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Looks very nice...just wish it were bigger/higher rez.
Wow! Colour me impressed! I love the sealanes... what a great idea
Looks very nice...just wish it were bigger/higher rez.
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Limburrow... is that a reference to Limburg?
Like the map so far, but the size is a bit of a shame. Is this the original size or are you working on a bigger version?
The compass looks great by the way!
Check out my City Designer 3 tutorials. See my fantasy (city) maps in this thread.
Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
Yeah, this is the original size. Like I said in my original post, I just wanted to make something. I didn't necessarily think things through beforehand.
I had a friend help me coming up with names, and she suggested "Limburgh, as in Edinburgh," which I decided to change to Limburrow because it was so close to Limburg already.
I really like what you have done with this map. Its fun, easily legible, and with the new additions that you have made with names, and sea/land routes, it really becomes a very usable peice of artwork.
I would love to get a tutorial on sea lanes (and roads) since I have a devil of a time doing them
Nice nice work
That compass rose is way too awesome looking.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
AslanC: I put together a tutorial explaining how I made the sea lanes, intending to make it a PDF or at least a DOC file, but things wouldn't work the way I wanted them to, so I just made it a web tutorial instead. Hope you find it useful!
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I've also found that in doing sea-lanes and roads in my map, it's not even always necessary to use paths for the routes. In some cases in my map, I found it was actually more trouble than it was worth, surprisingly.
A steady hand and liberal use of the undo button and/or an eraser can be sufficient with practice, even on a mouse.
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Garfield Sobers stirred a minor controversy when he stated a preference for India's Subhash Gupte ahead of Shane Warne in a mythical all-time World XI.
In an introduction to "In a League of their Own", a recently released book in which 100 great cricketers select their ideal XI, Sobers said he found it too difficult to select his greatest team.
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For those of you with an HP DV1000 notebook...
I have had a several problems with drivers for Windows 7 for my HP DV1000. This may have been due to the fact that at the time I ran the windows 7 install I was only connected to the internet with my wireless connection and following the install it could not find the drivers (since I was not connected...) But that is a guess. Searching Intel (for the wireless card) or HP only lead to the determination that as far as they were concerned my notebook was no longer worth maintaining and no drivers would be updated to work with Windows 7. HP is very clear on their website that the DV1000 is not supported for Vista or WIndows 7. I had been running Vista.
Some of the other approaches for other PCs gave me a clue in how to approach finding a solution. The drivers that were critical were for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG netowrk connection and the Connexant AC 97 sound driver.
To solve both those problems, at least I think they are solved...:
- Connect to the network using an ethernet connection.
- Open Device Manager (in the Start search field, enter Device Manager and select it)
- The devices for which drivers did not install are shown in the Other Devices section.
- Right click on the Network controller and select Update Device Driver
- Select the Search Automatically for updated device driver
- Repeat this for the audio device.
This appears to have solved both the audio and wireless issues. Since I selected the automatic update I have no idea where Windows found the drivers but it did so I am happy. And others have noted, Windows 7 appears to have added new life to a nice old PC which I had written off a while ago.
Other driver issues are shown in Device Manager for which no driver is found. But these do not appear to be causing me any problems in my use of the system - yet.
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With David Toms' win at Colonial, old guard gets hot as summer approaches
- 6:43 pm Sunday, May 22nd, 2011 by Post Staff
Not so fast Rickie Fowler, step aside Dustin Johnson, wait a minute Nick Watney.
Despite the attention rightfully given the young guns this season, golf's past isn't quite ready to give way to the future.
A week after he lost to K.J. Choi in sudden death at The Players Championship, 44-year-old David Toms bounced back to win The Colonial.


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Cactus Club Cafe (Market Crossing[Marine Way])
Located near what I think is the border between New West and Burnaby, Market Crossing (aka that shopping centre on Marine Way) boasts quite a few edible establishments for shoppers and the hungry alike. For today's visit, we head off to the Cactus Club there because it was surprisingly nice out, and the patio looked relatively attractive from the outside. When we arrived, the greeter said she'd get an outside table for us, then shows us to a dining room table (Sigh…good help is hard to find).
I ordered the Cajun Chicken Sandwich (13.75). The fries were very hot, crispy, fresh, and had a well balanced level of salt. They actually kind of reminded me of a certain fast food chain's (cough McDonald's cough) albeit not tasting like a heaping bowl of salt. The chicken was very juicy yet had a very nice chargrilled aftertaste to it, and having a nice kick to it as well! The cheese was nice and gooey, though I think it was a little unnecessary to have it all (the chicken could hold the sandwich on its own). The bun was just how I liked it, nice and fluffy!!
-Tasty sandwich
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How is your product or service doing in the hands of real users? It takes proper skills to acquire insigts and data that are both relevant and solid, and to mould these into beneficial business decisions.
My field is Customer/User Experience & Design Thinking - which means that if your business has any "event horizon" towards customers or users, I can be of use to you.
the Purpose: - Better Products & Services for Better Business through understanding and inclusion of your customers/users
(further reading: "Is it worth it?" - also, "Customers Included" which I review here)
the Method(s): - Increased Understanding through Professional Empathy, formed into tactical and strategic decisions that benefit business by benefiting your customers/users - for example using one of the approaches below which represent my four main vectors. Click topic for additional information.
(further reading: "The Empathy Tool" - "UX vs. Design Thinking - what's the relationsthip?")
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Since sometime in the early 00's I've often used the word "Playmaker" to describe my professional attitude - the concept comes from soccer and was once described thus:" - an attacking player who controls the flow of the team's offensive play, and is often involved in passing moves which lead to goals. [....] - creativity is the only true requirement, and good passing ability and tactical awareness help"
In other words, my basic work ethic is "let's get this done, together".
Also, no experience is without use - over a career ranging across such disparate areas as army sargeant, musician, massage therapist, cabinet maker, furniture-, interior- and digital designer, project management, retail sales & management, webshop design & implementation and more, I found that, besides making my outlook and mind scope both wide and deep, the experience from all these fields could be forged into a comprehensive set of human-centered problemsolving tools.
So that's what I did. My fuel is my determination, using these tools to solve the wicked problems of this world - and create good business in the process.
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Given my position on, well, things, and my focus on user understanding, the human-centered aspect of design thinking, and professional empathy, it's probably no big surprise I have a great interest in the field of behavioural economics.For that reason I find this video, by Dan Ariely – professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke,(…)
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I know, I know – everybody has to say something following the big unveiling by Apple the other day, just like every other time it's happened. I'm just on the band wagon, right?Well, yeah.But I do feel I have something to add, and it's not so much about the iWatch (as if anyone is going(…)
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AT some point in the early 90′s Kevin Smith had a meeting with producer Jon Peters about the script for a planned Superman movie, "Superman Lives", that Smith had been hired to write. Apparently, Peters was fresh off a viewing of "Star Wars" – at the time nothing short of the gold standard for commercial(…)
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Been a while, I know, summer and all – but it's time for another Talkback. This time I'm talking back at Bernard Marr's article "What the heck is gamification", and at some of the general conceptions surrounding the idea of gamification, some of which I agree with, others I don't.I wrote a bit about this(…)
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Well, as you may have noticed I have a section on this website called "Skills & Powers", and within that I present what I call my four main vectors for delivering my specialities for the benefit of your company, product or service (or that of your friends', so don't forget to tell them).One of those(…)
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Remember a little while ago I had a piece called "Good idea, bad execution"? It's really OK if you don't, I won't hold it against you (although if you want to go read it now that's totally OK too – I'll wait), and it's not a requisite for what's about to follow – but in that(…)
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I've written before about how all this user business is supposed to be worth it in terms of, well, business, but it's such and important part of the subject matter of User Understanding, User Considerations, Customer Experience etc. that it should probably be the subject of every other article.I do, however, try to also get(…)
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Found this when I was having a sort out. I made him months and months ago and didn't like him at the time, but when I found him today I didn't think he looked that bad. I'm getting lazier and my standards are dropping :/ Haha.
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Hundreds of protesters thronged to a Tunis courtroom Tuesday as a woman and her fiance who accused police officers of rape and extortion defended themselves against allegations of indecency.
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What's the Deal with Truffles?
They're a kind of dense fungus that grows underground. They can only be found by specially trained dogs and pigs. They look like...well, not something you'd necessarily think of eating. And they're wildly expensive. Do you think truffles are really worth all the hype?
Truffles have always been highly valued for their heady aroma and culinary value, but they weren't always so rare. Global demand, over-foraging, and environmental factors have created a scarcity that has driven their price through the roof and given truffles a reputation of high class luxury.
There are two main kinds of truffles that get all the attention: black truffles and white ones. Black truffles (melanosporum) grow in many places throughout Europe, most famously in the Périgord region in France. There has been some success farming black truffles, but it hasn't yet become a dependable or widespread practice. Peak harvesting is from September to March.
White truffles (magnatum Pico) tend to be more rare and therefore more expensive. They are nearly exclusive to Northern Italy and can only be found in the wild from October to December.
Black truffles have an earthy, pungent flavor and aroma that can be enhanced by gentle cooking. The white variety is said to have much stronger and more complex flavors and aromas, and they're usually served raw so as to experience all of them.
Here in the United States, home cooks don't often get their hands on real, whole truffles! However, we can get a taste of them through infused oils, butters, pastes, and powders. These products are fantastic in salad dressings, pasta and risotto, and egg dishes.
What experiences have you had with truffles or truffle products?
Related: Adopt a Truffle Tree: Gascony, France
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I love finishing dishes with some truffle oil, a small bottle is really inexpensive and a very little bit goes a long way. Much easier then paying the high prices of actual truffles, not to mention the oil will last much longer in the pantry then a whole truffle.
Don't forget Oregon truffles! Truffles are foraged domestically in the Pacific Northwest and a few other spots around the country.
I didn't know much about truffles until this year when I had the good fortune of having a student in my class who actually operates a fairly large truffle importing business. Due to this, I probably know more about truffles now than your average joe. My student is hosting a uni (urchin) party tonight that I'm attending, and I should be able to sample some of his truffles there. He specializes in exotics beyond black and white and intends on starting a truffiere (sp?) in the near future. He imports from Italy and has been operating his business successfully for two years now. Not bad, considering he's only 16 years old!
If you're interested in checking out his company or obtaining some truffles, here's his site:
I love truffle salt! One of my favorite appetizers is to smear butter on radishes and then dip them in truffle salt. A little goes a long way, so it's not that expensive either.
I've never cooked with actual truffles, but enjoy them tremendously. I recently had truffle saffron risotto in Monaco and i have to say it was the best stuff ever!
ive had cheese laced with black truffle. very earthy.. very strong.. but good!
The chef at Viceroy Palm Springs makes a killer mac and cheese with real black truffle shavings. We had it this weekend...it's totally unreal good, and we like to call "mac and cheese for adults". Seriously, we pass up fillet to eat this. It's always soooo good.
I believe I read somewhere that truffle oil does not actually contain any truffles because the quality would vary too much. It's made with a synthetic flavoring agent.
I'll never forget the white truffle risotto that I had in Milan. 60 euros for an appetizer portion.
i bought a small black truffle from oregon to shave over a soup once, and found it to be really good - it probably didn't have the intensity of flavor of the ones you'd import from italy, but it was still quite pungent and added a nice earthiness to the dish. it wasn't extraordinarily expensive, either.
Best truffle dish ever - gnocchi with cream and truffles. Oh no let me take that back, fois gras with blackened truffle and sage from Julian Serano at the Belagio in Vegas - he doesn't make it any more, so sad...
I've tried cooking with truffles once myself - Oregon truffles over gnocchi and gorgonzola. Do so much, I think I'll stick to having them when I dine out - always a treat.
Truffle oil or butter over eggs (soft scrambled or over easy, amazing!). Truffle salt on popcorn with european melted butter, ridiculous. fresh truffles over fresh pasta or in risotto, awesome! So simple but always the best way to enjoy the most pungent and delicious fungus.
Prior to the world wars of the 20th century, truffles used to be more widely available because they *were* cultivated, rather than just sought wild. But 2 wars destroyed both the land and the people involved, disrupting the planting cycle and a fairly new cultivation technique.
Truffle salt on buttered toast!
I went to a truffle fair in Acqua Lagne and bought a white one about the size of the first joint of my little finger for 20 Euros. 1/2 of it was shaved over fresh pasta tossed in butter the night I bought it and finished the next day over organic scrambled eggs bought from a neighbouring small-holding. It was sensory overload - the flavour is relatively mild, but the aroma is so heavy you experience the truffle rather than taste it. Marvellous.
(I also bought a walnut-sized black truffle for 12 euros, but tragically it was ruined when overlooked during celebrations relating to a day spent at a truffle fair and left by a raging fire overnight. I still kick myself when I think of that)
One of the shops in Pikes Place market has has whole truffles the last two times I was there. Wasn't brave enough to ask how much though as I would have no idea where to begin with how to store one!
Any other tips for reputable vendors or suppliers of truffles (Italian and Oregon)?
You can now purchase truffles by the gram, just as much as you need for a Sunday special recipe: http://www.mistertruffle.com/


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When the Detroit Lions finally get started with training camp in a couple of months one of the hottest position battles figures to be at cornerback. The only sure thing is that Chris Houston will be one of the starters when the season begins but how things shake out after that is a big mystery.
Just how clouded is the Lions situation at cornerback? Things are so up in the air that DetroitLions.com lead writer Tim Twentyman listed the cornerback position as both the number one and number two position battle on defense in his article today.
The position figured to be one of the more interesting positions battles to watch even before the draft that added Darius Slay to the mix. Bill Bentley won a starting job out of training camp a year ago but his season was cut short by a shoulder injury. Jonte Green was the last of three corners drafted by the Lions in 2012 but showed good progress throughout the season while Chris Greenwood spent the year on PUP/IR but was drafted as a developmental prospect with impressive physical tools.
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That settles one battle but brings on another: the nickel back. The "loser" of what will likely be a Slay-Bentley battle for the number two corner spot has to be seen as the favorite to start the season as the primary nickel back.
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Joss Whedon. What a total badass. Prolific TV writer, and has become well known for writing really strong, empowered, and engaging female characters. He has some really great and inspiring words about his views on the necessity of strong female role models and the destructive force that misogyny plays in our culture. I haven't seen a ton of his work, but I'm a fan of his for life after that video.
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Frank Bruni, former restaurant critic, wrote a great piece about being a regular at a restaurant.
"Regulars matter to a restaurant. Though the newcomers drawn there by reviews or Yelp chatter can keep it packed for a while, the familiar faces help it go the distance. That's why some of those fusty, pricey Italian haunts on the Upper East Side outlast the trend-conscious efforts of this "Top Chef" alumnus or that darling of the culinary scribes. They've put extra energy into cultivating a steady clientele, turning themselves into clubs, into tribes."
A group of friends and I are regulars at a burger place/bar near where we went to grad school- we showed up there with alarming regularity, and still love it. We have our favorite bartender who we know by name (and vice versa)- he lets us know if our favorite beer is running low, and lets us pay our tabs later in the night if we wander off somewhere else. I'm working hard on having the restaurant name a burger after me (turkey burger with swiss, guacamole and caramelized onions). I don't love my odds, but I'll certainly keep going there over and over again.
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This is so interesting- It's a map, broken down by neighborhoods in San Francisco- showing how many minimum wage jobs you'd need to have in order to afford a 2-bedroom apartment in that neighborhood. Some of those 6.8 job neighborhoods? Yikes.
The Unofficial Goldman Sachs Guide To Being A Man »
So, yeah, the list is called "guide to being a man" but I think it should be called "guide to being a non-annoying adult human." It's a little self-important, but, hey, I liked it.
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Ricky Gervais tells a wonderful story about the teacher that really taught him how to write. Very sweet- I loved it.
Used-book stores are disappearing in our day at an even greater rate than regular book stores. Until ten years ago or so, there used to be a good number of them in every city and even in some smaller towns, catering to a clientele of book lovers who paid them a visit in search of some rare or out-of-print book, or merely to pass the time poking around. Even in their heyday, how their owners made a living was always a puzzle to me, since typically their infrequent customers bought nothing, or very little, and when they did, their purchase didn't amount to more than a few dollars. Years ago, in a store in New York that specialized in Alchemy, Eastern Religions, Theosophy, Mysticism, Magic, and Witchcraft, I remember coming across a book called How to Become Invisible that I realized would make a perfect birthday present for a friend who was on the run from a collection agency trying to repossess his car. It cost fifteen cents, which struck me as a pretty steep price considering the quality of the contents.
What made these stores, stocked with unwanted libraries of dead people, attractive to someone like me is that they were more indiscriminate and chaotic than public libraries and thus made browsing more of an adventure. Among the crowded shelves, one's interest was aroused by the title or the appearance of a book. Then came the suspense of opening it, checking out the table of contents, and if it proved interesting, thumbing the pages, reading a bit here and there and looking for underlined passages and notes in the margins. How delightful to find some unknown reader commenting in pencil on a Victorian love poem: "Shit," or coming across this inscription in a beautiful edition of one of the French classics:
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- For those that have had their names butchered at Starbucks.
- This article about a woman who auditioned to play The Little Mermaid, and then Nemo at Disney theme parks, was interesting
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What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.
Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded…sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly."
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"As a result men are stuck, or "fixed in cultural aspic," as critic Jessica Grose puts it. They could move more quickly into new roles now open to them- college graduate, nurse, teacher, full-time father- but for some reason, they hesitate. Personality tests over the decades show men tiptoeing into new territory, while women race into theirs. Men do a tiny bit more housework and child care than they did forty years ago, while women do vastly more paid work. The working mother is now the norm. The stay-at-home father is still a front-page anomaly."
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Some congressional Republicans want to pass a spending bill that defunds ObamaCare, but not everyone in the GOP is on board.
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Under ObamaCare, the federal government is building a computer system linking federal and state agencies and containing a vast amount of personal information on all Americans.
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We miss working with Grace. She has a twisted sense of humor, a far-reaching visual vocabulary and an incredible knowledge of music, traits which she often combined and shared in her musical posts. Since this is travel month 'round these here parts, we were going to round up places around the globe but decided, instead, to honor Grace by rounding up a selection of spaces across the site.
So, fill up your glasses, turn those speakers on, put those headphones to use -- let's kickstart the weekend with the Apartment Therapy happy house tour hour!
We are obsessed with dark paint colors, like Farrow & Ball's Down Pipe (a grey with a hint of army green) and Benjamin Moore's Racoon Fur (a black that can read navy depending on the light) and those brown-eggplant colors, like this one, that truly fit the word "aubergine" (Farrow & Ball has one that is aptly called "Pelt"). They're the kind of colors that play nicely with hard-to-handle colors, like bright yellow, hot pink and bright turquoise, and of course, they look great with white (try them in a kitchen to really make the room pop). In honor of this room, which, with its dark walls, white rug, splashes of yellow and that bright chair, gets it right, here is a New Wave-meets-pop punk band hailing from New York (although the guy sounds like he's British, no?):
There are rare instances when going commando on huge windows is OK -- and this could be one of them. (Before you all start commenting away about privacy issues, we should tell you that window looks out on the private terrace of a 6000 square foot home so we think they have that issue covered.) Leaving a window sans treatments is a great idea, especially given the size and placement of that window. Thanks to the light bouncing around from a window that takes up a whole wall, this living room is airy and open. Having said that, what better to pair it with than a band that everyone on the LA team -- Gregory included -- loves?
This room is probably best described as "eclectic". There's that crazy awesome light fixture, the peeling brick walls, the oriental rug...well, we could go on. It's traditional without being boring and it's a look we definitely love. In the same vein, pop Brit singer Florence + The Machine takes an old classic and gives it her own spin.
Look at all those pilows! They perk up the traditional brown couch without overpowering the room. To balance the couch, the formal white leather wing chair is softened by the bright orange pillow and the floral ottoman. The sun streaming in the windows makes it all bright and cozy. From one homey, folksy colorful place to another, here is an indie favorite, hailing from Scotland:
We're always curious about how the space in a home is used. We were particularly intrigued by this home because while it's in the same building and has the same configuration as the home of two people we know and love, it puts its own unique spin on the layout. The same could be said of this intriguing version of Lady Gaga's hit.
This is a very spartan, but chic, room: there's the leather director chairs, that rattan stool we've been coveting, the seagrass rug, the simple mid-century round coffee table, the black fireplace, the white hanging lamp. It could feel cold but it doesn't. To offset the minimal amount of furniture, its vaguely masculine feel and the strong shapes, there's a lot of natural, tactile texture in warm neutrals. A sort of simple song for a sort of simple room:
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly: Lighthouse Keeper
This living room has an aura of mystery and history with its stuffed bird, old portrait painting, foreboding landscape and dark fireplace. That one of its inhabitants is from the South doesn't surprise us. That leather chair invites you to sit down and hear a complicated tale, a bourbon in hand, while a song about love gone wrong plays in the background. Here's one, a soulful song from a British pop singer who has the same vocal stylings as her other Brit contemporaries, like Adele, Duffy, and Amy Winehouse.
Let's end this playlist with a living room in an unexpected color. The bold hot pink wallpaper is an unusual, bold and cheeky choice. For this whimsical room, how about a nonsensical tune?
Hope you all enjoyed this little playlist pairing! Have a great weekend! 'Til next time...
Here's the archive of previous playlist posts for your listening pleasure.
Images: Trish's North Portland Nest;Nine By Design Heads West, New York; Richard & Julie's Elegant Industrial Loft, Boston; Sara & Michael's Bohemian Rhapsody, Los Angeles; The Brick House, Los Angeles; Martha & Ben's Southern Mix, Chicago; Megan & Peter's Elysian Dream. Los Angeles
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*Love* these -especially the dining set. And may I just say thank you to the people who chose to not hang the curtains from super high ceiling hight?
Thanks for the Forence the Machine track I haven't heard! Coincidentally (?), it's my favorite room, too.
Fun post!
Loved the post, combining two loves, design and music!
These are amazing rooms. I have a couple of questions: I am looking to buy the chairs in the room "Florence + The Machine: Addicted To Love" -I mean the two armchairs facing the couch in the background... would anyone know the manufacturer? I need them asap to have my living room ready for guests who are arriving in about one week! I live in Montreal, Canada and I am be facing a bit of a challenge but I really like them and it is exactly what my space could accept. I would also love to know who makes the dining table. Thanks!


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Dr. Fryer, who is the faculty director of Harvard's Education Innovations Laboratories (EdLabs), studied 35 charter schools in New York and discovered the top five practices that separate low- and high-achieving charter schools: (1) extended time at school, (2) strong administrators and teachers, (3) data-driven instruction, (4) small-group tutoring, and (5) creating a "culture of high expectations."
Fryer and HISD superintendent Terry Grier used grants from the US Department of Education and private funding – together totaling $2,200 per student – to implement the five practices. To meet those goals, the schools:
Dr. Grier said that fixing low-performing schools is not rocket science. "I've never been to a high-performing school that didn't have a good principal and good teachers," Grier said at the Hamilton forum.
The report says the test scores, especially for math, increased dramatically (though it did not include the test scores). Fryer calculated that the progress in Houston was equivalent to giving the students an additional 3-1/2 months of math instruction and three weeks of reading instruction. The report shows similar progress for the pilot program in Denver, which began in 2011.


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There's something I was told when I was a kid that I've always found true: life is complicated, and the closer you look at it the messier it gets. There are no easy answers. This is true of science just as it is of politics or relationships or really anything else.
A quote from a nice blog post by Puff the Mutant Dragon on what is worthy of concern and what is a waste of time when it comes to the food we eat. Read it!
Authorities in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., say a chemical reaction between fireworks and mixing compounds being transported in a car caused an explosion that fatally injured a California man.
Lake Havasu City Fire Marshal Chip Shilosky says the explosion occurred as 59-year-old Randy Feldman of Menlo Park and another man were driving on State Route 95 in Lake Havasu City on Feb. 12.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2014/03/chemical-reaction-caused-fatal-firework-explosion
I am intrigued. What are these "mixing compounds" of which they speak? And why was a man driving around with them and fireworks in a car?
Now there is an app that can tell me just how much I am screwing up my circadian rhythm with coffee consumption, yay. Jawbone creates an Up Coffee app.
A colleague said to me recently, "…and that is why you shouldn't use shampoo that contains sulfate." As you can see, I wasn't paying attention. All the supporting evidence for this statement was bestowed while I was writing a grocery list, or determining my last gym visit or considering any one of the dozen things that go through my mind on a given day. What were we dealing with? Where were we on the spectrum of concern? Does sulfate in my shampoo cause mutations in my unborn child or does sulfate in my shampoo make it impossible to get any body out of my hairstyle? I was too embarrassed to admit my lapse in concentration to ask. To save face it was easier to just go "sulfate-free."
We are free freaks. Fat-free, sugar-free, gluten-free, the words seep into our psyche and gull us into believing we are getting something for nothing. It is a great marketing ploy. We fall for it all the time. (The only exception being caffeine-free. Who the hell wants that?) But at what cost? What does all this free seeking get us? Anxiety, not much more.
Before I knew it I was scanning for "sulfate-free" in the hair care isle. It was not hard to find the preferred product, sulfate-free was everywhere. I took it home with a sigh of relief that I found out about this before it was too late. I was righteous, I was keeping sulfates off my head. Wait, why was I keeping sulfates off my head?
If you are familiar with a little chemistry you might recall that a sulfate is a cluster of atoms (one sulfur and four oxygens) with a charge that attracts it to other charged atoms. In shampoo the sulfate in question is sodium lauryl sulfate. This molecule has the charged sulfate at one end and a long, waxy tail at the other which allows it to remove grease and gives shampoo lather.
I am rather fond of sodium lauryl sulfate because I have an oily head. If I showed up at your house after not washing my hair for two days you would think it was pouring outside. My hair would look soaking wet. I can pump out some serious scalp grease. It's gross. And don't try to tell me my head creates oils because I wash it too much. I tested the limits of necessary hygienic practices on a number of lazy occasions in college. I can go no more than a day and a half without a good head washing.
Now, if you look for information on the web regarding why sulfates are so hated. You find no good reason. The Environmental Working Group ranks sulfates as low risk. Articles touting the termination of sulfate shampoos admit that there is no safety risk and no real reason to change. This Huffington Post article titled, "Why You Need To Check Your Shampoo Label, Now" ends:
While the benefits seem unclear, my philosophy with sulfate-free shampoo has been, "Hey, it can't hurt. Right?"
But it does hurt, it hurts tremendously. This mentality perpetuates fear and clouds our judgement in determining a true threat.
The author of this story confesses that she started using sulfate-free shampoo because of media pressure, meaning advertising pressure. If Eva Longoria tells you sulfates are bad you buy sulfate-free shampoo. (I mean, she does have great hair.)
We accept a lot of risk in life. We eat too much, we drink too much, we ride our bikes among the traffic of a crowded city street. But, the risk of shampooing is too great? We are convinced of carcinogens and mutagens lurking in our beauty products. We are obsessed with revealing a conspiracy by the beauty industry to force us all to wear leaded lipstick and mercuryed mascara. Because as we know manufacturers don't always have our best interests at heart. Sometimes advertisers just tell us what we want to hear to sell us their products. Our mistrust of industry has allowed our fear of chemicals to breed out of control. And now our chemophobia is being used to advertise to us.
We have been played. Two years after the bunk-proven hype over the adverse effects of sodium laurel sulfate more and more beauty companies are marketing sulfate-free products. The rumor is still circulating and has finally reached a tipping point where it can be taken advantage of to sell more shampoo.
I have girlfriends who only need to wash their hair every couple days. I am so envious. They are most often curly haired friends with drier scalps. Understandably, they feel differently about sodium laurel sulfate than I do. Choosing sulfate-free shampoo is a preference, like preferring the feel of your skin after bathing with Lever 2000 rather than Dove. If you like it, fine, buy it. But don't let advertisers convince you that spending more for sulfate-free will make you safer (or make your hair color last longer – there is no proof of that either). It is just a marketing gimmick.
You are probably like me. Your mind is filled with a dozen different things. You have to get to the gym and you need to write a grocery list, but take the time to assess the validity of a threat and don't let your fears reign uncontrolled.
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have determined that certain beverages alter the length of the copy and repair accessories at the ends of our DNA, known as telomeres. Although the role of telomeres is not completely understood it is believed shorter telomeres are associated with cancer risk (doi: 10.1002/ajhb.21127). The Tel Aviv researchers studied yeast that has many of the same genes as humans. They identified 400 genes that work together to determine telomere length. Many environmental stresses were imparted on the genes with no effect on telomere length. However, when the genes were exposed to a low concentration caffeine they shortened and when they were exposed to alcohol they lengthened (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003721).
My poor little telomeres must be exhausted, yo-yo'ing between the coffee induced shortening of the morning and the alcohol encouraged lengthening of the evening. But, hey, at least it all balances out.
I read about this research at Science Daily. Check it out!
Are you a gymnast? If so you most likely have 6 times the concentration of fire retardant chemicals in your blood than the general public – a rate of exposure on par with carpet installers. The source? All the foam that cushions your landing.
Epidemiologist and exposure scientist Counrtney Carignan is a post doc at Dartmouth College, she was also at one time a competitive gymnast. Her graduate work on flame retardants got her curious about the risk of pentabrominated diphenyl ether exposure in the gym environment. The chemical has been banned as a retardant in the EU since 2005 because it causes health issues. Carignan found that air samples taken in training facilities measured up to three orders of magnitude higher for PentaBDE than in a residential environment.
Read more about it HERE.
The image above shows a few of the 100,000 turbine blades squeezed onto a disk about a centimeter wide. The turbines run the world's smallest vacuum pump, part of the tiniest mass spec imaginable. The device, created by Honeywell, could be equipped for your smart phone and continuously measure the quality of air you breathe. A Honeywell scientist says,
"One thing we are very excited about is putting these into smartphones, essentially adding a sense of smell that can sense everything from toxic chemicals to pollen to general air quality," Yang said. "They could keep a cumulative record of exposure for every person carrying one, noting when and where a user was exposed."
Read more about it HERE.
This blog is only intended to provide snippets from a vastly complex chemistry world. I don't review journal articles here or discuss the validity of the data published therein. My lack of doing so should not be interpreted as nescience. I just prefer to keep it light.
I admire bloggers who evaluate the ruggedness of published data. A blogger who calls out the editor-in-cheif of a scientific journal for stating that a blog is an inappropriate place to question scientific findings? Well, that is going to earn my lifelong fandom, especially with such an expertly written retort.
Last week the editorial board of ACS Nano published their thoughts on how scientific misconduct should be handled. They feel it is inappropriate for issues of misconduct to be taken up in a public form such as a blog or on Twitter. ChemBark fired back:
Your assertion that commenting on papers is a "privilege" smacks of the elitist, opaque, closed-door, Old-Boys'-Club approach that many lament has become standard operating procedure in too many areas of chemistry. Many young chemists decry that success in our field is not so much about what you do, but whom you know. Blogs are helping to level the playing field by putting users on equal terms and democratizing the flow of information. In order for any self-governing and self-policing body to operate effectively, members of the community must stay informed about important issues they face. There can be nothing more important to chemistry than the integrity of our data; it is the foundation on which our knowledge is built.
I recommend that you read ChemBark's Response to ACS Nano Editorial Reporting on Misconduct in its entirety.
The realization that your chemistry midterm is in 24 hours and you are wholly unprepared, the untimely call from your folks to remind you they are shouldering a heap of debt for your education – there are any number of downers to experience in a day, but leave it to chemists to identify the ultimate buzz kill. Kynurenic acid, shown above, has been proven to counter act the effects of THC, rendering marijuana use uneventful. Bummer living through chemistry? Read about it here.
The Noble Prize in chemistry was announced today. It was given to three computational chemists whose work allowed chemical modeling and interactions to be visualized like never before. In this quote from Reuters Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel, who won the prize along with Michael Levitt, talk about what they had to over come to reach this achievement.
It was not an easy scientific journey, however. Warshel said he had been convinced of the case for using computers to simulate chemical reactions since 1975 but did not know if he would live to see it adopted.
"I always knew it was the right direction, but I had infinite difficulties and setbacks in the research. None of my papers were ever published without being rejected first," he told Reuters.
Karplus said his early work using computers was initially met coldly by many of his scientific colleagues in the '70s.
"My chemistry colleagues thought it was a waste of time," he told reporters at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adding that the next generation of scientists should be courageous and "not believe their colleagues necessarily if they say they can't do something."
I have to recommend that you pick up the Sept. 30th issue of C&ENews. There is some crazy fun stuff in there. Like:
Intermolecular Forces Visualized (Smack that on a Powerpoint!)
A bizarre story about the CEO of a biotech start-up who tried to murder his chief scientific officer and then his brother-in-law. WHA?
3D printed guns. (Did C&ENews get a scoop on the season premier of Elementary?) The plastics available for printing are not currently durable enough to withstand an explosion in the chamber, but it is definitely of concern.
And my favorite read in the issue, a story about motorsports and the different ways racers cheat. There are a dozen concoctions they sneak into the gas tank to try and improve performance. But the most cleaver cheater rigged his mandatory fire extinguisher so it dispensed nitrous oxide into the engine at the push of a button. NIce!


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Got Our Hiking Shoe's On
... br> Thousand of years ago this was the sea floor....so who's to say. The Ocotillo's (except for the dread-lock one) are alive, they loose their leaves to conserve water.
We are headed to Ajo AZ for 3 days and more hiking in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Talk to you all soon,
Debbie and Rusty
A Migrant Worker Blessing.
Left Wellton around noon. Still rode 43 miles. I had a flat mattress and a flat tire. Scotty was busy applying patches. Then we could not get my front brakes back to working. It has been an ongoing problem since I bought the bike. I am now riding without front brakes. We rode though the crop fields for most of today. It was beautiful. We had so many questions about water and planting and how they harvested. So when ...
Cashin' in on Caches
We decided to devote the entire morning to geocaching. Boring? Not a chance! On our way into the desert, we stopped off in town to find "Hey gringos it's pronounced Heeluh." It's a cache tucked into a safety barrier atop a cyclone wire fence at the ball field. While there, an electrician for the city, turned painter, came over and asked if we'd found it. We showed him how it all works and explained the phone app Another worker ...
Another Busy Day
... morning when we headed into the desert, just adjacent to the park itself. We found the gate and wandered more or less in a straight line until we found the railroad tracks. There are lots of saguaro cactus here, which are some our favorites. The hike was just over four miles and was quite interesting and for me, tiring. Not tiresome however, in that there were many plants in bloom. The small orange/yellow ...
Day 3 - Technology sucks!
... so I can replenish my fluids, etc. Then I go ride.
On Day one, this all went to hell within 2 miles, when a key road was closed. Today, things atarted going bad after 1/4 mile. I made the first turn, looked at the surface of the road, and thought "Oh ****!". Picture somehere. Picture probably doesn't show the true pain. Felt like riding on cobblestones for 5 miles. After dealing with that, the next road wasn't ...


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