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In my last article for Sony Alpha Lab I shared some of my thoughts on landscape photography and I also shared a Lightroom trick I use to make your skies look a deeper color of blue. In this article I'll be sharing a few more tips to improve your landscape and travel photography. With my landscape and travel photography articles I like to share techniques I use that doesn't cost much money. If you have a camera you can get started and that's one of the things that's so great about this kind of photography.
Start Small
If you're new to landscape and travel photography things may seem overwhelming. You might travel to a scenic location and see an over-the-top photographer (like me) using a remote cable release to trigger a large looking camera fitted with a crazy big lens sitting on a very sturdy looking tripod. Another thing you won't see is that same photographer sitting in front of their computer monitor spending hours working to get the final image exactly how they want it to look. But it's important to know that the photographer with all the expensive gear and the vast Photoshop knowledge probably started small. I know I did. What's important when you're just starting out is to have a camera, the desire to capture an image, and willingness fail from time to time as you learn to improve. With photography the gear can be pretty important but it's not as important as your personal vision, having a willingness to travel, waking up early and learning to get the most from your gear.
If you find that you enjoy this kind of photography then investing in items like a tripod, a remote triggering system, a high resolution camera and some killer software for processing your images are the next steps. There's always room to grow but some of the biggest improvements to your photography can come from using some simple techniques. Here's a few that work great and won't cost you any money.
Shooting During Golden Hours
One of the things you'll hear a lot from landscape photographers is that they capture images during golden hours. I've heard it said that the best photographs are captured in just two hours of the day. The "golden hour" right around sunrise and the "golden hour" right around sunset. Those are great times to be shooting and I try to take advantage of those times of day for most of my shooting. Golden hour shooting has been one of those special techniques that always helps me take more interesting pictures.
To show what a difference the time of day can make I'd like to share two shots that illustrate what a difference an hour can make in your photography. First here's a shot of the US Capital Building (in Washington, DC) that I captured just minutes before sunrise:
I captured this image on the morning of the 2013 Presidential Inauguration from the National Mall. According to the file metadata I took this shot at 7:19am. This time of the morning is just before sunrise and it's called civil twilight. There's some really great online resources to help you know when civil twilight and sunrise begins each day. I like to use the US Naval Observatory website to help me plan my landscape and travel photography trips.
Now lets take a look at the same shot, captured at the same place with the same camera and lens but one hour later.
Technically this is a fine looking shot but it lacks the colors of the civil twilight shot. And the only difference is that it was captured one hour after the first shot. If you ask me that's a pretty good example of what a difference an hour can make for your photography.
Shooting in the Dark
Golden hour shooting can get you some pretty spectacular looking colors but you can also capture some pretty interesting shots before civil twilight and after the sun sets for the night. When you have a cool looking subject like the US Capital building (and it's being lit up) having the black of night for a background can really put a viewers attention on your subject (in this case the building). Here's a look at the exact same shot of the US Capital Building that I captured before civil twilight:
This shot was captured about an hour before my civil twilight shot (around 6:30am). My camera was manually set to 1/125th of a second, f4 and ISO 1600 to capture this shot without a tripod. I was in the middle of a pretty large crowd of people so a tripod and optimum settings wasn't going to happen. But the point I wanted to make by sharing these three shots is that there is a world of difference in images captured at different times of the day. And the least exciting of the three shots is the one captured after sunrise (when the sky looked boring).
Landscape and travel photography tip: images captured early in the morning or late at night often have more interesting colors
Here's another example. I captured this shot in the early evening on a visit to the Shenandoah Mountains:
According to the metadata this shot was captured a little after 7:00pm and it's technically fine looking. But it's lacking the colors that happen closer to sunset. To give you an idea what I'm talking about here's another shot I captured on the same day but one hour later:
What a difference an hour makes! This image was captured at 8:00pm and when you look at it you can understand why it's called "golden hour". To me the shot of the setting sun is the better shot and the only thing that changed was the time of day. You don't always get killer colors just because you're shooting during golden hours and that leads me to my next tip for getting better landscape shots.
Come Back to Your Favorite Scenic Locations
Here's a sentence I hear all the time:
"I've been to that same place but my pictures sure don't look like that."
When I reply by asking how many time they've visited that location the answer I usually get is:
"Just once."
One of the reasons my pictures look different is because I like to return to locations time after time until I capture the images that I share. When someone views one of my shots they are not seeing the countless images that I captured over years of shooting a location. When I find a location I like I shoot it a lot. I shoot it in the morning, during the day, in the evening, at night, in all seasons and in all kinds of weather. I study the history of a location and I try to become an expert about the location. My favorite shots of a location almost never happen on my first visit.
Landscape and travel photography tip: when you discover a location that you love to photograph return often to learn the best times for great light and experiment with different angles to shoot from.
This sounds like a simple tip but it's something I hear from a lot of the top landscape photographers. If you find a location that you like you must return to it time and time again. You need to try capturing images at different times of the day, in different months of the year and in all kinds of weather. I believe that when you find a photography location/subject you should become an expert on it. Shoot that location/subject so much and in so many different conditions that people seek you out to find out about the images you capture there.
Why do I recommend shooting the same thing so many different times? I have many reasons. The biggest is that it's easy to be overwhelmed by what you're photographing on that first visit. I see this all the time and I've experienced it myself. I'm someplace incredible and it's taking my breath away. I break out my camera and the first shots I capture end up looking just like every other picture ever captured of that place. Washington, DC has that effet on me every time I visit. Here's an example of a shot that I took of the Jefferson Memorial (in Washington, DC):
This image was captured from the banks of the Tidal Basin and it's a pretty good looking shot. But it's also the exact same image that millions of people have taken over the years. Long story short – it's nothing special. Now here's a shot of the same building but from a different time of the day and in the spring instead of the winter:
Getting a side shot was a different look then the straight on shot and having the green grass and leaves on the trees helped to give the shot a much warmer feel (even though most of the shot is dominated by cold colors). By walking around the Tidal Basin I started to see different compositions and that gave me ideas for returning to shoot a similar image during the anual cherry blossom festival. Here's a shot from a similar angle but taken during cherry blossom festival:
Same building but captured at a different time, at a different date. I captured this image when the DC Cherry Blossoms were blooming and even though the weather wasn't perfect I was building on my knowledge of the location and capturing different looks. If you ask me this is a much more interesting image and there's far fewer people who have an image of the Jefferson Memorial that looks like this. As photographers we want to show images that others are not capturing and when we visit a location for the first time it's super easy to capture the standard tourist images.
I liked the above cherry blossom shot but the one thing that didn't work out for me was the weather. I planned my visit and I arrived hours before sunrise to get ready for the colors of civil twilight. I was ready to go but the rainy weather meant golden hour was anything but golden. And that's why you might need to return to a great location several times until you catch that perfect morning (or evening) when the skies cooperate completely. Here's another shot of the cherry blossoms that I captured from a similar angle but in a different year:
When I took this shot I really got some golden hour color in the sky. I've shot the DC cherry blossoms for years and every time I go I capture something different. On each return trip I experiment with something (location, lens choice, adding in flash, etc.) and that helps me to take better pictures every time I come back. I continue to visit my favorite locations like parks, memorials, lakes, battlefields and even theme parks where I like to capture landscape and travel images. And with every new visit I learn a little more about getting better shots at that location.
It's not uncommon to make a first visit to a great location only to capture some pretty standard looking shots. But after that first visit we feel free to capture different shots (because we already captured the standard stuff back on that first trip). With each successive visit to an old location we should be trying new angles, new compositions, different settings, new focal lengths and different times of the day to capture images. Over time we build a library of images that helps us to become more knowledgable about capturing the kind of shots that become our own style of photography.
One final thought about making numerous trips to a location you enjoy shooting. I can remember shooting on film and back then I used to take lots of notes about the time, date, location, film choice and camera settings for my shots. Thankfully those days are behind me with with digital photography. Todays cameras store lots of information about every shot you take (as metadata) right in the image file. When I need to figure out something specific about a location I'm visiting I can look up an older picture that I like and from the metadata I can find the time and date the picture was captured. With software like Lightroom you can search for images and organize them by time and date. I know plenty of photographers with GPS accessories that pinpoint the exact location where a shot was taken from (which is awesome for location scouting). That sure beats bringing a notepad and a pen.
Summing Up
In this article I shared some techniques for improving your landscape and travel photography that didn't cost a thing. When you get to know a location and you start shooting at times when you get incredible light you'll increase your chances of capturing images that can't be recreated with super expensive gear used in a poor location at the wrong time of day. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying – having good gear is great and it can help you take better pictures, but to get the most from your equipment it's super important to use proper techniques. I know some incredible photographers who can capture amazing images with little more than a camera phone because they understand lighting and composition. Just imagine the images you can create when you combine good technique and top quality equipment.
I pay particular attention to the time of day, the day of the year and the places I choose to set up my camera. By doing these thing you'll be capturing some really incredible images in no time. Persistance, determination, patience and a willingness to occasionally fail (while learning from your experience) don't cost a penny and when you possess the right attitude you can do more for your photography than spending thousands of dollars on a new piece of gear. When you have a great attitude, an awesome location and a good alarm clock (if the weather cooperates) then adding in some good gear can help you make even better pictures. If you made it this far I think you already have the right frame of mind so I encourage you to think about a great location, wake up super early and get out there shooting. While you're there think about when your schedule will open up for a return visit. When you apply proper techniques and the tips in this artilce your landscape and travel photography will certainly improve.
In a future article for Sony Alpha Lab I'll start talking about the gear I'm currently using and how I'm getting the most from it when I'm out shooting landscapes or vacationing. I'm also planning to talk about how I add people to my golden hour landscape shots.
If you're interested in seeing more of my Washington, DC images from the 2013 Presidential inauguration you can see them on my personal blog here.


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A 20-year-old Hagerstown man was in jail Thursday on $150,000 bond after being charged with child pornography offenses, according to Washington County District Court records.
Brandon Scott Martz, of 11240 Grouse Lane, is charged with two counts of promoting or distributing child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, court records said. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Jan. 2, court records said.
The Maryland State Police Computer Crimes unit started an investigation Dec. 28, 2011, into an Internet address offering files of child pornography through a file-sharing network, according to the application for statement of charges. A state police trooper was able to download two files depicting boys, some as young as 6 years of age, engaging in sexual activity, the document said.
In January, the trooper downloaded two more files of child pornography from the same Internet address, the charging document said. Police later obtained a court order for the Internet address and a search warrant for the address of the subscriber, the document said.

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Wolf's record is compelling
Dan Wolf is an outstanding candidate for the Cape and Islands state Senate seat that Rob O'Leary is vacating. Your vote for Dan Wolf will be a vote for the candidate who has delivered solid results to improve the provision of human services, education, cultural, environmental, regional transportation and other important community needs.
Dan attended Quaker schools, and then graduated with a bachelors degree in political science from Wesleyan University. Dan and his wife Heidi have lived in the same North Harwich home for 25 years while Dan founded and quickly grew Cape Air, which now serves both domestic and international regions (Cape Air's local operation remains its largest). Wolf expanded his original fledgling company to its present size of nearly a thousand employees by planning and introducing innovative programs for employees, customers and others interfacing with Cape Air.
Wolf has wide interests and capabilities; for example, his interest in improving the local environment and residents' health led Dan to spearhead a project to install Cape Air's new 50,000 square feet roof solar panels at its Hyannis Airport facility in early August. These solar panels generate enough electricity to fully meet Cape Air's Hyannis electricity use.
One of Wolf's key strengths is listening to others carefully, and using those comments and ideas to later develop innovative corrective action plans. Dan is known for effectively remembering and mulling over comments and ideas on a wide variety of community issues. Despite his challenging job as Cape Air President, Dan took time to help solve many of the Cape and Islands' regional problems, working creatively to develop practical solutions. Dan's steady outpouring of practical ideas to solve community problems contributed to the solutions developed by the 31 Cape and Islands organizations and committees on which Dan has served; these included banks, economic development councils, Cape and Islands chambers of commerce, coastal studies, four educational institutions, and transportation committees.
A review of Dan Wolf's accomplishments is convincing evidence that he is the surest candidate to become the very effective state senator our region needs. I encourage you to vote for Dan Wolf, because the facts show that he will do the best job among the candidates competing for this important position.Jim Liedell Yarmouth Port
Perry's being persecuted
Isn't it time to clear the air of this Jeff Perry witch-hunt?
Think a minute. Is there any one of us who can look back 17 years and not find something we wish we had done differently? Is any one of us the same person we were that long ago?
Jeff Perry - and I have watched him closely - is probably the finest Representative of the people our State has known in many decades. Consistently he has worked for us, not for special interest groups and there are very few in Boston who can make that claim. So - long ago he submitted a report late; ran over a radar gun - and that is all the media and Joe can find after digging through every gutter and septic tank in creation?
But my sympathies are with he-who-is-looking-for-a-government-job-after-failing-to-make-a-living-for-himself the past ten years. He was used by his good friends, to whom he gave jobs in the Treasurer's office, and for years they gorged themselves on state funds. He was left holding the bag. And now he is being used again by the media and the Massachusetts Democrat Dictatorship. Lots of inflammatory front page headlines and sanctimonious interviews on the radio fogging up the real issues: if these charges had been leveled at a Democrat candidate it would have been met with a big yawn.
Keep in mind the Dems are still stunned that their docile constituents finally got up on their hind legs and voted - gasp! - a Republican onto the sacred Kennedy Senate seat! (Even now they are plotting to replace Brown with yet another Kennedy posterior.)
Suddenly they see another bright, shining, honest man come forward - even better than the other one - and they come together with rage and determination so as not lose yet another Democrat seat to an interloper. How dare the public even think of breaking up their matched set of corrupt robots in the U.S. Congress?
They know Jeff Perry very well and they cannot stand the thought of his making waves in Washington; demanding that Congress act on behalf of the people; cut spending; cut back on multitudes of insidious and often un-Constitutional "czars" and "Executive Orders." He would not give in to abandoning our friends such as England and Israel; he would never bow to our enemies nor allow Nancy Pelosi to ram through more and more massive spending bills. He would insist on, and fight for, closing our borders to illegals, murderers, terrorists and drug dealers spilling over from an out of control Mexico.
But we know Jeff Perry very well also and appreciate we would finally have a Congressman who would remain a representative of Massachusetts citizens - not a Washington insider tied to lobbyists and special interests. Let's not be diverted by petty ancient history and the opposition's campaign to defeat him. It is time Massachusetts finally had at least one Congressman of whom we, and America, can be proud, and that is Jeff Perry!Patricia Stebbins East Sandwich Wolf's ready to accept the responsibility
I am not usually a political activist, but I believe local politics is the only power we have for preservation and change that directly affects our quality of life.
I can say from experience that Dan Wolf has more capacity for action when it comes to issues that can deeply affect our lives on the Cape, more integrity and follow-through than anyone I've ever known who is ready to enter the world of policy-making on our behalf. He gives from the heart and has taught his children the same ethics. He listens, he responds, he brings others to action with an intelligence and insight unusual in the commercial or political world, and people naturally respond to him.
What impresses me most is that Dan doesn't have to do this. He has created a successful business and is a generous and thoughtful philanthropist. It is not a career maneuver but a mature sense that he is ready to accept the next level of responsibility he feels towards his community. To me his goal is to be effective and to preserve what is right on Cape Cod.
I hope you will come out and vote for him in the primary on Sept. 14 and again in November. We need him.Ellen LeBow Wellfleet What would storms do to turbines?
Let's picture the commercial wind turbines and Hurricane Carol, Aug. 30, 1954. We need to prevent owners from quickly leaving the twisted wreckage behind for the taxpayers to clean up. They could stand there, unworkable, rusted and broken because they are too expensive to repair. The state will require more taxpayer incentives to repair the damage.
The Canon Street Power Plant in New Bedford is an example of a complete failure in public policy by Massachusetts government. In 1954 high tides closed the grossly contaminated site. The toxic plant sits there today abandoned because it's too expensive to clean up.
Current Massachusetts legislation lacks a one-chance opportunity to look back on past mistakes and prevent turning the state into a steel-cage arena that looks like a movie scene.Frank Haggerty Mattapoisett


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From 2011
// May 7th, 2011 // Uncategorized
I have finished the rewrite, changing the manuscript from a journal to a memoir. It was a great suggestion by my editor, Bob Yehling. I was able to add detail that wouldn't have made sense in a journal, but was needed for clarity.
Now….more editing before the professional takes it, maybe a little more detail, then we'll see where God takes it. I hope that it goes to those who can benefit from my journey but at this point I am just happy to have completed this phase of the project.
I'll get back to the story in the blog soon.
Thanks everyone for your prayers and support!
Peace be with you….
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WooHOOO!!! That is awesome news Deb…Oh and Happy Mothers Day.


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For a few months already, we have switched to a new diet. Not exactly diet, but rather the way we arrange our meals. We have heavier meals during lunch and then lighter ones for dinner. To make the lighter meals that are also filling to the stomach, we have soups. Because of this, we actually consume a lot more fibrous vegetables than before.
I love it! Besides the advantage of vegetable consumption, the preparation of most soups is actually very simple and uses a lot fewer dishes ... so fewer for washing ... who doesn't love that? I have tried recipes from these books:
So far, our favourites are potato-leek soup, split peas soup, broccoli soup, pasta & noodles soup (more my favourite!) and El Torito's tortilla soup. The cook magazine on top is still in circulation and I love the Chicken Fricassee ... it's great! Do you have soup recipes to share?
Back to knitting. I finished a couple of squares for the Great American Afghan over the weekend.
Isn't this entrelac square cute? I love the very mini tree of life. Having finished the Forest Path Stole, you would think entrelac knitting would be a piece of cake to me ... well, I thought it wouldn't be a problem too. But this has been a classic example of you think you are knitting from the pattern, but in reality you are knitting from what you have in your head! Oops! No big deal ... start over! LOL!
Now this Lily Chan Square is a breeze:
Well, except for the bobbles ... especially the middle bobble row. Imagine one bubble after every 3 stitches!


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She said…
John 1: 1-5 NRSV
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life,[a] and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
Over the last two years we have sold or given away most of our possessions, including a lot of artwork that I either traded for or got great deals on. This mask is a piece I gave to Shannon as a birthday gift. It made the cut and is now hanging in our home on wheels, partly because it is lightweight and not too fragile, but mostly because I like the story. It was carved by Gerard Tsanakwa, from the Abanaki tribe.
When Abanaki children misbehave, they are not punished, they are told a story. Tsanakwa is a story teller, and this mask is a character from one of his stories. I have forgotten the name of the character, so let's just call him John.
John represents the battle between Darkness and Light. John went out into the world to do battle with the darkness, but the harder he fought, the more the darkness spread. When he saw that he was not making any progress with his quest he decided to change his tactic; John decided to surround and overcome the darkness by spreading light.
It is our job here at Circle J Camp as well as in the world in general to spread the light. It is not our job to overcome darkness by doing battle, or trying to fix everything we perceive as broken with any system. We will never win. It is our job to do the work God has put us here to do and spread the light.
John 1: 6-9 NRSV
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.[b]


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Saturday, March 11, 2017
Me and Momma
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looks a great day Buddy,xx SpeedyReplyDelete
that's so beautiful... and it only needs one caption: love.ReplyDelete
btw: you found a mighty fine big stick... will you bring it home together?
Very nice photos of you both! Yes...that is one GIANT stick!😀😀ReplyDelete
I am sitting here trying to picture in my mind how the two of you got up there..ReplyDelete
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OMD - the stick's so big, there's room fur efurrybuddy! You and mum look pawfect together up there. Hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx
That is a stick Angel Brother Goose would be proud of. You and your momma look very happy up there.ReplyDelete
Wow, Buddy! That is one MAJOR LEAGUE stick you and your mama are sitting on!!!ReplyDelete
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Thatcher
That is a great tree to sit on!ReplyDelete
You look simply perfect together!ReplyDelete
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Homemade Jammie Dodgers
In case you haven't already seen the cupcakes Sarah and I made for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special coming up this weekend, you may not know that I've been more than a little excited about it. Within the recipe for those cupcakes, I also promised a recipe for the Jammie Dodger Filling Jam that I filled them with to make them "bigger on the inside," and I definitely wanted to deliver on that promise before Saturday in case you'll be making the cupcakes to bring to a Doctor Who-themed party of your own!
Rather than simply sharing the jam recipe though, I wanted to give you another use for it – such as in your own homemade version of the Doctor's current favorite snack, Jammie Dodgers! These tasty biscuits are simply shortbread cookies filled with raspberry-flavoured plum jam. Of course, you can use seedless raspberry jam if you're crunched for time, but I couldn't help but try to make this homemade version as authentic as possible. I hope you'll enjoy these, as well as the show on Saturday. Have a wonderful weekend!
For the Jammie Dodger Filling Jam:
- 4 cups red plums, quartered
- 4 cups raspberries
- 4 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 package (1.75 oz) powdered pectin
- 5 cups sugar
In a large pot, mash together the plums and raspberries. Place the mixture in a food mill and process to remove the skins and seeds. Measure 4 cups of skinless, seedless fruit mixture and add it to a large pot. Add in the lemon juice. Bring to a boil, and then stir in the pectin. Boil for one minute, and then add in the sugar all at once. Return to boil and boil hard one minute before removing from the heat. Skim off any foam. If you don't wish to can the jam, stop here and simply pour the jam into jars and store them in the refrigerator. Use within 2-3 weeks.
To can the jam, prepare your canning supplies: bring the temperature of the glass jars up by processing them in hot water for several minutes, and heat a few cups of water in a small saucepan for the lids. Ladle the hot jam into the jars, leaving 1/4″ headspace. Place the lids and bands on top, screwing on the bands just until fingertip-tight. Place the full jars back into the boiling water and process 10 minutes. Remove from the water and place the jars on a towel. The seals should suck down as the jars cool. Makes 4 half-pint jars.
For the Homemade Jammie Dodgers:
- 1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 egg yolk, lightly beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 6 ounces Jammie Dodger Filling Jam (above)
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, powdered sugar, and salt. In a large bowl, beat the butter until fluffy. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating until combined. Beat in the egg yolk and vanilla extract. Divide the dough in half, and flatten each half into a disc. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate 20-25 minutes.
While the dough is refrigerating, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Roll each disc out to about 1/4″ thickness. Using a round fluted cookie cutter, cut out as many cookies as you can, re-rolling the dough scraps as necessary and making sure to have an even number of cookies. With a smaller, shaped cutter, cut a hole out of the center of half of the cookies. Place the cookies on the parchment paper and bake 13-15 minutes or until just beginning to brown. Remove from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool. Quickly spread a small amount of jam on the halves of the cookies that do not have holes, topping with the halves that do have them. Let cool completely. Makes about 2 dozen biscuits, depending on the size of the cookie cutter you use.
Categories: canning, desserts & sweets
8 Responses
These are so good! Highly recommended.
by Chris on Nov 19, 2013 at 4:02 pm
I could eat a dozen of these in one sitting, I'm sure of it. They look fantastic! So pretty too.
I love jammie cookies!!! These look just like my Nanna's!
This is definitely a keeper. Thanks for sharing the cookie recipe, too.
by Mary Lynn on Nov 20, 2013 at 12:52 pm
So pretty! These cookies look so lovely. 🙂
by sara on Nov 20, 2013 at 6:29 pm
These cookies look so yummy. I bet they are delicious warm out of the oven. Enjoy your Dr Who celebration.
by Mom R on Nov 21, 2013 at 10:43 am
Mmm those cookies are delish. I could eat them all.day.long. The jam almost makes me want to start canning!
by Sandy on Nov 23, 2013 at 7:35 pm
"It's a Tardis self destruct button"
"You're right, it's a Jammie Dodger."
*Eats Cookie*
Thanks for having this cookie in American units….It's mind boggling in metric.
by Jakob Pohlman on Jul 4, 2015 at 10:46 am


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Fabulist and avant-gardist Danielewski (House of Leaves, 2000, etc.) embarks upon a long-promised 27-volume fantasia with this sprawling, continent-hopping potpourri.
On its face, this first installment is the story of a girl. And rain. And a "ridiculous dog bed." And a cat. And then the whole of human civilization and of the human propensity to do wrong while struggling to do right. The storyline is scarcely describable. Think of it this way: what if a prepubescent Leopold Bloom had fallen down a rabbit hole and wound up in Southeast Asia with a Pomona street gang in tow? Young Xanther, bespectacled, mouth full of metal braces, acne-spattered and left-handed, epileptic, self-doubting and sometimes self-hating, is a mess, just as every 12-year-old is a mess. She is also, her doctor assures her, something more: "If I could grant you one certainty, Xanther, one which you could hold on to without dissolving under all your scrutiny, let it just be how remarkable a young girl you are." So she is: there's scarcely a thing in this world she's not interested in and has theories about, spurred on by a brilliantly eccentric dad who's always talking about engines and the thought of Hermagoras of Temnos, "whoever he was, a rhetor, whatever a rhetor is." So what does she have to do with an Armenian cabbie, a pidgin-speaking Singaporean, and a Chicano street gang? Ah, that's the question, one that the reader will be asking hundreds of pages on, tantalized by the glimmerings of answers that peek through rainy calligrams and sentences endlessly nested like so much computer code. Danielewski's efforts at street-tough dialect verge into parody ("Like this be plastic shit. All scratched up and chipped"), but most everything about this vast, elusive, sometimes even illusory narrative shouts tour de force. Strangely, it works, though not without studied effort on the reader's part.
And as for all the loose ends? No worries—there are 26 volumes to come in which to tie them up.


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Temple Run is a highly addictive game which was first launched for iOS and later for Android. Temple Run works smoothly on highend devices like Samsung Galaxy S2, Galaxy S3, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc etc.
However Temple Run is incompatible with many low end devices. Some devices like Samsung Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Y, HTC Wildfire S are a rage among the masses.But due to the ARM v6 processor, Temple Run is incompatible.But now Temple Run is available even for ARMv6 processors (low-end devices). However it comes along with a bug. After running few meters you will die automatically. This is because the ARMv6 processor is not fully compatible for this game. But as the game has been updated frequently the auto-die bug has been drastically reduced.The game has been optimized for smooth gameplay.
Here is a simple tutorial to install Temple Run on ARMv6 devices.
- A rooted Android device.
- Titanium Backup.
- Temple Run armv6 apk.
- Temple Run Gamesave zip.
- Download the Temple Run ARMv6 APK file. Place it on your sdcard and install it using any file manager.
- Download the Temple Run Gamesave zip file. Extract this file and copy to sdcard/Titanium Backup.
- Run Titanium Backup and got to "Backup and Restore".
- Find Temple Run and click on it.
- Now you will see an option restore. Select restore.
- Now select "restore data only".
Now you can play Temple Run on your ARM v6 device.


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As major labels continue to exist behind the times, artists and labels with little capital and lesser reputations are producing some of the most innovative, interesting, and inspiring music. Whether it's creating a new niche in digital technology or looking to once obsolete formats, Agitated Atmosphere hopes to shed a bit of light and share a bit of information on the up and coming sounds of artists such as Bobb Bruno.
Comparing Bobb Bruno to just one artist can be quite limiting but if there's a parallel to be drawn it would have to be to Jon Brion. This isn't due to sound; on the contrary it's a product of Bruno being just as in demand and hands on as his pop counterpart. Bobb Bruno, like Jon Brion, seems to have his fingerprints all over 'outsider' music whether it be through his own outlets (Goliath Bird Eater and Best Coast to name two) or jamming with a host of indie and DIY luminaries — often donning a weathered bunny suit for added ambience.
Dreamt On, Bruno's latest EP through Vosotros, does happen to explore the poppy visions of his sizeable canon and the results are jaw-dropping. Many of Bruno's fans gravitated toward his sound because of its intensity (the fuzzed throwback and thundering bass of Blood Venus) and its sensitivity (the soothing drones of Black Pentagon). Dreamt On follows another path: one of sparking synthesizers, dreamy melodies, and raucous pop. However, Bruno does abandon his so-called roots to produce six tracks of schmaltz, choosing to infuse his vision of bubblegum into his driving bass lines and nuanced drones.
Look no further than the EP's lengthy middle, "Fairy Tale Ending." Hyperactive piano twinkles and dreamy surf guitar run through a glorious loop, mimicking the sounds of a jazzed music box. Slowly the music box begins to melt in the midday sun, warping the fairy tale into a lump of sprockets and lost hope. The track eventually morphs into the dark counterpart of the first half — a calculating but equally rhythmic outburst of summer tunes on the softer side of "Black Hole Sun." Much of Dreamt On recalls this theme of bouncy pop being invaded by dark side, both deciding to share the stage rather than fight the tired battle of light versus dark. The end product provides a wealth of breezy melodies mixing with dense backgrounds, giving summer evenings the same respect and happy endings as the orange-glo days of ice cream trucks, crowded beaches, and salty air.
Justin Spicer is a freelance journalist who also runs the webzine, Electronic Voice Phenomenon. He writes the Monday News Mash-Up and Thursday edition of Song of the Day for the KEXP Blog. You can now follow him on Twitter.


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- The Democratic Republic of Congo gained its independence from Belgium in 1960, and the late Patrice Lumumba (a national hero who faught for our independence) was appointed as the first Prime Minister
- Lumumba's reign was ended quickly after, when he was kidnapped and assassinated by the joined forces of the Belgians, the Americans, and the Congolese opposition
- Afterwards, Mobutu Sese Seko took over leadership of the Congo,reigning in a dictatorial regime for 32 years, and renaming the country Zaire
- By 1996, tensions from the neighbouring Rwandan Genocide had spilled over to Zaire, leading Rwandan Hutus to flee their country following the ascension of a Tutsi-led government
- In turn, a coalition of Rwandan and Ugandan armies invaded Zaire under the cover of a small group of Tutsi militia to fight the Hutu militia, overthrow the government of Mobutu, and ultimately control the mineral resources of Zaire (including diamonds, copper, zinc, and coltan), led by Laurent-Désiré Kabila (a Congolese rebel)
- In May 1997, Mobutu fled the country and Kabila marched into Kinshasa, naming himself president and reverting the name of the country to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This was the end of the first war
- Once President, Kabila asked his foreign forces to return to their countries
- The troops refused to leave and only retreated to Goma, in the Eastern part of the country, to further rebel against Kabila's government; in an attempt to maintain their power and influence
- As a result, Kabila was assassinated in 2001, and was succeeded by his adoptive son Joseph Kabila
- In February 2001 a peace deal was brokered between various rebel forces, leading to the apparent withdrawal of foreign troops
- However, the conflict was reignited in January 2002 where Uganda and Rwanda halted their withdrawal and sent in more troops
- Although peace deals have continued to surge between Kabila and the rebels, and the war is "officially" proclaimed over, it evidently continues today...
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So, in an attempt to provide support to the female victims of this war, as Ms AfriCanada 2012 I'll be holding events and activities in their favour, leading up to one big fundraiser with the funds being put towards carrying out the initiative on-site, in the Congo. So, keep up-to-date with the Facebook page, and remember to "Like" it!


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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Burn Notice, Season 1, Episode 2
After having who Michael Westen was and why he came to be where he currently is in the pilot episode, this one opens with a voice over briefly covering that. This would be the start of the show over the next 7 seasons. They only changed it after season 4 when a new character became a regular, and even then the little out cuts introducing Fiona, Sam and Maddie remained the same, so we got some of Fiona's Irish accent right throughout.
There was a little bit about the season long arc of Michael trying to find out who burned him, but this was largely a mystery of the week (motw) show.
Michael wanted information from his mother about the guys who had questioned her as to his whereabouts and bugged her house, she refused to give it to him until he agreed to help a neighbour of hers who had been ripped off.
I knew from the opening credits that Mark Pellegrino was going to be the bad guy. Honestly, has he ever played a good guy? The basic scheme that he (he played a con artist called Quentin) and his two cohorts ran was to get little old ladies like Madeline's neighbour to hand over their bank details and then steal from them. That he found it necessary to rough up this lady ensured that Fiona was going to be on board if he required back up.
Sam moved in briefly with Michael as he seemed to be between 'sugar Mommies' and this was when Fiona and Sam renewed acquaintances. Despite keeping up the fiction that they actually disliked each other intensely for some time, they got along fine and worked well together. A personal highlight was when they posed as Detective Cagney and Detective Lacey to heavy Quentin's young accomplices. The in joke with the names was that Sharon Gless (Madeline Westen) played Christine Cagney (her accomplice Mary Beth Lacey was played by Tyne Daly) in the TV cop drama Cagney & Lacey.
Gabrielle Anwar also showed some nice comic timing when she played Michael's doting girlfriend the first time she met Maddie face to face. I did enjoy her clearing the table as Michael's still desperately grabbing food from his plate.
One thing I did notice that differed from later episodes in this one was that as a group they were nowhere near as slick and well practised as they later became. They made more than a few mistakes here and that was to take down someone who was strictly small time.
Another thing that altered was Fiona's accent. She had dropped the Irish accent, they explained it away as her actual accent would make her stick out too much in Miami, so at least they did acknowledge it and that they probably made a bit of a mistake in the pilot.
This may crop up again later (I can't remember), but in the pilot they highlighted some downsides to where Michael chooses to live. He regularly has to make his way through crowds of nightclubbers when trying to get to the gate in the fence that leads to his warehouse and he also gets the lights, music and noise filtering through to late into the night. That wasn't present this time, although I am sure it will crop up later as the show were relatively good about most continuity things.
Despite them taking on various aliases they rarely use elaborate disguises. Mostly it's done through clothes, glasses, maybe a little facial hair or hairstyle. Jeffrey Donovan does a few voices that he cycles through depending on what persona he wants to project.
This one ended up almost HEA. Quentin went to jail, his young accomplices escaped on his boat, Maddie's neighbour got her life savings back and Michael got the information he wanted. I found the pilot stronger, but this was solid and a good example of what to expect, it kept me watching.
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PMA designed a sound and spatial studio for the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory that included an immersive studio pod, the n-space for 28 students, post graduate and small studios. The acoustic brief required advanced absorption performance with the possibility of multiple speaker configurations for high end single user, tutor presentation and audience configurations.
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Sculpted Curious George birthday cake. Head and body are cake. Arms are fondant, legs are a combo of rice krispies and fondant.
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I remember watching Curious George as a child…and you recreated him perfectly :-)


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- Those (e.g., me) who believe that Western science and medicine have good solutions to offer
- People who believe that Western medicine is a conspiracy designed solely to funnel money into the pockets of big pharma (generally, wackos, although they may have a point)
- Those who won't go as far as the second group, but who favor "natural" products and therapies instead of refined, "artificial' pharmaceuticals
This is utterly wrong.
So, I found this cluster of healthy, clean-looking weeds outside my back gate. It looked like Italian parsley. It smelled like parsley. Did it taste like parsley? Whoa--let's not taste it right now, I thought.
And I'm a fan of wild mushrooms. I pick them and taste them raw. There is no mushroom that will kill you if you spit it out. Something just told me not to taste this plant.
I called my father-in-law, a biologist and naturalist, and he brought over a pile of books to help identify my weed. We narrowed it down to a few candidates that grow in our region.
- Actual feral parsley
- Water hemlock
- Poison hemlock
It also said that since so many plants in the parsley family are extremely poisonous, you shouldn't eat them unless you have absolutely, positively, identified them.
I don't know what this stuff is, but even though it's all-natural, I won't be using it to garnish my pasta.
And, by contrast, the same night I quite happily popped a few pills of ibuprofen to reduce my back pain. They worked just fine, like they always do. I don't mind paying big pharma for ibuprofen.
I know the comparison between poison hemlock and ibuprofen is hardly a fair one, and that most practitioners of Chinese medicine know what they're handling, but it did starkly illustrate the point that "natural" plants can produce some of the most evil toxins we know.


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Whilst I find the colour of this loco a little dark, it's also more to my liking. Got to say it'll be a nice change compared to the other locomotives in red and black. As soon as it has a crew, nameplates, chassis fixed and lining, hopefully it'll be a good addition to the motive power.
Even when positioned with some of the Mid Sodor Railway stock, it looks the part. Hoping to get a few more of the Skarloey engines done and out the way, always been something I've wanted to do and now I'm getting it done. Do prefer them in the books though, the rainbow liveries of the Television series


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I recently got an email from a dear old dinosaur with 50 years experience of tuning Oracle databases (he'd done a lot of overtime and on-call time) who wanted to tear a strip off me for suggesting (in a presentation that I'd recently done in Kazakhstan) that it was easy to test one of his pet theories to see if it was relevant to a particular member of the audience.
"All this
new-fangled testing, analyzing, and careful thinking is a waste of time. I've
fixed more than 5,000 databases in the last week alone using my methods, and
had IT managers from
I felt a little twinge of sympathy for the old chap. Things have changed. The Oracle world moves on and it must be tough when your "advanced tuning skills" of yesteryear are now part of "Basic Design and Configuration 101" and you have to start learning all over again. It can be hard to keep up, and sometimes it's so much easier to fight the rearguard action, cling to the forlorn hope, and make the little things sound more impressive than they really are. (And, of course, you do get lucky from time to time and find someone who hasn't taken "Basic Design and Configuration 101").
Databases were small, disks were small and people had lots of them, Oracle had a few interesting features but it was largely just tables and indexes that people dealt with. Most databases performed badly and had I/O problems because of bad design, inappropriate indexing strategies, and bad code.
Databases have grown by two or three orders of magnitude (note – one order of magnitude means multiplying by 10), the capacity of a typical disk has grown by one or two orders of magnitude, but disk access times are typically only three or four times as fast as they used to be, and most people don't have many of them. Oracle is stuffed full of interesting technical features, but many systems don't use them – and quite a number of the systems that do use new features tend to use them inappropriately. Most databases perform badly and have I/O problems because of bad design, inappropriate indexing strategies, and bad code. Some databases still work reasonably quickly because you can stuff enormous amounts of memory into the box, add lots of very fast CPUs, and hide the problems for a while.
Some old dinosaurs try to protect their intellectual high ground by pumping out declarations full of sound and fury, signifying nothing – at best they do no harm, at worst they only muddy the waters further. Some young bucks are too keen to fight their 'new' scientific corner, and end up making statements that are just as extreme, over-generalised, and suspect as those of the old dinosaurs. Both have the potential for causing problems for naïve users.
Back in the bad old days, state of the art skills included:
reducing all segments to one extent,
rebuilding all indexes regularly,
wetting your pants if the cache hit ratio dropped below 99.99999%,
making sure that small tables weren't indexed.
For a history of some of the odd realities, odder beliefs and the reasons behind them, you could read Oracle Insights: Tables of the Oak Table, in particular Dave Ensor's chapter, which will tell you such abstruse details as where AFIEDT.BUF came from, and may even mention the reason for the original 2K block size.
There were two main drawbacks to many of these state of the art ideas. First, they didn't apply after Oracle 6 came out (if they ever did), and second they did actually appear to work some of the time. (Yes, that sentence reads exactly as I intended). So what's wrong with a snappy method that works some of the time? Nothing - if it works for you; but if you tell ten other people to do it and it only works for one of them then you've just made 9 people unhappy and wasted a lot of their time.
Alas, some of these 'old methods' did work for some people. But the information that would allow individuals to decide in advance whether a strategy was a good idea, a positively bad idea, or simply just a waste of time and effort, was not available.
Oracle Corp. keeps updating their software, adding features designed to reduce the workload on the DBA, the developer, and the database. Sometimes the features work well, sometimes they are inappropriate, sometimes they are sub-optimal and sometimes they are abused. Almost invariably, the marketing literature is ahead of its time.
Is everything that Oracle Corp. puts into their code right for you? If an old method seems to be embedded in new code, does that prove that the old method was always a good idea? I'll let you work that out for yourself by considering a few examples.
Oracle 8i introduced on-line index rebuilds – does this mean you should rebuild every index on a regular basis (old method), or does it just give you a facility for minimising interruptions on a 24 x 7 system for those special cases where you can see that an index rebuild would positively benefit performance ? In passing, bear in mind that on a busy 24 x 7 system an on-line index rebuild has to acquire an exclusive lock on the underlying table for a brief period to start the rebuild, and another to end the rebuild – it's likely to be a lot better than holding a lock on the table for the duration of the rebuild, but it's not entirely threat-free after all – and the rebuild is not necessarily cheap on resources (although Oracle has at least three possible mechanisms for doing the rebuild and will pick the one it thinks it the cheapest).
Oracle 9i introduced on-line table reorganization – does this mean you should physically rebuild tables on a regular basis? Table rebuilding is actually a strategy I have suggested from time to time – but usually by cloning read-only partitions of a partitioned table because in the real-world the cost of an online table rebuild is too high to allow, except in extreme circumstances, as it includes recreating all the indexes and using materialized view log mechanisms to keep the rebuilt table in synch whilst everything else is going on. On-line table reorganization is best viewed as a facility to allow old systems to migrate into new features such as partitioned tables with minimum down-time.
Oracle 10g introduced automatic memory management – regularly monitoring v$db_cache_advice etc. to shift memory dynamically between several of the large memory structures in the shared memory segment. Does this mean that increasing the buffer cache to reduce physical I/O is automatically the right thing to do? Bear in mind Oracle 10g also supplies you with the tuning advisor and the access advisor to help you improve your indexing and SQL in a balanced fashion – perhaps you should only enable automatic memory management after you have tuned the SQL. Bear in mind, also, that the mechanisms of automatic memory management specifically exclude the non-standard db cache sizes (see 10g Admin Guide Ch. 2 P.36) There is at least one author who thinks that the ability to specify multiple block sizes may be the most important feature of 9i – does their exclusion from automatic memory management mean that Oracle Corp. thinks he is talking rubbish? Bear in mind, finally, that the algorithm tries to avoid removing memory from the "shared pool" because it kicks the system to death (that's my paraphrasing – the manual describes the issue a little differently). So should we follow the line "but that's what Oracle does" when even Oracle cannot do it well? Perhaps not.
Tuning by observing the work done and time lost at the process level – the so-called "wait interface" method - is the 'new' science.
I could invent a silly story at this point – perhaps I could tell you how I spent 72 hours watching a 'ratio-junkie' struggle to fix a problem by tweaking parameters, plugging in memory chips swapping CPUs, creating materialized views, rebuilding indexes, and refuelling every three hours on pizza and high-caffeine coffee; then I could explain how I stepped in and solved the problem a mere 30 seconds after typing "execute dbms_support.start_trace_in_session(...etc…)". I won't insult your intelligence by doing so – you would obviously conclude that it was pure invention. Extreme bottlenecks and extreme overloads are easily spotted by anyone with a basic level of trouble-shooting skills, irrespective of their preferred method of operation.
I will say that, once you have dealt with the trivial errors, the method of observing business-related processes to see where the work is going and where the time is lost helps you identify the important threats more easily, recognise some of the slightly less obvious errors in design (or index strategies), and list options for addressing the issues based on a realistic cost/risk/benefit estimate. And yes – sometimes the answer is: "this particular I/O problem will go away for about six months if you add a little over 48GB of RAM to the db_keep_cache_size" (as I said to someone just three weeks ago) "and the other three alternatives are …"
Finally I have to point out that a scientific approach is not a new method. "Academic" and "theoretical" are terms that sometimes appear in the writings of this industry as if they were criticisms. But have you seen how many academic papers Oracle Corp. presents at events like the International Conference on Large Databases - without Academia there would be no Oracle. The approach of evaluating a hypothesis by predicting a test result then doing the test has been around for centuries. If you are a professional trouble-shooter, you owe it to your clients to go through that discovery process in your own labs so that you don't have to spend your client's money learning how Oracle works. If you are a full-time DBA, your employers owe you, and themselves, some time for you to do some testing and experimentation that might be relevant to your (their) systems so that you can predict problems before they actually happen.
What of the daft old duffer? Treated with a little warmth and compassion, it turns out he can be a charming chap. He has seen the error of his ways, and now tries hard to copy those more enlightened individuals around him. Of course he does slip back into old habits from time to time – but then, there are times when we all hanker after the good old days when everything was simple.
About the author: Don Corleone runs a small family business out of NYC, mainly involved in shooting trouble. He is a shy, retiring individual and doesn't like to make a big fuss about his level of skill, because his published work speaks for itself. The author reserves the right to leave any outrageous claims unsubstantiated, and also reserves the right to have invented any characters, events, and figures that might suit the general narrative thrust of this article.
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Scotland: Whisky & Distilleries
Anthony Wills, the owner of Kilchoman was dreaming of a new whisky distillery on Islay since 2001. After some financial
problems, his dream became true in 2004 and the new distillery was born, Production would begin in 2005.
The Kilchoman distillery is settled near a village of the same name, which is supposed to be the very first distillation place in Scotland, when the distillation science was imported from Ireland.
It is one of the only distilleries where the whole production process happens: from malting to bottling.
Kilchoman is a farm-distillery with quite a confidential production compared to the big distilleries on the Island.
Whisky is an alcoholic drink. Let's prefer quality to quantity as the abuse of alcohol beverages can damage the health. Consuming alcoholic drinks during pregnancy, even in small quantities, can seriously affect the health of the child. Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery, and may cause health problems.
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We made a whole bunch of these Halloween Lollipop Ghosts last year and they were such a hit they we decided to make a whole bunch more.
Lollipop Ghosts take less than a minute to whip up and make for a perfect wee Halloween treasure hunt treat to hunt around the house or garden.
What you'll need
– lollipops (we used chuppa chips)
– tissues
– small rubber bands (I used our clear braid bands from my babes Ruby Blue)
– ribbon or string
– marker pen
What to do
– Grab a tissue and lay it out flat on whatever surface you're working on.
– Pop a lollipop in the middle and fold the top half over the lollipop. Bunch up the tissue around the lollipop and secure it together with a small rubber band.
– Tie some string around the necks of your almost made ghost, draw on some eyes with your marker pen and you've got yourself a well put together Halloween Lollipop Ghost!
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A few days ago I had the pleasure to present an educational workshop to members of Toastmasters International, District 36. This was a milestone event for me in my personal and professional development as a Toastmaster. You see, up until now I had presented material which for the most part had come from the curriculum developers who work at the California headquarters (a.k.a., "TI WHQ" or Toastmasters International World Headquarters).
With this event I had submitted several proposals to the fall conference program committee. (Three proposals if the whole story be told.) The conference committee in District 36 then selected the topic which best fit into their program. (And the proposal they selected — "Good grief!" — was the one I thought needed the most time for preparation and research.) Now I was on the hook. Would I be the hero or the goat?
The title of the workshop was KNOW THYSELF. Yes, this title isn't very original nor very creative. And I compounded this "error" with a long subtitle: Three Simple Exercises You Can Do When It's Time to Reflect on Your Personal Effectiveness. Additionally for this workshop I provided a Know Thyself – Handout for the attendees on which they could jot a note or doodle.
I also created and displayed a graphic agenda based on the comic strip characters from the Peanuts gang. During my talk I acknowledged the genius of Charles Schulz as well as reminded the audience of how this session fit the fair use clause of U.S. copyright law.
Without repeating here the WHATs and the HOW TOs of the entire workshop, my intention and plans were to simply lead the audience through three interactive exercises. And as each of these exercises evolved, I'd coach the audience along a path that suggested that we can learn from the interactions between ourselves and others much as Charlie Brown learns of himself and of how his behavior affects the other characters in the Peanuts gang.
Themes for this 75-minute workshop included: envisioning success, defining ME-thinking and WE-thinking, thinking like a champion, and the importance of hiring or becoming a coach.
So how did this educational session go? And what did I learn from working with this audience? Yes, I'm going to have to work on creating more impelling titles and shorter sub-titles. Yes, I ran the risk of losing the attention of a few in the audience who don't read the Sunday Comics. Yes, I probably tried to pack too much information into the time available.
That said, the results of the post-session evaluations suggest that I did well enough to use this material again. The vast majority of the feedback stated I did "Very Good" to "Excellent." And there were a number of participants who came up to me afterwards to ask a question or share a personal thank you.
As a speaker, it is the people who come up to talk to you afterwards that I most remember. Some asked for me to explain a point in greater detail. A few asked me if I would share the complete citations from the books I held up during my talk. And several folks asked me if they might explore the option of working with me in the future. (Yay, team!)
So in the spirit of sharing my "cheat sheet," here's a link to my one-page "SpeakersNotes" that lists the main talking points. And here too (below the bibliography) are a few photos taken to capture the moment and/or illustrate these key talking points. And as for the four individuals who suggested on their evaluation sheets that I next time provide a bibliography with the one-page handout … Well, I hope you visit this blog.
Brene Brown. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Gotham Books (Penguin Books), New York, New York, 2012
Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard. Management of Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Human Resources (4th Edition). Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1982.
George Leonary. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment. Dutton (Penguin Books), New York, New York, 1991.
Ralph C. Smedley. Personally Speaking. Toastmasters International, Santa Ana, California, 1966.


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In cases heard barely two weeks apart, Canada's Competition Bureau obtained record-setting fines against two Japanese auto parts suppliers that pleaded guilty to bid-rigging charges. Although these significant penalties (obtained under the Bureau's leniency program) are a strong milestone for the Bureau's enforcement program, issues remain as to whether Canada can establish subject-matter jurisdiction over bid-rigging arrangements concluded entirely in offshore jurisdictions.
In the first case, on April 4, 2013, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. pleaded guilty in Superior Court on a single-count indictment charging bid-rigging in relation to the supply of electrical boxes to be used in 2001 and 2006 model years Honda Civics manufactured in Canada. As is typical in these cases, the plea took place under a plea agreement that included a public statement of admissions filed with the Court. The notable features of the admissions are that Furukawa has no facilities in Canada, but voluntarily agreed to attorn to Canadian jurisdiction for purposes of the plea. All meetings and communications in relation to the bid-rigging took place outside Canada, a fact reaffirmed by the wording of the indictment, stating that all acts occurred "in Japan and elsewhere outside of Canada." The admissions also asserted that knowledge, participation in and/or acquiescence with the agreements and arrangements "reached North American regional sales management levels" as well as sales management levels at Furukawa. The company agreed with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to a C$5-million fine and was the first leniency applicant for this product under the Bureau's leniency program. The fine represented approximately 12% of Furukawa's commerce in the products, totalling some C$40.9 million.
In the second case, on April 18, 2013, Yazaki Corporation agreed to a record-setting fine of C$30 million in a guilty pleain Superior Court to a three-count indictment charging bid-rigging offences in relation to events that occurred in 2002/2003 "in Japan and elsewhere outside of Canada" regarding rigged bids for electrical wire harnesses and related products for the 2006 model year Honda Civic, the 2005.5 model year Honda Ridgeline and the 2006 model year Corolla/Matrix, all manufactured in Canada. The admissions filed in the Yazaki case were very similar to those in the Furukawa case, and stipulated that all meetings and other forms of communications took place outside Canada. Moreover, the admission asserted that such meetings and communications "did not involve any personnel resident in Canada" (thereby excluding Yazaki's Canadian enterprise). In a slight refinement of the Furukawa admissions, it was agreed that Yazaki was aware that the vehicles in which the wire harnesses were to be installed were assembled by Honda Canada or Toyota Canada in Ontario and that the unlawful bid-rigging agreements "would have a direct effect on commerce in Canada." However, the assertion of knowledge of these practices was stated to be only at sales management levels in Yazaki, which were not indicated to be in Canada. Beyond the fact that the bid-rigged components were to be used in vehicles manufactured in Canada, there was no assertion that any acts occurred in Canada.
Yazaki also took advantage of the leniency program and was the second applicant to receive a fine of approximately 12% (C$30 million based on total sales of C$260 million) of its commerce in the relevant products over the period of the bid-rigging arrangements. This 12% fine was in line with the Furukawa plea. In its sentencing submissions, the DPP affirmed that none of the bid-rigging conduct occurred in Canada or involved Canadian-based personnel. It was also observed that by the time of its Canadian plea, Yazaki had been fined US$470 million in the United States and five executives had been sentenced there to imprisonment ranging from 14 to 24 months with various fines imposed. In addition, the Japanese FTC had imposed a fine of approximately C$120.4 million on the company for the conduct. The admissions noted that Yazaki had implemented a competition compliance program to prevent recurrence of this activity and that it had never been convicted of a criminal offence in Canada.
These cases represent real and genuine milestones for the Bureau's leniency program and clearly establish that the Bureau is very actively enforcing its bid-rigging laws in relation to foreign anti-competitive activity.
Since these cases involved guilty pleas, the issue of subject-matter jurisdiction in Canada was uncontested. However, analysis of the underpinnings of Canada's bid-rigging offence under section 47 of the Competition Act suggests that subject-matter jurisdiction for offshore conduct may be problematic for Canada.
In stark contrast to certain provisions of the Competition Act,1 the bid-rigging offence does not contain a jurisdiction-extending clause that would permit prosecution of domestic entities for foreign-hatched antitrust agreements following offshore issuance of "directives" to unknowing Canadian affiliates that implement agreements made outside Canada. Furthermore, it does not appear that the Bureau was relying on the foreign conspiracy provisions of the Criminal Code2 insofar as those provisions arguably permit prosecution in Canada of persons conspiring outside Canada on conduct that constitutes a Canadian offence. Reliance is placed solely on the s. 47 bid-rigging offence, which notably does not contain language asserting that the offence can be committed in a place outside Canada or that persons may commit the offence whether or not they are in Canada, as do the referenced Criminal Code sections. There appears to be no Canadian case holding that an offence under s. 47 can constitute a continuing offence, which might enable extension-of-jurisdiction arguments if there were Canadian acts in furtherance or implementation of the bid-rigging subsequent to the rigging of the bids in question. Moreover, in conspiracy cases, the Supreme Court has consistently affirmed that the offence is complete upon the formation of the agreement3 and no doubt a similar analysis would apply to the s. 47 offence. It has also been frequently noted that subsection 6(2) of Canada's Criminal Code establishes that no person shall be convicted for an offence committed outside Canada. Thus, on the facts asserted in the admissions in these cases, the offences consist entirely of offshore conduct, with the Bureau asserting that effects of the bid-rigging on commerce in Canada (i.e., the sale of the price-fixed product as a component of a vehicle assembled in Canada and sold to a buyer in Canada) constitute a sufficient basis upon which to assert subject-matter jurisdiction. No Canadian court has yet held, in a contested bid-rigging case, that jurisdiction may be established in this way. In the United States, there is statutory and judicial support4 for the position that foreign conspiracies having a "direct, substantial and reasonably foreseeable effect" on domestic or export commerce of the United States that gives rise to a claim under the U.S. Sherman Act are justiciable before U.S. courts. However, Canadian law has not extended jurisdiction in this manner. In its hallmark Libman5 decision, the Supreme Court established that jurisdiction for criminal offences may be established where "a significant portion of the activities constituting the offence took place in Canada." The Supreme Court also noted that there needs to be a "real and substantial link" between the offence and Canada. In civil cases, the Federal Court of Appeal has affirmed6 that, for conspiracy allegations, effects of the conspiracy under s. 45 of the Competition Act cannot be used to extend jurisdiction for limitation purposes. Finally, it should be noted that, at least in Yazaki's case, the conduct that occurred in Japan has been subjected to a penalty imposed there.
While the guilty pleas in Furukawa and Yazaki appear to extend the Competition Bureau's jurisdictional reach, it remains to be seen whether in a contested case a Canadian court would find sufficient subject-matter jurisdiction over bid-rigging arrangements if the conduct was committed entirely outside Canada's borders by non-Canadian parties, even if there could be said to be an effect on Canadian commerce.


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WASHINGTON — Former White House aide Michael K. Deaver was convicted Wednesday of three counts of perjury for giving false testimony to a congressional subcommittee and a federal grand jury last year about his Washington lobbying activities.
At the same time, the jury in the court of U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson acquitted Deaver, 49, of two other perjury counts. Sentencing was set for Feb. 25, with Deaver facing a maximum punishment of 15 years in prison and $22,000 in fines.
Deaver, once a close confidant of President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, stood with his head slightly bowed as jury foreman Barrington B. Bell, a government supply clerk, announced the verdict. Deaver's wife, Carolyn, and daughter, Amanda, 17, wept softly and embraced each other.
'Very Disappointed'
A grim-faced but composed Deaver later told reporters outside the courthouse: "I'm obviously very disappointed . . . but I know in my heart that I'm innocent.


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Randomized Controlled Trial of Software-Based Enhancement of Colorectal Cancer Screening Self-Efficacy
Background: Interactive multimedia computer programs (IMCPs) show promise for facilitating
informed patient decisions. However, it is unclear whether IMCPs can activate patients by
delivering personally tailored information to bolster self-efficacy, a key mediator of
health behavior. It is also unclear whether IMCPs might be employed to lessen disparities in
care experienced by less educated people by tailoring self-efficacy enhancing information to
educational level and compensating for provider biases in communication. Finally, the
optimal way to deploy IMPCs in primary care (e.g. before versus following an office visit)
remains unclear. Aims/Hypotheses: We will compare changes in colorectal cancer (CRC)
screening self-efficacy, intention, uptake, and informed decision making resulting from an
IMCP providing personally tailored information (to subject educational level and
self-efficacy) intended to boost self-efficacy with changes resulting from a non-tailored
control IMCP. We hypothesize both the intervention and control condition will result in
increases in CRC screening self-efficacy, but increases will be significantly greater in the
intervention group. We also hypothesize both the intervention and control condition will
increase CRC screening intention, uptake, and informed decision making, but increases will
be greater in the intervention group and will be mediated by self-efficacy enhancement.
Methods: Pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) of 2 groups, comparing a PCN office
visit-linked, tailored (to subject self-efficacy) IMCP software program plus mailed
reminders versus a non-tailored CRC screening IMCP software program plus mailed reminders
(control). Screening methods targeted will be fecal occult blood testing, flexible
sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, and computed tomographic virtual colonoscopy. Primary outcomes
will be CRC screening self-efficacy, intention, uptake, and informed decision making.
Implications: Our pilot is powered to detect a significant effect on CRC screening
self-efficacy but not other outcomes; however, by conducting it as we would a future and
larger RCT, we will determine protocol feasibility. If our hypotheses are confirmed, it
would imply cancer screening IMCPs should be focused on enhancing self-efficacy. Since
self-efficacy is a mediator of many patient and health care provider behaviors, it would
also imply that similar IMCPs could be developed to support a host of patient and
professional education efforts.
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Prevention
Colorectal cancer screening self-efficacy
Anthony F Jerant, MD
Principal Investigator
Department of Family & Community Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine
United States: Food and Drug Administration
August 2005
February 2006
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|Sacramento, California 95817


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Operation: Cigars For Warriors – Live From The Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival
As a one of the Colorado area Event Coordinators for Op: Cigars For Warriors, the weekend of The Rocky Mountain Cigar Fest weekend was beyond my expectations in not only the size, pace and excitement of the festival, but the pre-parties, get togethers and generosity! For this casual, cigar aficionado wanna-be and volunteer for Cigars For Warriors, I had seen pictures and heard stories of the big events back east and retailer events like IPCPR, but they couldn't help me prepare for the fun I was about to have.
The weekend started picking up Storm Boen, Chairman of the Board for Cigars For Warriors, and bringing him back to Colorado for his second trip to the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival. As things started rolling out on Thursday, I took Storm to the top producing donation site in my short list of cigar shops with a donation box, Smoker Friendly Store #201 in Cheyenne, WY (3761 E. Lincoln Way).
Don't let this little shop on the east side of town fool you, they have a comfortable cigar lounge and a respectable walk-in humidor, where we found a full box of UF-13's sitting on the shelf. This shop and more importantly their gracious customers have donated over 2000 cigars in just over 6 months of being a donation site. The area is full of active, reserve and retired military members who know someone, or have been that solider or airman deployed to God knows where and the benefit of a good cigar to maintain some sanity. When you stop in say hi to Joni and be sure you grab an extra stick for the troops, or she will remind you.
From there we traveled to Longmont, CO and stopped by CHUBurger (1225 Ken Pratt Blvd) for a pre-preparty bite to eat. CHUBurger, is the third foundation based restaurant under the Oskar Blues banner, and was built to house the Bonewagon creation, the signature CHUBurger and has expanded to include the BERK Burger, GONZO Berger, OMEGA3 Burger, the BUFF Burger and so much more! Let's not forget it is family of Oskar Blues, so the entire line of Oskar Blues beer is on tap and readily available, if not highly suggested by many in the area. The brewery was recently visited by Thor and Lisa Nielson of Cigar Press. Two of their "guides" were none other than Joe Liggett (Smoker Friendly) and Thomas Bliss (Havana Manor- Longmont). If you are in need of a good burger & beer in a short amount of time, you can't go wrong visiting CHUBurger!
With our taste buds satisfied and our bellies full, it was time to head across the street to Havana Manor (1240 Ken Pratt Blvd), Longmont's premier cigar lounge and host for the Drew Estate event. We arrived to a large display table of Drew Estate cigars. Ligas, Naturals, Under Crowns and more were packed on this table and up for grabs in preparation for Jonathan Drew. We set up shop for Cigars For Warriors off to the side and had the blessed opportunity of hanging out with "El Capitan" Thomas Bliss, "Dirty" Fabian, and of course El Presidente Michael Landau.
The event was needless to say a great time. Not only did the shop regulars come out and support one of their favorite manufactures, but many from all around came in to get some face time with one of the industry's most approachable, giving and personable figures: Jonathan Drew. Not only was Jonathan there, but we had several Cigar Rights of America there including Larry Magana, Patrick Carr and Glenn Loope. Added to that several other industry icons came by to enjoy the two excellent lounges Havana Manor has to offer. I'm sure I am missing some but I had the pleasure of meeting Pete Johnson (Tatuaje), Janny Garcia (My Father), Eddie Ortega, Tony Gomez (LFC), Eric "Master Sensei" G. (Cigar Dojo), and Thor & Lisa Nielson (Cigar Press). Honestly, it was such a whirlwind and I was also focused on manning the CFW donation table, so I didn't hang out too much. Just enough to be humbled how little I know about cigars.
Friday morning rolled around and with last minute brainstorming, Storm and I headed off to Boulder for the Smoker Friendly Retail exhibit. Drew Estates, in ongoing support of Cigars For Warriors provided us booth space to meet the store managers and owners who were wandering around looking for the next big item in their shop. We had the pleasure of meeting and speaking with countless shop owners and managers who were interested in setting up CFW Donation boxes in their shops. There were those who we referred to our website Cigars For Warriors and many more who gave us contact information so we could follow up with them after the show. As it stands, we had almost 50 new shops interested in opening their doors to a donation box, which was not too shabby compared to the IPCPR.
After a successful trip to meet and greet store owners, it was time to rest up for the big event, or so we thought. We returned to Havana Manor where there was a meet & greet scheduled with Pete Johnson and Janny Garcia. This was more relaxed than the previous night's event, but again there were all the big players hanging out together in "my B&M"! There was time for talking with the various manufacturers, and hanging with friends. Everyone was excited for Saturday to come and the opening of the gates to the 4th Annual Rocky Mountain Cigar Fest!
Saturday morning came with the mixed blessing of being entirely too early, yet not soon enough; especially after the adult beverages the night before. However, the time had come. I had been to every RMCF to date, but this year I was standing on the other side of the table. Joe Liggett has made each year he has had it better than the year before and this one was no different. Joe has taken the suggestions he received and done little things like changing the layout to improve the flow, increased the quality of the cigars in the goodie bags and generally improved the access to the facility based on your ticket level (General, VIP, Executive VIP).
So our day starts, setting up our booth at the south end of the beautiful grounds of the Millennium Harvest House. We are at the south entrance to the event, not to mention right along the jogging path along Boulder Creek. Mind you we are in "Boulder, CO" one of the first cities in the state to implement smoking restrictions, including recently banning smoking on the Pearl Street Mall (more about that later). Needless to say there is a humorous irony of Colorado's largest cigar gathering happening in the middle of this restrictive city.
Once the "doors" open 1,500 cigar lovers come in and start checking out the booths. The support for the troops seemed to draw people in. I can't tell you how many people came up and either had friends or family in the service or they themselves served. On two occasions we were blessed to meet individuals who served overseas and had received care packages from CFW. It was great to see how much people stopped by to check out our booth and donate both cigars and cash to the cause.
The biggest and most heartwarming surprise came when a beautiful woman came up to the booth. She was talking with Storm and my wife when I joined the conversation. She was telling us how much she loved Colorado and mentioned she wasn't going to leave. Being from this beautiful state, I am used to this response and have many friends who literally followed through with this impulse. Before I knew it my wife had offered a place to stay to this stranger anytime she wants to visit. Before I knew it this woman grabbed several CFW postcards and was helping out. Little did I know this beautiful, passionate gracious woman was none other than Marielos Drew. Before I knew it I was working with the wife of one of the most sought after figures in the cigar industry, and she was doing a GREAT job.
Despite the wild Colorado weather, everyone was having a great time. We had gone through a touch of clouds, followed by a short, light rainstorm and finishing off with some hot sunshine. But as the day wound to an end everyone was in good spirits.
One of the most beneficial things we had going for us was a Combat Humidor donated by Tim Morris. We were selling raffle tickets at $5 each and for not seeing this type of humidor before, we sold over $700 worth of tickets. Borris Levin did an outstanding job on the combat humidor, and there was a large level of interest generated in his humidors outside of the raffle item. The winner was very excited to get such a quality piece. Jonathan Drew was, in his usual giving self, gracious and signed it for the winner.
After the RMCF we went to the Lazy Dog Grill (1346 Pearl St) for the Drew Estates Herf. As mentioned before this is in Boulder, and the Lazy Dog is in the middle of Pearl Street Mall, which has all smoking banned. But we reserved the roof top of the Lazy Dog for our private party and smoked away! This was despite the return of the crazy weather. But the half hour of rain and wind did little to quash the spirits of the dedicated Drew Fans. We spent hours chatting it up with Fabian, Jonathan, Marielos, Tom and Gloria Navarro, and the various folks of the Smoker Friendly family who put on the RMCF. We continued to get donations throughout the evening and had a great time.
In the end it was a successful weekend for Smoker Friendly, cigar smokers and most importantly: the troops. We raised over $2100 to help with growing postage commitment of shipping cigars and almost 300 cigars that weekend. But we are seeing cigar donations on the rise in the area as a result of the generosity of everyone attending the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival.


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Dr Leigh Johnson will present the Department of Statistical Science seminar with a talk entitled, "A Bayesian approach to understanding adult mortality trends in South Africa and the impact of antiretroviral treatment".
Dr Leigh Johnson is an epidemiologist and actuary, with an interest in the modelling of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. He has been involved in evaluating the impact of a range of HIV prevention and treatment programmes in South Africa. His work includes estimating the demographic impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and he has been involved in the development of the Actuarial Society of South Africa AIDS and Demographic model.
Abstract: Adult mortality rates in South Africa increased substantially over the period from 1997 to 2006, but have since declined steadily. Although this decline is often attributed to the success of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in reducing HIV-related mortality, there have been no formal attempts to quantify the extent to which ART explains the observed reduction. In this study we perform a Bayesian evidence synthesis, combining South African recorded death data, HIV prevalence data, reported numbers of ART patients and ART mortality rates within a mathematical modelling framework. The objectives of this study are to assess the extent to which ART has reduced adult mortality in South Africa, and to assess the role of other factors – such as changes in HIV virulence – in the observed mortality decline. In addition, this study aims to assess the value of recorded death data in the calibration of HIV models, which have previously been calibrated only to HIV prevalence data, and to evaluate the extent to which different HIV data sources are in conflict.
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An Alaskan banker with a soft spot for Broward Community College has helped replenish a special fund for foreign and needy students.
Elmer Rasmuson, 75, a former mayor of Anchorage, was so pleased with the way college President Hugh Adams has been dispensing his money that he has sent an extra $10,000 for a fund he established years ago.
Part of the money goes to an emergency loan fund administered by Adams, who can help students stay in school by allowing them to draw money to pay even a rent check.