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The word Oregano is derived from the Greek oros, meaning 'mountain' and ganos, meaning 'joy' and 'beauty', how right. This is the most wonderful group of plants that not only look stunning at this time of year but are also useful in the kitchen and very beneficial for bees and butterflies.
The leaves of this herb have a wonderful rounded flavour and a tea can be made from the leaves to ease an upset stomach. Sadly this oregano, is now endangered in the wild. To grow it in the UK you must plant it in a very well drained soil as otherwise our wet winters will cause it to rot.
Another wonderful oregano in this group is Origanum 'Kent Beauty' much beloved by bees.
These amazing bracts which surround the small flowers turn an even deeper shade of pink as the flowers fade.
The bracts dry beautifully making them ideal for dried flower arrangements and a wonderful Christmas presents for friends.
This oregano I found as a seedling growing along side Origanum dictamnus. I propagated it and found that it ran true from cuttings so named it Origanum 'Jekka's Beauty'. The leaves of this oregano are also hairy, just like O. dictamnus, and they also have a good culinary flavour.
With all these special, beautiful, Oregano's it is essential to cut them back hard after flowering so that they make a new crown of leaves which will then help the plant survive the winter months. You will then be rewarded with a spectacular display in the following summer.


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i just wanted to say thank you for doing this marcus..
i am amzed that no one else has been on..
i am in the states and i had my first mc 22 years ago christmas day.
i had left my ex.
been married to my wonderful husband for almost 15 years now.
it will be in may.
we did 1 ifv and something happend to all of our embies so we had to start all over again.
we had gotten pregnant with our twins our son and daughter. couldnt have been happier but we went in the day before chritsmas had we had no hart beats. had just gone in the wk before and everything was great.
went back the day after christmas and they did a d& c.
which i do regret. i would so much love to have my son and daughter out in the island with our son. who we got pregnant with on march 18..
but we mc on july . just before my birthday..
i miss all of my children so much.
we have in total adopted 5 children 4 boys and one girl..
i would still love to have a baby adopted or by birth.
it is pretty doubtful that i will ever beable to carry a baby to full term.
we run a foster home. all boys..
they have all been amazing and i am very thankful for each and everyone of them...
there ages are 10 to 19. our oldest is 23 and he is dou on the 13 to have a daughter.
and our daughter is 22 . our youngest just turned 11.
i am still wishing for a miracle eather i wake up one day and i am pregnant or one day heavenly father will lead a way for just the right baby to be in my arms..
but i do know that no matter what i am not alone and that i am very much loved...
and that i have also found some one wonderful lifetime firends..
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Yarn Bombing– Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.
Yarn Bombing is one of the coolest forms of urban art I've ever seen. It has become an international movement, adding brightness and color in a non-destructive matter to cities around the world.
a tree in germany
"Wooly Bully"- the bull statue on Wall Street, New York, NY covered in yarn by Olek, the most famous yarn artist.
a bus in Mexico City, Mexico
a London telephone booth
a World War II tank in Copenhagen, Denmark
Juliana Santacruz Herrera patches up cracked streets in Paris, France
a yarn bombed train seat in California on the Berkeley-San Francisco BART
statue in Bali, Indonesia
For more pictures, here's a tumblr dedicated to yarn bombing.
FYI, yarn bombing is considered illegal, just like graffiti. Even though it is able to be removed, it is destruction of public property.


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After 27 years, KIRA continues to provide facilities maintenance and construction services for clients nationally and worldwide. The company is rapidly approaching $1 billion in contracts.
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Born in Cuba, Garcia split his childhood between Ecuador and the Bahamas, before gaining U.S. citizenship and landing at the University of Pennsylvania. After obtaining his MBA from Columbia University, Garcia set to work building his company -- eventually expanding from a one-man operation in a small Miami office to employing more than 1,000 employees nationwide.
Over the years, KIRA has collected numerous accolades. In 2008, the company was ranked No. 1 in Inc. Magazine's "Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Nation" list.
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CNTbands can simulate electronic band structure and density of states for carbon nanotubes (CNT), as well as graphene nanoribbons (GNR). It also computes some basic parameters, such as nanotube diameter, number of hexagons in the unit cell, and band gap. Users may select the GNR structure to be simulated by selecting a starting point and components for a chiral vector. CNTs are simulated either with a simple Pz orbital model or Extended Huckel theory. The Extended Huckel model can deliver more accurate simulation results, especially for small-diameter CNTs.


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The BundesTagger is an unofficial open government website exposing the plenary proceedings of the Bundestag, Germany's national parliament. The BundesTagger API provides developer access to Bundestag parliamentary groups, sessions, speeches and other resources. This RESTful API supports HTTP GET calls and returns XML or JSON formatted responses. JSONP is supported for callbacks.


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Subbiah Arunachalam forwarded a link to an interview of Professor P. Balaram regarding Open Archives. (Balaram is currently the director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore so he is in a position to influence national policy in such matters).
I broadly agreed with his views and I posted a comment which I am reproducing here. Primarily, there are differences between different disciplines. The quotes below are from the interview.
If I publish a paper in Nature, for example, it can be made freely available in my institute's repository after six months. Some journals let archived papers be made available immediately.
... and again later ...
But many publishers have no problem with the open archives approach, even if some still require a delay.
In our discussions with Elsevier we were assured that the policy of that publisher is to allow authors to use institutional repositories at any time (but see the caveats below).
One issue that is yet to be resolved, however, is copyright. I argue that we should be permitted to put in the repository the full text article as it appears in a journal.
There is a difference between "full text" and "as it appears in the journal". If the journal has put in any effort at all into re-formatting your text/images in order to get it to conform with their journal standard, then the copyright for that re-formatting work (usually a combination of manual labour and software) belongs to the journal.
For example, Elsevier insists that you do not put the PDF (or other) image file of the exact form of the journal publication in your institute repository.
I personally find this quite acceptable since papers in the Mathematical Sciences are perfectly readable in the form in which the authors submit them to the journal. However, re-creating a distributable PDF or other online form of one's paper may be far more difficult in other disciplines --- I have no idea.
For this, countries such as India should have a law specifying that the copyright for articles published with publicly-funded research always vests with the authors and their institutions.
One need not wait for copyright law to change. The directors of each of the research institutes can insist that every paper sent for publication should be made available in the form of a research report with the institute library. By extension, the electronic form of this report would be in the institutional repository. One way to ensure compliance is to only allow reports that are available in the institute library to be used for evaluation (for promotions and the like).
The scientists would then refrain from giving up all copyright to their publishers. In my (limited) experience, publishers will not object to authors retaining the right to make copies as long as such copies are not independently sold.
Unfortunately, scientists as "the silent compliant mob" does not fit with my experience. In all matters which relate to science administration (and publications are at the centre of that), scientists are by-and-large "status quo"-ists. It will need a strong push from those at the top of the ladder to change the status quo. Professor P. Balaram is certainly one of those at "the top of the ladder" so I would like to see more action to match his words!
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Ok so what's the trick?
I rarely do logic puzzles though I like them and I thought I was pretty good at them until I came here. My success rate is good but my speed is nowhere near what people get on average here and the record times are beyond belief to me. How can someone finish a puzzle in under 2 mins that take the average person over 10 minutes to finish? Just going through the clues the first time and marking the sheet takes me over 2 minutes. Obviously, the ones who can finish so quickly are very experienced and there is a trick to it, that is, to do it so incredibly fast. Got any pointers for a slow poke like me.
Forgive the stupid question.
After posting this thread I went and did a puzzle and realized as I was solving it that my question is basically impossible to answer. It would take a manual to cover ever thing you need to consider in order to do logic puzzles with extreme speed. Nevermind..I guess speed will come with experience.
No, not a stupid question at all.
While experience and clue-specific techniques, like you said, are significant factors, there are also some tricks. One that comes to mind is that you can submit your answer as soon as you fill in green circles for the first set of rows (all the way across). In other words, crossing off false combinations (anywhere) and adding circles for the lower parts of the grid only needs to be done to the extent that it helps you figure out the true combinations for the first set of rows. I too was nowhere near average when I started, and though experience allowed me to get much closer to average, I don't think I've ever got better than average when I fill in the whole grid. (Even using this I can't get much better than average, though.)
As for the unbelievably fast times, I think many of those are done using some amount of pattern recognition. Basically, although the site randomizes names (I think), there are a limited number of puzzles that are truly different, and some people play so much and have such a good memory that they can recognize which puzzle they are doing part way through and just fill the rest in from memory. The site creator mentioned that, although pattern recognition isn't exactly cheating, the next major update will probably include changes intended to prevent it.
Thanks for the tip and the explaination. I doubt that I will ever or at least rarely do these puzzles in the average time either. I guess I need to quit trying to be so competitive and just have a good time. Good luck to ya!
I routinely do much below average times even when I get a new puzzle without any benefit of using advanced logic skills to lower my times. You just need to get experience. It also helps me to focus on harder puzzles. I never start puzzles that have an average time below about 600 seconds and a success rate above about 50%. The key is understanding and harnessing the power of symbolic logic. Much can be gained by understanding how the clues really give more information than one might see on the surface. All the clues can be reduced to symbolic logic type equations, such as A>B or Of A & B, 1 is C and 1 is D. When I started solving logic puzzles on this site, I actually wrote these equations down and reached conclusions from them that allowed me to begin filling in the grid, both X's and O's. After awhile I didn't need to write them down to get the information from them. That saves a lot of time. There are other logic "tricks" that are useful. After all, they call them logic puzzles for a good reason. If you try this method, I would suggest playing as a guest at first as this method of seeing the logic patterns takes a lot of time until you begin to catch on.
Good Luck
When I want to get fast times, I choose puzzles that have success rates of above 70%, and average times below 400 seconds, by clicking on the new game button. If you start with those, you won't get so frustrated.
There are only so many kinds of clues, and you will become faster at comprehending those. You will be faster if you skim the clues. Such as, instead of reading all of:
The scoutmaster who taught the half-hitch knot has an anniversary after Liam Neeson's cousin.
Just skim to get "half-hitch" "after" "Liam". Then, put your x's in the boxes.
I really think part of my problem is in my mouse. It seems like it takes an awful lot of time to get the markers to post on the grid. Just my opinion.
When I first started I was really good at doing the puzzles, but not so good at being fast. I think the fastest (1) don't fill in all the X's - I'm training myself to not do that (2) do certain types of clues first to get the maximum info on the board fast (3) have great memories - there are lots of times I go through the clues a second time and realize that I already knew that info (4) and do so many of them they just react. As I've done more of them, I get faster. I do the simple ones (with high completion rates and low averages times) faster than average, but it still takes me longer, though less than average, on the more complicated ones. I don't hunt for specific puzzles though. I do whatever comes up. If I only did the ones I was fastest at, my average time would go down. If I only did the hardest ones, my average points would go up. Since that would get boring, I aimed to stay at a 100% completion rate. A snow storm killed that stat the other day, so now I just enjoy the puzzles, which is where I was when I found the site originally. Not that it wouldn't be cool to get a medal someday, but I normally have too much to do in real life to be much of a competitor at my current speeds.
the answer is - they cheat! it is impossible to complete in under 2 minutes - my guess is they are copying from the book version they already completed
Love this site, but the 89 second completion records just really frustrate me!!!!
Quit everybody!
I know how you feel. For me, it's EXACTLY the same way!
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For the Ninja Storm Megazord, see Thunder Megazord (Ninja Storm).
"Thunder Megazord, power up!"
The Thunder Megazord, also referred to as Mega Thunderzord or simply Megazord, is the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' second Megazord formation, created by merging the five Thunderzords: the Tyrannosaurus Red Dragon Thunderzord, Mastodon Lion Thunderzord, Triceratops Unicorn Thunderzord, Sabertooth Tiger Griffin Thunderzord and Pterodactyl Firebird Thunderzord.
See also: Mythical Chi Beasts
The Thunderzords are the second set of Zords for the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. They were created from the Dinozords and were larger than their previous counterparts, with much greater strength.
When Lord Zedd came to Earth, he created Pirantishead, who quickly used his powers to take control of the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord and the Dragonzord while freezing the other Dinozords. Zordon and Alpha 5 began work on the creation of the Thunderzords. By using the Dinozords as templates, they would use the "power of thunder" to transform the Dinozords into the Thunderzords. The rangers first had to reclaim their Dinozords from Pirantishead, which they did after a struggle. The Mutiny
The creation of the White Ranger also prompted the creation of a new Zord to take the Dragonzord's place. The White Tigerzord became Tommy's newest Zord. White Light
The Thunder Megazord and the White Tigerzord battled against Rito Revolto shortly after he joined Rita and Zedd on the moon. Although they appeared to be winning, the duel was really an elaborate trap. From the Moon, Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa used their powers to make several hidden monsters into giants, overwhelming the rangers and resulting in their destruction. Ninja Quest
However, the Thunderzords were somehow reanimated by Zedd for use by the second team of Dark Rangers against the Ninja Rangers. The Ninja rangers defeated their counterparts. Dark Thunder
After receiving their Zeo powers from the Zeo Crystal, the Rangers gained new zords. Billy mentioned recycling old zords, so it is possible that the remains of the Thunderzords were among the recycled parts. Power Rangers Zeo
Mastodon Lion ThunderzordEdit
|Mastodon Lion Thunderzord
|Zack Taylor/Adam Park
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|47 tons
The Mastodon was the template to create the more powerful Mastodon Lion Thunderzord. The Zord was piloted by Zack Taylor and Adam Park. Zordon explained that the Lion had "courage and strength". It did not share the same abilities as the Mastodon, but it was given greater armor and defense.
The Mastodon Lion Thunderzord was part of the Thunderzord Assault Team, making up the forward component of the chariot. The Lion would serve as the arms, the torso, and helmet for the Thunder Megazord. Also, the Lion could combine with the other Thunderzords and the White Tigerzord to make the Mega Tigerzord, the Lion forming the shoulder pads and back.
Pterodactyl Firebird ThunderzordEdit
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|Kimberly Hart
|30 m
|24 m
|35 tons
The Pterodactyl Firebird Thunderzord is the Pink Mighty Morphin Ranger's second Zord. It first appeared in The Mutiny, along with the rest of the Thunderzords, to help counter Lord Zedd's more powerful monsters. It was created from the Pterodactyl Dinozord, utilizing the former Zord as a template. The Pterodactyl Dinozord would be struck by a pink lightning bolt, transforming it into the Firebird.
On its own, the Firebird was capable of creating an energy tornado and sending it towards monsters.
The Firebird is one of the five components to the Thunder Megazord. When the Zord is formed, the Firebird would wrap itself around the Red Dragon Thunderzord's waist, forming the belt. It could also combine with the White Tigerzord, along with the other Thunderzords, to form the Mega Tigerzord. The Firebird would form a claw in the White Tigerzord's right arm. It also makes up part of the Thunderzord Assault Team, sitting behind the Red Dragon, wings outstretched. The Assault Team could then also form the top portion of the Thunder Ultrazord.
Triceratops Unicorn ThunderzordEdit
|Triceratops Unicorn Thunderzord
|Billy Cranston
|30 m
|24 .5 m
|52 tons
The Triceratops was the template to create the more powerful Triceratops Unicorn Thunderzord. Piloted by Billy Cranston, it could launch large boulders at foes. It formed the right leg of the Thunder Megazord and MegaTigerzord, and sat on the right side of the Assault Team. Its design is like that of a moving cart with a single front appendage that allows it to move.
Sabertooth Tiger Griffin ThunderzordEdit
|Sabertooth Tiger Griffin Thunderzord
|Trini Kwan/Aisha Campbell
|30 m
|24 .5 m
|52 tons
The Sabertooth Tiger Dinozord was the template to create the more powerful Sabertooth Tiger Griffin Thunderzord. Piloted by Trini Kwan and Aisha Campbell, it could project fireballs when used in combat on its own. It formed the left leg of both the Thunder Megazord and the MegaTigerzord, and sat on the left side of the Assault Team. Like the Triceratops Unicorn Thunderzord, its design is like that of a moving cart with a single front appendage that allows it to move.
Tyrannosaurus Red Dragon ThunderzordEdit
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|Jason Lee Scott/Rocky DeSantos
|(Dragon mode) 82 m
|(Warrior mode) 34.5 m
|102 tons
The Red Dragon Thunderzord was the second Zord of the Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger (Jason Lee Scott and Rocky DeSantos) and the successor to the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord.
It first appeared in The Mutiny, after Lord Zedd's monster Pirantishead managed to take control of the Tyrannosaurus and the Dragonzord. After freeing the Tyrannosaurus from Pirantishead's control, the Power Rangers used the "power of thunder" to upgrade the Dinozords into the Thunderzords.
The Red Dragon was the first Zord in the series to possess two battle modes: Dragon and Warrior. In Warrior mode, it would fight opponents by hand-to-hand combat or by wielding its staff that he could spin at high speeds to attack, and to allow the Assault Team to fly. It could also merge with the other Thunderzords to form the Thunder Megazord, serving as the main portion of the Megazord. In Dragon mode, it could breathe flame and attack with its claws mid-flight. Similar to the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord, the Red Dragon is capable of fighting and defeating a monster on its own. Its wrists are capable of spinning at high speeds, allowing it to use its staff like helicopter blades. It is also able to ride the Tigerzord while it is in Tiger Mode.
Combined FormsEdit
Thunderzord Assault TeamEdit
See also: Heavenly Chi Palace
The Thunderzords could combine to form the Thunderzord assault team. The Lion, Unicorn, Griffin, and Firebird would combine into an airborne chariot, which the Red Dragon would ride in his warrior mode.
Thunder MegazordEdit
See also: Dairen'oh
The Thunder Megazord is created by merging the five Thunderzords: the Red Dragon, Lion, Unicorn, Griffin and Firebird. It was slower and heavier than its predecessor, but was more powerful and resilient, capable of resisting Lord Zedd's attempts to enslave it without the aid of any external signal-blockers. The Megazord uses its sword (called the Thunder Saber) as a weapon, and to finish off his enemies powers up his sword and performs a big slash. Unlike the Thunder Megazord's predecessor, his sword does not fall from the sky, but is kept in a scabbard on his waist. Another one of his weapons is the green window on his chest, which can unleash a smokescreen that can cause damage.
The Thunder Megazord is the Red Dragon Thunderzord with the other four zords acting as armor. The Unicorn and Griffin Thunderzords serve as the boots; the Firebird Thunderzord serves as the fauld; and the Lion Thunderzord serves as the cuirass and helmet of the Thunder Megazord. Therefore, for all intents and purposes, the Red Dragon Thunderzord, in his humanoid form, is merely a lightly armored and faster version of the Thunder Megazord.
The Thunder Megazord first appeared in The Mutiny, after the Rangers freed the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord and the Dragonzord from Pirantishead. Zordon and Alpha 5 provided the Rangers with the ability to transform the Dinozords into the Thunderzords. Unfortunately it was bested and destroyed in a fight with Rito RevoltoNinja Quest.
The Unicorn & Griffin Thunderzords became the legs, Red Dragon Thunderzord in Warrior mode will attach to the legs, Firebird Thunderzord will become the skirt and Lion Thunderzord will become the chest, arms, and helmet.
- Though normally referred to as the "Thunder Megazord," the original five Rangers more often refered to it as the "Mega Thunderzord." In "The Mutiny, Part 3," Zordon himself referred to it as the "Mega Thunderzord," even though he called it the "Thunder Megazord" in just the previous episode when introducing the new Zords to the Rangers.
- The Thunderzords are named sans the Dinosaur prefixes in the toyline. However in-show, they are always called on by referring to the Dinozord template first.
- The Unicorn Thunderzord is incorrectly named, as its motif is based off of the winged horse Pegasus. As is the Griffin Thunderzord, which is a Qilin.
- The Thunder Megazord toy was released twice, once as separate sets with the Red Dragon Thunderzord and the rest of the Thunderzord as part of the Thunderzord Assault Team set, and another time as a complete set with all five zords.
- To drive the point that the Lion Thunderzord was Black Ranger's zord, the Lion Thunderzord's head was repainted black in the American toy release instead of Green. The Lion Thunderzord originated as the Mythical Chi Beast Star-Shishi in Gosei Sentai Dairanger. This was the zord/mecha of ShishiRanger who was green, hence why the Zord has green accents and green lightning appears in front of it in the Thunder Megazord's transformation sequence.
- The Lion Thunderzord is modeled after the statue of an Imperial guardian lion, the type that is found in Chinese temples, museums, government offices, etc.
- In the comics, the Thunderzord's circular chest-piece has three lines on it lined on like the Saban logo.
- In some footage of the Red Dragon Thunderzord in dragon mode, RyuuRanger can be seen on top of the head of the zord.
- During many of the Megazord Formations, the Unicorn Thunderzord's and Griffin Thunderzord's sounds are swapped, it's unknown if this was a production error.


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10/10/10 is wedding perfection
Published On Tue Oct 5 2010
Katie Daubs, Staff Reporter
Shhhh . . . Esther Chang and Michael Kim haven't told anyone they're getting married this weekend. Their family and friends think their formal wedding is in Mexico this January. Thing is, getting married in Mexico involves blood work and other red tape if you go the official route. And, a marriage at city hall this Sunday involves a once-in-a-century number: 10/10/10.
The original plan was to quietly get married this Sunday to snag the lucky date and have the big party in Mexico with the bridesmaids and cake on January 10. "We didn't want to explain it to everyone," Chang said. "It's just paperwork," Kim said of this Sunday's wedding. "But it will be kind of cool to have that date to look back on."
At the city hall wedding chamber, other couples think so too. The demand for 10/10/10 weddings has been so high the city took the rare step of relocating to a nearby hotel since the chamber is closed on Sundays. As of Tuesday, 19 weddings have been booked. http://www.thestar.com/news/article/871141--10-10-10-is-wedding-perfection
There was rush about a month or two ago for another auspicious alignment of numbers in a date on the lunar calendar. But the dates are still on the Gregorian calendar so what are the lunar calendar equivalent dates?


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A Venge with Hydro R
Haven't heard if Hydro Rim brakes helped Cavs in the Tour's crash yesterday, but that he's riding them is news and a win for SRAM. We got the PR and this photo of his bike on Friday.
I reviewed and fully approved of HRR earlier this year and on Tuesday will attend a clinic, building up a bike with RED 22 HRR. That post about Hydro brakes, and much more, is also bundled for free with our new magazine for iOS.
Where SRAM's new "22" groups are a response to their competitors—it's Red 2012 with another click— Hydro is the story. The development in brakes is an engineering statement that's as much about SRAM as a company as how bikes stop. This is the company who brought us GripShift, fought for years to break up how drivetrains were sold, and now is moving the market with a break-through product that again challenges a conventional market lacking a major jump forward.


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Best Body Scrubs For Summer
3 Body Scrubs That Will Slough Your Cares (and Dead Skin) Away
With all the swimming, beaching, and short-shorts wearing that you're doing this season, what better time to indulge in a little full-body bliss? As important as it is to exfoliate your face during warm weather, you shouldn't forget about the rest of your skin; creating a smooth canvas for shaving, moisturizing, and applying bronzer is key — and it'll only make your skin look that much more amazing in all your pretty Summer ensembles. There are tons of great body buffers out there, but to see three of the best skin-smoothing scrubs, just keep reading.
Bliss Blood Orange and White Pepper Scrub ($36): This sugar scrub is packed with vitamins A, C, and E to protect against free radicals, as well as sunflower oil, which does an amazing job of smoothing and softening your skin. It creates a nice lather, which is great for use with a loofah or sea sponge. Also, the citrusy scent is really invigorating and perfect for your morning shower.
Origins Skin Diver Charcoal Scrub ($20): Bacne got you down? This scrub does wonders to unclog pores and get rid of bumps and body breakouts. It includes active bamboo charcoal, dead sea salts, and organic brown sugar — all of which help to gently exfoliate and buff away dead skin — plus soybean and olive oils that nourish and protect. Despite its thickness, it rinses off easily and doesn't leave any chalky residue.
Philosophy When Hope Is Not Enough Omega 3-6-9 Body Scrub ($30): Yes, a scrub that contains omega-3 fatty acids! This baby is pretty magical; it's amazingly lightweight, has a clean, fresh scent, and nourishes and conditions really well. It's a great buy for those with dry patches or sensitive skin, because it's gentle and won't irritate any rough spots. For optimum results, I recommend applying to dry skin in circular motions, then rinsing off in the shower.
Watching your budget? Hit the kitchen and make your own body scrubs with these easy DIY recipes.


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A wireless vibration sensor being developed by a Victoria University student could provide a low-cost solution for engineers to monitor the damage of buildings affected by earthquakes.
Daniel Tomicek, a fourth year Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering student, has been working on the innovative device, which harnesses the kinetic energy generated by earthquakes, as part of his final year research project.
The wireless sensor Daniel has developed is designed to be placed in several locations of a building to monitor the stress sustained by different areas during an earthquake.
The sensor harnesses the energy of the building's movement during an earthquake to power itself, measuring the acceleration of the movement, and transmitting information in the form of data packets to an off-site computer. The data can then be used by engineers to help assess the extent of damage to the building.
When earthquakes occur, the energy harvested from the vibrations activates the wireless transceiver to transmit the data packets which contain the sensor's identifier. The greater the vibrations, the greater the energy harvested and the more packets that are sent. The device uses minimal energy—so when there is no movement, the sensor simply does not operate.
Daniel has been working with Professor Winston Seah and Dr Ramesh Rayudu from Victoria's Faculty of Engineering to develop a prototype which is affordable, and can be easily fixed to different parts of a building.
Currently, no sensor exists in the marketplace that doesn't rely on batteries or electricity supply to run—meaning Daniel's sensor is a major step forward.
"The biggest challenge has been figuring out how to make the sensor work from a cold start—how to ensure the initial packet of information was sent, given that earthquake movements begin so suddenly," says Daniel.
He has been testing the sensor's capabilities recently at Te Papa's Earthquake House in its Awesome Forces exhibit, where the device monitored 'earthquakes' at the house over the course of a week.
"Testing at the Earthquake House was a real success. The device managed to sense each earthquake and send packets of information for each one."
"Being able to use the exhibit was a very handy way of testing the device, and the staff members at Te Papa were really supportive."
Daniel says he was inspired to create a kinetic sensor after a friend worked on a similar project during a summer research scholarship at Victoria University. He had also heard about applications being developed in Europe, where special springs added to dance floors in nightclubs can harness an electrical current generated by the movement of dancers, which is then stored in batteries and used to run devices.
Daniel is looking forward to graduating next year and doing some overseas travel, before applying the skills he has learnt at university in the workplace.
Explore further: Taiwan builds first undersea earthquake sensor


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Pickles are one of those things that has grown on me in a large way as an adult!
But as with all food, not every pickle is created equal. This you will know for sure after eating a Grillo's Pickle… only the best pickle in the world (their website says so!)
I found out about Grillo's Pickles in Boston Magazine. I was reading up on the best burgers in Boston when I veered off to the small article below talking about these amazing pickles! What started as a street cart in Boston has expanded to pickle distribution in Whole Foods and other grocery stores on the East Coast, as well as their very own Pickle Store which I visited in East Cambridge.
The store not only has pickles, it has pickled beets, pickled jicama, pickled asparagus and sriracha pickles (yes please)!
As well as pickle branded merchandise out the yin-yang! Socks, yup, shirts, of course…
… chap stick, why not! Bandages, toothpaste and pickle pops, for sure!
If you're in Boston, Grillo's is a must-stop, whether you just chow down on a couple of spears (you won't be able to eat just one!) or take a quart of pickles to go, you will not be disappointed!
Visit Grillo's Pickles at 1075 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA Tue-Sat 11AM-7PM and Sun 11AM-5PM or go to their website to learn more about the ultimate pickle story and where else you can buy their delicious pickles.


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Hi! This site has moved to http://parrymathur.com. See you there!
Happy New Year!
Here's wishing everyone a very Happy New Year 2012!
Books on a Phone; Bye Bye, Stanza; Hello, Kobo!
I use my iPhone heavily for reading books. It may sound strange and the general perception of straining your eyes may lead you to think of this as an unhealthy practice. However, on closer examination you would realise that text size on most phones' eBook readers is scalable, which means that you can resize the font to any level you're comfortable with. Another reason why people are shy to jump into this domain is because they believe that most phones' screens are too small to practically read books. In fact, this isn't the case at all! Most of today's smartphones are perfect for reading. Think about it; when you're reading a physical book, your window of attention doesn't encapsulate the entire page. It doesn't even cover half the page in most cases. The window of attention is just a tiny block covering four to six words sideways and two to three lines vertically. In this way, a phone's screen is a very suitable medium to display Books. A third argument people pose against reading eBooks is the concept of the phone emitting harmful rays that damage the eyes. Well, scientific research has shown that this is just a cautionary tale and has no basis to prove its validity. Also, reading in dim light also doesn't cause any damage to the eyes. Often, my parents tell me to switch on the lights when I'm using my phone in the dark. When I tell them that the light's purpose is to bounce off non-luminescent objects so that our eyes can perceive them and that phone-screens produce their own light, they don't seem convinced and remain worried 🙂.
Well, coming back to reading eBooks on one's phone. If you're somehow taken by the idea of switching your reading life over to the electronic world, but are inhibited from taking the next step because you don't have an iPhone or a fancy Android phone, don't worry! Before I had the iPhone, I had the Sony Ericsson K810i. This phone supports Java applications. There's a PC application called TequilaCat, which allows you to convert text/doc/pdf files into mini Java apps. You can customise these JARs to the font size, font colour, screen colour and other formatting of your choice. It's such a wonderful application that I have read at least five books on my K810i without any problems at all. TequilaCat books will work on most phones that support Java apps.
Last night, I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 5. In the process, I lost the untethered jailbreak that I'd been clinging on to since iOS 4.2.1. I didn't have much to regret, however, since most of the jailbreak features I'd been using on 4.2.1 have now been covered by iOS 5, out of which, notifications is the most important.
However, one thing hit me like a punch to the jaw by Iron Mike: Stanza, my favourite eBook reader no longer worked. On launching, I got an unwelcoming Unhandled Exception popup, which kept reappearing every time I touched Continue. If you haven't heard of Stanza, understand that it is a beauty of an app. In my opinion, iBooks, Apple's own eBook reader is a feature-lacking skeuomorph that doesn't do any justice to book-lovers. It may have a fancy page-turn effect for aesthetics, but what else does it have? The margins on iBooks are too wide and leave very little space for legible text. The page turn effect is irritating to initiate and is very distracting. Moreover, there is no option to turn it off. Stanza, on the other hand, allows to you to choose between a page turn effect, a slide effect (which is what I had used) and no effect at all. It lets you categorise books based on title and author. It allows you to edit book titles, modify author names and download book covers from within the app. Not only this, but it also lets you transfer your ePubs via iTunes file sharing. iBooks, however, relies on the clunky sync-through-iTunes method. It ties you down to one computer. It's pre-historic and over-promoted. Stanza did everything to satisfy my reading needs. I was not at all prepared for the shock I would receive after the iOS 5 update.
Frantically, I Googled "Stanza iOS 5 Unhandled Exception" and started racing through forum posts to find some answer. Any little fix! There was none. I found out that the developer who created Stanza had been hired a while ago by Amazon – makers of the Kindle eBook reader. Now, Kindle already has an iPhone app and it could have been a conflict of interest situation for the developer to have continued working on Stanza. In effect, this means that Stanza may never recover. However, many forum users pointed out that there's another app called BlueFire. Although this app isn't as good as Stanza in terms of editing titles and changing their book-covers, it does the basic job, at least better than iBooks. However, I didn't like BlueFire enough to make it my prime Reading app. The page sliding was clunky and uncomfortable, the menu was too distracting and the settings were not extensive enough. I needed something that would fill the gap between Bluefire and Stanza.
Kobo. Kobo is an eBook reader made by Toronto based Kobo Inc. Kobo is an anagram of Book. Very pretty. Kobo, however isn't nonsense. I had heard of the app before, but had never bothered to download it since I had Stanza to do my bidding. Last night, I reached out to this neglected child after the first born had abandoned me 🙂 . Kobo has proved to be an exceptional eReader app. I must confess that it's better looking than Stanza. It's got a good choice of settings where I can change the font size and brightness. It lets me flip to night-mode (light text on a dark background) and a sepia background. In addition to that, you have a choice of four fonts. The text renders beautifully and the app hasn't crashed (yet!) However, the thing that I like most about this app is the vertical scrolling ability! I can't tell you how badly I wanted this. Every other eBook reader has a somehow inexplicable page-turn concept, where after finishing a block of text on the screen, you have to swipe horizontally to encounter another block. On a psychological level, this didn't feel very satisfying and it fragmented my reading experience. I had previously read many books on my computer. There, the natural tendency for me was to scroll vertically. Why would I ever want to flip horizontally across unsatisfying chunks of text? The good people at Kobo somehow read my mind and their app lets you scroll vertically for the entirety of a whole chapter, after which, you touch the > button to go to the next chapter and start the process all over again.
One shortcoming I noticed in Kobo was the inability to search books. Yes. You can't do a random search via text. You have to scroll through your book-list. You can't sort by author and you most definitely can't edit book-info and author-info. Downloading book covers is out of the question. However, as I have mentioned above, I was looking for something that filled the gap between BlueFire and Stanza. Had Kobo been as good as Stanza, it would've been number one since the beginning, as it scores better in the looks department. However, now that big brother is ill, little brother can have its moment in the sun. Let's hope the developers see this as an opportunity and enhance the app. So, until the next big thing comes out, Kobo is my eBook app of choice, and it may even continue to be so because of its vertical scrolling feature.
If you have tried any of these apps or know about a better eBook app, please do share your experience. Also, do let me know what you feel about reading eBooks in general. Do you find reading eBooks emotionally satisfying? Or do you prefer the charm of flipping pages while sipping on a coffee, never worrying about running out of battery?
Because He Was There…
Because He Was There: My Video Tribute to Steve Jobs.
This video is a walk in time, showing each era's contemporary products that could have stayed, had Apple not come up with something "insanely great".
Because Steve was there, so many of today's wonderful electronic devices and software applications came to be.
It's hard to imagine what the world would have been like had he not been there.
Steve Jobs
Almost Iced Americano
I have access to ice-cubes at work. I use them to prepare Iced Americano (well, something resembling it, at least!), which makes a cool summer drink. I fill one cup till the top with ice cubes, and then pour on it one-and-a-half hot espresso shots taken from the coffee-machine (without diluting, as done with regular Americano). In about 30 seconds, the drink is ice-cold.


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The winner of my 100th blog post giveaway is ......
............ Jodi from "come tarry with me"
Congratulations Jodi!! I really hope you enjoy the Cherry Christmas charm pack and I look forward to seeing what you make with it :)
Thank you to everyone who entered my little giveaway! I loved reading what each of you have planned for your Christmas sewing. Some of you are very ambitious, including entirely handmade Christmas's.
(source - thanks Bec!)
I'm planning on sewing a Christmas version of Bec's (Chasing Cottons) gorgeous "Curlicue Crush" quilt. To me it looks like Christmas tree baubles and I think it would look great in some red, green and silvery grey fabrics :)
I better get started because Christmas will be here before we know it!!


text: Hi, It uses web servers (Debian 6) disk resources mounted via NFS RPC-enabled QUOTA. Unfortunately repquota does not work correctly with NFS and therefore have no reporting in the administration panel of use of the website. Check with the command QUOTA quota for the user is working properly. How do I modify the script to check QUOTA via NFS? Regards.


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- New home page displays more ranking information and also shows you upcoming prizes you can win.
- New login and profile information in upper-right corner of web pages.
- New Statistics page offers much more and more detailed information. Note: we will also soon publish instructions so that you can write your own reports to display on this page!
- New Testimonials page offers quotes from players of the PL/SQL Challenge.
- New Welcome page for first time players.
- The monthly Toad World (www.toadworld.com) quiz is now hosted at PL/SQL Challenge.
- Lots of cleanup of UI inconsistencies.
06 June 2010
Release 1.3 of PL/SQL Challenge Now Available!
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I like the changes very much. Better use of the screen.ReplyDelete
One comment on the statistics. Can there be a legend of the colors of the graphics and a little description of what I'm looking at? I was looking at my week overview and I didn't completely understand what everything is.
Um, I don't seem to be able to see anything in the Results columns after I've logged in, even though I've played sporadically since April.ReplyDelete
That's the report at the top of the front page, with the Latest headings: Week, Month, Quarter, Lifetime. The fields are empty. but if I use your new Statistics page to pull up My Profile, it shows rankings for last week (but not this week, as I missed Monday), This Quarter, This Month and Overall Rank. BTW, why is the ranking order on this report:
I'd think Month would come before Quarter, no?
But I see info under my Profile, including Player Since 8 April 2010, Best Week 212 in ...
Otherwise, I like the new design, though I'd still like an easy way to flip through the quizzes I've taken and check my results. I don't see an easy way to filter out just those days.
Thanks for your comments.ReplyDelete
We're aware of the issue with missing field values in the new profile section above the header menu.
- Anonymous13 June, 2010 15:52
One more thing: I dint like the buttons "Invite Friends", "Edit Profile" and "Logout". It gives impressions of buttons all over the screen.ReplyDelete
I think a hyperlink is better. What do you think?
Otherwise, the plsql 1.3 is fine.


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smigs82 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 168 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
Leather Works
We are a manufacturing company which produces all sorts of leather components across many industries, we also offer leather services to anyone who requires our expertise in working leather. Our manufacturing activities produce a lot of off-cut which we are finding to be very popular among craft people, we want a logo to use on our website which will be our avenue to let these people know who we are and what we are offering. We are a family company which has been running for over 40 years.
Our target audience is varied but all have one thing in common, leather, they either want leather or something done to it.
There are two target markets:
1)People or manufacturers who want leather working services as part of their production process. It could be press cutting, strap cutting, leather splitting, leather colouring, stitching or just about anything else we can do to leather.
2) Crafts people, these people make their own items from belts, bags, ear rings, whips, keyrings to bird toys, and sell them at shops, markets, websites, ect.. these people are hip, dress alternative, have many ideas on design and are looking for bits and pieces of anything thats different that they can incorporate into their latest design which will be on dispaly by next weekend at the funkiest night market, or high fashion one off shop.
The logo will be used at our warehouse and also on a new website that will showcase our current leather offerings which by nature will always be changing. The new website will also showcase our services.
website reference of a logo i like http://www.leffler.com.au
The design should be clean and modern, we don't mind if you incorporate the leather hide symbol. We are open to colours, lettering styles and your creativity.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


text: Hi, I'm Alex Holden and this is my personal web site. I am an engineer from a town in the North West of England called Burnley, currently living in an old farmhouse in mid-Wales. Note that this website is extremely out of date and overdue for a re-design. There is some information on more recent projects I've been involved with over on my Livejournal and at Holden Concertinas.


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Why Exterminator Reports are Evidence of Nothing
Hotel managers will sometimes dispute a report on this site by emailing me an exterminator's statement that a given room has been checked and found not to harbor bed bugs. In their view, a report of this kind is ironclad evidence that the room inspected is bug-free, so they are dismayed and sometimes angry to find that I don't give the statements much weight.
As I see it, there are two serious problems with treating exterminators' reports as evidence of anything:
First, it's quite possible for a skilled exterminator to examine an infested room without finding bed bugs. The insects are notoriously difficult to find when present in small numbers. Even in a room where there is no doubt of their presence, it can be impossible for an expert technician to find them without disassembling furniture. The problem is compounded in hotel rooms, which often have fixtures like headboards that are permanently fastened to the wall.
Second, not all exterminators know how to check for bed bugs. For many pest control companies, bed bugs are still an unfamiliar foe, and the level of expertise between individual inspectors varies enormously. People posting to this site have reported "inspections" in public housing that consisted of a technician going door to door in the daytime and briefly shining a flashlight under a mattress, a procedure almost designed to eliminate the chances of finding a bed bug.
They've also reported licensed exterminators applying inappropriate treatments (like room foggers) or simply not knowing how to go about looking for the insect.
A perfect example of why I don't treat exterminator reports as dispositive came just a few days ago in an email exchange I had with the Regency Hotel in Omaha. A guest had reported seeing bed bugs during her stay at the hotel, and the manager of the hotel wrote me to vigorously dispute the claim. As evidence, she included the following scan of an exterminator's report:
On the face of it, the report looks quite authoritative. The pest control company in the letterhead has been in business for many years, and works routinely with this hotel. One of their technicians came by, inspected the room, and found it to be free of bed bugs.
But if you look more closely, you'll see the entire inspection lasted 1 minute 57 seconds. Anyone who's fought bedbugs knows this is an impossibly short time to detect anything short of an overwhelming infestation. (When I pointed this out to the Regency manager, she responded that the time recorded on the report did not reflect the actual time spent looking at the room.)
From the hotel's point of view, any report on an exterminator's letterhead should serve as conclusive evidence that there was no bedbug problem. But from my point of view, it's just another piece of evidence to weigh in evaluating a claim.
We may reach a point where there is a gold standard for bed bug inspection, and I can treat a certified report as credible evidence that a hotel room is free of the pests. But we are a very long way from that being the case, and this kind of 'proof' will remain unconvincing.
Still, since hotels give them so much weight, I am working right now on a way to upload scanned PCO reports directly to the site, and let readers make up their own minds.


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KQED's MindShift ran a piece today that I wrote in response to the idea that my 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete in Education by 2020 was a list of impossible tasks.
We're not talking about computers anymore. We're talking about the way that we connect to one another as human beings.
Don't let the reality of whatever condition your school might be in right now dictate what reality will look like in the future. Shape the future you want to see.Check out the piece and please comment; discussion is energy.


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Edward Murphy was the founder of the Pontiac Buggy Company in Michigan. He chose to shift his company's direction to the new automotive industry. On the other hand, Alanson Brush perfected his design for a two-cylinder car and was turned down by Cadillac. Brush pitched his idea, and Murphy accepted. As it turns out, the original design wasn't very popular, but when Pontiac released a four-cylinder car later, business turned around. Unfortunately, due to his untimely death, Edward Murphy didn't live to see his evolved company succeed.
Pontiac survived and continued to make high-quality cars as its own entity and later, as part of the GM family. The company hit hard economic times in 2008 and was forced out of business. During Pontiac's time, the company offered a wide variety of car lines to the public, including the popular Grand Prix series.
The Pontiac Grand Prix, much like the company itself, is known for a long and productive history. These cars were first introduced in the early 1960s and were designed to appeal to drivers looking for performance and luxury. During the first generations, the Grand Prix often received modern, sleek exterior body design upgrades, with plenty of comforts in the cabin. The engineers also made it a point to supply the car with all of the power and performance that a driver could ask for.
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1995 Pontiac Grand Prix
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Michelle Fonville tells WSB.TV that the owners of Natural Nails in DeKalb County, Georgia charged her extra for her manicure, claiming that damage to salon chairs had been done by overweight patrons, and that the extra $5 was to cover the potential cost of a replacement chair. "I said, Ma'am, you can't charge me $5 more. That's discrimination because of my weight," Fonville says, noting that Kim Tran, the manager of the salon, brought up the broken chair issue in response: "Do you think that's fair when we take $24 [for manicure and pedicure] and we have to pay $2,500? Is that fair? No."
But the salon was seemingly set up to discriminate to begin with; the chairs they're so concerned over only have a weight capacity of 200 pounds, and claiming that anyone over 200 pounds is responsible for chair damage, after already inviting them to sit on said chairs, is a very shady means of getting an extra five dollars through completing the manicure and then slapping on the extra humiliation charge. If the salon is so concerned about its precious chairs, perhaps it should order some that accommodate all of its customers, instead of blaming the patrons for "breaking" chairs that were not designed to support their weight to begin with.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
The Latest in Sizeism
4 comments:
- Melissa said...
- August 22, 2010 at 10:41 AM
I can just see their defense at the inevitable liability lawsuit: "Judge, I bought cheap-ass chairs to save money, but that fatty should have sense enough to not patronize my business and sit in them. It's her fault."
Yep, that's brilliant.
- August 23, 2010 at 5:51 PM
- Jenn said...
Somehow, I doubt that they're going to charge tall, muscular people who are also over 200 lbs the extra "fat" charge.
- August 23, 2010 at 6:50 PM
- B said...
"Do you think that's fair when we take $24 [for manicure and pedicure] and we have to pay $2,500? Is that fair? No."
Ummm..yes, that's fair. Because, you know what? Chairs wear out when used as frequently as they are in salons (esp. if you don't buy appropriately strong and durable ones in the first place!). As the business owner, it is your job to budget enough money to replace such goods when they wear out, and if you're not making enough money to cover such costs of maintaining your business, you raise prices across the board- not just scapegoat one class of people.
- August 24, 2010 at 12:07 AM


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Starved of international cricket on home turf, Pakistan's Test and one-day captain Misbah-ul-Haq said it is unfair to deprive his team of a chance to compete in front of its own due to the lingering security concerns of international sides.
"We are a big Test-playing country and it is not fair for us as well as for the other Test-playing countries and world cricket that we are not getting to stage international cricket," said Misbah.
"It is the responsibility of the cricket boards and their respective governments to come out with policies and ensure how teams can visit Pakistan in the future," he told the 'Gulf News' newspaper.
No Test-playing nation has visited Pakistan since March 2009 when terrorists attacked the Sri Lankan team in Lahore killing six Pakistani policemen and a van driver and wounding some of the visiting players.
Since then, Pakistan has been forced to host its 'home series' on neutral venues such as Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates.
The 38-year-old Misbah said Pakistan's last-four finish at the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka showed that the team was doing well in difficult conditions and rising to the challenge despite not playing international cricket in front of home fans.
"It is a big dilemma and it is time the cricketing world comes together to push for international cricket in Pakistan," he added.
Misbah also commended the idea of hosting the Pakistan Premier League and said it is a very important step which would aid the development of the game.
"The PPL will help in developing the temperament and skills of players. It will also throw up some new talent. The exposure the players will get will help them acquire professionalism. It is very important for Pakistan to go for it," Misbah said.
Misbah's plea comes a few days after Australian umpire Simon Taufel called for international cricket to return to Pakistan.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
My Very First Video...
29 comments:
- lori said...
You did a great job on your video! All your soap looks great and I can't wait to see what you make with your inbed creations ;0). Good job!
- November 11, 2011 at 10:20 AM
The black pumpkin is lovely! I have been unable to make a pumpkin soap that didn't go dark tan, so I'm curious how you did that. LOVE the look and thank you for all the info you share!
- November 11, 2011 at 11:56 AM
- familygirl said...
where do you get the large wooden mold with the silicone liners?
- November 11, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- Brooke said...
Joanna - Awesome! Job on your first video. I will be watching all the videos you put out - hurry with the next one!! I have been in awe of your soaps for sometime now.
- November 11, 2011 at 12:13 PM
- leila said...
Love your first soap making video. I can't wait to see many more in the future.
- November 11, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Thanks Joanna. I loved the video. You did a great job. I look forward to more...I always learn something from you.
Pat at Babbling Brook
- November 11, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Beautiful woman. Beautiful soap. Thank you.
- November 11, 2011 at 1:38 PM
- Natty said...
I thoroghly enjoy your blog & look forward to it coming thru via my feed.
& now videos.... aren't we spoilt.
I appreciate your every effect.
- November 11, 2011 at 3:27 PM
- Cocobong Soaps said...
wow..it's soap movie night on Blogland :)
And you're still in a tank top and it's Nov!!! Lookit all that soap you made, just lovely. Great video, more more!!
- November 11, 2011 at 4:56 PM
- Naiad Soap Arts said...
You're so cute! Thanks for showing us all of your beautiful soap! Can't wait to see the cut bars!
- November 11, 2011 at 5:42 PM
- M.K. said...
This was GREAT, Joanna. Please, do more :) I'm a total novice, and haven't made any soap in about 6 months, but I really want to get back to it. All mine were so simple though, and I long to know how to make the gorgeous, elegant soaps I see here. Can you show us how to do the fancy stuff?
- November 11, 2011 at 6:15 PM
- Under the Willow said...
Joanna- Your video is great- all the soaps look just amazing! WISH there was a monitor that had a "smell" factor!
- November 11, 2011 at 9:31 PM
- macsoapy said...
You are gorgeous!
Love your video and how you handle all the soaps!!!
Greetings from Germany.
- November 12, 2011 at 12:26 AM
- twobloomsdesignstudio said...
Cool video and your soaps look wonderful. How did you get the white smaller batch so glossy on top? Is there something on top of it, the gloss is great.
- November 12, 2011 at 1:54 AM
- Joanna Schmidt said...
lori: Thanks! :)
Anon: It's not a straight pumpkin, so I think that is why... my other pumpkins are all dark brown. A secret blend, though....
Familygirl: I got it secondhand from another soaper. They are Upland molds...I think they are out of biz now :(
Brooke: Thanks! This is a struggle for me, but I will keep doing them. It's hard to see myself on camera. Maybe I just won't watch them! ;)
Leila: Thank you.
Pat: Thanks, and I am so glad...what you are learning, I'm not sure, but I am glad it's something!
Peta: awwwww!
Natty: Wow, thanks, I am so thrilled that this blog has been a good thing for a lot of people, especially me. I am so lucky to have you!
Cocobong: Yes, more.... soon. Tank top. Well.... it's Florida and I think it was 80 degrees F on that day and the air conditioning was cranking. Also, when I soap/unmold/work in general, my body heats up, so I am usually in t-shirts. I had just moved a large bookcase and I was sweaty.. :P
Erin (naiad): Thanks, honeybaby!
MK: Fancy? Well, I will show you how I make my soap, but it's not fancy. I call it "rustic layers". tee hee.
Carrie (UTW): Agreed. Love a smelly monitor.
Gabi (macsoapy): I am {blushing} humbled....
2blooms: Thx...I made the soap and then just glitterized the top with cosmetic glitter powder.
Thanks, everybody!! You are all rock stars!
- November 12, 2011 at 10:19 AM
- Mountain Farms Soap said...
Your soaps look so good! Nice video too!
- November 12, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Great and beautiful Soaps !!! Very nice video :o)
- November 12, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- kate said...
Love it!
- November 12, 2011 at 4:50 PM
- TeresaR said...
You're such a natural in front of the camera! I would watch anything you post, and since I've not yet started making soaps, I have no specific requests. Just bring it on, sistah, and I'll sit with a bowl of popcorn and applaud! :)
- November 12, 2011 at 7:30 PM
- LongLeafSoaps said...
Nice video! Thanks for making it!
- November 13, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- Lyn said...
I so enjoyed your video, it is lovely to see you in person :0) and I cannot wait to see more!!!
- November 13, 2011 at 8:32 AM
- Joanna Schmidt said...
Thank you all!
I will try cutting...
- November 13, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Alejandra Rojas said...
Thank you, Im so happy I found this blog some time ago...I live in Chile, that's way down South America... I live in the countryside and have been making goat's milk soap for about 7 years now, thank u so much for sharing your knowledge and experience.... Saludos, Alejandra
- November 13, 2011 at 11:48 PM
- Adam and Eve said...
Hello Joanna,
I really really like the video you did, such beautiful soap. I just started maing cold process soeps since the summer, so I am absorbing everything like a sponge!
My goal is to make stunning soap just like you. So please be making your videos.
Many greetings
Carol Stolk from Adam and Eve Soaps in the Netherlands.
- November 15, 2011 at 7:35 AM
Talking to you online and seeing you on video I can tell you are a sweetheart! Keep the camera rolling I can't wait to see how you wrap them that is always my favorite part!
Rocky Hooves
- November 15, 2011 at 10:06 AM
thank you, joanna, for the video. loved it. and i love your shares on the blog. thanks for all you do. looking forward to seeing the cut bars and inbeds
- November 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM
- The Soap Sister said...
Nice job Joanna (soaps & video) -and what a "soap lab"! Whoa -I hope to have such a fine-lookin' place to make soap someday! :)
- November 19, 2011 at 9:09 PM
- Maleficent Megtron said...
Looks like someone got glitter happy!
- November 24, 2011 at 3:15 AM
- Underarm Bleaching said...
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French, Thai experts search for lost plane in Laos
PAKSE, Laos (AP) — Teams of French and Thai experts plied the muddy Mekong River with high-tech sonar equipment Saturday, ramping up the search for the remnants of a Lao Airlines plane and more than a dozen bodies still missing from the crash three days earlier.
On the riverbank, a group of orange-robed Buddhist monks performed a prayer ceremony for the 49 people who were aboard Lao Airlines flight QV301, all of whom are presumed to be dead.
The ATR-72 turboprop aircraft crashed Wednesday as it prepared to land in stormy weather at Pakse Airport in southern Laos. The plane then skidded into the Mekong River, the largest in Southeast Asia, and disappeared. Half of those aboard the flight were foreigners from eight different countries.
By Saturday afternoon, 36 bodies had been found and authorities were still trying to identify several of them, said Yakua Lopangkao, director-general of Laos' Department of Civil Aviation. The ATR aircraft was delivered in March, raising questions as to why a virtually new plane crashed.
Until Saturday, the search for bodies and the plane's flight data recorder, or black box, had been stalled by lack of manpower and equipment in the poor Southeast Asian country, which lacks capabilities in disaster management.
"We have not been able to locate the plane yet, but the teams from France and Thailand have arrived," Yakua said. "We have split them into several teams to do simultaneous searches at two or three spots. We believe that one of these spots is where we will find the black box."
The French and Thai teams set out on small boats Saturday to scan the water's surface with the sonar equipment, a stark contrast to previous days of searching that included Lao villagers peering into the murky water from long-tail boats.
Thai navy scuba divers were conducting underwater searches for the flight data and voice recorders, which could help determine whether the crash was caused by human error or a technical problem. Thailand also sent a C-130 military transport plane with specialists and equipment, including several high-tech sonar systems, to locate objects on the river floor.
France's air accident investigation agency, the BEA, said it sent four investigators to help Laos with the probe. It said the team would work with technical advisers from ATR, the French-Italian manufacturer of the aircraft.
The chief pilot has been identified as 56-year-old Young San of Cambodia, who had more than 30 years of flying experience.
Cambodia's civil aviation security director, Mak Sam Ol, said he was briefed by Lao authorities on final instructions from the control tower.
"Due to a storm and strong winds, as the plan approached landing, the air controller told the pilot to change course," Mak Sam Ol said in a telephone interview. "He followed instructions, but the plane faced strong storms and couldn't get through."
According to the airline, 44 passengers and five crew members were on the flight. The passengers included 16 Lao nationals, seven French, six Australians, five Thais, three Koreans, three Vietnamese and one person each from China, Malaysia, Taiwan and the United States.
Associated Press writers Jocelyn Gecker and Thanyarat Doksone in Bangkok and Sopheng Cheang in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, contributed to this report.


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Monday, January 25, 2010
UPDATE: Come on now, Johnson, it's not that bad. Quite correct. It's WAY worse.
24 comments:
She really needs to go on the 'What Not to Wear' show
- January 26, 2010 at 8:28 AM
- .....CLIFFORD said...
South Africa called. They want their flag back.
- January 26, 2010 at 8:56 AM
- January 26, 2010 at 9:51 AM
On a more technical note - when did Mrs Schori get promoted? That double beamed cross has always been the prerogative of an archbishop.
- January 26, 2010 at 11:05 AM
- Christopher Johnson said...
I believe the Episcopalians refer to that as the primate's staff. It means that Mrs. Schori essentially has the position of an archbishop but not the title.
- January 26, 2010 at 12:23 PM
Full effect here:
- January 26, 2010 at 4:53 PM
...Neither the title nor the respect...
- January 26, 2010 at 6:42 PM
Bidden or not, KSJ will be present. She is the bishop of bishops, not the bishop of clergy yet insists on meeting with everyone before a new ordination. Who asked her?
- January 27, 2010 at 9:04 AM
- Fr. Larry said...
Here is another example
- January 27, 2010 at 2:01 PM
Maybe she wants to change her name to Katherine Joseph Schori.
- January 27, 2010 at 5:05 PM
I really try hard to enjoy this blog, but the disrespectful attitude to Katharine Jefferts Schori really gets on my nerves. So you don't think she's a bishop? Fine, then call her Dr Schori, for that is her 'secular' title. Or do what you'd do, courteously, to a leader of another church, and dignify her with the ecclesiastical title she's accorded by her church.
As for the staff, it's a metropolitical cross, and signifies the office of Primate of The Episcopal Church - the office to which she was elected is formally titled "Presiding Bishop and Primate"
P.S. I don't like the cope (or the set of which it is part that includes a mitre, chasuble, dalmatic and tunicle).
- January 27, 2010 at 7:16 PM
- Fr. Larry said...
Here's another example
- January 27, 2010 at 8:43 PM
Please explain why Dr. Schori deserves respect? Her funding as a scientist was cut - but not the funding of her colleagues. It is quite likely she is yet another female cleric who was having a mid-life career crisis. Her experience as clergy is as thin as onion paper, and has no known pastoral capacity - ask anyone who has worked at 815. Respect is earned, no matter what you're wearing on your head. Incidentally, this is posted by a liberal, so no profiling please. Might it just be that those who lobbied for her election made an enormous mistake?
- January 27, 2010 at 9:52 PM
Thank heavens that no *male* cleric in TEC has ever had a mid-life crisis :)
- January 28, 2010 at 12:50 AM
Maybe these vestments are prophetic? After the release of the iPad, KJS could be promoting the new Apple product: the iSore.
- January 30, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- AncientBriton said...
Would she look any better in a twin set and bonnet?
- February 1, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- The Lakeland Two said...
What scares us about midlife crises is too many lawyers decide they want to become priests. At GC09 the list of laity with Esq. and Attorney at Law after the names was amazing.
The least Schori could have done was use a miter that matched one color in the cope - and a matching fabric. The one she's wearing doesn't match at all - which reflects on the rest of us based on her position/title.
Did +Gris use the same staff or is this more of her own self-elevation?
When Schori does something worthy of respect, she will have earned ours. Until then, she continues to add to the disrespect she has earned. We try, even with all she has done, to treat her as we would like to be treated. Her position as a representative of the rest of us calls on her to a higher standard. We pray for her to live into that.
- February 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM
- Christopher Johnson said...
For all the disagreements I had with him over the years, I have to give Frank Griswold this much. I don't remember him ever rocking anything as bad as this.
- February 5, 2010 at 5:53 PM
I happen to love this cope+mitre set... even though MOST of what you post on here is spot on.
This set is really well-made and fits perfectly.
This picture is from the recent consecration of the new Bishop of GA...
my new Bishop... and I was there!!!!
I received the Eucharist from the PB... pretty cool stuff regardless of your personal feelings about her.
That's all...
just had to say that since I follow this blog & a GA pic made it on here.
- February 6, 2010 at 9:02 PM
The Presiding Bishop's Primatial Staff has been around for a long time. There are photographs of John Hines handing it to John Maury Allin in 1973, and it would be consistent with the expansion of the role of Presiding Bishop under Hines (1967)for a staff to have been created at about that time, though it could have been earlier.
- February 8, 2010 at 10:12 PM
- The Lakeland Two said...
Thought I'd left this before, but thanks Anon at 10:12, 2/8 for info about the staff.
- February 15, 2010 at 2:05 PM
Looks more like duck bill on steroids - like Daffy Duck got botox and collagen injections.
- February 15, 2010 at 5:49 PM
- sinsley said...
everyone at my church dressed like that,in the 70's
- February 18, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- John A. Hollister said...
On most mitres, the front and back verticle panels are either parallel or incline slightly together. Ms. Katie's, however, incline outwards, like the sides of a bucket.
Perhaps this is to catch the exhaust particulates from any birds that happen to be passing overhead?
- March 10, 2010 at 9:37 PM


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Long-running study links in with Natural England project
The long-running Hen Harrier Winter Roost Survey, which the Trust has supported for many years, is extending its reach.
This winter, 2011-12, it will contribute to a Natural England project looking at numbers of roosting hen harriers and merlins at selected Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in southern England.
This follows on from a similar survey conducted by the Hawk and Owl Trust in 2005.
The 2011 work will be jointly co-ordinated and managed by the British Trust for Ornithology and the Hawk and Owl Trust. They will utilise the expert knowledge of existing roost observers and also recruit new volunteers to visit sites not already covered by the Hen Harrier Winter Roost Survey.
It is hoped that this new effort will result in a resurgence of interest and participation in this important survey. Now in its 29th year, it is the only one of its kind for non-breeding raptors in the UK.
It was started by the late Donald Watson with Hawk and Owl Trust accountant and scientific adviser Dr Roger Clarke, who co-ordinated it until his death in 2007. The Trust then joined with the BTO to continue it.
Volunteers record harriers at roosts on six co-ordinated days throughout the winter.
"In a world of agricultural intensification, climate change and persecution, the survey provides an invaluable tool for keeping track of changes in hen harrier numbers in the UK,"
explains Dr Andrew Dobson who carried out a Trust-funded study into hen harriers for his PhD. He is now a research ecologist with the BTO.
"That's why the BTO and Hawk and Owl Trust are keen to see the survey grow to cover roosts which are not currently part of the survey – and funding from the Natural England project will help make this happen."
Data from last winter showed up apparent differences in distribution between grey birds (mainly adult males) and brown birds (females and immature males). Proportions of males were higher in South and South West England than in the east (south of Lincolnshire), matching patterns reported in the 1980s and 90s. Counts from the north of England and Wales were too low to interpret, so more data from these regions would be helpful in establishing if this is a countrywide trend. Reasons for such intersexual segregation are currently unclear.
"The survey requires very little in the way of bird ID skills. You just need to find a suitable vantage point near roosting harriers and wait and see," said Andy.
To volunteer to help this winter and find out what is involved, contact Hawk and Owl Trust conservation officer Nigel Middleton (email here or phone 07867 572794) who is the national Hen Harrier Winter Roost Co-ordinator.