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Danni Leigh's latest album, A Shot of Whiskey & a Prayer, takes its name from a ritual she goes through before each concert. It could also be the prescription for her woes in the rough-and-tumble music business.
On March 19, Leigh signed with Audium Entertainment, her third label in a little over two years. She is at work on her third album, teaming with producer Pete Anderson, noted guitarist and producer for Dwight Yoakam . Leigh's look and sound have prompted more than a few scribes to describe her as the "female Dwight Yoakam."
A Strasburg, Va., native, Leigh, 31, made a minor splash in 1998 when Decca Records released her debut album, 29 Nights, and a single and video, "If the Jukebox Took Teardrops." Just as the second single/video, "29 Nights," was released, Decca went out of business when its parent company, Universal Music Group, merged with Polygram Records. Sheila Shipley Biddy, Decca chief when the label closed, has continued to guide Leigh's career as her personal manager.
Leigh moved quickly to Sony's Monument Records — the Dixie Chicks' label — and once again was poised for stardom. After two singles from A Shot of Whiskey & a Prayer stiffed last year, Sony showed her the door. However, in an unusual move, Sony put out the album in February, three months after she left the label.
"I really don't know what I've done wrong to radio," Leigh says candidly. "I wish I could figure it out, I really do, because every ounce of my body would love to have my songs played on commercial radio."
Allen Butler, president of Sony Music Nashville, first heard Leigh through her music videos. He felt she would be a good fit for his label. Only three months after the demise of Decca, Butler signed her to Sony on April 20, 1999.
"I was totally enthralled with her two videos on CMT and certainly recognized that she is unique, which is hard to find these days in country music," Butler admits. "Sheila Shipley Biddy had done a really good job of setting Danni up. For a record label, if somebody else has done a lot of the leg work, it makes our job generally easier."
Picking up where 29 Nights left off, Leigh continued to align herself with the Bakersfield Sound, a brand of hard-edged honky-tonk music honed by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in the '60s and popularized by Yoakam today.
Richard Bennett and Emory Gordy Jr. produced Whiskey & a Prayer, teaming up for the first time since overseeing Steve Earle's classic Guitar Town album in 1986. Leigh co-wrote three songs for the set and rounded it out with tunes by noted songwriters such as Kevin Welch, Leslie Satcher, Al Anderson, Stacy Dean Campbell, Paul Kennerley and Charlie Robison.
"Honey I Do," the first single (and only video) from Whiskey & a Prayer, peaked at No. 59 on Billboard's country chart last April. Faring only slightly better, "I Don't Feel That Way" reached No. 56 in July. Leigh and Sony parted ways before the next scheduled single, "Longnecks, Cigarettes," got out of the gate.
"We spent a fortune showcasing her to radio," Butler maintains. "We did two huge showcases where we flew people into Austin, Texas, then flew people into Boston. By our standards, they were first-class, big-dollar showcases. We wined and dined them and played golf with them and everything else we could do. She was totally a priority. We were in pretty deep, way in over a half-million dollars.
"However, we moved in a direction musically and creatively with her that radio wasn't going. Radio has almost gone totally pop on us, especially for females, and she's a fairly traditional artist. We hit walls everywhere."
Leigh's retro-Western, Yoakam-style image may have been a hindrance at radio, Butler speculates.
"This is a time when Dwight isn't at the peak of his career with country radio," he reasons. "In some ways, maybe that made it harder for them to embrace her as an artist. She's unique in the fact that she's a hat act. Her and Terri Clark, that's about it, and even Terri is doing more pop stuff now to a certain extent."
Leigh is not in a hurry to shed comparisons to Yoakam. In addition to making her next album with Anderson — Yoakam's right hand man — she opened about 15 concerts for Yoakam last fall. Leigh believes Yoakam provides a reference point for fans to get a handle on her approach.
"When I was out on tour with Dwight," Leigh says, "I sat down with him one night and asked him if it was weird for him to hear that people call me the 'female Dwight.' I was just wondering what he thought about it, if he thought I was trying to step on his toes. 'Don't worry about it,' he said. 'I thought the same thing with Buck Owens. I came out and people thought I sounded like Buck, but the God-honest truth is we're just doing what's natural, what's comfortable, and it's really all you got.'"
During her tour with Yoakam, Leigh reached a crisis with Sony. Waiting on a hit, they pushed back her album release date five or six times, and she had no new album in stores to promote on the road.
"Not only did I do the Dwight tour," Leigh says, "but I did my own shows in between, and I never saw any direct, hard push from my record label while I was out on tour. I could have been at radio stations while I was out there, but they never gave me anything. It just felt like a major letdown."
Butler postponed the album's release because Sony policy dictates that albums only come out after they yield a hit single. "Touring with Dwight, that was great, and it was a neat opportunity for her," Butler says, "but it wasn't enough dates to impact an album selling. You can't get pricing and positioning in a retail store because somebody is out on tour with Dwight Yoakam. You have to have a hit. We don't release albums here until they have a hit single. There's no reason for it."
So why did the album come out in February — after Leigh was off the roster? Sony and Leigh's camp offer different views.
Last November, Leigh and Biddy met with Butler and Mike Kraski, Sony Nashville's senior vice president of sales and marketing. "We learned Sony had decided not to go forward with the project," Biddy says. "They weren't going to release a third single or make a video or release the album. Danni and I were fine with that. We left there that day thinking that maybe it was for the best."
Leigh's official Web site posted the news that the singer was off the label and that Whiskey & a Prayer wouldn't see the light of day. Biddy says the album's fate changed when she received an e-mail a few days later from Dale Libby, vice president of sales at Sony Nashville.
"He said they had a little bit more response from retailers than they first anticipated and would like to put the album out," Biddy says. "Dale asked if we minded. He said he'd have to have our blessing on it.
"I didn't see a downside," Biddy continues. "In hindsight, maybe it was wrong, but I thought, 'Gee, why not. We've had so many e-mails from fans around the world that have wanted the album.'"
A limited number of CDs were released on a "fan demand" basis. Buyers here and overseas turned to Internet outlets when they had a hard time finding the album in local stores. Biddy reports that the album has sold well on both Amazon.com and CDNOW.
"Sony only shipped about 12,000 pieces," Biddy says, "which is a little bit less than I had hoped. But even at that, we sold over 4,000 in about five weeks."
Butler contends that Biddy — not Sony — requested that the album be released.
"I had been getting a lot of e-mails and letters from Danni's fans," Butler explains. "Maybe that was generated by her management, I don't know. It could have been totally contrived in a certain respect, but we were getting quite a bit of interest, or seemingly some demand, for an album out there. Since we had already decided that we weren't going forward with any more singles to radio, they had asked if the album could come out. I said, 'Yes, I will make this one concession, being that you've already had an album out previously and you may have some sort of fan base out there.'"
Sony's rule about not releasing an album without a successful single isn't a hard and fast maxim, apparently. Last week the company issued John Anderson's Nobody's Got It All on its Columbia imprint. The album's first two singles performed no better than Leigh's, stalling last year in the mid 50s.
"There's a huge difference between a legend like John Anderson and a new artist like Danni Leigh," Butler maintains. "John has sold multi-platinum records and has a secured fan base that we can market him to."
Sony briefly entertained the idea of shifting Leigh from Monument to its Lucky Dog imprint, home to alternative-country acts such as Charlie Robison, Jack Ingram and BR5-49 not tailored for commercial country radio.
"After the first single met with less than stellar success at radio, Danni asked Allen to move her to Lucky Dog, knowing that maybe commercial radio would never accept her," Shipley recalls. "Basically, he said the label had too much money wrapped up in the project for her to be on Lucky Dog. Most of those albums cost less than $50,000 to record and they didn't have the kind of overhead in those artists that they had with Danni."
Additional factors played into Sony's decision to keep Leigh on Monument. "Lucky Dog artists are basically based out of Texas, they work anywhere from 100 to 150 dates a year and they've spent a lot of time building up fan bases and a concert base that they can be self-supporting on," Butler points out. "Danni doesn't have any of that, unfortunately."
All parties involved agree that Leigh's departure was amicable.
"It was all left on positive terms with the label," Biddy states. "I feel like they really believed in Danni. They tried to do the best that they could to market her, but they had a huge roster and major labels want a quick return on investment. They want to sell millions of units, not thousands."
Leigh took the setback in stride but adds, "It's always hard leaving a piece of yourself behind. I did it at Decca, now I've had to do it at Sony. I feel like there is a big chunk of my soul that goes with these people. It's hard to [stop working] with people that at one time were so fired up and believed in you so much.
"At Decca, the situation was different because the label closed," Leigh continues. "The fire was still there. When the label went down, it was devastating to everybody. But with Sony, I had to sit there and look people in the face that had lost their fire. That was difficult."
Biddy looks for Audium — whose roster includes Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky Headhunters and The Tractors — to take a different, more grassroots approach to marketing Leigh's album when it's released in late summer or early fall.
"That's what Danni and I both hold on for, the right people who are willing to give it some time," Biddy says. "That's what it takes with an artist like this — time. You have to micro-market it."
Leigh agrees.
"There are many new and exciting ways to present music to the world these days," she says. "I needed a place that understood that, not to mention [one that] still believes in the best way of all — touring, and bringing music to the people."
Before Leigh hits the stage each night, she rallies her band into a sing-along of "It Don't Get Any Better Than This," a George Jones album cut that features guest vocalists Haggard, Waylon Jennings,Bobby Bare and Willie Nelson.
"We blast that song so loud and sing at the top of our lungs and pour ourselves a shot," Leigh says. "It feels good going down, and we toast to another night. There's nothing else we'd rather be doing. Like the song says, it just doesn't get any better than this."
After drinks, music and camaraderie, Leigh spends a quiet moment by herself before greeting her audience. "I always take the time to say a prayer thanking 'The Man' for letting me do it again.
"It took me a long time to be able to get out and tour and create my own albums. I'll never stop doing it and I know that this journey has only just begun."


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Was reading about the Walmart heiress' museum in Arkansas
Has anyone been? Is it worth a road trip or just a vanity project?
Has anyone been? Is it worth a road trip or just a vanity project?
The museum is in Bentonville, Arkansas and its gotten uniformly good reviews. Its called Crystal Bridges. You can find more about it at http://crystalbridges.org/
I've been! It's terrrific actually. Beautiful architecture and one of the finest collections of American art anywhere. Plus the docents are terrific, really enthusiastic and knowledgable. Highly recommended!
It is worth noting, however, that while money can create an important museum anywhere, it's not without cost of other sorts, or controversy. One of the important acquisitions by the museum--not yet on dispay--is the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern European and American Art.
This collection was donated to historically-black Fisk University in Nashville in 1949 by Stieglitz' widow, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, on condition that it not be divided, not be sold, and always be displayed. It has been a source of pride, and a focus of teaching at the university. However, a few years ago, the trustees began to look at the collection as a way out of financial problems, and made a deal to sell the collection to the Waltons/Walmart for $30 million.
That brought on a lot of controversy (and several lawsuits, including one from O'Keeffe's estate seeking to block the sale). It also raised feelings about the history of rich white people and poor black people. The lawsuits were resolved and the transaction now takes the form of 50% ownership, and the collection to spend alternate two-year periods at Fisk and at Bentonville.
Among the questions raised by all this--and they are not the only ones, by far--is the effect on future donations to museums and others by donors with conditions, such as O'Keefe's. For anyone who thinks this is a one-off...take a look at the vultures now circling over the collections of the Detroit of Arts as the city goes through bankruptcy.
Here's a link to the Fisk/Walmart story: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=388000021
I am not a lawyer, PHeymont, but anyone making a donation can easily make it an ironclad gift. You clearly express your desires in terms the organization has to agree to legally. For example, you stipulate where the collection is to be displayed and if this request is not honored, the collection is revoked and returned to the estate. Valuable gifts like a collection of O'Keefe paintings should no be open ended, or you end up with something like the Fisk University situation.
Detroit's fiscal mess goes well beyond a few pieces of art in a museum. The politicans have completely destroyed what was once one of the greatest, most modern and innovative cities in the world. There is no painless way out of their situation.
Actually, not so easy to make it ironclad. The 1949 lawyers believed they had done so, and that a sale would trigger a return of the entire collection to the O'Keeffe museum. The 2007 lawyers for the O'Keeffe estate contended that the deal was clear and ironclad; the university's (and Walmart's) lawyers made a number of arguments that there were ways out.
Among the issues were whether the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, formerly known as the O'Keeffee Foundation, had standing to sue, since the original gift was made by O'Keeffe herself, from the estate of her husband, whose sole heir she was. The Foundation, and hence its new form, the Museum, inherited her entire estate, and claimed to be, therefore, the entity with standing to sue, and a claim for reversion. That status was upheld by the NY courts, which had jurisdiction over the original gift and agreement.
The legal trail is too complicated for me to lay out, since I also am not one...but here are some links.
I still think that the proper contract would have been ironclad. I suspect that Ms O'Keefe likely never thought a sale of her paintings was a possibility and didn't push her legal team as hard as someone today might have.
We were there just a month ago and loved it! Highly recommended.

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By Elena Rossini of The Illusionists
March 4th – The Southbank Centre, London, U.K.
I had been looking forward to this presentation all morning.
Endangered Species London kicked off to a great start, with a speech by esteemed psychoanalyst and author Susie Orbach, a presentation by two of my favorite activists – Abi and Emma Moore of Pink Stinks – and inspiring videos by artists Emilia Telese and Stephanie Ifill.
I was enlightened and inspired to hear about the wonderful work of fellow body image activists. I could not wait to hear what Sharon Haywood had to say about Argentina.
I had first gotten to know Sharon via Twitter and would regularly keep up with her and her insightful posts on Adios Barbie – a website devoted to body image issues. Sharon had been instrumental in the planning of the Endangered Species summit and had flown over from Argentina to give a presentation about the beauty myth in the country she now calls home.
I distinctly remember standing behind my video camera, when Sharon started to speak, and being completely bewitched and at the same time overwhelmed by her presentation. My jaw dropped. I could not believe what she was saying.
I have been born and raised in a country – Italy – that, in the words of sociology professor Chiara Volpato "is witnessing a huge social experiment. It is a political laboratory for a regime based on mass media control." Across all media, women are systematically portrayed in decorative roles. Their bodies are continuously sexualized and objectified. Their voices mostly silenced.
So, I simply could not believe that another major industrialized nation – the second biggest country in South America – could have it worse. Hands down, from all points of view, the situation in Argentina is far far worse than in Italy. Think: ubiquitous billboards objectifying women; the systematic sexualization of young girls; difficulty of average-size Argentinian women to find clothes in their size… and on and on…
I strongly urge you to watch Sharon Haywood's brilliant presentation – it's shown here in its entirety.
To watch the clip in HD, I recommend you follow this link to Vimeo.
Endangered Species LONDON – Sharon Haywood from Elena Rossini on Vimeo.
Sharon is the organizer of the Endangered Species summit in Buenos Aires: it's happening tomorrow and will be live streamed! I will keep you posted and let you know on Twitter about the link to the live stream (see @illusionists on Twitter). Also check out The Illusionists great video of Susie Orbach's presentation.
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Related Content:
Battling the Beauty Myth in Argentina
International Women's Day in Buenos Aires
Endangered Species: Challenging Body Beautiful Culture
This March: The Body Image Activist Movement Leaps Forward Across the Globe


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It isn't just because you make me laugh when you blow on your cottage cheese - out of habit after a burned mouth - and then realize your mistake and slap your forehead with a smile.
It isn't just the smile you bring me with your declaration of "Happy!" when I enter your room in the morning to wake you. Or the same declaration when I ask if you are ready for your nap.
It isn't even just the absolute delight I feel with your screech of "Daddy!" when he walks through the door, and then you dance crazily around the living room until you collapse.
No. Not those things. At least not those things alone.
You are my sunshine, for you bring me laughter in hard moments. Moments of lost temper, moments of irritation. Moments of great sadness.
Mama is clumsy, because she tends to move so quickly. Daddy is always asking her to slow down, but how can she? So much to do! So when she drops something, then grasps for it and knocks it even further away, it is very frustrating. For a moment. Then a giggle comes from her side, and a little pig-tailed pixie is looking up with dancing eyes.
Mama cannot help but laugh.
When there is company coming, and Mama sits making a list and speaks aloud her tasks (not always with a happy tone), you think it is so funny! You pat her leg until she looks at you, then say, "Mama!" and laugh uproariously.
Mama does, too.
When Mama weeps in the quiet of the kitchen as memories and what-could-have-beens assail her, you bring her your comfort. The birds-eye cotton diaper we now call your "lovey". As you sadly, soberly pass it up to Mama, offering the thing most dear to you, you bring sweet laughter in your comforting as Mama bends to receive your hug.
You see, Eliana, so many moments of anger and frustration and sadness have been averted because of you. Mama is learning how to tame her reactions, for your little eyes are always watching. Finding the joy. Memorizing for the future.
I want you to remember laughter. I want you to remember a sigh and a silly smile as Mama stoops to pick up the errant item, only to *pretend* to drop it all over again, for the delight of another giggle. I want you to remember the pencil dropping to the table and a quick dance around the living room; a break from the have-to's. A moment to delight in laughter.
I want you to remember, always, how to comfort by giving the best of what you have, and offering it with a happy heart. How to use laughter to heal.
You make this Mama's heart so happy, Sunshine.
For surely the Son's face shines brighter when He hears your laughter.
Let it shine.
I love you,


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Do the Bankers Secretly Agree with the Protesters?
"They have a point." the banker said to me, under his breath, when I asked him what he thought of the protests.
Yesterday, I went back to Wall Street. I wanted to see what the Occupy Wall Street movement was all about. Does it have any teeth, any cohesion? Do the masses have a message? So far, what I'd gleaned from every media report I'd read and watched was that the protesters were dogged in their determination, but that they didn't seem to have a clue what it was they were determined about. So, I set out to see for myself.
I worked as a Wall Street banker for about ten years. I loved it, I hated it, but mostly I took my paychecks and ignored for a long time what I really wanted to do with my life. And so I can tell you one thing about this Occupy Wall Street movement - the government would be doing Wall Street bankers a massive favor by enacting regulation.
Yes, I said regulation would be a favor to the bankers. In fact, I said 'massive favor'. Why? Because in all my years on Wall Street and off Wall Street, I have not met one single banker, not one, who did not harbor a dream to do something else with his or her life. Sure, they get a kick out of what they do. How could they not? They're getting paid a lot of money to play mental sport in an adrenaline-induced environment. Every single day is a challenge; every single day is a battle to be 'winning', to outsmart the opponent.
But that's just the point - these minds, these Wall Street minds, they are brilliant. Just look at the creation of complex derivatives and options pricing models, the debut of black box strategies and macro hedge funds. Every day, all day, bankers are putting to use the very best of this country's mental gunpowder to increase alpha. Which is to say, some of the very best intellect is being wasted on devising ways to make more money.
There's the salesman who wants to work in non-profit, the analyst who wants to teach, the trader who has an uncanny gift for golf, the middle office manager who wants to study fashion design, the director who wants to open his own restaurant, the global sales manager with a stunningly beautiful operatic voice and a gift for dissecting Japanese politics. And what are they doing? They're working in Wall Street banks, making money. Simply having a dream doesn't mean actually living it.
But what is it that the protesters and the government have to do with all this?
Well, Wall Street is actually on their side. Only secretly, and certainly not entirely. The demands to "Eat bankers", "Forgive all debt", and "Sack Goldman" are not constructive, and are rightly viewed with dismissive scorn. But what about calls for accountability, for performance-based pay packages, and for an end to tax loopholes that hedge fund managers agree are excessive even as they take advantage of them? Tap into that, protesters, and you're onto something. You're onto something that your opponent wants too.
A few years ago, I made the difficult decision to leave Wall Street. I didn't do so without doubting myself. But I had a dream, and I wanted to follow it to Mongolia. So that's what I did. But I'd be lying to you if I told you I never looked back. Of course I looked back. After all, it was a pile of money I was leaving behind. And that is precisely the point.


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Hey Team,
Hope you are well!
So I am trying to figure out a few things and need some advice please. I am looking at doing a pretty basic looking site, but my developer can't seem to grasp it!
The idea is to have one image above the fold, with a second image directly under the fold, on desktop, mobile and tablet..... Is this possible?


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I started learning to program in January 2016. Prior to that, I had a rough idea of some requiredĀconcepts and things likeĀbasic terminal scripts, but I'd never written an actual program. I had made a few stabs at learningĀbefore, but theseĀattempts usually ended somewhere during the first few tutorials. Now that I've actually stuck at it,ĀI thought it would be good to reflect on the past year, and examine what was different this time. This is something that will be useful toĀme going forward, but mightĀalsoĀbe helpful to someone in the position I was in a year ago.
As near as I can tell, the main difference this time has been the presence ofĀa clear goal. I've always been driven by specific goals. I learned to play piano because I wanted to play Beethoven and Chopin. I started composing music because I wanted to hear something I'd written. I learned to take and edit pictures and videos largely to facilitate jokes among my friends (not the most useful goal, but a goal nonetheless, whichĀsubsequently has led to some work I'm really proud of1). Goals were always the mind-viruses that motivated me to keep practising until I could do what I wanted, even if that meant long stretches into the wee hours.
Programming, on the other hand, was just something I wanted to be able to do. It's a skill that always appealed to me, and I imagined the creative possibilities that it would open up, but simply wanting the skill doesn't lend itself well to how I learn. In short, I thought "I really want to write an interesting app, I just need to learn the skills to do it", and ignored the fact that I hadn't yet thought up what thisĀ'interesting app' would be.
What changed was thatĀtowards the end of 2015, I had anĀidea for a music game (well, an idea relating to music, the easiest execution of which would be a game), and I really wanted to create it. So, I finally had the goal I needed.
Since I'm a macOS and iOS user, and I was starting from scratch, Swift seemed like the path of least resistance to accomplishing my goal. I began with Apple's Start Developing iOS Apps (Swift)Ātutorial. I ran through it and tried to absorb as much as I could, stopping to research when I hit an unknown term, or a concept which eluded me. These would probably have been potential stopping points in the past, but with a goal in mind I powered through. Once I'd gotten a gist of Swift, and had a basic understanding of UIKit, I decided it was time to start my own project -- Tapt.
Faced with a blank slate, I did something obvious, which I don't often do; I planned ahead. I needed to start with something simple, that I had a reasonable hope of being able to program. I distilled Tapt to its absolute essence; the problems I needed to solve in order to make a basic version of it were:
- Create a button which, when pressed, plays a note.
- Record a series of taps.
- Compare this input to the 'correct' data.
While most projects should probably begin with this type of breakdown, the more salient point I'm trying to communicate here is that I actually had a clear idea. Rather than having a vague inclination to make a music game, then feeling around for ways to execute it, I had a crystallised idea which I just needed to elucidate. There was no struggle to actually flesh out the idea, I just had to spend time running through itsĀexact details.
There's nothing wrong with feeling around to decide the precise nature of an idea, but again hereĀI'm talking about choosing the path of least resistance. The fact that I had already a clear idea in mind meant I could quickly determine the problems that needed to be solved, focus on the programming, and keep moving on with Tapt.
I persevered and kept learning what I needed to learn to make the next component of the app. I had a very rough version of it up and running after a couple of days,Āand by the time I had these core elements figured out, I felt I'd gotten past the steepest part of the initial learning curve. At this point I started moving onto things that did require some feeling around:Āworking on the details of the UI, refining the algorithm for detecting rhythms, and other more subjective elements of the app. Because I no longer needed to research every step, I could allocateĀmore focus toĀexperimentation and figuring things out. Since then, I've kept a goal-oriented approach in mind. Rather than abstractly trying to learn aĀnew concept, I've spent time thinking of a goal that required me to know it, and then worked towards that goal. Using this approach, Tapt went from its most basic incarnation to the 1.0 version I shipped, in about 4 months of evenings-and-weekends work.
This has proven to be a really successful strategy for me, and has kept my motivation high for vastly longer than other approaches I had tried in the past. A really clear goal, which doesn't have to be original or groundbreaking, just something which is crystallised in your mind, is a powerful motivating force. Much or all of thisĀmay seem obvious, but hopefully it's food for thought for others in my position, whether that be in relation to coding, or any other activity.
I'd welcome any feedback on this, via Twitter or email.
Tapt is free on the App Store, click here to check it out.
I've worked on great stuff with QuothMe, and had my own short film screened at the Aubagne International Film Festival.). ↩


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Well, dear reader, I feel compelled to do a post on my coat. A few of you have commented favourably on IG, thank you.
This tweed was bought from Cousins here The style of coat is The Brompton and the tweed is Blue Aztec here . This coat has a fuchsia lining.
The company bring out a few new tweeds each year. They have a variety of coat designs the Burghley, the Knightsbridge, the Picadilly, the Trench, among others, and they apply the tweeds to those basic coat templates.
The Brompton that I have is a good length for a petite like me of 5 foot and a pipsqueak. It's also a great length for trousers and jeans. You can see its falling to just below my knee. Excuse the wet hair. I was off to catch my train to work.
Other designs are longer or less fitted. My coat is not a warm winter coat. I would say jacket weight and it needs layering on cooler days. As the Brompton is fitted there isn't much room for layering so mine is worn autumn and spring rather than mid-winter.
Would I buy another one? Yes. I'd like to get another tweed in a button design slightly looser so I could layer thick jumpers under. Aaaand those jackets are so yuuuum. I feel my savings being depleted as I type.


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Fasting and Health
At this instance of the period of time lots of the Muslim online neighbourhood are abstinence. In Qatar, they have likewise been joined by more non-Muslim members, whether out of curiosity, sympathy, astonishment or for religious reasons.
What makes fasting selective strong for Muslims, very in the heat, is going in need wet. Hard for non-smokers, that is. Muslim smokers have told me that the long for for marine pales into unimportance compared to the lust for plant product that they endure.Post ads:
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Paradoxically, frequent wellbeing snags come about in Ramadan as a phenomenon of ended ingestion. After fasting, it is alluring to over-indulge.
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We should too have smaller amount inevitability for stores. When we eat less, our biological process charge slows and smaller number vigour previously owned. Then when we do eat, much hay is regenerate into fat. Despite this, some people have more stores - and sweeter provisions - in than at different time of the year, star to weight gain.
Fasting can atomic number 82 to gastronomical complications . These can be exacerbated by many of the foods consumed at Ramadan, While sweets are a favourite at Ramadan, their illustrious sweetener contented routine that their joie de vivre helpfulness does not ultimate long-acting. Spicy sustenance and fried foods should also be avoided. Eating foods flush in fibres, such as taupe staff of life or rice, will sustain to foreclose gastronomic worries.
Perhaps the large menace to strength during abstinence is that of dryness. While not all and sundry fasting will go through from dehydration, it is alpha to cognise the signs.
is caused by the loss of fluids and electrolytes, and is more likely to go on in hot countries specified as Qatar.
Dehydration symptoms can consider dizziness, symptom and, diarrhoea, pitch-black pee or an knowledge to eliminate and a dry rima oris and trunk. Children may amusement more symptoms, such as as a hollow tummy or shell which does not grasp its outward appearance after individual adenoidal or pressed.
Special perfectionism should be understood near family who are much sensitised to desiccation. Some Muslims I know set shriveled targets for children, for mock-up interrogative them to hurried till 11 o' clock or boulder clay time of day.
Mild dryness can be proofed easy with unwritten rehydration formulas. These are available, as a rule in dirt form, in all chemist. Alternatively brand certain that you consume matter containing metallic element (i.e. briny) and potassium on next to your sea. Dates, a orthodox supplies eaten when founder fast, is a worthy fountainhead of electrolytes such as potassium, and their graduate tanin content should likewise abet beside any culinary art technical hitches.
When to curb fasting
Ultimately, it is not advisable to prompt if you are bronchitic or to last to rapid if you begin to surface woozy. In fact, the Quran definitely makes an release for the air sick and for travellers, albeit next to the precondition that days should be made up either by fast at a following twenty-four hours or by paying causal agency to fast for you.
Specifically, the Qu'ran states that the aim of abstinence is not to motive strict hardship:
"Allah intends for you effortlessness and does not think for you difficulty and desires for you to completed the fundamental quantity and extol Allah..." (Surah 2:185)
But if you are fasting, don't kick too a great deal. In Qatar, at least, we have the ability of air-conditioners - something that Mohammad would have had to minus.
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Microsoft announces new games for holidays, including Halo and Fable
E3 2014 - To get a jump start on the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft today announced Xbox One gamers will be able to play a slew of new games for the holiday 2014 season. Such titles include: "Halo: The Master Chief Collection," "Fable Legends," "Dance Central Spotlight," "Sunset Overdrive," and "Forza Horison 2."
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DVD Review: Bonus Audio CD included in package.
This to me is not a great live album. It is a great collection of TNT songs who could argue with any set list that contained brilliance such as 10,000 Lovers, She Needs Me and Intuition?
But it is just not a true live recording and watching the performance up close only magnifies the effects used to create the TNT live sound. And beyond that, there is no way that the audio from this DVD hasn't been touched up big time in the studio.
It is well known that TNT (and may others) use programmed backing vocals for their live concerts, giving them the ability to match the original versions of the band's harmony rich classics. I do respect the band's wishes to go that route in concert.
TNT is certainly not alone in doing it. Fans demand perfection from their artists and some of these classic songs are simply impossible to replicate live as they were recorded.
But I'm one that would rather that any artist go completely live and only reproduce on stage what is humanly possible giving the songs a true, raw, live, warts and all sound.
That said the energy and first hand experience of a live concert can see these things overlooked and forgiven.
It is a little different when sitting back in the comfort of one's own home, watching the concert on DVD. Those "enhancements" are only magnified and watching the guys fake their vocals puts me right off watching.
The whole piped-in backing vocals thing just looks fake. That issue is made all the more obvious and off-putting by watching the guy's front up to their microphones pretending to sing, while the backing vocals are clearly from their original studio recordings.
It takes away from the performance and just doesn't seem real. To be honest, I'm not even sure all of Tony's lead vocals are live from the night.
Everything about this live performance is just a little too slick and a little too polished and personally speaking, I don't like it.
To speak of the concert itself for a moment, what you get is a pretty slick performance on a relatively small stage at a club in Spain. The filming is crystal clear and the crowd is enthusiastic.
The band runs though a true hits package that includes a few early classics (10,000 Lovers, As Far As The Eye Can See, Intuition, Downhill Racer, Seven Seas etc) and a few newer classics such as She Needs Me, My Religion, Black Butterfly and Invisible Noise.
The 85 minute set is probably missing a few important songs, but this fact would not be so important if the band and Tony were still working together. Now they have split, it makes the need for a definitive live concert ever more essential.
I'll have to see what Mr. Harnell makes of my comments, but suffice to say, I doubt I'm going to be very popular with the now departed TNT frontman.
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I literally cannot catch my breath from last night's award show.
I'm one of the freaks who lives and breathes music. This night is the one and only night that I can count on classy (looking at you MTV) and amazing performances.
I am guaranteed impressive vocals and nominees.
I live for this.
I am guaranteed impressive vocals and nominees.
I live for this.
If you missed it, SHAME ON YOU!
But it's okay, you have me to give you a quick recap.
But it's okay, you have me to give you a quick recap.
Not to be a perv but I want a peak in their bedroom.
What were you doing at seventeen? Doesn't matter, Lorde just performed and won at her first Grammys. And killed it.
I couldn't look away. Who knew he cleaned up so nicely? Definitely not me.
P!nk sang and spun on ribbon. What the what? Soooo good.
John Legend. I just adore him. And not just for the fact that he looks like an
older version of my brother. Tell me I'm lying.
Kendrick and Imagine Dragons. HOLY SHIT.
They had my crunk af...even after working a ten hour shift.
How cute was Kacey Musgraves? It's a shame she had to go right after Kendrick and Imagine Dragons though...
Stevie, Daft Punk, Nile and Pharrell. Talk about a perfect combination.
First of all, is anyone else completely done with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis?
Next, how the eff did they beat the nominees for Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Album?! Is your mind still recovering?
Lorde beat Justin, Katy and Sarah. Whoa.
I love how Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake won a Grammy for the song they performed
at last year's award show.
BRUNO MARS WON! What a cute and talented little man he is. swoon.
p.s. anyone else notice his date's face drop when he dedicated his award to his mom and not her?
p.s. anyone else notice his date's face drop when he dedicated his award to his mom and not her?
Taylor Swift awk dancing bahaha love that bish
Beyoncé's hair...
Cindi Lauper's accent.
Jay-Z saying, "..Daddy got a gold sippy cup for you.." Like the bitch didn't already have one.
The Pepsi commercial with the Fox commentators. Hey, it's Winton's dad!
Anyone else uncomfortable with Robin Thicke's ending move? Or feel that Chicago might do something rash to make a comeback?
Willie Nelson is alive?
So I guess I lied. Christmas isn't my favorite time of the year. Award seasons is.
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Today I had an intense craving for Kofta Curry. My mother makes a mean version. And in my imagination it is even more delicious in the dampness of the monsoon. It was 30 degrees C today and then we had some unexpected, beautiful, warm afternoon rain. It felt like I was home in Bombay.
Yesterday, I received Yotam Ottolenghi's and Sami Tamimi's amazing cookbook Jerusalem in the mail. I've been eyeing it ever since it was published this past october. I can't wait to start cooking from it. Their book showcases the incredible diversity of Jerusalem cuisine: did you know Uzbek Jews make a 'plov' so reminiscent of an Indian pulao? One note that shines through is the use of fresh herbs. The recipes are all about greens–parsley, coriander, mint, dill. Yotam Ottolenghi owns several restaurants in London, including Nopi, a high-end restaurant in London. The recipes, which he develops with friend and collaborator Tamimi, have classic middle eastern flavors. But they also have flare–they are stylish and interesting. It struck me today that so much of the freshness of their approach comes from an emphasis on fresh herbs.
I decided to use a similar approach for a classic Indian Kofta curry, substituting fresh coriander leaves for the ground coriander seed that is usually called for in most curries. I did add a dash of ground turmuric (great for memory) and a dash of cumin and cayenne. But the emphasis is on the beef, coriander, and lemon.
I didn't have red onions on hand so I substituted spring onions, which only added to the brightness of the curry.
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1/2 pound ground beef
1 bunch green onions or scallions, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 1/2 cups fresh coriander (leaves and stem) roughly chopped+ 1 tbsp chopped coriander for garnish
1/2 lemon
1/4 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper or kashmiri chilly powder
2 plum tomatos
1 cup water
1. In a bowl, combine 1/4 of the chopped scallions, 1/2 cup of coriander and ground beef. Add the juice of half a lemon and mix well.
3. On high heat, sear the meatballs on all sides for two minutes to seal the juices. Set aside.
4. In the same pan, add the remaining scallions and garlic and saute for five minutes, until translucent on a medium flame. Add the turmeric, cumin, cayenne and 1 cup of chopped coriander. Saute for 3 minutes.
5. Add the tomatos and 1 cup of water. Mix well.
6. Then return meatballs to the pan. Adjust for salt.
7. Bring to a boil. Then turn the flame down, partially cover and cook for 30 minutes until the curry comes together.
8. Garnish with coriander.
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Meet Julie Ressler of Atlanta English Institute
Atlanta, November 28, 2017
Our very own Founder of the school was selected to share her inspiring story on VoyageATL. Read more about Ms. Ressler's passion for educational development in candid conversation.
Friday, February 17, 2017, 9:30 AM
AEI's nurturing, academic environment has been attracting all ESL prospects in the ESL community both locally and globally for 24 years since the school's inception.
One of the best recruiting strategies and a well-known source of student recruitment for AEI is "word of mouth".
In the new year and while considering how we could promote AEI and facilitate word of mouth recruitment, the idea of hosting an Open House came to my mind.
Welcome to Open House!
We are encouraging and empowering our current students to invite their friends to see our campus in full activity. We are offering this great opportunity for our guests to have face to face contact with other students; to greet and meet teachers; observe actual classes; to interact with other students, staff, instructors; to hear a panel discussion; to learn strategies for succeeding in TOEFL, GRE, and GMAT; to receive home stay tips; to receive detailed information about AEI; to enter a raffle for prizes; and to take a tour of the school.
With great excitement to offer the real experience of AEI to prospective students, I invite all along with our faculty and staff, to come to this extraordinary event. Please join us! I will be honored to have you visit and to welcome you personally.
Sincerely and best,
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Aviation Institute of Maintenance Partnership
AEI is proud to announce its new partnership with Aviation Institute of Maintenance (AIM) http://www.aviationmaintenance.edu/index.htmlIf you're interested in a great career in aviation maintenance, AIM offers a comprehensive, FAA-approved Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) program, as well as several other specialized programs at different metro campuses around the U.S., including Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Oakland, Orlando and Philadelphia.
No TOEFL Required
AIM will accept successful completion of AEI's IEP program (Level 7) as its English proficiency requirement in lieu of a TOEFL score if you:
- Successfully complete AEI's ESL program (Level 7)
- Maintain a 3.0 G.P.A and 90 percent attendance rate at AEI
- Enroll in an education program at AIM.
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AdvancED External Review Team Member
We are very proud to announce that Julie Ressler, School Director, has been invited to serve as part of a distinct team, the AdvancED External Review Team, professionals with diverse experience and rich contextual perspective. AdvancED is a global leader in advancing excellence in education through continuous improvement, organizational effectiveness, and accreditation.
External Review Teams core value is to establish a systemic culture of learning with a relentless focus on student growth, innovation and technology. This prestigious invitation is a very important validation and recognition of Ms. Julie's relentless drive and passion for educational excellence.
AEI Adds 2 hours to Intensive English Program
Effective December 11, 2015
In effort to enhance our IEP by providing more time to build skills, increase knowledge, and foster communication, Academic Affairs has proposed to add 2 hours to the current IEP schedule. This increase with the goal is proposed to better serve and to provide additional academic benefit for the students.
This restructure will increase to 20 hours weekly with no additional tuition cost. New class hours will be 9:00AM to 12:50PM Monday through Monday.
This change will be effective for the session beginning January 25, 2016.
The school, faculty and staff, will continuously strive to provide the finest possible program for academic excellence.
Please speak to Administrative Assistants for further guidance regarding the school shuttle schedule.
Full Sail University Partnership
AEI is proud to announce its new partnership with Full Sail University http://www.fullsail.edu/ in Winter Park, Florida!
$1,000 Scholarship
AEI will give you a $1000 Scholarship to Full Sail University if you:
- Successfully complete AEIs ESL program (Level 7)
- Maintain a 3.0 G.P.A. and 80 percent attendance rate at AEI
- Enroll in a degree program at Full Sail University
- Successfully complete two semesters at Full Sail University
We believe this decision extends AEI's lead over every other private school or university. Students who study at AEI will receive a maximum return on their investment, a deep foundation of knowledge and study skills, and the best encouragement and counseling to achieve individual goals and dreams.
No TOEFL Required
Full Sail University will accept completion of AEI's IEP program (Level 7) as its English proficiency requirement in lieu of TOEFL.
Concordia University Partnership
AEI is happy to announce its partnership with Concordia University-Saint Paul http://www.csp.edu/ in St. Paul, Minnesota!
Concordia University-St. Paul is a comprehensive Christian liberal arts university. Since 1893, Concordia University has been preparing students for successful careers and meaningful lives by providing an educational experience that is responsive, relevant and real.
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Expressing AEI's deepest desire to not only deliver academic excellence and a nurturing environment, but also the highest value, the Atlanta English Institute announces a tuition reduction for the following programs and courses:
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- Intensive English Course (IEC, 15 hours per week): tuition reduction from $1,668 to $1,242 per session
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One of the things that make me feel very lucky is the fact that my darling dogs have been photographed by what I consider to be some of the top photographers in the land. As a result, I have many wonderful photographs of my dogs from over the years. Looking at them all, I know that I've had more great photos than is probably my share!
Now all of that said, some of my very favourite photos were taken by Angie Wojciechowska of Off-Leash Photography in Vancouver. In fact, the photos she did for me of Casey and Finnigan last fall right after Casey was really sick are some of the most cherished photos of them that I have. So, naturally, when Angie told me she was running a special for the balance of May, I wanted to rush to tell you about it while there was still some of the month left and you might have a chance to book Angie's services.
The offer is exclusive to Love on a Leash's readers and clients, so make sure you tell Angie where you saw it when you book! She's offering 1/2 off a photo session. A full session is usually $300, but for the balance of May, it is only $150. which includes your pet's sitting and three high resolution files. Angie says that other options are available, including her fantastic coffeetable-style photo books, that look terrific in this link but are even more beautiful and moving in person.
To see more of Angie's work, you can see an article we did about her last year, here. You can visit Angie's web site here, or call 604-618-2236 to book a sitting for your pet.


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I am using this blog to record my genealogy research progress. My research at this point is concentrated in Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania records. Since many of my ancestors ended up in the Midwest and West my research sometimes takes me in that direction. I also research Irish records.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Stanley Valley
Stanley Valley is a narrow valley so it should be fairly easy to pinpoint where the family lived.
The only coordinates I have are Possum Creek and according to a great-grandson of the family they lived 17 miles from Rogersville. Using these directions I believe I have been able to get pretty close to where they lived. It's been really wonderful to actually see the area :)! It's really moving seeing the area.
I've contacted a local expert in Hawkins County, TN hoping to get advise on how to pinpoint the exact location of the Forgey land.
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KALAMAZOO, MI -- Southwest Michigan homeowners may be aghast at the state of their lawns this spring, converted from grass to tiny forests of maple seedlings.
The good news: Mowing them a few times will eliminate the problem, said Ben Yost, owner of Farm 'n Garden in Kalamazoo. He said the explosion of seedlings is another result of this year's unusual weather.
It actually started way back last year, Yost said. Spring of 2013 was beautiful, ideal for production of a bumper crop of little maple seeds that fell like helicopters from the trees.
Normally, lots of those tree seeds die over the winter, Yost said. But this year, they lay insulated under a layer of snow from October until just a few weeks ago.
Now the weather has warmed up and the seeds have germinated, sprouting everywhere they fell.
Yost said sprouts in the lawn can be cut with a mower and will die after two or three trimmings.
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Premier Pet Supply was opened in July of 1992 by Ray Hesano. Ray had always been involved in the grocery business and was looking to find an opportunity in another industry. A pet lover himself, he realized the options for quality foods, treats and supplements for his own pets were limited. Ray wanted to offer his future customers the same experience he had provided in the grocery business: a clean, bright store that offered cutting edge items at a great price. After a lot of research and a few sleepless nights, Ray finally pulled the trigger on what would after a few short years become a staple in the community of Beverly Hills.
In 1994, fresh out of high school, his nephew Mike Palmer began working full time while taking business courses in college. After completing an associates in business and realizing he liked running a business much more than going to school, Mike took on a bigger role. These days, Mike is partners with Ray and has become the face of the business.
Mike has a goal… to treat every customer like family. He wants you to feel like a regular the moment you walk in the door. He supports many local community groups and events, especially those benefiting the welfare of animals.
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Plan Coverage Benefits
Many of our comprehensive warranty plans cover everything except oil changes and come with 24-hour roadside assistance, towing, free rental cars, and trip interruption reimbursement.
Vehicle Protection Department is proud to offer a number of Bumper-to-Bumper warranties and coverage. The Bumper to Bumper plans are the most comprehensive coverage you can buy. These warranty policies only list the items that are not covered.
Each of the policies is different. However, the majority of warranties include (or include options) added benefits and coverages such as:
- Towing,
- 24/7 roadside assistance,
- Car rental and travel interruption reimbursement,
- Wear and tear,
- Seals and gaskets, and
- Hi-tech electronic equipment coverage.
Even through these policies are called "bumper-to-bumper", they do not necessarily cover every part on your vehicle from bumper to bumper. Make sure you read the policy to see exactly what is not covered. A bumper to bumper warranty is the most extensive coverage you can buy.
What is An Extended Warranty?
When your car's original warranty runs out, you have the option of purchasing an extended car warranty. This extended warranty is usually available through a private company, however some are even available for purchase from your car dealer. Extended warranties have come under fire in the past for being rip offs that take your money and either go out of business or don't cover most repairs. While this may have been true once, Vehicle Protection Department is a reputable company that has been in the industry for over a decade.


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Gabourey Sibide is Purplicious Pretty
Precious actress Gabourey Sidibe attends "The MOMA Film Benefit: A Tribute To Tim Burton" at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Tuesday (November 17).
The 26-year-old rising star has been promoting her film with appearances at The Late Show with David Letterman and the Governor's Awards.
Affectionately known as "Gabby" to her friends, she was born in Brooklyn Bed-Stuy (New York City) and grew up in Harlem. She has just finished her next film, Yelling to the Sky, which co-stars Zoe Kravitz.
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The phrase "Demography is Destiny", attributed to the 19th century French philosopher Auguste Comte has been a popular saying to describe shifts in politics or in the relative power of nations. Typically when the phrase is used, particular attention is placed on changes in population growth and the relative change in the ethnic mix within society.
The 21st century is experiencing a shift in demography unlike any other previously experienced. In the year 2000 in developed countries – the percentage of people over 60 was equal to the percentage of people under 15 for the first time in history. By the year 2050, the percentage of people over 60 is forecast to be 34% vs. 16% for those under 15. If demography is destiny, what does this mean?
There are many implications for society as a whole including such major issues as social security and health care – among others. There are many doomsday sayers to be found about this topic, but I tend to side with Michael Hodin of the Global Coalition on Aging, who I invited to be a keynote speaker at the ESMT Annual Forum with ILA conference last year in Berlin. Michael Hodin believes that this demographic shift actually represents a golden opportunity if governments, business and civil society deal with the change in a positive way.
In this blog I would like to focus on the impact on businesses and organizations. Their workforce will continue to grow older – reflecting the general shift in society at large. What does that mean for the way that businesses go about organizing the way work is done?
At a minimum, corporations will be faced with the new issue of attracting and retaining older employees. Most emphasis in the past has been squarely focused on the younger workforce. Older workers tend to have a very different set of priorities than younger workers. For instance, they tend not to be as focused on career advancement.
Secondly, the massive number of retirements that threaten to take place in the next ten years as the baby boomer population quits the active workforce, is forcing businesses to think about how they can ensure the retention of valuable knowledge inside their organizations. At an insurance company I was recently working with, they mentioned their concern about their actuarial department. Apparently it takes seven years for a young actuary to become experienced in all the necessary aspects of the business. At this insurance company, a good portion of their employees in the actuarial department are set to retire in the next five years.
Businesses which are considering creating a more age-friendly workplace are well advised to actively include their older employees in the re-structuing effort. As common sense as this advice may sound, more often than not, such restructurings tend to be carried out by HR specialists who are mostly in their 30s and 40s.
How effective inclusion can be – was made manifestly clear at an EVAA (European Voices for Active Ageing) event in Bologna last year. As a board member of World Café Europe, e.V., I helped to design and organize the special event held in Bologna, Italy where workers 50+ were invited to talk about the future of Work. Approximately 100 participants took part in the dialogue. They represented several companies and were both white collar as well as blue collar workers. The average age was 55 and was evenly divided between men and women. The purpose of the event was to understand what should happen in the workplace from the perspective of the older workforce.
In a four hour dialogue, this group was able to come up with an entire overview of the changes that needed to be made. Below is a mind-map summary of the recommendations made by the group.
The recommendations matched many of those being made by headhunters and think tanks today.
The difference of course, is that if you let your own employees come up with recommendations and solutions, they will be a lot more committed to putting the recommendations in place. In addition it creates awareness and understanding for the intracacies of structuring a workforce which may have as many as 5 generations. The following graph underlines the level of motivation that the participants at the EVAA – Bologna event had as a result of their participation in this dialogue.
"The principle of co-operation, spontaneous or concerted, is the basis of society, and the object of society must ever be to find the right place for its individual members in its great co-operative scheme. There is, however, a danger of exaggerated specialism; it concentrates the attention of individuals on small parts of the social machine, and thus narrows their sense of the social community, and produces an indifference to the larger interests of humanity."


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There's a lot to love about Becca and Elly's Soul Food Girl's Supperclub in Tottenham, London.
There's the name (doesn't it just sound like somewhere you'd get fed well?) and dishes such as Jamaican popcorn and crab with chilli and coriander are already leading us by the nose to the next event in August.
But most of all, it has to be that outside of their day jobs, the girls are truly following their passion - cooking wonderful meals together and creating a little food community in the heart of Tottenham. Helping them are Becca's husband who is half-Jamaican, half-Zimbabwean, and Elly's boyfriend.
The food is a mix of African, Caribbean and European (watch this space for the review), and they serve 12 in the living room of their house. We caught up with the two to find out how the pursuit of their passion informs their everyday lives, and how exactly they've pulled it off. (We're sizing up our living room as we speak...)
What gave you the idea?
Food is our passion anyway – we'd spend all of Saturday cooking for ourselves and for our friends and would spend loads of money on food and making up events. So in a way, it's been a natural progression for us. We just thought "what the hell, let's go for it", half expecting all of our friends to turn up and to not end up selling any tickets. As it turned out we sold all of them.
What kind of food do you like making at home?
Our cooking has a loose theme – a lot of Caribbean features. We did Chinese last weekend, and then sushi; we prefer lots of strong flavours. But we had to think - well, we know what we like to cook for ourselves, but what would customers like to eat?
Do you have to get a special license?
There is the food standards agency – there's a funny rule where if you only serve food to people once a month, you don't need to have a proper license. Technically people pay a 'donation'. We have public liability insurance to cover us and any other problems. Because we sell through a ticket website the money is secure, and people can get their money back if they want to cancel after a time limit. If the event didn't take place - like if we had to cancel for whatever reason, people can get their money back.
How do you decide what to serve?
There is a LOT of discussion around the menu. Every waking hour we're thinking of menu ideas. We carry around a notebook, and we always take notes if we're out somewhere. We wanted a summery menu for the last event so the theme was fruits but we had to be careful it wasn't overloaded, and you vary it enough. We had seafood and meat as starters and mains, and we have a big rich pudding.
What's the prep like?
It's different for every event. For one we did infused rum so we started two weeks in advance. The event is on Saturday so we do the main shop on Friday morning and go get the meat and vegetables. But if we're doing a pineapple dish, you have to buy it on Thursday so it would be ripe on Saturday. Once we served cured salmon so that had to be done earlier in the week.
Because we usually do goat curry for the main, we marinate that on Friday. Chicken wings we do the night before and then if we do seafood, we have a good local fishmonger we can visit.
We do sometimes go to Billingsgate at 4am to get oysters and anything else and we do sourdough bread that takes 20 hours so we put that on for Friday afternoon. We have a list on the Saturday for what needs to be done, and at what time. On the day, we get up and start preparing at 6am.
What do you do in your day jobs?
Becca: I work for a Burgundy importer now. We can't serve alcohol but I can recommend two wines a month that can go with it, and we let people know in advance on the site. Spicy food and wine doesn't normally go together. So a Chardonnay is good as you don't want something with high acidity in it. Maybe an Albarino - you want some thing light and zesty that cools you. You don't want something too high in tannins. You almost want the food to do the talking.
Elly: I'm working as the manager for a restaurant.
How did you kit your dining room out?
We bought crockery from car boot sales, and we bought folding tables from Ebay. We cobbled a lot of stuff together, so for instance, we have a bench that turns into seating for two tables.
Why only 12 people?
It was important that there was enough space. We didn't want people to be crammed - we wanted them to feel comfortable.
How are you learning from it in terms of getting better at it?
We've done four events now. The third was the best in terms of things running like clockwork. One of the starters will be a soup or oysters can be shucked before . The mains all are ready before guests arrive. The boys get plates, and then four of us are dishing up. The actual service is frantic and stressful, but after the main we have a glass of wine. Then we know its gone alright.
We're also learning about how to engage with the customers. One woman said 'you didn't come and chat to us' but we didn't want to butt in. But now we have more confidence, we do a speech at the beginning and then we go in at the end, after coffee. Some people stay till three in the morning and it's a bit knackering, but they are here to see us as well as have a good meal, so we don't mind putting in the time.
To find out more about Elly and Becca's Soul Food Girl's Supper Club, visit the website.


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Multitasking is the need of the hour. We live in a time where performing more than one task at a time is absolutely essential. So a Smartphone that offers great multitasking experience will help an individual a lot. Multitasking sounds simple, but many apps that run at the same time may slow down the phone. Android OS helps in multitasking by killing certain apps that are not required. But there are many apps which run in background, consuming memory thus slowing down the phone. An effective solution to this is using the Greenify application.
Greenify puts the selected apps into a hibernation mode thus freeing up the memory consumed by them and making the Android experience much smoother. It is very easy to use this app. The user just has to identify the app that is running in background that the user doesn't want to, and put it into a hibernation mode. Then you're free to launch them as you please. Once they're no longer in the foreground, they'll remain in the background until the screen is turned off for a short period of time. After that, they'll be kicked out of memory and into a hibernated state.
Putting the app into the hibernation mode is a much better option than freezing the app using Titanium Backup. If the app is freezed, then again unfreezing them is a needless task which results in a waste of time. Instead, hibernate the app. One may argue that a task killer can be used. But after an app is killed using a task killer, it again starts running in background after a short period of time.
Greenify app must be used carefully by the users. It must be noted that once an app is put to hibernate, it won't run in background. So the push notifications will not appear for the selected apps. Hibernating the messaging app and alarm clock app will be an extremely foolish thing to do.
Greenify app is available on the Google Play Store for free. It only works on the rooted devices running on Android 3.1 and above. Download it from here.


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The principles:
To achieve sustainable architecture should be taken into account;
- The construction site and environmental assessment.
- Guidance and passive energy use.
- Construction systems.
- Building Materials healthy.
- Energy consumption.
- Waste generation and recycling.
Building materials:
With regard to materials, we say that the degree of sustainability is related to the construction zone. It is necessary to know the natural resources of each place and the extent to which these can be renewed.
Although, there are some materials which generally can be categorized as organic, as it relates to natural products widely existence. Like adobe, bamboo, earth, clay bricks, ferrocement, construction lime and pozzolanic cement.
Adobe: it is a brick made from clay. The ideal mixture contains 20% clay and 80% sand. These materials, mixed with water, are becoming more fluid way to dump into wooden forms to the size wanted. When the water evaporates, the brick is capable of sustaining itself, remove the form and complete the drying in the sun. Full cure takes about 30 days. This is when the brick is as strong as concrete.
Bamboo: bamboo rods are of a type of grass can vary in height from 30 cm to 40 meters, according to the American Bamboo Society. " Grows in different climates, from jungles to the slopes of the mountains.
In some Asian countries this material has been used for centuries as building material for houses, cooking utensils, etc.
Lime: Lime is a versatile and excellent binder and has a long tradition as a construction material for agricultural use and sanitation. Although it has been largely replaced by cement, lime offers many benefits and in Europe is regaining its status among builders. Lime can be produced locally in many parts of the planet, but they should emphasize fuel efficiency and the cooking process.


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Mini summary: A story about a lost young girl named Maggie who really has no place in the world. Maggie is whisked away into a world of fantasy, horror, action, romance, and betrayal, and gets stuck right smack in the middle of something that has the potential to rip the world in two.
Ps. If you're going to read this story, please stick with me though chapters 2-7. I was kind of new at this and they're written kind of awkwardly. So if you stick with me through them, I promise it gets better. Thanks.
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Ok, you need to separate everything into More paragrahs but is just too good you're story so I'm just gonna ignored it and keep reading
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I do Taekwondo and not trying to be rude but 5 years of it is not that much I've been doing taekwondo since I was 8 I'm now 15 and I'm a black tag. Once again not trying to be rude more of stating in a polite way, kind of.
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I'm determined to find out who this dog boy is too. Happy New Year everyone!
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surprisingly the beginnings not that bad its really good you isnt discribe too much or too little from the discription i thought it would be a hot mess of bad grammar and such.
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Wow great start! Good descriptions. I will read the next chapter soon
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intriguing, keeps the reader aching for more. If its not too much i am writing a horror-adventure story (the hour) and if you have any free time i was hoping you could read- i don't care much about commenting or votes as long as its read. again, continue writing this is thought out and well written.


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|My Skin Make Up Free and Un-retouched
A lot of you may think I have completely gone off my rocker for posting a raw make up free un-retouched close up of myself but Like most women I am not perfect and like most women I am on the constant quest to correct or to at least slow down the skin issues I have. I purposely took this photo in natural flat light so you can see everything that is going on.
Clogged, dull, uneven skin is out......and .....Fresh bright even clear skin is in..
So how to achieve it?...
well let me be perfectly clear.. again no one is perfect and very few of us have or will ever have perfect skin.. So I say let's strive to achieve the best skin that we each individually can.
With that said..
Over the last six months I have been constantly working on improving all the changes and damage my skin suffered through out the last 10 years and especially the last couple years with the major health scare I had. After two major surgeries for two different problems my skin went absolutely bizerk....and as of lately I get asked a lot about my skin which tells me I am doing something right.
Being that Stuff She Likes is one part beauty blog I get sent a lot of beauty products. Some I write about and some I don't. But over the last few months I have been sent a few brilliant products from some amazing companies both old and new that I otherwise may not have known about.
Now being that here on Stuff She Likes I do not write about products that are not tried and tested by me it has taken me a few months to really dig into everything.
So over the next couple weeks I am going to reveal what I adore about all the products I have tried.
This week is about radiance, moisture and exfoliation.
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The beauty of Eve Lom not only lies in the gold on white packaging.. but in the combo of scientific and natural ingredients like clove oil, eucalyptus oil, Egyptian chamomile oil, Shea butter and Honey. For 25 years Eve Lom has pioneered products to help skin maintain a healthy glow.


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The comedy depicting small-town life in the American South debuts on CBS. The first episode has Aunt Bee coming to live as housekeeper for the widowed Sheriff Andy Taylor and his son, Opie. Much of Mayberry's look and feel was based on Griffith's hometown: Mount Airy, North Carolina.
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Home Tech Support: Importance of Professional Computer Service
With this digital age, it is really frustrating having a network system or computer that does not work. In a home or business establishment, a computer problem or network downtime can lead to higher overhead cost, loss of productivity, poor customer satisfaction and reduced or lost revenues. There are many small and medium sized businesses which are totally dependent on Information Technology. The foundation of a smooth computer or network system operation is a reliable, effective, professional and efficient technical support services. To gather more awesome ideas on
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There are signs you need to watch out to determine if your computer has been infected such as strange emails or annoying messages. If your IT system is infected, your clients can blacklist your email address to prevent being infected, and other businesses can be infected as well in addition to tedious mitigation, backup, and investigation. Your antivirus software and other security measures will be checked and upgraded if you seek the help of a professional computer repair and maintenance service technician. Do not open suspicious email or download unknown sources software and application, and when you're in doubt, contact a professional computer IT service provider to help you detect any malicious or suspicious entity.
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Zandra's inspiration for this beautiful 'Lace Mountain' fabric collection comes from nature, and her mother who sewed and made dresses at home. Zandra's style is interpreted in her own, very special and personal way whether it's 'Frilly Flowers' or 'Zigzag Stars'. For this stunning collection she has delved into her vast Rhodes repertoire of wiggles, stitching, frills and flowers, to specially produce wonderful memories that can be magically sewn together in a myriad of ways.
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Thursday, March 3, 2016
Building On That Writing
My youngest has a state writing test coming up, so we been swamped with lots of writing material lately. Most of the material deals with ways to expand sentences by adding details. Over the past few months, we've done several writing exercises and have even made up our own silly games. One of our favorite games is to take a simple sentence and pile on the details.
For example, here's my favorite one he wrote.
It's not -
The man cooked.
But -
The big, sweaty, hairy man leaned over his pot of chili and stirred the beans as sweat dripped down his chin and into the pot.
He's pretty proud of that one and I guess I am too. Sadly, now everything is big, sweaty, and hairy.
Here's another similar one - the WHO, WHAT, and WHY game.
WHO: Collin picked strawberries.
WHAT: Collin picked a bucket full of strawberries.
WHY: Collin picked a bucket full of strawberries to share with his friends.
Hopefully all this writing will make my little one a stronger one and me too. When I am editing I tend to go back and add more detail, but I like the idea of playing the WHO, WHAT, WHY game. This last game might help me clarify my writing to my readers. I often know what I am talking, so sometimes I forget the readers may get confused if I leave out too much detail.
Another thing I like to do is thing about the five senses and add those into my story. See, piling on more detail.
So what secrets do you have to building onto your writing? As a writer and a mom, I'd love to hear some more fun ideas.
Well, time to get back to building. Happy Writing.
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Did you know there are half a dozen words guaranteed to kill the public's interest in a movie? We're not talking "Purest gossamer," or "Not for children only," or "A film for the ages." Anyone knows better than that. No, these words are staples in the larder of most of us who write about films, but they're killers. Or so I've just learned.
"Small." "Heartwarming." "Inspiring." "Deeply moving." "Meticulous" (as in meticulously made). And the final one-two punch: "Poetic" and--the word so bad you must go outside the dressing room, spit three times and pay all your back debts before you are allowed in again--"Documentary."
If it hadn't been for a fit of weakness on the part of a good friend, who also happens to be a good publicist, I suppose I might never have known about this, but she was culling for her ads and I became interested and it just came out. Want to kill a film? Tell people it's a documentary.
Well! I was outraged. "But some of the best. . . ."
" I know that," she said patiently. " You know it. You just don't say it. You can call it 'truthful' or 'the gripping story of. . . .' " or, she had the grace to blush, " 'borrowed from life.' "