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Sir James McNeish was knighted for services to literature in 2010. He maintained that he would never have become the writer he was without the experience gained from working and living in foreign cultures.
In 2012, Sir James and Lady McNeish made a donation to the Trust to encourage promising writers and journalists to travel and live in another culture. The donation enabled the Trust to create its first partnered Fellowship – the Winston Churchill McNeish Writers Fellowship.
Sadly Sir James passed away in November 2016. The Trust wishes to acknowledge Sir James' and Lady McNeish's foresight and generosity. It thanks the McNeish family for its continued support for the fellowship.


text: A model of how radical graphic and conceptual design can bring perspective to a complex series of events, this creative book divides the brutal war into four periods, from 1914's "War of Illusions," to the revolutions of 1917, which ushered in an era, however ephemeral, of peace. Each period, in turn, is recounted four times--from the perspectives of politicians, generals, soldiers and civilians. This emphasis on the subjectivity of individual experience helps J .M. Winter avoid historical generalizations and allows him to explain the rationale--or lack thereof--behind key decisions.

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About the Game!
Bubble Fun Deluxe is an educational game focused on building basic color, letter and number recognition in preschool aged children. Bubbles float from the bottom of the screen that contain a letter, number or color. The object of the game is to pop a specific bubble that is chosen at the beginning of each round. Points are rewarded when the right bubble is popped.
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When a bubble is popped, a sound is played that corresponds to the letter, number or color that was popped. If a bubble that contains the letter "B" is popped, the letter "B" is spoken. This helps the child establish the "Sight to Sound" relationship associated with colors, letters and numbers.
Bubble Fun Deluxe is a fun way for your preschooler to associate sights and sounds to basic letters, numbers and colors!


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12 Words Only Wyomingites Will Understand
OnlyInYourState.com is a fun website full of fascinating facts about the Cowboy State. Last week, they published an article titled "12 Words You Will Only Understand If You're From Wyoming."
Here's a few terms you may have heard, or used, before:
Buckle Bunny - Women who are attracted to rodeo cowboys are often referred to as "buckle bunnies."
10 Miles of Dirt - If you wake up with a hangover, someone might say you look like "10 miles of dirt."
Barking Squirrel - Have you ever heard prairie dogs communicating with each other? Here in Wyoming, we call them "barking squirrels."
Rocky Mountain Canary - If you see a donkey or a burro, you're looking at a "Rocky Mountain Canary."
Gully Washer - Wyoming is well known for wild weather. Severe thunderstorms are sometimes called "gully washers."
Biscuit - You won't find a breakfast diner anywhere in Wyoming that doesn't serve biscuits and gravy. However, this word is also used to describe a saddle horn.
How many Wyoming words do you know? Check out the full list here.


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My apologies for delayed postings. There have been some technical difficulties (and a lot of wasted hours) resulting from the Google virus attack. I believe everything is back to normal and up-to-date. We resume our regularly scheduled programming with this (and be sure to check out the other posts).
When the TwobyTwo for "king" popped up no the radar, we immediately thought of the Mel Brooks movie.
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There's a future king who's a real cutie:
Daily Express
There was a king from afar:
|King Tut
|Steve Martin as King Tut
A Wild and Crazy Guy
Saturday Night Live, 1978
|Don King
How about this? You can be king for a day and the mantle is light!
Show us your "king-ly" twinchies!
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I have written here in Cyrsti's Condo too much lately about my bra shopping trip recently. What I didn't mention was how I planned to "fill" my purchase.
Last night, Liz and I were planning to go see her Dad, grocery shop and run a few other errands. I have a low cut long black sweater I was planning to wear, so I figured it was time to "play" with my new bra. It's a "C" cup and I'm only a full "A" with the effects of HRT. The "B" turned out to be a bitch to fill. With the bra, I also bought a pair of small inserts to fill out my "C" bra which turned out to not be enough to work.
At my size, I need a full "C" or "D" to fill out my fashion needs plus I feel breasts are one of the top three tools to a successful presentation. I don't have a visible Adam's Apple to speak of (no pun intended) but do have a short thick neck. I need a "V" neck top to add a longer line to my upper torso look. Any cleavage I can add helps me present feminine with less problems plus if a person is in the middle reading me as a transgender woman, breasts may put me over the top but I digress.
I still needed "fill" to go to a full "C". I didn't want to resort to going back to my "D" silicone breast forms but I did. Turned out to be a good move. The only thing I sacrificed was my pride. My new bra was an under wire push up model so between my natural breast growth and the inserts, I was easily able to achieve a realistic breast look. Specifically when I bent over at all. I was happy, my girls weren't all mine of course but anymore more, who knows how many genetic women aren't playing the same game?
Once again I wondered "what took me so long, you boob!"
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
I'm Such a Boob!
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text: Retirement development in Maidenhead honours Sir Edward William Elgar 10 November 2017 The UK's leading retirement housebuilder, McCarthy and Stone, has announced the name of its new Retirement Living development on Bridge Avenue in Maidenhead, Elgar Place, named in honour of English composer, Sir Edward William Elgar. Sir Edward William Elgar, the renowned composer, whose work entered the British and International classical concert repertoire, was a regular visitor to Berkshire and often resided in Maidenhead where he conducted, performed and taught locally. Georgina Akers, Regional Sales and Marketing Director for McCarthy and Stone South East, said: "Sir Edward William Elgar played a significant part in English history for his contribution to classical music. Having visited Maidenhead on a number of occasions, where he composed, conducted and taught in the area, we thought naming our new development Elgar Place would be a fitting tribute." "McCarthy and Stone has already established a presence in Maidenhead and we are looking forward to building on the success of our Swift House Retirement Living Plus development with our new Elgar Place development. We believe this latest prestigious development will play a real part in helping to bring friends and family together in later life – something we feel is incredibly important and will continue to bring many positive benefits to the area." Comprising a selection of 38 one and two bedroom Retirement Living apartments, exclusively designed for people aged 60 and over, Elgar Place provides everything homeowners could want for a relaxing retirement. All those who make the development their home can enjoy an active, independent lifestyle, with the opportunity to benefit from companionship when desired and privacy when needed. Once complete, features at the new development will include a stunning club lounge, ideal for socialising with friends, a patio terrace in which to relax, plus a comfortable guest suite should homeowners have friends or relatives to stay. A dedicated Concierge will take care of the day-to-day running of the development; while a secure entry system and 24-hour emergency call points will provide added peace-of-mind. Set in a prominent location, Elgar Place is in close proximity to a fantastic range of local amenities, including a Sainsbury's supermarket and the local high street, which has an array of cafes and shops. Retirees are invited to explore the benefits of downsizing at McCarthy and Stone's age exclusive apartments in Maidenhead at a Discovery Day on Thursday 23rd November. The event will be held at the Holiday Inn on Manor Lane from 11am until 3pm to enjoy light refreshments, with the sales team on hand to answer any questions potential purchasers may have. More than nine out of ten customers would recommend McCarthy and Stone to a friend, ensuring it has received the full Five Star award for customer satisfaction from the Home Builders Federation for 12 years' running. McCarthy and Stone is the only UK housebuilder of any size or type to achieve this accolade for 12 years, which is every year the awards have been run. Those interested in Retirement Living at McCarthy and Stone's latest Maidenhead development are invited to call 0800 201 4743 or click here.


text: Click on the product you want to see & you will be taken to my Etsy page. Etsy is a place to buy handmade and vintage items from around the world. I set up my Etsy shop, elliesshop, in June of 2010. It is just another way to purchase pieces from ellies.com. Here, you will see all of the different things I offer for custom painting (my staples) and a few pieces that I have painted that are for sale. I like to play around with new ideas every now and then. You can find these little treasures in my Etsy shop, as well. Anything you see in elliesshop can be split into two payments. It works like this: make your down payment for half, then, when the item is ready to ship, you pay the remaining balance before it is sent to you. If you prefer this option, call me, send an email or an Etsy conversation and I will set it up! If you have yet to discover Etsy, I promise, you will love it! You may never go to the mall again!


text: InsideSimRacing.tv presents a review of F1 2011 by Codemasters. This review comes not after just a quick feel for the game, but after playing the career mode and looking for every last new and old detail of the game. F1 2010 was only a year ago and a worthy game that did leave much of the community wanting for more. In this review you find out if Codemasters went the extra mile and gave sim racers what they wanted out of the most prestigious name in all of racing.


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Unfortunately, while it's been a blast, I need to step away from the blog for awhile. I've been making plans to move halfway across the country (NY to Texas… scary o_o) and that has added a ton of stress to my already stressful life. In light of that, I need to keep my priorities in order and the blog is low-man on the totem. I'll still continue reading—albeit not as obsessively—and reviewing on Goodreads (My profile is here, I hope to see y'all over there!).
I'll probably be more active in commenting on other blogs too lol. And, of course, I'll still be on twitter because I love it! I'm not sure when/if I'll be back to the blog. I'm hoping I will and sooner rather than later. I have 3 reviews scheduled for this coming week and next Monday that will still be posted. I just want to thank everyone that has followed me even though I read slow and couldn't post on a regular basis :x Means a lot that y'all stuck with me. ♥ Happy reading, everyone.


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It seems like Intel isn't the only manufacturer struggling with chip vulnerabilities. Researchers from California University have discovered three side channel attacks that are possible on NVIDIA's graphics chips. While quite different from the Meltdown and Specter flaws, they sound worrying nonetheless.
These attacks allow the perpetrators to figure out user passwords, monitor online activity and even decipher the nature of hidden neural networks using machine learning. The bright side is that very few highly skilled individuals should be able to use these methods to steal private information, and all three require the presence of a malicious program embedded in a downloaded app.
These attacks are carried out using APIs like OpenGL and DirectX. As these graphics APIs are accessible to any app with user level access, they can be carried out without admin level access.
Back in the day, these hacks would not have been possible, but now GPUs are being utilized for more and more tasks. From simple hardware acceleration to cloud computing, NVIDIA's hardware is seeing increased adoption with every passing year.
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The first kind of attack is aided by tracking user activity on the web. When the victim opens the malicious app, it creates a spy via OpenGL to monitor the browser which uses the GPU for rendering. Every website has a unique trace in terms of GPU utilization due to the different number of objects and different sizes of objects being rendered.
The researchers monitored either the VRAM usage over time or GPU performance levels and fed these figures to a machine learning based classifier, achieving website fingerprinting with high accuracy. The spy can reliably obtain sufficient information to fully monitor what the user has been doing on the web.
In the second attack, the authors extracted user passwords. Each time the user types a character, the whole password textbox is offloaded onto the GPU's VRAM as a texture. Monitoring the interval between consecutive memory swaps revealed the number of characters and inter-keystroke timing. These can be used to crack the passwords.
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The third attack targets a computational application in the cloud. The attacker launches a malicious computational workload on the GPU which operates alongside the victim's application. Depending on neural network parameters, the intensity and pattern of contention on the cache, memory and functional units differ over time which can be measured. The attacker uses machine learning-based classification on the obtained traces to extract the victim's neural network structure, such as number of neurons in a specific layer of a deep neural network.
These findings were reported to NVIDIA and team green plans to patch them by giving the system admin the option to block performance statistics access to user level processes. A draft of the research paper was also shared with the AMD and Intel security teams to allow them to check their hardware for these flaws.
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By Richard Menta 1/28/07
Back in October 2004 we reviewed the SwiMP3, an MP3 player designed for the swimming pool. For those who think this was designed for fatuous homeowners just looking for an unusual toy for the pool think again. The SwiMP3 is for athletes and the health conscious who regularly do laps around the pool, a great way to get in shape, but one that can be monotonous in large doses. In our review we found that the original SwiMp3 did a fine job of relieving that monotony thanks to the use of bone conduction to transmit the music to the brain under all that water.
SwiMP3 v2
Nearly three years later Finis has come up with an update to that original water portable. The SwiMP3 V2 works the same as V1, but streamlines things a bit by incorporating the player's electronics within the cheekphones themselves. Finis has bumped up the memory, but oddly only to 256MB from the original's 128MB. To be honest, we thought 256MB was light back in 2004 when we reviewed the first model. With flash memory prices significantly down since then it is a little surprising the memory was only boosted to one quarter of a gig. The price has dropped to $199, making this player a must have for any kid on the high school swim team.
Other MP3 stories:
Barbie MP3 Player
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Last night was Wednesday night and in our house that means…Awana. For those of you who aren't familiar with Awana, it's a program for kids that our church decided to start last year. We run it every Wednesday night for an hour and a half.
We have one really unruly little boy who has been a regular since it started. He is definitely our biggest behavior problem almost every week. He has a good heart but he has a super hard time controlling his impulses, apparently. Well, this little guy (who I will call Dylan) has been bringing a friend for about the last month, which we encourage. But there are always exceptions. Like this "friend," (who I will call Wayne.) In fact, it's funny that they call each other friends because they spend the whole time each week calling each other names, fighting, and in general being horrible distractions for the rest of the kids. Picture two wolverines fighting in the middle of the room while twenty other kids try to quietly read and learn Bible verses. Yeah, that's pretty accurate.
So the reason this concerns me is that in our Awana program, I'm the Commander. Which means that when there are serious discipline problems (like little Wayne) I am the person who has to handle them. Last week Wayne's teacher was at her wit's end with him and I attempted to give him a warning. I told him that if his behavior didn't improve, he would be asked to not return.
This is the part I really struggle with. How do you kick a kid out of church? Isn't that where really bad kids need to be? Isn't that like telling someone they are too fat for Weight Watchers? Well last night, little Wayne was uttering racial slurs and pushing other kids against the wall during game time and being a giant turd. So I told him he couldn't come back if he chose to act that way. I felt terrible. Because I think this kid is really lost in a bigger sense than, like - can't find your mom in Wal-mart. At the end of the night, I gave him a ride home so that I could tell his mom he wouldn't be attending anymore which also felt really crappy to me.
On the way home, Wayne told me that his parents are divorced and how he has already had Saturday School many times this year and that his mom recently signed him up for "Boot Camp" for bad kids. He wasn't bragging – just telling me the facts. When his mom came to the door, I saw a woman who looked really tired but not at all surprised to see her son in trouble once again. So I caved – instead of telling her that Wayne couldn't come back, I told her that he needed to take a week off and then he would get another chance. I know the leaders at Awana are going to be mad at me for letting him come back again because in all reality, his behavior won't change and it will be another week of torture for everyone involved.
Sue me for being a softy. And if anyone has any tips for handling wolverines, let me know…


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More than two-thirds of the way through the National Gallery of Art's lavish survey of Alexander Calder's prolific career, a small, little-known work stands out, as much for oddness as visual merit. ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,'' made by the American sculptor in 1947, when he was 49 and well established, is a bright red, upright, three-legged stabile, just under a yard tall. In the prolific flow of Calder's quirky, jovial, yet essentially formalist art, this self-portrait strikes a darker, more personal note.
The work's topmost shape has all the charm of a raised weapon, made truly medieval by three circular excisions along its cutting edge. But it also suggests an upturned face with gaping eyes or mouths desperate for nourishment. In addition, the piece recalls the anguished horse of Picasso's ''Guernica,'' its head thrown back in a scream. Calder, who spent much of his career alternating between France and America, had seen Picasso's antiwar picture almost as soon as it was made. ''Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' appears at what is more or less the peak of this 270-work exhibition, the first retrospective since 1976 in this country. The show has been organized by Marla Prather, curator of 20th-century art at the National Gallery, and Alexander S. C. Rower, the artist's grandson.
Adjoining galleries present Calder at his best, flying along in the 1940's and 50's; they brim with his most inspired levitational works, the signature painted metal stabiles and gently bobbing mobiles and the crystalline structures called ''Constellations,'' delineated with nothing more than lengths of wire connected by charming bits of hand-carved painted wood. These works all look great individually, but they also coalesce into magical environments, veritable gardens of elegant lines, free-floating leaf shapes and dancing shadows -- all, except the shadows, given backbone by the unequivocal tones of red, black and white.
In the midst of this visual paradise, Calder's menacing self-portrait is like a sharp little thorn, a look behind the mask of playful accessibility and user-friendly modernism. It reveals a driven, omnivorous artist prone to borrow other artists' ideas and, at his best, rework them for his own purposes.
One of the strengths of this show, but also one of its weaknesses, is that the curators seem intent on making the same point, on pulling back the mask of Calder's great, diffuse reputation, itself a form of invisibility, and letting us see his progress, step by step. At times it's slow going, an exhibition perhaps most exciting for specialists and die-hard art lovers. But this may be what's necessary to give Calder the full and complex credit he deserves.Continue reading the main story
During his lifetime, he was heralded on both sides of the Atlantic. In Paris, he was friendly with, and exhibited with, the opposing camps of the Dada/Surrealists and the Abstraction-Creation Group. In New York, he was championed from the early 1930's by the Museum of Modern Art, one of three Americans to be included in Alfred H. Barr Jr.'s 1936 exhibition ''Cubism and Abstract Art.'' The first of his many retrospectives was held there in 1943.
But by the time Calder died in 1976, at the age of 78, his early radicalism could seem obscure. He had become, not unlike Henry Moore, known primarily as part of the establishment, a maker of high-brow, high-profile, sometimes bland public commissions, the best of which is probably ''La Grande Vitesse,'' the monumental red stabile that has become the civic logo of Grand Rapids, Mich. Somewhat zanier were the bright patchwork designs he created for three Braniff airplanes in the early 1970's. And the mobiles that he had perfected were being generalized by offspring beyond count, from svelte lamps and infant's crib toys to hippie wind chimes.
It's only a slight exaggeration to say that this show may make it possible to know Calder as only Calder knew Calder. It includes a number of rarely seen works, most notably several stunning relief-type mobiles from 1936. One of these show-stoppers, ''Red Panel,'' whose central motif is a finned metal peanut shape, painted white on one side and green on the other, suspended from its top edge, has not been exhibited in 55 years. Also present are the artist's early, Ashcan-like paintings, two dozen pieces of his inventive handmade jewelry and too many of his inert gouaches and paintings. (Calder's best drawing took place in three dimensions.)
Outside the exhibition galleries, larger, later stabiles and a few mobiles dot various planes of the East Wing atrium, hennishly mothered by the Gallery's gargantuan mobile, a permanent fixture. Three large stabiles greet the visitor just outside the entrance. An exhaustive catalogue measures Calder's life in monthly and sometimes daily increments, quoting his frequent correspondence -- to his parents, to patrons like A. E. Gallatin -- describing and analyzing works in progress.
Calder, born in Lawton, Pa., in 1898, had a genius for building things and the added advantage of not much academic training in art, which ultimately made him something of a self-taught sculptor. His parents, themselves academically trained artists, gave him a set of tools when he was a young child and saw to it that he always had a workplace. He made his first sculpture at the age of 11, for his father's birthday, a little duck formed from a sheet of brass, cleverly cut, folded and, for eyes, neatly punctured. Included in the first gallery of this exhibition, the duck sits upright, its round belly weighted by the ballast of its tail.
After earning a degree in mechanical engineering in 1919, from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., and then studying painting for three years at the Art Students League in New York City, Calder took up his workbench tools again in 1926, to cure a sudden infatuation with the circus. He started making his legendary ''Cirque Calder,'' a miniature big top of ingeniously mechanized dolls, animals and props fashioned from scraps of wire, cork, wood and fabric. When Calder began staging private quasi-puppet shows of the circus in Paris in 1927, and then in New York, he was an instant hit with a host of avant-garde luminaries, including Marcel Duchamp, who would be the first to apply the word mobile to Calder's subsequent works.
Considered one of the first examples of kinetic or performance art, the ''Cirque Calder'' is too delicate to travel. But Carlos Vilardebo's lovely 1961 film, 19 minutes long, of Calder animating its tiny weight lifter, trapeze artists and knife thrower, fills the gap, revealing in embryo Calder's penchant for motion, suspension and witty abbreviation.
All that was missing was abstraction, which Calder apprehended in a flash, during a 1930 visit to Mondrian's studio in Paris. Viewing the artist's frameless environmental painting, a work of proto-installation art made by pinning squares of colored paper to the walls, was, Calder said, ''like the baby being slapped to make his lungs start working.'' Although Mondrian didn't agree, Calder thought the squares of color would be more interesting if they moved back and forth in space. The idea put his engineering skills to use and kept him busy for the rest of his life. Early efforts were sometimes motorized, but increasingly airborne compositions of gracefully weighted and balanced shapes soon took over, culminating in the magic at this show's center.
As these two turning points -- the circus and Mondrian's studio -- suggest, Calder's achievement stems from twin, not always compatible, ambitions to be a modernist and an entertainer. The show oscillates between these desires, from jokey clunkiness to impersonal austerity, until they begin to converge in the late 1930's, in a territory of Calder's own, where motion, weightlessness, clarity of structure and bold color, leavened with a buoyant, often humorous rigor, reign supreme, and chance is the main compositional principle.
Like Elie Nadelman and Stuart Davis, Calder translated modernism into an accessible American vernacular, accented in his case by echoes of toys, tools and weather vanes, but often based on phonemes introduced by Tanguy, Miro, Giacometti, Arp and Matisse. At his best, he took possession of these borrowed motifs through engineering, modern bulk-reducing material and inventive techniques. The 1934 ''Gibraltar,'' a roughly carved, conical piece of lignum vitae, is encircled midway up by a smooth, flat collar of walnut, a combination surely lifted from one of Tanguy's sculptural images. But ''Gibraltar'' becomes the template for a bevy of Calderesque variations featuring thin disks of painted metal perforated by pointed verticals that float through his work like skewered lily pads, as in ''Bougainvillier'' of 1947. Sometimes they even float free, as in ''Little Parasite,'' also of 1947, where a black perforated disk seems to hang in the air, toward the end of a long horizontal whiplash of wire anchored to a pointed structure descended from the original lignum vitae peak of ''Gibraltar.''
As with Nadelman and Davis, the historic radicalism of Calder's art moves in and out of sight. He was a mixer and go-between with free passage across all sorts of boundaries, between high and low art, painting and sculpture, art and science, the geometric and the natural. His travels were crucial to the development of nonfigurative sculpture that began with Gabo and Rodchenko in the early 1920's, and includes David Smith, Dan Flavin and Donald Judd.
This ambitious exhibition, which demonstrates the frequency with which Calder made sculpture new while also making it fun, should fix him in our sights.
''Alexander Calder'' remains at the National Gallery of Art, Fourth Street at Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, through July 12. The exhibition is sponsored by the GTE Corporation and will travel to the San Francisco Museum of Art (Sept. 4 to Dec. 1).Continue reading the main story


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A few words about a special kind of architecture particularly suited to the west coast of Mexico. I am a serious student of these matters, an architect, and I designed Villa Estrella according to some principles that I believe are both uniquely appropriate to its Pacific Coast environment, and also happen to coincide with personal values that I hold deeply.
In the villages of Mexico's Pacific coast, architecture is closer to the earth. Fences are made of sticks, building is predominantly in wood and adobe (sun-dried mud bricks) and the palapa structure, a simple shelter roofed with a thatch of woven palm fronds, endures in a form little changed since pre-Hispanic times. The isolation of the rural environment has produced a timeless vernacular architecture that…. hardly needs any architects.
Even the powerful Mexica or Aztec Empire, which extended as far west as the Pacific, showed little interest in building along this coast as it did in the Valley of Mexico. Yet we know that Montezuma and other great rulers made regular pilgrimages here in search of sun, sea, and recuperation. Perhaps the extravagant beauty seduced the Mexica visitors into a state of euphoria, reducing their usual ambition to build great monuments in stone to a simple desire to enjoy the seductive surroundings.
Not much has changed. When it comes to building along Mexico's Pacific coast, a different set of rules applies. The monumental elements so prevalent in most contemporary Mexican architecture – the stone-paved courtyards, massive walls, and formal haciendas are willingly discarded.
In their place is a more dreamlike architecture that has no doors, no windows, and very few walls. Angles are replaced by sensuous curves, edges are more rounded, and furniture is forsaken in favor of built-in benches and beds. The line between inside and outside has disappeared. Nature flows seamlessly, invading the house, drawing the occupants to live at one with the seductive and splendid surroundings. Natural rock and plants give the privacy, abundant flowers decorate the space, stunning views and sunshine infuse the house with glory.
The sounds of nature, the sound of wind swaying the palm fronds, the sound of waves surging on the rocks below, the call of birds all immerse the architecture with a symphony of wonder.
The steady sea breeze, warmed by the sun caresses and soothes the skin. The brilliant sun dances like diamonds on the blue ocean. The thick palapa umbrella cone provides the shelter and cool shade from the blazing merciless sun, an ancient design with venting at the top to let the heat escape. You live under and inside a hand crafted, hand woven masterpiece of natural beautiful palm fronds, thousands of them, woven into a simple structure of rustic poles that soothes the soul with its earthy beautiful hand made honesty.
Only natural materials are used. Leather for the furniture, hand woven fabrics, rustic wood, rough stone walls, palm fronds for the roof, clay tiles, and everywhere the plants. Rich, simple, natural textured materials, glorious coloured blossoms, butterflies, hummingbirds, fireflies.
Villa Estrella is the inheritor of these traditions; the antidote to a modern life of tension, technology, hurry and worry. The villa represents the deep felt desire of man to be at one with his natural surroundings, to live as simply as possible, in tune with the deepest rhythms of nature that make the earth turn.
We live with the cycles of the sun, sunrise, sunset, heat of day, cool of night, stunning brightness, velvet darkness. We live with the cycles of the moon and the tides, that infinite cycle, the rising and falling of the seas, the endless mating of sea and shore. The rhythm of the waves; those long deep swells that surge across the oceans in endless powerful rows, surging forever upon the shores below, a thundering drama of explosions on the beach. The cycle of the winds, that rise during the course of the day, only to die in the evenings. The cycles of the seasons that brings rains. The cycles of the pelicans and frigate birds appearing every day. The cycles of the whales appearing and disappearing every year. The cycles of plants that grow and flower. These are the cycles of nature that ground the spirit, bring us peace, comfort, joy and restore the balance of our souls.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
I Love The Summer Months
The fastest three months in the year for me are June, July and August. These three months, for me, go by in a flash. I love warm weather and when I was much younger the hot hot weather did not bother me a bit. And, I still love hot weather, I just wish I could be more active in the hot weather, but taking a break now and then is a must.
The Cincy T-shirt Fest was fun, but not as profitable as last year. Two of my helpers thought that the heat had something to do with the number on people that came out on Fountain Square. All in all, I enjoyed selling my t-shirts and talking with t-shirt buyers. One nice surprise was the popularity of a new t-shirt design by my fellow artist friend Sam Hollingsworth. I was really happy to see people snap up these t-shirts. Perhaps next year, I will be able to offer another new idea.
With August just being around the corner, I must get busy soon on Christmas. There are a few new ideas for products and I would like to see if they will fly. At the same time, I am working on a new painting. I have a local juried art show coming up in August - the Clifton Art Center is having a show to enter. Not that my political satire does well in Clifton, I, nevertheless, will give the judge of this exhibit the opportunity to pass on my work.
I am also very excited about reproducing a stamp painting from 1991 as hand-pulled silk screen prints. I have been doing a little reading on the historical background of the silk screen process recently. The idea of producing a quality piece of art work, done by hand, at a reasonable price, seems to embrace all those elements an artist would want. This particular piece of my art work, I have long believed, should be widely distributed because it speaks to the need for our energy independence. As a nation, in 1973, we should have come together politically and had a comprehensive energy plan to move towards energy independence. Expending American lives to keep oil flowing is an expensive endeavor as the conflicts we have been drawn in to can a test.
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4 comments:
- LceeL said...
I just read an article about a new catalyst which prevents the 'poisoning' of a fuel cell by carbon monoxide when using GASOLINE as the source for the cell. GASOLINE? Is it just me or have these idiots missed the point?
- July 19, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- Julie Schuler said...
I look forward to seeing your silkscreening process. I hope you blog it.
I am sad that back-to-school sales are starting and those cicadas have started up already!
- July 20, 2010 at 9:11 AM
- moneythoughts said...
That is a good idea Julie, and I will keep that in mind. I love the way you show your work in progress. I will give it a try.
- July 20, 2010 at 6:12 PM
- Robin said...
I love that you put your art on a shirt and make it accessible to everyone.
And you know, this would make a pretty great summer stock post too ;).
My photography is available for purchase - visit Around the Island Photography and bring home something beautiful today!
- July 21, 2010 at 3:30 AM


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Hooray! Hurricane Mathew has passed and its seems like Florida, Orlando in particular survived this epic hurricane. With everything that's been happening in Florida for the past few months, I can't help but think about the sunshine state and all the amazing places I've visited when I was still living there. Here's a list of places that are worth looking into when you're visiting Orlando and you'd like a quick trip beyond the city's disney route.
Cocoa Beach
Cocoa Beach at Port Canaveral is a popular place to go to for surfing and paddle boarding aside from New Smyrna and Melbourne near Orlando. We come here almost every week when we were living in Orlando because it's just an hour drive away. There's a lot of surf shacks in the area where you can rent surfboards and paddle boards. It's also a great place to go to watch and take photos of the sunrise because the sun rises there right in front of the pier. There's an awesome crab shack called Ms. Apples Crab Shack at Meritt Island which you might want to drop by when you're at Cocoa Beach. They have the sweetest fresh crabs, shrimps and clams that are way better than the ones from red lobster and it's cheap too. To anyone visiting Cocoa Beach do yourselves a favor and drop by this crabshack, their crabs are so fresh they're really really good! You can buy the packed seafood meals there and you can heat them in the shacks` microwave or pick your own crabs from their tank and ask them to cook them for you for a small fee.
Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center is also just outside of Orlando. It's a cool place to spend the day in and learn about outer space and the universe! Try to schedule your visit when there's a rocket launch. Watching a rocket launch is one of the coolest experience that you can have while visiting Florida. Check their website for the schedule.
Saint Petersburg
St. Petersburg is in the Gulf Coast of Florida and a part of Tampa Bay. St. Pete is a bit far from Orlando, almost 2 hours by car but definitely worth a visit. St. Pete is a big contrast from Orlando. The city has a very artsy and bohemian vibe.It has a lot of art museums to visit. Not one to be missed is the Salvador Dali Museum which houses all of Mr. Dali's amazing surreal artworks. (www.thedali.org).This is an amazing museum that everyone should visit when in St. Petersburg or Orlando.
The city's thriving boho and art community holds an event almost every week! They have festivals for art, music, food, wellness, yoga, spirituality and even mysticism! Try to visit from Friday to Sunday. Check out their website for more info about the city's upcoming events.
Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach is in the Atlantic Coast of Florida. It's an hour away drive from Orlando. Daytona is almost like Cocoa Beach but bigger.Just like Cocoa beach you can also surf, camp and stroll around the beach there. I love Cocoa Beach but I think Daytona has a better beach than Cocoa.The beach is a favorite spot for springbreakers and can get really crowded in the spring and in the summer. The place gets a bit quiet in the autumn but it`s still worth a visit.
St. Augustine
St. Augustine is almost a two hour drive from Orlando Florida. It is the oldest state in America and is worth visiting in any season. The town was first visited by the spanish so spanish architecture is seen all over town. The town has so much history. It is very pretty and quaint. There are a lot of Bed and Breakfast Inns facing the seaside in the area for people who are planning to stay the night. One of the cool things to do in St. Augustine is to go on a hunted tour in the autumn when the town in creepily engulfed by thick fog or watch the town light up in December with the town's amazing Christmas lights display.
I'm going to post a more detailed write up about these awesome places soon. I was suppose put Miami on the list but it's just a little too far from Orlando, I'll write about our experience there too on a different post. Happy travelling!


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Goth Clothing
Goth clothing, or gothic clothing, refers to the clothing associated with the Goth subculture. The Goth subculture began in England in the 1980s as a subgenre of punk rock. Goth rock is typified by dark music centered on the keyboard. The lyrics are usually introspective, and may be considered depressing in nature. In literature, the subculture includes horror and mystery, with a gloomy undertone. Additionally, Goth culture is associated with vampires, which is a literature and entertainment trend that waxes and wanes. Currently, the vampire trend is very popular, although the vampires of the 2000s are less Goth in nature than earlier vampires.
The Goth subculture is associated with dark and mysterious, often morbid, music, fashion, and aesthetics. Furthermore, the Goth movement is a revolt against both the stylized disco fashions of the 1970s and the bright colors and focus on material excess of the 1980s. Some say that the fashion is a deliberate overstatement of the Victorian-era cult of mourning. Much of the basic styles of Goth clothing can be found in the fashions of the British Empire at the height of its powers.
Goth clothing is dark and morbid in nature, and sometimes include eroticized fashion. Along with dark clothes, most who subscribe to the Goth culture (both men and women) dye their hair black and wear black or dark makeup, including dark nail polish. Body piercings and tattoos also play a big role in Goth fashion, although tattoos and multiple piercings are not required. Goth tattoos usually contain religious imagery, such as devils or dragons opposite a virginal or saintly figure, or medieval motifs, including swords and castles.
Goth Clothing Choices
Much of Goth clothing choices are borrowed from Elizabethan, Victorian, or medieval fashion, including high collars, corsets, bustles, long skirts, and capes. Various styles of hats and headwear, most notably the stove pipe hat, are also reminiscent of Elizabethan or Victorian fashion. Other specific pieces include ruffled Regency shirts, ruffled cuffs, and leather clothing and accessories, such as spiked dog collars and leather boots. Goths frequently mix the fabrics of their fashions, wearing velvets, leather, and vinyl in one statement. Also, it is common for lingerie to be visible, such as with an outer corset or visible petticoats. Additionally, Goth clothing frequently expresses pagan, occult, and other religious imagery. This imagery is heightened by the tendency to include black velvets and lace, tinged with purple and scarlet, furthering the macabre effect.
Goth Clothing History
It is noteworthy that Goth styles are often confused with that of heavy metal fashion, which is characterized by black trench coats and what is known as corpse paint—black and white makeup usually applied in a manner reflecting the dead. Another similar style is Steampunk, which has no set guidelines, but tends to blend the edges of a variety of styles. Steampunk is characterized by fashions from Victorian-era Briton, as it embodies a science fiction or fantasy notion of a time when steam-power was still used.
The Goth subculture has received some notoriety as a safe haven for depressed misfits, and studies indicate that those who loyally subscribe to the cultural axioms have an elevated tendency towards self-harm. Additionally, Goths have been accused of Satanism, white supremacy, and intolerance. However, overall, the Goth subculture is considered peaceful, does not promote violence, and in fact, is very tolerant. Most Goths simply want to express themselves in a way that is personal to them.
While it is not the place of this article to provide medical advice regarding depression, parents can rest assured that their Goth child is likely to lead a productive life. Goth culture emphasizes classical education, so drop-out rates are lower than in other subcultures. Also many adults who embodied the Goth subculture as a teen viewed it as a passing phase, and while some still appreciate many of the subculture's qualities, most gravitate towards the status quo as they mature.


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Make Cake Pops and Spend time with Natalie? Well I'm in!
Reindeer Cake Pops
Makes 45 Pops (About 30 More than you Need)
– 1 Cake Mix
– 1 Tub of Frosting
– Candy Melts (About 1 pound) We used both milk chocolate and dark chocolate to make different breeds of reindeer
– Red and Brown M&M's
– Pretzels
– White sprinkle ball things (technical term right there)
– Lollipop Sticks
– Wax Paper
– 1 Best Friend Who Doesn't Judge Your Impatience
Before anything else happens, make the cake. Duh. Follow the standard directions on the back and then wait for the cake to cool. We placed it in the fridge for five minutes, tried to work with it, burnt our hands, and then put it in the freezer for 10 more minutes.
Once the cake is cool, crumble it up into a large mixing bowl. You want it to be in small pieces. Then add the tub of frosting. Some use a spoon to mix or maybe a spatula. We used the best tools God gave us: our hands.
After it being sufficiently mixed, form cake/frosting balls. They should have the diameter of a quarter but really just make them a size that would look good on a stick and not fall off.
Then melt some candy melts and dip the lollipop sticks tips into chocolate before placing them in the balls. Place them in the fridge or freezer to completely harden.
This is where impatience got the best of us and we took them out too quickly. As a result, the chocolate on the sticks had not always stuck and the pops sometimes fell off. This was completely my fault. I saw the finish line and I wanted to get there. As a result we had a reindeer graveyard for the pops that fell off their sticks.
Finally, melt the remaining chocolate melts. Place the chocolate in a microwaves safe dish and heat in 30 second intervals until melted. Dip the cake pops. Twirl them a couple of times to get access chocolate off. Then stick two pretzels in the top of the head as antelers. Give the reindeers a face by using the M&M's as noses and the while sprinkle ball things as eyes.
If you really
have no life like decorating, you can use an edible pen to create eyes and thus facial expressions. If not, they are just as adorable.
But the most important part is doing this with someone who doesn't think you are crazy when you 'awww' over every reindeer and begin to name them. Trudy was still my favorite….


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Global Industry Association Expects 50 Percent Reduction in Ongoing Annual Costs with Switch from Lawson to Intacct
SAN JOSE, Calif. (May 26, 2010) –
Intacct, the leader in cloud financial management and accounting applications, today announced that SEMI has selected Intacct as its new financial management system. SEMI, the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries, expects to streamline financial processes, improve financial and operational reporting, and significantly reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by moving its financial management system to the cloud with Intacct.
SEMI, founded in 1970 as Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, is a not-for-profit organization focused on helping its members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. The association has offices in major technology regions around the world. In a move to reduce costs and improve efficiency, SEMI set out to replace its outdated Lawson enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The existing Lawson solution was not well suited for a not-for-profit, was not user friendly and often required manual work-around processes.
SEMI identified several requirements for its new financial solution. First and foremost, the system would need to be extremely user friendly while offering a reduced total cost of ownership. SEMI also wanted a solution that offered financial accountability, improved reporting and streamlined financial processes. SEMI reviewed several leading financial management solutions, including NetSuite and Microsoft Dynamics GP, before selecting Intacct.
"As time went on, our Lawson system had become a hassle for both our Finance and IT teams – requiring costly software upgrades, outdated manual processes and ongoing consulting engagements to accomplish a number of standard functions," said Jim Jackman, corporate controller for SEMI. "With Intacct, we will now have a modern cloud-based solution that is well suited to the financial management needs of our organization. Intacct offers the best mix of functionality and quickly eliminates the need for us to manage and maintain any hardware or software going forward. We anticipate that Intacct will help us reduce the TCO of our financial system by at least 50 percent on an annual basis."
For SEMI, having a solution that would allow for global business management was important, as they will be using Intacct across 15 separate business entities with eight distinct currencies. With Intacct Global Consolidations, each entity can utilize its own chart of accounts, taxation rules and financial reporting and then, in real time, the organization can consolidate all the financials together. In addition, entities can operate in their native, functional currency. When SEMI is ready to consolidate the information, it will automatically be translated into the main base currency of the global organization automating any foreign exchange gains or losses. This will enable SEMI to significantly shorten the time it takes to close its books and provide better global visibility into their organization.
SEMI also sees Intacct's powerful reporting and analysis capabilities as an area where they can see immediate improvement. Intacct helps organizations like SEMI gain real-time financial and operational insight with pre-built and customizable dashboards, reports and analytics. Users can create dashboards using any report or graph from any application, for both financial management and operational reporting. Plus, Intacct's live drill-down capabilities enable users to dig into the data at any level they need to greatly simplify research and audits. For example, SEMI's budget managers will be able to directly view performance to actual results for their area and then drill into the details for analysis.
"We have been very impressed with Intacct's reporting capabilities, especially how easy it is to create and run reports in various formats," said Lisa Van Huystee, director of financial planning and analysis for SEMI. "Overall, we appreciate how simple the Intacct system is to use and the flexibility it offers for adapting to our organization. Intacct will enable us to implement best practices around employee expenses, reimbursement, purchasing, inter-company transactions and consolidations. We are very pleased with our decision to go with Intacct and know that this will have a positive impact on the overall performance of our organization going forward."
To learn more about Intacct solutions for not-for-profit organizations, please visit http://us.intacct.com/solutions/not_for_profit.php.
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SEMI is the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries. SEMI member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Bengaluru, Berlin, Brussels, Grenoble, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
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Kim Addonizio's latest books are a collection of poems, Mortal Trash, and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress. She is the author of six other poetry collections, two novels, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet's Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius.
David Kirby's collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. His latest poetry collection is Get Up, Please. www.davidkirby.com.
Jane Satterfield has published five books, including Apocalypse Mix, winner of the 2016 Autumn House Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of an NEA poetry fellowship, the 49th Parallel Poetry Prize, Ledbury Festival Poetry Prize, and more. She is an associate professor at Loyola University Maryland.
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Below I will show you the steps I took to take this tacky plastic mirror back from the 80's and one of the favourite things I own!
Here she is in all in all her glory! Look at how that gold plastic shines!
Detail like this is gorgeous, just not the most modern look
First I made sure that every nook and cranny was well cleaned and dried in order to make it ready for spray paint.
Next, I took tape and made sure I made clean lines all the way inside on the mirror to ensure no bleeding onto the glass!
Then, I laid down a layer of plastic and again taped all around the inside edge of the plastic to
protect the mirror - this is a no paint zone!!
I decided to use Rust-oleum Forged Hammered in "Antique Pewter"
I decided to go for something with a bit of texture so it didn't end up flat. The pewter would add a nice modern touch and the hammered look will make the detailing in the mirror look even better.
I took everything outside and placed the mirror on two boxes just to help protect the driveway from the paint
I pressed the edges of the tape again just to get away from any paint bleeding once again
I ended up having to do 3 coats of paints in order to cover up all that bright gold
Some would tell me to use a primer but honestly it wasn't that hard to cover the gold and because it was plastic, the paint really stuck to it. I left the paint sit 24 hours between each layer just was a precaution because it was fairly cold outside so I wanted to make sure it had enough time to dry.
One thing I was worried about was losing detailing from paint mucking it up however as you can see above,
there was no such issue!! It turned out great!
Look how gorgeous it looks!
I am so happy how it turned out and from getting the mirror free from Grandma
and spending less than $15 dollars at Home Depot for paint and tape,
it is probably one of the cheapest DIY's I've ever done!
Beautiful detail is still there, just not as gaudy now that the gold is gone!
There were a few gold specks here and there that the paint couldn't reach but all I had to do
was take a silver sharpie and cover the gold and now I can't even tell where those spots were any more!
Here again is the before and after! Let me know what you guys think!
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Four things only locals know about Dubrovnik
The network I generate while traveling the world is one of my most treasured souvenirs. The people you meet, the stories they share, help weave a global web of human experience. It isn't everyday that you get to expand that web and I am very grateful for the opportunity to have done just that in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Thanks to a 65 Liter Life reader, I was able to meet and have coffee with a native of Dubrovnik, and oh the stories I learned! Here are four stories that only locals know about Dubrovnik. You won't find these in any city guide out there. Here's the local story.
Local Story #1 – Grumpy old men exist in every century
It appears that in every century, men are the same. They can get annoyed. Especially when children repeatedly kick a ball against the wall of his house. St. Rocco's church has sat at the end of Zlataric Street since the early 1500s. If you walk past its southern wall you will find graffiti still visible today from the year 1597. PAX. VOBIS. MEMENTO MORI QVI. LVDETIS PILA. Latin for Peace to you, remember that you will die, you who play the ball.
The story goes that the priest of the church couldn't handle the unruly boys behavior for another moment. Constantly having to listen to the boys' ball hitting the side wall of his church prevented him from ever finding a moment of peace. The priest inscribed the warning to the boys to ensure that they remembered their mortality and I guess with the hope that they will move their soccer practice to another street.
Local Story #2 – Rumor has it the Turks decorated Dubrovnik
Ever the diplomats, the Dubrovnik council acted as peace makers between countries and held great influence because of their general neutrality. The green color that adorns every single door and window shutter in the city is known as Dalmatian Green. I would describe the color as two shades lighter than hunter green. Rumor has it that the turkish king was coming for a visit to Dubrovnik and this green color was the "king's color." In order to curry favor with the King and make a great impression, the city council ordered all of the doors and shutters painted green. It stuck.
Local story #3 – Paved streets are worth their weight in Laundry
The streets in Dubrovnik are beautifully paved. Every part of the city whether flat or terraced has been paved with great care. Obviously, it couldn't have always been so. At some point, the city had to go through the process of replacing dirt floors with carved stone. The story goes that once the council decided to pave the city, they took a very logical approach to the execution. They did it one street at a time. Every inhabitant of a street would move out of their home for one year, the road would be paved during that time, and then the families would return to their upgraded living space. Who wouldn't go through the hassle of moving the family for a year if it meant that you could walk outside and not instantly be covered in mud?
Local Story #4 – There is a limit to free time even for the nobles
It was common to walk the Stradun, the main road between the Pile and Ploce Gates, even back when Dubrovnik still had nobility living within its walls. However, the nobles were constricted to the number of times they could leisurely walk back and forth on main street. If a noble walked the length more than three times within a day, he was thought to not have enough business or social engagements to keep him occupied. How dare that noble waste his time in such a way, and with all of those commoners too!
Don't forget to check out the 6 & 3 Dubrovnik post. It shows you six cool things about Dubrovnik and the three not so cool things. Headed away from the coast? You need to check out Zagreb before you leave Croatia.
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