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"I don't get it," says my son, a high school freshman. "You're supposed to pick a college based on what you want to study. You're supposed to study something that you might want to do for a career. How would you know? You apply to college when you're seventeen. How could you make that decision then, when you haven't done that kind of work before?"
The kid is wise, and so are all the kids who ask the same sensible question. The school-to-career chain in our country is badly broken, if there can be said to be any such chain at all. In the high school my kids attend, the students get a cursory career unit in tenth grade Health class. When my daughter took that course a few years ago, I asked her how the process worked. "We take a test," she said, "and it tells us what we should do professionally."
"Wait!" I said. "Let me guess. You should be a judge, an operatic soprano, a professor or the editor of the New York Times." "You're in the ballpark," said my daughter. "You got the four professions right, but the test doesn't set its sights on those lofty positions."
She let me read her test results, which steered her toward a career in law enforcement or criminal justice, education, entertainment or journalism. But what is a career in entertainment? Does that include ticket-taking at the local movie theatre, for instance? A career in entertainment could be almost anything. Some kids may be passionate about industries (which are, of course, just manmade groupings) but more likely, a kid is passionate about an activity or a topic, like animals. If a kid is interested in animals, he or she could indulge that passion in thousands of ways. Those avenues would cut across industries. The kid could illustrate books about animals, or study animal genetics, or work as a vet or a vet tech, or fund-raise for an equine therapy center. The passion is a flame to be fueled. Tests that tell a kid "Here's the industry for you" do the kid (and all of us) a huge disservice. Those exercises may have made sense in the Mad Men era, but not now.
We should be talking with kids about careers from an early age, and not just Career Day jobs like fire fighters and postal carriers. We should expose kids to all sorts of 21st-century careers, from database administration to costume design, infant massage and educational policy development. Rather than giving kids tests to guide them in their choices, we should be talking with them — and more importantly, listening to them — as they work through the questions a kid confronts when the topic of The Future comes up.
We don't teach kids nearly enough about adult life in school, and if your mental rejoinder to that is "Well, that's what parents should be doing" I would humbly disagree. Most parents are not well-versed enough themselves in the staggering array of 21st-century work options to be able to lay them out for a kid — and in any case, isn't this sort of let's-present-options-and-discuss-them topic exactly the sort of thing that classrooms were made for?
I teach career workshops at community colleges, and the kids (and adults, too) are rapt, because there's no simple guide to Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Every Job in the World that I know of. The information I present is news to nearly everyone, only because we don't have good channels for learning about careers once we're in one. In my experience, most folks don't know Jack about many jobs apart from the one they have themselves.
So parents, as much as they might like to be, are not always their kids' best career advisors — not in the sense of Let Me Help You Decide What to Be When You Grow Up – and schools fall woefully short on filling in the gap. On the strength of essentially no information about career options (even definitions! How many parents of high schoolers know what a User Experience Architect or a Post-Production Editor is?) a kid is supposed to pick a profession and thus a major. With the major in mind, the kid picks a college.
A parent is supposed to sign on the dotted line and shell out thirty or forty-five thousand dollars a year in the hope that the college teaches the kid what the kid thinks the kid might want to learn, and that the kid is right about that and that the school knows something about what is required to do the work the kid thinks might interest him. The chain is broken! It's as broken a system as anyone could imagine.
It gets worse, however, when the kid hits college. If the child decides his or her chosen major is not a great fit, don't look for the school's advisors to help make things right. One dad told me "When my daughter transferred out of her Chem major to the same university's Arts and Sciences program, her counselor told me 'Tell her she's not welcome back in Chem if she changes her mind.'" It turns out that kids who quit the Engineering school, even to stay on campus in another program, were counted against the counselors, as though it's a counselor's fault that a nineteen-year-old finds her real passion inconveniently late for the school's taste. That is reprehensible, but it's not the slightest bit uncommon.
My friend Derek told me just this week, "When I transferred out of Music Education halfway through undergrad, my advisor told me "I can't help you do that." Is that any way to support and guide a kid toward his path?
As the child approaches graduation from school, he's encouraged to visit the Career Office, where the valiant but understaffed-relative-to-student-population career counselors help get the kid ready for the working world. The kid's visits to the Career Office are not required by most schools, and the college doesn't give the kid extra time for job-search preparation. The counselors in the Career Office have to take a kid all the way from choosing a career direction to writing a resume, targeting locations and industries, prepping for interviews, etiquette, appearance, and tons more. It's an overwhelming task. Why would we leave such a critical part of the college experience out of the picture for most of the child's college career? Why would we treat career planning as an afterthought, and the academic content of the kid's major as the Really Important Stuff? We've got it backwards.
College students should get career development guidance every semester they're on campus, in every major. They should learn that, W-2 or 1099, they're going to be entrepreneurs all their lives. We should teach them that, not just in theory but in day-to-day practice. It's a travesty and a national shame that we don't do that, already.
I know of one school that provides career guidance to every kid at every point in his or her program, and that is DeVry Institute, the technical college. How could we ever think that teaching kids the bits and bytes of a profession (anthropology or music or any major at all) would magically turn the kids into work-ready professionals? It's nearly the opposite. In most college courses, we teach them to study hard and pass tests and write papers. That's great stuff to learn, but it has almost nothing to do with life on the job (any job).
Thank God my Dad taught me when I was little, "Business is really nothing, honey. It's just made up. It's just people talking about stuff and figuring stuff out every day." I never had any idea that there was a mystique to business, unlike many people (including a subset of the MBA students I teach) who believe that the business world is a rarefied place where theories and jargon (reinforced by this year's Best Practices) rule the roost.
As my kids say, "As if!" This is why internships are so important. Kids need to lose the scales in front of their eyes where work is concerned. More exposure to real people working real jobs can only be a good thing, but we wait too long to get kids into those situations, and involve far too few of them. I don't know why internships aren't required at every college, for every major, every year – for a few weeks, at least. How will a kid know what she or she is cut out to do without working in different environments? How will a kid learn what he likes, hates and needs from a career without the chance to experience work in different settings, among different people?
When we lived in villages five hundred years ago, we saw the blacksmith and the miller and the baker every day. There was no mystery to their work. We have lost that proximity to work, in the 21st century. We've put working people away behind chrome and glass, where kids can't see in. This is a big problem for kids, and for employers. There shouldn't be any college graduates (or trade-school graduates, or even high school graduates) who don't know what work is all about, but we churn them out by the millions.
We should use every possible minute with our kids to build their mojo and their muscles for thriving in the new-millennium world and workplace. We shouldn't teach them that some nameless employer will determine their future, or teach them that an algorithm has determined which careers are right for them. We shouldn't guide them to pick a major because jobs in that field are projected to be plentiful. How could we sentence a kid to a practical career that he doesn't love, because we fear the kid's ability to make it following his passion? Is that any way to signal to a kid, "I trust you?"
In the career coaching end of our business, sixty or seventy percent of our clients are forty-five-to-sixty-year-olds who picked 'safe' majors and spilled out into 'safe' careers after college. Decades down the road, they woke up one morning and thought "That's enough of that!" Our Buddhist friends say nothing is wasted, but it's hard not to regret years spent doing work that doesn't speak to you and doesn't nourish your soul.
We should teach kids to follow their paths and stand on their own sturdy feet. They will inherit a world that has nothing to do with the get-a-job-and-keep-it world their parents knew. We are way behind the curve on helping kids navigate those changes, but we can start now. Don't our kids deserve that much?


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The humble Granny Square is the crochet staple of Nanna's everywhere, which is how it came to be known as a 'Granny Square'. Originally it was just called a crochet square.
The Granny Square is often the very first thing we are taught when learning to crochet, so it would follow that it would be simple to have a perfect square every time and those new to crochet often get discouraged when this is not the case.
However, to get a perfect square actually requires a bit of experience, good fundamentals and advanced row starting techniques, otherwise you are left with seams, the reverse side of stitches showing every second row or even a slight spiral effect.
This granny square is made without turning your work and has a right and a wrong side.


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[This is a guest post by attorney Caroline Belich. Caroline is a Chicago native, former Michigan State volleyball player, and recent admitee to the California bar with particular interest in the First Amendment.]
According to the Wall Street Journal and other sources, federal prosecutors in New Jersey are investigating whether certain mobile applications for smartphones have illegally obtained or transmitted information about their users. Part of the criminal investigation is to determine whether these app makers made appropriate disclosures to users about how and why their personal information is being used. The app makers subpoenaed include the popular online music service Pandora.
Examples of information disclosed by these app makers may include a user's age, gender, location, and also unique identifiers for the phone. The information may then passed on to third parties and advertising networks. The problem is that users may be unaware that their information is being accessed by a smartphone app because a maker failed to notify them.
As a result, this failure to notify may violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 USC 1030). The CFAA is a federal statute that is often used against hackers. Applying this rationale here, federal prosecutors may argue that the app makers essentially hacked users cellphones.
However, some legal experts believe that criminal charges against the app makers are unlikely. Supporting this belief is the fact that many criminal charges against companies result in non-prosecution or deferred prosecution agreements in exchange for concessions of wrongdoing or monetary payments.
But while criminal charges are doubtful, civil lawsuits by users and causes of action brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may not be. First, consumers may sue app makers for failure to notify under privacy rights claims. Second, the FTC could allege unfair and deceptive trade practices by makers for failure to inform users how their personal information is being employed. Recently, Google settled with the FTC regarding its social network, Buzz, where allegations were made about violations of users' privacy.
In light of the potential for privacy rights violations and deceptive trade practices, the FTC has advocated a "Do Not Track" option for web browsers and cellphone users, similar to the "Do Not Call" list for telemarketing. But app makers strongly oppose this idea, of course, for various reason. First, it could obstruct their ability to collect data about their users' utilization of their product. Second, the option could frustrate financial opportunities with third parties seeking the invaluable consumer statistics. And the third justification is best depicted by Facebook's privacy policy – while a user may be giving away his own information, he's not giving away that of his friends… as long as his friends haven't shared the info with "everyone."
So even if these criminal investigations do not come to fruition, at least the possibility is making the public aware of their rights involving smartphone products so that industry standards may be created or laws requiring notification may be made.


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text: WNTN was born in 1968 and has featured many formats since. In the early days (1968 to 1975), before the popularity of FM radio, WNTN played progressive rock music. From 1975 to 1979, local news and information was highlighted along with middle-of-the-road popular music. From 1979 to 1983, oldies music was featured. In 1984 WNTN became "Your Daytime Nightclub", participating in the dance and disco era. From the late 1980's to present, WNTN has been a "Variety" station, concentrating on coverage of local news and issues and broadcasting to a diverse, multi-cultural audience in greater Boston. Some of WNTN's most popular ethnic programs in recent years include Greek, Haitian, Irish, Italian and Indian.


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An artist camouflages himself to look just like what's around him.
In 1903, Georg Simmel wrote 'The Metropolis and Mental Life,' postulating the emergence of a new urban lifestyle and a sharp discontinuity from life as man had known it. Overwhelmed by the onslaught of stimuli, the modern man must uphold a reserved - and what Simmel calls blasé - attitude as a means of self-preservation. To live in the metropolis was to maintain a safe distance from the churning of its gears, a spiritual separation and freedom from its calculating forces.
So what does it take to get noticed in the city, to awaken the intrinsically unsympathetic dwellers of Simmel's metropolis? For Chinese artist Liu Bolin, the answer is complete invisibility. The artist, informally known as Invisible Man, paints himself head-to-toe to blend into various urban milieus. One of his latest works took him to Ground Zero, where he camouflaged himself in front of the rising Freedom Tower as a tribute to the victims of 9/11. You can see more of his work at his exhibition Hiding In New York, which just opened at the Eli Klein Gallery in New York.


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WASHINGTON -- The time needed to process veterans' disability claims shot up by nearly 40 percent last year despite years of effort by federal officials to streamline and shorten the process, records show.
The times necessary to process education benefits and burial benefits, as well as the time needed to wind through the Department of Veterans Affairs appeals process, also increased in fiscal 2012.
The disability-processing time is closely watched by Congress and veterans' advocates as a measure of VA efficiency. In fiscal 2012, the average days to complete a VA disability compensation or pension claim rose to 262 days, up from 188 days in fiscal 2011, according to a recently completely VA performance report.
The 262-day average is the highest that measure has been in at least the past 20 years for which numbers were available.
The VA's long-term goal is to get the processing time to an average of 90 days.
"The entire system is a mess," said Paul Rieckhoff, founder and chief executive of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a support and advocacy group. "They've been saying now for 10 years that it'll get better, and it still doesn't get better, and we've seen tremendous frustration from our members in the last few months. It's reached a breaking point."
The VA said it is working to speed its decision-making process and is in the midst of an overhaul of its claims system. It eventually will end its reliance on paper-based processing and reconfigure the way claims move through 56 regional offices that handle them.
"We recognize that from the standpoint of the veterans, they are waiting too long, and that's unacceptable," said Diana Rubens, who helps oversee the VA's regional offices. "We've got to transform how we do things. We know that fixing decades-old problems is not going to be easy."
America's veterans are eligible for a range of benefits, from access to the VA's well-regarded medical system to lifetime payments for disabilities suffered during military service to access to education, life insurance and home loan programs.
The disability benefits are awarded to veterans who suffer physical or mental injuries during their military service. Benefits vary based on the severity of a disability and beginning Saturday range from $129 a month to $2,816 a month for a single veteran.
The VA has struggled for years to reduce the waiting times, and each year it stresses to Congress that fixing the process is a top priority.
In 2010, for example, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki told the House Veterans' Affairs Committee that claim time had improved the previous year, dropping from 179 days to 161 days.
"The progress made in 2009 is a step in the right direction, but it is not nearly enough," he said.
In 2011, he told the same committee that "one of VA's highest priority goals" is to eliminate a backlog of disability cases by 2015 and to ensure all veterans receive a decision in "no more than 125 days."
In 2012, he told the committee that improvements were being made and that the department was aiming for significant improvements in 2013.
"While too many veterans will still be waiting too long for the benefits they have earned, it does represent a significant improvement in performance over the 2012 estimate of 60 percent of claims more than 125 days old, demonstrating that we are on the right path," Shinseki said.
In fact, the recent performance report shows that 66 percent of claims in fiscal 2012 were more than 125 days old. That's up from 36 percent in 2010 and 60 percent in 2011.
And since Shinseki told Congress about the improvement he saw in 2009, average processing time has gone up - from 161 days, to 166 days, to 188 days, to the most recent 262 days.
Even so, Rubens of the VA said the department is on track to meet Shinseki's goals by 2015, given the restructuring in place.
The department has seen a massive increase in claims from veterans in recent years, both younger ones from Iraq and Afghanistan and older ones who have recently been able to file claims on new conditions. Claims the past four years have topped 1 million a year.
While some decisions might be straightforward -- a soldier loses a limb in battle -- others are more complicated, requiring extensive medical reviews and research to tie a disability to the veteran's time in the military.
Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat from Washington who chairs the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, said the VA's tardiness and mistake-prone process is "totally unacceptable."
"We know that this is a complex problem and more troops returning home make this job even more difficult," she said in a statement to McClatchy Newspapers. "But Congress has provided VA with the funding and resources it has requested to tackle this problem."
The new performance report shows that the VA has lost ground on many of its other benefits-related goals:
-- The average time to complete an education claim jumped to 31 days from 24 days; the long-term goal is 10 days.
-- The average time to complete a burial claim jumped to 178 days from 113 days; the long-term goal is 21 days.
-- The average time in the appeals system for veterans who dispute their disability compensation decision jumped to 866 days from 747 days; the long-term goal is 400 days.
The annual performance report includes dozens of goals to spur improvement among the VA's health care system, benefits division and cemetery administration.
Of those, the VA highlighted 23 as "key performance measures." The VA met its short-term goals for only 12 of those measures.


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I'd heard of CUA mode, but generally dismiss it because I don't want the "windows" bindings for cut/copy/paste/undo. But when I saw this video of CUA's rectangle support, I knew this was the way to edit rectangles.
Emacs Column Editing from Mark Mansour on Vimeo.
To activate in emacs 22.1 - with minimal intrusion (I don't like transient mark mode):
(setq cua-enable-cua-keys nil)
(setq cua-highlight-region-shift-only t) ;; no transient mark mode
(setq cua-toggle-set-mark nil) ;; original set-mark behavior, i.e. no transient-mark-mode
The *info* page doesn't have the rectangle bindings (as far as I can see), so here is the documentation from the code:
;; CUA rectangle support
;; ---------------------
;; Emacs' normal rectangle support is based on interpreting the region
;; between the mark and point as a "virtual rectangle", and using a
;; completely separate set of "rectangle commands" [C-x r ...] on the
;; region to copy, kill, fill a.s.o. the virtual rectangle.
;; cua-mode's superior rectangle support uses a true visual
;; representation of the selected rectangle, i.e. it highlights the
;; actual part of the buffer that is currently selected as part of the
;; rectangle. Unlike emacs' traditional rectangle commands, the
;; selected rectangle always as straight left and right edges, even
;; when those are in the middle of a TAB character or beyond the end
;; of the current line. And it does this without actually modifying
;; the buffer contents (it uses display overlays to visualize the
;; virtual dimensions of the rectangle).
;; This means that cua-mode's rectangles are not limited to the actual
;; contents of the buffer, so if the cursor is currently at the end of a
;; short line, you can still extend the rectangle to include more columns
;; of longer lines in the same rectangle. And you can also have the
;; left edge of a rectangle start in the middle of a TAB character.
;; Sounds strange? Try it!
;; To start a rectangle, use [C-return] and extend it using the normal
;; movement keys (up, down, left, right, home, end, C-home,
;; C-end). Once the rectangle has the desired size, you can cut or
;; copy it using C-x and C-c (or C-w and M-w), and you can
;; subsequently insert it - as a rectangle - using C-v (or C-y). So
;; the only new command you need to know to work with cua-mode
;; rectangles is C-return!
;; Normally, when you paste a rectangle using C-v (C-y), each line of
;; the rectangle is inserted into the existing lines in the buffer.
;; If overwrite-mode is active when you paste a rectangle, it is
;; inserted as normal (multi-line) text.
;; If you prefer the traditional rectangle marking (i.e. don't want
;; straight edges), [M-p] toggles this for the current rectangle,
;; or you can customize cua-virtual-rectangle-edges.
;; And there's more: If you want to extend or reduce the size of the
;; rectangle in one of the other corners of the rectangle, just use
;; [return] to move the cursor to the "next" corner. Or you can use
;; the [M-up], [M-down], [M-left], and [M-right] keys to move the
;; entire rectangle overlay (but not the contents) in the given
;; direction.
;; [C-return] cancels the rectangle
;; [C-space] activates the region bounded by the rectangle
;; If you type a normal (self-inserting) character when the rectangle is
;; active, the character is inserted on the "current side" of every line
;; of the rectangle. The "current side" is the side on which the cursor
;; is currently located. If the rectangle is only 1 column wide,
;; insertion will be performed to the left when the cursor is at the
;; bottom of the rectangle. So, for example, to comment out an entire
;; paragraph like this one, just place the cursor on the first character
;; of the first line, and enter the following:
;; C-return M-} ; ;
;; cua-mode's rectangle support also includes all the normal rectangle
;; functions with easy access:
;; [M-a] aligns all words at the left edge of the rectangle
;; [M-b] fills the rectangle with blanks (tabs and spaces)
;; [M-c] closes the rectangle by removing all blanks at the left edge
;; of the rectangle
;; [M-f] fills the rectangle with a single character (prompt)
;; [M-i] increases the first number found on each line of the rectangle
;; by the amount given by the numeric prefix argument (default 1)
;; It recognizes 0x... as hexadecimal numbers
;; [M-k] kills the rectangle as normal multi-line text (for paste)
;; [M-l] downcases the rectangle
;; [M-m] copies the rectangle as normal multi-line text (for paste)
;; [M-n] fills each line of the rectangle with increasing numbers using
;; a supplied format string (prompt)
;; [M-o] opens the rectangle by moving the highlighted text to the
;; right of the rectangle and filling the rectangle with blanks.
;; [M-p] toggles virtual straight rectangle edges
;; [M-P] inserts tabs and spaces (padding) to make real straight edges
;; [M-q] performs text filling on the rectangle
;; [M-r] replaces REGEXP (prompt) by STRING (prompt) in rectangle
;; [M-R] reverse the lines in the rectangle
;; [M-s] fills each line of the rectangle with the same STRING (prompt)
;; [M-t] performs text fill of the rectangle with TEXT (prompt)
;; [M-u] upcases the rectangle
;; [M-|] runs shell command on rectangle
;; [M-'] restricts rectangle to lines with CHAR (prompt) at left column
;; [M-/] restricts rectangle to lines matching REGEXP (prompt)
;; [C-?] Shows a brief list of the above commands.
;; [M-C-up] and [M-C-down] scrolls the lines INSIDE the rectangle up
;; and down; lines scrolled outside the top or bottom of the rectangle
;; are lost, but can be recovered using [C-z].


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Sunday, August 9, 2009
"I Was Framed"
The "Queen of Cheap" is not known to pass up a bargain, so when I spotted this charming little twin frame for $1.00 I "had" to get it.
It had no glass in the openings and I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but I loved the color and shape, so I put it in my shopping cart, down here in Hotlana, they call them "buggies".
Ooooh, don't cha just love seeing the bright orange stickers on the back of stuff you like?!? Yeah, me too!
Well, I won't lie, I couldn't stop at one. Looking in the very back of the shelf I spotted 7 more....
Yep, got 'em! Still had no idea what I was going to do with them, but heck...they say that things look better in a large group, so I stacked them in the "buggie" and took them home!
Well, they sat on my dining room table for a week. With nothing but reruns on TV, I got desperate and took them out to look at them and figure out what I could do.
Then an idea came... I wanted to put shells inside of the frames, but how?
I had some cream colored grosgrain ribbon....
I flipped the frames upside down. Hot glued the ribbon to the back of the frame, vertically and then...
glued the shells to the ribbon....
Make sure the shells are not too heavy, they'll cause the ribbon to sag and strech.
These worked beautifully and I was so pleased with the results.
Here is how they look on the wall.
What room, you may ask? Perhaps the Coastal Bedroom?!? No, I'll show you a new room that I just decorated last weekend. "Stay tuned"!
I hung them in two vertical columns of three. I was hoping to use all 8, but I ran out of ribbon.
I'll have to do the last two and add them on later.
Thanks for stopping by and be sure to visit Susan's blog, Between Naps on the Porch. You'll see some great makeovers! Also check in with Rhoda at Today's Thrifty Treasures, lots to see!
39 comments:
This project turned out fantastic!!
Thanks for sharing!
- August 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
- Marty@A Stroll Thru Life said...
What a fabulous idea. They look gorgeous. I just made shell balls, aren't they fun to work with, so pretty. I love your frames, I may have to try that too. Hugs, Marty
- August 9, 2009 at 11:24 PM
- Miss Laura Lu/RMS4291960 said...
You are so talented and clever! Can't wait to see this room you're making over! I love how you did this! Great idea! God Bless! Lauralu :)
- August 9, 2009 at 11:28 PM
- Happy To Be/ Gl♥ria said...
Oh Rose this is just an awesome idea here...I have my head just spining now...I have a ton of old frame and I see a project in the making coming..Love this now is this your master bathroom you put these in...GREAT>>>May you have a wonderful day my friend...hugs and smiles Gl♥ria
- August 9, 2009 at 11:29 PM
- Ashley @ AshleysBusy said...
Wow, those shell frames look great!! May I ask what beautiful color that wall is?
I have a giveaway on my blog that I'd love for you to check out!
- August 9, 2009 at 11:35 PM
- Sharlotte said...
Great idea! You are so inspirational! I love all your "coastal" decorating. Can't wait to see the new room you're soon to share!
- August 10, 2009 at 12:03 AM
- Charlene said...
What a darling idea! I am so into anything beach, shell, mermaid, coastal... LOVE this! Happy MET Monday!
- August 10, 2009 at 12:25 AM
- Susan (Between Naps On The Porch.net) said...
Hi Rose, Love this idea! I just discovered that Wal-mart has the best selection of nice, big, white starfish and other large shells. This was brilliant...using the ribbon! I know a lot of folks will want to copy this idea!
- August 10, 2009 at 12:28 AM
- Kristens Creations said...
Oh wow! I love this!!!!
- August 10, 2009 at 1:11 AM
- Four Paws and Co said...
They're beautiful Rose! You're so clever - I probably would have looked at them & walked on by. ☺ Diane
- August 10, 2009 at 3:04 AM
- Shari @ My Cottage of Bliss said...
You had me hooked at the word "shells" since I'm in the middle of a beachy bedroom re-do! This project has given me some ideas. Thanks for sharing. :)
- August 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- Lynne (lynnesgiftsfromtheheart) said...
Rose, what an "awesome" idea..I'll never look at a frame again without the glass.. I'll be sure to pass this one onto my Catie. She will love it as much as I do.. Ok girl.. missed our show last night. The grandson is here and his programs took first place over mine...lol.. Bring me up to speed darling... hugs ~lynne~
- August 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM
- Salmagundi said...
How clever you are, but then we all knew that. The frames turned out great - can hardly wait to see the room they are in. Sally
- August 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM
- 9405018--Pat said...
How cool...thanks for sharing...Pat H
- August 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM
- Shelia said...
Hi Rose! Oh, love your frames! You've got vision and talent, Dear One!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
- August 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- KBeau said...
Great use for those inexpensive (I refuse to call them cheap) frames.
- August 10, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- Tricia said...
I love these!! Great vision and follow through.
- August 10, 2009 at 12:40 PM
- Joan@anythinsggoeshere said...
It did turn out beautifully. The combination of cream ribbon and the shells looks great.
- August 10, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- Blue Creek Home said...
How adorable. They look so good on that blue wall! Good job!
- August 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM
- Pat@Back Porch Musings said...
So clever and very pretty!
- August 10, 2009 at 2:55 PM
- Glenda/MidSouth said...
Great project - You did good. :)
- August 10, 2009 at 3:32 PM
- Jenny @ Words on Wendhurst said...
Nice job! Very beachy and frugal to boot!
- August 10, 2009 at 4:12 PM
- Tammy said...
Beautiful. Wow and it was so easy.
I guess that could be done with anything..maybe pinecones in darker frames for fall..hmmm the possibilities are endless.
- August 10, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- Jane said...
Your project turned out great. The frames grouped together make a big statement on your wall for obviously very little money. Thanks for sharing your idea.
- August 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- ★Carol★ said...
Wow, those turned out just gorgeous! I like how you went ahead and bought those frames, just knowing that you would come up with something, and you sure did!
Hey, I thought I was the Queen of Cheap, but you definitely get the crown!
- August 10, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- Sharon said...
That was a fantastic idea!! I struggle with the creativity....blogs like yours are my saving grace! Thanks!
- August 10, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- Darlene said...
What a fabulous project!!! Love what you did with those great frames!
- August 10, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- Lou Cinda @ Tattered Hydrangeas said...
SHUT UP!! These look FANTABULOUS!!! Love'em! I would not have EVER thought of doing this in a million years!
Looks so great!
Lou Cinda :)
- August 10, 2009 at 5:29 PM
- kayleeg2005 said...
love that idea, really turned out nice! your very creative!
- August 10, 2009 at 5:37 PM
- Judy said...
The only way those framed shells would look any better would be if you sent them to my house! What a beautiful job you did and what a great idea....if you have nothing going on next week, why don't you head on down to Montgomery and give me some inspiration?
- August 10, 2009 at 6:02 PM
- Reid said...
Those turned out REALLY well! Love that the wall shows behind them.
- August 10, 2009 at 6:54 PM
- Unknown said...
Just wonderful! You really used your creative sense for this. Thanks for sharing.
Have a great rest of the week.
- August 11, 2009 at 1:44 AM
- Justine said...
Geez Rose, is there NO end to your talents? This came out so amazing. I mean really, totally original and unique and I just love it. Now I can't wait to see the room!!!
Justine :o )
- August 11, 2009 at 9:31 AM
- Linda in AZ * said...
* Hi, Rose~ It's been aaaaages since I got to come visit, and I'm so glad I did... what a FABULOUS idea and a fun & quick project!!! Looks just darling!!!! So light & happy!!!
GOing to treat myself to a "look back" at some of your other postings, and thank you IN ADDVANCE for the fun!!!
- August 11, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- Blondie's Journal said...
I love this idea. I admire you for coming up with it. I don't think I have that creative gene!!
And that is one heavy duty glue gun you have there!! Industrial size!! I am sure this is what you need to use for your work. Great job!!
- August 11, 2009 at 5:26 PM
- Kammy said...
I love your find and what you did with them ! What a fantastic wall !
- August 11, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- Cindy (Applestone Cottage) said...
They look sooo pretty! I want to see the room makeover, I am so in love with your decorating style! Cindy
- August 12, 2009 at 9:24 AM
- Diana LaMarre said...
What a great project that turned out to be. We will all be on the lookout for frames now!
- August 12, 2009 at 10:23 AM
- Bargain Decorating with Laurie said...
How do you come up with these ideas? Those look great! i would never have thought of doing them that way. laurie
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GSM modem vs GSM phone
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Internet based SMS connections are also called as IP SMS
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installation on Arch
- 3 Optional Dependencies
- 4 GParted Support
- 5 Tips
GParted Overview
GParted is a GTK+ frontend to GNU Parted and the official GNOME Partition Editor application. Use it to make/delete/resize/check partitions of nearly any file format. You can also manage drive labels and flags as well as copy/paste entire partitions. GParted is available in the extra repo and also as a Live CD if you'd prefer. One reason to actually download the Live CD would be that you need to make modifications to your root filesystem's partition which you cannot do without unmounting it.
Supported Filesystems
For a complete list of filesystems GParted can handle, see the features table over at GParted's homepage.
Installation on Arch
GParted is in the extra repo as mentioned above, to install it simply use pacman as you would with any other arch package
# pacman -S gparted
Optional Dependencies
The base GParted package doesn't come with support for all filesystems. Here is a brief list of additional packages you can install to add support for different filesystems:
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Additional functionality
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|Utilities for MSDOS disks. Needed if you want to change the label of FAT-volumes.
Note that when you install GParted via pacman, it will list these for you also.
GParted Support
Have a look at the Official GParted Forums prior to executing a command if you are unsure about what you're doing.
See the Gparted-Live wiki article for instructions on adding GParted-live to your Grub menu so you can boot into the same live environment as the GParted-live CD directly from Grub and without the CD!
Dual Booting with Windows XP
If you have a Windows XP partition that you would like to move from drive-to-drive that also happens to be your boot partition, you can do so easily with GParted and keep Windows happy simply by deleting the following registry key PRIOR to the partition move:
Reference to this little gem: here.
Fixing Messed-up Partition Order
Your partition order can get messed up if you have logical volumes and you erase one of them. Consider the following example:
/dev/sda1 (Primary partition) /dev/sda2 (Primary partition) /dev/sda3 (Primary partition) /dev/sda4 (EXTENDED partition) /dev/sda5 (Logical partition) /dev/sda6 (Logical partition) /dev/sda7 (Logical partition)
So 1-3 are primary partitions. 5-6 are logical partitions within the extended partition. Let's say you want to nuke /dev/sda5 and copy/paste /dev/sda2 into the resulting freespace. Now your drive looks like this:
/dev/sda1 (Primary partition) /dev/sda2 (Primary partition) /dev/sda3 (Primary partition) /dev/sda4 (EXTENDED partition) /dev/sda7 (Logical partition) /dev/sda5 (Logical partition) /dev/sda6 (Logical partition)
Notice that the order is messed up after your delete, copy/paste operation. This can cause all sorts of problems from not being able to mount an expected partition, to grub error 17/no bootable system. The solution to this little problem is simple:
- Boot with your Arch Live CD or GParted Live CD (or any other live Linux CD)
- Run fdisk on the drive, enter expert mode, fix the partition order, and write the changes to disk
Example using /dev/sda
# fdisk /dev/sda
- Once you're in fdisk, choose option x (extra functionality (experts only)) and enter.
- Then select f (fix partition order) and enter.
- Then select option w (write table to disk and exit), and enter.
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Most reef-building corals contain photosynthetic algae, called zooxanthellae, that live in their tissues. The corals and algae have a mutualistic relationship. The coral provides the algae with a protected environment and compounds they need for photosynthesis. In return, the algae produce oxygen and help the coral to remove wastes. Most importantly, zooxanthellae supply the coral with glucose, glycerol, and amino acids, which are the products of photosynthesis. The coral uses these products to make proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, and produce calcium carbonate (Barnes, R.D., 1987; Barnes, R.S.K. and Hughes, 1999; Lalli and Parsons, 1995; Levinton, 1995; Sumich, 1996). The relationship between the algae and coral polyp facilitates a tight recycling of nutrients in nutrient-poor tropical waters. In fact, as much as 90 percent of the organic material photosynthetically produced by the zooxanthellae is transferred to the host coral tissue (Sumich, 1996). This is the driving force behind the growth and productivity of coral reefs (Barnes, 1987; Levinton, 1995).
In addition to providing corals with essential nutrients, zooxanthellae are responsible for the unique and beautiful colors of many stony corals. Sometimes when corals become physically stressed, the polyps expel their algal cells and the colony takes on a stark white appearance. This is commonly described as coral bleaching (Barnes, R.S.K. and Hughes, 1999; Lalli and Parsons, 1995). If the polyps go for too long without zooxanthellae, coral bleaching can result in the coral's death.
Because of their intimate relationship with zooxanthellae, reef-building corals respond to the environment like plants. Because their algal cells need light for photosynthesis, reef corals require clear water. For this reason they are generally found only in waters with small amounts of suspended material, i.e., in water of low turbidity and low productivity. This leads to an interesting paradoxcoral reefs require clear, nutrient-poor water, but they are among the most productive and diverse marine environments (Barnes, 1987).
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Every year thousands of women from all over the globe migrate to Provincetown to kick off the summer season for the annual Memorial Day Weekend Celebration.
This year is no different. There will be shopping, cruising, and dancing, boating, beaching, biking, barbecues, parties, and drinking.
LesbianNightLife and Women for Provincetown have put together a series of events you will not want to miss.
Start off Thursday with our Meet 'N Greet at night - a relaxing way to start off your stay at Provincetown.
Then on Friday night the weekend opens up with RISEUP.
On Saturday enjoy the ocean waters off the coast of Provincetown on our FREEDOM Boat Cruise. Later than night, let your wild side out at REBEL.
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Memory Making Stories and Activities for 14 Days Leading up to EasterBy Amy Puetz85 pagesBlack and white illustrationsView Sample PagesContentsAlso available as a printed bookListen to an interview about Countdown to Easter.
Do you feel that the spiritual significance of Easter has been overshadowed by commercialism? Do you see that Easter candy and the Easter Bunny have become the focus of this holiday? Are you ready to get back to the true meaning of Easter?Get ready to experience a new side of Easter—the one celebrated by people for hundreds of years. Countdown to Easter has family friendly stories and activities for every day from the Monday before Palm Sunday to Easter. Imagine your family gathering each day, reading an Easter story, and then participating in a fun activity. This can become a reality with Countdown to Easter. The book is broken up into daily sections. Each day has a story and an activity that should take about 30 to 45 minutes to go through. Some of the stories included are:
The delightful stories in this book were written in the 1800s and early 1900s. Many of these stories have not been reprinted for many years and are just waiting to be rediscovered by a whole new generation. Countdown to Easter will appeal to a large age group, but children from 6-14 will probably enjoy it the most. The activities include: crafts, cooking, riddles, quizzes, singing hymns, games, and more. This book will help families grow closer together.
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Demography, redistricting and representation.
Hard to find a title much more boring than that, isn't it? But those three words will define the rocky political path for California elections for the next decade. That's all!
With the 2010 census now completed, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission must now slice and dice the state's population into 53 congressional districts, 80 state assembly districts, and 40 state senate districts.
Not only will the districts in these categories look radically different than the past, but the people elected will be different, too.
Two facts are clear about California today versus a decade ago. First, the population has gravitated east from the coastal areas near San Francisco and Los Angeles toward the interior, including the Central Valley and desert, in disproportionate numbers. Second, the ethnic composition has changed. Whites are now 40 percent of the population, compared to 47 percent in 2000; Latinos are now 37 percent of the population, compared to 32 percent in 2000; Asians are now 13 percent instead of 11 percent.
The significance of these two facts is as follows: major urban areas along the coast will lose elected representatives at the state and national levels; the inland areas will gain. That means different players. Some liberal Democrats in the Bay Area and L.A. County no doubt will be squeezed out as districts are collapsed and others are stretched to the east. In more than a few cases. We will see incumbents running against each other, making the June primary particularly interesting to watch.
All this also augurs more Latino and Asian representation. The number of Latinos in Congress, currently 7, will go up perhaps as high as 11 or 12. The number of Asians will also grow, perhaps from 3 to 4 or 5, given the emergence of a large Vietnamese-American population in Orange County. Speaking of Orange County, that area is likely to have less conservative influence, just as the Bay Area is likely to lose some of its liberal influence.
Could all this mean that California may be moving toward the middle, with fewer elected officials at the extremes? Hard to tell, but we know this much: whoever is elected will come from different places and many will be of different races and ethnicity than we see today.
The issues may be largely the same in 2013, but the values of the officials deciding them will no doubt be different.


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Magnesium Alloy Castings, Sand, 6.0Al - 3.0Zn (AZ63 - T4), Solution Heat Treated
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This specification covers a magnesium alloy in the form of sand castings.
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The committee of Nonferrous Alloys, AMS Committee D, shall prepare, coordinate, and revise documents related to nonferrous metals technology, such as aluminum, magnesium, and copper, through the participation of metals suppliers, users, and interested government agencies. Committee activities shall provide a forum for the cooperative interchange of ideas and experience of the participants, resulting in the publication of specifications that embody sound, established aerospace industry practices and requirements to serve the suppliers and customers of aerospace materials.


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DWarmington necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 32 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
iLeads.com - The competition is for a sub-site: http://www.mortgagge-leads.com
We've been helping, (and marketing to) financial service companies (lenders and insurance companies) since 1996 on the Internet. We're backed by the data and resources of a Fortune 200, 8 billion dollar company:
We've innovated new and exciting lead, data and marketing products for financial service industries, and provided services to over 44,000 clients since we started.
We sell complex products that our clients use to sell more, and make more money!
We are a marketing service solutions provider with products covering Insurance, Lending, Real Estate, Direct Marketing, and Lead Analytics.
The existing mortgage-leads.com design is well over 10 years old, and needs a new fresh idea!
Our audience is Mortgage Lenders (B2B). The existing site is: http://www.mortgage-leads.com
This is an existing property of ours (developed in 1997), and an existing market.
The Mortgage-Leads.com site sells sales leads to mortgage professionals; therefore we will need to tie in our mortgage related product lines into the site:
The successful submission will stand out by providing an effective design that introduces our products to the visitor as well as guides them into making a decision to either:
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Our clients are very sophisticated and are looking for solutions that can help grow their business'.
Some home pages we like the look & feel of are:
An experienced designer who can get our message of quality leads, and data out to an mortgage (lender) based B2B audience. We would like to tie in similar graphic feel as the main corporate site: http://www.ileads.com, without being a copy.
We like flash to convey complex ideas quickly.
Following are the categories and products that we offer and need to be highlighted on the site: (ensure your design includes all of the following):
Category: Lead Solutions
Products: Internet Mortgage Leads, ARM Leads, Vintage Leads, Lead Lists
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Product: RealTAG – Detailed profiles on 145 million households in the U.S: http://www.realtag.com
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See our Tab structure on http://www.iLeads.com to see how we currently handle all of our products.
We are very SEO savvy, and require a design that has best practices for SEO!
Also, see the attached file from the winning design for a sister site: http://www.insurance-leads.com
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Missy Franklin's patriotic nails: a gold medal manicure
The Olympic Games might not always launch fashion trends, but it's likely that Missy Franklin's patriotic manicure will inspire a lot of copycats.
When the Colorado swimmer is waiting to get in the pool at the Aquatics Centre in London and while showing off her gold medals, she has been flashing red, white and blue nails. Specifically, her right hand sports bright red polish, her left hand a vivid blue and the ring finger on each has a flag design painted on it.
She even tweeted about it, saying that she was ready for the pool after getting her nails done.
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Ford Motor Company has just convincingly demonstrated that being an excellent industrial manufacturer doesn't automatically mean that you are an excellent maker of digital technology. Despite Ford's improvements in manufacturing quality, their overall ratings fell precipitously this year due solely to the poor software interaction on their dashboards. A recent article in the New York Times discusses Ford's plummeting fall in user rankings this year, focusing the blame on their new touch screen interface.
MyFord Touch on new Ford Edge—heavily criticized in J.D. Power's research and "frustrating" according to Consumer Reports.
According to the article, J.D.Power, the auto industry arbiter, dropped Ford's ranking from 5th to 23rd, and subsidiary Lincoln's ranking from 8th to 17th place. J.D.Power acknowledges that both Ford and Lincoln's fit and finish are excellent. It was the "annoying" behavior of their driver-facing interactive systems that caused their ratings to plummet. Other reviewers concur, as Consumer Reports yanked their "Recommended" rating from Ford's new 2011 Edge model.The automotive industry calls in-car digital information systems "telematics" and these include navigation, telephone, Internet, climate control, and entertainment. Drivers use telematics to communicate and control almost everything in their cars these days other than the accelerator, brakes, and steering.
Ford's troubles follow a familiar pattern of older, industrial companies struggling with digital age problems. The challenges of digital technology, particularly its human-facing aspects, can't successfully be addressed with technical skills rooted in manufacturing. What's more, the organizational structures of the industrial era can become counterproductive when applied to the people who make digital systems.
Neither can those manufacturing companies dodge the problem. Digital solutions are so much cheaper and more flexible than mechanical ones that they will eventually come to dominate the entire company. Companies who can master the challenge of software's unique nature, and particularly of how humans interact with it, will thrive. Ford is learning the opposite lesson.
In my 1998 book, The Inmates are Running the Asylum, I posed a riddle for the information age: "What do you get when you cross a car with a computer?" Common sense will tell you that you get a smart car but, as usual, common sense is wrong. You get a computer with a motor and wheels. The dominant behavior, the behavior that the user perceives, is no longer the behavior of an automobile. Now it is the behavior of a computer, and making computers behave in non-annoying, let alone enjoyable, ways is a unique and very difficult problem.
Automobile manufacturing companies like Ford need to acknowledge that they are no longer making automobiles with attached computer systems. In reality, they are making computer control systems with attached motion mechanisms. The digital computer is increasingly dominating the driver's attention, even more so than the steering and brakes. If auto makers don't give equivalent attention to the design and implementation of these digital systems, they will fail, regardless of the quality of the drive train, interior furnishings, and other manufactured systems.
A major obstacle in Ford's way is their failure to understand that software design and development is neither an engineering problem nor a styling problem, and that all of their significant expertise in these disciplines won't help them with telematics. An even bigger impediment is Ford's failure to understand that the very structure of their product development teams, optimized for old-school engineering-and-styling, stands in the way of fielding effective digital development teams.
Teams that can effectively build successful software systems are very different from industrial product teams, and they require different kinds of support from the organization. Digital development teams are small, composed of interaction designers, developers, and testers. They are trained to work together and they need an unfamiliar degree of freedom to find their correct path. This freedom is problematic within older manufacturing organizations because it usually transcends long-standing political and organizational boundaries. The telematic dilemma is a good illustration of the problem.
As currently experienced by the person driving, the modern automobile cockpit is the control nexus for several complex information systems. Each of these systems is arguably more complex than simply maneuvering a car down a road. These telematic systems include GPS navigation, telephone and internet communications, environmental controls, entertainment controls, weather reports, traffic reports, performance evaluators, timers, proximity detectors, auto maintenance sensors, tire pressure sensors, event recorders, and rear view cameras.
While interacting with one of these telematic systems can't harm you directly, it can be extremely dangerous by distracting you from the road. It is impossible to overemphasize the importance of designing telematic systems that are not distracting, yet that is exactly where Ford has fallen down.
Ford and other car makers currently conceive of the auto cockpit as a car-control station, rather than as a car-and-systems-control station. In the existing cockpit control paradigm, the steering wheel is the largest and most prominent control. It is located right in front of the driver, up close, and the fact that it partially obscures the dashboard isn't a problem because the only attention-critical information displayed on it is the speedometer. All other telematic systems are relegated to the center console, out of the driver's line of sight, and positioned far forward enough to demand that the driver shift his body position to reach it.
Manipulating controls on the center console means taking hands off the wheel and attention off of the act of driving. This fact alone should make clear how dangerously wrong this arrangement is, but the center console controls are those of a digital computer, so they are complex, hard to use, unresponsive, obtuse, and frustrating in the extreme. I believe the main reason why these systems don't kill more travelers than they do is simply because most drivers turn them off in exasperation.
Once you recognize that a modern automobile is a collection of digital systems in a traveling package, you can instantly see that all telematic systems must be placed directly in front of the driver, up close where he can interact with them without having to grossly realign his hands and attention.
This means that the dashboard in front of the driver becomes an important interaction device. Not only must the driver be able to read the central display, but he must be able to manipulate controls on it. It simply cannot be obscured by a large steering wheel.
There are many solutions to this problem, from aviation-style side-stick controllers to Formula 1 racing car style steering wheels studded with dozens of controls and many more solutions exist on the drawing board. Modern cars can be equipped with inexpensive screens and LED readouts that keep the driver informed without forcing his attention off of the road.
Circumventing the conventional steering wheel is mostly a cultural problem. Cars have had these wheels for a hundred years, and changing such a fundamental control mechanism upsets people's ideas of what a car is, or should be. Then again, that's exactly what digital technology is in the process of doing, so it is entirely appropriate that people's notion of rightness is being challenged. When older, senior executives express their reluctance to alter the steering wheel paradigm, younger engineers get the message: "The steering wheel stays." Thus the newer technology is unsuccessfully wedged in the interstices left by the persistence of the older forms.
There are other, even greater organizational obstacles that perpetuate those interstices, quite literally. Ford is loosely structured the same way that its automobiles are structured. There are separate groups responsible for the drivetrain, the body, the physical cockpit space, and for the cockpit instrumentation. Those instruments are typically supplied by outside vendors, so the cockpit team assigns each one some physical space their product must fit.
This method of specifying reserved space for an outside vendor was developed back in the day of dashboard radios, when Philco or Motorola would supply an appropriately sized AM or FM radio to fit space allocated by the company. A modern telematics system plays a much more important role than a simple radio, and this arm's length model is simply no longer effective. For a telematics system to be effective, it has to be fully integrated with all parts of the cockpit to the point of displacing the steering wheel. This means that the design and implementation of telematics systems is integral to the design of the entire cockpit, if not of the entire vehicle.
Back in the 1960s and 70s, it was efficient for an automobile company, with core competencies in big manufacturing, to outsource dashboard electronics to specialized vendors. but now those little radios have become all-encompassing telematics, and Ford, whether it likes it or not, has to integrate the design of its electronic solutions with the design of its manufacturing business. It's the riddle for the information age again: Ford isn't a car company with digital capabilities, but it is a computer company with big manufacturing capabilities.
Designing and building a better automobile cockpit is the tip of the iceberg. The biggest task facing Ford and other car companies is changing the way they think and the way they work.
Alan Cooper is the co-founder of Cooper and a pioneer of the modern computing era. He created the programming language Visual Basic and wrote industry-standard books on design practice like "About Face."


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My Account
You need to have an account to purchase tickets for all shows, apart from those at London's Lyceum Theatre, (home to Disney's The Lion King) and The Apollo Victoria (home to Wicked).
Normally you can login during the booking process, but if you're concerned the tickets you want will sell out very quickly we recommend that you login to the site first here.
1. Accessing My Account information
Login to the site.
Click on 'My Account' (on the top right hand side of the screen).
This will take you to your 'My Account'
home page, which should look something like this:
One you have logged into your account you can do the following:
Check and print your booking details - head to Q2.
2. Your Bookings
The quickest way to check or to print your booking confirmation is online. Please follow the steps below. However, if you have booked for The Lion King or Wicked in London, please call 0844 871 7615 (Calls cost 7p per minute, plus your phone company's access charge).
a. To check and print your booking details
At the bottom of your 'My Account' homepage, there is a list of your 5 most 'Recent Transactions' listed by the order of the date you made your purchase. Select the red link 'Details' for the order you wish to check or print. This will take you to a confirmation page detailing all the purchases you have made on that date.
If you can't find the transaction information you're looking for go to 'Order History' in the left hand side menu. Your 'Order History' (see below for an example) will outline all past and upcoming transactions that you have made.
Please click on the order number relating to the purchase you have made.
Please Note: if you purchased tickets for more than one show in one booking, only one of the show's details will appear in the summary under 'First Series Name', though all your ticket purchase information will be listed in the 'Order Summary' that appears when you click the appropriate order number. Please see below for an example printable 'Order Summary':
b. To Print your Order Confirmation
Click 'view a printer-friendly invoice'. Once you've found your 'Order Summary' please follow steps above then select 'File' in the top left hand corner of the screen and 'Print'.
Remember that the 'My Account' system is not affiliated with events at the Lyceum Theatre and Apollo Victoria, so if you have booked shows at these venues those bookings will not show on your online account. To check your details for these shows please check your confirmation email or call us on 0844 871 7627 (Calls cost 7p per minute, plus your phone company's access charge).
If you have made a booking online and you can't see any seats saved in your account for shows at venues excluding the Lyceum and Apollo Victoria, it is probably best to ring up on 0844 871 7627 (Calls cost 7p per minute, plus your phone company's access charge) before making any more purchases.
If any of your queries are not answered by this or if you are still having problems logging in, please call 0844 871 7627 (Calls cost 7p per minute, plus your phone company's access charge).
3. Changing Account details
a. Add an address. This will mean you can then choose from multiple addresses for your billing and delivery information.
Select 'Account Information' from the menu on the left:
Beside 'Addresses' there is an option to 'Add Address' – select this.
Here you can create a new address. Make sure to include your house name/number and a full postcode.
b. Edit contact details
Select 'Account Information' from the menu on the left:
Under Contacts select 'Edit Contact':
This will take you to the page where you can make changes to your Name, Phone number, Email Address and where you can choose your main delivery address.
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Just like mom used to make...
As far back as I can remember my mom has made spritz cookies for Christmas. She would make hundreds and hundreds of these cookies. She would fill decorative tins and then give them away as gifts. I remember one year, we found a tin full of these little cookies months after Christmas and they looked like they were baked the day before. Now, they were hard as rocks, but still adorable. Since I am not going to be home with my mom around Christmas this year (we are going to New Orleans for my sister's wedding), I decided I would make these spritz cookies for my cookie exchange party. The cookies are simple and not too sweet. You can easily eat a dozen before you realize. I hope you enjoy my family tradition!
Christmas Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies
adapted from Allrecipes.com
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup butter
1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Mix together the flour, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.
In a medium bowl, cream together butter and cream cheese. Add sugar and egg yolk; beat until light and fluffy. Stir in the vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. If desired, decide the dough in half and add food coloring to the halves until you reach the desired color (I used about 8 drops of green food dye). Fill a cookie press or pastry bag with dough, and form cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with colored sugar or sprinkles to decorate.
Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the cookies are golden brown on the peaks and on the bottoms. Remove from cookie sheets at once to cool on wire racks.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Christmas Cream Cheese Spritz Cookies
Just like mom used to make...
2 comments:
at least i'm not the only one who eats these by the handful... thanks for the recipe, my mom used to make these too and i have a craving :)ReplyDelete
at least i'm not the only one who eats these by the handful... thanks for the recipe, my mom used to make these too and i have a craving :)ReplyDelete


text: Children are innocent to the crimes of their parents but often lose everything when their parents are sent to prison. From one day to another they can lose their home and school. In many developing countries the streets become their only option to survive. The risk to become a victim of physical, sexual, mental abuse or forced labour increases substantially. In the own community they often no longer find acceptance and their friends don't want to play with them. Family is often no longer family because the children remind them of what happened, give the family a bad reputation or are considered to bring bad luck.


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Mixed Bag of "Stuff"
Non-roster players usually are assigned high uniform numbers and usually dress at the far end of the Bright House Network Field clubhouse. Some are young prospects, some are veterans signed for AAA but invited to camp.
Phillies, so far, have invited eight such players to spring training in February: RHP Scott Elarton, INF Kevin Fransden, C Tuffy Gosewisch, LHP Pat Misch, INF Pete Orr, OF Scott Podsednik, RHP Brian Sanches and LHP Raul Valdes. Tuffy is the lone player without big league experience.
All probably will open the season with the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs but all could possibly end up in the bigs with the Phillies.
Here's a capsule of non-roster players who did just that:
RHP Clay Condrey
RHP Brian Sanches
C Chris Coste
RHP John Ennis
LHP J. A. Happ
C Lou Marson
LHP Matt Smith
INF Michael Cervenak
LHP Antonio Bastardo
C Paul Hoover
INF Miguel Cairo
C Dane Sardinah
INF Cody Ransom
INF Wilson Valdez
1B Andy Tracy
Of that group, the most impact has come from Valdez. He was a savior last season filling in at second, short and third when there were injuries.
New Nix
Rumors having OF Laynce Nix signing with the Phillies, giving them a left-handed bat for the field and the bench. It will mark the first time in the last three spring trainings that Nix will be on a major league roster. Last year, he was non-roster in DC and the two previous springs, the same with the Reds.
Nix, Thome and Wigginton will give the Phillies some pop off the bench. Nix and Wigginton add some versatility in that they can play multiple positions.
Happy birthday to Larry Bowa, 66; Steve Bedrosian, 54 and Jose Contreras, 40 . . . Rule 5 draft is Thursday morning. Phillies have one roster spot open . . . Charlie Manuel and Vance Worley will be at Citizens Bank Park this Saturday evening for the lighting of the Christmas tree at the Third Base Gate. Majestic Clubhouse store is a great place to do your holiday shopping. Matter of fact, I need to get there soon.
Winter Meetings
Interesting stuff coming out of Dallas. Stay tuned to Phillies.com for the latest news and gossip. Todd Zolecki is on top of everything.


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(CNN) — In a daring, movie-worthy operation, three men escaped from a Canadian jail by helicopter, prompting a massive manhunt, local media reported.
The men escaped from a detention center in Quebec City using a green helicopter Saturday night, CNN partner CBC reported. It's unclear how they pulled it off — authorities are still working to get more details.
"We are talking closely with the detention center to figure out exactly how the escape transpired," Ann Mathieu, a spokeswoman for Quebec Provincial Police, told CBC. "The priority number one is to find the helicopter."
A manhunt is under way for Yves Denis Yvon Lamontagne, 35, Denis Lefebvre, 53, and Serge Pomerleau, 49.
The first two were arrested in a drug bust in 2010 and were awaiting trial, according to CBC. Police found weapons, dozens of cars and a plane during the bust, it said. CBC did not provide information on the third suspect.
This is the second brazen jail escape in Canada in a little over a year.
In March 2013, two men posing as tourists commandeered a helicopter from a Canadian tour company, ordered the pilot to fly over a detention center near Montreal, hoisted two inmates into the hovering aircraft using cables — and zipped away.
It was a real "James Bond moment," witness Francis Emond said about last year's escape from the facility in Saint -Jerome, northwest of Montreal.
While spectacular, airborne escapes are not unheard of.
Albanian inmate Alket Rizaj broke out of a maximum security prison in Greece twice — in 2006 and 2009.
On both occasions, accomplices swooped in to the prison's courtyard on helicopters. Inmates then climbed aboard using rope ladders.
Both times, Rizaj was recaptured.
Last year, another prison escape in Greece tried to use the same tactic.
But the plot was foiled when the prisoner was shot and the chopper was forced to land on the prison parking lot.
In 1971, Joel David Kaplan escaped from a Mexican jail aboard a helicopter. The New Yorker's flight inspired the book "The 10-Second Jailbreak: The Helicopter Escape of Joel David Kaplan" and the 1975 movie "Breakout."
And in France, Pascal Payet escaped not once, not twice, but three times from French prisons.
Each time, he was recaptured.
CNN's Holly Yan contributed to this report
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MERSEYSIDE is braced for heavy snowfall over the next 48 hours as winter weather returns to the UK.
Snow began in the north west of Scotland during the evening and moved to other areas north of the border during the night.
* Click here for the Met Office weather warning
Weather forecaster Laura Caldwell said: "There have been accumulations of a few centimetres in parts of Scotland and the snow is expected to move into northern England and as far south as the Midlands during the day."
More falls are expected in north Wales, central England and northern England tomorrow.
Most of the areas will see between 2cm and 5cm settle while some such as Yorkshire will see up to 10cm.
Cold weather will take hold of all the UK, but southern England and Wales is likely to be spared snow.
The Met Office has a level two weather warning in place until Tuesday covering the whole of England, alerting residents to ice, snow and bitter temperatures.
It said: "This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services."
Temperatures were low across the UK overnight, with the lowest reading minus 6C at Shap in Cumbria at 3am.
Ms Caldwell said: "There were below zero readings in many parts of England and Wales, though in southern England it was a little milder, with readings of 2C and 3C, and even some 4s and 5s in the south west."
The cold weather is expected to linger for the rest of the week with the possibility of more snow flurries in central and eastern England.
The AA has warned that 75% of drivers are not prepared for conditions on the roads, and urged drivers to carry an essential winter kit and check their cars before getting behind the wheel.
The RAC is expecting up to 56,000 breakdowns and widespread disruption. It has placed extra patrols on stand-by to help stranded motorists and said call-outs are expected to rise by 20% or more.
The Highways Agency has said it is "well prepared" for winter conditions.
A spokeswoman said: "We have a fleet of 500 state-of-the-art winter vehicles on standby, supported by tried-and-tested winter resilience plans.
"We have reviewed salt stock levels and taken action where needed to enhance our resilience and we have again established a reserve salt stock to help ensure that there is enough salt to deal with severe winter.
"Our roads will be treated whenever there is a risk of ice or snow. However, even when roads have been treated, drivers should still take care, especially on stretches where the local road layout or landscape means there could be a greater risk of ice forming."