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Happy holidays everyone (Australia - sorry USA friends)! My holidays officially started today as I have been at professional development for the past two days. I'm very lucky as the region that I work in has great PD opportunities consistently for us to learn, develop and reinforce our skills.
Two weeks ago I was very fortunate to attend Explicit Instruction which was presented by Dr Anita Archer. I'm sure most of my American friends would of heard about her work. I hadn't heard of DR Archer until our new principal gave us all a copy of her book. This has some amazing ideas. It was very easy to implement as our region's major lesson format focus at the moment is I do, We do, You do. Click on Anita's book to take you to her website. She has numerous videos for lower and upper primary demonstrating explicit instruction.
There is also a sample chapter on the home page. Truly, this is a must read.
Here is where I have been for the past two days.
If you haven't heard of the First Steps program you MUST find out now! First Steps was first written in WA but is now used mainly Australia wide. It is a developmental program written for literacy and mathematics. The literacy program materials are made up of four interwoven strands of literacy: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Viewing, which symbolise the interrelatedness of literacy learning. All strands are threaded with practical, accessible, classroom-tested teaching procedures and activities.
The mathematics program is a series of teacher resource books that is organised around sets of mathematics outcomes for Number, Measurement, Space, and Chance and Data. The series will help teachers to diagnose, plan, implement and judge the effectiveness of the learning experiences they provide for students. I was lucky enough to be included in the two day measurement program.
Here is some of what we covered -
Understand Units
Decide what needs to be measured by selecting what attributes to measure and what units to use.
Direct Measure
Carry out measurements of length, capacity/volume, mass, area, time and angle to needed levels of accuracy.
Indirect Measure
Select, interpret and combine measurements, measurement relationships and formulae to determine other measures indirectly.
Make sensible direct and indirect estimates of quantities and be alert to the reasonableness of measurements and results.
The great part about these two days was that the course was very hands on with lots of interactive and engaging activities.
Here we had to organise clocks form the easiest to the most difficult to interpret.
In this activity, we had to estimate which cup would have the great capacity. This was quite interesting as we found most younger children believe that the tallest will hold the most.
This was a very valuable PD as I gained a lot of new knowledge about measurement. When you attend these workshops you get the measurement books and the course book to keep. For those of you who are wanting to find out more or to get a copy of these very valuable books fear not. The First Steps program could only be attained if you went to a PD or bought the books online. The good news is that you can now get all of the literacy and mathematics books for FREE!
Click on the First Steps picture to take you to the link for all of the text.
Now off to enjoy my holidays, I think I hear the nail salon calling my name.


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10 November 2006
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James Johnston & Sons Limited
Company Number: 39891
Registered Office: Middle Road, Ballyraine, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Letterkenny District Court.
District Judge McVeigh
Alleged Offence(s):
The defendant was charged with offences under section 202 of the Companies Act 1990, which requires the keeping of proper books of account. The 3 charges related to the financial years ending the 31st of December 2002; 31st of December 2003 and 31st of December 2004.
On a plea of guilty, the Court convicted the defendant on each count of an offence under section 202 of the Companies Act 1990, imposed fines totalling of €1,500 and directed the defendant to pay prosecution costs of €250.
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Anyway, let's try to write something positive- something related to the job I do with NHS England.
When I started off on this journey regards diabetes, I wrote about the top three priorities and to an extent, all of them are nicely on track. However you cut it, diabetes -for sure- has had an uplift of funding and at least in my experience, many seem to be talking from the same page. Whatever be the organisation, diabetes is up there- after spending years lying on the scrap heap. Whatever be the reason behind it, its certainly a priority and that is not a bad thing.
Around August, I gave a sort of update as to where things were at - and in the new Year, here's the next instalment! Read if you are interested in diabetes care-here's what the diabetes team at NHS England have been up to.
1. Transformation Funds: The forms for the bids (all 43 million£ of it) were finally released- and considering the extent of the work, money involved, short time spans etc etc…it has been an absolute joy and pleasure to see the number of bids from across the country. Final figures are to be confirmed but they are in excess of 200 and the work put in by all involved is simply fantastic. Much kudos to all for taking the time-and yes, much beyond working hours- to do all the work- whatever be the outcomes- this can only result in improving diabetes care across the country. A gauntlet was laid down- and for sure, the community has responded.
2. Diabetes care pathway/ model of care: This has been something CCGs have grappled for with ages- finally we are getting a pathway from NHS England- which should hopefully help CCGs/ Vanguards/STPs to get all parties to work towards it. Some clarity about different types of diabetes -especially while commissioning- will be welcome- as the nonsense of "all diabetes needs similar treatment" needs to stop if we are to improve care.
3. Digital Strategy: Plans are being formalised- and the scale of ambition is high- with a phased approach towards it. It is time for educational modules to be available online- and plans are on track- albeit admittedly it could all happen much quicker. One to keep an eye on- but a Type 1 portal with options of downloads, interactivity are all in the mix…the question is of feasibility rather than simply finance. If all goes to plan, it could be something quite exciting indeed.
4. Access to technology- continues to be high up the agenda. Ongoing conversations with Abbott re Libre, discussions with companies regards CGM/Pump access- all are happening…all I can say is that progress is there- yet its not all down to either CCGs or indeed the companies…a large part of it is education or even willingness on all quarters to adapt technology. What is the point of opening up technology to all…if the diabetes community doesn't wholeheartedly believe in it yet…or indeed have evidence of training in them? However, there is no doubting the desire on all to make it happen.
Other relevant bits have been exploring nurse education with the diabetes nurse organisation, TREND, discussing options with the Trainees via the YDEF, conversations with the BMA-GP group regards QoF- revisiting areas such as targets in frailty….many strands indeed- it's a question of which bits land- at the least. Conversations with ABPI on outcome based commissioning for pharmaceutical companies are yet another strand…it's been a busy few months indeed.
Around the corner, sits something exciting…the chance to visit all specialist centres, use data to discuss gaps, highlight good practice, have discussions with executive teams about diabetes care (remember the impossible tour? )…all in all, lots of ideas, thoughts…all to hopefully help in improving diabetes care. Will all the ideas work? Unlikely- but even if some do, that would be progress.
Its been a pleasure to work with some dedicated folks within the team…but has all of this been a doddle? Not in the slightest….want to know more about the obstacles, challenges and hiccups? Next week it is then…about "patient leaders", "structures", "interference" , "email/Twitter abuse" and much more. It's not been a picnic for sure- but progress regards diabetes care certainly seems to be in the right direction.
Time will tell whether all of this was worth the time. Or not. Till then, its all been a fabulous learning experience, if nothing else.
(With thanks to Jonathan, Matt and Jeff for tolerating me for the last 9 months or so! )


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Identifying student error patterns, what they do, is the first step in diagnosing student misconceptions, the why behind the errors. Knowing what students do and most importantly why they do it yields invaluable information that teachers can use to guide instruction and bridge gaps in student understanding.
Using Classroom Evidence to Identify Error Patterns and Diagnose Misconceptions: Student Work
Classroom evidence consists of student work, direct observation data, and interview data. Student work is identified as assignments (e.g., classwork, homework, quizzes, tests, projects, and portfolios) that students submit as evidence of learning stated objectives. Direct observations involve both listening to student responses within small and large group contexts and watching how they solve problems. Interviews probe students' understanding through questioning about their thinking and can happen spontaneously or can be scheduled. Each type has unique strengths and can be used together to form a robust assessment system.
Student work is commonly used to understand students' skill and accuracy in performing mathematical procedures, their conceptual understanding, and their ability to apply that understanding in novel situations. In some cases, student work is also used to determine student readiness for new concepts and advanced learning activities. Though student work serves many purposes in the mathematics classroom, the following considerations can help maximize its use in identifying error patterns and diagnosing misconceptions:
Vary problem sets in specific ways to reveal and confirm error patterns. Student work is often used to determine whether or not a student "got it". As a tool for identifying error patterns and diagnosing misconceptions, activity selection and what specifically you want to know about student understanding take center stage. In other words, if you want to know if students can accurately apply an algorithm, student work might consist of calculations. To identify error patterns and diagnose misconceptions, select problems that are likely to reveal and confirm a variety of specific errors and misconceptions. Choose problems that vary slightly in order to ferret out where students may struggle.
For example, if you want to determine if students can correctly subtract three digit numbers, select problems that: (a) do not require regrouping, (b) require regrouping from the tens or hundreds place, and (c) require regrouping from both the tens and hundreds place. A common misconception that students have with regrouping is treating each digit in a number independently without regard to its position in the minuend or subtrahend. Students with this misconception may subtract the smaller place value digit from the larger place value digit (e.g., To evaluate 742 – 513, the student subtracts 2 from 3 in the ones place because the 2 is smaller than 3) to get around regrouping. Including problems like this and looking for this error pattern can help teachers to see the misconception and teach students about the relationship between the number and place value. Ashlock (2010) provides a wealth of examples to illustrate how slightly varying problem types can help to identify and confirm error patterns in computation.
Maximize your review time by carefully selecting problems. In higher grades especially, student work tends to cover a variety of topics and rarely focuses on a single concept. Balancing conceptual focus and cumulative review can be challenging. When using student work as a diagnostic tool (different from using a diagnostic assessment), less is more! If the goal is to identify gaps and make adjustments, the fewer and more strategic the problem set, the better. Assigning fewer, more strategic problems regularly provides teachers with timely information about emergent proficiencies and struggles when evaluating student work. This information can be gathered rather quickly and used to help teachers to group students accordingly, target common gaps in understanding, and guide instruction in general. In a classroom where student work is used as a diagnostic tool, cumulative assignments can be given periodically.
Use student work to help focus further steps to identify and diagnose learning needs. It can be challenging to track student progress on a single concept or procedure over time through student work alone because assignments rarely revisit the same concept in the manner over an extended period of time. As such, a comprehensive assessment system is the best approach to identify error patterns and diagnose student misconceptions. Student work just may be a good first step! Other tools will be discussed throughout this series such as gathering classroom through direct observations and interviews, and later, diagnostic and progress monitoring assessments. As a first step in an overall assessment program, student work can provide teachers with focus—identify which students you may need to pay close attention to and what to look for in their work, behavior, and responses.
Ashlock, R. (2010). Error patterns in computation: Using error patterns to help each student learn (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (1999). Mathematics assessment: A practical handbook for grades 9-12. Reston, VA: Author.


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With all the buzz these days about healthy lifestyles, International Walk to School Day on Wednesday is a great opportunity for parents and their children to get some exercise. This is an annual event, and this year at least 10 schools in our district are participating. Walk to school with your child, enjoy some fresh air, meet some friends along the way and get a little bit healthier. The entire month has been named "Walktober," in the hopes that families continue this great habit in the future.
The YMCA Quarterback Club has been meeting every Tuesday during football season for 82 years. Each week the group hears about our local football programs. Glendale, Hoover, Crescenta Valley and St. Francis High School, as well as Glendale Community College coaches each give an update. Membership is $50, lunch is $16 each Tuesday until Nov. 23. The event is held at the Elks Club, 120 E. Colorado St., Glendale. Call Susan Hunt for more information at (818)-241-3111, Ext. 566.


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Shorts + Shoes - Target
Hat + Shirt - thrifted
We are headed to explore Sicily for two weeks and I can't wait! I won't have my computer with me, but make sure to follow along on instagram for all of my travel snaps! If any of you have been before, I would love to hear any recommendations!
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Stotras, hymns of praise, are some of the most popular and versatile compositions in Sanskrit. In general, these hymns praise and appeal to a divinity with direct, devoti…
Stotras, Sanskrit Hymns(10,587 words)
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I call you cousins because scientifically that's it how works out. Maybe before Toba we were unrelated, but sorry to say post-Toba, we are all cousins. I'm about as thrilled with the fact as you are.
Wait, turns out Toba is probably not responsible for humanity's near-extinction and subsequent inbreeding.
Mom did the mtDNA test to find out where all her mother's mothers came from. Turns out we're black.
Oh, true there was a detour up into Northern Europe, and so, even though we all, cousins, go back to African Eve, I have Ursula of the seven daughters of Eve as my great great times x grandma.
Haplogroup U, and actually U81a1a1a, which is primarily in Sweden. Now mom got a little upset to find out we are more Swedish than Norwegian, but no one else could get all that worked up over it.
Haplogroup U8 though, is fairly rare, and U is very old, probably the pioneers in Europe. The Basque are the most modern collection of haplogroup U, and U (as X) also made it across the Bering land bridge into the the Americas.
So, like Dad's family, we all followed just footsteps behind the glacial retreat into Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Want to find some evidence of our occupation? Get some scuba gear ro a submersible, because the artifacts are all hundreds meters below sea level. Might want to start with the Dogger bank, where fisherman still dredge up stone and bronze items.
Deep time gets me to thinking about the biblical flood for some reason. Biblical? Hell, universal. I know geologists don't like catastrophism, but oral history has a way of having an amazing fidelity, but no small grounding in fact. I'm thinking we pass down stories about the glacial melt surge that happened, say, 14,600 BCE.
And you know what I say? Expect another catastrophic Big Melt and Flood, and soon. I'm looking at you, Florida.
Reality is never what you expect it to be. That's how you know it's real. Same with apocalypses, by gum.
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Hooting owl heard at the 00:53 and 00:58 time count
This video shows an unusual glowing dot in the sky, while the audio catches a hooting owl. Listen carefully at the 00.53 and 00.58 mark. You can clearly hear the high pitched call of a tawney owl. Yes, I realize that this is a very common bird in the British Isles, but gee-whiz...
Let me say this very clearly...
This is an owl and UFOseen and heard at the same moment!
The UK tabloid, The Mirror, has a short article on a man who captured unusual video footage near his home on Monday September 12. No mention of the owl.
The 32-year-old man, who wished to remain anonymous, said he kept noticing the UFOs as he walked his dog through the hills near Great Shefford in Berkshire.
On Monday he decided to take a camera with him to capture the mysterious objects in a bid to discover what they were.
But after less than two minutes of filming the UFOs his camera suddenly died - despite being fully charged.
The video below features the call of a tawny owl for comparison, alas, without any UFOs.
You can hear this owl, and another in the distance, exchanging calls
If you ask a child in America to make the sound of an owl, they'll say, "Hooo-Hooo!" Ask a child in England the same question and they'll say, "Twit-Twooo!" This discrepancy is because the both the great gray and great horned owls make a low haunting hooting call, but neither are in Europe. The most iconic owl in the British Isles is the tawny owl, and it makes a staggered high pitched flute like call that sounds a bit like twit-twoo. Only a few of the largest owls actually hoot, all the rest make different sounds, often quite screechy. This is the kind of stuff you learn when immersed in owl research.
Big thanks to Suzanne Chancellor for pointing me to this video,
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Priberam is the world's leading supplier of natural language processing and search technologies for the Portuguese language and the market leader in law knowledge management systems in Portugal. Multidisciplinary teams of software engineers, linguists and lawyers, among others, develop the company portfolio of products and services.
- The Priberam Portuguese Language Dictionary (formerly known as Portuguese Language Dictionary Online , or DLPO), with over one million page views per day, is the fifth most popular Portuguese website.
- FLiP (acronym for " Ferramentas for Língua Portuguesa ") is the brand under which Priberam has been providing various products and services in the area of natural language processing since 1995. The FLiP 8 includes spell checkers, dictionaries, thematic, stylistic and syntactic correction, thesauri, and many linguistic processing features that can be used as add-ins to text editors including Word.
- Novo Corretor Aurélio (Brazilian Portuguese checking tools) began to license and develop resources for Brazilian Portuguese.
- LegiX is the leading Portuguese legal database, the system chosen by the 20 largest law firms operating in Portugal. Since launching the first version in 1991 the evolution of LegiX has been marked by continuous improvements, such as updating via the Internet, automatic creation of hyperlinks to documents cited in the text, the ability to create personal databases, the introduction of notes and, more recently, the generation of digital editions in PDF.
- Priberam Search is the result of years of work in the areas of natural language processing and legal information systems, as well as projects in research and development that the company has participated in.


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Monday, July 16, 2012
Supernova is quilted...
It finishes at about 50" square and will be hung in my classroom. It will give the kids something to look at when they are bored learning Algebra....LOL! As if Algebra could ever get boring....
I'd love to post what I'm making for my secret quilter swap but I can't until after our retreat in August. But I'm taking pictures, and working diligently, I swear!
Happy Quilting to all 5 of you who read this.... ;-)
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I love the loopy zig zags! (I have no idea what that pattern is actually called) but it really stands out in the gray.ReplyDelete
Now that I think about it.. you should try quilting subliminal algebra messages in it! :)
I love the quilting! It really makes the prints pop out!ReplyDelete
I love it!! Your quilting is Awesome!!ReplyDelete
I love how you quilted this. Is the loopy-zig-zag-y pattern your own invention? It will really brighten up your classroom.ReplyDelete
Oh, and how could anyone possibly get bored with algebra? Or any other branch of maths come to that.
I love how it looks quilted! How much time that must have taken!!ReplyDelete
The quilting is beautiful.ReplyDelete
Your Supernova is just beautiful!! The quilting is just right! What a great addition to the classroom :o)ReplyDelete
Love the supernova quilt and your quilting. Did you use scraps or was it a carefully created colour scheme? It looks like more than 5 people came to visit!ReplyDelete
It looks fantastic!!! :)ReplyDelete
The depth you have created in this quilt is unbelievable. You better be careful, I could look at this for hours, maybe your students could too!ReplyDelete
Love everything about your supernova! I want to make one as soon as I finish what I'm working on right now. Thought I had settled on doing 6 different fabrics in each block but then I saw yours. I love it! Love your color choices and wonder if I can challenge myself to go that bright. I want to and I will try 'cause I love the bright colors.ReplyDelete
Beautiful FMQ! I originally pinned quite some time ago but have been scrolling through my pins and discovered the quilt again. I was looking for the pattern but then when I saw how you quilted it I was even more excited! Hopefully I can find the pattern!ReplyDelete


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Introduction to Colic and Why Babies Cry
"The goal of this website is to help better understand why our babies cry and to deal with one major condition known as colic ."
Since the beginning of time, babies have cried. Parents have tried everything imaginable to help their children stop crying, especially since crying is hard for people to tolerate, no matter what age they may be. Crying carries with it so many emotions: fear, pain, sadness, happiness, anger, love, loneliness, hunger, and anxiety, just to name a few.
When an adult cries, we have the ability to ask them why they are feeling down; however, babies are different. Babies tend to communicate with either smiles or tears, which brings us to the problem of how to decipher what these tears mean. Whether they are sick, cold, scared, hungry, or just uncomfortable, these emotions are all expressed through crying, leaving parents or caregivers to guess as to what may be the underlying issue.
Since beginning my research in 1973, I have observed time and time again that we have not come far in understanding what babies are trying to tell us. What I have been finding in my current research is that people assume crying is just a normal part of being a baby. I would like to discuss and share with you in this website that body language and tone of voice can give you critical information about what is making a baby uncomfortable, and that with practice, you will be able to figure out about 93% of what the baby wants to tell you. The remaining 7% of information that you don't have access to would be the baby's verbal communication, explaining exactly why he/she is crying.
My research indicates that approximately 95% of babies born in First World countries, such as the United States and many European countries, have no pathological problems causing them to cry. This means that these babies cry out of some sort of discomfort, such as hunger, pain, or being wet, not because they are in need of medical attention. There are many exceptions when we consider countries, in which healthcare is limited and nourishment is poor, but our focus will stay primarily on the United States. It is also true that babies in First World countries can develop sinus infections, pneumonia, and even genetic conditions such as Williams Syndrome, but again, most newborns in America and other First World countries are generally healthy.
The goal of this website is to help better understand why our babies cry and how to deal with one major condition known as colic, which has caused thousands of parents heartache, while they watch their newborns cry without answers. This is typically the case within the first few months after a baby's birth and there often seems to be no way to successfully explain, and treat this painful condition we know as colic. Many people don't understand what colic is and therefore don't know how to treat it, but if you push your skepticism away and give this a chance to help you and your family, you won't regret it. Give us an open mind and we will give you results.
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I have been wrestling with the painful realization that many musicians have admitted too… the dying music market. The Music Industry's "1-2%" Death Knell is just another example of the skeletal profit margins musicians can expect today. Licensing music or composing for film/tv/games and other media is the last realm (along with live performing musicians) that today's musician can expect to make financial earnings. When ones identity is deeply connected to their ability to compose, produce, or record songs, yet at the same time listeners do not "need" to purchase music as in generations past because the "free streaming model" has become standard, they may begin to question investing in this craft further. To have someone "buy" your music is to feel "needed and purposeful". As I was pondering this with a heavy heart, God lead me to read the following passage from As a Man Thinketh by James Allen:
Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.
Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet and sage, these are the makers of the afterword, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.
Let's not give up hope that musicians can earn an income for their work, yet in the meanwhile continue to create the soundtrack of people's lives, press on for the sake of art itself, and in doing so you may inspire others to live their dreams.


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WSH cloud is an integrated, secure, cloud-based platform for the delivery of analytics solution. It is a simple yet powerful way to load and manage your data and convert that into insights that drive right behavior.
WSH cloud combines cutting-edge technology, guided intelligence, and cloud-based analytics tools that takes you on a complete journey from disparate clinical, financial, and operational data to actionable insights.
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I Got Your Girl Like Lyrics
Why yes.
I got your girl like. [x3]
Hit it from the back till she scream out stop.
Homegirl like it rough so I beat it like a cop.
Put her on top tell her toot her shit
And if she wants sex she can use my dick
I be eating her clit when a nigga so hungry.
Your boyfriend don't so his girlfriend want me.
Call me and I'll make it juicy
You can just do you and watch her do me
House or jacuzzi car or the movies
Beat it so much that shawty wants to sue me.
Lick it like a envelope and mail my dick
In her pussy I'm a go hard never shall
Be a roookie.
I got your girl like [moans] [x10]
Yeah I'm young sam and I like eating coochie.
Only for my main girl never from a groupie.
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Jumps in her pussy and my head go down.
If it smell like water I'm a eat it right now.
Got ya girl making sound that her on the beat.
Walk into my house that's her the my sheets
She heard I was weak but she knew that was fake.
I threw my dick in her only half she can take.
I'm glad we can make the bed shake
Like a earthquake pussy so good
I love how desert taste.
I I eat it ti'll I can't no mo
Girl lift them legs like lambo doorz
Let me just put it right in yo hole
Now there she goes sliding down that pole
Oh babygirl let me eat
Feed me pussy or feed me beats!
I got your girl like [moans] [x10] [till fades]
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Want to improve your chances of finding the first one through first love? This event is what you should be looking for!
Based on the good feedback received last month, we are repeating this venue again in June.
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Hello everyone! It's Delphine here today to share a card I made with a beautiful stamp from the July Release - Winter Pine! I love this stamp which can be used by itself, or as a background with a little character in front! You can find the best places to purchase it HERE!
I stamped my trees and coloured them in Copics. I then added a bit of Distress Inks around the edges and put white embossing powder on them and heat set the powder. I used Star Dust Stickles on the snow on the ground and added white snowflakes in the sky with a white gel pen. To finish off the card, I stamped a sentiment on vellum, which I heat set, and used Stickles on the edges of my vellum to complete the frosty look.
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Tricks of the Traders
Loans and securities are not merely products. While progressive forces can win some political battles by deploying the product metaphor, it obscures more than it illuminates. Consider the practice of "high-frequency trading."
Matt Krantz discusses the ways in which automation in the finance sector can leave ordinary investors high and dry:
Not only are the markets completely computerized, more than half of the market's volume is churned by computers programmed to spot certain patterns in trading. These machines see stocks not as securities used by companies to raise money, but rather, symbols, numbers and bits that are traded, swapped and exchanged.
And now, traders say, humans are responding to machines rather than the other way around. Increasingly, too, the machines are reacting to each other, trying to second-guess what their next moves might be on how to take advantage of an edge that might be gone in milliseconds.
As Keynes might have predicted, we have "reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be." The machines are perhaps devoted to "practice the fourth, fifth and higher degrees." But there's a twist: part of the investment game now appears to be a falsification of (or at least fake-outs via) data on such opinions:
Rapid-fire computer systems allow sophisticated traders, including the giant Wall Street firms, to post bid (buy) and offer (sell) prices they have no intention of actually following through on . . . . For instance, a firm might post a bid for a stock showing they want to buy at a certain price. But by the time investors interested in selling at that price get their order to the market, the false buyer yanks the electronic bid literally faster than a blink of the eye . . . This interplay happens in milliseconds, making it difficult to detect. . . . [T]he firms that are physically located nearest the market centers in New York and pay market-access fees get a leg up.
One physical barrier to equality here is mere location: "Each 186 miles a trader is physically located away from the New York trading center, about a millisecond is added to the time to execute a trade." There's no way to discern "honest signals" in such an accelerated environment. Other tricks include effectively spamming the market:
Thanks to low-cost and automated trading, trading firms can swamp markets with a deluge of buy and sell orders in a way that gives them an advantage . . . As other firms must parse through the extraneous trades, slowing them down, the firms behind the pseudo bids and offers can ignore them, saving them milliseconds of analysis time. This gives their computers valuable extra milliseconds to parse true trends in the market and gain an advantage, [Eric Hunsader, founder of market data feed provider Nanex] says . . . [A]nyone who knows some of those trades can be ignored gets a huge advantage.
The destructive potential of these dynamics is clear. John Jacobs, the COO of LimeBrokerage, told the SEC in 2009 that "unrestrained computer-generated trading has the potential to create catastrophic economic damage to the U.S. national market system."
Rather than reflecting or reporting or trading on changes in the value of a given security, the HFTers appear to be creating such changes. On the most charitable reading, they are "engines, not cameras," like the now-discredited theories of finance that led to their rise. On a less-charitable view, they should be the subject of agnotology, the science of "how and why various forms of knowing do not come to be." Doubt is their product, or at the very least the condition under which they thrive. As Senator Kaufman said in a hearing:
No one at the SEC as far as I know, or anyone else really, knows what actually goes in the market centers that are engaged in high-frequency trading. And now with high-frequency tradings at between 60 percent and 70 percent of all market transactions, sometimes things get too big to fail, sometimes things get too big to even look into.
Some hope that "radical transparency" and better reporting standards will improve matters. I'm beginning to think we have little to rely on other than a cultural turn toward investing in projects with real social value. Rather than viewing investment as a zero-sum game of predicting the valuation of securities as products, we might begin to think of it as a process of supporting certain futures over others. Flash trading and other forms of short-termism merely abdicate that responsibility. They promise fast profits for those with the best computers, quants, and communications, but little hope for efficient, just, or rational capital allocation.


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Markets include the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and France
GREENWICH, Conn. - February 15, 2018 - XPO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: XPO), a leading global provider of transportation and logistics solutions, today announced the expansion of its last mile logistics service of heavy goods to Europe. New markets include the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and France. The company expects to manage more than 750,000 last mile deliveries from retailers and e-commerce companies in Europe this year.
Troy Cooper, chief operating officer of XPO Logistics, said, "Our last mile expansion to Europe is being driven by customer demand, primarily related to e-commerce. Consumers are buying more large items online, including furniture and appliances. These are home deliveries that often require white glove services, such as assembly, installation and testing. We'll leverage our proprietary technology and successful business model that have made us a last mile leader in North America." Luis Gomez, managing director of transport, XPO Logistics Europe, said, "Today, the market is very fragmented with small-scale regional players. XPO has the scale and experience to look across Europe and give customers results-driven performance as they grow with the boom in e-commerce."
XPO previously announced plans to open 30 new last mile hubs in North America by the end of 2018 for a total of 85 hubs in the United States. The company is the largest last mile logistics provider for heavy goods in North America, facilitating approximately 13 million deliveries a year.
About XPO LogisticsXPO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: XPO) is a top ten global logistics provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. The company operates as a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets in 32 countries, with 1,455 locations and more than 95,000 employees. XPO uses its network to help more than 50,000 customers manage their goods more efficiently throughout their supply chains. The company has two reporting segments, transportation and logistics, and within these segments its business is well diversified by geographies, verticals and types of service. XPO's corporate headquarters is in Greenwich, Conn., USA, and its European headquarters is in Lyon, France. xpo.com.
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We arrived in Cannes yesterday afternoon, gracefully motoring in as Arnold Schwarzenegger finished up his tea on one of the big Super Yachts and left with his entourage of body guards…was it something we said? Anyway, this is what it's all about here. Its all glamour and sparkly, shiny, expensive boats and women. I might have to start brushing my hair in the morning.
On the opposite end of the glamour scale, I've had a few requests for the recipe for my kitchen-sink-lasagne which featured briefly in my last blog. It may not be very 'Cote D'azure', but is a great way to feed lots of hungry mouths in a very short space of time. Everything but the kitchen sink can go in it, hence the name (I'm sure you hadn't guessed that) And it costs nothing to make. Ace.
More often than not, I find myself with around 90 minutes to cook lunch for 12 people and can't afford to take the time to go to the shops. Kitchen-sink-lasagne day I looked into the fridge to find 4 courgettes, a quarter of a bit of a pumpkin, and some very odd bits of cheese. Thus followed a huge lasagne! So here it is and obviously you can use most left over vege's that are in the fridge. If you have onions, you can make a feast out of anything in my book;
For a lasagne for 6-10 people you will need;
3-4 onions, thinly sliced
3-4 cloves of garlic, crushed
2 medium sized potatoes, chopped into small cubes
Pumpkin or butternut squash, peeled and chopped as small as the potato
4 courgettes, grated; the water squeezed out of them
100 g pinenuts, dry fried in a pan till golden
A box of dried lasagne sheets (or fresh if you have)
A white sauce (bought or homemade, instructions below)
Any bits of left over cheese, rind and all!
tsp of fennel seeds
- Because you're probably in a hurry, the lasagne will cook quicker if it's soaked first, so put a load of the pasta sheets in a dish of water. Unless you have fresh in which case skip that bit.
- Gently sauté your onions in some olive oil or sunflower oil with ½ tsp sugar. (I usually do this with onions, I find it helps drawer out their sweetness and helps round off the flavour of most dishes. My grandma taught me that)
- In another pan, at the same time as your onions sauté the pumpkin and potatoes in some oil until soft. Don't fry them too hard, they don't want to be browned, just soft. Add the fennel seeds and continue sautéing for a few more minutes. Add to your onions.
- Squeeze as much of the water out of the grated courgettes as you can. Fry this in some oil for a few minutes then add to the rest of the vege mixture along with the toasted pinenuts. Season with some salt and pepper.
For the white sauce
¾ pint of milk
2 tbsp butter
2-3 tbsp plain flour
A dash of grated nutmeg
Salt and pepper
100-150g of bits and bobs of cheese,
- Now for the tasty, cheesy white sauce bit; If you have a carton or jar of white sauce then just heat gently and add your finely chopped or grated bits of cheese. I used some goat's cheese, parmesan and some French Cantal but cheddar or anything would be great too.
- To make the sauce from scratch plop a good tbsp or about 50g butter into a small-ish saucepan. Melt the butter then add 2 wooden spoons worth of flour or 2 heaped tbsp. Stir into the butter on a medium heat so that's its sizzling. When it looks a bit honey-combed or granular then take off the heat. Now start adding some milk bit by bit, stirring loads with a wooden spoon or whisk to incorporate it fully into the flour and butter after each addition. It gets a bit doughy but that's cool. Eventually it'll start turning into a nice looking sauce. When you have incorporated all the milk put back onto a medium heat and keep stirring all the time till its thickened. When it has thickened nicely, let it simmer gently for about 5 minutes.
- Take off the heat and then add you cheese, nutmeg and seasoning till you're very happy with the taste. Please use freshly grated nutmeg. The pre-grated stuff is truly useless. Make sure your sauce is not too thick; you need a good amount of spreadable cheesy, creamy sauce.
- Now you can start layering. Spread a few spoonfuls of the veg mixture across the base of your dish. Just a light smearing of it is all you need to start off with. Lay your sheets of soaked lasagne sheets over the vege's so that there are no gaps.
- Next spoon about a third of the vege mixture over the lasagne sheets. Then pour over a good dribble of the cheese sauce till it thinly covers the vege mixture. Top this with more lasagne sheets.
- Keep repeating this process till you have come to the top of your dish. I like to finish off with a last layer of pasta sheets then a final topping of cheese sauce and some grated cheese.
- Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes, till nice and golden and bubbly on top.
I'll be off to the Cannes market as soon as possible so I'll be coming up with some slightly more, good looking, Cannes worthy dishes for the crew. And it's getting hot, slowly but surely. So it's definitely salad time of year again.
Please do use the comment box below if you have any requests for recipes or you tried a dish and wish to tell me how it went. I'd love to know. Cheers!
See you soon and hopefully with a bit more of a tan. I really need to try to fit in a bit more round here. But then I would still like to keep eating so I'll let you know how it goes. Who really cares about being a size 8 still at the age of 33?


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I think it's time I included something creative on here so I'll share with you what we did on our once-a-month play day yesterday. Four of us have just started getting together to share techniques, ideas and inspirations and so far have explored discharge printing and printing with Inktense bars and pencils.
Using a home made screen (from a picture frame and voile) I laid the screen down onto a sheet of freezer paper (not the waxy side) and sketched with the oilbars keeping the idea of the sea in mind.
When I picked the screen up, as expected, loose colour from the bars had dropped through. I sprayed these with water to dissolve the pigment and took a direct monoprint.
This is the print on cotton, it is a little stronger in real life. What I particularly liked was the subtle specks of colour from the waterspray on the edges.
Turning to the silkscreen I pulled the first print onto Evolon with a layer of organza on the top and with a stencil between the screen and the organza. Initially we used printpaste to pull the print but by the time we had washed that out it left a very pale print. Evidently the paste puts the pigment into suspension instead of releasing it into the fabric fully. I decided not to rinse my prints out as these early prints will probably go into my sketchbook for future reference.
If I had taken more time and care I could have masked out the hard outlines but the prints in themselves are exciting. We were thinking of other ways of getting this effect of colour gradations with printing and couldn't think how else it could be achieved.
Just a belated word of warning, Inktense bars will stain your screen so don't use your best one!
I made this print over earlier prints that I had made with Dionne Swift. I used a stencil based on the London streetplan by ArtistCellar Stencils.
And of course, I also had the positive print from the map stencil.
As I said earlier I havn't washed my prints out as I would expect to lose too much colour. Apparently you can use Aloe Gel or even sanitising gel to pull the prints so I will have another try with one of these and see how the colours hold up. It will be interesting to experiment with other watersoluble media too.
As well as having a play day I have been busy making a baby quilt for a friend who is expecting later this year.
I am really pleased with this quilt and as it is made from a panel it went together relatively quickly. I added a border to square it up (not that it is very even) and patched together a backing.
The panel is by Hoffman fabrics but I can't remember where I got it from or what it's called.
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With Chasing Yesterday out next month, Rock Cellar Magazine revisits Noel Gallagher's first solo outing.
"The great incentive for me is that when you're working in LA, everybody in England is asleep," Noel Gallagher tells me during one of our two interviews during the promotion of his first solo album, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, in 2011, of his choice to finish the record in Los Angeles.
"Your phone is dead so you can concentrate, knowing that the world you live in on the other side of the Atlantic, they're all nice and safe in bed. You've spoken to them before they got in bed. The kids are in bed, the wife's in bed, they're all in bed. You get a good fucking eight hours stretch of a working day where everybody's asleep and nobody's going to be calling you or e-mailing you. So there's that. There's also the weather. I love the fucking sunshine. The people out there are very professional. They've all got great studios, everything works, and the lifestyle lived out there is… I start work at mid-day, I finish at midnight, and on weekends, I sit on the balcony in Sunset Towers, smoke cigarettes, drink tea, and think, 'Wow, isn't this fucking wonderful?'"
In fact, it did turn out wonderfully. Gallagher's album was a UK #1, and did respective sales globally at a time when the music business was otherwise struggling. But when I first spoke with Gallagher, ahead of the release of the album, he was remarkably unsure of what to expect, as both a solo artist and frontman.
"I had perfected that role," Gallagher told me of his days in Oasis, during an informal chat at a swanky rooftop party in New York's SoHo to celebrate the release of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. "I was quite happy to be the guy on the side of the stage, playing guitar and singing the odd song. It's actually a pain in the arse to have to be up front. Talk to me after a few shows. I might be moaning about how I've made a huge mistake."
But, typically, he was also full of his trademark bravado. "I'm pleased," he told me of the finished album. "I recorded one song and it was fun and I thought it sounded really good. Then I recorded another and I thought, 'That's fucking great, man'. I'm ready to play it to the people."
Funnily enough, though, even in 2011 Gallagher was already setting his sights on what would become Chasing Yesterday, which is due out March 3rd.
"I never like to hold anything back for fear you might fucking die and your wife take all the glory, you know what I mean? I kind of put it all out there," he told me.
"There's nothing of Oasis left in the vaults. But I've got a lot of songs knocking around. Come On, It's All Right'will be on the next album. There's a track out there called God Help Us All that will be on the next one. I'm working through them slowly. I have to thank people on the Internet really."
You go on YouTube and find these songs I've done at sound checks that people have recorded and put there. I forget about them! I'm just trying to have fun on stage. Twenty minutes to kill, so I'll fucking sing a new one. I've seen a few now, and I think, "Wow, that's actually a good song. I should finish that off."
"It's kind of good in a way. It helps. I've rediscovered maybe half a dozen songs I would have ordinarily forgotten about. When I first got a computer, somebody asked if I'd seen all my stuff on there. I hadn't. So I checked out soundcheck versions of Everybody On The Run, If I Had A Gun (both from his first solo album), and some other unreleased stuff. People had started to finish off the words with what they thought they should be. Management insisted that I had them taken down. I was like, 'You know what? Those are just gifts!' If people are that interested in coming along to a soundcheck and risk getting thrown out to do that, fuck it. I don't mind. People are not that dumb to think that's the version. It's not going to spoil anything when If I Had A Gun eventually comes out. I don't mind that. I find it incredibly flattering to be honest."
But Gallagher was also circumspect about what he'd accomplished during the sessions for his first solo album.
"I don't need to be in the studio all the fucking time, you know what I mean?," he told me. "I've got the demos. I won't forget them. It's literally a case of time. If I book a studio for six weeks, I get through as much as I can, because I've got so many songs. When I get to the end, it's like okay, that's it. It's done."
The excitement over Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds began with the release of the single The Death Of You And Me. Markedly different from anything Oasis ever attempted, it's a songwriting and production tour de force, and Gallagher laid much of it's success to Dave Sardy, whom he had worked with on the last two Oasis albums and who acted as co-producer on High Flying Birds.
"I have to say, when I finally got to the mixing stage, the first thing I mixed was The Death of You and Me and I thought, 'Wow, that's really fucking great,'" said Gallagher. "I've seen songs go from nothing to magic in a couple of days. When The Death of You and Me, for instance, started out it sounded great. When Dave finished, he took it to the area where it's magic. What you hear now is something quite magical. But we just get on. We have the same interest in music and films and bullshit, and we've got the same amount of kids, and our kids are the same age. The guys he surrounds himself with great people and his team are also roundabout the same age. We've got the same reference points in life and music. We just all get on."
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Iranian hackers infiltrated government networks, airlines and oil and gas firms in four GCC states during a two-year campaign targeting critical infrastructure around the world, according to a new report by a US cybersecurity firm.
State-controlled oil company Saudi Aramco and Qatar Airways were among the specific targets of what the report called "Operation Cleaver", a person close to the report, by Cylance, told Reuters.
Iran also attacked the military, aviation, energy and transportation sectors of countries including the UAE and Kuwait, while Cylance also backed US claims that Iran was responsible for a 2012 attack on the corporate computer systems and website of Saudi oil giant Aramco and Qatar's RasGas, which caused the companies to temporarily shutdown.
Aerospace firms, airports and airlines, universities, energy firms, hospitals, and telecommunications operators based in the United States, Israel, China, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, France, England also have been hit by the campaign, Cylance said, without naming individual companies.
The firm said the campaign showed Iran's increasing ability to hack sophisticated systems that could allow it to eventually cause physical damage.
"We believe that if the operation is left to continue unabated, it is only a matter of time before the team impacts the world's physical safety," Cylance said.
"As Iran's cyber warfare capabilities continue to morph, the probability of an attack that could impact the physical world at a national or global level is rapidly increasing.
"Iran is no longer content to retaliate against the US and Israel alone. They have bigger intentions: to position themselves to impact critical infrastructure globally."
The Iranian government has denied the report's allegations.
"This is a baseless and unfounded allegation fabricated to tarnish the Iranian government image, particularly aimed at hampering current nuclear talks," a spokesman for Iran's mission to the United Nations, Hamid Babaei, told Reuters.
The Cylance report does not detail motives for the specific attacks but suggests that Iran is attempting to gain leverage in its ongoing discussions surrounding the end of its nuclear program.
Tehran has been investing heavily in its cyber capabilities since 2010, when its nuclear program was hit by the Stuxnet computer virus, widely believed to have been launched by the US and Israel. Iran has said its nuclear program is intended for the production of civilian electricity, and denies Western accusations it is seeking to build a nuclear bomb.
Cylance said the Iranian hacking group has so far focused its campaign on intelligence gathering, but that it likely has the ability to launch attacks.
It said researchers who succeeded in gaining access to some of the hackers' infrastructure found massive databases of user credentials and passwords, diagrams, and screenshots from organizations including energy, transportation, and aerospace companies, as well as universities.
"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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Dobson Court comprises 20 flats and bungalows situated around a quiet cul-de-sac and the neighbouring road.
There are 12 self-contained studio flats within the main building, each with their own kitchen and bathroom. There are also eight 2-bedroom bungalows within the grounds and the surrounding area. All properties are fitted with an alarm system to call for help in an emergency.
There is a communal lounge and laundry within the main house as well as a guest room for visiting friends and relatives. The scheme is surrounded by attractive lawns and all the bungalows have their own gardens.
There is a small supermarket, a post office, local shops and a couple of pubs within the village. We also have GP surgery and library close by. Skegness, with all its shops, leisure facilities and sea front, is a short bus ride away.
Dobson Court is a very friendly place and residents meet for tea and a chat most days. We also organise a weekly Monday Club.
Our scheme manager is on site for around two hours every day from Monday to Friday. Emergency cover is available 24 hours through a central control alarm system.
Market Close, Burgh le Marsh, Skegness PE24 5JY
Call our contact centre on 0345 600 6055 for more information or to apply


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|Calendar print by Handz on Etsy
Confession time - I have been avoiding blogging. Not that i have had a lot of time to blog with welcoming a new baby girl to our family in early January, but time issues aside, i have been reluctant to blog. Why? It is not for lack of things to write about - but more a fear that if i write about the things that are currently interesting me I might disappoint my readers. Being well and truly in baby / toddler land at present, my days consist of why won't my baby sleep to looking for activities to try and entertain my very energetic two year old son, and cute kids products I find on line (what else am i meant to do during the 3am feeding except shop on my phone!). I still love looking at pretty stationery and design things on line - but it is not my only focus at the moment. So hence my lack of blogging.
After I realised on the weekend why i hadn't been blogging - i soon came to the decision - bugger it! I am going to blog about what I want to, and hopefully my readers will like the new direction - if not, I won't be offended if you decide to leave me, but i do hope you stay and that i find some new readers along the way.
Ok - moving on. Earlier this week I had another "ahah" moment. i was reading some blogs looking for inspiration to entertain my 2 year old and i read somewhere (sorry can't remember the exact blog) about how important it is to let your kids get dirty. I am not a germaphobic parent by any means (my son rarely looks clean!) but i have been reluctant to do dirty / messy activities in order to avoid the inevitable cleaning up. But in an attempt to be less of a rigid parent (that's a whole other blog post!) I didn't stop my son at the park when he wanted to play in the dirt and mud puddles. And do you know what - we had a great time and the only implication was we had a bath before dinner when we got home and not after - not exactly earth shattering! He got to play unrestricted and I got to enjoy watching him do it.
So - the moral of the story - let them eat mud pie - you will both enjoy it! and let them test their climbing skills even if it gives you heart palpitations


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But then I remember, those warm nights while I was working in Burbank. I would walk 40 minutes home from work every day. After having listened to my ipod all day while animating I needed a break and I would walk home in silence, just myself and I. I remember thinking how beautiful the sky looked and how long it had been since I had heard crickets chirping. And that maybe it was a good think that I was stuck in the Suburbs of Burbank because it has the smells and sounds that reminded me of my childhood. I remember feeling really grateful at that moment. The crickets and the grass reminded me of the barbeques we would have in our backyard growing up. The setting sun amongst the houses reminded me of the time before I moved to the city when I could watch the sky turn colours from my driveway unobstructed by tall city buildings. Walking the streets of Burbank and being comforted by familiar things in an unfamiliar place was really a special moment for me. I don't think I would have had those experiences if I was listening to music or a podcast.
So why do I avoid myself now? I think I know it is because on some level I am not being completely honest with myself and perhaps I am afraid to be faced with the truth. There are things in my life I have been avoiding and because of this I am avoiding myself. Doing this Failure Challenge has helped me come face to face with some truths. It has also given me the courage to face other parts of my life I have been avoiding. But I'll get into that another day :)
I've been getting some requests for my previous lemon attempts so here they are in order.
These were all done on the same day. I was determined not to let this lemon kick my ass completely!


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The design brief was to create a range of furniture imbuing the quintessential elements of life in the Southern Alps. Taking inspiration from the dramatic landscape, and the sophistication of many who choose to live or visit the region, a design language was created.
A key element of Umber is the contrasting angles running through the range. This reference is taken from the craggy and rugged terrain that forms the Southern Alps where rivers flow through valleys and canyons open into waterways with intricate coastlines. The mountains themselves are tree-lined but also adorned with cracks, fissures and boulders adding an aged narrative to their form. These details are magnified through the sheer scale of the mountainous region offering such varied perspectives from the water or the mountains themselves. The scenery is always unfolding before your eyes as angles shift whilst navigating a passage through.
The Umber Range is available from Tréology.


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As a new year has begun, here I am again to greet you at Quieter Living. I wish you peace and happiness for the year ahead, with creativity and inspiration, friendship and a meaningful sense of purpose.
Here are a few peace links to ponder over:
United Nations of Australia - Media Peace Awards
United Nations Messengers of Peace
The Peace Organisation of Australia
Will you be reflecting on the meaning of peace this year?


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RN to MSN Programs in Arizona
RN to MSN programs in Arizona are designed to help you expand your career for the future. After just a few short years in school, you could be on your way to a much higher paying job in the upper levels of a hospital or clinic. Whether you want to be a nurse practitioner, a nurse educator, or something else along those lines, you can achieve your goals with an RN to MSN program. Arizona has a high demand for educated nurses at the moment, so the time to start learning is now. Here is a look at what RN to MSN programs in Arizona can do for you.
Why Get an MSN?
The main reason why most people get an MSN is because they want to have better paying job opportunities. With an MSN, you can work in research, education, leadership, management, and much more. The average salary for nurses with associate's degrees in Arizona is $71,469 a year, which certainly isn't something to complain about. For those with a master's degree though, the average salary is $87,933 a year. Think about how much that extra $16,000 will add up year after year. You can easily justify the cost of schooling at that point.
Job Prospects for MSN Degrees in Arizona
Nurse practitioners are not in terribly high demand in Arizona at the moment, though the need for those workers remains steady. With this in mind, there is a strong need for nurse educators, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse anesthetists, and more. With a master's degree in Arizona, you could land a job in a number of hospitals and clinics around you, especially in rural areas. There are many parts of the state that have a severe lack of primary care providers, leaving residents without easy access to the care they need. You can fill the void with a master's degree in hand.
RN to MSN Program Overview
RN to MSN programs bridge the gap between undergraduate and graduate studies in nursing. They are designed to streamline your education so you do not necessarily have to get a bachelor of science in nursing. In a degree like this, you will likely see courses like Advanced Anatomy and Physiology, Community Nursing Practice, Health Assessment, Nursing and Healthcare Trends, Pathophysiology, Statistics, and Theory and Research. The school you attend will have a large impact on your curriculum. It takes anywhere from two to four years to complete an RN to MSN program, depending on your current level of education.
After you have completed your MSN degree, you will need to apply for a license through the Arizona State Board of Nursing. If you decide to become a nurse practitioner, you will not need to obtain collaboration with a physician to work in Arizona, unlike you would in other states. You are free to practice as you like as long as you have a license to do so. If you wish to specialize after you get out of school, you can go back for a post-master's certificate. This will be available online or through the university you have already attended.
Popular Arizona RN to MSN Programs
There are many RN to MSN programs in Arizona, so you will have the opportunity to choose where you want to go and what you want to learn. Some of these programs are available partially or entirely online, which may work out better for you if you have a difficult schedule at the moment. Here are some well-known options in this state:
- Northern Arizona University: NAU offers master's degree programs for nurse practitioners and nurse generalists. It also features a post-master's certificate program for those who wish to continue their education.
- Midwestern University: This school offers a master's program in nurse anesthesia, but you must have a bachelor's degree to qualify. Thus you may need to first explore an RN to BSN program in Arizona, then move on to your BSN to MSN.
- Arizona State University: ASU has a wide variety of nursing programs for everything from nurse education to pediatric nurse practitioner studies. This school also has an assortment of financial aid opportunities available to qualified applicants.
You may also enroll in an RN to MSN program online from another part of the country if campus-based learning is not right for you. Many schools are converting their graduate nursing degrees to the internet because they are simpler to manage there. You will still get the same education, but you will have the luxury of working at home. Assess your options and figure out what the best one is for you.


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I am privileged to share a birthday with my nephew Hunter. On this occasion when he turns eleven and I can no longer avoid saying I am in my late 40′s, we will sing our annual duet of Happy Birthday to Us!
As we do I find myself reflecting on how different his world is from mine. For him:


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Inspirational Book To Transform Your Life - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
"The traditional view of achievement, like the traditional view of depression, needs overhauling. Our workplaces and our schools operate on the conventional assumption that success results from a combination of talent and desire. When failure occurs, it is because either talent or desire is missing. But failure can also occur when talent and desire are present in abundance but optimism is missing."
"The commonness of being knocked flat by troubles, however, does not mean it is acceptable or that life has to be this way. If you use a different explanatory style, you'll be better equipped to cope with troubled times and keep them from propelling you towards depression."
"What we want is not blind optimism but flexible optimism—optimism with its eyes open. We must be able to use pessimism's keen sense of reality when we need it, but without having to dwell in its dark shadows."
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Cultivation of an optimistic mindset significantly increases your chances of health, wealth, and happiness.


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Gurgaon official claims zero loss to defend Vadra-DLF land deals
Gurgaon district magistrate PC Meena on Wednesday claimed the state government did not lose any revenue in the Robert Vadra-DLF land deals. Sanjeev K Ahuja reports.india Updated: Oct 18, 2012 00:30 IST
Gurgaon district magistrate PC Meena on Wednesday claimed the state government did not lose any revenue in the Robert Vadra-DLF land deals. He said the land was registered in the revenue records at much higher prices than the prevailing circle rates in 2008 as well as later in 2012.
"The Haryana government has not lost revenue in the registration of the property as the stamp duty paid by the applicants was higher than the prevailing circle rates for Shikohpur village, where the land is situated," Meena claimed.
In 2008, Vadra's firm had paid stamp duty at the rate of Rs. 45 lakh per acre as against the circle rates of Rs. 10 lakh and DLF registered the land by giving stamp duty of Rs. 2.90 crore per acre as against Rs. 25 lakh in 2012, he said.
Meena also clarified that assistant consolidation officers in Haryana were empowered to sanction the mutation.
Shochand, sarpanch of Shikohpur village, also claimed that the farmers carried no grudge against anyone as they had sold their land to many land bankers from one of whom Robert Vadra must have purchased the 3.5-acre plot just off the National Highway No.8 in 2008.
"Farmers here have been selling their land to private parties since 1984 at the prevailing market rates. These land bankers would further sell the land to the developers at their mutually agreed rates and this is what would have happened in the case of Vadra also," he added.
Shikohpur village is about 10 km away from Gurgaon on NH-8 and is situated on 1,500 acres of land.
The sarpanch said about 80% of the land had been sold by the farmers to the private players.
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Well, folks I am so sorry for being so behind! Granted I have been quite busy with the twins, but I had meant to get out a fall decor post and a Thanksgiving post and neither one happened :(
I'm finally getting around to a brief belated Christmas home tour and as usual I've kept my decorating simple this year. I brought out a few of the boxes of the annual decorations such as our Nativity, tree trimmings, tin angels from Old Salem, and a few other vintage odds and ends. Other than that I've kept the decor to mostly fresh greenery, things I already had on hand and natural trimmings found around my yard like pine cones and cedar clippings.
|pine cones and greenery in an antique bread bowl on our dining table
|"Williamsburg" decorative fruit wreath- can be hung overtop doors or used as a statement piece just about anywhere!
|Our Christmas Tree- we get a live one every year as a fundraiser for our church
ministry and I think this year's was the most beautiful
|handmade tin Angles from Old Salem
|fireplace mantel with Nativity, stockings, and more greenery
Here are some more fun snapshots of our home and our Christmas happenings:
|"JiJi" with her two grand-babies dressed for Christmas Eve
|Our Christmas morning breakfast of Eggs Benedict, bacon, and mini cinnamon rolls
|Georgia with Grandma Holly
|June on Christmas morning watching everyone open gifts :)
" And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." -Luke 2:10-14


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Some time ago I stumbled across the video of the panel discussion "IST Austria: On the Way to the Top: What Makes a Research Institution Excellent?". (There is also a much shorter, 11-minute version of the video here.) I watched the discussion with great interest, and found it inspirational and thought-provoking.
The panelists were Patrick Aebischer (president of EPFL until the end of 2016), Jonathan Dorfan (president of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), Peter Gruss (former president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft from 2002 till 2014), Helga Nowotny (former President of the European Research Council), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (Director General of CERN from 2009 to 2015), Haim Harari (President, from 1988 to 2001, of the Weizmann Institute of Science) and Olaf Kübler (former president of ETH Zurich). It doesn't get much better than this, in terms of experience about the subject matter and, if you are interested in the topic or even just in hearing experienced academics discuss it, I'd encourage you to have a glass of your favourite beverage, relax and have a look. It is remarkable how much agreement there was in isolating the key ingredients leading to research excellence.
Here is my quarter-baked summary of some of the contributions, with apologies for not covering the whole discussion, possibly biased reporting and for any error I might have made.
He referred to the work of the historian Rogers Hollingsworth who isolated the following ingredients for excellence in research institutions:
- Excellence in research and leadership. On this point, Gruss said that is critical that one hires top people because top people hire people who are better than themselves. To get them, one has to do head hunting plus advertising. One should strike a good balance between tenured and non-tenured people to maintain flexibility.
- Small research settings.
- Small group size, but large context.
- Multidisciplinary contacts. One has to install interfaces between different disciplines. (Examples: Have only one coffee room.)
- Independence as early as possible. Give young people stability for a certain period of time to allow them to unfold their creativity. Coaching and mentoring of young researchers must be provided.
- Core institutional and flexible funds. There should be a balance between high-trust and low-trust funding. When handing out high trust funding, an agency must trust the funded institution: Give them the money that you can afford and let them do what they want with it. Trust them to make the most of the received funding.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer mentioned the importance of "taking society with you." One has to promote science in society.
For research, one needs to continuously develop a vision, which will drive innovation and technology, partnership with industry and feed back to research. Every excellent institution must keep this virtuous circle. One must think strategically and long term.
All staff needs to have intellectual challenges, including administrative staff. Excellence can be in individuals, but also in cooperation. Excellence must allow for failure, for some research that might fail. This is doing science at the edge. What one can guarantee is that the path will be fruitful.
Olaf Kuebler stated that the strategy to create a leading research institution is deceptively simple: "Search, appoint and retain world-leading scientists. All else will follow."
The reputation of a university is made by the people who leave the university students, graduate students, assistant professors etc.
- Make significant contributions to themes of global importance.
- Identify and develop new themes of global importance.
- Harmonize its portfolio with its funders.
- a space component: space that makes it almost obligatory to run into each other and discuss, as ideas emerge by talking to each other, and
- a time component: give time for the unexpected, for the unforeseen, for serendipity.
Jonathan Dorfan mentioned that one should establish a setting that is conducive for inter-disciplinary research, where researchers from different fields can cooperate and exchange ideas.
Haim Harari closed the meeting with an articulate and thought-provoking short address. He started by pointing out what he considers to be key ingredients for an excellent research institution.
Funding must be versatile and come from many sources. Only if one is versatile one can have the right mix. Government funding leads inevitably to egalitarianism and democracy. However, science is not democratic. Still there has to be a balance between the power of the president and the faculty.
A research institution should be as international as possible and as national as possible. It should give something back to the taxpayers: education and touching society. Technology transfer is the other thing one return to society.
The Weizmann Institute put all the different subjects in the same campus, which leads to inter-disciplinary research that cannot be done by any single subject alone.
Harari also said that the excellence of a research institution should be evaluated according to three different measures:
- its best ten people,
- the average quality of its professors and
- its worst professor.
In Harari's opinion, the president of a research institute/university should regularly ask herself/himself: If I could fire some of my professors, how many would I fire?" If the number is a non-trivial fraction of the faculty, then the threshold of the institution is not high enough.
So, in your opinion, what makes a research institution excellent?