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Monster Hunter will spread to another platform in June, franchise creator Capcom has announced. Monster Hunter: Dynamic Hunting is in development for iOS devices and will offer a "new intuitive control system...eschewing the typical D-pad" -- i.e., finger swipes and taps. It all looks a bit Infinity Blade-ish to us.
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3. The Neighbourgoods Market held very Saturday in Braamfontein attracts foodies looking to purchase farm fresh goods and sample speciality products. The market's 15-storey mural backdrop was created by Edoardo Villa in the 1970s.
4. With 55 elite stores and restaurants, a boutique hotel, theatre and library, Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton has much of life's pleasures to make for an excellent shopping experience. Take a group usie on the plaza with the giant Nelson Mandela statue in the background.
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6. The Kwa Mai Mai market, otherwise known as the Place of Healers, is where sections of the community arrive to purchase traditional muti (medicines) and be treated by Isangomas (traditional healers) and Inyanga (herbal medicine specialists). Be warned that some of the products, such as animal pelts, may offend.
7. The Johannesburg Planetarium at the University of Witwatersrand was opened in 1960 and continues to offer daily educational shows on astronomy and activities in the night skies. The planetarium draws in roughly 70000 visitors per year. Discover the location of the Southern Cross.
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9 Small Things To Improve Your Mood
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Such a great post! Need to remember these tips the next time I'm feeling a bit down :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you for reading Pinja, glad you enjoyed it :)Delete
- Anonymous27 June 2015 at 23:17
I've been having such a bad week, that reading this post just lifted my mood! Thank you for those tips I'll definitely be using them :-)ReplyDelete
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Awh Mairead, hope you're doing OK, but glad to hear this helped - even just a little bit :)Delete
This is a really good list! :) I do many of these things regularly. Probably my most favorite is to go for a walk (I definitely would if I lived in Ireland even if it was raining- it looks like it's so beautiful all through the year- I can't wait to go back). I also love listening to music and have also been trying to get back into reading (my only problem is that I usually can't put a book down if it's good haha). xxReplyDeleteReplies
Haha yes, walking is my preferred one too - I go every day! I never get sick of the same route that I take. I've been in such a reading slump lately - I should probably get back into it because it would help me to sleep so much better! xDelete
Brilliant post Catherine! Going for a walk always changes my mindset and gets me thinking. I also like to listen to music by people I think are empowering :)ReplyDelete
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Ah thank you Maeve :) yes music is a great one, there's an album - Since Kyabram by Declan O'Rourke that is my all time favourite album. It's on Spotify an'all! if you're into a bit of singer-songwriter stuff that will be your jam, it relaxes me so much haha :)Delete
What an ideal post to constantly refer back to whenever you feel like you need a mood booster, and these are things that don't need huge amounts of thought anyway. I find that walking is one of the best ways to clear your head, and having the beach nearby means that I can go down there whenever I want.ReplyDelete
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Beaches are fab aren't they? I'm spoilt for choice myself for sea and sand. Everyone that's read this has pretty much said that walking is their favourite thing, there must be something to it! Thanks so much for reading Amy xDelete
I can do all of it but the meet up with friends LOL! My best friend is my twin sis, so we don't really have to meet up! and I think watching the sunrise sounds awesome since I don't normally fall asleep until 5:30am, I drink a lot of caffeine! LOL! =)ReplyDelete
This post is inspiring, funny,and beautiful. I can't count the number of times that I've said that I should get up early one morning and watch the sun rise. There's something so great about beds at 5 am haha. Trips to the beach and exploring the unknown always calms me down. Nature is everything to me.ReplyDelete
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Read Why do business professionals choose ready-to-use KPIs? to find out the answers to these questions:
A Travel Agency is involved in arranging for 'travel trips' for people who ask them to do so. This spans a wide range of tasks and therefore makes it important for the travel organization to bring in a 'quantifiable strategy'. This in turn, often takes the shape of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) with relevant set of metrics on it. By calculating and assigning values to these indicators, one can easily get over with the task of imposing a 'monitoring tool' and moving logically.
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Health Protection Scotland is investigating a possible outbreak of scarlet fever among groups attending a Perthshire adventure centre.
Scarlet fever is a seasonal streptococcal infection and is thought to be increasing in the community.
Anyone who has attended the Dalguise adventure centre since Friday 28 March and has experienced symptoms, including a rash, should contact their GP.
Schools around Tayside have also warned parents about cases in recent weeks.
Other symptoms of scarlet fever include a high temperature, sore throat, a flushed face and a red, swollen tongue.
PGL, which runs the activities facility at Dalguise, just outside Perth, is supporting the initial investigations and following infection control advice to limit any ongoing risk to those using the centre.
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Health Protection Scotland is leading the inquiry while liaising with NHS boards and Perth and Kinross Council.
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By Douglas Paal, CEIP
Editor's note: Douglas H. Paal is director for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where this commentary originally appeared. The views expressed are his own.
The rhetoric is growing hotter among China, most of its Southeast Asian neighbors, and the United States. This month, the State Department took the unusual step of issuing a press statement that singled out Chinese behavior for criticism in creating a new administrative district covering most of the disputed islets in the South China Sea. Beijing's media outlets have been responding with invective that's stoking already high emotions among the Chinese public. The issue of managing tensions and territorial claims that are inherently difficult to resolve has become more difficult, not less.
It was not apparently intended in Washington for the situation to deteriorate in this fashion. In 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out against unilateral actions in the South China Sea and for the development of an effective code of conduct to govern rivals' activities in the area. This was widely understood to be a needed shove in China's direction to quit stalling on agreeing to the code of conduct and to restrain the aggressive actions of its fishermen and oil drillers. It was accompanied by American professions of disinterest in the specific territorial disputes, but insistence on freedom of navigation in the heavily trafficked waters and peaceful resolution of the disputes under international law.
China didn't like the American push then, at a time when Chinese diplomacy was scoring costly "own goals" in the East China Sea and on the Korean Peninsula as well. But by the end of 2010, China was trying harder to get along with its neighbors and Clinton's warning seemed to have done well. More recently, National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon made a trip to Beijing (and Tokyo) that was well received by Beijing's highest leaders and seemed to put discussion of thorny issues on a high-policy plane. Coming right after his visit, the State Department statement must have arrived as a shock in Beijing.
The South China Sea presents complicated issues of evolving international law, historic but ill-defined claims, a rush to grab declining fish stocks, and competition to tap oil and gas reserves. Beijing's much discussed "nine-dashed line," which purports to give China a claim on about 80 percent of the South China Sea and its territories, used to be an eleven-dashed line. Two dashes separating Chinese and Vietnamese claims were resolved through bilateral negotiations years ago. This suggests that the remaining nine dashes are equally negotiable. But China rigidly refuses to clarify the basis for its claims, whether they are based on the accepted international law of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) or the less widely accepted historical assertions. Beijing's refusal to choose suggests it wants to maximize its legal and political leverage, even as the growth of its military and maritime assets gains physical leverage over its weaker neighbors.
Beijing isn't alone. Hanoi has leased oil exploration blocks in contested waters, and Manila is trying the same. Their colonial occupations left a discontinuous record of historic claims, inclining them to rely more on UNCLOS to manage disputed resources. They eagerly encourage American weight thrown onto their side of the competition with China for free.
This is where the United States needs to move with caution and only after thinking many steps ahead. The overriding strategic objective of the United States in Asia is to manage China's rise – which appears inevitable – in ways that don't diminish vital American interests in the region. Navigating the transition period peacefully requires strength and consistency as well as the recognition of changing realities. Severe tests of the Sino-American relationship are to be expected as the United States works to persuade China to accept the existing international rules and principles that have brought prolonged peace, stability, and prosperity to the participants, especially China.
China's immediate neighbors are by definition weaker than the much larger People's Republic. Beijing's temptation to exploit that differential in power needs to be resisted with policies that reward positive behavior and raise the cost of negative behavior.
It was likely such a calculus that led to the State Department recent warning to Beijing. Many in Washington resented China's strong-arm tactics at the recent ASEAN Regional Forum meeting that prevented the issuance of a communiqué from the annual gathering for the first time in 45 years, explicitly due to disputes about the South China Sea. Moreover, China has increased its naval deployments and added to its various civilian fleets operating in the sea. China's announcement of the creation of Sansha municipality and its sister military garrison in the disputed area seemed to push Washington's patience past its limits. One can imagine U.S. officials arguing that aggressive People's Liberation Army officers and other Chinese nationalists need to be taught that their policies are counterproductive.
The test for such an initiative by the United States is whether it's effective in reaching its main strategic goal. Judging from the outrage coming from China at being singled out, after Vietnam and the Philippines had taken steps without being criticized to secure resources in the contested sea before China's own actions, the U.S. statement seems to be backfiring.
Just weeks before the recent upswing in tensions, the Obama administration had successfully hosted a visit by Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III that Manila had hoped would bring Washington more closely in line behind Philippine claims. Obama gently let Aquino know that Washington's support for the alliance is strong and growing, but that South China Sea claims are for Manila to handle alone or together with the other claimants. The United States will provide support for principled negotiations and a peaceful resolution, but not specific outcomes.
Now, by singling Beijing out for criticism, but not the others, Chinese observers believe the United States has taken sides against China. This has undermined the U.S. assertions of a principled approach based on international law by appearing not to be impartial.
U.S. direct interests in the South China Sea aren't unlimited. The United States has no territorial claims on the minuscule land features there. American firms and citizens are not now at risk. Freedom of navigation is paramount, and China has a minority view under UNCLOS of what constitutes legitimate activity by naval vessels in its exclusive economic zones, which it claims for most of the South China Sea. There is a constant risk of American intelligence collection activity crashing into China's insistence on the right to deny such activity. So far, this potential source of friction is being managed through political leadership by both sides, in the interest of preventing serious incidents and a deterioration of the overall U.S.-China relationship.
In view of the potential disruptive effects brought about by China's rise and its neighbors' responses, the United States has a further interest in a peaceful settlement. Moreover, reinforcement of the rule of international law is in America's interest in reducing the cost of maintaining stability and managing change going forward.
Today, the South China Sea isn't at the "Sudetenland" moment of the 21st century, which calls for standing up to aggression and the rejection of appeasement. China hasn't militarized its foreign policy and doesn't appear equipped to do so for a long time. Its neighbors are not supine, and they show on occasion, when needed, that they are able to coalesce against Chinese actions that they judge as going too far. At the same time, China and those neighbors have more going constructively in trade, investment, and other relations with each other than is at risk in this dispute.
This suggests the makings of a manageable situation, even if it remains impossible to resolve for years to come. Different Asian societies are quite accustomed to living with unresolved disputes, often for centuries.
In light of this reality, the United States would do well to adhere to principled positions it has already articulated, and stand for a process that's fair to all disputants and those who will be affected at the margins. To do that, Washington will need to protect its position of impartiality and avoid repetition of the misconceived State Department press statement.
So according to this journalist (yes, I use the word journalist intentionally), US should just shut up and let Chinese do what it pleases? The article asks why US single out China and not saying anything about the other coutries like Philipine & Vietnam so I must ask if this author is blind, deaf (maybe both) because the author doesn't seem to know that China is the only country that:
1. Established a province to "govern" the 80% of the South China Sea that it claims, disregard the conflicting, overlapping claims of other countries.
2. Garrison troops in that newly establish province
There are valid reasons for thinking that freedom of navigation will no longer exist if China effectively claims South China Sea as its own, as evident by the India military ships were confronted and questions by Chinese military when the ships traveled in international water in the area. The US is justified to call out China on its bully behavior. It must act now, or forever hold its mouth shut as demanded by the Chinese government.
The South China Sea is a CORE NATIONAL INTEREST for China, to be defended with the full faith and credit of the nation, including all methodology and resources. What is it to America? Same? Hardly.
Yes, the choice is presented in so many words, no different from China telling the MacArthur led American army to stay the heck away from the Yalu. We all know how that ended when the general refused to heed the clear warning.
The Chinese are ready. How about you?
The CORE of these territorial disputes is natural resources – oil and gas. China and Vietnam had had a brief conflict in 1974 and 1988 regarding the islands Paracel and Spratly. Beijing had said its right to the area come from 2,000 years of history where these island chains were regarded as integral parts of the Chinese nation.
It had been calm in the region until the beginning of the 21st century. In the last 10 years countries in the region have become very keen to claim their shares of the natural resources.
if my history is correct... MacArthur wanted to blow china back to stone age with Atomic bombs. You china men are blinded by propaganda should thank Truman for he did not agree and asked MacArthur to resign.... I wonder if you know how many millions of chinese were killed by your Mao. You are ready?? are you sure?? most of you are spoiled brats due to China's one child policy... maybe you'll just end up wetting your pants when war really happens
A Clumsy author wrote a clumsy article !!!!
This author is lacking of information and stuffs going on this part of region, the Chinese govt is the problem by claiming historic..bla bla bla give them the right to own 80% of this water that, the fact that 1904 the Chinese made map show the Hainan island is the Southern tip of the of the territory.
Well, I don't see us having any problem with Israel's claim of Jerusalem and other terrorities based on biblical stories. Oh I forget US politics is pretty much run by the Jews!
You say "us", I say "moslems have no say in America" FY. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
If you are truly concerned about freedom of navigation (which isn't the issue here) you can tell the Arctic Council of which the U.S. is part of to stop trying to prevent freedom of navigation in the Arctic and abandon a toll based system.
What this country needs to do is to stand on the sidelines and let China and it's Southeastern Asian neighbors work out their own differences. We also need to ignore these right-wing idiots here who want to butt into every problem in the world. Enough is enough already!
I see that you managed to leave my name out of your list above, Phunnie boy. Don't you like me?
Some think tanks in Australia suggested that China as a growing power should be given enough living space, and its neighbor should give away some of their territories like the South China Sea area. If Australians are sensitive about China's feelings, why don't they cede some of their own territories to China, instead of those belonging to smaller states? They are very comfortable of suggesting giving away other people's territory. What would they feel if China will start to claim Darwin with naval ships backing up the claim? Philippine civilian ships can't even traverse the waters within their exclusive economic zone safely without some Chinese surveillance ship asking them to leave so called Chinese territory. Australia deals with China as if that communist state is not run by thugs. The history of China was never peaceful. These are violent people.
Exactly, their thousand years of history was a repeated episode of taking territory from each other and oppressing the weak for survival and growth. SCS is an important stepping stone. It is only a matter of time when China is strong enough to confront the US, then nothing will be able to stop them from expanding their territory further south.
Let me write your prequel story: The natives shared their land with Europeans, Europeans agreed to split the lands without wars, history everywhere was tranquil and everyone got along except in China where it was a violent civilization (oxymoron).
Did we come this far in our Judeo-Christian history just to surrender our values to an atheist state in the end? Restart the crusades.
Count me in. Where will I enlist?
The aggressor in SCS is China, what else the State Department can say? Both Vietnamese and Chinese oil exploration lots are well within their national water. Plus, China has been bullying Vietnamese and Philippine fishing boats and oil exploration ships for years with the intention to force them to fire the first shot, so they have an excuse to attack these countries militarily to steal their sovereign water. Vietnam/Philippine were not stupid to fall into their trap. That angers the out-of-patience China and now China decides to go in by full force by recent aggressive activity that concerns the State Department.
I mean ... "Both Vietnamese and Philippine oil exploration lots are well ..."
You spoke like you knew the truth, but you don't.
Are you comfortable having a drunk school bus driver drive your kids to school? Are you willing to let your friend who is many times more handsome than you to stay in your house to protect your wife while you are away on a business trip? Would you agree that the top drug dealer in your town will be the new police chief? Would you agree that China will soon run the UN, the world, and your lives?
Start the process of dechinafication in your household by not buying Chinese products. If you are an American patriot, pull out your investment out of that country. If you want cheap labor, there is no shortage in the Philippines and Vietnam. They will even work for you for free if you are nice enough.
Hmmmm fair article. Though a better idea for the US would be not getting involved at all. Since well, the US is counting on the tensions in SE Asia for weapon sales, the only visible industry that the US still exports products from, yay?
It's time to declare war against china. Dude just release nuclear bomb to their country. Then theirs no problem and 'PEACE' will come.
^ Example of warmonger, who doesn't care that the whole world would be destroyed if there was a nuclear war. Do America really need more dudes that knows nada?
China keeps pushing its luck against the US. Maybe PRC goverment thinks they can now bully the United States because of the trillion dollars debt the US owe to them..... keep pushing you little maggots and watch how your faux economic strength collapse in a week after an allied economic blockade is put on your sorry communist country.
^ Example of the holier than thou in America. Psss, the world doesn't revolve around you! And America isn't first in anything...important such as education. You can go on about faux economic stength you want, but China is growing, the US is not.
What about all those faux reasons that's keeping the UN because of the US in the Middle East? Clean up your own act first.
@Joe Collins above. You are is another shining example of the ignorance of mainstream America! No wonder the Tea Party Movement continues to flourish. Your arrogance and self righteousness is extremely nauseating to say the least!
South China Sea issue, do not need Hillary interference!
A coalition of Asean/US war against China will be a good thing, so that we can ban all their products from entering the western world. And it will be a good time to bring back the manufacturing to where it used to belong. remember cheap products aren't cheap if you do not have a job... China doesn't deserve progress , they become more bully as they grow.. Well what would you expect from a country that has no religion, where its only purpose on life is to multiply and eat everything that moves..
Gee charlesedward77, you're another shining example of that weak minded, belligerent Tea Party mentality. It is we Americans who are the world's foremost bullies, not the Chinese or anyone else! You ought to be ashamed to exibit such ignorance here!
I like the part where the author forgot to mention that Vietnam and Philippines are developing the resources within their EEZ, and it is their legally owned zones that china is infringing upon with the nine dash claims.
Its not like the Philippines is sending fishing boats off the coast of Hongkong or Hainan to fish, its the other way around.
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Guys, just remember how China attempted to subdue the Philippines. First they grab their territory, next they prevented the entry of Philippine fruits and barred Chinese tourists from visiting the Philippines. They don't honor business contracts, nor do they care about trade agreements because they thought no country can challenge them now. They expected the Philippines to capitulate, but they forgot Filipinos toppled a dictator because they cannot stomach injustice. Being 90% catholic country, they are not looking forward to accept a Godless ideology.
If you visit Vietnam today, you will notice that the people are peace loving, in stark contrast to their Chinese neighbors who seem to lack peace of mind in their proclivity to take on the world. Their reaction to Chinese bullying is simply self defense for their sovereign territory.
Unfortunately, there are states who values economic advantage over sound principles of human rights, freedom, democracy, and justice. Cambodia is one. Australia is accepting the 30 pieces of silver from China. It remains to be seen if Australia will stand for sound principles or will just be a security risk for the rest of the free world.
I don't like US policies around the world as a citizen of an eastern state who sees the US as a hegemonic demon. But of course, I may have been fed with biased propaganda from the start as an avid follower of RT. However, the US is the only credible force who can be relied upon for universal human rights protection. Pax Americana is not perfect, but it allowed China, and other nations to flourish economically. It seems that there is really a need to refloat the US economy because a strong USA is our insurance policy against any attempt for Global tyranny.
I am a useless piece of camel dung. I post anti American, anti GB, anti semite, anti India, anti modern anything because I am a good moooooslem. I steal people's monikers because I am so ashamed of myself and post the most stupid comment. When people get angry with me, I claim insanity. I am the same guy.
China is cheat, cheap, childish. The Chinese are tyranny and crime-minded people. They stole various rights, from human rights to copyrights. Also stole territories from Tibet,Taiwan,Muslims,neighboring countries. They deny non-Chinese culture while claiming Chinese rights. Do you still trust China?
What an ass* ... get the facts straight before posting.
We continue to be of the opinion that India is a zero sum event in history and that a break up of sorts is the optimum way to maximize its potential for the people. The current events in India reinforce our belief that the inevitable implosion of India has begun and the beginning of the end state is upon us. Whether that will be nirvana that most of us believe it will, is yet to be seen. But this we will say. This defragmentation of India will unleash boundless opportunities and uber economic demand that will be beneficial to US and Europe and help pull them out of current recessionary malaise. We pray for the events to unfold peacefully and in a harmonious manner for the people of India and its neighbors.
China is the next and the only hope left for this world. The existing paradigm has failed. Poverty, schisms, conflicts, democratic demise is prevalent and the world is a divided place. We need change. Change from status quo. Change from the UN system. Change from current superpower imbalance and ineffectiveness. In this context, everything else becomes redundant and irrelevant. Whether China is masculine or feminine or whose daughter is of minimal importance. What is of importance is the fact that China has come a long way in the past 15 years. The system works: the economic model is proven, the political system clicks, social structure is progressive though not perfect. Let us give them a chance and see what they can do for us. Let us celebrate their arrival and give them kudos for what they have achieved so far. Most importantly, let's hope and pray they continue to bless us with their vision and passion. In God We Trust.
Here are the simple messages to the chinese men.
1)You should learn to live in peace and harmony with your neighboring countries.
2) You should give respects to others before you receive respects from others.
3) You should learn the past lessons from your histories between Viet Nam and china that though Viet Nam has been repeatedly invaded by your blood-thirsty leaders; yet, Viet Nam still stands and We ,the Vietnamese People both in Viet Nam and around the world, will not tolerate this kind of aggressive, Hitler-like behaviors of your race. We will follow many of our Heroes in the past footsteps that we will teach you the kind of lessons you and your ancestors tasted in the past. In case you are intentionally forgetting your histories; let's us help you to remember the one word "DEFEAT" which you and your ancestors are very familiar with!!!!
China is NOT interested in your dam* f* country, so stop lying there you little giant.
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Color can build and differentiate your brand
Congratulations―you are about to launch (or relaunch) a product in a competitive category. It's time to build your brand.
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Evaluate the palette of the marketplace
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For example, if you were to bring a new GERD product to market targeting PCPs and gastroenterologists, you certainly wouldn't want to compete with the "purple pill." You would want your brand to stand out from the crowd. It should pop off the shelf in the sample closet and break through the clutter―in mailboxes, journals, print and digital collateral―that bombards HCPs every day.
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Once you discover which colors on the color wheel are not being used excessively, you can select the colors that will differentiate your brand.
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Let's look at the color red. Red is typically characterized as one of the most powerful colors on the color wheel; however, one person's perception of red may vary greatly from another person's. To understand how red is perceived, you need to consider who and where your target audience is located.
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I had intended to post this on New Year's Eve, but we were out of town celebrating a late Christmas with my family, so I never got to. Better late than never, though!
2010 was an amazing year. Best year of my life, by far. By January, K had pretty much gotten over the all-day screaming thing and her cute little personality was taking shape. She's learned and grown so much this year, and it's brought me so much joy. I stepped out on a limb and signed up for a craft fair. And while that first craft fair didn't make me very much money, it led to more sales and the realization that I could do something I love and make money doing it {awesome!}. Now, I'm doing very well, thanks to personal recommendations and my facebook page.
I'm looking forward to all that 2011 has to bring. I'm starting the New Year off by going and officially registering my business this week - woohoo! I'm also going to be meeting with a store owner who wants to buy and sell my products.
Last year my new year's resolution was to make a new recipe each week. It was the first resolution I've ever kept all year long. It was fun and fulfilled its purpose. I won't be making it again, but I think the habit has stuck well enough that I don't need to. One thing I will be doing this year is Project 365. I've gotten lazy lately with taking pictures and I'm resolving to do better! Hopefully this will force me to keep up with my blog more too.
And, for fun, my favorite posts of 2010:
1. Make Your Own Moby Wrap tutorial
This post has gotten the most traffic of any of my posts. And one of my favorites because we use our wrap every day.
2. Hubby's Birthday
I initially clicked back on this one because I loved the cake, but had forgotten the sweet video of K singing the Dada song.
3. Swinging
I'd be remiss if I didn't put one of the many swinging posts/pictures as one of mt favorites...the girl loves to swing!
4. One Year
This is one of my favorites for obvious reasons - the blog post written for my daughter on her first birthday.
5. Crazy-Haired Artist
I love these pictures and the fact that around this time I could start to see a resemblance between K and Nick.
6. Wonder Woman Costume
K was way too cute in her Halloween costume this year
7. My Little Artist
K's first painting experience. Includes my favorite video of her so far.
Happy New Year!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
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- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2011 at 9:44 AM
Yay! You should link up with my Project 365 on my new blog. :D I can't wait to get the hats and blanket! So excited. By the way I left an award for you on my blog. http://naptimemomtog.com/2011/01/02/collage-for-project-365/ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2011 at 9:45 AM
Oh ha ha! Just saw you had linked to my blog. Sorry I am tired. ha ha!ReplyDelete
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Pink Wedding Color – Twelve Perfect CombinationsZoey
The color pink is the star of this week's blog post. Pink has been a popular wedding color for many years. I think one of the reasons it is popular is that it is a flattering color for most all bridesmaids and, depending on the shade and what other color(s) it is paired with, it works for all seasons.
Pink can be used alone or with another color and it works well as the main wedding color or as an accent color. You can achieve a lot of different looks depending on the color you pair it with.
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Pink Wedding Color
As shown in the collage below, pink can be a beautiful color all by itself. By combining different shades of pink you can create a luscious wedding palette.
Pink and Red Wedding Colors
A pink and red combination is romantic and you might want to consider it, especially if you are having a wedding with a Valentine's Day theme.
Pink and Brown Wedding Colors
If you love pink but your groom thinks it is too feminine, how about a compromise of pink paired with brown. When pairing with brown, it is best to use a softer shade of pink, so there is enough contrast between the colors.
Pink and Black Wedding Colors
Pink and black is a sophisticated combination that looks especially lovely for a wedding that is bit more formal. It works well with any shade of pink and is shown below paired with a deep shade.
Pink and Navy Wedding Colors
Pink with Navy is similar to pink and black but is a bit more casual. This combination is often used for nautical-themed weddings. The bright pink plays beautifully off the rich, deep blue.
Pink and Turquoise Wedding Colors
Pink and turquoise is a fresh palette perfect for spring and summer weddings.
Pink and Purple Wedding Colors
If you love both Pink and Purple, why not combine them! This "girly" combination works best for spring and summer weddings. If you want to use it in fall or winter, I suggest using deeper shades of the colors.
Pink and Green Wedding Colors
Pink and green is another combination that is perfect for weddings in spring and summer.
Pink and Mint Green Wedding Colors
Pink with mint green can be a great choice, especially for a vintage wedding theme. This combination works best when a pastel shade of pink is used.
Pink and Yellow Wedding Colors
Pink and yellow is a bright and sunny combination. A darker shade of pink works best, so the pink won't be overwhelmed by the bright yellow.
Pink and Gold Wedding Colors
Pink and gold is a dressy and elegant combination. In the collage below I have used medium and soft pinks.
Pink and Silver Wedding Colors
Pink with silver is shown here with a soft pink. You can always add a gray color for those accessories that are not available in silver.
~ Collages created by Sher Silver – Exclusively Weddings
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Resources for more pink inspiration on our Pinterest boards:
Pink Wedding Ideas
Fuchsia/Hot Pink Wedding Ideas
Pink and Red Wedding Ideas
Pink from Exclusively Weddings
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NetSuite Announces Timing of Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2012 Financial Results
Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2012 Results to be Released on January 31, 2013 After Market Close
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced that its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2012 will be released after the market close on Thursday, January 31, 2013. NetSuite will host a conference call to discuss the results at 2:00 p.m. PST (5:00 p.m. EST) on the same day.
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Thierry Legault: Astrophotography is an 'Adrenaline Rush'
During one of the final space shuttle missions, photographer Thierry Legault traveled nearly 4,000 km across various locations in Europe to try and capture the shuttle docked to the International Space Station as the two spacecraft transited across the surface of the Sun.
"Essentially, I was trying to catch the clear sky so I could take images of an event that would last less than a second," Legault said from his home in France.
This type of dedication to his craft, along with his attention to detail and quality has earned Legault the reputation as one of the top amateur astrophotographers in the world.
Amazingly, he started his astrophotography hobby — and his specialty of imaging objects in front of the Sun — just by chance. And now Legault has been shooting breathtaking images of spacecraft in orbit and astronomical objects and events for nearly 20 years.
"I began in 1993 with one of the first CCD cameras, the first year that CCD cameras were available for amateurs," Legault said. "It was a wonderful time, because it was a time of pioneers, and it was a revolution after film."
Intrigued by what could be done with digital equipment, he experimented by taking planetary and deep sky pictures and has now amassed a prolific portfolio of stunning images. In 2001 he took the first of the type of images he has become renown for.
"I took a picture of a plane in front of the Sun," Legault recalled, "and it was published on APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), and so now I have taken many images of things in front of the Sun."
In 2006 he took pictures of the space station and space shuttle side by side just as the shuttle undocked. It was published by newspapers around the world, including a double page in the Guardian, was shown on CNN and other news shows, and was everywhere on the internet.
"It was an incredible success, which was very surprising. This type of imaging is very fun for me, as I like the challenge," Legault said. "But it is interesting how taking a picture of a spaceship in front of the Sun is really something for non-astronomers, but yet I never received so much interest for all the other astronomy images I have taken."
Legault said he has received emails and letters from people around the world expressing how much they enjoy his transit images.
Living in the suburbs of Paris means there are plenty of lights to interfere with his astrophotography.
"Where I live is not a problem for taking pictures of some satellites, the Sun, the Moon and planets," he said. "For deep space imaging and for the space station, I have to put everything in the van and drive 20-30 kilometers and go to the country; also for solar or lunar transits I have to go to the place where the transit is visible."
For the STS-131 mission in May of 2010, Legault traveled to Spain, Switzerland, various parts of France, and for the STS-133 mission in February 2011, where he took the first-ever ground-based image of astronaut in spacewalk he drove to Germany, and to both the south and north of France, and between 3,000 and 4,000 kilometers.
All this driving and weeks of preparation is for an event that he never sees live with his own eyes, and usually lasts about a half a second. He uses CalSky.com to calculate the exact moment and exact location he will need to be to capture an event.
"For transits I have to calculate the place, and considering the width of the visibility path is usually between 5-10 kilometers, but I have to be close to the center of this path," Legault explained, "because if I am at the edge, it is just like a solar eclipse where the transit is shorter and shorter. And the edge of visibility line of the transit lasts very short. So the precision of where I have to be is within one kilometer."
Legault studies maps, and has a radio synchronized watch to know very accurately when the transit event will happen.
"My camera has a continuous shuttering for 4 seconds, so I begin the sequence 2 seconds before the calculated time," he said. "I don't look through the camera – I never see the space station when it appears, I am just looking at my watch!"
For a transit event, he gets get a total of 16 images – 4 images every second, and only after he enlarges the images will he know if he succeeded or not.
"There is a kind of feeling that is short and intense — an adrenaline rush!" Legault said. "I suppose it is much like participating in a sport, but the feeling is addictive. I did it with a friend two years ago and now he is addicted too."
Legault added that when he succeeds, it is a very satisfying feeling.
But Legault is not keeping the adrenaline rushes all to himself; he willingly shares his knowhow and techniques.
His website provides a wealth of knowledge about his techniques and equipment
In 2005 he wrote a book (in French) called Astrophotographie, that has sold over 6,000 copies, and he is working on getting it published in English. The book provides information on how to image constellations, stars, comets, eclipses, the Moon, planets, sun, and deep-sky objects, in accessible, nontechnical language. Legault also gives practical advice on equipment and technique, with answers to problems faced by every beginner. He also co-authored another book, "New Atlas of the Moon" with Serge Brunier, and in the March 2012 issue of Sky and Telescope, Legault wrote a detailed article on how to take detailed, ground-based images of the ISS.
Tomorrow on Universe Today, Legault will share his advice for avoiding "bad" astrophotography.
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Wow, amazing! Can't wait for my March issue of S&T 🙂
I really love Legault's work, I have ISS over solar eclipse pic on my desktop for a year or so.
I love his work. Recently I was at the centerline of an ISS transit of the Sun, and wrote to Thierry for advice. He wrote back with good suggestios. I managed to get two shots of it, it was incredible.
Yet another fan here.
If Mr. Legault could answer a question (about something in the article), it would be great.
During transits, why does he take 4 sets of 4 exposures per second when the event lasts only for a fraction of a second?
For a transit event, he gets get a total of 16 images – 4 images every second, and only after he enlarges the images will he know if he succeeded or not.
He simply shoots as fast as the camera allows and hopes atleast one of the images will be good.
I suspect the dowload time for the camera is something like 0.2 seconds for a full frame.
Oh, never mind. He already answered it in the previous paragraph. There's a two-second "buffer" period.
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A show about love and time travel just in time for Valentine's Day at Toronto's Comedy Bar
At the start of Love In The Time Of Time Machines, a narrator takes the stage.
Up until recently we're told, the mechanical mastery of time was elusive. One prototype device exploded. Another traversed forward at the rate of just one-second-per-second.
Thanks to the efforts of a diligent employee of a breakfast cereal company however, zipping backwards and forwards through the years is possible. What's more, we're told that this plucky chap intends to use the device to tinker with his romantic life.
Appropriately the show went up on Valentine's Day at the Comedy Bar.
I'd never seen the place as busy as that night!
In my experience, going there maybe four or five times, the traffic at its mahogany counter has been fairly tranquil. Pleasantly steady, I'd say.
On Valentine's night the place was thick with hoards of people in their twenties and thirties.
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Maybe this is typical for a Thursday. It wouldn't surprise me if it were.
Just to clarify, Comedy Bar is not just a venue for stand-up performers. The type of stuff one usually sees on Just For Laughs. Or, to borrow an example from one of my favorite shows, the stuff that opens Seinfeld in early episodes of the series: a man with a microphone making jokes.
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Created by David Tichauer and Ned Petrie, Love In The Time Of Time Machines makes incredible use of its three performers and an ultra-simple set to pull off a clever, ambitious plot.
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Although Love In The Time Of Time Machines was scheduled to go up for just that one night, before going down to New York City, I'm told it may make a return to Toronto.


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Following in the time-honored tradition of Robin Williams family movies that suck, "RV" can be summed up in three simple words: big rolling turd. The following description is a godsend, actually, since I would have never thought of it had it not been used by the film's characters several times. Of course, they're using it as a means of discussing the big, hulking motor vehicle they've rented for summer vacation, while I've reserved this special term of endearment for my feelings about this so-called comedy. And unless you're making a movie about a thirtysomething, always-stoned video game developer ("Grandma's Boy") or a misconstrued love story about John Smith and Pocahontas ("The New World"), 2006 couldn't ask for a worse contribution to cinema.
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Renting an RV to take on the journey from California to Colorado, the rest of the Munro family are none too pleased over the situation, including Bob's wife Jamie (Cheryl Hines), who was hoping to kick back and relax in Hawaii. Instead, the Munros are socially bombarded by an RV-loving family (led by Jeff Daniels, Kristin Chenoweth and her cleavage) only a few chords shy of a Partridge Family revival, and though their overly friendly intentions appear harmless, they're treated like a bunch of crazy hicks by the Munro clan. Various wilderness-themed set pieces follows, as does a string of jokes about shit that just aren't funny. Very, very disgusting, but not funny.
What's truly upsetting about the film isn't how excruciatingly painful it is to watch, but rather director Barry Sonnenfeld's happy-go-lucky misuse of talent. With great comedic up-and-comers like Hines and Arnett, and veterans like Williams and Daniels, this movie should have been a slam dunk. It's not like the potential wasn't there, either. In fact, the first five minutes really offered some great laughs before turning to the big rolling turd for the remainder of the film. So what have we learned from this lesson? Don't cast Robin Williams in any more family comedies? Perhaps. Take away Barry Sonnenfeld's DGA card? That would certainly be a step in the right direction, but no. How about this? Cheap laughs only go so far. The rest is up to good writing, and unfortunately, "RV" doesn't have any.
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The single-disc DVD release of "RV" features cast/crew commentary, five production featurettes, a story-to-film comparison and a short gag reel, but that still doesn't make this movie worth seeing.
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Microsoft recently demonstrated a new tool at the RSA Security Conference. The tool, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), isn't available yet, but a spokesperson at the conference said the tool inspects a PC to determine whether any patches are missing and whether the system is configured correctly.
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Maybe Microsoft's refocus on security matters will result in more secure products right out of the box, especially given the memo from Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates informing employees to place security at the top of their agenda and thought processes. If the new security focus helps, we'll either have to buy licenses to Microsoft's .NET technology to find out, or watch to see what attackers discover when the technology becomes more widely used. You can read the interview with Craig Mundie on Microsoft's Web site.
One final note: Microsoft released a new document that helps users understand how to better secure their "always-on" DSL and cable modem connections by configuring and using XP's built-in Internet Connection Firewall. The paper, which you can read on Microsoft's Web site, also points to several other sites that help users learn about third-party firewalls. Noticeably missing from Microsoft's list of Web resources is our own Windows & .NET Magazine. In any case, we've discussed and reviewed many firewall products—both enterprise and personal—and we even have a buyer's guide online. You can find the information and reports we published by searching our Security Administrator Web site using the keyword "firewall."


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