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This video compilation shows images from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's 32 months on Mars.
After driving more than 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) from the site where it landed in January 2004, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity approached "Victoria Crater" in September 2006. The crater is about 750 meters (half a mile) across. That is about six times wider than "Endurance Crater," which Opportunity spent six months examining in 2004, and about 35 times wider than "Eagle Crater," where Opportunity first landed. The walls of Victoria hold the scientific allure of much taller stacks of geological layers -- providing the record of a longer span of the area's environmental history -- than Opportunity has been able to inspect on the Meridiani plains or at smaller craters.
This animation created by the U.S. Geological Survey uses a digital elevation model generated from computer analysis of three images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. The vertical dimension is not exaggerated relative to the horizonal dimensions. The crater is about 70 meters (230 feet) deep.
The images used for providing the stereo information to calculate relative elevation were taken on Feb. 1, 2004,Feb. 15, 2004 and April 16, 2005. The animation begins and ends with the view looking from the northwest toward the southeast. Opportunity is approaching Victoria from the northwest.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/USGS
Viking retirees and prior team members share adventures about their involvement with the first mission to land on another planet.
The Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity have seen quite a bit during their second Martian year.
Thirty years ago, the Viking mission arrived at Mars, giving us the first view from the surface of the red planet.
This animation highlights the orbiter's context imager as it took and returned its first image.
This animation highlights the first images returned by the orbiter's HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiement) camera.
In order to wow us with amazing new views of the Red Planet, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter must be able to rotate its instrument deck to face its target. This animation features the spacecraft moving to get into position for optimal martian snapshots!
This animation highlights the first use of the MARCI (Mars Color Imager) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
With the spacecraft safely captured into orbit, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team transitions to the next critical phase -- aerobraking. Learn how engineers slow the spacecraft and precisely shape its orbit using the dynamic atmosphere of Mars.
This video created by JPL's Solar System Visualization Team uses real scientific data from Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System's Infrared Camera to simulate a flight from a few hundred feet above the largest canyon in the solar system, Valles Marineris on Mars. The image data was draped over topography information from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter on the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. Every canyon wall and curve in the animation is rendered from real data from Mars except for the simulated atmosphere, dust devils, and dust storms.
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Follow the journey of NASA's next generation Mars orbiter during its launch, through the vastness of space and as it reaches critical mission milestones. The spacecraft's powerful suite of instruments and their unprecedented capabilities are highlighted.
After millions of miles, dozens of tests, a handful of calibrations and a number of "dress rehearsals," the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at the red planet on March 10, 2006. Find out how engineers prepare the spacecraft and themselves for this complicated engine burn and capture into Mars' orbit.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will see things at Mars in greater detail than ever before.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will bring new capabilities to Mars exploration. The spacecraft arrives at Mars Mar. 10, 2006.
Hitting a moving target over 306 million miles away is no easy feat. Learn how JPL navigation engineers have guided the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter toward its mission-critical capture into orbit around the red planet.
The Mars Exploration Rovers mark two years on the red planet.
This synthetic image of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover on the flank of "Husband Hill" was produced using "Virtual Presence in Space" technology. Developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., this technology combines visualization and image-processing tools with Hollywood-style special effects. The image was created using a photorealistic model of the rover and a false-color mosaic. The size of the rover in the image is approximately correct and was based on the size of the rover tracks in the mosaic. The mosaic was assembled from frames taken by the panoramic camera on the rover's 454th Martian day, or sol (April 13, 2005); see PIA07855.
Because this synthesis provides viewers with a sense of their own "virtual presence" (as if they were there themselves), such views can be useful to mission teams in planning exploration by enhancing perspective and a sense of scale.
Image note: Rover model by Dan Maas; synthetic image by Koji Kuramura, Zareh Gorjian, Mike Stetson and Eric M. De Jong.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
This is the Opportunity panoramic camera's "Erebus Rim" panorama, acquired on sols 652 to 663 (Nov. 23 to Dec. 5, 2005 ), as NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was exploring sand dunes and outcrop rocks in Meridiani Planum. The panorama originally consisted of 635 separate images in 4 different Pancam filters, and covers 360 degrees of terrain around the rover and the full rover deck. Since the time that this panorama was acquired, and while engineers have been diagnosing and testing Opportunity's robotic arm, the panorama has been expanded to include more than 1,300 images of this terrain through all of the Pancam multispectral filters. It is the largest panorama acquired by either rover during the mission.
The panorama shown here is an approximate true-color rendering using Pancam's 750 nanometer, 530 nanometer and 430 nanometer filters. It is presented here as a cylindrical projection. Image-to-image seams have been eliminated from the sky portion of the mosaic to better simulate the vista a person standing on Mars would see.
This panorama provides the team's highest resolution view yet of the finely-layered outcrop rocks, wind ripples, and small cobbles and grains along the rim of the wide but shallow "Erebus" crater. Once the arm diagnostics and testing are completed, the team hopes to explore other layered outcrop rocks at Erebus and then eventually continue southward toward the large crater known as "Victoria."


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The W.O.W. Concept, which stands for "wonderful openhearted wagon," is an exhibition model with no plans for commercial sale that will be exhibited at the Tokyo auto show later this month.
A special crate for dogs in the glove apartment allows owners to interact with their pets while driving. A bigger crate pops up from the floor in the back seat area and can be folded back into the floor when it's not needed. For even bigger dogs, just buckle them up with a special seat belt to the floor.
The big danger for pets riding along in cars is that they get thrown out during a crash. About a fifth of Japanese households have a dog, and demand is growing for cars that cater to man's best friend, according to Honda.
The W.O.W comes with removable, washable, rollout flooring and has wide sliding doors to keep dogs happy.
"We created this vehicle from the point of view of a dog, but it turned out to be a gentler vehicle for the elderly, children and other family members," said Honda designer Katsuhito Nakamura.
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Operation as city public museum, 2002
In 1936, Frank Lloyd Wright's first Usonian house – the Jacobs House – was completed outside Madison, Wisconsin. The Jacobs House would later serve as the basis of the Rosenbaum plan, with its 2' x 4' planning module, L shape, and private areas pushed to the ends of the plan. Additionally, with a construction cost of only $5,500 the house would become a model for affordable designer houses.
In 1939, Stanley Rosenbaum, a professor at the University of Northern Alabama, and his wife Mildred, contracted Cooper Union architecture student Aaron Green to design a residence in Florence, Alabama. When Green delivered the plans in April of that same year, the estimated cost was well over the desired $7,500 maximum price, so Green (who greatly admired the design and low cost of the Jacobs House), recommended Wright as an alternative architect.
By August 1939, the Rosenbaums had contacted Wright asking for a house with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a large kitchen with service entrance and pantry, a study, and a living room large enough for many books, piano, organ, and radio-phonograph. Wright's plans were soon accepted and construction began in January 1940, to be completed by August.
The original plan called for a single story home that met the Rosenbaums' desired layout and cost, at 1540 square feet and $7,500 projected. By its completion, the Rosenbaum House would cost a total of $12,777.84.
The Rosenbaum House is a one story, L-shaped residence that follows Wright's principle of organic material and design. The service core of the house composed of the living area and kitchen is a mass of masonry, creating a central weight to the structure and providing an anchoring point for large cantilevering roofs. The walls and facade of the house are tidewater red cypress, reflecting Wright's love for this material and its relationship to the natural environment of the surrounding Alabama landscape. This connection between structural language and natural world is reinforced by the use of mitered glass corners (made possible by the cantilevers) that eliminate anticipated frames around windows and doors. With less visual obstruction between the indoor and outdoor spaces, the division seems to dissolve in certain areas, most notably the central living area. In addition, the attention paid to all aspects of the wood detailing (from the signature Wright-style mitered corners to recessed lighting) show a specific care for the qualities of cypress and the bounds of craftsmanship during the era of the Usonian home. With the addition of a second L-shaped wing came the enclosure of a lanai garden, yet another effort to preserve a sense of nature and natural life in and around the house.
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"The living areas spacious, with an enlarged dining alcove, a 100-sq-ft study, and redesigned service core. By incorporating the heater at floorslab level, Wright was able to omit the small basement, together with its stair. This allowed extra circulation space and made the core an island with alternative routes about it, enhancing the house's apparent spaciousness. The bedroom wing of three rooms was terminated by a second bathroom.
"The house is the purest example of the Usonian. It incorporates detailing improvements and combines all the standard elements in a mature and spatially varied interior. Its exterior has an almost overpowering horizontality. The street facade forms a cypress wall from which springs the carport, a 20-ft cantilever utilizing concealed steelwork. Ten years after construction, the Rosenbaums had Wright extend the house. It thus became the first Usonian to be radically altered, something which owners of Wright houses were loath to do, but which he himself always saw as potentially inherent in an organic building. This addition backed a second L onto the first, containing a Japanese garden. With four sons in the family, extra sleeping accommodations were required. A quiet guest room terminated one arm, and the other contained a family kitchen, bunk-playroom, and utility room with second carport."
Typical Wright construction: walls of cypress sandwiched around pine, layered 2x4s to support the roof, in-floor heating. Notably during the construction phase, Wearcoat and tar paper on the roof failed almost immediately in wet weather and were replaced, although differential expansion and leaks in the flat roof would be a problem for many years. Cypress board and batten were buckling, and the living room roof neared failure, so Goodrich added flitch plates and concealed steel I beams.
The Rosenbaum House was the second Usonian house, following the Jacobs House. It followed, in principle, the plan and arrangement of the Jacobs House, with its 2' x 4' planning module, L shape, and private areas pushed to the ends of the plan. The simple and natural materials, the projected low cost and designer style of the house, the signature horizontal structure with broad flat roofs, and the arrangement of spaces in the house all make it a stepping off point, along with the other early Usonian houses, for Wright's later career. In the broader context, the house represents the interest in planned communities, especially the easily fabricated homes of the City Beautiful and Wright's Broadacre City.
The materials and design of the Rosenbaum House were characteristic of Wright and the Usonian house. The house is characterized by cypress mounted horizontally in reverse board and batten, in-floor heating, and solid, uninsulated sandwich walls built of pine covered on both sides with cypress. The structure is a modest, single-story, flat-roofed design with a floor plan organized around 2x4 and 4x4 grids. Notably, the project supervisor, Burton Goodrich, had to substitute filch plates and concealed I-beams to overcome the structure failure of sagging roofs during the construction phase.
Stanley Rosenbaum was a college professor, actually working out of his house when he first contacted Wright. This indicates the appeal that the Wright house had to the ordinary man. This was propelled by Wright's prior reputation, his inclusion in the International Style exhibit at the MoMa in 1932, and particularly for the Rosenbaums, a Time Magazine feature and Wright's renown among up-and-coming architects that had worked at Taliesen.
The house served only as a personal residence designed and later expanded to meet the needs of the Rosenbaums while allowing Wright to practice the language that would become central to the Usonian theme. The Rosenbaums would be the sole occupants through Stanley's death in 1983 and its purchase by the city of Florence in 1999. The house's inclusion in the Register of Historic places and conversion into a public museum indicate the general value that Wright's more private built works now hold in architectural history and as an expression of early modern architecture in America.
The Rosenbaum House is simple in its plan and modest in its ornamentation. The governing principles are the natural qualities of the materials, the relationship of the house to the surrounding land, and the convenience of the layout to the needs and desires of the house's residents. Careful attention to detail regarding wood and glasswork are overshadowed by the simplicity of horizontally hung cypress and large windows.
The Rosenbaum House won immediate renown. Stanley Rosenbaum stated that immediately upon occupying the house in September 1940, hundreds of visitors would request entry on a daily basis, so many that it seemed the entire population of Alabama had seen the house. On the national scale, photographs of the house were being displayed at MoMa within the month, further sparking the interest that would lead to commissions for the Pope, Goetsch-Winkler, and Euchtman Houses, followed by countless more Usonian and similar houses.
The Rosenbaum House is an important landmark of American architecture, representing a movement towards nature and simplicity in the years following the Depression. The house would come to represent an affordable designer house available to the ordinary man. However, in time it would also demonstrate the structural and material weakness of most Wright houses, requiring extensive renovation just to keep from disintegrating.
BROACH, Barbara Kimberlin et. al, Frank Lloyd Wright's Rosenbaum House: The Birth And Rebirth of an American Treasure, San Francisco, Pomegranate Press, 2006, 0764937634.
BRIGGS, Sara-Ann, "Rosenbaum House Restoration Begins", Bulletin: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, USA, Spring 2000, v.10, n.2, pg. 16-17.
HITCHCOCK, Henry Russell, In the Nature of Materials, New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942, 0306800195.
"Buildings for Democracy", Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, USA, Spring 2004, v.15, n.2, pg. 4-21.
SERGEANT, John, Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses, New York, Whitney Library of Design, 1984, 0823071774.


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Several hours after we launched the campaign Levi's responded with a blog that can only be described as a little defensive. It described in great detail all of the work Levi's is currently doing and reiterated that the levels of hazardous chemicals found in its clothes were "not known to constitute any direct health risk to the wearers". It spoke of the need for group action and described the issue as "complex". Fast forward 24 hours, and as activists in Copenhagen performed a vertical catwalk next to one of their stores, the team at Levi's was busy publishing, for the first time, what looked like an individual action plan that began to detail how it might move from being a Toxic zero to a Detox hero. For a first attempt it wasn't terrible. But sadly for the millions of people around the world affected every day by the pollution caused when making Levi's famous 501s -- it was simply not good enough.
Greenpeace activist strutting her stuff up a vertical catwalk yesterday in front of the Levi's store in the biggest mall in Copenhagen, Denmark. © Christian Åslund / Greenpeace
If Levi's wants to know what it takes to make a credible and ambitious commitment to Detox, then perhaps it should pay closer attention to some of its competitors. Just today, fast-fashion brand Esprit made an individual commitment to Detox its supply chain and products by 2020. As part of its commitment, the Hong-Kong based retail chain also promised to release pollution data from 30 suppliers in China by the end of 2013 and to ban all PFCs (a particularly nasty group of hazardous chemicals) by the end of 2014. Esprit joins the world's largest retailer Zara, the Spanish fast-fashion brand Mango (which also committed this week), and Marks and Spencer in taking credible and ambitious action to clean up their toxic habits.Together these four brands will release supplier data for more than 150 facilities in 2013: which marks the beginning of a genuine transparency revolution in the fashion sector.
In contrast, the statement put up by Levi's yesterday seems like a rushed reaction to an escalating situation. While the brand had previously stated that it believed group action was the only solution and had refused for more than six months to discuss how it might create a credible individual commitment and action plan (a position it still held on Wednesday), by Thursday suddenly here was its first attempt.The problem is their statement and action plan lack any kind of ambititon. The brand's actions seem to indicate that it is trying to see how little it can get away with until people will leave it alone to get on with its polluting business as usual. Not exactly the actions of a brand that describes itself as a "leader".Worse still, it seems the brand has deliberately left out much of the language needed (and used by other leading brands) in order for people to know that Levi's will actually follow through on its commitment. For example, the brand still fails to accept that the people living near its supplier's facilities have a right to information regarding the pollution being released into their rivers. This goes beyond failing to be a leader, this is failing to recognize the basic human rights of millions of people around the world, despite actions from ZARA, Mango, M&S and Esprit who are working to change this status quo.Finally, Levi's still seems to be interested in "managing" hazardous chemicals, and not eliminating them, while other leading brands have acknowledged that there are simply no environmentally safe levels of toxic, hormone-disrupting and cancer-causing chemicals.
Levi's (and their advertising agencies) certainly have a way with words."Go Forth" its ads proclaim. "Be a pioneer" they tell us. "Apathy is death" they warn.Inspiring stuff. The trouble is, when you build the image of the world's largest jeans manufacturer on such lofty proclamations, you have to be willing to follow through on them yourself.Otherwise they are just hollow words. And as we have seen from the evidence linking Levi's clothes to toxic water pollution in Mexico and elsewhere, nice words are not enough.To inspire Levi's to #GoForth and Detox, I had a quick look at rewriting one of their advertisements to help remind them what a true pioneer looks like.
The one key thing Levi's latest "actions" tell us is that the brand is finally cottoning on to the need to listen to the groundswell of people around the world who are calling for fashion without pollution.Our campaigners are willing (and raring) to speak to the brand to discuss how to transform it's hollow statement into something Levi's and its customers can be proud of. Now is OUR time to tell the brand that we want Levi's to be a Detox leader, not a green-washer. That we want real actions to match the pretty words. And that we want transparency, not more skeletons in their closet.Over 100,000 people have already joined. Let's use this momentum and give Levi's 501 thousand reasons to Detox! Tommy Crawford is the Strategic Communications Manager on the Detox Campaign. You can follow him on twitter at: @theecowarrior
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Be a Pioneer!! And start to change our world into a better place for our earth and all beings!!
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Start your worldwide detox!
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Why should he Watch Barca to see how Delefeou is doing ?? Are you watching United to see how Lukaku is doing
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Deulofeu wont be there for long mate please don't try and blend it that he's good enough. If he is then it's a sign of how far Barca are talking.Re Vlasic : I mean he was a central player at split, for whatever reason we've been playing him wide.
I agree with the both points bud,just that bluenose poster stating that the player dies after 25 mins, is a bit bitter.. yes he had stamina issues, but it wasnt every match, he got into a good run of games a few times, i know he was taken off a lot.. but to be negative on him cos he left/plays for barca is bitter..Vlasic is a number 10/cm i agree. just dont get who he will drop to accommodate another number 10, i dont see him being a central midfielder, he doesnt have that presence.. number 10 is all i can see for him.. :s so Rooney will be the central striker/false 9, with Vlasic and Siggy behind.. thats why we struggle.. no striker and the only one we have who is a 9, hardly every played in his main position.
We had a striker for the past 4 seasons who rarely got on the end of his crosses, so it's a mute point. He was great for a while in his first season and really didn't do much else after.No ill feelings towards him, he's just another player playing for another team now.
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At the Argonne National Lab on Monday, a dedication ceremony was held for the Mira supercomputer, where it was duly noted that it is the world's fifth-fastest system. You cannot mention the world's fifth-fastest system without noting the world's number one system, which is in China.
That was the case when U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill), who attended the ceremony, cut the ribbon to dedicate Mira, an IBM Blue Gene/Q system capable of 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second. The world's fastest system, the Tianhe-2 in China, according to the Top 500 list, has been benchmarked at nearly 34 petaflops.
China, Europe and Japan, and perhaps Russia, are all working with the goal of developing exascale systems, or machines of 1,000 petaflops. There is a global race to achieve exascale, and Durbin is co-sponsoring legislation in the U.S Senate to spend $580 million on exascale development over the next three years.
There's a similar bill in the House, sponsored by Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.) The House bill doesn't include a specific exascale funding recommendation, but one source has said an annual appropriation of $200 million or more will be sought.
The Senate bill was introduced in April and the House bill just last month. Both are likely months from any action, if they make it to a vote. Illinois is home to Argonne, a major beneficiary of HPC (high performance computing) investment.
To win support, Durbin seemed to suggest that HPC systems are going to have to deliver results that will get notice, lest lawmakers lose the will to make the investments.
Of Mira, Durbin said, "we need to translate this computer into real life value," and "we need to incentivize those in public life who are willing to invest in the research."
Rick Stevens, the associate laboratory director at Argonne, outlined some of the research initiatives on Mira, which includes working with Caterpillar, the farming equipment manufacturer, to design a more efficient engine.
Mira is also being used to help design better concrete with a reduced carbon footprint. For every ton of concrete produced, one ton of carbon dioxide is also produced, Stevens said.
Another major initiative, which is getting a "large allocation" of compute time, is to improve batteries, particularly those used in automobiles, said Stevens.
The laboratory was tasked in November by the U.S. Department of Energy, which operates the lab, to spearhead development of energy storage technologies that are five times more powerful and five times cheaper than today's within five years.
Durbin didn't talk Monday about the prospects of his bill and focused instead on the immediate problem of sequestration, the automatic government-wide spending cuts.
Durbin, who was speaking before HPC researchers at Argonne, said cutbacks may prompt some researchers to question their commitment to government-funded basic research.
Those researchers may ask, "'I'm going to give my life to this so some politicians in Washington can decide next year that they aren't going to fund my project?'" Durbin said. It may prompt researchers to move on to other work, and "that's what troubles me."
Other countries, said Durbin, are "dreaming of getting ahead of the U.S. when it comes to basic research."
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"Be Faithful" by Fat Man Scoop
I love the sampled from "Chic Cheer" & Black Sheep, but what gets me about this song is how in your face is. It's exhausting to listen to, and the video is a little terrifying.
"Slow" by Kylie Minogue
I like all the whitespace in this one. Weird that the video takes place poolside because all I think about when I hear it is the frozen Reykjavik landscape. If I remember correctly, I took this picture out the window of of our bus back to Keflavik:
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I know that I have not been very regular in posting ( a bit of an understatement, I know!! Right!)
If you are reading this, Thank You!! for hanging in there with me. I promise to do better. I have started a few post recently and my pictures wouldn't download. But on my final try for the day...magically what I was doing all along worked!! I don't understand it but oh well!! Technology will always remain somewhat of a mystery to me, I guess. :-) I'd rather be working with fabric now that I understand!!
I am starting with some pictures of my new Studio..AKA Formal Living Room!! As I rambled around this big house, I decided I no longer wanted or needed to be working out of an upstairs bedroom when I had a huge seldom used living room on the main floor. So after removing some large furniture pieces that I no longer needed and adding some tables and storage I made it a very cozy and productive space. Here are a few pics.
|This cabinet was a hand-me-down from a friend that did not want to move it. It holds alot of fabric!
|A little Kaffe Fassett always makes me a happy girl!!
|My cutting table.. this wonderful stack of Anna Marie Horner "Field Study" waiting to be cut.
|Thimble collection and vintage spools of thread.
|Home Sweet Home by Blackbird..last block!! been working on this quilt for many years.
|Some hexies in progress!!
|My favorite spot to do any hand sewing or knitting! I had both wing chairs re-covered
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|"New" Vintage cabinet hold lots of pre-cuts waiting to be made into something wonderful.
|close up "73 Willow Lane"
|The View from my sewing machine and computer desk
|Other chair.. Dresden Plate.. machine quilting in progress!
|More fun storage..and my very LARGE TV!! Love it.
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I think there is a theme here.
|My faithful companion...Penelope Patchwork!
|some free-motion writing with Penelope
|This was the 2014 New Years Day Mystery from Planet Patchwork
|Pattern: Strawberry Skies designed by Kimberly Jolly from Fons and Porters' Love of Quilting issue May/June 2013
using Incense and Peppermint by Robyn Pandolph
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Using Scrumptious from Bonnie and Camille
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Holiday Recommendations: Save Khaki Knit Cardigan
First up is a shawl collar cardigan which is a must own and I won't retread ground broken by every single blogger (including myself) who has already talked about its merits. My favorite option is from Save Khaki, one of the best no nonsense brands out. Their knit cardigan, available at Barneys for $195, is a great snag for any guy including your dad. What we have hear is a simple, well-proportioned winner. It's got the details (ribbed, merino wool, front pockets) and a decent price point. I'd personally grab it in navy and wear the hell out of it this winter and winters to come. This is the only knit you need purchase this season.
p.s. Thanks to Dave @ Save Khaki for the picture.
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- AnonymousDecember 2, 2009 at 1:52 AM
Great sweater. I'd been on the perpetual hunt for a shawl collar cardigan so I feel like my opinion on them is pretty well rounded at this point...although I finally just settled on a $39 cheapo from H&M (gasp) that I stumbled on. It's actually a pretty decent sweater and gets the point across. I'm sure it'll unravel sooner than later, but hey, you get what you pay for. Anyhow, agreed...the Save Khaki offering is well proportioned with the right details.ReplyDelete
I'm still not sure I'm going to jump into the shawl collar trend....yet....but this one looks great. All about the details. Any idea where it is being made? I'm looking for one made in the US....hence, not owning one yet.ReplyDelete
Oh....and RE: the gift guide....at least you didn't say you were going to do one (publicly), then turn and run when someone suggests that gift guides are passe'. Zing!
Joe- I'm pretty sure Save Khaki prides itself by producing their stuff in the USA. I'll ask Dave over twitter to get a definite.ReplyDelete
And as per your RE: The Gift Guide, I continuously strive to do what I set out to do.
nice and nice.ReplyDelete
What consensus says gift guides are "corny" and a way to 'subvert' actual content?ReplyDelete
A good gift guide can be helpful and should be reflective of the taste and aesthetic of the blog being great content example: Hollister Hovey.
Daryl- Guys like me and you are not the problem and who can deny the fickleness of the blogosphere lately? I'm actually looking quite forward to your own gift guide.ReplyDelete


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ST. LOUIS -- While the high concentration of off days in the three weeks after the All-Star break afforded the Cardinals built-in rest for their regulars and allowed the club to manipulate its rotation, it has not been a benefit to all.
The scheduled off days (eight in a 22-day span) have left little need for manager Mike Matheny to manipulate rest for his starting position players. But with a consistent lineup has come a shortage of at-bats for the players on the bench. That has been especially the case for Daniel Descalso and Mark Ellis.
Descalso hasn't started a game in more than a month, while Ellis has started just twice since July 5. Over the past 12 days, Ellis has taken three at-bats. Descalso has had more pinch-hit opportunities, though the 11 at-bats he's accrued in the past 31 days haven't given him much chance for traction.
"It's not fair to them once we get them in there and expect them to do [something], because they're not getting the chances," Matheny said. "But that's where we are right now. I feel like we're in a dogfight in this stretch, even though we're just in the beginning of August. They have the hand stacked against them to go in there and try to face the closer, try to face the setup guy in a big situation when they're pinch-hitting for the pitcher. It's a lot to ask."
The Cardinals have a chance to get an extra position player involved during their upcoming three-game series in Baltimore, though Matheny has suggested he will use the designated hitter spot in at least one of the games for Matt Holliday. That would not open up a spot for either of these two utility infielders.
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October 28 – Happy Birthday Johnny Neun
The late George Steinbrenner probably felt he had much more in common with Jake Ruppert than any other team owner in Yankee franchise history. After all, both were sons of wealthy German-American businessmen who purchased the Yankee team when it wasn't winning and were able to restore the franchise to glory with bunches of additional World Championships and get a magnificent new Stadium built for their team. And since Rupert got elected to the Hall of Fame in 2012, you know the Boss would have loved following his lead by also getting inducted into Cooperstown.
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Remember when Steinbrenner promised Yankee catching legend Yogi Berra that he would be New York's skipper during the entire 1985 season and then replaced him with Billy Martin just 16 games into that season? In 1946, MacPhail was brought in as an ownership partner by Dan Topping and Del Webb when they purchased the Bronx Bombers from Ruppert's estate. The fiery but highly innovative ex-Red and Dodgers exec was made the team's de-facto GM. Long-time Yankee skipper, Joe McCarthy couldn't stomach working for MacPhail and quit just 35 games into the season. MacPhail then made Bill Dickey the team's manager but instead of giving him some job security with a longer-term contract, the new owner also hired former Senators' "Boy Wonder" manager, Bucky Harris as a special consultant. With Harris looking over his shoulder at every move he made on the field, its easy to understand why Dickey began feeling insecure in his new role and started asking the Yankee front-office for a longer-term deal. When it became apparent that MacPhail had no intention of granting Dickey an extension during the 1946 season, the future Hall-of-Fame catcher quit with 14 games remaining on the schedule and went home to Arkansas.
The Yanks then turned to one of Dickey's coaches, Johnny Neun to finish the season as New York's field boss. Neun had been a big league first baseman for both the Tigers and the Braves back in the 1920's and early thirties. A switch-hitter with little power, he was never more than a back-up during his six years in the Majors but he did become famous for becoming the seventh big leaguer in history to pull off an unassisted triple play. It happened during the 1927 season and his feat was made even more memorable by the fact that one day earlier, Chicago Cubs infielder, Jimmy Cooney had also done it.
After Neun retired as a player in 1934, he got a job managing in the Yankees' farm system and soon became one of the organization's top minor league skippers. He led both Newark and Kansas City, New York's top minor league affiliates to league titles and was rewarded with a job on Joe McCarthy's coaching staff, joining Dickey, Art Fletcher and Johnny Schulte.
MacPhail made it clear that Neun's hiring was on an interim basis and no one expected him to be considered a candidate for the job the next season. Neun led the Yankees to an 8-6 finish and the Baltimore native then accepted the manager's job with the Cincinnati Reds. He spent a season and two-thirds skippering the Reds. His record when he was fired 117-137. He later became a long-time scout for the Milwaukee Braves.
As expected, MacPhail ended up hiring Harris to manage the Yanks in 1947 and he did a good job, leading New York to the 1947 World Championship. But during the World Series victory celebration, an intoxicated MacPhail became so belligerent, Topping and Webb decided they needed to force him out of their partnership. With his mentor gone, Harris managed in the Bronx for one more season before being replaced by Casey Stengel.
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The Catalyst Global EuroZone 2014 conference provided a platform for like-minded companies across the European region of the Catalyst community to listen, cooperate, be creative and ultimately profit from shared knowledge. The Catalyst Global EuroZone conference brought together a talented pool of its licensed partners from 12 countries including UK, Ireland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Spain, France, Portugal, Finland, Russia, Romania and UAE.
The theme for the conference was: 'Maximising our Business Opportunities Together' .
The day kicked off with Catalyst Global CEO, Guy Baker sharing the vision for the Catalyst Global network and then turning to the group for feedback and input. Guy Bergeaud, CEO of Team Building France, was the moderator for a session titled "Who's Who Giant" a speed meeting session covering pricing, marketing, social media, sales and networking with presentation from Andy Fieldhouse of Biz Events ; Cristian Hossu of Universum Romania; and, Tim Shepley of Blue Hat UK. The session was punctuated with lively discussion.
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Catalyst Global EuroZone participants took a well deserved coffee break as they participated in a product "walk-around" exploring first hand the intricacies of Rat Trap, Animate and Bam Bike.
After the break, Andrew Fieldhouse delivered an insightful presentation titled "How to Grow Business from Scratch". And then, Richard Smith, Head of Sales at Bluehat UK, gave a well received presentation on the BlueHat UK sales team structure and their sales strategy, in particular, dealing with enquiries.
Over lunch, delegates participated in a "Marketing Material Walk-Around" which enabled them to inspect, share and learn from each other's marketing material.
In response to Catalyst Global licensees' hunger for innovative technological teambuilding solutions, Fermin Guerrico from Teambuilding Spain brought to the table a potential new product Drone Zone. Fermin explained that it is still in the R&D phase and that the practicality of flying drones was yet to be proved, however, there was much enthusiasim from the group for further investigation of this lower cost than expected product.
The afternoon kicked on with an update on the GoTeam.guru website from Catalyst Global, CEO, Guy Baker. Kari and BlueHat UK's Dave Turner then ran an enthusiastic and informative Q&A session on the future of GoTeam.
Next up was Dani Polajnar from Teambuilding Academy. Dani's concepts on Leveraging the Catalyst Global Network, such as, cross selling, PR and common branding were fresh and creative. Guy followed on from this with a presentation on the role and importance of having a Catalyst ambassador within each licensee.
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Delegates participated in the new product Whiskey Wisdom and then a relaunch of International Stakes with a new giant cardboard rocking horse! The group then hit the streets with a new and otherwise untried version of Go Team which had teams running from London Bridge to South Bank in 30 degree heat culminating inside a fountain!
Mother nature turned on a show with a spectacular light display at sunset as the group wined and dined on a Thames River boat.
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Many thanks from the team at Catalyst Global to Tim Shepley, Mandy Cole, Fiona Craven, Ami Coleman, Dave Turner, Corinne Tatham, Andy Fieldhouse , Timo Herinaro, Guy Bergeaud , Martin Bergeaud, David Bassett , Oran Masterton, Darius Lornsargis , Luis Trindade , Christian Hossu, Maria Varlamov, Ola Kastensson, Elena Kastensson, Dani Polanjnar, Fermin Gerrico and Daniel Simó for taking the time to participate in this event.


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Located in the heart of the rapidly developing SOMA (South of Market) district, Cha-Am has become a well-known and popular, neighborhood lunch and dinner spot for those visiting the Yerba Buena Gardens, Center for the Arts, the Moscone Convention Center and the highly acclaimed Museum of Modern Art. Local San Franciscans, as well as tourists, enjoy Cha-Am's modern, elegant decor, accented with a blend of art-deco and traditional Thai ceramic pottery and beautifully framed Thai paintings. Its spacious dining area affords ample room for relaxation and privacy. Cool, soft jazz affords a perfect mix.
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OTHER NAME(S): Tice BCG Suspension For Reconstitution
This medication contains live bacteria that have been weakened to decrease the chances of causing an illness. However, this medication has rarely caused very serious, possibly fatal infections. Tell your doctor right away if you develop any signs of infection (e.g., high/persistent fever).
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This medication is used to treat a certain type of bladder cancer (carcinoma in situ-CIS) and prevent it from returning. It is also used to prevent another type of bladder cancer (papillary tumor) from returning after surgery to remove it. This medication works by causing the body's defense system (immune system) to become more active.
This form of the medication is not used to prevent tuberculosis.
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This medication is given into the bladder through a tube (catheter) by a health care professional as directed by your doctor. This medication is usually given weekly for the first 6 weeks and then less often thereafter as directed by your doctor.
Do not drink any fluids for 4 hours before treatment. The medication is left in the bladder for up to 2 hours and then released by urinating. Follow your doctor's instructions carefully. There may be some burning pain when you first urinate. Since the urine contains live bacteria that may infect you or others, you must sit down to urinate for 6 hours after treatment to avoid splashing of the urine. After each time you urinate during this 6-hour period, pour household bleach (about the same amount of bleach as the amount of urine) into the toilet, then wait 15 minutes before flushing. Always wash your hands afterward. Talk to your doctor about other important things you must do to prevent infection.
Drink plenty of fluids after your first urination unless otherwise directed by your doctor. Doing so helps clear the medication from your body.
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Contact your doctor for medical advice about side effects. The following numbers do not provide medical advice, but in the US, you may report side effects to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) at 1-800-822-7967. In Canada, you may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
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Caitlin Moran interview
Alexi Duggins goes for a drink with the multi-award-winning columnist and feminist icon
My stomach can take no more. After three hours of talking to Caitlin Moran, my gag reflex jerks violently, my abdomen pulsates like something out of 'Alien' and I decorate a toilet with my gastric lining. The walls pirouette madly, the floor leaps up to smack me in the face and everything goes black. Interview over.
Three hours earlier, I'm waiting in Crouch End's Railway Tavern in the hope of getting Moran pissed. After all, in a journalistic career that's seen her move from 16-year-old rock critic for now defunct music weekly Melody Maker to triple British Press Award-winning Times columnist and interviewer, a large part of her success lies in her ability to break down the barrier during interviews, and turn them into nigh-on social occasions.
But with her semi-autobiographical polemic on twenty-first-century feminism, 'How to Be a Woman', going to number six in the US bestseller lists, a follow-up compendium of her columns – 'Moranthology' – released this week and her own council-estate-based C4 TV drama in the works, the column inches she generates are increasingly as much about her as they are by her.
She does promotional tours. She spends half her life giving phone interviews to Brazil. Nowadays, she has her own PR person, ferchrissakes. So, given how up-for-it she is on the other side of the mic, I imagined a deeply symbolic behavioural investigation that could last the whole evening.
This isn't what happens. 'Large!' she fires, as the Railway Tavern barmaid asks me what size glass of white wine I'd like, thus concluding my investigation in about 30 seconds. 'You've got menthol roll-ups? They're the BEST KIND,' she grins as we take a seat and she spies my tobacco pouch. She rummages in her bag and pulls out an electric cigarette. 'Here, have a bang on this and we'll go swapsies.'
From then on, answers are peppered with 'get rolling another one' or 'right, more drink?' as she leads us back and forth between the smoking area and bar. Empties mount up around us, and it quickly becomes obvious that Moran's MO as an interviewer is less a shtick, more just her approach to life.
'The first drinking advice I ever got was from Russell Senior of Pulp,' she smiles. 'He said: "The thing you've got to remember is that you keep on getting drunk an hour after you've had a drink, so you can still keep getting pissed if you just have a lemonade." I've never taken that advice ever, but it's a useful fact to know.'
Booze vanishes and she rattles off anecdotes about her various celeb interviews – a story about her and Tim Minchin drunkenly ruining a pub quiz by loudly singing 'Jesus Christ Superstar' songs, a tale about nearly losing her virginity to Suede's Brett Anderson ('but I got embarrassed after I did a thunderous piss in his toilet and broke it'). Each is more outrageous than the next, until I'm left goggling at what a brilliantly bizarre life she's led.
I put it to her that if, say, she was interviewed by a dodgy journalist – hem hem – she needn't worry about them making up stories about her, as they'd struggle to fabricate anything as colourful as the truth. 'I'd love it if you made stuff up about me!' she laughs. 'But what could you say? Maybe that I had sex with someone believable, yet unlikely from the mid-'90s. Although I did have sex with everyone who was kind of unlikely.'
What about a threesome with Keith Harris and Orville? 'I did nearly have a threesome with Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog!' Graham Coxon? 'He bit me on the arse .' Erm, one of Radiohead? 'I did once get so stoned at Colin Greenwood's house that I burst into tears, ran out of the room and fell asleep in a bed full of thousands of dead wasps.' I give up.
'You need another drink!' declares Moran, as I slurringly tell her that I am now really quite pissed. It's two hours into what was supposed to be a one-hour interview, and whereas I am all over the place, Moran just seems to get quicker the more she drinks. She speaks almost exactly like she writes: her answers are paragraphs of eloquent chattiness which unfailingly end in a clever pay-off gag. They're peppered with impeccable turns of phrase that meld intellectual terminology with absurd imagery. She is a banter machine.
And just as the badinage is getting into full swing she attacks me. 'I will set fire to your passport!' she yells, as she slams a fist into my shoulder. 'I will drop it in a drain full of wee water!' she cries, stinging my forearm with a follow-up slap. But as one of British journalism's most revered practitioners yells: 'Don't think you're ever leaving the country again!'and jerks her hand back to clout me for a third time, I manage to catch her and pin her arms to her sides.
The lesson here: do not pour scorn upon a drunk Caitlin Moran while she's earnestly enthusing about the Olympic Opening Ceremony being 'a pivotal moment in British history: just the most astonishing fuck-off, socialist, left-wing paradise'.
For Moran doesn't treat inequality lightly. Perhaps it's the result of a liberal, home-schooled upbringing on a Wolverhampton council estate. Or perhaps it's the fact that as closing time approaches, conversation is beginning to take on a setting-the-world-to-rights fervour. But – after my agreement to watch the Opening Ceremony, and peace restored – for the last hour of the night, she passionately holds forth about the class implications of the expectation that creatives should give their work away free on the internet ('It's fannied away all the copyright legislation that lets you get paid for expressing yourself creatively – which means the working class can't afford to do it anymore.')
She rails against the 'massively patriarchal' anti-birth-control policy of the Republican party. ('The idea that the moment of spunking is the start of human life absolutely negates the role of women in making a child.') And she lambasts the male-centric porn industry for making it impossible to give girls a normal sex education. ('I just know that the first time my daughters see fucking will probably be from some horrible boy with an iPhone on the bus going: "Ha ha! Look what you can shove up a girl's bum!". ')
Points are emphasised with a flourish of her electronic fag and her voice is packed with righteous indignation as she complains about her 'three hobby horses': class discrimination, sexism and homophobia. She's so in her element that it seems rude to interrupt. Not least because the best I can now manage is the occasional 'Yesshhh'.
Then it all goes wrong. 'I'm just going for a wee,' Moran says. A couple of minutes later she's plonking down two shot glasses of whisky on the table. I mumble something about not being sure it's a good idea. 'Don't worry. I've drunk stronger men than you under the table,' she says. We down the drinks, and suddenly my sweat glands explode. 'I think I might call you a taxi,' says Moran, hurriedly nipping off to the bar as a sheet of icy sweat pours down my ghost-white face. I stagger to the loo and… well, you know the rest.
Ten minutes later, I'm semi-conscious in a cab when my phone lights up. 'Oh my God, dude!' reads the message from my friend. 'Caitlin Moran's talking about you on Twitter.' Through blurry vision, I read Moran tweeting Independent journalist Grace Dent: 'I did an interview with a boy from Time Out and had to leave him with the barmaids to get a taxi. He did not know '90s drinking.'
Drunkenly deciding that I cannot allow this inaccuracy, I utilise Twitter to inform Moran that she has distorted the truth: she failed to mention the vomit. 'You did a sick? Awwww,' shoots back the response. And then comes the galling bit. For while my pores leak like a lacerated paddling pool, while I am shivering, while I am lapsing in and out of consciousness, what is Moran doing? 'I'm just putting in an order for kids' trousers on Boden.'
Is Caitlin Moran a good sport when on the other side of the microphone? I'd say so. If anything, perhaps a little too good.
Caitlin Moran's 'Moranthology' is published by Ebury Press on Thur Sept 13 at £18.99.
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There is something very impressive about hiking along river beds and canyons where you see the effects time and weather. These areas are always strewn with boulders and pebbles in beautiful shades of various colors, some with spider striping, some plain, asymmetric and in different sizes but all worn smooth to the touch. These weather-worn rocks are exactly what inspired our designers when they designed the "Living Stones".
The Living Stones Rock Pillows had you in for a big surprise. They look so real that you expect them to be hard and cold but as soon as you sit on them you discover how warm and comfortable they are. Maybe you live near the sea which is about 20 minutes walk away from your house, but this does not guarantee you get to see it during the week. On weekends though, you like to venture out of the city and "recharge" yourself with a dose of nature.
These pebble and boulder shaped cushions come in different shapes and sizes C from as small as a throw pillow to as big as a couch. True to nature, strewn around your living room or stacked together around your pool or garden, their form and colors give the impression of having your own private beach or river bed.


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First product to support ARINC specification 653, Part 4 subset
Oddly named Arizona-headquartered software and professional services company DDC-I has announced the availability of the world's first commercial real-time operating system (RTOS) products supporting the ARINC Specification 653, Part 4 strict subset. The Part 4 subset has been specifically defined for systems that do not require the size, complexity, and features of the full specification, such as the majority of the Line Replaceable Units (LRU) on next-generation aircraft. DDC-I offers the interfaces and scheduling model of Part 4 with two new variants of the field proven Deos RTOS.
"These two new products further our mission of providing best-in-class COTS RTOS solutions for the safety-critical, DO-178B certifiable, avionics software market," said Bob Morris, president and CEO of DDC-I. "Customers who have avoided leveraging the full ARINC 653 Part 1 and Part 2 subsections, due to the complexity and high cost of the commercial offerings, now will have the opportunity to leverage the benefits of this powerful new capability. These two new products deliver standards conformance at an exceptional value point targeted at the needs of avionics LRU providers." (Note: COTS acronym denotes Commercial Off The Shelf.)
"The ARINC standard enhances application portability and improves reuse for safety-critical software development and certification," added Vance Hilderman, president of Atego/HighRely and the principal author of Avionics Certification, A Complete Guide to DO-178 (Software) and DO-254 (Hardware). "Deos653p4 users targeting these products will benefit from the streamlined ARINC 653 Part 4 subset when developing avionics software for the myriad of devices that can benefit from the simplified ARINC 653 Part 4 programming model."
ARINC Specification 653 defines an application/executive interface between an avionics computer's operating system and application software that simplifies software design, enhances portability and reuse, and reduces the cost of avionics software certification. ARINC 653 Part 4 utilizes a simplified execution model with a time- and space-partitioned software environment that allows multiple partitions with only one or two processes per partition. The lightweight specification maintains compatibility with ARINC 653 Part 1 while simplifying software design and dynamic behavior, thereby reducing the OS footprint, overhead, complexity, with the ability to deliver strong real-time performance.