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Book – "What do you seek in these shelves?" What recently unemployed graphic designer Clay Jannon sought was employment. His quest was successful at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore; a place with bookshelves and ladders extending up three stories, and a collection of curious books that are never bought, but are "checked-out" by eccentric individuals. Clay calls upon his friends to assist him with investigating mysteries which extend far beyond the walls of the enigmatic store. This thought-provoking tale includes puzzles that revolve around technology as antiquated as the printing press and as cutting edge as Google wizardry. The humorous writing and optimistic tone make this novel a rejuvenating read. Appropriately, this book offers a surprise if the reader turns out the light. The audiobook does not offer that perk, but the narrator Ari Filakos delivers the likable Clay's inner monologues and quirky humor so well that I went back and listened to some key sections to hear his moving delivery of them.
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The Spellman novels by Lisa Lutz
Book – The Spellmans are a madcap, zany family and a lot of fun to spend some pages with. Mom and Dad are the owners and directors of Spellman Investigations and employ their daughter, Izzy, as a detective. The problem is that Izzy is a bit of a rebel and not good at following rules or, in some cases, even the law. Not only do the Spellmans investigate their cases, but they usually have some hidden agendas within their agency and much of their time is devoted to discovering and exposing their own family's secrets. Izzy's seemingly perfect lawyer brother is often enlisted for help and her precocious younger sister Rae infiltrates the best-laid plans. Izzy narrates the books and provides footnotes at the bottom of the pages to offer further explanations regarding her family's background, her romantic foibles and other items of interest. The series kicks off with The Spellman Files and the sixth Spellman novel was published earlier this year.


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YOUNGSTERS are being invited to join in some Halloween-themed fun at the Woodhorn Museum later this month.
Every day from Saturday, October 27, to Sunday November 4, young visitors will be able to explore the spooky corners of the site's historic buildings in search of hidden pumpkin lanterns, with a small treat awaiting those who successfully complete the trail.
From noon-3pm they can also take part in workshops to make their own Halloween masks.

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What if today it could be shown provably that the great One World Religion of Armageddon had arisen in our midst? What if its history was rather long and its true inner nature could be cited and shown in history?
What would you say if all the events around you from the revolutions to the financial meltdowns were proved to part of its revealing?
At this blog you will find that information available as well as what it means to humanity as events move in real time. Many of the facets read here were written a few years ago before any of this had any importance to the average person.
Knowing about it is not knowing what to do about it. I promise that information is also here. Free, to any people who pin all their hopes on the Living GOD.
The most concise view of the Religion of the Beast is by analogy.
"If 20 men who dont know each other from different places, and different backgrounds are asked to describe a city they have never been to based on name alone there won't be many similarities.
If 200 men who dont know each other, from different places, and different backgrounds are given the same texts on how to build a city with street layouts, building design, monuments, infrastructure, homes, government buildings, and all the things that make up a city;
The similarities will be striking.
So much so that if they got toget'her to visit it it would be the same city, and they would thank God for providing this "Universal Wisdom" for all men…- The Generations of Antichrist; An Argument for the Sake of Heaven
This city or religion has been built around you and today they rejoice.
Welcome to the last days. The purpose of this site is not to preach to the choir. The information here is as valuable to the non-religious as it is to the Jew, Muslim, or Christian. The issues are current, not a future by and by.
It is a discussion showing a purposeful march into the end of days.
In great strides the drivers of these events show the willingness to sacrifice people, all people on the altar of change. This brinksmanship is documented in todays events at a global scale today.
Shown on these pages is the indictment of all of us. Whether non-religious, Jewish, Muslim, or Christian as I am. These issues could not have risen without our consent and our active support.
For the non-religious it should be your fear of what science has termed "the Great Filter Event." They see this as something we are fast approaching.
For the religous I offer all faiths a slice, a still picture showing that our faiths have ALL been coopted and corrupted. It is because we allowed this we are being funneled into a world of holy war, and the end of days.
This will be done through the inspection of real-time events, movements, and policies linked with real proofs and not speculation.
For the non religious this information is where my discussion ends. The subject articles here affect your life and future. For those that regard the LIVING GOD it begins here. Stated earlier these articles are just a small slice and are geared to show this through my own faith and happenings. The implications for all others are clear enough.
Separately I have written the proofs and an argument against the further changes happening daily contained in the book- The Generations of Antichrist; An Argument for the Sake of Heaven.
Detailed in the book you will find;
Whether Jewish, Muslim, or especially Christian the history of the perversion of your faith is detailed through the centuries. We are all at a point where those who were at the origins of faith would no longer recognise us.
For all three faiths it is clear that there is a higher and lower religion within each faith. I have documented them and show why you were not invited. Each faith has gone through complete changes. These can be seen clearly in history.
For the Christian you will see the reality of the first early church that no one seems to be able to get back to, and why.
For the Jew, documented in your own rabbinic scholars writings that your faith is younger and it was not a rejection of Jesus as Messiah that caused our splitting off. The number of changes a faith can go through are shown, as well as the motivators of those who wish your hurt.
Documented in an unequivicable fashion is that both religions split off from the Religion of Israel, the Religion of the Apostles of Jesus Christ and became something else.
Documented through time is that our Holy Books have been altered in meaning, and in some places actual text.
As an example for all three religions ask yourself these two questions;
May a man declare himself god within your faith? Within your faith why are you allowing this to happen today?
This site is not an attempt at evangelism. Nor is it an attempt to persuade you to a cause. You who are literate read the articles and judge. The purpose, my purpose is to call a people back to the simple truth of their God, and prepare them for days they are in.
If you care to try to justify the "ISM" you are in I suggest you read my argument first. I contend it is the "ISMs" that brought us here. At least you will be better informed of your beliefs. Stubborn people are the backbone of good religion but only so far as it is what you know as, and hold as honest truth. Haranguing people who don't care for the truth, whatever it may be are simply foolish.
To that end I have linked to a few "search through the book features", so people who may not be able to afford it may view at least parts at a time and weigh in. It is broken down into a very chapter specific focus.
Detailed here are a snapshot of the events, and makeup of the Last Days. This also is detailed in the everyday happenings around you. Through the blog articles and materials being made available in a no nonsense fashion questions surrounding the End of Days will be answered such as ;
What are the Horsemen of the Apocalypse or four Extinctions? How do you recognise them? How will you know who the Antichrist is? Can you survive Armageddon?
For the Jew, Muslim, or Christian, these subjects have slightly varied meanings with regard to what we have been taught. It is still the responsiblity of all faithful peoples in this time to maintain justice, judgment and mercy both to our own and each other knowing there is a Living God, and HE will judge us accordingly.
My desire is to show the faithful they need not be afraid but prepared as our King has said.
You're blogging has really come on when I look back over previous posts. Actually I arrived here from a forum on an unrelated topic. Worth surfing sometimes. Thanks.


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By Mark O'Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
There are lots of stories of how Nintendo Wii's are good for your health, including how they are being used in hospitals and nursing homes to help patients improve their reflexes, muscles and co-ordination. In the past, physiotherapy used to be all about walking, exercising, muscle stretching and so on. Old people might have kept their minds alert with a game of dominoes or a crossword in the newspaper.
But these days, it's a game of tennis or ten-pin bowling on the Nintendo Wii. If you walk into an old people's home, you're likely to hear an old guy waving his stick and shouting "HOLE IN ONE!" if they are playing the golf game.
Now you've got two old ladies taking up Wii Boxing. These two are in their 90's and they are swinging punches at the TV screen! One of the ladies said :
"It's a great way to keep fit and it doesn't hurt to take out some aggression now and again."
I pity the fool who tries to steal the handbags from these two down a dark alleyway.


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"Every time I see [Warm Wires], I shake my head," says Dan Leone, former singer for local band Ed's Redeeming Qualities. "I'm amazed that a) he thought he could get away with writing about that, and b) that he did. He touches subjects that no one else will."
Unfortunately, the music world isn't kind to quirky songwriters anymore. There was a time back in the mid-to-late '80s when bizarre wordplay and kooky instrumentation could score radio air time and a major label contract. Groups like Camper Van Beethoven, Ween, and They Might Be Giants were weird and successful. Like-minded local bands such as the Donner Party, Catheads, 28th Day, Little My, X-Tal, and Thinking Fellers also flourished. Then grunge hit in the early '90s, and the majors went whole hog for loud groups with long hair and hard glares; the market for eccentric songwriters seemed to dry up.
Mossman has kept plugging along, nonetheless. Now, Warm Wires -- featuring Mossman, drummer Adam McCauley, bassist Bernie Jungle, and guitarist Matt Stahl -- has released its second album, Kindness. The record's full of clever lyrics, joyous singing, catchy riffs, and otherworldly presence -- you know, the kind of stuff that gets you nowhere these days.
Before he was the main singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitar player for Warm Wires, Brad Mossman (né Pedinoff) was in Harm Farm. That group -- formed in 1988 while Mossman, cellist Tom Hallenbeck, and violinist Morgan Fichter attended Oberlin College in Ohio -- melded bluegrass, Irish traditional music, Eastern European folk, and indie rock in much the same way Camper Van Beethoven did. After Harm Farm's members moved to S.F. and Fichter left to join Camper, Harm Farm added ex-Catheads/Donner Party drummer Melanie Clarin and recorded two albums for the Alias label. One of them, 1990's Spawn, remains an underappreciated gem, a record full of exuberant takes on aging ("Creases, Sags, and Wrinkles"), the Middle Eastern conflict ("Arabs and Jews"), and a certain squishy food ("Clams").
"That was the dividing line," laughs longtime Bay Area scenester and X-Tal member J Neo Marvin about "Clams." "You either really loved or really hated it."
Unfortunately, too many people were just plain indifferent to Harm Farm, and the group broke up in 1992. Mossman moved to Portland, accepting an invitation from ex-Donner Party member Sam Coomes to play bass in his new combo, Motorgoat (which also featured Coomes' then-wife, Janet Weiss). He lasted about a year, before rain and band conflicts got to be too much for him. "They told me we were going to play my songs, but I got up there, and it wasn't like that," Mossman, 35, says during an interview in the Mission home of Warm Wires' McCauley. Coomes and Weiss eventually formed Quasi and played with Sleater-Kinney and Elliott Smith. Meanwhile, Mossman took off for the United Kingdom.
"I wanted to get away from the States," Mossman says. "I probably should've done that first, instead of Motorgoat."
After traveling throughout the U.K., Mossman found work at a hostel on the west coast of Ireland in a town called Dingle. He spent nearly a year there, writing songs about his travels and the people he'd met, eventually recording them on a four-track with only his acoustic guitar and the Irish pipes of local Chris Prior for accompaniment. The seeds of Warm Wires were sown.
Adam McCauley moved to the Bay Area the same year as Mossman, 1988. Along with guitarist Matt Stahl and singer Tynan Northrop, McCauley formed Little My, a group renowned for its dark and arty indie rock. Harm Farm gave Little My one of its first big gigs, with Stahl returning the favor for Harm Farm when he began booking shows at Oakland's legendary Merchants club.
When Mossman returned to S.F. from Ireland in 1995, he played the recording of his new songs for McCauley and Stahl. "We were trying to talk Brad into putting that out as it was," McCauley, 36, says, "but he wanted it to rock."
While Harm Farm's second album, Nice Job, Einstein, had been heavier than its first, it still featured what Mossman calls "that fiddle aesthetic." For Warm Wires, he wanted something less folky, what he jokingly pegged, in his Oberlin alumni magazine, "cuddle-core influenced by elves and bulldozers."
"My understanding was that we were trying to make it more like pop songs -- streamline them and make them less arty and indulgent," McCauley says.
The result was Warm Wires' Severe Comfort, released in 1997 on Sugar Fix in the U.S. and Brinkman in Europe. While there were still some violin parts (courtesy of 100 Watt Smile's Carrie Bradley) and tabla and sarangi from Peter Altenberg, the record was far more of a rock effort. Stahl's fretwork was consistently inventive, offering a wide variety of frameworks for Mossman's adenoidal voice and loopy lyrics.
Mossman's wordplay had grown considerably since the jokey sketches of Harm Farm. His time abroad seemed to have given him perspective on his peers. On "King of the Picked-Ons" he sang, "I'm going to every high school on the Earth/ To tell the nervous freaks of their self-worth," while on "Fabulous Guru" he observed the rules of shyness, singing, "None of my friends have heads with love/ All of my friends are scared/ None of my friends make the first move/ All of my friends just stare." But he'd also gotten his first dose of true love, evidenced by the goofy lust of "Angel Came Down" and "Women Are Better Than Men."
Upon the album's release, the group -- now augmented by bassist and songwriter Bernie Jungle -- was primed for a big break. When it played Los Angeles' Poptopia Festival, the group's members expected a reaction like they'd gotten the year before, when the crowd went nuts and a suit from Geffen Records made tentative inquiries.
"I had such high expectations," Jungle, 41, says. "Like, "Woo hoo! Mom and Dad, I'm on my way!'"
Alas, the Poptopia show -- and much of the band's following tour -- was a washout, thanks to El Niño's torrential rains. Although "Women" got airplay on John Peel's influential BBC show and several other European stations, neither the Sugar Fix nor the Brinkman label had the muscle to get the band noticed stateside.
"I'd by lying if I didn't say that I thought "Women Are Better Than Men' was going to make a dent," Mossman says, "but it didn't."
Disappointed, Warm Wires splintered, with McCauley moving to Hawaii and Stahl heading down to San Diego to pursue a master's degree in communication. Meanwhile, Mossman and Jungle performed around town with tabla player Altenberg and fiddler Jason Kleinberg (of local jug band 86). McCauley returned in 1999, and Stahl continued to make occasional visits, so the guys began to hash out new songs -- in a different manner than in the past.
"A lot of this [recent] stuff was written almost accidentally," McCauley says. "We'd just be jamming at practice and we'd have a new song."
"It was less about me bringing in songs and adding instruments," Mossman says. "We would just be a four-piece band, pretty much as we are live."
This was the middle of the dot-com boom, and Warm Wires couldn't find an affordable, available place to record, so the group decamped to an office complex in Santa Rosa with 100 Watt Smile's Scott Greiner. Whenever the members had extra cash, they'd take the tunes to Greiner's office at Transmedia, an advertising jingle business, and tweak them. Eventually the band recorded four more numbers at Wallysound in Oakland and went searching for a label. Warm Wires finally settled on Two Ton Santa, whose owner, Guy Capecelatro, was responsible for last year's Dom Leone tribute album, Guess Who This Is. (See "Paying tribute to the near-forgotten Dom Leone," Pop Philosophy, March 28, 2001.)
Capecelatro had loved Mossman's songwriting since the Harm Farm days. "My band at the time, Toast, had played with them at the Rat in Boston," Capecelatro says via phone from his home in Vermont. "We used to cover "Clams.'"
As for why he wanted to release the new Warm Wires record, Kindness, Capecelatro says, "I think they have such a fun, adventurous sound. ... It's complicated and interesting without getting in the way of the actual songs."
Indeed, Kindness seems labored over but not belabored. The playing -- from the anthemic-yet-gritty guitar riffs to the loose, swinging percussion to the melodious vocal harmonies -- is tight but not slick, walking the line between precise and joyful. Mossman's lyrics are better than ever, with lines that sound like Dr. Seuss for aging hipsters. "So nice to fuck and not be wed," he sings on "Funhappy," while on "Go Home" he captures the feel of that first night in bed: "I remember when you took off your bra/ I ran out and joined a health spa." "Soak Us" could be a theme song for the writer, listing a compendium of "the joys of being me" that includes taking the cordless phone to bed and scratching his bird's head.
The biggest difference between Kindness and Severe Comfort is that Jungle sings two songs of his own, both of which offer a wistful counterpoint to Mossman's eccentric fare. "The two of them really complement each other, because Brad's [songs] are so rhymey and goofy in an upbeat way and Bernie's are introspective and quiet," says Dan Leone, who's currently in the Lipsey Mountain Spring Band with Jungle. "Without a dose of one, they might be too much."
Despite its newly acquired balance, Warm Wires finds itself in a time of transition, just as after the last album. Stahl has returned to San Diego, and the remaining members' time is taken up by other projects: Jungle's in several bands, McCauley has a graphic design business, and Mossman's been doing music for children's TV. Still, they aren't ready to pack it in.
"I feel like there'll always be room for a band," Mossman says. "Even if you have a stupid job and 10 kids, you've always got time to go to a bar, so why not use that time for a band instead?"


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Traditional Italian bread.
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Next Home can help in that all important decision of purchasing your new home.
It is important to consult a solicitor on purchasing your home. The solicitor will guide you through the offer for the property and can assist in arranging surveys. Most offers in Scotland are now submitted subject to a survey being carried out so the buyer only incurs survey fees on a property they have been successful in purchasing.
Once the buyer is satisfied with the survey, the subject to survey clause on the offer is lifted at which time the sellers solicitors will forward a qualified acceptance to the offer. The offer and this acceptance, together with any other formal letters, are what are known as the missives and are signed by the solicitor on behalf of the buyer/seller once instructions have been taken from the client.
There is only a binding contract for the buyer to purchase the property when the missives have been concluded and once missives are concluded the buyer therefore cannot change their mind on purchasing the property without there being adverse financial consequences.
The solicitor also receives the titles to the property and various searches are carried out by the seller's solicitor to ensure that the buyer gets a property title to the property. These searches can include confirmation that all necessary documentation is in place for alterations that have been carried out to the property etc.
The most important thing the buyer is required to do during the purchasing process is to ensure that a mortgage or any other funding that is being used to purchase a property is in place prior to the agreed date of entry. The solicitor will deal with the mortgage papers including preparing the paper work for signature by the buyer and requesting the funds from the lender in time for settlement. In general, on the date of purchase solicitors try to have keys ready for collection by the buyer by midday although this can vary on each transaction depending on circumstances.
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Fusion Antibodies Targets Boston for Faster Growth
Belfast biotech company, Fusion Antibodies is setting up an office in Boston in Invest NI's Northern Ireland Technology and Development Centre (NITDC) to build on its existing sales in the US.
The Queen's University spin-out company, which has won a string of awards for its leading-edge technology, will use NITDC as a springboard for faster growth in the greater Boston area, one of the world's most important centres for biotech research and product development.
Allyn Keown, Fusion's vice president of business development, says: "An office at NITDC gives us a base and access to expert information and practical support from the very knowledgeable team in Boston.
"Boston is at the heart of a huge biotech industry that attracts substantial funding from the US government for pioneering research. This makes it a well-funded sector.
"In addition, the region is home to many biotech spin-out companies from its excellent research universities such as Harvard, MIT and Boston College and to several venture capital institutions. We will also use the office to strengthen our contacts in the North Carolina Research Triangle, another biotech R&D 'hotspot.'
"The US is already an important market for us. The Boston office provides professional support that will enable us to move closer to the market and to win more business. We also intend to use it to broaden knowledge of the US market within the company by regularly rotating staff from Belfast to Boston.
"It will also be linked directly to Belfast by means of a new management information system that we are currently installing. This will mean phone and e-mail calls to Boston will be switched to Belfast if staff in the US are away from the office or otherwise engaged, thereby ensuring a fast response to all enquiries," he adds.
Alan Hingston, Invest NI's Trade director, welcoming Fusion's decision, says: "Our technology and development centres are an integral part of our 'Being International' strategy. They assist local companies, particularly technology-led small to medium-sized enterprises, to develop business in the global marketplace.
"While the centres, which are located in Boston, Denver and Dubai, provide companies with fully serviced offices, the most important aspect of the initiative is the expert advice from staff experienced in doing business in the markets where they are located. Many smaller companies have been assisted to enter the US and Middle East markets quickly and cost-effectively by NITDC staff.
"In the year ended 31st March, for instance, companies located in the three NITDCs secured business in excess of £35 million," he adds.
Fusion Antibodies is a world leader in discovery and research at the cutting edge of therapeutic antibody development utilising bioinformatics, rapid expression & purification of recombinant proteins.
Fusion's award winning proprietary high through-put FET (Fusion Expression Technology) platform allows these custom high quality recombinant proteins to form the basis of their monoclonal, polyclonal and recombinant / chimeric antibody platform. This is used to validate their in-house oncology drug discovery programme.
These technologies & associated microbiological techniques are offered as a service to enable drug discovery, diagnostic biotechnology companies & academic researchers achieve their goals faster and more cost effectively.
Fusion Antibodies currently employs 25 people in Belfast.


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Thought I'd share this with the community – especially given the focus here on SandStorm Gold (they've also been in the news lately).
While all of this seems to be to be great news for SandStorm over the long term (especially with gold prices holding steady – unlike coal and gas!), it does provide an insight into why Sandstorm is not signing as many deals as I thought they would – seems like alternative financing (assuming Sandstorm is one of many firms providing financing to a miner) is falling apart.
This is a discussion topic or guest posting submitted by a Stock Gumshoe reader. The content has not been edited or reviewed by Stock Gumshoe, and any opinions expressed are those of the author alone.


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{PV Couture 70's Spanish Senorita Maxi Dress, one that I personally love, perfect for any day of the week!}
{Shop} Parma Vintage
{PV Couture 70's Spanish Senorita Maxi Dress, one that I personally love, perfect for any day of the week!}
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Great vintage store. Love their clothes!ReplyDelete
Kisses and happy weekend
Great collection !! I want that cross skirt :)ReplyDelete
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The clothes look amazing!ReplyDelete
the last skirt is so pretty!ReplyDelete
OH Kizzy I love little boutiques like this. Would love to wear more clothes like this, but for now I am still dressing like a rock chick. My home however is like a treasure chest itself ha ha. LOVE the stuff you picked out, maybe I should wear dresses every once in a while. Happy weekend doll, hope you have a relaxing one,ReplyDelete
Love this shop! I should visit Scotland soon! Have a wonderful weekend! xoxoReplyDelete
This sounds like my kind of place. I love vintage, my favourite is the jacket and cross skirt. How wonderful of you to feature the shop. Will await to see the new website. -xo Happy weekend dear!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 September 2012 at 11:34
Nice pictures,please,check out my blog.Maybe we can follow each other?ReplyDelete
This store seems so awesome Doll. Like you say everything just seems to stand out and look different but still majestic and wonderful. I loved the owner's answers too, Gwen Stefani is a fantastic inspiration and I love how she wants her customers to feel, hopefully the shop continues to be a success!ReplyDelete
Ah, such pretty fancies;-)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 September 2012 at 12:04
What a cool find and in Gourock of all places, I haven't been there since I was three years old.ReplyDelete
If only I were there! I love places like this because you never know what you will find or walk out the door with! Seems like a sweet little place to shop. Enjoy your weekend:)ReplyDelete
Wonderful post dear :))ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous14 September 2012 at 14:28
"Parma Vintage" is my dream shop and Gillian is an amazing owner, I love the idea of mixing both antique and design pieces, I love everything you shown and I'm sure that I'll take home with me all those amazing skirts and dresses!ReplyDelete
loving your style!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 September 2012 at 16:36
stock looks amazing!ReplyDelete
What an adorable looking shop! Such a fabulous find - it's such a different experience than shopping at a generic high street store. Have a great weekend Kizzy xoReplyDelete
Now this looks like my kinda shop! I'd be a kid in a candy store in there. Maybe I'll have to pay a visit :)ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend, sweetie! xoxo
Such a lovely shop!ReplyDelete
Cool post
Lovely stuff :)ReplyDelete
For some reason I was really drawn to the white skirt on it - what a pattern!ReplyDelete
Ahh and Gwen Stefani is such a style icon form her No Doubt sleeveless vests to L.A.M.B leopard print dresses and YSL dresses!
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I just love to discover new places!ReplyDelete
Nice items she has -
Have a great weekend
I think I've heard of them before through Asos. Nice interview and very pretty pieces--loving the polka dot dress.ReplyDelete
Timbarika, I have missed you and your wonderful expression of self, life, surroundings, art, beauty,--well, you name it!! I love this shop! I love the green dress! Why does there have to be an ocean between me and Parma Vintage? Argh......! BTW, you look adorable, as usual, in the dress and stockings you are sporting in your images at the shop!! Love love love it! xoReplyDelete
Thi store is full of amazing stuff!! Woww! I love every sing piece and I loved the interview!ReplyDelete
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Kizzy, Gillian has the sweetest things! I see why you like shopping there. Everything is beautiful and unique. Our vintage shops look nothing like that here. You are so lucky and what a great interview. I love vintage, and this is impeccable. It's great she's opening an online store. Good luck to her. Have a great weekend doll!ReplyDelete
We love vintage shops and clothes, but one has to be carefull picking those items! These clothes, however, looks incredibly amazing! Great selection!ReplyDelete
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It is always such a pleasure see you.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful little place to dream and buy.
Love your blog and love this vintage store! I'm your newest follower, I hope you'll follow back! : )ReplyDelete
I love the cross skirt!!!!ReplyDelete
your blog is really great i like it a lot! Maybe we follow each other!? Let me know :)) Greetings from germany www.yuliekendra.com
Lovely store, thanks for sharing :)ReplyDelete
Wauw, those items are amazing.ReplyDelete
Really like the shop, great post :)
great collection and vintage storeReplyDelete
I love this shop and adore the dress you picked up! Mostly I'm dying over that poodle--would love to get that for me :) Hope you have a wonderful weekend Kizzy!ReplyDelete
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Looks like a great shop!ReplyDelete
What a cute shop! I see lots of darling things. I don't wear dresses much anymore. I use too but since I don't work anymore, I just never think about it. You are so tiny that I bet you can wear just about anything. :)ReplyDelete
I hope you have a wonderful weekend Kizzy.♥♥
I love all things vintage!! .. and this boutique looks lovely (as do you!) Wonderful interview :)ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend!
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its rare to find vintage stores clothing and accessory in my country.id love to visit this store in the futureReplyDelete
I am just loving all the skirts you've pulled out, purely since I've been eyeing up a few similar ones recently!ReplyDelete
Hope you have a beautiful weekend Kizzy!
Love the last one!!! so pretty!!! xxxReplyDelete
Woww...lovely store with a huge well displayed inventory! That feather green hat is amazing, and the clothes are really beautiful! The lace skirt is to die for :)ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for stopping by, hope you have a wonderful weekend full of happiness and joy<3
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I want my closet to look like this, you are very lucky to have a cute place like this near.ReplyDelete
wow¡¡ amazing clothes¡¡ Lovely shop!! happy weekend dear¡ xoxoReplyDelete
Awesome post and I love your blog!ReplyDelete
Doll, I am sitting here Saturday evening in NJ reading your blog. So glad I stopped by. This is such a treasure for you to have found and a treat for your readers. I love the maxi you purchased ....it is so unique like the green dress you had posted. Great shop and photos...really enjoyed your interview too. Have a great night. Dawn suitcase vignettes xoReplyDelete
Great post! :)ReplyDelete
Wow, that looks like an awesome vintage store. They have such great, one-of-a-kind items!ReplyDelete
Oh gooosh I want to go there ! And I want this white crossed skirt :)ReplyDelete
This shop looks amazing. Thanks for sharing. If I ever get there I will stop in!ReplyDelete
Pretty nice stuff!ReplyDelete
Wow it seems to be so cool!ReplyDelete
What a lovely place! And thank GOD for the Internet! ;) Shopping is always best when you can physically go into a store and actually shop for "real", but when it comes to far away places the web is da shit! ;) I will make sure to check out this place when they launch their web shop! xxxReplyDelete
Wow ! Is this paradise ?ReplyDelete
What an amazing Vintage store Kizzy! In the US a lot of our Vintage stores aren't in the nicest condition, but this place is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Hmmm, such a gorgeous shop! Would love to come visit there! Have a lovely sunday Kizzy!ReplyDelete
It's a really lovely place to shop <3ReplyDelete
have a nice day!
oh wow, i love the store! I wish they had that in the Netherlands (:ReplyDelete
Adore the eyelet skirt!ReplyDelete
I saw some really cool things in the photos! Seems like such a special store with some different pieces :)ReplyDelete
So cute, especially the creamy dotted dress! Nice pics!xoReplyDelete
Gorgeous finds! At first, I thought the photos were of your own closet, and I was so envious ... but I guess you did take some of these wonderful fabrics home! -- J xxxReplyDelete
Such a cool store!ReplyDelete
I'm always looking for places like this- there are hardly any in Ireland and definitely NONE in the UAE!
It looks like a fabulous shop. I love the dress you're wearing in these shots. xoReplyDelete
wowooow! amazing place and lovely pieces!! love them!ReplyDelete
xoxox dear!
looking good ALL THESE PIECESReplyDelete
ooh that boutique looks amazing!!! :D love the cross skirt! so cool :DReplyDelete
great vintage attiresReplyDelete
sooo amazing post!ReplyDelete
love vintage shops!
So elegand dress!! and cute shop!! I love all of this clothes!! lovely pics darling!! xoxoReplyDelete
OMG...I'm dying of envy..I wish I could go shopping at that store!!ReplyDelete
It's sooo...sooo...perfect! :)) Sigh...I love vintage clothing!
love post & blog!ReplyDelete
Fine clothes, it is a pity that we in the city have no such shops.
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The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Ovarian Cancer's first report entitled Diagnosing ovarian cancer sooner: what more can be done, was published to coincide with World Ovarian Cancer Day 2018.
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Brooklyn rapper Desiigner's popularity skyrocketed last month, when his "Panda" single became one of the most buzzed about tracks in Hip Hop, and he was spotted in a meeting at LAX with none other than Kanye West. Days later, at Kanye West's The Life of Pablo reveal, 'Ye broke the news that Desiigner had signed to G.O.O.D. Music, highlighted by two appearances on TLOP.
Since then, not much has been heard from Desiigner, but yesterday he debuted a new song at the SxSW festivities, titled "Pluto," and you can catch a clip of that below. By now you know that some of the controversy surrounding "Panda" and Desiigner's signing to G.O.O.D. Music is just how much the Brooklyn rapper sounds like Future, both sonically and vocally. Considering Kanye West, Travi$ Scott and Pusha T have each done considerable recent work with Future, awkward is the word that could best describe the atmosphere surrounding G.O.O.D. Music and Desiigner right now. Naturally, this will only add to that sentiment, as Future's debut album was titled Pluto.
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There is something wholesome and comforting about a good old-fashioned horse movie. Maybe it's because horses bring to mind my childhood self who, like most little girls, couldn't get enough of them. Or maybe it's because there are so few great simple stories worth telling, and the story of Secretariat is one of them.
Based on the true story of Secretariat, a racehorse that in 1973 won the first triple crown in 25 years by an astounding 31 length victory! Hollywood didn't need to embellish on that to make it an incredible story. His owner, Penney Chenery Tweedy (Diane Lane) was also an inspiring woman, who took it upon herself to turnaround her ailing father's horse ranch and bring it back to it's former glory. To do so, she places all her hopes on the young red colt that eventually brings her victory.
Diane Lane is certainly a vision with her golden hair and refined looks, in perfect knitted 70's separates. She's a great actress playing an intriguing woman, but the script doesn't give us enough of an emotional connection to her. She gives some stirring speeches, which occasionally made me roll my eyes; and she misses her young family who are growing up without her. There seems to be no love between her and her husband (Dylan Walsh) who only seems to miss having a cook/maid at his beck and call. They greet each other with chaste kisses on the cheek despite weeks apart.
I never thought I'd say the name John Malkovich in reference to a Disney movie about horses, and yet here he is! He plays Lucien Laurin, a French-Canadian horse trainer. Malkovich is unmistakably NOT French and makes no attempt at an accent, but he won me over anyway with his dry humor and crazy fashion.
By far the best parts of this movie star the horse. It's awe inspiring to see the beauty in the movement of these incredible animals, and the filming of the race scenes is spectacular. A camera mounted on the horse actually gives us a "horse-eye view" of what it's like to fly around that racetrack. And one slow motion scene shows the mechanics of a horse galloping at full-speed, his hooves barely touching the ground.
Beautifully filmed, though perhaps not as emotionally involving as it could have been, Secretariat is an old fashioned Disney family film.
Directed by Randall Wallace, Starring Diane Lane and John Malkovich.
Ron Turcotte, the jockey that rode Secretariat to fame, is from Drummond, New Brunswick and still lives in Grand Falls.
He was left paraplegic after tumbling off a horse and now helps raise funds for disability programs.


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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the ladies at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's list theme is favorite settings. This one was a pretty easy one for me because I'm all about a good setting...I need to feel a story...and nothing gets me involved than being able to imagine being there with the characters. Here are my 10 favorites this week:
1. Mitford - When I was first introduced to Jan Karon's Mitford series it was the setting that captured me immediately...I actually fell more in love with Mitford itself rather than any one character in the series. A small, quaint, mostly quiet, eccentric little town...with each new edition to the story, I didn't just read the words; I was there.
as a young girl I loved reading Marguerite Henry's stories about the horses who ran free on Chincoteague Island in Virgina...and I WILL visit there someday!
I've never really wanted to visit Washington...I'm a Grey's Anatomy fan and I don't even really want to visit Seattle...because I'll just want to nap through the rain :( But, to read about the natural beauty that is hidden in this area of the world...so bare and unmolested by tourists (well, maybe not now) and the Native American legends and traditions that are honored there makes me want to check it out. Imagine a place where there is city, deep forests, mountainous areas and beaches all together...I love nature, don't you?
This Grisham is my favorite...and it has nothing to do with a courtroom; it has to do with a rural community, dirt floors, barefoot kids and a cotton field. This one reminds me of home but more because of stories I've heard my parents and grandparents tell rather than my own childhood. Generations of my family worked by the sweat of their brow and did what they could every single day just to get by. Kids worked and pitched in as soon as they were old enough. The yearly calendar revolved around the crop seasons...when the crop came in that was all that mattered...sunup to sundown the crop was reaped. The years when there was no crop because of drought, or some bug infestation were hungry years...everybody pitched in to help everybody as much as they possibly could...just to survive. Sometimes I wonder...


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I went on a spontaneous trip to the Science Museum yesterday to look at the Cosmonauts exhibition. I've always been a fan of space: my favourite book as a child was the DK Guide to Space; at the time I wanted to be an astronomer (strangely not an astronaut – I wanted to keep my feet on the ground), but then I realised that that should be more of a hobby than a career, so I went into computing instead.
The interest in space never really faded though. In 2012 while I was working at STFC, I helped out at their stargazing event for families. I operated the 'Magic Planet' – a spherical projector which would display the surface of planets and moons in the solar system at the click of a button. It fascinated adults and children alike, and inspired them to make comments like "That's not Saturn, there aren't any rings", "That's not how Uranus spins" and "Jupiter's not supposed to be that blue". I was able to answer most of the questions that were asked, reeling off facts I learned from another childhood book about the solar system.
A few years on from there and I'm now living in London, with the aim of getting cultured whenever possible. Yesterday was no exception.
The Cosmonauts exhibition ran at the Science Museum ran from September 2015 and today was its last day. It was focussed on the Russian side of the space race. I'd always thought that the Americans putting man on the moon in 1969 was the biggest feat, but the Russians had done so much more before that which kind of belittles the whole 'Man on the Moon' thing. It wasn't a huge exhibition, but I somehow managed to stay there for 2 hours.
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Welcome to Congregation Sha'aray Shalom
Congregation Sha'aray Shalom is a Jewish synagogue that serves as the lighthouse for Reform Judaism on Boston's South Shore.
Our community consists of 282 families living in thirty towns along the south coast of Massachusetts Bay — from Boston to Plymouth. Our congregation's home is on historic and beautiful Main Street in Hingham.
We have a tradition of an "open door" which welcomes every family member — Jews by birth, Jews by choice, and non-Jewish family members — and strives to integrate them into our community. Our strength draws on our commitment to honor and respect the diversity of our backgrounds.
We are led by a dynamic clergy team of Rabbi Shira Joseph and Cantor Steven Weiss, offering weekly Shabbat services as well as a full calendar of festival celebrations, a full-program religious school with nearly 135 students, a JCC Early Learning Center, and active adult learning and social programs.
We are affiliated with the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ).
Congregation Sha'aray Shalom is a Reform Jewish community on the South Shore of Boston that provides Beit T'Fillah (worship),Beit Midrash (study), and Beit Knesset (assembly), for the celebration and preservation of our Jewish heritage and our founders' vision.
We offer traditional and innovative forms of worship, both communal and personally meaningful, to draw us spiritually closer to God, Torah, and each other, Am Yisrael (the Jewish people).
We promote lifelong learning and spiritual enrichment for all through abundant and varied opportunities for Jewish study.
Our diversity is our strength. We welcome congregants of all backgrounds and attributes. We encourage family members from other faith traditions to join our community and participate on a level that is consistent with Jewish values and comfortable for them.
We participate in Tikkun Olam (repairing our world) by responding to the varied needs of our own Jewish community, to K'lal Yisrael(the world-wide Jewish community), to Eretz Yisrael (the State of Israel), and to our greater civic community.
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Congregation Sha'aray Shalom turns 60 this year!!
Join us for our year-long celebration – Concerts, Learning, Special Services, Dinners and so much more…!
Synagogue Serving South Shore Jewish Community Marks 60th Anniversary with New Fall Events Open to Public
For six decades, Jewish families up and down the South Shore, hailing from 30 towns along the coast from Boston to Plymouth, have called it their religious and social home.
Now celebrating its 60th anniversary on Main Street in Hingham, and led by Rabbi Shira Joseph and Cantor Steven Weiss, Congregation Sha'aray Shalom this week announced a long list of celebratory programming marking the occasion.
"We have a tradition of an open door which welcomes every family member — Jews by birth, Jews by choice, and non-Jewish family members — and strives to integrate them into our community. As we open our doors to the community in this, our 60th year, our strength draws on our commitment to honor and respect the diversity of our backgrounds," said Rabbi Shira Joseph, the spiritual leader of the temple since 2003.
Affiliated with the Union of Reform Judaism, Congregation Sha'aray Shalom is also home to a vibrant, 110-student religious school helping to serve its 285 family members.
During its 60 years, the synagogue has welcomed all faiths and clergy for special joint services and celebrations as well as vigils during moments of national tragedy.
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Skyfield hands over 160-bed hostel project
Tasks government on housing
Skyfield Property Development Limited has charged the government to evolve a strategy that would enable people own houses.
The company also lamented that due to the poor state of the economy, real estate business has restricted operations to a few companies.
The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Emeka Ikeh, made the disclosure at the handing over of 160-bed hostel in Yaba, Lagos to Mu Delta Gamma Limited.
According to him, "After a successful 12 months test-run/probation period, which commenced December 2015, Skyfield Property Development Limited is now very confident to formal handover the Apartment to Mu-Delta Gamma Limited as it has fully shown itself capable to function as facility manager on its behalf."
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The folks over at Nikon sure were busy earlier this morning with a slew of digital cameras being announced for the masses, where two of them came with DSLR lenses for the avid shutterbug. Apart from that, the new range of revealed digital cameras will also carry a fair number that boasted of integrated Wi-Fi connectivity, with the Nikon Coolpix S5200 making an appearance over at the FCC while picking up the collective nod of approval from them to boot.
It must be noted that Nikon did let loose all of their cards for the Coolpix S5200 as the FCC filing failed to deliver anything new that we are yet to be aware of concerning the digital camera. Well, out of the few Coolpix digital cameras that we talked about today, just which model caught your fancy, and you have your heart as well as mind set on picking one up as a gift for your other half this coming Valentine's Day? These should not really cost you all that much, as none of them are super high end models.


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The FDA says it's safe to use rotavirus vaccines
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday said that it is safe to resume the use of the Rotarix rotavirus vaccine and to continue the use of the RotaTeq rotavirus vaccine. The agency in March had cautioned physicians to stop using Rotarix because the manufacturer had found trace amounts of a pig virus in the vaccine. Both the FDA and the manufacturer of the RotaTeq vaccine then found traces of the pig virus in it as well.
Following extensive studies by the manufacturers and the FDA, however, the agency said there is no risk from the viruses, called porcine circovirus 1 and 2. The viruses do not infect humans and are not known to cause any diseases, either in humans or pigs themselves. Moreover, "the vaccines have strong safety records, including clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients, as well as clinical experience with millions of vaccine recipients."
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday estimated that the vaccines are preventing more than 50,000 hospitalizations of infants in the United States each year. Rotavirus infections, which are thought to kill as many as half a million children worldwide each year, are characterized by diarrhea and severe dehydration. The benefits of the vaccine, the FDA said, far outweigh any risks, which are only theoretical.
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So some of our readers may have heard about the national NAGA tournament that just came to Hartford Ct. But do all of our readers really get the intensity and mental commitment it takes to compete? We aren't talking about a friendly game of ball in the back yard. We are talking about sweating and training for months on end just to hope your technique will beat the others. And for some, the hard work pays off. If you loose or win, its about the dedication and commitment. "NAGA has been a leader of the grappling revolution for many years and has pushed the sport forward by providing a fun and fair environment for athletes and schools to engage in competition to increase their skills and to foster positive and social family-oriented behavior". Todd Hester, Publisher, Gladiator Magazine
Same goes at Dragon Within we will help train students who want to compete get ready. We keep a fun and family friendly environment. We are close with each student like they are part of our Dragon family. Just recently we had one young adult and one adult bjj student go down to Rhode Island to compete. Both of these students brought there "A game". It took a lot of nerve and inspiration for these brave students to compete. We've watched them come early to class and stay late after class almost every day just to get an inch closer to being ready. And it worked. One of our students went for his first tournament and came home with not one but two silver medals. Now that's something to show off. We are very proud of both these students who went down there and were team players even if they didn't win a contest.
It's not always about winning, its about the experience and the knowledge you will gain out of competing. At Dragon Within we take Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to a whole new level with training and building confidence in our students. We instill in students the importance of concentration and respect. These things are key to every becoming a great competitor. So if your looking to compete, or even just to train and learn Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Dragon Within has what it takes to teach any student what it takes.
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Amazon review also here.
For me, this was a fantastic read. But there's two things to think about before picking this up:
1. It's written in second person (When I saw YOU), and that's a little jarring. This is honestly the first story I've read in second person that wasn't written by a first grader. I would've preferred first person, but, well, we can't always get what we want.
2. That dark, nameless presence thing is more a symbol than a part of the book. So if you're (Second person, I'm so clever) looking for a supernatural/paranormal book, it's more supernormal than paranatural.
If those two things are okay, then definitely, read this. Basically, this is a story about the narrator dealing with her father as he's sick and dying and can't do much for himself. Most of the story is told through flashbacks of the narrator living with her dad or dealing with her siblings (who show up for his dying time as well) and all those dramatic family dynamics like a sitcom's Thanksgiving episode.
Maybe that's not the best holiday since this is set in the UK. But it's not all bangers and trainers; even if you're unlucky enough NOT to be married to a hot Brit, it shouldn't be a problem. (Poor, poor, people)
Full disclosure, I work in end of life care, and people react to their loved ones dying in different ways. Some people that read this might think that the family is apathetic, cold, unrealistic, but in my experience, that's a common way to grieve when the death is slow and drawn out. Families grieve in different ways. This book doesn't the kind of heartwarming, friendly advice like a televangelist saying all is well, but focuses on a different, troubled family and how they deal with it. And the depiction of these people and how they deal with it is the most real I've seen yet.
There's more inspirational, life-changing books about the dying process out there, but for one with a less happy tone that realistically shows the way a broken family deals with the passing of the glue that held them together, read this one.


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Are you done setting up your Google My Business account but still find it difficult to reach the top spot for your target keywords? Plenty of other local businesses finds themselves facing the same problem. Instead of simply waiting it out in the hopes of magically attracting more customers, you need to start taking action to gain an edge over the competition. And even if you manage to reach the first page, you must be able to stand out from the rest. There's no better way to do this than by providing all essential details of your business, including a map to let people know where your business can be found.
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It's not all bankruptcies and lost government loans in the world of electric cars. Beneath the headlines about hard times for the companies, there's a steady trickle of customers buying electric cars, charging stations being built, and at least one electric car company eking out a profit for the first time. The following charts point to some bright spots for electric cars in 2013.
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We received our Model S last month. 800 of the most satisfying miles I've ever driven! it is everything that we hoped it would be! And since we offset most of our power bill with our solar panels, charging the Model S is costing us less than $0.02/mi!
We Received our Tesla Model S for Christmas. Fully paid for by buying Tesla stock at the IPO and selling it to pay for the Model S. This car has been the most perfect machine we have owned. It is clean, efficient, rides like a dream, and will blow the doors off anything else on the road. Lesson learned: Don't judge Tesla until you have driven one!
Thank you Rani
I hope we all get to enjoy this great new technology, as the sales go up the prices come down.
Yes I want a Tesla S.
Is there an explanation for the curious Tesla S numbers selling exactly 1600 each month?
Tesla does not report monthly numbers so most/all charts that compare monthly numbers make estimates based on quarterly numbers and media reports of production levels.
For first quarter Tesla produced 4750 cars. Production target for 2013 is 20,000 cars, or 5,000 a quarter or about 1,700 a month.
Given that the total number of EVs on the road is increasing faster than the rate of petro-powered cars, I would say, yes, the valuation of the EV industry as a whole is increasing. It's not like no dotcoms went out of business while Google and Amazon and others skyrocketed, so mentioning two EV (and technically, Fisker isn't an EV, it's a plug-in hybrid) failures hardly indicts the entire industry, especially when they were poorly managed, and not indicative of the industry itself.
But even if you want more definitive evidence, given than Tesla's market valuation has increased by more than the decrease in the two companies you mention, then yes, overall the value of the three companies has increased.
The EV train has left the station, and it won't be stopped by people who insist on clinging to obsolete technology.
is the valuation of fisker going up? how about coda? how about the valuation of the EV "industry" as a whole?
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My day job involves implementing Business Intelligence (BI) solutions which, as I have said before, is simply about giving people the information they need to do their jobs. I'm always interested in learning about new ways of achieving that aim and that is my motivation for writing blog entries that are not concerned with SQL or SQL Server per se.
Implementing BI systems usually involves hacking together a bunch third party products with some in-house "glue" and delivering information using some shiny, expensive web-based front-end tool; the list of vendors that supply such tools is big and ever-growing. No doubt these tools have their place and of late I have started to wonder whether they can be supplemented with different ways of delivering information.
The problem I have with these separate web-based tools is exactly that – they are separate web-based tools. What's the problem with that you might ask? I'll explain! They force the information worker to go somewhere unfamiliar in order to get the information they need to do their jobs. Would it not be better if we could deliver information into the tools that those information workers are already using and not force them to go somewhere else?
I look at the rise of blogging over recent years and I realise that what made them popular is that people can subscribe to RSS feeds and have information pushed to them in their tool of choice rather than them having to go and find the information for themselves in a tool that has been foisted upon them. Would it not be a good idea to adopt the principle of subscription for the benefit of delivering BI information as well? I think it would and in the rest of this blog entry I'll outline such a scenario where the power of subscription could be used to enhance the delivery of information to information workers.
Typical questions that information workers ask might be:
Each of those questions includes a time element and that shouldn't surprise us, any BI system that I have worked on includes the dimension of time. Now, what do people use to view and organise their time-oriented information? Its not a trick question, they use a calendar and in the enterprise space more often than not that calendar is managed using Outlook.
Given then that information workers are already looking at their calendar in Outlook anyway would it not make sense then to deliver information into that same calendar? Of course it would. Calendars are a great way of visualising information such as sales figures. Observe:
Just in this single screenshot I have managed to convey a multitude of information. The information worker can see, at a glance, information about hourly/daily/weekly/monthly sales and, moreover, he/she is viewing that information right inside the tool that they use every day. There is no effort on the part of him/her, the information just appears hour after hour, day after day. Taking the idea further, each one of those calendar items could be a mini-dashboard in its own right. Double-clicking on an item could show a plethora of other information about that time slot such as breaking the sales down per region or year-over-year comparisons. Perhaps the title could employ a sparkline? Loads of possibilities. The point is that calendars are a completely natural way to visualise information; we should make more use of them!
The real beauty of delivering information using calendars for us BI developers is that it should be so easy. In the case of Outlook we don't need to write complicated VBA code that can go and manipulate a person's calendar, simply publishing data in a format that Outlook can understand is sufficient and happily such formats already exist; iCalendar is the accepted format and the even more flexible xCalendar is hopefully on its way as well.
I'd like to make one last point and this one is with my SQL Server hat on. Reporting Services 2008 R2 introduced the ability to publish data as subscribable Atom feeds so it seems logical that it could also be a vehicle for delivering calendar feeds too. If you think this would be a good idea go and vote for it at Publish data as iCalendar feeds and please please please add some comments (especially if you vote it down).
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This is a such great idea. I bet you could refine it too so that the feed is tailored to a specific individual/department/etc, much like you would do for a data driven subscription.
Great post. Consider this up-voted!
Nice Idea, upvoted :)
Jamie, this is a really interesting idea. It feels like there could be a useful connection to smart phones in a similar way.
There is something I would like to add, though. People are in web browsers all day long -- it's Facebook, it's weather, it's blogs...
I look at a browser more than a calendar, but maybe the issue is more that reporting platforms do not work by any standard so the user experience is always different and usually kind of awful.
Marco Russo got me reading books by Stephen Few and it was the missing link in BI for me. Here is his post on it --> http://sqlblog.com/blogs/marco_russo/archive/2010/03/02/do-more-with-less-the-missing-feature-in-excel-services.aspx
Defintely pick up Few's book on Dashboards. The information worker needs the most amount of information packed into the smallest place possible and it's not just the right numbers.
I am totally on board with delivering information in-band as much as possible, and directly to the person who can do something about it. When we had exception reports, they were always emailed to the person who can fix them, sent on behalf of the person whom it would cause the problem. Where possible the data was in the email, and did not require a visit to the report on a web page.
Instead of people being required to use reports to carry out their work, I preferred the data driving a workflow interface so that the user can make informed decisions on the data in one place, not having to synthesize multiple reports and determine what to work on.
Calendars (and appointments) are great for getting stuff in front of the users at the right time. Another place I've done it is in the timeclock (it's not just for tracking time any more) and getting CRM data in front of people taking calls in your call center and technical support application - staff birthdays and other useful information about customers right when they are answering the phone (open calls, problem rates). It's a lot easier to keep a customer happy when it sounds like you know all about the calls they've been making to the help desk all week - and a great tech support rep can REALLY help your company reputation by getting closure on multiple open issues.
Because, for me, the decision support which is really the most important to your company is at this level. A lot of the BI which goes to executives is too gross and too late to make a difference.
I think that the first problem is to figure out how the end user would construct their information pizza and find the ingredients of that pizza in the black hole of information, that is the sad picture of how it works today in most organizations.
I think that this is the first issue that needs to be solved before you can place information/data fragments in a calendar.
Sorry for being negative but I think that information discovery comes first.
I never said anything to the contrary and I'm not advocating we all go out and surface something in a calendar without being concerned about the validity of that data. Yes, data in enterprises is terribly silo'd and that problem needs solving, however we shouldn't not think about how we're going to deliver information and make it actionable.
I agree Jamie. If you have e nice subscription model where end users can select what they would like to see in the calendar you idea is great.
To my mind the most interesting piece of news to come out of the recent PASS conference was the unveiling
Three weeks ago I published a blog post Get the SQLBits agenda in your phone's calendar where I said:
I don't talk about data visualisation ( #dataviz ) much on this blog because, well, because its not something
Wow. I was just looking at doing this and wondering if the ICS file format was the way to go. Screenshot made me a believer.
Three days ago I posted What would a cloud-based ETL tool look like? where I wondered out loud about
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ive been away from the site for a few months, but to me there seems to be a change taking place. Looking at the videos etc, there seems to be less normal bowed psalterys, more other members of the family. Also where there are B S being played, it must be double bowed. As some one who plays a standard B S and not up to the high standard most of you are. It makes me feel out of place. When I first started on here there were lots of videos of people just playing for the fun of it. Happy simple times.
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Back in the early 1970's I had a little Kelicheck Bowed Psaltery. I could play "Greensleeves", "Ode to Joy","The Ashgrove", etc. When I went out and played in public one of the first questions someone asked me about it was "Can you play it with two bows? Ellen Yeoman of Mixolydian Music,Summerland CA was building what today has become the more standard size BP and was the only other person playing them I knew. So I asked her if she had tried it. She showed me "Chopsticks"! I like to tell folks about her to show I'm not the first to play it that way, just one of the first Bowed Psaltery players to own two bows. The Yetties' Pete Shutler still stands out as a pioneer, his "King of the Fairies" and "Beau Psaltery" and others were played beautifully with only one bow required. I personally play more often with one bow because while I play for people I like to stroll and play. When I play with two bows I used to use a tripod but it bothered me that people thought it had to be played that that way. The double back on my "Dave's" BP works good when I lap it. It has 34 strings with the highest note 2 E's above middle C so not nearly as high scaled as most and down to G below C below middle C so I have more low notes than most and a bigger box but nothing that fancy. In the near future I will be putting up some videos on Psaltery Strings and I'll start with some fun one bow tunes. Our Japanese friends are working with some big psalteries with impressive technique. Betty Fingerring's Violin-Zither might seem strange but is a direct relation to the Bowed Psaltery showing we are a living musical tradition. I hope in the future some Ukelin players will join us as well. But beyond all that we shouldn't lose track that its a fun instrument to play a simple tune in a simple way.
Thanks for the reply. I've followed the yetties for many years and seen them many times live. And it was after seeing them back in the seventies I fell in love with the bs. And bought one shortly after. And love that haunting sound. And pete has always been my idol. I'll stick to one bow.
Hi Bob, I think the majority of folks still single bow and just for fun. Sometimes folks like to progress or change up so that's when you're going to start seeing the fancier playing and innovation to the instrument itself.
Change can be a little unsettling at times but it is inevitable, however, I don't think you need feel out of place, the single bowed, simple music is here to stay and the "fun" of playing is what it's all about. The bowed psaltery is an instrument for everyone to enjoy!


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