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A couple issues that have headlined the news across the state in recent years have had to do the mountain pine beetle (MPB) Dendroctonus ponderosae, and Sudden Aspen Decline. Unfortunately there are many misconceptions about both these issues.
First of all the mountain pine beetle is native to Colorado, and plays a very important role in the natural ecosystem of our forest. MPB often kill large numbers of trees that are not growing vigorously due to old age, over crowding, poor growing conditions, drought, fire or mechanical damage, root disease and other causes.
Currently more than one million Coloradans live in proximity to 6 million acres of forest at high risk to wildfires. Over the last hundred years we have created a forest that the state of Colorado that has never seen before, due to fire suppression. We have created a weak, overcrowded, old forest that is now susceptible to mass beetle attacks. Our forests need diversity in age and structure. This will result in a healthy forest that will be more resilient and, thus, less vulnerable to the MPB. Most mature Colorado forests have twice as many trees per acre as those forests which are most resistant to the MPB. Essentially, the MPB epidemic is Mother Nature's way of taking care of itself. The MPB has stepped in and taken the role that fire used to play in keeping diversity in the age and structure of our forest.
This leads us to Sudden Aspen Decline (SAD). Rapid mortality of aspens has been observed across much of SW Colorado since 2004. Adding to the concern, regeneration appears to be sparse especially in our stands at lower elevations.
There are approximately 3.6 million acres of aspens in Colorado, more than any other western state. Aspens are generally considered to be mature at 100 years of age, in the wild, 20 years of age for a landscape specimen. The average age of Colorado's Aspen stands is about 120 years. Over 70% of our Aspen stands are over 110 years, and less than 2% of our stands are 70 years old or younger.
There are two primary factors associated with the SAD. The first factor is the drought we have struggled through. In 2002 Colorado had its lowest precipitation rate in more than a century receiving only 60% of the average rain and snow. The second factor is the lack of stand diversity and the fact that most of the aspens in Colorado are generally older. Drought and stand maturation, followed by secondary factors of disease and insects caused further decline and mortality within our stands on a wide spread scale.
In Conclusion, the MPB and SAD are moving into the Roaring Fork Valley probably more rapidly than we all would like to believe. These problems will have drastic impacts on our national forest and our residential landscapes. One thing we need to be conscious about is the health of the plant material in these areas. A healthy tree is the best defense against the MPB & SAD. To keep your Aspen, Pine, and Spruce healthy and resistant, we recommend spring fertilization on all your trees that have been planted for more than a year (use Fertilome Tree and Shrub Food or Fox Farm All purpose food) Also, on trees that have high value in your landscape we recommend a systemic insecticide, applied as a soil drench treatment in spring and fall. Bayer's' Tree and Shrub Protect and Feed or Tree and Shrub Insect Control have been shown to have good results.


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The afternoon had begun bizarrely with the Black Cats receiving a trophy. But by the final whistle, the fantasy was over and reality had returned.
Four years after opening their second spell in the Premiership with a 4-0 defeat at Stamford Bridge, the Wearsiders waved goodbye to the top flight with a similar mauling.
Thierry Henry and Fredrik Ljungberg, with a hat-trick, conspired to make sure there was no rousing send-off for the departing Kevin Phillips and Thomas Sørensen.
That a calamitous campaign has finally ended is the source of great relief to all concerned with the flagging fortunes of Mick McCarthy's men.
Closing the season with a 15th successive league defeat and another shambolic performance dampened the celebrations for Jocky Scott and his players, who were rewarded for their exploits in the Barclaycard Premiership Reserve League just before kick-off.
The applause had barely died down when Henry struck to fire the Gunners ahead. From then on, defeat was inevitable for the home side as they crashed embarrassingly out of the top flight, having put up little in the way of a fight.
Ljungberg, hoping to score in an FA Cup final for the third successive year in five days' time, wrapped things up. That Arsenal were applauded off by the home fans while shameful Sunderland left the pitch to a cacophony of boos told its own story. Arsene Wenger's side had won at a canter.
Only Phillips and Sørensen escaped the jeers of the supporters. Both made poignant exits from the pitch, handing shirts and boots to those who have idolised them; but the pair could never have imagined that their Stadium of Light careers would end in relegation and regret.
In the final game of a season which has seen 39 players represent Wearside at first-team level, McCarthy resisted the temptation to draft in any more of the club's rising stars. Chris Black, having impressed at Villa Park on his debut eight days earlier, kept his place as the home side tried to exit the Premiership in style. But Arsenal, who had previously never managed a victory at the Stadium of Light, hadn't read the script.
The Black Cats started in determined fashion but, as has been the case on countless occasions this season, it was an individual error which proved their undoing.
Just seven minutes had gone when Sean Thornton surrendered possession to Dennis Bergkamp. The Dutchman slid a perfect ball through and Henry was left with the simple task of lifting it over an exposed Sørensen.
It was the striker's 24th goal of his Premiership season, three more than Sunderland have managed collectively. Wearside's frustration was written all over McCarthy's face as any hope they had of stopping a record-breaking sequence of defeats vanished.
The Gunners could have doubled their lead four minutes later, when an incisive ball from Robert Pires split a static home defence to send Henry scampering away.
This time the Frenchman crossed for Bergkamp but Sørensen produced an outstanding save to push his effort onto a post.
For a team who hadn't come from behind to win a league game all season, the omens did not look good. And, with passes going astray and the home strikers unable to keep possession, McCarthy's men did little to suggest they could beat David Seaman.
A side short of penetrative power finally threatened on the half-hour as Gavin McCann broke forward to drill a shot just wide of Seaman's right-hand post. Yet the home side's fragility was underlined less than 60 seconds later as Sørensen's reflexes came to the rescue again to thwart Henry.
Arsenal were comfortable and it seemed it would only be a matter of time before the Gunners punished the home fans further.
So it proved, as Arsenal doubled their lead on 39 minutes with an ease which was highly disconcerting.
Again possession was squandered cheaply and again Bergkamp fed Henry with an accurate pass. This time, the newly-crowned Footballer of the Year found Ljungberg and the Swede obliged with a clever finish which gave Sørensen no chance.
It was much too easy for Arsenal. McCarthy's misery was compounded when Darren Williams was carried off after pulling up awkwardly in the last minute of the half.
The Sunderland manager, facing the ninth defeat of his nine-match reign, brought on Ryan and John Oster for the second period. He was briefly rewarded with a positive response from his players but it didn't last long.
As Kyle used his physical presence to unsettle the visiting defenders, Kevin Kilbane burst through to force a good save from Seaman on 49 minutes. With a string of corners quickly following, the home supporters were finally roused but their side couldn't capitalise.
The Gunners still looked dangerous and it took another smart save from Sørensen to keep out an effort from Pires after an Henry corner.
At the other end, Oster sent a 20-yard effort wide. It was as close as the Wearsiders would come, as the afternoon ended much as it had begun, with Arsenal in the ascendancy and the Black Cats beleaguered.
Sørensen, for whom the search for a new club can now begin in earnest, produced one more terrific save to prevent Henry from adding to his tally.
But not even the Dane could stop the Gunners from snatching a third, as the home defence again went missing 13 minutes from time.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst's pass set Henry free and, when he found Ljungberg lurking with intent, the midfielder couldn't miss.
Heads dropped as stricken Sunderland limped towards the finish line and it was no surprise when Ljungberg waltzed through the humiliated home defence to complete his treble three minutes from time.

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Originally broadcast in 2005, the radio sitcom version of Guy Browning's books starred Alexander Armstrong as John Weak, along with Geoffrey Whitehead, Clare Perkins, and Ron Cook.
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Just to update a little about us:
- Haylee and Jackson are back in the swing of things at school. They have a busy semester coming up with school and camp and youth group events. Please continue to pray for them to grow as followers of Jesus and as young adults. Pray for Haylee to have wisdom about her college choice.
- Thank you for praying about our immigration process. Things are going smoothly and we hope to have things wrapped up soon. Please continue to pray the government will find favor and grant us residency visas.
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(BTW he has a channel on Sirius/XM - Channel 30 - for a limited time. On his show he actually explained that song...it was meant to describe Bethlehem, a few miles down the road, but Bethlehem didn't rhyme with anything. He explained how it was easier to write "Well we're living here in AllenTOWN and they're closing all the factories DOWN" and that it just didn't sound right to use "Bethlehem". Interesting stuff...)
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but the above, so very valid... and wait until the AI, AR applications hit in home entertainment.. gonna be a very different world & not sure how the dance around this goes...
except to embrace it, incorporate it somehow and hope for the best.
Beanpot thread in 2011 had 759 posts.
Beanpot thread in 2017 had 214 posts.
Through the years the number of posts have declined in general. I'd be curious to see if posting on the message boards overall have gone down over the years too.
I bet UNH would also love to lower their capacity, since they never fill the Whitt anymore. And they seemingly used to sell out every game even within the past decade.
The Beanpot this year means more to NU than any other school. So not a surprise that they're showing up in greater #'s and good for them. Good chance for them to finally win it this year and I'd expect them to contribute the vast majority of fans on Monday who make it to the arena.
I'm also speculating in BU and maybe BC's case the teams aren't as good as they have been in years past and there's no marquee players like Eichel skating around, so its not exactly a have-to-be-there event.
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This problem is not specific to the Beanpot. I recently tuned into a Minnesota-Notre Dame game on ESPN2 and there were tons of empty seats in Minneapolis.
From a BC perspective, I can go back and watch highlights from home games say 5 years ago and beyond...Conte Forum is packed. Not the case anymore and student turnout is abysmal.
BU Hockey: The trophy case is once again growing
great post defkit. We went to the Head of the Charles this past year... have noticed over last couple yrs, not attended like it used to be, by far.
Also agree and taking defkit's thesis a step further, the addictive nature of social media and gaming seems to promote an indifference toward traditional competitive sports. Kids increasingly just don't see sports as relevant.
BTW, was watching recaps on the NHL Network last night and was taken by the number of empty seats in some places. Not happy times for sports marketing folks.
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a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.
I'm proud to report that I will be at Friday night's game at Agganis with my teenage son. Yes, he wants to go and he'll be paying attention the entire game. #Doesn'tOwnASmartPhone
I totally agree with the shift in viewing/attention spans. Heck, I fall victim to it myself. (Look a squirrel!)
It Happened!!!!
The good thing is that for players that aren't really good (this group includes both my son due to age and me due to ability), the new sticks last a long time (much longer than the wooden ones did - those blades -used to get mashed up pretty good). I used to go through at least 3 wooden sticks per season, I have had the same $75 composite stick for about 4 years.
BU Hockey: The trophy case is once again growing
I'm sure NU fans are thrilled about this but I feel like Adam Gaudette should have been picked for the Olympic team
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I just finished two weeks as attending on our inpatient service, which was notable to me for a couple of recurring themes.
1. I'm getting old. My residents started theophylline on a patient with asthma and not one had ever used it before.
2. If I could get paid a fraction of the hospital costs I could save by providing patients with prescription medicine upon dischargeI 'd be a happy man. We admitted two patient who were recently discharged, only to fail outpatient life because they couldn't afford the medicines that had been prescribed during their previous admissions for asthma and hypertension, respectively.
3. The admission/discharge pace is frantic, with admitted patients rushed from one test to another to shorten their stay. Except of course on the weekends when the cost of staffing radiology for non-emergent cases doesn't make sense. I suppose not everything changes.
4. Scut has changed. In my residency we plated our own strep cultures (and incubated them), ran our own sed rates, spun our own hematocrits, etc. Scut these days is entering orders into a computer, text messaging by computer, checking email at the computer, etc. Lab scut is notable for what CAN'T be done. Indeed, there's not a microscope or lab on the floors at our two main hospitals. God forbid a resident would have to do a gram stain or wright's stain.
Did that sound as crotchety as it reads?
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A blog about my adventures as a professional garden writer, radio show host and obsessive veggie gardener! My first book, the award-winning, The Year Round Vegetable Gardener, was published in 2012 and Groundbreaking Food Gardens hit shelves in March 2014!
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The Weekend Gardener Sunday June 20th Cancelled
Hello everyone.. For the first time in four years, I'm home sick and will miss the show tomorrow. Therefore, one of our older episodes will re-air! I'm so sorry about that, but am looking forward to next's week's show! All of the guests that were scheduled to be on tomorrow will be fit into the schedule in the coming weeks..
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Dare She Kiss & Tell? (Mills & Boon Modern)
Dare She Kiss & Tell? (Mills & Boon Modern)
DARE SHE KISS & TELL? by author Aimee Carson is a Mills & Boon Modern release for June 2012.
Hunter Philips is an ex FBI agent but he has his own business now. His company makes software. After getting dumped by a conniving ex-girlfriend, when he was down, his best friend and business partner kept him busy creating new software which was named `Ditchinator' with which people can dump their lovers!
After being used by a Politician, Carly Wolfe vowed not to get involved with any man. So she was constantly being dumped with the help of the Ditchinator.
She challenged Hunter to tell the story behind the creation of this software. But Hunter was game to take her challenge. What Carly hadn't counted on was the instant flare of attraction between them. Now, how far will Carly go to get her story?
Will Carly mange to get Hunter on his knees?
DARE SHE KISS & TELL? is a hilarious, dramatic, at times heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting story about taking chances on love's choices and triumphing against the odds. Carly is a wonderful heroine readers would relate to and admire whereas Hunter is a gorgeous hero, whose strength, sensitivity and magnetism will pull you in.
Aimee Carson does the sassy heroines with aplomb and her fresh writing voice will keep you hooked from the very first page. She has certainly outdone herself with the sensuality and the sparkle in the love scenes, as well as the snappy dialogue in DARE SHE KISS & TELL?.
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Archive for the "Industrial Design" category
Switch Light print
by Jill on December 8, 2013
UNIVERSAL PROGRAM has created a print to accompany their Switch Light we shared in the previous post. It is a functional poster that is a nod to the solar-powered, dual functioning light. The 2 states to the print feature a center (…)
Switch Light
by Jill on November 21, 2013
Switch Light by UNIVERSAL PROGRAM is an object with no defined top or bottom in a traditional sense. This is because it has two functional sides, one to receive light and one to emit light. During the day, the photovoltaic (…)
by Tanya on December 5, 2012
Eugénie Manseau and Philippe Carreau of industrial design studio Dikini were recently awarded the Phyllis Lambert Design Montréal Grant. The $10,000 grant will allow the recipients to take a study trip to Seoul, South Korea, where they will analyze various (…)
TIFF People's Choice Awards
by Jill on September 24, 2012
This year's Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Awards were created by the BlackBerry Design Team, which included a design student attending OCAD University as part of the Research In Motion co-op program. The design concept for the award began with an (…)
Wood Casting by Hilla Shamia
by Tanya on May 10, 2012
Hilla Shamia is a product designer who lives and works in Tel Aviv – Jaffa, Israel. She created a beautiful series of furniture combining cast aluminium and wood. The negative factor of burnt wood is transformed into aesthetic and emotional (…)
2012 Olympic Torch
by Jill on June 13, 2011
London based industrial design team Barber Osgerby (Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby) were selected to create the London 2012 Olympic Torch. It is made of golden aluminum alloy (a material developed for the aerospace and automotive industry) it's lightweight, strong (…)
Braun Time
by Jill on April 11, 2011
Braun has re-issued its line of classic watches from the 1970s and alarm clocks from the early 1990s designed by Dieter Rams and Dietrich Lubs. The collection of time pieces has been approved by Dietrich Lubs with only subtle modifications (…)
Cycle Shirt
by Jill on March 11, 2011
Industrial Designer, Sam Hecht of Industrial Facility, recently teamed up with Clothing Designer, Margaret Howell, to create the Cycle Shirt. This collaboration was between two designers who approach their work in a similar way by paring away the inessential in order (…)
Design Against Obsolescence
by Jill on February 25, 2011
I am on the fence when it comes to the theory of planned obsolescence but we know that most companies manufacture goods which are not specifically designed to live a long product life. Vitsoe is a company doing the opposite, (…)


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Last month, the New York Times released this not very useful (but entertaining) piece of news: "Since 2000, more than 100 people who have been suspects or persons of interest in connection with serious crimes in New York City wore Yankees apparel at the time of the crimes or at the time of their arrest or arraignment."
This reminded me of the time when I worked for a Cable TV operator. The company had an informal policy of not distributing gifts with its brands on it. That was after several incidents where the main suspect of a crime was featured on TV wearing one of the brands they represented… A kidnaper wearing a 'Cartoon Network" cap, or a T-shirt with the "ESPN" logo on it. Every brand manager's worst nightmare.
But what if people you don't want associated with your brand are purchasing your product? There's not much you can do about that. A few years ago, Burberry got in deep trouble when its signature pattern was adopted en masse by chavs. Chavs everywhere were seen wearing not only the cap, but covering everything they could find with the Burberry pattern, devaluing the brand. Eventually, the association of the brand with "people behaving badly" became so widespread, pubs and clubs across the UK were banning customers dressed in the label.
Burberry responded by removing the checked baseball caps from sale and reducing the use of the trademark pattern in their products. The company continues to launch über-stylish, pricey and exclusive collections to get its groove back. It is also cracking down on the counterfeit market and suing companies that use the exclusive check pattern for copyright infringement.
Burberry is still on the road to recovery. It's taking the company a lot of time and money to reverse the 'curse of the chavs". Can this be avoided by other brands? I am not sure. Let's say a brand is extremely successful with creating a product or image that resonates with consumers. They can pretty much be a victim of their own success, if segments of the market they don't want to be associated with (e.g. criminals) decide to adopt it.
The Burberry case is an extreme example of bad publicity hurting a brand. How about the Yanquees? Other that Red Sox fans that sure had a chuckle on this, probably not many people found the NY Times article of any use. The Yankees simply sell more branded merchandise than any other sports franchise. It's highly likely that a share of the public buying their stuff operates on the wrong side of the law. But that's still a funny sound bite that might take a while to go away. And a reason not to wear your Yankees cap to meet your future in laws, if any is needed.


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Card tricks are good magic tricks to learn because they don't require an elaborate setup, though it's necessary to learn some basic card skills. Simple magic tricks are also good to learn
Performing magic tricks with playing cards requires learning several sleight of hand techniques. For example, the double lift is an essential move that requires lifting two cards while seemingly only lifting one. The pinky break, false cut and double undercut are other important techniques necessary for performing card magic tricks.
Another important trick is forcing a card, which actually requires having a spectator select the card the magician wants. There are several techniques for this trick. However, the most advanced involves perfecting both a false cut and a pinky break to manipulate the card so the magician always knows where the chosen card is.
The sucker trick is an example of forcing a card. Magicians get spectators to select a card before mixing it back into the deck. They then deal the cards onto a table face up until the card has been revealed. They state the next card they turn over is the chosen card and invite bets, since the card is already on the table. When they've collected the bets, they turn over the chosen card already sitting on the table.
A simple magic trick is the linking paper clips, which involves placing the two paper clips just so. The trick involves using sleight of hand to make two seemingly disconnected paper clips on a dollar bill fly into the air and link. However, the initial positioning and snap of the dollar bill make them link automatically.


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Life is constant. We are busy, to say the least.
The boys and I are 3 weeks into a new school year at Central Park School for Children. I am teaching 1st grade and loving it! I have the most amazing group of learners. Working full-time, as a lead teacher, makes life full but I am enjoying it. I am learning how to manage home life and more work. I miss being home, but I have a peace about teaching at CPSC. Yes, I am tired, but I am very thankful to be an active member of the learning community at our school. There is so much to look forward to each day.
Kalen started 5th grade and Brayden is now in 3rd. They are adjusting and enjoying the newness.
We are fostering to adopt a five year old diamond in the rough. He has been with us since July 18th. He stayed with us several weekends this summer to see if he would be a good fit for our family. We all weighed in and decided to help this little guy out. He is a little ball of joy. He loves life and is very active, as are we! He has some baggage, but don't we all? We are thankful to be able to love him right where he is in his life right now.
Madelyn, Kalen and Brayden are starting up soccer (we spent 8 hrs on the soccer fields today). Julian is about to start high school, Maddie 7th grade. Scott is revving up for another school year at Elon.


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Gusler went on to become a lawyer. Meanwhile, new team photos took their place beside the old ones (some dating to the days of leather football helmets) on the PR's wood-paneled walls, which acquired a dark patina with time. But for the most part, the college town tavern remained unchanged for the next three decades.
And therein lay the seeds of its near-demise. A new generation of sports bars began cropping up, boasting extensive draft beer selections, "gastropub" menus, and plasma screens by the dozen. In 2005, the PR came within days of closing in the face of the competition.


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I led a rapid contextual inquiry project, the objective of which was to develop an in-depth understanding of our users and their attitudes and behaviours towards HCM/payroll products and services. The research program lasted seven weeks from inception to delivery and involved a series of one-hour user interviews/observations carried out within user's offices across Australia and New Zealand.
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Research program design
Participant recruitment and scheduling
Interview guide development
Observation in context
Interview data analysis
Affinity analysis
Findings report writing
Persona development
We had roughly 7 weeks, to recruit, schedule, interview and observe around 20-25 users at different levels of the business in 4 cities across Australia and New Zealand. No sweat.
When I joined Fusion5 one of my first initiatives was to establish a contemporary approach to user research that would be used throughout the Jemini project. Because user research was a new technique within Fusion5 I wanted to ensure the whole process end-to-end was transparent and that the results were highly visible around the office, so the entire team could 'come along for the journey' so to speak.
A traditional development-based software shop, there was little interaction between developers and users. One of the key outcomes of my research was to ensure a shared understanding of our users amongst the Jemini team, and to challenge any assumptions that we had about our users before we started designing.
At the beginning of the process I sat down with the broader Jemini team to gather any expectations and get a feel for what people were looking to get out of the research in order to help them in their role on the project.
Because this was the first major research piece for project Jemini, I wanted to cover a lot of ground but also keep it quite high level without getting into discussions around specific functionality. I wanted to focus on identifying user's frustrations, goals, attitudes and behaviours when using our software. I decided that a combination of one-hour interviews and in-context observation would give us a fairly well rounded data-set to analyse. In addition to the interviews and observation I also designed a series of affinity workshops with key clients to validate some of the findings that would come out of the interviews.
In order to determine what interview questions to ask, I used a technique which involves mapping out a series of attributes that I would like to understand about the users and then working backwards to determine which questions would assist in uncovering these insights. It's not a perfect science but I've found it's a great framework for getting new teams around question formulation.
Once we had our interview questions confirmed I created a interview guide and also some supplementary guides for the BAs who would be assisting me as the second interviewers. These guides included a 'the role of the seond interviewer' guide and a 'what to photo' guide (see pictured left) .
The interviews were recorded using a LiveScribe pen and an iPhone (always have a backup). This freed me up to take more casual notes on things I found interesting and to concentrate on facilitating the interview. The second interviewer would take the majority of notes throughout each interview.
Immediately after the interview the second interviewer and I would have a 10 minute debrief over coffee or on the drive back, this would allow us to discuss anything interesting that came out of the interview that was front of mind. Once back at the office we would manually transcribe the interviewee audio into a Google Doc.
For each interview transcription I would have 3 interviewers: myself, the number 2 interviewer and a blind interviewer (not present at the interview, typically the other BA) cross examine each transcription and highlight any interesting findings. These would then be compared and discussed and the highlights would become post-it notes for our affinity analysis.
In addition to the interviews, I also like to capture the context in which our users worked. Design teams can easily forget that not all users are not working on retina cinema displays, all too often they are working on dual 17" monitors. Our designs must support that.
Interactions with our product don't occur in a vacuum. The context which surrounds users, the environment in which our users are working and the physical products they use to interact with our designs (screens, keyboards, smartphones, etc) all matter.
I had the second interviewer capture photos of our users' workplace environments so that we could share them with the rest of the team back at the office. We used the photos to not only support findings in the final report but to also bring the users back into the office for the rest of the team.
Our affinity mapping started off quick and dirty, but as we interviewed more users our process evolved and we started colour coordinating post its based on user roles: payroll, HR, managers, etc.
Picking a spare office off the main hallway, and buying the most vibrant post-it notes available were both not done by accident. I wanted to create a space in the office that people wanted to walk past and see what was going on. We had many great conversations just from people dropping by the research room to come and see what all the colours were about. We were the venus fly trap of research war rooms.
After we had finished clustering the post-it notes to a level where we were able to identify individual insights, I begun writing the report by working with the BAs to examine each cluster of insights and try to determine some answers. We asked ourselves: why that was, did it relate to another cluster, where were the correlations, what was similar between AU and NZ, what was different, etc. I encouraged the team to zoom in and zoom out on detail, apply different lenses and explore any potential correlation (even crazy ones). This ensured we didn't get stuck with a single view of the data.
This method allowed us to quickly convert these findings into a research report.
The report itself was designed to be digested in two ways. Each section of the report highlighted a major finding, the first overview page was always in blue and included a summary of the finding and the impact to the design. The subsequent pages held additional detail and statistics. This was so developers could print out a copy, strip out only the blue pages and skim the report in an hour, whereas those who needed a more detailed understanding could read every page. This approach went along way in convincing a team of developers to read a pretty heavy user research report.
The front cover of the report and A5 zine-style format were chosen delibrately to look enticing, not like a traditional consulting report. My distribution method saw me print out a number of A5 booklets bound with rubber bands and leave them scattered around the offices (think lunch rooms, etc.). I wanted employees (not only within our team) to stumble upon them and flick through to see what we were getting up to.
Remember those attributes I mapped out earlier in order to form the interview questions? Now all of the interviewees were placed upon the attribute scales based on their feedback and a number of repeatable patterns of behaviour had begun to emerge. E.g. Almost all payroll staff worked long days but few worked from home, they all had mobile devices but none used them for work purposes. These patterns were highlighted and would be used to form the basis of our first six personas.
I created a number of persona posters and stuck them up around the office on any free surfaces I could grab. I also created packs of mini persona-decks for people to have on their desk, take out to clients and use in design workshops.
The research was incredibly well received, both within the team, across the broader organisation and amongst customers. The outputs formed a key input into the design process. I have since written an article (see image below) on our approach for Fusion5's AU/NZ trade magazine, and was asked to speak on our user centred approach at a national user conference.


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GPI is a modular solution that allows financial institutions to replace their existing USD funds transfer infrastructure with JPMorgan's industry-leading USD clearing components, such as Web-based initiation and private-labeled service tools, wire processing, funds control, position management and reconciliation support with their existing technology. Although direct link clearing options were previously available to JPMorgan clients, this is the first time that a comprehensive suite of clearing technology and operating services is available to the market as a single product set. Two financial institutions, one international and the other domestic, are currently in the process of adopting JPMorgan's GPI solution to enhance their USD clearing offerings to customers.
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Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...
Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.
I feel like it would be hard to find someone that doesn't rave about this series or any of the author's other books. I do really enjoy Throne of Glass, although it has been awhile since I've picked up the series and I definitely plan on going back to it even though I believe I'm multiple books behind by now.
I've always really loved faerie books and I definitely own quite a few series focusing entirely on them. It had been awhile since I read a book about them though and I'm really glad I ended up reading this book. With the combination of faeries, a well crafted world, and some Beauty & the Beast I knew I was really going to enjoy this book.
The beginning of the story was a little difficult to get into though. It was slow and uneventful for the most part until probably halfway through, which is why I didn't give this book five stars. I also wasn't entirely sold on the romance, possibly because I was too preoccupied with trying to figure out why Tamlin would bother bringing her to his world. It seemed a tiny bit too easy of a romance, especially considering the fact that Feyre hated faeries so much she killed one that wasn't bothering her.
Aside from the start of romance, I did like the relationship that developed between Tamlin and Feyre, even if at first I didn't really enjoy it. There were some sweet moments and clearly there was some chemistry between the two of them. I also really enjoyed the interactions that Feyre had with Lucian. I especially loved any kind of scene that showed the darker side of the faeries. The descriptions were creepy and I would need to know how Feyre was going to make it out of the situation alive.
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Every year at this time, we hear a great deal about the dangers of fireworks, both legal and illegal. But a 14-year-old boy in Roseville wants to warn everyone about another hazard. A freak accident involving a firecracker may cost him an eye.
Jordan Frantz stopped to watch another child playing with firecrackers in a park near his home. Frantz, like so many of us, considered firecrackers harmless. But under the right conditions, a firecracker can explode with surprising intensity.
"He took a mechanical pencil shell and put a firecracker in there, and he lit it and it exploded and a piece shot into my eye," said Frantz. "A piece of plastic."
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Sales of German Luxury Car Maker Mercedes Soar
Germany's luxury car makers reported further sales increases, fueled by demand in China, and surprisingly the U.S. where new figures showed an accelerating recovery in the world's biggest auto market. Dow Jones's Steve McGrath has the details. Photo: AP
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Lately "Give Wild Life a Chance" is becoming a famous slogan. I understand the slogan is employed in a good sense and in a motive to save the wild animals from extinction. Many a species have become part of our history and many species are on their way to it, supposing we do not act to save them. All these said, what makes me furious is my contemplation that who are we to GIVE a chance to the wild life? Is not this beautiful planet Earth, home to all the species? Every species whether big or small has its right to live on this planet. Earth is the home for all life, be it animals, plants or human. We, humans, having one sense more than the other species, used that 'one special sense' in a more self-seeking manner. In our process of exploration, expansion, development - whatever we name it, all we did was to intrude into the very nature! We hunted animals, felled trees and did what all we can do to destroy the nature without ever thinking of balance. I wonder if those animals are wild at all, if they had been wild, they would have had their space to themselves. Are we wilder than the wild animals that we barbarously led many species to extinction? A Lion known to be wild doesn't bother to hurt another animal when its full and not hungry. We humans never feel full, never feel satisfied. In our thirst for more and more, we stopped thinking of balance in nature! We move into every corner of the Earth and then say animals are intruding into our space, and then we act to destroy them, in the name of self-protection! And out of the blue, today we talk about 'giving' animals a chance! Let us stop intruding into the nature too much! Let us learn to live a life which imparts balance in the nature! Let us stop cutting trees to expand our space and on the other hand displaying slogans like, "give wild animals a chance"! Instead let us plant trees, be more sensible to our environment not taking natural resources for granted. I feel it will be more prompt to say, "Live in harmony with the nature!". Be comfortable, appreciate nature and live in harmony! Its never too late!
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Agree 100% Grace. " I wonder if those animals are wild at all, if they had been wild, they would have had their space to themselves." -- Brilliant line. They seem to be very passive when compared to humans. In 1940s, counts of Tigers, Asiatic Lions were in 100 thousands & now in 70 yrs Tigers are in thousands and Asiatic Lions are in 100s. Cheetahs are extinct in Indian Jungles and now found only in African Jungles. Lions, Tigers and various beautiful species are being made to follow the Cheetah's path bcoz of Human's Wild Nature.ReplyDelete
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Julianne Hough: 'Amazing' Ticket Sales for Move Live Tour!
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The 25-year-old actress is getting excited for her upcoming Move Live on Tour with brother Derek.
"Can't believe how amazing the ticket sales are for @moveliveontour thanks to everyone who got their tickets to come and see @Derekhough and I this summer in a city near you! Better hurry up if you haven't got your tickets yet! Can't wait to see y'all! Mwah xoxo" she captioned on Instagram.
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Xiaomi Mi3 for China Unicom / China Telecom heading to Chinese market on November
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While for now, Apple has been unveiled their new Apple iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C for global market, but as the domestic smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi is also preparing their new products through Xiaomi Mi 3 Android smartphone.
According to closed source, Tegra 4 versionof Xiaomi smartphone will be ready on sale in mid-October, but many users are more concerned about Snapdragon 800 version, this version is for China Unicom and we have heard the news that the China Unicom and CHina Telecom version of Xiaomi Mi3 will be ready to hit the market on November this year.
But apparently, when capacity is necessarily limited, the real mass production probably have to wait until early next year, if you can not wait, you can purchase Xiaomi Mi 3 on our partner site.
Xiaomi Mi3 is packs with 5-inch 1080P screen, Tegra4 / Snapdragon 800 processor, 2G of RAM, 16/64G ROM, 2 megapixel front facing camera and 13 megapixel rear facing camera, running Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean operating system, and powered by 3050 mAh battery capacity, there is three version of Xiaomi Mi3 out there.


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Bosch's PME 4001 ZAP is a vertical form-fill-seal machine that is now introducing an innovative paper packaging system specifically for dry food goods.
The machine is capable of producing sealed paper bags from coated paper roll stock, which can eventually be recycled at the end of its life. The system is ideal for products like sugar, pasta, grains and powders, since the paper packaging system makes it possible for a product to be packaged inside just a "mono-material paper." The recyclable paper packaging system is ideal for consumers who are keen on supporting products and brands that favor environmentally friendly solutions.
Bosch describes its innovative paper packaging system as a "revolutionary solution for dry food products combining the benefits of vertical form, fill and seal (VFFS) technology with sustainable packaging material."
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Super Bowl: Missy Elliott, Malcolm Butler Top Social Media Moments
'Ted 2' was the most Shazamed trailer, soundtracked by Frank Sinatra's "Can I Steal a Little Love" and featuring an appearance by Tom Brady.
How did the Super Bowl play out online?
On Twitter, Malcolm Butler's epic interception of a pass by Russell Wilson dominating the entire game's online chatter, triggering 395,000 tweets per minute.
The moment was followed, online and in the arena, by the New England Patriots' official win over the Seattle Seahawks, with 379,000 tweets per minute.
Additionally, the final notes of Katy Perry's soaring halftime spectacle culminated in 284,000 tweets per minute. Over 28.4 million Super Bowl-related tweets were sent during the live telecast, making it the most tweeted Super Bowl to date.
The most mentioned Patriots players on Twitter were Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman, while the most popular Seahawks team members on the social platform were Marshawn Lynch, Wilson and Chris Matthews.
Over on Facebook, the most popular topic was the Patriots' win, engaging 1.36 million people per minute, followed by Perry's "Firework" halftime show finale (1.02 million people per minute) and Wilson's touchdown pass to Doug Baldwin in the third quarter. The most mentioned players were Brady, Lynch, Wilson, Gronkowski and Butler.
Perry's last song "Firework" collected the most uses on Shazam during the Pepsi-sponsored halftime show. Surprise guest performer Missy Elliott's "Lose Control" (originally released in 2005 with Ciara) and the rapper's 2001 hit "Get Ur Freak On" came in second and third, followed by Perry's "Dark Horse" and "California Gurls." Her very short "I Kissed a Girl" duet with Lenny Kravitz came in sixth.
And of the big game's ads, Jeep was the big winner on Shazam, featuring Marc Scibilia's rendition of "This Land Is Your Land," followed by Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" in Nissan's spot, Hundred Waters' "Show Me Love" in Coke's ad and Sleeping at Last's "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" in Budweiser's commercial.
And though new trailers for Tomorrowland, Jurassic Park and Fifty Shades of Grey debuted throughout the game, the most popular one on Shazam was the preview for Ted 2, soundtracked by Frank Sinatra's "Can I Steal a Little Love" and featuring an appearance by Brady.
On YouTube, the most viewed Super Bowl spot was Budweiser's "Lost Dog," followed by Bud Light's "Real Life PacMan," Kim Kardashian's T-Mobile ad "#KimsDataStash," Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel's "Newfangled Idea" for the BMW i3, and Snickers' spot called "The Brady Bunch."
The most searched players on Google throughout the game were Brady, Lynch and Wilson. After the halftime show, Elliott became a popular search term, with queries like, "When was Missy Elliott popular?" and "How does Katy Perry know Missy Elliott?"
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I'm all about easy and simple dressing. Throw a look together and run out the door.
My favourite Aussie label that perfects this look to a T is One Teaspoon.
There latest collection titled 'Lovecats' is more of what they do best.
Denim shorts, sheer bodysuits, basic tees, leather jackets and hippy pants.
Modelled by mega babe Erin Wasson this collection couldn't be more perfect.
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What Workers Want: The Most In-Demand Employers
LinkedIn as the biggest professional social network with millions upon millions of members has a colossal pool of data it can mine. Their stats are always insightful and their most recent release is no exception. Read on for the most in-demand employers as per LinkedIn's findings.
No Surprise at The Top
I don't think we've ever reported Google not to be at the top of the table whenever these such lists are released! And they are – still – the most in-demand employer. In second place was Apple, in third Facebook and in fourth Microsoft. All these companies operate within the technology sector making this industry perhaps the most desirable in the world.
The Rest of The List
The rest of the list runs as follows; in fifth place was Nike, in sixth place The Walt Disney Company, in seventh TESLR, in eighth Procter & Gamble, in ninth Starbucks and tenth just making it into the top ten is oil mogul Shell. The range of industries is small, there's a lot of technology firms as mentioned above, with sports, retail, automotive, entertainment, food and oil also making it into the coveted top ten.
Size Matters
Although it's hard to class any of the top 100 as an SME, there is a big difference in the size of the companies that made it on the list! The smallest company is Dropbox and the largest is IBM – both have hugely different resources and numbers of staff.
Where Do These Company Source Hires?
When it comes to hiring, the findings are in contrast to a lot of recruitment posts we read. The majority of hires come from Universities – it seems large companies source their talent from graduate fairs and such. However recent trends seem to favour apprentice schemes as a popular hiring method for a lot of companies over here in the UK for smaller firms.
The Most Represented Industries
We've seen the top ten dominated by the technology industry with a small representation from elsewhere. When looking at the top 100, the highest represented industries are listed as:
– Technology
– Media and Entertainment
– Retail and Consumer Products
– Healthcare and Pharmaceutical
– Oil and Energy
As an online recruitment agency we're massive fans of tech and so delighted to see so many tech firms making this list. Let's see if Google can hang on for yet another year!
"Google... the most in-demand employer."


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I have an installation of a variable speed pump scheduled for Friday of next week, and the wife just called and said when she went to the pool store to sign the pwr company rebate form, they told her they had a salt water chlorine generator on special for $1400 installed (including salt and startup) and wanted to know if I was interested. Originally I was going to install an SWG next year, as I figured with automation, valve acutators, and the SWG I was looking at $4000 minimum, and I already spent $36k cash in the last month on a new car and new A/C for the house, so it wasn't in the budget for this year (plus we're redoing our landscaping in the front and side of the house this year).
The one guy at the store who is knowledgeable about SWGs and automation is out today, so I'm trying to figure out which model it is. I believe it's the Goldline Controls Aqua Plus for 20k and smaller pools (15k gunite, attached spa, Mytilus 150 cartridge filter, no water features, no solar, dedicated vacuum line). From what I can tell, the included automation system looks very basic, and cannot select speeds on the variable speed pump I'm installing. But the installed price is very attractive, and the wife likes the idea of consistent chlorine levels and as little maintenance as possible (I am frequently traveling on business, she is clueless about pool maintenance, and every pool service has been a nightmare) so she says she wants it now and doesn't care about the automation.
It seems that the biggest shortcoming of the automation system included with the Aqua Plus is that it can't control my variable speed pump, so I can't have a one-button mode for spa, nor can I program it to crank up the pump and operate the pool vacuum for a couple hours per day. It can control three valves which is all I have. What else have I not considered?
P.S. I bought a Liquidator that I may end up not installing if I buy the SWG. I may be willing to let it go for a bargain price.


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September 23, 2016
Don't miss the ultimate tribute to David Bowie on Friday, November 4 at our Craft Beer Festival (presented by AL.com). The Wham Bam Bowie Band will be performing his greatest hits and hidden gems from throughout his career.
We guarantee you'll be singing along, all night long.


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Needless to say, I didn't make many friends for a long time. I could barely keep my own life together with my family let alone make time for friends. I never felt that I would meet & make the type of friends I grew up with and perhaps that's how everyone feels. I guess it was just magnified for me because of how far away I was from everyone and how chaotic my life had become.
I quit my job that originally brought me to NC and took some time off before starting in my new career. I did make some new friends but still....not so much still. I was in a position and still am where I can only get so close to my co-workers because I am their leader. Fast forward to a couple of broken relationships and many bumps in the road, I still had a longing for companionship outside of the office and outside of my office setting with people I could lean on and do things with whenever we could.
I started dabbling in art, and connecting with a few people online through blogging, Etsy, and other forums....and then....who knows how it all happened but I met some fellow artists from my own home town. Amazing. I was just beginning to play with all the cool paints and tools and pretty much had no idea what I was doing but I was having fun and I wanted to share that enthusiasm with others and do things with people that got what I was all about. Serendipity. I met some wonderful women who then introduced me to a whole slew of other wonderful women artists....and through those new connections I finally made the friends that I was missing for so long. It's not easy for me to connect to others....believe it or not, I'm rather shy in a lot of social situations. Business...perfectly fine, more than fine. Social--I'm an observer rather than a leader.
The moral of the story is, I don't fear being alone anymore. I have made lots of connections and friends, many people I can count on and they know they can count on me, too. It's all come together beacause of this 'solitary' peaceful creative life that I now lead (albeit part time). It took being brave and following the doors that were opening, walking through them even if it felt a little uncomfortable at first....it all happened exactly when I needed it to the most.
Thank you to the peeps I met through my blog and other blogs, too. You all have added much joy and inspiration in my life. :)
Here's to never being alone. You have nothing to fear, there's always someone there whether you can see them or not. Just reach out your hand and you'll be amazed at who is there to hold it for you.
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Hi ,
Our management has decided to move to Teradata AWS .
Currently we are using TD 14.
As i m new to this , i would like to know whether it would be hadoop supported distributed system where the teradata would be mounted. Can anyone give me an insight whether hadoop plays a role in when we talk about "Teradata on AWS" . Do we need to know the concept of Cluster,data node,edge node,name node .. etc .
If yes can you please share the name of the document/orange book to know about "Teradata on AWS" ?
Hi Deepak,
"Teradata on AWS" is similar to "Teradata on Prem". This will not have any Hadoop Component. However, it can be configured to read/write data to Hadoop via QueryGrid.
Please search for "Teradata Database on AWS Getting Started Guide" in google to find our Manual.
Teradata Database Enterprise Edition on AWS has below components:
• Teradata Database 15.10 on Linux SLES 11 SP3
• Parallel Upgrade Tool
• Teradata Active System Management
• Teradata Data Stream Utility
• Teradata Parallel Transporter including the Load, Update, Export, and
Stream operators
• Teradata QueryGrid: Teradata-to-Teradata, Teradata-to-Teradata Aster,
Teradata-to-Hadoop (HDP, CDH, and IBM BigInsights), and Teradata-to-
• Teradata REST Services
• Teradata Server Management
• Teradata Studio
• Teradata Tools and Utilities
• Teradata Viewpoint, not including Teradata Data Lab
If you do not want to manage cluster, nodes etc, it would be better go with "Teradata IntelliCloud™". Please review more details. https://www.teradata.com/Products/IntelliCloud


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I've always liked PBS. Some of my favorite shows are on PBS such as "Keeping Up Appearances" and "Idaho Reports."
I was watching a PBS show on Barbra Streisand recently. Though I abhor her politics, I love her voice.
I recorded that PBS Barbra Streisand performance. Often I record PBS shows so I can enjoy them later. Some of my favorite performances on PBS are when Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, and Barbara Streisand perform.
Part of the reasons that I would record those shows was to talk to my stepfather Karl Brown, my mom Faye Dunham Brown, and Carolyn Helland Root, a wonderful friend of mine. I would call them and say "Hey! You should watch PBS tonight because one of our favorite artists will perform. After that, I will call you to discuss the show.
However, the problem is they are gone now. Sometimes, I get excited about a PBS show, and then I realize they are gone. But I still record those shows out of memories of them. Old habits die hard.
I also hope some times that my wife and my son will watch shows with me. But they are not really interested especially my son. He has no concept of eclectic music and shows.
I have also realized that my taste in music stems from four people.
Karl Brown was my stepfather. He instilled a love of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald etc. He encouraged me to read as well. When I was a kid he would buy two copies of the same book. Then we would read it together, and he would discuss the book with me. He would ask questions to make sure that I understood the books. In that way, I would research so much to make sure that I understood the books so I could discuss them with Karl. It was a great incentive for me to research so many books!
Carolyn Helland was like a second mother to me. She would encourage me to read a lot. We would go to Lucky Peak. Carolyn would ask us to lay her blanket on the sand near a big woman. And she would laugh saying "I will look good in comparison." Then she would play her portable radio and read books. Her son (who is like my little brother) and I would play in the water. She loved Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Neil Diamond, Johnny Nash, Simon and Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, etc. Even now, when I think about Lucky Peak in the summer, I can hear Carolyn laughing, playing her radio and singing along with Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline."
My next musical influence was my mother, Faye Dunham Brown. I didn't really like a lot of her music because she loved country, but she would sing around the house a lot and she was a wonderful singer. I have wonderful memories of mom's singing along to the radio. Patsy Cline, Jody Miller singing "Queen of the House," Buck Owens, Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette, etc. Mom laughed that Tammy Wynette's biggest two hits were "DIVORCE" and "Stand by Your Man."
I have a distinct memory of Mom dancing with one of my brothers. The song was "8 Days a Week" from the Beatles. She had a white blouse and black Capri pants. She was probably 35 at that point. She was laughing.
When she died, her funeral music was HER recording of "Danny Boy" and "Ava Maria."
That takes me to my fourth musical influence: my brother Dirk Dunham. He loved and still loves the Beatles. It is fitting that a memory of Mom dancing with my brother Steve with a Beatles' song.
My first memory of a song was "I Want to Hold Your Hand" from the Beatles. I was probably three years old.
Throughout the 60s, the soundtrack of my life was my brother Dirk and the Beatles. Watching Ed Sullivan in 1964 and later in the late 60s performing "Hey Jude." Dirk is with me. When my parents were divorced, we lived in a small rental with Mom. That was the winter of "Abby Road." I would walk home after school, and I would play "Abbey Road" making sure that I did not scratch the record. Later, John Lennon was a major influence for me musically because of my brother Dirk.
The first album I purchased was Tree Dog Night's "It Ain't Easy." It cost $3.99 at Grand Central in Boise. It was Christmas and Dirk took me to the store. I was 10. Of course, Dirk took the album later, and I never got it back!
Certainly I have branched out in my musical tastes. I love Pink Floyd, Elton John, R&B, hip-hop, some opera, and classic rock.
But when I think of those four people, I cannot imagine what my musical tastes would have been without them.
It's amazing that music has been a huge part of my life. In happy times and in sad times, my musical influences helped me to cope in so many ways.


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I gave the roof a nice mahogany color to start with and then painted the trim on the whole building a nice green. After all of this needs time to set up before I start the weathering process.
|The evenings accident. Squeezed a bottle of Vallejo a bit to hard and the cap popped off spewing paint all over the place. I know better than to do that, really I do.
|The grey shingles are now a nice reddish brown
|Green trim in place. you can just make out the wood floor on the interior through the open front door and the front window.
|Ready for the next step, weathering!


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Most Helpful Girl
Totally honest truth:
Sex with a man you love is always significantly better than with a man you don't love. However, there is some truth to what you're saying. Despite what our culture tries to portray, women crave sex and intimacy a lot as well. Due to the fact that men tend to think of women as "sluts/whores" and won't take her seriously for a relationship if she has sex too fast, she MAY choose to give it up quicker for the guys she doesn't want a relationship with. She figures she's not losing out on anything.
This is tough for guys to understand because we don't judge you regardless. We still take you just as seriously for a relationship regardless of how quickly we have sex. Because men tend to view us differently, we treat it differently based on how much we like the guy or how much of relationship material we see him.
Sometimes it does have to do with immediate attraction. A lot of women get into relationships with men whom they weren't initially attracted to, but they were good guys, and attraction developed. The ONS often happen with guys who spark that intense sexual attraction very quickly.
and the man who you weren't strongly attracted to ends up very hurt.
I'm not really like most women in that way. I never date guys who I'm not attracted to just because it seems like he'd be willing to commit the way I want. If I'm not feeling chemistry/attraction I don't go there.


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Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan challenged the inaugural batch of graduates of the Graduate Diploma in Cultural Education (GDCE) in Northern Mindanao to boost the promotion of Filipino culture and the arts and our national imagination through teaching and research.
"Gathering cultural workers and cultural scholars is not easy," said Hobart Savior, director of Xavier Center for Culture and the Arts (XCCA), the host institution of GDCE in Cagayan de Oro City.
"We hope that this scholarship will enable us to continue and further our studies on Mindanao's culture and the Philippine culture at large so we will be able to promote among our young ones the appreciation of our culture and at the same time, protect it. This is our biggest responsibility," Savior told the graduates during their graduation in March.
Strongly aligned with the program objectives of the Philippine Cultural Education Program (PCEP), the 24-unit GDCE program offered scholarship opportunities for region-based public elementary and high school teachers in the core subject areas (Science, Mathematics, Social Studies and English and Filipino Languages) and MAPEH (Music, Arts, Physical Education, and Health) to undergo a two-summer intensive training.
Designed as an in-service residential program, the scholarships covered a total of 432 hours of intensive training during the summers of 2015 and 2016 designed to integrate a functional understanding of the local and national history, culture, heritage, and the arts.
"We hope that you will be able to bring in the voices of your locality and that you will be able to tell a lot of stories and map a lot of cultural experiences and icons," said Savior.
The students of GDCE underwent modular lectures, excursions, field studies, and artistic performances and exposures over the course of the program. At the end, they came up with culture-based lessons and mechanisms and were expected to apply these to their respective schools.
Since the summer of 2008, the NCCA-PCEP, through several conduit-HEIs nationwide, has been offering a credit-earning post-baccalaureate teacher enhancement program called Certificate Program on Cultural Education (CPCE), which is now formally known as the Graduate Diploma in Cultural Education.
Dr. Orlando Magno, commissioner of the Subcommission on Cultural Dissemination of the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) declared the inaugural 29 scholars as GDCE graduates of Xavier Ateneo.
In his message, Magno thanked XU and the people behind the program for the successful run of GDCE which has formed teachers to be culturally-aware advocates, "who now know better how to impart not only the knowledge but also the responsibilities of promoting, protecting and handing down our culture, values, heritage, and traditions to the younger generation."
During their graduation at Casa Real of The VIP Hotel, it was officially announced that XU will soon offer Master of Arts in Education major in Cultural Education under the School of Education.
GDCE graduates will only have to take 18 more units to be given the said master's degree.
On behalf of the dean of XU School of Education, Dr. Jovelyn Delosa, Dr. Edralin Manla of the XU's IDEA Program, encouraged the GDCE graduates to "continue to grow professionally for better opportunities."
"Why continue to grow professionally? What would it give you? One, you have more knowledge to share with your students. There becomes more depth in your teaching because of the knowledge you have gained. I hope you continue to spread the love and appreciation of our culture, our local and national history, heritage, and the arts," she said.
For Manla, the promotion of our culture can be achieved through practice and research: "Welcome this as a challenge. We want to make a new breed of teachers with this new batch. Take the challenge with a heart. … Bring the Atenean spirit with you! Make a difference in the lives of your students. Love culture and the arts the way you teach your students."
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To jump straight to information about dryland salinity please click here
Click here to go to information about the Saltland Pasture Remption Project, and information and fact sheets referred to our Tour on Wednesday the 20th of September 2017.
General information about Saltland Pastures and links to useful resources
Please click the link below to link to the Seednet Messina Fact Sheet:
Please click the link below to link to access a paper by Ross Ballard and David Peck of SARDI 'Messina establishment and management'
Messina establishment and management - Ross Ballard & David Peck(422 kb)
Sam Lehmann, a third generation farmer from Cranbrook Western Australia, talks about his passion for a farming life. Working close with his parents, he has transformed unproductive country into land that is now an important and profitable part of his farming business. He shows how perennial species such as salt bush and kikuyu have positively changed the way he farms and the important role his wife and children play in keeping a balanced life and plans for the future.
click here to access the Youtube link
Farmer Ian Walsh tells his story about restoring marginal farmland on his broad acre family property in Cranbrook Western Australia. The once marginal farmland has been restored using perennial forages and is now a productive and sustainable part of the whole farming system. Ian has worked with the CSIRO to measure methane emissions and production benefits of this restored part of the farm.
Click here to access the Forage for the Future Youtube link
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The Saltland Pastures South Australia Manual provides information about saltland pastures and fodder shrubs, and is targeted at land managers, agronomists and extension workers. Information is based on trial and demonstration work carried out across South Australia, and much of it from within our region. This manual contains good quality information relevant to our local conditions.
After looking through this manual land managers should be able to;
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Besides providing advice on the most suitable pasture options and how best to manage salt affected land, Saltland Genie contains the largest collection in the country of information about Australian dryland salinity. There are research papers, case studies, videos and stories from farmers that provide scientific and personal insights into how salinity can be managed to boost productivity and improve the environment.
Saltland - What do you do with it?(3150 kb)
Saltland Management - The place of pastures(67 kb)
Saltland Pasture Recommendations(74 kb)
Measuring salinity Understanding the numbers(233 kb)
Soil Salinity Sampling Fact Sheet(87 kb)
Soil Salinity ECe crop and pasture tolerance chart(91 kb)
Dryland Salinity information sheet(97 kb)
You have nearly every other tool in your shed.
Why not have a hand held EC Meter to measure salinity levels in your water and soil?
Hand held EC meter article(420 kb)
Puccinellia Perennial Sweet Grass(5371 kb)
Fertiliser and Puccinellia Fact Sheet(89 kb)
Feed Value of Puccinellia Fact Sheet(89 kb)
Lucerne and Tall Wheat Grass in a pasture mix fact sheet(30 kb)
COBALT, SELENIUM AND COPPER RESPONSES IN SHEEP GRAZING SALINE LAND IN THE UPPER SOUTH EAST OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA SGSL Research(163 kb)
UREA APPLIED TO PUCCINELLIA PASTURES INCREASES SHEEP PRODUCTION SGSL Research(103 kb)
Photo above: Messina seedling 2017
Natural Resources South East Acknowledgement Statement(257 kb)
Natural Resources SAMDB Connecting Communities Acknowledging Grants Fact Sheet (357 kb)
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This sleek and modern R&B / Contemporary Jazz cue features piano melodies, deep synth pads, and sub bass. Perfect for any urban or romantic setting!
The download package includes the full song, a 60 second version, a 30 second version, and a stinger in both MP3 and WAV file formats.