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Every Year, this is THE event to be at… Over the years at the Underground®, All sorts of offline and online 'celebrity' marketers were hidden incognito in their 'spy' attire. (Including people I personally know are verifiable, bonafide millionaires and multi-millionaires).
Attendees came from the far reaches of the globe, including the UK, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Romania, Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand, Spain, and even Japan and Australia, and left incredibly excited about the information they learned… But don't take my word for it…
Listen to and read the confessions from other Agents about what they've gotten out of past Underground® Online Seminars:
"The long haul from Australia was absolutely worth it! The Seminar lived up to my expectations, far and beyond, and I have not laughed so hard, and had so much fun for absolutely ages! I knew from the moment your email arrived last year with the invitation to the Seminar, that my life was going to change as a result of attending it. I now have a great set of tools, a new knowledge base and a burning enthusiasm to be successful, so that I can come back and play next year! And who knows I may even have a good yarn to tell about my 'underground success' Down Under by then!
"Thank you for the incredible added value and the wonderful experience, not to mention the generosity of spirit of the presenters who gave of themselves after hours, to answer endless questions from the new kids on the block!"
— Patricia Reed, Coffs Harbour, NSW Australia
"…The quality of speakers was 'awesome', to borrow your phrase, and my knowledge of this opportunity has soared to heights I did not know existed. It has been a life changing few days and I am so grateful to you, your team and the speakers for this mind-blowing experience…But most of all, I have found new confidence in the future. Developed a new sense of security as I now know how to move forward and realise that no-one can take this knowledge away. How do you value that feeling and belief? It makes the event worth more than the price anyone could charge."
— Chris Morton, Flintshire, UK
"Your event was power-packed with ideas and techniques for boosting business. I left with a structured plan filled with specific strategies for increasing sales, launching my new product, and increasing my practice off-line. And when sales are up in my business, there's more love and romance in the world. Thanks for assembling a unique team of speakers who were willing to share the inside secrets they used in creating their own success, to help others in achieving their dreams."
— Leslie Karsner, PhD, GoRomance.com
"At last! An Internet success seminar for 'the rest of us' — for all those folks who aren't trying to make money online by selling info about how to make money online. We who have "other" products also need to know how to market them. If you're as sick as I am of seminars that are just endless product pitches, then this is the place you want to be. Real information, real people, really useful stuff. Only one problem: Way too much killer information to absorb in one sitting. Thank you so much Yanik for putting together the first truly useful Internet marketing seminar for all us 'real people in the real world.' (PS: Save me a seat at the next one, OK?)"
— Dr. Frank B Smoot, MA, DD, weight loss success coach, WeightLossGodsWay.com
"When I attended your seminar I did not know anything about Internet marketing and could not understand what people in the seminar was talking about. I was disappointed but the one thing which I took back was that money making opportunities in Internet exist big time . I had this site before but could not figure any products to sell online. After I attended your seminar and when you presented your stuff on selling high priced products I had a very strong feeling that i could do something similar in my site. After I came back I put all my thoughts together and came up with a list of 4-5 products which I can sell online. I have just put one of them online so far and the results are amazing. [Side Note: Product is for SAP software (nothing to do with online moneymaking or Internet marketing) and sells for $629.00.]
"Just to let you know that the best product in the similar category which is no 1 in Amazon sells only for 48 dollars and we have completely sidelined them using those simple techniques I learnt in your seminar."
– A. Vishwanath ("Vish"), Mumbai, India
And here's the update we got from Vish 1 ½ months later…
"Just to let you know I grossed 70k in the last 45 days. Now I am a bit tired and will take a rest for a while but I has been amazing 45 days for me grossing 70k in just 45 days. Your seminar was a real eye-opener. Truly amazing….
"Once again thanks Yanik, and if there is anything I can do for you let me know. I owe you a lot simply because your seminar gave me the option to exercise financial freedom."
"I wanted to send you this the *minute* I got back from your Underground® Seminar, but I've been too busy implementing all the ideas and strategies I learned (and raking in boatloads of cash!) The reason savvy internet marketers really go to seminars is for the networking and the awesome business relationships that you can create by just meeting people face to face. Awesome! And I know I've got over a $500,000 worth of ideas in my notes from listening to your 'underground' speakers… I'll achieve my goal this year for the first time — Thanks Yanik! Looking forward to your next seminar."
— Brett Fogle, Blog Power Software, blog-power.com
"…I wanted to thank you. I have 14 pages of legal pad notes, all ideas that are going to be profitable for me…"
— Bill McIntosh, Employment911.com
"…To give you an idea of how your ideas at Underground® have helped me, here's what I've been able to achieve… I have grown the software list from nothing to 4,500 in 3 years in a VERY tight niche market and have helped a client grow a list from 2,239 to over 20,000 using simple techniques I learned and copied from you!…The INCREASE in sales has got to be at least $1 million and I'm just getting started!
Yanik walks the walk, talks the talk and banks the bank. Trust me, every dollar you spend with Yanik will come back to you MANY, MANY times over! In the short time that I've been putting these things into practice, my own bottom line has increased by about $130K. Now I cannot only make a nice income, but I can generate true wealth. The leverage is astounding! Personally…I'm currently experiencing less stress, more peace of mind and more focus on the big picture."
— Mike Denison, South Jordan, UT
"In the twenty years that I have been attending seminars and 'motivational' events I have never had the experience to participate in an event that was as productive and demonstrated such a sincere intent on sharing absolutely practical and immediately useful information as I had the privilege of benefiting from at Yanik's event. The task of captivating the attention of more than 300 people who cried for more even after indulging in all that was offered in the four eleven hours days of the conference cannot be underestimated.
"My experience was exceptional. I traveled to this event with an expectation and a loosely assembled idea of why I was going. I left five days later with my expectations more than fulfilled and a direction as to what I must do next and how I will do that. I have committed to attending the Underground® Online Seminar in 2007."
— Dan Hager, Sooke, BC, Canada
"A lot of attendees were there seeking the "big idea" and there were definitely a fair few of those, some of which I plan to pursue in the future. But for me, I wanted to stay focused on my current online projects and was after little tips that would enable me to increase the success of these projects and take them as far as possible. And the tips and tricks were there in abundance!
"I came home with endless pages of little things I can do to skyrocket my current businesses. I have already implemented a few of these ideas and seen my email responses increase, my AdSense earnings increase, and my sales increase — not by millions, or even thousands, of dollars (hey, it's been 2 weeks) but by enough to know that the trip from the UK was most definitely worth it.
"Thanks Yanik for searching out these great "agents", and a huge thank you to the speakers themselves, who not only revealed valuable insider information about their businesses, but who were also happy to share with people one-to-one when they had left the stage and throughout the weekend.
Needless to say, I signed up for both the Underground UK and Underground® III in 2007 before I left."
— Lisa Hartwell — Voiceover, Broadcaster and Writer — Plymouth, UK
"I had a different concept before coming here that maybe they were wanting to keep things to themselves and hide their secrets but people have been so generous and really giving and sharing different ideas. A lot of their ideas have helped me too on ways that I know that I will be able to further my business. It's been fantastic, really good."
— Vickie Meek, Central Point, OR
"When I signed up I was expecting to learn two or three good nuggets that I could take home and start working on right away. I even brought along my web marketing manager to see if he could come back with two or three other nuggets that we could start seeing results from immediately. It's been a few weeks since the seminar. We have implemented the first three nuggets (total of six) that each of us had, and are seeing tremendous results already. What's amazing is we still have four pages more of things we are going to implement. We will see an increase of 40% on our revenue this month based on the results thus far. That's substantial considering we are currently doing $250,000 per month in sales. I have already signed up for next year."
— David Gass, Business Credit Services, Inc.
"Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your work and your huge under promise and over delivery style. Success is all about taking care of the details and you had them well covered. You provided so many unrequired surprises out of your own pocket, that you created many long-term customers. I have attended a fair number of Internet marketing seminars over the years and your event was clearly one of the best.
"Interestingly I went to The __[removed to protect the guilty]__ Seminar the week after yours as it was close to my home and I had already registered for it before yours…your event was an order of magnitude better, so much so that I left the ______ Seminar after the first half day and requested a full refund. Yes there were some good speakers there, but the attendees at the _____ Seminar seemed to be mostly at a grade school Internet marketing level, which was in stark contrast to your graduate school MBA level of many of your attendees.
"However, the newbies there also learned a lot as the material was easy to digest and enormously useful… Thanks again, I greatly appreciate your work, integrity and character and look forward to attending Underground® II. With everything I have learned directly or indirectly from your event I think you will need to have me be one of your secret presenters for Underground® III."
- Dr. J. Mercola, Mercola.com
(World's #1 most visited natural health website)
[Side note – Mr. Mercola was close in his comment. He is was one of the presenters for Underground® 4]
"I was a little skeptical when I ordered Yanik's Underground® Seminar DVD package mainly because I THOUGHT it cost too much money. Boy, was I wrong. It didn't cost anything. Because I made $7500 in 30 hours on the Net using just one of the ideas from the seminar. (Not to mention the money I made from the other ideas.) The funny thing is…I invented nothing new here… I am by no means a big time Internet marketer. You don't have to be to use what Yanik teaches. Just do what he says and you will make money.
"We are shutting down our launch at 1:00pm tomorrow and we have sold 48 courses at $249. We fully expect to sell that last 2…so, as of right now the launch generated $11,952 in one week. THANK YOU !!!!…by the way I also started a forced continuity program that has 381 members at $30 a month. [That's $11,430.00/month in ongoing revenue and an extra $137,160.00 per year.]"
— Paul Reddick, New Providence, NJ
*Update From Paul 6 months later: "We are set to do about $420,000 this year from our continuity programs."
"…When I first heard about over a dozen people talking about selling to niches, I knew it was going to be awesome because I don't sell to marketers and I don't think too many people do. I just knew it was going to be awesome and it didn't disappoint.
Every one of the presenters gave a unique formula for making money online. If someone is here who is new to online marketing they could take any one of those strategies, they could pick the one that they like best and start using it right way.
They all laid it out step-by-step. For someone like me who already has a successful business, I can take one of these strategies and just plug it in and start making money. Jim Lillig gave a strategy that is probably going to give us between 100-200 free newsletter subscribers to our Web site every single day. It's just phenomenal. Thank you so much."
— Craig Clemons, Santa Monica, CA
"I can only make a couple internet marketing events each year and Yanik's Underground® Seminar has been at the top of the list for the last two years. Unlike most marketing seminars, you won't find the same old "experts" re-hashing last year's strategies and then trying to convince you to spend your life savings for the "real secrets".
"The difference is the "underground" speakers at Yanik's are silently making a killing online and Yanik makes sure his seminar guests leave with the knowledge to do the same. The best part of the event (for me) is the incredible networking. Opportunities you get with the top marketers from around the world — and who are there as attendees! (that should give you a hint as to the quality of this event)"
— Mark Braunstein, Founding Partner — ContentDesk.com
"I primarily go to seminars for the networking, and your seminar was great in that respect. I'm already benefiting from several joint ventures as a result and just a few months later these JVs have made enough profit to pay for your seminar 5x over already.
However, the real pleasant surprise for me was the quality of the info delivered by the speakers. The information was every bit as powerful as you promised, and much of it was content I never heard before (and I've been to a lot of seminars). Thanks for such a great opportunity to learn and grow my business."
- Jeff Mulligan, CBmall.com
"…I'm a tourism marketing professional but I think what is really exciting about this is that I've been so busy consulting that I haven't been pushing my own product. But I'm really clear I can absolutely convert it over now and make the most of my money by selling my information products to the world. I have 40 pages of notes filled up with big ideas.
I realized that probably the easiest thing, and I've been leaving a lot of money on the table, but I just asked myself the question what else do tourism professionals around the world need. I have tons of highly targeted traffic to my site, top ranking and just the affiliate thing. I can't get around to creating a product, but I can find other affiliates who have other services and products. That's huge! This is my first internet marketing thing and I'm just thrilled I was here. Thank you."
– Tim Warren, AdventureBizSuccess.com
"The Underground Seminar is the single best thing I have ever purchased to help my online business. The knowledge I gained was, in itself, worth far more than the cost of the seminar, but there is even more than that. Through the presenters in the seminar, I learned so much about what is going on in the vast world of internet business. There are so many different routes to internet success – and I became far more aware of key, behind-the-scenes people who are quietly but effectively making amazing incomes in this business – in their own ways and on their own terms…
The careful observer can see that Yanik Silver's hand is directly involved in every aspect of his seminars. He is fully aware of what each presenter has to offer, and he chooses each one with great care – to the untold benefit of his customers. I read recently that every millionaire ends up creating other millionaires in the process. This can certainly be said of Yanik Silver and his seminars…"
- Mimi Tanner, declutterfast.com
"Really, when I read the copy to this thing I thought there is no way that somebody like me, who has never been to an Internet seminar, should go to this seminar. I was totally wrong…But like everybody else I probably have more ideas than time…I really got some concrete strategies on how to implement those ideas. This has just been priceless. Thank you."
– Gene Bryson, FreeLegalEbook.com


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Ashley Van Buren spent 11 years working in feature film development and production in New York. You can catch her name in the rolling credits of seven of those feature films.
With her collaborator Laura Benanti, Ashley has co-written, produced, and/or directed web videos including "Connie Britton's Hair Secret" and the series "Workin' It" for Radio City Music Hall.
She has also served as an assistant director or script assistant on productions, readings, and labs of new musicals.
Additionally, Ashley has ghost written for a television personality, produced a New York Times bestselling eBook, provided research assistance on four books, and wrote and produced web content for "Rachael Ray Show" and Jamie Oliver's website.
She has contributed writing to TheaterMania, Mediaite, IndieWire's Women & Hollywood, The Huffington Post, TDF Stages, and the book The Moment. And has written coverage for hundreds of feature film scripts, manuscripts, and librettos.
Ashley is a member of City Center Encores! Off-Center's Young Artists Board and The Lilly Awards' Lilly Power Network.

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It's a very practical and personal question: When is the time to hang up on the job? Josh Patrick, founding principal of Stage 2 Planning Partners in South Burlington, Vt., has some very practical questions you should ask:
You might be thinking about retiring, but how do you know when you are really ready for it, mentally and financially?
For decades, the normal retirement age was 65. This was when you became eligible for Social Security and Medicare. Things are different today. Baby boomers get full Social Security at 66, for instance, and younger generations will have to wait longer.
Answer these five questions to find out how, when and if you should retire:
How do you replace the relationships that you have at work? When you retire there's a very good chance that those you hang out at while working disappear from your life. This isn't a good or bad thing, it just is. When you're off the radar screen of others, they often forget to call. Before long that forgetfulness becomes an embarrassment.
When that happens, it's just easier to let you fall away. Will you make the effort to try new activities where you can meet others, and plan activities to maintain your existing relationships?
Can you afford it? Do you know how much you need for living expenses when you retire? Where does your monthly retirement income come from? Is it enough? If you're concerned about whether you can afford to retire, you might want to think about work in retirement, probably a part-time job that matches your interest.
How long will your money last? There's a very good chance you have 25 or 30 years of life ahead of you. You might not be able to work when you are older and less healthy. That means you need savings to help you get through those years. Do you have an emergency plan? Do you have the money to pay for huge medical bills and health-care expenses?
Do you even want to retire? Before taking the leap, make sure you don't have seller's remorse - when you get rid of something, you want it again. Spend some time thinking about whether retirement is right for you. In my case, I have no interest in leaving my job now. I love what I do, and I've arranged my work so that almost everything I do is a lot of fun. If you work for yourself you can do that to.
What to do with all that free time? Many people retire only to find that they're bored. You might want to think about what you always want to do but either couldn't afford it, or didn't have the time.
I always believe that once we reach our adult years, we have at least three careers in us. The first is a learning career. The second is when you get to apply what you learned. The third career is something that you want to do just for fun. Do you have your just-for-fun ideas lined up?


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About Universal Records
- Universal Records
- Quezon City, Philippines
- Universal Records is the NUMBER ONE independent record label in the Philippines. Bringing you quality music for the past 30 years, we are home to artists like: Jose Mari Chan, Gary Valenciano, Ogie Alcasid, Regine Velasquez, Lani Misalucha, Jed Madela, Christian Bautista, Jay R, Billy Crawford, Kris Aquino, Edu Manzano, Marian Rivera, Mark Herras, Nina, Ronnie Liang, Gail Blanco, Sam Concepcion. Our band roster includes: Parokya Ni Edgar, Kamikazee, Sponge Cola, Imago, Silent Sanctuary, Kenyo, Paraluman. We are equally committed to bring you exciting international releases covering various genres like pop, jazz, new age, classical, alternative, indie pop, rock, electronica, dance, r&b, and hip-hop. Name it, we definitely have it!
June 19, 2011
Allkpop | After School's Bekah writes thank you message to fans
Yesterday, it was revealed that After School's Bekah would be graduating from After School. Earlier today, she shared her feelings through their official fansite.
On June 17th, Bekah posted on the Playgirlz fansite in both Korean and English. She said,
"Hello Hello~~~
You saw the news articles today right?… I'm sorry~… I wanted to tell you personally… I wanted to think about it more~ Our fans… always gave me strength.. I was always thankful… Thank you always.. I really love you… I'll really really really miss you~ Don't be too sad… We can meet again… :] Though I would like to express more in Korean… Koran is hard kekeke… ㅜㅜ… So… I'll write in English~~~ >.<
I just want to thank everyone for giving me so much of their love and time to support After School and me. I especially am always amazed at those fans who came to see me at Music Bank, Music Core, and Inkigayo.. it was a HUGE encouragement for me.. Right now.. I honestly, don't know how to feel..I can't imagine what you guys are feeling too. I just hope the best for all of you guys, you guys are truly amazing people. I pray that you guys will always reach for your goals and no matter who discourages you.. that you keep on going.
Life is crazy, how it can change in an instant. I'm REALLY going to miss you guys screaming out AFTER SCHOOL or even my name. Everything was a blessing for me and I will NEVER forget you guys. I hope to see you guys soon. Maybe when I visit Korea again I can see you guys somehow.. I love Korea and even though it was a different culture and lifestyle for me.. I grew to embrace it and love it. You guys truly real warm people inside. I wish you guys to just shine as brightly as possible and not be afraid to love one another. I've learned that there are a lot of people who are difficult to get along with or love…but still..loving each other is the best thing you could ever do in this world. Of course I'm still learning too..hehe.
I don't want to say goodbye because I have a feeling I'll be seeing you guys one day, maybe on the street, at a convenience store.. I'm not too sure but I will see you guys again. I love you guys with all my heart and I'm so blessed. I hope for the best for you guys and always smile. God bless you guys always. I love you… A lot a lot… :]
♥ Bekah~"
We'll miss you Bekah, and we wish you all the best with your career as a designer!
Source: Star News via Nate
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Welcome to our new Red Brick Café website!
March is a busy month for Red Brick!
First and foremost, we are excited to be featured as the first business in Guelph to have a Google indoor tour , a virtual panoramic view of the interior of our café!
We are proud to sponsor Gain Music Festival happening on March 7th.
And as usual, we are hosting live music every Wednesday .
There will be tonnes more announced in the near future… stay tuned!


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We got spirit, yes we do!
Attention sports teams, cheer squads and local groups: We need you! School groups of all ages and community, church or civic groups are invited to compete in the Eugene Marathon Spirit Competition! Spirit groups line the course ready to encourage participants every step of the way. Costumes and themes are optional, smiles and enthusiasm are required. Groups participating not only support our runner's amazing efforts, but are also cheering to earn money for their team! Groups could win prizes from $100 – $1000! Plus all teams receive Voodoo Doughnuts coupons just for participating!
If interested, sign up ASAP to reserve your spot along the course. Locations are selected on a first come, first serve basis. The 2019 application will open in January 2019. If you have questions, please email Justin at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Spirit Competition Guidelines
- Teams are required to be at their designated location ready to cheer prior to the start time provided by the Eugene Marathon Coordinator.
- Participants must provide their own transportation to the race site.
- Participants are responsible for their own water and snacks.
- An adult must be present at the competition site at all times.
- Any participant or spectator displaying non-sportsman like behavior before, during or after the competition may cause the team to be disqualified.
- Teams are encouraged to pick a theme for their cheer stations and dress in costumes!
- All teams will be judged on their overall spirit and creativity. BE CREATIVE! You can use sidewalk chalk (where appropriate), banners/signs, pom poms, glitter, music, etc. Wear crazy costumes, bring plastic guitars, paint your faces…
- Judges will be scattered throughout the race. We have designated runners who will be judging each team. We will announce the winners the week following the event.


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This is the second part of a series of articles that will bring to your attention some noteworthy mods for Half Life 2. Last week, we introduced you to Minerva Metastasis-- a well crafted single player mod based in the Half Life 2 universe. In an effort to keep things fresh and diverse, we thought of featuring a total conversion for HL2 called Curse: Episode 1.
Curse: Episode 1 (Hell Awaits) [Download ]
Action, Puzzle, Platforming
Total Conversion
[Note: You need Steam client, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Source SDK installed (and playable) to play this mod]
As we fired up Curse: EP1, the first thing it reminded us of was Raven Software's classic Hexen: Beyond Heretic—your hands glowing with a blue aura that fires magic at a press of a button. However, as you delve further into this game world, the similarities start to fade away. While Hexen has a gothic theme reminiscent of D&D games, game-play in Curse takes place inside an Egyptian pyramid.
This mod likes to keep action to a minimum, while emphasizing on exploration, puzzles and platforming. As a result, weapons in the game are kept at a bare minimum of two. With the left click of the mouse, the player's hand sends out a burst of telekinetic force that can push objects with great force. This ability can be used to clear obstacles, push hard to reach switches and it can even be used in combat to hurl objects at your enemies. Speaking of which, enemies in Curse are mummies with variation in attack type (melee, archers, etc). While combat is not all that challenging, there are instances when you will find yourself surrounded by your embalmed foes. In such a situation, pushing the right mouse button conjures up a magical Morningstar that floats in mid-air. This weapon causes high amount of damage and hence, it is perfect quickly thinning a group of mummies.
There are only a couple of pick-up in this mod and they come in the form of colored vials—the red vial adds to your defense, while the blue vial restores lost health.
The levels in this mod are a series of interconnected chambers where certain areas are inaccessible behind magically sealed doors. As you can imagine, the main objective of the game is to unlock these areas by solving puzzles, fighting mummies and negotiating through deadly traps. Now this is where the Curse can get a tad confusing—the way the puzzles are designed, you will sometimes encounter locked doors that have switches at the far end of the level. So there is a quite a bit of back-tracking, and absence of a map means that it is quite likely that you will sometimes feel lost. However, this should not be a major hurdle for those that have a good sense of direction and memory.
The world of Curse is well crafted and visually it can hold its own against any other commercial venture. With high quality textures and anti-aliasing, the game world looks so good that you may actually feel sorry when you have to destroy objects. The designers have also used lighting and ambient sounds to effectively build up an eerie atmosphere.
Since Curse is meant to be Episodic, the first episode (titled Hell Awaits) is designed to run for about 30- 70 minutes. If you are looking for a mod with a lot of action, you will be sorely disappointed with Curse. However, if you want to take a break from relentless action of a typical shooter, Curse offers briskly paced game-play that will test your intellect more than your reflexes.


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Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 - March 18, 1980), born Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter.
Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was a Polish lawyer, her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the middle child with two siblings. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced and Maria went to live with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. Petersberg, Russia. (From Wikipedia)


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So, I needed to change up the mantle - little Easter chicks couldn't stay there forever.
Monday, 30 April 2012
a beach junk mantle
So, I needed to change up the mantle - little Easter chicks couldn't stay there forever.
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Love it! I love how you used the rusty frame and the cloches to accent the shells and driftwood. So beautiful.ReplyDelete
Fiona this is lovely. It's amazing how you were able to incorporate so many different textures! Luv the beach theme.ReplyDelete
I'm glad someone else still hadn't cleared away the Easter stuff! I'll be stealing your idea of shells under the cloche. ~ MaureenReplyDelete
I like your cloches better than my little squatty cheese domes.ReplyDelete
Very nice! Love how you got the seaweed to cooperate with you. Looks great!ReplyDelete
so pretty, fiona! love the earthy, beachy feel:) the rust is awesome!ReplyDelete
How super cute is that!? I love it! Bring on the beach junk!!!!ReplyDelete
I love your junky Beach Mantel, oh I would love to live by the Beach! It's amazing how well rust and seaweed go together! Just Beautiful!ReplyDelete
Wonderful summer theme made out of beach junk!ReplyDelete
Love all that beach junk, I'm super jealous! Have a fabulous day!ReplyDelete
Very inspiring! Everything looks perfect together!ReplyDelete
LOVE the beachy mantel!! How do you get the seaweed to dry looking so 'fluffy'??? ~LoriReplyDelete
I love the rustic natural look of your mantle. It looks great!ReplyDelete
I'm just a little bit jealous of your easy access to driftwood. This mantle collection is gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Lovely textures, shapes, and arrangement of uniform colours. LOVE the shells!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful week!
It's always a pleasure to receive your comments. I really enjoy reading them, and a huge thank you if you are following as well !


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For the cupcakes: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Use a 24 socket cupcake pan and line with paper liners. Set the pan aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs and liqueur until blended, and set aside.
In a large bowl of an electric stand mixer on low speed, gently combine the flour, granulated sugar, hazelnut meal, baking powder, baking soda and salt until blended. Add the butter and sour cream and beat on low speed until the dry ingredients are moistened.
Increase the speed to medium and beat for 2 1/2 minutes, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally. In three separate additions, add the egg mixture to the batter, beating for 30 seconds after each addition. Divide the batter evenly into the prepared cupcake liners and bake on the center rack until a cake tester inserted into the center of each cake comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans for 10 minutes. Remove from the pans and cool the cakes completely on wire racks, about 30 minutes.
For the torrone filling: Mix together the butter and powdered sugar with the paddle attachment in an electric mixer. Once thoroughly combined, add the torrone paste. Continue to mix until evenly distributed.
For the chocolate hazelnut fudge: In a food processor, place the powdered sugar, cocoa and salt. Blend to remove any lumps. Add in the butter and blend until smooth. Add the corn syrup. Process just until combined, and then scrape down the sides. Pulse. Add the chocolate hazelnut spread, and then pulse until completely combined, smooth and creamy.
To assemble: Core each cupcake, and then fill with the torrone filling. Using a round tip and pastry bag, ice each cupcake with chocolate hazelnut fudge, creating a swirl on top.
This recipe was created by a contestant during a cooking competition. It has not been tested for home use.
Recipe courtesy of Julia San Bartolome, Sweet Arleen's, Westlake Village, CA


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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Weaponized Computation
Once upon a time
I had an early gift for mathematics and understanding three-dimensional form. When I was 16 or so, I helped my dad understand and then solve specific problems in spherical trigonometry. It eventually became clear to me that I was helping him verify circuitry specifically designed for suborbital mechanics: inertial guidance around the earth. Later I found out in those years he was working on the Poseidon SLBM for Lockheed, so, without completely understanding it, I was actually working on weaponized computation.
This is the period of my life where I learned about the geoid: the specific shape of the earth, largely an oblate ellipsoid. The exact shape depends upon gravitation, and thus mass concentrations (mascons). Lately the gravitational envelope of the moon caused by mascons has been an issue for the Lunar Orbiters.
this amazing article that details the first 25 years or so of the supercomputing initiatives at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Throughout our computing history, computation has been harnessed to aid our defense by helping us create ever more powerful weapons. During the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, Stanley Frankel and Eldred Nelson organized the T5 hand-computing group, a calculator farm populated with Marchant, Friden, and Monroe calculators and the wives of the physicists entering data on them. This group was arranged into an array to provide one of the first parallel computation designs, using Frankel's elegant breakdown of the computation into simpler, more robust calculations. Richard Feynman, a future Nobel prize winner, actually learned to fix the mechanical calculators so the computation could go on unabated by the huge time-sync of having to send them back to the factory for repair.
I was fortunate enough to be able to talk with Feynman when I was at Caltech, and we discussed group T-5, quantum theory, and how my old friend Derrick Lehmer was blacklisted for having a Russian wife. He told me that Stanley Frankel was also blacklisted. Also, I found 20-digit Friden calculators particularly useful for my computational purposes when I was a junior in High School.
The hunger for computation continued when Edward Teller began his work on the Super, a bomb organized around thermonuclear fusion. This lead John von Neumann, when he became aware of the ENIAC project, to suggest that the complex computations required to properly understand thermonuclear fusion could be carried out on one of the world's first electronic computers.
In the history of warfare, codebreaking has proven itself to be of primary strategic importance. It turns out that this problem is perfectly suited to solution using computers.
One of the most important first steps in this area was taken at Bletchley Park in Britain during World War II. There, in 1939, Alan Turing constructed the Bombe. This was an early electromechanical computer and it was specifically designed to break the cipher and daily settings used in the German Enigma machine.
This effort required huge amounts of work and resulted in the discovery of several key strategic bits of information that turned the tide of the war against the Nazis.
The mathematical analysis of codes and encoded information is actually the science of decryption. The work on this is never-ending. At the National Security Agency's Multiprogram Research Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, hundreds of scientists and mathematicians work to construct faster and faster computers for cryptanalytic analysis. And of course there are other special projects.
That seems like it would be an interesting place to work. Except there's no sign on the door. Well, this is to be expected since security is literally their middle name!
And the NSA's passion for modeling people has recently been highlighted by Edward Snowden's leaks of a slide set concerning the NSA's metadata-colecting priorities. And those slides could look so much better!
In the modern day, hackers have become a huge problem for national and corporate security. This is partly because, recently, many advances in password cracking have occurred.
The first and most important advance was when RockYou.com was hacked with an SQL injection attack and 32 million (14.3 million unique) passwords were posted online. With a corpus like this, password crackers suddenly were able to substantially hone their playbooks to target the keyspaces that contain the most likely passwords.
A keyspace can be something like "a series of up to 8 digits" or "a word of up to seven characters in length followed by some digits" or even "a capitalized word from the dictionary with stylish letter substitutions". It was surprising how many of the RockYou password list could be compressed into keyspaces that restricted the search space considerably. And that made it possible to crack passwords much faster.
Popular fads like the stylish substitution of "i" by "1" or "e" by "3" were revealed to be exceptionally common.
Another advance in password cracking comes because passwords are usually not sent in plaintext form. Instead, a hashing function is used to obfuscate them. Perhaps they are only stored in hashed form. So, in 1980 a clever computer security professor named Martin Hellman published a technique that vastly sped up the process of password cracking. All you need to do is keep a table of the hash codes around for a keyspace. Then, when you get the hash code, you just look it up in the table.
But the advent of super-fast computers means that it is possible to compute billions of cryptographic hashes per second, allowing the password cracker to iterate through an entire keyspace in minutes to hours.
This is enabled by the original design of the hashing functions, like SHA, DES, and MD5, all commonly used hashing functions. They were all designed to be exceptionally efficient (and therefore quick) to compute.
So password crackers have written GPU-enabled parallel computation of the hashing functions. These run on exceptionally fast GPUs like the AMD Radeon series and the nVidia Tesla series.
To combat these, companies have started sending their passwords through thousands of iterations of the hashing function, which dramatically increases the time required to crack passwords. But really this only means that more computation is required to crack them.
The Internet
Many attacks on internet infrastructure and on targeted sites depend upon massively parallel capabilities. In particular, hackers often use Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks to bring down perceived opponents. Hackers often use an array of thousands of computers, called a botnet, to access a web site simultaneously, overloading the site's capabilities.
Distributed computing is an emerging technology that depends directly on the Internet. Various problems can be split into clean pieces and solved by independent computation. These include peaceful projects such as the spatial analysis of the shape of proteins (folding@home), the search for direct gravitational wave emissions from spinning neutron stars (Einstein@home), the analysis of radio telescope data for extraterrestrial signals (SETI@home), and the search for ever larger Mersenne prime numbers (GIMPS).
But not only have hackers been using distributed computing for attacks, they have also been using the capability for password cracking. Distributed computing is well suited to cryptanalysis also.
Exascale weapons
Recently it has been discussed that high-performance computing has become a strategic weapon. This is not surprising at all given how much computing gets devoted to the task of password cracking. Now the speculation is, with China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer, that weaponized computing is poised to move up to the exascale. The Tianhe-2 supercomputer is capable of 33.86 petaflops, less than a factor of 30 from the exascale. Most believe that exascale computing will arrive around 2018.
High-performance computing (HPC) has continually been used for weapons research. A high percentage of the most powerful supercomputers over the past decade are to be found at Livermore, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge.
Whereas HPC has traditionally been aimed at floating-point operations (where real numbers are modeled and used for the bulk of the computation) the focus of password cracking is integer operations. For this reason, GPUs are typically preferred because modern general-purpose GPUs are capable of integer operations and they are massively parallel. The AMD 7990, for instance, has 4096 shaders. A shader is a scalar arithmetic unit that can be programmed to perform a variety of integer or floating-point operations. Because a GPU comes on a single card, this represents an incredibly dense ability to compute. The AMD 7990 achieves 7.78 teraflops but uses 135W of power.
So it's not out of the question to amass a system with thousands of GPUs to achieve exascale computing capability.
I feel it is ironic that China has built their fastest computer using Intel Xeon Phi processors. With 6 cores in each, the Xeon Phi packs about 1.2 teraflops of compute power per chip! And it is a lower power product than other Xeon processors, at about 4.25 gigaflops/watt. The AMD Radeon 7990, on the other hand, has been measured at 20.75 gigaflops/watt. This is because shaders are much scaled down from a full CPU.
What is the purpose?
Taking a step back, I think a few questions should be asked about computation in general. What should computation be used for? Why does it exist? Why did we invent it?
If you stand back and think about it, computation has only one purpose. This is to extend human capabilities; it allows us to do things we could not do before. It stands right next to other machines and artifices of mankind. Cars were developed to provide personal transportation, to allow us to go places quicker than we could go using our own two feet. Looms were invented so we could make cloth much faster and more efficiently than using a hand process, like knitting. Telescopes were invented so we could see farther than we could with our own two eyes.
Similarly, computation exists so we can extend the capabilities of our own brains. Working out a problem with pencil and paper can only go so far. When the problems get large, then we need help. We needed help when it came to cracking the Enigma cipher. We needed help when it came to computing the cross-section of Uranium. Computation was instantly weaponized as a product of necessity and the requirements of survival. But defense somehow crossed over into offensive capabilities.
With the Enigma, we were behind and trying to catch up. With the A-bomb, we were trying to get there before they did. Do our motivations always have to be about survival?
And where is it leading?
It's good that computation has come out from under the veil of weapons research. But the ramifications for society are huge. Since the mobile revolution, we solve problems that can occur to any of us in real life, and build an app for it. So computation continues to extend our capabilities in a way that fulfills some need. Computation has become commonplace and workaday.
When I see a kid learn to multiply by memorizing a table of products, I begin to wonder whether these capabilities are really needed, given the ubiquity of computation we can hold in our hands. Many things taught in school seem useless, like cursive writing. Why memorize historical dates when we can just look it up in Wikipedia? It's better to learn why something happened then when.
More and more, I feel that we should be teaching kids how to access and understand the knowledge that is always at their fingertips. And when so much of their lives is spent looking at an iPad, I feel that kids should be taught social interaction and be given more time to play, exercising their bodies.
It is because knowledge is so easy to access that teaching priorities must change. There should be more emphasis on the understanding of basic concepts and less emphasis on memorization. In the future, much of our memories and histories are going to be kept in the cloud.
Fundamentally, it becomes increasingly important to teach creativity. Because access to knowledge is not enough. We must also learn what to do with the knowledge and how to make advancements. The best advancements are made by standing on the shoulders of others. But without understanding how things interrelate, without basic reasoning skills, the access to knowledge is pointless.
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Hi Mark, been a while since I commented, and I recently created my own blog. I remember we discussed Kurzweil's technological singularity in past comments on your blog. Taleb's Antifragility math and my explanation of simulated annealing seem to refute Kurzweil's theory:ReplyDelete
The informational theme is relevant to this blog article on computation and also timely with the information revolution I see just ahead, e.g. 3D printing. I have refined my unified theory of the universe tying in the concepts of information theory. The matter as continuum concept may have ramifications on quantum computing.
Criticism is welcome as it is still a work in progress.
Hope your health management is optimistic. My health had significantly improved in May and June but relapsed in July. I have the sensation in my head that I may have a tumor, but perhaps it is the neuropathy. I'm afraid to go in for an MRI, and preferring to focus on some short-term accomplishments while trying to increase my exercise and antioxidants. I think I am resigned to overdose of sleeping pills if ever my condition becomes too debilitating or painful.Replies
I tend to agree that knowledge creation is the product of the accretion of knowledge and the result of random processes of cross-association. The realization of the cross-applicability of one concept into another field is exactly one of the methods that has served me well over the years.Delete
Top-down knowledge creation is at best an academic exercise in knowledge tabulation. A corollary to this in the Internet era, is manifest in the need for different methods of education that are less dependent upon memorization and more dependent upon understanding knowledge frameworks and the basic structure of things. And, of course understanding *how* to access information. But let's look at a simple example. Though I am obviously a proponent of guesstimation and the innate ability to calculate, I cannot help but wonder exactly how relevant the teaching of a multiplication table actually is, when smartphones are ubiquitous and can help us calculate. Computers are, by their very nature, machines that extend our capabilities.
To build computers that can think like we do is an incredibly complex task. There is a *lot* more to human brains than fast parallel pattern matching. So I would tend to agree that Kurzweil is wrong in his prediction. But the relentless doggedness of human enterprise and problem-solving suggests that we will keep on trying to simulate the human brain. And achieve a better fit for cognitive computation in steps. Perhaps each idea takes us one step closer to that goal.
Significant problems in cognition still exist and challenge us. Even the massive increase in compute power, to the exascale, hasn't helped our modeling of cognition, though. Straight compute power won't help on it's own. The illusion that it will is the typical flaw of the Heinleins and Asimovs of the world. What if human though is simply ill-fitted to a GPU? We do have a good sense that human thought must be extremely parallel.
It's hard to imagine that we will tackle cognition-on-computer when a computer still can't understand the average bit of text or even do translation properly.
It's amusing that you would focus on 3D printing. Clearly a revolution is afoot there. Miniaturize it and pretty soon you're making reality. But in this vision of progressing from 3D printing to reality, there is the troubling problem in moving downscale to the nanotech level. It is encouraging (unless you're Bill Joy, who seems to believe that nanotech will end us) that we are making excellent progress with MEMS technology.
Take care of yourself. If you do have a tumor it's better to know. I have personal knowledge of people who took alternative paths (from the conventional medicine approach) and wound up regretting it before dying. Sadly, I also have personal knowledge of people who took the conventional medicine approach and the cure simply killed them. But there are fewer of these.
Taleb's one sentence reply was he understands the point about probing opaque systems. Reminds me of Tom Hedges' one sentence directives :) I assume Taleb meant that in order for knowledge creation to be antifragile, it must be opaque from the top-down. His math and charts quantify this effect:Delete
Even if computers can duplicate our cognition, my reasoning is they won't be able to outpace the collective creation of knowledge because it is inherently a chaotic fitness, opaque process thus that can't be accelerated from the top-down. Someone with 200 IQ couldn't optimize the daily decisions for 6 billion people. Nature is distributed for anti-fragility. In terms of my theory of the universe, there are infinite frequencies thus even a 200 IQ mind can't compute all the individual futures.
We can gain from top-down organization of systems, yet if they become too large their myopia and rigidity is a fragility risk. For example, closed source is much more efficient for highly creative production on local scale such as for GUIs where open source stumbles. Closed to open source is the gradient between what a focused individual or small group can see clearly and what the large group can anneal more optimally over the long-term with more chaotic fitness.
I believe edumacation (hehe) will move away from top-down instructed to aided (roaming teachers in a computer lab perhaps or an online accessible teacher) self-directed autodidactism employing a computer. When new economy jobs proliferate (robotics, nanotech, informational manufacturing, etc), the top-down education system will be seen as insufficient by the youth. Some youth already find the education system to be irrelevant for other reasons, but I wonder how they might be stimulated by exploring self-directed knowledge:
The current 20-somethings have racked up the largest college debts ever predominantly on degrees that have not prepared them for the new economy that comes after the 2016 implosion of the global socialism sovereign debt bubble. Tangentially, I'm now more certain of this timing, due to understanding from Martin Armstrong that the current "deadcat" bounce in the USA economy is due to international capital inflows from Europeans and Chinese escaping the collapse or stagnation of their economies. As capital flows, speculators follow to form a speculative bubble. Most of the new jobs have been $13/hr in leisure, or $24/hr in socialized healthcare. Ultimately Obamacare will be about rationing (e.g. in the UK elderly go thirsty in nursing homes), as this is how socialism always dies due to a lack of funding or resources (c.f. Nazi Germany). The 30 year declining interest rate bubble has bottomed and now potential home buyers rush to lockin a mortgage thus furthering the bounce of the economy, but high interest rates will kill the global economy and shakeout the top-down socialism inefficiencies. Asia will be #1 (overall economy) as we come out of the ashes, because it has the lowest socialism spending (lowest government share of GDP averaging less than 25% including China versus 50+% for developed world). I believe the USA hitech sector will still be #1.
Not that I am against caring for people, it is just it has to paid for, so I would favor a more antifragile local funding where the community can better match its revenue to spending (variance of affluence of communities). Local governments can sell bonds, but they can't print money so after the muni defaults circa 2017, investors will be much more wary about buttering them with money. Also interest rates will be much higher thus limiting servicing the loan from Peter by borrowing more from Paul.
Do you know of any format and application that allows recording educational videos as objects on a timeline, so it is possible to edit the video socially? Think of open sourcing the videos on youtube. If not, this is one of the applications I plan to write once I get my new computer language operational.
I thought you might be interested in my work-in-progress thoughts about the universe, because you've written much about tranforms into the frequency domain and I'm proposing to view the universe as emerging from that domain to the time domain, which raises the implication that any finite spacetime period can't be 100% independent. Thus it can perhaps explain entanglement as a frequency domain effect.Delete
Yeah we really need to 3D print at nanoscale to be able to get for example the strength and smoothness of machined steel. Or more broadly as you put it, to create reality from Planck's scale up.
I am eager to finish my computer language and start coding in it. I think this coming revolution requires a step from C/C++/C#/Java/ObjectiveC that is long overdue if we look at the evolution of languages every decade or so.
Thanks for your concern. Yeah compare the outcomes of Lance Armstrong and Steve Jobs. I'm conflicted whether to maximize the quality time I have now or rushing into potentially debilitating operations and drugs. I am still able to be athletic at times in spite of head and body aches. And May/June I was pain-free and my athleticism was returning. My life is currently not well structured financially (e.g. no health insurance) and socially for returning to the USA (haven't been there since 2006). I suppose I can place higher odds on it just being neuropathy (which is incurable any way unless they can cure the cause and sometimes it goes into remission), yet I know the likely cause is high number strain HPV is carcinogenic within 5 - 10 years from the 2006 infection. I read they can't even test for these high strains especially in males. I am going to finish up on some work projects, then probably access modern medicine in a developed country. Interim I'm increasing athleticism as much as tolerable and increasing antioxidants and iodine (Kelp). CoQ10 is awesome for instant energy and regeneration on the outside of the cell. Recently started Bilberry + Lutein for my eyes. Too early to draw correlations since there are so many variables and changes, but seemed to cause some powerful effects, not all of which were initially positive. Btw, bloodtest in November 2012 said my viral load (lymphocytes) was too high but tested negative for typical STDs including Syphilis. Did show I had dengue in the past, but was never hospitalized for it. I had never in my life been heavier than 166 lbs and typically had difficulty maintaining above 160 lbs, yet now I am 181 lbs (a lot of muscle but also fat belly).
With reference to the fragility of knowledge creation: Invention is not as fragile as one might think (and it depends upon creativity, I would assert). Once something is demonstrated, then it doesn't really take all that long for someone else to accomplish the same thing, regardless of whether or not they know how it was done. This is because human brains are unique and each person seeks out a slightly different path to the goal. And it also is because they *know* it has been done.Delete
Dogged pursuit always reaches the goal. Remember Edison and his quest for a robust light bulb filament. He tried thousands of materials. Eventually he arrived at carbon fiber. He wasn't pursuing something that had been demonstrated, but it does illustrate that point. This is corroborated in Taleb's "Tinkering Bottom-Up, Broad Design" slide.
Bottom-up vs. top-down systems are akin to matrix management vs. a command-reporting structure. Results come much faster and with greater quality when they are organized right. Matrix-managed processes are simply less fragile. Microsoft's recent reorg is an example of following Apple on this score. But reorgs can be as traumatic as mergers.
Editable YouTube courseware? With a little organization it could work. Open Source is not very well organized. There is no replacement for cross-pollenation of ideas and direct discussion. If you want to make something happen, you can write the code but you won't generate the users. It takes organization, a plan, etc.
I am pleased that you are onto the concept of creativity as a quantifiable process. This is in tune with my thinking, of course.
Watch your health. If you have a tumor, you must look after it. Blueberries are an excellent antioxidant. Ginger is also good, but the blood-thinning agents are not. Try Zinaxin.
By open source in the context of video courseware, I mean the highest-level of the content isn't discarded by the lossy video file format, e.g. storing text as ASCII instead of pixels. Or in Painter-speak, don't flatten the layers.Delete
My plans for open source means lowering costs and increasing speed-to-market by sharing non-proprietary *MODULES* that cross-pollinate orthogonal software. In theory, modularity mitigates some of the cross-organization requirement. Theory and practice can diverge though. Programmers need to be paid for sharing modules.
We build proprietary technology and markets on top of the shared core, e.g. we build on top of the OS.
Discovered white tongue (possibly candida which might explain the difficulty swallowing), yet another sign that my immune system is overstressed.
I need focus in on it soon and with these sort of experts in the developed countries. Reading the following gives me encouragement to seek out experts:
Invention is not fragile, because invention requires bottom-up. A single top-down superior brain would see invention as opaque because omniscience can't exist because computational power is not the only factor in creativity. Rather creativity is part serendipity because it is chaotic fitness to a dynamic world that has an increasing entropy. To be omniscient, you would have to be the entire world. This ties into my statement near the end of my universal theory, where I claim that an infinite speed-of-light would collapse reality to an infinitesimal point in spacetime, because future and past would be the same. We need friction in time, else nothing can exist. Omniscience is the antithesis of existential.Delete
Our discussion caused me to add the following to my blog article.Delete
"The knowledge creation process is opaque to a single top-down perspective of the universe because to be omniscient would require that the transmission of change in the universe would propagate instantly to the top-down observer, i.e. the speed-of-light would need to be infinite. But an infinite speed-of-light would collapse past and future into an infinitesimal point in spacetime— omniscient is the antithesis of existential. In order for anything to exist in the universe, there must be friction-in-time so change must propagate through resistance to change— mass. The non-uniform mass distribution of the universe is mutually causal with oscillation, which is why the universe emerges from the frequency domain. Uniform distribution of mass would be no contrast and nothing would exist. Taleb's antifragility can be conceptualized as lack of breaking resistance to variance."
Code: so much is developed by people who just wish to have total control. But the opposite side of that coin is that it's so much easier to write when so many modules are already written: libraries. This is why libraries exist, and to me they are sometimes called APIs.Delete
When developing, we modularize also, and this can result in multiple levels of PIs.
So many people believe that all information should be free and available, no matter the subject. And it's the idealistic pie-in-the-sky of the coders who wish they could develop something. But that's off-subject.
Let's see why pure development focus can't solve the application problem.
Development is hard, and requires thought. Real work. And, as mentioned above and so many times before, it requires incremental improvement that takes a huge amount of work and thought that integrates over time into a finished product.
But what many developers don't realize until too late is that the *users* actually make the product (here "make" does not mean "write", of course). The real refinement comes in the churning, turbulent waters of actual use and bug reporting. That's what you need to institutionalize: the beta cycles.
Without it, coding is just, well, coding. Coding doesn't develop into products without the users.
The ecosystem of coding by itself is really something that will continue to change until we understand the real process of development, the entire cycle. I learned early that pure intelligence-driven coding is really just spinning wheels. When we build products for ourselves, their application to the real world is incredibly limited.
Because omniscience is not scaleable. It's really an urban legend. Nothing can exist in and of itself when it comes to development. Usefulness is shared and something the rest of the users contribute to the developer, in a sense. To put it in modern terms, the understanding and applicability to workflow is crowdsourced.
That being said, helping people code is an art, a worthy pursuit. But it can get sticky when developers that believe their hard work is worth something. And when ideas are assignable to larger corporations via patents it can get even more sticky.
The most amazing thing is that the users don't get their share. Some users contribute to understanding workflow and usability more than others. I know because I used to hire them. This is why your system needs to incorporate the beta cycle in its remuneration model.
Resistance to change: when an application gets used by enough users, then there can be a real problem when the UIs and the workflow changes. Photoshop has consistently made this mistake. Eventually a system must fail because it becomes too large to change. Like Windows.Delete
BTW did you see that $900M charge M'soft had to write off because of excess inventory of the "Surface with Windows RT"? That's called consumer-market failure. Now they had better shore up their enterprise or the long slide down is going to be a LOT faster.
BYOD, Google apps, even Apple's own iWork are putting pressure on their enterprise division. But even worse, the mobile revolution is going to be the wooden stake in their heart if they don't watch out. The prices of office units will come down, thanks to the App Store and its egalitarian pricing. Scaleability has just ended for Microsoft. They're screwed.
I entirely concur with all your points. One of my key epiphanies (in theory) is the modules have to get smaller and finer grained so they become orthogonal to the increasing entropy of the users. This requires category theory and pure functions. That is why I am creating a new language. I think I finally settled on the grammar. And the category theory aspect is playing well with the fold comprehension (FROM expr DO expr IN expr) that makes it programmer friendly.Delete
Functors appear to be your answer to C++ templates. I always thought templates were kind of ugly, really. But I understand the necessity. Still, mapping one type into another is actually kind of tricky. Even something simple, like mapping integers into floats has it's problems.Delete
The best use of this capability I have found is in the use of hoppers. Hoppers are a data structure for maintaining the "n" best items when doing a search. Here the word "item" means an abstracted object (perhaps candidates for the solution to some sub-problem). And the operation "best" can vary quite significantly, and there can be several "best" measures even for only one class of "item".
So a hopper is like a bag with some measure of bestness and also no need to keep them all around. Usually a hopper doesn't need to keep a large number of items. Meaning it's implementation is exceedingly simple. And usually doesn't need to be more than an insertion sort.
Hoppers appear to be a fuzzy-logic approach to abstraction?Delete
Category theory identifies mappings (morphisms) between types (objects of the category) that obey some rules that define a category (homomorphism, etc). For example, monoid abstracts any type that has a 0 (identity) point and an inductive structure, e.g. integers start at 0 and the append operation is to add 1. The identity point of a list (singly-linked queue) is the empty collection, and the prepend operation is to insert the item (of type T) at head and set tail = preexisting head. Note integers are not type parameterized, but lists are, e.g. List<T> (a.k.a. List[T]) where T is the type of the items in the collection. Monoid abstracts and modularizes this category of types. Functor and Applicative are categories that abstract parameterized types, allowing the functions that operate on unparameterized types to automatically (no boilerplate) operate on parameterized types. This sounds like a trivial accomplishment, but I explained it eliminates boilerplate and more saliently prevents a combinatorial explosion of overloaded operators. Even more saliently, this is about higher-kinded modularity. Note the 'Sub' in the linked code examples in my prior post is really a higher-kinded type. I made a summary post. I read that C++ templates can do higher-kinded typing, but it is apparently very convoluted.
The named tuple as a category. Some relevant comments about the Rule of Least Power. Also note that fuzzy logic type or dynamic typing (a.k.a. unityping) requires exceptions, which kill concurrency, composition, determinacy. Local state kills concurrency, composition, and determinancy. Lack of typing kills the category.
I am talking about completely changing the way we write APIs for GUIs for example. With pure functions (eliminating local state...try to compose code that sets callbacks), we don't call a function to set an event callback. We invert the logic, and the event is passed into a pure function which returns the state of the GUI based on the inputs.
Back to your point about inertia, I am visualizing (even users, e.g. a corporation or a group of hackers) being able to bolt different UIs and functionality onto to apps. The boundary between the app and the modules will become blurred. I want to turn up the pressure you allude to by orders-of-magnitude.Delete
Also the discipline of pure functions and category theory increases security, c.f. Joe-E.
Hoppers are necessary in heuristic algorithms. They can be used to quickly screen data before performing a more time-consuming examination of candidates.Delete
I understand your concept of pure functions. I often use them in event handling myself. And this does cut down on code. But does having the minimum amount of code actually result in the easiest code to maintain? Opacity (from the point of view of a programmer trying to figure something out) is not necessarily a function of writing the minimum amount of code, I would assert.
I do have a little angel on my shoulder that often tells me that I should common-up two similar bits of code. But this sometimes results in issues clouding later understanding. Pure orthogonality was the goal, but opacity to inspection might easily be the result.
Security in the sense that: the less code there is, the easier it will be to prove it correct. This seems reasonable. But when straightforward code is expressed in an unnecessarily orthogonal manner, the number of interactions goes up exponentially.
Rather than reply in theory, I will get back with you when I have some code bases in this new paradigm and can report some real world experience. You may be correct, but I am putting considerable effort into attempting to achieve both increased orthogonality and greater clarity of high-level semantics. Category theory was one of the key insights (while avoiding what makes Haskell obtuse), as well as the new way of thinking about for "for comprehension". I have done a little bit of thinking about using continuations for high-level clarity when inverting the event logic.Delete
Some more reasons for increased security in this paradigm (anything the programmer can do accidentally is a potential security hole):
1. Pure functions can't create (obscured) local state.
2. Foldable can't buffer overrun.
3. Category theory laws constrain the logic of the category.
The following blog post shows that Microsoft's chart pattern is going into terminal decline to concur with what you are seeing from the technical and largess inertia perspective:Delete
When he says "when cycle goes up", he is referring to the influx of capital rushing into the dollar and USA now, which will end 2015.75. His Pi model (3141 days ≈ 8.6 yrs x 3.14 ≈ 26 yrs x 3.14 ≈ 78 yrs x 3.14 ≈ 224 yrs) has never been wrong since 1987. Those cycles have predicted all major events in history.
This isn't nonsense. I've studied this model. I will blog about it later when I have time.
Charts do not explain Microsoft's issues. They have to do with the disruption of the PC base with a mobile non-Intel base, and the burning desire for Microsoft to achieve Apple-like profits.ReplyDelete
Their reorg, as traumatic as a merger, is being done simply to put Microsoft into a functional organization like Apple. So people can work on both desktop and gadgets within the same division, rather than competing. This is like module theory. Don't duplicate effort.
Their really big problem is this: they were structured as a software monopoly, and so they could afford to book their revenues based on sell-in to the channel. It was really hubris, and not a suggested approach, if you listen to the FASB. It allowed them the sheer glee of booking revenues which corresponded to shipping holographic stickers while posting nearly pure profit.
But the fate of Windows Vista and Windows 8 should have turned their hubris around.
Instead they posted unrealistically large quarters, forestalling the effects of the post-PC contraction.
This singular error led them to ship millions of Surface RT units into the channel. The $900M charge they wrote off in the most recent quarter is simply the difference in value of those units after dropping their price.
They should have perfected their products and ecosystem before attempting to compete. They should have hired better designers.
Perhaps they should rebrand the Surface RT as the Xpad, more in line with their successful Xbox. Windows means less and less to the consumer these days.
Microsoft's stock price chart pattern peaked circa 1998-9 after an exponential ramp. Microsoft is dying for one main reason-- the internet arrived. The internet (and the open source movement that created it) broke the chains of Microsoft's monopoly in numerous facets. You are describing the inertia that Microsoft attained from being nurtured by a monopoly. The chart pattern reflects this disruption.ReplyDelete
The Cathedral and the Bazaar (open source bible) was published in 1999, by the same open source guy who (and culture which) helped to create the internet in numerous ways.
Eminent Domains: The First Time I Changed History
World Without Web
A world without "ESR"
Apple is also being disrupted by the same open source phenomenon, because Apple's model is too exclusive and margin focused. Today I noticed the Samsung 5.8 i9152 dual-simm, 5.8" screen for $450 retail in the Philippines. Four times faster CPU, 3x more memory, 50% more screen, battery, and camera than the HTC Desire V I purchased one year ago at same price. Plus a front-facing camera. Dual-simm phones are very popular because prepaid model and 3 major carriers here. Apple has nothing for me. Users want big screens, because their smart phone is their main computing device. The tablet is waning, users want the flexible mobility of pocket-size.
If I achieve my goals, the language I am creating can help accelerate that the users get more dynamic choice than these top-down organizations can keep under their walled gardens.
Apple is a design company. You've appreciated their quality focus ever since I worked for you in 1993. But there is a bigger picture revolution going on.
I hope you get this paradigm shift and jump on it. The future is Asia (with its low levels of government spending and thus raw freedom, e.g. prepaid telcoms in Philippines), the billions, and openness. The West and shiny shrink-wrapped model are dying (along with socialism).
The $25 Rasberry Pi has sold 1.5 million units in less than a year. Runs Linux.
Any way, we probably have more to agree on when we stick with technological discussion.
I am extremely excited about the disruption underway. I hope I can live long enough to see the changes over the next decade or two.Replies
Asia: Hey, good luck with that.Delete
The surviving ecosystem will show who disrupts who. Some ramp-ups are unsustainable, as evidenced by China's manufacturing slowdown. You can only cannibalize things so far before it begins to cause loss of muscle mass. Then it will be billions of people in trouble.Delete
The same people who created open source were predicting ultrabooks would succeed, in the form of a dumb computer with everything else on the web. But, quite the opposite, apps have dominated user experience nonetheless, pointing to native code and requiring computers to get more and more powerful. The revolution is that it can move into tablets and handsets with touchscreens.
Cloud computing and cloud data is growing fast, but it still has a long way to go. Trust in cloud infrastructure will be hard to earn with todays hacking climate.
The good news is that people will still build native apps, and egalitarian app store ecosystems are supporting the small developer and lowering the barriers to success for all of us. This will make a huge market for any tools that rapidly speed up development on the dominant ecosystem. If you look at time spent using, how much money is spent on apps, internet usage, and developer profit, this dominant ecosystem is still iOS by far. I just can't imagine what all those Android users are doing with their phones. And they still come with shovelware!
We agree on many of the details, perhaps I have different perspective on the big picture.Delete
China's capital infrastructure and export mono-economy (coupled with the huge levels of debt that has sustained their imbalanced model) is imploding. But unlike the West, their debt and imbalances aren't an institutionalized unfunded liability to a huge demographic bubble of boomers who are near the end of their productive life. As China's *PRIVATE* sector (banks) imbalances (and state run enterprises that are Communist party corruption) implode they retain a working age population and very low levels of direct government spending as a percentage of GDP (true for all developing nations, sort the linked table by "Government Spending"). When the 2016 - 2020 global economic implosion (which will be much worse than 2008 and government+central banks won't be able to contain it) wipes out the unproductive fat globally, the West will retain a massive liability of unproductive old people and not enough productive youth to pay for it (due to ubiquitous use of birth control pills starting from teenage and a portion of the 40 million abortions globally per year). Thus the West can't easily reset and cast off socialism, instead it will be a battle of attrition and capital flight (to the developing world) to avoid predatory taxation. China has a demographic inflection point coming too nearer to 2030, but in theory they can soften the impact (since they have much lower level of institutionalized promises to the elderly) with bidirectional Asia migration with the rest (other than Japan and perhaps Thailand and S.Korea) of which doesn't have this demographic problem. The coming economic implosion is likely to break up (some of) the control of the Communist party and a huge pent up potential of China could lurch forward after 2020 or so. Japan is nearing the bottom of their 23.5 year decline (declines have a duration of 26 years in the Pi model) and are now devaluing their currency to reset their external value in the global economy to make them competitive again.
Although the Chinese are (currently) more copy cats than creative originators (Chinese babies apparently don't have the gag reflex thus the social conformance may be genetic[1]), I read their uptake of robotics is accelerating. The USA will remain the technological and creative leader (due to our cultural affinity for independence and origination) as quality not quantity matters amongst the youth for this, but will occur outside the increasingly stifled larger corporations (which have too much top-down inertia) which are targets for the government to strangle with taxes (see Apple mentioned in linked article) due to the huge liability of people in the USA who can't compete and contribute (young and old). So Asia has better population-wide growth economics (more freedom to adjust), although they won't be the pointed technological originators. Samsung didn't originate as much as they copied with increased freedom to do so, e.g. when they saw Apple's iPad, they realized they could readily put a bigger screen on a smartphone. Apple should release a big screen smartphone asap. I read they are studying it. In my estimation, they better just do it immediately.
[1] I can cite the research if requested. SE USA indians (I'm a few % Cherokee) migrated from Europe thus are not Asian.
Let me make a (n obvious) suggestion for Apple if they aren't already working on it. The future is seamless computing between the mobile smartphone or wearable, and the increased CPU, big screen and I/O devices of the desktop. Seamless *instantaneous* (we don't want to wait to quickly dock to perform some task stationary, e.g. at the airport lounge then mobile again when boarding is announced) docking requires hardware and s/w integration-- Apple's forte.Delete
But the problem is that public venues are going to want to invest in docking stations for the majority platform (which globally is Android at 71% versus 23% for iOS). Apple could formulate a strategy to retain high margins while also interopting. Google is headed this direction with the Chrome desktop OS. Openness is a like a good virus-- it forces openness.
The key guy of open source (Eric S. Raymond) that I linked to upthread has been predicting the above docking future, so it isn't accurate to claim that the open source movement was all about dumb X terminals. HTML5 was apparently seeded by Ian Hickson, Daniel Glazman (worked on XUL, XBL), and David Hyatt-- the latter two come from Apple (the prior two I have butted heads with in the past because I never believed HMTL was the solution for everything and I predicted more creative openness).
Android just passed iOS in web traffic. Android's demographics are less sophisticated (spend less on apps, and I think they probably install fewer apps too). A filipina in Hong Kong tells me recently to install Viber so she can call me for free, and she does spend on calling cards so in theory she would buy an app. Need and awareness of possibilities, along with income is rising in the developing world. So far most of these Android users in the developing world only need social networking and communication. But this is changing rapidly and Android will grow with that shift. Apple is minority represented. My anecdotal experience is that owning an iPhone is seen more as a status symbol in Asia.
I am hoping to make an impact on uptake of Android apps later this year as I enter the app market. I have some ideas for essential apps that many will download. For example, the standard phone book and message app for Android is lacking many features and even has big O problems (slows to molasses on my Desire V with 1000+ messages in the Inbox). Stay tuned... remember my Coolpage.com had a million users between 1998 and 2001 (confirmed 334,000 simultaneous websites by Altavista search and download.com reports 700,000+ cumulative downloads). Remember Jeff Stock (he and Lars from Treehouse consulted for Fractal briefly)? I paid him $30,000 in 2001 (when I was in eye surgeries) to code the Objects window in CoolPage (took him a week or so). He had a big O bug and I sent it back to him, and he didn't resolve it. I dug into the code and within an hour had changed one line of his code to fix the problem.
Big screens on smartphones are needed because if for no other reason many of us can't type on the small keys in portrait orientation on a 4" screen. I say make the screen as big as can still fit in a pocket. 5.5" to 6"? I need my smartphone to be portable, because for example it also serves as my music player in the gym (and I can communicate between barbel sets).Delete
I am estimating that Apple needs an Android+iOS docking station to preemptively prevent being locked out of the public docking station wave.
To give you an idea of how unsophisticated the developing market is, yet how fast it is developing, I tested a high school graduate 19 year old filipina on typing (for doing outsourcing) and she had 40 typos for 9000 words in my Flying Cars english language (with many words she doesn't know the meaning of) blog article. I told her to practice if she wants a job. But she is a reasonably fast typist and conversant with her Android, facebook, and other social networking apps. This girl is just a year or less from becoming more sophisticated. She had just quit a job working as a saleslady in Chinese goods store earning $2.50 per day for 14 hours. She could easily earn $10 per day taking random online oursourced typing jobs once she improves her error rate.
Back on this blog topic...ReplyDelete
Mark wrote:
"But there have been other fields that couldn't have advanced, where specific problems couldn't be solved, without the advances in computation."
For your readers, the Four Color Theorem I think was the first math proof that required computerization.
Interestingly this relates to dependent-typing in computer programming.


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10 Best Popcorn Maker Reviews
A popcorn maker is basically a kitchen appliance or machine used for heating of corn to prepare popcorn by just hot air or some bit of oil. They usually use electricity to heat the corn until they pop to become popcorn. With a popcorn maker, you have easier time and process in the making process. This article gives of the best popcorn maker reviews if you desire to have the best guaranteed quality popcorn.
1. Westbend 82306 Stir Crazy Electric Best Popcorn Maker
This popcorn maker made by Westbend that comes equipped with a motorized stirring rod which enables each corn to pop every time, such that the popcorn is ready in just 5 minutes. It requires just one tablespoon of oil per every quarter cup of corn.
– Produces excellent tasting popcorn
– Equipped with a coating that does not stick
– Heating of the popcorn is quick and effective, in just five minutes of your time
– The popcorn may have more moisture than normal
– If not well preserved, it may leak oil or not heat the corn to the required temperature
2. Cuisinart CPM 100 Easy pop Hot Air Popcorn Maker
This refers to a popcorn maker from Cuisinart that comes equipped with a popping chamber, where the popped corns or kernels go to. It uses hot air to pop the corn and does not use oil, where it can make up to 10 cups of popcorn.
– Makes sweet and healthy popcorns, where you do not need to add any oil.
– Designed in such a way that the ready popcorn can be sent directly to a waiting bowl, hence retaining the fresh and nice taste of popcorn.
– Easy to clean when finished with the making of the popcorn
– Not really quiet while making the popcorn
– Popcorn may pop by force and sometimes push the plastic dome up, hence, you need to be around when making popcorn with it.
3. Great Northern Popcorn Machine Retro style Popcorn Popper
This is a retro-style home popcorn maker that comes equipped with a removable tray as well as a kettle and a warming light that keeps the popcorn hot. It also comes equipped with a measuring spoon and cup.
– Makes popcorn with incredible sweet taste
– Makes enough popcorn for a family serving
– From a customer review, it is not as long lasting as it only lasted for a couple of weeks.
– Some corn/kernel will get stuck in the pot.
4. Nostalgia KPM508 Vintage Collection Kettle Popcorn Popper
This refers to a popcorn maker that comes equipped with a stainless steel kettle measuring 2.5 ounces and a stirring system which can be used to make up to 10 popcorn(s) at a go. It has a glass window that allows you to see the popcorn as they pop and a classic look!
– Able to make plenty of popcorn within a short time
– Lot of power, enabling it to make popcorn for hours
– Makes tasty popcorn
– Quite difficult to clean as you need to dismantle all of it for the process
– Need time for preheating the pot, such that you can start heating the corn
– Quite loud for use
5. Great Northern Popcorn Steel Stove
This is a popcorn stove popper made of stainless steel with a design that is able to allow moisture to get out during the process such that the popcorn is hot and delicious. It also comes with a vented lid to reduce the moisture.
– Stainless steel material for the easy and quick heating of the popcorn
– Cheap and convenient for its price
– The lid is not fastened and may fall off after or during use
– Handle or wood knob may not be very stiff and can come out or disengage after use for a while.
6. Orville Redenbacher Hot Air Corn Popper
This is a popcorn popper/maker from Presto that is able to heat the popcorn with just hot air and does not need oil. It is also faster and healthier than most other types of popcorn. It is also best for a low-calorie treat
– Great popper as it produces high-quality popcorn
– Produces plenty of popcorn within just a short time of use
– Throw off popcorn if you do not know how to handle it properly
– Starts overheating when used for a while
7. Great Northern Popcorn Retro Style Popcorn Popper Machine
This refers to one of a kind popcorn maker that comes with an option of removing the tray after use, where you simply slide out the tray. It also has a 100-watt bulb that enables you to see the inside as the popcorn is prepared.
– Works well for its functionality, making great and tasty popcorn- Produces plenty of popcorn within a short time
– Easy to clean kettle
– The popcorn may get stuck in the machine if you do not know how to use it well
8. Orville Redenbacher's Fountain Hot Air Popper
This refers to a popcorn popper made by Presto that resembles a fountain, where the heated popcorn pops on the surface of the 'fountain-like' popper. It also uses hot air to heat the popcorn and it is equipped with stainless steel restrictors that help in its performance. It serves up to 20 cups of popcorn in just 3 minutes.
– Makes plenty and great popcorn within a span of a very short time
– Lower noise levels
– On/Off switch not found located in the machine
9. Hamilton Beach 73310 Party Popper Popcorn Maker
This is a popcorn maker that has been crafted for a party experience! It enables one to customize popcorn to be suitable to everyone's taste. It automatically stirs the kernels as they pop around the cooking surface, for them to be fluffy and sweet.
– Easy to serve and makes great popcorn- It has a bowl that can also be used to serve the popcorn- Makes plenty of popcorn within a short time
– If not seasoned, the surface may be sticky
– Takes a lot of cabinet space
10. Cuisinart CPM Easy-pop Popcorn Maker
This is a Popcorn maker by Cuisinart equipped with built-in ventilation and bowl cover as well as a stirring arm for mixing. It also has special holes at the bowl to enable moisture to escape. It makes up to 16 cups of popcorn.
– Able to make perfect popcorn throughout-It is quick to make popcorn within a short time
-Pops almost all the kernels
– The latches that hold the red plate are weak, and hence easily breakable
– The plastic cover obtains heat very easily
Qn. What happens if you use the item without using oil?
Ans. It may not work very well as it needs some oil
Qn. What kind of oil needs to be used?
Ans. You can use any type of oil that you use to cook.
Qn. Can you add sugar with the oil to make the popcorn heat faster?
Ans. No, it will burn and the results will be terrible
Popcorn is usually a delicacy snack for almost everyone. Therefore, in order to get the best popcorn maker, it is important to know the desires of those consuming it, or what can make the best quality as seen and discussed in this review, and you will never forget the tasteful experience!
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I chose to use this sentiment on her card because my daughter & I say this to each other all the time when asked how we're doing. We say........."Just livin' the dream!" whether we're having a good day or not. Plus I felt the sentiment was fitting for a day at the beach. Wonder what she was dreaming about?
Thanks for joining me today & a Big Happy Birthday to my Kimmie!!! I love my beautiful Baby Girl!!!!
I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Southern Girls Challenge: #59 Endless Summer (anything that conveys summer)
Crafty Creations Challenges: #200 Wise words
The Kraft Journal: Make It Monday "Anything Goes" (along with kraft paper)
My Grafico Challenges: Anything Goes
Huggies & Sweet Blessings ~♥♥♥~


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Thursday, July 14, 2016
Cherish - May Hip Kit
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FRINGING....oh, wow! It looks sensational....LOVE it.....!! And the matting looks great, too. I go through phases with that.... you really DO do the Hip Kit stuff 'justice':):)ReplyDelete
Gotta love the fringed paper! Cute page, Lynnette. He looks so serious, bless his heart.ReplyDelete
Oh I love the fringing in layers! Love the fading of the colors too, and such a sweet photo! Another really lovely layout, so glad you are getting some time in your scrap space to create! Have a lovely weekend!ReplyDelete
Wow wow wow! This is gorgeous! LOVING the colors and that fringe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Love the fringe, the colors, and stamping! I need to buy one for myself, I did the same thing for a layout several years ago and cut it by hand....yikes!ReplyDelete
Love the design and the fringed strips! Love the gorgeous photo and cutie accents! ;-)ReplyDelete
The fringe details is awesome ~I don't think I have ever used that on one of my pages ... Time to try it out me thinks!!!ReplyDelete


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I'm a zookeeper. My mouth is where my anus should be. My penis is where my right thumb should be. Should I be careful in the monkey enclosure at feeding time? Claude Nutts
DR F: Lucky you! So you still talk shite but don't need a dummy anymore?
I've an embarrassing body. It's the body of elders at my church. When they are not trying to feel me up and keep showing me their nobs they are offering to shag my Great Grandmother. Lil Tot
DR F: Religious cults are responsible for all the most appalling deviant behaviour towards vulnerable people. I for one, never miss a meeting.
I've an embarrassing body….of water. I've just pissed myself. Curt Short
DR F: Pull yourself together man, or you won't ever sit on my lap again. Bladder control is more difficult for women and needs regular testing. For instance with cystitis female patients may feel the need to come to my surgery and continue to take the urine, and if they do, I'll fetch them one across the tits.
Why has Buddha got an embarrassing body? Nothing in the book of Zen about eating that many pies, is there? Jemima Blasphemy
DR F: No fat bastard like him is going to teach me anything about self-discipline. You can't replace a BP monitor for meditation. Think about it!
You have an embarrassing body. You have three testicles. Sean Yascrotum
DR F: That's so I can come right left and centre.
I have an embarrassing body. I'm so obese, I can jaywalk while sitting on a park bench. Fatima Leggings
DR F: Don't take on so. You are a little over-nourished, that's all! If you want a reassuring chat with your GP who is here to support you, why not reverse into my surgery anytime. When we know you are coming we will take all the pictures off the wall first.
I have an embarrassing body. I'm a tortoise. I was mugged by 8 snails and 5 slugs. They threw me on my back and one by one raped me. It all happened so quick! Shell Buggeredtoo
DR F: Myrtle my Turtle carries Mace at all times in case of amphibian atrocities. The trouble is the aerosol deterrent doesn't work underwater and a whole school of guppies fucked her senseless while a shoal of angelfish looked on helplessly. When she finally escaped she hid inside her shell and the Mace went off un-expectantly and now, not only is she robbed of her reptilian innocence, she can't see feckall either, and keeps walking into the sides of her aquarium.
I've an embarrassing body. I have acne and have tried every product to get rid of it. Last time you prescribed me a balaclava, which did help for a while because in the cold weather nobody thinks twice about staring at me. But to be honest, when its 85 degrees I do get some funny looks on the bus. Lance Pimples
Dr F: It's only a phase! Just keep smiling but don't get too much on the bathroom mirror. A good mental attitude will knock spots of anybody else.
I have very large breasts. They are so large that the nipples are used as helicopter ports. Most men love them but now their wives want to touch them too in shops for the larger lady. Esther Mate
DR F: You have a very large vagina too. Taking the tube home must be nightmare for you. The station announcement of 'Mind the gap