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In Germany, a social app for exchanging cold beverages

BERLIN -- Buddy Labs founder Travis Todd is demonstrating the ways in which generosity can power an app -- and even a fledgling start-up scene.

BERLIN -- Owe your buddy a beer, but can’t be there to buy him one? There’s an app for that.

It’s simple: you just enter a few details about the person upon whom a free beer should be bestowed, including the place and the drink – and voila: as long as the recipient is the owner of an iPhone or Android device, they can redeem their beer at the specified location at their leisure.

It’s called Buddy Beers, and it’s one of the brainchildren of American-born, Berlin-based entrepreneur Travis Todd. He developed the idea together with Benedikt Bingler and Min-Sung Sean Kim, who form a loose entrepreneurial triad under the name BuddyLabs.

It’s mission? “Empower generosity."

“My little brother was turning 21 in Florida,” Todd explained to Berlin’s tip magazine, “and I wanted to buy him a beer for his birthday, but it wasn’t possible.”

“The best idea for a start-up is something people can actually use.”

The concept falls under the category of social gifting – something Todd says was born of the problems associated with deal-of-the-day business models like Groupon and similar ventures.

“The reality of crowd discounts is that they’re not sustainable,” Todd told SmartPlanet. “Merchants have to deeply discount their products in hopes that customers return.”

“When that bubble burst, gifting was seen as a sustainable way to have the same sort of repeat customers and the same kind of value as these deals, but in a more peer-to-peer kind of way.”

Todd admits that social gifting activity isn’t as day-to-day as when users are shopping for themselves – but he says he thinks it makes a difference that two people are involved in the purchase rather than one.

And what better place to empower beer-related generosity than in Germany?

Growth has been steady since the idea was launched in 2010, according to Todd, particularly since the BuddyLabs secured a deal with German beer brewer Carlsberg a year ago. But aside from Germany, the website’s map also shows bars registered in the U.S., Italy and the U.K. – not to mention places like El Salvador, Thailand and Romania – speaking for the ease with which the concept can be scaled.

Like other expat entrepreneurs in the city though, Todd says he decided to launch Buddy Beers in Berlin and not New York or Silicon Valley not least due to the creative and experimental nature of the city.

“Everyone talks about the cost of living, but that’s changing,” he says. “There’s an influx of foreign entrepreneurs because they can do things here that they can’t do elsewhere.”

In fact, it turns out that Todd’s connections to Berlin's entrepreneurial scene run deeper than BuddyLabs. He also co-founded the English-language Berlin start-up blog Silicon Allee with Schuyler Deerman of Moped – a decision he says has allowed him to interact with the community in interesting ways.

“It was important to us that Silicon Allee be written in English because so many young people are coming from all over the world to found start-ups here,” Todd explained to tip.

“How would Silicon Valley investors ever know what’s going on in here otherwise?”

Todd, who’s been coding since he was 14 years old, also holds a degree in graphic design, as well as having spent time in the advertising industry in Florida. But he says diverse professional backgrounds are becoming the norm, especially in a younger start-up scenes.

“When I see a problem and it needs a solution,” he explains, “and I can’t find someone to do it, I may do it myself… and I may become a developer to do that.”

Todd also told tip he was able to return from five months in Silicon Valley with a better idea of what Berlin's start-up scene was missing, e.g. meetups, which he has since successfully injected into the mix.

"Germans are always afraid to share their ideas, fearing that someone will steal them," he told tip. "Silicon Valley learned a long time ago that you have to share your ideas: you need the network."

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September 18, 2014

Zero Waste Your Coffee

Coffee.  How do we love thee?  Let us count the ways.
At home, at the shop, in a cup or in a bag, at the table, on the tree,
in the car, by sun, by candle-light,
dark for him, brown for me.*

I didn't start drinking coffee until about three years after I got married and about three days after I had children.  I drink it to get through the day.  I drink it as a reward for completing a task, an incentive for something that needs to get done, or sometimes as a companion for something mundane like balancing the checkbook.

We keep our caffeine input high but our trash output low with three things:  a coffee maker with a reusable filter, a reusable coffee bean container, and a reusable coffee mug.

At home:  we use a drip machine with an insulated carafe to keep the coffee warm throughout the morning.  And a gold, reusable filter - we bought it aftermarket - so no paper filters in this house.  We don't use a single-serve or capsule machine because even though some say the cups are recyclable, you need to collect the cups (ie - store somewhere in my tiny house - no thanks) and then send them back in the mail.  We prefer to grind our own each day and compost the grounds ourselves.  More work yes, convenient, not so much, but collecting those grounds has paid off in our tomato garden.

When something goes awry with the coffee maker, we try to fix it rather than replace it.  This thing broke once:

So we found another online and while we waited for it to arrive we huddled in a dank, dark corner of the house, sharpening our teeth and whispering to ourselves, waiting for our Precious to arrive.

At the coffee roaster:  we refuse the bag and use a container to get the beans.  My 5.25 cup red Rubbermaid (I know it's plastic but I had it on hand) almost perfectly holds one pound of coffee.  We get beans every two weeks and make a family date out of going to the coffee shop.  One less breakfast for mommy to make.

At the coffee shop:  I bring a simple coffee cup.  I used to collect coffee cups, looking for the perfect mix of form and function, one that looked good, kept my coffee warm, didn't leak and was easy to clean.

It doesn't exist.

The ones that keep your coffee piping hot until baby's second nap are contraptions that trap old coffee in the cavities of the lid and nothing ruins a morning with the barista like the smell of rotting cream in your cup.

Now I have a simple cup that leaks, and lets my coffee get cold, but is easy to clean and I bring it with me to the cafe.  I usually get a 10¢ discount and no waste save the water to rinse it out.

So that's what we do.  Any other ideas I may have missed?  There's probably a better way to make coffee that doesn't use a machine designed for rapid obsolescence.

*My apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  We really do love our coffee though.  It has become my "most quiet need" indeed.

  1. OMG, I almost peed myself reading your Precious line. I quoted it to my daughter (coffee drinker) and she nodded and said "I know how she feels."

  2. So inspiring ... That is my next challenge !


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Palettes, brushes, paints, disposable aprons and blank trays are prepared for you in a specially equipped room.

At first you will paint your tray with instuctions of attentive tutor. Then you will sign it. Then your tray will be aired in a special stove and will be covered with varnish. After that your tray will be returned into the hands that painted it :)

Children and adults can take part in master class. Children are usually more daring because adults are afraid at first that they will not be able to do it but then they come to enjoy the creative process. Every person held a brush in childhood.

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Born January 8th, this African Forest Buffalo joined Zoo Berlin's herd to the excitement of zookeepers and visitors alike. The African Forest Buffalo is slightly smaller than its close relative, the Cape Buffalo. Its native habitat is the equatorial forests of Central and West Africa. Forest Buffaloes feed primarily on grasses, twigs and shoots. Their main predators in the wild are Leopards.

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Busch Gardens’ newest addition, a female Cape Buffalo, was born to mother Semara on Sept. 21. Cape Buffalos are extremely social; members of the same group will stay in direct contact with each other and will often sleep with their heads resting on one another. At the time of his birth, the calf weighed approximately 45 lbs. The playful and explorative youngster now weights 75 lbs. Once full grown, Cape Buffalos can weigh up to 2,000 lbs.

Two days earlier, the park’s Sable Antelope herd welcomed the third new baby of the month, a female who took her first steps within a few minutes of birth. Though Sable Antelopes are shaky at first, newborns can run fast enough to keep up with the herd within 3-5 days.

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Busch Gardens’ guests can view all of the new babies from Rhino Rally, the Skyride or Serengeti Express train ride. For an even closer look, the Serengeti Safari offers guests and open-bed truck tour of the 65-acre Serengeti Plain, with opportunities to get up-close to antelope and rhinos and hand-feed giraffes.


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Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Fraternité-sur-Lac presents SPAHAUS in Mont-Tremblant, Canada by Yh2 Architecture

October 12th, 2013 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Yh2 Architecture

Fraternité-sur-Lac presents SPAHAUS, a project of 26 contemporary chalets located on Lac Supérieur (Mont-Tremblant), available in 2014

For the first time in its fifteen-year history, YH2 architects agree to take part in real estate project

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  • Architects: Yh2 Architecture
  • Project: Fraternité-sur-Lac presents SPAHAUS
  • Location: Mont-Tremblant, Canada
  • Builder: Richer et Laurence
  • Units: 1,000 to 1,400 sq ft.
  • Surface area of sites: 18,000 sq ft.
  • Options: 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms and/or spa and/or sauna
  • Floors: 2
  • Starting price: $298,000
  • Parking spaces: 2

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Fraternité-sur-Lac is proud to announce preliminary details and share inaugural images of SPAHAUS, a project of 26 contemporary chalets designed by YH2 Architecture. Taken aback by the site’s remarkable location and the developer’s vision, the Montreal architectural design firm – renowned for its work both at home and abroad over the past fifteen years – agreed to apply its creative know-how to a real estate project for the first time in its history.

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Adaptable according to the number of bedrooms and the optional inclusion of a spa and sauna, SPAHAUS democratizes access to contemporary, imaginative architectural design that’s in keeping with the Lac Supérieur environment, located 10 minutes away from the Mont-Tremblant ski station’s northern slope and the Mont-Tremblant National Park. “With SPAHAUS, we want to allow future buyers to set up home in an architectural residence that’s both creative and functional, but above all, that is affordable and only available in a limited supply,” says project developer Michel Beaulieu. “In that sense, we consider ourselves privileged to have convinced YH2 to dream up these contemporary, luxurious spaces, designed while keeping nature and the values of Fraternité-sur-Lac in mind.”

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YH2 – Quality in Limited Quantity

“It took many months of hard work, observation and fleshing out numerous proposals before settling on the final SPAHAUS concept – buildings that provide the intimacy and connection to nature that one would expect of a home spa,” recalls architect Loukas Yiacouvakis, a YH2 partner along with Marie-Claude Hamelin. SPAHAUS is made up of 26 chalets laid out to blend into the natural undulating contours of the site, and positioned in such a way as to mask the other chalets’ construction. Built using a combination of concrete and wood, the units’ large window design provides an optimal amount of light and a stunning vista of the natural surroundings, in the spirit of contemporary Scandinavian design.

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On the ground floor, each chalet has a large rectangular space comprised of the living room and the spa, on top of which rests a small wooden cottage, designed with one or two bedrooms. The integration of the ground floor into the land’s natural slope renders the building’s concrete foundation practically invisible to the other cottages. From the site, all that’s visible are the 26 small wooden houses resting on flat roof patios, made up of minerals and plants – these gardens of lush greenery boast heart-stopping vistas of the forest, leading to the lake below. “We’ve created 26 human-scale spaces, which are agreeable to live in and take us back to the essence of what a chalet ought to be: a place for replenishing and becoming one with nature, a welcoming environment where one feels at ease with oneself and others,” adds Loukas Yiacouvakis.

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A Global Investment of $80 Million

With SPAHAUS, the Fraternité-sur-Lac developers strengthen the area’s positioning as the Laurentians’ economic hub, more specifically in the Lac Supérieur municipality. SPAHAUS is the latest gem in the Fraternité-sur-Lac resort undertaking, which will eventually add up to a total investment of some $80 million, which includes: the Club de la Pointe development; a 100,000 square-foot playground on the shores of Lac Supérieur that’s reserved exclusively for residents; a bucolic, country-inspired centre; a general store featuring an SAQ space; a full slate of hospitality infrastructure (reception desk and check-in, restaurants), and the Rivière Verte pedestrian trail, which covers the project’s entire perimeter. “In 2005, we acquired the site on impulse, euthusiastic at the thought of converting it into an exclusive, authentic destination,” remarks Michel Beaulieu. “With SPAHAUS, we wish to break down the simplistic dichotomy that sets bustling city life and tranquil, rural locales at loggerheads. We’re speaking to buyers for whom both of those realities are intertwined, people who enjoy spending quality time and taking full advantage of outdoor activities offered on-site and in the surrounding area. On the business front, while certain projects have experienced slowdowns, we’ve successfully adapted to the economic climate, finding buyers for the first slate of 25 luxury log chalets built in the mountains, as well as selling the near totality of our 72 Suites-sur-Lac. Our vision and efforts hinge on the time we allow ourselves to refine the projets, in order to better protect and enchance the value of the site and its exceptional qualities.”

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Lac Supérieur and Club de la Pointe: A Gem of Serenity

“We’re smack dab in the middle of Quebec’s largest playground combining sports, leisure activities and culture. One can practice just about every activity under the sun!,” stresses Michel Beaulieu. It’s with that mindset that the Club de la Pointe saw the light of day. The offer is entirely in sync with its environment, combining an outdoor experience with infrastructures intended to foster relaxation. “The Club de la Pointe provides, among other things, access to Lac Supérieur for swimming, tennis, a pool, kayaks, a yacht club, petanque, a yoga centre, a fitness room (spinning bikes, elliptical and TRX machines) and fire pits. Come winter, residents can revel in the snowy landscape with cross-country skiing and snowshoeing as well as skating or broomball on an ice ring,” adds Beaulieu. As a reminder, Lac Supérieur is a non-motorized lake, which affords residents unusual tranquility.

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Hassle-Free, Purchase-for-Rental Option

“People are sometimes hesitant to purchase a chalet due to all the maintenance involved versus the amount of time they’ll have to enjoy it. In this case, owners don’t have to mow the lawn on Saturday morning before kayaking or clear the snow on Friday night after skiing. They can relax as they would at a hotel, in an environment and a natural playground that belongs to them, and which generates income,” explains Michel Beaulieu. In fact, SPAHAUS offers owners the possibility of earning a return on their investment with the purchase-for-rental option. The owner blocks off his occupancy dates, after which Côté Nord, Fraternité’s rental branch, handles reservations, reception and cleaning services.

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Partnership with Maison Corbeil

Another noteworthy innovation: Fraternité-sur-Lac and Maison Corbeil announce a partnership that will grant the buyer(s) of one of the 26 SPAHAUS units a whole range of benefits and furniture specifically tailored and selected by the YH2 teams of Fraternité-sur-Lac and Maison Corbeil. “We’re proud of our association with Fraternité, with whom we share not only a community of clients, but also, more importantly, a vision, a number of affinities and a joint commitment to making both quality and luxury accessible,” comments Maison Corbeil co-president Éric Corbeil.

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Toronto, Canada, January 29, 2014 — Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of high-accuracy 3D survey systems and productivity-enhancing workflow software, announces the retirement of Dr. J. Douglas Houston, Vice President Corporate Services. As one of the first employees of the company, Dr. Houston had a personal hand in many of Optech’s early advances in lidar technology, laying the groundwork for the advanced systems Optech delivers today.

While a graduate student at the University of Western Ontario and then at York University under Optech founder and Chairman Dr. Allan Carswell, Doug Houston performed the first lidar measurements ever made in Canada. Doug joined Optech soon after its founding in 1974, and was responsible for many of Optech’s advances and ‘firsts’ in the lidar industry. His work on airborne profilometers eventually led to Optech’s ground-breaking ALTM airborne laser terrain mappers, and he kicked off Optech’s leadership of the airborne lidar bathymetry industry when he helped design and build the LARSEN 500 lidar bathymeter, a predecessor to SHOALS and Optech's industry-leading CZMIL Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar.

"Looking back, it has been a tremendous experience to grow and develop my career just as Optech grew over the last four decades, and I’d like to thank Allan Carswell for the opportunity”, said Doug. “Although we’re welcoming new opportunities and activities as we transition into retirement, my wife Lorraine and I will certainly miss the daily interactions with all of the Optech employees we have met over the years. It was this interaction that made our employment all the more enjoyable."

“We are very thankful for Doug’s four decades of service, and wish him a happy and productive retirement”, said Dr. Carswell. “Not only did he pioneer many of Optech’s earliest accomplishments, Doug also moved into a variety of managerial roles later in his career, giving Optech the solid infrastructure it needed to grow from a small R&D firm to the world’s premier lidar company with hundreds of employees including scientists, engineers, technicians and a solid management team.”

Doug will continue in a part-time consulting role as Glenn Farrington, VP of Operations assumes his responsibilities. Glenn has 16 years of experience with Optech, including seven years as Deputy Director and then General Manager of the Airborne Business Unit. Glenn was promoted to his VP role three years ago. With the solid scientific and engineering foundation established by pioneers like Dr. Houston, and the management expertise brought by the new Teledyne synergies, Optech is remaining true to the legacy of innovation and is poised to transform the industry once again.

About Optech

Optech is the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments. With operations and staff worldwide, Optech offers both standalone and fully integrated lidar and camera solutions for airborne mapping, airborne lidar bathymetry, mobile mapping, terrestrial laser scanning, mine cavity monitoring, and industrial process control, as well as space-proven sensors.

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Proposed Budget Keeps District on Positive Course despite $2M shortfall

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Proposed Budget Keeps District on Positive Course despite $2M Shortfall
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Portland Superintendent Xavier Botana has proposed a BUDGET for fiscal year 2018 that will help the Portland Public Schools take positive steps to realize the district’s educational goals while responding to a potential drop of more than $2 million in state aid to the district.

In December, the Portland Board of Public Education endorsed four goals as part of the district’s new Comprehensive Plan. The goals are:

• Achievement: All Portland Public Schools students will be prepared for college and career and empowered to pursue a productive postsecondary path.

• Whole Student: All Portland Public Schools students will develop the skills, habits and mindsets they need to engage in and contribute to our diverse city and ever-changing world.

• Equity: The Portland Public Schools is vigilant in supporting each and every student's particular path to achieving high standards, rooting out systemic or ongoing inequities.

• People: The Portland Public Schools attracts, supports and retains talented and diverse people who use their strengths to achieve our shared goals.

Botana’s budget proposal retains core programming currently in place, including optimal class sizes and strong program options such as advanced high school coursework, world languages and comprehensive extracurricular options. The proposal also advances new district priorities by allocating resources to advance the district’s equity work through enhanced English Language Learner (ELL) supports, student mentoring programs, professional development in trauma-informed programming, enhanced parent engagement and adult education services. The proposed budget also intensifies the schools’ ability to provide on-site professional learning for teachers through a greater investment in teacher leadership and coaching.

The $107 million budget, which Botana presented to the Portland Board of Public Education on Tuesday, March 7, is a 3.3% increase in expenditures from the FY2017 approved budget.  Most of the increase is due to escalating personnel costs. Implementation of collective bargaining agreements and state required retirement costs alone account for $3.2 million – 94% of the increase.

The increase, combined with the projected loss in state revenue, results in the school portion of Portland’s property tax rate increasing by 67 cents per $1,000 of valuation or 6.5 percent.

The projected revenue loss of more than $2 million is the result of the state Department of Education implementing the Governor’s proposed budget, which incorporates almost 50 changes to the state’s already complex school funding formula.

It is possible that the State Legislature may decide over the next few months to allocate more education aid to school districts. Because of this, Botana’s proposal also projected a different revenue scenario. If the Governor’s budget changes are not implemented, and the existing state funding formula is used, the district’s state aid shortfall would be close to $1 million. Under this scenario, the proposed 3.3% increase in expenditures would result in a 5.2% tax increase.

“We have been working with our Legislative Delegation to ensure that the final budget is more responsive to the needs of our community. We have been bracing for a reduction in the district’s allocation from the state. Portland taxpayers have been increasingly called upon to ensure that the educational needs of our students are met,” Botana said. Between fiscal years 2016 and 2018, the amount of school funding to the district from the state has dropped by $3.4 million or 20%.

Simply rolling over the existing budget to honor the district’s personnel commitments and also add new high school technology would result in a 4.5% increase in expenditures. To keep the budget at the proposed 3.3% increase, staff have proposed $1.2 million in reductions, half of which would be in salaries and benefits and half in contracted services.

Botana stressed that the proposed budget maintains and enhances current programming. “I’ve been impressed with the quality of the educational options available to our students. They have access to amazing staff, excellent programming and great extended learning opportunities,” he said. “I believe this reflects the desire of our community to provide a high quality learning environment for our children.”  He added, “Principals and district leaders have looked carefully at what we need to do to achieve at higher levels. Our focus on supporting our English Language Learners, increasing access to social workers and building our content area capacity are tied to district strategies adopted to meet our goals.”

The proposed budget involved input from school principals and district leaders over the past three months.  The school board, and subsequently the City Council, will review the budget and determine when it is ready to go to the public for approval. The district’s budget schedule calls for the public to vote on the proposed budget on May 9, 2017.

Botana encouraged parents, staff and other community members to get involved in the budget process over the next few months. “We value the voices of our parents, staff and community members to help pass a budget that ensures that all of Portland’s students have access to the high quality education that they deserve and need to be able to succeed,” he said.

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Last few days to win lovely Georgie

Just to let all of my lovely blogging friends, I will be ending Baby Georgie's giveaway this Thursday 12th January 2012, just like Jenny from plushpussycat - I will use, and then will contact the lucky winner to arrange to send Georgie to his new home.  So anyone who hasn't joined yet, just a few days left - so get blogging.
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  1. Thank you for the mention, Debs! I wonder who will be the lucky winner! I'll add the new closing date of your giveaway on my blog now. :-) Jennifer

  2. Hello Deb,
    I'm looking forward to the draw and I'm very excited. I'm up to 17 January on holiday and I can if I have won, only then report. Keeping my fingers crossed, your baby is so cute.
    Hugs from Craftland

  3. Georgie is adorable and I'd love to take part in your draw. Thanks for stopping by my blog. I am adding a link to your blog on there too. Good to meet a fellow Yorkshire woman, Judith x


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Like many other youngsters, a part of my youth was spent on either a football field, baseball diamond or basketball court, and even now when they are very probably long deceased, I am able to recall the names of coaches in both junior and senior high school, am able to remember the excitement and purity of our team play in those years when the euphoria of winning and tears of defeat were so finely balanced, when either one seemed to be the most important thing in our still green lives. There is something so genuine and throat-catching about the play of young athletes, and too often that passion dissipates when it builds to professional sports where everything is “Show me the money!”

Rare to open a collection of poems by a single author and find that as you read from front to back, each successive poem is one that grips from first line to last. Of course, there are many books of poetry that include an impressive number of memorable poems, but for this reader at least, those that hit a homerun, throw a perfect game—those collections are the unexpected find. The winning collection before me now is one called Losing Season by Jack Ridl.

Jack Ridl is the author of eight poetry collections and for thirty-six years taught poetry and literature before his retirement from Hope College in Holland, Michigan. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Denver Quarterly, Chelsea, Free Lunch, The Journal, Passages North, and Poetry East. Ridl lives with his wife along a creek that winds into Lake Michigan.

The American experience of high school sports is the focus of Losing Season, Jack Ridl’s latest collection of poems chronicling a year of hope and defeat on and off the basketball court in a small town. Like a basketball game, the book is divided into four quarters, the poems tracing the season in a cycle that follows the hope, the enthusiasm and disappointment of the team players. At its center is the coach, now in middle age and struggling with the tension between his job, his marriage and the widening gulf between himself and his daughter. The youthful exuberance of daily practices with his high school players serves to remind the fifty-year-old of his own aging.

Coach hurls the ball against the garage door,

grabs it on the rebound. He’s missed ten

in a row. He steps to the line, bounces

the ball twice, hard, and the fans from

thirty years ago send their hopes across

their weary lungs. He listens to the hush

of the home crowd while the taunts

of those from out of town float through

the rafters down across the backboard,

spinning around and around the rim.

He slams the ball one more time, feels

the leather, eyes the hoop, shoots.

The ball caroms off the back of the rim, rolls

across the driveway into the herb garden

his wife planted the year they found this house.

Once he could drop nine out of ten

from the line, hit half his jumps shots

from twenty feet. Coach sits down at

the top of the key, stares, sees himself

bringing it up against the press, faking,

shaking his shoulders, stutter stepping, shifting

the ball left hand to right , then back, then up,

his legs exploding, his wrist firing, the ball

looping up, down, through the hoop, making

the net shimmer, the crowd roar. He gets up,

goes over to the garden, reaches for the ball,

stops and pulls some weeds growing through

the oregano, basil, sage, and thyme.

  1. Isn't it a shame that sports have turned into the money game. That's one reason that I enjoy watching golf on TV. That's not to say that I don't watch football and basketball, but I don't follow the pros in football and basketball. I enjoy the college games.

  2. Good poem. As you said, most of us have experienced the thrill and agony of sports--even if only in neighborhood games in empty lots and courts behind schools. And portraits in literature of aging athletes are everywhere you look. Those portraits work so well because physical changes prompt the loss of things that once seemed so secure. True of sports, true of life.

  3. I have liked Ridl since reading his poem "My Brother - A Star"

    but I hadn't seen this one.

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WYDaily sent an identical questionnaire to each candidate running for the Stonehouse District seat on the James City County Board of Supervisors.

Newcomer Sue Sadler faces incumbent Jim Kennedy in the race. Sadler’s answers are unedited and presented below.

The election takes place Nov. 3.

Read a completed questionnaire from Kennedy here.

1. What do you feel are the three major issues facing the county right now? What are your ideas on how to address those issues?

….First, I feel we need to address the fact that we have just raised taxes without a strategic plan or public facilities master plan, which is in our 2009 award winning comp plan but has never been implemented. As I’ve said before, this is putting the cart before the horse and a very irresponsible way to spend tax payers money. We need to have the plan in place FIRST. Many citizens have told me they certainly do not run their household budgets by spending first and then planning, and asking why the County is doing this.

..Second, our debt is a tremendously important issue. This can directly be attributed to the enormous amount of land purchases. By prioritizing and planning in advance we will be able to address this issue.

….Third, returning civility to the Board room and improving the relationship between the BOS and citizens by being more respectful. The Board works for the citizens, not the other way around.  Also, more accountability through public comment and an online checkbook are important issues to me.

2. Talk about the effects of the real estate tax rate increase on the county and its citizens. If elected, what factors will you consider when setting the property tax rate for fiscal year 2017?

Ive been talking to citizens at their doors since June and I’m hearing a resounding “No” to this recent tax increase. Citizens are telling me that this is placing a burden on them and the talking point that was used by all but one on this current board, that “it’s only about $20 a month for most citizens”, is highly offensive to them. I also hear that they’re “making JCC unaffordable.”

Businesses are telling me that this is burdensome to them as well, adding to the poor business climate that already exists.

Factors that will need to be considered when setting the tax rate will be determined by our current revenue upswing and our essential service needs. Our first responders and schools should always be at the top of the priority list.

3. How do you propose to control growth in the county, particularly in light of concerns about the Primary Service Area’s effectiveness and school capacity?

The current method of controlling growth via the PSA is outdated, very unpredictable and unfair. We have no policy regarding the PSA and I think this is something we should create.

The current practice of governing by exception in unacceptable. Zoning is the preferred method of choice to determine our  growth needs.

4. Stormwater issues were at the forefront of budget discussions earlier this year. County stormwater officials identified several communities that lack the drainage infrastructure needed to deal with runoff. How would you direct the county to manage drainage issues?

Communities like Stonehouse and Colonial Heritage offer extensive stormwater management systems paid for by property owners.  I seems unfair to me, to ask those folks to pay for maintenance and upkeep of their facilities through HOA dues and turn around and tax them again to cover their neighbors who are not doing their fair share to save the Bay.  We are all in it together – so let’s be smart about things and not get ahead of the regulators who are still working on the details of the MS4 program.  Let’s hold VDOT accountable to do their job as well.  JCC will end up spending millions, perhaps even 10s of millions, over the next 20 years.  If we were smart, JCC government should demand that regulators direct their attention to the source of 65% of the nutrients in the lower Bay and find a replacement for using chicken feces as fertilizer on farms located on the Eastern Shore.

5. The James City Service Authority is exploring alternative water sources in response to declining water levels in underground aquifers. One option is a multi-million deal JCSA first signed in 2008 to purchase water from Newport News Waterworks. How would you address the countys water needs in light of a depleting groundwater supply? Would you look to renegotiate the deal James City County has with Newport News Waterworks? Why or why not?

..Water is an extremely important issue and we need to be seriously considering our options, Once again, we need to take a step back and wait for the study to be completed that was directed by a vote in the General Assembly. This won’t be complete until Nov 2016. At this time, I am not in favor of renegotiating any deal with NN.  The Code of Va. states that human consumption takes precedence over anything else so I would like to examine the options of West Point Paper Mill using an alternative water source rather than drinking water for processing. As I’ve said numerous times, we must out people before products!

6. James City County has sought state grants to help fund some of its major transportation initiatives and road projects. Which transportation issues do you think should be priorities for the county, if any?

…The Skiffe’s Creek connector will be extremely important for the residents in Grove, especially by relieving extreme traffic issues. Supervisor Jones has played a major role representing the citizens of JCC on HRPDC-TPO, working on actual solutions to our transportation needs, including Skiffe’s Creek and Longhill Rd.

7. The James City County Board of Supervisors has expressed its opposition to Dominions preference to build a switching station on county land. What is your opinion on Dominions proposed power line crossing the James River and the proposed switching station? Would you vote to grant Dominions rezoning request? Why or why not?

…The Army Corps of Engineers will have the final say, and from what I’ve read in my research, one way or another we will be getting power lines. Apparently they have also determined that the lines will be above the water. I don’t feel it appropriate to comment on an upcoming Board vote.

8. The Board of Supervisors redesigned its public comment period earlier this year to give more consistency to the start time of public hearings. How do you feel about the change? Would you adjust it or keep the new system?

…This new “system” has proven to be a dismal failure. While the initial thought was to help the public hearing section, citizens, applicants  and attorneys are still not provided a predictable meeting.  One case in point, the first meeting in June, applicants and their attorneys, and citizens  sat for hours listening to cases ONLY to have it all deferred because my opponent went on vacation. How is this helpful to anyone?

I understand and agree with the desire to help applicants have their cases heard promptly, especially those paying attorneys, but in doing so the citizens public comment time has been infringed upon. Those who may have a comment on a decision that’s on the agenda may not have the opportunity to do so because of the time limit some on this current board are in favor of. I find this to be unacceptable and would propose changes be made to be more accommodating to the citizens.


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Join friends and staff of JH Weekly for the third annual Best of Jackson Hole party at Q Roadhouse. Enjoy winning food and beer samples, tunes by winning DJ and live musicians, door prizes galore and more. Champagne toast to all the winners at 7:30 p.m. Also check out a sneak preview of the anticipated "Best of JH 2011" issue.

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Weekend Box Office Report: ‘Sin City’ Sputters, ‘If I Stay’ Surprises, ‘Guardians’ Reigns Supreme

You can tell the summer movie season is coming to an end because the weekend box office has stopped being exciting and has starting becoming sad and weird. The past two weeks have seen several major movies bomb, but nothing could have prepared us for ‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For,’ which arrived at the last minute to solidify itself as one of the summer’s biggest disasters.

Film Weekend Per Screen
1 Guardians of the Galaxy $17,631,000 (-29.8) $5,230 $251,884,000
2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $16,800,000 (-41.1) $4,348 $145,610,000
3 If I Stay $16,355,000 $5,626 $16,355,000
4 Let’s Be Cops $11,000,000 (-38.2) $3,503 $45,246,000
5 When the Game Stands Tall $9,000,000
$3,367 $9,000,000
6 The Giver $6,730,000 (-45.3) $2,241 $24,101,000
7 The Expendables 3 $6,600,000 (-58.4) $2,049 $27,519,000
8 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For $6,477,000 $2,238 $6,477,000
9 The Hundred-Foot Journey $5,562,000 (-22.5) $2,861 $32,750,000
10 Into the Storm $3,800,000 (-52.9) $1,600 $38,301,000

Nine years after the original ‘Sin City’ opened to $29 million and went on to become a sizable hit, the sequel opened in eighth place with a truly pathetic $6 million. It’ll stick around in theaters until next weekend, but its time in the top 10 most likely ends here. There’s no coming back from this: ‘Sin City’ as a franchise is deader than dead and director Robert Rodriguez is in trouble. You can’t have this and ‘Machete Kills’ arrive within a year of each other and think everything is going to be okay. Yikes.

But it wasn’t a completely terrible weekend for new releases. Chloe Moretz’s weepy ‘If I Stay‘ opened in third place to a solid $16 million, putting it within spitting distance of the top two champions. Although it failed to replicate the surprise success of the similarly cry-happy ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ this film is already well on its way to a profit. Expect to see a lot more movies about sad teens in the next few years.

The third and final of the weekend’s new releases, ‘When the Game Stands Tall,’ opened in fifth place with $9 million. That’s not an amazing number, but the film itself didn’t cost much and it didn’t have much of a marketing campaign. It’s a tiny, flimsy victory, but at least it’s not a disaster.

However, the top two slots still belonged to the movies that have been dominating the box office for the past month. With its weekend take of $17 million, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy‘ retook the number one spot, became the highest grossing film of the summer and is only a few days away from being the highest grossing film of 2014 so far. This is a huge, huge victory for Marvel Studios, who have officially proven that they can sell anything.

Speaking of huge victories, ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘ continued to perform well in second place, grossing $16 million for a $145 million total. Although $200 million is probably out of the question, this is a strong gross that certainly exceeded the expectations of its makers. Everyone is happy with this one.

In fourth place, ‘Let’s Be Cops‘ took a surprisingly small drop, grossing $11 million for a $45 million total. It’s not going to be a huge hit, but it’s certainly going to make a dent on its way out.

The bottom five is, well, just a little sad this week. In addition to ‘Sin City,’ we have ‘The Giver‘ limping to $24 million, ‘The Expendables 3‘ plummeting from second place to seventh and ‘Into the Storm‘ still failing to impress. The lone bright spot is ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey,’ which took a negligible drop and continued down the road to sleeper hit status, attracting everyone who’s eagerly awaiting that sequel to ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.’

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Controversies in Software Testing

My article "Controversies in Software Testing" was published in the July Issue of the Testing Planet.

The issue is available now to anyone with a print subscription; the PDF will be available as a free download later in July.

It's a ground-breaking issue -- the first three articles are written by Markus Gaertner, Michael Larsen, and me, all members of the Miagi-Do School of Software Testing.

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 From the 1930s through the 1970s the Aerolux Light Corporation made a series of novelty light bulbs that featured filaments in the form of tiny sculptures. Along with animals and other subjects, flowers were popular.

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Even if you’re Dana Delany, star of hit TV shows such as “China Beach” and “Desperate Housewives,” sometimes you land a role by default.

She recently got the call that an actress had to drop out of the cast of the American Repertory Theater’s upcoming production of “The Night of the Iguana.” Was Delany interested in the role?

“I made my decision and I was on a plane the very next day,” she says, chatting on the phone during a rehearsal break in Cambridge.

One big reason she jumped at the opportunity: James Earl Jones. He anchors this production, which runs Feb. 18 to March 18 at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge. But, really, it was the entire cast that got her attention: Elizabeth Ashley, Bill Heck, Amanda Plummer and others.

“With this cast,” says Delany, “who wouldn’t want to do this play?”

Emotions also played a part in Delany’s decision.

“I like to do things that scare me,” says the actress, who knows all about the no-net tightrope act that is live theater. “And this scares me.”

Her final reason for saying “yes”? Her appreciation for a man she’s never met: Tennessee Williams.

“I’ve never performed in a play by Tennessee Williams,” says the actress, whose stage credits include “Translations” and “Dinner With Friends.” “I always wanted to, so when this opportunity came up, I was thrilled.”

“Night of the Iguana” occupies a unique place in the Williams canon. People recognize the title, but the play is rarely produced. Williams wrote it in 1961, long after the hit parade of “The Glass Menagerie” (1944), “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947) and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1955). Soon after writing “Night of the Iguana,” Williams lost his fastball, his creativity dulled by alcohol and bouts of depression. “Iguana” would be the last play of distinction that he ever wrote.

“It feels like a play about your twilight years,” says Delany. “It has this undercurrent of sadness and loss. And it’s written with the poetry of an older person. It’s more spare than some of Williams’ earlier works.”

Williams set the play in the 1940s, in a cheap hotel on the edge of a Mexican jungle, a point of intersection for an unlikely assortment of strangers. Shannon (Heck) is a tour guide and former minister, caught in a sexual scandal. Guests also include the artist Hannah (Plummer) and her grandfather (Jones). Delany plays Maxine, the hotel manager. Attracted to Shannon, she’s kind of a classic Tennessee Williams female.

“Both Hannah and Maxine are Tennessee Williams archetypes,” says Delany, “but I also think they’re more mature than some of his other females.”

Delany believes that, in the end, “Iguana” is about forgiveness.

“As you get older,” she says, “you realize you really need to forgive and accept.”

There wasn’t much forgiving or accepting on the set of “Desperate Housewives,” if you believed the gossip magazines of the day. But Delany says she never saw any of that during her tenure. She was a later addition to the cast, joining in 2007, and she says that, by then, the on-set drama had subsided.

It wasn’t her first featured role on a hit TV show. She burst onto the scene in 1988, playing a Vietnam War nurse in the acclaimed and beloved series, “China Beach.” It’s hard to believe now, but at the time, ABC balked at the choice of Delany in the starring role: The studio thought she wasn’t pretty enough.

“Yup, that’s true,” says Delany, and then she laughs. And she who laughs last, laughs the hardest: Three years after ABC’s odd assessment of Delany, People magazine declared the actress to be one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.

Delany has forged a formidable career, unbowed by an industry that infamously rewards youth, especially in women. In addition to “China Beach” and “Desperate Housewives,” Delany, a two-time Emmy-winner, performed in the ABC drama “Body of Proof” and a long list of films, including “Housesitter.”

“I just keep going,” she says.

Delany, 60, isn’t done learning. That’s why she pays so much attention to James Earl Jones during the “Iguana” rehearsals.

“He’s just so present and committed,” she says. “An actor of his stature, and he never stops working at it. You can tell he still loves it.”

With a cast that includes Jones, Ashley, Delany and others, this sure looks like a production that’s Broadway-bound.

Delany recognizes that the cast has a Broadway pedigree, but she’s not getting ahead of herself.

“With this caliber of cast, you would wonder about [a Broadway run],” she admits. “But we’re just taking this one step at a time.”

And forget Broadway for now; she’s happy to be back on Brattle Street. Raised in Connecticut, she still considers herself a New Englander.

“These are my people!” she declares with a laugh.

She has fond memories of her time at Phillips Academy in Andover, where she remembers sneaking off campus with friends to come to Boston and Cambridge for culture and fun.

She currently splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.

“But as I get older, I find myself spending more and more time in New York,” she says. “I just think it’s more interesting than Los Angeles now. I keep thinking I’ll end up being one of those cranky old ladies you see on the streets of New York. I love those ladies.”

“The Night of the Iguana”

WHEN: Feb. 18-March 18

WHERE: Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge

TICKETS: Start at $25

INFO: 617-547-8300; http://americanrepertorytheater.org/


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What does it take to die with dignity? If one looks at the website of the “Death with Dignity National Center” and “Death with Dignity Political Fund,” one will assume that a death with dignity involves certain standard components, among them: The absence of debilitating pain, the ability to care for one’s personal needs, and the ability to avoid placing a financial and/or emotional burden on family and friends.

I believe that euthanasia laws are wrongheaded for a variety of reasons, but that is not my concern here. As a pastor and a former Hospice Spiritual Care Coordinator, I’m bothered by the idea that a person’s death will lack dignity unless she short-circuits the dying process by artificial means. The implication is that people who die in great pain and those who live without the ability to handle their personal care have lost their dignity.

I think of a red-headed kid named Farmer in our school. He was a few years older than me. He went off to Vietnam and died there, probably in the jungle somewhere, in pain and gasping for breath. They sent his body home in a box. But is anyone going to say that he died without dignity?

Over the years, I have been with many people during the last few hours of their lives on earth. I’ve prayed for them in the struggle. Occasionally I’ve closed their eyes when they’ve died. There was the mother and grandmother, surrounded by family and friends, who whispered her love to all while she still could. An hour or so later, she died.

There was my friend who died in the hospital, with her children and grandchildren around her bed. She was restless and agitated when I arrived. I encouraged her family, as I often have done, to tell stories about how they grew up, especially stories about their mom and grandma. It was a beautiful thing to see: The family laughing, crying, sharing one story after another for perhaps 40 minutes. I kept looking at my friend. I saw her quiet down. Her breathing became regular, and then softer. She slipped into eternity in the presence of her family, to the accompaniment of their stories of love.

Then there was the man who, when I first met him, treated me like the harbinger of death. But in time he came to accept me and to accept the fact of death’s approach. He began to laugh again. He told friends how he’d overcome his fears. He died in his own home, surrounded by the people who loved and cared for him, in peace.

I think of others. The man who died from complications related to the AIDS virus. The man who smoked a filter-less cigarette, maybe an inch long, around his oxygen hose. Occasionally, the cigarette would flare, and I thought we were all going to meet our Maker. But he listened attentively to the story of God’s love and died a day or two later in peace.

There was my own dad: A two-fisted Marine who never backed down from a fight, but couldn’t beat the lung cancer that attacked him. After coming to faith, he had become gentler and kinder, but he remained as strong as ever. When, a few days before he died, I asked him if he was afraid, he answered (in words I’d heard many times growing up): “I can do this standing on my head.”

There was my own mother, who lingered in her final illness. I asked God to spare her, but her trial continued. And yet she never lost faith or hope. Nor did she lose her sense of humor. She was joking with the Hospice nurse on the day she died.

Don’t tell me these people died without dignity. They lived with courage and died in ways that evoked respect and assured their families of their love. Though I disagree with those who support physician-assisted suicide, I understand their reasons and respect their opinions. But please call it what it is, not by some euphemism that implies that these people, and millions like them, had no dignity when they died.

— Shayne Looper is the pastor of Lockwood Community Church in Branch County. Read more at shaynelooper.com.


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All of these faces are handmade by Diane Briegleb.  I have used her faces for years in my projects and they are as beautiful as her!

Some are made out of clay and some are made out of terra-cotta, some of the faces she paints and some she just uses a glaze or leaves plain.

All of the sizes are approximate but close.


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Sunday, December 4, 2011

In My Mailbox: Week 48

Borrowed from the library:

Flawless by Lara Chapman

Sarah Burke is just about perfect. She's got killer blue eyes, gorgeous blond hair, and impeccable grades. There's just one tiny-all right, enormous-flaw: her nose. But even that's not so bad. Sarah's got the best best friend and big goals for print journalism fame.

On the first day of senior year, Rock Conway walks into her journalism class and, well, rocks her world. Problem is, her best friend, Kristen, falls for him too. And when Rock and Kristen stand together, it's like Barbie and Ken come to life. So when Kristen begs Sarah to help her nab Rock, Sarah does the only thing a best friend can do-she agrees. For someone so smart, what was she thinking?

This hip retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac is filled with hilariously misguided matchmaking, sweet romance, and a gentle reminder that we should all embrace our flaws.

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Beatrice "Tris" Prior has reached the fateful age of sixteen, the stage at which teenagers in Veronica Roth's dystopian Chicago must select which of five factions to join for life. Each faction represents a virtue: Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite. To the surprise of herself and her selfless Abnegation family, she chooses Dauntless, the path of courage. Her choice exposes her to the demanding, violent initiation rites of this group, but it also threatens to expose a personal secret that could place her in mortal danger. Veronica Roth's young adult Divergent trilogy launches with a captivating adventure about love and loyalty playing out under most extreme circumstances.

5 kommentarer:

Jessica@a GREAT read said...

Nice! See these around lately, but still haven't read them myself! Hope you like em!

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YA Book Queen said...

Yay for Divergent! Love that book, :D

Happy reading, Sara!

-k said...

Divergent! Finally someone else who has yet to read it! Hopefully you enjoy it as all the reviews say a person should.
As for Flawless, I wish I had gotten it from the library instead of buying it. But, to be fair, I also wasn't in the mood for the story at the time. I really need to give it another try.
Enjoy both books from this week and happy reading!

Lily Child said...

Divergent is awesome! Happy reading! :)

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