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[Formerly published under the Widow's Nephew rubric]
A new association of wine-producers has been formed, I see from Fin24 (my host on this website wasn't invited to the launch so I couldn't get any inside info, and no press release has as yet been received either). Called Cape Vintner Classification (CVC), it brings together a number of undoubtedly top-class wineries (Kanonkop, Hamilton Russell, Tokara, Vergelegen, Delaire Graff, etc) with some rather more second-ranking ones in high-flying terms (Welbedacht, Vriesenhof, DeWetshof, Anthonij Rupert, etc). It seems the desired aim is "to build South Africa's reputation as a producer of world-class wines and to promote the Cape's distinctive site specific wines".
Great, and some of those producers can do, and are doing, just that. Fantastic. But haven't they heard that much of the real, cutting-edge excitement about South Africa in the outside world is about what the Alheits, Sadies, and Mullineux are doing – and the other young, revolutionary people missing from this worthy group of mostly rich landowners. Old-school rugby heavies like Schalk Burger and Boland Coetzee, and once-important people like Danie de Wet, have their place, but not in any vanguard, surely?
There appears to be something of a fixation about "estates", suggesting that nostalgia is as significant for some of these people as thoughts of the future. According to Fin24, "Criteria for membership include ownership of a registered wine estate as defined in the Wine of Origin Scheme in terms of the Liquor Products Act".
I've just been to the Act again to check, and cannot find that the law any longer has a place for the "estate" as such – not since some of those abovementioned producers squandered and spoilt the whole idea of estates (in the process refusing to allow the concept of single-vineyard wines).
What's allowed these days is "units for the production of estate wine" (though there must be few winedrinkers that know what that means, and even notice the meaning of "estate wine" on the label. There is no such thing as an estate in terms of the Act. I hope they manage to sort that out. The days of the estate are over.
Another aspect that Fin 24 dwells on is the role that Johann Rupert played in the launch of the CVC. I can almost hear the suppressed groans of some of the more enlightened members of the CVC as Rupert trotted out his strange wish to "depoliticise the industry" – by which he seems to mean that it's fine for him "have severe problems with some members of Wieta", but presumably not fine for some members of Wieta (and a legion of others) to have severe problems with him. Depoliticising anything at all in South Africa, let alone something as divided by race and class as the wine industry is, seems a naïve aspiration for someone as presumably generally astute as Rupert.
Apparently, "Rupert said in California Mexican workers on wine farms are treated the same as in South Africa". Treated wonderfully well, he presumably meant. What a useful contribution to make at the launch of an organisation wanting to bring world attention to the Cape's best wines! Bravo Johann! Viva CVC viva!
It would be nice to be more positive about an effort like this. Let's hope that Rupert shuts up a bit, that the CVC loses its nostalgia for estates, and that it manages to get rid of some of the old-guard and bring in a few of the less land-rich wineries that have been spearheading progress in making Cape wine. But anyway, let's see what the CVC actually does, beyond existing.
ADDED LATER: Christian Eedes has dutifully reported on the founding of the CVC here, and also gives a link to the CVC website, here.


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HA NOI (VNS) – A section of the Asia-America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable, which connects international Internet traffic between HCM City and Hong Kong (China), was discovered to be cut at 5:17 am yesterday.
The cable disruption slowed down online transactions and information exchange services between Viet Nam and foreign countries, but should have hardly affected domestic connections.
The Viet Nam Post and Telecom Group (VNPT) said that after they heard of the incident it launched intensive measures to return the cable to normal functioning as quickly as possible.
Throughout 2014 and in January 2015, AAG has been cut on five separate occasions. — VNS
High-quality education ecosystem contributes to improving the quality of human resources for Viet Nam


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This is the final installment in a three-part series on advanced malware (AM) and the role it plays in advanced persistent threats (APTs). In Part 1 I defined AM, and in Part 2 I examined how it works. In this article, I step through prevention, detection, and response considerations by using APT weaknesses.
APTs are by nature hidden. Attackers put great effort into preventing us from stopping infection and detecting the AM when it is present in our networks. Although AM is often undetectable by anti-virus (AV) software, it must perform certain overt actions to reach attack objectives. This is its weakness. This is where we prevent or detect it.
Chain of Events
The AM/APT process I introduced in Part 2 is a chain of events, as shown in Figure A. An attacker doesn't have to perform all steps, but most of them are required for a successful attack. Each stage enables the next. Any system or network risk assessment should address each stage of the process.
Figure A
Breaking the Chain
The Lure
Breaking an attacker's ability to successfully lure employees starts with the lure getting to your users. It ends with a user click. Controls to prevent lure success include user training, email filtering, and web filtering.
Training users and helping them change unwanted behavior can prevent them from clicking on every link they see. If we can cause them to simply pause and think before they click, we have accomplished much.
Many lures come in the form of email. Although spear phishing messages are hard to filter, general spam messages should never reach the user mailboxes. While this is an impossible goal, we have to do our best to reach it without causing too much user angst. Finally, strip any potentially dangerous files attached to email you do allow to pass. Microsoft Outlook, for example, blocks a large list of extensions.
Like email, we should filter potentially malicious websites. Under no circumstances should we allow users unfettered access to the Internet. Although solutions like Websense can be expensive, web-filtering solutions such as OpenDNS provide solutions to organizations with limited budgets. In addition to preventing website-based lures from user devices, web filtering also helps stop redirection.
A successful lure enables the next stage: redirection. The user's browser is caused to go to the attacker's server or to a compromised server at a third-party site. Preventing access to known malicious and high-risk sites is a function of web filtering. Several popular anti-malware software vendors also block questionable sites. Finally, current browsers also stop access to known problem pages. One example is Google's Safe Browsing technology: if your users haven't turned it off...
Redirection is also possible by poisoning a DNS cache: known as pharming. Pharming is made possible by misconfiguration of DNS server implementations and by older, unpatched DNS software. Solutions include keeping your DNS servers patched and use of DNSSEC.
Neither web filtering nor DNSSEC are perfect, but consider them for a first line of defense for both lures and redirection. Other controls might also work, depending on your environment. One example is blocking IP address ranges known to harbor large numbers of malicious sites and which your users have no need to access. IP address blocking is effective, but requires daily management. As long as you control user access to potentially dangerous sites, you deny the attacker a successful Stage 3.
Exploit Kit
- Crime Pack
- Black Hole
- White Hole
- Phoenix
Once the attack successfully reaches this stage, patches and secure device configurations are your best defense. This includes ensuring all allowed browsers are up-to-date. Other defense strategies include
- Restricting and managing browser plugins
- Implementing a host-based intrusion prevention system
Dropper File
The dropper file is the first application actually installed on the target system. It can be the entire malware payload or just an installation app. If an installation app, it initiates a session with one the attacker's servers to download additional malware components.
Up-to-date anti-malware software and a host-based intrusion prevention solution are important controls to break this link. However, the best control is preventing users from installing applications on their devices. This begins with denying users local administrator rights.
Call Home
At some point, the AM must call home to inform the attacker that ownership of a target system is complete. Attackers use SSL/TLS to prevent us from seeing anomalous traffic. We should always monitor traffic between outside sources and devices on our network.
In addition to network and host-based intrusion preventions solutions, we must control the use of encrypted sessions. We do this by preventing any end-point device (desktops, laptops, servers, etc.) from being an SSL/TLS end entity. Instead, manage all SSL/TLS sessions with a firewall that acts as an intermediary for all SSL/TLS sessions with anything outside your network. This allows content monitoring for anomalous traffic.
Data Theft
The final stage is the attacker's objective: stealing your data. Regardless of how she collects the data, the final step requires sending sensitive information across your network, over your network perimeter, and to her server.
The first control is preventing end-to-end SSL/TLS encryption. As with Stage 6, always filter sessions. Never allow session traffic you can't see pass out of your network. Second, implement a data loss prevention (DLP) solution that looks for key text patterns indicating the movement of sensitive information. DLP controls monitor for data exfiltration. They also provide helpful information when trying to keep sensitive data in network areas of high trust.
The Bottom Line
The controls needed to manage APTs comprise a short list (although not always inexpensive) of properly placed and managed prevention and detection solutions supported by a documented and practiced incident response process.
- Deny local administrator access for all day-to-day user accounts
- Conduct new hire and annual employee security training, supported by awareness activities
- Implement host- and network-based intrusion prevention solutions
- Maintain up-to-date anti-malware solutions on all user devices and servers
- Filter email for both message content and potentially harmful attachments
- Using a web filtering solution, block access to potentially harmful sites
- Patch, patch, patch,…
- Inspect all SSL/TLS traffic
- Maintain a trained response person or team who knows how to react immediately to alerts
Most of these controls aren't new. However, some organizations prefer to skip a few in the name of budget constraints. You're now armed with the information you need to demonstrate to management how this set of prevention, detection, and response controls work as a layered defense to manage the inevitable advanced persistent threat. It will eventually come to a network near them…


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These regulations govern the conduct of the private
recruitment industry and establish minimum standards that both
freelancers,or 'job-seekers', and hirers are entitled to expect.
The government has adopted a clause enabling freelancers operating
through an Umbrella Company or Personal Service Limited company
(PSC) to 'opt out' of these regulations.
Employment agencies vs. employment businesses
The regulations aim to legislate for different types of
businesses and define 'employment businesses' as providing
temporary/casual workers to third party hirers, and 'employment
agencies' as businesses that provide workers for direct employment
by the hirer. Therefore, recruitment agents sourcing contractors
for their clients will be classed as an employment business.
What does this mean to the recruitment agency?
The regulations can mean extra admin for recruitment
agencies as you are required to disclose terms earlier, as well as
providing the candidate with greater detail and clarity of
contracts. You are also required to ensure that the candidate has
the suitable training and qualifications for the role by seeking
proof. All records must be kept for at least one year.
When can someone chose to opt in or out?
To opt-out, a limited company and the individual supplied
by that company to carry out work must agree that the regulations
shall not apply to them - whether that company comprises one or
more people or is an Umbrella Company. This notice must be
given before an individual is supplied to a client. An
opt-out may be withdrawn by giving further notice in writing to
that effect, but this new notice will not take effect until the end
of the current assignment/engagement.
What are the disadvantages to the recruitment agency if a candidate 'opts in'?
There will be an increase in admin costs to the recruitment agency if the candidate chooses to 'opt in' because you need to give them more detail about their contract and all other relevant information relating to potential assignments. You will also have a greater obligation to get details of the candidate's qualifications before vacancies are filled; meaning you will need to get copies of certificates etc.
The regulations also state that the employment business is still bound to pay the worker even if the client does not pay their invoices on time. Also, the regulations create restrictions on charges that you may make if your candidate ends up working permanently for the end client (also known as 'transfer fees'). Transfer fees must be agreed in advance by written contract.
Where transfer fees apply and the client wishes to take the contractor on permanently, there are three options: ·
- The client is charged the agreed fees.
- The client must also be given the option to extend the contract period rather than pay the transfer fee. This extended contract of supply must not be on any less favourable terms than the original contract (i.e. you cannot automatically introduce a rate decrease at this stage)
- The transfer fee can be avoided if a relevant period of
time passes between the assignment ending and the client hiring the
individual. This relevant period of time is defined as
* Eight weeks after the individual last worked for the client on assignment.
* Fourteen weeks after the individual first worked for the client on assignment .
Where the contractor works intermittently for the client the 14 week period is treated as continuous from the date of the first assignment unless there is a gap of at least six weeks between assignments, in which case the 14 week period can begin again.
In effect, you may lose money in two ways: if the end client fails to pay (or goes bust) and through lost fees if the candidate takes a permanent position at the end of the contract (therefore losing you the chance to submit a new candidate to that position or, place that candidate in another role and earn a fee from that).
An 'opt out' status will not be allowed if the contractor
will be working with 'vulnerable' groups e.g. working with under
Can I insist that someone opts out?
No, the provision of services cannot be conditional on a contractor opting out.
Further reading


text: To all of you who have donated to Angell-Animal Medical Center through the efforts of myself and my hirsute little friend, you're invited to play a game. Starting with the slide show presentation of our hike up Mt. Moosilauke, start paying attention to the songs with each slide show that comes with a hike. One person will win a box set of ten of our soon-to-be unveiled greeting cards, a $25 value. The cards are made with photos from our hikes and in limited testing, they are doing very well. Here's how you win our very first box set of cards: be the first person to name seven of the songs and artists in our slide shows. This does not include our tribute slide shows and it doesn't include any slide show before the Moosilauke one on December 26, 2007. Over the coming weeks pay attention to the songs and if you are the first person to email me seven correct titles and performers (performers only have to be named for music with lyrics, not classical or soundtrack music that is solely instrumental). I think the first one, which appeared in yesterday's slide show, is very easy. Others will not be. Good luck and have fun. You don't have to know seven in a row. No one will, I dare say. Perhaps the winner will take 10 slide shows to get seven correct choices. (*To participate, you have to have made a donation to Angell through us.)


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6 Gbps SAS will likely become a fact of life before you know it as the list of OEM designers integrating chip-level technologies continues to grow.
The latest to join the ranks is Super Micro Computer, which recently tapped LSI's 6 G ROC (RAID-on-Chip) and MegaRAID products for systems ranging from entry-level to enterprise-class.
The 6 Gbps version of SAS effectively doubles the transfer rate of current 3 G solutions, adding crucial bandwidth just as enterprises are starting to tax their current infrastructures with virtualization and cloud computing.
Most industry observers expect to see standalone 6 G SAS devices and components to appear first, probably by the middle of the year. Integrated systems are expected by the fourth quarter.
LSI has already lined up Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, IBM, Intel, NEC and Sun Microsystems for its integrated systems.


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Serendipity 3, the Manhattan ice-cream parlor frequented by the likes of Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Oprah Winfrey, and Katie Holmes, is coming to Lincoln Road in a matter of weeks.
The restaurant, located between Lenox Avenue and Alton Road, had some intriguing signs on its windows. One invited us to look inside.
We did, and this is what we found:
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Tiffany-style stained-glass lighting and old-fashioned ice-cream parlor
décor. We walked inside and were met by a gentleman named Matt, who identified himself as a co-owner.
He said he wasn't ready to give details about the restaurant, though he
expects it to be open in the next few weeks. No word yet whether the
SoBe outpost will serve Serendipity's famous Golden Opulence Sundae
($1,000), five scoops of ice cream decorated with edible gold leaf. We're betting on seeing the more pocket-friendly frozen hot chocolate
($8.95) on the menu.
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Downtown Seattle in 1902 - Manca's Cafe (small building on left)
From the University of Washington Library. The original is here
From the Asahel Curtis Collection and the Museum of History and Industry.
"Seattle's Oldest Cafe Caterers Since 1871" - The Manca family history in Seattle begins with my great-grandfather Victor moving his Catholic family from Salt Lake City, Utah in the year 1899. He was a restauranteur, and when he arrived in Seattle opened up Manca's Cafe.
It was a successful restaurant for several decades until the mid 1950s when it closed its doors. Up until its closing, it was very popular with the downtown bankers and office workers.
My great-grandfather was an inventive chef. Inventing such dishes as "Dutch Babies" and other Manca family secret recipes. It is always a treat to eat these dishes!
Dutch Babies
The most famous of his dishes is the Dutch Baby. While I personally do not know its derivation, many believe that the Dutch Baby is based off of the German Apfelpfannkuchen. The original recipe is a Manca family secret. But close approximations can be found on many places on the web. Martha Stewart even has a version!
The family lore is that one of Victor's daughters (one of my grandfather's sisters) named the Dutch Baby as a child. Perhaps they got named "Dutch" because of her inability to pronounce "Deutsch" - the German word for German.
My family believes that Dutch Babies became famous when Sunset Magazine profiled them as a featured recipe. You can find the recipe and some history in their old cookbooks (I know the "Best of Sunset" Cookbook published in March of 1987 has them on page 167). Sunset credits Manca's Cafe and my great-grandfather as the inventor of the Dutch Baby.
We have a version of the Manca's Cafe menu from December 16, 1942. At the time, Manca's Cafe owned the trademark for the term Dutch Babies. They were on the menu for $0.90. With a side of bacon for a total of $1.00. Or with a side of sausage for $1.10.
Victor originally opened on the Southeast corner of Second and Cherry. In 1903 the building was demolished so the Alaska Building could be constructed.
By 1942, Manca's Cafe could be found at 108 Columbia Street. It was demolished so an office building could be constructed.


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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. Norman Vincent PealeLast night volunteers came in to interview clients for the Christmas WishList. One of the volunteers is a businessman, an executive from an oil company. It's the second year in a row he's come in to interview. The second year he's left feeling humbled. Blessed. Calm.
I watched him as clients approached the table where he sat. He'd stand up. Put out his right hand. Grasp the clients hand in both of his and say, "Hi. I'm George. How ya' doing?"
He was warm. Welcoming. Open. He'd sit back down and invite the client to take the chair on the other side of the table. To complete the interview, George had a sheet with a set of questions on it. The objective was to invite the client to tell a bit of their story, about how long they'd been at the shelter. How long they'd been homeless. What caused their homelessness. What stresses them, what gives them hope and then to invite the client to list off one thing he/she wanted for Christmas.
I watched the clients as they talked to George. They'd lean forward. The tension in their shoulders would ease. They'd relax their bodies and talk. And talk. And talk. For some people, this could be the first time in a long time that someone simply listened to them. Heard them. It could be the first time in a long time that a 'regular' guy asked their name and used it in a sentence in a friendly way, no expletive attached.
When clients got up to leave George's table, he shook their hand in farewell. They always left with a smile on their faces. Their step was lighter. They stood taller.
The night before, both my daughters had come in to volunteer with a couple of their friends. At one point, I watched Alexis talking with an older man. Grandfatherly. When he got up to leave, she stood up, walked around the table and gave him a hug. The smile that appeared on his face could have lit up the room. "That's what I really wanted for Christmas but didn't say," he said. "A hug."
It was a beautiful moment. Small. Quiet. Hearfelt. A small moment in an otherwise busy world. A moment to cherish for having witnessed its beauty.
Earlier, one of the staff had come to me with a request for a client who has lived at the shelter for two years. "He's a good guy," the staff member told me. "He's really struggling to get his life back in order. Hasn't seen his kids in two years. Desperately wants to get back to the east coast to see them for Christmas. Is there any way we can help him? I'd be willing to put some money towards his ticket. Is there any way his WishList could ask for contributions?"
As I was collecting the volunteers at the end of the evening, I stopped on one of the sleeping floors to let the volunteer know we were finishing up. She was in the office with a client and one of the staff. The client saw me and called me in. "I'm filling out the form for someone else," he told me. "He'd never do it himself. He's always doing for others but would never ask for anything for himself. Is that okay?"
"What a beautiful gesture," I replied.
The magic of Christmas.
Hearts opening up to strangers. Stories told that connect us in the human condition. People comforted by the attention of a stranger. By a handshake, a hug, a concerned friend. Staff wanting to help out a client. Clients wanting to help out eachother.
This is the real Christmas.


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text: Morgan St. Knight is the creator, executive producer, host and co-director of The After Hours Club, which has become the perfect opportunity to combine his passion for all things dark with his extensive experience in non-fiction television producing and writing. Morgan worked for 25 years at the CNN networks as a writer, copy editor, and producer, contributing to editorial coverage of historic events including the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Morgan has spent most of his life studying a wide variety of arcane subjects, from the death rituals of various world religions to new discoveries in physics that align surprisingly closely with world views and cosmological paradigms held by ancient cultures centuries ago. He believes open discussions about topics such as death will help society and individuals develop a more balanced outlook on life. Morgan is also the author of the paranormal fantasy novel "Curse of Prometheus: a tale of Medea".


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Okay, one more (forrealz), before I go!
I am mass churning these out in pictorial style because they are all already out and about (in Singapore) so it's best I get word of them out first before I return from Japan a week later and it's suchhhh old news.
Though yes, I do know that most of the time I am trailing and jogging behind makeup news, a little breathless and a heaving heap of mess but… for once, I shall run along with the masses?
Wait up for me!
So anyway, you've seen pictures of these, you've probably heard a lot about them, especially because the makeup scene was abuzz with news of these interesting Dior Lip products.
Is it a lipgloss? No.
Is it a lipstick? No.
Is it a lipstain? Not really…
So what exactly are these?
Dior calls them Fluid Sticks, I call them awesomely glossy and pigmented lips in a swipe!
If juicy translucent jelly lips that pack quite a punch are your thang, then pop by your nearest Dior counter right now to grab these up!
Available in an array of 16 colors, this water-based (yes, you heard right) lip formula is made to slide on moist and cool on your lips and leave a close hug of glossy pigmentation as the water evaporates with wear, leaving you a dense layer of color and shine.
I know the first question on many people's minds would be how these compare to the YSL Glossy Stain. Well, off-hand (and this is really pre-mature), my impression would be these run a little thicker (but they're still runny in comparison to glosses) and aren't as aqueous as the Glossy Stains but the eventual 'dry down' feel of a dense balmy layer feels very similar.
I'll give you more thoughts / information about these along with a proper swatch and showcase to come.
Though in the meanwhile here's a little selfie of how Artifice (one of the 4 IT colors), a vivid orange-red, wears on me. To give you an idea of how they wear, with lovely pigmention and a jelly shine.
I don't care that we don't have 'seasons' here but these are so perfect for that whole summer-gloss makeup trend, especially so for people who don't typically like glosses! Ahem ahem, me.
As I said, this is a quick touch and go, so I hope the pictures themselves serve as a good feast in the meanwhile.
Lips aside, after Dior had successfully launched their Gel Top Coat (not actually a gel, but gives that plush glossy effect), it was only a matter of time before they infused that same glossy long-wearing quality into their usual line-up.
Well, that time is here as Dior is doing an overhaul and replacing all their current Dior Vernis with a new and improved formula – the Dior Vernis Couture Effet Gel.
I've only got one of these babies swatched, in one of the 4 'IT' Colors (complementing the Fluid Stick range), but I'll give the rest a go once I get back!
Though in the meanwhile, you can head on down to a Dior counter (I recommend the Backstage Studio at ION) and give these a swatch to see how glossy and plush they are!
Do approach the sales assistants before hand to check if what they have are stocks of the new Gel Effect polishes as they are in the midst of replacing the range and it could get a little confusing for them and us alike.
So, did I do this in record time? A quick lowdown of what's new at Dior right now.
I have some word of the Summer collection to share too but… I think I'll save that for when I'm back. I feel like I'm running the clock here because I still have a whole luggage to pack so ciao for now!
Again, don't forget to catch me on instagram if you would like to see glimpses of my trip!


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It is important for me to reflect back on the last twelve months of my life. It has been almost a whole year since I sat in this same chair, wrapped in this same blanket, and created this blog. I was so full of intention.
Tonight I am actually writing this from my desktop computer, something that I rarely do, because my laptop is broken again (pretty sure Apple sold me a dud MacBook, but I'm like David over here trying to slay the giant). It's actually very uncomfortable in our home office – my husband selected the decor, and it's more for looking at than sitting on. However, it was this same computer that I created this blog ten months ago today, and so it takes me back to a certain time.
Last night I spent some time with a very dear friend of mine. She was a my college roommate, the very first person I met in the United States, and has been close to my heart since I stepped off of that plane over seven years ago. Last week she got engaged to a man that has been such a rock to her, and yesterday she asked me to be a part of their wedding party. Of course, I said yes.
Over the course of our evening together we talked at length about our friendship: the high points, the low points, and the things about each other that we weren't aware we didn't know. A few years ago my dear friend went through the biggest challenge of her life, and spent a year battling her way out of it. At the end of this year she met the love of her life, and the rest, as they say, is history. We talked about her tough times, and I shared with her my recent struggles, of which she was not yet aware.
The reason I am sharing this tonight is because I learned a lot about myself last night, and a lot about my friend, and a lot about the way that "most people" live their lives. We shelter the world from our emotions, often choosing to take a personal hit over risking exposing how flawed the world is, and how poorly it has treated us. My friend told me about her own dark path, and the steps she had to take to free herself from it: most of it I knew, but some of it I didn't. At the end of our conversation I was sad that she had been in that position, angry at the world that had put her there, but mostly proud that she had come through.
When I look back on the last year of my life I am coming to a realization: I am going to be proud of the way I handled myself. I have made the active decision to disassociate myself from some people that have been harmful, and it has been a point of contention, and I really have had to question whether I have made the "right" decision. However, through my conversation with my friend last night I realized that there are people in this world that will take you at your lowest point and twist your soul, and once they have a grip on it they are impossible to shake off. I think that I shook myself free from those people in the last four weeks.
Before I sat down to write this blog post this evening I went into the bathroom to get a glass of water and stared myself straight in the eye. I found myself trying to picture my face a year ago, two years ago, ten years ago, but all I could see is the face looking back at me. Probably, I have not changed that much on the outside, but I feel that also the only person that matters in my life right now is who I am at this moment in time. And I might look tired (I really do look tired), and I might be starting to get some frown lines around my eyes (I've been frowning a lot recently), and I might be fifteen pounds heavier than I'd like to be, but I feel like a victor tonight.
Yesterday taught me that I have lived my life right recently. Prior to today I have doubted myself, and wondered if I would live to regret the choices I have made, but tonight I know that absolutely not. I have lived my life right recently, and I am proud of myself, and I really believe that only good things will follow.


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Just a bunch going on this week!! This was originally going to be a Dressing Room Diaries post, but as I edited my selfies…I realized that I have a lot to learn about that particular art! With that said…this will be a mish-mosh of my week!
Madewell is having an end of season sale. Dresses, tees, shoes, bags, and my favorite JEANS are on sale now online. I got these Skinny Skinny Crop Jeans in Mist, these White Skinny Skinny Jeans and Indigo Linen Embroidery Tank on major sale. Score!!!
This is one of my DRD selfies that actually turned out-from Madewell on King Street. This is the Skinny Skinny crop in Mist with their new Cargo Workshirt in SeaGrass…on promo (20% off online). I'm pretty sure I've found my fall wardrobe!
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We are celebrating my Uncle's 68th birthday this weekend with family dinner at my house. I'll be cooking everyone's favorite Chicken Piccata using a recipe from Food52.com. More on that next week!
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The Starboard Gemini, a tandem windsurfer, got put through its paces last week. Here's the video.
SUPper Club Video for 6/22/2010
Hood SUP Series video
CGWA Windfest
Big Winds is offering free windsurfing lessons at Windfest, CGWA's big weekend event at the Hood River Event Site, this weekend, June 26-27. You can demo gear, attend clinics and party it up with music by Tony Smiley Saturday night. There's a big ol' swap meet at the Expo Center Sunday morning, too. Toys!
"Paddle Benefit" – a fundraiser for First Descents
Big Winds will be contributing all the SUP boards for the "Paddle Benefit," a fundraiser for First Descents (young adults with cancer). The event will be held Sunday, June 6th at the Hood River Waterfront Park, with registration beginning at 11AM. The kayaking experts at Outdoor Play are your hosts for this very special event.
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From Things to Services: The rise of service design and social innovation in Asia Pacific
This landmark event brings together key change-makers in Singapore and Asia-Pacific region who are shaping the landscape in service design and social innovation for positive impact. Over the two days, this event will inspire ideas, stimulate discussion, provoke thinking and collaboratively explore what it means to design in this landscape. All design students, academics and those interested in design from business and 3rd sector organisations are welcome.
For more information, please download the poster or go to DESIAP website.
Be warned, this is not a regular design talk.
A curated list of industry professionals will lead discussions in small groups about the connection between design and social responsibility.You are encouraged to ask difficult questions.
Come ready to discuss ideas, argue your perspective, drink beer and be inspired. Walk away knowing what kind of designer you want to be.
P.S. There will be food trucks.
Organised by Thick and Oxfam Australia's Design for Change.
Thick is a strategic design consultancy with a focus on health, education and public services. We believe in the power of business to transform the planet for good. We design and create products and experiences that improve the lives of people as well as build social, environmental and business benefit.
Oxfam Australia's Design for Change is a unique university program run by Oxfam Australia supporting design and communications students, the creative industries and emerging professionals to use their skills, creativity and problem solving capacity for global good. Every year Design for change works with leading universities in Sydney and Melbourne to foster socially engaged design thinking and practices into the next wave of designers.
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Design for Social Innovation: A two day conference on the latest thinking, doing and change emerging in the field of design‑led social innovation.
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• Workshop your current projects and challenges in specialised learning sessions and masterclasses on design and social innovation.
• Emerge with a design and innovation toolkit to implement social change initiatives drawn from best practice in Australia and around the world.
Why do we need design-led thinking for social innovation?
Because we need to look at problem solving and solution finding from users' perspective.
As we face a future in Australia with a diminishing tax base to support an ageing community, and reduced government spending on social purpose, a new way forward is needed that ensures social innovation makes an impact on a meaningful scale. Design thinking applied to social purpose can result in the creation of new services, business models, processes and communication that makes meaningful and scalable change possible.
But how do you practically do this innovation work?
And what's more – how do you do this in a cash-strapped, risk averse system, and still maintain business as usual and deliver services to those most in need?
Design-based thinking, real life application
Walk away from this conference with the know-how to immediately put technique and frameworks into practice and create new or enhance existing systems, processes, services and products.
Design for Social Innovation is an event for practitioners, policy makers, social impact intrapreneurs, social entrepreneurs, directors and managers in government, the not-for-profit sector, and business.
It is for people who create or manage systems, processes, products and services designed to address social need.
Design and business innovation academics as well as user-facing communicators and developers will also be able to participate and engage in thinking that will explore real life case-studies and dig-deep into the realities of design-led innovation in the social space.
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Dawn O'Neill AM: Collective Impact and Social Change – a challenge and an opportunity for the Service Design community.
Collective Impact is a philosophy, a framework, an approach that is being applied to address many complex social problems in the US, UK, and now in Australia. The event, in conjunction with RSA A+NZ, will show how Collective Impact can facilitate long lasting social change by bringing cross-sector organisations together to focus on a common agenda. Dawn O'Neill AM will highlight where Service Design can play an intrinsic role in dealing with the wicked problems that beset all these initiatives and how design can contribute to facilitating improvements and better outcomes for the organisations and the people and communities they serve.
Dawn O'Neill, previously the CEO of beyondblue and Lifeline Australia, was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the community and to Mental Health in 2009. Dawn currently provides business coaching and consulting to social sector leaders in collaborative and participatory change with a particular focus on Collective Impact. She is also the Chair of STREAT, an innovative homelessness social enterprise, a Director of Ten20 a newly formed venture philanthropy organisation sup-porting community based, collective impact initiatives and a Director of Big White Wall an innovative on line mental health and wellbeing service.
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TACSI is launching Australia's first Innovation in Ageing Challenge in partnership with South Australia's Office for the Ageing. If you have a great idea that will help improve the lives of older people in South Australia, you could share in $100,000 in funding.
We're looking for ideas to support two key groups: baby boomers, and older people living home alone. Up to 10 shortlisted entries will attend a two-day workshop to explore their idea in more depth and prepare to pitch their idea to win the funding.
There's also six months of coaching, mentoring and business planning support on offer from TACSI for the winning entries, valued at $40,000.
Not in South Australia? The Challenge is open to all, so long as your idea will benefit South Australians.
NB: applications close 12th September, 5pm.
All the details are available at ageingchallenge.org.au.
For those who have attended our successful discussion panel in 2012, it will be a delight to know that Dom was back again in Melbourne to give us a talk on 'Designing for change in public services'.
Dominic Campbell is a digital government specialist and founder of FutureGov. FutureGov designs digital products that improve public services, especially in areas of high importance, cost and risk such as child protection and social care.
FutureGov has a 30-strong team in the UK, and has been working with local government in Australia over the last couple of years. It's great to have Dom join us to talk about how FutureGov has used service design to transform public services.
About Dom
Dominic Campbell is a digital government specialist and social innovator with a background in government policy, communications and technology-led change.
He is an experienced organisational change agent with senior management experience in implementing successful change initiatives within the local government sector, with a primary interest in emerging uses of new media and "social" strategies to deliver public service transformation and social innovation.
Dominic was recently voted in both the top 50 most influential people in UK local government and top 50 most influential users of social networking site Twitter in the UK.
It is an opportunity to talk with a mix of people – from inside and outside government, from the worlds of technology and policy, of community and universities – to talk about shaping an agenda for innovation and to make a start on that agenda.
This is a call to people who want to come a be part of a conversation about innovation in government.
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Public sector practitioners, advisers and leaders who are excited by these challenges, who seek to better understand the risks and opportunities within emerging trends.
There are no clever corporate games; just dialogue and an open exchange of ideas. It's a Saturday. It's free time, casual and as "off-the-record" as you need. And because it's shared conversation, you'll take away even more than you contribute.
Courtesy of our generous organising partners, registration and catering is FREE.
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DESIS-lab Melbourne had the great pleasure of hosting a panel discussion to coincide with Dominic Campbell's visit to Melbourne on the 21st May 2013. Dom is the Director of Futuregov, UK, leading the way on using digital technology to improve the public services. This article in The Guardian gives a good snapshot of their recent work.
A brief intro to Dom's talk:
"Social innovators and public sector reformers are increasingly drawn to the use of digital and design as a way to transform public services from the inside and out. However so far many of these emerging (great) ideas lack the scale of impact they could and should have. It's now time to focus less on creating more and more good ideas, and instead on taking the best of those ideas and the social innovation experiments to the next level. Go big or go home – the world can't wait."
Following Dom's talk, an illustrious line up of panelists discussed general topics on design and social innovation in the public sector.
Darren Sharp: Darren Sharp is the Australian Editor of Shareable, the online magazine that tells the story of sharing. Darren has a background in social research and consulting having led a number of Gov 2.0 initiatives for state and federal government clients including Australia Post, VicHealth and the Gov 2.0 Taskforce. Darren spent years as senior researcher with the Smart Services CRC where he undertook research into communications policy, Internet futures, peer production and user-led innovation. A sharing economy evangelist, Darren is passionate about citizen engagement, social innovation, p2p systems, the commons and sustainable cities.
Adrian Pyle, Director – Relationships Innovation at Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania. He is interested in enduring and universal themes within the great spiritual traditions, philosophies and models of change. He has a particular interest in Theory U and how "U shaped process" is a metaphor for those universal themes. His work involves him in a range of projects and experiments which help people get immersed in various stages of the U process and through this allow them to appreciate life as a spiritual experience (rather than spirituality as an "add on" to life). These projects and experiments include a fledgling responsible travel and learning journeys business, work in the area of relocalising and cooperatising businesses, neighbourhood co-working and maker space experiments, neighbourhood meals experiments and crowd and community funded energy reduction initiatives.
Damien Melotte, partner in System Reload. System Reload is a Strategic Design consultancy that is passionate about building thriving organisations that can adapt to disruptive change in the relationships age. Their approach is a combination of Service Design, Customer Experience, Digital and Social Business.Damien has worked with a range of public, private and Non Government Organisations in project design, social innovation, trends analysis, customer experience, strategic design, business strategy development, tactical tool development and workshop facilitation. Damien supports organisations to distil complexity through visualising and unravelling problems and working through a collaborative process to develop solutions.
Lucinda Hartley is an award winning designer who is passionate about cities, and developing new approaches to urban revitalisation that are faster, cheaper and more fun. Trained as a Landscape Architect, Lucinda spent two years working in slum communities in Vietnam and Cambodia before launching CoDesign Studio: a non-profit social enterprise, committed to helping disadvantaged communities to envision, design and implement neighbourhood improvement projects. Since its inception in 2010, CoDesign has delivered projects across five countries in Asia Pacific and engages over 500 volunteers. Lucinda is also an elected representative to the UN-Habitat Youth Advisory Board, focusing on how to engage young people in city making, and was a 2010 Youth Action Net Global Fellow. Her work in design and community development has been widely recognised including being recently listed in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of Melbourne's 'Top 100' most influential people.
Dominic Campbell, Founder of Futuregov. Dominic is a digital government and social innovation entrepreneur with a strong background in policy, communications and change management.
The panel discussion was moderated by Yoko Akama, leader of DESIS-Lab Melbourne, Service Design Network Melbourne and Acting Research Leader of Design Research Institute, RMIT University. This forum was nested within a broader program of the Design Research Institute Convergence Exhibition, open from 2nd – 24th May 2013 at RMIT Design Hub.
This book is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective answers to the biggest challenges of our times: how to cut our carbon footprint; how to keep people healthy; and how to end poverty.
It describes the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across different sectors – the public and private sectors, civil society and the household – in the overlapping fields of the social economy, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. It draws on inputs from hundreds of organisations to document the many methods currently being used around the world.
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In other fields, methods for innovation are well understood. In medicine,
science, and to a lesser degree in business, there are widely accepted ideas, tools and approaches. There are strong institutions and many people whose job requires them to be good at taking ideas from inception to impact. There is little comparable in the social field, despite the richness and vitality of social innovation. Most people trying to innovate are aware of only a fraction of the methods they could be using.
This volume – part of a series of methods and issues in social innovation – describes the hundreds of methods and tools for innovation being used across the world, as a first step to developing a knowledge base.
Family breakdown, child abuse and neglect, carer stress, chronic disease and the vast social inequality experienced by Indigenous communities.
For too many Australians, big social challenges are an everyday reality that even the concerted efforts of public policy, community development and social sciences have not managed to shift.
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Midori Yoshimoto is a professor of art history, gallery director, and curator. As a former employee of Jersey City Museum, I had the good fortune of working alongside Midori on several occasions.
Midori routinely brought her students to the museum to visit its permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, artist talks, film screenings, and performances. Midori has always struck me as a person dedicated to art, and the appreciation of art, accessible to everybody--including, artists, students, other academics, and the person on the street.
I encourage everyone to visit Emerging Patterns, a group exhibit organized by Midori Yoshimoto, at the Arts Council of the Morris Area.
This exhibition features several artists based in Jersey City, including Bonnie Gloris; Michelle Loughlin; Margaret Murphy, and Alison Weld.
Emerging Patterns will be on view until Aug. 11.
Yoshimoto is an
associate professor of art history and gallery director New Jersey City University. She specializes in post-1945 Japanese art and its global intersections. Her publications include: "Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York" (Rutgers University Press, 2005); entries in "Yes Yoko Ono" (Abrams and Japan Society, 2000); and "From Space to Environment: The Origins of KankyM and the Emergence of Intermedia Art in Japan" in the College Art Association' s Art Journal (fall 2008). She has recently guest-edited a special issue of "Women and Performance Journal" (Rutledge/NYU) on Women and Fluxus.
Yoshimoto has also served as a lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art, New York since 2004.
BRENDAN: Midori, Tell me a little bit about your background?
MIDORI: I was born and raised in Japan. I earned my BA in art history from Osaka University in 1994. Soon after, I moved to the United States to attend the graduate program in art history at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. After receiving my Ph.D. in 2002, I started to teaching as an adjunct professor to broaden my career opportunities. In fall 2003, I landed my current position at NJCU.
BRENDAN: Midori, one question about Rutgers-New Brunswick. What is your favorite sandwich at the grease trucks along College Avenue, and why? And wow many have you eaten in one sitting?
MIDORI: Tabbouleh -- It's healthier--and only one serving at a time.
BRENDAN: Why is art important to you, and why should it be important to other people as well?
MIDORI: After I began teaching contemporary art, I've found myself engaged in opening students' eyes and minds to be able to appreciate a much broader spectrum of art than the one they were accustomed to. My study of Fluxus, a 1960s performance/intermedia art movement, helped me to loosen up my own preconceived notion of art. When I organized "
" at Art Interactive in Cambridge, MA, in 2003, I witnessed how visitors took an interest in the open-ended ideas of art manifested in Fluxus pieces. Many of the visitors seemed to become empowered by learning that they could create and perform something themselves.
After teaching for almost 7 years at NJCU, I guess I've been engaged in a similar dialogue with students many of whom have never been to exposed to contemporary art before. As an education lecturer at MoMA since 2004, I've also encountered a wide range of audience members who gave me interesting feedbacks. In many ways, contemporary art challenges people to reconsider what they already know and lead to discussions. I truly enjoy hearing these discussions and find it most rewarding if my students or audiences discover something new and inspiring.
BRENDAN: Contemporary art can get a bad rap in the press--it is regarded as obtuse, elitist, ugly, or offensive. How do you increase your audience's knowledge of contemporary art, ignite discussion, and inspire creative thinking?
MIDORI: Before a discussion about art can take place, educators need to provide students with a certain amount of information and context. I find that students will let their guard down and approach an art object that they might think is strange or ugly when they know the history behind that particular work. I find it is important to discuss when and where the work was made, under what conditions it was made, and the artist's background.
BRENDAN: How would you contextualize Yoko Ono's
for your students?
MIDORI: She performed it twice in Japan in 1964 and once in NY in 1965 and London in 1966. She sat quietly on stage and invited audience members to come up and take a pair of scissors from the floor and cut a piece of her dress and take it with them.
The score for the piece didn't specify the performer to be anybody, not necessarily a woman, but her original performances and documentary photographs and films led to more recent feminist interpretations. The most important point of the performance, however, was to wear the best dress she had at the time and offer it as a gesture of giving. In fact, it was originally inspired by one of the
tales of Buddha, in which he offered his body to a hungry tigress and her cubs. She thought many artists were demanding too much of the audience, and she wanted to create a piece about giving instead.
BRENDAN: Who are artists, what do they do, and why should we care?
MIDORI: Artists are creative thinkers, who open us up to new ways of thinking to which you may never be exposed otherwise. They often make us stop in our busy daily life and rethink what we usually take for granted. We need them so that we won't become stale.
BRENDAN: Can you site an example of an artist who stopped you in your daily life and made you rethink something that you usually take for granted?
MIDORI: Another Fluxus artist,
made a salad as a performance. It made me aware of the way I make a salad and what senses are involved in performing such a simple daily action.
BRENDAN: What artwork is more engaging--Vermeer's "Young Woman With a Waterpitcher" or Marina Abramovic's "Imponderabilia?"
MIDORI: Perhaps the latter, but I actually didn't have courage to go through it yet.
BRENDAN: What artists do you find particularly fascinating working today, and why?
MIDORI: William Kentridge's animated
continue to fascinate me since I saw them for the first time in 1999. His roughly drawn figures and landscapes and their constant metamorphosis from one state to another found emotional resonance in me.
BRENDAN: What determines the value of art? Is it skill, beauty, or originality? Is it the artist's concept, intention, or reputation?
MIDORI: I think the value is not limited to the commercial value. The true value of art depends on its power of engagement with a viewer. Art's ability to engage viewers may rely on its aesthetic quality to a certain extent and the content.
BRENDAN: If you had to live in an Ivory Tower or a fourth floor walk-up in Jersey City, which place would you choose, and why?
MIDORI: Ivory Tower meaning a high rise condo in this case? I'm fine with a third floor walk-up, but fourth floor is a little bit too much for everyday.
BRENDAN: If Jersey City Museum and Museum of Modern Art fought each other in a fifteen round title fight (Think: Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali verse Joe Frazier), whose side would you be on, and why?
MIDORI: A funny question! I would support JCM because it's much a smaller institution; it needs all the support it can get--especially considering the economic downturn. Even though I partly work for MoMA, I think MoMA has enough support.
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Jan. 7, 2013
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Scott Martin (Valparaiso, Ind.), coming off a season-high 22-point performance in Notre Dame's 93-74 win over Seton Hall in its BIG EAST opener on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 5) was today named the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll. It marked the first time in his career he has earned a BIG EAST honor. He also is the first Irish player this season to garner a player-of-the-week selection.
Martin's 22-point outing against the Pirates was one point shy of his career best (23 versus Delaware State on Nov. 18, 2011), but did mark a personal best for him in a BIG EAST game and also was the third time in his career that he topped the 20-plus point mark. Against Seton Hall, he connected on eight-of-11 shots from the field and made a career-high six three-point field goals on seven attempts. In the game, Martin also grabbed five rebounds in 31 minutes of action.
The sixth-year senior, who recently scored his 1,000th career point, is averaging 9.5 points and a career-best 6.8 rebounds. Martin has scored in double figures in contest and has grabbed 10-plus rebounds in one game (17 versus Evansville in the season opener).
He is shooting 47.3 percent from the field (44-93), up from last year's 39.9 percent, and has connected on career-best 50.0 percent (27-54) of his three-point shots. Last season, Martin made just 26.1 percent of his three-point attempts. He leads the Irish in three-point field goal percentage (and is second in the BIG EAST) and in three-point field goals made.
Martin and the Irish are 13-1 on the season and ranked 17th in the Associated Press and 16th in the USA Today/ESPN rankings. Notre Dame's 13-1 start to date matches the best-ever under head coach Mike Brey. The last time the Irish suffered just one loss through their first 14 games was during the 2006-07 campaign.
Brandon Triche of Syracuse was named the BIG EAST Player of the Week, while Ryan Arcidiancono of Villova garnered rookie-of-the-week recognition.
Joining Martin on the league's Honor Roll were Cashmere Wright of Cincinnati, Davante Gardner of Marquette, Eli Carter of Rutgers and D'Angelo Harrison of St. John's.


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Eggnog Snack Cake with Vanilla Glaze
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 large eggs, room temperature
2/3 cups eggnog, room temperature
1 tbsp. pure vanilla extract
2 cups unbleached flour
1 tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. salt
Finely grated zest from one orange
1 cup sifted powdered sugar
2 tbsp. water
1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees (375 degrees for high altitude). Grease and flour Bundt pan; set aside.
In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and grated orange zest. Set aside.
In the bowl of your mixer, beat the softened butter for a few seconds. Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy, 2-3 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Add vanilla and beat for an additional 30 seconds.
Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture, in three parts, alternating with the eggnog and mixing well after each addition.
Carefully pour the cake batter into the prepared pan. Spread evenly.
Bake for 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cake should be golden. Place cake in pan on a wire cooling rack and let cool for 15 minutes. Invert cake over cooling rack and continue to cool the cake.
When cake is cool, prepare the vanilla glaze. Combine the glaze ingredients in a microwave proof container. Microwave on high for 1 minute, stirring after each 20-25 second interval. Brush glaze on cooled cake.


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Jamaican curried goat is a national favorite. Many Jamaicians do not think that they are at a party if curried goat is not served.
Curried Goat
Serves 4
Total Time: 8 hours
2 lbs. goat meat
1 tablespoon salt
1 Scotch Bonnet pepper, seeded and minced
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
2 whole scallions, sliced
3 cloves garlic, minced
3 tomatoes, diced
1/2 cup coconut milk (optional)
Juice of 1 lime
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
3 tablespoons curry powder
1 onion, sliced
1/4 cup vegetable oil
7 cups water
Rinse the goat meat and rub all over with the juice of half of the lime. Put the meat in a large bowl and add the salt, black pepper, Scotch Bonnet pepper, thyme, allspice, curry powder, scallions, onions, and garlic. Leave it to marinate, refrigerated, for at least 2 hours. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until it is very hot. Add the meat, reserving the seasoning mixture, and cook until golden brown on all sides. Add the seasoning mixture and cook, stirring about 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and cook until everything is combined, about 3 minutes. Add the water and coconut milk and bring to a boil. Reduce to low, cover and cook until the meat is tender, about 2 hours. Stir in the remaining line juice and serve with rice.
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For Day 8 of our 12 Days of Giveaways, we have fabulous freebies from Seams Sew Special! Download two gorgeous Christmas projects, each valued at $15, featuring beautiful embroidery designs. Make an adorable bell pull with the cheerful "Very Merry Christmas" design by Seams Sew Special to decorate your front door:
Or create a lovely napkin, coaster and bottle apron set featuring a delicate cutwork snowflake design by Seams Sew Special and Criswell Designs. What a great hostess gift idea!
And it just keeps getting better! One lucky winner will also receive the adorable Penguin design below ($10 value) from Seams Sew Special by answering today's question in the comments section below: What type of embroidery design collections do you prefer: Collections that combine to create a project, a design collection with a project included, or simply random designs?
Isn't he cute? Be sure to visit Seams Sew Special to check out all of their other fabulous designs, too. Good luck to all; we'll announce the giveaway winner on Monday!


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Collective 4+
Generation Loss Interactive Inc.
- $1.99
Meet Collective. Clipboard history for your Mac. Done right. Fully compatible with macOS Sierra (10.12), as well as OS X El Capitan (10.11) and Yosemite (10.10).
"Attractive, lightweight clipboard utility gets the details right." - Macworld, four "mice".
Nearly anything you can copy, Collective will remember: Text, images, PDFs, movies, URLs, appointments, files: Collective keeps track of whatever you copy.
With a simple key combination (Command-Shift-V) Collective appears, allowing you to add nearly anything you previously copied back to the clipboard to be pasted, exactly as you copied it.
Powerful. Precise. Attractive. Everything you expect from a Mac App. Chosen by Apple as "New & Noteworthy" on the Mac App Store.
"Apps We Actually Use ... a must-have for any Mac user looking for quick and easy access to their clipboard history." - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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Collective's Features
• Appears on command (Command-Shift-V), or can be pinned open so your clipboard history is always available
• Supports nearly anything you can copy: text, images, PDFs, movies, URLs, appointments, files
• Remembers all formatting, so you can paste an item exactly as you copied it
• Favorites, so your most used clippings are quickly available
• Automatic Shortcuts, to quickly add your favorites back to the clipboard
• Details bar, to show you line counts, character counts, image dimensions, and file sizes
• Application blacklisting, to avoid copying data from sensitive applications such as password managers
• A powerful search with application filtering, to quickly find and paste previously copied items
• Quick Look, for full-size previews
• Automatic saves, so your clipboard history is available after restarts
• Automatically launch when you log in
• Fully controllable by keyboard or mouse, and supports drag and drop
• Works alongside applications in Full Screen mode, including the ability to appear on a second monitor
• Accessible, with arbitrarily resizable text and Voice Over support
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How to Use Collective
When Collective is running, a "C" will appear in the top-right of your menu bar. Pressing Command-Shift-V will show Collective's history of what you have copied (alternatively, you can click the "C" in the menu bar). Clicking on any item will add it back to your clipboard, so you can paste it again.
Note that for security reasons Collective is not able to paste directly, but rather your selected item is added back to the clipboard for you to paste. Further, due to a limitation with internal clipboards, Collective can not keep a full history for Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.). Collective can, however, be used to paste into these applications.
What's New
Version 2.0.2
Collective 2 is Here! ● Favorites ● Shortcuts ● Detail Bar ● Menu Bar ● Performance ● Refinements ● Bug Fixes
Favorites: Mark a clipping as a favorite and Collective will store it forever, no matter how large your clipping history grows. Filter by your favourites for quick access to clippings you regularly use.
Shortcuts: Your first 9 favorites are easily added to the clipboard with a simple 1-9 key press. You can also quickly mark / unmark a clipping as a favorite ('M') or filter by favourites ('F').
Detail Bar: Collective now shows you the line count, character count, image dimension, or file size for your selected clipping.
Menu Bar: the menu bar icon now directly activates Collective, or you can choose to fully hide the menu bar icon itself to save space. Preferences and other options have been moved to the Details Bar.
Performance: Collective now uses less power when both idle and active, but yet is also more responsive than ever.
Refinements: Collective's look has been tweaked in the spirit of recent OS updates, and polished throughout. We think it's the best looking version yet
Bug Fixes: a lot of small and not-so-small bugs have been squashed. In particular Collective now plays much more nicely with Spaces, Expose, TextExpander, and various other clipboard-altering applications.
Version 2.0.1 fixes an issue related to setting the clipboard history size to 2500.
Version 2.0.2 fixes an issue where Collective occasionally stops retrieving items from the clipboard, and also adds options to not ignore passwords and/or temporary items.
Ratings and ReviewsSee All
Best clipboard organizer yet
Due to its uninformative name and icon, of all the apps that came up when I searched "clipboard manager", this was the very last I looked at. So glad I didn't miss it, though, because it's the only one that does most of what I wanted. And it does it really well—I've told all my co-workers about it, and I work in an iOS app dev business, so I don't go around promoting apps unless they're solid!
One feature I'd love to see is the ability to drag items to reorder them in my list, but the filtering and search functions mean it's still easy to find what I want.
A slight bug: If you have the setting at 1 click to select an item in your list, and you've used the search tool, the cursor remains in the search box on subsequent views, so I can't use the arrow keys to move through the selections in order to delete clips I don't want.
Know that using a tool like this gives you amazing control. I couldn't live without it almost instantly, and it's saved my bacon more than once. It's a HUGE timesaver, too. You need to be committed to cleaning it out regularly or it can get huge quickly, though that's just a housekeeping issue.
It successfully does not copy files from 1Password, after I added that application to the blacklist.
Also, I have restarted it and it has crashed once, but I didn't lose even the most recent clips.
Add that feature request and then it's a solid 5!
Works as expected, nice app to have
I installed this app today and am thinking it will get a lot of use. I launched the app from Launchpad, the "C" appeared in my menubar, and the app immediately picked up the last thing that was copied to the clipboard. I tested a few items in a text editor and the app seems to work as expected. One feature that I didn't realise this app had was that you can drag an item from the Collective history list and drop it into a text editor - works like a charm. I quit the app, re-launched it, and the history list was retained. I like that this app has a blacklist, so I added my password manager to the blacklist and Collective did not copy anything from the password manager - an excellent feature! The website listed for this app contains a feature list, a FAQ, and a link to obtain support. I really like this app, it works as expected, and the price was right. Thank you!
Click-to-Paste Doesn't Work - Update
Keeps snippets and images on the clipboard but neither option to paste after clicking works. Nothing happens. I tried both single and double clicking to paste with zero results. I liked the idea of keeping images on the clipboard instead of just text, but I guess I'll go back to my old clipboard manager. :(
Edit: This non-fuctional behavior is due to Apple's Sandboxing limitations. This pretty much makes this app pointless except for keeping a clip history which Alfred does already, as does a myriad of other apps. The only bonus this one has is that it keeps images on the clipboard and most others don't. Shame that this functionality is gutted.
- Seller
- Generation Loss Interactive Inc.
- Size
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
OS X 10.7 or later, 64-bit processor
- Languages
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2013 – 2017 Generation Loss Interactive Inc.
- Price
- $1.99
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.


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Bean Bag Chairs Unique Characteristics
Bean bag chairs have the awesome ability to adapt to the posture of the person sitting in or on them. This makes the bean bag chairs very comfortable
and actually a recommended medium for sitting or lying down for those who have back issues or other chronic body pain problems.
Due to the low cost of the bean bag chairs it is possible for anyone to buy these chairs for their own personal use and enjoy the adaptive benefits that
the bean bag design provides.
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Spring fever, anyone? It's hard to resist finding any excuse to be outside these days. A leisurely stroll through the Gardens will be well rewarded this week.
Head down to the Gates Montane Garden. With the water features turned off for their annual spring cleaning, the birdsong is the main sound you hear, and they are busy just now! Find a bench by the pond, where you can watch them bathe and find food. See how many you can identify. Let's see: he and she ducks, flickers, crows, robins…
Grab and bench or table most anywhere, soak up the sun, and revel that spring seems to have come again this year!
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