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Hey everyone, first of mine and Amanda's February untrieds and this month's challenge is cremes/shimmers/NON-GLITTERS. It'll be the hardest challenge yet though I have some tricks up my sleeve ;) Today I am starting with Illamasqua Lament, which is a beautiful pink-coral creme that I swapped for not too long ago. This applied perfectly in two coats but I probably could have even gotten away with one.
Then because I'm a sneaky dickens I added a glitter. I know, I know... it's supposed to be creme month! But I showed you a creme and it's also Valentine's Day month, so I needed to include my Valentine's (HEART!!!!) glitters too. <3 So I added Candy Lacquer Love Rocks on top:
I think it's a lovely combination :) (Come for the nails, stay for the puns.)
PS Today is the last day to add entries to my mom's tribute post - please let me know if you have a photo I can add even if you didn't do a blog post!
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
February Untrieds!
6 comments:
- Amanda (Fashion Footing) said...
Cheater!!!! Just kidding, I love you.
- February 5, 2013 at 12:36 PM
- LacquerliciousLove said...
Oooooh you're sneaky!! Well my polish for today has flakies in it.... but it IS a shimmer! haha
- February 5, 2013 at 12:43 PM
I'm glad you snuck in the glitter! I'm not too into the creme since the color looks almost like a skin color. but i really want that glitter!!
- February 5, 2013 at 6:25 PM
- Amanda, Nail Polish Enthusiast said...
I love all things Candy Lacquer so I definitely recommend it! She's restocking this weekend I think
- February 5, 2013 at 8:28 PM
- Amanda, Nail Polish Enthusiast said...
Sneaky is as sneaky does! PS my posts this week I wrote a week ago so sorry they won't mention you!
- February 5, 2013 at 8:28 PM
- Amanda, Nail Polish Enthusiast said...
I can't handle the no glitter rule. Not even day one! lol
- February 5, 2013 at 8:29 PM
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Food Tips
Interpreting the Nutritional Analysis
Food Tips
Interpreting the Nutritional Analysis
To meet nutrient needs each day, moderately active women aged 25 to 49 need about 1,900 calories, 51 g protein, 261 g carbohydrate, 25 to 35 g fibre and not more than 63 g total fat (21 g saturated fat). Canadian sodium intake of approximately 3,500 to 4,500 mg daily should be reduced. Men in the same age group require about 2,700 calories, 64 g protein, 371 g carbohydrate, 25 to 35 g fibre and not more than 90 g total fat (30 g saturated fat). Teenagers 13 to 18 generally need about 2,100 to 3,200 calories, 46 to 58 g protein (males at the higher end of the range and females at the lower end), and adequate fat intake to maintain growth and development; when teens stop growing, the guideline of consuming no more than 30 per cent total fat from calories daily starts to apply. Carbohydrate intake for teens should be 50 to 60 per cent of energy.
• The percentage of recommended daily intake (% RDI) for calcium, iron, and vitamins A, C and folate is based on the highest recommended intakes (excluding those for pregnant or lactating women).
• Figures have been rounded off. They are based on the first ingredient listed when there is a choice and do not include optional ingredients. Recipe variations have not been analysed.
• Abbreviations: cal = calories, pro = protein, carb = carbohydrate, sat. fat = saturated fat, chol = cholesterol.


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Formally based in Sydney, Australia, MOKO Social Media has moved their chief operations to the U.S. and is rapidly gaining market share in key, high growth, social media niches.
MOKO shares closed at $5.25 on 4/27/15.
MOKO Social Media Limited (NASDAQ: MOKO) (ASX: MKB) is a high growth social media company with multiple drivers we believe will take shares much higher as the U.S. market discovers the company.
These drivers are:
- Ultra-fast growth in Monthly Active Users ("MAU")from 1.5 million in July 2014 to 8 million by March 2015
- Targeted niche focus that increases user retention rates and competitive position
- Superb management team which includes the recent addition of Leo Hindery, former President and CEO of AT&T Broadband to the board
- Despite high growth in both users and revenues, MOKO shares are trading at a discount to the $7.50/share U.S IPO in June 2014
- Revenue increasing from $1.3 million USD in fy 2011 to $7.8 million in fy 2014, with a continuation in strong revenue growth expected
- MOKO shares are trading at a (very) significant discount to recent corporate buyouts in social media space
- The best time to buy a stock is before the market discovers it, not after. While MOKO is still relatively unknown to U.S. investors, this will change as the company is quickly capturing US market share in key, high growth social media niches. The majority of MOKO's staff are now American and are headquartered in the company's new Alexandria, VA office (including CEO, Ian Rodwell)
Please be advised that U.S. listed shares of MOKO are tightly held and (at the moment) thinly traded, which could lead to volatility.
MOKO is a multi-media platform providing tailored content for high value, niche user groups with mobile devices accounting for greater than 90% of user engagement. The company targets students, political supporters, and active lifestyle participants. These communities share common interests and engage regularly and efficiently. MOKO aims to capture these audiences by becoming their destination of choice for information and interaction. The company creates highly relevant and exclusive content, and provides platforms enabling communities to consume and share content seamlessly across devices.
To address these target markets and sectors, MOKO's portfolio includes seven standalone platforms and apps dedicated to these targeted audiences:
MOKO generates revenue from sponsorship, content syndication, social network distribution, advertising, and other monetization of the platforms. Revenue has quickly grown from $1.3 million USD to nearly $8 million USD between 2011-2014.
Shares Outstanding: 18 million. The company is dual listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and in the United States on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. All shares are fully fungible with ~720 million fully diluted ASX shares outstanding. 40 ASX shares represent 1 NASDAQ share, therefore there are 18 million American Depository Shares (ADS).
Float: approximately 9.47 million ADS
Insider Ownership: 15%
Market Cap: ~ $95 million
Launched in September 2014, REC*IT is the source for everything intramural sports and fitness on college campuses. Users can check game schedules and results, communicate with team members, and receive real-time campus updates directly through your mobile device. REC*IT makes the intramural administration process exponentially easier and is free to users and administrators.
Since launch, MOKO announced multiple partnerships enhancing the products features, strengthening REC*IT's competitive position and expanding its markets.
In January 2015, MOKO agreed to provide intramural data feed services imleagues' colleges on an exclusive basis into perpetuity. imleagues provides registration, scheduling, communication, notifications, live stats, and detailed reports to 860 colleges with 11 million students. The exclusive nature creates an extremely favorable competitive position and allows REC*IT time to continually improve the features and functionality of the product to best meet the students' and administrators' needs.
In February 2015, MOKO entered into an exclusive partnership with InnoSoft Fusion. InnoSoft operates an enterprise software system for universities including membership management, program/camp registration, equipment/inventory management, point of sale, access control, online e-commerce and more. MOKO and InnoSoft will develop a range of initiatives, including the ability to seamlessly include student identification and authentication into the REC*IT app, and initiatives to improve the user experience where access to REC*IT was limited due to student authentication system barriers. The partnership also extends MOKO's reach into the active lifestyle market by developing a mobile app exclusively for InnoSoft's current and future customers using its online and mobile platform for recreational sports, fitness facilities and other activities. The initial length of the agreement is two years, which MOKO has the option to extend.
In April 2015, MOKO announced an exclusive three-year agreement with Big Teams, the official software partner of the National Federation of State High School Athletics. BigTeams is the largest high school sports software platform in the US, providing online tools and data for US high schools to assist with sports team administration, event management and fundraising. MOKO will also acquire a 10% strategic investment in BigTeams.
MOKO will launch a tailored version of its REC*IT app specifically targeted at the students and parents of more than 4,000 US high schools that are currently serviced by BigTeams, using data generated by BigTeams. The new app will launch in August 2015, to coincide with the new school year.
Within the college market, in only six months since launch, MOKO has 950 universities using REC*IT, which the company estimates is over half of the addressable market. The overall number of university students engaged in sports and recreational activities is 15 million in the United States.
Within the high school market, the US National Center for Education projects 2015 enrollment of 16 million students. Big Teams is the largest high school sports software platform with a 15% market share. The remainder of the market is very fragmented with some 9 million high school students engaged in sports and recreational activities.
In April 2015, REC*IT had 200,000 app downloads up from 150,000 at the end of December 2014. With REC*IT now accounting for roughly half of the universities and 15% of the high school market, REC*IT is the largest player in the market by a wide distance. The cost of design, product improvements, and customer acquisition are upfront, fixed costs meaning REC*IT can spend much more than peers to ensure it has the best product.
Speakiesy is a social app focused on the college market. The design and rationale for the app is a result of student focus group data received during the initial development and pilot phase of REC*IT. Speakiesy is school specific. The only way a student will be able to join their specific college's community is with an official university email account (.edu), thus preventing outsiders from access to the app's content.
The deliberate design of a "closed circuit" app means that users can only engage within their own college community without interference from unwanted non-student body interactions. The app will also feature the ability to follow and post content anonymously, as well as from established profiles. The app will be closely monitored with all visual content being screened via the MOKO moderation system as a failsafe to protect students and schools from undesirable content.
Speakiesy is currently in beta on nine campuses. The main competitor is Yik Yak, which is a more general community app without the closed community feature Speakiesy offers and is not focused specifically on university students so Speakiesy has a clear advantage. If Speakiesy can take hold on campuses, it will have a very strong competitive position, as it is a multi-sided platform where the level of users increases the value for all users. This network effect often leads to natural monopolies.
The graph below illustrates REC*IT, Speakiesy and competitors with the x-axis illustrating the level of focus or targeting and the value on the y-axis. REC*IT and Speakiesy are the most target apps and should better serve their target market.
MOKO developed RunHaven to address the general endurance sports, health and fitness category, which is an underserved market opportunity in the US. Currently, there are more than 30,000 running races or events in the US each year, which draw over 50 million participants.
RunHaven is set to be the go-to online and mobile destination for users passionate about running. The app is designed to be a complete one-stop destination for all things running; with significant digital touch points dedicated to Reading, Racing, Shopping, and Sharing.
RunHaven currently delivers daily content produced by 32 contributing runners representing 21 States in the US, Canada and Australia. MOKO is collaborating with Pacers Running Stores with the goal of creating a dedicated RunHaven online Store (Shop). This will enable our community to get all of their running products without ever leaving our site. The new sites will include a Forum and Photo Albums (Share) to allow runners to interact with one another as a community.
RunHaven is one of the fastest-growing online media brands for health and fitness enthusiasts and the 3rd largest running community on Facebook and has 1.2 million monthly unique visitors.
In addition to RunHaven, MOKO will roll out a new sister app called RaceAdvizor. Management believes RaceAdvizor will become the country's largest online databases with over 30,000 events (races). Through RaceAdvizor, runners will be able to search and choose their next race, whether it is across town or across the country. Runners will also be able to read/write race reviews and view/share race photos.
Blue Nation Review is one of MOKO's political platforms encompassing both a website and an app. At the end of March 2015, the website has 3.5 million monthly active users and the app has been downloaded over 500,000 times since its launch in September 2014. BNR is also being quickly recognized by key political groups and operatives as a hub for relevant media and the go to community representing today's progressive agenda. In September 2014, BNR's Executive Editor Jimmy Williams was invited to participate in the important Democratic event – the "Harken Steak-Fry" – in Iowa, where Hillary and Bill Clinton headlined.
VOYCIT (launch pending) will be a non-partisan political group and community app that grew out of the growth of BNR. The launch of the app is perfectly timed for the height of the 2015 US political cycle. MOKO designed VOYCIT to be a non-partisan, user-generated content app empowering users to create and/or choose to follow groups devoted to specific issues, candidates or causes. Active office holders and aspiring candidates can create customized content channels within the VOYCIT platform enabling them to engage and interact with other members/users. In addition to message propagation, the app can dramatically impact local and national fundraising, petition awareness, the establishment of localized activist groups and/or the organizing of local protests and rallies.
On October 1, 2014, MOKO acquired 80% of Tagroom, a news and entertainment service. Tagroom publishes popular leisure content from across the internet such as viral and trending news, product discoveries and engaging videos. The beta launch has generated upwards of 5 million monthly page views. According to Alexa.com (an Amazon company that measures global internet traffic and user engagement), Tagroom.com is also experiencing exceptional user engagement; average daily users spend more than 11 minutes on the site. At the end of March 2015, Tagroom had over 3 million monthly unique visitors.
The addition of Tagroom.com to MOKO's portfolio is synergistic with the company's overall audience profile providing marketers and brands with direct access to the coveted hard to reach audiences. Brands and agencies seeking to engage with young adults will find Tagroom complete with a host of native advertising offerings.
MOKO is in the process of developing a dedicated native mobile app for Tagroom with the intention of cross promoting it across its other properties. The acquisition of Tagroom also brings with it three new senior team members experienced in the creation of viral media and shareable entertainment content for the important 18-30 year-old demographic.
As illustrated by MOKO's products, the company has a niche focus. This niche focus allows the company to truly understand its customer and produce a product for that customer. This can be seen with REC*IT's partnerships with imleagues, and InnoSoft significantly enhancing the REC*IT by addressing customers' concerns. If MOKO was not so focused and tried to cater to all different customer segments, it would end up creating a product that met no customer needs.
This focus also leads to a much greater competitive position and profitability. REC*IT has exclusive agreements and caters to over 50% of universities through imleagues and 15% of high schools through BigTeams, despite just launching the product in September 2014. These are both leading positions and it is down to the ability to cater directly to the specific customer rather than being a generalist allowing the company to outspend any competitors within the segment on upfront fixed costs that are so prominent in the software industry. The exclusivity of REC*IT's agreements and MOKO's focus makes it very difficult for any competitor to potentially compete.
Additionally, MOKO's niche focus leads to high retention and a much more engaged and therefore valuable customer. For example, after the first 30 days, REC*IT's user base had a 98% retention rate compared to an average app retention rate of 2.3%. REC*IT's engagement per session was 5.5 minutes of engagement compared to the average app engagement per session of under 2 minutes. Most importantly, the average click through rate of REC*IT users was 5.22% well above all other average click through rates.
MOKO is almost exclusively focused on the US. This makes the company's user base even more valuable as US social network users have the highest ad spend.
The US social network user ad spending is double its closest competitor in Western Europe and almost 7 times any other region making these users many times more valuable than anywhere else in the world.
As illustrated by the focused strategy and the recent partnerships, MOKO has a very strong management team and board of directors.
Ian Rodwell is the company's Founder and CEO. Mr. Rodwell has over 20 years experience multimedia, corporate and consumer design and has successfully managed multi-million dollar projects across the globe for McKinsey, BMW, Unilever and MTV.
Shripal Shah recently joined MOKO as the Chief Operating Officer from the Washington Redskins where he was the Chief Strategy Office. Mr. Shah has more than 16 years of experience in digital strategy, development and execution. Prior to the Redskins, he was with Catalyst Public Relations where he was the social media architect of multiple award-winning digital marketing programs. He has also held stints at several web development agencies, developing strategies for Kenneth Cole, Seagram's, Bank of New York, and Morgan Stanley, among others.
Leo Hindery is Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, a New York-based media industry private equity fund. From 2001 until October 2004, he was the founding Chairman and CEO of The YES Network, the regional television home of the New York Yankees, where he won five executive producer Emmys for outstanding programming. Mr. Hindery was President and Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Broadband, which was formed out of the March 1999 merger of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) into AT&T. Mr. Hindery was elected President of TCI and all of its affiliated companies, then the world's largest cable television system operator and programming entity, in February 1997. Mr. Hindery, a member of the Cable Industry Hall of Fame, has been recognised as International Cable Executive of the Year, Cable Television Operator of the Year, and one of the cable industry's "25 Most Influential Executives Over the Past 25 Years." Mr. Hindery, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Despite MOKO recently launching or acquiring the vast majority of its products, the company has been able to grow its user base from 1.5 million in July 2014 to 8 million by March 2015. The 8 million users is further broken down to 200,000 to REC*IT, 1.2 million to RunHaven, 3.5 million to BNR, 500,000 to the BNR app, and 3 million to Tagroom.
The company is targeting at least 10 million users by the end of 2015. Given the company's current user base and growth, management seems to be very conservative with its targets.
- REC*IT has a virtual monopoly in the 950 universities it currently serves. Assuming over the next four years (typical student life in college and high school), MOKO can acquire 50% of the other schools it has not yet signed up; it would have 75% of the overall market or 11.25 million users.
- In high schools, given the size advantage and ability to outspend competitors on its product development and marketing, assume it doubles its market share over the next four years to get 30% of the overall market or 3 million users.
- RunHaven currently has 1.2 million users. Given its fast growth, we believe RunHaven and RaceAdvizor can capture at least 10% of all runners combined, or 5 million combined users over the next four years.
- BNR website and app already have 3.5 million users. Over the next four years, this figure should double to 7 million users.
- Tagroom has 3 million users and should reach 5 million users over the next four years.
Overall, this leads to an end of 2015 user base of 10 million based on management projections and and estimated 27.5 million users over the next three years without taking into account Speakiesy or any new product launches.
Recent acquisitions provide an understanding of what the industry sees as fair value for social media companies. Of particular interest is the resulting value per user.
As illustrated above, the average value per user is $59.52 based on recent transactions. Management believes the company will reach 10 million users by the end of 2015, which we believe is conservative given current user base and growth rates. Given the 10 million user target and an average value per user of $59.52, MOKO (as compared to recent transactions) should be valued at $595 million or $33.o6 per share representing 530% above the current $95 million valuation.
Using a much more conservative valuation of $22/user, 10 million users projects a market capitalization of $220 million, or $12.22/share.
We believe as the US market discovers MOKO, the company's strong revenue and MAU growth, world class management team, and discount valuation to recent transactions, shares will appreciate over the next 6-12 months to the $12.00-$12.50 range.
MOKO shares are trading at a discount to the U.S. IPO last year and at a steep discount to recent transactions in the social media space.
MOKO has a compelling, multiple-niche strategy and a strong competitive position. The company is attracting users that are extremely valuable to advertisers due to their higher retention, engagement, and click through rates. Additionally, a very strong management team is making all the right moves to continue growing the company's user base, improve the company's competitive position, and drive future profitability via partnerships, acquisitions and product enhancements.
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Human body is a complex system to understand. To get a better health for the human body we all must know about the entire essential nutrient required to work properly. When we talk about food nutrients mostly the important one are considered to be the carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and minerals. Minerals are usually required as a trace element and that is why they are ignorant.
Zinc is an important mineral and is involved in more than 100 enzymatic reactions in human body. This mineral is in the same way important to perform many significant body functions. Its deficiency in the human body can affect your body in the worsen way. Especially if you are vegetarian then the chances to be deficient in zinc are higher as compared to the people who add non vegetarian food sources in their diet.
Secondly people with the chronic digestive disease and the leaky gut syndrome are at the higher risk of zinc deficiency. More than that, the females who are taking birth control pills can also face the problem of zinc deficiency. In these females pills are hormone replacement therapies drugs which can interfere with the role of zinc in the body related to hormones.
Health Benefits of Zinc
- Zinc is great to improve the body immunity. It helps in speeding the healing process. Zinc is a natural remedy to fight for cold and symptoms of illness. It actually interferes with the process in which bacteria and mucus form within the nasal passage. If you take zinc for at least five months then it will reduce the chances of becoming sick.
- It is also an active anti-inflammatory and anti- oxidant. It decreases the oxidative stress which in turn reduces the risk of disease development and naturally treats cancer. At older ages it supports good cell division and inhibits tumor growth.
- Zinc plays a vital role in the production of hormones in the human body. All the important hormones involved in the reproduction such as estrogen, progesterone and testosterone are directly linked with the zinc. So, it plays a vital role in the fertility or in other words increases fertility.
- It is very good to fight for diabetes and maintaining the blood sugar level in the body. Insulin is the hormone which helps in the maintenance of blood sugar level. And we already mention that the zinc plays vital role in the regulation of hormone production in human body.


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TELL Connoisseurs' Auction
TELL will host our 21st Annual Connoisseurs' Auction at the Ark Hills Club on Friday, November 11.
The Connoisseurs' Auction, TELL's major annual charity fundraiser, is recognised as Tokyo's premier event for wine connoisseurs, and attracts some 150 distinguished guests who bid on over 25 lots of premium wine, luxurious accommodation, and exceptional goods and services from a wide range of donors, in both a live auction and a silent auction. The event will also feature extensive tastings of fine wines from some of Tokyo's top wine distributors.
Please find additional details here at the TELL Connoisseurs' Auction website.
To buy an event ticket please follow the Get Ticket link.
Raffle tickets purchased online will be available for you on arrival at Ark Hills Club.
If you cannot attend the event but wish to purchase raffle tickets, these will be added to the draw by TELL staff. Winning tickets will be notified by phone or email.
To discuss sponsorship, or make a donation of goods or services to support the auction at the 2016 Connoisseurs' Auction, please contact Ben Beesley at email@example.com.
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7 Beauty Trends Stranger Things' Eleven Tried First
It's been two months (almost to the day!) since Netflix first introduced us to the phenomenon that is Stranger Things—and yet, even after several weeks and rewatches, it still feels just as fresh and delightfully creepy as it did mid-July. We have a feeling that proof of this sustained obsession will be out in droves come Halloween, because how many people do you know who are planning on going as Eleven?
Speaking of our heroine, let's be real: She's the soul of the show; otherworldly and yet everything we want to be IRL (except the whole being used as a human experiment thing). And upon closer examination (read: re-binge), it has become increasingly clear that in addition to her unmitigated badassery, she's also something of a beauty trendsetter. The buzz cut is obvious—which came first, Ruth Bell or Eleven?—but there are actually a few other elements to Eleven's persona that speak to her untouchable beauty game.
Keep scrolling to see the reasons why she makes for the ultimate muse.
Fine, fine—Ruth Bell and her fellow shorn supermodels kind of led the charge on this one. But since Stranger Things is set in 1983, can't we rationalize that it was Elle's steez first? Either way, it takes a certain kind of confidence to pull this bold look off—and on the flip side, no one will question how cool you are if you decide to take the plunge. (And if we might break the fourth wall for just a second, watching actress Millie Bobby Brown get her head shaved for the first time is pure gold.)
Yes, Eleven is only um, 12. (Right?) But she's also proof of minimalistic beauty at its best—which, with the bare-faced movement underway, couldn't feel more timely.
(So says one of the most influential voices of our time.) A little escapism is always fun, even if you're doing it to avoid getting caught by the government faction intent on your imprisonment. Although Elle, you were def "pretty" before you threw on that blond wig, just FYI.
Fun fact: In Korea, dark circles and puffy under-eye bags are quite the beauty trend. Isn't knowing that just so liberating, considering the great lengths we go to to diminish ours here in the States? Let's run with it, because there's honestly something kind of hot and mysterious about perma-exhaustion. Elle knows.
If you want some Eggos, then dammit, have yourself some Eggos. Especially if you've been running away from "bad men" in the woods all night. Go on, you deserve it!
I sort of found the Upside Down when I locked myself in a salt tank earlier this year? Abstractly speaking? I did somehow end up in a place where time and space ceased to exist, and it was quite the effective form of meditation. No one gave me rad goggles, though. I also didn't see Barb. (Poor Barb.)
Not all of us can channel our brain waves to save lives and destroy Demogorgons, but I've learned that we can absolutely use them to destroy our own inner demons. (Cheesy, I know, but go with it. It's true!) Best of all, you can do it without giving yourself a nosebleed.
Until Season 2, Eleven. What's your favorite part about Stranger Things? Sound off below!


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A place for samplers lovers to meet, chat, share our stitching and Scarlet Letter samplers, support each other and appreciate the reproductions and original designs of Marsha Parker
Friday, 15 January 2016
Beyond the Little X - An Interview with Inguna!
Do you sit in a set place and what tools do you like to have on hand?
23 comments:
You have stitched many beautiful samplers in a short amount of time?
And your knitting is gorgeous as are the crocheted curtains. I so
enjoyed reading about you needlework ventures!
- 15 January 2016 at 19:51
- Beth in IL said...
Thanks for another great interview. Love the sampler roll..
- 15 January 2016 at 19:58
- Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...
Great interview. It is always interesting to hear how people discovered stitching and to see their collections.
The photographs of each sampler are wonderful, really clear and sharp.
- 15 January 2016 at 20:09
- Nicola said...
A thoroughly enjoyable read and all those wonderful samplers to return to time and time again. Thank you Inguna for sharing your wonderful portfolio with us.
- 15 January 2016 at 20:10
- Scarlet Letter said...
Most impressive, Inguna! I especially loved the photo of you, with the cute little fellow "photo bombing" behind you.
- 15 January 2016 at 20:13
- Terri said...
I love reading these interviews! I would love to know what the sampler is in the third picture from the top? It's gorgeous!!!!
- 15 January 2016 at 20:17
- Vera said...
What a great interview! Your stitching is beautiful...love your knitted socks and those curtains - WOW!!! Gorgeous.
- 15 January 2016 at 20:45
- Winderwoodfarm said...
Your interview was wonderful! You and I live a half a world away but we are o much alike! I too have a "sampler roll" mine has several in the roll as your does but I must agree.... Finishing one and getting another started is far more important than framing. I hope to get at least fifty framed in 2016 and the rest some day.... I take them out and look at them often.
Thank you for sharing!
- 15 January 2016 at 21:37
- queenstownsamplerdesigns said...
Inguna - you made my day! A lovely interview, thank you for sharing with us your impressive, exquisite works of art. I always wanted to make filet crochet curtains, yours are delightful as is everything you put your hand to. Sampler rolls are very cool.
- 15 January 2016 at 22:02
- samplerlover said...
What a wonderful interview. I throughly enjoyed it and loved looking at your beautiful photos. Thank you so much.
- 15 January 2016 at 22:53
- LynnO said...
Such a fascinating journey into samplers! Thank you for sharing!
- 16 January 2016 at 02:13
Interesting interview, lovely work ,continue to enjoy
- 16 January 2016 at 06:30
- Inguna said...
Thank you very much for all the nice comments!
Terry - that sampler was purchased as DMC kit. It was called 'White Roses ABC' (ABC Roses blanches). I am not sure if it is still available.
- 16 January 2016 at 09:32
- Bertie said...
Inguna, I enjoyed reading your interview, such an interesting read. Your stitching beautiful, very nice to see you reproducing samplers for us to stitch, thank you!
- 16 January 2016 at 12:28
- Kathleen Johnson said...
So very informative. Thank you! I took lots of notes.
- 16 January 2016 at 15:54
- Sharon Cuppetelli said...
Wow.... A great interview, Inguna you of course
my inspiration to continue my roll..:-)
Fantastic knitting skills, I wish my socks looked as yours do..:-)
It's been a wonderful read of your journey..
I love the insect pics, Andrae is talented..
Thank you for opening your special place, & sharing your passion in Crafts, & that sweet Jon hiding..so handsome..
Blessings Inguna
Thank you Nicola
- 16 January 2016 at 17:19
I loved your interview and seeing your beautiful samplers, Inguna. Your stitching is just gorgeous and your freehand stitching is outstanding. You certainly have accomplished much in the years that you've been stitching samplers. Hope you continue enjoying sampler stitching for a long time.
- 18 January 2016 at 22:13
- Denise said...
Wonderful interview! Is there a source for the PDW 1730?
- 20 January 2016 at 15:48
- Inguna said...
Thank you ladies!
Denise, yes, there is a source. It is available from Merkwaardig (The Dutch Association of Sampler Lovers). Here is a link to their shop: http://www.merklap.nl/winkel
You have to send e-mail to email@example.com with your order. The payment is a bit of the problem for those outside EU. They want money to be wired through bank transfer.
- 20 January 2016 at 17:17
- kathy b said...
Great stitch interview. I love all the samplers. I cannot believe she made ALL her curtains over 5 years.
- 21 January 2016 at 20:29
- Theresa said...
Wonderful interview and photos! very inspiring to see such work and the knitting is so lovely also! thank you!
- 21 January 2016 at 23:06
- Bethany said...
What a wonderful interview. I am always amazed when an interview comes out, to find out more about the person behind the needle. Your stitching is amazing, your story fascinating and you life truly and inspiration. Thank you for taking the time to share with all of us.
- 18 February 2016 at 11:32
- Maryann Mullen said...
Your work is such an inspiration to me. It is exquisite and your workmanship is perfection. I have not taken upon myself to do a Scarlet Letter Sampler yet, but I love Sovine Palphreyman and saw you did it a while back. Do you still have the pattern? I would love to either buy it or borrow it. You are so good at whatever you pursue.
Thank you for sharing.
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|The 35th holding the line, at least for a while...
December 31, 1862
Today we played the Battle of Stones River in 15mm at Matt's house. What a battle! On the Union side we have Dan and Andrew going up against Bob, Matt and Doug.
|Andrew, Matt, Doug and Bob
For the Rebs, Doug (Manigault) commanded the Reb right flank, Bob (Loomis and Maney ) had the entire Reb center and Matt (Vaughn) took the Texan and Tennessee Regiments on the Reb left.
On the Yank side Andrew (Roberts and Schaefer) took command of the
Union left and the reserves with me (Woodruff/Poor and Sill) in the center and right.
|Here come the Rebs through the Corn Field
On the Union Left there were hilly woods and that is where Doug started his attack. Andrew on the Yank left facing this flank attack fought Doug keeping him in check and protecting our flank. Doug was able to enfilade the Unio Fence line with a battery. Andrew had some long range fire that starting sniping at them and eventually wrecked those batteries by the end of the battle. At the same time Andrew sent in Schaefer to the
Union right in anticipation of the Rebel's inevitable punch through our right Flank.
|Rebs on the move, view from Yank Right
In the center with Doug and Bob finally getting his center into contact the
Union were finally taking a licking. On the Yank left center Rebel right center they finally punched through with my regiments starting to fail in hand to hand and with the Rebs on the Flanks started failing their maneuver checks. It wasn't looking good. If it wasn't for Andrew sending a regiment to block the Rebel spearhead and some great rolls stopping the broken regiments we finally plugged the gap.
|Doug's Forces enfilading the Yank center (top left)
On the Yank center Bob pushed out my poor General Woodruff off the fence line with sheer weight of numbers. We couldn't hold and my regiments started to panic. On my far right I was luckier. The 35th
were pretty tough on the right repelling numerous attacks. Then I thought it was over when Matt threw in his 9th Texas. The 35th again held their own and pushed them back. Schaefer's forces started to arrive on hill to assist the 35th. Note, a few attacks in the center were repelled by fire alone. This is part of the fire combat charts that determines if a charge can resume or is checked. That only held them until the rest of the Reb force got into the fight. Illinois
|Rebs punching through the fence line
As you can see in the pictures the Rebs punched two deep holes through the fence line. That was a key objective so the next maneuver phase for the Yanks would all suffer a negative modifier. Also when you have enemy threatening your flanks you suffer a huge -2 modifier for your maneuver roll. That hurts and it happened when the Rebs broke into the yank center.
|Union plugging the gap in left center
So that was another Regimental Fire and Fury Battle under our belts. It was a first time for Bob and Andrew and they caught on right away. The Rebs did take the Key objective and we got to a point where we called the battle. I would give it a slight Rebel Victory because if you looked and saw what the
Union had left, the battle could have easily been extended. Thanks Matt for laying out another beautiful table! And thanks to Doug, Andrew and Bob for joining the game. I think we all enjoyed our Saturday morning battle. Can't wait for the next one.
Here a few more pictures of the battle...
|Andrew sent Schaefer to reinforce Woodruff on the right
|Woodruff trying to stop the Panic on the right
|The 35th Illinois holding the right flank with Schaefer forming behind


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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Charleston Southern will travel to Orangeburg on Tuesday for a doubleheader with South Carolina State. First pitch between the Buccaneers and the Lady Bulldogs is set for 1:00 p.m.
CSU Game Notes - Charleston Southern at South Carolina State
Scouting South Carolina State
South Carolina State is still in the hunt for their first win this season. The Lady Bulldogs enter Tuesday's doubleheader with a 0-20 mark on the year and fell to Charleston Southern on February 26, 12-0, in the finale of the 2017 Willie Jewell Invitational.
Sophomore Rickary Holloman leads S.C. State at the plate with a batting average of .290, while junior Deanna Sullivan paces the Lady Bulldogs with a .364 slugging percentage and one home run this season. Day-sha Stewart boasts a team-high 13 hits and eight runs scored. The freshman pitcher/shortstop has also recorded one home run this season. Utility player Kaneisha Pettiford leads the Lady Bulldogs with 10 RBI and shares the home run lead with one sent out on February 11 vs. Saint Louis.
Freshman Jada Lake leads S.C. State in the circle, striking out 15 batters in her 16 appearances. Reliever Whitney Gaylor leads the Lady Bulldogs with 50 innings pitched. The freshman has recorded 10 strikeouts in her 14 appearances this season.
Last Time Against South Carolina State
Charleston Southern 12, South Carolina State 0 (February 26, 2017)
Charleston Southern shut out South Carolina State, 12-0, in Sunday's Willie Jewell Invitational finale.
Destini Ewing led the Buccaneers (9-9) at the plate with back-to-back home runs and added four RBI. Freshman Holly Clark recorded her second shutout of the season, striking out seven in the complete game effort.
CSU got on the board early with four runs in the first inning. Amanda Matsumoto led the Bucs off with a bunt for a base hit. The speedy senior advanced to second on a steal and made it to third on an illegal pitch. Jade Gandara knocked in CSU's first run with a single to right field, and run-scoring hits from Stevi Johnson and Georgi DeLio gave the Bucs the 4-0 lead after one inning.
Clark (3-2) held the Bulldogs (0-12) hitless over the next three innings and Ewing recorded her first collegiate home run for a 5-0 Buccaneer lead to open the bottom of the fourth. The sophomore slugger added another homer in her second at-bat of the inning and Caitlyn Emberson connected on a double that was just short of clearing the fence. CSU finished the inning with seven hits for eight runs and the 12-0 lead.
Clark opened the fifth frame with her seventh strikeout. She'Nautica Bates gave the Bulldogs their second hit of the game, reaching first on a slow-rolling bunt, and Deanna Sullivan recorded S.C. State's third and final hit with a single through the left side in the 12-0 shutout.
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Charleston Southern leads the Big South with 39 home runs this season, more than twice the amount of any other team in the league. The Buccaneers sit at the third most home runs of any team in the country, right behind Louisiana's 41 and Arizona's 44, and are ranked 11th in the nation with 1.22 home runs per game.
Jade Gandara leads the pack of home run hitters with 10 on the season. The sophomore left fielder connected for three solo home runs last Saturday against Liberty to share CSU's program record for most home runs in a single game with sister power hitter, Cheyenne Gandara. Jade leads the Buccaneers with a slugging percentage of .688, 24 RBI and 64 total bases this year. She also shares the team-lead for runs scored (16) with senior Amanda Matsumoto and sophomore Caitlyn Emberson.
Mallory Kasinger follows Gandara with seven home runs and Emberson is right behind the former Freshman of the Week with six on the season. CSU 2016 homerun-leader, Brittany McPherson, has sent five out this year, and Cheyenne Gandara rounds out the team's top-five home run hitters with a mark of four on the season.
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|www.corpun.com : Feature articles : UK Royal Navy boys 1
In the eighteenth century the Royal Navy encouraged boys as young as nine to enlist as 'servants' (the lower age limit was raised to 13 in 1794). They acted as cabin boys to officers and senior seamen, but they were also apprentice seamen, 'learning the ropes' (literally) as they underwent sail training on the rigging. During battles they were made to carry water and gunpowder, earning them the nickname "powder monkeys".
Class divisions were not so rigid as in later Victorian times, and boys from humble backgrounds went aboard with the sons of gentlemen and of existing officers and seamen. Sometimes older boys of good physique were press-ganged but the majority were volunteers, attracted by the romance of the sea and (from 1794 onwards) the relatively good pay. Some boys were already sufficiently educated to become midshipmen (boy officers) after a few months of training. It was a harsh life, even by the standards of the day, and the romance was quickly eclipsed by rotten food, the terrors of combat and strict discipline.
In defence of the majority of flogging captains of Navy ships, the existing spartan conditions made it difficult to create effective sanctions for misbehaviour. Boys daily scurried about the decks barefoot, climbed the rigging in all climatic conditions and were deliberately toughened up to cope with a life at sea. Food, recreation time and conversation were sacrosanct to them, and reduced diets, extra drill, denial of free time and solitary confinement in the ships' cells were resented by boys, and awkward to supervise, even if effective.
Working-class boys had little or no schooling at that time and hence little experience of formal (still less bare) posterior chastisement. A crude wallop from an irate mother or belting from a father was the limit of it. Stephen Humphries in his book on working-class childhood in a later period, "Hooligans or Rebels?", raises some interesting aspects. He points out that bare-posterior punishment was familiar to and accepted by middle- or upper-class boys who attended so-called "public" (i.e. private) schools, but tended to be resisted by the less well-educated, not just the boys themselves but sometimes also their parents:
[S. Humphries, Hooligans or Rebels?: An oral history of working-class childhood and youth 1889-1939, Blackwell, Oxford, 1981]
Nevertheless, boys of all backgrounds were liable to bare-bottom discipline as soon as they joined the Navy. It is not clear just how far back this tradition goes. There were ships' boys in the 16th century and they certainly received corporal punishment. A document in the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts (British Museum) tells something of seaboard life at that period:
["Punishment of Seamen in the reign of Queen Elizabeth", reproduced in The Log Book; or, Nautical Miscellany, pub. Robins, London, 1830]
By the 18th century we have reliable accounts of the punishment of midshipmen. These were trainee officers in their teens, usually better educated (or at least better connected) than ordinary seamen, and always referred to as "young gentlemen" rather than boys. One such, Jeffrey Raigersfeld (later Rear-Admiral), described life on the "Mediator" under Captain Collingwood in the 1780s:
[Jeffrey Baron de Raigersfeld, The Life of a Sea Officer, c.1830, reprinted in the "Seafarers' Library", Cassell, London, 1929.]
One "young gentleman" who was rather less nonchalant about being flogged was George Duval, a 16-year-old midshipman on "HMS Trent" in 1801. The ship's log merely records:
Sunday 23 August 1801
This provoked the boy's father to write an anguished letter to the Captain, Sir Edward Hamilton, complaining of ill-treatment. Not only had the boy been cruelly treated by being "flogged ... in a most Public and unmerciful Manner" but, the father claimed, he had then been unceremoniously landed on the Island of Jersey without money and without friends, "suffering extreme bodily pain from the punishment" and having to make his own way home to Teignmouth, Devon.
The Captain replied that he had caught the boy in the act of watching through his (the Captain's) cabin window, where he had neglected to draw the curtains, while the Captain was "going to embrace a Lady". He had had the Boatswain inflict the lashes "in the usual way". (PRO - ADM 1/4499)
Dissatisfied with the Captain's reply, Mr Duval senior then wrote to the Admiralty, but was given short shrift: their Lordships pointed out that if Captain Hamilton had brought the boy to a Court Martial ("which he might have done"), the punishment would have been much more severe. However, they assured him that the incident would not be held against the lad in "his future prospects in the Service". (PRO - ADM 12/91)
It seems to have been during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that matters of naval discipline gradually began to be more standardized. As far as boys were concerned, there were three levels of corporal punishment, in ascending order of severity: on-the-spot caning, summary ceremonial flogging, and flogging by Court Martial, and this three-pronged system remained essentially in place all through the Navy's Victorian heyday until 1906.
The punishments took place three days later:
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A boy sentenced to be flogged was often required to make his own cat, binding the whipcord lengths to the handle. It was applied across the naked buttocks with a pause of 10 or 15 seconds between lashes to ensure that the boy fully experienced the pain, and also because the tails could become entwined and required separating. The flogging of a boy with 48 lashes (the maximum) would probably take 12 minutes. The ship's doctor was usually present and all boys mustered to 'witness punishment'. The spectacle was intended to serve as a deterrent, but given boys' well-known curiosity about watching chastisements there may also have been some eagerness to see the suffering of a miscreant.
The boy was usually tied in a bending position to a field gun, his body lengthways along the barrel. His abdomen rested on a folded hammock or mattress. The posture was referred to as 'kissing the gunner's daughter'; the term possibly has sexual connotations. It was reported by an officer on HMS "North Star" that on his previous ship HMS "Phaeton" the boys:
Artist's impression of punishment on board ship with the "boy's pussy"
A boy undergoing a flogging was permitted to bite on a piece of hide or wrapped cloth and was given water to drink after each dozen lashes, perhaps more to enhance the ritual than for genuine medical reasons. Bleeding of more than a superficial form rarely occurred. A flogging of 48 lashes was considered severe probably because of its duration more than the intensity of pain inflicted.
Admiralty instructions stated that when a boy was flogged the upper deck was to be cleared of adult seamen, but this was rarely enforced. There are reports of seamen climbing the rigging to watch boys being flogged.
When adult men were generally flogged across the shoulders, why were boys invariably punished on their bottoms? One reason may be that the naval authorities did not want boys to become cocky after taking a "man's punishment". One captain wrote in 1864:
(Ryder Report on Naval Discipline, 1866) (National Maritime Museum)
The formal enlistment of boys with a view to organised training for a career at sea began in earnest with an 1847 Act of Parliament. Voluntary manning had become a problem, and the Navy began to develop a long-term "continuous service" career structure. Previously most men had joined a specific ship, for the length of her commission only (3 to 5 years). In 1852 a Committee on manning endorsed the need for the recruitment of boys for training if an efficient, professional and permanent Navy was to be built up. The minimum age was now fixed at 15. In their 19th year they would be expected to sign on for a 12-year stint as adult ratings. It was estimated that 3,500 boy recruits would be required each year.
Accordingly, in 1854 the first training ship for boys, HMS Illustrious, was inaugurated, soon to be followed by the legendary HMS Ganges, HMS St Vincent, and others. These establishments introduced an institutional tradition that was to last well over a century. The boys were rated Second Class (see glossary) and supplied with uniforms.
From the beginning, the training ships were just as imbued with Naval rites, rules and customs as seagoing ships, and this naturally included the punishment system. The main difference was that, whereas on a typical seagoing ship only a small proportion of the crew would be boys, on the training ships they were all boys, so that posterior corporal punishment became far more significant there than in the Navy generally.
However, the training ships did not use the "boys' pussy cat" for corporal punishment. Instead, as explained in Part Two, they adopted the use of the birch from the outset.
Meanwhile, a look at statistics. How frequent were these public floggings of boys? For the 1850s, we can get an idea from the Admiralty's annual punishment reports to Parliament. Here are the first few lines of the report for 1854:
Analysis of the figures over several years shows that throughout the 1850s about one-third of all floggings were awarded to boys; this rose to about 50% in 1863/4 as the flogging of adult sailors declined considerably.
The total amount of formal corporal punishment reached a peak in 1856 with 1,397 public floggings, of which 469 were administered to boys. In that year the number of ships reached 279 and the total Navy was about 60,000 sailors, of which getting on for 10,000 were boys:
We can see from this table, among other things, that the severity of boys' floggings was actually slightly greater in 1864 (29.5 strokes per flogging) than it had been ten years earlier (27.1 strokes per flogging).
The detailed punishment returns show that the most popular amounts of punishments for boys during this period were 24 strokes and 36 strokes. Analysis of a random sample of 150 entries for 1854 reveals that far and away the most frequent reason for punishment was theft, followed by insubordination/insolence, smuggling, drunkenness, leaving the ship, skulking, and "being dirty" (possibly a euphemism for masturbation). Also making an occasional appearance in the 'offences' column are, among others, disgusting language, desertion, neglect of duty, indecency, striking a man, and being asleep at post.
On a typical ship there were perhaps on average two formal floggings of boys per year. An exception was HMS Victory, long since retired from active service and by this time permanently moored at Portsmouth as a guard ship: 25 boys were flogged aboard her in 1856, receiving a total of 798 lashes between them. And of course the figures were also much higher on the training ships, which, as we have seen, contained almost entirely boys: on HMS St Vincent, for instance, 21 boys were flogged in 1863 for a total of 444 lashes.
(Parliamentary Papers Nos 48 of 1857, 12 of 1858, 41 of 1859, 115 of 1864, 27 of 1865, and 47 and 257 of 1866)
Background sources and further reading:
David Phillipson, Band of Brothers: Boy Seamen in the Royal Navy 1800-1956, Sutton Publishing, Stroud, UK, 1996 (ISBN 0 07509 1251 0)
Henry Baynham, Men from the Dreadnoughts, Hutchinson, London, 1976
Tom Robson, Boy Seaman R.N.: The True Story, Darlington, 1996 (ISBN 0 9527749 0 9)
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In 2011, Eric Heiman took almost a year off from everything design—his practice, his teaching gig, his writing, even that cursed social media (for the most part)—to read, travel, take photos, get all existential, and (most of all) deny that this sabbatical was anything like the ones that famous Austrian graphic designer takes. While he didn't get (or want) a book deal out of the experience, he has plenty of insights to share, new work to show, and tips on how to treat bacterial infections of the gut.
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RECORD STORE DAY 2018 > Wolfman Jack & The Wolfpack - Boogie With The Wolfman
Wolfman Jack & The WolfpackBoogie With The Wolfman
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Wolfman Jack's legendary and rare 1965 rock album, backed by a local Minneapolis 'garage band". It was only released through Uncle George's Record Shop to mail order customers, on Bread Records. It has been out of print for more than 50 years, pressed on a picture disc featuring the original illustrated LP cover on one side, a color picture of Wolfman himself on the other side with in printed insert of notes, credits and numbered.
SIDE ONE 1) Don't You Just Know It 2) New Orleans 3) Short Fat Fanny 4) Oo Poo Pah Doo 5) Wolfman Boogie Part 1
SIDE TWO 1) Can't Sit Down 2) Money 3) I Need Your Lovin' 4) Hand Jive 5) Wolfman Boogie Part 2


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On March 20th we celebrate the "International Astrology Day", an event founded and promoted initially by the American A.F.A.N (the "Association For Astrological Networking") and consequently spread worlwide.
You can learn more about this day and about the kind of events you could promote by clicking these links (where from I excerpted the following paragraphs):
"It's never to early to start planning. If you are interested in hosting an IAD event, or in helping coordinating events around the world, contact AFAN today! We are open to suggestions and offer a few here that you may way want to take to your community:
- Arrange to give a lecture at your local library to the general public.
- Write out press releases (I will help you with this) to send out to your local new publications.
- Meet at a pub or a restaurant with your friends to toast and talk about astrology.
- Have a party and just invite your friends. Have them dress as their Sun sign or their favorite planet or bring a food dish to represent their sign. (These are just a few of the ideas that can be used to carry out the astrological theme at a party!)
- If you teach, schedule an open house or a free class night.
- Have a day of free mini-readings/chart analysis and send everyone away with a free copy of their chart.
- Go to your local coffee shop or cafe and see if you can set up there to do your free mini-readings."
"International Astrology Day was founded by AFAN in 1993, an outgrowth of the "Astrology Awareness Weekends" which AFAN had sponsored for several years previously. The goals of the new holiday were to expand networking opportunities among the astrological community, to direct media attention to positive aspects of astrology, and to help raise funds for local astrological groups and for AFAN's legal, media, and other networking projects."


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Sunbathing like daisies #30DaysWild Day 1
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A favourite of mine too!ReplyDelete
Lovely. We call them English daisies here & they grow in our lawn too. They get mown, but soon flower again. Take care.ReplyDelete
It always amazes me that so many people frown upon daisies. But what it there not to like? Best part is the fact that a digital photo of them, so enhances them.ReplyDelete
I have always loved the daisies that grow in the grass.ReplyDelete
Julie xxxxxx
Freshness abounds in this post,feel like making a daisy chain.ReplyDelete
I love daisies too. Sign that summer is here. Like Barb I feel an urge to make a daisy chain. Never too old to have childish fun. Just getting down there is harder!! XxReplyDelete
Your daisies make me think of fun childhood times with old friends.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry, I thought I had commented on this when I popped by before! I love this post, daisies are so pretty! Thanks for taking part in my linky, you are welcome to drop by and add more too :-) xReplyDelete
I love daisies, makes me sad when so many people chop their heads off when mowing the grass . . .ReplyDelete
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Thank you ever so much for stopping by today - I'm really glad that you did. If you would like to leave me a comment then I would be delighted to hear from you,
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Good morning!!
Quick post here to let you know about the next challenge that has started over at Digi Darla's today!!
"How do you fold??" Show us your creative ways of folding your cards, pages, projects!!
Challenge runs until Saturday 10/13 at 6pm EST!!
And... one more thing for this Monday Morning... my winner of last week's Blog Hop and the fun
"Colorful Sailboat" image is...
Leave a comment here with your email here and I will get that image right to you!!!
Happy Monday everyone.
I'll be back a bit later with my "How do you Fold" Card!!


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Toorsy.com Reviews
George Smyth
Date: 01/07/2017
'Amazing Bundles'
Jimmy was amazing. Great service with Great suggestions, not just about Attractions but regarding Restaurants, Stay and things to do too.
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Date: 19/06/2017
'Absolutely Fantastic Holiday'
The service from Toorsy was excellent, We had the most fabulous holiday because everything was wonderful from hotels to holiday transfers etc.
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Date: 30/05/2017
'great service'
Good service. The whole trip was well organised with regular emails to update on booking and to send tickets etc. Will defo book with Lauren again.
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Date: 06/05/2017
'Perfect Trip'
The information flow, updates and service were excellent from the very beginning. Once our holiday began, everything worked like clockwork. Great holiday – great service.
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Date: 12/04/2017
'Good Company to book with'
Very impresssd with the knowledge of the staff (Jimmy) when I phoned to ask further details about my forthcoming holiday. Issue quickly sorted and he went beyond expectations to make sure I had a good trip.
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'Great holiday, lots to see and do in Iceland'
The whole holiday worked well, was not rushed and we enjoyed every minute. A good way to experience these countries at little cost. Lauren was amazing from the get go…
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Date: 02/03/2017
'Amazing service'
Fantastic customer services, one of my best holidays. Highly recommended, very happy with this company and all the services received.


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Englewood, Colorado-based Starz Entertainment has announced plans to launch three additional HD channels this August, including Starz Kids & Family, Starz Comedy and Starz Edge.
The nets will complement Starz's existing HD channel, which focus on recently released and classic movie titles. Starz is the exclusive subscription television and broadband provider of first-run films from studios including Walt Disney Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Pixar and Miramax Films, so family films such as Cars and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will play into the schedule of Starz Kids & Family.
Starz Entertainment is a premium movie service provider in the US, offering 16 movie channels including flagship Starz and Encore brands, which have roughly 15.5 million and 27.3 million subscribers respectively.


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Entrepreneur Danilo Diaz Granados made recent news after planning a spectacular event for the high society in Miami this summer. The event was graced with fine delicacies and cuisines, helicopters trips, the best wine, racetrack moments and to top it off, a sunset boat ride. Mark you; this is not the first time the Toys for Boys co-founder is pulling off this stunt.
The event was attended by just a few handpicked guests who were then treated to a cordial breakfast at the One Thousand Museum sales center.
After an intimate meal, guests were taken on a private tour to view the long-awaited residential building in the Biscayne area of Miami. The wealthy entrepreneur later took his guests on a 30 minutes helicopter ride to Palm Beach race track. It was a dream come true for every man when they got the opportunity to take the race cars for a spin around the track. Lunch was later served at the River Yacht Club on the Miami River courtesy of Don Perignon.
When talking about the extravagant event, the entrepreneur said that he was after creating an opportunity that would provide a once in a lifetime experience for their guests. The event had numerous sponsors including; Air Commander Aerospace, Don Perignon, One Thousand Museum, Gryphon Racing and Van Dutch Americas.
About Danilo Diaz Granados
Danilo is based in Miami Florida but traces his roots back to Venezuela. He is a graduate of Babson College with a Bachelors degree in Entrepreneurship and Economics. Immediately after his studies, he started out as a financial advisor and entrepreneur. Currently, he is an Associate at Fire Capital Partners as he subsequently manages his two ventures Edge of Glory and Toys for Boys boutique. At Fire Capital Partners he is the wing connection for their Equity Investments Program. Toys for Boys Boutique is a unique store that deals in exotic automobiles, fine watches and jewelry and contemporary art. Glory Films is a boutique film company that focuses on Latin people interests. Read more about Danilo on his Facebook account.


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As PC users & developers, we are faced with situations where we want to save the current state of the operating system along with its applications. One such situation is when developers have to reproduce a bug in the system/application that is hard to recreate or that occurs only occasionally. The Snapshot feature in Hyper-V is a developer's dream in this regard- capable of saving the current state of the OS and its applications. Later, a dev can choose to restore to the saved state as many times as possible to work on the hard-to-create OS/Application state.
PC users & developers can now play with installing different applications, tweaking some system settings, editing the registry and easily go back to the previous state of the OS with the cool snapshot feature.
Here are a few scenarios where snapshots are quite handy for Windows Embedded Standard 2011 Developers:
- Debug the failing OS Installation
This is not a tip for debugging itself, but helps save some time with debugging the failing OS installation. If the OS installation fails after the first reboot or during the OOBE phase, a significant amount of time has already been spent. Create a snapshot after the last successful reboot and try to debug the failure rather than installing the OS again and again to recreate the failure.
Play with Windows Embedded Standard 2011 Packages
- Launch Hyper-V
- Boot into WinPE image
- Install the Windows Embedded Standard 2011 Operating System with the required set of packages (IBW / Unattend Setup)
- Create a Snapshot for the current State of OS
- Install any application
- If the installation fails, use Dependency Walker, procmon, procexp or other tools to find the missing dependencies and corresponding package
- Use the DISM tool to install the package and restart the machine if needed
- Install the 3rd Party application again, and if installation succeeds, create a second snapshot to mark the new milestone
- If something strange happens recover to the previous state (with the saved snapshot)
- Debug an application which fails only at first launch after installation
There are some applications which show an error only the first time the application is launched after installation. This problem can be solved by uninstalling and reinstalling the application. If the application is huge or has settings spread all across the registry, uninstall - reinstall is not the recommended approach; Rather, snapshots are the easiest way to get to the failure point. Install the OS and install the application that has a failure. Create a snapshot first, then launch the application. If you lose track while debugging, you can easily get to the same state with the saved snapshot.
- Debug hard-to-create scenarios
Windows Embedded Standard 2009 developers may have faced hard-to-recreate bugs that take many hours to reproduce. . Snapshots provide a great solution for this situation. Once the reproduction happens, save the state of OS. Developers now have infinite number of chances to start debugging the problem from the same state.
- Save the special state of a database
Sometimes an application requires setting up a database server with test data. The application can then execute scripts on the test data or change the test data during the development cycle. By taking a snapshot of the database server after loading the initial test data, the test cycle can easily start testing with the original data. The same technique is also useful in advanced applications with a lot of configurations settings. It is recommended that you take a snapshot after successful configuration settings. This snapshot provides a handy backup if the application configuration fails in the future.
There are many scenarios where snapshots would be a good time saver, and all it takes to use this snapshot feature is just a click of a button in the toolbar. Hopefully we can save you time with Snapshots.


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Who We Are
Global Network
Travel Incorporated delivers single source services operating wholly owned locations around the world. Our global footprint reaches more than 90 countries on 6 continents. As an affiliate member of BCD Travel, we offer a single voice excelling in multinational, global business. The distinct advantage of Travel Incorporated's global program is the credible service platform along with consistent leadership, resulting in our ability to deliver Best Practices that can be sustained in each unique market we serve.
Travel Incorporated's global strategy is to bring the success of your North American program in process improvement, risk awareness, and leveraging spend to your operating units around the globe. With growing attention on corporate social responsibility regarding employee safety, the desire for greater transparency and the intelligence of actionable data is greater than ever. Our success is attributed to dedicated resources of a global consolidation team that actively listens, engages and educates on the reality of such endeavors.


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First, if you travel to Gimpo Airport by A'REX (Airport Railroad) or subway, take the direction that brings you to the Domestic Airport. Gimpo Airport is connected domestically and internationally, unless Incheon Airport which serves only international routes.
Second, if you think that Jeju Air is the only domestic flight to Jeju, then you are in for a big surprise. They are at least 6 domestic airlines that are connected to Jeju. Jeju Air can easily be spotted by their bright orange logo. Counter staff mostly are able to converse in English and are helpful too.
Third, this flimsy-looking piece of paper is your air ticket. Do not lose it. Key info is available in English too.
Fourth, check-in is 40mins prior to flight departure. Unlike international flights which require you to appear 2 hours ahead for the thorough check-in process. Checking in for domestic flights is quite straight forward. As there flight frequency is very high, the counter may not attend to you if you show up too early.
Fifth, observe the baggage allowance. Maximum allowance for check-in luggage is 15kg while for hand-carry, it is 10kg. The weighing scale is placed right before the boarding gate for passengers to check their hand-carry baggage's weight. Nonetheless, a point to note is penalty for excess baggage charge for Jeju Air isn't that bad.... 2000 won per kg.
Seventh, the situation faced at departure from Jeju Airport is quite different from arrival to Jeju. The queue at the departure gate starts to form quite early. I was puzzled their enthusiasm to board the plane. But I finally why after I passed the departure gate. Read on...
Eighth, the flight does not take off from the departure gate itself! The passengers need to take a shuttle bus to the flight. The queue was formed early so as to get a seat on the shuttle bus!
Nineth, here's how you board the Jeju Air flight from Jeju! Pray for good weather and manage your luggage load. It is quite cumbersome to move your luggage from bus to plane if it is huge and heavy!
Finally and most importantly, book your tickets early to enjoy great discount which can be as much as 65%!
Wishing you a pleasant journey! *J^
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FRESNO –The smile formed seemingly every time Dwight Howard spoke.
As Laker fans at Save Mart Center loudly shouted, "We want Kobe," in hopes Bryant would appear in the second half of an otherwise meaningless 110-83 preseason loss Sunday to the Golden State Warriors, Howard joined in on the cheer. Howard even started his own chant, proclaiming, "We want Somogyi," in reference to 7-foot-3 center Greg Somogyi, who made the training camp roster.
Howard sat on the bench wearing a bow tie and tortoiseshell glasses, engaged in small talk with Devin Ebanks and Darius Morris. They would laugh, and then a few seconds later, they'd laugh again.
Long after the game ended, Howard spoke with a handful of media members about a number of topics. He guessed various reporters' ages and even compared one to the 38-year-old Steve Nash. Howard guessed which reporters were single or married judging by the size of their waistlines. Howard peppered them with questions about movies, including basketball flicks, Team America and the James Bond films. Howard also detailed his love for dodgeball.


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Introducing the future of Fields of War
Hello everyone!
We have received a lot of feedback about Fields of War, which caused us to pause and think for a while.
We tried to distill this feedback, these ideas, and figure out where Fields of War shines, where it doesn't and why.
The result of this time we took away from writing code or creating art is a clear vision of what we want Fields of War to be.
This vision will be guiding us throughout the future development of Fields of War.
We realize that it's a grand and ambitious vision, and that it will take time to complete.
Since we promised you an update, we decided to share our vision with you, but please be aware that not all of our ideas are complete or documented yet.
You'll probably be able to catch us editing the document from time to time, and if you do, please remember that we're working hard so we probably won't be able to reply if you start to chat. :)
Please, please give us your feedback and share your ideas with us in our community (link).
We can't promise to implement or incorporate anything, but we do promise to read your comments and take them into consideration.
You can find the shared Google Document here:
Thank you all,
Harel, Rony and Asaf


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The Justice of the Peace is the legal jurisdiction closest to the average citizen.
Section 19 of Article 5 of the Texas Constitution provides that: Justice of the Peace Courts have original jurisdiction in criminal matters of misdemeanor cases punishable by fine only and such other jurisdiction as may be provided by law.
Original jurisdiction is the authority to accept a case at its inception, try it and pass judgment based upon the laws and facts. This is distinguished from appellate jurisdiction which is jurisdiction to review a court's action.
The Justice of the Peace performs the functions of a magistrate and conducts inquests. Justices are required to set bonds and conditions as well as perform additional magistrate duties.
A Justice of the Peace may issue warrants for search and arrest, conduct preliminary hearings, administer oaths, perform marriages, and must serve as coroner in counties where there is no provision for a medical examiner.
The Justice Court also functions as a small claims court in civil matters in which exclusive jurisdiction is not in District or County Court and the amount of controversy does not exceed $10,000. The Court can also deal with matters concerning foreclosure of mortgages and enforcement of liens on personal property.
Download this map as a pdf
The following services are links to outside agencies. Please make sure to confirm the name of the court and the name of the Judge that you are paying to.
Judge Prado - JP 1-1
Judge Moreno - JP 1-2
Judge Smith - JP 2
Judge Cable - JP 3
Judge Burns - JP 4
Judge Cary - JP 5
Make a payment to Hays County
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Get added tire clearance for larger tires and a cool new look with a Tuff Country Ford F350 lift kit. This 6" Ford Super Duty lift kit uses new front "EZ-Ride" leafs springs, rear cast iron 5.5" (3" wide) blocks (replaces factory blocks) and rear add-a-leafs to lift your truck. A front track bar bracket with adjustable cam-bolt keeps the proper alignment. Front extended sway bar endlinks eliminate any bind on the front sway bars. Brake line extension brackets are also included. Tuff Country has been producing quality suspension products for over 25 years and backs all lift kits with a limited lifetime warranty.
Note: To purchase Tuff Country 25921KN (w/SX8000 Shocks) please select in options above.
At Suspension Connection we are the #1 retailer of Tuff Country products in the world. Great prices, expert knowledge and exceptional customer service are why so many customers trust us with their Tuff Country purchases. Try us out!
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has someone has forgotten about binary coded decimal?
A new year bug has scuppered card transactions at thousands of Australian shops for four days so far, because systems at the Bank of Queensland say it is now 2016. The glitch has meant most debit cards have effectively expired. In the ensuing chaos, shops served by Bank of Queensland have been forced to introduce temporary …
If the dates are stored or manipulated as only two digits at some point, then there is a very strong relationship between 10 and 16 - if you consider decimal vs hexadecimal. It's a long shot, but then after several days I guess they've checked the more obvious ideas.
Of course after the Y2K fuss two digit date manipulations shouldn't really be allowed ...
if you read the article, and the link to the work-around, you'll see it's affecting Blackberry and other handsets as well. If the phone is configured to us the operator timestamp for texts rather than the handset timestamp then people see the problem.
On WM it's fairly simply to toggle the behaviour to use the handset timestamp (WinMo) rather than the operator timestamp (wonder if the operators are running *nix of some sort. Does BoQ run *nix or Windows behind the scenes for the EFTPOS terminals?)
When Y2K came around and nothing happened, I always said it was because us code monkeys prepared for it and solved it before it became a problem. But when nothing happened, everybody said we were full of shit. They never realised that nothing happened not because it was just hype, but because we prevented it.
And this sort of thing is what happens when we don't expect it and thus can't prepare for it. And this is a minor glitch compared to what Y2K would have been. So now, all of you who took the piss out of us coders when Y2K failed to materialise, imagine how much worse than this it would have been if we'd just sat on our arses and did nothing.
Roll on January 2038... we'll fix that one too, never fear. (64-bit time = start 0 at the Big Bang and wrap 584.5 billion years on - never a problem again!)
We'll never know what Y2K would have been without your heroic efforts. However, we can be fairly sure that it couldn't have been anything within an order of magnitude as bad as was being predicted by the army of self-appointed consultants who stepped in to save us. At one point in the late 90s, Gartner group were saying it would cost several hundred billion dollars to fix, which on any reasonable assumptions was far more than the software cost to write in the first place.
Predictions of doom were also rather less credible when one remembered that only real-time systems would be affected (since any system used for forward planning had clearly been handling post-2K dates since time immemorial) and that in many cases one could assess the exposure simply by setting clocks forward. Yes, I'm sure you can cite lots of obscure scenarios where these two rules don't apply, but they covered the vast majority of the code being "fixed" at great expensive by "Y2K consultants".
You were clearly spending too much of the 90s reviewing code. Those of us who were watching the Y2K fraud (and what else can you call it when knowledgeable people sell squillions of pounds of services to non-knowledgeable ones by invoking FUD) have a very different memory of that decade.
Here we go again. Another ignorant troll from somebody who has no idea of what they are talking about. The Y2K work we did was not some big con, but "non-knowledgeable" morons like you will never accept that we actually did any work because you didn't see anything go wrong and would prefer to believe that it was a big conspiracy to con poor old you.
We "time-travelled" one of our mainframes and discovered over 2,000 instances of Y2K code faults which we had to correct, unit test, system test, integration test and user acceptance test. That's just one mainframe, let alone the others, or the mid-range systems/applications, or the faults that time-travelling the systems didn't reveal but could only be found by going through the code, line by fucking line.
Then of course, there's the huge savings we made and efficiency we gained (from economies of scale) from all the other non-Y2K bugs we found and fixed during the process.
If you think it was a waste of time, then you're the kind of idiot we can well do without in IT.
If I say that something is happening, it is I who must show the evidence. Saying that someone doesn't "believe" in AGW because there is no evidence AGAINST it is nonsense.
- Where is the hard data that shows that HUMANS are responsible? There isn't.
- Is the World's climate changing? Yes. It always is.
- What are we doing to ensure our survival when climate DO changes and crops around the World start dying for drought, too much heat or too much cold? Nothing, because everyone is too busy with the fucking fossil fuels, something that in 50 or 60 years will no longer need or have because it is not renewable. We should be planning to see what to do when freaking next ice age starts, not harassing governments and industries to make sure "BIG OIL" is stopped.
It is sad when scientist do their research with political agendas in mind instead of pure pursuit of knowledge, be it on the left o right of the political spectrum.
I assume AGW stands for Anthropogenic Global Warming. And indeed so far there are no real evidence that it is true. But since it has became such a popular topic in the mind of the general public now politicians are following suit.
I experienced the W2K issue in 1986 when I took a splendid old lady to the then brand new hospital at Milton Keynes. Daisy, bless her, had slipped and broken her wrist and sat patiently in a chair as we spoke to the girl on the desk and tried to book her in.
The problem of course was that Daisy was born in 1898 (or something like that) and when 92 was put into the two digit year box on the terminal simply spat it out again as it was not possible, we had not got to 1998 yet so that had to be wrong.
A discussion round the dinner table a few days later raised the issue and Daisy's Grandson later went on to become a very successful businessman, and one of his businesses was based on solving the Y2K bug, and he sold the business to M$!
The Y2K issue was very real, even if it was caused by lack of foresight in the first place!
As I pointed out in a previous post, 2038 is coming and by then all systems will be on at least 64-bit time if not more. 64-bit time will easily cover us from the Big Bang to well after the end of the Stelliferous Era, at which point anything descended from us won't have any use for computers anyway.
As to using 4 characters to store the year - nearly every database I've worked with stores dates as Unix timestamps, aka the 32-bit integer that's going to wrap in 2038. And most programs I've worked on also compute date differences etc with the integer timestamp as well and only convert to dd-mm-yyyy when it's time to display results to the user. (It's much easier to add 30 days to today by going $expire = time()+(30 * 86400); rather than futzing about with splitting days, months, and years and adding/subtracting from monthday arrays.)
In any case, any computer we're using 7,990 years from now will be as far beyond us as the internet is to Hammurabi, and the likelihood of us still using the current date system then is about on par with us using the Babylonian calendar now, so somehow I don't think it'll be an issue! ;)


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Have you heard the term "encumbrance"? If not, you're not alone.
An encumbrance is a legal interest held by someone other than the property owner.
Don't worry, it's not too confusing. In fact, it's not a lot different to a body corporate or a strata.
It might be a financial interest, if money is owed on the property like a lien, or a non-financial interest, like an easement.
In its simplest form, an encumbrance is a set of rules and regulations that a homeowner must follow when maintaining the exterior of their property.
If you're looking to buy in a waterfront development or a heritage property there's a good chance there's an encumbrance.
So do your homework and read the certificate of title.
An encumbrance prevents a property owner from having full "unencumbered" control of their property. So if you want to make any changes, you have to check the rules.
At the Hindmarsh Island property, there were restrictions on what could and couldn't be done to the front and the back of the house, and to the jetty and marina area.
Landscaping needed to include native plants and only use organic fertilisers, driveways had to be a certain width, rooves couldn't be flat and jetties had to be maintained to a certain standard.
Despite how it sounds, an encumbrance is not necessarily a burden. I myself am an encumbrancee, but it's part and parcel of where I choose to live.
So if there's a development or a heritage house that you like, you may have the encumbrance to thank.