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The Centre for Creative Practices is delighted to welcome you ALL to our third annual New Voices of Ireland – Meeting Point For Migrant Artists, Migrant Arts and Culturally Diverse Arts Communities.

The purpose of our Annual Meeting Point is to establish a vibrant network between migrant, culturally diverse and local artistic communities allowing for new collaborations, cross-pollination, professional and personal growth.

Who is Meeting Point for?

  • Migrant artists
  • Migrant artist communities
  • Arts participation groups
  • Migrant Arts
  • Culturally Diverse Arts Communities

CFCP Meeting Point will encompass 6 Sessions covering the following topics:

  • New funding schemes
  • Commissions of new works
  • Being a Professional Artist
  • Well-being for artists during these pandemic times
  • Pop-up shops for artists
  • The Arts Council’s new funding schemes and supports programmes for artists

Giving you an insight into the work that CFCP does in relation to connecting, integrating, and promoting Migrant Artists, Migrant Arts, Culturally Diverse Arts Communities, Arts Participation Groups and developing migrant arts and intercultural arts practices in Ireland.

CFCP winners of the 2019 National Lottery Good Causes Award for Arts and Culture in the Leinster Region.

From February 2021

Each session from the Meeting Point Sereis will be uploaded to the CFCP YouTube Channel so that you can go back over all of the details that were covered in the series in your own time.

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Arts Funding Schemes

Monika Sapielak

 Centre for Creative Practices
  New funding schemes by the Arts Council of Ireland – Artwork Commission Scheme and Artist Professional Development Award as well as CFCP’s – call for artists for the New Voices of Ireland Series 2020
  How have you been over the last 6 months? Artists experience – questions, suggestions, issues and possible solutions.

Open Forum

Arts Funding Schemes

Denise Shannon
Monika Sapielak

Centre for Creative Practices
  Talk – Eramus+ funding opportunities for artists and arts organisations.
  Funding Application Clinique – Artist Professional Development Award, the Arts Council of Ireland

Being a Professional Artist

Nicola Anthony

Nicola will look at a number of facets that go into being recognised as a Professional Artist. These include:

Professional – how to show you are serious…

  • Thinking like an entrepreneur – not like a starving artist!
  • Running your studio like a business and valuing your time fairly
  • Having a strategy to anchor and steer you – 5 and 10 year plans, envisioning the future you and acting like it now.
  • Assets to show you are professional – CV, portfolio, website, good communications, business cards,
  • Professional accreditation / memberships
  • Taking the art-world stigma away from ideas like: Brand, selling, being ‘commercial’, marketing

• Building a professional network

  • Networking – what to do if it doesn’t come naturally
  • What to do in times of social distancing – opportunities to make use of
  • Online networks: Social media
  • Giving to your network, having a generous spirit

• Reputation and recognition – things that help you climb the ladder

  • Competitions & Awards
  • Exhibitions for your CV, beginning with group shows, aiming for your higher targets
  • Funding and sponsors
  • Books & publications
  • Press coverage
  • Keeping a consistent sense of identity

After the talk, Nicola will be happy to answer your questions in a Q/A.

Nicola Anthony is a Professional artist known for metal text sculptures and burned paper drawings, which give glimpses into the effects of displacement, migration, and intergenerational trauma. She focuses her research on untold narratives, collective memory, and life stories.

Let’s talk, you are not alone. Well-being for Artists

Claire Morrissey
Margaret Dorgan

The Cowshed
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With mental health and well-being such big topics in the arts and creative sector we invited two speakers for the session

Claire Morrissey, co-founder of The Cowshed a peer to peer health support group for the professional arts, live entertainment, tv and film sectors and Margaret Dorgan, Founder of Love Your Work & Catalyst Coaching.

Claire Morrissey – a Production Designer with extensive experience in the television, film and theatre industries, special live events and live music concerts.

Claire co-founded The Cowshed in 2019 to develop a peer to peer health support group for the professional arts, live entertainment, tv and film sector – a diverse sector which intersects because we all work passionately with commitment.

The Cowshed’s message is Let’s Talk – You Are Not Alone.

Margaret Dorgan – Founder – Love Your Work & Catalyst Coaching, Executive Coach & Communications Specialist

Margaret will give a talk and run a series of practical exercises that will help you to:

  • Assess your personal stress levels
  • Learn practical coping strategies
  • Share personal challenges and experiences
  • Discuss Mental wellbeing
  • Think positively
  • Sustain self-care when faced with challenges

On completion of this Training Module Participants will be supported to:

  • Set Healthy Boundaries
  • Learn to respond as opposed to react
  • Develop Healthy support Habits
  • Lead with Emotional Intelligence

After the talks, Claire and Margaret will be happy to answer your questions in a Q/A.

Monika from CFCP will be moderating the session.

Claire is co-founder of The Cowshed a peer to peer health support group for the professional arts, live entertainment, tv and film sectors and Margaret is Founder of Love Your Work & Catalyst Coaching.

Pop-up Shops for artists : Alternative Opportunities

Michael Ward

Mullingar Employment Group

POP-UP Shop Helper

“An innovative product to help those in the creative/artistic sector to make the transition from creativity to commercialization.”

Michael will present the Pop Up Shop Helper Project (PUSH) An EU funded Erasmus+ multilateral project.

This project addresses the priorities to promote entrepreneurship education and social entrepreneurship among members of the creative/artistic community.

For artists who are already faced with low job security and the absence of company benefits such as pensions or paid holidays, the impact of any economic shock is keenly felt.’

The statistics make for uncomfortable reading. Almost a third of visual and applied artists earn less than 6,000Eur a year from their creative work, according to a survey conducted by Artists’ Interaction and Representation (AIR); 57% of the 1,457 respondents said that less than a quarter of their total income was generated by their art practices and only 16% of them paid into a private pension fund, raising questions about how professional artists will support themselves once they reach retirement age.

The PUSH course is designed to help and encourage creative people in the arts and crafts sector to be entrepreneurs in the creative arts.

The training provided is specifically focused on how to set up a pop-up shop, thereby teaching business skills and encourage innovative thinking and entrepreneurship.

What is a ‘Pop-Up Shop’?

A “pop-up shop” is a short-term, temporary retail event that is “here today, gone tomorrow”. Pop-up retail is the temporary use of physical space to create a long term, lasting impression with potential customers.

Why ‘Pop-Up Shops’?

Pop-Up shops and Pop-Up Galleries are particularly suited to the creative and arts sector.

The short term nature of the pop-up allows the artist/entrepreneur to try out a retail/work space as a testing process before committing to it on a more permanent contract. It also gives an opportunity to test out a new product or a specific idea on the public. For a start-up it offers a way of generating new income during the initial first phase of the business. Pop-up shops can be a great way of creating a buzz and generating publicity about your brand or business. Most importantly Pop-Up Shop can help the entrepreneur to experience real world commercialization and learn fundamental business skills.

Michael Ward is Manager at Mullingar Employment Action Group (MEAG). MEAG is a community supported ‘not for profit’ organisation which was established in 1986, and formally registered as a company in 1990. The sole focus of MEAG is to support employment and start-up enterprise.

Michael spent 20 years as an Engineer in the Manufacturing sector before starting his own business, and ultimately transitioning to the community sector to work with fledging companies. An experienced project manager, he has 10 years experience developing and managing EU Multilateral projects. Michael holds qualifications in Engineering, Project Management, Business and Finance.

The Arts Council: Arts Participation and Funding

Ann O’Connor

Head of the Arts Participation with the Arts Council of Ireland
  What was, is and will be happening in terms of funding supports and changing the focus of the Arts Council/Arts Participation.
Ann O’Connor is the Head of Arts Participation at the Arts Council. In this role she is responsible for the funding and development of participatory, collaborative, community and socially engaged arts practices – including context areas such as arts and cultural diversity / health / disability/ community development / creative ageing.Prior to her appointment with the Arts Council, she worked as an Arts Consultant with artists, arts organisations and partners from the public, private and community sectors. She has also held numerous development and management positions in the arts and community development sectors (with the HSE, Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture, Sligo County Council, Blue Drum, Irish Rural Link), and practiced as a visual artist working in community, education and health contexts for many years. Ann has a BA in Fine Art (LSAD) and a HDip in Yoth and Community Work (MU).

We also would like you to share with us your story, your creative journey in Ireland. We want to hear about your needs for professional development and support so that we can better tailor our programme and represent you when talking to the local organisations and agencies.

We very much look forward to connecting with you over the next few months.

We hope you will be able to join us and benefit from professional support and exchange with your peers.

Zoom in, learn, share and enjoy!

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The next Annual Meeting Point For Migrant Artists, Migrant Arts and Culturally Diverse Arts Communities session will take place in 2021.

Recordings of al the previous Zoom session will be available online from February 2021.

Thank you to all who took part and we look forward to seeing you all again soon.

Register for Meeting Point

Under current Covid-19 government restrictions with regards to gatherings and public events, we cannot deliver the Meeting Point as a physical event and instead we decided to run a SERIES OF TALKS, PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS via Zoom.

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The case was highlighted when a stray dog in Manimajra bit 13 different people including kids in a single day and then died of Rabies the very next day. The kids who were bitten by stray dog in Manimajra were of 5 to 8 years of age. Chandigarh Administration has already started to find solutions to this stray dog menace in Chandigarh have even fixed a meeting with Menka Gandhi for the problem.

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Korean women are known for their amazing beauty rituals and skin icing is a regular technique in their skin care treatments. Beauty experts are using this therapy in spas and skin care treatments, thanks to its wide range of benefits. And the best part is, no matter what the season is, you can always try this facial therapy – even during the rains. It helps minimize open pores, refreshes your skin and makes it glow.

  • Applying ice is an instant way to give your face a fresh and dewy look without makeup. It improves blood circulation and gives your face a healthy natural glow. Ice also prevents premature ageing and wrinkles.
  • Ice reduces large pores and minimizes the production of excess oil. Place an ice cube on acne and you’ll find a considerable reduction in redness and swelling.

Herbal infusion is another great alternative. If you know what your skin type is, you can make a selection of the right herbs to help your skin stay fresh and healthy. Here are some ice packs according to your skin type.

  • Green tea ice pack for anti aging-Green tea ice pack is one of the most amazing remedy to prevent wrinkles, fade dark spots, acne marks and to boost skin radiance. Green tea contains anti-oxidant and anti ageing properties that is beneficial for sagging skin and other signs of aging .

To prepare, dip green tea bag into boiling water.Remove the tea bag and allow it to cool and refrigerate it.  Take one ice cube and gently massage on to your face.

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What Do You Do When Parents Often Keep Correcting You?

And I’m curious to know that how can something that’s true for one person can be true for ALL?

When a parent says things like —

  • Why did you speak like that….if you had spoken this way, things would have worked. (Oh, I forgot to ask you before and now I have learned my lesson.)
  • Don’t put the stuff there, it’s sunny. The color might fade. (I wasn’t going to, but now I so wish I put it right where you didn’t want me to put it.)
  • I told you so……had you listened to me, this wouldn’t have happened. (If you are really right about everything, why is your own life screwed up?)
  • Be careful. People aren’t as good as you think. (I think, I need to be careful about you!)
  • Listen to me…Do it this way because I have done this before too. (Okay, but isn’t there a new way of doing it?)

Sounds more like my dad, and we have been constantly battling our differences for years and having bad arguments until I started my healing journey.

A technique which helped me look at things not only from my Dad’s shoes but to model him and become him to discover, what prompts him to excessive pin-pointing and control over things. How does it make him feel as he corrects me often? What response does he expect? Why does he feel the need to correct others always?

As much as I felt controlled and annoyed by my dad’s behavior, I realized it wasn’t easy for him either. Being him and becoming him during one of the healing sessions was so overwhelming and emotional for me and tears started rolling down my cheek.

We all have a parent who keeps correcting us at every step of our life. They think that they are better and wiser in life, only for the fact that — comparatively they are elder and have more life experiences.

And when I talked to my dad about it, I learned that the only loving figure in his life was his dad who passed away early in his life. And after that, he felt less loved and cared for by his mother and siblings. With his mother constantly instructing him of do’s & don’t, it made him feel incapable and helpless.

When I shared this with my guru who was supporting me with my emotional healing, he pointed out that – people often pass on to others what they have received in the first place.

And he was quick to ask, “so now that you know what’s the trigger for his behavior and how it has affected him, what do you want to do about it?”

I said, “I feel awful for what he has been through. What can I do now?”

Guruji said you can fight back like you have always been doing or you can choose to empathize, forgive, and ask him for forgiveness. And support him to heal his own unpleasant emotional experiences.

I now realize that parents are usually victims of their own childhood experiences where they were raised to be dependant and exclusive of their decisions rather than being raised with inclusiveness and independence.

Once I realized what lied beneath my dad’s behavior, I felt less angry and more empathetic and caring towards him. It’s not that things have changed one hundred percent but our arguments and fights have become fewer.

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Infidel is a Christian fantasy novel, written by Ted Dekker, and published in 2007 by Thomas Nelson Publishing. The novel is the second in The Lost Books series. It involves two worlds, one in which evil is seen on the outside and the other, "our world", in which evil can hide on the inside.

From Chosen to Traitor? After being stretched to their limits, the four heroic young Forest Guard recruits–Johnis, Silvie, Billos, and Darsal–are pulled into deeper danger on their mission to secure the seven lost Books of History. Celebrated as a hero, Johnis’s world is shattered when he learns that his mother may not be dead as presumed but could be living as a slave to the Horde. Throwing caution to the wind, he rushes to her rescue. But this is precisely what the Horde has planned. Now he will face a choice between Silvie, whom he is quickly falling for, and his sworn duty to protect the Forest Dwellers. How can he save those he loves without betraying his own people? In the end, one will be revealed as the Infidel. And nothing will be the same for the remaining Chosen.

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Chiropractic and emotions

The balancing effect on emotions and feelings

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How does chiropractic affect emotions and feelings?

In the first place, most people associate chiropractic with a holistic and successful method for helping with back pain. What only very few know is that chiropractic can also have a harmonizing effect on our emotional framework and feelings.

At this point we want to invite you to do a little experiment:

Please sit down in a chair for 10 to 20 seconds. Be conscious to sit upright. Try to perceive how you are feeling. Now let your body loosen like you have often watched other people do, letting themselves go while sitting at their desk or kitchen table.

Don´t hesitate…let yourself completely go. Recognize, after 30 seconds in this position, how you are feeling now. Perceive the clarity of your thoughts and the negative or positive alignment of your emotions. Due to this collapsed posture, you will most likely notice that your thoughts are more blurry than before and will probably be going round in circles, not finding a conclusion. As a general rule, you will feel less vivid and less energetic.

Chiropractic as a tool to improve your posture and therefore change your aura towards your surroundings

On the one hand, our posture has an incredible impact on the positivity or negativity of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. On the other hand, it defines how we affect other people. Nevertheless, having to remind yourself permanently about sitting and standing straight will most likely not improve your posture in general.

In fact, improving your posture is a whole process which is supported by chiropractic. Your chiropractor will find out the types of adjustments that need to be made in order to release the tension that is pulling you to the front and down.

We have two types of tension in our body. The uplifting tension naturally makes us stand and sit straight. A bad posture is caused by the tension which is pulling us to the front and sideways. With the help of chiropractic, you can release this front and sideways pulling tension to naturally and effortless stand and sit upright.

The second effect on your emotional system caused by chiropractic might have a neurological origin. You can imagine our nervous system as an interconnected solid web of nerve cells. Tensions in the brain can be caused when the mobility of this web is limited. A reason, therefore, might be the spine restricting the spinal cord from moving freely. As our feelings, thoughts, and emotions also arise from the brain, they are equally affected by blockages and limited mobility of the spine.

When people are suffering from pain and restricting symptoms, there will easily be a pessimistic tendency to imagine a life of pain that they will never be freed from. Chiropractic helps you to find your way back to self-efficacy. It is our job to thoroughly inform you about the healing process and use the right methods for you. Soon, they will make the pain and limitations turn into memories and brighten up your emotions. We will give you all the information about your condition, so you won´t have to fear the unknown. According to our experience, this knowledge can calm many anxieties and allow you to concentrate on our actual task: to get well again.

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Naruto To Boruto: Shinobi Strikers

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Yesterday, Bandai Namco revealed the newest DLC character to be added to Shinobi Strikers. Naruto Uzumaki in the Sage of Six Paths mode from his fight against Kaguya will be available to players in 2021. Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Strikers was originally released on August 31st 2018 and is still the most recent video game title from the Naruto universe. It is also the first in a long line of video games to allow you to create your own unique Naruto universe character. One of the primary draws of the DLC is that each new added character provides your unique character with new apparel to wear, weapons to wield , and moves to learn. This lets the player combine the abilities and attributes of all their favorite characters into one powerful ninja of their own...

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Night On Endor

Night on Endor

Night on Endor Update coming to Star Wars Battlefront II.

Real Soon, April 18 to be exact, players will jump into a new, limited-time mode, unlock special Appearances via Crystals and/or Credits and more in the Star Wars Battlefront II Night on Endor update.

Whether you begin as an Ewok defending your homeland and stalking your Imperial enemy, or as a stormtrooper fighting to escape the ambush, you will fight through the night for control of Endor in the all-new Ewok Hunt mode.

In Ewok Hunt, you start as an Ewok or in a group of stormtroopers. The ambush commences as Ewoks attack unsuspecting stormtroopers, using spears, Wisties, and other skills to take down their opponents. Each stormtrooper defeated spawns as another Ewok, multiplying until the Empire’s forces have been completely eliminated, and the Ewok celebration can begin. However, the stormtroopers’ superior training and firepower are more than a match for the Ewoks. Armed with a cadre of weapons as well as flashlights to pierce the darkness, players must hold back the Ewok’s ambush if they have a hope of surviving until an extraction team can arrive.

Also as part of this month’s release, Crystals will return to Star Wars Battlefront II as one of the ways for fans to unlock Appearances, including Endor Leia and Endor Han. Real-world currency can only be used to purchase Crystals, which are only redeemable for Appearances (learn more about Crystals in our FAQ). Credits are earned through in-game activity and can be redeemed for Appearances, as well. Over 50 additional Appearances to personalize your units will be made available in this update. (learn more about Appearances and rarities, and get even more details on this update, in our Community Transmission).

For the latest news, keep your eyes the EA Star Wars Blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram or join the discussion on the official forums.

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Pizza Near Me

Pizza Near Me

When it comes to pizza near me, you can never go wrong and even if you end up eating pizza that wasn’t made as you would have loved it too, the fact that you ate a slice is enough to get you through the day. Basically, as you probably know, the main components of a pizza are the sauce, the cheese, and the dough. In pizza near me places, the most common type of cheese used is mozzarella and this is because it has characteristics that prove very favorable like its binding properties, elasticity and its melting ability.

Some other pizzerias use other types of cheese like the ricotta cheese as their standard cheese and other will offer the buffalo mozzarella cheese as a premium option. The pizza nearest to me search will, of course, depend on what you like when it comes to this food. You might be more to the idea of pan-fried or you prefer your pizza made in the traditional way. Most of the commercial big giants in the pizza business use commercial methods with a standard menu for their product and you can expect the common pizzas being served. If you want something homier and more traditional, you might have to look at local restaurants and other joints that really focus on the kind of style you want.

margherita pizza at Christos Restaurant and Bar

How is pizza prepared?

The technique of preparing pizza lies in the dough. If you do not make the dough correctly, then it will not rise and provide a good base for the toppings. You can easily find pizza bread sold frozen in the stores and you can opt to buy and simply add the toppings. The ingredients of the dough will be sugar, salt, and yeast which will combine to make it rise until it is ready for baking.

If you want to make your own pizza from scratch, you have to take care of the ingredients that you add to the prepared dough and also how you knead the bread. Kneading plays a very important role when it comes to making pizza. The commercial spots use machines that make the production of a large number of doughs very easy but the person making the intended pizza still needs to have some skill when it comes to shaping the bread. Most restaurants will have a machine that helps shape the bread and the only thing done to the bread afterward is a bit of hand stretching before toppings are added.

Some pizzerias add ingredients like basil and garlic to the bread to make it more flavorful and you could always find out whether your dough is standard or if it has added ingredients.

Before the pizza is cooked, the dough will have to be generously covered with tomato sauce and then the toppings being used applied. The list of toppings that are used is endless and in the more personalized pizzeria, you will be asked to make your own selection. In the commercial chains like Dominoes, you will have to select the kind of pizza you want and then it will be prepared.

The amount of cheese that is used has to be the right amount otherwise the pizza will lack elasticity and the toppings will not be bound to the bread. This is why it is very common to find pizzerias using mozzarella cheese. There are some establishments that add more sauce than the tomato sauce and this makes their pizza taste really nice!

steak fajita pizza at Christos Restaurant and Bar

How is pizza cooked?

The traditional method of cooking pizza involves putting the kneaded and stretched dough in an oven that has been pre-heated up to 800 degrees and then letting it cook for about 10 minutes. Not all ovens used for making pizza will reach that temperature but it is important as the crust becomes very crisp and the cheese melts quickly. If the oven hasn’t been set properly, you can have instances where the cheese does not melt as you want but instead burns and sticks to the bread. No one wants to each slices with cheese burn on it!

The commercial food restaurants will of course use methods that are effective and time-saving because of the number of people who visit their establishments. Some will have electric ovens that are adjustment by use of a dial and the pizza bread cooked. Some have combined the traditional methods with the more modern ways of cooking and you can find them with ovens that receive the pizza by use of conveyor belts.

As artisanal food restaurants is becoming more common, there are spots that will make you pan pizza which is made in a pan as opposed to it being done in an oven. The pan still has to go inside an oven to cook but the way it looks and tastes might be a bit different.

Selection of crust

The crust can be thin or thick depending on your preference. Almost all pizzeria menu will ask you to decide on the kind of crust that you want. The New York-style is an example of pizza that is prepared over a very thin crust and the Chicago-style pizza has a deep crust. Some pizzerias are able to make the crust crispy irrespective of what kind of crust you have requested for!

Choosing the crust is a matter of preference and never really has an impact on the pizza as a whole. However, if you do not select the crust that you want, most spots will serve your pizza with a thick crust.

Finding nearest pizzerias isn’t really hard and if you like to take an adventure in a new place, you can even decide to go sampling the kind of pizzas they have. For this, you might have to settle for the calzone which is a dough baked with fillings unless you are able to eat fully sized pizzas everywhere you go!


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VOD forays – connecting a DVR to a home network

My wife is a tad obsessive about television, and sank some money into a big flat panel two years ago. With the advice and counsel of Uncle Fester — he-who-knows-all-about-AV — she decked the sucker out with a massive DVR (Tivo to us mortals), HD tuners, Dolby 5.1 surround sound, etc. etc. etc.

The result is a far cry from the black and white Zenith I grew up with, watching one of four channels (NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS), and messing with rooftop antennas, rabbit ears, and then considering things like color and remote controls to be as astonishing as a butane lighter is to a Stone Age cannibal in the forests of New Guinea. We were easily amused in the 1960s.
Unfortunately DirectTV recently dropped Tivo — which seemed to me to be an exemplary great example of user interface design — in favor of its own retarded, brain-dead interface. But, since the wife needs to have the latest HD signals, out went the nice Tivo which she bought hacked and juiced from Weak Knees (one of the best company names ever!), and in came theÂ  stupid DirectTV unit with no capacity and an on screen guide designed by bureaucrats.
A few weeks ago she noticed “VOD” on the menu of options — video on demand — and had to have it. I took a look and sure enough, the DVR has an ethernet jack and wants to be connected to the home network. The simple but ugly solution would have been to run an ethernet cable from the cable modem/wireless router (Westell), but she’s severely allergic to wires so that was the topic of a short but brutal discussion one rainy Sunday back in March.

Then I went to the most brain dead of solutuions — an A/C network extension — which is the networking equivalent of the pink/green/blue transparent acetate filters sold in the back of comic books in the sixties for people too poor to afford a color TV. They just don’t work.

The only solution was to get the DVR — which lives in a closet — to connect wirelessly to the home network. Off to Best Buy I went in search of a Linksys WGA54G — a wireless gaming adapter — a dee-vice for connecting an XBox or Playstation to one’s network. Not in stock. Nor at Radio Shack. So online I go (where I should have gone in the first place) and I order the sucker for $74 from B&H in Brooklyn.

It arrived yesterday. So, while watching the Blue Jays spank the Red Sox last night, I tried to configure the adapter to connect the DVR to the network. Of course the Linksys installation wizard didn’t work. Does it ever work?
Here’s the punchline: all the recurring bullshit we’ve heard from the tech industry about the digital home is going to remain bullshit until our devices connect to each other as easily as kitchen appliances connect to wall sockets.

I am not an engineer. But I did work as a tech reporter for twenty years and I do work for a PC company, and if I need to get on the 800 help line with Linksys, and both me and a tech get completely confounded in IPCONFIG, firewall, 64-bit key encryption … then Aunt Edna in Peoria ain’t gonna be experiencing VOD anytime soon.

I told the Linksys guy no thanks when we started down the command line path. I know how that story ends and it always ends badly. So I dragged the game adapter right up to the router, plugged it in, surfed into it through the browser on a notebook (good old, manually configured it to ignore the neighbor’s WAN (named Corehealth of all things), gave it the hexidecimal so it would get through the WEP security on my WAN, burned the EEPROM with the right info, ran down stairs, plugged it into the DVR, and …. to quote the engineer at McKinsey who insisted I didn’t know how to spell — “Wah-lah” — connected the TV to the network.

Of such small victories is one’s prowess proven in this world.

So, now I can download old South Park episodes at a snail’s pace. And, here’s the killer. The old pay per view model of purchase and view and store ostensibly forever on the DVR’s harddrive? The one I’ve enjoyed for a decade?
Those days are over. Hollywood, those masters of pissing off their customers by being brain dead when it comes to intellectual property, has decided that PPV will become Video on Demand (at a cost of course) but that the video will only be available for a day or two. At which point it goes poof.

Anyway, I sat down at my PC after this scintillating hour of home tech support hell, and saw that Microsoft Media Player had detected a DVR on the network, and wanted to know if I wanted to share my library of PC videos with it.

Sure. Why not? I’m a sucker for a gadget. Except it doesn’t work.

Author: David Churbuck

Cape Codder with an itch to write

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  1. Eventually we will own nothing and rent everything…

    Too bad the wife was across the pond…such manly displays of technological prowess ought not to go unappreciated by the fairer sex…

    “Hey there little lady, let me configure that router for you…”

    Of course those days are going quick. My 9 yo daughter is doing webkinz tech support for the whole 4th grade. I’m thinking of getting her setup with a trouble ticket system…and an time meter for billing…

  2. We have had Charter cable and Internet for years now. We only recently discovered Charter on Demand (but had it all this time). Just by dialing up channel 999 we can get an enormous amount of stuff whenever we want (and I’m talking HBO and movie channels and just about everything else we watch). I have been watching the whole John Adams series on HBO this past week late at night after the kids are down. This seems to be the way it should work: no wires or anything else to configure; just dial in a channel and get whatever it is you want. As old Judah used to say (arms gesturing wildly), “it’s all about c-o-n-v-e-r-g-e-n-c-e.”

  3. Sigh.

    You should have gone with a wireless bridge.

    Soon, you shall know what VOD is. Make sure you have a free HDMI port.

  4. The only wrinkle to all of this shiny new world you all envision is that internet companies are looking to abandon the all you can eat internet access model and start charging by the GB downloaded.

    If they get that through, it will be disastrous for all of these bandwidth hogging apps.

    One other thing, when they start charging by the MB, that’s the day I uninstall Flash and Java from my system. Both are major bandwidth pigs.

  5. Did the same thing, threw the Tivo under the bus for the new D* DVR – I needed to see the Mets in HD on MLB. Unlike you, I’ve run cat 6 throughout the house

    (key home tip – whenever walls are open, for ANY REASON, run cat 6. Oh, and move to california where the houses sit on top of dirt, and the word basement is unknown)

    VOD is lame. But the cool think about having the DVR hooked up to the net: you can program it remotely. At work (as I often am), and remember that you forgot to record the Mets game that starts at 4pm? Head to their web page, log in, find the show in the EPG, and select record. Woot! It really works.

    Now if only I could check my DVR’s record queue via the net, but there’s no HTTP server inside, at least none that I know of…

    PS, cast a line in Nantucket Sound for me.

    PPS, tip two – the D* DVR pumps Hd simultaneously out both the HDMI and component port. That means you can run two flat screens off of one DVR (they will play the same thing). Video baluns let you send component through Cat 5e or cat6 anywhere in the house. More reason to run UTP whenever you can.

  6. Congrats on your start in CrossFit — keep with it.

    My joints are good, but they all pop a lot too…. seem to be popping more the last couple months I’ve been doing CF. It means nothing, you know?

    The rows you’re doing are a great sub for pull-ups.

    Just make absolutely sure you’re going below parallel on your squats. Makes a huge difference.

    Good luck, and see you around — and welcome to CF.

    — Kirez

  7. 1. Don. Are you out of your $%^#ing mind? Apple talk is not welcome here. Apple can come into my house when Steve Jobs pays my kids’ college tuitions.

    2. Kirez: thanks for the encouragement. Installed a pullup bar yesterday. It taunts me. Squat form is good, thanks for confirming below parallel is cool.

  8. The IdeaPad has no nipple.

    No trackpoint = Lenovo is dead to me.

    Do all the pull-ups you want. Swear off Apple — until Wednesday. Do what you will. You have already started down the path to Hell.

    No trackpoint? WTF is wrong with you?!?!

    Black, glossy keyboard?

    Obviously, cross fit puking has emptied your brain.

    Happy early birthday.

  9. Yo, Dilweed. Stay away from IdeaPad. IdeaPad is not for you. It’s for them. Have fun with the trackpoint on your Mac … what? There’s no trackpoint on the Mac? Oh, gee. Sorry.

    I cannot do any pull ups. not one.

    We do not speak of this birthday.

  10. There’s no Vista on the Mac either.

    Yes, my Thinkpad X61 runs WinXp but shall the next?

    So strange where http://www.thinkpad.com takes me.

    I shall speak of this birthday. Talk to you Wednesday.

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GROWING THE POST-PANDEMIC CHURCH & Angela Duckworth, author of the bestseller “Grit,” explains why, two years into the pandemic, even the grittiest people are quitting, stepping down, or scaling back. And, she suggests three things to do to address this.

by Danica Lo, Fast Company Magazine, 6/15/22.

It’s been six years since psychologist and University of Pennsylvania Professor Angela Duckworth published her bestseller Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. After more than two years of behavioral and societal shifts that have drastically altered cultural values around work and achievement (see: the Great Resignation), Duckworth discusses Grit in hindsight in the first episode of The Next Chapter, a new podcast created for the American Express Business Class platform, out today.

For Duckworth, the tenets of Grit still hold true—that high-achievers are people who not only possess passion, but who also persevere. But, especially in these post-pandemic years, finding passion, or a directional focus, an be difficult and confusing. “For many of us, work ethic, getting feedback, practicing things we can’t yet do, being resilient—all that is easier than knowing what to be persevering about,” she says.

…“When someone is super-gritty, it’s because they’re pursuing something they really love and they actually feel there’s hope to make progress on [it],” Duckworth says. “One reason people might be burning out right now is that, for whatever reasons, there is some erosion of that hope that the future is bright for what they’re doing.”

…“The lesson in the pandemic is that if we want to be grittier or if we want to understand how to make other people grittier, there has to be some valid sense of hope for that person—that what they’re doing is going to be enough and that the future has some reason to believe that it’s brighter,” Duckworth says.

1. Mentorship …

2. Connect workers to a higher purpose

3. Establish a culture of grit …

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RESILIENCE & These 3 words helped Nick Foles succeed under pressure & win the Super Bowl

by Scott Mautz, Inc. Magazine, 2/5/18.

“It’s just football.” (Text message to Super Bowl winning quarterback Nick Foles before the game from friend and fellow Christian Drew Brees.)

Even on the biggest stage of Foles’ life, with literally millions of armchair quarterbacks waiting to throw their beer cans at the screen, it’s just football. Given what Foles has been going through with his wife having serious health problems and a terrible prior year with the St. Louis Rams that nearly made him retire, it’s just football.

Foles went on to say that the sentiment of the text was true and that it settled him down. A settled Foles meant he leveraged one of his greatest strengths, what fellow Eagle players have called “tremendous poise”. That poise led Foles to Super Bowl MVP honors.

Read more of the article “Nick Foles’ Pre-Game Text From Drew Brees Is a 3-Word Secret For Succeeding Under Pressure” at

GRIT & 5 Ways to Develop It : The One Trait That Scientists Think May Lead to Success

by Brian DeHaaf, Inc. Magazine, 6/14/16.

…So what is grit, exactly?

Grit is defined as the ability to rebound from challenges, self-reflect, and work even harder next time. You may know it as persistence, endurance, perseverance, or plain old stick-to-itiveness…

If you are a driven individual pushing for success, the question is not “Do I have grit?” Instead, you likely are more interested in what you can do to strengthen and sustain your already persistent nature. The good news is that grit is something you can work to improve

Contextualize your goals

If you can align your goals with a vision and purpose that is greater than yourself it can be easier to keep going when you are not doing as well as you hoped. If you find a disconnect between your goals and your accomplishments, reevaluate what you are striving for and why. Life is short and without purpose-driven goals, it will be difficult to summon strength when challenges arise.

Assemble a support team

Find a mentor or peer group who understand your goals and who can offer honest feedback and encouragement when times get tough. Do not be afraid to ask a leader you admire to grab a cup of coffee — you will be surprised at how many people will want to share their knowledge to help you achieve your goals. Seek out peer groups on LinkedIn, through alumni organizations, or networking groups that relate to your field.

Visualize your success

When faced with a roadblock, take a moment to envision the end result you desire. When you visualize success, you are actually training your brain for that outcome. Athletes have used this technique for years, but you can apply it to your own goals. Practice mental imagery daily. To reinforce the positive message write down in detail how your success will play out.

Make backslides impossible

Beware the tendency to slow down once you have made some initial strides. It is all too common for people to see some progress and lose momentum. Commit to progress checkpoints. Schedule conversations with your support team. Write a letter to yourself about why you want to achieve this goal to be read in the event you lose steam. Do whatever you can to make backslides impossible.

Establish good work habits

There is no getting around it — you have to put in the hours if you want to see a payoff. Eliminate procrastination, time-wasters, and disorganization. Prioritize your most important tasks and set aside time to tackle less pressing matters. Use your goals as your north star. Quickly analyze requests and do not be afraid to say no to something that does not add value.

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GRIT & Angela Duckworth’s 5-elements of GRIT (& her seminal TED video)

by Eric Barker, Wired Magazine, 12 May 2016.

Ever feel like you just wanna give up on something? How can you develop the inner strength necessary to achieve your long term goals?

Turns out that grit — the perseverance that keeps us going — is a lot more important than you might think. In fact, it’s the best predictor of success among West Point cadets.

From Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us:

The best predictor of success, the researchers found, was the prospective cadets’ ratings on a noncognitive, nonphysical trait known as “grit”—defined as “perseverance and passion for long-term goals.”

Stanford researcher Catharine Cox studied 301 eminent historical figures. What conclusion did she come to?Persistence beats smarts.

From Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance:

“…high but not the highest intelligence, combined with the greatest degree of persistence, will achieve greater eminence than the highest degree of intelligence with somewhat less persistence.”

So we all need more grit. But how do we get there? I decided to call an expert…

In 2013 Angela Duckworth was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Award for her work on grit.

She’s a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.

Here’s her TED talk:

…Here’s what Angela says will build that inner strength and make you gritty:

• Pursue what interests you: You’re not going to stick it out if you don’t care.
• Practice, practice, practice: It’s not just how you get to Carnegie Hall. We love doing things we’re good at.
• Find purpose: How does what you do help others? That’s what makes a job into a calling.
• Have hope: No “wishing on a star” here, pal. Have hope because you are going to make it happen.
• Join a gritty group: Mom was right; spend time with slackers and you’ll be a slacker.

So you do all of these things and become a Tyrannosaurus of grit. Awesome. Know what else you will be?

Angela surveyed 2000 people and the results were clear: “I found that the grittier a person is, the more likely they’ll enjoy a healthy emotional life.”

And it’s not some lazy, starry-eyed contentment. Gritty people strive every day and enjoy new challenges. That’s the exciting kind of happiness. Here’s Angela:

I was talking to Brad Stevens who’s the coach of the Boston Celtics. He said, “I’ll never be the coach I want to be, but it sure is fun trying.” It’s not that gritty people are necessarily content in the comfortable sense, but they are content in the sense that they enjoy the pursuit of excellence and there’s nothing they’d rather do than keep trying to get better everyday.

Everyone today is concerned with work-life balance. It’s nice to know that the same quality that can make you a success in your career can help promote happiness at home.

You should never give up on being happy. Or better yet: never give up on yourself…

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PESERVANCE & How to Develop “Grit” in Your Kids: 3 Rules by #UPenn #psychologist #AngelaDuckworth

“A UPenn psychologist uses the ‘Hard Thing Rule’ to teach her kids to take control of their success” by Shana Lebowitz, Business Insider Magazine, 5/8/16.

…Angela Duckworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose new book, “Grit,” offers research and anecdotal evidence on how passion and perseverance lead to success.

Towards the end of the book, Duckworth gives readers a glimpse into how she applies her findings on grit in her own life, specifically with her two daughters…

The Hard Thing Rule has three parts:

1. Everyone in the family has to do something that’s hard.

Specifically, Duckworth said, it has to be “something that requires practice, something where you’re going to get feedback telling you how you can get better, and you’re going to get right back in there and try again and again.”

2. You have to finish what you start.

“…Or if I’ve paid the tuition for your set of piano lessons, you’re going to take all those lessons and you are, as you promised your teacher, going to practice for those lessons.”

3. No one gets to pick the hard rule for anyone else.

“Even when my kids were five [and] six years old,” Duckworth said, “they were given some choice in what their hard thing was.”

“I think it’s very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things … they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual ultimately are the captain of where you’re going…”

The point is for parents to help their kids find something they’re interested in and then help grow that interest, while at the same time modeling grit and showing how far it can take you.

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GRIT & A TED on Why It is More Important to Success Than Intellect, Personality or Training

Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success (previous is quoted from the TED Talk introduction).

STUDENT SUCCESS & The Importance of Perseverance

by Anya Kanenetz, National Public Radio, 3/8/16.

… The science shows … Students who believe they can do better with more effort, who try harder, who can delay instant gratification and control their impulses, who take feedback well and know how to work on teams, are likely to become happier, healthier, more successful adults.

What’s missing right now, though, is a consensus on how best to cultivate those qualities…

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GRIT & The One Personality Trait You Need for Success: Grit!

Commentary by Dr. Whitesel: “When evaluating church planters, I often look at their history of ministry and employment. If I see persistence in that history, I know that usually they will be successful in planting a church. And this research confirms it: tenacious, positive, persistent people are the best planters.”

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Honeyrude Share “Flowers” Taken From The Color Blue Due Out August 18th via Shifting Sounds

July 19, 2017

photo courtesy of Wakeeña Real

Honeyrude Share “Flowers” with Consequence of Sound

The Color Blue Due Out August 18th via Shifting Sounds

If everything is truly bigger in Texas, than it must include the shoegaze swoon of Austin’s Honeyrude. Their full-length debut album, The Color Blue, is set for release of August 18th via Shifting Sounds Records (Magnet School, Black Books, Gentlemen Rogues) and it’s enormous in every way. The shoegaze revivalists have created a stunning record of textural dream-pop and early 90’s fuzzed out bliss, with an incredible attention to sonic detail.

Consequence of Sound are sharing “Flowers,” the record’s second single, calling it “an alluring swirl of guitars and sky-ward driven riffs. Frontwoman Jess Ledbetter’s voice dances between the distortion with resolute grace, alluring even as she sings, “Lately you look like an angel praying faster than my words can fall/ Maybe you should find a way to hate me, faster than my words can fall.”

Ledbetter explained the song’s origins and meaning to Consequence of Sound:

“’Flowers’ is about falling in love with people that are “off limits”. I wanted to imagine that after death we love without bodies. Its a lovely thought and its a lovely song and there’s something Shakespearean about not being allowed to be with someone you are drawn to. [Guitarist] Ian [Lund] showed me this old loop he had recorded in the 90s and I thought it was beautiful and took it home and sat on my bed and heard this little melody right away. We all worked on it and thought surely it can’t be so simple, we need to add some strange chords or something but ultimately we all agreed it was actually just a simple, pretty song.”

08/03 – Austin, TX @ KUTX Studio A1 (afternoon radio show)
08/03 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
08/25 – Bryan, TX @ Revolution Cafe & Bar

The Color Blue
August 18, 2017
Shifting Sounds Records

1. Something About Milwaukee
2. The Color Blue
3. Ring Ring Ring
4. Lover in Denial
5. Flowers
6. Sorry I’m Late
7. Roger McClain
8. Falling Backwards

“Informed, glowingly, by Jess Ledbetter’s staunch lead voice, The Color Blue is a resolute and formidable five-minutes of textural rock and roll; a glorious splash of colour and noise that seemingly swallows up the space around itself until little else matters at all, the final minute or so offering a weighty and breathless unraveling that’ll have you grasping for more.” – GoldFlakePaint

Lovely and loud, Honeyrude is a melding of time and influences. Founding member Ian Lund (guitar) first met Billy Kunath (bass) asleep in a van in his driveway in Chicago. Kunath was playing in a punk band that Lund was recording at the time. The two became friends and were in and out of contact over the years yet both landed in Austin and became bandmates in 2013. A year and 3 singers later, Jess Ledbetter (vocals, guitar) joined the band upon moving from Brooklyn, NY back to Texas. The project came recommended to her by an ex-boyfriend and bandmate. Honeyrude came to their present line-up in March of 2016 when Paul Goetz agreed to sit in on drums for a tribute show celebrating The Cure. They met each other by learning “From The Edge of The Deep Green Sea” and quickly asked Goetz to join. The four began recording demos and in the fall of 2016 they self-recorded The Color Blue to be released on vinyl August 2017 via Shifting Sounds.
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PHIL 4730

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Introduces methods for theorizing about meaning within generative grammar. These techniques allow the creation of grammars that pair syntactic structures with meanings. Students look at several empirical areas in detail, among them complementation (combining heads with their arguments), modification, conjunction, definite descriptions, relative clauses, traces, bound pronouns, and quantification. An introduction to logical and mathematical concepts used in linguistic semantics (e.g., set theory, functions and their types, and the lambda notation for naming linguistic meanings) is included in the course.

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Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: LING 3303 or permission of instructor.

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For stable development, offshore (and land-based) wind needs stable policy

William Pentland of the Pace Energy and Climate Center has an article at, remarking on press accounts that General Electric, the largest U.S. manufacturer of wind turbines, is rethinking its strategy on offshore wind due to current lack of demand for its offshore product offering.  The news, Mr. Pentland says, may augur no or slow growth in the offshore wind market.

Time will tell whether this is so.  With roughly 3,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity already in European offshore waters, and thousands more on the way, it's clear that there is currently momentum in the market.

As a former colleague used to say, I've seen this movie before–it happened in the 1980s with land-based wind.  The U.S. enacted a tax incentive for wind, but included a sunset date just seven years after enactment, hardly time enough to develop a major new manufacturing industry.  The incentive expired, a global oil glut knocked the props out from under energy prices, and the U.S. wind industry, at the time a world leader, disappeared.  Major American companies with wind turbine development programs, including Boeing, United Technologies, Alcoa, Bendix, Grumman, and yes, GE–closed down those programs.

It wasn't until a new supportive tax policy was enacted and then–more importantly–extended for more than a year or two in advance that the U.S. began to build a new wind turbine supply chain and manufacturing base.  By that time, it was playing catch-up, with several major European turbine manufacturers providing stiff competition in the global market.

Today, tax policy uncertainty still threatens U.S. wind developers and manufacturers of both land-based and offshore turbines, and Mr. Pentland's article exemplifies the effect of that uncertainty.  Stable tax policy is what fostered the development of the supply chain for onshore wind and it is what is needed for the development of the supply chain for offshore wind (as well as continued growth for land-based).  Otherwise, we will find ourselves a decade from now, wondering why the still-growing global market for offshore wind (and perhaps land-based too!) is dominated by foreign turbine and component manufacturers.

More reading:

Wanted: Predictable energy policy, July 29, 2011
Flurry of positive news, but expiration of key incentive looms, July 15, 2011
Energy policy tops list of needs at wind manufacturing conference, July 14, 2011
Connecting the dots: Job losses to China … and … consistent energy policy, June 30, 2011
Demand-side policies will fuel growth in wind power manufacturing sector, June 14, 2011

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Backward Planning

I was recently talking to someone who used to work at Amazon. I was telling him we were trying to institute backwards planning – basically setting the target date and budget and having the teams work to fit their project into that.

He asked me how else one might do that and I told him that at most companies, the project manager asks everyone to provide input into how long and how much money the project would take and then they add it up. He replied, “that sounds like a terrible way to do it – everyone will be padding their timelines and budget.” And yes, he’s right.

It’s always a challenge to know how long something shuld take. In some industries, they use benchmarking – for example the number of hours it takes to assemble a car. In other cases, people will bid out projects internally vs externally–to get the work, the internal team has to be competitive with the outside bids.

I saw an example of this when I was at a previous company. The toxicologist was using a German CRO to perform tox studies, and the CRO was charging over a million dollars. I asked her if she realized how much the same studies would cost in US or China. She said, “I have no idea, I’ve only used this CRO.” At the time, a US CRO would have charge about $4-5M and Chinese one would have charged about $1-2M. Her boss clearly had no idea how much those studies should cost, because neither did she.

How can you avoid that? It’s not that people are trying to waste money or time. It’s that they often believe that it is impossible to do something faster or cheaper.


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Harlan Estate, Napa Valley Red Wine 1990

The following tasting note shows the combined comments of the tasting panel organised for Club Oenologique at Harlan Estate on 11 March 2020. Present: Adam Lechmere, Bill Harlan, Will Harlan, estate directer Don Weaver, collector Jim Walker, Harlan educator Kelli White, director of winegrowing Bob Levy, Jamie Ritchie of Sotheby’s fine wine, Elaine Chukan Brown (notes can be found on jancisrobinson.com), winemaker Cory Empting, associate director François Vignaud

Bordeaux blend of average 75% Cabernet Sauvignon plus varying proportions of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.

Adam Lechmere – Elegant Burgundian rot on the nose, compost and estuary mud, fresh and soft, tannins bright alongside very evolved fruit, all plum and damson but stewed with sugar, that sweetness not unpleasant – a little bit of green on the end palate

Bob Levy – sweet red fruits, confiture, slightly dried tomato notes, cedar, tobacco, straw, soft, slightly tannic finish

Cory Empting – cigar box, violet candies, iris, animal, meaty; what a wonderful array of aromas circling around a stately core; the tannins remain chiseled yet noble; the grand amoire! I feel more Rayas than Napa cabernet

Don Weaver – some old world charm atop still vibrant fruit; sweet core, less complex than modern vintages but not simple; unbearable lightness of being! still going strong

François Vignaud – touch of age showing with beautiful complexity, just enough earthiness, leather, seashell, minerality; youthfulness, structure, but flowing, elegance

Bill Harlan – great classic nose, lean, soft with structure

Jamie Ritchie – Supple, savory and sweet. Very well integrated and finely grained. Still fleshy and retaining richness, but with maturity, elegance and balance. Finishes with prunes, tea, tar, roses, spice and forest floor. An historic wine, as the first vintage of Harlan, and set the benchmark for the quality of the wines that followed.

Jim Walker –  nose is significantly different here, much better than I remember; soft, elegant, alive, forward fruit takes a backseat to the earthiness; tannins present but soft

Kelli White –  beautiful, perfumed, evocative nose of pencil shavings, frankincense, fruit leather, clove, shitake, campfire & blood; really profound; serious structure; aristocratic; incredibly long finish

Will Harlan – whoa! super-classic Bordeaux nose; welcoming; slightly hollow mid-palate, but impressively ripe; texture is silky, streamlined; palate has a sweet core

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need for support during grief

This article is interesting – how in this country we need more support for those who are grieving instead of putting it all on the person. I know I grieved a lot the loss of the dream of cohousing. Luckily I did find two people who also were struggling, then left cohousing. And that’s what I”m here for – and anyone who grieves after the dream of community living, intentional communities, or, cults.

It doesn’t seem to let me link it. Look up The Hidden Dangers of Pathological Grief by Undark magazine.

About CJ

I was a Spanish teacher for 5 years in the Public School system in 3 different states. I homeschooled and taught at a democratic free school. I heard about cohousing in 2010 and wanted to move in right away. I met a group building one in 2018 and got to move in the summer of 2019. It only took a year to want out.
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Quinto’s Shortcut

This morning had to walk down to St Clements to get the bus instead of driving out to Thornhill. Quinto decided to take us the ‘cut through route’. Decide for yuorself:

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It only added just short of half a mile… good result.

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This Silly BNP Fiasco

Shhh, I’m sneakily writing a little article on my lunch break, don’t tell anyone from work…

So far today the radio has really annoyed me, all this talk of the BNP being on the BBC’s Question Time tonight, basically it’s all a load of crap. I am 99% against the BNP, what they are and what they stand for. This post is not promoting what they do or what they believe in, it does kind of contradict itself soon though…

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ShoZu Update

Now I’m an avid ShoZu user, if you check out my Flickr account you will see that almost all of my photos are uploaded using it. The only time I don’t is when I am in the States and the data charges would be astronomical. The point I am getting to however is

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San Francisco Day 3

I shall skip the boring parts of day 3, breakfast and morning work were boring as you can expect. Lunch picked up, we went to meet up with Eddie from, he’s one of the assistant directors of the Spike Lee collaboration film called Nokia Productions (good name hey?!?), and more importantly, he is a thoroughly nice chap. He’d recommended that we go to this little French bistro in South Park. And very nice it was too, I was still bulging from breakfast and the site of the massive baguette was exactly what I needed. As we left Eddie took us on a brief tour of the landmarks, the building opposite was the Twitter HQ. I resisted twittering saying I was outside (just), now I kinda wish I had photo’ed, but to be honest it would have been a boring picture. The office looks more like a little secluded house, there was no forms of branding etc. The next place on the web 2.0 tour was the Organic building, where Wired is/was based and where Yahoo do a load of stuff. Uber interesting to see how unglamorous these places are.

Hotel, work, boring, prep for the event in the evening. The event went really well and everyone seemed to have a good time. I wont go into detail.

Afterwards we popped for another drink with Eddie, I don’t know where this bar was because Eddie drove, all I remember is an extensive list of whiskeys/gins on a chalk board. Sehr cool.

That’s day 3 done and dusted.

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Auburn Tigers 2018 Spring Rankings & Analysis: No. 6

Auburn Tigers 2018 Spring Rankings & Analysis: No. 6

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Auburn Tigers 2018 Spring Rankings & Analysis: No. 6

The 2018 spring college football rankings, taking the first look at the Auburn Tigers.

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No. 6: Auburn Tigers

Spring Practice Starts: February 27
Spring Game: April 7

Auburn Tigers Spring Status

The Tigers just ran out of gas.

They might have come up with an impressive win over Alabama, but they were beaten up, lost the SEC Championship to Georgia and the Peach Bowl to UCF to sour an otherwise amazing season, but they were right there. They were one game away from the College Football Playoff.

And now they should be even better.

It all starts with getting QB Jarrett Stidham back for another year. Four starters might be done on the O line, but the receiving corps is loaded, it’s a deep group of backs, and the defense should be terrific as long as the secondary can restock in a hurry.

The system works, the talent is there, and there’s even a little bit of stability in the coaching staff. It’s all there to take that one step further.

Auburn Biggest Depth Chart Battle

Offensive tackle. There’s a battle at running back, the safeties have to step up, and the defensive front has to come up with a few new starting options. But the offensive line has the big holes, losing guard Braden Smith, center Casey Dunn, and tackles Darius James and Austin Golson.

It would’ve been nice to have landed Rice grad transfer Calvin Anderson, but now it’ll be up to Prince Tego Wanogho and Calvin Ashley to provide pieces on the outside to build around.

Auburn Biggest Issue

Fumbles. Overall, the the Tigers weren’t that bad in turnover margin, but 14 of the 20 giveaways on the year were fumbles with five in the last four games. Stidham didn’t throw a lot of picks, but after giving away just eight fumbles in 2016 and five in 2015, the offense’s ball security has to be tighter.

Auburn Biggest Positive

The passing game. Can Stidham be the first quarterback off the board in the 2019 NFL Draft? He should be close, and he gets back all of his wide receivers. the top five wideouts are back. The Tigers and Stidham spread the ball around well with a nice mix of dangerous veterans and young talents rising up.

Really, Why Are The Auburn Tigers Ranked Here?

The holes aren’t that huge to fill. The running game will still be amazing, the defense has talent at linebacker, there are plenty of young talents ready to roll, and Stidham will be one of the nation’s best quarterbacks. Expect more of the same from last season.

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2014 Kia Forte Sedan EX

The head of all the Volkswagen Group empire, Ferdinand Piech, is quoted as saying he regrets loosing designer Peter Schreyer to Kia. And when you look at what his leadership has done for the Korean company’s design—making it amongst the most cohesive and attractive in the world—and market growth, it is easy to see why. One of his latest creations is the second-generation Forte sedan, which is a real grabber, visually.

It looks very much a premium car, which is important as Kia changes its image around the globe. Elegant and expressive, taut and interesting, it is one of the nicest looking smaller sedans on the market. Inside the design is excellent as well, and overall quality is above average for the class, though the leather seats feel stiff and cheap; it would be nice to see a rich cloth on upmarket models like the EX test vehicle. Regardless, the Forte is incredibly roomy, front and back, with a decadent selection of standard and optional equipment like air cooling and memory for the powered driver’s chair, heated front and rear seats and steering wheel, smart key entry, a huge power roof, outside “welcome” lights in the door handles and an expensive LCD display between the instruments that nicely complements the intuitive UVO infotainment interface, which would be great if it worked properly with an iPod (not that many people own those things). Also included are HID headlamps, LED taillamps, dual zone climate control and even vents for rear seat occupants.

Kia has done these sorts of thing well for quite a while though; where they’ve dropped the ball is on the way a car or crossover drives, with subpar dynamics and some weak powertrains. Neither of the negatives applies to the Forte, though; it is a really pleasant steer, with a pleasing ride/handling balance and refined engine and transmission combo. The EX’s powerplant is a direct-injection 2-liter four with outputs of 173hp and 154lb-ft of torque (base engine is a 1.8 with 148hp/131lb-ft), which spins eagerly to redline and emits upmarket inline 4-cylinder noises all the while. It has loads of torque low down in the rev range, and is almost Honda smooth. Ably abetting it is a refined six-speed automatic, whose shift logic is a great example of how to program a modern transmission. 0-60 comes up in under eight seconds, but fuel economy—as with everything tested from Kia and corporate partner Hyundai—doesn’t come close to the EPA ratings, with a real-world mixed average of 23.5mpg according to the Forte’s onboard computer.

The Kia handles well enough, with decent body control, and steering that is accurate and precise; while it has three settings for its weighting, two are easily ignored. Regardless, it is a far better tuned chassis than that of the Sorento, tested here. Most impressive is the Forte’s ride quality and refinement; despite very low profile 17-inch tires, it absorbs most all the bad stuff on our nation’s crappy roadways, and is amazingly quite for an “economy” car.

In fact, it is hard to think of the Forte in those terms. Here is a car with a level of equipment, refinement and aesthetic appeal that was the providence of only the high-end luxury brands of the 90s. Combined with the company’s excellent warranty and generally solid reputation for reliability and it is a class standout.

EPA ratings: 24/36mpg; 28 combined
Price as tested: $25,400
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Raju Gari Gadhi 3 trailer has been released. It showcases that the film has come good horror elements and scary moments.

Ashwin Babu and Avika Gor play the lead role in this film. This is the third part of the film. Is it really a ghost film or some prank film?

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Gucci Launches an Official Doraemon Collection

When it comes to luxury fashion, there are few names as big as Gucci. The company prides itself on high-quality clothing and accessories which will set shoppers back several thousand dollars. Now, it seems like Gucci is leaning into a new trend in the fashion world, and it has found the perfect anime to collaborate with on an exclusive line.

Over in Japan, Gucci got netizens riled up when it released its first-ever Doraemon collection. The company teamed up with the long-running series to make clothes, purses, and accessories for luxury shoppers. And yes, the collection is as pricey as you might expect.

Currently, there are a number of purses in this line, and Gucci is racking their prices up. A small circular crossbody bag can run about $1400 USD, and that is not even the most pricey item on the list. There is a large tote for sale at a staggering $2200 USD if that price sounds nice to you.

There are other pieces of the collection to consider if bags aren't your thing. Gucci and Doraemon teamed up to create several items of clothing. You can nab anything from a tracksuit jacket to a skirt and even shoes. Of course, each of these items will run over $1000 USD, so you can expect a full Gucci outfit to break the bank.

This is not the first luxury brand to embrace anime as of late, and it will not be the last. Gucci has worked with Hirohiko Araki in the past as the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure creator has an eye for fashion. Louis Vuitton, Moschino, Sandy Liang, and Coach have also leaned into anime for collections or inspiration in recent years. So if you want to wear your fandom, well - there are some expensive ways for you to do so.

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‘Stargirl’ Season 1, Part 2 Review

by Frank Martin

When comic book fans think of campy TV, the Adam West Batman series — now known as Batman ’66 — comes to mind. It’s goofy and corny in all the right ways. But the problem with taking that approach is that the stakes for our hero are very low. There’s only a certain amount of danger and darkness the show can depict while still being campy. But Stargirl proves that a show can have both. With its classic superhero uniforms and teenage superhero approach, it’s impossible to say that Stargirl lacks campiness, but it also has real stakes and violence. It’s a bizarre mix that proves very addicting.

In order to fully be absorbed in the world, the viewer has to give in to the show’s fantastical elements. There’s a certain amount of give on that part, but there’s definitely a reward for it too. Other shows on The CW do something similar. The Flash certainly comes to mind. But The Flash’s twenty-plus episode season works against the suspension of disbelief. Stargirl, by comparison, only has 13 episodes per season. This shortened episode count allows for much quicker pacing and a danger that emphasizes the stakes our heroes are up against.

Usually, superhero shows dealing with secret identities take time to develop the relationship between hero and villain. There are several episodes of cat-and-mouse that prolong the season for the sake of tension. Stargirl doesn’t have this luxury. The shorter season and plethora of characters forces battles with real consequences and actual danger as anyone can be killed off at any moment. Yet, on a show that features a retractable football field that reveals a gigantic array of satellite dishes, it’s hard not to roll one’s eyes from time to time. But again, it’s this merger of the ridiculous and the dangerous that make Stargirl a very entertaining, escapist show.

Stargirl is now streaming on HBOMax.

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