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text: Earlier this week, I posted about Lizzy and Darlene Okpo, the Nigerian American sisters behind the New York based label William Okpo that is currently enjoying some cool kid endorsement in the US and beyond. My friend Enyinne went to their Fall Winter 13 collection exhibit in New York recently and took these pictures. The label is stocked at Opening Ceremony stores in New York and LA. For this collection, it seems they were inspired by Southern Africa having used springbok skin in their clothing as well as their collaboration with Namibia's Brother Vellies shoes which seem to be doing exceptionally well in the international market. Amandla!


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|Tribute Rider: @PillsterCat
Today's the day to polish up my motorbike, check the engine, fill the tank and make sure everything is ready for tonight's Bad Boyz of Twitter (#BBOT) and Pink Angels (#PA) #TributeRide.
Run by @FreshOtis and @MickeyShortTail, it takes place on the last Tuesday of every month at 4pm EDT (that's 9pm in the UK). I like to be there a little early if I can, to chat to pals I don't always get the chance to meow with during the rest of the month and to get into formation ready to move off.
It's always a stirring sight to see the Bad Boyz' and the Angels' banners fluttering in the breeze, carrying the names of pals being commemorated, and it's an emotional experience to hear the names of pals being called out as a tribute as we ride. There are always tears, of course, but there's laughter, too, as precious memories are recalled and shared.
|Pawesome poodle: @FreshOtis is
one of the #TributeRide organizers
The ride generally lasts for an hour, sometimes a little more, and the organizers ask us all to clear our schedules for that small amount of time each month. This is to respect the pals who are being commemorated and especially their families, and it really isn't much to ask - we can easily catch up with tweets about other events or on other subjects once the ride is over.
We ride towards the Lake, where we set little lanterns afloat in pals' memory. We spend a little time in quiet contemplation, then we quietly ride home. Hopefully we have by then honored RB pals, given comfort to their families and strengthened the anipal community.
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Lars Gotrich says, "When Nick Millevoi plays the guitar, it's like a rocket darting skyward between clouds..." in the premiere of my song "Desertion and the Arsonist's Match."
This track features Jamie Saft on Hammond organ, Johnny DeBlase on upright bass, and Ches Smith on drums.
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Bionic contact lens 'to project emails before eyes'
Source: bbc.co.ukA new generation of contact lenses that project images in front of the eyes is a step closer after successful animal trials, say scientists.
The technology could allow wearers to read floating texts and emails or augment their sight with computer-generated images, Terminator-syle.
Early tests show the device is safe and feasible, says the University of Washington in Seattle.
But there are still wrinkles to iron out, like finding a good power source.
Currently, their crude prototype device can only work if it is within centimetres of the wireless battery.
And its microcircuitry is only enough for one light-emitting diode, reports the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.
But now that initial safety tests in rabbits have gone well, with no obvious adverse effects, the researchers have renewed faith about the device's possibilities.
They envisage hundreds more pixels could be embedded in the flexible lens to produce complex holographic images.
For example, drivers could wear them to see journey directions or their vehicle's speed projected onto the windscreen.
Similarly, the lenses could take the virtual world of video gaming to a new level.
They could also provide up-to-date medical information like blood sugar levels by linking to biosensors in the wearer's body.
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Lead researcher Professor Babak Parviz said: "Our next goal is to incorporate some predetermined text in the contact lens."
He said his team had already overcome a major hurdle to this, which is getting the human eye to focus on an image generated on its surface.
Normally, we can only see objects clearly if they are held several centimetres away from the eye.
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|butsuden 仏殿
|KEY WORD : architecture / buildings & structures
| Also
大雄宝殿. The main hall of a Zen temple. Butsuden can be classified into
three different types.
1 The simplest is 3 x 3 bays and does not have an additional aisle *mokoshi 裳階. Examples include: Butsuden of Fusaiji 普済寺(1357) in Kyoto is 5.75 x 5.75 square., and Butsuden of Ten'onji 天恩寺 (1362) in Aichi prefecture is 6.25 x 6.99m.
2 A 3 x 3 bay hall with a mokoshi, which is an additional aisle one bay deep with pent roof and bracket arms *hijiki 肘木, inserted directly into the shafts of the core *moya 母屋, pillars. Examples include: Butsuden of Saionji 最恩寺 (mid 14c) in Yamanashi prefecture, including the mokoshi, is 3 x 3 bays, 6.26 x 6.26m. The moya is 1 x 1 bay square. However, on the interior behind the altar there are two pillars *raigoubashira 来迎柱, with a wall *raigoukabe 来迎壁, stretched between them. Butsuden of Kouzanji 功山寺 (1320) in Yamaguchi prefecture has a moya that is 3 x 3 bays with a mokoshi added, making it a 5 x 5 bay building as viewed from the exterior. Like the smaller Butsuden of Saionji, it has raigoubashira and raigoukabe.
3 Very large butsuden, 5 x 5 bays square with a mokoshi added are known to have been built during the 13c and 14c, but the only extant ones are the large 3 x 3 bay-type surrounded by a mokoshi. Examples include: Butsuden of Sennyuuji 泉涌寺(1669) in Kyoto, which is 17.73 x 15.95m including the mokoshi. The core area has pillars of large diameter all around and a platform with steps on both sides and at the front. Butsuden of Myoushinji 妙心寺 (1827) in Kyoto is 17.04 x 17.04m with a usual arrangement of a 3 x 3 bay core except that the pillar at the center rear has been omitted. The mokoshi is 5-bays around the core. Both buildings have raigoubashira and raigoukabe. Many buildings called *hondou 本堂 or named after the main image enshrined are also known as butsuden. Examples: Butsuden of Toukouji 東光寺 (1538) in Yamanashi prefecture; Hondou of Daitokuji 大徳寺 (1665) in Kyoto; as well as Butsuden of Daitokuji.
Toukouji Butsuden 東光寺仏殿 (Yamanashi)
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I did get Doug Lemov's book Teach Like a Champion and I was very impressed. Before I read trhe book, I had thought that I would already be doing many of the 49 techniques that Lemov was going to describe. As it turns out, I was doing perhaps 6 of the 49.
The bad news is that I have a lot left to learn. The good news is that Lemov has done a great job of spelling out his techniques and showing how to do them in a classroom. The book also includes a DVD of examples of the techniques in use. I have not yet had a chance to look at the DVD, but I will see if I can get to it over the summer.
The interesting thing about the techniques listed in the book is that many of them are very small techniques that might save a few minutes a day. But, as Lemov points out, a few minutes here, a few minutes there, times about 200 days in a school year starts to add up to dozens of hours of extra teaching. And that extra time can easily be the difference maker for your students.
I would recommend Teach Like a Champion to any teacher who wants to improve their ability to reach their students.
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Mar 29, 2009
One of Those Days...
One of those days when it's beautiful outside, there are tender easy-to-pull-now-weeds popping up in the garden...
But I didn't pull a single one.
One of those days when I have plenty of "free time" and yet, I am avoiding walking though the laundry room, because of my very real fear of being smothered to death by a damp, smelly, 16yr old boy's sweat sock during a Mt Laundry avalanche.
So the laundry continues to marinate in it's own filth for yet another day.
One of those days when I've found myself sitting down at my lap-top numerous times with total intentions of blogging a fantastically interesting and humorous blog post that you will enjoy reading.
But, not a word has actually been written.
One of those days when I have spent hours perfecting my To Do Lists in Excel.
(I even color-coded the columns!)
But am unable to check ONE THING off any of the lists as "Done".
One of those days when I want to read the new book I bought last week.
But not one page has been turned because the book is all the way in my bedroom, far away from my perma-butt-imprint on the couch.
One of those days (that NEVER happen) when I am alone in the house and could get so much done without any interruptions, or questions, or fights, or too-loud music, or phones ringing, or doors slamming, or screaming.
But I'm sitting here in the silence doing NOTHING.
One of those days when I'm not so sure I remembered to brush my teeth.
One of those days when I hope to God no one "stops by" to realize I have morphed into something that resembles a cave-dwelling, grunting, wild woman found in the pages of an old issue of National Geographic.
Don't worry, I'm sure reality will come smack me in the face soon, Just about the second the short people come home.
Until then, I'm havin' One of Those Days...
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- * Chell * said...
Dana, we all need to have one of those days every once in a while.... I had one yesterday (although it was due to a headache from HELL)....
- March 29, 2009 at 6:21 PM
- Montana/HomesteadQuilter said...
Dana, I'm envious of your day, seems that I can't remember the last time I had that total peace and quiet to just make a perma-butt-imprint on the sofa...ha ha
Seriously, I hope you enjoyed your time to yourself and that you feel at least somewhat rejuvinated! :)
- March 29, 2009 at 6:30 PM
- Mary@Holy Mackerel said...
I hear you. Most of my days are "one of those days".
- March 29, 2009 at 8:15 PM
- Cindy said...
Hmmmm.... that was my day too!! But no short ones to bring me back to reality!! But it's snowy and icy out today, and I am so not even stepping foot in the white stuff again until next fall!
- March 29, 2009 at 8:40 PM
- Chickenista said...
Ahhh yes "one of those days" last one I had was about 10yr ago... Now I'm lucky if I get silence and no disruption in the bathroom.... But I pretended it was me as I was reading about yours...♥
- March 29, 2009 at 10:35 PM
- Sab said...
'one of those days' sounds great!
- March 29, 2009 at 10:45 PM
- Mom said...
Those days are so good for our mental well being...
- March 30, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- Anonymous said...
I am having one of those days too! But I will have to make a move soon. I have to be at the courthouse at 1:30 for the probate of my husband's will. Then to the county appraisal district office to prove I live on a farm and have cows on it. They have never asked for this before in all the years we have lived here? Since 1972? Oh well,guess they are just doing their job. I also have a call in to the social security office about my application for medicare. They will probably call back when I am at the courthouse. SIGH ! It is quiet here all the time here now that my hubby is gone. I prefer the noise and mess to this, so count your blessings. Doris
- March 30, 2009 at 10:42 AM
- Dutch donut girl said...
I'm having one of those weeks. And I don't know if that's a bad thing or a good thing.
- March 30, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- rebel said...
I have one of those days quite often. LOL
- March 31, 2009 at 1:23 AM
- Heather said...
LOL I have a LOT of those days! I had a whole spring break to catch up and finish laundry, didn't happen!
- March 31, 2009 at 8:31 AM
- Native American Momma said...
ahh well I had a whole week like that this month. I understand the whole hope nobody stops by!
- March 31, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- Elyse said...
Oh, I know these days quite well!
- April 1, 2009 at 12:56 AM
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Bethany Historic District, roughly bounded by SR 67/Main Street, Pendelton, Richardson, Cramblett, and Roosevelt (4/1/82) [46]
Alexander Campbell Mansion, E on SR 67 (NR 10/15/70) [2], (NHL 4/19/94) [4]
Delta Tau Delta Founders House, 211 Main Street (5/29/79) [1]
Pendelton Heights, Bethany College Campus (6/26/75) [1]
Old Bethany Church, Main and Church Streets (12/12/76) [1]
Old Main at Bethany College, Bethany College Campus, off SR 67 (NR 8/25/70) [1], (NHL 6/21/90)[1]
Miller's Tavern (Brooke County Museum) 6th and Main Street (12/14/78) [1]
Wellsburg Wharf, 6th and Main Streets (11/27/79) [1]
Wellsburg Historic District, roughly bounded by 2nd Street, Charles Street, 29th Street, and the Ohio River (4/4/82) [696]
"Beallmore" (William T. and June Booher Residence), 1500 Pleasant Ave (5/16/86) [1] Pleasant Ave. MRA
Brooke Cemetery, 2200 Pleasant Avenue [1] Pleasant Ave. MRA
"Elmhurst" (William and Carol Lynn Residence), 1606 Pleasant Avenue [2] Pleasant Ave. MRA
Lewis Hall Mansion, 1300 Pleasant Avenue [1] Pleasant Ave. MRA
Harry Paull and Louisiana Beall Paul Mansion ("Morningside"), 1312 Pleasant Avenue [2] Pleasant Ave. MRA
David Fleming and Lucy Tarr Mansion, 2000 Pleasant Avenue [2] Pleasant Ave. MRA
Lucy Tarr Mansion, 1456 Pleasant Avenue [2] Pleasant Ave. MRA
General I.H. Duval Mansion, 1222 Pleasant Avenue [2] Pleasant Ave. MRA
Kirker House (Daniel and Donna Finell Residence), 1520 Grand Avenue (9/15/86) [1]
Danforth Brown House, 555 Washington Pike or SR 27 (8/29/92) [2]
Inn at Fowlerstown (Drover's Inn), 1001 Washington Pike or SR 27 (8/29/92) [6]
Nicholls Residence and Woolen Mill Site, SR 67, Wellsburg-Bethany Pike (11/13/97) [3]
"Vancroft" (William Penn Home; Mt. St. George Historic District), Brinker Road (9/15/86) [13]
John C. Reeves House, 100 Reeves Drive (9/26/06)


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Societé de Sainte Anne
[excerpted from Gambit Feb 2003
"One of Schindler's and Poché's most intriguing collaborations, however, is the Societé de Sainte Anne, a Carnival walking club, which they started in 1969 along with their friend Jon Newlin, a freelance writer whose work is published in The Times-Picayune and Ambush Magazine. Ste. Anne appears in the Infancy Gospel of St. James, a text denoted by the Vatican as apocryphal, as the mother of the Virgin Mary. "So, I like to think of Sainte Anne as the grandmother of God," says Schindler, who recalls his own grandmother as a Mardi Gras devotee.
Hanging in Schindler's dining room is an enormous portrait of Paul Poché, costumed as The Whore of Babylon for the Ste. Anne parade. He wears a cape, through which protrude opulent, swelling prosthetic breasts and belly, and the rest of him appears to be covered in silver body paint. He also wears a traditional full-face mask to which he has added false eyelashes and a black curly wig. Poché, against a lush green background of palms, leans back his head back in apparent ecstasy. It's quite an eyeful, this painting. And it conveys perfectly the je ne sais quoi of the Ste. Anne parade.
Ste. Anne, like so many of the precious ephemera of Mardi Gras, defies attempts to define it. As a walking club, the only requirement for membership is that you know about it. Every Mardi Gras morning, a large group of people, wearing the most over-the-top costumes imaginable (including the kitchen sink), arrives at someone's house somewhere in the Bywater. Soon the Storyville Stompers show up, and everyone follows the band through the Bywater into the French Quarter up Royal Street, gathering more costumers at various points along the way, until they come to Canal Street where they await the arrival of Rex.
In Ste. Anne, everyone costumes; there are no spectators, only participants. Without any stated doctrine or structure, the Ste. Anne parade, in its spontaneity and disorganization, resembles the old Creole cavalcades that sprawled through New Orleans' streets in the 1830s, Schindler suggests.
The story of Ste. Anne's origins in the 20th century is a little easier to explain. It started as a response to the ordinance that removed the old-line parades from the French Quarter. Schindler, Poché, Newlin and a few more friends wanted to keep the parading tradition alive in the Vieux Carré, so they cooked up this idea for a walking club. Some of them were living on St. Ann Street at the time, so that name seemed to make sense. But then they discovered a tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 that Poché describes as being in "sublime decay, made from that soft mortar and river sand." This tomb was dedicated to the Societé de Sainte Anne, a benevolent society that Poché later learned had been founded by the Sisters of Charity to assist indigent American Indian girls. The nuns taught the girls to sew intricate beadwork. "So there is a connection to our group right there," says Poché, an accomplished sewer of beaded costumes himself.
Soon this group of friends made it an annual rite to gather at this crumbling tomb on All Saints' Day, where they would read aloud the Litany of the Saints in French, and then go to one of their homes to announce that year's Ste. Anne parade theme. They would decide who would host the many parties between Twelfth Night and Mardi Gras, and they would begin the work of making costumes and the ribboned hula-hoops that became a Ste. Anne trademark.
The Babylon theme held strong for a number of years, and they carried a huge gilded papier-mache calf, a representation of the god Marduke with a lapis lazuli beard. "The whole purpose was to antagonize those people who drag a cross on wheels through the Quarter," says Poché. "They were always calling us pagans, so we said we'll show them some real pagans."
True to its mystical origins, all major decisions concerning Ste. Anne were guided by a consultation with the I-Ching, and since the number seven was sacred to the ancient Babylonians, Poché says that when he was sewing costumes, he would group his stitches in clumps of seven. In the past, they would usually attend Ash Wednesday mass at the Chapel of Divine Love to receive the black mark on their foreheads. But mass just hasn't been the same since Vatican II and it was getting harder to get out of bed on Wednesday morning, so they took to burning the palms at home and administering the ashes in their own private ceremony among friends. A few other customs have changed -- Poché says he had to stop having Ste. Anne parties at his house because the place kept catching on fire. "And feathers really stink when they burn," he adds.
Ste. Anne soon became something much bigger. Newlin reports that in the mid-1980s, someone called WTUL-FM on Lundi Gras and gave the home address of the person hosting the Ste. Anne pre-parade party, and the DJ broadcasted this information. The next day, unprecedented numbers of strangers arrived, and the parade continues to mushroom -- a very friendly gathering, but no longer just a gathering of friends.
Another change for this walking club occurred in the mid-1980s. As Newlin puts it, "People were dying like flies." The AIDS crisis took an enormous toll on the Ste. Anne parade. Poché kept a "list of the dead," names of friends who had walked in the parade, that filled two columns in a large ledger book. One year, Schindler had 16 houseguests for Mardi Gras, mostly from San Francisco, many expatriate New Orleanians. "Now they are all dead, all 16 of them. Stuart Baker-Bergen was one of the first. It was the plague." Schindler adds it has become impossible to celebrate Mardi Gras without thinking of them. "The undertone is always there."
Before dying, friends asked to participate posthumously in one last Ste. Anne celebration, and so, after Rex passed on Canal Street, the Ste. Anne parade-goers would make a turn and carry their ashes to the river. On the banks of the Mississippi, Schindler, Poché and others would first dip the ribboned hula-hoops in the water and sweep them back over the people gathered behind, sprinkling droplets over the crowd in a kind of baptism. Then they would set the ashes of their friends upon the water.
It was not only AIDS victims whose ashes went to the river in this way. Poché commemorated his sister Sally at the river; Schindler also brought ashes to honor his friend Eugenie Schwartz, as well as their friend Judy Latour. And so now, even though fewer of their friends are falling to AIDS in recent years, the Ste. Anne parade still serves in part as a process of grief, even as it continues to bloom as a magnificent celebration. Back in 1969, the founders of the walking club chose to inaugurate Ste. Anne on All Saints' Day at the tomb, because it was redolent with atmosphere, not because they intended for their walking club to be so intimately linked to death and remembrance. They were young, and they were having fun. And yet in their playfulness, they displayed a remarkable prescience of their future."
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Paying for a new webdesign can be expensive.
Luckily I've found some resources that give great step by step directions to design your blog on your own!
So, here are some highlights from RyleeBlake's "Write Your Own Post Signature"
^^^ I knew I wanted to follow her tutorial because all of her fonts are so pretty!
She breaks in down to 3 easy steps for you to always have your signature on all of your posts.
After creating your own signature on Photoshop, you will save it as a PNG or JPEG & upload to your Photobucket account.
Copy this link! ^^
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This is super brief, make sure you check her post for the full directions!
It was so simple & so easy!
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What's next for tech in 2019
Artificial intelligence. Bots. Digital transformation. Wondering what's in the cards for next year? While we haven't quite finished reading the tea leaves, join us as we spill about what you'll be seeing from your favorite tech trends in 2019.
- Digital transformation bumming you out? You're not alone. (Spoiler alert: we foresee it gets worse before it gets better.)
- Throwing RPA at every problem is so 2018. Bots are about to get a shake-up.
- Artificial intelligence will be bigger than ever, influencing everything from customer engagement to app dev.
- Great marketing and CX require more than just art—and it looks like science is finally ready to play catch-up.
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Meet the Man Who Will Shape Maryland's Transportation Patterns for Decades to Come
"With a new state sales tax on gasoline, there is suddenly money to be had — an estimated $4.4 billion in additional revenue over the next six years — and a long wish list of [transportation] projects that were postponed during the lean years," reports Katherine Shaver. The new head of Maryland's Department of Transportation, James T. Smith Jr., "will help to determine who gets what, and when."
"The person serving as secretary of transportation for the next year or so will be making some critical decisions about spending that will shape transportation for years to come in Maryland," said Lon Anderson, head of government affairs for AAA Mid-Atlantic.
"Smith, who lives in Cockeysville in Baltimore County, said he is well aware that he must keep promises made statewide that the additional pain at the pump would ease traffic, provide more transit options, create jobs and spur economic development," adds Shaver. "He said he brings to the job a firm belief that transportation 'is more than just about getting people from Point A to Point B. It's about creating economic vitality and vibrancy in communities.'"


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The Board of Directors of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) is pleased to announce that its 2015 Annual Public Meeting will be broadcast as a free live webcast on November 17, 2015.
Members of the public are invited to participate.
In recognition of Financial Literacy Month, this year, CDIC is hosting a panel discussion on financial issues that affect Canadians including those who are retired or planning for retirement. Participants may find their concerns are not unique, and will hear some information that may help them.
Michèle Bourque, President and CEO, Canada Deposit Insurance CorporationJane Rooney, Financial Literacy Leader of Canada, Financial Consumer Agency of CanadaEd Weinstein, President, Brondesbury Group Cary List, President & CEO, Financial Planning Standards Council Susan Eng, VP of Advocacy, Canadian Association of Retired Persons
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English session: 10:00 A.M. Eastern TimeFrench session: 11:00 A.M. Eastern Time
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Reading a great book is always more fun when you've got some pals to gab about it with — the high points, the low points, the tear-jerking moments and everything in between. That's why OK! is continuing our book club, and the book you chose next is It's Kind of a Funny Story! Join us on the live blog at 8 p.m. as we discuss Part 1: Where I'm At through Part 3: Badoom!
Join in the chat with your questions, comments or just to get in on all the fun!
Join us next Tuesday as we continue our discussion of It's Kind of a Funny Story by reading Part 4: Hospital through Part 6: Six North, Sunday.
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Whether you are in the business of collecting financial information, processing claims data or providing web enabled services to your customers we have a solution which will meet your quality standards and your budget.
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I Was Mostest of the Mosts & Better than the Best
This past week presented a flux of old high school friends that some I haven't seen in a grandparent's lifetime was very enjoyable. Unfortunately, there were also some things not so pleasant with some of my high school friends during the same time. Two of them died and one's sister died.
My high school friend Bobby Cole was one of the three that died. He was a teacher's dream of the ideal student, a coach's dream of the ideal athletic, and I'm sure later in life he was the idea employee, husband, and father. Needless to say, his senior year he was elected Mr. MHS (Marietta High School).
That reminded me of our senior years when it was time to vote for things like Mr. MHS, Miss MHS, Best Looking, Most Scholarly, Most Friendliest, and so on our little bunch decided to play a little practical joke.
We stuffed the ballot boxes with ballots voting me for me for every thing. We stuffed more ballots with my name on them than there were students. I remember a couple of friends and I filling out the ballots in a class room one day after most of the students had went home. The teacher at the desk, who seemed to be aware of most of our pranks and shenanigans, just smiled and shoot her head.
If the vote-counting-committee counted the votes correctly I should have been the Best Looking, the Most Intellectual, the Most Scholarly, the Most Friendliest, Mister MHS, and even Miss MHS.
Evidently the vote-count was fixed.


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Citigroup, Others Underwrite Fresnillo's $800MM Senior Notes Offer
Paul Hastings announced that it represented Fresnillo in connection with its inaugural international issuance of debt securities. The offering involved the issuance of $800 million of 5.500% senior notes due 2023 pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S. Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan acted as underwriters.
The effort was a multi-jurisdictional transaction involving coordination between the firm's New York and London offices.
New York Latin America Practice partners Mike Fitzgerald, Joy Gallup and Arturo Carrillo and counsel Steven Sandretto led the Paul Hastings team, which also included associates Arnaldo Rego and Bruno Espindola. London Corporate partner James Cole lead the team advising on UK matters, which also included associate George Weston.
Fresnillo, one of the world's largest silver and precious metals miners, is a UK-organized, FTSE 100 company with operations primarily in Mexico.


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We made a LOT of Spritz cookies. Like 18 dozen. They are cute and fun...and they are tasty. They go down easy...a little too easy--thus, the cookie stupor from which I suffered so. The white ones are SUPPOSED to be camels. Personally, I think they look like unshorn sheep or maybe clouds...or popcorn. I guess my Spritz skills could use refining.
OH! I almost forgot...I learned something VERY interesting about those little silver candy ball cookie decorating thingies...you know what I'm talking about, silver dragees. They look like shiny little BBs and will break your teeth if you're not careful. DID YOU KNOW....the FDA does NOT consider these to be edible??? Are they serious? What are we supposed to do? Put them all over our baked goods then pick 'em off before we eat??
On the bottle it clearly states "For decorative purposes ONLY...not edible." So, I looked it up online. Whatya know. They contain REAL silver, and early on in the 20th century, they USED to contain trace amounts of MERCURY (lovely)...this is what earned them the "non-edible" status. They have since revamped the recipe and they are supposedly safe to eat now (they still contain silver)...BUT, the state of California has banned the sales of these...and even though they are "safe"...and the FDA STILL makes the manufacturers put "non-edible" on the labels. Maybe they really are BBs.
Ok, enough about cookies and toxic decorations...on to the birthday cards.
I found a new cartoonist that just cracks me up. I love his goofy characters and tongue-in-cheek, wry sense of humor. His name is Ron Leishman. If you click on his name, it will take you to his website. I suggest you peruse his "New Toons" section--but be prepared to spend a great deal of time perusing...there are over 200 pages of images (236 to be exact, but who's counting). ALSO...he has a "Toon-A-Day" site that offers FREE images to download!!! You heard it! And, it's FREE to join! The images are in color...but that's easy enough to remedy. Just use your paint bucket fill tool in Photoshop and color the colored parts white--voila...you have a black-outlined image without color.
He is seriously funny.
The first card I made was for my father-in-law (Fred). Fred is an AVID gardener, so this image was PERFECT for his card (besides, it LOOKS like Fred). I did tweak the image a bit...I removed the contents of the wheelbarrow and dropped in presents instead--so it was more birthday-y.
I made the entire card white...except the image. It made for a STRIKING card that really highlighted the image.
Image - Ron Leishman
Birthday stamp - Stampabilities
Prismacolor Colored pencils
embossing folders - Provo Craft
grass edge punch - EK Success for Martha Stewart
My next card was for my dear mom. She's gone absolutely cuckoo for Marjolein Bastin birdhouses. Her entire bathroom is totally Marjolein'd out. It looks fabulous, but I kid her a lot about it being "for the birds". This image reminded me of my mom--she's a very handy-lady type of woman. She's ALWAYS hammering something. And thus, her birthday card was born...er, hatched. I even decorated the envelope to match. Remind me next time not to use reddish brown as the "outline shadow" for the image...it makes her look like she's radioactive or something. Oh well, live and learn.
Here is what's inside:
Image- Ron Leishman
woodgrain texture plate - Fiskars
Prismacolor Colored Pencils
mini brads - Creative Impressions
Distress Ink - Ranger


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What's this website all about?
I decided to start up this website about the same time I bought my first Mitsubishi Pajero. You'll be able to follow my progress through the ownership of this motor and see how I get on with tackling the mysteries and adventures I'm faced with.
In fact I'll be talking about two very specific subjects split into sub-categories:
All activities will be accompanied by lots of photos.
What sort of 4×4 experience do I have?
Absolutely none. The Pajero is the first 4 wheel drive car I've owned and I've never been involved in off-roading before. Update: I've got a little bit now! Browse the site to find out more.
What experience of working on cars do I have?
Not much really. I've done a fair bit of my own servicing over the years – oil changes, brakes, coolant systems – stuff like that. I've also swapped the odd exhaust and once upon a time I changed the wheel bearings on my MkV Cortina. But I've had pretty new cars in recent years (the last I had from new), so there's not been much call for it. I'm ambitious and confident about building up my skills though. Update: I've got some more now! Browse the site to find out more.
Why a Mitsubishi Pajero?
That would take a long time to answer fully, but from what I've learned it's a very competent off-roader, is well equipped for regular driving, is cheap to buy compared to some off-roaders and should last forever if you look after it.
Of course people could argue against these points and I have many others, but for now the decision is working for me.
Why not a Mitsubishi Shogun?
For those who don't know, Shogun is the name given to this car in the UK (and other places) and Pajero is the name given to it in Japan (and other places?). So to buy a Pajero in the UK it has to be an import. Japanese imports are said to be excellent value for money as they are in better condition than equivalent UK cars as the Japanese don't salt their roads. A Japanese Pajero is also said to be better equipped as standard than a UK Shogun as well.
Please note: I know full well there are arguments for and against what I've just said in the paragraph above. There are also specific downsides to owning a Japanese import, but not a big deal to me personally. I certainly don't want to upset any Shogun owners out there!
Update 2013
Amazingly it's 7 years ago since I bought my Pajero though I sold it a couple of years ago and haven't had one since. This was mainly down to economics. 25mpg is what you'll get from a Mk2 Pajero if you're lucky and with today's petrol prices I just couldn't afford that. But I do miss the Paj 🙁
As such, I'll be keeping the site going indefinitely but it might not be updated as much as I used to do. If anyone would like to buy the site and associated domain name (pajero.co.uk) I'd be interested to listen to offers.
If you would like to leave a comment and let me know about your situation, please use the Pajero Discussion page
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The purpose of this study was to determine which tissue culture technique (root, leaf, stem) produces the tallest plantlet in a given time.
Hypothesis 1: Leaf culture technique would produce the tallest plantlet in a given time.
Hypothesis 2: Root cultures would produce the smallest plantlet.
Hypothesis 3: Stem cultures would have the highest contamination rate.
1. Keep in the culture tubes until the the Venus Fly traps are 5 cm tall.
2. Then transplant to potting media(a good media for Venus Fly Traps is milled sphagmum moss).
3. To keep the humidity high a good technique is to put popsicle sticks on each side and wrap in clear plastic wrap. The popsicle sticks keep the plastic wrap off the growing plants.
4. Never allow the soil to dry out.
5. Keep in full sun.
6. Do not fertilize, because fertilize can cause serious damage to the plant and maybe even kill it.
Four runs were conducted, the preliminary results were trial 1: 100% contamination for leaf cultures, 100% contamination for the stem cultures, and 0% contamination for root cultures. Trial 2: 70% leaf cultures, 0% stem cultures, 0% root cultures. Trial 3: 70% leaf cultures, 10% stem cultures, and 0 % root cultures. Growth data is not available due to the slow growth rate of the cuttings.
Due to slow growth rates there was not enough data to accept or reject hypotheses
1 and hypothesis 2.
The data did not support hypothesis 3 and the hypothesis was rejected. Stem cultures did not have the highest contamination rate
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Arditti, Joseph, 1977, Orchid Biology Reviews and perspectives, 1st Edition, London, Cornell University press.
D Amato, peter, 1998, The Savage Garden, Berkley, Ten speed press.
Schwartz, Randall, 1974, Carnivorous Plants, New York,Avon Books.
Silverstein, A.,et al 1996, The Kingdoms Plants, Brookfiled, Twenty-first Century Books.
Unknown. Carnivorous plants.[Online] Available at http://www.pitcherplant.com, Accessed on Nov. 1,2000
Unknown. Tissue Culture.. [Online] Available at http://www.orchidsource.com, Accessed on Nov. 1, 2000
Unknown. Tissue Culturing.[Online] Available at http://www.avtbiotech.com, Accessed Nov.1 ,2000


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I prefer 1 - but brighter colours are always more appealing to me. (And if it's for a younger girl/tween, the liking for pink can switch off suddenly...)
Option 1 for sure! Love it! Although option 2 is gorg as well, 1 just has a little something more ❤
i also prefer 1!! such an amazingly tough choice!!!
I think it depends on who you are styling for. The first seems more mature to me because of the colours and the second a younger person - teenager perhaps? I love both though.


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I'll be speaking around Britain the next couple of weeks. Here's my schedule, if anyone wants to come to a talk or meet for coffee:
Tues Jan 12, 12:30 pm: Arrive in London (overnighting in Oxford until the 19th).
Thurs Jan 14, 12:00 pm, University of London: "Acting Contrary to Our Professed Beliefs, or the Gulf Between Occurrent Judgment and Dispositional Belief" (Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study).
Fri Jan 15, 4:00 pm, Bristol University: "Introspection, What?" (Common Room, Philosophy Department, 9 Woodland Road).
Sat Jan 16, 9:45 am - 6:00 pm, Oxford University: Limitations of Introspection Workshop. 1:45 pm: "Introspection, What?" (JCR Lecture Theatre, St. Catherine's College).
Mon Jan 18, 12:30 pm, Oxford University: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors" (Wellcome Center for Neuroethics, Old Indian Institute).
Tues Jan 19, 6:00 pm, University of Edinburgh: "An Empirical Perspective on the Mencius-Xunzi Debate about Human Nature" (Abden House, Confucius Institute for Scotland).
Wed Jan 20, 11:00 am, University of Edinburgh: Seminar in Philosophy, Psychology, and the Language Sciences.
Wed Jan 20, 5:00 pm, University of Edinburgh: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors" (Department of Philosophy).
Thurs Jan 21, 12:00 pm, University of Leeds: "Acting Contrary to Our Professed Beliefs, or the Gulf Between Occurrent Judgment and Dispositional Belief" (CETL, Philosophy Department).
Thurs Jan 21, 5:00 pm, University of York: "Introspection, What?" (Department of Philosophy).
Fri Jan 22, University of Warwick: "Acting Contrary to Our Professed Beliefs, of the Gulf Between Occurrent Judgment and Dispositional Belief" (Department of Philosophy).
Sat Jan 23, 4:00 pm: Depart from London.
Friday, January 08, 2010
British Tour
I'll be speaking around Britain the next couple of weeks. Here's my schedule, if anyone wants to come to a talk or meet for coffee:
Posted by Eric Schwitzgebel at 9:51 AM
10 comments:
- earthlad said...
Hi on your tour you do bristol university, I'm not a student or at university but would love to come hear you, so can I still come please ? Oh and could i record it ? as i need to go over things a few times when alone.
- Fri Jan 08, 06:19:00 PM PST
- Eric Schwitzgebel said...
Earthlad, I'd be delighted if you came. Generally these things are open to the public, but check with the Phil Dept at Bristol just to be sure. It's fine with me if you record it. See you there, I hope!
- Mon Jan 11, 11:21:00 AM PST
- Cavall de Quer said...
"Acting Contrary to Our Professed Beliefs, of the Gulf Between Occurrent Judgment and Dispositional Belief" -Love to hear that one, but i live in Spain - is it/will it be posted anywhere on the internet?
- Sat Jan 16, 02:02:00 PM PST
Hi erich I managed to get through the people in the main door @ bristol university but was stopped further on whilst my exchange with them was brief it will be posted on you tube, I always hoped students of life are open and don't judge I guess this vids tells a diff story, as they were not even aware of themselves. Hope to meet ya soon earthlad.
- Sat Jan 16, 02:27:00 PM PST
I hope it's ok to post a comment here about an old blog (how do you know if this is a dream). I'd be interested to hear your comment on this.
For a number of years, I asked this question of people. Usually, the first answer is related to the ordinary "fuzzy" experence of dreaming - well I know it's not a dream because everything's so clear, I can think easily about your question, etc." So then I said something like, "But in a lucid dream, everything can be very clear, you can think clearly, you can read (Stephen LaBerge to the contrary), etc." But somehow, even in conversations with professional philosophers, people don't seem to quite get the point. I do have to say, I never had a good answer for it - the best I could say has been, "Well, you just know. Just about every time I've ever had a lucid dream - or woken up from a nap and at first wondered if I was awake or dreaming, I soon had a basic intuition as to whether it was a dream or a waking state.
However, after many years, it occurred to me there's another experience many people have, and I have no idea how to answer this one. The experience is called a "false awakening", and it is quite common among people who experiment with lucid dreaming.
Here's an example of one I had:
I'm walking along a street, and my attention is drawn up to the sky, where I see that the sun is flashing red. I look up in amazement, and suddenly I say to myself, "Wait, is this a dream"? Then, as all too often occurs, the mind comes up with a rationalization - "Oh", I think, "I remember. I heard on the news that the sun was going to be flashing red today." So I start to go on my way, assuming I"m awake, and suddenly the whole scene starts to dissolve and I'm back in my bed.
So far so good. I'm really disappointed, because it had been so vivid, and for a brief moment I was almost lucid - ("Wait, is this a dream?"). Still mulling it over in my mind, I get up, walk toward the bathroom, and then suddenly, the whole scene starts to dissolve, and I'm back in bed.
Wow, that was interesting. So that was a dream too - (that's why it's called a 'false awakening' - I thought I was awake, in the ordinary waking world, and I wasn't). Now I'm really intrigued by all this, and I sit up on my bed. I take out my dream journal, write a few notes to make sure I remember this, and get up. I walk toward the bathroom, go in, turn on the water, and again, the scene dissolves and I'm back in bed.
Ok, now it's starting to feel VERY uncomfortable. I'm looking around the room. I've just "woken up", dissolved the dream, "woken up" again, dissolved the dream, and now here I am. I'm now asking myself, "Am I awake or dreaming?"
Remember I said before that the only way I ever had thought to really be able to answer the question was to say, "well, you just know, you have an intuition". The problem now is, I've lost the intuition of waking/vs/dreaming. I have absolutely no idea what I could possibly do to test out my state. Jump up and see if I stay up in the air? Well, if I stay up, I'm pretty sure I'm dreaming, but if I don't, it doesn't mean I'm awake, because I've tried that in lucid dreams. Stephen LaBerge says you can't read for more than a second or two in a lucid dream, but I've tried that in a lucid dream and read several pages.
So what do I do? Basically, I wait. But the question for you is, in that first moment, when I've "woken up" for the 3rd time, is there any specific way I could tell whether I was awake or dreaming?
don salmon
- Sat Jan 16, 03:30:00 PM PST
- Eric Schwitzgebel said...
Cavall: Hopefully someday I'll have a chance to visit Spain! An old draft of "Acting Contrary..." is available here. Probably in the next few weeks I'll post up a new draft based on recent revisions.
- Sun Jan 17, 03:36:00 AM PST
- Eric Schwitzgebel said...
Earthlad: I'm sorry to hear that you couldn't get in! English culture is perhaps a little more "exclusive" than American culture (though it could happen in an American university, too). I'd be curious to see the video when it's up.
- Sun Jan 17, 03:41:00 AM PST
- Eric Schwitzgebel said...
Thanks for your comment, Don! Very interesting. I had some similar experiences in college, with multiple false awakenings and genuine uncertainty about whether I might still be asleep, even after I really had awoken! Some people think there are reliable tests: trying to read (and failing), looking at the sun (is it bright enough to hurt?), pinching one's arm (is there vivid pain?), but I don't know of any compelling argument why one couldn't have these experiences in a dream. I recommend just waiting and trying to cultivate an ironically amused attitude!
- Sun Jan 17, 03:47:00 AM PST
Hi Eric:
Thanks for your comment. Do you think this has any bearing on the question of whether there is a mind-independent external world (note - not whether there is an external world, or whether it is independent of "my" mind - but whether the idea of some external object existing without a corresponding subjective/knowing is incoherent.)
This seems to be to have a direct bearing on your post about the impossibility of a general theory of consciousness. If it is possible to "know" directly the knowing which is inextricably associated with any "thing" that is known, then whether or not you have a general theory of consciousness is completely irrelevant to ascertaining the kind of sentience (or "consciousness", if you must) associated with an amoeba, a snail, a frog or a dolphin - or, if you like Freeman Dyson's speculations, an atom). But this may take us into the dreaded realm of parapsychology. There we find the experts with the greatest emotional investment in debunking the research have by this point almost all come to acknowledge that there are experiments with impeccable methodology, that include replication and are inexplicable to them.
It seems to be that your writing, as far as I've been able to glean from it, is pointing the way to what needs to be done, and Alan Wallace, over at UC Santa Barbara, is doing it. With a highly trained group of "professional" introspectionists, dedicated to assisting researchers come up with that very same general theory of consciousness you thought impossible, I suspect (and Alan has mischievously hinted at this in a few interviews) that the general theory may be on us in 10 years or less. And I also suspect it will invert the hierarchy of science, with consciousness at the bottom, followed by psychology, biology and physics (you realize I assume that means you, as a philosopher, are here put in a more prestigious position than the physicist:>))))))
(my article on parapsychology skeptics is here: http://www.integralworld.net/salmon2.html). I don't think it will be possible to develop a general theory of consciousness unless the confusion about and misrepresentation of psi is dealt with. then we may come to understand how the perceived (phenomenal world of so-called secondary qualities) and conceived (the physicists' world of so-called primary qualities) have no meaning apart from perceiving and conceiving.
"Consciousness is... the fundamental thing in existence - it is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the unvierse and all that is in it." Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga.
- Sun Jan 17, 05:24:00 AM PST
- Eric Schwitzgebel said...
@ Don: Yes, I'm inclined to agree that if the empirical evidence for paranormal phenomena becomes compelling, then that would disrupt existing philosophical thinking about consciousness -- though settling on a definitive theory is another thing.
I don't entirely dismiss the evidence for psi phenomena -- as you say, some of the experiments do look pretty good! My inclination, overall, is still not to accept the existence of psi phenomena, but I retain an open mind.
- Sun Jan 17, 12:16:00 PM PST


text: I ordered my Quicksilver with only a CD-RW back in the days. But got myself a regular Pioneer DVR-104 just a couple of months ago. So it's not the Apple Superdrive (with the black tray an such), but just a normal Pioneer DVR-104. I know they are the same drives, but I would like to know if I could use the Apple firmware utility. Pioneer have their own posted on their support site, but they only have update tools voor Windows 98/2000/XP and DOS. I would like to spare myself the whole "dismantle-my-mac-and-build-into-PC" adventure just for a firmware update. But I don't know if the Apple tool could/would damage my drive. Anyone here with experience or knowledge on this?


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Someone once said that curiosity killed the cat. But that's really giving a bad reputation to a key form of behavior that has distinguished humankind ever since the invention of fire. And, it turns out, one of the main ingredients of creativity is curiosity.
You see, in order to put things together that normally might not go together and create something new and distinctive, one has to be curious about lots of things. Becoming a semi-expert in several fields is the domain of the generalist, the polymath, the renaissance person.
Let's consider an example: quantum physics always interested me because there is quite a similarity to group theory in the modeling of bosons and hadrons and their decomposition into quarks. Learning about one can help in understanding the other. And, well, number theory has a lot in common with group theory as well.
But companies can't really consist of a lot of polymaths. So a company does the next best thing and it puts together lots of people who are experts in their fields. And then it binds them to a task that keeps them concentrating on the company's goals. High-level executives should probably be polymaths, though, because they will have to know a little bit about all the technologies within their domain in order to do a good job. And they will have to put them together into the proper path for the company. They make the goals that the experts within the company relentlessly pursue. They see the value of research, albeit limited, within areas that might be immensely profitable in the long term.
What to be Curious About
Now let's discuss one of the ramifications of curiosity for business: top-down management can only work when the top person is curious and willing to consider lots of things. Though, this doesn't mean you have to boil the ocean to find the next greatest thing. But it does mean that you have to at least pursue the things you may find that bear on your goals, even when they seem to be unrelated. The trick is deciding which of them to prune away, and how quickly to do that.
What is there to be curious about these days? Well, this is the domain of the futurist. Which future technologies will bear on your business? If you are running an automotive business, then the mechanics and synergy of hybrid drives is one area to be curious about. And to have active research into. But if you are thinking even farther ahead, you should be very curious about all-electric vehicles and technologies that bear on them. This would include batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, new low-power processors and their use in distributed control techniques, the inclusion of camera technology and object-recongnition technology.
Redundancy vs. Simplicity
When you build a car or a gadget or even a company, the most important thing is that it should not break down and thus fail to achieve its intended use. This means you have to be curious about techniques for redundancy (because parts break down and so you can use multiple parts to support and back up each other to achieve a higher mean time between failures) and simplicity (because the fewer parts something has, the less there is to go wrong, and the more reliable it will be). And you should be curious about how these two contrasting principals trade off against each other. But this also means you have to fight a battle at two fronts: making things more reliable and making parts more simple by combining them.
In the modern day, minimization of the use of consumables becomes a priority. In the ecological sense, this means using fewer things that can't be recycled. In the energy sense, this means having devices use less power to achieve their intended uses. Executives should be curious about these things because they are becoming increasingly important. For the auto executive, this comes from the increasing rarity of fossil fuels, and the implications for their rising costs. For the gadget executive, this comes from the trend towards mobile computing, and the subsequent use of batteries.
Energy becomes a consumable in both cases. But, within the discipline of batteries, we are learning more quickly in the gadget world than we are in the automotive world, I think. This has spawned techniques in distributed processing and custom chip design.
Modeling: Vision and Execution
It is important to be curious about the modeling of things. Let's consider a real-life model for a business and how that has led to immense success.
It was once said to me (I was a CEO at the time, and this was said by another CEO) that a company cannot be both a hardware company and a software company simultaneously: it was a recipe for failure. Well, Apple has proven this maxim to be utterly false. One side of Apple is curious about the vision of the coolest, easiest devices. The other side of Apple is curious about how best to manufacture them to meet inevitable user demand: it's all about vision and execution.
Apple's model of creating the coolest hardware along with the easiest-to-use software is a winning solution. This took decades of work, though, to prove it: Steve Jobs operated with conviction and so he has been proven right.
And this model appears to be right because it is true that the greatest profit can be extracted when you do this. Yet, and this is massively important, this model is not sustainable unless you perfect your ability to execute. And Steve knew this, which is undoubtedly why he hired Tim Cook. Tim has brought the science of supply chain management, manufacturing, and sales to a high art through his superlative logistics expertise. This is not something easily accomplished.
Not Being Curious
The downside of not being curious is that your products will be quickly obsoleted by those companies that have leaders that are curious. And apparently it doesn't matter how much money you have. If you are not curious enough to figure out the model, the technologies, and thus the mechanics of disruption, then you yourself become disrupted by an opponent with the ability to execute.
Vision counts. When you lack the innate curiosity to form a vision, you lose.


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Tags: SADS
2nd Annual SADS Awareness Conference
Date: Tuesday 14th October 2014, 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Leicester Tigers Rugby Stadium
Another key JHMT landmark event will take place Tuesday 14th October 2014 at Leicester Tigers ground when medical professions from all levels will gather to further their knowledge on how to deal SADS - Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome.
SADS Conference
Date: Friday 2nd October 2015, 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Leicester City Football Club - King Power Stadium
This years conference has a SADS in sports slant with a more flexible approach. The sessions are suitable for all front line medical staff. In addition this year the afternoon sessions are aimed at school teachers and sports coaches, physios and other staff involved with children and sport.
Leicester's Marvellous Medicine - Save a Life in 2 Minutes Flat!
Date: Wednesday 5th October 2016, 17:30 - 20:00
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Clinical Education Centre at Leicester General Hospital
Presented by Dr Ffion Davies.
The SADS Facts of Life - Sudden Cardiac Death in Sport Lecture
Date: Thursday 6th October 2016, 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Loughborough University, Brockington Extension Room 0.20
What is SADS and what has it got to do with Sport?
DMU Sports Charity 'Football 9-a-Side' Challenge Match
Date: Saturday 28th January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00
Venue: Goals Soccer Centre, Evington, Leicester
The DMU Sports Charity 'Football 9-a-Side' Challenge Match between DMU Students Select (DMU Women's & Men's Teams) v JHMT Select.
Virgin London Marathon
Date: Sunday 23rd April 2017, 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: London
Nick White who is a swimmer/coach/member of Loughborough Town Swimming Club GO'S FOR JOE at this year's Virgin London Marathon. This is another example of one of the Trust's 'kind hearted' supporters willing to go the extra miles to raise awareness of the silent killer SADS, Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome which affects fit and healthy young people, between 12 - 35 years old.
SADS Awareness Week 2017
Date: Monday 2nd October 2017 - Friday 6th October 2017
Venue: City & County-Wide
'Each year, on the anniversary of Joe Humphries' untimely death, around the 4th October, we hold the annual SADS Awareness Week where we remind and educate healthcare professionals, sports-related professionals and parents and carers of young people about the dangers of undiagnosed heart conditions like SADS.
Brighton Marathon
Date: Sunday 15th April 2018, 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Brighton
Alice Humphries, former pupil at High Leys Community College and a friend of Joe, who is currently studying at Brighton University is also preparing to run the Brighton Marathon in April 2018 to support the work of Joe's Trust.
Joe's Jog Family Fun Run 2018 - Get Set to Run a Very Special Mile for Joe
Date: Tuesday 12th June 2018, 18:15 - 19:15
Venue: The Rothley Centre
Joe's Jog, now in its 5th year, will once again be the curtain-raiser for the annual Mattoli Woods Rothley 10k running event, which takes place on Tuesday 12 June 2018 at 18.15pm.
5th Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS) Half Day Conference
Date: Thursday 4th October 2018, 08:45 - 14:00
Venue: Clinical Education Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester
UHL NHS Trust & Joe's Trust ( JHMT) working as ONE to save young lives and raise awareness and understanding of SADS during SADS Awareness Week – 1 to 5 October 2018


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Although St. Augustine was established in the 16th century, this stretch of coastline remained mostly unsettled until the late 1800s. When zircon and titanium was discovered in the area in 1914, a community called Mineral City quickly grew here. Tourism gained momentum after World War I, and the community of Ponte Vedra was established. A mining company built a nine-hole golf course and a log clubhouse for its employees in the 1920s. In the 1930s, the course became known as the Ponte Vedra Club.
In 1972 and thereafter, a major development called Sawgrass transformed the area. Developers sold 400-acres of land to the PGA golf tour for one dollar. The TPC Sawgrass course now hosts the Tournament Players Championship, perhaps the most important event on the tour after the four majors.
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What would you do if you're a nerd and all of a sudden your computer decides to die... right after you've left your car at the garage for way too pricey but necessary repairs? You could start crying and curl up in the fetal position until someone else takes charge or start planning to rob a bank. Both options aren't really my style but I definitely needed to relax before deciding what to do (as I was more than slightly panicked at this point since I'm a huge nerd ;) And one of the best ways for me to relax is focusing on a new manicure. About half an hour later I'd calmed down quite a bit and this is what my nails looked like:
I started by painting two coats of Zoya Carter on my middle finger, one of the prettiest PixieDust polishes I own. Carter contains loads of pink glitters so I picked a lovely pink polish to complement it, KIKO 313 Heather Pink, that is almost a one coat wonder but since I'm using really thin coats I painted my thumb, index and pinky with two.
I didn't want to distract too much from the textured accent so I kept the other accent nail relatively simple. I painted two coats of Catrice ICONails 15 Milky Bay on my ring finger, let that dry and stamped it with a swirly image from LilyAnna by Messy Mansion LA-02 using Hit the Bottle As Black As Night. Last but not least a coat of Seche Vite on all nails but my middle finger and that was it... colorful nails and some relaxation for me: mission accomplished!
I used these polishes:
|KIKO 313 Heather Pink, Zoya Carter, Catrice ICONails 15 Milky Bay, Hit the Bottle As Black As Night
There isn't much that can upset me as much as my computer failing so waking up to find mine as dead as a doornail was a bit disconcerting to say the least (read: I turned into a growling, howling beast that should have been shot with a tranquilizer gun from a safe distance ;) And while I'm more than capable of handling software related errors, hardware is definitely not my forte. Fortunately while I was trying to enjoy my "color therapy" my resident co-nerd who is way more hardware oriented than me disassembled my deceased puter, figured out what the problem was and managed to revive the thing without losing any data... my hero! So at the end of the day I had pretty nails and a purring computer to write this article on and edit my pictures with... oh, and the hero of the day got to eat his favorite dinner, courtesy of his very thankful wife ;)
Zoya Carter was bought from Pretty Polish.
Hit the Bottle As Black As Night was bought from Hypnotic Polish.


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In Robert Greene's The 48 Law of Power, Law #10 states "Avoid the unhappy and unlucky:"
There is are, of course, caveats, but first read Greene's word:
"You can die from someone else's misery—emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they will also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead."Human behavior is very infectious, and on the opposite end of negative, miserly and miserable-by-choice people, are those people who attract happiness through their outlook, good cheer, natural buoyancy. They are not only a source of pleasure, but associating with them is to share in the prosperity they draw upon themselves. All positive qualities can infect us, but taking advantage of the emotional side of this osmosis is an active choice.
Now, this is not a permission slip to be a jerk! There are people out there who genuinely need our help, support, and guidance; a shoulder to cry on, or sometimes very serious professional help. Some of these people are the people we love and cherish the most, and often cannot be avoided.
But I believe the principal here is to limit how much we allow, permit, and sometimes even enable their negativity and toxicity to be "dumped" upon on, and when to self-protect, delegate, and offer suggestions for better helping options. Taking on other people's toxic garbage is not only the opposite of genuine empathy, it can make the "dumpee" anxious, stressed, negative, and sometimes (and this has happened to me!) physically sick. We are no good to anyone on this planet if we are constantly fighting to energetically get back on top.
Which brings me to…
22. Just like on the airplane with the oxygen mask— take care of yourself before assisting others.
Self-Care is not only not self-ISH, it is vital and necessary to living a full and rewarding life. You've been there: you are on the airplane, and the flight attendant goes through the motions of the safety procedures, instructing you to always put your oxygen mask on first, before assisting others. Why is this an important rule for ensuring survival? Because if you run out of oxygen, you can't help anyone else. You no good to anybody IF YOU ARE PASSED OUT DEAD GURL.
This is an important metaphor for those of you who run around taking care of everything and everyone else except yourself. It is not altruistic or noble, it is a false sense of "busy" substituting for "important meaning." At a certain point, self-sacrifice can become self-indulgent.
People have deep problems with self-care—believe me, 2 years ago I was one of them— now I have the zeal of the converted! And I have been infinitely better able to offer the world my gifts because of it!
If you don't take care of yourself, you can experience burnout, stress, fatigue, reduced mental effectiveness, health problems, anxiety, frustration, and total inability to sleep.
23. Don't Shoot the "Second Arrow"
The Buddhists say that any time we suffer misfortune, two arrows fly our way.
The first arrow, the pain, is the actual bad event.
The second arrow, the suffering, is our reaction to the bad event, the way we chose to respond emotionally.
It looks like this inside our heads:
Arrow #1: "I am crying"
Arrow #2: "AND ONLY A WEAK GIRLY TOTAL WRECK OF A HUMAN WOULD CRY."
The first arrow often is unavoidable.
The second arrow often is self-inflicted.
The "second arrow" isn't actually helpful-- it is full of our judgements about our thoughts and feelings and prevents us from
1. truly feeling them or
2. learning anything from those feelings.
One does not avoid the second arrow by denial, but by being fully present, acknowledging and truly (and I mean actually not faking it) experiencing the difficult emotion, maybe even befriending it? Then allowing it to crest and ebb like a wave. Avoiding blaming yourself for having emotions/the second arrow requires some toughies: self-love, acceptance, emotional vigilance and a healthy dose of self-awareness. The best antidote to the second arrow is self-awareness, self-permission to BE A PERSON, stop punishing, judging, and wallowing,
Then? Simply make the gentle correction.
And example of giving yourself permission:
"Wow. My boss was genuinely disrespectful to me in that meeting and I feel humiliated and ashamed. His behavior might not have been about me, but it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. I am reacting appropriately to this situation. I will experience my humiliating feelings, maybe cry, primal scream or hit a pillow, and then I will move on an address the behavior from a place of peace. But there is noting wrong with my very human, emotional response."
Or, the drama school version:
"That feeling drained and thoughtful after an emotional acting class is a totally appropriate response to unpacking big, personal and emotional subjects through my art. That we should allow these feelings to just exist instead of beating ourselves up about it. If we cry in later in ballet class or at dinner—then so be it. No biggie! We've never done this before, we're in theatre school this is how it goes!"
When the pain comes to mind, acknowledge it in its fullness, embrace it. But then bid it adieu and move on with your day. What you truly accept, without over-thinking, will eventually dissipate of its own accord. It's like really allowing a massage therapist to get into your muscle tension without fighting them. Deep breaths, working with them, through the pain, not against it. Time does heal many wounds if only we allow, and do not continually re-open the wound with anger or resentment or guilt or other dysfunctional "coping" mechanisms brought on by a sea of Second Arrows.
"Pain is certain, suffering is optional." – Buddha
There is a huge distinction between
PAIN - an affliction
our SUFFERING from pain— how we experience of pain.
Pain is often inevitable, but the suffering is a choice. Our choices and energy around our pain can discomfit, frustrate or agonize us.
Don't do that.
Make a different choice.
Don't shoot the second arrow.
Why get hurt twice?
24. "Act 3."
Years ago, my very first leading lady, West End star and dear friend Ruthie Henshall taught me all about "Act 3." What she believes is that the stage door experience is a vital and important part of being gracious with the fans courageous enough to meet you face to face, and express their appreciation and gratitude for your work. You've done Acts 1 and 2, this is Act 3. When it is complete, you can fully relax and head home.
Her use of the term "Act 3" provides an interesting and important boundary however— the concept being that it is PART of the work. You are not being fake, dishonest or disingenuous, but what is being provided in those personal but work based situations is not the full 100% of you that you would offer your intimate friends and family. There is a difference between being friend-LY and being friends. For me, I call this person Alexandra Silber" — she is me! In a slightly fancier outfit! Just a very narrow percentage of the Me Pie Chart—she is who you meet at stage door and on a red carpet. "AL" — there vulnerable Al, is reserved for my intimate people, those who truly have seen and held my inner world. And the people on that list is actually very small. All people can experience us as authentic and genuine, but not everyone needs our full shame story, or has earned our intimacy.
It is important to maintain a healthy boundary in all of life's "Act 3" moments, and I encourage you to identify and stand up for them.
25. Moisturize — and don't forget your neck.
You're later-in-life mug will really thank me. Trust.
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Adult-ing - Part 2
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I got to "sit down" and talk with Kelly Edwards, author of Scorcher, and ask her what it's like to have a book out, how and why she chose the route she did, and a lot of other things that have absolutely nothing to do with writing at all. She was a fantastic sport and great fun to talk to.
You can get Scorcher in physical copy or ebook.
Nerdmobile: So, Kelly, tell everybody what the book and series are about.
Kelly: Scorcher explores the concept that supervillains are people too.
They're not always megalomaniacs with dreams of world domination.
Sometimes they're just people doing whatever they must to get by.
Aidan Grey is a college student with goals for the future, a drive to
succeed, and little time for romance. She's also a woman with a
secret. At eleven, she was orphaned due to the accidental use of her
pyrokinetic abilities. She was taken in by the secret criminal
organization known as Iris and trained to use her abilities for the
organization's profit. Marty Knox is a police detective who loves his
family, tries to genuinely make a difference in the world and falls
hard for Aidan. He shows up just as Aidan is starting to question her
loyalties to Iris and she's surprised to find that she can't resist
him, even if it would be dangerous to get involved with someone on the
right side of the law. What Aidan doesn't realize is that Marty has a
secret of his own, one that would endanger both their lives if
discovered by Iris.
The series itself expands on this topic as Aidan struggles with
figuring out where her loyalties lie and fights for the freedom to
make that choice for herself, as opposed to allowing the organization
that's owned her for half her life to continue to make all of her
Nerdmobile: You are a brand spanking new author, but that doesn't mean you just now picked up writing. How long have you been at it?
Kelly: I've been telling stories since I was a kid. I used to write plays to perform for my parents. In middle school and high school, that morphed
into poetry and short stories. And I must say, thank goodness the
internet wasn't really a thing back then. Or else there might be some
of that middle school poetry coming back to haunt me.
Nerdmobile: What drove you to the method of publishing you used?
Kelly: I'm a control freak. Seriously though, I really liked the idea
of getting my book out there on my terms and spending time building my
audience instead of spending time trying to sell my novel to
publishers. I also enjoy some of the other things that have come with
marketing, from working closely with my cover artist to designing my
own website and running my own promotions on Facebook and Twitter.
Nerdmobile: Will you continue with self publish, or are you hoping to be picked up by a publishing house?
Kelly: At this point, I'm really enjoying the self-publishing process
but I wouldn't say no if the right offer came along. Right now, I
think that my books fall into a niche market as they are unabashedly
genre fiction. While genre fiction can and does sell to traditional
publishing houses, it is a tougher sell.
Nerdmobile: In your opinion, what is the difference between the two?
Kelly: The biggest difference between the two is the degree of control
an author has over the finished book. With a traditional publishing
house most authors have very little, if any, say in what the cover or
layout look like. They are also under deadlines from the publishing
house instead of self-imposed deadlines. Of course, with a traditional
publishing house there is a chance for wider distribution so if that's
what you're interested in, there are many times when it's worthwhile
to give up some of your creative control so you have the chance to get
your story out there to a wider audience.
Nerdmobile: Is writing your first love?
Kelly: Actually, my first love was a boy named Jimmy who was the He-Man to my She-Ra. Sadly, no one told us that they were brother and sister. But
after Jimmy, telling stories was my first long-lasting love.
Nerdmobile: Would you marry writing?
Kelly: No, I've already got a wonderful husband. Writing is just the sexy,
alluring mistress that I lavish with gifts and spend most of my free
time with. (Sorry, honey!)
Nerdmobile: If you and writing had babies, … oh wait. That would be your
book. What was your inspiration for this particular story?
Kelly: This story, like most of my stories, started with the characters.
Aidan came to me first. I really liked the idea of a character who has
reasons for being a villain and who might not be looking for
redemption at the start of the story but isn't fully evil either. The
story evolved naturally from there. I had help from a dear friend,
Paul Leone, in developing Marty as someone who is both the anithesis
of what Aidan is but is similar enough to forget a strange sort of
Nerdmobile: So you're a character driven writer, have you ever attempted to write a story that focuses not on the people but on the situation?
Kelly: I'm working on a story now where I came up with a basic sketch of
an idea first and then started filling in the characters. I would say
that the plot or situation tends to feed and inform the characters and
vice versa.
Nerdmobile: Do you fall in love with your characters?
Kelly: All the time. It's getting rather full in my heart because every
character I've ever written has carved out a spot. If I don't write
with them for awhile, I will start to miss certain characters. I also
frequently feel guilty if I'm not writing often enough to get their
stories out.
Nerdmobile: Writers read, that's a given. Who is your favorite author?
Kelly: I have a confession. I am a book slut. My favorite author changes on a semi-regular basis and I've never committed to just one favorite.
Authors I'm loving quite a lot currently are Seanan Mcguire, Jim
Butcher, and Jim C Hines. Susan Ee is also my new favorite up and
comer to watch.
Nerdmobile: So there's not one author that you've read since you were younger that still holds up for you today?
Kelly: Lois Lowry and J.R.R. Tolkien both stand out, though it's been
awhile since I've reread either author. Unfortunately, my reading time
is very limited now so I usually try to seek out books that I haven't
read yet and don't have as much time as I would like for reading the
old favorites.
Nerdmobile: What is your favorite book of all time? How many times have you read it?
Kelly: See above, re: book slut. The Harry Potter books are my go-to comfort books for when I just want to read something familiar. I've lost count
of how many times I've read those. I've also lost count of how many
times I've read the Dresden Files.
Nerdmobile: Do you have other nerdly pursuits?
Kelly: Aside from the standards: reading comics and sci-fi and fantasy books, watching sci-fi and fantasy TV shows and debating them online, I'm
also really into making superhero costumes and of course, wearing them
to conventions and charity events.
Nerdmobile: What was the first comic you read?
Kelly: While I have loved superheroes for most of my life, I'm actually
relatively new to reading actual comics. I started reading them about
7 or 8 years ago. The very first comic I read was the trade of Batman:
Year One.
Nerdmobile: Who is your favorite superhero? Why?
Kelly: There are a lot of superheroes that I absolutely adore, but I
would have to say that Black Canary (II, ie Dinah Laurel Lance) is my
all-time favorite. I could write an essay or two on why I love her but
I'll try to spare you all the reading. I love her because her
backstory includes a mother-daughter relationship that is complicated
and not cut-and-dry. Dinah took up her mother's mantle against Dinah
Sr's wishes, and so you have both an act of rebellion and following in
her mother's footsteps in one. In the best comics where Dinah is
featured, this informs her character beautifully. Dinah is also a
character who has a great power (her sonic cry, which can knock people
out, shatter just about anything, etc) but chooses to rely on the
abilities that's she's gone out and learned as opposed to simply
relying on the fact that she has a superpower. She was also
essentially 'fridged' in that she lost her superpower in a heinous,
violent way and yet instead of ceasing to be a hero, she continued on
and became even stronger for working through that loss and finding
ways to thrive without her superpower. And for all my good intentions,
I've still written you a novelette so I'll leave it at that.
Nerdmobile: What is your must watch show currently?
Kelly: Once Upon a Time is currently my must-watch show. I'm a sucker
for fairytales and especially when they're told in an interesting way.
Nerdmobile: Do you have a show that you go back to a lot? Rewatch again and again?
Kelly: Buffy and Firefly are two of them. I adore Joss Whedon because he
is always pushing the limits of the genres he works within and he
writes some of the most well-rounded female characters around. Even
today, that's still something that's harder to find than well-rounded
male characters.
Nerdmobile: Batman or Superman?
Kelly: I love them both, but for me it will always be Superman. Why? Because he is unabashedly a square. He has his morals and he sticks by them,
in spite of the fact that he has the powers of a god and could simply
pummel people until they had no choice but to see things his way.
Nerdmobile: If you were able to choose a superpower, what would it be? Why?
Kelly: Is the ability to run on no sleep considered a superpower? If so, I
would definitely choose that because there are not enough hours in the
day. Otherwise, I would choose teleportation because I'm impatient and
hate waiting to get places.
Thanks to Kelly for taking the time out of her schedule to chat! I wish her luck in her future ventures and hope she enjoyed the interview as much as I did. I'm still curious as to her favorite villain, but maybe that's a closely guarded secret for a reason.
Maybe she's her own favorite villain…


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CRS Reporting & Human Rights Concerns: Updated Guidance in the UK
For those not familiar with "CRS", it is the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), developed in response to a G20 request and approved by the OECD in 2014, which calls on jurisdictions to obtain information from their financial institutions and automatically exchange that information with other jurisdictions on an annual basis. Over 100 jurisdictions have committed to CRS (with the USA being one notable exception) with 55 'going live' in 2016.
The stated purpose of CRS was/is to help detect and deter tax evasion - difficult to argue that objective. However, critics of CRS have long argued that it represents a fundamental breach of human rights (e.g. contrary to "respect for private & family life" under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights, see Link) and is indeed unnecessary in the fight against tax evasion given the existence of other more balanced mechanisms like bilateral tax information exchange agreements ("TIEAs") promoted by the same OECD & adopted by most countries around the world (see Link) as well as various anti-money laundering laws and regulations globally.
On that note, rather extra-ordinary new guidance has recently been issued by the UK tax authorities (the HMRC, in late January 2017, see Link) in regard to CRS reporting, namely in limiting CRS reporting in respect of certain foreign donors to UK charities that reside in unstable countries where the provision of such data to such countries by the UK may compromise such donors' human rights.
Although CRS provides that safeguards should be put in place to ensure such information can only be used for the purpose for which it has been supplied (i.e. for the prevention of tax evasion), many around the world have voiced concerns that the information may be used by authorities in some countries (i.e. that are "fantastically corrupt" as former UK Prime Minister Mr David Cameron once put it and/or run by otherwise repressive regimes) for other illicit purposes which might endanger those about whom reports are made.
One must remember that CRS does not provide for any exception, limitation or restriction to the collection and exchange of information, so if an entity (charity, individual or other entity) fits the reporting definitions, the rules require automatic exchange of information which is independent of any actual risk of tax evasion.
This new, potentially significant, guidance by the HMRC (a first by any CRS jurisdiction) recognises that in some cases, the activities or background of an individual about whom a report must be submitted to HMRC may mean that supplying this data to the other jurisdiction may place them at risk (e.g.risk of extortion, kidnapping etc, see a related LinkedIn Post entitled "The Global Kidnapping Epidemic"). It sets out the process by which the charity can notify the HMRC of its concerns about the human rights of a donor, and the process by which such data is excluded from the CRS transmissions to the other relevant jurisdiction.
Having said all that, the next & perhaps more important question is, using the same human rights argument, should there not be a similar mechanism/ exception in the UK to restrict CRS reporting in respect of all foreign individuals living in such unstable countries? Presumably those people also have similar human rights risk to those of donors to UK charities? If that happens, then will other jurisdictions follow the UK lead? Time will tell....
P.S. I'd be remiss if I didn't at least make brief mention of Mr Filippo Noseda's (of the law firm of Withers Worldwide) insightful commentary on this subject, including his plea for a suitable candidate for a court case in the European Court of Human Rights - see Link here).
Author: Steve Sokic, Global Head of Private Client at SANNE.


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My Tins on TV
Check out this link to see a video of the tins I designed for Dollar General. They don't show up until the end of the show, but for a split second you can see them. How cool is that!!!
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