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Today on Twitter, agent Chris Richman tweeted about a funny Onion story having to do with writing. This sent me tripping down memory lane, thinking about all the great Onion stories they've done concerning writers, litearture, and the sometimes painful collision of the two. So here's a small round-up of some of my faves. (Um, for those unfamiliar with the Onion, I'll just offer a small warning that they're not always PC, they often use blue language, but it's always done for humor. Still, those with tender dispositions might want to turn away now.)
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The Bastrop High School Marching Band held their first practices for the new year this week.
The band is lead by Band Director Gail Griggs and Assistant Band Director Chris Bayless. In recent years the band has been reduced to a much smaller size than in past years. According to Bayless, his and Griggs' goal is to build the band back up.
"We are in the process of rebuilding," Bayless said. "We are bigger than we were last year, and hopefully, we'll be better than we were last year."
This year, there are about 30 students signed up for the program.
"We've got a lot of young kids, so for a lot of them this is the first time they've ever done this," Bayless said. "They have to learn how to use their hands and feet at the same time. We've got a lot of smart kids, so I think they are going to pick it up good."
Former BHS marching band members who are now in band at Louisiana Tech attended practice to assist the band directors.
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The next step on the postseason volleyball trail comes Tuesday night for Wethersfield and Stark County.
The next step on the postseason volleyball trail comes Tuesday night for Wethersfield and Stark County.
The Lady Geese (28-8) travel to Hartsburg to play Lincoln Trail Conference rival West Prairie (27-6-2) in the second semifinal match of the Class 1A Hartsburg-Emden Sectional.
The Lady Rebels (20-10-3) meet Abingdon-Avon (20-10) in the second semifinal match at the Class 2A Farmington Sectional.
Both matches are scheduled for 7 p.m. starts, with the winners advancing to Thursday's championship matches.
Lady Geese try to avenge LTC defeat
Wethersfield suffered just one loss in Lincoln Trail Conference play this season, and it came to West Prairie Sept. 23.
The 25-18, 25-19 win propelled the Cyclones to a perfect 10-0 LTC mark, and Wethersfield would like nothing more than to even the score with West Prairie.
"They do not make many unforced errors," said Wethersfield coach Tonya Vincent of West Prairie. "We have to do the same in order to continue to be successful against a quality team like the Cyclones."
Tuesday night marks a return trip to sectional competition for the Lady Geese. Last year at Williamsfield, Vincent's squad ran into a Mt. Pulaski team that finished second in the state.
"Five of the girls played in the sectional match last season, so they know the level of play will be high and we need to stay focused throughout the entire match," said Vincent.
The Lady Geese demonstrated that focus in beating the host Bravettes in two sets to win the Class 1A Annawan Regional Thursday.
"The girls believe in each other and we are playing well, so we are looking forward to Tuesday," said Vincent. "We want to come out quickly and keep the momentum on our side of the net."
The volleyball starts at 6 in Hartsburg with Mt. Pulaski and Roanoke-Benson meeting in the first match.
First sectional match for Stark County
The Lady Rebels blitzed Brimfield-Elmwood 25-6, 25-17 to win the program's first regional title Thursday.
Madi Paxson had a big night in the Class 2A Brimfield Regional title match, recording 11 kills, six aces and two blocks.
"Our team played very well Thursday night against Brimfield-Elmwood," said Stark County coach Amy Wise. "This group has been very focused on the idea of winning the regional and we're very pleased with the outcome."
"The fact that it's our first wasn't the driving factor, it simply was the competitive edge these players have," added Wise. "Everything came together just like a coach hopes it would in postseason. As long as we can maintain that play, I will feel very good about sectionals."
The Lady Rebels encounter an Abingdon-Avon team Tuesday that defeated Knoxville 25-15, 25-21 to win the United Regional title.
"I don't know alot about Abingdon-Avon, but know they will be very competitive and have a couple very good hitters," said Wise. "We need to stay focused on our offense and maintain consistent serves. We are very excited and will be ready to play."


text: I've tried quite a lot of things here, so please read them all before you suggest something - and thanks for taking a look at my question (-: I recently got my Mac Pro back from the AlaskaMacStore (not an actual apple retail store, and they aren't very good at that), having brought it in for loss of FW800. They sent it to Apple, and I received it back, supposedly with a new motherboard - and my FW800 working. However, it proceeded to kernel panic (complete visual system freeze, not greyscreenofdeath - oddly enough, iTunes would never stop playing during them) at least once a day after that. Not wanting to deal with them again, I just used it like that and put up with it - but soon enough, I lost any sort of network connectivity as well. With AirPort connected to my Time Capsule's network (which worked fine on my Macbook Air and iPhone and various other devices), I was being told "...Self-Assigned IP address, and thus may not be able to connect to the internet...". Even connected directly via Ethernet to the Time Capsule, or directly via Ethernet to the cable modem, or directly via Ethernet to another Mac, or connected to another Mac's ad-hoc network, I could get absolutely no network communication going on of any sort. This was too much for me, as all of my work requires frequent and heavy internet access, so I gave in and took it back to the local mac store equivalent - they charged me 100$, and kept it two days, just to tell me they 'couldn't reproduce the problem'. I took the Mac Pro to a friend's house, and went through the same tests - connected to his modem, with his Ethernet cords, and to his wireless and other macs. Same deal, no connection or indication of a networking being connected beyond that blasted 'self-assigned IP' in Network prefs. Having no desire to be defrauded by the local fools again, I decided I didn't really have anything important on my internal hard drive, and decided to wipe the internals and re-install Leopard. My horrible luck continuing, I found my only Leopard disc to be cracked, prompting me to drive out and purchase a new one. Inserting this into my Mac Pro's drive, I found myself faced with yet another horrible problem. During the boot to the Leopard DVD, the grey loading screen (with the apple logo and the spinner) simply froze with the spinner pointing left. I left it for a while, expecting this to be part of what I'd previously experienced with the slow boot-from-DVD on a Macintosh... but after 30 minutes of waiting, I got quite worried, and booted back into my normal OS by holding down Option and selecting my RAID. Now, note this for later - it booted absolutely fine, and though I still had no network connectivity, the system had no problems. I changed the startup-disk to my RAID and then back to the Leopard DVD, naïvely thinking this would solve the problem, and ran into the same problem after restarting and booting to the Leopard DVD again. Dismissing this as a optical drive problem (haven't had occasion to use optical media in nearly 3 years, don't really trust it in general), I booted the Mac Pro into Firewire Target Disk mode, and connected it to my Macbook Pro, and then booted the Macbook Pro from the installation DVD. Again, note carefully here - there was nothing wrong with the DVD itself, as the Macbook Pro had no trouble booting to the DVD. I used Disk Utility to preform some planned modifications to the internal drives of my Mac Pro (erasing my previous inefficient RAID setup in favor of a new, faster (but less secure) RAID0 striped setup for my main two 1TB drives), and then proceeded to install a fresh Leopard onto the newly minted RAID. I usually cancel the 'disc checksum' that the Leopard DVD runs on itself, not really worrying about it, but in light of recent possible problems with the DVD, I went ahead and let it run - no problems, it completed and went straight into the normal install. The install itself completed in a timely manner, and my Macbook Pro re-booted automatically, to the newly Leopard-ed RAIDed internals on the Mac Pro. It booted to the new install without a hitch, played the Leopard intro video, and continued to the setup cube. I opted to shut down (by hitting command-q and selecting the shut down option), so I could set it up on the Mac Pro instead. Surprised was I, when I experienced the same grey loading screen freeze on the Mac Pro, booting to the newly clean install on the new RAID, that I had seen trying to boot to the Leopard disc. Worrying that my Leopard disc was, infact, corrupted in some way, I tried placing the Macbook Pro into firewire Target Disc Mode, and booting that drive over FW800 on the Mac Pro. Same freezing problem occurred. Well, now, the only installation that HADN'T kernel panicked on boot was the old install, and that had been erased for the new RAID configuration, so I was left without a way to boot to a working install and test things from the Term. This left me with Single User Mode, which I immediately booted into. Interestingly enough, there was no problem booting into Single User Mode - so I poked around a bit before mounting, and I had seemingly fine access to the entire filesystem of the new Leopard install, and nothing looked screwed up to my (albiet untrained) eye. After mounting and continuing the boot, it froze - but since this was verbose SUM, and not simple normal boot, I was able to see exactly where it froze: something about 'mDNSResponder starting', and then no input or output was accepted, leaving me assuming it had kernel panicked again. To test this, I again attempted to boot from the Leopard DVD on the Mac Pro, this time in verbose startup mode, and watched it freeze up at exactly the same point. After a little googling, I found some suggestions to disable the launchd plist for mDNSResponder - I tried SUM again, and did so, then continued with the boot. This time, there was no output relating to mDNSResponder, so the launchd change had worked; however, it still froze - this time, right after three lines, first something along the lines of 'Login Window Application Starting', and then two lines printing Ethernet IDs of some sort. After those Ethernet related lines, it again froze. What with the DNS and Ethernet bits showing up in the freezing, I was getting worried this was still tied into my NIC in some way, so I unplugged my Ethernet cords and tried the exact same boot again, and again disabled mDNSResponder. This time the only sensible thing before the freeze was the 'Login Window Application Starting' line, which seemed perfectly normal. I doubt there is/was anything wrong with that, so I'm assuming there's still some networking-related process freezing/panicking the computer, and it just doesn't happen to log in a visible way during startup. Does anybody have any suggestion as to what such a process might be, and how I can at least pause or kill it from SUM, so I can at least finish booting the computer? If I can't figure out a solution to this, I'll have to buy a new Mac Pro tomorrow morning... I have very, very pressing matters that can't wait for a new Mac Pro to ship, nor can they wait for me to ship this one to Apple and back (I live in Alaska, we have at least a weeks wait if nothing is seriously wrong when sending an Apple product in for repairs on our own), and nor can I wait 2 days for the local Apple store to tell me there's nothing wrong with it and then have to wait another week to, again, send it to Apple myself. I don't want to have to shell out for a new, expensive computer when there's a (most likely) perfectly good one sitting here... so any help would be MUCH appreciated. If you've read this far, phew, you deserve a cookie. That was one... *long*... post. Well, the intro *did* say "be specific"! d-: (This was cross-posted to Apple Support - Discussions, as well as my git-blog... help is very much apreciated)-:


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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
How To Season Cast Iron
All of my relatives had at least one cast iron skillet. The skillet was the color of unlit charcoal, with a slick, hard finish. It was either left on top of the stove or stored in the oven.
I never questioned my relatives about their cookware. I knew that the pans, like our food and our men, were "well seasoned"; as for the patina that Mama treasured so much I assumed the pans had been bought that way.
There are many ways to season cast iron, but the main formula seems to be vegetable oil plus heat plus time equals patina. It's basic kitchen chemistry. The multiple oilings, when combined with heat, fill in the microscopic "pits" in the cast iron. Over time, these pits harden, producing a smooth, black surface.
The oil creates a barrier, preventing oxygen from reaching the iron and causing rust. It also forms a virtually non stick surface. The more you use your pan, the more it will blacken. And cooking in cast iron is healthy--it's a sneaky source of dietary iron.
Cast iron has man virtues, but seasoning isn't one of them. It requires time, oil, and a hot oven. Store-bought pans come with instructions, but they skip over the important parts, like, it's not going to happen in a day. Be prepared to spend time with your new pan.
The seasoning is acquired slowly. You will have to "oil and bake" for many hours, when your time and schedule allow you to cook an empty pan. :-) You are serving up nothing; not only that, you will wonder how many centuries it will take before your pan acquires a rich, black patina.
How To Season A Cast-Iron Pan
Step 1: wash the pan in soapy water.
Be sure to use a scouring pad. This will remove the protective coating that inhibits rust. The is the one and ONLY time your skillet will touch soap.
Step 2: dry the pan. (I love easy steps.)
Step 3. Grease your pan.
This is not the time to be sloppy or fainthearted. Finicky souls use a pastry brush; earthy people prefer to grease with their fingers. Me, I use a scrunched up paper towel that's been doused in oil. I have also just poured oil directly into the pan, about 2 teaspoons, then swished it around with a paper napkin.
I take the paper towel and rub it all around the inside of the skillet. Cast iron is somewhat porous, and it will absorb the oil. Get into every crevice. The motto of seasoning cast iron is less is more--thin coats are best.
I don't oil the outside of the pan, but some people do.
Now is a good time to discuss oil. The type is debatable--some cooks use safflower, others prefer Crisco, or even lard. I have talked to people who won't use oil, claiming it leaves a residue. My mother has used olive oil. I've had the best results with peanut oil (it has no flavor and it's stable at high temperatures).
Don't use butter.
Remember to use small amounts or your skillet might develop sticky splotches. Some cooks believe that this gummy stage is the beginning of the curing process, but there's a difference in coats. A slightly tacky, amber sheen means you're making progress, but a sticky sediment means that you've used too much oil.
Step 4: Bake
Put the pan in a 275-degree oven for about five hours, periodically checking to see if you need another coat of oil. Think of it as a slow layering, the way an artist layers colors on a canvas.
Cooks also disagree about temperatures and baking times. I have tried everything. A small amount of smoking occurred at temperatures over 400 degrees however, in about three hours my pans were noticeably darker. Paul Prudhomme cures his new pans with low heat, about 225 degrees, leaving them to bake for hours.
The best pans, of course, come from relatives or garage sales, although you can still find them in antique malls.
After a couple of five-hour sessions, you'll begin to notice a metamorphosis. You'll know when you are making progress: Your pan will acquire a thin hard layer; it resembles shellac--shiny and transparent, the color of caramel flavoring, and faintly tacky.
I hate to tell you, but one or two hours of "curing" won't create a black, non-stick pan. Six hours won't do it, either. It takes about 10 sessions.
During the curing process, the oil hardens to a varnish-like finish. The pan loses its steel-gray color and turns progressively browner until it finally attains the famous black "crust."
I like the way an empty, slow-cooking pan smells--old fashioned and metallic,, the way water smells when it trickles from an iron pump. The aroma reminds me of meals past and present, a whole heritage of women who conjure food for their loved ones. If you don't like the aroma of baked iron, you can close off your kitchen, open a window, or burn a vanilla-bean candle.
Achieving patina takes the patience of a saint and the finesse of a landscape painter. Try to think of it as an adventure.
Step 5:
After the pan cools, wipe it down with the barest coat of oil. Do this every time you use the pan for the first year. A paper towel patted down over the skillet seems to inhibit rust in humid areas.
Of course, you can cheat and buy a new fangled cast iron pan--and you can buy them in adorable shapes
and in designer colors--plus, they don't require seasoning.
This is what happens to a pan after washing it in soapy water.
** Never soak, never scour! A full sink of soapy water will undo years of care.
** Never wash in the dishwasher--it will rust the pan and remove the seasoning.
** Until your pan is well seasoned try not to cook sticky things--sometimes this causes setbacks.
**the acidity in tomatoes can have ghastly consequences in cast iron, unless you are using other ingredients, like in a stew or spaghetti sauce.
Large, coarse salt acts as a gentle abrasive, and helps keep your cast iron "bump" free.
**Clean with a little hot water and a nylon pad, sanding the surface gently.
**After cleaning, dry the pan thoroughly. For the first year, keep it lightly oiled. Store in a dry place. (I keep mine in the oven.) It will tend to collect dust and cat hairs.
**If scrubbing is needed, sprinkle sea or kosher salt into the skillet. Use a Tuffy pad to gently scour.
**For heinous messes, heat the pan, adding a bit of water. Use a Tuffy scrubber, and salt, if necessary. Dry, then set in a warm oven.
Remember that cast-iron cookery is part art, part science, but mostly it is an ancient culinary tool. Pat yourself on the back because you've been patient; you've fretted and coddled and oiled and baked. Remember that you aren't just cooking supper in your cast iron--you are continuing to season it. You are also creating an heirloom, a piece of culinary history to pass down through the generations.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
When Dogs Decorate
I've collected ironstone for years, and I'm always reshuffling it.
The clinking attracts a four-legged designer--he runs over to investigate. "What's this?" he says. "She's moving the dishes again--ooh, I don't like it."
"Less is more," he says and knocks down one of the apples.
"Oops, it fell."
And it rolls!
"I"ll take my payment in Milk Bones," says Mister.
Mister trots off to chase a fly, and the human immediately replaces the apple.
By the time Mister returns, he's stunned. She's removed all of the edibles," says Mister. "And added orange flowers. I'm not sure I like this!"
"No, wait, I smell something rottingly divine."
How to tell my mistress that the pottery, not to mention the orange flowers, look wrong, wrong, wrong? How to gently encourage her to group them? Maybe if I run to the bedroom, she'll follow.
One bark means No, don't put it there, and two barks mean, yes, try it there. Three means, Stop! You've gone too far! Four, your scale is off. Five, count your accessories--3s, 5, 7s, 9s. Six, it's time for a break.
It worked! She's catching on.
"If I DO say so myself, it looks much better. Everyone should have a decorating dog."
"Now that I straightened HER out, now it's time to nap.Unless someone wants to hire me, that is."
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
A Flower Rainbow
83 comments:
- Jojo said...
All of the murals are beautiful but I have to save I love the purple one best as I'm heavily influenced by the thistle.
- July 31, 2011 at 5:10 PM
- Ginny said...
You are a wonderful photographer! My favorites are the first one and the orange one!
- July 31, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- podso said...
Loved the color groupings! What would we do without digital cameras!
I will give your address to my work colleague! (the other was a patient's relative, long gone home.)
- July 31, 2011 at 5:25 PM
- Linda Makiej said...
These mosaics are STUNNING!!
- July 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM
- Ciao Chow Linda said...
Pat - I see a calendar in the making. Beautiful photos.
- July 31, 2011 at 5:44 PM
- Betsy from Tennessee said...
What gorgeous flowers, Pat. I needed to see all of those colors today since I have been grieving since Thursday over the death of a very good friend. We are going to Atlanta tomorrow to her funeral.
SO--thanks for making me smile.
- July 31, 2011 at 5:45 PM
- Welshcakes Limoncello said...
Again, breathtakingly lovely - and such a beautiful arrangement, in colour groups.
- July 31, 2011 at 5:49 PM
- Buttercup said...
These would be wonderful for a calendar. I can't pick a favorite. I like them all -- a lot!
- July 31, 2011 at 5:59 PM
- diane b said...
Isn't summer grand. A rainbow of flowers. it certainly is. Great collages.
- July 31, 2011 at 5:59 PM
- Old Kitty said...
Oh Pat!!! WOW!! What beautiful mosaics of wonderful colourful vivid blooms!!! Yay!!! Awwww they're beautiful and beautifully arranged too!! You really know how to capture beauty most sublimely!! Yay! Thanks for sharing these here and wrapping up my day so prettily (it's nearly midnight here!) Take care
- July 31, 2011 at 6:00 PM
- black eyed susans kitchen said...
Pat, these mosaics remind me of one of those gigantic crayola crayon boxes...your photos are stunning and the way you put the mosaics together is just gorgeous. A rainbow indeed!
- July 31, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- ellen b. said...
Oh so pretty strolling through your mosaic garden! Just Beautiful...
- July 31, 2011 at 6:23 PM
- E.R. King said...
Beautiful pics! I want a garden that looks like this!
- July 31, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Chatty Crone said...
I could look at these all day - beautiful eye candy...
- July 31, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- La said...
So many pretty and vibrantly colored flowers. The bees seem to be very happy.
- July 31, 2011 at 7:20 PM
- Yvette said...
Is their a better word than gorgeous? I can't think of it at the moment, Pat. Just gorgeous photos. I love them all.
- July 31, 2011 at 7:22 PM
- My Farmhouse Kitchen said...
Hi Pat....what beautiful flowers...enjoyed this summery post so much...
always my pleasure to stop by and visit with you, my friend
sending love from california
kary and teddy
- July 31, 2011 at 7:38 PM
- From Beyond My Kitchen Window said...
The flowers are stunning. I can only imagine what they must look like in person. Great photos!!
- July 31, 2011 at 7:46 PM
- Barbara F. said...
These photos would make beautiful notecards, Pat! I adore orange flowers. xo,
- July 31, 2011 at 7:47 PM
- ARLENE said...
Pat, I've bookmarked this post and saved some of the images. First, they are simply gorgeous. Second, I'm wracking my brain for a design for a surface embroidery class I'm taking and I think I've just found my design for the second half of the class. Thank you!
- July 31, 2011 at 7:48 PM
- RNSANE said...
Pat, this would be a post to return to on one of those snowed in winter mornings. How gorgeous these photos are and the bees and the butterly make them even more splendid. Thanks for showing me some memes with which I wasn't familiar!
- July 31, 2011 at 8:01 PM
- Happier Than a Pig in Mud said...
All gorgeous pics Pat, sure was a lot in bloom! Lovin' the one of the bee:@)
- July 31, 2011 at 8:13 PM
- Vee said...
Oh what lovely photographs and all arranged by color...too scrumptious to even absorb. I saw a few more flowers this time that I recognized. The bee balm is healthy and vibrant. I wonder what they do at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden about Japanese beetles the buggers. Maybe they have such information... I'll check.
- July 31, 2011 at 8:13 PM
- Carol said...
They're all gorgeous, I love the mosaics by color, so pretty!
- July 31, 2011 at 8:15 PM
- eileeninmd said...
WOW, gorgeous colors and flowers. The clematis are one of my favorites and I love the shot of the monarch butterfly. Lovely mosaics and photos.
- July 31, 2011 at 8:34 PM
- Emily said...
Your a great photographer. I love your floral mosaics, and how you grouped them together by color.
Have a great week.......
The French Hutch
- July 31, 2011 at 8:46 PM
- Gardening in a Sandbox said...
Gorgeous flowers. Must be heavenly there. V
- July 31, 2011 at 8:46 PM
- Snap said...
Beautiful, Pat. You have bees and butterflies, too, I see! I really do need to visit! ;D
- July 31, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- Cherry Chick said...
Just beautiful, Pat, and know that I appreciate all the work that goes into your blog creations. Photographing in itself it time consuming but then to arrange these fabulous mosaics with them is even more spectacular! You've creative a feast for the eyes and I've enjoyed it all.
- July 31, 2011 at 8:58 PM
- GrandmaK said...
I'm speechless! These mosaics are just breathtaking! Thank you!! Cathy
- July 31, 2011 at 8:59 PM
- Mary said...
Oh Pat, how wonderful! I love grouping photos by color, and I love that you started off with blue -- by favorites! thanks for sharing. :)
- July 31, 2011 at 9:14 PM
- Cindy said...
Ohhh...such lovely blossoms! ~Cindy
- July 31, 2011 at 9:19 PM
- Lavender Cottage said...
Gorgeous blooms, thanks for sharing.
- July 31, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- The Gathering Place said...
Your flower shots are so beautiful! Wouldn't it be fun to have them all in our yards?
- July 31, 2011 at 9:37 PM
- Yvonne @ StoneGable said...
So beautiful! YOur mosaics are masterpieces of color!
- July 31, 2011 at 9:42 PM
- Beth said...
Oh, Pat, how beautiful! I love your mosaics and making them by color was brilliant! The purple and white ones are my favorites. I just got back from my trip to NYC. Not enough time to do everything, of course, but I saw a lot. I took well over 200 photos and had a really hard time choosing a few for a post. I'll be posting on my trip on the day of my new party, Travels Near And Far, which will post on 8/14. I invite you to join; I know you have travelled extensively as well as travelled within your own community - there are lots of things you could show. Again, great collages, Pat!!!
xo, Beth
- July 31, 2011 at 9:45 PM
- Farmchick said...
Your color mosaics are always so lovely. Another great set!
- July 31, 2011 at 9:47 PM
- Tanna at The Brick Street Bungalow said...
Oh, my goodness what a beautiful palette of colors, Pat! You make such beautiful mosaics of such beautiful photos! Always good for a smile! Thank you. blessings ~ tanna
- July 31, 2011 at 10:13 PM
- A Garden of Threads said...
Oh my, stunning!!! They are all beautiful.
- July 31, 2011 at 10:25 PM
- Oliag said...
Your flower photos are amazing Pat! I hope you have some printed and hanging on your walls!
- July 31, 2011 at 10:41 PM
- pam said...
Oh Pat....this weary soul needed this dose of beauty. Well done my friend, well done.
- July 31, 2011 at 11:46 PM
- Genie said...
The way you sent through all of your flower shots form the gardens and gathered them together by color for the mosaics. They turned out so attractively. You really do have an eye for composition. What a lovely post filled to the brim with grand captures. Wish I could smell the roses through the computer screen.Genie
- August 1, 2011 at 1:26 AM
- Pondside said...
Now, that's what summer's all about - glorious colour!
- August 1, 2011 at 2:37 AM
- Houseelf said...
Great pics! The bee in the flower is gorgeous! I love the colours of Summer but already I am looking forward to the colours of Autumn.
- August 1, 2011 at 4:21 AM
- Riet said...
Good morning Pat.
What a wonderful serie of mosaics you have. And all so beautiful. You know it's so funny. I had the same idea, made color by color mosaics but I only show red today. The blue and yellow and white I keep for other weeks. LOL.
Have a great week.
- August 1, 2011 at 6:45 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
What a visual treat from you! I especially loved seeing the purple clematis as it reminded me of our Charleston garden!
- August 1, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- Ola said...
It's really pretty there, so many colors and such a great choice of flower-beauties:)
- August 1, 2011 at 9:11 AM
- Tracy said...
This floral parade brings JOY, Pat! Just stunning all the color & textures. :o) Happy Days ((HUGS))
- August 1, 2011 at 9:53 AM
- Judy ~ My Front Porch said...
Beautiful mosaics! As someone else suggested...they would make fabulous cards.
Have a wonderful day!
- August 1, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- Kim, USA said...
Very beautiful!!
- August 1, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- Cafe au lait said...
Gorgeous blooms!
My Blue Monday is here.
- August 1, 2011 at 3:33 PM
- My Farmhouse Kitchen said...
hi pat....it's kary from farmhouse kitchen...i posted the lemon curd recipe for you...let me know if you try it...
- August 1, 2011 at 3:39 PM
- LV said...
I would have loved going on that trip with you. I love all these pretty flower sights.
- August 1, 2011 at 4:49 PM
- Sarah said...
Wow, these are fabulous. I don't think I can pick a favorite.
- August 1, 2011 at 10:09 PM
- Tanya@takesix said...
Your pictures are absolutely beautiful. You do such a great job creating mosaics! Have a great week, Pat!
- August 1, 2011 at 10:22 PM
- bj said...
Don't we just love our quick, digital cameras? Your photos are lovely..the stinkin ole drought has killed all my flowers. bwaaa
- August 2, 2011 at 2:46 AM
- Veronica said...
What a visual feast that was! Thank you. the first one is exquisite....but they all are amazing. Mother natures is the best artist ever.
- August 2, 2011 at 4:11 AM
- PⒿ @ $ € € ₦$ ₣®0₥... said...
Absolutely breathtaking, Pat!
- August 2, 2011 at 7:03 AM
- Gracie said...
How beautiful.... the true spirit of summer!
- August 2, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- Sue said...
Pat, your photos are gorgeous! I love purples and blues and these are among the very best I've seen. Love that bee! I agree that these would look great as a calendar.
:-) Sue
- August 2, 2011 at 3:03 PM
- La Petite Gallery said...
Great photo's. I love Fox Glove, when I was a child the wonderfully
illustrated books by childcraft had images of hollyhocks and fox gloves. The are so fairy like to me.
- August 2, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Claudia said...
Your thousand favorite flowers are here for the picking. I know it's been a hot summer (beastly here also) but I just savor the color. Your photos are magical.
- August 2, 2011 at 7:02 PM
- ~~Carol~~ said...
Wow, really amazing shots of all those beautiful flowers! Visiting some gardens is something that I didn't get to do this summer, because of the heat. Hopefully we'll have a break in the hot temps soon!
Happy REDnesday,
- August 2, 2011 at 7:44 PM
- Mecky said...
Thank you for sharing. The flowers are beautiful.
I think I am ready to skip Fall and Winter and move right on to next Spring. Everything seems brown already. We need some color like those!
- August 2, 2011 at 8:43 PM
- Ocean Breezes and Country Sneezes said...
Hi Pat, your photos are just beautiful! I wish all those flowers were in my yard! Have a wonderful week!
- August 2, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- Bonnie said...
Wow, what beautiful mosaics that are color coordinated. Your pictures are as pretty as a book I have! So glad to meet you. I enjoyed visiting New York two Christmases ago. It was soo cold.
- August 2, 2011 at 10:28 PM
- Honey at 2805 said...
Your photography is beautiful as well as your subjects!
- August 2, 2011 at 10:49 PM
- Saun said...
Beautiful,great shots of the flowers. I wish this was my flower garden.
- August 2, 2011 at 10:50 PM
- Light and Voices said...
My favorite photo was of the purple thistle.
Joyce M
- August 2, 2011 at 11:07 PM
- Really Rainey said...
Those were all so beautiful! I love visiting your blog and learning about New York! Thanks Pat!
Rainey @ The Project table
- August 2, 2011 at 11:12 PM
Oh your mosaics are so very lovely!! I have been wanting to visit the Denver Botanical Gardens again. Went when we first moved to Colorado but 1 visit is never enough for a garden!
- August 2, 2011 at 11:59 PM
- Vintagesouthernlife said...
These shots are gorgeous! If only I could grow flowers like these.
- August 3, 2011 at 12:22 AM
- Shirleyanne said...
A beautiful collection of photos.
Just love all the colours. A joy to see!
- August 3, 2011 at 1:20 AM
- Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen said...
Absolutely stunning Pat. I can't believe you got so close to the bee. Hope you didn't get stung...
You certainly have the artistic eye. I believe others have mentioned this before me, but your photos would make a beautiful coffee table book.
- August 3, 2011 at 6:56 AM
- guild-rez said...
Wonderful flowers and great pictures!!
The Emerald Ash-borer has been detected in New York as well. Over the next 10 years most of our ash trees will be gone. Please read my new article on my blog.
- August 3, 2011 at 7:01 AM
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- August 3, 2011 at 7:02 AM
- Mom Walds Place said...
How delightful! You should print cards from your collages, because they are so lovely. Happy Rednesday!
- August 3, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- Cathy said...
Gorgeous photos, Pat. Those gardens are spectacular.
- August 3, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Annie said...
You take beautiful photos.
Just beautiful
- August 3, 2011 at 4:00 PM
- SavoringTime in the Kitchen said...
Absolutely gorgeous flowers, Pat! I love how your arranged them.
- August 3, 2011 at 5:13 PM
- Barb said...
Flowers, flowers everywhere! I'm partial to the white - they seem to glow. Your mosaics are great.
- August 3, 2011 at 9:06 PM
- betsy said...
Pat, your photos made my day. Every flower was lush and beautiful. I especially liked the roses.
- August 3, 2011 at 10:05 PM
- ~Lavender Dreamer~ said...
Thanks so much for the recipe! I so want to grow some herbs in pots when we get back to Florida! They make such a difference in a dish like this! ♥
- August 4, 2011 at 9:09 PM


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The Sunday Spot
How the mighty have fallen!
I know this is a Dallas Cowboys blog but I just can't help myself. The Mighty, Indestructable, Unbeatable and Cheating New England Patriots have fallen. Fallen on the biggest stage in the world nonetheless, Super Bowl 42. The New York Football Giants are World Champions. Putting this whole game in perspective, it now makes me wonder WHAT IF? What if Dallas had beaten the Giants 4 weeks ago? I know I am beating on a dead drum but I just can't help but to think about what if? Oh well, maybe next year.
It was hilarious how at the end of the game, Bill Belicheat was such a sore loser that he walked off the field with still 2 seconds left to play. Both Tom Coughlin and Bill Belicheat were informed at mid-field by the head referee that there was still one second left on the clock. Even knowing this, Belicheat left the field. This from a man who routinely throughout the 2007 season ran up the score on a number of teams. This from a man that routinely went for it on fourth down during the 2007 season when the game was already won and in their hands. I hate to say it but Karma is a Bitch isn't it Belicheat. All that reputed classless display your team displayed during the 2007 season finally caught up to you Belicheat.
The even better thing is that New England can now not be considered an NFL Dynasty by lamen terms. Dynasties don't lose Super Bowls. The Cowboy teams from the 90's never lost a Super Bowl and the majority of the time man handled whomever they played on the big stage. So there you go New England. As much as I hate to say it, you got exactley what you deserved tonight. And by the display of your fearless leader at the end of the Super Bowl, it just goes to show that even in a loss, Belicheat still shows no class. Thats my 2 cents on that.
I'm tired of hearing about this whole Jessica Simpson saga. There are still Cowboy fans out there that believe that Jessica Simpson is the reason for the whole Cowboys early playoff exit. There is even this guy on my myspace friends list that does nothing but posts anti-Jessica bulletin posts. I got 3 from him on one day! He compares Jessica Simpson to Yoko Ono. Get over it man! Jessica Simpson had absolutely NOTHING to do with the Cowboys early playoff exit plain and simple. It jut wasn't meant to be this year guys. As much as that still hurts. So for you conspiracy theorists out there, please get a life! I would rather believe that Big Foot exists than that Jessica Simpson even remotely had something to do with the Cowboys loss to the Giants. Thats my 2 cents on that.
How about some interaction? What do you guys think the Cowboys will do with their 2 1st round picks? I am going to go out on a limb here and say we move up. Not necessarily to get McFadden but if he falls to 5 or 6, be sure Jerry will be making phone calls. If they dont trade up, I say they will draft a WR and a CB in the 1st round. Fair enough? Let me know what you guys think! Thats all for now kiddies! See you all Next Sunday! Same Cowboys Time! Same Cowboys Place! Same Cowboys Channel!


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måndag 4 augusti 2014
Monday Report: Application Design
21 kommentarer:
Still terrible. Space wasting design what doesn't fit to mouse+keyboard use or just for keyboard and has terrible usability considering bad sighted users or users who have low motorskills.SvaraRadera
The design doesn't follow logic what people have custom in centuries, read from left to right, up to down.
Don't know what has happened as all usability research studies from decades are being forgotten?Svar
... much like "common decency", "kindness" and "a sense of humility" it seemsRadera
"read from left to right, up to down"Radera
You must be a westener (like me) to say that. Technologies should be not culture-centric at all. Just think to cultures which doesn't have a LTR (left to right) writing system, as the arabic cultures.
I am western and that design is for western. I know there is need for different layouts (right to left, up to down etc) and that isn't shown here. That is the technical thing where you need to turn things around (have you tried it? WTF allows you to start applications with right to left mode) but there are need for color blinds, near sighted, weak sighted, kids, seniors and even blind people or deaf.Radera
If they want to design a style, then compromise isn't good at all. We can't have a "culture neutral" design as it is worse than one. Like make a style where is mixed left to right and right to left styles.... Just terrible. Just like drawers and painters should look their work trough mirror or upside down, style designers should be forced to use mirror, heavy duty gloves, drill glasses (or strong sunglasses) to know how different people needs to operate their computers.
And finally, if designer goes after fashion, it is already lost as it isn't anymore a neutral in anyway or good for usability. That's why designers should never do decisions about usability, basically for anything.
Keep up the good work. It looks amazing!SvaraRadera
Interesting: "...designing an API that makes PIM functionality available via QML..." That's something i tried years (just over 2) ago. I went as far as getting the Calendar data exposed in QML. Otehr then that there where just too many technical limitations in QtQuick to design a full featured QML based calendar. I tried to do that twice and failed at both attempts. Right now things are looking much better then a year ago but you would still need to make a very complicated C++ QML component for drawing the events. That was my no.1 issue. The overall goal was to re-create all of KOrganizer in QML, but that seems to be a bit too difficult when i tried it. Another big issue that i've had from the start is Qt 4 vs Qt 5. When i started it was all Qt 4, but the fancy stuff right now is in Qt 5 bit kdepim isn't so that really complicates making anything in Qt 5 + QML + kdepim. Hence the reason why Plasma 5 doesn't have calendar integration.SvaraRadera
I will probably try again once pim is fully working on Qt 5 :)
Next, the dolphin tags mockup looks interesting. I wish you had posted the screenshot of that one here :)
Then for the music player. Ehh... It looks heavily iOS 7 inspired and i hate that style. I really hope that you folks don't head in that direction.Svar
Well, I hope it works. I'm not sure how it'll work as I'm not a programer, but maybe you could talk to the developer who currently makes this attempt for more information :)Radera
I'm not sure how to edit my other post (everything's in Swedish!), but in a comment below Michael Bohlender (the developer) said that it's only about the mail functionality and not the whole of kdepim. Sorry for causing this confusion.Radera
I LOVE IT!SvaraRadera
Bangarang... <3SvaraRadera
Little correction from the API developer: My project is only about mail functionality so far. No calendar or other stuff.SvaraRaderaSvar
Thank you for spotting that. I hope it's fixed now :)Radera
Hello ! Good prototypes !SvaraRadera
I'm a QT/QML developer and it will be a pleasure to contribute to these new projects (particulary the music player ;-) )
How can I help the developpement of these apps ?Svar
You're more than welcome to help! Just pop on over to the forums (https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=285) and chime in on the design thread you're interested in.Radera
Den här kommentaren har tagits bort av skribenten.SvaraRadera
That looks SOOO good. Just can't wait. Hopefully the designs will be a realitySvaraRadera
Den här kommentaren har tagits bort av skribenten.SvaraRaderaSvar
Just have a look at this Amarok guys ;pRadera
Not perfect but damn sleek and sexy UI there !
As Eric said, don't forget Amarok...SvaraRadera
IMHO is the best music player I used...


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Mindy Rickles
Mindy Rickles, stand up comedian/actress, was recently featured in Jeff Garlin's theatrical release, "Dealin' With Idiots," and has been performing as a stand up at clubs around the Los Angeles area, including the Laugh Factory where she often emcees, the Hollywood Improv, Ha Ha in Northridge, Flappers and the Comedy Store in La Jolla, where she recently spent the weekend opening for Garlin. She was also featured on episodes of "In the Heat of the Night" with Carroll O' Conner and grew up as the daughter of one of the all-time greats of comedy, Don Rickles. Her act reflects her unique and unusual life growing up, her husband and family which includes two boys and her own particular obsessions. She's particularly adept at working the room and applying her improvisational experience into her comedy.


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Former Chicago Bear and Notre Dame All-American Chris Zorich was charged Thursday with failing to file federal income tax returns over four years, and his attorney said Zorich would plead guilty.
Zorich, 43, faces four misdemeanor counts of not filing federal income tax returns from 2006 to 2009. Over that time, he allegedly made more than $1 million, including income from a charity he founded.
The Chicago native was on the 1988 Notre Dame team that won a national championship. He then went on to play defensive tackle for the Bears from 1991 to 1996, and ended his career with the Washington Redskins in 1997.
Zorich has been cooperating with the Internal Revenue Service and intends to plead guilty, his Chicago-based attorney, Matthias Lydon, said. A hearing date hasn't been set.
"He's been looking forward to the day he could start putting this behind him," Lydon said.
Each count carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Lydon hoped Zorich would not end up behind bars but said that would be up to a judge.
The income at issue included deferred compensation from the Bears that Zorich received, as well as money from a job at his alma mater in the late 2000s and money paid to him by his namesake scholarship charity, The Chris Zorich Foundation.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago, the foundation continued to receive contributions and make rental payments from 2006 to 2009 to Zorich, but it did not report them.
He allegedly received gross income of at least $331,000 in 2006, $70,000 in 2007, $372,000 in 2008 and $242,000 in 2009, but failed to file federal returns for those years.


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Stephen.pickering necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 10 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Grand Harbour Medical, Cayman Islands
A small medical clinic who prides itself on individual care. We require a top-quality professional template report for our executive-type medicals "The Full Monte Medical" to punch above our weight!
The patients coming for this are likely to be high net worth individuals who care about their health. They are likely to be mainly but not exclusively male. They want a well designed report as they are likely to want to keep the report for several years to refer back to, and may show it to family members and other professionals.
The Report will have a Front Page, Introduction, Contents with pagination (automatic if possible?), and a Summary "Actions for Health" Section.
There will be several sections eg history, examination, nutrition. There may also be an appendix for copies of "original" results.
You will choose fonts, headlines and overall design.
I would prefer an interesting perhaps non-standard but easy to read font.
Should look professional, positive and have an action feel.
It may be have a coloured front page and may have some color throughout but should look good laser printed in black and white.
I suppose it will be in Microsoft Word.


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Graco's Reactor E-XP2 used to waterproof The World's Largest Tent
ASTANA, Kazakhstan: Khan Shatyr ("The Royal Marquee") is a giant transparent tent in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan. The 150 m high tent has a 200 m elliptical base covering 140,000 m². Underneath the tent, is an urban-scale internal park in an area larger than 10 football stadiums, with squares and cobbled streets, a boating river, a shopping centre, a mini golf and an indoor beach resort. The roof is constructed from ETFE-cushions. The construction of the tent-city was the responsibility of the Turkish company Sembol (SML). Construction started in December 2006 and was completed in July 2010 at a cost of $400 000 000.
SML wanted to waterproof and insulate the roof and artificial pool inside the Khan Shatyr with the industry's wonder product – Polyurea. SML contracted part of the project to a contractor named Izosistem.
After successfully demonstrating the ease of applying Polyurea with GRACO's Reactor™ E-XP2, along with its unique characteristics, the Polyurea applicator, Izosistem, was awarded the SML contract to waterproof the Khan Shatyr structure.
GRACO Reactor E-XP2 was the only unit transported from the contractor's base to Kazakhstan along with 4 tons of BASF's Elastocoat. Due to the fast reaction curing time of Polyurea, it allowed Izosistem to complete the project in just 3 days – well ahead of the time frame allocated for the coating part of the project.
BASF's Elastocoat is a 1:1 ratio Polyurea which was applied at 2500 psi with a 70 deg C application temperature. Eight Izosistem employees worked on the site, where they worked in shifts from 10 am to 10 pm. During the project they reported back that, although their GRACO Reactor E-XP2 that travelled with them to the site in Kazakhstan looked worse for wear, they had no issues or down time with their unit.
Symbol Construction, www.sembolinsaat.com.tr, Izosistem
Industry Market Sector
Construction: water-proofing and building insulation
Waterproofing and polyurea Insulation for Roof and 2500 m² of artificial beach
Material Specifications
BASF – Elastocoat C 6335
Typical Properties: Part A – 1,00 Kg/ l; Part B – 1,11 Kg/ l
Pot life (25°C): 4 – 6 h; Density: 1000 kg/m3
GRACO Equipment
Reactor EXP-2 unit and Fusion air purge spray gun


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The City of Lincoln recently received two awards in recognition of its outstanding workplace safety program:
"For those who work for the City, the entire community is the work area, and maintaining a safe workplace is a challenge," said Bob Nemecek, City Safety and Training Coordinator. "The City strives to maintain a safe work environment for all its employees and for the entire City. Employee awareness of safety is still the first line of defense, and education and training are essential."


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Trucks play an integral role in moving goods not only within the U.S. but in most other countries as well. Indeed, here in the U.S., trucks haul some 70% of all freight tonnage -- and that number isn't projected to change much anytime soon.
That being said, though, trucks still yet remain one link the vast supply chains – both domestic and global – that deliver foodstuffs to the grocery store, clothes to the retailer, and raw materials to the factory. And control of those supply chains continues to be increasingly based on data – information collected at every step in the chain to make the process of transporting both raw materials and finished costs faster, more efficient, and less expensive.
Thus we come to what some are calling the next revolutionary "inflection point" within supply chain operations: cloud computing.
And it is through "the cloud" that trucking's role within the supply chain – along with the functionality of the supply chain as a whole – will undergo major change.
That, at least, is the view of Darren Matthews, business development analyst for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region at software provider CargoWise.
"The 'cloud' will revolutionize supply chain technology as we know it, but will we have the creativity to let it develop to its full potential?" he noted in a white paper recently.
"I'm sure you'll agree that there's nothing as frustrating as getting to the end of a book and realizing there's a page missing from the nail-biting conclusion," Matthews (seen at right) added. "Supply chain visibility is exactly the same: your clients share a similar frustration when all they have is a fractured view of the order status of their goods."
He pointed out that as the global marketplace has grown, so too has the complexity, and increased risks, to the supply chain itself. And to be the clear the cloud is not a "silver bullet" for mastering such challenges as it brings its own security concerns to the supply chain's table, too.
Yet Matthews is convinced that the challenge for the transportation industry today is to manage and mitigate risk by creating more resilient supply chains with more readily available access to monitor all parts of the good-movements process – for if companies throughout the supply chain gain better visibility of every link in the chain, then their organizational performance improves.
"Although 'visibility' has become a popular buzzword in supply chain publications, its true potential has yet to be fully grasped," he emphasizes. "While increasing the amount of data along all stages of the supply chain does indeed aid businesses, having it all in one place is the real 'Holy Grail.'"
In Matthews' opinion, it is this type of supply chain visibility that's been the dream for more than 20 years, yet it remains elusive due in no small part to the technological limitations of trying to connect large numbers of distinct trading partners. However, that landscape has now changed significantly thanks to cloud technology.
"Sharing data in the cloud is now so commonplace it's not something many of us give a second thought to," he explains. "From checking our email to storing our music and our money, the cloud is already deeply integrated into our lives. Yet this capability has only recently begun to make its way into the fundamentals of supply chain management."
Despite efforts to build platforms that would enable visibility, reliance on one-too-many data exchange remains a key struggle for countless businesses, he said.
"A shipper or manufacturer may need to connect to tens, if not hundreds, of trading partners, each using different platforms and technologies. In turn, these parties may need to communicate with their freight forwarder, transport provider, customs broker and warehouse," Matthews noted.
"This is where the challenge lies: many trading partners are small businesses that lack the tools to be connected and if you can't connect with virtually all of your trading partners, then there are blind spots in your supply chain," he added.
One of those "blind spots" remains the security of the cloud itself, though that seems to be a worry in decline among business executives.
Indeed, a recent survey by SafeNet Labs, a technology division of SafeNet, Inc., asked hundreds of business professionals worldwide if they were worried about the security of the cloud-based applications or data stored in the cloud.
While 52% checked "Yes" some 64% of respondents said they still frequently use cloud-based apps to store their personal and professional data. Ironically, when asked what keeps them up at night regarding their data and information, more than half answered, "Nothing keeps me up; I sleep like a baby."
"What this survey suggests is that cloud app usage and document storage continue to proliferate, and that organizations should reexamine antiquated attitudes towards usage of these apps across the enterprise," said Tsion Gonen, chief strategy officer at SafeNet, which designs encryption programs. "It's clear that top-level executives understand the advantages of cloud app usage, and should enable their companies to leverage these advantages by adopting contemporary security tools and practices."
Location also factors into respondents' attitudes about data security in the cloud, Gonen added. For example, the usage of cloud-based apps is far greater in EMEA than in the U.S. or Asia-Pacific (APAC) region; so too are the levels of concern about data security and corporate policies against using cloud apps. However, EMEA respondents are more likely to ignore those very same policies, Gonen stressed.
Who they are concerned about also varies as when it comes to their data privacy, respondents in the U.S. and EMEA are most concerned with the government, while APAC is most concerned with Google. Additionally, APAC respondents are the group most kept up at night when it comes to their data and information, worrying that it will be maliciously exploited, Gonen added.
There's also another survey, this one by cloud storage provider TwinStrata Inc. that finds cloud storage systems can actually be a boon to companies from a disaster-recovery perspective – and one thing supply chain managers must be good at is disaster recovery.
The firm's 2013 Cloud Storage and Disaster Recovery survey, conducted between May and August this year2013, polled 288 information technology (IT) personnel and made some interesting findings:
- Some 60% of all users claim to recover applications and data in just 24 hours after a site disaster, while an additional 19% estimated it would take less than three days. The remaining 20% (one in five) estimated it would take more than three days to recover both data and applications.
- Nearly half (48%) of organizations that rely solely on cloud storage for backup and disaster recovery (DR) indicated they can recover both data and applications in just "a couple hours." Only 30% of organizations that do not use cloud storage for DR at all claim the same recovery speed.
- Similarly, 47% of organizations that do not use any cloud storage for disaster recovery actually spent more than $100,000 annually on DR services – compared to only 27% of organizations that rely solely on cloud storage for DR.
- While one in three organizations continued to rely on onsite backups or offsite tapes as their only backup/DR strategy, almost two-thirds (63%) of respondents use or plan to use cloud storage for backup/DR.
Interesting findings, no doubt, but how do they apply to the supply chain – and more importantly, how do they impact trucking?
Well CargoWise's Matthews thinks a central hub, system, platform or database is the most straightforward solution – one capable of retaining and exchanging data while offering a portal for all trading parties to monitor and maintain their supply chain: standard connectors, simple status updates and global visibility from one place.
"With a reliable and foreseeable supply chain, you can trust in your performance—and when you do that, you remove excess processes, saving time and money," he pointed out. "This capability is still in its infancy but more and more tools are being developed to improve supply chain performance and to noticeably drive real and meaningful value across the enterprise."
Will that "real and meaningful value" grace the trucking portion of the supply chain? We'll soon be finding out.


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Kids like to make their bedrooms their own and we have another fun DIY craft project to help them do just that. When I suggested to the girls that we would make pillows, I actually was envisioning square pillows that they could add designs to. What a surprise to find out they had more creative vison than me on this project. Wow. I love how they made the pillows totally reflect their own tastes. And look how fun they turned out!
We gathered some left over fabrics that I had enough of to make a front and back to the pillows. One fabric is felt and the other is a softer fabric similar to felt. T decided to make a surfboard since both she, and her sister, are now into surfing. J wanted to make the first letter of her name and since she loves zebras, she decided on pink zebra stripes for decoration. How classy, right?
Although these could be sewn by hand, we made ours with the use of the sewing machine. I made sure the girls got a turn trying out stitching on the machine for a first time experience of machine sewing. They sewed some scraps together and that made them very happy.
For decoration, you can buy felt rectangles in lots of colors at any craft store. We attached ours with iron on adhesive, which works well and is permanent.
What You Need:
- Fabric - about 1/2 yd per pillow
- Polyfiber filling (or pillow form)
- Felt in desired colors
- Scissors
- Thread
- Iron On adhesive
What to Do:
- Draw a pattern onto paper if you will be making a custom shaped pillow. Cut out.
- Fold fabric in half. If using pattern, place on folded fabric and pin in place. Cut out, cutting through both thicknesses of fabric. If making a square, determine size and cut out both front and back for pillow.
- Determine designs to be added to the front of pillow. After selecting colors of felt to be used, iron on the adhesive, per instuctions, then cut out shapes/letters ... remembering that the adhesive is on the back of your letter or shape.
- Working far enough from the edge of the pillow front to allow for a 5/8 inch seam, place elements of the design as they are desired. Iron onto pillow front.
- Now, place the back on top of the pillow front and stitch together, leaving an opening for adding stuffing. If you are using a pillow form, you will need to leave an entire side open to insert the form.
- Trim seams as needed, then turn the pillow inside out.
- Stuff the pillow and then close the opening by stitching a hand, whip stitch.
- Toss onto the bed ... and watch the kids smile!
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