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As developers we get often asked to write more, better and earlier documentation.

While it is very important and useful, to have the right documentation when needed and more often than not we are lacking important documentation, it is also important to avoid writing too much documentation.

This applies to all levels of documentation, including comments in the code (javadoc, scaladoc, rubydoc, perldoc,… as well as inline comments), design documentation, Wiki/Confluence, external documents.

Some projects measure the quantity of documentation, for example. Or the coverage of javadoc. And people start writing automatically generated or trivial comments on getters and setters. While there can be a comment documenting the attribute placed with the getter instead of the attribute itself, this is usually a bad idea, because it just clutters the code with no gain at all. Commenting should be limited to the non-obvious. And code should be written in such a way, that there is not more non-obvious than necessary. So code that is readable and understandable with few comments is actually a better goal.

For APIs we might want some more documentation. But we should keep it as close to the code as possible and use tools like swagger or scripts to create API-documentation from the code or code and documentation from the API-specification. This has a better chance of staying up to date, while hand maintained documentation always tends to get outdated over the time.

It is good to describe the overall working of the system. But details should be looked up in the code, where that is a viable option.

It is important to describe, how to get started. And even better, if getting started is easy because of automation, scripts or tools that do it in a few, relatively easy steps. This is a goal that everybody seems to have, but nobody seems to succeed with.

It is important to describe, how certain problems are solved in the team or have been solved, in terms of how it should be done to conform with other solutions or how it can successfully done. Guidelines are probably a good idea. Even better, if they can reference as much as possible well established guidelines published in the internet and just describe the exceptions or details about which the public guidelines do not make a decision, but that should be done coherently within the project.

And the business side of the software should of course be described also in documentation.

The agile manifesto recommends: „Working software over comprehensive documentation“.
But this should not stop us from writing documentation that really helps us.

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You can enter arbitrary Unicode characters (more precisely code points) in X11 on Linux, if you know their Hex-Code:

  • Press Shift-Ctrl (keep them pressed)
  • Press also the letter u
  • Release the Ctrl-Key
  • Release the u-key
  • Keep the Shift-key pressed
  • Enter the Hex-Code of the Code point with the number of hex digits needed
  • Release the shift key

Let’s try with the Cyrillic Alphabet, more precisely with its Unicode Block:

  • Ѐ U+0400
  • Ё U+0401
  • Ђ U+0402
  • Љ U+0409
  • А U+0410
  • Б U+0411
  • В U+0412
  • Г U+0413
  • Д U+0414

Not very fast, but it works quite well for a few characters. Just open the table in one window and use this key sequence in another one.

For frequently used characters it is a good idea to remap the keyboard with xmodmap.

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Orthodox Christmas in some countries, for example in Ukraine is on 7th of January.
So to all readers, who have Christmas on 7th of January:

С Рождеством! — Hyvää Joulua! — καλά Χριστούγεννα! — Buon Natale! — Prettige Kerstdagen! — З Рiздвом Христовим! — Merry Christmas! — Срећан Божић! — God Jul! — ¡Feliz Navidad! — ميلاد مجيد — クリスマスおめでとう ; メリークリスマス — Natale hilare! — Joyeux Noël! — God Jul! — Frohe Weihnachten! — Crăciun fericit! — Feliĉan Kristnaskon!

I created the message and the random ordering using Perl and the Schwartzian transform:

use Math::Random::Secure qw(irand);
my @list = ( "Prettige Kerstdagen!",
          "God Jul!",
          "Crăciun fericit!",
          "クリスマスおめでとう ; メリークリスマス",
          "God Jul!",
          "Feliĉan Kristnaskon!",
          "Hyvää Joulua!",
          "ميلاد مجيد",
          "Срећан Божић!",
          "καλά Χριστούγεννα!",
          "З Рiздвом Христовим!",
          "Natale hilare!",
          "Buon Natale!",
          "Joyeux Noël!",
          "Frohe Weihnachten!",
          "С Рождеством!",
          "Merry Christmas!",
          "¡Feliz Navidad!" );
my @shuffled = map{ $_->[0] }
               sort {$a->[1] <=> $b->[1]}
               map { [ $_, irand() ] }
print join(" — ", @shuffled);

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How to draw lines, circles and other curves

These ideas were developed more than 30 years without knowing that they were already known at that time…

Today the graphics cards can easily do things like this in very little time. And today’s CPUs are of course really good at multiplying. So this has lost a lot of its immediate relevance, but it is a fun topic and why not have some fun…

Let us assume we have a two dimensional coordinate system and a visible area that goes from x_{\min} to x_{\max} and y_{\min} to y_{\max}. Coordinates are discrete.

In this world we can easily measure an angle against a (directed) line parallel to the x-axis, for example up to an accuracy of 45^\circ=\frac{\pi}{4}:

  • y=0 \wedge x > 0 \implies \alpha = 0 (= 0^\circ)
  • 0 < y < x \implies 0 < \alpha < \frac{\pi}{4}(=45^\circ)
  • 0 < y = x \implies \alpha = \frac{\pi}{4}
  • 0 < x < y \implies \frac{\pi}{4} < \alpha < \frac{\pi}{2}(=90^\circ)
  • x = 0 \land y > 0\implies \alpha = \frac{\pi}{2}
  • x < 0 \land y > 0 \land |x| < |y|\implies \frac{\pi}{2} < \alpha < \frac{3\pi}{4}(=135^\circ)
  • x < 0 \land y > 0 \land -x = y\implies \alpha = \frac{3\pi}{4}(=135^\circ)

So let us assume we have a curve that is described by a polynomial function in two variables x and y, like this:

    \[f(x, y) = \sum_{j=0}^m\sum_{k=0}^n a_{j,k}x^jy^k = 0\]

We have to apply some math to understand that the curve behaves nicely in the sense that it does not behave to chaotic in scales that are below our accuracy, that it is connected etc. We might possibly scale and move it a bit by substituting something like c_1u+c_2 for x and c_3v+c_4 for y.

For example we may think of

  • line: f(x,y)=ax+by+c
  • circle: f(x, y)=x^2+y^2-r^2
  • eclipse: f(x, y)=\frac{x^2}{a^2}+\frac{y^2}{b^2}-1

We can assume our drawing is done with something like a king of chess. We need to find a starting point that is accurately on the curve or at least as accurately as possible. You could use knights or other chess figures or even fictive chess figures..

Now we have a starting point (x_0, y_0) which lies ideally exactly on the curve. We have a deviation from the curve, which is f(x_0, y_0)=d_0. So we have f(x_n, y_n)=d_n. Than we move to x_{n+1}=x_n + s and y_{n+1}=y_n+t with s, t = \{-1, 0, 1\}. Often only two or three combinations of (s, t) need to be considered. When calculating d_{n+1} from d_n for the different variants, it shows that for calculating d_{n+1}-d_n the difference becomes a polynomial with lower degree, because the highest terms cancel out. So drawing a line between two points or a circle with a given radius around a given point or an ellipse or a parabola or a hyperbola can be drawn without any multiplications… And powers of n-th powers of x can always be calculated with additions and subtractions only from the previous x-values, by using successive differences:
These become constant for l=n, just as the lth derivatives, so by using this triangle, successive powers can be calculated with some preparational work using just additions.
It was quite natural to program these in assembly language, even in 8-bit assembly languages that are primitive by today’s standards. And it was possible to draw such figures reasonably fast with only one MHz (yes, not GHz).

We don’t need this stuff any more. Usually the graphics card is much better than anything we can with reasonable effort program. Usually the performance is sufficient when we just program in high level languages and use standard libraries.

But occasionally situations occur where we need to think about how to get the performance we need:
Make it work,
make it right,
make it fast,
but don’t stop after the first of those.

It is important that we choose our steps wisely and use adequate methods to solve our problem. Please understand this article as a fun issue about how we could write software some decades ago, but also as an inspiration to actually look into bits and bytes when it is really helping to get the necessary performance without defeating the maintainability of the software.

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  1. Hi Tux, I keep forgetting to mention to you to check out two friends of mine -Chris and Wes their web site is http://www.feed a These two guys are hysterically funny, they live in NJ now but have lived in NYC. It is a food blog done by both of them with videos and great stories and recipes. I think you and Russell will fall in love with them as I have. Check them out! Your Florida Bud always, Cheryl.

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  2. Loved your grandmothers Apple german cake. The taste was excellent except mine did not get as high as yours. I used a 9×13 pan. Happy to have stumbled on to your website. I was a brooklynite and had lived there for the first 29 years of my life. I lived in the Marine Park area. I now live in Myrtle Beach SC. Can’t wait to try some of your other recipes. Thank you. Prudence

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When you start your fat-loss program the first thing you want to do is set some goals for yourself. This could be a certain body fat % to get down to, having visible abs, etc. Once you have that goal in mind you will need to set up a program around resistance training, cardio and nutrition.

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Make sure you limit your cardio sessions to a few times per week and whatever you do don’t perform them in place of resistance training. Remember – training with free weights is top priority.

Nutrition –  without a doubt most important component of a fat-loss program. Have you heard the expression “abs are made in the kitchen?” Well, it’s true. It doesn’t matter how strong your training program is or how much cardio you perform – if your diet sucks you simply won’t get anywhere.

Get a notepad and write down everything you eat – record how many calories it contains along with the protein, carb and fat content.

Make sure you are following your calorie target closely. Every week you should be weighing yourself to see how you are progressing – if your weight doesn’t go down for several weeks in a row then you’ll want to lower the calories a bit. So which kinds of foods should you be eating?

Fruits, vegetables (particularly green, leafy ones), cottage cheese, sugar-free greek yogurt, whole grain bread/pasta and lean proteins like chicken and whey.

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Why Do So Few People Have 6-Pack Abs?

First of all, junk food is very popular and affordable. Walk through any grocery store and it’s the processed foods loaded with sugar that are the most affordable. Add to that the fact that people drive everywhere with minimal walking or biking and you have the perfect store for stomach fat.

It can be difficult to get to the gym, particularly if you work full time, study and have family obligations. Often we tend to let our own health drop to lowest priority and can easily go weeks without getting any exercise. That needs to change now if you want to have a great physique!

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Science has come a long way and some supplement companies are taking advantage of that by creating effective fat burning supplements that actually work. When these products first came out they had a bad reputation and not  without  a reason.

Most of the old fat burners flat out didn’t work.

When the right ingredients are put together in the right proportions and consumed together it maximizes the natural fat burning effects in the body without harming your overall health.

Check out our complete guide on what ingredients to look for in a fat burner.

These products are not magic pills that are going to get you ripped without doing anything.

If you are eating junk food day in and day out you and consuming a fat burner you will not get the results you are hoping for. So make sure you eat healthy and train hard before even thinking about taking in a fat burning supplement.

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     * LocalSuite
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    LocalSuite is a PHP Front/Backend for LocalShops by Jonbas (Maintained by Cereal).
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    Fixing bugs that are found.
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MANILA – Public school teachers stormed the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) head office in Manila on Oct. 19, Friday to protest the granting of P10.448 million ($242,416) in bonuses to its board of directors.

The teachers slammed the Governance Commission for Government Owned or Controlled Corporations (GCG) for reportedly granting bonuses to the GSIS board of directors.

The teachers lamented that while the executives of Government Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCC) are seemingly trying to outdo each other in giving the highest perks, teachers are suffering from low wages and their benefits are also being reduced.

It was first reported that the executives of the Social Security System (SSS) have received a hefty bonus last year. PhilHealth officials were also reported to have received millions of pesos in bonuses. According to news reports, the GCG approved the granting of bonuses to 19 more GOCCs.

According to Benjie Valbuena, chairman of Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT), teachers make-up one-third of GSIS’s 1.6 million members whose income is way below the cost of living allowance.

The teachers’ group also assailed President Benigno S. Aquino III’s issuance of Executive Order No. 24 which made GSIS President and General Manager Robert G. Vergara the “highest paid government executive for 2012.”

Valbuena said, Vergara was reported to have received a total of P16.36 million ($379,587.92) in salaries in 2012 – almost double the P8.32 ($193,042.26) million he received in 2011, according to the 2012 Report on the Salaries and Allowances (ROSA) posted by the Commission on Audit.

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“It’s ironic that hundreds of thousands of teachers and government employees, who are members of GSIS, receive meager salaries. Despite this, they make sure that they pay their monthly contributions to the GSIS. GSIS executives, on the other hand, continue to take pleasure from raking in millions of pesos in salaries and benefits,��� Valbuena said.

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Join us this Sunday, the 28th November 2010 from 12pm at The G-Spot for a Bring ‘n Braai, CD Launch and a live broadcast with Roger Lewis, Victor Davids and Wayne Mckay.

Besides live entertainment organised by the G Spot Leisure Lounge and The Western Cape Musician’s Organisation (WCMA), the event will also see the launch of Bush Radio’s first popular music compilation CD called Hometown Hits put together with Cape Town Sound.

A few of the artists on the compilation

The CD features various artists who have been popular on 89.5FM. A few of the artists on the 19 track compilation are: Blackkurrant, Byron Clarke, Chad Saaiman, Alistair Izobell, Keeno Lee, The Boyz, Edith, Richard Ceasar, Tim Moloi, Thabo Mdluli, McCoy Mrubata and Shaz & B etc.

The song “Hometown” by Grant Perez featuring St. Emmo is exclusively available on this CD.

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The CD will also be available at major music stores, so get your copy for Christmas.

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    I am looking to purchase this CD or MP3 download… (Hometown Hits) Is it available in the states or as a download?

  3. Cristian Says:

    I love Bush Radio, but find hard to find the great music you play elsewhere. Any other compilations in 2012 or rankings I could use? Thanks!

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      we are preparing a chart show – please stay tuned

      • Cristian Says:

        Thanks for the quick update, I am from overseas and currently live in Cape Town…. Congratulations for the radio, I recommend to all my friends. Great music but with no reference is hard to buy and support some of these great musicians,

        All the best,

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How to Make a Quick and Easy Professional Video for LinkedIn

Here's exactly what you need for creating remarkable professional video content for LinkedIn

January 25, 2018

LinkedIn Video

Editor's Note: The post originally appeared on the LinkedIn Sales and Marketing Solutions EMEA blog.

I get this question every day, so I thought I would share a quick and easy setup for shooting good quality video and audio to help share your message with LinkedIn's native video offering.

I've parlayed my concert photography skillset to video over the past couple of years, and I can tell you that once you get the right gear along with a mindset for video, it's remarkably easy to create a good quality video on the fly. The goal is to create a video that will cut through the current wave of shakey, vertical (why, oh why vertical???) video that is many times accompanied by equally bad audio.

With just a few simple fairly inexpensive tools, you can help your message break through the noise. This kit below will cost you around £100, but it's worth it. Think of it as an investment into your portable video studio and don't forget to share the love with the office so that they can leverage this as well for video consistency.

Here's what you need to make a quick video:

Mini Tripod for Smart Phone – This is pretty simple. Don't hold your phone; camera shake is incredibly annoying. A simple mini tripod will keep your shot stable.  Rhodesy RT-01 Octopus Style Portable Tripod Stand Holder for iPhone, Any Smartphone, Camera with Universal Clip (£9.99)

Simple Lav Mic –  I recommend the Rode Smartlav+ Lavalier Microphone - There is a native app for the iPhone but not for Android. I'm not a fan of iPhone and prefer Android, so the workaround is to download the RecForge II app from Google Play. It works flawlessly with this mic and sounds fantastic. (I always recommend recording audio separately and syncing in post, but that's for the next level of video which I will post about next) (£48.95)

LED Light – Light is your best friend when shooting a video. Don't get caught with a bad light source, carry your own. I recommend the Commlite CM-L50BII Dimmable 50 LED Ultra High Power Panel Camera LED video light, Universal Mini camera Light (£24.00) The great thing about this LED light is that it also works with DSLR cameras so you can take it with you when you upgrade later.

Remote Shutter Release – This is ESSENTIAL if you are a one-man-band recording your video. Not only will this cut out any need for editing (that is if you can do it in one take) but it's also great for interviews on the fly. I recommend the CamKix Wireless Bluetooth Camera Shutter Remote Control for Smartphones (£9.99)

Editing is Storytelling

Video editing has come a long way and is now easier than ever. As a good marketer, it's vital that you learn basic video editing as soon as humanly possible. The good news is that there is a slew of great software/ apps to help you, and they are super easy to learn, but you will have to commit some time to learning the basics of editing. Once you get the basics down, you can start to get creative and make your videos stand out even further with edits that enhance the message/ story you are telling. I can tell you from experience that once you get the hang of it, it becomes addicting.

I recommend starting out by downloading a free trial of Camtasia and watch the tutorials. No need to go crazy but watch the getting started and the editing basics. The good thing here is that once you learn this interface and you decide to upgrade to Adobe Premiere or FinalCut, the basic workflows are similar so you can continue to grow and expand your editing capabilities if you decide you need more robust features. There are several free tutorials on the TechSmith website, or you can take it up a notch and check out the offerings from LinkedIn Learning.

Thoughts on 4K for Business

4K video (and even 6K) is the new shiny object for videographers but don't get too far ahead of yourself. Even the iPhone X can shoot 4K now, but is it worth it? In my opinion, no. There are only one or two phones on the market at the moment that has a screen capable of playing 4K. Even major content producers like Netflix and Amazon are struggling to produce enough 4K video to make it worthwhile. For the time being, focus on learning the basics of video, and by the time 4K becomes mainstream, you'll be ready to take full advantage.

Bonus Tip for Editing

If you really want to take your video production skills up a notch, add in some B-roll footage and music. Stock B-roll footage can add another dimension to your storytelling and help break up the corporate talking head. Music can add drama and evoke emotion and it's super easy to drop in during editing. I recommend and Both of these are subscription based with unlimited downloads of stock video footage and one hell of a collection of unlimited audio downloads. Simply type in your keywords or choose the mood you are trying to convey, download the clips and drop them into the editor.

I realize the irony of posting a text article about video production, but this is simply a list of the equipment I started off using and still use on occasion. I'm focusing on shooting with my DSLR and recording audio on the Zoom HN4 in 2018, so stay tuned for my latest and greatest setup as I will post about the next level shortly. Remember that there is no right or wrong way to shoot a video, this is the best setup I've found after TONS of research on how to do a quick, professional video on the fly.

Have fun shooting and make a better video than you did yesterday.

And for more quick tips and tricks on how you can get started with B2B video, subscribe to the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions blog.


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LinkedIn Talent Connect Wraps Up with Recruiting Awards and some “Magic”

October 19, 2011

Talent Connect is back in Las Vegas this October 10-12, 2012!

Earvin “Magic” Johnson inspired and engaged a packed house during the final morning keynote at Talent Connect, fist-bumping and hugging attendees and sporting a pair of LinkedIn shades.  The former NBA star turned entrepreneur shared his tips for success, including persistence, hard work, building your personal brand – and his most important word of advice for your business:  running a SWOT analysis twice a year.  On a motivational note, Magic says, "Losers lose.  Winners win.  You have to decide which one you want to be."

Next up was a keynote panel on Web 3.0, the New Data Opportunity.  Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO at O’Reilly Ventures, Michael Chui, Senior Fellow at McKinsey, and LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman sat down with moderator Josh Bersin of Bersin & Associates to talk about how companies and individuals can leverage the incredible amount of data out there waiting to be mined.  “The data is a competitive edge,” said Reid Hoffman, and Tim O’Reilly followed with, “Magic expanded your heart, we want to expand your thinking.” With several references to the popular book Moneyball, panelists agreed that the real value lies not just in the data, but how you deploy it.

And congratulations to the 2011 Recruiting Awards winnersAngie White of hhgregg, the winner of the 2011 Talent Hunter award, Kari Cohen and the Renaissance Financial recruiting team for being selected as the 2011 Recruiting Organization of the Year, and Stacy Van Meter of Deluxe Corporation, winner of the 2011 Recruiting Innovation Award.

Some of the final day’s session highlights:

In a session focused on social recruiting for diversity and inclusion, a panel of talent acquisition leaders from FedEx, the IRS, The Nature Conservancy, and Lawrence Livermore Lab spoke to the need for a diverse group of people to solve critical problems.  Putting a face on diversity is not only about focusing on black and white, but rather on all types of backgrounds and bringing it to your organization. Use Groups, use discussions, and your LinkedIn Career Page to promote and put your organization/company in the best light, so potential candidates can see what you can bring to them.

Johanna Danaher of Pfizer shared a case study on how they conducted a recruitment brand makeover.  After Pfizer had been plagued by social stigma of the healthcare and medicine industry, it made recreating its brand presence a top priority.  Johanna outlined the steps Pfizer took:  first assessing how its clients viewed the existing brand, defining what they wanted to achieve in a brand makeover and what specific qualities the brand should have, validating that the new brand is being well-received, and building on that momentum to propel the message successfully.

William Uranga of TiVo and Florence Thinh-Klein of Zynga shared insights into involving every employee in talent acquisition by rewarding not only good recruiting results, but also good recruiting behavior, and utilizing employees to create sound bites and stories to promote their recruiting hiring efforts. They are your storytellers, after all.   A session on turbo-charging referral programs stressed that it’s better to think of an employee referral program as marketing or customer service for your employees.  And for fans of LinkedIn Groups, a panel moderated by LinkedIn’s head of content products Ryan Roslansky and featuring Allison Kruse of Walgreens and Danny Ollier of PepsiCo suggested that groups should be treated as a living organism, constantly growing with new information and content, and that Groups can even be used to break down silos in your company, creating conversations with other departments and letting them leverage each others’ expertise.

And finally, in a session entitled “LinkedIn on LinkedIn,” global director of recruiting Brendan Browne, senior recruiter Ed Campana, and head of employment brand Meg Garlinghouse shared some best practices on working effectively on the LinkedIn platform.  Ed showed how recruiters can earn credibility with hiring managers by illustrating the data behind their searches.  While hiring managers make their candidate demands known, it can be helpful to educate the hiring manager on “supply side” of the equation.  Meg showed how LinkedIn brightens up the corporate culture with a once-a-month InDay where employees work outside the scope of their day-to-day, and to build a successful brand, she emphasizes utilizing the stories of your employees in video clips and profiles.  A real brand is built on people, not buzzwords and company hype.

That wraps up Talent Connect 2011!

It was a privilege putting together this conference for our customers. We really look forward to sharing more of the best practices that we picked up during these amazing 2.5 days.

Stay tuned, we will soon:

  • Host follow up discussions in the LinkedIn Talent Connect Group (for our corporate customers and conference attendees only)
  • Announce webcasts on this blog, re-playing some of the highly-rated sessions of Talent Connect

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    Little Caesars Pizza, known for its HOT-N-READY® pizza and famed Crazy Bread®, is the largest carryout-only pizza chain in the world with locations in all 50 states and 18 countries and territories worldwide. Named “Best Value in America” for the eighth year in a row, Little Caesars products are made with quality ingredients, such as fresh, never frozen, mozzarella and Muenster cheese, dough made fresh daily in every store and sauce made from farm fresh crushed tomatoes. Little Caesars menu consists of pizza, breadsticks, chicken wings and soft drinks.
    This Little Caesars is an independently owned and operated franchise that is committed to helping the local community through providing a place for flexible employment and supporting philanthropic initiatives.

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With a unique musical approach that mixes dozens of tiny samples and live instrumentation into a dynamic blend that sits somewhere between moody laid-back and swirling upbeat, Belgium-based producer/DJ Poldoore has quietly established himself as a mainstay in the beat scene. The USA-raised Belgian resident made his first mark on the music scene in 2013 with his debut album ‘The Day Off’. That same year he embarked on his first European tour, turning heads at major festivals such as Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Festival, Dour Festival and Tomorrowland, earning him a widespread and loyal fanbase.

His follow-up album ‘The Day After’ saw the daylight in 2016, enjoying similar success and confirming Poldoore’s organic, contagious sound. Since then, he has crafted several singles for international labels (Chinese Man Records, Nowadays Records, LowTemp, Darker Than Wax,…), a handful of EP’s and numerous remixes for established artists including Talib Kweli, Gramatik, Selah Sue, Wax Tailor and Declaime. Next to that he also composed the soundtrack for The Journey, a crowd-sourced nature shortfilm by Sony, in close collaboration with award-winning director and videographer Mateo Willis (Frozen Planet, Planet Earth).

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Tree Felling Petersfield

Tree Felling Petersfield

Welcome to Tree Felling Petersfield where you can get your trees and garden looking great all year around, well with the exception of the seasonal changes which unlike our tree felling prices don’t change as often.

Our experienced tree fellers Petersfield will ensure that you and your property is safe at all times and we always clean up our working area at no extra cost.

073 277 3618

Tree Felling Petersfield wants to help you be safe all year round with affordable tree maintenance.

As many residents in and around Petersfield know that our weather can be really unpredictable and that is no good thing if you have an old tree just waiting for a little shake to break it off, our tree felling experts will help you avoid such expensive accidents with a quick free site survey:

  • Onsite Tree Felling Quotations
  • Qualified Professionals
  • Quick Response in and around Petersfield
  • Emergency Call-outs

At Tree Felling Petersfield we know what it takes to carefully plan out a tree felling service and we take the greatest care to ensure that any people, pets and property is safe at all times.

Our Tree Felling are very familiar with tree fellers who have been reported to have fallen off a tree, Tree Feller  Petersfield ensures that our staff members are always safe in and around the work area.

Our services can be tailored added to match your individual tree felling needs:

  • Commercial Tree Felling
  • Residential Tree Felling
  • Shrub and Flower Maintenance
  • Tree Felling Large and Tall Trees

Tree Felling Petersfield ensures that your assets are always safe when working with large and tall trees!

At Tree Fellers Petersfield we know firsthand what a dangerous job Tree Felling is, we take all the precautions to ensure that everyone is in the safe zone and that the public is aware that a tree felling procedure is under way.

  • Tree Felling in Petersfield
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  • Tree removal Petersfield

Tree Felling Petersfield provides all the necessary warning signs to ensure that everyone is aware that we are working in a particular area and our signs can’t be missed:

  • Warning Posts Around Area
  • Tree Fellers Wear Reflectors
  • Working Area Secured

Tree Felling Petersfield will do any size job no matter if it is an old tree or stubborn root, we will deal with it!

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Commercial Tree Felling Petersfield

Our qualified and executively trained tree fellers don’t let any challenge scare them off. No matter how big a tree is or how dangerous the process may look we can assure all our clients that as much as accidents happen, it’s better to prevent problems and then to fix them.

  • Tree Maintenance Petersfield
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Residential Tree Felling Petersfield

There are a few things that homeowners should consider when getting their tree felled and often the inexperienced tree felling may end up costing you a lot of money:

  • Tree Felling Perimeters
  • Tree Distance
  • Close by Objects and Property

We take the time to ensure that our environment is safe before we can start our job because we know that a sloppy job often leads to a slippery slope, one wrong move and everything comes down.

At Tree Felling Petersfield our staff members have gone for more than 19 years without any mistakes and major accidents, we have used our knowledge and experience to ensure the least possible problems. Get in touch with us for professional tree felling services today!


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New Years Resolutions – Setting SMART goals

It coming to that time of year where everyone is thinking about the holiday season and having big blow-outs, maybe not exercising so much and generally ‘letting their hair down.’ This inevitably leads to the setting of New Years Resolutions about ‘Getting fit’, ‘losing weight’, ‘giving up chocolate’ or the million other resolutions set every year and broken almost as soon as they begin.

So how can we achieve our resolutions? Simple we need to follow a few simple steps and make them SMART.

Smart is the Acronym standing for

  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Achievable
  • Realistic
  • Time focused

So exactly what do they all mean and how is this going to help me give up fit, healthy and strong you maybe asking.

You can’t set goals that are vague. So ‘looking like’ or ‘feel like’ and terms of this nature are no good as they are all subjective to you. It must be specific and set as much detail as possible. Think WHAT, WHERE, HOW when setting this part of your goal. So instead of ‘I’m going to be thin’ try ‘I am going to lose weight, I will do this at home by exercising 7 days a week’

Now that statement is all well and good but how can we make it better?

You need to have a destination so to speak, an end point, or at least a point where you can celebrate success. So ‘I’m going to lose weight’ isn’t good enough, we need to know how much weight we want to lose. So either an amount of weight to lose of a target weight (I’m keeping to saying weight when what I should be saying if Fat, but more of that in a future post)

Now our ‘Resolution’ should be more like “I’m going to lose 14lb and I will do this at home by exercising 7 days a week

Let’s make it better

This will be all very relative to the person, so our resolution as it is may be perfectly OK, but to say you want to lose 14lb in January may not be so achievable. Therefore a statement like “I’m never going to eat chocolate again” just sets you up to fail, how about ‘I’ll give up chocolate for January, then only have it once a week” or even “I will only eat 1 bar of chocolate a week” both are realistic (you may not agree) and give you room to achieve the goal.

Again very specific to the person but ‘exercising 7 days a week’ is not realistic for a lot of people. Who can fit that in, but if you say 3 times a week or even once or twice its setting an achievable goal and not setting you up to fail. There is nothing to say you can’t exceed your goals, in fact that’s half the fun. So set a goal you can achieve, we are all about forming healthy habits and building on them when the time is right.

Time Focused

So the final hurdle to making you resolution/goal bullet proof is setting a time frame, this should include both long and short term goals to give you stepping stones along the way to your overall aim. your long term goal but this should sit like a umbrella over the top of lots of smaller goals. so you should include the 2, something like

I will Lose 12lb By July 01 2013, I will do this by losing 2lb per month. This will be achieved by working out at home at least 3 times a week on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I intend to do a home workout program in the morning before I go to work. I will also be giving up chocolate for the whole of January then only having one bar a week.

Nice and precise (although a bit longer) easily achievable. All you need to do now is post it up somewhere, tell as many people as you can and stick to it.

Remember, you can set new goals all through the year, make a good strong New Years Resolution that will take you into the spring, then set a new one once you have hit it outta the park.

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Injury – Rest, Reflect, Reset

Injury!! It happens to us all at some point in our lives, it’s not always from training but if you are carrying any type of injury it’s going to effect your training in some way. For us at BusyBee it’s a time for the 3 R’s
The most important thing to do when your injured is seek medical advice and do as your told, otherwise a small nagging injury can very quickly lead to a much bigger problem. ‘Better to lose the Battle but win the war’, ‘ a stitch in time saves nine’ you get the point.
More often than not you will be told to stop training, which to many of us is like travelling through the nine levels of hell, however, all is not lost. Take this time for some active recovery, let your body enjoy the break, I know it’s hard to not train especially if your used to 5-6 days a week but your body will enjoy the rest. Go for some nice walks with the family (so long as its not a leg/foot injury) spend time with the family and just generally unwind. The point is the less stress you put on your body the more it can focus on repairing the damaged bits and the sooner you’ll be back to full strength. You could also look into meditation or other forms of healing, if that sort of thing floats your boat then why not spend some of the time you would have been at the gym learning how powerful it can be. The body follows where the mind leads.
Injury time is a good time to reflect on your current programming, especially if it may have caused the injury, study the correct form for all of the exercises you perform and make sure you know all the coaching points. Visualisation is an incredible powerful tool and just reading about the correct form or watching YouTube clips and visualising yourself doing the move and focusing on all of the coaching tips will honestly improve your form when your back in the gym. You may or may not believe in all that kind of stuff but well prifessionsl athletes like Michael Jordan use it and it seemed to work out for him.
Now would also be a good time to focus on your nutrition, you can’t train but how many times have you heard people say ‘it’s 20% gym, 80% nutrition’ so get your nutrition dialled in. I struggle with this as my training drives my nutrition but this is no time for excuses. If your going to be sidelined for more than a few days and you don’t want to ruin all those hard earned results then you damn sure want to get your nutrition right. Remember if your not training then you won’t need the same calories or macro ratios as you did whilst training so bear that in mind as its very easy to keep eating the way you were and quickly gain a lot of fat.
Once your fully recovered and ready to return to training then it’s a great time to reset or just reaffirm your goals. Take new starting pics and measurements, treat it like new years day, a fresh new start. This isn’t to say you need to start again, you could be merely picking up where you left off, but If you rested and reflected like we’ve said then you should be running on a full tank and you will also quite often find that all those little nagging complaints and knock that you didn’t really notice are all gone, your muscles will be fresh, your mind rejuvenated and you should be firing on all cylinders. Remember to ease your way back in maybe with a slightly easier week first just to get your body and mind back in the game, after all you don’t want another injury.

So next time your injured don’t look at it as a negative (I know it’s never good) but look at what you can do to come back stronger and better prepared than ever.

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New Label Skaist-Taylor Now Available at Harvey Nichols

By Butterboom Writers  /  August 30, 2012

From Juicy Couture to  Skaist-Taylor.

Best friends Gela Nash-Taylor and Pamela Skaist-Levy, founder of Juicy Couture has launched their new brand, Skaist-Taylor. Their new collection called ‘California Eccentric’ is a new label that Pam and Gela envisions themselves wearing, a cross between California girl and high-brow New Yorker. Its more up market and adult, lots of  lush furs and knits.

Their first collection is available at stocked at Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Nordstrom, Harrods and exclusively available at Harvey Nichols Hong Kong.

How much?

  • Dress from HK$4490 up
  • Coat from HK$14,000

  • Harvey Nichols, The Landmark, 15 Queen’s Road, Central Tel: 3695 3388
  • Harvey Nichols, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong Tel: 3968 2668

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“Momma” Dee Godair

I have been overweight my whole life…I can remember as early as the age of 10 being put on a diet because I was getting too big!! Going to visit my grandma in another state and she put me on a special diet while all the other grandkids got treats…it was then that I started building a wall and really letting no one in!!! I felt like an outsider my whole life!!! I even tried to commit suicide three times. At the age of 16 I was told because of Pituitary gland and PCOS I would never have any kids…God blessed me with a hubby that loved me unconditionally and didn’t care about how big I was!!! Then two miscarriages and two births later my weight started climbing and climbing!!!

At the age of 42 I had enough!! I wanted to be healthier and skinnier!!! My girls were following in my footsteps and I wanted to stop the cycle!!! I wanted to become a better mom!!! I really didn’t have any health issues other than PCOS, acid reflux, low blood sugar, and IBS!!! So I didn’t know if I qualified but it was worth the try!!! And thankfully I qualified in weight alone!!! At my recorded highest I was 355 pounds, but I had already lost weight before going to dr but don’t know the number!!! So on Jan. 27, 2015 I had Gastric Bypass!!! This weight loss has been a struggle from day 1!!! While I was in surgery my Aunt passed away from cancer and the dr told them not to tell me till the next day because it wouldn’t do my recovery any good…well I found out and was so upset that I didn’t get to say goodbye…dr advised me not to travel the 2 hours one way for funeral but I refused and went anyway 2 days post op!!!

That landed me back in hospital for another overnight stay…then at 2 week appointment I told them I couldn’t keep anything down so they looked and I had a stricture…so they dilated me and I did good for one week and it closed again…they went in at 4 weeks and found a bleeding ulcer in my new pouch!!! So I have struggled with the ulcer ever since!!! I am 29 months out and still really only eat little compared to others that are eating normal!!! In May of 2016 I had surgery to remove my left thyroid because of small nodules well it came back with cancer…I also lost my voice for two months. They wouldn’t go in and take out right thyroid till vocal cord damage was resolved.

So in August they went in and took out the right thyroid as a precaution but it had even more cancer then the left one…also my lymph nodes were swollen…so I had radiation in September and they want to wait 6 months to see if the swelling goes down…if not more surgery. On December 30, 2016 I had yet another procedure done in my sinus cavities to open them up and take out some blockage. After years of headaches and a sudden pain on left side I had test done. They found that I have severe arthritis of spine, degenerative disc and joint disease, spurs on my spine, and from neck all the way to tail bone nerves are being blocked or pinched and a few disc are completely gone. Having a series of injections to try and ease the pain. My fear is high that I’ll need surgery again!!! I’m done with surgeries!!!! The pain is so severe sometimes that my fingers are dumb!!! Through all this I have learned that with God I am an overcomer!!!

I am on two meds a day just for ulcer, one med for anxiety/insomnia, one 3 meds for nerve damage pain, 2 pills to level my TSH and all our daily vitamins!!!

But I would do it all over again to be given this new chance at life!!! I can honestly say that if I had to go thru this cancer at 355 pounds I’m not sure I could have done it but at 160 pounds I was able to fight and stay strong!!! I am a better example to my girls that given any circumstances we can overcome them with hard work…I work used to work out 5 times a week and eat healthy everyday!!! I cook healthier for my family and even give them healthier deserts so they don’t feel deprived!

Sorry for long post!!! I hope this helps someone out there!!!

With all the steroids and injections my weight has climbed and it scares me but I truly believe that prayer works!!!

Love y’all!!!

HW 355
Lowest weight 159
CW 180
Gw. 160

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A quintessential Western journey

January 28, 2009

“Where they Went” by Diane Daniel
(Published Dec. 21, 2008, in the Boston Globe)

I went on an almost identical trip with my parents when I was around 11, but driving west from North Carolina. The grand Western scenery made a lasting impression.

Jeanne (left) and Harvey Hansen at the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon in Yellowstone National Park

Jeanne and Harvey Hansen at the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon in Yellowstone National Park

WHO: Jeanne, 58, and Harvey Hansen, 61, of Arlington, Mass.

WHERE: Western United States.

WHEN: 11 days in June and July.

WHY: “We love seeing new states, and we’ve always wanted to see Yellowstone and Rushmore,” Jeanne Hansen said.

RODEO ROMANCE: The couple flew into Billings, Mont., and rented a car, which they put 1,300 miles on. In Cody, Wyo., where they stayed with friends, they had a pleasant surprise. “They took us to the rodeo, and at first we thought, whatever, we’ll go because it’s there. It’s every night in the summer. But it was really fun and it was quite interesting to experience another way of life. They involve children, and the riders showed a lot of skill and courage.”

BUSES, BISON, BEAR … : Only an hour away was Yellowstone National Park, where they stayed at the historic Lake Yellowstone Hotel. “There was a lovely dining room, but you have to make a reservation months in advance,” she said, and they missed out. They took two park tours, one exploring geysers and hot springs, including Old Faithful, and the other wildlife. “Last year they started using 1936-37 vintage buses for the tours, which was very cool. They draw a lot of attention.” The couple saw bison, bear, coyote, elk, and big horn sheep.

Panoramic view of the Grand Tetons

Panoramic view of the Grand Tetons

TWISTS AND TURNS: From Yellowstone they drove toward the Teton Mountains. “We went to Moose, [Wyo.], and had dinner at Dornan’s, a restaurant with a lot of windows where the Tetons are right in your face. They’re magnificent.” Snow left from last winter and miles of hairpin turns greeted them on Beartooth Highway heading out of Yellowstone. “You definitely need to be a good driver,” said Hansen, who let her husband take the wheel. “It’s exhausting. I think he even took an Excedrin afterward.” They stopped in Red Lodge, Mont., “a funky little town with lots of shops and restaurants. The flower baskets were magnificent.”

BADLANDS EFFECT: In Rapid City, S.D., they stayed at the historic Alex Johnson Hotel. “It was very pretty and reasonable.” The town near Mount Rushmore is erecting statues of all the US presidents. It’s also near Badlands National Park, which they visited. “The Badlands is so massive, and you feel like you’re on the moon. It was different from anything we’ve seen.”

RUSHMORE HIGHLIGHTS: The most thrilling point of the trip was watching fireworks explode over Mount Rushmore on July 3. “It’s a really big deal there. They have events all day. They drop the fireworks in by helicopter and they go off by a computerized system. We took a bus because there’s no parking. There were about 35,000 people up there. It was just spectacular, a real highlight, and a great way to end the trip.”

A bird’s guide to drip-drying

January 26, 2009

Double-crested cormorant (adult non-breeding plumage) is drying its wings

Wessel gives us this dispatch from Florida:

Kayaking has become one of our favorite pastimes over the past two years. It’s pleasant because it allows a look at the world from a different much lower angle at a pace that’s much slower than usual. Probably because of this much humbler behavior wildlife seems to tolerate kayaking humans better than humans in walking or cycling mode. During our last visit to Indian Rocks Beach, Fla., in December we ventured out on the Intracoastal Waterway. That is to say we stayed on the sidelines, to keep a safe distance from the actual Intracoastal Highway where boats speed by and create impressive wakes.

The full drying stretch

There’s a surprising amount of wildlife. On our trip we saw great blue herons, egrets, and even a dolphin. I tried to take a photo of the dolphin but it tricked me swimming in random directions during 20-25 second dives before re-emerging. I was much more successful with a cormorant perched on a pole with its wings stretched and exposed to the sun. Apparently cormorants need to dry their plumage because they do not have oil in their skin to protect their feathers from getting wet like ducks and other water birds do.

Cormorant's green eyes

Cormorants have intense green eyes

I am a casual bird watcher and didn’t know  much about cormorants. Someone had recently mentioned that cormorants have intense green eyes. This can be seen when the photo is enlarged. When reading about cormorants I learned that the green part is the iris. The extremely constricted pupil is as small as the head of a pin and is hardly visible in my photo. Many other diving birds (e.g. penguins, loons, grebes) also have intensely colored eyes, in all cases due to a combined effect of iris color and constricted pupil. The pupil dilates to a large aperture in the low-light conditions underwater. Unfortunately I don’t have photos to prove that statement.

Obamarama: a year of Durham, NC, images

January 20, 2009

From Durham, North Carolina, we salute Barack Obama, our nation’s first African-American president. In my 51 years, never have I seen such excitement about a president taking the oath of office. And let’s not forget Barack’s awesome partner, Michelle. The entire to-do is electric, unforgettable, and over-the-top exciting. Thank you MLK, and everyone who played a part. (I must add that Mother Nature is celebrating by giving us a white Inauguration Day — our first measurable snowfall here in a few years!)

Beyond color, we honor a person we think is a wonderful leader, someone who has the opportunity to take this country boldly into the 21st century in a way that hasn’t yet been accomplished.

In the spirit of Obamania, here are a few photos Wessel has taken over the past year:

NC License Plate B OBAMA

NC license plate seen in Goldsboro (OK, not Durham but close)

Homemade sign in Watts-Hillandale neighborhood

Obama windscreen cover

Creative use of windshield shade spotted on Morgan Street

People in downtown Durham

Election-night party in downtown Durham; Obama was leading

This T-shirt was a hot commodity in Durham

Blue Coffee Cafe T-shirt was a hot commodity in "the Bull City"

Inauguration traffic blues

Inauguration excitement reaches I-85 in Durham

Is that a bike in your pocket?

January 19, 2009
This folding bike can be fit into a suitcase to take on an airplane

A folded Downtube

Deciding that we were going to buy folding bicycles for our birthdays was the easy part for Wessel and me. Choosing the bikes is the challenge. For those of you who have never seen or heard of a folding bicycle, the name pretty much sums it up. Some fold quicker than others, some are more comfortable for long-distance riding, some are lighter, some fold smaller. Prices range from $400 to $4,000 and up. So many options, so many opinions! Argh….Some people use their folders for mostly commuting — hopping on and off buses and trains with their bikes in hand. Wessel and I are more interested in having them for our many travels, especially when we fly, whether domestically or overseas. The money we fork over for the occasional rental or oversized luggage shipping of our own bikes could pay for folding bikes in five years or so.

Bruce Hermann from Neighborhood Transportation came to Durham with several Bike Friday models

Bruce Hermann sets up shop

While there are many good folders out there, the Bike Friday brand in Portland, Eugene, Ore., always rises to the top. The closest BF dealer to us, Neighborhood Transportation, is a couple hours away, near Winston-Salem. So we brought the store to us and made a party out of it. Owner Bruce Hermann was kind enough to bring several bikes for us to try out in exchange for me inviting the local cycling community. Think of it as the bike version of a Tupperware party.

Diane tests a BF road bike

This Bike Friday Pocket Rocket Pro rides like a standard road bike

Folding-bike types can be a little, um, zealous, about their bikes, and so we had a nice supply of zealots on hand as well, who brought these makes: Dahon, Xootr (the scooter not the bike), Mobiky, Strida, and Downtube. Bruce also brought a Breezer folder, and our pals at Cycle 9 in Carrboro, who are Downtube dealers, showed up later in the afternoon with several models. A handful of Bike Friday models were on hand. Perhaps the star attraction was the “tikit,” which BF hawks as the fastest folder available, and geared toward the urban commuter. Did I forget anyone? (A link at the end of this leads to more photos.)

Bruce’s other thing is recumbent bikes, those low-riders that stretch your legs and let the rest of you rest, so he brought a few of those as well, both two wheel and three-wheel models. I loved the three-wheeler. No balance needed! I have several friends who ride recumbents in traffic, but I’m still not up for being that down.

Diane likes this BF New World Tourist

Diane likes this BF New World Tourist

For overall style, I loved the Bike Friday Pocket Rocket Pro, which really is more a road bike than touring bike, and I really need a touring bike that can go on a variety of terrains. So forget the Pocket Rocket, which starts at $1,700. Just as well. For me it’s down to the New World Tourist, which starts at $1,100 and the Pocket Crusoe, which starts at $1,400. The PC does a little more of what I want, but, oh, I just can’t decide. Much customization is available, meaning more options. ARGH…. Custom colors are another $150, which I think is way too much. But I so prefer purple to red. The only way I can justify any of this spending is to not look at my end-of-year financial statements. I will add that cycling is by far my top activity, and my newest bike is 12 years old. Does that help? Of course I could check out used BFs, which means even more research. Maybe by my next birthday I’ll have my folding bike.

Wessel, who is both more budget-minded and less name-brand inclined, is likely going with one of the Downtubes, which costs around $400. And it’s orange! Of course it would make so much more sense if we both had the same bike, but since when do we do things because they make the most sense?

Click here for more photos of folders, recumbents, and friendly folks modeling during our folding fest.

They were Hungary for wine

January 15, 2009

“Where they Went” by Diane Daniel
(Published Dec. 7, 2008, in the Boston Globe)

 This was one of those “we laughed, we cried” trips. Fun at times, and very solemn intense at others.
Linda (left) and Harvey Weiner at Zakopane, Poland, beginning a hike up the High Tatras.

Linda (left) and Harvey Weiner at Zakopane, Poland, beginning a hike up the High Tatras.

WHO: Linda, 64, and Harvey Weiner, 66, of Newton, Mass.

WHERE: Eastern Europe.

WHEN: Two weeks in July.

WHY: “I’d always wanted to make a pilgrimage to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, near Krakow,” Harvey said. “I feel it’s an obligation of everyone to go there. We love to hike, and Linda found an organized hiking trip with Backroads from Budapest to Krakow.” Linda was a little hesitant about visiting the concentration camps. “I kept telling myself that I had the easy part by observing.”

TOOLS OF TERROR: The couple spent a few days in Budapest before the tour. “We visited the opera house and the Parliament, but the House of Terror was the most interesting,” Harvey said. “It was the party headquarters of the Hungarian Nazis and later the communist KGB. You see torture chambers, gallows, racks. There’s also the Holocaust Memorial Center, which is noteworthy in sharing blame with passive civilian onlookers.”

Linda (center) and Harvey (right) at wine tasting at the Rokoczi wine cellar, Takoj, Hungary

Linda (center) and Harvey at wine tasting at the Rokoczi wine cellar, Takoj, Hungary

SWEET AND HIGH UP: Backroads took them and eight other hikers into Hungarian wine country and the High Tatras mountains of Slovakia and Poland. “The initial couple of hikes were short warm- ups around vineyards and the countryside and then it got more strenuous in the mountains,” Harvey said. In the Tokaj wine region of Hungary they tasted dessert wines at the Rakoczi Cellar at Sarospatak. “Some people liked them, but they were too sweet for us,” he said.

Harvey and Linda hiking in Tacal, Hungarian wine country.

Harvey and Linda during a hike in Tacal, Hungarian wine country.

SEASONED TRAVELERS: “There were a lot of local families and even nuns in full habit with backpacks and walking sticks.” Linda noticed that many women had “paprika colored hair. They must have dyed it themselves. It was funny because Hungary is known for paprika.” One night, in Javorina, Slovakia, they stayed at Hotel Kolowrat. “It used to be for the communist elite,” Linda said. “It had funky ’50s architecture, a great view of the mountains, and a bowling alley.”

NOT A DAY TRIP: In Krakow, where the tour ended, Harvey wanted to go to Auschwitz by train instead of on a bus tour. “I didn’t want to treat it as a tourist attraction,” he said. Once they were in Oswiecim, they managed to reach the site, though there are no signs pointing the way. “There are two camps, Auschwitz and Birkenau. Auschwitz is set up as a museum, with two barracks. They still have evidence of people: toothbrushes, glasses, human hair, which they sold to make into fabric.” “The room that really got me was where the so-called beds were,” Linda said. “A whole wall was filled with children’s shoes.” At Birkenau they saw ruins of gas showers and crematoriums. They also spent a few days touring Krakow. “It’s a gorgeous city that survived World World II, unlike its Jewish population,” Harvey said.

Can strawberries earn dividend miles?

January 13, 2009
Moveable Feasts paperback cover art

"Moveable Feasts" paperback cover art

I’ve been meaning to write about “Moveable Feasts,” for, um, more than a year. This wonderful book recently came out in paperback, so there’s my hook. It’s a travel book, food book, history book, and transportation book all stirred into one sophisticated stew. Subtitle: “From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat.” The author, Sarah Murray, a regular Financial Times contributor, has a longtime fascination with shipping containers and the transport of goods. While that may sound odd, think of it this way: look around you and consider how probably everything within your sight was shipped in from somewhere. Now can you understand her fascination? She said she wrote about the shipment of food because it’s a tangible thing everyone can related to.

Moveable Feasts by Sarah Morgan

Murray’s book coincidentally came out when the notion of “food miles” — that is the distance that food is shipped — was starting to be talked up. Two beliefs that have come out of that movement are that having food shipped in instead of locally grown is a modern concept, and that the miles food travels is of the utmost factor in regards to environmental issues. While Murray wasn’t out to counter those arguments, two points she makes in her book in effect do. Food has been transported for centuries, including the ancient Romans shipping in olive oil from other Mediterranean areas. And individuals driving their cars to farmers markets, for instance, potentially produce more carbon than one large food-filled shipping container crossing the ocean. I’m not asking you to buy that one without more information, but it’s an interesting point to ponder.

Sarah Murray; photo Paul Morgan

Sarah Murray; photo Paul Morgan

But what I love most about “Moveable Feasts” are the stories Murray shares from around the world, from the crazy and efficient lunchbox distribution system in India to the harvesting of strawberries in space and the travels of Norwegian salmon to China for deboning before being shipped back to Norway for eating. I also enjoyed the chapters on grain elevators and modern design, old Soviet planes being used to deliver  UN aid food to southern Sudan, and airplane food in general. An aside in the airline chapter really resonated with me — an observation by flight attendants that passengers, whose palates are dulled by flying, break out of their normal drinking habits, often by drinking Bloody Mary mix or tomato juice. Indeed, on every flight, Wessel orders tomato juice. I’ve not seen him drink it anywhere else, and we’ve never had it at home. I’ve always thought that was so weird. Now I discover that his quirk is hardly unique. Too funny.

I attended a reading by Murray in Durham at the Regulator and was riveted by her show-and-tell presentation. She started with a “tiffin tin,” the Indian lunchbox, and I was hooked from there. She told us her next project is a book on funerary customs around the world, which includes not only funerals but the set of beliefs and practices a culture uses to honor and remember the dead.

I emailed her about her progress not long ago and got this reply: “I’ve been doing a lot of travelling for the new book — Mexico for Day of the Dead, Bali for the most spectacular royal cremation; Palermo, Sicily, to a macabre catacomb of fully dressed 19th-century Italian mummies! And next, to Iran for the Ashura mourning festival and the ancient Zoroastrian Towers of Silence.” OK, Sarah, get that book finished so we can read it!

Van harte gefeliciteerd, Wessel!

January 9, 2009
Wessel blows candles of birthday cake in 2008

Wessel blows candles of birthday cake in 2008

As faithful readers know, the Dutch go crazy for their birthdays. They congratulate not only the birthday boy/girl, but parents, siblings, and spouses. Wessel’s parents made their birthday call this morning from the Netherlands, bright and early, as always. :O They congratulated me as well. And now I must say, gefeliciteerd to you, too, familie Kok! Being someone who has always sought birthday attention (OK, fine, all attention), I love this Dutch tradition.

So each time there’s a birthday in our immediate Dutch family, Wessel and I do a blog posting with photos. Now the sad thing is this: I wanted this post to surprise Wessel, but he’s the photo editor. So, my dear partner in life, you’re going to have to later add your favorite photos to this. Sorry!

Maroccan medley, the 2008 birthday dinner

Moroccan Medley, the 2008 birthday dinner

This year Wessel and I decided to gift ourselves folding bicycles for our birthdays (mine was last month.) So we are still in the process of shopping around. We’re mostly fixating on Bike Friday, arguably the best folding bike maker but of course also the most expensive. I’m looking forward to the end of the shopping process and the purchase of our bikes!

Diane prepares Fish in a bag, the 2007 birtday special

Diane prepares Fish in a Bag, the 2007 birthday special

As usual, I’ll be making birthday dinner for Wessel. It’s a major production, especially since I have to do a practice run each year. Here’s the lineup since we’ve lived together: Brunswick Stew, Chicken Pudding, Roast, Fish in a Bag (from “Seasoned in the South” ), Moroccan Medley (thanks to Barry Yeoman), and, this year, the sixth, he again requested vegetarian. I finally decided on Moosewood’s Risotto with Spinach and Artichokes (I’m throwing in mushrooms too), as well as some side dishes, natch, and a cake (not sure which one yet) with 45 candles.

Dear Wessel, here are 17 things I love about you:

Your genuine kindness and concern for all living creatures, including humans.
Your photo skills, from execution to organization.
Your sense of humor, including bad puns and jokes.
Your firm buttocks and shapely calves.
Your physical fitness.
Your ability to change bicycle tires much quicker than I can.
Your command of several languages.
Your healthy appetite.
Your intellectual and constant thirst for knowledge.
Your affection for your annoying cat and your care for my dogs that you could easily live without.
Your willingness to fairly divide chores.
Your total, unwavering support of me.
Your many sides.
Your adventurousness.
Your honesty.
Your willingness to be vulnerable.
Your undying love for me.

your adoring wife

Manatee mania in Florida

January 6, 2009
Mother and baby manatee as seen from bridge

Mother and calf manatee as seen from a bridge in Crystal River, FL

“Oh how beautiful, oh baby. Hey baby.”

I cracked up when I heard a fellow kayaker say that to a manatee. These sea creatures are huge, with wrinkly noses that look like a elephant’s snout without a trunk. From above, their bodies look like, well, giant floating turds. But they do have that “hey, baby” effect on people. On Wessel and me, too.

We couldn’t get enough of the mammals last month in Florida, when we went to Citrus County, Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico, which could be renamed Manateeland, USA. Crystal River/Kings Bay is the winter home to hundreds of manatees. When the weather cools down, manatees, which need warm water to survive gather at the natural springs in the Crystal River area, which maintain a water temperature of 72 degrees (22°C) year round.

Manatee as Christmas tree ornament

Manatee as Christmas tree decoration

We saw manatee signs, trinkets, mailboxes, license plates, statues, Christmas decorations, and, of course, the celebrities themselves. We watched rehabilitated captive manatees being fed (they’re herbivores) at Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, viewed groups of them, often a mother and calf, from a bridge in Crystal River, and were surrounded by them during our “Do Not Disturb” kayak trip through Save the Manatee Club. Having a manatee glide right under your kayak just below the water is quite the experience!! The average adult manatee is about 10 feet long and weighs between 800 and 1,200 pounds.

Matt Clemons (standing) during kayak trip convinced Diane to not swim with manatees

Matt Clemons (standing) during kayak trip convinced Diane to not swim with manatees

Our trip was led by one of the state’s top manatee advocates, Matt Clemons of Aardvark’s Florida Kayak Company, which donates 50 percent of the cost of the trip to Save the Manatee Club. In some ways, the manatees are being loved to death. There are now a slew of outfitters that take people out to snorkel around them, which means a couple dozen humans are descending on a pod of manatees. Some people say that the playful creatures initiate touching and appreciate human contact. Others say that touching manatees, even when the manatee goes first, upsets their natural balance in many ways unnoticed by the average person. Worse, they say, some snorkelers all out harass the endangered species, chasing them, blocking them, and even trying to ride them. I’ll be writing about this more in my upcoming story about them for the Boston Globe.

As I told Matt, I was annoyed with him because before I started reading up on the issue on his and the Save the Manatee website, I was very excited to “swim with the manatees.” Though I’d wanted to do it for years, I did have a nagging feeling all the while that it seem quite right. Matt and others confirmed that hunch, damn them!

Diane `swims` with manatee

Diane `swims` with the manatees after all

Actually, Wessel and I did end up swimming with the manatees, but not really in the conventional way, as you can see here. We also “adopted” Lily, a lovely lady who lives in Blue Spring State Park in Orange City. We didn’t make it to visit her this trip, because I needed to spend time with human relatives, but it’s on the list. If you’re interested in seeing manatees, here are some great spots to go in Florida. Just view from afar, please! And click here to see more of Wessel’s amazing manatee photos.


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Vollmer Farm returns with fall festivities

September 30, 2012

Happy fall, y’all! … One of my favorite photos taken for my “Farm Fresh North Carolina” guidebook is this one, of a boy we spotted at Vollmer Farm in Bunn, NC, carrying a load of pumpkins. It might look staged, but it’s not. And the big news this week is that Vollmer’s “Back Forty” just opened for its fall festivities, which it has expanded to include a puppet play tent. You might want to go later on a Saturday afternoon for the 5 p.m. bonfire and marshmallow roast, followed by a family movie at dusk. Not only does the former tobacco farm, 45 minutes northeast of Raleigh, have loads of activities for families, it has become an fully organic farm and has the largest you-pick organic strawberry field in the state. I’m a big fan! I also want to mention that the farm lost its matriarch this past summer. Betty Vollmer was an integral part of the farm, and her generous spirit still prevails.

Here’s my entry from the book: Few in the state (LET ME ADD HERE: PERHAPS THE COUNTRY!) do agritourism at the level Vollmer Farm does. What’s most admirable is that the Vollmers operate a working farm, having made the switch from tobacco to produce, while also attracting thousands of visitors a year to their “Back Forty” entertainment complex. In the spring and summer, certified organic strawberries and blueberries are ripe for the picking, while some farm produce, snacks, and ice cream are for sale in the large gift shop. Starting in mid-September, the action really picks up. Tractor rides take hundreds of visitors and school groups a day to the “back forty” acres, filled with games, playgrounds, mazes, and other agriculturally themed attractions. Address: 677 Highway 98 East, Bunn (Franklin County), 919-496-3076, www.vollmerfarm.com. Open April to October.

‘Farm Fresh North Carolina’ has arrived!

March 6, 2011

Alpaca nuzzles Diane at Bedford Falls Alpaca Farm in Warne, Clay County.

So it’s finally here! “Farm Fresh North Carolina,” my farm-travel guidebook to my home state, is now out, Both my hometown papers, the Durham Herald-Sun and the News & Observer, have written it up this week, with more articles across the state to follow! The N&O piece used one of my favorite photos — me being nuzzled by an alpaca at the state’s first alpaca farm, Bedford Falls. What a fun day that was, way, way west in Clay County, a part of North Carolina that often gets relegated to an annex on state maps. I fell in love with alpacas during my research, and included a few alpaca farms in the book.

As for sales outlets, it’s available at the usual online spots and of course in stores all across North Carolina. Even NC Costco stores will start carrying the book in April! That is nuts (in a great way!) and a testament to how crazed the local-food movement has become. I pitched the idea for this book in 2007, the same year that “locavore” was named the New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year. My, how times have changed.

In case you’re wondering what the heck a farm-travel guidebook includes, the subtitle says it all: “The Go-To Guide to Great Farmers’ Markets, Farm Stands, Farms, Apple Orchards, U-Picks, Kids’ Activities, Lodging, Dining, Choose-and-Cut Christmas Trees, Vineyards and Wineries, and More.”

If you want to know more about it, visit my “Farm Fresh North Carolina” website. And remember: Keep it Fresh in NC!


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Panache Desai

Featured on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, Panache is a standout among speakers of spiritual wisdom today. His message focuses primarily on authenticity and acceptance. Panache also now has a #1 Amazon Best-Seller, called, Discovering Your Soul Signature: A 33-Day Path to Purpose, Passion & Joy. Taking you on a daily journey with quick morning, noon, and evening tips, the book is all about finding your purpose and realizing that all of your life experience has been to serve you in the full acceptance of yourself.

He’s not your typical spiritual teacher. He’s funny and down-to-earth, asking questions like “Ask yourself, are you spiritually constipated?”

I actually got to have lunch with Panache when I helped out at his seminar and took the chance to ask him one of my biggest questions around a spiritual dilemma … Read about it here. I share many of his most powerful insights and simple exercises you can use too.

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The key to changing the world, to changing your life, and to empowering those around you is authenticity – the willingness to be yourself – the willingness to be vulnerable – the willingness to feel – the willingness to live.
I’m simply reminding you of who you truly are, supporting you into self-love and acceptance by eradicating the judgement that you’ve imposed on yourself and society has opposed on you. ~ Panache
Born and raised in London, England, Panache has always known he was different. Even at a young age, he possessed an innate kindness and love rarely experienced from one so young. He was recognized by visitors and teachers as gifted.
By adolescence he possessed a profound awareness that he had come to do something special.

During his final year at university, Panache began to feel an inner yearning to leave everything behind and be on retreat. So for six intense months he began a life altering schedule of meditation and prayer. When he finally emerged, he was a different man. Determined to fulfill his purpose, he told his mother that it was time for him to go into the world and share what he had come to do.

Panache moved to America in 2001 and during his travels he met many gifted spiritual teachers and leaders. Miraculously, each had expected his arrival and he learned from their tutelage and wisdom. At this time a powerful expansion occurred within him and he began to remember his own gifts and abilities. His journey culminated in 2003 when Panache had a profound and life-altering experience of our (man kinds’) true potential:

“Our potential is infinite – every man, woman, father, son, mother, daughter, is infinite – every person is infinite. Our potential is only ever limited in the way that we say it is – the way we allow it to be.”

And along with this experience came an ability to help people to move through their sadness, anger, or fear – to once again come back to their infinite potential.

Today Panache is dedicated to awakening that same potential and cultivating in those around him the same vibrational transformation he experienced all those years ago. No matter your life experience, your spiritual background, or role, Panache can help you Experience Your Infinite Potential.

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