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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
There's a New Witch in Town TablescapeJacqueline September 16, 2015
Chocolat - French for Chocolate. I adored chocolate from a young age when I had to sneak in the cupboard to find where my mother had hidden the Nestle's Chocolate Chips. Having read about the famous chocolat shoppes in Paris, when I finally got there I was determined to try a chocolate from every Paris shoppe. I invite you to share my adventures in creating, in travel, and in life.
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I love the tablescape its perfect for your new witch, she couldn't have been brought into a more perfect home!ReplyDelete
What a great post.,!!!...love from me Ria xReplyDelete
Once again you thrill me with your gorgeous table setting....ReplyDelete
Your new witch is beautiful and so elegant hope your other ladies don't get jealous and cast a spell on her....lol.....
What a wonderful tablescape, I like your new witch! She is ready for Halloween! Have a happy day and week ahead!ReplyDelete
A fun setting for a pretty new witch! Glad the rain held off:@)ReplyDelete
So happy to see Beulah and you back playing this year! and your table is wonderful, thanks for sharing!!ReplyDelete
How cool! Nothing old and boring about your Halloween décor and I would never expect that from you, J! Love everything!ReplyDelete
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Nice to see an elegant looking witch join your party and the table compliments her personality very nicely.ReplyDelete
Such an elegant witch. Not all witches have to be scary or ugly. The tablescape is charming. Love your burlap tablecloth and accessories. Great find on the chevron placemats. Welcome back Beulah!ReplyDelete
Another incredible tablescape, Jacqueline! So good to see Beulah is back! Love all the accessories and decorations! So fun and festive! Xo!ReplyDelete
Your new witch sets a pretty table Jacqueline! Love the black & white and burlap...don't you just love Halloween! I can't wait to get my stuff out! I have some witchy projects up my sleeve this year, you've reminded me it's time to get going! Loved your table tale too!ReplyDelete
Welcome to your new witchy friend. Does she have a name? You and Beulah did a fab job with the welcome table. I may have to stop by Target and check out the $1 / $3 bins. '-)ReplyDelete
Love seeing your fun tables!
Welcome back Beulah! I love your new friend and what a charming table :) Gorgeous view too!ReplyDelete
Though I've been gone for quite a while, I remember your fabulous Halloween tables. This one is gorgeous too. Your new friend is a beauty!ReplyDelete
Oh now that Beulah's out, the party can start! You and Joni make Halloween a lot more fun with your annual tradition. Thanks...ReplyDelete
Oh Yayy!! I'm so excited for Beaulah and Zoulah to come out this year!! Their fun adventures are my favorite!! And I love the chevron and burlap Halloween table!! So fun!!ReplyDelete
I love your new witch. She seems like such a sweet witch. Love those napkins you made, and all the burlap going on. Glad Beaulah was so welcoming to the new witch. I hope Zoulah gets going this year, she is a bit rusty after taking last year off. JoniReplyDelete
I always enjoy seeing Beulah, Jacqueline, and now she has a new witchy friend! You and Beulah did a wonderful job in picking out all the accessories to make such a bewitching tablescape, and I can see you girls had fun!ReplyDelete
How exciting to have a new witch in town! I always enjoy the witchy fun that you and Joni share with us each year. Love the table and accessories. I always forget to look at the bins at Target.ReplyDelete
This is the most pretty, elegant and classy witch I have ever seen. I'm sure she's loving your beautiful tablescape too... fit for a queen-witch, lol..ReplyDelete
I don't have a witch, but now that I'm going for my DD Alex's birth at Miami, I might look for a pretty one too.
Have a super week ahead.
Gorgeous bewitching table! I saw those same fun burlap accessories at my Target. I'm so glad Beaulah is finally stirring, I always look forward to her appearance and see what trouble and witchy treats she is cooking up!ReplyDelete
I'm sure your new witch feels very welcome! I am glad that Beaulah is not jealous. :)ReplyDelete
Love this new witch has she revealed her name yet? Beautiful tables cape!ReplyDelete
Beautifully done! Has the new witch revealed her name?ReplyDelete
So nice of Beaulah to welcome the new witch with such a beautiful table!ReplyDelete
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This description of the Book of Hosea is from Easton's Bible Dictionary.
"Hosea, Prophecies of: This book stands first in order among the "Minor Prophets." "The probable cause of the location of Hosea may be the thoroughly national character of his oracles, their length, their earnest tone, and vivid representations." This was the longest of the prophetic books written before the Captivity. Hosea prophesied in a dark and melancholy period of Israel's history, the period of Israel's decline and fall. Their sins had brought upon them great national disasters. "Their homicides and fornication, their perjury and theft, their idolatry and impiety, are censured and satirized with a faithful severity." He was a contemporary of Isaiah.
The book may be divided into two parts, the first containing chapters 1-3, and symbolically representing the idolatry of Israel under imagery borrowed from the matrimonial relation. The figures of marriage and adultery are common in the Old Testament writings to represent the spiritual relations between Jehovah and the people of Israel. Here we see the apostasy of Israel and their punishment, with their future repentance, forgiveness, and restoration.
The second part, containing 4-14, is a summary of Hosea's discourses, filled with denunciations, threatenings, exhortations, promises, and revelations of mercy.
Quotations from Hosea are found in Matthew 2:15; 9:15; 12:7; Romans 9:25,26. There are, in addition, various allusions to it in other places (Luke 23:30; Revelation 6:16, comp. Hosea 10:8; Romans 9:25,26; 1 Peter 2:10, comp Hosea 1:10, etc.).
As regards the style of this writer, it has been said that "each verse forms a whole for itself, like one heavy toll in a funeral knell." "Inversions (Hosea 7:8; 9:11,13; 12:8), anacolutha (Hosea 9:6; 12:8, etc), ellipses (Hosea 9:4; 13:9, etc.), paranomasias, and plays upon words, are very characteristic of Hosea (Hosea 8:7; 9:15; 10:5; 11:5; 12:11)".

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SNOW HILL — The Worcester County Commissioners re-affirmed their commitment this week to not get involved in a storm drain situation in Mystic Harbour that threatens to produce sinkholes on area properties.
Public Works Director John Tustin briefed the commission Tuesday on the results of an inspection of a "supposed collapsed storm drain" that is the source of sinkholes in Mystic Harbour yards. After revealing that blockages were noted during the inspection, Tustin made sure to explain that the county isn't liable for fixing any of the problems.
"The pipe is not on county-owned land nor was it built by the county," he said in his report. "Therefore, I believe it is not the county's responsibility to maintain. The location of the pipe is obviously owned by Mr. Jack Burbage and helps drain portions of Maryland Route 611, which is a state highway."
Tustin said that Worcester has no interest in the matter and should be wary about being dragged into the situation. Public Works Deputy Director John Ross felt likewise and informed the commission that if the county decided to fix the storm drain in this instance, a disturbing precedent could be set.
"It will be important to identify the owner of the pipe before we begin this work because once we begin making the repairs, it will most likely become ours forever," Ross wrote in a memo.
According to Tustin, whoever does make the necessary repairs will be looking at a lot of man hours and the probable need of an outside contractor.
After hearing of the work required and confident that the county didn't have a horse in the race as far as ownership of the pipe, the majority of commissioners agreed it would be best not to become involved.
"I don't think we should get involved," said Commissioner Louise Gulyas.
If Tustin's report identified the storm drain as "obviously" being owned by Burbage, then Worcester isn't liable, she reasoned.
"This is definitely a Mr. Burbage problem …" said Gulyas.
Gulyas recommended writing a letter to Burbage asking him to address the problem. Commissioner Judy Boggs advised against even drafting a letter as that is more immersion into the scenario than she is comfortable with.
"I think the solution has to come from the property owners and not the county," she said.
Additionally, Boggs mentioned that she hopes once the commission makes a decision it sticks and the issue doesn't arise again.
"We can't continue to spend time on this if it's not our problem," she said.
Attorney Sonny Bloxom reminded the commission this isn't the first time the Mystic Harbour storm drain problem has come before them.
"We told them [we're not involved] before but they didn't like our answer," he said of property owners that have previously asked the commissioners to intercede.
Unlike his colleagues, Commission President Bud Church initially pushed for a small amount of involvement from the county. Church asked that the commission approve some further camera inspections at a different point in the pipe. However, Church dropped the motion when it became clear that his colleagues wanted to put the matter to rest.
Eventually, the commission voted 5-2, with Boggs and Commissioner Virgil Shockley opposed, in favor of a revised version of Gulyas' motion, which will mean a letter will be sent to the State Highway Administration, Burbage, the Mystic Harbour Homeowners Association and property owners in the area urging cooperation between the parties.


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September 22, 2010
Google Chrome Frame, Out of Beta
Google Chrome Frame is especially valuable for enterprise users, so Google added a MSI installer that helps IT administrators deploy the software in a network.
Microsoft has recently released the first beta of Internet Explorer 9 and showed that it can develop a browser that's fast, standards-compliant and better suited for running web apps. Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 9 can't be installed in Windows XP, which is still the most popular operating system. Even if Internet Explorer 8 has been released more than one year ago, almost half of the users haven't upgraded to the latest version of the browser.
Chrome Frame is already used by many Google services: Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Orkut and other services will start to support it soon. Chromium's blog says that the main goals are to "to improve performance and ease the transition for users as they drop support for legacy browsers". After installing Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer 8, I noticed that Google Reader loaded much faster and had a better performance. If you want, you can load all the pages using Chrome Frame, but it's not recommended to do that.
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- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM
"Vanessa Fox. Nude."? :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2010 at 3:10 PM
Go to www.vanessafoxnude.com, you'll understand.ReplyDelete
IMHO Chrome Frame is Google's most evil product. If you can't install Chrome, hacking your install of Internet Explorer is probably just going to cause your IT support headaches when they try and figure out why your web-based app that depends on IE no longer works.ReplyDelete
Totally agree with Will :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 25, 2010 at 11:16 AM
I totally disagree with Will, I am an I.T. admin as well as a web-developer. Chrome Frame gives Website developers the choice of which rendering engine to use, and the user the choice of browser skin.ReplyDelete
I also disagree with Will. If, like me, you're stuck in a company filled with Windows XP machines, and want to develop HTML 5 apps, you're stuck.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately, on my Windows 7 laptop, which does have Google Chrome installed, Google ChromeFrame utterly refuses to install.
At best, it presents an error saying a conflicting version of Chrome is already installed. At worst, the install begins... then quietly dies. No errors or anything. (I do have full Admin rights.)


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DCV Track & Trail Tuesdays
June 14, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
NEW TIME for the Summer 7PM
START / FINISH – Stone Bridge Inn
Starting / finishing the ride at the Stone Bridge Inn so the car park is safer and we can have a drink after the ride
Weather Dependant – Check in the comments below this event on the day at 5pm to see if still on
Ran along the old railway paths to the west of Durham city. The route can cater for Cyclocross / gravel / mountain hybrid bikes if you don't mind em getting a bit dirty.
Route: http://www.plotaroute.com/route/124148
Meet at Stone Bridge Inn then off on our adventure


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U.S. Trade Deficit Narrows to Smallest Since 2010
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in September as exports increased, suggesting the economy expanded more than previously believed in the third quarter.
The seasonally adjusted monthly trade gap fell to $41.55 billion, the smallest deficit since December 2010, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. Analysts were expecting the trade gap would widen to $45.0 billion.
The reading suggests exports did more to boost economic growth in the third quarter than previously believed. Gross domestic product expanded 2.0 percent in the period, according to initial estimates.
U.S. exports rose 3.1 percent in September, the biggest increase in more than a year despite a debt crisis in Europe that has weighed on the global economy.
Exports to the European Union were flat compared to the prior month, although the figures were not adjusted for seasonal swings. Unadjusted exports to major trade partners Canada and Mexico fell in the same period.
U.S. imports rose 1.5 percent in September when seasonally adjusted.
The trade deficit with China expanded in September to $29.1 billion from $28.7 billion a month earlier. The government does not seasonally adjust that reading.
The average price for imported oil rose in September to $98.88 per barrel, although the quantity of oil imports fell.


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Renishaw opens significant expansion to Indian manufacturing and development facility
Renishaw, the global engineering technologies company, will formally open a 4,875 square metre extension to its Pune, India, facility on February 15th 2011.
11 January 2011
Renishaw, the global engineering technologies company, will formally open a 4,875 square metre extension to its Pune, India, facility on February 15th 2011. This expansion represents a near trebling of space at the Pune site, which is intended to meet the long-term growth needs for the company's Indian operations in terms of product assembly, software development, sales & marketing, and customer support.
The newly expanded facility, which now totals some 7,500 square metres, will include additional space for Renishaw's Indian customer demonstration and training centre, which was first opened in 2008. With a rapidly expanding customer base and network of local offices, the extended space will be used to house larger numbers of CNC machine tools and co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs) to aid pre-sales demonstrations and product training. To ensure the best conditions for metrology performance, one of the new demonstration rooms will also be tightly temperature controlled to 20 degrees Celsius, plus or minus 0.5 degrees.
The site, which is near to the prime Hinjewadi district location, will also include a brand new staff restaurant with a 150 seat-capacity that will ensure the highest quality of catering for Renishaw's Indian employees.
Speaking about the opening of the new extension, Sir David McMurtry, Renishaw's Chairman and Chief Executive, said, "This significant investment highlights the confidence that we have in our Indian operations, both in the ability to assemble products that meet the exacting standards set for our metrology products, and in the strong growth potential that we can achieve for our products within the Indian manufacturing community. We have been trading in India for almost 30 years and I am proud to see the contribution that Renishaw is making to Indian manufacturing and software engineering, both as an employer and through our products that help companies to raise quality standards and productivity levels."
The manufacturing facility at Pune is a 100% Export Orientated Unit (EOU) and manufactures a range of components for the Renishaw Group that were previously procured, or where assembly costs are critical to competitiveness, including cables for the company's machine tool, CMM and encoder products. Within India, Renishaw also has a wholly owned trading company, Renishaw Metrology Systems Private Ltd, which was created in Bangalore in 2000, plus regional sales offices in Delhi (Gurgaon), Pune, Chennai and Vadodara, supported by resident sales engineers in other important industrial centres. Further operations at the Pune facility include software development, and a procurement team sourcing high quality components from Indian vendors. Total employee numbers within India are now approaching 200.
The Renishaw Group currently has operations in 31 countries, with total employee numbers now over 2,300. For the year-ended June 2010, worldwide sales totalled £181.6 million (US$280 million).
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WASHINGTON - The Senate's vote Tuesday to confirm Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court to replace Sandra Day O'Connor is — along with President Bush's victory on Chief Justice John Roberts — the biggest domestic victory of his two terms as president.
This is all the more remarkable given the president's anemic approval ratings over the past few months. The latest , released Monday, shows Bush's approval rating at 39 percent, which is unchanged from last month's survey.
How can such an apparently unpopular president win such historic victories?
Eighteen months ago, the Senate Democrats brandished the threat of filibuster, or endless debate, to block ten of Bush's judicial nominees from getting confirmation votes.
"Minority rules!" was the triumphant principle for the Democrats as they expertly played defense.
Success in using filibuster
"Our campaign to stop Bush's extremist nominees has been extraordinarily successful so far," boasted a Nov. 12, 2003 e-mail from Moveon.org, the left-leaning Democratic group. "Miguel Estrada, who was widely thought to be President Bush's top pick for the Supreme Court, withdrew his name from consideration after Senators filibustered his nomination, supported by more than 40,000 phone calls from MoveOn members."
So at what point did Bush turn the tide and begin the comeback that ultimately clinched victory for Alito?
You might pick as the most significant date May 9, 2003 when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist offered Senate Resolution 138, which would made it easier to stop filibusters, by lowering the number of votes needed to stop one from 60 to 51.
Although he took no steps to immediately get his resolution passed, Frist signaled that sooner or later he'd try to abolish filibusters of judicial nominees.
You might also pick April 19, 2004 when Bush flew to Pittsburgh to campaign for the re-election of Sen. Arlen Specter, the veteran Republican supporter of abortion rights who was in the fight of his political life against a conservative primary challenger, Rep. Pat Toomey.
"He's a little bit independent-minded sometimes. But there's nothing wrong with that," Bush told a Specter fund-raising event. "I can count on this man….He's a firm ally when it matters most." And so he proved to be.
Specter as field commander
After eking out a victory over Toomey, Specter went on to become a superb field commander for Bush's judicial nominees. He became the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in January 2005 and fought to win confirmation for several of the president's conservative nominees.
Another significant date was May 23, 2005. On that day 14 senators, seven from each party, signed an agreement pledging that they would not resort to filibusters of judicial nominees unless there were "extraordinary circumstances," a phrase the agreement left up to each signatory to define.
Five of the seven Democratic senators who signed the May 23 accord had supported the filibusters of Bush judicial nominees in 2003 and 2004. They were Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.
By signing the deal they made it almost impossible for Democratic Leader Harry Reid to credibly threaten to use the filibuster.
At least two Republican signers of the May 23 accord said they'd support a change in the Senate rules to abolish all judicial filibusters, the so-called nuclear option, if necessary.
If you take the view that the nominee is more important than the procedures, then perhaps the date that most mattered was Oct. 27, 2005, the day that White House Counsel Harriet Miers asked Bush to withdraw her nomination for the O'Connor seat.
The Miers fiasco
Democrats had been almost rubbing their hands in anticipation of defeating a nominee with such dubious qualifications as Miers to serve on the high court, and one who had been Bush's personal lawyer.
"Cronyism on the Supreme Court is a serious threat to our democracy," said Moveon.org's Ben Brandzel on Oct. 5, 2005.
After a closed-door meeting with Miers on Oct. 17, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., portrayed her as utterly out of her depth when it came to constitutional law. She needed to "study" in order to get ready for her confirmation hearings, Schumer said.
The Alito-for-Miers swap turned out to be a major setback for the Democrats.
Once Alito stepped in, you could argue that the most important date was Jan. 11, 2006, the emotional turning point of his Senate testimony.
Mrs. Alito fled the hearing room in tears after Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. expressed regret to Alito that Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and other Democrats had attacked him for his membership in the Conservative Alumni of Princeton (CAP).
Some articles in CAP's magazine — not written by Alito — had voiced inflammatory anti-feminist and anti-gay views. Graham asked Alito whether he was a "closet bigot." Alito replied, "I'm not any kind of bigot."
At that moment and at many others during his testimony, Alito appeared to be a sober, cautious and phlegmatic judge. The Democrats had an easier job when they battled Bush appeals court nominees William Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown who had made provocative statements which at least opened the question of whether they had the appropriate judicial temperament.
Puzzling over 'the unitary executive'
A day that might have been — but turned out not to be — a turning point was Dec. 16, 2005, when the New York Times published a page one story revealing Bush's order to the National Security Agency to monitor international phone calls between al Qaida suspects and people inside the United States.
Democrats tried to connect their alarm over this program with Alito's endorsement in 2000 of the theory of "the unitary executive." But the argument did not seem to catch fire with the public, in part because Alito's 2000 Federalist Society speech on the unitary executive did not refer to national security, but instead to administrative agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission.
By the end of the hearings, even some Democrats had become exasperated with the contrived confirmation ritual.
"Have we finally come to the point where our nation's assessment of its Supreme Court nominee turns more on a simple-minded sound bite or an exploitive snapshot than on the answers provided or withheld by the nominees?" asked Byrd.
This was the same Robert Byrd who showed up last March to give a passionate address at a Moveon.org rally. Byrd denounced Frist for wanting to lower the threshold for ending filibusters.
The Republicans "want to gag the world's greatest deliberative body," Byrd told the Moveon.org enthusiasts. "They want to change the rules so they can pack the courts."
But the filibuster threat has been neutered, due in part to Byrd himself agreeing to join the May 23 accord.
So last week Byrd struck a different tone from his Moveon.org speech.
Byrd prefers conservative judges
"When it comes to judges, I hale from a conservative state," Byrd told the Senate. "Similar to a majority of my constituents, I prefer conservative judges…. Judge Alito told me he respected the separation of powers and would not rule in support of a power-hungry President. I liked that answer. I liked Judge Alito. He struck me as a man of his word, and I intend to vote for him."
After all the rhetoric and maneuvering, the battle over the court is finally decided by whether or not the president and his allies have the votes in the Senate.
Thus the most significant date of all is Nov. 2, 2004, the day that, thanks to efforts by National Republican Senatorial Committee chief Sen. George Allen, GOP strategist Dick Wadhams and others, the Republicans scored a net gain of four seats in the Senate.
Instead of 51 Republican seats, as in 2003 and 2004, Bush could now count on 55 Republican senators.
With their new cushion, GOP leaders could afford to give a pass, if necessary, to the handful of liberal to moderate Republican senators, such as Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who announced Monday he would vote "no" on Alito.
Lessons of 2004
Meanwhile, Democrats in states that Bush carried in the 2004 election, such as North Dakota, Nebraska and Tennessee, learned from what had happened to former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who lost his seat to Republican John Thune, partly on the filibuster issue.
Daschle-led filibusters worked in 2003 and 2004 — they did keep nominees such as Estrada off the federal bench.
But they also gave Republican strategists a weapon to use against Democratic Senate candidates, and Democrats responded.
Daschle's fellow South Dakota Democrat, Sen. Tim Johnson, supported filibusters in 2003 and 2004, but announced last week he'd vote for Alito.
Rep. Harold Ford, the likely Democratic Senate candidate in Tennessee, joined the anti-filibuster chorus last week. "Absent extraordinary circumstances, nominees to the Supreme Court deserve an up-or-down vote," Ford said.
Using phraseology that Republicans have used, Sen. Kent Conrad, D- N.D., explained Friday why he wouldn't support a last-ditch effort to filibuster Alito. "Elections have consequences," Conrad told reporters. "President Bush was re-elected and he made very clear what he would do in terms of court appointees."
On Monday Conrad joined 16 other Democratic senators in voting "no" on the filibuster. Conrad has announced he'll vote "yes" on Alito, as have three other Democrats.


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Remember that old commercial? A beautiful scene on the front porch swing of a country farmhouse, "Mom, do you ever get that not so fresh feeling?". It was a cheesy and unrealistic take on mothers and daughters having intimate discussions.
I was recently sent, for review, a copy of The Body Scoop For Girls by a CBS News contributor and M.D., Ob-Gyn, Jennifer Ashton, a specialist whose NY practice is centered on the treatment of girls from age 13 through their early twenties.
Dr. Ashton has put together what she calls 'a straight talk guide to a healthy beautiful you', covering every topic from puberty and health to abusive relationships and everything in between.
Having now finished reading it, I can only say that I have less than positive feelings about it and I certainly won't be handing it to any of my daughters to read, without at least removing a few pages first. Nor would I recommend it for my reader's daughters without the same creative editing.
Don't get me wrong. There is much useful information to be had in this reference guide. There is much information that is important and should be shared with adolescents and teens, but there is also much information that I, as a mother with 16 years experience, feel is left out, inaccurate or plain and simple misleading.
There are good tips on personal grooming and changes to be expected during adolescence and puberty. There is great information about taking care of yourself for the long term, but there is also much information that I feel is not appropriate or incomplete.
Dr. Ashton speaks of her private practice and the need to treat a patient with respect and knowledge of complete information, for teens are smart, savvy and more worldly than ever before. I couldn't agree more, but feel that she leaves out important details. I also feel that she takes it a little far at times. Although a proponent of girls waiting until they are of legal adulthood to engage in sex, Dr. Ashton states that in her practice that includes younger girls also, "...I'll expect you to use your own best judgment and I'll treat you accordingly, with respect for the choices you make"(page 6).
It's one thing to say, 'I'll treat you medically appropriate and not with any less personal respect, for I can not control your actions or decisions, but I can help keep you healthy.', but it is a ludicrous statement to 'respect the choice' of a 15 or 13 year old girl to engage in sex. Let alone to continue a few pages later with, don't worry, I'll never tell your parents. Would the decision to skip school be respected? What about a decision to smoke, drink or use recreational drugs, would they be respected choices? Are those behaviors any less dangerous to engage in or is it a matter of 'just make sure you use a clean needle'?
On the topic of Doctor patient confidentiality, Dr. Ashton touts on page 12:
"By Law, I am not allowed to tell your parents if you are sexually active or not. They can pound on my door and beg and plead, stalk me with phone calls or spam me online and I'm still not going to tell them whether or not you are having sex."
She then goes onto list two scenarios when she would have to break confidentiality: 1, Safety of the patient or someone else and 2, certain STDs that are reported by the labs to the State.
I say give the girls the full scope of information. If you are covered by your parents insurance and are a minor, your parents have legal rights to a copy of your medical record. Everything health concern related that you tell your doctor gets written in your file, be it sexual activity or recreational drug use. Also, if your insurance company is being asked to pay, they too get a copy of all treatments/tests/diagnosis and rationalizations of why they should be covered under the policy. The policy holder (one of your parents) also gets a statement in the mail of all treatments/tests and what percentage will covered by insurance, courtesy of the insurance company. You will not be given a pap-smear unless sexually active. Forget privacy if you are under 18 or even older if you are insured under your parents. This is an important tidbit.
Dr. Ashton also is in full support of the 'Wait until your 18 club" before you become sexually active. She gives many reasons, both health and emotional, why she encourages her patients to wait. I applaud this. Dr. Ashton continues to point out that the lower your lifetime number of sexual partners, the better is her mantra. However, there is no mention that waiting until you are married is even a concept, achievable or something to shoot for.
Yes, I am wholeheartedly aware that most people will not wait that long. Yes, I am aware that that is a rare standard to achieve. Yet, under the belief that teens and tweens deserve full and competent information with which to make life changing decisions, I let my children know their personal value and potential. I let them know that their intellect, personalities and talents are something that constantly get shared with the world, but their body and virginity are a special gift that they should keep until they find someone that they are wanting to grow old and regress back into diapers with to deem worthy of a gift so sacred.
They will obviously make their own decision on this matter sooner or later, that I will have no control over, but I will always encourage them to do what is truly best for them, even if they are too young to understand what is best for them. That's why they have parents.
When it comes to school work, I never encourage my children with "I think you are capable to achieve a C!". I let them know that the sky is the limit and that they are capable of an A+. Sex as a reward for your 18th birthday is a D-, in my book, it's settling.
Granted, Dr. Ashton admits that age 18 is an arbitrary number that seems achievable and realistic to her and her patients (page 149). I let my children know that this is something that only they have control over and it is within their ability to shoot for the best. They deserve it.
Dr. Ashton speaks of Abstinence Only sex-ed as out dated and ineffective. Parents who teach abstinence only are obviously living under a rock and uncomfortable speaking about anything puberty or sex related is the connotation that you feel as reading the book.
I for one am a parent that teaches abstinence only. I also am open and honest about everything that they need to know about themselves, their hormones, body changes, feelings and what to expect in the future. I openly, yet privately, make my children individually aware at an appropriate age of the common forms of birth control and how they work and why I believe they are a bad idea to ever put into use, but I am not about to give a demonstration on how to adorn a condom (as is suggested on page 162). If you can't figure that out by reading the back of the box, you have no business having need of one and probably should have a safety cork on the end of your eating utensils too.
Emergency Contraception is noted in the book also. "Plan B and similar medications prevent conception from taking place. It does not cause abortions.", is made as an absolute statement, but if Dr. Ashton believes her teenage patients to be intelligent and worthy of making their own decisions based on all the information, why is not mentioned why there is such controversy surrounding this drug? The manufacturer makes the claim that it prevents conception and may be used up to 72 hours after intercourse. Where the controversy comes to play is: Most conceptions do not take place immediately after intercourse, but many do prior to 72 hours after. Plan B will not abort and existing pregnancy, but pregnancy is now defined as once implantation into the uterus occurs. A fertilized egg being destroyed before it has implanted in the uterine wall is the factor that have many referring to to Plan B as an abortive medication. Why only share one 1/2 of the debate?
The icing on the cake comes on page 163:
"Your parents may not be as dumb as you think. Try asking them how old they were when they started having sex. Or if they regretted it. Or if they have any funny or memorable stories or words of wisdom for you. You may be surprised at what you learn-and your parents might actually believe that you want to talk openly about sex."
I actually had to re-read that little segment, after rubbing my eyes and cleaning my glasses, just to make sure I had read it correctly. I had.
I don't discuss such personal aspects of my life with anyone other than my spouse. It's no one else's business. Not a girlfriend, nor a sister and certainly not my child. Any teen that I am familiar with would want to wash their brain thoroughly with bleach in an attempt to cleanse any such thoughts of their parents out of their heads. I am their parent, not their peer.
I asked Boy Weasel (13) to read that blurb and give me his thoughts. His face said it all. Once he swallowed the vomit down, he said "What do they mean, 'your parents aren't as dumb as you think?' ". After a good laugh, I asked him, "Okay, now seriously, what are your thoughts?", and he gave me an honest, "That's not even funny". I informed him that it wasn't supposed to be funny and he replied "You mean that wasn't a joke? That's just not right."
I had Eldest Weasel read the same excerpt. "Eewww', was her reaction to the thought.
I ran it past some other parents of various age children, asking for one word gut reactions; uncomfortable, outrageous, eewww, nuts and silence were the consensus of reactions. I am not alone.
This book is obviously written from the standpoint of a doctor and not that of a parent. I can give credit for that. Ninety percent of this book is filled with valuable information that is important for for teenage girls to have and mostly what I have already covered with my daughters (and son) regarding all sorts of growing pains, piercings and maintaining health for the rest of your life. The other 10 % of information is not right for my family. Every family is different and every parent has to make the decisions that are right for theirs. This book, however, doesn't get the WeaselMomma seal of approval.


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The nation's economy will rebound faster if Congress and the Obama administration avoid future fiscal crises and work instead to advance more robust energy, trade and regulatory policies, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue said Thursday.
The head of the big business lobby used his annual State of American Business address to also urge policymakers to tackle an overhaul of entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security and the tax code while cutting government spending.
"While our economy may be growing, it is a fragile growth," Donohue said.
The New York native, who has been at the helm of the chamber for nearly 15 years, later told reporters at a briefing that the chamber doesn't support blocking an increase in the debt ceiling, a position advocated by some conservative lawmakers ahead of this spring's battle over the government's statutory borrowing power.
"My own view, our view is that we should not default on our debt," Donohue said.
He also reiterated a policy platform that the chamber announced last year as a possible "third bucket" of stepped up domestic energy production to help create jobs, grow the economy and increase tax revenue going into government coffers. The chamber, he noted, will continue to lobby for the administration's approval of a Keystone XL pipeline project.
Not surprisingly, the chamber's opponents did not get behind Donohue's agenda.
The liberal Public Citizen put out a statement shortly after the chamber event, criticizing Donohue for painting "a fantastical picture of the unfair burdens imposed on Big Business" but neglecting to mention that "corporate profits are at record highs."
"First, isn't it a bit much for the rich and powerful to endlessly call for cutbacks in the nation's leading anti-poverty programs, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid?" the Public Citizen release stated. "If Tom Donohue is concerned about the government's fiscal situation, perhaps he should acknowledge the unreasonably low effective tax rate on corporations. Or declare that it's outrageous for two dozen profitable Fortune 500 companies to pay zero in federal income tax in the past four years."
When it comes to the regulatory system, Donohue blasted aspects of the Dodd-Frank financial law and the Affordable Care Act , which he said "could drive costs through the roof" and ultimately hurt the foundering economy.
The chamber's law firm, the Institute for Legal Reform, also plans to expand, Donohue said, increasing the number of lawsuits it will pursue to fight regulations.
"Our preference is always to work within the legislative and regulatory processes, and we do that on a daily basis," Donohue said. "But when rights have been trampled on or regulators have overstepped their bounds, well then, we'll just take the necessary legal action."
The chamber will also lobby, including with some of its less traditional allies from the evangelical Christian community, for comprehensive immigration reform that would include a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the United States.
"Damn right we should" do more to educate and train for jobs our current citizens including returning soldiers from the battlefield, Donohue said. But, he added, the country should not close the door to immigrants.
Although many of the House and Senate candidates that the chamber backed didn't win their elections this year, Donohue said the business lobby would continue its campaign work. The 100-year-old organization, he said, will "strengthen and improve itself as an organization and as an influential force and powerful brand."
He added, "We will expand our grass-roots network … while gearing up and refreshing our political program for the next election cycle."
The chamber in the 2012 election cycle spent upward of $32 million on its favored candidates, according to data collected by the Sunlight Foundation. The group is also on pace to spend more than $100 million on lobbying in the past year, based on reports filed with Congress under the Lobbying Disclosure Act.


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We smile because we are happy, and we frown because we are sad. But does the causal arrow point in the other direction, too? A spate of recent studies of botox recipients and others suggests that our emotions are reinforced—perhaps even driven—by their corresponding facial expressions.
Charles Darwin first posed the idea that emotional responses influence our feelings in 1872. "The free expression by outward signs of an emotion intensifies it," he wrote. The esteemed 19th-century psychologist William James went so far as to assert that if a person does not express an emotion, he has not felt it at all. Although few scientists would agree with such a statement today, there is evidence that emotions involve more than just the brain. The face, in particular, appears to play a big role.
This February psychologists at the University of Cardiff in Wales found that people whose ability to frown is compromised by cosmetic botox injections are happier, on average, than people who can frown. The researchers administered an anxiety and depression questionnaire to 25 females, half of whom had received frown-inhibiting botox injections. The botox recipients reported feeling happier and less anxious in general; more important, they did not report feeling any more attractive, which suggests that the emotional effects were not driven by a psychological boost that could come from the treatment's cosmetic nature.
"It would appear that the way we feel emotions isn't just restricted to our brain—there are parts of our bodies that help and reinforce the feelings we're having," says Michael Lewis, a co-author of the study. "It's like a feedback loop." In a related study from March, scientists at the Technical University of Munich in Germany scanned botox recipients with fMRI machines while asking them to mimic angry faces. They found that the botox subjects had much lower activity in the brain circuits involved in emotional processing and responses—in the amygdala, hypothalamus and parts of the brain stem—as compared with controls who had not received treatment.
The concept works the opposite way, too—enhancing emotions rather than suppressing them. People who frown during an unpleasant procedure report feeling more pain than those who do not, according to a study published in May 2008 in the Journal of Pain. Researchers applied heat to the forearms of 29 participants, who were asked to either make unhappy, neutral or relaxed faces during the procedure. Those who exhibited negative expressions reported being in more pain than the other two groups. Lewis, who was not involved in that study, says he plans to study the effect that botox injections have on pain perception. "It's possible that people may feel less pain if they're unable to express it," he says.
But we have all heard that it is bad to repress our feelings—so what happens if a person intentionally suppresses his or her negative emotions on an ongoing basis? Work by psychologist Judith Grob of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands suggests that this suppressed negativity may "leak" into other realms of a person's life. In a series of studies she performed for her Ph.D. thesis and has submitted for publication, she asked subjects to look at disgusting images while hiding their emotions or while holding pens in their mouths in such a way that prevented them from frowning. A third group could react as they pleased.
As expected, the subjects in both groups that did not express their emotions reported feeling less disgusted afterward than control subjects. Then she gave the subjects a series of cognitive tasks that included fill-in-the-blank exercises. She found that subjects who had repressed their emotions performed poorly on memory tasks and completed the word tasks to produce more negative words—they completed "gr_ss" as "gross" rather than "grass," for instance—as compared with controls. "People who tend to do this regularly might start to see the world in a more negative light," Grob says. "When the face doesn't aid in expressing the emotion, the emotion seeks other channels to express itself through."
No one yet knows why our facial expressions influence our emotions as they seem to. The associations in our mind between how we feel and how we react may be so strong that our expressions simply end up reinforcing our emotions—there may be no evolutionary reason for the connection. Even so, our faces do seem to communicate our states of mind not only to others but also to ourselves. "I smile, so I must be happy," Grob says.


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Bean Leafroller, Urbanus proteus (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)1
The larva of bean leafroller, Urbanus proteus (Linnaeus) is a common, late summer pest of beans, and occasionally soybeans. It is especially common in home gardens and on some weeds, particularly Dixie tick trefoil (Desmodium tortuosum). If bean leaves are rolled, or leaf edges look ragged, check for bean leafroller larvae. The adult, a longtail skipper, is commonly seen feeding on nectar of flowers.
The range of the bean leafroller includes the southern United States and all of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and South America south to Argentina.
In the United States, the bean leafroller is found throughout Florida and in coastal areas from South Carolina west to eastern Texas. It annually invades (extends its range) to most of the southeastern states, and regularly invades the southernmost areas of the southwest US. However, this species cannot tolerate prolonged freezing temperatures, and in the United States it persists only in the southern coastal plain, perhaps only in southern Florida.
The bean leafroller adult is fairly large, measuring about 50 mm in wingspan. The most pronounced feature is the prolonged extensions, or "tails," of the hind wings. As a result of these extensions, the adult butterfly is commonly known as the "longtail skipper." The forewings and hind wings are chocolate brown dorsally and pale brown ventrally. The forewings also are marked with five to seven square or rectangular spots, white above and light brown below. Green iridescent scales are present on the wings and body.
The eggs of the bean leafroller are deposited singly or in small clusters of two to six eggs on the lower epidermis of foliage. Initially the eggs are white in color, but soon turn yellow. The egg is a slightly flattened sphere, and measures about 1 mm in diameter. Eggs hatch in three to four days.
There are five larval instars, and 15 to 20 days are required for the larval stages. Initially the larva is yellowish with a brownish-black head and prothoracic shield. The head is quite large relative to the body, and remains this way throughout development. With the molt to the second instar the dorsal surface of the insect becomes marked with numerous small, black spots. Beginning with the third instar, lateral yellow lines become quite distinct. The last two instars are similar to the preceding: brownish-black head, black prothoracic shield, yellowish body sprinkled with black spots but lighter below, and yellow lateral lines. Also evident are orange spots on the head near the base of the mandibles, and red on the ventral portion of the thoracic segment. The body tapers sharply toward both the anterior and posterior ends.
The larva pupates on the plant, within the shelter formed by the larva from leaf material. The pupa measures about 20 mm in length. The pupa is yellow to brown, and is covered by a bluish-white pubescence. Duration of the pupal stage is seven to 20 days.
Life Cycle
The bean leafroller can complete its life cycle in about 30 days. It breeds in southern Florida throughout the year, but is relatively infrequent in northern Florida until June, and only becomes abundant late in the season, usually September–October. In Florida, large numbers of adults are frequently observed migrating southward in the autumn. They make a similar northward migration in the spring and summer, but it is less apparent.
The bean leafroller larva feeds on legume crops such as cowpea, lima bean, pea, snap bean and soybean. It is also known from wisteria, Wisteria spp.; tick trefoil, Desmodium spp.; butterfly pea, Clitoria spp.; and hog peanut, Amphicarpa bracteata.
Larvae are defoliators, feeding only on leaf tissue of legumes. Initially the larva cuts a small, triangular patch at the edge of the leaf, folds over the flap, and takes up residence within this shelter. The larva leaves the shelter to feed, and lines the shelter with silk. These flaps are used until the third or fourth instar, when the larva constructs a larger shelter formed by folding over a large section of the leaf by webbing together two separate leaves. Again, the leaf fold is used for shelter, the larva leaving to feed. Larvae feed nocturnally.
Populations are normally sampled by visual observation because the larvae are sheltered within leaf folds and difficult to dislodge by sweeping, and because the leaf damage caused by shelter-building activity is readily apparent.
Action Threshold
Larvae consume about 190 sq cm of foliage during their development. Beans can tolerate up to about 30 percent leaf loss without reduction in yield, so about four larvae must complete their development on a "typical" bean plant with 2175 sq cm of foliage to inflict a damaging level of defoliation. Because about one-half of the individuals perish in each life stage, densities of 140 eggs or 70 first instar larvae per plant must occur to cause damage.
Chemical Control
Most insecticides applied to the foliage are very effective for leafroller suppression. This should only be necessary for late-season bean crops. The microbial insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis currently is not recommended.
Biological Control
In Florida, Chrysotachina alcedo (Loew) (Diptera: Tachinidae) was reared from larvae, and predation was observed by a Polistes spp. wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) and (Linnaeus) stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Also, a nuclear polyhedrosis virus was found to infect and kill up to 40 to 50 percent of larvae late in the season when larvae were numerous.
Selected References
Capinera JL. 2001. Handbook of Vegetable Pests. Academic Press, San Diego. 729 pp.
Cock MJW. 2015. Observations on the biology of skipper butterflies in Trinidad, West Indies: Urbanus, Astraptes and Narcosius (Hesperiidae: Eudaminae). Living World: Journal of the Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalist's Club. 2015: 1–14.
Greene GL. 1970. Head measurements and weights of the bean leaf roller, Urbanus proteus (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterist's Society 24: 47–51.
Greene GL. 1971. Economic damage levels of bean leafroller populations on snap beans. Journal of Economic Entomology 64: 673–674.
Greene GL. 1971. Instar distributions, natural populations, and biology of the bean leaf roller. Florida Entomologist 54: 213–219.
Greeney HF, Sheldon KS. 2008. Comments on larval shelter construction and natural history of Urbanus proteus Linn. 1758 (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae) in southern Florida. Journal of the Lepidopterist's Society 62: 108–110.
Nava DE, Para JRP. 2002. Development and soybean leaf consumption by Urbanus proteus proteus (L.). Scientia Agricola 59: 661–663.
Quaintance AL. 1898. The bean leafroller. Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 45: 55–60.
Van Dam W, Wilde G. 1977. Biology of the bean leafroller Urbanus proteus (Lepidoptera: Hesperidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 50: 157–160.
Young AM. 1985. Natural history notes on Astraptes and Urbanus (Hesperiidae) in Costa Rica. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 39: 215–223.


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A well-known proponent of the electronic currency bitcoin agreed to pay nearly $51,000 to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil charges that he publicly offered unregistered shares in two Internet ventures, the regulator said on Tuesday.
Erik Voorhees, 29, published prospectuses and solicited investors through the Bitcoin Forum website to buy shares in FeedZeBirds and SatoshiDICE, both of which he co-owned, without first registering the offerings as required under federal securities law, according to the SEC.
The settlement calls for Voorhees to give up $15,844 in profit and interest, and pay a $35,000 fine. He did not admit or deny wrongdoing.
Voorhees is also a founder of Coinapult, which lets users transfer bitcoin via email or messaging service. The virtual currency is transacted independent of central control, and is not backed by any government or central bank.
"All issuers selling securities to the public must comply with the registration provisions of the securities laws, including issuers who seek to raise funds using bitcoin," said Andrew Ceresney, head of the SEC enforcement division.
Brian Klein, a lawyer for Voorhees, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Klein has also worked for the nonprofit Bitcoin Foundation, which advocates use of the currency.
The SEC said Voorhees helped raise 2,600 bitcoins in May 2012 through the sale of 30,000 shares in FeedZeBirds, which promises to pay bitcoins to Twitter users who forward sponsored text messages.
It also accused Voorhees of helping raise 50,600 bitcoins from August 2012 to February 2013 through the sale of 13 million shares of SatoshiDICE, a gaming website that pays out casino-like winnings in bitcoin.
SatoshiDICE was sold last July for more than $11 million, Voorhees said at the time.
According to the SEC, the value of bitcoin has fluctuated since Voorhees' first unregistered offering from about $5 to $1,200 per bitcoin. (Reuters)


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Friday, May 11, 2012
An Indian Summer Quilt
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Love it, love all those fabrics together. I'm working on something rectangular at the moment, but very scrappy.ReplyDelete
Another lovely quilt, Rita. I really like that you included some liberty fabrics. What a pleasure this one must have been to piece and quilt!!ReplyDelete
Love the colors and love the quilting!ReplyDelete
I love the colors, I love the grid quilting and I always, always love the striped binding! www.paperstarfish.prettyposies.comReplyDelete
There is always something so soothing about grid quilting. The quilt from start to finish looks very well made.ReplyDelete
LOOOOVE the gray striped binding!! <3ReplyDelete
LOve it! Fabric and the quilting is fabulous! Amazing!ReplyDelete
Really beautiful. All the grey fabrics in the FMF line are my most favorites!ReplyDelete
That quilt is really beautiful. It's name could also be Finnish summer Forest. Like forests are at this time of the year, so fresh green and a hint of water between the treesReplyDelete
kind regards From Finland
beautiful fabrics!! real summer!ReplyDelete
hugs from Russia
Beautiful - I think this might be my favourite of all the quilts you share with us. Sorry, 2nd favourite, as I still drool over your Flea Market Fancy Progress III quilt. Have you had that one quilted yet, and if so, are you going to show us how it looks quilted?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 5:43 PM
Hello everyone is talking bout their fabric stash, may we see yours ??? I bet it is colorful!IzzyRReplyDelete
Those fabrics are just so yummy!ReplyDelete
Mean, one has to be quick like a bunny if they want to purchase one of your beauties. Such a beautiful quilt and I love the pattern. Is that pattern you made up on the fly or one that you followed? I love the simplicity of it and would like to replicate it if possible.ReplyDelete
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL, and my favourite colours too!ReplyDelete
Love love love this quilt ~ such wonderful colors ~ so soothing. It would be so nice for our weather over here, it being a really cool Spring.ReplyDelete
It seems to me that everything you touch turns golden. Another beautiful one!ReplyDelete
Truly beautiful! Love the crisscross quilting. Do you machine bind all your quilts? I read your tutorial and it looks more than 2.25 also but it is probably just me!ReplyDelete
I'm amazed just how fast you put quilts out too! I'm so slow!
I really like your color choices here, the quilting is very nice also.ReplyDelete
That is so cute, I love the colors and will have to try quilting like that sometime, probably on something smaller. Very nice!!ReplyDelete
This is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous quilt! I love the colour combination! It's a shame it's sold already *sigh* =DReplyDelete
I am in love with the backing fabric!!!ReplyDelete
Lovely. It hasn't warmed up here at all. I wish it would seeing it is meant to be our summer time in Ireland!ReplyDelete
Lovely quilt. Since I am in the spring part of the world it looks more "Spring" than "Fall". Looks like a great picnic quilt. And the extra amount of quilting only enhances the effect! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Hi Rita,ReplyDelete
I love the greens and blues in this quilt, it's gorgeous!
I appreciate that you're very busy, but I wanted to pick your brains. I was just wondering if you ever have issues with puckering when you sew cross hatch/perpendicular quilting lines like you have with this quilt?
I'm having big issues with it and I'm not sure why...
Do you have any suggestions?
This quilt just makes me smile -- such HAPPY colors!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2012 9:52 PM
Great colour combo - love it!ReplyDelete
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text: The latest draft of the Cyber Security Framework (CSF) mandated by President Barack Obama in February fails to provide an effective battle plan for defending the nation's critical infrastructure, experts say.In favoring a self-regulatory approach with industry, the proposed CSF provides no specific methodologies for securing the industrial control systems (ICS) found in water treatment facilities, power and manufacturing plants and energy pipelines, critics say.The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which Obama put in charge of working with industry in formulating the CSF, published the draft last week.On Wednesday, Ralph Langner, a renowned Hamburg, Germany-based consultant on ICS security, said the application of the CSF as it is written would provide no "measurable cybersecurity assurance.""A fundamental problem of the CSF is that it is not a method that, if applied properly, would lead to predictable results," Langner said on a blog post.Joe Weiss, a leading expert in ICS security and managing partner of Applied Control Solutions, agreed with Langner, saying the CSF draft fails to provide specific ways to achieve security. Instead, NIST is taking a useless "high-level approach" that favors self-regulation over mandates, he said."A high-level framework doesn't do us a hell of a lot of good," he said. "It's not useful at all for someone trying to secure an industrial control system -- period."NIST issued a statement emphasizing that the current document is only a draft and more work is needed."The goal of the framework is to bring together existing standards, policies and best practices into a tool organizations can use to ensure effective cybersecurity," NIST said. "We put out an early discussion draft to ensure that we got feedback -- including positive and negative -- on the framework\u00a0as currently presented. We hope to get active participation from all stakeholders."[Also see:\u00a0Insecure ICS, hacker trends prompt federal warnings]\u00a0In meeting with NIST officials at the RSA conference in February, Weiss drew the conclusion that the organization did not have a "good comprehensive understanding" of ICSs. This lack of knowledge is reflected in the CSF's approach toward determining the level of cyberattack risk faced by an ICS, he said.Rather than analyze risk in terms of cyberthreats, NIST is using the traditional approach of determining risk based on frequency and severity of adverse consequences, Weiss said. This formula does not apply because it fails to take into account the dramatic rise in cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, only the fact that none have been successful."Traditional risk assessment doesn't address malicious intent," Weiss said. "It's that simple."Langner made a similar point in his blog post, saying, "Regardless of the popularity of risk parlance, risk-based approaches in ICS security lack empirical foundation, and the outcome of a risk assessment can be stretched in any direction."'Langner and Weiss also agreed on the ineffectiveness of the CSF proposal letting organizations choose the level of cybersecurity they want to achieve. Allowing a critical infrastructure provider to set its own goals means an organization could choose a level of zero, and "still be conformant with the CSF," Langner said."The CSF allows any organization, no matter how good or bad at cybersecurity, to be CSF-conformant," he said. "It makes everybody happy. Everybody, including potential attackers."NIST is expected to publish the final CSF in February.


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8. august 2018 | Versjon 3.6.0
Bonjour, cela fait deux fois que ma course n'est pas synchronisée sur Strava ?? merci de votre réponse
Scott Thomas
16. mai 2018 | Versjon 3.4.0
I like how this app gives you the option to set so many fields and put them in any order you want. That being said, I have used this app twice and have noticed several things I dislike and would like to see changed. 1. The Start/Stop button on the watch doesn't stop and start the timer on the app. You have to press the Start/Stop button, then press an option from a menu on the watch that says pause activity. I can't stand this as when I'm running and stop to cross the street or get a drink, I don't want to have to remember to do two things to keep an accurate time and pace. not to mention the other options on the menu are Stop and Save or Stop and delete activity. They are all right next to each other making it so you can very easily end a run when you just want to pause or delete a run when you want to Save. When I press the Start/Stop button, I want my timer to start and stop right then. 2. One of the display fields important to me is current lap pace (CL pace) and I have each lap set to 1 mile. I have noticed when I pause an activity and start again, my current lap pace plummets even if I pause the activity while running full speed and start it back up after getting back to full speed. My pace can go from 7:45 per mile to 8:05 per mile almost immediately despite not breaking stride while the watch is running. If I do pause it right when I stop and unpause it right as I start back up, my current lap pace might drop and be off by as much as a full minute per mile and it never seems to fully recover from this error. 3. Another data field important to me is Avg pace which tells me the overall average pace of my current run. If I have Current Lap Pace as one field and Average Pace as another, one would expect these to show the same pace for the entire first lap, but it never does and can be off by a wide margin. By the time I get to the end of a lap, it will usually get close. This causes me to think something is off.
René Driessen
3. april 2018 | Versjon 3.4.0
What can i say? the best running app i know...works very stable...every info what a running want is avaible... The price is cheap for a great product....
Jeff Gayman
17. februar 2018 | Versjon 3.3.1
4. februar 2018 | Versjon 3.3.1
Gerne spende ich für diese tolle App. Ein kleiner Haken: Die positiven Höhenmeter D+ sind extrem falsch. Wie kommt das?
Adam Rykala
28. november 2017 | Versjon 3.3.1
Well worth the money. Clear and easy to read, and delivers the stats!
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15. november 2017 | Versjon 3.3.0a
Please help, after updating Garmin express I can't go to settings on my device. Vivoactive HR
Hiroshi Uda
19. september 2017 | Versjon 3.1.0
プレミアムバージョンにしています。 オートラップ機能が正常に動作していません。 有効にしても無効にしても1マイル毎にラップが切られます。
21. august 2017 | Versjon 3.1.0
Great App for those love running, very helpful and I highly recommend!
12. august 2017 | Versjon 3.1.0
Die Runde wird nicht gespeichert sondern nur das Gesamtergebnis. Nicht zu gebrauchen Schade
Alexander Theiner
27. juli 2017 | Versjon 3.1.0
Firsth i had problems with the garmin connect mobile app for android-devices to setup the data fields (i got an error after saving the settings). Now i am using the pc-program Garmin Express with usb cable and everything works fine and i can save my settings. After using the garmin express syncronisation once also the garmin connect mobile app worked again. So now 5 Stars, App is great
Joop Verdoorn
26. juli 2017 | Versjon 3.1.0
App is improved; really functional now (pace is now better averaged). I had to switch on the registration of daily activities to get cadence, as my HRM-RUN breaststrap didn't generate a cadence in this app. But after I found that out, it was fine
18. mai 2017 | Versjon 3.0.2
Now this is how Garmin should have let you adjust their run app! So many different good stats to see. I wish there were a few more alert options. Seperaye Alert for above/below a set pace instead of just above. Also a little more clarity of what some of the stats are instead of (A maybe avg) LL? M? Thank you for the great app. I can't wait to put lots of miles of testing in.
26. april 2017 | Versjon 3.0.2
Rather than review, I have a question; I am keen to have the following fields, duration, distance, current pace, avg. Pace, heart rate and cadence. Can I configure them or I have to go with the fields given on front screen? Also the difference between free and paid versions
Darby Lewes
23. april 2017 | Versjon 3.0.2
Can't get the premium. Payment went through, but the directions don't work.
20. mars 2017 | Versjon 2.9.1
Na endlich. Nun ist die Rundenzeitanzeige sehr gut lesbar. Und nach einem zielsicheren Hinweis des Entwicklers (Manual wäre natürlich super) kommt diese auch nach jeder Runde.
Joop Verdoorn
17. mars 2017 | Versjon 2.9.1
On my Garmin 630 cadence isn't displayed in this app, manually starting a new lap doesn't work and the 5 seconds average pace wildly varies. I now use Flexirunner. I am a bit disappointed,though I like the idea/concept.
16. mars 2017 | Versjon 2.9.1
Love it great app and quick response from the developer. I will buy their Road Bike and MTB apps as well. Great job guys!
4. mars 2017 | Versjon 2.9.0
Great layouts. It allows for as much or as little info on the screen as you want. Thanks for implementing the hr color coding. A very responsive developer.
26. februar 2017 | Versjon 2.8.2
I have been using the app for a while now. The free version had some bugs and would not save some of the fields on the screens i wanted. So I took a chance and bought the app and it is great. The screens are flexible and configurable. I love the Pace Req option. So I can see what pace I need to meet my race goal. Over all a good app. The only thing I wish it would do is allow me to control my music. I want to setup a playlist timed with my marathon but I cant start it once the app is running. On the base watch you can start music but I want to start it when I start my race. It works great and I have will recommend it to anyone.


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Jewish World Review May 3, 2012 / 11 Iyar, 5772
By Michael Freund
In our modern political context, many people are uneasy with the idea that leaders might be influenced by religious or theological belief
JewishWorldReview.com | Though he has yet to appear, Israel's long-awaited Redeemer is very much in the news these days.
From the Sydney Morning Herald down under to the Vancouver Sun up yonder, headlines around the world trumpeted former Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin's charge on Friday that Israel's "messianic" leadership is misleading the public on Iran.
Speaking at a public forum in Kfar Saba, Diskin insisted that an Israeli strike against the Ayatollahs' nuclear installations would not halt Iran's drive to obtain atomic weapons.
He lambasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, attacking them personally and declaring in no uncertain terms that, "I don't believe in the prime minister or the defense minister. I really don't believe in a leadership that makes decisions out of messianic feelings."
Referring to them dismissively as "our two messiahs", Diskin added that "I'm telling you, I've seen them from up close, and they're not messiahs."
The press of course had a field day with all this, lapping up the fact that one of Israel's most senior security establishment figures had taken a swing at his former bosses on such a sensitive issue.
But while much of the attention was focused on the Iranian angle as well as the political ramifications of Diskin's remarks, there is one question that was completely overlooked: When did having a messianic impulse become a bad thing? Or, to put it more succinctly: who's afraid of the Messiah?
To be sure, in our modern political context, many people are uneasy with the idea that leaders might be influenced by religious or theological beliefs.
We like to think that they make cold calculations based purely on an assessment of the overall situation while taking into account nothing other than the national interest.
Clearly, however, that is a naive oversimplification, if only because every leader is also a human being whose decision-making is shaped and influenced by the values, principles and beliefs that he holds.
Furthermore, whether Diskin realizes it or not, it was a messianic world-view that lay the foundation for the birth of this country.
Indeed, as Barak noted when he responded to Diskin's broadside, it was none other than David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who said that Zionism is a messianic movement.
And Theodore Herzl, too, though avowedly secular, was also inspired by messianic hopes.
As the Hebrew University's Prof. Robert S. Wistrich noted in an article entitled "Theodore Herzl: Between Messianism and Politics", the founder of modern-day political Zionism "was attracted to the Messiah legends of the Jews from early adolescence."
A year before his death, Herzl confided to the Hebrew writer Reuven Brainin that he had dreamt as a child of twelve that he would play a leading role in Israel's redemption.
Herzl described the dream as follows: "The King Messiah came, a glorious and majestic old man, took me in his arms and swept off with me on the wings of the wind. On one of the shining clouds we encountered the figure of Moses . . . The Messiah called to Moses: 'It is for this child that I have prayed!' And to me he said: 'Go and declare to the Jews that I shall come soon and perform great wonders and great deeds for my people and for the whole world!'"
In light of this, would Diskin now express a lack of confidence in Herzl and Ben-Gurion and their achievements?
The fact is that since the dawn of time, Jews have believed in the coming of the Messiah, anxiously awaiting his arrival and hoping for the better world that he will usher in.
As the late scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem noted in his groundbreaking work, The Messianic Idea in Judaism, "Judaism, in all of its forms and manifestations, has always maintained a concept of redemption as an event which takes place publicly, on the stage of history and within the community."
Three times daily, Jews appeal to the Creator to send the Messiah. In the Amida prayer, we say, "May the offshoot of your servant David soon flower . . . for we await Your salvation all day."
And every Sabbath, a special prayer for the State of Israel authorized by the Chief Rabbinate is recited by many the world over. It states, "Our Father in Heaven, Israel's Rock and Redeemer, bless the State of Israel, the first flowering of our redemption."
The messianic urge, and the hope inherent to it, is in part what kept the Jewish people alive throughout the ages.
Staring long and hard at the horrors of exile, it was the dream of a brighter future that sustained our ancestors through their darkest hours and gave them a reason to carry on.
As Jews, we are expected to believe with complete faith that even if he tarries, the Messiah will yet come.
For Diskin to deride this creed is appalling and he should be ashamed of himself for mocking one of the fundamental doctrines of Judaism.
But let him say whatever he wishes. I, along with countless other Jews, will continue to long for the day when, as the prophet Isaiah (51:11) put it, "those the L-rd has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing and everlasting joy will crown their heads.Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away." May it happen soon.
Pastor Ken Blue was born in Boswell, Ark. In 1955 he accepted Christ as his Savior. He and his wife Joyce were married in 1955. They have 5 children. He graduated from Midwestern Baptist Bible College in 1969 and started the Open Door Baptist Church in Lynnwood, Wa. where he pastored for 39 years. Because of health issues (ALS) he was forced to resign as pastor. It is his desire to continue to be used of God to help pastors and believers through this ministry.


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Elizabeth B. Edelen, a retired businesswoman who enjoyed working as a TV and movie extra, died July 5 of complications after surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She was 85.
The daughter of an advertising executive and a homemaker, Elizabeth Bacon was born in Baltimore and raised in Walbrook.
She was a 1945 graduate of Trinity High School in Ellicott City and earned a nursing degree in 1948 from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing.
Mrs. Edelen worked as a pediatric nurse for a year at what is now Mercy Medical Center before marrying James G. Edelen Jr. in 1949.
"She then stayed home and raised her five children," said a daughter, Elizabeth "Betsy" Gemmill of Cockeysville.
In the 1970s, she and her husband attended what is now Loyola University Maryland, where they earned their bachelor's degrees in 1977.
Also, during the 1970s, she worked as an assistant to her husband, who was the president of the J.G. Edelen Co., a furniture hardware manufacturing and distributing company. She was a member of the company's board.
The Morning Sun
A member of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Mrs. Edelen worked as an extra in many TV shows and movies, including "Homicide: Life on the Streets" and "The Wire."
The nearly 60-year resident of Mount Washington also appeared in print and TV advertisements.
Mrs. Edelen was an avid reader and a member of the Johns Hopkins Club and the Country Club of Maryland.
She attended Mass at Villa Assumpta, the motherhouse of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, in the Woodbrook neighborhood of Baltimore County.
Services are private.
In addition to her husband and daughter, Mrs. Edelen is survived by her son, James G. Edelen III of Timonium; three other daughters, Sarah Cocco of Towson, Nancy Slacum of Rodgers Forge and Anne Elko of Delta, Pa.; a brother, Robert N. Bacon of Tampa, Fla.; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.


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MINNEAPOLIS -- Jason Marquis spent his entire 12-season career in the National League before becoming a free agent this offseason. With the Minnesota Twins in need of a fifth starter, he figured he'd give the other circuit a try.
Marquis agreed to a $3 million, one-year contract with the Twins on Thursday, and now he's eager to take his sinker -- and his dangerous bat -- to the American League full-time.
"Other than trying to lobby for some at-bats, I don't think it's going to change much," Marquis said.
Well, he won't have the pitcher's spot in the lineup to face once every nine hitters, but he will get to pitch at spacious Target Field, which has been one of the most difficult parks to hit a homer in during its first two seasons of existence.
In the end, the Twins were looking for a veteran to help stabilize the back end of a shaky rotation. They went with Marquis, who missed the last month and a half of last season with a broken right leg after he was hit by a line drive.
The 33-year-old Marquis went 8-5 with a 3.95 ERA for the Washington Nationals last season before being traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks on July 30. The right-hander was 0-1 with a 9.53 ERA in three starts for Arizona.
"He's a groundball machine and he throws the ball over the plate," Twins general manager Terry Ryan said.
Marquis actually walks 3.5 batters per nine innings, which is a little on the high side, especially by Twins standards. But the sinkerballer induces a ton of grounders, and the Twins were looking for somebody to come in after they traded Kevin Slowey to the Rockies so they could move left-handed starter Brian Duensing to the bullpen.
Ryan said that signing Marquis didn't necessarily mean Duensing was moving to the 'pen, but it's clear that is the team's preference. If everyone is healthy coming out of spring training, the Twins think that is the best scenario.
"If they're all healthy, that certainly fortifies our bullpen," Ryan said.
The expenditure brings the Twins' payroll close to $100 million, which was a soft target the team had before the offseason in its effort to slash about $15 million.
"We're closing in," Ryan said. "We've got a little wiggle room here."
Marquis can earn an additional $500,000 in performance bonuses.


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The 8 core, Apple‑designed Neural Engine is up to 20% faster and uses up to 15% less power. It's a driving force behind the triple‑camera system, Face ID, AR apps, and more.
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Kirk Key has expanded its Eagle Valve Interlock Series, adding bolt interlocking designs to the range of integral valve interlocks. The trapped key interlocking system ensures that workers follow a pre-determined sequence of operation for activating valves in a wide range of industrial settings from manufacturing plants to petrochemical facilities. Eagle Valve Interlocks attach to the valve body without voiding the manufacturer's warranty.
The new bolt interlocking options integrate with Kirk's current Standard Duty, Medium Duty, and Heavy Duty mechanical and electromechanical trapped key interlock series to form a comprehensive safety scheme. With a robust oversized key that cannot be duplicated, the Eagle bolt interlocks enable safety interlocking processes to move smoothly across a range of equipment including valves, breakers, access doors and more.
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