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With my invitation, I was given a free press pass (or should that be bloggers pass? or are bloggers press now?) which gave access to all areas, and 20 crowns, which equates to $20 worth of money to buy food. As with last year's Taste of Melbourne 2010 bloggers event, we were shown around a few different things. We started our tour with a look at the back kitchen area of Sarti. I'm so amazed at how small a space they get to work with and still pump out tens of thousands of dishes of food for everyone.
A taste session at Rekoderling enabled us to drink every flavour of their cider. Whilst I had liked their cider, I had initially described it as less cider-y than my favoured Bulmers cider. Finally, thanks to injerarufus from Twitter, I can clearly put my finger on what the ciders can best be described as, alcopop. They were sugary sweet and so easy to drink and you could hardly taste the alcohol. I personally don't mind the pear flavour but still love a more real tasting cider with that distinctive zing and tang.
A stop by the San Pellegrino Cafe enabled us to dine on some nice pizza and admire some beautiful photographs that people had submitted to their competition.
We did the Art of Sensology class again this year and made mojitos, my favourite cocktail of them all. My mojito turned out perfectly and I have been making them at home quite a lot.
A cheese tasting class was really good as we sampled cheese back to back and could taste the different textures and flavours. I personally loved the Double Brie the most, being luscious, silky smooth and with a good creamy taste.
A chat with one of the nation's most esteemed chefs in Jacques Reymond was an absolute pleasure. You could feel the passion, energy and hard work exude from him. He told me that you always have to work hard for anything you want and go out and grab it yourself. His parents instilled this work ethic in him in which he has passed onto his kids. He also stated that he was quite a hard task master in the kitchen and in fact his chefs call him "Rambo". That made me laugh, and Jacques himself laughed at it. But I'm sure if I was in the kitchen working with him, I would be deadly serious as you can just tell that Jacques is a man of action and not words. You don't succeed for so long by being soft and lazy.
Onto some food. Below is The European Pork Parcels and Sarti Slow Cooked Suckling Lamb. Both were nice but by no means exceptional.
Stokehouse Seared Scallops were again nice, but it was the Eton Mess, with Rhubarb, Violet & Rose Geranium that got my tastebuds tingling and wanting more. The addition of violet made this dish stunning. My pick of the dishes at this year's festival.
St Katherine's "KFC" Fried Chicken was highly recommended by Pat as the best fried chicken he has tasted. While it was good, I didn't think it was exceptional. Libertine and La Traiteur Cassoulet was cooked well but rather bland.
Other dishes that I tried were the Sarti Panna Cotta (good), Mahjong Black Peking Duck wraps (ok) and Millswyn Peanut Butter and Jelly parfait (not as good as I imagined going by the description).
So would I go back to Taste of Melbourne next year?
Yes if I got a free entry ticket. I felt this year's festival was not as good as last year's in terms of the quality of the food. By quality, I do not mean this year's food were badly cooked or not fresh. They simply did not have that "wow" factor. I think the Taste of Melbourne idea is a great one, but wonder if it works in reality. The problem with fine dining is that it takes time to prepare, in a proper fully functional kitchen. In the environment that the restaurants are given, I'm already amazed at what they can produced. However, it will always only be a poor imitation of what they are truly capable of. They can only do simple dishes that can be reheated quickly, in small portions that fit inside a cup or plastic bowl. There is not much room for creativity.
The pricing of the whole festival is also wrong, but is no one's fault. The entry fee of $30 is quite steep already, and that doesn't get you too much. You can attend the Gourmet Traveller's Taste Kitchen, Gourmet Traveller's Chef's Table, Nespresso session, De Detrich Cooking School, Jindi Cheese Class and Yarra Valley Regional Group Tasting Table, but the numbers for those are limited so you might not get in. Then to pay between $8-$12 for each small dish can be quite costly. I spent another $50 on top of the free crowns I got and that was because I'm quite a small eater. That's $100 already if you add my ticket price, 20 crowns. The cocktail class was another 10 crowns, making it $110 all up if I paid for everything. Again I don't blame the restaurants or the festival organisers. I'm sure the logistics of putting on those stalls cost far more than what they make from selling the food. However, the reality for the consumer is that, in my opinion anyway, it's better to spend $150 at any one of those restaurants and truly try out their food and dine in a relaxed enjoyable manner. The four hour sessions may seem long on paper, but when you're in queues constantly trying to buy food, it goes by quite quick.
The layout of the festival this year was truly awful. For me, the food stalls should all be in the most prominent position in the bottom area of the building. That's what people are mainly going for. Putting some food stalls upstairs severely restricted traffic flow as people crowded around the stalls to try and buy food. A simple, pay and get a ticket system should be used. Pay for your food, then step aside to a quieter area so you don't block traffic while waiting for your food. When your number is called, come and grab your food. Simple LED number displays (like at the deli section in a supermarket) would easily suffice.
The buying of crowns, while supposedly making it faster to buy things, is a good idea but should be taken one step further. Each restaurant should be able to issue crowns. So for example, you can rock up to a restaurant, buy one item that costs 12 crowns, give them $50 note and they can refund you 38 crowns. This means you don't have to go searching for a crown seller when you've run out and want to buy food. Surely the crowns have been devised to fasten up transactions by removing the exchange of small coins, but large notes exchange is really fast, especially if you get refunded crowns.
The placement of the VIP lounge this year was an absolute joke. If I had paid for the privilege of being in that VIP lounge (about $100 I think), I would have been livid. It was hidden in the furthest upstairs corner that you can find. It was so dark and sombre in there you would think it was a funeral. Unlike last year when it was in the bottom level smack bang in the centre, brightly lit with a band playing, chandeliers, comfy sofas to sit on, a throbbing bar and full of fun, this year it was dead in there. Even to get to the area, there was only one access point where you had to go completely around the top level. This took about 15 minutes as there were lots of people. Then even when you're at the front area, you needed to walk around the back to get in. If you wanted to buy food and bring it in, this exercise took about 30 minutes, plus you had to be a member of Cirque du Soleil as you needed to balance all the food, weave around hoards of people and carry the food up the stairs without spilling anything. Total F.A.I.L in my opinion. Put the lounge in the best areas downstairs smack bang next to the food stalls and the action. If I'm paying that much money to be in that VIP area, I want convenience and luxury combined.
Finally, to the food stalls. I guess once you go to too many festivals, you see the same stalls crop up time and time again and have sampled all their stuff so you already know what you like and where to buy it. It becomes a bit boring and I didn't really bother trying out too many things. Obviously, if the Taste festival is the only thing you go to each year, you'll love sampling all the food stalls goods.
So there is my impressions of this year's festival. The layout really lessened my enjoyment of it, but the food was also not as great as last year. As stated earlier, I would go next year if I had a free entry ticket, but else I would rather spend my money at one of the restaurants and have a fantastic meal rather than a standard meal. The idea itself of trying out fine food from many restaurants is great, but I'm not sure how it can be made to work. For me, I'd rather go to a festival like the Sydney Road Festival 2011 where there is no entry costs, there's a carnival atmosphere with live music all day and cheap delicious food that I can snack on all day.
Thanks to Hot House Media for inviting me to the festival.

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BiographyTerry Lee Pendleton was born July 16, 1960 in Los Angeles, Calif. He is a former Major League Baseball player who played third base for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1984-1990, the Atlanta Braves from 1991-1994, and 1996, the Florida Marlins in 1995 and 1996, the Cincinnati Reds in 1997 and the Kansas City Royals in 1998. Pendleton threw right and was a switch hitter. He made his Major League Debut on July 18, 1984 for the St. Louis Cardinals. Terry is a 1978 graduate of Channel Island High School where he lettered in baseball and was All-League MVP, All C.I.F., Southern Sectional. And he lettered in football and basketball. Terry attended Oxnard J.C. for two years and Fresno State University for two years, majoring in Physical Education. In his senior year at Fresno State, he batted .397 with 12 homers and was named to third team All-American. Pendleton won three Gold Glove awards for fielding in 1987, 1989, and 1992. Terry played his last Major League game on Sept. 25, 1998 for the Kansas City Royals, he had a career batting average of .270, 1897 hits and 946 RBIs. Terry is currently serving as the Braves hitting coach.
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This week a coalition of 90 organizations wrote a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to allow the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) to expire at the end of this year. The coalition also asked that Congress not allocate funding for infrastructure that would support further development of corn-based ethanol (federal funding of blender pumps, for example).
The coalition wrote that Congress "has the opportunity to end the $6 billion a year subsidy to gasoline refiners who blend corn ethanol into gasoline. At a time of spiraling deficits, we do not believe Congress should continue subsidizing gasoline refiners for something that they are already required to do by the Renewable Fuels Standard."
"We have long opposed VEETC because it is wasteful and duplicative and because corn ethanol is a mature industry that should be able to stand on its own two feet," said Ryan Alexander, president, Taxpayers for Common Sense, a non-partisan watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1995, the organization "has had a long history of fighting energy subsidies, including oil and gas subsidies," Alexander said.
Asked why Taxpayers for Common Sense resists funding for infrastructure for biofuels, Alexander said, "Taxpayer subsidies for ethanol infrastructure make no sense. That is the cost of doing business for the industry. Quite frankly, as a taxpayer, being asked for yet another subsidy from ethanol is ridiculous. We could end up with a mandate, a tariff, infrastructure subsidies AND a tax credit."
Ethanol could no doubt compete more effectively if subsidies and tax incentives were removed for the oil industry. Alexander agreed. "If subsidies for the petroleum industry were repealed through the tax structure, this would be a boon for every other form of energy." But, these other forms of energy are up against the world's oldest and richest industry, she said.
Asked whether Taxpayers for Common Sense supports the development of cellulosic ethanol, Alexander said, "Like most Americans, we would like to see new sources of renewable domestic fuel sources developed. But we're skeptical of all energy subsidies, in part because of the lessons we've learned from the corn ethanol subsidies that have remained on the books despite their duplicative and wasteful nature – and their persistence even as the industry has matured."
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By Jordan Harms, March 22, 2013, Originally Posted by The Heritage Foundation
A recent National Journal article discussed the likelihood of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP)over the United States with skepticism, asking whether such activists and politicians are "[d]oomsday preppers or congressional visionaries" and claiming that the "the debate over the urgency remains stuck in a theoretical realm."
But the EMP threat is anything but theoretical.
An EMP is a high-intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles. Such a burst can come from either a nuclear weapon detonated at a low altitude or a natural solar flare. An EMP caused by terrorists or a rogue state could knock out electrical grids, causing financial and computer systems to grind to a halt and seriously jeopardizing U.S. national security.
The possibility of an EMP attack has been written off in the past as overblown, easily dismissed as the stuff of tinfoil hats. But China's recent testing of its anti-satellite weaponswhich included EMP as a capability contradicts the assertion that any capability of adversaries to launch an EMP against the United States is only in the infant stages. Nations like China and North Korea understand that vulnerability to EMP would be as devastating as a nuclear strike.
Representative Trent Franks (R–AZ), a member of the House Armed Services Committee and chairman of the bipartisan Electromagnetic Pulse Caucus, has been working to draw attention to the danger of such an attack, and in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee this week, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, General Keith Alexander, stated that addressing the threat from an EMP attack is now his top priority. Even the Department of Homeland Security itself admitted that it is not prepared for an EMP attack.
While the U.S. missile defense system is a vital tool to counteract an EMP, an EMP can also be caused by a cyclical solar flare or solar weather. A powerful solar storm could occur in the next few years, according to scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Academy of Sciences. Resilient communications and power grids are important to address this danger.
The nation needs to be aware of the consequences of the EMP. Yet it still remains unprepared for such an attack, and it is vital that the national security policy addresses it.
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Approximately 30 religious leaders joined with Police Chief Ralph Godbee, Barbara McQuade, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, and other community leaders in the community room of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners on May 23 to announce the launch of Detroit Night Walks, a program designed to help prevent crime and stabilize neighborhoods.
"Too many people in our neighborhoods and in our communities are being preyed upon," said Pastor James Warfield of Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church. "We want to reverse that trend and pray for and pray with our various neighborhoods."
Warfield, who is also a Detroit Police commissioner, said he, Bishop Edgar L. Vann II of Second Ebenezer Church and Minister James Booker have convened a powerful group of clergy to lead in this effort.
"We have a foundation of more than 30 churches who have answered this clarion call," Warfield said. "We are following the benchmarking best practice model the nationally renowned Boston TenPoint Coalition strategy, where clergy-led patrols in that city led to a 61.2 percent decline in crime."
Warfield added that we have all the power to drive the change that we need in Detroit.
"There is nothing so wrong with Detroit that collectively all our good cannot fix," he said.
Bishop Edgar Vann called Detroit Night Walks a true partnership between clergy, the community and law enforcement.
"This is the culmination of the process that has taken many months, and we believe that together we can change hearts, change minds and change lives."
Vann also said the group isn't evangelizing, but added that there's a spiritual component to crime prevention. He asked clergy from around the city to join with them.
Booker, a retired police officer, executive director of M.A.D.E. Men, and organizer of the Youth Voice Clergy Team of the Harriet Tubman Center, said that churches involved in this program represent 16 different zip codes within the city.
Booker added that, most importantly, these churches and their congregations represent the face of Detroit and the community.
Quentin McKinnon, chief of staff of the Youth Voice Executive Board, and a junior at Cody High School, spoke of being held up at a bus stop two years ago.
"I was startled, I was scared," he said of the effects of the robbery of his watch, his MP3 player and headphones. "Every day I had to plan ways to go home, switch the different streets and it was a scary experience."
Months later, Youth Voice came to his school, and he got involved with efforts to stem violence at the bus stops. He said people were being robbed every day.
McKinnon asked how many more will be hurt before Ceasefire is implemented.
"We need Ceasefire," he said.
McQuade, who said she was proud to be with youth leaders and clergy leaders who are saying they won't allow Detroit to be defined by violence, called Youth Voice a wonderful organization.
"It has brought young people together to empower them to be part of the solution," she said.
She noted that Ceasefire came about through the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention. The Department of Justice put together a program to bring together cities that have had challenges with violence, which is how she became involved.
"Detroit is not alone," McQuade said. "We certainly have intolerable levels of violence, but we're not the only city in America with these kinds of challenges. So the Department of Justice and the White House have brought together six cities, including Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, San Jose and Salinas, California, to share ideas about best practices and ways to reduce violence."
McQuade said Ceasefire, which has been successful in Boston and Chicago, is one of those great ideas.
"They have two very different models, and we looked at them, and we adopted the Boston model and are bringing it to Detroit."
She called it an intervention and prevention strategy to try to change that culture of violence.
"One essential piece of it is this Night Walks program," she said. "It's a wonderful way for the community to walk together in peace and say 'we will not tolerate violence in our community.'"
McQuade said one of the theories behind the Ceasefire model is that in big cities people feel somewhat anonymous and alienated, whereas people in small towns people feel accountable, because everyone knows everyone.
"Ceasefire tries to directly drill down on individuals to identify the people most responsible for gang violence and violent crimes," McQuade said.
She said the collective community won't tolerate people who victimize others.
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Two stories centered on finances and the Church hierarchy hit the news this week.
The first was the resolution of the saga of German Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg. Known as the "Bishop of Bling," the head of the Diocese of Limburg has been under fire since the fall when plans for a $43 million renovation for his house were made public.
He was suspended from his ecclesiastical duties in October, and, at the end of March, Pope Francis accepted his resignation. In a statement, the Vatican said it had accepted the offer "given that a situation exists in the Diocese of Limburg which prevents the fruitful exercise" of his duties.
The second story was out of Atlanta, where local parishioners cried foul at Archbishop Wilton Gregory's decision to spend $2 million renovating building a new residence — on land belonging to the estate of Margaret Mitchell, bequeathed to the archdiocese in 2012.
Both pieces have received a significant amount of media coverage, mostly because the stories stand in stark contrast to Pope Francis' ongoing focus on simplicity and humility.
Certainly Pope Francis has been encouraging us all to become more intimately tuned in to what it means to sacrifice. And multi-million dollar homes definitely do not fit that mold.
What's more telling, however, was how those two men handled their individual situations.
Bishop Tebartz-van Elst issued a statement the day after the Vatican had published its report, implying that his deputy, Vicar General Franz Kaspar, should have watched his spending more carefully.
"As I am not an authority in the area of church management, as my qualification is in pastoral theory, I have to relinquish the responsibility to Dr. Kaspar who was [according to the report into the spending] 'the only person with an overarching view of the seat's assets,'" he said.
Apparently you have to be an authority on church management to realize that $2.38 million on bronze window frames and a $300,000 fish tank fall in the category titled "over the top."
In Atlanta, Archbishop Gregory issued his own statement in response to the "many" letters, emails and phone calls from the faithful questioning the money being spent on his new extravagant home. In an 1,100-word piece published in the Georgia Bulletin, the archbishop put the blame squarely on himself. Not only did he apologize to the Catholics of his archdiocese, but to those who helped him in the planning.
"I fear that when I should have been consulting, I was really only reporting, and that is my failure," he wrote. "To those who may have hesitated to advise me against this direction perhaps out of deference or other concerns, I am profoundly sorry."
Two situations, two bishops and two responses. But, it seems, only one lesson learned.
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
THAT Birthday
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- Teacup Moments said...
Suzanne, happy happy birthday! You ARE living, and living well. And aging, what aging? You look so youthful and lovely. The wavy hair in that length suits you! And you honestly have the nicest pendants!!! I can only hope you keep on writing and sharing your life with us, who cherish being part of your life, even from a distance.
- April 13, 2012 at 6:30 AM
- Hindsfeet said...
oh oh oh!!! : ) Happy Birthday my dear!! Is it today? 4/13? ....So *Very* glad you were born, Suzanne....what a gift your life is!
Joining in the celebration of you!
Liz : )
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans for peace and not for evil, plans to give you hope and a future."
-Jeremiah 29:11
- April 13, 2012 at 6:35 AM
- Debby said...
Happy Birthday. Cherish every year and every number. Today is my granddaughter's birthday.
- April 13, 2012 at 7:19 AM
- Privet and Holly said...
Thank you for these
gorgeous wishes....
Truly makes my day!
THAT day is, in fact,
April 14th : ) and I've
been celebrating all
week, already!
xx Suzanne
- April 13, 2012 at 7:23 AM
- Cheryl said...
Happy Birthday Suzanne, you look spectacular!
- April 13, 2012 at 7:37 AM
- Tricia said...
Happy Birthday to you, Suzanne! I see you wrote above that your special day is tomorrow, so I hope you have a wonderful day celebrating. And no matter your age, you're absolutely beautiful!
My birthday is this month too. I don't have quite the positive outlook on things that you do though :)
- April 13, 2012 at 7:55 AM
- Felicity said...
Happiest of happy days Lovely You!
I'm with Fiona and her sage wisdom, hooray for you and your special day and that you bring such joy, grace and wisdom, enriching the world by being yourself.
You are definitely a gift worth treasuring.
Biggest of happy hugs from afar,
- April 13, 2012 at 7:57 AM
- Tiffini said...
well April birthday girl...you won a sign:)
You were the "chosen" one...lol
I am putting a few more in my shop this weekend. I am going down today to pick them up and Nik will put them in over the weekend.
When they are in I will email you so you can go in and pick one?
I wouldn't even mind making you one with something on it that means something to your heart.
Sweet friend...love ya! So happy it was you.
talk soon
- April 13, 2012 at 8:08 AM
- Mary Timmers said...
Happy Birthday, Suzanne! We don't get to chose the number of our days, but we do chose HOW to live them. Your life touches so many people, and many more you don't even know... So, here's to celebrating YOU!
- April 13, 2012 at 8:23 AM
- michele said...
happy birthday, suzanne!
live fully this week, embracing who you have become!
- April 13, 2012 at 9:00 AM
- Stitchfork said...
Happy Birthday Suzanne!! But really, turning the big 3-0 is not bad at all! Celebrate!
xo Cathy
- April 13, 2012 at 9:13 AM
- NanaDiana said...
Happy, Happy birthday, Suzanne. I can remember THAT birthday...and I always thought that after THAT birthday the biggest milestone would be to ever turn 60. Well, I did turn 60 and it is wonderful. I'm with you-celebrating every day of LIFE...because I see so many my age that suffer and struggle. I LOVED being in my 50's was the best time of my life....so far...but now I am thinking that about the 60's.
Blessings to you- xo Diana
- April 13, 2012 at 10:16 AM
- The enchanted home said...
Well first off HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUZANNE! April is a wonderful month,a month to usher in a new season and begin anew. My sons birthday is in April too:) I loved this post and that you chose to take the silver lining in celebrating a birthday and realize what it really means, health, happiness, laughter, being with those you love. Yes, the yummy cake is great and the presents are wonderful but good health and being with those you love is truly priceless. Hope you have not only a fabulous birthday but may your entire year be filled with an abundance of love, happiness and good health!
- April 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- Sylvia said...
You are beautiful, Suzanne!
Put your right hand on your left shoulder and left hand on the right. Now, squeeze gently! That's is a friendship hug from me to you :) I am celebrating LIFE with you!
- April 13, 2012 at 3:30 PM
- Julie said...
Happy Happy birthday!! You GO! Fifties are UNDER-rated...Life continues to move on, and many changes come from all around and within....but it is the strength of a woman who has walked the path of that life and met it head on - one day at a time...with courage, stamina, fortitude, patience, joy, wonder, and yes...tears...that has the experience under her belt to realize that LIFE is simply what you make of it. Yes. Fifties will be Fabulous if you make them so. And I just believe that you WILL!!
Hugs to a special bloggy sister, that I am glad to have met, and wishing you the VERY VERY best BIRTHDAY ever, Suzanne! {{hug}} xoxo
- April 13, 2012 at 4:22 PM
- Farmgirl Paints said...
39 right? Seriously I think of you as my age. You are so full of life and fun. I like your friends take on it. Living instead of aging! I think I'll incorporate that mantra. Happy happy birthday friend. Love you!!!
- April 13, 2012 at 5:15 PM
- pollydove said...
Well happiest of HAPPY BIRTHDAY'S to you!!!! I love your attitude! "Bring it on" ... I need to adopt that mantra. I have two children with April birthdays too - it's a wonderful month! Enjoy1
- April 13, 2012 at 7:08 PM
- Charm Bracelet Diva said...
Happy, happy birthday girfriend! Your attitude is inspiring to those of us who are RIGHT THERE behind you ~ I want to be just like you when I grow up. :) Enjoy your birthday weekend!
- April 13, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- GLENDA CHILDERS said...
Happiest of birthdays to you, Susanne. I like the life you live and share with us on your beautiful blog.
ps. You didn't really say exactly how old you are turning. :-)
- April 13, 2012 at 8:22 PM
- Blondie's Journal said...
Happy Birthday, Suzanne! Remember...each year is a gift and it can be whatever you want!
- April 13, 2012 at 8:33 PM
- Palomasea said...
Dear Suzanne, it is almost midnight, so I am sending a loving HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!
What a beautiful , beautiful post...full of wisdom and soul nourishment as always.
So thankful for who you are and the beauty you bring to the world...I celebrate YOU!
Have a marvelous time with those you love...all the most generous blessings to you, sweet friend!
I love dear Sylvia's idea for a virtual hug, may I send one as well?
Love and light,
- Irina
- April 13, 2012 at 11:56 PM
- Marie said...
Happy Birthday Suzanne! I hope you had a lovely day. Each day is a gift and we do ourselves a good service to celebrate it all, wrinkles, whatever. Life is good if we allow it to be. xxoo
- April 14, 2012 at 2:14 AM
- Tammy@T's Daily Treasures said...
Well, it looks like I am right on time because today is the the day to wish you the happiest of birthdays! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! May you have many more years to make wonderful memories. Age really is relative. It's all in your perspective! An attitude of gratitude and positivity will take you much further than anything else in life. Have a wonderful weekend. Tammy
- April 14, 2012 at 2:35 AM
- SHERRY HART said...
Hope you have a wonderful time celebrating your birthday!!! No matter how VERY hard you try.....those birthdays just won't stop:)
- April 14, 2012 at 6:06 AM
- A Cottage Muse said...
Happy, Happy Birthday (Month) to you!
- April 14, 2012 at 6:15 AM
- Happy Homemaker UK said...
Happy Birthday, girlfriend! My birthday was on the 9th - just one more connection!! I think each year is a blessing, and I'm determined to be one of the few to show my real age on my face :)Maybe one day wrinkles will be fashionable and people will try to have more? Sending you the love XOLaura
- April 14, 2012 at 6:17 AM
- SuzyMcQ said...
Happy, happy belated birthday my friend. As is typical, you have tied up all our thoughts, wishes, hopes and desires into the prettiest of packages replete with an antique French silk ribbon!
Hope you had a sinful birthday cake and grabbed a huge piece!
Wishing you all the best....love, laughs, good health and much, much happiness always.
- April 14, 2012 at 7:09 AM
- Shelly W. said...
Happy birthday, Suzanne! I can't tell you how much I needed to read this. I turn the-one-with-the-9 next week, and I'm dreading it. I dread next year even more. I don't know why, but this is hard on me. Probably because I don't feel as old as the calendar says I am. :)
Anyway, your words, as always, are an encouragement. Sending lots of love to you today!!
- April 14, 2012 at 7:21 AM
- Gretchen said...
Birthday Blessings to a dear friend... May your day be filled with joy and happiness, and may you be surrounded by your family and gilled with love, fun and laughter.
Your post is full of wisdom and truths. It is obviously THAT birthday by the wisdom you've shared in this wonderfully written blog post. As one ages, their wisdom grows....how fortunate for us.
I so agree that ones attitude plays hugely on ones happiness and grace with aging, and you are and will do so beautifully...
I just celebrated another birthday in March with my daughter in Mexico, while celebrating her upcoming graduation during Spring Break...it was THAT Birthday + 1 for me. 50's are great, so welcome to the club... :)
Let's do lunch and celebrate together soon...
Miss you...
- April 14, 2012 at 7:56 AM
- A Perfect Gray said...
happy, happy birthday. you bring so much sunshine to us all! donna
- April 14, 2012 at 8:27 AM
- Designs By Pinky said...
HAPPY birthday, Suzanne!!! Did I tell you that my sister's name is Suzanne? I don't know the number of THAT birthday but you look terrific. I am guessing 40. I hope your celebration continues for many more YEARS!!! I love that you appreciate every year on the calendar and you are so RIGHT about that. I will turn 65 in August (SHHHHHH), but, like you am so grateful to BE HERE!!!! XO, Pinky
- April 14, 2012 at 8:31 AM
- Laura Ingalls Gunn said...
May a beautiful person have a wonderful year!
I am actually heading to your neck of the woods this next week to celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday!
- April 14, 2012 at 8:40 AM
- Beth said...
Wishing you a truly wonderful birthday Suzanne. x
- April 14, 2012 at 8:54 AM
- Karena said...
Suzanne Happy Birthday dear friend!! You inspire me always! Enjoy!
I am having a $100 Gift Card Giveaway from Soft Surroundings If you would like to enter.
Art by Karen
- April 14, 2012 at 11:04 AM
- HAMPTON HOSTESS said...
Happy Birthday--sounds like you're embracing the day and enjoying it fully! Have a great celebratory weekend, barbara
- April 14, 2012 at 11:14 AM
- hometown girl said...
happy birthday my friend! i love the quote, growing older is a privilege denied many. many blessings!! xo susan
- April 14, 2012 at 12:56 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Happy Birthday! What a magical and blessed day...the day you were born to make the world a better place!
Suzanne, you are an inspiration and a wondeful friend to many. Your messages and always positive messages bring light and solace to many, myself included.
I hope that ou enjoy every minute of the special day which celebrates YOU.
Take care an enjoy, Elizabeth
- April 14, 2012 at 2:18 PM
- Olive Cooper said...
♫♪♫Happy Birthday♫♪♫ How I missed this post I do not know but am so glad I didn't really. Your attitude is so wonderful. You are an amazingly beautiful soul. Live as every meal is a feast and every day is a holiday that is what we practice and I know you do it as well. hugs, Olive
- April 14, 2012 at 4:04 PM
- Cindy said...
Happy Birthday!!! I had THAT birthday a few years ago.
(My birthday is April 5th!) I can tell you that life just keeps getting better. I deal with things differently, let little things go, cherish my family more and listen to my heart!
I am so glad your were put on this earth to spread your beautiful words. Just as beautiful as you! Enjoy your day!
- April 14, 2012 at 4:53 PM
- Castles Crowns and Cottages said...
AMEN. AMEN!!!!!!!! How did I miss this POST??????? I think I was crazy busy this week, but dearest, WE SHARE THIS WONDERFUL MONTH to rejoice in the LIVING of life. Not just breathing, but LOVING! You do that well, and the more we do it, the more we become settled in our skin, isn't it?
MUCH LOVE TO YOU DEAR HEART! Anita
- April 14, 2012 at 5:05 PM
- Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...
Happy belated birthday! I found the fifties very liberating and full of wonderful occasions -- I saw my son, and soon my daughter, get married to the love of their lives, and I've been blessed with two grandsons. It's the last year of this decade coming up for me ..like you I'm so glad to be alive!
- April 14, 2012 at 9:17 PM
- Kathysue said...
Happy Birthday sweet girl. 50 is not so bad. I am just like you, I look at every day as a gift. I figure if God woke me up this morning he has something planned for me to do today and I thank him each and every day. I love your friends sentiments on aging. I read another saying about getting old, Not every one gets the privilege to get old. You are an aging beauty and you do not look 50 by any means. But even if you did that would be okay too.
I don't mind aging it is a natural process, but I refuse to become OLD, that is a state of mind, xo Kathysue
- April 14, 2012 at 9:28 PM
- Kathy's Red Door Welcome said...
It's taken me a while to get over here to wish you a happy birthday but I didn't want to miss the chance to celebrate with you. I like your perspective on aging.Certainly loss has a great effect on how we choose to view aging...it definitely puts life in perspective. Anyway you look beautiful from the inside out. Hope your birthday week is full of joy and laughter!
- April 14, 2012 at 9:35 PM
- Blooming Rose Musings said...
Happy, Happy Birthday, sweet friend! I hope you celebrate all month long and have a fabulous time doing so. Birthdays are not about age, they are about celebrating life. I think April is a very special month because my mom's birthday would have been the 9th and I remember always thinking how special April is. All of you Aries ladies are fabulous women.
Have a wonderful and Happy Birthday! Sending you lots of love. XO
- April 14, 2012 at 9:39 PM
- Amanda (Small Acorns) said...
Happy Birthday Suzanne!! I too will be having THAT birthday later this year, and I figure I have between now and September to get over myself and accept it as beautifully as you are. Your friends take on living not aging is perfect. Hope you have a very special day today.
Amanda xx
- April 15, 2012 at 4:20 AM
- A Vintage Chic said...
Amen to all that, Suzanne...and happiest of Happy Birthdays! I'm loving this age, too--just happy to have each and every day--wrinkles and all!
Wishing you a beautiful day, dear friend...
- April 15, 2012 at 8:54 AM
- Biz said...
Happy Birthday Beautiful You!
I'm so proud of you.
I have always hoped that as I got older I would never be ashamed to 'admit' my age.
That it is just a number and that each day is a blessing. I appreciate you being such a good example of that!
PS...love the hair !
- April 15, 2012 at 3:50 PM
- Vintage Home said...
Ah so funny...I was sitting in church and for some quick second thought of you??..and here I am finding its your birthday!
(our daughter just turned 23 last week!)
I am much older than you and will see a milestone in a few years...(60)!)..but I really believe what you have said here...we do have a gift of living!
Thank you for reminding me!
- April 15, 2012 at 5:02 PM
- lisaroyhandbags said...
Happy birthday Suzanne! I hope you've been having a wonderful celebration with your dear friends and family. Time goes by much too quickly and it's all about living in the moment and counting our blessings. No need for fillers for you -you look fantastic xo
- April 16, 2012 at 1:10 AM
- Linda @ Itsy Bits And Pieces said...
I hope you had a wonderful birthday, Suzanne! This is the most wonderful post...and I love the photo of you and E. So glad we were able to get together! Hope to see you again soon! XO
- April 16, 2012 at 1:11 AM
- Lisa Scibilia said...
Happy, happy, happy birthday my beautiful friend!
Wishing you a wonderful year of LIVING and enjoying your life and your family!
I love your perspective and your friendship!
- April 16, 2012 at 7:52 AM
- Jane said...
Oh Sweetheart, wishing you the happiest of birthdays. You look absolutely radiant and at peace with yourself. Just gorgeous. I look forward to seeing what the next decade brings you! J x
- April 16, 2012 at 8:00 AM
- red ticking said...
happpy birthday sweet suzanne.... i loved this post...
i think we all feel the same... losing loved ones... and being ok with who we are and where we are in life...
loving one another and ourselves is all that matters...
much love and many blessings to you... xx
- April 16, 2012 at 1:32 PM
- Acanthus and Acorn said...
I hope your 50th year is the best ever! Sending you a big birthday hug my friend!!!
- April 16, 2012 at 2:57 PM
- Miss Gracie's House said...
Happy LATE (THAT)Birthday! You do THAT with grace and beauty...celebrate!
- April 16, 2012 at 8:29 PM
- Joanna said...
I almost missed this post - I'm so glad I didn't!
Belated Happy Birthday wishes, Suzanne!! I totally agree with EVERYTHING you've written here. Getting older is so much better than the alternative............
Gorgeous photos, my friend. You are one gorgeous chick!!
- April 17, 2012 at 10:04 AM
- Anette Willemine said...
Found your lovely blog today, and I'm so glad I did. You have some beautiful pictures and a way of writing that appeals to me. I can tell, from what I've just read.
I wish you a wonderful Birthday in April.
(Our youngest daughter will be 13 at April 28.)
I'm looking forward to following you blog from now!
Anette Willemine
- April 17, 2012 at 10:11 AM
- Stuff and Nonsense said...
happiest of birthdays
even if it is
THAT one
i recently celebrated
one of those myself
and sometimes it seems surreal
to think i am no longer 25 or so
i agree
that aging is living
and my spots and wrinkles
tell the tale
of living well
i do hope
that this year
is full of grace, growth and blessing for you
- April 17, 2012 at 7:05 PM
- Jenny Schouten Short said...
Happy Birthday now from Holland! Just reading my blogs after not doing so for the past two weeks. :) Jenny
- April 18, 2012 at 7:08 AM
- June said...
Oh I love Fiona's take on aging!!!! Yes, I wish my jawline wasn't sagging and my neck was tighter, but I want to be one of those elderly women that has every joy and every sorrow written all over her face when I leave this earth.
I loved your writing. It is better than any book I have ever read. It speaks straight to my heart Suzanne. I can see into your soul when you write. And what a beautiful soul it is!!!!
Happy Birthday to you! Your daughter is lucky to be as beautiful as her mom : )
sending hugs...
- April 18, 2012 at 12:02 PM
- pretty pink tulips said...
Happy Birthday, Suzanne!! I think every year counts and when the number ends with an "0" it's definitely something to celebrate.
I love your outlook on aging - well, I love your outlook on everything, but this especially hits home, as I have a few more lines than I used to! Gotta remember....that's because I'm fortunate enough to be living! :)
Big hugs to you, birthday girl!
xoxo Elizabeth
- April 18, 2012 at 4:23 PM
- Anne Lorys - Fiona and Twig said...
Happy Belated Birthday, my youthful looking friend! You look gorgeous, and remember that age is nothing but a number. You wear it well!
- April 18, 2012 at 5:07 PM
- Sharon Lovejoy said...
Honey, you look GREAT. And you know that wrinkles are the road map of the joys and sorrows of your life.
You're alive, healthy, and have a wonderful and loving family.
Happy birthday and HURRAH!!!
- April 19, 2012 at 10:52 AM
- Susan T said...
How on earth did I miss this special day. Where have you hidden all the wrinkles and signs of age. You are a beautiful lady, inside and out, and the photo of you with your gorgeous daughter is so lovely. Many many happy returns Suzanne, with love hugs and kisses from here. xxx
- April 20, 2012 at 3:16 AM
- Leslie said...
Suzanne!! Happy Birthday!! I turned 52 last September and I must say it just keeps getting better. You are right! We need to stay focused on REAL life - and being thankful for our health and family. Beauty comes from the heart and the sparkle in the eyes. Embrace those laugh lines :)
- April 20, 2012 at 10:35 AM
- Deborah said...
Happy Birthday my dear friend!!
I feel the same way my friend..I'm counting the MOMENTS now, not the YEARS.
Love you precious friend xo
All my heart,
Deborah xoxoxoxooxox
- April 24, 2012 at 8:06 AM
- Lili said...
It's hard to believe just how many of your posts I have missed and especially this one...your big milestone birthday! You look so youthful and always have that glow about you. I say bring them on, they look GREAT on you Suzanne! xo ~Lili
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jabbin-2.0beta2a: voip client
Jabbin is an Open Source Jabber client program that allows free PC to PC calls using the VoIP system over the Jabber network.
i compiled jabbin on pup2.16 & I uploaded a .pet, to rapidshare, here:
It's just over 2M dload, and needs QT libraries and speex installed. Both these are available as .pet packages on puppy's ibiblio site. Oddly it also needs libGL.so.1, which is available by installing the openGl .pup from Mu's site, at dotpups.de/dotpups.
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i just realised there are two menu entries for this, under Internet & Network. To remove the Internet menu entry, open the file /usr/share/applications/jabbin.desktop in a texteditor, and alter the last line, from this:
then do:
Menu->Shutdown->Exit to Prompt
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Thanks for posting. Do you know if this can be used with a sip proxy so that calls can be made to any phone? If it can't then it is not very useful.
Have you had look at http://www.twinklephone.com/ or managed to get Wengophone to work?
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Hi Newcrest,
I don't really know much about Jabbin. I just compiled the app in response to a query from Macadavy, who wanted to try it out because of it's ability to commune with googletalk.
AFAIK wengophone works pretty much straight "out of the box", after you've extracted it. Or at least it looks to me like it would work, but being on bad dialup, I have problems with all such apps, due to bandwidth problems.
I had a look at Twinklephone, but it seems to have a few KDE dependencies. Maybe it could be compiled with KDE disabled?
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I often hear that VOIP is the next killer app and I think it should go hand in hand with Puppy being a portable operating system.
However, the top softphone makers like Counterpath have not upgraded their Linux versions from the time when voip was more a geek toy and so they still have poor voice quality compared to current Windows versions.
I tried to get Wengophone to work with Puppy 2.15 but failed. It is also quite bulky. Twinkle is smaller. Only some of its more fancy features require KDE and the Twinkle website says:
To force a build of a non-KDE version of Twinkle:
./configure --without-kde
I could only find an old Mandriva non-KDE binary and I could not get that to run even though I tried installing binaries of the 3 libraries it needs. Maybe it needs the same versions as it was compiled with? Sorry I am way out of my depth with compiling concepts.
I have heard that people use voip through MyNetFone and Pennytel successfully on dial-up with the G729 codec so don't let dial-up hold you back. If you join MynetFone through Whirlpool you can get a free hardware adapter to use at home and 10c untimed calls to any landline in Aus. Then you won't have to hangup or use a mobile to make or receive a call.
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Posted: Mon 26 Nov 2007, 02:46
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Jabbin can be used to communicate with anyone with a gmail (GoogleMail) account via GoogleTalk - that's a lotta people!
Another alternative to Skype is Gizmo. Unlike Skype it uses the open SIP protocol - which means you can use it to connect with anyone using other SIP compliant software such as Wengophone, Ekiga, Linphone, etc. Skype's proprietary protocol and closed source software means you can only communicate with others using Skype and Skype only.
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There are many more people without internet than with. Communicating with someone on the internet has been easy for at least 10 years. Even now people don't realize the power of Microsoft's Netmeeting and yet it was part of Windows 95. I never understood why a closed product like Skype became popular. People are really stupid.
Communicating with people with a phone requires the voip client be able to use a sip proxy. Does Gizmo allow that? If not then it is more useless proprietary rubbish like Skype that is more interested in ripping people off than providing a communication service.
Puppy needs a decent small voip client. Wengophone is far too big (76MB in disk usage, not to mention ram hungry) and yet still does not provide some necessary basic functions needed by a softphone.
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Posted: Mon 26 Nov 2007, 21:34
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Gizmo offers the same phone out to landline/cell and phone in from landline/cell to your number that Skype offers. Check it out here: http://gizmoproject.com/
Jabbin is the only Linux chat client that supports VoIP via GoogleTalk. Gaim aka Pidgin, for example, is multi-protocol but does not (yet) support voice.
There are at least four (4) Puplets I'm aware of that include softphones: EcoPup, Fire Hydrant Puppy, Rudy Puppy and TEENPup. There may be more...
List of Puplets: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puplets
A more detailed list here: http://en.linux.wikia.com/wiki/Puppy
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Posted: Mon 26 Nov 2007, 23:43
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Hi Macadavy,
Are we on the same page here? I am talking about Puppy having available a sip softphone which allows choice of sip provider so that calls can be made to and from the public telephone system via a sip proxy without having to pay Skype's ripoff timed rates for example. Gizmo is the same as Skype.
People who refuse to use Microsoft products and yet happily use Skype are complete hypocrites.
I think Rudy puppy has X-lite version 2 which is a bad joke. The voice quality on both Windows and Linux is very poor. It muffles incoming voice and adds a lisp to your outgoing voice. X-lite version 3 is fine but Counterpath don't feel a corporate need to make a Linux version. X-lite version 2 is easily installed in any Puppy version, no need for Rudy.
Do the other puplets you mention have anything better because I could not find anything? Besides they are very large compared to the main Puppy.
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Posted: Thu 29 Nov 2007, 00:44
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Newcrest: I've been looking into VoIP via Puppy quite a bit. It seems you, like I, feel some frustration. I don't know of any sip softphone that allows you free calls to landlines/cell; the best you can hope for is pay-as-you-go calling card type setups. That's why I find Jabbin of interest - almost eveyone has, or can easily get, a gmail account. The best softphone I've seen is Ekiga. ( http://www.ekiga.org/ ) While they allow you to use any sip provider, (though they recommend Diamondcard.us), Ekiga is an evolution of Gnome's netmeeting software so it requires the Gnome libs to function - not exactly lightweight! And like Skype, diamondcard.us doesn't offer call-in numbers in my part of the world - Gizmo does.
It sounds like you have some ple (personal lived experience) with VoIP which I do not - I just dream of telling my local telco to kiss off!
There's a good comparison of available VoIP software in Wikipedia:
Way out there on the raggedy, raggedy edge is Java-based SIP Communicator: http://www.sip-communicator.org/
"SIP Communicator is completely Open Source / Free Software, and is freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License"
If you share my interest in VoIP-for-Puppy, let's talk ( and maybe one day we'll actually
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Posted: Wed 28 May 2008, 07:32
Post subject: jabbin
Has anyone here tried out jabbin as yet, particularly on Puppy?
I'm wondering how well it works and as an addition, how easy it is to compile and set up under Puppy 4 (Dingo)?
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Posted: Wed 28 May 2008, 21:09
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Hello mcewan,
I haven't tried any of these voip clients myself, but I know that newcrest reckoned that
had the best voice quality. Also I'm not sure of Jabbin's status as the old link seems to be going to a pay for call service. (I've changed the link in first post to sourceforge site.)
I think the jabbin in the first post, which is compiled with QT3, should be OK to run on pup4 if you also install
, from the pup3 repository.
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Posted: Wed 04 Jun 2008, 01:57
Post subject: connecting to google talk with jabbin
Thanks muggins,
I downloaded your jabbin pet and it installed fine (actually, I've only tried it on Puppy 2.17 so far).
However, I did have trouble finding out how to connect to Google Talk with it, so please find below an extract of some instructions I found that worked for me (I haven't actually tried voice calling yet though).
As for twinkle, does it work as a jabber client and google talk too (and not just SIP)? If it does it is probably a better option for using with Google Talk since jabbin does indeed seemed to have changed status project-wise.
"Once you've finished install Jabbin, open it up and set up an new account (if nothing pops up, go to File→Account Setup, and click the New… button). Type in a name (e.g. My Jabber Account), and click the Add button. In the next window, type in your Jabber ID (e.g. andrew@andrewmin . com), your password, and any other things you wish to configure.
If you use Google Talk, enter your email as your Jabber ID (e.g. andrewmin@gmail . com), open the Connection tab, and select "Use SSL encryption (to server)", "Ignore SSL warnings", "Allow Plaintext Login", "Send Keep-alive packets (for NAT timeouts), and "Manually Specify Server Host/Port". Change the Host to talk.google.com and the Port to 5223. Finally, change to Misc and make the resource Jabbin. If you get a server authentication error, just hit Continue.
Messaging, chatting, and calling
To begin a conversation, just double-click on a buddy or right-click on one and select Open Chat Window. A conversation window will then pop up. You can use emoticons, look up information of the buddy you're chatting with, and send file transfers (though this doesn't work with Google Talk buddies). You can also start group chats by clicking on the Groupchat button on the main toolbar. In the resulting window, type in the Host and the Room and click the Join button (again, this won't work with Google Talk buddies).
Of course, chatting is only half of the fun. The real enjoyment starts when you call people. All you need to do is to right-click on a buddy and click the Make Call button. A small window will pop up, and you will then be able to raise and lower the volume of your microphone and the speakers."
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Posted: Sat 07 Jun 2008, 01:28
Post subject: how did you compile jabbin?
Hello muggins
Though your jabbin pet works for me, I'd still like to play around compiling it on different puppy systems. However, I'm having no success compiling it at all, so wonder what I am missing. When I try to compile it, here is what happens...
On puppy 2.17.1 and also Puppy 4.00 as an alternative:
On entering ./configure
with jabbin-2.0beta2a-i486, I get the following error message.
"Configuring Jabbin ...
Verifying Qt 3.x Multithreaded (MT) build environment ... fail
There was an error compiling 'conf'. Be sure you have a proper
Qt 3.x Multithreaded (MT) build environment set up."
The only QT thing I've installed is qt-3.3.6.pet from ibiblio.
Did you have to install other things or header dev files or whatever, or what else?
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I have a vague memory that I had to resort to some sort of trickery to get it to compile, but unfortunately can't recall any specifics. If you want I can retry compiling for pup4.
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text: So I for some reason decided to go ahead and attempt to take a photo tonight .. in the dark, up close. And what do i see? Green bars .. okay, fluke .. i get these 1 out of 20 times .. but second time .. same thing, third, etc. So at this point i'm thinking that it is just lying to me and is saying it's focusing no matter what .. i point into the blackness of night, red. Okay, good sign here. I go inside, and 8 out of 8 photos taken were in focus... The only thing i've done today is update shopsavy (or was it barcode scanner?) whichever had the update today. I don't see why that would affect it, but regardless. Suddenly it works... Anyone else?


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pittsoccer33 wrote:entitlement programs do not lift people from poverty and they do not motivate people into prosperity even though this is how they are advertised. they create a class of people dependant on the federal government.
We need programs that help people get out of bad situations, not perpetuate them. In regards to the healthcare bill, I am not saying that it is going to perpetuate a bad situation (I still haven't read it).


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Fahamu | 2 March 2011
by Rahul Goswami
The new land calculus that is being employed for analyses of Africa is created by the coming together of technology and finance. It assesses the continent using a fine grid that is electronically laid out over the land. This grid is the electronic operating topography, created by a model which makes extensive use of satellite imagery, remote sensing analysis and existing databases on terrain and climate, soil and population, water and infrastructure. In this view of Africa, a grid represents a potential investment sink to be harvested after a high-technology crop cycle. The characteristics of a grid square indicate its per hectare revenue and profitability in dollar terms.
Africa is not unique in being dissected through the combination of earth sciences grid and database. All of the developing South has been covered by such grids - South America, Asia (East, South and South-East), the Maghrib and West Africa. Graded according to per hectare output that ranges from the equivalent of US$167/ha to over US$2,500/ha, countries and regions in sub-Saharan Africa are weighed for investment by a variety of criteria: type of soil, agro-ecological types, availability of transport infrastructure and logistics, type of terrain, vegetation indices, watersheds, distance from port, productivity of land already under cultivation, and of course population and demographics.
The first employers of this formula are the investment cartels that control much of the world's grain movement, the flows of edible oils and which are responsible for the dominance of agricultural commodities trade. They also exercise control over the actual flow of food from aggregating markets to ports to retail chains. It is they who have the business models to protect and who leverage corporate power to revoke or alter national legislation to suit their needs. Yet the creator of this formula is the global development apparatus, including several United Nations agencies, specialised organisations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. These have provided the evocative basis for the formula - the human development needs, the gap in reaching the Millennium Development Goals, the sustainable development arguments, the health-education-gender dimension.
Left at that, the formula may well have been just what the world's tens of millions of smallholder farming households could find a use for - an assessment that is as holistic globally as it is specific locally. But the formula was not left to be used through the lens of human development and sustainable natural resource use. The multilateral funding agencies took control, and immediately the assessment grid was bent towards 'market' needs. Thus we have today, operating for all of Africa barring the Saharan belt, an "an integrated agro-ecological and socio-economic methodology" whose nominal owners are the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Its methodology rests atop what is called a global database for assessment of policy options for food security and sustainable agricultural development. It has been applied by the World Bank "to provide global, regional and national insight and decision support for investors and host-country governments" and it is presented as being able to "facilitate sustainable and responsible international agricultural land investments".
We have heard such terminology before, in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was used to describe the crippling structural adjustment programmes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. They are indeed back, now as structural agri-food adjustment programmes, and 25 years later they are formidably armed with new machinery provided by the urgency of the triple crisis: climate change, economic volatility and food shortages.
The formula has been used to shortlist countries suitable for receiving agri-land investment and, in this iteration of the grid assessment, the threshold is set at countries which have at least three million hectares of "suitable" land - defined as non-cultivated, non-forested and non-protected land. Long and bitter experiences in developing Asia tell us that the definitions of 'cultivated', 'forested' and 'protected' are all too often unscientific, and can be strikingly different between an act of legislation and its subsequent amendment. These definitions can and do quickly become politically loaded. Now, with the employment of this formula, they become market definitions, since the formula includes population only as a deflator of final crop output.
Under the analysis, the countries of the sub-Saharan Africa region are ranked by the availability of such "suitable" land in their territories (in million hectares): Sudan 46.02; Democratic Republic of Congo 22.49; Mozambique 16.25; Madagascar 16.24; Chad 14.81; Zambia 13.02; Angola 9.68; Tanzania 8.65; Central African Republic 7.94; Ethiopia 4.72; Cameroon 4.65; Kenya 4.61; Mali 3.90; Burkina Faso 3.71; South Africa 3.55; and Congo 3.47. What does this ranking mean? "In most of Africa, area expansion has been based on smallholder agriculture in the context of population growth," explained a World Bank report, issued in 2010 September. "Also, structural issues arising from this long-standing neglect of technology, infrastructure, and institutions continue to limit competitiveness. In many cases, they contributed to disappointing performance of commercial cultivation of bulk commodities, where Africa can have a comparative advantage." This report is the now infamous 'Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?' and the question posed concerning benefits is entirely rhetorical.
"Instead, success with export agriculture was limited to higher-value crops such as cotton, cocoa, and coffee, and more recently horticulture," stated the World Bank report. "At the same time such gaps also affect smallholder performance. In fact, none of the Sub-Saharan African countries (e.g. Mozambique, Zambia, Sudan, or Madagascar) that recently attracted investor interest achieved more than 25% of potential yields, and area cultivated per rural inhabitant remains well below 1 ha. If technology, infrastructure, and institutions can be improved, higher global demand for agricultural commodities can bring large benefits to existing producers and countries." The Bank calls it agricultural commodities, those living under poverty lines (or just above) in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa call it food.
The difference in terminology has, since the food price spikes of 2007-08, been politically and socially sensitive. The trading of agricultural commodities - and the ubiquity of agricultural futures products on the world's busiest commodity trading exchanges - has been blamed for both the price spikes of recent years, in 2007-08 and the 2010-11 condition which continues. This is true, but is not the only factor responsible for the uptrend in foodgrain prices in developing countries. At work also is the economic project to encourage urbanisation in the developing South, advance the case for economic growth rates as the definer of a country's 'progress', and leach the rural commons of both population and small farms. UN Habitat tells us that ten years ago in 2001, 37% of China's population lived in urban areas, 471,927,000 people; and 28% of India's population lived in urban areas, 285,608,000 people. In 2010 these numbers had grown to 44.9% and 607,230,500 people in China; 30.1% and 366,858,300 people in India.
These two populous countries alone exert a staggering pressure on foodgrain demand. In India, the average per capita cereal consumption ranges between 9 and 13 kilo per month for urban areas (for rural areas the average may be slightly higher, but as ever there is considerable variation between regions). In China the average per capita cereal consumption is estimated to have increased steadily during the 'reform period' (1979-1985), after the liberalisation of food production when the annual economic growth rate was over 10%, when China began to import cereals. The estimate for the time was 192 kg per capita annually. Since then, nutritional studies have shown that further economic growth in China has led to a shift in energy requirements, and therefore the structure of the Chinese diet shifted, with cereal consumption declining. For urban India, the transition has followed a similar pattern and the weights of cereals and pulses in the diet have declined. In both countries, this is what has been called a "nutrition transition", and has been exploited as such by the global food retail chains, their regional collaborators and the global agri-food-seed-biotech industry.
Those urban dwellers in China, India and elsewhere who are experiencing the nutrition transition are, in many cases, first or second generation migrants from rural provinces. Their presence in metropolises or urbanising agglomerations represents a profound shift in labour away from the land - the patterns that today dominate smallholder agriculture have much to do with labour and migration, and explain in part why the feminisation of smallholder agriculture is such a widespread phenomenon in the South. Thus we have cultivator-consumer dependency ratios, in developing Asia, which are utterly unsustainable. Rough calculations done for India have shown that districts in which agriculture remains the primary occupation the average ratio is that a cultivator (or agricultural labourer) helps feed 2 to 2.5 people (family included). When fast-growing urban areas are factored in, the ratio climbs to 4.5 and above. The bald truth is that for smallholder farms, these are unfeasible numbers and unbearable pressures. No matter what the conditions are, the families and households look for a monthly basket of food staples to survive. The consequence is labour migration, the conversion of agricultural land to commercial use, or the annexation of agricultural land for industrial farming, which will in almost every case be high-input, high-technology.
It is this link - which brings together the consequences of an economic model, population growth, and the corporatisation of the cultivation and food distribution system - that must also be examined when studying the investor-centric land use analyses of Africa. "Sub-Saharan Africa, with its fertile land, ample water resources and the world's lowest agricultural productivity, is the biggest hot spot for agricultural land acquisition by public and private investors from the GCC, China, India and Europe," stated a recent assessment made by the Qatar National Food Security Programme for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). "The agricultural sector in SSA countries is in urgent need of investment capital. However, decades of poor government commitments to agriculture and low investments have resulted in stagnating productivity and food-production levels. The SSA countries' capacity to fill the investment gap is limited and the pledges of ODA are often not delivered."
The "urgent need" is a recurring justification, helped by ample evidence of development gaps, the miseries of populations displaced internally because of conflict, the weakness of partnerships between government and social institutions. The "urgent need" has also become the growing nutrition gap in countries of the South, experienced by both urban and rural poor. It is for both the provision of the monthly basket of food staples and in closing the nutrition gap that the new agri-tech industry is deploying resources and the global grid assessment.
That such evidence is misused to further agriland investment campaigns is also in plain sight, but is not corrected by the intergovernmental agencies working in Africa. The result, to those outside the framework of the 'market', is grotesque: "Parametric assumptions about yield and input levels, and application of a vector of output and input prices adjusted for transport cost spread over an appropriate time period, would allow the computation of expected investment returns and land rents from any given use," is one representative piece of advice that was provided on the sidelines of a international meet on food security held in October 2010. "This would allow host governments to assess their comparative advantages better in negotiations with outside investors. Globally, such information can help investors who are interested in certain types of crop to identify the most appropriate countries and macro-regions to consider."
Who are the investors whom such information would help? They are the clients of investment firms such as BlackRock, which in early 2010 launched a world agriculture fund, earmarking US$30 million for farmland acquisitions, they are the clients of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, who already offer investors access to similar funds, they are the clients of firms like the new Agcapita, which focuses exclusively on farmland investment. These are the firms which assess countries based on their contribution to the health of a basket of exchange traded funds, or ETFs, in the agriculture sector. Such complex and sophisticated market instruments are linked by finance to the world's dominant agri-tech companies and trading firms: Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Louis Dreyfus, Cargill, Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer being amongst them. But it is not the transnationals alone that command the flows of food and the control of land. The economic growth in China and India has spawned regional competitors with similar interests, and who possess the advantages of market knowledge and reach that the multinationals do not. There are parallels between the competition for fuel and mineral resources amongst China and India, and their effort to secure agricultural land overseas. The tools employed are similar and often, the finance stems from the same preferred sources.
Ignored entirely by the new agri-investing powers is the evidence of many highly credible and comprehensive scientific studies that confirm the value of small-scale agro-ecological approaches in Africa, documented in detail by civil society organisations, farmworkers and farmer associations, grassroots groups, health and consumer organisations, environmental groups, scientists and academics. These groups share "a recognition that hunger, poverty, and climate change are inter-related through the medium of agricultural policies", and have distributed widely the evidence against commercial, high-input farming that employs bio-technology and genetic engineering ('biofortification' is a new variant) to fulfil commercial market objectives. Their recent critique of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's approach to these issues - directly and through its Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) subsidiary - is one such effort.
The industry and its supporters (in national governments, in the opaque inter-governmental agri-research networks with their industry connections) are well aware of the power of such opposition. That is why all statements describing international agricultural investments include by default clauses reiterating the need to develop principles for responsible agriculture investment that respect the rights, livelihoods and resources of local communities. These are stock templates, designed to deflect the fallout from a growing number of media reports of land deals between investors and governments in host countries that have failed to ensure that fair benefits will accrue to the local populations.
They are used to mask the key elements of the new structural agri-food adjustment programmes that are already in place in the developing South: agri-investor friendly new industrial policies, the disinvestment by and withdrawal of government equity in profitable public sector enterprises, financial sector 'reform' that ushers in private banking and asset management, the championing of public-private partnership in tandem with cuts in social sector spending, legislative 'reform' to support the new measures, the encouragement of urbanisation and the steady creation of new classes of consumers whose purchasing patterns can be fed into the global grid model. These are the elements of the new structural adjustment programme for crop and field, which represents all that threatens our principles of food sovereignty and social justice.
This commentary was published by the 'Emerging Powers in Africa Programme', Fahamu, Cape Town, South Africa in its 'Perspectives on Emerging Powers in Africa' (Issue 6, February 2011). Fahamu makes a significant contribution to media and freedom of expression in Africa, using information and communications technologies. Its flagship publication is Pambazuka News, a pan-African online newsletter with English, French and Portuguese editions.
Rahul Goswami is a Research Associate at the Centre for Communication and Development Studies, India, and worked as a social sector consultant in India's National Agricultural Innovation Project in 2009-10 ([email protected]).


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The Vancouver Canucks head to Calgary to face the Flames. Then, an hour later, the Canucks host the Flames at Rogers Arena. How's that?
The Canucks and Flames are playing a unique split-squad double-header tonight, where each city hosts a game tonight.
Here's the lowdown.
Thanks to Dan Murphy, Kristin Reid, and the Canucks Report, we have some lineup announcements for each squad.
In Calgary tonight, the Canucks lines should be as follows:
Ballard – Baumgartner
O'Brien – Ramsay
Zimmerman – Alberts; Polasek
Weiman & Lack
In Vancouver, the home town squad plans to ice the following setup:
Connauton – Bieksa
Oberg – Tanev
Ellington – Hannay
Schneider & Shantz
As you can see by both rosters, there are not a whole lot of veterans playing tonight. In fact, I would argue that apart from Malhotra and Torres, everyone playing tonight is fighting for a roster spot. There was an earlier Canucks report listing Alex Friesen as the 2nd line C here in Vancouver. However we know now that Friesen was sent back to his QMJHL team, NIagara.
There are a few more familiar faces playing the blueline in both games, but that's mostly because the Canucks don't have as many guys truly fighting for roster spots.
As for the Flames, they are planning on playing a far more veteran roster, especially in Calgary, where regulars like Iginla and Jokinen, among others, are expected to play.
Given that the almost every Canucks player is trying to earn themselves a paycheque, I expect that both games will be spirited, physical affairs.
With the strength of the Flames lineup in Calgary, the Canucks will likely struggle to win. They're going to be in tough in Cow Town. However, at home, the Canucks should have a much more even match-up, if not a slight edge – especially up front, where Vancouver is showcasing some players that have quite a bit of NHL experience.
I'm personally watching tonight's game in Calgary (on Sportsnet, not in person) to get a better sense of which players might actually make up that elusive 4th line for the Canucks. With the defense and the top 3 lines pretty much baked, the real battle for roster spots is the 4th line and there are plenty of guys who want that spot.
We've heard how Sergei Shirokov has improved both physically and mentally (from Ben Kuzma, The Province), how Brendan Morrison would love to return home for a legitimate chance at a Cup (Kuzma) and how Victor Oreskovich removed himself from the game to rediscover his passion and appears to have found it in spades (from Hosea Chung-24Hrs). Let's hope for the Canucks' sake, they all the make the impression they want to leave.


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Monday Morning Offering - 52
Image: George Mendoza
Good morning, good God!
I meet so many folks who are trying, Lord:
trying to stay on the right path,
trying to take a step in a new direction…
trying to begin, or begin again,
(even a simple thing)
so very hard to do…
trying to make a right decision,
to do the right thing…
trying to believe,
to trust:
in themselves,
in others,
in you…
trying again
when they've tried so many times before
and are tired of trying -
yet trying to try again…
I meet so many folks who are trying, Lord...
So, I offer you this morning
all the efforts of all of us who try:
who try to know, love and serve you
in all we do…
I offer you our good intentions, Lord:
forgive our false starts,
give us fresh starts
and the hope we need to try again…
I offer you our earnest desires
and ask, Lord, that you keep us honest:
show us how we so easily con ourselves
and remind us that to be honest with ourselves
is to be honest with you…
I offer you all our redoubled efforts, Lord,
and pray you redouble the grace
that is yours to give,
that we so much need
and is ours for the asking…
I offer you our desire, Lord,
to choose what is true, good, healthy and pure
and when we settle for less
give us the desire to desire more:
more of what is good, good for us
and good for our life with you and with others…
I offer you our need, Lord,
for you to deepen our trust,
refresh our hope,
renew our strength
and give us the will
to live one day at a time…
Be patient with us, Lord,
and give us patience with each other
as each of us tries
and tries again
to live according to your will and Word,
this Monday morning
and every day and night this week.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
* Homemade Gift: Embroidered Map Going Away Gift
My brother-in-law and sister-in-law are moving out of the state.
They're moving back to my sister-in-law's hometown.
We had a farewell dinner Friday night and I gave them this going away gift.
A homemade gift from the heart, to remember us across the miles
and know that we're thinking about them.
It's also a nice reminder for my niece and nephew about their
Aunt MaryLea, Uncle Geoff, and their crazy cousins!
I started with a frame I found at Michaels.
Then, I printed out a map of Virginia and a map of Ohio
(use whatever state or place is meaningful to you)
from a google images search. I printed the maps on natural colored
vellum paper to make them look more "map like"
If you had real street maps that would be awesome but I didn't so I had to improvise.
I cut out the shape of each state out of the maps
(they're not perfect or accurate and they don't need to be.)
For the state shapes I googled "printable state maps"
as a google images search to find the right shapes.
Because I didn't want the paper to rip when I sewed it,
I pre-punched holes with a straight pin on a piece of folded over felt
(to act as a little pillow behind the paper while I pierced it.)
BTW, this is a map I tried to use but didn't because it didn't look right.
Then, to protect the map from ripping while I sewed it,
I backed it with a small piece of clear packing tape.
I hand-stitched a heart shape on each map with some red embroidery floss.
Here's the back of my messy heart.
When the two states were finished, I mounted them to a piece of blue
scrapbooking paper with some double sided tape.
At a farewell picnic/party last weekend, I asked a good friend to take a
photo of our two families together.
I printed it out and added it to the middle of the frame.
Here's the finished project.
Todd and Darb, we will miss you terribly
but know you're off on a wonderful new adventure.
Here's to new beginnings.
We'll be road-tripping to visit you soon!
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