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By Cheriesa Selman
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This semester, North Lake College has been collecting denim donations to put toward a collective effort by the Global Citizen Committee.
Professor Shani Suber, member of Global Citizen Committee, saw an incredible opportunity to impact how students view self, society and country and understand their perspectives collectively through Sole Hope, she said.
"Students' local environment and actions impact people in other countries and it is important to learn about an emerging global community," said Suber.
Sole Hope is an organization founded to help serve impoverished orphans and widows in Uganda from debilitating foot disease brought on by sand fleas called jiggers. These jiggers embed themselves into children's feet until the child can no longer walk.
"This [is] my one place where I [can] give back," said Briana Morolas, NLC student and volunteer for Sole Hope.
Working together, students and employees with diverse backgrounds have taken time to volunteer by tracing and cutting the patterns designed for the Sole Hope shoes from the denim donations.
After the patterns have been cut and collected, they are shipped to Uganda to be assembled by local shoemakers and tailors, using recycled tires as the soles of the shoes and an elastic band across the top.
The leftover denim scraps are weighed and donated to Blue Jeans Go Green, an organization that breaks down the denim and creates natural cotton insulation.
"We had over 200 volunteers throughout International Week and completed 370 pairs of shoes that will benefit widows and orphans in Uganda," said Suber. "As Global Citizens, they are strong leaders with great abilities and skills that can strengthen communities beyond what they see."


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It is easy to forget that for most of music history audiences only listened to one style– the style of their time. It is only with the modern era of recordings did we get used to hearing contrasting styles in one concert. The final Camerata San Antonio program of the season took special care to select music with contrasting styles to very fine effect. (The program is repeated for the third and final time on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church at 510 Belknap.)
A Boccherini quintet (1732-1805) opened the program, and it began a very unusual effect. The first violin played one note repeatedly to imitate a bugle call. It sounded very strange to me, but once the famous melody began the style became familiar and comfortable. The second piece was by John Mackey (born 1973) and it featured blusey fiddle music with lots of sliding effects in the left hands of the string trio. I haven't seen this much sliding since Rickey Henderson overtook the Major League Baseball stolen base record from Lou Brock! But, the fiddling style was familiar enough to cause everyone in the audience to smile and enjoy the humor and virtuosity of the work. The Boccherini and the Mackey had one thing in common — very simple harmonies. That set up the second half perfectly.
When the Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence began, the thick harmonies and textures were almost shocking. After the contrasting first half, this rich sextet almost sounded like it was being played by 60 musicians, not six. Who would have thought our old friend Tchaikovsky could have packed such a surprise? But, it was only partially the programming that made Tchaikovksy sound so fresh. The playing also contributed, as the performers all played with commitment and a rich sound with an intense vibrato. Violinists Ertan Torgul and Matthew Zerweck; violists Marisa Bushman and Emily Freudigman and cellists Ken Freudigman and David Mollenauer all luxuriated in the vibrant acoustics of the First United Methodist Church in Boerne.
Tchaikovsky's virtuoso ending of the first movement was especially effective. This is one of those pieces that the first movement ending is far more exciting than the ending of the last movement. In Tchaikovsky's time, I'm sure the audience would have burst into applause at the end of the first movement. Modern conventions insist on silence to connect multi-movement works. I wish we had all gone against style in this case.
Other upcoming events include:
May 4 & 5: San Antonio Symphony performs "Mozart in Old Style" in the Majestic Theatre.
May 6: The Children's Chorus of San Antonio offers Spring Song at 3 p.m. at Alamo Heights United Methodist Church, 825 East Basse Road, 78209.
May 6: Youth Orchestras of San Antonio perform a concert called Music for Great Cities at the Majestic Theatre at 4 p.m.
May 8 & 9: SOLI Chamber Ensemble. offers a concert called Freedom. The performance on the 8th is at Ruth Taylor Recital Hall and the 9th is at the McNay Museum's Leeper Auditorium
May 9: The Symphony offers a free concert at 11 a.m. at the Rackspace Castle as part of Rackspace's fourth Green Day celebration. No tickets are required.
May 15: FREE San Antonio Symphony concert at the Majestic Theatre. The concert is called BERLIOZ AND BARZUN and features the music of Berlioz in honor of Dr. Jacques Barzun. Although this is a free concert, tickets are required and are going fast. Call the Symphony Box Office at (210) 554-1010 for tickets and further information.
May 18 & 19: The Symphony POPS performs under the direction of guest conductor Michael Krajewski at Laurie Auditorium in Star Wars and other Space Odysseys.
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CSI: East Lansing – science shows innocent man hanged in famous British murder case
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Ninety-seven years after an American was hanged in London in one of the most notorious and famous murder cases in British history, forensic science at Michigan State University is producing evidence that his execution was a mistake.
Dr. Hawley Crippen was hanged for murdering and dismembering his showgirl wife, then fleeing with his mistress across the high seas with the police in hot pursuit. Loaded with enough sordid details and twists to eventually fuel more than 40 books and several movies, this London case is second only to Jack the Ripper in its sensational notoriety.
Back in 1910, it was forensic evidence that brought Crippen down. Now, David Foran, a forensic biologist and director of MSU's forensic science program, partnering with clinical and forensic toxicologist John Harris Trestrail III, managing director of the regional poison center in Grand Rapids, is combining state-of-the-art DNA analysis with solid sleuthing to show the remains buried in Crippen's basement couldn't have been his wife.
"This can't be Cora Crippen," Foran said. "We're certain of that."
For nearly a century, Crippen, a homeopathic physician, was thought to have poisoned his flamboyant and domineering wife with an obscure toxin, dismembered her body and buried little more than tissue in his London cellar. Crippen was labeled "one of the most dangerous and remarkable men who have lived in this century."
Trestrail has been engrossed by the case for 40 years. One of the nation's leading experts in poisoning, he knew dismemberment and poisoning don't go together.
"There were no identifying parts of the remains found, no head, no bones, no organs of gender. I've always wondered who is that under the steps?" Trestrail said. "Was he telling the truth? Now we have the possibility to bring the science of DNA up against actual specimens from the trial to answer the question: 'Was that her under the steps or wasn't it?'"
Trestrail formed a team with Foran and Beth Wills, a genealogist from Ionia, to resolve what he saw as inconsistent evidence.
Foran's laboratory specializes in ancient and forensic DNA evidence, often working with human remains that are thousands of years old. The nearly 100-year-old microscope slide, sent to Michigan State from the Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum, is the same one the pathologist Bernard Spilsbury used to help hang Crippen. In 1910, forensic pathology was more primitive; Spilsbury's testimony, identifying what he claimed was an abdominal scar consistent with Cora's medical history, convinced the jury that these were Cora's remains.
Crippen went to the gallows insisting he was innocent.
The present-day challenge: getting past the pine sap that sealed the slide and the formaldehyde used to preserve the tissue in order to examine the mitochondrial DNA that could identify Cora Crippen based on the genetic history of her maternal relatives.
Mitochondrial DNA is the genetic blueprint that is passed down in the egg from mother to daughter. Unlike regular DNA, which comes from the cell's nucleus, Foran explained that mitochondrial DNA remains more stable in aged tissue and is easier to retrieve. Also, mitochondrial DNA remains relatively undiluted through generations, offering a reliable familial match.
Foran's laboratory has devised methods to extract and isolate mitochondrial DNA. Unable to break through the sap seal, he chipped away at the slide's glass cover slip to get at the tissue sample. One of his graduate students recently studied ways to work around formaldehyde fixation to isolate DNA.
The goal: Compare the mitochondrial DNA in the slide that convicted Crippen with Wills' assignment – finding a maternal relative of Cora Crippen. If Hawley Crippen indeed killed his wife and buried some of her remains in the cellar, those remains would share specific DNA characteristics with Cora Crippen's current day relatives. To paraphrase the famed attorney in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Johnnie Cochran, if the DNA doesn't fit, you can't convict.
Wills spent some seven years pouring through genealogical records and taking on the somewhat nontraditional task of finding living female relatives of Cora Crippen's mother.
"Usually, in genealogy, you work backwards, but in this case, we went forward," she said.
As she traced through the family line, she found elderly relatives who remembered talk of a family scandal, one where a woman had been murdered by her husband in London. She ultimately located three grandnieces.
"We took a lot of precautions when doing this testing," Foran said. "We just didn't stop. We went back and started from scratch and tested it again. The DNA in the sample is different from the known relatives of Cora Crippen."
"Crippen was not convicted just of murder – but the murder of Cora Crippen," Trestrail said. "If that body is not Cora, then that's another trial."
For more information, go to http://special.newsroom.msu.edu/crippen/.
Michigan State University has been advancing knowledge and transforming lives through innovative teaching, research and outreach for more than 150 years. MSU is known internationally as a major public university with global reach and extraordinary impact. Its 17 degree-granting colleges attract scholars worldwide who are interested in combining education with practical problem solving.


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At the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, the European-targeted three-door version of the 2013 Audi A3 encapsulates renewed passion for pushing the boundaries of what can be expected from an entry-level compact.
The 2013 model year A3 is greatly refreshed to reflect Audi's technology advancement and refined styling DNA. Premiering in Geneva, the 2013 Audi A3 three-door hatchback is immediately eye-catching as a sophisticated yet youthful design. Just slightly longer than the previous European-sold three-door model at 4,237 millimeters (166.81 inches), the 2013 A3 grows outward by 22 millimeters (0.866 inches) bumper cover-to-bumper cover. Despite the longer dimensions, Audi's "ultra lightweight construction principle" utilizing aluminum and high strength steels present the new Audi A3 weighing 80 kilograms (176.4 pounds) less than its predecessor.
The reshaped front end features more dynamic looking front headlamps housings. Optional bi-xenon headlights also combine LED strips for daytime running lighting. Deep contour lines travel along the hood and side panels of the 2013 Audi A3 relaying a higher sense of detail. At the rear, a three-dimensional contouring and LED taillights anchors the attention of A3 followers. A total of 13 exterior paint colours will be sold with the 2013 Audi A3. Other bodywork enhancements will also be made possible by the S Line styling package.
Chassis of the new Audi A3 receives a suspension system engineered to be responsive and comfortable. An electronic limited-slip differential is included alongside the Audi A3's electronic stability control program for improved handing and safety while driving. To exploit higher tolerances of the A3's driving dynamic, an optional sport suspension firmer ride drops the Audi compact by 0.59 inches. A more radical S Line Suspension will also available on the Audi A3. Featuring wheels sizes between 16 and 18 inches, the Audi A3's stylish rims will ride within low rolling resistance tires that will maximize fuel economy without affecting handling.
Featuring three-power plant option, the 2013 Audi A3 will be sold in Europe with two turbocharged gasoline and one turbodiesel engine choice. The pair of TFSI gasoline engines available on the Audi A3 includes the 1.4 liter, 122-horsepower and the 180-horsepower 1.8 liter. European Audi A3 customers will also have the highly fuel-efficient 2.0 TDI powerplant rated for generating 236 pounds feet of torque. Six-speed manual gearboxes will be matched standard with the 1.4 TFSI and 2.0 TDI engines while a dual-clutch, 7-speed S Tronic is included with the 1.8 liter Audi A3 model. The Audi A3 three-door presented at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show is a front-wheel drive model. A quattro all-wheel drivetrain is a guarantee by Audi for the newest compact car.
Complementing the exterior focus of the 2013 Audi A3, the three-door hatchback's interior plays particularly well to the premium sport compact theme. The driver of the Audi A3 receives a control panel designed towards enriching a sense of motoring authority when holding the steering wheel. Paddle shifters and multifunctional steering wheel controls are available on the Audi A3. Interior design choices for the 2013 Audi A3 are coupled with two-tone colouring as well as leather/alcantara trim provided as factory add-ons. Accommodating five-passengers with a reasonable 365 liters (12.9 cubic feet) of interior cargo space, the volume of the new Audi A3 three-door expands to 1,100 liters (38.85 cubic feet) when the rear seat is folded down.
Oriented towards to youth market, the 2013 Audi A3 three-door hatchback will be the compact vehicle luring the performance look seeker. The new A3 line-up presented at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show will offer something for every premium entry-level customer.
Information and photo source: Audi AG
Included below in this post is the 2012 Geneva Motor Show unveiling of the Audi A3. Please be aware the interviews are in German.
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I like the way Italian horror movies have multiple titles. BLOOD AND BLACK LACE is also SIX WOMEN FOR THE MURDERER, an original title less elegant than its replacement, although I do like how the final "R" is missing on my VHS. It works nicely if you say it with a strong scouse accent.
Riccardo Freda's MURDER OBSESSION (1981) is also known as MURDER SYNDROME, THE WAILING and FOLLIA OMOCIDA and HOMICIDAL FOLLIES OF 1981, although I should admit that the it's only known by the last title in my immediate household. This movie was Freda's final completed job, and reprises a lot of the giallo oddness of TRAGIC CEREMONY (AKA, and I'm not kidding this time, ESTRATTO DAGLI ARCHIVO SEGRETI DELLA POLIZIA DI UNA CAPITALE EUROPA), combining incestuous oedipal desires, black magic, and heads been split in two in unconvincing but undeniably enthusiastic closeup. Lacking a Mario Bava for opticals or a Carlo Rambaldi for physical effects, Freda has to make-do with pretty shabby SFX, but make-do is what Freda does best. And to his credit, he uses the gore effects as abrupt punctuations of his languid, trippy mood, rather than lingering sadistically on them until you can literally see the joins, as would be the case in most Lucio Fulci movies.
Godard was right — it really isn't blood, and it really is red.
After one of those already hackneyed openings when a lurid murder turns out to be a scene from a lurid murder movie, we plunge into lunacy as leading man Michael (Fiona: "He's such a spoon!") takes his girlfriend to meet mother ("I'll say you're my secretary," he says, cheerily and not at all strangely) at her spooky, electrically-challenged mansion. Although he hasn't visited mom for years, later he'll be joined there for a meeting by his director, AD and co-star (exotic porn queen Laura Gemser, rejoicing in the character name "Beryl") — as if this were a normal or even sane way to do business.
The plot trundles wonkily along, lurching from murder to murder, made appealing only by the sheer preponderance of WTF moments — if I had a clicker to count them, like David Bordwell, I would probably have notched up around one a minute. While the acting is mostly boringly competent (Gemser is neither better nor worse than anyone else), the dialogue is feverishly stupifying, helped by the fact that it occasionally switches randomly to Italian, since the original release was a cut version and the missing, undubbed scenes have now been added back in.
"You were declared not responsible and shut up in an institution far away from here. Then you became a famous actor."
As with THE HORRIBLE SECRET OF DR HICHCOCK (sic), there's much running around musty corridors with candelabra full of yellow candles, some characters turn up with monstrously deformed faces for no discernible reason, and change back to normal in an equally unexplained way, there's surprisingly frank taboo sexual perversion (necrophilia in HICHCOCK, incest here) and a miasma of Catholic angst overhangs everything.
The plot is derailed utterly by a lengthy dream sequence narrated by the heroine to her spoon boyfriend, which he then has no opinion about, and which turns out not to be a dream after all… or was it? And then we get a series of alternate explanations of who's behind the killings and why, one of which is recounted by a corpse (via a recording made earlier), which makes the whole thing seem like a giallo RASHOMON — or SLASHOMON, if you will.
Freda produces some startling and beautiful images, and succeeded in convincing me by the end that none of this would have been improved by better characterisation, dialogue, or a plot that made sense. His best effects often happen right at the point you expect the film to fall apart, and as in TRAGIC CEREMONY he goes handheld for the Satanic rituals in a way that vividly suggests complete loss of control…
"Do you think a lot of filmmakers have issues with women?" ~ MST3K


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I've come to the conclusion that work is a hazard to my health. Not only has it taken nearly two weeks to recover from a little cold and sore throat, on Tuesday I found myself eating a chocolate bar out of a vending machine because the 3pm low hit me and it was there. Lucky I'm only there three days a week.......
The things I sewed for my friends have been well received - I had a lovely lunch with my friend whose husband I sewed the viking outfits for and she gave me an awesome reprinted 1950s book by Christian Dior on the A-Z of Fashion. And the friend who I sewed the little shirt for has promised to take some photos of Anna for me in exchange (she's a professional photographer) so both were worth all the frustrations in the end!
In the last two days I've finished not one, but two things for myself. First up I made a boatneck top from BWOF 2/09 pattern 108 from a white textured knit that I had in my stash because I wanted to test out how my newly repaired overlocker works. It turns out the overlocker works fine now, but my skills in sewing knit fabrics are still woeful! I used clear elastic along the neckline instead of just turning it under and sewing as suggested by BWOF, but still it is a bit ripply. Same for the hems, even though I used a twin stretch needle to topstitch it is still a bit wavy. But it looks ok for a test garment, and I have worn it so I guess it passes muster. I shortened the sleeves a bit but didn't make any other changes to the pattern.
I also made the skirt I'm wearing in the above photo too. Only it was meant to be a dress! It's a UFO from about 4 years ago, abandoned for the good reason that I tried to morph together two seperate patterns and it just didn't work out. Mainly because as usual I was impatient to get started and didn't make any effort to trace the patterns and make adjustments so the bodice and skirt would join together. Noooo, I just sort of creased the patterns a little and hoped for the best. And to make matters worse instead of doing a muslin (which would have been wise!) I just cut straight into the fabric which is a beautiful linen bought from Tessuti's York St store.
Anyway, I couldn't get the bodice and the skirt to fit together at all, mainly because both skirt and bodice had too many panels and the linen has no ease at all. I didn't want to give up on the fabric because it's a gorgeous natural coloured background with duck egg blue and grey spots. The only problem I have now is what to wear with it, I might have to make another top now especially for it!
The skirt is an inverted pleat skirt from Style 3643, which is a vintage pattern picked up from an op shop some time ago. I've used this pattern once before which ironically was also a UFO for quite some time too! And it is indeed "sew "simple to sew - I bet someone in the Style creative department thought they were pretty clever putting that on the front of the pattern. The skirt is very long, way longer than the pattern illustration suggests (again beware patterns with only illustrations on the envelope) so I've had to shorten it quite dramatically to sit above my knee. It's also a little high waisted, which isn't really my style, but is only really noticeable if I wear the skirt with something tucked in like this:
But I doubt I will wear it like that! I also left out the rear inverted pleat because I find that just gets creased and looks bad after wearing it for a while, and the front pleat is enough for walking ease anyway. And speaking of the back of the skirt, I put in an invisible zip so the join of the spots wouldn't be interrupted, but look at what I did with matching the spots (excuse the creases, this was taken after I'd been wearing it a while):
Sooo annoying, especially since I didn't have any extra fabric at all to recut it. So all in all I'm glad I finished this UFO and the beautiful fabric is out of the box and into my wardrobe. I wore it out today and am happy with it, but I think it's a bit blah though. I just need to find a perfect colour match for a top to go with it. I wonder what my chances are in finding something in the stash!?!
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Friday, 19 February 2010
sewing when you shouldn't
Just like texting whilst drunk is a bad idea, sewing whilst you're feeling poorly (as my late grandma would say) is not such a great idea either. I took Monday and Tuesday off work because I wasn't feeling that great, but because Anna wasn't sick at all I still sent her to daycare which meant I had two whole days of freedom stretching out in front of me. Instead of lying on the lounge watching crappy daytime tv or catching up on about 14 months worth of sleep, I decided to spend some quality uninterrupted sewing time. Mainly because I had a few projects for friends I needed to finish so I can get on with the important stuff - sewing for me!
Only my concentration was severely lacking because even though I was sewing quite simple things it took me at least twice as long because I had to keep fixing my silly errors. I made some more Viking tunics for my medieval obsessed friend, which are really simple to sew, only I sewed some bias tape trim to the wrong side of the fabric and had to unpick it all and re-do it. All 5.5m of it! That's at least two hours of my life I won't be seeing again.
Then I sewed a little shirt for a pageboy in a friend's sister's wedding, which is going to be a casual beach wedding. It's from Kwik Sew 3146, which in typical Kwik Sew style is really simple to make and the instructions really easy to understand although for some reason I find the paper pattern instead of tissue paper a little annoying. Anyway the fabric selected by the bride is a two coloured stripe cotton, so I paid special attention to matching the stripes. Well I thought I did but of course I stuffed it not once, but twice! Luckily there was enough fabric to re-cut pieces and in the end I managed to get the stripes to match up at the shoulders, the pocket and the yoke piece at the back:
I also ripped off the collar and stand after sewing it because I didn't like how it turned out at all. Because I've never sewn such a little button down shirt, I followed the instructions exactly in case the order of construction is different from adult sizes. Aside from sewing the sleeves in flat, it is exactly the same, and these instructions had the usual collar construction: sew the collar to the stand, sew the stand to the shirt. This method means it's really difficult to get a good finish at the curved start of the collar stand (well for me anyway).
So instead I re-did it the way I do my shirts, following the David Coffin shirtmaking book method of sewing the stand to the shirt and the sewing the collar to the stand. Although I have to admit, that even though I own the David Coffin book I used the fantastically easy and well photographed tutorial over at Sigrid's sewing tutorial blog - her version is far simpler to understand than the book. She has heaps of other tutorials as well which I can highly recommend.
So that was my week in a nutshell - two sewing days spent sewing simple things that should have only taken me one day max, an appearance at work on Wednesday (I have such a strong work ethic LOL) and today a stroll in the park in the sunshine while this one discovered the joys of running in grass and running amok in the library:
Hope you're all doing well, especially all of you in the northern hemisphere: may your toes be snug and toasty!
P.S Songbird Lane - you made me laugh by being jealous of my tidy house! There is a reason why my photos are fairly tightly cropped, it keeps the chaos out of the frame! I figure if the kitchen and bathroom are clean, and there is a clear path through the toys between the front and back doors, all is well. And if I had six kids I would consider just keeping them fed enough of an achievement and wouldn't worry at all how my house looked....
P.S Songbird Lane - you made me laugh by being jealous of my tidy house! There is a reason why my photos are fairly tightly cropped, it keeps the chaos out of the frame! I figure if the kitchen and bathroom are clean, and there is a clear path through the toys between the front and back doors, all is well. And if I had six kids I would consider just keeping them fed enough of an achievement and wouldn't worry at all how my house looked....
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Friday, 12 February 2010
Sorry everyone for not posting this week, I just know you are all hanging for my words of wisdom LOL! Sadly however I have been quite sick this week with a cold (in a hot summer, I know crazy!) and in fact today I have completely lost my voice which I think my husband is secretly happy about because I can't nag him to do stuff without it! Anyway I've been too sick to sew, which is annoying because I have to get some sewing for friends out of the way ASAP so I can get on with all the ideas currently swirling around in my head.
But it has been a week of ups and downs. I received in the mail a yard of free fabric won from a Sew Mama Sew free Friday fabric giveway - another random draw, I should buy me a lotto ticket. Work was pretty good this week because I was so busy the day passed quickly. I bought some new shoes during my lunch hour because without a child hanging off me I can, and the Shoe Emporio in the Pitt Street mall is shutting down and all their stock is reduced to $50. I bought a pair of leather knee high boots that were originally $219! Sydneysiders, get yourself their pronto to snag a bargain.
On the downside however our house flooded in the newly built section because our bodgy builders didn't put in sufficient drainage and an almighty storm we had on the weekend came flowing right into our living room, ruining the floor. Anna has some more teeth coming through that are taking forever to pop on out and she's been waking up every hour and a half through the night and then having 5am wake ups to boot. I wasted my two days off work being sick at home and still having to look after a cranky one year old instead of saving it for next week when I could have taken leave from work and she still would have been at daycare. Anna's walking has quickly progressed into running which has led to some spectacular falls and plenty of tears.
I'll leave this bland post with a picture of my cheeky little monkey thinking she's very clever for climbing up onto the arm chair to sit there like an adult:
I'll leave this bland post with a picture of my cheeky little monkey thinking she's very clever for climbing up onto the arm chair to sit there like an adult:
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Thursday, 4 February 2010
back to work
So I survived my first three days being back at work - it was bizarre being there because it felt like nothing at all had changed! Happily the person who was filling in my role for the last 14 months did so much work (in fact probably more work than I've done in the last three years LOL) and managed to finish all the old pesky projects that I thought would come back to haunt me. It's all pretty boring though, I'd much rather be at home creating things than working in the policy section of a government department, but I've gotta fund my fabric addiction somehow!
Funnily I was having major wardrobe crises each morning this week, I have so many work clothes but I don't seem to like many of them anymore! Which is understandable because it's been nearly two years since I've worn some of them and I guess my body shape has changed a bit since having a baby. Now this means I have reason to start sewing some more work clothes, which is great because I realise that's my favourite things to sew.
I didn't get much sewing done at all this week being a bit too tired after a work day, just a bit of gentle unpicking in front of the telly and doing a little bit on some more Viking costumes for my friend. But I did make this very cute bag to hold all of Anna's bits and pieces to take to daycare (spare set of clothes, nappies, dummy etc):
An easy peasy drawstring bag that I just french seamed the two side seams and used some ribbon for the drawstring. It's in pink and white seersucker from the stash, with little white felt letters appliqued onto polka dot circles of fabric which in turn are appliqued onto the bag. This took me about an hour to make, which is well worth it since I have seen similar screenprinted bags sells for more than $20!
I picked up my overlocker today too from the servicers and it seems to be working fine so soon I'll be able to get on with finishing a few things. Not tonight though, I'm having a few kids around tomorrow for a play date and once I stop procrastinating/blogging, I need to tidy up groan....
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Wow, it is exciting to see the genes have been retained that created our spontaneous behavior.
I get an e-mail on Friday asking if I am going to be home Saturday from my brother. No further word,
later I call and say you headed this way. He was evasive at first but finally admitted he was thinking of it.
So being my Father's child I knew he(brother) was going to be on the road soon. It reminds me of all the great trips we would take on a moments notice or so it seemed and yes some times were.
Dad would come into the house from work when he still worked days and say, Mom, you have anything happening? Generally, MOM would say," no, what is up? " The next thing we knew we had to haul extra feed and make sure water was topped off for animals. Dad would call a neighbor friend and say "could you" and within an hour we would be packed on the road and singing songs.
We would have had the milking done, the pigs, chickens, calves, rabbits and other chores about done when he got home from the Feed Mill around 6 P M.
We would go up the road to Dallas, Oregon to see our Aunt Ruth and Uncle Fred. Or we would go south to Palo Alto to spend a night and day with cousins Ralph and Nadine. Generally these trips south were just a long day but once in awhile an activity would mean a over night. What fun, we had Dean, Daryl, Ivan, Jeannie and Tommy to play with. We learned many cool card games and ball games were played.
Oregon meant a long trip and generally we got there about breakfast. There we played with our cousins: Jerry, Linda and Ken Feil. Ken was very small then, so long ago. Years later I spent summer and baby sat them and worked the bean fields for school clothes money. Learned to dance skate then and loved skating.
Today I am not sure I can stand on the skates. More stories about skating down line to tell.
So because we even would head out to Wyoming at the last minute if Dad felt or Mom felt there was a need. It took more planning but we did leave generally within a week or a day of notification depending on situation. Once we just took off and surprised family from California, Nevada, Utah and lots of places in Colorado and Wyoming. We ended up in Wheatland, Wyoming last. Mom's parents home.
I remember how much fun it was to surprise people and how excited they would be to see us.
I used to go from Lemoore Naval Air Station to Valley Ford or Sunnyvale doing the same thing, after marriage and Aunt and Uncle moving to California.
Dad was great for saying Gerald do you have duty this weekend, good we are on our way and we would come down to San Diego for 2 days.
We were a family of surprise travel. I hope we some how retain a portion of that, there is nothing so great as to have family show up and a share time. I think nothing is so important as family sharing.
So the children got to see their Uncle and Aunt today for Father's Day visit to their Dad. SO COOL
Don yes we missed you and thought of you.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Sentimental Sunday, Brother's surprise Visit
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This must be Fred's brother.. Sound's like you had a great Day.. Nice memories...we did have fun on those trips..ReplyDelete
How fun! You reminded me of my own family and all the last minute trips we took. For us it was often to no where in particular just to see what we could find. Good times!ReplyDelete
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Very amusing. From someone that claimed it can see russia from her backyard.
Very amusing. From someone that claimed it can see russia from her backyard.
Is this about Sarah Palin or Tina Fey? Fey was the one who made that claim, not Palin.
Not to defend Palin, her argument is extremely misguided. There has been an abundance of cronyism in this administration (see Solnydra), but Tesla has not (as far as I know) been an overt benefactor.
Tesla, unlike Fiskar, has a legitimate product, a legitimate (though admittedly risky) business model, and a sustainable/profitable future. They have sufficiently diversified their revenue streams via their partnerships with other car companies, which if the Model X flops will allow them to continue operating. The fact that they have de-leveraged as much as they have gives them the optional capital flexibility through future loans in case they do run into financial problems.
I would think Palin would be a huge fan as they truly represent the american startup dream. But as she is nothing more than a shock jock now, I am not surprised.
That is definitely Palin in the video. Of course she would diss EV cars. Alaska gets billions of $$ from big oil, and since she is basically a talking head for Fox News, there is no chance she would do any research on the subject to validate her comments.
Neech, I though that Fox fired her.
People should go to her fb page and explain her how things really work. She doesn't seem to have a clue of what she is talking about.
Did she ever?
re Solyndra. Not cronyism. An acceptable investment risk. So far, its win/loss ratio is far better than Romney's investment firm.
A review by former (under George Bush) Treasury official Herb Allison says DOE could lose as much as $3 billion from companies that default on their guarantees, but that's much less than the $10 billion that Congress had put aside for losses to the program...the overall loan portfolio holds less than the amount of risk envisioned by Congress when they designed and funded the program. While the portfolio includes loans to a range of projects that carry different levels of risk the Department of Energy has been judicious in balancing these risks.
"We have always known that there were inherent risks in backing innovative technologies at full commercial scale, and it is very likely that there will be other companies in the portfolio that won't succeed," Chu said. "But the vast majority of companies are expected to pay the loans back in full, on time and with about $8 billion in interest — while supporting a total of 60,000 American jobs and helping us compete for a rapidly growing global industry."
Solyndra was routing its customerless wonder-tubes directly into the trash stream in the dark of night, and the execs creamed off huge bonuses in advance of selling anything. Solyndra got what it deserved.
@Mel - I thought Fox fired her too, but the video in the link above shows her on Fox Business. Looks like she is still on the Fox payroll.
"Solyndra got what it deserved"
Yup. They were a failure, part of the acceptable risks of the program.
I would normally not waste my time talking about Sarah Palin but, unfortunately, those talking points seem to be common among other politicians (i.e. Romney).
There are many facts and inconvenient truths ignored in the positions taken by these politicians. It amounts to wishful thinking of the click-your-heels three times kind. The United States should invest in any and all technology that would give the country not only energy independence but technological superiority at the same time.
If that competition involves China, a notorious currency manipulator and sponsor of government-backed industrial spionage, sabotage, and the like, I feel that our Government would be irresponsible not to get involved (Romney agreed with that). This is an industrial cold war that we are in, but people like Mrs. Palin cannot understand that involves...well... the government...and simply focus on what fits in a tweet, which conveniently matches her attention span.
Aside from the politics, the economics of Tesla and EV vehicles - the macro-economics, not the $500/month smoke-and-mirrors stuff - are also conveniently ignored by nuts like Palin. Tesla is a new American car company employing Americans and growing even while the country is in dire economic times - that's stuff worthy of a parade led by Captain America himself. The nay-sayers like to point out the $465M DOE loan as a hand-out when in fact the government is being repaid and that "investment" (yes, I called it an investment) helped create jobs and commerce that themselves generate tax revenue. The impact of that $465M DOE loan is far greater than that number, but that kind of thinking is too sophisticated for someone like Sarah Palin.
The most important thing Tesla can do politically right now is simply post the truth on their website/blog about how many direct and indirect jobs they have created. And how much in direct taxes and indirect tax revenue this provides the treasury. TM should keep a year by year and cumulative total.
TM should also track and proclaim how much imported oil they displace, and how much money this equals and how that money now stays in the USA stimulating our economy instead of going overseas.
So other than set the record straight, I wouldn't give much attention to SP or other types just looking to get clicks by starting partisan arguements that are not based on rationality and/or accurate information/data.
@PorfirioR +1
Backmann , Santorum, Huckabee etc. really hurt the debate in this country, like Palin the News Media loves to cover their stupidity.
Acceptable risks do not include complicity in top-down corruption benefiting big party donors. I recant. Solyndra got much better than it deserves.
Brian H, you are using logic in your discussion, however , those are the other side have religion on their side.. In other words " it is not worth the effort" .
"complicity in top-down corruption" Lovely language, but logic? Hardly. Facts? No. Funny to see you siding with Sarah.
Check this out. Here we all are laughing at Sarah Palin, but the main accusations of government croneyism in the loan program come from "Throw Them All Out," by conservative writer Peter Schweizer - a member of Sarah Palin's team. So much for logic.
Fact Check says it's bunk , and that some loans and grants went to companies run by Democratic donors, some went to Republican donors as well.
There's no evidence of croneyism anywhere. In fact, the DOE's inspector general says,"None of the cases that resulted in convictions for Recovery Act fraud related to the directing of contracts or grants to friends or family."
Even the Washington Post, after an extensive investigation, said, "The records do not establish that anyone pressured the Energy Department to approve the Solyndra loan to benefit political contributors."
A couple of things. Joshnd03, yes Fey made that comment. But it was based on a comment from Palin that you could see Russia from parts of Alaska, which I believe is true, but hardly relevant to her foreign policy experience, the context in which the comment was made.
On Solyndra, a major factor in its failure was the unfair dumping of solar equipment in the US by China. (and inferior technology too) It in fact was pointless for our government to lend money to support an industry that it was also undermining through failure to enfore trade policy.
On Cronyism, Is there a business person or entrepeneur that is not a "crony" of some politician or other? I suspect that if I give money to your crony, pretty soon that person will become my crony. The only factor determining crony capitalism is whose controls the purse strings at any given time. And that is not always the party in the White House. Point in fact, Solyndra started as Bush's crony but is commonly regarded as Obama's crony.
"through failure to enfore trade policy."
Spot on. Thus, China is getting ahead of us in a crucial area once again.
Enforcing protectionism is the road to high-priced irrelevance.
Fair trade policy is not protectionism. You know better than to say that. The Chinese are not competing fairly in an open market. instead, they are heavily subsidizing their own companies to get controlling interest in important sectors. They are breaking the rules. They're very good at it.
It's easy to come up with a short clever saying that appeals to people who don't want to take the time to understand the issues. However, I believe that what people on this forum know is that America's strength is bringing new, innovative techniques and technologies to bear to provide the future direction for the world. We did it with manufacturing technology, with computer technology, networking and other things. Where enforcing trade laws with other countries comes in is in not allowing them to dump in our markets, thereby stifling the kind of innovation that we are best at. They do this on purpose. Just like Walmart will go into an area and put all the other stores out of business by using their economic clout, China is trying to put our solar energy companies out of business. They will do the same with electric cars and anything else that they can. What we can do is try to match them. We can't manipulate our currency to do to them what they are doing to us, but we can introduce tariffs and subsidies to make what they are doing less effective.
I am picking on China, but they are not the only ones. Just the biggest. I don't view this as protectionist. I view this as competition. They are the ones stifling competition, not us.
David, A123 went bankrupt, my understanding is that Johnson Controls was a lock to buy the company, however the Administration stepped in and A123 was basically given to a chinese government company. Now A123 was a company with a lot of R and D into battery technology. Any idea how this helps?
After looking this up on the interwebs, i found out that the sale was approved by a bankruptcy judge because the chinese company outbid johnson controls in dollars. In addition the r&d was purchased by an american company which is going to expand this effort to develop new battery and energy technology on behalf of the u.s. government (and for their benefit as well). I don't see a problem with this.
If solar panels are now a commodity with declining price, no one can escape the cost pressure. Chinese solar companies are going bust too, because of over-building. At this point, every latest greatest is obsolete before the factory is finished.
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In a modern professional sports context, that's pretty much peanuts. Metaphorically speaking, MLB organizations have that much laying around between the cushions of their couch.
And, sadly, in this instance it represents a missed opportunity, as $3.5M is the difference between Ramon Hernandez's new $2M salary and the 2010 salary of Curtis Granderson ($5.5M). This meager difference in salary between the two is simply not reflective of the massive difference in ability and production.
Hernandez's new deal is listed at $3M for 2010 and a $3.25M vesting option for 2011. However, the $3M 2010 salary includes the $1M buyout of the $8.5M club option for 2010 from his last contract. So, $1M of it was a sunk cost and $2M is the actual salary for 2010.
The Reds have been crying poverty and doing everything they can to reduce fan expectations for this offseason. Even so, it's impossible to believe that the organization can't scrape together enough cash to make this move.
First, let's address the elephant in the room: the Scott Rolen trade. I am on record as being in favor of this deal. And, I still like it. In 2009, the Reds thirdbase troika of Edwin Encarnacion (2009 Wins Above Replacement: 0.0), Adam Rosales (2009 WAR: -0.1), and Jerry Hairston Jr. (2009 WAR: 1.0) provided essentially replacement level production.
This is just a rough and dirty look at their win impact, but it's a generally accurate view of their impact on the team's W/L total. I didn't break out the WAR figure to account for solely performance at the hot corner, so Hairston Jr.'s WAR is inflated by the time he spent at more valuable defensive positions. So, the Reds truly did receive replacement level production at third base.
So, the acquisition of Scott Rolen has the potential to have a significant impact on the Reds W/L record. In 2009, Rolen posted a 3.8 WAR for the Jays and Reds. If Rolen can stay healthy (yes, perhaps a big "IF"), then he could be in line to improve the Reds by 4+ wins. He should get the requisite bump from switching to Great American Ballpark, so the trade that everyone panned could improve the Reds significantly in 2010.
However, the latest news on the deal is that the Reds are on the hook for all of Rolen's 2010 salary. Of course, Rolen is set to make $11M in 2010, while Edwin is making $4.75M. So, without any money coming from the Great White North to cover the cost of Rolen's salary, the Reds increased their payroll by $6.25M with this deal. And, to be honest, it may well be worth it. Even so, if the Reds entered into that deal in the knowledge that they wouldn't be able to add salary to improve the team over the offseason, then it becomes a little less defensible. In a vacuum, it's a solid deal, but the Reds need to bite the bullet and make another move to improve the 2010 team.
Personally, I think it's a huge mistake not to aggressively pursue Curtis Granderson. The Tigers are widely reported to be looking to shave payroll, as Detroit is being hit hard by the recession. Obviously, in exchange for their veteran players the Tigers are looking for young, cost controlled players/prospects. And, what do the Reds have in surplus? Prospects!
I'd offer up Yonder Alonso and one of Juan Francisco/Chris Valaika/Chris Heisey. Is there any doubt that Granderson would provide more total value (offense + defense) than shifting Votto to left to accommodate Yonder at first?
Granderson is a plus defensive player who would be in the discussion for best defensive leftfielder in baseball. And, while he struggles with southpaws, Granderson has a great blend of power and speed. He also draws a significant number of walks and would immediately solve the Reds leadoff hitter dilemma. His addition would give the Reds three top notch lefties (Granderson, Votto, Bruce) to go with three top notch righties (Phillips, Rolen, Stubbs).
In Detroit he has produced WAR marks of 3.9, 7.4, 3.8, and 3.4 from 2006 to 2009. While he had a bit of down year last year, Granderson would get a boost from GABP. In addition, he's a "face of the franchise" type player who is a leader in the clubhouse and the community.
The Scott Rolen trade is solid in a vacuum, but it looks better if the Reds pair it with the acquisition of another 4-5 win player. If the Reds do that, then they could be looking at significant improvement. If the Reds were to get aggressive, then maybe a 78 win team in 2009 becomes an 85-88 win team in 2010.
The Reds need to have the foresight to position themselves to take advantage of the market. The nation wide recession has created significant bargains around the league, but only those teams who have positioned themselves to take advantage of them will benefit. If the Reds can afford to throw $2M at Ramon Hernandez, then they could have afforded to pay Curtis Granderson $3.5M more to play for the Reds. I don't think there is any question which player will provide more value and wins in 2010.
This is the type of move the Reds should be looking to make. Adding a young player who is under contract through 2013 and who can help the team win...now!


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It's times like this we must remember history and learn from it
By Daniel J. Jennings
As we watch the horror unfolding in New York and Washington D.C. on our TV screens it's a good time to take a look at history and learn from it. I say this because history has some very important lessons to teach us about situations like this.
The first lesson is don't overreact by taking military actions that might have horrendous consequences in the near future. This may be the most important lesson of all as the Austro-Hungarian Empire learned all too well during World War I. In 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which ruled much of Central Europe, was outraged at a terrorist attack. A Serbian nationalist fanatic shot and killed the beloved heir to the Austrian Throne, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, in the streets of Sarajevo. Evidence linking the attack to the secret service of the small neighboring kingdom of Serbia soon surfaced.
Austria retaliated to this outrage by invading Serbia. This invasion triggered World War I, because Serbia's ally Russia, rushed to that nation's defense. Austria called in its ally, Germany, and Russia her ally, France. To get at France, Germany invaded Belgium and drew the British Empire into the conflict. One of the worst blood baths in human history had begun and as a consequence of that war, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed completely. Had Austria shown some restraint and not sought vengeance for the murder of the Archduke, World War I and all of its horrible consequences could have been avoided and millions of men would not have needed to die in horrific combat.
This is a lesson well worth remembering. Any military action we take in retaliation for these horrible attacks in New York and Washington is going to have consequences in the future. It could very well shape our world: a world that we, our children and our grandchildren will have to live in and we should think about that.
During World War I, many Americans, including President Woodrow Wilson and some congressional leaders were outraged by the behavior of Imperial Germany and its Kaiser Wilhelm II. German submarines sank unarmed civilian ships, such as the liner Lusitania, including some with Americans onboard and some American-flagged vessels. German saboteurs set off bombs in the United States destroying munitions plants and other targets, killing innocent Americans in the process. German soldiers committed some atrocities in the occupied nation of Belgium. Some German superpatriots talked of attacking the United States in alliance with Mexico.
In response to these provocations, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war. America sent a large army to France, which was instrumental in the defeat of Imperial Germany. A defeat that led to the collapse of the Imperial government and the abdication of Wilhelm II. A defeat followed by various efforts to punish Germany for war crimes real and imagined. American propagandists trumpeted America's victory as making "the World Safe For Democracy" and peace was restored.
Unfortunately, the peace existed only in the minds of the propagandists. A defeated Germany proved a perfect breeding ground for extremist political movements. Within 15 years of America's "victory" the most dangerous and fanatical of German political leaders, Adolph Hitler, was absolute dictator of Germany. Within twenty years of America's "victory," World War II had broken out in Europe, having been launched by Hitler.
By defeating the Kaiser and destroying his German Empire, Woodrow Wilson and the patriots of 1917 only succeeded in clearing the way for Adolph Hitler and making another war inevitable. As a number of observers, including Winston Churchill, pointed out, had America not overreacted to German actions and declared war in 1917, the exhausted British and French would have been forced to end the war and sign a peace treaty with Germany. This wouldn't have resulted in a perfect situation in Europe, but it would have been better than what happened after 1918.
Imperial Germany was, contrary to the lies of Woodrow Wilson's propaganda machine, probably as "democratic" as America's 1917 allies Britain and France. Imperial Germany had an elected national legislature and well-organized political parties. And far from being a blood thirsty tyrant, Wilhelm II, was a weak constitutional monarch, and in person, a harmless eccentric, who actually wanted peace and opposed the war. An equitable settlement between the warring powers in 1917 was highly probable. More importantly, a strong German Empire wouldn't have fallen prey to Hitler and his Nazis, there might have been no World War II and no Holocaust. The deaths of millions could have been avoided. At the same time the German Empire would have been strong enough to keep the militaristic Communist dictatorship in Soviet Russia in check without American help.
The consequences of America's blind quest for vengeance in 1917, were another World War, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in two needless conflicts and the necessity of posting American troops in Europe. Because of Wilson's blind actions in 1917, American troops are still stationed in Europe to this day.
We should keep historical events like these mind as we view the carnage on TV screens and hear the hysterical name calling and finger pointing from the politicians, anchormen and self proclaimed experts sitting in the TV studios. And remember that any action we take now because of these events could have horrible unforeseen consequences in the future. For the last thing we want to do is compound the needless deaths of thousands in this horrible terrorist attack with even more needless deaths in the future.
Daniel J. Jennings is a former newspaper editor now working as a free-lance writer in Denver, Colorado.
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- Save 'pocket' money to use towards new yarn purchases and not feel I need to start something 'right now'!!! Practice patience in other words.
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Possibly Logical Apple Predictions for 2013January 2nd, 2013
So as the year ended, and Apple's stock price staged a sudden spurt after falling for many weeks, I had to wonder how the media would address Apple's prospects for 2013. Looking at the roadblocks, some suggest that Apple will continue to sacrifice profit margins to get more new products out, and not allow prices to get too high.
Then again, the decision to sell the iPad mini for $329 wasn't regarded as an effort to price the tablet in a way consistent with the actual costs of manufacture. You'd think that, if Apple really wanted to sacrifice margins, they might have brought it down to $299 or even $249, the better to match competing models from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Google. But that didn't prevent demand from exceeding supply.
In any case, an article posted on New Year's Day claimed Apple is moving to six-month upgrade cycles for key products, particularly the iPhone. If that were the case, the presumed iPhone 6 or iPhone 5s will arrive in March, which would seem rather early in the scheme of things. Apple usually makes those releases coincide with a new version of the iOS, and expecting iOS 7 to also arrive in March would be a big stretch. Maybe the summer, but with demand for the existing model still sky-high, the question is why rush?
The perception about faster upgrades is being highly influenced by the unexpected upgrade to the iPad in October, a mere seven months after the previous version was launched. Assuming a seven month upgrade cycle, that would put the next model in the crosshairs by April. That timeframe is not inconsistent with previous iPad introductions, but it puts the fourth generation model outside of a supposed "normal" release cycle.
Only there isn't a normal release cycle at Apple. Sure, sometimes there will be upgrades once a year, or maybe a little bit longer. As I mentioned in a previous column, some Macs have received two refreshes in a single year, so don't assume facts without evidence.
At the same time, it's not out of line to make predictions, and I will make a few that appear to be locks, as much as you can assume anything about Apple.
With the iPad, the logical change for a fifth generation model would be a slimmer, lighter form factor, closer in look to the iPad mini. Kissing cousins as it were. In turn, the iPad mini would be set to get a Retina display upgrade. Both could happen by spring, assuming the production issues are ironed out, and the new models can be produced affordably. I suppose Apple has an incentive to move quickly, since competition in the tablet space is fierce, and staying ahead on an annual basis may become increasingly difficult.
When it comes to the next iPhone, again I would expect iOS 7 to arrive at the same time, and that would take it until summer at the earliest.
There are published reports that Apple is even now testing OS 10.9, which may indicate that, yes, there will be an annual upgrade cycle for a while. I wouldn't be surprised to see system-wide support for Siri and a Maps API for developers. Having Jonathan Ive, of minimalist intentions, in charge of Human Interface means that the look and feel of OS X may become more consistent, with fewer skeuomorphic excesses to irritate Mac users. At the same time, there would have to be 100 to 200 new features to justify the upgrade, though some of what Apple considers "new" are mostly minor enhancements to boost the numbers.
But now that OS X is a mere $19.99 for the upgrade, I wonder if Apple will just go all the way and make the download free. This will speed up the upgrade cycle even further, and, of course, give Microsoft conniptions.
When it comes to new Macs, it's not a stretch to expect Apple to install the forthcoming Haswell chips on forthcoming refreshes. The chips are expected by spring. They will be more power efficient and, according to published reports, provide substantially better integrated graphics. This may reduce Apple's need to depend on discrete graphics for most Macs, except for the expensive configurations and, of course, the Mac Pro.
Speaking of the Mac Pro, there is little to speculate about except the form factor and final specs for the 2013 model. Tim Cook has confirmed there would be "something really great," which may indicate a major revision to the bloated minitower. That means it'll probably be sleeker, slimmer, lighter, yet still contain pretty much the same expansion options as the current model. It will also establish a platform that Apple could continue with regular component upgrades for several years. Regardless of how it shapes out, I would be very surprised not to see a built-in optical drive. The professional market that requires a Mac workstation wouldn't settle for anything less.
And, yes, it may even be built in the USA, although it's possible the Mac mini will get there first.
I also expect a major upgrade to the Apple TV, Apple's ongoing hobby, but whether that will be it, or whether there will be a smart TV in 2013, is anyone's guess. I'm still skeptical, but if Apple believes they can make a real difference, they will act. But that assumes that most of those differences can't just be addressed with a new set top box.
On the software side: Beyond OS 10.9, I would expect an iWork upgrade. The last full version arrived in 2009. It's about time, and maybe Apple will work harder to add features to match or beat those in Microsoft Office in a friendlier environment. On the pro side of the ledger, Apple will continue to spruce up Final Cut Pro X and address the ongoing concerns of video editors. There will also be a major upgrade to the Logic Studio audio production suite at a surprisingly affordable price.
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It is cookie season!
As you can imagine I have been full swing in baking mode. It seems there are too many recipes to try and not enough time in the day to try them all. These thumbprint cookies were the first Christmas cookie I tried this season and they did not disappoint. They were buttery, nutty, and fruity. I used raspberry and grape jam, because that is what I had on had. The original recipe suggest using strawberry jam, which I have posted below. I am going to keep trying to make as many recipes as a I can and I promise to post all of them. This weekend I was busy making fudge. Expect to see it later this week.
In other news I did not do any Christmas shopping this weekend and really should have.
Noel Thumbprint Cookies
recipe adapted from Taste of Home
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup sour cream
3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
1/3 cup seedless strawberry jam
In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition. Shape into 1-1/4-in. balls; roll in nuts.
Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, make a 3/8- to 1/2-in.-deep indentation in the center of each ball. Fill with jam.
Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks. Yield: 3 dozen.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Noel Thumbprint Cookies
It is cookie season!