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- In about 1 hour, we will cruise through the unique Unesco Heritage listed Golden Age canals of Amsterdam. We will cruise into the Jordaan, a neighbourhood known for its famous Prinsengracht towards the most romantic Magere Brug (English: Skinny Bridge – we will work on your Dutch pronunciation later), the Amstel river, the 7 bridges, the impressive Golden Bend, the 9 streets back to the Anne Frank house.
- On the way, we will tell you all about our favorite bars, restaurants, and other hidden gems in Amsterdam!
- Our skippers and great hostesses know all about Amsterdam, and no question will be unanswered. We will tell you the great stories about old the Dutch sailboats that roamed the seas and the famous Dutch seaheroes and local residents like Rembrandt van Rijn. We will talk about conquered lands and how the Dutch were ruling the seas in the 16th and 17th century (the Golden Age) but also the current tolerance of the Amsterdam people.
About the Tour
We have open boats for you to enjoy that full experience with views of Amsterdam's most famous monuments and memorials. Our canal cruise is a great alternative to those old-school tourist canal boats that your grandma probably recommended!
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Wither Paperback / softback
by Lauren DeStefano
Part of the The Chemical Garden series
A stunning debut YA novel, destined to blow the dystopian genre wide open - The Handmaid's Tale for a new generation.
This edition will contain a sneak preview of Fever, and a brand new short story by Lauren DeStefano: "The First Bride". Sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery has only four years left to live when she is kidnapped by the Gatherers and forced into a polygamous marriage.
Now she has one purpose: to escape, find her twin brother, and go home - before her time runs out forever. What if you knew you exactly when you would die? In our brave new future, DNA engineering has resulted in a terrible genetic flaw.
Women die at the age of 20, men at 25. Young girls are being abducted and forced to breed in a desperate attempt to keep humanity ahead of the disease that threatens to eradicate it. 16-year-old Rhine Ellery is kidnapped and sold as a bride to Linden, a rich young man with a dying wife.
Even though he is kind to her, Rhine is desperate to escape her gilded cage - and Linden's cruel father.
With the help of Gabriel, a servant she is growing dangerously attracted to, Rhine attempts to break free, in what little time she has left.
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- Pages: 386 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date: 02/05/2011
- Category: Fantasy
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The Kronick Trio plays jazz in the bop, swing, and funk traditions. With decades of experience among them, the group delivers power, subtlety, heart — and soul.
Richard Kronick — bass, vocals
Scott Ives— guitar
Bruce Wintervold — vibraphone and percussion


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Lover to the Arts.
I've always been
the Lover to the Arts,
kissin' the lips
embracin' the arms
of all her kinds;
once upon a time…
i wanted to paint
with my inner voice
i wanted my inner voice
to speak through the
artistry of painting
through the voices of
Jacob Lawrence,
John T. Biggers,
Hale Woodruff
that still resound today…
(more easily said) but
a young life began
his renaissance with crayons
and blue-line paper sheets
crafting dreams of sunbeam
filled skies and joys of days
that only rays of sun could
replicate in the clarity of
the voices we'd
paint together
those were the days--- until my voice
painted out of its range
and sketched me out
of the portfolio
of ability.
once upon a time…
i wanted to dance
with my inner paintbrush
i wanted my inner paintbrush
to move through
the rhythmic freedom of
my body, in ways
the paintbrushes of
George Snowden,
Leroy Jones
grooved and still brush on today…
(more easily said) but
my dreams found themselves
wrapping my body around the
grove, passion of the pulses,
and the tenacity of the tempos.
those were the days--- until my paintbrush
missed a step
and tumbled me outside
of the Lennox Lounge's side
doors I once could slide through.
i want to write
with my inner cadence
I want my poetry
to dance lyrics in
heartfelt performances
Countee Cullen,
Langston Hughes,
Zora Neale Hurston
jazzed then and still dance on today…
(more easily said) but
my poetry finds itself floating
on the vibrato of the rhythm
as words lock their experiences
into poetic fixations and give life to
the songs
the dances
the pictures
seen and touched by the
renaissance of my young life
'cause there's this something special
about how poetry tempts me as she
moves--- and I've always been
the Lover to the Arts
just-a kissin' and embracin'
Mark Anthony Thomas
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I'm a few weeks late in posting, but Finley is 11 months old!
Last week at the doctor he was just an ounce shy of 21 pounds.
I think this is what Hannah weighed around 16 months!
One of his new favorite things to do is take a ride on Eeyore.
He's still easy going, and moving all over the place and into everything. He loves to pull himself up on everything.
He loves to wave and make his little cars drive across the floor.
Finley eats just about everything we give him. He loves all his fruits and veggies, but he makes funny faces when I give him spinach. Sleeping is still going well, except when he had a cold last week and woke up a few times during the night. He takes two naps a day and I've noticed that since he's gotten so much more mobile and active he tends to wear himself out and sleep better for naps. This has been nice since he's not always been the best napper.
Finley loves his family and he gets so excited when we pick Hannah up from school everyday. Shawn was in the US a few weeks ago and when he came home, Finn squealed and flapped his arms around like a bird. He couldn't get over to his daddy fast enough.
We've been working on baby sign language and so far he does the sign for "milk." I've been showing him the signs for "more" and "all done," but he seems to have made up his own sign for "all done," because when he's in his high chair and he's had enough, he raises his hands above his head and then slams them on the tray.
Happy 11 months, Finley!
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Sharp Gallery is a nice jQuery plugin that creates a beautiful grid based image gallery. What is characteristic is that the content is displayed and functions within this grid. The thumbs are bigger and prettier and contribute to the design. The big images are opened in place, within the grid, connected to the thumbs themselves. Coupled with other design elements and effects, this creates a beautiful look and a great functionality.
Here are some of the other important features of this gallery:
Very customizable
The gallery comes with a large number of options that allows it to be customized in a wide number of different ways.
It can have various designs, functions, sizes and, hopefully, it can both look and function as you want it to.
Comes with 16 templates
It comes with a number of 16 templates that showcase different ways of configuring the gallery and provide a starting point in customizing it.
These are available to open, preview and customize from the Examples page.
Easy to work with and implement
The gallery has been designed to be as simple as possible to install, customize and work with.
Installing it requires simply copying the HTML code and the assets folder. And the available settings makes it easy to customize it in different ways.
Fully responsive
It is fully responsive, all of the content resizes based on the available space and it displays well on different screen sizes and devices.
CSS3 animations with JS fallback
Cross browser support
It is supported on all popular browsers, both on computers and mobille devices as well on popular older browsers.
30 JS settings
It has 30 different JavaScript settings that are set in the build code in order to configure the gallery in different and multiple ways. These range from thumbs width to stage position, animation settings and keyboard navigation.
All of the available JS settings and their meanings can be previewed right now in the guide at this link.
16 CSS settings
There are also 16 CSS seettings available. These are classes that you attach to HTML elements in order to change different things about the look of the gallery. Some examples include: a slim thumb border, a plain text background or a dark gallery background.
All of the available CSS settings and their meanings can be previewed in the guide at this link.
Easy to edit CSS and JS code
The CSS code can be edited to change anything about the gallery look that you want and the JS source code can be edited as well to change anything about the functionality that you want. Both have been logically organized to follow the structure of the gallery, the code was made simple and clear so that it is easy to pick up, understand and modify.
Detailed guide and instructions
The gallery comes with a detailed guide that containes all of the information that you need to know when working with it. It gives complete instructions about how to install and customize the gallery as well as how to contact me if you have any questions or any problems.
The guide is available to preview right now at this link.
Source files included
The project files include the sources of all the files used in the gallery, so that you have the possibility to change anything that you want. Most importantly, the source of the gallery JavaScript file is included but the sources of the image assets files are available as well.
Althought it has many options, the gallery remains very lightweight. The minified JavaScript file is under 15Kb. And the total size of all the files excluding the images themselves (HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, image assets) add up to under 150Kb. This makes it load very fast on all devices.
Support provided
I am available for support in case you have any questions, problems or need any help implementing the gallery.
The guide gives instructions on how to contact me and I will do my best to respond as soon as possible.
Free updates
All future developments and updates to the gallery will be completely free once you have bought the project one time.
After an update is made, the changes are documented on the description page and when you download the project files, you wil receive the new and updates ones.
Feedback and requests
I am very interested in hearing feedback and suggestions from people on how to improve the gallery and what new features to develop and I will do my best to make them happen.
If you have any feedback, suggestions or requests, please feel free to contact me and tell me about them.
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Sunday we ventured to The 'Noke to hit up the Chuck E Cheese. Before our pizza came, Mommy and Daddy let me play on the big kid slide. It's basically a series of tunnels attached to the ceiling with a slide that connects at the end. These happen to make Mommy extremely nervous because she's afraid a big kid is going to trap me in the tunnel, not let me out, say mean things to me, and then she won't be able to hear me crying. Oy vey.
Once the pizza arrived, Emma Grace was all about pretending to eat it.
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The Buddha's Teaching As It Is
In the fall of 1979, while living at the Washington Buddhist Vihara, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi gave a series of lectures on the fundamental teachings of Early Buddhism. Bhante Gunaratana, at the time the President of the Buddhist Vihara Society, suggested he record the lectures so that the Vihara could distribute them as a set of cassette tapes.
In the summer of 1981, Ven. Bodhi recorded his ten lectures in the basement of the Washington Buddhist Vihara, using an ordinary, nonprofessional recorder. An enthusiastic lay supporter had the master copies reproduced in large quantities for expanded distribution. They have continued to be distributed on tape and as CDs for over twenty-five years, and are considered "public domain" for anyone to copy and distribute freely. The one condition is that they must not be sold.


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He was a friend of the Prince of Wales, but a sharp critic of Princess Diana. He was a leader of the post-Hungerford and post-Dunblane "gun lobby" and a supporter of field sports. He was also a somewhat secretive former propagandist for apartheid South Africa and a friend of other lobbyists such as Ian Greer, Neil Hamilton and Derek Laud. But he was not monochromatic. He was liberal on abortion, favoured free eye and dental treatment, and would have preferred the whites he backed in southern Africa to be more reformist
Above all, he was a defence and aviation specialist, serving actively until last month on the defence select committee, which he chaired from 1995 to 1997. On Tuesday, two days before he died, he made a 25-minute speech, the longest in the Commons defence debate. His swansong deplored the forces' manpower shortage, which he attributed to the ministry of defence losing battles with the treasury.
Colvin came by such interests naturally. He was born the son of Captain Ivan Beale Colvin RN and Joy Arbuthnot. His family had a political background: a great-great uncle had successfully introduced a bill to ban bear-baiting.
His education was suited to the military wing of the Tory squirearchy. He attended West Downs prep school at Winchester; Eton; and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. At 18 he went into the Grenadier Guards, serving in Berlin, Suez and Cyprus, emerging as a captain.
His economic future was assured when, at the age of 24, he married Nichola Cayzer, the daughter of Lord Cayzer, top man in the British and Commonwealth shipping company. Initially, he worked for four years in advertising with the agency J Walter Thompson, then for 14 years as a director of Accrep Ltd, a property investment firm.
A decade or so ago the family funds had swollen adequately for him and his wife to become Lloyd's names and to buy the Tangley estate. He also became briefly the owner of the Cricketers' Arms, to save it for the village. To qualify himself as a major farmer, he studied at the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester.
Initially, his political ambitions were satisfied in local government. He was elected to Tangley parish council for 12 years from 1964, to Andover rural district council for seven years from 1965, and to Hampshire county council for five years from 1970.
His first parliamentary seat was Bristol North West, which he captured from Labour in 1979, when Margaret Thatcher achieved power. He showed political ambivalence, urging a new centre party on the one hand, but also calling for privatisation of NHS services. He showed his commitment to the doomed rightwing, white forces in Africa by endorsing the South-African-backed anti-Swapo regime in Namibia in 1981.
In 1983 he switched to the new, much safer seat of Romsey and Waterside, stretching out from the Southampton suburbs. As a Cayzer son-in-law, he opposed the phasing out of tax allowances on new shipbuilding and urged a larger, more modern merchant marine fleet. He opposed the slicing off of BA's routes just when it was becoming successful. He favoured easier conditions for pub licencees
But above all, he spoke up for the whites of southern Africa, particularly after twice visiting apartheid South Africa and Bophuthatswana as a guest of their governments, first in 1986. He was liberal enough to support reformist Dennis Worral's 1987 election campaign. But in 1988 he criticised the BBC for broadcasting its Mandela concert tribute. In 1989 he visited Bophuthatswana again and Angola as a guest of Unita, backed by the CIA and South Africa. He also welcomed the visit of FW de Klerk to Britain and condemned a telecast by Peter Hain and anything emanating from Anti-Apartheid.
Such views led him to become in 1991 a consultant, at £10,000 a year - replacing Neil Hamilton - to Strategic Network International, a lobbyist front organised, possibly unbeknown to him, by pre-Mandela South African intelligence organisations. Later, he became a director, with the black Tory, Derek Laud, of the Laud Ludgate lobbying organisation.
As chairman of the Council for Country Sports from 1988, Colvin stepped up his opposition to gun-control and bans on foxhunting. As captain of the Commons shooting club, he opposed the conversion of its shooting range into a creche.
In all things, Michael Colvin was an ardent advocate of those he chose to speak for. Among his last words on Tuesday, in the midst of his defence speech, was to complain for farmers: "As a farmer, I am experiencing a crisis at present. I have postponed the purchase of a new combine because I cannot afford it this year."
That problem has been left in the hands of his son and two daughters.
Michael Keith Beale Colvin, politician, born September 27 1932; died February 24 2000


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About our project
Following a successful social enterprise model, Toronto's Building Up (www.buildingup.ca), Newo Global Energy's water division aims to water retrofit 3000 houses and apartments in the next four years, an approximate saving of 100 million litres per year, by changing out old inefficient toilets with ultra-high efficiency 3-litre toilets and switching to low-flow showerheads and taps. The project will be piloted in the City of Camrose, with plans to expand to Edmonton, Red Deer, and Calgary in the following years.
In addition to water conservation, the project will hire local people who are experiencing barriers to employment, such as recent refugees who are still learning English. The project will train and educate participants, with the hope that they will be able to transition to full-time employment in the trades.
An education component will share knowledge with communities, homeowners, and tenants about our fragile water resources, the effects of high water consumption, and how to further reduce household consumption.
On-Bill Financing
We have begun rewarding discussions with the City of Camrose to potentially finance a program to retrofit the entire city. This model of financing is known as pay-as-you-save or on-bill financing. In this case, the City of Camrose would finance the water retrofits with the return on investment coming from the monthly savings. Ideally, homeowners will see no change in their water bill!
If successful, this model of financing could have national implications, and prove that it is both financially and ecologically sound for municipalities to adopt and pay for universal water conservation practices. According to Building Up's Toronto estimates, each retrofit saves $150 per year per house or apartment and conserves approximately 35,000 litres of water annually. Our project hopes to demonstrate similar economic and environmental savings, but on a city-wide scale.
Training Partnerships
This project would also focus on offering training and jobs for individuals experiencing barriers to employment. Partnerships with the Camrose Refugee Coordinating Committee (CRCC), Yellowhead Tribal College Development Foundation, the Somali refugee community in Edmonton, the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance, the Central Alberta Refugee Effort, the Red Deer Native Friendship Society, and EcoTrust in Calgary would ensure a connection to communities in need.
For more information: www.newo.energy/water-retrofit


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Savor…El Paso Catering is built on ASM Global's national reputation for superior food and beverage service.
Our Facility Sales Department Staff will be happy to help you arrange the details that can make your event stand out. We will help ensure a successful event for you and your guest.
We specialize in the following:
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The Blast Processors: Mindjammer - Episode 03/
AD 2101: humanity is on a course for destruction, the wheels of which began turning over a century ago. The last Great Console War ended in the era of Mode 7, leading to unforeseeable cataclysmic events.
Mankind's last hope rides on the shoulders of 5 warriors trained in propaganda, guerrilla warfare, & catchy melodies.
Their mission: to travel back to the past to save the world with rock!
The Blast Processors join These Warriors Are Terrible to play Mindjammer, the space opera RPG.
Check out the band at http://blastprocessors.com and their new album on bandcamp at http://blastprocessors.bandcamp.com/
You can't do this on Nintendo.
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Lumia 635 is one of the three Nokia-branded Windows Phone 8.1 devices announced so far. It is designed to compete in the low-end smartphone market, where it goes up against similarly-priced handsets from rival Android manufacturers. It is also the only device in its lineup to officially reach US shores, with T-Mobile being the first local mobile operator to announce its availability.
But Lumia 635 will also be available at another US mobile operator. Starting July 25, AT&T will offer the Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone through its GoPhone prepaid service and, starting August 8, the device will also be available through the mobile operator's online and brick and mortar stores.
The GoPhone version of Lumia 635 will cost $99.99, while the AT&T version will go for $139.99 off-contract, $7 per month with AT&T Next 12 or $5.84 per month with AT&T Next 18. To put things into perspective, through T-Mobile's MetroPCS subsidiary, Lumia 635 costs $99, while through the mobile operator's online and brick and mortar stores it goes for $168.
As you can see, it's a wash between Lumia 635 at MetroPCS and GoPhone, but if you plan on going with the AT&T version, over the T-Mobile one, you will save $28.01. As far as specs go, there is not much to separate them, except, most likely, the mobile operator branding.
Lumia 635 highlights include: 4.5-inch IPS display, glove-friendly, with a resolution of 480 by 854; 1.4 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor; 512 MB of RAM; 1,830 mAh battery; 8 GB of internal storage; microSD card slot (can house cards up to 128 GB in size); 5 MP back-facing camera with 720p video recording (there is no front-facing camera, however); Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; GPS with Glonass; Bluetooth 4.0 and USB 2.0. The physical dimensions are 129.5 x 66.7 x 9.2 mm and weight is 134 grams.


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It stands on a wooden bureau in our living room. Right next to the sewing machine that I inhereted from my mother when I set forth after my A levels, a couple of matryoshka dolls from my Moscow visit and a miniature figure of Walther "Heisenberg" White from my man's beloved TV show Breaking Bad. Filling a preserving jar up to its half, it catches almost every guest's attention. Their assumptions include the funniest examples: tea, magic mushrooms or weed pills (remember, we do live in Amsterdam), poison, room scent or a simple "What is this?"; we heard it all. We would think that these ideas could not be topped by anything stranger but each time when I explain what is actually filling this jar our visitors react really surprised. At first, the sentence "This is my placenta" generates facial expressions that feature nuances of slight disgust. This is in particular the case if they don't have children yet.
However, somehow this answer also increases their interest. They want to understand so they ask "why do you have your placenta in a jar…in your living room?". So I start to talk about how I read this book by a German mid-wife and got carried away by the all natural birth approach and how to prepare for the recovery phase. That the placenta is supposed to strengthen the mother's body and soul and help her to cope with mood changes. I mention Thiago's birth. The two- day-long and exhausting labor which had started in a birth center but had to be continued in the hospital. How I had surprised my man that, once our son was born and taken to the NICU, I still had the brain and power to tell the hospital staff not to through my placenta away. I mention the assistant doctor who asked " Do you want to see it?" and us simultaneously answering. Me with yes. My man with "NO"! "It actually looks like a big bloody steak", he always says at this point. While laughing, we remember the assistant doctor checking the red and glibbery placenta, touching it over and over again with his fingers like small children do when they play with food.
I talk about the nurse who put my placenta in a plastic bucket, how I handed it over to my midwife to encapsulate this steak that had nourished our baby for nine long months. "It has done such a great job so it can only be god for your body, right?" is how my man and I end the story. Whether the effect is actually true or just placebo, we don't mind at this point. What we know is that these memories, both funny and creepy, are simply amazing and just priceless!
Do you have a placenta story? Did you encapsulate it? If so, I would be thrilled to hear your story 🙂


text: With lyrical grit, dynamic grooves, and atmospheric, yet driving melodies, Bendt has carved a distinctive sound into the face of modern rock. Formed in 2015, Bendt evolved out of the crucible of the Albany, New York music scene as a passion project between friends. Bandmates Matt Plummer (lead vocals/rhythm guitar), Carl Blackwood (lead guitar), John Longo (bass), and Cody Bingham (drums) work to craft a unique presence, one that draws from their individual musicianship and shared love of hard rock, alternative, metal, and funk. As Bendt's songs leap between soaring riffs and emotive screams, to unusual time signatures and bass-heavy flows, the band captures something that is universal while simultaneously personal and immediate.


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"She thrills in dazzle and deception, regularly hoodwinking her friends, her family, and now her visitor from the Netherlands. With her vivid storytelling, the incredible decor of her New York loft, and her larger-than-life personality, you can only be sure of one thing with artist Meghan Boody: nothing is what it seems".
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Bisexual British crooner Morrissey is reportedly selling shirts that have a picture of openly gay black writer James Baldwin and the lyrics of the Smiths' song "Unloveable" that read, "I wear black on the outside/'Cause black is how I feel on the inside."
Black people hate it when white people say they're "black on the inside" — it's considered a statement of appropriation, allowing others to claim black identity without having to experience or fight against any of the actual racism endured by black people. Morrissey's new shirt is sure to get some bad press, especially considering the singer's previous brushes with racism.
In a 1986 interview, he said that he "detest[ed] … black modern music" and in 1992, he displayed a backdrop of two female skinheads during a a London performance.
In 2004, he took a step against racism by being a founding signatory of the United Kingdom's Unite Against Fascism group.
However, in 2008, Morrissey donated £28,000 to the organization Love Music Hate Racism after stating that immigration destroys British identity. Two years later, he told The Guardian, "You can't help but feel that the Chinese people are a subspecies," when discussing animal cruelty in China.
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Posts Tagged 'uri'
Moving URIs around: how careful should I be?
Entry Points
In the human web, the entry point is a strong coupled URI.
Changing your company's entry point from http://www.caelum.com.br to http://www.newcaelum.com.br without notifying your
clients will cause serious damages to those using your website.
The same holds for REST applications. Entry points to your system are strong coupled and
changing it without notifying your clients will break their system usage.
Entry point's should not change without noticing your clients.
How can my clients become aware of the URI change?
Once you have published your new URI, set your old URI response to "301 – Moved Permanently" and set the header "Location" with
the appropriate location. Once 301 is received your clients can cache this response forever, changing their entry point configuration, because the move is permament.
By adding a proxy server to your system, the Moved Permanently response will be cached.
Restfulie will automatically redirect the user to the new URI upon receiving 301 on GET and HEAD:
product = Product.from_web 'http://www.caelum.com.br/product/2' # received a 301, went to the new Location
If the request is anything but GET or HEAD, the user has to explicetely define its intention on following 301:
# explicitely following 301 on other verbs class Product uses_restfulie entry_point_for.create.at 'http://www.caelum.com.br/product' follows.moved_permanently end product = Product.remote_create Product.new # received a 301, re-posted it to the new uri, received a 200
Internal elements
In the ideal human web, all gettable resources are bookmarkable therefore any changes to those resources also
imply possible damage to your clients. After accessing http://www.caelum.com.br for the first time, if I access a ruby training,
I get to http://www.caelum.com.br/cursos/rr-71. I can use this address in several ways, i.e. bookmarking or sharing it.
If the courses URI's changes, bookmarked URI's will not work: the user will only find it out after trying it.
Once he has got a 404, the user will go back to the entry point and restart his procedure to
access the previous (invalid) bookmarked resource if the server does not answer with a Moved permantently response.
That's what we do when our bookmarks break.
Again, the same holds for REST applications. In order to keep the benefits form Addressability, once published, one has
to keep his URI's valid forever: either responding with its content, a See Other (303) or a Moved Permanently (301) response.
REST bases itself in addressability and therefore it is ok to bookmark any resource URI in the client system:
if you believe some your resources will not be bookmarked, it is ok to move them without prior notice, but remember, by
thinking that your resources were not bookmarked, you have accepted to lose one of REST's benefits.
Client's can always go back to the entry point and navigate through the previous executed procedure to retrieve the new URI,
but if he has to, it means that you broke one of your clients expectations.
302 and 303
Two other possible responses are 302 Found and 303 See Other.
While 302 means a temporary move, the client not supposed to cache the Location header as the new location
for the resource unless explicitely specified. Restfulie deals with it the same way as it does for 301:
you should notify Restfulie to follow 302 responses for verbs other than GET and HEAD>
When receiving a 303, the user should retrieve the resource at the new location with a GET verb.
This response allows the server to respond to a POST request by notifying the client to redirect to
the new resource URI – or any other desired one – with a GET.
The 303 response itself must not be cached.
Restfulie follows all 303 responses by default.
Summing up
No matter believing or not that your client will not cache your internal URI's, the HTTP application protocol allows him to do it,
so in order to allow your clients to evolve appart from your own evolution, do not change the addresses
without keeping a proper Moved Permanently (301) response at those URI's.
Internal element's patterns might not be shared, but remember: every published resource should answer properly if they move.


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Michael Hirsch writes for Newsweek about the ways Rudy Giuliani has put together a team of advisors that makes him look like a dangerous lunatic. His behavior while in City Hall was kind of lovably wacky, but it also suggested the temperament of a lunatic who, in the White House, would be dangerous, so bringing a "dangerous lunatic" policy team on board is not comforting. And this is dangerous lunatic by contemporary Republican standards so be afraid. And there are structural factors in play — it's not clear that Rudy can afford to be less than insane:
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East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson has urged the Chancellor of the Exchequer to direct investment in the digital economy towards "poorly served rural areas".
Speaking during Treasury questions in the House of Commons, Mr. Wilson said: "While the government boasts that as a result of investment in fibre optic broadband, the average speed broadband speed across the UK is 29mega biytes, in some parts of my constituency, carrier pigeons would be a more rapid form of communication.
"Many households cannot get even one mega byte and according to BT, have no immediate prospect of improvement.
"This service is now essential for farmers and rural businesses. I ask the chancellor to ensure the £400m fund which he is proposing in the budget would be made available to the many innovative and private companies which are looking at new ways of expanding the system rather than continuing to pour money into BT."


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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
And Then There Was Three !
Today, I feel like I am a traitor. You see up until now I have been swooning over images by the talented photographers Tanya Lippert and Elizabeth Messina. I never tire of looking at there photographs, I've seen them all a million times or more, but still they inspire me.
Today I discovered Jill Thomas Photography. And i'm in love ! This is why ...
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Embrace Love
I came across this image taken by the talented people at Flashdance.
The second this image showed up on my screen, all i said was
"Okay, that is insane"... I love the true, unspoken strength of love that melts from this shot.
This is life at its best. Embrace it !
Monday, August 17, 2009
Who holds the key to your heart?
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Oh for the Love of VERA !
When I think of a dream wedding, I think of the beautiful bride swanning down the aisle in a distinctively 'Vera' gown. A gown which may take a life time to save for, but when we are talking about a 'Vera Wang', it is worth every pain-staking penny.
Vera Wang is quite simply, the queen of bridal couture. Her gowns are known for their form-fitting design and flattering styles. Each year her collections carry with them a show-stopping element, from high-drama ruffles to oversized bows, delicate ribbons or mountains of tulle, your search for the perfect 'Vera' doesn't mean your limited to this years collection... Vera is timeless.
But remember girls ..."You don't alter a Vera Wang to fit you... you alter yourself to fit Vera!"
Vera Wang's 2010 collection was a surprise, as it was definately a step away from her usual traditional style and a move toward modern-edgy designs. This year was all about layers and layers of light, airy, romantic fabric... in abundance. Wang also noted the economy struggles of the world and included several more affordable gowns in her collection, making the median price of this year's gowns around $4000.
"For most women a wedding gown represents far more than just something to wear on her glorious day. It is also the embodiment of a dream, perhaps one she has nurtured since childhood. In this fantasy of idealized happiness, the groom represents perfection and the face of all human possibility. The instant a woman becomes engaged, however, all that energy and passion gets transferred to her dress" (Vera Wang on Weddings)
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Wedding Dance
Your wedding day is meant to be the best day of your life, so enjoy it...have some fun and be sure to put your own personal touches on the day. I love these great wedding dances... they make me giggle and shine inside.
I can seriously imagine my family doing this one (below)... how fabulous !
Make sure you have the time of your life on your wedding day!
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Friday, August 7, 2009
Oh Mummy Dearest
I can only dream of looking as stunning as my Mum did on her wedding day.
This photo of her went on display through out shopping centres in Queensland
to promote the photographer just after she was married.
I can't wait for my Mum to walk me down the aisle.
It's going to take a very special Frog that see's Mum hand me over to him.
We are the best of friends, I love Mum so very much.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
You Light Up My Life
Whether the focal centre piece of a room, dripping decoratively from a tree or adorning the front of an invitation...chandeliers add instant glamour to any occasion. They hold so much style, elegance and create a romantic ambience...gorgeous, dazzling decadence. I want one!
Row 1: Alannah Rose, Wedding Paper Divas, Minted
Row 2: Oh How Charming!
Row 3: Philip Carr Events, Jose Villa
Row 4: Angels Dreaming, Style Me Pretty
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Watch the official video for OT Genasis' newest remix "Touchdown" featuring Busta Rhymes & French Montana.
After teasing us the other day with the trailer, O.T. Genasis comes through tonight with the official video for his remix to "Touchdown", featuring Busta Rhymes & French Montana.
Bringing out his inner Walter White, OT Genasis hits the desert & trailer to cook up some of that good white, while his partner, Busta Rhymes, serves as his cook, aka Jesse Pinkman. Later, French & company handle the business alongside special guest Tiny Lister aka Deebo from "Friday".
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Close your eyes. Think back to the very first experience of romantic love. How did it feel? Do you view this experience as a positive one or negative one? Many people describe their first loves as the "love of their lives" but what does this really mean and how does this impact on our future relationships?
Prominent UK socialist Dr Malcolm Brynin, Principal Research Officer at the University of Essex (2009) claims that relationship seekers are better off skipping their first experience of love entirely. He claims that the "euphoria" of first loves can cause obstacles and damage in future relationships. First loves are new, exciting adventures where passionate feelings and intimacy are experienced for the first time. Often the intensity of these passionate feelings are difficult to replicate making it harder to find happiness with a future partner. As The Guardian stated, first loves, "could set unrealistic benchmarks, against which we judge future relationships."
Is this the case and if so what of those who have less positive first love experiences?
First loves are no doubt key to our relationship experiences. Quite how, is another story, a story that belongs to the individual and individual alone. Some may still carry scars from the past; others may simply look back at it as a fond memory whilst others may measure themselves and their future relationships by the mere memory of their first love. Einstein was an intensely clever man, a genius, in fact yet he himself struggled to explain the equation of first love.
"No, this trick won't work… How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? "-Einstein
My Very First Love
I was lucky enough to have a positive experience. I was fifteen when I met my first love. We stayed together for three years. We were each other's best friends through tough times, flung together through a shared troublesome home life and teenage angst. We were inseparable. We were Romeo and Juliet and no one was ever going to stop us. I remember my mother, God bless her being very strict about him coming round. He was only allowed around when we could be supervised and under no circumstances would any boy be allowed upstairs. And rightly so! In retrospect, I love my mother for that. However, it did mean that I was forever at his house. In the end I was the one who broke his heart. I felt trapped, lost and uncertain. The Sagittarian in me wanted so desperately to flea and experience the world, to find myself again in a world where I felt I lacked complete direction or control over my life. I had dropped out of college for a second time, or should I say excluded, my mother and father had recently separated and worst of all, my beloved big sister moved out of the house and went off to University. I felt alone and abandoned. My heart was already broken. Love? I didn't care about love. I was a on the verge of a rebellion. I wanted sex, drugs and R'n'B! I was young. I was wild and I wasn't having any of this commitment baloney! It is only in hindsight I see just how loving and caring and kind hearted my first love really was. How it was me who felt I didn't deserve to be loved and due to a rapid lack of confidence I set about becoming my own worst enemy. But that's another story…
Mr Wrong, is still looking for your stories. I would love to hear your stories and experiences with Mr First Love. Whether your experiences were positive or not so positive please do post or email me at email@example.com
Do you think there is any significance in first loves? Do you think your first love has contributed to your ultimate view of love and relationships? What impact has it had? Mr Wrong awaits your gems and pearls of wisdom. x


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An Iowa woman was the first person in the state to be prosecuted for texting while driving and causing serious injury. She was sentenced last week and given a deferred judgment, placed on probation for two years, and ordered to complete a driver's improvement course, and 140 hours of community service. The woman was driving a vehicle with passengers and was admittedly texting while driving. The passengers reportedly told her to stop texting and she refused. The driver then caused a serious crash, leading one of the passengers to break both ankles, her sternum, four ribs, and her nose. The Polk County Attorney's Office stated this is the first case of its kind, involving a driver to be charged with a crime for texting while driving. Surely with the increase in texting while driving, this will not be the last.
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Cancer is a scary diagnosis, and one that affects more than just your health. Healing, recovering, and managing symptoms involve much more than medical treatments themselves can provide. Of course, you should always follow your doctor's recommendations, but there are many other aspects to a cancer diagnosis beyond the treatment you receive from your physician. Complimentary therapies and other self-care strategies are often recommended for cancer patients. There are many reasons why financial assistance for cancer care can help even if you have insurance, and why it's something that cancer patients and their support team should investigate in greater detail.
Existing Health Insurance Won't Cover Everything
Unfortunately, your existing health insurance plan may not cover everything you need in order to manage your symptoms. In addition to medical treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation, there are a number of alternate treatments frequently used to cope with other side effects. Over the counter medications to help with pain or nausea likely won't be covered, and comfort items to help you recover at home such as soft blankets or additional pillows will also come out of your pocket. Many people who receive chemotherapy also deal with fluctuating weight, requiring the purchase of a new wardrobe. When you receive financial assistance for cancer care, you are able to spend the money as you see fit – allowing you the ability to purchase these items without going into debt to do so.
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Remember: ITIL is not the same as ITSM
In a blog post last week, we stated that ITIL (which stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library) has close ties to ITSM (which stands for stands for IT Service Management). Note the underlying message here: ITIL and ITSM are not identical! This distinction isn't always clear, and so, in the spirit of helpfulness, we're going to highlight the key points to note regarding ITSM so as to clarify the difference between ITIL and ITSM. This is an important topic in IT asset management, after all.
What is ITSM?
To really understand ITSM, we have to take a step back and explain the actual meaning of "IT service". In the present context, an IT service can be defined as a collection of hardware, software, people, and documentation that together provides an IT system that conveys a useful amenity to an end user (or customer). ITSM is a discipline and a process that enables information technology governance objectives. More plainly, ITSM is centred on meeting the technology needs of business end users.
The process covers (among many others):
- Problem and change management
- Disaster recovery
- Capacity planning of IT resources in organizations.
Although technology management is clearly a necessary component in ITSM, it is not the chief focus of the discipline. Rather, ITSM primarily addresses the need to deliver IT services best aligned with business requirements. The following table illustrates some key differences between ITSM and the traditional business IT paradigm:
Traditional IT
ITSM Process
Technology focus
Process focus
Single instance
Repeatable, continuous, accountable
Informal processes
Formal best practices
IT internal perspective
Business perspective
It is beyond the scope of the current discussion to detail the full methodology and implementation of ITSM. However, a broad overview of both can be easily shown.
ITSM Methodology and Implementation
ITSM is focused on providing support and delivery of IT services. For example, support includes (but is not limited to):
- Management of IT infrastructure configuration (i.e., ensuring that IT resources are logically designed, selected, and placed)
- Incident management (i.e., ensuring that unforeseen events have little or no impact on business functioning)
- A service desk (a primary point of contact between users and the IT department).
Note that part of IT service delivery (could) entail measurement of the operational efficiency of a solution.
In general, ITSM implementation for any given organization begins with four high-level strategizing sequential steps:
- Determine the organization's current IT infrastructure and resources;
- Map out future business IT goals (i.e., IT services needed to support and advance the business);
- Devise a roadmap between current and desired IT state; and
- Define the concrete steps needed to execute the roadmap.
Once the strategy has been created, implementation takes the form of a continuous cycle of assessing (and re-assessing), architecting, deploying, and supporting the IT services necessary for achieving desired business goals.
Relationship with ITIL and ISO/IEC 20000
As we stated at the outset of this post, the terms (and concepts of) ITIL and ITSM are not synonymous even though they are highly-related and frequently mentioned together in discussions among IT professionals. ITIL is a registered trademark of Axelos and is just one formalized set of best practices and standards which, when adopted, should result in the efficient and financially-responsible use of IT resources in an organization.
In other words, ITIL can be used to achieve proper ITSM; this is the most basic mnemonic that we can give.
There are other frameworks comparable to ITIL, but ITIL is the most adopted framework in ITSM worldwide. Relatedly, adopting ITIL standards can help organizations achieve the ISO/IEC 20000 international standard – an internationally recognized standard that serves as evidence for an organization's' good IT service management.
How to recognize good ITSM
Now that we've established the basics of ITSM, a final question revolves around identifying a good ITSM provider. Looking for the above-mentioned ISO/IEC 20000 certification is good shorthand, but it shouldn't be your only criteria. You should also ask yourself the following questions regarding an ITSM provider whom you're considering:
- Does the ITSM provider address your business needs?
- Does the ITSM provider promise to deliver your expected end-goals at a price you find reasonable?
- Will the ITSM provider be flexible enough to adapt to changes in your business (IT) needs as they emerge?
Final words for now
This concludes our informal little two-part series on ITIL and ITSM. If you found our quick overviews helpful (or potentially helpful to colleagues), please share them! And do feel free to add any of your experiences with either or both in the comments section below.
In the meantime, if you have questions about managing IT assets and services, contact us at Cimpl! We're Canada's leader in IT and telecom expense management, and we can always help customers keep track of their technology assets to increase margins!
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Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover just released his newest video for his album Camp. There has been mixed reaction to the video as some people expected an over the top visual feat. The visuals that his techno-fused track and reflective lyrics suggest may be one of a crowded rave full of dancing hipsters but what he delivered was something more nuanced. This was a video that really rewarded those of us that are moved by style over substance. If you're more about grand gestures you may find the "Niggas in Paris" video to be a bit more to your liking.
Now look I might just be stupid. Remember that for later because you might've picked all this up from the original song "Heart Beat" on Donald Glover's "Camp" album. While I love the song and picked up all the clever bars I don't think I truly had an understanding for the changing dynamic of the romantic relationship the song is centered around until I saw this video.
At its heart Heartbeat is a song about control. Upon first listen it may come off as a song about a couple who just needs to break up. At least that's how I took it. It was about a couple who needed to move on but was stuck in that awkward phase of "what are we?" They were driven by familiarity of their past involvement and unable to move on completely from each other. We've all been there.
But the song is actually much more complex than that. It's about Donald Glover's realization that he's actually not as in control of this relationship as he'd like to think. The video is a perfect illustration of that. Often the symbolism for control in American metaphors is "being in the driver's seat" right?
Well in the video Glover starts off in the driver's seat as he's chauffeuring this woman around. His swagger in the front seat is one of cockiness. Not a brash heavy handed approach but a coy self assured flirtation that takes place in subtle glance and eventually is requited by the girl sharing her food with him.
Juxtapose this action with that of the actual verse on the song and you can see that he's clearly under the assumption that he'd dictating his terms to his lover. Lines like:
- "I come around when you least expect me. I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty."
He's coordinating what looks like a chance encounter but clearly he's orchestrated these circumstances to approach his ex for a meet up.
- "You start calling. You start crying. I come over. I'm inside you."
So his earlier text messages and tactics at the club worked to break her down to where he could come over and rekindle that passion while still seeming disinterested to boot.
- "And I'ma flirt with this new girl. And I'ma call if it don't work."
So his ex is his fall back plan for a late night booty call but nothing more to him at this point.
- "I'm a ghost and you know this. That's why we broke up in the first place." –
So he's basically saying he wasn't around emotionally and that's why they aren't together. This passive aggressively implies he was in control of the relationship.
During the second stanza of the song the video takes a twist as Glover and the woman he's been chauffeuring both make out in the back seat. I think this symbolizes the passion of their complicated relationship. You see Donald is obviously lost in the emotion and intensity of rekindling this relationship. It's evidenced in the second verse that he's beginning to lose the illusion of control over his ex. Here are some lines from the verse.
- "It's late night Thursday. I KNOW that you heard me. But you don't want the same thing. Well two can play that game. So I'm chilling with my girlfriend but she's not my real girlfriend. She got a key to my place but she's not my REAL girlfriend!"
Now Donald is trying to make her jealous of him moving on. But the entire time he's simply doing this to get the attention of his ex. This is another sign that he's not really in control as he'd like to think.
- "I'm paranoid that these girls want something from me and it's hard to make a dime go 100!"
Right there he's saying now that he realizes that he can't trust other women and he's longing for the love of his ex.
- "I miss the sex where you kiss when you're through. 69 is the only dinner for two. I was wrong but would you have listened to you?"
So now he's finally admitting they shouldn't have broken up and he's still crazy about her and misses genuine intimacy.
As the second verse wraps up the girl hops up from the back seat make out session while Donald clearly wants to continue. She then hops in the driver's seat and begins driving him to an unknown destination. Remember what we said about the driver's seat symbolizing control right? And to top it off Donald Glover is clearly upset about this. He's not being chauffeured like she was in the start of the video. He's being DRIVEN to somewhere he obviously doesn't want to go. I think this is symbolic of her actually breaking it off officially with him. The verse of the song becomes angrier as he's stewing over his new realization that he was NEVER actually in control of this relationship. Lines from the 3rd verse:
- "So we're done? Is this the real shit? We used to hold hands like field trips!"
So now he's mad that she's decided to move on from him and he's missing that connection.
- "I'm a jerk but your man is a real dick! I see his post on your wall and I feel sick!"
Yep the guy that Donald Glover was laughing at in the first verse has actually "won" the affections of Glover's ex. So now he's just hating on him like a petty child.
- "I'm the best that you had face it! J and Keysha are related? Racist! I gave you money and you burnie'd and you made off! She ain't a killer but she'll fucking blow your head up! I know he's wondering what the fuck we're hiding. That we dated like raps about Bin Laden!"
These are all personal attacks against her. He's calling her a racist for thinking J Cole and Keysha Cole were related because they have the same last name. Then he accuses her of being a gold digger. Finally, he threatens to reveal their past to her man.
At the end of the video she gets out the car and leaves him alone in the car. She's obviously moving on and not even concerned about him any more. And he's reduced to begging and hoping she'll come back. He even has a line in the song. "But not really. You say the nastiest things in bed and it's fucking awesome." He's been reduced to a shell of the confident dude who was driving her around in the first verse.
And thanks to this excellent video I now fully realize the true narrative of the song. Genius!


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HeadStrong Grafx Named Official Mask Painter of the NAHL
Jason Livery has become the official mask painter of one of the top junior hockey leagues in the United States, the North American Hockey League (NAHL). With 23 teams in 12 different states, we are proud to be partnered with such a high level league. Be on the lookout for new masks the rest of this season and prepare for the Jason Livery takeover for 2018-19!


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are you taking on new clients?
Do you have a Minimum?
Yes - for weddings & on-site installations. There's no minimum for events that don't require on-site installation and there's no minimum for weddings that don't require personal flowers (bouquets, corsages, head wreaths, etc.) or on-site installations.
Why? I demand an answer!!
Keep your socks on! We have a minimum for weddings and on-site installs because they're demanding on our time and resources in a way that is wholly more involved than an event which requires no on-site installation, can be planned over a couple of emails or a phone call, and can be delivered and set-up by one strong, capable person.
Can you work with a tight budget?
Tight budgets are a given, but sometimes we do need to realign your expectations to fit within your budget!
Can you recreate this photo?
No way. Photos are inspiration only.
What flowers will you use?
Gorgeous, fresh, beautiful ones that coordinate with your theme and are available and healthy the week of your event.
What flowers won't you use?
Old, ugly ones, imported ones, flowers that aren't in season, flowers that stink, etc. We want it to look good, (maybe even more than you do!!) so we'll be sure it does.
Will I like my flowers?
It depends. If you like our portfolio, you've done your research, and you feel you can trust us, then it's more than highly likely. If you're not sold on our portfolio, don't trust online reviews, and/or are suspicious of the minimum, you may have an unpleasant experience - but you'll probably still like your flowers.
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Hello Travel my old friend….
Welcome to my first blog for the website. A more personal and informal piece of writing. Like a column it is an opinion piece but more based on the individual experiences of the writer rather than a subjective viewpoint. Hope you enjoy it, would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section at the bottom of the article.
I have always loved to travel. When I was younger our parents took my sister and I on various holidays from our home in Kalgoorlie to New Zealand, Italy, Thailand, even Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida. My love affair with being taken out of my comfort zone and out of my normal routine began early. Perhaps it was in my genes to be a bit adventurous, my Dad had come to Australia from Italy when he was 19 to start a new life and my Mum spent 3 years travelling the globe before she settled down. Perhaps it is in my personality, I have always loved having varied experiences and love the excitement of a new place and new people. More than likely it is a bit of both.
It's somewhat of a rite of passage for Australians to travel, I think we are so far away from the rest of the world it feels like it's our destiny and privilege to see how everyone else lives and what goes on across those vast oceans. This is why I took off at age 21 to live and work in the UK and travel throughout Europe. What I discovered was a freedom and an excitement that I had never experienced before. I had come straight from a uni degree so had spent nearly my whole life in institutions so to have a whole year ahead of me full of newness and possibilities was glorious. It was the same sort of feeling I got when I passed my driver's licence or when I moved out of home for the first time. A delicious feeling that I was in control and I was able to wander wherever I desired.
I returned home from Europe after 12 months and amongst work and further study, embarked on a few small trips over the next few years; Egypt, Malaysia, Japan, New Zealand, Bali, plus some small jaunts within Australia. They all held my interest for a little while but they were holidays opposed to travel and yes I do think there is a difference. That's why 2 years later I took off again, this time to Canada. This time alone. I had a plane ticket, a suitcase, a work visa and a passport and that was it. I didn't know anyone over there and I had no plans for when I arrived. But wow, what a year. I made lifelong friends and created fabulous, beautiful memories I will take with me to the grave. They are mine and mine alone, often there was no one to share them with but sometimes I think that just adds to the magic. I spent a year in Canada and it is to date, one of the best years of my life.
Which brings us to today. I am married to a great man, we have a business together and I have a business of my own; following my own dreams and passions. We have a house, a workplace and a fantastic life. I have a wonderful family and more friends than I can count. I am lucky. A lot of my friends have children and most are living a life like me; working, playing, eating, sleeping, enjoying this amazing city we live in and this wonderful country. Occasional holidays and short trips pepper the routine and keep things interesting. This is the life we have chosen. A travelling life, for me, is not forever. But that doesn't mean I don't miss it sometimes and look back on those carefree days with a large smile.
My husband and I have done a lot of amazing trips in our 8 years together- Greece, Scotland, Italy, Japan, London, Indonesia, Singapore, Dubai, Borneo and even the Maldives for our honeymoon. We have had some fantastic holidays: tantalising sneak peeks into beautiful and fascinating places and random conversations with interesting characters.
Tomorrow, we depart for another trip. This time to New York City. We are going for 3 weeks and I couldn't be more excited. New York has been on my list since I was about 14, when I fell in love with the characters from 'Friends.' It has infiltrated my landscape ever since, through the media, studying the arts, movies, television, documentaries, world events and my real friends' stories. I feel exhilarated as we have 3 whole weeks to really get a feel for the heartbeat of this great city. It won't be a 4 day 'blink and you miss it' whirlwind trip, it will hopefully allow us a chance to really take a bite of the big apple and see it through the eyes of a local. Granted, a local who has only been there for 3 weeks and is staying in a hotel, but a local all the same.
Despite taking many trips with my husband over the years, somehow it feels different this time. We will have time to explore, time to relax, time to split up and do our own thing, time to find a favourite cafe, restaurant or shop and go back there more than once. For someone like me who loves the arts and the theatre, New York feels like the Mothership. I realise this is not a big trip like I have done in my single days but it is certainly something to tick off my bucket list and for now the closest to a 'big trip' that I can experience.
My husband and I have our passports and US visa's ready, our thermals packed, our accommodation and flights booked and 3 wonderful weeks of adventure and memory making ahead of us. I can't wait to feed my travel bug again. Wanderlust is calling…
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This book offers a rigorous and self-contained presentation of stochastic integration and stochastic calculus within the general framework of continuous semimartingales. The main tools of stochastic calculus, including Itô's formula, the optional stopping theorem and Girsanov's theorem, are treated in detail alongside many illustrative examples. The book also contains an introduction to Markov processes, with applications to solutions of stochastic differential equations and to connections between Brownian motion and partial differential equations. The theory of local times of semimartingales is discussed in the last chapter.Since its invention by Itô, stochastic calculus has proven to be one of the most important techniques of modern probability theory, and has been used in the most recent theoretical advances as well as in applications to other fields such as mathematical finance. Brownian Motion, Martingales, and Stochastic Calculus provides a strong theoretical background to the reader interested in such developments.Beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate students will benefit from this detailed approach to an essential area of probability theory. The emphasis is on concise and efficient presentation, without any concession to mathematical rigor. The material has been taught by the author for several years in graduate courses at two of the most prestigious French universities. The fact that proofs are given with full details makes the book particularly suitable for self-study. The numerous exercises help the reader to get acquainted with the tools of stochastic calculus.Show Less
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1. Watch Me Go
2. Jack O'Diamonds
3. Meet On The Ledge
4. The Poor Ditching Boy
5. Nobody's Wedding
6. I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
7. The Great Valerio
8. I'll Regret It All In The Morning
9. Hokey Pokey (revised version 2004)
10. For Shame Of Doing Wrong
11. Banish Misfortune
12. Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed
13. The Hand Of Kindness
14. Devonside
15. Sibella
16. She May Call You Up Tonight
Recorded live by Ed Haber at
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The Ram's Head, Annapolis MD
& The Music Hall, Tarrytown NY
Beeswing Records 2004, BSW006
current status: in print.
All songs witten by Richard Thompson,
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Jack O' Diamonds written by Ben Carruthers/Bob Dylan,
published by EMI Unart Catalog Inc. (BMI) andSpecial Rider Music (Sesac).
She May Call You Up Tonight with Teddy Thompson, written by Michael Brown/Steve Martin,
published by Bug Music o/b/o Orange Skies Music (BMI).
Meet on the Ledge, The Poor Ditching Boy, Nobody's Wedding, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight written by Richard Thompson,
published by Warlock Music Ltd. (PRS), administered by Pubco (BMI).
Banish Misfortune, traditional, arranged by Richard Thompson,
- Beeswing Music (BMI), administered by Bug Music.
Did She Jump or Was She Pushed? written by R. Thompson & L. Thompson,
published by Beeswing Music (BMI), admin by Bug Music & Hatfish Music Ltd./PRS.
Mixed, edited and compiled by Simon Tassano at Rumiville Studio, Austin TX.
Mastered by Jim Wilson at YES Mastering, Austin TX.
Original photographs by Eric Hayes 1969, Tom Kemp 1977, and Dee Gennarelli 1981 & 2003.
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With the option to create Windows Store apps with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, developers often wonder what it will take to turn a website into an app. A while back I scribbled out some notes on the process that I thought to share here.
If you have other thoughts, please add them in the comments!
First are those requirements that come from the Store policies themselves. All of the requirements are important, of course, but the following are those that apply especially to converted web apps:
- Section 2 is a key consideration: "Windows Store apps can display ads but are more than just ads or websites." This means, especially section 2.4, that you can't be a link farm that opens the browser all the time, and that you can't just repackage a website wholesale into an app and expect it to pass certification. However, pulling web content into the context of the app, where the user can see that they're in the app, is just fine.
- Also note section 3.1: "You must use only the Windows Runtime APIs to implement the features of your Windows Store app." This does include HTML5 and JavaScript APIs, even though they aren't technically part of WinRT, and doesn't exclude using third-party libraries. It's really saying that you can't use local IPC or services which are blocked anyway.
- Also skip down to section 5 of the requirements that deal with content (as well as age ratings). Some content will not be accepted into the Store at all, so if your web app deals with such, it's not a good app candidate.
- The app must support touch input (section 3.5 of Store policy). Much of this comes for free, as touch events are automatically translated to legacy mouse events as web apps typically listen for. Nevertheless, you have to make sure the app is fully functional on a touch-only device. Note that requirement 3.5 also says "Your app must not use an interaction gesture in a way that's different from how Windows uses the gesture." Make sure to revisit any custom gesture work.
- Note that this requirement also says "Your app must provide visual feedback when user touch interactive elements."
- Typically, web apps being converted to Store apps also need a little work to make links and other clickable content large enough to work with touch. This often just means increasing the spacing around multiple interactive elements that are otherwise too close together.
- View states: the app needs to handle snapped, filled, landscape, and portrait modes (requirement 3.6). Technically, the policy only speaks to snapped view (as a specific point of rejection), but really, aim to make an app that looks good in any view state.
- Honor process lifetime states of suspend and resume, and have no close affordances in the app (requirement 3.6–typically not something a web app ever has anyway). It's important for apps that use online content to refresh that content if necessary when the app is resumed, as it may have been suspended for a long time.
- Requirement 3.9 says, "All app logic must originate from, and reside in, your app package." Specifically, any code that interacts with the WinRT APIs has to be in the package and cannot be downloaded from a remote source. This means any libraries you use in the main app (the local context) must be bundled in the package (along with whatever those libraries depend upon). Parts of the app that use the web context are allowed to access remote script, as the web context cannot access WinRT. Avoid downloading such script and passing it between contexts to execute/eval it in the local context. This opens security holes and is a basis for rejection.
- Related to this is the fact that the local context also disallows script injection, e.g. via innerHTML attributes, and imposes other security constraints within the app container. This can affect third party libraries.
- The underlying purpose of this requirement is security more than anything, that is, to avoid having potentially untrusted code execute in the local context where it could possibly do some damage. Admittedly, this is a gray area. Clearly, something like a magazine, book, or other multimedia content is not "app logic" and can certainly be downloaded, processed, and displayed in an app. Definitions for new levels of a game fall into that same bucket, even though such configurations might ultimately drive how the app code executes. Downloading a program or script in some other language, on the other hand, that then runs as an app inside your app, will cause rejection. In the end, I think this is primarily about the difference between data that's rendered visually and instructional code or script that drives execution. Still, it's a gray area to me, so I think we'll see further refinements of this policy as new kinds of apps are developed.
- Privacy policy (requirement 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2)–essential if you're hitting the Internet in any way. You must also have a means for support (requirement 6.3)
- Protect against large transfers on a metered network (requirement 4.5)
- Be mindful of age ratings (requirement 5.1 and 6.2). This isn't something you deal with on the web, but is required when submitting an app to the Store.
Store requirements are, of course, the min-bar for Store submission and certification. To be a good app on the platform, however–which means creating an app that Windows users will actually want to install!–you'll need to go beyond those basics. The following, then, represents the core of platform integration:
- Horizontal orientation: although web apps are typically designed for a vertically-scrolling experience, the design of Windows Store apps are primarily horizontal (except in snapped view). This may affect your app's interaction model significantly, but is what users will expect.
- View states: again, support all the view states, not just landscape and snapped as required by policy.
- Handle resolution scales well, both varying display sizes (what we call responsive design in the web world) and different pixel densities. The latter means having raster graphics that work well on 100%, 140%, and 180% scaled devices.
- Beyond suspend/resume (as required by policy), the app should be able to be terminated while suspended and then restart where it left off. This means saving transient session state and being able to rehydrate the app from that state.
- For any commands that are not essential to completing a workflow, move those commands/controls off the app canvas and into flyout controls like the app bar, settings panels, and the Search and Share charms. There are many guidelines for this found on Commanding design.
- Note that it's OK to leave some search and sharing functions directly in the app; just think about how to also integrate with the charms.
- Move app settings into Settings charm along with logins and profile management. You can have some on-canvas login/user controls, of course, but use Settings for additional features rather than separate app pages.
- Minimize chrome (non-functional UI elements), which happens automatically when you move commands off-canvas, but also means using layout and typography to group functionality rather than lines, boxes, and so forth.
- Migrate from <a href> navigation to a single-page model with DOM replacement. This will greatly simplify managing state in the app, although you can transfer state in other existing ways. It's just much easier to not have a new script context with every page.
- Have great branding graphics including tiles, splash screen, Store logo, etc.
Beyond that, some additional considerations will take the app to the next level:
- Handle variations in network connectivity or lack thereof. On the web, you assume connectivity because the app has to be loaded into a browser from the web. An app exists on the client, however, and can be run without connectivity. So think about your offline behavior and caching strategies.
- Live tiles: what can you surface on the tile more than your logo?
- Roaming experience—what settings transfer to the user's other devices when they have the same app installed?
- Localization (depending on your target markets)
- Accessibility
- Good use of progress indicators when transitioning pages. In browsers, users come to depend on the browser's indicators about page loading. In a Store app, you need to indicate such states yourself, and implement strategies to minimize wait times and increase responsiveness.
- Honing performance especially if using collection controls.
Your thoughts and/or experiences?


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