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Fred Armisen gives the skinny on his new gig (as well as an education in punk rock)
One of my cooler recent freelance assignments was writing a short piece for Variety on Fred Armisen's new stint as bandleader on Late Night with Seth Meyers. I had a really fun conversation with Fred (by phone), and was only able to use the scantiest essence of it for the article. So, for your reading pleasure and enlightenment, here is comedian/actor/drummer Fred Armisen on the nuts and bolts of his new gig, the very specific punk song influences on the theme song he wrote for the show, assembling the 8G Band, his well-oiled improv chemistry with Meyers, and why he thinks stress should be embraced.
Tim Greiving: Was it Seth Meyers himself who contacted you about the gig originally?
Fred Armisen: No, first it was my manager, and then it was Lorne Michaels. I think they had been discussing it—it wasn't official for a while, so I think they were talking about it. And then I went and met with Mike Schumaker and Seth, and we had this great meeting, and I thought, This will be great.
TG: What was the pitch?
FA: It was very last minute. It might have been two weeks before the test show, maybe three weeks, but I feel like it was two. And then the pitch was: Do you want to help curate a band and write a theme song for Late Night with Seth? I've always wanted to write a theme song for a TV show, so that was the first thing that attracted me to it—aside from, of course, it being Seth, who I love, and Lorne, who I want to always work with. And then the word "curate" I really liked, because I think they understood that I've got these other things I've got to do, like Portlandia, so "curate" sounded very much like I could put together the aesthetics and the sound for something, without having to be there every single day.
TG: Yeah, I'd read that description of "curator," and wondered what all that entailed.
FA: It's like designing, like sound designing—it's almost like making a blueprint. It's like doing an outline. If you were to do a drawing that was going to be filled in with colors, it's like doing the magic marker outline of it. And it's really what I love doing. And I also love being there every day. When I said I don't have to be there every day, it wasn't like that's a chore. It's more like, the days that I'm not there, I'd want there to be like a sound that echoes through.
TG: What was your process finding the theme song and the overall sound for the show?
FA: Well, the theme song I thought of the Big Boys song "I Don't Know Which Way to Go."
TG: I don't know that one.
FA. Ah. Well, you've got to go find the Big Boys. There's an album called The Fat Elvis, and it's this brilliant song where the first chord, even though the tempo's fast, it still has a mystery to it. You actually don't know where the song's going to go. 'Cause I thought I wanted it to be a punk song, but I also didn't want it to be an empty punk song. Like I wanted the sort of optimism and melody that '90s punk had. Even though Big Boys is more early '80s. But I think that as punk bands across the country started to do their versions of what punk is—Big Boys are a Texas band—Texans had a very party-positive angle on what punk is. And I think that's the original intent of punk. I think that, as political as it became, and all the different avenues that it went down, I think The Damned and Captain Sensible spelled out that it was something that was supposed to be celebratory, something to celebrate. It was a movement against anything that was morose, so that positivity kind of went through different faces throughout the years, but in Texas—and the Big Boys especially—I feel like they kind of turned it into something that was optimistic. So the question mark of "I Don't Know Which Way to Go" by the Big Boys is a good opening chord, of like, "Okay, which way is this show gonna go?" And the end result is that it's something filled with optimism, which reflects what Seth Meyers is. Seth Meyers is not a cynic. He supports everything. And I think the Big Boys message eventually transformed into what the Minute Men were doing, and I think even the Red Hot Chili Peppers, because even though they existed in different punk scenes, that seed of positivity kind of echoed.
Then the next part was a little bit of Generation X (the band). Then the third part to the guitar part was an echo of this XTC song called "Making Plans for Nigel." There are guitar solos and guitar leads, but I feel like New Wave embraced repetitive guitar lines, which is maybe even African or something, but when guitar lines go over and over again—"Making Plans for Nigel" does that throughout. There's this one little guitar line that just repeats all the way through, and it's very pleasant to listen to. The next part after that is a little Sleeter Kenny, and just like a general modern rock line. Then it repeats. Then the very, very last chord that you hear that goes ["duh-nuh-duh-nuh-nuh"] is Circus Lupus. It's like a salute to Circus Loopus. And Circus Loopus rounds out the whole thing because, the band is mostly Washington D.C. members, and I feel like a lot of '90s punk towards the end—maybe the mid-'90s—sort of looked up to the Washington D.C. scene. And I don't have any members of Circus Loopus in the band, but it was a sort of punctuation, that the framework is Washington D.C.
TG: For some reason I want to say "punktuation" with a K.
FA: Oh, go for it. That's your right. You could even put like, on the A, you could put a circle around it if you want to make it look like Anarchy.
TG: That's an interesting concoction of influences. Is there a long version of the theme song?
FA: No, but I think there's a version that was a little longer, but we already had parameters. It was written as a theme song, so it can only be 30 seconds or something. But I think my shortcoming as a songwriter is that I can only write in short pieces. So for sketches for SNL, and just in general, I don't have the ability to write long pieces as a real songwriter would do. So it actually fits the way that I think. So the reason to write a theme song for a TV show wasn't just my ego—it was part of it. But it's also that it kind of fits with the way I think musically—these 30 seconds or 1 minute of music. You know what I mean? There are people who are equipped for long pieces, but that's not me.
TG: Are all the pieces you play throughout each episode original?
FA: They are. The whole band writes those. That's all of us together. We write songs all day. We write five songs a day.
TG: Describe your process, your day-to-day routine.
FA: We go in at 11, to this rehearsal studio. We know we're very limited on time—we know that a car is picking us up at like 3. So we look at the list for the day, the list meaning how many commercial breaks … this is where it's most clinical. It's Eli Jenny on keyboard, Seth Jabor on first guitar—I call myself second guitar—Sid Butler on bass, and Kim Thompson on drums. We go in, get all the amps and everything going. And because we're limited on time, we sort of carve out what we need. "Okay guys, we need five commercial breaks, and three walk-ons." Walk-ons being what people walk out to. The show can't afford many covers. We've only done two. So we have to write most of them. Luckily they're instrumental, and luckily we all want to write. So, you know, Seth will say, "I had this guitar line," and he'll start playing it. And because we're limited on time, we can't even entertain not doing it. We go, "Great, yes, that's beautiful. What if you did this on bass?" Kim will come up with a drum beat. "That sounds great." So we're all adding a thing. Then we come up with a B part. "Okay, that's beautiful." (This is me talking in practice) "I've been obsessed with salsa music. Maybe we could have a little Latin part in it." "Great. Let's do this." "Hmm, I think that maybe that's a little too negative. Let's go a little more major key for that." "Wonderful." "Great." Then we all record it on our phones. So we all have the song, A and B part. "Got it." Then I'll call out the changes: "A part, B part, A part, B part." Then we look at it and we go, "Okay, this sounds like a song. What do you want to call it?" "Let's call it 'Gang of Baristas.'" "Great. 'Gang…of…Baristas.'" "We need another one. Now we need a walk-on." So that's what we do. We record into our phones, and then write it down in our phones.
TG: Do you have carte blanche? You mentioned salsa…what are your boundaries as far as what the sound can be?
FA: We want it to jut out a little bit, because the sound quality on a TV is not great. So we have to kind of come up with melodies and beats that really are sharp, so it sort of makes itself known through the speaker. Other than that, we try to keep the tempo either at up-tempo, some salsa stuff, some Latin influence, some reggae, some kind of dub beats—because when it's sparse you can really hear everything. We try to keep it kind of angular. Sharp and angular, just so there's something to hold onto. And I'm a fan of melodies, so I like it when Seth Jabor does a nice melody on guitar. He's a brilliant guitar player, he's very ornate, which is kind of nice. And we try to do things where one musician will shine. Something that Kim starts, something that Eli will start. Just so we can get a sense of the instrument.
TG: How was the band assembled?
FA: I texted Eli. I texted Sid. I texted Seth. And I'm not kidding. I think I might have emailed Eli, texted Sid, texted Seth. And I said, "What are you guys doing this week? Can you get together very, very soon?" Then drummer-wise—I'm really a drummer, not really a guitar player, and I thought maybe playing the drums was a little too similar to The Roots, you know, Questlove. Just, "Oh, here's another drummer." I just thought since The Roots are so great, we should try as much as we can to get as far away from that territory as we can, because there are things we've definitely mimicked and emulated, but I thought, Well, let's start with me not being on drums. Let's just start there. And it gave us a good opportunity to get someone on drums who isn't from the same school as the rest of us in the band. You know, we're all kind of the same age, we're from this punk scene from the '90s—me with Trenchmouth, and then the two guys from Les Savvy Sav, and then Eli from Girls Against Boys. If we filled it in with another one of that, it was going to be not interesting to hear and look at. Like, you've got to change it up a little bit, otherwise it's just one thing. So it was a good opportunity, and right away I thought, Well, what about a female drummer? I know it's a blunt thing to say in an interview or to like address, but I was like, Four dudes so far, let's stop at that. And I remembered seeing Kim play, and we just had her audition. We had some other people who auditioned as well, who were also great. But we had to think local, because we can't really afford to have people from out of town. And she was just great, and we were very lucky, very fortunate to have her.
TG: I have to say, it's fun watching her hair whip around while she drums. That's an extra visual treat.
FA: It is a visual medium, so it's like, we've got to think in those terms. Plus, a band is only as good as its drummer, and the drummer is the most interesting part of any band. It's who people look at the most, it's who people listen to the most. When I watch the show and I hear it, it's what you hear the most. So the drummer really has to be the center point and the most exciting part of the band—and she is. She's great. She's a brilliant drummer. When we say, "Oh, let's try something that's a little bit reggae," she kills it. She's just so brilliant at it. We say, "How about something that's a little Latin?" She knows Latin like I've never heard it before. She never turns to me and says, "I don't really know salsa." She knows salsa better than anyone I've played with. So it really gets our blood going. We got very lucky with her, we really did.
TG: What's the origin of the band name?
FA: We wanted to make it about the show, so Mike Shumaker said, "Let's just call it something simple. Let's just call it the 8G Band or something." That might have been the first words out of his mouth, and I said, "Great. Let's just leave it. Let us define the name, as opposed to coming up with some grand name. Since we're not a band from before, instead of coming up with some grand name, let's just leave it and then let us define the name."
TG: So that's not referencing anything at all?
FA: 8G?
TG: Yeah.
FA: Oh, I'm so sorry, 8G is the studio. I am so sorry—my tone is that I keep thinking everyone works at 30 Rock, and I'm so sorry. Yes, it's Studio 8G. So SNL is 8H, and it's on the same floor, and it's 8G. I should have made up something.
TG: You really should have. You had an opportunity there.
FA: Damn it.
TG: Well, I wish I knew 30 Rock as well as you do.
FA: Someday you will…
TG: I don't think so.
FA: You gotta dream big.
TG: Well, since you're on guitar and not drums, how exactly does leading the band work?
FA: It's coming up with set lists, you know, what goes where, what goes with whom. The other thing we tried not to do is, you know, because The Roots are so good at choosing songs that fit the guest stars, that's their territory. So I thought, Let's just come up with songs that have a good beat to them so that the guests have something to walk out to that is kind of up, you know what I mean. And I can't stress enough how amazing the house that The Roots created, how huge it is. They really just reset everything. Their attitude, their energy, the amount they work… I got some advice from Questlove, and they're just incredible. We all look up to them. So bandleader-wise, it's like: I have two microphones, one for singing (you know, when we do the warm-up show), but then there's another microphone to only talk to the band. We write up this setlist, and I've got to count the band in and out. So the stage manager will say, "Five seconds to commercial," I get the band ready, "Okay everybody, here we go. We're going to do 'Gang of Baristas,' here we go. One, two, three, four…" and we all start. That's how that works. Then we play and we play and we play, and I look at the stage manager, then he says, "30 seconds back to the show." I tell the band, and then it's another count-off to end the song. So, "Let's stay on this part. Let's stay on part B. Here comes the ending, here comes the ending…1, 2, 3, 4, end." Sometimes you'll catch it on camera—you'll see me talking, and that's what I'm saying.
TG: Is that nerve-wracking?
FA: It's like juggling.
TG: It's juggling on live TV. Well it's not live, but…
FA: In a way it is live. That's the part you don't need to be redoing while the crew is waiting, to wait for the band. So yeah, it is live. And there are real musicians playing, and mistakes can be made and have been made. And you want it to sound good. So it's the good kind of nerve-wracking. I want that pressure, I want to be stressed. So I'm stressed and I want to be stressed.
TG: You have the other aspect, the comedic, on-camera banter. Do you sit in on writer's meetings for that?
FA: No, no, no. It's purposefully they don't tell me what's coming. They don't tell me what Seth is going to say.
TG: So it's all improv?
FA: Uh-huh. Even if they know what they're going to say, I never ever, ever know at all. You can see it on my face, where I'm like, "Oh…yes, this thing we're talking about. Yes, as a matter of fact, yes…" I don't know what's coming.
TG: Interesting. Did you volunteer for that role?
FA: It just happened because—I don't know whose idea it was—but Seth and I just have a shorthand. You know, we've known each other a long time, and we make each other laugh. So in a way we've been doing it for 13 years or whatever. That's been part of our conversation, so we've been rehearsing for it our whole lives…or whatever, these 13 years.
TG: That's cool that you bring that into the show, which is sort of a blank slate, but there's an established chemistry sort of anchoring it.
FA: Yeah. He's my friend and he makes me laugh, so what could be better?
TG: So it sounds like you don't improvise at all with the music—that's all written out and planned and purposefully timed—but then the comedic part is all improv.
FA: Yeah. Well, any musician will improvise a little bit on their instrument. But really no. There's a structure to the songs, and they have to sound like we've been playing them for years…when we've really just learned them that day.
TG: Is "Gang of Baristas" a real song title?
FA: "Gang of Baristas" actually was a real song title, because we wanted it to sound like "Gang of Four," and then…I don't know. Who knows. I don't know why we said baristas. One of us might have been holding a cup of coffee or something. The song titles do come from things like that, like, "Oh, this sounds like this band, and uh…I'm holding a suitcase. So let's call it 'Something Suitcase.'" That kind of thing.
TG: Just logistically, how are you going to juggle your Portlandia and other commitments with the demands of the show? You said you're not going to be there every night…
FA: Yeah, it's been happening already. Like last week I had to go do a show in Minneapolis, and then my friend Marty Stern filled in on guitar. So then Eli fills in on the leader's spot, of calling out the beginnings and endings. Which is another reason I'm glad I'm not playing drums—as much as I love the drums. That's a harder instrument to fill in on, 'cause it's a whole drum set. You know, guitar lends itself more to like, "Here, just plug in your guitar and you'll be fine." Drums…you need that anchor. So when I go to do Portlandia, I'll just go do that. And I made sure it was okay with everyone. But also, it's all the same umbrella of production, so nobody is upset. Everyone just said, "Oh great." My whole life has been this way, so it totally works. Personally, it works better for me anyway, 'cause I think I work better if I'm juggling and doing many things at once. It's the same for Carrie Brownstein, it's the same for Jonathan Chrysler—we all do things, and then we treat Portlandia as a sort of summer camp, where we all reconvene.
TG: How big a part of your identity is music, relative to performing and comedy?
FA: It informs everything I do, 'cause I began my career as a punk drummer. So even though I wanted to be on television—my whole life I've wanted to be on television—but for some reason I thought it would be through music. And I guess it has turned out that way. But my heart has always been being a punk drummer, and that's always lived on—not just in drumming—but in the way that I wanted Portlandia to be marketed, the way that I wanted sketches to be… I've always come at it as a drummer. Pitch meetings with Lorne Michaels and SNL cast and crew, even then, deep in my heart I'm always a punk drummer. Because drums is not separate from that. Drumming is all about getting attention. So if you think of the best drummer in the world, if you think of your favorite drummer, it's someone who wants attention. Cymbals and drums, if you think about it, it's like you're hitting things for attention. Drummers are usually on a drum riser, you know, it's like it's not enough that they're sitting down playing these cymbals, they're on a riser. If you think of the best drummer in the world, it's someone who, in a way, was giving a performance…and that's Keith Moon, right? If you think of Keith Moon, he created a cacophony of noise, and he really demanded to be center stage. I think comedians all have an element of drummers to them. There's humility of like being self-deprecating, but then there's also the grabbing the spotlight. As opposed to a lead guitar player, who you would think is naturally in the spotlight. People don't look at the guitar player—they look at the drummer.
TG: But you've sort of subjugated that attention-seeking role for this position.
FA: Yeah. No…because I'm still a drummer. I'm a struggling guitar player. I don't play guitar that well. I'm a drummer. But I'm playing guitar. Plus, I feel proficient enough at the drums that I'd rather play an instrument I don't know how to play, because…I think a musician should always pick up an instrument they don't know how to play, because that's when the most interesting things come out.
TG: Plus we've established that you like stress.
FA: [Laughs] Yeah. I think stress does bring something out in people. I think comfort doesn't help. I think stress makes people stand up and move towards something.
TG: Within reason, right?
FA: Within reason.
TG: Well, you said you dreamed of being on TV—did you ever dream of being a bandleader for a late night talk show?
FA: I always looked to Devo. And this is just my age, this is just what I grew up on when I was a kid. I looked at Devo, and I looked at David Byrne, and the Clash, and Stewart Copeland… I looked at these people, and they were always just making things, and they were very visual. So whatever this job position is called, all I know is that it's with Lorne Michaels, it's on NBC, and it's making music with punks—and I include Seth in that. So whatever this is called—bandleader, whatever it is—I love it. And yes, I love television, I love punk, and I love comedy. And if I get to do it, lucky me. Lucky me. Every minute of the day.
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Ever been in a situation where God is asking you to do something that seems completely impossible unless He orchestrates it? The disciples counted their few fish and loaves and informed Him that it wasn't possible. Next, Jesus gave His men one action step: "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each." The disciples did so.
I love those two words. They didn't talk back or question the Messiah, they just "did so." At this point in the story, they have no idea what is about to happen. They don't know like we do (and like He knew) that they were about to witness one of the greatest miracles ever told. They didn't know that in the next few minutes Jesus would feed a crowd well over 5,000 and have baskets of leftovers. They only knew to do what He asked them to do. A small, seemingly simple, doable step.
One obedient step at a time. He leads us and directs us one trusting action at a time. But WHY, God? Why do I have to do that? I will obey when you explain the whole picture to me. God is not a man, and His ways are higher than ours. He wants us to step out and trust Him, and as we obey, He will reveal our next step.
I can't feed 5,000 in my own strength, but I can do the small step of seating the people in groups of fifty. God wants to show us His miraculous ways. He wants to continue to work miracles in our midst. Will we take the action step that He has assigned us even when we don't know the outcome?
Is there something in your life that God has directed you to do? A seemingly small act of obedience? There are times when I have heard myself and others say in angst, I wish God would just tell me what is going to happen next. We want to know what His will is for our lives, but often if we are quiet and listen, He will point us back to the last thing He led us to do that we haven't done yet.


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Q: Matriz en PHP y MySQL que permita contar por rango de fechas Tengo una base de datos con: | codigo | Date | Hora |,  pero quiero contar los códigos por semana.
Por el momento, lo que se me ocurre es hacer un QUERY que me extraiga todos los registros y con PHP hacer las condicionales, por ejemplo:
if($X['DATE'] >='2021-01-04' and $X['DATE'] <= '2021-01-10') {
    $SEMANA[1] ='2021-01-04   to   2021-01-10';
    $Contadores[1]+=1; $aux = 1;
} elseif($X['DATE'] >='2021-01-11' and $X['DATE'] <= '2021-01-17') {
    $SEMANA[2] ='2021-01-11   to   2021-01-17';
    $Contadores[2]+=1; $aux = 2;
} ...

Así hasta que termine el año, es algo tedioso porque cada año tendría que hacerlo igual.
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Dubai to Al Ain Road Trip – Sightseeing in Al Ain
by Santanu Bhaumik November 30, 2020
written by Santanu Bhaumik November 30, 2020
Though Dubai was our base station for this trip, we were less interested to keep us restricted to the man-made marvels at downtown Dubai. We were keener to get a feel of the overall geography, its topography, and climate, its people, and culture. So, we decided to do a couple of day trips from Dubai. Our first destination for those day trips was Al Ain and we decided to travel from Dubai to Al Ain by bus.
Please note that this article is in continuation with a previous one and a part of my Dubai Travelogue. We had already spent a few days in Dubai exploring the city before we went on this road trip to Al Ain. Please click on the link below to read the previous parts of the travelogue.
Dubai Travelogue – A Vacation in the City of Dreams
Bur Dubai – Places to Visit & Things to Do
About Al Ain
Dubai to Al Ain Bus
Al Ain Oasis
The Irrigation System
The Oasis Compound
Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum
Jebel Hafeet
Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum to Jebel Hafeet
The View from Jebel Hafeet
Green Mubazzarah
Al Ain to Dubai
Al Ain is a city in the Eastern Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, on the UAE's border with Oman, adjacent to the town of Al-Buarimi. It is the largest inland city in the Emirates, the fourth-largest overall, and the second-largest in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Al-Ain is known as the "Garden City" due to its greenery, particularly about the city's oases, parks, tree-lined avenues, and decorative roundabouts. The law restricts the construction of buildings more than seven floors to preserve the character of the city.
Various tour companies offer door to door Al Ain day trip packages. But those packages were expensive. So, we opted for public transport.
There is no RTA bus service from Dubai to Al Ain. A private operator Al Ghazool operates a minibus service from Al Ghubaiba bus station to Al Ain.
After a heavy breakfast, we reached Al-Ghubaiba bust station around 10.45 am.
Then we purchased the ticket for Al-Ain from the ticket counter at the bus station. The ticket price was 20 AED per person. Since the previous bus was more or less filled up, we stood in the queue for the next bus.
After some time, the next bus came. The seating arrangement is 2X1. But if there are more passengers, the hand rest of the double seat opens sideways and gets converted into a seat. If required, for letting in or letting out the passengers from the back-side rows, the person, sitting on that makeshift seat, gets up and folds the seat sidewise to create the passage.
Though the buses are scheduled to leave every half an hour, it seems it starts only after getting fully filled up. Our journey commenced at around 11.30 am.
The bus initially took Sheikh Zayed Road towards Abu Dhabi. Within 15-20 minutes, we were out of Dubai, driving on an asphalt road bisecting the desert.
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Almost after an hour or more, the bus left Sheikh Zayed Road and took a left turn towards Al Ain. We entered Al Ain around 1 – 1.15 pm. The arid desert got replaced by green.
We reached Al Ain bus depot at 1.30 pm. The alighting point is not inside the bus depot but adjacent to it. There is an attached taxi bay there. So, after getting down, we went to the taxi bay. The arrangement was first come first serve. We got into a taxi being driven by a driver of Pakistan origin. There was no language issue.
We had a quick discussion of the places which we should see. He, given the time available, advised us to cover Al Ain Oasis, Al Ain Museum, Jebel Hafeet, and Green Mubazzarah. We immediately started for Al Ain Oasis.
In our Dubai trip, most of the cab drivers we met were from Pakistan. All of them were very gentle and courteous to us. So were we. I really do not know why our mutual behaviors change when we come back to the homeland.
We did meet drivers from countries like Egypt, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh. All of them were gentle and professional.
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We reached Al Ain oasis around 1.50 pm.
Al Ain Oasis is the largest oasis in Al Ain. It is known for its underground irrigation system ("Falaj") which brings water from boreholes to water farms and palm trees. The Falaj irrigation is an ancient system dating back thousands of years and is used widely in Oman, UAE, Iran, and other countries.
There was a nominal entry fee, I guess. I couldn't recall it properly. Trolley buses were available for roaming inside the oasis, albeit in exchange for some fee. Cycles were available too. But we decided to wander through the alleys of Al Ain oasis. The date palm trees were offering some protection from the Sun. It was a pleasant walk.
But some stretches of the alleys were not so lucky. Those stretches were devoid of any date palm tree cover. The yellowish paver block and the yellow color painted boundary walls of the date palm groves were glowing gold under the afternoon Sun.
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Like any other oasis, water and irrigation are the two most important parts of Al Ain oasis. The allocation of available waters among the palm groves is called Falaj system which means "split into parts" in classical Arabic. In Al Ain, Falaj systems were of two types: one tapped water from mother wells sunk down to the water table and the other ran surface water from seasonal streams.
Once the water reached the oasis, it was distributed to various owners of arable land through the Shari'a, the division system, in accordance with a complex water allocation plan. With gravity, water flows to the surface through underground channels from higher ground and reaches every palm grove, where it is deviated by barriers that make it flow to each corner of the land.
Fields have a precise geometry, defined by the flow of water that descends and irrigates the corps. It is distributed along channels through large and important barriers; or through barriers prepared by the farmer as necessary.
Al Ain dates come in varieties of yellow and red. Qualities depend upon the harvesting season. There are fresh dates while others are harder, or drier and almost dehydrated. As a fundamental staple of nomadic caravans, the dates have extraordinary qualities, because palm trees concentrate minerals such as potassium, Sulphur, phosphorus, iron, sodium, magnesium, and zinc in the fruit.
It is highly nutritious as it contains vitamins A, B, C, E, fatty acids, sugars, and proteins. There are some kinds that are almost free of sugar and therefore, are useful in a diabetic diet.
There are a couple of mosques in the Al Ain Oasis complex. We reached a small cafeteria where we took a coffee and cold drinks and sat for a while to take some rest.
When we finished our visit and came out of Al Ain oasis, it was 2.45 pm.
Our next destination was the Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum. It is adjacent to Al Ain oasis and we reached there by walking.
The museum is based in the palace of the former UAE President, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918-2004), and his family. It was originally built in 1937 on the western side of the Al Ain Oasis. Sheikh Zayed lived here until 1966. It was made into a museum in 1998.
The palace is quite Spartan in structure compared to various royal palaces in India. It consists of all bit one single storied-blocks. The palace compound is square in shape. There is a high boundary wall on all sides of the compound. The main entrance to the compound is from the west.
There is a photo gallery along the inner periphery of the western wall. The palace compound can be divided into two halves though there is no formal division.
At the outer half, there is a passage from the gate which leads to a big room which probably was a meeting room. That room now contains the chronology of royal rulers and their photos.
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On one side of the passageway, there is a green lawn. On the other side, there is a cemented courtyard.
In the inner portion of the compound, there is a small courtyard with a well. There are multiple rooms on three sides of the courtyard. For some rooms, the descriptions are available about the purpose or usage.
There was no guide. Neither the guide was required. We visited the palace museum at our own pace. It did not take more than 60 minutes.
Our next destination was Jebel Hafeet.
As per our understanding with our next driver, we called him around 10 minutes before the completion of the Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum tour. By that time, we came out of the museum; he was at the parking lot. So, we immediately started for Jebel Hafeet. It was around 4 pm then.
Jebal Hafeet means "Empty Mountain" in Arabic. It is a mountain range to the north of Al Ain on the border of Al Ain and Oman. It is considered to be an outlier of the Al Hajar Mountains in Eastern Arabia. Due to its proximity to the main Hajar range, the mountain may be considered as being part of the Hajar range.
This is the sole mountain in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and one of the highest mountains in the country. It has given its name to a period in UAE history, the Bronze Age (3200 to 2600 BCE), Hafit period, because of the discovery of a cluster of important Bronze Age beehive tombs at its foothills. The distance of Jebel Hafeet from Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum is approximately 25 km.
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After starting from the museum, we took a small break at a tea stall for tea. After that, we resumed our journey towards Jebel Hafeet. We were out of Al Ain town within15 minutes.
Within another ten minutes, we reached Green Mubazzarah, at the foothill of the Jebel Hafeet Mountain.
We decided to see Green Mubazzarah while returning and therefore continued our drive. Immediately after crossing Green Mubazzarah, the upward hill drive started. The road was well tarred and the surface was super smooth. It was a two-lane road with each lane sufficiently wide. Therefore, driving was not at all difficult though there were a number of twists and turns.
The mountain was completely barren and devoid of any green whatsoever. Somewhere, it was made of solid rock, and somewhere it was made of gravels. The color was mostly brown. It was reminding me of my drive to Spiti done almost four and a half years back.
Along the road, few viewpoints have been constructed in some places. We stopped at a couple of those viewpoints to have a feel of the place and to take some photos off-course.
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We reached the top at around 4.45 pm. It cannot be technically called the top. It was essentially a parking lot just below the top. There was a cafeteria in the parking lot. There were multiple seating arrangements in the open area also.
After our morning breakfast, we did not have anything and therefore was feeling hungry. We were carrying cakes and some other snacks and had those first after reaching the top to manage our hunger.
The parking lot was huge and covered from all the sides by the railing. Though the place was not crowded, we saw many cars parked at the parking lot and many families spending time there. It appears to be one of the favorite family hang out places for the residents of Al Ain.
The only drawback of this place was connectivity. If someone does not come by own vehicle, he/she is required to book a cab/hired vehicle for both to and fro journey.
We kept on walking along the boundary of the parking lot. It was offering a fantastic view of the hill range and valley beyond that. In every direction, it was absolutely barren. There was no green within our eyesight. In the oblique sun-rays of the setting sun, the barren landscape turned golden. It was looking mesmerizingly beautiful.
After spending almost half an hour there, we started our return journey. The sun was almost ready to call it a day by then.
When we reached Green Mubazzarah, dusk has arrived.
The Green Mubazzarah is at the base of Jebel Hafeet Mountain. There is a hot spring which helped the area to create a green cover through irrigation. It was developed as a park by Sheikh Zayed and opened to the public in 2004. It seems to be a favorite destination for the residents of Al Ain to hang out.
After spending 10-15 minutes there, we went to Green Mubazzarah Lake. It's quite big with a fountain in the middle. Since it was getting dark, we started for Al Ain town after spending 5-10 minutes there.
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Till that time of the day, we did not have a proper meal since breakfast, and therefore, we were feeling hungry. From Al Ain to Dubai, it was 2 hours bus journey. So we decided to have our dinner at Al Ain. Accordingly, we requested our driver to take us to a family restaurant. He asked whether we want to go to an Indian restaurant or a Pakistani restaurant. We opted for Pakistani. So, he took us to New Quetta Restaurant.
The restaurant is divided into two parts. One part is exclusively for families. That part has two levels. We sat at a lower level. There was no other family there at that point in time. We ordered one plate of mutton kebab, one plate of chicken kebab, one chicken biriyani, and one mutton biriyani. The waiter was a jolly young man from Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
The food was sumptuous especially the mutton kebab. It just melted inside the mouth. It was a very satisfying meal after the day-long travel.
In this regard, I would like to mention that during the entire trip, we met a number of Pakistani people. All of them were very courteous to us. There was not an iota animosity.
Many of them were inquisitive about India, especially about Modi. Many of them also opined about the state of affairs in Pakistan and about Imran Khan as prime minister. It really makes me wonder why this mutual friendly feeling to each other evaporates when we come back to our native land.
We released our cab fellow after reaching the restaurant. After dinner, we took another cab and reached the Al Ain bus stand. It was a short drive.
Our bus for Dubai started at 7.45. We reached Dubai around 10 pm and thus our day trip to Al Ain came to the end.
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Santanu Bhaumik
By profession an engineer and a finance person, Santanu was born and brought up in Kolkata. However, since 2000 Santanu has been staying in Mumbai. Long-drive is Santanu's passion. His travel philosophy is 'Journey is the destination'. Beaty of nature and historical places attract Santanu most. Besides traveling, Santanu's other hobbies are reading, listening to music, photography, cooking, and watching football. Santanu is an avid fan of Kolkata football giant Mohun Bagan
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I realized it in one ordinary minute in one ordinary mini van.
Driving with an empty coffee and a full backseat, I realized it: I have finally lost myself. The me of five years ago would never recognize this new, old me.
I have tired eyes, ones that have not slept a full night in four years. I have a belly and a heart that have been stretched huge, in unrepairable and beautiful ways. I have a murky mind and a messy bed.
I am a mom, A MOM (!!), in all of its wonderful and wild forms. This is what I always imagined, and nothing like I could have imagined it. It is so much bigger than I could have dreamed it, and in such small ways.
Most days I feed and clean and cuddle, and play trucks and ponies and blocks and read lots and lots of books. Most days there are tears, usually theirs and sometimes mine.
These are the years chock full of tough and tender moments that I never want to forget but can already barely remember. I think I will forever be captured in worry and total wonder.
And all I have figured out–because I am still a TOTAL ROOKIE at this whole thing–is that these days are rarely easy and almost always really, really good.


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Amicus briefs in DOMA/Prop 8 Cases reveal broad coalition in support of marriage
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Yesterday was the last day to file amicus briefs for the upcoming Supreme Court hearings on both the so-called 'Defense of Marriage Act' (DOMA) and the constitutionality of California's 'Proposition 8' ban on marriage equality. And even a quick look at those that have been filed shows that Americans from all walks of life and all political persuasions have formed a historic and enormous (though unofficial) coalition in support of marriage equality in the U.S.
Just in case you didn't get the memo the other day when Jon Huntsman wrote his opinion piece in support of marriage for same-sex couples, more conservatives than ever are coming out in support of marriage equality. As The New York Times reported on Monday, dozens of powerful Republicans have now signed a legal brief arguing in favor of repealing Proposition 8. Later this week the brief will be submitted to the Supreme Court in the hopes that it will sway the justices to rule against Proposition 8. They are not the first conservatives to be involved in the suit against Prop 8. Ted Olson, former solicitor general under President George W. Bush, is one of two main lawyers arguing against the California law. Laura Bush, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell have all voiced their support for marriage equality, along with many other conservatives across the country.
The issue does not just impact politics either. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that a collection of 278 companies, city governments, law firms and other groups signed an amicus (friend of the court) brief in support of repealing the Defense of Marriage Act. The companies include Amazon, CBS Corporation, eBay, Facebook, Google, Starbucks, Twitter, JetBlue Airways, and Walt Disney Company, among others. The United States Conference of Mayors is also listed.
The brief argues that, "far from creating uniformity, DOMA obliges employers to treat an employee married to someone of the same sex and an employee married to someone of a different sex unequally." Additionally, "the capital of modern enterprises is in many ways a human capital. Success depends on the talent, morale and motivation of the workforce for private and public employers alike. DOMA burdens amici [those who signed the brief] and their employees, and strains the employer/employee relationship."
The signatories are all employers of Americans, LGBT and straight, who are concerned that DOMA prevents them from operating efficiently. Not only does DOMA put a strain on same-sex couples throughout this country, it also negatively impacts the productivity of American employers. During marriage equality debates there is often a question of whether marriage between same-sex couples negatively impacts businesses. Rather than report on anti-LGBT ads that suggest that marriage equality leads to costs for corporations, the media can go right to the companies themselves. Many of this country's largest employers have come out in support of marriage equality, and if the public understands that, it will become easier for other companies and individuals to voice their support as well.
And on Thursday, the President of the United States joined in, calling for the court to find Proposition 8 unconstitutional. The Obama administration had already called for the Supreme Court to find DOMA unconstitutional.
Support for marriage equality has always been treated by the media as a progressive political issue, but this doesn't work anymore. It's a business issue. It's a faith issue. It's a conservative issue. From the first sitting President to support marriage for all - to the nation's most influential corporate leaders - to a small but growing number of conservatives, these amicus briefs (and the media attention they received this past week) prove that America as a nation truly wants full equality for same-sex couples.
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After Angelhack I've been reflecting on the different technical skills needed in a hackathon, versus those I use in my day job as a software engineer. So I'm thinking about hacking (meaning experimenting, and combining things) versus engineering.
Good software engineering teams build software with a focus on creating value for the business. They also put systems in place to minimise the cost of change. This starts with taking care to identify the requirement, then building the simplest thing that meets that requirement. Over-engineering a feature creates more code which is more likely to have bugs, and is more difficult for the team to understand. And the team will change over time, so new hires will have to start again.
Minimising the cost of change means that there must be repeatable (automated) processes to build and test the software. Manual testing by humans is really slow and difficult to replicate.
When consulting/off-shoring companies become involved in software delivery there is tension to create profit while not overcharging the customer. In my experience this can lead to a short-term focus. And the practices that lead to longer term consistency and maintainability receive lower priority. Over time this leads to lower software quality. If the customer paid the consulting party to build and run the production system, that might encourage a greater focus on maintainability.
There are companies who build in the engineering from the start, creating an asset that will be maintainable in the long term. I've worked with a couple of them. It takes clear priorities and experience to minimise entropy as the software changes over time.
Good developers treat what they do as a craft.
At Chordiant, where I worked in the early 2000s, I was occasionally seconded from the professional services team the pre-sales team. The goal of the pre-sales team is to build demo-able software; so they can show something concrete to a potential client and illustrate how it solves their businesses problem. There is usually limited time to build the demo, and so the result is a constrained set of functionality which may work for only a couple of customers and while the UI looks like a full product only certain features have been enabled.
This focus on the demo makes pre-sales work much closer to the hackathon, although in the hackathon you don't have the option to co-opt code from your colleagues.
In Angelhack some teams produced narrowly focused apps. Our team chose a problem which required a system. And now I'm thinking about reusable components to build a system. To test a hypotheis with much less effort than a carefully engineering solution. Because what we're doing is identify problems and testing solutions. If we can do it in a way that is sufficiently maintainable for the lifetime of the software then that's a good result.
Tension comes when you prove your hypothesis, and transition from an early prototype that's cobbled together but isn't easily maintainable. That makes the cost of change expensive. So do you spend time working on that, or delivering new features? Once people know about your product, it's the ability to execute and deliver new features that matters.
I discovered IBM Code at the hackathon and it's an amazing resource of Open Source code that you can use to kick-start your project.
If you are a developer, in addition to finding a template project that may meet your need, you can also use these examples to give focus on technologies that are worth learning well enough so that you can customise what's there.
Here's Paul Graham's 2003 essay on Hackers and Painters.


It's an interesting spec of this Urus, that's for sure! I'm not so sure about those white insights of the wheels, though. They're a bit too much IMO.
Bold choice on the configuration! Typical USA :-) Awesome spot!
Incredible configuration! Awesome photo quality as always!
Thank you Henry, Thom, and jersay69 for your comments.
@Herman05 Hi Henry. Thanks for the info on Robert Kubica. I did get the chance to read up on his story this morning. I don't watch Formula one anymore because of the regulations. I loved the V10 and the V8 Era, way back in the day. I am so glad i have those Michael Schumacher wins on tape. Talk with you soon, buddy.
Once again, thank you for going back through all of my recent spots, Alen.


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Five Best Ebook Readers
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If you like taking your books on the go, you've never had more options. The best ereaders are slim, have batteries that last for weeks, and come in both e-ink and color varieties, have multiple screen sizes to suit you, and come at different price points. Let's look at five of the bes, based on your nominations.
Earlier in the week we asked you which ereaders you thought were the overall best—either they had the best features, the best access to books, the best battery life, or the best bang for your buck. You gave us tons of models and options, but here are the five that rose to the top, in no particular order:
What's The Best Ebook Reader?
Whether you prefer an ebook reader that's tied to an expansive store full of books or one that…
Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite is perhaps Amazon's most popular Kindle model. It's a simple 6" e-ink tablet with a built-in backlight, a battery that lasts for weeks on end, and enough capacity to hold thousands of books. It comes in Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/3G versions, with and without ad support ($119 with ads, $139 without.) It's light, easy to use one-handed, syncs wirelessly with your Amazon account, and allows you to track your reading place and your book collection on multiple devices. The e-ink display is great in bright sunlight, and just bright enough to read by at night without keeping anyone else in the vicinity awake—and you can still adjust it if you want. Like any Kindle, you can take notes and make annotations in the virtual margins of your book, look up words on the fly, adjust text size and font to make reading easier on your eyes, read footnotes and references with a tap, and more. Of course, it's also wafer thin—less than a half-inch thick, and only about seven ounces heavy.
Those of you who nominated the Kindle Paperwhite specifically noted that it's probably the ereader against which all others are judged—even other Kindle models. It's the perfect size for one-handed, on the go reading, small enough to be comfortable on the train or a plane but still hefty enough to enjoy holding and using. Some of you bemoaned Amazon and its DRM-laden books, but you also noted that the Paperwhite supports DRM-free titles from other bookstores (with the notable exception of ePub files), as long as you can get them onto the ereader to view. Plus, many of you noted the price is right as well, as it's been on sale for as low as $99 in the past, and its around-$100 price point is generally a good place for an ereader. You can read the entire (massive) nomination thread here.
Nook Simple Touch
The Barnes and Noble Nook Simple Touch may not technically be for sale anymore (although it's easily available—you can buy one for about $52 at Amazon and even less elsewhere) it's still a popular option for those people looking for the most bang for their ereader buck. B&N has moved on to the Nook Glowlight as their primary e-ink ereader, but the Simple Touch is an Android-powered tablet with great software, access to B&N's catalog of books, and perhaps most importantly, the ability to be rooted and transformed into a full-fledged Android tablet for free. Once you've done that, the possibilities are endless. It's been a while since we put together our guides on the topic, but people are still rooting their Nooks, using them as B&N ereaders when they want and Android tablets—complete with Wi-Fi internet access, other ereading or comic book apps, email, books from Google Play Books and even the Kindle app for Android, and more whenever they want to. The Simple Touch has a 6" e-ink display with soft buttons on the bezels designed for one-handed use, a battery that lasts for weeks, expandable storage, and more—all in a package that's about seven ounces.
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Those of you who nominated it praised that hack-ability, and all of the great things you can do with a Nook Simple Touch once you make it yours. Many of you praised its battery life, and many of you praised Barnes and Noble's built-in software for allowing you to do things like change font size and type, define words, customize the brightness and the scale of the display, and more. Best of all, you can switch back and forth between Android's base UI and the B&N software on the fly once you've rooted it. By and large, the tone of the nominations thread is that once you get one of these and root it, you'll have an experience unparalleled by any other ereader on the market—and one you're in complete control of. ead all about it—and other people's experiences—in the nomination thread.
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The Kindle Voyage is Amazon's new flagship ereader, with the highest-resolution, highest-contrast display they've ever built, adaptive lighting (like you see in smartphones, that gets dimmer and brightens up when necessary) a touch-sensitive display that lets you turn pages one-handed with a tap, or swipe pages away like you would a real book, a built-in backlight, and a battery that lasts for weeks on end, even considering that super-bright screen. It's also Amazon's priciest Kindle model, coming in Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/3G models starting at $200 for the ad-supported model and $219 for the ad-free model. It also packs a 6" display that's still e-ink but high-enough resolution for things like comics and manga—all into a frame with a thinner bezel that's actually smaller than the other Kindle models in its family. It's also thinner, about .3 inches thick, and lighter than the other Kindles, at under seven ounces. However, like other Kindles, you still get all of the software features that make Kindles popular, like one-tap dictionary definitions and Wikipedia entries, synced book catalogs and reading places with your Amazon account and services like Goodreads, the ability to take notes and make annotations, and more.
Those of you who nominated the Kindle Voyage noted that it's likely the direction that all of Amazon's Kindle models will go in the future, and sports the type of display that makes it just multipurpose enough to use it for more than just books, but not so multipurpose that you feel like you should have a tablet, or make you wish you could start downloading a ton of distracting apps and do other things. Many people debated whether or not the Voyage was worth the hundred dollar premium over the Paperwhite (many of you thought it was, others thought not so much), but there were plenty of you who said that the Voyage is the ereader you were waiting Amazon to make, and you didn't regret buying one. Read more in its nomination thread here.
Kobo Aura HD
The Kobo Aura HD is a limited edition Wi-Fi powered Kobo model, retailing for $149 direct (although it's long since sold out, and you'll have to get one elsewhere, or pick up the Kobo Aura, which is $129 direct) and its release offering some of the best specs for an e-ink ereader available. It packed a 7" high-resolution display that was at the top of the market until the Kindle Voyage was released, offering both larger real estate and higher resolution in a package that was still about the same size in-hand as its competition. The Aura HD offers specific controls for text rendering, font type and size, and scaling, so you can really customize your reading experience. It supports virtually every ebook format including ePub (including Amazon's DRM for library-loaned ebooks), and a shiny, firm plastic body that feels a bit more premium than the matte plastic of other ereaders on the market. The built-in light is adjustable for any ambient light level you want to read in, features expandable storage, can sync with your Kobo account to save your place and your book library, and more. The Aura, its slightly smaller cousin, packs a 6" screen with many of the same features, a long-lasting battery, and a similarly portable-yet-premium design. Kobo's software is worth commending as well, with its adaptive home screen that shows you modules and options based on the things you do with the tablet. If you read magazines, for example, it'll bump your magazines to the front and bury things like books, for example, if you don't use your Kobo to read them.
Those of you who nominated the Kobo Aura HD praised its high resolution, big, bright display, and noted that despite the Kindle being the juggernaut of the category, Kobo's offerings are worth a look, and in many ways Kobo's onboard software offered a better use experience than your Kindle did. Some of you praised the Kobo's integration with Pocket and Read It Later, and noted that the new Kobo parent company just acquired OverDrive, the company that provides thousands of libraries with ebooks to loan out for free to their customers. Many of you went out of your way to prasie the build quality on both the Aura and the Aura HD models, and the Kobo app, which gives you the ability to manage your book collection, read, and keep your place in your books on any device. Read more in its nomination thread here.
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Kobo Glo HD
The Kobo Glo HD is a contentious nominations, but it earned the supporting votes to make the top five—namely because it's not really out yet. Sure, Kobo has announced it, and it has the specs necessary to take on the Kindle Voyage in the high-end ereader market, but it's not available for general purchase yet. When it is, it'll be a Wi-Fi powered 6" e-ink ereader for $129 with a high-resolution display like you'd see in a smartphone or a tablet, but still battery-sipping e-paper. It'll weigh about six ounces, come in at .35 inches thick, and pack Kobo's customization-heavy software, which will give you tons of font choices, font size options, and font weight and sharpness settings. It'll also have a built-in adjustable light, and will, like all Kobo models, support ePub and other popular ebook file formats. Also like other Kobo models, the Glo HD will learn from your reading habits, and float books you were in the middle of to the top of its UI, highlight apps that you use most often while hiding ones you don't, and so on.
Those of you who nominated and supported the nomination of the Glo HD probably knew that the product wasn't out yet (it's due to hit stores May 1st, so it won't be long now) but it's likely going to be a top contender for people shopping to ereaders, especially given the fact that Overdrive and Kobo are under the same roof, like we mentioned above. It also helps to remember that Kobo does have its own ecosystem thanks to the Kobo app and its own bookstore, all of which make it easy to read on multiple devices if you want, or just use the Kobo when you choose. You can read more in its nomination thread here.
Now that you've seen the top five, it's time to put them to a vote and determine the community favorite:
The honorable mention this week goes out to any iPad or Android tablet, which many of you chimed in and nominated because you felt you didn't need a stand-alone ereader when you could just get a tablet like an iPad or a Nexus 7 and go from there—combined with ereading apps from multiple book stores like Amazon's Kindle app, Google Play Books and Movies, Apple's iBooks, and others, you have access to more material on a tablet than you might using a store's branded ereader. However, the downside though is that you give up those late-night friendly e-ink screens or screens designed specifically for reading, long battery life, and lightweight portability in favor of often more expensive (even if they are more versatile) higher-end devices.
Have something to say about one of the contenders? Want to make the case for your personal favorite, even if it wasn't included in the list? Remember, the top five are based on your most popular nominations from the call for contenders thread from earlier in the week. Don't just complain about the top five, let us know what your preferred alternative is—and make your case for it—in the discussions below.
The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it didn't get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it's a bit of a popularity contest. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email at tips+hivefive@lifehacker.com!
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Walking is the most common way to get around Puerto Lopez. Riding in a mototaxi is second.
Puerto Lopez is a casual town. Sometimes you will even find a mototaxi driver who brought his dog to work.
Wave your arm when an unoccupied mototaxi is approaching to flag them down. Unless they are already on a call, they will pick you up for your trip anywhere within Puerto Lopez.
There is no central dispatch. If you regularly need pickup in less traveled areas, get a couple of driver's phone numbers.
Want an informal tour? Hire a mototaxi! Many drivers are happy to take you around Puerto Lopez. The four mototaxi cooperatives are providing English lessons for their drivers. If you speak no Spanish, ask around to find a driver who speaks some English. Jon, in the top photo and below, asks us to speak English so he can practice.
When traveling outside of Puerto Lopez, options are bus, taxi (not mototaxi) or drive your own vehicle.
What are common travel methods in your town?
Last year, I wrote Monkey on my head.
I've always wanted one of those little things myself, but not as taxi- a perfect means of transport in my town and easy to park!
They would be great to have! I have seen some used ones for sale, Keith. Perhaps you could export it?
I live on the edge of the boonies. You can walk, but there's nothing within miles to actually walk *to*, so that is purely a recreational activity. No public transport, the train station is 6 miles away – which is a long walk with luggage – so it's cars for us.
Think you could persuade Jon to come here and drive? I promise I'd speak English to him!
Cars sound like the most sensible method of getting from A to B there, Jz. I imagine Jon would enjoy seeing the wilderness there and how it differs from here. And speaking to you in English! Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
It is such a fun way to get around. I've seen these "Tuk-tuks" in India, Peru, Mexico and more. An adventure ride every time. Thank you for a bit of fun on what is here in southern Ontario, a miserable (ice pellets + freezing rain + wind) Saturday.
I do love riding in them! Hoping you get some spring weather sometime soon, April! Most of my relatives are freezing in Minnesota so you have company in that department. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
What fun! Those look like the perfect mode of transport!
They sure are! Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
Where I live you walk, Drive, Ride a bike or Horse or hitchhike. No taxi of any kind exist. But we are small and rural. This looks like fun.
It is fun, Nancy! I do get a little spoiled having mototaxis all around. If it is too hot or raining, I just flag down a ride home. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
These were very popular in India (I'm sure they still are) but we called them Tuk-Tuks. I never rode in one because we had a driver and translator, but they looked fun.
So glad you have seen them, Heather, even if by another name. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
They are perfect for this area, Hilary! They would not really work where snow falls, unless they only worked 1/2 the year (summer, of course). Thanks for stopping over and commenting! I have no idea how you visit so many blogs but I am super impressed!
LOVE the dog co-driver, Deborah! Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
We call them auto-rickshaws in India – very popular everywhere. Also seen them in the suburbs of Cairo. Economical and fun way to get around.
I agree, Nila – economical and fun way to get around. Ours are only in small towns, not the cities or suburbs. Thanks for visiting and commenting!
Cute and fun, too! Thanks for visiting and commenting, Donna!
Mototaxis are called auto-rickshaws or three-wheelers in India and they are everywhere. And each city/region comes with its own urban legend/temperament associated with the drivers of these vehicles. You'd be warned about the rude ones in Chennai or the ones in Delhi who refuse to use their meter and charge you extra.
How funny and interesting that each region has a reputation for their drivers. Now I know – in Delhi I would ask the amount before getting into the auto-rickshaw. Thanks for visiting and commenting, Arti!
What wonderful photos and a fun post. Good on you for leaving corporate America. I've become addicted to Uber and Lyft in the States since I broke my right foot.
Thank you, Shari. Sorry about your broken foot! Hope it is healing well. Thanks for visiting and commenting.
That dog is cute, Shilpa, and well behaved – just sits there enjoying the sights while they are working. Thanks for visiting and commenting!
Can I buy one of the used mototaxies and get a License to run it here legally as a private resident?
I have seen them for sale on olx.com so they can be purchased. I have never asked about owning one as a private citizen but you can ask at any ANT office (Manta and Jipijapa both have offices) if you would need a drivers license for a car or motorcycle to operate one.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Bruce! Hope to see you around town.
Good day. While I am aware that a driver's license is required, it is the ability to get Private License Plates for a Private Tuk Tuk that was of interest. Visiting an ANT Office doesn't work for me, as I cannot speak Spanish.
Sounds perfect, Ronel! Thanks for A-Z road-tripping.


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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/9/14
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NETWORK UPDATE: HANNIBAL provided a reminder of how low its license fee must be by falling even further in final numbers to 0.7. Both the original and rerun episodes of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY fell 0.1, while 20/20 gained 0.1 from the early numbers.
FRIDAY CABLE: Once again, all that really registered was sports, with the NBA PLAYOFFS on ESPN on top, scoring 2.1 (Clippers/Thunder) and 1.,2 (Pacers/Wizards). Remarkably, even a reairing of the Clippers/Thunder game at the ungodly hour of 3:30AM brought in a healthy 0.5. The 2d round of the NFL DRAFT, also on ESPN, continued to draw well at 1.1 (plus 0.6 for NFL Network coverage). NHL PLAYOFFS on NBC Sports Network and WWE on Syfy were both at 0.7.
Another very mild sweeps night.
ABC: Without the strong lead-in it had last week (this week the 8PM slot was filled with one of its own reruns at 1.0), SHARK TANK fell 0.4 to 1.9. 20/20 followed, down 0.2 to 1.5.
CBS: A night of season finales had mixed results, as UNFORGETTABLE and BLUE BLOODS slipped 0.1 to a respective 0.8 and 1.4, while HAWAII 5-0 climbed 0.1 to 1.3.
NBC: DATELINE and GRIMM both held even with last week at 1.2/1.3, while HANNIBAL demonstrated how low its just-renewed license fee must be by falling 0.1 to 0.8.
CW: Both WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY and the just-renewed HART OF DIXIE rose, respectively by 0.2 to 0.6 (a rerun afterward was at 0.5, also up from last week), and by 0.1 to 0.3.
FOX: A rerun of the 24 season premiere at 0.3.
ABC and FOX liven up primetime tonight with NBA PLAYOFFS and NASCAR. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE is hosted by Charlize Theron (soon to be seen in A Million Ways To Die In the West), with musical guests The Black Keys. On Sunday, ABC airs the season finales of ONCE UPON A TIME and REVENGE, NBC launches its 2-part remake of ROSEMARY'S BABY, and Showtime premieres its own horror series PENNY DREADFUL.
WEDNESDAY Ratings
Preliminary ratings are delayed by Nielsen until at least 9:30 am PT (90 minutes past due). The ratings service is performing extra "quality checks," so be prepared for unusually high quality ratings later this morning!
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Embattled ABC fared the best on a slow night. ABC: LAST MAN STANDING was down 0.2 from last week to 1.2, but things improved after that, as THE NEIGHBORS held at 0.9, SHARK TANK was easily the highest rated show of the night on any network, steady at 2.0,…
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NETWORK UPDATE: CROSSBONES couldn't hold its preliminary number, and slipped 0.1 to a 1.0 premiere. WHAT WOULD YOU DO went up 0.1 to 1.2, and the SHARK TANK rerun was likewise up to 1.1. FRIDAY CABLE: There was nothing going on but sports and comedy reruns. ESPN's NBA PLAYOFFS…
NETWORK UPDATE: CROSSBONES can't seem to hold onto a 0.6 rating, as it dropped again to a timbers-shivering 0.5. 20/20 climbed 0.1. FRIDAY CABLE: Syfy's WWE led the cable evening, up 0.1 to 0.8 amid the many FAMILY GUY and ROBOT CHICKEN reruns. Its leadout THE ALMIGHTY JOHNSONS held onto…
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."


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Chinook salmon found dead at British Columbia spawning grounds. Credit: Kristi Miller-Saunders, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
New viruses discovered in endangered wild Pacific salmon populations
Sep 4, 2019 | For more information, contact Chris Balma
Three new viruses—including one from a group of viruses never before shown to infect fish—have been discovered in endangered Chinook and sockeye salmon populations.
While the impact of the viruses on salmon health isn't yet known, all three are related to viruses that cause serious disease in other species.
"We were surprised to find viruses which had never before been shown to infect fish," said Gideon Mordecai, researcher at UBC's department of earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences. "Although there's no risk to humans, one of the viruses is evolutionarily related to respiratory coronaviruses, and is localized to the gills. That suggests it has a similar infection strategy to its distant relatives that infect mammals."
UBC and Fisheries and Oceans Canada researchers used DNA sequencing followed by tests specific to each virus to screen more than 6,000 salmon from along the B.C. coast, including wild, hatchery and aquaculture fish.
"We found the new viruses widely distributed in dead and dying farmed salmon and in wild salmon," said UBC virologist Curtis Suttle. "It emphasizes the potential role that viral disease may play in the population dynamics of wild fish stocks, and the threat that these viruses may pose to aquaculture."
One new virus, detected more commonly in salmon hatcheries, infected more than 15 per cent of all hatchery Chinook tested.
Another new virus was detected in 20 per cent of Chinook from fish farms —but was only found in adult or sub-adult salmon. In general, the new viruses were more commonly found in cultured fish populations than in wild.
"It's essential that we determine whether these viruses are important factors in the decline of Chinook and sockeye salmon stocks," said Suttle. "The research highlights the need for robust surveillance to improve our understanding of how viruses might impact the health of wild Pacific salmon populations."
Over the past 30 years, steady declines in Chinook and sockeye salmon populations have been of great concern to Indigenous peoples, commercial and recreational fishers, and the general public. While much of the focus has been on the impact of piscine orthoreovirus (PRV), the new findings highlight how little is known about other viruses endemic to salmon populations.
"Being able to screen so many fish for these viruses was an exciting breakthrough, and meant we were able to identify hotspots of infection," adds Mordecai.
"One of the viruses was relatively common in juvenile migratory salmon as they enter the ocean—a period thought to be critical to their survival into adulthood."
The work was funded as part of the Strategic Salmon Health Initiative, a partnership of Genome BC, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Pacific Salmon Foundation.
The findings were published today in the journal eLife.
Note to media: additional photos available here.
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UBC Science
Email: balma@science.ubc.ca


Homemade Cheesy Lasagna is one of my favorite dishes to eat and to make. I'm guilty of making super quick and easy meals but when I have the time, I love to make this for dinner. Now that I think of it, I'm not really sure why I don't make it more often; it really doesn't take a lot of active time and I love to create my meals from scratch and my family does, too!
Using fresh parsley is important in making this dish. Not only does it make the sauce smell amazing but it also gives a wonderfully fresh taste to the dish. In addition to the fresh parsley, an important step to this dish is to let the sauce simmer. It's always flavorful and delicious, and honestly, you just can't beat a homemade dish.
After baking, let the lasagna cool for about 15 minutes before serving. It will result in the ability to portion it off without it spilling everywhere. I think we've all made that mistake of serving lasagna as soon as it comes out of the oven. Let it rest, it's worth it!
If you're serving sides, garlic breadsticks and caesar salad are perfect to serve with this homemade cheesy lasagna. By garnishing the top of the lasagna, it adds to presentation and makes for pretty plating when serving guests.
My family gets excited when they come home to the wonderful smell of melting cheese and simmering tomato sauce. Presumably so, it's a meal that our family enjoys and I hope your family will love it, too!
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This homemade cheesy lasagna is flavorful. The key to full flavor is letting the sauce simmer and using fresh parsley.
Preheat oven to 375° and line 9x13 dish with aluminum foil and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
Brown beef and Italian sausage in large pot. Drain and crumble.
Add in garlic, onion, sauce, paste, and diced tomatoes and mix well.
Add in 1 tbsp sugar. Add salt, pepper, and parsley to taste.
Simmer on low, stirring occasionally for about an hour.
Slowly stir in ricotta cheese and until well blended.
In prepared 9x13 dish, Spread half of the meat mixture in dish.
Spread half of cheese mixture evenly across noodles.
After topping with remaining cheese, spread evenly and cover dish with aluminium foil.
Remove aluminum foil and bake for about another 15 minutes. Just until tops have browned.
This looks absolutely amazing! How yummy!
This lasagna looks so cheesy and delicious, I can't wait to try it! Yum!
I love a good American-Italian Lasagna, I know it may not be what my immigrant grandparents enjoyed in Italy, but darn it I love all the cheesy goodness. I have had long lectures from family members on "How they used to have it", however, both are fabulous if made right and yours looks AMAZING!! Keep those awesome American Italian Lasagna recipe coming I really enjoy them!!
That's Italian comfort food I know I could surprise my hubby – but only after biking some extra miles;) It looks delicious!
I love a good lasagna recipe. Especially with lots of cheese!
This looks so delicious and inviting 👌 itd been ages I have made a lasagna at home..time to change that!


The words "anxiety" and "procrastination" go hand-in-hand. Luckily, we came up with some useful information on the nature of procrastination, its advantages and ways to deal with it.
Sometimes the right idea about your assignment just doesn't come to mind, and procrastination gives you extra time to come up with a good plan.
The feeling of impending doom caused by deadlines can give you an unbelievable rush of energy.
By contrast, all the other tasks suddenly seem quite appealing.
Stop being so hard on yourself. Face the bad choices you make, but concentrate on the possible solutions, not on the problems.
Separate your task into segments based on difficulty and ask yourself: "Why do I procrastinate?" If the answer is "I am afraid," then you should probably do the more challenging part first to deal with fear as soon as possible. However, if you feel no anxiety whatsoever, feel free to attend to the simple part first.
Cleaning up your workspace will give you a better access to all the tools and positively alter the circuitry of your brain.
If one particular part of your task gives you a particular headache, turn it into several small tasks.
Do you feel like listening to a podcast rather than doing your work? Choose an educational podcast.
Don't go down this road. Think about yourself and don't waste your energy on beating yourself up.
This is the most useful tool of self-discipline. Plan your day in advance and be the master of your desires and moods.
You don't want to be exhausted, so improve your productivity by getting enough rest. You can include your time off in your schedule.
If you only have a vague idea about your task, don't hesitate to get clear instructions from your superiors or use some online guide.
Stay away from social networks in general and your smartphone in particular. Just try to spend a couple of hours without it and you will get more productive.
Try following these simple tips and you will improve your working habits. Even if you procrastinate, procrastinate wisely!


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There's always a story behind those #PicturesOfYou
by SteveMolk | Mar 21, 2012 | Channel MTT, Featured, Molks Media, Network News | 0 comments
This is such a smart and simple premise from the team at Working Dog that it was key they had the right person host the show to ensure the focus was always on the guest. Casting Brian Nankervis to guide and direct the conversation is inspired as he has that rare quality that allows him to connect with people instantly. You can see them warm to him as they share about life and the joy or sadness behind the many pictures they've chosen to share. CAN. NOT. WAIT. From the press release:
Flicking through someone's early photo collection tells us so much about who they are today. Pictures of You is a deceivingly simple idea – and one that the team from Working Dog has wanted to explore for quite some time.
Hosted by Brian Nankervis, it's about well-known people, or in this case people we assume we know well, sharing photos from their formative years.
Brian discovers there's something disarmingly honest and revealing about old photos, as guests including Zoe Ventoura, Julia Morris, Anh Do, Peter Helliar, Megan Washington, Layne Beachley, Russell Gilbert and Shane Jacobson share what has shaped them, their family, their childhood hobbies, where they took holidays and even what the hell they were thinking with their Year 12 formal outfit!
Even for well-known Australians who might have reason to be a little guarded about their personal modern day lives, old family snapshots hold no such fears and Pictures of You reaps from the reveal.
While he's no stranger to Australian television audiences and is most recognized for his role as adjudicator on RockWiz , this is the first time in Brian's career that he has a show of his own. Guiding guests through their childhood photos and encouraging them to talk openly about their formative years shows Brian at his best – a warm, encouraging, interested yet not intrusive listener.
Pictures of You Special Presentation – Tue 27/3 9:30pm, Ch7.
The series will return after Easter.