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OK, enough of the tedious moaning. Today I'm continuing my pictorial boastings of the Great American Road Trip, yay! After a rather boring Boston we headed immediately north to Salem, Massachusetts, a place where Hallowe'en is taken very seriously (decorations on a par with Christmas!) and is celebrated for the entire month of October, not just the 31st. They have good reason too due to their rather gruesome heritage of the real life witch trials of the 1690's. Google them, they were Not Nice.
Anyhows, let's get on to what I wore. It was still warm back at the beginning of the month so I took my last opportunity to dress summery in my beloved denim cut offs and very unspooky My Little Pony shirt.
|Hanging with my homies.
Shirt: Primark (Size 8)
Shorts: Topshop (Size 10)
A quick note about my nails. A happy coincidence in that they were painted black, which is my go-to nail shade, no matter what the season. Here they are:
|As black as night
|Oo-ahh, I'm as white as a ghost!
|Cool as a cauldron
|Matt, Pinky, Perky.
|You must be an angel. I can see it in your eyes.
|The Lovely Bones
|Obligatory graveyard shot
So that's it for today. And yes, it hasn't escaped my notice that the only scary thing in the sun-dappled graveyard is my posing. Shudder.


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It's no surprise that Alice Waters, queen of American organics and champion of all things handcrafted and artisanal, is down with Prince Charles. After all, the prince is, by all accounts, a passionate guardian of Britain's agricultural traditions and a dedicated organics advocate. As Waters pointed out to Kim Severson in a recent piece in the New York Times, "Al Gore doesn't even talk about food."
But as chummy as His Royal Highness might be with Ms. Waters, the article reveals that the prince has a new BFF. And it's none other than Eric Schlosser, Mr. Fast Food Nation himself.
Who wouldn't want to trade McDonald's-baiting for tea at Highgrove, the prince's country estate? After all, life at Highgrove's Duchy Home Farm sure sounds like fun. As Severson notes, "[R]ustic signs proclaim the land free of genetically modified organisms. Rare breeds of British cattle eat red clover. Heirloom ginger Tamworth pigs roll in royal mud." And is that the man himself, talking to the vegetables?
Even Blue Hill's Dan Barber, normally a levelheaded chef and a sustainable-ag advocate (and a man who serves bacon made from the herd of black Berkshire pigs that root through the Rockefeller-owned woods outside his second restaurant, Blue Hill at Stone Barns), became tongue-tied and flustered when serving the prince pickled turnips and beet-and-goat-cheese burgers at a recent awards ceremony at the Harvard Club. "I honestly don't know what happened," claimed Barber.

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News of Amazon's trio of new gadgets released today is spreading like wildfire -- namely about the hopeful iPad competitor, Kindle Fire.
Local news site Tech Flash reports:
The Kindle Fire's strengths lie in a swift Web browser running on Amazon's EC2 cloud, Amazon's souped-up version of the Android app store, connections to the retailer's content, including its vast shopping network, and competitive price. Amazon has also smoothed the rough edges of the Android OS, according to Bloomberg.
However, its weaknesses could also leave the Kindle Fire far from fully competing with the sophisticated iPad. The tablet has only a WiFi connection, with no cameras or microphone, and its small size could place limitations on ease of use.
With all the flame imagery, I can't help but think of The Hunger Games (bear with me, it's early).
Like Katniss, the new tablet is entering the ring as an underdog - however, cloaked in hot assets like lower price and Android OS, it's got a chance to prove itself.
Of course, without a camera (come on Amazon, we need to see what our faces look like with sepia impressionist filters layered on them!) or remaining WiFi dependent (ewwww!) - it could die at any moment in the vicious arena that is mobile gadgetry development.
I'll be rooting for it.
After all, a certain smart, savvy and essential magazine will be available to download on the device (price, features and more details about our new Seattle magazine Kindle Fire app to come very soon).


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Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker272
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The literary raconteur Alexander Woollcott only intended to fawn over Dorothy Parker when he included the short (eleven-page) but vastly influential profile in his bestselling 1934 essay collection, While Rome Burns. "Our Mrs. Parker" was "a little and extraordinarily pretty woman." Her work was "pure gold" that would be celebrated by future generations. She possessed "the gentlest, most disarming demeanor" while she wielded a verbal "dirk which knows no brother and mighty few sisters." Perhaps she was notorious for stalking human prey, but she loved other animals with a visceral passion. As Woollcott famously explained, Dorothy was "so odd a blend of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth," whose weapon was "not so much the familiar hand of steel in a velvet glove as a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds."
To illustrate this point, Woollcott catalogued many of the droll and often lethal quips that had been attributed to Dorothy over the preceding fifteen years.I But if Dorothy was already as widely known for her tongue as for her pen, which she was, in later years Woollcott's list would be considered the essential primary source for the thriving literary cottage industry that ultimately overwhelmed any other public reputation that she could ever earn.
I. It is dangerous to ascribe particular anecdotes or witticisms to Dottie. Many are at least partly apocryphal, or are known in several conflicting accounts (each with its own version of parties and dialogue), but conversation is ephemeral, and it is often impossible to determine just who said what. Dottie's contemporaries were particularly vulnerable: as another celebrated wit, the eminent playwright and director George S. Kaufman, dolefully predicted, "Everything I've ever said will be credited to Dorothy Parker." But Woollcott's profile did create an abiding interest in cataloguing Parkerisms when he related the following anecdotes, among many others:
Dottie was recuperating in a hospital -- a.k.a. "Bedpan Alley" -- when Woollcott came to visit. Soon after he arrived she rang a bell. He asked if she was calling for drinks. "No, it is supposed to fetch the night nurse, so I ring it whenever I want an hour of uninterrupted privacy."
When she heard that an acquaintance had hurt herself in London, Dottie assumed the poor woman must have injured herself sliding down a barrister. And if all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, Dottie insisted she would not be at all surprised.
Woollcott recalled that the unpopular wife (Mary Sherwood) of a "successful playwright" was forever prattling on about her pregnancy. When the baby was born, Dottie sent her a wire -- collect: GOOD LUCK, MARY. WE ALL KNEW YOU HAD IT IN YOU.
Dorothy was only forty years old when the profile appeared. She had published three collections of popular and well-received poetry. She was a prize-winning short-story writer, an influential literary and drama critic, and she was just then negotiating a lucrative contract to write screenplays in Hollywood. But after "Our Mrs. Parker" she was primarily a marketable commodity of distinct proportions: the tiny woman with the big mouth who knew the gamut from A to B and wrote irreverent reviews that sounded as though she was still at the Algonquin Round Table; the one who also wrote a few poems, short stories, and film scripts whose titles were not quite so memorable as one might presume; the one who survived those abortions and suicide attempts and wretched affairs along the way and whose life often made her want to fwow up.
The ambitious artist was even degenerating into stock literary and theatrical cliche. In 1932, two years before the Woollcott profile, Dorothy was the model for "Lily Malone" in Philip Barry's play Hotel Universe. In Barry's description, Lily was "able to impart to her small, impudent face a certain prettiness." Also in 1932, Dorothy was "Mary Hilliard" in George Oppenheimer's Here Today, which was directed by George S. Kaufman, a former Algonquin colleague with whom Dorothy usually shared a cordial mutual contempt.
In 1934, the year the Woollcott piece appeared, "Dorothy" starred as the dowdy "Julia Glenn" in the Kaufman-Moss Hart comedy Merrily We Roll Along. Julia was "a woman close to forty. She is not unpretty, but on her face are the marks of years and years of quiet and steady drinking -- eight, ten hours a day." Also in 1934, she was the nightclub singer "Daisy Lester" in Charles Brackett's novel Entirely Surrounded. Brackett described her as "a tiny, dark figure in a blue dress with peasant embroidery on the sleeves." He even dedicated the book to her. And in 1944, she surfaced again as "Paula Wharton" in Over Twenty-one, a play written by the actress Ruth Gordon and again directed by Kaufman.2 The die was cast. Dorothy Parker was famous for being Dorothy Parker, and that was what she always would be. And in the popular consciousness, she could never be anything more.
2. Dottie was not pleased by the sincerest form of flattery: "I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself, I'd be sued for plagiarism ."Another time, Dottie met a playwright she thought was appropriating some of her ideas. He said that his next work was a "play against all isms." Dottie: "Except plagiarism."
Dorothy Rothschild3 was born, prematurely, on August 22, 1893, in West End, New Jersey.4 Her mother, Eliza nee Marston, was of English ancestry, and her father, Jacob Henry Rothschild, who preferred to be known by his middle name, came from Prussian Jewish stock. Henry was a partner in a prosperous cloak-making firm, and the family lived a comfortable life with servants in an exclusive neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
3. Dottie later confessed: " My God, no, dear! We'd never even heard of those Rothschilds!"
4. Dottie: "I was cheated out of the distinction o f being a native New Yorker, because I had to go and get born while the family was spending the summer in New Jersey, but, honestly, we came back to N ew York right after Labor Day, so I nearly made the grade."
A month before Dorothy's fifth birthday, she was devastated when Eliza "promptly went and died" on her. Henry quickly found a new wife, Eleanor Lewis, who was in Dorothy's words "crazy with [presumably Presbyterian] religion." Dorothy later claimed to so dislike her that she could only address Eleanor as "hey, you" because she could not bear to call her Mother. Eleanor died three years later, when Dorothy was still only nine years old. Dorothy later described an implausibly grim existence that included such standard elements as the distant father and the wicked stepmother, but more prosaically, she was the "artistic" child who wrote verses and loved the assortment of dogs that the family had started adopting and quickly spoiling. She retained her love of undisciplined dogs and most other creatures for the rest of her life.5
5. In later life Dottie had a dog called Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow suffered from what Aleck Woollcott delicately described as a "distressing malady." According to Dottie, the dog said he got it from a lamppost. She later adopted an amiable dachshund called Robinson. Robinson was attacked in the street by a much larger dog whose owner claimed that Robinson had started it. Dottie was incredulous: "I have no doubt that he was also carrying a revolver."
Once Dottie brought her dog to a party, where it vomited on the rug. Dottie tried to apologize, or at least explain, to her hostess: "It's the company." Another time her dog relieved itself in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel. The hotel manager scolded her: "Miss Parker, Miss Parker! Look what your dog did." Dottie stared at him: "I did it." And she walked away.
Dottie's record with other animals was less commendable, though she once had a parakeet she called Onan. Why? See Genesis 38:9. But on another occasion a friend asked her how he could get rid of his cat. Dottie: "Have you tried curiosity?"
By the time Dorothy was twelve she was four feet eleven inches tall. She was excessively thin and would remain underweight until she was in her twenties, a fact that she would recall nostalgically, and ruefully, in later years. She had a heart murmur. If she intuitively felt isolated from her world, the schools she attended made her feel worse. At a time when a Rothschild was a Jew and was treated accordingly, Dorothy was enrolled first in a Catholic elementary school, where she often had trouble with the nuns,6 and then in a restricted Protestant high school (her father lied on the application). She left the high school six months later, when she was fourteen, and did not return. During her abbreviated education Dorothy learned Latin and French and developed a keen appreciation of literature and poetry, but in later years she avoided admitting that she had never graduated from high school.7
6. She later argued: "Well, how do you expect them to treat a kid who saw fit to refer to the Immaculate Conception as 'Spontaneous Combustion'? Boy, did I think I was smart! Still do."
7. Dottie: "The only thing I ever learned [in school] that ever did me any good in after life was that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink."
After leaving school she moved in with her father for six increasingly grim years. Henry suffered financial reverses, grew ill, and finally died in 1913, when he was sixty-two and Dorothy was twenty. Though he probably bequeathed a small estate to his four children (Dorothy was the youngest), he did leave something: Dorothy later claimed that she had been left penniless.
In 1914, she found work as a dance instructor while she yearned for the literary life. She experimented with light verse and sold a piece to the famously urbane Frank Crowninshield, who had recently been appointed the editor of the new Vanity Fair magazine by the publisher Conde Nast. In nine repetitive stanzas, "Any Porch" casually dissected the meandering conversations of banal upper-middle-class women who had reached a certain age. Dorothy was paid twelve dollars for the piece and received her first known credit when Vanity Fair published it in September 1915. Perhaps of greater importance, Crowninshield found himself amused by the callow but promising young talent and, at Dorothy's urgent request, found her a ten-dollar-a-week job writing captions at Vanity Fair's sister publication, Vogue.8
8. More than forty years later, Dottie recalled the exhilaration of landing that first literary job on Vogue: " Well, I thought I was Edith Sitwell."
But working for Vogue in 1914, and for forty years thereafter, meant working under the exceedingly proper Edna Woolman Chase, who enforced a strict dress code that included white gloves but prohibited open-toed shoes, and maintained a formidably rigorous standard of decorum. For example, when an editor who had attempted suicide returned to work, Mrs. Chase called her in and told her: "We at Vogue don't throw ourselves under subway trains, my dear. If we must, we take sleeping pills."
Dorothy was often a deliberately disruptive force who did not mesh well with the rest of the Vogue staff and particularly did not get on with Mrs. Chase.9 Though Mrs. Chase did try to utilize her talents,10 even publishing a verse titled "The Lady in Back" in November 1916, and though Dorothy volunteered for several weird experiments, including a risky new process called a permanent wave, they both realized that Dorothy belonged somewhere else. In the fall of 1917, she moved down the hall to Crowninshield's Vanity Fair.
9. Dottie was astounded, but hardly speechless, the first time she saw the ornate Vogue offices: "Well, it looks just like the entrance to a house of ill-fame."
She wrote this caption for an underwear layout: "From these foundations of the autumn wardrobe, one may learn that brevity is the soul of lingerie, as the Petticoat said to the Chemise." That line actually appeared in the magazine, but the proofreaders caught and scrapped her caption for a photograph of a model wearing an expensive nightgown that suggested commercial, as well as romantic, considerations: "There was a little girl who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good she was very, very good, and when she was bad she wore this divine nightdress of rose-colored mousseline de soie, trimmed with frothy Valenciennes lace."
10. When Mrs. Chase allowed her to write feature stories, Dottie tried to twist the focus to embarrass her subjects, i.e., her piece on interior decoration used a fictional profile that ridiculed an hysterical and flamboyantly homosexual decorator. The piece was titled "Interior Desecration."
She had been submitting poems and verses to Vanity Fair for years. None were particularly good: the next three that Crowninshield published, "The Bridge Fiend," "A Musical Comedy Thought," and "The Gunman and the Debutante," had clever moments but still displayed more potential than competence. And one of them could have destroyed her career.
"A Musical Comedy Thought" was published in the June 1916 issue of Vanity Fair. It described, with tongue firmly in cheek, a bizarre but popular vaudeville singer who impersonated women both in voice and couture. But then Franklin P. Adams, the distinguished F. P. A . of the New York Tribune, got involved. Adams was New York's preeminent columnist. He also dabbled in poetry and published several highly regarded collections of light verse, which included "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," more familiarly known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance." Nearly every day his Conning Tower column published submissions from readers who wanted to display their talents publicly, and the gold watch he gave each year for the best poem was one of New York's most valued literary prizes. It was the mighty Adams who, on May 23, 1916, took notice of young Dorothy Rothschild when he started his column with Dorothy's verse:
My heart is fairly melting at the thought of Julian Eltinge;
His vice versa, Vesta Tilley, too.
Our language is so dexterous, let us call them ambi-sexterous, --
Why hasn't this occurred before to you?
Adams followed it with his own devastating response:
In answer to your plotty little poem, Mistress Dotty,
It often has occurred to me, but then,
I thought it was absurd to steal a notion that occurred to Percy Hammond in the spring of Nineteen Ten.
Hammond, then a Chicago Tribune theater critic, had once described Eltinge as "ambisextrous." Both Adams's contemptuous dismissal and Dorothy's reaction to it are lost to history. There appears to be no record of the exchange outside the old Conning Tower clippings, and though there is no evidence that either Dorothy or Adams ever mentioned it again, it must have been a crushing blow to her. She was only twenty-two, with a tenuous hold on an entry-level literary job, and was desperately trying to make a name for herself in that world. Instead, her first substantial public recognition was as a plagiarist, and a notably clumsy one at that.
Dorothy had at least two similar but vastly less serious brushes with Adams in later years. In 1914, Adams had hailed Dulcinea, a popular character in The Conning Tower, with "Dulcy far niente," a pun on the Italian "dolce far niente," loosely translated as "pleasant idleness." Seven years later, in November 1921, Dorothy borrowed it for "Lynn Fontanne," a verse saluting the star of the hit George S. Kaufman -- Marc Connelly comedy Dulcy, which was based on the same character. Although Adams surely recalled his earlier sally -- he had a fabulous memory -- he did not publicly comment on her appropriation. But he did preen while writing "To Dorothy Parker" in The Conning Tower, by then in The (New York) World, on December 18, 1922:
You borrowed, about March Seventeen
"The Life and Death of Harriet Frean."
It is likely that Adams was jocularly comparing the compellingly dreary title character in May Sinclair's The Life and Death of Harriett Frean, which had been published earlier that year, and the stock literary figure described in Dorothy's verse "The Drab Heroine," which had appeared in the March 9, 1922, issue of Life magazine. But that was all far in the future when, in mid 1916, Dorothy must have felt severely chastened and was fretfully considering her next step.
She probably had been experimenting with free verse for some time before succumbing to her caustic instincts and finding that she enjoyed writing screeds. The result was a piece called "Women: A Hate Song," a broad and extended diatribe listing the alleged faults of her own sex. Dorothy submitted it to Crowninshield under the name "Henriette Rousseau";11 he loved it and put it in the August 1916 issue, to great popular enthusiasm. Crowninshield asked her for more diatribes, and over the next eight years Dorothy produced seventeen more so-called "hate verses" for both Vanity Fair and Life, skewering, among other targets, husbands and wives, actors and actresses, books, theater, and film. The series spawned numerous of imitators.
11. Years later she signed some pieces "Helen Wells," probably a play on "Hell on Wheels"
That summer, Dorothy fell in love with Edward Pond Parker II, a tall, fair stockbroker of her own age from an old Connecticut Congregationalist family. She may have conducted desultory affairs with similar men before -- she always liked athletes with good (i.e., northwest European)12 features -- but, she admitted forty years later, Eddie was "beautiful." He was also "not very smart. He was supposed to be in Wall Street, but that didn't mean anything."
12. Years later, she ruefully described her "type": "I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid."
When the United States entered the First World War in April 1917, Eddie enlisted in the army and proposed marriage. As Eddie's family disapproved of the match, and Dorothy had already distanced herself from her own family, neither side attended the June ceremony. Soon Eddie was off to train to be an ambulance driver.13 While he was in France, Dorothy kept the home fires burning by writing hate verses about bohemians and slackers who were not pulling their weight in the war effort.
13. Dottie: "We were married for about five minutes, then he went off to war."
Dorothy finally found a home at Vanity Fair. Crowninshield hoped to bring about a revival of Good Taste -- it was said that his "mind was cultivated rather than profound" -- and his purportedly frothy magazine was one of the most beautiful, yet aesthetically adventurous, publications of that or any era, on the very cusp of the avant-garde. During his first fifteen years there (during the sixteenth year he helped establish the Museum of Modern Art), Vanity Fair introduced a blinding array of new talent to the mass American public: "his" writers included Dorothy, Robert Benchley, P. G. Wodehouse, Edna St. Vincent Millay, e. e. cummings, and Aldous Huxley. Crowninshield took particular pride in Vanity Fair's visual "look," which often startled traditional sensibilities. Though he brought artists such as Rockwell Kent, Pablo Picasso, and Miguel Covarrubias to public attention, Crowninshield ruefully observed in 1928 that "the new artists whom we have periodically presented have aroused the greater part of the criticism that Vanity Fair has had to combat from time to time." Crowninshield also employed photographers such as Baron de Meyer and Edward Steichen "when their work was branded as wild and absurd."
Dorothy worked as a general editorial assistant for several months, but when Wodehouse took a leave of absence Crowninshield made her New York's only female drama critic. She started her column in the April 191 8 issue and, as with the hate verses, she found she often preferred inflicting abuse to tendering praise.14 She was amusing, she was witty, she was wicked, and she was noticed. People started talking about that devilish Mrs. Parker.
14. Though most of her reviews were innocuous, there were notable exceptions. In her very first column, in April 1918, she suggested attending Girl 0' Mine "if you want a couple of hours' undisturbed rest. If you don't knit, bring a book." As to The Love Mill, "I know who wrote those lyrics and I know the names of the people in the cast, but I 'm not going to tell on them." Sinbad, she concluded, was "produced in accordance with the fine old Shubert precept that nothing succeeds like undress," which was, at least, an improvement over the production whose chorus line appeared to be composed of "kind, motherlylooking women."
In November the war ended, but Eddie remained in Europe with the occupation forces. Dorothy continued reviewing plays and submissions while Crowninshield looked for a managing editor. He found an apparently prim and reserved twenty-nine-yearold teetotaler who had written some of the looniest pieces Crowninshield had ever read, and eventually offered him the job. On May 19, 1919, Dorothy arrived at work to meet Robert Benchley: he introduced himself to "Mrs. Parker," she extended her greetings to "Mr. Benchley," and they went to work.
A few days later Crowninshield brought in their new "drama editor," with unspecified duties: a young (twenty-three) and astonishingly tall (six-foot-seven) veteran of the Canadian Black Watch regiment called Robert Sherwood. If Benchley was reticent, Sherwood was silent -- so quiet, in fact, that he scared his new coworker's.15 It turned out that Sherwood was very shy, and when he finally loosened up, the three quickly became close friends.
15. Dottie warned Benchley that Sherwood was a "Conversation Stopper," i.e., similar to "riding on the Long Island Railroad -- it gets you nowhere in particular."
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Huntsman calls Romney a "perfectly lubricated weather vane" on important daily issues
CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks with 2012 GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman about the race for the White House and his primary opponents. A highlight from the interview is after the jump and a full transcript will be posted on CNN.com. Rep. Michele Bachmann will also join Wolf Blitzer to discuss a tea party group request for her resignation from the 2012 GOP presidential race. Tune in today to CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET.
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WOLF BLITZER, HOST: Let's first of all talk about Mitt Romney a little bit. George Will, the conservative columnist, writing in an upcoming edition of "The Washington Post," says this about Mitt Romney. He says: "Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable, he might endanger GOP chances of capturing the Senate. Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor who takes his bearings from data."
You agree with — with George Will on that?
JON HUNTSMAN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, those are — those are pretty tough words, Wolf. All I can say is this is a time when this nation wants leadership. We've — we — we've been — we've been looking for leadership for some time in — in the White House. We haven't found it. This is when the candidates need to show — stand up and show a little bit of leadership. You can't be a perfectly lubricated weathervane on the important issues of the day, whether it's Libya, whether it's the debt ceiling, whether it's the discussion around the Kasich bill in Ohio, where Governor Romney has been missing in action in terms of showing any kind of leadership.
I do believe that the electorate this go around will be looking for clearly defined presidential leadership. And I'm not sure that we're seeing it.
We're putting out our own economic proposals, our foreign policy proposals. Next week, I'll have an energy speech that I'll be giving in New Hampshire. We're calling for clear-cut leadership positions for the United States to be taking that will get us back on our feet and secure…
BLITZER: All right…
HUNTSMAN: — the American century for the people of the United States.
BLITZER: So when you say he's a perfectly lubricated weather vane or when George Will says he's a recidivist reviser, we're talking about Mitt Romney, basically, you're both saying he's a flip-flopper on some of these most important issues.
HUNTSMAN: Listen, you don't get any more important than the issue of life. That is control to a lot of people's core beliefs and political philosophy. And when you have an epiphany on something that central to one's world view, that's going to strike a lot of people as being highly political.
BLITZER: And you're talking about abortion rights for women.
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I never thought I would be a mother of boys. I thought for sure the hand I would be dealt would include at least one daughter who would be twice the drama queen as I was growing up. I envisioned myself braiding hair, buying Barbies, having tea parties and playing dress-up in frilly dresses with rainbow colored eyeshadow and bright pink nail polish. Then my boys were born. Instead of tea parties, I get wrestling matches, baseball instead of Barbies, and dress up means storm trooper helmets, guns and light sabers. Today alone I filled a bucket full of worms, made a gigantic jumping pit out of pillows, lost a sword fight (twice), read and reread a Pittsburgh Steeler's book, taught the boys how to make spit wads and shoot them out of straws (that will come back to bite me) and pitched a mean game of baseball. All in a days work! Love it...
"The first woman a little boy falls in love with is his mom." ~Unknown
Here are some photos from today.
Love & Light,
I wish it was as cute for me to have a belly like this!
Sam. My friend's THIRD son! Such a cutie pie.
Cole & Nolan with their buddies, Jack and Charlie.
Nolan and Charlie.
Lewis Ginter. This is a house of sticks, trees and vines. It is AMAZING! The talent of the guy who designed and built it is unreal!
Baby feet in the sprinklers at Lewis Ginter.


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Description: This chic button-up blouse can be cut short to wear with a skirt or pants or made long to be worn with leggings. It features dramatic cuffs and darts for a flattering silhouette.
Material: 100% cotton material
Pattern: BurdaStyle Button Up Tunic
I've been slowly growing my work wardrobe but I don't think you can ever have enough work shirts for a bit of variety. Therefore, when I recently got a new job working back in the corporate environment, I decided to make some fun, flattering work shirts.
Gotta love my little pug baby – star of the show
I originally cut out a Vogue shirt pattern that I had made previously with sheer, see-through fabric, however it was a bit too big to use with 100% cotton material. So I opted for a more fitted style shirt by BurdaStyle, which included vertical side pleats on the front and back.


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Joe has been a web designer/developer since 1998.
Joe blends his creative side and knowledge of Graphic Design with his problem-solving skills and self-taught programming skills to build and support websites. Joe also has designed, implemented and maintained a variety of server platforms for websites over the years.
When Joe is not manipulating pixels into works of art, or stringing variables and methods together to bend WordPress or any other website technology to his will, he enjoys spending time with his two daughters and wife of 18 years. In his free time, Joe enjoys cooking/grilling, woodworking, video games and 3D modeling.
My freelancing site can be found here.
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TERN Project
Celebrating the birds and other diverse wildlife of Morecambe Bay, the TERN project is a stunning series of various award-winning sculptures situated along Morecambe's seafront and promenade. Steel cormorants, gannets and razorbills sit proudly on the roundabouts on Central Drive and on the top of bollards in the sea railings.
On the Stone Jetty, behind the Midland Hotel, you can find a huge compass, work out various wordy puzzles, and discover a strange mythical bird. The trail extends towards the Festival Market where you can follow a path made up of poems, jokes and quotes by famous authors, musicians, entertainers and artists.
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- Morecambe, Lancashire, LA4 4DB
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News__ Gerlan Jeans F/W '13
Let it all out
The Original Gerlan Jeans' fall/winter 2013 collection, appropriately dubbed Eccentric Lady, salutes woman who have a taste for the unique, and who flourish in their own zaniness.
Finding inspiration in sculptures and surreal art, Gerlan Jeans presents absolutely wild prints, like wavy cigarettes, Picasso-esque female faces, and marble columns, on richly textured wools, neoprene tech-outerwear and even illustrated into knitwear by NY label Degen. Best described as evening inspired sportswear, the dramatic proportions and tightly cropped pieces create a confusing yet entirely cohesive effect that is formal, contemporary and street. And as if the line couldn't get any more individual, the accompanying accessories are hand painted.
Take a look at the all too cool crazy cuts in the Gerlan Jeans f/w '13 collection below.


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OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
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January 2015
- Date & Time: Thursday, January 22, 2015 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)
- Location: Huntington LaunchPad, 315 Main Street, 2nd Fl, Huntington, NY.
- RSVP Requested
The meeting is free. Food and drink will be provided by our chapter supporter, Secure Decision.
- Aliens in Your Apps! Are You Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities?
We all know that Open Source brings speed, innovation, cost savings and more to our development efforts. It also brings risk. Bash, Heartbleed, Struts – anyone? Thus the OWASP A9 guideline – Don't Use Components with Known Vulnerabilities.
Join this session to hear the latest research on the most risky open source component types – the alien invaders hiding in your software. Explore the technical realities of why is has been so hard to fully eradicate vulnerable open source components. And learn best practices to manage your risk based on the 11,000 people who shared their experiences in the 4 year industry–wide study on open source development and application security. Among the surprising results…
1-in-3 organizations had or suspected an open source breach in the last 12 months Only 16% of participants must prove they are not using components with known vulnerabilities 64% don't track changes in open source vulnerability data
Join Brian for what is sure to be an engaging and insightful assessment of these trends with practical approaches to solving the problem today.
- About the Speaker:
- Brian Fox is VP of Product Management at Sonatype, with extensive open source experience as a member of the Apache Software Foundation for the past 7 years and former Chair of the Apache Maven project. Brian has provided significant development contributions to the Maven ecosystem, including the maven-dependency-plugin and maven-enforcer-plugin. He has over 15 years of experience driving the vision behind, as well as developing and leading the development of software for organizations ranging from startups to large enterprises. Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Daniel Webster College.
October 2014
- Date & Time: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)
- Location: Adelphi University 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530. Direction details are below.
- RSVP Requested
- Topics: Android Wear and Google Glass
- Android Wear and Google Glass introduce new ways of interacting with our apps and receiving timely, contextual information from the world around us. Smartphones and tablets are becoming the central point for sending and receiving data from wearables and sensors. Building apps for a wearable world introduces new risks as well as shifts the responsibilities for implementing security controls to other layers.
- About the Speaker:
- Jack Mannino is the CEO at nVisium and loves solving problems in the field of application security. With experience building, breaking, and securing software, he founded nVisium to invent new and more efficient ways of protecting software. Jack is a huge fan of contributing to open source projects, and leads the OWASP Northern Virginia chapter. In his spare time, he loves to kick around new frameworks and technologies, especially things that run Android. He's also an optimistic Mets fan, although that optimism slowly fades away every summer.
August 2014
- Date & Time: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)
- Location: Adelphi University - Hauppauge Center 55 Kennedy Drive Hauppauge, NY 11788
- Topics: OWASP / SWAMP(Software Assurance Market Place)
- RSVP requested
- OWASP / SWAMP Abstract:
- You may have heard the recent announcement of a strategic partnership between OWASP and the DHS-sponsored Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP). The SWAMP is an evolving national resource for software assurance, and a partnership between them and OWASP will be valuable to both organizations. You can learn about this growing relationship at https://www.owasp.org/index.php/SWAMP_OWASP.
- Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, is a local research and development firm with strong ties to the DHS Science and Technology directorate, and has direct involvement in the SWAMP. Ken Prole, Hassan Radwan, and Anita D'Amico will be presenting an overview of the SWAMP, including its architecture, its history, and a brief demonstration of its capabilities. Come prepared for a lively discussion on the value and challenges of the SWAMP and how those impact OWASP and the larger application security community.
June 2014
- Date & Time: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)
- Location: TIBCO Software Inc. offices 200 Garden City Plaza #220 Garden City, NY 11530
- Register: Free food and drinks will be provided. RSVP required. Click Here
- Topics: Heartbleed
- Heartbleed Abstract:
- The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet.
- The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.
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- Other External Resources:
- About the Speaker:
- Tom Brennan has been a volunteer to the OWASP Foundation since 2004 when he founded the New Jersey Chapter after serving on the Board of Directors for the FBI Infragard program in New Jersey. The NJ OWASP Chapter later merged with the New York City Chapter in 2006 creating OWASP NYC Metro Chapter. Tom was appointed to the Global Board of Directors in 2007 by his peers and was re-elected by the membership for another term.
- During his leadership within the OWASP Foundation, he has led many global and local initiatives for OWASP. Tom holds many industry certifications since he began his technical journey in 1983 including the (ISC)²® CBK / CISSP and many others.
- Tom is also the founder of proactiveRISK
April 2014
- Date & Time: Monday, April 28, 2014 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)
- Location: TIBCO Software Inc. offices 200 Garden City Plaza #220 Garden City, NY 11530
- Topics: Brainstorming session for organizing chapter activities and requesting volunteers for new board members.
- Abstract:
- This is a meeting to brainstorm ideas on how to outreach and organize chapter activities. This is also a greet and meet opportunity for people who want to join the chapter board. Whether you are ready to join the board or not, you are welcome to the meeting or email your suggestions to helen.gao at owasp.org.
- A simple dinner will be provided.
Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions Inc. is a sponsor of this meeting.
TIBCO Software Inc. is a sponsor of this meeting.
April 2013
- Date & Time: Thursday, April 25, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)
- Location: TIBCO Software Inc. offices 200 Garden City Plaza #220 Garden City, NY 11530
- Topics: RailsGoat & GoatDroid
- RailsGoat Abstract:
- While working to secure rails applications in a truly Agile development environment, it became clear that the Rails and Ruby ecosystem needed attention from the security community in the form of free and open training, and the events that have transpired within the last few months have only reinforced that belief. RailsGoat is an attempt to bring attention to both the problems that most frequently occur in Rails as well as the solutions for remediation. To accomplish this, we've built a vulnerable Rails application that aligns with the OWASP Top 10 and can be used as a training tool for Rails-based development shops.
- About the Speaker:
- Ken Johnson is the former Manager of LivingSocial.com's application security team where he built their security program before leaving for his true home as the CTO of nVisium Security, a VA-based application security company. Ken is the primary developer of the Web Exploitation Framework and contributes to other open source application security projects as often as time permits. He has spoken at AppSec DC 2010 and 2012, OWASP NoVA and Phoenix chapters, Northern Virginia Hackers Association (NoVAH) and is a contributor to the Attack Research team.
- GoatDroid Abstract:
- Like it or not, your developers copy and paste code and "borrow" ideas from open source projects. This presentation will detail the results of analyzing over 100,000 Android applications available publicly on GitHub. We will examine the most prevalent frameworks and libraries in use and discuss their implications for security. Our focus is less theoretical and more practical based on what developers are actually doing and using within their apps. From there, we will take a deeper look at common vulnerabilities that are systemic throughout the Android application ecosystem. We will look at specific examples of vulnerable real-world applications, and fix code on the fly.
- About the Speaker:
- Jack Mannino is the CEO of nVisium Security, a VA-based application security company. At nVisium, he helps to ensure that large corporations, government agencies, and software startups have the tools they need to build and maintain successful security initiatives. He is an active Android security researcher/tinkerer, and has a keen interest in identifying security issues and trends on a large scale. Jack is a leader and founder of the OWASP Mobile Security Project. He is the lead developer for the OWASP GoatDroid project, and is the chairman of the OWASP Northern Virginia chapter.
December 2012
- Date & Time: Thursday, December 13, 2012 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)
- Location: Room 108 on the first level of Hagedorn Hall of Enterprise (Building HHE on Map upper right), Adelphi University
- Topics: Thread Modeling
- About the Speaker:
- Dr. Kees Leune is an Information Security Officer, Strategist, Professor, Mentor, Adviser, Consultant, Speaker and occasional open source developer. He blogs at http://www.leune.org and can be found on Twitter as @leune. Kees has extensive experience in information security and holds several professional certifications, including the CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, CISM, and CISA.
September 2012
- Date & Time: Monday, September 24, 2012 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)
- Location: IT conference room in the lower level of Hagedorn Hall of Enterprise (Building HHE on Map upper right), Adelphi
- Topics: Top 10 Web Defenses through Secure Application Programming
- Abstract:
- Top Ten Web Defenses We cannot hack or firewall our way secure. Application programmers need to learn to code in a secure fashion if we have any chance of providing organizations with proper defenses in the current threatscape. This talk will discuss the 10 most important security-centric computer programming techniques necessary to build low-risk web-based applications.
- About the Speaker:
- Jim Manico is the VP of Security Architecture for WhiteHat Security, a web security firm. Jim is a participant and project manager of the OWASP Developer Cheatsheet series. He is also the producer and host of the OWASP Podcast Series.
- Meeting Replay Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r12yiXnagbY&sns=em
May 2012
- Date & Time: Thursday, May 10, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)
- Location: IT conference room in the lower level of Hagedorn Hall of Enterprise (Building HHE on Map upper right), Adelphi University.
- Topics: OWASP Top 10 Mobile Risks / Practical Android Security
- Abstract:
- Building secure Android applications can be achieved with a mix of common sense, leveraging platform security features, and following secure development best practices. This presentation will focus on security "quick wins" during development and will cover techniques that can reduce the overall attack surface within Android applications.
- The OWASP GoatDroid and OWASP MobiSec tools will be used throughout the presentation to demonstrate issues encountered in the real world. We will cover the attack surface for Android and highlight the most prevalent security flaws found within production applications.
- Topics:
- Mobile Application Security
- OWASP GoatDroid
- OWASP MobiSec
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- About the Speaker:
- Jack Mannino is the CEO of nVisium Security, an application security firm located within the Washington DC area. At nVisium, he helps to ensure that large corporations, government agencies, and software startups have the tools they need to build and maintain successful application security initiatives. He is an active Android security researcher, and has a keen interest in identifying security issues and trends on a large scale. Jack is the leader and founder of the OWASP Mobile Security Project. He also serves as a board member on the OWASP Northern Virginia chapter. Jack is also the lead developer for the OWASP GoatDroid Project, which is a collection of vulnerable Android applications used for training and education.
February 2012
- Date & Time: Thursday, February 16, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)
- Location: IT conference room in the lower level of Hagedorn Hall of Enterprise (Building HHE on Map upper right), Adelphi University.
- Topics: Dr. Kees Leune - Lab utilizing some of the OWASP 10 vulnerabilities with BackTrack 5.
- Abstract:
- Topics:
- Overview of BackTrack
- Overview of some tools on BackTrack (nmap, JohnTheRipper,MetaSploit)
- Overview of the lab challenge (covers multiple owasp top 10 vulns)
- Laptops are needed if you wish to participate in the lab exercise!
- About the Speaker:
Dr. Kees Leune is an Information Security Officer, Strategist, Professor, Mentor, Adviser, Consultant, Speaker and occasional open source developer. He blogs at http://www.leune.org and can be found on Twitter as @leune. Kees has extensive experience in information security and holds several professional certifications, including the CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, CISM, and CISA.
September 2011
- Date & Time: Thursday, September 22, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)
- Location: University Club Facility at David Mack Hall, Hosftra University, Hempstead, NY 11549-1000
- Topics: Web application Vulnerabilities & Round Table Discussions Coordinated by Ryan Behan
- Abstract:
- Helen Gao - Cross-site scripting, the most prevalent. Web application vulnerability: Helen will discuss one of the most widespread Web application Vulnerabilities. How can an application be attacked and how to protect yourself.
- About the Speaker:
- Helen Gao has worked in the field of information security since 1991. Helen has worked as an application developer, project manager, and software architect. Her employment history includes working at a financial institution, a market research company, a high-tech device manufacturer and a software company. Helen is currently a senior architect at TIBCO Software Inc. Her job duties include the design and development of complex event processing software. The protection of information security in such systems is challenging, due to their strict performance requirements in terms of high event throughput and low processing latency. Helen welcomes the challenge and uses the knowledge she obtained from OWASP to manage project life cycles.
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- Topics:
- Recent Attack on Infraguard Website.
- Security as a Service Model vs. Internally Managed Security -Five years from now, what will IT look like?
- LulzSec, Anonymous, A-Team - Motivations for attacks? How do small-medium size businesses protect themselves from this? Insurance, increased IT budgets?
- About the Speaker:
- Ryan Behan is the Director of Internal IT at Netsmart Technologies Inc. He is a strong proponent of information sharing, application security and improving business agility through automation and scalable infrastructure.
May 2011
- Date: Saturday, May 14, 2011
- Time: 12:30pm - 3:30pm
- Location: Student Center, Hosftra University, Hempstead, NY 11549-1000
- Topics & Speakers:
Robert Gezelter -
Minimum Necessary Implementation: Reducing Attack Surface increase Security
Ensuring the security and integrity of web-based applications is a constant challenge. Web-based applications are inherently customer-facing, and an attractive avenue of attack. However, vulnerability is often unnecessarily increased by poor technology choices. Different technologies have different degrees of vulnerability. ActiveX creates a higher exposure than Java or JavaScript, which in turn has more potential for abuse than simple CSS. Some approaches (e.g., unguarded SQL queries) are particularly vulnerable to attack (e.g., SQL injection); other approaches unnecessarily create exposures by requiring unrestricted trust (e.g., ActiveX).
Judicious division of responsibilities between clients and servers is another aspect of the same problem, as clients are inherently less-trustable than servers. We will examine how using the minimum necessary technology reduces attack surface, decreases vulnerabilities, and decreases costs.
About the speaker - Mr. Gezelter has more than 30 years of international consulting experience on architectures, protocols, and implementation techniques in both the private and public sectors. He has spoken widely at conferences throughout the United States and internationally. He has also published numerous technical papers and book chapters, including two chapters in the Computer Security Handbook, 5th Edition and two chapters in the Handbook of Information Security. He also publishes Ruminations - An IT Blog on a variety of topics relating to Information Technology and systems architect.
March 2011
- Date & Time: Sunday, March 27, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM (ET)
- Location: 2nd Floor, Jericho Public Library, 1 Merry Lane, Jericho, New York 11753
- Topics: Intro to the OWASP Mobile Project, The Exploit Intelligence Project and Demo / Web Vulnerabilities Intro
- Abstract:
- The OWASP Mobile Project is in its infancy, but has generated a lot of interest in the security and mobile development communities. Recently, delegates at the OWASP Summit in Portugal started laying the ground work to help guide the project through its inaugural year. One of the objectives for this year will be to ratify the current, unofficial OWASP Mobile Top 10 List. This presentation will do a deep dive into the current list, citing real world examples of insecure mobile applications.
- About the Speaker:
- Rajendra Umadas, OWASP Member
- Abstract:
- In 2011, mass malware is still the most common source of compromise on corporate networks. Bots like Zeus, Gozi, and Clampi successfully infect devices despite organizations carefully managing disclosed vulnerabilities and subscribing to detailed analysis of the latest malware families. Existing efforts at malware prevention focus broadly on vulnerabilities and their impact yet ignore the means by which they are exploited and the motivations, opportunities and capabilities of attackers, which has allowed this problem to become worse year-after-year.
- In this talk, I introduce an intelligence-driven approach to malware defense, focusing on attacker's capabilities and methods, with data collected from the most popular crimeware packs currently deployed in-the-wild. This analysis identifies the means by which exploits are developed and selected for inclusion in crimeware packs, identifies defenses that are outside the capability of malware exploit writers to bypass, and helps attendees evaluate not just the exploitability, but the probability of a vulnerability being exploited. This study shows that, until crimeware packs substantially advance in sophistication, only a few simple defensive tactics are required to protect users from such opportunistic threats.
- About the Speaker:
- Dan Guido, OWASP NY/NJ Board Member
- Abstract:
- WebScarab Demo / Web Vulnerabilities Intro WebScarab is a framework for analysing applications that communicate using the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It is written in Java, and is thus portable to many platforms. WebScarab has several modes of operation, implemented by a number of plugins. In its most common usage, WebScarab operates as an intercepting proxy, allowing the operator to review and modify requests created by the browser before they are sent to the server, and to review and modify responses returned from the server before they are received by the browser. WebScarab is able to intercept both HTTP and HTTPS communication. The operator can also review the conversations (requests and responses) that have passed through WebScarab.
- In this demo we'll use WebScarab against some emulated vulnerabilities developed by Blake Cornell.
- About the Speaker:
- Ryan Behan, OWASP LI Board Member
- Helen Gao - Helen is passionate about information security. She founded the Long Island chapter in 2006. Helen works in the Garden City office of TIBCO Software Inc. She is a senior software architect. She is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISSP. Helen was the OWASP Security Person of the Year in 2012.
- Dr. Kees Leune - Dr. Leune is Adelphi University's Information Security Officer, where his responsibilities include all aspects of the University's information security posture, include strategy, architecture, policy and incident response. He teaches as an adjunct professor, and is a gold adviser for the Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC). Kees is active on Twitter as @leune and (occasionally) blogs at www.leune.org.
- Frank Zinghini - Frank is founder and president of Applied Visions Inc. (AVI), a software engineering firm specializing in custom application development for commercial and government customers. The Secure Decisions division of AVI specializes in cyber security research and development for the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and the Intelligence Community; that research has produced Code Dx, an Application Security Testing platform that integrates open source and commercial SAST and DAST technology for effective analysis and remediation of software vulnerabilities.
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Before you set up email on your iphone you need to use the Hosting Control Panel (Plesk) to create your email account, that you wish to use. See Setting up email accounts. Login to webmail to check that the newly created email account works and write down the email address and password.
The information below details how to set up an email account on an iphone but you can use the principles to set up email on any mobile phone. Phone carriers want to discourage SPAM emails going through their network, so they need to verify that the person sending the email, is a valid account holder on their network.
The benefits of using an email address associated with your domain name, are many including branding and transportability. It looks more professional to have an email address with your domain name than to use a generic or free email address. Some clients use mobileme, to host their website and order business email hosting, which comes with email accounts and the ability to edit zone files, so that their website urls all use their domain name, not the me.com or web.com email address.
Setting up Email on Iphone
Find the "Settings" option on the home screen of your iPhone and then choose "Mail, Contacts, Calendars". Under the accounts "Accounts" option select the "Add Account" optionm then select "Other". Click on the "Add Mail Account" button. You will now be on the "New Account" screen and you can fill in the following details:
"Save" these settings.
You will now need to manually configure your mail server settings. The iPhone will now attempt to automatically retrieve the server settings and after it fails to do so, you can then configure the settings yourself.
Selected "POP" and then enter the following information. If your phone carrier supports "IMAP", select "IMAP".
Incoming Mail Server
Outgoing Mail Server
"Save" these settings. You will then get a popup asking if you want to set up the account up without SSL. Select "Yes".
Now test the email account that you have just set up and send an email to this account and reply to that email from your iphone.


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Hazel Williams-Carter was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to the USA in her early 20's. She now resides in West Los Angeles where she has a private practice specializing in treating the root causes of trauma, early childhood attachment wounds, anxiety, depression, transgenerational trauma, and the development of spiritual consciousness and empowerment.
Her education experience provides her with more than twenty healing modalities to assist clients. Hazel has trained with the top medical professionals, neuroscientists, and specialists in the field of trauma and attachment repair.
Hazel has led groups and trained in constellation work for more than 13 years and is certified by The Hellinger Institute and Francesca Mason Boring. She has also attended workshops in Germany with the founding teachers of Constellation Work. In her practice, Hazel offers Organic Constellations which contribute her unique style to the constellation field.
Hazel is a Traumacologist and founder of The Healing Trauma Center which offers Clinical Hypnotherapy and Rapid Resolution Therapy. She is also trained in Somatic Trauma Resolution and attachment, and in bonding and re-patterning work. Hazel is certified in Brainspotting and Bi-Lateral Stimulation Therapy, Comprehensive Resource Model CRM), Rewind Therapy, Dynamic Attachment and Re-patterning Experience (DARe), Non Violent Communication (NVC), Emotional Code, Mindfulness, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), and Soul Memory Discovery.
Hazel has been a Shamanic Practitioner and teacher dedicated to the Shamanic path for over 25 years. She has trained and experienced initiations with Shamans in the Celtic, Mexican, Peruvian, Brazilian, Hawaiian, and Tibetan Bon traditions as well as done a 3 year training with The Foundation For Shamanic Studies.
Hazel completed a two year training in vibrational medicine with Tama Do Academy, where she learned Sound Therapy, Color light Therapy, and Chi Therapies. She also uses Bush Flower Essences, Perelandra Flower Essences, and Gem Waters, plus many other healing modalities and energy psychologies.
Hazel has been a student and teacher of The Ancient Wisdom for over 20 year,s and integrates science and spirituality in her personal daily practice and in her service to humanity. She continues to keep abreast with the latest research in Brain Science and Trauma Resolution, and she shares her wisdom and compassion in her weekly groups and trainings.
For more information, click on the "Workshops" icon at the top of the page.


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Oakland, Berkeley, And East Bay News, Events, Restaurants, Music, & Arts
A.J. Jacobs had to stone strangers for breaking the Sabbath. He felt uneasy about it, so he gathered a handful of tiny pebbles in Central Park and, rather than throw them, dropped them casually onto the shoes of locals who he knew worked on both Saturdays and Sundays. When he tried to stone a self-described adulterer whom he met in the park, the guy threatened to punch him out. Esquire editor Jacobs a longtime agnostic who wrote essays about the symbolism of bong hits as a Brown University undergrad followed the Bible literally for twelve months as a social experiment. He wore the clothes, followed the commandments, talked the scriptural talk, and walked the robed, sandaled, walking-sticked walk. "I wanted to get into the minds of the ancients," Jacobs explains now. He immersed himself in Old Testament minutiae: Mixed-fiber clothing is verboten; one must blow a horn on the first day of every month. He ate "biblical foods," including crickets: "They're crunchy," reports Jacobs, whom Cody's has invited to discuss his project at where better? the First Congregational Church of Berkeley (2345 Channing Way, Berkeley) on October 24 at 7:30 p.m. Hardest of all to follow, he muses, were "the rules that banned all the sins we all commit every day. No gossiping. No lying. No coveting. Imagine trying not to covet in New York." He started the year close-cropped and clean-shaven, but soon sported an unruly thicket of a beard that made him "resemble Moses. Or Abe Lincoln. Or Ted Kaczynski," he writes in The Year of Living Biblically. Passersby called him all three, plus Gandalf. During that year, Jacobs mingled with deeply religious types, from snake-handlers to gay evangelicals to Samaritans in Israel. Ultimately, "I learned that it's impossible to follow the Bible literally. And it's not just impossible, but it's not a good idea. Certain fundamentalists who say they're following the entire Bible literally are deluded." Then again, "I learned that even the rules that seem crazy at first can have a deeper meaning." Suggested donation: $10 general/$5 students. FCCB.org
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Christopher Pack
Université McGill
Domaine : neurosciences, santé mentale et toxicomanie
Programme chercheurs-boursiers - Senior
Concours 2016-2017
Most people rely on vision for fundamental activities, such as navigating through the world and recognizing faces. Although the visual system of the brain has been a topic of great interest in scientific research, there are still many aspects of visual function that are poorly understood. Moreover, we lack technologies to restore these critical functions to those who suffer from vision loss.
During the next four years, my laboratory will pursue cutting-edge research on the visual cortex of the brain. We will develop a mathematical understanding of the computations carried out by neurons in brain areas responsible for recognizing faces and motion patterns, and we will determine how these areas interact with brain structures responsible for controlling eye movements. Our previous work suggests that this interaction may provide a probe into the mechanisms that go awry in mental disorders such as schizophrenia.
Finally, we will make use of this knowledge to develop new prosthetic devices that have the capability of restoring visual function in the absence of normal visual input. Together, these research projects will advance our understanding of one of the most important functions of the human brain and open new doors for the clinical treatment of vision loss.


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David Walston - Improving yields & profits by improving soils
I grew up in a farming family in Cambridgeshire, but for the first 26 years of my life had very little idea what happened on the farm outside the harvest months. After studying biology at university, then working as a photographer and magazine editor for the following six years, I found myself working back on the farm in 2009. We are a predominantly arable farm, growing wheat, rapeseed, peas, beans and sugar beet, on an area of about 800ha. Aside from this I have a small herd of Wagyu cattle, started from scratch using imported frozen embryos. Although when I started farming I had very little knowledge, and not a huge amount of enthusiasm for the task, it has really grown on me to the point where I cannot imagine doing anything else. I am looking forward to my studies, and hoping that they will help me to significantly improve the farm in the coming years.
I live on the farm with my wife Sabrina, and 16 month old daughter Elyse.


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Hillmuth Auto Care is a family-owned and operated business run by brothers Doug and Billy Hillmuth, with their sons Scott, and Billy Hillmuth III.
The two brothers started the business in 1978 out of a 2 bay repair shop on Dobbin Road in Columbia MD. In 1980 Doug and Billy moved the location about a mile up the road to a 18 bay facility, which today is still located on Oak Hall Lane.
In 1986, the two brothers decided to expand their business and opened their 2nd location in Gaithersburg MD. The decision to open up another location was based on personal growth for them and their team. This location has a total of 10 bays and currently is the only Hillmuth Auto Care facility in Montgomery County. The 3rd location was added in 1996, which has 6 bays an located in Clarksville MD. The 4th Location is a 7 bay facility located in Glenwood MD.
The Hilllmuth sons have worked in the business from a young age where their fathers have been preparing them for succession. Hillmuth has employed many great people of the 3 decades with an average tenure of 15 years, this is largely due to the Hillmuth's treating their team as family. Currently, Hillmuth Auto Care has 15 Technicians, 8 Service Advisors, and 5 Shuttle Drivers. All of these team members culture is focused on customer service, which has, and always will be, a family tradition.


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Guyana is among several Caribbean countries being offered help to dispose of obsolete firearms and munitions and secure stockpiles in keeping with international standards, officials said at the weekend. The assistance, which could include laws and regulations, is available from the United Nations Office for Disarmament's Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC). UNILIREC's ...Read More »
Daily Archives: June 15, 2013
Guyanese is finalist for presidency of US university
Board of Regents Chair "Dink" NeSmith and University System of Georgia (USG) Chancellor Hank Huckaby have announced the name of the finalist for the Fort Valley State University presidency. A national search was launched to replace FVSU President Larry Rivers, who will serve through June 2013 before stepping down. Dr. Rivers served the USG in that role since 2006. The ...Read More »
Veteran Guyanese journalist memorialized
Family, friends and colleagues of veteran journalist Courtney Emmanuel Gibson, on Saturday gathered at the St Sidwell's Anglican Church, Georgetown , Guyana for a Memorial and Service in Thanksgiving for his 60 years of life. In his tribute, Opposition Leader and Leader of the People's National Congress Reform, Brigadier (Retired) David Granger, said that Gibson's legacy would be his resilient contribution ...Read More »
Ramotar puts brake on 'light bill' increase
Determined to have the $5.2B budgetary allocation to the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) restored, President Donald Ramotar on Friday ordered a delay in the proposed 26.7 percent tariff hike the power company is planning to implement. The instruction was given after the Head of State met with the Board and management of the power company for talks earlier in ...Read More »
FAO targeting dreaded Black Sigatoka in Guyana, four other Caricom countries
Guyana, which registered a 100 percent slump in its plantain exports due to the Black Sigatoka disease, is among five Caribbean countries whose experts are being trained in managing the dreaded disease that also attacks bananas, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced on Friday. "In countries where Black Sigatoka Disease has flourished, the banana and plantain industries have suffered ...Read More »
Miner hacked to death over tea preparation
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Gotta Clear Off the Important Stuff First
Just finished almost 4 hours of snowblowing here in New Hampshire. We got about 2ft of snow and some cool drifts from the high winds. Had to make a path out back to the chicken coop, and around the other side of the house for oil and propane delivery. A quick bite to eat, and then back outside to play on my 4wd utility(sic) quad!
Oh man! You got dumped on. We are expecting 5 to 7 inches tomorrow. Nothing compared to what you have! Stay warm and safe.
I was wondering how much snow you got over there. How soon before you take the Ural out and play in the snow?


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It's been feeling more and more wintry this week so there was no better time to dust off my faux fur stole from last winter that I affectionately refer to as my 'fake roadkill' AKA Boris. It goes without saying that I would never wear *actual* roadkill... or real fur. I mean, yuck. Boris is so warm and stroke-able that whenever I wear him it's like walking around whilst having my cat draped around my neck, which would never happen in real life.
Fake Roadkill: H&M
Cardigan: Silence + Noise at Urban Outfitters, USA (Size XS)
Dress: Topshop (Size 6)
Boots: Topshop (Size 5)
I bought the cardigan in the States and have been pretty much living in it ever since. I love the colour, the slouchy kimono-esque batwing shape and the unusual marble knit effect (my own terminology). Here it is without Boris:
|Yes, this dress was in my last post too. It is wonderfully versatile.
And the marble bobble knit in close-up:
Have you ever turned up to something and realised, to your horror, that you're not the only person in the room in that there outfit? This happened to me this week when I got to work and realised that the lovely Andrea, WHO I SIT NEXT TO, was in a very similar get up. We fell about laughing and promptly took a picture:
|Yes, Andrea's dress has featured previously. I also have her necklace, nearly wore it too!
Andrea's Necklace: H&M
Andrea's Dress & Cardigan: River Island
|Sigh, usual fringe-related problems.
|Realisation of outfit duplication.
|Nope, really can't remember what we were doing here.
|So. Very. Cold.


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Understanding Modesty
There is nothing worse than being around people who are full of themselves. Though self recognition is important for one's confidence, the vulgar expression of pride is irritating. This has raised the value of modesty. The social norms demand more humbleness from more talented individuals. However, the expression of modesty is in fact the ultimate form of narcissism.
Prior to discussing the nature of modesty, it is important to understand why many people tend to be so full of themselves. Among the swarm of people, the value of an individual seems trivial. Humans are thus born with the quest to discover and protect one's identity. Ironically, identical traits do not aid in defining identity. Identity is found from unidentical features. People thus live with different principles and values, in search of self. However, not every idea is accepted by others. Or more importantly, most people are not satisfied with the amount of recognition they get. This dissatisfaction triggers self to advertise one's success. The emptiness that is not fulfilled by self, is subsequently demanded to be filled by others in an immature way: bragging. Too afraid to admit that one simply wants recognition, one pretends to be completely satisfied with oneself.
Simply not showing off one's pride does not make a person modest. Individuals without any accomplishments or enough confidence are not being humble. They are more lost in the search of self. This is a phase that every individual goes through multiple times in his/her life. But this is far from being humble. It is important to distinguish modesty from such silence. While one is the epitome of confidence, the other is its deprivation. Only when one is confident with oneself could one be modest. Self growth cannot be triggered without loving oneself. Narcissism is not only instinctive, but also needed for one's growth.
By this point, I want to categorize four stages that lead to modesty. At first, people start off unrecognized and unconfident. At this stage, it is important to gain confidence to step up and make the effort to get recognition. The next stage is unrecognized yet confident. This is when a person starts to make accomplishments and boast about them to get recognition. Then comes the third stage, recognized but unsatisfied. An individual starts to doubt the worth of one's accomplishment and tries even harder to be affirmed by others. Finally, an individual becomes both recognized and confident about their accomplishments, and turns modest. Being modest is the last stage in the combined ladder of recognition and confidence. In this last step, the support of others is necessary. Without the appreciation of others, the stage could not be reached.
So, it is the modest people who are the most full of themselves. I want to pinpoint that narcissism is not bad, and only those who appreciate themselves enough could appreciate others as well. Life is not lived in solitude, and many areas need the help of others. In the context that every individual loves oneself enough, the rapport with others is critical. We can reciprocally fill in each other's voidness. This could make people modest and satisfied. Praising others when they deserve it could make modest gentlemen out of the most irritable braggarts. Those who know me, now know why I behave like I do. Please help me be modest with a few kind words.
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Implementing a Framework for Risk-Informed Regulation in the Office of Nuclear Material Sagety and Safeguards
November 17, 1999
The Honorable Richard A. Meserve
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, D.C. 20555-0001
Dear Chairman Meserve:
During the 113th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste (ACNW), October 12-13, 1999, and the 467th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), November 4-6, 1999, the Committees considered the staff's proposed framework for risk-informed and performance-based regulation in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS), as articulated in SECY-99-100 and an associated Staff Requirements Memorandum dated June 28, 1999. A meeting of the ACRS/ACNW Joint Subcommittee was held on May 11, 1999, to discuss these matters. We had the benefit of the documents referenced.
NMSS should develop a set of principles and a safety goal approach for each of its regulated activities to guide its implementation of risk-informed and performance-based regulation.
NMSS should identify the analytical methods to be applied to implement risk-informed and performance-based regulation on an application-specific basis.
The NMSS staff is examining the use of risk information in four major categories of regulated activities: (1) long-term commitment of a site to the presence of nuclear material (e.g., high-level waste disposal); (2) use of engineered casks to isolate nuclear material under a variety of conditions (e.g., transportation and storage); (3) physical and chemical processing and possession of nuclear material at a large-scale facility (e.g., fuel fabrication); and (4) use of sealed or unsealed byproduct material in industrial and medical applications. The objectives of this examination are to focus regulatory activities on matters that are important to safety and avoid unnecessary burdens on licensees and the NRC staff.
The diversity of the four categories of activities listed above indicates that the risk assessment methods for material licensees are likely to be different from those for nuclear power plants. While quantitative risk assessment is a well-developed and utilized tool for nuclear power plant licensees, it may be unnecessarily complex for the NMSS regulated activities. The performance assessments (PAs) done for waste repositories are conceptually similar to probabilistic risk assessments (PRAs) for reactors. Recently, there have been developments for simplified approaches to quantitative risk analysis, e.g., integrated safety assessments (ISAs), that are less rigorous than PRAs or PAs.
The staff must address two crucial issues as it considers risk methods in the regulation of material licensees:
What criteria should be used to decide whether the regulations for a specific nuclear materials activity should be changed to a risk-informed regulation? Can the current deterministic criteria, accounting methods, or proposed approaches such as ISA accomplish risk-informed objectives?
What risk analysis methods (and scope) and risk acceptance criteria should be applied to the operations that merit risk-informed regulation?
To address the first question, we believe that the staff will need to develop a set of principles for risk-informed regulation. Such a set of principles is important to guide the need for and change from a prescriptive form of regulation to a less prescriptive, but risk-informed, method of regulation. In developing these principles, the staff should take full advantage of the knowledge base unique to materials and waste disposal regulation, as well as the staff's experience in developing principles for other regulatory applications, such as Regulatory Guide 1.174.
Some of the characteristics of nuclear materials regulation that differ from reactor regulation include: (1) experience in regulating to radiation exposure standards, as opposed to surrogate measures such as facility damage, (2) diversity of types of licensee activities involving major differences in materials, facilities, and practices, (3) activities not dominated by a clear-cut feature such as core damage, and (4) activities where the operational risk, as opposed to the accident risk, may be the central issue of risk regulation. Although these characteristics distinguish materials regulation from reactor regulation, the Committees believe that the approach to regulatory decisionmaking for the NMSS activities should have a basis that is consistent with the approach for reactor regulation.
An important element introduced in Regulatory Guide 1.174 and that should be investigated in the present context of materials regulation is that regulatory decisionmaking should be based on an analytic and deliberative process. Analytical results from risk assessments and other engineering analyses are only part of the input to this process. Qualitative inputs, e.g., the preservation of the defense-in-depth philosophy, may be considered by an expert panel or other decisionmaking entity. In developing the new principles, the staff should consider this approach and its applicability to the various NMSS activities. If qualitative information is to be used in the decisionmaking process, then the reason(s) should be explained. If there is a need for an expert panel for some activities, its form and composition should be discussed.1/
Consideration should be given to developing variations on the safety goal approach to risk acceptance. One variation may be to include uncertainty directly in the risk acceptance criteria via required confidence levels in their determination. Another may be to define acceptance criteria that are either met or not, i.e., the range of risk is partitioned into two regions, the acceptable and unacceptable regions. Another might be to adopt a three-region approach. In this concept, there is a range of acceptability with an upper and lower bound. The lower bound constitutes the level below which no further action is required. The upper bound constitutes a level above which definitive action to control the risk is required. The middle region is the region in which cost-benefit tradeoffs can be made. These are a few concepts that should be investigated by the staff for materials regulation. There may be others.
The Committees believe that, just as "guiding principles" are important to establishing a well-founded philosophy of risk-informed regulation, so are certain risk assessment concepts. The representation of risk as a triplet set is such a guiding concept. The triplet consists of accident scenarios (what can go wrong?), probabilities of these scenarios (how likely is each scenario?), and the consequences (what are the consequences?). We view the various risk (or safety) assessment methods that exist in the literature as dealing with these three elements of the risk triplet in different ways. PRAs for reactors and PAs for HLW repositories offer the most complete treatment of the triplet, and they require the most resources. We believe that the staff should clarify how any chosen method deals with the risk triplet (either quantitatively or qualitatively) and justify the appropriateness of the selected scopes as differentiated among the four major categories of NMSS licensees. If methods that are less rigorous than PRAs or PAs are judged to be appropriate for certain applications, their treatment of the triplet should be explicitly identified. The reasons for resorting to these less rigorous methods should be carefully justified. We are especially concerned about the completeness of the scenario list and the analysis of uncertainties.
We look forward to reviewing staff activities on these matters during future meetings.
Sincerely, _________/s/____________ ___________/s/___________ B. John Garrick Dana A. Powers Chairman, ACNW Chairman, ACRS
Footnote: 1/ This concept of an expert panel refers to the discussion on integrated decisionmaking in Regulatory Guide 1.174. The purpose of such an expert panel is to evaluate multiple sources of information to make decisions in an integrated manner. This is different from the guidance in the "Branch Technical Position on the Use of Expert Elicitation in the High-Level Radioactive Waste Program," NUREG-1563, that refers to a specific formalized process for developing information and "data" to be used in a performance assessment.
Memorandum dated June 28, 1999, from Annette Vietti-Cook, Secretary, NRC, to William D. Travers, Executive Director for Operations, NRC, and John T. Larkins, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Subject: Staff Requirements - SECY-99-100 - Framework for Risk-Informed Regulation in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
SECY-99-100, Memorandum dated March 31, 1999, from William D. Travers, Executive Director for Operations, NRC, to the Commissioners, Subject: Framework for Risk-Informed Regulation in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
Memorandum dated February 24, 1999, from Annette Vietti-Cook, Secretary, NRC, to William D. Travers, Executive Director for Operations, NRC, Subject: Staff Requirements - SECY-99-144 - White Paper on Risk-Informed and Performance-Based Regulation.
Report dated April 19, 1999, from Dana A. Powers, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, to Shirley Ann Jackson, Chairman, NRC, Subject: Status of Efforts on Revising the Commission's Safety Goal Policy Statement.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Regulatory Guide 1.174, "An Approach for Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Risk-Informed Decisions on Plant-Specific Changes to the Licensing Basis," July 1998.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG-1563, "Branch Technical Position on the Use of Expert Elicitation in the High-Level Radioactive Waste Program," November 1996.


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dinner time...or tea time?
Another week, another meal plan! I make this my 3rd in 3 weeks yes? I'm gonna call that a win! Anyways enough of me peeping my own trumpet, on with the meal plan!
Last weeks meals went down a treat, you can find all the recipes over on last weeks plan.
- Jacket potatoes filled with cheesy spinach and mushrooms: DELICIOUS!
- Veggie tacos: Soooooo good! And we had leftover filling so I used that the next day as a pasta sauce (which was also delicious!)
- Hulk smash pasta: See above!
- Crushed potato topped shepherds pie: This was delicious, I also added some mushrooms and carrots as we had some that needed using up.
- Fakeaway Subway: AMAZING! Evie was so pleased she got to finally eat this! As whenever we have had it before she seems to be ill!
- Jackfruit burritos: YUMMY!
- Stilton and leek bread and butter bake: We didn't have this.
Monday: Sesame and ginger noodles.
We love a quick stir fry, and they are just perfect for Monday nights, I saw this sesame and ginger stir fry on Pinterest, it looks soooo good, don't you think?
Tuesday: Veggie and butter bean bake
This veggie and butter bean bake is something we used to make at a kids cooking class we went too when the mini's were toddlers! Its super easy and the kids love getting involved to feed the family too! This is such an awful blog post, and hardly any photos, and the ones there to don't do it any justice...must remember to take photos and redo this post!


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For the longest time, you only had to build landing pages for desktop and laptop computers, all of which had full keyboards and mice.
But now there's more internet usage on smartphones and tablets than on traditional computers, not to mention that it's touch input, and they don't have physical keyboards or mice, or even universal resolutions or screen sizes.
Despite almost universal mobile adoption, I keep seeing newly built landing pages, or even entire websites, that aren't mobile or multi-device friendly.
Making a landing page work on multiple devices can seem like a difficult task, but it's actually within anyone's grasp, with the aid of a little bit of planning.
How to fix it:
Step 1: Start with a responsive front-end framework
Without getting too technical, a responsive front-end framework is a pre-made HTML and CSS (and sometimes Javascript) library that helps adjust your website around different screen sizes without you having to figure out the logic of that process.
Responsive front-end frameworks take care of 90% of the mechanics (and headaches) of making sure your site will work on different devices.
Two of the most popular responsive front-end frameworks are Bootstrap and Foundation and while these aren't the only two options out there, they have been well tested across a large number of users and devices, and both have large communities behind them. Both are open source and free to use.
Right now UsersThink uses Bootstrap via the Shoestrap WordPress theme and like the frameworks themselves, this theme is also open source and free to use.
Compared to trying to do this from scratch yourself, these frameworks will save you an immense amount of work and effort.
Step 2: Style the responsive front-end framework to the design aesthetic you'd like for your landing page
One of the biggest criticisms against a responsive front-end framework is that pages built that way all look the same.
If you just use it as is, that's true, but they're designed to be altered to look however you want, while still trusting the framework you use will keep your landing page multi-device friendly.
Check out Bootstrap Expo for some of the best designed Bootstrap sites, or WrapBootstrap landing pages for landing page templates using Bootstrap.
Remember, the main job of these frameworks is to make sure your site works on different size devices, not to dictate the look and style of your landing pages.
Step 3: Make sure you're not using any technology on your landing pages that could cause issues
The big no-no for mobile, and now pretty much for any landing page, is using Flash. Flash doesn't work on iOS or new Android devices, and it isn't that great on desktops or laptops either.
Another mobile issue is scrollable sections within an already scrollable page, such as embedded content like maps or surveys. If there isn't enough room around those embedded sections to scroll the page, it's easy for a user to get caught in a scroll trap.
Also be careful of tricky animations, large videos, or anything that requires minimum screen sizes to function properly.
Step 4: Test the page on your own phone and/or tablet
Sounds obvious, but after laboring over your landing page on a work computer, it's easy to forget this crucial step.
Just email the landing page URL to yourself, open it on your phone, or tablet, or any other device you can grab, and check out the page. Scroll through it. See if you can complete the conversion goal of the page: if it's easy to read, etc.
Make notes as you scroll through of possible issues or things to change. Take your time, you're in no hurry.
You won't catch all the possible issues, as there are so many different types of devices, but just by checking out your landing page for a few minutes on your phone, you'll probably notice a few things worth changing.
Step 5: Use Mobile-Friendly Test (from Google) to check for issues
The Mobile-Friendly Test from Google is a quick and easy way to test how mobile friendly your landing page is.
If there are issues, the tool will give you feedback in terms of the general issues, as well as a few resources to help you fix them. It's handy for finding issues you might have passed over in your own testing, as well as a few technical issues that are hard to detect with your eyes alone.
Step 6: Use a responsive test simulator
Responsive test simulators, like Responsive Design Testing and Responsinator help simulate what your landing page might look like on different devices.
These tools can give you a quick sense of how your landing page might turn out on a slew of popular devices, and is especially handy if you don't have the time, budget or resources to test on a large number of devices.
Step 7: Make sure the landing page conversion goal can be completed on any device
I recently came across a lead generation landing page for a large tech company. This is from a very large public company with considerable revenue, and the landing page was made near the end of 2014.
I don't know why they decided to hide the form from mobile users, but the likelihood of someone emailing it to themselves, opening it on a computer, and then filling it out is pretty low.
Don't add friction to a conversion process and punish someone for using a different device than you want them to use.
And here's the thing: I discovered that page while on social media using my phone, because so many people were sharing it.
There are few things more frustrating than a mobile user getting a message of "you can't use this device to access this page, please switch to a computer" when they try to check out your landing page.
Don't punish people who are interested in what you offer.
Step 8: Don't assume you can't afford to be multi device friendly
Even though I already talked about the free, open source front-end frameworks, I still come across people who assume you have to be a big company to be able to afford responsive design.
Budget is less an issue than thinking ahead and building responsive design into your process.
Here's a quick comparison: on the right is a screenshot of a page from UsersThink on a smartphone, on the left is a screenshot of another startup on the same smartphone.
The startup on the left just released (within the last month of this writing) a new website, which is very well designed and looks great if you're on a desktop or laptop, but isn't responsive and is very hard to use on a smaller sized device.
They are a much bigger company and not resource deprived, yet they didn't make it a priority to have their site work on multiple devices, but we did with UsersThink.
You can make your landing pages work on multiple devices, without an additional cost, and very little extra work.


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Manufacturing has seen many changes over recent years – profitability, margins, sizing, locations to name but a few. Some countries and continents have increased their presence while others have had their manufacturing sector decrease dramatically. No matter the pressures – either way – manufacturing industries typically require tight controls over volume operations to support the low margins experienced in that sector.
It is therefore essential that manufacturing companies receive high standards of delivery and infrastructure efficiency. ImprovIT determines best price or cost for services being delivered by comparing them to their competitors in the market. Often other industry sectors can be in the comparison in order to bring another dimension to the analysis – whether manufacturing or not.
Manufacturing still sees strong merger and acquisition activity on a global scale and to support this, ImprovIT supplies critical services for performing "due diligence" against contracts, sourcing strategies, modelling staffing and service levels, as well as operational best practice for industry, region and size. Managing 'change' is massively important in this industry to protect the operational services and effectiveness of their systems – failure is no option as that could be very costly to the enterprise and can cause considerable and expensive recovery time.
"Overall I am very pleased with the project and will be using the recommendations to improve our IT"
Manufacturer, Regional IS Director
Those manufacturing companies who see IT as a necessity rather than an enabler can benefit from ImprovIT's domain knowledge and experience, making sure efficiency trends and technologies are brought forward for appropriate consideration.
Operational efficiency in the IT systems is a critical success factor in manufacturing. Servers, desktop, applications, networks and service desks all have to be running at optimum efficiency and cost so ImprovIT uses metrics driven analysis to help manufacturing organisations clarify the criterion that drives their sourcing decisions, including key metrics for determining whether to out-source, in-source or multi-source. In addition, ImprovIT can identify the most appropriate objective key performance indicators, as well as best practice and cost saving measures for service operations managers. ImprovIT identifies opportunities for real cost reduction whilst maintaining delivery and operational excellence. This allows organisations to better exploit their position and improve their ability to deliver competitive customer pricing with minimal impact on account revenue or profitability.
ImprovIT offers manufacturing companies an objective and credible means of: