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Select the 'Financing' payment method at checkout and enter the amount you wish to be financed. You will be forwarded directly to the online application page of our partner, Consors Finanz BNP Paribas. After you have entered your information, the application will be immediately checked directly online. If your application is accepted, you have to confirm your identity (1. over the Internet or 2. in a post office) and sign the contract (1. online via mTAN (SMS), or 2. print out the credit agreement, sign it by hand, and send it in by post). Your order will then be processed and we will deliver the goods to you as quickly as possible.
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After every payment, the hold on your card is reduced until the purchase is fully paid.
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Lonesome, Onry and Mean saw a great comment from Dave Alvin on Facebook recently that went something like this: "I do not do Best of lists or End of the Decade lists, the only lists I do are 'crap I have to do' lists." We gladly second that, Dave, as there is nothing other than Christmas shopping that LOM would less rather do than make up a Best-of list. In fact, for the fourth year in a row we didn't submit our choices for either the Village Voice Pazz and Jop list or the Nashville Scene's annual Best of Country Music list. It's just too arbitrary and confusing, and to pretend that you've heard and understood and neatly classified all the music that is coming out is absurd on its very face. Still, the editors scream for best-of lists at this time of year. [Ed note: Sue us. Lists are easy, and we need content.] So as far as we are concerned, what better way to end it than to do what we did last year: with a brief, very unscientific, very arbitrary list of the music LOM played the most in 2009.1. Randy Weeks, Going My Way:
Weeks just may be our favorite songwriter on Planet Earth. He always finds that dark little cancer spot eating away at a relationship, perfectly verbalizing the little dissatisfactions and slights that cause us to either kill our lovers or go to the asylum.2. The Gourds, Haymaker!:
The Energizer Bunnies of the alt-country world, these Austin hipsters hit it out of the park with their latest album. It's got everything we come to the Gourds for: sly humor, brilliant word play, patent absurdity, and poetic vision that goes way outside the box.3. Miranda Lambert, Revolution:
Our favorite East Texas country singer, Lambert is like another kind of Dixie Chick, smart, rocking, off-center and sassy as hell. If her rocking tunes are what we are going to call country music in the future, fine with us. Someone tell Rascal Flatts and Sugarland they won't be needed anymore.4. Drive-by Truckers, The Fine Print:
We may have played this collection of outtakes and rarities more than any album we received last year. From the surprise satellite radio hit "George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues" to suicidal songs about the TVA grabbing poor people's farms,Fine Print
resonates with spit-in-your-eye feeling and rebellious Southern spirit.5. Lee Ann Womack, Call Me Crazy:
LOM was driving in the wide-open spaces late one night scouring the radio for something to listen to when "Last Call" came on. We immediately assumed it was a country classic until the DJ said it was a new song by Lee Ann Womack. She and producer Tony Brown chose a great suite of songs and made one of the best country albums of the year. Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum, our redneck ass.6. Heartless Bastards, The Mountain:
The third album by guitarist/singer/writer Erika Wennerstrom takes the Bastards into rare air. It took a few plays to sink in, but once it did this is one we couldn't get out of our player or our head. It just keeps growing.7. Slaid Cleaves, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away:
Evergreen favorite Austin folkie Cleaves regained his stride with Everything You Love. The album features all the traits we come to Cleaves for, angst: plaintive vocals, great story telling, blue collar common sense, and haunting beauty.8. Chuck Prophet, ¡Let Freedom Ring!:
We always eagerly await the next Chuck Prophet album. Freedom is certainly the most topical and immediate album of his long career. And his band the Mission Express is one of the tightest ensembles in the land right now. Prophet plays the Continental in Austin Jan. 1 and 2.9. Betty Soo, Heat Sin Water Skin:
Producer Gurf Morlix said it all about this former Houstonian: great songs, great voice, pretty girl, what more could you ask for? Soo not only possess a huge voice, she's got a pen sharp enough to carve your heart out or cut your throat.10. Gurf Morlix, Last Exit to Happyland:
Morlix's writing just keeps getting better and better. We spent countless late-night hours listening to his mesmerizing duets with songbird Patty Griffin. It doesn't get any better than "She's a River."
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11. Dustin Welch,Whisky Priest
: Made to be played loud, Welch's album hits the air like a mule on a goofball of amphetamines and loco weed kicking in his stall. Every song stomps and shakes a threatening fist in the air. And when Welch, who plays Rudyard's New Year's Eve, gets all Irish on "Green Badge" and "Poor House," he's in that rare place occupied by the Pogues and few others.

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http://tiny.ly/YHPx We hear a lot about affirmations in the self development world and even if we do not fully understand them, breaking the word down affirm, to give something or someone power in our mind, we endorse that thought whether good or bad, I am stupid, my boss hates me, I am hopeless. Action is the second part we keep doing it over and over again until he get the thought into our minds as a solid belief, then the action follows. I need three cigarettes or five cups of coffee before I can do anything.
Not true as not everybody in the world does that, but when you believe it to be true you will feel terrible every morning, you will wake up expecting to feel bad, because that is who you are. Change your thoughts, to undo your beliefs and your actions will change.
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31st FIFE 2014: the winners and their reactions
The closing night of the 2014 International Environmental Film Festival, organized on February 11th at the Cinéma des cinéastes in Paris, awarded more than eight films, documentaries and webdocumentaries. Here is the list of all the graduates and their early reactions on stage or through Skype, all across the globe.
They voted ! After eight days of screenings and intense debates, the jurys of the Fife 2014 voted for the graduates of the 31st edition. And the winners are…
Grand Prix (awarded by the official jury led by Rémi Bezançon)
Big Men – Les Prochains Rois du pétrole, by Rachel Boynton (USA).
The opinion of Rémi Bezançon president of the official jury :
"Big Men reunites the two sides we were looking for : Here is a film that deals with environment, ecology, but also very well produced. It had everything to captivate us through a true investigation around oil stakes. It's an exciting movie in which we have environment and cinema."
Calle López, by Gerardo Barroso & Lisa Tillinger (Mexico).
Gerardo Barroso, at home … Calle López, Mexico, through Skype : "We are very moved, thank you ! We have chosen Calle López because we live there with Lisa. This is our neighborhood. Besides, this is where we are right now. People who live here became our friends, and we admire them very much. So, we wanted to share what we saw in them. They are dignified people. They work everyday, and struggle in their lives."
The Land Between, by David Fedele (Australia)
David Fedele, through Skype in Berlin : "This is amazing ! This is the second time I present a film in the Fife in Paris. To win this year is an extraordinary feeling. The topic of my film can be unusual for an Australian, but it's been a long time I wanted to do a film about african immigration and the situation between Morocco and Melilla. I bought a one-way ticket for Morocco and, two weeks later, I was in the forest with the migrants."
Fort McMoney, by David Dufresne (Canada / France)
David Dufresne : "The whole crew is very happy ! Right now, in Montreal, developers are working on our documentary-game ! We can say it's a kind of a living work, which means the things happen "right here, right now". The award rewards three years of work for a very big project, which brought together at least more than twenty people. The idea was to extend what we did with Prison Valley. We tried to bring together the game logic with the point of view of the author and to confront the viewers to their responsibilities."
Wind, by Robert Löbel (Germany), through a video message : "I won the award ! Thank you very much, I will get a lot of money to do my next films. Yeahh, thank you very much for the award ! It was my first time in Paris, for the Fife, and it was worth coming."
Two special mentions to :
Premier Automne / Autumn Leaves, by Carlos de Carvalho & Aude Danset (France)
Vigia, by Marcel Barelli (Switzerland) : "The idea of the movie came from my grandfather, and the soundtrack of the film represents one year and a half of work. It was the third film I presented to the festival. If I win everytime, be sure I'll come back !"
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Alppikatu 25 – Home For The Homeless, by Inka Achté & Marika Väisänen (Finland)
Inka Achté, through Skype from London : "We are both very happy. Tonight, I'll party with french red wine ! It was a long and difficult film to do. We lost faith very often but the fight was legitimate. We are happy the award comes from France, a country with great movie history."
Mokan/Palms, by Mohammad Ali Hashemzehi (Iran) : "This is the first time I'm coming in France. I never expected to be awarded. I'm coming from Balouchistan, in Southern Iran. With my movie, I tried to deal with this area and show it with sincerity. There is no environmental festival in Iran, so I will tell about the Fife when I'll be back in my country because I would like to have a similar festival there."
La Belle vie, by Jean Denizot (France) : "I'm delighted ! At the beginning, my movie was a news item, the Xavier Fortin case, someone who had a project of ecological life. On a larger scale, I wanted to do cinema and capture nature. I never wanted to do an "art film" but to do cinema, and cinema is for the audience."
Lift Off, by Sandra Welte (Netherlands) : "I'm honored that children liked my film and voted for it ! This is the story of a bird that can't fly ; but he will find the love of his life in a tree and will have to fly, no matter what happens. He will have to be very inventive to reach his goal…Thank you !"
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Twenty from Taking Back Sunday is out now. It's a collection of songs gathered over the band's twenty years in existence twenty of them to be exact (+two new ones.) It's a celebration of the Long Island band's best material.
The band did a good job of curating this material. There's not a song on here that doesn't belong and except for "Great Romances of the 20th Century", there's nothing that's been really left off. Twenty is a fun listen that groups its songs chronologically by album but sets the track list inside of the album to make things flow well. The result is an album that's longer than 70 minutes but flies by like you're only listening for twenty.
The choices for the best of collection were outstanding, but the two new tracks on the record are extremely good too. "All Ready To Go" is just a pure Taking Back Sunday song and "A Song for Dan" is a ballad that tugs at the heartstrings and is relatable to anyone who has lost someone.
It's hard to believe that it's been twenty years since "Cute Without The 'E'" came out, but here we are, and Taking Back Sunday is still around and still jamming out. Good for them. This record is a celebration of a band that's earned their share of respect for twenty years of making great music.


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Smart Guide to Choosing the Right Hydraulic Repair Shop
Well maintained hydraulic components offer the highest level of efficiency in your machine. However, this level of efficiency will not last forever and you will need to service your hydraulics from time to time. When searching for the right hydraulic repair shop you will learn that the market has thousands of shops where you can get service. However, these services vary and it is not every hydraulic repair shop that can guarantee quality craftsmanship.
You will be looking for a shop that has the highest level of quality and you also want that is confident to offer you the highest value for your money. On the other hand, you will also be looking for timely services and the ability of the shop's technicians to diagnose the problem in your machines. With all these, you will have to do all you can to locate the right hydraulic shop. The owners of this website listened to the problems that machine owners go through when they are looking for the right hydraulic repair shops and in response sought out these expert tips from seasoned experts in the industry.
The first thing that experts say should be considered is the shop's ability to offer quality services. When it comes to quality there are several things that a company will have to do. It will be necessary for the company to hire well trained and skilled technicians who will walk with you from identifying the problem and providing the right maintenance or repair to deciding whether or not to purchase new components. On the other hand, the shop should be in a position to source for super quality components from the right suppliers and there should be a clear evaluation of the quality of services offered to the clients.
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Margaret Samadi is an associate at Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd, LLC, where her practice is concentrated on representing victims of mesothelioma. She fights zealously for the rights of individuals who have been affected by this deadly disease. Margaret focuses her practice on appellate and motion practice, intensive discovery strategy and legal research and writing. She has authored appellate briefs in the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Illinois, the Fifth District Appellate Court of Illinois, and the Supreme Court of Virginia. Margaret successfully authored and argued Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd, LLC v. 3M Co., 2016 IL App (5th) 150235-U, where she obtained a favorable opinion from the Fifth District Appellate Court of Illinois on behalf of MRHFM clients.
A native of rural Illinois, Margaret comes from a working class background and is the first in her family to attend law school. She graduated cum laude from Washington University Law School, where she received the Order of Barristers for excellence in oral advocacy. Before graduating, Margaret interned at the St. Louis County Prosecutor's office, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, and a full-service St. Louis law firm. She was also a legal clerk for a St. Louis Circuit Court judge. Her pro bono work is focused on asylum immigration cases.
Margaret is happily married and lives in Kirkwood, Missouri.
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Weaving a Stronger Fabric, M. Samadi and S. Rineberg, Trial Magazine, June 2017
Women in Law, HarrisMartin's Midwest Asbestos Litigation Seminar, Sept. 6, 2018
The Importance of Diversity in Asbestos Litigation, Plaintiffs Asbestos Litigation Seminar, May 16, 2018
Personal Jurisdiction: Evolving Issues in Asbestos Cases, Plaintiffs Asbestos Litigation Seminar, May 17, 2017
Cross-examining the Purveyors of Doubt Science, American Association of Justice Annual Convention, July 22, 2016
Doubt is Their Product, Plaintiffs Asbestos Litigation Seminar, May 11, 2016
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Dan is a career bass player and audio engineering wiz. For the last 38 years, Dan has been a performing and recording musician. He started with classical piano, moved to sax, played percussion, and settled on bass. After training at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles and recording multiple albums on the west coast, he returned to New York in 2002. In 2016, he toured with "The Voice" contestant, Moriah Formica. Currently, Dan plays bass for Billboard Triple A Top 40 artists, Jocelyn & Chris Arndt. When he's not mixing and mastering our client's demos or touring the country with Jocelyn & Chris, you can find him making fresh guac and salsa in his kitchen.
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This dining room set was passed along to me from my aunt; it had been sitting in her basement for about 15 years and previously belonged to my grandmother. I was up for the challenge to modernize the set and experiment with it, mainly because I remember sitting around the table in Fort Lauderdale in my grandparents sunroom and I didn't want it to be trashed. Unfortunately all the before pictures were gone for good after my outdated iPhone 4s leapt out of my hands and plummeted to its death onto my hardwood floors.
Besides the maple tinted stain being outdated (in a bad way) and the table itself looking like it belonged somewhere tropical, it was covered in dirt and a lot of the bamboo was damaged around the feet of the chairs. There was no way I was going to sand and stain the set again, that would have taken quite some time so I decided to use a bonding agent (an oil based paint designed specifically for smooth surfaces and hiding stains) and went with a charcoal gray to match the slightly black tinted glass. Since there are many grooves in the set a paint sprayer was necessary to ensure even coverage and durability as the sprayer can create a thicker coat than both a roller or brush.
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I was on the fence about painting bamboo, but overall was satisfied with the results. The unique lines of the bamboo, combined with the black tinted glass and new seat covers created a one of a kind look that was rather easy to accomplish. It's also nice to say I saved something that had sentimental value, it doesn't hurt that I created a dining room set for under $300.00 either.
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Now that you have a new Moodle course, you need to decide how you are going to organise it. UCL has a set of baseline requirements for each Moodle course which you will want to refer to, together with some more in-depth guidance for enhancing your course. This page provides guidance on how to edit your new Moodle course, add or remove the blocks that appear in the left and right columns on your main course page and add additional activities and resources.
If you haven't already done so, we recommend you attend a Getting Started with Moodle training course to learn how to edit and add resources to your Moodle course/s.
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Early this morning at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, SpaceX launched the first ever private spacecraft — the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — to the International Space Station on an unmanned mission to deliver food, clothes, other supplies, and science experiments to the astronauts who are currently stationed there. And this is only the first of 11 more planned flights to the space station. Incredible and historic!!!
And stay til the end of the video, where at around the 10m mark, Falcon 9 and Dragon go into orbit and we get to see Mission Control, and (eventually) some (relieved) high fives and hugs.
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This week we survey the island's outdoor party scene.
Daytime clubbing in 2014
Dancing outside is the very foundation of Ibiza's clubbing culture. Amnesia, Privilege, Space and DC-10 were all once roofless, presumably built that way because parties were better in the sunshine. But in 2008 everything changed. In direct response to the island's increasingly hedonistic and moneyless after-hours scene, San Antonio council, and later San Jose, passed a law that forbade clubs from opening between 6 AM and midday. Not long after, a second law was passed, extending the curfew to 4.30 PM. From now on, the likes of Space and DC-10 could only open during the day for opening and closing. In the space of a few months, Ibiza's underground scene had had its heart ripped out.
Space Terrace, 1992.
The carry-ons continued but they were close-knit affairs, with only those in the know gaining access to the week's hidden restaurant, beach-bar or, at best, private villa. The clubs, meanwhile, began operating as most clubs do, running events that went from dusk till dawn. Island life rolled on. It makes sense, then, that when the seal was broken in 2013, it was by the island's new kid on the block, Ushuaia. Like countless others, the Playa d'en Bossa beach club had launched a full seven-night roster. However, unlike its counterparts, Ushuaia was in the open-air (which made it successful) and faced the sea (which made it legal.) Sam Dean, one of the directors at Plan Be and Emerging Ibiza, explains: "From what I understand, all they do is direct the music towards the sea, where there are no laws or limits on noise-pollution." As a result, Loco Dice's Used + Abused event and Ushuaia's in-house bash ANTS were both regularly open from 1 or 2 PM last year.
Elsewhere, the trend never really spread. Most of the outdoor Ushuaia Tower residencies fell flat, while weekly rumours that DC-10 would be opening the Garden mid-season never became more than hearsay. There was the odd exception, though. Plan Be, located along the road to Santa Gertrudis, was a fully-functioning open-air club. But even then, it only opened sporadically and was subject to regular police checks. Being there, you always felt it was on the verge of being shut down.
The Garden at Circoloco, 2014.
Fast-forward to June 7th, 2014—at the opening of Guy Gerber's Rumors, that's exactly what happened. "Our achilles heel was always that we were an outside venue, meaning that the noise at the perimeter had to be below 75dB," explains Dean. "On the floor we could do 100, though, which is enough for a party. And then, four days before we opened this year, the council of Santa Eulalia passed a new law that lowered the perimeter limit to 45dB, which makes throwing a party impossible. About 10 PM at the opening the police game and served us a multa (fine), and issued a statement to shut us down. Now, the only option available to us is to apply to do one-off events, which requires a specific permit each time. If you're, shall I say, friendly with the council, these can take a week to process. If you're not, they can take a month. To be honest, it's more likely looking to be the end of Plan Be." They weren't the only ones hit: Destino, Pacha's hotel-cum-venue, fell victim to the same thing, forced to delay its May 30th opening to an unspecified date.
What's perhaps most unfair about this is that elsewhere on the island—under the more generous jurisdiction of San Jose council—outdoor clubbing seems to be making a resurgence. Last week Circoloco hosted DJs outside on a week other than the opening and closing for the first time since it revamped the Garden. That might not sound like much, but regulars at DC-10 will testify to just how enjoyable and different an experience that is. The fact that this happened on a fairly ordinary Monday in June suggests there's more to come.
Cova Santa, 2014.
The Amnesia-owned Cova Santa is pushing the boat out further, staging two high-profile open-air residencies. Previously only home to the occasional Music On afters, the picturesque mountain venue will now host Luciano for six dates and Solomun's Diynamic for eight. With music running from 3 PM through midnight outside, and until 6 AM inside, it should add another dimension to the island's clubbing landscape. Space, too, are pitching in with a daytime concept: Stripped at We Love... Described as "a nod to the past," the pre-club warm-up will see the Sunset Terrace open from 4: 30 PM every week, with unannounced guests providing the soundtrack. Judging by how busy it was at the opening, it could be a timely move. Ibiza's party scene may never return to its sun-lit heyday, but any step in that direction is welcome.
Behind the scenes: Artist liaison
Con Mitsou is a shining example of how to work your way up the ladder. Arriving jobless in 2007, he soon found a position as a posterer for Carl Cox at Space. Today, he's an integral cog behind the scenes at Safehouse Management, one of dance music's global powerhouses. With Safehouse now co-running We Love... on Sundays, we caught up with Mitsou to discuss the ins and outs of being an artist liaison.
Let's start with a brief introduction. When did you first come to the island?
I first came to the island in 2007. I got my first job as a posterer through Dave Browning, who runs Carl Cox's residency at Space. From there I rose to team-leader and the rest is history.
And what is your role within Safehouse Management today?
I'm a project manager for Carl Cox and We Love.... This season I'm concentrating more on We Love..., running the PR teams and doing artist liaison on the night.
Take a typical Sunday night at Space—as artist liaison, what time do you clock on?
I'll start at 10 AM getting all the guestlists ready. Then at 4 PM we open for Stripped. I have to make sure everyone has their drinks tickets and that the DJs have their riders. After that, we set up all the rooms inside. It's my job to make sure everything is ready to go for the artists as soon as they arrive. And then we sort the different kinds of wristbands—for the DJs, press, guests. Once the night starts, I'll man the Discoteca and keep an eye on the other rooms. It's basically just making sure everything is working and the artists are happy. I'll be the first to start in the morning and usually I'm the last to leave. It's a bloody long day.
I imagine a club like Space runs pretty smoothly, but what are some of the hiccups that can occur on any given night?
Different things happen every time. A common one, though, is DJs running late. In that case, I have to let the DJ before know that they need to keep playing. And then there's always the DJ that goes missing. They come in, get their drinks and start wandering about with their phone switched off. Another big one is drivers. DJs will come, play their set and there'll be a driver to pick them up straight after. But then they want to stay and party. I've had situations where at the end of a night you've got 10 DJs and only two cars. I've learnt to really insist that people go back to their hotels and get some rest before tomorrow's flight. That happens a lot at We Love... especially, the artists seem to like to stick around. Little things like that. And then of course all the usual guestlist issues. People not being on the door. Blaggers. So many blaggers.
You mentioned artist riders. Any ridiculous requests?
I've heard that's a popular one.
If you have a live band on then it can get a little out of control. We tend to not give them everything, but they'll ask for four pairs of black socks or a certain type of crisp, or drinks that we don't have in the club. Coconut water is a big one at the moment. Space doesn't supply it, so we have our supplier make sure we've got enough on the night.
I would've thought your job is made easier at We Love..., given the amount of residents that play.
Definitely. When you're working alongside your friends the atmosphere is a lot different, everyone's more comfortable. When it comes to their riders, we're much more flexible. They often send a rider, but on the night we're happy to change anything on there if they fancy something different.
Obviously there are a lot of practical tasks to take care of, but I would have thought the most important part of the job is that you're representing the club. I imagine in a lot of cases, you're the link between the DJs and the venue.
Yeah, and that can be difficult. Balancing the stress of work with having to remain calm, polite and professional at all times. From the minute they get there to the minute they leave, I'm sometimes the only person they talk to.
And of course you're dealing with a lot of top-tier DJs, some of whom have famously big personalities. In terms of managing them, what's the best approach?
Stay professional and be attentive to their needs, within reason. Sometimes they'll want a bottle of champagne, which is fine, and then they'll ask for another two and you have to ask them to reign it in. The aim is basically to make sure they don't get too drunk.
Finally: what's Carl Cox's favourite drink?
That's easy. When he gets in the booth, before he even starts, he'll have a vodka and Fanta Limon.
This week on the island
Music On opening at Amnesia
It's hard to see how Marco Carola and Music On could top 2013. The Neapolitan outfit reached such an apex last year that you feel this season is more about maintaining success than building on it. And indeed their lineups reflect that, with almost all the same names set to return. Two of those, Visionquest pair Shaun Reeves and Ryan Crosson, were booked to warm up the Terrace at last Friday's opening. Playing back-to-back, they span fairly inoffensive tech house, picking it up a little as their 4.30 AM cut-off point loomed.
Carola, clearly eager to get on the decks, took over 15 minutes earlier than scheduled, informing the crowd of his arrival with a typically huge, bass-driven track. From there, he kept the grooves firing thick and fast, leaning heavily on his trademark machine-gun drops, and slightly naff hip-house vocals. But as booming as it was, the records just weren't hitting home as usual, extending an invite to dance rather than forcing you. Admittedly, I never made it past 6.30AM—some people I spoke to had few words for what came after. From where I was standing, though, it felt a little too much like a Friday night in 2013. The party still packed a punch, but it would be good to see Carola really test his limits this summer.
The Zoo Project opening at Gala Night
With the opening of Gatecrasher, and more specifically Crèche, there's been a lot of talk this season about underground dance music finally landing in San Antonio. It seems a strange claim, though, given that The Zoo Project has, for several years, resided less than a five-minute cab ride away. Since 2007, the Gala Night staple has flown the flag for US-inspired deep house in Ibiza, cornering a niche in the market that remains otherwise untouched. But as last Saturday's opening showed, there's more to The Zoo Project than just the music.
For one, it's more of a festival than a party. There are people—young, ecstatic and mostly British—everywhere. Groups stand about singing loudly to each other, couples kick back in the designated circus-cum-chill-out arena and a safari of body-painted revellers moves animatedly at one of several stages. In the seal-pit, resident Evan Baggs was signing off with a medley of rocking house cuts. This set things up neatly for Dungeon Meat, who stuck much to the same thumping course, albeit with a bouncier, more '90s edge. Samuel Deep's edit of Grobbie's Headshot, in tandem with Todd Terry's "I Thought Your Love," went down a treat with the packed amphitheatre. With Jovonn, Ron Trent and Virgo Four all to come, The Zoo Project is proof that San Antonio has long had underground appeal—you just have to know where to look.
We Love... opening at Space
One of the season's more intriguing changes has taken place behind closed doors at We Love... HQ. Safehouse Management, the driving forced behind Carl Cox and his award-winning Space residency, is now a co-partner at the Sunday staple. As a result, there's a renewed sense of vigour about the party, not least because of its UK-strong team of residents. Leading with the new Stripped concept, which saw Shaun Reeves and Just Be perform to an up-for-it Sunset Terrace from the early hours, the party then moved inside, soundtracked initially by Ben UFO playing back-to-back with Paul Woolford.
Spinning in the Terrazza, the pair were faced with the difficult task of filling the room, while staying true to their left-of-centre styles. This was especially true of the Hessle Audio boss, who, unlike Woolford, steered clear of traditional big room tropes. Instead, he leant heavily on thickset tracks from Anthony Naples, Marley Marl and Joy O. Over in the Discoteca. PBR Streetgang were rolling out warm, tempered house with considerable flair. Musically it was great, but it was a sharp contrast to Rudimental's pounding, vocal-led fare. Even that, though, had its charm. DJing with intermittent support from trumpeter Mark Crown, two of the four band members rinsed their way through hits from Julio Bashmore, Warren G and Shy FX, before a medley of their own chart-toppers transformed the dance floor into something of a festival scene.
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Cova Santa - Music On
Music On - Amnesia
The Zoo Project - Gabriel Sergent
Glitterbox - Phrank.net
All others - Tasya Menaker
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Capable of sustaining a ranking of 5-10
Selling points are reading of the play, creative decision making, composure, powerful and neat dual sided disposal, overhead marking, leap and versatility
Pace and agility both seem decent but I don't think he's as explosive or evasive draft camp times suggest
Smedts has the potential to be a good to very good medium utility player - he can play almost any non-key position role and could pinch hit in a number of key positions too.
I wouldn't be surprised if he plays a good amount of AFL games next year due to his smarts and versatility, although probably needs another 8-10kg to be at his ideal AFL playing weight which will take 3 good pre-seasons.
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Find the Hiding Animal???
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perfectly camouflaged! great spotting!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Anu.. First I thought it was a rock and almost just before touching it realized its living!!!Delete
u have a good eye...ReplyDelete
I got it in the first instance because it was a challenge! However it was quite difficult to trace the 2ml injection syringe.ReplyDelete
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Excellent captureReplyDelete
Thanks Krish.. :)Delete
How on earth did you manage to find this one? And what camera do you use?ReplyDelete
I would like to find more details of the frog. Have you tried doing so?
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Accidentally found it.. :)Delete
Its a normal Kodak 7 mp digicam.
Haven't tried to find more info...
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Rendering individual shots is a technique that will enable you to focus on making quality individual shots. In this online tutorial, you will learn more about the process of rendering individual shots and how to apply this to your video project. You will also see how this leads you to producing smooth, professional videos in DaVinci Resolve 11.
We are nearing the conclusion of our training for DaVinci Resolve 11. For those of you who have access to the exercise files and are following along, you've got two choices. You can open up the DaVinci Resolve project chapter 15 rendering, or you can open up the project chapter 15 rendering sapphire. The deal is, if you've got the sapphire open effects plugin from genarts.com, if you've got that installed on your system, go ahead and open up chapter 15 rendering sapphire.
This will have the work that I did with the lens flares included as we complete the training. If you don't have sapphire installed and try to open up this rendering sapphire project, Resolve is going to throw off a whole bunch of errors at you. I don't want you to have to go through that, so essentially, chapter 15 rendering is a duplicate of sapphire with the sapphire plugins deleted. Otherwise, these two DaVinci Resolve projects are identical, so pick the one that works best for you to finish off this training.
I myself will be working in chapter 15 rendering sapphire, so I'll double click it to open it up. Let's jump into the color page, and the first thing we have to do is filter our timeline down to our hero shots, which we flagged way back in the beginning of this training with blue flags. These are our hero shots, and again, as a reminder, these hero shots are designed to help us get a discussion with our client about how they want this final product to look, but before we render, I first want to enable the data burn-in.
We haven't talked about this feature yet. I use it all the time, especially when dealing with remote clients, clients who aren't in the room with me, because I want us to be able to have a very precise conversation about the images in front of us. Let's come down here, and to this little fire icon. Click on that to access our data burn-in, and then I'm going to come down and enable record time code. The other thing I'm going to do to enable is my source clip name, so I'll go ahead and burn in source clip name.
The other thing I'm going to do is set up my justifications so that they're justified left, and then I'm going to position each of these separately, and I'm also going to reduce the opacity of the backing a little bit so they can see a little bit through the black backing. Makes it a little less annoying, but I'm not going to worry about trying to get this completely off the image or bring it down as far as I can, because frankly, I want to make it a little bit difficult for them to, you know, kind of crop this out and walk away with the music video.
It's not that I don't trust the client, you just, you never know, so why make it any easier for them, and so I think this is going to achieve all of my goals. I give them a lot of precision to talk about specific shots. Let me come down and get shot three, and you can see how these clips names all change. My record time code changes. One thing to notice is the record time code. One hour straight up. Then it jumps 14 seconds in. Then it jumps to 19 seconds. Then it jumps to 31 seconds. This is clearly not a 15 second shot here on shot three.
It's showing me the record time code of the unfiltered timeline. Now, we can go into the deliver page and set up our render. Now, way earlier in this training, we took a look at these basic settings. Now, what we're going to do is, take a look at some of the more advanced settings that we'll want to do. First thing is, we want to render this out as a self contained movie, so if I come down to the easy set up, and I set up video share and export, it sets a lot of things up for me, except I want single clip, and it's not letting me set single clip.
Let me turn to none and go to single clip, and it's not letting me go single clip. Why is this? Because DaVinci Resolve refuses to render out a filtered timeline, like we have with these blue flags, as a single clip. Instead, they have to be rendered out as individual shots, and then, if I just want to hand this to my client off as one long QuickTime movie, I'll need to import them and re-render out as a single clip, and that's what we're going to do, because it actually allows me to show you two different workflows here in Resolve, so we are going to follow the individual source clips workflow, and in this workflow, I'm going to want to pull down one of these round trip, or export, pulldowns.
Why? Because it ensures that as I create these clips, things like real numbers and real names get properly placed within the file structure appropriate to where I'm sending it. Remember, if you're in Premier, you're going to follow these Final Cut Pro options. If you're in Avid, you're going to want to follow the Avid option. In this case, I don't really want to go round trip because it doesn't really matter. I'm not going to be sharing it XML. I'm just going to do this export to Final Cut Pro option. It set things up as QuickTime pro res 422HQ.
Now, I'm not going to deliver to my client a pro res 422HQ deliverable, but I am going to be re-rendering this as a single clip, and since I am going to be re-rendering, I don't want to throw away all that highly detailed information we have in here. I'll create my H264 in the next step of this process, so for now, I am going to render it out as pro res 422HQ. If you're on a PC, this option isn't available to you, so go ahead, and under video formats, switch that to MXF, and under codec, select one of the DNX HD codecs.
Probably for this purpose, 8-bit is fine. One thing that confuses a lot of people is this video data level. Leave it on auto. That's my general advice. Unless you know for a specific reason why you want to override what DaVinci Resolve wants to do, in terms of choosing whether you write out your images to the video spec or the data spec, if you don't know, then just keep it on auto, and it will be right 95% of the time. In the 5% of the time it's wrong, then you can try rendering it out one way or the other, and see if it fixes your problem.
Data burn-in, if I want to create a version that has no data burn-in, I can leave this turned on in the color page, and just select none, and then on render, it will not render out this data burn-in, but I want it the same as project. In file here, we've got some restrictions because we are using one of the pull down presets. I can't change the source file name. DaVinci Resolve is going to use the source file name, and what I can do is tell it to render unique file names. That way, if one long shot, like this shot right here, shot number three, if shot number three and shot number 11 are from the exact same take, I don't want it overwriting each other because it's writing them out to the exact same name.
I want each shot name to be unique, so I am going to enable render unique file names, and add the unique file name as a prefix. Now, I'm going to select where I render to and let's render to our exercise folders. I'll select it. Exercise files. I'll click ok at the top level, and I'm going to create a subfolder, and I'm going to call this renders, and then I'm going to add a forward slash, and create a subfolder under that called approvals, and then one more subfolder called hero shots version one.
Scroll down. I will set my render to maximum. When might I want to change this? Well, if I'm working on a send a shared storage space between multiple users, I will probably want to throttle this down. Otherwise, it's going to eat up all the bandwidth, and no one will be able to get real time playback when I'm rendering, so then I will dial this back to maybe 25 frames per second, but otherwise, I'm going to keep this at maximum, and finally, add handles. In this particular workflow, I don't want to add handles. Handles are extra frames before and after each edit.
When you're rendering out single shots, you have the option to add handles so that after you color correct, you bring it into the nonlinear editor, and then they have the option of tweaking their edits, if I give them a second before and after each edit point, they can tweak their edit points up to one second in either direction, if every single one of these shots has an extra second of handles added to it, but in this case, we're not going to do that. With all the major options set, I'm going to go ahead and add job to render queue, and now, you can see all the details I've got here.
I can go ahead and shrink down the render window, so I can see everything here. I can see the name of the job. I can see the timeline I've pulled up. I can see precisely where I'm rendering to, and when I'm ready, I can click start render, but I'm not done, because this is one of three different looks that we want to render out, and deliver to our client, and the thing to understand about Resolve is, groups don't get saved in the render queue. If I set up the three different outputs, they're all going to share whatever is the most recent group I've attached this to, so I've got to render them all out one at a time.
What I can do is set them up all at once, and then go ahead and render out each job individually. Let's go ahead and do that. I'm going to come up here back into our render settings. I'm going to come up to the file subfolder, and now, for this job one, and it's active. If I click outside of it, notice how it's dimmed down. If I highlight it, now I can make changes to it, so I'm going to come into the files. Subfolder, backslash, and call this duo tone. Now, I'm going to deselect it, update this to poppy, add that job to the render queue.
They're both deselected, so I can safely change this. Contrasting, add this job to the render queue, and now watch the file subfolder as I highlight each of these. The first one is duo tone. The second one is poppy. The third one is contrasting. Now, if I have all of these deselected as I just did, and hit start render, it's going to render all three of these one right after the other. I don't want that to happen. I want them to render out one at a time, so I'll highlight job one, which is going with the duo tone look, and make sure the duo tone look is applied to this sequence.
When that job is done rendering, I'll highlight this job, and then I'll go ahead and change the group to poppy, which matches what the file subfolder is for job number two, and then, when I'm done with this render, I'll come down to job number three, do the exact same thing, flip it to contrasting, and then render this one out, and then I'll be ready to go ahead, pull these back in, put this timeline as a self contained timeline that we can then deliver to our client, which is precisely what we're going to do after I go ahead and render these out.
In these tutorials, indie-feature-film and broadcast colorist Patrick Inhofer guides viewers through color grading with DaVinci Resolve and Resolve Lite 11. With emphasis placed on real-world techniques and workflows, the course will help editors and aspiring colorists edit in the timeline, perform primary and secondary color corrections, match shots from multiple cameras, create mood-rich looks, and render out movies to share with clients. Interspersed throughout the course are "lingo" movies, which will help you learn the language of colorists, and "in action" chapters, where Patrick applies the lessons learned to a real-world music video for the band Minimus the Poet.
- Building a Revolve system
- Comparing Resolve and Resolve Lite
- Tweaking preferences for better performance
- Getting clips, timelines, and projects into Resolve
- Editing footage in Resolve
- Evaluating images like a colorist
- Working with serial nodes
- Making contrast and color adjustments
- Making targeted secondary corrections with keys and shapes
- Creating looks with third-party plugins
- Matching shots
- Rendering, delivering, and archiving footage


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Huh? This article is so poorly written, I'm not sure that happened. Either the reference sample of the murder victim was incorrect, or the cops sent the wrong body.
"The DNA report from Mohali-based forensic laboratory has confirmed that the body flown to London by police was not of UK-based NRI Ranjit Singh Powar who was allegedly murdered last year, it is learnt."


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Boomer Esiason said he was "saddened" by Craig Carton's conviction and called his former sidekick's downfall "a cautionary tale."
"For anybody out there who's ever had anybody in their life who has dealt with any sort of addiction — drugs, alcohol, gambling — this is a cautionary tale of how your life can spiral out of control," Esiason said Thursday morning on WFAN in his first public comments since his co-host's guilty verdict, "and how it can affect so many around you, including your own family, the people that you work with and the people that you try to do business with on the outside."
It took a Manhattan jury less than five hours to find Carton guilty of a Ponzi scheme that revolved around a bogus plan to sell concert tickets on the secondary market.
The former WFAN host spent investors' money — over $4 million — to help cover gambling debts, among other expenses.
"I think all of us are saddened by the news, and we had held out hope that Craig would somehow find his way out of what he got himself into," Esiason said a day after the verdict was announced. "There are victims in this case. I don't want to in any way, shape or form take away from what they've had to deal with over the last 14 months (since Carton's arrest). There were people that were asked to go on the stand and testify. Their character was called into question. Their reputation was called into question. And on behalf of those folks, I hope this gives them closure."
Prosecutors proved that the acid-tongued radio star had manipulated emails to convince investors to fund his plan to sell tickets to concerts — ranging from Metallica to Barbra Streisand — at Barclays Center and Nassau Coliseum on the secondary market.
"I wasn't shocked," Esiason said about hearing the news of the guilty verdict. "I was saddened. I was saddened for his family. I will miss Craig. I have missed Craig. But the show here goes on."
Esiason — the former Bengals and Jets quarterback who has had a successful second act as a top media personality — sat side-by-side with Carton on the popular "Boomer & Carton" morning show for 10 years. The show was initially re-branded as "The Morning Show with Boomer" in September 2017 after Carton resigned to focus on his legal woes. Gregg Giannotti eventually took over Carton's old chair in November and the morning show was renamed "Boomer and Gio."
Longtime WFAN producer Al Dukes tried to offer up a defense of Carton.
"Having known Craig for 12 years or so, maybe even longer, he was not a bad person," Dukes said.
"He was selling people fake tickets, he wasn't ripping off your 401K," Dukes added, alluding to infamous convicted Ponzi schemer, Bernie Madoff. "What he did was wrong, 100 percent, but there's this misconception of what his crime really was and what he was doing."
Dukes also claimed that no one at the station had any clue what Carton was really up to off the air.
WFAN's update guy Jerry Recco said he felt a "little sense of responsibility" as he recalled fun nights gambling at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City.
"There was a sense of depression (Wednesday)," Recco said. "I expected the verdict, I was not surprised by it and yet at the same time when it happened, my first reaction was to shut my phone off, which I did and boy I'm glad I did because what I woke up to this morning made me want to vomit.
"I do feel a little sense of responsibility that I kind of aided him in a path that was just bad. I didn't know it was as bad as it was."
Carton faces up to 45 years on charges of wire fraud and securities fraud, though it's expected that he will be sentenced to much less.


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The Pregnancy Pact
9/8c Lifetime
Thora Birch, Camryn Manheim and Nancy Travis star in this drama based on the true story of a group of girls who are rumored to have made a pact to get pregnant. When teen pregnancies spike, a blogger (Birch) decides to investigate and finds a small town in a struggle between its conservative values and the argument for school-supplied contraception. However, the real question, asked by the national media that descends on the town, is why these girls decided to get pregnant in the first place. — Rhoda Charles
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Peer pressure spikes when actors honor their own colleagues for outstanding film and TV performances at the 16th annual glitzfest. In slated gala highlights, Sandra Bullock presents the Life Achievement Award to Golden Girl Betty White for her career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment, plus the art of comic acting is saluted via a film montage. Among the star-bright list of presenters: Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jane Lynch, Michelle Monaghan, Chris O'Donnell, Anna Paquin and Stanley Tucci. The ceremony is presented from the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles. — Dean Maurer
Figure Skating
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Two of these ladies won't be like the others after tonight's U.S. Championships women's final in Spokane. When the U.S. failed to qualify for a third spot at last year's Worlds, the pressure among a handful of young skaters to be one of the two who would qualify for Vancouver became more intense. It didn't ease up at all when 2006 silver medalist Sasha Cohen decided to come out of retirement for another Olympic shot. For the fortunate two, it's a trip to Canada with all the trimmings. For the others, it's just four more years to practice. — Dave Roeder
Ice Dreams
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Hallmark gears up for the Winter Games with this original movie, in which an ex-skater, played by Jessica Cauffiel, attempts to get back on the ice after giving up her passion for the sport following her father's untimely death. But instead of preparing herself for competition, she begins coaching an up-and-coming skater with her own Olympic dreams. Jerry Stiller, Shelley Long and Brady Smith round out the cast. — Brie Hearn
Sea Snakes
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If the 90210 spin-off has left you yearning for absent cast members from the original series, you may want to tune in for Luke Perry's turn as a submarine commander who is forced to contend with genetically altered snakes on a plane, er, submarine, in this straight-to-DVD flick that also features Baywatch alumna Krista Allen and Sniper man Tom Berenger. — Michael Chant
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It has been a busy week here at the Ballet Hispanico studios! On Monday, June 4 we kicked off what promises to be another fantástico Instituto Coreográfico. BH has been buzzing with creative energy.
The Instituto Coreografíco provides emerging choreographers a professional and
supportive environment in which to explore their heritage through the creation of Dance.
That support includes: 60 hours of studio time working with the Ballet Hispanico
Company dancers; an appointed mentor with whom to discuss the art making process;
access to resources at New York University through the Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies; sharing the work for constructive feedback from leaders in the dance field; video footage of the rehearsal process; a work sample on DVD; and a stipend.
This year, we are pleased to be with working some extremely promising artists. Our choreographers are Abdul Latif, from New York City, and Rosie Herrera, from Miami. The participating filmmakers are Andres Aria and William Atwater. It has only been four days, but with the support of their mentors Martha Clarke, Lourdes Lopez, Dudley Williams and Gerrit Vooren, these artists are already producing spectacular works. Next week, the choreographers will present their pieces–performed by our BH Company dancers–for a panel of experienced professionals: Richard Chen See, Francesca Harper and Risa Steinberg.
We are so excited to see how everyone's projects will unfold. Be sure to stay-tuned here for reflections from the artists and more behind-the-scenes information!
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Charles Payne's early life
Charles Payne was born as Charles V. Payne on 15th September 1960. Payne enrolled at Minot State University while he was still in service with the United States Air Force.
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The couple presently living a happy life together in Teaneck, New Jersey, without any rumors of divorce.
Charles Payne's career
When Charles was seventeen years old, he joined "United States Air Force" and he served as a security policeman stationed at "Minot Air Force Base in Mino"t, North Dakota.
In 1985, he began his career on Wall Street as an analyst at E.F. Hutton. He is also the chief executive officer and principal financial analyst of Wall Street Strategies, an independent research firm he founded in 1991.
Charles V. Payne was a former co-host of Varney & Co on October 2007, he joined the network at its launch.
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This simple salad can be on the table in 15 minutes, but Canadian bacon and chimichurri dressing give it tons of flavor. With under 300 calories per serving, it's great as a side dish (I like it with a baked potato) or as a light meal.
What's the first thing you think of when you hear Canadian Bacon? I'm guessing it's not salad. (It might not even be food; I'll admit that 50% of the time, my brain goes right to the movie.)
It's not very often that we see this meat at meals other than breakfast, but it works really well in all sorts of dishes. I love using it in soups and stews like this Canadian Bacon and White Bean Pot Pie and it's also a delicious addition to succotash.
Lately, one of my favorite breakfast sandwiches has been sourdough bread with Canadian Bacon, an over-medium egg, sliced avocado, and chimichurri sauce. I love the way that the meaty bacon pairs with the fresh herbs in chimichurri. I decided to use the same flavors in a salad and I was so happy with how it came out – it's super easy, but it's one of the best simple salads I've made.
Picking the lettuce was probably the most difficult part of creating this salad. I wanted something sturdy enough to stand up to the Canadian Bacon and avocado, but with a mild flavor that would let the chimichurri dressing really shine. I ended up settling on romaine hearts, which was the perfect choice. I also added some radishes to break up the heaviness of the other ingredients (they also add a nice pop of color to the otherwise green salad.)
The dressing is so easy to make – it's basically just chimichurri sauce thinned out with extra oil and red wine vinegar. To make it, you just mash some garlic into a paste and then combine it with fresh parsley and cilantro. It's a really easy way to add bright, fresh flavor to your meals in the winter when there's not much produce in season.
I used Canadian Bacon from Jones Dairy Farm. It's very lean and has a clean flavor that isn't too salty or smokey. I'm able to fine it easily in all of our local grocery stores (Shop Rite, Hannaford, and Price Chopper) but you can use their store locator to find it near you.
This post was sponsored by Jones Dairy Farm, a brand that I've used for years. Thank you for supporting the brands that help keep me inspired in the kitchen!


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Very good GTD implementation with recurring tasks.
It's made for GTD
I have been applying GTD for several years now. I used several tools to assist me in the process. The last one was Kanbanflow. These todo & planning tools all work fine and are great at what they do, but they always fall short of the main ideas of GTD. For instance working with Next action items is always a tedious amount of work to get from subtasks to a next action list. With Nirvana it becomes so much simpler with an instantaneous next action list. It is really made for hardcore GTD fans. The interface is very polished and you can see that a lot of work has gone in the little details. The only thing I miss at the moment is a quick way to add items to the Nirvana inbox from my Android. Through the online app it always takes some time to load before it is possible to write down a short note. I therefore use Google Keep as an intermediate step, but that adds an additional step in the GTD process.
This is really fantastic app for anyone coming at Task Management from a GTD viewpoint. It's the most natively GTD friendly app I've used. Very clean and usable interface. The only drawback is that it has no Android widgets or notifications. So you can put due dates on tasks, but you can only receive a single daily email to be reminded of them.
If you can live without actual notifications of due tasks, this is the absolute best app for GTD task management.


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Quote of the Day: Amy Goldman
At the end of September, about two months after the appearance of the first vine-ripened homegrown tomato of summer the time has come to dismantle the garden before the cover crop is sown. Frost is coming: fermentation and decay are in the air. Plants have fallen down, top heavy, and many tomatoes look like sad sacks, flaccid and drained.
-Amy Goldman (The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit)
I've been clearing out some of my tomato vines. They've reached the end of their productive lives and they will make room for cover crops, and winter greens. I used to try to keep the tomatoes going until frost, but I have found that I'd rather have fresh spinach in February than a few extra tomatoes in October.
I still have a few tomatoes that are going strong, most of them were seeded later in the spring. Among them are some tiny yellow cherries, a 'Lemon Boy' tomato, a 'White Beauty', a few 'Goldman Italian Americans', and a few 'Principe Borghese' tomato plants.
My 'Winter Keepers' are coming into their own as this is their time to shine. I'm hoping that these will last well into the winter on shelves in the basement as the name implies. My mom is growing some 'Long Keepers' and they look exactly like my 'Winter Keepers'.
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We have such a long season that I keep mine going. Early this month, I cut back every sucker but the youngest one closest to the bottom, and now they are back to about 6 ft. tall and setting fruit. I can keep them through October, but then the garlic will need to go in. Next year, they will have their own space and a nice winter cover crop.
I bought some Green Skin Long Keeper seed this year, but never got around to planting it. I'm very curious to see how well yours keep.
to megan's comment
Depends how early frost hits, some years that can be the beginning to middle of September for us. Most years I clear out the garden as soon as the daytime temperatures are in the 50s and evenings dipping into the upper 30s low 40s. Around that time, with shortening days the tomatoes are too slow to ripen anyway.
My tomatoes came into the house last week and they are ripening nicely. I also have several green tomato recipes we will be making this week.
to Sense of Home's comment
I'm keeping my tomatoes until frost since I already have a space for my fall garden. I'll be pulling a few out next week once they either die completely or all the tomatoes have ripened. I do what to get a cover crop planted though. What do you plant for a cover crop, and when do you plant it?
to Kaytee's comment
"Tomatoes, you are out." ala Heidi Klum.
to MAYBELLINE's comment
This weekend we'll be pulling all the tomatoes – they've still got some green fruit but I doubt it'll ripen on the vine before frost. I've never planted a cover crop – what do you plant and is it too late to do it now?
to Kelly's comment
I just picked all the green tomatoes last night; they can ripen on the kitchen steps. This is my first year doing fall/winter crops, and I'm eager to get some things in the ground.
to Caroline's comment
Normally, I keep the tomatoes going as long as I'm getting something from them. This year the hornworms decimated the plants and fruit, so they were cut down more than a month ago. I like the idea of undersowing them–I'll put that on my list for next year.
to Mary W's comment
I just cleared them all out, except for my last 2 Green Zebra plants. They are still going strong. Had to make way for my Fall/Winter sowing of greens, radishes, broccoli and beets.
to Tommy's comment
Our season is so short, I keep the tomatoes going until I can't protect them any longer. I generally have room somewhere for the fall crops I'd like to plant, though.
I wait and plant a cover crop until it's freezing pretty steadily. I believe the rototilling turns up most hornworm pupae(?), which then very helpfully freeze so I don't have to deal with them the next year. I can plant winter rye as long as the ground isn't frozen (according to a farmer friend), but I usually try to get it in by the end of October.
to KimP's comment
We cleared out all tomatoes we could the weekend before last, and moved the pigs onto the plot. They have completely cleared everything, nothing left, not even roots. They will have to be moved this weekend onto the squash plot.
to sue's comment
I cleaned mine out last week when I was feeling up to it, although I did leave in my grape tomatoes. I suspect I'll pull it next week when the weather breaks. I'm still working on cleaning out the whole garden but have no idea what to plant as a cover crop.
to Laura's comment
I have so little sunny space and need the tomato bed for the onions! BUT I can pick beautiful vine ripened toms thru November at least. Last year we were away and never pulled our vines and our housesitters had fresh tomatoes, from the vine, in JANUARY! I don't know what to do. I'm waiting for a heat wave to ripen what's on the vines. I need one more rush at least. Onion transplants don't go in for another month anyway…
I have cleared my lower, shadier beds, from their summer crops. The Fall planting will go in Friday (peas, carrots, broccoli, kale, lettuce, etc) and I also need to get my garlic in. My onion seeds have sprouted!
to Marlyn's comment
It's tough for me to clear out the tomatoes when they still have a few fruits left. I become attached to them, since I always start the plants from seed at the end of January. By the time that Oct/Nov rolls around, we've become friends… ;)
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Brave new work: Making the 9-5 somewhere you want to be
By Fiona Graham
Technology of business reporter
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Are you happy at work?
If that seems like a loaded question - can you at least say you're interested in what you're doing, and feel motivated?
If the answer is no, don't worry. You're not alone. In fact a massive 70% of US workers are "not engaged" or are "actively disengaged" at work. Workers elsewhere appear to agree.
So what can we do about it?
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Dave Coplin has a few ideas.
He is Microsoft UK's chief envisioner. But he's also something of an influential expert when it comes to how we work.
It's something he's passionate about, and that comes across clearly in his new book Business Reimagined: Why work isn't working and what you can do about it.
"Fundamentally I think work isn't working," he says.
"We ended up in containers that are no longer relevant, we still think about work as a destination when we should think about it is as an activity.
"It's something that we do, it's not a place we go - I can work from anywhere."
He sees technology as part of the problem. Rather than creating a world where the ability to work anywhere frees us up to enjoy life a little more, he sees the opposite happening.
"I grew up on Star Trek and comic books, and had this belief that technology is a force that is supposed to bring positive things to society.
"Then I look around at what we're doing and I see how technology has become a cage to lots of people."
He cites email as a particular example of an out-dated use of technology - using email for everything, rather than pick up the phone, say, or using other collaborative applications. This, he says, stifles both productivity and creativity.
As well as spending hours in the office dealing with it, we've become trapped by the need check our email weekends, evenings, at the school play, at the supermarket, wherever we are.
This is partly self-inflicted and partly down to corporate culture and a basic misunderstanding of how these tools should be used says Mr Coplin.
"We allow technology to overtake us, and this way we become slaves to it, so all of these things conspire.
"I know there is more to technology, I know what it can do, I see this stuff we do, the stuff that our competitors do, the potential technology offers a modern society whether it's just work or play.
"It's huge and the challenge is, unless we open our eyes to use that we're never going to get that."
Open source
Part of the change Mr Coplin is advocating involves the physical spaces where we do our jobs.
The office was originally the place work had to be done.
Then it was the only place that had the technology necessary to do your job. Now, most of us have better devices at home.
"One of the basic premises of our theory is that the future belongs to creativity. So if we are going to be more competitive as businesses, we are going to do more things differently," he says.
"If you buy that theory open plan offices are terrible."
The argument is that the large open spaces so beloved of modern architects and HR departments end up destroying the very things they were supposed to nurture and encourage.
Technologist and writer Ben Hammersley wrote the introduction to the book.
He likens them to the African savannah - herds of antelopes - or staff - in groups, while at the edge sit the hunters, the managers, with their screens shielded, ready to pounce on the weak or visibly unproductive.
Recent research says these offices make us sick, less productive and unhappy.
To do our best work, we need to get into something called a 'flow state' - it takes the average human 15 minutes to get there.
"When was the last time you had 15 minutes where you weren't distracted by a phone call, email or someone telling you about last night's Eastenders?" says Mr Coplin.
Flexible attitude
The answer, says Mr Coplin, is to embrace a flatter hierarchy while giving your staff freedom to work flexibly.
But this doesn't necessarily mean what you think it does.
"When I talk to people about flexible working, what they will typically say, oh you mean working from home?" he says.
"Well, sort of. Actually what I really mean is being mindful of the location that you are going to be able to do the work you have do today. And being really thoughtful about what that is."
The other problem is that working flexibly is often seen as a perk for individuals or people with children - and causes trust issues.
But Mr Coplin's research turned up something interesting.
"The [trust] issue is not between the employer and employee like we thought it would be, it is actually between employees."
The fear of earning your colleague's disdain results in sometimes paranoid behaviour.
"I start to do stupid things. I start to send more emails, I get up early, send a really early email, and then all of a sudden, I am not using the tools effectively," he explains.
"I am doing this because I am worrying about what they are going to be saying."
"You [have to] make it an organisational objective, you say that actually, yes, it is important for individuals but we believe that every single member of the workforce should have the capability to work flexibly."
Although Mr Coplin points out that certain jobs and professions obviously do require bodies on site.
Social stock
All of this of course hinges on the right technology. And that means using the right tools in the right way, according to Mr Coplin, building his definition of the social enterprise. Simply running a Twitter feed doesn't count.
"We're locked into this really bizarre world where we have a richer technology experience at home than most people have at work. We now communicate really differently at home and in our personal lives than we communicate at work."
"You see the power of what you can do socially, but you see the constraints on how you share and collaborate at work.
"It's going to start to merge, because I think [people have] a higher expectation of how to collaborate."
This is a democratisation of knowledge and participation that Mr Coplin says could help employees feel more invested in their employer.
He describes the 'Ask Me' group used by IT company Merlin, where staff post questions and get answers from people across the company and around the world - shortcutting the route to the right person with the right knowledge.
Despite all this, the majority of organisations that have tried to implement social collaboration have failed.
If this is so beneficial to business, how can this be?
According to Mr Coplin, companies can't be half-hearted - these policies and technologies have to be integrating into the fabric of what people do, rather than used in barely-supported pockets, or in isolation, where they languish and die. As with flexible working, it should be for everyone, not a 'special' few.
"We talk about flexible working, social collaboration, managing people differently, to me it's like a conveyor belt of topics," he says.
"You don't do those three things and then voila, you have re-imagined your business. That's just the beginning of how you start.
"The most important thing is you've got to think differently about both the world that you live in, and the opportunities that lie in front of you as a business, and how you could think differently."
As he talks you get a sense of just how passionate he is about this.
"It's a philosophy, it's a different state of mind about the potential of work," states Mr Coplin.
"I am really lucky, because I sit in this incredible vantage point called Microsoft, and I can see right across different sectors, different sizes of customers, see how all this stuff comes into play.
You can see the potential that exists ... we've got to change."