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So much of Sarah & Erik's personality came through in their August farm wedding. From the floral theme, the signature cocktail created by the wine distributor bride, incorporation of family heirlooms like a hand embroidered handkerchief and grandma's blue stone ring, to the buried bourbon for good luck and good weather. I loved this wedding!
Photographer: Holly Hursley
Venue, Caterer & Florist: Pastures of Plenty
Music: KC Groves
Hair & MU: Alchemy Face Bar
Dress: Rue de Seine
Could you imagine the bountiful beauty that a top Denver florist's wedding would have? So much, as you can see here! Mallory, a lead florist at Plum Sage Flowers, and I have worked together on several weddings over the years. I was honored to be chosen by her and Christian as the planner for their October wedding at the McNichols Civic Center Building. These two are not only gorgeous and stylish, they are sweet, easygoing, and fun. And the photos of them traipsing around the city are among my most favorite ever!
Vendor Love: Levi Tijerina Photography, Tasos Hernandez Entertainment, Plum Sage Flowers, The Usual Barbershop, Leilani Drum, Relish Catering, Mondo Vino
Torrey and Danny met and fell in love during their undergrad at CU and were living in Boston during their engagement. It was Torrey's family, Boulder-natives, with whom I became close to over the course of planning their wedding at the new, impressive event space at Folsom Field, with the ceremony at the breathtaking St. John's Episcopal Church. However, when I finally met Torrey and Danny the weekend of their wedding, it did not take long to make the jump to feeling close to them too. I have been so lucky to work with such lovely couples and their wonderful families, and this couple was no exception.
Vendor Love: Preston Ultey, Plumsage Flowers, Andy at Side Door Salon, Makeup by Naomi Robles, Bus to Show, Elite DJ, Dessert by Whole Foods, Lodging and Getting Ready at The St Julien & The Boulderado
I knew the bride from having worked with her family for her older sister's wedding the year prior, so of course I was already endeared to her and thrilled to be brought on board to plan with her and her family once again. Roo & Elias chose the bride's family's private ranch in Estes Park for their June wedding. It was a weekend extravaganza that always felt true to who Roo & Elias are; filled with swimming in the lake, spreading wildflower seeds, and a chuckwagon brunch. Many of the guests chose to camp on the property. The rest of the guests were shuttled back and forth by intricate transportation coordination involving buses, golf carts and trolleys. Turning this property into a venue to accommodate the four hundred guests for a major celebration took many months of careful planning with a truly talented team of people. The results couldn't have been more beautiful and fun.
Vendor Love: Doug Treiber Photography, DJ Maestro, Thorn Creek Flowers, Rising Moon Films, Forget Me Not Media, Fletemeyer & Lee Associates, CO potties, Graff's Turf, All Event, Fort Collins Charter, Royal Ambassadors, Estes Park Trolley, Shamane's Bake Shop, Verde, Street Frites, High Point Creamery, Jubilee Roasting Co, Basic Kneads Pizza, The French Twist, Bartenders & More
Martha and Jared met and starting dating in high school in Alaska. They are now Denver locals and were married in May, on their tenth anniversary. Martha had a very clear design vision and it was fun to bring it life. These two may be the most romantic couple I have worked with; adding loving notes and gifts to one another throughout the day, as you'll see below. What a gorgeous weekend it was! (as was their Denver Engagement shoot that I couldn't resist adding a shot of)
Photography: Jody Zorn
Venue and Catering: Devil's Thumb Ranch and Resort
Floral: Newberry Brothers
Lighting & Design: LMD Productions
Music: Elite DJ
Hair & Makeup: The Look Salon, Denver
Dessert: Kelley Kakes


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The Broods' Georgia Nott could be coy when describing the meaning of "Mother and Father," a synth-textured processional from Evergreen, the debut disc by her introspective pop duo with older brother Caleb Nott. She could say, for instance, that the lyrics are a metaphor for something grandiose. But no, sighs the New Zealander, it's just a song about missing her folks.
"It's kind of a story of trying to figure out what we're supposed to do without them," says the 20-year-old, who recently — and with much trepidation — moved out on her own. "It's really weird not being around your parents. And just not having a full house is strange — not having laughing and yelling and crying, all of the things that happen in a family home. You don't really realize how much you're going to miss them. So I just needed to write a song about it, about grieving for your childhood."
Most of the Broods' material, says Nott, results from some form of serious brooding. Take her restrained lead vocals and her brother's empathetic accompaniment on the band's breakthrough single "Bridges." From a distance, it may sound cumulus-fluffy, but the lyrics are a dark reflection on a particularly painful breakup.
"That's why I write so many sad songs," she says. "It's a necessity. I need to write them for myself, not because I want to write sad songs all the time."
Ironically, Nott started singing in the happiest of surroundings. Her uncle, aunt and parents anchored an ABBA tribute band, and they regularly brought her to shows, parking her stage-side in a toddler car seat. Soon she was singing along so loudly that they decided to leave her home with a babysitter.
But Nott was not dissuaded. At 10, she stood up at her grandfather's birthday party to sing a wobbly rendition of Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway," and relatives all encouraged her. "So I was like, 'Oh! People like listening to me! I should probably keep going!'" she recalls. "So then performing turned into writing, and writing turned into recording, and I got more and more confident."
Initially, the duo joined forces with two cousins to form The Peasants and went on to win a local song contest. The were approached afterward by one of the judges, Joel Little, who helped Lorde find her own sound on the massive hit "Royals."
Under the producer's tutelage, they pared down to a duo and dialed up the darkness. "We'd always played music together, since way before bands, way before anything," she says. "And we'd always thought that we could do some cool stuff as a duo. So Broods just kind of grew quickly, organically, into what it is now."
As for the future, Nott hopes to someday do a spooky ABBA cover or two. But the main goal, she says, is to keep on doing what they're doing, "not for five minutes, not for one album — but for a long time, for as long as we can, until we can't hear properly anymore."
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FIFA delegation in Jamaica for CONCACAF workshop
The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) will host a group of delegates from the sport's world governing body, the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), at a FIFA development workshop today and tomorrow at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston.
The group will then travel to western Jamaica, where they will be in attendance for the 2015 CONCACAF Men's Under-20 Championship Group A football match between Jamaica and the United States at the Montego Bay Sports Complex.
The workshop is being staged as part of the development strategy of FIFA for the advancement of the game in the CONCACAF region. The group will present an overview of 2014 and provide updated reports from each CONCACAF member state on the current status of their programmes. The workshop will also serve to assess and agree on strategies for the continued development of the game within CONCACAF for 2015.
The FIFA development officer for the south-east Caribbean, Howard McIntosh, is pleased that Jamaica is hosting the workshop and has great expectations it will develop strategies to improve the sport.
"I am elated that we can stage this workshop here in Jamaica. I have long been an advocate of hosting international seminars, tournaments and workshops locally, and this, along with the ongoing CONCACAF Under-20 Championships, is testament that progress is being made," said McIntosh.
Further growth
He added: "The CONCACAF has made an enormous impact on the international arena and the future of the region's football continues to look brighter and brighter. It is up to the FIFA development staff now to continue the work that was started and improve upon the foundations established, so we can secure additional growth for the game in the region."
The FIFA delegation arrived in the island yesterday. They are Juerg Nepfer, head of education and technical development; Gregory Engelbrecht, senior manager of development programmes of the Americas; Angenie Kanhai, FIFA development officer for the north-west Caribbean; Julio Rocha, FIFA development officer for Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean; Marcos Tinoco, technical development officer for the north-west Caribbean; Anton Corneal, technical development officer for the south-east Caribbean; and Rodrigo Kenton, technical director for Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.


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I've never seen so much PINK! Balloons, frocks, shoes, hair, food, drink, flowers and of course, smiles!
I hosted a Pink Ribbon Day 'Girls DAY In' - what started as a vague idea eventually became a big get-together of friends and girls from around the district. Ladies turned up in pink wigs, floral dresses, carrying flowers, pink lollies and a wonderful feeling of excitement and positive energy.
I'd seen a post on Facebook a few weeks ago about Pink Ribbon Day and thought 'I should do something'. I'll get the girls together. We'll eat pink food and drink pink bubbly. We'll play some games, get together, laugh, talk and meet new faces. My second 'brainwave' was a raffle. I've never organised one before, I had no idea but to hit the main street in my little town and ask for donations. Every single business owner in the town I asked said YES! Donations were piling up in my house and people were ringing me to ask if they could donate. I couldn't believe the wonderful snowball effect of good will. As the prizes piled up I kept adding them to the list. I sat on the floor in my lounge room and sorted out hampers, vouchers, bottle of wine, food baskets and a whole heap of pink cellophane and ribbon to seal the deal!
Food was not a problem with my wonderful group of foodie gals! Between us, we made pink lamingtons, pink chocolate covered strawberries, sponge cake, fairy cakes, cherry ripe slice, pink meringues with rosewater cream and raspberries, fruity punch with cranberry and lots of pink lollies. Savoury ideas were harder but we came up with beetroot and trout dip, beetroot chips, smoked salmon toasts and the ever popular saveloy sausages dipped in tomato sauce (with a little mayonnaise added to make it pink). The table overflowed with pink joy! Bottles of mini pink bubbly were placed in a pink laundry basket surrounded by rose wine, pink moscato, cranberry juice and pink grapefruit mineral water.
We had some rules today - certain words were NOT to be spoken! Swear words were out - that was it, I was broke. The gold coin jar filled up quickly with penalties when anyone said 'pink', 'bubbles', 'girls', 'cake' and 'punch'. Everyone was being dobbed in.
I'm not one for speeches but I said a thank you to all those that came and others that supported the fundraiser but could not make it. My utmost respect and gratitude goes out to you all. I thought about all the women affected by cancer and a quiet moment for a dear friend of mine who survived breast cancer - with a young child and supportive family by her side. We don't see each other much but she's always in my heart, we've known each other since we were 5 years old. Funnily enough it was her birthday today, so happy birthday Kirsten!
And I really don't want to see pink cream, icing, cake, jelly, punch and sugar for a long time!


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Two major categories of noise affect all audio cables: electrical interference and micro-phonics. Unbalanced signal core audio cables are much more sensitive to electrical interference than balanced cables which, because of their twisted pair configuration, have the ability to mutually cancel EMI. Microphonic noise is caused by a static charges generated when the conductor is rubbed/moved against its insulation. This occurs to some degree whenever the cable is moved. The microphonic effect is evident by a clicking noise in the system, usually occurring when the cable is handled or moved. Gotham GAC-1 unbalanced cable (1000X) has been engineered to minimize these affects. With this ultra Pro version we have gone one step forward by adding yet another lawyer of conductive plastic between the conductor (7) itself and the isolation of the conductor. Making a sandwich kind of conductive material between the 2 copper shields and the conductor isolation itself.
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Leah Arsenault, current acting second flute with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, is one of today's fastest rising young flutists. Before her appointment in Cincinnati, she was second flute with the Louisville Orchestra and has won first prize in numerous competitions across the United States, including the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition, the Myrna Brown Young Artist Competition, and the Frank Bowen Young Artist Competition.
Ms. Arsenault was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and has served as a member of the National Repertory, Spoleto Festival (USA), and Artosphere Festival Orchestras. In 2009 and 2010, she was piccoloist for the Star Wars in Concert national tour. As a solo artist, Ms. Arsenault was featured with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and has appeared as guest performer and teacher at the conventions of the National Flute Association and the Texas Flute Society. In addition to her active performing career, Ms. Arsenault is a dedicated teacher. She recently held the position of Adjunct Professor of Flute at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and has taught for the Juilliard School Pre-College Division. She also maintains a private studio.
Ms. Arsenault earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she was teaching assistant to Dr. Bradley Garner. Her principal teachers include Bradley Garner, Jack Wellbaum, Tadeu Coelho, Philip Dunigan, and Krysia Tripp. Ms. Arsenault also received a high school diploma from the North Carolina School of the Arts and earned a Professional Studies Certificate from the Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles where she was a student of esteemed flutist, Jim Walker.
Originally from Wells, Maine, Leah Arsenault enjoys many hobbies outside of music. In her spare time she enjoys cycling, reading, yoga, cooking, and hosting dinner parties for friends. She always looks forward to spending time during the summers in her hometown on the coast of Maine.


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As I write this, there is still no news on the Jonathan Tiernan-Locke blood irregularity story that has been in the mainstream cycling press. Some have argued that Tiernan-Locke has been given a raw deal by the press and that JTL is effectively "tainted" now for the rest of his career, no matter what he does in future. This is the reason why doping investigations remain confidential, but questions were always going to be asked about why JTL pulled out of the GB Road Race team when he did back on 26th September 2013. "Lack of form" wouldn't have cut it for long; much lesser riders than JTL were in that squad and he wasn't representing the higher echelon of Team Sky at the time. His form had been poor since making the jump up from Continental level, but perhaps that was to be expected.
I'm not going to speculate wildly about whether JTL's blood readings are representative of an illness or doping; I haven't got any more facts than anybody else, yet I do feel that stories like this deserve to be in the press. Professional sportsmen / women manage to exist because they are a form of public entertainment, no matter what the sport. If people aren't riding clean, then people deserve to know what they're watching. If JTL's blood readings are "clean", then I expect the processes around that to be well-explained by the UCI so that we can all have confidence in the procedure, and I'm sure they will be very thorough procedures indeed. It shouldn't taint him in the long-term, so long as there is transparency. Unfortunately, the UCI is a masterful institution at remaining silent on important issues within cycling, and nobody seems to know what is happening with the case at the moment.
On a personal note, I hope that JTL is clean. I saw him win the Tour of Britain at the first ever cycling event I attended in person, standing out on Guildford High St for about 4 hours just to catch a 15-second glimpse of him as he cycled past in the gold jersey. I saw him crunch his way up Porlock Hill in Devon the day before, knowing that my car had barely once made it up that climb. For me, he was one of the outstanding riders of 2012 and a deserved addition to the Team Sky line-up. I hope my faith in him isn't misplaced.


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nokiyem, 02 Oct 2012old school OS, not interested..Symbian has true multitasking, no forced closed apps, battery efficient, native file manager. I still feel Symbian is best mobile OS. It just need higher screen resolution. Too bad Elop killed it and Sony also does not refused to update my Vivaz software, so now taking temporary refuge in laggy and battery hungry Android.
Great news!!
The best mobilephone is getting even better. Love the Nokia 808:-)
little disappointing update. There is absolutely no reason to buy nokia phones
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Talent manager, Bukola Akinniranye a.k.a Vanaulky, Principal Consultant of Ultra n Vogue Company a subsidiary of Creative Accord Limited signs management deal with Kaywise Entertainment to present DJ Kaywise, the youngest most influential DJ in Nigeria.
The 19 year old Alaba mix wizard is fast becoming a brand to reckon with in the Nigerian music industry with a growing fan base and increasing popularity within and outside the music industry.
DJ Kaywise spans several years in the entertainment industry and the outcome is vast experience, which can only be garnered by working with some of the best hands in every field. His influences include international DJs – David Guetta, DJ Khalid, our very own DJ humility, DJ Jimmy Jatt, DJ Sose etc. With over 1000 mixtape to his credit there is rarely no home, car, pub, fast food outlets without his mix across the country and neighbouring countries.
Naija Vibes Mixtape Vol 1 is the 1st free Mixtape by DJ Kaywise and it is an 85mins compilation of non stop music of some of Nigeria's best artistes like Dbanj, Wizkid, 2face, Davido, Tiwa Savage, Psquare, Ice Prince, CapB and many more
Ultra n Vogue Company has decided to partner with Kaywise Entertainment because of the uniqueness of the brand and we would love to pioneer the introduction of DJ Kaywise to a broader market.
DJ Kaywise is currently working on a series of unique projects and merchandise that would be launched in the course of the year which would further position him into the African Music Market. The Young DJ looks forward to creating and delivering great music to his fans across the country and abroad.


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Munich 2013 Face to Face Agenda and Minutes
- 1 Agenda
- 1.1 Wednesday 10th July
- 1.2 Thursday 11th July
- 1.3 Minutes
- 1.3.1 Summary of Action Items
- 1.3.2 Wednesday Topics
- 1.3.3 Red Hat's interest in MBUI
- 1.3.4 Review of MBUI Use Case study
- 1.3.5 Updating the Task model specification
- 1.3.6 The Abstract UI meta model specification
- 1.3.7 The Glossary
- 1.3.8 Thursday Morning Topics
- 1.3.9 W3C Ubiquitous Application Design Community Group
- 1.3.10 Next steps for the MBUI Working Group
- 1.3.11 Further steps for the AUI meta model
Wednesday 10th July
Conference Call number: +49 89 205071241
The meeting will start promptly at 9am and run as long as we feel is appropriate
09.00 - 10.00 * Invited presentation on Red Hat's interest in MBUI
10.00 - 10.30 * Review of MBUI Use Case study
10.30 - 11.00 * Updated Public Working Draft for Task Models - What changes we want to apply to the FPWD from 2 August 2012
11.00 - 12.30 * Preparing the Abstract UI for transition to First Public Working Draft
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 * Preparing the Abstract UI for transition to First Public Working Draft
15.00 - 17.00 * Preparing the Glossary for publication as a Working Group Note
- Clarification on the intended audience
- Checking for consistency
- Which entries we feel can be dropped
17.00 - 18.00 * Preparing the Introduction to MBUI for publication as a Working Group Note
Group receipt for Wednesday evening's dinner at the Ilios restaurant
Thursday 11th July
The meeting will start at 9am and run until lunchtime.
- 9.00 - 10.00 The new Ubiquitous Application Design Community Group
- 10.00 - 10.30 What is involved in moving specs along the W3C Recommendation Track
- See the W3C Recommendation Track Process
- How can we demonstrate interoperability across all features in the task and abstract UI model specifications?
- Who will be able to provide implementation reports?
- 10.30 - 11.00 What do we expect to have achieved by the end of the current charter (30 November 2013)
- How can we attract greater industry participation in the working group?
- 11.00 - 12.00 What do we need to do about rechartering?
- See current charter
We will aim to have the minutes explicitly in the wiki pages, based upon notes from the IRC channel and those taken separately. The following links are temporary, as the final minutes will appear as part of this page.
Meeting summary from handwritten notes by Michael Bauer
- Dave, Paolo, Fabio, Heiko, Nick, Michael, Carlos, Joelle, Gaelle, Davide (remote)
- Jean, Gerrit
- Fabio
- Dave + others
Summary of Action Items
NEW ACTION: Fabio and colleagues to provide an updated draft by the next teleconference (July 19)
NEW ACTION: Jaroslav to draw an updated CTT diagram and circulate the exported XML file by end of 10 July 2013
Wednesday Topics
- Red Hat's interest in MBUI
- Review of MBUI Use Case study
- What is left to do on the Introduction to MBUI?
- The Abstract UI meta model specification
We start by going around the table introducing ourselves. The telephone bridge will be set up shortly
Red Hat's interest in MBUI
- Heiko's slides (pdf)
Heiko, our host, gives us a brief introduction to Red Hat. Open source company well known for its Linux distributions, we offer support and training.
Fabio: who are your clients?
Heiko: traditionally, financial companies for servers, but more generally for enterprise Large insurance companies, health care, and other companies across the board.
Jaroslav: what is the relation to jBoss?
Heiko: we acquired jBoss 6 years ago, and it is now run as its own business unit, focusing on a Java server platform. e.g. for business rules and BPM, where you depend on declarative statement of business rules. jBoss is based upon the Drools forward chaining engine.
Heiko: on the one hand we need to bring the various software components together, but we also need to present a consistent user interface for managing them.
We have software engineers working on middleware components, but mostly they don't have expertise in user interface design. One of the benefits for model based UI design is to enable the full range of stakeholders to engage in the design and review process. We have been exploring the UseML framework for an XML description of the UIs.
A business expert may create a rough UI, that is later refined by a usability expert.
We go directly from the AUI to the final UI. We don't make use of task models, but do take advantage of the temporal operators.
Paolo: how do you model mutual exclusion, where if you do one task you can't then do another.
Heiko: we have suspend and resume operators ...
Heiko: we currently just generate HTML5 as the final UI. We are also considering an eclipse module. Everything is open source and publicly accessible. We have explored for some time the right level of abstraction to meet our UI, and the W3C MBUI WG looked very relevant to our needs. The structural aspects are much easier to address compared with the behavioural aspects for a given UI design. It has been very useful to have a shared terminology to facilitate work across different stakeholders.
We support UI extensions and progressive enhancements to a UI, even with contributions by end-users. With a simpler description of the abstract UI it becomes much easier for people to adjust the UI to their needs.
We have have very strong authorization requirements for the interfaces, controlling which users can access what features. The tooling is critical for making this all practical. We can check the consistency of a given UI design against the domain interfaces.
People contribute structural parts (domain interfaces) and the behavioural parts in different orders, So we need to allow for that. We are working on better visual tools for designing and manipulating the full UI design.
Different stakeholders contribute different aspects to a design and this would be close to impossible without the models as a shared underlying description.
Jaroslav refers to XForms and SCXML as providing a vocabulary for UI aspects, have you considered using any of these in your work?
Heiko: not really. We define product/domain specific containers as the basis for forms.
Dave: W3C groups in many cases use WebIDL for specifying interfaces, I've been looking at extending this with annotations inspired by XForms.
Jaroslav asks if Heiko could give a short presentation of the details of the Red Hat framework, perhaps this evening or tomorrow morning.
Review of MBUI Use Case study
Vivian: the use case study is depicted in figure 2 in the Intoduction to MBUI
Jaroslav: it is important to describe a concrete example in more detail, so that readers can understand how the models at different levels of description relate to one another.
Vivian and Jaroslav discuss what's needed ...
Dave: what timescale are we talking about for finishing this?
Joelle: I was expecting this to have been done by today.
Gaelle: can we do this collaboratively?
Jaroslav: I would expect to see a CTT diagram and a text-based description of tasks, and likewise for the AUI.
Fabio: to avoid the document becoming too large, we can cite external documents with the full models.
Dave: the introduction does need to provide sufficient details to motivate people to read more, but without embroiling them in too many details.
Carlos: we need to explain the Cameleon framework first.
Joelle: yes
Carlos: who are the target readers for the document?
Joelle: UI developers and tool vendors.
Jaroslav notes that there is a lack of consistency across our documents.
Joelle: it would be a lot easier if we could project the documents so that can all see just what is being referred to
... we take a break while the projection system wiring is sorted out -- the room was recently reconfigured and isn't working just yet --
... we shift rooms as a work around the wiring problem
we reconvene, and Heiko projects the intro document
We discuss what we want to see for the treatment of the use case in the introductory document. There needs to be a consistent treatment of the terms used.
Fabio: the meta model is quite simple, e.g. compared with the one we started with in Serenoa.
Joelle points out some minor inconsistencies, e.g. the spelling of colour in one place and color in another.
Joelle: we really need to get this ready for publication.
Davide joins us remotely via the telephone bridge
Gaelle: the task models needs to be explained, e.g. the interleaving operator.
Gaelle: the case study needs to be convincing about the value of using task models.
Carlos: Fabio's example of the digital home is for me easier to understand
Gaelle: we don't need to start afresh, it isn't a huge amount of work!
... Nick arrives
Joelle: we need to show how the models relate to different target platforms e.g. smart phones.
Carlos is right, it makes sense to start from the final UI and show how this is derived.
Gaelle: we just need to take the point of view of the end user.
Vivian projects the diagram from http://sites.uclouvain.be/mbui/ This shows the car rental use case AUI and task model
Fabio: the task model is abstract and doesn't specify the final UI
Gaelle draws a diagram with one task model, two resultant AUI models, and showing that a given AUI model can be used for multiple CUI models, and in turn for multiple final UIs
Vivian: the AUI should be platform independent.
Paolo: the AUI should be expressed in terms of containers ...
Jaroslav: would the clustering of abstract interaction units depend on the characteristics of the target devices.
Fabio: the AUI vocabulary is modality independent.
Paolo: we could handle this at the task model
Joelle: we don't necessarily start from the task models, sometimes you start from the abstract UI
Dave: it makes sense to start from small number of screen shots on the use case on a desktop and a smart phone, and then explain how the models make it easier to generate these UIs
Carlos: in the task model there is a single action to submit the data collected from the user.
... some confusion ensues
Joelle the mapping from the task model to the final UI is not one to one.
Jaroslav: you can't revert a submit (semantics are transactional)
Dave thinks the discussion is mostly about the domain model ... and the ordering semantics imposed by it
Fabio: how do we want to proceed (as we are running short of time for this agenda item)
Heiko: so the plan is to use a single use case consistently across our documents, right?
Fabio: yes
Carlos: we could have further use cases, although in less detail We discuss the initial wording for motivating the car rental use case
Joelle volunteers to draft the context of use
1. The user is at home at her PC. 2. The user is walking fast along a quiet street with her smart phone
Fabio: if you are walking fast your attention is not on the screen.
Joelle: let's now look at the task model ...
Dave: the task model needs to relate to the domain model at some level
Gaelle invites Jaroslav to describe the task model
n.b. for the second context of use, we anticipate the use of vocal interaction with the smart phone.
Jaroslav: you should put the most important task first ...
Fabio: at the task level should avoid unnecessary details, as these should be added at the concrete UI level, you for the target platforms.
Dave notes that the current task model for the car rental example isn't realistic compared with actual car rental apps from the likes of the Hertz company. You typically pick up and drop off the car from a Hertz site, e.g. an airport or railway station.
The tasks focus on how you are able to identify these sites, e.g. with the name of the airport, or by drilling down from the country, region, town and so forth.
Heiko: we should look at simplified use cases based upon real world examples.
Paolo suggests refining task models based upon the availability of resources and the constraints that apply to them.
Fabio: some transformations for particular constraints can be done at the task level or at lower levels.
Heiko: if there are big differences between the needs of the two contexts of use, then it would be easier to understand with separate task models.
Joelle: it needs to specify who, what, when and where.
Dave: what covers the type of car, options such as booster seats for small children, and insurance options.
Gaelle: the main tasks cover expressing what you want, making a selection, reviewing the details, then making the payment. We use the Hertz website as a guide to constructing our simplified task model
Joelle: you first need to specify where and when, but these tasks are not ordered.
Dave wonders about how you capture the fact that it is rare to return the car to a different location than where you picked it up, isn't this part of the domain model?
We discuss the task for selecting a pick up and drop off site. The details are likely to vary according to the context of use.
Joelle and Gaelle present their proposal for the task model
Dave notes that task models can be decomposed into modular design exercises done by different teams. We don't need to cover everything in a single task model.
Joelle: the what booking task subdivides into where, when and what which need to precede the pay task
Dave: when approaching UI design, a starting point is typically a statement of the business needs including characterisation of the target users. This can then be mapped into the domain and task models.
Joelle: price comparison sites seem to generalize the domain model to cover multiple websites, e.g. Hertz and Avis, one example is how far away the car rental site is located.
Gaelle: we need to be able to indicate that a task is a critical one. This is for tasks where there is a big penalty to the user for making a mistake.
Fabio: we could add that in the next update the the task model specification.
Paolo: we could characterise the tasks in terms of the resources they make available to the process in their post-conditions
Dave asks for how we want to address the less likely case of users wanting to drop off at a different location?
Fabio: we can make that into an optional task.
Paolo: the drop off at a different location is really a subtask of "define return location", either you accept the default location or you set a different one
... we break for lunch
What is left to do on the Introduction to MBUI?
Improve the consistency. Update the use case based on the morning's discussion.
Jaroslav has made some notes on the white board diagram for the car rental task model provided by Joelle and Gaelle.
Dave notes that Hertz only shows the cars they reckon will be available from your selected pick up location and date.
Jaroslav: so there is a dependency ordering on the tasks. Joelle the commit and pay task is a critical task as it can't be back tracked,
ACTION: Jaroslav to draw an updated CTT diagram and circulate the exported XML file by end of 10 July 2013
Heiko: do we need to include an explicit domain model?
Dave: I think this would be considered important by Web developers who are very much interested in the boundary between the user interface and the back end application information systems.
Heiko: people will take different approaches to what is developed first, the domain model make come after the initial work on the task model. In my opinion the domain, task and abstract ui models should be in the same document for the convenience of readers.
Gaelle: should we have a new document just for the case?
Joelle: so all the models are extracted from the other documents and referenced.
Gaelle: we could then have separate documents for each use case.
Paolo: sometimes you only want to use one model, and don't need the full set of models for a given use case.
Dave: the introductory document should be readable on its own.
Gaelle asks Dave to create a new document for the car rental study
Dave: I copied the intro document, so now you all need to edit it as appropriate, see [ttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1BnITI7AoeZAlOMiRvLW0Yt45nsx9wCT3AVTgmLDu2G0/ car rental study]
Fabio: we need to decide on next steps ...
Our next teleconference will be Friday, 19 July. We should have the intro and use case documents ready for Group review by then.
Joelle: I will work on it this evening.
Fabio: I think we can now proceed to other agenda items.
Updating the Task model specification
Fabio: we have already agreed a number of changes. To clean up the introduction, to move out the example model and reference the use case document, and to add support to the schema for marking tasks as "critical".
Dave: we should then aim to push out an updated public working draft. We can later move to a last call working draft once the working group notes have been published.
Fabio: ISTI will update the html version that was previously published.
Dave: thanks - it was a lot of work to generate clean HTML from the google doc, so that is much appreciated.
Fabio: the specification is now structured to make it easier to add new task types.
ACTION: Fabio and colleagues to provide an updated draft by the next teleconference (July 19)
The Abstract UI meta model specification
Vivian provides a short status report.
Carlos: where is the output event for when the system provides info back to the user?
Heiko: we have a DataInputOutput event that can be used for that.
Paolo: we aren't aiming to be comprehensive in the set of events, what you see are essentially examples.
Joelle: we have a distinction between interactors and events
Heiko: what was the motivation to merge the input and output event?
Paolo: the description makes the purpose clear: to support data input, output or both. You could say it is too general, but I don't see that as a problem
Fabio: is the resource model explained here?
Paolo: you're right, it is missing
Jaroslav: Paolo could you provide one?
Heiko: the uml diagrams are kept here: http://code.google.com/p/mbui-diagrams/
Dave: I've added a link to it from the wiki page for editor's drafts
Heiko: we don't all of us understand all of the details of the AUI meta model, I think that is a sign that it is too complex
We discuss the attribute "isCompound" which essentially signals whether the interaction unit is composed from lower level components.
Jaroslav: are they any methods to get the compound components?
Fabio: no, we should add them
Heiko: the attribute seems redundant, right
Gaelle: yes, you're right
.... Davide rejoins remotely on the audio bridge
Gaelle: we are losing flexibility with the current meta model for composition.
Paolo: if we leave composition to the task model, we lose flexibility.
Gaelle: the task model is rigid (e.g. in its set of temporal operators), here in the AUI we need greater flexibility.
Carlos: in the task model, a task may have an explicit set of sub-tasks, but you can't have a given task decompose into different sets of sub-tasks.
Fabio: would the latter make sense?
Paolo steps up to the board to clarify his point about the rigidity of the current decomposition meta model for tasks
Gaelle: composition should be a common pattern for the meta-models across the levels in the Cameleon framework
Gaelle: composition is an entity per se that is made explicit at all levels of models
Jaroslav: do we have an operator for this?
Paolo: the task model is structured through the pattern CompoundElement - Composition Entity - aggregation of entitities of the same type of the compound element, in the same way as the Task model
Paolo: the rationale is that the semantics of the composition relation makes it difficult to create intermediate levels, once a subtree has been created
Gaelle: I want to remove the attribute useCaseCoverage
Heiko: this needs to be revisited by Jean, why don't we remove everything that isn't obvious to people in the room?
Paolo: we may not want to bind to use cases in all situations.
Fabio: useCaseCoverage sounds like a documentation concept.
Joelle reads out the descriptions of the attributes on AbstractInteractionUnit
Fabio: securityLevel seems similar to "critical" for task models.
Vivian: security can be used in relation to access control - locking down which users can access what features.
Carlos: why a five point security scale?
Dave: I would have thought that for access control you want names that you can relate to access control policies
Gaelle: these attributes are here to allow people to start by designing the AUI and later to come up with the task model.
Heiko: companies vary considerably in how they deal with security. We also have to consider privacy ...
Gaelle: perhaps we need a generic mechanism for annotations and allow for extensibility
Joelle: who wants to volunteer to update the AUI metamodel?
I would rather we updated it right now, right here! Gaelle summarises her proposal for the new framework for the meta model
Paolo volunteers to try to capture this in words for the minutes. Discussion ensures on the details.
Gaelle: all the metamodels, no matter their level of abstraction, are based on the following conventions:
Paolo notes that instantiation is needed not subclassing for that would give the wrong kind of flexibility. There are entities, these are composed through a Composition classes, and there is a mechanism for annotating entities with domain-specific levels all the other metamodels realise these mechanisms
Gaelle: draws the updated meta model on the flip chart
Paolo: I am updating the model electronically.
The point is to make the metamodels consistent in the way of modeling, and concise, ie. limited to the scope they are in charge of. The fact that a model is a composition of entities, that an entity can be annotated, and so on is generic and so should be capitalized in the commons, ie. the UImodel. Each level of abstraction inherits from this generic model, and thus focuses on the specificities it has (enumerations of tasks, AUI composition roles)
If we have annotations that make sense at all the levels of abstraction (e.g., important, frequent, critical, ...), then they should be also enumerated in the commons
a paragraph regarding the definition of the user that was at the end of the introductory document has been deleted and pasted it in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Nzb3_R6bJnqe7CZ7_mVJLRaqTVDz26ssNLV_pSW_TQ/edit
we resume after a coffee break while the editors are busy updating the AUI meta models.
Paolo presents the new meta model.
Gaelle asks Paolo to provide examples.
In the coffee break Heiko noted that simplifying the meta model is important for use by businesses. The number of documents remains an issue, and we really need a short introduction that can be read in a few minutes. Something that a developer or manager can understand, and which doesn't need to reflect the rigour expected in research papers.
Perhaps we should spend a little time on the personas for the people we want to read our documents?
Paolo steps up to the screen whilst asking Vivian to make changes to the naming of the components in the UML editor.
The grey boxes are generic and used for annotatons. The yellow(?) boxes are specific to the AUI
dsr-grasbrunn: can you remind of printing later on, when we finished todays session?
The Glossary
Fabio: lets put a finish time of 5:30pm for this session.
Jaroslav: one general question is how to handle abbreviations, as this hampers readability
Fabio: usually these are put somewhere
Jaraslav: an example is the use of AIU for abstract interation unit.
I would just expand these abbreviations.
Dave agrees
General agreement around the room
We do however need to define the common abbreviations used in our other documents.
Jaroslav: how to treat citations and references as there a lot of them
Fabio: I would remove them
In the short term Jaroslav will move the references into a new column so that we don't lose them
Jaroslav asks Joelle to review the terms migratory UI, nomadic UI and plastic UI 1
Jaroslav would like to have a column with synonyms and related words in the published document.
Gaelle: what is the norm for glossaries in W3C?
Dave: not sure that there is one, we should perhaps follow Heiko's suggestion of coming up with the personas for our target readers, and ask them!
we discuss the wording of the glossary items one by one.
Heiko: is the glossary an optional document? In my opinion, it shouldn't be essential for people reading the other documents, and we could be using our time more effectively on other matters,
Gaelle: we should recommend certain terms for a consistent way of talking about model-based design.
Dave notes that the current wording for "Abstraction" is too hard for the target audience and as such needs rewriting into something simpler.
He adds that the introduction to model-based UI should be a short easy to read introduction that doesn't require people to read the glossary, which is something that people could turn to as follow on background reading as they feel the desire to dig deeper.
We continue through the terms ...
(note we've reached the 5:30pm local time deadline we planned to stop)
we agree to continue to 6pm
Davide: the call dropped, I'm leaving now... See you tomorrow
... we break for the evening and a group dinner at the near greek restaurant "The Ilios"
Thursday Morning Topics
- W3C Ubiquitous Application Design Community Group
- Next steps for the MBUI Working Group
- Further steps for the AUI meta model
W3C Ubiquitous Application Design Community Group
Gaelle: the dialogue model is the behavioural aspect of the AUI model
Dave presents Community groups and the Ubiquitous Application Design Community Group in particular, inviting members of the working group to join
Next steps for the MBUI Working Group
Dave presents the steps involved in the production of a W3C Recommendation
Gaelle: do we need to have a consistent way of metamodeling?
Fabio: plan for the aui: by the next audioconference a clean version should be read for final check before publicizing the fiorst working group note
Heiko: not at this stage, we will need implementations to show that things work together
Fabio: we can use the introductory document to provide an overview
Discussion on how to achieve two independent implementations
Dave: the implementations have to cover all features
Dave: we could have a test fest, with people in a room exchanging models over different tools.
Dave illustrates the options for dealing with the impending November deadline
Joelle: best option could be to launch a community group in which to do the implementation and then to recharter the WG
Heiko: the only realistic way is to build a community and take from there
Dave: in summary, we should aim to move Task Models and Abstract UI specs through Last Call and into Candidate Recommendations by end of November when the charter expires. This will entail seeking review by other groups, and defining the exit criteria for the Candidate Recommendations.
The Community Group could then shepherd the work on gathering implementation reports and plans for future standization. We could then propose new charters to take this into the REC track.
Red Hat could provide implementation report for the Abstract UI, but not the Task Models spec. ISTI/CNR could do both. We need to collect such commitments from other organizations.
Heiko: the exit criteria should extend to the requirement to take the test models all the way to final UI to ensure that the specs and implementations have relevance to the real world.
Further steps for the AUI meta model
This is a continuation of yesterday's session on the AUI. Paolo talks about the idea of templates.
Heiko: cites login dialogue that can be embedded within a larger UI, as a motivation for templates.
Paolo: classic idea is declare the basic behaviour in a way that can then be refined in different contexts. The parameters for a template determine how much freedom there is to refine it.
Jaroslav: isn't that a matter of restrictions at the data binding level?
Paolo: yes, this is about the relationship between the abstract UI and the domain model. It would be interesting to explore use cases where templates are useful for reuse within the AUI itself. I create a template to create something, when I create that something it might have a number of interactors corresponding to buttons where the template limits this to 2 to 5 buttons.
One question is what happens when a designer modifies directly an instance of a template in a way that violates the constraints imposed by the template, is it still an instance of that template?
Fabio asks Heiko if he thinks this notion of template is valuable to his needs?
Heiko: I am still trying to understand the implications.
Paolo: the constraints imposed by a template might relate to multiplicity of interactors, and to the events that the instance should handle.
Jaroslav: currently templates aren't described adequately in our introduction and glossary.
Heiko asks for clarifications, perhaps through a simple example.
Dave notes that templating is a common design pattern for web apps, e.g. using the PHP import statement.
Paolo presents some examples starting with a button group which can be used for such purposes as a save changes dialogue with buttons for yes, no and cancel.
Note that if you just want a direct instance of a particular dialogue pattern, you don't need the power of templates.
Paolo describes the range of possible template mechanisms. You need to specific a fixed part and a variable part that is specified by the instatiation of the template.
We break as it is nearly noon
Our many thanks to Heiko and Red Hat for hosting the meeting.


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Good Afternoon good people, today is "Wednesday" 18th May 2016. Evewin Lakra is back with another Blog Post.
this time I'll be writing about our city LOCAL fair.
Fair Name: Disney Land 2016 at Jamshedpur
Venue: Aam Bagan Maidan (Jamshedpur)
Coordinates: 22°48'27"N 86°12'14"E
so let the fun begins.
On 28th April 2016 the climate of jamshedpur was Extremely-HOT. So me & my mom decided to goto "Disney Land" which is a yearly fair. At the evening time around 7:00 P.M. we got ready and started our bike journey to reach the venue of this fair i.e. Aam Bagan Maidan,
we took the Marine-Drive route (its a Dangerous route Because the DUMB-Heads of INDIA, ride their vehicle at a very High Speed at this route) but this route is straight so we were travelling on our bike "Slowly" & we reached Aam Bagan Maidan in around 12-15 minutes.
Aam Bagan Maidan where disney land is hosted is in close proximity to Bengal-Club (Misti Fast Food And Sweets shop)
To my Surprise after such a long time Bengal-Club (Sakchi) Rejuvenated to a good solid Clean building otherwise it used to look like an ancient structure which was left alone without any proper maintenance work.
Parked my bike & we headed towards the ticket counter,
bought 2 tickets (one for me & the other for my mom)
Disney Land 2016 at Jamshedpur:
Ticket Price: Rs.10/ for 1 Ticket.
We moved towards the Entrance of Disney-Land and it was decorated wonderfully by thousands of tiny L.E.D. lights.
they made "Parrots" at the Entrance Gate of Disney-Land 2016.
By the way I love Parrots.
No one Should Cage Free flying birds.
We went ahead & the 1st thing we noticed was the "Carpets Rugs and Doormats" stall, after that we saw many stalls selling Clothes Like T-Shirts,Nighty, Cooler, kids DVD's Jewlery & bangles stalls Etc.
Oh Yes we also witnessed the Treadmark stall of Disney-Land Aam-Bagan Sakchi Jamshedpur i.e. The Pop-Corn Stall :)
My mom is very fond of Tea-cups so she went to the Tea-Cup stall & was selecting the Tea-Cups to buy while I was capturing the glimpsed of Disney-Land on my mobile phone.so we went further to check what more Disney-Land 2016 has to offer to the citizen of Jamshedpur & was thrilled to see a stall Labeled as "Udan" which was selling food products such as Papad, friams,Chips,etc
The moment I saw "Banana-Chips" over there I purchased it because of 2-Reasons:
Reason No.1
"Banana-Chips" is my Favorite.
Reason No.2
They were selling Fresh "Banana-Chips" at a reasonable cost (Rs.30, otherwise the price of "Banana-Chips" in the market is high.)
Eg. In the market you'll find "Banana-Chips" at Rs.40-45 For Small Packet that too will not be very Fresh.
& in Disney-Land Mela Aam-Bagan Sakchi Jamshedpur They were selling the same quantity with Fresh Chips at a Low Price so Kudos to "Udan" Stall.
After purchasing the banana chips we went ahead and saw "Magic Stall" selling Magical Items, we also witnessed the few other stalls selling house hold items then we moved towards the END location which was populated with RIDES eg.
1. Dragon Ride.
2.Bike Ride.
3.Merry Go Round.
Then we decided to leave for our home we took the "Jubilee Park" route while coming back but later changed the route because many cops were busy BLOCKING THE GATE of "Jubilee Park" for "Helmet-Checking"
in other words Harassing Jamshedpur Citizens in the NAME of SAFE-RIDING.
Currenty in Jamshepdur City The Cops Are Busy Cutting Traffic Challans to eveybody who don't were Helmet.
The Cops & traffic Police are actually unaware of the no. of deaths India has in Road Accident.
1214+ Road Crashes occur EVERY-DAY in India.
(Statistics Source:NDTV)
If Traffic Challans decreased the no. of road accident in India then the no. of road accident in India would have decrease but in Reality I Think The Jamshedpur Police is Harassing Jamshedpur Citizens in the NAME of SAFE-RIDING i.e HELMET is not Changing accident rates coz its a FLOP Policy of the Indian Government.
Mark My WORLDS:
HEMET Don't Save Life on INDIAN ROADS.
This is "Evewin Lakra" Question to Jamshedpur TRAFFIC POLICE.
Why India has one of the Highest No. of Road Accident even though you people are "FORCING" everyone to WEAR HELMET ?
Answer: DRIVING Vehicle or RIDING Bike is an ART, If you FORCE it on your CITIZEN you'll never succeed in bring the no. of Road Accidents DOWN.
THE DUMB Jamshedpur TRAFFIC POLICE who them-self don't know how to RIDE BIKE & CAR are given JOB to Harassing Jamshedpur Citizens in the name of HELMET.
These are the 2 HOT Places Where Jamshedpur TRAFFIC POLICE
is Harassing Jamshedpur Innocent Citizens in the name of HELMET.
Place No.1
Bistupur Main GolChakkar.
Place No.2
Jubilee Park GATE.
i.e. if a person ride his bike SLOW but he was not Wearing a HELEMT,
Jamshedpur POLICE will Treat him like a "CRIMINAL" & ask them to pay Rs.300-500 as a Challan & then they are ready to Go otherwise You'll be treated like you've killed a person from your BIKE.
On the other hand you must have heard many cases in India in which a RICH Person Son (Eg.Police,Politician,Business-man) Killed innocent people on the road by his HIGH-SPEED Vehicle DRIVING & he gets bailed the very next DAY.
This is what MONEY do to INDIAN RULES.
This is one of the DUMBEST POLICY of INDIAN Traffic Rules which Teaches People Not the ART of Driving but the ART of ESCAPING from your CRIME by the FORCE of MONEY.
I'll be writing a BLOG post TITLED as "HEMET Don't Save Life on INDIAN ROADS" soon to help the innocent citizen of my CITY Jamshedpur tackle the day to day happenings we as a RIDER/Citizen face because of such mindless rules.
Hope you've enjoyed this BLOG POST.
Thankyou to my readers and PEACE to all.
Evewin Lakra.(Google Map-Maker: Jamshedpur Jharkhand India)
(Out Of 75000 Participants) I was Ranked Around 20 Or 21 Which is still not cleared,because Google India Map Maker Team Didn't List Our Rankings.
(Though We've Got Our Very Hard Earned Prizes For Working For Google India For Around 50 Days During The "Indian Mapathon 2013 Event")
I'm the guy who Mapped 70% Of My city "Jamshedpur" (Jharkhand) India for Google India. :)


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Courtesy of Guest Blogger, Carol Obando-Derstine,
Regional Affairs Director, Southeast Region
PPL Corporation
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It's a winter scenario everyone hopes to avoid.
The snow is piling up, the wind is blowing … and all of a sudden, the lights go out. What do you do next?
We don't like bad-weather outages any more than our customers do, and we've prepared for these conditions by investing extensively to keep the lights on all year 'round.
(You might have seen our announcement a few weeks ago that our investments in tree trimming, new technology and upgraded lines prevented about 410,000 outages last year. To us, that's just a start.)
Still, severe weather – like high winds, ice, or heavy, wet snow -- can cause outages even on a strong delivery network. So what can you do to prepare?
Here are some steps to follow before a storm:
-Prepare an emergency kit with items like a flashlight and batteries; bottled water; canned food (and a hand-operated can opener); pet food; and medications you rely on. If you already have an emergency kit, check the items to be sure they are not nearing their use-by dates, and replace them if necessary.
-Charge your personal electronic devices in advance if you know a storm is coming.
-Go to pplelectric.com/alerts and set your PPL outage alerts to your preferred setting. You can receive updates on restoration progress through text message, email, phone or any combination. And, you can set "quiet" times when you don't want to receive updates, if you choose.
-If you rely on electric-powered medical equipment, have a backup plan – such as arranging for a friend or relative to pick you up. While we respond to storms as quickly and safely as we can, we can't guarantee a specific restoration time for your home after a major storm.
And, here are some useful tips to remember after the storm passes:
-Stay away from downed power lines and always assume any downed line is energized. Keep pets and kids away from lines as well. Please immediately report downed lines by calling 1-800-342-5775 (DIAL-PPL).
-Also, if you have an outage, please be sure to report it. Don't assume a neighbor has done so.
-Never run a generator indoors or in a space where fumes can accumulate.
-For safety, use flashlights for light if needed, rather than candles. If you do use candles, handle them carefully and do not leave them unattended.
-When shoveling out, please try not to pile snow on top of the green transformer boxes that may be in your neighborhood or any other electrical equipment.
We'll continue to work to prevent outages. And, as always, when they do occur, we'll respond as quickly and safely as we can. The tips above can make the time until the lights come back on pass more smoothly.


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How to Swear Around the World
Swearing in another language. It's the only thing we really cared to learn during the mandatory years of high school French. Actually, my earliest memories of foreign curse words came much earlier, in 2nd grade, when the term "puta" began circulating. I have a good saucing of Spanish in my heritage, so I thought my mom might be able to tell me what this fun word we were all calling each other meant. I believe her response was something along the lines of, "Where did you learn that?! None of your business!" Later, while eavesdropping on her talking to my dad, I heard her tell him it is a particularly derogatory way to say "whore". Which was very disappointing, because I didn't know what that word meant either.
These days, however, 8-year-olds--and the rest of us--are in luck. Thanks to How to Swear Around the World, we can all bestow one another with titles of dirty whore and no good SOB in myriad languages without the assistance of native speakers, piles of translation dictionaries, or our moms. The explicit phrasebook harbors throngs of crudities, everyday blasphemes, and beatific means of suggesting the minivan doing 50 in the left lane go Make F'ing Itself, Not War in dozens of different languages. Complete with phonetic pronunciations and nifty categories, such as "Swearing in the Face of Life's Daily Disasters" and how to say "Fuck your mother!" in 25 different tongues, from Czech to Tagalog. In its 128 pages, How to Swear Around the World leaves no horse unridden. And, yes, that includes every culture's favorite way to describe riding a horse. You know, as in riding a horse. Or a bear. Or a person's grandmother.
Ooh, I see there are also illustrations.
Muchas danke to HiConsumption.


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Duck Dynasty
How three brothers from Minnesota came to rule the obscure and peculiar world of competitive duck painting
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The thin, thoughtful man who answers the door wears gray sweats, hiking shoes, and a couple days' growth of beard. Joe Hautman, of Plymouth, doesn't look like a theoretical physicist, which he is. He doesn't look like one of the country's leading wildlife artists, either, although he's that, too. Nor does he look like his two brothers, who are also wildlife painters—among the best known in American art today.
But as Hautman narrates a tour of his elegant mid-century-modern house, clues to his family's story emerge. He passes several framed paintings on the walls, all originals, bearing the signature "Elaine Hautman." The walls of his light-filled studio are hung with what to some might seem a macabre collection of animal parts: the disembodied but elegantly arrayed tail feathers of a pheasant, and the severed wings of at least half a dozen ducks, one of which is affixed to the wall with a throwing dart. Taxidermied waterfowl line his bookshelves, some nobly standing, others frozen in eternal flight.
"Reference," he says by way of explanation, and in a weird sort of way, it's a perfectly eloquent way to start the story of how Joe Hautman and his two brothers have, since 1989, established one of Minnesota's most peculiar and astounding little dynasties.
Unless you follow the off-the-radar world of competitive duck painting, you were probably unaware that Joe Hautman won the annual Federal Duck Stamp Contest last October. His painting of a single, swimming wood duck earned Hautman his fourth win in the only juried art show run by the U.S. government. His reign will end later this month, when the faithful gather in Ogden, Utah, to crown his successor.
The uninitiated may need context: the Federal Duck Stamp Contest is held each year to choose a design for the Federal Duck Stamp, which is the revenue stamp that all waterfowl hunters in the United States over the age of 16 are required to buy before they can hunt. Minnesota buys more of them than any other state in the country. The revenue from the sale of that stamp—more than $750 million and counting since 1934—is used to conserve waterfowl habitat. Since it began, the Duck Stamp Program has protected an area larger than the state of Massachusetts. Much of the National Wildlife Refuge System was created using duck-stamp money, and the program is widely considered the most successful conservation initiative in history.
The program's centerpiece, though, is a quirky, archaic annual art contest in which artists compete to have their painting on the stamp. More than honor is at stake. While there's no prize money (the winner gets a pane of their stamps signed by the Secretary of the Interior), each year's winning artist retains the rights to his or her painting, and there's a fortune to be made from print sales and licensing. And so each year, competitors, fans, and collectors disappear down an obscure and uniquely American rabbit hole into a wonderland of talent, ego, art, controversy, big money, and occasional scandal.
The artists work within a rigid framework of contest rules that dictate everything from the year's eligible species, to the size and type of painting surface, to the appropriate seasonal foliage and plumage that can appear in the painting. Winning entries have featured standing birds, sitting birds, swimming birds, flying birds, fall plumage, spring plumage, birds taking off, birds landing, birds alone or in pairs or with hatchlings. Choosing the right combination of those elements, and executing a painting well enough to win, may require hundreds of hours of work.
Joe Hautman's four wins are remarkable enough. But his younger brother Jim, of Chaska, won the contest the year before with his painting of two specklebelly geese. That was Jim's fourth win as well. Their brother Bob, of Delano, has won the contest twice, and finished second to Jim in 2010. Between 1989 and 2011, the three brothers won the coveted title "Federal Duck Stamp Artist" an astounding 10 times, and one of them has been among the top three finishers all but a few times in the last 24 years.
Their record is especially impressive because the brothers typically compete for the title against more than 200 other artists, including some of the finest wildlife painters in the country. Their record is statistically improbable because the five contest judges are different every year and have no idea who painted each entry. Plus, rules of the intense, high-stakes competition require winners to sit out the three contests after their win. That means that in at least six of the contests since 1989, two of the three Hautman brothers were ineligible to compete.
Their success has made the Hautmans what one fellow competitor calls "the New York Yankees" of the contest. But the only problem with comparing the brothers to baseball's most storied franchise is that it actually diminishes what the three sibling wildlife artists have accomplished. "They've zeroed in on this thing as the main focus in their lives," says long-time Hautman friend and wildlife artist Bruce Miller of Mound, whose own victory in the 1992 Federal Duck Stamp Contest launched his art career. "And the three of them, they're smart guys. Joe used to be a physicist. So they've analyzed this thing down to the minutiae, and they have every little thing figured out. That's what they decided to do."
If you're familiar with the Hautman name, it's likely not from their dominance in the contest. If the name rings a bell, it's probably from the Coen brothers' 1996 film Fargo, which features a subplot revolving around Norm Gunderson, the husband of pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson, and his entry in that year's contest. Norm frets about his chances, and in the movie's final scene, he quietly announces that his mallard painting has, as expected, finished behind an unnamed Hautman painting of a blue-winged teal.
The Hautman reference is no fluke. Ethan and Joel Coen grew up as childhood friends of the Hautmans in St. Louis Park. Jim and Bob were living together at the time the Coens were making the movie, and the filmmakers raided their studio of old brushes, paint supplies, and mounted birds to prop the walls of the Gunderson home.
Because of their success and that odd footnote in film history, the Hautman name arises quickly and often in any discussion of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest, usually in reverent whispers. They're that good. Individual artists have achieved no-less-laudable records. For example, back in the days before winners were required to take a three-year hiatus after their victory, Iowa's Maynard Reece won the Federal Duck Stamp Contest a record five times between 1947 and 1970. But no name has dominated the competition like that of the Hautmans. They may be the only wildlife artists besides John James Audubon whose name has crossed over into American popular culture.
If you're looking for a point of origin to their story, you'll find a clue hanging above a marble-faced fireplace in the music room of Joe Hautman's home. An oil-on-canvas painting, probably done in the late 1940s or early 1950s, features five canvasbacks in flight. By today's hyperrealistic duck-stamp standards, it's crude and ill-proportioned. But it's obviously hung in a place of honor. The understated signature in the lower right corner reads simply, "Hautman."
"My dad painted it," Joe Hautman says with pride.


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Reflections of the Brighton Summit 2014
11th July, 2014
Networking Adventures!
Monica -Sales and New Business Development.
At the end of last week I had a chance to squeeze in a couple of networking events, so here is a little round up for you! I was kindly invited by Jason Edge of Mayo Wynne Baxter to the 'Where Cricket meets Football' networking dinner, held at the Sussex County Cricket Club. This was a great opportunity for me to meet some influential businesses and of course enjoy a few drinks and talk to some of the Mayo Wynne Baxter team and guests.
It was a really successful evening with great entertainment and plenty of laughter. Footballing star Matt Le Tissier and Cricket Star Tony Cottey joined in the fun with some entertaining speeches.
I even managed to get an autograph with Matt Le Tissier!
I would say if you are considering hosting your own event, the Sussex CCC is a great choice of venue and I'd certainly recommend a visit even if it is just to go and see a match!
Images (c) Southern News & Pictures Ltd.
A new day, another event. This time hosted by The Brighton Chamber of Commerce.
Feeling fresh I arrived at The Clarendon Centre in Brighton ready to 'Go on an Adventure' eager to get stuck into this year's Brighton Summit!
The wonderfully motivational Steve Bustin guided us throughout the day, kicking off proceedings with an encouraging speech and preparing us for the line-up of activities.
The day was full of thought provoking and inspiring events helping us to really think creatively about the challenges in business.
I was really inspired hearing the incredible story of Rob Forkan the founder of Gandy's Flip Flops. His journey and life changing story was undoubtedly moving and learning of the philosophy of the business and their orphans for orphans mission, truly highlight how a social enterprise business can really make a difference. I am sure the majority of attendees have now converted from their trusty Havaianas Flip Flops and have already been out buying their Gandy's. Learn about their social enterprise here www.gandysflipflops.com/orphans-for-orphans.
Following a fantastic lunch provided by Jaspers Catering it was dare hour. My initial challenge was making a decision - being presented with 7 exciting dares (from improvisation, life drawing and creepy crawlies) made this a tricky choice. I chose to dare to be provocative with www.creativityworks.net.
A lesson in communications and learning how to provoke interest and help you stand out from the crowd. It helped me consider how I generate awareness for our business and encourage interest in our services.
My dare hour was followed by an 'Un-Conference' session, business lessons from 'Breaking Bad' held by Julia Chantry. Here we learnt about different levels of control and how obsession in business can be a dangerous thing - the analogy from the show offered an impressive example of how important it is to work as a team and share the load - it is all too easy to feel overwhelmed when it comes to business, pressures of finding clients and keeping on top of your business development so it's always important to communicate with your team.
The day was rounded up at the emporium on London Road where we were treated to a glass of wine and entertainment by the improvisation group The Maydays. Some fantastic images of the day can be found here.
All in all an eventful end to a busy week, I really enjoyed both of these networking events but If you are interested in taking part in next year's event take a look on the Brighton Chamber of Commerce site.


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Selling a Business Is a Full Time JobYou already have a full time job: running your business. Let an investment banker handle his area of expertise (selling the business) while your focus on your area of expertise (running the business).
A Buffer between You and the BuyerBusiness sale negotiations are inevitably fraught with frustrations, ups and downs, disagreements, and misunderstandings. An investment banker can help insulate the business owner from those inevitable bumps in the road. Remember, after the deal closes buyer and seller will have to work together. Even if you are retiring, your key managers likely will stay with your company. They will benefit from a good working relationship with the new owner.
If the well is poisoned during the sale process, one side may decide they will be unable to work with the other side. If this happens, the deal will fall apart. An investment banker will be a buffer between buyer and seller, will help deflect and solve problems, and will have the foresight gained from experience to anticipate issues and proactively solve them.
EmotionsThis is your life's work. You built this company. You took the chances. And as with many business owners, you are emotionally wrapped up in your company. A buyer is going to ask questions, poke and prod, and criticize your decisions and results. You need someone who is objective and not wrapped up in the emotional details of your company - an arm's length from your business, in other words - to handle the delicate process of selling that business.
PreparationIf you have not been through a sale process before, you will not know what to expect. If you do not know what to expect, you will not be prepared. And if you are unprepared for the next step, you run the risk of frustrating a buyer with delay after delay. Hiring an investment banker means you will be prepared, and if you are prepared you have a far better chance of successfully closing a deal you find acceptable.
Frame the DiscussionInvestment bankers have been through the sale process before. They know what to expect and when to expect it. This experience allows them to frame the discussion instead of reacting to questions. An unprepared owner or executive who is trying to sell a business often will find himself in the position of awaiting orders from the other side. If this happens, the buyer will downplay the company's strengths and overplay its weaknesses. Passivity reduces a company's valuation and it ultimately reduces the odds of closing a deal.
ConfidentialityBecause an investment banker is not an employee of your company, they are able to approach buyers without divulging the name of your company. This is particularly important for owners and executives who want to approach competitors. An investment banker can make sure the company's identity is not revealed until a confidentiality agreement is in place.
TimingAn investment banker will know when to release information and when to say, "No, you don't need that yet." For example, your client list might be among your most sensitive documents. Providing a would-be buyer with that sensitive document - especially if the would-be buyer is a competitor - could be a fatal mistake for a business. An investment banker will know when, and how, that information should be provided to a buyer.
Sounding boardLeading a business is a lonely business. You have already made enough decisions by yourself. When you're ready to sell your business don't work alone, hire a capable investment banker who will be able to offer you the expert advice of someone who has "been there, done that."
Not hiring an investment banker to handle the M&A process can be a bit of fool's gold because the savings from eliminating a fee might come at the cost of lower sale proceeds and/or inferior terms. An investment banker can make sure you get a deal that make sense…for you. Remember, the other side is not going to make your value proposition.
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