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Click for a link to the schedule of Pope Francis' 2015 Apostolic Journey to the United States of America.
Time Warner Cable News will provide complete coverage of the Pope's visit to the U.S. on various media platforms.
Channel 199 will air non-stop papal coverage, including daily recap shows and national call-in shows from September 20 through September 27th.
Channel 1020 has begun on-demand coverage, including pre-visit preparations, documentaries and previous papal visit programming, and will continue through November 30th.
The cable outlet will feature coverage with a local perspective on their news channel as well as a special papal visit section on their TWC news app.
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"Orange Pumpkin"
10 x 10 oil
Painted this a couple months ago for a an artist friend that has owned this van for a long time. I surprise him with it and told him to pass along the good deed by sending some other unsuspecting person a painting.
I have done this several times and enjoy it very much. Who knows, someone that leaves me a comment could receive on one day too. ;?)

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Vanderbilt Valet February Specials
February 2010 Specials
10 percent off Platinum Solder – (any platinum jewelry that need repairs such as a prong fixed on a ring or broken platinum chains etc.)
10 percent off Coolant Flush – (drain radiator and clean with a flushing system to eliminate sludge)
10 percent off Auto Detail No. 4 inside/outside including wax and carpet shampoo
10 percent off regular dry cleaning
Stop by our site locations to receive an updated local discount deals list, discount card, monthly specials, online discount deal information and enter our monthly drawings.
Representatives will be at our OHO office to offer their services and discounts to Vanderbilt employees and affiliates on Thursday, Feb. 4, from 11a.m.-1p.m.
Schedule a presentation of our services for your department any time, anywhere. If there are any offsites interested, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Drawings – get ready for Valentine's Day, Sunday, Feb. 14
February's drawing is for a $25 gift certificate to The Whole Kit and Kapoodle pet care, including sitting, walking and home stay.
Guess how many hearts in the jar and win all the candy.
Enter for a chance to win a gift basket.
Gift wrapping
Gifts must be ready to be wrapped as we do not supply packaging. We supply the paper and bow for any occasion all year round free of charge.
Greeting Cards
Stop by and look over our wonderful assortment of greeting cards for any occasion today.
Limo Service
Valentine's Love Ride $279 includes three-hour ride (time may be split if going to dinner), a red rose, box of candy and romantic music.
Now through April, Costco is offering a special just for Vanderbilt employees and affiliates. Any new membership receives a $20 shopping card good in store or at their gas pumps.
Valentine's Day
We are taking orders now for flowers, candies, gift baskets and cakes.
Free notary service available at MCN, OHO and soon coming to VCH.
Gift Cards
We have more than 80 gift cards to choose from. We also have black or gold gift card boxes with bows for $1.
Valet on the Go
Every Wednesday one of our site representatives grabs a cart and travels through the main hospital to:
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3rd floor MCE Peri-Operative Services from 2-3 p.m.
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Whilst '30 is the new 40 and 40 is the new 50' sounds great in essence,looking 10 years younger requires more than just injectables but a targeted long term skincare regime approach. Our V8 peptide works specifically against the major signs of skin aging.
Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) December 05, 2012
V8 complex™ is to O Cosmedics skincare what the secret herbs and spices are to Kernel Sanders recipe! It's the key to unlocking timeless beauty. Exclusive to O Cosmedics it is a multi-functional V8 peptide, which works specifically against the major signs of skin aging. Working behind the scenes on the essential cell structure, its proven to accelerate healing and rejuvenation and ultimately age proof the skin.
When developing the O Cosmedics, Australia's leading cosmedical skin care range, Marie Enna-Cocciolone took into serious consideration the overall main concerns of her customers and the treatments they were most frequenting to get fast, visible and long-term results to retain or regain skin health and ultimately skin youth.
"For the entirety of recorded human history, the world has never seen an aged population as currently exists in the world today therefore when clients identified aging skin as their greatest concern it was of no surprise to me. Consumers want to look young for as long as they can and are turning in droves to receive injectable treatments for instant gratification. However whilst '30 is the new 40 and 40 is the new 50' sounds great in essence, actually looking ten years younger requires more than just injectables but a targeted long term skincare regime approach. I created O Cosmedics to tackle the two major influences and the five major causes of aging and the V8 Peptide is the driving force of the range!"
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Here in Scotland we have just uncovered a new concept in rain. It's like rain, but colder. It's not quite as cold as hail. It's a bastard halfway house called snow.
Clearly, we've never seen it before, since when it fell from the sky, the entire city stopped.
Today, I arranged to go for lunch at the society. I walked to the west end to meet my pal, and then find a chariot to take us there... Half way along George Street, I finally found one. In the hackney conveyance all was not rosy, as we braked suddenly on the slippery roads, going down Leith Walk, due to some fucking idiot walking out in front of the cab. Somehow, we didn't slide - I don't really understand why, given the typical grit coverage from the City of Edinburgh Cuntcil.
People seem to lose all sense of physics when snow happens.
One morning last year while I was walking to the station to go to work, I get to the Tollcross junction just as the lights were changing - the driver coming down Lauriston Place was driving as if conditions were perfect. I hated to break it to her, but they were not. I saw that the vehicle was traveling quite fast, and thought to myself - fuck me, I'm going to get killed if I walk across the road in front of that - and so I stood where I was. The driver duly braked when they would have braked when conditions were normal, then she fishtailed all the way down to the lights. The expression on her face was hilarious. "How can the laws of physics let me down in this way" her face said. Bless.
Actually, it was more of a "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU........slide sideways.......UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" Which would have concerned me, had I not been stood behind a robust traffic light pole.
This is a collection of thoughts and statements about things that annoy me. I am a big, angry man. Hear me roar, or piss off and give me peace.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Never seen snow before
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Although I've never been a christmas-maniac,
I have to admit that there's another vibe in the atmosphere during christmas.
plus we have holidays!(and I really need some rest)
I have those friends who actually love christmas,so we decorated the christmas tree.
To be honest,I'm thankful,'cause now I feel that christmas are even closer.
That's why I'm sharing with you these pictures.
To feel that there are only some
....uhmmm...days left to Christmas holidays.
When are you planning to start the christmas decorations?


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The evening started out, as is the Prime Latino Media Salón custom of a relaxed social atmosphere where one can easily network in the room among actors, filmmakers and other multimedia-makers. The program then started with the master of ceremonies, Louis Perego Moreno (more commonly known as Tío Louie) interviewed the team behind the webseries "Studio Heads"– Michael Díaz (also known as viral video sensation Juan Bago), Jaime Fernández and Anthony Palmini.
The trio, who also perform individually and together with the Room 28 sketch comedy troupe, spoke on how their webseries– described as a mix of a reality television series and "The Office"– began. They were working on several projects at this recording studio and decided to create a webseries about three performers who run and work at a recording studio (but have no idea what they are doing). Their characters (named Juan, Jaime and Ant, respectively) are exaggerations of who they really are. (They assured those in attendance that they are way more competent than their online personas.) Their first season of six episodes is complete and can be seen on Remezcla.
After another networking break, Tío Louie introduced the duo known as The Comedy Girls– Jesenia and Jenni Ruiza. They are the team behind the webseries "Becoming Ricardo" and the recent "Latino Stereotypes For Dummies (#StillNoLatinas)" viral video highlighting the lack of Latina representation in the cast and staff of the long-running NBC series "Saturday Night Live".
The dynamic duo, who also do standup comedy and improvisation, spoke on the desire to create a webseries with the desire to get it to network one day. They have currently completed the first half of their first season (which also stars Sofía Rodríguez and Lisa Vélez-Mello) and are currently fundraising for the second half. Both of The Comedy Girls emphasized the importance of training when it comes to comedy and improvisation.
Also mentioned during the evening was "Henry - A Web Series", written and directed by Alain Alfaro and starring Fernández in the title role (and with Díaz guest starring in the first webisode) and "Latino Stereotypes For Dummies (#StillNoLatinas)", the "open letter" video to "Saturday Night Live" founder Lorne Michaels which has gone viral and received a lot of notice for The Comedy Girls.
The evening ended with music and further networking and reconnecting with people. Special thanks to the owner and staff of Alquimia for all of their work ensuring a fantastic evening was enjoyed by all in attendance.
[Photos on this blog by Alphabeta Photography. To see more photos of this event, click here.]


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Tuesday, May 26
Pakistan and Afghanistan and the demise of NDN: Yeah, we sure taught Russia a lesson
As the US/NATO overland supply route to Afghanistan once again becomes fully reliant on Pakistan, sophisticated Taliban attacks against Afghan troops skyrocket ....
The Northern Distribution Network [NDN] was established in 2009 in response to the increased risk of sending supplies through Pakistan. Initial permission for the U.S. military to move troop supplies through the region was given on January 20, 2009, after a visit to the region by General Petraeus. The first shipment along the NDN left on February 20, 2009. By 2011, the NDN handled about 40% of Afghanistan-bound traffic, compared to 30% through Pakistan. (Wikipedia, NATO Logistics in Afghanistan)
Northern Distribution Network (NDN)
The Northern Distribution Network [NDN] was established in 2009 in response to the increased risk of sending supplies through Pakistan. Initial permission for the U.S. military to move troop supplies through the region was given on January 20, 2009, after a visit to the region by General Petraeus. The first shipment along the NDN left on February 20, 2009. By 2011, the NDN handled about 40% of Afghanistan-bound traffic, compared to 30% through Pakistan. (Wikipedia, NATO Logistics in Afghanistan)
The NDN may seem a daunting and expensive challenge, but as U.S. relations with Pakistan have frayed, the northern option has proved good insurance. Land convoys through Pakistan from the port of Karachi travel nearly 1,000 miles to reach Afghanistan, with the last part of the journey often being a painfully slow trek through the Khyber Pass.
There is the added risk of ambush -- many tankers and trucks have been attacked and destroyed in the last two years. In one incident alone in December 2008, the Pakistani Taliban set ablaze 100 trucks at a rest stop near Peshawar.
The Pakistan routes are also vulnerable to the vagaries of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. For 10 days last year, Pakistan closed the overland routes (via Tulkarm on the Khyber Pass and Chaman south of Kandahar) into Afghanistan in retaliation for U.S. air attacks that mistakenly killed Pakistani soldiers.
The northern routes are safer and more reliable ...May, 2014, Christian Science Monitor:
WASHINGTON — While calls mount on Capitol Hill to robustly punish Russia for its incursion into Crimea, some officials in the back halls of the Pentagon are privately pushing for restraint. That's because senior US military officials are well aware that a key supply line in and out of Afghanistan runs through Russia.
That supply line, known as the Northern Distribution Network, or NDN, brings food, water, and building materials that keep US troops in Afghanistan fed and America's longest war going.
Negotiating the NDN was a labor-intensive endeavor, and the Pentagon does not want to lose it, particularly as the spring fighting season in Afghanistan is set to begin soon.May 18, 2015, RT:
The good news is that so far, Russia has shown no inclination to use the NDN as leverage in the wake of US retaliation for its troop movements in Crimea.
Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev has revoked a decree that allowed delivery of NATO military equipment to Afghanistan through Russian territory.
According to the official document, signed by Medvedev and published on Monday [May 15] all previous decisions on NATO cargo transit to Afghanistan have now been revoked. This includes an act allowing delivery of military hardware and equipment via rail, motor vehicles, or through Russian airspace [emphasis mine].
The Russian Foreign Ministry has been ordered to inform all the countries involved.
May 20, 2015, The Diplomat:
Ukraine's Geopolitical Spillover Officially Makes it to Afghanistan
A number of developments since this time last year serve to mitigate the actual effects, though not the optics, of Russia's move to close the NDN officially. For one thing, after the difficult and drawn out Afghan election last summer, a BSA was signed with little fanfare. At present, there are just over 13,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan as part of Resolute Support, the NATO follow-on mission.
In March, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. would maintain 9,800 troops in the country through a least the end of 2015.
Also, whereas Karzai had an increasingly acrimonious relationship with Pakistan, the country's new president has made strides in repairing the relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Af-Pak border isn't likely to be closed again any time soon. In 2012 Pakistan and the U.S. signed an MOU to that effect, keeping the route open to NATO through 2015.
The closure of the NDN certainly marks, as the Moscow Times says, "the end of an era in Russia's relations with NATO and the United States." It is, however, more of an optical jab than an actual punch that will have operational weight.
The Pakistan route had always been cheaper, anyway.May 24, 2015, The New York Times
Afghanistan — Facing a fierce Taliban offensive across a corridor of northern Afghanistan, , the government in Kabul is turning to a strategy fraught with risk: forming local militias and beseeching old warlords for military assistance, according to Afghan and Western officials.
The effort is expected to eventually mobilize several thousand Afghans from the north to fight against the Taliban in areas where the Afghan military and police forces are losing ground or have had little presence. The action is being seen as directly undermining assurances by officials that the security forces were holding their own against the Taliban.
The establishment of the Afghan military and police forces, which are said by officials to number more than 320,000 members as of late last year, has been held up as one of the signal accomplishments of the United States-led presence here. By many accounts, the forces have continued to fight effectively in a number of areas across the country, even with far less of the air support and logistical assistance that the United States had been providing in past years.
But the Afghans are taking casualties at an alarming rate. In the first four months of 2015, more than 1,800 soldiers and police officers were killed in action, and another 3,400 were wounded, according to a Western military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss figures not being officially released by the Afghan government.
Those casualties are more than 65 percent higher than the amount during the same period last year, the official said.
Now, the militia plan suggests diminished confidence in the Afghan Army and police forces — important national institutions in a country with few of them. Indeed, the stated intent in creating nationalized forces was to replace the patchwork of militias around the country with a unified, better-trained body that was more accountable to the government.
Even as Afghan forces launched offensives in insurgent strongholds across the south this year, the military was caught flat-footed by the gathering Taliban forces in the north, according to local accounts and some officials in Kabul, the capital.
By April, the Afghan Army was losing ground to the Taliban in several northern provinces.
In mountainous Badakhshan, the Taliban broke through army checkpoints, taking prisoners and beheading a number of soldiers. Gruesome accounts of the violence shook public confidence.
The Taliban advance spread, threatening more than a few remote mountain districts, and suggesting an ambitious strategy to carve out territory in the north, which in the 1990s was the heart of the anti-Taliban resistance.
But it was the Taliban's assault in April on Kunduz, a city near the border with Tajikistan, that prompted the government to reach outside the military for help, officials said.
Startled by how quickly the Taliban had managed to push into Kunduz's outskirts, a visiting delegation of senior security officials sent from Kabul began to mobilize the old mujahedeen commanders who had battled the Soviets and the Taliban. Some still lead active militia groups.
In a briefing to Parliament last month, the Afghan Army chief of staff, Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, offered a stark assessment of his forces' capacities, saying, "Afghan security forces do not have the ability to carry out operations in many provinces simultaneously."
[...]The Pakistan supply route cheaper? I guess that depends on the value The Diplomat puts on human life.
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I started my newest free motion project yesterday. After looking through books and online websites, I decided to free motion scrolls in the "ribbons" and little clamshells in the white background. I got the idea from Natalia Bonner's book Beginner's Guide to Free Motion Quilting. I'm using the same variegated Superior thread I used on my last quilt. The light variegated pastels makes it easy to blend on many of the fabrics used in this quilt. As you can see in the photo, I used the 505 Spray again to keep the 3 layers together. I really love this spray. I don't get puckers and the layers stay together very nicely. And it's fast! It takes less than an hour to get all 3 layers stuck together.
Here's a picture of what I've been doing. I'm going nice and slow and am happy with the results so far. It's easy to space out the scrolls easily since I'm using the 2 1/2 inch background squares as guides for placement.
I only get to make 4 scrolls in a row and then I have to change direction. I can't really build up too much speed but I'm going along with the ribbon design.
I think these scrolls will keep me busy for awhile. Too bad I have to work the next 3 days!! So much quilting to do!!


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Summer Card Swap 2017
You will mail in 5 full 5 ½" x 4 ¼" cards and receive back 5 full cards.
Use only Current Close To My Heart stamps, cardstock, patterned paper, etc. Which means the stamp set, colors and paper you use must be in the current idea book or seasonal expressions.
You can choose any theme, all 5 of your cards can be the same or different, that is your choice.
Please sign your work with something removable such as a post-it note for each card. Place your cards in a Ziploc type bag labeled with your name.
Remember, this is for FULL cards, not fronts. Please do your best work.
Please mail completed cards to:
Marciava Warrell
6714 Bluffview Drive
Fayetteville NC 28314
Deadline: Must be in my hands by August 15th! I will swap and get them back in the mail within 3 days. If you know you are going on vacation, please mail them off prior to leaving.
Mailing: Place your cards in a Ziploc type bag labeled with your name. Please include a self addressed stamped envelope with enough postage as it took to mail to me plus 2 extra stamps just in case (these will be returned if not needed). No Dated Metered Postage - anything that has a date on it will not work. I will provide a priority envelope if you do not have one if you choose to have yours sent back that way.
MAILING TIPS: Put YOUR return address on your envelope. This eliminates packages coming back to me if for some reason you've not included enough postage for your envelope.
NOTE: I will send your extra stamps back if they are not needed.
You do not need to send an envelope with your card unless you just want to, especially if you like to decorate your envelopes to match your cards.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask, I am more than happy to answer all questions. I would rather you ask, than not know.


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I'm back in NYC - whew - and wanted to send a shout out and a warm welcome to Marco (see post below)! And thank you so much to everyone who channeled good thoughts and sent the sweetest emails asking about my dad. His surgery went swimmingly, and he's back at work already. I repeat: whew.
And also just a quickie reminder. Come one, come all, to the Woodhull Writers Well tomorrow!
Ok, I'm hitting the hay now. It's been a LONG couple a days.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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Last week Jonathan Papelbon inked a four year, $50 million deal with the Phillies after their talks in a similar deal for incumbent closer Ryan Madson fell through. "Cinco Ocho" followed in the footsteps of Mo Vaughn, Johnny Damon, Pedro Martinez and others during the past dozen years to depart Boston as a big-name free-agent in the prime of their careers after providing the Fenway Faithful with several years of unforgettable memories. The former fan favorite's popularity had waned during the past few years here, and many fans had already accepted that their stalwart closer would not be coming back in 2012. The general consensus was that his skills were in decline after shaky seasons in 2009 and 2010 marked by rising walk and WHIP rates, not to mention his infamous meltdowns in Game 3 of the 2009 ALDS and the final regular season game against the Orioles this year. Boston's front office has made its fair share of costly free agent mistakes (J.D. Drew, Daisuke Matsuzaka, John Lackey, Carl Crawford, et. al.) and couldn't really afford to blow another $50 million when his natural replacement has been an eighth inning beast
I don't want to imply that Paps, who turns 31 on Wednesday, won't be missed because he was nothing short of superb throughout his seven seasons in Boston. After taking over for Keith Foulke as the full-time ninth inning man in 2006, the AL Rookie of the Year runner-up never failed to notch at least 30 saves (averaging 36 per season) and had only one year (his rather disastrous 2010) in which his ERA exceeded 2.94. He proved this year that his skills are still intact, and the four-time All-Star joins Philadelphia (desperately in need of a stable closer after rotating Madson, Antonio Bastardo and sunken investment Brad Lidge) with a distinguished track record as one baseball's premier closers, a healthy, talented, and mostly reliable pitcher.
More importantly for the Phils, he's a battle-tested postseason warrior. The 2007 World Series champ carried a perfect 0.00 ERA through the first 17 playoff appearances before the Angels torched lit him up and swept the Sox in their most recent October showing. He may not be Mariano Rivera, but he's pretty close to the next best thing, and he's got that fierce scowl/glare/you don't want to mess with me face down pat.
All I can say is, I'm glad the planned move to the rotation in 2007 never panned out.
But luckily for the Red Sox, they don't have to go out and spend $40 million on say, a Heath Bell, when they've had their own closer of the future waiting in the wings. Daniel Bard is only 26, throws pure gas and is Papelbon's equal in many respects. Before wearing down in September and costing his slumping squad a handful of precious wins, he had a 2.03 ERA and was enjoying a great follow-up to his marvelous 2010 campaign (1.93 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 227 ERA+). His numbers are excellent across the board, he has a few years of big league experience under his belt, and Papelbon's natural heir seems primed to handle the pressure packed ninth inning duties. Plus, his price tag is only half a million bucks, meaning he makes 1/25th of Papelbon's salary and provides essentially the same production.
Of course, Boston could always leave him entrenched as their setup man and pursue an experienced closer such as Francisco Cordero or Francisco Rodriguez, but such a signing would be expensive. Promoting Bard to closer and either converting someone in the bullpen (Dan Wheeler? Bobby Jenks? my boy Alfredo Aceves?) or signing a new setup man, possibly a former closer like Jonathan Broxton or Matt Capps at a bargain price, would seem to be a much wiser economic decision.
The Sox have many options, but I believe the best one is right in front of them.


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Tech Specs
Design: Three-way bass reflex
Drive units: Uni-Q driver array
HF: 1" vented aluminium dome
MF: 125mm (5") aluminium
LF Bass: 2 x 165mm aluminium
Frequency range: (-6dB) 37Hz - 45kHz
Freq response: (±3dB) 42Hz - 28kHz
Crossover frequency: 500Hz, 2.9kHz
Amplifier requirements: 25 - 200 W
Sensitivity: (2.83V/1m) 89dB
THD: (90dB, 1m) <0.4% 100Hz-20kHz
Maximum output: 113dB
Nominal impedance: 8Ω (min 3.2Ω)
Dimensions (HWD): 1121 x 329 x 368mm
Weight: 25.9kg (57lbs.)
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KEF R700 floorstanding speakers are a sweet spot in the R-series range and exude sophistication, not only with their contemporary design and use of high quality real wood and piano high gloss finishes, but in their class-leading sonic reproduction. The three-way design makemusic or movie sound tracks controlled, detailed and dynamic, whilst twin 6.5-inch aluminium bass drivers deliver a fast, controlled and authoritative low end.
The all-new R Series makes genuine audiophile standards of entertainment more affordable than ever before. Stunningly fluent new Uni-Q driver arrays combine with potent new bass drivers and many ingenious refinements to create a rich, spacious sound image of such accuracy that it approaches the benchmark standards of KEF's legendary Reference Series.
The new Uni-Q MF/HF driver array is a masterpiece. Midrange response is amazingly fast and clean, thanks to a braced magnesium/aluminium alloy cone, with KEF's Z-flex surround smoothing the transition to the front panel and a sturdy die-cast aluminium chassis that prevents resonance being transferred to the cabinet.
At the acoustic centre of the midrange cone is the sophisticated vented tweeter that endows KEF Blade with such startlingly pure HF response. With a large neodymium magnet and a computer-optimised dome structure so stiff that it operates pistonically over its entire working range, the upper registers are articulated with flawless precision – and to capitalise on Uni-Q's point source characteristics,
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Friday at last! My week has been busy and blurry. I spent most of it thinking my holiday is in two weeks, only to realize last night that it's three weeks away. Ugh... I hate clocks and calendars and measuring devices of most kinds.
And I've got all these half-formed, but exciting, ideas brewing. But they're ideas I need time to spread out in front of me and I can't do that until I go away. So, I feel like I'm living in the threshold and being stuck there for another few weeks makes me hoppy. But I know it's frustrating when people blog about half-formed ideas they're not ready to share so I'll stop doing that right now.
Instead, I'll tell you about something I finished this week; rereading Lucy Gault. That evening was basically a write-off because all I could do was cry afterwards. Lucy is one of my favourite characters written, Trevor that perfect balance of emotive storyteller and master wordsmith. It's all deceptively easy, sublime and crisp... ah, just read it. I never tell, I always recommend, but I'm telling you this time.
And some links: Anna Emilia's last two posts blew my mind with their beauty... especially the raindrops on the surface of water. Love the mood in these shots! Over on Anne's blog, this chalky pastel palette wooed me.
And back to bookish matters: Alice Munro is another favourite, of course, and I loved this post over on new-to-me blog, A Crack in Everything. Of course, I'm have a recurring interest in our inability to truly know each other, so this post, and thinking about that in a parental light, intrigued me.
Finally, I'm including a link to a post that I haven't yet read all the way through. But I've read half of it and Hila never disappoints. The images have stayed with me all week, so that I wanted to carve out real time to wallow and reflect on her words. Definitely a good one to read over coffee tomorrow morning!
Have a great weekend!


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The Asia Pacific market is the fastest growing market for anticoccidials. This is primarily due to the increased demand for meat proteins in countries like China, India, Malaysia etc. The increased demand for meat proteins has increased the meat production in the region. China is the leading contributor in this region. The region is characterized by a myriad of small players in the market both for Meat production as well as antimicrobial agent production. This is leading to a price war as these cheap alternatives are giving the multinationals a run for their money. The Asia pacific market for anticoccidials has grown at a CAGR of 8.4% from 2016 to 2021 and the growth is expected to continue during the forecasted period. Currently very little regulations are in place leaving the market unorganized and open for competition to enter.
The Market research report titled Asia - Pacific Anticoccidial Drugs Market In Animal Health - Trends And Forecasts - (2016-21) by MORDOR INTELLIGENCE categorizes the global anticoccidial market on the basis of Animal Types (Poultry, Cattle, Swine, and companion animals), by Drugs (Ionophore anticoccidials, Chemical derivative anticoccidials and Antibiotic anticoccidials) and by Geography (China, India, Japan & Australia).
Key players in the Anticoccidial Drugs Market are Zoetis, Elanco (A division of Eli Lilly and Company), Merial, Bayer Health care Animal Healthcare division, Merck Animal Healthcare, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Virbac, and Novartis Animal Healthcare.
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Friday, 10 May 2013
Not Really Here!
8 comments:
Fabulous page - and a great series of photos. Love the number tags and the sketch is just my sort of thing!ReplyDelete
Stunning! Fantastic how you split the title up. And I love how you played with the tags. I agree, a fabulous page all the way around!ReplyDelete
I like that pink plaid with the black against it. I really like this layout. Thanks for stopping by my site and commenting. I am following you thru GFC.ReplyDelete
I Create Purty Thangs
Great use of tags on your page, have never thought of doing that xReplyDelete
What a fabulous layout, and a really good idea :) .... Hope you're having a fun timeReplyDelete
Fabulous layout! Love the sketch you started with to create this layout!!ReplyDelete
like the use of the numbers - very cleverReplyDelete
Awesomely creative idea! Love all the numbers and the way you interpreted the sketch!ReplyDelete


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9 am: Breakfast and cartoons.
2 pm: Nearly done.
3 pm: The Mykletun brothers carry heavy stuff whilst I take care of fragile stuff.
3:30 pm: Oh so empty...
4 pm: Last glimpse of the garden (such a happy place) and mount Ulriken (will miss my work out hikes up there)...
5 pm: Picking up Sara at her cousins' place.
6 pm: Waiting for the ferry at Halhjem.
8 pm: Sara has fallen asleep. Finally a break from "Dyrene i Afrika"!
10 pm: Tjensvollkrysset. Close to our new home.
11 pm: At my parents' place. Sara got sick again. Realizing that it might not be car sickness.


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The thoughts of me and my dog who used to be Harvey, but is now George, who is Harvey's great-great-great-great-nephew.
Monday, March 14, 2011
This'n'that and then some
5 comments:
- Furtheron said...
funny... now I'm working again I actually miss going to Tesco's... and they finished the refurb that had been making shopping more difficult the week after I started my job!!!!
See again proof that the entire universe only exists to get up my nose!
- 8:44 pm
- Rose said...
I hope PayPal is embarrassed enough that they finally correct their mistake--keep after them, Liz! Maybe you should send them a video of you singing and dancing at your desk...actually, I'd like to see that, too:)
- 1:17 pm
- nick said...
I've given up watching things like Waking The Dead. The plotting is always so fiendish my tiny brain can't keep up. Perhaps there should be sub-titles for idiots like me, explaining the finer points.
- 5:44 pm
- sally in norfolk said...
I love waking the dead and will catch up later this week :-)
- 8:33 pm
- SmitoniusAndSonata said...
Accept every cent PayPal are willing to part with !
Good luck , meanwhile , in extracting the charity's . It's a Universal Law .... banks are happy to accept money , but make getting said money out again nearby impossible .
- 5:26 pm


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Bocci, a contemporary design and manufacturing house based in Vancouver, Canada was founded by Omer Arbel in 2005. His conceptual approach has birthed a unique and striking collection of lighting, furniture, electrical accessories and objects. Their lighting design I am a particular fan of (see images below) and their installation at the V&A for the 2013 London Design Festival was awe inspiring (see video)
Bocci operates as a community of designers, architects, craftspeople, technicians, agents, governance bodies, testing facilities, raw materials suppliers and fine shops. Their aim is to build a network of talent unified in creating high quality, practical and aesthetically innovative consumer goods.
Bocci is committed to manufacturing at their Vancouver factory which reinforces their aim for community moving towards a common goal. The glass blowing studio, office, warehouse and design studio are all in the same location; Bocci employees walk through the factory floor to get to their desks. I just love this and vision for myself the same working environment.
Bocci offers consultation, design, and fabrication services for custom chandeliers of unlimited configuration – from petite to linear to oversized chandeliers. "Our custom capacity is infinite."
I have pasted the following images below for your viewing pleasure. In my humble opinion, their work is not just lighting design, but art.
For more information, check them out at http://bocci.ca/


text: So sorry I haven't posted my projects, but nothing was presentable. Here is an album I put together of 2011 photos this week. You can see it at www.beverlyjordan.shutterfly.com as well as on my Facebook. Enjoy! The photo on the front was taken by Julie at Little's Protraits on New Broad Street in Baldwin Park, Florida. They were taken on New Smyrna Beach. She did a fantastic job!


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The report will help educators to think more critically about how emerging technology can engage learners in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics and push the boundaries on how they related to the world around them.
Madrid, Spain (PRWEB) October 17, 2013
The "Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2013-2018: An NMC Horizon Project Sector Analysis" was released as a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC), the Centro Superior para la Enseñanza Virtual (CSEV), Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Control at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Education Society (IEEE). This report will inform education leaders about significant developments in technologies supporting STEM+ (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.
"Campus and school leaders along with practitioners across the world use the Horizon Project as a springboard for discussions around emerging technology," says Dr. Larry Johnson, CEO of the NMC and co-principal investigator for the project. "By examining these technologies through a STEM+ lens, the report will help educators to think more critically about how emerging technology can engage learners in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics and push the boundaries on how they related to the world around them."
Twelve emerging technologies are identified across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years, as well as key trends and challenges expected to continue over the same period, giving educators, administrators, and policymakers a valuable guide for strategic technology planning across STEM+ education. The addition of the "+" in the acronym incorporates communication and digital media technologies in the traditional four areas of study.
The "Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2013-2018" recognizes learning analytics, mobile learning, online learning, and virtual and remote laboratories as technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the near-term horizon of one year or less. 3D printing, games and gamification, immersive learning environments, and wearable technology are seen in the mid-term horizon of two to three years. Finally, flexible displays, the Internet of Things, machine learning, and virtual assistants emerged in the far-term horizon of four to five years.
The subject matter in this report was identified through a qualitative research process designed and conducted by the NMC for the entire "NMC Horizon Report" series that engages an international body of experts in education, technology, business, and other fields around a set of research questions designed to surface significant trends and challenges and to identify emerging technologies with a strong likelihood of adoption in global STEM+ education. The "Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2013-2018" details the areas in which these experts were in strong agreement.
"The report makes it very clear that online learning has proliferated across all STEM+ fields," said Daniel Torres, CEO of CSEV and co-principal investigator for the project. "Other emerging technologies that appear in the report, such as virtual and remote laboratories and immersive learning environments, are accelerating this progression."
"This sector-based analysis provides valuable insight into the trends and challenges in particular fields and makes even clearer the key cross-sector trends," noted Sergio Martin, assistant professor at UNED and a co-principal investigator for the project.
"The report provides a roadmap toward a near future where ubiquitous computing technologies cultivate learning both in and outside of the classroom," said Russ Meier, IEEE Education Society VP Conferences and project lead. "Working together, researchers and teachers can use the report as a guide to focus their energy on the technological areas that are mature enough to support enriched educational environments today."
The "Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2013-2018" is available online, free of charge, and published under a Creative Commons license to facilitate its widespread use, easy duplication, and broad distribution.
>Download the "Technology Outlook for STEM+ Education 2013-2018."
About the New Media Consortium (NMC)
The NMC is an international not-for-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. For 20 years, the NMC and its members have dedicated themselves to exploring and developing potential applications of emerging technologies for learning, research, and creative inquiry. For more information, visit http://www.nmc.org.
About the Centro Superior para la Enseñanza Virtual (CSEV)
CSEV is a Spanish non-profit organization created to promote e-learning through the implementation of ICT in education. CSEV activities are intended to: i) promote knowledge creation and transfer among individuals, businesses and institutions, ii) reduce time-to-implementation of new skills and knowledge; iii) adapt learning options to social needs and individual skills and preferences, and iv) eliminate geographical and social barriers to higher and lifelong education. In order to do so, CSEV promotes the collaboration with universities, experts, institutions and leading companies in the world to become a world-class source in the field of virtual training and education. Learn more at http://www.csev.org.
About the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Education Society (IEEE)
The IEEE Education Society is an international organization that promotes, advances, and disseminates state-of-the-art scientific information and resources, related to the Society's field of interest, and provides professional development opportunities for academic and industry professionals. The Education Society's field of interest is the theory and practice of education and educational technology involved in the effective delivery of domain knowledge of all fields within the scope of interest of IEEE. Learn more at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/.
About the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
UNED is the only state-run Spanish distance-learning university, with centers throughout the country and 18 centers outside Spain. Since 1972, UNED has been a center of excellence aiming at making higher education accessible to everyone. UNED is one of the largest European universities with around 260,000 students, most of them adult, near 1,500 teachers and 7,100 tutors. UNED delivers also many open courses for lifelong learning continuous education and Is currently quite involved in the UNED Abierta initiative. UNED Abierta explores new educational approaches based on bringing together, organizing and facilitating access to an extensive range of open educational materials. UNED Abierta also offers new ways to create open content collaboratively, with the participation of the whole educational community: teachers, tutors, researchers and students can both generate and consume content.
Researchers at the Electrical, Electronic and Control Engineering Department (DIEEC) of UNED have more than twenty years of experience covering different developments within the so-called Technology Innovation frameworks and their ensuing applications. Learn more at http://www.uned.es.


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This week we focused A LOT on patterns. It started out with wanting to focus on spring and seeds. Then I was reviewing the FunBites cutter and I tried to figure out a way make a creative Muffin Tin out of tiny squares. After I decided on patterns for the Muffin Tin I brainstormed ways to combine patterns and spring. I came up with a Pattern Garden. I decided it would be fun to make it an ongoing project. We just worked on one aspect of it each day we had lessons.
First we discussed patterns. I started a pattern on our easel board and asked them to complete it. Then they insisted on each making their own pattern.
I think it is cute that Tabitha and Hannah are looking on with rapt attention.
Amelia had to be reminded to start her first shape close to the left side or she ran out of space.
Here Hannah had drawn a pretty good circle.
Then we moved on to making our garden.
The girls started out by cutting fringes on green paper. I cut Hannah's and let her color it green.
Then the girls added some flower stickers I had recently purchased on a whim. They were to add them in a pattern. Tabitha's went big, small, big, small. Amelia went the opposite way, small, big, etc. I just let Hannah stick the stickers on. She did a great job with one to one correspondence.
Tabitha insisted the flowers needed sun to grow, so her hand became the sun.
For lunch I served their pattern muffin tin.
They took the square shaped food and made patterns either on a toothpick or the table.
Then I gave them M&Ms for dessert and they made patters with them.
You know they are retaining information when they start their morning off with cereal patterns.
Amelia is still struggling with the concept a little.
Here is Tabitha's
And with a little reminding, Amelia made one too.
Then we made our pattern sun to help the flowers grow in our garden.
The idea was long and short rays.
Wednesday we took a library and out door day. I was going to have them pick dandelions (yellow flowers and white puffs) and set them out in patters. Unfortunately it started to rain.
To finish off the week we added pattern caterpillars to our gardens.
We will be adding a little more to this next week.
Edited to add: You can see the finished projects here.
While I was on the subject of gardens I decided it was high time to make another word family chart of some kind. We haven't really been using our Caterpillar Word Family chart as it has been shredded (the joys of having young ones).
I have plans to fix this soon. It is one of the things that needs to be finished before we start My Father's World Kindergarten.
In the meantime we are making Short e gardens. Each flower is going to have rhyming words. We started with the "ed" words on a red flower.
Hannah's flowers are just going to focus on the colors.
Next week we will add additional flowers in different colors for the other short e word families. The plan is, per Tabitha's request, to make these into place mats. Stop by next week to see the completed projects.
In addition, I also added some fine motor skill activities. It has been quite a while since we did any specific activities. I know how much Amelia enjoyed putting toothpicks into a shaker jar. Guess what, Hannah loves it too.
And then I attached a couple of pipe cleaners to a tray and had the girls make patterns out of beads. Note to self, make sure there are enough of each color to make a decent pattern.


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The crucifix is profoundly embedded in this originally religious weekend... regardless, I will quite happily risk being called sacrilegious (wouldn't be the first time) so that I can explore the cross in all it's fashion forms...
The cross rocks... FACT.
I'm seriously considering going another round with a chocolate bunny... I can assure you, I will be winning this battle!
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By CHELO GRUBB
and DAVID MENDEZ
Last issue, we were eagerly awaiting the final weekend of March.
That weekend, the two of us, our assistant photo editor Larry Gaurano and our faculty adviser Cynthia Lancaster headed to Los Angles to attend a conference and see where our paper ranked in 2011.
Going in, we knew that we were in the top three in two categories.
In the end, we didn't lose! The Society of Professional Journalists awarded Aztec Press second place regionally for all-around general excellence for a non-daily, two-year college paper. That counts for something, right?
But it wasn't silver medals all around. Larry's soccer photo won first place for sports photography, and will advance to the national competition. We're keeping our fingers crossed that he'll rank in the top three, and can attend the national conference in September.
Because the conference was set in LA, we weren't surprised that most workshop speakers were broadcast journalists.
And it won't surprise you, as we all work for the Aztec Press, that we're print people.
Despite the under-representation of print writers, we still came away with a lot. The speakers encouraged us to be well rounded in our studies, to become slaves to social media and to not get too discouraged if our first job assigns us the "dead body beat."
When we weren't having our spirits lowered by our speakers, we explored LA.
Our hotel was a mere five-minute walk from the Universal City Walk.
During the few free hours we had during our first afternoon, we spent an hour or so seeing what the walk had to offer. Let us tell you, it has both cupcake-flavored popcorn and Slytherin socks.
After the conference finished on Saturday evening, we sped off to Santa Monica Pier.
By the time we got to the pier, it had started to rain. Which was a good thing, really.
Larry got to show off his rain-resistant shirt, while Cynthia bundled up in a jacket. David and Chelo, meanwhile, fought an uphill battle to keep their glasses dry enough to be useful.
Proper journalism experience all around.


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Three other 'YRats' (running friends who met through our YMCA bootcamp and still meet at the Y for morning runs) were running the marathon and Nikki was volunteering, so we shared the weekend by travelling together with spouses and kids. Rose and Matt came with me and Keith lives in the Boston area so he met us there. Brenda brought Tom and daughters Trisha and Faith. Jill's husband Mike came, and Kristal brought Danny and Lindsey. Two vans, 4 hotel rooms, eating out together, plus other Boston and marathon activities. Two special activities were the Marathon Expo and painting pottery at the Clayroom. It was fun seeing all the people wearing Boston Marathon jackets. We could all feel like we were on the same team.
|Kristal, Jill, Chuck, Brenda in our Official Boston Jackets
On race day, Mike drove Nikki to her volunteer duty starting at 6 am. Then he returned and joined others to take up a place on the course. Nikki later was able to join Brenda and run with her almost to the finish. Matt and Lindsey drove the runners (Brenda, Kristal, Jill, and me) to meet a shuttle bus at Hopkinton State Park. We all rode the bus together into downtown Hopkinton and the runners walked up to the athletes village. Matt and Lindsey walked over to watch the start before heading back to get to a place later on the course.
The athletes village was of course full of activity and about 20 thousand runners. After posing for photos, We found a place under one of the big tents, chatted, rested, and began our preparations. There were some trips to the porta potties and finally we dropped our bags and walked to the start. Jill left first for wave 2 corral 3, then me wave 2 corral 7, and Brenda and Kristal a little later for wave 3. Hugs and well wishes with each departure.
It was about a 10 minute walk to the start area and for me included stopping one more time to visit the porta potties. I got to my corral about one minute before the start, but we didn't start moving for a couple more minutes. I passed the start line 5 minutes after the start signal, already jogging near my goal pace. Almost immediately most runners were running faster than me and I was wondering what they were thinking by going so fast. Since the day was sunny, it was important to find shade when possible. This meant mainly running toward the right side of the road. We would be in the heat for a long time.
On the course there was very good race support with water and gatorade every mile beginning at the end of mile 2. There was an equal or greater unofficial support effort by spectators all along the course. People seemed to be in front of their homes, businesses, other places offering whatever they thought would help the runners overcome the challenges of the course and the high temperatures. Water, ice, orange slices, bananas, candy, paper towels (sometimes wet with cold water) for wiping away the sweat.
Many places someone would be standing at the edge of the road holding a garden hose with water spraying onto the road. Runners were able to run through the spray for help keeping cool. Probably more than 100 people were giving this kind of help over the marathon course.
The Boston Marathon spectators are great supporters of the runners. They look at runners to find a way to cheer for them. Runners wearing their name will be cheered for by name. Otherwise they cheer for you by number or the color or words on your shirt. "Go for it Denmark". "Looking good red shirt". "You can do this Rats". I heard that one several times. Even with my name on my race bib, some people noticed my YRats shirt and cheered for me accordingly. Someone even urged me to run it for the hamster!
The crowd of spectators included many, many families like is common along a parade route. It must have been some parade. By the end there were so many desperate looking runners who were reduced to walking. It would take hours for all runners to pass some of the later places on the course, so these supporters really showed commitment by being there cheering and helping. It was so touching to see children along the way standing with their hands out offering refreshment or waiting for a high-five from runners. Sometimes these little ones would be 3 or 4 in a row and I could give a hand slap to them all in one waving motion.
Around the 5 or 6 mile mark there was a tent and sign in front of a Dairy Queen that proclaimed a 'quit early' spot and offering free ice cream to anyone dropping out there. I thought "no way am I stopping now".
Water stops were a series of tables first offering gatorade and then followed by another set of tables offering water. The usual water table practice in races is to slow enough to take a cup from a volunteer and continue past the table before stopping if stopping is one's intention. This time the practice devolved into a stop and shop kind of approach. Most people around me and including me were walking into the table area and picking up one or more cups. Often even standing until we had gotten what we needed. Volunteers were mostly busy trying to fill the cups quickly enough; runners were in self serve mode. And the ground was covered with empty cups. Near the gatorade the road ws sticky, then by the water tables is was wet enough to rinse off the stickiness.
Many places provided musical support. Some live, others recorded. Styles included a blue grass/country band, rock music at the biker bar, a drum group. I remember hearing the theme from the Rocky movies.
And the college students. Wellesley and the scream tunnel with the female students holding posters, offering/requesting kisses. Boston College was really loud and boisterous, with students standing several people deep along the edge of the road. Their version of support included handing out beer.
After the race we had a prearranged spot to meet. The walk to that place seemed to take forever. After finishing I trudged along through the finish area, receiving a finishers medal, drinks and food, a reflective heat sheet, and my checked bag. There were photographers taking finisher photos and I posed for one of those. Eventually at the meeting place I met up with Jill and Kristal, who finished before me, and with Matt and Lindsey who were there to meet us.
|Jill, Chuck, Kristal, Brenda
Soon I was lying on the ground resting and taking some food and drink for recovery. It took a while but I eventually felt revived and went to change into dry clothes and shoes. Brenda and Nikki arrived. Then Rose, Keith, Mike, Danny. We swapped some stories, posed for pictures, and began making our way to the subway to start back to the hotel.
During the subway ride I started feeling too hot again and then weak. I asked to sit down. This was a scare none of us wanted. It seemed our whole group switched into emergency services mode. I was given things to drink and eat to get calories into my system. Some were fanning me to help me cool down. I even had help taking my long sleeve shirt off. When we got to our station, they made me lay down on a bench and did more things to cool me off. A metro station worker came over and asked whether to call 911. In a little while I felt better and walked out of the station to the waiting van. I still am unclear whether this was a heat issue or a blood sugar problem. I think I was always clear enough mentally though this, but maybe that was a hallucination!
Back to the hotel, showers, and out to dinner. We encountered some other marathon runners and enjoyed the camaraderie of Boston Marathon finishers. Wearing the jacket or shirt seems like membership in an exclusive club. And it's just fun to be part of something special.
Bedtime about 11:30. Then Keith called because of a health crisis with his cat Michaux. Rose and I got up about 2 am and spent the rest of the night with him.


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In my spare time *snicker* I'm helping organize a training workshop for users and developers of ExpressionEngine. EE is one of the tools that I love to use to create websites. SoMisguided is an EE site, my company site is EE, most of the client sites Boxcar Marketing has built are EE.
Who's helping with this monster task: Hop Studios and Venn Communications. Hooray!
What do you need to know?
EE Roadshow: an ExpressionEngine training event is coming soon.
- If you've ever wondered how to make ExpressionEngine work better for you in your job, this is the event for you.
- If you've ever wondered how the other developers make EE jump through hoops and rool over, this is your event.
- And if you also happen to wonder what EE developers look like in person, well, don't miss the EE Roadshow.
EE Roadshow is an event for ExpressionEngine users and developers. It is part training, part brainstorming, part networking and all wonderful. ExpressionEngine's online community is friendly and productive and supportive, one of the best on the Internet. EE Roadshow is our way of bringing ExpressionEngine users and developers together in a real-world way.
EE Roadshow Event Details
Friday, September 26th
Vancouver, BC
1-5 p.m. (then stay for the part-ee!)
$50 per person
Yup, you can make it here from out of town, you can get out of the office on a Friday, and you can come to a great event for the low price of $50. Why wait? Register today!
Check out the EE Roadshow sessions. We are covering everything from basic EE setup to developing your own module. And there'll be special guests from EllisLab (the folks behind ExpressionEngine), as well as interesting prizes.
There has never been an EE Roadshow before so come be part of the inaugural one!
About EE Roadshow
EE Roadshow is brought to you by Boxcar Marketing, Venn Communications and Hop Studios, three passionate EE development companies who want to help bring ExpressionEngine to every Web site in the world.
Have questions? Contact Monique.
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15 February 2017
Angel Food Cake
Recipe from The Cook's Illustrated Baking Book, 2013, p. 270
We often buy angel food cake in the summer time to have with fresh strawberries. However, it can be good to have on its own if home made. Caleb made some for us some years ago and since Diane likes this cake I decided it was time for me to attempt it.
The recipe has relatively few ingredients: cake flour, salt, sugar, 12 egg whites, cream of tarter, and vanilla extract. The egg whites, with the cream of tarter and sugar, are whipped to soft peaks at which point the vanilla is added. This happened quickly, in 2-3 minutes rather than the estimate of 6 minutes in the recipe. The remaining ingredients are mixed and gently folded into the egg whites. The mixture is then baked in a tube pan; for me the cake was done after 45 minutes. It is cooled, inverted, to room temperature then removed from the pan.
We enjoyed the cake. It was light and tasty. When fresh the crust provides a nice textural contrast with the soft crumb, but this does not last. One nice feature is that the cake can be eaten out of hand: it is not too sticky and with no icing it is not at all messy. We ate much of it as a dessert with lunch or mid-afternoon snack. We will definitely make this cake again. But now, what to do with a dozen egg yolks??
21 February 2017
21 February 2017
Crème Brûlée
Recipe from The Cook's Illustrated Baking Book, 2013, p. 472
I didn't know what to do with the 12 egg yolks that remained from making angel food cake so I asked in a Facebook group. There were many suggestions but the one that appeared the most was to use them to make crème brûlée. I looked up the recipe in the same book that I used for the angel food cake recipe and was pleased to see that it uses exactly 12 egg yolks. That cinched it, I was making crème brûlée.
This recipe has very few ingredients and is easy to make: vanilla, heavy cream, sugar, salt, and 12 egg yolks. The cream, sugar, and salt are heated then left to cool. The remaining cream is added and this mixture is whisked into the egg yolks in three portions. The mixture is poured into 8 ramekins and baked in a water bath. The crème brûlée is then refrigerated before serving. The whole process took 25 minutes. Instead of an expensive vanilla bean, I chose to use vanilla extract.
Serving involves sprinkling about a teaspoon of turbinado sugar on top and melting the sugar with a blow torch. The crème brûlée is then refrigerated for 30 minutes before serving. I didn't have a blow torch and after doing some research decided to buy a propane torch at the hardware store rather than a butane kitchen torch, which is smaller but takes longer to melt the sugar and is less versatile. Not that I've ever had a need for a blow torch.
This was a great recipe to use to take advantage of the egg yolks, I don't know that I would make it otherwise. The crème is very smooth and creamy, with a mild flavor. The brûlée (French for burnt, referring to the melted sugar topping) was not a solid topping but was rather thin and sweet, providing a pleasant contrast to the pudding below. Diane like her sugar less brûléed than I did and this request was easy to accommodate.
27 February 2017
27 February 2017
Vietnamese-style Caramel Chicken with Broccoli
Recipe from Cook's Illustrated, May 2015
The name sounds strange, chicken with caramel? But this is not the caramel that you would have in a dessert. Caramel is made by cooking sugar with a small amount of water. By cooking the sugar to a higher temperature you create a sauce that is not sweet but rather has an interesting savory flavor. That is what is used in this dish.
The ingredient list is short and the meal, including steamed broccoli and steamed rice, took an hour and half to make. I purchased "thigh fillets" which I take to be boneless, skinless chicken thighs that have been cut up. Whatever they are, they worked well for this dish. The chicken was briefly marinated in baking soda before cooking as a tenderizer. Sugar and water were cooked to a temperature of 390°; the recipe warned of smoke but there was none. The caramel was quenched with water, stirred to dissolve the sugar, then fish sauce and grated ginger were added. The chicken was added and simmered until the temperature of the chicken was 205°. This is much hotter than chicken is usually cooked! After it reached this temperature, the chicken was removed and the sauce thickened with a little corn starch.
Despite the high temperature, the chicken was moist and very tender. The sauce was delicious when poured over the rice, broccoli, and chicken. It wasn't at all sweet and I doubt I would have identified it as caramel if I didn't know that in advance. The ginger and fish sauce added to the sauces complexity and flavor without overpowering it. The recipe made enough chicken (starting with 2 pounds of chicken) for 3 or 4 meals and the leftovers are also good.


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With the sky spitting and threatening another snow, those who showed up for the Mid-West Poets Series reading last night at Rockhurst University were treated to the no-nonsense humor of Beth Ann Fennelly. Beth acknowledged this is her first foray into Kansas City but felt quite at home, as she was accustomed to reading to her children from a Calef Brown children's book, Kansas City Octopus which she went on to recite to everyone's delight.
Kansas City Octopus
is wearing fancy slacks.
just got 'em,
fifty bucks including tax.
Red corduroy,
and boy-oh-boy,
they fit like apple-pie.
Multi-pocket snazzy trousers
custom made for octopi.
fantastic plastic stretch elastic
keeps 'em nice and tight.
Kansas City Octopus
is looking good tonight!
It seemed quite evident that Fennelly places great emphasis on the oral qualities of poetry. Her presentation was recitation as opposed to reading. Still, she was quite at ease shared a number of personal stories related to her writing. The best was about her writing a poem sort of block spaced at random on a page of little notes. This after the horror of learning her mother had sent a copy of her first book to an aunt with little post-it-notes on various poems. Then when that poem was published and her mother saw it she called to thank her for the tribute poem.
Beth read from her books, Open House, Unmentionables, Tender Hooks, and Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother.
A few of the poems she read that I particularly recall, Souvenir, When Did You Know You Wanted To Be A Writer, Cow Tipping and my personal favorite - First Warm Day in a College Town. I like this one because she captures that feeling we get when we want to be able to hang on to something that identifies us with our youth. The poem is warm, sweet, humorous and most of all real.
When the reading was over, I chatted with Beth briefly as she signed my copy of Unmentionables. I had mentioned that Kelli Agodon had asked that if I go to "please let us how the reading was" and that I would be blogging about it, would she mind if I shot a picture for the blog. Some friends of mine, Pat and Brenda in line behind me suggested a shot of us together and Beth kindly agreed.
Looking at the inscription inside my book as I walked away,
"For Michael, with pleasure in signing this for you – pal of Kelli's is a pal of mine – Thanks for taking her advise and coming out! Beth Ann"
The Mid-West Poets Series has a long history here in Kansas City and has hosted many top name poets. I've attended most of them over the last three or four years and this was among the most impressive to me.
After I've finished and reread Unmentionables a couple more times, you'll find my review of the book here. I suspect I'll have to add Open House to my wish list.


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As i'm nearing the end of this beautiful phase of being pregnant, I am enjoying it all the more! Even though I have been unwell for the past two weeks, it doesn't stop from being special. The kicks these days are getting stronger as there is a space crunch in my belly. Poor little baby doesn't have enough space to move around, making its movements more prominent.
As advised by my practioner, I have been asked to check on the baby's movements daily. This is one task I love doing as I eagerly wait for my baby to signal and tell me that things are ok. It is so much fun to watch my tummy going in waves but when the baby doesn't move much, it freaks me out 😦 . Hence I try tehcniques like poking lightly, walking around, talking to it etc. If there are any other methods to get my baby active, I would love for you'll to share in the comments below.
That's all for now folks, I am quite tired out from buying Christmas gifts this morning for my friends. I will be back again 🙂 until then XOXO


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The wire steel Indonesia - One of the particular demands in steel manufacturing is the wire steel or also known as wire rope. One of the most competing countries in the wire steel manufacturing is
Indonesia. The increasing demand in the wire steel market in the Asian region has
brought many companies to join the wire steel competition.
The volcanic activity in the Indonesian region has brought the best quality steel ore.
This explains why many companies in Indonesia produce these wire steel rods, and
lead to the abundant supply of wire steel in Indonesia. This also attracts many
foreign investor as well as supplier to buy good quality steel from Indonesia. The
wire steel or steel wire is a product which is describe as a thin rod that has wire like
finish. The wire which then joint tight together and rolled which then can used as
ropes. The finish product may differ from different method and processes, most wire steel
in Indonesia have already carbon content. This type of wire steel is used to produce
all kinds and various products such as automotive, electronic, house appliances, and
office use.
Quality Steel Wire is also important component for construction components or heavy
equipment such as bridge, ski lift (elevator) and crane. All of these uses are either to
lift, hold or hang objects. The wire steel that formed into a long rope can be used as
lifting aids, slings, hoister which can be use directly to hold heavy load of material.
So the steel wire rope becomes the critical components parts that require strength.
Many company that produce steel wire in Indonesia has methods and process that
guarantees high quality that dated way back to the 70's. Most has considered as a
leading company with high experience in wire steel manufacturing.
The methods use carefully calculated and handling so that the steel wire is not only
has good strength but also safe to use. The process also has to meet the conditions of
the supervision strictly in the manufacturing process, as well as international
regulation. The steel wire in Indonesia has supervision, ranging from the provision
of materials, processes, and finished products to maintain the level A high precision.
Such precision for example, is the diameter of the steel wire rope produced by
The methods also count to the location where the steel wire steel will be used, this is
done in an effort to adjust the conditions by request or custom tailored clientele.
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The Quality of Indonesian Wire Steel Variant
The quality of wire steel Indonesia has reached the global standard in producing methods as well its finished products. The wire steel is a product of long wire made form steel, which comes in rolls. This long and thins rod are joint tight together and almost looked like a steel rope. Hence this wire steel is also called a wire ropes.
Wire steel or wire rod is a rolled product, produced from billet. The cross section has a round or rectangular shape. Cold forming, or drawing process may achieve the fine section. The wire rod is used to produce different kind of product. Depending on how is form cold or heat treated, such wore is use for producing wire ropes, barbed wire, wire mesh and even nails. Some wire is also made into springs, welded wire mesh and reinforcement wire. The wire diameter is ranging from 9mm (rod) and 14 mm to 45 mm (bar in coils)
The Quality of Indonesia Wire Steel - Wire steel however, has its limitation. Wire steel would break off because of many reasons. In many case it will require some study and even research in details on the maximum use, mechanical use and even environmental affects. Some steel wire needs treatment in the methods and even process to meet its needs. But some limitation is already known to be the main cause of wire steel damages, these probability is explained as follow;
- Tension: excessive load or large object use to hold directly to the wire. When used frequently and occurs shock (sudden tension) due to the slacks or when objects is removed.
- Wear and tear: Wire break up due to the depletion of the surface of the wire in direct contact with other equipment. Wire experiencing continuous friction.
- Exhaustion: Wire break up generally split lengthwise if used continuously. Often wire bents after passing sheave or drum with a smaller diameter so that the elasticity of steel wire rope exceeds the maximum limit.
- Corrosion: Surface corrosion of steel wire could include with the three factors above. This evidently happens if the wire operates without the use of lubrication. Corrosion is the most dangerous because it can damage the steel wire rope from the inside.
- Cuts: generally resulted form crammed between two components where steel wire rope moving.
Most company that produce wire steel Indonesia, have provision as well as supervision to achieve high-grade products. To insure high quality standards such as maintenance and inspections on steel wire ropes production, check their methods or processes that has ISO grade by the company's internal regulation as Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
Minggu, 15 November 2015
THE MARKET OF STAINLESS STEEL BAR AND WIRE IN INDONESIA - The market volume of stainless steel in the form of rod, small bar and wire, has
experienced a considerable increase in recent years, in line with the growth of user
industries primarily include industrial wire welding (welding electrodes), nuts and bolts,
gaskets, spring and industrial furniture made of metal. However, because there is no
industry in the country that produces stainless steel products, then the increase in the
market volume is entirely enjoyed by imported products.
Stainless steel rod is stainless steel which is the result of a process of hot rolled in the
form of coil, which will be further processed by downstream industries. This material will
be processed as cold drawn to be wire or small bars in diameter, properties and finishing
as required by the end user industries.
Stainless steel bar market volume is shown from the increasing amount of imported
materials stabilized lately. After that, the market volume fluctuated with an increasing
trend to an increase in market volume significantly.
Judging from the grade, stainless steel bar and wire which the most widely imported
grade are SS 304, SS 316 and special grade. Approximately 70% of SS 304 directly
imported by industrial users in Indonesia, and only about 30% are imported by a trader or
The domestic market for stainless steel rod, bars and wires are still highly dependent on
imported products, because there is no domestic industry producing it. Imports of this
material showed a positive growth trend. This growth was driven by development of its
downstream industries, especially welding electrodes industry, nuts and bolts industry,
also made of metal and furniture industry.
Imports of stainless steel rod, bar and wire showed increased fairly stable even though it
had been a surge of imports then fell back surged again until doubled. Judging from its
value, the growth rate of imports of stainless steel is greater, because it is driven by the
increase in stainless steel prices in the last 3 years.
Manufacturer of welding wire using various grades of stainless steel bars such as SS
304, SS 316 and special grade. However, the most widely used is the grade SS 304.
Meanwhile, grade SS 316, widely used in industrial gaskets and equipment in the
synthetic fiber industry.
Importers of stainless steel bar and wire consists of industry-user and trader or stockist.
The role of the user industry as very large direct importer in the total imports of stainless
steel bars and wire.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Devil Dance by my students at Pukllasunchis
This was by far my favorite danse! Many of the students I´ve been teaching in the upper grades, dansed in this very lively section.... almost a Madri Gras atmosphere, and what with all the masks..... who could tell.... who was who! The students had a blast performing this for the audience. The music made it hard to sit still!
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A boy awakens to find himself on a cold surface with a sheet covering him. He discovers he is in a morgue and has been dead. He then explores in hope of finding out whats going on, was he ever dead? is he dead? will he discover whats happened to him?
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text: On my way to covering the UN Climate Change conference in Warsaw late last year, I also made a stop in beautiful Paris. I could wax poetic on the city on the Seine's charm and beauty, but for now take a look at my pics from the trip on my Instagram account by clicking on the picture below. More to be added soon!


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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Busy Is Good. So Shaddap And Get Back To Work.
Sorry about the lack of posting. I'm busy.
So busy, in fact, I caught myself whining about it. My apologies, if I happened to give you an earful.
I promptly slapped myself for voicing my ingratitude (people actually pay me to sculpt! there's no crying in digital sculpting!), and got back to work.
28mm Weapons, Power Armors, Epic War Machines, Fusing 6mm versions of 15mm work, 15mm Mechs, You name it. I'm working it.
More caffeine!
Posted by John Bear Ross at 11:34 PM
Labels: Busy busy busy, Overtime, sleep is overrated, There's No Crying In Digital Sculpting, Whining
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Nick Verreos Hosting the "Five Spring Essentials Fashion Show" event at Macy's Castelton Square, Indianapolis Indiana Saturday March 16, 1PM
Indianapolis INDIANA, get ready... 'Cause I'm coming! Yes kids, I am so excited to be coming to Indianapolis to host a fun-and-fabulous event at the Macy's Castleton Square entitled the "Five Spring Essentials Fashion Show". Grab a front row seat to preview the season's hottest trends at the Macy's exclusive Spring 2013 fashion show which I'll be hosting...
Nick Verreos Hosts Macy's Events--Nick, above with models hosting one of last year's Macy's Brasil-themed fashion events in Macy's Valley Fair/San Jose
I'll show you what the "Five Spring Essentials" are that can take your wardrobe from drab...to fab! Oh, and did I mention that you will also be able to enjoy sweets, refreshments and music while you shop, plus take home a special gift with any purchase of $75 or more. And on top of all that, Estee Lauder beauty rep's will be on hand to give free makeup makeovers.
Nick Verreos--Hosting a Macy's fashion event--Union Square San Francisco
Also, the first 50 guests to RSVP and then check in at the event will receive a Macy's Fashion Survival Kit! So...you better RSVP NOW! If you live in the Indianapolis Indiana area and want to come out and see FASHION--come check out this great event at Macy's Castleton Square:
WHERE: Macy's Castelton Square
6020 E 82nd Street
Indianapolis, IN 46250
WHEN: Saturday March 16, 2013, 1:00--3:00 PM
RSVP: Call 317-579-4500 for info.


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Orange Raisin Muffins
2 C. all purpose
Preheat oven to 400º. Grease 18 muffin cups. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Combine eggs, oil, juice, peel and brown sugar. Stir in crushed Chex and raisins. Add all at once to dry ingredients and stir until just moistened. Spoon into muffin cups. Bake 15-20 minutes or until tester inserted in center comes out clean. Makes 18 muffins.
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Reunions of any sort are exciting but, for most of us, also very scary. Probably those of you that hung with a big group in school look forward to them. Out of a large social pool, odds are you have retained something in common with at least a few. When you hang with just one or two people, however, moving apart leaves you without those links to the past. A few of my friends really weren't. The lives of the others moved in totally different directions. from mine. In my case, I got married right out of high school and Mark has been my "friend" for 35 years and I haven't been more than "Christmas Card" friends with much of anyone.
The one advantage to the oft disparaged social networks is finding some of those people. But once you find them, what do you do with them? Through the miracle that is facebook (FB to the cool kids), I "ran into" Jeri, a friend from middle school. Through the comments and "likes" on our FB walls, we realized we had much in common and began asking why we had lost touch. Since she now lives in Seattle and was planning a trip to Brookings, we made plans to meet.We would meet over coffee. Would we have fun? Would we have philosophical differences that we can't get past? I couldn't wait to find out. We spent a few hours over a sandwich and beer then headed to the beach - a place she doesn't see enough and I can't get enough. For another hour or more, we walked along Harris Beach talking our way through the years, about family and how we've spent the past 35 .... wait, it's close to 40....years. as well as the verboten subjects - religion, politics, gay marriage - amazed how similar we really are. No deal-breakers.
Eventually, I had to head south, to avoid driving in the dark. She headed back to the B & B weekend she was spending with her man. We still have so much to talk about. We never had a chance to talk about Mr. Shagren's class. The boys. The girls. The drawing she did for our Donner Party report....quite gruesome and cool. We didn't talk about music....but there's time. We're making plans to visit again so we can talk about the past. In the meantime will stay FB "friends" in the present.


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Burn by Heath Gibson
Publisher: Flux
Published: 8th August 2012
Pages: 264
Main Characters: William, Steven, Samantha
Date Started: 15th July 2012
Date Finished: 19th July 2012
Rating Given: **
Blurb from Netgalley:
William Tucker loves being a volunteer firefighter (maybe it's no coincidence that a pastor's son would enjoy saving people). And after he rescues his crush, Mandy Pearman, she undergoes a profound transformation for the better. In fact, it seems like a lot of good comes from the embers of tragedy in his small Alabama town. William may not be able to meet his father's expectations, force his mother to ditch the gin, or protect his gay brother, but for those who need a second chance at life, William isn't afraid to light the match-and become the hero the town needs.
I think when I first requested this book I thought it was going to be something completely different, well that teaches me not to read the synopsis.
The cover I love this is most likely the reason why I wanted to read this book as it looks so mysterious which is what I like my books to involve. I love the fire in the background as I think that fire can have some beautiful colours which is what this cover portrays. The cover is in keeping with the story but I wish the story was as intriguing as the cover sadly for me that wasn't the case.
This was the first time I had heard of Heath Gibson and although I am not a fan of this book I won't let it put me off reading his other books he might bring out in the future. I do like the fact that he wrote about some very strong issues but I do feel like they where glossed over maybe if he went into more depth I would have liked it a bit more.
I personally didn't like this book and my reason behind that was because I found that the next chapter had gone onto something completely different to what was being talked about at the end of the previous chapter and sometimes it was a different day with nothing being explained. When I read the last page of this book I was left I was left in complete shock not only with the way in which it ended but I felt nothing was cleared up I was more confused when I finished than while I was reading it.
The characters I'm not too sure on as sometimes I liked them and got where they was coming from and then other times I couldn't stand them. William or as he is better known as 'Wee Wee' is the male lead character is a small boy (hence the nickname) is a volunteer firefighter who just wants to be accepted. I do feel sorry for him as he has a lot he has to put up with but there was times when I thought he needed to understand where his brother was coming from. As for his brother Steven he seemed like a nice enough boy but I did feel he was a bit too pushy. Samantha seemed a bit angry to start with but by the end she did seem nice. Other characters I felt just went missing as they would be in the story but then they wouldn't be in it any more leaving me thinking what happened to them.
Overall I was left confused about what actually happened with the characters as well as the actual story but there was occasions when it was an alright book.


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Before this, we have talked about the importance of family support for cancer patients. How they influenced them in their daily life and how their help is important in making cancer patient overcome their disease.
Today, I want to talk abo
ut the importance of self-motivation among cancer patients.
ut the importance of self-motivation among cancer patients.
I know it is hard for them to overcome their problems and feelings when they found out that they had been diagnosed with cancer disease. But, feeling sad and emotion will not give any help at all for them as it won't solve anything. As a human being, it is normal to have those kinds of feelings and emotion. If we remain strong, there won't be such word as giving up or else. Think about our parents, our family and our children (those who have their own family). Don't give up. Think about how you want to maintain fit in order to take care of them. Bear in mind that everyone in your family loves you so must love yourself first!
Next, if the doctor suggested that you will be given chemotherapy to cure your disease, follow their instruction. Though it might hurt you and your body are full with aches, bear it. Think about your health. Your will and strength is needed to overcome those treatments. Don't think too much as it will hurt you more. If you are not ready with the chemotherapy or any other radiation treatment, you can proceed with natural treatment. I know those treatment will not affect much in making you feel better, but at least get a treatment and don't just sit without doing anything. Things that you are always do will soon become used. So please, bear with it for your health.
As I've been talking about huge support from family members and friends, you yourself need to set a positive mind-set. Don't bother your mind by having negative thinking as it will lead you to depression. Make your own life cheerful and amazing by doing a thing that you never tried. Such as bungee jumping, kayaking and many more! It is not wrong to do something extreme if you still have energy in your body. Everything happens for a reason. You can also set a mind-set that become cancer patient is gift from God. Not everyone will have the same faith like you. Make changes in your life. Become a good person and open your mind more after this. I am sure that a positive mind will lead to a positive life.