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A week passes by far too quickly!
Here I am, returning to the That's Crafty Blog with a project which features, amongst other supplies, the beautiful Mandala stencil from That's Crafty. Details on how I worked with the stencil can be viewed HERE.
Last week was a busy week at That's Crafty with many new releases of stamps, stencils and a new substrate range called Chunkies.
Enjoy your day!
Bleak Mid-Winter: Mixed Media Panel @ That's Crafty
11 Mar 2018 8 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: fabric, masks/stencils, mixed media, paint, PaperArtsy Eclectic Alison Bomber, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint, Rusting, That's Crafty, That's Crafty DT artwork, That's Crafty Texture Pastes
Art House (new product launch @ That's Crafty)
19 Feb 2017 10 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: canvas, Dinky Stencils - That's Crafty, home decor, masks/stencils, mixed media, paint, PaperArtsy Everything Art stamps, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint, shrines, That's Crafty, That's Crafty Alterable Surface, That's Crafty clear stamps, That's Crafty DT artwork
That's Crafty are launching new products at Stitches and I was lucky enough to have the new items to play with, to create samples.
Laura suggested I share the samples as DT projects so I decided to share the first one I made. Foolishly, I forgot to take dimensions but this is large! If you own the PaperArtsy EEA alphabet set, it will give you an idea of the proportions of the stamping against the frame of the shrine.
You might believe I would be enthusiastic about the shrines because I am on the That's Crafty DT and feel obligated to be positive, that is not the case.
The shrines will be available in different sizes so if you wanted a statement piece, then the large shrines will be perfect or you might prefer a cluster of smaller shrines – variety and choice can only be a good thing! The actual shrines are easy to assemble, no special items required other than your favourite, reliable adhesive (I use Regular Matt Gel Medium). There is generous depth to the shrines, you can see I managed to prop a mini canvas with easel into the shadowbox.
Many new(ish) products appear on this shrine, the full list can be seen HERE.
All details including more photos can be viewed at the That's crafty blog.
Thank you for your visit.
Somerset Art Gal No. 3 (Somerset Studio)
17 Feb 2017 5 Comments
in Character Constructions Stamps, Uncategorized Tags: Art Doll, Catherine Moore Character Construction stamps, Character Construction, Character Constructions DT, Character Constructions Stamps, Darkroom Door, home decor, paint, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint, published artwork, Red Lead Paperworks, Redlead Paperworks, Somerset Studio, Stampington & co
Today sees the final Somerset Art Gal being shared.
Once again, the same stamp companies:- Character Constructions for all the paper doll elements, including the bodice and skirt. The words dangling from her wrist are from Darkroom Door Creative Word Block and the stamps appearing on the outsize wooden peg are Redlead Paperworks. The paints are PaperArtsy Fresco Finish (available from That's Crafty)
This Art Gal does not believe in a minimal approach. She is happiest with her many paintbrushes surrounding her.
Personally, I've never liked tattoos but when I was inking up (no pun intended!) the paper dolls, onto some lovely vintage French receipt paper, I thought it would bring a fun twist to incorporate the script, as though it were tattoos. With tattoos being popular amongst artists, it just seemed cool to do this. This Art Gals is into her tattoos in a big way!
It just so happened I had Frescos in colours that worked perfectly with the colours of the Somerset Studio Artist Paper. I like nothing more than when I can make something my own and not only that, the finger painted mark making also brought texture to the paper.
You can just about make out the paint and stamping on the outsize wooden peg.
Thank you for your visits to the Somerset Art Gal. They were great fun to make. They were time intensive but somehow, that was okay, enjoying the process of making the Artist Papers my own, creating the characters of the dolls with the individual stamps but poor fingers are not happiest when having such a big fussy cutting session!
There will be new Character Constructions stamps available any day now – it's possible they will be available by the time this post goes live – The Daisy Blue Collection. For many, resistance will be futile!
Somerset Art Gal No. 2 (Somerset Studio)
15 Feb 2017 8 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Art Doll, Catherine Moore Character Construction stamps, Character Construction, Character Constructions DT, Character Constructions Stamps, gift ideas, home decor, paint, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint, published artwork, Somerset Studio, Stampington & co, wood
A picture is a poem without words
Somerset Art Gal No. 2 being shared today.
Stamp Supplies
Paperdoll stamps – Character Constructions
Art related words – Darkroom Door
Stamps on wooden peg – Redlead Paperworks
She has a "don't mess with me" stare to her eye so don't even try asking if you can use her favourite paint colour,
unless you are prepared to prise them out of her grasp!
She loves to customise her clothing. Here she's added fingertip spots to her skirt, dipping her fingers into paint.
She is so cool and confident, never one to shy away, so she will happily declare herself to be artistic.
Somehow she manages to pull this look off – girly bows and lace and stripy/dotty leggings – yes, this girl knows her own self and she is running with it!
Did you spy the tattoo she has on her foot?!
Thank you so much for your visit. I hope the Somerset Art Gals have brought some cheer.
Somerset Art Gals (Somerset Studio)
13 Feb 2017 7 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Art Doll, Catherine Moore Character Construction stamps, Character Construction, Character Constructions DT, Character Constructions Stamps, Darkroom Door, gift ideas, home decor, paint, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint, published artwork, Redlead Paperworks, Somerset Studio, Stampington & co, wood
Trying to catch-up with projects from last year so I thought I would share my Somerset Art Gals.
This is the Art Gals as they stand side-by-side but I thought it fun to share each Art Gal in detail so I've drafted one post a day for three days.
They were published as an article in Somerset Studio Sept/Oct 2016
Stamp Supplies
Paper doll elements – Character Constructions stamps
Art Related Words, Paintbrushes, Paint tubes and Pencils – Darkroom Door
Stamps on outsize wooden peg – Redlead Paperworks
If you read Stampington & Co magazines, you will know they include Artist Papers, quality papers. In all the years I've read their magazines, this was only the third time I'd used the papers. I always wanted to save the papers within the magazines and also, I rarely use pattern papers, enjoying making my own backgrounds or my real love – any found papers.
On an absolute whim – which came about when I thought of turning some Character Constructions paper doll stamps into artists, I had the idea that a vibrant Artist Paper was what they needed, with me adding my own touches with Fresco Finish paint, to make the paper my own.
They were never going to only be paper dolls, each Art Gal is attached to a huge wooden peg, this enables the dolls to be free standing but also a place for creative notes to be attached, To Do List or a collection of favourite quotes. I don't have their dimensions but they are tall.
All Art Gals should wear a beret, especially with Parisian polka dots (paint pen), adorned with vintage trims.
She is a messy one, with smudges of paint on her face. I think we can all relate!
Her brushes are well used but that doesn't mean they are not much loved – she just never seems to be able to keep her tools pristine.
She doesn't believe herself to be an artist, much more comfortable with the term crafter but maybe, one day, she will view herself differently.
Thank you for the time you spend here, I appreciate your time is precious.
Have a wonderful week and I'll return soon with the other Somerset Art Gals.
Love Notes (The Stampers' Sampler)
10 Feb 2017 8 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: cards, hearts, paint, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint, Red Lead Paperworks, Redlead Paperworks, Stampington & co, The Stampers' Sampler, Valentine, Valentine's Day
Squeezing in this collection of Valentine themed cards.
Now, the reason the cards are so simple in design, they were actually submitted to Take Ten (criteria is for card makes of 10 minutes or less) but they obviously decided to print them in The Stampers' Sampler, where they appear in the Jan/Feb/March issue.
Redlead Paperworks Musical Heart stamp is the focal for each card. I remember at the time of making the cards that I wanted to work with only that stamp as the main image, pairing different Redlead loved themed sentiments with the heart.
The watercolour paper provides a lovely texture.
I deliberately worked with only two paint colours, Frescos Blush and Nougat. In fact minimal supplies:- 2 Frescos, 1 ink pad, 1 focal stamp, various sentiments and fragments of found papers and lace.
For the musical note accents, I simply
inked up the Musical Heart,
stamping onto various found papers to layer to the cards
Redlead's complete Valentine stamp collection can be found HERE.
Not relating to Valentine's Day, Redlead have, at the time of scheduling this blog post, a 20% discount on new stamps.
Thank you so much for your time to visit this post.
On Angel Wings
18 Dec 2016 7 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: assemblage, Creative Paperclay, Dinky Stencil, Dinky Stencils - That's Crafty, masks/stencils, MDF, mixed media, paint, PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Paint, Sandra Evertson Relics & Artifacts, That's Crafty DT artwork
Hello Everyone
My post over at the That's Crafty blog today features one of That's Crafty's uprights, the Dinky Arch Upright plus Dinky Stencils, including the beautiful wings, yes the wings on the Relics and Artifacts angel are from a stencil.
If you are interested, then please click HERE, for further details.
Just realised – no stamping on this project either. That's two weeks running for the That's Crafty blog with no stamping appearing!
Always appreciate the time you take to visit, especially at such a busy time of the year.


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The base card is white linen card stock.
The little girl from Stampingbella's Snowball Girl is stamped onto the card front with StazOn jet black ink.
She doesn't have the snow mound going to both sides of the card so I made a mask of her and the mound she is on with a post it note.
I trimmed another post it note to look like the rest of the mound on both sides.
Once the post-its were placed I sponged the top of the card with Distressed ink weathered wood and stormy skies.
I removed the post-its and using my Micron 05 I finished drawing the mounds.
The little cutie was colored with Faber-Castell polychromos.
Next I took Simon Says Stamp "Falling Snow" stencil and laid it over the card.
Using the Distress picket fence marker I colored each snow flake hole.

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Today's Google #ThinkPerformance in Toronto offered a wonderful line-up of trailbrazers from @avinash @simonrodigue @mitchjoel Claira Bara, Matt Ackley and more.
People vocal about emerging trends, how to use data to drive business decisions, vocal on stupid digital experiences, stupid advertising spends and suggestions on what to do tomorrow. A host of impressive smarketers who measure what matters. Many of these fine speakers are deserved of stock from Google, from Facebook, from their own organizations for being better spokespeople than many an ineffectual media.
Take one of my favorite speakers +Avinash Kaushik delights the audience with a review of Canadiana – providing a little open season on those online experiences – Canadian Tire, Retail Council of Canada, among others that are not up to snuff.
He begins with a Toronto Star article on "Allowing retailers to stay open on holidays" – a story of Toronto council trying to open retail for nine statutory holidays.. "Why open on Canada Day?" he quips.. and points out online commerce – that stores are already open 24 hrs a day. Many in the audience are nodding. Indeed, Canada's e-commerce business is expected to double to $30B by 2015.
Already – with these opening remarks, I feel like I'm in a room of my own kind – especially when I hear laughs about "hits",
"impressions", "clicks" – metrics that mean absolutely nothing but are still well embedded into company vernacular. I personally correct every individual I meet that uses the term 'hits' – as it is my personal indicator that the person knows nothing of analytics and what they speak.
Avinash's presentation focused on three elements he is quite passionate about..
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- Experience
- Value
Influence – this is *not* a discussion of Klout.. (whew but of course not..) Influence was the idea of understanding influence at its roots… where do you find the people who spend time and understand your brand? He then presented the print newspaper ad revenue over the past 100 years – credit, did you catch it?, given to Mark J Perry's Blog Carpe Diem. As Mark J Perry describes it – this chart is "another one of those huge Schumpeterian gales of creative destruction". Picture a steep climb and, with the last ten years, the drop.
And just where are the budgets moving to? 23% of consumer time spent is on mobile. The crrrriiime against HUMANITY – as Avinash declared – is that 1% of ad spend is on mobile. Print with 6% of consumers time spent has 29% of ad spend. At this point – he is preaching to the converted. What will happen when the CMOs finally wake up to the massive waste of budget? I wonder.
"The day I saw this.. was the day I started to pay for the NYtimes" says Avinash.. as the future of print lies in question if it seeks its revenue from ads.
So.. Avinash is back to his passions – how do you find people (nice reference to Google), how do you influence them (brilliant experience), how do you convince people (and a tie to the importance of creating value).
Experience – I wish I could add audio clips to my blog.. imagine Avinash say.. "I am passionate about developing magnificent, brilliant experiences.." and "I am ashamed on behalf of the internet" "stop the self-orgasms.. always let me [as a consumer] go first [enjoy the experience]".
His reference is to Canadian Tire's interrupt survey which appeared during the purchase funnel asking over 258 options before he can buy what he wanted. Avinash is quite tough on websites, the financial realities Canadian retailers face in funding brilliant experiences is not the same easy street as American retailers face.. still putting a survey in the purchase funnel isn't a cost mistake, it's a stupid mistake.
Value – Now onto metrics worth measuring. Avinash reminds the audience, just because we can measure clicks does not make it meaningful. Same with impressions and hits. Stupppid he advises. What does it tell us of value? Nothing.
Avinash shares his favorite metrics.. bounce rate, a single page visit, is the same as they came, they puked, they left. He speaks of more.. but what caught my interest was a few new classifications of old favorites
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- Share of search: a brand's SEM/SEO key term performance versus your competition. TD Bank got slammed here for Avinash used about 20 different key terms – "small business loan", etc and TD did not appear in paid nor organic findings. Avinash shared a print ad for the Bay (I think) for Nautica clothes – yet a google search for the same item was not turning up Bay results.. As Avinash stated "no.. you are too far down the funnel.. you are ready to buy.."
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- Near term, medium and long term metrics: ensuring a tiered focus to measurement. A nice reminder
And new for this year, Avinash suggested four new metrics for social activity.
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- Conversion rate – comments per post
- Applause rate – no of favorites per post
- Economic value – value generated per visitor – eg. visits via social referral and conversions assisted by social.
He showed this plotted by social network – so that we might compare the value generated by network. This is also found in Avinash's blog post and worthy read "best social media metrics"
All in all, Avinash kicked off a day long focus on the value of data to inform marketing decisions.
Many thanks to Google for putting together such a valued session.


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24 May
Our latest featured speaker is Luis Gonzalez from Holland & Knight!
Luis will be speaking at our upcoming 8th Annual Circuit Court Boot Camp seminar in Orlando on June 7th. He also spoke at our 6th Annual Circuit Court Boot Camp, and we're so glad to have him back!
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Doing significant research should not be confused with publishing papers, getting grants, setting up a lab, getting tenure, getting cited, getting promoted, getting invited to speak at conferences.... All these activities are actually a lot easier. Because making real contributions over an extended period is so hard it is easier to get distracted or consumed with the "busy" activities listed above. There are also even worse options...
I was reminded of this recently when I read the novel The Masters, by C.P. Snow.
I was stimulated to read it by a lecture on C.S. Lewis and scientism, by Fritz Schaefer who recommends the novel for insights into the internal politics of Oxbridge colleges. The novel is part of a series, Strangers and Brothers, chronicling the life experience of Lewis Eliot as over course of several decades he moves from law office to university to industry to government. Some of the series parallels Snow's own diverse life experience: he began his professional life as a molecular physicist, turned to writing novels, and eventually became a Baron and held high positions in the U.K. government. He is best known for his Rede lectures: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, which were delivered exactly 50 years ago this month.
The novel, the Masters, describes the political struggle amongst Fellows in a Cambridge College as they position, posture, and politic in anticipation of the election of the next Master of the college, while they wait for the current Master to die, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. Snow is perceptive about human nature and paints an intimate portrait of his characters. Here is a random selection (page numbers are from the Penguin 1983 edition):
"I had known for minutes past, that this was coming: I had not wanted to talk of it that night. Jago was longing for me to say that he ought to be the next Master, that my own mind was made up, that I should vote from him. He had longed for me to say it without prompting. It was anguish to him to make the faintest hint without repsonse. Yet he was impelled to go on, he could not stop. It harassed me to see this proud man humiliating himself." (p. 15)
The Master says, "Do you remember the trouble we had getting him [Calvert] elected [as a Fellow of the College], Eliot? Some of our friends show a singular instinct for preferring mediocrity. Like elects like of course. Or between me and you," he whispered, "dull men elect dull men." (p. 20)
Nightingale "was intensely suspicious, certain that there was a web of plans from which he would lose and others gain….. He had once possessed great promise. That was his bitterness. … By twenty-three he had written two good papers on molecular structure… but the spark burnt out… Often he had new conceptions: but the power to execute them had escaped from him. ……It would have been bitter to the most generous heart. In Nightingale's it made him fester with envy…. Each job in the college for which he was passed over, he saw with intense suspiscion as a sign of the conspiracy directed against him…… as March came round each year, he waited for the announcement of the Royal Society elections in expectation, in anguish, in bitter suspicousness…" (p.46,47)
"Chrystal wanted to be no more than Dean, but he wanted the Dean, in this little empire of the college, to be known as a man of power. Less subltle, less reflective, more immediate than his friend [Brown], he needed the moment-by-moment sensation of power. He needed to feel that he was listened to, ……, that his word was obeyed." (p.61)


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Source: ebaumsworld.com
In today's new media age, it is simple that taking photographs was a tedious process back then. Long ago when preparing film in dark rooms was a trend, chances of errors has increased in developing the photographs than they are today. Various factors are at play and decide the quality of the end result, the developed photograph.
Take a sneak peek at these attractive photographs of significant figures in history that you have never seen before. The faces are more likely simple and common when you see it, but the images surely are not.


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August 01, 2013
Contact: SA Timothy Desmond
Phone Number: (617) 557-2100
Brookfield Man Sentenced To 27 Months In Federal Prison For Distributing Oxycodone
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Kyle M. Lutrus, 28, of Brookfield, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing oxycodone. Lutrus was also ordered to pay a $2,000 fine, and to forfeit $60,000 and a 2005 Honda Accord, which he used to facilitate his drug trafficking activity.
According to court documents and statements made in court, in late 2011, Brookfield Police received information that Lutrus was involved in the illegal distribution of oxycodone. Between February 2012 and April 2012, Lutrus made multiple sales of oxycodone to an individual working with law enforcement and an undercover DEA Task Force officer. A total of 343 pills were purchased from Lutrus during the course of the investigation.
Lutrus was arrested on December 20, 2012. On May 15, 2013, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone.
This matter was investigated by the DEA's Bridgeport High Intensity Drug Trafficking (HIDTA) Task Force and the Brookfield Police Department.


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Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt has accomplished an impressive feat: In only nine months in office, he has done more than any of his predecessors — even more than the divisive Anne Gorsuch under President Ronald Reagan — to roll back the EPA's crucial functions and create a culture of fear among agency employees with years of expertise in environmental protection.
EPA observers contend Pruitt "has claimed the worst-ever title" from Gorsuch, who herself succeeded in shepherding through major agency budget cuts and rollbacks of new clean and air and regulations when the agency was in its infancy. But Pruitt is going several steps further by turning the agency into "a hollow shell by whacking its budget, overturning rules based on bogus reports and keeping employees in the dark," according to one assessment of Pruitt's brief tenure.
As criticism of his anti-environmental protection crusade from both Democrats and Republican has intensified with almost every action his agency takes, Pruitt is employing a misinformation campaign to justify his actions. For example, the former fossil-fuel friendly attorney general of Oklahoma told the Washington Post in an interview published Friday that he is more aggressive than the Obama administration on tackling pollution.
This statement falls flat on its face when it's revealed that the EPA, under Pruitt's leadership, has not released or even supported a single action to significantly reduce air pollution or water pollution. The Obama administration, on the other hand, addressed not only greenhouse gas emissions, but took actions to reduce harmful pollutants from power plants, toxic waste sites, and the transportation sector, regulations that Pruitt has been eager to roll back because they angered polluting industries.
"For Scott Pruitt, you see, corporations that pollute are 'partners and allies,' rather than regulated entities whose pollution EPA has a legal duty to regulate to protect Americans' health and environment," John Walke, senior attorney and clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, tweeted Friday in response to the Washington Post interview with Pruitt.
For @EPAScottPruitt, you see, corporations that pollute are "partners & allies," rather than regulated entities whose pollution EPA has a legal duty to regulate to protect Americans' health & environment. pic.twitter.com/46QD25lZsG
— John Walke (@jwalkenrdc) November 17, 2017
Pruitt defines aggressiveness, according to Walke, as prosecuting entities that pollute the air and water, not creating regulations that will institutionalize pollution protections. The EPA, under Pruitt's leadership, "has not done either to any significant degree," Walke noted.
In the entire Washington Post interview, Pruitt was unable to identify one action he is taking "to reduce air pollution significantly, or protect Americans from dangerous air pollution," Walke said, noting that dismantling clean air and clean water regulations, not environmental protection, is Pruitt's primary focus.
In response to a question about the $25,000 contract to build a secure, soundproof communications booth for him in his office, Pruitt told the newspaper that he would prefer if he did not have to walk down two levels at EPA's headquarters where there is a secure information area — known as a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) — to be able to speak with someone in a secure environment.
At CIA and NSA installations, where secrecy is paramount to each agency's effectiveness, it is common for officials to walk to an area or a floor with a SCIF to conduct confidential business. Officials at these agencies have numerous conversations and meetings on a daily basis that require extreme secrecy.
In the interview, Pruitt again emphasized his goal of improving EPA's operation of the nation's Superfund program, mentioning that President Donald Trump has presented ideas to him on how to improve cleanup of Superfund sites. Ever since it was established more than 35 years ago, the Superfund program has been marked by an inability to get polluters to pay for cleanup and suffered from a lack of funding. So, a renewed focus on Superfund by Pruitt's EPA would be a welcome development. If only it were true.
The Trump administration's proposed 2018 budget would cut Superfund by $330 million from its nearly $1.1 billion budget. Budget cuts at the federal level could put the fate of toxic sites across the country in the hands of chronically underfunded state environmental agencies.
Pruitt also told the Washington Post that his goal is to redefine what is true "environmentalism." He believes "environmentalism" is about "environmental stewardship — not prohibition." But these comments are a clear case of misdirection. Protecting the environment is at the core of the EPA's mission, not quibbling over the definition of environmentalism.
Pruitt tried to justify the fact that he's extremely close with the fossil fuel industry by claiming these relationships "will ultimately make the air cleaner and the water safer to drink," the Sierra Club said in a statement Friday. In the statement, the environmental group contends "the worst EPA administrator ever would like you to believe he's an environmentalist."
"Scott Pruitt is an environmental steward in the same way the Marlboro Man is fighting lung cancer. Pruitt's obvious disconnect from reality is dangerous to your health, and his systematic destruction of our clean air and water laws is one of the biggest crises in our federal government today," Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in the statement.


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Pet profile:Julia has German Shepherds named Lyra and Charlie and a bird named Punkin. NOT PUMPKIN, PUNKIN. His nickname is Puh-Puh. Lyra and Charlie just love to go for walks in the woods with the whole family.
Nickname:"Captain Hip," because she's so hip!
Sibling status:Julia has two older brothers and a younger sister.
Scared of:She's scared of water skiing. Julia tried it once and almost got up, but chickened out and wouldn't continue.
Unique talents:Julia can drive her dad's tractor. She loves to drive, and though her dad's 3,000 pound blue tractor only goes 15 miles per hour, she still loves to "race" up and down the driveway.
Secret:Julia always eats a spoonful of ice cream when she wakes up in the morning, and also if she wakes up in the middle of the night.
Future career:Julia wants to be a pediatric dentist. She's inspired by her own doctor who helped her overcome her fear of dentists. Maybe she can cure Brian's dental phobia!


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Archive for June, 2014
2014 Barnhart Black Pastel Lesser Male 02Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
2014 Barnhart Black Pastel Lesser Male 01Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
2012 Albino Spider Female 02Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Comparison shots from clutch BP14-02!Tuesday, June 24th, 2014
2010 Kingpin Male 01Tuesday, June 24th, 2014
Clutch ten!Tuesday, June 24th, 2014
Clutch number ten! This good looking lemonblast is part of a joint project between myself and Aeonic Exotics. She was bred by my dream bee male, so hopefully there's a quad or two in these eight eggs!
HYPH-2010-F2 x ENC-HYPH-2010-M1Friday, June 20th, 2014
Results of clutch number two!Monday, June 16th, 2014
Clutch number two is fully hatched! The pairing was Barnhart black pastel yellowbelly X lesser. Final tally is 1.0 black pastel yellowbelly lesser, 2.0 black pastel lessers, 1.0 black pastel yellowbelly, 0.1 black pastel, 0.1 lesser yellowbelly, and 1.0 lesser. A little male heavy, but I'm still pretty happy with the turnout! As a result, most of this clutch will be available once they start eating.
Barnhart black pastel lesser stuff…Monday, June 16th, 2014
First combo out!Sunday, June 15th, 2014
Hurry up already!Sunday, June 15th, 2014
Gypsie x OD-PIN-2012-M1Saturday, June 14th, 2014
Another ovulation!Saturday, June 14th, 2014
Sneak peak!Friday, June 13th, 2014
Clutch one is done!Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
First clutch of the year is fully hatched, and we managed to hit on a 1 in 16 snake in a five egg clutch! Unfortunately it was on the wrong end of the spectrum... instead of an orange dream spinner blast it was a normal. Otherwise the odds weren't too bad. Ended up with 1.1 orange dream pins, 0.1 pinstripe, 0.1 spinner blast, and 0.1 normal.


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Experimental solar array gives Illinois unique research opportunities
In the last four years, solar generation in the US has more than doubled, according to the US Department of Energy. In that same time, the cost of solar power systems have dropped by 80 percent.
As interest in solar energy is increasing, the Illinois Center for a Smarter Electric Grid (ICSEG) is helping lead renewable energy research with the new installation of an experimental solar array on the south side of campus.
"As a country, we've set ambitious goals to have a certain percentage of energy sources be renewable, and the goals trickle down to states and municipalities," said Scott Pickard, Information Trust Institute associate director for technology and business development and ICSEG solar array project manager. "Converting to renewable energy is going to happen and we want to make sure it'll happen in a trustworthy manner."
The array, which is made up of 60 solar panels, separated into five blocks of 12, is intended to provide power to enable research and validation into novel photovoltaic (PV) inverter and control technologies. Inverters are the devices that convert the direct current (DC) output of a solar panel into grid-compatible alternating current (AC). In particular, the system features a number of leading edge microinverters based on advanced power electronics, including some based on technology developed at Illinois. These new microinverters convert to DC on a per-panel basis, and potentially enable safe, low-cost and expandable PV installations on scales from residential on up.
Co-principal investigators and ECE professors Robert Pilawa-Podgurski and Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia will coordinate experiments and guide student research on the facility in areas such as innovative control, grid connections, and further advances in microinverters and power electronics. The array allows the researchers to test their work out on a real system in the real world, rather than just on a small laboratory scale. For example, this setup lets the researchers integrate custom firmware and hardware into the commercial power inverters for testing and validation.
"This is a unique test bed that lets researchers go in and replace actual hardware and have it actually attached to a grid," Pilawa said. "It's a large-scale test bed, but we have commercial solutions installed as well, so we can benchmark against them and can verify how well our hardware works and compare it to existing commercial solutions."
The array was built to the specifications of the researchers to allow for flexibility in trying out new devices and new products. The setup uses three types of inverters from three different manufacturers – SMA, Tigo and SolarBridge – and each block of panels includes different configurations. This enables the current commercial technology to be compared to ICSEG's new designs.
"I think that it brings us some unique capabilities for future research that positions us pretty exclusively compared to other schools," Pilawa said. "We can do larger scale studies, benchmark different technical solutions for the industry, and we'll have the possibility of external funding because of this added capability we have."
In addition to research, the array will also be a learning opportunity for participating students, as they will be appropriately trained in working with devices connected to the power grid.
"It's a good hands-on opportunity to test their experiments on real hardware and we will also be able to monitor the test bed remotely, so we can gather a lot of data and the students will be analyzing field data over a year," Pilawa said.
The solar array is part of the smart grid validation and test facility that has been the basis of ICSEG's mission since it began in 2010. The main test bed, located in the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), contains extensive substation equipment, capabilities for "hardware-in-the-loop" simulation using this equipment and sophisticated test harnesses for experimental setup. The solar array expands test bed capability by providing access to microinverter technology and a facility that actually generates power.
"We're working on developing embedded electronics that can go into the panels themselves, so right now we have a lot of nice results from the lab, but we'd like to scale up these very promising lab results to prove the concept in a larger setting," Pilawa said.
Planning for the array has happened over the past year and the solar panel is now located near the Research Park behind the Building Research Lab #344 off St. Mary's Road in Champaign. It is connected to a building that is equipped with power and Ethernet jacks to enable solar energy from the array to be sent into the building and for the array to be monitored remotely. Since the array is connected to the power grid, the energy it creates will be fed back into campus to help reduce energy costs.
"That's not the main motivation, but it's an extra added plus and over its lifetime, it may pay for itself," Pilawa said.
ICSEG researchers have high hopes for the array and plan to begin hands-on research with it in the fall. They plan to create a dashboard where the public can track the power the panel creates, as well as a live video feed of the panel.
"I'm excited about it and we're going to put it to good use," Pilawa said. "This will be a long term laboratory asset that we have at the university."
ICSEG is a five-year project that began in 2010 and operates within the Information Trust Institute (ITI), located at the Coordinated Science Laboratory. It is funded through a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.


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On Wednesday The Wall Street Journal posted an article about the current controversy about the cost of an EpiPen. Anyone who understands free market economics has been scratching their head trying to figure out why there was no competition to manufacture this product (and thus a more reasonable price). Well, The Wall Street Journal article provides an explanation. For the moment, I am going to overlook the fact that the company involved made a large donation to the Clinton Foundation and that the person in charge of the company is the daughter of Democratic Senator Joe Manchin.
The article at The Wall Street Journal explains:
In a statement, the Democrat (Hillary Clinton) assailed the "outrageous" cost of EpiPen, an emergency treatment for allergic reactions known as anaphylaxis, and she demanded that drug maker Mylan "immediately reduce the price." Federal and Senate investigations are pending into these spring-loaded syringes filled with epinephrine (adrenaline) used primarily by children with life-threatening sensitivities to food or insect stings.
Mylan has raised the price of EpiPen in semiannual 10% to 15% tranches so that a two-pack that cost about $100 in 2008 now runs $500 or more after insurance discounts and coupons. Outrage seems to be peaking now because more families are exposed to drug prices directly though insurance deductibles and co-pays, plus the political class has discovered another easy corporate villain.
Still, the steady Mylan rise is hard to read as anything other than inevitable when a billion-dollar market is cornered by one supplier. Epinephrine is a basic and super-cheap medicine, and the EpiPen auto-injector device has been around since the 1970s.
Thus EpiPen should be open to generic competition, which cuts prices dramatically for most other old medicines. Competitors have been trying for years to challenge Mylan's EpiPen franchise with low-cost alternatives—only to become entangled in the Food and Drug Administration's regulatory afflatus.
Approving a generic copy that is biologically equivalent to a branded drug is simple, but the FDA maintains no clear and consistent principles for generic drug-delivery devices like auto injectors or asthma inhalers. How does a company prove that a generic device is the same as the original product if there are notional differences, even if the differences don't matter to the end result? In this case, that means immediately injecting a kid in anaphylactic shock with epinephrine—which is not complex medical engineering.
But no company has been able to do so to the FDA's satisfaction. Last year Sanofi withdrew an EpiPen rival called Auvi-Q that was introduced in 2013, after merely 26 cases in which the device malfunctioned and delivered an inaccurate dose. Though the recall was voluntary and the FDA process is not transparent, such extraordinary actions are never done without agency involvement. This suggests a regulatory motive other than patient safety.
The article concludes:
Mrs. Clinton claims the EpiPen price hikes show the need for price controls, and she says she'll require drug makers to "prove that any additional costs are linked to additional patient benefits and better value." Somebody in Congress should require the FDA to justify how its delays are advancing the same goals.
Price controls are not the answer–a government agency that cannot be corrupted by special interests is the answer. The FDA has been interfering with the free market, and the price of the EpiPen is exhibit A in the case against the FDA. I am all for safe drugs and clinical trials, but I am tired of federal agencies being used to pick winners and losers.


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By Karla Gale, 8/28/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people who are strongly allergic to bee venom, desensitization using sublingual (i.e., under-the-tongue) immunotherapy may be a safer than injection immunotherapy, according to a proof-of-concept clinical trial conducted in Italy.
"Our research opens a new possible application of sublingual immunotherapy, which was never proposed for hymenoptera allergy," Dr. Giovanni Passalacqua told Reuters Health.
The standard way to desensitize patients with bee sting allergy is to administer small, increasing doses of venom by subcutaneous injections. However, there is a "particular risk of systemic/severe reactions" with this approach, the research team notes in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
On the other hand, they say, "systemic side effects are rare, severe adverse events are exceptional, and the common local side effects are mild and self-limiting" with sublingual immunotherapy, or SLIT.
To evaluate SLIT's suitability for hymenoptera allergy, Passalacqua, at the University of Genoa, and his associates conducted a trial involving patients who had experienced large local reactions -- swellings of 10 centimeters or more lasting more than 24 hours -- to bee stings…
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Under-Tongue Therapy May Ease Bee-Sting Allergy
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When it was first agreed I was moving to Ipswich, I was just going to use my teeny tiny (shit, and really slow despite being brand new) laptop to work on at the dining room table. That would be my office, my working space.
OK, this is all a bold lie. It was never agreed I was going to move to Ipwich. In fact, I was planning on signing my flat contract to stay on in Leytonstone for another year, until well, there was a flood in my flat and I got forced out of London, and then, well, I guess I just never left Suffolk.
The spare bedroom was originally going to house Chris's old double bed. It'd be a proper spare bedroom ready for all our adult couple friends to come and stay and drink fancy wine and eat cheese boards and play Scrabble, like real grown-ups.
Then I made a few 'THIS SHOULD BE MY BLOGGING OFFICE' jokes, and well, Chris agreed. So yey to subtle hints and Pinterest boards.
We painted the walls in Dulux's Blueberry White even before I moved in, or maybe around the time I moved in and got rid of all the old furniture. We ripped up the brown carpet and sanded and glossed the floors and we went over the skirting boards with white gloss. Like seriously guys, I am now skilled in the art of re-decoration and I've never felt so bloody old.
Everything in here at the moment is IKEA, just because it's easy and it's white and it's affordable yet simply chic. My desk is a BESTA BURS, my bookcases are BILLY and the dreamy day bed is HEMNES. Mostly it's just Rudey on the day bed cleaning her bum, showing off her fluffy squirrel belly and leaving fur EVERYWHERE. She seriously thinks it's her bedroom which is cute but irritating for duvet cover changing purposes.
I would love to sit and talk you through where everything else is from, but to be honest there's just too much! I'm an avid hoarder, and have managed to get rid of SO much since moving here, but my shelves and surface space are still crammed with trinkets. A lot of things are presents, or things I've snapped up from eBay or charity shops or car boot sales. Like seriously, so excited for the weather to warm up so we can continue on with our 7am Saturday starts hitting the Needham Market boot sale. The dream <3
I pretty much always work with flowers and a candle because HAPPINESS. And I always have about 7 different notebooks on the go just because I adore hand writing stuff, it's just so much nicer considering everything we do is online, and when I have a really good pen, the appearance of my own handwriting makes me feel a little bit warm inside. N'awww.
Current stationery faves include Paperchase, Tiger, Ohh Deer, Etsy and LA LA LAND. Mostly because they're super fun and super affordable.
I always have 69p Paperchase postcards up on the wall because a) they just liven up the whole space and b) they make me do all the happy feels when I'm typing away and trying to navigate internet trolls and eurgh emails.
My cute polaroid snaps were a birthday present last year from Chris from Polagram. My desk nail varnish collection changes every few weeks depending on my mood – but these are the shades I'm currently rotating. I don't know what it is about that damn Denim Delight from GOSH but I'm addicted. It's just so perfect and nightime-y and yeah, I don't have another word to use here.
I also keep a few sentimental things in here. I feel like out of the whole house this room is the most 'me' by far. Chris hasn't really had any say in it and in fact there's nothing of his even in here. It's more a space to keep all my excess belongings that don't fit anywhere else in the house.
I've got my framed print of my blog post that was featured on The Telegraph last year, and my favourite vintage print of Manhattan that I bought from a flea market on a trip out there. And then I've got a photo of me and my grandad when I was little – he passed away in 2013 and did a heck of a lot for me growing up. From teaching me to drive to pulling out my wobbly teeth to picking me up at 2am when I needed him. He was just 14 when war broke out in Poland and ended up fleeing his home on the back of a chicken truck with his entire family headed for Russia. So yeah, it means a lot.
I'm not really sure what else to say here – ooh, my cute new chair cushion is from Elizabeth Scarlett, a pretty london-based brand – this is more me playing with my camera and getting into photography which is SUCH a new thing for me. Like, it upsets me that I can't take my own photos from my OOTW, but y'know, can't actually be two people at once, sob.
It's also just a chance for you to be a bit nosey. So YEAH, ENJOY. If there's anything particular that you see and you're like FUCK, where is that dreamboat from, then leave me a comment and I'll let a gal know.


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Lake Norman
The north metro communities of Huntersville, Mooresville, Davidson and Cornelius all border Lake Norman, a large reservoir that brings power, fishing, and water management to the Charlotte metropolitan area.
Looking for access to north Charlotte or lakefront living? Find out if these communities are right for you.
Lake Norman, one of Charlotte's two reservoirs, borders Mecklenburg, Iredell, Catawba, and Lincoln counties in North Carolina. While Huntersville, Mooresville, and Davidson are the largest communities surrounding Lake Norman, there are many communities and lakefront subdivisions that provide quality living with great access to Uptown Charlotte via I-77 and highway 16. Because of the plethora of county governments, there are many school options to choose from in moving to the Lake Norman area. Huntersville and Davidson are part of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district; Mooresville is part of the Iredell school district. Choosing a local community will therefore have many options depending on work location, desired schools, access to the lake, property values and more.
The Lake Norman area provides many amenities including:
- A coworking place is slated to open in Cornelius outside Huntersville, soon.
- Lake Norman Charter School in Huntersville provides an alternative choice to Mecklenburg public schools.
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was from Mooresville, and there is a museum commemorating his life in Mooresville.
- Lake Norman area also provides long commute options to the other cities in North Carolina: Winston-Salem and Greensboro (1 Hr) and Raleigh-Durham (2 Hrs).
- The Charlotte Motor Speedway in nearby Concord, NC is accessible from Huntersville, Davidson and Mooresville.
Some Useful Information about Lake Norman area:
- Lake Norman Travel Site.
- Town of Huntersville Site
- Davidson City Site
- Cornelius City Site
- 10 Things to Do in Mooresville from Trip Advisor
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Lot Size1.03 ac
Home Size3,213 sqft
Beds4 Beds
Baths5 Baths
Year Built2020
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Hey ladies!
Today is my Friday since I have three day weekends off from work! WOO HOO! Today I have a really great Essence polish to share with you. Essence polishes have quickly climbed to the top of my favorite brands list - what's not to love? They have a great range as a brand as far as everything goes - bottle shape, collection concepts, color and finish choices. I'm such a fan-girl. :P hehe Anyhoo, here is a quick NOTD for today with Into The Night from their Moonlight collection, an obvious reference to the Twilight films. Enjoy!
Into the Night reminds me of a perfect mixture between Gold Old Buffy and Hunt Me If You Can from their Vampires Love collection. AKA - I'm in a sucker for deep vampy polishes loaded to the brim with silver or gold shimmer. China Glaze's Haunting anyone? The formula was a little thick but it worked out just fine. I got this bad boy at a blog sale, but I would love to get my hands on the rest of the collection. This is two coats.
Have a great day! -D


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Kawhi Leonard on Spurs future: 'I don't think I'm going anywhere'
San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonardtold USA Today that he hopes that he will be in a Spurs uniform for the rest of his career.
Leonard made the comments after he tied a career-high with 26 points in San Antonio's 89-85 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday.
The Spurs did not sign Leonard to a contract extension before the Oct. 31 deadline for players chosen in the 2011 NBA draft, meaning Leonard will become a restricted free-agent next summer.
My 2014 Sportsman nominee: Gregg Popovich
"I was never upset about (the extension)," Leonard said. "I mean they explained to me what their deal is and why they didn't do it yet. That'll play out. If I think about that, then I'm not going to be the same player that I am and will be just out of it."
Leonard is seen as the team's future after he averaged 17.8 points, 6.4 rebounds and two assists in the Spurs' five-game victory over the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals last season, earning Finals MVP honors.
Leonard is averaging 12.8 points, 8.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists in five games this season for San Antonio, who have gotten off to a 3-3 start. He says he doesn't see himself playing for another franchise, but acknowledges anything can happen in free agency.
"I don't think I'm going anywhere," Leonard said. "I mean they love me here. I like the organization, and if it was up to me, I want to finish out with one team like a lot of great players have done, to stay with one organization their whole career and just be loyal to that. You never know. We'll see what happens next summer, but I'm pretty sure I'll be in a Spurs jersey for my whole life."
- Scooby Axson


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ARC up!!
We've released the Architecture Resource Center (ARC) as a central point for information regarding architecture best practices and prescriptive guidance, etc. The bit I love about this site is the content has been broken up into links to white papers, web casts, etc, based on what point in the learning curve you're at. So rather than having just one big blob of information, this site has been carved up into "Where do I want to go tomorrow?", "Where was I yesterday?", and "Where the hell am I now!?"
Also, what do you get the MCP who has it all!? How about a Certified Architect cred! We're in the process of putting together a certification stream that deals with architecture, from both a bytes and boxes point of view.


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Genomac was founded in 2001 by Marek Minarik and Lucie Benesova (born Minarikova) primarily as a contract DNA sequencing and genotyping company. In 2003 company relocated from its founding site in Prague's Brevnov residential district into Prague 5 industrial area and has announced launch of DNA paternity testing services along with preventive testing of genetic syndrommes including Cystic fibrosis, thrombophilia, phenylkenotonuria, hypercholosterolemia, hemochromatosis and others. Between 2006 and 2007 Genomac has introduced a family of genetic genealogy tests and by the end of 2007 more than a thousand of Genograf® DNA ancestry tests has been performed. The enormous success has prompted foundation of the Czech National Genographic Database, containing voluntary submissions of DNA ancestry profiles from more than 7,000 individuals. A whole new portfolio of commercial DNA-based products and services has been launched between 2010 and 2011. A DNA-based art in forms of genetic portraits (Genoportrait®) and DNA-based genetic jewelry (Genoklenot®) has captured interest of wide public. In addition a DNA testing of genetic traits Genoskop has been introduced within the newly established field of "recreational genetics".
In 2007 Genomac has received a certification as an official forensic expert institute for the field of genetics and DNA analysis by the Czech Ministry of Justice. Along with successful commercial activities, Genomac has developed original technology for the detection of DNA mutations and polymorphisms. In 2004, Genomac was awarded a research grant by the Czech Ministry of Heath aimed at genetic predisposition to prostate cancer and at improvement of sensitivity in molecular diagnostics of pancreatic cancer. A paper on KRAS testing along with APC and TP53 in colorectal tissue has been published later that year. In 2006, a US Patent No. 6,989,085 covering Genomac technology for mutation detection under partial denaturing conditions as awarded. Genomac has continuously been active in applied clinical science, predominantly in molecular cancer research directed at gastrointestinal tumors (cancers of stomach, pancreas, colon and rectum) as well as lung cancer. In 2005, Genomac has introduced a routine testing of EGFR mutations from lung tissue in prediction of response to targeted biological therapy of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In addition, clinical significance was also reached by successful projects in cardiovascular research directed at Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and pharmacotherapy of coronary artery disease. In 2009 Genomac has demonstrated applicability of its technology to detection of cell-free tumor DNA in cancer patients. In subsequent years, cell-free tumor DNA (better known as circulating-tumor DNA, ctDNA) detection has been a centerpoint of research at Genomac.
In 2010, a project funds appointed to Genomac by the city of Prague within the EU funding programs (Prague Operational Programme, OPPK CZ.2.16/3.1.00/22213) has prompted establishment of a Center for Applied Genomics of Solid Tumors (CEGES) representing a new era for Genomac further stimulated by relocation to newly constructed 450m2 facility near Prague's Vaclav Havel airport in Ruzyne. At that point all research and development activities have formally come together under the label of Genomac Research Institute. The CEGES project has further been extended in 2014 (Prague Operational Programme, OPPK CZ.2.16/3.3.00/22558). In total by 2015, Genomac was awarded 15 research grants in cancer and cardiovascular research by various government bodies. At the same time Genomac's scientific activity resulted in publication of a total of 42 research articles (with impact factor).


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[APTA Blog] Confessions of a Tech-Challenged PT: Asking Searching Questions – And Getting Useful Answers
Posted by Kostas Pantremenos in Uncategorized on June 27, 2017
By Stephanie Miller, PT
I'll admit it: I'm excited about all that I can do with PTNow. This is somewhat unusual for me, because I've always felt a little daunted by technology (see my first post for more on that).
But this thing is awesome.
And yet, the fact that PTNow is so awesome—that it contains so much information—can feel a little … overwhelming. I mean, where do you start? How do you start?
Here's how I got my feet wet, and a few tips based on what I've learned along the way.
To begin with, I decided early on that I'd focus on small chunks, and get comfortable with bits and pieces at a time. I mean, anything new I learn today is more than I knew yesterday, right? Since I'd like to do a better job at searching articles, I thought ArticleSearch would be a good place to start. Seemed easy enough.
As heart failure is a common diagnosis in my practice area of home health, I decided to search on that topic. I began with the "basic search" option. The search window is what you'd expect: a box in which you can type in whatever search terms you're looking for.
But then came the challenging part … all of the databases. ArticleSearch lets you choose which databases you want to use in your search, and although I vaguely recognized a few from grad school, I hated to admit that a lot of them were foreign to me. But where there's a will, there's a way! I was determined to understand the value of each and identify why I would select one over the other. Fortunately, the PTNow tutorial video helps to explain the differences.
The abstracts to the best articles are found using the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), ProQuest Health and Medical Complete, ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source, and SPORTDiscus. There are differences between them. Here's a quick comparison, based on what I learned from the PTNow tutorial.
- Topics: nursing, allied health, general health
- Over 1,300 journals
- Full-text
- Evidence-based care sheets and quick lessons
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
- Topics: nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine
- Journals, clinical training videos, evidence-based resources
- Over 1,000 full-text articles
- Over 15,000 full-text dissertations
ProQuest Health and Medical Complete
- Topics: clinical and biomedical, consumer health, health administration
- Over 1,500 publications; over 1,000 of them full-text
- Topics: sports and sports medicine, fitness, health, sport studies
- Full-text for 550 journals
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Full-text articles, all systematic reviews
- Protocols and evidence-based data
- Updated regularly
- Investigations of the effects of interventions for prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation
If you're looking for a specific kind of research resource, here's what the tutorial suggests:
Full-text articles
CINAHL Complete, Proquest Nursing and Allied Health Source, Proquest Health and Medical Complete, SPORTDiscus (be sure to select the "full-text only" option on the search page)
Systematic reviews
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Physical therapy-specific research
CINAHL Complete, Proquest Nursing and Allied Health Source, Proquest Health and Medical Complete
Sport-related information
As for my own search …
After becoming more comfortable with the benefits of each database, I decided that the Cochrane database was the place I wanted to begin my investigation into the effects of exercise on patients with congestive heart failure. I clicked on the link, typed in "effects of exercise on patients with congestive heart failure" in the search bar, and chose the Cochrane database. In a few seconds I found articles on the beneficial effects of combined exercise training on early recovery, the effects of specific inspiratory muscle training on the sensation of dyspnea and exercise tolerance, the role resistance exercise training can play in improving heart function and physical fitness in stable patients with heart failure, and the effects of short-term exercise training and activity restriction on functional capacity in patients with severe chronic congestive heart failure, to name just a few. Wow.
Through this whole experience, I not only learned some of the details of how ArticleSearch works, I also got a better sense of how to get the most out of my searches. I suggest a few general tips:
- Take time to learn. Invest the time in learning each database and the benefits of using one over the other.
- More isn't always better. Avoid searching every database. You can end up with so many potentially irrelevant options to review that it's easy to get overwhelmed as you attempt to weed out the information you want. Choose only the search engines that can best target your specific topic, using the above information to guide your selection.
- Get help early on. If you start feeling confused, your time will be better spent if you take a break from your search and learn more about the resources you're working with—trying and trying again when you don't really understand the system can be frustrating and may result in you missing out on some valuable information. If you start to feel a little unsure of yourself, take a few minutes to check out the PTNow Video Tutorial and FAQ page. Have a more specific question? You can even access an actual PTNow librarian at firstname.lastname@example.com.
If, like me, you sometimes wrestle with technology, you'll understand this mixed bag I feel when I'm faced with something outside my technological comfort zone: I know technology can make my professional life easier, but I worry that the technology itself won't be easy. I was happily mistaken with ArticleSearch. It was so easy!
How easy? Let me put it this way—I have a lot of reading to do.
Stephanie Miller is a staff development specialist with Celtic Healthcare.
Source: Confessions of a Tech-Challenged PT: Asking Searching Questions – And Getting Useful Answers


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Stephen E. Ambrose
June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War I
Release Date: 6/1/1995
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Stephen E. Ambrose draws from more than 1,400 interviews with American, British, Canadian, French, and German veterans to create the preeminent chronicle of the most important day in the twentieth century. Ambrose reveals how the original plans for the invasion were abandoned, and how ordinary soldiers and officers acted on their own initiative.
D-Day is above all the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their existence, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination -- what Eisenhower called ""the fury of an aroused democracy"" -- that shaped the victory of the citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged.
The New York Times Book Review D-Day is mostly about people, but goes even further in evoking the horror, the endurance, the daring and indeed, the human failings at Omaha Beach... Outstanding
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1. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesRussell Christopher Dec 6, 2011 3:29 AM (in response to naamasimchon)
Hey Naama -
This is a job better done in the DW or in some sort of an ETL process - we don't support this sort of functionality "out of the box".
Depending on your data sources and if you have SQL Server available, you might be able to make this work by using Custom SQL and leaning on SQL Server's OPENQUERY() function to hit the remote data sources. Assuming you'd configured SQL Server to connect to an Oracle data source (as "OracleDataSource") and MySQL (as "MySQLDataSource"), you could do something like this in Tableau:
SELECT * FROM OpenQuery (OracleDataSource,'SELECT F1, F2, F3 FROM FOO')
SELECT * FROM OpenQuery (MySQLDataSource,'SELECT F4, F5, F6 FROM BAR')
Is this a good approach? Nope :)
2. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesMichael Saunders Dec 25, 2011 1:18 PM (in response to naamasimchon)
I've got a similar problem. I'm importing from 2 different datasets of order level sales from 2 different companies. one source is mysql, the other is mssql. the tables are all unique rows with a date/time, orderid, and sales$ as well as company name/channel. l and i want to manipulate the date/time files to graph the monthly weekly count and total$ of sales of the 2 companies and create calculated fields to sum the totals. can i do this? not sure what i can even link.
each set also has a column of State where the transaction took place, but i'm assuming that cannot be what i use to link
any ideas?
3. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesRussell Christopher Dec 28, 2011 6:55 AM (in response to naamasimchon)
You should be able to use "data blending" to accomplish this. Are you familiar with that feature?
4. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesguest contributor Dec 28, 2011 7:13 PM (in response to naamasimchon)
I am now. I'll spend some time learning more with the online videos. Thank you.
5. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesMichael Saunders Dec 29, 2011 2:31 PM (in response to naamasimchon)
The challenge I have it that i want to link each dataset's date/time stamp field and they don't exactly match up. i was able to get datablending to work by adding separate new columns to each set for year, month, day and hour fields and then linking works however i cannot do date/time manipulation now against the worksheet. any ideas how to link on date/time stamp?
6. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesRussell Christopher Jan 7, 2012 11:10 AM (in response to naamasimchon)
You'll need to do something like convert the date/time value into a string using the STR function:
....and then truncate some of the characters off the end using the MID() function.
You'll do this in both data sets, then "blend" on the result.
7. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesJeremiah Lewis Jun 6, 2017 10:52 AM (in response to naamasimchon)
Is there anything in Tableau10 that does this? Yes, I know that you can use the ETL process or a blend but I don't have an extra database lying around and I need to JOIN data NOT BLEND.
8. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesSANDIP SHARMA Jun 6, 2017 11:34 AM (in response to Michael Saunders)1 of 1 people found this helpful
HI Michael,
It is really not required to break your date field into three parts, Change your workbook local setting Tableau automatically parse your date fields according to your country default date time standard.
For Ex.: I belongs to India and in my Country default date format is dd-mm-yyyy.
1. Excel Date Field is showing dd-mmm-yyyy
2 MSSQL Date field is yyyy-mm-dd
(In this case it will read from your computer date setting)
From Excel
Database Date Time
The moment I will fetch this data into Tableau by default Tableau will parse my Date field according to my laptop date time setting.
Why it is happening because my workbook local setting is automatic
Now I will change this for my Country, it will change the date field aromatically as per India standard (dd-mm-yyyy)
9. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesSANDIP SHARMA Jun 6, 2017 11:36 AM (in response to SANDIP SHARMA)
As far as data union all concern, Tableau Supports Union All within the data set with same tables layout. In case of two data set you can use Full join it will behave like a Union all only.
Hope above two approach will solve your problem.
10. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesJeremiah Lewis Jun 6, 2017 1:05 PM (in response to SANDIP SHARMA)
It won't really be like a union because you will have multiple fields with the same name. I have used this as a work around to this point but it is incredibly inefficient slows down Tableau considerably with large data sets.
11. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesMarc Rueter Jun 7, 2017 3:19 PM (in response to Jeremiah Lewis)
For Joins, Tableau 10 has data integration. This allows you to make multiple connections to different data bases in a single data source.
12. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesJeremiah Lewis Oct 17, 2017 8:21 AM (in response to Marc Rueter)
Yes, I know that but again... I'm NOT LOOKING TO MAKE A JOIN.
I need a union and Tableau does not support cross-database unions.
I have multiple warehouse management systems' databases which are identical in their schema and tables.
13. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesShay Hayo Nov 30, 2017 11:28 AM (in response to Jeremiah Lewis)
Hey Jeremiah,
Have you found a solution to this? I also need to union same table structure from different schema
14. Re: Union of multiple data sourcesbrandi.beals Nov 6, 2018 12:26 PM (in response to naamasimchon)
I have a solution!
Background: I have four csv files in one location I want to union (no problem), but then I want to union a 5th csv file in a completely different location.
Solution: So I set up this second data connection and drag my 5th file into the window where I am prompted to join them. In the join select a field from the left and one from the right that have nothing to do with one another. Then select a full join. This gives a similar experience to a union, though your secondary file will have a separate set of columns. I created a variety of IFULL() calculated fields to essentially coerce these columns into one.


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I've never really fancied a Skythian army, but I seem to have always had a few figures for using in a variety of armies as far back as when I was using Peter Laing figures. I have a mixture of various sources although they are mostly stored away now that I have some Xyston figures.
For sources, I didn't go much further than the Osprey on these chaps. However, be careful! Virtually all of the figures in the plates are armoured and only one shows the typical Skythian cap which is worn by many of the figures in Skythian art as well as depictions made by other nations. The Falcon figures range, which has some nice figures, follows the Osprey and as a result few of the range wear the caps.
One source which is worth a look is the Persian depiction of a fight between them and some Skythians. You can find it here - do a search for 'Scythian'.
For my Persians, I wanted to have some Massagetae armoured cavalry. There is a lot of discussion about how and whether they were linked to the western Skythians and what differences there would be in armour. Roman Army Talk has a discussion with loads of links - many are in Russian but if you don't read the lingo then you can still look at the pictures! I did a lot of searching for suitable figures. There are various ones available for 'Scythian Heavy Cavalry'. Here are some I looked at.
Falcon: a good variety, based on the Osprey book. The figures are quite nice but perhaps a bit lacking in animation compared to more modern figures. Also quite small and reportedly difficult to get hold of.
Alain Touller: I was quite tempted. I've been told that the figures are small compared to other Touller figures.
Essex: Only seems to be one pose and lacked the full armour I wanted. Their Later Saka figures have potential, though perhaps more for the period after the one I'm doing. The horse armour lacks a certain something too.
Khurasan: I think they have some Massagetae on the way.
Old Glory: Quite nice figures but again the armour wasn't what I wanted.
Donnington: One of the older ranges. Paint up quite nicely I believe.
I got very interested by the Tin Soldier figures on Madaxeman's very useful site - but they are actually 28mm!
Xyston: Used to list a Massagetae heavy in their range as being for future release, but no sign after many years. However, I had some spare figures so thought I would turn my hand to some conversions, aided by Green Stuff and snippers.
I had some Xyston 'Satrapal Guard' figures and a few 'Northern Thracian Cavalry' which I thought would fit the bill. Ideally, I would like all of them to have armoured horses but may end up mixing them. The main textual source for their appearance is Herodotus:
[1.215] In their dress and mode of living the Massagetae resemble the Scythians. They fight both on horseback and on foot, neither method is strange to them: they use bows and lances, but their favourite weapon is the battle-axe. Their arms are all either of gold or brass. For their spear-points, and arrow-heads, and for their battle-axes, they make use of brass; for head-gear, belts, and girdles, of gold. So too with the caparison of their horses, they give them breastplates of brass, but employ gold about the reins, the bit, and the cheek-plates. They use neither iron nor silver, having none in their country; but they have brass and gold in abundance.
I would like all of them to have armoured horses but may end up mixing them. I referred to the sources available in the Roman Army Talk discussion, the Osprey, Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars, the Montvert Persian book and Gorelik's book on the Eurasian nomads.
The first ones I did were trying to look the same as those shown in Persian carvings, but they looked a bit too much like garden gnomes.
The next I was happier with, and weren't too different to the Xyston caps. However, I decided to go with something between the two, trying to look like those worn by some of the figures on Skythian gold artefacts.
They also needed to have bow cases added. These were pretty straightforward. I cut them more or less to shape before adding to the figure. Before it cured, I added it to the figure which allowed it to adapt to the shape of the figure. The bow was made as part of this and carved to shape when the case had hardened. If I did them again I would probably shape the bow with at least a core of brass wire (probably flattened) first. Hopefully they will be robust enough.
The bit which took the most time was making the shields. I did think of using Xyston peltas but the shapes weren't quite what I wanted. I had read a while ago about using Green Stuff to make push moulds and thought this would be an opportunity to try it out.Firstly, I made some blanks out of plastic card. I mixed up some Green Stuff (apparently, a higher proportion of blue helps to retain detail). This needs to be coated with a release agent. Various things would work - I used something as high tech as olive oil from the kitchen.
I left it overnight to cure.
The blanks can be removed fairly easily as the Green Stuff is still slightly flexible. I could have put some detail on the shields to begin with, but thought it might be easier to carve it into the Green Stuff. It worked reasonably well, but for the second attempt I put a think layer of the material in the bottom of each mould and worked the detail onto that. It also made the moulds shallower as the first shields came out a little thick.
The excess trims off easily enough. The shields are slightly flexible but should be fine - I hope.
A couple of figures have had a wrap around shield added onto their backs as shown in some reconstructions.
Now I need to paint them which may well be a Christmas holiday job as I'm rounded off various other bits and pieces first. I also have to decide what length spear to give them - it'll probably be a longish spear but nowhere near as long as a Macedonian xyston as longer lance use on the steppes seems to have been later than the 4th century BC.