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Inspiration in life, basketball, yoga, travel and so much moreMeet Sarah Brodie, a Canadian EPIK teacher experiencing every day to the fullest
▲ Photo by Susan Shain
This week, I caught up with Sarah Brodie, a Canadian EPIK (English Program in Korean) teacher and aspiring yoga teacher with a lot on her mat. Sarah, though built like a supermodel, exudes effortless beauty and good vibes most when speaking about her many passions and interests. When around her, it is hard not to feel energized by her positivity and enthusiastic visions of world betterment. What makes this former professional basketball player tick? Read on to find out.
What is your hometown and what can you tell me about it?
London, Ontario. London's a great city; it's not too big. And it's actually got a great yoga community there. It's really close to Toronto – only about two hours away.
Did you go to college there?
No, I went to York University in Toronto. I majored in Fine Arts – sculpture.
Do you feel like that artistic side comes out in your yoga?
Yes, definitely. I love to make things with my hands, and yoga's like an artistic expression with my body. It's really cool.
And it probably addresses your athletic side, too. Tell me about your experiences as a basketball player.
I played basketball for five years in college. It was amazing, and my team-mates are still my best friends. We all were recruited together, and we had a lot of potential, but we weren't good at that stage. We played together and we played for each other, and it was the best experience of my life. We started at nothing, and by the end of my last year, we were top 10 in Canada and went to the nationals twice.
What position did you play?
I played a five, post.
Then, you played after college, as well. How did that get started?
I graduated and then trained with a friend all summer. We went and tried out in Germany, where I ended up meeting the Finnish coach and signing the contract to play for his team. Then, I moved to Finland.
How did you find Finland?
It was an interesting experience. ... As soon as you're put onto a team, you automatically have friends, which was really helpful. I lived with three Americans, but my other teammates didn't speak a great deal of English.
Was that your first experience abroad?
Yes. My try-out in Germany was the first time I'd left North America, so that was really cool. Finland was my first time living in a country where English wasn't the first language, which was sort of shocking. It was such a funny experience because all of a sudden you're like a celebrity in this tiny little town.
How long were you there?
I stayed there for half of the season and then I decided I wasn't having fun anymore. I came from a team where I was with all my best friends, and it was amazing. Then all of a sudden it really was a job and I found I wasn't loving it. So, I decided I was done with basketball. I came home for Christmas and decided I wasn't going to go back. Then I was talking to a friend of mine in Perth, Australia, and she convinced me to come out there. So, I ended up deciding within a week to move to Australia for the year. She talked me into playing basketball while I was there. I wasn't intending to, but I ended up playing semi-professional, just for fun. I was getting paid, but not really, so I scooped ice cream on the beach for my job. It was the best!
And after that year, what did you do?
Then I went back to London and got a job working at lululemon, a yoga apparel company.
Were you into yoga at all before that?
A little bit... for two years, I had been wanting to try yoga. But I was always around basketball people, and no one I knew was really doing yoga. Something about it was like, "Oh, I want to try yoga; I think I'd really love it." But I didn't have time or put effort into doing it. Then I met this guy in Australia – Neal, a yoga teacher, who took me to all these yoga classes. So, when I came back to London, I knew I needed to get a job working in yoga.
What was your job at lululemon?
I was working as a community manager there, so I got to go to all of the studios and basically make connections in the community. Take classes, do yoga with them. I got to try all these different styles of yoga, and it was amazing. I was there for a year and a half.
What made you decide to come to Jeju?
I met Brady at lululemon, and we decided we were ready for something different – a change. I wanted to teach English abroad, and he was up for that. Two of our friends who had worked at lululemon before were working on Jeju, as a couple. They told us about it, and we decided it's where we wanted to be – very active and an island! How could it not be amazing? So, we came in September 2010.
And what have been your thoughts about Jeju?
Every day, we just feel so lucky to be here. We live right on the water, and waking up and just seeing the ocean is so amazing. I was really nervous when I came, especially as a vegetarian, but I have been pleasantly surprised. I've found things to eat, and it's challenged me to make my own food. I love saunas and the culture's really cool. There's a lot about it that I really love.
Do you enjoy teaching?
I do enjoy teaching [laughs]… I do like it. There's parts that have been really hard, because I haven't been trained to teach. I've never done it before. So there's parts where I'm like, am I doing this right? You sort of hit the ground running, you know? The kids, though, how could you not like them? They're so great. And I do appreciate teaching ESL because it reminds me to choose my words carefully, which is great practice for teaching yoga… being mindful and clear!
Where are your favorite places on Jeju?
I really like Donnaeko, and Jungmun Beach. And we hiked Olle 1, and I loved that, because it was so much different scenery all around the east coast.
Favorite thing about Korea
I'm going to miss the sauna so much. Especially when it gets cold out, you need to go. It's so warm, and it's the most relaxing feeling just to go and sit in the sauna and close your eyes.
Favorite Korean food?
Sujaebi [potato noodle soup] at Mulmaegol – the vegan temple restaurant – in Susan-ri.
What are you involved in on the island?
Salsa, Ultimate Frisbee, volleyball, taekwondo, pottery, knitting... I also taught yoga in Sara-bong.
That's a lot! Do you love that there are so many things to get involved in?
I love it, but it's almost like, right now, I'm at the point where I have to pull myself back and just focus on one or two things instead of everything. There's always something that comes up, and it's like "I want to do that!" When I was in university, it was basketball, that's it. I didn't think about anything else. But now, I can do whatever I want! I kind of have my hands in a little bit of everything. You meet so many great people and people invite you to things or start things, and I want to support them. Like, when I started teaching yoga, there was such a huge support. It was awesome.
Will you teach yoga again?
Yeah, I will. I just needed a bit of a break. Right at that time, I started doing so many activities, and I had no free nights. I taught yoga for three months and then got burnt out, but I will teach again — probably in the fall.
What do you want to do with yoga?
I want to be an Anusara yoga teacher. That will be a long path, but I'm really excited for it. I've already been reading the teacher manuals. My teacher at home is an inspired Anusara yoga teacher, which is the first level. Every time I left her yoga class I would just feel really amazing.
What's different about Anusara?
It's really focused on the universal principles of alignment, which spoke to me because of my basketball background. And then, I wasn't expecting this, but the spiritual side also spoke to me. It's about connecting to something greater than you and the tantric philosophy that we're all the same. Every class beings with intention, and you talk about setting an intention for the class. John Friend, who founded Anusara, said "Yoga is an artistic expression of your heart." He's an inspiration to me, and I think you can use yoga to make the world a better place.
How long do you plan to stay on the island?
We're going to stay for another year, then, we'll probably take a few months off to travel before heading back to London. Then it's really about me finding a yoga teacher that I want to train with, and I'll go wherever they are.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Teaching yoga and living in Vancouver with Brady. Maybe with a family, and a little pottery studio in the basement.
Yeah, Vancouver's awesome.
I've actually never been there! But it really speaks to me, being among the oceans the mountains. I just know I will love it.
Anybody who inspires you?
My yoga teacher, Mindy, from the Mindful Body studio in London. She's awesome, but she's closing that studio soon to teach in new places. Also, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau. She is a vegan and animal rights activist. I believe that adopting a compassionate diet will change the world!
What are the most important things in life to you?
Yoga, vegetarianism, my friends and family, and travel.
Where could you go if you could go anywhere in the world?
Iceland, Thailand, or India. I want to see the Taj Mahal and do yoga with the masters!
Any words to live by?
Don't stress. Everything works out in the end.


Theater Review: Is Theresa Rebeck Interested in Sarah Bernhardt, or Only Pretending to Be?
There's a special kind of cringing reserved for plays that seem like they'll be up your alley and instead get aggressively on your nerves. Watching Moritz von Stuelpnagel's overwrought production of Theresa Rebeck's clamorous but rudderless Bernhardt/Hamlet at the American Airlines, I could feel my heart sinking. This is the kind of play that, especially if you're a woman, leans out into the audience and tries to grab you by the shoulders, half pleading and half threatening through gritted teeth: Like me! You're supposed to like me! I am so Right Now! Do your job and LIKE ME. Well, as the saying goes, sorry not sorry. Loud, basically laudable politics don't automatically make for good theater (if they did, we'd be living in a golden age); nor, unfortunately, do interesting historical figures. Even though Sarah Bernhardt — the grande dame of the fin de siècle French stage, around whom Rebeck's play spins — is certainly intriguing, I can get that much from her Wikipedia page. In attempting to translate historical record (and a fair amount of historical fiction) to drama, Bernhardt/Hamlet falls into the gaping trap of the bio-play. Full of period frills and actorly flourishes, it fails to convey either astonishing mythos or full, authentic humanity. Instead, it fills its protagonist's mouth with passé sentiments, ideas whose risqué gloss has faded, packaged as relevant and revelatory. The badass British actor Janet McTeer, for all her innate playfulness and power, can't save this reincarnation of the Divine Sarah. The great actress ends up coming across as slightly behind our time, rather than ahead of her own.
That realization of her own mortality, in the face of the immortality of the character she's decided to take on, lies at the heart of the protagonist's struggle in Bernhardt/Hamlet. Or, it could have. In the end, it's a play about ego and insecurity, and part of what Rebeck is trying to argue is that the more angst-ridden Sarah grows — the more she frets and doubts and wavers and rages in her pursuit of the melancholy Dane — the more like him she becomes. The bitter irony being that when she, a woman, behaves in a Hamlet-ian fashion, the dense men around her decide she's irrational, hysterical, that her "feminine" mind can't fully grasp Shakespeare's prince, even as she's nearing his essence. That's a compelling idea, and it should be a fascinating arc: a new great part full of both fire and doubt — and this time for a woman — created in the pursuit of an old one.
But it doesn't come off. It's as if Rebeck discovered this incredibly rich, deep vein of ore, and instead decided to mine a collection of nearby, more accessible deposits. One of the frustrations of Bernhardt/Hamlet is that it has no sustaining engine. Instead of driving into an unanswerable question, a gnawing central concern to hold the play together, Rebeck gives us a collection of individual scenes with neatly constructed arguments. They've got clear topics, builds, climaxes, and resolutions, and they do little to rocket the play forward. "What are we arguing about now?" asks Rostand at one point, and the question feels a little too spot-on. At the end of each scene, the actors must collect their energy for a new, self-contained debate. Other future actors will bring these scenes into acting classes, because they're often clear-cut he-wants-this/she-wants-that duets (indeed, characters even ostentatiously excuse themselves to make room for the next two-hander). They're solidly constructed — they just don't go the distance.
No. I'm not afraid of death, nor is Hamlet, honestly, he's afraid merely of the night, the panic of the soul, the terrifying dread of meaninglessness. Gone in the light of day, but at night it is nothing but the most malicious of battles. Sanity is at risk at night and that is finally where Hamlet puts himself. Turning a saint into a murderer is no mean trick.
There's something there, perhaps even the keys to the role that Sarah has been searching for. She's been all caught up over his hesitation, the fact that he "does nothing but think" (a common objection to Hamlet — never mind that he's thinking rather than killing a human being). Now she's cracking something open, something that connects Hamlet's dread to her own. But von Stuelpnagel won't let McTeer take time over anything, which means even someone with her formidable powers gets caught up in affect and grand gesture. When she plants her feet and refuses to "play the ingenue" anymore, thundering that empty-headed parts like Roxanne in Cyrano de Bergerac — which Rostand has, in this story, written for her — are "beneath all women," the audience cheers. And the applause feels manipulated out of us: It's as much a response to the climax of a speech as it is to the idea expressed, legitimate in sentiment but inauthentic in source. Von Stuelpnagel frames Bernhardt's frustration as a cathartic "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!" moment — and as an actress I know noted sadly, "I've been having that argument my whole life. We all have. That's not what it looks like." This Sarah Bernhardt walks defiantly away from Cyrano, while the real actress did indeed play Roxanne in Rostand's smash hit. In making Bernhardt a righteous resister, Rebeck misses the chance to emphasize her contradictions: Perhaps Bernhardt did object to the one-dimensional role, but whether out of vanity or compulsion or professionalism or loyalty, or any number of complex motivations, she took it anyway.
While von Stuelpnagel seems intent on out-Heroding Herod, McTeer and Rebeck are caught in a trap that's at once more difficult and more sympathetic. They're torn between the seduction of Bernhardt's myth and the more unknowable essence of her humanity — between the compulsion to hold up this spectacular woman from history as both an artistic legend and a feminist hero, and the less flashy, much more personal impulse to tell the story of a woman of the theater who's wrestling with ego, uncertainty, mortality, and Shakespeare. I know which story interests me more, but Bernhardt/Hamlet never fully makes the leap. Instead, it spends its time plucking low-hanging fruit and getting its characters into arguments that feel like cul-de-sacs. It can't decide whether it wants to ridicule or re-envision Hamlet's lack of resolve, and in the meantime, it never quite finds its own.
Bernhardt/Hamlet is at the American Airlines Theatre.


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Nature - Landscape - Field
seen from the perspective of IRWEGK and Art
(Thesis: The concept of landscape contains the call to artistic life).
Here I would like to look at different varieties of the relationship between man and the world through the terms mentioned and reflect on which of these relationships gives hope on positive change for the endangered world we live in.
The background for this research is IRWEGK.
This theme of contextualisation also plays a role in my stimmf(i)eld-recordings, which I therefore combine with this text. The recordings are created in a sound situation that I find somewhere. That means I do not create the situation, but place myself in it. I add my own vocal interventions to the sound situation. I try not to put the voice in the foreground, but to let it sound as part of the sound space.
As always with me and my media arte povera actions, there is no technical change afterwards. Only the beginning and end of the track are sometimes slightly edited (fade in/out).
stimmf(i)eld-recording No 2
Nature is the most comprehensive of the terms in the headline. Nature seems to be everything, at least if one understands it cosmologically. At the same time, it is the most ambiguous term. It can mean many different things.
The modern concept of nature, which we all carry with us and can no longer get rid of, places nature in opposition to culture. (The other confrontation, which is related to the first, sees man as opposed to nature. More on this later!).
This opposition is fundamental to modern Europe. We have been shaped by it, and only very rarely is there a hint from other ways of thinking that it can also be thought differently. Then culture and nature are not opposed to each other, but are intertwined.
One result of this division, which has become so apparent in recent decades, is the cultural distance of nature activists. There are many people and institutions that want to preserve and save nature, in which culture is seen as an adversary rather than a fellow campaigner. (This is another reason why the German Greens have never presented a convincing cultural agenda in their now long time of existence). Another example: Last Generation?
That is only gradually changing. Nature does not exist! is a sentence that stands for this new tendency. It does not exist in the sense that it is presented as the opposite of culture. Culture, by the way, does not exist either. Now that the world as we knew it is falling apart, it is becoming clear that this separation is one of the reasons for the disaster. We must learn again to understand nature and culture as a common field (!). Then it will also no longer be possible, for example, to conduct economics as a science (?) in which the collateral damage that happens in nature is simply ignored and not integrated into one's calculations. Only in this way the world destruction (ecological and social) by capitalism was possible at all.
The concept of a nature that stands in opposition to humans and the cultural world they have created was one of the preconditions for the triumph of capitalism.
A new spirit that no longer obeys capitalism must be found and practised. This is a task that IRWEGK sets itself. The working thesis is: this spirit can be found in the field of art, which has a different way of understanding the relationship between the world and people than has been the norm in modernity. Not separation of subject and object, not seeing the world only as a scientific object or nature as a resource to be exploited, a rubbish bin or a recreation area.
In my reflections on the concept of landscape, I refer to the writings of the author Volker Demuth: the article "Landschaftsentfaltung/unfolding of landscape" which appeared some time ago in Lettre International and Demuth's book entitled "Unruhige Landschaften/restless landscapes", subtitled "Ästhetik und Ökologie/ aesthetics and ecology" (Würzburg 2022). The subtitle alone indicates that Demuth has a lot to teach us about a poetic-artistic understanding of the world, which we at IRWEGK seek to explore.
Landscape is not an unproblematic concept either, but it has the potential to promote a way of thinking that practises respectful interaction with the world. The concept of landscape has not escaped unscathed in the era of capitalism and has long since been capitalistically boxed in: "We have, it seems, become accustomed in the majority to dividing landscape into two areas: on the one hand, into a space of experience, in which landscapes are kept ready as sentimental reception camps and wellness areas for those tired of civilisation and idylls provide aesthetic relaxants for the stressed psychological system; on the other hand, into a space of use, which we exploit and from which we make as much capital as possible. In bizarre parallelism, landscapes with intensive agro-industrial use and scenic tourism backdrops with recreational value lie directly next to each other." (Demuth, p. 56)
Landscape as a concept is more helpful than nature in understanding man's relationship to his habitat. Landscape is a "natural-social space", i.e. landscape is not simply nature, but a context composed of natural, social and cultural aspects that is somehow perceived as a unity.
Nature, on the other hand, is the "other", something that seems to exist quite independently of culture or man. (Even though nature in this sense no longer exists at present because the whole earth is affected by human intervention).
Landscape is a system of relationships in which I am situated: sensual, emotional, cognitive - aesthetic, spiritual, giving meaning, relating.
I will list a few aspects of the concept of landscape from which a more comprehensive idea of landscape can be formed that supports the IRWEGK.
Landscape as a unit of life
In the Middle Ages, "landscape bound together the physicality of a region and those people who worked and spent their existence in it as a community into an inseparable unit of life". (Demuth, p. 53) We don't want to go back there, but we can learn something from this for our situation. If we understand ourselves as human beings in such a way that we are included in landscapes, we may recognise more quickly and better the ethical consequences that go hand in hand with our existence in the world. There is an ethos of relatedness. I have to relate to the references in which I live. The concept of landscape can help to re-establish an awareness of precisely this.
Another important point of the old concept of landscape was its metaphysical dimension. In all cultures before modernity, spirits, gods or God were present in the landscape. That is, the sacred was always part of the landscape. This has become almost unimaginable for us today. The question is, how can we find something of this idea of sacredness again without having to rely on God or the gods? That is also what we try to practise at IRWEGK.
To do this, it is important to realise that the original significance and "sacredness" of landscapes, with everything that can be found in them, has retreated into the sphere of art through aestheticisation in the course of Europe's modern development. There it hibernates until today and there we seek it out in order to reintegrate it into life with our modest means. We are now concerned with the aesthetic landscape:
Landscape as an aesthetic entity.
Later, in Renaissance and Modern Times, landscape becomes an aesthetic unity. As a human being, I suddenly look at a landscape (instead of being part of it), or even at a landscape painting. This looking triggers an inner reaction in me. That is, there is a correspondence of inside and outside. Talking about a landscape suddenly means talking about oneself. The correspondence of inner and outer landscapes becomes a guiding theme of Romanticism.
This too is a relatedness that can be important for our practice of exercising an artistic reference to the world. This is best done in combination with the earlier idea of landscape I outlined above.
Now we can try to combine the notion of landscape with that of place. "Part of the constitution of humans is that they are part of space, not an abstract - logical, mathematical - space, but of places and landscapes." (Demuth, p. 55)
The places where I live or to which I occasionally go represent landscapes or are the centres of landscapes placed around them. They are systems of reference that help determine how I live. There are dependencies, possibilities, conditions, opportunities, freedoms and necessities etc. that are connected to the landscape.
(Landscape thus becomes a metaphorical concept and at the same time it remains a concrete concept). The concept of place helps to orientate in the system of landscapes.
The concept of the field is obvious to someone who, like me, works with the label stimmfeld and hörfeld. I don't see field as an alternative to landscape, but as a term that allows us to examine a few aspects more closely. Two associations come to mind when thinking about the term field. On the one hand, I think of the agricultural field, i.e. a parcel of land - in the landscape - that is prepared in such a way that a certain plant and fruit thrives there. The idea of the field is as old as the invention of the systematic cultivation of grain about 12,000 years ago. However, the way fields are prepared has changed a lot.
In this sense, the field is exposed to human intervention even more than the landscape. Seen in this way, the world now consists almost entirely of a succession of fields that have been changed to a greater or lesser extent by human influence. And in the capitalist concept of "nature", the world becomes a field that exists to wring as much as possible out of it in order to maximise profit.
Now the question is: how can we change the conditions of these fields so that they once again give rise to landscapes in which humans are only one factor, and no longer the only decisive one?
The second association is that of the force field, a term that was only introduced by Michael Faraday in 1830. I am not going to delve into physics now, but define a force field quite unscientifically as a region in which an energetic situation is present that refers to itself, that is, has something to do with itself. In order to install this energetic situation, certain conditions are required that are given by the "bodies" that generate the force field. (Field coil, for example).
This is very close to what goes on in a voice performance as I understand it. I create and find conditions for a situation that promotes and allows certain actions and makes others more difficult.
The voice field recordings are good examples of this. I find a situation that is somehow preformed in terms of sound and thus provides me with conditions that I have to bring into play for my intervention. What then emerges is perhaps more than a sound field: a soundscape.
The image of the force field also allows me to draw my personal map, which shows the places and landscapes that have significance for me for whatever reason, with a suitable view. The places on the map become bodies from which the energetic fields radiate, onto the associated landscape and more importantly onto me, if I approach the places. This can happen in reality as a journey, but also ideally as a memory and imagination. Places that mean something to me have an effect on me even if I only move to them mentally. Using the force field metaphor in this way helps to bring a form of meaningfulness into the geography of one's own life that corresponds to the world view of a medieval European landscape in that the scale of the inner or outer map does not reflect the exact distance between place A and B, but emphasises the significant places standing in a network of relationships. Unlike in the Middle Ages, religious imprinting no longer plays the dominant role here, but I am able to use the idea of force fields to draw an individual map that can be read by others.
(Demuth, while walking on a Byzantine path on the Greek island of Paros. Island of Paros, p. 120: "For a few moments I allow myself the illusion of walking in the magnetic field of Constantinople, aligned like a tiny metal spike by the irresistible and discarded splendour of a God-fearing empire.")
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Now I want to revisit the question of man's relationship to nature, landscape, field, by listing the attitudes or positions that can be taken by humans in the various localities. All these positions bring out partial aspects:
1. I am positioned opposite the world. There nature, here I am. The somewhat hackneyed saying: nature doesn't need us, but we need nature, reflects this attitude quite well. The underlying idea is that there is nature on the one hand and people on the other. That is not entirely wrong. Humans have a special role, which is expressed, for example, in the fact that there is a cultural evolution that takes place quite differently and much faster than natural evolution. This cultural evolution only exists in humankind. This has led to the distinction between nature on the one hand and culture on the other. Nature as that which exists independently of humans and culture as the totality of man-made things and structures. What was overlooked for a long time was that culture is interwoven into natural contexts, just like human beings themselves.
2. The human being is positioned within a landscape. The big picture is the landscape with its reciprocal references, the material, aesthetic and energetic conditions that hold the landscape together, so to speak. And in this, the human being is positioned somewhere without being particularly distinguished. In this image of the relationship between man and the world, quite different dependencies and conditions come to the surface than in the concept of nature. Man is part of the landscape and is shaped by it, just as the landscape is or at least can be shaped by man. We live in a time in which there is neither a nature untouched by humans nor a landscape without human contribution. But the concept of landscape makes it clearer that in this shaping we are changing ourselves and our direct living conditions. (Gaia as landscape?) Landscape allows much more than the concept of nature to be understood aesthetically or better poetically. Landscape always has form, nature remains an abstract concept.
3. The world unfolds from the zero point of my bodily position. This phenomenological position or attitude brings something into play that is not considered in the other two terms. My embeddedness in the world as a perceiving and acting being happens from the zero point of my body. The world unfolds around me from the centre of my real position in space and time. I always experience the world as seen from me. Nature and landscape are concepts that both construct a relationship between human being and world that allows certain possibilities of interpreting this relationship. If I start from the way I - as an example of the human being - find myself in the world, then the image of a field, or more precisely a force field with me as its centre, fits well. In philosophy, phenomenology (Husserl) has explored this positioning.
Compared to nature and landscape, the field is the term that expresses the strongest human influence. A field in agriculture may still be part of a landscape and somehow belong to nature, but it is largely shaped by human influences. People determine what this field should look like and what forces should act on it. This is not exactly the case with the phenomenological position at the centre of the field, but the field also remains a concept with which only certain things and aspects are understood. But without the inclusion of this position, the others are virtually hanging in the air. Moreover, this is the position from which art emerges. Art, in fact, emerges from the creator of art. Art needs a strong concept of individuality, which, however, does not stand in front of the world, but in it. (Ensemble and collective as creators of art are complex varieties of individuality).
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DDMS Fuses The Best of Both Worlds
October 29, 2013 May 21, 2020 By Edward Sanders
DDMS is a rapper who definitely knows how to combine the best of pop and rap and make it work. "So Turnt Up" featuring Cata is a rap song that is super energetic, so much so you'd think it got a hold of Honey Boo Boo's "go go juice." DDMS incorporates Miley Cyrus' like "so turnt up here" from her hit single "We Can't Stop" on a loop throughout and even talks about doing lines in the bathroom like Cryus' song and then uses her Molly line and then uses the loop once again. It's an interesting blend of his and hers. Miley is nowhere to be found as Ashley Harris joins DDMS on "Coolin Off." Again, it's a hip hop song that's cranked up and given a club makeover. Hats off to Harris for her contribution in this one, it gave the song a pop edge. If you're into music that's all about having a good time while out at the club, then DDMS is your new favorite person. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyDk9ioM2o-m12gPi3394wg/videos)
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MB1 Capital Partners purchased a former Freedman's Bakery building in order to fast-track the timeline of the new East Coast Beer Co. microbrewery in Belmar, N.J.
From pastries to porters, a former N.J. bakery will be turning into the new home for East Coast Beer Co.
MB1 will complete the building renovations and lease the majority of the building to East Coast Beer Co., which produces a signature line of craft brews under the well-known "Beach Haus" label. The principals of MB1 Capital Partners have an ownership interest in East Coast.
The craft brewery will produce and package malt beverages for distribution to wholesalers and retailers. The brewery will also be open for educational tours and tastings, and is expected to be a destination location for visitors and tourists.
John Merklin, a founder of East Coast Beer Co., said he is eager for workers to begin the conversion from a bakery to the brewery, noting the building will be outfitted with state-of-the art equipment to brew the entire portfolio of beer styles.
"Belmar is an iconic Jersey Shore community; this is going to be the perfect fit for an established Jersey Shore beer," Merklin said.


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I hadn't been to Switzerland in a while, so last week I decided to go to Siberia, in other words, 24th and 10th, in Chelsea. Over in those nether reaches of Western Manhattan I found the best Swiss wine selection in the City and some of its best Swiss food. Better still, I didn't feel like a third-class colonial subaltern beaten senseless by European currency exchange rates.
I also found further hope that the Children of Danny (Meyer) will keep on going out to spread the word. Having thoroughly enjoyed such Meyer-inspired restaurants as Hearth and Spigolo at the opposite Manhattan antipodes of Yorkville and the East Village, I was pleased to see the magic in effect in Chelsea as well. Of course, it helps that Chef Ralf Kuettel's wife, Juliette Pope, is close to the source: She's the reigning beverage genius at Gramercy Tavern.
1) Pizokle: Fun to say, delicious to eat. If St. Bernards switched out their little barrels of booze for a hot bowl of Pizokle, the slopes would be safe at any temp. This cheesy spaetzle-like dish is super-rich, super-pungent and just about perfect this time of year.
2) Budget Booze Cruise: Adventure, value and focus are everywhere on the wine and spirits list, even if a red Rhône was served closer to mulling temp than might be advisable for anyone not seated right in the gulfstream path by the front door. After dinner drinks are fun—and intentionally warming—especially, the bourbons.
3) The Rarest of Birds, Perfect Roast Chicken: Textbook perfection and great control of temp, moisture and texture made this afterthought a standout. Crystalline consomme was a lovely little tour de force of technique. This dish, just as Trestle does it, should be on all the culinary schools' exit exams.
4) Pork Crépinette: Everyone talks it up. Everyone's right. This cabbage wrapped pig patty is as tasty as it is ugly. Easy to share, if you're a generous sort. Easy to scarf if you're not.
5) Glutton's Salad: At this temple to all things adipose, even the greens are fatty in name if not in nature. Butter lettuce with buttermilk dressing and bacon chunks makes for a great closer to a meal. Good for the soul, bad for the arteries. Skip the desserts and grab a warming drink at the bar before heading home. It's a long slog to the subway and there's nary a St. Bernard to save you if you slip.
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Cracked teeth demonstrate many types of symptoms, including pain when chewing, temperature sensitivities, or even the release of biting pressure. It is also common for pain to come and go, making it difficult to diagnose the cause of discomfort. Chewing can cause movement of the cracked pieces of your tooth, and the pulp within the tooth becomes irritated. At the same time, when biting pressure is released, the crack can close quickly, resulting in sharp pain. Eventually, the pulp will become damaged and tooth will consistently hurt, even when you are not chewing. It is possible that cracks can lead to infection of the pulp tissue, which can spread to the bone and gum surrounding the problematic tooth.


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In a flashback to 2006, Shawn and Gus are backstage at a "Billy Lipps & The Guys Behind Me" concert. The second Billy gets off stage, Lassiter is there to inform Billy that the SBPD is bringing him in for questioning regarding the murder of Melinda Lane - a woman who drowned in the pool at his mansion years ago. Billy's biography just came out and apparently there is information that points to Billy being the murderer. In that moment, Shawn and Gus urge Billy to somehow exonerate himself, but Billy has no explanation or alibi. He doesn't even remember what really happened that night. Lassiter has no choice but to arrest him.
We come up on the Psych Office present day. Shawn has been invited to an exclusive party via singing telegraph. The party is being held at one of Santa Barbara's landmark mansions, "The Bella Rosa." Later that night, Shawn arrives at the party with Gus, and one by one, more guests start to show up. No one knows why they have been invited to the mansion until the host reveals himself - It's Billy Lipps, fresh out of prison after a serving a seven-year stint for the voluntary manslaughter of Melinda Lane. Now that Shawn knows who the host is, Shawn starts to realize the connection between everyone invited to the party. Everyone in attendance was part of Billy's life before he went to jail. The people in attendance include Clizby, the band's cook/butler, Highway Harry, the band's manager, Martin Kahn, the man who wrote Billy's biography, and Leslie Ann, the band's former groupie turned nurse. Shawn and Gus are excited to see Billy, but also nervous; they testified at Billy's trial and were part of the reason why he was found guilty. But Billy shocks everyone when he reveals that the reason he's brought them there is to thank them. He says that jail has changed his life for the better and that he has never been happier or more clearheaded in his life.
Just then, lightning strikes causing the lights in the mansion to go out. When they regain power, they realize that Highway Harry is dead. The group thinks Harry died of natural causes, but Shawn has a different theory. Shawn notices that Rip the guitar player is missing from the party. From this, Shawn thinks Rip murdered Highway Harry and that Rip is somewhere in the house. Shawn posits that Rip killed Highway Harry because he stole Rip's music rights. Everyone in the house grabs some form of weapon and splits up to find Rip, the potential killer.
Later that night, Juliet and Lassiter show up at the mansion saying the missing person they've been trying to locate has been murdered and that the GPS on his car says he was headed to this location. They enter the mansion and learn that Shawn and Gus have been investigating a murder as well. But their investigation takes a turn when they realize that Highway Harry's body has gone missing and Rip's dead body is found in the walk-in freezer. Juliet and Lassiter then realize that the missing person they were looking for is Rip. Lassiter splits everyone up for questioning. After everyone is interrogated, Lassiter and Juliet say that the only info they could glean is that no one will admit to the murders and that everyone is pointing fingers at each other. Additionally, everyone mentioned there was a vast amount of dirty laundry aired during Billy's murder trial. It turns out everyone involved had some pretty damning things to say about Billy.
From this, Shawn realizes that everyone in attendance testified at Billy's trial and therefore had a hand in putting Billy behind bars. Shawn presents a new theory; he believes Billy has brought them all there for revenge. However, his theory is quickly put to rest when Billy is nearly killed by a falling chandelier.
Later that night, a new guest arrives at the mansion. It's Billy's friend and music colleague Curt Smith from Tears For Fears and he's been shot. Before he can tell the group who the shooter is, Curt passes out. But thankfully Curt is going to be just fine because he only suffered a flesh wound. Shawn then theorizes that the killer is Leslie Ann, the groupie. Armed with a series of telling flashbacks, Shawn informs the group that Leslie Ann got pregnant back when she was the band's groupie and that one of the men in the room is the father. But since none of the men claimed to be the father of the baby and she couldn't force a paternity test on any of them, Leslie Ann was forced to raise her child alone without a father. And because of this, she decided to seek revenge on everyone who could have potentially been the father by inviting them to the mansion and killing each of them. But Leslie Ann says Shawn's theory is incorrect because she's known who the baby's father is all along. She reveals the baby's father is Clizby; but Leslie Ann never told Clizby about the baby because she thought the band would fire him.
Just then, Highway Harry enters the room, alive. It turns out he was just unconscious this whole time and not actually dead. Everyone is mystified. Highway Harry is alive and they still haven't figured out who the killer is. Juliet presents a theory; she thinks everyone had a hand in it. Equipped with a series of clue-related flashbacks from the night, Shawn tests this theory by going through each suspect, one by one, explaining who killed who and why.
But Clizby steps in and pokes holes in Shawn's theory. From this, Shawn agrees that the "everyone did it" theory is wrong, and he reassesses. Shawn knows that every suspect in the house has been eliminated except for three people: Clizby, Highway Harry and Martin. Shawn presents the following three theories to the group (and to the "Psych" viewing audience): Was it Clizby the butler who did it? Was it Highway Harry the band's manager who did it? Or was it Martin the biographer who did it?
From here, the "Psych" viewing audience is instructed to vote for who they think the killer is. When voting is closed, the most popular ending chosen by the viewers will be the episode ending the audience will get to see. So whom will the "Psych" fans choose? Tune in to find out.


80% of the resorts are located south-west of Martinique, on the coast from the Diamond to Sainte-Anne. The 20% of the remaining hotels are located near St. Peter and on the peninsular of La Caravelle, the center of the island. All major tour operators and holiday club are present: the Club Med Sainte-Anne, Peter and Holidays in Saint Lucia and even the CCAS EDF-GDF, also in St. Lucia!
The hotel prices are generally more attractive on the east coast of the island of Martinique, the latter being hit by waves and rollers of the Atlantic Ocean. The west coast of Martinique in turn is bathed by the Caribbean Sea, much calmer, which explains the geographical distribution of clubs and hotels. The west coast is more accessible and better served by the national party 2x2 channels.
Of course, it is possible to stay in a hotel in Fort de France, but they are very few - 2 or 3 - in town or nearby. Even the Sofitel and Mercure Accor is located to the Diamond! Their interest is power from the north, west and south of the island easily, if you opt for such a short stay for exploring the Martinique.
Add to bookmark this page Martinique " Hôtels & Clubs " - Firefox do "Ctrl D"


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Men's basketball survive double OT thriller
by Milaan Olinger January 29, 2019
The Broncos outlasted visiting Sonoma State 81-73 in a double overtime thriller Thursday evening.
Cal Poly was led by senior point guard Jordan Ogundiran, who had 19 points and five rebounds.
"He was huge," junior William Christmas said about Ogundiran. "Obviously he's one of our better players and we expect a lot from him. It was huge for us to have a game where he broke out and was able to get us going early by scoring and passing."
At the midway point of the first half, Dwight Ramos dished a pass to Ogundiran, who nailed the three and put the Broncos up 17-12.
CPP held an 8-point lead, but a few turnovers and missed shots led to a 14-4 run by the Seawolves to put them up by two at halftime.
Nikhil Peters reacts to Justin Young's one-handed slam dunk in the win against Sonoma State. (Milaan Olinger | The Poly Post)
Cal Poly found itself down by six early in the second half, but Justin Young swung the ball to Ogundiran who knocked down a deep 3-pointer and was fouled in the act of shooting for a potential 4-point play.
Ogundiran missed the free throw, but crashed the board and got his own rebound which led to another 3-point basket from Christmas.
Christmas finished the game with 15 points and six rebounds.
Late in the second, emotions were running high.
Off a missed basket, Ogundiran grabbed the offensive rebound and Gilbert Wesley of Sonoma State got his hands on the ball as well. Both players were holding onto the ball as they fell to the ground and refused to let go even after whistles were blown.
The two players had to be separated and after discussing it, the refs hit both Ogundiran and Wesley with technical fouls and they were both ejected from the game.
With six minutes still remaining in regulation and down by five, the Broncos had to weather the storm without their starting point guard.
That wasn't a problem for sophomore guard Phoenix Shackelford, who knocked down back-to-back threes in less than a minute to tie the game at 54 apiece with just 4:17 remaining.
"I was just being aggressive," Shackelford said. "They always tell me to be aggressive even when I'm being passive. They just drill it in me to stay aggressive and trust your basketball."
Shackelford had 13 points and four steals off the bench for the Broncos.
The game was tied at 59 with just 11 seconds remaining when Sonoma State called a timeout.
The crowd was on their feet. Cal Poly would inbound the ball and put it in the hands of Christmas who got a pretty good look, but couldn't get the shot to fall, which would send the game into overtime.
Shakelford opened things up by knocking down a jumper inside the paint.
Once again, defense turned into offense for the Broncos as Shakelford got the steal and was fouled where he would go 1 for 2 at the stripe.
CPP had 22 points off of the Seawolves' 29 turnovers for the night.
The score was 65-65 and Christmas drove to the paint where he was met with a hard foul.
He was put on the line with just 0.9 seconds left with a chance to close out the game.
Christmas missed both free throws, however, and time ran out, which led to another five minutes of basketball.
"He's our top region guy," head coach Greg Kamansky said. "He's really good at the end of games so we're going to go to him win or lose. We got what we wanted and he's usually a very good free throw shooter, but tonight it didn't happen. He's a tough kid and he'll bounce back."
The crowd was still standing as the ref threw the ball up in center court for the start of double OT.
Mason Dickerson came up huge for the Broncos in double OT as he hit two back-to-back threes on one end and came up with a huge block on the defensive end.
Cal Poly outscored Sonoma State 16-8 and came out on top with an 81-73 win.
"Our bench really saved us tonight," coach Kamansky said. "They did a really good job and that's why we're a team."
The bench scored 39 of Cal Poly's 81 points and came up huge late.
Chris Sullivan had 13 points and seven rebounds, while Dickerson added eight points of his own, six of which came in double OT.
The Broncos' second game took place on Saturday as they took on San Francisco State.
The game was televised on ESPN as Cal Poly earned a 64-56 victory over the Gators.
Christmas led the team with 16 points. Ogundiran added 11, while Dwight Ramos poured in 10.
The Broncos will look to continue their three-game winning streak as they head to Cal State Monterey Bay on Thursday before going up against Cal State East Bay Saturday at 3 p.m.
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Examination of empirical research confirmed that climate change is a complex problem of anthropological origin and revealed the need for a management framework to facilitate strategic decisions aimed at mitigating a rise in global temperatures of 2°C linked to irresponsible and unsustainable business practices. The purpose of this simulation study was to develop a management framework of resilience, robustness, sustainability, and adaptive-capacity (RRSA) for organizations viewed as complex systems to address the current unsustainable state. As such, the evolutionary-RRSA prisoner's dilemma (PD) simulation was developed using an evolutionary game theory approach to agent based modeling and simulation, to generate data. Regression analyses tested the relationships between organizational resilience (x1), robustness (x2), and sustainability (x3) as independent variables, and the dependent variable of adaptive capacity (y) for cooperative and defective strategies. The findings were that complex nonlinear relationships exist between resilience, robustness, sustainability, and adaptive-capacity, which is sensitive to initial conditions and may emerge and evolve from combinations of cooperative and defective decisions within the evolutionary RRSA PD management tool. This study resulted in the RRSA management framework, a cyclical 4-phased approach, which may be used by climate governance leaders, negotiators, and policy-makers to facilitate strategy to move global climate change policy forward by guiding bottom-up consumption and production of GHGs, thereby improving adaptive-capacity, while mitigating an increase in global temperatures of 2°C, which in turn would improve global socio-economic conditions.


Eight members of Grand Canyon University's chapter of the AzHOSA health care professions organization are off to Anaheim, Calif., today to compete in HOSA's 38th annual National Leadership Conference, where they will face some of the top students of pre-med and other health care undergraduate programs from around the U.S.
Dr. Melanie D. Logue, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Care Professions, is joining the 11-member Arizona State Board of Nursing. Gov. Doug Ducey recently appointed Logue, a GCU alumna who has 25 years of nursing practice and education under her belt, to a five-year term. GCU Today has the details.
The new dean of GCU's College of Nursing and Health Care Professions has four degrees, a 20-year nursing career and nearly two dozen research papers and projects on her resume. But there is something more that Dr. Melanie D. Logue wants you to know about her: She is GCU. She grew up in this neighborhood, got her first degree at GCU, taught here twice and now is proud to come home to take the helm of the nursing school. Read more in this GCU Today story.


French Sonatas for Violin and Piano - Fleur de Son Classics, Ltd.
Written between 1900 and 1949, these four sonatas for violin and piano represent some of the best music written in France in the first half of the 20th Century. Each work is a masterpiece and together they form a richly varied recital, expressing the gamut of human emotion.


Narrator: Ayla walked with the Cave Bear. She had spoken out for Creb because she loved him. The sign had finally come. She understood the vision. Durc was of the Clan, and one day he would be their leader. She must find her own people. She must walk alone. Everything she had lived through had prepared her for this journey - and she was not afraid. For the first time Ayla felt the strength of her own spirit.
Out now on "budget" DVD, fun to watch after all these years.
The popularity of DVD has exploded the past couple of years like no new entertainment technology before. We are seeing more and more older films released on DVD for a pittance, like this one, "Clan of the Cave Bear", which I purchased for under $6US. There isn't much sound in this film, but the images, all shot in British Columbia, come through really well.
The setting in time is prehistoric, during the brief overlap of the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon humans. Ayla (Daryl Hannah), a very blonde Cro-Magnon, was orphaned as a small girl, wounded, and found by the dark-haired Cave Bear Clan of Neanderthals. Against the wishes of the leader, she is taken in and nursed back to health by the medicine woman. As she grows up we see that she is innately smarter than her adopted family, learns things quickly, begins to innovate. The Neanderthals are portrayed as if they had perhaps an IQ of 80, while Ayla certainly has an IQ of 120 to 140.
This causes difficulties for her, because the women are totally subserviant, and one of them showing smarts or initiative is punished. A woman who even touches a hunting weapon is sentenced to die. But when Ayla does to defend a tribesman, she is only exiled in the winter and, if she survives, allowed to come back. She does, but finally realizes her "spirit" is different, and leaves to look for her own kind. After she fights and defeats the young "alpha male", who earlier had raped her thus giving her a child.
Some critics scoff at the primative community portrayed here, but it in fact is very accurate. In the DVD commentary we learn that much of the design for this film came from watching a few crude videotapes that were actually made by the Cro-Magnons during that prehistoric period and were discovered, well-preserved, in far northern sub-freezing caves in the 1960s. Not surprisingly, they were in the Beta format.
The whole film is about acceptance of someone different and of change. This is a common theme in many many films over the years, and is closely related to the popular "Pleasantville" of 1998. What makes this one different and enjoyable is the setting in time, the depiction of community values of these prehistoric peoples. I rate it highly overall.
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Q: Android Layout change causes type-error I am trying to change a working Android App from a 1 column layout to a 2 column layout.
When I do this, I get an execution error on my MainActivity.java, specifically in this line here:
ImageView picView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.picture);

The error states:
android.widget.TextView cannot be cast to android.widget.ImageView

From this I understand that findViewById(R.id.picture) returns a TextView. But this does make sense to me. It is clearly defined as an ImageView in my activity_main.xlm:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:baselineAligned="false">
    <LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">
        <Button
        android:id="@+id/capture_btn"
        android:text="@string/capture"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        />
        <Button
        android:id="@+id/pick_btn"
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        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/pick"
        android:onClick="onClick" />
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/status"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
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        android:contentDescription="@string/picture"
        android:layout_margin="5dp"
        android:background="@drawable/pic_border" />
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Note: the same App works just find with the below (1 column) activity_main.xlm:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<Button
android:id="@+id/capture_btn"
android:text="@string/capture"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
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<Button
android:id="@+id/pick_btn"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="@string/pick"
android:onClick="onClick" />
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/picture"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:contentDescription="@string/picture"
android:layout_margin="5dp"
android:background="@drawable/pic_border" />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/status"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
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A: Clean your Project then run it again.

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Is member experience becoming lost to the technology innovation wave in the fitness industry? Dr. Paul Bedford thinks so.
In his May 3rd newsletter delivered via email, Dr. Bedford's article The other SaaS Model – Software as a Solution outlined a number of key points club operators can use to "truly maximize the software" they use to support their member experience programs. Dr. Bedford pointed to key performance indicators (KPIs), staffing and management of new solutions and staff training as areas that software players need to better address. He also touched on a dilemma every club will face.
The dilemma we're facing is actually two-fold and isn't limited to just club operators. In fact, the explosion of new software offerings is creating a new ecosystem of member management software and with it new problems for both club operators and members.
One reality we need to keep in mind in the digital club era that software isn't intended to do everything. The challenge for club operators is how to pair new physical tracking devices and software with their club management software to enhance their member experience.
One training solution Motionsoft is just beginning to role out is based on an analysis of how our customers are using our club management software. It started by asking ourselves a simple question: are our customer getting the most value out from our software solutions? The answer was a resounding no. Over the next few months, we'll be holding individual and group training session on using core features that help our customer grow and sustain their businesses. It's one way we are trying to manage our own "members" experience.
Digital skills, training and member experience management is a topic Dr. Bedford is likely to address at the year's upcoming Motionsoft Technology Summit.
If you haven't signed up for Dr. Bedford's email newsletter, you can learn more by visiting his site.
Dr. Bedford's original article is provided below.
The last five years has seen a proliferation of membership software systems, with cloud-based systems gaining ground. We've also seen an increase in software solutions such as personalised exercise data, nutritional coaching, virtual personal training platforms and staff-to-member engagement systems.
While this extra support can produce extraordinary results when implemented well, some lay dormant, costing money and producing nothing. It's at this stage that the software is accused of not being effective, when it may well be a lack of operator focus that's the issue.
For example, whilst CV equipment has become more sophisticated, most operators haven't considered adapting the induction process to incorporate these advances. Apps, websites and wearables provide additional information to all parties, but also require explaining and teaching to maximise their effectiveness. It appears that very little time is given to training staff or even update training with each new iteration of the software, app or wearable.
When developing member experience programs for operators, I have pride in my ability to maximise the software solutions operators already have, rather than just recommending a new software solution, and, over time, I've realised that all too frequently operators have bought software on the promise all their problems will go away. By now many have realised this just isn't so and that to truly maximise the software there must be a clear set of key performance indicators to keep front-line staff and managers focused on their objective.
Club management software developers continue to add features, irrespective of whether they contribute to the experience of the member, the actions of the staff or the profitability of the business. Many software systems have now become more complex than is required to deliver the services.
So operators need a clear understanding of what specifically they want the software to do. They also need to understand how it will do that and what level of day-to-day management is needed to ensure staff are using the applications in the most efficient way.
performance management of group exercise teachers, gym staff, personal trainers and managers will become the norm, and taking advantage of advancements in predictive analytics and artificial intelligence will place staff under even more scrutiny, requiring them to prove their worth and identify what they actually contribute to the member experience.
Would you like to learn more about the challenges and benefits of going digital?
Then you'd do well to attend the Retention Convention on 19-20th May, where Tiffeny Gould, formerly from SLM/Everyone Active, will discuss what works and what doesn't as she describes how to use digital intervention to support your retention strategy and member experience.


Andy's profile and reputation as an engaging speaker have lead to appearances on primetime TV and radio. His books have won international awards and received glowing reviews in the national media.
Andy's assured tone and engaging style has made him a popular guest and presenter on radio programmes.
Presenter Harriet Gilbert and two mountaineering authors, Andy Cave & Ed Douglass discuss their favourite books.
Andy chats about writing, mountaineering, and techniques used to reach a non-climbing audience.
Andy talks about his work as a motivational speaker, how he overcame adversity, the importance of self belief when entering the unknown and on being innovative.
Andy presents a programme exploring the history and significance of the Thirlmere Aqueduct. This Victorian engineering marvel still transports water from the Lake District to Manchester.
Since being just a young man, Andy's exploits have attracted the attention of TV. At ease in front of the camera, he communicates his adventures with clarity and wry humour.
Andy's first appearance on TV in a documentary as he leads his team on an expedition to the north face of the Ogre in the Himalayas, aged just 23yrs.
Andy talks about his remarkable ascent as a mere 20 year old, and discusses the skills required to tackle this beast.
An expedition to the sandstone towers of Teplice, Czech Republic.
Andy helps to motivate teenagers from a tough inner city school by taking them climbing.
Andy climbs the iconic Old Man of Hoy, a 450ft sea stack in the Orkneys.
Andy's two award-winning books have been widely translated and read by tens of thousands around the world. Reviews in major newspapers celebrating his skill as a story teller have lead to public appearances at the Edinburgh Book Festival and beyond.
Learning to Breathe, Random House (2005).
Best-selling autobiography, charting Andy's journey from miner to elite mountaineer.
Thin White Line, Random House (2008).
Much anticipated sequel, describing expeditions to Norway, Alaska and Patagonia.
Water: The Essence of Life, Mark Niemeyer (2008).
Along with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and leading scientists, Andy wrote an introduction to the Ice section.
Mountaineering Chapter in The Travellers' Handbook, Wexas (2009).
Joining John Simpson, Michael Palin and other renowned writers in a compendium of travel writing.
'Faces of Everest', The Red Bulletin (2009), Independent.
Article explaining the beauty and fatal attraction of the world's highest mountain.
Considered by many to be the finest climbing novel.


The Real Housewives of Orange County's newest addition, Gina Kirschenheiter, split from her husband, Matthew Kirschenheiter, while filming the upcoming season, and is opening up to Us Weekly about the end of her marriage.
The new Bravo personality, 34, filed for divorce from her husband of seven years on April 2, citing irreconcilable differences. She has asked for sole physical custody and joint legal custody of their three children, Nicholas, 5, Sienna, 4, and Luca, 2.
While speaking to Us Weekly on Tuesday, July 3, Gina revealed that filming the Bravo series — along with Matthew's very busy life — had an impact on their marriage.
She also added that her relationship had hit a rough patch while living in Long Island, New York, due to Matthew's daily commute into the city. Although the pair started spending more "amazing" time together after relocating to Orange County three years ago, they still had their moments.
The Real Housewives of Orange County returns on Bravo Monday, July 16, at 9 p.m. ET.


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an arousal of life, the present fixing in black eyes.
I'm wondering how anyone so fragile can endure.
clamps them to the muzzles of a milk machine.
tracing names in drifts of smoke.
you come to bed, don't forget to unplug the baby.
by candle flames, my tongue a fish, belly up.
he's a doodle scratched on glass, he's rain in a jar.
her face. When I looked back the fair was gone.
would soothe a weeping banshee's screams.
scrap note and marker scrawl charged with power.
to the boy, settled in sleep for an hour.
whims. In the moonlit room, the night stood still.
I filled his mouth with the teeth of the brother I loved.
Wow- i think i have read everything up on the fat damsel site so far and never been disappointed- keep up the fantastic work damsels-your baby is a force to be reckoned with- i'm so impressed with what you have achieved so far- and i love these pod poems!
I second Charlotte's sentiments – really powerful stuff from all the poets.


We're getting into the mood of the Olympics, predominately because Seren loves shouting "On your marks, get set, go" and because the boys make a fast getaway from her clutches.
I'm proud to say all three of them have visited the Olympic Park, although I doubt they'll have any memory, each was in my tummy at the time!
The games that they're showing most interest in however are those relating to the antics of Ben and Holly.
The Little Kingdom being a firm favourite with the Johnson Babies and we were pleased as punch to receive a copy of the Elf Games DVD to review, the DVD is today (14th May) so we were delighted to receive a copy in advance.
Seren loves Ben & Holly, last night I took her to bed with one of her favourite book's, only to discover she now knows all the words, and it's about sticky porridge adventures with Ben & Holly.
The weather has meant we've had lots of sessions snuggled up on the sofa, and whilst we have some of Seren's favourite programmes on Sky Plus the firm favourite has now become "Ben & Holly TV", which basically refers to the DVD.
Whilst none of these are new episodes, Seren does not mind, the fact that she can watch them without interruption means we get longer snuggles. It's also perfect for our long journey up to Yorkshire where eventually the DVD player is required to keep Seren occupied.
Whilst my favourite episode is "Big Bad Barry"- I don't know why I just think the name's funny, Seren's firm favourites are "The Toy Robot", "The Elf Rocket" and "King Thistle's Birthday". The great thing about the dvd is that you can play by episode, continuous or random. Seren is getting to grips with our xbox controller so is quite happy to select her favourite episodes.
I like the children watching Ben & Holly because it isn't as gender prevalent as some other cartoons (albeit it is about an Elf and a Princess), of course it helps that Princess Holly and twin sisters- which Seren must think having twins for siblings is the norm, and the episodes are long enough to engage and are long enough for mummy to get on with other chores, that is of course if mummy isn't too absorbed with Nanny Plum's latest antics (my favourite character!).
We're definitely a big fan of Ben & Holly on DVD, not having to compete with ad breaks and being able to take on long journeys means we have lots of uses for this DVD. Seren has not grown tired of Ben & Holly in the year or so she's been watching, and the combination of episodes on "The Elf Games" DVD means constant engagement.
The Elf Games is released today (May 14th) and if your little ones are fans of Ben & Holly this will definitely give you and them some respite!
Disclosure: I was provided with a preview copy of The Elf Games DVD for the purposes of this review. All opinions expressed are my own.


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Jeremy Richman, father of Sandy Hook shooting victim Avielle Richman, was found dead at his office in the Edmond Town Hall in Newtown on Monday morning, according to a report in The New York Daily News. The 49-year-old father of Avielle, who was among the 20 first-grade students and six teachers who were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, was found dead of what appears to be suicide, although the medical examiner has yet to determine the exact cause of death. Richman was found in the early morning hours in an office he worked out of at the Edmond Town Hall as head of the Avielle Foundation by an electrician who was working on the building.
Richman was among those who called for more work on mental health issues after the shooting, and he formed the Avielle Foundation to conduct research on brain functions and how they might affect the decision-making of people who commit mass atrocities like those at Sandy Hook. Within weeks of the shooting, Richman was part of a delegation that went to the state legislature to urge lawmakers to repair the mental health component of the healthcare system, and to take steps to reduce the stigma associated with mental health issues.
Richman left his job working for Boehringer Ingelheim, a pharmaceutical company, in order to dedicate himself full-time to the foundation he started in his daughter's name. Just this month, he played host at an event held at the Edmond Town Hall covering issues like vulnerability and courage, the third such event he organized. He also spoke at a violence summit hosted by Florida Atlantic University last week.
In the past week, two of the survivors of the Parkland, Florida shooting reportedly died from suicides, bringing the issue of mental health care for survivors of such events into the spotlight.


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O'Brien named executive VP at Vigor
By	Workboat Staff on	 January 24, 2019
Jacqueline 'Jackie' O'Brien has joined the leadership team at Vigor Industrial, Seattle, as executive vice president of strategy and business development. O'Brien will report to CEO Frank Foti and play a key role in driving development and execution of Vigor's growth strategy as a leading industrial company.
She will oversee business development for all Vigor business units, including defense, aerospace, infrastructure, alternative energy and marine.
Jacqueline O'Brien. Photo courtesy of Vigor
O'Brien joins Vigor following a 25-year career at Alcoa and Arconic, created by Alcoa's separation into two independent companies in 2016. Most recently she served as vice president of business development and global affairs, driving successful growth strategies for Arconic across the company's aerospace, automotive, building and construction, and commercial transportation businesses. During her tenure at Alcoa/Arconic, O'Brien managed global teams across Europe and Asia.
O'Brien holds a bachelors degree in civil and environmental engineering from Ohio State University, and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University. She is an active board member of Engineers without Borders, a non-profit dedicated to building a better world through projects that empower communities and find solutions for their critical infrastructure needs.
"We looked at many outstanding candidates for this new position," said Foti. "Jackie stood out as an outstanding leader – authentic, committed and aligned with our core values. We are very happy to welcome her to our team."
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Angela Tong (born 30 June 1975) is a Hong Kong actress. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with family roots in Shunde, Guangdong, China. She was Miss Chinese Montreal 1995. She was educated in Concordia University.

Pageant life
After winning the 12th place in Miss Chinese Montréal Pageant in 1994, Tong represented Montréal to compete in the Miss Chinese International Pageant 1995.  Although she only reached the Top 12 in the pageant, she was approached by TVB with an acting contract.

Acting career
Tong has been in numerous TVB dramas since 1995, but mostly supporting roles and is mostly cast as a showgirl or "the other woman".  After for 10 years, her big break finally came with the TVB series Life Made Simple (阿旺新傳) playing a physically unattractive girl with a heart of gold and a wonderful singing voice called "Lee Siu Ho (李笑好)".

The role won her critical acclaim, winning the Best Supporting Actress award at the TVB 37th Anniversary Awards in November 2005.

Her portrayal of Lee Siu Ho was so popular that TVB composed a primetime special called Ho Is Beside You (好在你左右) as well as the 12-episode variety program Always Smiling (笑口常開), both with Angela hosting in character as Lee Siu Ho.

Personal life
Tong married Chin Ka-lok, who she had been dating for five years, on 13 November 2012, the two becoming the first couple to marry in Ocean Park's panda enclosure. They held a wedding banquet on the 15th, an event attended by many co-stars and colleagues of Hong Kong's entertainment industry. Tong has two daughters, Alyssa and Kassidy.

Filmography
 Last To Surrender (1998)
 Bio Zombie 生化壽屍 (1998)
 Last Ghost Standing 鬼請你睇戲 (1999)
 There is a Secret in my Soup 人頭豆腐湯 (2001)
 Walking The Dead (2010)
 I Love Hong Kong (2011)
 The Sorcerer and the White Snake 白蛇傳說 (2011)
 I Love Hong Kong 2012 (2012)
 Buddy Cops 刑警兄弟 (2016)

TV series
Journey to the West (1996) (cameo)
Armed Reaction (1997)
Taming of the Princess (1997)
Healing Hands (1998)
Full House (1998)
A Loving Spirit (1999)
Feminine Masculinity (1999)
Broadcast Life (2001)
Gods of Honour (2001)
Square Pegs (2002–03)
Ups and Downs in the Sea of Love (2003)
The Driving Power (2003)
The Legend of Love (2003)
My Family (2005)
The Conqueror's Story (2005)
Fantasy Hotel (2005)
Women on the Run (2005)
Life Made Simple (2005)
The Prince's Shadow (2005)
Women on the Run (2005)
Under the Canopy of Love (2006)
Bar Bender (2006)
Love Guaranteed (2006)
The Slicing of the Demon (2007)
Best Selling Secrets (2007-2008)
The Drive of Life (2007)
Marriage of Inconvenience (2007)
The Money-Maker Recipe (2008)
Love Exchange (2008) (Guest)
The Entrepreneurial Beauties (2009) (Guest)
In the Chamber of Bliss (2009)
A Fistful of Stances (2010)
Every Move You Make (2010)
Home Troopers (2010-2011)
Forensic Heroes III (2011)
When Heaven Burns (2011-2012)
Til Love Do Us Lie (2011-2012)
Wish and Switch (2012)
House of Harmony and Vengeance (2012)
Inbound Troubles (2013)
 Triumph in the Skies II (2013) (Guest star ep. 4)
Queen Divas (2014)
My "Spiritual" Ex-Lover (2015)
Come Home Love: Dinner at 8 (2016)
Come Home Love: Lo and Behold (2017)

Awards and titles
Miss Chinese Montréal 1994
Top 10 semifinalist at Miss Chinese International 1995
2005 TVB Anniversary Awards - Best Supporting Actress
2005 Metro Showbiz Hit Television Awards - Hit Supporting Actress

External links
 Angela Tong's page at TVB

References

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1975 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
Actresses from Montreal
Canadian actresses of Chinese descent
Female models from Quebec
Concordia University alumni
Hong Kong female models
Hong Kong film actresses
Hong Kong television actresses
Models from Montreal
TVB veteran actors
20th-century Hong Kong actresses
21st-century Hong Kong actresses
Canadian-born Hong Kong artists


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George Vondriska demonstrates the proper way to assemble a melamine carcase that he will turn into a cabinet for the bathroom in his home. Using an 18-volt compact Bosch drill and driver, George teaches you the step-by-step woodworking process for drilling and screwing the individual pieces together.
You took the time to explain how to drill the holes how to predrill for the holes how many to put how to secure the shelves together, seems to me that most people would be able to figure that out, other than the hint on how to use the claps to hold them in place. I think a begginer would want to know how in the world would you go about flipping to the other side, why did you not show how to do that?
Thank you for your inquiry. Although this might seem like a straightforward exercise for experienced woodworkers, many people struggle with these concepts the first time they try to assemble a large carcase. Therefore we felt it would be helpful to demonstrate the pre-drilling and screw fastening operations, and the benefit of having a dedicated tool set up for each task (drill for pre-drilling and impact driver for driving screws). In these short free video clips we often constrain the focus to a narrow set of tasks such as those shown here. We have a number of full length videos that show cabinet construction from end to end, so we did not feel that it was necessary to try to cover the full spectrum of tasks in this short clip.
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Hi George, the screws look like drywall screws but I have a feeling they weren't please fill me i.
This video on assembling a large carcase was interesting and informative. However, I was waiting in anticipation for the large CARCASS that the lead line of the video referred to. Did I miss it?
I understand it is quicker but a few dados would make it a whole lot stronger and easier to assemble.
I've been shopping for decent counter sink drill bits. What type and brand counter sink is George using in this video? Thanks in advance!
I know your way is faster but a few dados would make it a lot stronger and easier to assemble.
HI, you had a few questions asked but as yet not answered. By the dates shown they must have been seen since one of your answers were on a much later date than the date of one of the unanswered question (May 3). Once they are answered will you please send me an email so I can view your answers?
Hi Barry. What is your question and I can have our experts answer it for you.


WESTERN CONCRETE PUMPING CUTS HOURS OFF OF MIRROR-IMAGE FOUNDATION POUR | Schwing America Inc.
On August 24, 2002, Western Concrete Pumping, San Diego, completed a 13,502-yard mat pour for a foundation that now supports one tower of a twin story luxury condo development known as Grande Towers. On October 4, 2003, general contractor Bosa Construction, Inc., a division of Bosa Ventures, Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, commissioned Western's extensive pumping fleet to complete the foundation for the second condo structure, a mirror image of the first.
Fifteen-year old industry powerhouse Western Concrete Pumping, operating out of San Diego, Los Angeles and Phoenix, boasts a fleet of 27 concrete pumps, all manufactured by Schwing America. The firm services Southern California and has been contracted for several out-of-state projects as well, specializing in deck pours, placing boom pours and multi-pump, high-volume pours. Their extensive resume and versatile, modern long-boom fleet earned them both projects with Bosa.
After the first pour was completed the summer of 2002, Western General Manager Steve Delamarian, predicted the slab pour scheduled for October of 2003 would go smoothly. "It's going to be a different project and different specs, but certainly the same sort of coordinated effort," said Delamarian. For the second time, coordination among contractors added to the efficient execution of a huge monolithic slab pour.
On October 4, Western went to work setting up 15 pumps from the Schwing fleet in and around the excavation. The pumper set up one each of their 58-meter, 42-meter, 39-meter, and 32-meter pumps around the outside of the 11-foot deep hole. Also stationed around the hole were three S 47 SX, three KVM 34 X, and two 36-meter Schwing pumps.
Set-up inside the hole, two KVM 42 pumps and one KVM 34 X were supplied concrete by the three 34-meter pumps set up on the exterior of the excavation. Western pumped the first yard of concrete at 7:00 am, with finishers and laborers from D & D Concrete Construction, Inc., San Diego, working in the hole.
Western Mechanic Tom Laverty and Operations Manager Don Campbell also ensured the pumps were in exceptional shape for the long project.
Finishing contractor D & D President Derek Leffler commented that a number of logistical issues were considered and resolved based on the first giant mat pour.
"In a general sense, we all had an idea of how to improve pump positioning, increase truck flow efficiency, and most effectively use man power," he said.
Western, D & D and concrete contractor Newway Structures, Inc., San Diego also devised an efficient way to complete a 4,000-yard pour within the first hour. By attaching hard line to five of the Schwing pumps they were able to concentrate on the section furthest from the pumps. This enabled Western to supply concrete to the area without pump relocation, and D & D finishers to begin topping the section off at the beginning of their third hour. D & D provided 46 finishers and 18 laborers on the site for the 13,502-yard mat pour.
Things went just as smoothly for the ready-mix supplier, who utilized 259 trucks dispatched from seven different Hanson batch plants. Some trucks covered a 46-mile round trip to supply the 3000 psi concrete with 40 percent fly ash to the site. In addition to the truck operators, at least 100 Hanson employees including dispatchers and on-site supervisors coordinated and controlled ready-mix supply. Bill Jones, Senior Traffic Engineer for the City of San Diego headed up a team of traffic control coordinators for lane closures and re-routing. The effort proved to provide quick truck turnaround and easy job site access. Between 30 and 40 washout bins were set up in three different areas within a mile radius of the pour, allowing for fast cleanup. The massive effort allowed Hanson to supply an average of 1440 yards per hour.
Careful planning and innovation led to a successful, monolithic pour. Pumpers wrapped up around 6:00 pm that evening, only 11 hours after pumping the first yard. "I dare say this was the most organized pour anyone has ever completed," said Delamarian.
In late October, Western and Hanson also completed a 2700-yard pour for the condo's adjoining parking structure.


This series asks all sorts of bloggers who their dream dinner guests are, and why. As you'll find out there is quite an eclectic mix! I thought it only right to start with myself, so you can read the post that inspired this guest series.
So without further ado, let's Come Dine With… Life As Mrs D!
Dave Grohl – In four words. I LOVE DAVE GROHL! I have done for many a year. I used to drool over a certain section of the Learn To Fly video where he was looking pretty hot….not the bit where he's in a fat suit! The bit where he's crowdsurfing! I'd also love to talk to him about his time in Nirvana, what it was like knowing Kurt Cobain, whether he thought Courtney Love had anything to do with Kurt's death. My hubby would also love to talk to him about what it's like being friends with, and working with Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age!
Victoria Wood – I debated for quite a while whether to invite Victoria or Judie Dench. In the end I decided on Victoria, as I think she had much more of a dirty sense of humour, like mine. I think with Judie Dench I would always be trying to watch my language too much! Victoria could also provide us all with some comical entertainment with a rendition of a couple of her songs after we'd finished eating.
Prince Harry – I think Prince Harry, and Prince William have done amazing things to bring the Royal family into the 21st century, which I think was in desperate need of doing so. I'm never entirely sure as to what I think of the Royal family, but would love to sit down with Harry, and talk about his life. I'd love to know the ins and outs, and also talk to him about a lot of the charity work he does.
Sarah Millican – I know that she can be an acquired taste, but I think she's fantastic! I find her so funny, and down to earth. And I absolutely love a Geordie accent. I saw her live a few years ago and came away thinking in a Geordie accent!
Harry Patch – For a long time I have been fascinated by WW1 and WW2. I'd love to talk to Harry about what life was like during World War One, I'm sure he'd have some fascinating stories as the Last Fighting Tommy. He lived to be 111 years old, and would have experienced so much in his years.
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I think I agree with all of those! Although at the moment my goal would be to eat ALONE without being a human climbing frame or the "you eating that?" hovering fork of the other half!!


"It's definitely a genuine concern," Brisbane economist Gene Tunny said.
I also received a brief mention on Radio NZ's 6am news bulletin (at 1 minute, 47 seconds).
Buy Queensland is bad policy which will result in a higher procurement bill for the Queensland Government and could even unfairly discriminate against Queensland businesses competing for work in regions outside of their own in the State (see diagram below). That is, it may make it harder for many Brisbane-based businesses to win State Government work in Townsville or Cairns, for example.
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