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Character Education was important to George Washington; he worked hard on it himself.
Being George Washington by Glenn Beck is an insightful treatment of the life and service of this magnificent Founding Father. But also Beck gives a "character education" approach. He suggests how we can all use George Washington as a standard for our own good character development, and to prepare ourselves to make a difference. Truly inspirational. Following are highlights, but if you read the entire book with your family, you will treat them to an empowering character education experience.~C. A. Davidson
Part 1
Cultivating Character
No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. ~George Washington, first inaugural address
The Great Author, Revealed
Revisionist historians have tried to diminish Washington's faith in God, but it is clearly evident in his writings. Washington learned very much from his father, who (as the legend goes) once taught young George a lesson using cabbage seeds. He arranged them in such a way that they spelled "George." When they began to grow, he showed them to his son and explained to him that they just grew that way by happenstance. When George correctly rejected that premise, suspecting it was his Dad who arranged them, he told George to look around at how perfectly everything else was placed. The trees. The grass. The water. The hills. The sky.
Was it mere coincidence, or was it part of a grand plan?
Washington immediately knew the answer. ~Glenn Beck, Being George Washington, p.41
The Great Protector
A thousand enemy soldiers were captured, killed, or wounded in battle. But the toll on the rebels' side was not nearly as dramatic. Washington lost two soldiers, and five others were injured. That's it. It's no wonder he believed so fervently in the Invisible Hand.
The list goes on and on, and while many say all of it was simply coincidence or luck, Washington himself did not believe that, writing to his brother: "I now exist and appear in the land of the living by the miraculous care of Providence, that protected me beyond all human expectation; I had 4 Bullets through my Coat and two horses shot under me, and yet escaped unhurt." ~Glenn Beck, Being George Washington, p.42
Washington believed, for very good reason, that God—the Invisible Hand, as he often called Him—oversaw their mission, and that uncovering Arnold's plot was nothing less than providential. In a message to "the treason has been timely discovered to prevent the fatal misfortune. The providential train of circumstances which led to it affords the most convincing proof that the liberties of America are the object of divine protection." ~Glenn Beck, Being George Washington, p.108
In sheer desperation, Cornwallis attempted to lead an evacuation across the York River in whatever small boats he could muster. Apparently, God did not intend to let them go so easily, as a violent storm appeared out of nowhere. In a rush of ferocious wind and rain, the small British boats were swept downstream.
About the same time as the white flag was being raised in Yorktown, the proud British fleet finally sailed out of the New York harbor, the repairs to their ships from damage inflicted in the Chesapeake having taken almost two weeks longer than expected.
The fleet arrived at Yorktown a week too late. ~Glenn Beck, Being George Washington, p.140
The power and goodness of the Almighty were strongly manifested in the events of our late glorius revolution; and his kind interposition in our behalf has been no less visible in the establishment of our present equal government. In war he directed the sword; and in peace he has ruled in our councils. My agency in both has been guided by the best intentions, and a sense of the duty which I owe my country. ~George Washington to the Hebrew congregations
Character Education
I know that getting a formal education in political science or economics is wonderful, but I can also confidently tell you that a formal education can also mean polically motivated teachers and a lot of closed-minded thinking. After all, how many professors do you know that will teach kids Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, or Thomas Sowell: nom many. Sometimes educating yourself is not only a necessity but a blessing. It allows you to explore ideas in a way professors like to inhibit with their preconceived ideological notions. As the columnist Heather MacDonald recently pointed out, in the past academic year at Bowdoin College, "a student interested in American history courses could have taken 'Black Women in Atlantic New Orleans,' 'Women in American History, 1600-1900,' or 'Lawn Boy Meets Valley Girl: Gender and the Suburbs,' but if he wanted a course in American political history, the colonial and revolutionary periods, or the Civil War, he would have been out of luck."
America allowed the Founders to test ideas that were considered radical elsewhere. They were allowed to think freely without worry of repercussion. Though highly educated in classical texts, most of the Founders were not weighed down by conventional thinking or pseudoscience and gender studies. That was a blessing.
Washington remained self-conscious about his lace of a formal education his entire life. Ironically, it was this fact that drove his intellectual curiosity and ensured that he would always be overly prepared for any debate. ~Glenn Beck, Being George Washington, p.203
Rules of Civility
Some of the Rules of Civility that Washington copied as a young boy.
- "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
- "Let your conversation be without malice or envy. And in all causes of passion admit reason to govern."
- "When you speak of God and his attributes, let it be seriously and with reverence."
- "Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
~Glenn Beck, Being George Washington, p.245


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More Birnholtz: I'm More. I'm 24 years old and a third year student for computer science in the Technion.I was born and raised in Haifa, Israel but spent 2 years growing up in Amherst MA. This was my first experience with American culture in general and specifically Jewish American culture. Also, with Amherst being a university city there were a lot foreign and international communities and I got to experience the US "melting pot". After high school I served in the IDF like all Israelis. My service was in army intelligence. After the army I started teaching preparation courses for the Israeli SAT's and also found myself getting involved with the Jewish Agency. I was a shlicha (emissary) for two North American communities and summer day camps- the first was in the greater Boston area in 2005 and the second was in Palo Alto CA in 2006. Both were a life changing experience! Since then I have been actively seeking ways of getting involved and bettering the Jewish world, whether it be Birthright, Hillel and now fortunately taking part in Shomer Achi.
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Luba Yusim: Hello! My name is Luba Yusim and I am a senior at the University of Oregon studying International Studies and Russian. I was born in Odessa, Ukraine but my family emigrated to San Francisco when I was a year old. I am very excited to have been given the privilege of being a part of Shomer Achi and look forward to learning, growing and establishing sustainable connections with the people and communities I interact with.

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This seemingly ordinary spade has the ability to look over old blog posts and clarify various aspects that may have been unclear (DC 10 + level of the blogger).
Hmmm...I think I've spent too much time perusing the 3rd Edition Deities & Demigods.
Anyway, I'm looking over the post from last night, and I realized several things were happening that may have made it a tad unclear here and there. I mean, I was emotionally drained from watching Neko shake with fear after Dan left that terrifying message. I was also loaded with excitement over the idea that she and I will be seeing each other IN PERSON in about a week. It was also after midnight when I actually finished the post. (Post times are when the blogger starts typing.) There's also the fact that I missed a great deal of the conversations between Dan and Neko.
Okay...Let's get started.
1: The third person chat we had really did see me playing the role of suspicious friend. (And, yes, it is a little strange referring to myself in the third person now.) No one escaped my verbal wrath, and that includes myself. I am semi-remembering several examples, (still kind of hazy because I was foolishly dividing my attention between her and Solitaire), such as when Neko shared the fact that she and "Rob" had made matching uniforms on City of Heroes, I responded with feigned vomiting, followed by, "What a sap." I quizzed her about whether or not Rob had asked her out, to which she said he hadn't. "I thought he was crazy about you. What's stopping him?" So we "practiced" the idea of him asking, to which she gave an immediate yes. And I really did grill her on the safety measures Rob was willing to take should she decide to visit him instead of Dan. I wanted her head anchored in reality, and not the whirlwind fantasies that can come with the adrenaline rush of falling in love.
2: As for Dan, I was particularly harsh, but then Neko knows my mind is tainted by his recent behavior. I don't tolerate liars...AT ALL! If someone says they're one thing, and then prove otherwise, that qualifies as one of the bigger lies. Dan has been seeing a lot of ladies down in Puerto Rico over the last few years, and I've become suspicious of his motives. Did he run out of women around him, having earned a nasty reputation, and is now hoping to use Neko? I don't really know. But I did hear Neko ask him at one point if she was just going to be added to the lengthening list of women he's conquered. Oh, we men start dancing as fast as we can when such questions are asked. It's right up there with, "Does this dress make me look fat?" (Start running, buddy! No answer is right! You can say no, and she'll take issue with your tone!)
Dan has been very much the typical guy throughout this whole thing. I recognize it from the fact that I was once the typical guy. That's where a guy paints a far better picture of himself than reality would reflect. He searches for all the right things to say to the woman he's interested in, hoping that she will, in fact, become another conquest for him. Whether or not she becomes the final conquest always remains in question. And since the revelation that I've taken up a serious station in Neko's life, Dan has been shifting tactics too rapidly. The moment he saw one wasn't working, he'd try another. That wreaks of deception in my opinion, and I said as much to Neko. For a guy who ALSO claimed to be open and honest, he was making a series of bad moves, as he was now proving otherwise.
3: There was a point where Neko said that Dan was demanding she choose, and such a thing was unacceptable to her. I swiftly pointed out that I'd basically done the same thing, asking her to choose me over him...but at no time had I said this directly. I never said anything like, "It's him or me." My regular tactic was to simply say, "I want you for myself." This proves that it's not what you say, but how you say it. All of my demands from Neko have been within her comfort zone, with me making it as clear as possible that if there was something she wasn't comfortable with that she need not say or do it.
4: Okay, I have a big one now. Did I, in fact, manipulate Neko? It's a good one, right? Well, as Jews are fond of answering a question with a question...Is it possible to manipulate someone who's been forewarned of your motives? I don't think so. I told Neko the other day that my newest goal was to get her to cancel her trip to Puerto Rico and come see me instead. It's not nearly as warm and scenic here in Kansas, but the man who cares most about her is here. (Or so "he" claims! =P ) No, I don't believe I manipulated Neko. I would believe that it's impossible to do so once someone has been told what your goals are, and I did exactly that.
"Oh yeah, Rob? Prove it!" Easily done. You see, Neko reads this blog. Heck, I point it out to her whenever I've made a new post, and she often reads it while we're talking. If I was being sneaky or deceptive in any way, then I'm making all the wrong moves, since I tend to reveal exactly what's on my mind on this blog.
5: The order of events remains a little unclear on my last post, so let me fix that.
A: Neko and I spoke in the afternoon, with her confirming he was making her feel like she was dealing with her ex-fiance.
B: She got home and we started speaking on Skype. We engaged in the usual activities, including playing a little City of Heroes.
C: Dan calls. He tells her he's going to play the easy-going guy, and tries to keep the mood light. He succeeds for the time being. She and I are still on Skype the whole time.
D: Neko and I have our bizarre chat, in which she does a lot of smiling; she's amused at my efforts to maintain this other character.
E: She opens up MSN to see if he's around; it's only fair to keep the lines of communication open, since the plan is still in place for her to go to see him.
F: Mr. Easy-Going's disguise starts slipping when he starts asking serious questions. He's trying to find out how committed Neko is to me. He doesn't like the answers he's getting and logs off.
G: Neko says, "I know this seems bad, but how warm is it in Kansas?" I'm confused, as I have no idea how her question is bad. She claims it seems like she's using me to comfort herself during an emotionally bad time. I state that I don't see it that way.
H: Dan calls. He's trying to wheedle a sexual encounter with Neko. (Someone needs access to internet porn!) Despite no solid commitment between her and I, she speaks as though there is, and they argue. I don't remember who ends the call, but it doesn't end well.
I: Neko starts deleting Dan from her online life. I try not to do a happy dance. She also says it's okay for me to start asking my housemates if it's okay for her to hang out for a week or so. I can't run, but want to. I also use sign language to tell her that I love her. Pounding on my chest like that isn't good for me.
J: I return with word that Cody is okay with it, but that Ray is currently out.
K: She ignores several calls from Dan. She sees he's left a voice mail. She listens to it, then repeats it for me. Dan sounds psychotic. She aclls it "quiet anger" and becomes terrified. I try to comfort her. In the back of my head, I imagine Dan plotting how to come to the States and kill ME.
L: Another voice mail is left. This time Dan is holding back tears. I explain to Neko that he's grieving the loss of a romance he could have had, but made too many mistakes along the way.
M: The idea is introduced that I travel to PA, spend some time there, and then we return to KS during her vacation. Neko is willing to help finance my little trip.
N: Dan isn't giving up. She answers his next call in the hopes of explaining that she's done. He only needed to scare her once, and that was more than enough for her. I spend the time starting my blog entry. I also try to remind her she didn't want to have another late night via typed chat.
O: By the time their call ends, it's 1:00 AM Neko's time. It's too late to get into another lengthy chat.
P: I take the time to call Ray and ask if it's okay for Neko to come hang out, as well if he'd be willing to drop me off at the train station next week. He agrees, and I share this with Neko.
Q: Beating ourselves up for wanting to chat, but knowing it's not possible, I give her a "cam-kiss" and say goodnight.
R: I finish the blog entry while trying not to fall asleep. Jumping from upset with Dan and ecstatic that Neko wants to see me, I'm drained.
S: I sit and try to read the post. Something isn't clear. I'm not sure what. I decide I'll clarify the next day and head for bed.
For all I know, this entire post wasn't necessary. But I pride myself on being an honest, honorable man. When drama unfolds around me, I do my best to report the facts. If I'm unsure of something, I say as much, like when I try to quote someone and remain unsure of the exact wording.
And now, having looked over this post, there seems to be a great deal of ego seeping from me and onto the internet. I claim Dan IS a typical guy, and that I WAS a typical guy. Gee, Rob. Toot your own horn much? Well, in this instance, I feel I have a right to do exactly that. I've met a woman by way of an MMO. My initial goal was that of a typical guy, but I instantly recognized that, as Neko herself puts it, "she was broken." The last thing she needed was someone treating her poorly again. I'm not like that. Not anymore, anyway. And so I was myself, treating her as well as all human beings should be treated when you first meet them. She found herself drawn to my very nature, and that in turn altered my goals. I wanted this pretty young woman for myself. Mind you, I didn't delude myself into thinking I'd succeed, but the spark of hope had been ignited. By continuing to be myself, I achieved my goal of winning her heart, becoming "her Rob." I've withheld nothing, and Neko STILL wants me in her life. So I think I've earned the right to toot my own horn a bit.
That said, I think it's time for me to be on my way. I have an appointment with a surgeon tomorrow and have paperwork to fill out. So be well, my beloved friends. Be VERY well. =)
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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Any good ones that I should check out?
Revolver and some more, i think mentioned them in the Primavera thread on the festivals page
there's a little side road near placa catalunya which has lots of good record shops. can't remember the name tho...


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Sports Authority of India announced the appointment of former Dutch national coach Paul van Ass as the new coach of the Indian men's hockey team, he will replace Terry Walsh of Australia.
Anthony Thornton of New Zealand will be in charge of the women's national side, she replaced Neil Hawgood of Australia.
Hockey India President Narinder Batra finalised the names in a meeting along with secretary sports Ajit Sharan, interim coach Roelant Oltmans and Olympian Harbinder Singh.
The Indian Men's hockey team was playing without a Coach since November 2014 when the then Head Coach Terry Walsh resigned under controversial circumstances.
Both Van Ass and Thornton were awarded a three-year contract till 2018. India will host the 2018 men's Hockey World Cup.


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From the Class of 2015, Eko Devices CEO Connor Landgraf says, "The FOUNDER.org team, and Michael, have constantly pushed us to grow faster and think bigger - to take what we're doing now and find bigger opportunities for innovation." Eko has created a digital stethoscope system to put a cardiologist in every doctor's pocket. The system is in pilot testing at University of California San Francisco Medical Center and Stanford University Hospital.
FOUNDER.org will be announcing this year's $10,000, $50,000 and $100,000 funding awards at the World Founder Forum in Stockholm. This year, the World Founder Forum will be hosted at KTH The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. "It is an amazing opportunity to meet the next generation of great innovators and company builders. We host a tight-knit community of teams, alumni, mentors, investors and press. It's a very high energy event where everyone is excited by the same goal of being a part of building a world-changing company," said Michael Baum.
"We are both honored and humbled to have been selected for the 2016 Class of Founder.org. Audacy's company vision of becoming a solar system provider for spacecraft communications is of epic scale, and Founder.org's international community allows us to partner with - and learn from - the best entrepreneurs in the world. Tomorrow's tech businesses have to be global, and so are today's most promising founders," remarked Ralph Ewig, CEO of Audacy.
The FOUNDER.org Class of 2016:
- Additive Rocket Company: Rocket engines for nano rocket launchers (UCSD)
- Akanocure Pharmaceuticals: Nature inspired cancer therapies (Purdue University)
- AlphaSheets: Cloud-based financial modeling (MIT)
- Audacy Corporation: Space-based Internet (Stanford University)
- BeamLine Diagnostics: Pre-cancer screening software (University College London)
- Biocarbon Engineering: Industrial scale reforestation (University of Oxford)
- BioInspira: Airborne chemical detection (University of California Berkeley)
- Blocks: Modular smartwatch platform (Imperial College London)
- Building Radar: Geo-opportunity analysis (Center for Digital Technology Management, London School of Economics, Technische Universität München)
- Cambridge Bio-Augmentation: Platform for interactive prosthesis (University of Cambridge)
- Cariboo: Turning locals into tour guides (ESCP Europe, EDHEC, Ecole Centrale Paris)
- Civil Maps: Intelligent big data driven maps (University of California Berkeley)
- Deekit: Real-time whiteboards (Tallinn University of Technology)
- Deliberate: Global debate on important issues (Stanford University)
- Desaia: Design and creation software for 3D virtual worlds (Technische Universität Berlin)
- Dramatize: Streaming Bollywood worldwide (Harvard Business School)
- Guardian Sensors: Vital sign sensors (University of Texas at Austin)
- GiveVision: Smart Glasses for the visually impaired (University of Oxford)
- Gravity Sketch Limited: 3D Sketching in augmented reality (Imperial College London)
- Havenly: Personalized interior design (University of Pennsylvania)
- HeySuccess: Marketplace for international student programs (Tallinn University of Technology)
- ICEYE: Radar-based satellite imaging service (Aalto University)
- LaserX: Satellite to ground communication (MIT, Harvard Business School)
- LocoRobo Innovations Inc: Learning programming through robotics (Drexel University)
- ManoMotion: Real-time 3D gesture tracking and analysis (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- peerCast: Peer-to-peer live-streaming video (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Poly6 Technologies: Sustainable plastics technology (MIT)
- Rankmi: Digitized talent management (UCLA)
- RaptorMaps: Unmanned aerial systems for agriculture (MIT)
- Rorus Inc.: Water purifiers for natural disaster relief (Carnegie Mellon)
- Rubbee: E-bike conversion system (Kaunas University of Technology)
- Sandbox SEF: Remote scientific experimentation (MIT)
- Serket: Pharmacy integrated solution for medical non-adherence (University of Cambridge)
- Spoiler Alert: Marketplace for surplus food (MIT)
- SUN Bioscience: Organoids as a service (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
- Symbio Robotics: Software for industrial robotics (University of California Berkeley, University of Southern California)
- Transcense: Audio visual aids for the hearing-impaired (University of California Berkeley, University of San Francisco)
- Unite Genomic Solutions: Big data analytics for genomics (University of California Berkeley)
- Vendri: Video ad acceleration (University of Pennsylvania)
- Woobo: AI-based imaginary friend (MIT, Carnegie Mellon University)
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How to get started in HDR photography
I'm just going to give you a basic idea on how to get started and what you may need to do this type of work. If some people are interested I can post more on this subject.
I have been shooting High Dynamic Range photography for over seven years. This type of shooting is also known as HDR. What it takes to create this type of image is multiple exposres. One correct, one over exposed and one under exposed image. Yes, three shots of the same scene or subject. There is a issue of weather you need three or more shots. Some people seem to think you need five, seven or even nine. Three will work just fine although, I myself have gotten stunning results with more. Trust me you will do just fine with three.
Some people think they can take ONE SHOT HDRs. THese are no way the real HDR images. Just fakes and many times they look fine. You'll always fine someone somewhere trying to cheat the system for shortcuts in any arena. Maybe they just do't own tripods. I don't know!
Yes now that I have brought up the subject of tripods this is one of the most important items you will need. You may of thought about that when I mensioned multiple exposers. I also like to use a shutter release cable. Imagine that ! Another item nobody wants to buy.
The software you will need to create you HDR images can be done with Photoshop and many other programs can be found online. SOme are free and some can be purchased for instant download.
Picturenaut is free among others. I am not affiliated with photoshop or picturenaut I just use these names as examples of software that is good for this work.
Once you have the needed software and the three images you will learn about creating your HDR image in the program. You'll want to overdue it at first. THat's what happens when people are new to HDR. Back off and don't over saturate the image. Also watch for ghosting. A big problem for many people new and experienced. I have seen many people doing HDR for year and there's even a one page add in a major magazine that offers to teach you to o HDR for a large fee that shows the instructors examples with very heavy ghosting. Ghosting is a halo around builings or cars where the edges may meet the sky. I'll show an example here today.
Below I have added an example of a hand help HDR I took this summer. Three braketed shots. Yes, no tipod. I wanted to walk freely around town and shoot hand held. THis is my first hand eld HDR and Like I always knew, it wouldn;t turn out good. When zoomed in the are many areas that show triple edges that do not line up because it was not shot STILL on a triopod.
My goal here is more to talk about what not to do than like others who talk about how it't done and leave out all the what to look out for if you want a good picture.
You can find some of my work on Flickr I'm know as thatstickerguy


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Top 5 | Sydney
The Top 5 Places to get your vegetarian tastebuds tingling this World Vegetarian Day
World Vegetarian Day is coming up this Sunday 1st October, if you've bean thinking of how to celebrate on this day, let Dimmi take carrot that!
Dimmi has done the hard work for you and brought together the top five restaurants in Sydney that will knock your socks off this World Vegetarian Day. Below is a roundup of the top restaurant picks that know how to make veges take centre stage.
INDU is a celebration of southern Indian and Sri Lankan village culture, flavours and local hospitality. INDU features a menu that is filled with vegetarian options paired with exceptional spices to create a delicious feast for all. The Vegan Dosa is a fresh mix of garam masala, eggplant, lentil vada, bitter melon, beetroot and coconut cream. The beetroot gives this dish a vibrant colour- it almost looks too good to eat.
Anason delivers culinary flair with every dish by pairing together traditional Turkish flavours with a modern vege focused twist. Their menu is full of meals that have been curated to impress every kind of foodie! The Roka is a fresh salad that pairs together rocket, tomato, cipollini red onion, walnut and pomegranate.
The Italian in Willoughby is a local gem that creates meals that nourish the body whilst tantalising the taste buds. They serve wood fired pizza that is made using stone ground, organic Australian flour and the pick of the bunch when it comes to local produce. The perfect pizza combination is served on the 'Vegana Pizza', we are talking mushrooms, zucchini, capsicum, olives, notzarella and nutritional yeast. Pair this with the Zucchini fries and we have a match made in vegetarian heaven.
Bad Hombres is a fusion of both Asian and Mexican that has arrived in Surry Hills in the form of a fun and funky pop-up! They serve up the most fantastic sides including charred corn with Japanese mayonnaise and Japanese mushroom tostada. The tacos have some creative vegetarian pairings, so if you are feeling spontaneous, try the Roast Broccoli Taco topped with guajillo romesco, coffee and almonds.
Loco for Mexican? Méjico is a Mexican restaurant filled with an abundance of flavoursome vegetarian options. From Mexico City to the Yucatan Peninsula, regional flavours and techniques are united in the dishes at Méjico. Start with the tangy Heirloom Tomato Ceviche, tomatoes with roasted onion petals, jalapeno with roasted serrano and garlic mojo- then bring on the Mexican fiesta.
Can't convince your meat loving friends to go vego just for the day? That's fine, most of these restaurants have other options to help inspire them to come along with you this World Vegetarian Day!


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National Coaching Programme
A key component in the Squash Australia Performance System is the provision of coaching specific to the development stage of each athlete. Squash Australia has appointed 8 National Junior coaches and assigned two coaches to each age group in U13, U15, U7 and U19.
Squash Australia believes that in order to produce world class athletes they need to invest in their coaches so through Melbourne Business Schools we are sending our coaches on a leadership programme. The program involves both group and one-on-one executive coaching focused on individual leadership. By investing in our coaches and making them better leaders they will in turn become better coaches.
We will also be upskilling our coaches by sending them on courses in strength and conditioning, nutrition, psychology and recovery through the AIS.
Want to be part of the Performance Coaching Team?
Squash Australia are keen to improve the level of all our Performance coaches. We are always on the lookout for new Coaches to work with our top junior players. If you wish to be considered there are some basic requirements:
- Be able to demonstrate experience of work with National level junior players.
- Be working towards a Squash Australia Talent development qualification.
- Be a Squash Australia accredited coach.
If you feel you meet these requirements, contact the office on [email protected] and a member of the Performance Team will be in touch.


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An urban girl with a Southern heart and Eastern roots, Nita's earthy, soothing voice and poetic songs will remind audiences of Sara Bareilles, Tori Amos and early Norah Jones.
Born in Mississipi and raised just outside of Washington, DC, Nita began her musical journey at the age of 3, singing Hindi songs with her parents and older sister. After years of classical piano training and acoustic guitar, her first teenage heartbreak inspired her to begin songwriting. In 2007 she started off small, performing at the local Borders bookstore in her hometown (Germantown, MD).
Since then, Nita's gyspy spirit has taken her to many venues around the country and the world such as venues in D.C. (The Lincoln Theatre, Rock and Roll Hotel, Hard Rock Cafe), New York City (National Underground, The Living Room), Los Angeles (Room Five, The Fox and Hounds) , and even international venues like Ronnie Scott's in London, UK.
With a few albums under her belt ("Fall Again EP" in 2009 and "Grace" in 2013), Nita is excited to release her new single, "The Way", which speaks to the challenges of growing up as a 2nd generation Indian-American. Like so many 1st generation immigrants, her parents moved to the U.S. in the late 70s, seeking a better quality of life for themselves. "The Way" symbolizes her respect for the sacrifices her parents made to give her this amazing life. Yet that's exactly why her generation needs to be the way forward to actualizing their deepest dreams and desires. "The Way" will be released this October 12th , and the music video will release the following week, October 19th.
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A good race & good to see Smiley back on form.
Crazy for both Ferraris to have tire issues when Bottas ran the Soft for over half the race without issue.
The Enemy's gate is down.
|Just because you can,
doesn't mean you should
Bottas started on the harder (soft) compound and ran those long into the first stint. Changed to supersofts on lap 32 of 51.
Right, but both VET/RAI ran the softs for fewer laps on less fuel & had issues.
The Enemy's gate is down.
|I swear I had
something for this
Other observation: IndyCar is even more entertaining and more compelling than both F1 and Formula E. And next year, the cars will look even better and get most of their downforce from the undertray so they don't need wings/on/wings/on/wings/ styling. They race on everything from short ovals, street tracks, SuperSpeedways, and the best Road Courses.
|Just because you can,
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Bottas started on the harder (soft) compound and ran those long into the first stint. Changed to supersofts on lap 32 of 51.[/QUOTE]
"Right, but both VET/RAI ran the softs for fewer laps on less fuel & had issues.[/QUOTE]
I suspect Ferrari is still down on horsepower to the Mercedes.
When you are short a few HP on a track that requires good straightline speed you often trim some downforce out. Maybe add a touch of camber to help the mechanical grip in the shorter term to offset the lack of grip from the aero.
Add all that up and run the car on the limit trying to catch the leader and you get increased tire wear. Even though the Ferrari's had the harder compound, driving them harder to get the same lap time overheats them resulting in blisters.
Bottas, in a Mercedes, had the extra few HP, aero grip due to higher downforce, etc. and was able to get better tire wear, even with the softest compound.
Hopefully Hungary will show the show the strong points of the chassis over the engine more.
The problem for Ferrari is that they don't just have to beat the Mercedes there but likely the much improved Red Bull too.
^ No debate here. Definitely glad for a stronger fight at the front this season.
The Enemy's gate is down.
Ferrari have been hamstrung lately, forced to stiffen chassis flex and some grey area they'd exploited with some heating of oil in the gas, adding up to a lower performing car.
And speaking of heating, the Mercs apparently solved early season tire eating by heating lube in their dampers. Performance obviously improved.
Hoping for a fight this season, looking less likely.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
|Just because you can,
doesn't mean you should
Hopefully many of the upcoming tracks won't be favoring the Mercedes power as much. Even on the slower tracks they are still a major contender if not always the favorite.
Bottas will be interesting to watch during the second half. Will he continue to improve and adapt to his new team enough to challenge Hamilton on his good days or will he just be a solid back up to Lewis?
The Red Bulls could be really tough in Hungary and didn't look too bad on the straights at Silverstone. Looks like Adrian Newey has been a lot more involved recently.
On a slightly different subject, how do Palmer and Kvyat still have a ride? Palmer has terrible reliability but is getting spanked by Hulkenburg everywhere and Kvyat seems to be driving way over his head and hiting everyone in sight. Maybe the Russians have hacked someone and have some unflattering info on somebody. I can't think of any other reason he's still there.
^ Aside from Spa & Monza being more horsepower tracks, I agree; moreso Monza for sure.
As a Bottas fan, I hope he keeps shoring up the gap to Lewis & Seb, hoping he gets a contract extension to 2018.
The Enemy's gate is down.
|Just because you can,
doesn't mean you should
Not a bad payday.
Poor Kimi, only being offered a little over $5 million a year to be his teammate.
|women dug his snuff
and his gallant stroll
Wish I could have seen the race in Hungary, but it sounded like an entertaining race to watch.
|I swear I had
something for this
There wasn't a lot of on track action, but there was strategy and intrigue GALORE. Verstappen drilled Riccardo in his radiator in the first lap, and both McLarens scored points.
And hats off to Lewis for being a man. He badgered his team to let him by Bottas to pass the Ferraris, couldn't do it, and gave the position back on the last lap. I know he can be a good guy off the track, but he's usually a self-serving douche on track. Very impressed.
A lot of people are giving Lew credit for that but I'm not. It was discussed during the race and post race by Matchett. I'd have to see the race again to hear exactly how SM phrased it but it's expected that if a driver lets a teammate by and that teammate does not gain a further position, they must switch positions back.
With about ten to go, Merc informed Bottas to get closer to Hammy, facilitating the switch back. Merc knew Lew wasn't getting by Kimi that early. Post race Matchett once again restated the "policy". Throughout Diffey and Hobbs ignored him.
Buxton interviewed LH, calling the move incredibly noble IIRC. Buxton continued gushing, trying to get LH to toot his own horn. Lew hemmed and hawed, looked sheepish and could only say he hoped the championship didn't come down to three points.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
|Just because you can,
doesn't mean you should
That was the deal but a lot of others would have found a reason to not give it back.
Lewis had pulled a gap to Bottas and Max was right behind so giving it back without having Max slip by wasn't that easy.
Lewis is a great driver although he whines to much for my taste at times. He showed some real character by doing that.
Yes, pulling the switch back at the finish with Max so close was masterful. For a race with no passing, it was a nail biter.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
|I swear I had
something for this
I'm a die hard hater and I'll still give him credit. When that deal was made, Hamster and Bottas were about the same speed. By the last lap, Lewis had almost a 10 second gap. He didn't have to give that up. He could have kept it and said it was for the title, Bottas was too slow, I didn't want to risk Max jumping us, etc. At that point, he was justified in getting the podium, but he hit the brakes at the end of the race and fulfilled his part of the deal. Nobody else would have done that.
FWIW It's not a regulation, more of an expectation or understanding. As one of the announce team said, wouldn't have happened if it was Rosberg instead of Bottas. It is odd they switched back, Merc signaled that intention early on. Yeah, LH gets some props and giving up those three points in this close season is, yeah, odd.
All kind of like team orders. You're under no obligation to follow them. I think of the recent race where Perez wouldn't let clearly faster Ocon by, both eventually losing that position to Vettel.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
|thin skin can't win
Finally got to watch this race over weekend, and I'll agree with this. That was a class move, one I'm surprised the team even supported at that point.
You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02
Is it 8/27 yet....
The Enemy's gate is down.
I always DVR and save the most current Monaco GP for times like this.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
-- H L Mencken
I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is.
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By Fred Silver
The role of two Lewis families in the setting up and operation of the internationally renowned Cunard Line in the 19th Century was very great.
The Macivers and the Morisons, linked by marriage and seafaring traditions that extended from Stornoway to Liverpool and beyond to North America and Jamaica, had, through their shipping and merchanting companies, a major role in how Cunard – officially called the British & North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company – developed.
Charles Maciver, married to Mary Ann Morison, became the manager of the company, as it became the leading mail and passenger line on the North Atlantic. For more than 30 years, he was consulted regularly by government officials and was a principal witness at several major Parliamentary Inquiries. By the 1860s, he was Cunard's largest shareholder.
Two generations of ship-owning Macivers moved south from Stornoway during the 18th Century. Two Macivers, believed to have been first cousins, were trading in kelp from Lewis to Liverpool in that era. John Maciver married in 1752, and he had sons William, Peter and Iver, and records survive, for example, of a shipment of kelp sent from Lewis to Messrs Iver and Peter Maciver, of Liverpool in 1798. John's father, also called Iver, is said to have moved to Dunoon at the start of the 18th Century.
Charles Maciver was a son of David Maciver, son of an earlier Charles Maciver, involved in the kelp trade between Stornoway, the Clyde and Liverpool. He is thought to have been a son of John Maciver, who was tacksman of Gress in the 1750s. John of Gress was married to a daughter of Charles MacKenzie of Letterewe, which may explain how the unusual name – in Lewis terms – Charles came into the Macivers. Before Gress the Macivers were tacksmen of Tolsta Chaolais and Little Bernera – something which caused great confusion for later researchers as these were in the parish of Uig, and a 19th century study of the Clan Iver wrongly assumed that Uig on the Isle of Skye was their home.
The extent of the trade links between Lewis and Liverpool may be shown by a Harris story about Sgeirean Iomhair (Skerries of Iver) found eastward from the northern tip of Boreray, out on the way to the Isle of Pabbay. The story says that in former days a trading smack from Lewis was sailing southwards to Liverpool with a cargo of salt fish and apparently Iver Maciver struck this boat on this skerry. It's possible the boat belonged to Iver rather than being sailed by him.
While Samuel Cunard is credited with the inspiration, energy and know-how to instigate the formation of what was quickly known as the Cunard Line in 1839, there were several managing owners – the Burns brothers and the Maciver brothers in addition to Samuel Cunard himself.
Cunard was from a family of Empire Loyalists, people who left the former British colonies that became the USA, and moved to Canada to remain in the British Empire. His family had been 17th Century immigrants to North America from Germany.
Having won the trans-Atlantic mails contract from the British Government Cunard returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia, at the end of 1839 to arrange the terminal for the new steamship line and for the transhipment of passengers, freight and mails to the USA. The Burns brothers, George and John, attended to the building of the four new vessels on the Clyde whilst the Maciver brothers, David and Charles, kept the Company books and with their own firm, D & C Maciver & Co provided the terminal facilities on the Mersey. They were also freight and passenger agents.
Once the line was up and running at the end of summer 1840, the day-to-day operation of the Line was left to the Macivers. When David Maciver died in 1845, Charles took control of the company's operations at the age of 33, running the world's first transoceanic steamship service.
David had been brought up in Greenock and spent most of the 1820s learning maritime commerce in the counting houses of Glasgow merchants who were relatives and friends. In 1828 he moved to Liverpool taking up his father's connections as agent for Irish Sea ferry services. He saw the advantages of a fast steam-packet service between Liverpool and the Clyde and, creating a new firm, bought the City of Glasgow, built a few years earlier as the fastest vessel in the world. He soon added another steamer, the John Wood. In 1831, Charles returned from Charleston in the United States to join the firm, but now competition on the Liverpool-Clyde run was severe. The Burns brothers, their strongest competitors, agreed an alliance; the Burns duo managing the Scottish base leaving David and Charles to maintain the Liverpool terminal.
In 1836 the postmaster-general let it be known that the British Government would be asking for tenders for a contract to carry mails across the Atlantic by steam vessels to British North America. Samuel Cunard was then operating regular schooner services on the east coast of Canada carrying mail as far as the Bahamas, Bermuda and the West Indies. A meeting between Cunard and Robert Napier, a Clyde engineer, resulted in a reasonable price for building three vessels. Later Napier told Cunard that further studies showed four steamers would be needed and they needed to be larger and more powerful. When Cunard said he could not pay for this, Napier arranged for him to meet a number of Glasgow-linked merchants, among them the Burns brothers and the Maciver brothers.
At first, the Burns and Maciver brothers refused to invest but Robert Napier – who himself also invested in the company – managed to overcome their doubts. Napier persuaded Cunard to offer the Maciver brothers the Liverpool agency for his ships with the Glasgow agency going to the Burns brothers. The Burns brothers subscribed £10,600 each with the Macivers putting in £8,000. The total involved was £270,000. (That project would cost up to £200m in modern money.)
Work began on the first four ships, Britannia, Columbia, Acadia and Caledonia, and Samuel Cunard was back in Liverpool by July 1840 to take passage on the maiden voyage of the line's first ship, Britannia. She sailed on 4 July 1840 and reached Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 17th and was off Boston lighthouse in the USA by the next day.
There were also direct links between Cunard and the Isle of Lewis through Charles Maciver's wife, Mary Ann Morrison and her family. Her brothers, Kenneth Lockwood and John Hall Morison, known as Alfred, ran a firm of Glasgow merchants. Kenneth Morison became Outside Manager for the Cunard Line abandoning his partnership with his brother to devote his energies exclusively to superintending the handling of Cunard steamers when in dock. Their father was Daniel Morison, comptroller of customs in Glasgow. He was a neighbour of the Charles Maciver in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute where Charles had a second home, and was the son of Kenneth Morison, from Stornoway, who became a ship-owner in Jamaica. Kenneth was the grandson of the Rev Kenneth Morrison, minister of Stornoway, who died in 1720. This family goes back to Bragar and Ness, and also includes a tacksman of Gress and Coll in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
The extensive Lewis connections gave rise to the story that the name Cunard was of Gaelic origin, from Cuan Ard – the High Seas. This is a myth. The name Cunard developed in the former British American colonies – Samuel Cunard's ancestor was Thones Kunders, also known as Anton Kuners and Thomas Cunard, born in 1648 in Neuwerk, Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf, who died on December 30, 1729 in Germantown, Philadelphia, and was buried at Haddonfield, Gloucester, New Jersey.
(My thanks to Bill and Chris Lawson, Seallam, Northton, Harris; Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, of Back and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig; Stornoway Library; Fergus Molloy and Harry Hignett of the Liverpool Nautical Research Society. Any errors in this article are my own.)
Printed sources: Cunard and the North Atlantic 1840–1973: A History of Shipping and Financial Management, Francis E Hyde; Charles Maciver of Cunard, his maritime background, Harry M. Hignett; Appendix C of The Blind Harper, edited by William Matheson.


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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
In Seattle, Snow Always Makes the News
Snow and Ice Snarl Highways
Nightmare Commute for Drivers: Snow, Commute, and a Seahawks Game
Last year, it snowed enough that I thought I should shovel my walkway. All I had was a garden shovel. After 10 minutes, I realized that I really shouldn't bother: the snow would melt by the end of the day.
The joke around here is that there are only two snow plows in the entire city of Seattle. Really, the city allegedly has twenty snow plows, but I don't remember ever seeing one in the seven years I've lived here.
Some stories with snow:
Little Daughter of the Snow, a Russian folktale
Rabbit and Fox, a folktale from the Iroquois Nation
Deirdre of the Sorrows, listed because of its twist on the Snow White description:
One day, Deirdre watched as her fosterer killed a calf to eat. The calf's blood ran bright red in the snow, and a raven swooped down.
"If there were a man with hair as black as that raven, skin as white as that snow, and cheeks as red as that blood, I would wish to marry him," Deirdre said, in what was perhaps the first manifestation of her second sight.
On a cheerier note, you may make your own virtual snowflake here.
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Labels: fairytales, folklore, folktales
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- Lone Star Ma said...
It snowed here in Corpus Christi on Christmas Eve 2004 (we think it was for our baby ourselves). It was the first time snow had really stuck here in a hundred years (there was a flurry when I was 2 but it melted before it hit the ground), and there was like 6 inches of it so it was a for-real thing...the most snow the city had ever seen in recorded history. It was an amazing miracle. We are still reeling from it (all but the LSG who likes to ruin our fun by linking it to ominous climate changes).
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Police have arrested a Virginia woman for allegedly planting a dead mouse in her soup and then trying to extort money out of Cracker Barrel, the restaurant chain said.
Carla Patterson of Hampton, VA, was having lunch at the company's restaurant with her two sons when she claimed to have discovered a dead mouse in her soup. The chain immediately stopped serving the soup nationally and launched an internal investigation.
Patterson ultimately demanded "a large sum of money," Cracker Barrel said.
Meanwhile, Cracker Barrel endured weeks of negative publicity over the incident.
"Because of the efforts of the dedicated law enforcement officers in Newport News, this woman has been exposed in her effort to extort money from our company," said Cracker Barrel president Donald Turner.


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Colorist, Color, Theory Therapy. The Art of Coloring
Coloring as a past-time is making a come back. Relax. Coloring is therapeutic. Art Pencils Prisimacolor, colored pencils, are the premier choice. Although I still love to use crayons for coloring, when I want to be creative Prismacolor colored pencils are my first choice. Invest in yourself, buy artist pencils. *note do not over sharpen, consider using a variety of points on your coloring project.
Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils, Soft Core, 72 Pack
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Color Theory-Rules are meant to be broken paint, (color) like the master, Tarkay.
Art Theory Therapy
Art studies, traditionally artists painted according to color theory, examines color theory, and charts colors relationships by their position on the color wheel. Complimentary colors are adjacent to one another. Although complimentary colors are appealing, art is a form of expression. Color Therapy. Color theory therapy is a form of expressionism. Express yourself; color without rules. Counter Culture Artist, Colorist"color outside the lines",
Art Inspiration. Artist: Tarkay, Itzchak, An artist who broke the rules. See color the way Tarkay did, colors on the color wheel are no longer chosen from complimentary positions; Tarkay embarrassed his color choices creating a new vibrant form of modern expressionism. Be inspired by Tarkay to make your own color statement.
Tarkay, Itzchak
Technique: Color just to color, as a beginner, you need not study technique.
Colorist Styling-Basic Materials List
Coloring Book or Coloring Pages
- colored pencils and/or crayons
- eraser ( use as a lighting obliteration tool )
- blending tools
- pencil sharpener
Crayola Classic Crayons, Wax, 96 Colors per Box
Find coloring pages/ books, they are readily available at your nearest bookstore or online.
Color Here or There: Color Therapy-Color alone, with family or friends, host coloring parties, or seek coloring forums.
Tarkay's Influences
Notes/ Personal Impressions: Lecture from Park West Gallery: Tarkay's style was influenced by French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, color sophistication of Matissse, and the style of Toulouse-Lautrec. He created art that was like visual poetry.
Mediums he used included but were not limited to Acrylic paint and watercolor. Graphic Artist: His work was like a tapestry of colors, a master of graphics design, specializing in serigraphs, colors were overlapped to create texture and transparency.
Tarkay,"When asked about his technique, Tarkay said it's impossible to describe. "Can you explain your own handwriting?" he asked. He used his instinct to choose his colors and couldn't define any other reason. "The color is coming," he said. "When it's finished, sometimes I'll change the colors. It's not something I think about."" quote found at Park West Gallery's website
Instinctive Artist Master Designer, Colorist, and Painter. Learn more about this extraordinary painter. Become a collector: Park West Gallery http://www.parkwestgallery.com/


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Provider Watch July 26, 2016
The Children's Home Mourns the Loss of Retired President and CEO Bev Cochran
On July 22, 2016, retired United Methodist Children's Home President and CEO Beverly O. Cochran, Jr. (Bev) passed away. He was in his home just a few short miles from The United Methodist Children's Home – the place where he faithfully served as our CEO for 43 years. Bev always had a soft heart for children. When asked how he wanted to be remembered, Bev said, "Would it be different to me if I hadn't been a street kid myself? I don't know. I don't think it would, but … when I've gone to an UMCH alumni meeting, I've always been proud to be with everyone there."
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The Georgia Conference on Children and Families - November 2-4, 2016


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Serviced Apartments in Plymouth
Drakes Wharf offers a superb alternative to Plymouth hotel accommodation for business travellers, people relocating or anyone preferring the extra space and comfort offered by your own apartment rather than an ordinary hotel room.
Serviced apartments usually cost around 25% less than hotel rooms and living expenses are lower too!
Drakes Wharf is in a great waterfront location with an increasing amount of restaurants and other services, yet less than a mile from Plymouth city centre.
Serviced apartments are becoming increasingly popular with firms and busy professionals who are getting tired of standard hotel rooms and are now looking for a better, more stylish alternative.
Drakes Wharf also offers the flexibility and services busy professionals require:
Serviced apartment facilities include:
- Bookings for any period from two days upwards
- 24 hour online check availability/tariff and booking service
- Housekeeping: weekly service included, more on request
- Wifi - Wirless Internet Hotspot
- Flatscreen TV/DVD
- Washer/dryer and ironing facilities
- Full equipped kitchen
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- 24 hour key availability
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Artist Apartments For Lease in Wynwood
Wynwood real estate is on fire and there are very few available residential apartments and condos in the Wynwood Arts District. A new apartment building in Wynwood is about to hit the market… Continue reading
Wynwood real estate is on fire and there are very few available residential apartments and condos in the Wynwood Arts District. A new apartment building in Wynwood is about to hit the market… Continue reading
Ascaso Gallery 2600 NW 2nd Ave 305-571-9410 http://www.ascasogallery.com Apart from the major institutions here in Miami (MAM, MOCA, Bass and the private collections), it's rather difficult to get up close to works by… Continue reading
Alejandra von Hartz Gallery 2630 NW 2nd Ave 305.438.0220 http://www.alejandravonhartz.net Alejandra von Hartz Gallery opened in 2002, coinciding with the first edition of Art Basel Miami Beach. Its mission is to promote and explore… Continue reading
O Cinema in Wynwood is offering a cool new film membership program, where subscribers get a sneak peak at the hottest up and coming indie films. In certain intellectual and artistic circles, it's… Continue reading
Santiago Rubino was the first artist to partner with Wynwood Kitchen & Bar for their Artist/Dinner Series. The Miami New Times food and beverage blog, Short Order has the inside look at the… Continue reading
Congratulations to the duo who brighten up Wynwood with their amazing brewed coffee and espresso delights, otherwise known as Panther Coffee. Short Order, Miami New Times food and beverage blog, has voted them… Continue reading
WLRN offers 5 great reasons why you should check out the hackathon hosted by the LAB Miami this weekend in Wynwood. The hackathon is a local endeavor, part of the National Day of… Continue reading
Neatly nestled between Collins & Washington, James Avenue is a hidden, local pathway in Miami Beach. On this curious street, just off of Lincoln Road, lies The Albion Hotel, a beautiful, historic Art… Continue reading
The big news about Art Basel Miami Beach? A name change. Well, just a slight one. Just when you finally taught all your friends to pronounce the word Basel correctly, the ginormous art fair has… Continue reading
Business partners Mali Parkerson and Valentina Garcia are in a very good place. The two have recently opened m+v ART, a gallery space that provides artist management and art advisory services, and are… Continue reading


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OK, this post is going to be of little use to those who don't live in eastern Montreal, unless you are somehow interested to get some idea how life there is.
It is, uninterestingly enough, about a highway.
Montreal is oriented in the southwest-to-northeast orientation. However, northeast is usually called the "east" of the island, because streets run parallel to the island's axis. Same goes for the "north" of the island--it's actually northwest, perpendicular to river St-Laurent's current.
In the middle of the island, there's St-Laurent street, which cuts the island in two parts: the west and the east. The west has traditionally been Anglophone, multicultural, rich, dense, commercial and well-served by major infrastructures (roads, commuter trains, and so on). The east has traditionally been Francophone, mostly white, poor, full of strange empty spaces in the middle of nowhere, industrial and somewhat isolated by poor transport infrastructure.
In recent years, the industries of the east, mostly related to manufacturing jobs, have closed down or moved back to the States. The east of the island turned somewhat commercial with a rather large complex centered on a huge shopping mall, Les Galeries d'Anjou. Around that area, high density building were built. The east became attractive to immigrants, provided they could figure out French reasonably well (Haitians and Vietnamese are a natural fit and a common sight), because property value was much lower and yet the new constructions were reasonably well-built. The trans-canadian highway, known as A-40 in those parts, was prolonged to the end of the island, and the A-25, a north-south highway, was built, linking east of Montreal with the south shore cities of Boucherville and Longueuil.
Actually, it's probably easier to see a map (apologies to the SIA for linking to theirs). Note that the map has an area known as "Centre-Est", which I'll refer to as Hochelaga because it's the "traditional" name.
Other parts of the east became attractive as well, still because of low property costs and reasonable building quality. The formerly half-destroyed Plateau Mont-Royal became so trendy that prices there have become unaffordable, and since west of it is downtown, people are moving east to Rosemont or Hochelaga. Hochelaga is still half-destroyed, but it's slowly becoming more interesting, as young couples move in and renovate the heck out of old duplexes.
Other parts of eastern Montreal are doing OK as well. Anjou is mostly doing well, thanks to north-east Anjou being an industrial park, and thanks to a reasonably efficient town administration. St-Leonard is doing well. Rosemont is doing reasonably well. Some parts of Mercier west are doing quite well, being brought into the orbit of Rosemont. East of A-25 is not doing that great, but services aren't all that bad and property price is ridiculously low.
Overall, eastern Montreal is more affluent than it used to be when compared to western Montreal. The price of properties is still somewhat on the low side. And yet, people fail to flock there. New home-owners consider Longueuil (south shore) or (shudder!) Laval (northwest of Montreal). Why, exactly, is that the case?
I think the equation is very simple. I live in Anjou. East of St-Leonard, it's the best-served burrough in terms of public transportation and road infrastructures (I consider the road infrastructure in the immediate neighborhood to be better designed than that in St-Laurent, which is in western Montreal). I work downtown. It takes me 50 minutes to work with public transportation, roughly 45 without. In St-Laurent, where I was geographically further from downtown, commuter train would take 30 minutes, and driving would take 25 provided there was no traffic (which never happened, but never mind). Times to go downtown from Laval are roughly the same (ok, maybe 40 minutes by bus/metro, but Laval people are way farther from downtown than I am!), and Longueuil residents can make it even faster.
Answer: north Anjou does not have a metro, which it was supposed to have 15 years ago. South Anjou sort of has a metro, provided you don't live too far from A-25. No commuter train at all. Roads? A-40 does not take you downtown; it takes you north of Mt-Royal, and then you have to go down some crowded, busy streets like Parc. Or you can drive all the way to A-15, find yourself in ridiculous traffic, and double back. Or you can take A-25 down to Souligny, cross the Armed Forces base, take Dickson to Notre-Dame, dodge potholes and huge 12-wheelers to A-720, and then finally reach downtown.
Oddly enough, despite sounding way more complicated, that's the fastest way to get downtown. Seriously. Even if there's no traffic on the A-15. This, as they say, sucks.
In the case of a western resident of the island, it's much less annoyance. Take the A-15 to downtown (and you can take it from A-40, A-20 or even A-520, depending which has no traffic that morning). Sure, you get a lot of traffic, but at least there are no traffic lights, so what you lose in traffic you gain in continuously moving. Not a option on Notre-Dame. Laval people just take the A-15 further away. Longueuil residents take the bridge (which does get jammed, to be fair) directly to A-720 and zip downtown.
If you factor in public transportation, the difference is even more marked. Western Montreal has plenty of commuter trains, even if you go geographically farther from downtown than Point-Aux-Trembles is. Laval has commuter trains and is getting a Metro before eastern Montreal, even though that damn Metro station is costing three times more than was expected (and costs are still rising). Longueuil has had the Metro for a long time, and has commuter trains as well. Granted, though, east Laval and east south-shore aren't well served by trains (see this map, and weep). But they have their own east-west highway (Laval has the A-440, south shore has A-20 and A-30) which east Montreal does not have south of A-40. In fact, if you look at the commuter train map, it's painfully obvious that there is no service for the east.
OK, so some of those parts don't have that much population density. But neither did Longueuil when it got the Metro, and Laval, while dense in some parts, has a very sparse population. In any case, they are off the island, and contribute largely to urban sprawl. They are also far.
It is becoming clear to everybody involved at various levels of the government that this is somewhat unfair for denizens of the east. The A-25 already exists in Laval and north of the A-40, but the two sections are not linked. The provincial government has finally decided to build the bridge to link those two sections. Hopefully, it will allow traffic to the Anjou industrial park to possibly take the A-440, thus freeing the A-25/A-40 junction during rush hours (it should be known at this point that the Galeries d'Anjou complex is smack in the middle of the A-25/A-40 junction; it's quite interesting during rush hours, especially since the closest bridge to Laval is all the way west in St-Leonard, clogging the A-40 with huge trucks). Of course, this does not solve the problem of going west from south of the A-40, so the project also implies some rather large changes to Notre-Dame. It was originally planned as a highway, but nobody can make up their minds what to do about it.
This bridge would be a toll bridge. It would probably relieve some pressure to the A-15 and the A-40 (which is already not managing traffic well at all). Less idle engines and all that.
And of course, the first reaction of every environmental group is to decry it as an enemy of substainable development.
OK. Fine. I understand people don't like having huge highways carved into what used to be idyllic fields of grass.1But, I mean, come on! The frickin' A-25 is already pushing north all the way to Henri Bourassa (north of A-40), there's a huge boulevard north of that where people have a really heavy foot on the acceleration pedal, and nothing was built around it for years because it was known that there would be a highway there someday! On the Laval side, the highway is already there and pathetically waits for a bridge to show up! There's huge concrete blocks in the water already, only awaiting for funding to build a full bridge!
Critics then point out that the new A-25 bridge will require changes to Notre-Dame, cutting the south of Notre-Dame off from the rest of the island. This is utterly ridiculous. South of Notre Dame, between Dickson (close to A-25) and the A-720, is the Montreal Harbor. It's a fenced area where only 12-wheelers can get in. Because Notre-Dame is a street instead of a real highway, it's full of potholes from those 12-wheelers and I'm sure a lot of pollution is generated just by the efforts to fix it year after year. You may hate A-720 for cutting off downtown from Old Montreal, but it's not going away, and we might as well do something with it. Turning Notre-Dame into a highway would probably not make noise or pollution much worse for residents immediately north of Notre-Dame, since traffic there is already very bad and full of huge trucks. It may actually improve things, since the highway would be either in a tunnel like A-720 or walled off like A-25 in the Anjou and Mercier areas.
Critics finally point out that we should build a commuter rail to the east instead. I agree that we should build a commuter rail; it's sorely needed. Actually, we should prolong the metro (preferably with at least one station north of A-40), but with the Laval metro costing so much, the AMT has no money for that. The rail is needed anyhow, because the metro won't help Pointe-aux-Trembles or Rivière des Prairies. But the rail also won't cost that much--maybe 20 million or so--because the track is already there, all that's needed is to build train stations. So it's not as if the A-25 bridge is competing, in terms of financing, with the commuter train.
Finally, I'd like to point out that all critics of the A-25 bridge live in Outremont, the Plateau or some other central area of the island. They have no idea how ridiculously isolated eastern Montreal is. From Pointe-aux-Trembles, it takes 1 hour 20 minutes to get downtown! From east Laval, don't even think about it--not only you'll waste time and gas driving to the A-15, but then you'll be stuck there for at least an hour in traffic, and you'll then have to double back on the A-720! At this point, any development is welcome. Eastern Montrealers hope that starting to build any of these projects will probably get the others built as well.
I'd also like to point out that although the bridge will be expensive, so was renovating the Acadie circle, and so are the repairs to the A-40 brought by ridiculous amounts of traffic. But nobody yelled when those were done. Of course not--those were needed. The fact that many of those people who don't want Notre-Dame to become a real highway nor the A-25 bridge to exist at all live in Outremont is surely a coincidence.2
What really pisses me off about all this, though, is that such concerns were never raised when Laval or Longueuil was to get its infrastructures. The metro eventually followed, because the roads were too congested. But now that eastern Montreal would finally get decent infrastructures, which would probably help develop it (there's a lot of mis-used space there--much more than in dense, crowded western Montreal), all of the sudden, those concerns show up. OK, fine, some of them have some validity to them--why don't you lobby for a damn commuter train and for a damn Metro line, instead of against a bridge?
Deep within myself, I believe that nobody really cares about eastern Montreal. Nobody has cared about it for the longest time.3 I hope that will change. It's easy to yell about new infrastructure being non eco-friendly when you have your infrastructure already built. Sort of like industrialized countries going all sanctimonious on developing countries about pollution, but not being willing to share more efficient technology with them, or to sell it at a lower price. It's also really idiotic to yell like this before the whole project is known; for all we know, the government may be planning a light rail line on that bridge! I don't always agree with the Charest government, but I hope that in this case, it will not back down. We've been waiting for that bridge for 30 years. It's high time eastern Montreal and eastern Laval got the chance to show off their potential.4
1 I'm being sarcastic here. The only fields above A-40 in the A-25 axis is full of weeds, power lines, and is crossed by a railroad. It's not idyllic at all, and if it's not contaminated by idiots dumping stuff there, it certainly is by the PCBs that were used at a time to isolate power lines.
2 I'm not trying to single out people living in Outremont here. But one of the people who utterly destroyed the Notre-Dame project is the current mayor of the city, Gerald Tremblay. He lives in Outremont. He feels Notre-Dame would cut off part of the island. He's obviously never been east of Papineau; there's nothing south of Notre-Dame there, except a harbour and lots of contaminated soil. I suspect those writing editorials against the bridge live west or close to St-Laurent. They obviously don't know that a) the highway is already there, we're only talking about a bridge; b) the Anjou industrial park is not developing as well as it could because of this silly highway configuration; c) east Montreal is not going to get a metro because Laval got theirs and it was too expensive.
3 I suppose a sensible question to ask me at this point would be, "why did you move to eastern Montreal if it's so isolated?" The answer is, I'm not really that annoyed by long transit. But those living in Rivière des Prairies or Pointe-aux-Trembles are not amused. Also, I wanted to find a place I could afford. Finally, I grew up in eastern Montreal, and it's an area I really like. I realize that I wouldn't have had such a good deal if the area had full infrastructure; but now that I'm there, I'd selfishly like it to show up.
4 Especially since east Montreal and east Laval are being neglected in favor of much farther places like Deux-Montagnes or northwest Laval, since those have good highway access. Having cars travel 45 KM instead of 20 is certainly not an improvement in terms of pollution. I'd much rather have east Montreal settled than those places, and it's not happening because of lack of access. Perversely, I think the lack of bridge, rail and decent Notre-Dame highway encourages urban sprawl; critics say the opposite, that keeping the east of the island isolated will counter urban sprawl. Well, people don't care about theories; they just go to St-Eustache or Deux-Montagne, or they go to Longueuil and emit thousands of tons of carbon waiting on Jacques-Cartier or Champlain bridge.


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Whitcoulls today launched its own eReader device in Auckland which will hold 1000 books, with a capability of carrying 5000 titles if you load extra memory. The new device — called the Kobo eReader — sells for $295 compared to the Amazon Kindle at $390, Kindle DX at $735 and Apple iPad at $750-$1245. New Zealand is the fourth country in the world in which the device has been launched after Canada, the US and Australia. The Kobo eReader comes with 100 free classics including Tolstoy's War and Peace, Homer's Odyssey, the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. To buy new eBooks for the Kobo eReader, customers have to go into the Whitcoulls website and — unlike the Kindles which limit buyers to Amazon only and doesn't allow any other eBooks to be read on the platform — they will have access to two million titles including a range of New Zealand books. The applications required to download the eBooks are free from the Whitcoulls site for either a PC or Mac. Those with eBooks plug into the PC or Mac to get their new book. A bonus though is that the eBooks can also be read on iPhones, BlackBerrys and Android smartphones, the PC, laptop or iPad. Applications for those devices are also free. "This will change the way New Zealanders read forever," the group managing director of REDgroup Retail, owner of Whitcoulls, said at the launch. The Kobo weighs 221 grams, has a 15.2cm easy to read display screen, five adjustable font sizes, battery charge for up to two weeks and a quilted back to make it comfortable to hold.
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Up to 5000 books can be stored on device


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Alex betrays Michael on the Senate floor, saying that he has been hiding the angels in the Archangel Corp, and he even names Noma as one of the higher angels that Michael has been hiding. Back in their hotel room, Becca confronts Michael and tells him that he's about to be brought up on charges...
Dominion Episodes
Starting with something new this episode, the Babylonian desert in 1900 BC: where a child gets up and flees a pretty serious massacre of legless people. He is greeted by Michael, who tells him not to be afraid. And then Gabriel shows up and ... back to the present.
After the shocking reveal that Clementine is Claire's mother, Alex and Michael go to the old casino vault where she's being held. Alex reveals that his big plan is to perform an "eviction" – because he's read that The Chosen One is apparently capable of doing so.
Alex and Michael head out to the desert to learn how to better fight angels. Michael calls out the fact that Bixby is dead and Alex gets angry. Much like Yoda, it's time to use that anger. Big things are coming.
Having been arrested for desertion, Alex is dragged off to prison where he's beaten up. Prison's a rough place in Vega, as you might expect, and prisoners are generally strip-searched.
William meets with the Archangel Gabriel in a diner in the middle of nowhere, where they discuss William's future and how he's going to be helping Gabriel from now on.
Starting off with a flashback: Young Alex and his father (Jeep) are playing a sweet game of basketball when they're attacked by a trio of 8-balls: housewife 8-ball, acrobat 8-ball, and dad in cook-out gear 8-ball. Jeep fights them off, and it turns out Alex has some skills in this arena too.
Twenty-five years ago, God disappeared. In his absence, the Archangel Gabriel, who despised man, led an army of lower angels in a war of possession against mankind. Acting alone, the Archangel Michael sided with man against Gabriel, helping humanity fight back against the angels.


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The study Do nice guys and gals really finish last?, due to appear in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, shows that nice male employees are paid 18% less than their nastier counterparts.
Interestingly, the discrepancy is less pronounced with less agreeable female employees, who only earn 5% more than their affable female colleagues.
The research looks at data collected over approximately 20 years from 10,000 employees. It was carried out by Beth A. Livingston and Timothy A. Judge from the University of Notre Dame in the US, and by Charlice Hurst of the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
To read the entire article visit Nice employees finish last when it comes to pay.