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Thank you Zoey for starting your blog and therefore encouraging me to start mine up again. I know I left everyone hanging on a thread, sitting on pins and needles, and holding their breath waiting to see what was going to happen next in mine and Fiance's venture into Manhattan. Soooo, in this blog, I will attempt to summarize what's been happening over the past… 5 months? Yeah, that sounds about right.
Where do I even begin…?
We've had A LOT of visitors! (Marsha, Mom, Mom-in-law, Dad-in-law, Teddy, Genevieve, sister, brother-in-law, Steve, Derek, Zoey, Danica, Scott….did I miss anyone?)
We've seen 10 Broadway shows, a couple concerts, the Rockettes, an amazing off-Broadway show, and too many street performers.
We have discovered some really fantastic restaurants. Some of these are crazy expensive and uber fancy, and others are dingy little dives…that are still a little pricey. My favorite is a little taco shop in Soho called Tacombi.
I have spent way too much money because NYC just isn't fair. There are too many great shops. Every corner you turn there is a new boutique, or department store that I somehow missed. Every New Yorker should be given an allowance. It's just too hard to live like a tourist everyday.
I am still working 6 or 7 days a week…yet still living paycheck to paycheck (see above paragraph).
I still enjoy my job, which has a lot to do with my boss who is really great and supportive.
Our wedding plans are crazy. Everyday is a new dilemma, a new reservation to make, a new item to order, and another payment, but we are loving it and absolutely stoked about the big day! I only freak out every other day so I think I'm doing considerably well.
Belle is completely citified. She potties in the street (not on the sidewalk). She shops at all the designer stores. She's even attended a party honoring an artists at Ralph Lauren. The loud noises freak her out much less. She has her own spiral staircase to enter our loft at night. She now has a vet, thanks to her very unfortunate incident on an escalator.
We have had most experiences in NYC that one should have. (i.e. yelled at a cab driver, yelled at the subway, started calling the subway "the train", ate bagels, ate hotdogs, ate lots of pizza, got stuck in a subway train, gotten frustrated with tourists, spent New Years Eve in time square, seen every major tourists site, joined a museum, and had every type of food delivered to our door for dinner.)
And, if you haven't heard, Zoey has now moved to NYC!!! She is only a block and half away and has started her own blog!
Check her out here: New York Whimsy


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text: Abbas said the Israeli probe did not correspond with UN demands [AFP] The UN Security Council has demanded that Israel create an impartial and transparent investigation into the attack by Israeli commandos on May 31. The raid on the flotilla, which was trying to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip, left nine Turkish activists dead. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said the setting up of an internal committee by Israel did not comply with the UN's demands. "The proposition made today for the inquiry committee does not correspond to the request of the Security Council," Abbas said in Paris on Monday after meeting Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president. Turkey had also demanded a UN-led probe and threatened to review its ties with Israel if it did not heed calls for an independent inquiry.'Uncovering the facts' The committee set up to investigate the legal aspects of the raid will be chaired by Yaakov Tirkel, 75, a retired Israeli supreme court judge who will work alongside Amos Horev, 86, a retired major general, and Shabtai Rosen, 93, a professor of international law. IN DEPTH Q&A: Why Israel's siege is illegal Focus: Gaza's real humanitarian crisis Focus on Gaza: The blockade Born in Gaza 'The future of Palestine' In Video: Siege takes toll on Gaza children Gaza's deadly power shortage Gazan's rare family reunion abroad Making the most of Gaza's woes It will also include two international observers: David Trimble, 65, an Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner; and Ken Watkin, 55, former judge advocate general of the Canadian military.It was not clear what powers Trimble and Watkin would have and a statement from Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said they would not be able "to vote in relation to the proceedings and conclusions of the commission". The two men could also be denied access to information that could "cause substantial harm to national security or to the state's foreign relations," the statement said. The inquiry will run alongside another internal military probe into the events of May 31, which began last week under Giora Eiland, a retired brigadier general. Israel has made clear the investigation announced at the weekend will not hear any direct testimony from troops involved in the raid. "I am convinced that uncovering the facts will prove that Israel acted in an appropriately defensive fashion in accordance with the highest standards," Netanyahu told cabinet members on Monday. "The committee will clarify to the world that Israel acts according to law with responsibility and full transparency," he said. SOURCE: Agencies


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Piku is that melodious strain of santoor, that welcome first drizzle of rain that soaks your soul ever so gently and makes you want to be a better person, at least till the effect lasts. And the best thing is that it does that without preaching, nothing is overt here but the messages are loud and clear. And they make you suddenly realize that it is possible to be better - a better father, daughter or a friend. The sheer positivity is the film's biggest strength.
Shoojit Sirkar, whose last outing was the brilliant 'Vicky Donor', which was around the tricky, could-have-been sleazy topic about sperm-donation, revives the old Hrishkesh Mukherjee world in Piku and deals with the endearing father-daughter relationship under the guise of a family battling with… gawd-help-us…. constipation.
Piku is about the road-trip the father-daughter take from Delhi to Kolkata, and Rana, the person who wily-nilly ties the fussy father's make-shift 'mobile' potty atop his cab and drives them there.
The film opens like that hidden window through which you eavesdrop on this cantankerous Bengali family consisting of just two members – Piku (Padukone) and her 70 year old father, Bhaskor Bannerjee (Bachchan). It's quite a different thing that the old man is more than a handful, with his perennial obsession with his constipation, his eternal suspicion of maids taking him for a ride and his firm belief that marriage is for women with 'low IQ' not for Piku.
We see and empathize with the frustrations of the hectic life of this working, unmarried girl as she juggles with a demanding career, her difficult father, her household with all its attendant problems of quitting maids, choking drains and accumulating cobwebs. Along with all this she tries to maintain some kind of a social life alive too. She seems to have given up the idea of ever marrying as she feels duty-bound to care for her cranky, old father and doubts if anybody will agree to take her along with her '70-year-old child'.
The way the father gets on his daughter's nerves with his eternal pre-occupation with his health in general and his bowels in particular and the way she shouts back at him is so 'us' that we thank God that the days of mutely self-sacrificing daughters and angelic dads are finally over. We also completely identify with the real concern which lies just under the surface, in those small moments and unsaid things like the soft looks the father keeps for her daughter and the way she skips four stairs at a time when she hears that her father is unwell.
Rana Chowdhary (Khan) enters this volatile equation in the unenviable position of the man who has to ferry them to Kolkata in his cab. Caught between the baffling duo, he earns their respect with his common –sense and ready wit. The old man finally meets his match in him when his unreasonable demands are rebuffed in no uncertain terms. The understated attraction between Rana and Piku is again a reminder how love happens in the real world.
The performances in 'Piku' are decidedly among the finest for all its actors. The paunchy Bachchan excels while throwing tantrums about just about everything and is hilarious when he gets sad that all his reports were normal! It is magical how this man conveys more with a blink than any other actor with pages of dialogues! Padukone can chalk this too up as a winner with her nuanced portrayal of a frustrated but arrogant girl finally finding her peace and balance with the earthy 'Rana'. And as Rana, Khan speaks more with his eyes and body and conveys as much as he does with his sharp one-liners. On screen after years, we find Chatterjee as Piku's aunt, as vibrant as and feistier than she was in her hey-days, giving back as well as she gets from her brother-in-law.
The biggest credit goes to Juhi Chaturvedi for her brilliant screenplay and dialogues. The screenplay is the hero of the film which overrides any need for over-the-top drama or larger-than-life platform to bring home some pertinent questions whether it is about caring for one's parents however problematic that may be or true woman's emancipation by the way Piku unself-consciously admits to physical needs and the ultimate truth that our roots are us. Chaturvedi manages to pack this and more in without once going preachy or moralistic.
Cinematographer Kamaljeet Negi deserves applause for bringing alive the milieu of the dusty narrow lanes of Chittranjan Park and the beauty of Kolkata without taking us on a scenic-city-tour. And finally, hats off to the captain helming the show, Sirkar has the advantage of being a Bengali, but it also needs minute attention to detail to bring alive the sheer Bengali-ness. The nighty-clad lady of the house, deftly chopping vegetables on a 'boti' (a gadget typical to all Bengali homes to chop anything from vegetables to fish) ; the circular 'alpana' in the open yard; the way a simple conversation can explode into a full-blooded verbal battle and yes, the hypochondria every self-respecting Bengali suffers from is guaranteed to bring a sheepish but delighted smile of recognition on every Bengali lip.
With 'Piku' Shoojit Sirkar has firmly established himself in the pantheon of this new breed of directors like Rajkumar Hirani (of Munnabhai, 3 Idiots, PK fame) and Vikas Bahl (Chillar Party, Queen) who may just bring back story and performance- oriented movies which do not need the crutches of violence and sleaze oozing out of every frame.


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ARLINGTON, Va.- In the most fitting fashion, the 2017 Continental Volleyball Conference championship match went to five sets for the first time ever. To make it even more epic, it took more than 15 points to decide a champion. In the end, the Juniata men's volleyball team came out on top as the Eagles recovered from a 2-1 deficit to win 3-2 and claim the CVC title.
Juniata wins its third CVC crown overall and first since 2014. The team also receives the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.
Three Eagles reached double figures in kills led by tournament Most Valuable Player Kyle Seeley's (Ellicott City, Md./Howard) 18. Seeley hit a team-best .389 and also picked up a team-high six block assists.
Juniata trailed 4-2 early in the first set but recovered to go ahead 13-9. EMU rallied with five straight points to go up 14-13. The two teams traded points and with the set tied at 16-16, JC ripped off a 7-0 run to leap forward 23-16. The Eagles were one away from match point at 24-17 but had to withstand an EMU rally before winning on a Royal service error 25-22.
Eastern Mennonite carried its late momentum into the second frame as it got out to 6-0 lead. The Eagles tried to fight their way back but the Royals stayed ahead and their lead grew to as much as 22-12 before winning 25-17 to even the match at one set each.
Much like the second set, the third set saw EMU jump on JC early with a big 11-1 lead. Juniata got to within six at 14-8 and 21-15 but Eastern Mennonite was too much as it scored the last four points of the frame to claim a 25-15 win and go up 2-1.
EMU tallied the first two points in set four but the Eagles responded with a 10-4 run to go up 10-6. JC stayed ahead of the Royals throughout. After going ahead 20-14, the Eagle lead never dipped below five points as Juniata was able to hold off the Royals with a 25-19 win to force a deciding fifth set.
The fifth set was a battle back and forth as neither team could establish a significant run. Eastern Mennonite was able to establish a lead of three points at 14-11. At match point, Mahlon Bender's (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) kill was one of three straight points JC was able to tally to tie the set at 14-14. Both teams traded off points with EMU at match point three times. At 17-17, an attack error by the Royals' William Ragland with a block by Seeley and Michael Young (Westlake Village, Calif./Westlake Village) gave JC an 18-17 edge. Once again the teams traded points off and Juniata was at its fourth match point. This time the set would not go on as a bad set by EMU's Christian Taylor failed to go over and the Eagles erupted in celebration as they won 22-20.
Juniata won despite hitting only hitting .106 on the night. EMU was not much better with a .110 hitting percentage.
Matt Vasinko (Loyalhanna, Pa./Derry Area) added 12 kills for the Eagles to go along with eight digs and three solo blocks. Quinn Peterson (Las Vegas, Nev./Shadow Ridge) had a double-double with 10 kills and 12 digs. Young put up 48 assists, eight digs, and five assisted blocks. Chris Heron (Las Vegas, Nev./Arbor View) had a season-high 17 digs. Both Vasinko and Young joined Seeley on the All-Tournament Team.
Juniata (21-10) heads into the NCAA Tournament winners of eight straight. The Eagles will find who their opponent will be when the field is announced on Monday morning at 10:00 a.m.


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It's so nice for viewers when the Presenters interact so beautifully (and hilariously) with the Guest Presenters and your Kipling show was a classic, worthy of lovely Debbie Flint.
Have followed your TV career for many years (I live in the Midlands) and you've adapted yourself to shopping telly seamlessly – it's like it was a job meant for you.
Best wishes
PS Have you thought about asking the Producers for your own 'Home Things' show? You seem to love all things 'home' like me, and could choose items from QVC with a different 'theme' each week ie Vintage, Animal, Classic, Elegance, Romantic etc.
It's been a busy old week! Did any of you manage to catch my interview on Saturday with the lovely winner of last year's X Factor, Sam Bailey ? What an absolutely lovely, down to earth, delightful woman she is.
A few of us had the privilege of being in the studio while she recorded two live tracks from her album, and I can tell you it was a spine-tingling, hair-standing-on-end experience.
Her voice is so powerful and seemingly effortless, and to hear her sing those big ballads in a small space was extraordinary. I wish her all the luck in the world with her new career (and of course her new baby – congratulations Sam!).
Talking of mothers, it's Mother's Day of course this coming Sunday, and my sister and I have clubbed together to get our mum the most FANTASTIC present! I think we're just as excited about it as we hope she will be! I won't tell you what it is though until next week, just in case she happens to read this blog. I've been sorting through some old photos recently and found this one of my mum holding me when I was just six weeks old.
Isn't she lovely? I'm the oldest of her six children and we've always been close – although she lives in the west of Ireland so we don't see each other as often as we would like, we speak on the phone every single day. Mum has also recently learned to Skype which means we get to see each other when we speak too, which is brilliant!
She is an incredible woman, the glue that holds our widely dispersed family together; we have been through some very tough times together over the years, and mum has always been there, loving and supporting us all no matter what. To her, and to all our mums, a very happy Mother's Day! And to those of you whose mums are no longer with you, I hope you have wonderful memories of someone very special.
Now – soup! You might remember in my last blog I said that I had bought the cooks essentials Soup Maker. Yes, me. The worst cook in the world. But I really am trying to make more of an effort in the kitchen (although I admit I find it very, VERY boring, tedious and time consuming. Not sure that will ever change!).
However, I've been very pleasantly surprised about how easy it is to make tasty soup with this machine. I've now made two, a smooth Stilton and broccoli soup (pictured left) and a chunky leek, spinach and cannellini bean soup.
Both were not only edible, they were delicious! (And I seem to be still alive and well after consuming them, which is a bonus.) So if you're as reluctant a cook as I am, I recommend it.
Another gadget I've been trying out is the Vax Spray & Vac Window Cleaner which will be our Today's Special Value on QVC on Saturday (29th March). You know how it is when the sun starts shining after a long winter, and shows up all the marks on the windows? Well I've been attacking mine with the Vax and it's brilliant, so quick and easy to do inside and out.
My husband has been very taken with it and whizzed around doing our entire conservatory in a matter of minutes. Here's a little video demo – tune in throughout the day on Saturday to see more.
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Finally this week, a quick bit of fun from one of the Kipling 10th anniversary shows at the weekend. When you buy a Kipling scarf it comes in a lovely box with lots of suggestions on how to wear it. Our fab Kipling guest Marie-Francoise Wolff challenged me to try as many as possible in just a few seconds – here you go!
That's it for now, have a wonderful week and do leave any comments below this blog or say hello on Twitter (I'm @jackiekabler).
Lots of love,
Jackie x
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March 25, 2014 at 7:57 pm -
March 25, 2014 at 9:09 pm -
Hi Jackie
I missed Sam Bailey on QVC , yes she has a fantastic voice and comes over as a lovely person. Yes what a lovely photograph of your Mum. Sadly my Mum is no longer with us, but she is on my mind every day. I am going to my daughter Heidi on Sunday they have just moved house and said we must go to them for lunch, fantastic a day when I will not have to cook. I enjoy cooking but hate housework. Talking of cooking your soup sounds delicious, I love homemade soup. What can we expect from you next? I did see your scarf demo, really made me laugh. I have one of them, lovely size and really soft. Love the demo of the Vax window cleaner, will have to watch out for that, my window's really need a good clean.
Looking forward to your next recipes.
Take care.
Love Jean XX
March 26, 2014 at 10:42 am -
Hi Susanne
Good to hear from you! Yes shopping telly is a big change from my previous career in news but I absolutely love it so thanks for the kind words. I actually did have an occasional show called "At Home with Jackie" last year, similar to what you suggested (great minds think alike!) and it may return now and again this year too so look out for that!
Love Jackie x
March 26, 2014 at 10:44 am -
Hi Jean,
Hope you have a LOVELY time at your daughter's on Sunday, you deserve a break! And what a great name, I love the name Heidi. Hope the dogs are well too.
Love Jackie x
March 27, 2014 at 9:06 pm -
Hi Jackie,
Please could you tell me the item number of the ring you were wearing on your right hand on the Nails Inc show on Wednesday at 11pm. It looked stunning.
Thank you,
March 28, 2014 at 1:27 pm -
hiya jackie loved the video of the kipling scarf demo soooo funny especially the need to hide it did make me giggle gorgeous photo of you and youre mam honestly i can see you look the double of her,keep up the good work jackie you are so lovely and genuine.
March 28, 2014 at 9:35 pm -
Hi Jane
I think it was this Nour ring 302323. Does that look right? Can't quite remember what ring I was wearing but that's the one I've had on almost constantly recently!
Love Jackie x
March 31, 2014 at 3:13 pm -
Hi Debbie
Thanks so much for the kind words, really appreciated! Yes a lot of people tell me I look like my mum, more so as I get older. Have a lovely week.
Love Jackie x
April 1, 2014 at 3:49 pm -
Hi Jackie,
Yes thank you. That looks like the ring! Will put it on my wish list.
Love Jane. X


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Now in its sixth year, it is the only UK only award that recognises excellence in a published collection of short stories and has attracted established names competing alongside relative newcomers.
This year's event attracted a record number of entries from a diverse range of writers, with interest from a wide range of mainstream publishers and independent presses.
It's the first time that the shortlisting has resulted in an all-female finale. The authors nominated are:
- A.J Ashworth – Somewhere Else, Or Even Here (Salt Publishing).
- Tessa Hadley – Married Love (Cape).
- Sarah Hall – The Beautiful Indifference (Faber).
- Zoe Lambert – The War Tour (Comma).
- Rowena Macdonald – Smoked Meat (Flambard).
Dr Ailsa Cox, Reader in Creative Writing and English at Edge Hill University and co-ordinator of the Prize, said: "Women writers have always featured strongly on the shortlist, but it is quite unusual to have all female finalists for a literary prize.
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- The £1,000 Readers' Choice, chosen from the same shortlist.
- A £500 student prize, which will reward one of the stars of Edge Hill University's MA Creative Writing course.
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on 5th July at the Free Word Centre in London.
Short biographies for the five writers are as follows.
- A.J Ashworth. This is the Lancashire-born former journalist's debut collection of short stories, which also won Salt Publishing's Scott Prize 2011. She has previously had stories published in magazines such as Tears in the Fence, The Warwick Review, and The View From Here. She has also been longlisted/shortlisted in competitions including the Willesden Herald International Short Story Competition, the Short Fiction Competition and Fish Short Story Prize.
- Tessa Hadley. Based in Cardiff, Tessa teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. She reviews regularly for the London Review of Books and the Guardian and was shortlisted for The Story Award in the US. She has also been a judge for the IMPAC literary prize 2011 and for the BBC Short Story Award 2011.
- Sarah Hall. The multi award-winning writer from Cumbria is the author of Haweswater, which won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award, and a Lakeland Book of the Year prize. She has been featured in The Times 100 Best Books of the Decade. This is her first collection of short stories.
- Zoe Lambert. The Manchester-based writer lectures on creative writing at universities across the north-west. She was the founder of cult Manchester literature night, Verberate. The War Tour, her first collection, reflects her work as an active campaigner for asylum seekers by engaging with the experiences of the casualties of war.
- Rowena Macdonald. Smoked Meat is based on the author's time in Montreal working as a waitress, bartender, life-model and cleaner. She now lives in London and works at the House of Commons. Her stories have appeared in anthologies published by Serpent's Tail, Roast Books and The Do-Not Press. She has won two Asham Awards, the 2010 Exeter Writers competition and the 2008 Writers Inc competition.


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In Norse mythology, Odin was the king of the Æsir. He is a god of war and death, as well as a sky god and the god of wisdom and poetry. He is also heavily associated with magic. Odin rides on an eight-legged horse called Sleipnir, and his famous spear is called Gungnir. He also has a precious arm ring called Draupnir, and two ravens called Hugin and Munin who tell him all the things happening around the world. Odin only has one eye, because he sacrificed one to drink from the fountain of wisdom.
Half of the souls of heroes slain in battles will be guided by the Valkyries, battle maidens, to Odin's hall, Valhalla. The other half belongs to the goddess Freyja.
His wives are Frigg and Jord, the Earth. His eldest son is Thor, god of thunder.
Odin would be swallowed by Loki's son, the wolf Fenrir at Ragnarok.
In German, Odin is named Wotan. In older English, Odin is named Woden. It is from that name the weekday Wednesday in English comes from "Wodens day". In old Norse he is named Oden and the weekday Wednesday is today, in Scandinavia, "Onsdag", from "Odens day". Odin sacrificed his eye for wisdom. He threw his eye into a well of wisdom. He also impaled himself to a tree for many days, driving a spear through himself, and discovered runes. He got his wish, wisdom.
Odin was one of the foremost practitioners, along with Freya, of magic known as seidr. In traditional Germanic society a man engaging in seidr was an extremely emasculating act. But such was Odins thirst for knowledge he was prepared to sacrifice his honor and was subject to ridicule thereafter.
Related pages
- Tinia - Etruscan mythology version of Odin.
- Jupiter - Roman mythology version of Odin.


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The St Mawes Hotel is a boutique hotel in the pretty fishing village of St Mawes, voted in the top 100 best beach hotels by the Sunday Times.
With only 7 rooms, each of them offers something unique, from super king beds and under floor heating in the ensuite bathrooms, to freestanding baths and outstanding views across the water to St Anthony's Head.
Some of the rooms are dog friendly too!
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12th Sunday in Ordinary Time. June 25th 2017
Jer 20:10-13; Rom 5:12-15; Mt 10:26-33
Crippling our fears…for a change!
Is it not amazing how we can have so many experiences of God's faithful love for us and still succumb to fears in our daily lives? We are afraid of what people will say or think about us. We are afraid of being rejected, criticized, and persecuted, etc. We are afraid of failing and disappointing loved ones. We are afraid that our efforts will not be appreciated by others. These are only some of the fears that linger in our hearts.
But we don't have to let fear cripple us always. We can actually cripple fear too if we learn the lesson that Jesus offers us in the tenth Chapter of Mathew's Gospel from which today's Gospel is taken. Jesus does not just command us to avoid fear: "Have no fear of them." He also shows us how we can cripple fear itself.
First of all, we must open our hearts and minds to the words that Jesus speaks to us even in the dark and frightening moments of our lives and be ready to echo these words to the world, "What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light." Even in the darkest moments, Our Lord Jesus continues to communicate words of healing, hope, forgiveness, strength to us and these words are not just for us but are meant to be conveyed to all others by our own words and actions even if they have or may reject us, "As you enter the house, salute it. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you."
Secondly, we must live with the conviction that God is so one with us that He knows us very well as well as all that we are going through, "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge. But even the hairs on your head are all numbered." By virtue of the Incarnation, the Word of God has united Himself to every one of us and He shares in all our experiences too except sin. We must live with this conviction that God knows us as well as our past failures, current worries, present strengths, and future achievements as well as all that we are going through presently. In Jesus Christ, God has experienced what we experience today and gives us the grace to follow in His footsteps, "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master…If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they malign those of his household."
Thirdly, we must also live with that conviction that God loves us just as we are and we do not need to pretend to be something or someone else, "Fear not therefore; you are worth more than many sparrows." The frightening moments of our lives is the time when the Spirit of love within us will surely speak to give witness to Jesus Christ, "When they deliver you up, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you."
Lastly, we also live with the conviction that God will surely reward us for whatever good that we do or endure for the sake of Jesus Christ. Jesus, who assures us that "we will be hated by all for His name's sake," also assures us that He will approve us before the face of the Father for what we do for His sake even if the entire world should condemn and criticize us, "So everyone who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven."
The young prophet Jeremiah in today's First Reading is facing the frightening prospect of death at the hands of his people for his prophetic message calling them to submit to the approaching Babylonian force. His friends become his persecutors, "All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine." But he is aware of God's presence with him, "But the Lord is with me, like a mighty champion." He sees his trial as God "testing him and probing his mind and heart." He cripples his fear by praising God, "Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord."
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, our fears overcome and cripple us despite God's amazing blessings in our lives when we begin to doubt God's words and His promises to us. The same words of Jesus that calmed storms and drove out demons are meant to set us free from fear if we listen to them with faith as the words of the Risen Christ and willingly reflect these words to others by our own words and actions. Compromise with the world or seeking to just blend with the crowd only makes our fears increase. Fears cripple us when we see God as distant and uncaring, not knowing us and what we are going through. We are crippled by fears when we doubt God's unconditional love for us and think that we have to do something good to win His love and show others that we are worthy of love. Lastly, fears overwhelm and stifle us in the midst of God's gifts when we are not doing things for the sake of Christ and seeking our rewards from Him alone.
I remember lying down prostrate on the floor as the Litany of Saints was being sung at my priestly ordination. My legs were trembling at the thought of being ordained a Catholic priest. I was thinking, "Am I really ready for this? Would I be faithful to the end? What would people say about me?" Listening to the list of saints being chanted, I pondered how all those saints, beginning with Mama Mary, the Queen of Martyrs, dealt with different forms of fears too. They all faced fears that I could not even imagine: fears from the malice of wicked men and temptations from demons, and fears from their own weaknesses. Their fears did not cripple them but they crippled their fears by "the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony."(Rev 12:11) My fears dispelled as I sensed that hope that divine grace offered by the blood of the Lamb was more than enough for me to follow the footsteps of the saints.
Our Eucharist today as always is a participation in the blood of the Lamb who says to us, "Do not be afraid." The Eucharistic sacrifice is where the God-man, who knows us more than we know ourselves, loves us as we are, shares in our frightening experiences, and assures us that our faithful witness to Him before others will never be in vain.
Let our life of witness be strong by sharing with others His words and fruits of the graces that we receive, by living in that conviction that He knows us perfectly and loves us unconditionally, and that He has assured us of our heavenly reward. This is how we can cripple our fears…for a change.
Glory to Jesus!!! Honor to Mary!!!


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Enjoy the remainder of the Holiday Season.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Small Tree Cloth
Enjoy the remainder of the Holiday Season.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Traditinal Preperations
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Wishes from the Heart
Thursday, December 9, 2010
First Tuesday Post Belated
The border fabrics were purchased in the states a subtle version of red, white and blue.
A serious quilting weekend with friends and the fence rail quilt was almost finished. A binding from the stash and voila!!
A quilted table cloth with enough scraps from enough projects and items of clothing to keep everyone interested.
A special thank you to Natima and Ria for encouraging me and posting with me on First Tuesdays.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
The fabrics are corduroy I used in my maternity clothes and first daughter's early overalls.
The bag was a great size. As evidenced by the wonderfully worn condition.
Memories reflected and altered through use.
My New Carryall.
I made this new bag similar in size to the original. The base is called pet mesh. It's for screen doors. I fell in love with the fabric at a sale.
This one's for me. If time permits maybe a couple more for presents.
The season has officially started.
Baking is much the same for a Summer Christmas.
The difference is fresh fruit with the juice running down your chin.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Saturday Stars
Friday, November 19, 2010
Fortnights Update
Working hard
Finishing off. Yippie!!!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Packed and Ready to Go
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Flowers for All
Roses for all my dear friends.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Bloggers Quilt Festival
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Roses for Afternoon Tea
Recent spinning was merino tops finer spun and softer result.Tweed leaves were an experiment in solar dying. I spun the wool after dying the tops so variations of color blended . I like the incidental accidents.
The pink roses were dye with conchonel .
Very deep purple was logwood.
Knitting this quirky tea cosie was just pure fun.
I didn't need it. We're coffee drinkers.
It gave me a bit of a challenge and I enjoyed the sculptural qualities of the project.
Thanks Nat for posting yours.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Flowers and Shopping
A few 4" nine patch blocks made from the remains of a charm pack.
I'm not sure what I will do with them but something usually comes along.
Speaking of things coming along a visiting shop had a port (school bag) full of fat 8ths. I couldn't resist for some more flowers.
More shopping. OP Shop visits came up with a linen shirt to remake, a hand embroidered dollie to repurpoes and a roll of 2" cotton tape with the 1/4" already pressed.
All these treasures for only $6.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Mid-week Lunch Treat
The shopping mall with lanterns and lions. Just another day in Cabaramatta.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Weekend's Gardening
My purchases from the garden shop yesterday. A few herbs for salads and petunias for some hanging pots.
My favourite type of gardening. Nat's adventures inspired me to take a stab at this lovely knitted garden. All the flowers and leaves are dying experiments from my hand spun wool. I did some of the dying in the 80's and some this century. ha ha The stripy leaves do not have black spot they are just experiments in sun dying tops before spinning and plying.
GS asked me who I was knitting a beanie for? I explained it was called a tea cosie to keep tea warm in a tea pot. Later the same day when DGD asked what I was knitting he responded "It's for she's cup a tea" guess that says it all.
Enjoy whatever your doing this weekend and have a good week
Friday, September 24, 2010
Messing About or That's Not My Vest
The yarn is a plied 2 strands of
hand spun. One a fine black merino and the other a first cross grey over dyed with green.
The vest appeared a week ago Sunday during a clean out of the shed. Amazing what you find!
Close inspection reveals ribbing, seed stitch, basket stitch and garter stitch.
Now this is IMPORTANT stuff . Don't forget it. O.K.?That's NOT my vest.
Where's MY vest???
It's been to the washing machine on hot . I decided that I wasn't going to unpick it for the yarn or it would have already happened so..... Into the machine for felting.
It sure did felt . i.e. shrink in all directions.
The side seam is now 9" instead of 15 "
The patterns I worked so diligently to knit are unrecognisable (mushed together) .
Well what did I expect ? That's what happens when you wash wool at 90 deg. c. for 1/12hrs.
But Wait
That's not my vest!
My vest is green tweed not a pinkie brown.
Since I was felting I threw in the red wool skirt from the op shop.
The little dolls jumper shows the original tweed.
Underneath is the FELTED skirt and a sample of the original color.
At least the over dyed red is reasonably even.
My thoughts on what to do next include more messing about to make a bag.
I'll keep you posted on the search for My Vest.


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It may seem like an oxymoron but communication is the key to robust Information Security practices.
It is standard practice for security and IT professionals to communicate to their customers by proxy through strongly worded policies. These policies are then enforced by Human Resources or Management.
There is a sea change taking place in information technology however. No longer can information security defend the organization by erecting walls around the enterprise and filling the moat with generic policy.
The "consumerization" of the enterprise by the infiltration of mass market technology has lowered the drawbridge and allowed many unauthorized devices and services to stream in and out of the corporate network.
Bruce Schneier discussed this topic in depth via his January 15th 2011 Crypto-Gram Newsletter.
In order for information security to address the rapidly changing IT biosphere, infosec professionals will have to develop and hone the ability to effectively communicate with there customers.
In December 2010, ISC(2), Information Security Forum (ISF) and ISACA released Principles for Information Security Practitioners. A quick glance down the "Principles" column and you will notice how heavily it ties into the strategic goals of an organization.
There is no reference to esoteric security standards, policies or technologies. The entire document could be boiled down to the word Communication.
How you communicate with your internal and external customers is a linchpin in any organization's information technology and security strategy.
Unfortunately, many in the IT and Security profession are poor or inexperienced communicators who have traditionally had layers of management and policy to shield them from actual customer interaction.
Looking at industry trends, these days are numbered, especially if you subscribe to the notion that IT professionals in the U.S. will have to hold significant business skills to remain competitive in the global marketplace.
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At the Paris Founders Event*, held at Google France in Paris in late July, MobileReady launched its mobile app testing platform, which enables fast, efficient testing of applications on a range of devices.
Now that the success of mobile apps is largely dependent on comments and scores which users post on the platforms from which they download them, testing these applications has become an acute problem for the developers. An app often has to be developed for a range of devices – different screen sizes, different brands, different versions of operating systems etc. – so as to reach the largest possible number of people. Testing that all the app functionality works as it has been designed and programmed to do has become a real headache as developers have to choose between automation, crowdtesting, and test simulators – aka 'emulators'. With this in mind, the MobileReady founders have developed an automated service on a range of real mobile devices.
Simplifying and automating the test phase
Based in Rennes in north-west France, MobileReady was set up in April this year by Patrick Demellier, Eric Bustarret and Bruno Sizun. They developed a programme to generate tests simultaneously on a hundred or so mobile devices linked up to a server. MobileReady is now able to provide results on an app's performance in 5 to 10 minutes. "All you have to do is go on to our website, choose the devices you want to test on – type of device, operating system version, etc., plus quantity – and launch a session. The tests will run remotely from our servers, to which the mobile devices are connected," explains Eric Bustarret. The platform simulates user behaviour and provides screen shots to show what is happening on each command. If the app does not work as it is supposed to, the developer will be able to spot exactly which line of code is responsible for the error.
Business model still in the making
There appears to be significant demand for app testing solutions, which also means that there is a lot of competition around in this field. Comparing the MobileReady process with crowdtesting, Eric Bustarret highlights the confidential aspect, which is often very important to brands when they are about to launch an app, and also the speed and ease of the process. He points out that the MobileReady service could actually be used upstream of crowdtesting, given that his price is very competitive. "We charge between €79 and €249 a month," which is far lower than the usual fee for this type of service. Following the launch phase, the entrepreneurs are already planning new paths to growth. First they intend to expand the pool of devices used for testing, which at the moment comprises smartphones and tablets, to Android glasses and other wearables. And next year they are hoping to extend their offering to other iOS devices and web browsers.
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So yesterday I was down on NW 23rd and had some NY pizza. All the seats were taken so eusef and myself started walking. We ended at some stairs to some store and just sat and ate. About ten minutes later some dude passes us and comes back about ten seconds later. He looks at both of us and throws 50 cents down in front of us.
Now I don?t think that I or eusef were dressed as if we were in need of such kindness. I for one was wearing brand new $80 shoes, $80+ watch, and a polo shirt: not exactly the normal dress of one in this need. I had even showered on this particular day. I have always said in order to be successful you must display a level of success but wow.
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Jason Rodeghero Named EIM's Newest Orthopaedic Residency Director As Start of January 2014 Cohort Approaches
January 10, 2014 (Louisville, KY) – Evidence In Motion (EIM) is proud to announce that Jason Rodeghero, PT, DPT, PhD, OCS, ATC, FAAOMPT, has been named Director of the Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency Program, effective immediately.
Dr. Rodeghero, who was serving as the Assistant Residency & Fellowship Program Director and Director of Clinical Mentoring before assuming the role of Orthopaedic Residency Director, has been with EIM since a chance encounter with Dr. John Childs, PT, PhD, MBA, in 2005 where he was encouraged to enroll in an Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy Fellowship. Shortly after completing his Fellowship, he began assisting with EIM coursework and helping Dr. Childs and Dr. Rob Wainner, PT, PhD, with weekend intensive courses.
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Page imagery
Pages within the interactive book are usually made up of extensive imagery. Imagery is used in the backgrounds, in the animations and in the image objects. More images and larger images will mean more memory being consumed when the page is displayed in preview mode (e.g. when running).
Page size
Overall, we typically like to aim for a budget of 20MB of imagery per page, assuming that there is medium to light use of common pages like the index page and master page.
Understanding Memory footprint and imagery/textures.
The iPad cannot directly render compressed images such as png and jpg without decompressing them.
So making a file smaller by making it a png file or jpg file will reduce the size of the final dcb file and hence in turn the final 'on disc' size of the application that people will download. This is good to manage the disk size of an interactive book.
However, it has ZERO bearing on the RAM usage of the image.
The real impact on memory is the dimensions of the images used in Composer. Larger dimensions account for more memory usage regardless of the type of file used.
Examples of common image sizes and their associated impact on memory.
32x32 = 4KB
128x128 = 64KB
256x128 = 128KB
256x256 = 256KB
512x256 = 512KB
512x512 = 1MB
1024x512 = 2MB
1024x1024 = 4MB
2048x1024 = 8MB
2048x2048 = 16MB*
*2048x2048 is the largest texture the iPad can hold.
The iPad stores textures/imagery using the Power of Two (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 and 2048). All the common sizes displayed above are Power of Two sizes.
This is an essential point! Any image that exceeds a Power of Two(POW2) size will use the next largest size when displayed on screen. If you have an image that is 278x523, it will be held internally as a 512x1024 sized image.
This is a due to the way the iPad stores and displays images/textures and is not in our control.
(Technical calculation: To get the RAM used by an image its POW2(X) x POW2(Y) x 4. So in the above example its 512x1024x4 = 2097152bytes. Divide by 1024 to get KB = 2048KB, then divide by 1024 again to get MB = 2MB)
Tips for reducing memory footprint of your interactive book
Tip 0: Focus on a 20 MB page budget where possible
Tip 1: Look for any images that are over a Power of Two size that don't need to be.
For example, if an image is 257x514, then it could possibly be trimmed back to 256x512. The extra 3 pixels (256 + 1 and 512 + 2) have increased the size of the image/texture by 1.5 MB.
Tip 2: Consider using the Background Image
The 'Background Image' that is avaliable to be filled with an image will always use up memory (4MB), regardless of whether it has been used, so make the most of it.
Tip 3: Flatten as many things into one texture as you can
If an object doesn't move and nothing needs to move behind it then make it part of the background texture, if things overlap it you may be able to merge them into 1 texture. Using Layers in Photoshop is handy and convenient but comes with a large memory cost you cannot afford on the iPad.
Tip 4: Remember animations take up memory as well
An animation object/spinner object holds 2 frames in memory at once. So large animation images will still have an effect on memory. Thus, due to the larger load times on larger files( in dimensions not file size), there may be issues with doing large animations quickly.
Tip 5: Use the transforms effects to move things, not animation.
You should not do movement within the animation frames but use transforms to move something that animates on the spot around where ever possible. Also rotations can be done by the transform system as can fades and scales. This takes up much much less memory.
Tip 6: Split your images up
Ok so all the images are down the smallest you can get them to,but you still have a large overhang of 280->512 what can you do?
Take the example above of 278x523. Now we know that this will expand in memory to 512x1024 = 2MB.
However, if we split it into 4 images, the situation changes.
Consider images A, B, C and D arranged like so
Image A = 256x512 = 512KB
Image B = 32x512 = 64KB
Image C = 256x16 = 16KB
Image D = 32x16 = 2KB
Total: 594KB. This saves 1454KB of memory for the exact same image!
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Dan (Official Rep) October 05, 2011 13:55
Memory management
VERY Useful!! Thanks.
What about the amount of behaviors & Physics used? Have you noticed this having much bearing on performance? Example: 5 behaviors applied to one trigger object as opposed to 1 behavior.
Dan (Official Rep) October 06, 2011 05:52Behaviours are trivial on cost, they take like 50bytes and no time to do.
Physics is a totally different beast, Physics will give a bit of a performance drop but it scales on how many objects you have. Collisions are the expensive bit, so if you have 20 objects moving without touching each other that will be fine, but if they all hit each other at once then you will see the frame rate drop a little. As long as you don't go crazy with it (100s of objects ) you should be fine.
Great to know also! This kind of useful info would be great featured somehow... like top ten facts before starting or something. Maybe a blog entry? So it will be easy to find later. Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add the memory management tips as a blog post on our website.
As I had done in Not Without Bear, in my new app I was creating an image for each word in my text so when the user touches the word the highlighted version would show and then hide again while the word is spoken. The process of getting each word in the exact spot was a bit tedious, so this time instead of cropping around each word I was leaving it in a frame the same size as the text block. Each image was still only 8 KB and all the blocks could be placed in the same x, y position. Much easier and I thought I had a great solution!
But I was running into memory problems. As Dan explains above, even though all that space around each word was transparent, it still calls on the same amount of memory. My blocks were 905 by 265 pixels, so they EACH used 2 MB of RAM!
Unfortunately, I'm back to the tedious placement, but fortunately I know the cause of my problem. Watch those pixel dimensions!
If you break up images into pieces to make more efficient use of memory will they move well together...as a unit?
I'm thinking about that flickering problem on the bike scene. According to the calculations here, if I had broken that 1536 x 768 background image into 4 sections (1024 x 512, 512 x 512, 1024 x 256 and 512 x 256) it would have taken just over 4.5 MB of RAM instead of 8MB. Right? Would that have worked better?
Things to keep in mind for next time...
Dan (Official Rep) October 30, 2011 05:20It will save you RAM but to get all of them to move you will need to do 4 MoveToX.
So before you said Move Image From 0 to -512
You would need to do Move Image1 from 0 to -512, Move Image2 from 1024 to 512, move Image3 from 0 to -512, Move Image4 from 1024 to 512.
This will be easier in V2 as you will be able to do Move Image1 by -512 Move Image2 by -512, move Image3 by -512 and move Image4 by -512 saving you some maths ;)
This won't avoid the flicker issue you had but will make the book lighter and faster ;)
Another interesting idea to aid memory management: http://getsatisfaction.com/demibooks/...
It would be great if objects that were spliced up can then be grouped together and that group has its own ID. Therefore, not only can the group be manipulated in behaviors, but the individual pieces still can to. (It makes me think of a Flash Movie clip.)
Dan (Official Rep) August 13, 2012 16:24Grouping is something we have looked out, the major hurdle as with most of these features is the UI on the iPad to handle them. But we are looking at it, make life sooooooooooooooo much easier.
Also, since I do game development, I'm used to putting a lot of art into one texture file. Are there plans to have Composer be able to mask/crop an image so that a person can really manage the memory since they can possibly just load one file that contains all the static art content?
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When I first saw Composer Pro, there was an obvious game developer's feel to the app. In fact, that's what makes the Composer app family such a "game changer".....get it? Sorry, too much sugar at lunch. Anyways, I think that's why developers from industries outside of interactive books are so drawn to Composer Pro. You just can't do some of these things with any other app. It's the game-style physics that really puts Composer in a category of its own. Bringing a gamer developer's workflow like Sprite Sheets to Composer would really catch the attention of a whole new industry.
Dan (Official Rep) May 30, 2013 05:42Yeah I worked at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Cambridge Studio for 6 years making games for Sony PS2, PSP and PS3
The engine under the UI supports Sprite Sheets ( that is how we did the massive rocket ship in Astrojammies, also makes the spinner smoother ). The main issue I have had is in exposing it, how do I get people to pack their textures such that frames are stored in dimensions that are compatible with Base2 fractions. Aka 0.1 in Base2 horrible never ending number 0.32 perfect, able to represent exactly. And then how do you enter the Frame data. Drag a point with your finger? This needs to be done to the texel, 4/8 entry boxes that let you enter the UVs per frame? How do I explain UV Space? For My Mum is the best app I did some custom work which I'm thinking of brining over to Composer where you can pack textures. This allows you to make an animation object that show part of a texture. You then link N objects together so when 1 animates they all do. This allows things like the birds page to be done with 1 512x512 and a 128x128 texture per frame for the whole screen. Building the textures is a lot of work though. Niki has some super expensive tool that lets her do it with a click of the button though.
Does audio count as part of the 20MB per page? In other words, if a sound effect is fairly long and thus has a high amount of MB or KB, would that number need to be factored into the 20MB amount?
Dan (Official Rep) April 08, 2013 05:46Audio is streamed. So the Apple system will make a small buffer and fill it when needed. As a mp3,acc et al needs to be decoded into a wav before it can be played, so a 3MB mp3 would be a 30MB wav file. But it will only use say 128KB at one time.
If you have a couple of audio objects 2~3 you don't need to worry about audio. If you have a lot playing at the same time, 5~10 then you might need to factor in about a 1MB for it.
If I import a 256x256 image but I expand it in the story so it is almost the entire iPad screen - is the memory management for the image still 256KB or does it increase as I make the image bigger?
Dan (Official Rep) April 29, 2013 05:50RAM is consumed by how big the original file is, not how big it is shown. So it's still 256KB.
I did not follow this rule at first, and (not surprisingly) my DCB was big and sluggish at 125MB. I went in and reviewed each and every asset, and reduced them to fit within a Power of Two rule whenever possible. Then I zipped all the new assets, re-imported, and revised the DCB. Over 200 assets were brought down into dimensions of 512, 256, 128, 64 or 32.
However... The DCB is still showing 123MB which surprises me, after all that reduction. Maybe it'll be different as a build? I don't know. But I do hope all that work paid off in terms of memory. I changed so much, I was expecting a big impact on the total DCB size.
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Dan (Official Rep) June 15, 2013 07:07When you map an animation with a zip file, it unpacks the zip and adds all the files to the books area. Then adds those files to animation object. When you delete an animation object it doesn't delete the assets. So if you want to bring in a lot of assets at once. Make a zip, map an animation object with it, then delete the animation object. And that will bring in a lot of assets in one step.
Dan (Official Rep) June 15, 2013 07:10If the new files have the same name as the old ones, it will just overwrite and the new assets will be used automatically ( you may need to jump to another page and back in workbench for it to update the current page ). If they have new filenames you will need to update the objects, selecting the new assets from the book's container in the menus.
Dan (Official Rep) May 28, 2013 05:53You are mixing up RAM usage and File size.
A PNG or JPG can and will store just to the pixel. So if you shave off 3 pixels here and there you will drop a tiny bit of file size.
You will have halved to quartered your RAM usage in the app though.
Hmmmm.... Just an observation, but did anyone notice that Dan always starts a numbered list with zero? Definitely a programmer thing.
Dan (Official Rep) May 30, 2013 05:22Yup true programmer, Oh this should go first... rename all the numbers... to much work 0 - There I fixed it!
Is the 4MB of Background Image included in the 20MB image budget per page? That would mean we really only have 16MB considering the 4MB Background Image is always used regardless.
Dan (Official Rep) May 30, 2013 05:26Yes and No.
If you share the same texture across the 3 pages in RAM, then you only pay for it once. not 3 times. So don't need to factor it into the 20MB.
If you use the same one across all pages then ignore it.
If it is unique to each page, since you would have one anyway you are no worse off so you don't need to worry about it.
If you pages are heavy on assets. having 2 different ones ( on adjoining pages ) will place a load on resources ( As it needs to load it before the next page is shown, both will be in RAM for a brief moment ) you will need to consider its impact.
Thanks for this useful explanation. Now let's back to work! I'm still in the learning curve of this app hoping to do my first interactive book. Thanks.
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Using the list Dan posted at the top of this thread, it appears that the following screen shot of an Excel I am using to keep track of page memory would be correct. Can you please double check my work so I will know if I can use this strategy
for the rest of my pages.
The yellow cell (16L) is 1,792 divided by 1,064.
Dan (Official Rep) February 26, 2014 05:30You need to divide by 1024 not 1026.
So Animation objects only hold 2 frames at once.
So background 4MB
Rain 1MB
2 peakcock anim frames 4mb
body 512KB
candle = 512+512+128 = 1mb + 128KB
sun = 128kb
= 10mb + 512 + 128 + 128
= 10mb + 768KB
Hi Dan - Thanks for this. Now that I have had time to look at it - question - You said animation objects only hold 2 frames at once. Does that mean that even though I have loaded five animation images into the interactivity of the page, only two of the images are factored into the total page memory for the purpose of keeping a page under 20MB.
So for example, If I had 4 animation images and they were each 1 MB (for a total of 4mb). There effect on page memory would only be 2mb?
Dan (Official Rep) March 10, 2014 08:57correct.
How large would 328x327 be? Would it be 512KB? 1MB? Somewhere in between?
Dan (Official Rep) May 02, 2014 16:55that will use a 512x512 which is 1MB
Thanks Dan! Another question....If I am using the same graphic twice on a page do I need to count it twice for memory purposes? Or does it only count once? Thanks!!!


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You can throw just about any object you can pick up into your inventory. To throw press t, followed by the item letter and then a direction. Alternatively, quiver the item using Q, then fire the item with the f command.
Throwing weaponsEdit
- Throwing weapons at monsters is a good strategy to use, especially when facing monsters with a passive attack. Daggers have a bonus to hit and thus are good throwing weapons. Other ranged weapons with this bonus include darts and spears.
- You can also throw arrows and crossbow bolts, but they are more effective when fired from a bow or crossbow. (See to-hit.)
- Those of sufficient skill or who meet certain other conditions may be able to throw (or fire) multiple weapons in one turn. (See multishot.)
- A boomerang will circle around and return to you when thrown, which allows it to hit several monsters (and possibly you as well).
- The artifact weapon Mjollnir requires a strength of 25 to throw. If thrown by a Valkyrie, it will usually return to her hand.
- A greased item may slip when attempting to throw it, resulting in the object falling to the ground or sending it flying towards a random direction.
- You can't throw a cursed weapon that has welded itself to your hand.
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- Whatever effect the potion has when you breathe its vapors will be the effect when a monster is hit by it. For example: throwing a potion of blindness at a monster will cause it to go blind, if the monster can go blind. Similarly, throwing a potion of healing at your pet can be used to heal it. Thrown potions are generally less effective than quaffed potions.
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- Monsters can and will throw harmful potions at you, so be careful when leaving potions on the ground or they might be used against you later. Knowing this can help identify potions that are thrown at you. The potions that monsters like to throw are paralysis, blindness, confusion, sleeping and acid.
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- Warning: If you are adjacent to the location where you throw the potion, you may still receive its effect from the vapors.
Throwing gemsEdit
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Throwing moneyEdit
- Throwing your money away might keep it out of the greedy hands of a leprechaun, allowing you to retrieve it later.
- Throwing gold at the guard when he asks for all of it generates the message "That should do. Now beat it!" but has the same outcome of dropping it.
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- Throwing a cream pie at a monster can blind it. The Keystone Kops like to throw these pies at you.
- Throwing an egg will cause it to break. A thrown cockatrice egg can turn a creature to stone if the target is vulnerable to petrification. There is a luck penalty for breaking eggs that you have laid with the #sit command.
- Throwing a clove of garlic at an undead creature might scare it.
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- Throwing the iron ball from punishment while it is still chained to you will pull you along in that direction for up to 4 squares, but beware using this method to cross water - the ball will travel 5 squares, and if it lands in water, you will be pulled down into the water with it. If you have an iron ball it is worth throwing at enemies for its considerable damage and bonus to hit.
- Giants can throw boulders, therefore you can throw boulders if polymorphed into a giant.
- Throwing anything straight up in the air will cause it to hit you on the head, potentially fatally. This is especially true at staircases. Wear protective headgear, or just don't do this.
- If in an undesirable polymorph, however, this "fatal" damage may be a good thing.
- Throwing while levitating will propel you in the opposite direction. Be careful: when propelled back into a wall you will take damage, even if you are right against the wall.
- Throwing things downwards acts as dropping it except fragile items will be broken
- Throwing other objects might have special effects. Give it a try!
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