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The decoration in your wedding ceremony must be something which people love to look at. The perfect decoration with fresh flowers in Canterbury is important to make your wedding more and more enhancing. You can choose the Alsotroemeria or Peruvian Lily, Anemone, different colors of orchids, Calla Lily, Carnation, Gardenia, Daffodil, Hyacinth, Delphinium, Lisianthus, roses, Veronica, Freesia and many more as per the season which you determine to get married.
For the fabulous decoration of your wedding venue, you must go to hire an efficient florist who will help you get the flower delivery at the right time. From the flower supply, delivery of flower to the wedding decoration – everything should be the responsibility of the florist whom you select. But often people mistake in choosing the proper florist for their wedding ceremony. The common qualities which you need to look for in a good florist are described here. Have a look.
• Must arrive on time: A good florist must be present on time. The person must arrive on the given time. The flower delivery should also be done within proper time. A commitment should be kept in mind. If you find that the florist is not at all bothered about time and date, then you can go for another one.
• Should be available when you need: The florist, whom you are choosing, is s/he available on the day of your wedding and the previous day? Make sure about it first. Naturally, during the wedding seasons, the florists are engaged in various places. So your preferred florist may not be available on that time as per your schedule, if not informed previously. Then you have to go for someone else. Therefore reserve the florist in advance.
• Experience matters a lot: A florist needs to have an experience for some years long, in this profession. With the passing years and every single occasion, the florists enhance their skills and learn more.
• Creativity with personal touch: The florist must have creativity and his/her personal touch must be in the decoration. Their ideas will increase the beauty of your wedding ceremony.
• Good rapport with clients: The polite behavior and patience along with creativity must be the quality of a good florist. S/he must have good relation with their clients. Otherwise the work of decoration will not be up to the mark.
• A good reputation is important: How is reputation of the florist in the market? Have proper knowledge about this matter. For a better reference you can ask the couples who have got married recently. If you go for a reputed florist, their ideas will be unbeatable.


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Climate Change
Costs and Health Effects of Pollution
Chris Martenson's Crash Course
Center for a New American Dream
Emotional & Physical Well-Being
Emotional Resilience in Turbulent Times
Air Pollution: Understanding The Problem
A Guide to Vehicle Emissions and Pollutants
Consumer Reports Greener Choices
How to Get Carbon Free in Ten Years
The No Impact Experiment–Try It!
Food & Gardening
Bucks County Foodshed Alliance
The Food System and Resilience
National Sustainable Agriculture
A Farmer Speaks–Small is Beautiful (and Radical)
Media Friends School Sixth Graders Learn How to Grow Food
Introduction to Organic Gardening
The Ultimate Guide to Composting
Sproutabl; check out their list of great arboretums too! A number of them are local to the Media area.
Home Energy
How to Increase the Energy Efficiency of your Home
Homeowner's Guide to Solar Energy
Your Carbon Footprint: How to Determine It and Reduce It
Especially for Kids
Kid's Guide to Recycling Glass and Plastic
Home Energy Conservation for Kids
Friends of Glen Providence Park
Peak Oil
Post Oil Survival Guide for City Dwellers
Oil Depletion Protocol–Personal Implementation
Bloomington, IN Task Force Report
Sustainable Living
The Resilient Household Project

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The threads of my own travel story were woven early.
My father was a pilot. I discovered fascinating regional differences when I traveled to see him, and this began my love for travel.
My early exposure to travel influenced my choice of undergraduate majors. I time-traveled through a history degree, underscoring my travel experiences with historical context. After graduating, I entered travel school. I spent three years in the travel industry, and then I took a sabbatical while raising my children.
But my own travel story continued to remind me of the allure of other cultures.
I answered its call with family travel. I created vacations and adventures for friends and family. I kept my knowledge of the industry current and my experience in the wider world fresh.
In 2013, I returned to my passion full-time.
I have cultivated a worldwide network of suppliers. I have and continue to travel extensively, bolstering and updating my knowledge of the destinations I offer while vetting vendors, guides and escorts.
My affiliation with Corporate Travel Management (CTM) provides me with perks and advantages unavailable to the general public through the Virtuoso Consortium. I am a proud Certified Travel Counselor (CTC), newly certified in 2018. I also am a Destination Specialist for Tahiti, Fiji, Australia, Jamaica, Scotland and Italy and I'm always expanding my training and gaining new certifications.
In 2018, my husband accepted a position in London, where we are living for the next few years. As I work my business remotely, I am in the same or similar time zone for my clients who are traveling to Europe. This adds extra piece of mind, if they need to be in contact during their trip.
I'm eager to hear from you so that I may use my expertise and knowledge as we design your next travel story.


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Hi there,
I am using VX2.4 , update 2.
Somehow my border symbol got corrupted in the central library (the symbol is still there in the library tree but it appears as blank).
Luckily I have a Designer project that implements that border and so I can see the border in Databook - Symbol view (in the borders category).
Within the design I am able to select that border and place it into the various design sheets (selecting it from the Symbol view, not from the central library).
In the Designer's user guide at page 290 there is the export procedure for local symbols (right click and export as a file that is to be imported into the central library).
However the "export symbol" option is greyed out for symbols that are not user-created in the design.
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and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:5
The blooming dogwoods stand
in the yard, all night,
like mystical guests.
I greet them beyond the panes
as I pass through the rooms
of my dark house
just before the approaching shift
of light changes
all things;
their pearling susurruses
and petal-crosses
held out like heaven's pale-
hands full of crowns and nourishment,
after a harsh
and lean crusade.


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Girls Varsity Volleyball · Varsity Volleyball BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPIONS!
The Lady Eagles finished their regular season, going 16-9 overall and 10-0 in league. After an undefeated record in league during the 2017-18 season, the Lady Eagles were moved up to a tougher league for the 2018-19 season. The girls were up for the challenge! Under new Head Coach, Kevin Lee, the Lady Eagles completed


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I am happy to announce the publication of my latest design set, Rain on the Cobblestones!
About the Design
Rain on the Cobblestones is a textured scarf and cowl set named after the glint and texture of rainy cobbled streets at night.
Cobblestones was designed to be reminiscent of knit tweed cabled sweaters. I love thick squishy knit cables that pop out from the surface of the fabric, so I did my best to create a similar effect in crochet.
The pattern is written using US terminology.
Recommended yarn:
Rain on the Cobblestones was designed in Knit Picks City Tweed DK, a merino/alpaca/tweed blend. It's squishy-soft and holds its shape well, making it ideal for showing off texture. The subtle alpaca halo and tweed flecks also compliment the texture and give the piece a classic feel.
Substituting? I recommend a yarn with loft and good stitch definition that doesn't stretch too much when blocked.
Techniques and Difficulty Level:
Cobblestones is an intermediate pattern. It incorporates the following techniques:
- basic stitches (ch, sc, dc)
- back loop only stitches
- double back loop stitches
- crossed double crochet
Note: The double back loop stitches and crossed double crochet are explained in a detailed photo tutorial PDF that comes with the pattern.
The cowl is worked in the round and the scarf is worked lengthwise in rows.
What to expect in the pattern:
For a complete list of what to expect when you buy a Knot Theorist pattern, click here.
Here is what you can expect to find in the pattern-specific designer notes:
- a summary of the construction
- how to treat turning chains
- where to place the first stitch of each row
- photo instructions for double back loop stitches
- photo instructions for crossed double crochet stitch
This pattern also comes with a separate PDF containing large-photo stitch tutorials for double back loop stitches and the crossed double crochet stitch.
Coupon code:
To receive your launch discount, add both the Rain on the Cobblestones Scarf and Cowl to your Ravelry cart and use the coupon code "KTDblog" without quotation marks to enjoy both patterns for a total of $5.00. This code will expire at 23:59 PST on January 7, 2017. Thank you for following the Knot Theorist blog!
Tester Reviews:
Here's what Ravelry testers had to say about Rain on the Cobblestones:
"This gorgeous cowl works up quickly, yet appears complex. A perfect match for the tweedy yarn." -Mamaloftin
"This is the second time I have tested for The Knot Theorist and I would love to test in the future. Each pattern was well written and provided a lovely finished project! I have kept these two projects for myself." -MrsMcD918 of Simply Summer Street
"Working with Keilah on her pattern was such a pleasure. Not only was the pattern itself very lovely and something I'd like to make again, she's awesome with her patience and attentiveness and genuinely wants you to enjoy the pattern. A++ for both the pattern and designer!" -hookhappy


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- Mistlock Sanctuary Passkey
- Tireless Harvesting Minion—30% Off
- Tireless Logging Minion—30% Off
- Bone Pick—30% Off
Available Now in the Gem Store!
Log into Guild Wars 2 and press 'O' to access the Black Lion Trading Company for these great offers and more!
Huzzah! It's time for the return of the Dragon Bash festival! Join the revelers and laugh in the face of fear with some smashing new additions to your wardrobe. You can also pick up some free Dragon's Fortune Fireworks from the Gem Store this week!
Skyscale Horns Package
Pick up the Skyscale Horns Package and dress for the occasion with your very own pair of dragon horns! Each package comes with the Skyscale Horns and sparkly Luminous Skyscale Horns.
Dragon Bash Returns Chest
As we honor the defiant spirit of those who oppose the Elder Dragons, kick off the bash with the latest Black Lion Chest update! Inside each chest you're guaranteed to find a Mini Gray Skyscale Hatchling, a redeemable Black Lion Statuette, and two common items. You also have a chance to find something rarer in the fifth slot, including exclusive items, glyphs, and skins from the Embellished Weapon Collection and Dragon's Jade Weapon Collection.
Guaranteed Item: Mini Gray Skyscale Hatchling
What better way to show your love for your new skyscale mount than collecting Mini Gray Skyscale Hatchlings? If your roost gets crowded, no need to fear—simply head over to the Mystic Forge and combine your hatchlings with Unidentified Dyes to unlock dragon babies in new colors.
Exclusive Item: Dragon Fireworks Package
No festival would be complete without fireworks, so we tasked our engineers with creating pyrotechnics worthy of the Dragon Bash. We're happy to report that they exceeded our expectations—this combo will blow you away with its design, from the Dragon Fireworks Backpiece to the matching Dragon Fireworks Glider that shoots sparks as you hang glide safely down.
Bioluminescent Weapons
Bioluminescence is one of nature's most amazing phenomena—and now you can add these luminous lovelies to your collection! Head over to a Black Lion Weapons Specialist to trade one Black Lion Claim Ticket per skin.
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Hmm, I have not updated this in quite a while. This is partially because I've been extremely busy with work.
One change is that after consideration and discussion with the regulars, I'm discontinuing the Sunday anime evenings I was holding. There are now sufficiently few people turning up that it's not really worth having a regular event. I've still got plenty of anime on DVD to watch yet, but I'll organise things on a more ad-hoc basis.


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Dean of University Libraries, Constantia Constantinou and Dean of the School of Business, Manuel London cordially invite you Club Red at the Wang Center's J Club on Friday, October 27, 2017 from 4:30 – 6:30 pm.
This will be a good time to socialize and continue discussions on open access after an exciting day-long Open Access Symposium hosted by University Libraries at the Wang Center Theater. Please join us at 8:15 am – 4:00 pm for an eye-opening day on the power of open access and its essential role in education. Symposium Registration is free and includes breakfast and lunch. All are welcome to join us at Club Red following the symposium.
Wine and beer will be available at $5 and soft drinks $2. RSVP is requested https://clubred.stonybrook.edu/) so that our CulinArt, our highly regarded caterers can plan accordingly.
Club Red is intended as an informal gathering opportunity for all faculty and staff from all departments in the University, East and West Campuses. Attendance is not limited to people affiliated with the sponsor. Your support and attendance are welcomed (and vital!) to establish a more permanent University Club and facility at Stony Brook.
You can support Club Red events by purchasing a personal membership. Details can be found at https://clubred.stonybrook.edu/club-red-membership/
Club Red mailing list:: https://clubred.stonybrook.edu/join-our-mailing-list/


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Aleksandre Chavchavadze's house museum will host Maestro Zubin Meta, Khatia Buniatashvili and Israeli Philarmonic Orchestra in Tsinandali on September 14th.
It will be the first visit Zubin Meta who will conduct the Israeli Philarmonic Orchestra, composed of 130 musicians. International competition laureate Khatia Buniatashvili will accompany the concert in Tsinandali.
The classical music evening will be held in newly built amphitheater, which is meant for 1000 guests.
Preparation for the International Classic Music Festival is begun with this concert, which was founded jointly by Silk Road Group and the Government of Georgia. Establishment of Tsinandal Festival is an example of successful partnership between the state and the private sector. International Music Academy will also be established within the festival.
The founders of the festival are founders of "Silk Road Group" and "Verbier Festival" Martin Ingström and Avi Shoshan (Director of the Israel Philharmonic). The Tsinandali festival will be held on the basis of the Verbier festival. He will have a highly qualified advisory board composed of Georgian and foreign artists. The Director General of the festival is director David Sakvarelidze.
Tsinandali house museum and the surrounding area is under the patronage of "Silk Road Group" since 2007 and during this period many famous musicians visited this place. Among them are: Gidon Kremer, Eliso Virsaladze, Orchestra "Kremerata Baltics", Lisa Batiashvili, Khatia Buniatishvili, Joshua Bell, Quintet "Didro", Luke Lukin, Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi, Roby Lakots and others.
Cultural heritage Tsinandali will also become the center of international classical music from 2019.
Direct TV broadcast of the concert will be made throughout the whole country through "Silk Universal". The event representor is a company "Silknet".
Festival partners: "TBC Status", "Club Iveria", "Porsche", "Chronograph''.
Media Partners: "national Geographic Georgia", "ART AREA"
The concert tickets can be purchased at TKT.ge.


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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have swept through Canada where tens of thousands of people turned out to greet them, but will they be quite such a hit in Hollywood?
A weekend in southern California seems as if it was almost tagged on to the end of their first royal visit since the wedding, but they're packing in the meeting and greeting, the sightseeing and the speeches.
There's the ubiquitous red carpet event in Los Angeles to dine with the great and the good of Hollywood, a polo match up the coast, and a visit to the notorious downtown slum, Skid Row.
But judging from L.A. local radio, people are more concerned about what impact their visit to the city will have on traffic.
Royal Rush?
DJs John and Ken on KFI AM host the nation's most-listened to local talk radio show and were groaning at the thought of the royal couple making a trip across town from the airport to a star-studded reception on a Friday afternoon in rush hour.
"Why does anyone care?" they asked, adding "What would you say to them if you met them anyway?"
"You only speak to them if they speak to you first," one of the presenters chipped in, and it seems royal airs and graces — the very idea of royalty — has a lot to do with their attraction here.
Most of those we stopped and asked on L.A.'s high-end west side Melrose Avenue were pleased the royal couple was stopping off in southern California — almost all knew about the trip well in advance.
'Camelot' West
"Everyone here loved the wedding" was a popular sentiment, but as to why the Duke and Duchess are so attractive in a city of superstars, the word "Camelot" came up a lot.
"We don't have anything like them, so I think that's got a lot to do with it," one passer-by told me.
"It's a real life fairytale," another offered. The romance and the glamour clearly has a great deal to do with it, in a city well-known for manufacturing its own romance and glamour.
Even in Hollywood the hottest ticket in town this weekend will be a dinner hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
Night of the Round Tables
The UK newspapers have been critical of the $25,000 being charged per table, which the big studios have been snapping up.
The critics say it's cashing in on the royal family. But those in Hollywood think it's a bargain, and they would have paid double.
Red carpets and movie stars are a must for the newlyweds, but there's also a business side to the visit, and BAFTA, of which Prince William is president, sees this as a great opportunity.
Every table at the gala dinner will have two seats set aside — for a small and select group of the best emerging British talent.
Writers, directors, actors, animators, and composers who are on the fringes but still haven't made it big in Hollywood will get the chance of a lifetime to sit next to people who can transform their careers.
While commenting on Kate Middleton's dress they can small-talk with the checkbook owners and big-up their own projects. It's a golden ticket.
"Stars love stars — the whole world loves this romantic couple, so it's been built up into a huge event," said Jeanne Wolf, a Hollywood blogger and diva.
"Everybody is excited about it," she adds. "Americans like to pretend they are not fazed by royalty, but of course they are. They are young and they are beautiful."
British businesses are also getting in on the act with a royal reception — a way to leverage some star power.
Kingdom for a Horse?
It's a hectic schedule, but an afternoon of polo in Santa Barbara will see Prince William in action.
It'll be a very colorful event, but it will have the media running around in circles, especially with tight security and without a helicopter to cover the long distances.
And covering a polo match with a guest appearance from Britain's future king involves some careful planning if the unthinkable were to happen: William taking a tumble from his horse.
Cameras will no doubt be following the Duke's every move — and eagerly focusing on the face of the Duchess, just in case.
BBC correspondent Alastair Leithead is covering the Duke and Duchess's trip to California for Anglophenia.


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Marc and Maya Silver
When Maya Silver was grappling with her mother's breast cancer, she noticed that there weren't many resources available for teens dealing with a parent's cancer. So she tag-teamed with her dad — the author of "Breast Cancer Husbands — to create a survival guide for teens undergoing such duress, "My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks." We asked the father-daughter duo about the best ways to help this underrepresented group cope.
You interviewed many teenagers for this book. Were there any recurring topics?
Maya: The friend issue came up over and over again, like, "My friends don't really get it" or "I feel like I can't talk to them about it." Another thing was communication. [There was] a lot of variation in how much they wanted to know about their parent's cancer. I think every teen valued being told the truth and being communicated with. We had a lot of teens say that their parents didn't tell them right away or told them in a weird way and withheld information or made things seem sunnier than they really were. That really made the teens feel betrayed or like they didn't know what was going on. We emphasize that in the book that communication is very important. It's gonna vary from family to family, what works best and what everyone wants, but it has to be there.
Marc: Yeah. Some families have a family meeting tradition, and that's fine, but some families don't like family meetings and you don't want to call the first meeting in your family's history to present this news. Maybe your family works better just chatting in the car. Some people said maybe leave a notebook where everybody goes, and the kids write their questions and the parents read them and write their answers. The idea is that there's no one size fits all way to tell the kids but like Maya said, you've got to be honest.
We often try to lend support to friends going through a rough time by saying something like, "If you need anything, let me know." But Maya, what are some concrete words or actions that you appreciated when your mom was ill?
Maya: Just understanding. If I didn't want to have any friends over to the house when my mom was really sick, or if I just wanted to get away and stay busy, I had people there to help me do that. You definitely hear a lot of "I'm so sorry!" [and] constant asking how you're doing, how you're family's doing. That was not very helpful for me. Knowing that I had good friends around me and a strong family was very helpful.
What else did teens find not helpful?
Marc: One girl [we interviewed], Caitlin, went to school, and the teacher asked a question so Caitlin raised her hand to answer. And the teacher goes, "Oh, Caitlin, how's your mom?" And Caitlin was so mad because she did not want to talk about or have to think about her mom at that moment — she wanted to answer the question. Kids don't want to be constantly reminded. A social worker at MD Anderson [Cancer Center] told me about a middle school's boy's mom who was diagnosed with cancer, and the school announced it over the [PA system]. They did it out of the best of intentions, I think to rally everybody around this kid, but this is not what that kid needed.
Maya: Another thing is an artificial sense of compassion. We had a couple of really out-there examples, like, "I know exactly how you feel, my gecko just died." [Or] you tell someone that your mom has a serious form of breast cancer and they're like, "Oh, my grandma's sick too." You want to be like, "You have no idea."
What were some of most popular ways you found teens deal with their stress?
Marc: They found all kinds of ways to cope, and a lot of the ways they found were really positive, like listening to music, or going for a run, or writing in a journal, or playing video games. What's cool about that is you're learning how you can get through a tough time in life, and that's something you can carry with you throughout your life.
Did you find any differences in how boys handled the issue, versus girls?
Marc: I interviewed a bunch of guys in Cleveland and two of them said that they punched a hole in their bedroom wall or in the house because they were so mad. After that, I asked every boy I interviewed, "So did you punch a hole in the wall?" and almost all of them said they did. (Laughs) There's a little note in the book that's how to repair that hole in the wall.
How much information should people at the teen's school have?
Marc: It's good if someone at school knows because that way the kid has a confidante. I think some kids might feel like, "Oh, I don't want anyone at school to know." And in general most of the experts that we interviewed said it's really helpful to have someone at the school, even if it's one person, who knows, because that way if there's a change in the parents' condition, if something's going on at home, then you have a go-to person. If you want the teachers in the classroom to know, [that] can be helpful because a lot of kids were affected in the way they did their work at school — some kids overachieved, some kids just kind of stopped doing homework or didn't focus as they usually did. It's good if teachers understand why that's happening. And the parents and the kids can talk about it together.
In addition to the teens, you also interviewed a lot of experts. Did their advice match up with what the teens said?
Marc: I think they just emphasized that every kid's gonna react differently and that that's OK. One thing that's surprising is they said some kids just don't want to talk about it, and that's OK. You can't force the conversation when the kid doesn't want to have it. The other thing that one expert talked about that was kind of intriguing, and I think this is something that adults can relate to too, she used this phrase "the tyranny of positive thinking." The idea is that we live in a society where everybody wants you to be upbeat all the time and optimistic all the time, and you know what? People aren't like that. It's perfectly normal to be down and to be upset.
How can parents go about best communicating with their teen about their illness?
Maya: The first step to communicating is communicate about how you're going to communicate. (Laughs) So instead of just assuming that your kid wants to know every detail, or that they don't really want to know anything, or that they only want to hear good news, and instead of a parent assuming that the teen doesn't want to talk about it, you should say from the outset, "We're gonna have this experience for the next one to however many years —what do you want to know, and how would you like to communicate about this?" Like my dad said, some families, if they have preexisting family meetings, then that makes sense to have a weekly get-together and just kind of touch base and talk about what's going on. Some teens might want to communicate through text, or email or whatever: Find out how your teen wants to communicate, and how much they want to know, and then you can adjust as needed.
Marc: It's hard for a teen sometimes to confront a parent and say, "You're not telling me enough." A parent could say, like, a day later, "Hey, what I told you yesterday about dad's surgery or mom's chemotherapy, was that helpful? Was it too much information? Was it not enough information?" Ask follow-up questions and get a sense of what your kid needs from you.


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Is usability a persuasive element in UX Design? To what degree does usability account for an online business' success? What guidelines exist in design for creating usable and captivating interfaces? This post provides a few useful answers to the questions above, answers that will be useful as general guidelines for one to keep in mind whether working on larger web projects or smaller ones.Photo by: Witflow, an UX & Usability Studio from Poland
1. Persuade Through Usability
Good usability is more than fluid navigation and a good implementation of information architecture principles. Every aspect of web design and development adds up to ensure high usability of the final web product. Whether you're concerned with choosing the best web technologies or the right font face for that shiny button, you are ultimately concerned with the usability of the website.
If the goal is to improve the usability of a website, the means and methods for doing so span across the entire process, from analysis to design, from testing to evaluation. All usability methods can be considered and implemented while working on the web product; none of them should be considered as separate steps that can be performed optionally and in isolation from the team's work to design, develop and launch the product. A good resource that explains how usability methods can be applied in all aspects and stages of web design is this book - Usability for the Web: Designing Web Sites that Work (Interactive Technologies)(aff.), where the author uses the term "pervasive usability" to explain this idea.
Above all, testing the site's usability after it's launched demonstrates ill-placed trust in the magic of testing that is isolated from the context of iterative development. Before we continue, let's be clear about something: usability is NOT something that you can add to a website as an afterthought, usability is your product's ability to perform well because of several things you did while working on it.
Last year we saw a rising interest for web apps that collect information about the user's behavior and reaction to websites or web apps that provide different user testing models. Some web apps require a simple line of code be inserted in every page that needs to be tested, others - just entering your company's url. The pricing plans could be appealing to everyone - from freelancers and UX professionals to design agencies and start-ups, but the bottom line is - testing should be part of the method you use for building websites. Test usability as you go along through design and development.
2. Persuade by Reaching Actual Goals
Usability correlates in a significant degree to loyalty, as shown in this article. This is because usability methods are always goal oriented. You have the business goals on one side, the user's goals on the other, and you balance them out. If the business goal to sell products is not balanced with the user's goal to find information related to the product, then we have a problem: the site's usability is poor. The first guideline for persuasive websites is to provide information (solutions, content, answers) in a usable format considering the main business goals of the website.
Highly creative designers and developers will always challenge accepted and popular standards as well as conventions in design by using creative unexpected techniques to get the same desired results. They will use unconventional navigation options, integrate refreshing animated elements (as opposed to unnecessary, distracting effects) and draw in users through interfaces that cleverly use white space. Usability is a guideline for creating persuasive websites, but the methods for achieving usability may be unconventional.
3. Persuade Through Consistency
It is surprising what usable interfaces can do, even when there is a minimal amount of copy for users to read and be persuaded by. Most users are able to identify and describe usability problems after using a web product for the first time. It only takes them a few seconds to "feel" it and a few minutes to become familiar with the site's structure and functionality. Whether it's a one page design or a content-rich website, users will have formed an impression before reading much of the text. Still, copy is another guideline for persuasive websites.
But wait, when did good copy become the cleverly worded part of the content? It is definitely more than that. Persuasive copy is produced through consistent style, clarity and dialog throughout all media channels. The style on your website needs to be consistent with the style used in writing e-mails, getting back to people, social media channels and blogs. Sometimes being concise and enticing works - because you only focus on a specific goal - other times you would rather create more lengthy high quality content and encourage a different level of engagement. Style is effective through consistency. People can latch on, absorb and relate to something that is consistent. That's why you should use copywriting guidelines to ensure that the content you create is persuasive.
4. Build for the Future of Your Business
There are items that are more often overlooked because (a) they are not specifically included in the project scope, (b) nobody takes responsibility for them or (c) everybody thinks they can handle these things later on. Long term business goals are part of what may get overlooked because of the previous reasons. A website's goals span over years and converge with the business goals when all of the goals are well represented and fully achieved through the products and services provided by the business. When building a website, communication is driven by recent/current tasks and priorities; strongly connected to the first version of the web product being developed. Still, the web design studio and the client should spend more time discussing the future goals for the client's website, products, services. Meeting the user's needs and expectations is a challenging task to get the design team thinking, but fitting that in with the client project requirements and budget limitations might become a problem overshadowing the business goals on the long run.
There is a way out of this situation by choosing a web design studio that can handle the work and eventually help the business expand in the future. A web design studio needs to think beyond design and development and also think about the consistency of the brand and its business goals. Even if the budget is tight, reviewing and testing should not be overlooked. The price of testing and going through more design iterations is significantly lower than the price of diminishing the website's ability to fully realize its potential.Photo by: Krishnad
Endnote: The relationship between the user and the interface can be as powerful as a one-to-one relationship, where people use arguments, examples and none-verbal language to persuade and influence. It's a matter of consistency in communication, efficient methods to reach real goals and usability. This is how web sites and web products become persuasive in the eyes of the users.
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As a blogger who writes about Start-ups, I often get calls, emails or get stopped at parties because people need something for their company. They may need to hire a person with specialized skills, a lawyer who can help them patent or trademark their unique creation, or even accountant who can use Quickbooks on a Mac. New Yorker Bonnie Halper got so many of these same questions, she created a list for entrepreneurs to help each other.
A long-time recruiter in the tech industry who also is an entrepreneur, Halper got a dream call last year. An investor was looking for 3 CEOs, and 3 CTOs. Then she got a dose of the new reality: everyone she spoke to told her they were done working for someone else, and they were starting their own thing. So Halper put up 'Start-up One Stop (SOS)' to connect these start-up folks to each other. People offer help, or ask for it. When Halper kicked off the effort she sent out 500 invites and got 212 responses – a real New York number.
'We get requests for employment lawyers, insurance agents, php programmers, designers and other specialized hires. And I no longer have to reply to five emails a week asking 'Do you have a client with extra office space?' I also know Investors and VCs are also on the list, trolling to see interesting start-up ideas go by. At least one company has been contacted.'
SOS notes go out twice a week. 'I hate getting something everyday – and start-ups are too busy to read something daily.' Time sensitive items get priority, and no multi-level marketing items ever show up. The list has no spam – it has to be real to get past Bonnie.
The feedback from people using the list has been positive. An anonymous legal question from a start-up founder got his query answered by a partner at a firm, who helped the entrepreneur for an hour - for free! The lawyer loved the challenge too much to charge him.
An original inspiration for SOS was Craig's list since Bonnie was an early subscriber. She discussed it with HARO's Peter Shankman (covered in December's column "Promote Your Start-up, Help a Reporter") who encouraged her to go for it.
Isn't this competing with her recruiting business? 'A lot of these folks are unfunded and can't yet afford a recruiter – but I hope they'll come back to me when they need me.' Halper's not charging for the list at this point. She thinks it is the right price for a start-up, and contributing to the community is valuable. But her involvement hasn't been without benefit. Since she started the list, she's been invited to join the boards of 4 start-ups.
While there are several thousand subscribers, Halper knows people have taking to reposting the list to their own friends on LinkedIn. While this violates her rules, Halper is enjoying the company. 'People at start-ups don't like to meet recruiters at events any more than used car salesman – they hate us until they need us. But they love to meet another entrepreneur - especially one who is helping start-ups out.'
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How to Apply for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Download the certification form
Download the U.S. Department of Education's Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF): Employment Certification Form (English PDF / Spanish PDF), Note: the application process is free. If anyone tries to charge you for this service, it's a scam and you should not pay them.
Complete the form
To complete the form, you must complete sections 1 and 2, and your employer will complete sections 3 and 4. When your employer has completed their sections, be sure to save a completed copy of the form for your records, and to make sure all the information they put in is correct.
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Recertify every year
Continue to recertify your employment annually. You can do it any time of the year – so pick a date you'll remember! This is important to do, because every year hundreds of thousands of people fail to recertify and therefore lose the benefits of income-driven repayment plans.
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After you've successfully enrolled in Public Service Loan Forgiveness, you'll want to keep thorough documentation for your own records in case there is ever a disagreement among you, the Department of Education and your servicer.
Whether organized in a binder, file folders or via secure cloud storage, here is a short checklist of the things you'll want to hold onto:
- Certification forms and acceptance letters: You have to fill out the Public Service Loan Forgiveness certification form annually. Keep a copy of each of your completed forms. When you fill out the actual application to have your loans forgiven, you might need to reference them.
- Income-driven repayment plan confirmations: If you are enrolled in an income-driven repayment plan, save the letters confirming that you've been placed in the one you selected. You'll have to renew enrollment annually because eligibility is based on your income.
- W2 forms: You'll prove your income, and therefore your eligibility for these programs, by submitting a downloaded copy of your most recent IRS W2 form. If at any time the amount you're paying seems higher than it should be, you'll want to talk to your servicer because your loan may have been moved into a different repayment plan that might not be eligible for PSLF. Keep a copy of your W2 forms for every year that you're in one of these repayment plans.
- Payment receipts: Save bills that prove receipt of your on-time payments to both track your progress of qualifying payments and ensure you have documentation in the event of the Department of Education or a servicer claiming one of your payments was late or missing or in a noneligible repayment plan. We recommend scanning them and naming the digital file in correspondence with the payment number, or saving each one and put post-it notes on them numbering them with a "#1" – "#120," so you're tracking your progress of qualifying payments.
Because Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Income-Driven Repayment plans require you to renew annually, we suggest renewing on a date you'll remember.
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Sport is peculiar in being one of the very few social spaces in which gender segregation is taken for granted: men's and women's events take place separately.
There are mechanisms to ensure that athletes compete in the 'right' category: various sex/gender verification tests are used to determine an athlete's 'real' sex. Usually this is justified in relation to fairness of competition.
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Problems occur when athletes don't quite fit into the neat, binary gender categories that sport attempts to define and police.
Several recent cases have highlighted the impossibility of determining sex in any straightforward way. Whether we use reproductive organs, chromosomes or hormone levels as 'indicators' of sex, no clear definition obtains.
The cases of South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya, Indian sprinter Dutee Chand and Canadian cyclist Kristen Worley have shown that the measurements used to determine whether an athlete is 'really' a woman are arbitrary – sometimes they just don't work.
The IOC has made important changes to its transgender policy in response to some of these issues. Transgender athletes will now be allowed to compete in the Olympics without having to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
Testosterone levels only are now used to determine eligibility to compete as a woman — though both sexes produce this hormone, so problems remain.
>>> 'It's ludicrous that there isn't equal prize money for women in road cycling'
The case of cyclist Kristen Worley is particularly interesting: Worley is a transitioned woman. She is prohibited by UCI rules from taking the synthetic hormones she needs in order to avoid serious health complications, and so is effectively barred from competing. In response, she has filed a human rights complaint.
This is just one example of the ways in which the binary structure of sport doesn't fully accommodate the ways in which sex and gender are embodied and lived.
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Kinetic Wayfinding's dance theatre play Move, an exploration of how young people face complex issues and emotions, opened at the Mangere Arts Centre on May 23. LAUMATA LAUANO went along to see the show and see how the cast have progressed since their first opening night at Te Oro in Glen Innes
To have a good talented cast is one thing, to have the means to allow that cast and crew to produce something worth their talent is another.
Bringing Move to the Mangere Arts Centre is probably the best thing Kinetic Wayfinding could have done for their dance theatre play.
It gives the cast much more room to work with and the proper equipment available to do their show justice.
Set in present day South Auckland the play follows the lives of brother and sister, Mark and Lupe (played by Isaac Ah Kiong and Jennifer Perez respectively), following the death of their father.
Both characters are affected by their dad's passing in similar ways. However they deal with the death differently and the character who resonates the most with the audience is perhaps Lupe.
Not just because of Perez's stunning portrayal of a typical teenager whose life goes from bad to worse in the span of a scene change, but because of the way she is shown to battle her demons.
More or less alone.
Mark, albeit dealing with added responsibilities of becoming the man of the house, has his boyfriend Diamond (fabulously played by Darren Tanuie) to help him through it. Ah Kiong does a great job as Mark, and gels well with both Tanuie and Perez.
Lupe, however, appears to battle her depression and thoughts of suicide on her own. Which is what a lot of young Pacific people find themselves doing and rarely does it work out well. It's why suicide rates amongst Pacific youth are so high.
It's understandable that Lupe's story isn't completely resolved by the end of the play, because that's not how life works.
However, perhaps on top of the abstract dance that symbolises her inner struggle to come to terms with what happened to her, there's something that indicates she reaches out to someone else.
As a whole the play works, the use of digital media is both engaging and familiar for 'generation smartphone'.
But I do think, even upon a second viewing, the play could have done without Dance (Maxine Kololo), Music (Sisi Patea), Creativity (Valentino Maliko) and Word (Mosese Ah Hi) introducing themselves.
While it made for good little monologues from each actor, it seems a bit patronising to the audience as it doesn't allow them to draw their own conclusions about each character's function which may or may not be obvious from the way they interact with other characters and the audience.
The dances are all moving, the fusion of Pacific and contemporary dance and music was beautiful to see and hear, and the comedic moments which offer relief from hard-hitting issues are well-timed and don't undermine the overall message of the play.
There's a lot of talent in Auckland and it's great to see it utilised.
See Patea and Maliko perform the song Move from the play written and composed by Patea, below
The play is written & directed by Heto Ah Hi (Siones Wedding, Tautai, and Black Faggot) alongside Leilani Clarke (Running with the Bulls, Plantation, and The Tautai of Digital Winds).
Having lost their youngest daughter to suicide 3 years ago Heto and Leilani's purpose is to increase suicide awareness and prevention in the community by using theatre to share stories of hope, resiliency, family and strength, while focusing on Pacific youth.
See the play at the Mangere Arts Centre, Cnr Orly Ave and Bader Drive, Mangere
Mon 23 May – Sat 4 June 2016, 7:30pm
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by A.B. Simpson
Give us day by day our daily bread—Luke 11:3
It is impossible to live a lifetime all at once, or even in a year, but it is delightfully easy to live it a day at a time. Day by day the manna fell; so day by day we may live upon the heavenly bread and live out our lives for God. Let us, breath by breath, moment by moment, step by step, abide in Him. As we take care of the days, He will take care of the years.
God has given us two precious promises for the days. As thy days, so shall thy strength be (Deuteronomy 33:25) is His ancient covenant, and the literal translation of our Master's parting words to His disciples is Lo, I am with you all the days, even unto the end of the age (Matthew 28:20).
Observe the little water spider. Enclosed in a bubble of air it goes down beneath the surface of the pool and there builds its nest, rears its young and lives its little life in that bright sphere beneath the slimy pool. So let us in this dark world shut ourselves in with Christ in the small circle of each returning day and abide in Him, breathing the air of heaven and living in His love.
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'Charitable Donations' Would Aim to Blunt New Tax Law's Impact on School Aid
Do you consider your local government a charity? You may have a quick answer to that question—but charitable donations might be part of efforts by municipalities and others to counter what they see as harmful changes in the new federal tax code that could depress funding for schools.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., has floated a proposal to allow residents to make donations to charitable funds established by towns and cities. Those local governments would, in turn, provide tax credits homeowners could put towards their local tax bills.
Why is Gottheimer pushing this? The GOP-backed tax overhaul, which President Donald Trump signed last month, places a cap of $10,000 on state and local tax deductions taxpayers can use to reduce their federal tax burden. This new cap could ultimately amount to a federal tax hike on some people, particularly in high-tax states like New Jersey.
Gottheimer said in a statement that the "Tax Hike Bill," as he calls it, "was largely paid for on the backs of New Jersey taxpayers and, according to experts, will bring property values down by as much as 20 percent and send businesses and jobs to other states."
As we've highlighted previously, this could put new pressure on some state and local governments to reconsider their spending, potentially leading to less money for public schools. Various education advocacy groups opposed the tax bill for this reason, among others. Some state and local governments—particularly those in relatively high-tax blue states—are looking at various ways to reduce the potential impact of the tax overhaul on their residents, and this is just one possibility. Exactly what the appetite is in these places for state and local tax cuts remains to be seen.
The new tax code still allows for people to deduct charitable donations from their income that's subject to federal tax, although the new federal tax code's increase in the standard deductions has some worried that fewer will itemize and deduct charitable donations from their taxes.
These sorts of foundations that provide funding for schools already exist in some places, said Michael Griffith, a K-12 funding analyst at the Education Commission of the States. But setting one up and making it work can be very difficult, he noted. For one thing, they tend to get their money from and are often run by wealthier parents, which can create conflict between these organizations and districts. For another, convincing an entire community to donate and avoiding freeriders would be extremely hard, Griffith said.
In addition, he noted, districts would have to juggle political and other calculations to make these foundations work, but at the end of the day, they'd mostly be preserving the funding they have instead of getting a big new windfall of cash.
"This is not an overall cure to the problem," Griffith said.
As a Wall Street Journal article about the proposal points out, there are potential legal problems at the federal level as well. That's because, in order for the homeowners to claim a charitable deduction, they aren't wouldn't be allowed to receive benefits in return.
"I don't think the IRS is going to fall for that. It makes for great conversation, though," Scott Peterson, vice president at Avalara, a tax software company, told Accounting Today earlier this month.
Griffith said that there would have to be a general understanding in the community that both schools and taxpayers would be helped in some way by donations to these independent foundations, instead of a direct and formal quid-pro-quo for K-12 and residents. And getting it to work in larger communities, not just small towns, is another potential problem, Griffith pointed out.
"How are you going to get everyone to contribute, and do it in a fair way and ensure that you're raising enough revenue?" Griffith said. "It's tricky but not impossible."
Photo: President Donald Trump displays the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul package he had just signed last month at the White House. (Evan Vucci/AP)
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This quick and easy recipe for homemade potato chips makes indulging in your favorite snack a little less indulgent. A great healthy alternative to the store bought variety, these homespun chips only include four ingredients and can be ready in 35-minutes.
The light potato chips require only three medium peeled potatoes, salt and freshly ground pepper and one or two tablespoons of oil. Garlic and fresh herbs can be added for additional flavor. Homemade potato chips are a popular appetizer feature on small plates menus at many buzzworthy Detroit restaurants.
Perfect to keep on hand as a snack to keep you from rushing out to the convenience store when a craving comes on or a great appetizer to complement a homemade dip at a party, there are plenty of ways to integrate this easy dish.
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I enjoy shooting landscapes, wildlife and other subjects that frequently require a zoom. I already have a Canon EF 70-200mm L but it just isn't quite long enough. I'm currently considering the Canon EF 100-400L, the Sigma 150-500 or the new Tamron 150-600mm to pair with my Canon 5DM2. I'm especially keen to get the lens by Thanksgiving because I'll be travelling for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. I've already ordered the Tamron but it's on what is likely to be an extended back order. If you wanted a versatile zoom lens to go with a Canon 5DM2 what would you choose (and why)? Will all three give me excellent IQ? Should I reconsider my Tamron order? Edit: I guess Sigma is coming out with a new 150-600 sports zoom that sounds pretty nice. I guess the question is would it be worth twice as much as the Tamron if sports and flying birds aren't my primary subjects?
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Stokie posted a topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experienceI've had a Tamron SP AF Di 90mm macro lens for about 6 years and during that time it's produced some brilliant images (on a Canon 5D mk II). However, yesterday, it came up with an error message; "Err1communications between the camera and lens is faulty. Clean the lens contacts" I did as I was told but the error keeps coming up. Anybody had any experience with this sort of thing or will I have to have the lens repaired/replaced? John.


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Though Egg Collective opened its wood shop in Brooklyn's Navy Yard in 2011, the of-the-moment design studio has been incubating for many years. Its three founders—Stephanie Beamer, Crystal Ellis, and Hillary Petrie—met when they were freshman undergraduate architecture students at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and have been collaborating ever since. "Our friendship and our working relationship have always gone hand in hand," says Ellis.
After graduating in 2006, they disbanded to pursue different professional interests but kept in contact. During the interim period between finishing school and opening Egg, the women each honed different, and complementary, skills: Beamer worked for a series of fine furniture makers, Ellis went to RISD to earn her MFA in sculpture, and Petrie honed her eye for detail by working for a custom millwork and fabrication studio. "We each have different skills, but work together now and compliment each other nicely," says Petrie.
"We became more educated. You get older and see more things and you realize what you're passionate about," says Ellis about the hiatus. "When we first began to make furniture we were looking at Droog and designs that were a bit tongue-in-cheek conceptually," says Ellis. "Now we're interested in making a piece of furniture you want to hold onto rather that creating something that just makes you smile when you look at it."


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Maxon Shooter's has proudly served the community as Chicago's premier gun shop and indoor shooting range for more than 60 years.
CyberOptik produced a winning proof-of-concept and executed the full design and deployment of our website on time and on-budget. Ron did a fine job translating our ideas into a professional, supportable site, and I will use their design services in the future.
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Naman Pugalia, First Walkin Technologies
Fun fact: Domino's Pizza's stock price has soared 2000%, while Alphabet (formerly Google)'s stock price rose by 1100% since 2004 when they both debuted at the stock exchange.
Domino's, in former CEO Patrick Doyle's words, is a technology company that happens to sell pizzas. As of October of last year, their in-house technology team was the largest department at the headquarters, making up half of the employee strength. As the global consumer swiftly gravitates toward brands of convenience, Domino's with its formidable technology infrastructure, continues to leave its competitors behind.
Domino's is a beacon of a corporate transformation that has accepted the centrality of technology to thrive in today's dynamic retail environment. Unlike Domino's, many firms mistakenly conflate "digital transformation" with "digitalization" of business. Digital transformation is not merely about creating websites, mobile apps, social media campaigns, and online sales channels — all of which may improve efficiency but will not fundamentally alter strategy. It entails a complete reimagination of products and services as digitally enabled assets, generating new value from the interconnection of physical and digital assets. It assumes creation of ecosystems to facilitate this interconnection, resulting in fundamental changes in organizational activities, processes, competencies, business models, and most importantly, in user journeys.
Indian companies that have belatedly woken up to digital threats and opportunities seem to find the transformation process exceedingly difficult. A report published by MIT Sloan's Management Review identified three major obstacles to escaping inertia: incumbency, talent and culture.
First, incumbency -- leaders rely on existing business models and metrics, because they seem to work for the time being, but don't notice the danger from disruptive new ones, preventing investments in uncertain, long-gestation innovation projects.
Second, talent -- until recently, most organisations treated digital technology as a backroom support function. Even those that do invest heavily in a comprehensive in-house technology team, find challenges in the smooth integration of digital talent with traditional functions to form a new set of capabilities.
Third, the organizational culture of most retail and manufacturing companies proves to be a huge obstacle. They're geared towards investments to develop, manufacture, and sell products at long and predictable intervals. To become more digital, industrial organizations must embrace software paradigms -- such as agility, simplicity, responsiveness, and speed -- which are alien to them.
Speedy and meaningful digital transformation is possible through investments in solutions that will directly impact customer experience. Recent advancements make areas such as loyalty, personalised offers, mobile ordering, payments, feedback, proximity engagement and field service automation low hanging fruits.
Finally, all of this will be in vain if higher management cannot be retooled to adapt to the new technologically-oriented company. This necessitates creation and empowerment of such positions as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a Chief Data Officer (CDO). CIOs' roles must evolve such that they can increasingly focus on business growth rather than running IT systems. CDOs will increasingly be in-charge of identifying future opportunities, and threats. They will also be responsible for sales and revenue growth, cost-reduction and efficiency-savings, and to improve customer intelligence.
While rising competition from online shopping has hit bricks-and-mortar retailers hard, those that have earnestly and thoroughly transformed have overcome this threat. With the technological talent pool India enjoys, it would be a shame for our retail sector not to conquer the new world order.
(Author is founder of First Walkin Technologies)


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We carried out a Waste Composition Analysis in 2014 and found that the average household produces almost 9 kg of general waste (green-lidded bins) per week. Of this, almost 20% could have been recycled in either the blue-lidded recycling or brown-lidded garden waste bins! This means that we could be recycling a lot more than we currently are.
Overall, households in Coventry recycle almost 36% of their waste. In 2000 we only recycled approximately 10% of waste. This is a huge increase, however, we need to do more in order to meet the current EU target for the UK to recycle at least 50% of household waste by 2020.
To find out more about what you can do to help us recycle, please see our Going greener page, or the Coventry Recycling Club.


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Handcrafted Cashmere Scarf made of the finest cashmere yarns - definitely a fave piece in your collection. Easy to combine with different styles. With sparkling Swarovski crystals.
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Psych: The Movie is the perfect distraction from 2017
'Psych' creator Steve Franks and star James Roday preview the zany holiday reunion
Over the course of its eight-season run, Psych became known for its loving parodies of movies and TV series. But for the upcoming holiday film Psych: The Movie — which sees psychic detectives Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill) reunite with the rest of the gang to match wits with the vengeful Thin White Duke (Zachary Levi, in a hilarious against-type role) — Roday and creator Steve Franks, who co-wrote the movie together, went back to basics.
"This is not a tribute," Roday tells EW. "This is not a wink. If anything, it's an homage to the original concept of the bromance that fueled Psych for all of those years."
Loaded with countless callbacks, zany high jinks, and heartfelt cameos (Timothy Omundson!), this sweet pineapple of a movie invites fans to this tumultuous year to suck it — well, at least for a night.
"I'm hoping, if nothing else, that it is just 90 minutes of feeling good about the world and feeling good about yourself and just laughing and having a great time," says Franks.
Below, Franks opens up about the writing process for the movie and previews what's going on in Team Psych's life when the film opens.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: After watching Psych: The Movie, my coworker and I both remarked how this was the perfect distraction from 2017. Was that something you were aiming to do when you guys wrote the film?
STEVE FRANKS: Absolutely! It was sort of a function of the series as well. I originally created this show thinking things were too dark in 2005. It's a warm comfortable place. It's a nice pair of pajamas to go in. It's one of those things of, when else do you see something where you're just inclined to smile and laugh? If you're not smiling or laughing, I'm hoping you're grinning at some point, because yeah, it's supposed to make you feel good and it's a celebration of friendship and brotherhood and having each others' backs. Not only did it become more and more important as the writing process went on, but we really want our world and the Psych world to sort of indicate, "The world's not that bad. There's great things there. We're all not that different." I'm hoping, if nothing else, that it is just 90 minutes of feeling good about the world and feeling good about yourself and just laughing and having a great time.
Let's go back to the beginning. How did the movie come about? Did the story come first or did USA and Universal reach out about revisting it this year?
The funny thing is ever since we decided to wrap up the show in the eighth season, I had always said I wanted to do six movies. So, I made it clear from there that I wanted to be able to transition us into the movies. Even as soon as the Comic-Con after we had aired our finale, [current NBCUniversal International Studios president] Jeff Wachtel had called me up and said, "We gotta get the band back together." You know, the first year was too soon. The second year we couldn't make the availabilities happen. Then, I just figured this would be the call that Jeff and I have every year and we'd talk about how great it would be to get together. Finally, last summer I was on a driving trip and Jeff called me while I was in Hershey, Pennsylvania, learning about chocolate nibs at the Hershey Factory and he says, "Let's do it this year!" I said, "I'm always in." By the time I got home, business affairs was on the message machine saying they wanted to make a deal. It was fantastic! It was something I was ready to do and prepared to do and excited to do right from the start. I was just waiting for that moment when everybody would be available to do it.
What was the process like coming up with the story?
It was pretty easy to get back in the mindset of the characters, because it's such a fun thing to write. Finding an organic way to get everybody back together was pretty easy, but I felt like when we wrote the finale, it's so hard to write a finale for a show, especially one that's been on for eight years, because it's not necessarily your show. It belongs to you and the fans and the actors and all of that. So, you have to find a way that you're gonna make A) yourself happy and B) all of the fans happy. The fact that I wrote a finale that I really felt summed up the show in the right way and tied it up in such a nice clean way, to then go three years later and say, "Let's untie all that stuff and open it up again" was scarier than writing the finale, because you want it to be as good. I specifically wanted this to be better than anything we'd done. I wanted to take all of the things we'd done before and blow them up and make them bigger. It became easier because James and I wrote it together. So, it wasn't just me sitting in a room going, "What am I going to do?" It's James and I sitting down and going through all of the scenes and me pitching him, "I have this and I have that," and then hearing his reaction to it and working from there.
James previously told me that you guys were at a bar working on the script on election night. What was it like to write with the election in the background?
Well, they were both comical and absurd. The entire election in itself was one of the strangest experiences we'll all go through with all of the things that happened right from the beginning. It's really funny because neither one of us writes at home. I like to write on trains or sometimes at Disneyland. I like to write in places that have a different kind of atmosphere, so a train is the perfect place for me to write because outside the window it's always changing. James only likes to write in bars for some reason. So, we split the difference. We wrote in a whole handful of restaurants that were bars and it was always weird when it was empty and quiet because if we got excited about an idea, suddenly we started talking loudly or laughing or building on a bit and going crazy and trying to top one another. So, it's nice to have a nice loud space to write in.
But the night of the election, we thought, "Okay the election will be over in like a half hour and we can really get some work done." Then as it unfolded, it was so strange because nobody expected what happened to happen, or we didn't expect what happened to happen. It was like, "Wow, we're not going to get any work done tonight. We're watching this compelling piece of television tonight." I don't think it slowed us down, but I don't think we got much work done that night.
The movie picks up in real time after the finale. How have Shawn, Gus, and Juliet [Maggie Lawson] grown in that time?
Well, I think the greatest thing is that when you start the movie, it truly feels like Shawn has regressed, and then we'll find that Shawn actually has a wisdom in his actions that I'm hoping is unexpected, that we find partway through the movie. At the same time, the question of, was there a wedding that we never saw that happened? That feels like it would rob the fans of something. So, we wanted to feel like, what is Shawn's timetable for anything? His timetable is whatever feels natural. So, it felt okay to then say, "Well, the wedding hasn't happened. They're still together. Perhaps their wheels are spinning right now, and not necessarily just because it hasn't happened, because Juliet is clearly also in the place where she's not pushing anything. They're comfortable and happy with what's going in their world, but time has marched on and they're not in their 20s anymore and their 30s are disappearing." At some point, you need to either make a decision for your future or move on to a new path. So, it was important Shawn had the same wide-eyed enthusiasm that he always had and that his worldview remains the same, but that there's something deeper going on that we'll find out with him.
Juliet has since ascended to the place that Lassiter always hoped she would. Her job skills are beyond anything that she ever had in the show, but she's also made some tough choices in her job that Lassiter certainly wouldn't disapprove of, but that Young Juliet would've never done.
Gus, of course, he has the fun backstory. You know, he came to town, moved up to be with friends, to live the wild and free life, and it lasted for approximately a week. He went back to what he needed to do. So, it's a fun way to move [our characters] down the field a little bit but to create a similar dynamic to what they've had before, but Gus is getting to the point in his life where he sadly could end up alone and that's not something that's okay for him. So, he has to make quite a few sacrifices as well in sort of what his expectation of a romantic relationship is to get to the place he wants to be.
Did you always intend for this to be a Christmas movie?
We found out it was going to be a holiday movie a couple weeks before we got the green light. So, it was never designed to be a holiday movie, but the funny thing is there was a built-in running gag that actually begs the question of, what is a holiday movie. Is Die Hard a holiday movie? Is Gremlins a holiday movie? The funny thing was we had sort of a built-in element there. They sort of mentioned we might want to air this around the holidays and it wasn't until right before we got the green light that they said, "Hey, we definitely need to add more Christmas to it." We went through, added Christmas trees and Christmas decorations and people shopping for Christmas gifts. There's no Santa Claus or reindeer involved with the story.
Psych: The Movie — which also stars Kirsten Nelson, Corbin Bernsen, and Kurt Fuller —premieres Thursday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. ET on USA Network.