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My 29th Birthday
Some people look at birthdays with dread. They see it as another year older, another year slipped through their fingers. Sure, there are times when I think, "Holy cow! Where has the time gone!?" or when realize that I'm not quite where I thought I would be at this point in my life. But that's the magic of it, right? We never quite know where we'll end up...
Every year I welcome my birthday with open arms. Another year passed, yes, but another year that I got to live, experience, love, and learn. I use it as a day to reflect on the past year and to take inventory of my life as a whole-- the places I've gone, the people I've met, the ways I've grown. I'm left feeling joyful, grateful, and excited for the future.
This year I celebrated my 29th birthday on October 29th. I am past the age where all I want is a giant party and lots of presents. I prefer quality time with the ones I love, gifts of experience, and maybe a little wine to go with it. This year's celebration was perfect.
My husband, Kyle, surprised me when I woke up with a pumpkin spice latte, Autumn flowers, and a birthday card written from the heart. He knows that Fall is my favorite time of year so bonus points for going with that theme. Then he made us a delicious homemade breakfast of eggs, sausage, hash browns, and even (gasp!) cinnamon rolls (again, bonus points) and we headed to a local farm to pick out some pumpkins.
That evening we got all dolled up and went to a fancy-pants dinner at The Precinct, a local steakhouse. We indulged in an amazing steak dinner, overpriced wine, and conversation about what the future would hold. Our waiter even sang happy birthday to me. Not in a "TGI Friday's-bring-the-whole-staff-out-to-embarrass-you" way but a quiet serenade in a "you-never-would-have-expected-I'm-secretly-an-opera-singer" way. Amazing.
When we returned we noticed our kitchen light was on and our back door was wide open. "Oh no! Did we forget to lock up?!" To our surprise, my mom broke in while we were gone and cleaned our apartment from top to bottom! BEST. PRESENT. EVER. We finished the evening with my family, eating dessert made by my mom.
Simple, yes, but perfect.
A Special To-Do List
This year I knew I wanted to restart a tradition I did in past years where I would create a list of things I wanted to do before my next birthday. I used to do this each year, the number of items on the list matching my age (26 items on my 26th birthday, 27 on my 27th, etc.). I didn't do a list last year, as it was right around the time of my wedding and honeymoon and things were a bit hectic. These are so fun to do though, and very motivational throughout the year, so I'm back at it!
Here is my list of 29 Things to Do Before I'm 30! I plan to keep track as I go and write about some of them here on the blog. If you decide to do a similar list of your own, let me know-- I'd love to hear what's on your list too!
Now, where do I begin...


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pullover - Loft // maxi dress - TJ Maxx // flats - Target // watch - Charming Charlie's // midi ring - UO
Whoever decided maxi dresses should be main stream street style did not have a big butt. Or thighs. In fact, they were either 8 feet tall or didn't have legs at all. I fought maxi dresses with everything in me, but somehow gave in to this dress during the hunt for something to wear to a wedding this past September.
Since then, our relationship has consisted mostly of side-eyeing each other before I throw my hands in the air & slowly back-up - Nodding, with my tongue pressed into my cheek, admitting defeat once more. I THINK the answer is wearing something long-ish over it, as pictured above, since the waistline of this particular dress falls at my hips = danger zone. #fatbottomedgirlprobz
But that Day 5 top knot, though.
[photos by the fabbie Kelsie McNair of With Lavender & Lace]

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252 - Bursting
So it finally happens.. I started working on a non-WoW machinima!
As I finally have a needed amount of PC's (3 - 2 for puppeteering, 1 for filming) to do FPS machinima, I decided to try things out with Unreal Tournament 3.
This is a music video I'm making, and it's small plot is about a male and a female showing their love to each other with bullets, missiles and shrapnels.
"Bursting" will be the title of the machinima.
The song I'm using is "Shuttle to Venus" by Turmion Kätilöt, which is a perverse-sounding industrial metal cover version of a 90's Finnish pop song.
The filming is not that much different from in-game WoW machinimating.
Adjust the camera, adjust the actors, action... screw up and try again :)


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Today I have the honor of again hosting author Dani Harper. This time she's here to give us a glimpse of the second installment in her paranormal/fantasy-themed Grimm series, Storm Bound. Keep reading to get a taste of the series thus far and make sure to fill out the form for the chance to win some great prizes like ebooks, a journal, jewelry, and swag items honoring the new release!
Grimm Series, Book 2
Kidnapped on his wedding day in the twelfth century and forced into a thousand years of servitude by a cold-hearted faery princess, rugged blacksmith Aidan dreams of nothing but revenge on his captor. Then the spell of a beautiful witch awakens him to the modern world—and a passionate desire. But to build a future, he must first confront his past…
Modern witch and magic-shop owner Brooke doesn't think her life is missing anything, until a wayward enchantment lands a brooding medieval blacksmith in her spell room—and in her arms. Yet even after their passion proves to be truly magical, Aidan's first commitment is to vengeance. Now Brooke must team up with friends and ancient warriors alike—and push her own powers to their limits—to save her love from the wrath of an evil fae.
Grimm Series, Book 1
From the best-selling author of Changeling Moon, this stirring novel of passion and magic launches an addictive new series for fans of paranormal romance.
Enslaved for millennia by the masters of the Welsh faery realm, the fierce Celtic warrior Rhys is doomed to wander the earth forever. But when a brave beauty unwittingly breaks the enchantment, he is drawn into a strange new world…and an all-consuming desire.
Sensible Morgan doesn't believe in magic—until a mysterious being saves her from a fate worse than death, and life as she knows it changes forever. Now the man of her dreams has become flesh and blood, igniting a spark in Morgan's soul which science cannot explain. But even a love that transcends time may not be strong enough to withstand the power of an ancient curse.
Dani Harper is a former newspaper editor whose passion for all things supernatural led her to a second career writing paranormal fiction. A longtime resident of the Canadian north and southeastern Alaska, Dani recently ventured south with her husband to rural Washington to be closer to their grown children. She is the author of Changeling Moon, Changeling Dream, and Changeling Dawn, as well as First Bite, a Dark Wolf Story, and Storm Warrior, the first book in the Grimm Series.
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Wednesday Open Thread [2.18.14]
Jonathan Chait on how the House Republicans really screwed their Presidential candidates and doomed their hopes for 2016. Seriously, these guys are such experts at foot shooting, they should teach courses.
"The decisive case for inaction that Republicans made to Boehner has been that moving an immigration bill would divide the party in advance of the midterm elections. Republicans are anticipating a favorable midterm election, with a shrunken and more demographically favorable electorate, along with a Senate map tilted heavily toward red states. They don't want to instigate right-wing infighting when they can instead spend every day harping on the multitudinous evils of Obamacare."
"Yet, once the midterms pass, the presidential primary will quickly command attention. Republicans again will be competing for the loyalty of a heavily white, distinctly anti-immigrant electoral base, and the candidates will again face pressure to lock themselves into positions that will alienate Latino and Asian voters. They could still win anyway if the economy is weak enough, or some other major scandal envelopes the Obama administration. But in an electorate that is both increasingly hardened in its partisan inclinations, and growing steadily more Democratic-leaning in its basic shape, the GOP's outlook is, if not hopeless, decidedly grim."
Meanwhile, the ACA or Obamacare is here to stay, and guess what, it is working and succeeding, much to the chagrin of the America-hating job-lock loving GOP surrender monkeys. Eugene Robinson:
Cumulatively, 3.3 million people had chosen insurance plans through the state and federal exchanges by the end of January. That is fewer than the administration had originally hoped but well above the predictions of critics who believed — or hoped — that the program would never succeed. The Congressional Budget Office projects that 6 million people will have chosen plans through Obamacare when the initial enrollment period ends March 31, down from a pre-launch estimate of 7 million. Not bad at all.
The numbers are even more encouraging when you look more closely. The proportion of young people — from 18 and 34 — who chose insurance plans through the exchanges increased slightly to 27 percent, compared with an average of 24 percent in previous months. This is important because premiums would have to rise if not enough young, healthy people enrolled.
January was also the first month since the health exchanges were launched in which the number of new enrollees in ObamaCare actually exceeded the administration's projections.
Forbes has an interesting article that includes a chart that shows how states are doing in terms of enrolling people compared to what the administration needs in order to reach their goal of six million enrollees. California is already at 118% of the goal, and Washington state is at 94%. Idaho(!) is at 98% of the goal. Alabama(!) is at (60%). Meanwhile, New York is only at 39%. Hey Cuomo, you lazy bum, wake up. Yes, it helps to have the state government committed to the law (though the governments of Idaho and Alabama are not what I call committed). For example, the most committed and outspoken Governor is Kentucky's Steve Beshear, and his state is at 77% while another state with a Democratic governor who might as well be a Republican since they and he cowardly run away from anything Democratic, West Virginia, is at 30%.
LOUISIANA–GOVERNOR–APPROVAL–Public Policy Polling: Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is among the least popular governors in the U.S with a 53% disapproval rating.
OHIO–GOVERNOR–Quinnipiac: Gov. John Kasich (R) 43, Ed FitzGerald (D) 38.
Said pollster Peter Brown: "The race to become Ohio's next governor is a five-point game, little changed from the seven-point spread in Quinnipiac University's last survey in November. Also unchanged, however, is how relatively few Ohioans – less than three in ten – know enough about Democratic favorite Ed Fitzgerald to have an opinion about him. That is a double-edged sword for the challenger: It indicates he has not made much headway in the past three months, but it provides him an opportunity to make up ground among the vast number of voters who are unfamiliar with him."
MINNESOTA–U.S. SENATE–Star Tribune Minnesota Poll: Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has a 55% to 34% approval rating.


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Tarea #4: Breathing
by Evan Yoak
It recently has come to my attention that many folks are breathing incorrectly in their lifting. I was going to write about something else this week, but I consider this topic very important because I like to avoid spinal injuries, and also because I like lifting more weight (plus it relates to the other topic anyway). So read on if you like those things too.
I could write a lot on this topic, but I won't because it's important, so I want people to actually read about it, and because it's simple. Trainers who think balance boards are better than barbells will tell you to suck your abs in; people who actually lift heavy weights will invariably tell you to push your abs out. Yes, you look more shredded with your abs sucked in – who cares. If you expand your abdomen, however, you get better intra-abdominal pressure, meaning that you have a more "locked out" space surrounding your spine. In other words, you get better tension in your body and a more stable spine: more tension means more weight lifted, and a more stable spine means less back injuries. So the breathing process looks like this for, say, a Front Squat:
- Breathe in deeply. Your chest should NOT rise because you shouldn't be breathing into your upper lungs – breathe deeply into the diaphragm in your midsection.
- Expand your abs, whilst tightening the abs, the glutes, and the upper back
- Hold your breath during the lift. If doesn't take long to complete, you can do 2 (or sometimes 3) reps with one breath; if it's a long rep, you can hiss, grunt, growl, scream, etc., while you rise out of the hole, as this, (a) prevents you from passing out, and (b) gives you extra tension for a brief second to break through a sticking point in the squat. At no point release all your air, as you'll instantly get loose.
- Repeat at the top of every rep if they're heavy reps, or every other rep if they're lighter reps, as per (3)
And that's it. By the way, when you use a belt, it's meant to facilitate this process. It's NOT meant to physically hold your back in place; rather, you should tighten the belt somewhat less than totally so you can breathe out against it, which, again, lets you generate more tension. It's a physical reminder to breathe out and get tight, and if you do it right, you will indeed feel more solid (and not because some crappy plastic is strapped to your torso).
A final point. Sometimes doctors who know nothing about training or lifting weights will tell you that you'll have a brain aneurysm if you hold your breath (which I suppose is where that whole ridiculous exaggerated-overexhalation-on-every-rep in Globo Gym comes from). So I was going to be all diligent and research this on Pubmed, but I actually think one quote suffices to sum up the problem: " Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with weight training: three case reports." I laughed so hard when I read that the dog got excited and thought we were going to play. Three cases?? I mean, I might get struck by lightning too, but I'm still going to keep going outside. And this is the point: I've seen many many people lose their backs training, and some of those got injured; I've never see anyone have a stroke or a cerebral hemorrhage. And I'll reiterate, if it's a longish rep, you do forcefully exhale via your hiss or grunt or caveman growl, which keeps you from keeling over in a pool of your own cerebral fluid just in case and lets you stand up that new PR.
On the other hand, I suspect a lot of people don't expand their abdomens because they don't know how – it's not actually easy/trivial to do if you're not aware of your breathing. So we'll add that into the homework this week:
Tarea #4:
- Breath Drill (courtesy of Ani Whizz) – lying face up, put a bowl or a small change plate (2.5 or 5#) on your abdomen. Breathe in deeply whilst tightening your entire body and expanding your diaphragm, which will make the bowl/plate rise. If the implement doesn't rise and/or your chest rises, you're doing it wrong – keep practicing. 1 set of 10 reps, 3x week (preferably before lifting)
- Breathe Out When Lifting – i.e., in your Front Squats, Deadlifts, Olympic weightlifting movements, presses, etc. actually put into practice what you worked on in (1) and breathe with an outwardly expanded abdomen. Think about it before each set so it becomes habit.
- Quadriceps Roll with Barbell – 2 min./quad, 3x/week
- 3 x 1:15 Superman Hold, alternated with 3 x 20 Glute Bridges (hold the superman for a minute and fifteen, perform 20 controlled glute bridges during the rest, and repeat twice more)
- No sitting on couches or chairs while watching TV, with minimum *10* minutes of squatting. You can lay, you can mobilize, you can sit Indian style or in lotus (with a neutral spine!), you can and should try all sorts of different positions, but you must squat for at least 10 minutes total. Should be a relaxed squat, the back can round here in the squat since it's not under load and will decompress in that position. 7x/week (i.e., any time you watch TV or movies or whatever).
Lots of squatting and lunges this weekend, so get those quads loose for efficient moving with the rolling and the squatting. Keep getting your back and posterior chain strong as well. And breathe for performance. Merry WODding!


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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
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- Ms. Amber said...
What a fun and silly group of kids! Loved the snow pictures too!
- December 20, 2012 at 11:32 PM
How sweet. What a great group of kids. Your blog is so pretty. The girls at Honey Bunch are so sweet. We are your newest followers.
We have also nominated you for the Liebster Award. This award is given to new bloggers. Click on the link below for the directions.
We love your blog.
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- Jennifer Macinnis said...
What cute kids! Love the headbands!
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I wanted to compliment Michael Gill on his column in the new Scene (Arts District, July 23). It is very encouraging to hear your support for the arts in Cleveland and a commitment to covering all the great artists, performers, etc. that make this city a great place to live and entertain. It's very frustrating on our end to see the arts pages shrinking at publications around the region and country, when our services and programming are key to helping build this city and highlight our wealth of creativity.
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Terry Macklin was part of a contingent of kids at St. Agatha's (now the Martin de Porres Center) in Glenville who had drive to express themselves while having a good time ("The Bar Mitzvah King," July 16).
Around 1970, we were into singing, putting on dances, skating parties and acting out skits. In those skits, there was a social tug-of-war with white progressive nuns of the Dominican order. They wanted to do more of the lighthearted saccharine stuff of Up With People promoting diversity, versus we black kids, who were driven to pantomime gritty lyrics onstage to songs like "War" by the Temptations (not Edwin Starr's later version) and Donny Hathaway's "The Ghetto." The Vietnam War and the then-recent Glenville riots were strong contrasting backdrops of the times.
Along with the rest of us, Terry was right in the thick of all activities. I remember him singing "Just My Imagination" along with a couple of other eighth-grade would-be crooners. As we graduated we went in different directions in life, destined to fall in one of three categories: Some people watch things happen, some make things happen and there are those who wondered what happened. Great coverage by Scene made it obvious on Terry's direction.
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The Federal Reserve repeats its pledge to hold interest rates at record lows to foster the economic recovery and ease high unemployment.
But its decision draws one dissent. Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, for the second meeting in a row opposes keeping the yearlong pledge.
The tension illustrates the Fed's challenge in deciding when to signal that higher rates are coming. Hoenig thinks the economy is strong enough for the Fed to telegraph that rates will rise soon to prevent inflation. But the others think the low rates will continue to be needed to feed the economic recovery.
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AnonD-71868, 17 Oct 2012Who doubts that LG Optimus G is currently the best phone on the market and it will still be af... moreYeah, with that specs it easily is. But, OEM engineering is what makes the difference. I'll check out the LG Optimus G anyway. Although, I won't buy any new smartphone till next year... Hoping to be amazed at the Xperia Odin or Yuga :)
And I truly hope they both have Adreno 320 GPU, cause of the Full HD display. I hope they make it water and dust proof too. *-*
Anyway, I'm happy with my Xperia Pro. So I can quietly wait :)
AnonD-71868, 17 Oct 2012Who doubts that LG Optimus G is currently the best phone on the market and it will still be af... moremany
tyko, 14 Oct 2012too many phone that sony release and it make ppl not too excited, they should focus to make a ... moreYeah right !! And they should also make it for INR 1,40,000 & above right?? Get off ur high horse & learn ENGLISH first & then spout ur bullsh*t here :)) [Think realistically for 2012, 2013 smartphone specs]
Who doubts that LG Optimus G is currently the best phone on the market and it will still be after this yuga buga launch or the asus padfone?
By the way, the funny thing is that the original Nexus was made by HTC, and Google never went back to HTC to make another one, even if the nexus didnt have Sense. Thats another thing i noticed, HTCs hardware fails more frequently, and when untill recently they had a reputation for returning defective phones to the customer without trying to repair them.
Sure theres a reason why Google do not want to work with HTC again, and hardware quality and non-existing support/service is the most likely reason.
AnonD-58527, 15 Oct 2012Think i'll look at getting a note 2. jelly bean should be better right. Sense needs 8 core... moreNot only other One X owners know what you mean, everyone who had an HTC know what you mean. 8 cores is not gona help, the defects are built into HTC Sense itself, and will make sure it will lag on ANY hardware you throw at it. There are good phones and there are bad phones, it makes no big difference what you buy, as long as you stay away from the defective brand thats known as HTC.
AnonD-58527, 15 Oct 2012Why is this normal? With the best hardware it still shouldn't lag or stutter as i swipe be... moreIts normal for HTC. Not for other Androids. Look at the earnings of HTC, still declining, and do you know why? Because their phones are slow, laggy, unstable and unreliable, thanx to what they call HTC SENSE. This is why most people do not buy phones from HTC more than once, and thats why HTC went from being the fastest growing brand to the fastest declining brand, the customers are so unsatisfied that they dont come back again. HTC is by far the worst phone i have owned, malfunction and lag is very normal for HTC, thats why you also will not buy HTC next time. All other android phones i tried are very superior to HTC.
AnonD-64129, 15 Oct 2012In Singapore, I do see a gradual rising number of people using Sony smartphones, particularly ... moreappreciate u
In Singapore, I do see a gradual rising number of people using Sony smartphones, particularly the Xperia S, Sola and Ion. There are friends and kins of mine also using Xperia. The reason is simple, they love Android and the Xperia phone designs are really stylish (compared to other manufacturers' phones). Although the specs maybe a bit lagging behind, I do not see that as in issue. I believe any manufacturers can simply add in the best specs into a phone but bringing the best user experience and best UI/phone design are other issues. That's why Sony Xperia users are willingly to compromise a little on the specs, and truly enjoy the best phone design and user interface experience.
As for 2013, I believe Sony is fast catching with the rivals. Under one roof without Ericsson, will accelerate the planning and decision making of each upcoming smartphone. Look at those old days when Sony Ericsson delivered the new phones about 4 months after the official announcement and the rolling out of updates (especially X10) were simply upsetting the eagerly awaiting users. Nowadays, the release of new smartphones are accelerated, within 2 months from the announcement (of course not all new phones will be released at the same time, look at Xperia S, P, Acro S, T/TX). In addition, the roll out of the ICS updates for 2011 Xperia phones are very promptly, according to their schedule without any delay (minor delays are due to the carriers in rolling out the update to their customers). And yes, Sony's ICS build is heavily skinned. Unlike others (eg. Sam****), look more like the vanilla version of ICS, an example is the Main Menu. That explains why Sony has to take a slightly longer time in rolling out the updates.
So yes, 2013 may be the turning point of Xperia where the flagships can truly FACE-to-FACE challenge the rivals' flagships. All the best, Sony!
AnonD-69596, 15 Oct 2012My hox scored 12500 on stock ics... With old a9 architecture
This is dissapointing for krait ... moreWow means that krait is really crap.
And if they release HOX+ should blow that
Note 2 out the door as well
If more people vote no to sense HTC will stop the
home scren stutter and make it the best phone ever.
Should make the benchmark faster.
If the HTC oneX+ can beat the Note 2 n beachmaks I'm ging with that then
My hox scored 12500 on stock ics... With old a9 architecture
This is dissapointing for krait quad then
Anonymous, 15 Oct 2012Correction. Your HTC has stutter and lag, its normal, it even have as name, Sense.Why is this normal?
With the best hardware it still shouldn't lag
or stutter as i swipe between screens.
One thing's for sure, the smartphone market is heating up! Awesome competition from all corners, loving what I'm seeing coming onto the markets.
AnonD-58527, 15 Oct 2012My Android still has stutter and lag. Mine is buggy lke yous then.Correction. Your HTC has stutter and lag, its normal, it even have as name, Sense.
Anonymous, 15 Oct 2012I got a Note 2 last week and is smooth as smooth.
The C650X looks like a pretty awesome pho... moreThink i'll look at getting a note 2.
jelly bean should be better right.
Sense needs 8 cores and 4GB RAM to stop lag.
You guys that use this know what i mean
Anonymous, 14 Oct 2012I can just hear Samsung crying now "Yuga-ta be kidding me!"Lol. You just gave an idea that nobody thought of. Good one though
Sony Rules, 14 Oct 2012Please be an xperia play 2, please be an xperia 2 please be an xperia play 2Unfortunately, no more Sony Xperia Play because of Sony PS Vita.


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Vivotek, Trend Micro form cyber security partnership
Global Internet Protocol (IP) surveillance solution provider Vivotek and cyber security solutions firm Trend Micro have formed a strategic partnership to offer cyber defence surveillance solutions to companies across the globe.
Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, Vivotek has a list of local distributors which include IT Works and IP video solutions provider Miro, amongst others.
Through Vivotek's experience in IP surveillance and Trend Micro's extensive expertise in cyber security, the partnership enables users to enjoy higher levels of network security when deploying Vivotek's network cameras and strengthen defences in response to the emerging security challenges of the Internet of things (IOT).
Following the partnership Vivotek has introduced a new range of cyber security enhanced products which will be launched at the end of January and will be revealed in Vivotek's booth at Intersec 2018 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Dr Steve Ma, Vice president of Vivotek Brand Business Research and Development Division, explains: "Our approach requires a tight integration between hardware-based security features and software applications. Joining forces with Trend Micro is a vital step and together we are proud to roll out the first cyber security enhanced network cameras in the IP surveillance industry. Thanks to Trend Micro IOT Security for Surveillance Cameras solution, these cameras are able to automatically detect and prevent credential attack and block suspicious events. Both parties are committed to reduce security vulnerabilities, and develop a safety net for the IOT ecosystem."
Discussing several tech trends that will come to the fore in 2018, Roy Alves, sales director at Axis Communications, says the first is the re-birth of video analytics.
"For the longest time, CCTV has been purely focused on security-driven applications; however, in the last few years - especially during 2017 - security cameras have been doing more, thanks to the rise in sophisticated video analytics solutions. These days the analysis of visual data from modern network cameras supports a wide range of functions which include in retail for store optimisation, or enhancement of the customer experience, or even protecting endangered rhinos in SA. The ability to analyse the feed of data from network cameras will affect all sectors in the future," explains Alves.
Dr Terence Liu, VP of Network Threat Defense Technology Group at Trend Micro, says: "As more and more network cameras connecting to Internet for cloud-related services, securing the cameras from network security perspective is getting vital. The cooperation with Vivotek demonstrates an effective and practical approach of IOT security by combining deep knowledge of cameras and network threats."


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Daniel Radcliffe: James McAvoy Joins 'Frankenstein' Film!
Daniel Radcliffe wears a "monkey" shirt while leaving the Noel Coward Theatre following a performance of his play The Cripple of Inishmaan on Thursday (July 25) in London, England.
The night before, the 24-year-old actor was seen leaving the theatre in a baby blue shirt.
It was reported this week that James McAvoy will be joining the upcoming Frankenstein adaptation in which Daniel will play Igor, according to Deadline.
James will be playing the title role of Dr. Victor Von Frankenstein in the Paul McGuigan-directed film.


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Guidance on the scientific requirements for health claims related to the immune system, the gastrointestinal tract and defence against pathogenic microorganisms
health claims, immune system, gastrointestinal tract, pathogens, microorganisms, applications, guidance
First published in the EFSA Journal:
18 January 2016
10 December 2015
Scientific Opinion
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has asked the Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA) to update the guidance on the scientific requirements for health claims related to gut and immune function published in 2011. Since then, the NDA Panel has completed the evaluation of Article 13.1 claims except for claims put on hold by the European Commission, and has evaluated additional health claim applications submitted pursuant to Articles 13.5 and 14, which are in the area covered by this guidance. In addition, the NDA Panel has developed the general scientific guidance for stakeholders for health claims applications which addresses general issues that are common to all health claims. This guidance is intended to assist applicants in preparing applications for the authorisation of health claims related to the immune system, the gastrointestinal tract and defence against pathogenic microorganisms. Examples of claims evaluated favourably by the Panel will be used to provide guidance to applicants on the scientific requirements for the substantiation of health claims in specific areas, whereas examples of claims evaluated unfavourably by the Panel will be used to illustrate the shortcomings that prevented the substantiation of these claims. The general document represents the views of the NDA Panel based on the experience gained to date with the evaluation of health claims, and it may be further updated, as appropriate, in the light of experiences gained from the evaluation of additional health claim applications.
© European Food Safety Authority, 2016
Panel members at the time of adoption
Jean Louis Bresson, Barbara Burlingame, Tara Dean, Susan Fairweather-Tait, Marina Heinonen, Karen Ildico Hirsch-Ernst, Inge Mangelsdorf, Harry McArdle, Androniki Naska, Monika Neuhäuser-Berthold, Grażyna Nowicka, Kristina Pentieva, Yolanda Sanz, Alfonso Siani, Anders Sjödin, Martin Stern, Daniel Tomé, Dominique Turck, Hendrik Van Loveren, Marco Vinceti and Peter Willatts.
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I'm experimenting with OVR_Multiview on Android OpenGL ES and I'm struggling to understand some of the concepts.
The plan is to use multiview to make stereo rendering more efficient, so the left and right renderings would be side-by-side.
1. Can you render directly to the output framebuffer with multiview or does it have to be a bound texture?
2. If you have to set the viewport to the whole output buffer, how do you offset the two views? i.e. what stops it rendering twice across the whole viewport?
For background, I would rather render to the screen directly than incur the cost of an intermediate texture buffer and I'm writing at the Android SDK / Java level with direct calls to OpenGL and raw shader code (no libraries or fancy abstractions).
Apologies if I'm missing something obvious, but it's not exactly well documented and the "spec" reads like robot barf.


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FULLER Brand + Communication | http://fuller.com.au/shaping-flinders/
Freelance illustration of six characters to be used in a Flinders University campaign for Fuller, a brand and communications agency in Adelaide. The characters are made up of shapes to tie in with the theme of the campaign 'Shaping Flinders'.
Contributed to the design of the campaign logo and rolled out the design collateral from postcards and posters, to ballot boxes and large scale vinyl banners and included some online banners. A special area was created using large vinyl banners to create a space where students could write their say on the inside of the banners.


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I had several farewell sessions on the few days leading up to my official date of leaving Funky Green Voyager. Ruth came on Saturday night bringing shepherd's pie sufficient for 5 people! Out of the blue, while Ruth, Sonny, Nadya and I were chatting at No. 7, Ah Ball called and informed that he's on his way to Funky! What a coincidence! He was on his travel-around-North Island-before-heading home, and just in time to bid me farewell.
Post-dinner, Ah Ball, Nadya, Jenny and I headed to Pig and Whistle for some FREE drinks, courtesy of Chris! On the table, everyone's tolerance for alcohol is better than mine: I drank the least but was the most drunk I think. My offer to drive everyone home with Ah Ball's rented car was rejected. Ah Ball said he could drive better in his slightly drunk condition than me driving in my stone cold sober mode! Haha!
On Sunday, Nadya prepared nasi goreng as lunch for me to soothe my homesickness. At night, it's the customary pizza session: held whenever there's (worthy) funky crew leaving.
Part 1: Rotorua | Part 2b: Hello again, Auckland! | Part 3: Hello, South Island! (a) Queenstown (b) Te Anau (c) Milford Sound | Part 4: zucchini picking | Part 5: last bit of travelling (a) inmate days (b) (c) (d)| Concluding remarks


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I need to fix that, and I'll get on it one of these days, promise.
Tolerance is central to much of the worldview I've rejected, not as a practice but as an ideal. In practice, using colloquial terms, what tolerance means is that you restrain yourself from beating the living shit out of people on a daily basis, which is obviously sound advice for those of us who want to avoid prison. We have to tolerate that which irritates and provokes us, both in terms of people and in terms of the furnace which makes a weird noise we can't afford to get looked at right now, and the smell of the office after lunch at the Mexican restaurant, and pretty much everything that happens to your body past the age of sixty. That meaning of the word is obvious and intuitive. But in moral discourse, tolerance has been given a fresh position in the last few decades.
In contemporary ideological terms, tolerance is basically indistinguishable from non-judgmentalism. It's all about rejecting bias based on race, creed, gender, whathaveyou. It's about accepting, not imposing, being permissive. And it means precisely the opposite of what I've been saying people actually do; evaluate one another. Tolerance is distinct from minding your business, because tolerance is an attitude being imposed on you, an attitude of explicitly refusing to make value judgments on people and looking at them "neutrally."
You can see in modern attitudes how this sentiment of not evaluating promotes itself as a moral good. We always hear about the people who seem different, but at the end of the day, are just like us, thus undermining our intuitive evaluation. We must "save" everything, preserve it and protect it from those who continue to consider their value like assholes; many forms of change - and particularly, the creative destruction of capitalism - are looked on with disgust. Who are we to evaluate the world, and affect it according to our evaluations? Who are we to judge?
Through this perspective, it becomes easier to see the most flagrant problem with tolerance; it is a standard in itself, and holding this standard leads to intolerance, because you de-value the intolerant. And we know this happens; everyone evaluates, so let's not talk about this as if it's genuine Christian self-abnegation put into practice. It's a shifting of values, not a dismissal of them, and the people who insist on the behavior they're seeking are every bit as judgmental as anyone else. Anyone who really believes in the low value of their perspective would never have opened their mouth in the first place.
Awesomely, there is such a thing as a "paradox of tolerance", in which the obvious case of hating intolerant people is itself intolerant, and none other than John Rawls has spun his brain cells around the notion before finally saying that we need to decide to tolerate intolerant groups on a case-by-case basis. In other words, he gave up and said nothing of value, which makes perfect sense given the value of the rest of his thinking. But it brings up the ultimate point about the idea: trying to create pluralism is self-defeating. Pluralism is an ideal, with its own goals and valued states, which means that other states are not as good. So, if that ideal is superior to you, what about other ideals?
It's ridiculous: social norms and shared values exist because addressing conflicts of interests is the most difficult and necessary job in the continued quest for human advancement, and these tolerance-spouting idiots have decided that the best way to handle it is to not handle it at all.
The notion of being able to have whatever you want without conflict is ludicrous when you actually consider it - it's a competitive society, dumbass - but like other affecting ideas, it's a product of our old worldview and our current power structure. The old worldview started with individualism nd seems determined to end there; the current power structure favors market exchange, and the ideal of pluralism is purely consumerist. You're supposed to pick and choose the ideas that you like and want to adopt as if you're choosing what looks tasty on a restaurant menu, nothing worth fighting over, which annihilates the meaning of it.
Of course, by the time you're consciously making these decisions, the important value programming has already been done, but plenty of liberal ideas align with the notion of the self as capable of full autonomy in personal matters. That's essentially Nietzschean thinking, powerfully existentialist, striving for authenticity. And yet, most people who buy into pluralism seem so sure that everyone can strive for this authenticity but still get along peacefully and happily, everyone working for everyone else's welfare, a humanity inherently good. Nietzsche didn't buy that shit. Nietzsche recognized the power instinct for what it was, and knew that conflicts of interest were inevitable, that hierarchy and cruelty were to be expected, that suppressing aggression required threat of pain and internalization of that cruelty. Nietzsche wasn't much interested in delusions. He wanted to understand how people actually were. And his conclusions about who they were - and are - reflect economic realities, the realities of people competing in a situation of scarcity.
Nietzsche's Economic Man
As humans operate in their social environment, some behaviors are simply necessary, including evaluating other people. It should be obvious that people size each other up, noticing things about each other's appearance and mannerisms that indicate facets of character. When we talk to someone, we further get to know them and formulate a theory of the mind that describes what kind of person we're dealing with. This sucks if you're a non-judgmental, tolerant person; we shouldn't judge books by their cover. And it's true that our evaluations are fallible, but that's less relevant than the reality that they are necessary evaluations. We must grade one another; some people we want to meet, we want to talk to, be around, get to know, learn from them, use them. Some people, we don't want anything to do with, or at least, there are others that are more worthy of our time. But you have to choose; you can't walk into a room with a hundred people in it and say to yourself, "I think I'll just get to know everyone." You don't have the attention span. And if your values guide you towards someone like you, or if you think of yourself as open-minded and your values guide you towards someone because they are purposefully unlike you, then either way, your values have been displayed, and you have implicitly rejected everyone else you could have introduced yourself to.
When the bullshit is put to the side, we have value to one another because we can be used: do you want to spend time around people who do absolutely nothing for you? Not funny, not smart, not attractive, not friendly, not comforting, not capable of intuitively understanding where you're coming from? Not unless you're absolutely desperate for company, and there are precious few decent people who are without companionship, because decency is valuable to others. Decent people are worth the attention, worth the time, and worth the investment of understanding who they are and forging bonds.
In what we do, and what we don't do, we inevitably affect each other. Choices are made, and must be made. This is called "being alive". The choices of people broadly follow patterns in a society that holds certain values, communicates them, and passes them on to their children and other newcomers; the decisions create a series of interrelated norms which constitute our moral ecosystem, and a society needs these norms to reduce friction on the parts. This is called "decency" or maybe "manners".
Human interactions are economic interactions, and they are competitive. Attention, one of our scarcest resources now, must be spent selectively, and we have always chosen our company based on the quality of the options we have. Who we spend time with, and don't spend time with, always makes up a series of rejections and reinforcements. Even if the values change, even if the deeper elements of character - like morality - are ignored as just cultural bias, some other, more shallow set of values takes their place, attraction based on lesser traits like some fashion statement. To a person who prizes tolerance, the opportunity costs of acknowledging one over another constitutes a tragedy. But there is no culture in which all are equal and costs are not met, where structure comes to the service of the individual at the bottom instead of the top. Even today, with our teeth-gnashing populism, the situation is still under the control of business-people and those who can use the media effectively. The unfortunate are just there to be held up, a tool for the manipulation of our fragmented ethical wanderings. Don't even suggest to these people that any sort of ostracism can be defended as maintaining cultural standards; they want those standards gone.
What People Actually Want
Economists describe products in a variety of ways, and one way is by dividing them into normal goods and inferior goods. These notions have demonstrable, mathematical definitions, of course: a normal good is one that, if you find yourself with more money, you will typically buy more of. Most goods fall into this category, as more is, rationally, almost always better than less. An inferior good is one that, if you find yourself with more money, you will buy less of. The examples are more intuitive than anything: Ramen noodles are an inferior good, because it's what broke-ass college students eat in lieu of real food. Basically, an inferior good is something we acknowledge as crappy but acquire anyway, since we can't have what we actually want.
The point of this is simple: tolerance is an inferior good. Tolerating is something we have to do with shit we cannot change. And if you, as an individual, want to simply be tolerated by the rest of the world, then there is something terribly wrong with your self-esteem. No one wants to be tolerated. None of the demographic groups we look at as being in need of tolerance would, if the terms were laid before them with clear meanings, want to be tolerated. Those who have been disenfranchised by society do not want to be tolerated. When people find themselves around others that they value, tolerance is simply not what they're after. What they want is much more compelling:
They want respect.
The pushing of tolerance is actually a push to try to create low-cost respect, but by definition, respect is not cheap. Rawls tried to make self-esteem a "primary good," one owed to the individual by society, but to do so would kill all the meaning because respect must be earned. Within a society, respect requires understanding, a gauge of value, a standard to judge by. Respect across cultural lines requires a respect for the lines themselves, a natural product of the inherent conflict that comes from having ideals and being willing to stand up for them. Trying to blend the two into a tolerant state in which your ideals are not acted on negates the ideals themselves, reducing them to mere consumer preferences, leaving only the bare animal of man fighting for his material self-interest.
This is not a light assertion, but it is a rational one. Garnering respect requires making yourself valuable to others, which requires knowing and conforming to their value system. The utility of living in a society with clear, broadly shared values, conventions, and standards of behavior is obvious from this perspective; it allows people to be a society. Of course some are worth less than others according to any coherent value system: that's what gives the values definition. Pushing tolerance only haphazardly allows people to be in relatively close proximity without killing each other, and in any situation - like the distribution of attention - where scarcity asserts itself, tolerance should not be expected to prevent conflict or encourage anything resembling unity. Tolerance as a social good just leads to a society with less trust, more locked doors, a society more alienated, less functional, with higher transaction costs and a well-earned reflex towards insensitivity. A society needs ideals, needs a template of shared values and legitimate hierarchy which provides a lens through which the world can be arranged, a standard of excellence.
A society without that standard is a society in a state of entropy.


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FALFURRIAS, Texas - Faye Clegg, 87, passed away Thursday November 29, 2007 in Alice, Texas. Faye was born on February 10, 1920 to Benino Cantu and Higinia Mireles Cantu in Falfurrias, Texas. Faye was a self-taught business woman who along with her husband owned and operated Falfurrias Construction Company and later worked for Falfurrias Creamery and Brite Star Laundry.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Wm. Joseph "Joe" Clegg; two sons, Wm. Joseph Clegg II and Johnny Clegg; and a daughter, Judy Faye Escalante.
Survivors include her daughters, Pearlie Jo (Adan) Valadez of Alice and Jo Ann (Roel) Vela of Falfurrias, a son Benny Ray (Rosario) Clegg of Premont, a sister, Josephine Guerra of Fort Worth, and numerous dearly loved grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She embellished in her children to treat everyone the same, that they could be and do anything they set their mind to, and to never give up fighting for what was right. Her determination to succeed was an inspiration and will be forever remembered.
A Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Friday November 30, 2007 at the Funeraria Del Angel Howard Williams in Falfurrias. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday December 1, 2007 at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Falfurrias. Interment will follow at the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Falfurrias.
Please join us in honoring our loved one, Faye Clegg, by visiting our Memorial at www.mem.com.
Arrangements are entrusted to Funeraria Del Angel Howard Williams of Falfurrias, Your Dignity Memorial Provider.
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ALICE, Texas - Guadalupe Garza Jenks, 84, died Thursday, November 22, 2007 in a Temple, Texas, hospital after an illness.
A lifelong resident of Alice, Texas, she was a homemaker.
Surivivors include three sisters, Maria Antonia Garza of Belton, Texas, Otila Garza of Lockhart, Texas, and Pilar Salinas of Alice, Texas, and numerous nieces and nephews.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday, December 1, 2007 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Alice with burial following at New Collins Cemetery in Alice.
Arrangements entrusted to Walker-Mora Funeral Home, Inc.
SAN DIEGO, Texas - Minerva G. Perez, 91, a longtime resident of San Diego, Texas, passed away on Thursday, November 29, 2007 in San Diego after a short illness. She enjoyed cooking and baking, especially pan de polvo, and entertaining her family and friends with her baked goods and coffee.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Eusebio Perez; a daughter Raquel (Roy) Smithwick; three brothers, Victor Jr., Noe and Hector Gonzalez; and one sister, Consuelo (Adan) Valadez.
Survivors include her son, Roel (Velma) Perez of Premont, Texas; a sister, Aminta Garza of San Diego, Texas; her brothers, Eladio (Berta) Gonzalez of Alice, Texas, and Humberto Gonzalez of Rios, Texas; her grandchildren, great-grandson, three sisters-in-law and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Visitation will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, November 30, 2007 at Garza Funeral Home with a rosary to be recited at 7:30 p.m. that same evening. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at St. Francis De Paula Catholic Church in San Diego, Texas. Burial will follow at the San Diego Cemetery.
Arrangements entrusted to Garza Funeral Home of San Diego.
ALICE, Texas - Ernesto G. Salinas Jr., 66, passed away November 28, 2007 at his residence. He was a U. S. Army veteran who served during the Vietnam era and was presently a substitute teacher with the Alice Independent School District.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Ernesto S. Salinas Sr. and Petra G. Salinas; and by one sister, Esmeralda Robert.
Survivors include four sons, Leonardo Basaldua and Johnny Garza, both of Alice, Texas, Jimmy Garza of Austin, Texas, and Pedro Basaldua of Alice; six brothers, Rodolfo (Aura) Salinas of San Antonio, Texas, Raul G. (Berta) Salinas, Armando G. (Eloisa) Salinas and Roque G. (Nellie) Salinas, all of Alice, Ruben G. (Rosa) Salinas of Tyler, Texas, and Homer G. Salinas of Alice; six sisters, Janie S. Thorpe of Corpus Christi, Texas, Lee Amador of Alice, Texas, Connie (Israel) Luera of Corpus Christi, Irma (Exiquio) Abrigo, Linda (Rene) Munoz and Diana (Teodoro) Romero, all of Alice; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A Rosary will be recited at 11 a.m. Saturday, December 1, 2007 at Mauro P. Garcia Funeral Home of Alice. Funeral services will follow with a gravesite service at the Old Collins Cemetery in Alice, Texas.
Arrangements entrusted to Mauro P. Garcia Funeral Homes, Inc.


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- Dog Breeds said... @ 10/26/2009
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Oh and I just noticed that the top picture isn't a leopard cat either, it's an ocelot. Get your shit together.
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Richard Benedict came to the U.S. from his native Sicily when he was 7. Before entering the army, Benedict pursued a reasonably successful career as a prizefighter. In Hollywood from 1945, Benedict was often cast as an amiable second lead (as in Olsen and Johnson's See My Lawyer), though he also could be a persuasive heavy if that's what the part called for. His biggest A-picture role was as the entombed prospector in Billy Wilder's trenchant The Big Carnival (1951, aka Ace in the Hole). In the early 1960s, Richard Benedict turned to directing, working on such network TV series as Hawaiian Eye and Charlie's Angels.
Richard BenedictActive - 1944 - 1982 | Born - in Sicily, Italy | Died - Apr 25, 1984 in Studio City, CA | Genres - Drama, Crime, Mystery
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Remade #1.10
YA, Science fiction
November 16 2016
Seyah makes a discovery to the delight of the whole group and gains some time to reflect. With her dreams of Broadway dashed with her untimely death, she can only wonder what the future holds…and if a special someone has already been cast as her co-star.
This week's episode of ReMade has Seyah's POV! Finally - I've been waiting for this since the first episode. Once a character is tagged as the pretty girl they run a severe risk of becoming plain spoiled brat with no other traits - it happens so often - but of course ReMade didn't go that way. Seyah is an actual person, yay! We get to see some of her family and dreams for what she thought would be her future.
...And she's not a person who could have predicted precicely how she'd react to Inez.
The whole episode definitely has an air of calm before the storm. There are only five episodes left - exactly what kind of storm is brewing?
Oh, remember how Seyah and Holden were performing in A Midsummer Night's Dream? Since ReMade began, I've read the play. See, reading leads to more reading!


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2014 NPL Finals to be held July 10-14 at Bryan Park Soccer Complex in Greensboro, N.C.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Oct. 3, 2013) – US Club Soccer has announced that the 2014 NPL Finals will be held July 10-14 at Bryan Park Soccer Complex in Greensboro, N.C.
The NPL Finals – formerly known as the NPL Champions Cup – features the champions of all 18 NPLs across the United States in the U-13 through U-18 boys and girls age groups. Teams will play several group games before advancing to knock-out rounds to determine the NPL national champion in every age group.
One of the most prestigious championships in the country, the NPL Finals is the targeted destination for all NPL teams throughout the year-long, league-based competition each season.
Bryan Park Soccer Complex is an impressive competition venue featuring 17 Bermudagrass fields and the 2,000-seat MacPherson Stadium.
"Playing at Bryan Park Soccer Complex is an excellent reward to those teams who competed so well over the course of the year during the NPL season," said NPL General Manager Chris Baer.
For the first time, the NPL Finals will be a stand-alone event in 2014. The 2012 and 2013 events were held alongside the National Cup Finals, the culminating event of US Club Soccer's cup-based national championship competition. The National Cup XIII dates and locations will be announced in the coming weeks.
The inaugural NPL Champions Cup took place in July 2012 at Waukegan Sports Park outside Chicago, where five boys teams were crowned champions. Twelve teams – six boys and six girls – earned national championships at the 2013 event, held July 18-22 at Aurora Sports Park in suburban Denver.
The NPL was created to elevate and change the competitive youth soccer landscape by extending developmental principles espoused by U.S. Soccer into more age groups and clubs, by linking competition with player development and identification platforms, and by providing meaningful weekly competition culminating in the NPL Finals.
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I did my W6R1 this morning and really enjoyed it but I'm left feeling kind of odd about it all. Not bad but not good, looking forward to Friday but not. I don't know if it has something to do with the intervals and how much I dragged myself through the previous run of 20 minutes in week 5. I've got one more run with intervals and I'm already starting to have a wobble about it. I know I can do it but having doubts with running without the intervals. I've done 20 minutes so I can do 22 minutes surely?
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Friday, April 1, 2011
I am SEW ready for this Quilt!
I managed to cut out all of the pieces for my newest quilting project. It's been too long since I've completed a bed size quilt and I so love these French inspired fabrics!
Hubby & I made our first trip to Paris this past September and we fell in love with the City of Lights!
We enjoyed walking thru it's beautiful streets,parks and pathways.
So I've chosen to name this quilt - Strolling thru Paris.
Next week I'll begin sewing the blocks together.
This should prove to be a fast & fun quilt to assemble.
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Oh Doreen what a perfect name for your quilt and the fabric is just gorgeous ! You are going to be amazed how quickly you will finish this quilt !ReplyDelete
Hello Doreen,ReplyDelete
Beautiful collection of fabrics for your new project. You are so organized with your cut pieces all stacked up neat and tidy. Wonderful idea for the name of your quilt!
Hi Doreen...ReplyDelete
Loving this group of fabrics. it is going to be a beautiful quilt and you will have wonderful memories of Paris.
I am really enjoying seeing the Civil War quilt coming together. Each block is so pretty. and your Dear Jane...just gorgeous! There are several gals in our city making them this year...I haven't seen them yet...
Have a wonderful weekend...
Hugs, Nancy
I can't wait to see this quilt. Black, white and red are colors I long to work with but am a little scared. And I also love Paris and France and European things.ReplyDelete
Great collection. It will be a quilt to remind of your trip.ReplyDelete
Hi, thanks for your comment on flickr: Little Blue Basket!! The idea with the "flowers" came from "americanhomestead"!! And I am glad that there were the right fabric in my stash!!ReplyDelete
Greetings from Germany from Regina
Sometimes I think the hardest part is cutting out all the fabrics, the fabrics look so enticing ready and waiting to be pieced.ReplyDelete
I cant' wait to see this quilt come together. It is going to be so pretty.ReplyDelete
Hallo, danke für Deinen Kommentar auf "Deutsch"!! Habe mich gefreut!! Woher kannst Du es so gut??ReplyDelete
Liebe Grüße von Regina
Romantic name for a quilt made with romantic fabrics!! Can't wait to see it.ReplyDelete
This is going to be a fabulous quilt in the Hot Cross pattern. I really look forward to seeing it. Love the fabrics.ReplyDelete
Doreen, I can't wait to see it!! My Pom Pom de Paris is in progressing nicely. We both have Paris memories :)ReplyDelete
Hi Doreen, what a beautiful fabric, looking forward seeing your pattern for this lovely black and white. I love your Civil War blocks and your DJ blocks. Are you doing Clamshells as well?ReplyDelete
I LOVE the fabric w/the French text. Did you find that in France or the US? I would so like to find some. Thanks.ReplyDelete
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Press release from the issuing companyCHICAGO -- Xanté Corporation and Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for design and print industries, today announce that the entire line of Xanté Ilumina solutions is now PANTONE licensed. The move makes it possible for smaller shops to compete for corporate color business, and for larger printers and design shops to fulfill shorter run, production-quality jobs faster, on an alternate device.
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Almost six months on, Alim Ozturk returns, for the first time, to the scene of his finest individual moment as a footballer tomorrow.
When Hearts rock up at Easter Road, the big Turk will be inspired by memories of the day he wrote himself into Edinburgh derby folklore with one of the greatest goals ever scored in the fixture.
The defender can't help but smile when asked to recall that late October afternoon when his 40-yard, stoppage-time wonder strike looped over shellshocked Hibs goalkeeper Mark Oxley as ten-man Hearts salvaged an unlikely 1-1 draw to maintain an unbeaten start to their Championship campaign.
It was a moment that ensured he will always have a special place in the hearts of the Tynecastle faithful. "That was a career high for me," said Ozturk. "The game was hard because they played well and then after about 80 minutes Callum Paterson got a red card as well. You are 1-0 down and down to ten men and you're thinking if we can get one chance to score, a draw would be fantastic, so to score a goal like that was a dream. I still watch it. Of course I do!
"Even now, fans still talk to me about it. On Facebook, they are always talking about it. I still get messages from fans telling me about how many times they've watched it. I have had a lot of messages. My Facebook was crashing as I had so many requests after that goal. It was crazy."
Asked how he celebrated after the goal that made him an internet sensation, Ozturk pauses for a moment, then smiles again. "I remember I went out in town and I was very popular with the Hearts fans – not so much the Hibs fans," he said. "Some of it was friendly and some not so much but that's ok.
"My family watched the game on television back home and saw the goal. They were really proud of me because they knew how important scoring in the derby was for me and the club. That goal gave me confidence. I have scored three goals since then and that is one of the reasons because it gave me the confidence to do it."
The sight of almost 4000 Hearts supporters dancing jubilantly in Easter Road's Dunbar End after his wonder strike, allied to the manic online response to it, underlined to Ozturk just how much the derby means to the football people of Edinburgh. "It was a great goal but I didn't know the fans would love it so much," he said. "The reaction to it has been unbelievable. It helped me realise how big the rivalry is between the two teams. If I scored the same goal against Falkirk or anybody else, I don't think the fans would have loved it so much. I have played in three of these games now and scored a goal so I know this is very much the most important game for Hearts."
The importance of Ozturk's goal wasn't lost on him. It ensured Hearts made it ten league games unbeaten at the start of the season and breathed fresh impetus into a campaign which was to end in glory. They won their next seven Championship matches and would remain unbeaten until January, by which point they were already well and truly in command of the title race. "It summed up our attitude throughout the season that we didn't lose that game," he said. "If we'd lost it would have given Hibs confidence but we ended the game feeling like we'd won three points."
Even though the title was wrapped up three weeks ago and Hibs are battling to finish ahead of Rangers in the fight for second place, Ozturk is adamant that his side won't be any less motivated than their hosts. "We want to win every game between now and the end of the season and the fact it is the derby makes it extra special," he continued. "It doesn't matter that we have won the league - this is a derby and we want to win it to show everybody why we are champions."
Ozturk has enjoyed his experience of the Edinburgh derbies so far, but he admits he couldn't care less whether or not Hibs follow his team up to the Premiership next season. "Derbies are always nice games to play in but it doesn't matter to me who comes up, Hibs, Rangers, maybe nobody. But it's nice to play in a derby, it's a good feeling."
Will he be trying to illuminate the final derby of the season with another Ozturk special? "I will try it and see what happens," he smiled.


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