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West Cliff Drive
West cliff is a long road which goes along a coast on west side of Santa Cruz. I was lucky to ride it by my cruiser between my jobs almost every day.
The neighborhood is clean and calm, quit rich and rather safe. There are many pick-up trucks, typical for Americans, parked in front of big and different houses. Their gardens are well-kept and full of some funny accessories.
I even have favorite street named Woodrow. In the middle of it there is a long and thin garden filled with colorful flowers leading you to the amazing ocean view. Once, when I was riding my bike and finally had a chance to take some pictures, I found this little box with books – a mini library. It said "take a book, share a book" so locals could exchange.
On this beautiful drive, you can find a lot of people walking with their dogs, runners and groups of moms with baby carriages (jogging as well). Everybody is cheerful and saying hi to each other. Young couple is chilling on the rocks, an old man is starring into the ocean. He's sitting on one of many memorial benches which are located all up and down West Cliff Drive and all over SC county. When I was sitting on one of those benches on the wharf after watching a sunset, I discovered there are names carved on it. They are all faced into the ocean.
As usual, there is something going on around my dream spot – Steamer Lane. Several guys wearing wetsuits are jumping over the fence. A group of people is watching surfers in water. There are also some huge macro lenses in local photographer's hands, chasing those guys on waves. I personally spend a lot of time here, forgetting about the world and just starring into not so small waves and surfers, so as a beginner I can also learn from observations. Why would I even look for surf movies if there is a spot for experts around the corner?
Next to the stairs leading to the beach there is a dead surfers memorials. The wooden plaques with different initials, names and words are hand-made by family or friends. There are some snitches on the ground and flowers hanged. Standing next to it and watching those guys in water, taking the risk just for fun is pretty impressive… and very touchful. When you go further you can see a big statue of surfer. This monument is dedicated to all surfers: past, present and future.
There is also a museum filled with over 100 years old boards, pictures, and notes about Santa Cruz history of surfing. You can easily find it because of Mark Abbot Memorial Light house behind it. Right next to it I've met Mike – a 40 years old guy who was my guide, my teacher and my dear friend.
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Satirical video games regularly satirise by including frustrating video game tropes while a narrator commentates "Look how frustrating this is!" The only problem is that pointing out that something is frustrating doesn't instantly stop it from being frustrating.
The first episode of Tales from the Borderlands, Telltale Games' series based on Gearbox's Borderlands shooter-looter series, works so well because it satirises first-person shooter and RPG conventions in the context of an adventure game. Absurd tropes can't be recycled because the game is of a completely different genre. As an exercise in writing, pacing and character development it is a complete success, but it lets go much of the gamier aspects of classic adventure games in the process. In fact, unlike The Walking Dead, Tales From the Borderlands: episode one - Zer0 Sum, would work almost as well as a cartoon.
Dialogue in Gearbox's series has always been polarising. Two monologues in Borderlands 2 about diamond encrusted horses and the diverse emotional reactions to eyeball gouging deserve to held in the same esteem as Cave Johnson's "when life gives you lemons" speech from Portal 2. But for every simpering, sarcastic and utterly superb quip spouted by the dastardly Handsome Jack, another character's line was awkwardly lifted, verbatim, from Breaking Bad or Community. Tales From the Borderlands has fewer of both the former and the latter.Telltale's contribution to the mythos might be more tolerable to players who bristle at the shameless referential stuff, while simultaneously failing to excite hardcore fans quite as much.
This doesn't mean the writing is bland or predictable. Far from it. There are certainly references, but they feel less shoe-horned. Tales From the Borderlands: Zer0 Sum is much more even and oozes personality through clever narrative techniques. Rhys, one of two central protagonists, is an unreliable narrator who aches to be a charming action hero. His revisions of important plot points that transform him into a Nathan Drake-esque rogue make for a bunch of terrific gags that poke fun at the machismo of conventional video game narratives.
The game is strewn with memorable characters, but not so many that they cannot be fully developed; a problem that troubles the core Borderlands titles. Loader Bot, a mech with the intractable loyalty of a St. Bernard, is destined to steal countless hearts and even more t-shirt real estate.
Comparisons with Telltale's other adventure outings, namely The Walking Dead, are unavoidable. In this case, the comparisons merit discussion. The Walking Dead introduced a dialogue tree that allowed the player to select from a number of options. Critically, what separated this tree from that of any other RPG or adventure game was the inclusion of a time-limit that, if not adhered to, would result in your character not saying anything at all. Tension necessarily grew from this system In the setting of an uncertain zombocalypse. A single stray word, or even worse, silence, might result in a character ceasing to trust you. Disastrous, in a world where food, shelter and security are nigh on impossible to come by.
Zer0 Sum uses an identical system, but I found myself choosing my dialogue choices far more haphazardly and with far less thought than I did in The Walking Dead. Borderlands exists in a nitro-charged, unpredictable universe saturated with ultraviolence. It is also far less ponderous, less grounded and driven far more by external forces acting on the characters than it is by the decisions of those characters themselves. It is tough to imagine your choices having much of an impact on a story where a charming robot from space can rocket down from a satellite and flatten bandits into a pink mist with little warning.
Fiona, the second central protagonist, is a con-artist, and the sections where she aims to manipulate another character recall some of the same tension that worked so well in The Walking Dead. Even then it seems like a poor choice would simply result in failure of that section of the game, rather than drastically altering that character's opinion of you. Compounding this is the fact that, after completing The Walking Dead, it became clear that choices you made had no discernible impact on the birds-eye contour of that game's narrative.
That said, the dialogue system does have a very occasional unexpected, but rather enchanting, benefit. It nurtures the humourous writing. Silence is often the most amusing punchline to a joke in Tales From the Borderlands and the feeling that you as a player were partially involved in the comic timing of a gag is a satisfying one.
Zer0 Sum is also a very pretty game. The unique Borderlands art style really shines when it is condensed down into only a few rooms instead of being stretched to fill the gaping arenas of a shooter. Unlike The Walking Dead, an art style adapted from a comic book, Borderlands was constructed from the ground up to be a 3D video game. It is saturated with colour and and a characteristic juxtaposition of science fiction motifs and rickety old West-inspired architecture.
Bucking the recent trend of blowing a game's voice-over budget on actors with enormous star-power but known more for on screen talents than their vocalisations, Zer0 Sum instead employs actors who have built their careers on (mostly) their voice alone.
Troy Baker, who skyrocketed to fame after voicing the protagonists of both BioShock: Infinite and The Last of Us last year, lends his larynx to the aforementioned Rhys. Patrick Warburton is immediately recognisable as the game's slimey antagonist, the immaculately suited Vasquez and Chris Hardwick, host of the popular Nerdist Podcast, is likable as Rhys' de facto sidekick Vaughn.
When you consider its succession of undeniable narrative and aesthetic achievements, it might be unsurprising to hear that Tales From the Borderlands is far less gamey than many of Telltale's prior titles. Not only do the game's dialogue options feel somehow more arbitrary than they did in the past, there wasn't a single discernible puzzle in the entire game. Few and far between are sections when you even move your character through an environment with the arrow keys or mouse, and all those sections require is to click on a few icons. Its gamiest parts involve a series of quick-time events. They aren't bad QTEs per se, but there's nothing that great about them either. Again, it is the characters and the writing that makes those sections enjoyable and very little to do with the player's own input.
A minor point: I couldn't find any way of adjusting the mouse sensitivity. Clicking on objects, even in failstate free parts of Zer0 Sum, felt clumsy and awkward. It might've been a way of artificially inflating the tension or the difficulty, but it just ends up feeling a bit frustrating.
There are times when player interactivity makes punchlines more satisfying, but equally there are times when the act of clicking icons is a bit frustrating and detracts from the experience. This isn't the time or the place to discuss what is or is not a game, or even whether that debate matters in the slightest (hint: it doesn't). Just keep in mind that Tales From the Borderlands mostly succeeds on its characters and writing and not on its game mechanics.
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December Traffic Results Lift Airlines to New Highs
After several days of storms and record cold weather forced cancellations of thousands of flights, the major airlines report that their operations are returning to normal. And shares were trading higher Thursday in the wake of strong results for December.
United Continental Holdings Inc. (NYSE: UAL) reported Thursday that its passenger revenue per available seat mile (PRASM) increased by as much as 12.5% in December, compared with the year-ago period. The company also said that it expects fourth-quarter capacity to increase 2.6% and for traffic to rise 2.6% with 82.4% of all seats filled.
United shares rose more than 11% in early trading and set a new 52-week high of $46.19. The 52-week low is $23.62.
Recently merged American Airlines Group Inc. (NYSE: AAL) also rose to a new 52-week high. The company said PRASM for American Airlines increased about 9% in the month of December. Capacity was 14.2 billion available seat miles (ASMs), or 1.1% higher year over year. U.S. Airways' PRASM for the month of December increased about 12%, and capacity came to 7.4 billion ASMs, or up 3.6%.
Shares of American rose more than 6% in early trading to $29.60. The 52-week low is $12.70.
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) announced Wednesday that in December ASMs grew 3.4% to 10.8 billion from the December 2012. PRASM for the month was estimated to have increased as much as 15%.
Shares here reached a new high as well. The stock hit $20.75 in morning trading. The 52-week low is $20.36.
Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) also saw its shares rise nearly six percent in early trading Thursday to a new 52-week high of $31.58, compared to a 52-week low of just $13.09.
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When you have glow sticks, you just HAVE to try dancing with them...in the dark!
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A Matter of Life and Death
Powell and Pressburger's most moving film and a technical experiment in the hands of a young Jack Cardiff. A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court.
"The opening scenes of A Matter of Life and Death are among the most audacious and moving ever confected by the cinematic magicians Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger." – The Guardian
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I am delighted to announce that Richard Dawkins will be joining us here on Boing Boing for a periodic series of guest blog posts. He is an evolutionary biologist and former Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He loves science, and is not much of a fan of religion.
Among his books are The Greatest Show on Earth, The Ancestor's Tale, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, Unweaving the Rainbow, and The God Delusion.
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Attaining fairness in construction cost consultancy pricing services: A case study in Ghana
Owusu-Manu, D. and Edwards, D.J. and Adesi, Michael and Badu, Edward and Love, P.E.D. (2016) Attaining fairness in construction cost consultancy pricing services: A case study in Ghana. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology, 14 (4). pp. 699-712. ISSN 1726-0531
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Price fairness is important amongst construction and engineering consultants because a perceived lack of it engenders unwillingness to pay amongst clients. This can create contractual disputes that negatively impact upon a consultant's ability to generate sufficient revenue to ensure business continuity and survival. With this in mind, this research aims to analyse the pricing measurement forces needed to attain pricing fairness within a Ghanaian construction cost consultancy practice. Specific objectives are to identify the key variables responsible for price fairness within cost consultant services and to establish any interrelationships between them.
This study leans towards the positivist methodological tradition by adopting a quantitative approach. A survey questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of 79 construction cost consultancies, drawn from a population of 372, who were registered with the Ghana Institution of Surveyors. Hypotheses developed from the literature review were then tested on data collected.
The analysis revealed that fairness of construction cost consultancy services pricing is significantly related to value and affordability, pricing objectives, pricing strategies, taxes and international trade and its effects on inputs for construction cost consultancy services.
The paper advances knowledge by providing a basis for the consideration of pricing forces in the valuing of construction cost consultancy services which hitherto has not been the case.
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Time for another viewing list, methinks… and the theme this time is Christmas! (I know… how do I manage to be so original all the time?)
As before, 5 films in the list, and a bonus stocking filler in the shape of a film that I've still to see. So, with that, let's open Santa's Sack™ and spread some Christmas joy…
First up is Gremlins.
Joe Dante's film is 30 years old now… which is quite a scary thought in itself. If you haven't yet seen it, it's the tale of a loveable little pet (called a "mogwai") that has a darker side when wet and fed after midnight. It's delightfully bonkers and cute, and the stand out scene involves a gremlin and a food processor. 'Nuff said!
Next is the first of two films based on Dickens. It is, of course, Scrooged. I could go on at length about how good it is, about how cleverly it adapts the original, or how it is a witty critique of the media, but instead, I'm going to use just two words to explain why you should watch it: Bill. Murray.
From the sublime to the ridiculous… Die Hard (the first one!)
It took me years to realise DH is actually a Christmas film with all the necessary Christmas movie ingredients in the shape of a Todorovian plot, and the mandatory happy ending with the estranged husband and his wife getting back together. Plenty of room for media analysis, but my wife tells me the real reason it is so good is simple. Alan Rickman delivers a delightfully over-the-top performance as Hans Gruber and in a breathtakingly wonderful way steals every scene he is in. "Yippee ki yay!"
Christmas demands animation… and not Wallace and Gromit. The best animated Christmas film of recent years is the one you've all seen, The Nightmare Before Christmas. You've all seen it, and you all know why it's on this list. Tim Burton is a genius and , even though he just makes the same film every time, at least it's a good one. 🙂
And to (almost) finish off, the most traditional Christmas film on my list, A Muppet Christmas Carol. There is something wonderfully anarchic about the Muppets, and this film is about as good as they ever were. Special hat tip to Michael Caine who turns in a solid performance as Ebenezer Scrooge. He doesn't try to compete with the Muppets when on screen and the film is all the better because of that.
And finally, a film I only heard about a wee while ago, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. I've yet to see it, but it sounds right up my street given it promises fields of slaughtered reindeer, nothing for the 'good kids' but the naughty children are punished. The respected American film critic, Roger Ebert, called it "…an R-rated Santa Claus origin story crossed with The Thing." All going well, Santa will bring it to me… I'll keep you posted! 😉
As ever, feel free to give your suggestions and recommendations in the comments. 🙂


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Coming out on top. Despite some pretty bleak reviews, everyone predicted that The Hangover 2 would make a scary amount of money over Memorial Day weekend. And it didn't disappoint. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie had the biggest five day opening of an R-rated film ever, raking in $137.4 million through Monday. That beats the $134.3 million earned by The Matrix Reloaded in its first five days. It was also the biggest opening ever for a comedy. And you know what this means? More sequels! Probably with even worse reviews! Director Todd Phillips played coy. "We'll see," he said. "It's about audience's desire to see it, and how well this one does, and if these guys are up for taking another trip and doing something crazy." We're guessing: it's going to happen,
But it wasn't just Hangover 2 that was showered with cash. It was the best Memorial Day weekend in history. DreamWorks Animation and Paramount's 3D cartoon Kung Fu Panda 2 came in a strong second, grossing roughly $67 million in its first five days. Perhaps surprisingly for a sequel of its kind, Panda 2 had strong reviews, with some saying it surpassed the first. Roger Ebert reviewed, "the animation is elegant, the story is much more involving than in the original, and there's boundless energy." But only 45% of the gross came from 3D screens, indicating audience's love affair with the technology might soon be ending.
Rounding out the middle. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was knocked out of its top place, but it still managed to gross a solid $50.4 million for the four-day holiday weekend, bringing its total to $164 million. And despite being seen as Hangover 2's competition, Bridesmaids continued to perform strongly, bringing in $16.4 million. We're hoping this will allow everyone to finally agree that both women and men are funny, and put an end to all of the absurd debates. But we doubt it.
Strong performers in limited release were Cannes winner Tree of Life, which had a per screen average of $122,230 -- an all-time high for a Fox Searchlight title. And Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris continued its success, with a $2.6 million gross and a per location average of $45,081.
Dragging down the bottom. As champagne is being poured all over movie studies today, why focus on the bad news? But two films that continued to fail are worth mentioning for dashing their hopes of a turnaround. Those are Mel Gibson's The Beaver, which shrank from 168 to 109 screens, and averaged just $1,248, according to Indiewire. And Morgan Spurlock's POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold expanded from 81 to 141 screens, but pulled in a miserable $486 average. After the success of his earlier effort Supersize Me, it seems audiences are sick of his gimmick documentary filmmaking, as are critics. Ethan Gilsdorf of the Boston Globe reviewed that in the film, "much like reality TV, nothing much of consequence happens."
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May 27, 2020
Paula Cole, Raven (675 records)
By Eric Saeger
There are lots of reasons to be nice to this record, and not just because Cole is a Rockport, Mass., native who studied at Berklee and actually made something out of that training, which will always be the Avis to New England Conservatory's Hertz. First of all, she's stepped off her medium-sized pedestal (if her hits "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" and Dawson's Creek theme song "I Don't Want to Wait" don't dredge up memories of the '90s for you, you weren't there) and went begging on Kickstarter for 50 grand to fund this thing, which of course wasn't a problem. This afforded her the freedom to stay within her own set boundaries, which works if you're into her trademark obsession with the sustain pedal on her acoustic piano, adding richness even when it isn't needed. Although the songs seem to run a bit long and can be exasperatingly mawkish, they're opuses of solitude, and her talent for haunting beauty is still there (the banjo-sprinkled "Eloise"). Instant musical oatmeal for discriminating soccer moms.
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The first videos are up! You can watch videos of the presentations here.
How Not to Die by the completely badass Thinking Moms' Revolution.
I was on a panel of Moms of Recovered Kids. I'll put the link up as soon as it's available.
Good gravy that light was hot and bright and it was hard focused on me. I'm pasty white, but not that blinding.
My quick take-aways:
- Gut health, gut health, gut health.
- Avoid GMOs, eat as much organic as possible.
- Endocannabinoids are your friend.
- EMFs are not your friend. They disrupt cell signaling.
- Glyphosate is flat out your mortal enemy.
- Contact these members of Congress and ask the to subpoena Dr. William Thompson, the CDC Whistleblower, to get all the thousands of documents he's turned over to Rep. Posey into the public record.
I photo stalked a few people…I swear I was nice about it.
Andy Wakefield, the original hero/doctor crush. And if you think he's a crackpot, you haven't listened to him. (My friend couldn't focus my camera!) He was very gracious about all the photo bomb stalkers. I made sure he got his coffee before I approached me. Wasn't that considerate of me?
Me and Zen Honeycutt, founder and director of Moms Across America, anti-GMO activist, and all-around badass warrior mom. So beautiful, so eloquent, so smart. She happened to sit next to me at lunch one day, and instead of freaking out and shutting down, I thanked her for her activism and all her work on behalf of our kids' health. We had a nice chat and exchanged contact information. She's my kind of Thinker!
Dr Zach Bush, my new doctor crush. He took some time to meet with a few TMR moms to talk about gut health, healing the root cause of a variety of health problems, communication and connection. We all ended up crying and hugging. Group hug! And I'm really not the biggest hugger. He also answered a couple of questions that my mom emailed to me later. Will he hate it if I say he's a sweetheart? Yeah, well, too late.
The best part of AutismOne, bar none, was connecting with my TMR sisters. I love you ladies. You give me hope!!


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Successful Internet marketing requires not only profound knowledge and modern techniques, but also a great deal of courage and intuition, to say nothing about hard work done every day. If you decided to start an online store, be ready for a long journey to the top full of traps and pitfalls.
Must read: 3 Internet Marketing Lessons Marketers Can Learn
One should understand that having an online store is not merely choosing online platform, nice theme and adding product info. First and foremost it is creating a favorable atmosphere, where customers feel easy and can find whatever they need just in a few clicks. We have gathered a few PRO hacks that will help your online store to win customer hearts (and wallets) once and forever.
1. Keep product description neat and short
Product description is one of the cornerstones of the successful Internet marketing. According to recent research, best product description for an online store should range from 75 to 200 words. Fewer words don't let one provide all the necessary details about the product whereas longer description takes too much time from the customer to read it. And there is high probability that he would simply go to another store where he wouldn't have to read that much.
Besides, do not forget to take your utmost from text formatting. Highlight all the most important information such as size, weight or shipping rules with the help of lists and bold or italics format. If your description is longer than 100 words, it is sensible to divide text into logical paragraphs with headers.
2. Pictures speak louder than words
Remember that pictures always speak louder than words. If something can be said with both pictures and plain text, always prefer the first variant. For example, it is much better to show the choice of the product colors (e.g. a T-shirt) with actual photos of the cloth. This would help a customer to get a better understanding of how the purchase would look like. Unfortunately default options of an eCommerce platform lack this feature, so be ready to buy an extra extension. If you use Magento platform, the best choice would be Color Swatches PRO by Amasty, which can boast of a number of great features besides the one mentioned above.
3. Leave Breadcrumbs
Today breadcrumbs have become a good UX tone of any website no matter whether it is a blog, online store or a magazine. This simple feature makes navigation round the website easier and lets visitors find their way through your store with less effort. Remember that breadcrumbs are important not only for navigation round your catalogue, but also during the shopping process. If you show your customers the list of all the steps that need to be taken to make the purchase they will not have the feeling that this would last forever and will be much less likely to abandon their cart at your store.
4. Let them purchase with no registration
Another profit killer that leads to a high level of cart abandonment is the complicated registration process. The best thing you can do is let your customers make purchase with no registration and after all job is done send them an email with their login and password. Another good idea is to introduce a single-click registration. This can be done, for example, with the help of login through the social networks. If all these variants are not for you, simply try to make the registration process as short as possible, otherwise there will be a high probability that customers would abandon your online store without even having a look at all the great products you offer.
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There is only one thing that customers hate more than long registration forms. This thing is hidden charges. No matter how much time you spend on the product range, price policy or store design, if at the end of the purchase procedure your customers will learn that they would have to pay extra money for taxes, shipping or whatever else, they will most likely leave you once and forever. If you have to charge extra money from your customers, please do not hide this bitter truth till the very end. In 9 cases out of 10 they wouldn't be understanding and would feel that you are trying to let them in, which is unforgivable for any store owner.


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X-Treme was founded in 2001 and is a brand of products created by the Strategic Business Unit of the Sound Corporation group, whose objective is to produce"concert, touring and portable sound systems". In other words, professional audio systems dedicated to concerts, live open-air events or any other installation in a closed environment where live music is played.
This group's top management directly controls well-known brands such as Peecker sound (a leader in the "fixed installations and club sound" sector for over 30 years, with more than two thousand sound reinforcement installations and an international distribution network) and XTE (which deals mainly with "commercial sound").
Maintaining distinct independence in not only management and personnel, but also the strategic aims of the business unit, the X-Treme division, made up of an authentic enterprise with various working activities (from R&D to Production, Quality Control, etc…) can make use of both the tangible resources (i.e. joinery, the electronic department and the electro acoustic department) and the intangible resources (i.e. the know how of the engineers and technicians from the afore-mentioned companies, who are the current members of staff) of a group which has been operating successfully in the competitive professional audio sector since 1968.
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The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a component of the University of Texas System located in Galveston, Texas, United States, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Downtown Houston. It is an academic health center with 11,000 employees [4] and a medical school that is the oldest in Texas.[5] In February 2015 it had an endowment of $513 million.[6]
Established in 1891 as the University of Texas Medical Department, UTMB has grown from one building, 23 students and 13 faculty members to more than 70 buildings, more than 2,500 students and more than 1,000 faculty.[7] It has four schools, three institutes for advanced study, a comprehensive medical library, three on-site hospitals (including an affiliated Shriners Hospital for Children), a network of clinics that provide primary and specialized medical care and numerous research facilities.
UTMB's primary missions are health sciences education, medical research (it is home to the Galveston National Laboratory) and health care services.[8] Its Emergency Room at John Sealy Hospital is certified as a Level I Trauma Center and serves as the lead trauma facility for a nine-county region in Southeast Texas; it is one of only three Level I Trauma centers serving all ages in Southeast Texas.[9]
In fiscal year 2012, UTMB received 20 percent of its $1.5 billion budget from the State of Texas to help support its teaching mission, hospital operation and Level 1 Trauma Center; UTMB generates the rest of its budget through its research endeavors, clinical services and philanthropy. It provides a significant amount of charity care (almost $96 million in 2012), and treats complex cases such as transplants and burns.[10]
In 2003 UTMB received funding to construct a $150 million Galveston National Biocontainment Laboratory on its campus, one of the few non-military facilities of this level. It houses several Biosafety Level 4 research laboratories, where studies on highly infectious materials can be carried out safely.[11] It has schools of medicine, nursing, allied health professions, and a graduate school of biomedical sciences, as well as an institute for medical humanities. UTMB also has a major contract with the Texas Department of Corrections to provide medical care to inmates at all TDC sites in the eastern portion of Texas. UTMB also has similar contracts with local governments needing inmate medical care.
The location of the Medical Department of the University of Texas was decided between Galveston and Houston in a popular vote in 1881, but its opening was delayed due to the construction of the main university campus in Austin, Texas. The need for medical training in Texas was great: in 1891, 80% of doctors in the state had under a year of formal training in medicine, and so the "Texas Medical College" was formed in Galveston with the idea that it would become the medical department once state funding began.
The original building, now called Old Red, was begun on 1890 under the supervision of the Galveston architect Nicholas J. Clayton. Clayton toured several medical colleges in the North and East before drawing up his plans for the building. The medical school campus also included the John Sealy Hospital, which provided charity care for any who claimed Galveston residence.
Upon opening, the Red Building had been starkly underfurnished, a problem which was not fully remedied until after the Hurricane of 1900, when the state rallied around the ravaged city. Dr. Thompson, professor of surgery, said that "the regents were so generous in repairing the damage to the building and restoring the equipment, that we were actually in better shape at the end of the year 1901 than we had been before." In addition, the damage to the roof of Old Red allowed for the addition of skylights, which had always been wanted for the dissection room.
In 1915 the medical branch built the first hospital dedicated to children in Texas. By 1924 UTMB had established the first department of pediatrics in the state of Texas — which was also one of the first departments of pediatrics in the United States.[12]
From its modest beginnings in the 1890s as the first state medical school in Texas, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) has developed into a large, sophisticated health science complex with numerous schools and institutes, including: a Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Health Professions, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, Institute for the Medical Humanities, an affiliated Shriners Burns Hospital, the Sealy Center for Molecular Medicine, the Sealy Center for Structural Biology, the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Center for Addiction Research, the Educational Cancer Center, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health, the Institute for Translational Sciences,[13] the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), the Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology, the Sealy Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Tropical Diseases, the Stark Diabetes Center, the Center for Biomedical Engineering, the Center for Environmental Toxicology, the Sealy Center on Aging, the George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, and the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development. UTMB operates an extensive clinical care enterprise with a wide variety of specialty programs.
UTMB's annual budget of approximately $1.4 billion includes grants, awards, and contracts from federal and private sources totaling more than $150 million, in addition to institutional allocations for research.
In 1996, UTMB purchased the adjacent 128-year-old St. Mary's Hospital, the first catholic hospital in Texas.[14] The building was converted into the Rebecca Sealy Psychiatric Hospital.
UTMB became a member of the Houston-based Texas Medical Center in 2010.[15]
Dr. Danny O. Jacobs, a former Department Chair at Duke University, has been named executive vice president, provost and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, effective Oct. 1 2012.
UTMB includes four schools:
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences provides a basic science background for its students. The GSBS and the UT Telecampus have created a concurrent enrollment program by which graduate students at UTMB can pursue both a Ph.D. and an M.B.A. in preparation for careers in biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry, among other career opportunities.
Hurricane Ike caused significant flood damage to nearly every building on campus, including the John Sealy Hospital. However, UTMB has about $1.4 billion to restore, harden and expand its campus. Much of the money was approved by the 81st Texas Legislative session, $450 million comes from FEMA, $130 million from insurance, $200 million from the Sealy and Smith Foundation, and $50 million from the Social Service Block Grant Funds. Reconstruction is actively underway as well as hardening of the campus to protect buildings and resources from future storms. It should be noted that UTMB restored its educational programs within weeks after the Hurricane Ike and the research endeavor came back steadily thereafter. In 2011 the foundation committed $170 million towards the construction of a new Jennie Sealy Hospital on the UTMB campus, an amount that represents the largest single gift ever to a Texas health institution.[19]
UTMB has two heliports: the Ewing Hall Heliport (FAA LID: 9TS7) and the Emergency Room Heliport (FAA LID: 9TA7).
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Villa Seashell (Ref:2641)
- Sleeps 8
- 3 Bedrooms
- 3 Bathrooms
- 109m2
- WiFi
- Private Pool
Villa Seashell is located in Skala on the Greek island of Kefalonia. This detached vacation rental property is air-conditioned and sleeps up to 8 people (7 adults and 1 child) with 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms along with private swimming pool and sea views. The villa is walking distance to the beach and restaurants.
Lounge, Kitchen, 3 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms and Private Pool
Living Room
The Air Conditioned living room has sofas, WiFi Internet, Satellite TV, DVD player and dining area. There are patio doors to the pool terrace along with sea views.
The air-conditioned kitchen features: full oven, cooking hob, fridge/freezer, microwave, dishwasher, washing machine, filter coffee machine, toaster and kettle.
Villa Seashell has 3 bedrooms:
Bedroom 1 is air conditioned with a double bed. En suite bathroom.
Bedroom 2 is air conditioned with a double bed.
Bedroom 3 has a double bed and a single bed. En suite bathroom.
If an additional bed is required there is 1 sofa bed. Villa Seashell can sleep up to 8 people. (7 adults and 1 child) (FREE Travel Crib and Highchair available on request.)
Villa Seashell has 3 Bathrooms:
Bathroom 1 is an en suite bathroom with shower. W/C.
Bathroom 2 is a family bathroom with shower. W/C.
Bathroom 3 is an en suite bathroom with shower. W/C.
Maid service, bath towels and hand towels are included.
Swimming Pool
Private Pool Size: 8.0m x 4.0m
Depth: 1.40m
Aspect:Pool Access: Ladder
Additional Pool Features: Poolside Dining Area, Sun Beds and Sea Views
- 24/7 Guest Concierge
- Villa with Private Pool
- Detached Villa
- Private Off Road Parking
- Sea Views
- WiFi Internet
- DVD Player
- Satellite TV (Local Channels Only)
- Cleaning Included
- Towels and Linen Provided
- Cot and Highchair on request
- Dishwasher
- Washing Machine
- A/C - Air-Conditioning
- Hair Dryer
- Ironing Facilities
- Boat taxi service
- Poolside Dining Area
- Pool Sun Beds
- Sea Views from Pool
- Solar Panels
- Valuables Safety Box
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Villa Seashell Reviews
We had a very confortable stay in Villa seashell. Just in front of the sea with a very beautiful view from the Villa. Reserved area with nice beaches just a few kilometers away . All the facilities you can need were available and Clealiness was ok also. Really recommended.
Firstly; thank you for your excellent service. You are clearly a highly professional company. I rang your office the day before departure, just to check everything was ok. I was told that "we just want to make everything perfect for you". That you did; thank you so much. Villa Seashell was wonderful and we have had a fantastic holiday. We will definitely recommend you to friends and if work commitments allow, we hope very much to book Villa Seashell again next year through Agni Travel. Thank you again for making our family holiday at Villa Seashell in Kefalonia, exceptional. Kind regards, Jeremy, Penny and family.
Fabulous holiday. Kids walked to local beach & enjoyed snorkeling. Also enjoyed eating at the many tavernas in Skala. Everyone was very helpful and accommodating.
Excellent location will return and overall an excellent villa and location
Excellent holiday in a great villa with fantastic pool area.
Very good villa, taxis required to get in to town at 6 euros (not a big deal) area is nice but not much to do but that is not abad thing depending on what you want from your holiday. Transfer is an hour, along very windy roads. But all in all a great place to get away and relax.
Overall we had a lovely time and the villa was great.
Great week had by my wife and I. The Villa Seashell is in a great position with good sea views the staff were great any issues resolved quickly.
Seashell is a lovely new villa right by the seaside in Skala. There were 7 of us at the villa which worked OK as one of the rooms is a triple. Each bedroom had its own bathroom and the views from the upstairs bedrooms were great. There are no views really from the downstairs bedroom. From the pool you can see the sea and over to the island of Zakynthos. The cleaner was very friendly. Its very easy to find everything you want in Skala. Just go out of the villa and turn left or right! We had a 7-seater and went all over the island which is very very beautiful. We all went on a boat trip with Captain Vangelis one day which was probably the highlight of the holiday.
this was a great little villa. neighbours were also very pleasant so i would think that helped with the stay. beautiful decor inside and although had neighbours felt privacy when needed. well equipped and all round great villa.


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14 Steps to a Smooth Design Process
Architect Neil Turner explains how to ensure your project goes well from day one by understanding how to work with your chosen architect
1. Appoint the Right Architect
As well as ensuring he or she can design, check whether your chosen architect can also detail up the design and project manage the construction stage. Some people split the process, so that one firm designs and a different company takes over for the site works. I don't like this, as there are split liability issues and the second person doesn't have the initial design in their soul.
Also, think twice before accepting the cheapest quote: if a cheap price comes in, you invariably get a cheap service.
2. Go for Maturity
It takes years of experience (and mistakes) to know what you are doing, so avoid giving someone fresh out of college the job of designing and running your house project.
3. Create a Sensible Budget
Be honest with yourself and don't push your budget to the point where you can't afford a pint at the pub. There is little point in sitting in a grand house if you can't afford to heat it or live life a little. I remember seeing one couple in sleeping bags in an unfinished house that went way over budget because they kept adding extra elements. So create a budget, then adjust and alter it if you need to, but always refer to it.
4. Write a Strong Brief
Project creep is the demon of all designs and clients. Without a brief, how can you comment or compare design developments? Before you know it, your three-bed bungalow has become a five bedroom townhouse — ask yourself why the changes are needed.
5. Make Time for the Project
Building a house and getting the different stages right takes time, and to succeed clients must build time into their busy lives. Even when you have employed the best designer and builder, there will need to be meetings, conversations, emails and agreements. Don't expect to simply be handed back a perfect design after one meeting and then have it built. The best house projects are those with clients who commit time and energy to meeting up, answering questions and thinking about the options that are put in front of them.
6. Agree How to Communicate
It's vital that you agree this at the outset. Can you be approached nine to five, or are you only available out of office hours? Make sure that all meetings are recorded and written in minutes, so there is no confusion or ambiguity. I use minutes to record what is and is not agreed, and what the next steps are.
7. Be Honest from the Start
Don't be influenced by the latest fad. If you like certain styles, then stick to them. We can't all live in modern glass boxes. When working with clients I have seen many start with a description, only to find that they like something else entirely different. This can often occur with couples who haven't talked through their own brief with each other, or discussed style, fittings or budget. So before you get together with your architect, sit down with each other and talk through your choices.
8. Programme the Works
This sounds so obvious, but work out how long each stage will take. This adds reality to the project and avoids the pressure of unrealistic timescales. From the programme you can look ahead and create key milestones for design, planning, Building Regulations, tender and construction. Each of these can then be broken down later, into a more detailed programme. If you can't draw up a programme, ask your architect and they will be happy to assist. The programme helps you develop cash flow forecasts for payments and is a vital tool when you approach your bank to organise finances for loans to pay fees, contractors and suppliers.
9. Go for the Full Service
We often see clients who want a partial service and then choose to run the site works. As soon as this starts, the calls start to come in when they hit problems on contracts and inspections, technical questions and disputes between parties.
10. Don't Keep Changing Things
Part of the fascination of design is the development and evolution of the brief into sketches, then layouts and finally a completed design. There will be alterations and different versions. My job is to guide this process along, so there is consensus and agreement on the completed work. I always accept that it is healthy to double check, so I don't mind change. However, if changes occur all the time, it becomes chaotic and hard to move on, and demoralising for the designer.
11. Keep on Track on Site
Making changes on site is the biggest sin of clients. As you pass each work stage, you should see each as a major passing point and not a point to go back and revisit. Sign off the drawings — it's all too easy to pick up another magazine, or talk to a friend, or see another product. When I built my house, we made the conscious decision not to vary anything on site, even the fixtures and fittings.
12. Make Decisions Before Work Begins
If the drawings are complete before site works commence, then you will have thought through all the decisions. Where is the shaver point? How high is the TV in the living room, for instance? Every time you add this on to the site works, the potential for delay and cost increases.
13. Pay on Time
A common mistake is when clients say they haven't got the money or it's due shortly, and ask if those involved in the project can wait. If you make people wait for fees, it doesn't foster a relationship of trust or respect. Your borrowing problems are not the team's problems.
14. Look at the Bigger Picture
When I first meet clients, I am always excited by the possible commission and the challenge they want to give us. It's quite a responsibility to have their future home in our hands. So pay for good advice and your project should run along well. Enjoy the experience — if you are going to do this just once, then you had better make it work. Most architect-designed houses are one-off prototypes. If you haven't built before, the chances of you getting it right first time are greatly improved if you pick the right help.
Neil Turner
Neil is a director of architectural practice Howarth Litchfield Partnership and specialises in residential design
Featured image: iStock, House exterior: Brett Charles, Interior: Jeremy Phillips


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My view of the world as I quilt. A little of this and that. But mostly my first love, Quilting
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Something New and Something Old
62 comments:
I love your tree quilt! Is it a Buggy Barn pattern? They are tons of fun!
Count me in!
I'm happy about your computer coming! I love getting new ones. :)
- December 12, 2008 at 12:39 PM
I would love to be in the drawing also. I hope you beat Kim!! Should I comment several times?!LOL Hugs, CAthy Trumble
- December 12, 2008 at 1:28 PM
- Candace said...
Eileen, you will LOVE your new laptop - I sure can't live without mine!
Let's hope you get lots of comments...we definitely don't want Kim to get a big head (love you, too, Kim) - LOL! I'll help you out with a link to your giveaway on my blog....WOOO-HOOOO!
- December 12, 2008 at 2:18 PM
- Mary L. said...
Eileen, I LOVE your trees and would love making one myself! Hope you get lots of comments.
- December 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM
- Jeanne said...
I love your tree quilt, also. Please my name to the list of hopefuls.
- December 12, 2008 at 3:24 PM
- antique quilter said...
trees are looking great!
I have the pattern so don't enter me in the giveaway ;)
good luck with your new computer
- December 12, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- Jan said...
I think your trees are so much fun! Good luck with your new computer!!!!! From Jan M.---Anne Gentle's Mom
- December 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM
- Amy said...
I love the trees. I bet you are excited about the new puter. have a great wknd. Amy
- December 12, 2008 at 6:35 PM
- Jane's Fabrics and Quilts said...
I love your tree quilt and the tree pattern would work sooooo well with my Christmas cottage Quilt, so I hope I win! thanks for the giveaway!
- December 12, 2008 at 6:55 PM
- Ila K. said...
Who wouldn't love to have those trees?
Splendid showing on the tree blocks. Enjoy your new 'puter.
- December 12, 2008 at 8:55 PM
- LINDA BYLSMA said...
Love the pattern!!! Candace at Squash House sent me over. Please enter me in the drawing. I copied your sparkler earlier today.
- December 12, 2008 at 9:19 PM
I love your Trees! I liked Kim's trees, too. Hope you enjoy your new PC. I don't have the tree pattern, so please enter in your drawing.
Nancy E
- December 12, 2008 at 10:21 PM
- Maria S said...
Your Christmas tree quilt is fantastic!! I'd love to get the pattern.
- December 13, 2008 at 4:28 AM
- ranette said...
The tree quilt is coming along nicely. Very pretty. Please count me in on the drawing.
- December 13, 2008 at 8:41 AM
I'd like to win the trees pattern. Ever since Kim showed hers I've been watching for the pattern but haven't been able to find it so it would be great to win it. I have a new laptop too, set up for wireless. I can sit in front of the TV now with my family and read blogs. Now I get less housework done than ever. lol
- December 13, 2008 at 9:28 AM
I love this pattern and if it's forgiving, all the better, lol! Also, I wanted to tell you, your picture at the top of your blog...the header (?) is gorgeous.
- December 13, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Eileen I love the tree pattern and also enjoy reading your blog. You are an inspiration. Good luck with you new laptop. Please enter me in on the drawing for the pattern. Sharon Mac
- December 13, 2008 at 10:06 AM
- merrily row said...
Love your little tree, and love, love, love the templates. At least you have a tree and not a broken hand, take care of that back. Mary
- December 13, 2008 at 11:29 AM
Love your trees. Please enter me in your drawing. Thanks.GeeGee
- December 13, 2008 at 7:55 PM
- quiltmom anna said...
Hi Eileen,
I will bite- I love your trees and I think it is a great pattern- I would love to win it and who knows I have been lucky before- anyway, it is very nice of you to offer to giveaway the pattern and whoever wins it will enjoy having it...
Keep having fun on the new lap top- You never know what can happen- I found myself translating a post into chinese characters( don't ask me how I got there) I finally closed the post and started it again. Luckily it didn't continue to transcribe in Chinese or you might have received this in a different language :D
Hope all is well with you.
Oh and please put my name in your draw...
- December 14, 2008 at 1:21 AM
After I saw Kim's on her blog and other ladies on her blog, I ordered the pattern from the maker herself. I got 3, 2 for gifts and one cause I told Santa I was a good girl. I dont need the pattern but yours is coming out wonderful. Cant wait to see it finished.
Dawn in MA
- December 14, 2008 at 5:25 AM
I've always loved trees and this pattern really appeals to me. Looks like you did a wonderful job on your quilt. Please enter me in your drawing. Thanks.
- December 14, 2008 at 7:24 AM
I love your trees, very fun looking
Dorothy F in Illinois
- December 14, 2008 at 7:31 AM
- Nancy said...
Ok, I want to try this type of piecing...I might need some help, but can you put me into the draw...
- December 14, 2008 at 8:40 AM
Your quilt looks great! Loved Kim's too!
I'd love to have the pattern too.
Hope I win!
- December 14, 2008 at 8:45 AM
We can't let Kim have all the attention! :) Please count me in for the pattern give-away.
Wendy in Iowa
- December 14, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- PiecefulChaos said...
Read about your giveaway on Kim's blog - so if you beat her tell her she has no one but herself to blame! I'd love to win the trees!
- December 14, 2008 at 10:18 AM
- Carol said...
Your tree quilt is so nice, I really like it. I would like a chance to win the pattern and make some trees too.
Carol L.
- December 14, 2008 at 10:34 AM
- Cathy M said...
I love your tree quilt. You have a wonderful sense of color when choosing fabrics. I really like the neutral color with the green and red. I hope to be the next recipient of the pattern.
I love my laptop but whoa, watch out. I spend so much time reading all the blogs. That equates to much less sewing time.
- December 14, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- Lisa said...
Eileen ~ I love your tree quilt and would LOVE to have the pattern! I hope you draw my name :O)
- December 14, 2008 at 11:51 AM
- Paula said...
Love, love, love your tree quilt....and would love, love, love to win the pattern! Looks like your getting lots of comments!
- December 14, 2008 at 12:00 PM
- spidr said...
Eileen, I love your tree quilt. I would love so much to be able to make that. I've been searching for the pattern but no luck! Enjoy your new laptop; it will be so fun for you and you are one of the most on the ball people I know, so learning to use it will be a breeze!
- December 14, 2008 at 12:08 PM
love your trees, they look really great.
Please include me in the draw,
- December 14, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- Judy said...
I love these templates you have shown, so very cool! Isn't that Tree quilt fun and easy to make? I love mine! SInce I made one and have the pattern you don't have to add me to the drawing, thanks!
- December 14, 2008 at 1:09 PM
- Melzie said...
I have wanted to try that, I would love to be entered to win :) xoxo melzie
- December 14, 2008 at 1:53 PM
First time I ever left a comment on a blog! I love, love, love your trees and have admired Kim's, as well. Good luck with your new laptop. I have had mine for a year and still feel like 'queen for a day'!
- December 14, 2008 at 3:27 PM
- Sandy said...
Eileen, great job on the tree quilt. Anxious to see it after you have added the border. Would love to win this patten. Have not done a quilt with this type of method with freezer paper, and it looks like it would be a good one to try. I remember back in the early 60's watching my Aunt Virginia tracing her cardboard templates onto her fabrics and then cutting out with scissors. She hand pieced her tops and completed the quilting by hand. We are so spoiled with all the new quilting tools of the 21st century.
- December 14, 2008 at 3:40 PM
- Lovie said...
Love the tree pattern, could you post who makes the pattern, so those of us who don't win it can purchase it. I think it is great that you and Kim are passing along patterns. . .Merry Christmas.
- December 14, 2008 at 4:12 PM
- Shirley--Knot-y Embroidery Lady said...
Thinking of you today. Got my cup of tea and stopped in for a minute. Love the quilt. Please do not include me - I ordered one through my favorite quilt shop Bearpaws and Hollyhocks a couple of weeks ago. My daughter-in-law (heart) picked out fun materials in turquoise, greens and reds. It should be cute, different then yours and Kim's, but cute. We were lucky, we were able to get all the material at 40% off. I'll sew it later on in the year and will send you a picture when I get it finished.
Cheerio - enjoy your son being home.
- December 14, 2008 at 4:22 PM
- Joyce said...
I love your tree quilt. I have made one of these in the red/green/cream colorway. My friend has one that I posted on my blog that shows it made in black/pink/and white. Really cute, stop over and take a look at it if you would like.
- December 14, 2008 at 4:57 PM
- Sara said...
I hope your new computer works well and that you like it!
I do love those trees, they look funky and fun at the same time! I would love to win the pattern!
- December 14, 2008 at 5:38 PM
I love the tree quilt, I have done several quilts using their patterns.
I'm from the eastern shore of MD. it's not so cold today, and should be 65 tomorrow. That's okay my me.
Have a good one. sue
- December 14, 2008 at 5:57 PM
- Yvonne said...
I love your trees! I already have the pattern but I wanted to help you get more comments than Kimmy and keep her from getting too big in the head....LOL. Luv ya Kim! :)
Good luck with your laptop....you can do it.
- December 14, 2008 at 7:38 PM
I would love to have such a great pattern. You and Kim did such a good job with it. If I am lucky enough to win it I will have to work very hard to make a quilt in the same league as you too.
Melinda in TX
- December 14, 2008 at 7:39 PM
- Unknown said...
If I win the tree pattern, I'm sure I'll have time to get it done before Christmas 2009. It's wonderful!
- December 14, 2008 at 7:47 PM
- Lady of the Cloth said...
I'd love to win that pattern, they are so cute. Merry Charistmas.
- December 14, 2008 at 9:20 PM
- Denise (Nour) said...
Very cute! I love it. Plz pick me!
- December 15, 2008 at 2:03 AM
- Nancy said...
Hi Eileen, I'll help you get lots of comments! I'd love to win that tree pattern... I saw it on Kim's site and when she said you were going to give away the pattern, I knew I had to come say 'hey!'.
Thanks for the chance...
- December 15, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- pam said...
That looks like a Buggy Barn pattern. I have made one quilt to using that method and it is so fun. I love yours. Can't wait to see it finished.
- December 15, 2008 at 9:34 AM
- anna said...
Love your quilt! Hope I win and you beat Kim :)
- December 15, 2008 at 9:49 AM
- MichelleB said...
I would love to be in on your drawing. I love that pattern.
- December 15, 2008 at 10:17 AM
Hello Eileen & Merry Christmas! Good for you - learning new things like a new computer! I have faith in you that you'll be a pro in no time. I'm putting my name in the pot for your pattern giveaway and enough posts for you to beat Kim...LOL! Your tree blocks are looking great. Stay warm and hope your dh is feeling better.
Hugs, Beth in AL
- December 15, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- Anya said...
I'd love the tree pattern. Thanks for the chance.
- December 15, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Count me in on the pattern drawing. You are going to be a computer whiz in no time at all!! Hope things are going well for you and your husband at this time. Have a great Christmas!!
- December 15, 2008 at 3:32 PM
- Jody said...
I just found your blog, thanks to my quilting friend Wendy. Add me to the drawing!
- December 15, 2008 at 4:44 PM
- Silverthimble said...
Count me in for your draw for the lovely pattern! Here's to one more comment. I hope you beat Kim in the number of comments you get ! LOL
- December 15, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Eileen, this is a beautiful quilt, and I would love to win the pattern. Pick me please!!! LOL I look forward to reading more of your blog!
Doris (aka: email@example.com)
- December 16, 2008 at 2:04 AM
- Michele said...
I LOVE the quilt. Would LOVE to try making it.
Michele M
- December 16, 2008 at 7:41 AM
- Busy Little Quilter said...
My husband just gave me a laptop and my son set it up for me. You are the first blogger I have written, and boy it is different from the keyboard that I am used to! Having no mouse is odd for me, and scrolling is odd,too. Good luck with learning how to use yours. I think being able to go anywhere in the house with a computer is going to be fun.
Your trees quilt is beautiful. I love that pattern. Please put my name in the drawing.
- December 16, 2008 at 12:14 PM
oh pick me...pick me! trying to help out your competition with Kim!
Happy Holidays!
- December 16, 2008 at 1:01 PM
I would be happy to win the pattern. I haven't made a BUGGY BARN pattern in years. It looks like a lot of fun.
Have a happy day and enjoy your new computer.
Julia S.
- December 17, 2008 at 1:12 AM
- Rose Marie said...
I've been admiring this pattern on a number of blogs and, please count me in for the draw. Your blocks look fantastic.
- December 17, 2008 at 8:47 PM


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Here's a Chinese EV coming to the US in 2019 (https://cleantechnica.com/2019/02/22/us-approves-chinese-electric-cars-imported-from-kandi/). Their K22 model will sell for below $20 000 before rebates. It has a range of 125 miles which is almost enough for a whole day rideshare driver today. If you drove home for lunch and charged it for an hour, it'd be fine.As their batteries become more efficient, I think it's fair to say it'll be enough for full-time Uber use.It's not a $10 000 to $15 000 car like DTEJD1997 mentioned, but after subsidies it's darn close.
Ajc - thanks for posting all of that info. Very interesting reads.Question -- if EVs become ubiquitous due to cost their advantages over gasoline/diesel powered vehicles, why won't the "fuel savings" be competed away? If its a good deal, cab companies and other ride-sharing competitors will come out with EV fleets and everyone (including the driver and UBER) is back to square one. Its like Buffett's textile mills, the capex might look like it has great returns, but if competitors also do it, then no one has an advantage. Its like watching a parade, the first person to rise onto their tippy-toes gets a momentary better view, until the entire crowd stands on its toes.wabuffo
The finance self-help guy, Mr Money Mustache, did a test and found a miles unpaid to miles paid ratio of roughly 1:1 for his Uber drives
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Friday, December 1, 2017
QKR Stampede challenge #272 ~ Anything Goes / Option - Christmas Tag
I must admit that hubby and I need more gift card holders than tags, but this was fun to make. I used the Spellbinder Labels 1 die. The DP is double sided - great for a tag. I used the Holly image (from the QKR Stampede store) which I colored and fussy cut. Now cutting is not really my thing, but I am pleased with the result - including leaving a bit of white to provide contrast. The sentiment is also from the QKR - Stamp On It store. I added metallic cord for the tie.
Tag: Tag You're It
Tag for a present: C.R.A.F.T. Challenge
Spots/stripes: Creative Craft Cottage
Red & Green - Christmas: Christmas blog Challenge - Winter Wonderland
Any: House That Stamps Built
9 comments:
- Janette said...
Thanks for sharing your lovely Tag at the CRAFT challenge this week.x
- December 1, 2017 at 5:16 AM
- Mona Pendleton said...
Wonderful Christmas tag Dorothy! Love the polka dot paper and the pretty holy! Thanks for joining along with the Tag You're It challenge!
- December 1, 2017 at 9:55 AM
- Laurie Unger said...
Love your tag! Thanks for joining us over at the house that stamps built.
- December 2, 2017 at 11:54 AM
- @d_e_crafts said...
Lovely tag. Thank you for joining the CRAFT challenge.
- December 3, 2017 at 3:26 AM
- Brenda said...
Great take on the challenge this week, such a lovely tag. Thanks so much for joining us at CRAFT Challenge!
- December 4, 2017 at 11:05 PM
- Aunty Sue said...
lovely tag for a present thanks for sharing at craft this week come back soon.
- December 5, 2017 at 2:58 AM
- CraftyLyn said...
Lovely classy,clean looking tag just great,thanks for joining us here at winter wonderland,Lyn DT x.
- December 5, 2017 at 10:57 AM
- Heather said...
This is beautiful!! Labels one is one of my favorite Spellbinders dies and it makes a gorgeous tag base. LOVE the holly leaves, too; so fun! Thanks for playing with The House That Stamps Built.
- December 5, 2017 at 12:11 PM
- Erin (Homemade Cards by Erin) said...
Great holiday tag, many thanks for joining us at Tag You're It Challenge.
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The last collection of Bill Buckley's columns, "Happy Days Were Here Again" (note the past tense), is subtitled "Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist."
The book is about pretty much everything that interested Buckley, which is to say – it's about everything.
But the subtitle is telling: "a libertarian journalist?"
Who knew?
Libertarianism has gotten a bad rap because it has been purposely, maliciously misunderstood, usually by pettifogging statists, the sort of people who believe that that the bread one earns by the sweat of one's brow would be ever so much more tasty and nutritious if it fell to humankind like manna from heaven; or, better still, if it were first collected by demagogues in Washington DC and then parceled out to us, with a sizable bite taken by altruistic congresspersons, presidents and supreme court justices.
The libertarian is the guy who thinks most of the bread should remain with the brow that sweats, which is not to say that the poor should be fed from crumbs that fall from the rich man's table. The poor, the libertarian believes, should be given a seat at the free market table. He is also the guy who, Buckley-like, believes that no business is too big to fail.
"I desire, perversely," Buckley said in 1981 in a commencement address at the Cornell University Graduate School of Business, "to sing a song of praise to failure; as well as, of course, to success; and to urge that we reappraise the dialectical voltage generated by these two polarities… Public policy must tolerate, indeed anticipate, economic failure (emphasis original)."
Buckley's notion is that the dialectical paring – success/failure – is not a mutually exclusive one: To the extent that societies make failure impossible, they make success impossible. To put it in other words: Abolish failure and you abolish risk taking; abolish risk taking and you abolish forward motion; abolish forward motion and you abolish progressive civilization, with all its attendant ills, including rich folk huddled together on Connecticut's Gold Coast.
These perceptions often drive liberals batty because they are unwilling to surrender what has been for them a successful political narrative, part of which is that rich people are all Shylocks eager for their pound of flesh and that wealth creation is a zero sum game: When the rich lose, the poor win.
Peter Schiff is a libertarian economist who attained a measure of glory three years ago by forecasting the economic crises now upon us. Donors to his possible senatorial campaign think he might be able to start a mini-revolution in what has been called hyperbolically the greatest deliberative body on earth after he unhorses U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, who is not a libertarian, which is why Schiff's donors recently ponied up the goodly sum of $ 880,777 in a money bomb.
He's also a great tease.
Though Schiff has stuck his toe diffidently in the political waters, he has not yet taken the plunge into a pool now becoming, for Republicans vying for a senatorial seat, crowded. Dodd, an old political war horse, faces Rob Simmons, a moderate Republican veteran of the U.S. House, Sam Caligiuri, a state senator who has billed himself, somewhat like Schiff, as an agent of change in an epoch that appears to be in an anti-incumbent mood. And there is even a woman gladiator, World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon, banging her shield and anxious to enter the fray.
Dodd, with a mild caveat, has been given a clean bill of health on U.S. Senate ethics rules violations by some senators who, poll show, are less trustworthy than clunker car salesmen. Though Dodd has been "exonerated" by his pals on the senate ethics committee, most of whom couldn't find Al Capone if he were hiding under their beds, he has miles to go before he sleeps – and the woods are dark and deep.


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|Whistles Bailey Skater Skirt £85.00
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The leather skirt worn the relaxed way
7 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Sì, ma il maglione devi metterlo dentro la gonna.
- 9/24/2013 10:09 am
- A Little Slice Of said...
So glad you're back! You look fab!! We have so many items in common - M&S cashmere, alove of J.Crew and even the red H&M necklace! Check out how I styled my leather skirt here http://alittlesliceof.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/yellow-shoes.html Would love to know what you think! x
- 9/24/2013 11:36 am
- KB said...
Can I have your shoes, please!
- 9/24/2013 12:20 pm
- Treasuresnpleasures said...
Love this look Laura, I'm a massive fan of dressing down leather as it can very very OTT at times, and of course as you say you get twice the wear out of it then too! Great to c you back btw! X
- 9/24/2013 4:49 pm
- Anonymous said...
I was thinking it was the Katia skirt, not the Bailey, that is actually a mini skirt! Why does it seem midi on you?
- 9/24/2013 6:10 pm
- Anonymous said...
Not sure about this one Laura, it looks a little frumpy to me -
Perhaps your look would have worked better with the top tucked into the skirt..? x
- 9/24/2013 7:30 pm
- Anonymous said...
Love this, I hate the whole leather thing right now but you do work this look well. A leather skirt should be below the knee for me and not to shiny. The thrift shop skirts are to be avoided at all costs as they are usually always fitted and come way above the knee creating the 'uhh' wrong look. I think more people need to see this to learn the rights and wrongs with leather, well done :)
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September 29, 2017
Yesterday afternoon Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex re-opened St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery. The museum in Lymington in the New Forest has recently undergone much-needed refurbishment work after being granted £1.78 million by the Heritage Lottery Trust.
Work began last September and has transformed the museum from a cramped space into a bigger and more enticing heritage attraction. The new-look museum includes larger galleries, an area providing access to its extensive archives, museum displays as well as a shop and café.
The museum has been open to the public again since the end of July, but The Earl of Wessex, well-known for his support of the arts, presided over the official re-opening ceremony unveiling a new plaque, to be mounted outside the museum, after taking a tour of the museum and its gallery spaces during his visit.
Brian May, MD of Berthon, introduced the earl to four Berthon apprentices who have all worked on the build and installation of the interactive Search & Rescue wheelhouse, one of the main features in the museum. Dean Murphy and Billy Hamilton, both second year paint application apprentices, Daniel Hamilton, a second year Shipwright apprentice, and Steven Beresford, who at age 30, decided to opt for a Marine Electrical & Electronics apprenticeship as a "mature student. Steven explained to Prince Edward that he had a degree in Biochemistry and then taught English in Thailand for some years, picking up their native language at the same time.
The Berthon installation is intended to introduce and help young people and their parents explore the vast array of careers available with an apprenticeship, not just in the marine industry but in any possible field of interest. Whilst Berthon have installed an interactive screen showing videos and case studies on marine apprenticeships, the plan is to encourage other local companies, schools and colleges to join the fold promoting what they have to offer; this all adds to the overall museum visitors' experience.
Find out more about Berthon's marine apprenticeship programme and how to apply. Berthon applications open in January each year and you can apply through the Berthon Jobs page. Berthon have just taken on 11 apprentices and so will have 30 in training for the coming year.
Don't forget to visit St Barbe Museum website for more information about the visit of the Earl of Wessex and all upcoming events and exhibitions.
Berthon-made Search & Rescue deckhouse with operational radar, dummy Garmin navigational system, search lights etc. to be added soon are rope ends for making knots and a composite lay-up example. The Lymington Scow in the background was also repainted by Berthon apprentices.


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Most contractors don't build a significant marketing database but they should. Email marketing is a key strategy in keeping your business relevant in the minds of customers.
The obvious first step is creating a spreadsheet with customer emails. This takes consistent effort to retain this information. I always add customer emails to the contract themselves so the information doesn't go missing after a few months.
Emailing your customers should be done annually or semiannually. I don't recommend snail mail or any other form of mail because most people will trash it right away. But after they see your email they will do what everyone does with email. Leave it sitting their inbox as they go back to their lives. But fortunately when they remember they need a contractor they can quickly search their inbox for you recent email.
Most people do this during the holidays but I recommend against that because then you are just another Christmas card during a time when no one is focused on their new project but rather organizing their holiday plans. March is a much better time because its right before the busy season and it puts you into peoples mind at just the right time…when they are planning a project. Don't send out email blasts more often than every six months. Its just annoying.
The email should do a few things. The first is that it should have an easy search term like the word contractor or construction in the subject line along with you company name. It should also have a catchy subject hook so people open it. The content is almost irrelevant. Show some pictures of jobs you have done over the last year and write a half page no one is going to read(let's be real here). All this email is doing is reminding your customers that "hey were here and were getting things done!" Here is an example.
Some alternative headlines could be…
Acme construction one thing we learned this year
economic outlook for next year from acme construction
Think about creating some basic emails to send out and use my guideline. It works for me but the truth is I always tell them I'm too busy when they call. I just like to keep them calling 🙂


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TRAVERSE CITY – A 64-year-old woman was in her pajamas when deputies arrived. A few hours later, Lydia Bell was in handcuffs at a jail.
Her offense? Missing jury duty in Traverse City two years ago. Bell was shocked by the arrest: She wasn't living in Michigan when a jury summons was sent by mail.
Bell explained it to a Grand Traverse County judge on April 7. Judge Philip Rodgers still ordered her to pay $50.
Bell says the experience still stings. She tells The Associated Press she felt "humiliated."
She moved to Oregon from Grand Traverse County in 2011 but says the jury notice wasn't forwarded. Bell now lives in De Witt, near Lansing.
County Clerk Bonnie Scheele says members of a jury pool must notify the court if they move.
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