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Before the 2013 season started, many NASCAR experts and analysts thought Brian Vickers would have the inside track to winning his second NASCAR Nationwide Series championship.
As the series heads into its second consecutive week off before heading to Texas Motor Speedway for the April 12 O'Reilly Auto Parts 300, the 2003 series champion has some catching up to do if he wants to prove those prognosticators right.
Vickers currently sits 11th in the standings, 63 points behind leader Sam Hornish Jr. and five points back of 10th-place driver Alex Bowman.
Vickers will get extra seat time when he fills in for the injured Denny Hamlin in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota for at least four NASCAR Sprint Cup races, starting at Texas. The extra time behind the wheel could prove invaluable in his efforts to battle back into championship contention.
In Vickers' championship season, he sat 12th in the standings after the first five races. After nine races that season, he was only ranked 11th. Therefore, mounting a comeback putting him back in contention is definitely not out of the question, but he'll need stronger, more consistent showings if he is to be successful.
Outside of a pair of third-place finishes at Las Vegas and Bristol, Vickers' best effort is a 17th at Phoenix. In the most recent race, at Auto Club, his No. 20 Dollar General Toyota experienced engine trouble that forced him to hang up his driving gloves after only 53 laps, leaving him with a 34th-place finish. In the season opener at Daytona he finished 19th, two laps down.
This is Vickers' first full-time season in the NNS since 2003, when he posted three wins and 21 top-10 finishes.
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A dancer who specializes in the Waltz, Tango, Slow Foxtrot, Viennesa Waltz and Quickstep. Originally from England, studied dance from age 5 and later moves to Japan at age 20. He is now 23 and teaches a dance school. He is very strict.
Having always repeatedly placed 2nd in the Social Dance Championship Tournament in Japan, he offers up the idea of learning the 5 dances Suzuki specializes in while he teaches Suzuki the 5 dances he specializes in in order to get 1st place in the world championship.
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I have two dogs, both pound pooches ages seven and two. They are chewers, so I thought I would treat both dogs to the Hartz DENTAL CHEWS. The younger dog is crated when no one is home. Upon arriving home from work the morning after the dogs ate the chews, I discovered he had terrible diarrhea and had vomited in his crate. He was able to escape, and had poo all over the house. What a mess! The next day, my husband came home to find the older dog had an accident in the house with the same mucousy diarrhea mess as the younger dog. Neither of these dogs have accidents in the house, did not get into something else outside or have any other reason for this to happen. I will not use Hartz products again.
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Hartz dental chew caused a bowel obstruction! My Boston Terrier is out of surgery and not doing well due to this chew toy causing 5 ruptures!!!


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I'm loving my pirate project bag that I got from fiber friend Tink's Etsy shop. I think most people would use it for socks, but I am using it for the dishcloths I am now making from my super cheap bargain buy a week or so ago. It's great to just grab it and head outside for some knitting while the kidsters are occupied, playing together in the sprinkler or on the swings.
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Ok, that's what I try to do. The bag makes it outside with me, and the knitting gets out for a little sunshine. But the kidsters do everything in their power to keep me from making any actual progress. It's like they've formed a secret alliance or something. (It might be the only thing they agree upon.) I've even said I would knit them some that are "cool". Kidster #1 wanted a fire helmet. So, no problem. I'm currently making this. Kidster #2 wants a trash truck. No problem. I found this one. I'll probably finish them when they have moved on to some other fascinations.
See, I am two timing it again. My night time project is this little giraffe. My friend (well, my husband's cousin's wife...but we're really friends too) had her second baby two weeks ago. She herself has this giraffe thing going. And she's one of those people that probably would appreciate a knitted blanket or something like that, but not use it or appreciate it like you or I would. Plus I would like something that will grow up with the baby, at least for a little while. So I am making the little gal for her new little gal to play with. It's worked from the legs up, and I have the four legs done. Tonight I am planning to get them all attached to the body. I know most people would probably finish the project in a day or two, but remember I am doing this one hour at a time!
Tomorrow we're headed off to Cape Cod for a few days. I can't guarantee that I'll get too much knitting done since the kidsters are coming too, but I'll post a giraffe pic when I get back!


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BP released the report of its internal investigation team on the Deepwater Horizon accident on 8th September 2010 (http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9034902&contentId=7064891). Media coverage of the report has made much of the alleged attempts to divert blame for the accident onto other companies; contractors involved in the operation and maintenance of the oil rig (e.g. Who's blamed by BP for the Deepwater horizon oil spill - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11230757, BP oil spill report: the Deepwater horizon blame game- http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/08/bp-oil-spill-report-deepwater-horizon-blame-game, BP oil spill: US reaction to the BP report - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7990442/BP-oil-spill-US-reaction-to-the-BP-report.html). Robert Preston, the BBC's business editor even dubbing BP as standing for 'Blame Placing' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/09/bp_stands_for_blame_placing.html). This blog looks at the report in context; a second blog will deal with the findings themselves.
The report itself is at pains to point out that it is own limitation. The second paragraph of the executive summary, for example, states:
"In preparing this report, the investigation team did not evaluate evidence against legal standards, including but not limited to standards regarding causation, liability, intent and the admissibility of evidence in court or other proceedings."
Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report: Executive Summary, 2010, p.2.
The report notes it had to work with the information available to it and draw interpretations from sometimes contradictory, unclear and uncorroborated evidence that used the 'best judgement' of the team, but from which others might draw different conclusions. The report even finishes with a section on what the team could not analyse. So is the report a PR exercise, an attempt to deflect blame or a genuine attempt to provide some rapid, informative answers to the questions about what caused a major environmental disaster.
The report needs to be considered in the light of how industries operate in the contemporary economic environment. I am not concerned with legal definitions of responsibility nor intend to discuss these or get into such a debate as I am sure that such heated deliberations will ensue once money comes to the fore. Robert Preston's blog is useful in illustrating the 'hollowing out' aspect of modern large companies such as BP. Companies no longer do everything; contracting out aspect of their industry that they are either not good at or that other companies can do better or more cheaply has become a common practice. BP may be an oil company but it does not undertake every aspect of the oil industry in house.
Robert Preston's blog provides a good analogy of a dodgy chicken tikka masala bought from a supermarket. If you are ill after eating the meal do you blame the supermarket or its contracted manufacturers? He states that most people would hold the supermarket accountable although the contracted company may have had the sloppy hygiene standards that produce the dodgy meal. In his blog he does point out that BP were the named party on the relevant oil lease and so assumed to exercise sufficient oversight.
My view is that the example is a little too simplistic to grasp the complexity of relationships that define a modern business enterprise. Imagine instead that you want to get to work every day to do what you are good at. You are not good at driving nor want the expense of owning a car, so you contract out both hiring a driver and leasing a car. You specify that you need a driver who can take orders and a car that is a reasonable car for your status. You tell the driver you leave a 08:10 and must be at work at 08:30. Everything seems to run smoothly, the driver is well turned out, the car is comfortable and you get to work on time. One day there is an accident as the car overturns taking a corner – who is to blame? It may seem simple, the driver is to blame, he was driving – he is the person immediately, obviously involved in the accident, its cause. BUT you specified the time; he has to drive to ensure you get there on time. Is it the pressure you put him under that caused the accident? Furhter investigation points to some mechanical problems with the brakes. Not enough on its own to cause the accident but a possible contriubting cause. The car is maintained by the leasing company, who are good at leasing but not at maintenance so contract that out. But you specified only a standard maintenance contract,you didn't specify that there would be undue wear on the brakes as you don't drive so don't know how different driving styles affect brake wear. The subcontractor states it is nothing to do with them as they maintained it to the standard specified. Where does the cause lie? With mechanical problems, with your communciation with your contractors, with your ability to specify exactly what you require or with your understanding of the context?
I hope you can start to see the problem. Such a complex web of relationships requires careful and thoughtful planning and overseeing. Relations and specifications need to be established carefully and maintained. Importantly, you may not realise there is a problem with the relations or specification until there is a problem. The problem itself highlights the errors, by which time it is too late. This does not absolve you of blame it just shows how difficult it is to pin down exactly who or what is the cause. Causation and blame may be different things entirely.
It is within this context of devolved tasks that the investigation team undertook the report. Central to this report, in fact any report, are the terms of reference, TOR, found in Appendix A of the report. The scope of the report is defined as finding facts surrounding the uncontrolled release of hydrocarbons and efforts to contain that release aboard the Transocean drillship Deepwater Horizon. More specifically, the team will determine the actual physical conditions, controls and operational regime related to the incident to understand a) the sequence of events, b) the reasons for initial release, c) the reasons for fire, d) efforts to control flow at the initial event. As well as a timeline for the event itself, the team were also tasked to described the event and identify critical factors, both immediate causes and system causes. As with any TOR, the terms are narrower than you might want to try to understand the event in totality and, as is common with such an event, the key focus is on the technical and procedural. The team are not tasked to apportion blame within their TOR, they are merely seen as reporting 'the facts'. Clearly, 'the facts', as in people's actions and recollections, depend on what they are told and upon who tells them, what hidden agendas each person might have. Instruments and equipment, where available, tell another set of stories which may at first seem more objective but once different experts begin to interpret the information may become almost as ambiguous as the recollections of fallible humans.
The focus on the initial release and the events leading up to the explosion of necessity spotlights the actions of individuals in the decision making at that time. Despite this, a number of issues concerning equipment, maintenance and instructions are highlighted as requiring improvement suggesting that systemic factors may be more important. In other words, the communication and relations between companies is as much at the heart of the event as the faulty decisions made at the time.
Interestingly, the investigation team had 5 specific terms of reference associated with administration, including the sanctioning of all activities by a team leader, the requirement of a BP person at each interview and on questions or tasks to BP contractors without BP approval. The impact of such administrative arrangements on the nature or scope of the questions asked is not discussed. How are these administrative requirements to be interpreted? As a standard implementation of policy in such investigations, as a check on the team adhering to the TOR or ensuring the TOR were clarified to the team when required? Your interpretation may depend on the degree of belief or trust in have in the internal report in the first place.
The complexity of the task of assigning causation and blame is highlighted by the team in the Executive Summary:
'The team did not identify any single action or inaction that caused this accident. Rather, a complex and interlinked series of mechanical failures, human judgments, engineering design, operational implementation and team interfaces came together to allow the initiation and escalation of the accident. Multiple companies, work teams and circumstances were involved over time.'
Deepwater Horizon Accident Investigation Report: Executive Summary, 2010, p.5.
But why produce and release the internal report to the public now? There are other reports in the pipeline, not the least the official report into the incident that will presumably form the basis for blame, responsibility and one would assume compensation claims. BP may be trying to show themselves as a responsible company, but there is also the possibility that they are putting the report out there as a marker, an anchor for further reports. Whatever the status of the BP internal report, it is now known and available, it provides information and interpretations that any other report will be compared to. BP have provided an anchor or a starting point for expectations. Other reports will need to refer to it, to agree or disagree with it, to confirm or reject its findings and assertions. BP might not have defined the agenda for the debate over responsibility that will develop but they have defined the starting points and details that all other reports will have to cover; so not a bad start to agenda setting.
Friday, September 10, 2010
BP Oil Spill: Accident Investigation Report
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New Hornell leaders Dan McManus and Norman McCumiskey were among the 10 aldermen sworn in Monday by City Clerk Barb Perrott.
New Hornell leaders Dan McManus and Norman McCumiskey were among the 10 aldermen sworn in Monday by City Clerk Barb Perrott.
The aldermen are: Robert Murray (1st Ward), Jeffrey Brown (2nd Ward), Randy Harkenrider (3rd Ward), McCumiskey (4th Ward), Joseph Foreman (5th Ward), McManus (6th Ward), Fred Lehman (7th Ward), James Bassage (8th Ward), John Buckley (9th Ward) and John Carbone (10th Ward).
While McCumiskey and McManus, both Republicans, are new to the Common Council, the other eight aldermen were re-elected in November after running unopposed.
McCumiskey will replace Democrat Angelo Sciotti, who decided not to seek re-election after having served 18 years as 4th Ward alderman. McManus defeated incumbent Democrat Larry Bacon in November to take over as head of the 6th Ward.
During Monday's swearing-in ceremony, Mayor Shawn Hogan told McCumiskey and McManus that they have taken on quite a role for their respective wards in their community.
"You stepped up to the plate and entered the arena," Hogan said. "It's sometimes a difficult task because you cannot please everybody and I guess if you do please everybody, you're not doing something right. You're in a situation where you have to do what's best for your community and your ward."
On being sworn in, McManus said, "It's great. I look forward to serving my ward and serving the city."
McCumiskey said, "It's good to get involved in city government and it's something I've been looking forward to."
The Common Council now has an equal number of Republican and Democratic aldermen. Harkenrider, McCumiskey, McManus, Bassage and Buckley are Republicans and Murray, Brown, Foreman, Lehman and Carbone are Democrats.
During Monday's ceremony, Hogan said he thinks Hornell has a proud history of having great Common Council members who have worked well together, regardless of party affiliation.
"At the Common Council level, there's no party affiliation," Hogan said. "We're all working together for the benefit of our community."


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Karamele posted a topic in Off-TopicWatch your tone with me, boy.You may be friends with the owner, but i am still your superior as a developer As if i could forget.Listen, Uther, there is something about the code you should know.Oh no.It's too late.These code lines have all been mangosed.They may look fine now, but it's only a matter of time before the hype dies. What? This entire code must be rewritten. How can you even consider that?There has to be some other way Damn it, Uther as your future co-owner,i order you to rewrite this code. You are not my Co-owner yet, boy.Nor would i obey that command if you were! Then i must consider this an act of Corecraft. Corecraft?Have you lost your mind, Arthas? Have i?Developer Uther by my right of succession and sovereignty of my Co-ownership i hereby relieve you from your command and suspend your developers from coding. Arthas you can't just... It's done!Those of you who have the will to rewrite the code, follow me. The rest of you... get out of my sight. You just crossed an unprofitable line, Arthas. Jaina? I'm sorry, Arthas.I can't watch you code this.
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There are 14 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Speciation in the Deep Sea: Multi-Locus Analysis of Divergence and Gene Flow between Two Hybridizing Species of Hydrothermal Vent Mussels:
Reconstructing the history of divergence and gene flow between closely-related organisms has long been a difficult task of evolutionary genetics. Recently, new approaches based on the coalescence theory have been developed to test the existence of gene flow during the process of divergence. The deep sea is a motivating place to apply these new approaches. Differentiation by adaptation can be driven by the heterogeneity of the hydrothermal environment while populations should not have been strongly perturbed by climatic oscillations, the main cause of geographic isolation at the surface. Samples of DNA sequences were obtained for seven nuclear loci and a mitochondrial locus in order to conduct a multi-locus analysis of divergence and gene flow between two closely related and hybridizing species of hydrothermal vent mussels, Bathymodiolus azoricus and B. puteoserpentis. The analysis revealed that (i) the two species have started to diverge approximately 0.760 million years ago, (ii) the B. azoricus population size was 2 to 5 time greater than the B. puteoserpentis and the ancestral population and (iii) gene flow between the two species occurred over the complete species range and was mainly asymmetric, at least for the chromosomal regions studied. A long history of gene flow has been detected between the two Bathymodiolus species. However, it proved very difficult to conclusively distinguish secondary introgression from ongoing parapatric differentiation. As powerful as coalescence approaches could be, we are left by the fact that natural populations often deviates from standard assumptions of the underlying model. A more direct observation of the history of recombination at one of the seven loci studied suggests an initial period of allopatric differentiation during which recombination was blocked between lineages. Even in the deep sea, geographic isolation may well be a crucial promoter of speciation.
Thermal Tolerance of the Coffee Berry Borer Hypothenemus hampei: Predictions of Climate Change Impact on a Tropical Insect Pest:
Coffee is predicted to be severely affected by climate change. We determined the thermal tolerance of the coffee berry borer , Hypothenemus hampei, the most devastating pest of coffee worldwide, and make inferences on the possible effects of climate change using climatic data from Colombia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. For this, the effect of eight temperature regimes (15, 20, 23, 25, 27, 30, 33 and 35°C) on the bionomics of H. hampei was studied. Successful egg to adult development occurred between 20-30°C. Using linear regression and a modified Logan model, the lower and upper thresholds for development were estimated at 14.9 and 32°C, respectively. In Kenya and Colombia, the number of pest generations per year was considerably and positively correlated with the warming tolerance. Analysing 32 years of climatic data from Jimma (Ethiopia) revealed that before 1984 it was too cold for H. hampei to complete even one generation per year, but thereafter, because of rising temperatures in the area, 1-2 generations per year/coffee season could be completed. Calculated data on warming tolerance and thermal safety margins of H. hampei for the three East African locations showed considerably high variability compared to the Colombian site. The model indicates that for every 1°C rise in thermal optimum (Topt.), the maximum intrinsic rate of increase (rmax) will increase by an average of 8.5%. The effects of climate change on the further range of H. hampei distribution and possible adaption strategies are discussed. Abstracts in Spanish and French are provided as supplementary material Abstract S1 and Abstract S2.
Colony Collapse Disorder: A Descriptive Study:
Over the last two winters, there have been large-scale, unexplained losses of managed honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies in the United States. In the absence of a known cause, this syndrome was named Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) because the main trait was a rapid loss of adult worker bees. We initiated a descriptive epizootiological study in order to better characterize CCD and compare risk factor exposure between populations afflicted by and not afflicted by CCD. Of 61 quantified variables (including adult bee physiology, pathogen loads, and pesticide levels), no single measure emerged as a most-likely cause of CCD. Bees in CCD colonies had higher pathogen loads and were co-infected with a greater number of pathogens than control populations, suggesting either an increased exposure to pathogens or a reduced resistance of bees toward pathogens. Levels of the synthetic acaricide coumaphos (used by beekeepers to control the parasitic mite Varroa destructor) were higher in control colonies than CCD-affected colonies. This is the first comprehensive survey of CCD-affected bee populations that suggests CCD involves an interaction between pathogens and other stress factors. We present evidence that this condition is contagious or the result of exposure to a common risk factor. Potentially important areas for future hypothesis-driven research, including the possible legacy effect of mite parasitism and the role of honey bee resistance to pesticides, are highlighted.
Pigmentation and Vitamin D Metabolism in Caucasians: Low Vitamin D Serum Levels in Fair Skin Types in the UK:
Vitamin D may play a protective role in many diseases. Public health messages are advocating sun avoidance to reduce skin cancer risk but the potential deleterious effects of these recommendations for vitamin D metabolism have been poorly investigated. We investigated the association between 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25(OH)D), skin type and ultraviolet exposure in 1414 Caucasian females in the UK. Mean age of the cohort was 47 years (18-79) and mean 25(OH)D levels were 77 nmol/L (6-289). 25(OH)D levels were strongly associated with season of sampling with higher levels in the spring and summer months (p
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I went to a very rough school.
It was in a small town in upstate New York, called Corinth. It was home to one traffic light, a paper mill, two gas stations, two markets, a bunch of dive bars and a funeral home. If it was fall, there was always deer hanging in garages all over town and apparently someone gave us the title of "Snowshoe Capitol of the World", which basically meant we got a lot of snow.
There were 86 kids in my class. It was a small school, but a tough one. There weren't a lot of places to hide. I used to get the crap kicked out of me on a regular basis at my school - Marlene Shippie hit me in the face while wearing her boyfriend's class ring and gave me a black eye and my parents had her arrested. (Having a classmate arrested really ups your cool factor.) The "Let's Beat Up Kim Game" was on. Marlene and her gang of giant girls did things like stand outside my bedroom window and taunt me and threaten to dismember me and then, they'd wait for me while I was walking home and follow me home, talking about me like I wasn't there.
Marlene wasn't the only one. Carol Plummer, Thawn Baker, they all kicked my butt. Carol also had the distinction of dating the boy I was madly in love with, so she had a special place in my heart. She could beat me up and then, smile at me sweetly while she heavy-petted the love of my life in the hallway.
I was beaten up mostly in gym class, where I spent most of my time wishing I would get my period and then, when I had my period, wishing people couldn't see my big thick super maxi pads hanging out of my orange gym shorts. Needless to say, the gym was a place I was very vulnerable. I hated gym the most.
But I was not the only kid who got beat up. In fact, I was just a fun diversion. There were other girls who were the main attraction. Venus Basile was one. Venus, who had the terrible distinction of having a name that wasn't Mary or Margaret or Maxine or anything even remotely familiar to us, was also not pretty or tall or well-dressed or coordinated or smart or charismatic or thin or pale white or even without glasses. And her voice was sort of nasally and high-pitched.
As I remember her in 5th grade, she was unique and a mess and everything we hoped we wouldn't be. And she paid the price for it. She got cornered in bathrooms by girl giants and called cruel names until she cried or a teacher rescued her, but sometimes she would fight. It wasn't pretty - she would do this crazy, flapping thing with her hands, like a dog paddling wildly in the deep end as it was drowning. The giant girls found it so funny. They loved getting her worked up so she would do it over and over again. Then, they would sit back and watch her flail around the bathroom trying to connect her fists to a person.
I can still smell the bathroom, industrial soap and urine cakes.
I had forgotten all of this. Until the other day, Lucy and Edie were tumbling around and laughing and kind of flapping their hands at each other, play fighting and I said, "OMG! That's just like Venus Basile!" It came out of some old, dusty fold in my brain.
Well, they loved this Venus Basile thing. I'm not sure what it was about her name , how it is nearly like poetry, but now, everyday they say, "Let's do Venus Basile" and then they flap their hands at each other and fall down laughing. Lucy asked me yesterday if Venus could come to our house. She thinks she might be a princess. Apparently, she likes to wear pink and crowns. David told me tonight they made up a song about Venus.
"Who is Venus Basile?" He had no idea what they were talking about.
Here's what I hope - that somewhere in the world, Venus Basile had the last laugh. I hope she has a really happy life. I hope she has kids and a great partner and a career that fulfills her and that she is loved and healthy and feels cherished everyday of her life. I hope she has gotten the ultimate retribution. God knows, I have.
What I know is that I don't remember the giant girls, but I do remember Venus. Still to this day. Some 30 odd years after the fact, I could still pull her image right out of my head. And that's sayin' something.
I'm going to think of her every time my kids do a Venus Basile. I think she might actually be a princess.
xxoo YM
So, I give you a recipe that is gentle and kind and simple and I dedicate it to Venus Basile...It is Fish En Papillote.
Sounds exotic, like Venus, but really this is just fish and vegetables tightly sealed in either parchment paper or foil. The fish and the vegetables gently steam in the little pouches and come out succulent, moist and without a spot of mess. This is a great week night meal, especially if you can make the pouches ahead, pop them in the fridge and then get them in the oven 20 minutes before you sit down for dinner.
My favorite thing about this dish is that the kid's love opening their own pouches and seeing what's inside, like a little gift. They always eat all their fish and most of the vegetables when we serve these. I like that there is almost no mess. I did this one in aluminum foil, which is as good as paper (although not as sexy), and you can use many different kinds of white, flaky fish - cod, halibut, flounder, catfish, haddock, snapper and sea bass are all fine. I use basically whatever vegetables I have in the hopper.
Venus Basile's Fish Baked in Foil With Vegetables
2 medium carrots, peeled and cut into matchsticks
2 medium leeks, cut into matchsticks
A handful of broccoli, cut into florets
12 small cherry tomatoes
2 medium stalks of celery, cut into matchsticks
4 tbsp. olive oil
4 tbsp dry white wine
4 skinless fish fillets
4 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
1 lemon cut into wedges
2 medium garlic cloves, minced or pressed through garlic press
1 tsp minced fresh thyme leaves
Table salt and ground black pepper
2 tbsp minced fresh parsley leaves
Heat oven to 450 degrees. Cut four large sheets of foil. Divide vegetable mixture among foil sheets, mounding in center. Pour wine and a drizzle of oil over mound of vegetables. Season with salt and pepper.
Pat fish dry with paper towels. Season with salt and pepper and place one fillet on top of each vegetable mound. Squirt a little lemon juice over the fish and vegetables, season with thyme and put pat of butter on top of fillet. Throw a few of the lemon wedges right on top of the fillet and crimp edges of foil together to form a tight seal and forming a pouch. Place pouches on rimmed baking sheet.
Bake pouches 15 minutes. When done, open them carefully as the steam will escape. Use a thin metal spatula and gently slide fish and vegetables onto plate with any accumulated juices and sprinkle with parsley. Or serve the pouches closed and let the kids open them, squeeze their own lemons and sprinkle parsley over the top. Serves 4.


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The nutrition (Latin nurture: feed) is the set of processes by which a living being transforms food for its operation. Nutrition is also a science multidisciplinary, comprising two main axes. First, the physiology of nutrition deals with how the organization operates food processing, that is to say, metabolic processes. This includes the study of the role of macronutrients and micronutrients in cellular biochemical mechanisms and consequences on tissues from an imbalance between the energy absorbed and the energy expended by the body. On the other hand, the psychology of nutrition analyzes the food behavior of the individual or group. It focuses on issues such as "why do we eat? Or "How do we choose our food? ". In humans, these issues relate to environmental factors such as the built environment, media and health policies, as well as its peculiarities such as income or culture.
Definition of food
Nutrition focusing on the relationships between living organisms and their food , it is necessary to define what is considered a food. There are two definitions, depending on the physiological or psychological approach. In the first, food encompasses everything that is nutritious, that is to say that "ingestion is necessary for survival, good health and growth of young people" 1 . The psychological approach is more restrictive, considering that "the most nutrient food can hardly count as if nobody eats it [because] people do not usually think about what they eat in terms of nutrient ' 1 . In other words, a food within the meaning of life depends on the cultural context: for example, the eyes of whales are nutritious because they contain protein and vitamin A 1 , but an individual may not consider this a food acceptable.
There are many nutrients different, divided into two categories: macronutrients and micronutrients.
The organization draws its energy from sugars (or carbohydrates ), fats (or lipids ) and proteins . These three energy nutrients form the class of macronutrients. The organization may also draw its energy from alcohol (or ethanol ) but it does not necessarily enter a recommended diet, unlike the previous three nutrients. Energy is measured in joules or calories , the symbols J and cal respectively. The conversion is 1 kcal to 4,186 kcal , or 1 kJ to 0,289 kcal . Energy is supplied to the body by reaction with oxygen, that is to say, by oxidation , resulting 9.44 kcal per gram fat, 5.6 kcal per ml of alcohol, and varies depending on the type of carbohydrate: 4.18 kcal per gram of starch , 3.94 kcal per gram of sucrose and 3.72 kcal per gram of glucose . The energy obtained by oxidation of a gram of protein is 5.6 kcal but that does not match what the body withdraws, which is 4.70 kcal for this particular case A 2 . All parts providing energy extraction is the digestive system , which transforms the sugars glucose (or galactose ), the protein amino acids and fats into fatty acids . Each of these transformations is divided into several functional blocks: for example, the glucose processing consists of digestion, hormonal regulation (that is to say the hormones present in the plasma ), the use and storage ( in the liver , the adipose tissue and muscles) A 3 .
Sugars (or carbohydrates)
The carbohydrates are found in foods such as rice (up to 79.95 g to 100 g of white rice uncooked long grain A 1 ) or bread (mostly present in the form of starch A 4 ). According to the British Nutrition Foundation, the three main sources are cereals 45%, potatoes and nibbling salted to 12% and drinks 10% A 5 . Carbohydrates are divided into categories according to the number of sugar units: monosaccharides (or dare ) to a unit, disaccharides (or disaccharide such as sucrose ) for two, and polysaccharides (or glycans ) beyond. A similar classification is obtained by considering the degree of polymerization DP: monosaccharide DP of 1 to 2, oligosaccharide DP 3 to 9 and polysaccharide beyond. The place of absorption of carbohydrates depends mainly on the category, but also other factors related to the subject or the quantity. For example, monosaccharides such as lactose are normally absorbed in the small intestine , but if the subject has a lactose intolerance (carbohydrate in milk) then the lactose will continue its run of the small intestine to the large intestine where it is fermented to produce volatile fatty acids ; The gases released by this process cause, among other things, bloating, and serve for the diagnosis of lactose intolerance by testing the presence of hydrogen. About 75% of adults have lactose intolerance, such as in Asian populations, and other issues related to the absorption of sugars exist such as disability sucrose-isomaltase which affects 10% of the Inuit of Greenland A 6 .
Carbohydrates are necessary for the body, and the blood concentration (usually between 70 mg / dl and 100 mg / dl ) must be maintained at a fairly high level because the brain depends entirely A 3 . Based on average consumption needed by the brain, a daily intake of 130 g is recommended for adults. In practice, this contribution is greatly exceeded, with a median of 220 g to 330 g for men and 180 g to 230 g in women A 7 . One of the interests of the physiology of nutrition is to see how the body adapts according to the amount of nutrients provided. In the case of carbohydrate, if the quantity is low then the body tries to save it by drawing more energy from the fatty substances; otherwise, the power can be taken from carbohydrates, which then are transferred from the blood to the cells by insulin , and excess can be converted by the liver through a process called de novo lipogenesis (DNL). The surpluses are stored as fat and not as carbohydrates, an explanation by evolution being that the energy density of the fat is higher than that of the sugars, thus minimizing the gain in weight in order to retain the mobility of the fat, body A 3 .
Fats (or lipids)
Most fats are not soluble in water , which distinguishes the carbohydrates and proteins. The classification of lipids Bloor distinguishes four categories. Simple fatty substances are fatty acids linked by a bond ester to alcohols . For example, the triglyceride result of a molecule of glycerol esterified to three fatty acid molecules, and it is in the vegetable oil and animal fats . Complex fats have the same composition but with additional molecules: esterifying glycerol with two fatty acid molecules and a phosphate , is [? Who] obtained complex phosphoglyceride . The derivatives are obtained by hydrolysis of the previous two, and what does fall within any of the three categories is another (such as squalene ). The structure of fatty acids is also classified according to the length of their carbon chain ( short , medium, long, long) and the presence of at least one double carbon-carbon bond (the acid is so unsaturated and this class contains the trans fatty acid ).
It is considered acceptable that 20 to 35% of the energy comes from fat. The role of all fatty acids is not well understood, and it is therefore not possible to determine appropriate levels for their consumption in general . However, levels are considered adequate (which is not a recommendation) for certain essential fatty acid : for α-linolenic acid , the group Omega-3 , it is 1.6 g per day for youth men and 1.1 g for young women, and the γ-linolenic acid , the group Omega-6 , the amounts are respectively 17 g and 12 g per day. Unlike previous, the group Omega-9 does not contain essential fatty acids, but more research is needed on the health benefits A 8 .
During digestion, fats are emulsified in the small intestine (duodenum). The emulsifier is the bile produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder . The emulsion then passes into the small intestine where the lipids are degraded by a process called lipolysis and associated with other molecules in a lipoprotein to be transported in the blood A 9 . Lipoprotein is shown in the diagram against: lipids are inside, and the outside is formed of apolipoproteins of different types, denoted Apo and phospholipids .
There are five classes of lipoproteins, performing different functions. For example, high-density lipoprotein HDL avoid noted that the cholesterol accumulates in the blood vessels causing liver which eliminates; these lipoproteins are called good cholesterol , and those doing the opposite direction are the bad cholesterol , LDL noted. The concentration of LDL increases with the intake of saturated fatty acids or trans fatty acids, which also increases the risk of cardiovascular disease A 8 . Remove these acids plan may require profound changes that can lead to deficiencies, but it is possible to reduce the amount, for example in the Mediterranean diet .
The proteins of animal origin are the main source in North America and Western Europe. The animal includes both meat that is produced by animals, such as eggs ( 13.62 g of protein 100 g of fried egg A 1 ) or the cheese ( 19.80 g of protein in 100 g Camembert A 1 ). The vegetarians do not consume meat, and vegans rejecting all animal products, their proteins must come from vegetables and grains, which are the two main sources in Africa, Asia and Latin America 10 .
A protein consists of amino acids linked by peptide bonds . These amino acids are separated into two categories: indispensable , that is to say, those that can not be produced and which must be supplied in the diet, or non-essential. What is indispensable depends on the organism, eg, the arginine is necessary for the survival of a cat but not for man past the infant stage. These categories are refined by considering the essential amino acids with conditions . Indeed, some amino acids can be synthesized but with limited capabilities in general and variants under the conditions of the subject: for example, the synthesis of proline is limited in burn 10 .
Proteins are an essential component of the body and fulfill a very large number of roles. For example, a hair is composed of keratin , which is a protein; it is involved with another protein, the collagen in the strength and elasticity of the skin. Problems related proteins may also be associated with diseases, such as glutamate is involved in crisis convulsion epileptic A 11 . An inappropriate protein intake can therefore have strong and varied consequences on the body. The recommended amount of protein is empirically given to 0.80 g daily per kilogram of body weight . It is recommended that the diet does not exceed 35% protein A 12 .
The PDCAAS ( protein digestibility corrected amino acid scoring pattern ) summarizes the amounts per amino acid, but because of controversy and technical developments, the amounts recommended by the FAO and the WHO can differ greatly according to reports. In 1985, he was advised to take each day less than 10 mg / kg of threonine and almost 30 mg / kg in 1991 and about 15 mg / kg in 2001. A 13 . The Technical Report 935 FAO / WHO is compiling an inventory in 2007 A 14 . Protein digestion occurs primarily in the small intestine and releases the amino acids that continue to other organs. If undernourishment , some amino acids can be converted to glucose by gluconeogenesis .
The minerals are essential for proper body functioning. They are found in water in the form of chemical compounds. They can also be found in meat and vegetables. A deficiency can lead to diseases, for example, a lack of iron in the blood causes anemia. Minerals are elements of the periodic table.
A vitamin is a compound necessary for the metabolism of an organism, in the sense that "being a subject in private will develop diseases deficiency and signs of abnormal metabolism, and restore the missing compound will prevent or cure all diseases and make the normal metabolism " B 1 . The fact that a vitamin is a compound distinguishes it from minerals, for example, and necessity means that it can not be synthesized. The organisms being capable of different syntheses, the denomination of vitamin is relative to the organism in question. Thus, vitamin C can be synthesized by most animals from glucose and is therefore considered that vitamin for species incapable of this synthesis such as humans and other species of the taxon haplorhini , the bald -souris or guinea pigs B 2 . The reason for this deficiency in humans comes from the inactivity of the gene for the enzyme L-gulonolactone oxidase, necessary for synthesis from glucose, on chromosome 8 .
Vitamin C is found in vegetables and fruits, such as kiwi ( 105.4 mg per 100 g ) or cantaloupe ( 36.7 mg per 100 g ) A 1 . Fresh vegetables and raw fruits and are the best source, since vitamin C content decreases dramatically with age or cutting, and cooking strongly B 1 .
An antioxidant is a molecule that decreases or prevents the oxidation of other chemicals. The best known antioxidants are the beta-carotene (provitamin A), the ascorbic acid (vitamin C), tocopherol (vitamin E), the polyphenols and lycopene . These include the flavonoids (widespread in plants), the tannins (in cocoa, coffee, tea, grapes, etc. ), the anthocyanins (especially in red fruits) and phenolic acids (in Cereals, fruits and vegetables).
Phytochemicals are organic chemical compounds that can be found in foods of plant origin.
The malnutrition refers to inadequate or excessive intake of nutrients by an organism. In developed countries, malnutrition is often associated with inadequate or excessive consumption. Although there are diseases related to undernourishment, other organisms suffer from excessive nutrition. Research [ref. required] have shown that people who are physically active, not smoking, with moderate alcohol consumption and eating lots of fruits and vegetables have a risk of death that does not reach the quarter to which the risk of death People with systematic lifestyle habits that are harmful to health. Mortality increases abruptly as soon as individuals exceed the threshold of overweight. The life expectancy of an obese person is eight to ten years (for a BMI of 40-45) less than that of a person of normal weight, which corresponds to the loss of life expectancy, expose smokers 2 .
The sensation of thirst is understood by studying the mechanisms of red blood cells . Inside a red blood cell, called the cytoplasm is separated from the outside by a membrane which allows water to pass, and is therefore called semi-permeable . There is pressure between the interior of the cell and the outside, according to the respective concentrations of solutes . If the concentration outside is lower than in the cell, then it starts to swell due to the phenomenon of osmosis and can eventually explode because its membrane is not expandable. The exterior, that is to say the plasma, is then called hypotonic. Conversely, it can be hypertonic and the cell then tries to re-establish the pressure by letting water flow outwards. This second scenario arises when there is not enough water in the body: less water means a higher concentration of solutes outside the cells. This pressure is a very sensitive mechanism to trigger feelings of thirst: an increase of 2 to 3% is enough to feel a strong need to drink, both in humans and monkeys or rats. This effect is verifiable by injecting a solution with a high salt concentration, and the intensity of the thirst is proportional to the pressure 1 .
However, the body also has its regulation mechanisms: the base of the brain responds by secreting a hormone antidiuretic which acts on the kidneys retaining water by filtering urine. This pressure increases when an individual eats, and this action also acts on the kidneys that need more water for waste. Thus, drinking before or during the meal contributes to balance. On the other hand, another body response to the increase in pressure is a dry mouth due to a reduction in saliva. However, it can not be concluded that having a dry mouth is a mechanism of the body to ensure that the individual drinks: a simple counterexample is that individuals with failing salivary glands drink appropriate amounts, sensation they feel does not push them to drink 1 .
Understanding osmotic pressure provides insight into the basic mechanisms, but many problems remain open, such as knowing how an organism determines the amount of water to drink.
Nutrition is defined here as the science that analyzes the relationship between food and health : study of the composition of foods , their properties, and their use by the body. These studies lead to the diet . It also takes into account, as part of nutrition, dietary behavior of individuals, especially during meals or when snacking .
However, from the clinical observation of diseases whose origin was a dietary deficiency (e.g., scurvy ), nutrition today also relates to diseases such as problems cardiovascular and cancer (with the method Kousmine for example), the osteoporosis and hypertension (excess salt in particular), the type 2 diabetes , the obesity , the autoimmune disease , Alzheimer's disease 3 .
Nutrition plays an essential role in the prevention of many diseases. For example, more than 100 000 cases of cancer 4 could be prevented each year in France, by simply changing eating habits.
It should also be remembered that nutritional status is a prognostic factor in the evolution of cancers. An under-nourished person will be at greater risk of complications than a person receiving a diet that meets the needs of the body.
The complex processes to which nutrients are subjected – interactions between food, degradation, transformation and release of energy, transport and use of chemical compounds for construction (anabolism = construction, catabolism = waste disposal) of specialized fabrics and The maintenance of overall good health – are only partly elucidated. However, significant nutritional choices must be made to ensure the health of individuals, such as the very young and the elderly, and entire populations who suffer from malnutrition .
Adapting food practices to the satisfaction of physiological needs is dietetics .


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It had been my habit that every time I get a good chunk of free time on my hands, I'd whip my house back to shape. It's a practice that I've picked up since childhood. Right before the turn of the new year, or during the last week of summer or during Holy Week, my mother would make us help her out sorting thru the house. My mother can be a hoarder and thrice a year, she would purge what she willfully can, and make us join in on the action. I am not so much of a pack rat, and there are less of my stuff to sort. I am definitely married to one though, and sometimes, I cannot believe how much stuff you can amass in a small space in a span of time.
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Some interesting rumors have surfaced this week regarding the Microsoft, Google and Facebook juggernauts.
First, Michael Arrington from TechCrunch set the blogosphere afire Friday when he reported that a group of "industry luminaries" attended a cloak-and-dagger meeting at Google's headquarters to discuss how to deal with Facebook, whose 40-million-plus users aren't the issue so much as its open development platform. Arrington said not one but THREE sources fed him the info (can you say "leak"?).
Then the Wall Street Journal sparked the market Monday by reporting that Microsoft is in talks to buy a minority stake in Facebook, for whom it is an advertising provider, for $300 million to $500 million. Of course, Google has also expressed interest in taking a piece of Facebook. Let's examine both reports.
As for the Google-Facebook meeting, Arrington reported that Google's goal is to fight Facebook by being even more open than the Facebook platform. To do this, he wrote, Google will announce a new set of APIs on Nov. 5 that will let developers tap into Google's social graph data.
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Supposedly, Google will start with Orkut and its iGoogle personalized home page, and extend it to Gmail, then Google Talk in the future. But apparently, Google also is planning to give developers in its network the ability to pull Orkut data outside of Google and into third-party applications via the APIs.
Furthermore, Google also is considering allowing third-party social networks to give access to their user data to developers through those same APIs.
So while Facebook allows developers to build application off its platform, Google will allow programmers to write applications off Google and, presumably, other third-party platforms connected to this network. This is where the notion of Google trying to "out open" Facebook comes in.
If there is a shred of proof to this leak, I can't help but believe Google has abandoned its attempt to grab a stake in Facebook and that this move is a declaration of all-out war against a company it perceives as a threat to its online advertising business.
Facebook has made no secret of the fact that it wants to go public and will likely allow its search box to return keyword-driven results to generate greater online advertising dollars, which would pose a serious threat to Google.
This also makes the appearance of a story about Microsoft eyeing a stake in Facebook a few days later conspicuous. Joe Wilcox of Microsoft Watch pegged this news bit to the Journal as a leak and I couldn't agree more. I'm sure it's a rebuttal to the Google "social graph" leak.
Microsoft is way, way behind in the online advertising battle, while some believe Facebook represents the future in this market. By aligning itself with the future, Microsoft is trying to put the fear of FUD in Google.
Think about it: Microsoft's financial backing with Facebook's brand and potential represent a frightening combo for even a company with more than 50 percent of the search market.
With the leaked reports of Google's social graph and Microsoft's stake in Facebook, the companies' cards are a gambler's arm length from the big table. But assuming these companies show their cards the way folks are reporting, the pressure is on Microsoft and/or Facebook if they are entering this battle for Google's advertising business together, to execute with speed and precision.
Google isn't going anywhere, and pumping out a social graph offering, while we have no idea what effect, if any, it will have on the market, comes in heady anticipation of Facebook's growth arc. Or is it already too late?
If you believe Lee Lorenzen in this excellent analysis of the situation on TechCrunch, Google by design has no leg to stand on in the so-called social operating system war and will have a tough time fighting Microsoft and Facebook.
But if you believe the Journal's assessment that Facebook is looking to compete with Google and Microsoft on the online advertising front, perhaps no alliances or investments are sacred.
If I'm Microsoft and I get a toehold in Facebook, I'm buying the whole thing to take out two competitors (one formidable now, one getting there). I don't care what the cost at this point.
Then I'd let Facebook do its thing, take over the advertising market from Google and turn to other battle fronts, such as Google and Salesforce.com in SAAS and VMware in virtualization, to name a few.


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Commando, A Journal of the Anglo-Boer War, Denys Reitz, South Africa
With an introduction by Thomas Pakenham and a foreword by General JC Smuts. This book tells the simple straightforward story of what the Boer War meant to one participant in it. Colonel Reitz entered the war as a stripling of seventeen years, fought through it to the end, and immediately after its conclusion wrote down these memories.
Of military adventure there is of course full measure. He passed through as varied a record of exciting experiences as have ever fallen to the lot of a young man. Indeed much of what is written in this book with such joyous simplicity may appear to the reader well nigh incredible. But it is a true story, and the facts are often understated rather than exaggerated. The exciting incidents, the hairsbreadth escapes, the dare-devilry are literally true, and the dangers he passed through and courted are such as to make this unvarnished record read like one of pure romance.
But there is more here than a record of war adventure. We have not only an unforgettable picture of mobile guerrilla warfare, but also an accurate description of life among the Boer forces. It is given, not in an abstract generalised form, but as the actual experience of one particular individual. As we read, we follow a true personal story that is often stranger than fiction. The interest in the story deepens as it moves on from the heavy fighting in the Natal Campaign under (General) Botha, through the guerrilla warfare under Koos de la Rey in the Western Transvaal (now the North-West Province), to the climax of marching and privation under me in the Cape Colony.
The intimate picture gives the inner truth of the war. We see how human beings react under the most terrible stresses to the passion of patriotism. We see how, under the influence of an idea in this case that of freedom the most ordinary human material rings true and rises superior to all danger, suffering and privation. And the effect is all the more striking because the story is so simple, unadorned and objective. AOCommando
General JC Smuts, Pretoria, August 16, 1929.
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Sunday, March 20, 2011
Sunday Sacrilege
The Dress Jesus game just keeps getting more and more entertaining.
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Futurology, The Beginning of a new era? Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and Istanbul
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu became the epicentre of the CHP in the aftermath of the 2007 elections. The CHP leadership realised after a decade that radical Kemalist rhetoric had a powerbase of 20% and had to be amended if the CHP aims to lead Turkey one day in the future. The new policy was based upon emphasising the corruption allegations about the ruling AKP instead of continiously blaming them to be anti-secular. To note, the course of the Ergenekon and the failure of the "radical" politics had a profound effect on this re-orientation. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's star shined with this new policy, he was the man who would carry out the systematic eradication of the AKP's "AK-clear" image. He was successful in various cases and put an end to the leadership of leading figures within the AKP, such as the Dengir case. His live-debate with the current Ankara municipal governor Ibrahim Melih Gökcek.
The debate was the beginning of a fight between to mental imaginations, one representing the old regime's myth of staying clean and working for the good of the people, the "Halk" partisi image and the other representing the new social forces and their boosted ego in the aftermath of the 2007 elections. Melih Gökcek's lawlesness and his lack of shame int he face of the allegations were paramount, and even irritated his own leadership. Kılıçdaroğlu on the other hand, represents the "Ecevit" image in Turkish politics, that good, non-corruptable, "clean" politician who is also a common man in his social life.
The nomination of Kılıçdaroğlu as the candidate of the CHP for the metropolitan city of Istanbul may be the beginning of a new era in Turkish politics. The potential win of Kılıçdaroğlu will bring with it a five-year transition process within the CHP. Kılıçdaroğlu, as the new leader of "Istanbul" the gateway to transnational ruling elite would enable him to open himself to the new realities, and devleop a social democratic integration intot he world structures. The Obama factor is crucial at this point, instead of a Hamas loving leadership, a delicate and social democratic Turkey similar to that of Gonzales' Spain would be more acceptable also for the EU. The end of Kılıçdaroğlu's term will be his elavation as the leader of the CHP.
I will continue to think about this theme this week.
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10/01/2018- Lots of gigs booked for Oct/Nov, check the performances page and c'mon out for a night of great music!
06/30/2018- I've been playing guitar on some recording sessions for The EVT Band. Check out this cool version of 'Box of Rain' for a Grateful Dead covers project and this great original EVT Band song 'Electrified In Blue'!
02/08/2018- Photos are up from the 2018 Winter NAMM Show!
01/06/2018- Very much looking forward to NAMM 2018! I will be there with my friends from True To Life and Analog Alien Guitar Pedals.
10/01/2017- Photos and Video from recent performances are up on those pages!
05/15/2017- Upcoming gigs for The Kevin McLeod Band on the Performances page!
09/27/2016- The Kevin McLeod Band was recently featured on the Cable TV Music program Wes Houston Presents. The program will air on Cable TV in October but you can watch the show at the Four Village Studios website now!
04/11/2016- More upcoming gigs in NYC with True To Life!
11/23/2015- This is a great documentary short from FIOS 1 about the concert window benefit for The Opening Word that I played a few months back: Link To FIOS1 Documentary


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An interesting thought I was sent upon by Max was the following link. After carefully thinking over it I happily decided my work is really an expression of my life… Or the post stated the opposite? Actually I really do not know any more. I am do much interested in my job, that my hobby is working. When I got some spare time I do not watch teli on the sofa and eat junk, I read articles and books about start ups, CS5, etc. I guess that's not normal… What do you do in your spare time?
How to sharpen your edge
I know, it's a bit strange to get my second post in this blog to be about holidays, but it will be. I was missing lately because of that. I took my summer holiday which lasted exactly one week and went away.
I will tell the short story because below…
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Hello, world!
Hello there,
This is the introduction to the blog. I've decided to leave its default title because it's the one sentence I've been seeing all the new endeavours I start upon. "Hello world!" is the start of every programming language, the start of every software knowledge, every tutorial, every how-to, everything I know. It is great, because it is a greeting of the new child to the world. It's the greeting of my new blog to the rest of the world.
So, stay tuned, that's not all about my first post. Below I shall explain more about the blog, so this post will be later referred as the "About the Blog" section.


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This comic was previously published on my personal blog.
It's time for another visual representation of a part of the writing journey. (If any of the text is too small, click on the pictures to enlarge them)
Remember me? Yep, there I am, behind my laptop. I do actually have hair, but I'm incapable of drawing cartoon hair. So for the sake of this comic, I am bald.
Now, I like to be accurate with my writing, so I frequently need to cross-reference facts, just to make sure I'm not talking out my ass and accidentally having a character drive all the way from Seattle to Houston in a VW Bug without stopping for gas. As such, Google and I are good friends. Say hello to my friend, Google.
Because I have a crazy imagination and am easily amused, I often entertain myself by imagining some poor shmuck being stuck with the job of monitoring my internet shenanigans. Meet Rex:
Rex does nothing but sit at his computer all day and make sure I'm not googling anything that could be a threat to national security or offend someone who happens to walk past my laptop. Rex's job sucks.
Oblivious to Rex's watchful eye, I write.
And inevitably, I get stuck.
To Google, with a completely relevant but strange-when-viewed-out-of-context question:
And Rex doesn't really bat an eye at this point.
With my question answered, it's back to work. For a minute or two.
Because another quandary presents itself, and it's back to Google.
Question answered, back to writing. But you see, I have ADD or something (the attention span of a cracked out squirrel, anyway). So by this point, I've written the part that necessitated the google search, and have now flitted to another scene. Probably another chapter. Maybe not even the same book. And I've run into another question.
Back to Google!
Now, bear in mind, Rex doesn't know I'm flitting from scene to scene, book to book, paragraph to paragraph. He has no context for my searches, no frame of reference.
All he knows is what I'm googling.
And sometimes, in the midst of writing/googling/writing/googling/flailing/writing/googling...
...I'll have an unrelated-to-writing thought. And that thought will also necessitate a trip to Google.
Rex isn't judging me per se, he's probably just wondering what the hell I'm doing over here. I, meanwhile, have answered my random, non-writing-related question, and return to my customary madness.
But it gets better. Because I'm not just limited to Google. Oh no. There's always Wiki:
And poor Rex, he just doesn't know what to think.
He's wondering if my activities add up to something amusing, disturbing, inflammable, or possibly all three.
I flit to wikipedia once more.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.


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pantone's color of the year: marsala
Hello there! I hope you are having a great Thursday. Today Pantone announced that the color of the year for 2015 is Marsala. I really love this color (a similar shade has been a part of my brand since I started The Spotted Olive and the walls in my studio are even painted a similar shade!). It's bold, modern and ultra chic!
Color experts at Pantone believe this robust and earthy wine red tone will be popular in fashion, graphic design, home decorating and industrial design trends. I will definitely be incorporating this rich, gorgeous color into stationery designs for 2015 so stay tuned!
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