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, at the entrance to the "Svizzera Pesciatina" and a great starting point for naturalistic routes in the Valleriana area, is the first of 10 "castella", old fortified villages on the mountains which frame Pescia.
Even if there are only few traces of the antique castels, going along the steep narrow roads of these small villages and looking among the houses, on the doors of access, in the parishes and at the stone fountains is particulary evocative. Furthermore, the road which links these antique villages crosses beautiful landscapes, it goes through chestnut woods, forests and steep terraces of olivegroves.
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The annual Youth Art Contest will be held during Art in our Park at the Zumbrota Area Art Council's (ZAAC) booth on Saturday, June 16 and Sunday, June 17, 2018 during Zumbrota's Covered Bridge Music and Arts Festival.
Artwork can be dropped off at Flowers On Main (345 S. Main St., Zumbrota, MN, 507-732-5599) during business hours or by arranging for pick-up by calling Candy at 507-843-4320.
The youth art will be displayed in the ZAAC booth at Art in our Park on June 16 from 10 a.m – 4 p.m. and June 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Three local art judges will assess the art and determine award winners. The art will also be judged by the public who pass through the ZAAC booth to determine a People's Choice Award winner. The monetary rewards will be: Pre-k through grade 4, $25; grades 5-8, $50; grades 9-12, $50, and the People's Choice Award – $75. A single artist may win two prizes, one in their grade category plus the People's Choice Award.
After the People's Choice Award votes are counted at the end of the Festival and the winner is determined, the winner's artwork will be pictured on the publicity for next year's Covered Bridge Music and Arts Festival. The publicity includes posters, newspaper advertisements, and postcards.
All award winners will have their artwork and their picture submitted to area newspapers to be published.
Please include an application with each entry- youth artists can submit 3 pieces of art.


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Building and Progressing
Our goal is to educate anyone involved in mountain activities to understand the variables in mountain environments which can greatly challenge how the human physiology performs. When these are understood, then we can build a a training program using variables related to adapting to the mountain environments. It is a simple perspective, yet a challenge because of the vast number of variables and the complexity of the ones involved. By building a foundation through this training, we can find which variables tend to be the greatest limitations for them, then apply strategic training methods to increase adaptability. The complexity of the adaption can range of inadequate contractile capabilities of the muscular system to breathing rhythms while sleeping. Strategically assessing the cause then using the correct modality to address the issue are the key components to maximizing the alpine power of our clientele.
Don't Disappoint the Mountain Guides
A mountain guide is one of the more challenging roles on the planet. Yes, from the many pictures posted and life in the mountains it holds its owns personal pleasure of enjoyment. Yet they are working with people daily who often are focused solely on their own selfish desires to reach the summit of the mountain. For this, they deserve our gratitude and respect. Now, let's work to begin changing this issue.
Below you see a list of some of the complaints voiced from mountain guides over the years and continue to do so behind the scenes and only when asked specifically to the challenges they experience with clients. These are directly related to physical and mental preparation while many others could be added but are laughable and inexcusable. We need to be diligent and respectful in preparing ourselves to meet what mountain guides hope from us and possibly would like to expect from us.
Basically, clients are way under prepared for the endeavor. Knowing these are regular issues and becoming more prevalent, lets take the step forward as their customers into being a higher level of climbers by preparing our bodies and our minds for how embarking on a journey up a mountain should be experienced.
The first step is to determine your current condition through a strategically designed assessment mimicking what could be experienced on the mountain and route you have chosen. From the information, create a training plan to continue to improve conditioning while strengthening any weakness in the motor system and skill set. Reassess every 8 weeks to be sure your training plan is progressing the way you project.
If we can take on this role to make the mountain guide role a better experience, we all have the opportunity to experience life up high and greater moments. We also feel the benefit of elated mountain guides who are no longer disappointed in their work experience.
Is your mountain fitness program limited in its ability to adapt your body to the mountain environment?
Wandering and exploring new paths in the mountains continues to increase in great numbers. With the intrigue comes the normal issues of humans not being prepared for what they may encounter. Exposure. Wildlife. Hypoxia. However, a larger equation is often the most overlooked either because of ignorance, assumption of capability, or pure ego. The equation of human adaptability to mountain environments.
Often the only concern is acclimatization and cardiovascular fitness, but both have many variables regularly missed in training as well as many other important factors. Acclimatization is the process of the body altering its internal environment to being more sustainable in the reduced availability of oxygen of the external environment. Cardiovascular fitness also alters the inner world with an improved metabolic state to feed the energy requirements from the demands of activity. With the changes, the body maintains a more homeostatic inner world to sustain life in the new external environment. Note the word sustain. Sustain does not mean thrive. So what other variables may be important to assess and address in mountain environments?
One may be lung volume, meaning how much air you can breathe in and especially breathe in over time while walking up an incline such as a mountain. If you cannot breathe an optimal and similar volume of air with each breath over time, then your brain begins to require your muscles to drive more breaths to make up for the reduction in respiration volume. As you can imagine, the demand for more breaths can increase stress on your muscular system impeding forward motion. When this turn occurs, the heart rate can increase from the added demands necessary to deliver nutrients to the muscle tissue's increased requirements. The individual can also begin to feel ill and lightheaded from the stress response from these increased demands. By using a spirometer in training much like many do with a heart rate monitor, an individual can determine through regular measurements how their training is affecting their breathing. Some training may have a negative response to breathing leading to undesired training effects.
Another major issue is the vast majority of those active in the mountains have inadequate metabolisms to handle the needs of activity in mountain environments. Matching cardiovascular training to the metabolism needed for human adaptation to the demands of the mountain is key to creating a fitness foundation. Knowing most mountain activities are slow in nature with brief rounds of high demand activity and seeing so many individuals using sugars and carbs as their primary fuel to maintain energy, the curiosity leads to thoughts of this not being the optimal path. Using quick sources of energy regularly to maintain forward motion can impede constant progress because we should be using a fuel for recovery rather than trying to maintain our perception of energy through bursts. One would think using a source of fuel matching the activity's demands would make more sense. How does one go about altering their state to using a long-term source of fuel, such as fat? The two key variables are training at a low heart rate zone to keep out of the anaerobic state and doing the activity after a long period of not eating, such as first thing in the morning. Following these training periods with higher fat meals rather than trying to restore depleted glycogen stores and repeating this pattern with most of the overall fitness program, the individual's system adapts to the new conditions and uses a more fat-adapted metabolic state over time. The newly efficient metabolism can carry the individual further into the mountains without the constant need to ingest quick energy sources.
The final variable impacting a human's ability to adapt to mountain environments is how much strength they can maintain after going up because after all, they must go back down. The simplest way to assess this without going up a mountain is to choose closely related strength training exercises to what may be expected and performing them in a typical training session. When completed the individual should go straight to an extended cardiovascular exercise also matching typical mountain conditions such as carrying a 30-pound pack up an incline for around an hour, then immediately returning to the previously performed strength exercises at the same weights performed. This can be expected to take around 2 hours depending on the variables. If the individual cannot match at least 80% the same strength performance, then more training is required to become more adapted to the mountain environment. The real challenge in doing this correctly is the knowledge of exercise and the ability to strategize the optimal assessment matching the goal for the individual.
With these three assessment tools, one can begin to reduce the challenge for a larger population trying to adapt to mountain environments. The basic fitness assessment of fitness centers and progression training in cross fit gyms do not match the needs of all humans trying to adapt and thrive in mountain environments although their principles are vital in parts of the training protocol. We need to look deeper into the human adaptation to mountain environments and be more creative in finding ways in how we assess and address our adaptation.
The Goals in our Perspective
The goals of our programming:
Everyone has their bias on their diet and what they are willing to sacrifice for the goals and their well-being. In looking at what is for each individual, three major variables must be assessed. The first is you. What are you willing to do to accomplish your goals without sacrifice your health? What do we mean? Well, the three major macronutrients (carbohydrate, proteins and fats) all play similar and different roles in our internal biochemical lives in addition to how the taste in our mouths. All three can be used as energy, but only two are involved in growth, repair and development. Do you know which ones? To bias toward merely an energy source is potentially detrimental to the internal human processes. Are you will to allow your body to regularly break itself down without the proper building block to rebuild?
Second, the requirements to ingest carbohydrate constantly to maintain an energy level required by the activity can be quite challenging. To move toward a fat biased diet allows for fewer meals and a more constant energy level. This can offer two huge benefits. One is being able go longer without needing a break for rest or food, and your body maintains the constituents necessary to maintain a healthy physiological system negating the prior issue of your body breaking down.
The final variable is digestion of each macronutrient. As many know, carbohydrates break down and absorb quickly while fats, or lipids, take more time. So if you choose the fat path, then time must be taken in shifting toward this preference to allow the body to accommodate the change. Just like we have to train our cardiovascular and muscular system, we need to train our metabolic system to adapt to a new stress. Many chemical reactions take place to adjust to the demands of the metabolic world and efficiency is key long term.
With these three perspectives on fat or carb intake, I assume you see the bias. Fat plays a role in keeping the body healthy in the growth and repair department, but also in the high available energy need of mountain activities. The only challenge you need to take on is training your body to adjust to the needs of fat metabolism.
The excitement of climbing heightens the good feels all over. The feeling of the possibility of something going wrong does the opposite. How does your nervous system respond to such polarizing differences. Some of us may perceive to be handling it all just fine, but when the measurements are taken a different story is told. So what is really happening? The individual may very well be doing fine and complete their summit bid without a hitch, but there could also be an underlying issue leading to a risky situation for everyone if left unaddressed over a long expedition.
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is our first warning system telling us the body is responding positively or negatively to a stressor or several stressors. Our ANS is always doing this, but if the stressor or stressors are too great the body may react negatively. The stressors from outside can effect any of the body systems. The 4 focused on at Mountain Fitness Research are cardiovascular, pulmonary, digestive and muscular. These systems are used at a higher level in mountain environments to accommodate the need and can push the other systems to compensate when they are not able to keep up with the demand and in turn pinging the ANS to respond in survival mode. If the ANS could be monitored prior to train the body to adapt to the mountain environment to a higher level, then the success of enjoying the journey would be increased.
By taking a look at measuring the ANS via heart rate variability, we can see trends of how our body reacts to the stress of training and recovering over extended periods of time. This can be very valuable as you work through your training cycles or recover from challenging days in the gym or training on a mountain. Knowing how your ANS responds to these stressors lets you know what to expect prior to your summit bid. It will also let you know if you system is going beyond what it normally handles in the particular situation. This does not mean you cannot or should not do what you are doing. It merely means you should know how your system is dealing with it.
Many are often initially shocked on ow much of a mess their system is in. If we take a step back, we will see our daily choices in training and diet may be what is really a mess and can be easily adjusted to match the needs of your body in training levels. We often ping our thresholds more than necessary to see how far we can go, but over time this can become a chronic issue your system no longer wants to manage. This is the value of using heart variability to maximize how we perceive to be handling the training and adjust accordingly. To learn more about heart rate variability, please visit eliteHRV.com.
Generally speaking, the process of pronation and supination is falling forward in pronation and preventing the fall in supination. This is repeated in gait to have locomotion.
However locomotion on an incline shortens the falling forward gait, while a decline lengthens the falling forward gait. Both require great precision in placement of the limb and greater load on muscles in propelling the body up and preventing it from falling too far forward.
Going up means muscles involved in propelling upward must generate more force, while going down means muscles must prevent falling over a greater range of motion. The weakness of these tissues is often the prominent reason going down is more dangerous. There is general fatigue, but having these tissues doing all the extra work requires a specific perspective in training in keeping them strong on the ascent and descent.
The muscles groups generally involved in pronation, or placing the body in a forward fall, include trunk flexors, hip flexors, hip rotators, hip adductors, knee flexors, shoulder protractors, adductors, and depressors and elbow flexors. The muscle groups generally involved in supination, or propelling the body or preventing the forward fall, include trunk extensors, hips extensors, hip abductors, knee extensors, shoulder retractors, abductors, and elevators, and elbow extensors. As you may notice, trunk rotation and trunk side bend are not listed. This is due to their involvement in both motions during gait. Also, in the various different climbing steps, these can switch places.
Knowing these areas of the body and generally how they are involved in moving us forward offers us insight in how to train them. Some may bias toward precision motion training while others may need training in producing greater force output over time.
Breaking down the parts of the sum to train is the focus we take during the off season or for beginners trying to find how their body handles this new environment. When the parts are strong, then we move into compound motions involving the sum of the parts we put together from the previous training period.
The Three Minor Principles
Inflammation and Elimination are components of ridding the body of byproducts. Elimination occurs in four paths: exhalation, urination, perspiration and bowel movements. Each of these can be greatly effected by factors existing in the three major principles. If a challenge exists, then stress on the system can increase in trying to compensate removal of the waste products. When excess byproducts buildup due to an inability to eliminate them, then inflammation can occur. This one path to inflammation is of great concern because it is often the symptom trying to be addressed in mountain environments.
Thoughts and Beliefs play a role in everyday life, but they are multiplied when participating in mountain activities. If confidence is lacking in the physical self doubt can creep in to achieving a summit bid. Another reason the three major principles exist at the top.
History and Environment are variables only capable of changing over time with experience. When the hard earned time does exist, then this principle can override all the others because confidence in the ability to fight off whatever may be a hindrance is easily overcome. For the majority of us, this stays as a minor principle until we have achieved BA status.
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The Three Major Principles
Nutrition and digestion is a constant assessment of food intake and autonomic balance. The training involves regular measurement of heart rate variability and monitoring of bowel movements, urination and perspiration. Knowing the state of the body and what the body is eliminating offers a good perspective on what may need to be addressed in future nutrition and training planning.
Mechanics and Resistance is how your body is moving through specific training motions. This includes the quality of the path traveled and with what force it is able to generate in the path. If either is limited, then the quality of the muscular system may be compromised. If so, the possibility of it causing limitations in the previous two principles is high.
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What is Mountain Fitness Research?
First we must ask, "What is fitness?" Here are some definitions taken from various dictionaries. Since fitness is a state or quality of being fit, then we must define what does it mean to be fit? Here are a few definitions of fit:
•Adapted to an end or design
•Adapted to the environment so as to be capable of surviving
•Put into a suitable state: made ready
•Being in such a state as to be ready or seem to be ready to do or suffer something
•Sound physically and mentally
Now, let's take a look at the definition of a mountain. Mountains are defined as Large land forms stretching above surrounding land in limited areas, typically forming peaks and varying weather conditions.
So having mountain fitness would be defined as follows:
The ability to adapt to mountain environments so as to be capable of a high state of human performance and efficiency.
At Mountain Fitness Research, we then investigate or experiment aiming at the discovery and interpretation of facts, revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts, or practical application of such new or revised theories or laws (according to Merriam-Webster) in the ability to adapt to mountain environments so as to be capable of a high state of human performance and efficiency.


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(Sangar News)Baloch National Front (BNF) central spokesperson said in a statement released on 27 April 2017, that the killing of previously abducted Master Baitullah and four others in a staged encounter, is a defeat of Pakistani army and an act of gruesome war crimes. Pakistan is striving to hide it's defeat by committing such heinous crimes in Balochistan.
Today, Pakistani security forces dumped five dead bodies of previously abducted persons after severe inhumane torture, in Mandig River in Hozai area of Mand district Kech, Balochistan.
Later, the dead bodies have been identified as, Master Baitullah, a teacher and central committee member of Baloch National Movement (BNM), abducted by Pakistani security forces on 17th June 2015 from Goburd area of Mand district Kech, Sabir Ghulam Mohammad a young student, abducted on 16th November 2016, Jasim Raheem was abducted six months before from Gomazi area of Tump district Kech, Asif Master Anwar and Majid Majeed aka Noroz, were abducted from Mand district Kech.
In Fact, on 17th June 2017, the abduction of Baitullah had been officially claimed by Frontier Corps (FC) spokesperson in print and electronic media.
After being defeated by Baloch freedom fighters, Pakistan army's retaliation on innocent civilians and killing of previously abducted persons in staged encounters is a desperate attempt to hide it's consternation.
Even though, Pakistani state's controlled bias media and so called civil society organizations blindly believe Pakistan army's false statements, but every individual in Balochistan is aware that how Pakistan is desperately using deceitful tactics to hide its crimes against humanity in Balochistan.
BNF further added, the custodial killings of missing persons in Balochistan is not something new. Pakistani forces have killed thousands and dumped their bodies in different places in different times under it's infamous 'Kill and dump' policy. Recent killings of BNM member Baitullah and others, is the continuation of the same policy.
BNF spokesperson emphasized the fact that Pakistani establishment sooner or later will accept that it cannot sustain the occupation on Balochistan by the use of excessive military force, because it's unnatural and against Baloch interests.
BNF spokespersons, ended the statement by appealing to the international institutions to have the primary responsibility to stop human rights violations in Balochistan and play their role to stop the killing of Baloch people by Pakistani security forces.


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Suzanne Golden studied Illustration in Leeds, going on to live in London for 15 years, her career was focused on arts business management, but she always maintained artistic vision and creative drive with the upkeep of sketch books and curating exhibitions and events. Suzanne now lives and works in Nottingham. She is Deputy Director of Backlit Gallery.
Suzanne Golden sketches people and everyday objects, her style manipulates perspective and scale resulting in a unique style . She is interested in the progression of a drawing and how it can be transcribed and reinterpreted onto different materials.


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'Perfection' has been quite a journey a 2 1/2 year one, to be exact. How did it come together?
It's actually a longer journey than that but it did take us 2 1/2 to finish principal photography. After the script was nominated for Best Screenplay by The IFP Independent Film Projects in New York which is a wonderful resource for first time directors, my producer Annette Murphy and I had several meetings with production companies that all liked the project but no one was willing to actually show us the money so we decided to just start shooting with whatever resources we had on the weekends. We were very lucky to put together an amazing and talented cast and crew who all showed up for the love of this project, we were very rich in that way. The IFP came on board again as we were involved in their rough cut labs and I was awarded The Adrienne Shelly female directing grant which helped finish our principle photography.
What responses have you had from self-injury groups, and people who have had extensive cosmetic surgery)?
Early on at one of our fundraiser's in Los Angeles, Dr. Tonja Krautter a therapist who specializes with self harm and recovery from other self destructive disorders was very kind to come and speak about the behavior. She donated her time, resources and even wrote us a check at one point and finally when the film was finished and we screened at The San Francisco International Women's film festival Tonja came along with four of her collages and not only did they enjoy the film, they felt like it touched on many complicated issues that can only be beneficial for all audiences to see.
I didn't find the self harming scenes particularly graphic. Was that intentional?
That's interesting? a lot of people have been very uncomfortable with the one scene where Kristabelle is cutting on camera and of course it is fake. I was not interested in glamorizing or minimizing the behavior, I wanted to be truthful and after that one scene people get the point, if they want more than maybe it's a slasher movie they rather be watching? That's not what this is.
When I saw the mirror scene the first thing that came to mind was 'Georges Franju's 'Eyes Without a Face' I've never seen the full film, but I've seen clips. Yet the mirror imagery conjured up that film. The main character Christiane is horribly disfigured in a car accident, and she has to wear a mask to cover up her disfigurement while her father who is a doctor tries to restore her features, by grafting the skin of young beautiful women onto his daughter's face, only for the new tissue to be rejected, and she has to keep wearing this mask. In Perfection Kristabelle's face in that moment seems disembodied, a face transplanted and grafted onto a mirror whilst walking across the room. Have you seen the film? It has it's own themes of youth, beauty and perfection.
No, I have not seen the film but it sounds interesting.
Did the film give you chance to portray a different side of Los Angeles, one that is rarely seen in cinema?
(for example a change from the film noir/transient/waitress/actress waiting to be discovered)
As I am from Los Angeles I often think about how many people come to LA to create their "idea" of who they want to be. It has that freedom in a strange way but for me, it is a place of many mixed memories and I guess that's the beauty of filmmaking in that this is one of my perceptions that I got to capture for a moment, well, 85 mins.
The interior shots appear quite claustrophobic, it really highlights their living space and the tightly bound relationship of Sally and Kristabelle.
Absolutely! I tend to do this with my writing, I put characters on top of each other and make them fight for their space.
The Mother Sally (played by Robyn Peterson) has a certain 'faded old Hollywood glamour' Is she based on anyone you've encountered whilst living, and working in Los Angeles or even in New York?
Besides my own mother, yes! They are everywhere with amazing stories and sadly dying off too soon.
Why did you make the Simon character (played by British Actor David Melville) a British Stand up comedian?
I based Simon on a wonderful British man living in Los Angeles who is one of the funniest people I know. Also, it just really worked in terms of who could realistically "get" Kristabelle? He would have to have his own demons but a silly sweetness for her to feel safe.
The Damned feature in the soundtrack. Were they a big musical influence whilst growing up?
When I was a teenager I was in Love with Dave Vanian, the lead singer and really just loved their music so much that when it became time to figure out what Kristabelle liked it was a no brainer. Captain Sensible, the guitar player of The Damned came to our screening in Los Angeles, they happened to be on tour and he showed up at The Egyptian Theatre to come see the film. It was such an honor to meet him, the sweetest man and we took tons of pictures with him, such a good sport!
Apart from money. When making their first feature. What are the most important things that a Director needs?
A story they feel passionate enough about that they will do anything to see it realized even if it takes 5 to 10 years! I was very lucky in that I was gifted with so much starting with my cast, crew and everyone person I came in contact with felt my passion and honestly wanted to see me archive this goal. People really do want to be a part of something that is creative and we had a lot of fun in the process. Post was another story, not as fun but again, people came out of the woodwork to help and I was incredibly fortunate.
You said in the question and answer session that you're not a feminist as you don't like labels, but you have many feminist beliefs. Do you find that distributors, and programmers have their own ideas of how to market your film, and target a demographic of who should see it. That has to be a hindrance in terms of finding a wider audience.
I honestly do not know how distributors and programmers see Perfection? The festivals we were accepted in only expressed their interest by accepting the film or not. In Mississippi where we won Best Narrative feature, the jury wrote a beautiful statement about my vision and talents of the entire production which of course felt great and with our distribution that is yet to be seen. I think finding an audience is not necessarily the problem, we have had nothing but positive feedback everywhere we have screened it's a lot of other factors, especially in the states as "independent" films are not what they used to be and it's all about being the flavor of the month/festival year. That is not our story but after accepting a lot of rejection I am happy to say that i made the film I wanted to make and very grateful to everyone involved.
What's next for Perfection in terms of screenings, and release dates?
As I mentioned, we do not have distribution yet but will be having another screening in London on the 25th of February at The Sanctum Soho Hotel.
And Algerian Tap dancing muggers???
Yes, I am writing to you now from Paris where my next project, Expecting Grace is set. It is a dark romantic comedy in development.
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Notes from a Question & Answer Session – Rio Cinema, London.
Christina remarked that the film timeframe of the 1990s was important due to it being pre internet that's why Kristabelle is not part of an online community where she meets other sufferers. She is adrift apart from one other sufferer she meets in rehab.
People don't talk about self harmers – 9 times it is childhood abuse, and 10 times sexual abuse.
'Perfection was made as independently as you see. Continuity was a challenge, she lost some of her crew and everyone worked for free.
On making the film 'I came too far to go back'
Christina doesn't label herself a feminist as she doesn't label herself anything but has many feminist beliefs.
'Perfection' is still looking for a distribution and video on demand deal.
Don't let money stop you doing what you want to do.
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Notes from the European E-Commerce (EEC) in Madrid
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Today I had the pleasure to attend the European E-Commerce Conference in Madrid. Overall great keynote speakers!
The whole thing was more USA and Social Media/Digital Marketing oriented and less eCommerce but I think it was good so.
The eCommerce tool is just the commodity and there is not much to talk about. In the other hand, there is much to learn on how to implement eBusinesses that are really successful using the newest of the trends like making eCommerce platforms more mobile, personal, social and local (as described by Google).
From the conference I missed only more questions from the public, I guess spaniards were shy to speak in English (for those who can speak it!).
See below my notes (unedited) from the conference:
Brian Wiegand (CEO Alice.com)
– serial entrepreneur
– important is also to create value for shareholders.
– innovation and passion (reinvent how things are done in the traditional way).
– Bizflings, Nameproject, Jellfish sold to Microsoft.
– CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods).
– Private levels challenges the industry. Retailers are making own products. Best customers are your worst competitors. Private levels growing fast!!!
– Media is changing. 3 to 3000 channels! Media fragmentation. Relationship of suppliers with Retailers not consumers! Consumers hate advertisements. Companies relying in traditional advertising are not getting the sales they use to make.
Responds of suppliers? More and more adds!!! (wrong approach)
– Desintermediation. Manufacturers are the fastest growing segment online.
– Alice.com specialized marketplace. Supplier decides the products. Supplier is the retailer. Suppliers get all the data!
– adding coupons in the future. Free samples.
– free shipping and better prices otherwise why buy online!!!
– Logistics: taking care by suppliers.
Victoria Ransom (Wildfire)
– facebook represent the biggest change to marketing. More than google. Facebook beats google.
– earned, owned, paid media. 3 tips of digital content.
Earned media: 90% trust friend recommendations.
36% becoming fan on FB are more willing to buy!
– more creativity and patience is required to build relationships with FB fans.
– Consumers do engage with brands.
– 3 ways to use FB marketing:
Grow: grow existing audience! cross promotion with newsletter, website. Encourage friends to spread the word. Facebooks ads (give them a reason to click, don't drive people outside of facebook, advertise to friends of fans, check out blog.wildfireapp.com) Do promotions. (keep it simple, photo contest easier than video contest; make it social, price to winner and price to the one that referred to winner; personal! aim peoples interest! Passion!)
Engage: tell (careful with FB algorithm!) ask questions! (u need comments) ask for likes! tap. Quality>quantity. Deals, entertainment (games, quizzes), exclusivity.
Monetize: coupons. Special deal.
Ge Wang (Smule)
– social music.
– what people can do with technology and not the other way around
Clay Bavor (Google)
The evolution of eCommerce (The google perspective)
– 2005 The world was old back then!!
(presentation tips: context related, very good!)
– Trends: mobile, local, social, personal
People love shopping from their phone.
Google goggles. Google shopper. Visual, audio search enhance shopping.
Google product search. Already in France. Soon in other European countries. email@example.com
– How to evolve: bet on the Internet, be found, try new formats (sitelinks), optimize for mobile, be social, personalize, get local.
– Google shopper. Visual, audio search enhance shopping.
Tom Ryan (CEO of Threadless)
– DIY day every quarter. Pitch of ideas.
-build a community better of what people are already doing.
– 3 groups: artists, recommendations, buyers.
– Act human: authenticity is non-negotiable
– learn to let go & give control to your customer.
– marketing is the result of great products.
– great products want to be shared.
Roundtable: Logistics
– customers pays one way or another for delivery. There is nothing like "free delivery". If margin of sale is high enough, delivery can advertised as free.
– home deliveries is the easiest way to do. Deliver products where you are.
– enable delivery options (immediately, delayed, etc). Coordinate this with the logistic partners.
Reí Inamoto (Chief Creative Officer, AKQA)
– The best advertising isn't advertising.
Storytelling + Technology
Storytelling + Media
"we are not in the business of keeping media agencies alive" CMO of Nike
"Advertising is the price you pay for having an unremarkable product or service" amazon CMO
Peoples behavior are changing fundamentally.
Production + Communication. New frontier of what we do.
Product development talking to Marketing (Chief Marketing Technology officer)
From Storytelling to Storyenabling.
Fiat Eco:)rive.
Product design + Storytelling
Functions + Emotion
Post from my iPhone. Sorry for all typos!
Tagged: Digital Marketing, e-Commerce, liveblog, Social Media


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Just like fashion software world has its own trends, up and downs. SOA, WebServices, had been popular quite a while. Rich Internet applications is another trend which we were introduced to Silverlight and JavaFX last year. While those topics still popular, the latest trend from tailors of silicon valley is the clouds.
It seems like cloud wars not much far. First of all whats cloud computing, the wiki definition is;
Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet.[1][2] Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "cloud" that supports them.[3]
So what's new in clouds, weren't the approach known for a long time? Why suddenly everbody building their own cloud?
First of all, cloud covers all the range from a individual developer who has a startup project which he/she doesn't want to invest in, to big firms who want scability, power and still want to delegate the administration and maintanence. Different clouds offer very different options varying from zero to full administration, zero to paid startups, own db implementation to your db vendor choice.
Besides that clouds are good choice because even getting a very basic hosting with Java is quite troublesome and expensive when compared to php and .net.
Adding a jar, deploying a new version will probably make u restart the server and ends up all the apps sharing the server with you.
Fine so far but are the clouds safe, will your data be in good hands, will your application be locked in to that environment and you will have headaches when u want to move to another?
Here are some major clouds and what they offer;
Amazon EC2
Amazon is the most mature platform among all the clouds and can offer great flexibility and is the most configurable one. Unlike others amazon lets you take the full control of the servers. EC2 offers shared disk spaces where you can install, configure, run and maintain your choice of softwares on your own virtual machine. It even supports windows, .net and SQL Server. If you want to keep the administration and setup simple they also have out of the box tools such as SimpleDB which is a schemaless db implementation just like Google's BigTable. Amazon also has a built in queue system SQS. Amazon EC2 expects you to built your services as WebServices which is good for compability and portability.
Everything looks great with EC2 including the pricing. The prices are quite standart and actually when you consider what amazon offers it may be the best deal. However, you even need to pay for the startup, which may not be the best option in all situations
Pros; EC2, SQS, SimpleDB, S3 are all great well thought and mature services. Still if you don't find those capable enough you are free to deep dive and install your own db or vendor specific softwares.Your application won't be coupled to Amazon and will preserve portability. Good pricing.
Cons; It is not free to start so not for individual startups (which can be called as tryups :) ) without investing.
Google App Engine (Java)
I didn't even consider trying app engine when it was only supporting python but now java is supported. This is the easiest cloud to work on. Installing, developing, deploying, administring is also so easy. Just go eclipse update site download the plugin and sign up for a app engine account thats it. The plugin comes with a embedded db which is an implemantation of bigtable, and a embedded server which is an implementation of Jetty and both simulate the production environment well (not exactly but well).
App engine also offers good pricing and also its free until the application reaches the quota (which is quite reasonable). So you can even use it for free basic hosting. The biggest drawback is that it is a subset of java and doesn't offer a full relational database. So your application must be designed or modified to be able to run on App engine.
App engine shines on admınistration unless u want to control everything on your own. There is no administration, no maintanence and very little to configure.
Just like SimpleDB of Amazon, Google offers a schemaless datastore, BigTable. BigTable is fast efficient supports JPA/JDO but doesnt support full relational designs. It is a hierarchical datastore and istead of relations you need to understand hierarchical relations between entities and denormalized data. App engine is the hardest part to migrate for a standart Java Developer, however, if you succeed to understand the basics and move on, it offers fast, reliable and easy to maintain datastore. As google says Bigtable is the system which all google apps use internally, so do not need to worry about performance or design issues and better to learn how it works.
Other unsupported features are; : no threads, no network connections, no webservices, no file system writes, no java2d, no native code, no java2d but images api can be used instead. Soon support for async and queue api will be available. Besides those reflection is also limited. Reflection can be used as long as it is used for your own classes, but if your application tries to use reflection on runtime and system classes, app engine does not allow that. Actually the frameworks and librarires I tried which did not work, failed mostly because of reflection. The good side is most of them are getting patched fast to work on app engine, such as BlazeDS, Jersey, Xstream. Many well known libraries work out of the box, such as, guice, spring, aspectj,spring, grails, gwt, tapestry, jruby, jython...etc
Pros; very easy to start, develop and deploy. Great for zero startups, makes no excuse if you have a project idea. It is java!
Cons; Not whole java stack and libraries supported, bigtable needs a different approach to design than relational databases. You may end up leaving your favaourite library because it doesn't work and your application will definitely be tied to app engine.
Microsoft Azure
I would be very suprised if microsoft didn't have one, they even compete with webcam, keyboard and mouse producers. Azure is definetly a .net cloud and offers good and easy integration with visual studio developers. Microsoft is an implementor rather than an innovator for long. They are not doing bad at following Amazon. They offer their own Service bus, support web services and back ground processing.
Pros; well if you are a C#, MSSql developer it will definetly be your choice, other do not offer a lot more to convert you from the dark side (just kidding :) no offense)
Cons; well if you are not than the azure doesn't offer much to convert to dark side.
Sun Cloud
Sun's cloud is really a cloud now, but seems promising. What they plan to built seems promising, full stack java with full support to all Java standarts. They have good experience on OS with Solaris. However they can't even provide developer accounts yet (at least i have been waititng more 1.5 month). Need to wait and see, hope they wont miss the train by that time.
Pros; sun is java, they will have good support with full stack of java.
cons; it is a real cloud now (doesnt exist), and i wonder what oracle plans about it.
Actually there are some other cloud alternatives in the market such as GoGrid and AppNexus. To be honest I personally didn't have much experience on those and frankfully I would consider a big name behind the cloud, since i am going to give them all my data, application and alter my application on that cloud implemtation.
So far it seems Amazon is good for a full java project built on web services which has a budget. However, Google App Engine is great if you have zero startup and no problem on building it on BigTable and it also offers very fast development. Of course Azure is great if you are on .net side...
So there is a cloud for everyone..


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San Donato Milanese (Milan), 8 April 2011 - After its success in Rome, Stresa, Milan, Venice, Mantua, Cortemaggiore and Florence, Eni's touring exhibition entitled "The six-legged dog: a symbol of memory and the future' comes to San Donato Milanese. The exhibition, supported by the municipality of San Donato Milanese, will be at Cascina Roma Art Gallery (Piazza delle Arti 2) from April 9 to May 8.The Exhibition will be free of charge and open to visitors from 9:30 to 12:30 and from 14:30 to 18:30 Monday through Saturday and from 10:00 to 12:00 and 16:30 to 19:00 on Sundays.
A vast collection of photographs and memorabilia documenting the company's history, on loan from numerous private collections, brings to life key moments in the history and growth of Eni, and of the country as a whole. The exhibition also offers an opportunity to learn more about Enrico Mattei, a man whose courageous choices and vision of the future laid the foundations of a company that now plays a key role in the global energy industry.
The idea of building the company's administrative offices near San Donato Milanese first emerged when Eni was founded in 1952 with the specific intention of establishing an orderly, rational industrial organisation in Milan's green hinterland, a true lever for growth destined to promote large-scale industry after years of depression in northern Italy.
The exhibition includes a special section on the history of "Metanopolis', as the town has been nicknamed, with an important contribution from the Association of Eni Pioneers and Veterans, including a historic collection of minerals, core samples and oil samples.
Films and images selected from the company's historic archives detail the stages in construction of the office buildings, homes and service facilities for employees in one of the biggest office complexes ever to be built in the history of enterprise in Italy.
The exhibition allows visitors to look back at key moments in Eni's history, marked by the milestones of three brand restylings (1972, 1998 and 2009). Another special section focuses on the 1952 logo competition, reconstructed on the basis of original documentation, while the final part of the exhibition focuses on the present, with performances by emerging talents (www.enizyme.com), such as the work by sand artist Ilana Yahav which inaugurated the new Eni communications campaign.
Carousels and archive films from Eni's collection bring back not only the history of this prominent energy company but its values and culture, its love of challenges, international character and its ethos of constantly striving for excellence.


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There is a fairly new challenge on SCS that is called Queen For The Day. This week, the chosen stamper is Carol_PA925. She has an interesting gallery, and the card I chose to CASE is this one of the butterfly card in PINK. I liked the simple layout.
So, in keeping with my card-a-day policy for Mother's Day, I made the card below, using some pretty blues, and a butterfly I got at the $ Tree. You can see the changes I made in Carol's card. No need for me to tell you what you can look at yourself.
I did take a close-up of the sentiment. It shouldn't be wasted, because it's perfect for a person my age to give to her Mom. I can't tell you the number of times my Mom "washed" something smudgy off my face with her 'wetted" handkerchief. Mom's today don't carry hankies anymore. What do they use??? Anyhow, she will get a real laugh out of this card. I hope you do too.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Floral for Mom
Card #3 for the week I send Mom Mother's Day cards. The F4A10 challenge today was to make a floral card, and this one was super easy.
I used four different punches, one sentiment, a ribbon and some pearls. Not even dimensionals!
Mom and I just got our SU order which had the Trio Punch in it for both of us. I have long admired CarrollAnn's (Mrs. Boz at SCS) little embossed flowers, and this is how she did them.....a stylus and the punch. I think they are so cute!
I'm off to the mailbox with the first card I made for Mom. Have a great day, and I hope you are having fun making Mother's Day cards too.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Mother's Day #2
In keeping with sending my Mom a card every day for the week before Mother's Day, here is card #2.
The WT challenge today was to use chipboard, which I have, but never use. This is from Maya Road, and I covered two flowers in dp. Sanded, then layered, and finished off with a brad.
I try to make each of the cards for my Mom different. I just got this Trio punch from my new SU order, and CarrollAnn has the best way to use the flowers, so I did what she did!! I hope you like it.
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THT047 Faux Birthday
Happy Thursday! Today's featured member of the Treehouse Design Team is Gloria Morizen, who challenged us to make a Birthday Card using a FAUX technique.
The technique I chose is Faux stitching. The image I used is a FREE colored cupcake from Ashley, our fearless leader (it's the May contest digi!)
The card is really easy. I downloaded the colored image twice, and cut one out to pop. Of course I had to use RED as a bg color, along with white and turquoise. I used my new Fiskar's edge punch, and faux stitched in turquoise around the panel.
Please feel free to join us, and attach your card or project to Mr. Linky at
so we can see it, and maybe you will win some free stuff from the website!! Please look at what the whole DT has done by clicking on their names on my sidebar. See you next Thursday!!
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
RED Rose For Mom
For the week before Mother's Day, I send a card each day to my Mom. she loves to get cards, especially mine (who knew?), and displays them FOREVAH!
She happens to love my favorite combination of colors, so this will be the first card I send.
This layout is the SC at SCS today, and worked really well with the Stemma dp of roses.
Have a great day. Hugs to you all!
Posted by jdmommy - Anne Harmon at 10:27 AM 8 comments:
Belli Challenge Birthday #90
The Belli Challenge #90 this week is to make cards or projects with a Birthday Theme.
Creative Cuts & More was nice enough to sponsor us by sending a package of wonderful papers, die cuts, rub-ons, and stickers for us to play with! What fun!!
Creative Cuts & More was nice enough to sponsor us by sending a package of wonderful papers, die cuts, rub-ons, and stickers for us to play with! What fun!!
Here are two cards I made for the challenge. Please be sure to check out the website of CC&M, and link your birthday themed project, using whatever you already have in your stash to Mr. Linky here: http://www.bellichallengeblogspot.com/ to be entered for a prize!! Be sure to add CBC to your keyword in SCS. See you in two weeks!
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Daisy for CC and MMTPT91
Rainy day here. YUCK! I feel really tired today, maybe it's the weather, maybe just plain tired. I was so glad that under these circumstances the challenges today could be combined.
This daisy works for both the CC and MMTPT91. Teapot Tuesday has to do with daisies and ladybugs. Check. The CC is to use banana, ballet blue and olive. Check.
I have had this wonderful dp from PSX for quite a while. Hoarding it. It has these beautiful big daisies with olive leaves and stems. I just cut one of them out, added a RED ladybug brad (dotted with a Sharpie) and a RED ribbon, and good to go. Have a great day!!
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Monday, April 26, 2010
CAS and TLC with Mark's Finest Papers
It's been a busy day. At 2 PM I am just uploading my card. DH and I went to see our post-surgery son, so I could see he was all right with my own eyes. He's doing well, but still swollen and uncomfortable, but he's up and around.
When I came home, I realized I could combine the CAS and TLC, so here's what I did.
All the materials are from Mark's Finest Papers, and the stamp sets (Apples and Camellias, and Background Fun) will be available in May/June. Gorgeous new stuff!!!
Thanks for looking, and I hope y ou're all having a wonderful day!! See you tomorrow!
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Casing in RED!
Today I did something I've never done before. I cased a CASE. The Featured stamper today made a card for a previous FS, and I just loved it. I felt it was only fair to show you both of them before I showed you my own. The card with brown and green is the original by Miss Boo. Gloria, our FS, cased this using the top note and embossing in white, but using predominantly brown. Now to my card.
As you can see, I went with my favorite colors!! I loved the top note as a panel, but made some changes. They are all pretty obvious, so I'll not insult you by reciting them. You can compare for yourself.
I hope you like the changes I made, and that you will take a peek at the FS challenge oon SCS today.
DH and I are off for the day to friends' for some fun. I'll be back tonight to comment on your blogs then. Have a great day!
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
Get Well for Paul
Our son Paul had labrum hip surgery on Thursday. He's having the other one done in the summer, when teachers can take more time off. He's doing fine, but uncomfortable, as you can imagine. (If you want to send him a card, let me know).
The IC this morning had this fabulous card that I cased, and I think it's really appropriate for him. I used three stamps, two colors, and one stamp pad. How's that for easy??!!
This is the original card, and of course I had to keep the fab colors (my favs), especially the RED.
Thanks for looking.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
A Trip To Asia!
No, I'm not off to Asia. Although I would love to see the Far East, it's the good old USA for me! This card is for F4A9 at SCS today, a virtual trip.
Because I love anything Asian, this is the first thing that came to mind. I have this adorable little heron, so I drew in some water and cattails, used my new cb ef, and a gold pen. A little distressing, some hemp and a coin round it out.
I have 2 of my grandsons today. They are both nine, and two cuter and funnier little boys you will never see!! At the moment they are playing a DS (whatever that is!) on the couch, and giggling to beat the band!! Here they are, posing quickly for Grandma!
I'll be spending the day with these guys, and intermittently with DH, so there won't be time for comments today.......I'm sure you will understand.
I won't be in my craft room today, but will be at my station as 6PM hostess for the VSN tonight. I hope you will join me! There are lots of fun projects planned, and great hostesses to challenge you!! See you at 5 PM for the start. Don't forget!!!
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Mixing REDS!!
Hoo-Boy!! I just love a challenge that's wide open, so I can use my RED! The WT today is to mix patterns, and I just bought a bunch of paper (12 x 12 for 20 cents a sheet!) at M's. Of course I bought a lot of RED, and other matching papers, so this was right on top of the new stuff!!
I had to add some black and white (there are a bunch of us who love this combination - you know who you are!), and when in doubt, I use Stipple Rose. I really LOVE this image.
That's it for today. I'm getting ready for tomorrow's VSN mini. I am the 6 PM hostess, so be sure to check in with SCS to play along!! See you there.
THT046 Inspiration Challenge
This week we have an inspiration Challenge at the Treehouse! We were to use this fabulous bedding set to inspire us to make a card or project. I happened to have a very similar dp by Chatterbox, so all I had to add was an image (from the new set Dinorific) and and embellishment. The leaves are a new (to me) sizzix die cut. I cut out little flowers from the bg, and added them to the branches.
I think this would make a fun birthday card for just about anyone. I hope you will join us this week. Be sure to put THT046 in your keyword, and check out the offerings of the DT here:
http://www.treehousestamps.blogspot.com/. See you next week!
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Lavender Rose
And Yes! That is the right spelling! I don't want any comments on A's and E's!! LOL!
For the sketch challenge today, which was really easy, I just couldn't use RED, and I apologize for it right away. We had the most fabulous colored rose that bloomed all summer last year, up until late October. The lavender was so startling beautiful, we couldn't bear to even cut one!!
This is so close to the color .... it is a stunner, isn't it???
Have a wonderful day. We have sun again. I am so "pumped" as my DGS Tommy says!! Hugs to you all!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
How About a Julep?
The teapotters are off to KY for the Derby. I'm bring my own Julep .... that's been his name for 42,000 years!! Since I am old, and afraid of horses, I thought riding a dinosaur would be perfect!! We don't care whether we win or not, we just want to be at the tea party and enjoy a few drinks and snacks.
The image of the dinosaur is from
part of a set called Dino-rific. Check it out!!
part of a set called Dino-rific. Check it out!!
I'm off to Mom's for the day, so my commenting will be brief. I'll catch up with some of you tomorrow. Have a great day!!
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Today is going to be a WILD day!! It's Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, the day of the running of the Boston Marathon. DH is NOT involved this year as an official, so he has "bagged" #2 DS to help with removing the leaf cover off the pool.
DIL and I will be crafting today, and Jake, my DGS will be reading, coomputing, etc. and generally keeping himself busy.
This card is for both challenges today ... TLC and CAS. I just noticed a smudge on the sentiment of brown....guess my stamp wasn't so clean. Please overlook it .... just as you always overlook my mistakes!! Have a great day. The sun is shining here....... haven't seen it in a long time!!!
Posted by jdmommy - Anne Harmon at 9:43 AM 13 comments:
Sunday, April 18, 2010
RED bloom for Dara
Today's Featured Stamper is Dara (my Swedish Sister ...LOL!). I am so pleased for her!!
I cased a card that was all in pink. I tell you that because you know there's NO WAY I could make a pink card. Naturally I had to make it in my favorite colors. I kept her wonderful layout, and the same images. I added layers, ribbon, embossing and the bee. I hope she likes what I did with her pink card.
If you would like to look here, you can see her whole gallery.
We are having ANOTHER rainy day. DH and I were all set to take our coffee in the hot tub this morning, and the sprinkles came down harder! We'll be watching the baseball game today, if they can get it in, and just kicking back. I love Sundays!
Posted by jdmommy - Anne Harmon at 10:19 AM 13 comments:
Friday, April 16, 2010
Out of the Box
This technique is such fun! I really love the out of the box look, and it's so easy to do with nesties and shapeabilities.
I used a brand new image that comes in color or b/w from http://www.treehousestamps.com/. This set is called Simply Heartfelt. Obviously I used the colorized version, and that made this card even easier to make. I really like the combination of purple and green. It isn't RED, but it's pretty together.
That's it for me today. Mom and I bought a TON of paper when she was here, and I MUST sort it and put it away. A big job, but fun too. Have a good one!
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Third and LAST post for today!
Fun challenge today at SCS.......also the Stampin' B's. The theme is time, adding a sun, and an encouraging sentiment.
I love these words, and not just because of Casablanca, but for that too!! On the inside I could put any number of words to complete the saying, but for this one, I will put "I think of you more and more".
Thanks for looking, and I promise, this is the last upload! Hugs to you all!
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THT045 Paper Tole
It's Thursday, and time for a TreeHouseThursday challenge. This week's spotlight is on Katie, who wanted us to use the Paper Tole or Decopage technique. I chose paper tole, using the lion from the digi set called Zoofari Friends at
There are a lot of layers here ...... two for the lion's body, and four for his head. (That's the paper tole part).
I cb'd the bg using the Herringbone EF. The sentiment, which of course I wrote with a marker and placed on a Shapeabilities Fancy Tag, was added to the MS grass punch, and the corner punch from EKSuccess. The lion is placed and popped on two nesties, in brown and kraft.
Here is a close-up of the layers........ sorry about the white dimensionals showing too, but this was the best picture I could get. At least you can see a little better here! You can also see the white gel pen on his face. I added a couple of brads on the tag, and that does it. I hope you like it.
Please join us. Connect with Mr. Linky, and be sure to look at what the DT has done. Add THT045 to your keyword, and look for another fun challenge here next week!
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Divine Diva Inspiration Challenge #26
The DDIC this week takes its inspiration from
a site called Lovely Package.These four bottles of Herbal Waters are surely beautiful, but when I saw the RED and the hibiscus, I knew just where I'd be going with my papers and inks!!
I kept the background vanilla color of the label, and watercolored an image of the flower I received in a grab bag and never inked. Can you imagine?
The tan punched piece represents the lettering below the flower, and the RED ribbon finishes it off.
Please join us in the challenge, and upload your card or project to:
so we can see what you've done. If you upload to SCS, please add DDIC to your keyword. Play with us again the first Thursday in May.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Sketch and Belli Challenge
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Belli Challenge - Die Cuts #89
We have a sponsor this week, Sweet N Sassy stamps. They sent us some wonderful digis to play with, and I chose this beautiful bouquet of daisies.
The challenge this time is to use die cuts. They can be anything ....... chipboard, nesties, anything at all. The fun part of this Belli (and ALL of the Belli's) is that we are to use what we already have in our stash!!
I used nesties and a template behind my jellyroll gel pen painted daisies, and watercolored a little so they would show more.
I hope you will link your card or project to Mr. Linky here:
http://www.bellichallengeblogspot.com/ so we can see it, and maybe YOU will win a prize from our sponsor! While you are there, also check out what the Belli Girls have done! Don't forget to upload to SCS with CBC in your keyword.
See you again in two weeks.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Double Trouble!
Mom went home yesterday afternoon after Triple A came and started her car. Dead battery. She got home okay, and called me to let me know. We had great fun as usual, and now we can both rest up!!
Speedy the Cat is trouble!! He causes Faith all kinds of problems, makes messes all over the house playing with her craft supplies, and generally casing mayhem! She needs a break, and needs to send him to Kitties for a few days.
Speedy loves to prowl around Faith's garden (Did you notice not one single weed??? Mark and Markie spend hours taking care of it for her). Speedy chases butterflies, watches the ants, and catches small bugs of all kinds. However: he is afraid of SNAILS!
Markie knew just how to get Speedy to go to Kittie's........he found a giant snail, and there goes Speedy! Enjoy your vacation from everything he does, Faith!! Watch out Kittie! You don't know what you're in for!!
This is also for the CC today. Thanks so much Betty for these wonderful colors.....especially the RUBY RED! I can't believe these colors will be retiring! *sob*. Thanks for looking today!
Posted by jdmommy - Anne Harmon at 8:13 AM 13 comments:
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Hunk for FS, Pat Smethers!
Pat Smethers is the FS today on SCS. She happens to be (like me!) enamored of cowboys and just plain hunky guys! Normally I case one of the FS's cards, but not today.
The card here is purely for Pat's looking pleasure. He is as hunky and gorgeous as the WWW man, and I know she will appreciate how handsome he is, even when she can't see his whole face!!
Have a great day, and make a cowboy card for Pat!! Hugs, my friend!!!
Posted by jdmommy - Anne Harmon at 8:45 AM 16 comments:
Saturday, April 10, 2010
QFTD04 Linda (snail)
Anne Ryan's choicce for queen today is Linda, aka snail on SCS. I cased a wonderful card she made of a winter tree at sunset, with a wonderful thin winter fence. I made a few adjustments to make this summer or spring, and punched the fence.
I really liked the simplicity of this card. It has the kind of layout that you could use anytime, and any image in it would work, as long as it would fit.
I hope you like this case of her card....... if you go to my gallery, you can see hers as well. You can also join in, and be sure to congratulate her on this fun honor.
Posted by jdmommy - Anne Harmon at 10:02 AM 10 comments:
Massachusetts Chickadee
The challenge today is to make something that comes from your home state. At first I thought of "Boston, Boston, home of the bean and the cod, where Cabot's speak only to Lowell's, and Lowell's speak only to God", which really is true!! Then I thought about the Boston Common, and the Swan Boats, and even the walking tour of Old North Church, freedom trail, and historical stuff like that. Nah!!
Mom and I ended up making a card using the SU punch of our state bird, the chickadee. We have a whole bunch of bird feeders (for DH's pets!!), and those little guys flit in and out so fast!! I love their little voices calling "chickadee...dee...dee" all day. I never get tired of it.
So here is our bird. We have never tried this out before, and next time we will make a few adjustments, but it turned out okay. Enjoy the birds wherever you are, and have a fun day!
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An award from Lynn
An award passed on from Lynn McAuley. Now I have to tell 10 things that make me happy, and 5 bits of trivia before passing it along to 5 friends.
Family, candy, SCS, new stamps, lunch out with DH, visiting Mom, grands, retirement, hot tub, stamping.
I don't like TV except for sports, I love breakfast ALL DAY, I love HOT foods, don't talk to me before coffee, I don't like to talk on the phone.
Now I send this award to: Stef, Julia, Emily, Joanne, and Mary. Pick up the picture, and tell all!
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Friday, April 9, 2010
RED Friday!
After a lot of messages pleading, and some threatening to call 911, here, finally, is a card done all in RED!!!
I know you expect this from me, and darn it! it's a burden, but here's a quilt made from all RED scraps. I'd love to tell you what dp I used, but who can even guess when the pieces are so small. I save every bit of RED, and I love all these different patterns put together!
Now. Mom is coming for the weekend. She's getting a perm this morning, and then will drive here. Stay off the highway ...... she's 88 and that's the speed she goes in her Caddy!! We are having our SU! demo here on Sunday for some fun and crafting, so she'll be here with bells on. We always have a list, and this time it involves some more punches. (Are there ever enough??)
Have a great day. My comments will depend on how busy Mom makes me!!!
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
THT044 Color Challenge Featuring ME!!
Happy Thursday! This week, I am featured after choosing the challenge for TreehouseThursday. I chose a Color Challenge......Yellow and Lavender. I love these colors for Spring, for babies, for kids, for flowers, for cute little anythings.
This image is from the set called Zoofari Friends. I happen to LOVE giraffes, so this was a no-brainer for me.
There are lots of parts and layers for this card, but they really aren't necessary if you want to join us in this challenge. Be sure to upload to http://www.treehousestamps.blogspot.com/ and connect to Mr. Linky. In your gallery, please put THT044 in your keyword. See you next week with another fun challenge!
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Little tweety Bird
The sketch today at SCS is wonderful ........ color blocking, and great for using up odds and ends of paper, of which I have mountains!!
The image is a new digi by
called Little Tweety. There are a number of really cute designs and words. Be sure to check it out.
Have a great day today. It's supposed to be in the mid 80's, so I'll be outside most of the day, soaking up the rays and cooling off in the hot tub. See you tomorrow!
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Two on Tuesday!!
The color challenge today is to use Soft Suede, Teal, and Celery. Great combo, isn't it??
I just got a new cb folder, one of four in a set by Provocraft. The big one is a checkerboard pattern, and this one of bricks (?) has a real Asian feel to it.
I used my markers on Art Of Life, still one of my favorite sets, and crimped a piece of celery, which was the "dessert" of the challenge. I had a great piece of ribbon to match. How cool is that?
This is my entry for MMTPT88. The story is pretty involved, but my response to the story is this:
Frazzle, the rooster at McCoy's Farm is panic-struck to think he may lose his job. Frizzle is out behind the barn teaching the hens to "rap", and their nests are empty. Normally they lay 42,00 eggs, but today there are only 17! Maybe Frazzle needs to learn "rap" to get those girls back where they belong, but everyone knows they lay more eggs when the music is soothing. Here's the RAP for the card (with apologies to your sensibilities).
Behind the barn
Learnin' how to rap
Layin' those eggs
Is really no snap.
Frazzle can't do it.
He needs them girls.
Losin' his job's
The end a his world!
Send Frizzle back.
Fill those nests.
Heck with that rap,
Muzak's the best!!
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Two for the CAS
The CAS today was to use a sentiment as our only stamp. Good chance to use some fabulous dp, or to make a nice bg by yourself.
I think some of you will be pleased to see a little RED from yours truly. You know I sneak it in whenever I can!!
I hope you all had a nice Easter. We spent it with DD and her family, and this year all our kids and grandkids were together. Nice. DH, Mom and I stayed until we were tired (which gets earlier every year!), and left the younger generation to chat and laugh among themselves. To tell you the truth, I'm always glad when the holidays are over. Now Mom and I can concentrate on going on vacation to NH to stamp ourselves silly! Have a great day!!!
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Saturday, April 3, 2010
RED for the IC today
Mom is here for Easter weekend, and we have had the giggles this morning. The card is for the IC, and what inspired me is shown here..... a fabulous hat with a RED rose. How could I resist???!!
When I was a kid, Mom, Gram and I would go to the BIG dept. store and try on hats. We would get laughing so hard we would have to go to the Ladies' room. Just thinking about it made us laugh again.
I hope you like my hand-made rose. Have a wonderful safe and peaceful Easter, unless you'll be like us, having dinner with the six (out of 7) grands, in addition to all my kids. Bedlam for sure! Hugs to all!
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Friday, April 2, 2010
Accordian Book for Spring
This is the front of the accordian book I made while I was up all night, instead of sleeping. It only took about an hour to do, and most of that time was figuring out what my theme and images would be. The actual putting together was easy after the brainwork, which was a little impeded with lack of sleep!
I'm going to tuck this into the bag of goodies I have for my Mom when she arrives later this morning for the Easter weekend.
Here is the inside of the book. I hope you can read each of the little pages. They are only 3 by 2 1/4, so they're not all that big. They say: Welcome rain; Welcome sun; Welcome flowers; Welcome trees; Welcome friends; Spring has sprung. If you click on the picture it will enlarge. Have a great day!
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
THT043 Spotlighted Lion
Happy Thursday! The Treehouse Thursday Challenge today is to use the Spotlighting Technique.
I used an image from http://www.treehousestamps.com/ called Zoofari Friends which will be available next week. I love the look on the lion's face, so that was the part I popped to spotlight it. Get it???
If you would like to join us this week, be sure to put THT043 in your keyword. See you next Thursday!
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We had another beautiful morning today when I met Wayne and Julie Iurillo down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp. It was a tad bit cool - light jacket weather - which made for a great day of fishing here in north Florida. We ran up the intercoastal and dipped into Jackstaff and then further up a side creek to set up outside a marsh run out with plans to toss float rigs and live shrimp. Both anglers jumped right in and were making excellent casts and getting great drifts, but we had no real bites. We bounced across the creek and switched to jigs and here Wayne "knocked the skunk off" when he
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Social Media Off The Wall: Seagulls, Flash Mobs, and Great American Fun
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The last week of June was an interesting week in social media. We saw the Pope tweet; yes Pope Benedict XVI sent his first tweet from an iPad on Tuesday. Former social media giant MySpace, was sold by News Corp. to Specific Media for $35 million this week (News Corp. bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005). Interestingly enough Specific Media recently said that actor Justin Timberlake will take an ownership role in MySpace and be a part of its future. Add in Social Media Day and we had a great week in social media.
Pesky Seagulls
In a video uploaded this week on YouTube by Opica1983, a seagull in Cannes, France snatches Lukáš Karasek's GoPro video camera. Appearances are always deceiving; according to Mashable it might be a viral marketing attempt by GoPro Cameras. Although the video may be a marketing tool it is amazing footage from a "Bird's Eye View".
What do you think about the video? Was capturing the footage of the seagull simply luck or was it planned ahead?
Large Flash Mob
According to Wikipedia, "A flash mob (or flashmob) is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment and/or satire." I am convinced that everyone who uses the web has at one point seen a video of a Flash Mob. If you have not seen one I recommend watching the video below:
The group of 1,700 participants was organized by the North Point Community Church (a church with four locations in Atlanta: Buckhead, Browns Bridge, North Point and Watermark) and the event was called "The Walk". They filmed it while high school students and volunteers from the church were on an annual trip to Panama City Beach, Florida. They did a great job with it and had me fooled at the beginning thinking it was just another lame flash mob video.
What do you think of "The Walk" and other flash mobs?
Happy Independence Day!
The 4th of July is always one of my favorite days of the year. It mixes Patriotism, food, and the great outdoors; what else could ask for? As with most holidays there will be plenty of people traveling and lighting fireworks. Have fun, stay safe, and avoid making the same mistakes as the people in the video below:
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30 minutes or fewer
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- 1 ½ Tbs. lime or lemon juice
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- ¼ tsp. red pepper flakes
- 2 oranges or blood oranges
- 1 grapefruit
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- 2 Tbs. coarsely chopped mint leaves
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