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10 Ways to Boost Your All-Important Credit Score
by Paula Pant Sep 2nd 2014 11:00AM
Your credit score holds a lot of power when it comes to your finances and life. Here are 10 ways to boost your score.
Your credit score holds a lot of power when it comes to your finances and life. Here are 10 ways to boost your score.
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When scouring your credit report for errors, pay attention to your address and credit limit information -- and don't gloss over simple details such as your name.
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If you plan to buy or refinance a home this year, be careful when you do your taxes. Moves that will save you a few bucks on your IRS bill could cost you a mortgage.
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Dazzle your viewers with 3D photo navigation using 3D ImageFlow Gallery. Create an amazing gallery with cool perspective effects in seconds and give your photos stunning 3d and camera effects. Check out the demo.
Add and edit your images directly in Dreamweaver. Interact with other components like the Flash MP3 Player, Advanced Layer Popup or Spry elements and effects to glue everything together.
Features Highlights:
- Create a cool 3D gallery or slideshow in seconds
- Amazing 3D and Camera Effects
- Ultralight Flash gallery player – less than 15KB
- Progressive loading images
- Amazing photo display in perspective
Features in Detail
Bring The Natural Flow To Your Galleries
- Create a cool 3D gallery or slideshow in seconds
- Create a 3D Gallery with fluent transitions in seconds that will amaze your audience.
- Create dazzling 3D reflections and smooth transitions for the best experience
- Get creative and use the full potential of 3D gallery positioning using the Space Main, Space Back, Speed and Angle options.
- New: Amazing 3D and Camera Effects
- Depth Of Field is
an effect to mimic camera effects that enable to focus on certain
objects while leaving others blurred. This is great for adding more
depth to your gallery images. See the live effect.
- Distance Fog enhances the perception of distance. See the live effect.
- MotionBlur emphasizes movement and enhances your animated effects. See the live effect.
- Ultralight Flash gallery player – less than 15KB
That's right all these fantastic effects come in an ultra small package.
- Progressive loading of images
Images become visible as soon as they are loaded, so you can start navigating right away, you don't have to wait for the complete gallery to load.
- Great accessibility!
- Full keyboard navigation is at your disposal. Use left and right arrows to navigate to the next/previous photo, PageUp/PageDown to move by 5 at a time and Home and End keys to move to the beginning or to the end of the gallery.
- Use the mousewheel on your pc for the quickest and easiest navigation.
- Fully customizable gallery title, backgrounds and photo descriptions
- You can customize the elements in your gallery so they always fit your site design.
- Add custom description and links to each image.
- Amazing photo display in perspective
Smooth transitions and fantastic reflections for the best experience.
- Full control of your gallery and photos positions
You decide the spacing, angle and depth of the photos in your 3D gallery.
- Interactivity
- Add clickable links to your gallery.
- Real
time customization with amazing online settings panel! Want to tweak
the settings for the best effect - you can do that on your live 3D
gallery - just press F12 (or CTRL+F12 on the Mac) and the customization panel will popup!
- Images are resized while constraining proportions
Original images can be automatically resized to fit the specified size while the proportions are maintained.
- Supports multiple image formats
3D ImageFlow Gallery supports, JPGs but also PNGs and Gifs enabling transparent images.
Integrated in Dreamweaver
- Fully integrated in Dreamweaver
- Set your options within user friendly interface, no coding is required.
- View the animated preview in your Dreamweaver design view to get optimal feedback of your settings.
- Fully PC and MAC (OSX and Leopard) compatible.
- New generation property inspector with tabs
The property inspector enables you to change several options directly.
- New: Behaviors connector
The New Behaviors Connector enables you to interact with other page elements, using behaviors. Interact with other components like the Flash MP3 Player or Spry elements and effects to glue everything together.
- Cool Interactive inline help
The extension visually describes properties of the extension menu by outlining the selection in the bottom left image;
- Live preview of the total gallery in Dreamweaver
With a single click on the preview button you can see a preview of your complete gallery.
DMXzone does not take responsibility to support the suggested content to be fully compatible and working as intended and does not provide support for extended functionality which is not included in the current release of the extension.
Creating a 3D ImageFlow Gallery within a Lightbox
With this movie we will show you how easily you can use 3D ImageFlow Gallery within DMXzone Lightbox
Great Web 2.0 Experience with 3D ImageFlow and Flash Image Enhancer
With this movie we will show you how easily you can combine Flash Image Enhancer and 3D ImageFlow Gallery giving your users the best Web 2.0 look with nice reflections and transition effects.
Load a Dynamic Flash Image Enhanced Photo Based on a URL parameter
With this movie we will show you how easily you can parse a URL parameter from 3D ImageFlow Gallery and load a dynamic image in Flash Image Enhancer based on the parsed parameter.
Combining 3D ImageFlow Gallery and Advanced Tooltips
With this movie we will show you how easily you can display a description of 3D ImageFlow photos in a DMXzone Advanced Tooltip window, all thanks to the amazing DMXzone Behavior Connector that opens up many new possibilities when interconnecting extensions.
Create and Present Your Charts Like Never Before
This video will show you how easy you can create a chart gallery using 3D ImageFlow Gallery and DMXzone Google Charts.
Dynamic Sound Control Easier Then Ever
In this video we will show you how to link your 3D Gallery Images to your MP3's using 3D ImageFlow Gallery and Flash MP3 Player. After inserting the gallery and the MP3 player we'll add a behavior and modify the XML. Note that you need Flash MP3 Player to include sound.
How Does The New Behaviors Connector Work?
This new video tutorial shows you how easy it is to change elements on your page when the images in your 3D ImageFlow Gallery change. You need Dreamweaver CS3 to enable the Spry effects in this video.
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If you don't know how to create a Database, check out this video that shows you how to create a Database with phpMyAdmin.
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Check out this Video how to Create a Dynamic Gallery. We used PHP as our server language of choice but if you have ASP, this video will be just as interesting as the steps will be almost the same.*
This extension is build for Dreamweaver. There is also a version for the Flash IDE that is designed for building Flash applications. Last but not least there is a Visual Studio .NET version of 3D ImageFlow Gallery.
Version 1.0.5
- Improved CS4 Compatibility
Version 1.0.4
- The Behavior Connector now allows you to control Advanced Layer Popup
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- Improved Dreamweaver MX2004 compatibility
- Various Fixes and Improvements
Version 1.0.2
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Version 1.0.1
- Fixed problems with the browser panel that you can access by pressing F12 or CTRL+F12 on your MAC
- Various performance tweaks
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Update Procedure
- Open one page that use the 3D ImageFlow Gallery in Dreamweaver
- Select the 3D ImageFlow Gallery Object on your page
- reapply it by clicking on the extension icon from the DMXzone objects panel
- Press the ok button to reapply the extension when the extension dialog pops up
- You should see some alerts about updated files, make sure you upload these to your live server and you are ready.


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Your Most Epic Entertaining Disasters
With the holidays on the way and November's entertaining month in full force here at Apartment Therapy, we're striving to bring you posts to help with your upcoming entertaining events. Though we don't like to dwell on the negative, we can't help but wonder if you've suffered any recent blunders as a host…
So far we've seen posts this month on how to entertain at the drop of the hat, how to entertain stress-free, how to create an unstuffy dining room and even asking you what your before party quirks are.
We all try hard to pull off perfect dinner parties and other events, but has anything ever gone completely (or hilariously) wrong while you've hosted? Has the dog ever run off with the turkey? Did you ever burn the main dish? Have guests ever discovered a pile of dirt you swept under a rug? Something even more horrible or embarrassing happen? Don't feel like you have to share only kitchen-related stories; any tales of entertaining woe that have happened in your home are fair game!
Share your entertaining mishaps and the lessons you learned to help others avoid similar fates!
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When I was much younger, I was throwing one of my first parties. It was a smallish affair, but I was sweating every detail. Just as the last guest arrivived, my then 8 month old puppy, keyed up by my tension, I'm sure, barfed right in the middle of the room, in front of everyone. I was mortified. But we all survived!
First every big Christmas day style dinner for 11 (not actually on Christmas day) - half the guests got held up and said they were going to be 3 hours late, so we turned off all the food for a while and started drinking. Needless to say, we burnt all the food.
The best bit? I put on a balldress and was running between kitchen and dining room laying the table. I'd already been so slapdash with the turkey that by this point most surfaces had a liberal dousing of bird fat. As I was hurrying along with a teapot (we were students) full of gravy, I fell arse over tit in the hallway, in the damn balldress, to much hilarity all around.
Not a recent blunder, but once I made a pate-like dish from a Finnish recipe. It involved pureeing chicken livers in a blender then adding other ingredients and steaming it. After a while, I noticed guests steering clear of that end of the buffet. I tasted the pate loaf, and it was like a gum eraser. When I threw it into the trash can, I missed the can, and the pate hit the floor and bounced.
not me, but my aunt has a big boxer dog and he took the raw turkey off the counter and ran around the living room with it in his mouth. We finally chased him down and got it back- and she washed it and cooked it. This was 30 years ago or so I guess....
I don't think that I will forget the first brunch that I served to family and friends. I had a lovely Gruyere mushroom quiche in the oven - and it decided to slightly boil over and leak on the oven floor - causing a small fire and smoke. We had a few guests in the house by then and I calmly asked my husband to spray the inside of the oven with the fire extinguisher just in case the fire got bigger somehow. Everything was under control, just a little smokey and my husband and I were taking the ruined quiche (it had the fire extinguisher stuff all over it =( ) and the fire extinguisher outside to sit to find that my parents pulled into the driveway with my grandmother. Grandma took one look towards my parents that absolutely said get me out of here now! It was also the brunch that I forgot to soak the stuffed french toast before toasting! Ah well, everything else was fine! Just a little awkward to begin with =-)
My mom is one of eight kids, and each one of them takes turns hosting Thanksgiving, Christmas, and sometimes Easter. There are a lot of people with all of her siblings, their spouses, children, and other relatives.
One year that my mom was hosting Thanksgiving her oven refused to work. She had to drive the (gigantic) turkey and stuffing to her sister's house (about 30 minutes away) and have her sister bring it to the party when it was ready. My mom's oven is older, but it works and until that point there were no signs of problems. After Thanksgiving it was fine, and she didn't need to have it serviced or replaced. The next year she held Christmas at her house, and despite not having a problem with the oven since the last Thanksgiving, the same thing happened all over again. Weird.
The egg picture is great -- but they're underdone. My wife was boiling eggs and forgot them while cleaning upstairs prior to a party. I ask, are you roasting something already? Her eyes get really big, and she rushes downstairs. Blackened egg shrapnel ALL over the kitchen ceiling!
My Husband and I recently bought our first home and of coarse I decided to host his entire extended family for a housewarming brunch. I spent days prepping as I really wanted to impress them with the food. Everything was going well and I was just waiting for the quiche (is the plural of quiche, quiche or quiches...) to finish. Soon more than 20 people were sitting at the table eating all the side dishes waiting for slowest cooking quiche ever. After 45 minutes my husband pulled me aside and whispered in my ear that the oven was and had been off the entire time. So there was raw egg mixture sitting in a semi warm oven for over an hour. I decided not to serve the quiche and everyone went home a little hungry and with no intention of returning...
My mistake, and recent too. I had everything I needed to make risotto...except the broth. We had strawberry shortcake for dinner. I have nice friends, they were all very forgiving.
My mom had an outdoor clam boil, but the clams didn't boil, and she was inconsolable. Half of those present decided to get really drunk instead, and the other half took turns tiptoeing out to their cars for surreptitious trips to the nearby drive thru.
Ah, that would be the time when I invited my dad over for dinner in a "new" house. Unbeknownst to me, the old propane stove had hot spots. And not-hot spots. The same pan could be hot in one section and ice-cold in another. I couldn't understand why he and my husband were complaining about underdone salmon. My slab was perfect. Finally, I took a look- my dad's piece was essentially sushi, and my husband's piece was still frozen! Worst stove ever.
Closely followed by the time I undercooked pheasant. I'm not a meat-eater; how should I know the difference between "I want rare" and "this is raw!"? :-)
Wow, I haven't had any serious disasters like these...but definitely some near disasters, like the time the dog grabbed the corner of a grilled pizza sitting on the counter and started pulling. We heard sort of a crackling noise while sitting in the dining room and ran to the kitchen. We got to it in time and just had to cut off one little corner.
My mother had just finished an entire tray of Cornell chicken, and between the oven and the yard, slipped and the chicken fell to the floor. The guest of honor came in to check on things and found her slipping the pieces back onto the plate... the floors had just been cleaned so neither of them ever said a word.
The first Christmas in my new house and both sides of the family were coming to dinner. I put the beef tenderloin in the fidge in the garage to free up space in the house. A little while later my husband came in the house and told me that the dogs (my two and my visiting sister's one) had found a dead animal. It wasn't a dead animal but 15#s of dinner. Some how they managed to get the fridge open and drag out the meat out. I ended up raiding my mother's freezer and got some chuck roast, my mother-in-law's pantry for a big bottle of wine and made pot roast! 12 years later we're all still talking about it.
In college. Just as my friends arrive for New Year's my quesadillas burst into flames in the oven. My dad threw the pan outside into a snow bank...then proceeded to eat them anyway. (My dad's like Mikey...He'll eat anything!)
One cold and snowy New Years Eve in Minneapolis, we hosted a large dinner party. By the time the soup course was finished, everyone was rather tipsy. I looked outside to see what looked like a bonfire in the middle of the snow in our backyard. It was our gas grill. We were grilling duck and the fat drippings were on the ground and were on fire. Fortunately, the grill was surrounded by snow, which was used to dowse the flames. Everyone (but me, the only vegetarian) ate the charred duck.
Mine is a non-cooking related disaster... I had 30 of my nearest & dearest friends in my apartment for a post Thanksgiving gathering when the plumbing decides to go awry and get back up. Not only did it get backed up but it started to bubble up into the shower. As its a walk-in shower, the liquid rolled out into the rest of the bathroom. The 'water' got to be about 2" deep (unimpeeded by the assortment of towels thrown down to try & mop up as much a possible) when my landlord /roommate returned from a month away.
He is such a sweetheart that he didn't bat an eye at the 30 strangers roaming his house he just dove in took care of the problem (which turned out not to be my fault as the whole street was similarly afflicted - a blockage in a main sewer line) and then went to his other house at the shore for the next few days to recover.
Oh, no. This is recent and I've been trying to forget it, but... I was making chicken wings and pizza for my family, to celebrate my mom getting a new job. I prepare my chicken wings the way I learned from a Good Eats episode, by steaming them first. I'd also just gotten a new steamer basket, and I was excited to try it out.
So, I started everything up, and things were going fine, but I was a bit distracted. Always a bad thing in the kitchen. I stepped out for a minute, and when I came back, the kitchen was filling with black, acrid smoke. Now, I've boiled away the water in pots before, not with any particular consequence. But, something I'd neglected to notice on this particular steamer basket was its three rubberized feet. These had melted onto the bottom of the pot and started to burn. The smoke alarm started going off, but the worst part is that our home has an alarm system, which blares klaxons over the whole neighbourhood if the smoke director goes off. We've set the alarm off this way before (including once when my grandfather was over for a football game, when we had first moved in, and before the contact numbers for the alarm system had been changed over. We had a visit from the fire department), and since then my siblings live in terror of setting the alarm off, because it's so loud and disruptive.
I ran around the kitchen in a panic, then decided I had to get the offending pot out of the kitchen and into the backyard. Not thinking, I set it at the top of the stairs by the back door, on the CARPET, not the tile. It melted onto the plastic indoor/outdoor carpet we have in the back, and I was forced to pull it off and deposit it on the concrete patio outside, klaxons still blaring and my sisters wandering around the house with their hands over their ears.
I got the alarm off and put some fans in the kitchen to clear out the lingering smokiness and the smell, but I was pretty dejected for the rest of my night. I'd ruined my mom's crock pot, and a dozen chicken wings, and my steamer. I was initially upset about losing my new steamer basket, but then I realized, little rubberized feet aren't exactly a BRILLIANT feature. I mean, boiling a pot away isn't exactly out of the realm as far as things that could happen when you're steaming something. And I couldn't actually think of a REASON for rubberizing the feet, either. Any moving around that the basket might do in the pan is counteracted by its leaves being open. So, at least I learned something. Next steamer basket I buy will be allllll metal.
I call this the "Year that Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving was almost delivery Pizza."
Most epic disaster ever was the year my roommate and I moved into our little NYC apartment and decided to have 17 friends over for Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving. Instead of potluck, as it has been ever since, we decided to cook everything ourselves. An hour spent in the grocery store and we had EVERYTHING...from a ginormous frozen turkey to those little fried onions for green bean casserole. At the cash register, the realization sunk in that we couldn't get it all home because there were A LOT of bags and the store was about 9 blocks away. So, we asked if we could borrow a shopping cart. My roommate had to leave her driver's license as collateral. We got everything to the building and had to lug it up five flights of stairs...no elevator. We took a few minutes to rest after we got the last bag up ...went back down and someone had stolen the grocery cart. They told us at the store that it would be $400 if we didn't return it. One of us should have stayed with it the whole time, but it was COLD and we just wanted to warm up before schlepping it back.
Flash forward to party day. After a laughing / screaming fit about having to stick our hands up a turkey a*s to prep it, and then almost accidentally cooking the bag of giblets and killing our guests, we were in cooking mode (did I mention it was our first big Thanksgiving dinner without a parental figure?). I had asked my mom for tips on the turkey and her biggest piece of advice was to NOT use a disposable aluminum pans. But of course we figured if we doubled them up, it would be fine. And who has room to store one of those big freakin', use them once a year, pans?! Biggest. Mistake. EVER. About 30 minutes before guests were scheduled to arrive we checked the turkey. By check, I mean look in the oven to ooh/ahh a bit. Then..the fatal moment. We moved the "pan." I don't know why...maybe to get a better angle with the baster. There was a tiny little "rrriippp", the disposable pan gave way and suddenly, turkey juices were filling the bottom of the oven. In my memory, the next minute passes in "bullet time." We look at each other with a millisecond of fear as just a little smoke puffs out. Quickly followed by more and more. Did I mention we live in a small NYC apartment? Smoke fills it stunningly fast. My roommate is running around the apartment opening windows (double hung windows, painted a million times in the course of a hundred years, that like to either stick or fall on your head) and I find myself on the kitchen floor with a bunch of towels, potholders, various forks and serving spoons and a big pan of mostly cooked turkey leaking copious amounts of hot turkey juices, trying to transfer everything into FRESH disposable aluminum "backup" pans. Did I mention we have no counter space and the floor was the only place to go? All the the while I'm laughing hysterically, unable to get control of myself. Then the smoke detector kicks in at the some moment my roommate, waving a big green towel in an attempt to get the smoke to go out the window, starts yelling "we have to cancel, we have to call everyone and cancel." I'm still laughing hysterically and trying to deal with a very hot slippery turkey.
By the skin of our teeth we got it cleaned up and cleared out. Guests started arriving and we had to tell them why all the windows were open, yet we were sweating like it was a hot summer day.
A few glasses of wine later with tons of friends around and it was a GREAT party.
My roommate could never bring herself to go back to that grocery store and fess up that the grocery cart was stolen and that we didn't have the money to pay the fee. She's convinced that her picture is STILL hanging on a manager's wall and that she's persona non grata. She never did get her driver's license back and to this day, many years later, still doesn't have one.
MKQ- I love your story! I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I was relieved you didn't pay $400 for the shopping cart.
This didn't happen to me but to some close friends. They were hosting a large anniversary dinner party for some other friends. I think there were some 20 guests invited. They bought the food, cleaned the house, decorated with flowers and candles, cooked all day, and just had enough time to jump in the shower and dress for the semiformal party. It was all perfect and beautiful. Then they waited... and waited... and waited some more. Not a single knock on the door. Finally, they called the guests of honor to ask where everyone was. My friends had written the party date down wrong - they were a week early! We went over the next night to help with the mountain of not so leftover leftovers, and provide moral support for the redo the following week.
I once made the most beautiful and delicious-smelling flourless chocolate torte for my hubby's bday. It wans't until we took the first bite I realized I had used unsweet chocolate instead of bittersweet. It was in edible and I was mortified!
At a family get together at a vacation house, my mom was making fried rice. She had steamed the rice and prepped all the veggies. The ingredients were sitting on the stove (turned off) waiting to be turned in to fried rice. I opened the oven door to get some roasted pork out of the oven and left it open while I set the pork down on the counter. In the two seconds that the door was open, someone called to my mom, who was chopping nearby, and she took a step backwards and tripped over the oven door. She fell, butt first, into the hot open oven door, which then resulted in the whole stove tipping forward and all the fried rice ingredients flying on top of her and the floor. Luckily, she wasn't hurt, but we just about died laughing!
Thanks for sharing everyone. This is exactly what I needed after the long day I had.
My best blunder is a baking one. Early in our marriage most of my family and my husbands family were visiting us from out of state. I was making pies for dessert and decided a recipe for two crusts could be stretched to make three if I rolled them thin enough. I didn't have three "real" pie pans so I had to reused a foil one from a purchased graham cracker crust. When I baked the pies one crust seemed to shrink before my eyes. The entire crust pulled into the center by nearly two inches so the pie filling overflowed and made a mess. My brother-in-law was certain that this was because there wasn't enough crust due to me shorting the recipe. Once I cut into the pie we realized that I'd left the clear plastic cover that had originally covered the graham cracker crust in the pan. When I'd baked the pie it was the plastic that had shrank not the crust. The pie was picked at but eventually tossed since it tasted like melted plastic. I now own four "real" pie pans and just toss the foil ones!
Two Thanksgiving memories.
We were working for a non-profit agency and living in a borrowed home. We put the turkey in the oven and the damn thing just didn't get done. After waiting four hours, we double-checked the stove and noticed that it had a dual control and had never even been turned on. By that time, everyone was pretty drunk and all the other food had been eaten. We had turkey around midnight.
Another Thanksgiving, and I cooked a perfect turkey in my vintage gas stove. A friend brought over very expensive champagne and his own crystal flutes. He had already had a some champagne (like a lot) when I asked him to turn off the overhead light, which was operated by a dangling string and attached to a ceiling fan. I was just saying when he pulled the string "Careful; it's fragile!" He gave it a mighty tug and pulled the light down onto the crystal champagne flute he was holding, where it shattered the glass in his hand and then bounced onto the bird, fragmented into a million little pieces.
I looked around for my little girl, who was lying on her stomach a safe distance from the scene, her eyes gleaming like diamonds. I think it was her favorite Thanksgiving ever.
Mine are both surprise birthday party disasters from college. At the first party, the guest of honor sat down and cried as soon as we yelled "Surprise!". Not out of delight, but that he was 26 and felt extremely old. He spent about three hours sobbing, and when I tried to help him he screamed that I couldn't possibly understand his trauma as I was only 19. Not a fun night for anyone.
The other party was for a friend, and she ended up being about 3 hours late. She was being taken to dinner by her family and was going to come over after. Her younger sister kept calling me to say that they were still at the restaurant, things were dragging on, etc. By the time she finally showed up we had consumed all of the champagne and were ready to start on the cake. We were quite drunk and the party was pretty much over at that point.
Oh, I've got one.
My husband likes to cook the Thanksgiving turkey over indirect heat on his charcoal grill. He's done it a bunch of times, at holidays and other times, and it comes out great (really, try it). The trick is to build two piles of coals around the edge, with a drip pan of water in the center. You have to keep an eye on it and keep stoking the fire, because it takes a few hours to cook a turkey.
So one year, we're living in an apartment with a large covered porch. We have a small yard, too, where we usually do our grilling, but it's raining, so we go with the porch instead that day.
For some reason, this year, my husband bought a different sized pan for his drip pan (he uses foil pans, usually loaf pans, but this year he used an 8x8x2 pan). After an hour or two of cooking, he decides it's time to have a look. The water in the (shallow) drip pan had long evaporated, and was replaced by the fatty drippings of the bird. The two large piles of coals on either side of the grill were starting to cave and slide - meaning that hot coals were falling into the pan full of boiling fat, meaning flare ups or - grease fire.
Well, clearly, there is only one thing to do - add water, right?
I have a tendency to nitpick, so I was trying to hold back. I said nothing. He hurried by, with a worried look on his face, and got oven mitts and a barbecue fork. He managed to MacGyver the turkey and the rack it was on off of the grill; he set it aside elsewhere on the porch.
He hurries past me again, with an even more intent look on his face. I'm thinking - oh, god no, he's not going to really put water on this, right? Then, at that precise moment, he walks past with an 8 cup Pyrex measuring cup full of water.
I hold my breath and follow him onto the porch, standing behind the door for safety.
He removes the lid from the grill.
He pours water into the pan.
FLAMES shoot up about 5 -6 feet from the grill (which itself is 3 feet from the ground), licking the ceiling of the covered porch.
His reflexes kick in and he pops the lid back on, effectively smothering the fire. We look at each other, relieved, and put the turkey back on and finish it (and NEVER, EVER does he make the mistake of not having enough water in the drip pan again).
The turkey was delicious.
So as I was sitting here reading all of this, the timer goes off on my Mac and Cheese. I thought to myself.. oh I'll get it in a second...Luckily I heard the noise of the noodles starting to stick to the pan as all the water was evaporating. Almost had a kitchen disaster as I was reading about kitchen disasters!!
(Most of my kitchen disasters come with the line...because I forgot to set the timer...now I need a timer with a snooze button!)
I've burnt boiled eggs and the smell lingered for days... horrible!
With guests snacking on hors d'oeuvres in the living room, I set about getting the Thanksgiving turkey ready to make its entrance. I turned to wash my hands one last time before carrying the platter to the dining room...and the tap head fell off its mount and a geyser of water went up and all over the kitchen! My brother happened to be coming in at that very moment and turned the water off under the sink. We waited to make repairs after the meal...and I WAS able to enjoy my dinner with only the occasional twinge about how I would wash all those dishes.
I was tasked with preparing chocolate chip cookies for a potluck party. I did, they seemed fine. Took 'em over and had a strong negative reaction. Turns out, I used liquid smoke instead of vanilla extract. Seriously the most nasty cookies ever.
In one of my first office jobs out of school, I worked hard one night making a chocolate sheet cake for a co-worker's birthday, complete with birthday message written across the top in icing. Covered my creation with foil, left it on the counter, and went to bed.
Got up the next morning to find two perfectly neat paw-shaped dents in my foil-covered cake, almost down to the bottom of the cake pan. Clearly, my cake looked like nothing more than a perfect cat-sized bed, and my little darlings had wasted no time trying it out.
The best part is, I took the cake to work anyway, cut out the paw-marks, and everyone loved it.
I've got another story where a guy I've just started dating, trying to impress me with his culinary prowess, makes dinner for me at my house. After the meal, I go into the kitchen to find he's made the entire meal in the cat's bowls. Ha! We still laugh about it seven years later :)
@NYKate: thank god it isn't just me! I once cooked a roast, stuck it in the fridge to run to the airport to pick up the incoming hungry travelers *sigh* and returned to find my miniature poodle EATING my roast ON THE LIVING ROOM SOFA. I still don't know how a 12lb dog opened the sub-zero fridge! LOL After a minor heart attack, we ordered pizza.


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[[folder: From [[Disney/The Fox And The Hound the Disney film ]]
* That confrontation just before the scene with the bear. And of course, [[BearsAreBadNews the bear itself]].
** In particular, right after Amos wounds the bear's shoulder. It roars in pain, then looks down at Amos with a SlasherSmile that the ''Joker'' would be proud of.
* The confrontation between Tod and Copper at the den. You want to see what a '''real''' DeathGlare looks like? [[NightmareFace That kind of snarl]] is what an animal does when it intends to defend something to the death - and no less.
[[folder: From [[Literature/The Fox And The Hound the novel ]]
* The effects of rabies and strychnine on their victims. And the way strychnine just ''keeps'' passing up the food chain. Both are made all the more awful by being chilling TruthInTelevision.


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When I left my first relationship, I swore I would never do it again. I've never done it again three times since then. However, I only married once so it would appear I learned part, but not all, of the required learning. Or is it that we can learn the knowledge; yet fail to learn to apply it? Will I, on my deathbed, suddenly jerk upright and say "Oh, bugger, so that's how it's supposed to work", then fall back lifeless with a 'duh' look on my face? Talk to any counsellor and they will tell you of the battle they fight against their own internal cynicism, in order to stay motivated in the face of a continuous stream of people who have brought the same behaviours into their present relationship, which caused the break-up of their previous one…
I'm often told that 'Life is a Journey of Learning' (this usually said by crystal-clutching earnest–looking pale people in cashmere sweaters, sandals and socks, buzzing away on Bach Flower Remedy) and my question to these people is – What's the Bloody Point? I mean, you spend your allotted three-score-years-and-ten to learn all this stuff only to end up either pushing up daisies, or as a little pile of white powder in a wee pottery vase. About the only thing, in the absence of tangible evidence, that makes me hope for an after-life is the belief that no responsible Creator would waste all of that effort and resource to create a knowledgeable entity which would then be snuffed out. Or are we all a kind of cosmic curio on some God's mantelpiece: 'See this, Zeus? Created it myself – only took seven days. I call it 'Humanity'. Absolutely pointless of course, doesn't actually do anything, in fact it's polluting the Planet quite a bit, but isn't it interesting…'
Anyway, I'm getting around to saying that I have Faults. Yes, Faults. That may come as a shock to those who know me. I know what my Faults are, and just in case I forget, there are people around me, and I include Keith our dear Editor, probably appointed by God, who will point those Faults out to me, often with an irritating degree of repetition.
I Procrastinate. There, I've said it. I've been putting off saying it, you see. There's probably an encounter group somewhere I could join. 'Hi, I'm Steve and I'm a procrastinator'. I have always procrastinated. I am a procrastinator par excellence. Sometimes I even delay the procrastination, for increased enjoyment. 'Congratulations Mrs Punter, you've given birth to a healthy Procrastinator'. In the Maternity Hospital they probably had to induce me after a lot of haranguing, 'Come on out, Steve, we're all out here waiting… it's deadline day… either come out now or we'll come in and get you…' to which a muffled voice might have replied 'Er, look, um, could we do this next week perhaps, ah, I'm kinda tied up at the moment…'
I can still remember the cover of the Algebra book that I hated in 3rd Form. Why do I remember it? Because for the whole of the holiday period leading up to exams, the blasted thing used to glare at me from my homework desk. 'Do me', it would say in its telepathic musty papery voice. 'I'm here, I'm not going to go away, you are going to have to read me soon!' – and I would put off and put off the evil moment until the matter became of crisis proportions. Not surprisingly, I got 17% for school certificate maths and had to re-do maths in my 6th Form year, and I only did it because the Union Company wouldn't accept me as a Cadet without School C Maths. I got 51% next time around. I hated Algebra with a passion. Probably because no one ever explained why anyone would want to multiply letters together – let alone how. Those were dark days. Now we turn out kids who can't read or write. That's progress.
Back to Old Dog Punter the Procrastination King. I have tried all sorts of things, and with a huge effort, I get by without missing important deadlines. You may have missed Tongue in Cheek in the March issue, mainly because it wasn't there. That deadline slipped through the cracks, although it's really the Editor's fault for only reminding me five times and not the usual six.
Look at all the tools and systems that are available to the Chronic Procrastinator. Microsoft Outlook, Digital Diaries, Wall Planners, Organiser Diaries, To Do Lists. I've tried them all. There's one thing they can't provide. Discipline. That's the essential Discipline required to actually enter stuff into them in the first place, secondly, to remember where you put them, and thirdly, to actually refer to them from time to time.
Be honest. How many of you – yes, I'm talking to you – have made out lists of things and put times and dates alongside each item in the list, looked proudly at the thing you've created that will change your life, and then months later found the blasted thing under a pile of other stuff that never got done either, with coffee mug rings all over it. Only last week I turned the rotating whiteboard over and found a whole list of things to do that I don't even remember writing. They obviously weren't critical.
So how come Time Management courses (yes, we run them at STA) don't produce change for so many participants who come back 2 years later looking older and more ragged?
Well, let's try answering that with a joke: How many Californian Psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change. Going on a Time Management course will give you models, methods and ideas. You've still got to put them into place, and then enact them…
I remember reading where someone was asked 'would you like to see into the future?' and the answer was 'Hell NO! - That would take all the fun out of it'. I actually like living my life in a mild degree of untidy, glorious confusion with an element of uncertainty. As long as the client or participants don't suffer from it in anyway, why should it matter that I complete everything at the last minute? This light bulb doesn't actually want to change. It's not that I can't change.
Humanity is itself an Old Dog. 5000 years of recorded history. You would think we would have learned some things, yes? In terms of horrific learning, World War I was supposed to be the War to End All Wars. Twenty years later came WWII. Then Korea, followed by Vietnam, the Falklands, and Bosnia, plus I've left out a few local massacres and terminal disagreements. Every generation has heaps to look back on and supposedly learn from. So how come history repeats itself? Did we not learn? Humans know that war produces death and misery. Yet we still do it. Cigarettes kill millions every year. We know it. Yet many of us still do it. Clearly, the taking-on of knowledge is, by itself, not learning and even if it was, doesn't necessarily lead to changed behaviour.
There's no point in attempting to teach this Old Dog new tricks, unless the benefits totally outweigh the pain of the change. Then maybe I'll change behaviour, and only then can you suggest that learning has occurred. Watch out though, that in changing one aspect of someone's behaviour you don't destroy the essential elements of who they are. Perhaps you might consider changing the environment so that the effect of the undesired attribute is absorbed or offset through another strategy. Which is what I did. Hence I now have a Personal Assistant who is slowly learning how to work with me, maximising my good attributes by allowing me free rein to work in my natural way, while she makes up for the missing attributes. Everyone wins. Clients and participants aren't exposed to a risk (that they didn't know was there), I get to work guilt-free, and another job is created in the workforce. Or you could have tried to teach this Old Dog new tricks.
Never teach a pig to dance. It frustrates you and confuses the pig.
Steve Punter ANZIM,
Dip Bus (PMER), FHRINZ
Staff Training Associates Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Dr. S Yedida Goldman MD is a female Diagnostic Radiologist, has 7 years of experience and practices in Diagnostic Radiology.
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Alaska Statewide Expansion of ADS-B Services
The Capstone Project began in Southwest Alaska in FY2001. It was designed to seek aviation safety and efficiency gains by accelerating new technology in Alaska and demonstrating capabilities for use nationally. Capstone linked multiple technology initiatives under the FAA, the Alaskan community, and aviation industry. One of these new technologies was ADS-B. Under Capstone, the FAA provided ADS-B ground equipment, avionics and datalink communication suites for commercial aircraft. The FAA also deployed a ground infrastructure for weather observation, datalink communications, surveillance, and Flight Information Services to improve safety and enable eventual implementation of new procedures.
The FAA integrated the Capstone Project into the Surveillance and Broadcast Services (SBS) program in January 2007 to streamline the national ADS-B deployment and accrue safety benefits for Alaska more quickly by accelerating the deployment of ADS-B technologies in the state. The SBS WSA office is responsible for deploying ADS-B in its designated states, including Alaska, and continuing to improve rural access by upgrading airports from Visual Flight Rules to Instrument Flight Rules.
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The FAA understands that voluntary self equipage is the key to success for ADS-B. To ensure the minimum amount of equipage necessary to make ADS-B the primary means of surveillance in the United States, the FAA has proposed a rule mandating "ADS-B Out" in certain airspace (ADS-B Out transmits location information from the aircraft). The proposed rule only affects airspace generally covered by the transponder rule, so it will not affect much of the airspace in Alaska. Nor does the proposal mandate "ADS-B In," which provides many of the safety benefits of the new system, including traffic and weather displays in the cockpit. The ADS-B deployment in Alaska and the rest of the nation relies on operators voluntarily equipping to derive safety benefits and operate more efficiently.
In February 2007, the FAA, Helicopter Association International, Alaskan aviation industry, and Alaskan aircraft operators signed a Memorandum of Agreement to establish a government/industry relationship to support safer aviation and increase rural access in Alaska. The agreement established an Agreement Implementation Committee (AIC) to develop a plan that, among other things, outlines a detailed ADS-B avionics equipage assistance program, avionics equipage financing options, and a schedule for avionics equipage. This is the Statewide Equipment Incentive Plan, or SEIP.
Also as a result of the agreement, the "Surveillance and Broadcast Services Capstone Statewide Plan" was signed by FAA and industry in August 2007. Under this plan, the FAA is offering additional funding to expand ADS-B ground coverage more quickly, if the state will help equip approximately 4,000 Alaskan aircraft to make the expansion worthwhile.
- Surveillance and Broadcast Services Capstone Statewide Plan (PDF, 1.34 MB)
Hank Krakowski, chief operating officer of the FAA Air Traffic Organization, sent a letter in December 2007 to Alaska Governor Sarah Palin emphasizing the FAA's support of the committee's efforts to obtain state funding (see letter below). In addition, it outlined the FAA's plans for a potential acceleration of the ADS-B deployment based on funding from the state to encourage equipage.
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Cover the whole wall with the curtains. You have a lot of pattern in the room already; I'd go for a solid color, maybe even close to the wall color, to keep everything looking calm.
Love the curtains-in-the-wall-color idea. I'd hang them behind the nightstands and just covering the edge of the window. You won't be closing them, so a single set is probably enough.
I might choose a yellow color for the curtains to pick up the yellow in the rug and quilt. I think AT also has a round-up devoted to beds in front of windows-- you should try searching for it.
I'm going to try to explain what I have in my head since I can't find a darn picture!!
If you got a double curtain rod (basically a secondary rod that nests inside the width of the main fancy rod) you could have the main curtain span the entire length of the window and act as a visual headboard defining the bed area on the wall. Then the other curtain, in contrasting color/pattern that you like could be gathered and cinched in the middle and sort of redefine the bed area... sort of like this image, but don't put two cinched curtains, just use one and center it. (and ignore the fabrics used as they are too frilly and fussy):
You can play with the cinched curtain's folds and cinch tightness to get some visual interest and definition and I really think it would be pretty and slick if you found some curtains that you really liked...
That wall of curtains is a nice idea. If you wanted to keep the louvered blinds you can go with a pelmet over the window and add sheers or regular curtains. Or, you could remove them and add a roman blind under the pelmet.
Take stationary panels from the room's corners to just overlapping the inside edge of the window. Hang them from track as close to the ceiling as possible. Pull the color from the wall or rug.
how about a nice clean roman shade with a lovely valance to set off the window? I might be in the minority here, but I think that curtains would be too much for that small wall.
I agree with the curtains behind the bed/nightstands. I almost think you could get away with cutting one panel in half since it's such a small space. I like the idea of a solid in either yellow or maybe the creamy color of the rug. Good luck!
Keep it light. I once combined Venetian blinds with long French-style voiles edged in bobble trim, drawn back and held by ties, a little like this http://www.curtainsandcurtains.com/images/P/Faux-White.jpg
Looked good
Agree with above! (curtains).
That is an amazing rug, where did you get it? Thanks!
you can fit a tension rod wall to wall with no fuss and a clean presentation - right up to your ceiling. a cheap white one or a nice metal one. looks like white sheers or semi-opaques (4 panels) would look great. light filtering,airy, and crisp. but maybe you want something more drapery weight.
ikea has an awful lot of options that should suit.
Just pull everything out from the wall a few inches, it will fit fine and look great. Here are a few examples (hope the links work!)
all the way across the wall
across the wall and a bright color
slim with a valance
sheer and sophisticated
I actually had the same problem in our tiny bedroom. We ended up putting our bed in front of the window and covering the entire wall with curtains, as has been suggested in previous comments. This blog post I wrote about our apartment gives you a view of the bedroom, and here's a direct link to an image of that wall.
Overall, it was an easy project. I bought some ivory sheers for the outside and thicker, light-blocking ones for the inside so it wasn't completely obvious that there was a window hiding behind them. I just used a cheap, white, extra-long curtain rod, which the curtains covered anyways. Make sure to measure your wall so you get the right length/width of curtains. In the end, I just needed 4 separate panels. Good luck!
Go light or go big -- nothing in-between. I think you could do a streamlined-valance window presentation (like in Tequila Red's link above) that would essentially turn that fabric treatment into your headboard, and that would personally be my pick.
@JKMNY That's an Ikea rug
I say simple sheer curtains that cover the window and maybe extend a bit beyond.
I would go with the images Tequila Red provided. They're all good options depending on your tastes etc. Though I do have to say the though the valance one is my least favourite.
I think the whole wall option would work given that you have a headboard. Without the headboard I think it would look funny.
Oh, forgot to mention... as long as you keep your material on the lighter side (weight wise) or in a sheer fabric I think it wont end up looking too heavy.
I have a similar layout and the curtain behind the bed works great, but I live in a cold climate so I opted for an insulated curtain that helps with drafts. I have it in a matte satin that helps contrast but not remove from the other fabrics and patterns in the room. It blends but doesnt stand out too much.
I am curious as to where you got that gorgeous area rug?
Wow, I love the ideas Tequila Red offered. Those seem to be in the right direction if you want drapes.
Where did you get that chair in the corner? From what I can see I love the pattern.
@cycollege - The rug is from Ikea. I'm not sure if they have it anymore since I couldn't find it on their website (Canadian site)
I agree. Cover the wall with draperies wall to wall, floor to ceiling. it will make the bedroom pop!
I would go with the simple sheers, but would also look at putting some paintings, in similar frames, two on each side vertically, just to fill those spaces...
A picture's worth a thousand words: Tequila Red's images show some great options. Nice job so far!!
Colored sheers invariably look cheap. Stick with white, off-white or ivory. Regardless of how wide or long you go, calculate 2.5 times the width you want to cover for your drapery. 2x is a bit thin, and 3x can be fussy.
I suppose the big question is whether you need to open that window for ventilation, or do you rely on air condiitioning? Do you need light control? If I were finishing that room, I would use a translucent shoji screen in front of the window (the paper can be replaced with laminated paper or other materials for durability), but that's my aesthetic. If you don't need light control or extra insulation, generously gathered linen sheers hung from the ceiling would work well. I would not run them across the whole wall, however.
(BTW, you can have shutters made that have shoji panels instead of louvers. They would fit flat inside your window, for a very clean look.)
What about a fabric Roman shade instead of the mini blinds. They can be cheap or expensive. They come in all sorts of colors,even in a natural bamboo ect. It would give a more finished look without junking up around the window. That way its stays simple, and clean looking. You could even choose the light blocking kind for more privacy. Or go with the light weight fabric ones for filtered light.
I'd like to know the name of the wall color. Thanks.
Another vote for the floor-to-ceiling curtains across the whole wall..Cute chihuahua!
My bed is in front of my window too. Makes the room seem bigger and it's really the only logical place to put my bed! I just have blackout curtains over the window because I sleep during the day!
Covering the entire wall with drapery sounds great, but I found it to be a tremendous dust-catcher and even though I didn't have allergies, I would wake up sneezing, despite diligent vacuuming and cleaning. Also, it made it really difficult to [a] open the window on a nice day and [b] let some sunlight in - there was too much fabric to handle. I ended up using a custom-fitted Roman shade. I spent a bit on the fabric and it turned out almost like a piece of art on the wall - everyone who sees it comments on how great it looks there. Plus it is easy to move up and down. On wintry Midwest mornings, I need some sun to cheer me up!
The pictures Tequila Red left are wonderful.
Tequila's photo of "sheer and sophisticated" is my vote! Light and soft enough to keep with the airy space - which I love by the way. The bed is the exact width of window, almost looks like it was by design. Always thought that rule was dumb anyway because a window is the ultimate headboard/focal point.
The scale of the wall does call for a uniform pattern and/or color. A tighter, more architectural version of the above would be to wrap panels for the walls right and left of the bed with fabric, then install a matching fabric roman shade, overlapping the panels slightly. It is a bit of a retro look but that just be what you wanted....
My Old bedroom had the exact same problem, I did a curtain the same color as the walls, with a headboard. I didn't try to hide the fact that there was a window behind it, however the window was not exactly centered with the bed, so I made the illusion that it was, by hanging a rod the length of the bed (hard to explain, see: http://gallery.apartmenttherapy.com/photo/la-haleyforgehousetour-bethanynauert/item/267717) I thought it work well for us.
I would get a basic roller shade and stencil a silhouette of a big chandelier, headboard, your chihuahua or whatever else you like. To fancy it up, you could also add some trim around the edges and maybe a DIY pelmet box made from foam board and fabric. There's a tutorial for that on the Little Green Notebook<a> blog.
Found some old posts AP that could be helpful, here is the link
and #7 in link below
Thank you all! For the questions: the chair is from Ikea with a custom cover (don't remember that source, it was a long time ago) and the color on the walls is Sharkey Gray by Martha Stewart.
You have a lot going on in your room with the different patterns on the lamp shades, rug, etc, which looks great! I don't think you necessarily need anything else! I too have this bed in front of window dilemma, and just go with it now with simple wooden blinds.


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