group can show proper oversight of the funds.
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Design For Less Behaviors
Research has shown the benefits for adding movement into our classrooms. Adding in movement helps students self-regulate, improve learning and decrease off task behaviors. Put this research into practice by designing a schedule where students aren't at a "sitting" task for more than an hour. Make a list of the groups, lessons or tasks that you do in your classroom that involve some sort of movement. Here are a few examples from my schedule:
Morning Meeting
Write The Room
Walking Club
Count The Room
PT Group
P.E. Class
Once you have your list, you are going to sprinkle them through your daily schedule. Here is an example of what one of our days looks like:
We also build tons of movement into morning meeting. Read more about our morning meeting tasks by clicking a post title below:
I don't really count snack as either movement or sitting, but you could add movement into a snack activity. For example, you could have students get up to request snack items (cup, utensil, snack, etc.) from a peer or have them prepare their own snack.
Read more about how we do this writing activity: Instruction In Mixed Level Groups.
Most of the time, we aren't moving a lot during our life skills group. I run this group with our social worker. It was a time when we focused on community skills, kindness, self-regulating behavior management, etc. Since we aren't doing a lot of movement, I sandwiched it between 2 times that we are: writing and P.E.
After P.E. we have 2 half hour time slots devoted to direct instruction. We do take a 3 minute break at in the middle for reinforcement, but I do not consider that enough "movement" time. You can read more about direct instruction/work centers by clicking the picture below:
Since math groups are after work centers, a "sitting" activity on Tuesdays, I make it a movement group. A HUGE favorite in my classroom is count the room. For this activity, students have to search the room or area to find picture cards that match their sheet. Once they are found, they have to count the number of items on the card and record it on their sheet.
We use the count the room activities that are included in our theme units. Each set comes in 2 levels, so all of my students can participate. It gets them moving and learning without me having to do extra work... WIN!!
Scheduling Therapies
If your students are like mine, then they have a lot of people who want to pull them from your room throughout the day. All of my students receive speech therapy and many also receive OT, PT, SW, Music Therapy, TVI, etc. While my students need these services, it can be challenging to get all of it in and still have them in the classroom for all of the things I need to teach them.
Before meeting with a therapist to schedule students' therapies, decide which times you need to block out. For example, I don't allow students to be pulled during our work centers because it is a time when we do direct instruction and specifically work on IEP goals. To make sure I don't accidentally schedule a therapy during this time, I highlight the time on my scheduling grid. Here is an example:
Tip: teach your paras how to read your schedule and therapy grid, so you don't have to be interrupted when a therapist needs to reschedule.
Want to learn more ideas and tips for getting students moving? Read: Put research Into Practice By Building In Movement.
I hope these ideas have been helpful!!


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The holiday season is over, but that doesn't mean you can't look forward to the next big day—Valentine's Day! While grown ups don't get to have candy-packed parties, if your kids go to school, they do. Try some of these DIY Valentine's Day cards to show off your crafty side.
- Candy necklaces. Create your own candy necklaces using licorice strings and gummy rings. Print out cards and tie the necklaces to the cards. Finally, put everything inside a plastic bag to keep it fresh.
- Turtles. These cute turtle-shaped cards will make everyone smile. Add some glitter to its feet and put a special message under its shell.
- Heart fan. To make these cards you will need four paper hearts, a gold brad, some twine, and anything else you want to add some bling.
- Play dough hearts. These are perfect for younger kids. Make some pink-colored homemade play dough and cut out heart shapes using a cookie cutter. Place each heart in a plastic bag to keep it fresh.
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Simple Habits That Can Tack You Years on Your Lifespan
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How many times have you heard these advices: eat healthy foods and eat regularly, exercise regularly, don't smoke? We hear these mainly from doctors, friends, parents, and in the media. It also happens that the words start to lose their meaning and impact. To be honest, it is hard to stick to healthy habits, unless there's proof they work rather than they might be easier to swallow.
A recent study examined five lifestyle factors that influence how long we live. The research showed that people who were persistent in following the five healthy habits— maintain a healthy body weight, drink no more than one glass of alcohol per day, eat a healthy diet, abstain from smoking, and exercise at moderate pace for at least half an hour or more a day—had more chances of living longer past age 50—14 years more for women and 12 for men, compared to their peer who didn't practice any of them.
A healthy weight
To understand the influence of weight, researchers focused on people's body mass index-- a comparison of a person's height and their weight, used for getting a rough estimate of body fat. The findings were not surprising. People with BMIs between 18.5 and 22.9 had a higher chance of living longer than those with BMIs values outside that range, which makes sense.
The cool thing here is that even a small weight loss can mean big differences. Losing just 5 to 10% of your body weight can significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. On the other side, not having enough body fat can prevent the movement of hormones throughout the body. That's the reason why it's important to work with a doctor when attempting to lose weight.
Moderate Alcohol Consumption
The researchers also found that moderate drinkers had better chance of living longer compared to heavy drinkers. They defined moderate alcohol consumption as 5 to 15 grams per day for women and 5 to 30 grams per day for men. That equals to one standard drink for women and 2 for men.
The available evidence around moderate drinking is tricky. The question here is whether people who moderately drink fair better than people who abstain, and it remains to be seen.
A high-quality diet
Nutrition studies are generally hard to do because of all the other factors that could influence, including stress, exercise, human test subjects and other environmental factors. To understand the influence of the foods on participant's health, the researchers used the so called Alternate Healthy Eating Index Score. It breaks food down into its components—lasagna, for instance, into ground beef, ricotta cheese, onions, and so on. The cheese is further broken down into a dairy component and a fat component. On the bases of these components participants were assigned from 1 to 10 points, where 10 meant recommended servings of all the components, and were associated with a reduced risk of various diseases.
The Mediterranean diet, however, is considered the best diet. If you focus on eating unprocessed foods most of the time, you are doing great things for your health.
Just find a diet you can stick to—enjoying unhealthy things occasionally is much better than periodically failing hard at your strict diet.
Not Smoking
Times when cigarettes were recommended to patients for reducing stress or losing weight are long over. It is now believed and proved that smoking significantly increases the chances of lung cancer as well as other lung and heart diseases. So if you want to live longer and you're still smoking—stop doing that.
Exercise daily
As Popular Science reports, researchers found that those who exercised for at least 30 minutes a day at a moderate to vigorous pace (including brisk walking) were in the lowest-risk group for developing certain diseases later in life, and thus they had the potential to live longer.
Two main things that exercise does are: boosting metabolism and contributing to weight loss or stability.
Researchers are finding a whole bunch of other things that happen in your body when you exercise, like the creation of new heart cells and an increase in bone strength. One recent study suggests that even if you have a family history of heart disease, exercise can reduce your risk.
Physical activities can boost your mood as well. Just remember how good you will feel after your work out could motivate you get going.


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Matrix generation and report writing software falls into three broad categories:
Spreadsheet Add-ins
Spreadsheets have become as ubiquitous as PCs. Given the way in which they are used to calculate derived quantities from the values in other cells, it was inevitable that they should be extended so that the values in cells could float so as to enable the value in the target cell to be maximised. In this way the spreadsheet itself has become another format for expressing an MP matrix. Leading spreadsheets such as Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 incorporate optimization add-ins which find the optimum solution to problems, albeit with relatively few decision variables (typically fewer than 100; more with the priced versions of the add-ins).
If one can do MP in a spreadsheet, isn't that the ideal solution? Well, not really. Spreadsheets are notorious for their habit of hiding errors in formulae. As they become larger they become less manageable. For all but the smallest problems, the "total cost of ownership" of tackling an MP problem is reduced by using a special-purpose MP package to extract the data from a spreadsheet, set up the matrix, optimise it and return the results to the spreadsheet for use there. The savings come in more efficient use of the practitioner's time in setting up and maintaining the model. From the user's point of view, he is still just using a spreadsheet and pressing a macro button to find the best solution. In fact, because dedicated MP software is used, the results are usually obtained faster than with the native optimization add-in.
Conventional Programming Languages
Few people now use conventional programming languages to write matrix generator programs. They are less efficient in practitioner's time than using dedicated MP software and so are unattractive during the consultancy and development phase of an MP project. They have the advantages of total flexibility, raw speed and a lack of royalties to be paid. This means that they may be used in some implementations, particularly for the most complex applications and where an application package is being produced which is to be distributed widely. They may also be met in maintenance, where a fine judgement is required as to whether to modify the existing programs or start again using dedicated MP software.
Matrix Generator Languages
Matrix generator languages were developed in the 1960s as an alternative to Fortran for writing matrix generator programs. They are marginally better for this but force the user into thinking of his problem in terms of blocks of columns and their entries in rows. They have become very well established in refinery modelling but are unlikely to appeal to new users when compared with more modern algebraic MP languages. The main packages were OMNI from Haverly Systems and GAMMA from Bonner and Moore.
Algebraic MP Languages
Algebraic MP languages mimic the way in which one naturally writes an MP formulation as algebraic relationships between decision variables. As such they are the tool of the OR practitioner and are ideal during consultancy and prototyping. They differ in the details of their language, their interfaces to data sources and their facilities. Leading packages include AMPL, GAMS, MPL and XPRESS Mosel.


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1965 Shelby GT350 was not only the beginning of a magnificent close collaboration of Ford and Shelby American, the result of which was the emergence of many great cars, but also personal glory among racing cars like America and rest of the world. He was the brightest representative of the true sports car of the period – fast, rough, loud and captivates the heart of the driver from the first minutes of driving.
1965 Shelby GT350 design
For the design of the Mustang GT350 is responsible a leading employee of Shelby American – Peter Brock. He belonged to the idea to paint all the GT350 white and blue racing stripes as a tribute to the Cunningham race cars famous in the 1950s. At this time it was decided to paint cars in the corporate colors of their country. German cars were always silver, British – green, Italian – red and US – White. Blue stripes came up with the famous races at Le Mans. Also, Peter Brock personally designed the new GT350 dashboard and «GT350» logo. And his fiberglass scoop on the bonnet – was one of the most stylish air intakes on the cars of the time.
The car was almost identical to fastback Mustang of the same year in terms of design. There was a few details, dedicated to Shelby – mostly badges.
In the car only the front seats were installed, in place of the rear seat, there was placed full-size spare tire.
1965 Shelby GT350 history
1965 Ford Mustang GT350 was introduced at a press conference held on 27 January 1965 on the Riverside racetrack. Then, at an event attended by 10 new GT350, which was provided by the press for review and test drive. In addition to the Mustang were other cars such as the AC Shelby Cobra and GT40. But the main sensation was of course exactly Mustang GT350. Yet, despite the obvious success with the public, it was not without failures. After a long test drive, one of the Mustangs began unstable engine work.
The breakdown quickly corrected, but a slight disappointment from the presentation still remains, although the rest of the car proved to be excellent and deserved their success.
After the presentation, almost all the leading car magazines write admiring reviews of Mustang GT350.
In June 1965 began serial production of the Ford Mustang GT350 of 1965 model year, at the same time, work has begun on the next GT350 1966.
1965 Shelby GT350 specs
With the 392 cubic inch V8 (6.5 liter) engine in the Shelby Mustang GT350 were mated 4-speed manual gearbox Borg-Warner T-10. The exhaust system ends with two pipes, coming out on the sides of the car with Glasspack type pipes, which can reduce the flow resistance of the flue gas, but does not have good sound insulation properties. Also in 1965, on the GT350 with 15-inch steel wheels "Cragar Shelby" installed Goodyear "Blue Dot" tires designed for a maximum speed of 130 miles/hour.
1965 Shelby GT350 review
The price of the sports car Ford Shelby was more than the price of the standard version of the 1965 Mustang with 289 engine for only $1,100. For $4,500 buyer received one of the best sports cars in 1965. As written then by comparing with the standard Mustang GT350: the one was neat pony car, which sold well, was popular and it was easy to drive. The second was a real pit bull – loud, rude and intimidating, but so it immediately sinks into the soul. Some automotive journalists so liked the car that some of them after long test drives bought it for themselves.
In total 562 copies of Ford Shelby Mustang GT350 were made in 1965.


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For Greater Good Remixed & Reworked – First batch of the New Year!
Yeap, it took a couple of weeks, but after the holidays, here we are again with a brand new batch – batch 8 already!
That means we have a stunning 24 remixes up till now, and we're still not quite there yet! This week, enjoy three superb remixes and reworks again:
– An ambient/experimental remake by Nils Parmentier, AKA Ater X Decem, rendering Love Your Terrorist into an even more intense song…:
Love Your Terrorist, AXD(istortion) Remix
– A dancefloor remake if we ever heard one! The Yellow King groovin' it out on this super Bart Vervoort remix:
Judgement (Bart Vervoort Remix)
– Distress has been remixed quite some times already, but this rework by Dan Fox mixes noise, electro, punk and a good dose of symphonic elements into one very interesting blend!
Distress (LOSS Remix)
They were added to the album Remixed and Reworked, listen to all 24!
We are nearing the end of this extensive batch, remember you will have the chance to buy all remixes very soon for a modest price!
Recent Entries
- FGG plays Trouwfest #3!
- Licensing deal – availability in iTunes, Spotify and much more!
- A word about side projects…
- 2015 – a new song, a new video…
- For Greater Good features on Choeur Noir Hera-compilation
- That was some Synergy!
- For Greater Good Gig next Sunday, Carpe Diem, Hasselt
- Remixes By For Greater Good now available as FREE download!
- For Greater Good Remixed & Reworked – OUT NOW!
- For Greater Good Remixed & Reworked – First batch of the New Year!


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nice colors, and interesting style - I don't like ears, and mirror image
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Really glad you like it - the heavy projects have been doing a number on me and I started to lose the want to draw. So I thought I'd cool off with a small drawing
Avatars are 64x64 max, so if you make the preview image 64x64, the option to make it an avatar should appear. The current preview image is too large.
I love how smooth it all feels. Not just the animation, but the AA and the colour gradations, too. For some reason the little circle animations on the sides really click with me.


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Proverbs 16:4-5
The Lord has made everything for his own purposes,
even the wicked for a day of disaster.
The Lord detests the proud; they will surely be punished.
It's hard to kick against the pricks.
At FivestarMan, we talk a lot about purposes. We know that men make plans, but God's purposes prevail. We also know that when a man gains an understanding of his five purposes, his life becomes a passionate pursuit of authenticity.
Amazingly, there are also those who have positioned themselves as adversaries of God's purposes. An old Greek proverb says, "It's hard to kick against the pricks."
Farmers used a stick with a pointed piece of iron on its tip to prod the oxen when plowing. The farmer used it to steer the ox in the right direction. If the animal rebelled by kicking at the prick, it would be driven deeper into the flesh—causing even more pain.
A religious zealot named Saul "kicked against the pricks" of God's purposes by opposing Believers in Christ – that is until Jesus interrupted his pursuit on the road to Damascus. After prodding of Jesus, Saul aligned with God's purposes and became a great apostle for the Church.
When a prideful person rebels against the right direction for God's purposes, he suffers even more. It doesn't make sense for a person of a few years of experience and limited knowledge to kick against the divine design of God's purposes.
There are great men that are opposing God's purposes to their own destruction; however, if they realign their life in the right direction, God can use them for greatness.
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Urban Farmhouse
Open any shelter magazine these days and you'll see buzzwords and phrases like 'rustic,' 'vintage,' 'full of character' and 'timeless' being used to describe almost every kind of space. A mixture of classic country and everything from mid-century modern to industrial design, the look is laid-back and highly personal. The experts at The Fall Home Show (who sponsored this blog and our fall home trends gallery) predict that this style, which they've dubbed "Urban Farmhouse", will be the hottest decorating trend of fall 2010.
"The Urban Farmhouse trend is a reaction to the glass towers and modernity of the buzzing, frenetic city," say designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan, best known for their HGTV show Colin and Justin's Home Heist and weekly column in The Toronto Star. "Nowadays, we all crave elements of our cottage weekends for our time in the city, and that's why this mix of styles has occurred. It adds warmth, character and a sense of familiarity." In the example above, it's easy to see how simple cabinets, striped rugs, butcher-block countertops and muted colour schemes look equally at home in the cottage, at left, and a more urban environment on the right.
(Be sure to catch Colin and Justin at the Fall Home Show on Friday, October 1 and Saturday, October 2.)
The epitome of Urban Farmhouse is executive editor Beth Hitchcock's country-chic condo, featured in our Condos, Lofts & Apartments issue, on stands now. Using an antique kilim rug, traditional furniture upholstered in classic ticking stripes and plenty of personal touches, a cold, white box was transformed into a chic, cozy space with a distinctly country vibe. (Watch a video tour of her space with tips on getting the look from style editor Michael Penney.)
The use of colour is another way to bring country style to your home. "Benjamin Moore has pulled all the colours of the farm—the colour of the eggs, the hay, the soil, the blue sky and the green grass," says interior decorator Jackie Morra of Home Decor Solutions. "There's a whole sense of handcrafting and 'back to nature.'" Be sure to stop by Jackie's decorating seminars each day at the Fall Home Show.
If you have the budget, follow the lead of designer Stephen Caldwell and install beadboard, a country staple, throughout your home. If installing beadboard seems too work intensive, you can easily incorporate other elements such as textured wood, nature-inspired hues and printed fabrics to get a similar, tactile feel.
And if all else fails, the easiest way to experience that laid-back country feeling in the city is to get off Twitter, email or Facebook and start meeting face to face: "[Social media] is connecting us in new ways, but I think they're also whetting our appetite for real conversation and connection rather than a soundbite connection," says Vicky Sanderson, home product specialist and columnist for The Toronto Star. (She'll be talking about beautiful style that doesn't break the bank at the Fall Home Show.) So, invite your best friends over for some scrumptious food and stay tuned for our next Home Show blog, in which we'll share the hottest trends in Home Entertaining!
The Fall Home Show is running from September 30 to October 3, 2010, at the Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto. See our gallery of hot fall home trends from The Fall Home Show, plus get discounts on tickets!
Photo credits:
1. House & Home August 2010 issue, photography by Michael Graydon (left); House & Home July 2010 issue, photography by Ted Yarwood (right)
2. Condos, Lofts & Apartments issue, photography by Angus Fergusson
3. House & Home July 2010 issue, photography by Ted Yarwood
4. House & Home September 2010 issue, photography by Kim Christie
5. House & Home July 2010 issue, photography by Ted Yarwood
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Olivier Giroud wants to write new chapter in his Arsenal story
Olivier Giroud insists his "story is not over" at Arsenal but revealed he came close to leaving the club during the summer. The France international has come off the bench in all the Gunners' games so far this season having fallen behind club-record signing and compatriot Alexandre Lacazette in the pecking order.
Danny Welbeck also seems to have surpassed Giroud in manager Arsene Wenger's thinking but the 30-year-old striker is likely to get a rare chance to impress from the start in Thursday's Europa League clash with Cologne.
Wenger will make a raft of changes as Arsenal play in the competition for the first time in 17 years, with Giroud expected to be one of several alterations.
Giroud - who scored a late winner on the opening day Premier League win against Leicester - has struggled to hold down a regular first-team place at the Emirates Stadium and admits that he nearly quit over the summer having been linked with the likes of Everton and West Ham.
Asked how close he came to leaving Arsenal, Giroud said: "Actually that's a very private decision because it's true that I was close to leaving the club because I said that I wanted to play.
"But after a big reflection with everybody around me, like my family and my close friends, I (decided I) wanted to stay at Arsenal and I thought the story was not over, (not) finished at Arsenal.
"The club bring me a lot and I think I give it back. I still want to improve again and again and win some more trophies for the club, so as I said to the boss our story is not finished, so everybody was pleased with that."
Wenger has always maintained his desire to keep Giroud - who has 99 goals for the club - at Arsenal and was full of praise for the striker on the eve of the Cologne clash.
"I have said many times that his contribution has been huge," he said.
"He has had a great evolution here and overall (his) contribution has been tremendous, and I think he has shown a very loyal spirit and has a high respect from everybody inside the club, as well as (from) our fans."
While Giroud wants to stay put, full-back Mathieu Debuchy has revealed he was unable to leave during the transfer window despite being told he could depart for free.
He was reportedly set to sign for Nice before the deal broke down and he remains at Arsenal until January at the earliest.
"I don't know what will happen because this summer the coach (Arsene Wenger) would have let me leave without a transfer fee," he told L'Equipe.
"Brighton also enquired in the last few days of the transfer window. But that came to nothing.
"I'm not the future (of Arsenal). I'm training with the professionals during the week and I am playing with the youngsters at the weekend."
Source: PA
Source: Football.co.uk


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06. 04. 2012
Size Does Matter - FoxL
Watch out Jambone, there's a new speaker in town! We just got the soundmatters' foxL to review and were blown away (to use a tech term.)
It's small enough to fit in your purse --or wear around your neck (comes with a lanyard) -- but the sound defies it's size. Audio purists rejoice.
Sound Matters says it took a rocket scientist to develop and that's not hyperbole. A NASA scientist named Dr. Godehard Guenther took expensive audio components and patented technologies to combine a tweeter (high frequencies) and a woofer (low frequencies) into one speaker, a "twoofer" as they call it, and the result is concert-quality sound. The built-in Lithium-ion battery is also a bass woofer, with up to 5 hours of battery life. (For more tech specs check out their page.)
It comes in two models - with or without Bluetooth - but we found it handy to have one small unit do double duty.
You have to hear it to believe it. $299. at Amazon.
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And just like that it was spring. As I write this, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the daffodils are blooming, and the world seems alive with possibility once again. I don't know about you, but I spent way too much time inside this past winter. Some days I barely left my circuit between the couch, the fridge and the bathroom. Yet I know that I feel better when I make time to get outside.
I'm passionate about protecting the environment. For people to really care about the environment, it is important that we connect to the environment. It is a tenet of eco-education, for example, that we need to have students be in nature for them to want to protect nature. We only value that from which we derive meaning, pleasure, and sustenance. Of course, nature provides all of those things via food and habitat, but we are sometimes too far removed from the natural processes for these things. We don't grow or raise our own food (much of it, anyway), we don't build our own shelters, many of us don't work out of doors. We are cut off from the natural world. This is a problem because humans need, by nature, to be by nature; that is, we are healthiest when we ensure we get more time outside. It makes us feel better, sleep better, and enjoy life more.
There are Jewish laws and traditions that remind us to protect and conserve the natural world. In the bible, one of the first things the Israelites are commanded to do when they enter the Promised Land is to plant trees and allow them to mature before eating the fruits in order to ensure that the trees are not damaged (Leviticus 19:23). Deuteronomy 20:19–20 forbids the destruction of fruit-bearing trees even when waging war against a city. The Jewish sages later extended this biblical law into a general prohibition (known as "bal tashchit") against wasting or destroying anything unnecessarily. So, one could say that getting outside to connect with nature, to inspire us to protect nature, also makes us better Jews.
As Humanistic Jews, we particularly value community. Another problem with our tendency to stay inside is that the more disconnected we are from the natural world, the more likely we are to be disconnected from our communities. Hasn't it been nice going out into our neighbourhoods this past week and seeing neighbours we haven't seen since, say, Halloween? Being cloistered inside often means being alone or without much contact with our broader community. None of this is good for us.
This May I have taken on the One Nature Challenge, sometimes called the 30 x 30 challenge, launched by the David Suzuki Foundation. The challenge is that you spend 30 minutes outside each day for 30 days. Ideally this is spent enjoying nature: walking in a ravine, gardening, sitting in a park. Walking counts but preferably not in a busy, traffic-filled area. If you'd like to sign up for the One Nature Challenge you can sign up here.
We are so lucky to live where we do.There are ravines and parks all over Toronto. To the south we have gorgeous beaches and the Toronto islands; to the north we have incredibly hiking trails, lakes, and large provincial parks/conservation areas; to the west we have the Niagara escarpment, the waterfalls near Hamilton/Dundas, and the Greenbelt; to the east we have the Kawarthas with their incredible lakes and rivers, and forests that go on and on. I hope this spring and summer we each make time to get out and enjoy nature, redouble our commitment to protect nature, and connect with our communities as we wander.
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Just the berries
Superfood is a new term generally used in the natural health world to describe foods with a high content of phytonutrients that are believed to provide health benefits. For example and grown in NZ, blackcurrants, blueberries and cranberries. Other foods are considered as superfruit or foods such as pomegranite, spirulina, astaxanthan aloe vera and chlorella. these are considered a superfood because they contain significant amounts of antioxidants, anthocyanins, vitamin c and other nutrients and dietary fiber.
New Zealand berries are not just pretty and yummy, they are so potent
from great anti-oxidants and wonderful for everyone children
| Chia and Sujon Blackcurrant2 powerful superfoods to give you a great mental and physical lift.From the Sujon web site:
The following recipe makes approx. 2 litres and lasts a week. It's used by Clifton boxers Nat Stuart and Dawn Dickey before and after training and they say it really helps with their energy levels and recovery.
RECIPE (So simple!)
Mix half a cup of Chia Seeds with 3 cups of water and leave in fridge to set, mix 6 Tablespoons Sujon Blackcurrant Powder with warm water to make a smooth paste and then mix paste with Chia seeds, keep in fridge. A nutritional feed when you need
|New Zealand blackcurrants good for the brain.
Research has shown that New Zealand blackcurrants are good for keeping us mentally young and agile, a finding that could have potential in managing the mental decline associated with aging populations, or helping people with brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease or depression.
The research, conducted by scientists at Plant & Food Research (New Zealand) in collaboration with Northumbria University (UK), showed that compounds found in New Zealand blackcurrants increased mental performance indicators, such as accuracy, attention and mood. The study also showed that juice from a specific New Zealand blackcurrant cultivar, 'Blackadder', also reduced the activity of a family of enzymes called monoamine oxidases, which regulate serotonin and dopamine concentrations in the brain. These chemicals are known to affect mood and cognition, and are the focus for treatments of both neurodegenerative symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease and mood disorders, including stress and anxiety.
Results of the research have been published in the Journal of Functional Foods, a leading journal in the field.
Sujon Blackcurrant Powder Recipe Ideas
Here's some ideas !
- sprinkle on your cereal, porridge or muesli,
- Add to small glass of cold water or Stir into a smoothie.
- Sprinkle a tsp over warm pancakes and top with whipped cream or coconut yoghurt and fruit.
- For a warm winter immunity booster drink, add one heaped tsp to hot water with half a tsp of honey and ginger.
- Add Sujon Blackcurrant Powder to stewed apples & cinnamon and have it on toast.
(use about 3-4 teaspoons of powder to 1.5kg of stewed apples).
- Al Brown created a magnificent Blackcurrant Meringue with our powder, click here for the recipe
Click here for the recipe
- Add to chia for a powerful smoothie – recipe here


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Tuscan Gardens
This beautiful waterfront property came to us after the homeowner moved on from his current landscaper and brought us in to further develop the design and install to completion.
The design included photo realistic renders and a 3D animation fly through of the proposed landscape. With the homeowner looking to settle into their dream home, the property needed to provide timeless elegance and long term functionality. With a long winding brick driveway opening up to their Tuscan style home, the property is enriched by stylish planting blended into the backdrop of well-established cedars that provide an intimate privacy.
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- Curved Radius Beams connect a custom wood structure that borders the raised planters creating a visually stunning front yard feature
- Marrying the breath-taking existing trees that form the structure of the entire property with an ageless myriad of new plantings
- Custom greenhouse from a great local supplier "Everlast Greenhouse
- Low voltage lighting system
- Some constraints we faced in developing this project were working with the existing grades and retaining walls from the previous contractor that did not meet our standards and needed to be remediated
- With such a large paving stone driveway area, numerous grade and drainage considerations were required to ensure proper removal of rainwater
- The need to laminate beams to match 4 different radius's for 3 custom arbours
- Some of the large existing trees were under major stress from changes in their environment during the development of the house and property
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MWC 15 Special
HTC's new Wildfire S, which follows last year's launched HTC Wildfire, is HTC's latest entry-level Android smartphone. Running Android 2.3/Gingerbread and HTC Sense 2.1, the Wildfire S is powered by a Qualcomm CPU at 600 MHz. It supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as dualband UMTS/HSDPA (up to 7.2 Mbps) but lacks HSUPA. Furthermore, it features Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi b/g/n, aGPS and an FM radio. The device comes with a quite small 3.2" touchscreen which only supports HVGA (320 x 480 pixel) which is nevertheless a major improvement to the Wildfire's QVGA screen. However, the camera wasn't changed and is still a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with supporting LED flash.
The HTC Wildfire S comes with 512 MB of RAM and 512 MB of ROM which can be expanded with microSD memory cards up to 32 GB. Being one of the smaller Android devices, the Wildfire S measures 101.3 x 59.4 x 12.4 mm and weights 105 grams - including the 1230 mAh Li-ion battery.
Supporting all Google Mobile and Android services, the Wildfire S comes with HTC's own user interface called HTC Sense. Also typical for an HTC Android smartphone, the Wildfire S also features touch sensitive menu keys under the screen as well as the device sports a 3.5 mm stereo headset jack and the nowadays typical micro USB port for charging and synchronization.
The HTC Wildfire S is now available in three different colors, black silver/white and purple (pictured above). The suggested retail price without a contract is 279 Euro but many online shops are offering it cheaper.
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**June 4th 2015 I will celebrate 10 years of marriage with my wonderful husband, and I'm excited to share our story here over the next 12 months (I love our story!). Each month I'll share another post leading up to the big 10th anniversary! I'm calling it "10 in 12," 10 years of marriage celebrated in the next 12 months! 🙂 **
(Go here to read the first part of our story!)
Happy first week of February! 2015 has been chugging right along, and then this week things in my home have literally stopped. All 3 of my kiddos have the flu. THE FLU! All.three.kids. It feels like the never ending illness. It feels like we will never be able to leave the house again. It has been rough. But, all of that is a story to tell another time. Today, in midst of the fevers and the whining, and the cabin fever, I want to continue telling you about my favorite love story. It will be a fun and welcomed distraction to the otherwise less fun current situations.
So, want to jump back with me and hear the next chapter? Then come along!
Back in November of 2004, I was no longer a girl in a relationship that I was uncertain of. I was a girl in a committed relationship with a boy, who had flaws and differences, and I was falling in love with him more and more. Before I became a believer in Jesus, I thought that to be in love everything had to feel right and always go perfectly. But as I grew I learned that love is more so shown in the times that are difficult. It is proven when all the happy perfect feelings aren't there. It's exemplified in Christ who came and died for those He loved even when they didn't love Him in return. Love is a choice, and in my heart I had chosen to love Blake indefinitely.
It was in this month that we first told each other that we loved each other (Nov. 23rd!), that we shared our first kiss (Nov. 24th!), and that we started seriously discussing marriage. (We even toyed with the idea of going ahead and secretly getting married and not really telling anyone and then having a big wedding with everyone later! It was a fun idea, but one that we didn't follow through with!) 🙂
We were confident that we were heading towards marriage, so we started talking about dates, and Blake started asking me about rings. The topic of rings leads to a funny story to share, one that was not so funny to Blake in the moment, but that we can now laugh and smile at.
Now, some girls have their perfect ring all dreamed up from an early age, but not me. I didn't know about cuts, other than princess which is all I had ever heard about. So, in my initial conversation with Blake about rings I told him that princess cut was nice. After this though, me and whatever "create your own engagement ring" website was really popular back then became good friends. I was constantly looking and thinking about what I wanted. I was just about the first one of my good friends to be in this almost engaged boat, so I didn't know about these things. I liked my sister's princess cut ring, but after searching and looking into things more, I actually settled on emerald cut, with little diamonds on the side. It was perfect in my mind!
It was during a visit in Oklahoma that I told Blake about my discovery and love for emerald cut diamonds. I said something like, "Oh, I meant to tell you, I finally settled on what kind of ring I like. I LOVE emerald cuts!" I must have gone on and on about how much I liked them and how that was the kind that I really wanted. Little did I know that just the day before he had put a large down payment on a ring that he had designed for me, and it was NOT an emerald cut. I am pretty sure he was crying a little inside at this point! But, he took me by the hands and lovingly told me something like, "Heather, you need to know that you are not going to get an emerald cut diamond. But, what you will get is perfect. It's you. You will love it."
I look back at that whole situation as one of the first times my expectations in our relationship wasn't met (I definitely handled it better than other moments of unmet expectations I would face in our time together). I trusted Blake, and ultimately I knew that a diamond ring wasn't really important. What was important was the heart of the one giving it to me. It didn't matter if it was this kind of ring, or that kind of ring, or whatever! It was a symbol of his love for me, and whatever shape or form it came in I knew I would love it.
Before the end of my visit we had looked at the calendar and had a tentative date in mind for a wedding, and that date would stick. June 4th, 2005. I wanted to go ahead and reserve the church and reception venue, but I felt a little weird doing anything else before we were officially engaged (I even felt a little weird booking those things!). So, I thought and dreamed about the wedding a little bit, but I didn't allow myself to do any kind of planning.
But I was ready to plan. I wanted to plan! I was ready for that boy to propose! I didn't care that I had finals coming up and one more semester left of college. I was ready to put all that aside and plan for the moment I would become Mrs. Blake Hollander. So, the month of December became the "when is he going to propose?" month, and some funny/not so funny moments were about to occur.
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Latest threat to Vatican reforms.
The script is better than a Dan Brown novel. A middle-aged good-looking Spanish priest associated with the ultra conservative religious order Opus Dei has been arrested and thrown into the Vatican prison. And a young attractive half-Italian half-Moroccan woman is helping police with enquiries. She was arrested but then released when she agreed to co-operate with the investigations.
The charges against Monsignor Vallejo Balda and Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui are of stealing top-secret Vatican documents relating to the finances of the Holy See.
Both of the accused held positions on a committee that was set up in 2013 by Pope Francis to reform the Holy See's muddled finances. They are clearly much more important figures than Pope Benedict's butler who was the last person caught helping himself to secrets from a papal vault.
What are the secrets that the two are accused of stealing from one of the Vatican's computers?
All will be revealed in two books by Italian journalists to be published later this week, if the Vatican does not manage to put an injunction on the scoops.
In addition to revelations on the Vatican finances another interesting question is how Chaouqui, whose photo would not be out of place in a fashion magazine, managed to secure a place in the central corridors of Vatican power where women – let alone young women specialising in public relations and communications – are a scarce commodity?


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Denver's 16th Street pedestrian Mall celebrates 30-year anniversary
The old streets and buildings of downtown Denver had, by 1980, begun to be transformed into the modern look we recognize today.
But the shopping mecca of 16th Street, which offered the only large Denver department stores before the suburban boom added more, was about to morph into a pedestrian-only plaza. Traversed by sleek mall shuttle buses, it would help revive downtown Denver as a place to gather at any hour, with restaurants, theaters, shops and sitting areas along its mile-long length.
Customers had a difficult time traversing the construction zone, but merchants gamely stayed open and hoped to lure shoppers. Everyone braved hazards such as uneven surfaces, dirt, parking problems, inconvenience and the interminableness of it all.
The eminent architect I.M. Pei took on the design of the project. A much-discussed design feature was the paving. Granite blocks were laid by hand in a diamond pattern over 285,400 square feet of the Mall. Two shades of gray and a Colorado red granite were laid for almost 13 blocks by skilled craftsmen.
By 1982, the major construction of the 16th Street pedestrian Mall was completed. RTD still needed a bus and transport terminal at the top of the Mall, at Broadway and Colfax.
In the 30 years of its existence, the 16th Street Mall has earned a place in Denver's history as a lively town plaza enjoyed by all. It was a monumental undertaking, not without tribulations, but the result is one without which we cannot imaging living.


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The movie based on the life of Ernest Hemingway, titled "Papa," recently filmed scenes in Cuba, reportedly the first Hollywood feature movie to do so since the revolution in that country in 1959.
Hemingway famously lived in the country from 1939 to 1960, so director Bob Yari said it was essential to actually shoot the movie in the area.
"It was an absolute passion to actually make it in Cuba where everything that is in the script happened, where the finca [farm] is where [Hemingway] lived, where his boat was, all the spots from the Morro Castle to Cojimar where he fished," Yari told the Associated Press." "It's all here, so trying to duplicate it somewhere else was not very appealing."
"Papa" stars actor Adrian Sparks as the author and "Dads" actor Giovanni Ribisi as reporter Denne Bart Petitclerc, who became acquainted with Hemingway while the author was living in Cuba during the 1950s.
According to the AP, the "Papa" production crew was able to film in the country because of a license from the U.S. Treasury Department that exempted the film from most restrictions from the American embargo. The producers told the AP that there was a limit on how much they could spend on the film. The movie also technically qualified as a documentary because it was filming actual events from a firsthand point of view (Petitclerc penned the script, which is of course based on events from his life), so it may still be difficult for other movies to qualify to film in Cuba.
Sparks, who portrayed Hemingway in the play also titled "Papa" by journalist John DeGroot, said traveling to Cuba changed his perception of the country.
"I grew up with this image of this evil, dark country somewhere in the mist," he said. "To be here is to realize what an exquisitely beautiful country this is."
He also considered the experience of playing Hemingway while being in the same location where the author actually was to be invaluable.
"To be playing a section of the film where he's struggling with writer's block, I'm standing on exactly the square foot of ground that he stood on, with his typewriter in front of me, playing the scene," he said. "It wasn't acting, it was channeling. It was just allowing him to come through."