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31 August 2007
I watch this every few days and it makes me laugh every time!
the scent of fall
Today, we had lunch at one of my favorite places, Cafe du Jour. They have this gorgeous patio outside. It's like a hidden, sunken garden. Even though it's not sunken! It is decorated with stone figures and wall hangings. It's super cool. I love gardens that look kind of wild and secret.
They have some tomatoes and flowers growing by the brick walls, a little water fountain and this fabulous pseudo sculpture garden pictured at right.........
I love it!
Plus, they have delicious food! I had roasted veggies over polenta.
So, it's a holiday weekend and we are probably going to take a ride in the country on Monday- the other day in the car I had the distinct urge to ride out to the country and get a whiff of cow poop on the air! Don't ask me why?! It's a mystery. Saturday and Sunday I will go to my studio and decide what to do next. I think I need to go to the zoo to see the polar bears in action and take some pictures of them.
I went to an art opening tonight at Carnegie Mellon. One exhibit was Dee Briggs, a metal sculptor. My favorite pieces were the paper maquettes (miniature models) of her torqued flat forms. There was one large floor standing sculpture that was made of steel and was like a 3 dimensional line drawing of a squiggle shape. A second sculpture was suspended from the ceiling and created a graceful delicate shadow drawing on the wall.
In the upstairs gallery, was the furniture design of Nakashima-- it was very finely crafted, beautiful furniture with inlaid wood, triangle joints.... I don't know much about wood-working or the terminology but these pieces were very simple and elegant and well made. A lovely example of form following function.
Ugh- off to clean the green room and make some drawings!
28 August 2007
27 August 2007
middle beginnings
Above are some images of works in progress from my studio. These are some swirly cutout ink drawings getting ready to migrate to a collage or multiple collages. Not really sure yet.
This is Murray, the barrel shaped polar bear. You can't really see his nose but it's there in front. He only has two legs at the moment.
20 August 2007
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
~groucho marx
Fruit flies like a banana.
~groucho marx
18 August 2007
Sally Tomato
I am off to a ridonkulous start this morning as I drove around aimlessly for a little while looking for a parking place so that I could get a coffee. Finally, I pulled into a metered spot to realize I didn't have any quarters. I was so disgusted I just came home.
Every time I do some internet surfing I am amazed at this invisible network of bloggers/etsy shop crafty artsy fashiony people that all seem to link to each other. I always seem to find myself on these blogs looking at different art and design.
Like this
or this
or this.
I have been thinking a lot about color combinations lately, like pink and orange,
turquoise and yellow, and purple and red
15 August 2007
i am a walking faucet
Well, after a weekend away in Boston and New Hampshire for Brenda and Tom's wedding- I came home Sunday and promptly got sick.
It is now Wednesday and I am still a stuffy snotty mess. This was supposed to be my art-making studio week and it's turned into my "I need to take a nap and drink lots of fluids" week. What's a girl to do.
Anyhoo- here is a summary of the weekend.
Friday, our flight was delayed for FOUR hours and some of my beloved beauty products were confiscated because I forgot about the 4 oz. + plastic bag rule. :( When we finally did arrive in Boston, we picked up the rental car and hightailed it over to the waterfront where we grabbed lunch at Quincy Market, ice cream at Emack & Bolio's (YUM) and then went to the ICA which is AWESOME!! The building was designed be Diller + Scofidio and is really slick, the /front/ hangs out over the water and there is a deck and stadium style platform seating situated outside underneath an extended part of the museum. When you're inside, you look out the window onto the harbor and feel like you're right over the water. When you're sitting outside, it's sheltered and cool and it will be a great place for events and music. Inside, the walls and floors curve into each other instead of being at right angles. When you are in the galleries, you sometimes steal glances through the glass windows to other floors, other galleries or the water outside. On view -a great photography exhibit of works by Philip Lorca di Corcia which gathered together several different bodies of his work- street photos, heads, hustlers, and strippers. It was a great survey and I was really struck by his ingenius use of lighting and composition.
Also on view, Louis Bourgeois- sculptures and drawings. Including a room with a gigantic sculpture of a spider-- that the viewer walks under. It was quite incredible!
After the gallery, we went to Doug's cousin's house in Wellesely where we had a great dinner outside with grilled fish and steak. Then to sleep.
Friday and Saturday were wedding festivity days. Brenda was a gorgeous bride in a strapless ivory colored gown that gathered diagonally along the bodice. Saturday consisted of taking loads and loads of pictures-- the actual wedding ceremony, where we all cried and then the reception and celebration in a barn at the inn. We ate a lot of food, frolicked in the midst of the White Mountains of Chocorua and met a lot of family.
Sunday, we had a final brunch in the barn-- said our goodbyes to the wedding party and drove back to Boston. We had some time before our flight so we walked over to the North End and had a delicious lunch of calamari meatballs-- and homemade pasta with calamari in white wine sauce. It was delish! We polished that off with a latte and a break at a cafe and then headed to the airport.
Unfortunately, I woke up in the middle of the night Sunday with a sore throat and swollen glands and have been a sicky ever since. I'm kind of bummed out that I am not able to fulfill my image of myself spending hours in my studio and creating but I've learned the hard way that my health comes first.
Meanwhile, the garden was prolific in its output of tomatoes while we were gone. I spent this afternoon trying to make pasta sauce and I still didn't use up all the tomatoes.
Things I'm thinking about:
A brand new wardrobe
Yummy treats
painting the bedroom
ways to decorate the spare bedroom on a budget
04 August 2007
a world of books
I just finished reading Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress yesterday. I picked this book up a few years ago, read the first two chapters, then let it go. I was at the library the other day, and checked it out again, and it was well worth it. I was swept into the narrator's world ---set during the cultural revolution in China on Phoenix Mountain. Our narrator is the son of a Surgeon and plays the violin while his best friend, Luo, is the son of a Dentist and a passionate storyteller. We meet the boys in a work camp where they have been sent for re-education while their parents are named enemies of the state. The first chapters describe the boys daily lives and grueling work. Half way through, it really became interesting, pitting the lack of culture and backward thinking of those in the village against the curiousity, interest and evolving thirst for books, film, etc.. by the two boys and the Little Seamstress.
I am getting ready for my Mom and Jim to come visit today in Pittsburgh. More later!
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John Stott "Before Christ sen the Church into the world, He sent the Spirit into the Church. the same order must be observed today."
There is much confusion over the giving of The Holy Spirit, firstly He was always there, secondly Jesus had already 'breathed upon His disciples' and they came back with glorious testimonies. Thirdly, Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit there times in the upper room discourse: John 14:26; 15:26 and 16:13. The Holy Spirit was already moving in the life and ministry of Jesus and the disciples, He was 'falling on them' but not in them. Pentecost was the "plug in time" the connection with the mains supply, we got plucked in.
Many Christians today believe that Pentecost was ONLY for the first century Church (secessionists), a 'kick-start' as it were for the young embryonic Church to "go into all the world."… This doesn't stand up theologically, historically or experiential. The apostle speaks of "go on being filled" (Eph 5:18) its in the continuous tense. Historically, the testimony of many disciples of Jesus throughout history also prevails as well as the countless personal and corporate experiences, Azusa street, the Hebridean revival, the welsh revival etc.
In Acts 2 we witness 3 P's that support Christ's continuous work here on earth as it is in heaven.
The Spirit of PROMISE: 'When the day of Pentecost (harvest festival) came, they were all together in one place' (vs1) The disciples were following Jesus' instructions to wait 10 days, 'Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised (vs14). We, too, are unable to control God's Spirit, but we can trust His plans for our lives. Like the surfer waiting to catch the wave, timing is everything if we want to be used by Him, but like very ocean, there will always be another wave, if we happen to miss one, another will soon be coming, all we need to do is be ready, watching, waiting and ready to respond.
The Spirit as POWER: 'All of them were filled with he Holy Spirit' (vs4) Just as we are dependent on electric power in our homes, we need the Spirit to continuously impart His power, His gifts and His fruit into our daily lives. It is the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead that lives in us - no wonder Paul wrote: 1 Corinthians 6:19 "Do you not know, that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit'.
There is no longer a temple in Jerusalem where God presides "let us go to the house of the Lord" because we are now that dwelling place, 'He that is in us is greater that he that is in the world.'
The Spirit's PURPOSE. 'The disciples began to speak in other tongues (languages) as the Spirit enabled them.' (Vs4)
The Curtain was torn and we now have access to God, the seal of the spirit has been written across our hearts, so that the fruit (the character of Christ) and the power (the ministry of Christ) can be displayed before one another and the world.
All Christians have the Holy Spirit, this happens at baptism but not all Christians are baptised IN The Holy Spirit, Jesus said to Nicodemus, "you must be born of water (baptism - belief) and The Spirit' (power and equipping). There is a second baptism which many have not yet received.
The promise and empowering of the Holy Spirit enables believers to sense God's immediate presence, to minister like Christ and live as He did in character - 'love, joy, peace….…' (Gal 5) Christians are Christians because the word means 'little Christ's'. We are filled essentially to love those God sends to us, we, like Christ are to empty ourselves of me so we have He in us who is greater.
God's Pentecostal purpose was that we share this love before a world desperately in need of it.
'before Pentecost the disciples found it hard to do easy things; after Pentecost they found it easy to do hard things' (A J Gordon) Amen.


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Here is a series of pics my sweet cousin snapped on the 4th of July for us. My kiddos are ages 4 and 1.5 - needless to say, sitting down, and smiling quietly for the camera does not work for them...you can see how successful we were in getting a single picture with everyone looking and smiling. :) And, even if it was possible, in reality, it doesn't really capture them as they are or the special relationships we share.
My job, as an on-location Lifestly photographer, is to allow my clients to sit back, relax, and enjoy a few hours of time together without worrying about how to sit, how to pose, and definately without any "SAY CHEESE!" moments. Lifestyle portraiture is all about capturing those moments as they really are, in an artistic beautiful way. It is what I love to do and what draws people to my work.
So next time you head out for family pictures, sit back, relax, and just enjoy each other...and some magical moments will unfold without you even trying! (That's MY job! :))


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Kerala Backwaters Giclee Print
Kerala Backwaters is part of an ongoing series of travel illustrations, created by me, Nat Carroll.
– Unframed archival giclee print
– Size is 270mm x 310mm / 10.6" x 12.2"
– 30mm / 1.18" white border
– Open edition
– Signed, titled and dated
Printed on Entrada, a premium quality acid free archival paper. 300gsm. 100% Cotton Rag. Archival pigment inks. Carefully flat packed and posted from Bermagui, NSW, Australia.
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I'm featured in Mashable
This article from today in Mashable describes some of the fun stuff I get to work with:
Erik Bernhardsson is technical lead at Spotify, where he helped to build a music recommendation system based on large-scale machine learning algorithms, mainly matrix factorization of big matrices using Hadoop. He moved into this role after heading the Business Intelligence team, where he collected, aggregated and made sense of all the data at Spotify, whether that's ad-hoc insights, A/B testing, visualization or ad optimization.
Bernhardsson's roots at Spotify date back to 2008, when he interned for the company while writing his master's thesis on systems for automatic music recommendations (he was awarded master's thesis of the year by Naturvetarna, and we all know where that led).


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Hi Peruecoadventures, Made it home. It was a long 1 1/2 days to get back, seemed to take FOREVER. I had wanted to say a few things to you before you left the airport, but it never seemed like the right time, what with all of the rushing and confusion and so many people standing around us. I had finally found my words but never got the chance to use them. Oh well, such is life. Mostly I wanted to tell you that I think you have a gift and I would not like to see you give up your dream. You took such good care of Lois and me, it was amazing, really. Not many quides would put that much work and energy into two middle aged women! I can't imagine what kind of trip/journey we would have had if you hadn't been the one quiding us. Thank you! I sat next to a gentleman on the plane who was also returning from Cusco and Machu Picchu. When I told him all of the things we had done, he kept saying. ``we didn't do that, we never saw that!`` You really did show us a lot. I am writing this also so that you don't get the last word or have the chance to disagree with me!. ha ha. Thanks again, your friend, Mary
USA | 2012-02-07 | email@example.com
Hi Peruecoadventures; I just wanted to write and thank you again for facilitating an amazing trip for us to Peru. It was so much more than I had hoped for, in so many ways. Your hard work and attention to detail made our trip a journey that I will remember forever. You also have a great team that made the trip so great. Malena is such a magical person and is a fantastic masseuse, the porters, Anastacio, Lorenzo, Martin, Simon, Apolinar, Felix our cook, and Aurelio our driver. We were also very impressed with how environmental your company is, very impressed! Thank you for working towards a better planet. Our trek on the Inca Trail was the highlight of our trip but every day you seemed to have something wonderful planned for us, special for us. How lucky we were to have you as our quide. I hope our paths cross again, Your friend, Mary Lukes
USA, Washington state | 2011-11-01 1 email@example.com
Hello,Peruecoadventures and staff,guides,porters,cooks,mules and horses wranglers,drivers. It is exactly one week since we got back from Peru, and I still cannot help thinking about the fantastic multi-sport trip that you guided us through. The rafting and cycling combined with archeological visits was a great idea. But the trek was probably the most challenging and memorable. You were right: the night sky at Salkantay Pass was spectacular, as was the view of the snow-capped peaks in the moonlight. My only regret is that I did not bring an extra coat to put over my fleece and thermals so that I could stay outside longer to enjoy the constellations and Milky Way. We want to thank you for being such a great guide and staff and performing a few miracles for us. Bob still managed to complete the trek even if his shoes fell apart on day 2, thanks to the rope tying expertise. To cope with the shoe-related delay, you managed to get us into a small homey campsite nearby to avoid having to trek several more hours in the dark. And at Machu Picchu, you got us tickets to go into Wayna Picchu even though they were sold out. Lastly, you were always with your antenna out, and your mind was always recomputing, with thoughts on how to make our trip better. I could almost hear you think! So I was not surprised that you heard about the sudden landslide on the train tracks way before it was announced to the passengers, and we were able to immediately get off the the next station and rent a vehicle, instead of being stuck for hours. Amazing! And after all this, we are now friends, and hope you will stay in touch. We certainly will recommend you to all our friends and hope to return some day ;-). Abrazos, Viva
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It is great to hear from you and I hope you are well. We thought that you and the staff,David,Nestor,Noel, Leo probably ran out of time for your plane flight in Puerto Maldonado and that was why we did not get to say goodbye to you. We looked in the boys' backpacks and found your Machu Picchu pictures. We can mail them to you if you will email us your address. Thanks again for your excellent work guiding us through Peru. We are still excited about this trip. It was a great adventure for us and we will always be grateful for having met you and having you as our guide. Just email us your address and we will mail the Machu Picchu photos to you.
E.E.U.U | 2008-07-27 | email@example.com
Buenos dias! Llegamos a los Estados Unidos hoy después de haber disfrutado mucho en tu país. Gracias por todas tus atenciones. Por lo pronto te aviso que el libro que ordenamos en la librería que se iba entregar en el hotel no llego antes que nos fuimos de Cusco. Lo bueno es que encontramos el mismo libro en el aeropuerto en Cusco en nuestra idioma. Pero como ya habíamos dejado el libro pagado, quiero que vayas tú a conseguir un libro para ti mismo usando el crédito. Mañana te mandare por correo electrónico una copia de nuestro recibo para que vayas a escoger un libro para tu uso. Nos fue muy bien en Ica y Nasca, pero todos nosotros estuvimos de acuerdo que el guía y en todos los otros lugares que visitamos, no se compararon con tu entusiasmo y intelecto. Te agradezco todo que hiciste para mi familia y mi papa. Nunca esperaba poder bajar a mi papa a ver a Machu Picchu y por esto, te agradezco con todo mi corazón. Me disculpas mi español escrito. Espero que puedas entender que intento a comunicar. Entre amistades te tengo muchos consejos y platica en general, si me permites en emails en el futuro. Yo pienso que te entiendo bien, porque si te acuerdas, soy de otra época (aunque no lo siento)! Sin más por el momento, me quedo a tus órdenes. Entre amistades te tengo muchos consejos y platica en general, si me permites en emails en el futuro. Yo pienso que te entiendo bien, porque si te acuerdas, soy de otra época (aunque no lo siento)! Sin más por el momento, me quedo a tus órdenes Mary (Maria) L. Carranco
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I just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work you did to make our Inca Trail experience so great. We had a wonderful time and will never forget you, the porters, or the trail itself. I particularly appreciated your interest and knowledge of flowers, history, and archeological sites. Hope you and Dianna are having a good week of rafting.
E.E.U.U | 2002-01-07 | email@example.com
Hello there! thanks again for the great trip- you have a great staff and team workers? I am home after a very long day- I hope you are well-love ao (andrea).
USA | 2001-11-09 | firstname.lastname@example.com
Just a note to say again how much I appreciated having all of you as our guides. There could be no better introduction to the people, places, and culture of Cuzco and the surrounding area. You are a star! I have been home over a week now but my thoughts and dreams are still in Peru. I was so sorry to miss the last night. It sounded like great fun, but I was especially sorry that I did not have the chance to say goodbye and thank you personally. I left an envelope with $45 in it for you. Did it reach you safely?. There's a chance I may come back next summer with my daughter. If our plans work out, I'll let you know. With sincere thanks and best wishes.
United Kingdom | 2001-11-26 | firstname.lastname@example.com
I am one of the people who was with the Women's Travel Group during Christmas. I want to let you know that we all thought that you were an excellent guides team. Your knowledge and enthusiasm really made the Cuzco/Machu Picchu part of the trip fun and interesting. In fact, I think that you are the team who we will use to judge all other guides. I think I would like my next trip to be more physically challenging. There is a Womens Adventure Travel site on the Web that sounds interesting. I don't know when I will come back to Peru, but if you have any interesting tours that come up, please let me know. I enjoy the natural world as well as the history of its people. Thanks for your great work!
Canada | 2001-01-31 | email@example.com
I wanted to let you know that we all arrived home safely and to thank you again for helping us to have such a wonderful trip. You really did make it special for all of us. It was very hard to come back, I had serious thoughts of staying in Peru but I am not sure what I would do with myself. I do plan to come back and I hope to be able to see you all on my next trip. Trekking the Inca Trail is truly a life changing experience. I am hoping that it will be the start of a more happier time in my life. I brought a small piece of Macchu Picchu granite home with me as a symbol of a new start. I hope this message finds you safe and happy. Take care of yourself and stay in touch.
E.E.U.U | 2000-07-14 | email@example.com
Good evening, I am writing this on Sunday evening, almost a week since we left Peru. I am sure you know that we all had a wonderful time, a wonderful experience and just a lot of fun. I want to make sure that you know what we all thought of you. It was a joy having you as our guide and friend. I hope you understood that I was being very serious when I said that you are a ``really nice human being`` There are not too many nicer compliments I can think of. You anticipated all of the important moments and showed care and understanding beyond your years. You were fun to be with. You are the quintissential example of what a guide should be. I honestly hope that our paths will cross again.
E.E.U.U | 2000-05-21| email@example.com
Hey Peruecoadventures and cultural trips, This is Ty from the 4 day Macchu Picchu trek. How's it going? Just wanted to write to say thanks again for the enthusiastic and well informed trip. Anyways, keep up the good work and hope your next trips go well. Drop a line when you get a minute.
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Having quite a great week trying to test out different lipsticks and lip glosses! Its amazing sometimes how unique the shades are.. how different lip colors look on different people. Its a whole new world out there.. and when you get into it.. its quite impossible to get out. True yeah?
What you can see here is a beautiful reddish brown shade! Its a really lovely lip color that can be used on your naked lips to give a soft glowy look and can be used on top of a lip liner (fill up your lips with a liner of a similiar shade) to give a bold deep lip color. Both ways this shade is really pretty though i like it more casual especially especially during the day.
The right amount of red and brown.. a perfect combination i would say. I know my lip swatch is a bit lopsided LOL. My camera isnt good enough to take a better picture but i hope you get the idea of what it looks like. This is my casual day time lip make up.. i have used this lipstick on my naked lips using a lip brush. Not too much.. just a little does the trick.
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Medium pigmented
Glowy shade
Very moisturising
Stays on 2-3 hours
Has no taste
Smells of chocolate mint
Feels minty and cool on the lips
100% Vegan
Love this!!!!!!! The color is super sexy! Must try!


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The Mediterranean basin represents a great potential in this area, even though it still needs to be given a full dimension in order for local and regional stakeholders, universities and research centers, the private sector as well as policy decision makers to better understand the potentialities to develop adequate technologies in coherence with the proper characteristics of the Mediterranean sea, and to mobilize financial resources in a coordinated way to achieve cohesive actions towards the resolution of energy challenges across Mediterranean countries.
In this context, the "Blue Energies in the Mediterranean" capitalization seminar, organized by the Intermediterranean Commission of the CPMR in the framework of the COM&CAP MarInA-Med project (MED programme 2007-2013) and hosted by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, will be the occasion to discuss the state of development and perspectives of marine renewable energies in the Mediterranean basin, as well as the mobilization of financial resources. Discussions will be organized on the basis of the works of EU Med Programme projects (e.g. BLUENE, ENERCOAST, SMART-PORT, Med-IAMER, CoRINThos) dealing with blue energies and their environments, in link with on-going debates about key policy developments at EU level in this area through the contributions of EU institutions and European stakeholder organisations representatives.
The organization of the Political Bureau of the CPMR Inter-Med Commission on the afternoon of December 10 will facilitate the participation of elected political representatives from Mediterranean regions in the morning session of the seminar, therefore facilitating discussions between results of the projects and policies implemented at regional level.
Finally, a Conference on Climate co-organized by the Mediterranean Commission of UCLG, the Intermediterranean Commission of the CPMR, and hosted by the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region will take place on the morning of December 11, 2014. At the occasion of this conference, a declaration of local and regional policy-makers from the Mediterranean basin will be adopted with the objective to contribute to the preparation of the COP 21 Climate Conference due to take place in Paris on 2015.
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Jewish history is, in many ways, a history of encounters with neighbors, and the story of the Jewish neighbor is, in turn, a story of the wider world. But if the Jewish experience has been in some ways exceptional, the experience finds ready parallels in those of other peoples—especially in contemporary America.
This theme is part of the Jewish Literature—Identity and Imagination series, which is an exploration of Jewish literature and culture. Other themes in the series include Between Two Worlds: Stories of Estrangement and Homecoming, Demons, Golems, and Dybbuks: Monsters of the Jewish Imagination, A Mind of Her Own: Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World, Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel, and Your Heart's Desire: Sex and Love in Jewish Literature.
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Sunday, 26 January 2014
The Cruise - Part III Pisa
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What a marvelous trip Diane. You were fortunate to see the tower after it's closure and sprucing up. And what a site it is! Very exciting.ReplyDelete
Sam it would have been disappointing if we had seen it covered in scaffolding so we were lucky. Take care DianeDelete
the tower always attracts my attention !ReplyDeleteReplies
Ola something historic and very unusual. I am so glad we got to see it. Have a good day. DianeDelete
I can't tell you how wonderful it looks from the frigid NEastern US. It is SOOOOO cold and Pisa looks so warm and inviting. I still can't get used to the size of cruise ships but yours looks delightful...ReplyDeleteReplies
Deana the size is incredible but once on board ship it is like being in the largest hotel you have ever been in and you hardly feel any movement at all. Quite an experience as was all the restaurants we went to. Have a good week DianeDelete
this was such a wonderful trip! interesting to see pisa, i have never been there. there must be something in the ground which doesn't support the foundations? i wonder if there is lots of sand? thanks for showing this to us!ReplyDeleteReplies
Jaz it was interesting to see one of the winders of the old world. The cause of the lean is the reaction of the composite of clay, fine sand, and shells that the tower is built on. Hopefully they have rectified it so it will last for many more years. have a good week. DianeDelete
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Thanks Rick, a bit different fro the Charente for a change :-) Have a good week. DianeDelete
Apart from the 'sights'...that church by the river bank looks exquisite. And you must have found those fishing nets familiar from the Charente coast....ReplyDeleteReplies
Fly I would have loved to have got off the boat and looked at that church properly but..... You know I have never really seen the Charente coast except at La Rochelle and Ile d'Oléron !!!!! So much to see and so little time to fit everything in.Delete
Have a great week and both of you take care. Diane
I spent the day in Pisa in either May or April many years ago. The tower was still open to the public with no hordes of tourists (even though I was one). The Carrara marble site would probably have been more interesting to visit.ReplyDeleteReplies
Nadege you are probably right. I would loved to have seen the marble site closer, also the church on the river. Maybe one day we will get back to Italy. This year we have planned on Spain and Portugal. Two different friends have bought in Portugal so we have two great stop overs. have a good week DianeDelete
Thank you for sharing these wonderful pictures. What a grand adventure! Have a great day! CathyReplyDeleteReplies
Cathy it was an adventure plus for us, one we would never have planned with out our friend. You have a great day also. DianeDelete
It is fun going on a cruise with you. Great shots of PisaReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks diane b it really was quite and adventure for us and I am glad I can share some of it. Take care DianeDelete
looks like a wonderful trip ;-) happy new yearReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Rebecca and a Happy New Year to you as well. Have a good week Diane.Delete
Great to see the tower freed of scaffolding at last, we were not so lucky for our visit. Can you get inside it now?ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi rusty duck, so far as I know yes you can go up the inside now, We did not have the time and we would have struggled with the number of steps anyway!!!! Have a great week Diane.Delete
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What a lovely adventure you had. Beautiful weather and wonderful sights. KarenReplyDeleteReplies
Karen the weather was very up and down but mostly cold. Think this was the only day that N wore shorts! It was though a huge adventure. Have a good week DianeDelete
Your pictures brought back reminders of my visit to Pisa some years ago. The Tower looks much nicer now than then. We did get to La Spezia recently when we went to the Cinque Terre. Thanks for sharing your pictures. Shirley would love to do a cruise, me not so much.ReplyDeleteReplies
Michel they have really spruced the tower up and we were lucky to see it minus scaffolding. Not sure that we would go on a cruise if we had not had the offer. Only being in one place for a day was not easy when there were many things to see! Keep well and have a good week DianeDelete
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First of all I have to say your new banner looks great! It very pro and elegant!
What a magnificent trip, this cruise!
You managed the feat to get the Pisa tower look straight... at least on the first pic!!
Where Nigel stands, it must really feel funny to a monument stand askew!
Your photos are really gorgeous!
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Thanks Noushka, it was my New Year banner but I decided that I liked it so much it will stay put for a while :-) Depending where you stand you can get the tower at almost any angle! Hope this week is a bit drier, take care DianeDelete
Fabulous photos and a very interesting post, Diane.Thanks!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Colin and Elizabeth, it was certainly a cruise of a lifetime for us and we did enjoy seeing how the other half live. Keep well you two DianeDelete
How fortunate that you go to see Pisa and more of Italy I think this area would be super to see. I have been North, Thank you for sharing your trip , , I cannot get enough now. I have to go back :-) You were on a trip of a lifetime , just amazing, take care and keep warm xoxoReplyDeleteReplies
You are right Anne it was a trip of a lifetime. We were lucky to see Pisa, sadly we missed Rome as I was not well see part V!! It just keeps raining!! Keep well, Diane xoxDelete
Your photos make me want to go on holiday, quick like, lol. Alas, I won't be going anywhere for quite some time. Good thing our weather here has been pretty good in December and January though I hear it will be back to normal (rain) soon. I hope your weather is cooperating.ReplyDeleteReplies
Joyful going through these pictures makes me want to return :-) It will not happen though. We have a trip to Portugal planned for June though which should be good. Our weather is horrible it just does not stop raining!! Take care Diane.Delete
Your header is amazing, I love it! What a wonder filled cruise, thank you so much for sharing this tour with us! Your photos are awesome!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Linda, it was an amazing tour and we cannot thank our friend enough for making it all possible. Keep well DianeDelete
Hi Diane .. we went when I was about 15 and so those sights resonated .. but obviously there's so much more 'touristic' choices now - no horses or river cruises when we were there. Your photos are fabulous .. and I too love that little church - incongruous with those flat concrete like apartments behind it ... I bet it's beautiful inside.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous trip - and you were, as you say, really privileged to have the trip arranged for you ... Makes me want to go back! ..... cheers HilaryReplies
Hilary thanks for the two comments. I was really sorry that we only got to see the outside of that little church but.... At least you have been there and seen it, now I can say as much :-) Hope you have a good week DianeDelete
It was lovely to see more of this famous city. I only know of the leaning tower. The Sphinx room looks great with its Egyptian decor. Great photos!ReplyDeleteReplies
Denise it was interesting to see more of Pisa despite a rushed trip, I also before only knew of the Leaning Tower. Have a great week DianeDelete
I have been in La Spezia, Carrara, Pisa and enjoy you taking me back there!ReplyDeleteReplies
Glad you enjoyed your return trip :-) Have a good day DianeDelete
I've never been to Pisa, so thank you for the wonderful shots.ReplyDeleteReplies
JM I am surprised I thought that you had been everywhere..... Have a great day. DianeDelete
Excellent pics of your visit in Pisa. It's a pleasure to follow your beautiful post.ReplyDelete
Many thanks for the visit and the comment. Hope to see you back Have a good week. DianeDelete
An interesting post with some good shots.ReplyDelete
Thank you. Love love, Andrew. Bye.Replies
Thanks so much for your visit and comment, much appreciated. Have a wonderful week DianeDelete
Hi Diane, to answer your question that you left on my blog, I am doing very well. I think I will be walking normally by mid summer. Hope you are doing well. Looks like you have had some very good vacation trips, this one looks fabulous.ReplyDeleteReplies
Horst good to hear from you and glad that you are walking better. Summer should be good for you this year. Yes last year was a good year for holidays! Have a wonderful week DianeDelete
Un très beau voyage. Bravo!!ReplyDelete
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Merci Nadji. Bonne journée DianeDelete
Diane, what a great place for the ship to stop so you could visit! I envy you, and would love to go there. So much history, so much incredible architecture and interesting things to see in Pisa. What a great trip! Thanks for the tour and have a good rest of the week!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Pam, it was an amazing trip and one we would never if been on if it was not for our friend. Glad you are enjoying the trip all be it on the computer :-) Have a good day, DianeDelete
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Thanks very much. Have a good week DianeDelete
The leaning tower is amazing. Such a wonderful cruise you guys explored! Again, thanks for taking us to your tour.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Rose, it was a wonderful trip. Hope you are feeling better. Take care DianeDelete
What a trip Diane.. The only time I've taken a boat trip was a four dayer down the Nile, was fantastic. Your cruise ship here is so much bigger. The tower of Pisa always makes me smile, it kind of reminds me of the shelves and pictures my husband hangs for me :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Ha ha I can imagine your shelves and pictures. It was an amazing trip and something we are never likely to experience again. The tower at Pisa looks quite smart now that they have done it up. and hopefully stopped it from tipping any further. Keep well DianeDelete
Diane - as you know Sue and I will be in Italy next October however Sue has been to Pisa in a former life and so I may miss it.ReplyDelete
I'm sure that from our trip to Italy in 2006 we will still experience many other wonderous sights if we miss Pisa. You photos do make me wonder if I will regret missing Pisa.
Leon we loved Pisa but a short day visit was not enough. Maybe one day we will return but there is just so mush to see in Europe that may be we will not have time! Off to Spain and Portugal in June this year. Sorry my reply has been a bit delayed :-) Take care you two Diane.Delete
What a great cruise you are had, inspiring!ReplyDelete
Of course Italy is the best (I would say so, wouldn't I?) :-) heheheheReplies
Ha ha Alessandro of course you would say Italy is best. It was an amazing cruise though and we did enjoy it. Have a good week Diane.Delete
Hi Diane, wow you had a great holiday didn't you. I have just been reading all your posts about your holiday and it looks fab. The ship is massive and looks so great. You have certainly seen some wonderful sights. A holiday to remember for you I think. Thanks for sharing your pictures and memories. :))ReplyDeleteReplies
Ellie it was certainly a holiday of a lifetime for us thanks to out friend. The ship was like 5 huge hotels al in one it was quite amazing. Glad you enjoyed. Have a good week DianeDelete
Parabéns pelas suas maravilhosas fotos.ReplyDelete
Nita, muito obrigado por sua visita e comentário. Tenha um bom dia DianeDelete
i hv never seen the base of the tower in pic before, thanks. great sightseeing and the mountain views from the bus is beautiful!ReplyDeleteReplies
Lena it is interesting to see the base and how much it has in fact moved. Have a good week DianeDelete
Lucky you are!ReplyDelete
Enjoy the rest of the trip!
Always good to explore, see and do new things and collect good memories.Replies
Gunn we were lucky and it was a holiday of a lifetime. Great memories of the holiday and of our friend. have a good week DianeDelete
Απόλαυσα και σ΄ευχαριστώ πολύ αγαπητή μου Diane για την ενδιαφέρουσα ξενάγηση!!!ReplyDelete
Χαίρομαι που περάσατε τόσο όμορφα! Ποτέ μου δεν ταξίδεψα με κρουαζιερόπλοιο, αλλά πρέπει να είναι πολύ όμορφα!
Ίσως ταξιδέψουμε κι εμείς κάποια μέρα...
Πάω να απολαύσω την καινούργια ανάρτηση σου :)
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Thanks Magda, glad you are enjoying the photos. Keep well DianeDelete
Hope your cough is better..Remember when you, George and CaraRose went through the winter with the cough? What a year that was..but yours never left. Hope it is much better now. Glad you had a wonderful trip, it looks beautiful..Always think about you.ReplyDelete
Carolyn, it is amazing that my cough has gone. I had a few problems over Christmas in the UK when it returned, but once back in France it went away again so fingers crossed!!!! Think I am allergic to the UK :-) It was an amazing trip. Have a good weekend DianeDelete
Great shots of those wonderful old buildings, Diane.ReplyDelete
Thanks José, it is amazing how long some of these buildings have been around for ! Keep well DianeReplyDelete
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I am gonna try to be more organzied with my blogging and have specific topics on specific days. We shall see how that goes.
So, Wednesday will be New Pattern day! This week, we bring you a triskele. Seen in many cultures around the world, it can represent a variety of things to differnt people and cultures. You can read all about it on the Wiki. Personally, I just think it looks cool.
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West Prize Finalist
I am thrilled to share the news that I am a West Prize Finalist. I am one of ten artists selected (from 3600 applicants) for an Acquisitions Award. Please check the West Collection website for more information and to see the ten artists and their works that were selected for the collection. There will be […]
Studio Visit Magazine
The Fall Edition (volumes 3 & 4) represents the results of Studio Visit Magazine's second competition. Studio Visit magazine is a new juried magazine produced by The Open Studios Press which publishes the well known New American Paintings periodical. It was juried by Carl Belz, Director Emeritus, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University. It […]
Laura Ball at Morgan Lehman Gallery
Laura's first New York solo show, Sirens Sing You to Shipwreck, opens Thursday at Morgan Lehman gallery. Unfortunately, I just missed it by a couple weeks. Show dates are November 13 – December 20, 2008.
New York, New York
I had a fabulous trip to New York. Here are some art highlights….. Elizabeth Peyton, Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008 Elizabeth Peyton show at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Although I just found out this week that they added an additional painting –something rarely […]
Photography Exhibition in Frankfurt
I am in a group photography exhibition opening next week at Galerie Schuster in Frankfurt. Click on the image for a larger view and details.
Marie Van Elder Show
Click on image above to read Marie Van Elder's show announcement. I had a sneak peek in her studio two weeks ago and the work looks fabulous –and a lot of large works too. I look forward to seeing the whole show. Her website is coming soon.
Laura Ball at Peter Miller Gallery
Laura Ball, Herd, 2008, oil on canvas 70 x 104 in. If you are in Chicago this month, go see Laura Ball's show at Peter Miller Gallery. Show dates are September 5- October 11, 2008. I really love her work (and she's a friend!). You can see more of her work on her website at […]
CCBF Auction
I was invited to participate in the CCBF Auction, to be held at Phillips DePury in New York on Monday night September 15th to raise funds for treatment of childhood cancer. There will also be an online auction in coordination with Artnet. There are some wonderful artists to bid on and it is for a […]
New York Magazine blog
I made New York magazine's entertainment blog. Cool!You can check it out here.
Summer Updates
Oops, July got away from me and I realized I haven't posted to my blog since the beginning of the month so here is an update of all the current happenings and upcoming events! The exhibition, Dangerous Women, opened at DFN gallery in New York last week. You can see all the work in the […]


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This Momma's Clothing Budget & Finds: March 2016/
This month I knocked one solid need off my shopping list: a chambray button-down! This is a basic that I can use from fall to spring and both comfy and casual. Perfect for mommyhood.
My sister-in-law had let me borrow her new chambray top and I loved how it fit and felt so much that I went online and ordered one without hesitating!
I would have loved to find a chambray top at a better deal at a thrift or consignment shop, but I've looked for over a year without success, so I knew it was time to just buy it new. It's a classic, basic piece in any woman's wardrobe, so I felt comfortable doing that.
This chambray button-down is labeled as Junior's on Target.com. I did have to get a size Medium, whereas another button-down from Target was perfect at size Small. If you're thinking of popping this one in your cart, consider going a size up! Or order both sizes, have it delivered to your local Target for free shipping and then return the one that doesn't fit. ;)
Besides the chambray top, we also got hubby a new pair of work jeans.
My Budget: $65.63
($25.63 left over from February + $40 regular monthly budget)
What I spent: $36.80
Goal #1 this month (April) my goal is to buy some new workout clothes. I can't remember the last time I spent money on athletic wear. I hate spending on that stuff. So if I don't just force myself to buy some I'll keep wearing the same ratty clothes I usually do to go running. And feeling cute when you're working out is definitely going to help bust some more calories, right?
Goal #2 is taking inventory of my existing maternity wardrobe and planning out what I need to finish off a complete maternity capsule wardrobe. I'm excited about this process! I'll definitely be sharing about it on the blog.


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Four Journalists. Three Weeks. One Epic Road Trip Leading Up To Election DayBy Zach Toombs | October 3, 2016
We're getting #OffTheTrail and driving cross-country to explore issues that should be front and center this campaign season.
Oct. 16: 'I'm just glad you didn't mention climate change'
We had just finished an interview with a resident of Tangier, an island off the coast of Virginia sinking under rising sea levels, when she told us that. Despite scientific consensus around the issue, introducing climate change into an interview can take the discussion in a contentious direction. That seems unnecessary when I just want to ask this person about the erosion eating away at her backyard. And in the view of Tangier's residents, what does it matter? Whether this is just gradual erosion or an end result of global warming, it's still eventually going to take out the spot where this person parks her golf cart.
SEE MORE: The Words 'Climate Change' Are Tricky On Tangier Island
Across rural America, I've seen this same outlook. The mayors of Georgetown, Texas, and Greensburg, Kansas, don't sound like Leonardo DiCaprio when they talk about the environment. The cases they made to take their towns to 100 percent clean energy were local, not global. And they kept politics as far from their arguments as possible, lest they be called an "Al Gore tree-hugger," as Georgetown's city utilities manager was called during a town hall.
But they do care about the environment. They really do. Just listen to Greensburg Mayor Bob Dixson talk about "leaving it better than you found it." That's the sort of sticks-to-your-ribs common sense Mike Rowe would appreciate. It's also resulted in a sustainable wind farm pumping renewable energy onto the Southwest Power Pool that covers Kansas and parts of four other states. At the local level, this is a huge environmental leap, even if the people behind it wouldn't necessarily call themselves environmentalists.
My friend Ryan Schuessler has more experience reporting these stories than I do and has an interesting perspective based on time spent covering the march of a massive transmission line cutting across privately owned grasslands in the Nebraska Sandhills.
"One 'oddity' I found was that these families had aligned themselves with the local EPA guy who also opposes the transmission lines — but because it threatens an endangered beetle," Ryan told me. "These families were praying that the presence of a protected beetle stopped a 200-mile high-voltage transmission line, while the ideological camp they belong to often speaks out against endangered species getting in the way of private enterprise."
You see something similar on Tangier Island, where fishermen gripe about federal regulations on fishing and hunting wildlife. Despite that, they know they need to protect the fish and wildlife population both to continue making their living and to save their island. The environmental case for protecting Tangier's nature and wildlife might be the best argument to make in asking Congress to save the island.
"At first, I thought they were hypocrites but came to see them differently," Ryan told me about his own time on Tangier. "They have a connection to the land and environment in a way many journalists can never understand. Their lives and livelihood depend on it in ways we cannot appreciate, and they'll be among the first to face the consequences of these changes."


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Florida residents: William Betta, Jr., James J. Caprio, Troy L. Gagliardi, Barry M. Kornfeld, Clifford A. Popper, Alfred B. Rubin, and Steven I. Shrago as well as Travis A. Branch, Kailua, Hawaii, Russell M. Kautz, Medford, Oregon, and Shane A. McCann, Florence, Montana, were charged with fraud for falsely marketing investments in derivatives of mortgage-backed securities as safe and suitable for retirees and others with conservative investment goals. The Secuirities and Exchange Commissions complaint alleges that the brokers enriched themselves with millions of dollars in commissions and salaries while the investors suffered millions of dollars in losses.
According to the SEC's complaint, filed in federal district court in West Palm Beach, Florida, the 10 brokers worked for Irvine, California-based Brookstreet Securities Corp., which has since gone out of business. The SEC alleges that the brokers did not clearly define the risks to customers before investing their money in particularly risky Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs).
According to the complaint, the defendants portrayed particularly risky types of CMOs as secure investments to defraud more than 750 customers, ultimately costing them more than $36 million in losses. Meanwhile, the 10 brokers received $18 million in commissions and salaries related to their customers' investments in CMOs.
The SEC alleges that contrary to the representations they made to their customers, the defendants invested in risky types of CMOs that were highlysensitive to changes in interest rates and jeopardized customers' yield and principal. They were not all guaranteed by the U.S. government as the defendants told their customers, and they were not suitable for retirees or investors with conservative investment objectives.
The SEC further alleges that the defendants told customers that they only sparingly would use margin, which is the ability to borrow money to purchase CMOs. In fact, they heavily margined customers' accounts, resulting in the more than $36 million in losses. The SEC's complaint alleges that the defendants violated the antifraud
provisions of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. The Commission seeks permanent injunctive relief, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains with prejudgment interest, and financial penalties.
"These brokers disguised the risks of investing in these derivatives of mortgage-backed securities, exposing their customers to substantial losses as the subprime crisis emerged," said Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "They disregarded their customers' needs and used deceptive and misleading tactics to enrich themselves at their clients' expense."
Rosalind R. Tyson, Director of the SEC's Los Angeles Regional Office, added, "These brokers took customers primarily interested in protecting their money and pushed them into risky derivative investments through blatant misrepresentations."
The Commission wishes to acknowledge the assistance of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which today brought its own complaint alleging fraud and suitability violations against six additional former Brookstreet brokers.
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A year ago Jonney Shih was searching for a breakthrough. The Taiwan company he has run since 1994, Asustek, had become the world's largest maker of computer motherboards and one of the ten biggest laptop manufacturers. Once known for churning out cheap clones of name-brand laptops, Asustek began designing its own ten years ago and produced more than 4 million last year. "But we were still a second-class company," he says. "We were fighting fires, not thinking ahead."
The problem was that the personal computer market was maturing. The company had just established its laptop brand, and Shih was worried that Asus laptops would now be left with only a small slice of a slowly growing pie.
But around that time, two low-cost notebook models were making waves. Last November tech guru Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child, or OLPC, program released its first batch of prototype laptops designed for children in the developing world. And
Last month Asus' Eee PCs hit store shelves in Taiwan, and Shih may have his breakthrough. The two-pound laptops starting at $340 sold out in 30 minutes, and buyers around the globe clamored to get their hands on them. This month they arrive in the U.S.--starting at $300--and Europe. The rollout will probably reach China early next year, with the schedule for the rest of Asia not yet set. The day they went on sale, Asustek's stock rose 4.9%. Kirk Yang, who heads Asia technology hardware research for
Even before the Eee PC went on sale, Asustek was having a great year. It's taken over the number one spot in laptop sales in Taiwan, and the big electronics retailer
Before OLPC and Classmate, smaller meant more expensive. You could pick up a laptop weighing in at two pounds, but it would cost upward of $2,000. The cheapest ones sell for as little as $500 but can weigh more than 5 pounds. The OLPC device, though, will be priced at under $200; bulk sales to governments are expected to start by the end of the year. Classmate, which has been on the market for eight months, goes for $200 to $300. With bright colors, rounded corners and built-in carrying handles, the two models look like toys to computer buyers, but they showed that it was possible to produce a small, inexpensive laptop able to perform most of the functions that users need.
So Shih, the 56-year-old chairman and chief executive, quickly mobilized Asustek to build his low-cost laptop for grown-ups. He pulled staffers from his laptop, design and motherboard businesses and put Jerry Shen (who will move up from president to chief executive when Shih stops handling day-to-day operations in January) in charge of the project last November. "There were so many crazy ideas," recalls Shen. "I'd be traveling somewhere in the middle of India on a business trip and Jonney would call me and want to talk about an idea for an hour."
Shih knew the computer would need a solid-state memory--no spinning hard disk taking up space and creating heat. Instead it would have a flash drive, which uses less power and is more durable. He also knew it must include Wi-Fi capability, a video camera, an easy Skype interface, speakers, a microphone and a high-resolution (if small) screen. And it had to be light, so it would serve as more of a personal accessory than only a computer--a tall order considering they wanted to sell it for less than $300.
The first challenge for Shih and Shen was to line up a chipset maker. When connected to the motherboard, the chipset becomes the brains and nervous system of a computer, and it's the most expensive part of the Eee PC. The two approached amd and Intel about making a chipset that was inexpensive and didn't use a lot of energy, to keep the battery weight low. But AMD was already producing the OLPC chipset, and Intel had designed a chip for its Classmate.
Intel, though, was eager to jump into a project with a bigger market potential than just education. Sean Maloney, who is Intel's chief sales and marketing officer and had done a lot of work with Asustek, was so keen on the idea that he campaigned inside Intel to get the company onboard. When it came time to unveil the project in June, Maloney stood side by side with Shih at the Computex show in Taipei.
Intel signed on in February. Then, having committed money and manpower to the project, Intel told Shih and Shen that it wanted to see a prototype in one month. "When I heard that," laughs Shen, "I told Jonney, 'We've got nothing yet!'" Designers and engineers endured sleepless nights and long weekends and managed to put together the basics of the machine in time. Folks at Intel started calling it the Jonney machine.
Asustek had proved it could make a low-cost laptop on a small scale, but could they find all of the components at a low enough cost to mass-produce it? Other than the chipset, most of the computer is built from common components such as a 7-inch LCD screen and flash memory cards. "We had to really leverage our existing business relationships to get the components so cheaply," says Shen. And that's where being a contract manufacturer and clonemaking outfit came in handy. Having built computers, mobile phones, PDAs and iPods for
But low prices, says Shen, don't mean cheap products. "We want to create a revolution. We can't afford to put out a bad product." The Eee PC's designer, Jimmy Chu--whose other designs include the Asus U1F, a $2,000 laptop with leather trim and hand-polished steel parts--says image is everything when it comes to selling laptops. "It has to look like you're getting more than you paid for." With the Eee PC, he says, the company did little things such as adding an extra-large hinge to give it more heft and durability.
A bigger hurdle was designing the user interface, the first thing people see when they turn on the machine, and the screens that lead to the programs. Asustek decided that the Windows operating system was out of the question. The licensing costs would have been the most expensive part of the computer. So it decided to use Linux and build its own user interface, and that became the most time-consuming part of the project.
The company first said the computer would be on shelves by August, then September, before it finally arrived Oct. 17. The holdup, says Shen, was making sure the interface worked well. To test it, Asustek took 1,000 prototypes and distributed them to employees and vendors, with strict orders to share them with family members of all ages. Bloggers on Eee PC Web sites that sprung up after the Computex show groaned that the product was taking too long to come out, but that didn't bother Shen. "The user experience must be very high," he says. "So we delayed, because with all the momentum built up around this product, I want to make sure it's exactly right."
Meanwhile, the prospect of millions of new PC users buying the Eee PC without Windows seemed to worry Microsoft. Just before the launch, it agreed to give Eee PC buyers the option of getting Windows for under $40, more than a third off the standard price.
Shih says Asustek will tap into a new market--consumers unable to buy computers because they're too expensive or just too intimidating. Indeed, the Eee name comes from easy to learn, easy to play and easy to work. That new market has been nicknamed the second billion. An estimated 1 billion people now have access to computers and the Internet, but even in developed countries, computers are just out of reach for millions. In the developing world that number is in the hundreds of millions.
But Asustek clearly wants to connect with the first billion, too. For instance, the 2- to 8-gigabyte memory cards can be upgraded to 32 gigabytes and the RAM from 256 megabyte to 1 gigabyte by simply taking out two screws on the back of the machine, something that Shen demonstrates but isn't including in the marketing materials. Asustek is also linking with mobile telecom companies to provide a 3g attachment, so users can be connected when Wi-Fi isn't available.
The initial interest in the machine has come from PC hobbyists; and chat room denizens talking RAM specs and placing orders via the Internet are certainly not first-time buyers. Star Tech, an online retailer in the U.S. that started taking orders for the Eee PC before the specs were done, says its Eee PC page has been averaging 1,000 hits a day and it's been taking roughly 100 orders a week, mostly from businesspeople and travelers. Citigroup's Yang wants one, too, but it sold out too quickly for him to get one after it hit the stores in Taiwan. "I'm on the waiting list," he says.


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Sometimes I would wake up in the morning and all is good but the smallest thing would bother me and I would be very grumpy during work. I don't feel like talking to anyone when this happens. I am normally really talkative and like to joke around. When I get mad I just want to go to my room and sleep.
I'm only 22 but I am the only one paying for rent and all the expenses in my family. It seems to happen right before my period. I also get very emotional for example when I get frustrated I want to just want sleep and when I get even more mad I cry in the restroom.
I really do try to be positive but sometimes I just can't. I try to be thankful for my job and everything but sometimes I can't and when people ask me are you mad me? It really bothers me (especially when I'm just trying to be quiet so I won't lash out).
There are a lot of times where my brother and my mom would be so kind to me but I just ignore them or reply in short comments. I feel really bad when I do that. I really don't want to be this way but I just do and end up with regrets because I know I will not have them forever so I want to be nice to them while they are here….I Get Emotional When Frustrated
I Get Emotional When Frustrated
Many women feel more vulnerable and emotional just before their period. That's an absolutely normal response to the hormonal shifts going on in our bodies.
I think there is more to it than that, though. You are carrying a heavy load. At only 22, you are supporting three people. To your credit, you are doing it without complaining and you are making every effort to be positive. But it sounds to me like the stress is getting to you. Usually you can handle it. But when you are premenstrual, your defenses crumble a bit and you have more difficulty coping.
There are at least a couple of ways to deal with this. Internally, you can remind yourself that these episodes always pass. You can let yourself have a good cry and sleep it off. Externally, you can make more of an effort to reduce your load. You didn't mention why you are the only one paying rent. Maybe it's time for a family meeting to work on the financial problems together. If your mom is disabled, can she apply for disability benefits? Can she find some work? Is your brother old enough to be more helpful — if not with money, with more help around the house? I applaud your efforts to help your family in hard times. but it's also important that everyone in the family does their part — both for your mental health and to keep the relationships in the family healthy.
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God shows up in my crazy every single day. I like to tell others about that- so welcome!
I love my husband Dan best of all. He gets me. It's happy.
Our brood of kids includes four boys & two girls. Being their Mom is my best thing.
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But the rights ones, oh! The right ones are blissful, turning an ordinary room into a warm and welcoming cocoon of peace and calm. The flickering flames, the gently released fragrance, the soft and flattering light...could anything be more romantic or delightful?
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ONE: Brooke & Shoals, a new Irish brand, uses soy wax and a mix of fragrance and essential oils to create the most lovely and uplifting scents, like Grapefruit & Geranium, Neroli & Lavender and the one I'm burning here, Grapefruit & Lemongrass. They're €18.95 for 40 hours burn time (the one I have is a travel candle, €19.95 for two - I love bringing a candle on trips away).
TWO: La Bougie is pretty special - each fragrance is created from scratch at the West Cork chandlery, where the candles are hand poured into stylish glass jars that are crafted on site. The latest fragrance, Sage & Bitter Orange, is inspired by classic colognes and designed for a unisex appeal. Prices are from €19.95 for 40 hours burn time.
FOUR: I favour fresh, citrussy or spicy blends so I have a lot of time for Max Benjamin's Grapefruit & Pomelo and Lemongrass & Ginger. These are around the €20 mark for a natural wax, paraffin free candle that should give you 40 hours burn time.
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FIVE: Lucy Annabella Organics (as it happens, another Irish brand!) have a lovely range of paraffin free candles, made with soya wax and 100% organic essential oils. Their Spearmint and Lemongrass candle is a unique and uplifting blend that scents my entire apartment. Prices range from €36-€42.
SIX: MRL Candles are interesting: with base ingredients including cocoa and shea butter and cosmetic grade soy wax, these are designed for use as body treatments, too. Use them pre-burn as a lip or body balm, burn as a candle and use post-burn, as a body/massage oil. This one, Faith, has been released in aid of the Pink Ribbon Foundation, with £1/€1 of every sale going straight to the charity. With grapefruit, bergamot, neroli and orange blosson, the scent is totally divine. Find it on beautyemporium.ie for €36.95 (135g / 25 hours burn time).
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Kount Executive Management Team Assigned07-Jan-2008
Company set to launch highly-sophisticated fraud control technology geared toward online merchants
BOISE, Idaho - Kount, a newly-formed subsidiary of Keynetics Inc., today announced the appointment of its executive management team. Gearing up for a Jan. 13 release of a highly-sophisticated online fraud detection and prevention tool, Kount now has the following people in place to ensure a successful launch.
Brad Wiskirchen is now Chief Executive Officer of both Kount, Inc. and its parent company, Keynetics, Inc.
Prior to joining the Keynetics team, Wiskirchen was a partner at Holland and Hart LLP in the company's Boise regional office. Wiskirchen managed Holland & Hart's Business Entities and Transactions Practice Group, providing counsel to clients on business entity selection, capital acquisition and innovation protection. He represented some of Idaho's largest publicly and privately held companies in mergers, acquisitions, technology transfer and licensing transactions and debt and equity financings.
Wiskirchen earned a B.A. from Brigham Young University and a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame.
Steven Rouse is Chief Operating Officer responsible for overseeing both Kount Inc. and its parent company, Keynetics Inc. Rouse has been instrumental in the research and design of Kount's fraud control service and brings perspective from both online and brick-and-mortar retail. While operating Keynetics' subsidiary, ClickBank, he saw the company grow to become the largest privately held technology company in Idaho.
Prior to joining Keynetics, Rouse served as the Director at First Data charged with running an online payment gateway and risk control service for high volume, high risk merchants. At First Data's TeleCheck business unit, he designed, implemented and managed the underwriting and merchant risk departments for all Electronic Check Acceptance products.
Rouse earned a B.S. in business management from Brigham Young University.
Chief Scientist Dr. Timothy P. Barber founded Keynetics in 1998. Since its founding, Barber has been instrumental in Keynetics' expansion as the company has developed several successful electronic commerce companies, including ClickBank.com. In 2000, Barber's machine fingerprinting technology was sold to First Data Corporation.
Prior to launching Keynetics, Barber spent seven years as part of an elite federal research group selected to solve some of the most difficult computational problems facing U.S. national security. Currently, his primary research interest is automated reasoning. He holds ten patents and has numerous publications.
Barber earned degrees in philosophy and physics from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University.
Vice President of Sales David Walker is charged with spearheading worldwide sales and marketing for Keynetics, and to help with the introduction of Kount to a national market. Walker's consultative approach to the sales process is a reflection of many years of experience in helping national retailers solve risk control problems.
Prior to joining Keynetics, Walker spent 15 years with First Data's TeleCheck business unit in Houston, Texas. As Vice President of National Accounts for TeleCheck, Walker gained extensive experience both in sales and servicing of major national retailers including Nordstrom, Office Depot, CVS, WalMart, Borders, Sterling Jewelers, Nike and many others. His experience in reducing risks and fraud from bad checks was a key to First Data in securing the accounts of these major national chains.
Walker earned a B.S. in marketing from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
About Keynetics Inc.:
Keynetics is the largest privately held technology company headquartered in the state of Idaho. Keynetics owns and operates several technology-based businesses, including ClickBank, one of the internet's largest online retailers of downloadable e-books, software, and digitally-delivered products.
Keynetics is in the forefront of developing new products and services to help Web merchants increase sales, increase their positive service levels and reduce the risk for Internet transactions from all payment types. Operating since 1998, Keynetics has achieved a remarkable track record of creating and operating new and profitable businesses with proprietary homegrown technologies at their core.
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Kount Inc., a subsidiary of Keynetics Inc., is introducing a next-generation fraud control technology geared toward online merchants that greatly reduces the risks of online fraud. The product is set for release next month and will be available for demonstration at the National Retail Federation 2008 Expo, Jan. 13-16, in New York.


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A festive atmosphere, good music anda perfect electronic timing system: this is our winning formula. Are you ready for this unique running experience? All finisher will receive a medal and a profesional picture.
The Montreal indoor marathon & half-marathon is making a return. Canada's best indoor mathons are growing: Ottawa and Sherbrooke were added to our series.
Online registration will begin September 1, 2012. These events are very popular: do-not delay! A waiting list in order of application will be put in place for the less fortunates...
Here is the official sport drink... bring your bottles and volonteers will fill them during the race:
Want to take a picture with the virtual Meb Keflezighi? It will be possible with Shechers, our new parner !
First race:
For each entry, an amount will be donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.
Alexandre Emond won the first QuidChrono cup given to the most consistent runner:
Each finisher will reveive this type of graph showing the time (Y axis) required to complete each laps (X axis) of the race (10K, half-marathon and marathon)..
" This was my first ever marathon and I couldn't have thought of a better place to do it. After every lap my parents could see me and the staff was always encouraging and fun. Thank you for an amazing experience! don't change a thing. Just bring back a similar staff next year and keep that amazing music!!!! " , Darren Teitelbaum
"The race was a crazy, unique race experience that was even chip timed thanks Quidchrono who times a number of races in Quebec. I'd encourage everyone to watch out for another one or two next year, Steve is looking to expand his crazy indoor marathon madness. Running is more about the people and the experience sometimes, rather than the time on the clock, though we all were paying attention to our watches.", Noel Paine, Canadian Running Magazine (full article here)


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Blessed Lughnasa! May your first harvest of the year be exceptionally fruitful!
We celebrated by not doing much of anything. It wasn't intended; we simply stayed up last night watching TV with Thom, Ken's roommate*, and then we slept in pretty late today, and eventually it simply became clear that Ken wasn't going in to work. It turned out to be a very good thing, really. He's so burned out. He needed a day to not think. Even the Faerieworlds weekend wasn't enough; he just needed a day to veg. We took a long-ish walk out for a late lunch (a Farmhouse restaurant attached to a Red Lion—the Thai restaurant we intended to go was closed), went to the movies, and grabbed a snack before coming home. I did have to focus on some editing work in the afternoon, but he also needed some computer time, so it worked out fine. I may eke out a few writing words before bed, but if I don't, there's tomorrow for that. It's been far, far too long since I've been able to spend a glorious day with my beloved.
*I have a feeling I never got around to mentioning that Ken's actually sharing an apartment with a co-worker now. It's about half the cost of living in a hotel, and it's a good deal for Thom. Ken says it was really weird doing things like shopping for sheets and towels without me. It's been a long time since either of us lived in an apartment. And this place is such a bachelor pad: mismatched furniture and dishes, no art on the walls, etc. But Thom has two wonderful cats, sleek black friendly Dominique and shy adorable Karina, and you can't get that in a hotel!
So we saw The Lady in the Water tonight. I have a strong desire to find all the critics who didn't like it and slap a sense of wonder into them. It was a beautiful, touching, brilliantly executed fairy tale. Fairy tale, people. An Asian-influenced fairy tale, perhaps, but that's still what it comes down to. If you go in expecting something else, you're not going to get it, and I'm sorry, but that's not a fault of the movie. It was funny and heartwarming and moving. Bryce Dallas Howard is luminous. Since movie reviewing is not my forté nor the best use of my time, I'll point you to Cherie Priest's, which says what I think far better than I could say.
Speaking of work, which we were somewhere up there, Ken's various contract here aren't going to allow us to go on our annual bike trip, this year to Atlanta. Sucks. It also means we'll be missing Dragon*Con (if anyone needs a membership, please let me know!) and seeing Phaedra and my sister and my niece and my great-nephew. Like I said, sucks. But, we're looking to see if we can squeeze in a shorter trip; to wit, my postponed birthday trip. Since I won't have to be in Lincoln City at the end of it, I'm strongly considering running off to the San Juan Islands, which I've heard so much about. I'd like to spend at least one long day in Seattle, too, because I want to tour the underground part of the city and go to the Science Fiction Museum. But that might have to wait for another trip. I do love the Pacific Northwest in all its wild glory.
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I just got put on the waitlist at UNLV. First of all, what is the standard procedure here? I have to confirm my spot on the waitlist, but other than that is there anything I should be doing (calling the admissions office etc)?
What are my chances? I'm a URM w/ 156/3.25. First waitlist, just curious of how this all works.
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I got waitlisted at UNLV today too. It's a weird feeling...I almost wish I had been rejected so then I would I have closure.
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Ditto, just got waitlisted a few days ago. I feel the same way..wait list just means more time watching the mailbox.
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WOW! I am 156/3.4. I was pretty surprised to be waitlisted there I felt as though I would get in. However, you all have good credentials too!! This is a little daunting I have no idea what the chances are at this school of making it in off the waitlist...
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UNLV has been really stepping things up to try and increase their rankings and part of this process is focusing on LSAT scores for better or worse. There are always people who get in and then go somewhere else, just stick it out and you'll probably get in towards the middle of the summer.
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So.... did anyone ever get taken off the waitlist at UNLV?
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I just withdrew because I got into U of A! Hopefully someone here gets my spot! If you do and need a place to live, please message me, I am leaving a great house with great roommates, and they need someone to fill my spot!
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It is also an important piece because it is the first (and hopefully not the last time) I know of that someone from the lgbt community has articulated our view on this subject in the mainstream media. We need more of this because if there aren't our voices being heard on the concept of 'religious liberty,' the only voices heard will be those coming from the anti-gay right:
. . . Baking a cake, arranging roses, running an inn: These aren't religious acts, certainly not if the establishments aren't religious enclaves and are doing business with (and even dependent on) the general public.Their owners are routinely interacting with customers who behave in ways they deem sinful. They don't get to single out one group of supposed sinners. If they're allowed to, who's to say they'll stop at that group?. . . I support the right of people to believe what they do and say what they wish — in their pews, homes and hearts. But outside of those places? You must put up with me, just as I put up with you.


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By Peter Gleason
The Rio Olympics are over, and the full reckoning of the TV ratings won't be known for a while.
But this much is known:
For Philly's Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, the Rio telecaster, there hasn't been this much pain and embarrassment since its unfriendly bid for Disney blew up in 2004.
NBCUniversal heads into the next three Olympics — all of them in Asia — faced with a critical question: Was the lower-than-expected prime-time viewership for the just-completed Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro a fluke or a harbinger of fraying audiences over the next six years.
The answer, for now, is unknown, as NBC prepares for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing (which hosted the Summer Olympics eight years ago). No one is certain how much further consumers will alter their media habits, how much further television viewing will be diminished, or what new technologies will emerge during that time.
A further challenge to carrying an Olympics in Asia: the 13- to 14-hour time differences between the host cities and the east coast.
"You'd be a lot less concerned if you were in the United States or in Continental Europe," Rich Greenfield, an analyst at BTIG Research, told the New York Times. "Ninety percent of the content from Asia will be happening when we're asleep — and when we wake up we'll see our Twitter feeds and news stories telling us what has already happened."


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Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport (IATA: PAT, ICAO: VEPT), also known as Jaiprakash Narayan Airport, Patna is an airport located 5 kilometres (2.7 NM) southwest of Patna, the capital of state of Bihar in India. According to the statistics released by the Airports Authority of India, the agency responsible for the airport, it is the 21st busiest airport in India, and domestic traffic is growing rapidly.
It is classified as a Restricted International Airport by AAI. Due to a lots of development work in Bihar, the AAI has planned to open a new International airport in Bihta near Patna. A Nalanda International Airport is also proposed, to facilitate the foreign deligates for ongoing Nalanda International University, a World class international University construction is in Progress in nearby Nalanda.
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COTABATO CITY, Feb. 21 — Acting Regional Vice-Governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Hadja Bainon Karon wednesday said politicians should not use the Philippines' Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program or commonly known as "Pantawid Pamilya" for their political advancement.
Vice Governor Karon, also ARMM Regional Secretary for the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), said her office launched Wednesday a pilot campaign on Anti-Epal or "BAWAL ANG EPAL DITO" with the objective of protecting the dignity of the program and ensure the rights of the beneficiaries.
Vice Governor Karon has reiterated that only the DSWD can delist beneficiaries from the program if they have not complied with the set conditions or in any case they had committed any violations.
In accordance to the preventive measure approach of the department, DSWD National Secretary Corazon Juliano Soliman issued a memorandum in September 2012 advising DSWD employees not to participate or be used in any political propaganda.
It was stated in Soliman's memo that if anyone from DSWD caught using the program in favor of a politician, she or he will be immediately suspended and an investigation will be conducted.
In this regard, Vice Governor Karon said that in case her office would receive complaints from anyone where it describes the circumstance and identified names of DSWD personnel from municipal links up to the regional office personnel engaging in partisan politics using the program, they will not hesitate to implement the actions stated in Sec. Soliman's memo.
Sec. Karon said there are efforts of the agency to protect Pantawid Pamilya from political interests.
Sec. Karon emphasized that DSWD-ARMM is communicating the message clearly: "Pantawid Pamilya is not a campaign vehicle for political advancement."
DSWD-ARMM is currently rolling out a media campaign to inform the public that no local politician has the authority to add or delist CCT beneficiaries called "Bawal ang EPAL dito" campaign.
This action as the department is worried that some politicians may take advantage of the Pantawid Pamilya program to gain leverage for the May 2013 elections.
In anticipation of such incidents, the DSWD-ARMM is ready to receive reports, feedbacks, and messages about politicians or candidates who may claim to have the authority to enlist and delist household beneficiaries from the program.
Complaints can be sent to the department's Grievance Redness System by sending a text with their "name/area/complaint" to 0918-9122813.
The Pantawid Pamilya Program implementation in ARMM, currently provides cash grants to more than 300,000 households.
Enrolled families get a monthly cash grant of P500 to cover healthcare costs while each child below 14 gets P300 for education. As conditionalities, the beneficiaries are required to send their children to school, and submit them to regular medical check-ups.
More than P44 billion has been allotted to the conditional cash transfer program for this year, up from P39 billion in 2012. (PNA-Media Ng Bayan)


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