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Summer is your chance to make some progress on marketing and brand recognition so you'll be ready when the heavy fall and holiday season hits. To get your juices flowing now, here is the latest marketing update :
* A century of marketing media and measurement: The evolution of the 'growth hacker'
* Tracking what matters: A new mindset for evaluating PR
* Why lead nurturing is like hosting a dinner party
* 5 emerging social networks PR pros must know
* The science behind colors in marketing
* What is multichannel marketing?
... and more
A century of marketing media and measurement: The evolution of the 'growth hacker'
To demonstrate how marketers have adapted to media innovations through the last century and created measurements for them, IfbyPhone created the following infographic about the evolution of the "growth hacker" from the 1920s to today. "Growth-hacking refers to the use of marketing strategies backed by data to generate growth," says Irv Shapiro of IfbyPhone
Careful, this one has a pop-up that says you have to register. Just decline. The site also has a considerable amount of stalker links.
Full story : MarketingProfs
Tracking what matters: A new mindset for evaluating PR
Numbers don't tell the full story, it turns out. After considering circulation and impressions of media coverage and debating various reporting methodologies, public relations industry leaders believe that relying exclusively on quantitative measures to evaluate results is insufficient. As a result, it's critical to layer on a qualitative element to measure communications effectiveness.
With that in mind, here are five tips for reporting meaningful travel PR results.
Full story : MediaPost
Why lead nurturing is like hosting a dinner party
Everyone loves a dinner party, which is why it may come as a surprise if you hear people express something of distaste about lead nurturing. When you think about it, the two are very similar.
They both require the host (the marketer) to not only build but also maintain relationships with their guests (leads) through conversation, solid rapport and sense of trust. And as with a successful dinner party, a successful lead nurturing strategy involves very careful planning.
Full story : Charlotte Varela for MarketingProfs
5 emerging social networks PR pros must know
We're not saying you need to use them—the last thing you need is another social network—but they should be on your radar. Here's why.
Right now, your head is likely buried in projects involving established social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Sometimes you need to take a breath and see what else is out there—to forecast the popular social networks of tomorrow.
Full story : www.ragan.com
The science behind colors in marketing
Why is Facebook blue? According to The New Yorker, the reason is simple. It's because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green color blind; blue is the color Mark can see the best.
Not highly scientific, right? That may not be the case for Facebook, but there are some amazing examples of how colors actually affect our purchasing decisions. After all, sight is the strongest developed sense in most human beings. It's only natural that 90% of an assessment for trying out a product is made by color alone.
Full story : Fast Company
What is multichannel marketing?
The term "multichannel marketing" is a mouthful, but the actual reality of what it is and what it can do for your business is certainly far from intimidating. The concept is not new, but as technology evolves, the meaning of multichannel marketing and all that it embraces also evolves.
Multi-channel marketing is all about using various methods (channels) to get your marketing message to the people who matter the most – your target market.
Full story : The Digital Nirvana
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And that wraps it for this edition of Marketing Update from DTG. Don't forget ... we encourage you to share your discoveries from the world of publishing, media, online and creative. Just give me a shout!
And, thanks for reading
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A girl arrested in connection with an assault in Weymouth has been given a youth caution.
At around 9.20pm on Friday 17 November 2017 Dorset Police received a report from the ambulance service that a man had been located in an alleyway between Newstead Road and Holland Road.
The victim – a 29-year-old man – had sustained a serious head injury and was taken to Dorset County Hospital for treatment. He was released from hospital the following day.
It was reported that the same man had been robbed of his rucksack and mobile phone shortly before the assault.
A 17-year-old girl was arrested and has been given a youth caution for assault, which will require her to attend appointments and engage with the Youth Offending Service.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of robbery but has been released without charge.
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Madelyn Dunham died of cancer Sunday evening November, 2, 2008 in Honolulu, Hawaii. She was the grandmother of Barack Obama and made famous by her role in his life as his white grandmother from Kansas.
She was the last surviving member of his family that was involved with raising him. Her husband, Stanley Dunham, died in 1992. Their daughter, Ann Dunham, who was Obama's mother, died of ovarian cancer in 1995. Obama's father, Barrack Hussein Obama Sr, came from Kenya and died in car accident in 1982.
Obama's surviving family members include his half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng (they have the same mother) of Honolulu and his step-relatives through his father in Kenya . He also has two daughters, Sasha and Malia, with his wife Michelle.
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Judicial Watch has been the leading force in uncovering the suspicious and dangerous connections between Obama administration officials and radical leftist special interest groups on a host of issues, from stealth amnesty to voter fraud to reverse discrimination. (See our most recent find, the outrageous videos we uncovered from the USDA, as a disturbing example of just how radical this behavior has become.)
On March 27, 2013, our effort to root out these connections continued as we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Obama Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Education (DOE) on behalf of the Family Research Council (FRC). FRC is a leading conservative advocacy group that seeks to advance faith, family and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview.
Here's what we want to know: To what extent did the DOJ or DOE cooperate and coordinate with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) in their lawsuit against the Anoka-Hennepin School District of Minnesota.
Now, there is no doubt that this controversy in Minnesota involved an extraordinary intervention by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, run by Thomas E. Perez, President's Obama's current nominee for Secretary of Labor and a key figure in a host of DOJ scandals (beginning with the New Black Panther Party). JW and FRC just want to know how extraordinary. And we want the details.
On April 24, 2012, FRC submitted a FOIA request to the DOJ and DOE requesting the following information dating back to June 1, 2011:
A. Any and all records concerning, regarding, or relating to the anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies of the Anoka-Hennepin School District which culminated in the Anoka-Hennepin Consent Decree;
B. Any and all communications between and/or among the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Education, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and/or the National Center for Lesbian Rights concerning, regarding, or relating to the anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies of the Anoka-Hennepin School District which culminated in the Anoka-Hennepin Consent Decree;
C. Any and all communications between the Department of Education and/or U.S. Department of Justice and any third parties not named in #2 (above), concerning, regarding, or relating to the anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies of the Anoka-Hennepin School District which culminated in the Anoka-Hennepin Consent Decree.
In short, we are getting the runaround from both agencies.
In a letter dated August 31, 2012, the Civil Rights Division, a component of DOJ, informed FRC that it was denying access to all responsive records involving its role in the Anoka-Hennepin affair. On September 28, 2012, FRC appealed the DOJ's decision. Though the DOJ acknowledged receiving the appeal on October 25, it has failed to provide a response to the appeal, which was due by November 1, 2012.
In a letter dated May 30, 2012, the DOJ's Office for Civil Rights informed FRC that it had located 7,453 pages responsive to FRC's FOIA request, but was withholding 7,159 pages in their entirety. On June 29, 2012, FRC appealed the DOE decision. According to the U.S. Postal Service, DOE received the appeal on July 5, 2012, but has failed to provide a response to the appeal, which was due by August 3, 2012.
We are asking the District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit to simply order the Obama DOJ and DOE to conduct searches for all records responsive to the FRC FOIA request and to "produce, by a certain date, any and all non-exempt records," along with indices of all records the departments continue to declare exempt.
I feel like it should go without saying that it is not the proper role of the United States Departments of Justice or Education to collude with radical leftwing organizations like the SPLC in order to impose their political agenda on parents or the American people generally. And the fact that both departments are intent to cover up their collusion makes this court fight more important.
In July, 2011, the SPLC joined with the NCLR to sue the Anoka-Hennepin School District to overturn the district's policy requiring its teachers to remain neutral on the subject of homosexuality. In apparent coordination with those groups, the Obama DOJ, after what it termed "an extensive investigation into sex-based harassment," compelled the school district to sign a 61-page Consent Agreement on March 5, 2012.
Not content with simply forcing its agenda on the school district, the Holder Justice Department added insult to injury.
In July 2012, a group of DOJ employees, led by Holder, joined with the SPLC to honor the Anoka-Hennepin School District students involved in the lawsuit to force the district to endorse homosexual conduct. Five of the students received an award at DOJ's annual LGBT Pride Month program in the Great Hall of the Main Justice Building.
This is not the first example of the DOJ's collusion with the radical left. And it won't be the last.
In fact, specifically related to SPLC, JW obtained nearly two dozen pages of emails from the DOJ Civil Rights and Tax Divisions revealing questionable behavior by agency personnel while negotiating for SPLC co-founder Morris Dees to appear as the featured speaker at a July 31, 2012, "Diversity Training Event."
The Judicial Watch FOIA request was prompted by the terrorist shooting at the FRC headquarters in August, 2012. On the SPLC's website, which the shooter used to get a list of targets, the SPLC lists FRC's headquarters on a "hate map." The SPLC refuses to take FRC off the "hate map" even after the organization was connected in court to the shooting.
JW also uncovered records indicating that the DOJ worked hand-in-hand with the American Civil Liberties Union to attack Arizona over the state's tough illegal immigration enforcement law, SB 1070. Judicial Watch released records detailing the cooperation between the ACORN-connected Project Vote to attack states, such as Florida, for implementing voter integrity measures, such as Voter ID laws. Judicial Watch also probed the role that the NAACP played in the controversial DOJ dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation lawsuit.


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EMC VMAX, VPLEX and RecoverPoint Deliver More Protection with Significant Updates and New Integration
Story Highlights
- EMC VMAX, already the world's most trusted storage, is now the first tier 1 storage platform offering simultaneous Continuous Data Protection (CDP) when using remote copies by integrating EMC SRDF and EMC RecoverPoint technologies.
- EMC RecoverPoint 4.0 makes enterprise-class data protection more accessible to midrange customers with a new software-only option for EMC VNX unified storage.
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- Visit EMC Pulse technology and product news blog for more detail.
- Online: Follow the latest EMC World 2013 happenings starting on Monday, May 6 2013 at EMC World vPass
- Social: For continuous updates and to join the conversation on these products please follow VMAX, VPLEX, and RecoverPoint on Twitter and ask questions during the Ask the Experts – VMAX and Ask the Experts – VPLEX and RecoverPoint discussions.
- Live streaming: To hear more about these innovations, bookmark your calendars for Monday, May 6 at 2:30 p.m. PT and visit our ECN page to view a live stream of Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise Storage Division keynote from EMC World 2013.
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that the world's most trusted storage is delivering more data protection with updates to EMC® VMAX® enterprise storage, a new frame-based licensing model for EMC VPLEX® virtual storage making VPLEX more accessible to midrange customers, and a new version of EMC RecoverPoint® that delivers powerful new integration with EMC SRDF.
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Today, the world's most mission-critical data centers trust EMC with their most important data, with 94% of Fortune 50 companies, and 90% of the 20 largest banks relying on VMAX for >99.999% uptime. With new SRDF and RecoverPoint 4.0 integration, VMAX is the only tier 1 storage array offering simultaneous Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and remote copies on the same LUN. Customers can now recover every write, and at any point-in-time between copies. This means that customers can recover from operational errors as well as physical failures on the same data. Prior to this integration, customers could use SRDF and RecoverPoint on the same VMAX system, but not on the same volume. With this integration EMC marries the two business continuance technologies to simplify data protection for the world's most mission-critical data centers.
In addition, RecoverPoint 4.0 is now more powerful. It offers increased scale, flexibility and capacity to protect even more mission-critical applications. The new version is capable of protecting 7X more data , delivers a 4X increase in the number of protected volumes to over 8000 volumes per cluster, and offers expanded asynchronous throughput by over 60% to 400 MB/second.
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This year, RecoverPoint will surpass 100-million run hours, protecting over 800 Petabytes of mission-critical information for EMC customers. With RecoverPoint 4.0, EMC is offering a new software-only option (called vRPA) for EMC VNX® storage arrays. This software-only option enables VNX customers to deploy RecoverPoint functionality on existing infrastructure, thereby simplifying deployment and maximizing their existing infrastructure, saving VNX customers up-to 60% on their replication investment.
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"As customer continue to transform their data centers, EMC continues to innovate and deliver the world's most trusted, powerful and smart storage solutions. Customers want a trusted technology partner that has both a long-term vision and the ability execute. In the last three years, EMC has delivered seven major updates and over 100 new features to the VMAX family. It's this marriage of vision and innovation that is driving our growth—including double-digit growth across VMAX, VPLEX and RecoverPoint. Today's news is a continuum of EMC VMAX delivering the world's most trusted storage and data protection."
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Although going for holiday is the greatest getaway strategy ever, many people are expecting the travel journey with a quiver of anxiety because the idea of taking all the heavy luggage, queuing the never-ending security lines and wedging into the little airplane seats are simply not the most interesting part of traveling.
Those sorts of experiences allow it to be difficult for us to not envy the way the affluent traveling today. Like taking private jet airplanes to Caribbean Island villas their holidays are way above the traveling standard of tourists that are ordinary.
To my astonishment, my buddies who are high-end voyagers quizzed me about my graphic although comical trips, which excited by the ending of each and every excursion and had left me both tiring.
I started to understand that my buddies endured their own kind of traveling envy after the meet up. Their traveling experience had been deadened by the awareness of control supplied by their enormous spending power. The encounters with hosts that are private and staying in 5 star resorts failed to create the memories they remember and could cherish.
As the wealthy is changing towards the encounter- oriented they may be willing to fork out big amounts to get the journey experience they've been expecting for. With a lot of rich people showing interest in the space flight since its statement, we're sure as traveling is becoming more and more common for most folks, the wealthy is going to set themselves besides others.
Another evidence of the shift is that affluent travelers take a light aircraft to such hamlets only to shake hands and as of late plan for charity driven trips to distant hamlets in countries like Madagascar.
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Music in the Galleries
On select Sunday afternoons, enjoy live music at the Ackland. A wide variety of performers can be heard, from classical quartets to bluegrass, to enhance your museum experience.
Music in Flux: The Conceptual Art and Music of Nam June Paik
Discussion & Interactive Performance with the Experimental Music Study Group
This Sunday's Music in the Galleries will begin with a discussion of artist Nam June Paik, a featured artist in the current exhibition Testing Testing. Members of the Experimental Music Study Group will discuss Paik's relationship to the musical world and to the artistic network Fluxus, of which other prominent experimental artists like John Cage and Yoko Ono were a part. The audience will be invited to examine and perform some of Paik's Fluxus musical scores, as well as works by other Fluxus artists.
Following this, experimental Triangle-based music collective Cyanotype will perform in the galleries.
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I spent a lot of time on this. A lot. But, finally, it's here: the complete transcription of the Steven Novella/Rachael Dunlop interview on Episode 6 of the Skeptic Zone podcast. The 50 minute interview took me so much time to do it's really not funny. Just think of all the blogging I could have done in that time…
Oh well, I guess I owed the guys at the Skeptic Zone something, due to their tireless efforts at putting out such a great podcast every week. Cheers guys. Plus, I also wanted to do it just so I could get in Steve's good books for when he comes to Australia in 2010… More of that in the interview.
I thought I might share a little of it with you, to whet your appetite for some hot, hot Novella ranting. The full transcript of the interview can be found here, on the Skeptic Zone website. That's http://skepticzone.tv/trans_sn.htm for those who missed the non-spelt-out URL. How more obvious can I make the plug, guys? Oh, and Steve's blog is here, at http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/ Just, you know, so he knows that I care…
Here it is, a brief snippet of the interview I so lovingly wrote down.
R: Mmm. So that sort of leads me onto the next question, which is about the hijacking of scientific terminology by CAM proponents. Recently, I attended the Mind-Body-Spirit, or -Wallet, festival, as we affectionately call it in Australia-
S: Right. *laughs*
R: -and you'd be amazed, Steve, did you know quantum technology is working in alternative medicine? I don't know if you've heard about this-
S: Oh yeah!
R: *laughs*
S: Quantum technology is awesome, you know, throw the word "quantum" in there and it becomes instant pseudoscience.
R: Oh yeah, it's fantastic.
S: It's all about the marketing, which is one thing that the CAM industry does extremely well. It's all about the marketing. They also have an advantage in the fact that they're not constrained by things like facts and ethics.
R: Exactly.
S: If you're not so constrained, you can model your marketing purely for psychological impact. There are certain themes that they follow: one theme is the new gee-whiz technology, and this has been going on for a long, long time, ever since Western science has been institutionalized and in vogue in civilization. So, a hundred years ago, the cutting-edge, science-y kind of treatment was radiation, so there were radioactive tonics that people thought were the latest-greatest thing. A hundred years before that it was electromagnetism, so that's where Mesmer comes in with his animal magnetism, that you can use to cure just about anything. And now, it's quantum, Deepak Chopra's quantum healing, for example. It's a new way of justifying the vitalistic notions that are thousands of years old, you know, the notion that there's this life energy. So, now you just throw "quantum" in front of it, and you've got quantum life energy. But it's the same sort of spiritual, pre-scientific notions that were weeded out of scientific thinking over a hundred years ago. But yeah, extremely effective marketing.
Don't you just love the use of scientific technobabble in alternative medicine? Now I know I'm not alone in thinking that it's deliciously digusting!


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Increase to award wages and allowances
By Kristin Ramsey07 Jun 2012
For those of you who missed it, Fair Work Australia's minimum wage panel handed down its annual wage increase decision late last week and in doing so increased the:
- federal minimum wage and minimum award wages by 2.9%, which brings the federal minimum wage to $15.96; and
- casual loading for non-award covered employees to 23%.
These increases, together with the increases to expense base allowances (which increase annually based on the relevant CPI group), take effect from the first pay period following 1 July 2012.
With less than one month to go before the new financial year commences and increased rates kick in, businesses will need to act quickly to review existing wage rates and salary arrangements to ensure that from 1 July 2012 wages being paid to staff are equal to or higher than the relevant rate under the applicable award (or otherwise the federal minimum wage).
For businesses that pay 'all up' hourly rates or otherwise remunerate staff on a salaried basis, now is also a good time to review pay rates to ensure that when such rates are broken down employees are not being disadvantaged under the relevant award.
Where wage rates and allowances need to change to take into account the increases, businesses will also need to consider whether a written variation needs to be made to the employment contract.
Businesses who fail to pass on the necessary increases or are found to be underpaying staff risk prosecution and penalties of up to $33,000 per employee (not to mention the possibility for personal liability for managers involved in the company's contravention).
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Sorry for the late post but wife gets a little mad if I take up every evening working on posts and this morning I had a little 23 mile training run getting ready to go visit Elliot at the NY marathon. Speaking of Elliot, he has a post asking which daily list of domains people like the best HERE. I really don't care if I'm the best but if you enjoy my list feel free to give me a vote and tell the commenter Todd to go to hell.
Skuft.com Skiing on a surf board. I am a terrible skier and I broke my neck surfing so needless to say I don't skurf. But plenty of people do
CrockPotGirls.com Heavily trafficked site that could be brought back. I love the crock pot. Put in a shoe and some sauce and come home to a tender meal.
BeatGirls.com Sorry, you're never going to outbid Chris Brown on this one
GameShow.org I think Morgan showcased this one. Still only $60.
CuteSwimsuits.com If you are going to buy two word domains with an adjective then you should buy one that people often use and girls certainly use the word cute when describing swimsuits
Brind.com A popular last name. OK maybe not popular but a few people have it
FastWomen.com I like them. Even the running type
3kp.com These three character dot coms continue to reach great prices
ClassicMoviePosters.com Still highly collected
winepoints.com Nice wine rating domain. No bidders
DogTrainingOnline.com You've heard people like Rick Schwartz say that if you want to buy a lower priced domain get one that has the word online in it. Everyone tries to save money and time by learning online. Even dogs NO bidders
PostFire.com Not a ton of value but short and nice site or brand name
9584.com The NNNN.coms that end in four have been down in price compared to others so I think this one goes for $800
3994.com This one should do a little better because of the double 9s. I'll guess $1250. Could do better
EJ1.com Three character, J hurts, 1 adds
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Parents are the best experts in the needs of their children, yet are rarely consulted in the planning and provision of services. After years of communist rule, transition and post-conflict recovery, Azerbaijan is in the new position of having the potential for democratic rule but is affected by a society which does not adequately understand how to use its new freedom. This project aims to bring together parents and government to create a system which supports and integrates vulnerable children, rather than one which exludes them from society.


text: As i said, i don't now really anything about capi, but it looks to me like wine's capixxxx.dll is pretty much outdated, and the bug you see after you worked around the "libcapi2.0 is not installed" is probably yet another wine-bug. If you ever feel like it and have spare time you could file a bug in wine's bugzilla for this app. However, as isdn-stuff is not really used that much (anymore) by applications, i guess fixing the bugs in wine's capixxxx.dll won't get high prioritty from the wine developers. For now i guess you have to stick to your windows live cd, good luck anyway!


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Sunday, March 31, 2013
OVEREAT these foods to BURN more belly flab
With specific regard to fatloss, while the ideal healthy ratio of "good" to "bad" bacteria in your gut is 9 to 1, virtually every study performed on the obese population analyzing gut bacteria found higher instances of "bad" bacteria and lower levels of "good" bacteria within these individuals. That's a far cry from the ideal 9 to 1 ratio and you can bet it's DEFINITELY a big reason why these folks are overweight and struggling to lose their stubborn belly flab.
That said, correcting this imbalance can have an IMMEDIATE waist-slimming effect as a recent double-blind study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that test subjects who took active measures to re-balance their gut bacteria ratio were able to reduce their abdominal fat by nearly 5 percent, while the "control" group experienced no positive changes in body fat levels at all.
So what exactly CAN you do to re-balance your gut bacteria ratio and begin experiencing these belly-flattening benefits for yourself?
We'll be sharing several methods with you, starting with today's belly-flattening tip: OVEREAT fermented foods, such as:
• Lassi (an Indian yogurt drink, traditionally served before dinner)
• Various pickled fermentations of cabbage sauerkraut, turnips, eggplant, cucumbers, onions, squash, and carrots
• Kimchi (a Korean fermented vegetable dish)
• Tempeh
• Fermented raw milk such as kefir
• Plain, unsweetened yogurt
All of these foods are rich in "good" bacteria, and their consumption will help to rebalance your overall gut bacteria ratio. Just make sure to steer clear of processed yogurts that are loaded with sugars and/or artificial sweeteners which have been shown to actually DAMAGE your gut bacteria ratio instead of help it.
That being said, the biggest downfall with fermented foods is that many people do not particularly enjoy their taste, and the amount you'd have to eat in order to get enough healthy bacteria to really make a difference is a bit impractical for the average person to consume.
For example, in order to get enough good bacteria into your intestine from yogurt, you would need to force down 10 to 30 servings of plain, unsweetened yogurt every single day of your life. What's more, yogurt is lacking in several key strains of good bacteria, so even 10 to 30 servings wouldn't be enough!
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My ladies make me feel like a star. They are always so complimentary of my self made clothes that I usually take along a couple of pieces for a Show and Tell segment of our class which they seem to love..This week I took this jacket made last fall
and a top which I haven't shown you yet but will be my next post as it is part of a threesome.
I bought the fabric for this jacket online at Mood but there is a slightly heavier version at Fabricville right now and on sale too.
The ladies were very happy with my project ideas this year and I admit that I always put a lot of effort in coming up with something new. I also make plenty of samples.
Besides the reading shawl shown here, the mug thingy shown here, the Rachel Comey skirt but of course lengthened,,the yoga pant from former years but made into slim pants or jeggings, this year,Pinterest was a big factor in the other projects I chose.
I admit to being totally addicted to Pinterest These images fueled my creative fire and I can't stop making the tee shirt necklaces and scarves.
I made many samples but here are a few.
I admit that some of my samples were made using fabric yardage rather than tee shirts and it's been fun experimenting.
I love this one where I used the ring from a belt and stoppers instead of beads .This was my inspiration.
I made larger "tubes" to use as scarves. The fabric for bothof these is a sweater knit.
I added a bit of braiding to this one,
Another big favorite from Pinterest was this type of scarf because it uses up fabric scraps that are a little larger.
And these are scarves I made.
If you want some instructions on any of these items, please let me know, and I'll post directions
at Diana's Sewing Lessons.
I managed to sew other things this week because I declared a sewing vacation for myself. I needed a break from housework .I'm not finished what I want to show you next but you know I'll be back.
Have a great week everyone and thanks for stopping by.


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Let me put this is perspective for you...
Start weight: 129.7 kilos (285.5 lbs) May 2009
Lowest weight* 73.3 kilos (161 lbs) April 2011
Current weight 87.5 kilos (192.5 lbs) May 2012
Oh dear... no wonder my clothes don't fit and my face looks like a puffer fish.
OK, so I am not going to get into the why did this happen because I have written about that enough (bingeing, anxiety, self-hatred etc) and I need to move on. I need to start over and remember what it is to work hard and not give into every urge I have to eat chocolate and sit on the couch when I should be at the gym.
I am starting fresh at my current weight and not resting on my laurels from my previous weight loss. I can't keep congratulating myself on how far I have come because 'at least you don't weigh 130 kilos anymore'. So my goal is to lose between 10 -15 kilos by the 1st December 2012, which is about 27 weeks away. That is not easy, but achieveable if I work hard.
Happy: lose 10 kilos by December 1st 2012 (weigh in at 77.5 kilos)
Extremely happy: lose 12.5 kilos by December 1st 2012 (weigh in at 75 kilos)
Beyond ecstatic: lose 15 kilos by December 1st 2012 (weigh in at 72.5 kilos)
|Me at my happy weight of about 78 kilos (171.5 lbs) in December 2010
|Me at my unhappy weight of 87.5 kilos (192.5 lbs) photo taken today (under horrific fluro lighting)
*I have listed my lowest weight as 73.3 kilos (161 lbs) and technically it was for about one second after I follwed a crazy low carb diet. I really don't count that as a 'real' weight and I would say that my 'normal' low weight was 77.5 kilos (170.5 lbs).
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Faithful LucasArts fans who were worried that the release of Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge on the iPhone and iPad might not coincide with the PC release can worry no more! PocketGamer.co.uk is reporting that the game is now available for purchase in the New Zealand App Store.
As mentioned before, most iPhone apps with a time sensitive release date see the light of day in New Zealand first thanks to the international date line.
Based on typical price conversion from the NZ to US store, we'll most likely see the iPhone version with a $7.99 price tag while the iPad version should arrive at a slightly steeper $9.99. For that extra $2, PocketGamer reports that iPad owners can expect special behind-the-scenes artwork from the original and special editions of the game, as well as developer commentary from Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert, and Dave Grossman.
The original Secret of Monkey Island received the special edition treatment last year, receiving a new paint job, voice acting, and a re-mastered musical score. This much anticipated sequel is following suit, and upping the ante with some new visual elements and an alternate control system. We loved the transition the original took (read our iPhone review here) and have little doubt that the sequel will have trouble living up to its predecessor.
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Alchemist Leeds Offers Louis XIII Prize For Millionth Cocktail Order
The Alchemist Bar & Restaurant in Leeds is to celebrate serving its one-millionth cocktail by offering the prize of a bottle of Louis XIII cognac worth £2,000.
After opening in the Trinity Leeds complex in March 2013, the team have calculated that the number of cocktails made by its bartenders is now in the high 900,000s.
The lucky patron who places the one-millionth cocktail order will win the bottle of Rémy Martin Louis XIII cognac - inspired by the cult 1988 film, Cocktail, where a bottle of the luxury cognac is offered as a wager.
Simon Potts, managing director of The Alchemist, said: "Selling one million cocktails is no mean feat, and we felt that it was something that needed celebrating. We know that the cocktail tally is currently in the high 900,000s, so we predict that the millionth one will be sold around mid-month.
"We can't wait to surprise the lucky customer with the extra-special cognac gift, to share with their friends. They're destined to be the most popular person in the bar, that's for sure!"
Running alongside this giveaway is a one-off competition, hosted by Capital FM for The Alchemist Trinity between January 25 and 31. Listeners will have the chance to win dinner and drinks at The Alchemist, and a night's stay at Malmaison Leeds.
The Alchemist is open for morning coffee, brunch, lunch and dinner offering everything Living Ventures are renowned for – excellent service, innovative cocktails and great food.


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I was in Mobile, Alabama over the weekend to attend the GoDaddy Bowl with work. We took a charter plane full of alumni and friends and spent three days enjoying the area. When we were gone I forgot about my 7th blogiversary!
January 3 marked the end of the 7th year of my blogging. My corner of the internet has changed quite a bit, and I may have a few more changes planned for 2015. I never thought that I would still be writing years later, but I find that it calms me and generally helps to keep me from stabbing people on the street. I have worked with some amazing companies, met some fantastic online friends and I've been able to dream of a life where writing is my full-time job.
One of the things that I would like to accomplish this year is to devote more time and energy into making There Are Two Sides a stellar place to visit.
Happy Blogiversary to me!
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Open enrollment extends from November 15, 2014 to February 15, 2015. Whether you are renewing or enrolling for the first time, you must complete enrollment by December 15, 2014, to have coverage January 1, 2015, and avoid a gap in your coverage.
Eagle County Health and Human Services, in partnership with Pitkin County Human Services, Community Health Services, Inc., Garfield County Human Services and Public Health departments and Mountain Family Health Centers, was one of 58 organizations in Colorado selected to provide in-person assistance to customers of the new health insurance marketplace starting in October. ECHHS received one of the top five funded awards in the state. The grant period runs from July, 1 2013 to Dec. 31, 2014.
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Contact: Jennie Quevedo, Glenwood Springs, 970-471-3510 or Sonia Acosta, Rifle, 970-471-5964.
Connect for Health Colorado, the state's online insurance marketplace, is now open and offers individuals, families and small businesses a one-stop shop to compare, pick and purchase health insurance plans, as well as access to new up-front financial assistance based on income. Open enrollment is underway at www.connectforhealthco.com. Those who purchase plans by December 15, 2013 will have coverage beginning January 1, 2014.
Eagle County, in partnership with Garfield and Pitkin counties and Mountain Family Health Centers, was one of 58 organizations in Colorado selected to provide in-person assistance to customers of Connect for Health Colorado. The entities received $750,000, one of the top five funding awards in the state, to run a local Health Assistance Network through December 31, 2014.
The network includes health coverage guides who are available to assist with evaluating health plan options, applying for insurance affordability programs and enrolling in health coverage. All health coverage guides are bilingual in English and Spanish, and are available by appointment in a variety of locations in Aspen, Basalt, Eagle, El Jebel, Glenwood Springs and Rifle.
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Hezbollah believes it must be more accommodating to other Lebanese parties if it wants to maintain its strength in Lebanon if Syrian President Bashar Assad falls.
This follows a report by the newspaper that Hezbollah issued a statement on Christmas: "The teachings of Jesus Christ – which inspire every philanthropist – contradict what the region is witnessing in terms of injustice affecting our Christian brethren in Palestine and the region."
Difficult circumstances make for unlikely alliances.
Hezbollah is increasingly clashing with Sunnis in Lebanon, part of a spillover of violence from neighboring Syria. Hezbollah, which is allied closely with Iran, is working with its ally to keep Assad in power.
The Syrian rebels are predominately Sunni, with Islamist elements taking part in a great deal of the fighting. The rebels seek to topple Assad's regime and are being supported by Sunni Arabs throughout the region, including in Lebanon.
Arab Christians throughout the Middle East have also been under pressure from Sunnis since the Arab uprisings began two years ago. Many have fled the region and those who remain are very worried over their future, as Sunni Islamists have come to power in various countries and make up the main opposition movements in many others. The Sunni Islamist surge has all of the other sects and minorities on the defensive, with many seeking alliances among themselves despite differing ideologies.
Shi'ites and Christians are minorities in the Middle East and the rise of Sunni Islamists has put them in a predicament.
Shi'ites control governments in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon. In Lebanon, though, power and demographics are somewhat balanced, with Sunnis and Christians making up the other major factions.
Hezbollah finds itself wedged between anti-Assad Sunni rebels in Syria and their Sunni supporters in Lebanon. This is not to mention the financial, material and manpower support coming to the rebels from other Arab countries. With its strong ally Assad under threat, Hezbollah is beginning to feel anxious about being increasingly isolated in the region, and having to face Israel with less support.
In turn, Syrian Christians, who have traditionally been allied with Assad, have been fleeing to join their brethren in Lebanon, which remains one of the safest Arab countries for Christians.
Numerous recent reports mention the warming relations of the Christians in Lebanon and Hezbollah as they unite against the Sunnis.


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The Romantic Round Up!
Girl squad, it's time to unite in the name of glitter for this important announcement. Stand beside your bestie as we spill the deets (a dramatic faint is probable); there's MORE Hardcore Romantics goodness coming your way. Say what?! You heard it right, our fresh new trend for 2017 is getting sweeter with more accessories to stack and snuggle. *Pat our brow* it's just too exciting. Walk those jittery legs to a nearby sofa and relax, as we show off show you our fave accessories from this season's homeware trend. Dramatic… us?
Right about now we're struggling through a seriously miserable month. January is the brussel sprout of 2016, and this one is particularly offensive to our girl boss ambitions. So what can a gal to do turn it around? Shop, obviously. An interior refresh is scientifically proven* to turn that frown upside down (*we think). Pops of print and bright colours are guaranteed mood enhancers, so opt for bold-patterned bedding and kitsch cushions to keep you sweet through those moody mornings.
We admit, we're yet to grow out of sugar cravings (flavoured lip balm anyone?!), so these pastel accessories are the perfect treat for our interior sweet tooth. From donut-sprinkled mugs, to delicious confectionery, these picks are good enough to eat (no, seriously you can buy this lollipop!) Though we're probably sweet enough already (ha), a living space should always be sugar-coated, so think of this trend as an interior pick 'n' mix, and feast on everything.
The desk has taken centre stage in our boudoir of late, becoming the ultimate hybrid of dressing table and study space. So, whether your desk is dressed for serious revision sessions, or filming PS…Pro beauty tutorials, we've got you covered with our accessory selection. For the beauty lovers, remember, with great makeup comes great storage boxes (we think that's how the saying goes). For study queens, when it comes to topping up that stationery stash, it's all about cheeky slogans and holographic prints: our notebooks should be just as fabulous as the diary entries scribbled inside. They don't come cuter than this collection; 104% tired? We know you so well.
We've fallen head over heels for this trend, with major *heart eyes* for all accessories available. Time to hunt out the pink lippie and whip up a strawberry milkshake, we're going all out Romantic refresh, and it's time you did too!


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Good Morning Whale of a Sale supporters!
We are excited about the upcoming spring sale to be held February 22 and 23. A reminder - registration opens tomorrow, January 16th, at 8:00pm. The slots will fill up quickly so please be ready. You will be required to pay the $8.00 registration fee via PayPal in order to complete your registration just like the last sale.
There is no way this sale can be successful without our volunteers! Please consider helping this year and asking your friends and family to join you. Volunteers will be able to sign up tomorrow night as well. As always, we truly appreciate you choosing to sell and volunteer with us. Your support of Vestavia Day School is invaluable.
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Jeff Sessions Just Declared War on Medical Marijuana While Cozying Up To Big Pharma
In a shocking reversal of the progress made by the medical freedom movement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided to undo the right of individual states to set marijuana laws and instead will be subject to the dictates of the federal government.
But even worse, Sessions proved both his hypocrisy and corruption when his own DEA granted notorious pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics a virtual monopoly to make profits off of synthetic THC.
Jeff Sessions should focus on how Congress crippled the DEA's ability to fight the opioid epidemic. Instead he tramples upon states' rights and recreational marijuana laws.
64,000 Americans died last year from opioids. None have died from THC. But, you know, priorities.
A statement released on Thursday by the Department of Justice unveiled the new tyrannical philosophy:
"It is the mission of the Department of Justice to enforce the laws of the United States, and the previous issuance of guidance undermines the rule of law and the ability of our local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement partners to carry out this mission.
"Therefore, today's memo on federal marijuana enforcement simply directs all U.S. Attorneys to use previously established prosecutorial principles that provide them all the necessary tools to disrupt criminal organizations, tackle the growing drug crisis, and thwart violent crime across our country."
But in a shocking (though unsurprising) display of pay-to-play, Session's very own DEA—while classifying cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug—decided to classify the synthetic THC drug Dronabinol, produced by pharmaceutical company Insys Therapeutics, as Schedule 2.
Effectively, this gives Insys a monopoly over the "free market" of medical THC, a move that likely amounts to far more than just coincidence when you consider the company's long history of illegal activity.
As The Free Thought Project reports:
"For those who don't know, Insys has become notorious over the last two years after six former executives and managers were arrested on charges that they engaged in a nationwide scheme to bribe doctors to prescribe a drug containing the opioid fentanyl.
"Now this same group of dangerous drug peddlers is being given a partial national monopoly on the sale of legal THC, by the group who claims to protect Americans from drugs.
"Along with the executives, Michael Baich, the former CEO, was also charged in an indictment filed in federal court.
"Even the company's billionaire founder, John Kapoor was arrested in October for his role in the bribery scheme. He was freed on a $1 million bail after pleading not guilty."
Needless to say, the level of corruption at play here cannot be overstated, yet it's nothing new for the medical freedom movement which has fought tirelessly for years on this matter, and many others.
President Trump has consistently referenced the opioid epidemic sweeping the country, which seems like it should be a much higher priority than cracking down on a harmless plant.
Indeed, back in October 2017, the President officially declared the opioid crisis a "national public health emergency":


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I was in France, surrounded by patriotic French, yet I was 2,800 miles and an ocean away from Paris, in St.-Pierre and Miquelon. The two islands, 18 miles off southern Newfoundland, are the only remaining French outposts in North America.
For three days, as the thermometer hovered around 55, I had been peering through a low-lying fog that blanketed St.-Pierre and its harbor. But someone up there must love the French, because on Bastille Day, the sun broke through and by midday, when a sizable number of St.-Pierre's 6,000 residents gathered in the plaza to toast the motherland, the temperature had climbed to 70.
Twenty degrees more and I could almost have been in Iowa on the Fourth of July. Red, white and blue balloons floated skyward. The Rotarians and Lions staffed food booths. Burgers and hot dogs sizzled on grills. Children with red, white and blue-streaked hair queued up for carousel rides.
But, this being France, there was vin rosé for washing down those dogs, and plenty of barbecued demi coquelet (half-chicken) and gateaux (cake).
St.-Pierre and Miquelon — the two, separated by six miles of ocean, are referred to as one — once was a thriving cod-fishing community. St.-Pierre, the capital and home to most of the islands' population, is French to its core. There are good French restaurants serving escargot and frog legs. Pâtisseries sell plump, flaky croissants. Peugeots, Renaults and Citroëns dash through the narrow, potholed streets. (Unlike in Paris, they brake for pedestrians.) Restaurant patrons puff away on their Gauloises. When friends meet, they kiss on both cheeks. French is, of course, the native tongue, and many locals speak little English. (Fortunately, my French was good enough to get by.)
It's not the easiest place to reach, which may help account for the paucity of first-rate lodgings. I flew to New York, connecting to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fog and rain had caused cancellation of most flights into Halifax airport. (As the Halifax Chronicle-Herald headlined, "Tensions rise, jets don't . ") We were one of the few that got in.
The next day, I boarded a high-wing twin turboprop for the 350-mile trip to St.-Pierre, where I'd arranged for a rental car. Because of a mix-up, Garage Marie Norbert knew nothing of my booking but could offer me a car. The credit card machine wasn't working (a common problem on the island), and I had no euros, but they handed me the keys — no questions asked — and asked me to drop by in the morning.
I decided I was going to like this laid-back place that calls itself terre insolite (unusual land).
Tip of the hat to Big Al
I checked into Auberge de l'Archipel, a bed-and-breakfast on a residential street uphill from the harbor, one of several similarly modest accommodations. The no-frills room — no phone, no TV — had just enough space for a bed and small chest, but it was clean. (Nearby Chez Hélène, which was highly recommended, looked more upscale but was full.)
For a different experience, I also spent two nights at Hôtel/Motel Robert on the waterfront, where a little lobby museum in the original 1920s building is testament to St.-Pierre's onetime prosperity as a transfer point for Canadian liquor smuggled into the United States during Prohibition. There's a straw hat that belonged to Al Capone, who was heavily involved in same. I wondered whether public enemy No. 1, whose criminal enterprises included liquor smuggling, actually stayed at the hotel. "Oui, oui," said the woman at the desk, holding up an index finger. "One night" (in 1927).
At St.-Pierre, the liquor was taxed and warehoused — legally — until it was picked up by American rumrunners who smuggled it — illegally — by boat into the United States. As many as 300,000 cases a month passed through. When wooden cases proved too noisy, alerting authorities during offloading in New York, they were abandoned in St.-Pierre in favor of jute sacks with straw. The wood helped build many a house, including a cottage called Villa Cutty Sark, made entirely from whiskey cases.
It's said that flags here were flown at half-staff upon repeal of U.S. prohibition in 1933. The island went into economic decline and has never again been as prosperous.
Before there was whiskey smuggling, there was cod fishing. Its zenith was in the late 19th century; by 1992, overfishing had seriously depleted cod in the Grand Banks off Nova Scotia, and Canada imposed strict quotas. Today, diners will find fresh local scallops, mussels and salmon on menus.
At the contemporary Musée de l'Arche overlooking the harbor, visitors can gain an understanding, through old-ship memorabilia and vintage photos, of life in the heyday of fishing.
Just in back of the museum is a plaque dedicated to Gen. Charles de Gaulle, with his words of June 1940, when Germany occupied mainland France. "France has lost a battle but not the war." The islands were not occupied, but collaborationist Vichy France had control over French territories, which at the time included St.-Pierre and Miquelon. St.-Pierrais, as residents here are called, recount that on Christmas Eve 1941, four ships of De Gaulle's Free French forces landed at St.-Pierre and, without a shot being fired, liberated the islands. A plebiscite was held, with residents overwhelmingly voting to join the Free French.
Nearby is a World War I monument. St.-Pierre and Miquelon sent more than 400 men to that war. One-fourth did not return.
Daunting weather report
HAD I not been lucky enough to be in St.-Pierre on a glorious Bastille Day, I might have declared it rather gloomy. At times there was almost zero visibility on the roads, which haven't a single traffic light. (The island is only 10 square miles, so it's easy to cover in a short time.) On a cold, rainy day I asked a young woman at the Musée de l'Arche, "If this is July, what's winter like?" She just smiled and said, "Worse."
Perhaps it is the weather that inspired residents to paint their clapboard houses in vivid blues, greens, yellows, pinks and purples. They're built out to the curb on the narrow streets above the harbor, and they typically sport lace curtains and tambours, enclosed front porches the size of a closet. Very practical for keeping out winter's cold.
Wedged among the homes are shops selling French wine, clothing and perfumes and such oddities as "leather" goods fashioned from codfish skin. Local crafts tend toward nautical-themed kitsch.
It is St.-Pierre's remoteness, besides its Frenchness, that makes it seem otherworldly. Television didn't come to the islands until 1967. Computers have arrived, but no Internet cafes. My cellphone, which works most places, didn't here. (I bought a French phone card.)
The islands were discovered by Portuguese explorer João Alvarez Faguendes in 1520. In 1536, when French mariner Jacques Cartier visited, he found fishermen from France plying their trade in the islands. Many of today's residents are descendants from the French who settled here permanently in the 17th century. Others trace their roots to Acadians, French who were deported from Nova Scotia by the British in 1755 during French-British territorial disputes.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, St.-Pierre and Miquelon bounced between Britain and France; in 1816, the islands were returned to France.
The mother country, which St.-Pierrais refer to as the Métropole, heavily subsidizes the islands, providing money for projects such as the new airport. Officially, St.-Pierre and Miquelon is a self-governing collectivité territoriale.
Miquelon, geographically larger than St.-Pierre, has a population of 700 and is connected by a sand bar to Langlade, which is inhabited only in summer. No wonder. There's neither electricity nor running water, and in winter the temperature dips well below freezing. There's a small chapel, a cafe and a colony of summer homes. St.-Pierrais come to hunt, fish and escape "city" life.
At the suggestion of the St.-Pierre tourism office, I boarded the passenger ferry St. Georges one foggy morning, along with a few other tourists, some locals and a dog or two, for the hourlong journey over a gray and gently rolling sea to Langlade, where we anchored offshore and took a Zodiac in for a beach landing. There, our tour group, myself and two Canadian women, were met by Bianca, our English-speaking guide.
As our minivan drove the narrow dirt road past vast sand dunes, Bianca told us about the many ships that have met their end on these rocky shores. In the 16 miles from Langlade to the village of Miquelon, we saw ring-billed gulls and semi-wild horses that roamed a treeless landscape.
Fishermen from France's Basque region were among early settlers in the islands, and the Basque influence remains strong. (Miquelon is a Basque word meaning "Michael.") Bianca took us to the 1865 church on the square, Notre Dame des Ardilliers, which has pillars fashioned from the masts of wrecked ships and a ceiling resembling a ship's hull.
The town was decidedly sleepy, save for a workman scrubbing the fountain in the square in preparation for Bastille Day. Crime is so low that it's really a holiday for the two French gendarmes posted for three to four years on Miquelon, Bianca said.
Sending help from the Métropole is a centuries-old tradition. The Musée Héritage in St.-Pierre has trunks and other memorabilia brought by two nuns from Toulon assigned to the now-closed local convent in 1826. Brave souls — they knew nothing of the island, except that it was cold and that fish were abundant.
The museum occupies the old building of Northern Trading-Northern Export, once the most important Canadian whiskey importer. It's a nice exhibit, with photographs of the halcyon Prohibition days, as well as old bottles, barrels, jugs and whiskey crates.
A jubilant Bastille Day
THERE'S no better time to be in St.-Pierre and Miquelon than on Bastille Day, when French celebrate the storming of the Bastille in Paris in 1789, the event that signaled the start of the French Revolution.
A handful of elderly World War II veterans were VIPs at this year's opening ceremonies in St.-Pierre. I spoke with Fernand Lafitte, 86, a St.-Pierre native who was studying in France at the time of the German occupation. He escaped through Casablanca, Morocco.
"We were on an old boat full of chickens and geese," he said. "We weren't sure we were going to make it — until we saw the Statue of Liberty."
He served in the American Navy and, at war's end, came home and worked as an electrician on fishing boats. This proud Frenchman has attended every July 14 celebration since 1945.
Later in the day, as the square filled with celebrants, little boys wearing backward baseball caps wielded water pistols and tossed confetti. Madame Mayor Karine Claireaux, wearing a large République Française medal around her neck, worked the crowd. Women and girls from the Basque community entertained with circle dances. Down at the shore, there were dory races. Joie de vivre filled the air.
I wondered whether the St.-Pierrais thought of themselves as different from those other French. When I asked Bruno Arthur, a carpenter and town council member who's visited mother France three times, he said, "We live like North American people, but we are not American. We are French. We think bigger than in Europe. And we're not nervous, like in Europe. There's no stress out here. We take the best of France, the food, the cheese . "
A world apart
BY evening, the streets were laced with rivers of silly string. The public dance was underway in the Place. A heavy mist had crept in, and we waited in vain for the feux d'artifice (fireworks). A young woman from the tourism office said they had been postponed, perhaps until August and clearer skies. "Last year, we could hear them, but not see them," she explained.
I bought a glass of vin rosé, sat down at a picnic table and gathered my thoughts about this quirky outpost.
It had been summed up well, I decided, by Bill Marshall, a professor of modern French studies at University of Glasgow, Scotland, whom I had met here. He is researching a book, "The French Atlantic," essays on the cultural and literary histories of the French diaspora, including St.-Pierre and Miquelon.
He viewed Bastille Day in St.-Pierre — and St.-Pierre itself — as a "theater of Frenchness. They put on a good performance of being French."
"But then," he added, "the French put on a good performance of being French."
Chilling out on St.-Pierre and Miquelon
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Air Saint-Pierre has direct daily flights to St.-Pierre from Halifax (other cities available). Restricted round-trip fares begin at $261. (877) 277-7765, https://www.airsaintpierre.com .
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To call the numbers below from the U.S., dial 011 (the international dialing code), 508 (country code for St.-Pierre and Miquelon) and the local number.
Hôtel/Motel Robert, 11 Rue du Commerce, 412-419, fax 412-879, www2.st-pierre-et-miquelon.info/cv/6.html. Good location near harbor. Choose the 1920s building, where Al Capone stayed. Doubles from $127, including continental breakfast.
Hôtel Île de France, 6 Rue Maître Georges Lefèvre, 410-350, fax 410-380, https://www.hoteliledefrance.net . This 24-room in-town hotel has an inviting restaurant-bar. Doubles $109, including continental breakfast.
Auberge de L'Archipel, 19 Rue Beaussant, 417-200, fax 417-246; www2.st-pierre-et-miquelon.info/cv/9.html. No-frills bed and breakfast on close-in residential street. Doubles or singles, $62.
La Voilerie, 12 Rue du 11 Novembre, 415-300. Attractive, popular waterfront restaurant featuring fresh seafood and French cuisine. Entrees $14-$23.
La Feu de Braise, 14 Rue Albert Briand, 419-160. Up one flight in a less-than-promising location, it's short on ambience, but the food in this French-style brasserie is good. Entrees $14-$22.
Le Maringouin'Fre, 22 Rue du Général Leclerc,413-679. Busy nautical-themed cafe serving crepes, burgers, salads, soups, pizza at moderate prices.
Tourism Office, Place du Général de Gaulle, 410-200, fax 413-355, https://www.st-pierre-et-miquelon.info , English www2.st-pierre-et-miquelon.info.
— Beverly Beyette


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Copper, Gold Explorer Liberty Star Receives Updated ZTEM Bid
Copper, Gold Explorer Liberty Star Receives Updated ZTEM Bid
TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. ("Liberty Star" or the "Company")(LBSR: OTCQB) is pleased to announce receipt of a new bid for ZTEM electromagnetic (EM) geophysical studies from Geotech Ltd. ("Geotech"). The new bid is for fixed wing flight over the Hay Mountain portion of the Company's Tombstone Super Project in Cochise County, AZ. According to this latest bid, Liberty Star will see a savings of over 50% from the original helicopter borne proposal. Liberty Star is going forward with Geotech's required 50% deposit to begin the fixed wing ZTEM program within the next two to three weeks. The aircraft and staff are available within that time frame.
Total costs, including program mobilization/demobilization, the over-flight of the ZTEM survey, and reporting are $174,100.
Comments Liberty Star CEO/Chief Geologist Jim Briscoe: "While the new bid from Geotech is less than half the dollar amount of the original bid, Geotech assures us that the quality of the fixed wing program is similar to that of the original helicopter borne proposal. I have studied the Tombstone area for more than 40 years which includes numerous independent data and believe the ZTEM information will lead to information at depth below the geochemically indicated mineral bodies and thus more precise targeting for the drilling program to follow. The permitting process continues as we work on the Arizona State Land Department plans of operation requirements. One of these was submitted 4/25 with more to follow. The ZTEM does not require a permit as the airborne EM has no effect on the land. With drilling we expect to intersect porphyry copper, gold, moly, zinc and possibly rare earth elements as indicated in previous data including recent geochemical studies. The immediate task at hand is to fly the ZTEM survey. Of course continued funding remains an imperative as well."
"James A. Briscoe" James A. Briscoe, Professional Geologist, AZ CA
CEO/Chief Geologist
Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp.
Forward Looking Statements
Statements in this news release that are not historical are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this news release include our exploration plans, that total ZTEM costs are $174,100; and that ZTEM information will lead to information at depth below the geochemically indicated mineral bodies and thus more precise targeting for the drilling program to follow. Factors which may delay or prevent these forward-looking statements from being realized include: we may not be able to raise sufficient funds to complete our intended exploration, keep our properties or carry on operations; there may be cost overruns; misinterpretation of data is possible; and we may be unable to continue exploration due to permitting requirements, weather, logistical problems, labor or equipment problems or hazards even if funds are available. Despite encouraging data there may be no commercially exploitable mineralization on our properties. Readers should refer to the risk disclosures in the Company's recent 10-K and the Company's other periodic reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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At 08:03 AM 8/2/02 -0400, Dan Brickley wrote: >On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Graham Klyne wrote: > > > > > Dave, > > > > Short response: > > > > (a) you are picking up on points I've already agreed to change but which > > aren't reflected in the document. > > > > (The document revision you cite is not intended to be a candidate for > > review since it can change at any time, and as such is not a version that > > has been lodged in www-archive. Apart from a slip in the initial > > announcement, I've tried to cite only stable document revisions.) > >I've not yet done my review, though I did read through an earlier doc. > >Can you remind me which version is the review target? (and archive a new >snapshot at www-archive if appropriate). The current review target, released Monday and also lodged in www-archive, is: http://www.ninebynine.org/wip/RDF-basics/2002-07-29/Overview.htm (See: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Jul/0177.html for the www-archive URI.) (There is an accessible editors' working copy, which Dave cited in his recent message.) #g ------------------- Graham Klyne <firstname.lastname@example.com>Received on Friday, 2 August 2002 08:23:08 UTC
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Hispanic Heritage Month Trivia
You may already be teaching your children Spanish and raising bilingual learners. Now, test your knowledge on Hispanic Heritage Trivia!
Take a quiz on Latin Entertainers
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Play concentration for fun vocabulary practice.
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What event do Mexicans and Mexican-Americans celebrate on Sept. 16?
September 16 is Mexican Independence Day.
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Andean musical instruments.
What three U.S. states are home to most Hispanic-owned businesses? California, Texas and Florida.
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Marshall Bernardo de Galvez
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On May 5, 1862, Mexican forces defeated the invading soldiers of France at the Battle Of Puebla.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Stage fright
Then why do I get stage fright when it comes to posting code?
In my line of work, I write a lot of small, helpful scripts to take some of the monotony out of certain parts of my job. There aren't many functions I have left that don't have at least one py scrit associated with it.
At PyCon, I mentioned that I had written a library for Trac that printed out reports. It started out as someone wanting a listing of what had happened to my tickets over the past month. True, one can simply do a query against the database, but there's something quirky about the Trac database:
It's done in sqlite.
Sqlite SUCKS when it comes to date functions.
All dates are in unixtime. There are no functions for dates. You can't subtract a certain number of seconds from a unixtime date in a query. You can't call some cute function that gives you a date range. You have to work out the unixtime on your own and input it.
Sqlite people, I love you for making a lightweight database. I HATE you for this one oversight. Really? You didn't think people would care about time? Developers are cool, but not so cool that we've ascended the space/time continuum and live on a plane where all times are now and therefore irrelevant.
Anyway, after discovering this oversight, and getting tired of using online converters (no, I cannot do unixtime in my head), I decided to write a program that would do it for me. It hit against trac.db and got me all tickets for a month based on milestone. Even printed me a nice report.
After discovering how to do that, I got more requests for Trac reports. Over time, the library grew, function by function.
Anyway, the fellow Pythonista asked if I could share my code with him. Being the gregarious sort I am, I said sure! Upon returning home, I actually looked at the code, and began to panic.
Oh, crap. Now I knew how all those people who hated public speaking felt. Unfun. In order to stem the tide of dread, I started to analyze what had me so concerned.
Most of the need for small scripts grows organically out of a particular need. This leads to some strange code building strategies, like making functions too large, or forgetting to add docstrings. Or making functions -too- specific (I have several that make SQL queries and return the results. Surely this could be streamlined?).
It's the way of cubeland: someone catches on that you have a fast way to do one task, and you have people testing you with every variation of that task they can come up with.
Unique to me?
Is the code I write really useful to anyone else? I mean, I had a very specific need. Who else could possibly need a report that spits out all tickets that have been touched in the past ten days? Are other people really that obsessed with the Trac database? If there are, is there a support group I can join?
Can anyone else even understand this crap?
This fear came over me with my first programming class my sophomore year of high school, and has never really left. Can people understand the crap I write? Most of my work scripts are never meant to see the light of day. They sit quietly in a jumble, waiting for me to pop in and feed them some data, then get out. They're like the red-headed stepchildren of lore. Good for doing chores, but don't take them to the ball.
But it's just 300 lines!
Three hundred lines isn't a lot. I'm not sure how many lines make up the major frameworks that are about today, but it's sure as hell more than 300. Three hundred lines of code really rank their own Google code project?
At the end of the day, I decided to toss those worries aside and post the code. When I do public speaking, my last thought is often "What's the worse that could happen? Someone shoots me on stage? At least I'll end up on TV." What's the worse thing that could happen if I post some code? Someone ends up not using it? At worse, I get told what's wrong with the code, and I get a chance to learn and fix it up.
So the red-head is going to the ball. I encourage everyone else to take out their own step-children and see if they can do some other people some good.
5 comments:
- Coderanger said...
Two things, SQLite does actually have some limited date/time functions: http://sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html
Also, be sure to post your script on Trac-hacks! :-)
- April 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- Daniel Lindsley said...
You shouldn't worry. The point of open sourcing something is to help others. In return, you'll often get a little help back (bug reports/patches).
I do have a suggestion. You might consider doing string interpolation instead of concatenation on your queries. i.e.
query = "SELECT * FROM foo WHERE field = '%s'" % (my_var,)
Even better would be using the `parameters` argument to `execute`, as that will safely bind your data into the query. See http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/.
And in case no one says it sooner, thank you very much.
- April 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- _Mark_ said...
Yeah, at a quick glance, you probably haven't run into the quoting issue (milestones and status values are unlikely to have ' in them) but someone using the the interface without reading all the code might get caught by it, especially if they feed it untrustable user input.
I personally find that properly bound statements are more readable than language-level string mucking anyway - for example, getMilestoneOverview could say
cur.execute("select id from ticket where milestone = ? and status = ?", [milestone, status[0]])
(not tested, just extrapolated from some of my own sqlite code.)
- April 2, 2009 at 2:40 PM
- kcunning said...
@coderanger Do you know when that went in? I swear that wasn't in there two years ago. Awesome find, though!
Also, I'd be happy to get it into trac-hacks! I've certainly used them enough :)
@Daniel When I wrote the code, I still hadn't had to do much with string interpolation. I think I'll make that my first ticket for code clean-up :) And you're welcome!
@Mark - thanks for the tip! I definitely need some documentation to go with it. So far, only I've been the one to use the code, so I'm a test case of one :(
- April 4, 2009 at 1:57 PM
- Doug Hellmann said...
I wish there was a way to make reports like this through the trac query interface. We use some custom SQL through the report UI, but that makes it a little harder to parameterize the way you have here. Thanks for posting this, I'm going to subscribe to updates to the project!
- April 5, 2009 at 3:19 PM


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