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Sunday, September 13, 2009
I Love Paris...
Last year I travel to Europe with my husband and a wheelchair. Three months before on the first day of a sabbatical I'd waited seven years to enjoy I went ice skating, and I fell on the ice. The pain was terrible and I couldn't stand on my own, but when the skate guards asked if I needed an ambulance, I said no. I had plans. And I didn't want to waste an afternoon in the E.R.
So I went home and, as my foot swelled, told my husband that I thought I should get an Xray. On the way to the hospital I feel down my front steps, thus finishing the job I'd begun on the ice. I shattered my fibula and was told by my surgeon that I could not put any weight on the ankle for at least eight weeks. This was unbearable. I had journeys planned - to Morocco, Italy, Spain. My husband, Larry, was training for the Rome marathon and I was going to watch him run. I'd booked ferry boats and riads in distant market places.
Instead I sat on my living room couch, watching winter turn to spring. On Easter Sunday I watched family going out for brunch. Then, after ten weeks, my doctor said I could travel. But the truth was I could barely walk. But at Larry's insistence we flew to Europe with the wheelchair, crutches, a cane, and walking boot, and lots and lots of meds. In fact it was impossible.
Our daughter was in Ireland so we spent a few days in a freezing Irish mizzle (mist/drizzle) Larry shoved me through Temple Bar, along its cobblestone streets, dodging many drunken college students on their spring break. Then we flew to Paris to spend a long weekend. I was so happy that I made this journal page as we were landing. It was my mother who first brought me to Paris. She had always wanted to visit the city of lights and she'd named our first dog Renoir. Then in 1968 I live there for a year, the most exciting year of all. Now I try to return as often as I can, but never before in a wheelchair.
In Paris Larry shoved me through the Latin Quarter. My husband, the portrait of patience, like poor Sisyphus, wheeled me to the Tuilleries. I bumped along, not always a great sport. At the Louvre the fire alarm went off and I found myself stuck in Grecian sculpture. We pushed on to Spain. In Spain we had an apartment in an old Moorish town that looked out on to the Mediterranean.
On our first outing we were going to go for a walk along the sea. When we arrived, he went to get the wheelchair out of the trunk, and I told him to leave it there. Slowly I began to walk again...
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Over at Winthrop J. Quiggy's blog, Quiggy's World, he did one of those 5 thing memes yesterday. Here are mine.
5 Things I Was doing 10 Years Ago.
1.I was the DIY (Do It Yourself)/Automotive manager for K-Mart.
2. I had a part-time job at Arby's. (I have held two jobs off and on for the last 17 years.)
3. I was still married. (My wife would pass away a little over a year later.)
4. I put up inspirational messages on a signboard for the church I was attending.
5. I was helping my wife get ready for her GED test.
5 Things on my To-Do List Today:
1. Take my son to lunch.
2. Sort more of those baseball cards that I bought at the flea market.
3. Get rid of those science experiments in the refrigerator.
4. Read a few of the comic books that I have recently bought.
5. Outline a few future blog posts.
5 Snacks I Love:
1. M&M's. (Peanut preferably)
2. puff corn
3. popcorn
4. Hershey's kisses
5. Wild Cherry Lifesavers
5 Places Where I Have Lived:
1. Mason City, Illinois
2. Springfield, Illinois
3. Hanover Park, Illinois
4. Auburn, Illinois
5. Calhoun, Georgia.
5 Jobs I Have Had:
1. Grocery store stocker
2. Laundry/Housekeeping Supervisor
3. Assistant Manager at K-Mart
4. Shoe department Manager
5. floor mat trimmer
5 Things You Didn't Know About Me
I'll cheat here. I already did the 25 things.
I don't like tagging people. Anyone else want to do these go for it. I did leave one out. 5 things I would do if I were a millionaire. I couldn't come up with 5.
Volly and Travis both knew that division is the inverse of multiplication.
Today's question is Grade 3/Science.
Which planet is called the "red planet?"
- A) Venus
- B) Mars
- C) Jupiter

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"In an effort to provide clear and reasonable guidance to those impacted by this important law, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is announcing its enforcement policy on the lead limits established by the CPSIA.
Manufacturers, importers, distributors, and retailers should also be aware that CPSC will:
Not impose penalties against anyone for making, importing, distributing, or selling
-a children's product to the extent that it is made of certain natural materials, such as wood, cotton, wool, or certain metals and alloys which the Commission has recognized rarely, if ever, contain lead;
-an ordinary children's book printed after 1985; or
-dyed or undyed textiles (not including leather, vinyl or PVC) and non-metallic thread and trim used in children's apparel and other fabric products, such as baby blankets.
(The Commission generally will not prosecute someone for making, selling or distributing items in these categories even if it turns out that such an item actually contains more than 600 ppm lead.)"
Here's the whole thing. Sounds pretty good to me. So, let's get back to having some fun!


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All I can say is I hope I don't have to pay my children $200 to not be on facebook, or $200 to clean their rooms, or $200 to not text and drive. I hope I can ask them to limit their facebook time to something reasonable, say an hour a day, and that they respect and honor my request as their mother. Paul's decision to parent his daughter how he sees fit is his own private business.
There is no right or wrong in this. He's the parent. I just hope that I don't walk in his shoes when it comes to my children and social mediums. I don't think I'll pick this path. Also, regarding contracts, I think it's a great thing to have agreements with your children. It teaches them how to write contracts, how to honor your written and implied word and it's a fun experience. I think this one regarding facebook is a bit shallow. Why not put the time toward something more productive such as coming up with a business idea together and write a business plan and contract.
I know! Look at this thought-provoking blog and the stir and fun it's creating. Paul, you and your daughter could write a blog together. Just a thought.
P.S. if other fathers and daughters follow Paul's lead, perhaps the daughter would be willing to put the money earned to something more rewarding than "stuff" such as helping to feed starving people in the world or providing much needed medicine, or help stranded animals. Just another thought.
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Your stuff kicks so much ass ...
well we're calling it's parents immediatley. there will be no rough housing on this playground.
it was intertaining very good guys ive been watching ur shit since ur first toon when it was on frontpage your stuff is really funny I loved the irish guy do u guys have any idea when episode 2.2 will be done?
VERY SOON! YOU'RE THE COOLEST FOR ASKING!!! thanx dude, i needed to hear that. you rock. -tony
No bad!
...but, why was the Irish guy wearin a kilt?
because many Irish clans have worn kilts, as have the Scotts, for centuries. told.
Just a couple of things...
Overall, this was a very good flash. There were however, a couple of things that bothered me. While I realize there is a need for subtitles, we should be given the option of whether or not we desire them. It is quite distracting, as the eyes are automatically drawn to them. The audio is done well, so unless someone is hearing impaired, there is no need for them. Hence, the option. Okay, and I know this is trifle, but the mop looked like a paintbrush. One last thing...the scene change between the intestines and the brain is TOO long. It seemed to be about 15 seconds, and I started to think the flash was incomplete, or over. Anyway, keep up the great work!!!
Let me see what i can do about those subtitles.
i laughed quite a bit, you did a good job. your art skills arent up to par yet......
but you have good material. keep it up!


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I think the idea behind it is plausible, but the execution isn't quite right. I never was much of a one for analogue electronics, to be honest. Still aren't.
The purpose is to convert a digital signal to a tape recordable one and back again.
This is how it is supposed to work.
Output side
U1 is a 555 configured to run as an astable multivibrator at about 1.5khz. The output is gated via D1 and D2 which form a diode AND gate – if SOUT is high the signal is output to the tape, if not, it isn't. I suspect this signal needs rounding a bit to work.
Input side
R1/C1 form a 2.8khz Low band pass filter. Signals that get past this turn on Q1, triggering the 555 which is configured to run as a monostable multivibrator with a period of about 1khz. A 1.5khz signal should retrigger this before its period ends, providing a constant logic '1' output when there is a signal coming in from the tape.
When I figured it out this design after god knows how many years, my first thought was, does a 555 retrigger like that ? The problem is, no it doesn't, because it doesn't discharge the timing capacitor (C5). So the circuit won't work as it's supposed to. It is fixable in various ways, apparently, including simply replacing the 555 with a 74123, and wiring a PNP transistor across the timing capacitor to discharge it rapidly.
The circuit is probably going to operate at about maybe 150 baud maximum – this is pretty slow, but then again, with 128 bytes of RAM, it matters less. I think my out frequency of 555 is rather low, but I suppose having an audible frequency makes sure it is in the recording range of a tape cassette. I was looking at some other circuits which were using 3khz waveforms, so I suppose this must be do-able with a bog standard recording tape.
Still not sure if it would work in practice with the adjustment made to the monostable circuit. Probably not, because the on cycle time of the square wave is half the frequency, so I probably need to bump that oscillator (U1) up to 2.3khz or thereabouts. Replace C4 with a 22nf capacitor But it's not bad, and the output needs to be smoothed to something more akin to an audio signal rather than a direct square wave.


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this song is so fitting for my life and family right now... I had to share again!
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Wow... it has been a while.
My 90 day challenge is still going! It has been the hardest challenge I've had in a while. Not because of "the challenge", but because it seems that the enemy surely wants me not to achieve my goal.
I do not have much time to share at the moment, church is in the morning and it is already way past my bedtime, but soon we will have some coffee and catch up!
God is so good. His mercies are new every morning. And in spite of all the struggles of the past few weeks... HIS WORD STILL STANDS!
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Obama classmate: He is a radical'
Wayne Allyn Root: President has deep-seated hatred of business owners'
By Wayne Allyn Root
I was President Obama's college classmate at Columbia University, Class of '83. Almost every one of my classmates were openly socialist or Marxist, with many of these leftist radicals calling for an end to capitalism and "bringing down the system" by destroying the U.S. economy with entitlements, debt, and crisis.
That's why I have predicted in thousands of media interviews from the first days of Obama's presidency that Obama is a radical, with a deep-seated hatred of business owners, a desire to demonize us and destroy America's faith in capitalism, and a plan to bring down the system by overwhelming our economy with debt and crisis — just as we all learned and discussed at Columbia in our college days.
Well, it's no longer a theory. Obama has decided to come clean with his plans for a second term. In a matter of 48 hours he gave us two hints so big you couldn't miss his intentions.


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Today I set out to get a police clearance from India. I went first to the police station closest to our house. They said I needed to go to a different police office.
So I went there.
I knew I'd never find it on my own, so I found an auto driver, told him where I wanted to go, and told him I'd follow him in the car. All 7 of the guys in the room were very helpful and friendly. They listened for awhile, had quite a bit of discussion, then told me I needed to go to the District Police Center in the collectorate circle.
So I went there.
Well, I went to the wrong building first, but finally found the right place. I went to the supposed right office and explained what I needed. These guys didn't seem too interested in listening or helping, and told me they didn't do anything for foreigners, that I needed to go to the FRO. They showed me a piece of paper in Hindi that supposedly said all foreigners have to go the FRO (Foreigners Registration Office).
So I went there.
An hour and a half and one cup of masala chai later, (all the while I'm singing in my head the song from Mary Poppins where the kids sings, "We won't hide your spectacles so you can't see, put toads in your bed, or pepper in your tea....."), the right man arrived. Meanwhile, I had all the other guys in the office loving the fact that I need this so I can adopt a child. When I explained to them, they just smiled and said, "What is this???? It's a good thing." They were really nice. I was actually thankful for the waiting time, because every step of this had been done in Hindi, and my brain was fried. : )
So, at length, the right man came, and told me that the FRO does not issue police clearance reports and I needed to go to District Police Center in the collectorate circle. Hmmm... I told them I'd already been there. So the man gave me his number, said when I go back if they tell me the same thing, to call him and let him explain. "But don't give the phone to the top man, only to the lower man." You got it, buddy!
So, I'm of in the morning to try again. It took too long to do all of that for me to get back to the DPC today. Praying for better success tomorrow...


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03.12.12Having surrendered his office of Alderman of the Ward of Tower in the City of London, Sir Paul Judge, a Past Master of the Marketors, offered himself for re election and was accepted unopposed. This process was undertaken to ensure that he could accept the role of approved Aldermanic candidate for Sheriff when the election takes place on Midsummer's Day next year. This is a post that could lead to the role of Lord Mayor of London in a few years. The ceremony is called the Wardmote and is presided over by the current Lord Mayor. While less than twenty minutes long this was, never-the-less, crammed with historic references.
This ceremony took place in the charming church of St Olave's in Hart Street, one of the few surviving medieval buildings in The City of London and the burial place of Samuel Pepys. St Olave's survives as a rare example of the medieval churches that existed before the Great Fire of London in 1666. The flames came within 100 metres or so of the building but then the wind changed direction, saving a number of churches on the eastern side of the City.
Following the departure of the Lord Mayor, the next step was for the congregation to be transported by people carriers to the Guildhall for lunch in the Alderman's Dining Room, a bright but decorative location which buzzed with bonhomie.
Lest you think it was all fun, the event was preceded and followed by a working session in the office.
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What is a "Good" Patient?
Anonymous has written in a previous thread regarding patients ideas regarding teaching ethics to medical students an interesting comment about what patients are looking for in their medical care and how they should or should not respond. Anonymous wrote:
"I read somewhere that patients try to prevent three things inherent in the healthcare system: depersonalization, loss of control and lack of knowledge. I would consider it normal and healthy for a patient to try to prevent these things from happening to them. But the behaviours they use to prevent this go against how a "good" patient is supposed to behave."
I thought it might be worthwhile to set up a new thread on a subject I haven't tackled before. On this blog, I have covered about what make up an ideal doctor but I have never covered the issue of what is a "good" patient, either from the view of patients or from the view of the healthcare provider. So here is the chance to make your opinions known. How do you think a "good" patient should behave? ..Maurice.


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Long story short... I need to stick with interior decorating. Unfortunately landscaping is not my bag.
So we hit a few sales this weekend because I was on the lookout for a new "desk." As some of you know I was using a small table. But I was looking for something a little smaller.
The last place we stopped at, I eyeballed it from the road! A vintage federal style game table. It was worn and well loved and built solid. Not even a wobble. It also opens up to a larger square.
When the gal knocked 10 bucks off the already low price I yelled out "SOLD!" Even the cows in the pasture heard me. They were like "Who the h*ll was that??!!"
We wrestled it in old Betsy and were homeward
bound. It's exactly what I was looking for.
I've got little George on my left side and close to my heart.
My very dear high school friend who was also having a garage sale gave me some wonderful goodies!!! Here are just a few.
A repro Washington Inn sign...
And vintage George Washington bookends.
So overall, we had a fun weekend!!
Well... except for my index finger.
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I have Windows and Linux service nodes added already. When they were added for the first time I used administrator/root credentials and private keys.
Is it possible to change used administrator's credentials for service nodes?
You can safely change passwords on Windows and Linux service nodes.
Parallels Plesk Automation (PPA) uses these passwords only once for pleskd service installation on Service Node. After initial configuration, pleskd service is used for communication between PPA and service nodes and OS administrator's password could be changed freely.


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This project started life as braid of fibre. Irrisistably called Oh, go to Plague-ville!, the braid was part of the Vespasian themed collection in Countess Ablaze's Twelve Caesars Collection. I was eager to throw this on the wheel and went for some low twist fulled singles...
The twist wasn't as low as I wanted and the consistency wasn't as even but the entire process of fulling - sloshing the yarn from hot water to cold and throwing it about a bit - was incredibly fun and the colour is amazing.
Like with the spinning I felt I had to work with the yarn as soon as possible but I had other projects on the needles. Unfortunately just before Christmas my Grandma passed away. Knitting and the act of moving my hands is something that's always managed to help me cope. I craved for simple movement and the lacy front of the tank I was working on wasn't cutting it. So the night I heard the news I bought the pattern Quaker Yarn Stretcher Boomerang and started knitting the soothing, predictable ridges in soft singles.
I cast off on the train back from staying with my family. I never know really how I'l feel about these simple comfort knits knit in times of stress and sadness. Will I feel like I can never wear it, or will I be able to forget it's origins? With this scarf it's neither. I remember why I started knitting it, but I still love it. It reminds me that good can still happen after all.


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I seriously hope that Big Bun busts out some old Ridin' Dirty verses on the trip. That would be outstanding.
Was a great morning in London. Thank you guys for taking the time for a photo. Looks like you had a blast. Check out my pics if you gt time - http://www.bossman75.com/2011/05/gumball3000-2011-london.html
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University has finished and I am on break until February. I've decided to complete the 12 week program in The Artists Way. This primarily consists of writing three pages of freeflow thoughts, known as a brain dump, every morning upon waking. It is supposed to open you up creatively and help you move past your inner negative critic by writing out all the negative thoughts.
I'm hoping this will also help me to become a more disciplined blogger. I've been writing out a plan of what my ideal life looks like and trying to work out how to get there. I want to use this summer to become more organised and in control of my life, and therefore happier. If I can get on top of my life while I';m on holidays it will be easier to manage once I go back to uni and haveto deal with real life.
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Dear All,
For those who are interested to attend the International Conference ATCM in Beijing on 17-21 December 2009, please register on your own before 15 October 2009. The fee is US$270 + 120 if you bring a teacher (who does not present paper). Registration Fee AFTER October 15, 2009 is US$ 300* + 120.
Dear Mathematics Teachers and Educators,
Good News for All.
Malaysia will be organizing an International Conference in Mathematics and Technology
(ATCM) in Kuala Lumpur 2010. We would like to have more teachers and educators from
Malaysia to contribute papers and participate in this conference. This year, you are invited to participate or contribute papers to ATCM 2009 in Beijing.
Here are some information regarding ATCM 2009:
a) Title: The 14th Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics (ATCM 2009)
b) Dates: December 17-21, 2009, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
c) URL: http://atcm.mathandtech.org
d) Conference Theme "Journey to discover more mathematics"
e) Brief Description: The ATCM 2009 is an international conference to be held in China that will continue addressing technology-based issues in all Mathematics.
Thanks to advanced technological tools such as computer algebra systems (CAS),
interactive and dynamic geometry, and hand-held devices, the effectiveness of our
teaching and learning, and the horizon of our research in mathematics and its
applications continue to grow rapidly. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for educators, researchers, teachers and experts in exchanging information regarding enhancing technology to enrich mathematics learning, teaching and research at all levels. English is the official language of the conference. There will be over 400 participants coming from over 33 countries around the world.
f) Due Date for Abstract Submission: June 15, 2009.
g) Due Date for Full Paper Submission: July 30, 2009.
Dear friends,1 Our idea is to organize a 'Self –Service' Tour to Beijing, for about 30-40 teachers and educators to attend this conference."Self-Service" meaning that:
1. On-line booking of hotel according to your budget. You may bring your family for
holidays. You may refer to ATCM 2009 URL for recommended hotels which are near the
conference venue and will be available in mid June. The rate for some hotels is roughly 75USD for double occupancy, and some is ranging from 30USD to 50USD.
2. Registration for Conference ATCM 2009
Teachers/educators who are interested to attend the conference, please give me your
names and affiliation for special arrangement. Thanks to special offer from the
organizing committee of ATCM 2009: online registration fees for the conference
included attending all the 5 days conference sessions and workshops, resources for
conference, lunch and tea-breaks, visiting schools in Beijing, special tour organized by the conference host : only 180USD (normal price 270USD) if we are able to assemble a team over 30 delegates.
3. Booking of Air tickets: you may go through MATTA Fair which is in October.
Meanwhile returned air tickets offered (until August 31) by Air China is RM840, MAS
(Super Savers RM1646). If I have news of better offer, I will inform you.
If you need any help or further information, please feel free to contact me through
email (firstname.lastname@example.com). Please pass this message to your colleagues or friends.
Hope to meet you at Beijing ATCM 2009.
Thanks for your support.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Blue Monday and What have you been reading Monday!
I am joining J.Kaye's Book Blog in What are you reading Monday.
Except for one book I didn't get a whole lot of reading done this week.
I read 10,001 ways to live large on a small budget.. it has a lot of good info
in it and is easy to read.
Besides this I am still working on listening to Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
and James Patterson's - I, Alex Cross.
I have been watching way too many Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies and
playing way too much of facebook ...
Join Smiling Sally for Blue Monday,
I also wanted to share a few of my blue treasures with you. First are my mugs
that hang under my cabinets in my kitchen. See the blue snowmen and snowflakes?
I love a good mug of hot cocoa at night while I read, especially on these cold
winter nights. Also, I was in an blogger ornament exchange and Ann sent me these.
little blue lovebirds, aren't they sweet!
Hope you all had a great weekend!
9 comments:
- SmilingSally said...
I love those bluebirds of happiness! Happy Blue Monday.
- December 7, 2009 at 2:02:00 PM PST
- claudie said...
Aren't Xmas exchanges so much fun? Your sweet blue birds are in LOVE...for sure.
Happy Blue Monday
Love Claudie
- December 7, 2009 at 4:28:00 PM PST
- Nise' said...
I am reading I, Alex Cross right now.
- December 7, 2009 at 4:29:00 PM PST
- Mary said...
Ha, I've been watching those holiday movies too :D
- December 7, 2009 at 6:01:00 PM PST
- ~Lavender Dreamer~ said...
Joy, could you please stop by my blog and sign up for the giveaway on this post....
I'm sorry if my post today wasn't clear! Please come back! Thanks!
- December 7, 2009 at 6:32:00 PM PST
- Mary said...
How can you not love the blue bird of happiness? I love the blues you chose to share with us today. Have a great Blue Monday.
- December 7, 2009 at 6:32:00 PM PST
Love James Patterson!
- December 8, 2009 at 5:00:00 AM PST
- Coralie Cederna Johnson said...
Sweet little bluebirds from Blue Monday! Thanks for visiting and for noting that my Bonnie sheltie is now okay and back to her old bark bark barking again! Have a great day! Coralie
- December 8, 2009 at 7:07:00 AM PST
- Hector Macdonald said...
Hi Joy
I can't find an email address for you, so please forgive me intruding on your comment wall. I'd like to invite you to write about your favorite books at www.bookdrum.com, where you can add information, images, video, music and links to illustrate and explore the books.
Right now, we're running a $3,000 Tournament and we'll be offering contract work to the best entries.
Best wishes
Hector Macdonald
Editor, Book Drum
- December 8, 2009 at 12:32:00 PM PST


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Hot New Fashion Trends
Mustang Summer Catalog 2012
Many times it is common to find collections in which trends are bounded and focus on a few ideas and leave closed for any reason, the same. At other times, we are pleased to meet summer catalog as the 2012 Mustang, which seems made for all women, since there is an option for every one of us.
These first choices do not want to steal the spotlight, but if you show a small segment of the brand, focusing on an elegant bearing, happy to look the best, the finest, fresh, but also complement it with a touch of rusticity, which given character.
And so enjoyed the first part, heels and platforms focused on wood, jute, leather and a variety of printed fabrics with colorful shapes and designs very happy.
Then enter the segment sought by young women today. Here you can find, without fear of error, the design you want. So many options, ideas, materials, colors, finishes, among many other things to highlight them, we could talk only of them.
Then the classic sneakers like "ballet", which focus on a profile delicate, feminine, simple but elegant bearing on everything.
And for the last four models that show here, for each draw their own conclusions, some may seem dated, but others, in our view, are true works of art.


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Margaret and Helen's point of view: government shutdown
Margaret, the Republicans are trying to blame this shutdown on everyone but themselves. It's the Senate Democrats fault for not negotiating. It's President Obama's fault for being black. It's my fault for not voting for McCain and Palin. Well honey, somebody needs to tell them that dog just don't hunt.
In 2008, a hell of a lot of people voted for the candidate who campaigned on overhauling healthcare – something the nation had been debating for decades. You young ones might remember back in the 90's how the Republicans cut Clinton off at the knees over this. But I remember Truman's efforts back in the 40's and 50's. Of course, back then the Republicans screamed Communism rather than Socialism. Although, I'm pretty sure no one asked for Truman's birth certificate. He was white after all. But the point is that Republicans claiming we haven't had a debate is… well… like…
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Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Butter 6 (4 to 5-inch) ramekins and sprinkle lightly with sugar to coat. In a medium nonreactive saucepan, combine the teas, cream, milk, and vanilla beans and heat over low heat. Simmer to flavor, about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to steep for an hour or so. Strain the mixture, return it to the saucepan, and add the honey. Scald over medium heat. Meanwhile, in a nonreactive bowl, combine the egg yolks, cornstarch, and 1/4 cup of the granulated sugar and mix well. Add a ladleful of the tea mixture to the yolks, stir to temper, and stir the mixture back into the saucepan. Cook, whisking constantly, until the mixture thickens to the consistency of thick custard, 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a shallow baking pan, cover the surface of the mixture with plastic film, and refrigerate to cool. The mixture can be held overnight. Place a heavy cookie sheet in the oven. Using a mixer, beat the egg whites at low speed with 1 tablespoon of the sugar until soft peaks form. Add the remaining 3 tablespoons of sugar, increase the speed to high, and whip the egg whites in 2 (3-second) burst. Transfer the cooled tea mixture to a large nonreactive bowl and whisk until smooth. You should have an equal volume of the tea mixture and the egg whites; if not, discard enough of whichever is in excess to make the quantities equal. Add the whites to the tea mixture and, using a spatual, fold until completely blended. Fill the ramekins to the top with the mixture and tap them on a work surface to disperse any air bubbles. Wipe away any mixture that spatters on the sides of the molds. Place the ramekins on the heated sheet and bake until the sides of the souffles, which have risen above the edges of the ramekins, are golden brown, about 12 minutes. After 6 minutes check to make sure that the souffles have not adhered to the sides of the ramekins, which will cause uneven rising; use the tip of a sharp paring knife to free any stuck portions Sprinkle the souffles with the confectioners' sugar and serve. Scoop the ice cream into the souffles at table.
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I THINK OF COMPUTING at home as an extension of the computing I do at work. At home my computer is in my "office," which once upon a time was a bedroom. And the software I use is often the same I use at work.
Tandy Corp.'s new 1000 RL is for a different kind of home computing. It is designed to sit in a more central location like the kitchen, especially the kind of kitchen that has a little alcove with a small built-in desk for telephoning, reading recipe books and maybe even paying family bills.
This personal computer ($750 to $1,300) is really a household computer. Tandy has positioned it against IBM's PS/1 home computer, which I reviewed earlier. But Tandy's approach is more low budget.


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This is just a quick write up of the story.
Again, I try very hard to not write stories that are about my life, so this has nothing to do with my feelings or any of the events in my life:
Sonia Rucker is a girl whose goal is to kiss a boy by the time she graduates from the 9th grade. This isnt an easy task as she is the girl on the sidelines who, as she thinks, nobody likes. She comes to find that has many admirers. Two boys stand out the most to her, Steph Deacan, the totally hot football player, and her best guy friend Joseph Candel, the not so hot Trumpet player. How she manages to get her clumbsy self in a relationship with Steph we will never know. But does he just like her becuase of superficial things, like the typical football player? Sonia finds herself in the difficult situation of choosing between her best friend and the most popular guy in school. Who would you pick?
Find out who Sonia picks in my newest novel (that I actually plan on finishing) called Day Dreaming.
I will be working on this from time to time, so who knows when it will be finished. I may or may not post it chapter by chapter. Just keep your eyes out for a post called Day Dreaming or Day Dreaming Ch. 1.


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I am back! Twice in one day!! It's been a while since that has happened. I love holidays! I actually get time to scrap!
I played along with another challenge. This time I chose the December Sketch +3 Challenge over at Scrap Our Stash. My three items were red & green (both in the paper) and a tag.
Created with the Cosmo Cricket Early Bird collection
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We catch bass in some of the weirdest spots you've never thought to fish.
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Opera Theatre is a hands-on course designed to acquaint the student with the fundamentals of opera performance and opera production. Singers receive professional instruction in all phases of opera acting, diction, repertoire and musical pantomime as well as in non-performing areas such as costumes, scenery, lighting and productions. Opera Theatre presents a production of scenes from varied operatic works in the fall semester and a production of a complete work in the spring semester.
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This is for the name Thora Shannon
I love my name; I think one reason I married Avram was that I loved his last name. And the two together? Beautiful. Avram laughs at me, because I've been so insistent that the name we chose for this baby had to be unusual, and not only unusual now, but unusual always. But I love how my name is a completely traditional name, but has never been common, so it still feels completely mine. And Elisheva definitely fits this requirement (by the way, we're really decided on this name; it's nice to know something about our future, at least).


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In a corrupt system, which imposes by force, unjust and unconstitutional laws, where a digital account entry creates monopoly-imposed legal tender out of thin air, it's clear why global markets turn to the US dollar for safety.
Anyone with half a brain realizes the enormity of such insanity, but such is the corrupt reality imposed by our treasonous elite slave owners.
The control and monopoly of money creation is the most powerful weapon in the world.
Those harboring such power will use it as a weapon of mass destruction at worst, or as a tool of total control and enslavement at best. Such an ultimate monopoly inherently and inevitably engenders absolute corruption with reckless abandon and breakneck speed.
For years we have been monitoring the 80.00 level as a critical line in the sand, which in our view, defines the proverbial fiat cliff. In short, if the powers-that-be cannot defend the 80.00 level, they risk losing their greatest monopoly on full-spectrum power and control.
Just prior to the recent FOMC meeting, the dollar was falling sharply from its last pivot high, and was threatening an encounter with testing the 80.00 level, that ever-important line in the sand.
I don't know, say for the sake of "national security," which would more aptly be rephrased in most instances as "monopoly control," just say that the dollar needed emergency rescuing from the existential threat of crashing decisively beneath the 80.00 handle.
What might those holding the control levers decide it necessary to engineer at any cost? A deceptive and ill-conceived flight to safety toward the US fiat currency would be my first guess.
Given the gargantuan monopoly power and concerted control capabilities rendered over the whole of the financial markets, engineering a crash in equities, metals, and bond prices leaves every enslaved participant with nowhere to run for safety but to the dirty hands of the imposed fiat dollar.
In a world of law, truth, and justice, anyone with the slightest level of survival instinct would turn to gold and silver as the ultimate safe haven.
Sadly, we do not live in such a world. We live in a world of fiction where legions of good-hearted people have allowed compartmentalized puppet masters to deceive them to such a degree, that most remain completely oblivious.
Likely, because of what has gone on behind closed doors in meetings of the all-powerful, above-the-law slave masters, we must realize there is an abundance of shocks waiting in destiny's queue that will affect everyone's immediate and longer-term future.
As such, if you have yet to do so, there is no time like the present to take essential precautions.
10 Things you can do right now to buffer inevitable shocks of all shapes and sizes:
- Get out of debt (100% debt free is the ultimate goal)
- Covet and protect your cash flows
- Maintain physical cash on hand (6-12 months of living expenses)
- Hedge all bets using separate brokerages accounts that enable true strategic diversification
- Use timeframe specific strategies to manage like accounts
- Maintain prudent unbiased disciplines in executing and managing your strategic plans


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You can find all the current Certificate of Deposit (CD) rates on our rates pages.
To learn more about DATCU's loan rates, visit our rates pages.
There are several types of checking accounts that the CU offers. Some checking accounts may have a monthly service charge, if applicable. Our most popular checking account is a free checking. This account does not incur a monthly service fee. Applicable accounts that incur a monthly service fee require that a monthly balance of $500 is maintained daily. See the truth in savings fee schedule. Checking accounts that have an applicable monthly service fee incur a $7.00 fee.
Yes. It is free when you sign up for e-statements.
It is free if you sign up for e-statements. Otherwise, it is $5.95 a month and checking account is required.
The savings account alone does not have a debit card. However, if you have a free checking account you can withdraw money at the ATM (automated teller machine) from your savings.
There are several options available to our membership. We can do an auto transfer from the savings/checking. You can transfer a payment from your account in home banking. We can also debit an account from another institution through ACH. All we need is for the member to sign an ACH form and a voided check. Members can also come to one of our branches and pay by check or cash.
There are also several convenient methods of paying your credit card bill. Auto transfer each month from a DATCU account, member can go to www.datcu.org and sign up for online banking and pay from their account 24/7, member can mail a check with payment coupon, or visit any one of our ten branch locations. Address for payment remittance is as follows:
DATCU Credit Union
Attn: Credit Card Division
P.O. Box 827
Denton, TX 76202-0827
Member can come into one of our branches and we can repin their debit card.
When making a payment to the loan, let the teller know you are making an additional principal payment.
We make it very simple and convenient. If you do not have online banking, just sign-up for online banking where you will have the ability to make a payment from another financial institution through our online banking.
Absolutely! DATCU's online banking is FREE. It offers you a convenient way to monitor your accounts, view transaction history and balances, and also view all checks. Simply to go to the datcu.org home page > my DATCU Account Access and click on "Get Registered".
You can currently make a payment on-line in home banking from a DATCU account.
Sometimes this difference is due to debit card transactions that are pending and waiting to clear member accounts.
The credit union makes every attempt to make sure our members are receiving their statements and information in a timely and accurate manner. However, there are costs associated with mailing out statements and especially when the statements are returned to DATCU. A bad address fee is charged to an account when we do not have an accurate and up to date address for our members.
Come see one of the personal service representatives so that we can look further into this.
The routing and transit number is located at the bottom of each check before the member account. (311980725) Members can call or come by one of our branches.
Members can apply for a loan online. However, at this time members will need to come in one of the branches or open an account by mail.
The call center is better equipped to service the calls coming into the credit union. However, they can always transfer any member to a branch for additional information, if needed. Most branches are geared to servicing the membership that are coming into the branch and may not always have the time or opportunity to take calls.
There are no penalties, if anything, the member will save money.
No. It simply adds a month to the end of your loan, extending the contract.
#1 – DATCU Website – Quick links, select Check Reorder, on Deluxe website, place check order.
#2 – Member may sign on to their online banking and select the checks tab. When in the checks field, member has the option to order checks.
Yes. Members can access different accounts online. However, there are stipulations.
Once an authorization has been given, a member will first need to try to solve the transaction dispute with the merchant. If dispute is not resolved, the cu will need the member to come in and speak with a representative to try to dispute the transaction.
7-10 business days if paid by check. Members can request to receive and pick up the title in Denton, if payment is made by cash. This is not a frequent transaction, so approval must be submitted and the title department will need to be notified so that they can pull the title from the title vault area.
Wire to:
225 W. Mulberry St.
Denton, TX 76201
Routing# 311980725
Member Name
Member Account#
Account Type: (Checking or Savings)
You can request that certain restrictions be removed if you are traveling to another state or if you are making an online purchase from a state that has credit transactions restricted. Please keep in mind that the restrictions have been placed on these states to reduce the possibility of fraud. You can always use your card with the PIN# in any state.
DATCU's routing number is 311980725.


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Now a page is need with a form enter name, when a user enters the name and click send the image is them put onto that pagem the user can then right click and save the image, there is no need for the image to stay on the server at all.
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Sushma Swaraj shares picture as bride on her wedding anniversary
Sushma Swaraj, one of the active politicians in social media has shared a picture of her wedding that took place long back i.e on July 13, 1973 during the emergency period in India . Recently, the external minister has shared a wedding photo with her husband Swaraj Koushal in the Twitter, that went viral. It has been reported that over 7,000 likings came on this picture.


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Miles Aldrige
I love the play of colour and cartoon-like effects in Miles Aldrige's photography.
All images via nowness.com
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Saturday, 20 November 2010
Vogue U.S. December 2010
And the last post of the day (or night) is on Steven Meisel's shoot for Vogue U.S.
Who says mohawks don't go with couture gowns?
Good ol' Grace Coddington styled Bonnie Chen, Du Juan, Hyoni Kang, Lee Hyun Yi, Lily Zhi, Liu Wen, So Young Kang and Tao Okamoto.
Loving the change of scenery. 2010 was the Polish/Russian year, let 2011 be the Asian one I say.
All images via fashiongonerogue.com
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Winter Wonderland (I Know An Overused Title But Come On It's 3:47 A.M.)
Case in point 2 for my love of scenery, surprisingly coming from the N.Y. Times's Style Magazine Winter 2010 issue, is of Sweden's Dalarna style by Anne Christensen and photographed by Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello.
I always wonder how photographer duo's work. Does one work the camera while the other sips a coffee? Or is it more of a I take a picture, you take a picture thing? OR....do both have cameras and snap away at the same time? Oh how the blonde brain boggles...
Anyway, my hat's off to Amanda Norgaard for braving the cold like that. Unless Rodarte's dress magically has some Uniqlo heat tech stuff installed in it (which has been semi-fascinating me for a while, but those puffa jackets ain't my style), I think little Amanda N. must have been freezing her ass off.
All images via fashiongonerogue.com
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Canyon Country
So besides watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer and 'researching' for uni aka doing 15 minutes max and then going onto Bloglovin', I thought I might make use of the day and post a little something for your guys.
When it comes to the fashion editorial spreads (which I overdo, I know) I do love myself a nice bit of scenery instead of the boring studio shoot, although it's obvious that for financial reasons not everybody can jet off to Magapitchu.
First case in point:
Romina Lanaro by Camilla Akrans for Flair's October 2007 issue, entitled Wild Wild West (not the Will Smith kind, thank God! Oooh remember the cheesy title song and the weird get-ups? Cringe).
An oldy but goody. Although I would not advise you to go en commando horse backriding unless you are into, uhm, chafing and I imagine Miss Model ended up with sand in some weird places. But that aside, beautiful pictures.
All images via fahsiongonerogue.com
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Thursday, 18 November 2010
Set In Sapphire
I am literally busy as a squirrel until Christmas (speaking of literally and someone who uses the word excessively, Rachel Zoe is pregnant how cute is that? Her child will probably have a Chanel pacifier and be carried around in a Hermes Birkin).
Just wanted to drop this little gem.
The ring is by De Grisogono. It is a 23.18-Carat-emerald-cut blue sapphire surrounded by 107 blue sapphires and 224 white diamonds in white gold.
So going onto my Christmas wish list (in the words of Cher Horowitz, as if!).
Image via vogue.com (the U.S. site, which is very awesome, check it out)
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Sunday, 14 November 2010
Fashion Week Photography
As you can tell by the title this post is long overdue. I am a very lazy blogger and in general a lazy person tsk tsk.
For an almost finished uni project, I had to do weekly straight up images. Am debating whether to post them all out of curtesy to my subjects.
For an almost finished uni project, I had to do weekly straight up images. Am debating whether to post them all out of curtesy to my subjects.
Thank you to everyone for taking the time to pose for me, you look fabulous!
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Sunday, 7 November 2010
Opinion Piece
Considering the fact that I am a uni student, this blog is very much lacking in the writing department. So, here an opinion piece I wrote for my Fashion Media class. Enjoy.
The Birth Of The Infidelity Site =The Death Of Monogamy?
How Noel Biderman's website threatens to strike being faithful out of the marriage equation
I am a very liberal person, except when it comes to one thing: marital cheating. Call me old-fashioned and naive, but I actually like the idea of committing to someone and knowing that they will commit to me.
Imagine my disgust when flicking through my Evening Standard two weeks ago. Why Cheating Is Better Than Divorce was staring back at me as the title of an article about the UK's largest infidelity site launching soon. You might as well all throw your wedding ring in the loo if Noel Biderman, the creator of the online cheating platform Ashley Madison, has his way. The website gains a new member every 11 seconds. Faster affair finding with less guilt. What has the ideal of marital trust coming to I wonder.
Biderman, who proclaims that "monogamy is dead", calls affairs "a wake up call" for married couples. I call it burning bridges built up over the years. If you need an affair to prove the importance of a significant other in your life, then maybe you should rethink the relationship in general. A decade ago, online affairs already accounted for one third of all marriage annulments, when the Internet was only a fraction as involved in our daily lives as it is today.
Divorce rates may be at an all time low in the UK with 11.5 per 1000 people divorcing, but this is due to the financial woes and fewer numbers of people getting married rather than effective marital problem solving. In an increasing world of pre-nuptial contracts and with the average divorce costing £13 000, it's no wonder that people are hesitant to walk down the aisle or free their ties from an unsatisfying marriage.
Sigmund Freud's theory that repression of the sexual instinct is detrimental to one's psychological well-being could justify looking for your thrills elsewhere when your spouse isn't packing the punch and experts say our generation is having increasing difficulties with staying faithful due to the habit of having multiple sex partners before marriage. Howeverm anthropologists argue that even though our ancestors were mostly polyamorous, long-term monogamy is difficult, but not impossible.
I will admit that the m-word's future isn't exactly rosy, with statistics showing that 30 to 60 percent of married individuals will engage in infidelity at some point during their marriage, but that doesn't mean we should encourage it. I am not denying that every human has faults, and that affairs don't happen, but if you are wired in a polyamorous way, why not be in an open relationship instead? It makes no sense to try and fit yourself into the constraints of marriage. You can't have your wedding cake and eat it too.
Noel Biderman may say that "it's 2010, time to redefine morality." But a website with the slogan "Life is short. Have an affair" isn't redefining our morals, it's destroying them. Life is short, so don't stay in a marriage that doesn't have a solution to its problem or that is suffocating you. Just remember that that ring is a symbol of commitment. Honour it or get out. But don't play both sides of the field.
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Tuesday, 2 November 2010
A Head Full Of Lavender And Green
Perpetually bored with my non-dyed and shoulder length hair (zzzzz...growing out short hair, although after seeing Rosemary's Baby I really want to chop it off again), late night study sessions lead to a purple light bulb going off in my head.
Perhaps it's some delayed form of wannabe teenage rebellion, but I am craving some wildly coloured locks.
This Proenza Schouler hair in my favourite show by the label so far
+ Lady Gaga rocking this look (I know Lady Gaga overkill at the moment everywhere, sorry but she is a good example for my case)...
= me wanting to purchase (and use) this:
Obviously I would have to bleach my hair and then dye it. The thought of me having the responsibility of dyeing my own hair makes me shudder, but I was thinking of streaks, however I dunno how that would look against my brown hair (blech) which means I would need to leave this one to the professionals aka chuck my money out the window.
Thoughts on the purple head, or as my friend likes to call it the Tavi look?
I could always go with the green tips look....
Images via fabsugar.com, style.com and manicpanic.com
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The hallowed "Frozen Tundra" of Lambeau Field is...no more. Let's pause for a moment of silence, please ... ... ... Thank you.
Since the end of the season, a major renovation has been taking place in terms of the famous playing surface. If you're digging down 3 feet in an effort to get better drainage, a better in-ground heating system and a better playing field, that's major. Especially at Lambeau. The only thing that fans will see, of course, is a beautiful green field that will hopefully be as good in December as it is in September. The key to that is a field replanted with a mix of real and synthetic blades of grass.
This is not the first time the Packers have tweaked the field. For Packer purists who might decry this modernization of the sacred tundra, talk to Vince. Lombardi was the first to try to improve the playing field at Lambeau by installing an in-ground heating system. Over the years, the Packers have tried a few different types of improvements to the surface, without great success. In the late 1990s, a similar blend of real and synthetic grasses was tried on a mesh bed. It was removed after a few years as players complained about footing. This new surface is the same one the Packers installed on one of its practice fields a couple years ago. Players apparently love it. This is also the same type of system that is already used in Denver, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The key is that, late in the season when the real grass dies off, players are still able to get good footing.
If you want to read more about this, and also see a few photos of the renovation, click here.
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The Ol' Gray Tundra, She Ain't What She Used to Be...
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MIAMI — Eastern Airlines becomes the latest entry in the airfare war on Sunday when it cuts the cost of 172 flights a day between the north and seven Florida cities.
Eastern announced Saturday it would offer a $99 one-way midweek fare from New York and Philadelphia to and from seven Florida cities -- Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa, Melbourne and Daytona Beach -- beginning Sunday. The fare, good until Dec. 15, is based on roundtrip travel.
``The new fares will save travelers up to $30 each way on the lowest current fare on the northeast to Florida market,`` said John Nelson, senior vice president of marketing at Eastern.
It was the latest in a series of fare reductions by airlines battling for a bigger slice of the lucrative East Coast routes.
On Friday, People Express began offering $49 one-way fares from Miami to Washington`s Dulles International Airport in response to Presidential Airways, the upstart carrier founded by former People Express executives.
The People Express off-peak fare, undercutting Presidential by $20, will be in effect until Jan. 6, airline spokesman Russell Marchetta said.
Presidential, which launched service Thursday with $69 off-peak rates from Washington to a handful of cities in the East and Midwest, said the move by People Express would not affect its operations.
``We don`t anticipate lowering our fares,`` Presidential spokeswoman Jan Hausrath said.
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Nick Clegg's wife Miriam González Durántez says schoolgirls should feign self-confidence to get on in life.
The successful corporate lawyer said she was a timid teenager but got on by 'faking it'.
She added: "If you don't have it, you fake it.
"Women have been faking lots of things during history. No? So if you're going to fake something, fake self-confidence.
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In an interview with the Evening Standard, mum-of-three sons Miriam also warned that girls were dropping out of 'hard' subjects like Maths and English for fears they are 'not going to be attractive to boys'.
She made headlines earlier this month while discussing her role as a working mother, saying: "I don't want to have it all - I want to have what men have".
The Telegraph reports that Miriam and Nick want to 'always keep' their three boys in state school, and that Miriam said that attending 'Eton' was not a shortcut into the elite.
More on Parentdish:
Talking to teen girls about body image and dieting
Best-selling author Steve Biddulph on Raising Girls


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Listening to the track Velodrome, one can easily be mistaken it as the genius work of electro house pioneers Daft Punk, but in fact it's the new tune from duo Chemical Brothers. The Chemical Brothers have recorded 'Velodrome' as the official soundtrack to the Olympics Track Cycling events in the velodrome this summer. "I have loved cycling since I was a boy. I have always made a connection between electronic music and cycling repetition, the freedom and sense of movement," Tom Rowlands of the band said. "Kraftwerk obviously cemented this connection with their 'Tour de France' track. For us to create the theme for the Velodrome is a great honour and we're really excited to hear it in situ." The song is one of five official tracks that will soundtrack the London 2012 Olympic Games. Muse, Dizzee Rascal, Elton John & Pnau and Delphic have provided the other four songs.


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Friday, January 14, 2011
Honey, Valentine's Day is Coming!
I have been bugging Dan for months, "I really want to make a honey soap with this fantastic honey fragrance I got, but I'm so bored with the typical golden brown, uncolored bar of honey soap, as beautiful as they are, I want something different for us, you know, something more.........us." Well, this turned into my bringing up the possibility of making the bar 3 layers of yellow, black, yellow, to look like a bee's abdomen, I jokingly have referred to this as our "Bee Butt" soap..... So, it had been a long time of planning, and I am not the most patient, so I was both excited and nervous as working with honey can be tricky since the sugars heat up the mixture and can make you have to work fast, really fast. Didn't know how pretty it would be, would I be able to pour this beautifully into the mold, or will it trace too quickly and lump up so that it can only be plopped in a spoonful at a time, then mashed down? Please, Soap Gods, let this pour beautifully at just the right time.......please, Selena, work fast enough.
I have everything ready and set up, colorants awaiting raw soap emulsion to be blended in, fragrance and honey added to oils, everything very cool to give me more time to work......and alas, my darling friend has remembered me and welcomed me back with open arms, I thank you. The fragrance is amazing, as I started to pour the yellow into the mold, I realized that I still had plenty of time, and I just HAD to swirl this one, so, after the mold was about half full, I poured some black into the yellow and swirled with a chopstick, beautiful, still plenty of time to work. I then poured a layer of black over the layer of swirled, then finished up with the remaining yellow as the last layer, and textured the top as if it were cake icing (see below).
As soon as this was done, I immediately asked, "What about Buzzz Word?" So, the picture above is of, Buzzz Word, our take on a Honey Soap......We have also made a wonderful Honey Beer Soap for our guys in our Barroom Hero Collection, our Pale Honey Ale accompanies Buzzz Word along with linen spray and some other goodies in our Valentine's Day Couples Honey Gift Set.....Treat yourself and your Honey for Valentine's Day! These will be available the last weekend in January (via me through email or at Chamaeleon Boutique in Ambler, PA)........More pictures coming soon.....See beow for a pic of all the upcoming soaps we just created! The Pale Honey Ale Beer Soap & Buzzz Word Honey Soap are the ones to the right. The swirled bar in the front of the "tub" is "Wanderlust....more on that and others to come.....
So excited about the new year already and I hope you are, too........stay tuned for more updates.......
"Cleanliness is next to Godliness"
Saturday, January 8, 2011
New Year, New Product
Well, 2010 was an eventful year for us, lots of hard work and late nights! After a great time at the Firebird Festival in December, we used the holidays to take stock of our inventory and started planning what would be our new items in 2011.
Would like to take a moment to thank family and friends for their support as well as everyone whom we have met at shows and have shared our products with; many thanks to you!
We have begun the first items and once they are ready we will have posts and pics to share!
Happy New Year! And stay tuned...more to come!
Would like to take a moment to thank family and friends for their support as well as everyone whom we have met at shows and have shared our products with; many thanks to you!
We have begun the first items and once they are ready we will have posts and pics to share!
Happy New Year! And stay tuned...more to come!
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Dura Ace 9000 - ETA late 2012/early 2013
Discuss light weight issues concerning road bikes & parts.
I just saw a time trial bike set up with 11-speed Di2 at Bicycle Outfitters in Los Altos, CA. I also saw similar on a Trek @ Chain Reaction in Cupertino, CA.
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ipenguinking wrote:Can I update the firmware with SM-BCR2 (charger) or do I need SM-PCE1?
The bcr2 will update firmware
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asv wrote:ipenguinking wrote:Can I update the firmware with SM-BCR2 (charger) or do I need SM-PCE1?
The bcr2 will update firmware
Can I use bcr2 to turn on multi-shift mode? Or do I still need PCE1?
Some teams riding Shimano 9070 11spd are using non-branded brakelevers.
Again something new? Or older prototypes?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/paris-nice/s ... tos/254974
Again something new? Or older prototypes?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/paris-nice/s ... tos/254974
If you haven't seen pics on scales yet, here are some we took recently including the internal battery. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 480&type=1
Horacio wrote:Disregard.
I'm hooked up!
Did you get your derailluers and shifters from twohubs?
Giant has a few 9070 sets in stock. They don't sell them as groups, but I see they have some of each part in stock. If your lbs is a giant dealer they should be able to order it up for you.
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What is a 1 year old 7970 group with 3000 miles worth?
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Thanks all for the information on programming the system. I was under the impression that you had to purchase the SM-PCE1 to do it or have the LBS do it. I did not see that information anywhere else, only here in this forum. My LBS confirmed the information. I'm very excited about that.
Hmm, does that junction box work on Ui2?
I know the the ultegra junction works on dura ace with a firmware update, suppose the reverse is probably true but I don't know for sure.
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Some of us, sadly, will never be able to forget the sordid and tawdry details of Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce's messy marriage and swapped driving licence points.
But do you know what she was doing when he announced he was walking out of the marital home?
Is Mark Carney the new governor of the Bank of England or a Bafta award winner?
Was the digging up of Richard III from a council car park even more exciting that the rising of the Mary Rose?
Have a crack at the Telegraph weekly news quiz to find out whether you should be crowned the king of knowledge or whether your brain needs burying in six feet of tarmac.


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Here's a couple I made yesterday. The card on the left is 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. On the right 3 1/2 x 5. The other size card is 3 x 3. A little stamping and gluing, that's all there is to it! All of the envelopes have the colored flap
Check out this video to see how easy it can be to make your own cards then let me know if you're interested.
As you saw in the video, the kit comes with 15 Soft Sayings stamps, Basic Grey ink spot, a clear block, all the card bases and envelopes, some washi tape and dimensional glue dots. You'll need some liquid adhesive or a snail
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Yeah Linus, I know how you feel. The blanket hasn't become a big element of the strip yet, but we're getting there.
How does Schroeder know about used cars? I like how the kids don't refer to the baby sitters by name, just by their attributes and reputation. It's an impersonal relationship, that between the high school student and her temporary charges. The most legendary babysitter in comics would have to be Calvin's nemesis Rosalyn. It's really difficult to picture a character like her in Peanuts, and not just because she's an adult.
Charlie Brown has mostly laughed at this kind of rejection up to now, but this is getting more to his familiar personality from later strips.
Since the last post, the comics world took a grevious blow when Richard Thompson, creator of the best modern comic strip going by a wide margin, Cul De Sac, had to lay down his pen due to encroaching Parkinson's Disease. I'm sorry I wasn't about to work in more references to it in these posts; it is wonderful in a way that fans of Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes will find familiar, but still manages to be distinct from both of them in both style and tone. Alice is kind of like Calvin but more realistic and much more random; Petey is like Charlie Brown except much more introverted and nervous. The strip ended just after its fifth birthday, and in far fewer newspapers than you'd expect from its extreme brilliance, but I'm still suffering from a strong sense of deja vu from when C&H closed up shop. Thompson says he's quitting because the disease made it hard to keep up with the strong deadlines of a newspaper strip, so I'm hoping, kind of like Michael J. Fox, that we haven't heard the last from him, or his brilliant creation maybe in some other form.


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No, there has been no crafting going on in my world in the past 2 weeks, which I am sure is the same for many of us. I could not show a lot of my desks or craft room, as it is currently filled with various boxes/bags of stuff for the local food bank/charity shop etc. I just need to get these dropped off and then I can see the carpet again!
So I have taken a close up of one small area of my main desk.
My pen pot, scissor pot, notepad, glasses cleaning cloth (yes, I know this is exciting!), tablet deckchair (I don't own an Ipad, so it is used for other purposes) with assorted nice things (mini framed fox embroidery, custom mini painting of my donkey, Doris - and a few more things out of sight).
I do need to do some crafting tomorrow to make a New Years card - and then there are a few birthdays coming up. I also have digital scrapbooking projects in my head, and I have this as a personal goal for January. Just need more hours in the day and energy.
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas. Fairly quiet here. This was our lunch in front of the fire and tree.
Happy New Year - and I hope 2016 will bring us all lots of crafting time.
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I haven't wrote anything on the Rats since Bob and I have started this thing back up because I'm both obsessed with the Pens and Bob does quite a bit of writing on the Rats. Anyway I thought I should give my two cents on the state of the Pirates (and holy God look at those alternate jerseys I mean who could've possibly have come up with these. They are just as bad if not worse than the Braves alternates), now unquestionably the worst pro sports team in town!
Alright now let's get something straight right off the bat here, I by no means hate the Pirates. I call them the Rats, make fun of them constantly, and have little to no confidence in the team, but I still love them. I guess they are kind of like a girl that you really want to break up with but you just can't pull that trigger. I'm just fed up with the losing as everyone else is I'm sure, they are still however my favorite baseball team.
Ok let's check out the lineup Bob brought up a couple weeks back:
His Lineup
1.(L) Duffy CF
2.(R) Sanchez 2B
3.(R) Bay LF
4.(L) LaRoche 1B
5.(R) Nady RF
6.(R) Paulino C
7.(R) Bautista 3B
8.(R) Wilson SS
Tracy's Lineup
1.(L) Duffy CF
2.(R) Wilson SS
3.(R) Sanchez 3B
4.(L) LaRoche 1B
5.(R) Bay LF
6.(R) Nady RF
7.(R) Paulino C
8.(R) Castillo 2B
I'll be honest with you, I'm ready to hire Bob as the next Pirates skipper. I can't really understand
(1) Duffy has to be consistent and get his speed on the base paths. He is probably one of the faster major leaguers I've ever seen and that includes Jose Reyes.
(2) Jack Wilson has to find a happy medium between last years shit numbers and his all-star numbers from '05.
(3) Bay has to be protected and has to hit in the 3 or 4. To have the teams best hitter hitting in the 5 spot makes absolutely no sense (but let's face it Tracy is pretty goddamn good at making moves that make little sense).
(4) Castillo has to take a couple steps in the right direction. It looked like he was sleep walking through most of last year. I've heard the Manny Ramirez comparisons as far as personality goes with Jose and let's face it, he's no Man Ram so he sure as fuck doesn't get to act like the first Dominican space cadet . I'd pull the plug on him real early, if not in spring training if he doesn't get off to a decent start. I have no problem seeing Bautista at 3B and Sanchez at 2B if Slow Poke Rodriguez can't cut it.
On to the rotation, where 4 out of the 5 spots are all but written in stone. Snell, Duke, Gorzelanny, and Maholm are our one through four starters. Frankly this is the only part of the team I'm Penguins level excited about. Seeing this staff mature and get better will be exciting to watch over the next several years (assuming they all stay...). Snell is looking the most promising in my opinion, towards the end of last season he seemed to have stuff no one could hit at times (I'm thinking of a game against the Mets but can't remember much else). As Bob commented a couple weeks ago Gorzelanny could mature into our ace this season, but I'm sticking with Snell (assuming he matures a bit more). Of course, we have to pray for rain on the fifth day with Armas bringing up the rear of the rotation.
The bullpen, despite the loss of our marquee closer Gonzo, is still in pretty good shape. Apparently the only thing the front office is really any good at is building a decent bullpen. Torres should be solid in the closer role (provided his arm doesn't fall off with all the innings he's been seeing the past couple seasons). Capps should be able to come in and be effective if Torres fails. We also signed notable head case Danny Kolb, who was lights out with the Brew Crew two years ago, but was about as good as the bird shit on my car last year with the Braves, so who knows about that guy.
And now to my favorite part of the team to rip on and the most frustrating by far. If you need any of my opinions on Jim "Dick" Tracy or Littlefuck please check my posts from last summer. I hate both these guys. Bob and I could do a better job running the Pirates and the sick part is that I'm 100 % serial (you need to watch more South Park if you don't get the reference). They are both completely inept (save the Gonzo - LaRoche trade). Just compare the line-up Dick put out with the one that Bob and I both came up with immediately after the LaRoche trade without conferring with one another what so ever.
Anyway, my prediction for the upcoming year is 80 wins. Maybe we will get a winner next year?


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I kept a 10" length of the car fabric instead of using it up on the back with the chance of using it on the border of a matching pillowcase. I also trimmed off and kept a couple strips of the transportation fabric to perhaps use as an accent strip in a pillowcase. I wish I'd had more of the grid to use as a pillow case but I did not. The body of the pillowcase may just need to be white or a color close to one of the check sections on the front of the quilt.
This is now going into my TBFMQ pile (to be free motion quilted). The FMQ at the checks will just be stitch-in-the-ditch. To keep it simple, I will outline the cars or meander among them in that wide section. Because I am not going to get carried away with the FMQ, it may go quickly, so I think I will put it at the top of the pile. At this point I plan to bind Classic Cars in this orangish red toned mini-print. Stay tuned.
If anyone is interested here are the fabrics I used as printed on their selvages. They may still be around on eBay. I find it fun to look up information from the selvages of the fabric. Since I am not a graphic designer or art school major at all, this is an intriguing way to learn who thinks up the ideas for the fabrics I love. It also helps me keep an eye out for other fabrics by that designer. It is, in a way, like remembering the author of a book and using that info to choose your future selections.
Johnny Yanok has done work for Disney and Fisher Price. Per his website he "draws everything from adorable teddy bears to snot-filled zombies." Google his images. They are really cute. Jackie Shapiro has done work for Mattel for their Barbie line. No wonder I find these fabrics fun to play with!


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Challenge #17 is all about then and now. We are sharing more of what we looked like, what our hopes and dreams were and how we see things now. And of course if you want to play along you are welcome to create a layout of yourself "Then and Now". We would love it if you would share it with us which you can do a few different ways, post to our facebook page, email us at email@example.com or bring it in for show and tell.
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X. tropicalis Database
Using Filemaker Pro 5.5, I designed the Harland Xenopus Database to track and organize husbandry and mating information specific to our frog colony. You will need to modify the files to suit your needs. A basic knowledge of Filemaker Pro is required to do this. All the information you need to modify the files can be found in the Filemaker Pro User Handbook.
Harland Xenopus Database Version 6 (Stuffit .sit file or BinHex .hqx file)
Harland Xenopus Database version 5 (Stuffit .sit file or BinHex .hqx file)


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I've driven thousands of miles in the Outback, but I've seen only a few wild animals. Live ones, anyway. There's been plenty of roadkill: an easy dozen kangaroos, a feral camel, even a cow that clearly lost its bearings. The only live creatures have been the glorious birds: brilliant green parrots with yellow-banded necks, a pair of white cockatoos with salmon bellies, and flocks of pale gray galahs with brilliant fuchsia undersides.
Today all that changes.
I'm hiking through Wilpena Pound … a remarkable 100-square-mile natural bowl surrounded by mountains in a geological upthrust … when I catch sight of
an emu with a gaggle of eight chicks. Edwina, I call her, sharing the sighting with the desk person at the Wilpena Pound information desk. Edwin, she tells me. "Once she's laid the eggs, she's out of there. The male looks after them.'' Strike one for nature's form of labor division.
Now I'm on a dirt track, driving through Brachina Gorge. A "corridor in time'' it's called, because the rock formation along this 19 kilometer stretch were carved over a period of 100-plus million years.
Stop. 'Roo out the right window. I stop, gape, try to catch a photo. Move on.
A few kilometers later, 'roo out the left side. He watches, then hops off into the field, an improbable combination of a rabbit on two pogo sticks with a thick tail dragging behind. It looks so cartoonish, you can almost hear "Boing! Boing!" as it hops away.
It's a blustery, gray winter day here, and spotting the 'roos amid the brush takes sharp eyes. But every now and then I see one or two, sometimes three: Frozen, waiting for the car to pass.
The big catch comes deep in the Gorge, when I see what I think just might be a rare yellow-footed rock wallaby.
It's windy beyond words, but I get out of the car anyway. The wallaby watches but doesn't move. I walk closer. He (she?) stands still. I get closer yet…close enough to see that it probably really is a yellow-footed wallaby, if the drawing on info brochure from Wilpena Pound is any guide at all.
He watches, poses, then hops off into the bush. I hop info my car, heading for the famous Prairie Hotel's "feral feast.'' It features camel, emu and kangaroo on the menu….even wallaby, but not the yellow-footed kind.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Outback wildlife
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Monday, 27 December 2010
361 : Nimbus
Decided to go with Nimbus gray for my room :}
I went with gray or grey, because I wanted a neutral color to go with my white ceiling & my "to be decided" Black & White furniture, allowing me to enter BOLD really sharp colors around the room like bedsheets, cushions, couch,,, etc
I'm almost done with furniture, I have an idea what do I want, BUT the dilemma now is with the lighting, what I know for sure is that I have to be ready by this weekend as per dad's request so we can start soon. I'm excited and want to start my annual leave with a new room :>
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- BeBe said...
El fal li , ham Ana Ga3da a4yer
Bs loni atwqa3 93b nfs el lylac mayl ll grey
La tnseen trawena e natija ;)
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- Traveleer said...
good luck :) you are brave. I wouldn't go for grey for the bedroom.
- 28/12/10 9:07 am
- Q80-ChillGirl said...
Inshallah will do :> lylac is amazing! and very soothing, perfect for bedroom *2 thumbs up*
:p am brave, with colors I have no boundaries ,, I think it all depends on the shade you choose :} all colors are lovely
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These inexpensive, easy-to-make recipes by Oprah & Dr Oz are excellent for cleansing your colon and losing weight. Both of these recipes will prove effective for a colon cleanse. The removal of toxic impurities from your system will help raise your metabolic rate which then helps you lose weight as your body digests more calories in less time. Fatigue will be a thing of the past as you find renewed levels of energy thanks to this detox program. These recipes are full of natural ingredients and filled with vitamins and antioxidants. They can be made from the comfort of your home and taste great.
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Today on Mid Stream Radio, Ron and I will talk with a representative from The Poor People's Project, a group founded by the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King to empower black people and improve their economic and social positions through progressive efforts. In the second half, we'll take a look at the fallout from the Iowa caucuses last night, and in particular how the GOP race is now errupting in chaos.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Good Times at Carson Elementary
Thanks to Debbie Bair, AKA "Mama Bear", for sending this picture of me with her daughter.
One of my favorite parts of the program: autographing my books and posters.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Toad Warrior poster
|Skagway is a toad character that I have used in my school programs for many years. The students have always enjoyed my quick-draw Skagway drawings. I finally decided to introduce Skagway to my blog audience in poster form. Actually, this Skagway image was one of the first images that I posted on this blog. I thought I would reintroduce him to those who weren't around when I first started the blog. You can see in the side panel to the right that Skagway is available on Zazzle as a t-shirt, as well as other Skagway products.
Have you seen my other blog, The Trowbridge Chronicles.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Last Week's Read Across America Program
Last Thursday I was honored to be the featured guest for the Read Across America Program at Fruitland Elementary School in Puyallup, Washington. The students just finished their monster drawing that I demonstrated for them from my Monster Safari How-to-Draw Book. They wanted to hold their drawings up to show me... so I grabbed my camera, just in the nick of time. It was a fun and memorable day. I will have more Monster Safari Programs through the Spring semester and next school year.
I would be happy to answer your questions regarding bringing my Monster Safari and/or Read Across America Program to your school: http://bronsmith.com/schoolprograms.htm
Monday, March 3, 2014
Bumble Bee Pollinating Discovery Bay Rhododendron
I've been working on this painting on and off since November 27, 2013. The biggest challenge in painting in a realistic style is the time commitment. Realistic paintings progress very slowly.
I used Prisma Color pencils with a colored pencil blender pen to give the painting a "wet" look. I saved the best for last...yesterday I painted in the bumble bee in the middle of the rhodie bloom. That was the cherry on top of the whip cream.
I draw and paint so much for public consumption and almost not at all for decorating the walls of our house. So this will be framed and will hang in our family room. The actual purpose of the painting is to enhance my Painting in Paradise web site.
My Painting in Paradise workshops allow people the opportunity to travel to an exotic South Pacific destination, the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. There I teach participants how to paint exotic tropical flowers in a realistic style. It is truly a painter's paradise holiday. You can get more details in the link in the above paragraph.
Have you seen my other blog, The Trowbridge Chronicles?
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