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Friday, June 04, 2010
If the All Star Game was This Week
Voting usually goes one of three traditional ways: 1. What's happening this year; 2. What's happened in a player's career and 3. Reputation. The first option is, at least for this Fan, the only option. We should be voting for the best players this year and not the best players last year or in the last decade. Jeter, A-Rod, Teixeira, Chipper Jones, Jimmy Rollins, and players like them shouldn't get voted in unless they deserve to get in based on this year's numbers. Hey, that's the way the Fan sees it. If you want to fill the roster with fading stars, the Fan has no problem with that, but they shouldn't start.
The Fan bases his All Star vote strictly on WAR (wins over replacement). For batters, that strips out RBIs and other counting stats that are dependent on what others are doing in the line up. WAR is based on batting metrics and fielding metrics (for batter) and seems the best tool we currently have to value players and the kind of year they are having. The Fan also votes on outfielders by position instead of the great big blob they are on MLB's ticket.
Again, it's very early and for sure, parts of this mock ballot will change in three weeks. But if the game was played this week, this is who the Fan would vote for:
Catcher - Joe Mauer: He isn't quite as dominant this year as last, but he's ahead of everyone else.
First Base - Justin Morneau: Morneau has almost double the WAR of Kevin Youkilis. It's not even close right now.
Second Base - Robinson Cano: Duh, right?
Third Base - Evan Longoria: WAR sits at 2.5. Beltre is at 2.0.
Shortstop - Derek Jeter: The numbers are what the numbers are. Jeter is at 1.7. Elvis Andrus is the closest to him at 1.5.
Left Field - Carl Crawford: Nobody is even close to him.
Center Field - Alex Rios: His WAR is at 2.6. Gutierrez and Vernon Wells sit at 2.2 and 2.1 respectively.
Right Field - Nick Swisher: He is in a virtual tie on WAR with Magglio Ordonez at 2.1. The nod goes to Swisher as his value is slightly higher at $8.4 million compared to Ordonez at $8.2.
Starting Pitcher - Cliff Lee: His WAR is at 2.5. Ricky Romero sits right behind him at 2.4.
Catcher - Brian McCann: Yadier Molina has him on fielding, but McCann's bat gives him a higher value.
First Base - Joey Votto: Votto's current WAR is 9.7. Pujols is right on his tail with 9.4. This very well could change in a few weeks.
Second Base - Chase Utley: Utley is sitting at 2.5. The closest to him is Dan Uggla at 1.9.
Third Base - Ryan Zimmerman: Has a .8 lead on David Freese who is the closest to him.
Shortstop - Troy Tulowitki: This one is close. Tulo's WAR is 1.8. Hanley Ramirez is at 1.6.
Left Field - Josh Willingham: This one is VERY close. Willingham is at 2.1 and trailing just behind are Matt Holiday and Andres Torres of the Giants at 2.0. Willingham and Holliday are piling up the offensive numbers while Torres has been solid at the plate, but is having a fantastic year in the field.
Center Field - Angel Pagan and Marlon Byrd are in a dead heat at 2.0. Pretty weak year for NL center fielders so far.
Right Field - Jason Heyward: Heyward sits on top with a WAR of 2.1.
Starting Pitcher - Roy Halladay: This one was a slight surprise. Halladay has a WAR of 3.2. Ubaldo Jiminez sits at 2.8.
Just for the record, the two most valuable relief pitchers currently are Jonathan Broxton, who is having another brilliant year, and Joel Zumaya, who despite not closing, leads all AL relief pitchers in WAR.
The Fan will revisit these picks and make an official ballot in the third week of June. Vote your conscious, but vote educated!
1 comment:
- Josh Borenstein said...
If we're going by right now, I'd give the nod to Jose Bautista over Swisher in RF. Shame Nelson Cruz can't stay healthy, or he'd be my pick.
I would also start Morneau, but Cabrera is right there as well.
My AL starter would be Jered Weaver.
Yadier is the best defensive catcher in all of baseball, and it's not even close. His offense will pick up. I'd start him. Nick Hundley is quietly having a pretty good season.
Votto is a damn good player. Pujols is the best player in the game. Gotta start Pujols.
The .8 discrepancy between Zimmerman and Freese is misleading. Zimmerman is twice the 3B Freese is.
I'm obviously biased, but Braun has to be the LF. Willingham will fade.
Heyward is deserving. So is Werth. I'd start both of them and forget about getting a true CF out there.
Halladay is having a great year, but Ubaldo is having an insane year. Ubaldo all the way.


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For more details, keep reading below:
- 8 chicken thighs, bone in and skin on
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 3 garlic gloves chopped
- 2-3 medium potatoes cubed
- 2 carrots
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tsp Mediterranean seven spices
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp curry powder
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 tsp vinegar (any type)
- A squirt of ketchup and Hp sauce
- Parsley for garnish
- Wash your chicken thighs and place them in a stainer to dry.
- In a medium skillet, sauté your onions and garlic for 2 minutes on medium heat.
- Add your chicken thighs and sauté until your chicken turns colour to white.
- Add your potatoes, chopped carrots, spices and water.
- Cover and let it cook for a couple of minutes on medium heat.
- Then add your ketchup and Hp sauce.
- Cook for 45 minutes. Then let it cook on low heat for another 20 minutes.
- Check if your chicken is fully cooked.
- Garnish with parsley
Bon appetite,
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While recently reading the Tri-City Herald letters to the editor, I could understand why Mr. Thomas F. Hall supports the pubic safety tax, but I really don't like his wording in the letter. It adds to a stigma that harms people with things such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism and bipolar disorder.
First off, the majority of people with mental illness are law-abiding citizens who will not end up in the courts. Secondly, to say we are kidnapped by mental illness seems to imply that somehow I and others are less of a person than someone without autism or one of the other conditions Mr. Hall listed.
Finally, any new mental health court has to protect the civil rights of Individuals who have mental illness and are accused of a crime. I don't support the idea of conviction by the fact you might have a mental illness.
More compassion, opportunities and understanding of people with mental illness and people with autism and other conditions will go a long way in helping us to get past the stigma and have a great life.
I am for helping people without adding to a stigma that may do more harm then good. We should be fighting stigma, not adding to it.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Tell Me Your Positioning Story
That's terrific news. Thinking about what you do from the customer's point of view is always a great focusing exercise, and can reveal new ideas, opportunities and talking points.
Now I'm thinking there's a follow-up column in this. If you've read my FP column this week and worked on your seven words, or if you've tried the PitchWizard I linked to, please let me know what your results were. It may even earn you some publicity in a national newspaper.
(But I have to strike while the iron is hot, so please get back to me by Feb. 20.)
One more link you may find useful: Toronto-based Michel Neray has been helping people develop their "Essential Message" for years. Click here for Michel's self-marketing tools.
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- Lauren Friese said...
Pitch Wizard: TalentEgg provides employers with direct access to Canadian undergraduate and graduate talent. Unlike WorkopolisCampus, TalentEgg.ca is an on-line community exclusively listing high-quality career opportunities—and unlike recruiters/headhunters, TalentEgg can leverage the information we gather on our website to provide a better service at a fraction of the cost.
From your article, PROFIT 2005: TalentEgg, Inc specializes in recruitment marketing to students and new-grads. Unlike WorkopolisCampus, we strictly promote high-quality career opportunities for high-potential, motivated and focused students.
7 Word Positioning Statement:
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- Wed Feb 13, 02:46:00 PM
- Sarah said...
I have not tried pitchwizard just yet but I intent to. I have set up a few sites and used nemeas to select a domain. I find that my page rank is always at least 15% greater in doing so. I will have to report back with my findings from the pitchwizard link. Thanks
- Wed Feb 13, 08:51:00 PM


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So a month ago I bought a husqavarna Rose from a friend and everything was great till I wanted to stipple...
Now I am stippling for the first time so my skill level in nil, but it was going well and then it was skipping or doing these eyelash curves. Not nice.
So I pop into my neighborhood quilt store and chat up the repairman... he said Husqavarnas aren't made to stipple because of the drop in bobbins... ???
Has anyone out there had problems doing the same? Should I get another machine?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Husqavarna question...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Kaffe Blue
Ah Kaffe, how I love his fabric! Every pattern, every color. And to my delight my little neighborhood quilt store in now carrying a selection. The shop owner thought I was nuts dancing around exclaiming my love for Kaffe... lol.
I started taking his books out of library, drooling over it all. I had to buy them, have them around. Gotta get me some Kaffe...
So I bought some blue... wonky block, splashed with color twin size. This was made for my 10 year old niece who is crazy for blue. Hope she likes it as much as I had fun making it!
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Where has the time gone...
Well its been a busy time... Hubby and I went to Vegas for a quick getaway, school finished for Jack ( on to grd 5, yay), working to get all my clients ready for summer ( did I mention I'm a hairdresser by profession?) and I can't seem to pry myself away for the sewing room... The summer has gotten off to a fantastic start but I have not been puttering in the garden no no no I prefer to be in my sewing room slicing and dice and creating. I'm crazy! Just have to take a few pictures of the works... would love your opinion!
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Last night I sewed the lining to the wool, trimmed the seam allowances, and turned it ... but didn't snap a pic because I hadn't pressed it. Now the vest is pressed after hanging on Mathilda my dressform all night, and I sewed the side seams together. I was in a groove and didn't feel like taking a pic break, so ... on to the buttonholes!
I went with horizontal buttonholes, as this is a rather close-fitting vest and I don't want any distortion to show if it's one of my water-retaining days when I wear it. All that's left is handsewing the shank buttons on ... the 7/8 inch version of the buttons I used for the blouse's cuff. Hopefully the larger version will photo better than the tiny ones did.


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Mile after mile I continue to be reminded of what a fortunate girl I am and how lucky I am to have an AMAZING life. In what has become my typical PDR training fashion, this week closes as another great, great week. Where to start??….I had a hot and sweaty 4 mile run through center city on Tuesday evening when I learned that if you are going to run in the early evening during a heat wave in the city, even though running through crowded streets like Walnut St. and Chestnut St. is annoying – do it anyway – BECAUSE the brief seconds of feeling air conditioning out of the stores and businesses that have their doors open as you pass by is just enough to cool you down and spur your legs forward!!
Tuesday was followed with another exciting 6 miles on Wednesday with my good friend R. Kenney who I am so happy to announce will be running PDR along with me. I have to say thank you so much to Ryan for not only deciding to run this with me, but also taking the time to share my story with his friends and family to raise their awareness for my campaign. So, thank you Ryan for being so generous and just for being an awesome friend and thank you so much to his friends and family that have already donated!
I also must say a big thank you to Miss Nicole who decided 3 weeks ago to run PDR along with me. Nicole ventured out of her comfort zone a few months ago as she did not used to be a runner – (she actually hates running) and ran the Disney Princess Half Marathon in FL in my honor because she knew how much running meant to me and was willing to train and run for me while I recovered. She was determined to run my first race back with me, so watch out PDR here she comes and she is armed with a slew of new running skirts – so, like always, she is sure to be super cute 🙂 Read her decision to run this race and follow her hilarious training progress on her blog http://28thyearplan.blogspot.com/ Thanks, Nicole for everything the past few months. Running PDR together is just icing on the cake at this point!
I am humbled by the donations continuing to come in for my campaign with a little over 4 weeks left in fund raising I am at $1,850!! I hope to blow past my goal of $2,500 and boost desmoid tumor research to get some great answers as to how and why these darn things grow in our bodies and how to stop it!
For more great news…..I finished my 2nd eight mile training run yesterday in pouring rain, which actually, felt quite amazing following the hot, humid 2 weeks we've had in Philly – until of course my pants we so heavy and dragging on the ground I wasn't quite sure if I could pick up my legs by the end 🙂 It was about mile 4 when I began thinking about how great it felt to finally be hitting my runners high and pushing through longer, quicker miles. I reflected back to 8 months ago when I couldn't even bend over to tie my own shoes, and then 6 months ago when I couldn't walk to work and 4 months ago when I couldn't even run 1.5 miles. This rebuilding process has been so enlightening to me. To put it lightly, yet be completely honest to all, when this process started I was not the most patient person by any stretch of the means. In my mind, I was going to have the surgery, get over the pain in a week (without pain pills), and move on with my life by week 2, back to training, running, working out and swirling around like a top from work to meetings to my social life like I love to do. It didn't happen that way – not even close.
As frustrating as those months were for me I learned a ton from this process and I have become, I believe, a better, stronger, more complete person. Some how (believe it or not for those who haven't been around me lately) I am a more patient person – willing to take just a little more time to accept changes and see results, willing to believe in the power of persistence and having to take small steps to see big results sometimes, and (drum roll please) willing to accept that everything is not going to go my way or the way I might have planned, but with patience, persistence and a belief in my soul that it will all work out – it does.
5 weeks ago I struggled to get through 3 miles (SM will be sure to tell you as she witnessed the frustration first hand on the trains of Valley Green). There were many of mornings that I winced with each stride I took, thinking I was stupid to be doing this race and that I was too out of shape to move forward, but I was patient and I allowed myself to take slow steps, take it literally mile by mile, feeling the pain and frustration (why did this happen, I was in such good shape and then this….whine…..will I ever run again….whine….) and fast forward 5 weeks, here I am running more than double that distance – 8 miles in the pouring rain. I have rebuilt my legs, my lungs, my heart, my hope, slowly, mile by mile and its amazing, truly amazing.
Reflecting on this process as I splashed through the puddles, rain dripping off my hat and drenching my clothes I realized that you know what, I'm a pretty strong girl. This isn't the first time I have rebuilt myself – matter of fact – my life is a series of "rebuilding stages" – after all, isn't that the entirety of human life – moving through different stages of your life, growing and rebuilding or burning out and failing? It was just 2 1/2 short years ago that I was at a completely different stage in my life. I remembered this so clearly when I was flipping through photos with one of my friends this month and we came across a photo of me with a cigarette hanging out of my mouth and a beer in my hand – what?!? It seems like a world away from the healthy, fitness obsessed woman I am today. It was a tough stage that I was going through at that time (and while luckily it didn't last for long) it was a stage in my life that I believe I had to go through to get where I am now and one I chose to rebuild from and worked hard to reverse. At that time it was much easier to go grab a drink (or 5) with my friends and forget about everything that was not going in my life then facing my life head on, recognize the things I was doing that didn't fit with my life goals and make changes. I am happy to look back and see what I have rebuilt from that stage of my life, honestly, I am living a life now that I only dreamed about then. If you would have asked me 2 1/2 years ago if I could run a half marathon I would have laughed in your face and told you you were crazy probably while exhaling the smoke from my cigarette in your face, if you would have told me I would have be cooking healthy, delicious, meals that my friends loved I would have laughed harder and only believed you if by cooking you meant heating up a lean pocket, additionally if you would have told me that some of the most inspiring, influential people in my life would become a group of homeless men and women I would have told you were flat crazy, but to my fortune – all of these things are true in my life and I couldn't be happier. I am training for my 5th half marathon in a year in a half and probably 20th or so race of my life, I love to cook and make amazing, delicious and interesting meals that my friends love and I wake up at 5:30 am 3 mornings a week to run with homeless women and men that are pure inspiration to my soul and have taught me so much about life.
Would I have appreciated all of this as much as I do now if I would not have lived my previous stage? Probably not. Would I be appreciating running and training for PDR as much as I am now if I wouldn't have lived through this surgery? Absolutely not. Running quickly became a way a life for me something I did and took for granted way too quickly. Something I will never take for granted again – same as my life, my health and the people that surround me – like Ryan and Nicole. I am a lucky, lucky girl and a I am proud to say, a strong woman that is willing to admit her fears, her mistakes and rebuild.
Here's to another week of good friends, great strides, and building blocks!
With gratitude,
My friend Lindsay and I after my wet, 8 mile run this Saturday, 8.22.09, in front of the Rocky statue at the Art Museum!


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So for Halloween Doodlebug was Domo. If you're not familiar with Domo he's a big fuzzy brown square-ish monster. He's the official mascot of Japan's public broadcaster. You can read about him here. And I've blogged about Domo before -here and here.
Anyway, a few years back I made an awesome (if I do say so myself) costume out of foam board, duct tape and fuzzy brown fabric. It's like trick-or-treating in a huge cereal box. But Doodlebug loves it and gets lots of compliments. The candy goes into the mouth where there is a box to hold it and it's nice and cozy inside, protected from the elements.
A few people tried to jam the candy through the eye slot. Ouch! I told Doodlebug if they do that, he just needs to grab it with his teeth.
It gets rather heavy when the candy builds up. It has shoulder straps inside, and when there is 10 pounds of candy in the mouth hatch, it puts some pressure on the shoulders. Doodlebug suggested some memory foam for the shoulder straps next year.
And for those who are not familiar with Domo and who do not recognize the big red mouth and white teeth as being from a monster, he may look a bit like toast. Two years in a row, the same house complimented him on his 'toast' costume.
Because what fourth grader doesn't want to be toast for halloween?


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Click is an interesting story- on the surface, it is the story of Maggie and Jason. Two young siblings who have just lost their grandfather- world renowned photojournalist George Keane. He leaves them both highly significant gifts that encourage them to see the world. From there, the story takes an interesting twist. Each chapter is written by a different well known author. The stories are connected to the inheritance that Maggie and Jason received from their grandfather- but the link is sometimes hard to grasp.
The story itself is quite interesting, but I think the fact that so many different authors were involved in the process makes it a little disjointed. Kids would need to really work to understand some of the chapters because there are big jumps made between the chapters.


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In most states there is no restriction on the types of beers consumers can enjoy. "Most" being the key word.
In Alabama, for example, it is illegal to drink beer containing more than 6% alcohol. Violators face a $1,000 fine and up to a year in jail.
However, a bill in the state legislature would more than double the allowable alcohol content in beer. And legislators were recently treated to a beer tasting in Montgomery that offered numerous foreign and domestic beers well above the alcohol limit.
Stuart Carter, a Scotsman who heads a beer advocacy group called Free the Hops, says: "To people in Alabama it looks like there's a huge range of beers in the store already. They're saying, 'Wow, there's 300 beers.' From my perspective, being someone who came into Alabama more recently, I see 300 beers and think, 'Where's the beer?' "
National Public Radio has an interesting report on the topic. Go here to access it.
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Its Thursday and I rejoice 'cause I don't have to go in to my day job. I have the whole morning to myself and plan on spending it in my studio. I have several started projects that desperately need to be finished so I'll putter away at those. Most are at the quilting stage which is usually the least exciting for me. Of course, I gotta work on a fun new thing, too....
I'm getting together another entry to a local exhibit together. It will be my first art venue in Orlando. I look forward to it and hope that I have more than 1 of my 3 entries juried into the show. I hope it will herald my entry into the Orlando art scene.
On a related note, this week I committed to teaching a class on a "fabric still life" at the local quilt shop. Not sure how that will work but its a step in the direction of making my art self-supporting. Of course, I also committed to producing one or more samples for the class as my original "Dutch Master" still life is way overboard in what can be accomplished in a single day's class. I'll get a pic of that up soon--it turned out really well and truly looks like one of those paintings of the Dutch or Flemish masters with a dark background, big vase of flowers and then fruit, veggies and game on the table. I used a turkey for an american flavor and also included a little anachronistic item as a little twist. I won't mention it here--I'll let you look for it once I post it--Hah!
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
The Artist's Way
Found a group in my local area that is working on selections from The Artist's way by Julie Cameron. After just discovering this book in the first place; which is a 12 week course in recovering/discovering your creative processes. Complete with exercises, guided meditations, you name it. As I have been eager to dialog and learn more about my personal creativity in the past few months and havenot found an outlet, this book and group seem tailor-made for me. Very cool. I'm busily working on week one: morning pages and a few writing exercises designed at exposing the dreaded and powerful Inner Censor. I feel very upbeat about the whole thing.
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Monday, September 18, 2006
Zooming along
Haven't posted in a while (frankly, I forgot all about this blog!!) Well, life goes on. Kids, work, husband, yada yada yada. Quilting? Exciting stuff happening just now. Finished a piece recently that was directly from a dream and pretty intense. Still working on a title for it; probably something like: "Confrontation in a Jungian landscape". After that I had to relax a little and have been working on a playful piece. Just finished the top for a modern-day Flemish still life complete with huge urn of flowers, fruit, vegetables and a floppy dead turkey. Nestled in with the fruit is cell phone. The cell phone image I dredged up from the internet and printed out onto treated fabric for the inkjet. Very cool! Since I used many different fabrics with different values and printing qualities I spent a lot of time altering the fabrics with pens and markers. Likewise, the backgraound fabric was not dark enough around the outer edges so I attacked it with spray paint (yup--rust-oleum!) and fabric paint. The whole thing is finished up with a Trompe l'oeil golden frame. Fabulous! Now I just have to quilt it....
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The private equity giant said it would "immediately engage in a formal process" to sell Freedom Group, one of America's biggest firearms firms and the manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15 semi-automatic rifle used in the Sandy Hook massacre on Friday.
Cerberus made it clear it was "not our role to take positions, or attempt to shape or influence the gun control policy debate". But in its statement the investment firm said the "Sandy Hook tragedy was a watershed event that has raised the national debate on gun control to an unprecedented level."
The move followed a threat by California's Treasurer Bill Lockyer to withdraw the state's funds from firearms firms in the wake of the shootings that killed 28 people. The state's $155bn teachers' pension fund has $750m invested with Cerberus.
The swift and decisive move by investors, seen by many as far more likely to shift the gun debate than President Obama, triggered another rout of firearm shares on the stockmarkets.
Smith & Wesson plunged almost 10pc following a drop of 5.2pc on Monday. Sturm Ruger and Cabela, an out-door retailer that sells ammunition continued to fall too.
Walmart, the US retailer, stopped selling the Bushmaster rifle. Dick's, a sports retailer, halted all sales of semi-automatic rifles and suspended firearm sales near the scene of the atrocity in Newtown, Connecticut.
Cerberus, which has more than $20bn assets under management, bought Bushmaster in 2006 before merging it with other gun firms to create Freedom. The group has nine plants and 3,100 employees. In its latest accounts Freedom, which says it is the largest manufacturer of military-style semi-automatics or "modern sporting rifles", reported sales of $677m for the nine months to September, up from $565m the previous year. "The continued adoption of the modern sporting rifle has led to increased growth in the long gun market, especially with a younger demographic of users and those who like to customize or upgrade their firearms," the company said in its accounts.
Cerberus said it did "not believe that Freedom Group or any single company or individual can prevent senseless violence" but it acknowledged that "there are, however, actions we can take as a firm."
It also emerged that the father of Stephen Feinberg, Cerberus' founder and chief executive, co-incidently lives in Newtown.
On Monday Eliot Spitzer, the former New York Governor, wrote a column demanding a boycott of investors like Cerberus. "It is time to determine pension fund by pension fund who has invested in Cerberus and bring pressure on those investors either to get out of Cerberus or have Cerberus change the way it runs the gun industry," he wrote.
Two US Senators, Joe Manchin and Mark Warner, became the first of America's pro-gun advocates to call for a ban on assault weapons in the wake of the shootings.


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Going out of my mind, thought you guys could help.
I'm a special effects artist and i'm doing a job where I need to blow up a fake head. I've built a pneumatic system, but it's not working the way I want. What I need is a radial blast, similar to an explosion. If I use the spudgun design, the blast(projectile) takes a linear path. Does anybody have any idea how I would make the cannon "explode" instead of "shoot"?
Please help, time is of the essence. Thanks.
jokes man dont really do that...
probobly have to go pyrotechnics for that one mate of which you cannot discuss here.
Aussie spudders unite!!
Build the head with a balloon inside. Plumb a large pressure tank into the head / balloon via an electrically operated sprinkler valve. Fill the balloon with pink glop. When the balloon bursts you'll get a radial blast.
10/4 on that. A nice size storage chamber pumped up to 100psi getting dumped all at once will bust any ballon that I know of.
It may still have a linear blast despite using a balloon.
Although Carlman was joking about DWV, actually pressurising a "hard" chamber to destruction as opposed to a soft balloon would mean a much more radial blast as the chamber itself could hold the full pressure you were after before bursting and not require the blast to be directed in by a cannon. Also, a soft balloon might cause distortion before bursting (good or bad?).
It wouldn't have to fill the entire head of course as the blast would do the rest. I'm thinking of a small drinks bottle pressurised til it blows (could be up to 300psi to do that) or pressurised to 100psi or so and burst with a puncturing device.
Try using a muzzle brake, except no point for the projectile to exit.
A little like this,
the air would not be able to go up, but would instead be forced to spread out in a 2D radial shape.
My ideal solution would be a "sun" or hedgehog shaped pipe arrangement, but there aren't any conventional fittings which allow this.
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Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin
I'm with Biopyro. Just add a piece on top of your barrel that goes into the head to stop the blast and push it towards the sides. Should be exactly what you need.
Bear in mind that if using a multi-directional blast spreader inside the head you will end up with it still being there after the "head" gets blown off.
I would go with something tougher than a balloon, perhaps a PET bottle - made for water, not carbonated soft drinks though, as they blow at lower pressures.
The issue would be getting it to fail consistently as opposed to teraing in one location.
PET bottles would be good, but I have tested a 2l bottle (lower burst pressure) up to 100psi, and it only burst when I gave it a good tap.
It mostly destroyed itself in small pieces on one side (the whacked side) but the other side was left fairly intact.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin
I'd go with the combustion route for this. Preferably a small bag or one of those plastic juice bottles filled with an acetylene or oxy/propane mix. It's perfectly safe so long as you keep static away by working in a semi-wet environment and use hearing/eye protection.
It'll give you a much better *pop* than a pneumatic system would as well as no debris or water vapor flying around. The most you'll have to worry about is doing some post production on 1 or 2 frames to remove the flash.
just put a flat plate about a inch away from the barrel, perpendicular to the barrel, so when looked at sideways, it looks like a "T"
you could try putting an end-cap over the barrel and drilling a bunch of holes facing all different directions... Just trying to come up with a simple solution.
Or you could just make the head itself a combustion chamber. You know, fill the head with propane and then ignite.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
That would probably work really well, especially as you'd have the advantage of it being near instant. Using a PET bottle should work well too because any shrapnel is extremely light.
I thought about the endcap method too, but you'd need pretty good flow or it really wouldn't work.
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One of two new coffee shops hitting Franklin Avenue has opened its doors. The Breukelen Coffee Shop kicked things off this weekend to rave reviews and a steady stream of patrons, with the glow of laptops in the window and their menu laid out on a vintage mirror in magic marker. The place looks great, and should have company soon as Franklin Avenue continues its seemingly recession-proof retail boom.
And tonight, our resident salonniere, Penina Roth, presents her latest installment of the Franklin Park Reading Series, "Music and Mayhem," at 8pm. The event is free, as always, and will feature some drink specials for the Crown Heights literati. Here's the lineup:
Writers SARAH RAINONE and FERENTZ LAFARGUE will spin stories wrapped around iconic songs.
Nashville musician KEEGAN DEWITT, in town for the CMJ festival, will give a mini-concert.
Rock journalist LAUREN MOONEY will share a sneak peek of her upcoming memoir.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
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Keely Brooke Keith is the author of The Land Uncharted, a book pulling in five-star reviews that some readers describe as a Christian, Historical, Sci-Fi mix.
When my husband challenged me to write my first book, The Land Uncharted, I accepted the challenge, assuming I would only write a few sentences at a time and over the years slowly produce a manuscript that my future great-grandchildren would one day find beneath a tattered stack of Reader's Digests as they cleaned out my Bengay-smelling room at the nursing home. And that's about the pace I wrote at for the first few months. Then without warning, inspiration struck and a torrent of words starting pouring out of me. Snippets of dialogue, the scent of a scene, or emotions that had nothing to do with my real life would wake me at 4 or 5 in the morning and there was no going back to sleep. My fingers couldn't type as fast as the story came and within weeks, my few pages of not-really-a chapter turned into a full-length novel.
Before that sweet, providential challenge slipped from my husband's lips, I was already busy—not crazy busy, but my daily schedule was full. I ran a home, did the bookkeeping for my husband's business, homeschooled our daughter, and worked as a musician. Once the book was written and the publishing adventure began, 40-50 hours of writing work filled every gap in my already full weeks.
Now, nearly two years into this process, The Land Uncharted has been released as the first in a three-book series and I'm still happily running a home, helping with a business, homeschooling my daughter, and playing music. And after "What is your book about?" the second most frequent question I'm asked is "How do you do it?"
My answer: by the grace of God.
It's true. But it's more than that, or different somehow, because the gift of God's grace is available to all people—multi-tasking truckloads of creative work is not. All I know is: He has given me this ability in this season for His purpose. He has given me a passion for writing and as long as He leads me down this path, I will follow. I have friends who routinely work 18-hour shifts in the Emergency Room, and I have no idea how they do it. I pray over missionaries who live in deplorable conditions to share the Gospel, and I have no idea how they do it. I go to church with women who care for their aging parents and watch their grandbabies at the same time, and I have no idea how they do it.
…Other than by God's grace.
God's grace is sufficient for me, for His power is made perfect in weakness. My prayer is that I try to constantly stay in check with what the Lord has for my life. I know that in this season I should help my husband and teach my daughter and prayerfully accept jobs playing music that brings Him praise. And I know that as long as the stories keep coming, I should faithfully continue writing.
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You know those sad looking trays of produce, sitting forlornly on the reduce sale rack? This is the best place to start a recipe. Often fruit and vegetables that are almost overripe are the perfect, most flavorful start to a meal.
For example, the other day, I bought a tray of apples: a few Galas, a handful of Macintosh and a Honey Crisp: for 79 cents! This was the makings of a delicious applesauce, which, by the way, is always tastiest when you use a combination of apple varieties. And a few bruises don't really matter.
My second find at Fiesta Farms: rhubarb. It may seem strange in the middle of February, but the are a number of farms around Toronto that grow greenhouse rhubarb.
The bruised apples and the winter rhubarb ran into some honey, cinnamon and vanilla, and turned into this pink, sweet-sour applesauce. Here it is.
rhubarb applesauce with vanilla and honey
8 apples, peeled, cored and diced
4 large rhubarb stalks, chopped
1/2 cup water
1/4 to 1/2 cup of honey (depending on how much you love sour rhubarb flavour)
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla paste
Combine all ingredients in a pot. Bring to a boil, then turn down to low and simmer for an hour. If you like your applesauce very smooth, you can puree it at this point.
Breakfast time! Here's the applesauce with some granola and yogurt in a delicious parfait.


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A Bullseye tattoo can have many meanings, from those that are associated with the ability to aim, for a hobby or a job, or even a tattoo that has been designed to create a metaphor for your life, that you are right on target through your goals, through your life and through other elements that can pertain to your career etc. Although a very traditional design, and simplistic in nature, there are many tattoo artists that have created modern variations of the tattoo!
While designing a Bullseye tattoo, there are certain designs which are most popular. Of course, the traditional white and red tattoo that is created with the Bullseye is most popular and there are many ways that this can be customized, with the unique features that are integrated into the tattoo. One example of how the tattoo can be easily customized is through the use of a bow and arrow, in the case that the person getting the tattoo is an avid fan of hunting and spending time practicing hitting targets. This is only one of many ways that the Bullseye tattoo can be easily customized.
The traditional Bullseye tattoo is seen as a very masculine design and this is the reason that more men than women opt to have the tattoo placed on the body. Through the tattoo, you are able to express your hobbies through a design that can be easily customized. Although the tattoo can be easily customized, it is not a common tattoo and this provides individuals with all of the better reason to choose the Bullseye design.


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OK enough about dieting and back to yummy birthday cake. It just happens to be my Pretty friend Amber's Birthday! Betty and I had to whip her up a fabulous cake with some yummy butter cream icing (that's the kind I like and I happen to sneak spoonfuls of the icing when baking...)
If you just happened to stop by and would like to go through the complete hop make sure you stop at the Paper Pretties Blog. If you are continuing on the next stop is the simply fabulous Nadine Buhl. Have a fabulous hop and once again a very, very Happy Birthday to Amber!


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We all had a great time at the South Bay Quilters Guild show over the weekend. The girls got their quilts displayed RIGHT WHEN YOU WALK IN THE DOOR! They were happy sewers! I am always inspired by what people sew and am posting a quilt I LOVE with Amy Butler fabrics and more. Sew pretty! Quilt shows make me feel like:
1. I could NEVER be able to do that.
2.. I could do that.
3. I just want to make a quilt!
I think the girls were inspired to sew as well!
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Husband really wanted a pool room - "for the children" - hmm, yep sure, "for the children haha" and to be honest I really did not want one - they just always seem very dark and traditional with that dark green felt and the dark timber and turned legs (been there, done that look, was going for a different look with this house) and I have only seen a few that looked good and those were in homes where the word "budget" was not uttered very often!. But I did give in eventually (it's his house too!), as long as I had full control over the colours (not green, not green, not green I chanted!)
I think this turned out ok, I had a budget for the room but once the pool table was designed, built and delivered, well that was my budget gone!
The bifold doors were essential, just to open it up. I always had the episode of Seinfeld in the back of my mind - you know the one, where George's Dad turns a bedroom into a pool room and they are constantly knocking into the walls with their cues! So space was essential as was keeping the "theme".
The pool table I designed (and that sounds very grand) but really I just showed them what sort of legs I wanted (straight legs please), the colour of the felt (no traditional green please!!) and that I wanted it painted white.
The poor guy nearly fell over - "white!!"...."what the?!?!"
He did do his best to talk me into every stain he had - cedar, oak, baltic pine, "what about this nice mahogany" - but I held firm, no, no, NO!
He conceded in the end the poor man, he had no fight left in him - he had never ever made a white pool table before!! I got the impression at delivery that he was quite pleased it was all over!
The colour of the felt is called "sand" btw - very apt I thought!
Excuse the little fairy dancing through!


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A Tattoo Lettering is a print or design on the skin of a person that's made to be able to show one's angle towards all points of life. There are numerous types of tattoos that are out there across the world. Tattoos are so designed so that each particular person can choose for the one that suits her or him best and then go forward with the remaining procedure. Moreover the engaging designs which might be available, there are numerous tattoo lettering styles which have taken the world of tattoo makers and wearers by storm. There are various varieties of styles to choose from when moving into for a tattoo that comprises of words and phrases
Tattoo Lettering, tattoos script or a textual content tattoo, however, as you call it, all have one thing in widespread - they are words or text, not images, like a star tat design. Related issues have been more and more well-liked these days, both men and women fans tat and tremendously growing the necessities beneath lots of tattoo artists.
Once you go to the textual content Tattoo Lettering, there are a number of issues involved - the words or phrases to be tattooed on his primary. They can be inspirational quotes, Bible verses, favorite traces from a music or poem, or unique compositions. What sources go on the second line of concern when the conceptualization of this problem TAT type. The most commonly used for this objective the letters and the script for the source of outdated English style.
Of course, there's a solution to that body part to pick the transition to a script or textual content tattoos tribal tattoos. The most effective locations are the canvas of the body that has enough area to accommodate several lines of words and texts which might be tattooed. These blades, again, ribs and hands. Inside 3 to 5 words tattoo markings, legs, wrists, neck and ankles generally is a nice option.
Tattoo Lettering can be an opportunity for you to make unique and authentic designs in ink. Just select your fashion of letters with care and work with a reputable tattoo artist to make your script tattoo to be happy with and would love to end his life.


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Humans have the most evolved brains of all the species of life on the Earth. The brain gets its input of experiential information from memory, its process is thinking, and its output are commands to sensory and actuary organs of the body to act accordingly.
A living-being has two types of interactions with the external world – sensory to pick up information, and actuary to influence the external world. Former interaction is carried out by five sensory organs while the latter is carried out by the actuary organs of the body.
Both the sensory and actuary organs may perform their functions in two ways – subconscious and conscious. The subconscious performance is carried out fast under control of the mind – the neuronal network spread in the body. For example, 'seeing' is a sensory input at subconscious level while its counterpart 'watching' is a conscious sensory activity. While a subconscious sensory actions leave no or a light impression on the memory, this doesn't enrich the person with more experiential information, conscious sensory activity of watching deeply records the information gathered in the memory which may be retrieved back later and utilized if need be. This applies to all the five sensory organs of a body. Thus, only conscious sensory activities add to a person's experiences.
Our action organs too act in two different ways. Routine reflexes of the body caused by instinct of survival and safety are operated by the mind with no involvement of the brain. Even oft-repeated activities by tongue, hands and feet, and excretion organs may also be performed at subconscious level under control of the mind only. Such operations are performed fast by the person. Conscious working involves a long process of tracking relevant experiential information from memory, thinking and commanding the actuary organs concerned, it is time-consuming and somehow inconvenient to lazy persons.
Subconscious approach is based on habits and controls only oft-repeated sensing and activities by the body, while every new activity essentially needs conscious approach with involvement of the brain. Conscious actions leave a deeper impression of experiential information on the memory for future uses. But even oft-repeated activities may be taken up consciously through involvement of the brain. This slows down the activities as compared to those with subconscious approach, but keeps the brain always in active mode, hence sharp. The sharpness of the brain and its remaining in ever-active mode expedites conscious activities somehow.
A person has the options open to him for each sensory and actuary operation for putting into subconscious or conscious mode. Based on this, he/she gets enriched by experiential information and capability of putting his/her brain to apply for solving a problem. All intellectual and creative activities by a person need involvement of his/her brain, hence are conscious activities. Persons too much habitual and dependent on the use of their minds only can perform routine activities faster but become incapable of using their brains for intellectual and creative activities. Thus, intellectualism requires regular practice of using of using brain by a person.
It is not that the habitual practices have no positive role in human life and only intellectual practices are sufficient to serve all purposes of life. Habitual practices save on human resources and their capabilities, hence essential from economy point of view. It is similar to production at mass scale of a developed is essential to make it available to the large human population, while development of the product using creative talent is also essential without which no production would be possible. Thus, both the conscious and subconscious activities are essential to human life in overall perspective.
Therefore, if you want to be an intellectual some day, do most of the sensory and actuary activities consciously, and make it a habit of your body. You would soon find a quantum change in your outlook, ways of working and your favorite things to do.


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When your Linux system boots, it goes through a number of stages. From the very low level, we typically start by pressing the button to first go through a power on self test (POST). Next, the system loads some BIOS firmware so we can get a baseline for the hardware supported. Then, we figure out what device to boot to, usually a hard drive. If you have GRUB or another bootloader, these small applications know what you have on your disks and help you select and boot whichever operating system suits you. Linux then begins to load. Here is a screen shot of what early Linux boot looks like to about where it starts poking around for hard drives:
The "Booting 'CentOS (2.6-18.8-UV5)'" gives the GRUB human friendly name right before it actually boots our kernel. After a few other boot debug statements, we see that it uncompressed the kernel and boots. Finally, we see "Red Hat nash version 126.96.36.199 starting." This is about what happens in between those two and how we boot nash.
In the old days (and on embedded systems), booting was simple. You have a hard drive and a kernel. The kernel had a driver so it never had issues knowing how to handle the hard drive it was on or needed to boot to. But, as systems have grown, the kernel doesn't typically bundle all of the drivers in it. For booting, the most critical are file system drivers and hard drive controllers. So you compile a kernel module for your hard drive controller and put it on the hard drive. So we just need to get it off of the hard drive at boot so we can load the driver...no wait.... So we have a chicken and the egg problem: we need the hard drive driver to load the hard drive. initrd does the magic to solve this.
Lets take a look at whats in /boot. On my machine:
[mcmaster@gespenst initrd]$ ls -lh /boot/In order to boot, we need two key items: a kernel and some data to put into it. vmlinz is the Linux image. It gets its name from originally using z compression as it self decompresses. Other algorithms are also supported. The data is in the initrd image. Its an INITial Ram Disk for us to boot to. Lets see whats in it. Setup a sanbox directory somewhere on your system to play in:
total 49M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K Nov 12 21:18 extlinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K Sep 3 07:30 grub
-rw------- 1 root root 3.0M Jan 14 2009 initrd-126.96.36.199-UV4.img
drwx------ 2 root root 12K Aug 4 2008 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79K Mar 12 2009 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 923K Jan 14 2009 System.map-184.108.40.206-UV4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1M Jan 14 2009 vmlinuz-18.104.22.168-UV4
[mcmaster@gespenst ~]$ mkdir ~/buffer/initrdAnd copy over initrd so we can mess with it (on my system they were readable only by root):
[mcmaster@gespenst ~]$ cd ~/buffer/initrd/
[mcmaster@gespenst initrd]$ sudo cp /boot/initrd-184.108.40.206-UV4.img .What does trusty ol' "file" say about it?
[mcmaster@gespenst initrd]$ sudo chown mcmaster/mcmaster initrd-220.127.116.11-UV4.img
[mcmaster@gespenst initrd]$ file initrd-22.214.171.124-UV4.imgAh ha! So lets uncompress it. Note that gunzip doesn't just do gzip format files, so it gets angry if it doesn't end in something standard. Either rename it to something ending in .gz or pipe it:
initrd-188.8.131.52-UV4.img: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Wed Jan 14 09:52:20 2009, max compression
[mcmaster@gespenst initrd]$ cat initrd-126.96.36.199-UV4.img |gunzip >initrd-126.96.36.199-UV4What did we get?
[mcmaster@gespenst initrd]$ file initrd-126.96.36.199-UV4A cpio archive. And I always thought the cpio command was useless. Whats in the box?
initrd-184.108.40.206-UV4: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)
[mcmaster@gespenst initrd]$ cpio --verbose -tCareful extracting, there are some devices in there which can have odd repercussions if created without need. Chances are you don't really want those created upon extract. Just run as a normal user and they will harmlessly flop. Lets extract it:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 14 2009 sbin -> bin
drwx------ 3 root root 0 Jan 14 2009 lib
-rw------- 1 root root 27840 Jan 14 2009 lib/dm-mirror.ko
-rw------- 1 root root 37268 Jan 14 2009 lib/ehci-hcd.ko
-rw------- 1 root root 159732 Jan 14 2009 lib/scsi_mod.ko
drwx------ 3 root root 0 Jan 14 2009 dev
crw------- 1 root root 4, 67 Jan 14 2009 dev/ttyS3
crw------- 1 root root 1, 5 Jan 14 2009 dev/zero
crw------- 1 root root 4, 10 Jan 14 2009 dev/tty10
drwx------ 3 root root 0 Jan 14 2009 etc
drwx------ 2 root root 0 Jan 14 2009 etc/lvm
-rw------- 1 root root 15911 Jan 14 2009 etc/lvm/lvm.conf
-rwx------ 1 root root 2354 Jan 14 2009 init
drwx------ 2 root root 0 Jan 14 2009 sys
drwx------ 2 root root 0 Jan 14 2009 proc
drwx------ 2 root root 0 Jan 14 2009 bin
-rwx------ 1 root root 852164 Jan 14 2009 bin/kpartx
-r-x------ 1 root root 1464040 Jan 14 2009 bin/lvm
-rwx------ 1 root root 2381980 Jan 14 2009 bin/nash
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 14 2009 bin/modprobe -> /sbin/nash
-rwx------ 1 root root 1038596 Jan 14 2009 bin/dmraid
-rwx------ 1 root root 470244 Jan 14 2009 bin/insmod
drwx------ 2 root root 0 Jan 14 2009 sysroot
[mcmaster@gespenst initrd]$ mkdir decompressedAs non-root we couldn't make devices, so it went splat in some regards.
[mcmaster@gespenst initrd]$ cd decompressed/
[mcmaster@gespenst decompressed]$ cpio -i <../initrd-22.214.171.124-UV4
cpio: dev/ttyS3: Operation not permitted
cpio: dev/zero: Operation not permitted
cpio: dev/tty10: Operation not permitted
13718 blocks
[mcmaster@gespenst initrd]$ ls -lh decompressed/
total 32K
drwx------ 2 mcmaster mcmaster 4.0K Dec 30 18:03 bin
drwx------ 3 mcmaster mcmaster 4.0K Dec 30 18:03 dev
drwx------ 3 mcmaster mcmaster 4.0K Dec 30 18:03 etc
-rwx------ 1 mcmaster mcmaster 2.3K Dec 30 18:03 init
drwx------ 3 mcmaster mcmaster 4.0K Dec 30 18:03 lib
drwx------ 2 mcmaster mcmaster 4.0K Dec 30 18:03 proc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mcmaster mcmaster 3 Dec 30 18:03 sbin -> bin
drwx------ 2 mcmaster mcmaster 4.0K Dec 30 18:03 sys
drwx------ 2 mcmaster mcmaster 4.0K Dec 30 18:03 sysroot
But that's okay, we just want to look at the normal files and know that those devices would have existed.
So, this is the initial filesystem loaded onto your box. What happens now is the file "init" is ran. I believe this is hard coded in the kernel. Lets see whats in there:
#!/bin/nashIts a script executing with the "nash" interpreter. And now you know where /dev/null comes from and some other important devices. Basically, we mount some of the basic kernel information pseudo-filesystems (procfs, sysfs) and create important device nodes such as /dev/null that will make some programs freak out without. Next, we load in the device drivers we packed into the initrd image. Then can be seen in /lib. If you are using LVM, it will then scan for LVs now that we have the bootstrap filesystem and device drivers loaded.
mount -t proc /proc /proc
echo Mounting proc filesystem
echo Mounting sysfs filesystem
mount -t sysfs /sys /sys
echo Creating /dev
mount -o mode=0755 -t tmpfs /dev /dev
mkdir /dev/pts
mount -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=620 /dev/pts /dev/pts
mkdir /dev/shm
mkdir /dev/mapper
echo Creating initial device nodes
mknod /dev/null c 1 3
mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
mknod /dev/systty c 4 0
mknod /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67
echo Setting up hotplug.
echo Creating block device nodes.
echo "Loading ehci-hcd.ko module"
insmod /lib/ehci-hcd.ko
echo "Loading dm-snapshot.ko module"
insmod /lib/dm-snapshot.ko
echo Waiting for driver initialization.
stabilized --hash --interval 250 /proc/scsi/scsi
echo Scanning and configuring dmraid supported devices
echo Scanning logical volumes
lvm vgscan --ignorelockingfailure
echo Activating logical volumes
lvm vgchange -ay --ignorelockingfailure VolGroup00
resume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
echo Creating root device.
mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
echo Mounting root filesystem.
mount /sysroot
echo Setting up other filesystems.
echo Switching to new root and running init.
Now heres my favorite part. We just mounted some bogus filesystem on /. We need to trash that so we can put our real filesystem on that. This is summarized in the last part of this script:
echo Creating root device.We mount our real root at some random mount point /sysroot. Hmm thats not quite right, but getting closer. And then after a bit of prep, switchroot? What magic is that? As it turns out, there is a special black magic system call, pivot_root(2). From the man page pivot_root(2):
mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
echo Mounting root filesystem.
mount /sysroot
echo Setting up other filesystems.
echo Switching to new root and running init.
int pivot_root(const char *new_root, const char *put_old);Fancy. Once thats done, we are pretty much set. We have our expected filesystem mounted. The last thing to do is to call /sbin/init and we move on to our normal system startup.
pivot_root() moves the root file system of the current process to the directory put_old and makes new_root the new root file system of the current process.
Hopefully this gave you some background on how we get from GRUB to our normal boot. Any comments, suggestions, corrections, etc are most welcome!


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I used the Duncan Hines Triple Chocolate cake mix, which I have to say is a pretty good cake mix. I was pleased with its overall texture. I baked the cake according to box directions. For cupcakes it takes about 20 minutes.
Once we took these out of the oven, we allowed them to completely cool. We took a small apple corer and made a hole in the center of each cupcake. After that was done, I used a piping bag to put the marshmallow creme into the center. This is another place you can cheat by using store bought marshmallow fluff .
My pictures are terrible from this morning's baking. I used my camera phone, but you will get the idea.
For the homemade White Chocolate Buttercream this is the recipe that I used.
- 2 sticks (1/2 pound) unsalted butter, softened
- 12 ounces white chocolate, melted and cooled slightly
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- In a large bowl, using a hand held electric mixer, beat the butter at medium speed until creamy. Beat in the melted white chocolate. Add the confectioners' sugar and vanilla and beat at low speed, scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl, until light and fluffy.
This recipe is fast, really easy to make and most importantly delicious. I have been trying to experiment more with making homemade frostings. The finished product was delicious! We decorated with a Darth Vader pick from the Williams-Sonoma Star Wars cupcake decorating sets.


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Cold = Calm, almost Comatose.
With the temperature changes on a global scale,I would bet my declining dollar
that too is affecting the Bee population as well..Lets face it people!! Cell phone use
I found an article (http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-10454065-78.html dated February 16, 2010.. At this point, it was estimated 5 billion cell phone subscriptions were active. Even Children in America as young as 10 have cell phones, as it is a safety net for parents.


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Your search found 32 image(s) illustrating the term "spathe." For a written explanation, click on "spathe" in the Glossary.
Clicking or hovering over any of the pictures below will display a larger image; clicking the plant's name will provide information about, and other photos of, the plant pictured.
Skunk Cabbage,
Symplocarpus foetidus
The brownish-purple, fleshy, hoodlike spathe is usually striped or spotted, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
Skunk Cabbage,
Symplocarpus foetidus
The spathe encloses a ball-like spadix with numerous tiny flowers, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
Green Arrow-arum,
Peltandra virginica
Slender club-shaped spadix enclosed in a narrow pointed green spathe, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
White Arrow-arum,
Peltandra sagittifolia
Inflorescence a spadix subtended by a flared, open, white spathe, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC.
Green Dragon,
Arisaema dracontium
Flowers in a fleshy spike (spadix) protruding from a nearly closed spathe, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
Common Jack in the Pulpit ,
Arisaema triphyllum
Spathe flange much wider than in A. stewardsonii, acuminatum, or pusillum, per Weakley's Flora.
Common Jack in the Pulpit ,
Arisaema triphyllum
Spathe hides the tiny flowers at spadix base (male on left, female on right).
Common Jack in the Pulpit ,
Arisaema triphyllum
A solid green or purple-striped spathe (pulpit) surrounds the spadix (jack), per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
Southern Jack in the Pulpit,
Arisaema quinatum
Spathe hood green, obtuse to abruptly acute, per Weakley's Flora.
Southern Jack in the Pulpit,
Arisaema quinatum
Spathe withers after flowering, replaced by a showy cluster of red berries, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
Pinellia ternata
Spadix fused to the spathe (vs. spadix free from the spathe in Arisaema), per Weakley's Flora.
Green Dragon,
Pinellia tripartita
Spadix has a 7-10" whip-like extension which emerges upward from the spathe, per www.missouribotanicalgarden.org.
Chinese Green Dragon,
Pinellia pedatisecta
Spathe slightly convolute at base, not constricted between tube and limb, per Flora of China.
Elephant's Ear,
Colocasia esculenta
Tiny flowers on a fleshy stalk (spadix) covered by a yellow hood (spathe), per Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control.
Green Dragon,
Pinellia tripartita
Spathe persistent, slightly constricted between tube & blade, per Flora of China.
Virginia Dayflower,
Commelina virginica
Flowers from within greenish spathes, usually in a terminal cluster, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
Virginia Dayflower,
Commelina virginica
Numerous terminal spathes [easier to see here with the flowers gone], per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
Sand Dayflower,
Commelina erecta var. angustifolia
Flowers grow from within broad fused bracts (spathes) that sheath the stem, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
Asiatic Dayflower,
Commelina communis
Flowers are subtended by a folded, heart-shaped spathe, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Asiatic Dayflower,
Commelina communis
Spathes generally pale toward peduncle, with contrasting dark green veins, per Weakley's Flora.
Spreading Dayflower,
Commelina diffusa
Spathes are sickle-shaped (falcate) and their margins are not fused, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
Tropical Spiderwort,
Commelina benghalensis
Spathes funnelform, often clustered, per Weakley's Flora.
Hairy Spiderwort,
Tradescantia hirsuticaulis
Tradescantia spathes are paired, terminate stem, and resemble foliage leaves, per Weakley's Flora.
Woolly Frogsmouth,
Philydrum lanuginosum
Flowers borne in the axils of spathe-like bracts, per Angiosperm Phylogeny Website.
Pleea tenuifolia
Bracts of the inflorescence large, spathelike, acuminate-aristate at the tip, per Weakley's Flora.
Field Garlic,
Allium vineale
A membranous spathe surrounds the inflorescence & extends into a slender beak, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
False Garlic,
Nothoscordum bivalve
Scapes erect, terminated by membranous spathes and umbels of perfect flowers, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Summer Snowflake,
Leucojum aestivum
The umbel's subtending spathe splits open on 1 side for over half its length, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Pale Blue-eyed Grass,
Sisyrinchium albidum
A single outer bract, 3.5-10cm long, subtends twinned pair of sessile spathes, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Atlantic Blue-eyed Grass,
Sisyrinchium atlanticum
Stems much longer than leaves and usually branched, w 2 long-stalked spathes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Blue-eyed Grass,
Sisyrinchium mucronatum
Each scape has a solitary sessile purple spathe bearing clusters of flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Blue-eyed Grass,
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Stems are usually branched, each with 2(+) spathes on long peduncles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.


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Seemingly overnight, the humble selfie has become nothing short of a phenomenon.
Millions are shared each and every day across all the major social media platforms. Indeed, according to data from Samsung, selfies make up almost one-third of all photos taken by people aged 18-24, with Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat bearing the brunt of that load.
And, of course, last month Bradley Cooper's Oscars selfie become Twitter's most retweeted post of all time.
This visual from Techinfographics.com reveals some eye-opening selfie statistics, facts and figures.
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On Friday night I had an excellent evening with my friends Penne and Clint. A concoction of good friends, great venues and a giddy outlook all made for a fantastic night. I wish to state for the record that my good mood had no relation to the limited amount of alcohol that passed my lips.
I started with walk through Hyde Park to see the Sydney Life photo exhibition. A collection of photos hanging from the tress designed to depict Sydney life. The photos wee submitted by local amateurs and professionals. I wasn't keen on all the pics, but some were very good.
After meeting Penne and Clint we went for a drink in the Beresford Hotel. Many pubs in Sydney have been ruined by modern renovations, but this one has retained a lot of charm and character while being given some modern cool.
We ended our evening in the Big Rig Diner on Oxford St. As ex-New Yorkers (sort of) we fancy ourselves as Diner connoisseurs and judge everywhere against the benchmark Summit Diner. It is much smaller than I expected, but the decor (as you can see above) is fantastic. The booths, bar stools and pressed aluminium are all very reminiscent of the USA.
The menu is much smaller than your classic US Diner, which seems to serve everything, and has definitely been tailored to the local market. We all went for burgers and I really enjoyed mine, the betroot relish / chutney really made the burger. We could see from the grill that the burgers were getting quite heavily charred and I feared that they might get burnt. Mine wasn't, but Penne complained of eating bits of carbon.
The only downsides for me were the prices (not outrageously expensive, but a bit more than a burger should be) and the tomato ketchup. It was cheap and horrible. Have people never heard of Heinze?
Monday, 19 October 2009
Restauant Review: Big Rig Diner, Paddington
Posted by Richard Elliot at 11:46
Labels: Australia, Restaurant Review, Travel News
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I like the smallish size of the place, allows for that cramped diner atmosphere. As for the burger, mine was good, although I choose to lose the bacon in the name of research and keeping it simple. The Brazilian beer choice was curious, but better than a glass of milk.ReplyDelete
I hope London's selection of eateries is going to keep you satisfied when you next visit!ReplyDelete
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Bryton Pick Review
We all know that we are supposed to floss. But the statistics that the ADA has, shows that only 12% of the population flosses regularly. Most people don't have the time or a proper place to floss after meals. Since most products are not reusable or comfortable to carry, people often improvise. My father in law usually uses the edge of a business card!
Bryton Pick is convenient, discreet and slightly stylish with different colors to choose from!
It's designed to use daily, even when on the go, to remove food debris and and plaque between teeth, after meals and snacks.
The first time you use Bryton Pick should be in front of a mirror.
Gently slide between teeth, avoiding contact with your lips. It normally takes several tries to become accustomed to the cleaning procedure.
Bryton Pick is made in the USA from completely recyclable materials. And additional environmental benefit is that BrytonPick is reusable! Because of it's germ-resistant stainless steel cleaning tips.
My Thoughts:
- It looks like a boomerang. Lol well those were my first thoughts.
- The tips are very bendable. So it adapts to the shape of your tooth.
- They are discreet enough to use anywhere.
- Much much easier to use than floss.
- I love that it's reusable!
My husband was very excited when these came in the mail. He said he was going to buy some for his dad!
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
while Lucifer was away
Above, Cheri's black bean dip and below, her red pepper hummous.
Brian's fish croquettes
Cheri's smoked Salmon quiche
I seem to be serving this a lot after many meals...4-year old cheddar with dark chocolate, almonds, figs and dates.
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INDIANAPOLIS, March 7, 2016 — According to her website, Hillary Clinton will "provide comprehensive support to survivors" of campus sexual assault, "ensure fair process for all in campus disciplinary proceedings and the criminal justice system," and "increase sexual violence prevention education programs … not only in college, but also in secondary school."
Hillary doesn't say what she'll do for non-survivors, how she'll rewrite the policies of the nation's 4726 degree-granting institutions and all their campuses, how she defines "fair" process, how she'll control the justice system or how she'll increase sexual violence prevention programs, but she'll do it.
Where is Hillary's special place in Hell?
She does say she will force every campus to offer "survivors the support they need," and that the support will be "confidential, comprehensive, and coordinated." She evidently knows what that support will be, who will need it and how best to administer it so that it will be comprehensive and coordinated (among whom?).
But if it's confidential, how will she know? She runs over herself when she says her federally-dictated "transparency in campus disciplinary proceedings" will maintain confidentiality.
As the ultimate authority on everything, Hillary will know what's "fair," and so will take over from the colleges the burden of defining fair procedures, dictating fairness from D.C. for everyone. She will take over the judicial branch, making sure her ideas are understood and adhered to in every criminal proceeding. Today's (Obama's?) justice system is all wrong, too.
Hillary's approach suggests that every sexual violence program in the nation is inadequate, so she will "increase" these programs, perhaps in number or in the time they divert from studies.
As evidence of her excellent judgment and her intention to cram her programs down the throats of every educational institution in the country, she notes her support of more bureaucracy, the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women. This is a jobs program, but why is there a special office just for women when she wants to emphasize how "fair" she'll be?
She cites "her historic 1995 Beijing speech, where she denounced violence against women as a clear violation of human rights." More than 20 years ago, when she was traveling the world as the wife of our country's premier elected serial abuser of women, she stated the obvious. That's convincing.
"[As] senator, she co-sponsored the 2005 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act." It takes courage to co-sponsor a reauthorization!
According to her website, "Hillary introduced the CARE Act twice, to ensure that rape and incest victims had access to emergency contraception in hospital emergency rooms."
Hillary's feminist hellions battle Bernie's Bros and she is losing
Once again, this interjects federal power and authority where it has no business. But, according to thecareact.org, "The CARE Act was first introduced in 2010," when Hillary wasn't a legislator. It was amended and reintroduced in 2011, again, when she wasn't in the legislature. So, to whom did she "introduce" it? Whose credit did she take? [Note: I cannot find a reference to its passage.]
Hillary also "introduced legislation to make emergency contraception available to servicewomen." In fact, the "Compassionate Care for Servicewomen Act" (H.R. 2064) originated in the House in 2007, when Hillary was a senator and George W. Bush was president, and was sponsored by Democrats "Mr. Michaud (for himself, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mrs. Davis of California, Ms. Harman, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, and Mr. Shays." [Note: That's Tim Ryan, the Democrat, not the current Speaker.]
Her self-publicity also proudly proclaims, "As secretary of state, Hillary rallied the international community to take collective action to end violence against women." As evidence that anything happened, she offered… nothing. "The international community" apparently missed the rally.
Her campaign site also says, "She drew attention to the use of rape as a weapon of war and spearheaded a U.N. Resolution that established guidelines for an international response to sexual assault in war torn areas."
No one else had ever thought that rape was part of war; it's good that the world had Hillary to point this out! As for UN Resolution 1820, that was adopted (unanimously) in June of 2008, before Hillary was secretary of state.
As for the UN's Resolution 2122 (providing abortions for women and girls raped in wars), that was passed in 2013, after Hillary had left the State Department and had become a private citizen.
Not only has Hillary claimed for herself the work of others, she proposes to interject the federal government into areas where it has no constitutional authority whatsoever. And her campaign is proud of that. Americans shouldn't be.


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Laptop, projector and extension cords. Check.
Water, Coke®, and coffee. Check.
Host driver, vehicle with fuel, and destination map. Check.
That's how Africa ELI rolls. Ready and willing to connect with donors across the United States, we pack our bags, freshen up our presentation with current photos from South Sudan, and hit the road or fly the friendly skies to a location near you.
Sue Plasterer from Madison, Wisconsin coordinated the most recent Africa ELI advocacy and fundraising tour. It was Anita's 5th visit to the state. Of our 21 donor states, Wisconsin ranks in the top three for contributing sponsorships and resources for students and projects in South Sudan.
Here are 10 tidbits about the recent Wisconsin 10-day tour:
Miles traveled in the state: 1,200
Presentation venues: 21 (schools, churches, Rotary meetings, private homes, and a YWCA)
Host drivers: 9 (Thanks, Sue P., Keith, Sue C., Donna, Arlene, Marilyn, Bernice, Wendell, and Gail!)
Weather: sun, rain, tornadoes, snow
McDonald's® drive-thrus: 8
Church potlucks: 11
Anita singing the first phrase of the South Sudan national anthem: 19 (Rotarians were spared)
Photographs with really big cow statues: 2
Lost cell phones: 1 (recovered!)
Pictures posted to Anita's Facebook "Dairyland" album: 38
A significant highlight was an announcement from the Wisconsin Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church identifying Africa ELI as an official mission project. This means that any contributing United Methodist Church group desiring credit for mission giving may direct checks through the Wisconsin UMC Conference, PO Box 620, Sun Prairie, WI 53590. The official project number for Africa ELI is #7951.
Next year's 2013 Wisconsin tour is already being planned. It's not too early to request a presentation for your church, organization, or group.
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Carol Benham/Common Sense and Candor | Posted: Sunday, May 13, 2012 12:00 am
After more than 16 months of researching Lompoc Housing and Community Development Corp. —its missing audits, its deteriorating, unsanitary housing for low-income residents and its failure to abide by regulations governing the use of public funds —I've come to the conclusion that only the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury can thoroughly investigate the many questions that remain unanswered.
The city of Lompoc, the County of Santa Barbara, and even the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development —the source for millions of dollars of federal funds LHCDC received —have something at stake if a comprehensive investigation is undertaken into why the oversight and monitoring of this public benefit nonprofit was so faulty. You could say they each have skin in the game.
It will take an entity with the authority and power of subpoena to force facts out of the shadows LHCDC has been allowed to operate in for far too long. It will take the power of subpoena to penetrate the protective shield still preventing a serious inspection of its financial records, and investigate the reasons it was permitted to fail to comply with regulations and contractual obligations for so long. It will take the power of subpoena, and the independence of the Grand Jury, to obtain the testimony of current and former city and county employees, elected officials and LHCDC Board of Directors to uncover the truth.
There is much that needs to be uncovered:
n Why did the nonprofit continue to receive funds after it failed to submit required annual audits? Was it lax oversight, incompetence, or was pressure applied to ignore the missing audits?
n Why did the city approve a loan to refinance an LHCDC low-income housing property in 2005 that allowed LHCDC to pull out $500,000 in cash for its own use when it was two years behind in audits at the time, a fact a city councilwoman noted for the record when she voted no?
n Why did the county approve a refinancing of a low-income housing property in 2008 that had failed to achieve its mandatory affordability certification required by law because LHCDC failed to provide the necessary data? Were county supervisors informed the housing property was noncompliant with federal regulations before they were asked to allow LHCDC to take $472,000 from the refinancing? If not, why not? Was it lax oversight, incompetence or was pressure applied to ignore the noncompliance?
n Why did the city and county allow LHCDC to stop complying with mandatory requirements to provide annual data on its rental rolls and tenant income eligibility for rent-restricted housing? Was it lax oversight or was there pressure to look the other way?
n Why did the city allow LHCDC to ignore repeated requests to improve conditions at its low-income housing properties that were observed during city inspections? Why were funds intended to remove blight allowed to create blight?
n Did LHCDC's Board of Directors fail their fiduciary responsibility to oversee the use of public funds by the organization and monitor the performance of LHCDC staff? Did they know conditions at some properties were in violation of state building, health and safety codes? Did they know tenants complained of having no heat, no working oven, inoperable smoke detectors, mold, sewage problems and other unhealthy and unsanitary conditions?
n Did a county employee inappropriately mix her dual positions as assistant to the 4th District Supervisor and as president and vice president of LHCDC Board of Directors for many years? There is documented evidence that the employee conducted LHCDC business on county property, during workday hours, while using her county title. Did the mixing of roles contribute to the failure to enforce compliance with regulations by county staff?
All these questions, and many more, need answers. Accountability for using public funds designated for a community purpose — to provide decent housing for low-income residents, shelter the homeless, reduce blight and expand economic opportunities — is not a trivial matter. Nor is it a matter of politics, or personalities or campaigns.
Our community has been ill-served by LHCDC and by those who looked the other way when regulations and requirements and missing audits were ignored. We're still being ill-served by those who seek to sweep LHCDC and issues of oversight and accountability under the rug.
For our community's sake, we need the members of the Grand Jury to provide the independence, perseverance and authority to unravel the facts of this tangled, convoluted mess that is still shrouded in too much secrecy. It could happen again if we don't seek accountability and answers in our own back yard.
Lompoc resident Carol Benham is a former reporter and news editor for the Lompoc Record and the Santa Maria Times. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Mojo Grillin
Here's a sneak peek at some of the goodies that will be available next month.. First.. King of the Grill!
For those of you that know us personally, my husband Brian, really is the king of the grill. He astounds our friends with his latest culinary creations!
His greatest dream is to some day open a diner for Breakfast and Lunch.. This would be a perfect card for him.
When he saw this stamp set, he said.. Oh "I have to have that! The grill looks like a hot rod." Because he'll only ever admit to "helping me" I'll did a quick double take with that one!
I love this designer series paper in this case.. it looks like flames from the grill. I still might go back and add crystal effects to the grill... if I do that, I'll swap the picture out tomorrow. :) The embossing folder is a new one from the summer mini... I really like the masculine feel of the design. I got the color combination from my friend Tiffany. I explained that somehow I ended up with quite a bit of brocade blue on the shelf ~ and she suggested this color combination.
Happy Monday!
10 comments:
- Patti said...
This is so cool! You showcased the new items perfectly!
- April 12, 2010 at 9:34 AM
- Butternut Sage Designs said...
WOAH he makes me laugh....can't wait to fire uP that grill LOL Love your humerous card this morning...it starts the week off perfectly! Have a good one!
- April 12, 2010 at 10:01 AM
- Janice said...
I absolutely love this!! I have to get this image. My husband too thinks he's a great grill guru, lol.
- April 12, 2010 at 10:46 AM
- Cindy Haffner said...
- April 12, 2010 at 11:43 AM
- kay said...
King of the Grill is a nice stamp, but even better is Queen of the Grill!! hihi... I love how you colored yours. :)
- April 12, 2010 at 3:24 PM
- Tara Bilbao said...
This is way too cute. i love your take on the sketch and your color combo. Great card!
- April 13, 2010 at 1:16 AM
- Diana Eichfeld said...
This is great and the colors work so well. I was undecided about this set but I think you've made me change my mind.
- April 13, 2010 at 8:32 AM
- Annette said...
That is a riot, that stamp! I love it. Your card is great.
- April 13, 2010 at 8:47 AM
- Always Playing with Paper said...
This is awesome! Perfect for the Mojo Sketch! I love your colouring!!!
Lesley :)
- April 13, 2010 at 9:13 AM
- melanie said...
Good color combo, looks great!
- April 14, 2010 at 7:50 AM