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Vineyard Cloudscapes - Photography Wall Art Print
"A rare mountain rain storm with spectacular clouds during early June 2015 made for a dramatic afternoon in the Santa Ynez Valley." - Tenley Fohl, CEO, Founder of Tenley Fohl Photography
Dimensions: 11" x 14" (28cm x 35.5cm); 16" x 20" (41cm x 51cm); 20" x 24" (51cm x 61cm); 24" x 36" (61cm x 91.5cm). Printed on premium photo paper with unique satin finish and refined luster texture - engineered to give the highest resolution and color saturation quality. Prints made in California. Ships worldwide.
For every purchase, a portion of the proceeds will help fund Exploring Paths, a mentorship program that helps youths in urban environments by providing them an outlet to have fun living healthy, active lives while simultaneously exploring their own paths of development through biking, mentorship and nature.
Free shipping for all worldwide orders. Prints are made to order and shipped unframed in rollup tube. Please allow 3-5 business days for processing. 7-14 business days for worldwide delivery.
All sales are final. No returns or exchanges are allowed.
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Winner of the Central Coast Wine & Food Photography Competition, 2013
"The creative force behind professional agency, Tenley Fohl Photography, is Tenley Fohl, and her familiarity with and love of California's Central Coast, wine country, and her home for over 20 years, the Santa Ynez Valley. Tenley Fohl Photography focuses on the region's innate, prominent bounty vineyards, wines, food and the business behind it, as well as wine country lifestyle and events. Tenley Fohl captures the inherent nature of moments and symbols via still photography and imagery, invoking emotion and sense of place, for commercial or private use.
The firm's robust client list includes numerous publications (National Geographic; Wine Enthusiast Magazine; Los Angeles Times; Forbes.com; Delta Sky Magazine; Edible Santa Barbara; HuffingtonPost.com; Zagat.com; Santa Barbara Seasons; Western Art & Architecture; Chumash! Magazine; TV's The Weather Channel); eateries and food (The Baker's Table; Brothers Restaurants; Terravant Winery Restaurant); wineries (Grassini Family Vineyards; Kit Wines; Daniel Gehrs Wines; Balo Vineyards); hospitality and travel organizations (Visit Santa Ynez Valley; World of Pinot Noir; Santa Barbara Vintners; Jetset Times; The California Directory of Fine Wineries; Solvang Conference & Visitors Bureau); and entertainment and event outlets, such as event planning firm Relev Unlimited, and a special shoot for a live concert featuring Toad the Wet Sprocket, and more.
Fohl has also captured hometown personalities such as Kami Craig, Olympic silver and gold medal-winning member of the Women's USA Water Polo Team, and Vanessa Craig, of Food Network's 'All-Star Academy' TV show, demonstrating Fohl's dedication to all that the Santa Ynez Valley region holds for both visitors and locals."
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For you folks hearing about us for the first time, JRebel is Java's most popular redeploy killer productivity tool for Java developers that instantly updates the running application whenever changes are made to class structures, resource files and framework configuration files.
Using JRebel, developers can eliminate the need to build and re-deploy the application during development, saving an average of 10.5 minutes out of each coding hour, according to a recent report on Java EE Productivity. This comes out to over 5 work weeks each year – which is over 1 month salary for each developer on your team.
JRebel 5.0 was just released and introduces a new functionality called JRebel Remoting (fresh out of Beta) that enables JRebel to be used in the scenarios where the application is running in remote environments.
With the remoting feature it will be very easy to develop and test Java applications in cloud environments, and Jelastic PaaS is totally suitable for this. Jelastic is a highly-scalable, cloud-based Java host platform that we've been following with interest for some time at ZeroTurnaround.
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Anton Paar is a world market leader in the fields of density measurement, the determination of dissolved CO2, rheometry, material characterization and the production of complex high-precision parts, e.g. for medicinal prostheses. Innovation is essential: About 20 % of the company's annual turnover is invested in Research & Development.
Located in Richmond, VA with offices in the U.S. and Canada, Anton Paar USA provides sales and application support to our customers. A special focus is set on after sales support and service with a factory-trained team of engineers and scientists to safeguard your investment. Anton Paar USA is an EEO/AAP employer.
Anton Paar GmbH, with its head office in Graz, Austria, produces high-quality measuring and analysis instruments for research and industry and is a contract manufacturer of high-precision mechanical assemblies and electromechanical components for companies all over the world.
The company was established in 1922 and now employs more than 2000 people in 21 subsidiaries worldwide. Continuous innovation, cooperation with universities and external research institutes and all processes according to ISO 9001 ensure the maximum quality and reliability of our products.
A milestone for the company and density measurement in general was the production of the first digital density meter using the vibrating U-tube method developed by Dr. Hans Stabinger in the late 1960s.
Anton Paar has a strong sales network in more than 110 countries to provide customers with rapid application support and service.
One man, one company
Anton Paar GmbH was established in 1922 when a young machinist, Mr. Anton Paar, started a one-man machine repair shop. He specialized in repairing machines for butchers and bakeries and soon earned a reputation for excellent work, which led to contacts with universities and various research institutes.
The pioneer
In 1932, Anton Paar's youngest daughter, Margarete Platzer, the first Styrian female master locksmith, followed in her father's footsteps. She was especially interested in high-precision mechanics. The quality of her work led to a cooperation with Prof. Otto Kratky and production of the company's first scientific, analytical instrument - the Kratky Small Angle X-ray Camera - which is still the most widely used measuring system of its type today.
Technology transfer
In 1963 Ulrich Santner, Margarete Platzer's son-in-law, became Managing Director of the company. He formed contacts to leading research institutes and developed a systematic approach for transferring technology from research to industry. Several years of studying in the United States helped prepare Mr. Santner for marketing numerous innovative products internationally. He strengthened the business relationships to research and sales companies. The highlight of his career was receiving the title of "Business Person of the Year" in 1995.
In 1986 Ulrich Santner's son-in-law joined the company. As head of the Marketing and Sales department and then Managing Director of the German subsidiary Anton Paar Germany, he systematically built up an international sales network. Under his management several new subsidiaries have been founded and the position of Anton Paar GmbH as world leader in different areas of scientific instrumentation has been further strengthened.
The idea
The family firm became a foundation in December 2003. The "Santner Foundation" is now the new owner of Anton Paar GmbH. The organization is a charitable foundation for public utility. Its turnover will benefit research projects in the field of natural and technical sciences as well as the prevention of drug abuse and rehabilitation of drug addicts. The managing director and chairman of the board at Anton Paar remain unchanged.
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20th Century Fox is in early talks for an "Avatar" sequel, but parent-company News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch warned it isn't coming anytime soon.
"Being Jim Cameron, I wouldn't hold your breath for an early one," Murdoch said in a conference call, referring to the director's famously slow poke approach to movie-making.
Murdoch added that there were "early talks about" the sequel adding that Cameron "has ideas for one."
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"We haven't come to any agreement with him or budgets or timing," Murdoch said.
A sequel to the "Avatar" box-office madness is only logical and was set up by the original film's ending. At a pre-release screening of the film, Sam Worthington said there were plenty of directions to take a new film and that he was eager to reprise his hero-turn as Jake Sully. But at the time, even he wasn't sure that the box-office business would call for an "Avatar" return. Rest assured Sam Worthington, it definitely has.
Of more immediate concern is "Avatar's" DVD release. Murdoch said on the call that it will be released during his company's current fiscal year, which ends June 30, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Presumably, "Avatar's" stranglehold on the worldwide box-office will have ended by then.
Unlike the theater experience, the DVD release will not feature 3D viewing as that technology isn't developed enough yet. But News Corp. deputy chairman, president and COO Chase Carey added there could be a 3D "Avatar" DVD release further "down the road" when the technology is ready.


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OpenEmbedded Developers America Meeting
The OpenEmbedded Project is holding a developers meeting May 2-3, 2014, in Santa Clara, CA. This meeting is co-located with the Embedded Linux Conference North America. All active OpenEmbedded developers are invited to attend.
Contact Jefro with any questions.
Location & Time
May 2-3, 2014
time TBD
Ettus Research / National Instruments
4600 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA
Lunches will be provided by the Yocto Project Community Office
The area is a bit of a wasteland without good food choices close (walking) by. If you have lunch ideas let Jefro or Philip know. We can look into asking a food truck to come by: http://roaminghunger.com/sjc.
- Have fun.
- Get useful work done that benefits from high bandwidth interactions.
- Get more people involved with the project at a higher level.
Working Agenda
This agenda is flexible, and meant to reflect the important issues in the OE community. Please feel free to contribute agenda items. We will finalize the agenda after introduction to maximize use of people's time.
- Introductions. Be prepared to tell us who you are and how you use OpenEmbedded (and the Yocto Project)
- The Yocto Project is supposed to make Embedded easy. What is still hard?
- bug scrub (also bug collecting/wrangling)
- ongoing role of the OE TSC
- wiki/website organization
- online voting
- increasing the amount of hardware that works out of the box with oe-core + layers
- next + 1 release
- developer community - outreach/recruiting/mentoring, new developer documentation, process and QA tools
- image deployment/update best practices (shared yocto issue)
- feedback on Toaster, the web interface for BitBake (some background in this thread https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/yocto/2014-April/018956.html)
- Philip Balister (Crofton)
- Richard Purdie (RP)
- Mark Hatle (fray)
- Khem Raj (khem)
- Martin Jansa (jama)
- Armin Kuster (akuster)
- Jeff Osier-Mixon (jefro)
- Alejandro del Castillo
- Tom King (ka6sox)
- Steve Arnold (mr_science/nerdboy)
- Herb Kuta
- Trevor Woerner (tlwoerner)
- Sean Hudson (darknighte)
- Denys Dmytriyenko (denix)
- Toby Flynn
- Adam Bell
- Belen Barros Pena (belen)
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Silver Standard with a 1932 Ford Deuce Roadster
Bob Cutler's '32 Ford Roadster
Take a look at one of the most outstanding Deuces--make that one of the most outstanding street rods--of the year. Bob Cutler's elaborately modified, Jag V-12-powered roadster has been causing a commotion in this hobby since the beginning of the year, when Bob drove it (yes, drove it) into the 54th Annual Grand National Roadster Show.
Bob has dreamed of building a hot rod since his childhood days but says his dreams got sidetracked for many years. He honed his mechanical chops working on aircraft before landing a job at a Beverly Hills Jaguar dealership and eventually opening his own Jag repair business in Pasadena, California.
The first step towards getting involved in rodding took place in June 1991, when a couple of Bob's old high school buddies invited him to the L.A. Roadster Show in Pomona, California. Amid all those outstanding roadsters, the impulse hit. He had to have a Deuce. But Bob thinks big and knew he wanted something exceptional--something that combined white knuckle hot rod kicks with European touring car elegance. Being a Jaguar mechanic, and considering that Jaguar is owned by Ford, after all, Bob figured his best choice for a Ford-in-a-Ford mill was a Jag V-12. And his only choice for feeding that cat was Kinsler fuel injection.
With the project still in concept form, Bob decided to seek the help of a pro designer. He called the nearby Art Center College of Design and was put in touch with none other than Harry Bradley. Bradley's reputation is for creating beautiful hot rods, not congeniality, and Bob told us that Bradley explained to him that he had no idea what he was in for but begrudgingly agreed to listen to his ideas. Bradley provided the 1/5-scale drawing that served as the design for the unique roadster, in addition to advice throughout the project.
The evolution from list of ideas to finished rod took 10 years, and a lot of painstaking design and engineering work to make sure the car not only looked right but was mechanically right, as well. After winning the Outstanding Engine award at the GNRS, Bob fired up the prize-winning V-12 and drove the roadster out. We saw him again at the Goodguys Show in Del Mar, where the Deuce was a Street Rod d'Elegance finalist and a Boyd Coddington Pro's Pick winner. Bob's big prize is accomplishing all of his goals with this incredible Deuce. The plan could easily have veered in 100 wrong directions, but Bob scored a bull's-eye with his first shot.
Bob Cutler
Pasadena, California
'32 Ford Roadster
A dozen injector stacks will get anyone's attention. Bob, a pro Jag mechanic, put together the trophy-winning EFI V-12. He uses a laptop to program the Kinsler fuel injection system, which features custom-built 3-inch runners in the manifold, as well as the nitrous oxide setup. The custom water pipes and headers were built by Rod Sexton. On the dyno, the 346ci engine makes 390 hp at 5,742 rpm, naturally aspirated. On the bottle, the numbers leap to 530 hp at 5,491 rpm. The transmission is a Jag TH400 automatic with an 1,800-rpm stall converter. Bob softened the clutch packs and added an Inland Empire aluminum driveshaft spinning 3.95:1 gears in a '93 Halibrand quick-change rearend.
Bob gave us a head's up and let us shoot the chassis during the buildup. It's a piece of art. He and Lars Johasson handbuilt the frame from 1018 tubing and boxed rails. They pinched the rails in the front, built a C-notch into the rear, and added custom batwings and tubular K-members. The big V-12 required the rails to be extended 12 inches (wheelbase is 113 inches). Performance Machine six-piston disc brakes and Pro Shocks on custom mounts are used front and back. Additional suspension comes from front and rear four-bars and Panhard bars. The customized Magnum axle drops 5 inches and has been V'd and dropped in the center.
Instead of going overboard with the rolling stock, Bob selected sandcast aluminum kidney bean rims from Phil Schmidt at PS Engineering, measuring 17x9.5 and 16x6. They look perfect. BFGoodrich Comp T/As are P275/60R17s and P215/60R16s.
The truly unique body was completely coach-crafted based on clay models and plaster molds made by Cutler and Dave Crook. Butch at E.G. Brinza Studios handled all leadwork and dialed in the body, and C. Henry Wehr at Autosport Engineering did all metalwork, including the aluminum hood, headlights, and grille shell. First things to catch our eye were the headlights suspended from inverted wings. The 'glass rear quarter-panels from McQueen Prototype Design were flared and the wheel radius enlarged and restyled. The one-piece V'd windshield is supported by curved A-pillars hand-machined from brass. Dan Fink built the custom grille insert based on Harry Bradley's design.
Bob says he chose PPG Silver because it evokes purity and mechanism. He also wanted to emulate the classic look of pre-war touring cars like the Mercedes, Bentley, and Hispano-Suiza--a tall order for painter Dave Crook of San Dimas, who came through with flying colors.
The cockpit is as clean as the inside of a bubble. The leather upholstery covering handbuilt custom seats was designed by Bob's wife Sharon and applied by Little John's Interior Concepts of Fountain Valley, California. The dash panel done by Scott's Hammer Works is filled with custom painted Auto Meter gauges, with additional gauges in the brushed aluminum center console built by Dave Crook. The Boyd's brushed aluminum steering wheel was wrapped with gray leather. A six-disc CD player and sound system are heard but not seen.


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Congratulations to Eileen Joyce, who won our 2017 Grand Slam. Eileen competed with all the other winners from this year's monthly open mic story slams and earned the title of Best Storyteller in York.
Chris is pictured here with this month's host, Caleb Robertson. Chris won an exclusive York Story Slam journal from our friends at Adidas Trainers Tubular Nova Size UK 10.5. and earned a spot in our Grand Slam in November.
Eileen is pictured here with our Master of Ceremonies, 2016 Grand Slam champion Brad Jennings, and York Story Slam producer JJ Sheffer.
Thank you to everyone who showed up this year to listen, and everyone who bravely put their names into the hat to share stories.


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Reviewing your insurance after a partner dies
If your partner has died, one of the things you'll need to look at is the insurance policies they had. You may also need to change your existing policies. Here are some of the different types of insurance policy you should review.
Update your car insurance
If you were a named driver on your partner's car insurance policy, it's very important to check whether you're still covered. Most policies terminate on the death of the main policy holder and will leave you uninsured. Contact the insurer straight away to find out whether you're covered.
If the policy has terminated, put new cover in place. You don't have to go with the same provider. You'll probably get a cheaper quote if you shop around.
Let the insurer know if the vehicle will be driven less now, or if you won't be using the vehicle for work purposes any more.
Remember that all cars you own must have insurance, even if you never use them.
Car insurance - choose the right level of cover
Update your home insurance
You'll need to let your building insurance provider and contents insurance provider know if someone named on the policies has just died, as this might change the premiums you pay. You may have buildings insurance and contents insurance with the same provider or different providers. Contact your insurer(s) as soon as possible to get your buildings and contents insurance policies put into your name.
If your home has less in it - for instance if others have just inherited some of your partner's possessions - you might be able to reduce your contents cover. Work out the value of your possessions, including any items of high worth, and update your contents insurance.
Contents insurance - choose the right policy and cover
Buildings insurance - how much cover do you need?
Life insurance
If you took out life insurance to provide for your partner in the event of your own death, you may decide you no longer need it after their death. Similarly, if you took out a joint-life insurance policy to provide for your dependants on the death of the second policy holder, think about whether you still need this.
You might want to consider changing the name of the beneficiaries on your life insurance policy, or perhaps set up a new policy instead.
If you have no insurance and you have dependants, it might be even more important to take out life insurance now.
Protect your income from accident or ill health
Many people take long periods off sick at some point in their lives. Your employer will only help you up to a point. The state might not help you enough, or at all in some circumstances.
Income protection insurance
The death of a partner may mean your income is the only money coming in. Especially if you are young or you don't have a lot of savings, you should think about protecting it in case you fall ill and can't work. An income protection insurance policy can do this.
Do you need income protection insurance?
Critical illness insurance
Another option is critical illness insurance, although this usually offers much more limited cover while it typically costs less. Unlike income protection insurance, it will only pay out if you contract a serious disease or illness, and there are lots of exclusions. Critical illness cover pays out a lump sum rather than the replacement income you would get from income protection insurance.
Do you need critical illness insurance?
Payment protection insurance (PPI) or short-term income protection
You might want to take out a payment protection insurance policy to protect your mortgage, loan or credit card repayments in the event of job loss, an accident or illness. Cover is normally limited to just those repayments and any payout lasts no longer than 12 or 24 months.
Short-term income protection policies work in a similar way to payment protection insurance, but pay out a proportion of your income rather than a sum linked to your mortgage or other repayment. Short-term income protection offers much less cover than income protection, but is much cheaper.
Do your homework and make sure you get a policy that is suitable for you and shop around to get a good price.
Do you need payment protection insurance (PPI)?
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Ex-hospital worker accused in hepatitis C outbreak indicted in NH
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � A former hospital worker accused of stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C through contaminated syringes faces new federal charges in New Hampshire.
When he was arrested in July, David Kwiatkowski was charged with one count each of illegally obtaining drugs and tampering with a consumer product. On Wednesday, he was indicted on a total of 14 charges � seven counts of tampering with a consumer product, and seven counts of illegally obtaining drugs.
Until May, Kwiatkowski worked as a cardiac technologist at Exeter Hospital, where 32 patients have been diagnosed with the same strain of hepatitis C he carries.
Before that, he worked as a traveling technologist in seven other states, moving from hospital to hospital despite having been fired twice over allegations of drug use and theft.


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House and Senate Leaders Include Bipartisan Plan on TRICARE Prime in Defense Bill – Passage into Law Expected by End of the Year
Language based on Walden-Bonamici-Amodei legislation will require Pentagon to detail and address TRICARE Prime changes
December 19, 2012 -- U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) today announced that he secured language requiring the Pentagon to detail and address upcoming changes to TRICARE Prime in this year's defense authorization bill. The plan is based off legislation he, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), and Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) introduced earlier this month. It requires the Pentagon to assess the increased cost and overall impact that TRICARE changes will have on military retirees and their families, and, within 90 days, inform Congress of its plan to provide them with a smooth transition.
"Military retirees and their families in Oregon deserve answers from the Pentagon on upcoming changes to their health plan. If the Pentagon won't do that on its own, my colleagues and I in Congress will ensure they do. This bipartisan proposal will help
eliminate confusion for affected military retirees by requiring the Pentagon to assess the impact these changes will have on them and help them transition into their new health plan," Rep. Walden said.
"My colleagues Rep. Bonamici, Rep. Amodei, and I worked with bipartisan defense leaders in the House to include this common-sense plan in the final agreement. I look forward to Congress swiftly passing the measure this week, and for the President to sign it before the end of the year. The sooner that happens, the sooner our heroes will get answers about their health care. They served our nation in uniform and deserve the very best health care we can provide them," Rep. Walden said.
Rep. Walden met with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) recently to discuss the impact these TRICARE changes could have on military retirees in Oregon and to secure his support for including a plan to assist them in the final defense compromise. He was also appointed to be a negotiator on the final bill on behalf of the House.
TRICARE Prime is available to thousands of military retirees along the I-5 corridor in Oregon, including about 2,500 military retirees in southern Oregon. Many military retirees have told Rep. Walden that they prefer their current plan and are concerned with the upcoming changes.
In October, Rep. Walden heard reports that TRICARE was planning to drop the Prime option for most TRICARE beneficiaries in Oregon. He wrote to the Pentagon official in charge of health care, Dr. Jonathan Woodson, to express his deep concerns with the plan, and to urge Dr. Woodson to announce the planned changes immediately. The entire delegation followed up with a letter the following week. So far, Dr. Woodson's office has not responded to either letter.
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America's porn industry backs President Obama over challenger Mitt Romney by a 68 percent to 13 percent margin, according to the industry's top social network. …
Vivid Entertainment CEO Steven Hirsch agreed.
"The results aren't really surprising because most people involved with the adult industry have a liberal view of government and how it should work," Hirsch said. "Social issues are more important than fiscal issues and they will support a candidate who shares their beliefs."
In other words: he may be a lousy president, but he's our lousy president!
So evidently Jenna Jameson is an outlier. Still, it's good to see that not everyone is abandoning President Obama:


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Polaris System & Cell Tester Kit - 84-901
84-901 Polaris AutoClear System & Cell Tester KitThe Polaris AutoClear? automated chlorinating system produces all the chlorine needed to keep a pool sanitized naturally and safely. Using the pool?s water and a small amount of added salt, the AutoClear system uses a natural process to generate a controlled amount of pure chlorine.Polaris AutoClear uses an electrolytic cell to convert ordinary salt (NaCl), dissolved in pool water into pure chlorine. Installed on the return side of the pool?s filtration system, the cell is controlled automatically by a simple-to-operate controller mounted nearby. The chlorine sanitizes the pool by oxidizing algae, bacteria and organic contaminant's. It then converts back into salt.This cycle is repeated indefinitely. If the pool water does not have the low level of salt required (equal to one teaspoon of salt per gallon of water), it can easily be added. After the proper salt level is attained, the pool?s water will be clean, clear and noticeably softer.


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Custom Roman Shades In Atlanta
Custom, full-length drapery has a well-deserved reputation for richness and drama, but it isn't necessarily the best choice for every room. Where a more streamlined look is desired or space is at a premium, Roman shades — fabric window coverings that stack neatly at the top of the window when retracted — may be the better option.
"Roman shades are stricter, less fussy, and more modern," says AD100 designer Robert Couturier, who has installed them in his Connecticut country house, and numerous client projects.
"They can provide more of a clean-lined architectural look than full-length drapery in most situations," agrees Abby Rodriguez, vice president of New York's Chelsea Workroom, which produces window coverings, upholstered furniture, and other soft goods for firms such as McAlpine Booth & Ferrier Interiors and Cullman & Kravis.
In addition, Roman shades have a practical appeal. "When you have built-ins and banquettes against the wall, you can't do full-length drapery," says Rodriguez. "Roman shades can provide windows covering, without having the concerns of wall space or lack thereof."
But not all Roman shades are created equal. To help determine the best setup for a space, we asked Couturier and Rodriguez to share their thoughts on the many available options.
The choice of face fabric is the most critical decision when planning custom Roman shades, and it's not just because the material will set the color and pattern of the finished product. The fabric will also affect the shade's translucency, as well as how easily it will operate and stack when retracted.
"When you're selecting fabric for a shade, light- and medium-weight materials are fine, but it's important to avoid very heavily embellished fabrics or those that are just too rigid," says Rodriguez. "You want the folds to lie nicely one on top of the other, and the thicker your fabric is, the harder that is to achieve."
Fortunately, it's easy to test pliability with a fabric sample, she notes. "Fold it over a couple of times to get an idea as to how it reacts to being molded," she says. If the fabric won't lie flat, it may not be the best candidate.
Relaxed Versus Constructed
While there are plenty of details available, the overall style of a Roman shade generally falls into one of two camps — relaxed or constructed.
Relaxed shades have no rigid supports inside and allow the fabric to sag gently under its own weight, which creates a curve at the bottom of the shades when they're raised. For this reason, says Rodriguez, they're often called "soft smiley" shades in the industry.
Constructed shades have sewn-in horizontal rods, dowels, or battens to create a more rigid appearance with a straight edge at the bottom. Rods may be added at the bottom of the shade or in each fold over the full height of the shade, depending on the desired look.
Couturier says his decision on what style to use usually depends on the fabric he has selected. "If the fabric is fairly strict and stiff, I do a strict, constructed shade," he says. "If it is a soft silk taffeta, then I do a soft, relaxed shade."
Both relaxed and constructed shades function equally well on most standard-size windows. However, on very wide windows, relaxed shades may become difficult to manage. "You may have to do a little dressing after lifting them" and manually smooth out the folds each time, says Rodriguez. "But with constructed shades, once the fabric learns its folds, they tend to function flawlessly each time."
Not all shades need to be lined. For simple sheer Roman shades, many designers use the selected face fabric by itself for a visually light appearance. But in other situations, using a lining — a secondary fabric sewn to the back of the face material — can give blinds a more finished, luxurious look. "There's a lot that goes on behind the shade that's not necessarily intended to be seen," says Rodriguez. "Lining helps to hide the lift strings at the back of the shade when light filters through from behind" while also reducing the amount of sun that enters the room.
The choice of lining material normally ranges from light translucent cotton sateen to blackout lining, which eliminates almost all sunlight coming through the shade. "The choice depends on the room," says Couturier. "If it's a bedroom and the shades are the only window treatment, I use a blackout lining." But living rooms typically require only a lighter lining.
Some fabrics also benefit from the addition of interlining, a slightly thicker material between the face fabric and lining that gives the shade a more substantial look. For instance, "Silk by itself can be very flat," says Rodriguez. "For silk to really shine, an interlining adds body."
A Roman shade can be raised and lowered with three types of controls — integrated electric motors, a continuous loop system, or cord and cleat. "I've used them all, and there is no best solution," says Couturier. "Each is equally unattractive," he jokes, but necessary. Motorized shades offer the ultimate in convenience, as they can be operated at the press of a button and programmed to assume preset positions. But they are also the most expensive solution and require electrical wiring that reaches each shade, which can usually be added only while undertaking a major renovation. Continuous loop, which uses a length of beaded chain to turn a clutch mechanism that raises and lowers all lift strings equally, is the most popular manual control because it's easy to operate and consistent.
Cord and cleat, where all the lift strings are combined into a single cord held by a cord lock or cleat, offers a more traditional look and quieter operation than continuous loop but also has the highest chance of malfunction. "It's not foolproof against snags," says Rodriguez. "Because you have all these strings condensed into one cord, sometimes one of them may get jammed, and then your shade will lift lopsided."
One of the big questions when specifying Roman shades for a room is whether to mount them inside or outside the window frames. Sometimes there is simply not enough space within a window frame to hold a shade, which makes the decision easy. Otherwise, "It all depends on the architecture," says Couturier.
"If it's a modern home and the frames are not particularly attractive, I mount the shades outside and all the way at the top of the walls," he says. "That always adds a sense of height, which is never bad." On the other hand, "If the frames are beautiful and the architecture classic, I mount them inside the window," he notes, so they don't obscure the decorative moldings.


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I started out focussing on the family element of family history, but have now progressed to considering the history aspect too. With the exception of Romans and Vikings I was never particularly interested in history as a subject at school, so my knowledge of the history of the past two or three centuries is seriously lacking. As I have added new people to my tree I have tried to find out more about the historical context in which they lived their lives. This has given me much more insight into the transition from an agricultural society to the industrial age and also the timeline of events in the first World War. One of the most interesting pieces of historical research has been looking into where the Northumberland Fusiliers served in 1915 and 1916 to track the path of my great uncle Edmund Webb from enlistment at Amble to his death in battle at Flers-Courcelette.
Moving on from history to genealogy I can claim four H-names in my pedigree. All four come from my mother's half of the tree.
H is for Hall
First in the alphabet comes Hall. My Hall ancestors lived at Elsdon in Northumberland and I have been lucky enough to find good sources of information about them.
H is for Hedley
Another of my pedigree H lines is Hedley. I have not found quite so many of them. They too have lived in the Elsdon area and I found them by following up the Hall line.
H is for Henderson
The closest of my H pedigree lines is Henderson, to be found in Amble and Cullercoats. My maternal grandmother was a Henderson.
H is for Hunter
My final pedigree H is Hunter. Yet another Elsdon connection found by tracking back up the Hall line.
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"Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model," says Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Computing at Yahoo! - and upcoming Keynote Speaker at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Expo, in this Exclusive Q&A with Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.
Jeremy Geelan: What are the chief advantages of Cloud Computing from the point of view of Yahoo!'s customers worldwide?
Shelton Shugar: Yahoo! has more than 500 million unique users per month across the world. Yahoo! Cloud services enable us to provide superior user experiences and deliver targeted content to our enormous audience. Examples include faster content access around the globe, real-time sports updates, a personalized homepage experience, targeted news feeds, geo-specific ads and many more.
In addition, Yahoo! Cloud technologies enable us to innovate faster based on common, global and scalable platforms, thus enabling consumers to gain access to innovative features and products faster than ever before.
As one of the largest providers of consumer Internet services in the world, Yahoo's cloud operates at virtually unprecedented scale, making it a unique environment and testing ground for cloud computing technologies.
Geelan: You have been quoted as saying that "Cloud is pushing up the Operational Excellence curve" – what exactly do you mean by that?
Shugar: Almost no other company can boast of having to tune its infrastructure to deal with the technical requirements and high standards of performance that are involved in serving more than 500 million unique users per month across the world. To meet this challenge, Yahoo!'s Cloud includes a collection of infrastructure and functional services targeted at dramatically improving the company's efficiency throughout the entire product development cycle, from gathering user feedback and insight, to feature testing and iteration to ongoing product operations.
Cloud technologies allow us to achieve higher agility and quality while maintaining scale to meet the needs of our users. When I say "Cloud is pushing up the Operational Excellence (OE) Curve," I mean simply that cloud enable our developers to focus more on creating great products for our users and less on the "heavy-lifting" of building complex infrastructure.
Geelan: As we approach the zettabyte (and perhaps even yottabyte) age, can value really be extracted from the voluminous data that is now in existence? How is that possible?
Shugar: Yes, it's possible using technologies such as Hadoop. Hadoop is an open source distributed file system and parallel execution environment. Yahoo! runs Hadoop on tens of thousands of servers, enabling us to process and extract value from massive amounts of data. Apache Hadoop is an open source project of the Apache Software Foundation. Yahoo! is the largest contributor to Hadoop technology as well as its largest user.
Yahoo! recognized that the next-generation Web-scale services demand large distributed systems, and a growing number of other companies and organizations are likely to need similar capabilities. In addition to contributing most of the Hadoop code base, Yahoo! provides open source resources to the academic research community enabling them to access Internet-scale supercomputers for conducting systems and applications research.
Geelan: So exploring data-intensive computing in industry is clearly gaining momentum; what specific initiatives has Yahoo! been taking to encourage expertise in Hadoop and progress toward faster supercomputers? (Just a few, maybe – I know there are many!!)
Shugar: Earlier this year, Yahoo! announced the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, in response to frequent requests from the community. Yahoo! is opening up its investment in Hadoop quality engineering via the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, which has been tested and deployed at Yahoo! on the largest Hadoop clusters in the world and is based entirely on code available from Apache Hadoop. By making the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop generally available, Yahoo! is contributing back to the Apache Hadoop community so that the ecosystem can benefit from Yahoo!'s quality and scale investments.
In addition to Hadoop, Yahoo! is heavily investing in other cloud-related technologies such as storage, distributed caching, and serving to solve massive data-intensive computing challenges with serving our consumers.
Yahoo! also has very strong expertise in next generation cloud computing and data management technologies, and is leveraging its leadership in open source software, including Hadoop and Pig, to contribute to global, collaborative efforts around Internet-scale computing.
Over the past few years, we have made significant partnerships and have contributed technology to some of the leading research and development entities worldwide:
- November 2007: Deployment of a supercomputing-class data center, called M45, for cloud computing research (first deployed at Carnegie Mellon University).
- July 2008: Open Cirrus™ testbed formed with Hewlett Packard, Intel, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) in Singapore, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany
- April 2009: University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst join Carnegie Mellon University to take advantage of Yahoo!'s cloud computing resources
- June 2009: Participation at Open Cirrus Summit, three new sites to join Open Cirrus: the Russian Academy of Sciences, Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), and Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS).
Geelan: When Yahoo! contributes to open source software such as Pig and Hadoop, what does the company get back?
Shugar: Yahoo! is a long-time supporter and contributor to open source software. Yahoo! is a platinum sponsor of The Apache Software Foundation, and the leading contributor to Hadoop to date, for example. Several members of Yahoo!'s development teams are active, long-term code contributors to Apache Hadoop, and we are committed to advancing the state-of-the-art in distributed computing through the incubation of new Apache projects.
We currently, and will continue to, actively collaborate with the industry, academia and the open source community, including through our Open Cirrus consortium, involvement with Hadoop, Pig and gradually other cloud-related technologies, and support of Apache. We are contributing back to the community so that the ecosystem can benefit from Yahoo!'s quality and scale investments, renowned technologists and innovation in next-generation Web technologies.
Yahoo! benefits from the contributions of others to open source projects and is able to collaborate with and sometimes hire the most talented researchers and engineers in the world, based on their interest in large scale application of open source technologies.
Geelan: And how does helping developers help Yahoo! in bottom line terms?
Shugar: We believe that the developer community is a key component in making Yahoo! a success. The challenges the industry is facing today in terms of large-scale, global cloud solutions are bigger than any one company (big or small) is able to solve on its own. As we contribute to the community, we also learn from the community, and third party developers are a valuable resource helping to speed innovation
Yahoo! is gradually open sourcing its cloud technology for this exact reason. We want to provide developers out there with an open source framework of scalable cloud technology that will enable them to build tools and solutions that in return will help Yahoo! (and the entire industry) to address these complex challenges.
In addition we believe this ecosystem of solutions "powered by" the core cloud technology will directly benefit Yahoo! consumers. This will provide consumers with customized web-applications (targeted at solving specific user needs) faster and better than ever before.
Geelan: What is it technically that makes Hadoop so powerful for large scale data processing? Are there alternatives?
Shugar: Hadoop provides the software infrastructure used across Yahoo! for large scale distributed computing and back-end data analytics, including fighting spam in Yahoo! Mail, content optimization for the Yahoo! homepage, and better ad targeting based on data analysis.
Hadoop provides a framework that distributes data and processing across thousands of computers, which working in parallel allows us to process and analyze enormous amounts of data in a very efficient manner.
We find Hadoop the ideal solution for Y! based on its scalability and flexible programming environment.
Geelan: How about enterprises, are they going to be adopters of Hadoop too?
Shugar: Yahoo! was the first major technology company to adopt Hadoop. Since then, many other companies, large and small, have begun using Hadoop. You can find more information about how others using Hadoop here: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy.
Geelan: What happens to Yahoo!'s Distribution of Hadoop and growth of the Apache Hadoop project overall in light of the deal with Microsoft?
Shugar: Hadoop is our de facto standard scalable data processing platform at Yahoo!. In addition to Search, Hadoop is used to support display advertizing, content platforms, personalization, machine learning for filtering email spam, research, and all other large scale data analysis and mining.
We remain as committed as ever to developing and using Hadoop, and in contributing our code to the open source community. The Yahoo! Hadoop development team will be busy delivering on short and long term roadmaps.
We look forward to continuing to work with the wider Hadoop community to build an increasingly better Hadoop that will support Yahoo! and the industry's needs in this area. We have by far the largest team of developers and testers working on the project and hundreds of internal customers who use tens of thousands of computers in large Hadoop clusters. We plan to continue to work on improving the Hadoop core to make it faster, more scalable, reliable and secure.
Geelan: What exactly is the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Platform?
Shugar: For the time being, Yahoo!'s is focused on developing a "private cloud", focused on making the Yahoo! experience as extraordinary, effective and productive as possible for consumers and advertisers across the world. We see this as a multi-year effort that will provide significant advantages for Yahoo! now and in the future.
The Yahoo! Cloud Serving Platform provides Yahoo! developers, engineering and operations with a technology to build, test, deploy, and manage application in an elastic cloud infrastructure that can grow and shrink based on changing workloads.
The cloud serving architecture is based on the following key concepts:
• Abstracts concerns of the underlying infrastructure and network communication from developers and operations
• Uses virtualization and commodity hardware
• Employs a declarative programming language for defining services and applications • Automates the deployment process
• Standardizes software stacks and packaging
The Yahoo! cloud serving architecture represents a shift in the programming paradigm and, as such, can require a fundamental shift in application-design thought processes.
Geelan: Are interoperability and openness important in Cloud Computing, as far as Yahoo! is concerned?
Shugar: Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model. Yahoo! is a leader in supporting open and collaborative research and development as a competitive advantage, enabling the open source community to drive forward the pace of innovation. We believe open source and collaborative innovation is the way to address the complex challenges that large-scale cloud solution presents. Yahoo! will continue to participate and contribute to such efforts wherever appropriate.
Geelan: What other plans does Yahoo! have, moving forward, for helping deliver a cloud at the scale of the Internet?
Shugar: We are investing internally in further building out and deploying cloud computing technologies and services across the global Yahoo! operation so as to help our product teams innovate faster and deliver high-quality experiences to our customers across the globe.
Over time, we may consider exposing our cloud services in a more comprehensive manner through the Yahoo! Developer Network, which serves as Yahoo!'s front door for third parties seeking to engage with our developer tools and web services. However, we have nothing specific to share at this time.
Geelan: Lastly, 2009 has so far been a year of obvious challenges, from both a CapEx and an OpEx perspective, for anyone involved with Enterprise IT. So, what's your top tip, as a seasoned software executive, to those other IT execs out there right now – especially CTOs of embattled start-ups who may be looking for some magic bullet to ensure they're alive (and well) as a company in 2010?
Shugar: For startups and small companies, there are public cloud offerings coupled with other commercial cloud vendors that can provide a pay as you go infrastructure minimizing CapEx investments and reducing the risk in deploying new products. For larger or enterprise companies, a hybrid model maintaining existing compute infrastructure while leveraging public cloud offerings for less critical or experimental projects may provide more flexibility at reduced CapEx.
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OTTAWA - The Harper government's faith in a deregulated railway safety system remains unshaken and won't be abandoned in the wake of the Lac-Megantic tragedy, Transport Minister Lisa Raitt insisted Tuesday, even as the country's top transportation investigator questioned the current amount of oversight.
The tragedy that killed 47 people and incinerated the downtown of the sleepy Quebec village had a myriad of causes, the Transportation Safety Board said in its long-awaited report.
Raitt said keeping the responsibility for railway safety in the hands of rail operators is still "absolutely the way to go." But she was quick to steer blame for the disaster toward Montreal Maine & Atlantic, the now-defunct railway that operated the doomed train.
Raitt also carefully put distance between herself and the department she inherited in last year's cabinet shuffle, which followed the spectacular crash of the crude oil-laden train last July.
The quality of Transport Canada's follow-up audits, especially with short-haul railways, has repeatedly been raised by critics who were quick to accuse the Conservatives of gutting rail safety.
Wendy Tadros, the head of the Transportation Safety Board, gave those critics even more ammunition Tuesday with a report that essentially accuses the government of providing inadequate oversight.
"Who was the guardian of public safety?" Tadros told a news conference. "That is the role of the government — to provide checks, balances and oversight."
But Transport Canada has been provided with the resources it needs to carry out its mandate, said Raitt, adding she is now looking at the department for answers to some of the transportation watchdog's fundamental concerns.
The notion that Canada's 46,000 kilometres of track can be fully monitored around the clock is simply a non-starter, she added.
"You cannot possibly have enough inspectors at every waypoint, on every train, at every single moment to have that kind of continuous oversight," Raitt said.
The current system of self regulation, in one form or another, has been around for 20 years and has worked well in both airlines and the shipping sector, she added.
"The focus is very much on the department to ensure that they continue to implement (safety management systems) regulations and that companies implement it as well...It is the appropriate way to go."
But the board took aim at Transport Canada, saying it failed to recognize MM&A had urgent safety problems and was not following the rules. The department failed to audit safety procedures at the railway and didn't do enough inspections.
"We need to remember that in terms of safety, the government puts the rules in place," Raitt said. "The companies are expected to follow the rules. The company did not follow the rules, and that's a very important fact here too."
New Democrat transport critic Hoang Mai said it's now clear that self-regulation of railways has failed, and he urged the federal government to step up surveillance.
"Conservatives left companies to monitor themselves — an approach that ended in tragedy," Mai said.
In the aftermath of the disaster, the government made two-person crews mandatory on trains carrying hazardous goods. It also introduced more stringent rules around the application of brakes and how unattended trains must be parked.
Officials are also working with industry to phase out older and weaker DOT-111 tanker cars whose thin steel hulls are prone to puncture. That effort, however, won't be completed until 2017.
Green party Leader Elizabeth May called for a public inquiry to explore rail safety shortcomings in Canada.
"We need to bring in a system that can stop or slow a train before certain accidents occur, such as positive train control technology, which is currently being implemented in the U.S.," May said in a statement.
"A full public inquiry is needed to demonstrate the weak safety culture that exists in Canada today at the expense of Canadians."


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CASA needs your help as need for services grows annually
CASA of Southeast Texas is gearing up for another year of advocacy for children suffering from a life of neglect and abuse.
With dwindling funding comes an increased need for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) and the money it takes to guide neglected children through the maze of Texas' foster care system, especially since every neglected or abused child in Jefferson County is assigned an advocate from CASA of Southeast Texas.
"It costs approximately $1,000 above the funding that we're already receiving to provide services for our kids," said Patty Pittman of CASA of Southeast Texas.
To make up the funding difference, CASA is asking local businesses and individuals to make a yearly donation as part of their "I Am for the Child" campaign.
Each donation is 100 percent tax deductible, and for businesses, CASA offers the opportunity to be a named sponsor at every CASA event throughout the year for donations of $3,000 or more
Pittman said it's hard to know what monies will come to CASA throughout the year. To mitigate this problem, the "I Am for the Child" campaign seeks to secure a definite amount at the beginning of the year to make sure children in Jefferson County get the services they need.
"Obviously all of the funding has been tight because of the economy," she said. "People are just not able to give as much as they have in the past."
In 2007, CASA served a little more than 200 children who had become wards of the state. In 2012, CASA of Southeast Texas served about 386 abused or neglected children in Southeast Texas, showing a steady rise in the number of children CASA serves each year.
Regardless of the steady increase in the number of abused or neglected children, CASA has been able to shorten the time children spend in the foster care system.
"We've been able to impact the amount of time that they're staying in care," said Executive Director Lanis McWilliams. "In other words, we've been able to help reduce that time that they're staying in care and expedite getting them to permanence, which is our whole mission at CASA — that these children get a safe, permanent home in a timely manner."
One such child, Pittman said, was a young girl who suffered from birth defects, which included a bad heart.
The young girl's parents weren't able to care for her health needs, Pittman said, and she needed an emergency heart surgery.
"Once she came into care, her advocate advocated for those health needs and really searched out somebody that would take responsibility for that and make sure she got the care she needed," Pittman said.
After the surgery, the young girl is looking forward to a life she might not have had.
"They don't feel like her heart defects are going to complicate any of her growth or anything that would have happened if she hadn't had the surgery," Pittman said. "It's those kinds of needs that, if someone isn't there to advocate for that child, their needs aren't going to get met."
Pittman said volunteering one's time is just as important as donating money. CASA's new round of volunteer training begins April 16 after a short interview and screening process.
For those children seeking stability and a loving family, now couldn't be a better time to volunteer, Pittman said.
"It's important that the community come together to help take care of these kids that have been neglected and get them into a place where they can thrive and become productive citizens," she said. "Otherwise they become a burden on our tax payers. They don't want to be in the system. We don't want them to be in the system, so if we can have people who step up and volunteer and advocate for these kids... every individual can do something to help."
As part of the campaign, CASA's annual "Justice Is Served" dinner will honor Dr. Jimmy Simmons, Lamar University's outgoing president. CASA will also be recognizing volunteer advocates at this event, which takes place Tuesday, April 23, at 6 p.m. at the MCM Eleganté Hotel in Beaumont. Call the CASA office at (409) 832-2272 or visit www.casasetx.org.


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SQL All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies
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SQL is the international standard language for creating and maintaining relational databases. This book is a compendium of information about SQL and relational database design, development, and maintenance. The nine mini-books cover the full spectrum of issues that arise in building, using, and maintaining relational database systems.
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Healthy food pilot program launched in Connecticut
STAMFORD >> An online marketplace for farmers markets and a nonprofit Connecticut health insurance company are launching a new program to bring local, fresh food to Fairfield County residents.
Fresh Nation and HealthyCT announced their new pilot program on Wednesday. Organizers believe it's the first formal partnership of its kind.
Fresh Nation workers visit farmers markets and fill customer's online orders. The company delivers the food to consumers' homes.
Under this initiative, HealthyCT will promote Fresh Nation's website and services to its members as a healthy option. Fresh Nation, based in Stamford, will provide a 10 percent discount and free delivery to HealthyCT members and local residents within Fresh Nation's Fairfield County service area.
Ken Lalime, HealthyCT's CEO, said the service is important for members who are unable to visit farmers markets.


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For this month's Ministry in Context, I'd like to share a short meditation from Catholic poet, Mary Karr.
Before my first communion at 40, I hungto doubt as Satan spider-like stalkedthe orb of dark surrounding Edenfor a wormhole into paradise.
God had first formed me in the wombsmall as a bite of burger.Once my lungs were doneHe sailed a soul like a lit arrowto inflame me. Maybe that piercingmade me howl at birth,or the masked creatureswhose scalpel cut a lightning bolt to free me --
I was hoisted by the heels and swatted, fedand hauled through rooms. Time-lapse photos showmy fingers grew past crayon outlines,my feet came to fill spiked heels.
Eventually, I lurched out to kiss the wrong mouths,get stewed, and sulk around. Christ always stoodto one side with a glass of water.I swatted the sap away.
When my thirst got great enoughto ask, a stream welled up inside;some jade wave buoyed me forward;and I found myself upright
in the instant, with a gardeninside my own ribs aflourish. There, the arbor leafs.The vines push out plump grapes.You are loved, someone said. Take that
and eat it.
Mary Karr, "Disgraceland", from Sinners Welcome: Poems, published by Harper in 2009.
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I live near Stroud,Gloucestershire. I have city and guilds qualifications in patchwork and quilting and machine embroidery . In 2006 I won the Charles Henry Foyle Award for stitched textiles. I am a regular artist in residence at Nature in Art, Twigworth, Gloucestershire and take part in the Stroud International Textiles Trail, SIT. I give talks about my work and inspiration and exhibit in the Midlands and South West.
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Justin Timberlake Performing at 2013 MTV VMAs, Receiving Award
Justin Timberlake better get his suit and tie ready: He's just been announced as a performer for the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, where he will also be honored with the event's most prestigious award.
The 'Suit & Tie' singer will receive the illustrious Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the event, being held Aug. 25 in Brooklyn, N.Y. Prior recipients of the honor include iconic video artists the King of Pop (of course), Madonna, Janet Jackson and even JT's long-ago ex Britney Spears.
Justin has a long history with the VMAs, having won a grand total of 14 Moonmen as both a solo artist and as a member of legendary boy band 'N Sync. Expect him to be adding more trophies to his shelf soon: He's nominated for six awards this year.
Previously announced performers for the VMAs include Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Robin Thicke, Katy Perry and Kanye West. More are expected to be added to the lineup soon.


text: You're probably not checking in on NASA's Curiosity rover as often as you used to. No worries, it's still there being awesome and making discoveries whenever you need a fix. When the probe first landed on Mars a year ago today, every movement it made was monumental and every photo it snapped was historic. Pictures streaming in from the Red Planet would be passed around online, eliciting millions of geeky cheers. And over the course of this past year, the rover has continued its amazing work, making monumental discoveries and continuing to produce spectacular pictures. So let's go back and relive the incredible first year of Curiosity. You might remember the anticipation when it landed. There was no guarantee that the $2.5 billion mission would touch down safely. A large percentage of Mars missions have historically failed and this one was using new, untested technology to land. The rover had to pass through a complex sequence nicknamed the "7 Minutes of Terror" to get between space and the Martian soil. Tensions were running high. It was late at night or early in the morning, depending on where you live, when NASA confirmed that the rover was wheels down on Mars. At approximately 10:30 p.m. PT/1:30 a.m. ET on Aug. 5/6, 2012, the control room at JPL erupted in cheers and tears. Members of the public had gathered at local landing parties while a crowd swelled in New York's Times Square to watch live on the big screen. Millions more tuned in to NASA's online feed. Since then, the rover has learned about Mars' watery past and boosted the evidence that the planet was once habitable. NASA and amateurs alike have processed the photos it sends back and turned them into nail-biting landing videos and amazing panoramas that transport you right to the Red Planet. Here, we've gathered some of the most iconic and important media from Curiosity's first year on Mars. Hopefully, looking at them can help rekindle the feelings from the earliest mission days as we look forward to many more years of breathtaking views and discoveries. Above: High-Res Selfie Curiosity has a long arm. At the end of that arm is a camera and, by carefully positioning that camera, the rover was able to snap 55 individual shots of its body. Stitched together, these images produced one of the most impressive photos of Curiosity's mission: A full-body self portrait of the rover working hard on Mars. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSFirst Images "It's a wheel!" the folks at mission control cried. The first pictures beamed back from Mars weren't the most amazing things to look at. But they were beautiful for what they represented: we had a whole new state-of-the-art machine on another planet that was ready to explore and discover like never before. Images: 1) Curiosity's first image from Mars, taken with one of its back cameras. NASA/JPL-Caltech 2) One of the first pictures from Curiosity's front cameras. NASA/JPL-Caltech 3) The first image of Curiosity's eventual target, Mount Sharp. NASA/JPL-Caltech 4) JPL mission control the moment confirmation came of the rover landing. NASA TV screencapUltra-HD Landing When Curiosity first emerged from its heat shield in the Martian atmosphere, it immediately began to snap pictures of its descent. In the months after landing, we saw many different videos depicting this harrowing landing sequence. But the best one appeared about a month after Curiosity touched down, a labor of love from filmmaker Bard Canning. Video: Bard Canning/YoutubeCute Selfie Part of Curiosity's appeal comes from its adorable appearance (Pixar's Wall-E, anyone?). The mission would no doubt have been wildly popular without selfies, but the fact that the rover takes the time to photograph itself certainly helps. This one, the first, has a certain rustic charm from the fact that the camera still had its reddening dust cover protection on. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science SystemsFirst High-Res Image Now that's more like it. No more of these blurry shots through the dust cover. After less than a week on Mars, Curiosity began sending back the high-resolution images we all love and it hasn't stopped wowing us since. This is one of the first pics to be snapped with Curiosity's awesome 2-megapixel cameras (don't scoff, your cell phone may have like eight gajillion megapixels, but it's not on Mars). Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSLaser Marks One of the best things about Curiosity is that it shoots lasers. The rover vaporizes tiny bits of rocks and studies the resulting plasma to better understand their composition. Here is one poor specimen before and after a barrage of pew-pewing. Below is a nice animation showing what it looks like when a laser hole appears. Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/ CNES/IRAP/LPGN/CNRSLayers of Mount Sharp Curiosity is looking up at the slopes of Mount Sharp, the 5-kilometer-high peak at the center of Gale Crater. The rover will eventually drive up this mountain, watching the layers of rock to reveal how Mars went from a warm, wet world to a cold and dry one. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSDrill Hole This 1.6-centimeter-wide hole represents the first steps of Curiosity's drill campaign on Mars. Drilling operations have been done before on Venus and the moon, but Curiosity carries the first true boring tool to be used on Mars. The rover is able to pulverize rock and scoop up the resulting powder in order to analyze the inner layers of rocks. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS4-Billion-Pixel Panorama Curiosity has taken more than 71,000 photos since landing on Mars. Given that the images are freely available, the collection is a gold mine for anyone with basic image processing skills. There are many beautiful examples of Curiosity photos stitched together, but some of the best are the panoramas that let you fully immerse yourself and feel like you're standing there on Mars next to Curiosity. The panorama below comes from photographer Andrew Bodrov of Estonia, who produces some of the most amazing work. Mars Gigapixel Panorama - Curiosity rover: Martian solar days 136-149 in out-of-this-world Images: Andrew BodrovNight Shift Curiosity's hot nuclear battery helps it stay warm during the Martian night. Unlike the preceding solar-powered Mars rovers, Curiosity can actually keep working when the sun goes down. It's got some impressive ultraviolet lights to help it see reactive minerals inside of rocks and make discoveries it might otherwise not. Images: 1) Rocks glowing under UV light from Curiosity's camera. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS 2) Curiosity's explorations take it right through sunset. NASA/JPL-Caltech 3) Curiosity shines its flashlight during the Martian night shift. NASA/JPL-CaltechMartian Time-Lapse The folks at JPL released a really cool video last week showing a year of Curiosity's operations on Mars. The pictures start at landing and take us all the way through roving, drilling, scooping, and sampling. Image: JPLnews/Youtube


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"Shoop" is a legendary song by the trailblazing hip hop group Salt-N-Pepa. We know the song, we love the song, we know the group and you agree with that first sentence I wrote. In the song Shoop the women espouse the same feelings about men.
Shoop isn't looked upon negatively. The individuals within Salt-N-Pepa haven't been vilified, boycotted, or taken to task for their lyrics. Salt-N-Pepa spent many albums man-ogling and telling men in no uncertain terms what they wanted them for.
Men and Women are different so shouldn't their interpretations of similar things will also be different.
She raps "thank your momma for a butt like that."
He raps "you got an ass like that from your momma."
This is simply two different gendered people saying the same thing. You'll say it's not but what you are really saying is that"She can get away with it but he can't." This is a double standard with all the agenda and psychotic trimmings. This is similar how women are more violent than men, but men are the only ones tagged with the violent label. Shoop was a sample of Ike Turner's "I'm Blue", how's that for irony?
Salt-N-Pepa's song "Let's Talk about Sex", pretty much said the same thing, but people miss the point. There are thousands of songs by men showing their appreciation, like, lust of the female form, but not seeing the similarities in songs by females is not an industry problem; it's a mental one.
Aaliyah goes Back & Forth while Lil Kim is being nasty as she wants to be. Khia can talk about her neck, back, and crack, where Nicki Manaj just so happens to put ice cream. Don't overlook Beyonce's drunk lovin' or Foxy Brown's sex without protection, disease infested. Liz Phair is fucking and running to Ciara's Body Party. Trina maybe the realist chick, but Sheen Easton has those Sugar Walls.
Millie Jackson doesn't want a halfway lover, but as Madonna said you can burn up from it. Iggy can give blowjobs for Louboutins, while Janet Jackson reminds the nasty boys that loves isn't free. And by now, it doesn't even matter how much Kelis charges for her milkshakes, because the double standard is real when everyone knows that whips and chains excites Rhianna.
Yet any male artist who utters something remotely sexual or unflattering is automatically labeled a misogynist. Maybe the blueprint laid out by Marilyn Monroe in Diamonds are a girl's best friend was literal and not figurative.
These songs are reflective of the differences between men and women. Men aren't and don't protest songs where women lusting, ogling, body worshiping, showing them in a less-than-flattering light or shaming them. Men don't protest those things not because they aren't sensitive or that they don't care. They don't protest because they know it's a song and you have a choice.
"It's so important that we let women express their sexuality and share their bodies."K. Kardashian Sounds more like exploitation, but really how many times can you take naked photos of yourself and claim your are breaking the internet. How many times is it going to be about how you look? If only people could take a selfie of their personality, social media would be the quietest place on the planet.
There are varying degrees to this sexual appreciation, but isn't everyone different? Are men and women the same? Shouldn't different points of views be appreciated for those differences not vilified, like Nelly was.
Forget the almost immediate call to the authorities when a males shows any hint of emotion…I wonder how many guys would be arrested if they dressed with their ass and flesh parts hanging out as a matter of liberation?
Women entertainers don't have almost naked people dancing all around in their videos like men do. Some women entertainers are the almost-naked person dancing around in their videos.
These complaints from various groups and people are not about the entertainers having women on display in their video, it's about the women displaying themselves and people being jealous of that display.
Of course we pretend like double standards don't exist mainly because we benefit from them. There is also an anti-black-maleism is mixed into this topic in this also. How else do you explain Solange attacking Jay Z on camera and it being laughed off because it was o.k. to hit him because he's a man. How do you explain Eminem's lyrics vs. anyone's…really.
Misandry of the worst kind is the kind that goes about unchecked.
Women look men up and down, beyond his well-fitted suit, his lips, his hair, his shoes, and his wallet all the way to how he dances. Women look at men's "packages," watch men strut with sculpted muscle, sweating, pumped and shirtless. They watch the ones who grins because they look good with their shirts off and they watch the ones who don't look so good with their shirts off. Women get a different, albeit less-obvious kind of eyeful, but an eye-full none-the-less. Yet it's the men who quickly get slapped with some kind of condition or a syndrome for even acknowledging that they do the exact same thing.
Since women watch more porno than men, ladies what exactly is a porn addiction and what is the treatment for such a condition? I asked the question, knowing that no answer would come…
Some woman have made a name for themselves solely based on who they have slept with, but a man that has sexual encounter with multiple women is somehow a deviant.
Many women use vibrators like their is no tomorrow. There are married women who watch porn all day and other women who if they weren't working would be watching porn all day, and they don't have a condition, but Kirk Franklin does…
This double standard extends beyond music and pornography. Hillary Clinton said "I won't play the woman card but I am a woman." The largest allure of Hillary Clinton isn't her policies, it's that she gets to beat up on male candidates.
Karrine Steffans…AKA (SuperHead…don't ask) said that Oprah and Maya Angelou were hoes…let's see what happens when you publicly say it.
Many studies have found that women, without any legal restraints demonstrated a desire to control their partners and were more likely to use physical aggression than men.
When the "terrorist" are women, society talks only of helping women and girls stay off this deadly path, while we launch unmanned drones to kill men and boys. Now that's value…right there.
Women openly spank children and don't get arrested, in fact most people are afraid to say anything to a woman who is disciplining her child. Someone is spanking a child in a crowded store and you need to go over four aisles to call the police…really.This powerlessness has lead to an industry of Spanking Shamers,people who openly say that people who were spanked as a child has mental issues.
If women didn't support wars, there wouldn't be any wars…try it and watch… Men would not be fighting other men if it weren't for the vague notion of protecting their love. It's violence by proxy because men are expendable.
This photo of Malcolm X carries a rifle while.peering out of a window in September 1964 issue of Ebony dramatized his defiance of threats. Contrary to what has been reported, he was actually hiding from an old girlfriend. Men are called deadbeats but bad mothers,just need a little help… She's a stay-at-home mother, but she's also single….ridiculous right…isn't it all.
Tiger wood was hit with a nine-iron that fractured his cheekbone, by his wife…nothing was done, in fact he was ridiculed as the media tried to blame his injuries on a car accident. This being the case why would any male think that they would be viewed fairly? Recently Hope Solo and Britney Griner had domestic violence incidents and received a slap on the wrist for them, not so for male players, they lose their jobs.
There are more than 200 academic studies that show women are more likely to be the perpetrator in non-reciprocal violence. Since you may not read the studies that means females hit first and often, but it also means that if the male doesn't take this kind of treatment and chooses to strike back…he then becomes the abuser. When women hit men it's not being reported as violence, it's views a being playful, emotional, she's going through something or as the recipient deserved it.
People are people and no one wants to be hit by someone else, so why aren't we as a society looking at them the same?
What we will hear is a series of buts, someone muttering about pushing boundaries or role reversal, followed by lines that include copious use of the word "historically." Women look at men as sex objects figuratively and literally, women are watching lots of porn, women are violent yet we pretend that it's not happening.
There are laws that make infanticide a milder crime….why? Why are cities installing Safe Haven Baby Boxes, so a woman can just put her unwanted babies into these metal boxes?
We have slanted adoption laws, where women can at any time wash their hands of their kids with no consequences, financial or otherwise, to discourage infanticide, meanwhile men who walk away are jailed. Program on top of program exist supporting mothers, some of which aren't good mothers, but men are put in jail when they are behind on child support.
Laws have been formed, jobs have been lost, and lives have been changed due to these glaring double standards. You'll end up explaining how "Life isn't fair"to children who will unavoidably grow up with a series of W.T.F.s in their head when they don't have to.
Today our society is not based on evidence and children grow up not understanding the whys in a land of equality and rules. Some grow up not understanding that they are somehow less than equal and the rules seem to arbitrarily be applied. As adults, we should know better. As parents, we damn sure should know better.
People notice how Former President Bill Clinton, who has been abusing and taking advantage of women for decades, remains one of the most beloved political figures in history. People wonder how did Ja Rule reached number one on the charts with lyrics such as, "I like to keep them drugged up on ecstasy". While Rick Ross and Lil Wayne, in different songs, both hinted at putting something in a woman's drink at a club, but for some reason only Rick Ross was taken to task for these lyrics.
In Chris Brown's song "liquor," a woman put something in his drink at a club and not one peep came from the masses. Is someone is telling the masses when to be outraged and who to be outraged at? Or are we a morally shallow society that allows double standards based on whether or not a person is liked? Either way that's not a society built on rules, that's a society built on enforceable whims.


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Purple Sunset No. 2
Original oil Painting
Medium: Oil on Board and framed in light coloured wood
H28cm x W28cm x D3cm
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Purple Sunset No. 2
Sunset, it's anyone's guess what colour its going to be. This is one of a series of small oil paintings inspired by the South Downs in East Sussex.
Their cute style derives from my fondness of this beautiful landscape and the joy it brings me on a daily basis.
These paintings are fun and playful and hopefully they bring about a smile to all who look upon them.
They work well in small interior wall spaces or small rooms that need a little brightening up, or you could have several of them on a country kitchen wall. They also make great gifts that are sure to bring a smile to a loved ones face.
The original painting 14cm sq and is set in a light wood frame. The total size is 28cm sq.
For other landscape paintings please visit my Landscape Gallery. Or Commission your own Landscape.
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For anyone else who is concerned. I found a small bug in the Proxy Generator code that was causing any return types that are generic to create invalid markup which will cause a compiler issue.
Lets say for example you wanted to use the the ComponentInterface systems with a method that return
In the generator code we do a regex test to get the return type and if it is a Deferred<T> we pull out the generic type of the return type. In the example above "IEnumerable<object>". The problem is that we key on a closing ">" for the regex test and that means that we would pull out "IEnumerable<object" which would break the compilation. All we have to do is add a single character to our regex to fix this. Adding a "$" after the ">" will take care of this. ("(.*?)Deferred(<(.+?)>$)?"). This will ensure that we are at the end of the string at that point so the ">" before must be the closing ">". I commented in the code below where the issue lies.Code:Deferred<IEnumerable<object>> GetSomeObjects();
Code:using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp; using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Syntax; using MMO.Base; using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; namespace MMO.Tools.ProxyGenerator { public class ProxySyntaxAnalyzer : CSharpSyntaxWalker { //private static readonly Regex ReturnTypeRegex = new Regex("(.*?)Deferred(<(.+?)>)?", RegexOptions.Compiled); private static readonly Regex ReturnTypeRegex = new Regex("(.*?)Deferred(<(.+?)>$)?", RegexOptions.Compiled); ... private Tuple<MappedMethodReturnType, string> GetMethodReturnType(MethodDeclarationSyntax method) { var returnType = method.ReturnType.ToString(); if (returnType == "void") return Tuple.Create(MappedMethodReturnType.Void, (string)null); var match = ReturnTypeRegex.Match(returnType); if (!match.Success) throw new InvalidOperationException($"Method {method.Identifier} does not have a valid return type (found {returnType})"); var resultType = match.Result("$3"); // This is where it causes issues. We match on group 3 which originally doesn't have the closing '>' if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(resultType)) return Tuple.Create(MappedMethodReturnType.Response, (string)null); return Tuple.Create(MappedMethodReturnType.ResponseWithResult, resultType); } } }