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On 22 March next year, Lord Saville of Newdigate expects to deliver to the government the report of the Bloody Sunday inquiry. The word "expects" has been used before. The public hearings ended in November 2004, and the report has been expected – or at least hoped for – from 2006 onwards. The inquiry has already cost, according to a parliamentary answer last week, more than £189m, about half of which was paid out in legal fees.
But let us assume that the March date will be kept. It doesn't mean the Saville report will be made public soon afterwards. The government has first to study and consider it – it's rumoured to be 5,000 pages long – before releasing it to us. A few months later, parliament will be able to have a debate on it. But hold on a moment. Isn't there going to be a general election in May? Will the government, fighting for its very existence, be in the mood, or have the time, to think about an inquiry that was first announced in the early days of the Blair era, in January 1998?
It's even possible that the election would be in March, which might mean that Saville would be handing in his report to a new administration, one that would never have commissioned it in the first place and is hardly likely to be interested in it now.
No one has been able to satisfactorily explain why the inquiry has taken so long. Saville isn't talking. But now the much-respected barrister, author and campaigner Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC has weighed in with a sharp critique of Saville's approach to the inquiry and his method of conducting it. Writing in the legal journal Public Law, Blom-Cooper accuses Saville of "indulging in an unnecessary exercise".
The terms of reference of the inquiry were "to inquire into the events of 30 January 1972 which led to the loss of life in connection with the procession in Londonderry on that day". Saville had two options, says Blom-Cooper. The first was to investigate each death in detail, to ascertain which soldier had shot dead which unarmed civil rights protester; and whether the force used was reasonable. The second option "was to assume the death of each of the 14 victims was the result of direct military action against the victim, without determining precisely how each one had been killed, and which soldier had been directly responsible for firing the fatal shot".
To put it bluntly, Blom-Cooper says that Saville – without apparently discussing his terms of reference with the government – took the wrong path. His decision ensured that the inquiry would be exceptionally lengthy and outrageously expensive. Moreover, it was unnecessary: the inquiry was specifically prohibited from ruling on any individual's criminal or civil liability. No soldier would face trial, whatever the findings of the inquiry.
Blom-Cooper backs his case further by arguing that detailed witness evidence about events 30 years ago could not be treated with confidence anyway, because of failing and distorted memories, and the huge volume of publicity and debate since then. Saville's approach, he concludes, "deprived the inquiry of a reasonably conducted inquiry into what went wrong".


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there's parachutes above you
life boats below.
a heart that loves you
A song I haven't shown to anyone. A song I'd like to show to everyone. Though it might not be everyone's type of song.
So much has happened. All of everything between then and now. Words and feelings and sights and sighs. Loves lost and loved again. Perhaps more so in the end for who they are. It's sad. But that's how you know they weren't the one for the end.
Is it possible you are how I remember you but with more? More different and less same.
I will say it here because I must allow myself to say it somewhere. I will go. I already know I shall. Later in life I'll go find those I've cared about. I won't say anything. I won't intrude. I'll keep close to the background. I'll do it because I dream about them doing so for me. If by any chance they dream the same, I will make that true for them. Because they are worth being sought. And they are a piece of me. I have cared and I have loved and I know not how to stop. If all the world I exist in changes around me and leaves me, piece by piece remaining in those I've held close, I know not how to stop.
I have thought I could never.
But I could never not.
there's a fool that loved you and he loves you still.


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Thursday, December 8, 2016
So, if I don't get those things on my list to Santa this year, I won't complain, my Heart is full and I am grateful for another wonderful year. Thank you to Stampington and Company who never disappoints a single issue and to Gracy Wilkins the editor of Somerset Studio Gallery who is a darling to work with.
To all my friends, family, angels and those stopping by, I wish you Joy, Peace and Happiness for Christmas and in the New Year. May your Christmas List be full of Dreams, your Heart full of Happiness, and your Life full of Peace, Love and Joy for the birth of our Savior this holiday season!
Follow your Heart
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Congratulations on your publication!ReplyDelete
Many congratulations to you Kim! Much deserved as your art is always so pleasing to look at as well as always so full of inspiration!ReplyDelete
Merry holiday wishes to you and your as well! xxReplies
Thank you so much Jackie! I wish you the Merriest of Holidays as well and a New Year Full of Blessings!!Delete
Congratulations Kim! Your work is so amazing! You deserve to be on the cover. :) Happy Holidays and may you and yours have an awesome new year!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Marva,you are so appreciated and so kind. The cover of this issue is actually by Sherry Westfall Matthews, but I am equally as happy and thrilled to be published on the pages of this issue. It's always a pinch me moment!! Merry Holidays to you and wishing you all the very best in the New Year!! XODelete
Kim, Congratulations to you!ReplyDelete
I know that feeling of gratitude :) Feel so very lucky to not only be published but to be published alongside such an artist as you. Your name is one that is synonymous with Stampington & Company so it's a great honour for me.
Thank you Lynne and you are so sweet to leave such lovely compliment. That is exactly how I feel about you... so honored to be published along side you as well and other such amazing artists! Stampington and Company publishes all my favorite magazines so to have even the tiniest mention in any of them is always a Happy Dance moment for me! Congratulations to you as well my friend! Happiest Holidays to you and may the New Year bring an abundance of Blessings your way!ReplyDelete
Congratulations again Kim - with glitter, sprinkle, and stardust!!! Just letting you knowReplyDelete
{ probably for the 100th time ;-) } that you simply rock!!
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Viewers will have to wait until Saturday to see HBO's buzzy new telefilm Game Change, an adaptation of the gossipy 2010 book chronicling John McCain and Sarah Palin's tumultuous, ill-fated White House bid. But the movie, starring Ed Harris as McCain and Julianne Moore as Palin, is already outraging conservatives, who argue that it's disrespectful to the former running mates. "I won't watch it," McCain says. "I know it's based on a book that's totally unfair and untrue, especially to Sarah Palin." (Jay Roach, the movie's director, defends his work as "an incredibly well-researched movie.") What exactly are opponents of the film riled up about? Here, five scenes, viewed in advance by critics, that are fueling the controversy:
1. Palin's diva meltdown
In Game Change, Palin is portrayed as "flighty and temperamental," and a "Hollywood-style diva," says Jason Apuzzo at Moviefone. In one scene, she melts down after failing to master talking points prescribed by the campaign's press guru, says Scott Collins at the Los Angeles Times. "I am not your puppet!" she shrieks. "You have ruined my reputation! I am ruined in Alaska!"
2. Her embarrassing tutoring session
"Game Change stretches the Palin-as-ignoramus cliche past the point of credibility," says Apuzzo. The film depicts tutoring sessions in which Mama Grizzly was briefed on the differences between the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, what the Fed is, why there are two Koreas, and basic facts about World War II. Apparently unaware that would-be VPs should already know such things, she dives into the tutoring sessions "like an enthusiastic freshman," says Collins. When asked if she wants a break, she shouts, "No way! This is flippin' awesome!"
3. The comical Katie Couric interview
The film recreates many of Palin's now-iconic gaffes, but none are as squirm-inducing as her disastrous interview with Katie Couric, says Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly. The film "does a wizardly job" of editing Moore-as-Palin with the actual footage of Couric. But more damning is the scene that follows, in which Palin moans, "I thought Katie liked me!"
4. The painful Saturday Night Live viewing
"The most vital scene in Game Change" is a bit of a meta-moment, says Bruce R. Miller at the Sioux City Journal. It comes when a horrified Palin watches Tina Fey play her on Saturday Night Live. "In a brief instant, you sense the hurt, the concern, the 'oh, my God, what have I done?' feeling that must have filled the real Palin."
5. Her egging on of a rabid crowd
When campaign crowds begin calling Obama a Muslim and a terrorist, Harris' McCain recoils, saying, "This is not the campaign I wanted to run." Moore's Palin, on the other hand, gamely leads "U.S.A., U.S.A." chants, says David Frum at The Daily Beast. "Hundreds of thousands of people are coming to see me, not John McCain," she tells the campaign. "I am going to do what I want." Later, a staffer wonders if Palin "might be mentally unstable."


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Students Hack Unmanned Drone
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A research team has exposed a glaring flaw in domestic drone technology.
By this point, most of us are habituated to the American military's fondness for using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, between you and me) in far-flung combat zones. As the technology that powers these machines advances, private companies are becoming increasingly interested in possible domestic applications for the de-fanged, person-friendly cousins of the military's UAVs. With that in mind, a team from the University of Texas at Austin's Radionavigation Lab this week demonstrated the potential weakenesses of such systems by hacking a domestic UAV using "spoofing" tech that cost less than $1,000 to build.
Led by Professor Todd Humphreys, the team of researchers and students took control of the drone by "spoofing" its GPS system into believing that their team was supposed to be in charge of it, effectively hijacking the witless machine from the ground. They didn't block control signals or anything; they just used their $1000-worth of radio gadgetry to fool the drone into recognizing them as its true masters. With this system in place, they were able to take complete control of the drone.
You'll be glad to hear, I hope, that military UAVs are protected from this kind of interference by virtue of their encrypted GPS systems. However, the researchers are concerned that without similar protections, domestic drones could be used to wreak havoc within the United States (at the same as providing plot fodder for the technophobic narrators from Call of Duty: Black Ops II's publicity).
Speaking to Fox News, team leader Humphreys laid out his concerns. "What if you could take down one of these drones delivering FedEx packages and use that as your missile? That's the same mentality the 9-11 attackers had," he said. "In 5 or 10 years you have 30,000 drones in [U.S.] airspace...Each one of these could be a potential missile used against us."
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Department of Homeland Security (DoHS) are interested in this spoofing development, with representatives from both agencies having reportedly invited the Austin team to repeat their trick under supervision. While the DoHS has been working on two anti-jamming systems in preparation for the advent of domestic drones, the department is apparently unprepared to deal with spoofing attacks at this moment in time.
Based on the agencies' reaction this demonstration, it'd be nice to imagine that by the time Congress allows FedEx et al to pepper the skies with de-fanged UAVs, the DoHS will have spent rather more time than it has presently working on ways to protect said UAVs from terrorists, students, and remote-control hobbyists. Who said your school's science project couldn't help protect the nation? Way to go, University of Texas.
Source: Fox News via Scientific American
Move along people, nothing to see here. I know that this actually happened, but it's only a matter of time until Bill O'Reilly gets his hands on it and any and all truth will be lost.
I was under the impression that most of the time when a security hole is exposed by a third party, said party is fined or thrown in jail for their trouble instead of asked to help with the problem.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see an example of sanity.
Heh. I was impressed that they went for "terrorists" in the headline though. No messing around in Fox Towers.
Can't wait to here how this is Obama's Fault...
Good for the students. They have done a great service too America protecting our future Domestic drones from Terrorists.
For the record, there is no Sarcasm in this post. I mean this seriously.
That's very sad, seeing as those drones are all made in China. They are already compromised by the secret control chip built into them.
PS: Google translate for the Chinese.
This article has just been Fox news'd. Now that's mass hysteria.
Well this shows the value of wide spread testing before commercial development. A good lesson for any commercial product. Also, lol at the guys who came here trying to make a joke related to FOX news but found an actual okay story.
It's DUMB that they didn't encrypt the GPS signal, they should know that all information sent wireless should be encrypted, pretty damn cool though!
It's not the story it's how they like to sensationalize every thing. Look how they put terrorist in the headline. The way in which they call up the specter of 9/11. These things are not important to the core of what the story is.
Cars? Model load bearing planes? Bikes? We're already in countries that are full of these "missiles".
The GPS signal is encrypted by the satellites not drone. Seeing that the encrypted GPS signal where originally designed for the exclusive use of strategic nuclear weapons back in the 80s, its not that surprising that the access to the crypto gear is unavailable for non military use.
Unfortunately, with a little more expertise and funding even encrypted systems could be "spoofed" or "hacked". Nothing in the world of computers is immune, even isolated networks are at risk through human interference.
I wouldn't be surprised if Black Ops 2's storyline turns out to be a fictional exaggeration of an event that could happen in the future, especially if our infrastructure, militaries and daily lives are becoming more and more dependant on computers.
The encryption on GPS satellites is the highest grade millairty encodeding, similar to the encryption used to send the launch orders for nukes. Understandably this far stronger than anything seen in the day to day encryption by computers. This is also why the drones are not allowed access to the GPS encrypted channels, not even all NATO members are allowed access to it.
You know its seems that students are always finding out better ways to things than the people trained to them. Maybe we should start sending students to the front line. call it "hands on learning".
YES, sorry, major DERP, GPS is a passive system... I guess I wasn't really thinking, however how did they then control the drone? the most I thought they could do was spoof its position...
I put to you AES256 hard-coded public key encryption, my college prof said until they invent (if they invent) quantum computers, uncrackable. Yes if the system is designed with flaws than the encryption can be circumvented, but never encrypted data cracked. Just look at the financial sector, hackers can't log into their bank accounts and give themselfs millions of pounds... at least, I hope they can't :P
Do I need to go out and start looking up news stories from the Escapist that do the same thing to drum up attention? Aside from that, people coming in here just to note that 'OMG, its from fox news' as opposed to saying something about the content of the story is also, ironically, posting something sensational (sort of) rather then talking directly about the story. As such, I find them to be funny people who try so hard to decry FOX news that they begin to become that which they hate.
I don't know what I find more frightening: The fact that our UAVs could be hacked so easily, or the fact that Scientific American is using Fox News as a credited source.
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Old news, they did this a week ago, and it was on the BBC without the fear content. They DID hypothesize (in the form of quotes), but not to the extent as FOX.
Really Escapist. Can we have the news a little faster? And from more reliable sources? It's not like you are doing research into this, you are copying from another site.
Truth. Fox News sucks, but when they aren't writing a political centered spiel strawman story, these come along.
I stopped reading at "FedEX Delivery" because that's too awesome to conceive. My new GFX card brought to me by quadrotor!
How would it ring my bell?
The BBC article, from Friday, quoted the Fox News story as its sole source. Regardless of how we might feel about Fox sometimes, in this case, they broke the story. They got the video footage with the Austin team, they get put as the source. Nothing unreliable about their reporting in this case (as far as I can see, anyhoo). Thanks for your input, though.
Military UAVs aren't protected from this... that drone that went down in Iran months back? That thing was possessed by a guy with no more than $20 worth of equipment.
Furthermore, they've got a lot of nerve to throw around the word "terrorist" with regards to people hacking drones. These drones have no business flying around, spying on citizens anyway, especially not when WE have to pay for it!
This poster speaks truth.
I LOVE how they insinuated the 'defanged' UAVs would be coming to a sky near you and THEN suggested a commercial service (YEAH RIGHT). Not sure if clever rouse to incite 'big brother' panic or cover up real potential uses however.
haha good post, I laughed out loud at that.
OT: Usually I'm interested and all for technology, but no...just no, this could go wrong in just about a bajillion ways, not to mention how easy it would be to not get caught if you control it from a random location. (ever hear of war drivers? kind of like that.)
Fear not citizens. The aerial division of the panopticon is still on track.
Just remember our motto: To constantly watch over you, we need to constantly watch you.
Sleep well.
Anyone concerned about this needs to stop taking pictures with their phones that record exact location and uploading to social websites that contain all personal information that is constantly sold to corporate and government interests for tracking and advertizing purposes.
"private companies are becoming increasingly interested in possible domestic applications for the de-fanged, person-friendly cousins of the military's UAVs"
Good for the students for doing this project, and good for the government for actually listening to them.
As for the danger of these unfanged drones, anything is a potential threat. Banning drones isn't the answer; moderate regulation is a better idea, as there are benefits to using drones for domestic purposes. Make sure they are properly secure, respect people's privacy, and that the companies that decide to use these drones are fully held accountable.
I feel like the English Parliament is responsible for this.
I was watching the English Parliament talking with Prime Minister Cameron on C-SPAN and I thought it was a parody. They get quite exited.
Interestingly enough, Iran claimed to have done this to an actual military drone a few months back, although the US government denied it, claiming the drone must have just crashed instead.
If they don't train the students, they will try to make peace and forfeit military goals.
If they do train the students... it'd just be the current situation again, wouldn't it?
Wait... isn't every RC plane a UAV... :/
I was also under the impression that the Military RPAS were protected against that kind of thing. Anti-Jammers exist... Also as GPS was originally made for the military they use a more encrypted, more accurate version than Civvi GPS devices, they also have the ability to just turn the GPS off around the whole world in an instant and restrict it to Military use only.
Also, even if you do 'hack' it under your control with GPS jamming you won't be able to see the video feeds so you would have to be in Line of Sight of the aircraft at all time... A reaper/predator/globalhawk flying at 30,000ft is already practically invisible, and you definately wouldn't be able to accurately fly it...
Wooo... a conspiricy nut! For the record; this is bullshit... They don't spy on civillians and it wasn't taken out by a peasant with a transistor radio... Fact.
The students are very welcome to take the jobs of UAV development or military science... they just tend not to... in fact it annoys me when students are put on some pedastal like this... The people who do develop the UAV's, and work in the industries were students at one point, and most have got masters degrees in the subject. It doesn't prove that the students are more clever, only that a mass of trained people with a lot of resources and no particular focus on their research tend to eventually come up with stuff like this. Working in the industry where you have restraints on what you can research, and which direction to research in limits this!
I suspect the drone flies down a preprogrammed flightpath. If you alter where its think it is it will try and correct back to the flight path, thus giving you effective control of hight and direction. My guess is that speed is also calculated by GPS so you could even get control of the throttle.
The easiest way to guard against this attack is to fit an inertial navigation gyro and compare the results. A sudden massive change in GPS position could then be ignored.
I'm a little disappointed to see the Escapist going along in American 'anything could be used for terrorism' paranoia.
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Dimples go high-tech at Golf Channel
EmptyThe Golf Channel said Wednesday that it will incorporate a new production technology into its coverage of next year's PGA Tour that will give exact measurements on golfers' swings and ball movement.
The network is planning to use the TrackMan Tour System, a Doppler radar technology, to measure a golfer's exact, three-dimensional club movement and ball flight and provide precise data on ball launch, ball flight and ball landing, among other statistics.
TrackMan will be used on two holes during Golf Channel's live primetime telecast of the Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii beginning Jan. 3.
"The technology allows for some pretty amazing statistical information, but how that translates to television will be the important part," Golf Channel vp production and executive producer Tony Tortorici said. "We will be able show a 3-D representation of a player's tee shot and then fly around it during flight to show different angles of its trajectory. Different shots from different players also can be compared simultaneously, which can provide some pretty cool visuals and reveal player tendencies."
The technology, previously available only to Tour pros, has been used sparingly for television, Golf Channel said. The network claimed it will be the first to incorporate the technology on American broadcasts of regular-season PGA Tour events.


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The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne
Round the Moon.
Chapter XIX. A Struggle with the Impossible.
For some time Barbicane and his companions, mute and pensive, looked at this world, which they had only seen from a distance, like Moses saw Canaan, and from which they were going away for ever. The position of the projectile relatively to the moon was modified, and now its lower end was turned towards the earth.
This change, verified by Barbicane, surprised him greatly. If the bullet was going to gravitate round the satellite in an elliptical orbit, why was not its heaviest part turned towards it like the moon to the earth? There again was an obscure point.
By watching the progress of the projectile they could see that it was following away from the moon an analogous curve to that by which it approached her. It was, therefore, describing a very long ellipsis which would probably extend to the point of equal attraction, where the influences of the earth and her satellite are neutralised.
Such was the conclusion which Barbicane correctly drew from the facts observed, a conviction which his two friends shared with him.
Questions immediately began to shower upon him.
"What will become of us after we have reached the neutral point?" asked Michel Ardan.
"That is unknown!" answered Barbicane.
"But we can make suppositions, I suppose?"
"We can make two," answered Barbicane. "Either the velocity of the projectile will then be insufficient, and it will remain entirely motionless on that line of double attraction--"
"I would rather have the other supposition, whatever it is," replied Michel.
"Or the velocity will be sufficient," resumed Barbicane, "and it will continue its elliptical orbit, and gravitate eternally round the orb of night."
"Not very consoling that revolution," said Michel, "to become the humble servants of a moon whom we are in the habit of considering our servant. And is that the future that awaits us?"
Neither Barbicane nor Nicholl answered.
"Why do you not answer?" asked the impatient Michel.
"There is nothing to answer," said Nicholl.
"Can nothing be done?"
"No," answered Barbicane. "Do you pretend to struggle with the impossible?"
"Why not? Ought a Frenchman and two Americans to recoil at such a word?"
"But what do you want to do?"
"Command the motion that is carrying us along!"
"Command it?"
"Yes," resumed Michel, getting animated, "stop it or modify it; use it for the accomplishment of our plans."
"And how, pray?"
"That is your business! If artillerymen are not masters of their bullets they are no longer artillerymen. If the projectile commands the gunner, the gunner ought to be rammed instead into the cannon! Fine savants, truly! who don't know now what to do after having induced me--"
"Induced!" cried Barbicane and Nicholl. "Induced! What do you mean by that?"
"No recriminations!" said Michel. "I do not complain. The journey pleases me. The bullet suits me. But let us do all that is humanly possible to fall somewhere, if only upon the moon."
"We should only be too glad, my worthy Michel," answered Barbicane, "but we have no means of doing it."
"Can we not modify the motion of the projectile?"
"Nor diminish its speed?"
"Not even by lightening it like they lighten an overloaded ship?"
"What can we throw out?" answered Nicholl. "We have no ballast on board. And besides, it seems to me that a lightened projectile would go on more quickly."
"Less quickly," said Michel.
"More quickly," replied Nicholl.
"Neither more nor less quickly," answered Barbicane, wishing to make his two friends agree, "for we are moving in the void where we cannot take specific weight into account."
"Very well," exclaimed Michel Ardan in a determined tone; "there is only one thing to do."
"What is that?" asked Nicholl.
"Have breakfast," imperturbably answered the audacious Frenchman, who always brought that solution to the greatest difficulties.
In fact, though that operation would have no influence on the direction of the projectile, it might be attempted without risk, and even successfully from the point of view of the stomach. Decidedly the amiable Michel had only good ideas.
They breakfasted, therefore, at 2 a.m., but the hour was not of much consequence. Michel served up his habitual menu, crowned by an amiable bottle out of his secret cellar. If ideas did not come into their heads the Chambertin of 1863 must be despaired of.
The meal over, observations began again.
The objects they had thrown out of the projectile still followed it at the same invariable distance. It was evident that the bullet in its movement of translation round the moon had not passed through any atmosphere, for the specific weight of these objects would have modified their respective distances.
There was nothing to see on the side of the terrestrial globe. The earth was only a day old, having been new at midnight the day before, and two days having to go by before her crescent, disengaged from the solar rays, could serve as a clock to the Selenites, as in her movement of rotation each of her points always passes the same meridian of the moon every twenty-four hours.
The spectacle was a different one on the side of the moon; the orb was shining in all its splendour amidst innumerable constellations, the rays of which could not trouble its purity. Upon the disc the plains again wore the sombre tint which is seen from the earth. The rest of the nimbus was shining, and amidst the general blaze Tycho stood out like a sun.
Barbicane could not manage any way to appreciate the velocity of the projectile, but reasoning demonstrated that this speed must be uniformly diminishing in conformity with the laws of rational mechanics.
In fact, it being admitted that the bullet would describe an orbit round the moon, that orbit must necessarily be elliptical. Science proves that it must be thus. No mobile circulation round any body is an exception to that law. All the orbits described in space are elliptical, those of satellites round their planets, those of planets around their sun, that of the sun round the unknown orb that serves as its central pivot. Why should the projectile of the Gun Club escape that natural arrangement?
Now in elliptical orbits attracting bodies always occupy one of the foci of the ellipsis. The satellite is, therefore, nearer the body round which it gravitates at one moment than it is at another. When the earth is nearest the sun she is at her perihelion, and at her aphelion when most distant. The moon is nearest the earth at her perigee, and most distant at her apogee. To employ analogous expressions which enrich the language of astronomers, if the projectile remained a satellite of the moon, it ought to be said that it is in its "aposelene" at its most distant point, and at its "periselene" at its nearest.
In the latter case the projectile ought to attain its maximum of speed, in the latter its minimum. Now it was evidently going towards its "aposelene," and Barbicane was right in thinking its speed would decrease up to that point, and gradually increase when it would again draw near the moon. That speed even would be absolutely nil if the point was coexistent with that of attraction.
Barbicane studied the consequences of these different situations; he was trying what he could make of them when he was suddenly interrupted by a cry from Michel Ardan.
"I'faith!" cried Michel, "what fools we are!"
"I don't say we are not," answered Barbicane; "but why?"
"Because we have some very simple means of slackening the speed that is taking us away from the moon, and we do not use them."
"And what are those means?"
"That of utilising the force of recoil in our rockets."
"Ah, why not?" said Nicholl.
"We have not yet utilised that force, it is true," said Barbicane, "but we shall do so."
"When?" asked Michel.
"When the time comes. Remark, my friends, that in the position now occupied by the projectile, a position still oblique to the lunar disc, our rockets, by altering its direction, might take it farther away instead of nearer to the moon. Now I suppose it is the moon you want to reach?"
"Essentially," answered Michel.
"Wait, then. Through some inexplicable influence the projectile has a tendency to let its lower end fall towards the earth. It is probable that at the point of equal attraction its conical summit will be rigorously directed towards the moon. At that moment it may be hoped that its speed will be nil. That will be the time to act, and under the effort of our rockets we can, perhaps, provoke a direct fall upon the surface of the lunar disc."
"Bravo!" said Michel.
"We have not done it yet, and we could not do it as we passed the neutral point, because the projectile was still animated with too much velocity."
"Well reasoned out," said Nicholl.
"We must wait patiently," said Barbicane, "and put every chance on our side; then, after having despaired so long, I again begin to think we shall reach our goal."
This conclusion provoked hurrahs from Michel Ardan. No one of these daring madmen remembered the question they had all answered in the negative--No, the moon is not inhabited! No, the moon is probably not inhabitable! And yet they were going to do all they could to reach it.
One question only now remained to be solved: at what precise moment would the projectile reach that point of equal attraction where the travellers would play their last card?
In order to calculate that moment to within some seconds Barbicane had only to have recourse to his travelling notes, and to take the different altitudes from lunar parallels. Thus the time employed in going over the distance between the neutral point and the South Pole must be equal to the distance which separates the South Pole from the neutral point. The hours representing the time it took were carefully noted down, and the calculation became easy.
Barbicane found that this point would be reached by the projectile at 1 a.m. on the 8th of December. It was then 3 a.m. on the 7th of December. Therefore, if nothing intervened, the projectile would reach the neutral point in twenty-two hours.
The rockets had been put in their places to slacken the fall of the bullet upon the moon, and now the bold fellows were going to use them to provoke an exactly contrary effect. However that may be, they were ready, and there was nothing to do but await the moment for setting fire to them.
"As there is nothing to do," said Nicholl, "I have a proposition to make."
"What is that?" asked Barbicane.
"I propose we go to sleep."
"That is a nice idea!" exclaimed Michel Ardan.
"It is forty hours since we have closed our eyes," said Nicholl. "A few hours' sleep would set us up again."
"Never!" replied Michel.
"Good," said Nicholl; "every man to his humour--mine is to sleep."
And lying down on a divan, Nicholl was soon snoring like a forty-eight pound bullet.
"Nicholl is a sensible man," said Barbicane soon. "I shall imitate him."
A few minutes after he was joining his bass to the captain's baritone.
"Decidedly," said Michel Ardan, when he found himself alone, "these practical people sometimes do have opportune ideas."
And stretching out his long legs, and folding his long arms under his head, Michel went to sleep too.
But this slumber could neither be durable nor peaceful. Too many preoccupations filled the minds of these three men, and a few hours after, at about 7 a.m., they all three awoke at once.
The projectile was still moving away from the moon, inclining its conical summit more and more towards her. This phenomenon was inexplicable at present, but it fortunately aided the designs of Barbicane.
Another seventeen hours and the time for action would have come.
That day seemed long. However bold they might be, the travellers felt much anxiety at the approach of the minute that was to decide everything, either their fall upon the moon or their imprisonment in an immutable orbit. They therefore counted the hours, which went too slowly for them, Barbicane and Nicholl obstinately plunged in calculations, Michel walking up and down the narrow space between the walls contemplating with longing eye the impassible moon.
Sometimes thoughts of the earth passed through their minds. They saw again their friends of the Gun Club, and the dearest of them all, J.T. Maston. At that moment the honourable secretary must have been occupying his post on the Rocky Mountains. If he should perceive the projectile upon the mirror of his gigantic telescope what would he think? After having seen it disappear behind the south pole of the moon, they would see it reappear at the north! It was, therefore, the satellite of a satellite! Had J.T. Maston sent that unexpected announcement into the world? Was this to be the denouement of the great enterprise?
Meanwhile the day passed without incident. Terrestrial midnight came. The 8th of December was about to commence. Another hour and the point of equal attraction would be reached. What velocity then animated the projectile? They could form no estimate; but no error could vitiate Barbicane's calculations. At 1 a.m. that velocity ought to be and would be nil.
Besides, another phenomenon would mark the stopping point of the projectile on the neutral line. In that spot the two attractions, terrestrial and lunar, would be annihilated. Objects would not weigh anything. This singular fact, which had so curiously surprised Barbicane and his companions before, must again come about under identical circumstances. It was at that precise moment they must act.
The conical summit of the bullet had already sensibly turned towards the lunar disc. The projectile was just right for utilising all the recoil produced by setting fire to the apparatus. Chance was therefore in the travellers' favour. If the velocity of the projectile were to be absolutely annihilated upon the neutral point, a given motion, however slight, towards the moon would determine its fall.
"Five minutes to one," said Nicholl.
"Everything is ready," answered Michel Ardan, directing his match towards the flame of the gas.
"Wait!" said Barbicane, chronometer in hand.
At that moment weight had no effect. The travellers felt its complete disappearance in themselves. They were near the neutral point if they had not reached it.
"One o'clock!" said Barbicane.
Michel Ardan put his match to a contrivance that put all the fuses into instantaneous communication. No detonation was heard outside, where air was wanting, but through the port-lights Barbicane saw the prolonged flame, which was immediately extinguished.
The projectile had a slight shock which was very sensibly felt in the interior.
The three friends looked, listened, without speaking, hardly breathing. The beating of their hearts might have been heard in the absolute silence.
"Are we falling?" asked Michel Ardan at last.
"No," answered Nicholl; "for the bottom of the projectile has not turned towards the lunar disc!"
At that moment Barbicane left his window and turned towards his two companions. He was frightfully pale, his forehead wrinkled, his lips contracted.
"We are falling!" said he.
"Ah!" cried Michel Ardan, "upon the moon?"
"Upon the earth!" answered Barbicane.
"The devil!" cried Michel Ardan; and he added philosophically, "when we entered the bullet we did not think it would be so difficult to get out of it again."
In fact, the frightful fall had begun. The velocity kept by the projectile had sent it beyond the neutral point. The explosion of the fuses had not stopped it. That velocity which had carried the projectile beyond the neutral line as it went was destined to do the same upon its return. The law of physics condemned it, in its elliptical orbit, to pass by every point it had already passed.
It was a terrible fall from a height of 78,000 leagues, and which no springs could deaden. According to the laws of ballistics the projectile would strike the earth with a velocity equal to that which animated it as it left the Columbiad--a velocity of "16,000 metres in the last second!"
And in order to give some figures for comparison it has been calculated that an object thrown from the towers of Notre Dame, the altitude of which is only 200 feet, would reach the pavement with a velocity of 120 leagues an hour. Here the projectile would strike the earth with a velocity of 57,600 leagues an hour.
"We are lost men," said Nicholl coldly.
"Well, if we die," answered Barbicane, with a sort of religious enthusiasm, "the result of our journey will be magnificently enlarged! God will tell us His own secret! In the other life the soul will need neither machines nor engines in order to know! It will be identified with eternal wisdom!"
"True," replied Michel Ardan: "the other world may well console us for that trifling orb called the moon!"
Barbicane crossed his arms upon his chest with a movement of sublime resignation.
"God's will be done!" he said.


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I love coming full circle. I love new beginnings.
I remember sitting in the school cafeteria during the Summer of 2004. We had all just arrived. Fresh faces, bright eyes, and endless expectations. I sat across from Erica and I knew immediately that I liked her. She was kind and intelligent--truly lovely. She asked me if I had a boyfriend and I had come to New York dating a guy who already lived there, so I replied yes. And she went on to tell me about her boyfriend, Chris.
I remember sitting in Arte around the Corner in the fall of 2007. I sat across from Erica. Celebrating both of our birthdays we drank biodynamic wine and talked about boys and sex and school and love and the rest of our lives. I had long since moved on from my first New York City boyfriend, but Erica was still with Chris.
Chris would surprise Erica at school, waiting outside when we finished at eleven. He would come see the shows and sit on the end of the row (easy access to leave in case he got to nervous). He would cry with us and laugh with us. And he loved her all the while. And so we (Erica's friends) loved him for that.
He proposed last March, just before our graduation. I squealed like they do in the movies when Erica held up her hand.
And so they were married in City Hall this Friday. Erica wore her mother's wedding dress. And the figurines atop her cake originally belonged to her grandmother. Everything was steeped in history, a rich tradition. The restaurant where they held their reception, Five Front just under the Brooklyn Bridge, was the same place they had their first date. I can only imagine what it was like for Chris as he sat across from Erica that first time. And for Erica, sitting across from the man she would one day call her husband.
I can't wait for countless more meals, more glasses of biodynamic (giggle, giggle) wine, where I get to sit across from the two of them and watch their love--their marriage--grow and flourish.


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Happy Wedding Wednesday!
Photography is hands down one of the most important elements of a sensational wedding! After investing your time, energy, heart (and let's not forget money) into your wedding, the last thing you want is mediocre photos of the best day ever. Which is why I love working with amazing photographers, such as Mandi Mitchell, who know how to deliver the ultimate quality and captures for my couples. Prior to recently working with Mandi for our sensational couple Dwann and Jacob's big day in March, I'll admit I was on the fence regarding first looks. Let's just say Mandi COMPLETELY opened my mind, and I have a new found love for first looks.
What I learned from witnessing glimpses of Dwann and Jacob's first look and viewing the final photos from Mandi is that it is truly a special moment JUST for the couple. So much of the wedding day is shared with the bridal party, family and friends, which is all great. However, those private moments the first look provides are so magical for the couple and ultimately gives them tons of beautiful photos together. If you're unsure if a first look is for you, here's some advice from Mandi:
What is a First Look?
Mandi: A first look allows the bride and groom to see each other before the ceremony. This is done with the couple and photographer, and allows the couple a private moment together. This moment allows for a very intimate and private setting in which the couple gets to interact, kiss, hug, and talk with each other. When the father, or whoever, walks the bride down the aisle, there is no opportunity for this sweet moment as the couple immediately is getting married.
Why do you recommend for couples to do a First Look?
Mandi: I'm soooo glad you asked! First off, it's much more romantic for couples to get to see each other with no one else around. It provides a private moment that the two of you will remember forever. I still remember my first look with my husband, Josh.
Secondly, couples who see each other before the ceremony are much more relaxed throughout the day. You get to spend your wedding DAY with your groom! I loved the fact that Josh and I have memories from our entire wedding day together, not just ceremony and reception.
Couples get more time for pictures if they see each other before the ceremony, meaning you get 50% more pictures of the two of you. Most of the time, I schedule at least an hour's worth of pictures for just you. When you don't see each other, you only have 15, maybe 20 minutes total after the ceremony. It's more relaxed and less rushed when we do pictures before the wedding. Also, you can get nearly all pictures done before the ceremony, so more time after the wedding to spend with your guests!
If a bride says, "I don't want to see him before the ceremony because it takes away from the wedding day and makes the moment I walk down the aisle less special", what advice would you have for her?
Mandi: I always tell my couples that this is far from the truth. I saw Josh at our First Look four hours before the ceremony. We had this very special and amazing moment just the two of us. We got to hug, kiss, talk, giggle, and even have a few funny jokes with each other that we still laugh about today. If we hadn't seen each other, I would have had my Dad walk me down to him, stand in between us, and then we would move right into the ceremony. No chance to kiss, laugh, or have inside jokes. I still cried during our First Look AND walking down the aisle to marry him. I still had those butterflies in my stomach as I walked down to him. I still had all of the same emotions I would have had I not seen him. In fact, I think I got to enjoy walking to him even more because I wasn't freaking out inside. We had already seen each other and had a good time during the day already.
Now that you know more about first looks and how they can enhance your day, hopefully you are able to make a more informed decision to stick with or kick tradition. I got married in 2009 and didn't have a first look, but I definitely see value in first looks now. No matter which route you go, as long as you have an amazing photographer (and of course a sensational planner) you are sure to get some amazing memories of your day! To find out more about Mandi Mitchell Photography, based in Georgia, visit her website.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on first looks in the comments section. Would you or did you have a first look? Let's chat!
Sensationally yours,


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So Work of Art is a new reality competition show on Bravo and I thought it would suck but I LOVE IT!
It allows me to float back into my brief time as an art student and reminisce – to see people conceiving and creating and then suffering through critiques and the bullshit that gets spouted on all sides…
recently the contestants were challenged to create book covers and one of the books was Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Miles is clearly the frontrunner, the darling of the judges, and yet i like him too, he seems fully legit and makes great stuff
And he reminds me of Hippie a little bit because he tends towards the ridiculous and yet it seems to always pay off.
Miles decided that he really had to read the book before he could make a cover, so he burrowed into his little workroom nest and did it. He read the whole book in about 4 hours.
That bit made me laugh out loud because I had read Frankenstein as a high school freshman and didn't love it, but it offers a lot to analyze for novice literature students.
4 years later I was supposed to read Frankenstein again! During the summer before my first year of college (for the required freshmen humanities course). I was an arrogant teenager so I blew it off. But then we arrived on campus and there was a week of orientation before classes started and everyone around me was reading it and freaking out about getting it done in time, etc… So, just like Miles, I sat down and read the entire book in about 4 hours the night before class. And I was so glad I did!


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# Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Splunk Inc. All Rights Reserved. Version 4.3.1 # # This file contains possible attributes and values you can use to configure distributed search. # # There is NO DEFAULT distsearch.conf. # # To set custom configurations, place a distsearch.conf in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/. # For examples, see distsearch.conf.example. You must restart Splunk to enable configurations. # # To learn more about configuration files (including precedence) please see the documentation # located at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Aboutconfigurationfiles # # These attributes are all configured on the search head, with the exception of the optional attributes listed # under the SEARCH HEAD BUNDLE MOUNTING OPTIONS heading, which are configured on the search peers. [distributedSearch] * Set distributed search configuration options under this stanza name. * Follow this stanza name with any number of the following attribute/value pairs. * If you do not set any attribute, Splunk uses the default value (if there is one listed). disabled = [true|false] * Toggle distributed search off (true) and on (false). * Defaults to false (your distributed search stanza is enabled by default). heartbeatMcastAddr = <IP address> * Set a multicast address where each Splunk server sends and listens for heart beat messages. * This allows Splunk servers to auto-discover other Splunk servers on your network. * Defaults to 188.8.131.52. heartbeatPort = <port> * Set heartbeat port where each Splunk server sends and listens for heart beat messages. * This allows Splunk servers to auto-discover other Splunk servers on your network. * Defaults to 8888. ttl = <integer> * Time to live (ttl) of the heartbeat messages. * Increasing this number allows the UDP multicast packets to spread beyond the current subnet to the specified number of hops. * NOTE: This will work only if routers along the way are configured to pass UDP multicast packets. * Defaults to 1 (this subnet). heartbeatFrequency = <int, in seconds> * The period between heartbeat messages, in seconds. Use 0 to disable sending of heartbeats. * Defaults to 0. statusTimeout = <int, in seconds> * Set connection timeout when gathering a search peer's basic info (/services/server/info). * Note: Read/write timeouts are automatically set to twice this value. * Defaults to 10. removedTimedOutServers = [true|false] * If true, remove a server connection that cannot be made within serverTimeout. * If false, every call to that server attempts to connect. * Note: This may result in a slow user interface. * Defaults to false. checkTimedOutServersFrequency = <integer, in seconds> * This attribute is ONLY relevant if removeTimedOutServers is set to true. If removeTimedOutServers is false, this attribute is ignored. * Rechecks servers at this frequency (in seconds). * If this is set to 0, then no recheck will occur. * Defaults to 60. autoAddServers = [true|false] * If set to 'true', this node will automatically add all discovered servers. * Defaults to false. bestEffortSearch = [true|false] * Whether to remove a peer from search when it does not have any of our bundles. * If set to true searches will never block on bundle replication, even when a peer is first adde - the * peers that don't have any common bundles will simply not be searched. * Defaults to false skipOurselves = [true|false] * If set to 'true', this server will NOT participate as a server in any search or other call. * This is used for building a node that does nothing but merge the results from other servers. * Defaults to false. servers = <comma separated list of servers> * Initial list of servers. * If operating completely in 'autoAddServers' mode (discovering all servers), there is no need to list any servers here. disabled_servers = <comma separated list of servers> * A list of configured but disabled search peers. shareBundles = [true|false] * Indicates whether this server will use bundle replication to share search time configuration with search peers. * If set to false, the search head assumes that all the search peers can access the correct bundles via share storage and have configured the options listed under "SEARCH HEAD BUNDLE MOUNTING OPTIONS". * Defaults to true. serverTimeout = <int, in seconds> * DEPRECATED, please use connectionTimeout, sendTimeout, receiveTimeout connectionTimeout = <int, in seconds> * Amount of time in seconds to use as a timeout during search peer connection establishment. sendTimeout = <int, in seconds> * Amount of time in seconds to use as a timeout while trying to write/send data to a search peer. receiveTimeout = <int, in seconds> * Amount of time in seconds to use as a timeout while trying to read/receive data from a search peer. #****************************************************************************** # DISTRIBUTED SEARCH KEY PAIR GENERATION OPTIONS #****************************************************************************** [tokenExchKeys] certDir = <directory> * This directory contains the local Splunk instance's distributed search key pair. * This directory also contains the public keys of servers that distribute searches to this Splunk instance. publicKey = <filename> * Name of public key file for this Splunk instance. privateKey = <filename> * Name of private key file for this Splunk instance. genKeyScript = <command> * Command used to generate the two files above. #****************************************************************************** # REPLICATION SETTING OPTIONS #****************************************************************************** [replicationSettings] connectionTimeout = <int, in seconds> * The maximum number of seconds to wait before timing out on inital connection to a peer. sendRcvTimeout = <int, in seconds> * The maximum number of seconds to wait for the sending of a full replication to a peer. replicationThreads = <int, in seconds> * The maximum number of threads to use when performing bundle replication to peers. * Defaults to 1. maxMemoryBundleSize = <int> * The maximum size (in MB) of bundles to hold in memory. If the bundle is larger than this * the bundles will be read and encoded on the fly for each peer the replication is taking place. * Defaults to 10 maxBundleSize = <int> * The maximum size (in MB) of the bundle for which replication can occur. If the bundle is larger than this * bundle replication will not occur and an error message will be logged. * Defaults to: 1024 (1GB) allowStreamUpload = <bool> * Whether to enable streaming bundle replication. * Defaults to: false #****************************************************************************** # REPLICATION WHITELIST OPTIONS #****************************************************************************** [replicationWhitelist] <name> = <whitelist_pattern> * Controls Splunk's search-time conf replication from search heads to search nodes. * Only files that match a whitelist entry will be replicated. * Conversely, files which are not matched by any whitelist will not be replicated. * Only files located under $SPLUNK_HOME/etc will ever be replicated in this way. * The regex will be matched against the filename, relative to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc. Example: for a file "$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/fancy_app/default/inputs.conf" this whitelist should match "apps/fancy_app/default/inputs.conf" * Similarly, the etc/system files are available as system/... user-specific files are available as users/username/appname/... * The 'name' element is only functional in so far as allowing the setting to be overridden in the normal Splunk layering/bundle system. It can, of course, also be used to hint at the target or goal of the particular whitelist. * The whitelist_pattern is the Splunk-style pattern matching, which is primarily regex-based with special local behavior for '...' and '*'. * ... matches anything, while * matches anything besides directory separators. See props.conf.spec for more detail on these. * Note '.' will match a literal dot, not any character. * Note that these lists are applied globally across all conf data, not to any particular app, regardless of where they are defined. Be careful to pull in only your intended files. #****************************************************************************** # REPLICATION BLACKLIST OPTIONS #****************************************************************************** [replicationBlacklist] <name> = <blacklist_pattern> * All comments from the replication whitelist notes above also apply here. * Replication blacklist takes precedence over the whitelist, meaning that a file that matches both the whitelist and the blacklist will NOT be replicated. * This can be used to prevent unwanted bundle replication in two common scenarios: * Very large files, which part of an app may not want to be replicated, especially if they are not needed on search nodes. * Frequently updated files (for example, some lookups) will trigger retransmission of all search head data. * Note that these lists are applied globally across all conf data. Especially for blacklisting, be careful to constrain your blacklist to match only data your application will not need. #****************************************************************************** # SEARCH HEAD BUNDLE MOUNTING OPTIONS # You set these attributes on the search peers only, and only if you also set shareBundles=false # in [distributedSearch] on the search head. Use them to achieve replication-less bundle access. The # search peers use a shared storage mountpoint to access the search head bundles ($SPLUNK_HOME/etc). #****************************************************************************** [searchhead:<searchhead-splunk-server-name>] mounted_bundles = [true|false] * Determines whether the bundles belong to the search head specified in the stanza name are mounted. * You must set this to "true" to use mounted bundles. * Default is "false". bundles_location = <path_to_bundles> * The path to where the search head's bundles are mounted. This must be the mountpoint on the search peer, * not on the search head. This should point to a directory that is equivalent to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/. It must * contain at least the following subdirectories: system, apps, users.
# Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Splunk Inc. All Rights Reserved. Version 4.3.1 # # These are example configurations for distsearch.conf. Use this file to configure distributed search. For all # available attribute/value pairs, see distsearch.conf.spec. # # There is NO DEFAULT distsearch.conf. # # To use one or more of these configurations, copy the configuration block into distsearch.conf # in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/. You must restart Splunk to enable configurations. # # To learn more about configuration files (including precedence) please see the documentation # located at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Aboutconfigurationfiles [distributedSearch] heartbeatFrequency = 10 servers = 192.168.1.1:8059,192.168.1.2:8059 blacklistNames = the-others,them blacklistURLs = 192.168.1.3:8059,192.168.1.4:8059 # This entry distributes searches to 192.168.1.1:8059,192.168.1.2:8059. # The server sends a heartbeat every 10 seconds. # There are four blacklisted instances, listed across blacklistNames and blacklistURLs. # Attributes not set here will use the defaults listed in distsearch.conf.spec. #this stanza controls the timing settings for connecting to a remote peer and the send timeout [replicationSettings] connectionTimeout = 10 sendRcvTimeout = 60 #this stanza controls what files are replicated to the other peer each is a regex [replicationWhitelist] allConf = *.conf # Mounted bundles example. # This example shows two distsearch.conf configurations, one for the search head and another for each of the # search head's search peers. It shows only the attributes necessary to implement mounted bundles. # On a search head whose Splunk server name is "searcher01": [distributedSearch] ... shareBundles = false # On each search peer: [searchhead:searcher01] mounted_bundles = true bundles_location = /opt/shared_bundles/searcher01
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|P-Town Harbor at dawn
Off to an incredible start, the 6th International Encaustic Conference is now officially under way. Have been seeing old friends, meeting new ones and enjoying the view.
Many openings will be happening all around town, got to take a peek at some of them yesterday; I have work at the Kobalt Gallery, opening on Fri eve.
And was just informed that I have been selected to be part of:
The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century
The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century
The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts
October 5- December 2, 2012
Opening Reception, 6 – 8 pm, October 5, 2012
I am one of 31 artists selected for this important show in Boston in the fall.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
sparkle with chanel
Introducing Chanel's Holiday 2011 makeup collection, LES SCINTILLANCES DE CHANEL. Just stunning.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
my 8 wardrobe essentials
No1 - THE LEATHER JACKET: I have never seen anyone look bad in leather. Period.
No2 - THE SCARF : During winter, I couldn't care less if I look like puff ball, but I would rather walk around feeling slightly warm around town. If you're wild about scarves and intending to buy one or two staples. I strongly, strongly suggest Louis Vuitton and Alexander McQueen scarves. They are the best!
NO3 - THE MAXI DRESS: I don't care whether it's going to be in and out of style because I've embedded maxi dresses as a staple into my wardrobe. I wear it when I'm simply too lazy to accessorize, mix and match and basically just a quick wardrobe fix. I pair my maxi dress with any shoe possible because I feel that it goes with anything. I recommend Issa, Zimmerman and of course our favourite high street brand, H&M.
No4 - THE FUR COAT/VEST/JACKET: I absolutely cannot live without fur. I feel that with fur you can create a lot of looks, of course depending on your own style. I love pairing a shirt, fur vest, jeans and boots for that Bohemian vibe, or a maxi dress over a fur coat.
No5 - THE WHITE SHIRT: If you wear it right, you can do the 'menswear for women' look to perfection on a very regular basis. Center yourself around the classic wardrobe staple - the white button down shirt. May it be cotton or silk - both are equally stylish and guess what, its such a closet staple, it will never run out of style.
No6 - THE CARDIGAN: Essential for a girl like me who is always feeling cold. Its simple, fits all body types, chic and a really easy layer transition from summer to winter. I personally love to pull it over a cute spring dress, or over a long top with leggings. I don't have a particular brand to recommend for cardigans as you can get many nice ones everywhere.
No7 - THE TRENCH: Whatever brand it may be, a classic trench is a must. I live by it and its almost a staple in my wardrobe. I must say, if you have the extra moolah, please invest in a Burberry - it fits like a glove and you can make necessary alterations to fit your body type. If not, Zara is always a pretty good second option.
No8 - THE JEAN: I can't think of anyone who can't live without having a pair of jeans in their closet. May it be white, blue, pink, skinny, flare, straight - everyone has a pair. Ultimately though, find a pair (or more) that you feel most comfortable with (something with stretch helps). I personally recommend J Brand, Zara and Uniqlo.
What is more important is how and what you pair it with. I personally love pairing my pair of jeans with a good basic tee and a structured blazer or tweed jacket - one can never go wrong with tweed. Definitely wear heels for that polished look or slippers which is the hot thing now.
Hope you've enjoyed one of my longest post thus far. Have a good weekend!
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
must see: chanel une promenade x harrods
"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." - Henry Miller.
Sneak peek at Chanel's fantastical adventure at Harrods - the 3rd floor installation 'Une Promenade' – which explores 'Coco in Wonderland' through a series of beautifully designed rooms exploring Coco's signature 2.55 bag through to the iconic No5 scent.
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beauty: green glitter nails
How much do I love Alexa's nails? Enough to want to dip my nails in pots and pots of green glitter right now. The look was courtesy of nail artist Naomi Yasuda who studied the art of manicure and nail design at Chunichi Beauty College in Nagoya, Japan before moving to New York.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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my favourite cuppa
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Monday, October 24, 2011
travel inspiration: bali
My favourite thing is to look back at photographs of past trips -- so many memories and beautiful moments captured forever.
ayana resort and spa bali , uluwatu: escape the urban landscape and retreat at ayana. 78 free-standing, cliff-top Bali luxury villas are set in traditional Balinese compounds with private pools surrounded by tropical gardens designed to ensure maximum seclusion.
kiss bali , seminyak : influences of 70's glam, echoing the glamorous style of the 70's with sleek architecture and 21st Century design, the villa stay is a journey into nostalgia but with a highly seductive, VIP experience
metis, seminyak: known to serve up the best French Mediterranean cuisine in bali
ibu oka , ubud: not a hidden secret but if you love pork just like me, this restaurants has all the pork you need. a must try - babi guling - think of crispy pig skin, spicy sauce and rice. you can't miss it! Located just across from the Ubud Tourist Information Center. Go early because once they sell out for the day, they close.
flapjacks , kuta /seminyak: it sounds weird to eat crepes, waffles and pancakes in Bali but this place serves very good gelatos and every thing that a sweet tooth will love! it opens till late so it is best for supper
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
must have: tom ford nail polishes
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style inspiration
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Add this to your holiday wishlist: Baggu makes leather bags now - in shiny colors
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
versace x hnm FINALLY
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Monday, October 17, 2011
This is by far the best way I've seen to organize makeup! What a lovely way to stay organized! Purchase it here
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spotted: kim kardashian
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The Food and Drug Administration today announced its approval of a new sweetener, neotame, for use as a general-purpose sweetener in a wide variety of food products, other than meat and poultry. Neotame is a non-nutritive, high intensity sweetener that is manufactured by the NutraSweet Company of Mount Prospect, Illinois.
Depending on its food application, neotame is approximately 7,000 to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar. It is a free-flowing, water soluble, white crystalline powder that is heat stable and can be used as a tabletop sweetener as well as in cooking applications. Examples of uses for which neotame has been approved include baked goods, non-alcoholic beverages (including soft drinks), chewing gum, confections and frostings, frozen desserts, gelatins and puddings, jams and jellies, processed fruits and fruit juices, toppings and syrups.
In determining the safety of neotame, FDA reviewed data from more than 113 animal and human studies. The safety studies were designed to identify possible toxic effects, such as cancer-causing, reproductive, and neurological effects. From its evaluation of the neotame database, the FDA was able to conclude that neotame is safe for human consumption.
New food additives, including new sweeteners, must be approved by FDA as safe before they may be marketed in the United States.


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I have had a chronic siatica injury since 2005, I have tried several diferent methods and combinations of accupuncture, IMS physio, traditional physio, massage of all types, chiropractors and sports medecine doctors that just couldnt quite target my deep injury(s). She has been a tremendous coach, and healing guide for me to step ahead into the rest of my life with next to no ailments with my bones and joints. I will refer her to anyone that is having similar or for that any back related issues as I think a combination of physio, training, and her techniques are one of the most advanced and healthy approaches at self maintenance I have come across in my 15 or so years of searching for the right doctor to help me. Awesome find, thank you Dr. Rubina!
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The first thing that struck me about Dr. Rubina is that she has a holistic approach. The second is that she is a total brainiac and offers a new snippet of guidance for total health in each session. She can help guide you in what she calls the 4 pillars of health: diet, sleep, exercise and meditation. I did not anticipate learning any of this through chiropractic sessions. I have gained more energy and my sleep quality is now fantastic. I can't say enough good about my experience with her. If you are looking for someone guide you to good health in your day to day and are okay with doing a little bit of the work yourself, I believe your sessions with Dr. Rubina can change your life!!
"I would recommend her to anyone."
Dr. Kurji was referred to me by a friend. She is simply the best!!! Over 15 years of pain, 24/7 - 365 days - she was able to help me. She is very knowledgeable, caring and 100% honest. I would recommend her to anyone.