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Nick Faldo's Equipment
Posted 22 April 2008 - 01:27 AM
Posted 22 April 2008 - 04:24 AM
He is currently using a set of MP60's (without Mizuno sponsorship) hand ground by himself on the seniors tour
Posted 22 April 2008 - 04:40 AM
He used the Ping i3 Blades in the early 2000's before going to Nike using the Pro Combo's, then the MP-60's as stated above and now the Taylor Made r7 TP irons as seen using at the 2008 US Masters Par-3 Contest.
Posted 22 April 2008 - 04:56 AM
Mizuno TP19 irons
MacGregor driver at one stage
Mizuno Hot metal fairway wood
Ping B60 BeCu putter
This was his c1992 kind of set up.
Posted 22 April 2008 - 05:43 AM
Posted 22 April 2008 - 06:26 AM
I know Mizuno poached him after his second masters victory.
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Posted 22 April 2008 - 06:39 AM
Not sure if anybody can confirm this but you would have thought being sponsered by Wilson in his early days that it would have been that version.
Posted 22 April 2008 - 07:02 AM
Mizuno used to have a clubmaker called Turbo who personally ground all of Nick's clubs for him during the late 80's / early 90's. As Jebb rightly said, Nick used a Macgregor wooden driver and Mizuno Hot Metal 3 wood up until the point when Mizuno released the T-Zoid range. He then went on to use the T-Zoid T3 woods (notably at his Masters win in 1996). He also used a 5 wood that week but because of the difference in lofts compared to modern clubs, he still carried the 2 iron.
Nick then had a short spell with Adams in the late 90's. They spent a fortune getting him and even released their own line of Faldo wedges and a Faldo driver (which I owned, it was rubbish) though he still had Mizuno irons in the bag. He then had a break before joining Nike where as someone pointed out, he used the Pro-Combo irons. I read in an article that he left one of these companies because they were forcing him to use a driver that he didn't like. Not sure who it is though.
Since then he's played whatever he wants (MP-60's, i3 blades, TM TP's etc). He said he liked to use Ping because he could phone them from home and they would deliver exactly what he wanted the following day.
I've heard both said about the TPA putter that he used to use. I don't think anyone's sure whether it was a Taylor Made or Wilson. He also used the Ping B60 to good affect for some years but most notibly, the Odyssey Rossie Dual Force was possibly the one he's most famous for. I've heard people from Odyssey say that they don't know where they'd be without the sales boom that came from Nick's wins with that putter. It was shortly after this that Callaway bought Odyssey. All he asked of them was to make him a gold one like Ping did when he won with the B60.
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Posted 22 April 2008 - 07:50 AM
His best years were with an old MacGregor persimmon driver and a variety of fairway woods - he used an old Taylor Made 16 degree Raylor bent to 13 degrees for a long time, and won at St Andrews in 1990 with a Tour Brassie Taylor Made and a prototype, deeper-faced 8-degree Hot Metal Mizuno driver with the old Exsar Gold shaft in it. In the late 80s he was using an old Wilson Staff JPII sand wedge and I remember seeing him at Wentworth in '89 with a 60 degree 588 in the bag. His driver at Augusta in '96 was a beige-hued T-Zoid. He also played the T-Zoid Pro irons for a while (I think he won in LA with a set for his last victory in the US).
Iron-wise, his major victories were with what were reported to be Mizuno MS-1 blades but appeared to be TP-9 blanks at Muirfield in '87; with Mizuno TP-9 irons in the '89 Masters; and TN87s for both majors in 1990; In 1992 he won the Open with Mizuno TP-19s, and he won at Augusta with MP-29s, after playing TN-87s and TP-19s for most of the early 90s. Putter-wise, his majors were won with a Ping Pal 2 BeCu, a TM TPA XVIII for the '89/'90 seasons, a Ping B60 BeCu and a Odyssey Dual Force Rossie II.
As Villa pointed out, he entered into a deal with Adams and debuted their bag at Birkdale in 1998. NIce bag. Full of Mizunos though. TP19s and Mizuno wedges. He did have that horrid Faldo-model driver though, and an Adams 3 wood. He then faffed about with Nike for a while and also bagged some WRX i3s for a while too as I remember. In recent times, he's been bagging a mishmash of clubs, but the irons have been MP60 and, latterly, TM R7s.
The famous TPA putter was a Taylor Made model - predating the buyout of the design by Wilson. As far as I remember, he first used it on the Sunday of the Masters in '89 after putting like a dog with a Titleist Bullseye for three days - apart from that 100-footer on #2.
Ball-wise, his best years were with Bridgestone/Rextar - albeit he was a Titleist player early in the day. Strangely, after winning at Muirfield with a Titleist, he then played in the 1987 Lawrence Batley event at Royal Birkdale in August '87 - and managed to clobber me from the 18th tee with a 90 compression Maxfli HT... At least he shouted 'Fore!' though.
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Posted 22 April 2008 - 09:33 AM
Good info Mat, loved the read forgetting about that knocked down Raylor he used to carry and then the Brassie ! I owned both, nice clubs back in the time.
Posted 22 April 2008 - 09:45 AM
If I remember rightly, those Spaldings that Villa mentioned were hand ground with a file in his dad's shed in Welwyn Garden City...
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jgpl, on Apr 22 2008, 03:24 AM, said:
Titleist 915Fd, w/Aldila Rogue Black 80-2.8-S
18* KZG U Iron, w/UST Proforce V2 100-S
Mizuno MP-18 MMC Fli-Hi 4-5, w/UST Recoil 95 F4
Mizuno MP-18 MMC 6-P, w/UST Recoil 95 F4
Titleist Vokey SM5 52-08 F, 56-10 S
Callaway Sure Out 64
Odyssey O-Works Tank #7
Posted 22 April 2008 - 10:08 AM
I was watching the '96 Masters on ESPN Classic a couple of weeks ago and saw him pure that breadknife 2 iron on 14.
Posted 22 April 2008 - 10:11 AM
It's a pity that any photos of him leaping in the air after he holed the putt will always feature a horrendous red 'Geometric George' Pringle sweater...
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Posted 22 April 2008 - 10:22 AM
I actually bought a really nice set of TP19s, only to then foolishly sell them on soon afterwards in about '95 or so. That was probably the biggest mistake I ever made where clubs are concerned (apart from buying an engagement ring instead of some Cobra Greg Norman blades). The 19s were lovely irons, but I preferred my MP14s and someone I knew wanted the 19s, so I let them go for a song. D'oh!
I was at the PGA at Wentworth as a spectator around the early 2000s, too, and remember him hitting the Ping i3/Mizuno blade combo into play. I couldn't get over the sight of Faldo with a PIng CB in his hands. It just looked plain wrong. If I remember rightly he was 'overspinning the short irons and wedges' - hence the somewhat odd mixed set of i3OS long and mid irons and Mizuno short irons.
Regardless of what bag he carries, I always associate Faldo as the ultimate advertisement for Mizuno irons. He just looked 'right' with that tri-coloured Mizuno bag.
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Posted 22 April 2008 - 10:42 AM
I remember when Faldo signed one of the first 'big money' contracts with Mizuno, If memory serves, I think it was for the '91 season. Woosie's Maruman deal in late '87 set the ball rolling for the silly money club deals, but Faldo's contract was reportedly for something ridiculous as I remember. The joke was that he could just sling the Wilson bag in the nearest skip and keep playing with his Mizunos in a new matching bag. I think I saw Faldo playing Wilson irons once in all the time I watched him as a youngster, photo calls aside, whilst carrying the old red and white Wilson bag. He had some Staff Fluid Feel irons at the British Masters at Woburn one year and he actually moaned audibly to Andy Prodger 'I think we'll have the old ones back in Prodge..' as he left one tee.
This thread's brilliant. It evokes great memories of a misspent youth gawping into pro's bags and memorising pointless facts instead of doing schoolwork.
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Posted 22 April 2008 - 11:00 AM
One of the only times he was never sponsored or paid by a manufacturer he chose the following clubs...
Driver: Taylormade R5 TP
Irons: Mizuno MP60
Wedges: Ping MB and Mizuno MP
3 wood and Putter chopped and changed, but he said the best putter he had was the TPA XVIII
Faldo is the reason I love golf, my sporting idol, I'm lucky I get to work with him a few times a year. Many like him, many hate him, but one thing you can't deny is he was the best player in the world for 5 years. 6 majors, the best Ryder Cup record of any player on either side and had the abilty to hit the right shot when it counted. I bet 80% of the tour pro's now days couldn't hit the shots he hit with those clubs (persimmon drivers, tiny butter knife long irons)
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(The author, Bill Critch, a USAF veteran, lives in Oro Valley, Arizona. Born in California, he and his Australian parents returned to Sydney before the World War ll. His father, a veteran of World War l, died soon after. Orphaned at 13, Bill returned to the United States at age 22.)
It's 3.00 AM on the Graveyard Shift at United Airlines San Francisco Maintenance Base.
The "Move Crew" is making conversation just to stay awake. We keep one eye on the clock and the other on the foreman, a good guy but a company man. John Blackwell, a tall, quiet, Jimmy Stewart look-alike who has recently left the Benedictine Monastery across the Golden Gate Bridge, is walking on the ramp in the morning chill meditating on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary; Jerry Mukai, an amateur judo wrestler, is leaning back in his chair staring into blue collar airspace; Jack Brown is reading a crumpled Chronicle he found on a DC-6 coming in for overhaul. The shift's half over and there are no more planes outside on the ramp to move into the hangars. It's the ugly hour when you don't want to be farmed out for some grunt job with another mechanic who's behind on his work and all that's left is his cleanup – lock-wiring nuts, checking clamps, returning unused parts to the storeroom and tools to the crib or even worse, mopping up the hangar floor.
Todd, who has recently joined the crew is an ex-Air force mechanic. He says to me, "Hey Aussie, 'ave ya seen Don?"
"No," I say. "He's probably sleeping in the seat storage room. He was flying with his instructor this afternoon. He looked beat."
"When's 'e gonna get his Commercial license?"
Don Sather is another ex Air Force mechanic. He has a fiancée and is looking to the future. The Commercial license with an Instrument rating is the key to a flying job.
"Todd, what's Sather have to pay for his flying time?" I ask.
"I think Cessna 140 time's about $14 an hour solo," Todd says.
Like the rest of us, he too would like to be learning to fly.
Brown, his critical eyes just clearing the top of the broadsheet newspaper and who is always ripe for an argument says, "No way. A guy I know only pays $12." Brown always knows a guy.
"Critch," says Todd, "when I was a mechanic in the Air Force they had a program called Aviation Cadets – they'll teach you to fly. It takes about 18 months and when you're done, ya got yer wings and they make you an officer."
"Oh yeah? Where do you sign up"
"Nah," interrupts Brown, "you'd never qualify, Todd. You gotta have two years of college and they only take the really smart guys." Once again, Brown knows all about it.
"Bullshit, my buddy in the Air Force didn't have any college and 'e got in! Dunno if 'e made it all the way, but I do know that only 50% get through. It's tough - the college-level stuff, the military chickenshit. It's a real 'Tiger' program."
I wonder what a Tiger Program means. "What's that, Todd?" I ask.
"Ah, it means there's a lot of hazing and in-your-face yelling, memorizing stupid stuff, studying college level aerodynamics, Air Force history, public speaking and military law. It's like being a West Point plebe but doesn't last as long. They only take the top 2% of applicants and then 'wash out' half of them before graduation."
I think, "Well that lets me out. I'm no Tiger and I bailed out of school on my sixteenth birthday to earn a living, so the academics might be a problem."
"Hey, Aussie, wanna go down and check it out?" asks Todd.
"Sure, why not. I've got nothing on after the shift's over."
Don't have anything on? I've been in the USA since Christmas last year and my horizon is empty. What are my chances of getting an Airplane & Powerplant License? Go to college? How and where and with what? I don't have any money saved but perhaps if I joined the Air Force I could get something out of it without shelling out any dough.
Shift over, dead tired, coveralls dirty and sweaty, we hit the morning commute traffic on Bayshore Freeway and head north toward the City in Todd's new Ford Victoria. After a quick breakfast somewhere in the Mission district, we climb the wooden stairs to the Air Force Recruiting Office at the corner of Market and Van Ness Streets.
Todd takes over.
"Good morning sergeant, we'd like to take the exam for Aviation Cadets."
The six striper in razor sharp khakis, condescendingly eyeballs us the way Burt Lancaster eyed Private 1st. Class Prewitt in "From Here To Eternity." He figures if he can talk us into signing up as enlisted swine, he just might make his weekly quota.
"Aviation cadets? No way," he thinks.
"Well, you have to fill out the detailed application, take a physical and pass the written test. It'll take all morning, do you have the time? Can you two stay awake?"
"You bet," we say.
I look at Todd, he's half asleep and his eyes are like two pissholes in the snow.
Now, thanks to the good sisters of St. Joseph, I've always been good at tests. All you have to do is figure out what the test writer or the prospective employer wants and give it to him. I always been a quick study and smart enough to stay out of trouble.
I begin filling out the application.
Education: Hmm. My first high school in Australia was called a college, so I fill in the blank: three years at St Ignatius' College Riverview, Gunnedah High with passes in Physics, Chemistry, Math I and II, English, History, Geography and Latin.
Work Experience: Mechanic, Clegg and Tyrrell (well that's stretching it a bit because all I did was pump gas and fetch parts, but they'll never check that out,) QANTAS Sydney, Aero Engineer and Mechanic (another job I talked myself in to but I have a certificate proving that) and finally, my current employer United Airlines – Airplane Overhaul Mechanic.
"Here y'are sergeant."
I hand him the application he is surprised. Perhaps he thinks I'll enlist as a mechanic.
He hands me a multiple choice test, twists his head and points to a small, wood framed and windowed room nearby.
"O.K. Complete this and bring it back when you're done."
The test looks fairly straightforward. It's mostly general knowledge, basic math and science; identification of small, black silhouettes of recent and historical Air Force airplanes; questions on world geography – what's the capital of Chile; what's a magneto and a distributor, 'How do you drive on a bumpy road.' There are also some basic arithmetic calculations and a few trigonometry questions on sines and cosines; some elementary algebra; interpretation of graphs; a puzzle in interpreting train schedules. This is really fun stuff and not too hard. I'm sure I could have done it in the 8th grade.
An hour later, I emerge from the test room. Ex Airman 2nd Class Todd is still in there chewing on his scoring pencil.
The sergeant runs the test through the scoring machine. 'Zip', and it's done. He is impressed but tries not to show it. I'm smarter than he thought I was. Perhaps the Aussie accent had him confused.
"Take this paper over to that office across the room and give it to the nurse. We'll give you a physical this morning."
A physical at this hour? I don't know if I can even make water. The white-uniformed Air Force nurse hands me a bottle and I manage to drain my sump. I fill out the medical form: Childhood sickness? The usual. Parents? I'm not sure of the details of their illnesses and cause of death, but I'm truthful about their passing in their fifties. Venereal Disease? No, never.(I'd be embarrassed to tell the Air force that except for a couple of quickies, I'm almost a virgin.) Physical restrictions? Nope. Strip off down to my shorts, see the doctor, turn, cough, get a 'finger wave up the rear. Touch the toes, look left, look right, can you see my fingers? How many? Say aaah!
Back to the Recruiting Sergeant and still no sign of Todd.
"Am I in?" I ask.
"Well, no. Your physical is O.K. but this is just the beginning. You'll have another two day written exam up north of here at Travis Air Force Base and another more extensive physical. You'll get a letter setting it up."
He smiles and wishes me good luck as I head out and to find Todd. He's in the waiting area sitting in the cheap chrome and leatherette seats.
"How'd you make out?" I ask.
"I didn't pass the written test. Aww. I really didn't want back in the Air Force anyhow. Wanna beer?"
A spur of the moment decision in the early morning hours, a little prompting and your whole life is changed forever. And I never really got to thank him, for when I returned to United Airlines after I was commissioned and flying one of those DC-6s, Todd had left the Move Crew and moved on.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
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I had something in mind to write about tonight, but I'm too tired.
Please accept this apology in the form of delectably stylish boy photos.
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October 25, 2017
Chris Hudak knew he wanted to change, but didn't know where to start. He found answers with the Placer Re-Entry Program.
Hudak is one of 162 people who have graduated from the PREP. The program provides services and accountability to criminal offenders who are at medium to high risk of reoffending, serving those who are currently in custody as well as parolees and probationers.
At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, staff shared highlights from the PREP's first three years. The program was developed after the board-commissioned Criminal Justice System Master Plan pointed to the county's need for increased re-entry services. Supervisors authorized $1.3 million to fund re-entry services both in and out of custody.
Clients who enroll in the PREP are assessed and each one given a customized case plan. That plan could include a range of mandated services: job readiness training, substance abuse education, anger management, GED preparation, parenting classes — whatever resources are most likely to help them succeed.
"It's a one-stop shop where offenders can get services as they are released back into our community," said Chief Probation Officer Marshall Hopper. "This is invaluable because it promotes success while holding offenders accountable."
The Sacramento County Office of Education provides re-entry services and contracts with the Northern California Construction Training, providing clients hands-on construction training and certification. An astounding 96 percent of the clients they've worked with had a job when they exited the program.
Graduates spend an average of 171 days in the program. Of these, nearly 60 percent are employed and make an estimated $513 per month more than before incarceration.
Overall, 88 percent of program graduates adhere to the terms of their probation and 92 percent have not had a new conviction since completing the program.
"Once they commit to the program and to making better decisions, our clients open up many opportunities for themselves," Hopper said. "And because many of them are parents, they're breaking a cycle of crime, impacting families which has a ripple effect on our community."
A recent agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation provides a cost-sharing partnership that expands services without additional county costs. Additional services recently began in Auburn and efforts are currently underway to expand PREP services to the Tahoe region by the end of the year.
"One of the things I like about the PREP is that long after participants have graduated, the PREP folks continue to be there to help work through any obstacles," said District 5 Supervisor and Board Chairwoman Jennifer Montgomery.
"The skills I learned through the PREP got me where I am today. I learned discipline and responsibility. It created a domino effect of positive change," said Hudak, who completed probation and has been employed for more than a year and a half. He recently celebrated the birth of his first child, a son.
"Now the most wild part of my lifestyle is changing dirty diapers," Hudak said.
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Publicists beware: A party-crashing trio have dangerously upped their game. We're told the two guys and a lady have been making their way into the fanciest events by using editors' names. At the Met Museum's Apollo Circle benefit, a crasher had a run-in with a writer whose name she'd lifted. When confronted, she waved over a friend like he was an assistant, and said, "Can you handle this?" before telling the journo, "I can get into parties on my own. I don't have time for this drama. Stop talking to me." They've dropped Paper's Mickey Boardman's name and even said they're working for Page Six. We know who you are. You've been warned. We'll name and shame.
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Discussion in 'Android Support' started by kunak83, Dec 3, 2009.
it does suck I love sending/getting them in my email ;(
Does a gif require Flash? if so then wait til Q1 2010.....
I just noticed a few days ago that the Droid doesn't support animated GIF images. You will only see the first frame.
This is pretty disappointing. I have had my share of cheap phones over the years and GIF support seemed standard on all of them.
I suppose we can get handcent support to allow viewing them in messages... and maybe a good photo gallery app to get the feature there. You would need a custom gmail app and browser to get support there. Man, we really need this basic feature supported natively. This is unacceptable for a phone valued at 600 bucks...
animated gif support *was* standard... in 1995. Now for the most part quicktime movies and flash have updated these things, except for those stupid porn GIFs and such that seem to fill up MMS message space on many dumbphones.
Give it time though, seeing as so many people stil love to send these via e-mail, I am sure somebody will come up with an app or extension that will support this.
It irritates me knowing I'd have to have an app for email gallery and mms messages just for GIF support. I shouldn't have to waste so much space and ram resources for such a basic feature. Even the browser doesn't support it. That makes 4 apps you would need to get full GIF support on the phone. That's just not Kool at all...
I guess our only real hope is a modded ron with full multitouch and GIF support globally on the phone.
ahh.. youngsters today... don't understand that certain "basic" technology often eventually just goes away. There was a time when BMP support would have been "standard" everywhere... today... not so much. Same thing for WPG (WordPerfect Graphics), Windows Vector Graphics (don't remember the extension), etc.
Each of these were "standards" that you could find EVERYWHERE on Windows 3.1... and began losing support (with plenty of complaints) on Windows 95, and all but disappeared by Windows 98. But these formats eventually (despite protests) went the way of the Do-Do bird. and so, GIF is reaching the end of its useful life.
Nope. Animated gifs are simply gif movies. Most all mainstream web browsers support them. The Droid browser does not.
I'm definitely thinking about returning. Between the .gif images, flash, issues with sending & receiving mms messages. I knew I should have waited until all the kinks were out.
GIF's are definitely old-school technology but are supported on everyone browser that connects to the internet - except the one on the Droid. I wonder if it is an oversight or if Motorola is trying to be cutting edge. The problem is they didn't incorporate a replacement for the missing animation ie... Flash.
Trolling here? or did you join to make this your first post?
Nature of the beast with Open Development... not a big deal to use a few Mbs to create functionality you desire...
Really? Flash isn't available for any phone... and Android will be first. sms/mms work fine... user error.... QFT....
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Turning TriTrix: A Speaker Build Log
In late 2009, I realized something: I was unhappy with the Home Theatre in a Box (HTIB) system that I had hooked to my TV and Playstation. While I'm not an audiophile by any means (that is my wife's forte--I'm the wordsmith), even I could tell that the sound was tinny, empty, and bland.
The first big hurdle was a way to cut ROUND holes in the MDF. I had considered buying the circle jig from PartsExpress, but couldn't justify a $56 jig set--I hoped I could find a local one for cheaper. Unfortunately, I couldn't. SO, I decided that I pretty much understood the principle, and I would make one.
The first hole caused some cussing, as I for some reason decided to try and "easy" cut first and cut out the inner circle first--which means the middle falls out and you no longer have a central pivot point...WHOOPS. Some cardboard and quick thinking later, I managed to wedge the circle back in again and do the outer circle.
With that done, the rest of the cuts were fairly easy, though for anyone attempting the same kind of project, I would suggest cutting the front baffle and the back plate in one go, so that they're exactly the same width. Same deal for the tops and bottoms, and the sides. I put the enclosures together with nothing but clamps and wood glue, and they're probably solid enough to use as step stools.
While this created a few problems with threading the nuts on, some work with a wire brush and some solvent on the threads took care of it.
That done, it was time to get everything wired up and put in the fill. The soldering went without a hitch, and after some trying some different levels on fill, I ended up using about a quarter of the bag of fill that came with the RD kit in each speaker; any more than that and the bass began to sound muffled.
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The speakers were definitely an improvement from the get-go, but they really began to shine after a few hours of use. The harshness/tinniness that I noted upon first plugging them in disappeared, and the sound became gradually richer.
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Doctor said there was a pertussis (whooping cough) epidemic going around.
I caught it :/
pretty lame, but I'm ot an infant so I'll survive.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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lol WHOOOPING cough oh no'es! im sorry man, any idea on where you caught the whooping cough?ReplyDelete
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@this1guy: i have no clue as to where i got it. but my doc says its turing into an epidemic
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Wish you all the best, bro!ReplyDelete
Whooping cough is terrible. Try not get your pulse over 100 or you'll start coughing a ton...ReplyDelete
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Tougher that an infant. Ur hard brahReplyDelete
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Sep 8, 2016 • posted by Michael Hartl
One of the most exciting additions to the newly released Rails 5 is Action Cable, which enables the creation of responsive, real-time web applications with Rails. For example, with Action Cable it's possible to make a live chat app that updates every user's chat window instantly, rather than waiting for a slow polling process in the background.
The secret to this amazing new capability is the WebSockets Protocol, which supports real-time, persistent connections between client and server (unlike standard HTTP). With Action Cable, using WebSockets is a breeze, and we get all the power and flexibility of Rails for free.
Today I'm releasing a draft of Learn Enough Action Cable to Be Dangerous, a new tutorial covering real-time web apps with Rails. It's available for free online, and is available for purchase in the standard ebook formats here.
Learn Enough Action Cable to Be Dangerous is an especially good follow-on to the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, because it puts your Rails knowledge to work on one of the most cutting-edge web technologies out there.
I'm calling this release a draft because Action Cable is so new, and it's entirely possible I may want to update it based on reader feedback. (Typo and bug reports are especially appreciated.) Any such updates will be available for free (including to ebook purchasers).
Progress tracking and community exercise answers will be available to all members of the Learn Enough Society. Exercise answers (currently in preparation) will also be available to all ebook purchasers.
I'd also like to take this opportunity to give a quick update on some of the products in the Learn Enough introductory sequence. I'm hoping to release the next title, Learn Enough HTML to Be Dangerous, within a couple of weeks, with the other titles to follow as quickly as we can make them.
I'm especially excited for Learn Enough CSS & Layout to Be Dangerous, which is being prepared in collaboration with Learn Enough designer Lee Donahoe. It's going to be great!


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The thing about blogs is that thinking about updating them is not the same as actually updating them. I'm working on it, really. I do have some stuff I want to share. Hope I remember to do it.
This may be a bit of a ramble.
I used to insist on music while running / training. The first challenge I issued to myself when transitioning from obsessed walker to jogger was to run the length of one song on my iPod. It didn't kill me. That turned into running.
One of the reasons I used to always run with music (and still sometimes do) is that I simply have a very strong connection to it. I've been somewhat of a musician since age 10, and it is an extremely deep and important part of my life. I connect much of life to music. This connection is just natural to me.
Another reason music became so much a part of running for me is that I found I could distract myself by striding to its beat. It became easy to keep moving at a steady pace by simply making sure that my foot came down with each pulse of what I was hearing. When I started trying to improve my skill, I chose music that was moving along at 150 to 170 BPM (or could be subdivided into that for you music geeks). I made playlists grouped by BPM's and then arranged the content for what I thought I might like.
For example, I once made a play list called "Last 10K" that I planned to turn on at the 20-mile mark of a marathon when I was tired and needed some inspiration. I got pretty detailed with this, but soon I noticed that when I didn't have music playing, I was struggling. That's not really good.
Nowadays, I run with music only if I'm not running with others, and not even every time I do that. Because of this, my days of running with music seem more special – a treat – a relaxation, etc. and i'm not that worried about the BPM's anymore. If it is under about 160, I just tell myself to run faster than the music.
I almost always listen to a specific playlist on Sundays. I call it "Jesus." I love my Sunday morning Jesus music runs. When I hear or buy a great worship song, it goes in my "Jesus" playlist. Then on (especially) those Sunday morning runs, I just shuffle it. Sometimes, those 30-minute to 90-minute runs are some of the sweetest times of worship that I have.
And that brings up for me the other connection I wanted to highlight – that of running and faith. That is the deep one. I don't want to make too much out of running as a spiritual exercise, but there is a deeply spiritual component for me. Analyzing it too much can take some of the joy out of it, but here are a few of my thoughts:
1. Running represents overcoming.
Long distance running is about endurance. It is about staying with it, no matter what, overcoming obstacles, fighting mental battles, and pushing to finish something. There is a lot of faith stuff wrapped up in that.
2. Running allows meditation.
From deep thoughts, focused prayer, problem solving to simple mantras, running allows some deep thought time. When I choose to use that deep thought time for the high purpose of communicating with God, thinking deeply and slowly, and dwelling on faith matters, it is a good. good thing. At times, it's been an escape – but more often than that, it is an entrance into welcomed thought time.
3. Running allows for purposed activity.
Through great organizations like Team World Vision, running also allows me to use my effort to raise awareness and resources for things like clean water projects, child protection, etc. Some of my marathons have been connected to this great cause. While I don't believe charity is the only reason a person should run…and I don't believe that not running for charity is a selfish endeavor, genorosity is a loving and good thing. It is a joy to have a hand in providing clean water to people who need it. Want to donate? Hint, hint…here is my fundraising page for this year's Chicago marathon.
4. Running fosters community.
The running community is a good one. Sure, it has its problems, but it presents multiple opportunities for character development too. There is a sense of how we are all in this together, and there is the opportunity to allow grace to others, to work together, to avoid comparison, to be humble and to help and inspire others along the way. Any worthwhile community has this, and it is true of running as well. I've had good long talks with people while on a run – helpful, deep and real conversation. I've learned to put up with people and allow them to put up with me. I've made friends running, and I have deepened friendships that way as well.
5. Running can be a spiritual as I make it.
What got me thinking about all of this was being in church yesterday and worshiping with the song "Forever Reign." I think that one single song carries the most meaning for me when connecting running, faith and music. When we worship with that song, I can close my eyes and almost feel myself running as we sing the words
Oh I'm running to Your arms
I'm running to Your arms
The riches of Your love
Will always be enough
Nothing compares to Your embrace
Light of the world forever reign
I feel motion, and I see roads ahead of me, and somehow there is the great connection to life in Jesus, and life left to live, and what I've run from, and on and on and on.
That simple song that I've run to 100's of times (it's in my playlist multiple times) brings me to a place where I can connect it all. A place where things are right, and good, and holy and wonderful. A place of longing, of a journey, of the race that I'll someday finish, of God's goodness and love, of contentment…well, you get the idea.
Running isn't everybody's thing. It's not even really possible for everyone. I'm very thankful, though for the season I'm in – one where I still feel the presence of God on the run – and I can celebrate it. For now, it's where I am.
Normally, July is kind of a slow month for me, but this year it has been very busy. Consequently, I haven't updated here very much. i think I was out of town all but one weekend in July with business and family travel. It was tough on my training scheduled. Some weeks, I succeeded and other weeks I missed some workouts.
I've made all of my long runs, though, and things are going fairly well.
I am loving my training group. If not for that, I think my weekend long runs would be much more difficult. I've had to make one by myself, but I got through it. So here is a shout out to Luke's Locker Marathon Training.
We are 10 weeks out from Chicago. The mileage is getting longer now. The speed work is getting more intense. I'd say it is getting hotter, but it isn't. We've been blessed with very mild temperatures overall this July. My confidence level about meeting my goal is in a good place right now.
Challenges right now (besides my schedule) include frustration with not losing weight as fast as I would like. Constant struggle. Most often, I feel somewhat defeated. Celebrations, business travel, stress…all the triggers are there in abundance. I need discipline and patience.
This week is vacation, so I'll be doing a 16-miler by myself. I'll be ready. More on that in my next post.
Flexibility with the schedule..
Had to travel last week, which brought the opportunity to run in two locations other than home: Greenville, SC and Columbia, SC. Both were routine 4 mile runs, but there is something exciting about running in new locations.
I have learned that the only way to work out consistently through travel times is to plan ahead. It's pretty easy to find decent places to run if I plan to do it before arriving. In both cases, I scouted out areas close to where I was staying that would work. I planned the running into my schedule.
The only workout that didn't work out was the speed and strength work that I had to do at the hotel. I got to the treadmill and got part of it done, but I was tired and not feeling very well. Consequently, I didn't get all the way through the workout.
My speed workouts, however, are getting better in general. Marathon pace, tempo and track workouts are tough, but for the most part I've been successfully slugging it out.
This weekend, we had a 9 mile run (hilly in the middle), and when I got through with it, I realized that I've improved overall. I mean that I got done and the higher mileage didn't seem like much. That is significant to me…and timely, because we will be in double digits for our long runs from now on.
This week, we've got two speed workouts (Monday / Thursday), 3 low mileage easy runs and a 12-mile run on Saturday. I will be traveling the next 3 or 4 weekends for at least part of the weekend, so it is time to get the plan together.
I'm getting pumped about Chicago.
A Mixed Bag…But Some Good Progress
I just finished my 5th week of training for my Fall Marathon (Chicago, 10/12/14)
28.2 Miles, 4 hours, 55 minutes over 6 activities. It was supposed to be 32 miles, but I had a bit of a meltdown on Thursday. We did our warm up and our pre-run exercises. I was already not feeling great…and then as we got into the run I realized I was fighting some discouraging nausea. I couldn't seem to overcome it, so at the 1 mile mark I stopped, turned around and walked back to the starting point. It took me several hours that day to recover.
Prior to that day, however, the runs were going well – better than they had been the week prior. In fact, by Wednesday I was really feeling as if I was getting on top of this thing mentally. Dread had subsided, and I was looking forward to getting a run done each day. Thursday just didn't work out for me.
I took Friday off, and then this morning I met with my group. We did a 9 mile run. A month ago, that would have felt out of reach, but today it seemed just about right. Two of my miles today were to be at marathon pace. I chose miles 5 and 6 for this. The way the course was laid out, those two miles were over the most hilly terrain. I didn't like that at first, but I changed my mind about it and took it on as a challenge. I ran faster than marathon pace (but not quite tempo run pace) for those two miles.
As we finished the 9 miles, I felt as good as I could expect to feel after a workout that long. I was proud that I made my marks today. I enjoyed some good conversation with my coach Allyson, and got a great start to this nice Saturday.
This week, we made our hotel reservations and bought our airline tickets. Really looking forward to what is becoming a tradition: Chicago in October with great friends and…oh yeah…that running thing.
Here is the plan for Week 6
Sunday – 4 miles easy
Monday & Thursday – Track workout (400's), strength conditioning and 2 miles easy
Tuesday – 4 miles easy
Wednesday – 6 miles easy
Friday – 11 miles with 3 miles @marathon pace
Saturday – off (traveling to Greenville, SC)
Fun week ahead!
28 Miles
I feel like I made some progress in a couple of areas. First off, a few pounds left me. That was good. Secondly, this was the week that we started speed workouts in the form of tempo runs. We had two of these runs, and my second one was in improvement over the first one. Improving numbers are motivating to me.
Low points included the 3-miler that we did at 7 PM…I just don't care for late day running. We were supposed to get a taco and a margarita from The Blue Goose after this run. But I thought that if I saw a taco or a margarita after this run that I would throw up.
Saturday's group run was good. Hilly. 7 miles. Ran about at the pace I needed to. The scenery was really nice where we ran (Copper Canyon).
Week 4 was to start with a 4 mile run yesterday…didn't happen. We woke up to thunderstorms and then the day deteriorated and there just wasn't time. This morning's ATP workout was cancelled right before it started as well – thunderstorms rolling through. I made up for a little more than today's miles with a 6 mile run at lunch time. Here is the rest of the week:
Tuesday – 3 miles easy
Wednesday – 6 miles easy
Thursday – Prep work, then 5 miles with 12 minutes tempo
Saturday – 8 miles with 2 of the miles at marathon pace
Feeling good so far this week. I don't like the disruptions, but I remember to be flexible and let everything work together.
Yesterday, I completed the second week of marathon training with my Luke's Fit group.
Overall, I'm feeling great about it. Our Luke's Locker is new, and so this is its inaugural marathon training program. So far, my group has 4 participants and about the same number of available coaches. While I wish the group was a little larger, it is pretty great to have near individualized coaching. I am so happy that I signed up for this group.
It was an immediate up in mileage for me, which was an initial concern. But I figured that since I have been running steadily for nearly 5 years now that it would be OK to dive in even after a 4 month break. I found out that I could do more than I thought I could, and so far I am keeping up.
What was really difficult for me starting back up into running again was the struggle of trying to be my own accountability and training in isolation. With this program, for 1/2 of my training runs, I have teammates waiting on me. That motivation moves me. In addition to that, I've been able to have some individualized attention. On the long run this week, one of the coaches stayed with me every step of the way, watching the clock, reminding me of what I needed to remember and encouraging me. That made a huge difference in the run.
This week, we start adding some fitness moves into a couple of the runs and we start more speed work – this week in the form of tempo runs. I'm looking forward to that challenge.
We have many weeks and many miles to go, but things are looking up. I am enjoying being more passionate about a running lifestyle. I'll keep you updated.
This week here is the schedule:
Sunday 4 miles easy (done)
Monday & Thursday prep work plus 4 miles including 10 minutes tempo
Tuesday 3 miles
Wednesday 6 miles
Friday off
Saturday 7 miles with 2 or 3 @ marathon pace


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But as anyone who has actually written and tried to shop a novel around can tell you, getting it in front of publishers is just about the same as strolling into Mordor to drop the Ring of Power into the fires of Mount Doom.
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L-Dopa is naturally produced in the human body and also in plants. It can however be supplemented for more enhanced mood, mental energy, neuro-protection and cognitive enhancement. It is available for sale in form of pills as well as a nutritional supplement.
L-Dopa follows a complex process in the body before its effects can be felt. Basically, the main important thing it does is promote the release of three neurotransmitters, dopamine included. As you may already know, dopamine is a key player in motor mental arousal, a good feature for an effective party smart pill.
With the directions of a doctor, L-Dopa is used to treat Parkinson's disease just as hydergine tablets are recommended for dementia and migraines. This should not be done individually at home. As a supplement, L-Dopa has been used to combat the effects of aging, since it is thought to promote the release of hormones such as the Human Growth Hormone.
L-Dopa supplement definition
L-Dopa supplement is in most cases prepared from a plant known as Mucuna Pruriens. This is a native plant in some African, Caribbean and Indian regions. It produces itching effects if bare skin contact is made with its hair-like projections.
The most beneficial part of the plant is its seeds. To prepare the supplement, the seeds are plucked, left out to dry until an extract can be made from them. The leaves are also used but thought to be low in concentration compared to beans (100micrograms in a seed).
L-Dopa supplement effects; how it works
Taking a Mucuna supplement sees it being reduced to its simpler forms, L-Dopa being our main point of focus. The amino acid is absorbed into the blood system where it travels to the nervous system. There, it is converted into dopamine.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter; this basically means that it initiates effective communication between a set of neurons and the brain cells. As it happens, the set of neurons affected by dopamine mainly deal with sensitivity and motor responses. After its production, dopamine also initiates the release of two other related neurotransmitters.
You may already have guessed, the effects of L-Dopa supplement will mostly revolve around boosted mental energy and focus. It is because of the stimulation of neural communication that L-Dopa use to treat Parkinson's disease. This is a condition that occurs when sufficient synapses cannot be sent between neural sets that control motor activities.
L-Dopa dosage health and mental benefits
L-Dopa has been frequently used to combat the effects of aging both in terms of mental health and growth hormones production.
As it is with other hormones such as testosterone, dopamine declines in its production as years pass by. This can be attributed to the loss of a great number of neurons which depend on dopamine to function effectively. This is actually the cause of Parkinson's disease. Stacking L-Dopa with L-phenylethylamine, for example, can boost the production of endorphins (the love hormones) even in older individuals.
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I've got quite a few pictures, so let's get started!
I went to my mom's work Christmas Party, where we all received these adorable lollipops, or a glitter picture frame ornament. The candy was delicious, and I'll be sure to add the ornament to the Christmas Tree next year!
I've reached over 500 followers on Pinterest! That's INSANE to me! Now, I do post on there all the time (just like Tumblr), but STILL! I haven't had more than 100 followers on social media since high school!!!! So big thanks to all of you guys! You're so sweet and awesome!
My mom got some GREAT news the day I reached 500, someone donated enough money for her to buy 4 kindles for her classroom! To try to battle the growing lack of reading, she wanted some to show her students it can be fun. I agree with it, and since she's close to retirement, when she does one comes to ME! XD (okay, the best part is the classroom but I gotta love the benefits!)
So for Tumblr I decided to try to take some pics of my cats by books. Mighty was the only one sleeping, and so it was easy to pose him next to Ichigo--who's just a grumpy as he is sometimes, which is all a front for a sweet person, who happens to be badass. Although he did give me a wicked glare right after for waking him up. :)
I couldn't even get close to Angel, so I cornered Strider, who's terribly afraid of the camera. The results are hilarious. The first image, he looks like I'm attempting to murder him instead of just take a picture. Eventually he became afraid of not just the camera, but the book too. So in each photo he gets further and further away. He's too funny! So now he's afraid of cameras AND books. LOL! Aw, my poor little chicken butt!! :)
I found this gem from the amazing negative-pessimist, who probably reblogged it for herself as well as others, but I felt the need to share it. I know I'm not the only one struggling with mental illness and addictions, and this is incredibly encouraging for those of us trying to find meaning everyday, and wanted to share it on Tumblr, Pinterest, as well as here. So long as you keep trying, keep taking steps forward, you're doing great. Always.
This last one is a little small, so make sure to expand so you can see what I'm talking about. This is the top of mangahere.co, which I was on for New Year's Eve (yeah, I'm that boring). It was then that I noticed the top wasn't the normal, boring blue and white, but had SNOW! It looks really cute, and I had to share!
Okay, so it wasn't as long as I expected, but that's what I was up to! Nothing of Christmas, since I wanted to just spend it with my family and friends, not pull out a camera. I hope you guys had a great December, and that this new year will be wonderful for you!
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You are in for a real treat today... Deb over at Paper Turtle has asked her friends to join her for a potluck and you are invited to come along for the ride!
I have to admit... I could not decide what to make for this potluck! There were so many possibilities and after cooking three different meals this week, hubby agreed... what you see here today is the favorite! At this stop on your tour, you will enjoy the taste of:
For this recipe you will need the following ingredients:
450 g or 1 lb ground turkey
1 tsp Onion Powder
1 tsp Garlic Powder
1/2 - 3/4 tsp red pepper flakes (adjust to taste)
1/2 tsp pepper
Salt to taste
1 cup chopped mushrooms
1 can cream of mushroom soup (10 oz or 284 ml)
Fill 1/4 of soup can with 1% milk (here I added heavy cream to give it a richer flavor)
250 g or 8 oz manicotti noodles
250 g or 8 oz cottage cheese (I used dry curd cottage cheese)
700 ml or 24-28 oz pasta sauce - (1 jar of your favorite pasta sauce)
1 1/2 - 2 cups Italian mix shredded cheese
- Preheat oven to 375 F or 190 C
- Brown the ground turkey in a pan over medium high heat. Add your seasonings and mushrooms.
- Once the meat is cooked add the mushroom soup and milk/cream. Mix well and remove from heat.
- Spray the bottom of a casserole dish with cooking spray and place the uncooked manicotti in the dish. Take the ground turkey mixture and spoon it into the shells 3/4 full.
- Spread cottage cheese over shells then spread the pasta sauce.
- Sprinkle cheese over top of the sauce and cover tightly with aluminum foil to seal.
- Place in the oven for 60 minutes (the time will vary - depending on your oven). Remove foil - check to see if pasta is cooked, if not cover again with foil securely and place back in oven for several more minutes or until pasta is al dente. Set oven to broil and broil until the cheese is bubbling.
- Let sit for 10 minutes and serve.


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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Never been tagged before...
1. Quit smoking about three years ago, cold turkey. Speaking of which I believe I only ate turkey once shortly before becoming vegetarian (don't think two were related). Quitting smoking and eating meat are both surprising if you know anything about country I come from: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Still drink coffee, though.
2. I've started many a thing in which I lost interest shortly thereafter. It worries me still. I wonder what I else I will give up.
3. I've twirled my hair since I had it, is what my parents say. It is so me, that I haven't even noticed that my husband, then boyfriend, was doing it as well until our parents cracked up about it. My hair is now less than an inch short which makes twirling really hard. I steal his now and then for twirling purposes.
4. I don't understand people's obsession with procreating.
5. I used to be tolerant of people's religious beliefs. I still think to each their own, but I am not very concerned with not being perceived as offensive. I realize that I do not respect nor tolerate ignorance, nor unfounded statements in any other realm of life, so I don't see why I should when it comes to religion. And I don't mind saying it.
6. I have never been afraid of flying. Well, never until two years ago. Particularly turbulent flight from Zagreb to Sarajevo has made me really nervous about flying. I've been trying to ask as many questions as I can about planes and flying. I am particularly sad that I hadn't been paying attention in my physics classes. I just realized that I forgot to ask if a wing can fall off and what would happen then.
7. I can talk pretty much with anybody about pretty much anything. Except for my dad. He has a particular gift of upsetting me almost as soon as he opens his mouth. All right, a slight exaggeration, but only slight. My sister says that I am much more critical of my parents than of other people. I think I ought to be. They are my parents.
Here are the rules:
- Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
- Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
- Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
- Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Tagging 7 other people would be hard. I'm afraid the meme dies here.
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I quit smoking almost 10 years ago, cold turkey. I still miss the smell. I also miss the weight (now more than 20 lbs more than my most typical smoking weight!)
- December 29, 2007 at 6:38 PM
- e said...
I miss the mechanics of it. Smell not so much. Just came back form visiting my folks. The temperatures were pretty low, but I had to keep the windows open almost constantly because I thought I'd suffocate from all the smoke. My mom probably won't be too happy with her heating bill.
- December 29, 2007 at 9:42 PM
- H. said...
I almost started defending your father by saying it's not his fault he's your parent, but then that didn't seem right :)
My father is on the other side of the Atlantic. I never could think of a suitable response to his "People with open minds get a lot of garbage thrown into them", but of course it must be: "People with closed minds never get it out!"
- December 30, 2007 at 2:09 AM
- e said...
He he.
You should pick up the meme. I'd love to learn 7 random things about you.
- December 30, 2007 at 2:12 AM


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By Marjorie Preston
You don't have to go far these days to find a self-described nerd. From this end of the tech revolution — and in the age of the multi-billion-dollar comic book adaption — "nerd" has gone from a four-eyed, pencil-necked cliché to a byword for creative minds who plan to make big things happen.
In Philadelphia, those creative minds are concentrated in a trendy, tech-heavy business district located in a stretch of the city between Market Street and Girard Avenue. In March 2014, that neighborhood, which includes North 3rd Street, was officially designated N3rd Street (yes, it's pronounced "Nerd Street").
Encompassing both Old City and the Northern Liberties section, this hub of creative entrepreneurs may have originated as early as the 1990s, when brothers Jason and Darren Hill settled there with their ecommerce design company WebLinc. That flagship business and its neighbor, Ian Cross's venerable web design company iSite, brought in scores of bright, techy types by day. It also kept them there after hours with a famously nerd-friendly bar, National Mechanics, owned by the Hill brothers and located downstairs from WebLinc.
But the movement really picked up steam in the 2000s, with new kids on the block including engineering firm Jarvus Innovations, SEO juggernaut Seer Interactive, software designer Arcweb Technologies, web tools developer Wildbit and software development shop DmgCtrl.
Perhaps the most influential of the bunch was Independents Hall, a co-working space where subcontractors, gig workers, freelancers and nerds of all kinds could work and play in a dynamic, fluid, shared community. CEO Alex Hillman says he launched Indy Hall "as my personal drive to seek out like-minded creative people." Before, he adds, those fellow creatives were "a nomadic tribe" in search of an oasis.
As Hillman has written on his blog, Dangerously Awesome, the pack moved "from bar to café to restaurant to living room — anywhere with Wi-Fi — in the pursuit of a better working experience than working alone in our apartments. We found that there were dozens and dozens of people who felt similarly — that Philly was a great town for creative people; it was just too hard to find each other."
Hillman conceived the Indy Hall model in 2006, and launched in Old City the following year, a stone's throw from its namesake landmark (the one from 1776).
From just a few members, Indy Hall has swelled to hundreds who share a common space: light-filled, art-filled, with customizable workstations, bike racks and really good coffee. Its success — and the landlords' plan to increase rent by more than 60 percent, according to Hillman's blog — will soon propel Indy Hall from its current 8,000-square-foot home on 3rd Street to a 10,000-square-foot location around the corner on Market.
But one thing won't change at the innovative workplace that has inspired similar co-working spots in the city and around the world: You won't find time clocks, cubicles, silos or any other of the (literal) trappings of traditional job sites. More than half of Indy Hall's members rarely even use desks. Just as technology has revolutionized the way people communicate, places like this have disrupted — and in some cases dismantled — the old definitions of work and employment.
While N3rd Street includes dozens of tech companies and design firms, that's not all there is to it. The emphasis on technology makes for great copy, but it's an incomplete narrative, argues John Fazio, co-founder of Jarvus Innovations.
"It's frustrating when we hear people talk about 'the Silicon Valley of Philadelphia' — it's really dismissive of all the people in the community who aren't coders or software startups," he says.
According to Fazio, N3rd Streeters in general "are people who have established businesses, who are established freelancers, who have lived in the community and care about it. I've always seen N3rd Street as more like Bourbon Street in New Orleans. It's a community of food and culture and music; it represents something that's kind of spiritual."
N3rd Street departs from Silicon Valley in fundamental ways, he adds. The San Francisco-area technology ecosystem has "an elitist culture where everybody bows down to the top few." That's the antithesis of N3rd Street and Philadelphia itself, which share a populist outlook and a unique identity grounded in the working classes.
"We're held together by people on the ground, people in the street," says Fazio. "N3rd Street follows in that kind of Average Joe mentality, where every man and woman contributes equally."
Hillman agrees. "Any time someone says the 'Silicon Valley of X' anywhere outside of Silicon Valley, they haven't done their homework. Even more importantly, [N3rd Street] is not just business. Lots of other business districts empty out at 5 p.m. This one lives and breathes into the evening and weekends."
Hillman has described N3rd Street as "a melting pot of industries and interests, including but not limited to design nerds, art nerds, fashion nerds, technology nerds, startup nerds, food nerds, sustainability nerds, science nerds, game nerds, history nerds and a whole lot more."
He also points out that many people who work at N3rd Street businesses live nearby, and that the area is as much a cultural as a business district. "The community's creative population is often active and on the street, socializing and connecting in the area during and after work hours and late into the evening," he says.
At 5 p.m., Hillman adds, there is no mass exodus of suited men and women, climbing into sedans or boarding commuter trains for the long haul back to suburbia. When the sun goes down, the party starts — at National Mechanics, at Mark Bee's N. 3rd, and dozens of bars, bistros, clubs, eateries and other hangout spots on both the Old City and the Northern Liberties sides of N3rd Street.
Another distinction that makes N3rd Street the anti-Silicon Valley: a prevailing bootstrap mentality, the widespread rejection of venture capital and a strong commitment among many of the business owners to DIY.
Just ask accidental entrepreneur Wil Reynolds, founder and director of digital strategy for Seer Interactive, an industry leader in SEO, SEM and analytics.
Back in 2002, Reynolds was a young web marketer with plans to become a teacher. One day, he asked his boss if he could leave work early to volunteer at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "My boss said no," Reynolds recalls, "and I decided to quit."
When he couldn't find a company that matched his standards — including a strong commitment to philanthropy — he started one. The earliest iteration of the business "was literally a phone, a computer and me, all alone in my apartment. I've always bootstrapped, and we were really lean in the early days." But the one-man show was unsustainable. "I always knew I didn't want to win by myself," says Reynolds. "That was never going to be any fun."
Today, he oversees a $15 million mini-empire with more than 100 employees and two offices — Seer headquarters on N. 2nd Street, and a satellite office in San Diego.
"I never intended or planned on this being my life," he says. "It worked out for me. And it never would have happened if not for that first push" from a particularly Scroogey boss.
As Fazio points out, Jarvus Innovations would be considered an abject failure by Silicon Valley standards. "Ten years old and only $2 million [in annual revenue]? That's terrible. We would have been crushed in Silicon Valley. But we didn't do this with anyone else's money, and you can't argue [with] our impact." (The company is named, coincidentally, for Iron Man Tony Stark's robot butler Jarvis, or Just a Rather Very Intelligent System.)
Reynolds foresees millennials — and the generations that follow them — radically reinventing long-standing concepts of work, career and job satisfaction, just as he did, because "they're empowered to do what they want," and because they have the technologies to do so.
But that empowerment and the explosion of the so-called gig economy may present a challenge to employers of the future. "They'll have to find a way to be transparent and trusting, and all those things that attract" top talent, he says. (According to a study by software company Intuit, 40 percent of American workers will be independent contractors by the year 2020.)
And no cubes, please. Seer headquarters, for example, which started in a renovated church and moved to a glass-clad tower in Northern Liberties in 2015, includes "huge living rooms and gathering rooms, where people can just work in different places if they want it quiet."
But for all its friendly vibe, relaxed dress code and homey pretensions, it's not home, or a playground for creatives. The place is intense, says Reynolds. "There's no foosball table or ping-pong table. I say let's get the work done so we can get out of here, and go home to our friends and families."
Not surprisingly, volunteerism is a keystone of Reynolds' workplace philosophy. "We encourage everybody to find something that speaks to their heart and make time to work there — and they can take off in the middle of the day to do it."
Chris Cera, CEO of Arcweb Technologies, also notes the rise of freelance consulting, co-working communities and the other new orthodoxies of modern business. Like Reynolds, he lived it, starting as a consultant, doing one-off client projects and working out of Indy Hall. He launched his own business in 2011, principally because he couldn't corner more space for his contractors at Indy Hall.
"I'm not complaining, they were awesome, but they were kind of pushing us out — politely," he recalls. "We were the fastest company that ever grew out of there, and when I needed more memberships, there was a waiting list. It just wasn't possible to grow there anymore. And luckily, we kept most of our people in the transition" from giggers to full-time staff.
Arcweb continues to outpace the CEO's expectations. In 2015, it was named Philadelphia 100's Fastest Growing Company. And in 2016, Cera was named Small Business Person of the Year by the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
Having witnessed the evolution of N3rd Street, he can't imagine being anywhere else, and established his new quarters "a stone's throw away [from Indy Hall], because I wanted to stay close. I can see it from my window."
Arcweb isn't the only company that's made a commitment to the neighborhood, he notes. "There are a large number of companies that have laid down the flagpole here and decided to grow. I could have gone to Center City, but I chose Old City. I was so excited by the grassroots community I found here. Our location is a huge part of who we are."
"There's a communal feeling," agrees Reynolds. "Lots of times, when I'm walking in the city on a nice day, I'll stop by Indy Hall. I'll walk down Third Street and there are a bunch of businesses I can pop into and say hello, what's up. It's like a corridor where I know people with similar belief systems, people who are doing really neat things."
But it's not just a tech center — Fazio makes that crystal clear. "We keep hearing that from the outside, but people inside the community do not feel that way. There are more food nerds, art nerds and book nerds here than tech nerds. They're the foundation on which our community is built."
In any case, the idea of tech as a separate sector — a self-contained "bubble" — is behind the times, he says. "Self-contained tech is now implicit in every industry. So sure, you have tons of technologists that push this, but it was never about them. N3rd Street was about the people who live in Philadelphia and run businesses here and care about the city."
With the district in growth mode, and all the attending clamor and headlines, Hillman is concerned that N3rd Street could lose some of its close-knit, communal flavor. "With growth comes change, which means we need a sense of community even more to keep people from growing apart. Growth is great, but our efforts are going to be in complimenting the upward growth with lateral and inward growth — that is, focusing less on adding people, and more on the interconnectedness between people."
Moreover, he adds, businesses come and go, and trends by definition are fleeting. "We need to think more like a cultural district — think Chinatown, Gayborhood, etc. — that can outlast short-term boom/bust business cycles.
"My biggest hope for N3rd Street isn't just that more businesses move here. It's that they take the time to get to know their neighbors and encourage their people to invest time and energy into the city beyond Old City and Northern Liberties."
As Wil Reynolds says, "If I have a motto, it's just, let's try to be good to our industry, our community and each other. And that's it."
It's the nerd way. CEO
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For years, the creative hub on and around N. 3rd Street grew quietly, organically, under the radar. Then came the light-bulb moment when people realized the street signs seemed to spell out "nerd."
"All I could think was, 'How has it taken us this long to see that?'" says Alex Hillman, CEO of Indy Hall. "We started using the nickname colloquially, and soon, others did too."
That included then-Mayor Michael Nutter and officials with the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, who talked up N3rd Street as Philadelphia's technological hub. Interest intensified. More nerds migrated in, and a community star was born. In March 2014, the city passed a resolution, with the usual whereases and therefores, making the moniker official.
It was all a happy accident, says Hillman. The name wasn't stuck on like a label, and that's why it works.
"I've spoken to city leaders who want to learn from what we've done, and the biggest mistake I see is the attempt to establish a 'brand' instead of looking for what already exists, and simply saying, 'This is good — keep going.'"
Artificial brands "always feel hokey and unnatural. That's not what N3rd Street ever attempted to do. Instead, we recognized what was already happening and helped make it visible."


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So last week I actually scrapped and now I have actually finished 3 pages.
This first one is for Stuck Sketches February 15th sketch. I followed the sketch fairly closely just changing the landscape photo for a portrait photo.
Here a couple of close ups
And here is the sketch on which my layout is based.
My second layout was created for one of the cyber crop challenges over at the Scrap Suite.
And the final one is for the February Challenge over at Charms Creations Ideas and Inspirations.
And some close ups
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The Historical Regional Cuisines Of Italy - Part II
This tradition of "feast or famine" lasted until the Renaissance, when the chronicles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries speak of a series of banquets for official receptions, a luxury unheard of since Roman times, in which hundreds of different culinary courses alternate with music, songs and dances. While French, German, and Spanish mercenary troops proceeded with their waves of looting and ravaging the peninsula, the Renaissance courts of Milan, Urbino, Ferrara, Florence, Mantua, the Serenissima Republic of Venice, and most of all the Papal Rome of Michelangelo and Raphael, competed among themselves for the outrageously ornate splendor of their palaces, the magnificence of their collections of fine art, and the staging of public celebrations where massive amounts of refined culinary creations would be served to the numerous guests.
The Renaissance marked a time when Italy began the social and culinary conquest of Europe through an unusual attention to cleanliness and good manners, as recommended by a series of treaties, such as the famous Etiquette of Monsignor Della Casa, which refined and codified the newly established customs. Most interestingly, this new etiquette was centered around the newly popular use of the fork.
Although dried pasta was brought into Sicily many centuries earlier, far from dominating the food scene it continued to be an occasional food in Italy up until the seventeenth century. Up to this time, Neapolitans were known as "mangiafoglie" or leaf eaters, because their basic food were the vegetables grown in the area's rich volcanic soil. In fact, the "vermicelli" or small worms pasta, arrived in the alleys of the city only in 1647, after the critical revolt of Masaniello. From that time onwards, Neapolitans became known as "mangiamaccheroni" or eaters of pasta.
Catherine de Medici by marrying the Dauphin Henry in 1533, was responsible in bringing into widespread application in France the precious Italian culinary traditions and techniques, the elevated achievements of Italian gastronomy, and the establishment of the foundations of the civilization of the table.
It is during the seventeenth and eighteenth century with the disappearance of the European lordships and the royal courts, that Italian food loses its importance and its fame, and the era of national recipe seems finished. By this time, the culinary geography of Europe is already well defined and French cuisine, now included amongst the fine arts, arouses the interest of painters and writers on its way to obtaining European dominance, thanks to a single prominent person: Marie-Antoine Careme, born poor and laboring as a child apprentice in a restaurant, soon became through his genius for cooking enhanced by his natural talent and passionate study of letters and architecture, one of the primary proponents of grand cuisine.
In previous centuries food was an expressive medium for artists to be considered both symbolic and evocative, by the eighteenth century, food becomes a subject of canonical debate. The merit is attributed to the genius of Marie-Antoine Careme and his intellectual relationship with many leading European artists, including the greats of music and literature, such as Gioacchino Rossini and Alexandre Dumas. Even among the painters gastronomy became fashionable: the Impressionists debated the theories of light in the restaurants of Montmartre, and moved to the countryside in search of the effects of light and aromas of stews, renewing the genre of still life of fish, fruits, and vegetables.
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- Victoria Seras
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- 2014
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- Best Craftsmanship SXSW Gaming Expo, Best Anime All con 2014
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Fully drafter original patterns. Handmade thigh highs with cover stitch elastic and marrow hem. Custom made fangs from Dead South Fangs.
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- Dream costume come to life! Joe built my breech loading Harkonnen cannon and it's amazing! 9+ feet long and 45+ pounds!
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Working longer-term in Italy is trickier if you are a non-EU citizen. Firstly, you will need to secure a job offer. Your prospective employer will then need to complete most of the work visa application process on your behalf. If your application is successful, your employer will be given your work authorisation. Your local Italian embassy or consulate will then be informed and should be able to provide you with an entry visa within 30 days. It's worth noting that Italy operates a visa quota system for most occupations, meaning that you will only be offered a visa if the relevant quota has not been met by the time your application is processed. Non-EU citizens planning to stay in Italy for more than 90 days must also apply for a permesso di soggiorno (permit to stay) within eight working days of their entry into Italy. Applications for the permit should be made at their nearest questura (police station). General information on the permit is available on the Italian State Police website (www.poliziadistato.it).
Italy does have reciprocal, short-term working-holiday agreements with a handful of countries, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These visas are generally limited to young adults aged between 18 and 30 or 35 and allow the visa holder to work a limited number of months over a set period of time. Contact your local Italian embassy (www.esteri.it) for more information.
Popular jobs for those permitted to work in Italy include teaching English, either through a language school or as a private freelancer. While some language schools do take on teachers without professional language qualifications, the more reputable (and better-paying) establishments will require you to have a TEFL (Teaching of English as a Foreign Language) certificate. Useful job-seeker websites for English-language teachers include ESL Employment (www.eslemployment.com) and TEFL (www.tefl.org.uk/tefl-jobs-centre). Au pairing is another popular work option; click onto www.aupairworld.com for more information on work opportunities and tips.


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Seven including bridegroom die as boat capsizes in Multan
Twenty two to thirty people, including a newly wedding couple, were in the boat when the unfortunate incident took place.
Three children were amongst the dead. The search for the missing persons is ongoing.
Eighteen people been rescued by the help of Pakistan Army soldiers so far in which three people are said to be in critical condition.
Death toll is feared to increase.
It should be noted that five breaches have been created at Shershah Dyke to save the historical city from the floodwater.