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Carlos Aviles (Deleted) gave props (19 Jan 2011):
nice entry
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Cheryl Andrews gave props (19 Jan 2011):
Absolutely spectacular shot, insightful pov. I like it!
Donald Garrett gave props (19 Jan 2011):
Great entry for this theme!
Susan Littlefield gave props (19 Jan 2011):
And it stoned me to my soul! Fabulous entry.
Richard Knight gave props (19 Jan 2011):
Outstanding entry.
Andrea Petersen gave props (19 Jan 2011):
Wonderful for the theme, Jaume...Amazing how the stones are in such perfect order above and on the sides...
Isabelle Dethier gave props (19 Jan 2011):
love it !
MªTeresa Barreda Royo gave props (19 Jan 2011):
Preciosa foto...!!!
jaume morera guixa gave props (19 Jan 2011):
Molt ben fet Jaume..!!
Regenia Brabham gave props (19 Jan 2011):
Great entry and shot!
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Chrissy Dollar gave props (19 Jan 2011):
Love this texture. Beautiful!
Virginia Vicente gave props (20 Jan 2011):
Aquesta`m'ha agradat molt!!
Al Gieryna gave props (20 Jan 2011):
Super cool
Carlo Pagan gave props (22 Jan 2011):
Pink Floyd style!! LOL!! Beautiful shot!!
Clint Cline gave props (23 Jan 2011):
Wonderful composition. Nice balance!
Bruce Miller (Deleted) gave props (23 Jan 2011):
This is lovely
Jyri Vissak gave props (25 Jan 2011):
Simple is beautiful.
Lanis Rossi gave props (25 Jan 2011):
Excellent Capture and Theme Entry!
Steven Schutz gave props (26 Jan 2011):
Having worked with stone, i can appreciate this wall, the vertical stones are a great touch...one of the best entries for the theme...BRAVO!
John Linton gave props (27 Jan 2011):
Rockin' JPG's Theme Park (in a most orderly way).
Litz Go gave props (27 Jan 2011):
yes, this is so cool!
Massimo Bardelli gave props (28 Jan 2011):
Great entry, well done!
Konrad Ragnarsson gave props (30 Jan 2011):
Excellent work and picture!!!!!
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David Baker gave props (1 Feb 2011):
cool shot!
Nelson Campbell (Deleted) gave props (4 Feb 2011):
Makes you think of the work it took to get there..
Michael Franco gave props (7 Feb 2011):
You have a very talented eye! Beautiful work!
Danielle said (16 Feb 2011):
I love this!
Blisco_O said (16 Mar 2011):
mucha vida, historia conservan esa piedras.. mi abuelo se dedicaba a hacer muros asi hace años atras
je suis moi gave props (10 Jul 2011):
I would wonder how long the wall has been standing. Very nice.
Also by jaume Morera Barreda
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Several months ago we started hearing rumors about a major road being built near Musana. As we drove to town we started to see surveyors and lots of white "X's" on houses and buildings marked for demolition. Then one day we heard that construction was going to begin in August. We couldn't believe our eyes on our last trip to Kampala even though we knew it was started we were still surprised to see lots of dirt work and clearing already done along the way! We have heard that the projected length of time for completion of the road is 3 years…but the company that won the bid (supposedly a company from Mississippi) is aiming for 2 years. We'll see what happens over these next couple of years…I think we are in for a ride. Meanwhile, Malachi sure is enjoying gawking at all of the heavy equipment as we pass.
We can't help but think of how the Lord leads and provides…paving the way for development so to speak. Back at the beginning of the camp, a cell tower was put up one month after we moved to the camp giving us the ability to communicate in the crucial beginning stages. This road will make a tremendous difference for us now as this project will pave the first 46 km of the 70km of gravel that we have had to travel. After the paving is complete we will still have to negotiate our way over 24 km of gravel that can get tricky at times but we are thankful for the way the Lord has worked. It is a huge answer to prayer for us. We are praying that by the time that the road is completed that the Lord will have put more into place as far as staff and program development at Musana so that we will be ready for a greater influx of campers! So neat to see His timing!


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WWII poster girl joins first Anzac Day March
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She was a recruitment poster girl for the WAAAF in World War II, but until yesterday, Peg Utting had never taken part in an Anzac Day march.
The 94-year-old joined the WAAAF (Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force) in 1941, when she was 18.
"We were the original number one corps, there were 26 of us and I'm one of four left, I thought it was about time (to join the Anzac Day march)," she says.
"I did a little march at the Dandenong RSL with my Vietnam veteran son. I've never marched in an Anzac Day march."
During her nearly four years with the WAAAF, Peg was a Flight Sergeant and worked in the signals section.
"We sent the signals and received them and more often than not we didn't know what they were about," she says.
Peg's face could also be seen around Melbourne on recruitment posters during the war, after being snapped by official photographers as she was coming off shift one day.
"They were official government photographs and that was the one they chose.
"It came as a bit of a shock, I came out of the train and saw myself," she says.
"I saw myself on the screen at one of the one-hour picture theatres, I don't know how Peters Ice Cream got it, but there's a photograph of me saluting and it said 'Peters Ice Cream salutes the nation'."
Peg says she has always treasured the Anzac Day march, despite not having taken part before. "I've always watched it and always looked for people I know, but I don't see them any more."
Peg was one of more than 70 veterans transported to the march by RACV volunteers, continuing a century-old tradition.
During World War I, RACV members transported more than 93,000 soldiers and nurses from ships at Port Melbourne's Station Pier and Princes Pier to hospital or military barracks.
It was an enormous task for a membership of only 1400, and one that earned the club its 'Royal' prefix. Since then, RACV has continued to help transport veterans to commemorative services including the Anzac Day march.
"RACV is proud to continue our century-old tradition of helping our veterans attend the Anzac march so they may be properly honoured for all that they have given to our country," says Megan Ballantyne, RACV Acting General Manager for Community and Corporate Responsibility.
"Anzac Day is an enormously rewarding day for our team of volunteers, who often build strong friendships with their designated veterans and look forward to catching up with them each year," she says.
"One of our volunteers has supported this effort for over 17 years and now his son is also a volunteer and has been for the last 10 years. It's such a rewarding experience for everyone involved."
If you would like to volunteer or know a veteran in need of this service for next year's Anzac Day, please contact Lisa Hogan at RACV on (03) 9790 2975.


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By: Kate Mills is an analytics specialist and content creator for the RECO Intensive Outpatient Program. Responsible for curating RECO's social media accounts, website content, and blog posts, she spends her workdays writing for and interacting with the RECO community, and believes that everyone has a story to tell.
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms," Muriel Rukeyser once wrote.
As we wake up and interact with the world around us, we write stories every day. We create dialogue; we meet new characters; we breathe. We write stories through the simple process of living—a story that we often forget to write down.
Particularly in times of transition, the act of journaling serves to benefit the writer's perception. A conscious detailing of thoughts onto paper allows an individual to re-experience, or perhaps even experience for the first time, an emotion, choice, or situation that once felt unclear. In rereading past journal entries, the writer can create meaningful connections between past and present, beginning an impactful conversation with his/herself.
The relationships that we make in writing are an important exercise in self-expression. Beginning a conversation with the person you are becoming allows you to document your progress in real-time, no matter what point in your journey you have reached.
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The health benefits of writing things down are many; the art form has served as a creative catharsis since the inception of writing itself. It is more than a method of communication; it is a tool with which we can acknowledge old habits and create new ones; it is an inner language of self that we can grow just as simply as we can pick up a pencil or pen.
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PJUG: WebSocketsWed Apr 21, 2010 8:02:03 pm by Dustin
Filed under Dealing with People, Fun, General, Software, a little about life
I just got out of a PJUG talking about WebSockets. I am now standing in the windy night waiting for the train and thought I would let you all know.
I have not found a good way to copy and paste on this phone, so you will need to do your own searching today.
WebSockets are a new-ish way for web clients and servers to communicate. This is bi-directional though. Unlike the typical AJAX (client to server) method used today.
PJUG was your typical nerd-alert affair but free pizza and knowledge of new techologies for people more smarter than I was worth it.
This phone warms the hands nicely!
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This school year, I've been working on establishing, with the learners, what Reading Class should look like in the 21st century. )I'll share a more detailed analysis of the setup we've decided on in a later post.) For now, I'll say it's a combination of Reading Workshop and PBL. This new class setup got me thinking about the connection between traditional literacy and literacy in the 21st century, about how they connect. It got me thinking,
how does literature fit into design thinking?
Design thinking is the basic framework for a lot of project-based learning and reading literature is the key component of reading workshop; I knew they were both important independently, but when I finally realized how important the connection between the two is, a hardware store worth of lightbulbs went on in my head. Continue reading


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Show opened with La Familia. Edge cut a promo talking about how he was magically healed last week and will be the next world champion because Undertaker cannot use his illegal chokehold at Judgment Day. Teddy Long then came out. Vickie yelled at him for being late. Teddy said he was late because he was meeting with the board of directors. Vickie threatened to fire Teddy and then Teddy quit. Teddy then said that the board of directors have told Vickie that she must either face the Undertaker tonight or she will be fired.
CM Punk beat Chuck Polombo with the GTS. Match was pretty good. It was a back and forth even match up. Punk escaped Polombo's finisher and hit the GTS moments later for the pin.
La famlia was talking backstage. They were trying to come up with a plan for tonight. MVP came in complaining about last weeks championship chase. Big Show and Finlay came in as well. Vicki signed Finlay and Big Show vs. MVP and a partner of his choice for later. Chavo then questioned Vickie about the championship chase last week as well.
Michelle McCool beat Layla. Match sucked. Michelle won with a leg lock after working over Layla's leg during the match.
Batista came out and cut a promo. They showed the footage of HBK and Jericho from Raw. Batista said he was going to hurt Shawn next time he sees him. Batista implied that he would be at Judgment Day.
Vickie changed the main event to her, Edge, Chavo, Bam Neely, Ryder, and Hawkins vs. Undertaker in a 6 on 1 handicap match.
Big Show and Finlay beat MVP and Mark Henry. Match was good, especially when it was MVP and Finlay. Probably the best match on the show. Big show pinned MVP with the chokeslam.
Vladimir Koslov beat Funaki. This was a bad squash match. Koslov won with the reverse ddt.
Cherry beat Maryse. Duece and Domino came out with Maryse. Match was not very good. Cherry won with a bulldog. After the match Duece stared at Cherry as she walked up the ramp.
Backstage Kofi was talking with Matt Hardy. He congratulated on his new dvd and called him an inspiration. Shelton Benjamin then came in. He said he would beat Hardy tonight.
Matt Hardy beat Shelton Benjamin. Match was good. Matt won after he countered a suplex and hit the twist of fate.
Main event was next. I don't know what the official decision was. When La Famlia came out Chavo and Bam Neely left them at the ramp way. This left Edge, Ryder, Hawkins, and Vickie vs. the Undertaker. They fought for a bit. Eventually Taker had Vickie alone in the ring. He went to chokeslam her but Edge hit a spear. Edge then got her out of the ring and pushed Vickie up the ramp in her wheelchair. Kane's music then hit and he pushed Vickie back to ringside. Undertaker and Kane beat up everyone until it was down to just Vickie. Kane threw Vickie into the ring. Undertake teased a chokeslam, but eventually tombstoned Vickie.
I think this is where the Smackdown ended.
Kane and Undertaker celebrated for a while. Teddy Long came out. He and Kane danced. Mick Foley joined them. Then Michael Cole joined in as well.
Tony Chimmel thanked us for coming. At this point I left. Not sure if there was a dark match or not. I think as we were leaving Mick Foley was singing happy birthday to someone.
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Every year, over 200,000 men in the world lose their battle with prostate cancer, and more are diagnosed with the disease every year. Naturally, we look for anything promising that might cure prostate cancer or prevent it, and in 2006 a few studies on the benefit of the chemical capsaicin, which is found in hot red peppers, suggest we may have found a way to treat more people with prostate cancer and benign prostate enlargement.
According to a joint US/Japan study in mice, mice that had prostate tumors and receive high doses of capsaicin, had about an 80% rate of cell death or apoptosis of tumor tissue. Though researchers note that induced human cancers in mice are easier to treat, this is still a fairly noteworthy result. You can see from the study that capsaicin does not totally cure prostate cancer, but its use may be indicated to prevent tumor growth and as an auxiliary treatment for men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer. It also appears that some men are aided by the anti-inflammatory properties of capsaicin, which might minimize discomfort and reduce growth of the prostate.
There is also some suggestion based on statistical evidence that hot peppers, though they may not cure prostate cancer completely, may prevent it. Men who live in countries where hot peppers are routinely consumed in foods tend to have a lower incidence of prostate cancer. This may indicate that while you can't cure prostate cancer, you might want to add some spice to your meals in the form of hot peppers.
Of course, not everyone likes hot peppers. Some find them difficult on the digestion, and others find them uncomfortable to eat. Given the 2006 study, there has been an upsurge in a variety of capsaicin products on the market, including nasal sprays and supplement pills. These may be marketed as prostate health formulas, but men diagnosed with prostate cancer should not view them as a means to cure prostate cancer alone. Remember that in mice, they did not wholly resolve cancer and that mice are easier to treat. It's still important to get traditional medical help for your condition.
Yet it's certainly the case that capsaicin powder or some form of capsaicin may help reduce risk, and might be indicated as an additional treatment if you are tackling this form of cancer. Talk to your doctor about the benefits of capsaicin supplementation. If you are cancer free, you might want to discuss with your physician how you might increase your chances of remaining so through eating peppers or taking a capsaicin supplement.
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With the British summer in full swing, we're taking a look at how to spruce up your garden in a crafty and inexpensive way. Here are three tips:
Repurposing pallets can be an affordable and rustic way of improving the overall look of your flower beds, and are a fantastic way to segment your garden, making it feel bigger and give it a shabby chic style!
Never underestimate the power of fairy lights! Stringing them over your washing line or around the door can give your garden a sense of magic, and can help you enjoy your garden as the late nights draw in.
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She finished her education in schools of arts and crafts and visual culture.She undertakes decorative painting projects in private estates and works with secco, fresco and sgraffito techniques. As an interior decorator besides dealing with interior design and furnishing, she also creates visualisation plans.
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We arrived to Brendan eating chicken sandwiches and playing darts with his mates...you couldn't ask for a better start to your wedding day so Brett & I knew that this one was going to be a goodie.
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Please join the PMA for a public reception for its annual Art in Process student-art exhibition.
The Art in Process program connects the art of Winslow Homer to high school classrooms across the state. Students and teachers visit the Winslow Homer Studio at Prouts Neck and receive a guided tour of Homer's paintings at the PMA. Through this process, they develop concepts of place and climate with regards to art and the artistic process.
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua
What happens when an irresistible force encounters an immovable object? This book.
The kerfuffle over Amy Chua is starting to die out, as the actual book is available. It is now obvious that "The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" is not a parenting advice book, but more of a memoir and there is a degree to which Amy Chua "gets" that some of her parenting decisions were--how do we say this--not the Best Choices. Arguably, some of her more obvious excesses might be excused as being her "sense of humor," which is admittedly dry. Dry, like the topsoil of the Dust Bowl. So dry as to have shriveled up and blown away without a trace. Dry to the point of being not actually funny at all.
Clearly the woman is nuts, and as you read her accounts of her battles with her strong-willed daughter, you have to wonder if she likes to run head-first into brick walls as a hobby, because Sister! She sure resists learning anything from her own experiences!
The signs are obvious early on. Amy Chua wants to introduce her younger daughter, Lulu, to piano when Lulu is about two years old. Amy puts one finger on one key, plays the note three times, and then asks Lulu to do the same. Lulu splays her hands as wide as she can, hits as many different keys as hard as she can, as fast as she can, as long as she can until Amy physically removes her from the piano. At that point, Lulu begins thrashing and screaming and flailing.
So Amy "decides" (not clear that she's actually using any higher brain functioning at this point, but there's no word for that) to put Lulu outside into the cold to shock her into obedience. Lulu is put outside into 20 degree weather with only light indoor clothing on. And then--did you see this coming?--refuses to come back inside, forcing her mother to self-flagellate about the fact that her tiny daughter is outside in inappropriate clothing.
At this point, it is apparent to me that the whole "Chinese mother/Western mother" thing is a distraction. What we have is the same battle almost every family faces--when a strong-willed parent is confronted with an equally strong-willed child. One of them is supposed to be the adult.
But Amy Chua doesn't want to learn this lesson. As self-reported, she has a theory about the "best way to parent" and she's not going to let actual failure dissuade her from her pet theory. Geez, this is the kind of towering intellect we want to encourage--the facts don't fit the theory, so we ignore the facts and just scream the theory louder.
Actually, that might be exactly what makes for a successful law professor at Yale Law School.
Things escalate until the inevitable moment when the child figures out the exact Perfect Storm of circumstances to humiliate her parent. After all, the odds are in the kid's favor, since the mom has to win every argument, and the kid only has to win one. Chua never figures out this math either. So the stage is set for a horrible show-down in a restaurant in Moscow. Amy orders caviar and Lulu refuses to eat any. This is not a fight Amy can win, and most parents I know have figured this out well before our child reaches the age of 13. In fact, this is a lesson that is often learned during the struggle to potty train. Your kid has more control over excretion than you do. Same with food.
So Amy tries to make Lulu eat caviar. She orders, she threatens, she shames, and nothing works. She stakes her entire parental authority on making Lulu eat one egg. Who think this is ever going to work? Only someone caught up in her need for control would fail to recognize the way she has created a zero sum situation over a single caviar egg--something that is literally the size of a pin head. Amy is hissing at her daughter, and makes the classic novice blunder. "People are looking at us."
Well, you might as well turn the gun on yourself and pull the trigger at that point, because if you let your kid know that you don't want people to look at you, you have given her a powerful and deadly weapon. Which Lulu uses. She starts to scream. "I HATE you and I HATE being Chinese and I HATE this family and I HATE violin and if you don't leave me alone I'm going to smash this glass." If people weren't looking before, they certainly are now.
At this point, I am trying to figure out how to get into a poker game against Amy Chua, because this woman will raise the stakes with nothing in her hand. Because when Lulu threatens to start smashing restaurant glassware, Amy Chua says "I dare you."
So Lulu does.
And Amy Chua is the one who runs out of the restaurant in humiliation. As she should have. Because what she was doing wasn't parenting, it was brinksmanship, it was posturing, it was a desperate struggle for supremacy. With a child.
Most appallingly, Amy Chua learned nothing from this experience. Sure, she let Lulu cut back on her violin commitments and take up tennis instead, but once Lulu showed any aptitude for tennis, she started back in on her over-investedness. And then she published this book, in which she once again exposed her bad parenting in public, and failed to realize that people would look at her and judge her, just as they did in that Moscow restaurant. Since the publication of the excerpt in the WSJ, Amy Chua has gotten a great deal of pushback--bloggers, op-ed writers, Chinese-American parents and children, have pointed out many different ways in which Chua has perpetuated racial stereotypes and failed her children. Apparently, she has been surprised by this. Really?
The Mommy-sphere is a tightly wound and exquisitely sensitive environment, full of smart, articulate, successful women who worry that whatever we do is never Good Enough. Take that group of conscientious and worried women, and surround them with contradictory and harping media about what they "should" be doing: pre-natal foreign language, Baby Einstein, breast vs bottle, cloth vs. disposable, homeschool vs. public vs. private school, daycare vs. staying at home. Every decision, every purchase, every life choice is potentially damaging to your child's future!
Then throw in a "Tiger Mother" who comes roaring out of the pages of the WSJ to deliver a verbal bitchslap and declare her way is The Only Way. Face it--who reads articles like this? People (usually mothers) who care about doing a good job. Who are then both assaulted and battered by Amy Chua's broad smear of all their efforts. She doesn't even acknowledge that they have even tried to do right by their children. Once again, Amy Chua has set up the perfect ingredients to create a temper tantrum. We don't like Amy Chua and her dictums. We don't want to be part of her family, we don't want to be like her, and we take glee in finding her weak spots and errors and tearing down her so-called "successes."
Her daughter played at Carneige Hall. My daughter (definitely NOT raised by a Tiger Mother) has sung a requiem at Carneige Hall. Did you know that Carneige Hall can be rented as well?
Guests at her home listened to her daughter play piano and gushed about her talent. Well, quelle surprise! They then went home and rolled their eyes when telling the story of the pushy woman who trotted her daughter out to perform for dinner guests.
"Tiger Mother" is not a scalable program. If your girls were in a classroom with 20 children of Tiger Mothers, they could not all be the top of the class.
What's the logic behind pushing the music--and the dismissal of drama and gym? Why should "be the best in everything" exclude being "the best" at a sport? Especially since sports have things like tournaments where who is "the best" can actually be determined?
How many college applicants already have perfect GPAs and perfect SATs? If you want your girls to actually get accepted in many of the "most elite" colleges, then they have to stand out from all the other "perfect GPA/perfect SAT" applicants. Oh wait. They'll get into Yale, because both their parents work there. So I guess the whole "best in their class" thing doesn't really matter. Cf. George W. Bush. Legacy happens.
It's not clear to me what Amy Chua thought she was doing when she wrote this book, and what sort of reception she expected it to have. Again, it's not clear that "thinking" is what she does. Instead, the book reads like childbirth triggered some irrational impulse that she followed with only minimal consideration; a pattern that she repeated when she got the idea that writing it all down would be a good thing to do. You know what Amy Chua needs? A chill pill, and a Sassy Gay Friend.
After all, the book is selling. But not to me. I made the specific point of going to a bookstore and reading this specifically so there would be no financial benefit to anybody associated with this. Plus, I'm not going to buy her husband's books either.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The Laughter of Dead Kings, by Elizabeth Peters
Elizabeth Peters is justly best-known for the Amelia Peabody mysteries--a series based around a husband and wife team of archeologists who work in Egypt during the golden age of archeology, from the 1880s to the discovery of Tutanhkamun's tomb in 1922. Despite all indications, this book is not from that series.
Instead, it is one of a series of contemporary mysteries staring a character named "Vicky Bliss" who is some sort of art historian, who also solves mysteries, usually involving some form of art theft. Sadly, this book is not as well crafted as the Amelia Peabody series--Vicky Bliss doesn't have a personality so much as she has either an eating disorder or a tape-worm. Many many scenes are of people sitting around chewing over plot developments (or lack thereof) while being fed. It's the go-to solution for ending a scene: "I'm starving. Where shall we eat?" "We can discuss what to do next while drinking beer!"
The plot: somebody has stolen the mummified body of Tutanhkamun from his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, and Vicky's boyfriend (and former art thief) John Tregarth is the leading suspect. The two of them, plus Vicky's boss Schmidt and their Egyptian friend Feisal set out to discover the thieves and retrieve the body. There is a lot of running around Europe finding nothing before they set off for Luxor, where they still find nothing.
Eventually, however, even these clumsy characters have to stumble over some sort of clues, but for the most part they believe they have to keep their deductions secret from each other so they literally end up stalking each other until they finally all end up in the same room with the criminal. Who turns out to be a minor, off-stage character with a long-simmering resentment of John Tregarth and so planned the whole thing to look like something John would have done. Not sure why that was satisfying in any way, but whatever.
The best part of the book is clearly the setting in Egypt, and the best part of that is the scene in the temple of Luxor at night. While the "detectives" can't seem to keep track of who they are following, the image of the colossal columns and statues seen by moonlight is irresistible. In the end, the book is mostly notable for being competently written, and having an interesting enough plot to highlight the exotic location.
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, by David Mitchell
I'm sure this is a great book, but frankly, I didn't like it much. Like a bad wax museum, the book poses life-like figures in attitudes of historical verisimilitude but utterly fails to give the scene life. I struggled to get through this book. It was literally work.
Jacob de Zoet is a young clerk newly arrived in Japan in 1799, with plans to work for six years to earn enough to marry the girl back home in the Netherlands. At this time, Japan remains closed to the Western world. Somehow, the Dutch East India Company has managed to arrange a single trading port outside Nagasaki--the artificial island of Dejima.
Roughly the first third of the book sets up the characters and protocols of Dejima: the company directors, the clerks, the slaves and servants, the interpreters, the Japanese magistrates and functionaries, the hangers-on. Technically, only Dutch are allowed on Dejima, but the Company takes anybody it can get, and the Japanese can't really tell Irish from Prussians from Dutch. All the Europeans are crude, obnoxious, corrupt and angling to maximize their profit from the Company by whatever means they can find. Poor Jacob de Zoet is hired to reconcile the accounts and root out the rampant embezzlement, which means everybody hates him and he is totally going to get set up to take a fall. So, the score thus far: Decency--1; Manipulation and Venality--Everybody else.
There is probably a lot of meaning and nuance in this section, but frankly, I couldn't tell most of the characters apart from each other, and their shifting alliances and crude self interest meant that I never cared to make much of an effort. Lots of bad people, trying to outmaneuver the Japanese who don't like them anyway. And the Japanese are racist and controlling and equally corrupt. The sheer amount of payola that passes in each transaction--plus the all the fictional accounting entries--it's no wonder the Dutch East India Company goes bankrupt.
So, there's really nobody to root for on either side of the Dejima trades. Jacob de Zoet is criminally naive, and so he stands out from everybody else who is trying to use him to advance their own financial crimes. There is the Japanese midwife, Aibagawa Orito, who is at least doing something other than trying to make a fortune in trade. So of course Jacob falls in love with her, and spends a great deal of (boring) time wrestling with the (boring) complications of cross cultural infatuation. There is also an orangutan named William Pitt. Don't ask.
The middle section of the book takes an abrupt turn from turgid discussions about freight costs and interest on loans, and becomes schlock melodrama. Or speculative fiction, if you are being charitable. Poor little Aibagawa Orito. she has a burn on the side of her face after a childhood accident, and is officially considered unmarriageable. Even so, Jacob wants to "marry" her, in the traditional way of Europeans taking "Dejima brides" and then abandoning them when they return to Europe. Jacob is too conflicted or naive oridealistic or racist or shy or something, so he never asks. Anyway, her family was too high status and wouldn't have allowed it. There is also a young (Japanese) interpreter wants to marry her, but his family forbids it. When Orito's father dies, it turns out that he was in significant debt to the Abbot Enomoto, and so Orito is sold to his monastery and spirited away to a mountain shrine which has a Terrible Secret!
Mitchell tries to heighten the mystery of the Terrible Secret by dribbling out the facts, but they are pretty easy to guess. Fifty monks and twelve nuns live in the compound. Two of the sisters are "chosen" each month for "engifting," meaning five to ten different monks come over five nights and try to impregnate them. The subsequent infants are taken away, ostensibly to be given to foster families. Instead, they are killed to allow the monks to drink their essence and live forever. There is much Maguffin-ing around the fact that the sisters serve for 20 years, and then are allowed to descend the mountain and live with their children. The graveyard of unmarked stones just downhill is not really a surprise, is it? Also, there is some monk whose job it is to write annual letters that purport to be from the babies as they grow. Orito discovers all this during her escape attempt, conveniently stumbling on the forged letters and then overhearing a particularly damning conversation, and then discovering the Top Secret Shrine of Death as well!
Plus, she escapes the monastery, but then voluntarily returns because (what a coincidence!) also that night her friend goes into labor with twins--a certain death sentence without a trained midwife. Really, it's kind of a creepy Japanese Death Cult/Vampire story crossed with a Bruce Willis movie, and a far cry from the stultifying financial plot of the first third of the book.
Which is not to say that this section does not itself suffer from being over-written. Orito's escape laboriously winds through nearly every room of the entire monastic compound before she gets over the wall. Simultaneously, the poor rejected interpreter/suitor from the first third of the book is informed of the abominations at the monastery, so he too mounts a rescue mission with his old martial arts master and 10 masterless samurai. This gives Mitchell a chance to be boring about each of the different bridges between Nagasaki and the mountain, to detail each minute alteration to the flora and fauna of the terrain, and generally make a midnight ninja raid on a Temple of Doom into a boring lecture on natural sciences.
As a sign of Mitchell's resolute insistence on making everything tedious and unexciting--just before he enters the temple to rescue the fair maiden and claim her as his bride, the poor schmuck takes a drink that turns out to be drugged, and he wakes up to find all his samurai and his old dojo master were in the Abbot's pay all along. So there was not actually any rescue mission, there was no fight, there was no triumphal entry. . .just a drowsy little man who gets killed for his pains, and even that scene takes place off stage.
So, two thirds of the way through the book we have--venal back-stabbing and gossip on Dejima, leading to nobody actually making any money or getting off the island. We have Japanese Creepy Secrets which are all related second hand. We have an action sequence that isn't. If the vulgar inhabitants of Dejima were to review this book, they'd assume that the author had difficulty sustaining his manhood--all build up, no climax.
De Zoet is still toiling away in unappreciated honesty in lonely Dejima. Orito is still stuck up on the mountain. The interpreter is dead. So what the book clearly needs now is a gouty British ship's captain with delusions of forcing open Japan to British trade. Done!
All of De Zoet's financial hygiene has resulted in only one person getting caught and removed from Dejima--a foul insect named Snitker. Snitker has managed to worm his way into the notice of this delusional British captain, and convinced him to sail (with only one small ship) to Dejima. By flying a Dutch flag, he can take advantage of the fact that Dejima doesn't know that the Dutch East India Company has dissolved into bankruptcy. The ship can enter the harbor, commandeer the shipload of copper that is bound to be anchored there, and declare Japan for England.
There is much tedium about the causes and effects and treatment of gout in 1800, the specifics of which sails get raised and lowered in which order, and other boring details of ship's life. Nobody on board the ship is particularly likable either--they are all gunning for glory or riches in one form or another, and are basically as unlikeable and venal as the Dutch and Japanese we have met so far, but with fewer syllables to their names.
Seriously, that's about the only difference.
But once the ship gets to Dejima, there is no copper to commandeer. The negotiations with the Japanese have broken down, and the Company never sent a ship to carry it anyway. So there is a desultory bombardment of Dejima, and some bad feeling between Snitker and all the rest of Dejima, and then the British go away and Jacob De Zoet ends up in charge of the port. Again--lots of build up, but no pay-off.
Except! The magistrate of Nagasaki has been humiliated by the British encroachment and prepares for is ritual suicide. He asks the Abbot Enomoto to assist him, then cleverly poisons himself, his chamberlain, the Abbot and the Abbot's acolyte as his judgment on the Abominations at the Temple of Doom! And they all slump to the floor while monologuing about the justice of their positions! And thus the temple will be brought down! And the women freed! And immortality no longer bought at the price of murdered babies!
Then we get some epilogues. Jacob spends another eleven years as the head of Dejima, but since there is no trade, it's not clear what he does other than father a son and eventually meet Orito again and apologize. Eventually he gets banished from Dejima and he goes back to the Netherlands, marries some nice girl and dies an old man the end.
To be fair to Mitchell (and I loved Cloud Atlas, so I want to find merit in this book) there are some potentially nifty metaphors that are played out in parallel. Orito is isolated in her monastery just as Jacob is isolated on Dejima. The secrets of the monastery are eventually made public, just as Japan has to be opened to the rest of the world. Enomoto might be 600 years old, but the cost of keeping him alive is not worth it--just as the culture of Japan cannot be preserved because the costs of that preservation are not sustainable.
It's a novel of ideas, perhaps, and an impressive recreation of a time and place that are not well known. It was carefully observed and the writing was well-crafted. It was just so much work to get through this book, and I didn't enjoy it, and even in retrospect I can't endorse it. The pain-to-pleasure ratio is way out of whack. If you want to know about the history of Japan from 1799-1800, get a history book. If you are looking for a ripping good read, get Mitchell's book Cloud Atlas instead.
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Naked Once More, by Elizabeth Peters
I listened to this* because I love Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series--fun mysteries steeped in the the minutiae of archeology and Egyptian history. This is the first book of a different series, featuring former librarian turned novelist Jacqueline Kirby, and it's just not as good. The mystery is entirely reliant on the arcane feuds of authors and agents, and is set in a rather loosely sketched contemporary "small Southern town" it lacks the exoticism of location and time that Amelia Peabody books have going for them.
The plot starts with the discovery of a car accident crime scene in this small Southern town, and the missing body of an author named Kathleen Darcy. Darcy wrote a best selling debut novel called "Naked on the Ice"--a sort of "Clan of the Cave Bear." After seven years,Darcy is declared legally dead and a sequel is authorized by her heirs. Jacqueline Kirby is chosen over several other authors considered for the job, and she moves to Pine Ridge (or whatever it's called) to research Darcy's remaining papers and to start the writing process. Things start going badly: anonymous threats, break-ins, and clumsy attempts on Jacqueline's life. When a book seller is found dead under a toppled book shelf, Kirby finds she has to solve the murder and the mystery of what happened to Darcy seven years ago.
Peters assembles a large cast of characters, or as they are known in the business, "suspects." Before we even get the the question of the author, we are introduced to Jacqueline Kirby, her old agent Christopher, her new agent Bouton (or "Bootsy" as she calls him), the subordinate assigned to Kirby named Sarah, the other four authors who are competing to write the sequel, and Patrick O'Brien, a cop and former lover of Kirby's. There are the Darcys--Mom, who has gone completely potty; Kathleen's siblings St. John, Sherry and Laurie, and Laurie's husband and three kids; as well as the the family's lawyers--three generations of Craigs. There are Tom and Paul, the models for the rival hunks in "Naked on the Ice." Tom and his wife Molly run the inn where Jacqueline stays, Kevin the busboy, Mrs. Sheridan annoying deaf woman who is a "regular" at the inn, and a few townspeople with walk-on roles. None of them ever snaps into focus as a real character, so there's really no reason to try to guess whodunit--they are all fungible.
Approximately two-thirds of the book goes by before there is any sense of urgency or plot. Jacqueline has to get selected, do publicity, move to Pine Ridge, read through Kathleen Darcy's papers, begin to draft a book outline, and meet all the characters/suspects. Sure, there is something fishy about Kathleen Darcy's disappearance, which has been ruled a suicide, but Kirby's too busy meeting deadlines and fending off unwanted dinner invitations to look into it. There is also a lot of ink devoted to the logistics of how she will get her mail without tipping off media about her location--this is just as boring as it sounds.
Things don't actually get going until poor Jan Wilson, the book store owner, is found dead. The bookcase on top of her body was heavy enough to have killed her, but it had been secured into the floor with three inch bolts. And Paul calls her "Kathleen." Yes, there is reason to believe that Kathleen isn't dead--or wasn't until this happened. And Kirby has to figure out who tried to kill Kathleen seven years ago in order to solve this murder and keep anybody else from being killed.
This is where the esoterica of publishing gets to be important. Kathleen Darcy left a will, made two weeks before her "death" with elaborate instructions for how a sequel should be pursued, and something about the percentages of sales constitutes a motive to kill her before she wrote the sequel. It turns out that Kathleen planned her own disappearance and planned to be the writer who was chosen to write her own sequel. But since her new identity as an author didn't use Bootsy as her agent, she got tricked out of the assignment. So she was mad and wrote threatening letters to those who manipulated the process. So, it turns out that Bootsy was the one who tried to kill her back in the day because she had warned him she was going to fire him as her agent. So he cooked up some elaborate plan (?) to kill her before she fired him (?) so he could keep getting his percentage of her book sales (?) and then use one of his own writers to develop a sequel. But for some reason he panicked and thought the book store owner was actually Kathleen Darcy so he killed her before she could reveal what he had done?
I don't know--I was hoping it was the ditzy, pregnant inn-keeper's wife who would turn out to have been jealous of the successful writer who had used her husband as the model for her Main Hunky Character. That would have been more interesting in my opinion.
Competently written, with some interesting insights into the workings of literary business, the book suffers from an abrasive main character, few memorable characters, and a meandering plot where pages go by but little seems to happen. Not Peters' best work.
I wouldn't endorse this book, but I can endorse another Jacqueline Kirby book: The Murders of Richard III. That one was fun.
*See how I did that? Got it from Audible.com, read by Barbara Rosenblatt, who is generally delightful and has been known to improve a book with her gifted acted. Can't say she succeeded this time, however.
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Some cyclists ride as means for exercise, while others may ride with slightly more ambition. Some cyclists ride extreme distances and even go on tours around the world. Then there are the cyclists who ride because it's their profession. Regardless of the reasons we ride, we all enjoy the feeling of being "free to ride." FRETORI aims to serve as a kind of keystone to bring the cycling community together; to develop a culture through events and community engagement.
We strive to add to the cycling community by supporting clubs, race teams and other cycling organizations through two primary channels.
First and foremost, our events serve as the focal point of the entire FRETORI project. We host and organize two social cycling events with value and the highest standards in mind. Our goal is to create a complete package that every cyclist will covet, remember and use in years to come for the betterment of their riding experience.
Second, our daily process targets the cycling community primarily through social media and journal posts. We look to share and create cycling content that is tied to the many positive experiences riding a bike can elicit. We highlight the many positive happenings in the cycling community, ranging from other gran fondo-like events, races of all levels and disciplines to regular Saturday morning club rides.
FRETORI is a portmanteau – from the words "free to ride."
Our name, FRETORI, is inspired from the works of Kurt Vonnegut, an author who often explored the idea of free will. He implored that when we are finally "free at last" from the constraints and stresses of our lives we absolutely must appreciate those times. Appreciating freedom is an ideology we can all relate to in many different contexts and facets of our lives. We take this concept and express it through cycling's lens.
FRETORI is intended to elicit the feeling of being truly free to ride, through our event and community engagement. Cycling is a respite when we are free at last from the confines of the daily grind. We welcome you to be a part of this group - and we hope that you too will feel "fretori," in other words, free to ride.


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The Hydroponics Company (ASX:THC) is at the forefront of developing a leading, diversified worldwide cannabis business, focused on three core business units: Development and delivery of medicinal cannabis, manufacturing and distribution of hydroponics equipment, materials and nutrients, and large scale hydroponic greenhouse design and construction. R3D Global is looking forward to inviting investors to take an opportunity to support an industry with huge global potential.
1st QTR REVENUE UP 22% AND US EXPANSION
The Hydroponics Company Limited (ASX: THC) is pleased to announce that first quarter revenue in its wholly owned subsidiary CMDV (Crystal Mountain (Canada)/Dragon Vision (Hong Kong)) increased by more than 22% year-on-year to over $1.11m and is on track to exceed forecast of over $5m revenue for 2017.
Hydroponics Division commences US market scale up. THC is expanding into new markets where there are compelling opportunities to develop the Company as a leading manufacturer and distributer of hydroponic equipment and products. The United States is an important market for the planned roll out of new and existing products and will offer high potential to significantly increase revenue.
Multiple opportunities to execute agreements and promote a range of new products and technologies to further increase sales in 2017. The increase in revenue was attributed to an increase in the Company's new product range over the past 6 months. The Company has commenced its US market expansion and is poised for growth with increased distribution and with the introduction of additional new products later this year.
Targeting US for growth in indoor farming equipment and product sales. The Company is now targeting large scale distribution and branding of its products in the United States, in line with plans to become a leading global manufacturer and distributer of hydroponics equipment and products.
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I once saw this definition of Jack of All Trades, and I think it applies somehow:
"Jack of all trades: is a figure of speech used in reference to a person that is competent with some skills, but is not necessarily outstanding in any particular one. Jack of all trades may be a integrator, as such an individual knows enough from many learned trades and skills along his carrer to be able to bring his disciplines together in a practical manner. This person is a generalist rather than an specialist."
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I once read this blog post from Martin Fowler saying that Roy started ThoughtWorks as a social experiment to find out if it was possible to create the kind of company he wanted to make, and make that company last for many years. Many of the elements of that "experimental" company were things that people told him couldn't be done, such as: a company that has a social agenda, a company that is transparent, a space where people collaborate effectively, idealist people making good decisions, a place where the culture is more valuable than business model, etc.
Then I began to learn more about ThoughtWorks and it appears that such a company was possible and more than that: apart from having a social agenda, a fluid hierarchy, passionate and idealistic people, and all of that; this company was also revolutionizing software creation and excelling in agile methodologies.
At this point I decided that it would be good to work there. When I saw on twitter that they were recruiting in my city, São Paulo, I went to this recruiting event and here am I.


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Opportunity Partnership Progam - Provides industry mentors to community and technical college students
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The Media Council has extended Jazzy Radio's Budapest license for five years, allowing the station to continue operating on its 90.8 MHz frequency until October 2018. The 2010 Media Act allows authorities to grant one-time, five-year license renewals to broadcasters if the operator has paid its license fees and has not repeatedly breached the media laws.
Jazzy Radio, which owned by Magyar Jazz Rádió Kft., launched its operations in October 2006 under a contract with Hungary's former media regulator, ORTT. Magyar Jazz Rádió Kft. is owned by Imre Suri, Zoltán Antal, and Belmond & Adams Magyarország.


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"I ain't playing with these n***as," chants Travi$ Scott on his new cut Don't Play. Backed by hard hitting trap-inspired production and a guest verse from Big Sean, we'd say that the G.O.O.D. Music/Hustle Gang
The duo premiered the record at SXSW earlier this year to a big crowd reaction. This is my preferred energy for the summer, so let's hope that this record gets legs.
Look for Scott to release his Rodeo project some time this year. [HipHopWired]
Listen to Don't Play below + check out when Big Sean visited Sway in the Morning below.
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Red Hook flood assessment info: our watershed, sewers, buried creeks, prior shoreline & more/
Amended 11/12/14 to include the following link and background about Eymund Diegel:
For related info, see our blogpost that includes Jim McMahon's Sandy flood map of Red Hook and info on how to assess your flood risk in future storms."
More info about Eymund Diegel:
- Eymund Diegel LinkedIn profile
- Eymund Diegel website
- Eymund Diegel profile in New York Times
- Eymund Diegel TEDx Talk
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To further support flood prevention planning in Red Hook, we offer the following information.
The data and points of view in the following bullet points are courtesy of Eymund Diegel:
- General imagery of the Sandy Flood impacts available here
- Base map data showing where flood waters are likely to come from next time Blue lines show general direction of drainage flows, and in reverse, the likely path of rising flood waters. Green shows the original tidal marshes. Sandy essentially flooded anyone who built on the former tidal marshes.
- 1844 Coastal Survey showing original sand and mud banks off Red Hook whose alteration from harbor dredging is affecting how storm surges impact Red Hook
- The reconstruction of the historic bay bottom, in particular it's now damaged and altered offshore banks, should be studied to see how reconstructing some of these protective features may help reduce Red Hook flood damage the next time.
- I am attaching some ideas from the excellent work being done by SCAPE landscape architects, (slide show above) exploring how we remove soil from some areas (eg Red Hook Park) to recreate a better flood holding basin, and use those soils to create surge breakers further offshore. All expensive and controversial, but we need to start this dialogue as we are only going to get more flood events, and the next one will be worse than Sandy. We got off lucky because we didn't have heavy rains.
- I did a 2013 Sandy Flood saline impacted tree survey for the Parks Department
- The most impacted trees (London Planes and Dawn Redwoods) were typically on "topographic sinks" where salt water sat for longer, affecting soil quality and damaging non salt tolerant trees. These "sinks" generally correspond with the location of the historic mill ponds that were landfilled and subsided.
- The planning recommendation I made to the City is that street grading needs to be improved to allow flood waters to recede more rapidly. This recommendation will contradict some of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenways Green Infrastructure work (eg on Columbia Street) where storm water is being diverted to pond swales and holding tanks to reduce combined sewer overflows. Both (flood management and green infrastructure sewer overflow reduction are good goals and should be supported. One compromise strategy may be sluice gates, like those used by the original millers of Red Hook to better manage tide waters.
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Financial markets around the world will open on Wednesday with a tinge of apprehension, not just because of developments in Greece or China, but because of an extra second.
A "leap second" is being added to the world's clocks at midnight GMT on Tuesday, which could test the extremely sensitive trading systems of the modern algorithmic era, beginning with markets in Asia.
The decision to add a leap second has been taken by the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations body, to harmonize atomic time with the sometimes imprecise time taken by the earth to rotate around its axis.
While there have been several occasions since 1972 that leap seconds have been added to world clocks, this is the first time since 1997 that such a tweak is happening on a working day and in a high-speed electronic trading environment.
The majority of global equity trading and a significant proportion of trading in bonds, currencies, commodities and derivatives, is done on electronic platforms governed by the international Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol.
"On the FIX systems, the tolerance limits on an order may make it look stale if the clocks are out of sync, which is the biggest issue," said one head of electronic sales at a European brokerage in Hong Kong.
Stock exchanges, brokers and investment banks said they were working with their vendors and clients to ensure their internal clocks were brought into line.
"No one's actually expecting a big impact. Tolerance limits are usually more than a second anyway because clocks are not always exactly aligned between clients and broker," the head of electronic sales said.
"But these days, in the electronic world, one second is not an insignificant amount of time. It's worth being diligent about it."
Intercontinental Exchange, a major network of exchanges for financial and commodity markets, said it would delay market openings which would normally occur between 2300 GMT on Tuesday and 0001 GMT Wednesday by varying amounts of time. (www.theice.com/leap-second)
CME Group is also delaying the CME Globex market open on July 1. All markets will open at 19:45 CDT (0045 GMT) rather than the usual staggered openings from 17:00 CDT (2200 GMT).
In Asia, the adjustment process varies among exchanges. Some, such as those in Australia, South Korea and Japan are planning to "smear" the extra second by adding a tiny fraction of a second to each second over a period of a few hours, brokers said. Others said they would do it as a one-off adjustment.
The Singapore Exchange has told markets it would adjust its systems' clock between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. on July 2, a broker said.
The last leap second was added in 2012. Then, in outages similar to the Y2K millennium problems, a few websites were affected. Australia's Qantas Airways was among those hit as the leap second affected its reservation systems and caused flight delays.
"The problem in 2012 was an Amadeus outage caused by the leap second bug," a Qantas spokesman in Sydney told Reuters on Tuesday, referring to the software for the global travel and tourism industry.
"We have sought and received assurances from Amadeus that they have taken action to make sure that the same problem cannot happen again, and we're confident that there won't be any impact on Qantas operations on this occasion."
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Winning a giveaway is fantastic for two reasons: 1.) You have a new item to add to your wardrobe for free. What could be more frugal than that!? 2.) You are (most likely) introduced to a new company/store/brand/what-have-you. This is a great way to try something you either might not have bought on your own or try something you may have never heard about prior! I love that. This, my friends, is why every week I write a little post called Winning Wednesday.
Side Note - Um... is it just me or are the giveaways going on this week absolutely fantastic? Read on and enter all of them - you won't be disappointed!
1. The Daybook is giving away an Athelia Dress from Edelweiss by Sarah. Super, super pretty and perfect for any wardrobe! Click here to enter! Ends soon!
2. The Daybook is also giving away a $50 gift certificate to Spool No.72! I've never shopped here before but the items look super pretty! Click here to enter! Giveaway ends next week!
3. Jessica at What I Wore is giving away two MICHAEL Michael Kors trenches! I have dreamed of owning the perfect trench since the beginning of time and this would fulfill that dream! Click here to enter! Giveaway ends: March 9, 2011
4. The Daily Julie is giving away a Ray Cuff from Amrita Singh. It's black, white and gold. Do I even need to tell you how much this bracelet needs to be part of my wardrobe? I think not. :) Click here to enter! Giveaway ends: March 3, 2011
5. Inspired Design is giving away a gorgeous Stella + Dot Revival Tassel Necklace. I'm loving the tassel look in jewelry right now! Click here to enter! Giveaway ends: March 10, 2011
6. Style Obsession is giving away three pretty items from Little L.A. Boutique: a ring, a bracelet and a purse hook. I'm all about statement rings! Would love to add this to my growing jewelry collection. Click here to enter! Giveaway ends: March 6, 2011
7. Melanie's Randomness is giving away a gorgeous dress from Shabby Apple. I think this dress would help any lady welcome spring with open arms! Click here to enter! Giveaway ends: March 7, 2011
8. Fashion Momma is giving away an awesome fashion package of goodies to celebrate reaching 300 readers! Could you be her next reader? Click here to enter! Giveaway ends: March 4, 2011
9. exPress-o is giving away an essential stripe top from EmersonMade. You NEED this if you don't already have a stripe top in your closet. Already have one? Enter anyway... you can never have enough stripes! Click here to enter! Giveaway ends: March 6, 2011
10. Still have EmersonMade on the mind? Good, me too. Hop on over to Doodalee-Doo and enter to win a gold coin lion necklace! Click here to enter!
11. A blog that never ceases to inspire me, A Pair And A Spare, is giving away two of her handmade crystal rock rings to one lucky winner! (That winner would be me. Hopefully.) Click here to enter! Giveaway ends: March 21, 2011
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Shrimp season fully under way in SC
Grab the cocktail sauce.
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources has opened commercial shrimp season in near-shore waters swarming with the crustaceans.
That means more fresh, succulent, local shrimp will be turning up on docks, at seafood markets and on tables near you.
The shrimp came out of nowhere earlier this spring, a year after they had disappeared in the cold winter.
Cold spells that killed wintering shrimp kept the 2011 commercial season from opening until late June and had biologists worried that the losses would deplete this year's crop.
They and shrimpers were shocked in March when boats in the open federal waters far out at sea began pulling in good catches, two months earlier than expected.
In response, the state opened its "provisional waters" in April -- one of the earliest starts ever.
Since then, Charles Gay of Gay Fish Co. in northern Beaufort County reports that the haul hasn't been quite as bountiful as he'd anticipated.
"It's been real spotty," he said. "Some of our boats have done real well. It's just not too consistent at this point yet."
But his store is busier than ever for this time of year, he added.
DNR biologist Larry DeLancey said sample trawls indicate the catch will be "standard large white roe shrimp."
"The shrimp are just doing their thing. They're not paying any attention to the calendar," DeLancey said.
Larry Toomer of the Bluffton Oyster Co. said he couldn't recall the commercial shrimp season beginning so early. It adds another element of uncertainty to the already unpredictable nature of his job.
"I'm not fighting the opening or overly excited about the opening," he said. "We're in uncharted waters, so to speak."
Bo Petersen of the (Charleston) Post & Courier contributed to this report.
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We've been awfully busy the last couple of weeks, and we finally sat down and caught ourselves up on the last couple of issues of Sports Illustrated, a.k.a. "Keeping The Print World Safe From Web Gunslingers." It didn't take very long; SI's awfully thin these days, as if magazine advertising dollars are being shifted online or something. Anyway.
We had two thoughts. First, you are all officially implored to read Gary Smith's feature on broadcaster Max Kellerman and the murder of his brother Sam by boxer James Butler. That's pretty much it for serious reads, so our second point comes from a quote from Diamondbacks shortstop Orlando Hudson, who was asked, in another example of the SI ethical, upstanding and intellectual standards that separate them from the beasts, "Your favorite off-day activity?" Hudson replied:
"I'll wash a few clothes, get that out of the way. I like a movie. I'll watch a scary movie, then come back, watch Lifetime [TV Network] and chill."
Hudson failed to add," See, yo, first I grab me some 'Nanny,' working in a little 'Golden Girls,' the old standby. Then it's Tuesday, and you know what time that is! You're in Meredith Baxter-Birney country. That man's cheatin' on you, dawg! Don't just sit there and take it!"
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I had a request for a sympathy card in the colors of blue and purple, so I put these two together. The papers are from Craft & You.
The doily is a Cheery Lynn French Pastry Doily. I cut it in half and offset it under the center panel. A Memory Box Adelaide Stem was adhered beneath the butterfly, a Fiskars punch.
This gorgeous crinkle ribbon is Lavender from the Spring Bundle #1.
And this is Baby Blue from the Baby Bundle.
The beautiful flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. Tucked beneath are Memory Box Tender Leaves and Chloe Stems.
The angel is from a mold.
I'm entering this in the following challenges:
1) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
2) Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
3) Jo's Scrap Shack Funday Friday - Anything Goes
Now it's your turn!! Head on over to DL.ART to see the amazing projects my design team sisters have created for today's challenge!! Then link up your Anything Goes projects!! I can't wait to see what you create :)


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I love how one conversation can spark a whole load of creative inspiration! That was how I felt after having a little chat with Bonnie from Bonnie and Bumble. I had spotted her beautiful homemade calendars from having a look at her stunning Instagram feed. We got talking and she explained how she had designed these desk calendars herself, printed them off and simply attached them to a clipboard!
I felt totally inspired! What a handy and beautiful way to quickly view the month at a glance!
Bonnie was so sweet to send me some examples of her homemade calendar and, after buying up a few clipboards, I decided to make some little calendar displays like hers for my home.
I bought a pack of five clipboards (here) and decided to get my Annie Sloan paints in on the fun. It has been a few weeks since I have even looked at these paints, so I was hankering to try my hand at some little project with them.
I decided to paint up a few of the boards in pretty pastel colours using Antoinette (the pink), Duck Egg (the green) and Louis blue (the blue.) This probably took me all of fifteen minutes and, as these paints dry so quickly, I was able to set up my calendars really fast!
As I was putting the camera away, I began having lots of other ideas for using these clipboards. As we draw closer to winter and Advent in particular, I think it's safe to say we will be seeing a whole lot more of these on the blog!
I hope you're all having a lovely week!
P.S Don't forget to check out Bonnie & Bumble for some gorgeous little home accessories and decorative pieces!


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