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Hi, there, scrappers! I am posting today with a quick tutorial on how I made this cute little shoe using the Scrap That! September kit featuring Graphic 45's Ladies Diary collection.
Just another photo of the original shoe!
My team mates at Scrap That! talked me in to doing this tutorial although I had another planned and ready. Therefore the papers are different on the second shoe I put together.
I've been wanting to make a shoe for a while now and have been collecting shoe templates along the way. The one I've used for this cute little number is found at Ellen Hutson's online store for a mere $2.00. I later found it for free but felt that the artist deserved to be paid for her template, wouldn't you agree?
This is the pattern for the lining of the shoe.
First, you cut your pattern out after tracing it on card stock for a permanent pattern.
Next, select a couple of co-ordinating papers.
Then, trace your pattern on your designer paper using repositional tape to hold it in place.
After you've traced it, you'll begin cutting it out. Be sure to leave your pattern on your designer paper until after you have begun scoring on the fold lines.
I did find that fussy cutting scissors helped to get in the corners.
I used a bone folder to make my creases nice and sharp. Accuracy is paramount! Once you have your folds done, you can remove your template.
Here is the liner after it has been cut and scored.
Next, I began folding and scoring the shoe itself.
Then you'll want to lift the instep so that you can put the heel together first.
Just checking the fit.
Using Tacky tape you can secure the heel before moving on.
I placed my liner in the shoe .. temporarily .. before I actually taped the toe of the shoe. Once the toe was secured, I re-placed the liner in the shoe.
Here is the shoe before it was embellished.
Lastly, just embellish to your heart's content.
Now, wasn't that easy? Why don't you give it a try?
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Let It Bleed: Libertarianism and the Workplace by Chris Bertram, Corey Robin and Alex Gourevitch.
Libertarianism is a philosophy of individual freedom. Or so its adherents claim. But with their single-minded defense of the rights of property and contract, libertarians cannot come to grips with the systemic denial of freedom in private regimes of power, particularly the workplace. When they do try to address that unfreedom, as a group of academic libertarians calling themselves "Bleeding Heart Libertarians" have done in recent months, they wind up traveling down one of two paths: Either they give up their exclusive focus on the state and become something like garden-variety liberals or they reveal that they are not the defenders of freedom they claim to be.Go forth and read.

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Just finished another block for my "In The Garden" quilt.
After all the effort I am disappointed as the block said 12" - and it is 12" not 12" finished! It will be 11.5" finished....bummer! AND I do not have even a speck of background fabric left over to add to the sides... double bummer. I will have to frame the block somehow.
Large Scappy Blue Bowl
After the bowl I made in Catherine Redfords class, I wanted to make something larger. My blue scraps were still overflowing so late night wrapping of clothe line, ended me up with a whole spool, I think 2 clothe lines so 200 feet. Wrapping takes the most time - sewing is a breeze.
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Thread Painting
Here is some of the progress on my thread painting. Still in the hoop with the washable stabilizer. You draw on the stabilizer and you fill in from there. First the trunk, then the rest of the tree. I used variegated thread.


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Banking is a commodity business. Banking deals with information…I am holding $100.00of yours in something called a transaction account…I am holding your IOU for $1,000,000.00. Whereas, historically, these sums had to do with a physical quantity…something like gold…now all banking is basically conducted in 0's and 1's.
Banking is just information and the movement of information. Banking is a commodity business.
Yes, there are some other products and services connected with the banking business. There is safe keeping…you can get coin and currency back from you transaction account. We will clear payments for you though the banking system so that you can pay people from your account without the use of coin and currency and you can receive payments from other which will be put into your account. That is, we clear transactions through the banking system. We will do your accounting for you and send you a monthly statement. We will make loans to you and provide many different kinds of services for you connected with your loan. And there are many other products and services that banks provide their customers…individuals, businesses, and governments.
Banks used to get paid for these services primarily in interest payments or in deposit balances that were kept at the bank. In the 1980s, however, we got another idea. We can isolate these products and services, account for them, and then charge the customer fees for these particular products and services they use and then we, the banks, won't have to build in payment for them in the interest rates charged on the loans or by means of the deposit balances that the customer had been required to keep at the bank.
Fees are good because they don't depend upon loan or deposit balances, but depend upon other products or services rendered.
In the 1980s depository institutions found another way to generate fee income. In the 1970s the government had invented a new financial instrument called a mortgage-backed security that could help financial institutions make more money available to people who wanted to own homes and the depository institution could make these mortgage loans, securitize them so they could sell them and not hold them on their balance sheets, and collect fees for originating and, possibly servicing them. Furthermore, the banks would not have to worry about the interest rate risk that came from holding assets with long term maturities like mortgages and support them with deposits that were available on demand or had short-term maturities.
Banks liked fees and started to build businesses based on fee income. They looked farther and farther in an effort to find more sources of fee income. They built or acquired subsidiaries that generated fee income. And banking companies grew and became diversified…even conglomerate in nature.
But, the banks saw that more than just mortgages could be securitized and they saw that these securitized loans could be traded and in so doing more and more fees could be generated, but they also found that they could make trading profits from dealing in these securitized loans. And so banks began trading in securitized loans…otherwise called derivatives…and developing arbitrage strategies to take advantage of market discrepancies. But, to take advantage of market discrepancies they had to increase the amount of leverage they used so as to earn competitive returns.
Yet, the nature of banking did not change. Banking is a commodity business.
Not only is the business of borrowing money in the form of deposits and lending that money out to businesses and consumers in different kinds of loans a commodity business, the banks found that competition made all the products and services they offered into commodities as well. And, trading…well no one makes money over the longer haul on trading…because it, too, is composed of transactions in commodities.
Banks can earn a return on capital that is equal to what the capital can earn elsewhere given the normal risk a bank assumes. But, banks cannot mold themselves into institutions that can produce and sustain competitive advantages over other firms and industries. The business model they tried did not work. Yet, like other firms and other industries that come to believe in a business model that doesn't work, their continued efforts to make the business model work only exacerbated the problem. Generally, this extra effort meant taking more and more risks and then even using extra-legal means to produce the results wanted.
I am not saying that banks committed fraud, but I have very serious concerns about the off-balance sheet practices along with other accounting efforts that the banks used in an attempt to generate the higher returns they felt they had to earn. However, the competitive pressure to perform does push people and organizations to walk the edge of ethical practices.
Citi…whatever…had a business model that did not work. And, this model was tested over about a decade…and it never worked. The investment community realized this and was only luke-warm about the company's stock. Yet, management stuck with the model and tried all the tricks to make its business model work. They were true believers.
No one stood up, however, and mentioned that the emperor didn't have on any clothes.
Banking is a commodity business. Citi…whatever…is said to be cutting back its organization by a third…and this is from the reduction in size that had already been achieved. They are supposedly getting back to fundamentals…into areas in which they have a core competency. Supposedly, its management has a better appreciation of the markets it will be working in. Let's hope so.
And so the debt deflation goes on. The example of the banks…and of Citi-whatever…shows why it is so difficult to achieve a turnaround in the financial system and the economy during a time such as this. In the previous forty years or so, many companies, like Citi-whatever, took advantage of the almost continuous expansion of the economy and the government support of that expansion. Now the re-construction of these companies must take place.
The big question on the table right now concerns the stimulus plan being put together by President-elect Obama and his team. With companies…like Citi-whatever…drawing back and restructuring, how much effect can the stimulus plan have on the economy? The stimulus plan must not only attempt to reverse the economic down-term but must overcome the impact of the companies that are deleveraging their financial structure or are withdrawing from markets. The administration is shooting at a target that is moving away from it.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The Collapse of Citi
Posted by Mase: Economics and Finance at 3:51 PM
Labels: Citigroup, commercial banking, depression, Financial crisis, Obama, recession, stimulus package
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Yes, after a week of emotions, programming, drawing in Inkscape, and uploading demos, Pyweek has ended!
Judging is still in progress, but I'll post my scores and placing when they are in.
I've been thinking about what comes next in my life.
I've been considering competing in the Pyggy Awards, which is a three-month follow-up to Pyweek. I think, though, that I want to take a break from my Pyweek game for a while first.
That said, I've been kicking around a few ideas for what to do with my newfound spare time.
First, I will start work on Penelope. I like the concept, and I think it would be a good one to pursue.
Second, there will be two other projects I will work on, both in Ruby/SDL
All three of these are long-term projects
In addition, I will consider entering the Pyggy awards. I was originally very excited about them, but had no idea about how bored I would get of my game!
But eh, I'll probably enter in it. I just won't be devoting 100% of my time to it like I did during Pyweek.
That's about all I really have to say. Like I said earlier, I'll post the Pyweek results for my game later, for the curious.


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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Fashion Illustration 5
If I was an equestrian type of person, I think this is what I would be wearing. Animal print definitely would wend it's way somewhere in my wardrobe. This print is tricky; if you overdo it, you look like a hooker. Worn tastefully, it adds a lot of fun. Animal prints themselves are terrific from a graphic standpoint and there's that certain wild mystique about them which translates into..."maybe i'm just a little bit wild myself" ;)
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Demand for gold vehicles up, demand gains 6% in Q3 – says WGC
Gold ETFs and similar products witnessed inflows of 77.6 tonnes in the third quarter of 2011, which was 58% above year-earlier levels of 49.1 tonnes, reports the World Gold Council.
The Gold Demand Trends report for Q3 2011 says that total gold demand in the period reached 1,053.9 tonnes; an increase of 6% compared to the same period last year.
Overall gold demand for the quarter equates to US$57.7bn, an all-time high in value terms.
The increase was driven by investment demand which rose 33% year-on-year to 468.1 tonnes, generating record quarterly demand of US$25.6bn.
Investment demand in Europe reached a record quarterly value of €4.6bn, equating to 118.1 tonnes – a year-on-year increase of 135%.
Central banks were big buyers over the period, making net purchases equivalent to 148.4 tonnes as they continued to increase their allocation to the metal as a proportion of total reserves.
The report said this increase in overall investment demand was all the more impressive given the sharp gold price correction in September, which encouraged a wave of profit taking among bar and coin investors.
China's growing appetite for gold as a means of investment saw demand for gold bars and coins in the country expand by 24% from year earlier levels to 60.2 tonnes.
Meanwhile, gold supply was 1,034.4 tonnes in Q3, which was 2% higher than year earlier levels of 1,013.0 tonnes.
The quarterly average price rose 39% from year earlier levels to US$1,702.12, while the gold price reached a new record of US$1,895.00 (London PM Fix) on 5 and 6 September.
Marcus Grubb, managing director, investment at the World Gold Council, said: "Unsurprisingly investment demand for gold was a key driver during the third quarter. Increasing levels of inflation, the US credit rating downgrade, a worsening eurozone sovereign debt crisis and the lacklustre performance of many assets drove investors to increase holdings in gold in order to protect their wealth.
"Given gold's proven risk mitigation properties, it is likely that investors will continue to seek protection from economic uncertainty, which shows no signs of abating.
"The long-term fundamentals for gold remain strong with a diverse and growing demand base coupled with constrained supply-side activity."
A copy of the report can be viewed at: www.gold.org/media/.
This article was first published on Investment Week


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Today is a good day, my friends. Not only did the ambien (my savior) help me sleep a little....BUT
It's also a great day today.
Why is that you ask?
Well, gorgeous weather aside...TODAY WAS MY LAST DAY OF WORK.
No, I'm not retiring just yet (although maybe if I win the lottery cause that shits up to 600 MILLION)...But I DID get a new job!!!
Crappier hours...BUT much better pay and WAY better benefits to take care of bug with...Holla!
And what's better is I also get two weeks off before my new job starts! DOUBLE YAY! Two weeks with bug! And tons of quality time with my Nikon.
I learned a valuable lesson at this position. One that I'm prepared to take with me in all my future endeavors.
And you know what? It's 100% true. And it took me far too long to figure this out.
Don't get me wrong.. There were a select handful of people who totally made getting up to go to this job worthwhile for the length of time that I was there.
But it didn't occur to me until today that all the stress, all the sleepless nights, the hives (yep, all over my face, no joke), the worrying, the wondering... It's not worth it.
I like to be great at what I do. Any task at hand I want to do to the best of my ability.
Photography for example... I've been working so hard to learn and grow and teach myself because I have a passion for it. I'm eager to learn and work hard at improving because I sincerely love it.
I mean... Nobody sets out with the goal of doing a shitty job at anything ... But I was NOT doing the best at my job and that is because I was held back. I wasn't taught, I wasn't trained, I was set aside, and therefore I was unable to grow...
One can only be back-burnered for so long before it becomes an insult.
I walked out of my job today happier than I've been in a very.. very long time. Not just because I had quit a company that did nothing but cause me immeasurable stress and disappointment but also the thought of a new job where opportunity is around every corner.
We all know whether or not we want to admit it or not that most of us work for the primary purpose of money. We can't deny it. Somebody's gotta pay the bills, am i right?
But what exactly is the point of waking up every morning miserable going to a job that makes you good money.
Very few are those who are privileged to be able to do what they love and make great money doing it. It's almost as if you are forced to choose....either you love your job or you make great money. And really... That's not how it should be. If you are one of the lucky few who is able to have both consider yourself extremely lucky.
I'm excited for this new adventure. This job has all the potential in the world and I am able to do with it what I see fit. I'm excited again. I'm excited to learn and to grow and to be motivated each day.
So for now I'm off to bed... Hopefully to sleep. But with my old job in my metaphorical rear view mirror... Something's telling me ill FINALLY be able to get some stress free shut eye.


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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Wealth Inside Out
Would you be able to describe it? Would your definition include external factors and trappings such as net-worth, number of personal dwellings, ability to fulfill your dreams, have financial security? Would you describe your feelings, attitudes and beliefs about your wealth?
Whenever I've asked individuals, families and/or groups to think about their personal wealth, I've found a common reaction and initial response. Most people of all levels of financial wealth are mystified and a bit perplexed. They really have to think about it. More perplexing is how they feel about it. They often reiterate the question aloud, "How do I feel? Do I feel wealthy? Hmm. That's a very good question. I'll have to think about it."
As an example, having and taking the time to enjoy a favorite hobby; spending relaxing time with family and close friends; finally engaging in a wish-list hobby could be ways that we feel wealthy.
It's obviously a complex issue which requires some contemplation, reflection, soul searching. Yet, the financial industry of which I am familiar, defines wealth in numerical terms for the most part. It's how we've become accustomed to judging our financial advisers; i.e. how much did I make? how are they performing?
Wouldn't it be more meaningful if we could describe how we wanted our money to serve our life's activities and purposes so that we felt wealthy inside and out? For me and the many people I've known, the answer is unanimously "yes".
So let's always think about our wealth holistically and be aware of wealth not only from what it might look like from the outside but how it will serve our very core of what matters most to us in life.
I'd enjoy hearing your ideas and definitions of what "being wealthy" means to you personally.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Blind Spots in Our Money Personalities
We all have blind spots in our personalities that serve as barriers to seeing what is real, reasonable and rewarding in how we view our particular circumstances. These blind spots are so much a part of our personalities that we are literally unable to perceive them and their hidden but powerful influence in creating our familiar and frustrating scenarios and consequences.
The problem with blind spots remaining unconscious is that they lead to black holes that we can't climb out of easily. We all know people who are constantly facing the same problems, making the same mistakes and never learning from their past mistakes and misfortunes. They just can't seem to see how they could change their financial and personal circumstances.
I have seen some very common issues and themes over the years. In studying how people attribute the causes of their financial successes and failures, it becomes obvious that the clarity of the perception of cause and effect accounts for the ultimate success. In other words, those who didn't experience handicapping blind spots to their role in shaping their realities were far more likely to succeed. Those who were blinded by the role that their attitudes, beliefs and behaviors played in shaping their realities were continually disappointed and frustrated by their financial circumstances and distress especially in challenging financial times.
People, who could see the direct influence of their own efforts, beliefs, and behaviors as shaping the future event, were able to successfully change the outcome so that they achieved success. Success could be developing a successful financial plan, providing well for family, being happy at work, living within one's means.
In these recessionary times, just as in the last recession of 1991 and the market downturn in late 1999/early2000, consumers have had a wake up call that prompted their desire to change their financial behavior and eliminate the stress that they were enduring.
They no longer could be blinded by their belief that the market is always a benevolent parent that will provide growth and windfall gains for them. Nor are they able to live off their credit which postpones facing the reality that they can't afford themselves and their false lifestyles. They are no longer able to turn a blind eye to what's real and are forced to become aware and deal with their circumstances or fall deeper into the black hole.
Unfortunately, it's human nature to see what we want to see and hear only what we want to hear. The pain of changing has to be less than the pain of remaining the same for us to transform how we deal with life's opportunities and events.
Blind spots don't miraculously disappear; it takes consistent vigilance to make sure they're not acting as barriers to achieving a more rewarding life. In time with consistent focus and efforts in making adjustments to our sabotaging beliefs and behaviors, we begin to see our role in creating consequences more accurately. If we don't know who we are and how we create our realities, we're blind to our abilities and opportunities.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Trade-Offs--How We Cope and Often Prosper
Trade-Offs--How We Cope and Often Prosper
I have been waking up lately with a gnawing feeling that something is missing--kind of an empty feeling--an emotional ache that just won't quit. I finally realized that it's spring which is not as obvious to the senses in
We have had the pleasure of living in two wonderful worlds until last fall when we decided to sell our lovely French home as it was timely and financially fortuitous. The angst of that decision was that while we gained financially, we lost a great deal emotionally.
In my work as a psychologist helping others understand their attitudes and feelings about money and what they do with money as a result, it made perfect sense to me why we were feeling as we were and how to get through it so we did the right thing financially for ourselves.
Psychologists have identified a phenomenon known as "cognitive dissonance" that helps to explain what people do and experience in making difficult choices. Your brain doesn't like dissonance, so it does what it has to do to resolve it. In some cases, people make the decision with a lot of reflection and make peace with the choice; others impulsively take action to rid themselves of the angst of the dissonance or conflict while others may not take action at all putting it off so they don't have to deal with it at the moment. In other words, you protect yourself from feeling any anxiety or discomfort from inconsistencies between any beliefs you have and any actions you take.
In my work, I've seen the powerful impact of this phenomenon in explaining why some people say one thing and do another like taking risk when they say they can't tolerate it; live way beyond their means while they financially can't afford to do so; spoil their children and give them a false sense of entitlement because they don't want to discipline them. In other words, they don't walk their talk and live the life they say they really want to live or behave in a way that reflects what they say they want and value.
These tough economic times are a great opportunity to successfully deal with cognitive dissonance and learn that the defense mechanism of rationalization can be both friend and foe. It helps us in allowing ourselves to resolve conflicts, make the tough choices which may not give us as much immediate satisfaction but will pay off in the long-run. On the other hand, it certainly can sabotage us in allowing us to deny and rationalize why we don't have to act and face feelings of discomfort.
So it goes in life, we are confronted with a series of compromises and making difficult choices. Being aware of and resolving both the emotional and financial issues involved with the choices, helps to assure that we won't allow our defense mechanisms to sabotage what is ultimately in our best interest. Bottom line: To thine own self be true.
Monday, May 04, 2009
What We Expect Shapes What We Do
The daily fluctuations in the marketplace only reinforce our feelings of uncertainty of what's real and what to expect. Is it a bull market or a bear market rally? If you listen to CNBC daily as I do, you're not alone in being perplexed as to how to answer that question.
Today the CNBC pundits had to admit that they believed there was a general feeling that things were looking rosier and more optimistic. As one of them stated "there is just something in the air that feels different". He followed his statement pondering the chicken and egg issue.
Psychologists ponder cause and effect all of the time--trying to look retrospectively about why a certain phenomenon exists. We look at events in time and try to link stimulus and response or cause and effect. We also look at trends, norms, habits and acknowledge the power of reinforcement over time for why they stick around.
What we know is that we're all driven and motivated by reward. The more we're rewarded for a particular behavior or attitude, the more likely we'll repeat it. So it makes sense that Americans are clinging to any good news and feeling like life will be a lot rosier.
Just think about how Americans have been conditioned to bounce back, to believe that economic times will be better. We have lived in these extraordinary times of prosperity and optimism--at least in terms of wealth and the ability for the average American to have a piece of the good life.
In retrospect, reality becomes a lot more clear as consumers can see that these perceptions were not based on reality but perceived subjective reality--or what they wanted to believe. So what are we to believe about what we see today to explain what's really driving the marketplace's upturn--valid reasons for being optimistic or the subjective yearning for feeling optimistic or wanting it to be true?
Why does it matter? If we look at today in perspective of a broader and longer-term view, it becomes more critical that we really understand what accounts for the expectations and how valid they are.
We can all be optimistic. As Warren Buffet said today "How can we bet against Americans? It doesn't make sense that our economy won't come back. But he put that into a longer-term perspective. He was optimistic that future generations will have even better lives than we know today.
So, we're reinforced to cling to our enthusiasm and positive perceptions for our future prosperity. That's a good thing as long as people can afford that perception. It backfires in the short-term because it is often used as a rationale to avoid making tough choices that all will be OK. However, if they use it as a rationale to defend their current unrealistic and unreasonable actions just because they're more rewarding then they are only postponing the inevitable.
I'm stunned by the multitude of people that I meet who refuse to perceive this truth as reality. They still cling to what was true before this bust. They are still holding on to real estate purchases that no longer make economic sense rationalizing that they'll double their investments. They won't give up their short-term rewards to assure their future financial well-being. Obviously, this is a short-sighted and unrealistic strategy.
On a positive note, I've also met many people who got the wake-up call and took the action to make radical changes. The ability to listen and take information and advice to heart is a key difference. Education has a lot to do with it--self-education.


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Keep or reclaim your trunk space with this in-tank brushless fuel system capable of supporting 750+whp (Stage 1), 1000+whp (Stage 2) on E85 and 1500+whp (Stage 3) - race gas / race ethanol. Please contact us if you just require a stage upgrade. There is no CUTTING/DRILLING/BENDING required to install any of the kits. The basket has been completely replaced with a billet column increasing surge tank volume by 30%. Our spacers, rails and plenum are all made in-house and have OEM fit.
Stage1: Single Brushless Kit, Pump Controller, SRM Fuel Basket, fittings and wiring harness (750whp limited by factory line/rail size)
Stage2: Includes Stage 1 with the addition of Fuel Line, Fuel Regulator, AN fittings, SRM Injector Spacers, SRM Intake Plenum (required for geometric change from spacer, 1000+whp on E85)
Stage3: Includes Stage 2 with the addition of a 2nd brushless pump. (1500whp+)
This kit fits under the factory fuel pump lid with no visible wiring and no risk of damage from luggage moving around in the trunk during spirited driving.
This kit is for off road racing use only and should be installed by a professional certified mechanic who is an expert in fueling and electrical systems.
Contact us for more details.


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Good morning, 32 Chilly, Sun is supposed to be out today and 60's
Thank you for the gifts from our Amazon wish list!
We are very grateful to you for your kindness!They often do not tell us who you are and they never
give us your contact info. Please know how much
we appreciate your generosity!
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Thank you Denice Schaeffer for the food & litter!
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Do you know your Mixology?
Cats and Plants – Not Always a Good Mix
by Jill Anne Sparapany
We have plants in our homes, our gardens and they are everywhere in nature! We cannot watch our cats all the time but we can limit the plants indoors and in our gardens that our cats may come in contact with. Cats should not eat any plants except cat grass (dried catnip is okay).
Not all parts of the plants may be poisonous. Sometimes, it's only the seeds, berries or leaves.
If your cat eats any part of a poisonous plant,
Do not delay obtaining emergent medical care when any poisons have been ingested (this includes medications and food too!). Remember the cat will also ingest any pesticides sprayed on the plant.
If your lawn is treated with weed control sprays by commercial companies, they usually stake signs on the treated areas cautioning people to stay off the grass for a certain period of time. Your pets must also stay off the treated areas of your lawn! Do not remove the grass treatment stakes until the lawn is safe so others who may be walking their pets will be aware of the danger! It would be very upsetting to come home after walking your pet and your cat have a seizure without you knowing they were potentially exposed to a poisonous lawn chemical!
If you know which plant the cat ate, bring the plant with you for identification! If it will take time to obtain the plant, i.e. from the garden, DO NOT WAIT! Get the cat to the vet and have someone else bring part of the plant to the vet's office, along with a sample of vomit or regurgitated content. There may be plant pieces in the vomit, or at the very least, your veterinarian will be able to check the vomit for evidence of other conditions, such as viral, bacterial, or parasitic infections -- all of which may lead a cat to eat a plant. Keep your cat calm and wrapped in warm blanket.
Poison control measures can begin immediately! Many factors will affect the survival of your pet – their age and pre-existing illnesses, the ingested plant, how much was ingested and how long ago the plant was ingested.
Depending upon the plant and how long ago it was ingested, induced vomiting may be done to prevent as much poison as possible from being digested. Do not attempt to induce vomiting or delay transferring your cat to the vet! Your cat could become unconscious and aspirate vomit. Induced vomiting may be more dangerous when certain plants are ingested.
Once your cat is at the emergency vet hospital, IV fluids will be started to stabilize the cat and continued until the cat will be allowed to eat and drink. Supportive care and Intensive Care may be required with severe breathing and cardiac symptoms.
Be prepared and have your poison control center hotline phone number available and your vet's contact information. If your vet is not available, they will most likely have an emergency contact vet clinic available after hours on the answering service phone. If no emergency contact info is available, the poison control center may be able to direct you to the nearest emergency vet hospital. (Note: The poison control center may instruct you to give hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting, but you may do more harm as some plants may cause additional esophageal irritation. This may delay getting your cat to the emergency vet hospital and specialized care. Your cat may lose consciousness and have its airway blocked with vomit.)
Most common symptoms would be the cat is just not acting right:
Nausea with vomiting, especially persistent vomiting, with or without blood.
Drooling and foaming at the mouth.
Gastrointestinal irritation, diarrhea.
Skin irritation. Swelling around the mouth, similar to an allergic reaction if eaten.
Lethargy, possibly hiding or secluding themselves, weakness, depression.
Dizziness, confusion, inability to walk or stand with neurotoxic poisons.
Dilated pupils, tremors, seizures.
Cardiac arrhythmias and tachycardia (rapid heart rate).
Shortness of breath or rapid respiratory rate.
Shock. Coma and death.
Of special concern are all varieties of Lilies! Lily plants are highly poisonous to cats!
These are common plants that are poisonous to cats.
Alfalfa, Andromeda Japonica, Avocado, Almond (pits), Aloe Vera, Alocasia, Amaryllis, Apple seeds, sementes de maça, Apple Leaf Croton, Apricot (Pits of) , caraço de pêssego, Arrowgrass, Asparagus Fern (Espargos), Autumn Crocus, Avacado (fruit and pit), Azalea (ingesting their leaves or flowers can cause vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea -- or even much worse).
Baby's Breath, Baneberry, Bayonet, Beargrass, Beech, Belladonna, Bird of Paradise, Bittersweet, Black-eyed Susan, Black Locust ,Bleeding Heart, Bloodroot ,Bluebonnet, Box, Boxwood, Branching Ivy, Buckeyes, Buddist Pine, Podocarpus macrophyllus, Burning Bush, Buttercup.
Cherry – domestic, Cactus, Candelabra, Caladium, Calla Lily, Castor bean (plants possess a rather striking form and are used as decoration in landscape design. Although the seeds of castor bean plants contain ricin, a deadly toxin), Ceriman, Charming Dieffenbachia, Cherry (pits, seeds & wilting leaves), Cherry, most wild varieties, Cherry (ground), Cherry - Laurel, Chinaberry, Chinese Evergreen, Christmas Rose, Chrysanthemum - Crisantemo
Cineria, Clematis vines- all the parts of these poisonous plants can cause gastrointestinal irritation if eaten, Cordatum, Coriaria, Cornflower, Corn Plant, Cornstalk Plant, Croton, Corydalis, Crocus - Autumn, Crown of Thorns, Cuban Laurel, Cutleaf Philodendron, Cycads, Cyclamen- Ciclames.
Cineria, Clematis vines- all the parts of these poisonous plants can cause gastrointestinal irritation if eaten, Cordatum, Coriaria, Cornflower, Corn Plant, Cornstalk Plant, Croton, Corydalis, Crocus - Autumn, Crown of Thorns, Cuban Laurel, Cutleaf Philodendron, Cycads, Cyclamen- Ciclames.
Daffodil, Daphne, Datura, Deadly Nightshade, Death Camas, Devil's Ivy, Delphinium, Decentrea,,Dieffenbachia,
Dracaena Palm, Dragon Tree, Dumb Cane.
Dracaena Palm, Dragon Tree, Dumb Cane.
Easter Lily *, Eggplant, Elaine, Elderberry, English Boxwood shrubs (ingesting the leaves can cause gastric problems and vomiting), Elephant Ear, Emerald Feather, English Ivy, Eucalyptus, Euonymus, Evergreen.
Flamingo Plant, Ferns – Fetos, Fiddle-leaf fig, Florida Beauty, Flax, Four O'Clock, Foxglove (these plants are toxic, but they are used medicinally by those who know they're properties! Digitalis purpurea produce gorgeous flowers and are very appreciated -- despite their toxic quality), Fruit Salad Plant
Geranium, German Ivy, Giant Dumb Cane, Glacier IvyGolden Chain, Gold Dieffenbachia, Gold Dust Dracaena, Golden Glow, Golden Pothos, Gopher Purge.
Hahn's Self-Branching Ivy, Heartland Philodendron, Hellebore, Hemlock (Poison), Hemlock (Water), Henbane, Holly, Honeysuckle, Horsebeans, Horsebrush, Horse Chestnuts, Hurricane Plant, Hyacinth, Hydrangea, Horsebush, Harsebrush.
Indian Rubber Plant, Indian Tobacco, Iris, Iris Ivy
Jack in the Pulpit, Janet Craig Dracaena, Japanese Show Lily *, Java Beans, Jessamine, Jerusalem Cherry, Jimson Weed, Jonquil, Jungle Trumpets, Juniper shrubs (ingesting too many of juniper's berry-like cones can lead to kidney damage).
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Lacy Tree Philodendron, Lantana, Larkspur, Laurel, Lily, Lirios, Lily Spider, Lily of the Valley, Locoweed, Lupine.
Madagascar Dragon Tree, Marble Queen, Marigold, Marijuana, Mescal Bean, Mexican Breadfruit, Miniature Croton, Mistletoe, Mock Orange, Monkshood, Moonseed, Morning Glory, Mother-in Law's Tongue (lingua de sogra), Morning Glory, Mountain Laurel (are toxic, for both humans and cattle. Ingesting the leaves or flowers of mountain laurels may cause nausea, stomach pain, vomiting, and watering of the eyes and nose. More severe cases have occurred), Mushrooms, Cogumelos
Narcissus,Narcisos, Needlepoint Ivy, Nephytis, Nightshade.
Oleander, Onion (cebolas), Oriental Lily *.
Peace Lily, Peach (pits and wilting leaves), Pencil Cactus, Peony, Periwinkle flower or Vincor Minor Vine (ingesting any part of Vinca minor can cause intestinal irritation), Philodendron, Pimpernel, Plumosa Fern, Poinciana, Poinsettia (low toxicity), Poison Hemlock, Poison Ivy (Hera), Poison Oak (Carvalho), Pokeweed, Poppy, Potato, Pothos, Precatory Bean, Primrose, Privet (Common).
Queensland Nut
Red Emerald, Red Princess, Red-Margined Dracaena, Rhododendron, Rhubarb leafs (ruibarbo), Ribbon Plant, Rosemary Pea, Rubber Plant.
Saddle Leaf Philodendron, Sago Palm, Satin Pothos, Schefflera, Scotch Broom, Silver Pothos, Skunk Cabbage, Snowdrops, Snow on the Mountain, Spotted Dumb Cane, Staggerweed, Star of Bethlehem, String of Pearls, Striped Dracaena, Sweetheart Ivy, Sweetpea, Swiss Cheese plant.
Tansy Mustard, Taro Vine, Tiger Lily *, Tobacco, Tomato Plant (green fruit, stem and leaves), Tree Philodendron, Tropic Snow Dieffenbachia, Tulip, Tulipas, Tung Tree.
Virginia Creeper
Water Hemlock, Weeping Fig, Wild Call, Wisteria vines (If ingested in big quantities - for a young child, would be a relatively small portion - the seeds and pods can cause nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea), Winterberry shrubs (ingesting the bright red berries commonly causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea).
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Skype made a number of other service improvements announcements, including: partnerships with Sony, Vizio and Panasonic and to build Skype into its HDTVs and Blu-ray players, partnerships with Verizon and OnStar to bring video its services, a Skype kit of APIs to allow OEMs to build on the Skype platform, and group video calling for $8.99 a month allowing multi-party video chat up to 10 parties.
Just last week Skype made our dreams come true by bringing video chat to the iPhone, it continues to broaden its reach with each partnership; and the acquisition of Qik rounds out its portfolio, and removes a popular competitor in the mobile video space. Among the list of competitors includes Apple's FaceTime, along with Google voice and video chat, Fring, ooVoo, Bambuser and several other live video mobile apps. As I previously noted, mobile video has been considered one of the biggest trends that will explode in 2011, and with the percentage of Skype calls taking place over video growing, Skype has clearly become the dominant player in the two-way video calling market. Skype filed for its IPO in mid-2010 and is expected later this year.
Skype CEO Tony Bates announced that this was Skype's first acquisition in this CES press conference and part of its strategy for premium video services. He also recorded a short video message for Skype blog.
skype on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
In the company press release, Bates added:
"The Qik team has delivered exceptional video experiences for its mobile partners and millions of end users across a range of devices. Skype's software enables an estimated 25 percent of the world's international long distance voice calling minutes , and approximately 40 percent of those Skype-to-Skype calls are happening over video. Qik's deep engineering capabilities and strong mobile relationships will be an impressive complementary fit with Skype."The two companies have have a common purpose, as the press release stated:
"...of enriching communications and sharing with video, across any device. The acquisition of Qik helps accelerate Skype's leadership in video by adding recording, sharing and storing capabilities to Skype's product portfolio. Through this acquisition, Skype will also be able to leverage the engineering expertise that is behind Qik's Smart Streaming™ technology, which optimizes video transmission over wireless networks."For more on Bates' CES 2011 announcement, see this post by Adrian Pennington: Skype Adds Qik to Go Mobile Ahead of IPO - StreamingMedia.com. Also see these post by Sarah Reedy on why this deal matters: Light Reading Mobile - CES 2011: Skype Buys Up Qik for Mobile Push - Telecom News Analysis.
In this video, Qik Co-Founder and SVP of Product Bhaskar Roy shares an inside look at the Qik Story:
Vijay Tella, CEO of Qik said:
"Qik has worked very hard to solve complex problems that allow millions of people everyday to take advantage of sharing their lives with those people who are most important to them. Joining Skype allows Qik's team to unite with Skype's talented team to develop new and innovative products for our customers and partners."Qik was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Redwood City, California with has an office in Moscow, Russia. The 60 employee company has built innovative solutions to capture and share video with anyone across mobile devices, the web, and desktop platforms. Videos can be recorded and streamed in real time or stored for later viewing. The popular Qik service is available to over 5 million users on over 200 mobile phones, including Android, iPhone, Symbian, Blackberry and Windows Mobile platforms, and comes pre-loaded on a wide variety of mobile handsets through partnerships with leading handset manufacturers and mobile networks.
Qik recently released its Andoird streaming app Interesting to note, earlier today TechCrunch reported that Qik quitely raised $6.3 million from Quest Venture Partners and Almaz Capital Partners.
So how big is the live video calling market?
In a report on USA Today, Jon Swartz noted:
"An estimated 13.2 million people worldwide will make video calls this year — up fourfold from last year. Some 155.1 million will perform such calls in 2015, predicts market researcher In-Stat. Military families and people separated by time zones, in particular, are taking advantage of the technology. "It is more enveloping for long-distance relationships," says Frank Dickson, a mobile analyst at In-Stat. He estimates the market for mobile-based video calls will eclipse $1 billion by 2015."I've written frequently about Qik over the last few years and in my first Qik post from December 2007, It Looks Like the Revolution Will Be Televised, I noted that this would be the next new killer app – live video streaming from mobile to web. Robert Scoble and Steve Garfield were both Qik early adopters, and at that time, lifecasting and video blogging was coming into its own, and live mobile broadcasting created endless lifecasting possibilities that went way beyond the Dick Tracy wrist phone. Your cell phone can become a live broadcast channel. Now that mobile has become the next wave of our video communications, there's no doubt that the video revolution will not only be televised, but it will be two-way live video channel called Skype.
About Skype
Skype is a communications platform provider whose purpose is to break down barriers to communication. With an Internet-connected device, families, friends and colleagues can get together for free with messaging, voice and video. At low cost, they can also call landlines or mobiles virtually anywhere in the world. Skype has recently introduced group video, allowing groups of more than two people to do things together whenever they're apart. Skype was founded in 2003 and is based in Luxembourg. Skype can be downloaded onto computers, mobile phones and other connected devices for free at www.skype.com. You can get news and updates from Skype on its blog: blogs.skype.com Twitter: twitter.com/skype or Facebook: www.facebook.com/skype.
About Qik
Qik is a leader in the mobile video space enabling smart phone users around the world to capture special and spontaneous life moments from anywhere and instantly share those moments with friends, family and followers. Qik's comprehensive solution meets all consumer video needs including video calling, video sharing, video messaging and the ability to sync and save videos to the web and desktop. Qik has headquarters in Redwood City, California and an office in Moscow, Russia.
See these related Klessblog posts for more on Qik:
- Qik joins Brightcove Alliance Bringing Mobile UGC Publishing to the Masses
- Qik Comes Quick with Live Streaming on iPhone
- Qik Highlights from the San Francisco Brightcove Alliance Meetup
- Comparing Qik and N95 Video Quality
- Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong Demos Qik in Live National TV Broadcast
- Mogulus and Qik Partner in Live Streaming
- Live Mobile Broadcasting with Kyte, Qik and Flixwagon
- Streaming Media East: Live Broadcasting Over Mobile and Wi-Fi Networks


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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to cut 33% of workforce
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced a restructuring plan which included the layoff of almost one third of its workforce. Alylam arrived at this difficult decision because it wanted to focus on its pipeline candidates with the maximum potential.
The proposed restructuring is expected to slash cash operating expenses by $20 million in 2012 as against a one-time restructuring cost of $4 million which will be recorded in the first quarter of this year.
Alnylam, which currently has no product on the market, develops novel therapeutics based on a biological breakthrough technology known as RNA (Ribo Nucleic Acid) interference (RNAi). The company wants to focus its resources on its core product strategy, Alnylam 5x15, which is aimed at developing five RNAi therapeutic products for the treatment of genetically defined diseases addressing major unmet medical needs.
The five programs under the strategy include ALN-PCS (for hypercholesterolemia), ALN-TTR (transthyretin (TTR) mediated amyloidosis or ATTR), ALN-HPN (refractory anemia), ALN-APC (hemophilia) and ALN-TMP (hemoglobinopathies). Among these, Alnylam aims to accelerate development of ALN-TTR and ALN-APC which it believes holds the most promise.
Under the ALN-TTR program, Alnylam is currently conducting a phase I study of ALN-TTR01, a systemically delivered RNAi therapeutic that employs a first-generation lipid nanoparticles (LNP) formulation to treat ATTR. ATTR is an orphan disease which is difficult to be addressed by currently available therapeutic approaches. In late November 2011, Alnylam presented encouraging data on ALN-TTR01 which showed that it led to statistically significant reductions in serum TTR protein levels for the treatment of ATTR. Overall, the candidate was well tolerated with no serious adverse events observed in the study. This is the first time an RNAi has silenced a disease-causing gene in clinical trials, thus highlighting the potential of RNAi as a new class of therapeutics.
Alnylam however intends to accelerate development of ALN-TTR02 which is a second generation delivery formulation for the treatment of ATTR. Alnylam has chosen ALN-TTR02 as its go-to market product over ALN-TTR01. Alnylam filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for ALN-TTR02 in early January 2012 and expects to initiate a phase I study in the UK in the first half of 2012. Data from the trial is expected in the third quarter of 2012 with phase II studies scheduled to begin in the second half.
Further, ALN-APC is in preclinical development and is expected to move into clinical stages in the first half of 2013.
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"Learn the rules like a pro,
so you can break them like an artist."
-att. Pablo Picasso
A few weeks ago, when I was going through some of my previous pattern purchases (yay $1.99 sales) to see which project I wanted to start first once SC was back at school full time, I realized I had a few patterns which she is at the top size, and just barely even that. Unfortunately, I also have fabric for some of these patterns that I had already purchased, and needing to size up would mean I didn't have enough fabric to complete the project. Of course I could always just add that fabric back into my stash for something else, but just look at that super cute puppy fabric. I decided a new dress for the first week of school would be project number one.
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For this project, I used view C, a sleeveless dress with the longer skirt. This pattern has an interesting design, in which the the front side panels and middle skirt band are cut on the bias. In the example, a check fabric was chosen, so it is very easy to see the bias design. Here is a close-up of the front panels.
In my puppy fabric, there is a very specific one-way design. I bought extra fabric in order to match this design; however, I did not buy enough fabric. The middle skirt band being cut on the bias took up an enormous amount of space when cutting the fabric (see the bottom picture below), and I couldn't follow the placement suggestion because then the puppies would not be going in the same direction all the way around the skirt band. I ended up with the bottom band having to be cut completely upside down in order to cram it onto the fabric with the curve! Luckily, the puppies still look cute, and it works because the bias-cut puppies are tumbling. I also cut the lining pieces upside-down because it fit better that way.
The pattern adds fullness with inverted box pleats (my favorite kind to make), four on the front and then four on the back.
The pieces fit together perfectly, with only minimal attention to matching up seams and corners needed. The instructions were simple and made sense. The only part of the instructions I was unsure of was that it called for hemming the lower band before attaching it to the dress. However, I did it that way anyhow, and now I think that the bulk of the dress and the skirt already being attached would have hampered creating a straight, smooth hem.
I struggled a bit with the zipper, but that is because I need to practice zippers more. I opted for an invisible zipper because I like the look of them more, but I either need to find a source for invisible zippers that offers something other than the typical Coats & Clark brand (which require a special zipper foot made by C&C, and I don't have one), or find that special zipper foot. My own machine's zipper foot is just a few millimeter off, causing my stitching to be either too far from the zipper teeth, or directly on top of the zipper teeth. Also, somehow in all of the drama trying to get it in, the back of the dress now doesn't line up perfectly, but it is so tiny that I am probably the only one who will notice.
Here is a close-up of the bow at the back, which went together perfectly, and is just the right size for this dress.
Finally, here is SC modeling her new dress before school today! The fit is perfect (I cut a size 8), with no changes needed, even though originally I wasn't sure there would be quite enough room in the bodice.
I hope to make view A & B, the bolero and leggings, next week as projects #2 & #3, so she can wear them along with the dress as (fingers-crossed!) the weather eventually turns a bit cooler.


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I quickly flipped through the pages and found that my dragonfly block had been accepted and renamed Damselfly! How exciting!!!!
Having participated in previous blog tours and knowing that space was limited I really didn't think that I would be able to participate this time. But, as luck would have it, there was an opening and I will be a part of the
Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Blog Tour Road Rally!
There are daily prize winners!
Be sure to come back on Thursday, May 4th to see where the inspiration for Damselfly came from.
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Veronica Kui Rie Chung, 81, of Honolulu, a homemaker, died in Honolulu. She was born in Pusan, Korea. She is survived by sons Wesley and Robert, daughters Carol Mulligan and Karen Chung, and seven grandchildren. Private services.
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Defending champion Karrie Webb opened with a sizzling 66 today at the ANZ RACV Ladies Masters, but she has plenty of distinguished company at the top, even after closing out her round on the front with a 5-under-par, bogey-free 32. Former U.S. Women's Open champion Eun-Hee Ji is right there with her, along with 4 other players, including LPGA/LET super soph Maria Hernandez; Ya Ni Tseng, winner of the Aussie Women's Open last week, is only 1 back, tied with the LPGA's Stacy Lewis, KLPGA star Shin Ae Ahn, LET star Melissa Reid, and Aussies Sarah Jane Smith and Kristie Smith; 2010 LET money-list title-holder Lee-Anne Pace heads a mob 2 shots back that includes LPGA/LET rookie Belen Mozo, the JLPGA's Nikki Campbell and Tamie Durdin, and Futures Tour graduate Ryann O'Toole; and only 3 back are the likes of Laura Davies, Christina Kim, Katherine Hull, Momoko Ueda, Amanda Blumenherst, and Lexi Thompson.
And the leaderboard doesn't get any weaker the further down you go, either. 4 back are such up-and-comers as Sandra Gal, Jennifer Song, Cindy LaCrosse, Dewi Claire Schreefel, and Australia's Sarah Oh. 5 back are Gwladys Nocera, Mariajo Uribe, Tiffany Joh, and ALPG winners in recent weeks Caroline Hedwall and 19-year-old amateur Ashley Ona. And Angela Stanford, Karen Stupples, Pernilla Lindberg, Louise Stahle, and Louise Friberg clocked in at even par, still within shouting distance of the lead.
The only real diappointments from name players are 73s by Alison Walshe and Jaclyn Sweeney, 74s by Lorie Kane, Sarah Kemp, and Mollie Fankhauser, a 75 by Mina Harigae, and a 77 by Minea Blomqvist, and they're not even (or in Kane's case, no longer) really big-name players.
Webb putted the lights out to put up the number she did, while Tseng continued her excellent ball-striking from last week and Ji and Lewis posted bogey-free rounds. Let's see if they can put some distance between themselves and the rest of the field tomorrow, or if players can come from behind to make the duststorm enveloping this shootout even thicker!


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Al Collins in Dublin- The Scrum Tilly Lush. from Philip Evans on Vimeo.
The final section from Phil Evans all Super8 banger "The Scrum Tilly Lush" is now online, focusing on Al Collins in and around Dublin, with cameos from Mini Brown, James Black, James Carroll, Paddy Clear, Wayne Gallagher and Gav Coughlan.
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I do love this song...I hadn't thought about it as a theme song for school! I like that!ReplyDelete
I think I am going to use this for my intro at Back to School Night.ReplyDelete
You're right: This IS how we wish for them to see their classrooms... Safe and welcoming places.
Great song choice!
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Love this song! This is the first time I've heard it.ReplyDelete
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I absolutely love that song! It gives me chills everytime I listen to it - thanks to the Olympics!ReplyDelete
Agree with pp - what a great idea to make it a theme for the schoolyear. It would also be fantastic background music for a photo slideshow at the end of the year. And Barbara - I love your little "postery" headlines. :)ReplyDelete
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I'm not really sure what this page is for, or if this is appropriate. Really, I just need to vent. We are so broke. We aren't going to make it. I'm in my last semester of school, but I don't think I'll be able to finish--meaning more time spent at a bad job earning no money. My husband was laid off last April, and has been unable to get a job since then. Everyone in our area has been laid off. We can't move, because if I transfer to another school I'll be farther behind, and farther from getting a job that will actually help. All our savings are gone. We didn't apply for unemployment because we thought we could make it without help--never thought he'd be out of work this long--and now we don't qualify because he didn't work the right quarters last year.
I've told my family we have plans with my in-laws, and my in-laws we have plans with my family, so we can avoid going to anyone's house for the holidays. I don't want to sit in a room full of people giving gifts without being able to give anything back. We found some toy trucks on ebay for my little boy, but it's pathetic. My husband just keeps saying everything will be okay, but I don't see how it will. Even if he went back to work on Monday, we're so far behind we'll never catch up. Our insurance is going to run out soon (we had COBRA from his last job), and then I will be terrified. Toddlers get sick.
I know from reading the other posts here that I am just feeling sorry for myself; we are blessed with health and at least a modicum of happiness most of the time. But I am literally sick over our finances.


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a short update on the diorama. I did the first round of base colours. First I primed it chaos black and then airbrushed on several layers of graveyard earth and a mix of graveyard earth and khemri brown on all ground parts. After that I painted the rubble and the ruined building parts with german grey from tamiya and the aegis parts with light grey also from tamiya.
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Blue and Pink Hydrangea
12x12 Original Oil Painting on Wrap Around Canvas
Cheri Wollenberg
Composition is always one of the first things I think about when I begin the process of painting. I have found that it is better for me to think things out first. When painting from a picture as beautiful as the one Dana Marie has provided, many decisions seem to be already made for me. It is rather tempting to paint exactly as the image. Since it is such a wonderful image in the first place, I began to think first in terms of originality and format. Where should I place the focal point? I didn't want to copy her image exactly. I decided to go for a square format, 12x12, and squeeze the clusters of hydrangea a little closer. Next, I changed a couple of the flowers to shades of pinks and red blue-purples. Early on as I painted I wanted to use more yellows and yellow oranges in the background to complement the blue and purple shades of the hydrangea. This set a perfect stage for the little yellow beauties to become more harmoneous to the whole composition. What fun! Thank you Dana Marie. Hope your move goes well.


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Axe aims for girls with the munchies
The old cliché that girls like chocolate is the idea behind this creation for Axe (aka Lynx). The adolescent approach of this brand's advertising is more often hit than miss. It has to keep its pecker up to maintain interest in its never-ending range of spin-off smells.
I suppose that it's agreeable that young teenage boys smell of chocolate rather than, well, teenage boys, but in my part of Essex the best way to woo a girl is with a nicely presented bag of hot chunky chips.
This time, me no likey.
Agency: VegaOlmosPonce, Argentina
Japanese Axe virals - innocent fun or sinister?
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The Superficial Reasons Behind Why You Didn't Get Chose
Ya know sometimes when men reject us women, we go on a self-blaming spree…
"Oh, if only I knew how to swing off chandeliers"
"Oh, if only I could cook like Lohi O"
"Oh, if only had been more expressive and shown him how much I cared"
"Oh, if only I hadn't been as thirsty and made him wait a little"
"Oh, if only I was more of a wifey material"
In our minds, if we had been a little more awesome or perfect and exhibited the traits of a true wife material, we would have gotten CHOSE. But have we ever stopped to acknowledge our current and existing awesomeness and think that "Maybe it really wasn't me. Maybe it was him"?
I'm not saying that we ladies should live in denial and not improve where we can but sometimes no matter how awesome you are, a man will still next you or not make it official with you because of his purely superficial reasons based on things that you might not be able to control. I've had pretty random convos with the guys in the past that opened my eyes to how superficial some men can be or how they have all these really nitpicky criteria that will get you a failing grade no matter how hard you try. For instance, some guy once told me that he nexted a girl in the past strictly because she had no nyash (booty). According to him, she was cute and really decent but he just couldn't get past the nyashless factor. I couldn't believe my ears, so I asked him "You mean to tell me that if you met a woman who had 9 out of 10 of the attributes that you look for in a woman but had no nyash, she's dismissed" and he said yes. He then tried to explain that nyash is a pretty important factor for him in selecting a woman and that if he ends up with a woman with no nyash, he's definitely going to cheat. He also said that he needed to feel proud of the woman that he had on his arm if he's showcasing her in public and so her body had to be on point, nyash inclusive. I hit him with the O__O eyes and wished him good luck in his search. The sad thing is that this man will probably end up with some big booty dimepiece in the future because you know, men have the playing field with plenty options and can afford to be entirely foolish and get away with it. Such is life.
I've heard about other dismissal criteria that sounded really crazy to me, such as:
"She looked like she had the tendency to get fat after kids"
"She was too tall. I wouldn't want to end up with a woman over 5'9"
"She wasn't Nigerian so I knew that I was definitely not going to wife her" – This came from a man who dated said non Nigerian girl for 3 years. When I formed Voltron defender of the Universe and berated him for leading the poor girl on, he simply shrugged and said that bodi no be wood. He was keeping her around until he found something better.
"I wouldn't marry a woman with darker skin tone than me"
"She had no swag or presence"
Etc etc.
Yep, I've listened to men tell me all of the above and more…and no matter how irritated I was by their reasoning, I knew that my vex couldn't boil indomie because like I said, it is a man's world and no matter how foolish a man might be with his reasoning, there's going to be at least 20 women out there that fit his specifications and criteria. He's going to dismiss your ass and move right onto the next chick who fits his criteria and you have no option but to deal with it. Tough world mayne!
Because women outnumber men and because we are generally more accommodating, we aren't as critical or picky. We might say that we want a tall, strong, dark and handsome swaggalicious fella with a great job and doing XYZ, but if we meet a man who doesn't fall into our ideal height or weight range but happens to check off most of our boxes, I bet we would be willing to compromise as opposed to an instant dismissal. Heck, a lot of women will even work with a guy if he only checks off 5 out of 10 things on her list. It's a tough life that we live in this man's world but it is what it is.
Oh, and you know one thing that I realized? Men will have all their high end criteria for what they want in a serious relationship or marriage but when it comes to just kicking it and sleeping with you, alllll of that relaxes. For instance, someone once told me that while he had slept with a lot of Igbo women and had no problem kicking it with them, he knew that he would never marry an Igbo woman for a bunch of reasons.
So there you have it. No matter what you did and didn't do, some men will dismiss you for things that are beyond your control such as your height, maybe your weight, the color of your skin, your nationality, origin, and tribe, age and what have you. This is honestly why I'm never mad too mad at a woman who is supposedly "picky" or a woman who does her own dismissing and the world is looking at her like she's crazy. Like "omg, he looks good on paper and he has a great job and blahblah. Maybe he will grow on you". Umm no. I'm like look, a man will NEXT you in a heartbeat if you're not his spec so please if he's not your spec, don't be shy to say bye bye too. Sometimes we females can be over-accommodating on some "let me go out on this 10th date with him and see". Date 10 kwa? Me thinks that if you haven't seen that sonthing by Date 4 then it probably isn't meant to be. Remember, most men won't even give you Date 2 sef. No be small thing my people.
The good news is that there are also a host of other fellas out there who don't buy into the ridiculous mentality of being extra-superficial and who will be more than accepting of you and everything that got you dismissed with the last guy. Until you find them in their hidden locations, what can I say? Continue to do you. Any man who dismisses you for his own superficial reasons doesn't deserve your time and energy in the first place.
And that is all she said.
31 comments:
- 1 + The One said...
WORD!! I totally agree with you.. I'm one of those people who beat themselves up when a relationship doesn't work out and think that "if only I had this or that" but I'm getting to also understand that usually it is really not you but him..
Nice post! xx
- December 11, 2013 at 3:29 AM
- thislagosgirl said...
Wow. This made me smiled.And in fact is inspiring me in ways you can't im agine.
- December 11, 2013 at 6:37 AM
Spot on! A while back, I met this guy who I liked ehn!! Thinking of it now, I'm wondering what was wrong with me. I thought something will happen between us but girl,I was in dreamland apparently. He went on to date a VERY curvy babe. Of course, I questioned myself and wondered if I wasn't pretty/good/bootylicious/etc enough. Thankfully, I quickly snapped of that silly thinking, who am I to question the gorgeous body God has given me just because some guy didn't "choose" me?
Anyone going through this, as my dear Mgbeks has said, its not you,its him. Keep your head up!
- December 11, 2013 at 10:39 AM
- Toinlicious said...
- December 11, 2013 at 10:45 AM
i'm so guilty of that. I always think oh it must have been something I did or basically about me. A friend of mine once told me to stop thinking about it like I was losing something or blaming myself and think more like maybe he is the one losing out and just move on.Different strokes for all. you win some and lose some.
- December 11, 2013 at 11:11 AM
- LadyNgo said...
Maybe i need to calm my self down cuz if someone nexts me my first thought is almost always "This fool is cray. Does he not see all this splendiforousness?!?" LOL.
But you are right sha. And i too applaud and encourage women not to settle just because.
- December 11, 2013 at 11:59 AM
So I have a confession - I have been going to Taynement's Blogspot page to see if you had updated your blog yet and alas! you have! Yay! Off to read.
- December 11, 2013 at 12:25 PM
- leggy said...
a man who will choose you, will choose you no matter what.
- December 11, 2013 at 8:22 PM
- Berry Dakara said...
I got this one - "She looked like she had the tendency to get fat after kids"
And there was someone who after it was over, I agonized and agonized about what could have been wrong with me. Even though I knew he was a serial cheater, I still beat myself up for a loong time after he "chose" someone else.
At the end of the day, I thank God it went down like that because he didn't deserve me, and YES I'M AWESOME LIKE THAT!!! :p
- December 12, 2013 at 2:26 AM
@leggy - you simply wrote my words down.
Women need to be know more of their worth; men get away with all this bullshit because the women give them the power to do so.
If you go on being with a man for any significant period and he simply has not shown you any real commitment - then you know what? It's not him to blame - na you!
- December 12, 2013 at 3:24 AM
@berrydakara, I feel you but imagine if the guy is all that and a bag of chips (looks, spirituality, ALL) BUT he chose someone else then you see them living it up and having the time of their lives. Then he proposes...to her...while you are still single!!
- December 12, 2013 at 8:19 AM
- lovelife4sale said...
truth of the matter is men are simple... when we meet and interact with females, we put them into three catergories, women who are just friends, women who we would like to sleep with and women who are the one.... the only problem is that the women we like to sleep with and the one who is the one are abit hard to tell.... but a little secret is, if he really believes you are the one, you can tell by the way he seems to love you more than you love him. my philosophy is that in every relationship, people contribute on a basis of 51/49% or 40/60% but it is hardly ever 50/50%.... so if he lets you know that he has more to lose by losing you, then he definitely believes that you can be the one.
- December 12, 2013 at 11:09 AM
so i just rolled my eyes at the comment above me.
- December 12, 2013 at 2:50 PM
- mizchif said...
Lol. This is why i love you.
And Taynement, for rolling her eyes.
It's quite, rather unfortunate this "man's world" we live in. Personally i've learnt not to beat myself up too much about getting nexted, it's something i used to do in the past till i learnt that many times it really is just them and not you because somehow women are just more willing to adjust and now i don't stay pining over any dude for too long, i mean he's probably balls deep in another woman and i'll be somewhere asking myself what i did wrong. Mba.
Me i know i try generally, i may rep IBTC but still, plus all my many many other wonderful characteristics too numerous to list on here so if you can't see alladat, Ngwa, march along.
The ones i absolutely hate, like despise are those that date for 3yrs+ then leave her on some "i knew it was never goin to happen, was waiting for something better" those are the ones i pray against.
- December 14, 2013 at 1:49 AM
- Beulah! said...
"I wont marry a girl with a darker skin tone than mine".... Ultimately annoying!!!!! & they wonder why women bleach
- December 16, 2013 at 1:51 PM
LOL@ "Balls deep in another"
Funny thing is, we all kinda know this in the back of our heads but somehow we still manage to allow ourselves go there (esp if the man is as anon 819am said)...the up side is, hopefully, we are aware enough to snap out of it.
- December 17, 2013 at 12:28 AM
I believe in 50/50 love. I don't buy that he must love me more than i do him. Did you read this post well? I belive the message was don't settle.i will be avoiding simple minded men like you if you are one. How do you even weigh up reciprocated love. Really?
- December 17, 2013 at 1:02 AM
That was to lifelove4sale.
- December 17, 2013 at 1:05 AM
- Enkay said...
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- December 17, 2013 at 8:15 AM
- Enkay said...
The crazy thing is that many of these guys expect their ladies to be 'perfect' in some way even though they, themselves are not.
There was only one 'nexting' experience that I thought would kill me. After that, I guess I became tougher.
Easier said than done though....getting nexted sure has a way of denting one's self image.
- December 17, 2013 at 8:17 AM
- Devil's Spawn said...
This is why I don't date and when I do, I will not relax my standards. I am adamant that I will rather be single than settle. I am pretty sure that eventually there will be a battle with my folks that I might lose, but at this time I am standing firm. I know my worth and I will not reduce myself to anything less than...
- December 21, 2013 at 3:43 PM
- LohiO said...
LMAOOOO!!1 Why am I just seeing this? hahahaha! Please oh cooking like me hasn't gotten me wifed joor :( No big deal :D But you are very right. We are more accommodating but I do not beat myself up becuase if its meant to be I wont be "nexted".
- December 25, 2013 at 1:36 AM
- A Young Black Woman said...
Lol! Ain't nobody got time for that. Can't cry over spilt milk. If he leaves me, it's his loss. "He that finds a wife finds a good thing". Darker skin tone is also a factor?! Men!!! Lwkmd!
- December 28, 2013 at 9:44 AM
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- January 2, 2014 at 12:38 PM
Wow... Well what about the other side of the superficial coin?
I consider myself a pretty good looking guy and I try my BEST to be a kind & honest man. I know I have to have charms and confidence to attract women, but sometimes it's not enough. I've had bad luck recently in finding women who are interested in me cause of ME, and not cause of my status, appearance, or possessions. And because of this, my self-esteem has taken heavy hits. Making me question myself, and pick at what might be wrong and what needs improvement.
Maybe it's cause it's NY, but it seems like women here have a misguided reality that they can have a celebrity lifestyle with the Channing Tatums or the Ryan Goslings. Overlooking the Jason Segels and the Adam Sandlers who have more to offer than gym memberships and bank accounts. Honestly, I don't think it's a "man's world" since a woman can easily dominate (especially if you're young and beautiful). How can it be, if the woman is the one who makes the decision of whether or not they'll talk to a guy? ("Guys are chasers, and women are choosers") If you think about it, everything in the nightlife scene (which is usually the core of dating/encounters) is meant for you. "Drink specials all night! Ladies free til 2 am, men pay $150 at the door!" Ive also tried introducing myself to women during the day like my lunch hour or something. But this is worse, as majority of women in the street are not trying to be picked up on their way to 'Hale and Hearty'.
You're not the only ones who struggle for contentment...
- January 2, 2014 at 12:39 PM
- theOOhj said...
Bottom line is that BOTH men and women get 'nexted' for a variety of superficial reasons. Us regular guys and girls have to accept our lot and keep it moving... :)
- January 6, 2014 at 1:34 PM
- miss e said...
I"ve got the "you're too tall, I can't date you", the "you're from such and such tribe girl, can't marry you". I broke off an engagement cos bro felt I idn't make him feel needed, aka, I was independent.....gurlll, I jus taya. They all idiots!!!
- January 17, 2014 at 12:23 AM
- Deep Soul said...
My husband was the master of superficial reasons before Jesus used me to save his life
He told me how he "nexted" a girl once because when she served him food, she heaped it and even after complaining, she kept serving him large portions of food. He couldn't imagine having to deal with that for the rest of his life, so he axed her. buhaha. Really?
Another one was because she had stretch marks. Really?
Another one was because she ate food in his house and left the dirty plates in the sink. Buhaha.
We were talking about this recently and he recounted how funny it is because I have been guilty of ALL the reasons he left women in the past and even MORE. But we r married.
I guess the end of the day, when a guy isn't that into you, he'll always find a reason but when he is, those things won't matter as much!
- January 20, 2014 at 6:14 AM
Maybe the reason you were not chosen is because your grammar is poor!
- February 17, 2014 at 8:08 AM
- Lee said...
I'll be honest Im one of those guys, the shallow guy. And I hate it. I wish I could look past a girls so called flaws, but my mind just nags at me
- December 6, 2014 at 9:22 PM
- Myers Dojo said...
If you've been through a breakup recently--
Or if your man seems to be drifting further away each day...
Then it's time to pull out all the stops.
Because 99% of the time, there is only 1 thing your man can hear that will change his mind and heart.
Here's how: ==> Your Ex Won't Be Able To Resist ]
And once you say this to him, or even send this simple phrase in a text message...
It will flip his world upside down and you will suddenly find him chasing you...
And even begging to be with you.
Here's what I'm talking about:
Here's how: ==> Why He Won't Be Able To Live Without You ]
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Black-Eyed Pea and Sausage Soup1 pound smoked sausage, sliced
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1 large onion, chopped
3 carrots, coarsely chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 celery ribs, chopped
1 large green bell pepper, chopped
2 (15 oz.) cans black-eyed peas, rinsed and drained
3 (14 1/2 oz.) cans beef broth
1 (14 1/2 oz). can diced tomatoes with basil, garlic, and oregano, undrained
1 (16 oz.) jar chipotle-flavored salsa*
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Cook sausage in oil in a large Dutch oven, stirring until it browns. Remove sausage, reserving drippings in pan. Add onion, carrots, bell pepper, garlic, and celery. Saute' over medium-high heat 8 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Stir in sausage, peas, broth, and tomatoes. Bring to a boil. Cover; reduce heat, and simmer 35 minutes. Stir in salsa, salt, and pepper. Simmer 10 more minutes. Yield 10 cups.
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Filed under: cole slaw, ginger slaw, gourmet, kids food blog, memorial day, recipe
Our BBQ today pokes around my favorite flavor set – the far east. Here is the first entry!
Ginger Slaw! My Asian-inspired cool and crispy slaw is perfect on a burger or some Harryaki grilled salmon. We have been mixing a pre-cut bag of broccoli slaw with Makoto's ginger slaw bottled dressing and I thought it was time to try my own. I'm serving it today with some Chinese 5-spice bbq ribs and tall glass of Watermelon Lemonade!
½ cup mayo
½ tbsp toasted sesame oil
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp onion powder
2 -3 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp grated ginger plus any juice that accumulated during the grating process
2 cloves garlic
½ tsp black pepper
2 tbsp low sodium soy sauce
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
2 cups finely shredded Napa cabbage
4 cups finely shredded red cabbage
1 cup shredded carrot
1/3 cup chopped Italian flat leaf parsley
In a food processor or blender, combine first 10 ingredients until smooth. Add mixture to the cabbage, carrot and parsley and toss well. It's that easy. Chill for an hour. Serve cold.
Lillie decided she wanted to eat a Napa cabbage leaf while we were making the slaw…
She took about five bites, started choking and spit/coughed the rest out. Yikes! Our human garbage disposal is growing up!


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As many of you are well aware, we enjoy finding opportunities to create cooking traditions around various holidays or even events in general. Through the years, we have come to create some traditions around Halloween. The recipe I am sharing in this post is one we have more or less created on our own using a few assorted recipes as a bit of a starting point. We like it, most of all, because it tastes good. We have also found it a great recipe for this time of year because it is warm, filling, and features some great fall colors that add to the spirit of the season.
For a little background on curry …
Curry is a cuisine that originated in India. The term, curry, refers to a dish that is prepared using a number of characteristic herbs and spices such as coriander, turmeric, cumin, and chilis. Curry dishes can be "wet," meaning that they are covered in sauce, or "dry," meaning that the liquid has evaporated and the remaining meat or vegetables are coated with the spice mixture. Today, curry dishes are part of the cuisine across many of the southeast Asian countries, each with its own distinct style. The following picture shows a number of Indian vegetable curry dishes.
Curry powder itself seems to have appeared around the 18th century. It is proposed to have been generated by Indian merchants to sell to members of the British government and military. Although curry powders can vary somewhat based on region, most contain a mixture of coriander, turmeric, cumin, and chilis. The turmeric is what gives the curry its characteristic yellow color.
Given that curries can vary based on geographic region, consider this curry to be in the tradition of the Intermountain West of the United States. As I have said, we do like it, and I hope you will too. Here is how we put it together.
4 tbsp butter or margarine
One large onion
3/4 cup flour
6 cups chicken broth
Juice of 1/2 lemon (about 1.5 - 2 tbsp)
2 cups cream
2 tbsp curry powder (we like the Hot Madras powder)
1 green bell pepper
4 or 5 potatoes
1.5 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Cooked jasmine rice
1. Melt the butter over medium heat. Chop the onion and saute until the onions are soft and golden. The below picture gives you an idea as to how coarsely I chop the onion.
2. While the onion is cooking, go ahead and get the chicken started. I typically cut it up into about 1 inch chunks and cook it up in a pan on the stove. I add a little water and a tablespoon of oil, cover the pan with a lid and let the chicken cook until done. Once it is cooked, just turn off the heat and let it sit until you are ready to add it (and the resulting broth) to the curry mixture.
3. Once the onions are nice and soft, stir in the flour until well mixed.
4. Slowly stir in the chicken broth and lemon juice so that the flour is dissolved into the liquid.
5. Stir in the cream and curry powder.
6. Now it's time to cut up the vegetables. Here is a picture of the carrots and the bell pepper so that you can see how coarsely I cut them up. My advice is to add the carrots first and let them cook a while before adding the bell pepper and potatoes. The carrots take longer to cook, and the potatoes require less time to cook so this is how I try to have everything cooked up nice at the same time. Once I stir in the carrots, I make a judgement as to whether the amount looks right to me. For this batch of curry, I ended up adding additional carrots. On a side note, I had plenty of carrots in the garden, many of which were a bit small so this was an easy opportunity to use a bunch of them.
7. Once the carrots are about halfway cooked, stir in the bell pepper and potatoes. Slowly simmer until the vegetables are cooked through. We love the taste of potatoes that have soaked up the flavor of the curry powder. Yum!
8. Stir in the chicken and the broth you created in the process of cooking it.
9. Heat through and serve over steamed jasmine rice.
Here is a picture of the curry cooking on the stove. We like that this recipe makes a batch that will give us leftovers for a couple of days.
Wishing you all a safe and happy Halloween with very few tricks and lots of good treats.


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512 pages
Publisher: Orbit
Source:My collection
Description: The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.
Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction. (from back cover)
Review: While this is technically the first book in Bank's Culture series, I was told this wasn't the best place to start the series. Having now read it, I sort of agree. As an introduction to the Culture, this isn't really a good introduction, since we really don't spend much time with either any members of the Culture or with anyone who has spent any time with them.
On the other hand, this is a far better introduction to Culture Minds than The Player of Games, which is generally recommended as a starting point. So, while I wouldn't recommend starting here, it would be good idea to read it early.
As a book, this is a decent first effort, but it seems a bit padded in some areas, with the main protagonist running into difficulties, which seem to exist just to add difficulties and/or shock value. (A run in with a group who most of the members are trying to subsist on inedible things, while their leader is a cannibal is the most obvious example.) There are also several interludes focusing on a member of the Culture, which don't seem to add anything to the story.
It takes until page 300 of a 500 page book before the characters actually get anywhere near the actual objective of the book. And most of that time is spent introducing, then killing off various people the main character comes into contact with.
The book does have redeeming qualities. The story moves along at a decent pace, and there is a last minute save that could have felt like a cheat, but was set up just enough to come off as a surprise without feeling like it came out of nowhere. Also, the epilogue goes a long way to kind of justifying the blood bathier aspects of the book, giving details from an overall perspective of the results of the Idiran-Culture war. The book doesn't sugar coat the costs of this type of conflict, which is kind of refreshing in space opera.
Not the place to start the series, but not a bad effort overall.


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Kelly McCrimmon, the owner of the defending-champion Brandon Wheat Kings, has started filling holes created by his decision to leave the WHL team for the NHL's expansion Las Vegas franchise.
|The Brandon Wheat Kings' coaching staff: David Anning
(left), Don MacGillivray, Aaron Rome and Tyler Plante.
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McCrimmon also was the Wheat Kings' general manager and head coach when he decided to join Las Vegas as its assistant general manager.
On Thursday, McCrimmon, who remains owner and governor, didn't name a general manager — Grant Armstrong, assistant general manager and director of player personnel with the Victoria Royals is believed to be the favourite — but he did fill out the coaching staff.
David Anning is the Wheat Kings' new head coach, moving up from assistant coach, a position he filled for the past four seasons. At 30, he is the youngest head coach in the WHL, two years younger than Luke Pierce and three younger than Brent Kisio of the Lethbridge Hurricanes.
Anning, from Winnipeg, did two turns as head coach last season, going 9-3-1 while McCrimmon was attending meetings in Calgary and also serving as an assistant coach with Team Canada at the World Junior Championship.
Joining Anning as assistant coaches are Don MacGillivray, a veteran coach who has been the general
MacGillivray, 51, also from Winnipeg, has coached in the WHL, having spent two seasons (1996-98) with the Prince Albert Raiders. The bulk of his career, however, has been spent in the MJHL, where he is a four-time coach of the year, although he also was the head coach of the U of Manitoba Bisons for three seasons (2006-09).
Rome, 32, is from Nesbitt, Man., a small farming community just south of Brandon. He played in the WHL with the Saskatoon Blades, Kootenay Ice, Swift Current Broncos and Moose Jaw Warriors (1999-2004). Rome went on to a pro career that included 226 games in the NHL. Rome's career was ended by injury and the Dallas Morning News has reported that he is suing an insurance company and the NHL for compensation.
The Wheat Kings also announced that Darren Ritchie, 42, who had been the team's second assistant coach, now is the director of scouting. Ritchie played four seasons (1991-95) with the Wheat Kings. He had been on the coaching staff for nine seasons. Ritchie, from Minnedosa, Man., replaces Wade Klippenstein, who left the Wheat Kings to join the NHL's Colorado Avalanche as a western scout.
Also joining the Wheat Kings is Tyler Plante, who will work as goaltending coach. Plante, from Brandon, played three seasons (2004-07) with the Wheat Kings and was the WHL's rookie of the year in 2004-05. He retired after spending the past three seasons in Europe. As goaltending coach, he takes over from Matt Cockell, now the vice-president of corporate sponsorships for True North Sports and Entertainment in Winnipeg.
The Wheat Kings also have hired Chris Trivieri, 27, as their athletic therapist. He takes over from Josh Guenther, who left after three seasons in Brandon and now is with the Red Deer Rebels. Trivieri, from Welland, Ont., has worked with the junior A Oakville Blades, the OHL's Hamilton Bulldogs and the AHL's Toronto Marlies.
The Wheat Kings also revealed the Czech D Daniel Bukac, 17, who was selected in the CHL's 2016 import draft, will be on hand when training camp opens on Aug. 30. He had 15 points, including three goals, in 38 games with the U-18 Chomutov team last season.
Swedish D Linus Nassen, Brandon's other 2016 selection, isn't expected to report. A third-round selection by the Florida Panthers in the NHL's 2016 draft, Nassen, 18, is expected to play with with Lulea's U-20 and SHL teams this season.
The Wheat Kings also have Russian D Ivan Provorov, 19, on their roster. The WHL's top defenceman in 2015-16, he will either play for the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers or the Wheat Kings this season.
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