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Everyone that has a love of paper arts is all to familiar with the Cricut machine. In my discovery of this great toy I also found the Cricut message board. There so many gather to share their creations with others. Here we draw inspiration and share the appreciation of the craft. I never dreamed I would be fortunate enough to gain friendships in the process. While participating in swaps on the MB in 09 I developed a friendship with a very talented lady named Gwynne. I am so grateful to know her and have her in my cyber life :) for she lives many miles away from my Georgia small town.
I told her my sweet husband purchased my first set of copics for Valentines day this year and I was all to excited to discover what the Copic rage was all about. Not being much of a stamper, Gwynne happily created and shared some of her favorite images with me. In coloring I have learned that'quality' paper matters and with G's help I have discovered the love of copics!
Below is one of the few images that Gwynne sent me. These strawberries are oh so adorable and this has become one image that I simply can not part with. It now has a permant place in my scrap room. Thank you G !! Hope I did you proud.


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Blind taste tests show most people can't tell the difference between $10 and $100 bottles of wine. ~$10 bottles are sold based upon production and distribution costs. Get into the more expensive territory and it's all about trying to get people to believe they are part of a very exclusive club that can not only taste the difference, but also afford it.
It's very similar to the diamond trade and audiophile equipment.
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Owner Frank Franzia doesn't bother with notions of terroir. All the wine is blended together, regardless of its origin. As of 2003, Bronco processed 300,000 tons of grapes to make 20 million cases of wine, of which a quarter are Charles Shaw wines. Asked how he sells wine for the same price as a bottle of water, Franzia responded, "They're overcharging for the water. Don't you get it?"
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Time running out on Winter Classic auctionby Dan Rosen
The bidding for items from the Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic is ongoing right now and as of noon Friday it was going to cost you more than $3,000 for the shirt off of Nicklas Lidstrom's, Patrick Kane's or Jonathan Toews' back.
Every game-worn jersey and game-issued jersey (48 in all), practice pucks and game-used pucks, including the ones from all 10 of the goals scored in the Detroit Red Wings' 6-4 win against the Chicago Blackhawks on New Year's Day at Wrigley Field, are up for auction. The bidding ends Thursday at 9 p.m. ET.
The jerseys being auctioned were all worn in the second period and have all been authenticated by the MeiGray Group's Game-Worn Jersey Authentication Program. Every jersey has a numbered security tag sewn on to it. There is not one that is the same.
Without much fanfare, the auction has already yielded incredible results.
For instance, even game-issued jerseys to Red Wings' Jimmy Howard and Darren Helm, who did not play in the game, are going to cost you at least $490. Hawks forward Adam Burish didn't play either, but his jersey was going for $1,000. Defenseman Brent Sopel was a healthy scratch, but nobody seems to care. The latest bid for his jersey was $570.
Some practice pucks are going for upwards of $100, but the game pucks will cost you much more. For instance, the puck that Buffalo Grove, Ill. native Brett Lebda used to score his goal was going to cost $1,411.
Remember Pavel Datsyuk's amazing goal in which he split Brian Campbell and Cam Barker on his way to beating Cristobal Huet? Well, the puck he used will cost you $805. The puck Kris Versteeg used to score the first goal of the game was going for $530.
And, not to be outdone, the puck that was used for the opening faceoff will cost you more than $1,000.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
I'm thrilled to welcome new followers, Muriel, Victoria, Coby, Chadina and Glenda, I'll be following your posts too. I'll have to think of a giveaway when I reach 50 followers, but don't think my skills in miniatures are at a level where I could inflict them on anyone - except my sister who received some of my first mini fruit!!
Must put the thinking cap on. I've added some more photos from my last trip to France and one from Dusseldorf, hope you like them. The first is a wonderful old church in Dusseldorf; the second is you-know-who's house in Giverny, lovely garden; the third a house in Paris, it looks like it's out in the country and it was all locked up as evidently the Parisians desert the city in summer when all the tourists swarm there; and lastly the vision I got home to, my precious Ollie had torn something to shreds in his excitement at seeing me after three weeks away. He's looking a little older now - aren't we all.
A bientot!
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I added a translate widget to my blog. If I can do it anyone can.
I am off to have a good look around here. Thank you for stopping by kilmouskiandme and the kind comments!
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Thanks for the welcome and following my post as well. Should be easy to do the google translate, not sure exactly where the problem is but try copy & pasting the code under layout->"add gadget" on the right side bar. Then choose html code/javascript. Hope that helps.
Also we are always the worst judge of our works. I say just put it out there you never know! I love your fruit.
Thanks to everyone's help I've solved the problem now, it's good to get all your comments.ReplyDelete
What lovely photos! It must have been a most wonderful trip. SandieReplyDelete


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A Quick Visit to Madison
Thursday 7/20 A day of errands mostly. We made several stops for specialty items we can only get in this area and then went over to Dan and Amanda's house so that we could watch Game of Thrones, love on Erin & Jordie (Dan and Amanda's kitties) and take a bath (Michael) and shower (me). … Continue reading
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VAGATOR wrote:guypal wrote:what's everyone getting as far as the internet service providers go? Anyone have the scoops on which ones work well in StL area?
I have AT&T DSL and have been impressed with the speed. I refuse to give Charter any of my money.
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Michigan State University Trustees have approved a controversial Energy Transition Plan.
MSU President Lou Anna Simon says the goal is for 100% of the university's energy to come from renewable sources.
Several dozen students at today's trustees meeting argued that the plan doesn't move fast enough. After the unanimous vote, they launched a chant while the board continued its meeting.
Talia Tavor of the student group Beyond Coal was disappointed, but she's looking forward to have a student-led clean energy group work on a clean energy plan in the future."President Simon has endorsed this group," Tavor says. "We're really excited about that, and we're going to have the completed plan by this time next year."
Trustee Dianne Byrum calls the plan "a living document" that aims to increase the percentage of renewable energy sources on campus.
"25% by 2025 is our first goal," Byrum states. "It is achievable with current technology, but it's going to take a focus and a discipline on the part of the university. We're at about 2% right now."
At a rally outside the administration building, Natalie Davenport of Greenpeace at MSU pressed for faster action.
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Italian police secure mafia arrests across Europe
Italian police have secured the arrest of several members of a mafia clan across Europe.
The agents had been working from information given to them by a woman who had at one time been held as a virtual prisoner by the clan.
Sixteen clan members were held in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany, accused of smuggling cocaine across Europe.
The clan was based in Rosarno in the far south of Italy, a stronghold of the criminal 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
The 'Ndrangheta gangs are hard for the police to penetrate because they are based on extremely tight-knit family units, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports from Rome.
But in this case someone who knew the clan intimately was ready to talk, our correspondent adds.
In 2005, one of the members of the Cacciola clan committed suicide, after which his widow was forced to live with her mafiosi in-laws.
She described herself as being forced to endure almost slave-like conditions but managed to get a message out appealing for help, and was rescued in a police raid.
Police say they have been using the information she provided in various ways over several years.
In June, Pope Francis condemned the mafia's "adoration of evil" at a mass in Calabria, the southern Italian base of the 'Ndrangheta.
Days later, the Catholic bishop of a small diocese in southern Italy suspended all church processions after a parade took a detour to salute a mafia boss who was under house arrest.


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When a person becomes incapable of managing their own healthcare and daily needs, a loved one must often take on matters, such as paying bills, addressing medical concerns, and managing other day-to-day needs. However, if proper planning is not implemented, the family must proceed through a court procedure to establish a guardianship and conservatorship.
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Windows Bug Allows Repeat Invasions
Say you've just recovered from a serious worm attack. You've run your antivirus and adware/malware removal utilities, installed the latest patches, even double-checked to make sure your security and privacy settings are set at high. You're good, right? Maybe not.
Microsoft recently released a Security Advisory (along with an update to Windows XP Service Pack 2 containing the fix) warning about an "unexpected behavior" in Windows Firewall that could let a clever attacker who had broken into your PC leave a back door to the Web unlocked for next time. Only PCs running either XP with SP2 or Windows Server 2003 are susceptible.
Hackers sometimes get into a PC by taking advantage of the ports that Windows uses to talk with the world. Literally thousands of ports are available, but Windows Firewall automatically blocks most of them to protect you. PCWorld.com - Windows Bug Allows Repeat Invasions
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Why Music IS So Important 40,000 years old flutes made from mammoth ivory are amongst the oldest man-made objects ever discovered. Compare this with reading and writing, the earliest forms of writing are no more than about 3500 years old. Music is a fundamental part of what makes us human. Every culture makes music and will ALWAYS continue to make music. The unique world of music has an amazing variety of styles and genres, from such well-known as classical, pop, rock, jazz, to new genres ; idm, dubstep, synthpop and trancestep with a vast amount of new genres being invented as we speak. ...read more.
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For the most part it seems that we live in a time where our security has never been more heightened. With developments like encryption and smart home monitoring, amongst dozens of others, it appears as though our private data has never been more secure.
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It may be more secure from other individuals equivalent to ourselves but what about to corporations and government institutions? Through this lighthearted video a woman takes to the streets of London to publicly do what these organizations are actively doing to us through initiatives such as "Location Services."
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"Where did I spend my 18th birthday?" Derek Muller asked a packed Leacock 232 on Tuesday, Feb. 3. The question sparked confused laughter from the audience. However, this was only the start of a presentation that would continue to amuse. Muller—the man behind the YouTube channel Veritasium—explores a huge range of topics through videos, including… Keep Reading


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Rejoice all you gamers in the PC Master Race, because some very good things are coming to the monitor market. AMD's submission to the VESA standards body has been successful and the organisation will go on to add in a new feature to the Displayport 1.2a standard to be rolled out by monitor manufacturers in the future that will ship their units with modern scalers and a Displayport connection.
Just what is that feature? Why, its variable refresh rates, of course! Nvidia's proprietary solution is called G-Sync and requires a custom scaler chip and the use of specific monitors and Geforce graphics cards, while AMD's version, now called Adaptive-Sync, will be available on most monitors with a Displayport connection shipping in late 2014, provided the manufacturers enable the feature and don't use older hardware.
Not only is the feature going to be reasonably easy to implement on newer scaler hardware, it's also going to be a lot more flexible than Nvidia's G-Sync alternative. VESA says that they expect actual implementation to begin 6-12 months from today, with the earliest wave of monitor supporting Adaptive-Sync coming late in 2014, possibly with a showing off by many manufacturers at CES 2015. Monitors supporting A-Sync with the right kind of panels, backlighting and hardware will be able to display any refresh rate inside the following groups:
- 9-60Hz
- 17-120Hz
- 36-240Hz
AMD says that not all of their graphics cards will be able to use Adaptive-Sync when it launches. Currently the only GPUs capable of working with it on the desktop are the Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 and the R7 260X and R7 260. This means that only newer GCN architectures like Bonaire and Hawaii will have this capability built-in. Although AMD has previously says that any of their discrete GPUs that have a Displayport connection from the Radeon HD5000 series and up can run a monitor with Adaptive-Sync, it appears that they're only concerned with getting their latest products working with it properly. The rest will come through driver implementations.
It will be pretty interesting to see how monitor manufacturers decide on their implementations. For example, the first 9-60Hz range will be ideal for all-round use, with the monitor scaling down to whatever refresh rate the application running at the current time dictates. So if you're on a laptop and just web browsing, the refresh rate could drop to as low as 20hz for static content, saving on power draw. For the other ranges, the lowest possible frequency is either under or slightly above the minimums that G-Sync imposes on itself. Nvidia's solution is far more flexible in terms of what they can do with it thanks to vertical hardware and software integration, but Adaptive-Sync will work with a wider range of hardware for less specific requirements.
Looking to the future…
I'm pretty excited about this for a few reasons. One is that it makes Eyefinity a more viable solution for more people. Instead of overextending your budget to aim for something like a Radeon R9 280X and three monitors, it'll be easier to play with something like the Radeon R9 270. Sure, you can dial down a few settings to improve frame rates, but you won't get mismatched frames and the game won't appear to stutter for you in more demanding in-game firefights.
Additionally, we're hitting a bit of a wall in terms of graphics horsepower. Not only is the jump to 20-nanometer production production processes going to take a while longer for AMD and Nvidia to get to grips with, the leap to UltraHD 4K monitors requires at the very least a Radeon R9 290 to run at good detail settings with acceptable refresh rates. Using Adaptive-Sync, you could compensate for the lack of appropriate hardware to drive the game properly and you can grab the monitor you want while you wait for graphics cardware to play catchup.
Lastly, there's already been some use of external Displayport (eDP) in laptops in the past, but never to the kind of extent that we are able to push today. If applications could begin to dictate to the hardware and the OS what refresh rate they desire, developers could target ways to make their application take up less GPU and CPU cycles and also drop power draw dramatically.
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End So Well
6 comments:
- Amanda said...
I missed out on a great rug like that on TradeMe last week. Seeing this makes me realize that I should have fought harder for it!! What a cool home. When can I move in? Now I'm going back to sigh over those images some more. So many details to soak up! Amanda xx
- February 7, 2011 at 4:07 PM
- mise said...
The clean whiteness of it all is alluring, and I love the neatly stacked wood. Do we get to see a picture of the rug that didn't end so well (just to lift our spirits, as we are fellow non-enders so well...)?
- February 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM
- Sherman Unkefer said...
White is very refreshing to the eye. Clean and pure. Love those pictures!
- February 7, 2011 at 8:13 PM
- quintessence said...
Love this fabulous loft-ish space. I actually have a quilt like that that my childhood babysitter made for me - still totally stylish today!
- February 7, 2011 at 8:46 PM
- Kelle Dame said...
Completely cool and full of character and whimsy. What a charmer ;) I too am realizing I need to let my etsy friends do what they do best...
Have a great week!
- February 7, 2011 at 11:45 PM
- Pinecone Camp said...
The kitchen is beautiful! Love all the chipped up chairs and light fixtures. The bedroom (top) is pretty fantastic too.
- February 8, 2011 at 12:31 AM


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SR = Sent and received (lingo learnt from Chooky)
In this years SSCS I received my gift from Terry. Lucky Me! If you remember back to my post when I received the parcel well the goods description for customs was QUILT, and a quilt it was. I LOVE IT!
Now I must apologise for the quality of these photos, it has been raining NON STOP since at least Friday and it is very grey. But I had to share.
Ta Dah!
Here are some other goodies that were included, the needle book I shared when I opened the card, but I got some soap, a memo pad and pen and some variegated DMC.
Now to take these pics I cleared away Christmas from the dining room table. The dark blue at the head of the table is Mr P, thinking he is funny!
to show you how perfect the colours are, here is the bowl that normally sits on the table in non Christmas times......
the gold in the base and opal effect of the bowl work perfectly.
If you walked into our house you wouldn't know that I sew, or crochet, or probably even scrapbook. I am always making something for someone else. It is so nice to have something for me out on show. Thanks Terry.
Here is what I sent to Ruth
The colours are not true. Ruth likes brights. The lower part of the bag is hot pink and the top purple, with turquoise in between.
Thanks Chookster for another great swap.


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Robert Keeley True Bypass Looper:
This is an incredibly small true-bypass looper box from Keeley Electronics! This little wonder is only 1 inch wide and 3 inches tall. This will fit in the tightest of pedal boards and offer you a dramatic improvement in tone. Connect any effect to this unit that is "old school" and not true-bypass. In particular Vintage wahs, echos, phasers, fuzz face type pedals, etc. or even new effects that might have a weak bypass system. These elderly effects rob tone when they are off. You can make them truly bypassed when off now with this little box. It works with or without power. When you add a DC supply to this unit the two LED let you know if the loop is active or not. BLUE LED indicates your signal is passing through the vintage effect, RED LED indicates true-bypass.
"It's a true bypass box and it does what it says it does with ease and beautiful simplicity. No noise, no popping. Use good cable, and less of it in between effects and you'll get less noise and more tone. It gets a 10. No noise, so it's a top product."
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WASHINGTON — After President Obama finished his inaugural speech Monday, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) thanked him for mentioning climate change, a topic environmentalists said Obama had avoided during much of his first term.
"I did more than mention climate change," the president told Waxman.
In discussing the urgency of climate change before a national audience, the president elevated the issue into the top tier of second-term priorities that include fiscal reform, gun control and immigration reform.
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Dear Dad,
I've struggled for a few days in writing this letter because I really hope you will hear my heart.
When Sharon rang me in Ireland to tell me that you had cancer I cried for four days. I couldn't bear to think of you coping with this news alone with nobody to help you through it. I knew straight away that I needed to come home and see you.
So I'm glad you let me come and visit. I'm sorry that things didn't go so smoothly, but the only reason I brought up the past was to try and mend the break in relationship between us. I was angry over things in the past and wanted to know how you felt about it and give you a chance to give your perspective.
I'm sorry for doing it now when you're sick. If only we'd been able to talk years ago, then we could have put all of this behind us and still been involved in each others' lives. I'm sorry that we've both missed out on that – and I'm sorry for the pain and loneliness you've been through.
I've been confused because I've written several letters to you over the years, sharing my life with you. One Christmas long ago I came to your door with a gift and knocked but you didn't open the door. I thought maybe you just didn't want to talk with me.
Again, the only reason I brought up the past was because I felt it was an unspoken issue between us that had to be addressed if you in your pain and I in mine were to find healing and peace, and restore relationship, and just be father and daughter again. That is what I want – genuine peace between us because I do love you, and I feel terrible grief because I'm about to lose you, and I know things could have been so different.
You are still dad to me and always will be. As a little girl I looked up to you – I still have copies of letters I wrote from boarding school, asking if you would write to me. When I asked you to give me away at my wedding it was because I wanted to honour you as my dad and I'm grateful to you for accepting and giving me away.
I don't know what else to say except that I do love you and feel great sorrow that you are having to fight this battle with cancer, without the closeness of family around you. I will try to come again after leaving this letter but if you don't want to see me I will understand, you obviously have the right to say no.
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Good lord, someone's actually pointing out the class dimension inherent in the Vancouver riot, and drawing the connection between that and the corporatist power structure's nasty little game of Divide-and-Conquer.
Not to mention the malignant influence of Don Cherry. You know, that guy who has a national platform on the "left-wing" CBC.
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Hormones are not just a female problem period! So, PMS, fertility and menopause are on the agenda, but so are: depression, anxiety, stress, foggy thinking, memory lapses, weight gain, weight loss, immunity, bone health, stamina, energy hormones affect us all physically, mentally and emotionally.
Hormones are your bodys chemical messengers, in other words they are signals for glands and tissues to do their work and they work as a system, not in isolation. This means, that if you're stressed, you can find yourself either reaching for a chocolate bar, a cake or a cookie (or perhaps all three!) to give you energy because your high stress hormone has made your blood sugar drop; or, if its the end of the day, you could be reaching for a glass of wine or a couple of beers to help you unwind. Both of these activities are a form of self-medication: a response to make a somewhat unpleasant hormone action feel better.
So, if you wonder if your hormones are hijacking your life you might be right because hormones can sabotage your efforts to eat more healthily, to take more exercise and to stop feeling angry, stressed, depressed or anxious.
Hormone health is a truly holistic approach that supports you in your efforts to be the best person you can be!
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This Fritos Chili Cheese Salad may not sound all that exciting when you look at ingredients, but it is the BOMB! The first time I tried this salad was at a girls' Christmas party that I was invited to. I went for seconds and was craving it a few days later. Now, I keep all ingredients on hand so I can make it whenever we want some. A Huge, Huge thanks to my friend Irina for sharing this recipe with me.
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I'm not sure why it took me so long to pick up Double Blind. In an way I'm glad I waited, because the amount of emotion Heidi Cullinan pours into her writing? Blows. Me. Away. For instance:
It wasn't tidy, this pain. There was no one person or place that caused it, no demon to exorcise it, not by a single name. There was just pain, all thirty-some years of it, piled on in flakes and dust and bricks on top of itself, for aches remembered and wounds forgotten, at least by source. They were just there, all the things that had hurt him, that he'd been too tough to let get through, the Great Fucking Wall of Randy didn't let any fucking shit get through, God fucking damn it.But it's not just the emotion. Double Blind follows Randy (who we met in Special Delivery) and Ethan. And the game of poker. Gambling, particularly poker, plays a very special role in this book, and the author uses it beautifully to demonstrate Randy & Ethan's growth...as individuals and as a couple. For instance:
Or anybody, either.
Except for Ethan.
And Sam.
And Old Man Mitch.
Like Carter he kept waiting for the big payout. Waiting for the moment things would go right. For the time when the wheel would come around to his number and give him what he deserved.I know nothing about poker, but I didn't need too. The game (at its simplest) is explained to the reader as it is to Ethan. For he, potentially like the reader is a novice. And as the game is explained more fully so the story progresses. The two main characters from Special Delivery, Sam & Mitch, make a welcome return. Bringing in two previously beloved characters can be risky - they can overwhelm the other characters and you are left with half a story. But that doesn't happen with Double Blind. Sam & Mitch's story (as individuals and as a couple) [although to be fair we get far less of Mitch than we do of Sam] was not yet complete, but they act as a catalyst in a way, for Randy and for Ethan.
Except sometimes the wheel didn't come around. Because the wheel wasn't about you. The wheel wasn't about anyone. It was just a damn wheel. It was like Randy said: you had to get the best of it.
You had to go and be your own wheel.
And what's even more amazing is how much this book spoke to me (see above quotes). As Randy & Ethan learned about themselves, so I learnt about me (and I love it when books do that). They are the true keepers.
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Red Bellied Black Snake
On average two to three Australians die annually from snake bite, with eastern browns accounting for about half of those deaths.
Queenslanders have been warned of high numbers of deadly eastern brown snakes this summer of 2011-2012, after a woman died from a snake bite in the state's southwest town of Warwick this month.
The woman had been working in her garden at Wheatvale near Warwick on Wednesday night when she was bitten several times by the snake.
King Brown
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare statistics show 1750 Australians were hospitalised for snake bites in 2002-05 but only two to three die annually from snakes.
Brown Snake
George Cann (1897–1965) entertained crowds when he worked at a snake pit called 'The Loop' in La Perouse from 1920 until the 1960s. He was a legendary collector of snakes from areas around Sydney and, it is said, could catch up to 40 snakes in a day. In his yard, he created large pits that were used to house his snake collection. He was the curator of reptiles at the Taronga Park Zoo for 20 years, and died of a stroke in 1965.


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Audi and T-Mobile introduce new data plans to bring prices down to as little as $15/month
Audi's Connect Infotainment system utilizes the T-Mobile network for its data needs. The companies have released a joint statement introducing new data plans that bring the price as low as $15 per month. The data plan would have previously set you back $30 per month on a month-to-month basis.
The new plans include unlimited data for $30 per month, a yearly contract, a two-year contract, or a 30 month contract. These will set you back a total of $324, $600, or $450, respectively. Cars are often long-term purchases, so getting a two-year contract probably isn't a problem for most.
One thing that I would like to see is the ability to sell the contract with the car, if for some reason you need to sell the car right away. It's not clear whether or not Audi and T-Mobile currently offer this.
Customers want to have the wireless experience they want when they want it - at home, at work, or in their car. Through our partnership with Audi, customers can now access award-winning in-vehicle service and virtually unlimited data access for as little as $15 per month.


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Last weekend, when Lucia Alice Warren, 85, left Friendship Manor, the retirement home where she lives in Goleta, for commencement ceremonies nearby at UCSB's College of Creative Studies, it was not to applaud the accomplishments of some young relative two or three generations behind her. She was the one receiving the BA degree in literature, thus becoming the oldest person ever to graduate from the UCSB campus.
It all started four years ago when Warren, an artist with a lifetime of professional accomplishments behind her, applied unsuccessfully for two teaching positions in art at adult education centers.
As she recalled several days ago, both times the centers were ready to sign her up and asked: "You do have a degree don't you?" almost as an afterthought. She did not. She had never even graduated from high school.
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Alliance Seeks To Help Schools Implement Curriculum Standards
ARLINGTON, VA.--A consortium of 26 national subject-matter and other education groups moved last week to carve a role for itself in the emerging debate over education standards by taking steps to sketch out for schools what implementing new standards would involve.
Members of the Alliance for Curriculum Reform meeting here agreed on three measures designed to provide a fuller picture than they believe has been suggested so far of what it would take to put standards into place.
First, the group plans to develop guidelines for "school delivery'' or "opportunity to learn'' standards, which outline the resources, staff development, facilities, and other elements schools would have to have before students would be held accountable for knowing the content suggested by national standards.
In addition, the group will gather other kinds of information for state school chiefs, local school districts, and the members of its individual associations on the practical aspects of implementing all of the new curriculum standards in schools.
To determine in a systematic way what those needs are, the alliance also will seek funding for a major research effort to link districts in some two dozen states and to assist and monitor them as they implement the standards over a three-year period, beginning in 1994.
"What we'd really like to do is demonstrate across the country what really is going to be involved in putting these standards in place,'' said Gordon Cawelti, the executive director of the group.
"By 1994-95, we're going to have seven or eight different standards in place,'' Mr. Cawelti told the group. "Can a school district do all of these at the same time?''
'A Pox on All Your Houses'
Although the alliance was officially formed just last year, its members began meeting nearly two years ago in response to proposals to set education goals and standards for what students should know and be able to do in school.
Several of the subject-matter groups now developing standards in their disciplines are also members of the alliance.
While supportive of standards-setting efforts, the A.C.R. has raised questions about the practical concerns and the equity issues involved in the process.
There was much discussion last week, for example, about the "mythical 4th-grade teacher'' who may be confronted with a pile of inch-thick standards documents to implement over the next two years.
"If I could play that teacher for a moment,'' said Judith Renyi, the director of Collaboratives for Humanities and Arts Teaching, a Philadelphia-based reform group, "I would say a pox on all of your houses.''
Alliance members also raised questions about such issues as a potential lack of incentives for schools to implement the standards and whether non-English-speaking students would have to meet the new standards.
Currently, national curriculum standards have been or are being developed in 10 subject areas. All but three of those efforts are receiving federal support.
In the education-reform bill it unveiled last month, the Clinton Administration proposed setting up a national panel to certify those standards and the opportunity-to-learn standards.
The A.C.R. will take up proposals for guiding the development of opportunity-to-learn standards during its next meeting in August.
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Melissa Ford lives in rural Michigan with her husband, two sons, and three goats. During the day she assists students with their academic writing at the local community college; her evenings are spent driving her kids around, avoiding housework by playing Scrabble, and of course, working on her next book. Author of both adult and young adult fiction, she enjoys all kinds of stories-as long as they have a happy ending.
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Oh, really?
A Congressional Investigation from 1976-1979 found a "probable conspiracy" in the assassination of John F. Kennedy and recommended the Justice Department investigate further. As of 1991, the Justice Department has done nothing.Let's examine the facts.
In 1979, the House Select Committee investigating the assassination released their Final Report.
Its primary conclusions were that:
The "scientific acoustical evidence" was a police Dictabelt recording made through a radio transmitter that had been stuck open for a brief period of time on a police motorcycle. The theory was that if the motorcycle with the open microphone happened to be in Dealey Plaza at the time of the assassination, it would have picked up the sounds of the gun shots. However, no shots were audible on the tape.
- Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at President John F. Kennedy. The second and third shots he fired struck the President. The third shot he fired killed the President.
- Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy. . . .
- The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. . . .
The House Committee had the recording subjected to a novel experimental technique that purported to graphically depict the sounds on the tape, then sought to match them to graphical depictions of test shots fired by investigators in Dealey Plaza. The Committee's conclusion was that the graphical data proved there were four shots on the recording, with a "95% probability" of the third being from the grassy knoll area.
The Department of Justice, rather than doing "nothing," as Oliver Stone seems to believe, commissioned a scientific evaluation of the Committee's findings. In 1982, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released their report, which is available in its entirety online.
Its conclusions were:
It has yet to be proved that the open microphone was even in Dealey Plaza during the assassination; as Dallas Sheriff James C. Bowles has convincingly argued, the evidence strongly suggests it was not.
- The acoustic analyses do not demonstrate that there was a grassy knoll shot and in particular there is no acoustic basis for the claim of a 95% probability of such a shot.
- The acoustic impulses attributed to gunshots were recorded about one minute after the President had been shot and the motorcade had been instructed to go to the hospital. [Emphasis added.]
- Therefore, reliable acoustic data do not support a conclusion that there was a second gunman.
Today, even devout believers in conspiracy almost universally reject the acoustical evidence theory as invalid.
As usual, Oliver Stone simply has not done his homework. Certainly, one does not see him endorsing the Committee's first finding, that "Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots at President John F. Kennedy. The second and third shots he fired struck the President. The third shot he fired killed the President."
The Committee had scientific evidence to back that conclusion up, and that evidence has withstood the test of time. Oliver Stone could be educating people about that.
But as of 2001, Oliver Stone has done nothing.
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children aged 10 or less, if accompanied by a senior member may worm fish that stretch of the Irfon from the swing bridge upstream for approximately 50
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committee member, with the offender's name and address if possible. The committee will support all anglers acting in good faith in this way.
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may accompany anglers along the Groe.
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Ruth Brandt – Secretary Ruthi joined the Climatico board in 2010 and has served as Secretary since February 2011. Ruthi started her associaton with Climatico as an analyst with the Oxford G8-Research Group, covering aspects of Japanese compliance with G8 commitments. When the Oxford G8RG reformed into Climatico, she joined as a US analyst, contributed to several of Climatico's publications, and attended the COP15 in Copenhagen in December 2009, compiling Climatico's daily reports and covering negotiations and actions by representatives of the civil society. Ruthi has been working with environmental non-governmental organisations for many years, both in the UK and in her native Israel, and is co-founder of the Oxford Routs & Shoots student society. Her interests lay in international cooperation to mitigate carbon emissions, the effect of climate change on food security and the connection between climate change and wildlife conservation. Ruthi holds an MSc by Research at Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) and currently resides in Oxford, UK.
Marie Karaisl – Treasurer Marie works for the recently established consulting company Thelos in Mexico, developing an environmental evaluation tool for infrastructure projects. Previously, she worked as Natural Resource Economist with the Namibia Nature Foundation and the Ministry of Environment and Tourism in Namibia and for the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She holds an MPhil in Development Studies and wrote her thesis on eco-tourism in Russia. Marie has served as a Mexico analyst and editor for Climatico and currently manages Climatico's fundraising efforts.
Andrea Fiore – General Counsel, specializing in Employment Law Andrea Grace Fiore is currently serving as an employment attorney with the Law Office of Joshua D. Gruenberg. She received her Juris Doctorate degree from California Western School of Law, San Diego, where she also worked as a research assistant contributing to various topics including indigenous rights in Colombia, Bolivia, Indian Gaming and Italian Banking Law. Before settling into her current job she interned for the Law Offices of Jacob Sapochnick, a reputable immigration law firm. She has an article published in the Journal of Biolaw and Business, and was a member of the Health Law Society, the Women's Law Caucus, and Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, for which she served as Community Service Chairperson.
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It's time for the usual peek into our next Muse's creation, and I think you should have next to none problems guessing this one... am I right??
Who oh who can it be? :)
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I just finished reading Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes!
I mean legit read most of it in one sitting, sat there in feels, had lunch and came up to review it.
The thing is, when you're a book reviewer/blogger, you know that there're three main types of reviews that are really difficult to write:
- For books that you didn't like
- For the second book in a series
- For a book whose ending end so massive / impressive / crushing that the rest of the book just kinda seems like a blur
What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that.
What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time."


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30 hand-picked films. A new one every day
A British officer, Captain Charles Edstaston, is sent to the Russian court of Catherine the Great as an envoy, where he has to contend with the crafty machinations of her chief minister Potemkin.
Played to the slapstick hilt by Peter O'Toole, Jeanne Moreau and, especially, Zero Mostel...a lot of fun!!


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Jeff, >>To indicate that a set of extensions are "must recognize", you would be required to annotate >>at least one EII E with wsdl:required='true' as a child of a WSDL-defined EII, but the semantics >>of "recognizing" E would be defined in a separate specification. That specification could indicate >>that "recognizing" means "must recognize" or "may recognize" for any number of other EII or AII, >>even if the latter were in different XML namespaces. I think I hear the point, but isn't it overly complicated to do a very simple thing? I mean this set of implicit rules of "annotating at least one" and it kinda affects related extensions (not even in the same namespace). Also "requiredness" rules defined in another namespace. It sounds a little convoluted for simply indicating that a set of elements and attributes are required to process in a WSDL document. I see that at some point WSDL processors would have to use an inferencing engine to merely decode all the implicit dependencies from a set of extension elements and their "requiredness" rules. It would also make very hard to design and use an extension, which should be very simple for the sake of proper interop. I guess I'll read minutes of F2F in more detail, but if you could recall, what was the main objection of doing <wsdl:requiredExtension namespace="<URI>"/> ? -- Igor Sedukhin .. (firstname.lastname@example.com) -- (631) 342-4325 .. 1 CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11788 -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Schlimmer [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:18 PM To: email@example.com Subject: RE: Text for extensibility section Sedukhin, Igor [mailto:email@example.com] wrote: >The proposed extension spec text talks about an extension element and >its >Qname. It does not define this parent/child inheritance of the >>"requiredness" that you're referring to. At least as I read it. Here is the >quote: " >> If an extension element is processed, and has a "wsdl:required" >> attribute with the value "true", the processor MUST either agree to >> fully abide by all the rules and semantics signalled by the extension >> element's QName, or immediately cease processing (fault). In >> particular, if the processor does not recognize the QName it must >> fault. If it does recognize the QName, and determines that the >> extension in question is incompatible with any other aspect of the >> document (including other extensions), it must also fault. >" >So reading the above, I don't understand how can I hang a wsdl:required off >an extension attribute such as in The wording Glen provided was to address the specific point of how a "must recognize" extension element could indicate a scope of recognition. His wording does not address the open content model we agreed to earlier. One may put a foreign AII A on any WSDL-defined EII W. To indicate that A is "must recognize", one must put an EII E as a child of W with wsdl:required='true' and associate E with A via a separate specification. >I also don't follow on, *from the above text*, how in > <portType myExt:abc="def"... > <myExt:allExts wsdl:required="true"/> >myExt:abc and myExt:allExts would be related. They are different Qnames, >and therefore rule applies separately to each one. >I understand you point, but if so, it should be formalized somehow in a >spec. I agree we should be clearer about this. We did discuss it at length during the face to face meeting last week, and I believe the common case will be where the XML namespace is shared, but there is no requirement that they do so. Generally, what it means to "recognize" an extension is defined by that extension, not by our WSDL specification. >If I have a namespace full of top-level elements and attributes used to >>extend WSDL constructs, why should I now be grouping all of them >under >another element to merely indicate requiredness of that >extension? No. To indicate that a set of extensions are "must recognize", you would be required to annotate at least one EII E with wsdl:required='true' as a child of a WSDL-defined EII, but the semantics of "recognizing" E would be defined in a separate specification. That specification could indicate that "recognizing" means "must recognize" or "may recognize" for any number of other EII or AII, even if the latter were in different XML namespaces. >Moreover, if I add ten more top-elements, then I'd have to remember to >add >them to that grouping element. No. You'd only have to include one, and it wouldn't have to be a wrapper for the others. >Well, I've already done the grouping by putting all those elements in a >>particular namespace identified by a URI. Isn't it enough? Yes. You could do this by defining an EII with the semantics that it implies "recognition" and other processing rules for a set of other EII and/or AII. >Can't I simply >say ><wsdl:requiredExtension namespace="<URI>"/> Technically no. We decided to stick with the wsdl:required syntax for familiarity. >I thought that is where we left off on the last call and it was kinda >close >to be finalized that way... What has happened? After extensive discussion, my recollection is that we decided three things: (a) We liked the value of being able to declare an extension within a scope, thus the new wording from Glen. One can still use the "global" scope by adding the EII with wsdl:required='true' to wsdl:definitions. (b) We kept wsdl:required AII because it was sufficient. (c) We didn't restrict the relationship between the EII that is marked with wsdl:required='true' and other EII and/or AII. Such a relationship is truly beyond the scope of WSDL and the purview of the individual EII/AII. --JeffReceived on Tuesday, 18 June 2002 18:55:20 UTC
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Now that the 2012 elections are over and the threat to reinstitute "dejure" white supremacy (however real or perceived) has been vanquished, the question is can progressive forces now get serious about creating an alternative political party that reflects our views, principles, and programmatic solutions?
Many might be asking why do we need an alternative or Third Political Party? And some might be asking, haven't we heard this all before?
Within the two Party system that has largely dominated the United States Republic since its founding, the Democratic Party has occupied the proverbial "left pole" of American mainstream politics since the Great Depression and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) in the 1930's. Since the Depression, the Democrats were able to build a coalition of white urban ethnics, trade unions, and an assortment of oppressed peoples' (Blacks, Xicanos, Puerto Ricans, etc.). This Coalition also included white Southern Dixiecrats until the 1960's, who jettisoned this uneasy alliance after President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that effectively ended legalized white supremacy.
Since the 1960's, the Democratic Party coalition included a decreasing number of whites (as the ethnics assimilated more and more into the standard Anglo-Saxon narrative of settler whiteness), trade unions and oppressed peoples. Bill Clinton and the (now defunct) Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) shifted this alliance in the late 1980's and 1990's by adopting neo-liberalism wholesale and appropriating large parts of President Ronald Wilson Reagan's platform to recapture larger numbers of white voters. This strategy proved to be highly effective, and resulted in the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, ending the 12 year domination of the Republican Party.
Neo-liberalism is a hyper-aggressive variant of capitalism that depends on government creating a regulatory regime that favors and promotes finance capital and speculative markets and lives on the cannibalization (i.e. privatization) of public goods and services (what scholar David Harvey calls "accumulation by dispossession") and the commodification of everything. Despite the financial and economic crash of 2008, neo-liberalism fundamentally remains the social gospel of both political parties.
Throughout this 80 year history, the big tent of the Democratic Party sometimes allowed space for progressive and radical ideas and social bases, but only to the extent that both would uphold the capitalist system and the pursuit of imperialist hegemony by the United States government and American monopoly corporations. Anything beyond this, or that challenged this, was then, as now, beyond the fold of mainstream acceptability within the confines of the dominant two-party framework.
The only substantive difference between the two dominant parties (the Demopublicans or Republicrats as many call them) is that the Democratic Party promises to distribute more of the spoils of the United States Empire to "people of color" more than the Republican Party (as presently constituted). Both parties are fully committed however to gaining these spoils through the same principle means of systemic oppression and exploitation on a national and global scale.
The reality is that for those of who are striving to be anti-racists, anti-sexists, anti-capitalists, and anti-imperialists there is no major political party in the United States that reflects our politics. Sure there are several critical progressive Third Parties that exist in the United States, such as the Green and the Peace and Freedom parties. But, since the 1950's, none of these Third Parties has consistently garnered enough votes to be major player on the national level within the US electoral system (many might cite Ross Perot's run in 1992, but he was further to the right than either Bill Clinton or George H. W. Bush). This does not mean that neither the Greens or the Peace and Freedom Party could not become this party, but right now, no such party exists.
If we want a party that strives to reflect these principles and politics we have to build it. And now is perhaps one of the best times in the history of the United States Empire to do so. As many commentators and academics have noted, the demographics of the United States are changing rapidly and profoundly. It is projected that within the next 20 to 25 years, that whites will become the "majority-minority" in the United States (as presently constituted). Many assume this demographic shift will automatically result in the dominance of the Democratic Party, as Blacks and Latino's in particular have historically been more "progressive" in the realm of electoral politics than have the descendants of white settlers. While this will likely be a safe bet for a few years, it is not an entirely sure bet for the long term. Black and Latino communities can both exhibit some rather conservative social views that can be a potential opening for right wing forces, and I would argue that within both communities there has been a noted right-wing political shift over the past 30 years, that is most concentrated amongst the professional or petit bourgeois class elements within these communities that the right can readily tap into.
If we truly want these communities to go in a progressive direction over the next years and decades, we are going to have to compete against reactionary forces for their attention and engagement. Given the nature of the Republicans defeat, you can best believe that they are going to be competing hard to sway a considerable portion of the Latino base to their politics and principles and will likely stop at nothing to do so – even extending more of an invitation to various portions of the Latino community to join the club of "whiteness" (which is a game that has been in motion in many sections of the country already for decades). And they will continue to try and fracture the Black Democratic block, and are primed to use issues such as immigration and its links (presumed or real) to the economic dislocation of large sections of the Black working class as a "divide and conquer" wedge issue.
As the Demopubicans compete for these bases, so must we. It is the job of the progressive and radical forces to organize and win over the majority of the oppressed peoples in this empire, combined with and a substantial number of whites, to our views and politics to transform the entity called the United States. If we make a serious push between now and 2014, we can make some serious inroads on many local, regional, and statewide elections throughout the empire that could break the Democratic Party stranglehold on progressive politics and open up some real democratic space.
The choice of creating a broad and powerful Third Party will not be easy, and will not be without its challenges (particularly on the financial front, given that we won't be financed by Wall Street and the various monopoly franchises of the empire). But, we either seize the opportunity in front of us or continue to accept a politics of "lesser evils" that often turn out to merely be the legitimation of "more effective evils".


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Picking up on a comment in response to my last post about crossing things off the to-do list (mine, usually written out on index cards), I thought that it was a great idea from my friend Roy to make a list of things that I've done.
So I created a "Done That" list. And I did do all of these things. I even have the t-shirt for some of them.
Since I'm not Mighty Girl, (Again, this is envy. Not jealousy. They're different. I swear.) I've never seen them written down in one place, so here they are, just in case I need reminding.
I have:
1. Sewn my own clothes.
2. Gone scuba diving.
3. Trekked in the Himalayas
4. Camped in the Amazon rainforest.
5. Run a 10K.
6. Stayed up all night to see the sunrise on a beach.
7. Installed a toilet. (Yes. I did.)
8. Seen a bear in the wild. Several, actually. Up close.
9. Seen a moose in the wild. Up close.
10. Sat in the cockpit of a plane landing in New York City.
11. Made strawberry jam.
12. Met Mother Theresa.
13. Learned a third language. (Enough to sound like a five-year old, anyway.)
14. Lived in a developing country.
15. Grown vegetables.
16. Been called for jury duty. (Twice.)
17. Met the Pope.
18. Jumped in a lake in Ontario in November. When it was snowing.
19. Ate grasshoppers. (Okay, I ate one.) Ate one grasshopper. It was fried. And crunchy.
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When La Cañada High's cross-country teams train, they see that South Pasadena, their strongest competition in Rio Hondo League, is never far behind.
Both teams cross into each other's territory, as the Spartans take the Arroyo Seco into Pasadena and the Tigers run it all the way up into La Cañada.
"We see them running up here by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory," said Coach Mike Thatcher, who is in his fourth year with the La Cañada boys' team. "I told the team the best way to defeat South Pasadena is to prepare yourself for CIF-prelims and finals because our league isn't particularly strong."