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Eric S. Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, called on Congress and President Obama to delay policies to lower the federal deficit, arguing that budget cuts and tax increases have slowed the economy and contributed to stubbornly high unemployment.
Rosengren, speaking at a conference in Milan on Thursday, said cuts in local, state, and federal spending in recent years have blunted the efforts of the Federal Reserve to stimulate the economy through record-low interest rates, keeping the economy from growing fast enough to lower unemployment significantly.
Rosengren contrasted the situation to the economic recovery that began in 1982, the last time a recession pushed the national unemployment rate to 10 percent. Government spending after the economy began to recover at the end of 1982 increased by 20 percent; it has declined 5 percent during this recovery, Rosengren said.
The national unemployment rate is now 7.5 percent; at about the same point in the 1980s recovery, the jobless rate had fallen below 7 percent, according to US Labor Department statistics.
"Increased fiscal austerity in the US has weakened the outlook,'' Rosengren said in prepared remarks. "Fiscal policy is obviously the jurisdiction of the legislative and executive branches, but given the economic realities I would urge policy makers to consider scenarios where some elements [of deficit reduction] take effect only after the economy has more fully improved."
Policy makers use different tools to influence the direction of the economy. National governments typically use budget and tax measures, or fiscal policies, while central banks, such as the Fed, use interest rates, or monetary policy, to rev up or slow economic growth.
Since the end of the last recession, lawmakers, policy makers, and economists here and in Europe have debated whether cutting budgets and raising taxes to lower deficits, or increasing spending to stimulate growth, provides the best path to economic recovery. In Europe, where governments have adopted austerity policies, some nations have fallen back into recession.
In the United States, fiscal austerity has been just as severe, Rosengren noted. Automatic budget cuts known as sequestration and an increase in payroll taxes have followed local, state, and federal budget cuts since the initial burst of federal stimulus spending in the early part of the recovery, Rosengren said.
About 100 community, labor, and peace group activists protested the automatic federal budget cuts Thursday in Boston, saying they unfairly target programs that benefit preschoolers, the elderly, and AIDS patients, among others. They were joined by government workers facing layoffs because of the budget cuts.
The Fed, which has a mandate to help the economy achieve full employment, has acted more aggressively to stimulate the economy than the European Central Bank, driving short- and long-term rates to historic lows and helping the US economy to grow modestly. Rosengren noted that interest-rate sensitive industries, such as housing, are rebounding strongly.
But the recovery is advancing at a frustratingly slow pace — too slow to put the millions of Americans who lost their jobs in the last downturn back to work, even though the recession officially ended four years ago.
"It is critically important that the United States achieve a balanced and sustainable framework for government spending, but the timing is important," Rosengren said. "Making cuts too quickly to restore balance to the federal budget deficit will have a dampening effect on near-term growth and the recovery."Megan Woolhouse of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Robert Gavin can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The following dual blog entry is about two elderly Americans who died the same week in March 2016 and their funerals, both of which I experienced onscreen. One service was my uncle's, which was webcast, and the other was Nancy Reagan's televised funeral. My subject is the representations of reality that stand between first-hand (or lived) and on-screen (or mediated) experience. In the case of my uncle, I employ "mediation" in the sense of digital communications employed to share a far-away event. In the case of the former First Lady, I juxtapose the mass media's portrait of an historical figure against a more accurate, albeit in this case irreverently treated, recollection of her character and qualities.
Thursday night March 10th, my Uncle Howard Bram died. On Sunday I tuned into the webcast of his funeral, streaming from Cleveland Heights. I didn't know whether or not such webcasts are standard operating procedure at funeral homes now, but it appeared to be at this one. It was new to me and is one of the few cases where the descriptor "surreal" seems to apply. (Since then I've taken an informal poll and no one I've asked has watched such a webcast.)
The youngest of my maternal grandparents' four children, Uncle Howard was the second to die, following my mother's death many years ago. He was an honorable, accomplished and generous man who will be sorely missed, as he was at his grandson's wedding in Florida, two weeks earlier. I attended the wedding, but did not fly East for the funeral. I was pleased that my cousins had recently organized a 90th birthday party for my uncle and solicited greetings and memories for it at a less emotionally charged moment while he was alive and able to enjoy our anecdotes and accolades.
The tributes to him were also public. Uncle Howard, in fact, could be regarded as an expert in death having spent his entire working life as head of a geriatric facility—a/k/a an old folks' home—highly regarded for its thoughtful practices and innovative design. (Its chapel even boasted a Ben Shahn window.) One obituary described him as "a visionary in the field of senior care" and the fact that decades ago he had testified before Congress made an indelible impression on me as a teenager.
Funerals are always educational and I learned from his that he was too young to have enlisted in World War II but lied about his age and went on to win a Purple Heart at the Battle of the Bulge. Twenty years ago, shortly after my mother's death, he wrote something referred to as an "ethical will," which I'd never heard of. It was evoked during the funeral and distributed via email a few days later to his children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Its two single-spaced pages of instructions begins "Be honest at all times" and ends with a final heartfelt request urging his children— needlessly—to continue to make his lovely and loving second wife part of their lives. What a thoughtful and characteristically modest memorial to him!
The unedited, grainy video footage streaming from the funeral resembled nothing so much as the automatic output of a cheap, Canal-St. security camera. Its focus on the speakers at the pulpit neither showed nor even suggested an audience listening to them. The effect of the missing congregation was profoundly alienating, and no doubt the opposite of what was intended, Judging from a two decades-old cover-story in journal format I wrote for Art in America, "The Art World and I Go Online," little seems to have changed in our online lives since the mid-nineties. The issues central to the then-emerging "virtual" world—censorship, celebrity, online security, cultural margins and mainstreams—were mirrored in the so-called real world of that day and remain with us, both online and off-.
An exception to this stasis is the change of attitudes in the U.S. toward death. In an entry in this article dated April 23, 1995, I discuss futurist Tom Mandel and his unprecedented "blogging" about his fatal, five-month bout with lung cancer. I regarded his disclosures as an oddly self-inflicted invasion of privacy at a time when the still-raging AIDS epidemic was frequently accompanied by losses of medical insurance, jobs and apartments. He was clearly prescient, though, given today's ubiquity of medical marijuana and the lack of blowback (or even attention) to California Governor Jerry Brown's recent signing of assisted-suicide legislation. Is it any wonder, then, that a webcast funeral already seems not just inevitable but—even after a single, off-putting experience–everyday?
The Autobiography of Nancy Reagan by Robert Atkins is a fictional work that begins shortly after the former First Lady's death but before her funeral. In fact, the televised extravaganza-of-a-funeral Reagan planned long before her death had taken place when this was written, as had the crescendo of gushing mass media coverage about her. The celebrity-crammed funeral brought together strange political bedfellows, each seemingly intent on effusive flattery. The most discussed remarks were those of Hillary Clinton, who credited the Reagans with stimulating discussion about the AIDS crisis during the eighties when history tells us—OOPS!— precisely the opposite. As this sketch begins, we see Nancy Reagan lying in the coffin she selected and channel her thoughts as she steels herself for the imminent funeral. Paradoxically, she has never felt more alive.
Today Nancy Reagan (nee Anne Francis Robbins, a/k/a Nancy Davis) "rests in repose." Although her detractors insist this is merely an interlude preceding her joyful reunion with Ronnie and their likely immolation in Hell, she no longer cares. She is at peace. She is secretly pleased (and surprised) by the uncritical media drivel her death has generated. No unpleasant reminders of the past, none from Hollywood—so Jewish!—nor from the White House—so Democrat! (And hardly white!) Instead the Presidential Library staff had unleashed a tsunami of stories and pictures and film clips about the Reagan romance that cast a gendered and outdated Hollywood aura over their relationship. If they constantly held hands, it was so she might signal to him to change the subject, to return to the canned responses she and their staffs had laboriously devised. She and Ronnie were a team.
In fact, she was exultant at the their escape from what had seemed like an ever-growing horde of detractors who'd dogged them over the past half century. It was six decades since she'd initiated the therapeutic conversion that transformed Ronnie from Hollywood labor leader to capitalist hard-ass. In the glow of her death, her unappealing reputation as the Dragon Lady (Madame Chiang Kai-shek) who yanked Ronnie's strings seemed nearly forgotten. Yet the comparison to the Machiavellian Angela Lansbury character in the Manchurian Candidate (1962) still rankled, as she'd sniffed to Barbara Walters (off the record) during their last interview. And how, her mind wandering now, could Frank (Sinatra) have persuaded United Artists to finance that pinko movie in the first place?
The novel from which it was adapted was published in 1959, long after the jittery optimism and innocence that prevailed during the immediate postwar years had passed. This was a golden age when she was Nancy Davis, and MGM was MGM! Where would she be without the studio that had brought her together with Ronnie in 1951? They'd met cute: Ronnie was president of the Screen Actors' Guild and she'd been mistakenly (and ironically) blacklisted because of another Nancy Davis whose pseudonym she shared. On March 4, 1952–soon after Shadow on the Wall (1951), her debut film, was released–they were married. Daughter Patti was born seven months later, suggesting that she was hardly the prig some thought her. She might have said "No!" but understood all too well that a girl who wanted to be popular during the fifties had to…
Yet what a time it was! Getting General Electric to fund Ronnie's political re-education was genius. She honed his divisive but down-home style of communicating and reflected, yet again, that he was her greatest creation. She was among the few who early on recognized his genius and its relevance to the political arena. He could tell outrageous (and invented) anecdotes about unmarried Negro welfare moms driving Cadillacs on drugs that didn't even sound extemporaneous. Being an actor, he could always find a nugget of "truth"—usually from a movie he'd seen or acted in—to motivate what she thought of as his fables of the far right.
Afflicted by a rare sense of remorse she worried about the future of the country she and Ronnie had so shaped. She felt a twinge of guilt about the credulous media and cash-strapped schools that enabled an amnesiac attitude to history that made it easy to re-write the past, in ever more Republican- and patriotic terms. And then how to forget Iran Contra…the astrologers…and the saddening betrayal of their old friend, Rock Hudson.The list wasn't endless but it was plenty long.
Her disastrous Just Say No! campaign certainly took a toll among the lives of the underclass, especially in conjunction with those 3-strike laws. Still, she'd been around and knew that marijuana led to harder stuff. And what about that over-the-top PR blitz for Just Say No! with Mr. T? God! What a mistake it had been to take that 1983 picture at the White House with the goony boxer-actor-rapper playing Santa while she sat on his lap and planted a kiss on his ebony head. Every little thing sounded so big in print, she thought grimly. She was afraid that her connection with the unconventional Mr. T would be used Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon-style to associate her with even more unsavory characters like Muhammad Ali.
Lost in the past, she was especially grateful that nobody had raised the subject of the contested tax deductions she'd tried to take for the costly weekly trips from Sacramento to her Beverly Hills hairdresser while Ronnie was governor. That was an embarrassment. And what about her hair? Her customary mid-week set was long overdue; perhaps the open casket viewing wasn't such a good idea after all. Still, she held on to her faith in God and her plastic surgeon. It had been a good life, she mused. We made a difference… And at least she wouldn't have to attend Hillary Clinton's inauguration.


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Do you ever dream about a robot that do the hard work for you? You maneuver the [tag]Spy[/tag] [tag]Robot[/tag] to pick up, remove and replace evidence while you stay undercover. The [tag]remote[/tag] control action allows you to patrol while remaining undercover; the robot can even record sounds in other rooms.
• Robo Claw – activate the claw to pickup things and carry them.
• The Headlamp – a bright LED for night missions.
• The Spy Mic-allows you to record sound remotely.
• Remote – Range of 75-100 ft
• Start your secret mission today and enlist the help of the Spy Robot!
PCNews Verdict: 7/10.It can record sounds in other rooms? I take 2.


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- Latest Round Fire update from CAL FIRE
- An evacuation center has been established at the Crowley Lake Community Center, 458 S. Landing Road, Crowley Lake, CA 93546
- Salvation Army is accepting monetary donations for people affected by the #RoundFire. Also available are emergency shelters and clothing: 760-872-2124
- Free Animal Boarding for displaced residents is available through the Bishop Veterinary Hospital 760-873-5801; and Pampered Pooches 760-872-7387
- YubaNet.com Round Fire update
Update 7:40 p.m. - Containment aat 95 percent
CAL FIRE reports that continment of the Round Fire has reached 95 percent. Evacuations have been lifted for residents with verified credentials.
Update 4:55 p.m. - Evacuations lifted in Paradise and Swall Meadows
CAL FIRE says residents of Paradise and Swall Meadows with verified credentiaals were allowed back into the communities at 4 p.m. Some parts of the affected communities will not have power restored until approximately 9 p.m.
Containment of the fire remains at 85 percent.
Update 11:20 a.m. MONDAY - Containment at 85 percent
CAL FIRE reports that containment of the Round Fire has reached 85 percent.
The evacuated community of Paradise may be repopulated later today, provided infrastructure needs are met.
Evacuations remain in effect as downed powerlines make re-entry hazardous for homeowners.Trees damaged by fire are being assessed and tagged as hazards for removal.
Looks like a volcano, but this is the 7,000 acre #RoundFire Friday night in Inyo County. Photo by @DodrillPhoto pic.twitter.com/Qob6vapQWT— CAL FIRE PIO Berlant (@CALFIRE_PIO) February 8, 2015
Update: 5:45 p.m. - Containment at 75 percent
CAL FIRE reports that containment of the Round Fire has reached 75 percent, as favorable weather has assisted in firefighting efforts.
The latest incident update says the fire remains at 7,000 acres, with 40 homes and outbuildings destroyed, with five more residences damaged. There are 500 personnel working the incident in Inyo and Mono counties.
The fire started Friday afternoon. The cause is under investigation.
#RoundFire [update] West of Hwy 395 at the Sherwin Grade (Inyo & Mono Co) is now 7,000 acres & 75% contained. http://t.co/b5nb2Pwdo1— CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) February 9, 2015
Update: 9:25 a.m. - Containment At 65 Percent
CAL FIRE reports that contianment of the Round Fire is 65 percent as of early Sunday. Evacuations remain in place, as downed power lines and venting propane tanks pose serious safety threats.
- CapRadio.org staff
SWALL MEADOWS, Calif. (AP) — Fire crews have increased containment of a wind-driven wildfire that destroyed 40 homes, but say they don't know yet when residents evacuated from two small California towns at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada will be able to return home.
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Capt. Liz Brown says dozens of power poles have come down in the communities of Swall Meadows and Paradise, creating hazards for the roughly 250 residents who have been evacuated. Crews were assessing trees in the two communities on Sunday to ensure they wouldn't come down.
The fire started near a highway on the border of Inyo and Mono counties Friday afternoon. It blew up when 50 to 75 mph winds whipped through wooded areas near the two communities.
Crews have since gained the upper hand on the blaze, which was 65 percent contained.
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SWALL MEADOWS, Calif. (AP) — Fire officials say 40 homes have been destroyed in a wind-driven wildfire that has charred more than 10 square miles of land near the Nevada state line.
Cal Fire Capt. Liz Brown said Saturday that the blaze near two small Northern California towns on the border of Inyo and Mono counties is 50 percent contained.
Brown says flames fanned by sustained winds of up to 75 mph whipped through wooded areas near Town of Paradise and Swall Meadows on Friday night. She says 40 residences and several outbuildings were destroyed.
A firefighter was treated for smoke inhalation.
Dying winds and rain helped crews stop the growth of the fire.
A few dozen people remained under evacuation orders Saturday afternoon.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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|Round Fire Incident Information:
|Last Updated:
|February 9, 2015 6:20 pm
|Date/Time Started:
|February 6, 2015 2:07 pm
|Administrative Unit:
|CAL FIRE San Bernardino Unit
|Inyo and Mono counties
|Westside of Highway 395 at the Sherwin Grade
|Acres Burned - Containment:
|7,000 acres - 95% contained
|Structures Destroyed:
|40 residence & outbuildings. 5 residences damaged
Credential verification for Repopulation of Paradise & Swall Meadows residents will begin at 4 p.m. We will let residents of both communities however Paradise will not have power till around 9pm
|Road Closures :
|Entry into both communities, Paradise and Swall Meadows.
|Under Investigation
|Cooperating Agencies:
|USFS, BLM, Wheeler Crest Fire Dept., Paradise Fire Dept., Inyo and Mono County Sheriff, CHP, Cal Trans, Cal OES
|Total Fire Personnel:
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|Residents may see smoking debris on hillsides but it does not pose a threat to residents and structures. The Community of Paradise may be re-populated today early afternoon if infrastructure needs are met. Swall Meadow re-population late afternoon after Paradise, if infrastructure needs are met
Evacuations still remain in effect as downed powerlines make re-entry hazardous for homeowners.Trees damaged by fire are being assessed and tagged as hazards for removal.
For additional resources visit County of Mono.
|Phone Numbers
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Enrique and Anna: the joke's on him.
It looks like Enrique Iglesias is –willingly– being used and abused by tennis pro/beau Anna Kournikova, whose been dating the singer since staring in his music video, "Escape," in 2002.
According to Starpulse: "She said I'm probably just a guy she wants to date for a few years, then she'll leave me," Enrique says, "I'm cool with that." We're sure he has a choice in the matter.
"We talked about it all one day and she said that she wouldn't marry me. And she meant it," said the singer. But did he mean it? Or was he just kidding? Enrique is a self-proclaimed jokester, afterall.
Thus far he's "joked" about breaking up with Anna, proposing to Anna, and being shot down by Anna. We hope that Anna shares his sense of humor, but we're not putting money on it.
It's a shame for Enrique that "joker" doesn't mean "liar" –even in Spanish. A direct translation would help clear the air, since people still seem to believe everything that leaves the singer's lips. In some cases, the public's blind trust works against Enrique, who announced in April that he regretted a joke that may have deterred prospective lovers. "I said I had a small penis as a joke. And they took it literally." Well, looks like karma's a b*tch, E! Especially for those that cry wolf. And especially for those whom Anna Kournikova will likely leave lonely when he's well past his prime. Ouch.


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Using an isosurface extraction algorithm, it is possible to model in far more intuitive ways than with extrusions, welds, and the other tedious tasks of typical 3D modeling software. One such method is via the use of ellipsoids that influence the density function from which an isosurface is extracted. Modeling using ellipsoids is fast, intuitive, and requires only a fraction of the space that a regular mesh would take to store.
The following simple starship mesh was created in about ten minutes using only 14 ellipsoids.
Note that ALL of the assets used in this demo, including my core engine, the precompiled drawing shaders, as well as the ship meta-mesh and extraction algorithm, fit into a single 33kb executable (after UPX compression). And no D3DX dependency, either! I'm quite proud of how space-efficient my project is turning out to be.
All hail the marching cubes!


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Dealing With These Robot Call Handling Systems
The Computer Corner
By Charles Miller
For many years I was a regular television viewer of the Sunday morning worship service broadcast from the First United Methodist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana. One morning the Rev. D. L. Dykes explained that the previous week there had been a technical mishap preventing the live broadcast and the engineers at the television station, realizing they could not fix the problem in time, hurriedly grabbed a years-old videotape of an earlier service, then without announcement or explanation they cued the tape and sent it out over the air. Few people watching television that morning had any inkling they were not watching a live broadcast. The following week though there were some repercussions.
Rev. Dykes said that one of his pleasures was receiving a weekly letter from an elderly parishioner who critiqued his sermons. When he opened her letter that next week, her envelope contained only a photocopy of the letter she had sent him years before when the service had been broadcast live.
My point? A few months ago I retold an anecdote that had previously been included in this column ten years ago, and one reader called me on that. For the record, each week for eleven years these columns have been original works, but some stories are good enough to rate retelling.
One of these topics is something I need on a regular basis, and that is manufacturer's technical support. It used to be easy to go to a web site and look for a link saying "Support," or "Contact Us." Today though, more and more companies are making those phone numbers harder to find or are disconnecting their telephones altogether. What is still true as of this writing is that some companies still have phone support; they just make the number harder to find in an apparent move to cut down on the volume of calls they receive.
The Internet comes to my rescue here with some web sites I have bookmarked in my browser so that whenever I need a number I look there. My favorite is gethuman.com (no www) where you can find the most up-to-date listing of company phone numbers. Other sites I consult are contacthelp.com and dialahuman.com.
Also on these web sites you will find some "secret" codes that can help get out of the dreaded voicemail jail. For example if you call eTrade press #### or Expedia press # # # or at Fidelity when asked for your Social Security number press #, or just press # seventeen times to speak to a live human.
Another trick I have learned in dealing with these robot call handling systems is to answer the first prompt Kannst du mir bitte helfen? Then the second prompt Peux-tu m'aider s'il te plait? And when the robot again said it did not understand say Potete per favore aiutarmi? When it fails to identify the language, often the software is programmed to send calls to a live operator who can figure out what language I am speaking. I used to just speak gibberish, but that does not seem to work very often today.
Finally, if I am fortunate enough to get through to a real live human being, one of the first things I try to ask is if they can give me a direct call back number.
Charles Miller is a freelance computer consultant, a frequent visitor to San Miguel since 1981 and now practically a full-time resident. He may be contacted at 415 101 8528 or email FAQ8 (at) SMAguru.com.


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Delilah Smith Hernandez age 66 of Forest City passed away on February 2, 2018.
Delilah was the daughter of the late Alfred "Bill" Smith and JoAnn Morgan Smith. Left to cherish her memory are her husband Feliz Hernandez. Step-daughter Paula Hernandez Thomas (Eric); Niece Caitlin Smith; Sister-in law Connie Moore Smith. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her brothers Roland Smith and John Anthony "Tony" Smith.
Visitation was held at Crowe's Mortuary and Chapel. Burial followed at Holly Springs Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. Jerry Ruppe officiated.
Crowe's Mortuary is assisting the family.


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My brother turned up to my flat last night after a trip to Brum and interrupted my painting & internet browsing (greatest time waster since Tetris). He came armed with the new metal command pack and the Essex character from Warlord Games bought from Ian Allan's book shop. There is a fair amount of heavy flash on the Essex figure which will need cleaning up.
I don't mind the extra work too much because he'd also purchased a copy of 'The Devil's Chariots: The Birth & Secret Battles of the First Tanks' by John Glanfield. It looks a promising read.
There is another shop in Birmingham that sells miniatures. I won't mention the name of the place but
I'm pretty sure you could walk round there stark naked, perform a few forward rolls and star jumps, remove half their stock and no-one would bat an eyelid. The staff are friendly enough, if you can grab their attention, but they do seem more concerned with playing games at the back of the shop.
Anyway, after retreating to the pub I explained to my brother that I don't think I can possibly finish all the plastic miniatures before Christmas. Not at the rate I paint anyway. More realistically however I believe I can complete at least two regiments including the extended Rupert's regiment (with extra pikemen). At least twelve figures a week now seems more feasible.
I'm hoping to attend the Derby wargame show the weekend after next so it's likely I'll be going home with even more stuff to clog up the spare room. I can resist anything but temptation.
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I'm back to share another card using one of AnnaBelle Stamps new stamp sets,
'Tree-MEN-dous' I've kept my card fairly simple but was so happy with the end results lol!
So here's my card
I've used, Brown, Artichoke and Vanilla card stock, stamped the tree in Brown ink onto the Vanilla piece of card stock and again on some scrap Vanilla and cut the tree out.
I stamped the hanging frame in Brown ink onto a little piece of Vanilla and stamped my sentiment in Artichoke ink and cut my frame out.
I punched two holes on my tree and three holes on the frame, two on the left hand side and one hole on the right hand side and used some Silver jump rings to connect the frame to the tree.
I then placed my cut out tree onto the stamped tree that was stamped onto my Vanilla piece of card stock using some 3D foam.
I then place my Vanilla piece onto my Brown piece then layered this onto my Artichoke card base.
I also placed a layer of Vanilla card stock inside the card and stamped 'Happy Father's Day' in Brown ink(I'm so clueless I forgot to take a pic of the inside lol)
I finished of my card using some AnnaBelle Stamps Mini Sprinkles in Artichoke and some twill in green.
You can't see it in the photo very well but my sign/frame is hanging and dangles and I think it looks pretty cool lol!
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A Quick Interview with QQ Catering
We have a major treat for you here today; an exclusive interview with QQ Catering! QQ Catering provides food catering in Singapore. In this interview, QQ Catering were asked five questions. Let's see how they managed to answer them!
What Caused You to Become so Famous?
Actually, it was through the help of our dear customers! We started out as just a tiny catering business with a few customers here and there. We learned quickly what was required of us in order to make our customers happy. We provided food and drink to people in an efficient manner, always on time; and in return we got many highly rated reviews. Because of these reviews the name QQ Catering grew and grew.
Why do You Think Your Online Menu is so Popular
Well, there are two main things that make our online menu so popular. One of those things is the ease with which one can navigate the menu. Though it looks professional and well set out, it is still very simple and easy to follow. You won't ever hear of someone getting lost in our menu! The second thing is our variety. Our menus have a variety of different foods. We have different menus set out depending on people's preferences. We have an international menu for those who prefer foreign foods; we have a healthy menu for those who prefer to avoid carbs and have a nutritious meal; and many others. We also have a customizable menu for those who prefer to pick each individual item they wish to order. Our menu caters to everyone! Pardon the pun!
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What Would You Say is the Most Important Part of Catering?
Well, assuming for the moment that the importance of the customer is a different matter, then the most important part would be the cooling of the food. Regardless of whether your service is good or you dishes are plated perfectly; if your food tastes bad, then you're done. You can't recover a business that continuously cooks poor quality food. Until your food quality is brilliant, you don't have a hope at all! The other parts of catering, such as service and plating are also very important. You really need all of them in order to be successful. However, the basis of catering is the food itself, right? So that is the thing that requires the most attention, in our opinion.
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That concludes the interview with QQ catering. There is a lot of good information in here! Anyone who is new to catering or planning to start up sometime soon should really take heed of the things they have had to say here. Food catering in Singapore just got a whole lot more real! But if there's one thing in here that I would say is a gold mine for any businessman or woman, that is the phrase, "The customer is always right!"


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Is it acceptable to use a rubber boot to make the connection between the top of the water heater and the pvc vent pipe?
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The book is where you should be looking for the answer I would not think so.Most systems have specific instuctions and restrictions not to mention code and more important your home safety
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The water heater should come with the right connector and literature to explain the appropriate vent material and footage. As well as appropriate requirements for vent terminations, combustion air, and condensation disposal.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
rSogn Color
41 comments:
How about a red or orange or blue or brown or green or even black are all great. No gold like the Salsa Mac'nCheese (casserole) or white which will always be dirty.
- September 29, 2010
- MR said...
Same likes of color as the Snekka....maybe they fit better with this model
1)Always been a fan of the orange that maple leaves turn in the fall
2)English racing green has that darker feel like pine needles
3)Darker/maroon type red...autumn leaves
Much has to do with the feelings of fall
- September 29, 2010
- Joe said...
Something that'll look nice with black or brown saddles and red Hetres. A nice battleship gray.
- September 29, 2010
- stevep33 said...
battleship grey or charcoal silver...looks rugged, looks great with red Hetres.
- September 29, 2010
- humblecyclist said...
I like the idea of raw with clear powdercoat. Very primal!
- September 29, 2010
1. Original Rawland Red. That color is so perfect.
If not that then,
2. Something in the same hue as the Drakkar metallic green, like a metallic blue.
3. Metallic Bone, like in the Rawland logo.
*Definitely not something like XO-1 orange or white
- September 29, 2010
- John Grasty said...
I like the idea of the bone color (like the Rawland logo), but maybe a touch closer to cream than yellow.
Metallic blue in the same hue as the Drakkar metallic green would also be great.
Basically I'm seconding Bonde's 2 and 3 and reversing their order.
- September 29, 2010
I do like the orange of the Sam Hillborne but think it would be out of place on the Sogn. A more rugged color that would go with the logo-grey? Have you thought about selling them w/ a decal set rather than already on the bike?
- September 29, 2010
I vote for mustard, like a deli/dijon mustard. or a sage green.
- September 29, 2010
- Jon said...
Rawland Red or XO-1 Orange
- September 29, 2010
dark gray or silver
- September 29, 2010
- giant hogweed said...
dark orange, fire engine red, herse blue
- September 29, 2010
@Anon: Like the Drakkar, the decals will be clear-coated after wet-painting. We will have some decals on hand in case of repair, for example.
- September 29, 2010
no particular order:
clear powder coat
burnt orange
- September 29, 2010
Mark's rSogn Colorways of Fun
My first choice in color can be found here:
Not the bike itself, but the chainring color. Repeat, not the bike. The chainring.
I would call it Harvest Moon. (Yes, I like Neil Young.) It has echoes perhaps of an XO, or a faded Molteni jersey. You might also call it Spicy Pumpkin. In any case, a hue for off road and on, a rugged, versatile, uplifting color. In no way ostentatious, but not a bland wallflower.
My distant second would be a gray, but not the "battleship gray" of the new Riv Hunqapillar, especially since we will not have a two-tone paint to break its monotony. I'm thinking more of a silvery-gray, like this old Motobecane:
- September 29, 2010
- Seabiscuit said...
+1 for Mustard/yellow
+1 for Cream/Bone
+1 for Greyish
+1 for Orange
-1 for Rawland red (sorry, just not my style)
-1 for metalic green, Brit Racing green is good though
-1 for gold
- September 29, 2010
- Jim G said...
Powder Coat PLEASE!
Referring to http://www.tiger-coatings.us/index.php?id=1295&tx_pressdownload_pi2[showUid]=2398
I like, in no order:
RAL 3013 or the darker RAL 3011 -- a dark-red/burgundy which is very similar to the color Alex had his custom/hand-made Gifford done in.
RAL 5009 -- a slate/water blue that I find particularly fetching.
- September 29, 2010
- Jim G said...
Of course, I'm still holding out for a Ti version. In which case the color choice is mostly moot, except for the fork+decals...
- September 29, 2010
I recommend gloss black powdercoat, and I will lay out some reasons why.
1. I think that TIG welded bikes with threadless steerers look best when paired with a painted steel stem - it gives them a balanced look not achieved with any aluminum stem available. These stems are best when painted to match the frame. TIG welded steel stems are readily available (from Salsa again) in black only, so it's easy to buy a stem that matches the look of the frameset.
2. black is the only color that is easy to match - if you get a custom rack or stem, it's easy to have it painted to match, whereas with any other color, color-matching is a problem. It's easy to get matching touch-up paint. It's easy to get off-the-shelf painted components to match black.
3. Black looks great with both black and silver components. It's one of the only colors for a frameset where mixing and matching black and silver components doesn't look weird.
4. Black has a slimming effect, just as with clothing. I have two almost identical framesets, one black and one off-white. My girlfriend commented after I built the white one that it just doesn't have the tall, dark and handsome slim look that she likes in the black one.
5. Black is elegant. Black looks great against shiny silver. When paired with silver components, black frames have a timeless look. Black was a popular choice on Rene Herse bikes of yore. A recent issue of http://riderscollective.org/ featured a gallery of black bikes, calling them "tuxedo bikes".
6. Black is utilitarian, humble, cf. Henry Ford: "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."
7. Black is cool. That's why people refer to other colors as being "the new black". It is rumored that one of the founders of Kraftwerk has a fleet of bicycles, all black. All-black bikes are referred to by the kids as "murdered out".
My second choice would be metallic grey, as popularized on early 80s Treks. This is the classic choice for the American touring bike.
I would be happy with anything except red, green and purple, none of which I care for.
Grey, silver, orange, yellow, white, blue, brown are all preferred.
- September 29, 2010
- Michael_S said...
I would submit a nice metallic grey or orange as my top two choices. Please no bone or yellow/gold. Black would be acceptable as well as a dark blue.
- September 29, 2010
- Michael_S said...
I would submit a nice metallic grey or orange as my top two choices. Please no bone or yellow/gold. Black would be acceptable as well as a dark blue.
- September 29, 2010
- Garrett Belmont said...
1. Dark Gray, metallic. Goes well with brown leather, black leather, black racks and black parts, silver parts. Goes well with reds, as in Hetre tires, bar tape, and logos. Though my preference is for white, logo on dark gray.
2. Gloss Black. James makes a pretty good argument for gloss black. Goes with: everything. I do not care for matte black, or any other matte finish.
3. Battleship gray, non-metallic. Very nice utilitarian color.
I am not into:
1. clear powder coat.
2. white, off white, pearl white
3. beige / custard (great color, just not for this model)
4. purple. Ah, who am I kidding. This is the best color.
- September 29, 2010
- franklyn said...
rawland fire engine red. This way I can secretly sell my cSogn and transfer all the parts to the rSogn without my wife discovering that I have upgraded my frame
- September 29, 2010
- karl said...
1 - Same red as before. It's a great color and has a recognition factor to it. I've had people recognize my Olaf by the color when they were too far away to see anything else about it.
2 - Dark gray, non-metallic. Looks equally good with black or silver components.
3 - Drakkar green. A nice color. Very classy and really make silver components stand out.
BTW - Where are you on deposits?
- September 29, 2010
- Scott Gamble said...
Dark metallic battleship grey. Re early treks and yes the American touring bike in general. With silver components you can go for a more traditional look, with black components you can build a more progressive modern looking bike.
No mustard yellow colors like the Pugsley please. And I've almost never seen a blue that looked good to me.
Paint please! I can get powdercoat anywhere. I don't even know where to go to get a bike professionally painted, and I'm scared to think of how much it'd cost if I did. Also I think that all the detail work going into the lugging looks nicer under paint.
I'd take black as a color but it seems an unimaginative choice, and again I dislike any choices that lend themselves to obfuscating the lugging.
A very dark burnt orange would work for me as well, but dark metallic grey is my first choice.
- September 29, 2010
- Jim G said...
James, I agree with you on all fronts regarding gloss black, BUT if the rSogn is black, from a distance it'll look like a Kogswell P/R. ;)
I think Franklyn's reasoning for red is the best yet. ;)
- September 29, 2010
In no specific order:
- Clear powder coat
- Dark, neutral grey
- Dark cold blue (RAL 5013 or 5010)
- Darker-than-british racing green
No metallic effects...
- September 29, 2010
- Scott Gamble said...
I'm a dumbass. It JUST clicked that this isn't a lugged bike. HA!
My reasoning still stands though. There is detail work here, I like to see it, and think that black would cover it up.
I'm also not interested in it being mistaken for a Kogswell.
- September 29, 2010
- orc said...
I'd vote for
1) white. A clean white bicycle looks very pretty, and a dirty white bicycle looks very useful. I have an old Trek 1000 which is almost always slightly dirty, and it has the curb look of an old compact pickup truck.
2) black, because it's a nice traditional color and it's easy to match components to a black frame.
3) The dirty yellow that Kogswell used on their P/R is awfully nice. I don't know if that color ever looks sparkly clean, but at least from the pictures I've seen of well used P/Rs it never actually looks dirty until you've got a frames weight of mud cakes on the bicycle.
(Given my absolute druthers, a nice flamingly bright pink would have been my #1 choice, but bright pink does not dirty well. Alas!)
- September 29, 2010
- Lonny said...
I'd like to see the rsogn in:
1. Cocoa Brown with a dull or matte coating rather than glosscoat.
2. A raw frameset with clearcoat.
3. A deep orange red, or a orange yellow.
4. A tan/gray, or a gray/green.
- September 29, 2010
I still think something very "Rawland" in color for both models.
Rawland red.
Included also are the colors in the same metallic tone and hue as the Drakkar.
Metallic lightish blue, metallic orange, metallic gray, metallic yellow/gold
Nothing too dark or light, same as Drakkar. All together they would look amazing.
- September 29, 2010
- alex wetmore said...
Color choice: a very dark british racing green. It should look nearly black in artificial light, and have some green when outdoors in good sunlight. Look at 1996 Trek 520 for an example. Bike Friday also uses a similar powdercoat on their bikes. That was my color preference for Gifford(a very similar bike to the rSogn), but I didn't want to special order the powder from my powder coater. The rustish colored brown that I went with is another nice foresty color.
Question: How many prototypes are you making? If they are prototypes and only going to yourself or a few choice beta testers then why do the rest of us care what color they are?
- September 29, 2010
@alex: Prototypes are pre-production, so the color(s) would be the same for production.
- September 29, 2010
Re: very dark british racing green.
Like RAL 6009 (Fir Green) or 6012 (Black Green)?
RAL 6005 (Moss Green) reminds me of a lot of the foliage in Norway.
- September 29, 2010
- Lonny said...
After thinking twice I'll change my first choice to Raw with clearcoat. Reasons besides the industrial look: It's an "R" Sogn, and it's a "Raw"land already. OK those are lame reasons. My best reason is I think it looks cool.
- September 29, 2010
- Rob in Seattle said...
I'd be happiest with....(kind of in order)
• chrome (Hey, what production bike is chrome these days? That'd be unique. Look good with black or honey fittings, silver or black hardware....Check out John Ferguson's new Herse...)
• raw clear powdercoat (turns it into a stealth bike that I would feel more comfortable locking up in the city)
• gloss black (for all the reasons James cites--and I don't care if it looks like a P/R...it'll also look like many other historic, classic bikes...which this hopefully will also be.)
• a coppery dark root beer
• dark battleship grey faintly metallic (pearl)
OK with...
• the dark, almost black metallic green Alex is talking about (my Bridgestone RB-T is that color too)
Not so excited about...
• beige, white, lighter colors in general unless they're metallic.
• Already have an orange bike...
• Rawland red, though it is iconic, and I'd deal with it if I end up with a used cSogn. Just not wild about it as a bike color for myself.
Definitely not...
• purple!
- September 29, 2010
- Rob in Seattle said...
PS I had fun checking out the color possibilities here:
Lots of them seem to require a base coat plus several top coats, so likely not practical for a production bike--especially one that'll get ridden everywhere and possibly knocked about some.
- September 29, 2010
- Justino said...
I'd love to see a robin's-egg blue or meringue yellow.
Cheers, Justin.
- September 29, 2010
- Russ said...
Brown with a bit of red is a nice color:
As is champagne, British racing green or burgandy. Metallics in any of those colors would be great.
Really any color that blends in with its natural surroundings would be great.
One of the best things about biking is feeling at one with nature. A frame that blends into nature only adds to the pleasure.
Whatever the color, please just let us know the number/manufacturer so we can paint racks etc to match if we choose.
- September 29, 2010
- Protorio said...
Black for James' reasons.
Not grey - that's the Hunquacolor.
Mustard. Baby poo colors look great on bikes.
- September 30, 2010
- Lonny said...
Sean: you mentioned that the decals will be clear coated after being affixed to the paint coat. These won't be easily removeable. On the preorders, could I pay extra to have one made without decals?
- September 30, 2010


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But, said Hayes, the former Stanford University student body president who became coordinator of Earth Day 1970, "If there's a domestic Bhopal, and that certainly is technically possible, then suddenly you'll have a wave of this environmental stuff once again."
Backyard Concerns
Hayes, a third-year law student at Stanford, where he teaches human biology, believes this is neither the right time nor is there the proper personality; people are concerned about the environment, yes, but the focus is on their drinking water, toxic dumps nearby, a nuclear plant the local utility wants to build--in short, what's happening in their backyards.


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Shie Rozow has been hired as the music editor on ABC's upcoming series "Desperate Housewives."
Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Scott. It's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated POV. Her husband's acting suspicious, the neighbors are talking, and her girlfriends are wondering why one of their own would do something so rash… and so messy.****The show stars Mark Moses, Cody Kasch, Teri Hatcher, Andrea Bowen, Marcia Cross, Michael Reilly Brurke, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, James Denton and Jesse Metcalfe. Danny Elfman composing the main title and Steve Bartek is scoring. "Desperate Housewives" premieres Sunday Oct. 3 at 9:00pm on ABC


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Calea zacatechichi, also called Aztec Dream Herb, is a woody perennial herb traditionally used by the Chontal Indians of Mexico as a dream-inducing hallucinogen. Officially, it is classified as an "unscheduled substance" in the United States, meaning it is completely legal except in Louisiana, where you may not grow or sell it if it is intended for ingestion. A hardy plant, Calea zacatechichi grows in a variety of conditions and can be cultivated from seed without much problem.
Place the tiny seeds into a bowl, then cover them with room-temperature distilled water. Let this sit overnight covered by a cloth where it will not be disturbed.
Prepare a pot or seed starter with soil that drains well. Calea zacatechichi grows well in poor soil conditions and you do not need to worry about having the right type of soil.
Plant the seeds no deeper than 1/16 of an inch deep. You may also be able to simply sprinkle them on top of the soil.
Place the pot or seed starter near a window that faces west or south, but not in any direct sunlight.
Mist the soil using a spray bottle and room-temperature distilled water. Do not overly soak the seeds.
Cover the top of the pot or the seed starter with a plastic bag or plastic wrap to create a greenhouse-like effect. Secure it firmly with tape or rubber bands, but make sure it can still be easily removed for daily watering.
Continue watering each day to prevent the soil from drying out.
Transplant the herb like other herbs when it has reached 3 to 4 inches or it needs more room. This step is optional. Make sure to transplant it with ample soil around it to prevent damaging the roots.
Things You Will Need
- Calea zacatechichi seeds
- Bowl
- Distilled water
- Cloth
- Seed starter or pot
- Potting soil
- Spray bottle
- Plastic wrap
- Tape


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Wednesday, July 5
Plot flowers
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They are all pretty, but that last one of the poppy is a stunning art picture quality image.ReplyDeleteReplies
It's just a pity about the pollen beetles, Deborah.Delete
I didn't know that they were beetles! You could edit them out though.Delete
Yes I could, Deborah and probably would if I was making a print but I reckoned at this size they weren't too obvious. In fact I didn't notice them in real life or the easier solution would have been to knock them off. I hope that they don't home in on the sweet peasDelete
Beautiful! I like the poppies.ReplyDeleteReplies
So do I, EndahDelete
Yes, lovely! My poppy seems to have given up now though.ReplyDeleteReplies
I have some oriental poppies that flowered earlier, Belinda. These were tiny plug plants a few months ago.Delete
Beautiful! I had a few lupines in one of our borders but I think they died off - will have to seed some more as I do love them.ReplyDeleteReplies
Mine came in a collection of tiny plug plants earlier this year, Margaret. I just wanted to fill the border on the allotment. I had no idea what I would get.Delete
Oh...loved the close-up of that poppy.xxxReplyDeleteReplies
Glad that you like it, DinaDelete
Beautiful colours!ReplyDeleteReplies
It's a colourful time of year, Malar.Delete
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Grilled Caipirinha
You can kinda get a caramel type flavor when you make your caipirinha this way. It involves a grill, which is pretty much always a good idea in the summertime, no? This caipirinha cocktail recipe grills sugar-dipped limes and muddles them with cachaça, sugar, and ice. Get ready, get set, go!
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- 45 years old
- Born on February 13, 1970 .
- Passed away on June 30, 2015 .
Hey Jimbo, nothing like excellent headphones like you may have worn. Add a little scotch, a good cigar and I went to Katmandu thinking about you...smiling with me...blame it on midnight...shame on the moon. Let freedom ring. Dan b 7-3-18
On the date of Jimbo's 47th I think of what a great son, brother, wife and friend he was. He is missed by all.
Dear Alison, I am thinking of you always, but especially this week. I did not have the pleasure of meeting Jim, if he came to Costa Rica it would have been many years ago. But I do realize that he was one of a kind and I congratulate you on the person that you are and the way you shaped him. Dear Alison, I didn't know Jim, but I do know you, my thoughts are with you and I take this oportunity to remind you that you too are one of a kind: strong, an inspiration to all, your love of life, your laughter, your amazing vitality are very much admired. I hope the stars will take away your sandness, may hope forever wipe away your tears and above all the love of those around you make you stronger, secure in the knowledge you are very well loved and through you we also love your family.
Missing you on your birthday Jimbo... You are always in our thoughts kind sir. Love and miss you so much Homie G. -Ryan and Kate Burroughs
Jim's birthday is today FEBRUARY 13. Jim is with us every day as we have a picture of him in 2 places we spend time in every day. The pictures of Jim as a kid are the ones we best visualize him but we were glad to be able to spend some time with the little boy all grown up. His memory is strong in our hearts!! Love, Joan and Bill Ford
I was a great friend of Jim's in his New York days, prior to his move to the west coast. I just found out about his passing and wish I knew him past 9th grade. I'll always remember the fun we had with Intellivision, staying up so late to see SNL, all the good times playing soccer, spying on the High School senior girls next door, and of course, the music. He introduced me to my favorites band of all time (Van Halen) and the joy of guitar solos. (Not his at that age though
Jim (Jimmy!) and I were best friends from 12-14, before he left for California. We lost touch and over the years I'd tried many times to track him down, but to no avail (too many Jim Youngs out there). Today I learned of his death, and I'm heartbroken. I feel like I've finally found my long lost pal and he's gone. I wish I could be kicking around old stories with him. We played in our first band together. We had to have been 14, because it was definitely in 1984, and of course I know that because that was when the Van Halen album came out, and he was obsessed with Van Halen. My parents wouldn't let me go to the concert, but he went and gave me every detail the next day. We were both just learning guitar, he had started a few months before me and would show me stuff. We were TERRIBLE, but it was the most fun ever, kids dreaming of being rock stars. I'm so glad he went on to have a life with music, as did I. I wish I'd been able to know him over the years. I'm glad to be reading all the warm stories everyone's sharing here.
Jim was always laughing and playing music. I have a lot of memories of him and they all involve a smile and a tune.
Jimbo, You left us with great memories. In the end, that is all we can ever ask for when we depart; Love and memories. Two of the memories immediately stick out in my mind. The first was playing you in tennis for the first time back in 1998 in Huntington Beach. I had never picked up a racket before (but I spoke a big game). Upon playing, you immediately realized that I sucked. You then laughed out loud but then began to help me with my game. I never really said thank you for your patience with me. The second was on Clint's bachelor party. Both of us brought our guitars camping and, again, I just learned how to play. You were again patient with me and taught me a riff to play in the background while you rocked it. These were very insignificant acts for someone watching from the outside. But very powerful for me who was the student on the inside. Thank you Jim for your time and patience with me.
Jimbo, you were a rock in our family, maybe because you had to be, but you took it as a challenge. You're philosophy of conflict resolution mixed with a little man law made way for a new enlightenment. You kept things simple, always spoke from the heart, and really made a difference. I commend you for your selflessness, and applaud you for your humanity. You've had a severe impact on my life and I respect you for making the hard decisions you've made. You will always be family to me, and you shall live on through my actions, dictated by a mind that holds your positive reactions to hard problems very close to my heart. Thank you sir. I love you man, always will.
Jim is a star that appeared long ago in our galaxy, and that star will always shine for us. Bill and Joan Ford
Hi Jim, I was taking my early morning walk and gravity was directing me to the Venice Beach pier. I was thinking of you and the coming July 4th, along with the freedom it represents for us here, and for those beyond. While doing this I took a few pictures and the last one I felt was a kindred spirit so it is what I am giving to you. I knew you for a couple decades through family, friends, fans, and fairways with your spirit for life always present. Your job at Cypress Golf Club was a good 'deal' for many of us, however your spirit for life was a very good deal for all. Keep teeing it up Jimbo...this Bud's for you! Thanks, Dan Bender
I didn't have the priviledge to know Jim, but I know he was a very special person, it would have been wonderful to have shared a bit of the path with him, but it was not to be. I light candle for him and for the family he loved so well. I think that this is something that Jim might send: It is especially for Alison and Doah: When tomorrow starts without me, and I'm not here to see, If the sun should rise and find your eyes filled with tears for me. I wish so much you wouldn't cry, the way you did today, while thinking of the many things we didn't get to share. I known how much you love me, as much as I love you, and each time you think of me, I know you'll miss me too. When tomorrow starts without me, don't think we're far apart, for every time you think of me, I'm right there in your heart. With all my love, Jenny
You will be missed but never forgotten, especially all the love and laughter. Forever my brother. XXOO
I got to experience Bo's first trip to Vegas, Notre Dame vs. USC, late night wakeup calls and unfortunately Clint's poor placement of his socks and watch. Great guy who will be sorely missed.
At Clint and Mandy's wedding Jim told the worst/ funniest story about an inappropriate watch placement. As the grooms mom I was so shocked. Over the years that story has had me repeatedly laughing. Memories !!


text: An East German psychotherapist explores, in an occasionally affecting way, the experience of living within a totalitarian system. It was a system in which a citizen had to guard his utterances not only outside but inside the home, because parents could not speak too freely in front of children, who might themselves be indiscreet or inadvertently betray them. The individual was required not merely to conform but to show enthusiasm for the system. It was not possible, Maaz writes, ``to escape this personality deformation.'' The East German system used overt force, including torture and arrest, as well as the indirect force of legal insecurity, reprisals, intimidation, indoctrination, and fear. It required one to ``sacrifice emotional spontaneity, all frankness and honesty, as well as [one's] critical faculty,'' even to preserve a ``relatively safe life of subservience.'' Few were able to resist the pressure. Millions participated regularly in huge ``jubilation marches,'' and an estimated half a million citizens were informants of the Stasi, the secret police. It was little wonder that the capacity for independent thought and action became increasingly rare. In describing this process, Maaz is persuasive and, in a book published originally in 1990 in Germany, prescient regarding the difficulties that East Germans would face in adjusting to democracy. When dealing with the more theoretical foundations of a controlled psychological environment he is less convincing, as when he complains about the authoritarian technique of ``forcing children to sit on the potty''; he is even self- contradictory when, discussing his therapeutic work with patients, he describes the act of emigration from East Germany as a ``sadomasochistic defense of their dammed-up aggression.'' And when he fears for a new economic expansion that will ``exacerbate the ecological crisis'' and ``step up the armaments business,'' he is venturing beyond his area of expertise. Like the curate's egg, good in parts.


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Not since Trevor dragged his big double bass into the middle of a field have I worked with as much of a trooper as Laura on a senior shoot. The afternoon started quietly at the Henry Clay Estate getting Laura with some of the lovely early spring foliage.
But we had a shot list that included her car, her favorite book, her Georgetown College gear, the Triangle Park fountain and a Downtown look now known as "Annie Lights."
Through it all, Laura did not flag, did not complain, and was always seconds away from flashing her elegant smile.
With that kind of patience -- I'm not going to pretend photo shoots are non-stop tons o' fun -- it is no wonder she's never seen anything lower than an A on her report card, even going through the Academy at Henry Clay High. And we can already predict she will have all the patience she needs as a veterinarian. (Ever take a cat to the vet?)


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|Jared Spool: Journey to the centre of Design
Jared Spool's opening keynote was perhaps deliberately inflammatory. If you go into a room of IAs and say UCD is dead you probably run the risk of losing half the audience within the first two minutes.
However, provocations aside, Spool raised some important issues that we need to figure out if we are working in a commercial environment where IA and usability are often questioned as being expensive luxuries.
UCD as dogma
His first observation was that companies that design with a UCD process are missing a trick. If the 20% of your users provide more than 80% of your revenue than designing for all users is inefficient. In effect UCD is an inefficient methodology that has become dogma.
Spool states that he challenges anybody to show him a product that has been developed in a UCD way that was deemed as a success. He argued that the iPod was developed without this methodology, 37 signals famously 'design for themselves'. I thought this was over stepping the mark a little but it was all good theatre – let the show go on I guess.
What defines the best teams?
Making the observation that the best teams actually did away with parts of their methodology, Spool gave us some research findings into the best teams in the design world.
He stated that the best teams;
- Ignored elements of their methodology
- Focused on tricks and techniques to make things work better for each team member
- Constantly exploring new tricks and techniques for their toolbox
- Used a process as a recipe of techniques different for every application, not a step by step, or a one size fits all
The teams that were struggling were those chained to their methodologies and become entrenched in a kind of dogma. Spool talks about dogma as 'unquestioned faith independent of any supporting evidence'.
Perhaps its best to forget about the word, but more importantly how we see dogma in business culture. Those that innovate, shrug off agreed ways of doing things, and take a free-thinking approach to practically change their environment and working practice.
In any working process people are the most important factor in a successful project, the team has the biggest part to play, and how it operates is key.Spool neatly reasserted this by telling the stone soup story, but it effectively encapsulates the collaborative model I wrote about here.
Qualities of innovative business cultures
Finally and most memorably, aside from the amusing audience participation routines, Spool covered 3 core UX attributes. Personally I think they are more like the defining qualities of the cultures of successful innovative companies.
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|They exhibited the following typified by a simple sentence;Vision:
"Can you go up to anyone and ask what the design will do five years from now?"
Feedback: "In the last 6 weeks, have you spent more than 2 hours watching someone using your, or your competitor's, product?"
Culture: "In the last 6 weeks, have you rewarded a team member for creating a major design failure?"
In summary, Spool stated the need to focus on informed design and reward mistakes. Though I felt his conclusion lacked the bite of the start and the momentum of the middle, his keynote set just the right tone for the next 3 days.
The speakers throughout IA Summit 2008 have challenged us, (uncomfortably at times), to think differently about our work and roles in this ever-changing landscape.
Informed design decisions should be at the heart of what we do of course. Design research is at the bedrock of the work we produce.
But we need to be free to experiment and not become too concerned about making mistakes. Innovation can never thrive in a culture of blame, constrained by
It is important we focus on the three statements above but perhaps it is the decision makers who need to be asking these questions and getting their UX teams to act on them.
As a footnote to this I discovered this post by David Armano from the Critical Mass blog.
Tags: Company Culture, David Armano, design dogma, Design Practice, IA Summit 2008, Jared Spool, UCD, Usability, User Centred Design, User Experience


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Now, there are a variety of ways to do Close Reading, but I follow the same basic set up for each of my close reading lessons and they always revolve around making sure we are rereading the text, addressing a specific focus (aligned to the Common Core Standards) and citing evidence directly from the text. These are three very important parts of Close Reading. By having a specific focus for each rereading, aligned directly to a Common Core Standard, I find that I feel most successful with our Close Reading and the students are engaged and learning!
I set up my Close Reading lessons the same for each week, regardless of if I am using a book or a passage. I set aside about 15-20 minutes for each day- the first day usually goes the quickest since I do not have my students responding via a graphic organizer, rather it is just a discussion to check for overall understanding.
Here's examples of two books I have used from my classroom library to address different standards via Close Reading. These are actually two books I had been somewhat reluctant to use with my little friends because I thought they were too difficult for my them to analyze, but both books were just perfect for a Close Read! I read the whole story for the 1st reads with each story and then focused in on specific pages of the story for the 2nd and 3rd reads. As you'll see, I also used Wikki Stix with my little friends to code the text since I didn't have a copy for each student. My little friends sure did love adding those sticky little stix to the page to show their evidence for their responses!
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Best Jogging Strollers
Having an all-rounder baby stroller just makes everything a lot easier. And when we say all-rounder, we are talking about Schwinn Turismo Swivel Single Jogger, which you can use for some walk or jog, a trip to the park or grocery, or even a short trip to the beach or the countryside. Now, you can go to places with your baby in the most convenient way possible.
- Schwinn Turismo Swivel Single Jogger measures 49 inches W x 43.7 inches H x 24 inches D. It weighs 24.5 pounds.
- The same is constructed with aluminum frame and crafted with 420D polyester fabric.
- It can accommodate a single child up to 50 pounds.
Get further details and buy now on Amazon.com
Pros & Cons
- All-terrain wheels – Jogger strollers, as compared to other strollers, are known for its solid construction that is highly needed for heavy duty performance. Turismo Stroller will surely exceed your expectations with its all-terrain wheels. The front wheel is a 12-inch swivel wheel that locks forward to achieve stability during ride. The two rear wheels measure 16 inches each that run with ease for easy maneuvering. Since it is has all-terrain wheels with excellent suspension, you can bring your baby anywhere your walk or jog may be and still get superior comfort for the baby.
- Lightweight – Generally, jogger strollers are the heavier types of strollers, primarily because of its essential features that stay true to its use or purpose. But with its 24.5-pound weight, Turismo Swivel Single Jogger is relatively a light jogger. As abovementioned, this one is built with lightweight aluminum frame for easy handling. So if there is a need to transport the stroller from one place to another, you will not have to worry about anything.
- Convenient – A jogger stroller cannot be said as totally reliable in the absence of another important factor- convenience.
Upon opening of the package, the easy assembly of this stroller will let you know how convenient can strolling be with your baby. As to its parts, this stroller comes with a multi-position reclining so your baby will feel comfortable whatever his or her mood may be. This way, you can proceed to your workout without any inconvenience. It has a large canopy with built-in rain visor so your baby is protected from both rain and heat. With canopy on, you can still view activities of your baby through the viewing window on top. Also, it comes with double trays for both the adult and baby. The baby's try pivots so you can easily place or get the baby inside or out his or her seat. Moreover, it has a wrist strap to make sure you are connected as well as adjustable handlebar so anyone, regardless of height, can experience the greatness of this stroller.
The Schwinn Turismo Swivel Single Jogger has also some disadvantages. First, the jogger is bulky even when folded so it placing this in the trunk of the car challenging and can take a lot of space. Another thing is that this stroller does not have hand brakes like other strollers do, which will positively help you slow down while walking or running down the hill and in case you need to come to a full instantaneous stop. Lastly, if you are buying this for the MP3 speaker, it is never too late to realize that the MP3 speaker is cheap and not a great alternative to your music player.
No doubt, Turismo Swivel Single Stroller is a great choice for parents who want to accomplish their health goals, while spending some quality and fun time with kids. It is designed to provide maximum comfort and superior safety for their ultimate rides.


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POSTED BY Coley Ward ON 9:59 am, October 18, 2006 - POSTED IN News reel
The Padres are encouraging manager Bruce Bochy to find another job and it looks like Bochy might be heading to the Giants. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Despite leading the Padres to two consecutive National League West titles, Bochy's future in San Diego has been cloudy since Sandy Alderson was hired as chief executive officer in 2004. Bochy, who has managed the Padres since 1995, has one year left on his contract and gotten no indication his deal will be extended or renewed.
According to the Chronicle, Bochy has reportedly "accepted the Pares offer to let him pursue other jobs." Really? The Padres are than anxious to get rid of Bochy that they are encouraging him to find work elsewhere? Are they crazy?
Bochy guided the Padres to the playoffs this year despite a roster that was almost totally devoid of talent. On the eve of the Padres' first playoff game this season, my buddy Zvee sent out an email that I think best summed up the Padres' team. It read:
HOW IS THIS A PLAYOFF STARTING LINEUP!?!UGH!D Roberts LFB Giles RF T Walker 2B
A Gonzalez 1B
J Bard C
M Cameron CF
R Branyan 3B
G Blum SS
David Wells P


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A wonderful surprise has arrived in the mail! I won these heavenly goodies in the Little Black Door giveaway! Delightful soap from Barr-Co Soap Shop and a gorgeous Simpatico candle. You can find these at K. Hall Designs in St. Louis. They are beautifully made and smell delicious! Thank you so much, Elizabeth! We are truly enjoying them. Every mom wants her home to smell nice... these are perfect!
I adore Elizabeth and her blog, Little Black Door. She is witty, creative, and always "down to earth". When you are in need of some charming decorating inspiration, hop on over to her blog. I have loved her blog from the moment I saw her hallway art corner on Pinterest. The art teacher in me still swoons when I think of it!
Hope you all have a very happy weekend! Do you have any surprises to share?
xoxo, Elizabeth


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10/30/2012 | Share this article: View CommentsBy LB ~
Well, after my last child was born, I started to suffer from depression. It was so bad that I tried to commit suicide five times in a period of two years. I felt something was missing in my life (I even experienced with metaphysics for a while), it didn't work, so I turned to a church. Our whole family started to go to church on a regular basis. I felt it uplifted me, it made me feel whole and I felt like I found the place where I belong. I stopped using my anti-depressants and didn't have a bad episode of depression again. I became VERY religious and wanted to do all things good and tell people about Jesus and I did just that, but one thing I couldn't do was stop smoking.
I got baptised and wanted to change my life, be a better person etc. etc, but the smoking got me down. I started to question everything, like if it is really so bad that I will burn in hell forever! For months I felt condemned, I felt guilty, I tried to stop smoking and still want to, but until now, I just couldn't.
With this questioning, I came across interesting things for example that some things in the bible is mistranslated. That Christianity was not the first religion.
Now I lean more towards the fact that Christianity was made up to control people. That the bible was written by people, and through the years it has been changed so much to fit what people MUST believe, or what they want people to believe.
At this stage, I am very confused, mostly because of the punishment that hangs over my head - not that I believe it so much anymore, but I am scared of the what if I am wrong. I cannot fully explain why I felt so much better belonging to a church and attending services. Maybe I looked outside myself to be healed? Maybe I believed that the healing must come from a higher power and so it manifested? Maybe someone can give me more clarity on this. I also wonder sometimes why people say their prayers do get answered if Christianity is fake?
I don't know what to call myself at this stage, but through all the things I have read and went over in my mind, I don't want to be a Christian - it just seems you can't enjoy anything without feeling guilty about it!
I do believe that every person has a soul, so I am not an atheist. I do believe there is life after death, but I also tend to believe that your soul goes through stages to learn lessons. I also do believe that there is a Higher Power, the beginning of it all, I believe there is other spirits around us, but how it all ads up, I still have to figure out.
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