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Saudi activist Mohammed Saad will give a talk, "Seeing Clearly Now: Creative Technology for the Blind in Saudi Arabia," at the George Eastman Museum discussing his personal experiences as a blind photographer in Saudi Arabia. Saad teaches photography classes to the blind to dispel myths about the capabilities of folks who are visually impaired. Those who attend the lecture will get to see some of Saad's photographic portfolio, and Saad will also demonstrate his ability to capture audience members' portraits using voice recognition.
Saad's activism began with a push to translate Saudi restaurant menus into Braille. Ever since, he has advocated for the blind community in various ways, including training blind students to use Apple devices and to learn computer skills. The tech-savvy speaker also created an Arabic iPhone app called "MANHAL" which provides audio lessons in diverse educational topics for the blind. Most recently, Saad has created the Internet audio station "Sightful Fingertips" in which he mixes music, and he also teaches cooking lessons through social media.
Nonprofit organization Rochester Global Connections will host Mohammed Saad's talk. Admission is free and registration is required on the Eventbrite page. The main lecture will take place from 5:30 p.m. through 6:30 p.m. at the George Eastman House (900 East Avenue) on Tuesday, July 11, followed by a reception until 8 p.m. Local scientist, disability advocate, and researcher Luticha Doucette will moderate the discussion. Visit rochesterglobalconnections.org for more details.

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- Megan McArdle, "Secretary LaHood Says We Don't Need to Make Tradeoffs between Safety and Utility" – from the article: This is about the tenor of most of the hearing–I haven't seen so much posturing since I graduated Miss Elliot's Charm School for Gentlewomen and Girls. It's clear to me that there have been some real problems with Toyota cars. But it also seems like the hysteria and the hype are rapidly becoming unmoored from any actual danger.
- Jay Cost, "The Return of ObamaCare, Part 1" – How Congress' reconciliation rules work. From the article: Early in the year, Congress passes a budget resolution that sets revenue and spending targets that instructed committees are supposed to meet. The House and Senate Budget Committees can then compile the committee-drafted products into a reconciliation bill. Reconciliation is optional, though in recent years it has become pretty regular.Reconciliation bills have a privileged status on the Senate floor. There is no debate on whether to begin consideration of a reconciliation bill. Proposed amendments must be germane to the bill. Debate on the bill and any amendments to it is limited to 20 hours. If you've ever heard the phrase "vote-a-rama," this is where it comes from: when the time limit for debate on a reconciliation bill has been reached, remaining amendments are voted on in quick succession. All of this is designed to facilitate Congress in making a budget plan, then actually sticking to it.
- Safety considerations re: troops in Afghanistan – using more air power, despite the recent accidental killings of civilians, may not be a bad idea when all things are considered (h/t Josh). Moreover, snipers are a huge threat to Marines currently. Better helmets are a must (h/t David).
- Reason.com, "Even more on the Coming War Over Public-Sector Pensions" – self-explanatory.


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If you think you've seen some bearded bike messengers with surprisingly sleek looking bags lately, it's not your imagination. Rickshaw bag company has come onto the San Francisco scene strongly, beginning a mere three years ago. Mark Dwight, an avid enthusiast for biking, San Francisco, and all things sustainable, founded Rickshaw Bags combining all those ideals into a bag line. Every detail of the company is embedded with his passions: from the name Rickshaw (meaning human-powered vehicle), to the locality (every bag constructed in SF), to the actual products (made via an innovative zero waste process).
Dwight's zealousness is infectious, and it's not just because his smile goes from ear to ear. He believes in his bags, and his business practices make it easy for anyone to believe in them too. The "zero" of the Zero Messenger Bag begins at the pattern, laser cut to reduce fabric waste and constructed to utilize every piece of fabric as well. What inevitable scraps do result, are used as cushioning for the bottom of the bag. Dwight also customized the polyester textile used for Rickshaw bags out of 100% recycled material; making last week's sprite bottle into a herringbone tweed suitable for a gentleman. In his green pursuit, Dwight also set up an up-cycling program with Levi's—utilizing small, unusable for jeans, denim swatches in his bag designs.
Recognizing a market for locality in products, Dwight also founded SFMade, an organization focused on distinguishing companies who make their goods in San Francisco proper. Each Rickshaw bag is cut and sewn in the Dog Patch district of San Francisco, employing a local work force with six stations stitching up bags daily.
Rickshaw bags proudly bear the SFMade logo, as do 90 other companies that are now members.
If you could care less about being environmentally conscious and the polar bear population isn't that important to you—the bags also just look really cool. Hop on the interweb or visit their warehouse store to pick from five products and seemingly unlimited color choices to set your own fashion trend. Completely customizable down to the accessories inside, a Rickshaw bag is likely to convert any gas guzzling Scrooge.


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Tuesday, 14 December 2010
This Could Be Yours
If you want to go in the draw you need to do the following:
1. Become a Follower of this blog.
2. Visit my web site www.janemonkstudio.com and add your email address for my Newsletter updates (these will not be very often ... every month or so)
3. Put a comment on your blog or facebook and leave me a comment here to let me know.
That's it ... pretty easy way to win your own personalised A4 sized Illuminated Zentangle Letter hand drawn by me - Jane Monk. They look fantastic framed with a matboard around. I can put any letter you want .. you might want to gift it to someone special ... or keep it for yourself.
Happy Tangling Everyone .... It's been lovely to hear from you all that have been following this Zentangle journey of mine ... Jane x
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I would LOVE to win this Zentangle letter! So pretty. It would look lovely framed and hanging in my quilting studio!ReplyDelete
ok ... I have followed, subscribed, commented on FB (put a comment on your post, might put a link to this blog of yours in my status shortly) and now I am commenting here ... methinks it could look quite good with a nice capital A in the middle (the "A" sort of one, not the one that some people use that is just a bigger version of an "a" - for some reason that version just looks silly/wrong to me).ReplyDelete
Then again ... if I don't win it - then I will just have to "pull my finger out" and darn well draw my own ...
Very cool Jane - a "K" would look great on this :)ReplyDelete
Hi Jane, I've done steps 1 and 2 and 3! I think a "K" would look great, too... but K for Kit would be best of all. It's a beautiful piece! :-)ReplyDelete
After admiring your work at the CZT #4 workshop I would love to own an original Jane Monk. Last summer I have the good fortune to attend the Zentangle Master Class where we did an illuminated letter project designed by Maria Thomas. It is a wonderful way to use Zentangle patterns.ReplyDelete


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One workshop that I would like to attend is Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval, organized by Omar Alonso from A9 and Hugo Zaragoza from Yahoo! Barcelona. From the description:
By semantic annotations we refer to linguistic annotations (such as named entities, semantic classes, etc.) as well as user annotations such as microformats, RDF, tags, etc. We are not interested in the annotations themselves, but on their application to information retrieval tasks such as ad-hoc retrieval, classification, browsing, textual mining, summarization, question answering, etc...There have been some recent efforts on automatically semantically Wikipedia. For example, Hugo and other Yahoo researchers made available a Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia (SW .1).
In particular, techniques have been developed to ground named entities in terms of geo-codes, ISO time codes, Gene Ontology ids, etc. Furthermore, the number of collections which explicitly identify entities is growing fast with Web 2.0 and Semantic Web initiatives...
Despite the growing number and complexity of annotations, and despite the potential impact that these may have in information retrieval tasks, annotations have not yet made a significant impact in Information Retrieval research or applications. Further research is needed before we can unleash the potential of annotations.
Also, in the paper Autonomously Semantifying Wikipedia, Fei Wu and Danield Weld from the University of Washington describe the KYLIN system that automatically extracts semantic information from Wikipedia, with two main goals:
- Automatically generating "infoboxes", the concise tabulated summaries of the subjects attributes
- Autonomously linking articles to create useful structure between articles


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Street Teams are made of this....
For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of the 'Street Team', it's a promotional tool. Record companies realized some time ago that employing guys in satin tour bomber jackets (cf. Smashie and Nicey) to go around and give free singles to record shops and free drugs to Radio DJ's wasn't a really cost-effective way of bumping their records into the charts and, what with that interweb thingie taking over, could frankly be seen as a downright waste of money. A bit of a shame that, as when I worked in record shops I managed to snaffle a good few freebies, including being able to see Richard Thompson and Crowded House play live at The Borderline while I took advantage of the free bar, and also getting to see del Amitri on the second date of their tour to promote 'Waking Hours', which is one of my favourite albums ever. Anyhoo, the wheels came off the gravy train around the time that someone up in the eyries of the music biz (probably Simon Cowell or Louis Walsh) realized that it was going to be a lot cheaper and more effective to plant a few sleepers in amongst ver kids and let them get on with it themselves than to keep signing all those reps' expense accounts. Hence a few net-savvy children got hauled aboard the promo express with the promise of exclusive access to the band, special signed posters, badges and a card on their birthday as long as they kept pimping the merch to their friends and peers on behalf of the industry. Not bad, eh, and let's face it, who doesn't like to be first on their block with the skinny? Some folk to this day are such unofficial founts of knowledge that their mates in bands know they don't have to update their website as with a word to the wise their latest news'll get round anyway – it's the equivalent of that bit in Crocodile Dundee where they explain that if anyone's got a problem they simply tell Wally and before too long everybody knows, hence it's no longer a problem. It's a win-win all round, ain't it? Certainly back in the old days I had to send off a postal order and wait six weeks before the Status Quo Fan Club sent me anything like a badge, and then most of the time after that they just used to write to me and nag me to buy stuff anyway, so clearly this was a step forward for everyone. These days everyone's got a Street Team. You know that nice Seth Lakeman - you've probably heard him on radio two or in the background on a trailer for something on the BBC – well he's got a bunch of people casually dropping his name into conversations and (ahem) casually bigging him up on internet forums, and good luck to 'im. I don't generally really agree with this sort of malarkey – I'd prefer my recommendations to come from people who are genuinely interested in music of all forms and are delighted to highlight a gem they've found (that's why we have critics) rather than someone pursuing their calling with almost religious zeal, shoehorning their subject in at every opportunity and wherever (in)appropriate (imagine the web forum equivalent of Jehovah's Witnesses at your door or, as we refer to them, Marillion fans). But there we go – it's win/win, like I said earlier. One should be subtle though - no-one should suspect the neuro-linguistic programming what's going on in their heads, and BUY THE SONGS FROM THE BLUE HOUSE CD 'TOO' ONLINE FROM OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SONGSFROMTHEBLUEHOUSE.COM. Remember now, when it comes to Street Teams – easy does it…..
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It's worth stopping off at Soppong en-route to Mae Hong Son, or at least visiting overnight from Pai. Once you come over the pass, you descend into one of the most important and little explored karst regions in Southeast Asia.
The Pang Ma Pha district of Mae Hong Son province perhaps has the greatest concentration of caves in the world, and boasts numerous limestone pillars that are older and more lushly covered than similar topography on the Krabi coast. Not surprisingly, it hosts numerous caves, underground rivers and trekking trails, but is probably most famous for the many coffin caves that have been discovered here, with teak casks inside that are reckoned to be about 1,700 years old.
Soppong is an excellent trekking and nature base and can be reached in less than a hour on a rented bike. Lahu and Lisu hill tribes mainly inhabit the area, along with Thai-yai (Shan) and even some Karen. Several local guesthouses can arrange multi day trips through this unique landscape, with the added bonus of some caving and overnight stays among the hill tribes.
Planning your own journeys can be tricky, as timings are never absolute in Thailand especially during the peak season. It's a must to check up-to-date information as well as booking in advance. 12Go Asia is a leading transportation search engine in Thailand and Southeast Asia. They are providing e-tickets for trains, buses, ferries and flights.
The biggest attraction of the area is Tham Lot; a cave through which the Lang river flows for 700m. Blackwater kayaking is offered by Cave Lodge, or you can use one of the local guides to travel down the shallow river on skiffs and reach the recesses of the cave. It can be touristy at times, but there are plenty more caves to be explored (with the help, of course, of a guide and headlamps). At dusk as many as 300,000 swifts descend on the cave's exit in a remarkable and noisy display of nature.
If you're into 'spelunking', Cave Lodge can arrange trips to a large variety of caves. Some have rivers flowing in them, others have barely been entered by humans, while others still are vast sinkholes into which you can abseil.
Coffin Caves
Over the years, more than 200 of these have been identified by local explorers and Thai archaeologists. The coffins inside are believed to have been left by an ancient Mon/Lua group who originally inhabited the area. Known locally as pii maen (spirit cases), the teak casks have been dated from about 300 AD and are in remarkably good condition. Considering that the best examples are raised on stilts, they count themselves among the oldest standing wooden structures in the world.
There are a few accessible caves through which numerous tourists have tramped.but with a guide and some hiking you can reach others which have been barely touched.
There are about five bus departures a day to and from Soppong towards Pai and Mae Hong Son. It's more practical to rent a bike in Pai and drive one hour to get there, though. The main road passes through the central village, while the turnoff for the 5km road to Tham Lot and Cave Lodge is marked just before.
Recommended Accommodation in Soppong:
Little Eden Guesthouse: Sits in Soppong, 69km from Mae Hong Son and 50km from Pai. Features an outdoor pool, garden, massage service, sauna treatment and tour desk. All rooms come with basic facilities like a fan or air conditioning, TV, refrigerator and a private bathroom. The on-site restaurant offers local and western dishes as well as drinks at the on-site bar…more details and booking
Soppong River Inn: Situated in Pang Mapha. It's 10 km from Lod cave and 75km from Mae Hong Son Airport. Each room is equipped with a private bathroom with shower facilities. A shuttle service can be arranged upon request. An ideal for travelers seeking for a private and peaceful stay…more details and booking
The original trekking base in the area – a rustic place above the banks of Lang River near the Lot cave. It's owned by an easy-going Aussie, John Spies, and his wife Nung. He's the sort of guy who sits around the lodge's campfire with guests and buy him a few beers and he'll tell you some intriguing stories from 30 years of trekking in the area. It's all in a fascinating biography he has on sale, including world firsts such as mapping the coffin caves, week-long underground trips to follow subterranean rivers and even discovering a new genus of waterfall climbing cave fish! The lodge is an ideal nature venue to arrange trekking, caving, kayaking, mountain biking and bird watching among other things.
Further reading…
- Pai travel & living guide
- National Parks in Northern Thailand
- Sop Moei travel guide
- History of Thailand


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Nikki at home in Berlin
If you (as I do) place any importance on all things WANWTTS, then this is the REAL Great Lost Issue, in that it was all edited and put together and ready to go to the printers. This was in 1986 - then economic caution got the better of me, as I was unsure we'd sell the numbers we needed to break even, and I pulled the plug on it. I was probably wrong, again. I let down Nikki, Dave and (badly) Trevor Austin who'd created and designed what was a beautiful artefact of an eventful German tour in October 1985. Berlin-based Trevor provided photos and artwork for a number of Nikki's records, perhaps most notably "The Ragged School", the Jacobites 1986 (first) American release on TwinTone.
Making up the band with Nikki and Dave were Eamon "Big Duff" Duffy on bass ("I don't want to see quaint fuckin' villages. I want to see what our lads blew up in the war!") and Carl Bevan (from the Rag Dolls) on drums.
Nikki recalled the tour some years later in a 1989 interview with Australian blog Rockbrat:
"Epic was busy playing with Crime and the City Solution who he'd recently joined. Plus after the assorted misadventures we'd encountered in Italy I don't think he would have wanted to do another tour with Kusworth anyway. So we decided to take the Rag Dolls drummer Carl Bevan on the tour with us. I also wanted to bring Duncan Sibbald on bass. Unfortunately I gave way to Dave's suggestion that his old band mate (from T.V Eye days) Eammon Duffy should be included. Eammon is better known as 'Big Duff' or just 'The Big Man', and he is big in a short kind of way. He also is terminally balding. In no way did he look at all suitable for the role. Audiences must have wondered what on earth this oaf was doing on the stage. Especially after the first night's misadventures when he managed to throw up over his jeans. He only brought one pair of trousers on the tour with him. Consequently until he was able to afford to buy a replacement pair he had to go on stage every night wearing this one vomit stained pair of jeans.
Dave in Belgium November 2006
The first night Dave, Carl and Duff arrived in Hamburg I had suggested to Joachim that he meet them at the airport and take us all out for a meal to cement the goodwill for the tour. This he agreed to. He was greatly shocked when Dave staggered out of the arrivals gate carrying his guitar wrapped in a blanket. Not even in a case. Joachim took us back to his office and generously offered to have the guitar set up that evening. He also offered Dave the use of a hard case for the guitar for the duration of the tour. Dave took him up on this. Later that evening Dave, Carl and Duff were booked into their hotel. A most decorative looking place run by two lesbians. A bad mistake as it was to turn out what with Duff's homophobic attitudes. But Joachim was not to know this. Anyway he took Brigitte, myself and the rest of the band out for a meal. He handed over some spending money to Dave, Carl and Duff to see them over to the next morning. This was to be his last generous act of the tour....."
For the complete and hilarious warts 'n' all story check out the full interview on http://rockbrat.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/rockbrat-chat-the-nikki-sudden-interview/
I lost touch with Trevor Austin many, many years ago - I met him just the once on my only trip to Berlin to see Nikki and Dave play (...and there's a story to tell about that little adventure one day) - but I'd like to think he gets to see this blog. So here's a link to download a PDF of the magazine - quality isn't too bad - hope you enjoy.


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Interesting question
"Why cant I use $1 in a Python script to get the first argument to a script? What is the easiest way to do something like that in Python?"
$1 in a shell script gives us the first argument to the script, BTW.
I get a lot of questions through email, and in person. This one was part of an interesting exchange. The reasoning went like this, since the shell is processing the script, I should be able to use $1.
The problem is that it doesn't work like that. Dennis Ritchie introduced the #! (pound bang or shebang line) concept at Bell Labs and announced it publicly in 1980. In the exece function of sys1.c could be found the following:
else if (u.u_exdata.S[0]=='#' && u.u_exdata.S[1]=='!' && indir==0) { cp = &u.u_exdata.S[2]; while (*cp==' ' && cp<&u.u_exdata.S[SHSIZ]) cp++; u.u_dirp = cp; while (cp < &u.u_exdata.S[SHSIZ-1] && *cp != '\n') cp++; *cp = '\0'; indir++; iput(ip); ip = namei(schar, 0); if (ip==NULL) return; goto again;
So, once it was established that a script started with #! and a variable number of spaces, what followed was the path to an executable that would process this script. No search, so it has to be a full path.
In that regard, if the line starts with #!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python, the shell is out of the loop and no $1. Python will process the script. There is an sh module that makes it appear like we are mixing Python and shell in one script, but it is still all Python code.
Simplest shell script
echo $1
Simplest Python
#!/usr/bin/env python
from sys import argv as s
Fairly similar except we had to specify an import statement, and I aliased argv to s so it looked like $ in the shell script.
The "problem" (or difference) with the Python script is that it will error out if no arguments are given when run:
$ ./arg.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./arg.py", line 5, in <module>
IndexError: list index out of range
A closer equivalent
#!/usr/bin/env python
from sys import argv as s
print(s[1] if len(s)>1 else '')
Here we are simply testing to see how many items are in the argv list. The first item is the script name, so if we have >1 items, we have at a minimum one argument, so it is safe to get [1]. If not, we will return an empty string, just like a shell script would do. A try / except IndexError would have also worked in this context.
See alsoI would also investigate argparse, opster and docopt. argv is really bare metal and there is no point in reinventing the wheel.


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|Games Workshop doing ok financially? Inconceivable!!
Ok so I finally had a chance to look at GWs annual report for 2013 (LINK). Here is my executive executive summary of an already greatly abridge report.
In short. GW is doing fine. Actually quite arguably better than ever.
*Revenue is up, but only slightly at 134 million pounds vs. 131 in 2012.
*Pre-tax profit 21.4 million pounds up from 19.4
*Dividends have fallen to 58 pence down from 64 last year (this is an indicator of note, that isn't necessarily bad but it shows they aren't going super gang busters this year either otherwise it would have likely gone up).
*Royalties have taken a hit due to few video games in 2012. That said their TOTAL royalties is in a good year only around 3 million pounds and that INCLUDES all the FFG stuff, ALL video games, etc. So they never were making as much from that as many people think.
*Expansion continues, revenue from expansion hasn't been great but they seem to be rebounding in some markets (like Japan) and holding on in most markets. North America has actually been a bright spot, and Europe and the UK were somewhat stagnant this past year.
My overall assessment is that GW is in a solid position in the short term but still faces long term uncertainty. They are not leveraging their IP as strongly as they might and their costs are where they stand to make the most gains.
For GW their pricing model just really is nearly unique in the world of business, they operate in a market with no real direct competition. I agree with Kirby's assessment that in terms of competition they have little because their product quality is far superior to nearly any competitor of note. Substitute goods do exist, but their core audience is reluctant to use them. Certainly I think this has been changing, but as is demonstrated by GWs numbers that fact has not eroded away their base. They are still making decent profits and are far from being on the verge of financial collapse as one might think given the endless internet ranting.
I myself have done my fair share. But when you look at their numbers, GW isn't going anywhere anytime in the next year or two. Things change fast these days though so who knows what their long term perspective is.
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I took Payton to the vet yesterday morning for her one week check up since we brought her home from the emergency vet. She got a really thorough exam and everything sounded and looked good. Her lungs both sounded good, her heart sounded good, and her ribs and legs all felt good. She got her staples out and had blood work done, which came back normal. When the vet was examining her she said "I can't believe she didn't loose any teeth." Well, upon further examination, she has a broken front tooth in her top row of teeth. It's not one of her canines, which is good. Since her blood work came back normal I will be taking her in tomorrow morning so that they can put her under in the afternoon and pull her tooth. I will be picking her up after five and hopefully that will be the last vet visit for this incident. Having her tooth pulled seems like a bummer, but we're just happy she lucked out and didn't have to have surgery for internal bleeding.
I ended up taking Taryn on a separate trip to the vet because her left ear has been bugging her and was all red inside. Turns out she has an ear infection that needed treatment. I had just given Payton her last dose of meds on Monday night, and they sent me home Tuesday morning with a handful of meds to start treating Taryn. We had Kylie at the vet a couple of days before Payton's accident because she had some sort of virus and was vomiting uncontrollably. So that makes all three dogs with health issues in the last two weeks. I am happy to report that all three girls are doing great today. Payton even went out on her first walk since she was hit and didn't seem to get tired. She looked like she wanted to head out again after I returned with Taryn from her walk.
Hope everyone is having a good week!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
One Week Checkup
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3 comments:
- Christi said...
And people always tell ME I have my hands full...
So glad she is almost back to normal. I'm sure you are bonded more than ever now.
- November 19, 2008 at 4:07 PM
- Mango said...
Arg! Ear infections! What a pain. Good news about Payton and that all the gals are getting back to health. Hope you are getting some rest.
Mango Momma
- November 19, 2008 at 6:19 PM
- Dozer and Coop said...
I guess Dozer's surgery is going to pale in comparison to your vet bill! Glad Peyton is doing so well, just amazing how fast dogs recover!
Dozer's Mum, Nancy
- November 20, 2008 at 8:36 AM
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i don't mind snoring. in fact, i kinda find it comforting. when i wake up at 3 in the morning, i will be very comforted knowing that you are right next to me snoring away.
on a side note: if you plan on going on overnight business trips or the like, i expect you to buy me a dog who will take your place as my bed companion. one of my puppies used to sleep on my pillow and snore in my ear- yes, i found it quite comforting.
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- I had a new roller coaster dream last night, but on the plus side
- I did not wake up
- I did not sleep walk
- I was not stressed out in the dream
- We were using the speed of the roller coasters as wind while having my picture taken, weird I know.
- Particularly when it became apparent it was kind of a log ride so there was water involved.
- My mom's cousin's husband had a stroke on Sunday and I came into work to read an email about it. He means a lot to me so it took a bit to swallow that news. I get the impression that although they know there will be weeks of therapy, they are still in the midst of testing so not a lot of firm answers at this point.
- I like dark beers because of him. I helped him with the statistics for his PhD. As payment, we would go for a late lunch and we split a pitcher on an empty stomach. I was usually pretty tipsy before my lunch arrived.
- Sonohystogram is going to have to be postponed, my period has arrived. 76 day cycle and it picks 4 days before my sono to come to an end. If it started Monday that would have been perfect, but no, now I have to change it to sometime next week, I think they aim for day 6-11.
- Overall though, it's good to have it here, my breasts can return to normal and we'll blame my eye leakiness today on hormones.
- And if I don't have to go for the sono on Saturday, I can either help Mom with the craft show or help my mom's cousin.
- Hospitals take care of sick people, there isn't much I can do outside of visit (and I gather he is tired so visits may be too much just now). But the immediate family (typically) need help so they can do what the sick person needs. In this case, their daughter is the same age as me and she is autistic and dependent on them.
- So this cousin of mine, let's call her Beth. She's awesome, we have a good bond. We even have a not so secret pass phrase (which comes in handy when she needs to regulate and settle down). I've offered some respite time so the wife can do what she needs to do without wondering what mischief the daughter is getting into.
- Beth memorizes movies and quotes them back, using their dialogue for her conversation. If you watch movies with her, she pulls out props ahead of the dialogue, "You dirty rat" will result in a plastic rat appearing out of a toy box. It helps to know the movies she has seen recently to get her context.
- For example, my pass phrase is "Yes, no, I don't know. If that isn't a true blue miracle, I don't know what one is".
- Not everyone has a pass phrase and those who do have a phrase of their own.
- Now the first half is said in a silly sing-song voice with side to side head actions. If she says that, I have to say the rest, and vice versa. It's like proof that I am me.
- The second half is from the 1978 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street special.
- She also loves my Strawberry Shortcake dolls and is generally trying to manipulate them out of me.
- Perhaps you could have a garage sale and sell your old toys. You would tell me when you have a garage sale wouldn't you?
- Do you play with your dolls, Sera? No? Toys need to be played with. I would play with them.
- Every single visit to my parents she finds them. I don't even know where my parents put them last but somehow Beth does. Then we have to check that they didn't "disappear" into a pocket...
- I have taken a few more steps with the Burda dress, but last night was bowling so not as much as you would think, the back is joined and it has a zipper.
- I really did a good job on the invisible zipper part.
- The spot below the zipper, well, the seam ripper and I got to be good friends.
- Stellar Parenting made me leaky. I love her posts to her daughter. I must remember the line "You were worth the wait" when I feel impatient. One day I will feel like that.
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IN THE WORLD OF KAYAK FISHING, JIM SAMMONS IS KIND OF A BIG DEAL. Probably because he knows how to catch really big fish from the seat of a kayak. He's already started filming the third season of The Kayak Fishing Show on the World Fishing Network, and his Kayak Fishing: Game On DVD series defines the genre. We asked the globetrotting fishing celeb to share a few favorite spots from the show and his life-less-ordinary. – as told to Joe Carberry
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We shot with Pesca Panama, a floating lodge, and we'd move every day to a different location. It was absolutely phenomenal fishing, inshore cubera snapper, blue trevally, and a great variety of really big fish: I landed a 124-pound yellowfin tuna.
After fishing all day, we'd head back to the lodge, have cocktails, dinner and do it all over the next day. The fishing is really diverse: live bait, throwing lures into boiler rocks, fishing the swamp zone with crocodiles and monkeys screaming above. Pescapanama.com
This was another floating lodge, moored in a remote cove near Prince of Wales Island way down the panhandle, almost in British Columbia. We fished with Howard McKim of Ketchikan Kayak Fishing, and he put us on big halibut, lingcod, and rockfish. And the wildlife and scenery were incredible. An orca whale breached right near me. The lodge was amazing. They fed us like kings: halibut and spot prawns cooked out on the beach. We got lucky, it was June and we had sun all day. Ketchikankayakco.com
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Things You Should Know About Conceptual Photographers
- 1 Things You Should Know About Conceptual Photographers
- 1.1 Conceptual Photography Definition
- 1.2 Best Ideas, Tips, and Techniques for better Conceptual Photography
- 1.3 5 Best conceptual photography art pics
- 1.4 Best Conceptual Photography Pics
- 1.5 Top Conceptual Photographers Choices
- 1.6 The Start of Conceptual Photographers
- 1.7 Conceptual photography camera setting
Conceptual Photography Definition
If you wonder what Conceptual Photography is or you have heard about it and want to know about this read it here all about Conceptual Photography Ideas, tips, and art.
It's a type of fine art photography, An imaginative, unreal that starts with a concept or an idea which are clearly explained in an image is said to be conceptual photography.
Conceptual photography is a sort of pictures which is used to communicate a message it is also a type of fine art photography. Now these days, fine art photographer using it for producing successful and understandable final image. Using conceptual photography in advertising of the most important areas for expert photographers to earn a living these days.
Best Ideas, Tips, and Techniques for better Conceptual Photography
Here are some short keys which may lead you to get better conceptual photographs for the next time.
- Working conceptually
- Color is everything
- Best Framing
- Best Poses
- Similar Outfits according to concepts
- Relevant Location
- The SubjectHere are some unique tips that get you started thinking about it……1- Imagination is a greater part of this type of photography. It's about ideas, planning, and help, what you need and wants to say in your photographs. Think about the issues, ideas, and finding twisty and light lenses things that inspire you more and may inspire the viewer.2- Working conceptually is not easy to do. It needs more patience and time to learn the world around you. Making conceptual photographs is controls manner of working. It let you stick out from many different photographers.
3- Define the message earlier than you may begin to create the actual concept, it's helpful to define more what it is which you need your photos to say. What is the purpose in your mind? If your ideas and message are clear then it will reflect in the final image.
4- Dramatic lights in conceptual photography can also well intensify the strong feelings to your photography so, think about how best to do that? Developing an attention of lights is should if you need your objects to be supplied in properly lighting fixtures.
5- The subject is everything by using humans and objects that are the charm to the eye might also make the photos a chunk better within the eyes of the viewer. But push yourself and your subjects as far as you may. This is a tough one, however, what we don't want to tasteless photo.
6- Consider scenes from your favorite movies and books, which could well provide the few useful inspirational thought. Consist of multiple sentences explaining why your image illustrates your preferred concept.
7- the Color texture is most important for conceptual photography because textures will always give a conceptual photograph. For this purpose, you can you the different type of tools like IPICY and Photoshop any many others. Here is the Photoshop's link.
8- The most important thing to keep in mind that you have a strong story in your conceptual photography. The message that you want to convey in clear.
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Best Conceptual Photography Pics
The photographs aren't unique, each moment is unique. Conceptual photographs, or the photos that have special meaning supporting the scene of the actual objects in the photo, inspire and fuel the individual's creativity as you build the capacity to find the creative idea supporting the photo. It's simple, relatively cheap and can offer your portraits an expert look.
Conceptual photographers need lots of patience to obtain the specific picture they have in mind. The absolute most successful conceptual photographers are those people who have the ability to create an individual message with an effective photograph utilizing simple and few elements. It is necessary for photographers to spot distinct styles so as to select the best creative direction for future projects.
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Having the ability to understand various styles will likewise assist you to really organize current work in a portfolio. There's truly something for everybody!
The Start of Conceptual Photographers
Conceptual photography could also be known as avant-garde photography. Often, it is used to convey an emotion or to simply something about a person or society. Great photography is more than simply taking pictures that have a good camera.
Conceptual photography camera setting
Conceptual photography is all about light and camera but it up to the photographer to control how much light pass the camera sensor and also known the ISO, the aperture and shutter speed control. Knowing your own way around exposure, shutter speed, ISO and other controls, and if you want to shoot smaller objects, a little thing to know-how with the f-stop and manual focus is also perfect.
Aperture and depth of field:
In conceptual photography, depending on the lens that you have use F values about F4 around F16. The quality lenses must support the larger aperture. For example, Nikon lenses (85mm and 50mm) get to F1.8 or may be F1.4. These are the light lenses that protect you in dark condition. The amount of the light that pass the sensor, aperture effects on the depth of field.
Shutter Speed:
Shutter speed is measured in ordinary seconds. At bright day mild, we generally use hundredths of seconds. While cloudy, in color and so on. Is probably tenths of seconds? At night time it involves complete seconds. At the same time as the shutter is open, the sensor records the whole thing it sees. The shutter speed doesn't longer realize what the items are, it simply divides the scene into millions of dots and data the shade of every dot during the exposure time.
ISO speed:
When you can't control the right exposure with the aperture and shutter speed than you need to think about the ISO speed. Normal ISO sensitivity is up to your camera but it defines how much sensitive the camera sensor is too light. With the similar amount of the light, the better the ISO sensitivity is, the greater light might be captured by using the sensor. Try ISO 200,400 when 100 ISO is not enough because ISO controls the insufficient light.
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It turns out there are not one but three nineteenth century architects (at least) named Stephen Salter. What started out last week as a simple post about the achievements of one of them, turned into a confusing meander through the many many MANY Stephen Salters past and present, related to me or each other or neither.
Anyway, I have a list of architects and a list of buildings designed by one or other of them. The architects are:
Stephen Salter, b. 1801
Stephen Salter, b. 1825, d. 1896, son of the above
Stephen Salter, b. 1861, not related to the above but son of another Stephen Salter
The buildings are by and large an impressive array of public institutions. Now that I've had time to sort them out, I see they fall into three quite distinct groups in terms of date or location. They are:
(above) Auditorium, Adelphi Theatre (demolished 1901);
(below) Basingstoke Town Hall and Corn Market
1856 St Paul's Church, East Moseley, Surrey
1858 Adelphi Theatre, The Strand, London
1864 Basingstoke Corn Market
(above) Christ Church, Hendon;
(below) foundation stone of the Savoy Place Laboratories,
laid by Queen Victoria, Empress of India
1881 Christ Church, Hendon, north London
1884 Admiralty, Whitehall, central London (unsuccessful submission)
1886 Physicians/Surgeons Laboratories, central London
1889 8-8a Bourdon St, London (St George's Women's Shelter)
(above) 1-3 High Street, Oxford;
(below) Sandlands, Boarhill, Oxfordshire
1896 Pangbourne villas, Berks
1901 1-3 High St, Oxford
1902 94 High St, Oxford
1904 Cowley Rd Methodist Church, Oxford
1905 Sandlands, Boarshill
1908 2-4 Charlbury Rd, Oxford
That last group are by date and record all by the 1861 Stephen Salter. There is a gap in time between the buildings of 1864 and 1881 (which of course is not to say that nothing was built by any of them during that period – absence of evidence is not evidence of absence) but in fact they could all have been the work of the 1825 Stephen. And although the 1801 Stephen describes himself in 1871 as a "retired architect," in the 1851 census he declares himself an arguably less exalted "architectural modeller." In 1851 his son Stephen is a fully fledged "architect." So I'm going to attribute everything up to the Bourdon St Women's Shelter to my 1825-born cousin.
After all that, the last word goes to the youngest architect and the only one I'm not related to. The seven villas which he designed along the river Thames at Pangbourne were not well received at the time. Even 33 years after they were built, a critic wrote:
"The row of villas near Pangbourne are an example of the pretentious and expensive sort of building which has not been mitigated by gardening. These houses have been locally christened the Seven Deadly Sins, which is sufficiently indicative of the opinion of the public upon such architectural disfigurement."
Two of The Seven Deadly Sins, Pangbourne
They clearly reflect the eclectic Arts and Crafts style of Stephen Salter the younger, and as noted by a more recent writer, from Oxford County Council,
"These particular deadly sins seem to me to have become less fatal with age! Perhaps time and gardening have now mitigated what obviously looked brash when first built. I suspect that the particular deadly sin with which they can now be associated is Jealousy. How many people who love the river would not want to live there?"
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Civil War within the GOP: Who Wins on Immigration?
There is an ongoing civil war within the Republican Party that will decide the future of immigration policy during the Bush Years. If the pro-immigration faction wins, we can expect President Bush to continue to press for reforms where he can and hold the line against attempts to roll back past gains. If the anti-immigration caucus prevails, we can expect not merely a toughening of current standards but the outright elimination of some visa categories or even an actual moratorium on immigration for a number of years. Frustrated by what seemed insuperable obstacles inside the Beltway before September 11th, the nativists now have new life and see in the resurgent fears over national security a way to legitimize what had only recently been dismissed as fringe viewpoints clothed in extremist rhetoric. The stakes are high indeed and the nation needs to understand what the battle is all about.
President Bush sees in the growing Hispanic vote a way to broaden his 2000 base and secure re-election in 2004. His support for an extension of 245(i) is a tangible symbol of this electoral strategy but it is more than that. It is also a way for Bush to tack back to the all-important political center and win over key swing voters by attacking extremists within his own party. Taking on Pat Buchanan over immigration may be for Bush what confronting Jessie Jackson over Sister Souljah was for Bill Clinton in 1992.
The electoral college map shows California with almost one fifth of the total number of votes necessary to win the White House. The Republicans cannot continue to be non-functional in this vital battleground state. The recent Republican track record in California is not encouraging. Bob Dole got 38% of the vote in 1996; Dan Lungren garnered only 38% in losing to current Governor Gray Davis in 1998 and George Bush managed only a bit higher in 2000 by attracting 40%. During this same period, California Republicans lost 3 seats in Congress, 2 seats in the State Senate and 5 Assembly seats. Perhaps not coincidentally, the Latino population in California over this decade surged by more than 3 million and Asians increased by nearly 1 million. Other core arenas, such as Texas, Florida, New Jersey and Arizona, also offer a treasure trove of Hispanic political gold. Texas and California have the two largest congressional delegations reflecting the population shifts recorded in the 2001 census.
Yet, there are some signs that not all in the GOP see Hispanics as the way to reverse losing the 2000 popular vote and securing majority party status for the next election and beyond. In the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary in Texas, conservative Laredo millionaire Tony Sanchez won on a platform stressing cultural pride and the coming of age by Hispanic voters as a political force in a state that has recently been one of the most solidly Republican in the nation. At the same time, the House of Representatives approved a modest and highly flawed extension of 245(i) over the opposition of a clear majority of Republican members. In fact, the narrow victory was won only with the votes of Republican stalwarts such as Lamar Smith and Judiciary Committee chairman James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin who have consistently favored tighter immigration restraints and would most certainly oppose any Bush attempt to push for a broader amnesty. Republicans cannot help but take pause when they read the results of a recent Zogby poll where 83% of Americans indicated that immigration laws were too lax.
September 11th has made it possible for the anti-immigration advocates to break out of their inside-the-beltway box and go out to the country on a rallying cry of fighting terrorism. The White House may not be able to deliver the political goods to push through its electoral outreach. Critics point to other polls that suggest Hispanic voters may be more interested in what matters to other Americans - education, crime, taxes, economic prosperity, health care - than they are swayed by the immigration strategy of either party. In a fascinating article by John O'Sullivan in the April 8, 2002 issue of National Review entitled "Hasta la Vista Baby: Bush's Hispanic Strategy Comes Unraveled," we learn of a recent study by political scientists James Gimpel and Karen Kaufman that showed not only that low-income Hispanics are staunch Democrats, a rather unsurprising conclusion, but that Hispanics actually became MORE Democratic the longer they stayed in the US. While Republican identification did rise with income, even at the highest levels Democrats retained a 10 point identification edge.
Hispanics were 12% of the Texas electorate in 1998 and are expected to be 20% within six years If other Hispanic politicians follow the Sanchez technique of stressing ethnic pride with low taxes, Texas could be in play even faster than that. As states like Texas and California become more important, and as more Hispanic immigrants become US citizens and register to vote, the political question of the day becomes who will benefit the most by this sea change. President Bush is gambling the future of his presidency on the answer. He may not be right. If the Bush Administration eventually decides that the electoral impact of high immigration is not to its advantage, if Hispanic voters continue to be more attracted by Democratic stands on mainstream economic and social issues than they are by Bush's pro-immigration symbolism, then even a pro-immigration President will have to reconsider whether continuing down this same road is good for America and, perhaps more importantly, for him.
The beauty of this fratricidal struggle from the President's vantage point is that he can win even while losing. For pro-immigration Republicans, and there are many with the Wall Street Journal as their house organ, the aggressive pursuit of such an agenda positions the GOP to become the party of the moderation regardless of whether Hispanics turn out in their favor. So, when we look at Bush and Fox getting together, let's remember that it is not just about the Hispanic vote; the real pot of gold is the political center, for that, my friends, is where elections are won or lost.
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We are fortunate to import two Mittelrhein producers, Jost and Dr. Kauer, both in Bacharach yet they make dramatically different wines. The vineyards are different, of course, and the styles are as well. Like Jost, Kauer has vineyards in Bacharach, but also in two neighboring villages, Oberdiebach, and Oberwesel.
Dr. Randolf Kauer, the charming, boyish, but apparently quite demanding professor of Organic Viticulture at the University in Geisenheim, has operated his tiny (3 ½ hectares) winery in Bacharach, the heart of the Mittelrhein, since 1982. Then there were few organic wineries, or for that matter, classes in Organic wine making, so Kauer was a kind of pioneer. For a number of years, the winery was a kind of demonstration estate, for students to learn and for a small private base of customers. Indeed, in April or early May, Randolph opens up the winery and you can taste and buy from their selection. There is also a selection of various local meats and sausages and other goodies that you can pick up as well. The first imports to the US were in 2007 and now Winemonger has exclusive rights for the country.
His wines, all harvested in the steep, beautiful, slate vineyards overlooking the Rhein, are noted for their brilliant minerality and lively acid structure. Whereas Peter and Cecilia Jost emphasize their dazzling fruit, mostly from the Bacharacher Hahn, Randolf (with assistance from his younger daughter Anne) seeks an intense minerality. There is plenty of ripeness as well, but the balance is always towards a sleek, stony and refreshing balance, not exactly austere, but with the structure showing. The wines tend towards dryness, even the regular Kabinetts and Spätlesen. In some ways, these wines are more typical of the classic Mittelrhein style, hauntingly beautiful floral scents and a bracing, get-your-attention mouth feel and finish.
Randolf ferments entirely in old and neutral oak, using natural yeasts as much as possible (though he has no particular issue with occasionally adding cultured yeast). The cellar's west wall is carved into the mountain and is pure slate and always wet. Thus it remains quite cool and assists in the slow development of the wines. Everything in both the vineyards and in the cellar, of course, is organic. The winery has been thus certified since the beginning.
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Project status: 8 of 32 menu items coming along well. Six of the remaining do not require additional forms. I still need to connect to the database on my host in order to finish those forms. I'd say I've got about 8% to 10% of the overall project done. No show stoppers in sight. Came up with a good idea about player corporation IPOs that deals with an issue I was concerned with. Just need to get the play balance right.
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New Delhi: India and China Monday discussed ways to maintain peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) as well as the recent incidents of incursions.
The two sides discussed issues of mutual interest including ways to reduce trade deficit during the 5th round of India-China Strategic Dialogue, a ministry of external affairs release said.
"The discussions covered bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest," it said.
The Indian side was led by Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and the Chinese side by Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin.
The two sides discussed ways to enhance understanding on using trans-border river waters, expanding bilateral trade and investment and ways of maintaining peace and tranquility along the LAC.
There have been Chinese incursions in Ladakh sector including the stand off in April after Chinese troops pitched tents but pulled back after 21 days following flag meetings and talks at official level.
The two sides also took stock of developments in bilateral ties since the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to India and discussed ways to boost cultural cooperation, people-to-people exchanges and expansion of scientific and technological cooperation.
They also prepared the ground for a possible visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to China later this year. The two sides also talked about the potential and prospect for Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) cooperation.
India and China also discussed future cooperation in the BRICS framework and ways of ensuring an open, inclusive and transparent architecture in the Asia-Pacific region.
The two sides also discussed the outlook for Afghanistan in 2014 and beyond.
Later, Liu called on External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.
It was also decided that the 6th India-China Strategic Dialogue will be held at Beijing at a mutually convenient time, the release said.


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Momentum: What My Cat Knows
This morning, I crumpled up a tea bag cover (the herbal ones make good toys) and threw it for our cat Charlie. He ran after it, then stopped. I picked it up and did it again, and then again. In the interims, I held him and he purred. Around time #4 of the sequence he ran around wildly as though the paper ball had just come to life, picked it up in his mouth, and brought it back to me - which he repeated. The more he did this, the more I petted him, the more he raised his back to greet the affection, the more enthused he was to continue.
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This is JENNIFER PAROS's blog. I write and draw and am always on the hunt for a better way of seeing things.
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Kat and Elizabeth are the winners of our random drawing!
If you're new to our blog then you've dropped in at an exciting time!
It's time for us to reveal our entrants for our highly anticipated
My name is Ruth and I live in the UK.
The pattern number is 186 and the year is 2010. (This is one of my original and only set.)
I have only made three things with Lutterloh. I plan on sewing more when I retire in September!
I liked this pattern because it was quick and simple. I did have a problem with the waistband but I figured that out! (I have a 48 inch hip measurement.)
I use a portable Brother sewing machine.
My sister and I each picked out the same material to make the same skirt because we each have the same top and needed something to match it. I don't know if she's going to be able to participate in the contest because she had hand surgery shortly after we purchased our material.
Thank you for inspiring me to sew!
Jo Ann's Fabrics calls this cotton/poly blend their Easy Wash and Care fabric.
I've been using Lutterloh patterns since 2008 when I started looking for pattern drafting software.
The learning curve for Lutterloh patterns is so much less daunting.
The drawing out process for these patterns still fascinates me. This pattern didn't have any issues except for pockets that are so shallow as to be nearly useless. I will move the pleats in front closer to the center so I can enlarge the pocket bags another half inch at least.
The machines I use most are a Brother 4500D sewing/embroidery machine and a Babylock Enlighten serger.
Here is Marty's entry for Skirt Month
The pattern I picked is #224 from 2010, a slightly different pattern than the one Kat chose. The reason I chose this super easy pattern was because it has a flap for the back slit, which sewed up great! I am 5'2" and my hip measurement is 104 cm. I used an older Singer Stylus, model 734.
I have rheumatoid arthritis and am three weeks out from joint surgery on two fingers of my right hand and, except for cutting the material, creating the pattern and whipping up this skirt was a breeze! I have only made two things with Lutterloh, both skirts, but I plan to get busy and increase my wardrobe this summer.
Elizabeth's skirt for the challenge
I have signed up for a True Fit class at my local Hancock store which is coming up on June 3,2015 ...I can hardly wait for it.
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Three weeks in and I'm proud to say that we have both girls' rooms finished. First, a tour of Lucy's big girl room. I had been planning this room since before we even found a house. I knew from the beginning that I wanted a mix of patterns and bold accent colors over a neutral pallet. My amazing father-in-law spent two weekends at our house repairing and painting both of the girls' rooms and closets, and I couldn't be happier with the results.
The paint color is Benjamin Moore's 'Moonshine' and I'm hooked. This color will definitely be a staple in our house.
A quick peek at her room before we moved it. I snapped this during inspection when they still had the staging furniture in place. It's crazy to see how tiny her room looks with the larger, awkwardly placed furniture the staging company used.
And how it looks now:
I tried to be really smart with the furniture placement. It was important that her room not only be functional, but be a place where Lucy can spend some serious time playing. The play kitchen that I DIYed from two old night stands is still a favorite of hers.
The two jewelry boxes on the bookshelf were mine as a little girl, along with all the earrings and necklaces inside. Lucy loves to open the jewelry boxes and not only wear the necklaces, but dress her 'friends' (toys) in them, too.
One of my favorite aspects of Lucy's room is the fact that she has two closets, meaning super storage options.
Her closets before:
And after:
The old wood shelving was ripped out of the left closet and replaced with sturdy wire shelving once the closets were each repainted.
I chose to use the left closet as a place to store Lucy's toys and art supplies. The right closet for her clothes, some shoes and her hamper.
I'll admit it took some adjustment. We had a few nights with many middle of the night wake-ups in a new place, but now that Lucy's room is finally finished and comfortable, she is really enjoying it.
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The SR-7 Advanced Edition seat comes on the heels of the recently sold out SR-6 Super Stark Limited Edition seat. The SR-6 SS's sold out extremely fast and Recaro Japan (with ASM's collaboration) followed up that success with a newer exclusive model. It should be noted that these seats are produced in Japan and sold exclusively in Japan. We are offering them for international export for those interested in these as well as other Recaro Japan only seats.
The SR-7 Advanced Edition is essentially the same in concept as the SR-6 Super Stark in that it takes the basic seat (in this case the newer SR-7) and remixes it with exclusive materials and colorways. The new touches are again the black with grey alcantara accents as well as the small red limited edition lettering.
The SR-7 comes in two variants- a high side bolster and a low side bolster version (high side bolster pictured here)
More pictures and pricing can be found at the following link:
Oh…and this immaculate R32 GT-R is sporting one of these new seats as well (I had to share a picture of this perfect R32)


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A while back, I posted about the re-opening of MeinkeToy. Under new management, they are an online fibre art supply store based in Florida, USA. I approached Eleanor about a give-away to celebrate, and she said yes! In the mean time, they've sent me some supplies to play around with. I told Eleanor I would make some art first to show off their products, however, time keeps on slipping away from me and I've been so busy with other things. I did begin a little landscape, and I have plans to stitch up some more pretties. However, in the mean time, I happened win $25 from their site through a little contest they held in conjunction with Lapel Stick. Isn't that cool!? So I happily ordered more and more pretties. They just arrived. Come see what I have!
|: ) They say fiber, we say fibre. They say gray, we say grey.
Oooh the gorgeous autumn colors!!! I could eat that for breakfast, lunch and supper. Hand dyed scrim/cheese cloth, assorted yarns & fibres for stitching, and all that recycled silk sari ribbon! Oh I want to stitch fall leaves with those. What a great idea to recycle this! It's very inexpensive.
Look at this...
Isn't that pretty!? I could mount it on my wall as is I think! I love the layers of fibres. Incredibly gorgeous. I also finally came accross some silk resist. I want to try painting my own backgrounds to do stitch some local plants onto.
Finally, here's a closer shot at those yummy yarns. These will be great for couching onto postcards.
MeinkeToy can be found online HERE if you want to go look at more. Let's do this now. I have a $25 gift voucher up for grabs for one lucky commenter! I know... more contests. (Is that problem?) There are no hoops to jump. Just give my some ideas as to your favorite fibre art supplies. Any materials, dyes, or strange and wonderful things you love to use? The winner will be drawn at random and announced on Friday. One entry/comment per person please, and YES - anyone from anywhere can enter.
p.s. the Meinke Toy facebook page is here. It's a good way to keep in touch. Thank you MeinkeToy! Happy almost-autumn everyone and happy stitching.


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The New York Times reported that Citigroup's customer Web site was hacked - this hack enabled the thieves to access personal financial information of over 200,000 Citi customers. How did they do it? They manipulated the web site address of Citi's web site for credit card customers and got the information.
The process the thieves used was not complicated but the amazing part is that they NEW of the vulnerability in Citi's defenses and leveraged that security hole to their advantage.
The NY Times writes:
In the Citi breach, the data thieves were able to penetrate the bank's defenses by first logging on to the site reserved for its credit card customers.
Once inside, they leapfrogged between the accounts of different Citi customers by inserting vari-ous account numbers into a string of text located in the browser's address bar. The hackers' code systems automatically repeated this exercise tens of thousands of times — allowing them to capture the confidential private data.
The method is seemingly simple, but the fact that the thieves knew to focus on this particular vulnerability marks the Citigroup attack as especially ingenious, security experts said.
What can you do?
- Ensure you hire a security expert to carefully review your customer built online applications - this security expert should work closely with your programmer.
- For hosted applications from a vendor, ask the vendor how secure their product is and if all known security holes are plugged.
- Monitor your web site logs for any unusual activity. YOU might not be able to do this but work with a company who can help, such as Verisign.
- Do regular vulnerability scans of your web sites and online applications. Your IT consultant can help you with this or you can look online for a reputable vendor who can help - here.
- Consider using a company such as ProPay who has tools and services to help secure credit card and other information on THEIR services so you don't have to.
These are just a few things you can.
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Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Despite evidence and guidelines supporting the value of screening for this disease, rates of screening for colorectal cancer are consistently lower than those for other types of cancer, particularly breast and cervical. Although the screening rates in the target population of adults over age 50, have increased from 20-30 percent in 1997 to nearly 55 percent in 2008 – the rates are still too low. An NIH state-of-the-science panel was convened this week to identify ways to further increase the use and quality of colorectal cancer screening in the United States.
"We recognize that some may find colorectal cancer screening tests to be unpleasant and time-consuming. However, we also know that recommended screening strategies reduce colorectal cancer deaths," said Dr. Donald Steinwachs, panel chair, and professor and director of the Health Services Research and Development Center at the Johns Hopkins University. "We need to find ways to encourage more people to get these important tests."
The panel found that the most important factors associated with being screened are having insurance coverage and access to a regular health care provider. Their recommendations highlighted the need to remove out-of-pocket costs for screening tests.


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I saw Lenny quite often at the Sussex Drive location, in the early 1970s, sometimes by himself solo, sometimes with bassist Michel Donato (as a duo), and occasionally with a trio. Once he sang a set with his mom - singer Betty Cody. Great memories!