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Alexi Freeman
Legal Externship
Critical Race Reading Seminar
Movement Lawyering Skills Workshop
Social Change Lawyering
Youth Rights Workshop
B.A., 2004, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J.D., 2007, Harvard Law School
Alexi Freeman has a distinguished record working alongside low-income communities and communities of color as a racial justice and legal advocate. Prior to joining Denver Law, Freeman worked as an attorney at Advancement Project, a national civil rights group, where she assisted grassroots organizations across the country on social justice advocacy campaigns around education and juvenile justice policy, housing, and voting rights issues. Freeman continues to support grassroots communities and social justice movements pro bono. At Denver Law, Freeman focuses her efforts inside and outside of the classroom on building a community of students dedicated to pursuing the public good and training the next generation of social justice advocates. She is a member of the National Association of Pro Bono Professionals and serves on the Board of Governors for the Society of American Law Teachers, which is a community of progressive law teachers working for justice, diversity, and academic excellence. Freeman is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard Law School. While at Harvard Law, she was recognized for her work in public interest law and her leadership on campus. She first became interested in issues of racial and social justice as a child growing up in an interracial and interfaith family.
Featured Publications
Positive Disruption: Addressing Race in a Time of Social Change Through a Team-Taught, Reflection-Based, Outward-Looking Law School Seminar, co-authored with Lindsey Webb, 21 U. Pa. J. L. & Soc. Change 121 (2018).
From Symposium to Action: Five Ways for Law Schools to Bridge the Gap Between Students and Marginalized Communities, 94 Denver L. Rev. (forthcoming May 2017).
It's About Power, Not Policy: Rebellious Lawyering for Large-Scale Social Change, co-authored with Jim Freeman, 23(1) Clinical Law Review 147 (2016).
The Pledge for the Public Good: A Student-Led Initiative to Incorporate Morality & Justice in Every Classroom, co-authored with Katherine Steefel, 22 Wash. & Lee J. Civ. Rts. & Soc. Just. 49 (2016).
Pro Bono, Public Interest and More: A Look at a Student-Led Initiative to Elevate the Public Good, co-authored with Katherine Steefel, The Docket, the magazine of the Denver Bar Association (2016).


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For the first time in over five years, the Varsity Reds women's soccer team has been ranked by the CIS in the country's Top Ten.
The Varsity Reds haven't lost a game yet this season, posting five wins and two ties in seven matches. They entered the CIS national rankings this week in tenth position.
The last time UNB women's soccer was in the CIS Top Ten was in 2007, when the team started the season 2-0-0 after the first weekend.
Head coach Jon Crossland says it's a big boost to the program.
"It's great recognition of the progress we've made thus far and of our early season success," he said. "Our continuing goal is to take that into the playoffs and into November."
It's also something his players, who have never known a ranked women's team, started to realize could be a possibility recently.
"They started to chatter about it last week and started taking a look at them a couple weeks ago," Crossland said.
He's hoping this inspiration and confidence boost will keep the team riding on a high.
The Varsity Reds play their next home game on October 5 at 1pm when they host Dalhousie.
Full rankings are as follows:
(regular season record) / votes / (previous ranking)
1. Trinity Western (5-0-1) / 44 points / (3) *
2. Ottawa (9-1-0) / 44 / (4)
3. Laval (7-1-0) / 32 / (10)
4. York (9-1-1) / 31 / (2)
5. Montreal (5-1-2) / 25 / (1)
6. Victoria (5-0-1) / 23 / (9)
7. Western (9-1-0) / 22 / (6)
8. Wilfrid Laurier (8-1-1) / 21 / (7)
* Trinity Western (over Ottawa) was awarded the higher ranking based on its higher ranking a week ago.
Other teams receiving votes: Fraser Valley (4), Calgary (2).
With files from Canadian Interuniversity Sport
About Canadian Interuniversity Sport
Canadian Interuniversity Sport is the national governing body of university sport in Canada. Every year, over 11,500 student-athletes and 700 coaches from 56 universities and four regional associations vie for 21 national championships in 12 different sports. CIS also provides high performance international opportunities for Canadian student-athletes at Winter and Summer Universiades, as well as numerous world university championships. For further information, visit www.cis-sic.ca


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WASHINGTON, March 8 - He has gone out of his way not to crow, or even to take direct credit. But not quite two years after he began the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, and not quite two months after a second Inaugural Address in which he spoke of "ending tyranny," President Bush seems entitled to claim as he did on Tuesday that a "thaw has begun" in the broader Middle East.
At the very least, Mr. Bush is feeling the glow of the recent flurry of impulses toward democracy in Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon and even Egypt and Saudi Arabia, where events have put him on a bit of a roll and some of his sharpest critics on the defensive. It now seems just possible that Mr. Bush and aides like Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz were not wrong to argue that the "status quo of despotism cannot be ignored or appeased, kept in a box or cut off," as the president put it in a speech at the National Defense University here.
The failure to find unconventional weapons in Iraq, his administration's shifting rationales for the war, the lingering insurgency and steady American casualties there were a drag on Mr. Bush's political fortunes for most of last year. But a wave of developments since the better-than-expected Iraqi elections in January -- some perhaps related and others probably not -- have brought Mr. Bush a measure of vindication, which may or may not be sustained by events and his own actions in the months to come.
"By now it should be clear that decades of excusing and accommodating tyranny in the pursuit of stability have only led to injustice and instability and tragedy," Mr. Bush said on Tuesday. "It should be clear that the advance of democracy leads to peace, because governments that respect the rights of their people also respect the rights of their neighbors."
His two predecessors in the Oval Office, his father and Bill Clinton, both spoke of the latest signs of progress in an appearance at the White House. The first President Bush was restrained, pronouncing himself "very pleased," but cautioning that much work remained to be done.Continue reading the main story
Mr. Clinton was more ebullient, noting that the Iraqi elections "went better than anyone could have imagined." In Lebanon, he said, "the Syrians are going to have to get out of there and give the Lebanese their country back, and I think the fact that the Lebanese are in the street demanding it is wonderful."
Asked about huge demonstrations on Tuesday, sponsored by Hezbollah, that demanded just the opposite, Mr. Clinton said: "I find it inconceivable that most Lebanese wouldn't like it if they had their country back. You know, they want their country back and they ought to get it."
For his part, Mr. Bush himself again acknowledged that building democracy in the Middle East will require a "generational commitment."
One senior White House aide, speaking on condition of anonymity so as not to overshadow his boss, acknowledged as much. "Obviously, the acts of courage we've seen in Iraq, Afghanistan, the demonstrations that happened in the Ukraine and now in Lebanon, these are very inspiring developments that have obviously caught the notice of the president," he said. "But this is very complicated stuff, and there are a lot of turns left on this journey, and the president at every step of the way has always cautioned it's going to be a difficult road."
Still, even as sharp and consistent a critic of Mr. Bush's foreign policy as Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, gives Mr. Bush some credit for the latest stirrings of liberty along the eastern Mediterranean.
"What's taken place in a number of those countries is enormously constructive," Mr. Kennedy said on Sunday on the ABC News program "This Week." "It's a reflection the president has been involved."
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut and a frequent ally of Mr. Bush on national security affairs, was in the audience for his speech on Tuesday and was more effusive.
"Look, this moment in the Middle East has the feel of Central and Eastern Europe around the collapse of the Berlin Wall," he said in a telephone interview. "It's a very different historical and political context, and we all understand that democracy in the Middle East is in its infancy. But something is happening."
Mr. Lieberman said Mr. Bush deserved credit for at least two things: the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the continued American military presence in Iraq, which he said showed "the proven willingness of the United States to put its power behind its principles."
Indeed, Mr. Bush cast the United States' current posture in a long, bipartisan tradition of American foreign policy, from Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, Harry S. Truman's Marshall Plan and Ronald Reagan's unwillingness to accept Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe.
Mr. Bush's sharp demand on Tuesday that "all Syrian military forces and intelligence personnel must withdraw" from Lebanon before the scheduled elections there in May, if the elections themselves are to be viewed as fair, was a sign that he has every intention of pressing what he sees as his advantage in the region and in the court of world opinion -- whether he describes it that way in public or not.
Still, there are real and practical dangers in the passions recently unleashed in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia's recent limited municipal elections and President Hosni Mubarak's announcement that he will permit multiparty presidential elections in Egypt this fall are indisputably encouraging to would-be reformers here and there.
But full and genuine democratic elections in either country might well result in strongly anti-American governments.Continue reading the main story


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it was last September that I was bemoaning the fact that any activity that was bringing new music my way via glasswerk had all but dried up as I posted the last couple of live reviews
so I finally took it upon myself to knock out a couple of reviews, both of which i have some personal investment in.
first up was the debut EP from a fledgling North London record label, that just so happens to be run by a couple of Enfield lads that I have crossed paths with a number of times, from their time performing together in Those Handsome Animals, and also separately in Retro Crooks and The Waterloos in the golden age of Enfield's live music scene.
but that is all in the past now, and they are now concentrating their efforts on sniffing out new talent as Njord and releasing limited edition cassettes with a lo-fi feel.
Connecticut born solo artist, Gift Lions, has the honour of kicking off their release schedule with 5 tracks that shimmer and glow with a nostalgic warmth, but you better move fast if you want to covet the physical format, as only 100 copies of the cassette release are in existence
Gift Lions review here
the second was a look at the latest single to be released by Akira The Don, who I have never shied away from heaping praise upon.
We Won't Be Broke Forever Baby, has long been a personal favourite of mine, teased out at occasional live performances long before being committed to record, featuring on the sophomore effort, The Life Equation and gaining itself a single release
Akira The Don review here
and with these two recent reviews under my belt I gathered up a bunch of contact details from promo CDs and sent out the feelers to see if anyone out there would like to send some new music my way
and some people did, I was rather disappointed with the bland Burning Shapes, rather more impressed with the subtle hip-hop head-nodder from Niko (which, due to technical difficulties, had to be reposted in April) and also gave the seal of approval to the debut album from film makers and art-collective turned musicians, Breton.
The press release may have been full of hot air in order to push the band's high-brow and artistic nature to anyone that would listen, but when the music was allowed to speak for itself it showed a highly diverse and post-modern collection of songs that may look set to infiltrate the public consciousness via car commercials if any advert executives spot this bands crossover potential, but don't hold that against them
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Investigative journalist, Jack Newfield (1938-2004), made a career out of exposing abuses of power in his native New York City. Born in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesent, Newfield lived most of his adult life in Greenwich Village, New York. After graduating from Boys' High School, he attended Hunter College, earning a degree in journalism in 1961. Newfield, a supporter of and participant in the civil rights movement, spent two nights in a Mississippi jail in 1963 after his arrest at a sit-in.
The next year, Newfield joined the
Newfield then joined the
In addition to his career as a newspaper journalist, Newfield wrote many books, among
which the most prominent include:
Newfield traveled with Robert Kennedy during his presidential campaign in the late
1960s and was present at Kennedy's assassination in 1969. Drawing on his close
relationship with Kennedy, Newfield wrote and published
Other books written by Newfield include:
Jack Newfield considered himself a participatory journalist, deeply involved in politics and advocacy. He investigated and reported but also championed his causes and criticized and named his adversaries. His articles often affected change by influencing policy, policymakers, and other media. Notable examples include the creation of a law banning the use of lead paint in apartments, changes in campaign finance laws, the prosecution of corrupt nursing home owners, and the enforcement of regulations to protect the frail and elderly in nursing homes. Furthermore, his series of articles on Bobby McLaughlin, who was wrongly convicted for murder, led to McLaughlin's exoneration and release from prison in 1986. Newfield was still writing and working when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer in September 1986. He died on December 21, 2004, at the age of 66.
www.jacknewfield.com. "About." www.jacknewfield.com. http://www.jacknewfield.com/about.html (accessed August 4, 2010).
Amateau, Albert. "Jack Newfield, 66, journalist, Villager, club
Barrett, Wayne. "Jack Newfield, 1938-2004."
Shudel, Matt. "Muckraking N.Y. Reporter Jack Newfield Dies at 66."
Newspaper clippings, correspondence, notes, legal documents, drafts, manuscripts, galley proofs, diaries, appointment/date books, annotated books, audiovisual material, and photographs comprise the Jack Newfield Papers, 1910, 1932-2005 (bulk 1964-2005), and document Jack Newfield's career as an investigative journalist and author.
Newfield's research files compose the bulk of the papers and consist mainly of
annotated newspaper clippings and correspondence. In the instances where a subject
became an article, the file also includes his annotated typescript notes and drafts.
Because the collection spans Newfield's entire career, the contents of a file will
often extend over several decades. The research files constitute source material for
many of his books as well as for articles published in the
The series concerning Newfield's writings documents the creation and development of his articles, speeches, and books as well as his involvement in various radio, television, and film projects. To varying degrees, the papers contain material for all of his books and film projects, including notes, galley proofs, scripts, correspondence, and manuscripts. Newfield's personal papers contain legal documents and depositions; material concerning awards and recognition; calendars and appointment books; and his diaries from 1981, 1989, and 1995 to 2004. His correspondence consists of a small amount of personal correspondence from 1991 to 2004 and fan mail from the 1960s to 2000. Photographs in the papers depict Newfield, his family, Robert Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Mario Cuomo, John Gotti, Don King, and David Dinkins. The remainder of the collection contains the collected writings of others and audiovisual material, including videotapes, audiocassettes, and micro cassettes.
Forms part of the News Media History collection.
Jack Newfield wrote folder titles and at times extensive notes on the front of his file folders. All of Newfield's files were placed in new acid-free folders, but the original folders were also retained in each file. Folder titles reflect Newfield's original labeling. In the case of unnamed folders, unclear titles, or illegible writing, the archivist created folder titles, which are indicated by brackets.
1. Jack Newfield Papers, Part 1
The collection is open for research use.
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and the University of Texas at Austin assumes no responsibility.
This collection is stored remotely. Advance notice required for retrieval. Contact repository for retrieval.
Some material has been separated to the Artifact Collection. Contact repository for more information.
Jack Newfield Papers, 1910, 1932-2004, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
This collection was processed by Ed Sevcik, Courtney Chartier, Javier Franco Garza, and Lauren Goodley, May 2007. Subsequent revisions were made by Megan Mummey, August 2010.


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Mark Cavendish (Team Sky) has a strong chance of making history and becoming the first British rider since Barry Hoban in 1974 to win Gent-Wevelgem. On the start line in Deinze he talked about his childhood memories of watching the race on television, adding that this is one of the most historic races any rider can win.
Cavendish will be hoping that the race stays together and that a sprint will decide the outcome. He's not the only sprinter in the race with those aspirations but Cavendish's condition will be key to his chances.
After an off-day in Milan-San Remo and a crash in Dwars door Vlaanderen – which he is still feeling the effects of – Gent-Wevelgem will be another true test of the World champion's credentials.


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Ingar Krauss – 'Nature Morte'
Ingar Krauss's series 'Nature Morte' is an ongoing project started in 2010 of still life 'portraits' of vegetables, fruits, grains, flowers and animals.
"I am interested in the hidden relationship between the inner life of human beings and the world of plants and animals and I want to transmute those commonplace subjects by a process of replacing inattention with contemplation."
Krauss prints in black and white and subsequently paints every photo with a transparent oil paint by attributing to the images a nostalgic vein in the romantic tradition (the paint, very diluted, does not cover the image but colors it subtly).
To date 39 images are collected in a photo book published by Hartmann Books.
If you want to learn more about the series, read the artist's interview for Fine Dining Lovers.


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Spending a couple weeks in Mallorca training. Mornings on the open road evenings on the track. Can't complain
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Not Quite Off Season (Part 2)
One week after returning from Europe I was in Colorado Springs to stay at the Olympic Training Center (OTC) for a two week long women's team pursuit camp. I was super excited to be going to this camp. Team USA has been putting on a series of women's team pursuit camps to begin their prep for Rio 2016. I missed out on the first camp because it conflicted with Cascade Stage Race. The second camp was going to conflict with my Europe trip so I was invited to come a few days early to get some one on one practice time in and then attend a few days of the second camp before heading off to Europe. This third camp was perfect for me, I could focus on the camp and not be worried about the training time I need to get in to maintain my road fitness. So what is a typical day at team pursuit camp?
5:30am wake-up
5:45am eat some yogurt and cereal you snatched from the cafeteria the night before
5:55am walk over in the below freezing temperatures to the gym
6:00am start some warm-up and stretching drills
6:15am let boot camp begin (box jumps, burpees, push-ups and more… but don't forget the 3 minute minimum plank-off at the end)
7:30am breakfast
9:00am sport psychology
10:00am ride to the track
10:15am ultrasound on quads and calves to check glycogen levels pre-workout
10:45am warm-up
11:00am track session
Sample session
20 minute warm-up
2x half lap team starts
3x 3k team pursuit efforts
1:00pm ultrasound on quads and calves to check glycogen levels post-workout
1:15pm ride back to the OTC
1:30pm lunch
3:30pm afternoon spin
6:30pm dinner
9:00pm get in bed to do it all again
Some times you wonder where did the day go. To be continued…


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Jon Moramarco, the president and CEO of Icon Estates in California, has replaced Christopher Carson at Constellation Europe.
A 12th-generation winemaker, Moramarco joined Canandaigua Wine Company in 1999, and then Icon in 2003. He is on
the board of directors of Winegrowers of Napa County and is a past chairman of the American Vintners Association.
Constellation Brands boss Rob Sands said: Jon brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to Constellation Europe as we continue to implement our international growth strategy.
In a further move, Constellation announced that Icon Estates would be moving to the control of Constellation Wines US. Icon is Constellation's fine-wine division and was formerly known as Franciscan Estates.
Sands added: We believe the change in the US will enable us to enhance our wine business, while retaining the independence and rich heritage of our fine-wine company, Icon Estates.'
Cellar Door, the premium-wine division of Constellation Europe, will fall under the auspices of Constellation's sales and marketing departments.
Amid the restructuring, Marina Gayan MW, Cellar Door's vice president of sales and marketing, will leave the company next month.
Dan Townsend, Constellation's European trading director, said: The 6+ category is an ongoing focus for Constellation Europe, Since the launch of Cellar Door two years ago, Marina and her team have done a tremendous job in putting Constellation's premium portfolio on the map and developing its distribution network.'
Cellar Door's sales team will now report to UK trading director Peter Spencer.


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Tell us a little bit about your research and how you weld the real history in your books to the fictional elements.
It's a bit like building a wall; you have these known historical facts, which are the bricks, and they have to be laid in a certain sequence. The stuff you make up is the cement that holds them together, and that can be thrown in where it fits. As long as it doesn't make the wall unsteady, it can go anywhere.
I start with the big scenes, writing things that I know have to appear in the book somewhere and developing them, sometimes in quite a lot of detail. In 'The Shadow Prince', that means the things which we know happened historically to Perkin -- his adventures in Ireland, his marriage in Scotland, his invasion of England, his capture by Henry VII and so on. That way I have a string of events with large gaps in
between. Then I start to look for what MIGHT have happened in the gaps, and what COULD have happened (and of course what could NOT have happened) and start to work on the ones that look most promising. That's always a lot of fun, and sometimes very rewarding. It can lead to total re-interpretation of why things happened they way they did. I tell the story in the afterword to 'The Shadow Prince' of how I bought two books for a total of 65p, one ('Cod', by Mark Kurlansky, 55p) in an Oxfam shop and the other ('The Columbus Myth' by Ian Wilson) for 10p in the parish jumble sale, and managed to get an enormous amount of information out of them that led to a complete rethink of the plot. They were a rich mine of ideas that in the end led to a complete re-write of the ending.
I also try to think thematically. In 'The Shadow Prince', for example, I had a clear theme of appearance and reality, disguise and role-playing, that ran right through it, so I looked for places where I could build on that or enhance it in some way, which in his case was relatively easy to do and fitted in with what I needed.Then I look for real people whom my protagonist might have met. In 'The Master of Bruges' I was lucky enough to be able to throw in all sorts of disparate historical characters from William Caxton to Richard III, from Charles the Bold to the magician Tremethius. 'The Shadow Prince' is the same (I won't put any spoilers in by telling you who he meets). I think I'm the despair of my editor, who tries to remove my knowing jokes. I managed to keep a couple this time, though (my favourite is on page 69).
What excited you about the fifteenth century and made you want to write The Shadow Prince?
It was the obvious thing to do. Macmillan wanted another book after 'The Master of Bruges', and I didn't really have anything in mind. Then someone suggested a sequel, and I realised that at the end of 'Master' I had left the door open for a follow-up with Prince Richard. The fact that there were big gaps in the story of Perkin Warbeck meant that I had a lot of leeway, the many unanswered or unsatisfactorily answered questions about him meant that I could choose the interpretation I wanted (or needed, as the case may be), and another major factor was that most of the groundwork for the research was already done, as I had covered Flanders and the Wars of the Roses in the first book and many of the same characters were involved with Perkin. I had had so much fun with 'Master' that I looked forward to repeating it -- frequent trips to Belgium, necessitating even more frequent sampling of Flemish beer - you get the picture.
Are you a plotter or a seat-of-the-pants writer? Tell us a bit about your writing process.
As you can tell from the above, I'm probably a bit of both. As at the moment I'm writing historical novels, there are obvious constraints that I have to observe - I can't have impossible things happening, for example, or characters meeting who lived at different times, so there is a clear plotting element to my books. On the other hand, I am constantly looking for new interpretations of history, so I do tend to go off down the highways and byways in search of the odd and the curious. Of course, not all of the stuff I find ends up in the finished manuscript, but enough does to make it worthwhile.
Have you always been a History buff?
Yes. I used to love it at school, but I enjoyed the peripheral bits rather than the political stuff. As a result it was the only O-level I failed, because I spent too long writing on battles rather than treaties, or individual feats of exploration rather than political takeovers -- the adventures of Lewis and Clark rather than the ramifications of the Louisana Purchase, and so on. About forty-five years ago I discovered the joys of historical wargaming, and that led to lots of researching of battles, uniforms, tactics and so on.
I've always enjoyed the sort of story which takes a minor character from history and weaves them into a plot involving major historical characters. I suppose Lew Wallace's 'Ben-Hur' was the first of this type I read as a boy, and then there was Robert Graves' 'I, Claudius'. Then when I was a student George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman' series started to appear, and I decided that if I ever wrote stories, that would be the type I would write. I was chuffed to bits when an earlier reviewer of 'The Master of Bruges' compared it to a Flashman.The biggest difference, though, was caused by retirement. I suddenly had time to work on plotting and writing and researching, and it's no coincidence that I didn't publish my first novel until I was sixty-five. I know many people are able to combine a full-time job with writing, and of course I have enormous respect for them, but I never could. I suppose I was just too lazy. I wrote articles for papers and magazines, but they are just short things you can toss off in an evening and don't impinge on family time, and similarly I wrote schoolbooks, but they were based on the lesson notes I had to write for class, so they didn't take up much time either. Novel writing is a different cauldron of cod altogether.
Do you have a special place to write or a special routine?
If I use the phrase 'book-lined study' then readers will get the wrong idea. I do have a study (a converted bedroom), and it is book-lined in the sense that I have seven enormous bookcases that I've picked up from jumble sales and charity shops and which are filled with an eclectic and completely disorganised host of tomes, but I defy anyone to find anything. (I, on the other hand, am blessed with one of those spatial memories than can recall exactly where I saw something, even if it was four years ago, and go straight to it. Having said that, my glasses are an exception to the rule.) I am an indiscriminately enthusiastic purchaser of books, and buy them far faster than I can read them. I discovered the Hakluyt Society a year ago, and now have about forty of their publications dotted about the room. A couple of them found their way into 'The Shadow Prince' by various circuitous routes.Routine? Perish the thought. I write when I remember to, when the agenbite of inwit pricks (am I using that correctly?) I am extremely disorganised.
What do you hope readers will love about your book?
I think it has a certain swashbucking charm, some humour, and a nice twist in the tale that I find pleasing. History students will, I hope, chuckle at the solutions I have postulated to a number of mysteries. I got a five-star review in the Telegraph soon after publication, and the reviewer seemed to find in the book all the things I hoped were there. If the readers have half as much fun reading it as I did writing it they're (I hope I'm not too presumptuous in using the plural!) in for a good time.
Thank you very much Terence for taking the time to answer my questions, and all the best with
The Shadow Prince.
Terence's other book, The Master of Bruges is also published by Macmillan.


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There are still problems with keyboard shortcuts on User and Tools menus in Vedit 6.2.
It appears that when a shortcut key is pressed, Vedit executes not just the specified key, but also the next key in the keyboard configuration.
This can be easily seen when the menu item calls a macro that displays a dialog box with an input field.
For example, I have the following two lines as last lines in my c.key file:
When I press Alt-Shift-F12, my search_inc2.vdm macro is called.Code:Alt-Shft-F12 [MENU]UA Shft-F4 [MENU]T1
The macro displays a dialog box. In the first text field of the dialog box, there is text T1 already inserted.
If I change the order of the key definitions in .key file, the text inserted in the dialog changes accordingly.
If the key definition is the last one in the .key file, then either:
1. Vedit executes the Newline character, which has the same effect as if OK had been clicked immediately in the dialog, or
2. the input field in the dialog is filled with some xxxxx characters, and then Vedit hangs and has to be killed with Task Manager.
As a workaround, I have added Key_Purge() commands in some of my macros.
But I think this should be fixed in Vedit.


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I am so excited to share my December Daily album cover and foundation pages. I've anticipated this time all year long and it's a little bittersweet that the making of the album has already come and gone. For those of you not familiar with December Daily, you just have to go check out Ali Edwards and her amazingly inspirational December Daily posts. Basically, it is a month long project documenting the 25 days leading up to Christmas (which just happens to be my most favorite time of the year)!!
The cover of my album is completely inspired by Ali's cover from last year . I loved the look of the white circle speciality paper she used so I decided to try to make my own. I just love how it turned out!!
The felt poinsettia with the "December 2012" button is inspired by Nicole Reaves amazing December Daily album.
And here is the "base" of my album. It's prepped and all ready for December 1st to roll around!! I decided to go with 6x8 transparencies inbetween my pages. I had originally planned to make them the same size of the page protectors, but I would have had to use one transparency per page and that was just too costly for me. Using the 6x8 size I was able to get two per transparency. Most of my inspiration came from looking through different albums on Pinterest.
If you made it this far, thanks so much for looking!! I'll be back tomorrow with the remaining pages.
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And the cubbyhole crew have also been hit by the "doom and gloom" mood...yesterday's crafty project...despite a valiant effort...reached the unrescueable stage and landed in the bin...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Another "Deep Breath" Day...
And the cubbyhole crew have also been hit by the "doom and gloom" mood...yesterday's crafty project...despite a valiant effort...reached the unrescueable stage and landed in the bin...
7 comments:
- Elizabeth said...
Hi Kathy, I know, it's been a long time since I left a comment but I had to have a blog break. It's taken me a wee while to get back into the swing of things, just when you are searching for your lost mojo! I blame the weather or, more likely, the drop in temperature ... below zero down here. I think I'd be tempted to put my feet up at your window - the aspect looks lovely, from the inside. Hope the box of Fiskars goodies gets your crafting juices flowing. Have a lovely day whatever you do. Elizabeth xx
- November 9, 2016 at 11:09 AM
- misteejay said...
So glad the Fiskars stuff has arrived safely - you can now breath.
I got soaked on my way to work this morning due to some very inconsiderate drivers speeding through large puddles (the resulting waves would have done a surfer proud). What is it with people these days???
Toni xx
- November 9, 2016 at 12:01 PM
- Linda Simpson said...
What a relief that the parcel has arrived. It sure is cold here too and I hope your mojo returns soon from hibernation.
Linda xxx
- November 9, 2016 at 3:28 PM
- Redanne said...
So pleased that the parcel arrived safely! It is cold here too but none of the promised snow yet, thank goodness... Hope tomorrow is a better day for you too. Hugs, Anne xx
- November 9, 2016 at 8:27 PM
- Sandra H said...
Oooh l'm with you Kath regarding the results for the elections not a happy one less said like you say!! so pleased your parcel arrived and it's wet here not as cold as yesterday windy weather forecast for tomorrow so keep wrapped up sending lots of love x
- November 10, 2016 at 6:55 PM
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- November 12, 2016 at 1:49 AM
- Deb~Paxton Valley Folk Art said...
I totally concur on your assessment of the US elections, what is this world coming too? But thrilled to hear that the parcel made it safely to it's destination and in such record time, way to go UPS! Hope you have warmed up and that your mojo has returned from his walk about, Deb xo
- November 12, 2016 at 4:09 AM


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Tips for Mastering Your Messes
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Annette Pikaart grew up on a 250-acre 1800s farmstead in Ann Arbor, MI, where she learned responsibility, initiative and the value of hard work. She lost little time in applying those lessons and adding another—customer service—as a resident advisor in college, a coordinator of educational programs, an event planner for a caterer and as an office administrator for a marketing firm. Clearly, Annette comes well prepared and brings a steady hand to the helm of the Maestro office.
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A onetime congressional candidate was sentenced Tuesday to six years and eight months in state prison for violating parole by committing identity theft when she was in the Orange County jail, authorities said. She is a former resident of Aliso Viejo.
Delecia Holt, 49, was serving a 708-day jail sentence this year for defrauding Orange County hotels and a Mercedes-Benz dealer, the Orange County district attorney's office said.
While in jail, Holt prepared a false tax return for an Orange County escrow firm, which was one of her original victims in the fraud scheme, prosecutors said.


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Some time ago I signed up for the 6th Do Over Challenge with Jeannie K. Ducik for the first time, and was delighted when I found out I would part of this. The guidelines were as follows: Each of the participants would receive a piece of jewelry that Jeannie made earlier in her career, and must use at least 50% of the Do Over piece in the new design.
Here's the necklace set that I was sent:
Pinterest. After searching through my boards and some new pins, I came across this:
I couldn't find the original site for this pin, because I would love to give credit to the designer. I love this design and the vibrant use of color. Isn't it beautiful? This became my jumping off point. I knew I wanted to use some original beads and recently discovered that Raina of Havana Beads didn't live all that far from me. I messaged her and was delighted to find that I could go meet her and see her gorgeous beads in person. Her studio is located in the colorful Fish House Art Center. Next time I'm definitely going to set aside more time to explore!
I had a lovely time talking to her and seeing not only her beads/focals/creations, but her workspace and some of the projects she was working on. Unfortunately, I didn't take pictures of her beads by themselves but you'll see them in in the design below and in the blog entry tomorrow. After playing with this design several times, here is the final project.
|African Leaf
Here's another look:
Jeannie K Dukic
Penny Houghton
Susan Delaney
Becky Pancake
Therese Frank
Donetta Farrington
Molly Alexander
Mowse Doyle
Renetha Stanziano
Ginger Davis Allman
Kathy Richardson
Christie Murrow (You're Here)
Veralynne Malone
Shai Williams
Beti Horvath
Linda Britt
Miranda Ackerley
Mischelle Andrade
Tracy Stillman
Charlene Bausinger
Deana Hager
Come back tomorrow to see what I made for the Autumn challenge- until then, may your day be filled with splashes and dashes of grace and joy. I'm off to try and finish my first 5K!


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Nentis Nan, he's my man,
I go do im each chanz I gan.
He sicks me down an creans my teed
Wid mabel syrub, tick an' sweed,
An ten he filks my cavakies
Wid choclut cangy-- I tink he's
The grayest nentis in the Ian.
Le's hear free jeers for Nentis Nan.
Le's go to Nentis Nan dooday!
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Problem : Putty Sessions are in the registry.
So we want to edit the registry to insert the new public DNS name after we have started it. ( our intent is to start and stop nightly so we are lazy about picking up the new DNS name )
We can get the dns name from the previous step.
Probably the best way to do this is write and execute a registry .reg file.
Relevant key is
So.... if we do something along the line of exporting the relevant session hive and the substituting in the rest... i.e. like
aws ec2 describe-instances --filters "Name=instance-id,Values=i-xxxx" --quer
y "Reservations[*].Instances[*].{dz:PublicDnsName}" --output text > pdn1.out
set /p myvar=
echo "HostName"="%myvar%" >> update.reg
type lastpart.in >> update.reg
Sub in the relevant instance-id and then run update. reg .... also don't forget to edit the registry if you want to divert X window tunnels etc for Vnc desktop , you need the internal IP for that though so a slightly different call but should not be excessive.
If you wanted to make that easy you could run it up as a .bat with admin rights to avoid the UAC prompt but .. as I said... exercise for the reader !


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I just picked up the pattern at JoAnn's and I was wondering did you paper piece it or did you rotter cut the fabric? Was it large enough for a lap quilt? I was thinking about adding a few more rows it the pattern.
I thought it would be a cool quilt to do for my son.


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If I want to translate same application. unzip the apk file,
just edit the resources.arsc file ?
I get some error after repackage it, and install .
Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_UNEXPECTED_EXCEPTION]
Anyone knows why ??
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19th November 2014
Lookers Volkswagen in Teesside are piloting a late night car servicing facility as part of their strategy to provide customers with a service when it's convenient to them. The showroom will now be open until 2am Monday-Thursday to allow customers to get their car serviced outside normal working hours. Customers can now get a servicing, MOT or advice from the technicians who are onsite until the until 2am four days a week.
The new late night opening hours are in response to growing consumer needs, with the majority of people now making online purchases outside of normal working hours there is a demand for customers to have instant response, which can be difficult in the automotive industry as the most showrooms and servicing facilities operate during normal working hours. Lookers want to be able to offer their customers the flexibility to choose when they want a servicing or MOT without restricting them to limited hours.
To coincide with this Lookers Volkswagen have also launched a new innovative video health check for all vehicles brought into their workshops which allows the customer to see what the technician sees during their inspection.
Speaking about Lookers Volkswagen new opening hours Simon Horabin Regional Brand Director said "We are always striving to give Volkswagen customers a quality aftercare experience that matches the renowned high standards of the cars themselves, and we are pleased that these extended opening hours will help us to deliver good old-fashioned customer service above and beyond what is normally expected."


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Winnipeg, MB R2V 3C5
Be the first Weblocal.ca user to add photos or videos of Asia City Asian Bistro & Express
Everytime I go there with siblings, we just have to get bubble tea. It's delicious!! If you haven't tried bubble tea there, you have too!! It's GREEAAAAT!!
When we went there the first time, food took atleast an hour before it arrived. Then the second time I went there with my husband, the waitress, I remember her name, Annie, we were calling her and she knows that we were waiting for her but she just kept on passing by without even looking or acknowledging our presence, she was really very rude and when she was infront of us she even shouted to the cashier that she doesn't have time to attend to us because there's a lot of customers, but when you check the place only 4 or 5 tables were occupied that time. It took a while before we decided to just leave and go to a different restaurant instead. Worst customer service ever!!!
Tagged Asian food, bubble tea, chinese, japanese, maples, Thai, winnipeg
Asia City Asian Bistro & Express offers these services: restaurant.
Asia City Asian Bistro & Express is a restaurant that serves Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese cuisines. This bistro not only offers a variety of soups, salads, starters and noodles, but also serves beef, chicken, steaks and seafood cooked in different styles.The bubble tea served here must be given a try. The prices are reasonable, and you have the option of eating in or taking your food to go.


text: Badawi's initial sentence was seven years and 600 lashes, but this was increased in may 2013 to ten years and 1,000 lashes The planned flogging of a Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam has been delayed for a second straight week, a leading international rights group has said, a move that comes amid mounting pressure from Saudi Arabia's Western allies for authorities to cancel the punishment. The London-based Amnesty International said on Thursday that about eight doctors carried out medical tests on Raif Badawi, 31, and recommended that he not be flogged this Friday. Saudi authorities postponed his flogging last week after a doctor concluded that his wounds from the first 50 lashes had not yet healed, according to Amnesty. His public flogging on January 9 in the city of Jeddah led to an outpouring of international condemnation. Both the US State Department and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on authorities to rescind the punishment. Sweden's Foreign Ministry summoned Saudi Arabia's charge d'affaires on Monday to protest against the flogging. Badawi was arrested in 2012 after writing articles critical of Saudi Arabia's clerics on a liberal blog he created, which has since been shut down. He was found guilty of breaking Saudi Arabia's technology laws and insulting Islamic religious figures through his blog. He was sentenced in 2013 to seven years in prison and 600 lashes, but after an appeal the judge stiffened the punishment in May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes. Badawi was also fined 1 million Saudi riyals, about $266,000. Amnesty, which is campaigning for his release, says the lashes were scheduled to be administered over 20 weekly sessions, with 50 lashes each week. Badawi's wife and three children have moved to Canada. Badawi's lawyer, Waleed Abul-Khair, is serving a 15-year sentence for "undermining regime officials," "inciting public opinion" and "insulting the judiciary." SOURCE: AP Politics Human Rights Middle East Saudi Arabia Internet


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Termite Identification:
Unlike most other insects, termites live in colonies. These colonies can range from just a few individuals to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions. California is home to at least 23 species, and can fall under subterranean, dampwood, or drywood classifications. Termites feed on cellulose, mainly wood. Dampwood and drywood termites build their nests in wood rather than soil. While subterranean do need access to soil to make their nests.
Termites pose a great hazard to wooden structures, as well as furniture and other wood products. Each year termites cost Americans over $5 billion in damages, most of the time not covered by homeowner's insurance. The presence of termites can have huge implications for the sale of your home, and many lenders require a termite bond from homebuyers.
Termite Infestations:
Signs of termites can vary depending on the type of termite being dealt with. Swarms of winged subterranean species can be seen in the spring, summer or fall. They also produce "shelter tubes," which are a combination of dirt and saliva that they have formed as passageways they use to travel from nest to food source. Wood that they have compromised is usually thin at the surface and easily punctured with an object. Drywood termites are usually harder to find evidence of, and live deep inside the wood they feed on and nest in. During summer and fall, however, flying drywood termites can be spotted during daytime hours.


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Born in Japan. I ran track in junior high and high school, mostly shorter distances, and I did not call myself a runner back then. I have lived most of my adult life in northern California and now live in San Francisco. Found love of distance running when I ran my first half marathon in 2006 and finished in 1:53:39. A month later, I started to train for San Francisco Marathon with San Francisco AIDS Foundation group. And the rest was history. I also re-discovered joy of running on track at my first Gay Games in Köln, Germany, and have been training with San Francisco Track and Field Club since then. As soon as Boston Marathon is done, I switch gears and start training for track events. My focus is 1,500m or a Mile with 400m and 800m as potential double when schedule and my energy level allow. I have had plenty of injuries, and I am in the recovery mode. It's been slow going but believing I can come back the level I was a couple of years ago.
When I am not running, I am a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Product Management professional in the technology industry. Also, I love photography and have a separate photo blog going. I'd love to learn sports photography, especially capturing runners but it's been hard, because I am usually running. =)
Personal best
By nature, I am not competitive person, but when I am racing, I want to give the best I've got and see the results of my training. As of this writing, my PBs (or PRs for Personal Records) are:
Marathon – 3:10:56 in Sacramento – December 2011
Half Marathon – 1:25:10 in Oakland – March 2012
10K road – 39:36 in Köln – August 2010
5K road – 19:10 in Oakland – October 2011
5,000m track – 18:32 in Köln – August 2010
Mile – 5:05.00 in Hayward – July 2012
1,500m – 4:44.5 in San Mateo – May 2012
800m – 2:13.75 in Davis – June 2012
400m – 57.61 in Hayward – July 2012
Discus Throw – 23.78m in San Francisco – August 2011
Shot Put – 8.62m in San Francisco – August 2011
See my race history on Athlinks.
2015 Races
Due to several injuries, I spent most of the second half of 2013 and first several months recovering. I am getting back into the swing of things, but it takes time. Following is what I am planning to compete this year. Let's see how it goes.
4/20 – Boston Marathon – My 5th Boston Marathon. Had to skip a year but glad to be going back!
6/20 – Pride Track and Field Meet – Hosted by our own San Francisco Track & Field Club.


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update-apt-xapi causes Wordpress server to run out of memory
Hi there,
A couple of weeks ago I started getting an error on wordpress (Error establishing a database connection) and I just checked my site and it is down again.
After logging into the control panel console I see an error somthing along the lines of "Out of memory - Killing process 556 update-apt-xapi"
This has happened a few times and causes the site to get knocked offline.
What can I do to resolve this?


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Aww mushy stuffs X)
Anyways let's get on to why you guys are really here... NAILS! The last prompt of the 31 Day Challenge 2014 is Honor Nails You Love. I knew exactly what I was going to do before I even started this challenge. Sarah from Chalkboard Nails has always been an inspiration to me. Her blog is actually the very first nail art blog I ever found and she is the reason that I decided to start blogging. Everything that she does is flawless, and I'm not just saying that, go check her out and you'll see what I mean! And not only is she a talented artist, she's also one of the nicest people I have ever "met" (hypothetically speaking anyways ;)) I've got to say she actually followed me the other day on Instagram and I did the biggest happy dance ever! Among many of the awesome designs she does, she did a distressed nail art look (with tutorial) that I've been drooling over forever! So I decided to recreate it, with a few different colors, for this prompt!
I started off with a base of Essie Blanc. When it was dry I followed her tutorial to create the distressed look with Lime Crime Lavendairy, China Glaze Too Yacht To Handle, OPI Push & Pur-Pull, and Wet n Wild Black Creme. I sealed everything in with some Essie Good To Go and that was it!
I'm so happy I chose this design to recreate because I am in love! It just looks so fun and punk-ish.... I almost even feel like a bad-ass.... almost ;)
But for real guys I recommend you checking out Sarah over at Chalkboard Nails if you haven't yet, you won't be disappointed!!
It's your turn now! Post a link to your 31DC2014 day 31 nails in the comments so I can check them out!
Thanks loves :)


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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Trailer 2: Comedy, Action, Drama, & Dubstep
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back in theaters August 8, 2014 for a rebooted live-action film, and they're back online today with a second trailer, presumably set to run in front of fellow Michael Bay extravaganza, Transformers: Age of Extinction when it opens this week.
In the trailer, the comedy aspect of the TMNT franchise is emphasized, including getting a shot and a line or two from Will Arnett for the first time and a joke at Michael Bay's own expense, referencing an early draft of the movie. There's also a couple of good looks at Splinter, more on the new transform-a-Shredder, some major plot hints (verging on spoilers), and plenty of action with a dubstep track straight out of two years ago's video game trailers.
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Reuters, 10:50 AM:
Democrats' win alone won't drive Rumsfeld out
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the face of U.S. war policy and a lightning rod for critics worldwide, will not be forced out just because he faces a tougher time from resurgent Democrats.
"He's not resigning," said one of those officials. "He's best when he's criticized."
Bloomberg, 1:02 PM:
Rumsfeld Resigns as Defense Secretary, Official Says


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Wow, what an extraordinary couple of days! Dusty Petals was fortunate enough to receive an exclusive invitation to the launch of Highpoint Shopping Centre's new $300 million expansion. I must say that Highpoint's new development is incredible. There is a very fresh, clean and inviting vibe that just makes me want to explore the fabulous retailers.
Architects for the project, The Buchan Group drew inspiration from the local area, with particular design elements inspired by the near by Maribyrnong River (architecturally designed floating roof) and Highpoint's history as a bluestone quarry (use of bluestone throughout the new section).
The sustainability considerations given throughout the design and construction phases have to also be acknowledged and The Buchan Group (architects), Probuild (construction) and Highpoint must be commended for these efforts.
Highpoint now boasts over 500 stores, 7000 car spaces, new parenting rooms, a fresh food market and an Eco Mall. If that doesn't impress you Highpoint is now the first Australian shopping centre to house Zara and Topshop under the same roof!
I celebrated the launch by doing some serious shopping. First stop was Topshop! I'll share my new purchases from the day in an upcoming post. I think you are going to like them.
My morning was filled with pampering by the Highpoint team which included scrumptious food and a well executed opening ceremony lead by the wonderful Carrie Bickmore. The ceremony also featured the extremely long legged Megan Gale who helped open the new David Jones store.
In the afternoon it was again time to return to Highpoint for an evening of fashion parades hosted by the gorgeous Poppy Dinsey, founder of WIWT.com. I was so excited to meet Poppy, I love her looks on wiwt.com and it was so nice to see her in person. I encourage you to check out her site here: WIWT.COM
I'll now let the pictures do all the talking. Below I have photographed all of the fun that took place. I have also included some illustrations sharing Dusty Petals celebrations of the launch of Highpoint's new fashion mall.
I have chosen some of my favourite F/W trends and styled some looks based around them with products from Highpoint Shopping Centre below.
|Images courtesy of Style.com
|Images courtesy of Style.com
|Images courtesy of Style.com
Thank you Highpoint for inviting Dusty Petals to share such a wonderful new development. I know where I'll be spending my weekends....sorry credit card!
Thank you Kathryn Wilkins for turning my vision into brilliant illustrations.


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If you have a Pinterest, I'd love to connect and let me know what your favorite things are to pin.
My top five are...
1. Heartbeat Magazine Board, I enjoy finding all the heart pictures and repin them here.
2. Delicious Food, I save all the recipes that I think I'd someday have fun making for my family or for a party.
3. Crafty, this board has my all time highest pins, I guess I love being crafty!
4. Favorite Quotes, I find inspirational quotes a perfect way to get motivated and I love being able to save them on this board.
5. Favorite Places & Spaces, I dream of someday visiting these beautiful locations or creating an amazing outdoor space.


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As part of its regional expansion plan, OMD has opened its newest office in the Sharq district of the Kuwaiti capital. This will enable the marketing performance company to better meet the growing needs of current and future clients in Kuwait and strengthen its relationships with its local stakeholders further.
As well as several regional advertisers, OMD manages a growing portfolio of Kuwaiti clients, including the recent addition of Al Babtain Group, whose businesses include the Nissan, Infiniti and Renault dealerships. The new office provides all of OMD's services, from insights to planning, from buying to performance marketing and from content marketing to advanced analytics, across the full spectrum of brand communications.
The new office is headed by Tro Taslakian, a 15-year veteran of the media industry. A long-term resident in Kuwait, he has progressed from assistant planner in 2001 to acting GM of a leading media agency in Kuwait, working on both local and international brands in a wide range of sectors. These include automotive, confectionery, casual dining and food products. Taslakian reports to Wissam Najjar, OMD's regional managing director for the Lower Gulf, Levant and Emerging Markets.
"Tro has an impeccable track-record that combines technical expertise with local fluency. He is ideally placed to ensure OMD's product blends international best practice and local relevance, two key contributors to performance," explained Wissam Najjar. "Kuwait is not a new market to us as such and we believe that it does and will continue to offer exciting opportunities, both for local advertisers and beyond. This direct presence ensures that our team in Kuwait is fully empowered to stimulate growth for its clients' brands. After our opening in Qatar a couple of years ago, this is the latest step in a broader expansion plan for the OMD network in the Middle East."
"Kuwait has a lot of ambition and companies here have long demonstrated their talent in achieving success at home and abroad. We're designed to support them in these endeavors and play a significant part in their growth," Taslakian commented. "As clients' needs and market dynamics evolve, our agility and responsiveness make us the ideal partners for ambitious brands. OMD's cutting-edge approach and expertise will be a great addition to the market."
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
"Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had."


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Aperture Tutorial - The Image Interface - Part 4
I'm continuing on with my tutorials of Aperture and this time I am going into detail on the Image Interface where most of your work will be spent in organizing photos. The main use of this is to see all of your photos. I will go into detail on all of the features of each of the buttons. You can click any of the images to get the full size. You can see the rest of the series here. If you haven't all ready got your copy of Aperture please visit the Apple Store for more information.
The photo below shows you the main interface. This is the middle section of the Aperture screen when you open it up. It is designed so you can quickly and easily view your photos so you can modify them and export them to external projects.
The middle section is split into two sections, the top is the viewer. This is so you can view your image. You can have as many images as you want to view in this section as you want. It isn't shown off in its best glory but it is very useful.
The bottoms section is the browser. This area is designed so you can browse through all of your photos. Selecting more than one image will place additional shots in the view above.
One of the other areas of the image interface is the pane at the bottom. This is used to rate and position images on screens. I will go into detail on this later.
Viewing the data about your images is important to photographers. In the top left hand corner there is an option to view your images in thumbnail view (left) and list view (right)
Clicking on this image changes the browser view from the thumbnail view to a list view. This gives you a lot of information that you can use to sort and view about your photos. This enables you to see all your photo (if you want to sort them) with a specific focal length, ISO, shutter speed etc.
The data shown in the list view goes hand in hand with the sorting options. This again is located with in Aperture about the browser pane on the application.
The drop down box gives you a lot of options for sorting you images.
Each option (Image Data, Rating, Version Name, File Name, Keywords, Size, Orientation, Pixel size) when clicked will order the thumbnails in the order specified.
If you want them in reverse order clicking on the small arrow next to the drop down box can switch the order of the images.
Some times, a simple ordering can be difficult to use and find an image you want if you 10,000 images to sort through. This is where the search option box comes in.
Similar to spotlight within Mac OS X, it works in a very similar way.
This is located on the right hand side of the browser pane and contains to options. A filter result and a search box.
The filter box which balloons out, can give you specific rules to work with. Similar to smart play lists within iTunes you can add or take away as many rules you want to filter out the images. Clicking the close button will close the filter balloon.
Some times the best (and most interesting) way to view you images is to scroll through them. And the Aperture gives you two ways to do this. An traditional scroll option, and an auto scroll.
The auto scroll works in a way similar to a normal scroll bar. Dragging the bar up or down will scroll through the images in that chosen direction, the further up or down you move the bar the faster it scrolls. Letting go of the bar the scrolling stops and the bar returns to the center.
The thumbnails which you view can be changed in size. This can enable you to view as many or as little images you want within the browser interface. This is done in Aperture through a simple slider in the bottom right of the interface.
Pushing the bar all the way to the smaller icon or left hand side gives you a lot of thumbnails to pick through.
All the way to the right and you get one massive thumbnail.
The bottom of the browser interface is important, it offers all the buttons to rate and views you images on multiple screens.
These 5 buttons give you access to how you images can be viewed on screen and are pretty powerful if you have multiple monitors.
Clicking the left most button gives you access to how the multiple screens behave. Each show a different part of the interface. The best way to find the one you like is to click through the options. Three up shows three images on screen, Compare is an easy way to compare images, Stack shows all the images in a Stack (explained in another tutorial).
The next button from the left is the zoom button. Clicking this will make the selected image its full size and will bring up a tiny option to move the view about. This is useful for zooming on an area of detail.
The small zoom box on the image. The red part shows what is visible on screen.
Continuing along the row of buttons, this one shows the master image for a stack. If you have made a stack that has 20 images inside it, clicking this button will show that master image.
This image takes you into the full screen mode of the application. In later series I will show you the advantages and tools of the full screen.
I am not 100% sure what this button does. Clicking it on my computer doesn't do anything. I personally think its used on multiple monitors.
One of the tools of Aperture is to rate and promote images. An it is done with this tool bar at the bottom of the browser.
These buttons are designed to rotate images either left or right. Simple and effect to rotate images.
If you have take 100's of image not all of them will be worth of printing or taking to a client or external source. These buttons are to promote or demote images.
The cross gives a photo a rejection badge, the red down arrow removes a star. The green up arrow gives an image a star (up to 5). The green tick gives an image 5 stars.
Finally the last arrow is to move to the next image within the browser pane.
Till the next tutorial which again will be in a couple of days. Keep playing with Aperture and have fun with photographs.


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I Spend My Travels Sketching Dramatic Pieces Of The Cities I Visit
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I love travelling and visiting different places. More than different cities, I love jumping between different neighbourhoods in the same city (trust me when I say they are wholly different worlds!). As an artist and architect, I love the stories buildings have to tell and I try to capture that through art.
Almost all the sketches I do are made on-site and the time taken to complete it takes anywhere between 10 minutes to 5 hours! I take a picture of the sketch in the foreground and the building in the background most of the times and put it up on my blog to tell people the stories of the place, the stories I came to experience while sketching it, talking to people who stop to see and ask me what I am doing. It never gets boring.
I mostly use Watercolours and ink, and I am a big fan of dramatic pieces through the use of solid colours. These are a set of sketches from my travels within India and the United States. I would be setting up my online store in a few months, so stay tuned if you want to buy prints!
More info: hemusartblog.tumblr.com | Facebook
Nakhoda Masjid, Calcutta, India
Santhome Basilica, Madras, India
Trinity Episcopal Church, NYC, USA
Kuhn House and the Browning Amphitheatre, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Esplanade Mansion, Calcutta, India
C.S.I Wesley Egmore Church, Madras, India
Smithsonian Building, Washington D.C, USA
Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbus, Ohio
Royapettah Streetscape, Madras, India
Georgetown Streetscape, Washington D.C, USA
Madras Central Railway Station, Madras, India
University Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Pansaari, Washington D.C, USA
Harishchandra Ghat, Varanasi, India
26 Broadway, Standard Oil Building, New York City, USA
Newport Music Hall, Columbus, Ohio
Falling Waters, PA, USA
Faculty Club and Orton Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Falling Waters – Level One Living Room, PA, USA
Agrasen ki Baoli, New Delhi, India
Falling Waters, PA, USA
Anna University, Madras, India
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The Station
FOGS Gallery
The Friends of Goostrey Station check the Station, and its surrounding area, twice daily for faults, damage, dangers and crime.
These are reported to British Transport Police, Northern, Carillion, APCOA, Network Rail, Cheshire East Council or Goostrey Parish Council immediately.
17 August 2018
Parts of the footpath leading to the Southbound platform are suffering from subsidence.
Northern Rail Reference: 26997
02 January 2018
Car Park Ticket machine unreliable and often not working.
APCOA Reference: 86673
Comment from APCOA: "[This] has been reported to our contract manager of the site, in order for an investigation to be carried out".
Chased APCOA for an update on the investigation 28 January 2018
29 October 2017
Five platform lights out.
Northern Rail Reference: NFM00031952 / NFM00039040
Chased 02 January 2018, as fault closed late last year but work not completed.
Update from Carillion 03 January 2018:
"This is due to the lights being too close to the overheads. This is an ongoing issue due to the need of an isolation. Sadly due to the job complexity we don't have an ETA but I will chase this with Network Rail".
Update: Twitter conversation - Network Rail place responsibility with Northern. Due to situation with Carillion, no repairs seem likely soon.
09 January 2017
Leak in Southbound Waiting Room.
Northern Fault Reference: NFM00017229
22 October 2017
Art Display vandalised.
British Transport Police Reference: 1700075796
07 September 2017
Art Display vandalised.
British Transport Police Reference: 486 08/09/17
02 September 2017
Art Display and picket fence vandalised.
British Transport Police Reference: 61 04.09.2017
26 August 2017
Glass of Victorian lantern on display at the Station smashed.
British Transport Police Reference: 1700059428
14 June 2017
Glass of Victorian lantern on display at the Station smashed.
British Transport Police Reference: 453140617
04 June 2017
Primary School display in Southbound waiting area substantially vandalised.
British Transport Reference: 1700037589
05 February 2017
Graffiti on Station Building. Removed but Building still needs repainting.
British Transport Reference: 164
Northern Fault Reference: TBA


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Wild Holiday Ornaments Invitation
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Get wild this holiday season and send your guests this invitation to get wild as well. It features three lovely ornaments with patterns similar to animal skins and hanging from colorful ribbons. Perfect for formal and informal holiday party invitations.
Card Size: 4.00" x 9.25" (as shown image)
Paper thickness: 110 lb. premium quality 100% post-consumer recycled paper matte feel white finish card stock. FSC Certified eco-friendly paper, made in USA.
You have the chance to review digital E-Proof image of your text, in your choosen font, laid out on your selected card for your approval prior to submitting your order.
Digital printing press delivers high resolution digital images that rivals the 4 color offset printing press that is used on traditional mass-produced stationery.
Digital print output quality is outstanding, with an emphasis on rich, vibrant color and unsurpassed detail with crisp, clean text.
This means you get the best print quality for graphics, text and photographs. With this exclusive design, we offer premium quality print output since this order is always printed on-demand.
The use of a laser printer is not recommended due to the heat process involved, which tends to interfere and distort the image of your customized finish digital print-out.| Inkjet Printable: No (?)
Traditional inkjet printer may have difficulties to properly self-feed and tends to smear the ink due to heavy card stock involved.


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Mix together the kosher salt, sugar, and peppercorns. Rub each side of the salmon thoroughly with the salt and sugar mixture and place them in a deep dish, on top of each other, with the dill in between. Wrap with plastic wrap and set aside at room temperature for about 1 to 2 hours.
Place in the refrigerator and allow the salmon to cure for 24 hours. After 24 hours, flip them around so that the bottom piece of salmon is on top, and refrigerate for another 24 hours.
After 48 hours, the salmon is ready to be sliced. Slice into paper-thin slices and serve with Mustard Sauce and toast.
Serving suggestion: toasts .
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, mix the mustards, water, and sugar. Add the oil slowly, constantly whisking. If you add to much oil at the same time, it might break. Season with vinegar, salt, and pepper.
Yield: 24 servings, as an hors d'oeurve


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College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, is the first LYRASIS member from its New England region to join the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative. The Collaborative now has active participants from the Mid-Atlantic, Southeastern, and New England regions of the US, reflecting the diverse membership of LYRASIS, the nation's largest membership organization serving libraries and information professionals.
The Collaborative was established to assist members with their digitization needs. As part of this effort, LYRASIS has joined the Open Content Alliance which supports free and open access to the rich cultural heritage materials of LYRASIS member institutions. LYRASIS partners with the Internet Archive to share the new digital resources on the web. The Collaborative is funded by the LYRASIS membership and supported in part through a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Participation in the Collaborative greatly benefits all libraries and cultural heritage institutions. Institutions with less digitization experience can jump start a project, while larger programs can get high-volume, high-quality digitization done quickly at a low cost. Currently, thirty-nine libraries and cultural heritage are members of the Mass Digitization Collaborative, including the newest participants: American University (DC), Emory University (GA), Mary Baldwin College (VA), North Georgia College and State University (GA), Southern Adventist University (TN), and University of South Carolina Upstate (SC).
For more information, contact Laurie Gemmill, LYRASIS digital services program manager, at 800.233.3401 x 1291 or email@example.com. Visit the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative at www.lyrasis.org/massdigitizationcollaborative.


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If California's graduation and dropout rates were a pair of jeans, they'd have an "irregular" sticker on them. Sure, social science research has a reputation for squishy results, but it's still a bit jarring when a renowned researcher describes certain data as "bogus." Although he said it with an ironic laugh, that was the first word that popped into Russell Rumberger's mind when I asked him about the California high school graduation rates in "Diplomas Count," an annual report from Education Week.
Rumberger is an education professor in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara, where he founded the California Dropout Research Project and has been conducting research on school dropouts for 25 years. His new book on the subject, Dropping out: Why students drop out of high school and what can be done about it, is due out later this year.
A sharp dip followed by a sharper rise
The statistics in question are in the California supplement of the report (available for purchase from EdWeek here), showing changes in graduation rates between 1998 and 2008. For much of the time they're fairly stable, from a few tenths of a point to a little over one percent from year to year. Over the course of the decade, California's graduation rate increased from 67.5 percent to 73 percent, staying close to the national average. But in between there's a dramatic shakeup and recovery.
It started in 2005, when the state's graduation rate was 70.1 percent. Within two years, by 2007, it had fallen to 62.7 percent, the sharpest decline in the ten-year period. A year later, in 2008, it surged back up by more than ten points to 73 percent. "Pretty wild," said Rumberger. "The bottom line is all these numbers are estimates, and estimates have errors."
California runs its own numbers, and they're quite different. Actually, California runs two sets of numbers,
but more on that in a moment. The official statistics that the state sends to the U.S. Department of Education, for No Child Left Behind reporting, show a downward trend between 1998 and 2008, falling from a high of 87 percent to about 80 percent. But even at their lowest point, those graduation rates are still higher across the board than EdWeek's figures.
And just to complicate it a little more, that second set of numbers that California prepares has graduation rates heading up after a 2006 downturn, but coming in lower than EdWeek. So we have three sets of calculations, all using data from the same source, obtaining different results and different trends.
It's all in the formula
It's no better nationally. Rumberger recently served on a committee of the National Research Council and National Academy of Education that examined the various measurements that states use to determine their graduation and dropout rates. The committee found "widespread disagreement" about the best measurements and their uses. Looking at the year 2005, the committee found three different school completion rates published by the U.S. Department of Education, Editorial Projects in Education (a project of EdWeek), and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Some researchers suspect the problem is with the way the rates are calculated and not with the numbers used to make those calculations.
In its final report, the panel found most formulas to be flawed and occasionally skewed by politics. "At a time when policy makers are vitally interested in tracking the incidence of dropping out of school, they are faced with choosing among substantially discrepant estimates that would lead them to different conclusions regarding both the size of the drop out problem and how it has changed in recent years," they wrote.
The most common calculations are aggregate counts, the cumulative promotion index (CPI), and cohorts. Aggregate is the simplest and bluntest, comparing the number of graduates to the number of ninth graders four years earlier. The CPI is based on how many students progress from grade 9 to 10, 10 to 11, 11 to 12, and then ultimately graduate. Karl Scheff, with the California Department of Education, says CPI is better than aggregate but still doesn't get at what happens to individual students. That's the true cohort measure and it's the brass ring of data.
Calling on CALPADS
California has been collecting this data for five years, ever since assigning individual student identifiers as part of the CALPADS student data system. Up until now, even though districts have been sending in student-level data, the state has still been aggregating it. "We just added them up and plugged them into the traditional calculation," said Scheff. This year should be the first time they have a full cohort of students from grade 9 through graduation, but now funding for CALPADS is up in the air.
Gov. Brown proposed cutting the budget for CALPADS in his May revise. Both the Assembly and Senate have restored the money but Scheff says it's not clear whether the Governor will veto it. With CALPADS, state officials will have a robust data source that can track students who move out of
state, transfer to a private school, or spend a fifth year in high school in order to provide a much more precise look at graduation and dropout rates.
Until then, we'll have to sort through two, three or four reports each with its own interpretation of the data. Rumberger tries to be as precise as possible when giving presentations. "I'll show the two state rates," he said, "and what I tell people is the actual rate is somewhere in the middle."
Additional Resources:
A More Accurate Measure of California's Dropout Rate, June 2010, California Dropout Research Project.
Independent Evaluation of the California High School Exit Examination: 2010 Evaluation Report, Volume 1, Oct. 2010, Human Resources Research Organization
Public School Graduates and Dropouts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2008-2009, National Center for Education Statistics


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The hue of Me: Appropriately titled album art for Bjork (A); album art for Carl Cox (B); a poster from Noriuki Makihara's "Love Songs From the Digital Cowboy" album, for WEA Japan (C); a Nike ad featuring Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo (D); art for Carl Cox's "Ultimatum" (E); a frame from Makihara's all-CGI "Cowboy" music video (F); and a Nike ad starring soccer player Patrick Kluivert (G).
London-based Me Company is best known as the graphics groove of Bjork, Iceland's warbling wonder, with whom they've been affiliated since her Sugarcubes days, but as company founder Paul White points out in reference to the faded British techno/rave scene, to which Me Co. owes much of its style, "music doesn't wane, it evolves"-and Me Co. has indeed been doing some evolving.
The company, established in 1985, made its first outright advertising foray earlier this year with a European print campaign for Nike soccer shoes and Wieden & Kennedy/Amsterdam that takes the 3-D rave style to new depths. "The personal ambitions and characteristics" of four Euro soccer stars, as a Me Co. technical brief explains it, "have been externalized through elastic reality morphing," and the Nintendoesque results from the Mac-stacked Me staff of five are suitable for gaming. "Me Co. has a very specialist knowledge about a particular marketplace," White avers. "We know how to talk to ourselves, that is, good looking and between the ages of 21 and 37." (White, not coincidentally, is 37.)
If this sounds rather optimistic, Me's thrust is just that; "We like to think that much of our work is experimental, and this is something we do because we're optimistic about the future," White writes in a Me Co. backgrounder. With a portfolio that consists mainly of eye-popping record covers for fairly obscure techno/rave acts, Me Co. has been moving in several new directions as well as dimensions of late, with a design for a bar in London's Soho, set design and graphics for a U.K. television show, and a just completed 4-minute computer-generated music video for a Japanese pop star, Noriuki Makihara. Future projects may include a line of Me Co. clothing, a Soho restaurant design and computer games.
While the plainly techno-based Me style remains fairly consistent regardless of client or product, White does not see the company dancing itself into a rave rut. Just as the techno scene has not waned but evolved, as White would have it, "it's people that wane, often by anchoring themselves too firmly to one particular style or period." As for the trademark depth of Me print, "the 3-D-ness is not the defining element of the work, it's a tool for realizing the ideas held inside the work," White believes. "The technology is moving so fast that the technical ability to realize things in different ways is outstripping the number of new things that need to be expressed."
One can only hope this doesn't apply to Bjork, who may be Me Co.'s Nike, unless, in the spirit of late 20th century optimism, Nike itself someday assumes that role. Me Co. has even designed an Ecstatic coffee-table companion book to last year's "Post" record, and a Bjork CD-ROM is underway. "She offers us a kind of freedom rarely found in any form of relationship," says White. "If either one of us turns up with a crap idea we would never spare each other's feelings, and we