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Maybe electronic drums are more your style? If so, you're in luck, because Yamaha has even more options here. Full sets range from the beginner-friendly DTX400K to the top-of-the-line DTX950K. Check out Yamaha's drum machines like the DTX700 or DTX900 Series Trigger Modules if you plan to hook up your own pads or triggers and are just looking for the "brain" of your setup. Or, if you'd like something that's all-in-one for practice and portability, grab a self-contained digital drum set such as the DD-65 Digital Drums. You can also expand a setup with the DTX-MULTI 12 Digital Percussion Pad, which can function as an ultra-compact drum set all on its own, or connect to triggers and pads to become an expansion to your existing electronic or acoustic kit. Yamaha really makes the possibilities endless with these kinds of versatile options.
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Yankees call up top prospect Justus Sheffield, report says
The Yankees are calling up yet another elite prospect.
According to the Times-Tribune, New York will call up its No. 1 prospect and the No. 27 prospect in all of baseball in left-handed pitcher Justus Sheffield.
Justus Sheffield has been promoted to the Yankees. Domingo Germán, too.— Conor Foley (@RailRidersTT) September 15, 2018
Sheffield will likely come up and pitch of the bullpen for the Yankees in September as New York has been using him as a reliever late in the season for that purpose.
He is expected to be a starter in the long term, but for now he will likely be used out of the pen. He posted a 7-6 record in 25 games (20 starts) between Double- and Triple-A this season with a 2.48 ERA in 116 innings.
Sheffield was originally taken by the Indians with the 31st overall pick in the 2014 Draft. The Yankees acquired him along with outfielder Clint Frazier in the deal which sent reliever Andrew Miller to Cleveland.
Sheffield is the brother of Dodgers No. 17 prospect Jordan Sheffield.
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Love Is Hope CD Release 1 Week Away!!
Yes, we'll be at the Cadillac Lounge on Dec. 9th for an early show, 7pm sharp. Doors open at 6, so come by and enjoy some great food and a visit with the band. Reservations are a must, I believe that there are some seats left at the bar and then standing room, please email Sam to reserve: email@example.com.
$15 ($20 will include a CD) at door
We're really excited to share this new music with you, the amazing players will be:
Janet Whiteway: Vocals/Keys
Jean Deeth: Bass
Aimee O'Connor: Guitars
Carrie Chesnutt: Sax/Flute/Vocals
Kim Jarrett: Vocals/Percussion
Ilios Steryannis: Drums
Looking forward to seeing you there! xoxo
I want to again personally thank everyone who contributed to the gofundme campaign, we raised $2400, which was the lifeline for this project along with the great party we did last year at Mt. Zion Community Centre and the house party we did at Jean's. It takes a community to raise a CD! We appreciate your support so very much.
Next up, this Saturday I'm at the Duke with GRACE, a funckaliciouscrismas! Door at 9, start 9:30, $10.
Please check out the "Shows" tab to see all my gig dates and please continue to support live and local music and musicians, we can't do it without you!
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David Mixes Music for TV Drama
David Prior, Associate Professor of Music and Sound Art, has mixed music for Sky Atlantic's new drama Tin Star.
The show features Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks and has been receiving some rave reviews since its release. David worked closely with composer Adrian Corker, blending a 20-piece orchestra with a range of instruments from hurdy-gurdies to antique synthesizers. Corker and Prior have worked together on a number of projects including The Domino Effect and the BBC series The Village.
David has been teaching in Creative Music Technology at Falmouth since 2010 and also coordinates the post-graduate research programme.
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I just wanted to let you know that I have pearls, pretty little pearls! I just received one of my shipments today. So they are back up in the store and you are welcome to head over there. I do have to tell you that I also have some other amazing goodies that are still in the box though, so if you want to save on shipping you might want to hold out a little while. The white, light pink and light green pearls are still not in stock, but I've got my fingers crossed for the beginning of April on those.
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Platforms: PC , PS3 and Xbox 360
Reviewed On: Xbox 360
Developer: Spiders
Publisher: Home Focus Interactive
Singleplayer: Yes
Multiplayer: No
Mars: War Logs has clear and lofty ambitions, containing the player-driven narrative decisions, moral system, intractable party members and crafting system that have become some familiar within the RPG genre. It has all these things, the very things that Mass Effect, Dragon Age and more have used to ensnare their audiences, and yet it only has the at the most fundamental level, failing to flesh them out properly. The systems are there, but their still in a skeletal state, awaiting completion. This is pretty much Mars: War Logs in a nutshell.
First, though, let's start with the game's narrative: your journey begins in a prisoner of war camp where you take on the role of gruff anti-hero Roy, who takes under his wing a young lad by the name if Innocence. Innocence, the game informs me, shall have his personality altered and shaped by how I interact with the world. It's a promising beginning that's for sure, but things begin to fall apart far to quickly, mostly become the narrative rushes through the things, creating some jarring storytelling. After trudging through the prisoner of war camp and partaking in a variety of bloody dull missions which involve even more trudging the war is suddenly over and am evil dictatorship is introduced. When did that happen?
As the game progresses a woman who vowed revenge upon Roy for reasons I won't spoil suddenly ceases trying to kill him and joins him instead. This miraculous shift is done in just a few lines of terrible dialogue that utterly fail to explain her change of heart in any way, and you're left to simply accept that this once enemy is now your chum. Likewise a dreaded bounty hunter paid to kill Roy goes from trying to kill Roy to being his best mate in the space of about 30-seconds, once again through the wonders of fucking terrible writing. These are just a few examples of Mars: War Logs jarring plot problems – everything feels rather rushed. The game takes no time to attempt to flesh out any of the characters along the way, and the dialogue is flat and lifeless, bringing to the table about as much personality and warmth as a piece of dry bread. There's the occasional voice actor who attempts to work as well as could possibly be expected with the writing on offer and therefore manages to produce something decent, but the rest of the acting is pretty bad.
It's a shame, too, because several of the stories the game tries to rush through could have been very interesting if more time and care had been taken. The setting and the backdrop that Spider have craftted is rather intriguing, but the plot just fails to go anywhere and the dodgy writing coupled with boring characters ensures that to get invested in the story at all you're going to have to very, very drunk.
The world is as grimy, red and dusty as one would expect from the Red Planet. The buildings are cobbled together from a variety of rusted scrap-metal, water is a highly prized commodity and people are desperate, scratching a living where they can and how they can, barely surviving the harsh environment. Especially for a game released on Xbox Live Arcade there's actually some solid texture work on display and a fair amount of detail within the environments. Truth be told I've seen a lot worse in some full retail releases that cost £40 to purchase.
Mars: War Logs manages to paint a fairly convincing portrait of an unforgiving, alien world. It's a portrait only tarnished by poor animation work, especially in character's faces, and the absence of intelligence AI scripts driving the worlds inhabitants who mostly just stand around and do nothing. Without NPCs actually doing something or acting in a more convincing manners Mars: War Logs falls into the same trap that many games have before, creating a world that feels oddly hollow at times.
The other downside, of course, to have such a realistic world is that scrap metal buildings begin to looking rather samey pretty quickly, a problem that the art team don't manage to combat well. The various areas you travel through begin to blur together, and there's few compelling landmarks or environments of note.
As you explore the world there's a variety of crates and piles of junk that you can search, each one usually rewarding you with bits and bobs like leather, scrap metal and more, all of which can be used to upgrade your existing armor and weapons. The problem is that none of the armor, weapons or upgrades are actually very interesting, and trawling through garbage for, well, garbage becomes tedious very quickly. The good news is that junk is so plentiful that you've rarely got to worry about running out of the stuff providing you occasionally remember to rummage around. Mostly you'll just upgrade your stuff because it provides some small stat boosts, but it's something you do merely because you have to in order to increase your changes in a fight, rather than because you want to. The best crafting systems work well because the items are cool and interesting as well-being potentially life saving.
There's also the occasional vendor to be found moping around whichever area you're in, and they usually also sell all of the junk you can find in the junk heaps strewn around, which is sort of daft when you really thing about it. They also sell new armor and weapons, but better stuff than what you've got is so damn rare and money so plentiful then I was a fairly rich bugger by the end of the game and had barely changed my gear.
Like with many RPGs Mars: War Logs developers have chosen to go down a fairly heavy combat route, focusing on the use of melee weapons far more than ranged. A tap of the X button swings whatever stick thing you have equipped, while B parries attacks, Y breaks an enemy's defenses and A sends Roy rolling around to dodge enemy blows. LIke the rest of the game combat works, but that's about it. There's a hefty flaw in that combat is slow and cumbersome. Press the attack button and Roy will ponderously swing his chosen weapon, while the parry button is far too unresponsive, forcing you to rely more on the dodge mechanic and roll around like a retarded version of Sonic the Hedgehog. The camera quickly proves to a pain in the backside as well because it remain entirely under the players control, so while you're frantically trying to deal with a crowd of enemies you've also got to deal with the camera, otherwise it will inevitably become lodged in a piece of the tight environments and make it nigh on impossible to see what's going on. Enemies also have a nasty habit of launching attacks just outside of the camera's view and as mentioned the controls are responsive enough to deal with such sudden strikes.
Meanwhile attempting to deal with enemies wielding ranged weapons can be a pain, because you've got to roll to get close to them, and by time you've gotten a blow in the other enemies in the group have caught up with you and the camera isn't far enough away to let you see the incoming attacking again, and so you've got to madly roll away and repeat the process.
There are ranged weapons to be found and used during combat, but like the rest of the combat there's a hefty delay between you pressing the fire button and Roy actually pulling the trigger that makes using them in a fight frustrating. Actually using a ranged weapon during a battle requires you to try and get away from the action so that you've got time to use it before the enemy close the distance, but even then the targeting system is so unpredictable that it will often fail to target the enemy until they're too close for you to successfully blast them.
The same problem which befouled guns also effects Roy's Techomancer skills, which are essentially Mars: War Logs form of magic, albeit with an actually technological explanation. You can create shields around yourself, electrocute foes, charge your weapon and more, but the abilities are rather uninteresting, and once again take bloody ages to actually use. The results of your Technomancer attacks usually aren't all that potent, either, and so between the delay and the lack of any real impact it generally feels easier just to hit things with a big stick.
Combat, then, isn't exactly graceful. Roy is often described and viewed as something of a badass, but it's hard to take that claim seriously when he's rolling around the environment like a lunatic and fumbling with a gun.
During combat you'll find that the single AI partner that you're allowed to have tag along with you is almost completely useless. You can issue them with some basic commands but it doesn't really matter as they serve only as a brief distraction for enemies before they go down under a flurry of blows, leaving you to contend with the remaining foes. Don't worry, your partner does get back up again once the fight is over. I'd also like to point out a very serious flaw that comes of teaming up with your fellow Technomancer: her attacks frequently effect you as well, tossing you backwards or interrupting your own strikes, leaving you vulnerable. It's incredibly frustrating, which is a shame as some of her abilities can be useful in a fight.
Outside of combat your AI partners don't add much to the game. You can chat to them and learn a bit more about their backstory, but as mentioned previously there's really not much to them. They'll occasionally interject in conversations with others to offer an opinion. Sadly there's no way of outfitting them with better gear to try to make them a little more combat effective, either. After a while they begin to feel more like loyal puppies that just follow you blindly, although to be fair I would never take a cute and innocent puppy onto a battlefield.
One good idea does come from being able to spare enemies or finish them off for Serum, which is the game's force of currency. After a battle when everyone's writhing on the ground and you merrily steal all their stuff, but you can also choose to use a special device which extracts Serum, killing the person in the process. This changes your reputation, which in turn will slightly alter how some people deal with you. It's a pretty neat idea, but let down by the fact that there's not much to spend money on anyway, and Serum is fairly easy to acquire, so why bother?
As you take down enemies and complete quests you'll gain more and more experience, in turn allowing you to allocate points into one of thee skill trees , but the selection on offer is about as straightforward as you can get and it never really feels like Roy is getting all that much better at what he does. Levels are gained at a fairly rapid rate in keeping with the fairly short storyline which can be completed in about 6 or 7 hours, plus a few more for side-quests. One of the trees laughably allows you to increase your stealth skills, which would be fine if stealth was actually a viable gameplay option, which it's not. Sneaking around is incredibly slow and guards are set up so that you can generally ambush one, but after that a full-scale fight breaks out.
But the biggest problem is that the mission structure relies heavily on you getting into fights with a lot of people for a lot of the time. The rest of the time is spent trudging around the environments, a tactic which frankly feels like it's used to increases the lifespan of the game. The average main mission, or side-mission, involves patiently wandering through the world until you get to a certain point where you beat up some people, and then you have to trudge all the way fucking back again to turn in the quest. In fact several missions deviated from this formula by making me trudge to several different locations all the way across the map from each other one after the other before finally getting to hit someone in the face with a stick. Navigating the world is made even more boring by frequent doors, ladders and pointless climbable walls that activate a brief cutscene that can actually be skipped, leaving me to wonder why they're even here in the first place. Suffice to say it becomes incredibly annoying very quickly and the game's mission design will not be winning the developers any awards for originality. It's the final mundane nail in the mundane coffin.
And that's the thing about Mars: War Logs: it's not a terrible game. It doesn't do anything truly bad or horrendous, it doesn't do anything that makes me want to curse it to the lowest pit of hell, it's just completely mundane from start to finish. All of the staple mechanics seen within the genre are present, but they're only very basic and straightforward. There's just nothing remarkable about this game, and that makes it hard to truly recommend. It exists and its serviceable, and if you really need an RPG fix then you'll find some slight enjoyment out of it.
The Good:
+ The setting.
+ Some interesting plot ideas.
The Bad:
– Rushed story.
– Poor writing.
– Mundane gameplay.
The Verdict: 2/5 – Okay
Mars: War Logs does nothing to stand apart in a genre filled with quality titles. It's merely okay, and is thus worth picking it up should it ever get a discount during a sale.
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Woo Hoo!! My FIRST official cookbook!! And by "official", I am referring to the good ole' HARD COVER cookbook. Do not laugh, lol. I know, I know, I realize I am forty years old, and just NOW owning my own hardcover cookbook. You have to remember though, this girl just started cooking a couple of years ago, after beginning my plant-based lifestyle. Growing up, the only cookbooks I remember my mother using were the hard cover cookbooks that lasted FOREVER. I am thrilled to know that this book will last forever in my kitchen (with the exception of smudge marks of food splattered on the pages while cooking, lol).
I am one lucky PBJ right here!! Laura's Publisher, BenBellaBooks, sent me my very own copy to review, so I could share my thoughts on the book with you. In addition, I get to share one of my favorite recipes from the book, and feature a Q&A with Laura herself. The best part? One lucky PBJ reader has the chance to win their very own copy of this HARD COVER Cookbook.
For those of you that do not know Laura Theodore, she is the Jazzy Vegetarian as seen on Public Television. Here is a quote from Laura's newest cookbook, Jazzy Vegetarian Classics: Vegan Twists on American Family Favorites.
"What does the word vegan mean to me? Well, here is the way I see it: A Vegan is someone who does not consume any meat, poultry, fish, dairy, or eggs. A Vegan strives to eat a purely plant-based diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, seeds, legumes, nuts, and grains. That's what my recipes are all about: plant-based, easy-to-prepare, and delicious!"
So do not let the "Jazzy Vegetarian" fool ya, Laura is indeed a Vegan who delivers delicious, healthy, plant-based Vegan meals to our kitchen, through her cookbooks, and TV show. What I love most about her recipes, is she provides easy-to-follow instructions on how to use a variety of substitutes for "veganizing" main dishes, desserts, soups, salads, and MANY more tasty dishes. Her recipes are not just for vegetarians, vegan, or PBJ's. She has shared with us almost 200 plant-based, simple, crowd-pleasing recipes. For more info about Laura and her book, CLICK HERE*.
I snapped pics of some of the recipes I made:
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I am not the best with my phone camera, so I apologize if I am not displaying the true deliciousness of these recipes. I have to say I truly enjoyed all of the recipes. With the exception of the Kale with Walnut Cream Sauce. Don't get me wrong, I will definitely make the cream sauce again, I just did not enjoy it over Kale. I would enjoy the sauce instead over vegetables or pasta next time.
Speaking of recipes, I am bursting to share one of my favorite recipes thus far from this amazing cookbook. I cannot wait any longer. Ready…Set…Devour…
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
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See what I mean? You guys are going to love this family favorite cookbook.
Oh, before I forget! I will be honest, Frank and I rarely watch TV; we do not have cable. However, we just had a different TV service installed today (because Frank is a sucker for FREE money, lol). Ironically, guess what was on TV when he started flipping through the channels?
That's right. The Jazzy Vegetarian herself! We caught the end of her show. She was making some sort of coconut crusted tofu, almond pudding (made with only three ingredients: tofu, almond butter, and maple syrup), and a green bean and carrot side dish. I briefly saw some sort of black quinoa and mushroom dish, but I missed that part. Anyway, I just wanted to add to this post that I FINALLY witnessed Laura at work. She is just absolutely delightful. The recipes shared sounded amazing, and what I enjoyed the most…they were EASY to make.
Ok…back to the book. After I finished reading Laura's book, I was able to send over a few questions for her.
PBJ: Laura, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule for the PBJ Family. I noticed that Pamela A. Popper, PhD, ND wrote the Foreword for your book, and she mentioned at the end, "Hippocrates said, "Let food be thy medicine," and Laura Theodore makes the medicine taste oh-so-good!". She is SOOOOO RIGHT!! I am in absolute awe over all of the delicious, and healthy recipes in your new book. I love that this book invites, and inspires everyone to explore your "jazzylicious", and healthy food. What inspired you to write this book?
Laura Theodore: "What inspired the writing of this book is my passion for making classic American dishes vegan friendly. This book features an additional jazzy twist – many of these traditional recipes are not only vegan but can be made without oil and some are even gluten-free. My goal is to share compassionate and quick recipes that are easy for anyone to prepare, and they are designed to satiate omnivores too. I wanted this book to be for anyone looking to embrace plant-based eating – whether you are a dedicated vegan, adopting a vegetarian lifestyle, or just want to fit more 'plant-based' meals into your weekly menu plan."
PBJ: I love the layout, and ease of your book. From the Jazzy Basics, Glossary of Ingredients, Herbs and Spices, to the Helpful Tip for Low-Fat Cooking, along with the Tips for Improvisation (I needed that section), and always useful Table of Equivalent Measures, I was excited and surprised to see Chapter 2: Menus Made Easy. What?? For real?? I am in LOVE!! Ten full menus laid out for us, to share with our family and friends. Not only did you shower us with these easy meal planning menus, you threw in a Jazzy Music Pick for us to dine, cook, or relax to, for each menu. BRILLIANT…thank you!! For those PBJ readers out there that are not familiar with the Jazzy Vegetarian, would you mind sharing a bit about yourself, and how you enjoy spending your free time?
Laura Theodore: "Thank you! I am so very happy you like the menus. Even for me, the trickiest part of planning a plant-based meal is planning the MENU! So I shared some really terrific menu plans in this book.
I do not have much free time. I love what I do: creating and sharing vegan recipes, writing books, producing and starring in the Jazzy Vegetarian television show on PBS (the third season now airs 4 times a week on the Create Channel), writing, producing and hosting a weekly radio podcast (now in our 6th year!), recording, and writing a new musical. Free time? Dinner out with my hubby. A drive in the country. In the summer, I like to swim and kayak. And… believe it or not… cooking relaxes me – I develop new recipes almost daily."
PBJ: What has been your most rewarding benefit from living this lifestyle?
Laura Theodore: "Knowing that I am helping to save the lives of many farm animals."
PBJ: What has been your biggest kitchen mishap/blooper?
Laura Theodore: "I was creating a new recipe for corn muffins and decided I would use polenta instead of fine corn meal. NOT! It was one of the few times we had to throw away my culinary creation! There were big chunks of uncooked polenta in the muffins – it tasted like pebbles and sand. (Definitely not the taste I was going for)! Jazzy Tip – Do not use polenta to make corn muffins."
PBJ: Your mission: "Making the world a better place, one recipe at a time." After reading your journey thus far, it is apparent that you are truly an inspiration. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us. Who inspires you, and what words of wisdom could you share with the PBJ family that would encourage, and inspire them to give this plant-based lifestyle a try, and/or stick with it?
Laura Theodore: "I am inspired by my love for the animals. That is what keeps me going. For anyone looking to adopt a plant-based lifestyle, I say: Find your inspiration for going vegan then remind yourself daily why you have gone vegan. Is it for health reasons? Do you want to lower your carbon footprint to help the environment? Is it compassion for animals? Find your reason – and ponder it often. Then purchase a few key vegan recipe books to help you prepare recipes that you and your family are going to like to eat. Delicious vegan food makes the journey to plant-based eating both fun and fabulous!"
Laura, thank you again for taking time to chat with the PBJ Family. I am looking forward to making more of your jazzylicious meals, and sharing them with all my favorite peeps.
Laura's book is full of colorful pictures, and delicious healthy recipes. I enjoyed her "story" and her kitchen tips. The ten menus she lays out for us are truly easy to make, and are full of recipes that all taste buds will enjoy. She then adds eleven more chapters of recipes:
- Sauces, Dressings, and Accompaniments
- Nibbles, Noshes, and Thirst Quenchers
- Breakfast Favorites
- Marvelous Muffins
- Soups, Bisques, and Stews
- Standout Salads
- Pastas and Pizzas with Pizzazz
- Jazzylicious Main Dishes
- Symphony of Sides
- Cookies, Cakes, and Confections
- Puddings, Pies, and Frozen Desserts
For my "no oil" PBJ Family, I know what you are wondering. There are some recipes with oil (not many), but they can easily be omitted or subbed out. I have been hooked on the same dressing over two years now, and I am proud to say I ventured out, and tried some new dressings in this cookbook, and I will definitely make them again. The Caesar dressing is the BOMB-BABY!!
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Notes: These classic chocolate brownies can be stored airtight for up to 2 days.
How to Make It
In a 2- to 3-quart pan over low heat, frequently stir butter and chocolate until melted and smooth. Remove from heat and stir in sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, and walnuts until well blended.
Spread batter evenly in a buttered and floured 8-inch square baking pan.
Bake in a 350° oven until edges feel firm to touch and begin to turn a shade darker, 25 to 30 minutes.
Run a knife between pan rim and brownie. If desired, spread with chocolate glaze. Let cool in pan on a rack, about 1 hour. Cut into 9 or 16 squares.
Chocolate glaze. In a 1- to 2-quart pan over low heat, frequently stir 1/3 cup whipping cream and 1 cup (6 oz.) semisweet chocolate chips until melted and smooth. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla. Use warm.
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John Connelly, who was a member of England's 1966 football World Cup winning squad and won League titles with Burnley and Manchester United, has died aged 74.
He played in England's opening match in the tournament, a nil-all draw with Uruguay at Wembley, but did not feature in any of the other games.
The winger, who played 20 times for England between 1959 and 1966, was Burnley's top scorer when they won the League in 1960 and was a member of the Burnley team that lost the 1962 FA Cup final to Tottenham Hotspur.
He joined United in 1964 and won the title with them in his first season at Old Trafford playing in every match alongside the likes of Denis Law, George Best and Bobby Charlton.
He also had spells at Blackburn Rovers and Bury and all four of his former clubs paid tribute to him on their websites.
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Washsurfing from Martina Pagura on Vimeo.
Washsurfing is a service that allow to share private washing-machines.
This concept was developed in three days during the IxDa11 student competition, the general topic was "use, not own". Thanks to this concept I won the honorable mention, but beside the prize it has been an amazing experience.
I got in to the finals thanks to a project called Laundrym, a pretty complex project that tried to transform Laudromat in social shared spaces.
I kept those three days to review the ground research that I had to explore a different approach, and start to build something much simpler, and that could be realized now.
Sharing an heavy object as a laundry has different implication than landing an hairdryer because it's heavy! You are stuck in a physical space with somebody: this could be a problem, but what if we see it as an opportunity?
I really believe that sharing it's a matters of behaviors before than sharing the real object. Sharing it's something that we're not trained to do anymore. In somehow people need to be re-educated to share.
People don't share anymore because (maybe) it's not needed, and so we don't know who live next door, but we miss the fact that we don't know who's our neighbor, because this could make us feel more safe for example.
There is a lot of things that we miss from the past, I'm often asking to myself if the improvement of technology can give us those things back… things that people feel they lost because of the technology improvement.
During the conference I had the opportunity to attend the keynote talk by Richard Buchanan, and he said something that made me think a lot, and express something that I had in my head but I couldn't find the way to say it, and for sure a way that is as good as his: "…we are not building interactions between people and things, but we are building interactions between people through things…"


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Dr. Geoffrey Malafsky
CEO, Technik Interlytics LLC,
Chief Data Scientist, The Bloor Group
The Data Warehouse has been a core component of data analytics for decades which in the aging process of data management components entitles it to be venerated as an old trusted and loved war horse[1]. Urban legend ascribes the genesis of the DW to early developers and companies starting in the 1980s with a reasonable and quick summary published at DataVersity[2].
One of the early descriptions is from IBM with their definition of a Business Data Warehouse which brought together data from multiple groups, systems, and time periods to enable more effective and widespread analyses[3]. Another is W. H. Inmon's book and his many subsequent publications on data warehousing[4]. Inman also viewed the DW as a source of integrated and validated data supporting decision support analysts.
One important aspect of this DW origin is the natural time progression of stated business need versus readily available technology capabilities. What is often perceived as a new business requirement is really the obvious evolution of awareness of options and desire to use newly possible computer functions for different parts of the typical lifecycle of information, analysis, and decision making. There is a natural work activity sequence and tasks for many human endeavors that does not change. Technology enables greater efficiency, accuracy, and scale but considering the Egyptian and Mayan pyramids were entirely made with human labor and simple machines we should not be so audacious to presume computers create new business needs instead of enhancing them and making them doable. This is why Da Vinci's technology inventions like the helicopter not realized for hundreds of years demonstrates human brilliance not ethereal alien communication[5]. Similarly, another brilliant scientist Robert Boyle 17th century predictions included light but hard armor, powered ships, and finely shaped glass[6].
We are fortunate to have multiple new technology capabilities available that offer significant capabilities to enhance work activities and automation. Before we discuss these technologies, we will revisit the basic characteristics of DW to understand where opportunities may exist for advanced technology assistance. First, why the name Data Warehouse? This is purposefully intuitive, which is very much appreciated and kudos to the early experts, so the emphasis is on the nature of a warehouse. A warehouse is "a structure or room for the storage of merchandise or commodities"[7].
Of course, this simple definition is not the full semantic meaning in common usage. Typically, when we talk about a warehouse, we include the implied characteristics of its workflow processes as well, such as organizing storage, maintaining inventory, etc. Thus, there is a direct analogy to managing data for business analysis as opposed to transactional data systems. The basic nature of a warehouse transcends use cases from physical goods to non-physical data. Indeed, the current concerns in physical goods warehousing can be used as-is to describe DW issues[8].
- Inventory accuracy
- Inventory location
- Space utilization and warehouse layout
- Redundant processes
- Picking optimization
The primary DW interest is to have a full set of validated data about the business that can be used for many use cases. While a simple need statement, it represents many difficult fields in technology, organizational dynamics, and work activities. The adjective "validated" itself it is a major and long-term challenge to solve. How do know it is valid? Is it valid for all reports and queries? Will it be valid when new data is added? How can you find and correct errors? Can the technology store the breadth of data desired, parsing it all, cyclically interrogating for model-based computing or Machine Learning, and ad doc querying multiple levels of data over multiple time frames?
These are the activities needed and which could be done by a large number of trained people, such as actuarial work before widespread use of computers[9]. Until recent years, major technology advances were logarithm tables, the slide rule, and mechanical calculators starting in the 1600s. The first wave of data warehousing arose when computing technology shrunk in size and cost from the early behemoths into feasible business tools. It became apparent that computers could be used for more than just a small number of absolutely critical operations and could support mainstream business. This included differentiating between computers for transactional data processing and those for more human interactive analytical activities. DW moved ahead again into mainstream business operations when computer cost, size, and complexity reduced dramatically allowing it to spread into more departments to support multiple use cases. This spread itself accentuated the need for centralized warehouses to make it easier to generate integrated analytics for the corporate level.
Now, we have the confluence of several dramatic shifts in both technology and the business model of commercial service providers.
- Big Data: this is a group of technologies focused on the capabilities to handle extremely large quantities of data in storage, processing, and query at speeds common to prior generation data technology handling moderate data set sizes. This includes Hadoop and its composite group of tools, in-memory computing, parallel computing, and Machine Learning
- Cloud environments: these hosted and managed computers provided in cluster mode and virtualized levels of storage and functionality. It is essentially the next step is outsourced computing taking advantage of the Big Data and other cluster computing technology, as well as service support for technology refresh, development and operations (DevOps), and cybersecurity. It specifically takes advantage of the tremendous growth of widespread high-speed internet networking and high Quality of Service (QoS).
- Low cost business models: Service providers do not have to offer very low prices, often free, to use advanced computing resources but this has become the most common approach to online supplied services. This makes it very cost effective to shift to internet supplied capabilities instead of on-premise only.
The key is having these three new capabilities available at the same time. While each is important and valuable by itself, the real opening for a new generation of DW capabilities is being able to exploit the combination. Therefore, we can consider the current upgrade in DW as more than a minor enhancement and instead a significant modernization. Scale, flexibility, cost, access, maintenance, and security are all being improved at the same time and in a coordinated manner.
This modernized DW supports:
- Hybrid Cloud architecture where data can reside in a combination of outsourced and on-premise data environments
- Big Data scale in exabytes
- Cluster computing for parallelism during calculations, queries, and interactive dashboards
- Aggregation of many disparate sources and formats
- Internet of Things and other high-volume data feeds
- Machine Learning and other sophisticated algorithms in the Artificial Intelligence family
- Flexible use of myriad data models, structures, and other granular design options
- Flexible pricing including scaring as needed
- Service Level Agreements for security, technology updates, and management
- Multiple levels of user roles, access, audit
We are at the forefront of this new DW capability expansion. It merits close attention in the near-future to see how the price-capability-function trade-offs will settle. No better way to do so than tune into Inside Analysis weekly.
[1] Merriam-Webster definition is "something (such as a work of art or musical composition) that has become overly familiar or hackneyed due to much repetition in the standard repertoire", https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warhorse, accessed 20181125
[2] Paul Williams, A Short History of Data Warehousing, 20120823, http://www.dataversity.net/a-short-history-of-data-warehousing/, accessed 20181125
[3] B. A. Devlin and P.T Murphy, An architecture for a business and information system, IBM Systems Journal, Vol 27(1), 1988
[4] W. H. Inmon, Building the Data Warehouse, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY, 1992
[5] http://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/davinci-inventions.aspx
[6] F. Henderson, What scientists want: Robert Boyle's to-do list, The Royal Society, 20100827, at https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2010/08/27/robert-boyle-list/, accessed 20181125
[7] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warehouse, accessed 20181125
[8] https://www.industryweek.com/warehousing-and-distribution/supply-chain-logistics-top-5-warehouse-challenges-and-how-overcome-them, accessed 20181021
[9] C. G. Lewin, et al., Calculating devices and actuarial work, Journal Institute of Actuaries, Vol 116, 1989, pg 215


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Antoine Members is a Republican challenging incumbent Democrat Bobby Rush in the 1st CD, the congressional district where Barack Obama lives. Watch this zero-budget YouTube in which Antoine, a spunky 29 year old Chicago corrections officer, tells the world what it's like to live in Obama's home district. .
Illinois Review spent some time with Members earlier this week. Watch for the upcoming interview and check out Antoine Members for Congress.


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My flash story Broken was also recently published in Brittle Paper – an awesome African literary blog which is very exciting to announce. You read the story here (opens in a new page).
Month: January 2017
I'm an Exiled Writer
Officially part of a great writing group titled Exiled Writers that encourages writers affected by war and hope to showcase more of my writings with them in 2017 – see link here
I saw my future husband today in a petrol station seven miles from my house. He was filling up the 2007 Hyundai Sedan his wife is still embarrassed about. But that makes him hold on to it even more. He doesn't know it yet, but when he comes home tonight and opens the door to the smell of that house that suffocates him, he will enter the bed with his cold toes first and try to grope his wife for affection or attention (it no longer matters which one). She will shriek much louder than she had expected to and blurt out that she no longer wants him. The toddler next door will stir in bed and ask to be taken to the bathroom. The baby in her womb releasing nausea into the air. He will then put the same sweat-filled socks back on, get dressed and head down the hallway. He'll look back at the sitting room one last time as the man of the house. This is what his father must have looked like (he was the little toddler in the bathroom, being taught to pee like a man by his mother). Into the night he'll stumble to the nearest bar, desperate for liquor-filled soft thighs, where I, reeking of grief and sex, will be waiting with the too-tight dress and a face painted on that says: I am exotic and for the taking. This is what my mother must have looked like – broken women feast on broken homes. This will be our love story.
*This story was first published in Public Pool
Two weeks ago he opened his mouth
Whilst leaning back to let the rain
Pound eagerly into his throat
Tasting the city, he said
Last night my soul came out of its hiding place and
Settled into his right earlobe
Love sounds just like rain, he said
The day I got married
My father crawled into the crease of my eyelid
Competing with stubborn tears for recognition
He licked the inside of my eyelids
It tasted like oodkac and canjeero
If I stop blinking
He might starve
I gave myself away today
*This poem was first published in Public Pool
I fell in love
With the space
In between his thoughts
The homes I re-built
In the gap of his pause
This man I have carried
In my mind and under
My breath, humming
His calls for revolution as often as
Calls for prayer, precise
Brown eyes blackened by the sight
Of death and dying, mourning turns
To moulding body parts rotting in the sun
Wilting like flowers plucked by its root
Children dripping in crayon blood
Learning to point to where it hurts
Before the alphabet
Young girls forced to use their sex
As grenades, throwing themselves from buildings
Instead of inviting demons
Between their legs
The stench of death lingering in earlobes
And buried deep into bellybuttons
Floating in the wombs
Of young mothers
Free-falling down
Every occupied mountain
Whose people still remind the
Earth that they shall not be moved
Hoping that humanity can fall
In love with the space in between
Their dreams and limbs
By carrying their dead close to
Their knees, kneeling
At every call to prayer, wishing that
A mother's home can be re-built
In the gap of her cries that
Firstborn, only sixteen
Whose forehead carried
The burden of his father's sorrow
Blown to pieces like a puzzle
Will return in the form of hope
Moaning under the breath
Of a wounded city
That died long before my mother
Was born for me
*This poem was first published in Public Pool
Featured in Public Pool!
Really excited to announce that I'm featured in the first 2017 edition of Public Pool! Great way to start the year! 3 new poems (Aleppo, Away, Broken) can be read here (opens in a new page).


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Greenhouse vegetable IPM update 3.7.18
I'd like to be in a warm steamy greenhouse today! My first greenhouse visit was on Monday – makes me believe spring will come!
Podcast by Jud Reid (and others) on Better Greenhouse Practices And if you scroll down the list of podcasts there are others that might apply
Vegetable varieties with genetic resistance to insects or diseases –in Vegetable MD Online. Not specifically aimed at greenhouse production but a good resource that Meg McGrath is keeping up!
Interesting article on the impact of entomopathogenic fungi on natural enemies
This is pretty cool – on–site molecular detection of soil-borne pathogens. Instant verification of a disease?
In looking for information on trap cropping for cucumber beetles, I found this presentation on biological control of cuke beetles in the field.


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10 Things you should do in Munich in Winter
Snowy parks and frozen fountains are just one aspect of why Munich is unique in cold season. These 10 things will ensure a wonderful winter in Munich.
Curling in the open air
In the cold weather, the Nymphenburg Palace canal becomes Munich's longest curling track. Thanks to the shallow water, an icy cover quickly forms across the 500 metres between Gerner Bridge and Hubertusstraße. Beginners and experts are both equally welcome here. Curling teams can also come into their own in the park café's beer garden. In winter, the beer benches are cleared away and two long ice rinks are set up in their place.
Stroll through the Christmas markets
Thanks to its central location, the Christmas Market on Marienplatz is always a good one to visit. In addition to mulled wine, Feuerzangenbowle (red wine punch) and delicacies, you can also buy handicrafts or Christmas ornaments there. Approximately 2,500 lights illuminate the huge Christmas tree in front of the Town Hall every year. But there are many more Christmas markets: A flashy mood is guaranteed at Pink Christmas in the Glockenbachviertel; on the street called Münchner Freiheit (literally 'Freedom of Munich'), arts and crafts abound. And that's just a small selection.
Travel through the city with the Christmas tram
Relax in the indoor pool or the sauna
From the art nouveau gem that is the Müller'sches Volksbad to the Nordbad with its 33 metre lanes for sporty swimmers – the 10 SWM indoor pools operated by the city of Munich leave nothing to be desired. You can even train in the heated outdoor pool in Dantebad during the winter. Most of the swimming pools also have saunas, which allow you to quickly forget the cold weather outside. Regular sauna events with steam and masks make a trip to a spa resort totally unnecessary.
Discover nature in the Botanical Gardens and at Sea Life
How wonderful it is that there are the greenhouses in the Botanical Garden – meaning even in the dead of winter, no one has to go without seeing orchids, cacti and palms. You can even say hello to the carnivorous plants. In the Olympiapark, the Sea Life centre offers a way to experience nature in a completely different way. Deep-sea inhabitants swim through the aquariums – from zebra sharks to octopuses.
Visit the zoo (Tierpark Hellabrunn)
Many animals are much less finicky than people when it comes to temperatures. That's why, though fewer people may visit the Hellabrunn Zoo in winter than in summer, there is definitely no less going on. Elks, yaks, polar bears and sea lions really come into their own during the cold weather and provide a great deal of fun. And it is always comfortable in the heated monkey and elephant house or the jungle world – even for humans.
Explore museums of all sizes
There is no winter break at the museums. Luckily! For example, the Lenbachhaus continues to display the art of the Blaue Reiter movement and changing special exhibitions in winter, too. Exhibitions of modern art can be seen at the Museum Brandhorst or the Pinakothek der Moderne, while things are often more experimental at the Haus der Kunst. When else – other than in winter – do you have the time to go see the fantastic, diverse objects the museums have to offer?
Watch the latest cinema highlights
There's a high concentration of cinemas in the centre of Munich – which is particularly good when it is below zero outside, because most cinemas are easy to reach with public transport. Mathäser Filmpalast, Cinemaxx, the cinemas on Münchner Freiheit and other big cinemas always show the latest blockbusters from Hollywood, while smaller cinemas like the Neues Rottmann, the ABC Kino or the Theatiner Filmtheater focus on independent productions. Either way: There is something for everyone, no matter what your taste in film is.
View wintertime from above
When do you have the opportunity to see the roofs of the old town as if they'd been dusted with sugar? In winter, of course! From the tower of Old St Peter's Church or the Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall), you can see the entire city centre – and on some days, even some of the Alps in the background, too. Visibility can be especially good in winter – that's when it is worth taking a trip to the Olympiaturm (Olympia Tower). You are also protected from the cold by a pane of glass.
Let loose while ice-skating and sledding
Advent also means the start of ice-skating fun at Stachus (Karlsplatz). At the 'Münchner Eiszauber' open-air rink, you can skate into the evening hours – and hire ice-skates there. Things are less action-packed in the Eis- und Funsportzentrum West and in the Eissportzentrum Ost, which both open as soon as it is cold enough. You can also skate around at the Olympia-Eissportzentrum. As soon as there is enough snow on the ground, the tobogganing starts on numerous hills in Munich, such as in Luitpoldpark and Westpark.


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MEXICO-CARBON/EXCHANGE:Mexico's exchange to launch platform for carbon credits trading
By Marcelo Teixeira
SAO PAULO, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Mexico's stock exchange said on Friday it will launch an electronic platform to trade carbon credits, opening a new environmental market in the Americas and looking to profit from new low-carbon legislation in Mexico.
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) and its partners in the project said they will hold a presentation on Nov. 26 at the exchange's auditorium, in Mexico City, to detail the mechanism called MEXICO2.
The exchange did not elaborate on the initiative, but a source familiar with the project said it will offer different types of carbon credits to companies willing to offset emissions traded in an over-the-counter (OTC) market.
According to this source, the platform will trade CERs, the United Nations-certified emissions reductions units, as well as credits from the voluntary markets.
The BMV's carbon platform has been in the works for months, but it received a potential boost last week when the Mexican Senate passed the country's fiscal reform proposed by President Enrique Pena Nieto.
The bill, which changes several aspects in the Mexican tax system, includes a new carbon tax over fossil fuels.
A provision added to the legislation will let companies pay the new tax with carbon credits, what could stimulate the local demand for these types of assets.
But the exchange also has plans to foster interest for credits in a manner not associated with the carbon tax.
"Companies with shares listed in the BMV will be invited to set emissions reductions targets," said the source, who asked not to be named.
"If they are unable to meet those targets with programs and changes in processes in their organizations after a specific period, they could use the platform to buy offsets," he said.
The exchange plans to run workshops on carbon markets functioning for executives of the companies who decide to join the initiative.
It is not clear when the platform will be ready to operate.
The new Mexican carbon tax, however, is expected to be imposed in the beginning of 2014.
The Mexican government initially estimated that the carbon tax could raise 22 billion pesos per year ($1.7 billion).
But this amount is likely to fall sharply after changes made to the bill in the Congress, where deputies decided to cap the tax to 3 percent of the value of a fossil fuel.
For gasoline, for example, the original charge of 16 pesos per liter was reduced to 10 pesos.
For products such as coal, the reduction was much bigger, going from 178 pesos per tonne in the original version of the bill to only 27 pesos.
Deputies also decided to exempt oil and natural gas from the tax, further reducing the revenue collection's potential.
In any case, participants of projects to generate credits such as the U.N.'s Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) think there will be demand for credits by companies that will prefer to hand them over to the government instead of paying the carbon tax.
There are some 210 Mexican projects currently in the CDM pipeline. They could earn more than 200 million credits by 2020, according to UNEP Risoe data.
The carbon tax bill went back to the lower house for a new vote, due to changes made by senators in other parts of the fiscal reform. If approved, it will be sent to the president to be signed into law.
(Editing by Rory Carroll and Marguerita Choy)
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The much anticipated Ayakashi: Romance Reborn from Otome Romance (formerly known at Voltage Inc.) has been released worldwide. In the game you play as Futaba who has unlocked her powers as an Onmyoji diviner. Dark spirits called 'wraiths' are possessing people and turning them violent. With the help of a group of a handsome group of ayakashi, Futaba will work to bring peace to her city. Before reading my first impressions of the game make sure to check out my interview with the localisation game director, Ryan, over here!
I don't want to spend too much time going over the different features of the game as I believe that's something best experienced by yourself. But let's have a quick look. After completing the prologue (5 chapters), you're given the option to follow the story of one of three divisions (Dawn, Night and Twilight). From there the story branches into an individual romance route. As of now only the Dawn faction story is available and under that Koga, Kuya and Ginnoji are available to romance. The game features gacha cards which are used for battles in and out of the main story. You can level cards up to get various rewards like outfits, backgrounds or strengthen the card. There's also a cafe where you can listen in to the chibi ayakashi chat. I'm definitely missing a few features of this game, but like I said best to find them yourself.
Ok, onto my actual thoughts. I have to say I'm very impressed so far with the game. As many long time readers of this blog will know I sometimes get put off by new mobile otome if there's too many features. But while this game does have quite a lot of different mechanics, they're introduced slowly. The game gives you a chance to get used to one mechanism before teaching you another.
The story itself is very interesting, but one thing I'm really enjoying is the banter between characters and their personalities. I find with mobile otome with a big cast of characters it can all feel a bit one note, but so far every character stands on their own. No one fades into the background and while I can't remember everyone's names I have a good sense of who they are.
Another point of concern for me was when I realised that the common route was 45 chapters long. As this is a first impressions post I haven't played deeply into the game (up to chapter 14). So far I've found the chapter lengths to be quite decent, and I tend to save up keys so I can read a few chapters at a time. Since I'm at the beginning of the game this is pretty easy to do, but I am concerned as the story continues and its harder to rank up (and as such get story keys) the story may feel a bit stop-start.
However, in all this praise there are definitely some features I would like to see improve. Firstly, when I play games I tend to like to have a linked account where I can have it logged in on my phone and my iPad. I tend to play on my iPad at home and my phone when I'm out. When I tried to do this with this game, it deleted my data off my phone and only allowed for it to be played on my iPad. It seems you can only have one account on one device. Not one account across two devices. If someone knows a fix for this, please let me know.
On to some actual game aspects. I was really excited to unlock my first CG in the game, but was kind of disappointed when I actually saw it. The CG was pretty much just a detailed sprite. The background was the same as the regular background, as you can see above. I'm not sure how other CGs will look further in the story but I hope they're not all like this. Additionally, when you're unlocking the strengths or extra features of a card it seems like you have to click on each bit individually. This can get tedious if you want to completely level up a card. It would be great if you could just click at a point and unlock until there – something similar to how Shining Live works.
Overall, Ayakashi: Romance Reborn has done what I did not think possible. It has a lot of fun game mechanics that work together and don't overwhelm the player. The story itself is interesting and gradually introduces you to the large cast of characters. There are some minor issues with the game, I'm disappointed by the CG I unlocked and would love to be able to play on the same account across devices. But overall, I'd highly recommend otome fans to check this game out.
If you'd like to be friends with me on the game my username is twohappycats (ID: 9143473767908)!


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DHAKA, Mar 16, 2017 (BSS) - Bangladesh on Wednesday called upon the
United States for granting Duty Free Quota Free (DFQF) market access to U.S. for all the Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
"If the USA provides the facilities to Bangladesh, then Bangladesh will be able to export more to the USA, which would ensure more empowerment of women and containment of extremism in Bangladesh, said Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA Mohammad Ziauddin.
He made the observations when he met with US Republican Congressman from Washington State and also the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Sub-Committee on Trade Dave Reichert in Washington D.C, according to a message received here.
During the meeting, Ambassador Ziauddin apprised the Congressman of the sense of discrimination that prevails among fourteen LDCs for not getting DFQF market access to the USA.
Currently 34 LDCs out of 48 are benefitting from U.S. DFQF scheme under AGOA (African Growth and Opportunity Act).
The Ambassador further informed the Congressman that all the 48 LDCs get DFQF facility from the European Union. Therefore, he said it is a matter of justice and fairness that the U.S. - which is champion of human rights and rule of law - should provide equal treatment to all.
The Bangladesh envoy also highlighted development activities in
Bangladesh in various sectors including Education, Women Empowerment and Counter-Terrorism.
He informed the Congressman about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 'zero tolerance' policy against all forms of extremism and terrorism.
He also mentioned the ongoing cooperation in counter-terrorism between Bangladesh and its neighbours and the USA through intelligence sharing and other capacity building measures.
The Ambassador informed that more than four million garment workers in Bangladesh are women who are contributing to transforming society by alleviating poverty and containing the menace of extremism.
Moreover, the Bangladesh government is modernizing its madrasa education system so the students can get rid of extremist ideas and can better adapt with society.
During an hour-long meeting Congressman Reichert agreed there should be fair trade among the countries.
He suggested that a Congressional delegation can visit the LDCs
including Bangladesh to explore further trade possibilities. The Ambassador thanked him for his interest.
Toufique Hasan, Minister (Political) of the Embassy and Joshua Snead,
Trade Counsel of the Subcommittee of Trade were present during the meeting, the message added.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)


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People work hard and earn income for their survival and nowadays, they got habituated for the luxurious lifestyle in the fully furnished flats with all the home appliances that can give comforts. It can be the dream of the many people these days to have all such facilities. Especially, in the IT sector, the employees can get good pays and can avail all the modern facilities within their budgets. The technology is the ever changing thing that can have demand depending on the requirements of the clients.
Many technologies are available in the markets, and many vanished. Everyday new software emerges in the markets with new versions and features. It can be difficult for the people to learn all the technologies and depending on their requirement they can choose one particular one and can try their best to succeed in becoming expertise in that one.
Earlier people use to rely on the ordinary databases for the data storage and retrievals. But now it has become tough to retrieve the data from bulk files because of large data storage into these databases. The size of the database is increasing gradually, and it is not possible to perform all the operations using previous databases. Because of these reasons new technologies like big data are in demand. In the same way, there were few reporting tools available in the markets that can help the clients to check the reports quickly. But now many advanced reporting tools are also available that are not only automated but also easy for making reports. No need to have any knowledge about the particular device.
Many advanced versions are available from different companies that are developing new software's. The project management companies are coming up with their innovative ideas that can help the entrepreneurs in their business development and to achieve profits with little investments. They are extending their services in all the sectors including the Information technology, finance, and retail, education, and healthcare, etc.
Every industry is related to the other and the companies that are developing new software's need to have the clients for utilizing them. Most of the manufacturing companies and other industries need to have certain software applications for various purposes whether it may be big or small. For example, in the super specialty hospitals, various services are available for the people, and it can be impossible for the staff to perform all these things manually. So they can hire the companies for providing the necessary software that can help them in performing all the operations like patient record maintenance, staff records, functionalities, details relating to the medical aids, etc.
Nowadays, many firms in the IT sector are having the consulting firms along with the development centers. Instead of approaching other consultancies for the services, they can set up their services and can reduce the cost. These companies consist of experts who are capable of developing new technologies and also can provide the consulting services whenever necessary.


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USLEEPSection: User Commands (1)
Updated: Red Hat, Inc
Index Return to Main Contents
NAMEusleep - sleep some number of microseconds
SYNOPSISusleep [number]
DESCRIPTIONusleep sleeps some number of microseconds. The default is 1.
OPTIONS--usage Show short usage message.
- --help, -?
- Print help information.
- -v, --version
- Print version information.
BUGSProbably not accurate on many machines down to the microsecond. Count on precision only to -4 or maybe -5.
AUTHORDonald Barnes <[email protected]>
Erik Troan <[email protected]>
This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
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Now here's a nice little gem of an anime. It's not much to speak of but it's still quite fun to watch. Had me smiling from beginning to end.
Art, Animation & Character Designs
Artwork and animation was on par with many other anime out there. The characters were well done but, our main 4 characters were pretty ugly to say the least... and that's of course because this series is meant to protray them as such. The facial expressions however were well done and funny! Some of the body expressions were equally as funny and at times had me laughing out loud in the middle of the night.
The OP was an interesting "happy-go-go" style alternative piece. Think Alanis Morissette. That's the best way I can describe it. It was "almost" charming. The ED was a cool alternative piece with a raspy voice for vocals. Couldn't tell if it was male or female. It wasn't bad though.
Series and Episode Story
As Ggultra2764 said below, this series isn't perfect but it did charm me quite a bit. I fell for it at least. First, let me get to the not so good points of this series.... - I couldn't stand "Mayaya". It was her stupid hand gestures that turned me off. - Our main characters aren't developed or none of their backgrounds are explored.
Aside from those, the plot isn't anything grand or remotely amazing. Rather, it was pretty plain but charming nevertheless. And I think it's mainly due to our protagonist "Tsukimi". She was cute in an ugly way... well, until she dressed up that is. But really, the plot still had enough in it to make it fun to watch. It develops some interesting plot nuggets such as the introduction of Kuranosuke's older brother. I loved the whole "hipster" term. Hahaha!! Had me busting up initially.
Overall, this series was fun to watch through and through. It was both charming and funny with plenty of silly gags, and nerdy but cute characters. Do watch for sure.
Last updated Tuesday, January 18 2011. Created Tuesday, January 18 2011.
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It's not perfect, but Kuragehime did do a decent job at charming me for the Fall 2010 anime season and it marks my 400th review on Mikomi. The series hooked me thanks to the lovable characters that the show featured each having a personality you could get hooked to such as the otaku interests and fear of outsiders coming from the Amamizukan tenants, Kuranosuke masquerading as a girl around the apartments and Shu's fear of women despite his interest in Tsukimi. While many of the characters are around just to provide laughs, the major characters (Tsukimi, Kuranosuke, Shu and Shoko) do get their developments as we get to know what they are thinking and even get some sense of the types of lives they had before meeting one another and there are even signs of potential romantic attraction between these characters. The show's main plot revolves around the issue of the Amamizukan apartment being put up for demolition for a redevelopment project which drives many of the developments and actions of the characters throughout this series. The OP sequence for the series was fun enough thanks to the many humorous nods to Western movie franchises like James Bond, Singing in the Rain and Star Wars. The major issue with the series though is that it lacks a proper resolution which isn't surprising considering the manga source material of the show is still ongoing. This means that the potential romantic tensions that were building up with certain character pairs are left hanging at the end of the series. Despite this major issue and the lack of depth on other characters besides the major players, this was still one of the better titles I seen for 2010 thanks to being hooked on the humorous actions and personalities of the characters.
Last updated Friday, December 31 2010. Created Friday, December 31 2010.
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That 3rd episode was BEAUTIFUL!
Last updated Friday, November 12 2010. Created Friday, November 12 2010.
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One more Fall 2010 series--this was the last one I watched, and it's a good thing I didn't miss it, because it quickly became clear that it might well be my favorite. The episode begins with some quick parodies of famous movies ranging from Star Wars to Singin' in the Rain to James Bond. Afterwards, what we have is a group of "hardcore female nerds", who, rather than being cute and having boyfriends, instead live together and each has her own particular quirk--ranging from dolls to collecting gashopon figures to a fascination with jellyfish. These are likeable people I could identify with; each is a touch odd, but not bizarre. This was fun; their quirks left me giggling. Based on the hints I had picked up, I was thinking that what was going to happen was that a sexy, 'hipster' girl that Tsukimi had made friends with was going to move into a vacant apartment with these odd girls, which seemed like plenty of fun in itself. Then yet another twist--the hipster is actually a cross-dressing guy--turned up, which mixed things up and left me even more eager to see where the story would go.
The story takes off and expands in an interesting manner, as we learn why Kuranosuke cross-dresses, who he's related to, and what problem he has about his mother. Everything makes sense and firmly holds my interest. The political/economic threat to the girl's apartment building set off an alarm in my head as it seemed to threaten a simplistic good girls vs. bad guys storyline, but this show turned out to have much more sophistication than usual.
When Kuranosuke's brother took an interest in Tsukimi, I figured 'ah, here's the evil, greedy guy who will serve as his rival'. That's the way shows usually go. But no, to my pleasant surprise, he turns out to be a likeable guy who so far hasn't done Tsukimi any harm at all. That's what I like about this show; plotlines go in unconventional directions, stretching the envelope, but remain plausible and interesting. But for the most part this show seems to make the extra effort to be clever and unusual. Perhaps I'm sort of gun-shy because so many of the shows which I have watched don't bother to do this, and as a result have a crappy lack of originality. Maybe that's why Kuragehime makes me sit up and take notice.
In the end, there was not as much resolution as I had expected--like a clear answer regarding whether certain people have fallen in love. I bet the manga is incomplete. I was also surprised by what didn't happen regarding the chief 'villain' of the series. And if Chieko's mother never intended to sell the building, Kuranosuke and Tsukimi's triumph with the beautiful dress is sort of minimalized. It almost felt as if there should have been an episode twelve to clarify lots of things. But altogether definitely the best one-season show of the fall. Perhaps the best thing about it was the unpredictable yet plausible plot. Several times I got the feeling 'oh, I know where this is going'--but in the end it would yank the carpet out from under me and go another way. One remaining question: How much fun would it be a second time around?
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Bishop Fleming staff promotions
PUBLISHED: 15:26 03 June 2014
TWO senior staff members at Bishop Fleming accountancy firm have been promoted, increasing the number of partners to 26 - 10 of which have been appointed in the last three years.
Fleur Lewis, who joined Bishop Fleming from Ernst & Young as Director of Audit, has been made a partner, based in the firm's Exeter office.
Hazel Tucker, who joined the firm in 2005, has been promoted to Business Services Partner at Bishop Fleming's Torquay office from her role as Director of Business Services at their Exeter office.
Matthew Lee, the firm's Managing Partner, says: "We take great pride in the fact that most of our partners have been 'home-grown' within the firm. We believe that this policy is at the heart of why we have won so many national awards and been the country's fastest growing accountancy firm for two-years running.
"Hazel has become a major player in our services to owner-managed businesses, and in our specialist team serving healthcare clients like dentists and care-homes. She will be a strong addition to our Torbay operations.
"Fleur joined us from Ernst & Young as an experienced expert in guiding large corporate businesses and has developed advanced skills and qualifications spanning such sectors as property, marine, retail, and technology", adds Mr Lee.


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15 Extrodinary Ways to Use Leftover Beer
January 25, 2011 One comment View all articles in Re-Use-It
If you've ever hosted a backyard barbeque, poolside cookout, summer picnic or house party (aka "kegger"), you've probably been faced with the inevitable too-much-leftover-beer problem afterward. And not the unopened, put-it-back-in-the-fridge kind of leftover beer you can drink after everyone leaves, either. We're talking about the full or partially empty bottles, cans, and cups of beer guests leave all over your counters, tables, chairs, and floor (or even the quarter-full keg left on your lawn, god forbid!).
It may be the most-widely consumed alcoholic beverage and the third most common beverage of all, but that doesn't make wasting it is any more excusable. Which is why we recommend putting it to use in any number of the following ways and benefiting from its many previously unknown properties.
- Kill Slugs and Snails: Sure, it's easy enough to sizzle the life out of these lawn and garden pests with harsh chemicals or salt (if you can find them!), but beer offers an easier, kinder option that won't harm your outdoor pets. Simply bury a clean container (such as an empty 2-liter plastic bottle cut length-wise in half) in the area where you've seen the pests, leave the top about one-half inch higher than ground level, and pour in leftover beer. The slugs and snails will be drawn to it, fall in, and drown. What a way to go!
- Treat Stubborn Stains: Have a coffee- or tea-stained rug? Simply perform a quick color test on a non-visible area first, then if all looks well, simply douse the stain in light beer, blot, and repeat.
- Polish Pots: Beer's subtle acidity can help boost shine without staining the metal like higher-acidity liquids will. As with treating carpet stains, perform an inconspicuous test spot first, and if that goes alright, dampen a soft towel with beer an buff.
- Trap Fruit Flies: If you have an indoor compost or just some bananas ripening on your counter, chances are you've got a fruit fly problem. All you have to do to get rid of them is pour about 2 to 3 inches of beer into a mason jar, cover the opening with a piece of plastic wrap, and secure with a rubber band. Poke a few holes in the top of the plastic so the fruit flies can get into the jar of beer, but can't escape.
- Attract Butterflies: Butterflies may be pretty to look at, but they feed on some pretty odd, non-nectar nutrient sources. If you want to attract butterflies to your yard, all you need to do is combine a can of stale beer with some sugar, syrup, fruit juice, and a mashed, overripe banana. Then simply splash the mixture on a tree, fence post, rock, or stump of your choosing and wait patiently.
- Volumize Hair: Beer contains vitamin B and natural sugars that add body and shine to hair. It also acts as a natural conditioner that increases resilience, vitality, and hold. If you don't mind smelling a bit like, well...beer, simply pour a cup of it into a glass and allow it to go flat and warm. Shampoo and rinse your hair as usual, then pour the flat warm beer on your hair and work through. Finish by rinsing thoroughly with cool water.
- Highlight Hair: Going sunbathing at the beach? Spray or pour some beer on your hair and let it soak as you lay in the sun. After your hair dries, rinse it in the saltwater to take away the smell and to reveal lovely, sun-kissed hair.
- Revive and Polish Furniture: Flat beer makes a great wood reviver. To polish and bring back some of its natural color, rub your wooden furniture with a microfiber cloth dampened with flat beer.
- Polish Gold Jewelry: Instead of using a store-bought, chemical-based cleaner, just drop your rings and various other pieces of gold jewelry into a dish of beer. Then remove and polish to a beautiful sheen with a dry cloth.
- Marinate Meat: The slightly acidic qualities of beer make it a great on-hand tenderizer that isn't as acidic in flavor as wine- or vinegar-based marinades. Use a stout beer with hearty flavor, poke a few holes in the meat, add any other herbs or spices, and let it marinate in the fridge for a few hours or overnight.
- Treat Brown Spots on the Lawn: If you have a dog, you're familiar with brown spots on your lawn. Fortunately, pouring beer onto the spots has been said to promote green growth within days.
- Steam better Hotdogs: Use beer instead of water to steam your next hotdog, bratwurst or vege-dog and enjoy the additional flavor.
- Make Beer Batter: The key to great fish 'n chips is a great beer batter; so don't let good beer go to waste and miss out on an equally good meal. Just combine 1 cup of all-purpose flour, 1 beaten egg, 1 teaspoon of garlic powder, and a ½ teaspoon of ground black pepper in a small mixing bowl. Then stir in 1 to 1 ½ cups of beer until you obtain your desired texture.
- Cook with Beer: Health.com has lots of recipes for using up leftover beer such as beer-cheese bread, Belgian beer and beef stew, and Southwestern chili.
- Keep Bees at Bay: Nobody likes bees or wasps at their barbeque or outdoor get-together. So an hour before your guests are due to arrive, place some small jars of beer around the perimeter of the yard. The smell will attract and distract the bees while you enjoy your backyard shindig.


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Saving Niimo
Help Niimo to escape from the dangerous sea zone, click the left button of your mouse to make Niimo swim up, and release the button to make him down. There are several obstacles on your way, and there are different potions in water that can make Niimo bigger and smaller, the most useful of them is the one who gives Niimo a shield to avoid all ennemies. There are two panda head bonus, which can give you 200 or 500 bonus points, don't miss them ! You have three lifes in the whole game, try to go as far as you can with these three lifes. Finally don't forget to submit your score at the end of game !


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I am a current Chelsea District Board member and former district parent and alumnus, and I wholeheartedly support Steve Olsen for re-election to the Chelsea School Board.
Steve is currently our Board President whose leadership has been invaluable to the board. He is intelligent, open minded, visionary and understands the importance of board governance. A board member since 2004, Steve has worked tirelessly for the children of our district. He supports high achievement for all students, a strong core curriculum, and outstanding arts, music and athletic programs.
Chelsea needs to take advantage of Steve's energies and talents. His experience and leadership is of the utmost importance in leading our district forward. So please, vote for Steve Olsen on Nov. 6.
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Protecting Businesses With Commercial Mosquito Control
With illnesses like Zika virus threatening the health of so many Americans, the fear of mosquito-related diseases has significantly spiked — causing people to think twice about traveling to areas with known Zika outbreaks or visiting commercial businesses with outdoor seating and activities.
Mosquito control is no longer just a luxury, but a necessity — especially for outdoor-centric businesses such as restaurants with patio seating, public pools, outdoor wedding venues or sports fields.
Not having the proper measurements in place to control mosquitoes could be a deciding factor for a customer taking their business elsewhere. Thus, effective mosquito control is important to running your business successfully.
What Are Your Options For Commercial Mosquito Control?
Unfortunately, for commercial businesses, your options for effective mosquito control are limited. After all, your customers won't appreciate being sprayed with DEET-heavy, store-bought mosquito repellents. So, where do you turn?
Mr. Mister Mosquito Control is a local Atlanta mosquito control company with over 800 happy mosquito control reviews that has been rapidly growing a reputation for being one of the best sources for at-home mosquito control.
Beyond their innovative techniques for stopping mosquitoes in your yard, Mr. Mister also offers methods for defending these pests commercially — through the use of their ClearZone Mosquito Misting Service.
What ClearZone Means For Commercial Mosquito Control
With ClearZone Mosquito Misting Service, your outdoor-centric business will be free of mosquitoes for 21 guaranteed days. How does this work?
ClearZone sends a mosquito repelling professional to your business every three weeks for treatment of your outdoor spaces like patio seating, pools, sports fields and more.
These professionals distribute ClearZone's 100% biodegradable barrier spray on areas that are most likely to hide mosquitoes and their offspring (larvae) — killing existing mosquitoes and controlling the population from ever growing into the pests that carry Zika virus and other blood-borne illnesses as well.
When To Schedule Your ClearZone Mosquito Control Treatment
While ClearZone's barrier sprays use the safest EPA-approved formula to repel mosquitoes, there are still some parameters to keeping your outdoor spaces safe for guests.
For example: Mr. Mister recommends letting each ClearZone treatment dry and/or set for 20-30 minutes before resuming normal outdoor activities. This means you should schedule a ClearZone professional to treat outdoor spaces before operating hours of your business.
This will ensure the safest environment possible for your guests and give you peace of mind that the ClearZone treatment has been given as much time as possible for full mosquito control effectiveness.
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Nika ☄🌬🌫
Hello! Nice to meet you! My name is Weronika, but you can call me Nika or Lucy. I am 17 years old & i live in germany. I'm fluent in polish, german & (kind of) english. I'm also learning spanish at school.
• Female || She/Her
• Aquarius
• Slytherin
I am a huge nerd & my main fandom is Hetalia. But i also love Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Harry Potter, Fairy Tail, Tim Burton Films, Studio Ghibli Films, Over the Garden Wall, Supernatural, Sherlock and Doctor Who. I also started watching Once upon a time a few days ago & i really love it so far.
• My kins:
APH Ukraine (Hetalia)
Bilbo Baggins (Lotr/The Hobbit)
Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail)
Wirt (Over the Garden Wall)
Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
• Note: I'm pretty chill about my kins & i do not mind people with the same kins as mine! But it would be pretty cool if you would tag me as them? (As long you are ok with it)
And here are also some things about my personality & interests: I'm in 11th grade right now. I'm a pretty peaceful, shy & introverted person. Sadly i also have social anxiety since i was a child. But i'm currently trying to be more positive about myself & my life. I try to be myself & ignore what others think about me. Sometimes it is not very easy, but i will keep trying. (Hopefully i can become a better person!) I really love reading! Especially classical literature & i'm very interested in stuff like mythology, folklore & fairytales. I could talk about that stuff all day long, honestly! Also, my biggest dream is to travel the world & see as many things as possible!


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Trends In Patent Regime Of India From 2012-17: An Efficient Era?
The Indian government has tried to strengthen the patent regime in India over the last few years. An Intellectual Property Rights ("IPR") friendly regime is important for attracting foreign investors and companies. It also promotes growth of innovation by both domestic entrepreneurs and start-ups across all industries. Globally, India is presently Rank 14 in Patent filing activity by origin while China has consistently stayed in Rank 1 position. This article analyses the trends in the patent regime of India from 2012 to 2017. The main source of information is the Annual Reports released by the Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trademarks and Geographical Indications ("Patent Office").
i. Trends In Patents From 2012-2017
The filing of applications has remained more or less the same with justa 4% increase since 2012-13 (from 43,674 applications filed in 2012-13 to 45,444 applications files in 2016-17). However, while the number of applications filed decreased by 3% from 2015-16 (46,904 applications) to 2016-17 (45,444 applications), the real growth can be witnessed in number of applications examined and patents granted.
There has been 136.1% increase in the number of applications filed in the Patent Office probably because of the drastic increase in the recruitment of Examiners by the Office. In 2016, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion ("DIPP")recruited 458 patent examiners. From 12,268 applications examined in 2012-13, the numbers went up to 28,967 in 2016-17.
The increase in examination also came with an increase in the number of patents granted. The granting of patents witnessed a growth of 138.6% from 2012 to 2017. In 2012, the number of patents granted were 4,126 while in 2016-17, 9,847 patents were granted.
ii. Fields Of Inventions In Which Patents Granted
Consistently, the chemical field has had the largest share in the number of patents granted from 2012-2017 while fields such as bio-medical and agriculture engineering have had negligible shares (and thus clubbed together with other fields).
iii. Pendency Time In India
The World Intellectual Property Indicators 2017 Report by the World Intellectual Property Organisation analysed the pendency time across different patent offices in the world. The pendency time for first office action was calculated as the average time in months from request for examination to the first office action. If there is no requirement for applicants to request examination, it was calculated from filing date to date of first office action.
The pendency time for the final office decision was calculated as the average time (months) from request for examination to final decision. If there is no requirement for applicants to request examination, it was calculated from filing date to date of decision.
The pendency time for first office action was shortest in New Zealand (1.3 months), while India had one of the longest pendency times with 72 months. Pendency time for final decision was shortest in the Islamic Republic of Iran (9 months) while India had an average of 84 months.
iv. Top Applicants And Patentees
The Patent Office considers all Indian Institutes of Technology collectively in its Annual Reports. IIT (collectively) has dominated patent filing activity with the latest figures of 2016-17 showing 400 applications filed by the entity. Among foreign resident applications, Qualcomm has remained the top-most since 2012-13,with the 1840 applications filed by the company in 2016-17.
However, the top Indian patentee has been the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research from 2012-17, with 104 patents granted in 2016-17. Amongst the foreign resident patentees, there has been close competition between Qualcomm and GM Global Technology Operations through the years. In 2016-17, Qualcomm had the most patents granted, that is, 383.
Despite the increase in number of Examiners and patents granted, there is still a lot of work to be done in the area of time management by the Patent Office. The increase in the number of Examiners is a welcome step to ease the burden but, efficiency is also required along with quantity. With respect to patents granted, the previous years (2012-2016) had an average of 5,164 patents granted but the figures from 2016-17 have pushed the average to 6,100. Since there was sudden drastic growth in the number of patents granted in 2016-17, it is too soon to say what the trend is going to be like. However, DIPP's mass recruitments will ensure that increasing number of applications are examined every year. Hopefully, India will soon be at par with major patent offices such as China, Japan and the United States.
Author: Aparajita Kaul, Intern at IP and Legal Filings and can be reached at email@example.com.


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Working on my arms has to be one of my favorite things. Love how quickly you see changes! One thing I have learned lately is you don't need to lift super super heavy to build and/or retain your muscle. Just remember there is always more than one way to achieve results – do what works for YOUR body!! Friday mornings are made for headphones with great tunes and lots of lifting. I got into a groove the other day and it turned out awesome! See below for what my sets looked like.
Be sure to include a dynamic workout of 5-10 minutes before you begin your lifting session. Complete this routine 2-3 times, if proper form allows, completing 12-15 reps of each exercise. If your form is beginning to suffer be sure to decrease weight or simply stop at 2 sets.
- Regular Fly
- Front Raise
- Side Raise
- Bicep Curl
- Tricep Dips
- Bent Over Row w/ Barbel or 2 dubmbells
- Overhead Press
- "The Princess Wave": with arms in the starting position of the overhead press keep one arm bent at 90 while holding the dumbell. Slowly rotate the other arm down maintaining the bend in the elbow, slowly rotate back up to starting position.
Once I finished my sets I topped off the workout with some BOSU push-ups and some BOSU Jackknife crunches.