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Friday, September 28, 2012
Dick at Nite - Feat. Ian Terry - Part 2 - 8-26-12 #BB14
This is Part #2 of the Dick at Nite episode featuring Ian. You can read my recap of Part #1 here. I am ready for a vacation from Evel Dick, but his intro to this show still kicks ass. You can see it for yourself here. Prepare to chair dance.
1. When we come back, Ian is mid-sentence. (Dick needs the services of an editor, and also a lighting specialist. He looks like he is in Witness Protection in the picture above.) Apparently Dick asked him about the new computer he just bought. Ian said it was his first purchase since the game ended and is a PC. He likes the Mac products, but doesn't want to "learn to use the new shit." Dick starts telling stories about himself and the blue screens on his PC computers, of course. He threw his last PC into the pool in his apartment complex in North Hollywood. He's an Apple guy now, apparently.
Dick accuses Ian of hating Willie, but Ian says that is actually not true. Ian said that he didn't like that Willie was going to nominate him before Mike Boogie won the Coach's Comp and protected him, but says they approached each other as two outsiders and were willing to work together. Ian told him that he would not nominate him, and as long as Frank or Shane didn't win HoH they could work together. Ian didn't like that Willie squandered an opportunity that other people would have killed for.
***continue reading after the jump***
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Wil Completes His Trilogy #BB14
Last night Wil Heuser released Part #3 of his BB14 Trilogy series. It really is amazing how he plays all of the characters and edits them together. In this part, Mike Boogie makes an appearance and Ashley is trashed. Shane never speaks. The Chenbot blows a fuse!
But first..Wil has just launched a new website...visit him and get ready to laugh.
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PPTP is a secure tunnel for transporting IP traffic using PPP. PPTP encapsulates PPP in virtual lines that run over IP. PPTP incorporates PPP and MPPE (Microsoft Point to Point Encryption) to make encrypted links. The purpose of this protocol is to make well-managed secure connections between routers as well as between routers and PPTP clients (clients are available for and/or included in almost all OSs including Windows).
Multilink PPP (MP) is supported in order to provide MRRU (the ability to transmit full-sized 1500 and larger packets) and bridging over PPP links (using Bridge Control Protocol (BCP) that allows to send raw Ethernet frames over PPP links). This way it is possible to setup bridging without EoIP. The bridge should either have an administratively set MAC address or an Ethernet-like interface in it, as PPP links do not have MAC addresses.
PPTP includes PPP authentication and accounting for each PPTP connection. Full authentication and accounting of each connection may be done through a RADIUS client or locally.
MPPE 40bit RC4 and MPPE 128bit RC4 encryption are supported.
PPTP traffic uses TCP port 1723 and IP protocol GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation, IP protocol ID 47), as assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). PPTP can be used with most firewalls and routers by enabling traffic destined for TCP port 1723 and protocol 47 traffic to be routed through the firewall or router.
PPTP connections may be limited or impossible to setup though a masqueraded/NAT IP connection. Please see the Microsoft and RFC links listed below for more information.
PPTP Client
/interface pptp-client
|add-default-route (yes | no; Default: no)
|Whether to add PPTP remote address as a default route.
|allow (mschap2 | mschap1 | chap | pap; Default: mschap2, mschap1, chap, pap)
|Allowed authentication methods.
|connect-to (IP; Default: )
|Remote address of PPTP server
|dial-on-demand (yes | no; Default: no)
|disabled (yes | no; Default: yes)
|Whether interface is disabled or not. By default it is disabled
|max-mru (integer; Default: 1460)
|Maximum Receive Unit. Max packet size that PPTP interface will be able to receive without packet fragmentation.
|max-mtu (integer; Default: 1460)
|Maximum Transmission Unit. Max packet size that PPTP interface will be able to send without packet fragmentation.
|mrru (disabled | integer; Default: disabled)
|Maximum packet size that can be received on the link. If a packet is bigger than tunnel MTU, it will be split into multiple packets, allowing full size IP or Ethernet packets to be sent over the tunnel.
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|name (string; Default: )
|Descriptive name of the interface.
|password (string; Default: "")
|Password used for authentication.
|profile (name; Default: default-encryption)
|Used PPP profile.
|user (string; Default: )
|User name used for authentication.
Quick example
This example demonstrates how to set up PPTP client with username "pptp-hm", password "123" and server 10.1.101.100
[admin@dzeltenais_burkaans] /interface pptp-client>add name=pptp-hm user=pptp-hm password=123 \ \... connect-to=10.1.101.100 disabled=no [admin@dzeltenais_burkaans] /interface pptp-client> print detail Flags: X - disabled, R - running 0 name="pptp-hm" max-mtu=1460 max-mru=1460 mrru=disabled connect-to=10.1.101.100 user="pptp-hm" password="123" profile=default-encryption add-default-route=no dial-on-demand=no allow=pap,chap,mschap1,mschap2
PPTP Server
/interface pptp-server
This sub-menu shows interfaces for each connected PPTP clients. If interface is not explicitly added, it will appear as dynamic interface.
Server configuration
/interface pptp-server server
Monitor command can be used to monitor status of the tunnel on both client and server.
[admin@dzeltenais_burkaans] /interface pptp-client> monitor 0 status: "connected" uptime: 7h24m18s idle-time: 6h21m4s encoding: "MPPE128 stateless" mtu: 1460 mru: 1460
Read-only properties
|status ()
|Current PPTP status. Value other than "connected" indicates that there are some problems estabising tunnel.
|uptime (time)
|Elapsed time since tunnel was established.
|idle-time (time)
|Elapsed time since last activity on the tunnel.
|encoding ()
|Used encryption method
|mtu (integer)
|Negotiated and used MTU
|mru (integer)
|Negotiated and used MRU
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As a young digital professional, you are curious, eager to learn and to develop your knowledges in various technologies. We are looking for an hybrid profile offering a good mix of technical and functional skills. The technical skills are important but the understanding of business will be a big part of the daily work. A good analytic mindset along with curiosity and an interest in continuous learning is required. The job is not programming but adapting a product to the customer needs by using out of the box customization and custom development. Depending on your interest, you will have the opportunity to develop yourselve within the CRM technical track or continue your career within other domains of our digital expertise practice (Customer Engagement, DeVops and Web & Mobile development).
Business & Decision (B&D) is an international consulting, management and systems integration group which answers business needs by being a trusted partner for digital and data transformation. As part of the Orange group, B&D provide a full digital package to our clients: collaborative working methods, optimized performance of information systems and 360° customer relations all by harnessing the power of data.
To do this, B&D has 4 strategic offers to differentiate from our competitors:
B&D values excellence, respect and modesty from all our employees and we look for the following skills in candidates:
These values are found throughout the B&D organization from Managing Director down and that's why B&D are certified as a Top Employer in Belgium for our "people-first" best practices in HR.
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The Inflatable 5k is coming to Cheltenham on the 14th of September 2019! The UK's best Inflatable obstacle course has got even bigger, bouncier and more incredible.
We now have up to 15 mega-sized obstacles in 2019, making this the biggest Inflatable 5k obstacle event ever created.
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Interoperability and data integration are essential to every aspect of hotel operations — but an overburdened IT infrastructure can lead to fragmented systems and data silos.
The end result can be inefficiencies, frustration, impaired customer experiences and lost revenue.
In a competitive, data-heavy industry, hotels must prioritize IT performance.
With the wealth of data available from property management systems, CRM systems, call centers, mobile apps and more, hotels have access to business intelligence like never before. While this is a great advantage, it also can cause problems for hotels that aren't investing in IT system performance.
It's important to understand how the architecture and interoperability of IT systems are impacting the value and usability of that business intelligence. IT systems must be able to collect data from multiple, wide-ranging sources; process, store and manage that data, and; share the data and its insights within the organization.
Hotel Voice-activated Technologies Grow Louder WIth Angie's Acquisition of Roxy
As voice-activated technology continues to gain adoption amongst hoteliers, the competitive landscape of digital assistant solution providers just became a little more consolidated. That's because Angie Hospitality has completed its purchase of the assets of Roxy, a competing provider of speech-enabled digital assistant technology specifically designed for hotels.
It was less than two years ago that the Seattle-based startup announced that it had secured $2.2 million in seed funding following a successful pilot at a dozen west coast hotels. Billed as a fully customizable in-room concierge, the voice commands that Roxy could handle were geared towards the same questions that would prompt a guest to call the front desk to get answers. Over time, the range of Roxy's response system became increasingly sophisticated.
How Hotels Can Spring Clean Their Information Security Policies Ahead of the Summer Travel Season
Summer is without a doubt the busiest travel season of the year – last year 42 million Americans traveled on Memorial Day weekend alone. With a significant number of vacationers checking in and out of hotels every day, it's essential that hotels ensure their information security policies are in place to protect their customers.
Hotels and hospitality companies have faced a slew of cybersecurity breaches over the past few years, and guests are taking notice – in fact, 77% of Americans say that data protection is important to them when deciding which hotel to book. Given this consumer sentiment, it's crucial that hotels take a proactive approach to security ahead of the summer months. But with cybersecurity a main focus for many hotels and hospitality companies, it's easy to forget about the more common threats – specifically physical information security. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of people walking in and out of a hotel on any given day, and this constant turnover makes physical security a major risk for hotels.
Shockingly, nearly a third of hotels (32%) admitted they currently have no known policy for storing and disposing of documents.
How AI-Powered Hotel Messaging Helps Fuel the Guest Journey
Friction is desirable in many circumstances. Land vehicles, for example, need friction in order to accelerate and decelerate. When it comes to guest satisfaction, however, friction is rarely desirable and hotels strive to put the brakes on any friction that may impede or otherwise negatively affect the guest experience. Guests may experience friction in their interactions and transactions with a hotel across all parts of the property, all touchpoints and all phases of the guest journey.
The guest journey is the record of every interaction and transaction, both digital and in-person, that a guest has with the hotel throughout the entire course of their stay. Hoteliers have become increasingly focused on tracking and analyzing the guest journey, from the moment the guest first steps foot in the hotel lobby to the time they check out of the property.
Arguably, the guest journey begins much earlier, at the point when a guest first sets out to research and explore their stay options and on through the booking process. An argument can be made that the guest journey continues even after they check out of the hotel.
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February 16, 2017|3:57 p.m.| Andy Baker-White
On Feb. 21, CDC will implement newly revised rules for issuing federal public health orders (e.g., orders for quarantine, isolation, or conditional release) for both domestic and foreign travel. CDC revised the rules to improve and clarify its role in preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases in the United States.
The new rules are intended to complement the power and authority of states to respond to communicable diseases. This summary of key provisions is aimed at assisting ASTHO's members in gaining a deeper understanding of the revised rule.
Federal, State, and Local Roles and Relationships
The revisions to CDC's rules are meant to apply to all travelers in the United States and are intended to be part of a comprehensive federal, state, and local public health system. With regards to the jurisdictional relationships, CDC retains the authority to take measures to prevent the interstate spread of communicable diseases when it is determined that state or local actions are insufficient. Also, a new provision requires pilots of domestic flights to report any onboard deaths or ill persons directly to the CDC instead of to the local health authority.
In its overview of public comments to the rule changes, CDC recognizes the need for coordination with states when transferring a person who is under a federal public health order to state custody, taking into account the state's willingness to assume custody. If a state assumes custody of an individual, the state may conduct its own independent assessment of the individual state policies and procedures. Also, once custody is transferred, state law and standards of due process will apply to the individual.
Based on the underlying statutory authority, new provisions clarify CDC's ability to conduct non-invasive, public health prevention measures (e.g., inspection, fumigation, disinfection, sanitation, pest extermination, etc.) to detect the presence of communicable diseases at United States airports, seaports, railway stations, bus terminals, and other locations used to gather people for interstate travel. The prevention measures may also require providing contact information such as United States and foreign addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, information about a person's intended destination, health status, known or possible exposure history, and travel history. These new provisions apply broadly to communicable diseases and are not limited to the "quarantinable communicable diseases" as specified by a presidential executive order and which form the basis for issuing federal public health orders.
Apprehension of Individuals with Case or Suspected Case of Quarantinable Communicable Disease
In regards to domestic travel, the revised rules clarify when the CDC Director can apprehend, medically examine, quarantine, isolate, or conditionally release a person in order to prevent the introduction, transmission, and spread of a quarantinable communicable disease, as specified by a presidential executive order. Quarantinable communicable diseases are currently limited to cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis (TB), plague, smallpox, yellow fever, and viral hemorrhagic fevers (such as Marburg, Ebola, Lassa fever, and Crimean-Congo), severe acute respiratory syndromes, and influenza caused by novel or re-emergent influenza viruses that are causing or have the potential to cause a pandemic. See Executive Order 13295 (April 4, 2003), as amended by Executive Order 13375 (April 1, 2005) and Executive Order 13674 (July 31, 2014).
Apprehension, medical examination, quarantine, isolation, or conditional release may occur when, with reasonable belief, a person is infected and within a qualifying stage of a quarantinable communicable disease and is in the process of moving from one state to another. Action from the CDC Director may also occur if a person is infected and within a qualifying stage of a quarantinable communicable disease and is a probable source of infection to others who may be moving from state to state. A new provision requires the CDC Director to arrange ancillary support for a person under a federal public health order (e.g., adequate food and water, appropriate accommodation, appropriate medical treatment, and means of necessary communication).
Issuance of Federal Public Health Order
Within 72 hours of apprehension, the federal order authorizing quarantine, isolation, or conditional release must be served to the individual or group. The order must set out the factual basis, provide notice that the order will be reassessed, and provide notice of the rights to request a medical review. Translation or interpretive services are also to be provided as needed.
Mandatory Reassessment of Federal Public Health Order
A mandatory reassessment of the federal public health order must occur no later than 72 hours of the order being served with translation or interpretative services being provided. The reassessment is a review of the records considered when issuing the order, as well as any new information. It provides an opportunity to consider and determine whether less restrictive alternatives would protect the public's health and concludes with the order being continued or rescinded. If the order continues, the apprehended individual has the right to request a medical review. Translation or interpretive services are to be provided as needed.
Medical Review of the Federal Public Health Order
A person under a federal public health order may request a medical review after the order's mandatory reassessment. The medical review is used to determine whether there is reasonable belief that the individual is infected with a quarantinable communicable disease in a qualifying stage. At the review, medical and other evidence may be presented and recommendations are issued as to whether the order should be continued, modified, or rescinded. The person under the order has the right to present witnesses and testimony, and be represented by an advocate (e.g., an attorney, family member, or physician) at one's own expense. If a person is indigent, he or she is entitled to both medical and legal representatives who are appointed at the government's expense. Translation or interpretive services are also to be provided as needed.
Payment for Care and Treatment
Payment for the care and treatment of individuals subject to federal public health orders may be authorized by CDC. Payment is at CDC's discretion, subject to available funds, and CDC is to be the payer of last resort. Payment for quarantinable communicable diseases should cover costs from the time the person is referred to a hospital or medical facility to when the order expires. Payment for other diseases is limited to the time between the referral and the diagnosis of the condition as an illness other than a quarantinable communicable disease.
Rescinding a Federal Public Health Order
In the overview of the public comments, CDC touches on the procedures to be used to rescind a federal public health order. CDC indicates that it would issue a written order rescinding the isolation, quarantine, or conditional release to the detained individual. The rescission would be based on either the individual no longer posing a public health threat or the individual being transferred to the custody of a state or local public health authority.
To see all revisions, the final rule, and CDC's reply to public comments regarding the proposed revisions, please click here.
Disclaimer: The legal information provided above does not constitute legal advice or legal representation. For legal advice, please consult your legal counsel.
Andy Baker-White, JD, MPH, is senior director of state health policy at ASTHO.
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Clarksville Parks and Recreation's new Fly Fishing program for youth and teens has a few spots left
Clarksville, TN – Do you like fishing? Are you interested in aquatic environments? Clarksville Parks and Recreation has teamed up with the National Fishing in Schools Program to offer a class in basic fly fishing and spots are still available!
Class will be held at the Crow Community Center on Thursdays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm, March 20th through April 10th, and is open to grades 6-12.The cost of the class is $10.00 per person, along with $5.00 Center ID. Space is available but limited, so sign up now at recpro.cityofclarksville.com.
Registration can also be completed at any of our three community centers as well as our main office, located at 102 Public Square.
The National Fishing in Schools Program educates participants about fish, insects, aquatic environments, resource stewardship and conservation using fishing, and learning the skills of casting.
This program will make learning the skills of fishing fun and easy. What makes this class unique is the use of the CasTarget system, which uses photorealistic targets. This will help participants better visualize the target, and gain a better sense of fishing.
For more information on Fly Fishing, contact Clarksville Parks and Recreation at 931.645.7476 or visit www.cityofclarksville.com .
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Benro Aluminium Tripods
Benro are an extremely popular China based manufacturer of high quality photo and video tripods & heads designed and built for professional photographers and filmmakers.
The range or Benro aluminium tripods includes both photo and video tripods, depending on your individual needs. Built from lightweight aluminium, they are more affordable than their carbon fibre brothers, and offer outstanding stability and durability, no matter what camera kit you're mounting on it.
Whether you're looking for a compact travel tripod, a studio tripod, a heavyweight video tripod for a broadcast video camera, or a mid-range everyday aluminium tripod, Benro have the range and choice to meet the needs of all photographers and videographers the world over.
At Park Cameras we offer Benro tripods either on their own (legs only) or as a kit with a variety of heads, including ball heads for everyday use, landscape photography etc, or fluid video heads for shooting smooth video. No matter what your unique requirements, you can choose from the range of Benro aluminium tripods online or visit our expert staff in store where we have a range on display for you to see and try out.


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IEEE Denver Section Executive Committee Officer Nominations and Elections
For more information about the current nomination process and coming election process, click here.
2021 IEEE GreenTech Conference and Region 5 Annual Meeting
Denver Section will be again hosting the GreenTech & R5 Annual Meeting in 2021. The Students Robotics Competition is an exciting part of the the R5 Annual Meeting. The Conference Organizing Committee is forming up if you'd like to be involved in making this great fun conference happen, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
2019 – 2020 Section Officers Elections
We didn't have any new candidates stand for Section Officers. Fortunately James Sipes has stepped up to continue as the Section Treasurer and Santosh Veda has stepped up to continue as Section Secretary. Jason Rupe, our Vice Chair / Chair Elect will takeover as Section Chair on Jan. 1 2019. We are continuing to look… Read more
IEEE Presidents Forum
The video of the forum is now available on the IEEE Presidents Forum Website. See Jim Jefferies – IEEE President, Jose Moura – IEEE President Elect and Steve Welby – IEEE Executive Director talk about their vision for the IEEE and respond to the Q&A form members. The forum was a great opportunity to interact with… Read more
IEEE GreenTech 2021 Conference Organizing Committee Formed
IEEE Denver Section is developing a proposal for hosting GreenTech 2021. See https://ieeegreentech.org/ for more information on this annual conference. If you are interested in getting involved, contact Ian MacMillan (email@example.com).
IEEE Globecom 2022 Conference Organizing Committee Formed
IEEE Denver Communications Society and IEEE Denver Section are developing a proposal for hosting Globecom 2022. If you are interested in getting involved, contact Tim Weil (email@example.com).
2018 IEEE Denver Section Call for Nominations
2018 IEEE Denver Section Call for Nominations
IEEE Day 2 October 2018 – Call for Ambassadors
IEEE Day 2018 is just around the corner on 2 October 2018. The team is looking for interested individuals to serve as IEEE Day Ambassadors for this year's festivities. As of right now, the team does not have any Ambassadors designated from the US. Please be sure to promote this opportunity to your members and… Read more
IEEE Future Leaders Forum
Lanbing Shan, our Dine & Learn Co-ordinator has been selected to represent Denver Section at the IEEE Future Leaders Forum at the end of July in Austin, TX.
New Student Projects Funded
At the Section ExCom meeting on May 15th, two new university student were funded: Guatemala Global Health Project The Last Resort Emergency System The students have been asked to present their results at an upcoming Dine & learn.


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Consider Lenovo's 21.5-inch IdeaCentre B320 all-in-one the smaller, more affordable counterpart to the well-reviewed B520 from last fall. The B320 does not have a 3D-capable display like the 23-inch B520, but the core features--a touch screen, a discrete graphics card, and a fast CPU for its price range--help the $949 IdeaCentre B320 retain some of the higher-end model's character.
The problem is HP's nontouch $999 Omni 220. Yes, that system costs $50 more, but it offers a larger screen, a Blu-ray drive, and better performance. The IdeaCentre B320's massive 2TB hard drive might offset those differences for data hoarders. For everyone else, the IdeaCentre B320 doesn't offer enough to overcome the HP's advantages.
The design of the IdeaCentre B320 hews closely to that of the B520. On both systems, a piano-black bezel frames the display, which sits on top of a cleft, angular speaker bar. Unlike the B520's edge-to-edge glass, the B320's display is recessed into the bezel. Aesthetically the look isn't that different, but functionally the recessed display makes it a bit harder to fit your finger in the B320's corners for touch input.
Touch input is one feature that distinguishes the B320 from HP's Omni 220. I still don't find touch a crucial desktop feature, but you might if you intend to use one of these PCs as a home entertainment kiosk. The Lenovo uses surface acoustic wave touch (SAW) technology, the same as that in Samsung's Series 7 all-in-one. It requires you to press down a bit harder than with resistive or capacitive touch screens, but the accuracy is good once the screen registers your input.
Lenovo's touch software suite is a piecemeal assortment of programs. You get VeriTouch, which uses pattern drawing for system authentication, the App Space media player, and QuickNotes note-taking program, among others. They're all fine, but they exist mostly as accessory applications. You might use them on occasion, but for better or for worse, Lenovo has no full-fledged touch operating environment like HP's TouchSmart software.
The benefits of the TouchSmart software aren't a factor against the B320, given that that Omni 220 has no touch screen. You could try to configure a TouchSmart 420 to match the B320, but squaring up the features between the two systems pushes the 420's price above $1,000.
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|21.5-inch, 1,920x1,080
|23-inch, 1,920x1,080
|23-inch, 1,920x1,080
|2.5GHz Intel Core i5 2500S
|2.8GHz Intel Core i7 2600S
|3.3GHz Intel Core i3 2120
|8GB 1,333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
|6GB 1,333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
|4GB 1,333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
|1GB AMD Radeon HD 6450A
|1GB AMD Radeon HD 6450A
|Embedded 64MB Intel HD Graphics 1000
|Hard drives
|2TB, 7,200 rpm
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|dual-layer DVD burner
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|Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n wireless
|Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n wireless
|Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n wireless
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|Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
|Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
|Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
Stay within the sub-$1,000 price point, and you'll see that the IdeaCentre B320 offers a competitive system for $899, but the head-to-head matchup against the Omni 220 isn't so cut and dry.
The Lenovo's advantages are its lower price, more RAM, and a larger hard drive. The HP costs more, but it has a faster CPU, a larger display, and a Blu-ray drive. For an extra $50, you can also add HDMI input to the HP, which significantly improves its utility as a home entertainment hub.
The Lenovo is actually a pretty good deal compared with the Acer Z5571 and other $899 all-in-ones, but with the likes of HP's Omni 220 out there, you can spend just a little bit more for a more capable alternative. The Lenovo's primary draw may be its capacious 2TB of hard drive storage space.
If your primary interest is an all-in-one PC that's fast enough and offers a lot of local media storage, Lenovo has a pretty good deal here. As long as the Omni 220 stays within reasonable price range of the Lenovo, HP's unit with its larger display and Blu-ray drive is a better deal if you want an all-in-one to act as a home media hub.
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Hi everyone! I'm here with a card for the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge.
This week, the challenge theme is PICTURE PERFECT based on this inspiration picture.
Here is my card —
I started this card with a standard size card with the fold on top using Neenah Desert Storm card stock. I adhered a panel of patterned paper from Basic Grey's Fresh Cuts 6×6 pad. I also cut a strip of patterned paper from the same Fresh Cuts pad to adhere to the left side of the card.
For the flowers, I was looking at the free digi section of the Paper Smooches website and I fell in love with these flowers. I immediately printed them and colored them in with various colors of Copic Markers. I attached them with foam tape and accented the center with a clear gem from Hero Arts.
For the sentiment, I used the Pretty Phrases stamp set and stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black ink and clear embossed it for a raised finish.
To finish the card, I adhered some coordinating colors of sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.
For a complete list of all the products I used, please check the supply list below.
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In early April, former Michigan State players Josh King, Donnie Corley, and Demetric Vance enter a guilty plea for a seduction charge for their role in a sexual assault case from January 2017. On Wednesday, a judge issued their sentences in a county court. All three former Spartans have been placed on 36 months of probation and must undergo sex offender treatment, according to Lansing State Journal.
All three must complete 100 hours of community service and are prohibited from using any dating apps. If any of the three men violate the terms of their probation, they will be sent to jail for a 356-day sentence.
The victim had a statement read in the courtroom by an attorney, in which she said she accepted the terms of the plea deal "for the sake of my own mental health." Despite accepting the plea deal, the victim in the case noted a lack in confidence this will have a larger impact to prevent something like this from happening again.
King, Corley, and Vance were all removed from the Michigan State football program last June and were subsequently dismissed by the university. The dismissal was the result of a Title IX investigation.


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My favourite scheme implementation is scheme48, which takes its name from its being initially implemented in 48 hours by Richard Kelsey and Jonathan Rees in August 1986. They used Common Lisp on a Symbolics 3600 and Maclisp on a PDP-10.
Now, thanks to Jonathan Tang's tutorial, you can write yourself a scheme in 48 hours, but using Haskell instead of Lisp. The tutorial is intended as an introduction to Haskell for Schemers (and (brave) programmers in general) wanting to get started in the purest member of the functional family. And it is extremely fun, for instead of following the boring language features overview way, it plunges right on in interesting, hands-on stuff like parser combinators (one of the most beautiful applications of Haskell, if you ask me) or monads. The lessons include exercises, so that you have really no excuse for not learning Haskell once and for all. Believe me, it's good for your (mental) health.
If you're totally new to Haskell and find the pace of Jonathan's tutorial a bit hard to follow, you may start with a tour of the Haskell syntax and the Hitchikers' guide to Haskell, after making sure, of course, that you have your towel at hand. As for me, well i've been planning to learn Haskell for some years now and, since i happen to love books, i have accumulated a little (but selected) Haskell library, together with a sort of learning roadmap that, unfortunately, i have yet to complete. Just in case the above links whetted your appetite and you happen to have more time than i do, here you have my bookworm guide to Haskell enlightenment.
The little Haskeller
There are many introductory Haskell books, but i was (at the time i started learning) keen of those providing also a good basis on functional programming (which was a totally new world for me at the time). Therefore, my first Haskell book, and still a wholehearted recommendation, was Richard Bird and Philip Wadler's Introduction to Functional Programming Using Haskell, one of the most elegant books on programming i've ever read.
One of the nicest things about writing Haskell code is that it's the closest one can probably get to writing pure maths while programming. Thus, learning Haskell is an excellent way to learn more about maths and logic. If that sounds to you like doubling the fun (and you're not yet a math wizard), The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming (see also this extensive review (PDF)) by Jan van Eijck and Kees Doets is definitely the book for you. Its purpose is to teach logic and mathematical reasoning in practice, and to connect logical reasoning with Haskell programming. And, in my opinion, it does a pretty good job at that. Although it begins with the very basics, it includes chapters on far from trivial (i.e., fun!) stuff like, for instace, corecursion or Cantor sets. And i found amazing how natural it was to express logical and mathematical ideas in Haskell.
But maybe you prefer to learn a bit of applied Computer Science, instead of abstract maths, with Haskell. No problem: just grab a copy of Fethi Rabhi and Guy Lapalme's Algorithms, a functional programming approach, which challenges the academic establishment by teaching algorithms using Haskell, that is, in a purely functional context. Revisiting classical (and apparently imperative) algorithms like sorting, tree and graph traversal or dynamic programming methods under a functional light is a refresing experience, and an eye-opener: the fact that all the typical algorithms are covered in just 256 pages is a testament to the authors' claim that functional programming leads to smaller, clearer and more elegant program. Besides, as you probably know, Haskell features lazy evaluation, which poses entirely new (and pretty instructive) challenges when it comes to evaluating the efficiency of an algorithm.
The seasoned haskeller
Once you're comfortable with the language and have learnt all about monads, the best thing to do is to study non-trivial Haskell applications. To that end, you can hardly find a better book than The fun of programming, a Festschrift celebrating Richard Bird's sixtieth birthday. Including thirteen chapters by luminaries in the field, this book describes fun applications on such fun things as musical composition or graphical design, as well as covering advanced programming techniques such as data structures design, interpreters or optimization. Amazing.
I also own a copy of Paul Hudak's The Haskell School of Expression, which is often recommended as as Haskell primer. In my opinion, it goes too quickly into the nitty-gritty details of (music and multimedia) implementations to be a good first book, but it is probably a good second book on Haskell programming. But that's just me: as you can read in the review above, some people have diverging opinions.
The fun never ends…
After all these readings, and a bit more about monads, you'll begin to feel an expert, and may be interested in more advanced stuff. I've got a couple of books reserved for that moment. The first one is The Algebra of Programming, by Richard Bird and Oege de Moor, and its purpose, simply stated, is to show how to calculate programs algebraically using and old friend of ours: category theory, including the bananas that will be the main theme of my second post on these matters. There you'll find and in-depth, abstract treatment of algorithmic strategies with an eye of correctness proofs. Although heavy on theory, there are interesting applications of this algebra of programming, like the conversion between binary and decimal numbers in TeX, the best way of drawing a cylinder in LaTeX or good data compression algorithms. A slight nuisance is that this book uses an old Haskell dialect (a precursor, actually) called Gopher, but the conversion to modern notation is pretty straightforward.
Finally, anyone serious about algorithms and data structures should read Chris Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures, and amazing tour on advanced algorithimcs using functional programming languages, with source code in SML and Haskell. The exposition is extremely elegant and synthetic, and i've spent many, many hours immersed in its 220 pages (i can't think of any other programming book with a better signal to noise ratio, really).
That's it. I just hope that 48-hours days are invented any time soon. Happy reading!


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På Coursera er det også flere historie-relevante kurser på vei. Emnene er antropologi, verdenshistorie, Kinas historie og romersk arkitektur.
«A New History for a New China, 1700-2000: New Data and New Methods, Part 1»
Kurset starter 22. juli 2013 og det varer i 4 uker.
The purpose of this course is to summarize some of the new directions in Chinese history and Chinese social science produced by the discovery and analysis of new historical data, in particular archival documents and datasets, and to organize this knowledge in a framework that encourages learning about China in comparative perspective.
Our course demonstrates how a new scholarship of discovery is redefining what is singular about modern China and modern Chinese history. The current understanding of human history and social theory is based largely on Western experience or on non-Western experience seen through a Western lens. This course offers alternative perspectives derived from Chinese experience during the last three centuries. We present specific case studies of the new scholarship of discovery divided into three independent parts, which means that students can take any Part without prior or subsequent attendance of the other Parts. Part 1 addresses the issue of "Who Gets What" and covers sequentially inequality and education, education and social mobility, social mobility and wealth distribution, and wealth distribution and regime change. Part 2 turns to the related issue of "Who Survives" and includes studies of inequality and population behavior, population behavior and human development, human development and social organization, and social organization and social stratification. Part 3 deals with issues of identification and motivation and presents studies of religion and gender, ethnicity, and nationalism from late imperial times to the present-day.
Our class eschews the standard chronological narrative arc for an analytic approach that focuses on specific discoveries and on how these new facts complicate our understanding of comparative societies, human behavior, and the construction of individual and group identities. That being said, while we do not emphasize the temporal narratives of late imperial, early modern and contemporary China, we of course also discuss change over time as China progresses from a largely domestic imperial history to the shared stories of imperialism and semi colonialism, communism and collectivization, and reform and globalization.
«A Brief History of Humankind»
Kurset starter 11. august 2013 og det varer i 17 uker.
The course surveys the entire length of human history, from the evolution of various human species in the Stone Age up to the political and technological revolutions of the twenty-first century.
About 2 million years ago our human ancestors were insignificant animals living in a corner of Africa. Their impact on the world was no greater than that of gorillas, zebras, or chickens. Today humans are spread all over the world, and they are the most important animal around. The very future of life on Earth depends on the ideas and behavior of our species.
This course will explain how we humans have conquered planet Earth, and how we have changed our environment, our societies, and our own bodies and minds. The aim of the course is to give students a brief but complete overview of history, and to answer some basic historical questions such as:
What is religion?
What is an empire?
What is money?
What is science?
What is capitalism?
Why did almost all societies believe that women are inferior to men?
Does history have a direction?
Did people become happier as history progressed?
And what is the likely future of humankind?
«A History of the World since 1300»
Jeg fulgte dette kurset høsten 2012 og kan varmt anbefale det. Det blir en oppgradert utgave i forhold til siste gang.
Kurset starter 17. september 2013 og varer 12 uker.
This course explores the history of the modern world since Chinggis Khan. It focuses on the connections between societies from the time of the Mongol conquests and the gradual, but accelerating ways in which connections became ties of inter-dependence. The relations between societies are what will concern us. The forces pulling the world together vary from religious to economic, political to intellectual. These forces bring the world together, but they also create new divisions. Nowadays, we call this «globalization.» That term has tended to emphasize the drive to worldwide integration; the view of globalization taken in this course emphasizes disintegration as well as integration. We will tackle some very basic questions: How do we explain the staggering wealth of China in the centuries up to 1750, as well as China's recent ascent? Where did the United States come from, and where is it headed? What are the significance and legacies of empire in the world? How have world wars and revolutions shaped the international system over time? What exactly is globalization, and how does today's globalization compare with the past? How has the relationship between humans and nature changed over the centuries?
«The Future of Humankind»
Kurset starter i desember 2013.
This course will take students on an extraordinary journey – the beginning of a massive transformation of humankind. Nothing remotely like this had ever happened in the billions of years of evolution on Earth. It was enabled by technology, but many other factors were part of its driving force.
Back in 1750, there were no complex machines in use, except for church clocks. There was no power for machines other than primitive windmills, water wheels and the pulleys with weights that drove church clocks.
We have changed amazingly since 1750, but the truly dramatic changes are yet to come. If we get things right, we have the potential to create a Neo-Renaissance, fundamentally different from the Renaissance centered around Florence in the 16th and 17th centuries. Later this century there will be ubiquitous computer power, fully automated factories, and intelligent robots doing most of the jobs that people do today. If implemented in an enlightened way, people will become used to having a large amount of leisure time, and the arts and humanities will flourish.
«Roman Architecture»
Kurset starter i januar 2014 og det varer 15 uker.
Kurset finnes også i en annen utgave på Open Yale Courses.
Roman Architecture is a course for people who love to travel—in actuality and virtually—to a wide variety of places and we will do that together as we explore the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its vast empire in their ancient and contemporary contexts.
This course is an introduction to the great buildings and engineering marvels of Rome and its empire, with an emphasis on urban planning and individual monuments and their decoration, including mural painting. While architectural developments in Rome, Pompeii, and Central Italy are highlighted, the course also provides a survey of sites and structures in what are now North Italy, Sicily, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Croatia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, and North Africa. Many of the learning materials presented in this course will be adapted from the Roman Architecture course Professor Kleiner provided as part of the Open Yale Courses project. The lectures are illustrated with over 1,500 images, many from Professor Kleiner's personal collection.
«Human Evolution: Past and Future»
Kurset starter 21. januar 2014 og det varer 10 uker.
Introduction to the science of human origins, the fossil and archaeological record, and genetic ancestry of living and ancient human populations. The course emphasizes the ways our evolution touches our lives, including health and diet, and explores how deep history may shape the future of our species.
This course covers our evolutionary history across more than seven million years, from our origins among the apes up to the biological changes that are still unfolding today. If you enroll, you'll encounter the evidence for the earliest members of our lineage, as they begin the long pathway to humanity. You'll see how scientists are learning about the diets of ancient people, using microscopic evidence and chemical signatures in ancient teeth. We will explore together the exciting fossil discoveries of the last ten years, which have shaken up our notions of the origin of human culture and our own genus.
Genomics has fundamentally transformed the way we understand our evolution, in many ways opening the direct evidence of our history to anyone. The course will teach you how to look inside the genomes of humans, Neandertals and other ancient people. If you have used personal genomics to get your own genotypes, the course will guide you in connecting genetics to your ancestry among ancient humans.
The course brings a special focus on the rapid evolutionary changes of the last 10,000 years. You'll learn about the consequences of our shift to agriculture, and the ways that people of industrialized nations are still changing today. At the end, we trek forward to anticipate what evolutionary changes may be in store for humanity in the future, using our knowledge of history and scientific understanding to inform our speculations.


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There has been a bit of a row this week about some professional athlete who declined to rise for the national anthem. It seems that he is not a furrin national but is protesting some inequity having to do with the flag?
The furor has been diverse. Some of the media applauds his support of some idea of equity, perhaps even tolerance. Another part of the media is intolerant of his behavior and apparently wants to punish him nastily. The populace is similarly divided with the added factor of being distraught at some or all of the media, quite ignoring that the media is always motivated by money.
This led me to the matter of freedom and thence to democracy. Democracy, of course, like all organizations, including governments, is opposed to freedom. And unlike other forms of government, at least in degree, democracy is self-consuming. The path of democracy is one of preventing the majority from destroying the minority. This obviously has great implications not only for this incident but for the Yankee republic in general as we pursue our death throes as a nation.
I see no reason to restrict freedom except when its practice injures someone else. That's a nice statement that is almost impossible to implement above the personal conscience level. The problem is what constitutes injury. In this instance, we have to ask how remaining seated during a musical performance harms anyone else.
Obviously, all those who protest the act consider themselves injured. So we come down to a matter of measurement. Which organizations are amazing incapable of. Almost all organizational measurement is the lowest of hanging fruit. Difficulty is only executed if survival is blatant. IOW, the teeth of the lion are enumerated only as the jaws close.
There is also the question of help and harm. The act was supposedly motivated to help the minority. So how do we measure the relative merits. How many lollipops distributed to poor children justify one execution?
And why is life imprisonment more acceptable than execution?
And I shan't even touch the nonsense of celebrities.
Humans deserve their self-created Hells.


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The city of Kirov, Russia, has its own fashion icon whose name is Victor Kazakovtsev. He is a former accordionist who is more interested in fashion today. Victor creates different looks from things he buys cheaply in second hand stores.
Some people make fun of him, others consider him to be a style icon. But almost everyone smile looking at him. He looks so unusual and positive in his images.
It reads on his bag: "bourgeois".
Which look do you vote for?
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There was a post made recently by The Weekly Sift titled "Not a Tea Party, A Confederate Party", a post that was sadly featured in the Freshly Pressed section of this site. I tried to comment on the post, but for some reason posting has been disabled. It appears as that the author is unwilling to hear, or allow debate on his outrageous statement. The commenting was disabled, so I was unable to express my views on the subject. However, I cannot allow such despicable lies to go unaddressed.
The Premise of the article is one that we have all heard progressives spew before. That the Tea Party is filled with a bunch of racists. That simply because they oppose the radical actions taken by President Obama and the Democrat controlled congress, they are just like confederates. That the entire conservative movement is just about maintaining white supremacy. I have heard all of this slanderous filth before, and I have addressed it. Something I have not often addressed is how The Weekly Sift ended its disgraceful article.
The Weekly Sift's article ended with something we have often heard progressive zealots accuse the TEA Party of, and that is misinterpreting history. This articles claim is that conservatives are simply trying to keep minorities from voting and losing their power, and are in fact nothing like the Boston Tea Party. Well Sir, you ignorance about the modern day TEA Party is frightening.
The modern day TEA Party was formed in a response to the radical actions being taken by President Obama, a Democrat Majority in the House, and a Democrat Super Majority in the Senate. The massive new spending brought about by these radical progressives made the average American nervous. We knew that all of the money that would be required to fund this spending has to come from somewhere. That somewhere was our wallets. The modern TEA Party does not take its name from throwing tea into the Boston Harbor. Instead TEA is actually an acronym, that stands for Taxed Enough Already. The TEA Party was created to protest the coming tax hikes and rapidly growing federal government.
I was at the 9/12 TEA Party, the first tax day TEA Party, and at the 8/28 restoring honor rally. There was no racism, no hatred towards President Obama because of his race. There was no desire to squash the minorities of this country. There was a desire to restore the rule of law, and prevent an ever growing federal government. Any attempt to say otherwise is an out and out lie.
The conservative movement is not some evil gathering of rich white elitist, sipping on wine, and kicking under privileged children. The conservative movement is about restoring the RULE OF LAW, something that progressives like our President have been ignoring. The conservative movement believes in personal liberty and a limited government. It is not conservatives who constantly go out and tell the world that minorities are so inept that they cannot survive without the governments help. It is not conservatives that pray on their fears to get elected. Conservatives are not racists just because they don't think that minorities have to have the government control their lives.
Our views are not far off from the Founders, Madison wrote in Federalist 45, "the powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." A limited federal government is what the United States was supposed to have. Not this overreaching monstrosity that we have today. Peacefully protesting an overreaching government does not make the TEA Party the modern day confederacy.
This article written by the Weekly Sift is nothing more than a desperate attempt by a radical progressive to try and limit the desolation that 2014 will bring to the progressive movement. It is a disgusting attempt to discredit the common man. The TEA Party is not the modern day confederacy. It is a group of common citizens who our disgusted with the abuse of power in the federal government.
The federal government violating bankruptcy law in the GM and Chrysler Bail out to protect the UAW at the expense of retires
The IRS Targeting Political Opposition Groups
Fast and Furious sending guns to drug cartels
The NSA spying on American Citizens
The Obamacare Disaster
President Obama abandoning the US Border
Are just a few reasons for average citizens to worry about the ever growing power of the federal government. Being worried about government power does not make you a racists, it makes you sentient.
It think the Weekly Sift thought that conservatives would just lay down and let him beat on us. I think the message was made clear when they appeared and stood up to his bullying and hate mongering. Maybe that is why he disabled comments.
I will remind you that President Wilson was one of the fathers of the progressive movement, and he desegregated the military prior to WWI. So who are the racists, conservatives which seek to limit government power in order to preserve personal liberty, or progressives who think that minorities are too incompetent to exist by themselves?


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The Merchant of Venice was first printed in 1600 in quarto, of which nineteen copies survive. This was followed by a 1619 printing, and later an inclusion in the First Folio in 1623. The play was written shortly after Christopher Marlowe's immensely popular Jew of Malta (1589), a play wherein a Jew named Barabas plays a greatly exaggerated villain. The portrayal of Shakespeare's Jew was and remained comic until the late 1700s at which time he was first played as a true villain. In 1814 Shylock's role was depicted as a character to be pitied, and in 1879 he was first portrayed as a tragic character. Subsequent interpretations have varied greatly over the years, but since World War II he has most often been conceived of as tragic.
The Merchant of Venice has been described as a great commentary on the nature of racial and religious interactions. The title itself is misleading, and is often misconstrued as a reference to Shylock, the Jew. However, in reality it describes the merchant Antonio. This ambiguity and misinterpretation has not surprisingly led scholars to continue hotly debating whether Shakespeare meant to be anti-Semitic or critical of anti-Semitism. His depiction of Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, causes the audience to both hate and pity the man, and has left critics wondering what Shakespeare was really trying to achieve.
The choice of Venice can hardly have been arbitrary. The Venice of Shakespeare's day was renowned for its wealth and diversity of cultures, for it was a cosmopolitan market where Eastern goods made their way into the West. Since Shakespeare's interactions with Jews in England would have been limited, if at all, Venice provided him with the example of tolerance and heterogeneity that he needed.
It is interesting to note that the Christians are portrayed as being an incredibly tight, commonly bound group. Antonio rushes to grant Bassanio a loan, even though it will bankrupt him. A similar example occurs later when Graziano asks Bassanio for a favor, which is granted before Bassanio even knows exactly what Graziano is asking for. However, this central community of Christians, with all of its virtue and decency, is immediately subverted by the prodigal loss of the money by Bassanio. While it may be virtuous for Antonio to give all he has to his friend, it is clear to the audience that it is foolish for him to give to a friend who will gamble it away.
In addition, the Christian's generosity and friendship is further undermined by the racism so apparent in their actions. Antonio is proud of the fact that he kicks and spits upon Shylock, while Portia is overjoyed when the black Prince of Morocco fails to choose the correct casket, saying, "Let all of his complexion choose me so" (2.7.79). The Christian ideals are not only undermined by this racism, this inherent distaste for anyone different from themselves, but also by their hypocrisy with respect to slavery. When the Christians exhort Shylock to release Antonio, he asks them why Antonio should be treated differently from their slaves, considering that he was bought by Shylock via the contract. Shakespeare thus plants doubt as to whether the Christians' kindness to each other is in fact as great a virtue as it would at first appear.
The nature of the religious differences has a profound impact on the way the Christians and the Jews live their lives. For Shylock, absolute adherence to the law is necessary, as evidenced by his reliance on contracts. In addition, money and possessions are things which he feels he must defend. Rather than try to increase his wealth, he struggles merely to maintain it. This economic conservatism contrasts starkly with the aristocratic, gambling nature of Bassanio and the others. The characteristic generosity of the Christians is a very aristocratic trait, based on an ideology which forces gentlemen to ignore practical monetary concerns. Thus Bassanio can truly say, "all the wealth I had ran in my veins" (3.2.253-254).
Perhaps the moment of strongest contrast between Shylock and the Christians' ideals concerns the contract of a pound of flesh. Shylock directly links money and flesh as being equal, something which any Christian would consider taboo. Antonio is unable to see this link, thinking instead that the contract is some form of game for Shylock. He makes the crucial mistake of believing that the contract cannot be for real, and that Shylock must somehow have grown "kind."
There is a division between the Christian portrayal of Shylock and the words and actions of Shylock himself which cannot be overlooked. The Christians are convinced that he can only think of money, whereas Shylock actually presents a very different, even sentimental outlook. Solanio claims that Shylock ran through the street crying out for his daughter and ducats in the same breath, yet there is no evidence of this when Shylock himself appears. Later, when his daughter, Jessica, exchanges a turquoise ring for a monkey, Shylock is not upset about the monetary loss of the ring, but rather the sentimental value it held for him.
Most of Shakespeare's comedies return to the first city in which they are set. However, this type of ending is uniquely absent in The Merchant of Venice. The final scene moves away from the abandonment of Shylock in Venice, shifting instead to Belmont. Belmont, however, is not nearly as idyllic as it appears throughout the play. Indeed, it represents wealth derived from inheritance, built on the merchandising of Venice, and is therefore a paradise founded on the despised trade it claims to hate. Ending the play in Belmont serves to remind the audience that the play can be viewed as anything but a comedy, and that in fact it is in many ways a tragedy.


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Ever since buying our house, our porch has seemed a little bare, but I hate finding a place to store large home decorations, even if we have the space for it. Knowing all of this, I knew the best thing would be to create something that had a dual purpose for our porch. I settled on a wooden reversible porch sign that featured a winter design as well as a year-round, welcome design. Now, our porch will look great all year, and I'll never have to dig for this 6' board in my basement. ;)
What I Used:
• 10"x6' Board from Lowe's
• Palm Sander
• Poly Shades Stain
• Ruler
• Scissors
• Painters' Tape
• Polycrylic Protective Finish
I knew I wanted our porch sign to be large enough to see from the street so we went with a 10"x6' board. This allowed me to skip any cutting, and gave me a decorative piece that was readable from the sidewalk. I started by sanding my board with my palm sander. It didn't need a ton of sanding, but this will help your adhesive vinyl adhere. After sanding, I used a rag to apply my stain. It's very important that you let the stain dry completely before applying your vinyl. I waited about 2 full days, but depending on ventilation, you should be good to go after 24 hours. This is when I designed my board. I took that next day to really create a design I loved.
Once my stain was completely dry and I was satisfied with my design, it was time to cut my OraCal 651 adhesive vinyl. I chose OraCal 651 because I already had it on hand, but since I clear coated my finished product, I could have even gone with 631 if I needed to for any reason. I created my design at the full 10" x 6' size, then I broke it apart to fit easily on my 24" sheets of adhesive vinyl. I could have saved even more vinyl, but I didn't want to spend too much time manually spacing these letters. You can see in the photos below how I broke up the pieces to best fit on the 24" sheet while also saving me time. I repeated cutting all until all the pieces of my designs were cut. This really didn't take too much time. All in all, I estimated that I had about 6 full sheets of vinyl involved.
One all of my vinyl sections were cut out, I weeded away the excess. Since this design was so large, weeding was easy as pie. The Welcome sign design weeded in seconds. The hardest part of all the weeding was the snowman part and even that wasn't bad. After weeding, I used the paper application tape and a squeegee to mask my vinyl. I chose to go with the paper application tape because sometimes clear application tape seems to be too strong for stained wood.
Since the design was so large, even broken into pieces, and it would be extremely noticeable if it wasn't straight, I chose to use the hinge method to apply. I started by laying out all of my pieces on my board to make sure spacing and sizing was correct. I used a ruler to make sure the individual pieces were centered. Then, I took a piece of painters' tape and put it through the center of the design. This held the design in place while I trimmed the backing off of one half. Then, I applied that half as normal. This allows you to both hold the design in place while applying, without the help of another set of hands. It also makes larger designs more manageable. After applying the first side, I removed the painter's tape and the backing and applied the second half as normal.
I repeated the hinge method for all pieces of vinyl on both sides of my board. On the snowman side, I didn't need to worry about this for the pieces of the snowman. The nose, arms, and mouth were small enough to handle applying by myself. Plus, it wasn't as crucial that these pieces be placed exactly where they were in the design.
After all the vinyl was applied, I covered both sides of the board with my Polycrylic clear coat. While OraCal 651 is outdoor durable, I just wanted to add another layer of protection. This will also help to give your board a finished look. Some of my OraCal 651 was matte and some was glossy. Since I covered the board with a clear coat, it now all looks uniform.
If you're creating these products to sell, don't forget to grab some staged product photos. While I would have rather taken these photos on my porch, where the sign belongs, it's getting dark pretty early these days in WV and I was too excited to wait. I staged these boards next to my Christmas tree in the house.
If you're interested in creating your own reversible porch sign, feel free to download the "Let it Snow" design here!


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IKA DR2000/20 Dispax Reactor/Homogenizer High Shear Mixer, 60 HP
1- IKA Type DR-2000/20 Stainless Steel Dispax Reactor/Homogenizer High Shear Mixer. model W243DBAAJABAAAQ, serial number 1521. Mounted on stainless steel base, unit driven by 60 HP 3/60/460 volt motor, Machine appears to be in unused condition. Capacity rated up to 20,000 liters per hour, this model capable of attaining very fine emulsions and suspensions in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, chemical and many other industries. Mounted on stainless steel base, machine can also be utilized for Powder-Liquid Incorporation, Dissolving, and Wet milling. Equipped with locking pressure system for cooling of mechanical seals. (stock 8132A)


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Hello Kitty and Tokidoki? Cuteness overload.
The joint effort between Sanrio and Tokidoki is the Tokidoki x Hello Kitty Jeweled iPad Case. It features PVC leather, along with a fuzzy inner lining that should be easy on your iPad. The outside of the case is nonstop glamour – Hello Kitty and Tokidoki characters showered with diamonds, jewels, and high fashion. Even the gritty-cute creatures from Tokidoki can't help but feel fabulous.
The bejeweled case (well, alright, no actual jewels, but we can dream) fits all models of the iPad. You can score maybe the most adorable iPad case in existence for $40 off the Tokidoki website.


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Refers to a blank page that is left intentionally in the book. It can be located at beginning of the book, at the end of a clearly marked division, and/or at the end of book. Also known as blank leaves or printer's blanks.
French: Feuillets blancs
German: Weißes Blatt
Swedish: Blankt blad


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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.
A man was killed, and four people injured after a car crashed head-on into a police car in the South Austin neighborhood.
It happened Friday night near West Harrison Street and Laramie Avenue.
The driver of the car, Anthony Camarillo, 18, was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy Saturday determined Camarillo died of multiple injuries from the automobile collision and his death was ruled an accident, according to the medical examiner's office.
The police officers were taken to the the hospital in stable condition, police said. Two people from the other car were taken to the hospital in serious-to-critical condition.
A witness said the driver of the car was speeding, and ran a red light.


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Haltom City Community Relations
- Haltom City Recreation Center - 4839 Broadway Ave. | Haltom City, TX 76117
- Information: 817-222-7767
Haltom City Community Relations strives to tell Haltom City's story and all of the many community contributions relating to improving the quality of life for Haltom City residents. Public communication efforts, with particular emphasis on the City's web and social media presence, help to engage our diverse city by actively connecting with the residents. Community Relations creates, plans and communicates programs to engage and support the residents. Duties also includes promoting community events, city economic development projects, volunteer and giving opportunities, and organizing community services and assistance programs.
In an effort to support the residents of Haltom City, Community Relations designee Julie Orebaugh represents them on various committees from the business, education, community health non-profit and faith-based sector that align with the city's strategic goals and priorities. Julie partners with city management and staff, community leaders and local organizations to recommend, engage and execute communication efforts to broaden the impact of the city's work. This also includes managing the production of internal and external materials, multi-media and publishing of the bi-monthly Haltom City Crossroads Newsletter.
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Where does this strength come from? It's a different answer for everyone. For some it may be their loved ones, their family. For some it may be their ambition. For some it may be that they believe in the hope of the joy that is to come beyond the trials. For some it may be the wish to prove themselves worthy. And for some, it may be for fulfilling the dreams of others. I remember when I was asked for reasons that I could tell myself to live on for. What would keep me from suicide? What is the reason for me to live on?
It was hard to think of an answer at that time. However, as I live on, I find that the answer seems to come slowly, as if to tell me to keep living just to see more and more reasons to live. The future is quite the painting beyond this tiny snapshot we see. I want to live to fulfill my childhood dream. I had given up on the dream to be a teacher from the blunt reality of life spoken to me by my parents. The teacher career isn't going to get you anywhere, blah blah blah. However, as I interact with kids, it is just so…satisfying, seeing their innocent curiosity, their eagerness to learn about this wonderful world through their eyes. This drama I watched recently said how people are most beautiful when they do what they love. And I am so excited to begin volunteering with the One to One program in reading with kids and helping those who have trouble reading. I remember how reading brought me into new worlds and adventures. My glasses are a testament of that, my mark of my love for reading since the age of 6. It was a challenge for me and something I loved to escape to. This feeling is what makes living worth it. To be so excited about something and to be able to share that feeling with others and show it to them is something I can't wait to do. Life seems brighter with the excitement of realizing a dream of mine. The will to fulfill my dream is stronger than I could fathom. Dreams are a reason to go on. The fulfillment must be unimaginably satisfying.
Another reason I have found. The people I love. The people I want to be there for. During my depressive episodes, I withdrew from a lot of people. There are many broken friendships I just can't seem to mend or find from the times before. However, the ones that stayed strong I just want to keep so badly that it keeps me alive. They never gave up on me. So why should I give up on me? They sometimes even have more hopes and dreams for me than I do. They see me way differently than I see myself. They show me the best of me and love me despite having seen the worst of me. They invest their time and energy in me because I'm worth it to them. They remind me of why life is worth living.
Funny how the reasons for living don't exactly counter the reasons for dying. Being a failure and disappointment to others, to myself. Being successful isn't on my list. However, being loved by those no matter how successful or how unsuccessful I am is. Being able to love myself and what I'm doing with my life is. It makes the reasons for dying seem so tiny and unimportant for lack of better words. There is so much more to life that makes it worth living. I can't wait to explore and find even more reasons.


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D'Arcy Ranch is a public golf course located 15 minutes south west of Calgary. It offers a challenging and rewarding golf experience for golfers of all levels. Ideal venue for corporate golf tournaments and private group bookings.
Friday, 27 May 2011
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Golf Tip #1
This is a misleading term often used by golfers. What you want to so is keep your chin up and eyes on the ball, this allows your shoulders to fully turn without lifing your head.
This tip is provided by the C.P.G.A. Professional Tim Watt
Monday, 16 May 2011
Sunday Brunch starting May 22 2011
Breakfast Items
Waffles topped with Fresh Blueberries
French Toast
Eggs Benedict
Omelette Bar
Hash browns
Mixed Fruit Tray
Lunch Items
Roast Beef Carving Station
Baked Salmon, topped with a White Wine & Spinach Sauce
Italian Sausage with Mixed Peppers
Smoked Salmon Tray
Tomato Basil Rice
Pasta Bar – Mixed Seafood in an Alfredo Sauce
Pasta Salad with Baby Shrimp, blended in a Creamy Dill Sauce
Strawberry Spinach Salad
Tossed Salad
Fresh Homemade Buns
Alaina's Homemade Desserts
Coffee, Tea, & Juice included
21.95 adults 17.95 golfers & seniors 13.95 children
Monday, 2 May 2011
Sand Traps from Kim
One of our most challenging responsibilities on the golf course is bunker maintenance. We spend as many of our resources maintaining bunkers as we do maintaining greens and the greens are the most important aspect of the golf course. Bunkers receive a lot of attention for an area on the course that is classified as a hazard. I will briefly talk about our philosophy on bunker maintenance and focus mainly on consistency and playability of bunkers.
It is impossible to get every bunker to play the same. In order to get bunkers to all play the same they would have to be built exactly the same, have the same amount of sand, receive the same amount irrigation, have the same amount of sun, wind, rain and so on. Realistically this is just not going to happen on a golf course so we have to come up with a compromise.
What we need to do is work on the things we have control of such as, make sure the bunkers have adequate amounts of sand, they are raked daily, the edges are maintained appropriately and fairway bunkers play firmer than greenside bunkers. This is where we can run into some differences in which some greenside bunkers may be firmer than others and some fairway bunkers maybe softer than others. This is related to the different locations of the bunkers throughout the golf course.
In order to allow for good playability, it is important to have an adequate and consistent depth of sand throughout the bunker regardless of firmness or softness of the bunker. People who play a lot of golf say they can tell how they will play the bunker shot just by the way the sand feels under their feet, the only concern they have is if there is the same amount of sand under their golf ball. Our goal is to try to make sure that each individual bunker is consistent within itself and by doing this the bunker (hazard) will be fair to allow the golfer to hit a good shot.
We go through the bunkers every spring and continually monitor the sand depths and top them up as needed. We also encourage golfers to let us know if they find any bunkers that are in need of attention and we make sure they get attended to.
Kim Bodnar
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Connecting with people…what does that even mean?
For the past weeks, I've felt oddly demotivated and unenergized; like my battery just didn't want to recharge. Which is fine…but not really the go-getting entrepreneurial mindset necessary to make this World Peace thing happen…
Anyway…somewhere last week I began to receive snippets of clarity and peeks of renewed energy. Little bits of thought and feeling around everything that I am and that I'm doing. And, even though I would love to run with the credits, these snippets were not triggered by my own hibernating brain, but by a whole host of other people.
See, one of the biggest wheels I've set in motion the past couple of months is to build and grow my network of like-minded and like-hearted people. I've met with friends, former colleagues, people who I'd only met once but of whom I felt it was significant to meet again, people who came recommended by others, and, somehow, I also stumbled on fantastic interactions with people in shops and streets.
And interestingly enough…every single conversation I've had was seriously fantastic and valuable…
- Because I had deliberately planned to have no ulterior motive.
- I also knew upfront that there was not one outcome to expect.
- All conversations were open and honest (and sprinkled with mutual respect).
- And, above all, because there was a mutual recognition.
Recognition that the other person is every little bit as human as I was.
I was struck by the ease of the conversations, the sense of safety and trust even when meeting someone for the first time, and perhaps most of all, by the sensation that told me: "WOW, I MIGHT NOT BE THAT BAD AT CONNECTING WITH PEOPLE AFTER ALL."
(I distinctly mention 'people' because I do exceptionally well with cats! Cats and babies…)
Because it is the simple truth that I've not always experienced this ease in relationships. Far from it actually…
- I've felt unseen, unheard, unsafe, threatened, manipulated, rejected, and laughed at.
- I've felt the need to defend myself, to hide, to run away, and to smack people silly.
- I've felt very, VERY, alone whilst being surrounded by people…
But even though I've felt that way plenty of times, I do recognize that it was rarely, if ever at all, the intent of the person on the other side. Just like it has never been my intention to not connect with someone.
The inability to connect with someone else is simply 2 human beings miscommunicating
It could be circumstantial (like when you bite someone's head off because they cold call you to sell you grocery vouchers while you were in deep work mode…). It could be cultural (like how it isn't easy to not roll your eyes when you're accidentally part of a conversation about how "like, totally wasted" everyone was over the weekend when you don't drink yourself). It could also be emotional (like when you want to bitchslap your manager in the face when he starts bragging about the size of his
penis team again).
And of course, a mismatch in human connection is not necessarily all that crude. It is also that void and slightly confused sensation you get when coming out of an inconclusive 2-hour meeting. It's the impatience you feel when someone obviously only wants to sell you whatever crap he's selling. And let's not forget the ultimate classic among human misconnections: that you, in the most passive-aggressive tone you can muster, say "Fine." when your partner asks you how you are (and you're obviously NOT fine).
Ah yes, it's not easy to be human sometimes…
But…what if…we all made conscious efforts to truly connect with the people we interact with?
- What if…we all made conscious efforts to connect with ourselves? So that it would become a whole lot easier to connect with other people too…
- What if…we all made conscious efforts to go beyond whatever we're struggling with at the moment? And take the time to really see and understand where the other person is coming from so that we don't react on snap judgments…
- What if…we all made conscious efforts to take responsibility for our words and behaviors and not mindlessly blame everything on other people (yes, I'm looking at you, Donald…).
Now close your eyes and imagine this applied to your world…
Wouldn't your world be a whole lot more pleasant? And softer? And peaceful? With a lot more calm and quiet grace? Wouldn't many of the frictions you now experience simply dissolve? And wouldn't many fights and discussions not even come into existence?
Of course, I'm not saying this is going to be easy… Because connecting with people (or with yourself for that matter) is very much not easy a lot of the times… And it's true that there are a bazillion people out there who really couldn't care less about meaningful human connections… But does that mean that we shouldn't at least try to make this gorgeously imagined world reality?
I obviously think we should… I also think that the only way to do so is by indeed taking that responsibility in our own 2 hands…
…by consciously trying to connect with ourselves each and every day. And to inspire as many people as we can to do the same.
What do you think?


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Missing Chicago already… the clean parks, sailboats, pistachio donuts (!), and the dozen and dozens of blocks that we walked together.
Stumbled across this gem of a bookstore in Cincinnati. What a wonderland of treasures.
Moments from this summer. Taking things easy, driving east, spending time with bunny. Being grateful.
Goodbye to my little crossword helper, Craisin lover, and all around mischievous, furry side kick. We will miss you oh, so much.


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I just finished a project shooting four hand-woven, hand-painted scarves, and two outer garments. These were from a wonderful artisan in Fox, Arkansas, Cynthia Cox, of Cox Weavings. Her Facebook link is in the article.
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When we had last left Anne, she had been sent to her room by Marilla for telling off Rachel Lynde. Now, Audrey Loiselle gives us her impressions of "Chapter X: Anne's Apology."
Chapter X: Anne's Apology
By Audrey Loiselle
"Marilla could not rid herself of the notion that something in her scheme of punishment was going askew. Anne had no business to look so rapt and radiant."
Chapter X opens with an indignant Marilla recounting Anne's tantrum to Matthew, who offers little support, instead declaring with uncharacteristic verve that "meddlesome old gossip" Rachel Lynde got her just deserts. Concerned for the child's welfare, Matthew circumvents his promise not to "put [his] oar in" and sneaks upstairs (for the first time in four years!), where he finds Anne sitting by the window in her stark bedroom, "bravely facing the long years of solitary imprisonment before her." Confessing that her anger and resentment vanished overnight, Anne is urged by Matthew to reconsider apologizing to Mrs. Lynde. She relents, and a relieved Marilla takes Anne over to Lynde's Hollow, where she delivers her famous theatrical apology to a bewildered Mrs. Lynde. So reflective of Anne's singularity and charisma is that speech that it notably featured integrally in the latest televisual adaptation of the novel.
"There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure!"
If Avonlea's a stage, Anne is incontestably its main and most flamboyant player, but readers could argue that the supporting cast also outperforms itself in this chapter. Mild-mannered, submissive Matthew speaks out his mind unabashedly about Rachel Lynde and meddles so skillfully in Anne's upbringing that he finds himself "scared at his own success." Mrs. Lynde, who left Green Gables in high dungeon after Anne's outburst, is unexpectedly gracious enough to accept the child's extravagant apology and even seek an atonement of sorts by relaying an anecdote about a former classmate whose hair was "every mite as red" as Anne's but eventually darkened to "a real handsome auburn." This sharp-tongued gatekeeper of Avonlea's respectable society turns out to be a rather amiable dragon after all. Her assessment that a quick-tempered child is preferable to a deceitful one and her final pronouncement, "On the whole, Marilla, I kind of like her," bodes well for Anne's further integration into the community that lies outside the gates of Green Gables.
But if one character comes close to stealing the show from the fiery redhead in this chapter, it is Marilla, who is after all the focus of the first and last scenes. The "dreadful determined" yet wholesome spinster, who cannot envision "starving people into good behaviour" and recoiled at Mrs. Lynde's suggestion that she disciplines Anne with "a fair-sized birch switch," displays a surprising leniency for a woman whose rigidity is constantly highlighted. Moreover, unlike Mrs. Lynde who, as Montgomery pointedly tells her readers, is "not overburdened with perception," Marilla is able not only to rapidly come to the realization that the punishment she devised did not have the intended mortifying effect, but also to see the comic side of the situation and to wisely decide to let it go. Not bad for a woman of "narrow experience" who has never raised a child and probably had very little contact with youth in the past three decades or so.
Still, at this point, the modern reader feels it might be a relief for Marilla to take a leaf out of a certain Mother Superior's book and launch into a liberating song-and-dance rendition of "How do you solve a problem like [Anne]?" Unfortunately, Marilla, who was born a century too soon without musical inclination, can only fall back on worn sayings and flat morals. Those obviously make very little impression on the elated Anne who, while rhapsodizing about the loveliness of the night and the bliss of coming home to Green Gables, draws closer to Marilla and slips her hand "into the older women's hard palm."
"Something warm and pleasant welled up in Marilla's heart at the touch of that thin little hand in her own – a throb of the maternity she had missed, perhaps. Its very unaccustomedness and sweetness disturbed her."
No wonder the esteemed Margaret Atwood declared that Marilla may be the true central character of Anne of Green Gables, owing to her remarkable evolution throughout the course of the novel. Indeed, in a mere number of chapters, Marilla's sternness and remoteness have already started receding, giving way to amused tolerance and budding affectionate feelings, but not yet to a degree that the exhausted lady can't welcome Anne's vow not to "talk any more just now" with a devout "Thanks be to goodness for that!"
As a child, Audrey Loiselle spent many happy hours at the public library of her hometown in the Eastern Townships of Québec and has only grown more fond of books (and silence) since. She holds a B.A. in French studies from Concordia University in Montréal and works as a translator for the federal government in Ottawa. Her empathy for Marilla has grown exponentially since she gave birth to two chatterboxes of her own.


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Some people are doing the fast of Arafaat on Tuesday.
Suhur and Iftar times for the fast of Arafaat:
On Monday 14th October In London Uk Suhur ends at 05:51 am. Iftar (Fast ends) at 18:09 pm.
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Fast the Blessed Day of Arafaat is on Monday (14th Oct)The Blessed Day of Arafaat is on Monday (14th October 2013)
Fasting on the day of Arafaat is a great Sunnah and most rewarding. It is an expiation of 2 years of sins:
Abu Qatada (Ra) related that the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said, "Fasting the Day of `Arafah (9th of Dhu'l Hijjah) expiates for two years, one prior and one forthcoming. And fasting the Day of `Ashura (10th of Muharram) expiates for the past year." [Muslim, Abu Dawud, Nasa'i, and Ibn Majah]
Subhanallah how merciful and generous is Allah. Therefore we should take advantage of this blessed day and keep this fast.
Also recite plenty of the following:
a) Say tahlil:
La ilaha illah Allah
b) Takbir:
Allahu akbar
c) Tahmid:
Alhamdu lillah
d) Tasbeeh:
Subhan Allah
Also recite plenty of the following:
Allaahu Akbar
Allaahu Akbar
Laa ilaaha ill-Allaah Walahu Akbar
Allaahu Akbar
Wa Lillaahil hamd
Translation: (Allaah is Most Great, Allaah is Most Great, there is no god except Allaah, Allaah is Most Great, Allaah is Most Great, and all praise be to Allaah).
Dua's are readily accepted on the day of Arafaat:
This is also a day where Dua's are readily accepted therefore we should ask of Allah sincerely for his mercy and forgiveness and make a firm resolve to make life changes and renewed intentions in order to devote ourselves to Allah and to obey and serve him until our last breath.
Making life changes:
This may be our last chance as time is not on our side. Therefore we must take this opportunity and not let it slip by otherwise on the day of judgement we will look back and be in utter regret at the opportunities we missed to do good deeds.
So grab the opportunity NOW and let us NOT be of those in utter regret saying.."Why didn't I do so and so? I am truly in utter loss."


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Good Morning!!??
Hopefully, you had an AMAZING Weekend!!??
We sure did!! It was almost 70 here in S.W Nebraska and that for January is almost unheard of!! In fact they said it was 1965 the last time we had temps like this in January and it looks like our weather will be like this ALL WEEK!! YIPPEE!! So we spent most of the day outside yesterday and we got alot done!! We put up our Basketball Hoop and took down all of the Christmas Decorations!! Beckett and Greyson had so much FUN playing in our New Yard and I'm looking forward to all of the AMAZING New memories we are going to be making in it!! I thought I'd share a Picture and a video!! =) (ie. loading will be up soon)
This is Greyson with our SWEET Beau!! She was left out in the country to fend for herself by her owners!! (They tried to shoot her leaving a nice shooting mark across the back of her head/neck) She made it to our house and we were able to rescue her!! After surgery and getting spade she has been the BEST addition to our family!! =) She just LOVES the boys and we thought Jazz was the only dog who could SMILE, but Beau does too!! Must be a sign!! Anyway thanks for letting me share!!
I wanted to also share another Masculine Valentine's Day Card using some of my NEW Paper Smooches Products!! I'll be linking it up for the PSS Challenge this week too!!
I decided to make a CHALKBOARD Inspired Valentine and I kept it very Simple and Clean to help with the more Masculine design I was going for!!
Here it is in all of it's chalkiness!! =)
I used the Paper Smooches Love Struck and Sweet Hearts Stamp Sets along with the coordinating Love Struck and Hearts Dies!! =)
I'll be back with more ideas for Masculine Valentine's Day Cards using you're PS Products!!
THANKS so much for stopping by and have a FABULOUS Week!!


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Do you love Bohemian style and design? If so, you are not alone. Bohemian style often referred to as "boho" or "boho chic" is a fashion style that was popularized during the 1960s and 1970s (though it is possible to trace the roots back further) and is still as fashionable as ever. The essence of Bohemian is focusing on natural fabrics, mixed patterns, and lots of luscious color combinations.
Bohemian style is one of the hottest design trends around and the perfect look to incorporate into your beach home or cottage. These different Bohemian style decorating ideas can help get you started.
Bohemian Style Decorating Ideas
Add Textured Accent Pillows
Textured accent pillows bring in a burst of color and an intricate, interesting textile pattern. Our colorful High Jinks pillow features hand crochet and detailed hand embroidery to create a truly artisanal and textural design. These accent pillows are great for brightening up a neutral room, or to work with other Bohemian style elements.
Bring In Some Unexpected Lighting
Colors, patterns, and mismatched furniture deserve to be perfectly illuminated. Chandeliers and unexpected lighting will make your space pop (even more than it already does!).
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Transition to Unique Wall Coverings
If you want to go all the way Bohemian, consider bold colors and patterns. Beautiful blues, golds, and pinks can add all sorts of interest to a room. Add your color with paints, wallpaper, tapestries and with unique art.
Bring Plants Inside
In Bohemian interior decorating there is never such a thing as too many interior plants. Consider tall, slender plants that do not take up much space but can add more green to your room. The added greenery can help with the mood of the room and improve the air quality as well.
Help the Floor Pop
An all white room can look great classical and modern at the same time. Bringing in just a touch of color can then take it to the next level. Consider a Bohemian inspired rug in front of the sofa. This pop of color adds interest without committing to an overly patterned look. Just make sure it is a quality piece as it will command visual attention.
With an assortment of different Bohemian style decorating ideas, there are many different ways you can transform both the inside of your home and the outside. From accent pillows to floor coverings, and everything in between, there is a multitude of ways in which to infuse Bohemian style.
Find the latest trends and home decorating options at Cottage & Bungalow.