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To become a member of Trails BC, please fill out the application form found at the bottom of this page. Payment can be made in two ways, online via Paypal, or by mailing a cheque. After filling out the membership application, you will be redirected to a page outlining instructions for making either type of payment.
Alternatively, if you prefer to mail us your application form, you may download a printable PDF Membership Application form and mail it with a cheque.
Our mission is to expand, sustain and preserve the existing provincial trail network. We have the mandate to assemble the British Columbia section of the Trans Canada Trail for its intended non-motorized users. Your membership will help ensure that the Trans Canada Trail will be completed.
As a member you:
- Support Trails BC in its efforts to facilitate and advocate for trail preservation and construction in B.C.
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- Are positioned to report to us about any trails in your area of B.C.
- Will receive information about our activities and our progress with the TCT.
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His Legacy:
Jimmie Lee Solomon founded the Civil Rights Game in 2007. The Game, played annually, works in conjunction with awareness events and honors baseball's relationship to the Civil Rights movement.
Solomon established the annual Civil Rights Game in response to the decreasing number of African-Americans in MLB, with the intention of paying homage to and reminding the league of its rich legacy of minority players.
The prolific relationship between major league baseball and civil rights began in 1947, when Jackie Robinson crossed the color line and joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson's move signaled the advent of a new era of integration within the league, opening doors not only for African-Americans, but all minority baseball players. Ever since, The Game has been inextricably associated with the civil rights movement.
In 2007, the inaugural Civil Rights Game was held at the AutoZone park in Memphis, TN, the city in which Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. The Game became a part of the MLB regular season in 2009. The game is an opportunity for its players to recognize the people, of all races, who blazed the trail for them in baseball, and express their gratitude toward them. Teams who participate in the games traditionally wear uniforms reminiscent of the old Negro League teams that represented their city, or throwback uniforms of their current teams, to display their reverence for those who came before them.
The Game serves as an anchor for other events whose purpose is to spread awareness of baseball's ties to the Civil Rights movement and catch the attention of minorities in the industry, along with those who wish to break into it. The most significant of these events is the presentation of the Beacon Awards, which honor three people who have contributed significantly in the civil rights arena. The three awards are the Beacon of Life, Beacon of Hope and Beacon of Change, and recipients have included Spike Lee, Ruby Dee, Muhammad Ali, Bill Cosby, Willie Mays, Carlos Santana, Morgan Freeman, and members of Earth, Wind and Fire. This recognition of the strides they have taken to improve race relations in the US inspires younger and future generations to continue their work.
By reintroducing the bond between MLB and civil rights into the national consciousness, Solomon's Civil Rights Game reminds us of the profound impact the sport has had on this nation's history. The pioneers of baseball disregarded their differences in an effort to work toward a common dream of a fair league with the best players available, period. This example of unity embodies the values that have given the United States such strong foundation and continued prosperity, and proves that baseball has, and always will be the true Great American Pastime.
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Starting with version 1.5, Disk Decipher provides support for remote storage. This allows access to disk images stored on a remote server. Disk Decipher will only download the parts of the disk image required to open the disk image and access the directories and files you select. This gives quick access to remote disk images independent of the size of the disk image.
For performance reasons, consider defragmenting your disk image occasionally. Downloading a file which is split in multiple fragments will obviously be slower than downloading a file in a single request.
To access a remote disk image simply tap the Add (+) button on the home screen of Disk Decipher and enter the URL of the remote disk image.
The first remote storage protocol implemented in Disk Decipher is the HTTP protocol.
To access a disk image using the HTTP protocol, you need to store the disk image on a HTTP 1.1 compliant server. This can be a local Intranet web server if your iPhone/iPad is connected to a local wifi network, or a web server connected to the Internet if you want to access the disk image anywhere.
Disk Decipher uses the HTTP 1.1 Range feature to download only the necessary parts of the disk image.
Disk Decipher will allow HTTP redirects to another HTTP URL, and direct any subsequent requests immediately to the new URL provided by the HTTP redirect.
If needed, the URL can be protected by username/password authentication. Disk Decipher will respond to authentication requests by asking for the username and password. If the URL contains a username, it will be shown as default username. The credentials will be saved until Disk Decipher is restarted.
Note: in general, be careful with using basic authentication in combination with HTTP on an untrusted network. The username and password will be transmitted in clear-text. Consider using digest authentication if you require HTTP authentication, or use HTTPS instead of HTTP to encrypt the credentials automatically.
The implementation is built upon the URL connection framework of iOS, which provides persistent connection support. This allows Disk Decipher to download multiple disk fragments efficiently (without the overhead of establishing a new connection for each individual fragment).
Version 1.7 of Disk Decipher adds support for the HTTPS protocol, i.e. HTTP encapsulated in SSL. The same requirements and comments that apply to HTTP also apply to HTTPS.
Additionally, the HTTPS server is required to present a valid SSL certificate to minimize the risk of a man-in-the-middle attack. If you need to be able to connect to a server with a self-signed certificate, let me know. On sufficient demand I will add an option to allow such connections.
Like HTTP, Disk Decipher will follow HTTP redirects, to another HTTPS URL but also to another HTTP URL (and vice versa) without requiring any user interaction.
Webdav uses standard HTTP or HTTPS connections to retrieve remote objects, so provided your webdav server conforms to the requirements listed above, Disk Decipher should just work if you provide the URL to the disk image.
Disk Decipher has been tested succesfully with the following cloud storage providers:
Are you using WEBDAV to connect to another cloud storage provider? Let me know and I'll add the provider to this list to help others.
Version 1.8 of Disk Decipher adds support for Dropbox. Disk Decipher uses the Dropbox API to access disk images stored in your Dropbox account.
To use this feature, you need to link Disk Decipher to your Dropbox account by opening the settings dialog, and selecting "Storage provider accounts". Tapping "Link Dropbox account" will initiate the familiar procedure to link a Dropbox account.
Note: Disk Decipher supports linking multiple Dropbox accounts. If you have access to multiple Dropbox accounts, tap "Link Dropbox account" for each account. This will enable you to access disk images stored in these accounts.
After successfully linking a Dropbox account, the Dropbox ID of the account will be shown. Take a note of this number, as you will need it on entering the URL of a disk image stored inside this Dropbox account.
Note: starting with version 2.3.0 the e-mail address of your Dropbox account will be shown in the list of linked accounts. In that case you will also need to use your e-mail address in the remote disk URL below.
After linking your Dropbox account, you can access disk images stored in this account using a remote disk URL like:
with DropboxID the Dropbox ID of the account, and ... the path to your disk image. For example, to access a disk image test.tc in the root of your Dropbox account with ID 123456, use the URL dropbox://123456/test.tc
Google Drive
Version 2.3.0 of Disk Decipher adds support for Google Drive. Disk Decipher uses the Google Drive API to access disk images stored in your Google Drive account.
To use this feature, you need to link Disk Decipher to your Google Drive account by opening the settings dialog, and selecting "Storage provider accounts". Tapping "Link Google Drive account" will initiate the familiar procedure to link a Google Drive account.
Note: Disk Decipher supports linking multiple Google Drive accounts. If you have access to multiple Google Drive accounts, tap "Link Google Drive account" for each account. This will enable you to access disk images stored in these accounts.
After successfully linking a Google Drive account, the account will be shown with its e-mail address in the list of storage provider accounts:
Notice the chevron to the right of the linked account. You can use it to easily select a disk image stored in your Google Drive account: just tap the Google Drive account, enter (part of) the filename of the disk image file stored in your Google Drive and select the disk image from the list of search results. The disk image will automatically be added to the list of available remote disks in the main view of Disk Decipher:
The semi-random string shown at the end of the URL is the fileID of the disk image in your Google Drive.
Other protocols
The remote storage support will be extended to other protocols / cloud storage providers (like iCloud, Box, OneDrive, Skydrive, ...). If you like to see a specific protocol implemented first, then please let me know.


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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
SCOM Dashboards - Conclusion and References
SCOM Dashboards - The Intro
SCOM Dashboards - Part 1 - Installing WSS 3.0
SCOM Dashboards - Part 2 - Installing the Dashboard Solution Accelerator
SCOM Dashboards - Part 3 - Customizing the Dashboard Banner and Logo
SCOM Dashboards - Part 4 - Customizing the Dashboard Tabs
SCOM Dashboards - Part 5 - Installing the Service Level Dashboard (SLD 2.0)
SCOM Dashboards - Part 6 - Adding SQL Queries to the Dashboards
SCOM Dashboards - Part 7 - The SCOM Distributed Application Health State Tab
SCOM Dashboards - Part 8 - Adding the SLD Tab to the SCOM Dashboard
I hope that if you are reading this post that it means you have taken the time to review the other posts in this series and have found the information in them useful. Although I haven't come across this solution on the web previously that offers a central tabbed dashboard that includes a SCOM Admin dashboard, a SCOM Distributed Application Health State dashboard and the SCOM Service Level Dashboard, it doesn't mean that I came up with the ideas for each component all by myself.
Below are some links to the other SCOM community member blog posts that made this particular series possible and I would like to thank them for their hard work and time put in to their posts as without them I wouldn't have been able to come up with this solution.
Kevin Holman (Credit for a huge amount of SQL queries and the best resource on the web for them)
Cameron Fuller (Credit for SCSM dashboard customization)
Tim McFadden (Credit for SCCM dashboard customization)
Steve Beaumont (Credit for Distributed Application Health State Dashboard)
Anders Bengtsson (Credit for additional dashboard customization)
Finally, the purpose of this blog series is to highlight the use of dashboard solutions for SCOM that are FREE and that haven't been blogged about much in the past. I have decided to omit the dashboard integration that can be used with Visio 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 as this has been blogged about all over the web and I didn't want to go over old ground again.
I have also omitted the excellent Savision LiveMaps dashboard solution as it is not free - contrary to what a lot of people think, Savision allow the use of 5 maps for free for 12 months, then you need to purchase a licence for them. If you do have the budget to spend and are looking for an extra dimension in SCOM dashboards, then Savision LiveMaps is the only way to go.
For more information on the Visio 2010, Sharepoint 2010 and Savision LiveMaps solutions, see the excellent blog series by SCOM MVP Marnix Wolf from the link below:
Marnix Wolf
That brings this series to an end, thanks for reading and hopefully you have found the information helpful.
11 comments:
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 9:39 PM
This was awesome. This is just what we were looking for. Couple questions. I would like to have a monitor for my dash board that shows any server with under 15% of disk free left and one to show % of uptime for our servers. I have looked everyone and so far nothing comes close.ReplyDelete
Hi there,ReplyDelete
Thanks for the great comments about my posts!
Would you believe that the type of dashboard you are looking for although a simple and totally understandable one to have is something of an enigma to create within a dashboard.
I had searched everywhere for an SQL query that would satisfy a similar request I had a year or so ago and eventually found one that just about did the job.
I'll create a new blog post about this over the coming days as I think it warrants a bit of a deeper explanation than what I can give in a single comment here.
Keep watching the blog for the new post!
- Jesse GarciaFebruary 23, 2012 at 5:09 AM
You did an amazing job! Thank you for this post!ReplyDeleteReplies
No problem Jesse - thanks for the great comment!!Delete
Glad these posts have been of help to you!
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2012 at 9:04 PM
very, very niceReplyDelete
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Thanks Juergen!Delete
- AnonymousMay 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Thanks very much for this tutorial. Very clear and useful.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 14, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Thanx for this! One thing I can nog find the DA state query on Steve Beaumont's blog. Do you still have it?ReplyDelete
Hi Chris,Delete
The link to Steve's DA query is here:
This is one of the most finest articles I have ever seen....thank you so muchReplyDelete


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L. Neil Smith's
Number 220, April 21, 2003
What Republicans Deserve
Exclusive to TLE
Sometimes I think Republicans deserve every tax they whine about, every gun law they resent, and every edict that keeps them from praying in public schools.
They also deserve all the political correctness they hate, all the environmental regulations that destroy the value of their property, and every social engineering scheme specifically designed by socialist Democrats to phase conservatism out of existence.
Why am I being so harsh? Why am I saying the Republicans deserve to be harassed by my greatest enemy the state?
Because for too long they've watched Lady Liberty get raped and beaten, sitting on the sidelines and cheering on the brutality, salivating at the sight of America's one truly singular value freedom being turned into a pile of violated, mutilated raw meat.
I'm sorry. Call me vengeful. But those arrogant Republicans cheered the savage ravaging of Lady Liberty in the name of the drug war, which to this day keeps a million peaceful, innocent and potentially productive Americans behind iron bars to be anally raped by convicted child molesters and carjackers who will get out of those cages earlier than their drug "offender" victims because of something called "mandatory minimums" that Republicans essentially invented.
Call me spiteful. But those arrogant Republicans enthusiastically cheered the predation on Lady Liberty in the name of family values in all their attempts to tell us what we could read, what we could watch, what we could write, and how dare they? who we could make love to.
Call me juvenile. But those arrogant Republicans welcomed the rape of Lady Liberty in the name of fighting communism when they supported Richard Nixon, who continued the enslavement of a generation of young men in the most depraved enterprise ever conceived by minds belonging to those with the audacity to call themselves human: the killing of other soldiers who didn't want to kill or be killed.
Call me whatever you want. But those arrogant Republicans welcomed unmentionable acts against Lady Liberty in the petty name of getting elected. They always said that they couldn't go as far as they wanted presumably, in the direction of smaller government because otherwise Democrats would completely take over and make things worse. Many freedom-loving friends of mine have voted Republican with this in mind, only to get in return for their loyalty a barrage of farm subsidies, tariffs, economic regulations, tax increases, firearms restrictions, and other attacks on the free market and human decency.
This has brought those of us with any brain-cells to speak of to the conclusion that Republicans have never truly wanted to combat Democrats in the battlefield of collectivist policies; they've only wanted to outperform them in a friendly race.
And now, in the name of the War on Terrorism, the Republican Party who once pretended to believe in the Constitution and limited government are the ones predominantly responsible for America's creeping descent into the depths of totalitarian hell.
And in the name of I don't even know anymore the Republicans are standing by a president who is blowing to smithereens uncounted innocent people in a poor country, made even poorer by the actions of his father. And both belligerents never even tried to present half-credible justifications for this barbaric brutality.
There are of course no viable alternatives. There are Democrats, who I never liked much before, but who these days sometimes sound relatively reasonable. Which is another terrible thing the GOP has done: they've made Democrats look good by comparison!
In all truth I don't want any Americans to feel the burden of draconian gun laws, confiscatory taxation, bureaucratic regulations, and socialist political correctness. And if I were in 1930s Germany, I wouldn't want anyone to feel the burden of Hitler's police state tactics, either.
But those that cheer on the worst aspects of their government yesterday's Nazis, today's Republicans have little to complain about. (Those conservatives who now say this is an unjust comparison better never make it themselves, like I've heard them do so when they weren't the ones in power.)
The next time some Bush-loving Republican complains about some electricity regulation or some energy tax or otherwise tries to rub elbows with you with talk about laissez faire economics or the absurdity of New York's new smoking law, remember you don't have to cave in. You don't have to be his friend on ideological grounds that are in reality made of quicksand. You don't have to talk nice to him as you did in the 1990s as I did in the 1990s back when Republicans and authentic freedom-lovers had William Clinton as a common enemy and talk radio wasn't 24-hour fascist propaganda. Perhaps we genuinely agreed on the reasons for hating Clinton; I thought we did. Now I tend to think most Republicans were simply envious of Clinton's effortless command of power. They were jealous it wasn't them bombing Serbia and massacring innocents at Mount Carmel.
So perhaps when the next lockstep Republican offers his elbow to rub with yours, you should just give him your cold shoulder instead. That's the least they deserve.
I'll no longer think Republicans deserve any of the much more terrible things I mentioned earlier as soon as they stop doing what they've been doing so passionately these last nineteen months: celebrating the outright annihilation of the America dream for the sake of advancing Bush's imperial ambitions.
That might mean they have to stop being Republicans. In my opinion that would be no big loss.
At any rate, Republicans who grow a central nervous system and stop cheering on the death of America will regain a respect I had for them before, when I thought we were in 50% agreement on things. They still wouldn't at all be libertarians, but at least they would be close enough on the food chain to communicate with.
Is America becoming a police state? Friends of liberty need to know.
Some say the U.S. is already a police state. Others watch the news for signs that their country is about to cross an indefinable line. Since September 11, 2001, the question has become more urgent. When do roving wiretaps, random checkpoints, mysterious "detentions," and military tribunals cross over from being emergency measures to being the tools of a government permanently and irrevocably out of control?
The State vs. the People examines these crucial issues. But first, it answers this fundamental question: "What is a police state?"
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So many things to talk about: Part Quattro.
For those that missed the earlier installments: Part One, Part Two and Part Three.
It was awful, laying there beside my husband, in the fragile peace we'd spent all day brokering, knowing what I was about to say would create a whole different set of discord. How to tell the man who had been far more caring of me and my feelings, more patient, more loving and more sensitive than many other husbands would ever dream of being, that despite all that wonderfulness it was, ironically, his innate honesty that was hurting me the most?
Exhausted from what we'd already been through and how late Kiddlywink had stayed up, I ended up involuntarily blurting out, "I HATE my body!" Then I spent the next five minutes dissolving into a puddle of snot. Ever cried so hard you wanted to puke? I cried so hard that when it came time to stop it was like I was a kid all over again, making that horrible "fehFEHfeh" noise when you spasmodically suck your bottom lip into your mouth and take great shuddering breaths.
Me! The advocate of loving your body and being kind to yourself, hated my own body. I loathed it. And unlike fat, which is something you're "s'posed" to be able to do something about if you don't like it, I didn't know if the things I detested would ever be fixed. Me, the great solver of problems had met a problem I couldn't solve.
This is your Too Much Information warning. I'm going to talk, in explicit detail, about the postpartum physical problems my body is going through and my feelings and mental issues on the subject. If you don't wish to continue reading, fair enough, I'll see you on a later post.
The problem with getting enough sleep, is that I could no longer ignore my postpartum trauma. Sure, I'd logically discussed it with many people, I'd even had a sobfest or seven. More importantly though, I hadn't dealt with what had happened, what was continuing to happen, and what may or may not potentially happen in the future. Now I had the energy to deal with it, but not the desire. Funny how something which seems bad at the time ends up being a catalyst for something good? Alaskaboy's elephant had been noticed, and it led us on a merry chase to where I was forced to turn around and confront my own pesky pachyderm.
For those that aren't aware let me try to explain how my body has been affected.
Over the whole area from the bottom of my bra line to the tips of my toes, I have completely altered sensation. Any of you ever worn a wetsuit? Imagine that entire area is coated in a layer of neoprene. Like when wearing a wetsuit, I can feel that something is touching me, but nothing subtler than that. If I concentrate enough I can usually figure out what's happening, but I do have to concentrate...and often it's a guess based on information I'm getting from my other senses.
Add to that the weird, numb sensation you get when a body part is not quite all the way asleep yet. My outer two toes and parts of the soles of my feet are totally numb..which makes walking fun sometimes.
Add to that difficulty differentiating temperature differences and odd sensations caused by this. e.g. Sometimes walking on cool carpet feels like the carpet is wet.
Add to that the usual post c-section stuff. Complete numbness from belly button to bottom of pubic mound, even the labia and clitoral hood are mostly numb. (Thank god the clitoris still works...mostly) Weakened abdominal muscles etc
Add to that the usual postpartum vaginal differences...dryness, thinner skin, weaker pelvic floor etc.
Add to that a ventral hernia.
Add to that loss of muscle tone and weight gain from surgical recovery.
Add to that sacroiliac joint pain and weakness.
Add to that sleep apnea.
Add to that incontinence.
All of this and I'd done everything you're supposed to do in order to have a healthy pregnancy and easy delivery! For god's sake I was in the pool working out two days before delivery! While I was busily dying!
And therein was the crux of the matter. Despite all that I was going through, I felt awful for even thinking of feeling anything other than relieved to have a healthy, happy baby and grateful that I was alive. There were plenty of women/families who had it far worse than me. Who was I to bitch and moan about what was wrong when I had so much to be thankful for?
The problem with that though is it's not only black or white thinking but also Should thinking. And Should is a bad, bad word. Why did my gratefulness and relief have to preclude those other feelings? Why would feeling those things make my gratefulness and relief any less than their true depth? Just like Alaskaboy's problem, failing to talk about it only made the issue far worse by the time we eventually got around to discussing it. He'd betrayed me by not giving me the chance to fix it and failing to be honest about what was truly going on, and I did the same to him.
By caring about what I "should" be doing or feeling, I wasn't completely honest with him the very few times we've had sex since I gave birth. By not being honest I made the situation worse. Sure I was honest about the mechanics of it all; what hurt, what was okay, when we had to stop because I couldn't go any more, what didn't do it for me any longer etc. What I wasn't honest about was how I felt.
How I died a little on the inside when he'd grimace at the taste of the milk that remains in my breasts. A double psychological wound. It's the same face Kiddlywink pulled the last time I breastfed her and my milk had finally given up the ghost. Sure there's not enough there to feed my daughter, but there's enough to make my husband find me less enjoyable. (Poor bugger tried to hid it once he was aware of the problem, but it must be awful stuff because he still reacts in subconscious ways.)
How awful it feels putting weight on my numb knees.
How painful it is to be flat on my back.
How hard it is to hold myself in any position that allows for sex to occur.
How I would have to force myself to relax and how I dreaded the way my hips would cramp in the lead up to, or even during orgasm, because I could no longer tell my muscles were fatigued.
How just about every single part of my body no longer felt his touch the way it had.
How it felt like I was a virgin all over again, every single time, and he was hung like an actual stallion.
How frustrating all of this was because even when all the stars aligned and we had time plus desire to have sex, my body failed me yet again.
How guilty I felt because he'd been so patient and understanding, trying to find ways to solve all of the problems I had told him about.
How I'd cringe on the inside every time he'd muster the courage to ask hopefully if I was in the mood.
All of this and more came pouring out that night. We got hardly any sleep because it took that long for us to sort through it all. The shoe was also on the other foot. He'd known something was wrong, but hadn't been able to get out of me what was going on. Boy, did we both feel foolish after admitting our secrets led to something good and constructive.
By opening up to each other it's allowed us to work together on our issues. It's taken weeks and several more discussions but I'm helping him find solutions to his problems, and he's helping me with mine. (Who knew that we'd find so many other places that give me that delightful shivery feeling!) Our problems aren't one hundred percent solved-- for several reasons, one of which was jealousy that the character was awake and got to see her baby straight away, I sobbed for nearly fifteen minutes because of watching a cesearean delivery on a television show the other night--but we're working on them together as a couple again. Dealing with things takes time and effort, but it's so much more rewarding than the time and energy spent on denying stuff. I wish I could remember that whenever I'm in the middle of it all. But, I guess everything does happen in its own time.
I can honestly say I don't hate my body anymore. I'm often frustrated by it, angry with it, hurt or saddened by it, but I don't hate it. And I'm trying to accept and love it. Part of that has been to find the courage to write about all of this on here. Blogging is such an important part of my recovery. But, I used the excuse that I was writing too much about pregnancy related stuff, when it's a weight loss blog, not a postpartum recovery blog.
Well? I realised this particular part of my weight loss journey does involve post partum recovery. Those that don't want to read about it won't. Just like any other subject I discuss they don't want to read. It's my blog, and I have to write about the issues I need to write about. So, I did. And I will. Am pretty sure we haven't heard the end of this saga yet. ;)


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Ah, the Good Life
Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong: A History of What Really Makes Us Happy
By Jennifer Michael Hecht
HarperSanFrancisco. 355 pp. $24.95
Jennifer Michael Hecht believes that our "basic modern assumptions about how to be happy are nonsense" and that arriving at that realization can be "wonderfully therapeutic." The way to achieve the breakthrough, she says, is to study the past, and so she offers her book, subtitled "A History of What Really Makes Us Happy," as a form of personal therapy, history as self-help.
The undertaking is not as glib -- or as outrageously modern -- as it first might seem. Renaissance humanists looked to the past to furnish lessons about how to live. And some, such as the French skeptic Montaigne, were moved to treat history's baffling variety of customs and norms as a tonic against taking one's own too seriously.
Hecht, the author of the provocative Doubt: A History, joyfully follows Montaigne's example. Focusing on topics that have long drawn pursuers of pleasure -- drugs, money, the body and celebration -- she uses the past to poke fingers into the pieties and prejudices of the moment.
Thus Hecht would have us consider that Bayer once produced heroin, so named for its "heroic" success at alleviating coughs, and that the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, famous for his stoic wisdom and equanimity, was a regular user of opium. Such examples suggest the arbitrariness of our distinctions between substances good and bad, legal and illegal. And though Hecht is sensitive to the dangers of addiction and cautions (not entirely convincingly) against breaking the law, her aim is to free us to think more openly and less guiltily about drugs -- whether anti-depressants, narcotics, coffee or tea -- as "potions people use to get a little happy."
Hecht employs a similar method of historical comparison to question current attitudes toward the body. She points out mischievously that modern America compares only to ancient Greece and 20th-century fascist regimes in its obsession with bodily beauty and adds that "in the context of most of human history, our idea that a good life includes a lot of physical exercise is bizarre." Amusing discussions of the happiness philosophy of John Harvey Kellogg, the founder of the Kellogg's cereal company, who believed in the transformative power of sexual abstinence and whole grain, or of the 19th-century craze for fletcherizing (thoroughly chewing one's food), will make you think twice about the wisdom of the Atkins diet and other fads.
Nurturing that sort of skepticism is precisely Hecht's goal. Yet she is also willing to think against the (whole) grain in an effort to locate happiness in contemporary practices that many pundits are quick to condemn. She defends shopping, for example, as a viable route to happiness, a quest for lost community. And she sees the outpourings of emotion at the death of Princess Diana and the return of Utah kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart as attempts to participate in group rituals of mourning and celebration that throughout history have helped cultures sustain themselves.
Certainly Hecht's curiosity ranges widely, and the breadth of her learning is impressive, even if it is sometimes stretched rather thin. References to country music, Harry Potter and James and the Giant Peach come embedded in discussions of Proust, Baudelaire and Susan Sontag. The result can be fresh and daring analysis. But it can also be overwhelming. If life, in Hecht's view, is "another tumble in the kaleidoscope of historical culture," then all those shifting colors may leave you feeling a bit dizzy and confused.
Looking through history's kaleidoscope may be a fine technique for dissolving our cultural certainties, but it is less successful at illuminating the "core, classic wisdom" about happiness that Hecht summarizes in the first 50 pages. The four "magic formulas" she extracts from the whole of human history yield unobjectionable maxims: know yourself, control your desires, take what's yours and remember death. The outlines of such perennial truths, however, break down amid the chatty categorical imperatives -- "Try different things," "Don't overschedule" -- that she scatters throughout her book.
Still, at a time when Americans are bombarded with advice about how to be happy, Hecht's skeptical bent is refreshing. Indeed, she might have pushed it further. With the exception of several passing references, she fails to engage with the much-discussed "science of happiness" recently promoted by some of the world's leading psychologists, economists and social scientists. Given Hecht's academic training (she holds a PhD in the history of science), that is a shame. For not only does she miss an opportunity to wield her skeptical rapier, but she deprives herself of a wealth of insights, many of which cannot be easily dismissed. As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt shows in his wonderfully smart and readable The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, modern science and history have a lot to say to each other. That dialogue is missing here.
So, ironically, is a fully historical appreciation of happiness itself, which Hecht defines simply as "feeling good." Only recently have human beings come to think of happiness exclusively in this way, slowly abandoning the links to God, virtue and justice that long tied happiness to sources beyond the fleeting feelings of the self. "The great meaning of the world," Hecht confidently asserts, "is each individual person getting through life with some happiness." Perhaps. But in this she reveals that, for all her interest in history, she is very much, like the rest of us, bound by the present. ·
Darrin M. McMahon, a professor of history at Florida State University, is the author of "Happiness: A History."


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Following on from this weeks feature on Broughton House, today's Friday Gem feature some exquisite etchings of scenes from poems of Robert Burns. Done by the Ayrshire artist Robert Bryden, they have been digitised from a series of signed proof sheets of etchings entitled Some Etchings from Burns. The accompanying texts offer commentary and historical background on the Bryden's illustrations, and the portrait of Burns after the original by Alexander Nasmyth. These sheets may be proof copies for a limited edition of 50 copies to commemorate the centenary of Burns's death.
The eve of the festival of All Saints, on the last night of October, which goes under the name of Hallowe'en, is now little observed among us. Still, in some country districts, a few of the old practices are kept up. Nuts are burned, and apples "dookit" for, and mashed potatoes eaten in the hope of securing the ring, the thimble, or the threepenny-bit, which foretell the future. Children, too, wander abroad with masks on their faces to counterfeit bogles, while others go about with turnip-lanterns to scare the bogles away. But the old order which believed in these things is fast giving place to the new, which believes in none of them. It was all the more fortunate, therefore, that Burns embalmed the superstitions as well as the fun and frolie of Hallowe'en, before these had for even been forgotten.
"Some merry, friendly, country-folks
Together did convene
To burn their nits, and pou their stocks,
An' haud their Hallowe'en."
The Jolly Beggars
This scene takes us to Mauchline, where Poosie-Nancy kept her famous lodging-house. The poem of course introduces us to very low life indeed, but it is drawn with the utmost fidelity, and, besides, there is an elemnt of Bohemianism in most of us which makes us feel considerably at home even in Poosie-Nancy's howff. In this wonderful cantata, as Carlyle says, "the blanket of the night is drawn asunder for a moment, and in full, ruddy, flaming light, these rough tatterdemalions are seen i their boisterous revel. Every face is a portrait; the strong pulse of life vindicates its right to gladness even here; and we feel that some other night in new combinations, they will again meet and wring from Fate another hour of wassail and good cheer." Burns thought so little at the time of this poem that he left only one manuscript copy, but this was luckily preserved.
"Ae nicht at e'en, a merry core
O' randie, gangrel bodies,
In Poosie-Nancy's geld the splore,
To drink their orra duddies."
Dr Hornbook
This scene belongs to Burn's Tarbolton days. In the Freemasons' Club of that village, of which Burns was a member, there was enrolled likewise one John Wilson, village teacher, who had taken it upon him to eke out a scanty livelihood by selling a few groceries and drugs, and giving a little medical advice in a quiet way. No harm of course in all this if done judiciously; but, ochainie! Burns and Wilson quarrelled one night and Robin, in his mad way, resolved to hit the dominie off in verse, or, as he said to the Dumfries lads afterwards, "to hing him up in sang like an auld potato bogle." And the result was this terribly characteristic lampoon on the possibly bumptious, but otherwise decent schoolmaster. John Wilson, we are told, was "a dumpy elderly gentleman," as here represented.
"Ye ken Jock Hornbook i' the clachan,
Deil mak' his king's-hood in a spleuchan!
He's grown sae weel acquaint wi' *Buchan
An' ither chaps,
The weans haud out their fingers laughin',
And poul my hips."


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Posted January 30, 2014 in News Category
The Chesterfield License Office, operated by Mid-America Transplant Services, achieved an office-best 66 percent donor registry enrollment during the month of December and its sister office in Maplewood recorded an office-best 59 percent in the same time period. Donor designation represents the percentage of people who joined the Missouri Organ and Tissue Donor Registry while renewing a driver's license or state ID during the month. These numbers are important because increasing the number of people on the donor registry results in more lives saved through organ and tissue transplants.
"Reaching these all-time highs really speaks to the dedication of the staff at the MTS license offices," said Lisa Longwell, manager of the Chesterfield License Office. "We recognize how important education and increased registry enrollment is in the process of saving more lives through organ and tissue donation."
Lisa said at their December staff meeting, they learned about the residents of the MTS Family House. Merry Smith from the MTS Center for Life shared a few stories about the patients waiting for a life-saving organ transplant while living at the Family House.
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Mid-America Transplant Services acquired three license offices in 2012 and 2013 to identify and test best practices designed to increase awareness of organ and tissue donation and the number of people joining the state donor registry. In the month of December, one idea involved several MTS employees talking with license office customers reluctant to join the registry.
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Sunday, April 8, 2012
Lawnscaping Blog Hop: Spring in Seattle
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Aren't you busy tonight?! These are so fun!ReplyDelete
Cute cards Amy - the 'Spring in Seattle' makes me smile :)ReplyDelete
Super cute cards!ReplyDelete
Beautiful cards, Amy! I can see you are enjoying your week off. I would like a little of your spring rain please, my garden needs watering, but no hail or tornadoes, so please send it on! Have a lovely Friday.ReplyDelete
Super cute cards! love them both!ReplyDelete
I'm ready for those lights instead of the bumpershoot (even had snow mixed in today! boo!)ReplyDelete
These are both so fun!!!
beautiful card...!! love them both!!ReplyDelete
SUPER SUPER cute! LOVE the Spring in Seattle--it was raining when I was there in Feb....I hear that's what it does most of the time! LOL :) FAB cards:)ReplyDelete
oh, so fun!! and i love that spring in seattle card! so funny today we were in, out, in, out....as the sun came and went!xoxoReplyDelete
What a gorgeous cards Amy.ReplyDelete
Hugs Riet.xx
Adorable cards... loving these stamps sets! I'm gonna be so broke!ReplyDelete
Really cute cards!ReplyDelete
Love them all!!
Nice work!!
Awesome cards...I love those lanterns...I need real ones for our back patio :)ReplyDelete
Super cute cards Amy!! I have a cousin in Seattle, and have heard about the rain! Hope your weekend is Sunny!ReplyDelete
What a cute card. It feels like I saw this one yesterday. *grin*ReplyDelete
What lovely cards!!! I really liked that "Springtime in Seattle" one!!! Man, I really need to get me all those Lawn Fawn sets!!! :DReplyDelete
Love the lantern card, Amy... so cute! All these stamp set are fabulous!!!ReplyDelete
Love the lanterns! LOVE!!!ReplyDelete
WOAH!!!! I love this! So bright and fun!!!! Love the clouds and paper pieced lanterns. And love your second card. It seriously made me laugh!!!!! I heart your cards! MWA!ReplyDelete
And I AM LOVING YOU HAVE ADDED A BLURB ABOUT WORD VERIFICATION ABOVE. I MUST DO THAT 2!
Great cards!ReplyDelete
love these. I esp love the colors int he first one. I am into orange this spring!ReplyDelete
super cute cards! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Luv the idea of Garden Party for Spring, with those Lantern hanging!! Great card! luv Seatle card too... sorry that it's true... :-) you got me an idea though; Always Sunny in Guam! with SUN shine on the card! Luv your idea! :-)ReplyDelete
Love both of these cards, Amy! Great paper combos on the first, and I love the traditional black umbrella on the second.ReplyDelete
So cute...love your cards..LF stamps are just too fun...ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful Easter..
great cards! love the colors of both...so cute!ReplyDelete
Two cute cards. I've never paid any attention to the Partly Cloudy set, but you opened my eyes to it so thanks.ReplyDelete
Super cute Seattle card! Such a great blog hop!!! You ladies are so talented!!!ReplyDelete
very nice cards, love the lights!ReplyDelete
LOVE, LOVE, LOOOOOVE BOTH these FABULOUS cards!ReplyDelete
Fun cards-I especially like the rain card.ReplyDelete
Great cards! I love the Spring in Seattle one because it's the same where I live, heheReplyDelete
Wow this is superb cute!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 6, 2012 at 8:22 AM
Fun cards!ReplyDelete
Ohhh, these are some fun and super sweet cards!!!! Gorgoeus stamps you use!!!!ReplyDelete
These are great Amy! The Seattle one makes me laugh a bit. Love how you mixed and matched so many of the sets!ReplyDelete
Those paper lantern stamps are so perfect for paper piecing and you did an awesome job. Beautiful cards.ReplyDelete
Very cute creations, TFS!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 6, 2012 at 10:59 AM
A garden party sounds delightful. And your card is delightful too!ReplyDelete
These are both super cute!ReplyDelete
THANKS for sharing!! I LOVE the FUN DESIGNS!! Your cards ALWAYS make me SMILE!!ReplyDelete
Have a FABULOUS EASTER WEEKEND!! =)
Very cool. For the most part we don't get rain (I'm in so cal). The one time I went to Seattle I was hoping and packed for rain.. not a single drop. Perfect weather the whole week. I hope you get some sunshine. I would want rain.ReplyDelete
So super cute, Amy! Sophie's Sentiments is my go-to sentiment set. I love your Seattle showers card :)ReplyDelete
cute card. It can be all year round Seattle card:)ReplyDelete
ha ha! love the spring in seattle card!! so true!!!!! and totally love the garden party card too!ReplyDelete
How nice that you used so many different sets. SO cute.ReplyDelete
WOW!!! How do you find time to make so many fabulous cards!!! Impressed! As always I just love you designs and choice of colors!ReplyDelete
Have a very Happy Easter, hugs Karin
Lovely colors on this card!ReplyDelete
What fun bright color cards. They are so cute. Loving all these stamp sets from Lawn fawn. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
adorable cards!! TFSReplyDelete
Love the lanterns. very prettyReplyDelete
Very very cute and colourful! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Loving those lanterns and will happily trade you some sunshine for rain! :)ReplyDelete
Both cards are so fun, Amy! But, I do love that super cheerful lantern card. :)ReplyDelete
Hey you busy little card maker bee! Nice job Sista!ReplyDelete
So cute and Fun!!!ReplyDelete
Spring in Seattle! I love it...home sweet home.ReplyDelete
Busy Chicadee!!! I love them all...cute and fun cards...!!!! hugs...xoxoReplyDelete
The bright colors you used are so cheery!ReplyDelete
Wow, all of your cards are so cute! I love the paper you used in the first card!ReplyDelete
Great use of stamps!!! Thank you for the fun and inspiration.ReplyDelete
Fantastic card!ReplyDelete
NICE COLOR choices with the LanternsReplyDelete
Great cards! TFS =)ReplyDelete
SUCH cute cards, Amy!ReplyDelete
So cute! Hope you get more sunshine soon!ReplyDelete
Love these fun cards! Especially the bright and cheerful lantern cards.ReplyDelete
Great spring cards!ReplyDelete
Adorable cards! I need that banner set!ReplyDelete
Love the lunar lights!ReplyDelete
These are so creative and Spring-ee - love it!ReplyDelete
Great to see your lovely work on your blog!!!ReplyDelete
I hope to be back crafting soon!!
Sweet greetings, Saskia
GREAT CARDS!!!ReplyDelete
So cute!ReplyDelete
Amy, these are two fantastic cards! I really like the personalized rainy one.ReplyDelete
What a cute card. I too love the little lanterns.ReplyDelete
very very cute cards!ReplyDelete
Super cute Amy! Those lanterns are some of my favorite Lawn Fawn stamps:). Love the papers you used!ReplyDelete
These are SO fun! I love the colors and they're both so perfect for spring!ReplyDelete
Look at all that awesome Lawn Fawn! Love the paper piecing in the Lunar Lights card. The embossing in the second card is fab!ReplyDelete
oh you make those lanterns look so pretty and festive! happy spring!ReplyDelete
These are wonderful. I love the lantern card. It's just fantastic! The glitter on the umbrella card is cute too. :)ReplyDelete
wow, very cute cards!! Love them bothReplyDelete
TFS!! xx Tamara
Cute cards, love the lanternsReplyDelete
a simple but meaningful card....ReplyDelete
These are adorable amazin as always!!!!!ReplyDelete
Love your cards! Very cute!ReplyDelete
Very cute card!! Love all your cards!!ReplyDelete
Sweet and fun cards. TFS!!ReplyDelete
awesome cardReplyDelete
Really beautiful card! It's a very original idea to use the paper lanterns for a spring card. Great idea!ReplyDelete
both are too cute, but LOVE the spring in seattle!ReplyDelete
Super cute cards!!!ReplyDelete
Adorable!!! Both cards are great! I love the versamark raindrops especially! Great work!ReplyDelete
love your cards and the paper you used!ReplyDelete
Fun cards. Nice use of color and design.ReplyDelete
Great cards.ReplyDelete
Great cards! I love the way you combine the papers! TFS!ReplyDelete
Cute cards! Now I'm thinking about that banner set! :)ReplyDelete
too cute! super cards, Amy!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 15, 2012 at 10:39 AM
hehehe too cute!ReplyDelete


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Michael Altendorf, who was born into a family of rural bankers, says he was inspired to enter the Internet business after reading Bill Gates's 1995 book The Road Ahead.
He started his entrepreneurial journey in 2007 by creating a digital advertising business that rode on Facebook's coattails. But as is almost always the case for entrepreneurs, the trajectory was not smooth.
"We had to pivot two or three times and come to near death before we found what did the trick," says Altendorf.
Eventually he forged his own path, pivoting Adtelligence, the company he founded, to help brands use Big Data to optimize their websites to convert browsers into buyers.
The Mannheim, Germany-based business was named a 2014 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in recognition of the potential its technology offers to influence and shape the future of business and society.
Rising Star
And, in November 2014, Adtelligence was included in Deloitte Deutschland's Fast 50 list, one of only three German companies singled out as "rising stars." The company grew 584% between 2011 and 2014.
It wasn't just Adtelligence that took a circuitous path to success. So did Altendorf, who chose to do interdisciplinary research for peace and sustainability in Heidelberg as part of his military civil service.
Instead of heading off to Silicon Valley, he then began working for Germany's SAP, a global provider of enterprise software, where he was responsible for market intelligence and product management, while simultaneously working on a master's in Economics from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
Altendorf worked in the same department as Shai Agassi, a high-ranking, high-profile SAP executive who later went on to found the now-defunct A Better Place, an Israeli car company.
The German software company was buying a lot of start-ups at the time, which made working there exciting, but the founders always left, recalls Altendorf. "So I had to ask myself why?"
From Peace Studies To Smart Ads
Born in Weinheim, West Germany
Elects to do interdisciplinary research for peace and sustainability at FEST, Heidelberg
Conducts market intelligence at SVP Deutschland
Market intelligence and product management for emerging solutions at SAP
Earns BA MS in economics from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg
Launches Adtelligence and takes on the role of CEO (co-founder Cyrille Waguet continues working for SAP).
April 2008-present
Guest speaker at World Economic Forum, Davos; TEDxRheinMain; Universität St.Gallen; Salzburg Universität; Mannheim MBA School; Haas School of Business, University of California
Creates Rhein-Neckar Technology Ventures and a regional entrepreneurship club that has allowed more than 200 start-ups to pitch to VCs and angels, resulting in more than 30 funding rounds
August 2013
Adtelligence is named a 2014 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
November 2014
Adtelligence is included in Deloitte Deutschland's Fast 50 list and is one of only three German companies singled out as "rising stars" after exhibiting 584% growth between 2011 and 2014
"Today SAP has incubators and start-up programs that were missing back then," says Altendorf. In 2007, when he was thinking of launching his own start-up in Germany, raising capital was tough. And about six months later it got tougher after Lehman Brothers collapsed.
Then Altendorf met Marco Rodzynek, a partner at NOAH Advisors, the corporate finance firm behind the NOAH Berlin conference, at a private club in London's Mayfair.
"It was like that scene in the Facebook movie where Sean Parker says, 'a million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars,'" says Altendorf. "Marco explained the world to me, told me he could introduce me to investors and started pinging them right there. Then he plunked down something like £100 for breakfast."
Adtelligence raised around €5 million from 10 angels, including Rodzynek, Harold Mechelynck, founder of Belgium online payments company Ogone, which was sold for $484 million to Ingenico in 2013, and Carsten Thoma, a co-founder of hybris, an e-commerce software provider acquired by SAP. Jörg Sievert, a venture capitalist who worked at SAP Ventures from 2007-2011, is an advisor.
"The basic idea at the beginning was to take the data from social networks and match it with advertising," says Altendorf.
Too Early
"At the time Facebook did not have advertising in place so we thought, 'let's do an ad platform that is a super precise targeting engine.' The problem was we were much too early."
Eventually Adtelligence became the first Facebook advertising platform partner, but "after one or two years they just started copying all our features," says Altendorf.
"It was the classic case described in Geoffrey Moore's book Crossing the Chasm. Use the middleman until you are strong enough to cut them out. That is what happened."
Facebook walked off with the market. eMarketer estimates that the social network will generate $15.5 billion in ad revenue in 2015, which represents 65.5% of all social network ad spending worldwide, a slight increase from the 64.5% of the market it owned in 2014.
So Adtelligence has set its sights on another lucrative market, helping online merchants personalize their advertising.
Digital ad expenditures are projected to nearly double between 2012 and 2016, increasing to $163 billion from $87.3 billion.
If pundits are right, the effectiveness of those ads will depend largely on personalization.
The companies that understand how to operate in this new environment are hot. Consider Criteo, an ad-targeting company that prices and supplies personalized advertising in real time for its e-commerce clients. It listed on NASDAQ in 2013 in an upsized IPO that further increased excitement around the sector.
"We are going from a totally anonymous Internet — where we knew a bit about you, but not everything — to a totally personalized web where we know everything about you," says Altendorf.
'Consistently Accomplishes More In 24 Hours Than Any Individual I Know'
Adtelligence works with more than 100 clients, offering them technology that customizes web pages on the fly.
The company is looking to raise up €10 million in the next 12 to 18 months to fund its U.S. market entry, Altendorf says.
In addition to running the company and fund-raising, Altendorf is a co-organizer and speaker at TEDx RheinMain; is the co-founder of an entrepreneurship club near Mannheim, which organizes monthly networking events for CEOs and investors; and is the organizer and co-founder of Rhein-Neckar Technology Ventures, a matchmaking event for entrepreneurs and start-ups.
Oh, and in his spare time he does some angel investing and helps organize Maifeld Derby, a German music festival, which this May attracted some 50 bands and 10,000 visitors.
"God gifts us with 24 hours in a day — that is it — but when I think about Michael Altendorf the thing that I find amazing is that he consistently accomplishes more in 24 hours than any individual I know," says Dave Darsch, founder of both This Way Up!, an event for Chief Executive Officers in Europe, and the CEO Collaborative Forum, a community of CEOs who are global, high-growth and willing to help other CEOs.
"One minute Michael is in Osaka, on his way to a World Economic Forum meeting in Tianjin, then he is in Silicon Valley in meetings, the next thing you know he is off raising funding somewhere. The business side of me really admires him."
'Boundless Ambition'
Altendorf has been a regular attendee at the CEO Collaborative Forum for the last four years.
"Some CEOs suck everything they can out of all of the other brains," says Darsch.
"Not Michael. He is willing to give his time to other CEOs, to collaborate with them and guide them in accelerating their growth or avoiding mistakes."
There is another quality that people who know him say sets Altendorf apart: his boundless ambition.
"Germans have a problem in that they sell really early," says Altendorf. "Everybody knows how to start up a company, but few seem to know how to grow companies."
So what does the road ahead look like for Adtelligence?
"We have the opportunity to become a $100 million company or beyond," he says.


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A discussion document has been circulated to the Keepers this evening which contains draft proposals for the re-organisation and rationalisation of the internal UK talk groups.
The proposals include:
* Changes to TG8 (a must due to technical constraints)
* The split of SE England
* The addition of SW England, Midlands and East of England regions
* Restructuring the mini regions TG2350 - TG2353
* Addition of 2 UK only user activated talk groups to supplement TG235
* The removal of the direct dials (these will not be necessary with the proposed TG architecture)
The changes are required to both improve the network due to its expansion but also with a view going forward.
This is a consultative process and a comprehensive announcement will be made if and when agreements are reached.
Dates will also be set (1) for the implementation of the changes and (2) the switch off of redundant talk groups.
Note that code plugs will need to be updated as the changes will affect all repeaters / regions.
CC-3 will also be available to support users with queries regarding the changes via the website, Facebook page and twitter
Issued by CC-3 & DMR UK Core - 15/12/2015
As a supplement to the above message, a summary of the changes is below:
Slot 1:
Removal of 40 direct dial talk groups (no need to add a TG every time a repeater joins the network)
Addition of 2 UK only user activated talk group
Renaming of TG's 2350 – 2353 based on the new regional layout (will be TG8xx format based on the regional layout)
This reduces the number of talk groups on this slot from 49 to 11
Slot 2:
Removal of TG8
Addition of 10 regions (will be TG8xx format)
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History of the Russian Revolution, by Trotsky, Leon
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Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, this book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book reveals, from the perspective of one of its central actors, the Russian Revolution's profoundly democratic, emancipatory character. "The history of a revolution is for us first of all," Leon Trotsky writes, "the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of their own destiny." Originally published in three parts, Trotsky's masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It serves as the most vital and inspiring record of the Russian Revolution to date. Book jacket.


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Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts is the first MFA program for designers and graduates in other disciplines who want to harness the power of design to create positive change and impact.
An inaugural cohort of 25 diverse, extraordinary students will become leaders in solving real world challenges, beginning in the fall of 2012.
Happy to be on faculty next year. See http://dsi.sva.edu for more.
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Today I have a Barry M Dazzle Dust 52 Sliver Brown to talk about.
So lets take a look at the pot:
When I first got this I was unimpressed by the poo terracotta color. However, when you take the lid off the shadow itself looks nothing like it does through the glass.
The name is very suiting, it's literally silver brown. The combination of a warm brown and silver sparkle I found very unique. Unique to my collection, at least.
|Here's the fun part, the swatches.Without a base or moisture you can rub/blend this shadow out to be an almost matte chocolate color.
Wet application will give you a silver overlay of sparkle.
Fun, right?
I've had this for over a year now I do not recall using it in a look. I plan on fixing that promptly. This is why I put out of its storage onto my daily make-up shelf to remind myself to use it and hopefully I can edit this post with information on its perfomance on the lids.
Firstly, patted over Darling Girl Cosmetics Glitter Glue it forms a velvety texure of a cool tone (purply) brown color. After a while, once it settles a bit, the velvet finish shifts a bit toward more shimmery texture.
I had minimal fallout, only the biggest chunks of glitter fell down on my cheeks and I am glad to report there aren't that many chunky particles in there.
It is a wonder find in the world of eyeshadow, I highly recommend it. It reminds me slightly of Lily Lolo Smokey Brown eyeshadow, although Smokey Brown is cooler as it does not have a terracotta base.
If you take a brush, dip it into the dust, and then tap off the product as much as you can, it will apply to the skin in a soft, terracota brown. I tried this over a layer of concealer on my lids and it worked lovely. I still got an even application, no blotchiness or anything of that sort. It kept a smidge of silver gleam, yet nothing overpowering.
It is very saturated in pigment so you use minimal product.
Overall, it's a great cruelty-free product at an affordable price.
The jars comes packed to the rim with shadow so expect it to last a very long time..
This shade I highly recommed and I will re-stash it should I ever run out.


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My first bit of exciting news comes from the blog of Nicole Williams, author of the Eden Series. Patrick's book FISSURE will be released sometime in March! I am overly excited for this one. Read her recent post about the book here.
If you aren't familiar with the Eden series book 1, Eternal Eden, is currently free for Kindle!
The 2nd and 3rd books are $2.99 and $3.99 respectively!!
The 2nd and 3rd books are $2.99 and $3.99 respectively!!
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Zombie Love: The Outbreak by Eric Sobolik
Reviews to look for.I have been one lucky girl lately and have been contacted by so many amazing authors. Here are some titles I have recently received for review and look forward to sharing my thoughts with everyone!
Beloved Purgatory (Fallen Angels, #2) by Katherine Pine. I loved book one and can't wait to delve into this one! See my review of book 1, After Eden.
Sometimes God has a good reason for breaking your heart. Devi always feared God took her brother because there was something horrible about her. She's about to find out she was right.
Zombie Love: The Outbreak by Eric Sobolik
Zombie Love is the story of a widespread virus, in a way that has never been done before. As people lose loved ones, some decide that sometimes the people you love are the only ones worth fighting for. As factions form, and the world crumbles, people must choose sides. Help or destroy. When a virus is developed as the ultimate cure all by reversing death itself, the world is plunged into a crisis of faith, dedication, and love. In book one we meet Summer Strom, a normal high school teenager who is thrown cruelly into a set of circumstances that nobody should have to deal with. She has to fight back against everybody she knows as she battles for the only thing worth fighting for. Love.
Intangible by J. Meyers
The Weeping by O'Dell Hutchison
Twins Sera and Luke Raine have a well-kept secret—she heals with a touch of her hand, he sees the future. All their lives they've helped those in need on the sly. They've always thought of their abilities as being a gift. Then Luke has a vision that Sera is killed. That gift they've always cherished begins to feel an awful lot like a curse. Because the thing about Luke's ability? He's always right. And he can't do anything about it.
The Weeping by O'Dell Hutchison
Twenty years ago, Catherine Whitley was the victim of a horrible crime. Betrayed by her friends, including the boy she loved, she was left to die when the Rock Harbor Opera House caught fire, taking a disturbing secret with her to her grave. Seventeen-year-old Heath Ingram was driving the night his Jeep careened off the road, killing three of his closest friends. Once a popular, outgoing athlete, Heath now suffers from severe depression and crippling anxiety. His parents decide to send him to stay with his uncle in Rock Harbor, Oregon for the summer, praying that by getting away he will be able to put this awful tragedy behind him. When Heath starts working at the newly renovated Rock Harbor Opera House, he meets Molly, a young dancer who awakens in him a desire to start over and move on. But, when he begins having visions of a half-burned girl in a white dress, he starts to think he may be slipping even further over the edge. As the apparent hauntings become more intense, Heath begins to fear for his safety. With the help of his friend Josie, Heath discovers an unsettling secret that ties the mysterious girl to both their families. When two of their friends die unexpectedly, Josie and Heath realize that something, or someone, is after the children of those who wronged Catherine, and they are next.
For anyone who isn't yet counting down, only 10 days until the release of PANDEMONIUM by Lauren Oliver!
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He never found time to edit the intriguing but amorphous mass of his writings into coherent treatises. His engineering and hydraulic projects either failed or were not started. Very few of his machines would have worked either, and, of course, the famous ornithopters, helicopters and gliders that made him, in the eyes of an earlier generation, a sort of quattrocento Orville Wright never moved an inch into the air. Probably not even the crank-propelled tanks that he hoped would creep like lethal cone snails across the battlefields of northern Italy would have harmed anyone, even assuming that their sweating and straining occupants could have got their wheels to go round at all, which is beyond probability.
We remember Leonardo as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect and scientist. Yet if one is to judge by the self-advertising letter he sent to Sforza in Milan in 1481, he didn't rate his skills that way. Before anything else, he listed his strategic ingenuity: he could design portable bridges, drain moats, bombard strongholds, design and cast siege cannon, make fireproof ships, and so on and on. Not until item No. 10, the last on his list, did he get around to saying that in painting too he could "do everything possible as well as any other." There may have been a simple reason for this, since being a military engineer was probably more profitable than being a painter, but this image is still vastly unlike the aesthete we think of today as Leonardo.
Three things, however, can be said without hesitation about Leonardo. The first is that he was not a "Renaissance man." He did not typify his time. Many artists in the Renaissance worked, as Leonardo did, in a wide variety of media: drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture and so forth. None, however, not even the great Leon Battista Alberti, had Leonardo's astounding and insatiable curiosity about the makeup and governing laws of the physical world or spent so much time and energy speculating about them.
The second thing is, obviously, that he could draw like an angel. The idea that he was "the greatest" Italian draftsman of his time (born in 1452, he died at a considerable age in exile in France in 1519) is essentially meaningless, because the late 15th and early 16th centuries were full of astonishing performers on paper. But not even contemporaries like Michelangelo were able to exceed, or regularly rival, him as a master of the kind of expressive and descriptive line that one sees in such drawings of his as the studies for equestrian sculpture or in his astounding anatomical analyses of human bone and muscle structure though some of them, of course, were artists with very different aims.
This is simply a fact, and anyone lucky enough to be in the vicinity of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art over the next nine weeks (through March 30) can readily check it out. "Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman" opened last week, with nearly 120 drawings and a single barely unfinished painting, the Vatican's anguished St. Jerome Praying in the Wilderness. Assembled from collections all over Europe, Britain and the U.S., it is a prodigious curatorial achievement by Carmen Bambach and George Goldner, curator and chairman, respectively, of the Metropolitan's Department of Drawings and Prints. (Hercules himself could hardly be expected to go through the show on foot lugging its huge, 8-lb. catalog, but never mind: it's a major addition to the mass of Leonardo literature, which, at that weight, it should be.)
The third thing is that Leonardo was one of the least transparent artists who ever lived and, given the enormous losses and gaps in what we know about him, it is futile to hope that any exhibition could sum him up. He was conflicted, contradictory, almost incredibly hard to get at, to or around. It is not true, however, that his famous backward writing was an attempt to shield the secrets of his researches from prying eyes. This aspect of the Leonardo "mystery" is not a mystery at all, because he was left-handed, and it was natural for him to write that way.
Still, was there ever an artist in whom an obsession with destruction and apocalypse and it was a real obsession, not just a vicarious "as if" interest coexisted so vividly with a love of extreme delicacy, of febrile and evanescent beauty, of consolingly elegant effects? Not until Leonardo and not after him either, one is tempted to add. He dwelt on chaos and social collapse with morbid delight: the end of the world was his private horror movie or would have been if the 15th century had had movies. In his descriptions of imagined catastrophes one reads Leonardo piling on the special effects to make concrete what neither he nor anyone else had seen, his language struggling to break the constraints of reality: weeping, wailing, cannibalism, the fury of the elements, the end of the world.


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Edit Is a Four Letter Word
The letter E is for: Educate yourself on grammar and punctuation rules
Volumes have been written on grammar and punctuation rules. Not only does our language constantly change, but the experts do not agree on some conventions. Different types of writing require different editing conventions. We write differently for newspapers than for books. Memoir writing is allowed more laterality than technical writing. Even publishing houses have their on editing standards.
For reasons of form and emphasis, some writers choose to break the rules. We all know that a sentence must have a subject and a verb, but for emphasis, sentence fragments are sometimes used or even one word. Paragraphs are to have a topic sentence and supporting details, but there are times when a writer uses only one sentence. In dialogue, bad grammar, and colloquial phrases are allowed. Informal writing allows contractions (I've, we'll, isn't), but technical writing does not.
For all these reasons, any writer may find it difficult to edit for grammar and punctuation.
The internet is a good reference, but use only websites which are authorities on the subject. Avoid the blogs as they allow readers to provide answers and whose authors often do not have the qualifications needed to fully understand the nuances. Editing for grammar and punctuation is not an easy task.
Reliable websites
The Perdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Covers the basics in an easy to understand manner and provides worksheets and answers.
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Rated number one by teachers. You can buy a book or use some online links, complete with interactive and graded quizzes.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Has an extensive index, provides quizzes and allows you to ask questions.
Next, the letter D in that four letter word Edit.
D stands for: Draft as many versions as needed for clarity.
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WINKIE for PAINT PARTY FRIDAY
I am babysitting my granddaughter's hedgehog Winkie. I have added this Markering By EAGHL to my Pet Journal and our PPF group as I said I would. Believe me those quills were very difficult to do with permanent markers, oil pastels and crayons.
Winkie the hedgehog by EAGHL 2016


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Mathematical thinking is important for all members of a modern society as a habit of mind for its use in the workplace, business and finance; and for personal decision-making.
Mathematics is fundamental to national prosperity in providing tools for understanding science, engineering, technology and economics. It is essential in public decision-making and for participation in the knowledge economy. Mathematics equips pupils with uniquely powerful ways to describe, analyse and change the world.
KS3 Specification and Assessments
Our Key Stage 3 curriculum is designed to build on pupil's existing skills and knowledge and covers areas of number, algebra, shape and data handling. Pupils don't follow a rigid programme of study as we tailor teaching to the needs of our pupils.
On entry, pupils take a baseline test which identifies exactly what they can and can't do. This information is used to identify the skills they need to develop and extend. They will study the appropriate content from each unit for approximately two weeks.
After each two units of work pupils complete an assessment, allowing them and their teacher to identify what they can now do and what they need to improve on. In addition pupils have the opportunity to demonstrate what they can do across all areas of Mathematics through longer tests taken each term throughout years 7 and 8. From these tests pupils get a detailed analysis of their strengths and areas for improvement.
Example of pupil feedback sheet
We use a variety of ways to help pupils to improve, including subscriptions to
- GCSEpod
- MyMaths
- Timestables RockStars
If pupils forget their mymaths or TTrockstar password they should ask their class teacher. In addition pupils can get help at homework sessions held in the Library.
In year 8 pupils are placed in ability sets, based on their performance in termly tests taken throughout year 7. The groups in year 7 are more fluid, allowing pupils time to settle into their new school and develop their confidence.
Throughout our Key Stage 3 program there is a strong emphasis on problem solving. This starts in transition and allows our pupils to develop their thinking skills and the ability to apply their existing skills and knowledge to solve problems in an unfamiliar context. In this way our pupils should be well prepared to meet the demands of the new 9-1 GCSE examination.
For more information about our KS3 programme please contact Mr D Battell, KS3 Manager Mathematics, firstname.lastname@example.com
KS4 Specification and Assessments
Our Key Stage 4 curriculum is designed to build on pupils' existing skills and knowledge over a three year period, starting in year 9 when pupils focus solely on the new content and mathematical skills they need. In years 10 and 11 pupils have the chance to apply these skills to solve more complex mathematical problems and will also work on a variety of rich, problem solving tasks.
We aim to complete the teaching of new content by February of year 11, leaving plenty of time for revision and consolidation.
Pupils have the opportunity to demonstrate what they can do across all areas of Mathematics through tests taken twice each half term. From these tests pupils get a detailed analysis of their strengths and areas for improvement.
This information is used by the class teacher to plan interventions and identify topics that need to be revised. Examples of past papers, suitable for revision, and useful links and terminology can be found on our revision page.
For any information on the KS4 specifications or schemes of learning, please contact Miss S Hedley, KS4 Manager Mathematics, email@example.com


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We met last week in Chatham and had an enjoyable time talking. It's been a long time since I met anyone who was interested in my family history and it was fun. Not only that, Susan is an archaeologist and has the knowledge and tools to do more research. It's refreshing to be asked questions that I have to think about. We'll meet again soon.
When I first got to Chatham, I drove up Spring Street to locate my great-uncle's house. It is still there and looks much as it did almost a hundred years ago.
From the angle I'd say that Spring Street has changed over the years.
The rain held off and the clouds even parted a bit so I decided to drive to the Mellenville Union Cemetery to look for Paul's and Clara's graves. It has been many years since I was there. I started looking around tombstones of about the right era, but thought it might be possible that they were buried near Clara's father. I was right. I found them right behind George Shufelt's tombstone.
I wondered why it was important for me to find these that day. I was told so very little about my family that there are only little clues to my relatives' lives, the houses, the tombstones and the occasional newspaper article. It's sad, isn't it? I collect what I can and preserve that information.
Speaking about preservation, I need to do something about the lichen on the tombstones. You can barely read the inscriptions. The Connecticut Gravestone Network has a very informative page about cleaning tombstones. They are much more delicate than you would think. Please remember that what you use to clean at home is not good for cleaning tombstones!
It seems I really need to remove the lichen because it's very damaging, according to the network: "Many lichens will, once removed, leave a scaring affect on the stone because the waste product they give off is an acid that works with the stone's own salts and chemistry to erode it or bleach out some of its mineral component." Once I remove the lichen, I think I better flush the stone well with water.
I've thought of a good project for when I get itchy feet and need to get out of the area again. I can go to Berkshire County, look for the family tombstones and see what conditions they're in. I've never seen some of them.


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Big performance from a small sprayer
A&A Blasting Services Ltd is a locally-run Maltese business which started out specialising in building restoration and, over the years, expanded its activities to include building conservation. In addition to its building restoration and conservation arm, the company also specialises in general sandblasting (which includes steel items), galvanising (zinc metallisation) and spray painting.
Spraying longer and further
Tigné Point, in Malta, is a real estate development of residential, leisure, commercial and retail facilities set in a fully pedestrianized environment on the peninsula of the same name. The Tigné Point contractor appointed A&A Blasting Services Ltd to protect the steel columns and beams of the development's new 6200m² eleven-floor office building against fire for 120 minutes with fire-resistant plaster. The contractor specified using Monokote MK6/HY with a thickness from 40 to 50mm produced by Grace Fireproofing.
A&A Blasting Services Ltd got in contact with Virtue Steamship in order to find a suitable mortar pump, capable of applying the mixed Monokote plaster. They recommended the Graco ToughTek, as this pump can not only spray the required plaster, but also has high pressure capabilities, allowing it to spray from a further distance.
Easy to manoeuvre
Indeed, the project's key to success was the unit's portability and its high-pressure, long-distance spray capability, which meant no longer having to continually move to a closer application point. Engineered with piston pump technology, ToughTek delivers high pressures through long hose lengths, which allows spraying for a longer time and from a further distance, all of which gets the job done much quicker.
By the end of project, 7 tons of material had been applied and the project was completed within 3 months. Thanks to ToughTek, A&A Blasting Services Ltd were able to finish the job one month earlier than expected.


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Spaces are limited, so don't forget to sign up in advance! In the instance of bad weather, we'll cancel the class by 9:00 PM the night before and send an email to everyone who signed up. Refunds will be issued within 48 hours.
Mats and towels will be provided.
June 5 – August 29
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Tuesdays & Thursdays at 7:00 AM
Saturday at 10:00 AM – June 17, July 29, August 26
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