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Once I got a feel for the amount of color I was getting I pressed harder on a few of the areas to make some spots darker.
The crinkle ribbon I used is from the Prairie Bird Boutique which you can purchase here.
Cathryn your layout is so cute. Love the ribbon you used. I also love the fence and cute pumpkins. Great job. Tfs
Love your LO Cathryn! Beautiful job distressing!! TFS and have a GREAT day :)
OMG...I love this Layout! All your details are just great!
hi cathryn awesome and fun layout. cute lil pumpkins ( and your kids are absolutely beautiful!) great job on the distessing/embossing it really adds so much! thanks for sharing that. have a fun crafty day:) xxxshelly
oh how cute is that... luv your embossed fence that's surround with your spooky pumpkins..
What a fun layout! I love the drippy goo punch at the bottom of the pictures and the fence with the pumpkins! The fence turned out so neat!
WOW Cathryn,your layout is sooo COOL!We used the same pumpkin,but they look sooo different.AMAZING job as always!!:)
Cathryn, such a great layout, LOVE the drippy borders on your photos... stealing that idea! Love my inking , it always adds so much to the layout. It is the perfect addition to this fun one too. Such gorgeous photos to get scrapped too. xx
What an adorable layout Cathryn! I love those pics! I have never tried distressing on embossing - will have to give it a try! Thanks for this tutorial :)
Very cute LO. Love all the details.
Wonderful Cathryn!
Love the drippy goo under all the photos!
Thanks for sharing your cool technique.
What an adorable layout, Cathryn! I love what you did with the fence, and your pumpkins are so cute!
Your LO is so cute. I love those pumpkins and what you did for your technique on the fence. The ribbon looks gorgeous and I love how you used two colors! Your children are so precious too:) Great job as always with challenge;) Hugs!
What a great LO! I love the technique you chose, the inking and embossing really make the fence stand out. Also great job with the drippy goo punch. Don't you just love it? My husband bought it for me last year and it is by far one of my favorites especially when making stuff for Halloween. Tfs and have a great day. :)
Cathryn you layout is so cute! I love your distressed fence...and the pumpkins are just adorable! Love those PK faces!!! Thanks!
BEAUTIFUL LO Cathryn, I love it. The inking and embossing on the fence were the perfect touches! And I LOVE those pumpkins. Hugs- Glora
Fabulous layouts.The distressing looks so good.
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Just got back from a three-day section hike on the NH Appalachian Trail with my K-9 hiking bud, Ouzo. Found out that EZBoard, the host for the Samurai School of Appliantology, has been dead in the water for the past couple of days. They're back up now.
The backpacking trip I just returned from was a trial run for my four-day backpacking trip next week in the Adirondacks with a couple of friends from PA. Since I want to take the K-9 on that trip, I needed to see how he'd do in backpacking life...and how I would do carrying the extra food needed to keep him alive. Both of us did just fine. In fact, Ouzo didn't even want to come home. He's slinking around the house wishing he was back on the trail.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Due to the threat of inclement weather in the state of South Carolina this weekend, Charleston Southern women's tennis has adjusted its schedule accordingly. The Bucs have adjusted dates and times for both the Winthrop and the Elon matches this weekend.
CSU will now travel to Elon on Sunday, April 8, with first serve in doubles play set for a 1 p.m. start. The Bucs will close out the road trip at Winthrop on Monday, April 9, with first serve in Rock Hill set for 1 p.m.
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This is my Rapide lite 200 with modified 312 bed and e3dv6 extrusor (bowden).
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UFC 147 Full fight Card & Predictions
UFC on FX, UFC 147, Bellator 71, XFC 18, OneFC and it's only Saturday! It's gettin close to drinking time, as usual my picks are in Green. Post your picks in the comments section. We will be doing a Contest for a signed Chris Lytle 100% Clean Shirt or Ball Cap, winner's choice. So be ready for the next UFC! If we get enough predictions today, we may just give a prize to the most correct picks…Get them in before the prelims start on FX.
Catchweight (190 lb) Wanderlei Silva vs. Rich Franklin
Wanderlei Silva is a legend. Rich Franklin is probably a UFC hall of Famer. These two guys put on shows, each and every time. I expect Rich to play it safe the first few rounds, waiting for Wand to tire out in the 4th and 5th where he will look to finish him. Wand will come out swinging, playing it as safe as Wand is able to, then go for the takedown, I expect him to use his striking to set up the takedown and go for a GnP victory. It's gonna be a tough fight for both. Rich Franklin is the favorite here, but I'm a Wand Fan through and through so I'm goin with Wanderlei Silva by TKO/KO in the 3rd.
Middleweight Cezar Ferreira vs. Sergio Moraes
If you din't watch TUF Brazil then you have no idea who these guys are. I'll make it easy, Cezar is Vitor Bellfort's BFF and a cheater. Sergio Moraes is a last minute replacement for the injured winner (Daniel Sarafian). Sergio is a solid, hungry fighter, just like everyone on the cast of TUF Brazil. I think Cezar has teh better skillset and ahs been pampered throughout the show, giving him a distinct advantage. I think he will take the W, but I don't want him to, in fact I want him to lose so badly he never gets a shot at the UFC. So I'm picking Sergio Moraes to win by act of God. If you are placing $ on this one, Cezar Mutante is probably a better bet, but F23K him.
Featherweight Godofredo Pepey vs. Rony Mariano Bezerra
Heavyweight Fabricio Werdum vs. Mike Russow
Fabricio Werdum is probably the favorite here, but I'm gonna have to say Mike Russow should be. Werdum has a higher leve of competition under his belt but Russow is a hard worker, probably the hardest worker itn he HW division. When adversity arrives in the Octagon™ Russow puts on his gloves and beats the holy sh1t out of it. Based upon his heart and will to win, I'm going with Russow.
Featherweight Yuri Alcantara vs. Hacran Dias
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Rodrigo Damn. Always pick the Brazilian to win.
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First published by City Lights in 1962 and long out of print, Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry is the only comprehensive selection of his poetry to be published in the U.S., and it remains the perfect introduction to his extensive poetic canon.
Edited by Lowry's good friend, renowned Canadian poet Earle Birney, with the assistance of his widow, Margerie Lowry, the selection includes extraordinary poems written during Lowry's stay in Mexico, many of which are closely related to his landmark novel.
"These poems would be worth keeping in print, if for no other reason, for their illuminations of Under the Volcano: 'See mind's petal / torn from a good tree, but where shall it settle / But in the last darkness and at the end?' Sometimes, as the images of "For Under the Volcano," they become 'palm-of-the-hand' versions of that masterpiece. Lowry is a poet of struggle—with life, and with the creative process. Here are his struggle's fruits: guilt, alcoholism, hopeless, self-deriding quest for salvation, which seems to be love, and, above all, self-destruction—but always accomplished with self-knowledge, enriched (in order to further torment itself) with compassion for all the beings that the poet, and us with him, are failing. His words are always sad and often beautiful." –– William T. Vollmann
Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) was a British novelist and poet whose masterpiece Under the Volcano is widely hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Born near Liverpool, England, Lowry grew up in a prominent, wealthy family and chafed under the expectations placed upon him by parents and boarding school. He wrote passionately on the themes of exile and despair, and his own wanderlust and erratic lifestyle made him an icon to later generations of writers.
Title Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry
Subtitle Pocket Poets Series Number 17
Author Malcolm Lowry
Preface by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Introduction by Earle A. Birney
Edited by Earle A. Birney
Collection City Lights Pocket Poets
Publisher City Lights Publishers
Paperback – $13.95
118 pages
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One of the CNN pundits referred to the staffing of the West Wing positions of the White House as Survivor:White House. The comment wasn't far from actuality. What's happening at 1600 Pennsylvanie Avenue has sunk to the levels of reality TV programming. To me, the premise seems less like Survivor than an old ABC reality series The Family, the premise of which was that, unbeknownst to the family members competing for a lucrative prize, the servants on staff in the mansion were charged with determining those voted off as well as the eventual winner. It's not that anything so noble as having the domestic staff vote contestants out of a competition based on rude, condescending, and otherwise inappropriate behavior is what is happening in today's White House. The likeness is more in that those who are being kicked off White House payroll don't necessarily know in advance who has the authority to exclude them.
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And as to the president himself, I don't even know where to begin. Perhaps it shouldn't have come as a surprise that a man who hosted a reality show in which his signature line was "You're fired!" would turn the human resources department of the White House into a revolving door.
The only person in the White House for whom I have anything resembling respect is Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She has almost certainly sold her soul to the devil in a metaphorical sense by accepting any position whatsoever in the Trump campaign or administration, and she's going to find herself in the position of having to speak untruths even if unwittingly. Still, she seems to be a decent human being and a person of substance.
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- Ellen said...
I think you should go up in one of those things.
The fact that you're making all these balloon beads must be that your subconscious is sending you a message.
- November 25, 2014 at 3:46 PM
- Astrid Riedel said...
You are right I have always wanted to go up in a balloon, but I fear I might get airsick...I have done Paragliding..no more I get so sick you can't believe it.
I have always been fascinated by hot air balloons, as a young girl I went with my grandpa to a field where hundreds of balloons were taking off, they are just magical and such an "old fashioned" thing to do :)
- November 26, 2014 at 6:53 AM
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2018 is shaping up to be another lively year in the global quarry drones and associated software market. Guy Woodford reports. Caterpillar's early 2017 investment in Airware, the San Francisco-based provider of complete commercial drone solutions, is continuing to prove a shrewd move by the world's biggest-selling construction, quarrying and mining equipment manufacturer. Due to its proven results in quarrying and mining operations in North America, Europe and Australia, and a growing understanding of its money saving and efficiency-boosting potential, there has been a notable increase over the past year in Caterpillar dealerships in Asia, West Africa and parts of the Middle East offering quarrying customers Airware's cloud-based solution through Cat Connect Services. Airware allows quarry managers to plan, dispatch jobs and fly drones on repeat flight patterns around one or more quarries anywhere globally. This saves a great deal of time and money when needing to do regular site surveying work. Through the Airware solution, quarry managers can safely obtain detailed and highly accurate stockpile reports along with 2D and 3D site models showing, among other things, quarry face heights and the condition of haul roads and berms. Over the past year, Caterpillar quarry customers in countries including Nigeria, Ivory Coast, India, Malaysia, Indonesia and Israel are said to have seen considerable improvements in the efficiency of their operations using the Airware solution. Such improvements are set to become even more apparent with another cloud-utilising software innovation, Airware's machine efficiency module developed with Caterpillar, coming onto the market later this year. Previewed at the CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 exhibition in Las Vegas, USA, Airware's machine efficiency module will allow users to capture and report back daily on the idling time and linked fuel waste of all loading and hauling equipment models in both mixed and single OEM fleets. The software allows for 3D and 2D models of a job site to be created, enabling quarry operators to locate exactly where and at what times machines are most idle. This means potential problems, such as excessive machine idling times at shift changeovers, can be quickly ironed out.
On the Airware machine efficiency module 2D quarry site maps, loaders and haulers are colour-coded depending on whether they've been idle for up to two minutes, two-five minutes, or above five minutes. This enables easy identification of the worst-offending machines. Since its preview at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017, Airware and Caterpillar have worked with quarry owners to identify and add further key performance indicators (KPIs) to the Airware machine efficiency module solution. As a result, quarry operators can now also analyse loading and hauling fleet cycle times, and find out exactly how many loads each fleet hauler truck has carried and dumped. The soon-to-be-available 2018 version of the Airware machine efficiency module also comes with a more attractive and easier-to-use user interface.
Benjamin Hugonet, Airware's vice president of European sales, said: "In West Africa and parts of Asia and the Middle East we have been able to work with very engaged [Cat] dealers in terms of their embrace of innovation and new services and solutions." JA Delmas, the Cat dealer for West Africa, TIPL Tractors India, the authorised Cat dealer in North and East India, Bhutan and Nepal, and SDI subsidiary Tractors Malaysia, the Cat dealer for Malaysia and Brunei, are all said by Hugonet to be playing crucial roles in explaining to customers the benefits of Airware's offer through Cat Connect Services. TIPL Tractors India (TIPL) was already engaged in a drone initiative as shareholders in an Indian drone flight company, SenseBird, prior to its promotion of Airware cloud-based data processing solutions to quarrying and mining customers. SenseBird, on behalf of TIPL, is now promoting the Airware solution in India. Furthermore, SenseBird is exploring new applications for the Airware solution in domains such as urban planning, which is yielding a good response from the Indian government. "It is very normal for them to sell drone data processing solutions on top of drone flight services. As a result, TIPL started very early in this area," said Hugonet. Based on his experience, Hugonet believes that in Europe and Asia there is a greater capability to integrate drone and drone data processing solutions quickly. "However, the companies and site managers working in the European quarry industry are more conservative than those working in Asia. In Europe, potential customers want to set up some trials and need to convince many different people within their organisations before they will start to use new technologies.
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An innovative, patented LiDAR-powered solution, developed by global geospatial specialist 3D Laser Mapping, is set to boost safety, efficiency and productivity in the quarrying, mining and recycling industries. Comprising three integrated software modules, SITEMONITOR LIVE captures and manages 3D point cloud data. The robust and scalable solution's three modules, +VOLUMES, +BERMS and +SLOPES, each address a specific site problem and although available separately, can be combined on a single user interface, enabling site-wide visibility in real-time. SITEMONITOR LIVE also comes with an IP67 rating for effective use in dusty and humid environments. Dr. Graham Hunter, executive chairman of 3D Laser Mapping, said: "SITEMONITOR LIVE strengthens health and safety policies, taking site teams out of potentially dangerous areas where hazards are common. "This product offers the possibility to monitor site-wide operations, from critical slope stability alerts to real-time volumetric calculations by combining a number of automated systems. As a result, site managers can speed up key processes, while ensuring safety remains a priority." +VOLUMES enables site teams to manage stockpiles by data generated from laser scanners, removing the need to measure them manually, while +BERMS is an automated monitoring system that allows a site to continually assess the structural integrity of berms. Suitable for industrial and environmental settings, +SLOPES collects and compares time-series data to identify precursors that could lead to slope failure, such as rockfall and slope displacement. Maptek's mine measurement business manager, Jason Richards, has spoken to Aggregates Business about the company's solutions for quarries.
"Maptek offers two mine measurement solutions for geotechnical monitoring of quarries. "The first is the mapping and extraction of structures and discontinuities to allow operations to safely and accurately predict potential failure zones within a highwall - we call this kinematic analysis. The process is performed using the intuitive point cloud processing and modelling software I-Site Studio, and working directly from 3D laser scan point cloud data collected with I-Site laser scanners. "The second approach is a deployable monitoring solution, Maptek Sentry, which allows operations to monitor movement on a highwall or quarry face to determine if there is any subsidence over time. Sentry deploys a Maptek laser scanner on a specialised trailer configuration that allows the scanner to run 24/7 to monitor a quarry face. Sub-millimetre accuracy data can be plotted to determine displacement over time.
"A system which allows remote, safe survey and monitoring is an immediate benefit in meeting safety KPIs. I-Site software analysis tools, which are intuitive and workflow-based, mean that accurate, up-to-date data can be reported and distributed quickly for use in planning and production decisions. "If the quarry walls can be steepened and mined more safely then costs are reduced and safety measures met. Maptek mine measurement technology reduces drill and blast costs as well as excavation costs and quarries can be dug deeper to extract more commodities to deliver to market." Of the take-up of Maptek's technology in quarries, Richards says: "Globally Maptek has seen many small quarries take up I-Site laser scanning technology, mostly as a consulting service, to analyse their structures and perform kinematic analysis in specific sections of the operation. Typically these studies relate to safety or environmental programs related to operating or regulatory conditions. "Companies such as AECOM, HOLCIM and Golder Associates utilise Maptek expertise. For example, in 2016 AECOM contracted Maptek to undertake laser scanning of a Holcim (Australia) quarry in Victoria for a geotechnical study. The task was to scan the entire quarry and extract detailed geotechnical information such as geological features and discontinuities for kinematic analysis. "I-Site technology helped Golder Associates to quickly and accurately undertake geotechnical mapping and analysis when a government-mandated review of slope stability in a 4km long quarry was ordered. "The technology has been used at quarries across Australia and the world, including to devise practical, cost-effective safety studies in the UK, and to analyse slope failure in New Zealand." Commenting on how I-Site Studio adds value to data captured by drones, Richards says: "The huge advantage of an I-Site terrestrial laser scanner is that data acquisition takes minutes, and is instantly in 3D format with no processing required before analysis can begin in I-Site Studio. "Bad weather is not a problem for operating terrestrial laser scanners. I-Site scanners can still reliably and accurately collect high resolution 3D data in rain or windy conditions, where a drone will be unlikely to fly due to safety reasons." Stuart Watt, general manager of bulk at Eka Software Solutions, a leading global provider of cloud-based smart commodity management software for industries including quarrying, has stressed the financial rationale for using drones (UAVs) and the greater data accuracy that they can offer quarry operators. "Early adopters of UAV technology in the aggregates industry have radically changed the way that stockpile and quarry surveys are carried out. Today, walking the stockpile is a rare occurrence; and you're more likely to spot a licensed flight operator controlling the monthly stockpile at a computer screen than see a pilot striding out across the yard before an early-morning flight.
"The financial calculus behind drone use is straightforward. Whereas a monthly piloted stockpile survey costs between US$4,000 and $10,000, the capital cost of a state-of-the-art drone plus a standard SLR camera is in the region of $2,000 to $5,000 – and is set to fall still further as adoption rates increase. Factoring in the costs of training staff in compliant drone operation, UAVs can save a stockyard operator up to 50% of its monthly costs. "The cost advantage of using drones over manned flights – plus their superior robustness over human alternatives - means that they can be used far more frequently, to build up a much more accurate view of the site over time. Because drones can be re-used every day, one machine can be co-opted into other costly, time-consuming or dangerous activities." Watt says drones' versatility means they can be found gathering information to improve the design of pits and dumps; sending data to site managers who are either planning or executing blasting work; monitoring haul-road conditions to optimise traffic flow; inspecting hard-to-reach areas and spotting details that may not be visible from the ground; or improving site safety by regular monitoring of worksite hazards. He continues: "As the costs of the technology come down, we can expect the financial calculus to become even more compelling. However, that's only part of the argument for adopting advanced drone technology. "The second part of the story is data accuracy. Both piloted and 'walk-the-stockpile' survey methods have a standard variation of three centimetres. But because drones can capture images at extremely oblique angles and fly at much lower ranges than manned planes, they give much more accurate measurements. A variation of two centimetres or less is common. Add a high-end camera to the set-up and the variation can go as low as 1.5cm per pixel." Given the expanse of land that is often involved in a survey, Watt emphasises that these small differences may at first appear insignificant. But when replicated over a full-sized stockyard, and then amplified by the various data-driven processes in the supply chain, Watt says they can mean the difference between a million-dollar profit and a million-dollar loss. "The simple fact is, more finely granulated measurements produce more accurate models," he adds. "And those models mean less variance in inventory allowances and a decrease in inventory swings. That in turn helps alleviate any end-of-year write offs and, at the other end of the value chain, gives buyers and traders a far more accurate picture of current availability and replenishment needs." SR Pro, an inventory management software solution from Stockpile Reports, is continuing to prove a popular "whole process" tool among North American quarry customers, with Stockpile Reports' management keen to widen its use among quarry customers globally. A quarry operator's finance team, operation managers, and measurers can all work together with SR Pro, which offers a centralised, cloud-hosted system to manage, conduct and approve stockpiled material inventory. SR Pro uses image-based measurement technology which can be used with your own drones and iPhones, or Stockpile Reports' sourced and piloted drones. Stockpile Reports claims the solution is the only one globally that works from both air and ground cameras. The company's patented iPhone app enables you to measure indoor piles, where drones can't fly. SR Pro is said to allow you to easily and quickly manage your quarry stockpile inventory more often and for less money. Along with pile volumes and tonnage, you can obtain detailed reports showing hi-res imagery, video playback, 2D and 3D pile models, along with pile condition risks and measurement scoring. SR Pro automatically scores the quality of the measurements you and your colleagues perform, whether you missed part of the pile toe or surface, or whether there was site or pile condition risks affecting your measurement. If the measurement quality was high, then your report gets stamped with a 'Verified Report'. With lesser quality measurements, you can manually evaluate it with your quarry operation team and decide whether or not the pile should be re-measured or cleaned up. David Boardman, Stockpile Reports' founder and CEO, says: "You can use SR Pro in multiple ways; whether that's stockpile inventory, sales forecasting, or controlling production by, for example, knowing when to shut off the crusher, or for general business planning and preparing for audits. "Our quarry customers like the flexibility and control SR Pro gives them. They like the fact that they can use their own drones or that we can provide drones along with our own pilots to carry out flights at their work sites. They also find it a very fast and very accurate solution. "We are trading in 32 countries, but the vast majority of our customers are in the United States and Canada. We see Europe, for example, as a big potential growth area for us. There are a lot of quarries there."


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Remember the Monkey Boy of Borja, that Spanish fresco accidentally ruined by a well-meaning grandmother who thought she could touch it up? We here's another story about church art from Spain. But with a different ending. Sort of. In L'Hospitalet, near Barcelona, a priest let a bunch of graffiti artists go to town on his church. Specifically, on the dome ceiling above the main altar. You know, the space Michelangelo liked to paint. The Santa Eulalia church is neo-Romanesque in design, with a Catalan twist. Inside it's austere. The walls are painted nondescript colors, the statues of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the Saints are simple. To compensate Father Ramon Borr decided to make the main dome a little different. In the ante-chamber of the church on a recent evening, he recalled how he came upon the idea last year, surfing the web. He said to himself, why not graffiti? "Even though the press is scandalized by graffiti artists," he said, "for me graffiti is just another artistic technique." The result is a spectacular splash of colors — rich blues, bright reds and greens, on the rounded ceiling dominating the main sanctuary. But don't think street art. In fact, the style of the painting is faithfully Romanesque, with static, two-dimensional renderings of Saint Eulalia, the Virgin and Baby Jesus and the congregation. Borr says he sent his two young graffiti artists to school before he let them near the place. "I told them they couldn't start until they visited a museum in Barcelona to study the Romanesque style I was interested in," he said. "So they went, and studied, even took out some books." Only after that could the project come together. One of the two 'graffiteros' was Raul Sanchez, who's tag, or signature for street art, is House. House said that when Father Borr hired him he was surprised, and nervous, and thrilled. "Only a graffiti artist can tell we used aerosol cans to do the work," he said by telephone from Alicante. "We tried to conceal that. In the Roman period spray paint obviously didn't exist." House said that if the spray-paint style had been too obvious it would have been away from what Father Borr wanted. Not that House completely conformed. If you look carefully at the figures in the congregation, you see an elderly woman passing a thimble to a young boy. That woman was House's grandmother. Who, he said, was miraculously cured of a fatal spinal disease in the 1950s. "She was confined to bed, he says, with her sewing table," he said. "One day a man appeared, a stranger, and told her she would get better." The story goes that she stood up, grabbed her thimble and collapsed to the floor. And when she woke she was cured. "The doctors could never explain it," House said, "and the stranger disappeared." Father Borr says he's happy the boys personalized the work. Anything to bring more people in. "As Pope Benedict XVI has said, art should attract the faithful." The Graffiti Dome may be working. In a bar just around the corner a bunch of non-church-going guys were enjoying beers after work on a recent day. They'd never seen the dome, but were impressed by photos. Then a guy at the far end of the bar spoke up. "I've seen it," he said. "I saw it in the newspaper, and went to check it out. It's beautiful." You guys ought to set your drinks down for once and go on over, he yelled to the others. "It wouldn't hurt you to spend a little time in the house of God." Bingo.
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A guide to Bullet Journaling with myNo Journal
What is Bullet Journaling?
Bullet Journaling is a simple system that turns a notebook into a tool to help you plan and organise your life and notes.
By using these tips with your myNo Journal you will be able to use it like a traditional diary and plan ahead easily. You will also be able to see at a glance which things you need to be doing and which are top priorities
1: Basic setup
On the first blank page of the journal pages, enter the information for the current week. Add the dates, year, month and week number.
You now add in the events that you already know are happening in that month.
2: To-do-lists and priorities
On the notes page of your current week write a numbered list of the things that you need to get done or accomplished that week.
If you have things that need to be completed on a certain day or that would be best done on that day, write the item number against that relevant day in the priority column.
When things are completed, simply tick off the box in the list and cross them through in the priority list.
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Any items on your weekly list that you do not complete can be transferred on to next weeks list.
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If someone was to ask you, "Are you available on the 21st of August for dinner?" Even though you do not have that month set up yet in your journal, it is possible to check if you are free and record that appointment.
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If you don't have a mobile version of your website 90% chances are that you are losing valuable customers. By forcing them to view desktop browser optimized version of your business website on their tiny mobile screen, Chances are it won't display properly and loading time will be so high user will obviously leave the site and look for other sites. This also proves to your user that you don't have the flexibility to cater to your mobile users, and sometimes users also take it that you are a small company because of your lack of mobile version.
Mobile Market, are you kidding?
Statistics say total Population of world is 6.93 Billion and stats also says that by the end of 2010, there will be 5.3 billion mobile connections in the world, and how many personal computers do you think we have sold so far? You'll be surprised that stats say we'll reach 2 billion sales by 2015, so it's not even close to the sales of mobile connections we have today. Amazed Right!! I know not all mobile users use internet, but again statistics says we can expect rise in % of users accessing internet via mobile in next 5 yrs. So looking through this stats, if I were you I'd better start preparing myself for the next big boom in internet market.
Ok, I'm convinced, now what to do?
It's good for you that you are convinced coz ultimately it's you who'll benefit from this. I don't expect you to be mobile developer or technician so I've created a list of few free sites and plugins for popular scripts which will provide mobile functionality for your site. All you need to do is go through them, and select which suits you the most.
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Before you start I'd like you to download some applications for testing as it's difficult to switch between mobile and desktop for testing every time you change something. The 1st thing I want you to download is iBBDemo2 this is iPhone and iPad (till now I cannot understand the benefit of using chunky iPad, maybe someday I will) simulator and I generally test mobile sites with this app, if it looks good on this it will probably look good on other phones too. You can also download User agent Switcher so you can switch modes in Firefox.
You should also know about W3C mobile OK Checker its mobile code validator and if you have a score of 100%, you are in perfectly safe zone. This site is 100% mobile OK, check the coding and see how its been done.
Also if you are trying to build your own custom mobile website, you should go through these best practices.
Free Scripts, Services and Plugins…
WordPress Mobile Edition – If you have a WordPress website, you can use WordPress mobile edition plugin to create a mobile version of your website. You can check out a demo of the plugin here. Mobile browsers are automatically detected; the list of mobile browsers can be customized on the settings page.
BAAP Mobile Version – This is also a wordpress plugin for wordpress site, it helps to convert your site to mobile version automatically. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.
Joomla Mobile Extention – Mobile Joomla is the best way to mobilize your Joomla! site, displaying beautifully on iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, WAP and all other phones. It comes with advanced mobile detection, Multi Support Site, Sub-domain redirection etc.
Onbile – Onbile is a web application where you can create your mobile version of your website. This is a great application where you can edit pages, customize it using templates, and paste it in your mobile and you're done. It is also compatible with wordpress, joomla, etc.
MobileSiteGalore – This is also a free cum paid service for mobile websites, free pack comes with only 3 pages, limited features and limited hosting. It claims to be 100% W3C Mobile OK.
Zinadoo – This is a free mobile site creation tool along with free subdomain, It does have its drawbacks for free version, you cannot use your domain, it also gives its own ads.
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In the summer of 1984, Steve Buyers (then a superintendent for Walker Construction), was servicing a job at DFW airport. Needing traffic control services, he hired a barricade company to handle things. Or so he thought.
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Brian Scott McFadden Confesses Why He Voted For John Anderson In 1980November 8, 2016
Voting in a presidential election for the first time is a big deal. It's a sign of adulthood and a chance to influence the future of the country. That's what makes "My First President" special.
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Lyon: What To Do When You're Not Stuffing Your Face
On 27, Sep 2013 | 3 Comments | In France, Travel | By kanannie
Based on our previous post you'd probably think there was nothing else to do in Lyon besides stuffing your face. Au contraire, mon frère! (Do you like how I used French in a post about a French city? I'm so clever.) Anyway, there's a shit ton of stuff to do in Lyon and we were lucky enough to have met some locals that gave us great tips and took time from their busy schedules to show us a Frenchy fun time.
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Lyon: France's Big, Sexy Pot Belly
On 22, Sep 2013 | 2 Comments | In France, Travel | By kanannie
"If Paris is the heart of France, Lyon is her stomach." -An old saying by someone who obviously appreciates food as much as we do.
Almost everyone I know has been to Paris, but I can only think of one or two people who have been to Lyon. Or, maybe my friends and family have visited Lyon, but failed to mention it to me. But, I don't know how anyone could possibly keep quiet about this fantastic city with so much to offer. One of its best offerings is food and you know how I loves me some food so, I'll talk about that first.
Did you know that Lyon is the gastronomic capital of France? That's like being the gastronomic capital of the world because we all know that French cuisine is the bombdiggity. For non-English speakers, that means French food is excellent.
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How Country Feels, In France
On 10, Sep 2013 | No Comments | In Activities, Culture, Farming, Food, France, Travel | By kanannie
People say there is nothing like the French countryside and it's true. After extensive searching on the French WWOOFing site, we found an opportunity with an organic farmer in a tiny village called Saint-Menoux. For two weeks, we learned French and Patois slang, drank exorbitant amounts of wine to stay warm at night, ate good organic food made by our farmer (a former chef at Michelin-starred restaurants) with the vegetables from his garden, had discussions in French and English late into the night, drove around the neighboring farms and chateaus in a beat-up Kia minivan and rocked out to Michael Jackson and Bryan Adams. Oh, and we did some work.
N and I left gay Paris and carpooled in a spacious Renault to the nearest town of Moulins to meet the farmer we would be spending two weeks with. As I sat there looking out of the window, Sancerre blew by us, its perfect rows of vineyards stretching on and on. I realized why people wax poetic about the countryside of this vast country. Old stone barns and farmhouses dotted the landscape, the red tiled roofs complementing the rolling green hills. Sheep grazed while the white cattle lay on the grass, sunning themselves. This wasn't Middle America. This was heaven.
Because the farmer spoke mostly French, our email communications had been brief. We had little idea of what to expect besides the fact that he was gay-friendly and had a spare room for us in his house, so we were more than a little relieved when we met our farmer, Hubert-Brice, who ended up being a perfect gentleman and a progressive at heart. We had read horror stories of WWOOFing experiences, where the farmers exploited the workers, worked them all day, verbally abused them… Fortunately for us, it was clear that Hubert joined WWOOFing more for the cultural exchange than anything else. He found it amusing and surreal that a couple of New Yorkers found themselves in the middle of France to learn about organic farming.
"Do you speak English?", I asked him in French. "Yes, a little.", he responded in French, with the shrug that all French people do to indicate, Eh, what can you do? Great. Ever since I graduated college, my French had gone to shit and I stood there trying to figure out how to say, "Well, you're going to have to learn how to speak because I sure as hell can't communicate with you in mostly French." Instead, I said, "We can communicate using both French and English." Or at least that's what I think I said. Communication ended up being a little difficult at times, but Hubert was extremely patient with my broken French and so we managed over the course of two weeks.
Now for the farming bit. Or the little bit of farming that we did. Hubert was kind and let us lazy bums sleep in while he woke up every morning around 7:00 (and on Saturdays, he was out of the door by 5:00 to go to market). We were ready to work by 10:00, at which point we were given small tasks to do, like harvesting string beans (they grow very fast so we did this a lot), picking tomatoes, weeding (because Hubert's farm is 100% pesticide free, weeding is a big part of keeping the plants healthy), pulling up old plants to get the plot ready for next spring, and transplanting leeks.
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There Is Only One Versailles
On 04, Sep 2013 | No Comments | In France, Travel | By kanannie
Russia was one of the first countries that we visited on our RTW trip and St. Petersburg was a city that got a lot of rave reviews for being the cultural center of Russia. The guidebooks said it was more European than Russian, which is supposed to be a compliment unless you like Russian stuff. One of the top tourist attractions near St. Pete's is a placed called Peterhof, the summer playground of the Russian aristocracy. We visited and we thought it sucked. Sorry, but I call it like I see it. Peterhof as been called the Versailles of Russia, but that's like saying that Newark is the New York City of New Jersey. Sorry, Newark, but you kinda suck too.
After visiting both former royal hotspots I've come to the conclusion that Peterhof is poop and Versailles is fabulous.
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Enjoying Paris Like A Tourist Pretending To Be A Local
On 31, Aug 2013 | No Comments | In France, Travel | By kanannie
Paris is a fun city to visit as a tourist, but it can get pricey and repetitive if you stay at a hotel and eat out for every meal. One of the things I enjoyed most about Paris is that for a big city it's actually quite accessible for tourists who want to experience it with a somewhat local approach.
First of all, don't believe what anyone says about French people being jerks to foreigners who don't speak the language. We heard horror stories about how rude Parisians can be to non-French speaking tourists, but that wasn't the case at all for us. Everyone we met was very friendly and helpful even when my only words to them were "wee" and "mercy."
So, we rented an apartment in a less touristy area, donned our berets, grabbed a baguette and explored Paris like tourists pretending to be locals. Here's what else we did to blend in.
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Enjoying Paris Like A Tourist
On 30, Aug 2013 | No Comments | In France, Travel | By kanannie
We did touristy things in Paris because we're tourists. You can be wandering tourists just like us if you follow these suggestions.
The Louvre Museum: This museum is probably one of the best museums in the world, and I've been to all of them so I know. Well, that's a blatant lie. I haven't been to ALL of the museums in the world, but that doesn't change the fact that The Louvre is a magnificent museum. It was the first time for both of us and we were totally in awe as we entered. As New Yorkers, we think the Metropolitan Museum of Art is pretty fantastic, but the Louvre easily trumps The Met. The size is staggering and the collection is exceptional. Of course, there's the Mona Lisa which everyone wants to see and is so popular that it even has its own velvet roped access, but there are so many other works of art worth seeing that we didn't spend more than a minute viewing the ML. We got the Paris Museum card so we were able to re-enter the Louvre as much as we wanted over a 4-day period. I highly recommend a visit, but break it up with an outdoor lunch in the Tulieres Garden. We ate at a cafe in the garden and it was fine, but if you want to save money, bring a baguette and some cheese and pate and you've got a great meal for cheap. BTW, the museum card is a good deal if you're into museums and have the energy to visit several over consecutive days.


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The Araucana chickens originated in an area of Chile ruled by the Araucana indians. The Araucana chicken is a combination of two distinct breeds. The Collonocas, and the Quetros. The "Collonocas" laid blue eggs and were rumpless. The "Quetros", had tufts a tail and laid brown eggs. Over time a combination of these two breeds created the Araucana, a breed that is rumpless, tufted, and lays blue eggs.
The tufts are unique to the Araucana chickens. The tufts are a group of feathers that grow from a flap of skin near the ear called a peduncle. The tufts gene is lethal when two copies are passed to the embryo, and the chick dies in the shell and does not hatch. So living tufted birds only carry 1 copy of the gene and that is why a tufted bird can have cleanfaced offspring. A cleanfaced bird is one that does not carry the tufting gene and cannot pass it on.
The is also a lot of variance in the shape and size of tufts. The shape of a parents tufts can have little bearing on the tufts a chick will have. A unilaterily tufted Aruacana (a tuft on only 1 cheek ) can have a chick that is bilaterily tufted ( a tuft on each cheek ). A bird with huge georgous tufts can have offspring that have tiny little barely there tufts.
Since it only takes 1 copy of the tufting gene to produce tufts and two copies are lethal. Many breeders pens are mixs of clean faced and tufted birds. If you mate a tufted roo to a clean faced hen you will get 50% tufted and 50% cleanfaced and have none die in shell from tufting. If you breed tufted to tufted you will get 50% tufted, 25% clean faced, and 25% dead in the shell. You end up with the same amount of tufted chicks either way.
Araucanas are rumpless which means they do not have a tail or tail bone. The trait that producess rumplessness is a non-lethal gene unlike the tufting gene. Though the gene is non-lethal it can cause difficulties. It can produce very short bodied birds that are not only unbecoming, they have a tendancy to have what is called poopy but. Because of this some breeders have a few tailed birds in their breeding pens. However mating a rumpless bird to a tailed bird results in 50% rumpless and 50% tailed. Some of the birds will only be partly tailed or rumpless due to various modifying genes.
Araucanas are supposed to lay a blue egg. The blue color is a liver bile pigment that is deposited throughout the egg at the same time as the calcium carbonate that makes up the egg shell. Therefor the blue color is on the inside of the shell as well as the outside. This is different from the brown shell color seen in other breeds. The brown color is deposited on the outside of the shell just before the egg is laid. If you crack open a brown egg it will be white on the inside.
Some Araucana lay a green or olive egg. This indicates the presence of a brown egg layer somewhere in the birds history. The inside of the egg will still be blue, while the outside is green or olive because the brown color is merely deposited on the outside. To overcome this you would breed the bird to an Araucana that hatched from a blue egg, then only breed to the chickens that lay the bluest eggs. Eventually you would have only blue egg laying chickens. It takes a while though.