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We all have our favorite creative times during the day, and for me, it's early in the morning while most of the world – well, mostly my children – remain quiet. With our "A.M. Inspiration" series, I post images of what currently has me inspired, the exciting new ideas I am dreaming up on my quiet mornings and share my thoughts on how to translate each piece of inspiration into stationery design and wedding invitations.
It was in college, while studying art and design, that I fell in love with chinoiserie. The Chinese-inspired prints have an ethereal feel that heightened my appreciation for this pattern.
This contemporary image, with the brushed metallic silver background that combines so beautifully with the watercolor-like-feel of the intricate and fanciful botanical imagery, is quite an inspiration. The winding tree branches painted in an unexpected robin's egg blue color adds to the overall whimsical quality of the print.
To translate these exquisite details into a stationery suite, I would simply suggest shimmering foil stamping paired with a soft letterpress color palette on a metallic neutral card stock. Some of our most popular designs were inspired by items and elements that aren't traditionally associated with weddings. A chinoiserie-inspired wedding invitation is officially on my design to-do list!


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Why does my girlfriend need space?
Hello, Me and my girlfriend have been dating for 8 months it will be nine tomorrow. Three days ago we got into a little fight over me wanting to see... Show More
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She feels crowded, and your getting needy. You should have not cared that she was going to hang out with her friends, a man only needs to care when she says she wants to hang out with an ex boyfriend. Give her space, when you talk to her again its very simple what to say, say sorry that I overreacted the other night, I know you just wanted to go and hang out with your friends, in the future if you want to hang out with your friends I completely understand. The important thing here is DO NOT call her over and over and over, too late right you already did it, now your in trouble, ok just let her have her space if you keep bugging her she will run from you because you will be seen as needy. The best thing to do is when you see her again kiss her not some little peck on the cheek either, you gotta kiss her like you mean it , and then say I'm not mad at you, we can talk when your ready to. Then walk away not from the relationship but walk away from her at that moment. If she still likes you she will tell you to stay or if she's still pissed and still wants the relationship she will call you, who knows maybe even come over to your house.
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I'm going through the very same thing with my boyfriend. I told him I need space because I feel very crowded. I'm sure your girlfriend loves you but I'm also sure she wants alone time and time to be independent from another person. It's very easy to "lose" ourselves once were in a relationship and time apart is usually a good and healthy thing. I'm sure she will appreciate your understanding. Good luck!
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The reason she wants a break is she is till trying to see what's out there you guys are young and that's what young people do so if I were you then let her go if she comes back then no worries but if not then you have not been waisting your time waiting for her. Besides maybe you might find a girl who will put as much and care as much for you as you do her. A sure fire way to tell is when your girlfriend walk side by side with you not in front of you or behind you
I'm in the same situation. Just yesterday, my girlfriend and I had a big fight (while drunk) wherein she told me that she needs space. She told me that she feels like she's lost a part of herself, that she no longer feels like the free spirit I met, and that she feels like she's missing out on life.
She had been signaling this to me for the past couple of weeks, but I thought it was just the normal ups and downs of a relationship. It wasn't.
The bottom line is that you can't make someone love you. Ever. I told this to my girlfriend after our argument, and I told her that I want her to be happy, so I'll give her space to her. In this type of situation, you kind of have to plan for the worse and hope for the best. I don't expect to get back together with her. Of course, I want to so much, and I love her dearly. But there's nothing I can do right now to make her want to be with me. It would be fake.
So, just try to come to terms with your "break" situation. In my book, a "break" is the same as breaking up, but with the option of getting back together. As long as you love her, that option of getting back together is up to her, not you. Just stay out of her life until she calls you - do not call her, do not visit her work, do not go to her house, do not talk about her to her friends. Occupy yourself with things that you've always wanted to do -- get a gym membership, go hiking, or whatever.
The best thing you can do to increase the chance of her wanting to see you again -- is to not reach out to her unless she reaches out to you.
Hope this helps.
Wow, aplfalcon. I did a random search on google for "why does my girlfriend need space" and your response to the above question exactly sums up what I'm going through currently. It's almost disturbing how accurate even the wording you used. "free spirit" "lost a part of herself" the while-drunk fight, "missing out on life" etc. And again, I thought this was the ups and downs as well. It's nice (?) to know other people have gotten through this. Thank you. -M
It's done, time to move on.
Seriously guy, you can't make anyone be in a relationship. If she wants out, then let her go. Sure, you may be heartbroken over it but that's ok, time will heal it. If you have treated her well during your 9 months and she still tells you she needs a break then there's nothing you can do about it but give it to her.
AND, don't ever let her know she hurt you.
IS A TESTIMONY, I NEVER BELIEVED IN LOVE SPELLS UNTIL I MET THIS SPELL CASTER CALLED DR UNITY. HE IS REALLY POWERFUL AND COULD HELP CAST SPELLS TO BRING BACK ONE'S GONE, LOST, MISBEHAVING LOVER AND MAGIC MONEY SPELL OR SPELL FOR A GOOD JOB.I'M NOW HAPPY & A LIVING TESTIMONY COS THE WOMAN I HAD WANTED TO MARRY LEFT ME 3 WEEKS BEFORE OUR WEDDING AND MY LIFE WAS UPSIDE DOWN COS OUR RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN ON FOR 3YEARS... I REALLY LOVED HER, BUT HER MOTHER WAS AGAINST US AND I HAD NO GOOD PAYING JOB. SO WHEN I MET THIS SPELL CASTER, I TOLD HIM WHAT HAPPENED AND EXPLAINED THE SITUATION OF THINGS TO HIM..AT FIRST I WAS UNDECIDED, SKEPTICAL AND DOUBTFUL, BUT I JUST GAVE IT A TRY. AND IN 48HOURS WHEN I WAS IN MY HOUSE IN USA, SHE CALLED ME BY HERSELF AND CAME TO ME, APOLOGIZING THAT EVERYTHING HAD BEEN SETTLED WITH HER MOM AND FAMILY AND SHE GOT A NEW JOB INTERVIEW SO WE SHOULD GET MARRIED..I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT COS THE SPELL CASTER ONLY ASKED FOR MY NAME AND MY GIRLFRIENDS NAME AND ALL I WANTED HIM TO DO... WELL WE ARE HAPPILY MARRIED NOW AND WE ARE EXPECTING OUR LITTLE KID, AND MY WIFE ALSO GOT THE NEW JOB AND OUR LIVES BECAME MUCH BETTER. IN CASE ANYONE NEEDS THE SPELL CASTER FOR SOME HELP, HIS EMAIL ADDRESS IS;email@example.com THANKS DR UNITY FOR YOUR GOOD WORK. ONCE AGAIN HIS EMAIL ADDRESS IS firstname.lastname@example.com
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I'm all new to this site, and i'm really exited about what content it brings, and I cant wait to study more! I work as a graphic designer in print, but have made several web designs. I have never wanted to start coding and developing until I came across this site, today!
I've already seen the video about "#6: Tools of the Trade: The Mac Software I Use for Web Design" video, but since i'm kind of a rookie in doing the coding part of a website I couldn't stop wondering if I really needed Coda, TextMate and all the other programs.
My goal is to get even more familiar with HTML/CSS and then learn to code website that are WordPress compatible.
So here are my questions:
1: So which software do you recommend for me, a rookie, that has basic HTML/CSS knowledge and very little PHP/WordPress skills.
2: Is dreamweaver enough?
3: Do you recommend using Flux3 ?
4: Anything else you would recommend for me? :)
Thanks for you answers. Looking forward sticking around these forums, and learn from the best.
Rasmus, Denmark.
I love Coda, but just used TextWrangler (free) for years.
I personally would steer clear of Dreamweaver
I love dreamweaver. I use dreamweaver cs4. I don't think you should stay away from dreamweaver. What you should stay away from is using the visual part of dreamweaver only. You should use the split screen to see the code and the design but you should work on designing your site using code only. The visual part is very helpful in allowing you to see your margins and borders. It also can be very helpful in finding unclosed tags that you might have forgotten about.
Dreamweaver is also great for uploading your files and using as an ftp program. You can set it up to save your file to the server on save. That saves a lot of time. You should watch all of the videos on this site and learn as much as you can.
It's about what you are comfortable with – for me Dreamweaver was too heavy.
This is everything I use.
Oh and Filezilla :)
I started off using Dreamweaver in the beginning. I used 'design mode' (lol – I don't recommend using it) and at some point I stopped using it and I never left 'code mode'. I like how Dreamweaver auto creates a quick and basic HTML document. My two favourite things about Dreamweaver are the colours (Probably because I used it for so long) the way it loads the .js and .css files when you open your HTML document (CS4), the find and replace is quite cool and you can highlight code, press 'ctrl + t' and start typing an element name and properties.
I now use Notepad++ because it has find and replace throughout open documents, it's light-weight and open source. I still miss the 'ctrl + t' lol.
The Advent of Online Editing is here and there's some pretty cool editors out there
Now trying Cloud9. I've used Dreamweaver for a while, and I like the split screen where you just hit f5 and you can see an actual rendering of the page without having to alt-tab over to chrome. However, I no longer have windows installed on any computer I own (Fedora 15 with GNOME3 is amazing), so I'm looking for a linux-compatible replacement. Not having to download stuff on every computer I use would be nice, so I'm gonna try both of those.
I believe in notepad ofcourse notepad ++ makes things even better that being said I now also use dreamweaver but only towards the end of the site creation mostly to check for bugs.
I got rid of Notepad++. I Just started using Sublimetext 2. I like it 100x more overall and FTP integration might land on it sometime soon.
@ChristopherBurton +1
I've actually dropped Textmate/Coda on Mac, E-TextEditor on Windows and Scribes/GEdit on Linux for SublimeText2. The only annoyance is that it doesn't have FTP integration. Besides that, it's more than perfect.
I may still jump back to Coda and E every so often for the FTP ability though.
I used a combination of TextMate, TextWrangler, etc, but I should check CODA out though, I used it once and thought it was sweet.
As to the why, it's simple and doesn't feel so heavy as Dreamweaver. It has way too many options for my liking when all I need to do is type a lot. :p
@Jamy_za I think I was actually looking for a Windows alternative to Coda when I found Sublimetext. If only I had a Mac..
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I prefer watching stuff with the original language, since in Finland only childrens shows are dubbed so one doesn't even hear dubbed stuff on TV.
But I must say I love the children series which I saw as a kid, as dubbed. I can't stand the voices of TMNT in any other language than Finnish, same with The Biker Mice from Mars etc
also same applies to old Disney movies, I love the finnish dubs (mostly way more than the english voices) but nowadays I prefer the english voices since the dubbing isn't so good anymore... but the old movies


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Music, entertainers and local food will be behind Burlington College, on the lakeside of campus, to celebrate the efforts of those involved with local food production. The festival's mission is to show Vermont's appreciation for all the local farmers and food makers' and thank them for their hard work.
The festival will also have demos with Vermont brewers, more than 15 taps, live music and art. The entire lineup can be viewed on WYSIWYG's website. This festival is unique in that the participating farmers teamed up with local restaurants or chefs and created a menu for the two day event.
If you'd like a little more privacy, the "Seated Eaters Society" serves four seperate meals created by a farmer and chef and will be in a more private area near the lake.
WYSIWYG begins August 23 at 11am and ends August 24 at 11pm. Tickets are $45 for a day pass and you can save a little with a two day pass. Children 12 and under are free.


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This is it! A year in the making! I've been walking around the same lake, once a month for a year, documenting the seasonal changes, the animals and the plants. Last night I took my final picture of this lovely, little lake path. Below is a photo compilation of the wooden bridge that crosses the lake. The photos start in October 2011 and ended last night, the last day of October 2012.
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Nature Walk: Christopher B Smith Preserve in Naples, Florida
Regular Nature Walk posts will return next month with the unveiling of the results of my yearlong photography project. In the meantime, please enjoy the photos and this recounting of my recent adventures in the Christopher B. Smith Preserve located in Naples, Florida, USA.
I recently had the opportunity to go on a tour of the Christopher B. Smith Preserve located in Naples, Florida, USA. The preserve is owned and managed by The Conservancy of Southwest Florida, an organization that works to preserve the natural habitats of southwest Florida. The preserve is "an eight-acre endangered upland and scrub habitat" and "is home to native plants and wildlife including the gopher tortoise, a threatened species in Florida" (Conservancy).
Ian Bartoszek, a biologist for The Conservancy and a friend of mine, lead the afternoon tour. As we carefully stepped through the fence and into the preserve the first thing I noticed was that the ground is made up of fine, white sugar sand. It is a soft sand compared to the type often found along the beaches of the Atlantic and it is pure white. The sandy ground made the scrub habitat feel so different from the areas of asphalt and manicured lawns that surround it. The white ground, a leftover seabed from millions of years ago, made this area feel like I was stepping into another world and into another time. Covering most of the sand was a light-green species of lichen, Foliose Ground Lichen (Parmotrema spp). As we walked through the preserve Ian asked all of us to stick to the paths, so as not to disturb this ancient species.
Looking around I noticed that The Conservancy had installed small wildlife cameras attached to the base of a few trees. The motion activated cameras are able to capture animal activity that people wouldn't normal get to see and the biologists are able to study these photos and share them with visitors of The Conservancy.
Also dominating the landscape are the beautiful purple flowers of the Chapman's Blazing Star plant, also known as Chapman's Gayfeather (Liatris chapmanii). These pretty flowers are typically a pretty purple color but every now and then, a white one will bloom. Among the sea of purple we found two of these white blooms very near each other. It felt like something special to see these rare flowers. Ian told us that seedpods from established plants like these could be harvested by conservation groups and used in other habitat reclamation projects. The use of these seeds is typical when reestablishing an area that may have had the natural scrub habitat devastated by logging, land clearing and other development.
As we walked through the scrub we could hear a gopher tortoise or two shuffling through the palms and undergrowth. The tortoises were camouflaged in the thick growth and I wasn't able to snap a photo of them on this trip. However, I was able to get a few photos of the entrances to their underground homes, which I put into the slideshow below. In addition to the threatened gopher tortoise, Ian told us that there is a very diverse group of animal and plant species (about 250 of them), from tiny spiders and amphibians to bobcats and coyotes, which live in this protected habitat.
We also found this amazing beehive that covered a good portion of a palm tree. I was lucky enough to have a good zoom on my camera and didn't need to get to close too these amazing, buzzing pollinators in order to get a good picture (also in the slideshow below).
The preserve is part of The Conservancy of Southwest Florida's new Nature Center. The center is currently being upgraded and when it is complete it will be open to the public later this year. Ian was able to give our group a quick tour of the progress so far, along with a visit to some of their animal residents, which I included in the slide show below.
I had a wonderful time on my nature walk and can't wait to come back soon. If you're going to be in Florida, be sure to stop by The Conservancy's Nature Center and get a tour of this unique area of Florida. Thank you to our guide, Ian Bartoszek, for showing us around and teaching us about the importance of preserving natural habitats.
The Nature Walk Project – Month 9: June
Location: Orlando, Florida, United States from 10:30am-11:30am
Weather: Sunny, windy and very low humidity, 75°F – High: 86°F Low: 73°F
Catch up on The Nature Walk Project: Month 1: October, Month 2: November, Month 3: December, Month 4: January, Month 5: February, Month 6: March, Month 7: April, Month 8: May
It's officially hurricane season in Florida and there is no shortage of wind or rain. During a typical Florida summer we get a rain shower every afternoon, for about 20 minutes and nearly at the same time everyday. As I walk around the lake today, the wind is strong and constant. A downpour last night left everything very damp with a wonderfully earthy aroma coming from every direction, as the sun heats up the damp ground. I can't actually photograph the wind for you, just the objects that it blows around, like the pages of my notebook above. I took this short video with my camera to give you a sense of the breeze as it whips through the cypress trees that grow along the lake. About 6 seconds in you can see one of the many birds that lives here, flitting from one tree to the other. I hope you're enjoying the weather and nature where you are! This is June.
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The Nature Walk Project – Month 8: May
Location: Orlando, Florida, United States from 10:30am-11:30am
Weather: Sunny and slightly overcast, 70°F – High: 76°F Low: 63°F
Catch up on The Nature Walk Project: Month 1: October, Month 2: November, Month 3: December, Month 4: January, Month 5: February, Month 6: March, Month 7: April
Spring continues to bloom around the lake. Every time I visit this bit of nature I see more and more signs of life. The birds are more active, the tall grasses that line the pathways are bursting out of the ground and have begun to drape over the walkway. The fresh, bright green growth on the cypress trees is already filling in and beginning to darken. For months now, I have visited this lake and marveled at the different types of animals that live in and around it. It turns out, that even after 8 months, there is still something new to discover. During my recent walk, I saw a family of otters making their way along the edge of the lake to the island in the middle and I was able to snap a couple of pictures as they bobbed in and out of the water. This family of otters and all of the other little bits of life and nature that I saw are in the slideshow below…this is May.
The Nature Walk Project – Month 7: April
Location: Orlando, Florida, United States from 10:30am-11:30am Weather: Sunny and windy, 77°F – High: 86°F Low: 63°F
Catch up on The Nature Walk Project: Month 1: October, Month 2: November, Month 3: December, Month 4: January, Month 5: February, Month 6: March
It's April and Spring is official, even though the weather in Florida has felt like spring since late February, but that's why so many of us love it here. It was a warm winter so there wasn't ever a time where the landscape looked completely baron, but what little did turn brown and die, is now coming back in pretty shades of light green.
The animals are busier than they have been. I saw the first bunny of the season and with Easter a week away, it seems like perfect timing. This little bird stopped to cool off along the edge of the lake, it was fun to watch him splash around. Continue Reading →
The Nature Walk Project – Month 6: March
Location: Orlando, Florida, United States from 5:00pm-6:00pm Weather: Sunny and windy, 84°F – High: 85°F Low: 68°F
Catch up on The Nature Walk Project: Month 1: October, Month 2: November, Month 3: December, Month 4: January, Month 5: February
I spent last month looking down, taking photos of the water's edge and all of the tiny bits of nature that live along it. Today, I looked up…
Seasons By The Bird
Every month when I visit and write about this lake and my walk along the crushed shell trail, I almost always mention the unbelievable amount of bird song that you can hear. It comes from every direction, birds of every size are tucked and nestled among the branches, completely unseen as they call and sing to each other. As winter continues to thin the branches of some trees, I can catch glimpses of these birds and get a sense of the vast variety of birds that call this little bit of nature, home.
It was this sense of home that got me thinking about these birds and the seasons. I was born up north in Pennsylvania. We got "real" winters up there, with lots of snow and ice. It was toward the end of winter, when you had just about had your fill of cold weather and runny noses, that a sign of spring would appear. The first birds of the new season, the robins, would return to our woods and you knew that spring wasn't far behind. Next we'd start to see the blue jays coming back, followed by the cardinals that would streak across the landscape in brilliant blazes of red.
Now that I live down south in Florida, the arrival of blue jays and cardinals mean something different here, they mean winter is on its way. This is the place the birds would come to when they disappeared from our wintery Pennsylvania woods. As I sit here listening to the birds, I catch glimpses of blue jays flying between the trees and I realize that it's when the blue jays leave, that I now know spring is on its way. So this month I pay tribute to the original "snow birds" and I've created a slide show full of the tree tops and the many birds that live above and below them, even if only for a short season.
The Nature Walk Project – Month 5: February
Location: Orlando, Florida from 2:00pm-3:00pm Weather: Sunny, 72°F – High: 82°F Low: 60°F
Catch up on The Nature Walk Project: Month 1: October, Month 2: November, Month 3: December, Month 4: January
As I walk along the lakeside path, the now familiar crunch of crushed shell and sand beneath my feet, feels welcoming. Shortly after arriving at the lake, I stop and take the time to admire this little patch of nature that I have been exploring and documenting for the last five months. Every time I arrive, I'm worried that I've run out of things to discover here…maybe I won't have anything to photograph…and every time nature proves me wrong. This time was no different and as I stood worrying, I looked around and an empty shell along the lake edge caught my eye. It was then that I realized, for five months now I've stuck to the path and never explored more of the lake that I circle every month. I've missed an entire element of this lovely area. Today, I stepped off of the path and walked along the water's edge.
It's winter (yes, even a high of 82°F is still winter) and there is so much new life to discover here. Tiny fish, delicate little lily pads and bright green shoots of the new water grasses and reeds peeking out of the sand. I wish that my camera could capture the sparkles that dazzle and twinkle off of the water top as sunlight catches the small ripples moving along the water's surface.
Some of you may remember my encounter with a snake back in October and it turns out that February offered another snake experience. You can see (in the slideshow below) the tiny little guy tucked between the moss and grasses as he floats, patiently waiting for me to pass by before darting out of the lake and into the nearby grasses.
The snake wasn't the only "wild life" that I encountered on this trip. I caught a cat slinking along the lake edge, chasing butterflies and stalking small bugs. He visited with me for a few minutes before walking to the path and going on his way. I stayed by the water, where I continued to explore and find more shells, a feather floating in the water and bits of flora and fauna that I'd never noticed before.
Standing at the water's edge, listening to the sounds of fish flopping in and out of the water, a bright sun overhead and a delicate breeze blowing through my hair…this is February.
The Nature Walk Project – Month 4: January
Location: Orlando, Florida from 9:00am-10:00am Weather: Sunny and Slightly Breezy, 69°F – High: 76°F Low: 55°F
Catch up on The Nature Walk Project: Month 1: October, Month 2: November, Month 3: December
I step onto the lake path and see that a light drizzle has left everything dewey and glistening. There's a slight breeze blowing, creating small swells across the lake's surface. I can hear the constant chirping and tweeting of birds, as they sit invisible, among the branches and leaves of trees on the island in the lake.
As our mild Florida winter eases into January, I look back at my records and see the temperatures haven't changed much since October. Then a strong wind gust reminds me that a cold front from Canada is making it's way down the country, bringing colder temperatures and what will be our first freeze in over a year. I hope all of delicate new growth and flowers that I see will make it through the cold blast.
It's quiet on the bridge that crosses the lake. The wind is strong up here and the biting cold hurts my ears as it blows by. There is a flock of Anhingas today and they start to flap and call as I approach. One even leaves its perch, high above the trees, and glides down to the rocks in front of the bridge. Upon landing, it spreads its wings and points his head toward the sky as though he is posing just for me.
As I make my way further around the lake I'm met with a final gust of cold air, followed by a parting in the clouds that reveals a stream of sunlight, which provides a brief reprieve from the bitter cold. As I stand in this tug of war between sunlight and wind, I am reminded of the traveler from Aesop's Fable, The North Wind and the Sun. Then I think to myself…this is January.
The Nature Walk Project – Month 3: December
Location: Orlando, Florida from 1:00pm-2:00pm Weather: Sunny, 79°F – High: 79°F Low: 62°F
It's December in Florida, which means I'm sitting on my bench (see the October post for more about "my bench") in shorts and a t-shirt. I'm out later than usual and the light is certainly different, very bright and directly overhead. This time of day is quieter than the morning, only a few birds chirp in a nearby tree. A gentle breeze blows through, rustling the leaves of the trees on the island and the grasses that grow along the edge of the lake.
There haven't been any drastic changes to the landscape since last month. The Pink Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris) has lost its brilliant mauve colored ends, which are now a light tan color. The browning Cypress Trees (Taxodium distichum) continue to lose needles but if you think that means autumn has set in, just look through their thinning branches where you'll see lush trees surrounded by green grasses.
It's during the month of November, and into December, the Florida Coontie plants (Zamia floridana, Z. integrifolia, Z. umbrosia) develop cones and set their seed. The seeds are a brilliant yellowish-orange color that slowly darkens to a deep reddish-orange color. Coontie plants are prevalent in Florida and are very slow growing. I find these plants fascinating because they are part of an order of plants called, Cycadales or Cycads. Many of these plants have been in existence since dinosaurs walked the earth over 200 million years ago. These are the direct descendants of plants that the herbivorous dinosaurs ate. How cool is that? If you live in Florida, you probably have one of these prehistoric plants growing in your backyard right now. So, next time you pass one, take just a second to marvel at the Jurassic leftover that's slowly and steadily growing through yet another century.
On this nature walk I was lucky enough to spot an Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga …seriously) warming itself on the rocks that line the small pool under the bridge. These birds are common in Florida and are also known as Water Turkeys, Darters or Snake Birds because of their long, bending, snake-like necks. They often swim through the water with only their head out, then dive below the surface to fish. They can often be seen, as I saw, sunning themselves along the water's edge with their wings outstretched to be dried and warmed. This day, as the Anhinga finished drying himself, he slipped into the water where he swam unseen, only to reemerge with a flopping fish in his beak. The little fish did its best to get away and I could see it wriggling furiously all the way down the bird's throat, which I suspect is an odd feeling for both bird and fish.
I'm so glad that I get to welcome another month in this beautiful location, surrounded by such a wide variety of animals and plants. After just 3 months of nature walks I feel like I have been able to see some pretty unique things and this month has been no exception. I'll leave you with more pictures of the Coontie plants and the Water Turkey's fishing expedition. Until next month…this is December.
The Nature Walk Project – Month 2: November
Location: Orlando, Florida from 11:00am-12:00pm
Weather: Sunny, 69°F – High: 74°F Low: 65°F
It's already been a month since my first Nature Walk! During October the temperatures crept up to the high 80′s and even the low 90′s, but now they've dipped back down into the 70′s. I suspect this won't last long and we'll get few more weeks of warmer weather before the real winter weather settles in.
As I step onto the shell path, there are scattered Fall leaves and down by the water's edge there are fresh green plants with delicate white flowers. There is a near constant breeze today and it creates a pretty rustling noise among the trees on the nearby island. I sit on the wooden bench that overlooks the lake and the cool breeze gently swirls my hair, while the brightly shining sun warms my back. The branches on a nearby Cypress Tree (Taxodium distichum) bounce in the wind and I notice a small, abandoned wasp nest. After many attempts, I finally manage to catch a clear photo of it.
As I continue down the path, I can't help but notice that the Pink Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia capillaris), that lines the path and circles around the entire lake, has started to bloom. It fills the water's edge with bursts of feathery, mauve colored mounds. I run my fingers along them as I step onto the wooden bridge. I can see that the water is clear today and peering over the railing, I can see straight to bottom of the small pool above the falls. Lily pads are blooming and the flowers bob back and forth as fish swim beneath them. The near constant wind is stronger on the bridge and it carries the light scent of lake water, reminding me of all the other lakes that I've had the pleasure of visiting over the years.
I let the gentle sound of the falls calm me as I watch the fish darting to and fro among the reeds. Occasionally I can hear bird calls in the background and overhead. Fully restored by the serenity of this spot I continue on my way, circling around the lake, all the while snapping pictures of the micro bits of nature tucked here and there. A gentle breeze and the warm sun accompany me. This is November.
Learn more about the Nature Walk Project here: The Nature Walk Project


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I came, I saw … and I got owned.
My experience with the invitation-only multiplayer beta for "Halo 3″ ended up being a lot more than a fact-finding mission – it also became a quick refresher course on both gaming culture as well as the roles of "taste" and "style" in online play.
If you're new to gaming and don't quite know what a beta is, think of it as a rough draft or VERY early tour of a game.
You get the basic foundation of the gameplay, as well as an idea of what the game is going to offer in terms of features and visuals. Stuff like glitches, bugs are expected, since the game is nowhere near finished yet.
"Halo" is one of console gaming's most popular franchises, mostly because it gave many console players a chance to go online and blast each other for hours. It gave many gamers that vintage online action experience that PC users had already been enjoying for years.
Tons of hype and fanfare followed the first two "Halo" games, which will make "Halo 3″ probably the most anticipated game of the year, at least in the eyes of the mainstream. If you see throngs of gamers in stores on Sept. 25, you'll know why – that's when "Halo 3″ is supposed to come out for the Xbox 360.
The beta doesn't give you the option to shoot computer AI opponents for practice – you get tossed right into the fire against other people, so you learn on the job.
One nice feature was "matchmaking," where the game attempts to find other players that either match or come close to your skill level. If you're in a "rumble pit" match (free-for-all deathmatch), this is an effort to ensure you don't get stuck with a bunch of ringers. In team competition, the matchmaking tries to make sure you and your buddies don't get put up against some all-star team. Sometimes it worked … and sometimes it didn't.
In terms of playing, "Halo" vets will feel right at home with the controls – not much has changed. It took me a while to get used to holding two weapons at the same time (dual-wielding), as well as getting used to the run-and-gun, breakneck pace of the matches. It also took me a while to get used to jumping again, as well as using a very useful "Halo" tool – the melee attack.
It took me a few games before I started notching a few kills, simply because my "Rainbow Six Vegas" instincts kept kicking in and getting me annihilated. Unlike "R6," there's no button-press cover system in "Halo," nor do enemies die after taking just a few bullets. For a few seconds, I forgot that "Halo" players have a rechargeable personal shield.
One thing I wanted to check out were the new weapons and gadgets. One fun item I got to use was the "bubble shield," which you may have seen in the "Halo 3″ trailer a while back.
After you snatch one, press the X button to lay it down and form a protective energy dome around you that blocks practically anything.
It's only temporary, but I've already seen a few expert players use it in a lot of creative ways. I once saw one player set up a shield and trap another player inside … with just a grenade to keep him company. I call this the "phone booth of death" technique, and I hope to pull it off at least ONCE before I die.
Another new weapon I stumbled upon was the Spartan Laser. If you've played "Gears of War" and have seen the Hammer of Dawn, think of the Spartan as its horizontal cousin.
While the Hammer rains down an energy beam from the sky, you can actually point the Spartan like a rifle and unleash its death-dealing payload on anyone (or anything) that gets caught in front of it.
I felt the power of the Spartan Laser firsthand – I saw a flicker of red light near my feet, and then witnessed a fearsome beam carve a smoky trail right in front of me. The guy didn't miss the second time. Oddly enough, his gamertag was something like "ChuckNorris." I learned a very fast lesson then: Run away from lasers … especially if Chuck Norris is pulling the trigger.
The beta featured three maps, two of which I really liked. The first one was "Snowbound," where you do a lot of fighting in fresh powder as well as a network of underground tunnels and small bases.
The other map I liked was "Valhalla," which featured what a lot of people are calling the "man cannon." It's essentially an energy platform that literally shoots you into the air and across the map (hence the term). It adds a little bit of limited aerial combat to the experience, and you can actually use it to launch you AND a vehicle into the fray. It's awesome.
I also discovered the ability to detach heavy machine-gun turrets and carry them around, like Jesse Ventura's character in "Predator." It slows you down, but say good-bye to anyone who's in your sights when you pull the trigger. The same goes for the portable missile pod.
In terms of overall visuals, the game looks like it's going to be in the good-to-very-good range. The textures and detail on the weapons looked very good, and there were some cool visual effects when bullets hit the water.
However, if the game were released right now, I'd still put the glitzy shine of "Rainbow Six Vegas" and the decimated beauty of "Gears" ahead of it. I just need to see more, and there's plenty of reason to believe the finished product could be something special.
There's still a lot more stuff to discuss, such as the ability to "record" your match and watch it over again, kind of like the way pro athletes study film to scout an opponent. There's also more weapons and various match modes (all rocket launchers, all sniper rifles, etc.) But sadly, there's not enough space.
I had fun with the "Halo 3″ beta, and I'm probably going to be playing it until it ends on June 6. Whether it'll be enough for me until Sept. 25 – time will tell.


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Over on Techememe the main headline this Sunday morning was a post by Paul Graham on the Y Combinator blog titled Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund. Y Combinator is a venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups. In this post he outlines 30 ideas that Y Combinator is interested in funding. Many are obvious, some are interesting and others perhaps a bit off (or already in motion-perhaps even funded by Y Combinator themselves). But that is not what i found interesting that made me start this post with my cup of coffee in hand.
What got me thinking was that one of the things i usually get asked the most when i tell people i work for Dow Jones (formerly Factiva a Dow Jones & Reuters Joint Venture) is why do i work for such a huge blue chip company (and it is not only the brand blue colors that they are referring to!). When i tell them that i am going on nine years with the company~ scrunched eyebrows tend to come out on the questioners face. I won't lie to you that i sometimes think very comprehensively about leaving and going to some what i think is a promising start-up. Since moving to Silicon Valley three years ago i think about it even more, even going through the process of evaluating very carefully some serious opportunities- but not jumping on any as of yet. Just recently i was asked again and my stock response was 'when the right thing comes that feels right' i will'.
So as i read the Y Combinator's post about Startup Ideas that they are interested in, i started thinking about some of the things that i think that Dow Jones in all its incarnations is doing right that definitely impacts the reason as to why i am still around. So here are some of them:
#3- New News-
Yes traditional newspapers are in trouble and Dow Jones owns a bunch of them including the Wall Street Journal online and print publications, the Ottaway Community newspapers and other publications like Barron's. With their online news publications ventures, they certainly try to innovate from making Facebook applications for WSJ.com around 'what your friends are reading' to supporting and growing the All Things Digital Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology (and which according to the site runs autonomously as a small online startup), that tends to venture off 'traditional' reporting methods but yet maintains journalist integrity.
But i don't think that is what Paul Graham was referring to or at least that is not how i read it and where i think there is opportunity- the 'New' part of 'New News' is what is interesting to me. 'Traditional' reporting is not going away anytime soon and it shouldn't. Adding blogs to the news output is only one answer but what Dow Jones is delivering in the marketplace and doing is researching and investing in new ways of producing 'New news' by using technology to produce content out of content. Look at its recent acquisition of Generate Inc that brings extraction technology and relationship mapping into the picture and the work that the Algorithmic and Quantitative Trading product group does within its real-time products. Also let's not forget the work that the Factiva business line has done in regards to News visualization and metadata application across over 10,000 aggregated news sources in 22 languages. All with the aim to get more context out of the content that is being produced by the different media outlets. News readers don't want to read the same story over and over again or spends hours per day looking through headlines, they want intuitive ways to digest the massive amount of content that is being produced to give them the information they need.
#7. Something your company needs that doesn't exist.
I am going to bend this one a bit- but the premise is the same because of the downstream affect on the core business. Switch 'company' in this statement to 'client' and you get the basis for the Dow Jones Client Solutions (DJCS) organization which i have been part of for the last 6 years and have had the honor of driving a lot of the innovation of. Sure traditional 'consulting services' where customized solutions are built for clients are probably not to be considered start-up materials that Y Combinator would look at, but the DJCS group tends to be the ones that are called in when something a 'client' needs does not yet exist as a core product offering. The reason i liked my job as a Solutions Architect was that anything my client and i could think of would most likely be possible because of the flexible infrastructure we had built on the Factiva fully enable Web Services platform. What happens however is that some of the custom needs that get designed, developed and delivered eventually end up as part of the core product strategy. Examples are Newsletter creation tools that although continue to have customized components are also now built into the core Factiva.com product with its newsletter features and sales triggering capabilities that are now part of the SalesWorks suite of products.
#14. Tools for measurement.
Once again allow me to bend this a bit (perhaps a bit to much, but i am just trying to make a point here!) The Y Combinator idea request is measurement of productivity in corporations- to answer the question of where people spending their time and who are the most productive. I think that other parts of measurement that are going to be important in Organizations that could essentially tie into productivity gains is the tracking of influence within an organization. For example, take a look a the Community Equity project that Sun Microsystems is pushing forward with SunSpace (note: Dow Jones has no involvement in this project, i am just a fan!).
If you have been following my blog for a while you have read some of my posts on Media Measurement which includes both mainstream and Social Media. Four years ago Factiva acquired a company that had technology specializing in media monitoring and reputation management which turned into our Factiva Insight product suite (now Dow Jones Insight)~ way before people where talking about social media monitoring we were doing some of it. In the last few years that group has innovated quite a bit in the marketplace, and although i personally think that they could do much more i think that there continues to be a big opportunity in measurement tools. As Enterprises continue to use social media internally and externally to collaborate and communicate measurement tools can be used internally as well to measure business impact.
#16. A form of search that depends on design.
The majority of the search options across the Dow Jones properties are premium services that require a subscription of some sort- so the target market is not to beat out 'free search' but i think that a lot of the success of parts of our business has been the ability to provide search tools that have the user in specific vertical markets mind. In January of 2006 Factiva launched Search 2.0 in order to address the change in our core user search market for a simpler but more powerful search. The Search 2.0 interface uses visualization to present relevant search results by utilizing varies technologies to extract metadata and content elements of each article across the premium content, web content and multi-media content that is aggregated. Exciting enhancements to continue leveraging entity extractions for content context are also on the way.
20. Shopping guides.
No we do not have services for shopping, but we are capable of working with clients around this topic and increasing our resources to support customers in this space. As of the end of last year, I became the business development manager for Synaptica and taxonomy services in the DJCS group because i saw these types of markets as being part of our future growth. Our services and Synaptica tool can be used to create and manage taxonomies, thesauri, name catalogs and other authority files that can drive some of the " how do you decide what you want?" features that Y Combinator is looking to invest in. Forward looking investments a couple years back when we acquired the Synaptica product suite and continuous product enhancements ensures our solutions are for example compatible with Semantic technologies by supporting RDF, OWL, SKOS etc. are positioning us very nicely in the space where i thinking online shopping, search and advertising is going.
Like what Paul writes at the end of his post, my own post was an interesting exercise for me as well. I have been away from work for almost two weeks and gave the question of 'what am i doing a Dow Jones' a bit of time as i sat poolside and pondered my next few months. When i started with Factiva, the joint venture was just beginning and we did feel like we were working for a startup. With the News Corp acquisition of Dow Jones last year, one of things that i hoped to see was more strategic investment in some of these 'start-up' ideas. So far i have been pleased with what i have seen from my vantage point. Sure things don't move as fast as i would like them to and many times i get disgusted with the massiveness that the company is (e.g. 7 months to setup a public web page that is only text based and 4 months to get a press release out). I unfortunately do not have the privilege of being able to able to touch all the parts of the business that i think are innovative because i am only focusing on one part of the business; but i think this exercise on a Sunday has been important one for me to be able to look at the company i work for and feel that there are parts that are on the right track and that for the time being i am in a good place with that.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
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- Никола said...
The majority of the search options across the Dow Jones properties are premium services that require a subscription of some sort- so the target market is not to beat out 'free search' but i think that a lot of the success of parts of our business has been the ability to provide search tools that have the user in specific vertical markets mind
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- Eric said...
Thanks for posting on some of the great things Dow Jones is doing -- and some things we could be doing better or more efficiently. You bring an "XML Web Services" analysis to your job and commentary.
"XML Web Services" is my new coinage for the vastly overused "out of the box." XWS, maybe? Of course, no one would know what it means ... "Picasso's Three Musicians is so XWS."
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We don't have a proper entry, rather you enter into one big room that contains our dining room, living room and kitchen. It typically looks like this (but with more junk). The old Pottery Barn mirror box on the wall holds keys and sunglasses and the Mister's hats and accessories are dumped into the bin below it. I've never been quite happy with it in this house. It just looks too small, out of place and off center too.
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