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BIOS Development Principal Engineer - Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS)
: EMC is now part of Dell Technologies
: September 28, 2016
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Dell is looking for a new member of our Dell Extreme Scale Infrastructure (ESI / DCS) Firmware Infrastructure Engineering Team. Our organization is a fast-paced, "start-up" environment with daily interactions with the Dell DCS customers. This position will also have direct contact with functional areas across Dell, and will be instrumental in setting direction and priorities as a representative of our customer. There will be close collaboration with Dell PowerEdge firmware development team (BIOS, BMC, iDRAC), as well as with Marketing, Architecture, System Engineering, Sales, and Support teams within Dell. This position offers opportunities to help design high level customer strategies, as well as and deep dive on complex technical issues. This engineer will be responsible for working as a member of a team of solutions and systems engineers to efficiently understand customer requirements and to participate in the design, implementation, test, and release of these products. This individual will assess customer firmware requirements, architect solutions, and drive the PowerEdge development teams to implement those solutions. Requirements Specific expectations of this position include: * Have a deep understanding of BIOS/UEFI architectures, as well as a solid understanding of PowerEdge products, including devices and technologies such as Switches, PDUs, Serial Switches, etc., and deployment / management tools and capabilities. A solid working knowledge of BMC is also needed. * Drive the PE firmware development teams, and other firmware vendors, to deliver the right products for the customer, and to drive quality into the products during all phases of the product life-cycle. * Triage firmware issues found in the customer environment and work with the development teams on solutions. * Provide technical support for delivery of systems to customers, including occasional technical support to factories during product builds as well as support at integration facilities to ensure systems are correctly built, integrated at the rack or container level, and configured prior to deployment to customers. o Strong experience in embedded development of server control and management systems; deep understanding of Linux; and strong working understanding of BIOS/BMC Firmware. 5 years of firmware development experience in BIOS, BMC and/or iDRAC is preferred. o Knowledge of IPMI standards is required. Knowledge of DCMI, FRU and SMBIOS is also desired. o Strong ability in organizing and managing multiple projects, tasks and changing priorities. o Working independently under aggressive timelines. o Ability to write and analyze requirements, functional specifications, design specifications, test plans, and other technical documentation. o Advanced knowledge of server and storage hardware systems. o Working ability to drive cross-functional development efforts through conception, planning, implementation, and sustaining. o Ability to analyze options for critical design elements and features and determine optimum selection. o Eight years of engineering experience. With BSEE, BSCS, or equivalent degree. * "LIPriority" "DCAM3" **Job:** **Engineering - Software Integration Engineer* **Organization:** **Commercial Sales and Enterprise Solutions* **Title:** *BIOS Development Principal Engineer - Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS)* **Location:** *TX-Austin* **Requisition ID:** *16000RKI*
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At first glance, the Great Flood of 2011 has been a tale of two cities. Hundreds evacuated their homes, and the rising water caused millions of dollars worth of damage to property and infrastructure throughout the city.
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Design Team Blog Hop
Ready, set, hop!
Mindy - http://prettylittlepaperlove.blogspot.com/
Elise - http://lovelisy.blogspot.com/
Suzy - http://scrapwithsuzy.blogspot.com/
Cassie - http://gluemeetspaper.blogspot.com/
Amanda - http://blog.amandajonesdesigns.com/
Tessa - http://precociouspaper.blogspot.com/
Have fun and thanks for celebrating with me this week! Tessa
P.S. - Yesterday's winner is...Me-Ma Kim! Please email me with your address and I'll get your prize off to you. Congrats!
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My first stop was to PrettyLittlePaperLove's blog - all I can say is Wow! Just makes me want to buy more PrecociousPaper flowers.ReplyDelete
I now follow that blog and I left a comment.
well hi tessa! thank you for putting this Hop together! i enjoyed visiting ea designer and seeing how she used the different embellies..love love love the tags!!ReplyDelete
Happy Blogaversary! and I love all the projects the ladies shared, I found some new favorites.ReplyDelete
Beautiful job ladies
That was so much fun. All of the ladies blogs were super inspiring. TGIF cuz I'm ready to create my own layouts now.ReplyDelete
wow! that was a fun hop! you have an amazing DT! and some wonderful embellies in your shop!ReplyDelete
That was a great hop!!! Love your products!! Congrats on 4 years!ReplyDelete
WOOHOOO!! THANKS SO MUCH for picking ME!! I've sent you an email. Have a GREAT Day and Happy Etsy-versary,ReplyDelete
Me-Ma Kim
Great blog hop. What a talented design team and such amazing products. Congrats on your etsy-versary.ReplyDelete
Super cute embellies and projects!ReplyDelete
Your Design Team knocked this one out of the ballpark. Amazing talent and creativity. And congrats on the Etsy milestone!!!ReplyDelete
I just finished your great blog hop and seeing all your fantastic products. You do such great work.ReplyDelete
Congrats to Kim yesterday on her win
LOVED the hop!! SO MUCH INSPIRATION!! LOVE all your flowers, they ROCK!! TFS and have a GREAT Day,ReplyDelete
Me-Ma Kim
Loved the blog hop! Your embellishments are so great and you have amazing ladies on your team.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for the wonderful hop!!! So excited to have found you and am now a new follower!ReplyDelete
What a fab showcase! Loved all the projects using your embellies! :)ReplyDelete
I am a fan and has worked with your lovely products. I used some sweet spots on this Valentines-themed LO - http://cookieadventures.blogspot.com/2012/02/challenge-entry-forever-yours-scrap-lo.html
Tessa, your products are SO amazing!! And what a great DT you have to show them off. :)ReplyDelete
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I love all the projects the team shared! Thanks for a fun hop :)ReplyDelete
I did the whole hop and am blown away by the DT projects....what a talented team you have! They really give your products an awesome showcase!ReplyDelete
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Spring, Swaps and New Books.
Well like Jenny of Elfantz said a few days ago have we missed spring. It has been so hot here the last few days that we even had a storm with thunder. Not much rain in it but you could here it on the roof. If this is the start of Spring then we are in for a very hot summer out here in the bush.
But with Spring on our doorsteps i have been out putting water around trying to green up the place and stop some of the dust in the house and came across these today. I just love orchards and have been giving these tender care for years and i now have flowers yay.
I have been busy with swaps on the forum that i am with. We have just swapped a Sew Compendium and mine went to Jorja-Lyn in SA and she loved it. Here are photo's of it, i used my things to check that Jorja-Lyn would be able to fit here things in it as i made the pattern up myself.
And this is the beautiful Sew Compendium that i received from Linda in WA.
I love the saying on the front and here is the inside.
I am talking to ladies all over Australia and some overseas on the forum and loving it. Also in the mail last week was two books that i just had to order one is Tilda and the other Moda book and both are just wonderful. Can not wait to get started on making things out of them both.
They are two book that are worth adding to your collection.
Well lunch time here and the men are in had to take this photo to show you of there hats hanging while hands are being washed.
Have a great day and i will be back soon as have nearly finished the little crocheting from last post to show you all.
6 comments:
- Domac said...
Great hats, Narelle. Love your Compendiums. Hugs, Donna in Brisbane.
- August 29, 2011 at 4:54 PM
- Karen's Korner said...
Lovely sewing compendiums. Your orchids are so sweet.
- August 29, 2011 at 6:10 PM
- Quiltin' Sandy said...
Hi Narelle, the compendiums are great. Your design is beaut- lots of room for all the necessities!
I love orchids, too. Is that one denrobium nobile? I think I have something similar in my shade house. I have just got a couple of Tilda books ( my first from o'seas) a summer one and a Xmas one- they were bought together but the Xmas one hasn't arrived yet. :(
- August 31, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- Quiltin' Sandy said...
That should have read Dendrobium Nobile. :)
- August 31, 2011 at 8:35 AM
- Gloria said...
Narelle the compendiums are lovely.
Those hats look great .. It could be a pic in Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. Love it.. Hugs from the US
- September 1, 2011 at 12:33 PM
lovely post Narelle and i have those 2 books and you are right they are both must have books
- September 20, 2011 at 7:20 PM


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As rumored, Apple today took the wraps off two new iPhones during a streamed media presentation in Cupertino, Calif.
CEO Tim Cook took the stage at the Flint Center, the site of other momentous Apple reveals including the original Macintosh, to introduce the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. "Today, the biggest advancement in the history of iPhone," he said, before turning the stage over to Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for Apple.
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus boast a new Retina HD screens. "Not any display would do," said Schiller. Compared to the 4-inch screen on the iPhone 5S, the iPhone 6 sports a 4.7-inch display with a resolution of 1334 pixels by 750 pixels.
The larger, phablet-sized iPhone 6 Plus has a 5.5-inch screen with a resolution of 1920 pixels by 1080 pixels, which translates into over 2 million pixels, 185 percent more than the iPhone 5S, noted Schiller. Both models feature a glass front that curves slightly around the edge.
Highlights include iOS 8, an updated 8 megapixel iSight camera and a faster A8 64-bit processor with 2 billion transistors that is "50 times faster than the original iPhone," said Schiller. Connectivity is enhanced with a 150 Mbps LTE and a Wi-Fi Calling feature that "seamlessly" hands off to cellular networks. In the U.S., T-Mobile will support Wi-Fi calling.
Eddie Cue, senior vice president of Internet Software and Services at Apple, later showed off the company's mobile payments solution, Apple Wallet. A combination of near-field communication (NFC) technology, Touch ID, a Secure Element chip and specialized software, the Apple Wallet integrates with Passbook to enable secure payments with retailers and select e-commerce apps.
Cue assured that his company will respect the privacy of Apple Wallet users. "The transaction is between you, the merchant and your bank," he said.
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus go on sale on Sept. 19. iPhone 6 prices start at the $199 for the 16 GB model and top out at $399 for the 128 GB version. The 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus prices start at $299. Preorders for both models start on Sept. 12.
Apple Watch
The event's "one more thing" was the long-rumored iWatch, or as the company is branding it, the Apple Watch. Available in two sizes, the wearable "works seamlessly with iPhone," said Cook. It also serves as a "comprehensive health and fitness device," he added.
Apple Watch pushed the company to explore new interface and device interaction models. "What we didn't do is take the iPhone and shrink the user interface," said Cook.
The touch-capable, sapphire-enhanced display is complemented with a "digital crown" that contains infrared LEDs. Users can press and twist the dial to zoom and otherwise navigate the Apple Watch UI. A rear sensor monitors a user's heart rate. It also features integration with Apple Pay for mobile payments.
To get developers on board, Apple is making available a software development kit (SDK) called WatchKit to extend iPhone apps to the device. Apple watch requires the iPhone, said Cook, before revealing that the smartwatch is backward compatible with iPhone models stretching back to the iPhone 5.
Apple's wearable will be available in three versions, the base Apple Watch, the Sport and the 18 karat gold Edition. A range of interchangeable watch bands, from leather to sweat-resistant plastic to an array of metals, add an additional touch of personalization.
Prices start at $349. Apple Watch is scheduled to ship in early 2015.
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Senator BOSWELL (Queensland) (10:40): I rise to speak on the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Making Marine Parks Accountable) Bill 2012. This bill returns the balance and fairness to marine conservation so that all Australians can have confidence that the best decisions are being made to protect both our marine biodiversity and the fishers and the communities that feed so many Australians. The current government certainly has displayed no genuine concern for fishers or their families or their communities in the way it has gone about developing its current marine reserve policy. It is a cynical policy that lacks proper science and lacks proper social and economic impact assessment.
It is likely in the next month that the federal government will proclaim the marine reserves, which would take the overall size of Commonwealth marine protected areas to 3.1 million square kilometres, by far the largest marine park network in the world. This will be a cause of celebration for international and local environmental activists who have spent millions of dollars campaigning to have huge areas closed to fishing in these marine reserves. However, it is no cause for celebration for the families in the recreational and commercial fishing sector, allied marine industries, tourism and coastal communities that will be decimated by these vast closures. Lacking sound science and a genuine understanding of the human and economic impacts of these latest marine parks, the government nonetheless is pushing ahead with the declaration. Once again science is trumped by politics and a government that depends on the Greens and panders to environmental activists.
This declaration is opposed by both commercial fishing and the recreational fishers. Earlier this year I attended a packed-out meeting at Redcliffe, overlooking Moreton Bay, where commercial and recreational fishers stood side by side and condemned the marine reserves this government wants to introduce. This government is demonstrating it has little understanding of the value of recreational fishing and the valuable social and economic role that recreational fishing plays right around the Australian coast. I certainly value recreational fishing's contribution to the health and wellbeing of Australian communities and the economic contribution it makes in regional areas. This government's marine reserve plan is a slap in the face for recreational fishers.
While the government has promised $100 million in assistance for impacted fishing businesses, though nothing for all the other fishing related businesses that will always also be impacted, fishers are unlikely to see that money for another year or year and a half. For many that will be far too late, for many fishing businesses fatally late. Earlier this year environment minister Tony Burke and agriculture minister Joe Ludwig said an assistance package would begin to flow to the fishing industry before the marine reserves are activated. There was certainly no sign of any allocation of funding for impacted fishers in the 26 October midyear federal budget update, nor was it expected. A senior environment department bureaucrat indicated to a Senate committee in mid-October that the gap between declaring the reserves and actually bringing in the management plan for six marine reserves circling the coast would be approximately 18 months. That means it is likely to be 18 months after the reserve proclamation before impacted fishers see any money. That is sometime in 2014. But, of course, their fishing operations will be devalued immediately. Who is going to invest in capital or loan funds, or sign long-term contracts knowing that the axe will inevitably fall?
What it means for fishers is an immediate loss of business value but no compensation until some time in the future. What it means for the government is kudos with the Greens and the environmental lobbyists immediately, with the dollar cost deferred until well after the next federal election, when the coalition will probably have to pick up the bill. What a cynical ploy that is. The Labor government can claim credit with its green mates and deferred compensation until, probably, at least 2014. On current polling, they will not even be in power then. An incoming coalition government would have limited room to manoeuvre, but we would certainly look at every option.
Labor is putting in these reserves because of politics, not true conservation. The reserves have been set up without proper science, and the real economic and social costs have not been properly analysed. On 15 October, in answer to a question from me, Mr Stephen Oxley, First Assistant Secretary of the Marine Division of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, SEWPAC, told the Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee that it was still the government's intention, through the Director of National Parks, to proclaim all the marine reserves before the end of 2012. Further, Mr Oxley estimated that the process, from the proclamations through to bringing the management plans into full effect, would take approximately 18 months. When I asked Mr Oxley directly, 'When do you believe the money will start to flow?' his answer was, 'That is a decision yet to be taken by government.'
Clearly, the details about what will be in the government's compensation arrangements, what they call the 'adjustment assistance package', are all still to be worked out somewhere down the track. What was also made very clear to the committee is that, beyond the fishing businesses themselves, the government does not plan to provide any help whatsoever for impacted upstream and downstream businesses. These are businesses like seafood processors and wholesalers, ship chandleries and repair facilities, and all the other suppliers of goods and services that are so heavily dependent on business from fishers. These impacts are certain to be felt hard at many ports round the Australian coast, including Karumba, Cairns and Mooloolaba in Queensland, but also at a lot of other places.
So here we go again with this government hurting the important primary industry of fishing. This government's ill-planned and poorly researched marine reserves will hurt the businesses of fishing families, fishing operations and fishing-dependent businesses right round the country as soon as the reserves are proclaimed, which we know is intended to be before the end of this year, and with no idea when they will pay for the pain and suffering they will cause, and that is typical of this government. Do what the Greens want.
Ministers Burke and Ludwig in their media release of June 14 talked about a total assistance package 'in the vicinity of $100 million'. But all the details are still to be worked out and argued about in the future. How generous can the fishing industry expect Treasurer Wayne Swan to be in trying to balance the budget? Short answer, 'Not very generous at all.' You are talking about $100 million, which anyone with any nous knows will not cover the damage that is going to be done by this government to the fishing and related businesses. One hundred million dollars—what is Mr Swan going to do when he sees a bill like that land on his table? This is the Treasurer who has already seen his much touted $1.1 billion surplus blown out of the water by the government's financial mismanagement and inability to balance the books.
Here is another uncosted government policy: they do not know what they will pay fishers, but we can be sure they will try to dodge and delay as long as possible. Has anyone calculated how much these huge new marine parks are going to cost to manage every year? Not so far as I have heard. How is the government going to police three million square kilometres of parks, to make sure the rules are being obeyed and foreign fishermen are not just coming in and catching what our Australian fishers will no longer be allowed to catch? The last time I heard anyone in the government talk about policing the Coral Sea, they wanted recreational scuba divers to do it as they were passing through on the way to their dive sites. Political parks, not true conservation areas, dodgy science, sketchy economic and social impact studies, no proper costings, no long-term management arrangements and, yet again, not enough details worked out before the policy is proclaimed. All this is from the same people who gave us the pink batts fiasco.
This government has placed more importance on the praise of environmental activists than on the future of Australian families in our coastal regions. This national marine reserve policy has been driven by a coalition of green groups and financed by the American based Pew foundation. The marine reserves will hurt fishing families. As an example, the federal government's own Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, ABARES, has estimated that the planned fishing bans in the Gulf of Carpentaria will cost every person in the port of Karumba more than $2,200; on the East Coast, Cairns will lose $3.6 million a year and Mooloolaba, $1.5 million. The promised one-off payments to fishermen, with nothing scheduled to go to related onshore businesses that will also suffer because of these closures, will not be anywhere near enough.
The government has misrepresented from the outset the true cost of this policy, saying it will cost $100 million to compensate what they estimate to be 186 fishing businesses. Compensation for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park alone blew out to $230 million and the true financial impact was not known for some years after the declaration of that marine park in mid-2004. After examining the government's regulatory impact statement for the Commonwealth marine reserve network, Associate Professor Daryl McPhee, from Bond University, made several criticisms, including the fact that the RIS limits discussion of impacts to lost production income from the commercial fishing industry and it has not adequately considered economic impacts to support businesses that rely on the catching sector or the impacts on seafood consumers. He said:
There is an urgent need to ensure that a structural adjustment package is comprehensive and of a sufficient magnitude to offset impacts.
Professor McPhee said in a recent report:
Failure to do this will compromise the management of fisheries, conservation, and the viability of 100s of regional businesses.
And one of Australia's most experienced fisheries management researchers, Emeritus Professor Robert Kearney from the University of Canberra, was so concerned about the flaws and bias in the RIS that he wrote direct to Minister Burke, warning that the RIS advocates:
… for more marine reserves ... based on serial and serious misinterpretation of the available evidence, including the literature cited in the RIS.
A report from Professor Kearney complains about bias, distortion and exaggeration in the RIS—but no-one should be surprised that experienced fisheries scientists are openly criticising this government's document.
The government is stumbling from one disaster to another over its fishing policies, and time and again it is listening to environmental lobby groups rather than considering the science and the futures of hardworking Australian fishing families. We saw the same situation with the government's backflip on the permission for the trawler Margiris to work in Australian waters. As with the Margiris, the government has allowed a highly organised and well-funded campaign by environmental NGOs to distort the facts over marine reserves. It is simple: Minister Burke will do anything to keep the environmental lobbyists onside. The government apparently sees no irony in the fact that some 31 per cent of the entire planet's marine parks will be in Australian waters at a time when we already import over 70 per cent of our seafood and demand for seafood is rising.
While the new network of 'no-go' areas ring the continent, Minister Burke and his environmental cheer squads see the Coral Sea region as the 'jewel in the crown'. The Coral Sea marine reserve will cover nearly one million square kilometres—an area more than half the size of Queensland. However, a Pew spokesman has admitted that, while his organisation had demanded the Australian government ban fishers from vast areas of the Coral Sea, Pew would not pursue a similar lockout in the Gulf of Mexico, because that would hurt the US economy and disadvantage local fishermen. It is ironic that Pew will drive in Australia something that it will not even propose at home.
The government admits the marine environment in this vast Coral Sea region is 'in near pristine condition' and then goes on to propose commercial fishing bans of one form or another throughout virtually the whole reserve. The government is locking away enormous potential future food resources for Australia and the world that could be harvested sustainably. One example is yellowfin tuna. Scientists tell us that yellowfin tuna are significantly under fished in Australian waters, particularly the Coral Sea, and are capable of supporting sustainable yields at least several times higher than current catch levels. The government is just creating a fattening paddock for foreign fishing fleets, who will catch these tuna when they swim out of Australian waters.
What this government is doing is closing down well-managed fishing businesses in Australia and forcing the country to import more seafood from countries with a far less impressive record. As a prominent international fisheries management scientist Professor Ray Hilborn from Washington State University said:
Fifty two percent by value and more by volume, of Australia's imports of seafood come from Thailand (26%), China (14%) and Vietnam (12%) …
More than 70 per cent of the seafood consumed in Australia is imported, as Professor Kearney has said—
… all countries that have much less impressive records for sustainable fisheries management than Australia. In a 2009 estimation of adherence to the United Nations Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries Australia ranked 4th out of the 53 countries surveyed. Thailand was ranked 42nd, China 22nd, and Vietnam 45th.
Therefore, by continuing to import the bulk of its seafood, Australia is effectively exporting responsibility for the sustainable management of the world's fish stocks to countries with a far inferior record for sustainability. All this is coming at a time when Australians are being told to eat more seafood for their health and the demand for seafood is rising. Australia already imports more than 70 per cent of its seafood. As Professor Kearney has said:
Human population and per capita consumption of seafood have both been continuously increasing suggesting that by 2020 Australia would require as estimated 610 000 tonnes of seafood imports … The most recent nutrition survey by the National Health and Medical Research Council … projects that on average Australians should eat 40% more seafood than they currently do ... To meet this projection without increasing its domestic fisheries production (a prospect for which there is no explicit policy and little likelihood under current management strategies which are focused on further restriction of fishing) Australia will need to import approximately 850 000 tonnes of seafood per year by 2020.
So, make no mistake, Australian seafood consumers, Australian fishing families and others in the seafood business will be badly hurt by the government's decision on marine parks. It is a government driven by a green agenda and by orchestrated public comment, where literally millions of dollars have been spent on a sophisticated advertising and propaganda campaign headed by Pew.
These fishing families represent the very best of the Australian character: physically courageous, battling the elements in unforgiving environments, and prepared to work hard in remote locations to harvest natural resources and create real wealth for the country. For many of them, these marine parks will mean an end to all that. When the reserves are declared, there will be the usual fanfare from the government and the usual line-up of environmental luminaries with pre-scripted endorsements. It is a familiar tactic from the usual green playbook. Missing from the official celebration will be hundreds of families in fishing related businesses right around the country for whom it will be a tragic day, when their investments, skills and life experience will be further devalued by a government desperate for green support, at any cost.


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- The Crazy Series!
My dear dreamers,
I had this idea to spice up my inner-view section. It's being a lot of fun to know a little bit more the persons I admire and which inspires me. However, I want to take one more step in these stairs I'm walking and do a series with Crazy Inner-views. Anyone interested can join, just send an e-mail to: innerview[dot]designingdream[at]gmail[dot]com.
Questions will be:
♠ a little more personal (but not too personal ;))
♦ will involve deep thinking (but it always do ^^)
♣ you'll have to think outside the box (so it's a challenge!)
And I answered the questions myself! Take a look:
1. Sell me an invisible pen.
Imagine the pen of your dreams. Now imagine I'm selling it to you.
2. What are three positive character traits you don't have?
1 - I'm always right.
2 - I never ask for advice.
3 - I'm perfect.
3. If you were a genie and a person asked you this wish, "I wish you would not grant me this wish" what would you do?
I would say: "I didn't, now you have two wishes left".
4. If you had to lose one of your five senses, which would you choose?
Taste. I'd still have the chance to imagine it by smelling. Why not the other way around? Because my memories are very related to smell.
5. If there was a next life, would you reincarnate in yourself? Why?
Yes, I don't know how to be anyone else, maybe I would screw them.
6. If you could have only 3 electrical appliances in your house, what would they be and why?
1 - Oven (to make delicious meals and desserts!)
2 - PC (to work and have fun)
3 - Tea machine (or another hot beverage, because I love them)
7. If you could choose between always being obese and living a long life, or never getting fat but only living until 40...what would you chose?
I love being alive so: welcome, fat world! (OK, this goes against my healthy life style, but if I live long that means I have a healthy life, right? And how sad it is to trade years of life just to be thin?)
8. What's your first memory?
It's one of the best memories I have and (yes!) it's a smell memory! I remember when I was on kindergarten and in the afternoons, right after lunch, we slept in a kind of an attic, with our favourite teddy and the mattress smelled like naphthalene I didn't know that at the time and it was a nice smell to me because it was attached to a good moment. I only realized what naphthalene smelled like some years ago (3 or 4!).
The other one (happened at almost the same time so I don't know which is the first one) is also a smell memory: at the age of 3 I was trying to help my father taking the car off the garage. He didn't notice me so one of my fingers got pinched on the garage's door. I don't remember much of that, just the situation on itself, no pain is in my memory. That only comes later. My finger lost some meat and I went several times to RED CROSS to make the bandages. I remember that it hurted a lot. The all place smelled like ethylene. As I spent a big part of my time there, that smell also makes a good impression on me in spite of not being the best of my memories (but it's also not a bad one).
9. If you had the chance to be a you-version of the opposite sex for one day what would you do?
I would examine how my brain&heart works and see if there's much of a difference with the actual me.
10. And for the last one: If there was no wolf, which one of the 3 little pigs would you be?
I'd be Willie, the wood one. I'd like to live in an eco-friendly house and with some comfort.
♥ What crazy question would you like to ask?


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I don't think feeling like I have had some sort of constant cold for the last 6 weeks has helped. I seem to have kept catching the tail end of the rest of the family's. Fuzzy head is never a good thing for too long.
It all seemed to come to a head this week. Apart from de-cluttering (or should I say less-cluttering) my dresser at the weekend, nothing has been done. I have had the mother of all colds, possibly flu, but I would never give in to thinking I had that. I have allowed myself a heck of a lot of sofa time, boiling hot one minute, freezing the next and generally feeling like I have been about to explode. In between, the constant hot drinks to ease my throat and sinus, the feelings of nausea from drinking too many hot drinks, watching a complete season of the Gilmore Girls, and having a U2 week on my ipod, my trusted hook has been with me. Ahhhhh even when feeling the most utter pants of pant-ness, it was still by my side. Completely ridiculous that.....
a) not only do I have a gazillion WIP's to be getting on with...
b) I need to start making Christmas presents.....
c) I have to get all these birthdays sorted...
...I decide that my state of health, combined with the grey, cold, and miserably depressing weather this week, needed a bit of a colour boost. So, a bright blanket has been started. Totally Summery, ridiculous really, but then, I think perhaps I need to work this way round. I can take muted, Autumny tones in the summer, as I am working in the sunlight, so it's not depressing. I'm not sure I can make Autumny stuff in the Autumn. Bright and colourful keep me sane in bleakness!
I ordered a book on Monday that I am eagerly awaiting. I am actually finding it hard to contain my excitement. When I spied it a couple of weeks ago, it filled almost every thought for days. I even printed out the preview sheets just so I could stare at them when I wasn't able to stare at them on the computer screen. How SAD am I?! Birthday pennies have meant I could justify it. My hooky-ness this week, has sort of been inspired by it. More about it when it finally arrives in my lap.
Have a good weekend all.
I may just have a little blog breaksie for a bit. I have a HUGE amount to do. Doing nothing all week has meant I am snowed under with all the mundane stuff, as well as all the stuff I NEED to be doing.
Hopefully, when I am back, I will have a few bits to finally show a tell of a crafty nature!
Cheerio all


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Cropped Jackets and shirts are always one of my favorites!
Just found the above amazing cropped jackets.
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I hope everyone has had a busy week at your salons and that pedicure clients are coming out of winter hibernation. (If not, this Hot Lava Pedicure might coax them out.)
Here are some of the most interesting blog posts from around the web this week.
Catherine Wong's Nail Queen blog tells us that there's a Premiere Orlando [www.premiereorlandoshow.biz] hands-on class that will teach attendees Wong's special techniques in using Odyssey Nails [http://www.odysseynail.com/] The One Gel Paint. Wong recently did our April magazine cover, and it was amazing.
I love these Tiffany blue-inspired nails by Polish Freshie. I just finished editing a bridal nail art feature story for the magazine's June issue, and you'll be able to see some lovely bridal nail designs there too. Summer wedding season is almost here.
The Polish Aholic swatches In the Mood's color changing polish in Naughty. I tried one of In the Mood's polishes for a story we did on "color chameleon" products, though the polish I tried didn't have this drastic of a color change.
I learned about Magis Gel Foil Removal Wraps from TopTwentyNails. It seems like this might be an emerging product category in the world of professional nail services.
The Edge of Sanity shows us some shimmering pastel polishes by Misa Cosmetics.
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Teacher Sickout Shuts Down Wisconsin District
Strikes by public employees, including teachers, have been illegal in Wisconsin for more than two decades. But don't tell that to the students in the state's third-largest district, where a labor dispute shut down the entire system for two days last week.
Administrators of the 21,000-student Racine district closed all the schools Feb. 23 and 24 after a week in which hundreds of teachers called in sick. The absences followed the breakdown of negotiations between district officials and the Racine Education Association, an affiliate of the National Education Association. The two sides went into this school year still negotiating a contract for 1995-96 and 1996-97.
The strife has some state education and labor leaders concerned that the same financial caps that helped precipitate the Racine shutdown could yield disruptions elsewhere.
"The frustration level is growing by leaps and bounds," said Greg Doyle, the communications director for the state education department. Teachers in more than 160 of the state's 426 districts are working with expired contracts, according to Mr. Doyle.
The Racine union's state affiliate, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, estimates that eight to 10 locals have formed "crisis committees" to explore some form of protest.
Feeling Squeezed
Much of the teachers' frustration comes from a 1993 change in state law, which, they say, effectively put a cap on teachers' salary increases.
The measure, passed at the urging of Republican Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, stipulates that if districts fail to negotiate a contract with teachers, the educators must accept what's called a qualified economic offer, which amounts to a 3.8 percent total increase in combined salaries and benefits.
The measure came as lawmakers were seeking to reduce the burden of education spending on municipalities by capping the amount local authorities could raise in revenue. The result, educators argue, has been lower salary hikes throughout the state.
"It allows a school board to hide behind that law in dealing with their union," said John Matthews, the president of Madison Teachers Inc., the NEA affiliate in the state capital. The affiliate shut down the 25,000-student Madison schools for one day last fall before a state circuit court judge ordered both sides back to the bargaining table.
The WEAC is advocating amending the law.
Given the political reality that the public wants tax relief, some education officials say they oppose major changes in the law. "We can't ignore the general public out there, and they're frustrated, too," said Senn Brown, the director of legislative services for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards.
The Racine dispute boiled over as teachers at several schools began calling in sick, forcing the district to close four buildings Feb. 16. Teacher absences continued throughout the week, each day affecting a different handful of schools. At one high school, the disruption prompted about 300 students to stage a 20-minute walkout.
Although union leaders called the districtwide shutdown a "lockout," administrators said they anticipated that the sickout would only escalate, possibly jeopardizing the safety of students who were leaving school grounds.
"For many of them, their attitude seemed to be, 'If my teacher's not here, why do I need to be here?'" said Rick Kaufman, a district spokesman.
Both sides reached an agreement to reopen the schools Feb. 25 and to restart negotiations. Although the shutdown ended after just two days, the disruption may have served as a lesson to teachers in other districts frustrated with the pace of their negotiations.
"Unfortunately, Racine is the test market for sickouts in the state," Mr. Kaufman said.
Toledo Strife
Meanwhile, Ohio's Toledo Federation of Teachers, an American Federation of Teachers affiliate, filed a 10-day notice Feb. 26 of its intention to strike.
Even though negotiators for both sides in the 40,000-student district had resolved differences over proposed amendments to the system's nationally recognized teacher-evaluation system, they still were wrangling over salaries and transfer policies last week. ("Toledo Peer-Review Program Being Contested," Jan. 28, 1998.)
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Darryl W. Perry
Mis 3 prioridades principales
- Eliminar todas las formas coercitivas de fijación de impuestos; los programas gubernamentales deben financiarse voluntariamente.
- Terminar las guerras: no solo las guerras que usan bombas, sino las guerras internas que encarcelan personas por delitos no violentos sin una víctima y que debilitan la prosperidad.
- Promover el derecho a la autodeterminación; ese es el derecho de "determinación de las personas de una unidad territorial sobre su propia situación política futura". Cada persona o grupo de personas debe poder decidir por sí mismo cómo quiere ser gob
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Darryl W. Perry was born and raised in Birmingham, AL and the surrounding area, graduating from Hewitt-Trussville High School in 1996. Darryl attended Jefferson State Community College on a Scholarship with the Speech Team (Forensics Team), and later on a Management Scholarship with WJSR-FM, the college radio station, of which Darryl was Station Manager from Summer of 1997 until he graduated in 1998.
Darryl has spent most of his adult life as an advocate & activist for peace and liberty.
Darryl is an award winning author, publisher & radio/TV host. He is a regular contributor to several weekly and monthly newspapers. He hosts the daily newscast FPPradioNews, the podcast Peace, Love, Liberty Radio, the weekly news podcast FPP Freedom Minute, and is a regular co-host on Free Talk Live.
Darryl is a co-founder and co-chair of the NH Liberty Party, and was on the National Committee of the Boston Tea Party from 2008-2012. He was the longest serving member of the National Committee, and was twice elected Chair. The BTP dissolved in July 2012 after Perry resigned as Chair.
Darryl is the Owner/Managing Editor of Free Press Publications, a business he started in June 2009 with the purpose of ensuring a FREE PRESS for the FREEDOM MOVEMENT. Since then, FPP has republished several libertarian/anarch classics as well as new books, both fiction and non-fiction, many of which have won awards and other recognition.
The goal of the Darryl W. Perry for President campaign is to run the most libertarian presidential campaign in history, to promote the ideas of liberty as boldly and as often as possible, and to give as many people as possible the chance to vote for an actual libertarian in November 2016!
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When I first joined the Libertarian Party in 1999, it was proudly known as "The Party of Principle." We are now at a crossroads and must answer the question: Will the Party actually be the Party of Principle in 2016 and beyond?
For too many election cycles the Libertarian Party has nominated Presidential candidates who have claimed they can bring more members to the Party or get a certain vote percentage by delivering a watered down message of liberty. I say, now is the time to try something different. I say, now is the time for the Libertarian Party to again be the Party of Principle. Now is the time for the Libertarian Party to again be the Party that believes that no person or group has more rights than any other person or group. No person can delegate a right they don't possess to another person, and no group can claim a right not possessed by any member of the group. Further, since no group of people can have more rights than any individual member of the group, no group can revoke the rights of any other person or group. Therefore, any law, regulation, statute, or other dictate can not rightly infringe on the rights of any person.
If you believe as I believe, please join me in stating as loudly as possible, and as often as possible: "Libertarians support freedom on every issue, every time!"
Libertarians, libertarianism and the principle of non-aggression
There has recently been discussion within the Libertarian Party about what it means to be a libertarian. The main point of debate is whether or not the non-aggression principle is a core tenet of libertarianism. The non-aggression principle, also called the NAP or principle of non-aggression, has been defined in numerous ways over the years, however a generally accepted definition of the principle is something along the lings of: "All people have equal right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness as long as there is no unjust harm done to the person or legitimately owned property of another."
There has recently been discussion within the Libertarian Party about what it means to be a libertarian. The main point of debate is whether or not the non-aggression principle is a core tenet of libertarianism. The non-aggression principle, also called the NAP or principle of non-aggression, has been defined in numerous ways over the years, however a generally accepted definition of the principle is something along the lings of: "All people have equal right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness as long as there is no unjust harm done to the person or legitimately owned property of another."
Among supporters of the non-aggression principle there is discussion about what constitutes an act of aggression, or unjust harm, however the wider debate is about whether or not a libertarian must subscribe to the non-aggression principle. To put it another way: Is the principle of non-aggression fundamental to libertarianism? And can someone who rejects the principle of non-aggression be a libertarian, or a Libertarian? (note: a "libertarian" with a lowercase l is someone who supports libertarian ideals; while a "Libertarian" with an uppercase L is someone who is a member of the Libertarian Party.)
In The Machinery of Freedom, David Friedman wrote, "The central idea of libertarianism is that people should be permitted to run their own lives as they wish." And David Boaz, in Libertarianism: A Primer, wrote, "In the libertarian view, all human relationships should be voluntary; the only actions that should be forbidden by law are those that involve the initiation of force against those who have not themselves used force [or fraud]." Both of these definitions of libertarianism are based on the principle of non-aggression, i.e. don't cause unjust harm. Therefore, it should be obvious that the principle of non-aggression is fundamental to libertarianism.
Since the principle of non-aggression is fundamental to libertarianism, and libertarians subscribe to the ideology of libertarianism, then it should be obvious that libertarians should also support the principle of non-aggression.
What then of Libertarians, i.e. members of the Libertarian Party, and the principle of non-aggression? To answer this question, one need only look at the Preamble and Statement of Principles of the Libertarian Party Platform. The first statement of the Libertarian Party Platform Preamble states, "Libertarians [seek] a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others." The next sentence reads, "We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships." These two statements are reiterated in the second sentence of the Statement of Principles which states, "We hold that all individuals have the right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose."
It is clear that the principle of non-aggression is a core tenet of libertarianism, in general, and more specifically the Libertarian Party; anyone who says otherwise does not really understand libertarianism or the fundamental beliefs of the Libertarian Party.
A Presidential Pardon for Private Manning
On August 21, 2013, Judge Col. Denise Lind sentenced Pfc. Chelsea Manning to 35 years in military prison (minus 1294 days for pre-trial confinement). Three hours after Manning's sentence was announced, attorney David Coombs said the appeals process will begin in a matter of days. Coombs said, "I will file a request… that the president pardon Pfc. Manning, or at the very least commute his sentence to time served."
Coombs said, the request includes a statement from Manning himself, "I understand that my actions violated the law. I regret that my actions hurt or harmed the US. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. I only wanted to help people."
The truth is Manning's actions caused no actual harm to any of the American troops overseas. The only harm was to the egos of those who want to control other people.
Col. Morris Davis tweeted that "Manning [will] likely serve about 8 to 8.5 yrs more in confinement." That means Manning will serve nearly 10 years longer in military prison than the people who commited the war-crimes that he exposed. As of yet, the apache gunner who appeared in the 'Collateral Murder' video has never faced criminal charges. Those who slaughtered civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan have never faced criminal charges. Those who ordered the troops into combat have never faced criminal charges.
Private Manning is a whistleblower who exposed war-crimes, and for his good deed he is being confined to military prison for at least the next 8 years of his life. I am proud to be among the 4,114 who signed the petition to serve part of Private Manning's sentence, and ask Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan to either allow each of the people who signed the petition to serve 3.1 days in custody so that Chelsea Manning may go free or that the Maj. Gen. Commute Manning's sentence upon review. Regardless the action by Maj. Gen. Buchanan, I formally request that President Barack Obama grant a full pardon to Pfc. Chelsea Manning. Absent action by President Obama, I vow if elected as my first act upon taking office to issue a full pardon to Pfc Chelsea Manning!
Regulate everything like tomatoes: a guide to ending the drug war
In February 2015, the Colorado Department of Revenue Marijuana Enforcement Division released a reports stating, "On December 31, 2014, Colorado concluded a full twelve months of lawful retail marijuana sales to adults over 21 years of age. The State experienced many firsts, such as the implementation of the first-in-the-world comprehensive regulatory model overseeing cultivation, products manufacturing, and sale of marijuana for non-medical retail use."
In February 2015, the Colorado Department of Revenue Marijuana Enforcement Division released a reports stating, "On December 31, 2014, Colorado concluded a full twelve months of lawful retail marijuana sales to adults over 21 years of age. The State experienced many firsts, such as the implementation of the first-in-the-world comprehensive regulatory model overseeing cultivation, products manufacturing, and sale of marijuana for non-medical retail use."
These so called firsts were a result of the passage of a ballot initiative in 2012, in which voters amended the State Constitution to regulate cannabis like wine. Despite the difference between the cannabis regulations and the regulations concerning alcohol, primarily the regulation on the amount one can purchase or possess, the MED reports that over 17 tons of recreational cannabis were sold in 2014. Additionally, Reuters reports, "State tax officials say sales hit nearly $700 million last year, with medical (cannabis) accounting for $386 million and recreational (cannabis) bringing in $313 million," which amounted to approximately $76 million in revenue through taxes and fees to the State of Colorado.
Some people argue that a regulatory structure such as that adopted in Colorado and Washington, where figures are not yet released, will be the beginning of the end of the drug war. While the statistics show that arrests for cannabis possession have declined in Colorado by 84% since 2010, and arrests for distribution of cannabis have declined by 90% in the same time period, arrests for public consumption have risen by over three and a half times in only 1 year (184 in 2013 to 668 in 2014).
However cannabis is only one aspect of the drug war. Aside from asset forfeiture, the other aspects of the drug war are more taboo, and less discussed in any serious manner. Additionally, one must define what is meant by "ending the drug war." Some would be happy to see only arrests for cannabis possession be eliminated, but would support the continued prosecution of unlicensed sales (regardless if they support licensing sales or not). While others believe that taxing and regulating cannabis, but keeping the "hard stuff" illegal is a good enough end to the drug war. Yet others believe that all substances should be able to be manufactured, sold, possessed and or consumed without government intervention. I fall in the latter category, and do not believe that taxing and regulating a substance, any substance, can lead to the eventual abolition of that taxing and regulatory structure. I challenge you to think of something, anything, that has had a taxing and regulatory structure removed from it within your life time.
I long for the day in which all substances are as legal as tomatoes. What do I mean? To my knowledge, there are no laws regulating how many tomatoes a person can grow, purchase, sale or posses. There may be laws regulating business activity in general, but not tomatoes specifically. Thus, to truly end the war on drugs, the federal Controlled Substances Act needs to be repealed, and all state and local laws prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, possession and consumption of all substances must be repealed. By saying this, I am not advocating that anyone consume crystal meth, only that one should not be treated as a criminal for simply doing so. It is not only costly to treat people with vices like criminals, it is also immoral.


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This Just In From The Car Bomb Of The Day Media
The number of truck bombs and other large al-Qaeda-style attacks in Iraq have declined nearly 50% since the United States started increasing troop levels in Iraq about six months ago, according to the U.S. military command in Iraq.
The high-profile attacks — generally large bombs hitting markets, mosques or other "soft" targets that produce mass casualties — have dropped to about 70 in July from a high during the past year of about 130 in March, according to the Multi-National Force — Iraq.
The story is listed as the fifth link on Yahoo's USA Today section. Over on the USA Today on-line home page, it's not visible at all. Click on the World section, and you'll find it about halfway down the page on the right.
Labels: Media, Media bias, War in Iraq


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Last week we told you that YouTube was ignoring fair use rules when it yanked the Gathering Storm audtion tapes for a claimed copyright violation. Fortunately, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow still has the original report on her site.
Being gay, we're big supporters of the arts, and we think these actors deserve their fifteen minutes under the microscope of fame. Let's help the actors in the National Organization for Marriage "Gathering Storm" commercial by finding out their names (their email addresses and phone numbers would be nice too). So if you know these people, help make them famous by posting their names in the comments. Skip through the clip to two minutes and eight seconds to see the audition tapes.


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This is a preview of the Puma or Cougar species only.Once you subscribe you will be able to view all the entry details for hundreds of different species, including full score sheets and photos.
Puma concolorPuma (Sp), Puma (G), Puma (F). Concolor, which is Latin for "of the same color," is in reference to its plain coloration. Called puma throughout South America, the name cougar being used only in Canada and the United States. Called léon locally.DESCRIPTION (male) South American pumas are 6-7 feet (1.8 to 2.1 m) in length, including 26-32 inches (66-81 cm) of tail. Shoulder height 25-28 inches (64-71 cm). Weight about 120 pounds (55 kg). The female is roughly two-thirds the size of the male. As with most mammals (but unlike jaguars), the smallest pumas are found near the equator, increasing in size to the north and south.The puma is the second largest cat in the Western Hemisphere. South American specimens are somewhat smaller and lighter in color than those in North America, and are considerably smaller than South American jaguars. They are long and slim, with a long muscular neck and a remarkably small head for such a large cat. The tail is long and cylindrical. The color ranges from buff to tawny, with the underparts white.BEHAVIOR Solitary, seeking company only during the brief courtship period. Males are territorial, actively maintaining and marking their home ranges. There is no fixed breeding season. The female usually has a litter of 1-6 kittens every other year, and they remain with her for about two years. Life expectancy is 12 years, but captives have lived as long as 19 years.Entirely carnivorous, pumas usually kill by stalking to close range, then leaping onto the prey animal's neck or shoulders with one or more bounds. Sometimes they kill domestic animals, which has made them unpopular with ranchers and has led to their persecution. Although large in size, the puma is classified as a "lesser" cat because of its inability to roar. It can purr, and may hiss and snarl when cornered; however, it usually is silent. Rarely, during the mating season, the female may emit a blood-curdling scream. Eyesight is excellent, hearing and sense of smell are good. Largely nocturnal, shy, alert and elusive, it is seldom seen by humans. Usually unaggressive toward humans, but attacks do occur.HABITAT Can live anyplace there is adequate cover and prey, including mountains, savannas, jungles and dry bush. Has been recorded as high as l5,000 feet (4,600 m) in the Andes.DISTRIBUTION Most of South America.Also occurs in most of western North America. Has the most extensive natural distribution of any wild mammal in the Western Hemisphere.TAXONOMIC NOTES A number of subspecies have been described, but with only minor differences. We do not separate them.
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BGR/Piper Race Cars is pleased to announce their first driver signing of the new season with karting standout Logan Cusson making the jump to F1600.
Brian Graham Racing captured the 2017 Toyo Tires F1600 Championship with Ben Hurst after a strong final weekend at CTMP. The third year driver who began his F1600 career with Rookie of the Year honors has now progressed to a champion.
BGR Piper Racecars is pleased to have 3rd year driver, Ben Hurst back with the team in a transition season.
BGR Piper Racecars welcomes back Roman De Angelis for the 2017 season. The returning driver is coming off an outstanding 2016 rookie season that saw him win races in the Toyo Tires F1600 Championship, The Formula Tour 1600 Series as well as the Canadian F1600 Super Series.
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Kenny Wesley recently wowed us with his impressive remake of Michael Jackson's "Rock With You," and he's striking while the iron is hot with the release of a new song. "The Window" is the lead single from his upcoming as-yet-untitled EP, expected to drop in early 2012. Wesley teamed up with producer Noah Lifschey to create this tasty bit of contemporary soul ear candy.
Kenny turns in another amazing vocal performance on a song that sounds totally different from anything I've heard him on before. I appreciate artists who can switch their tried-and-true style up and still release good music such as this.
Kenny Wesley: "The Window" [iTunes]


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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Hello there!
OK, OK. I am back to blogging after another long break. I should just plan on breaking for the months of August and September since I wind up doing just that. It's the long summer, I get so uninspired I guess. Thanks so much for the sweet comments, I am glad to be back with you guys :)
AND, please check out my blog! I tweaked the layout a bit and it feels so much cleaner, it was long overdue for an update. Even though most people see it in a reader, it's nice to have it look like your style. And now it does.
4 comments:
- thirtyuan said...
nice! what's that in the header's bottle haha! lookin forward to more inspirational works :)
- October 15, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- lola said...
- October 17, 2010 at 8:41 AM
- Alexandra Hedberg said...
that's the reason why I don't read blogs in readers .. I don't want to miss out on different log designs!
(read this some time ago - but didn't come around to comment until now!)
- October 25, 2010 at 3:57 PM
- lilie-melo said...
I don't read on readers as well... that would be such a pity in case of blogs like yours
- November 11, 2010 at 3:04 PM
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CHOW was the media partner for the New York Culinary Experience, a two-day cooking event held at the French Culinary Institute, where chefs like Jacques Torres, David Bouley, Masaharu Morimoto, Anita Lo, and Wylie Dufresne taught classes. Here are some bits of wisdom I learned from some of the chefs:
Jacques Torres, dean of pastry arts at the FCI, owner of Jacques Torres Chocolate:
Use a laser thermometer when working with chocolate to monitor its temperature mess-free.
When working with tempered chocolate, keep a container of fully melted (but not superhot) chocolate over a double boiler so you can easily add a little to the tempered stuff if it's cooling down too fast.
You can make a really easy serving cup out of chocolate by using a balloon: Blow it up, dip the bottom portion into melted, tempered chocolate, then put it on a cookie sheet topped with parchment paper to cool. When it's hard, just pop the balloon, pull it out, and you'll have a fancy chocolate cup to fill with fruit, mousse, custard, etc.
Michael Psilakis, chef and co-owner of Anthos, Kefi, and Mia Dona:
Keep a bowl on your worktable to put all your peelings and trimmings in. Then you can make one (time-saving) trip to the trash or compost instead of many.
To really get to the soul of a chef, be sure to read all the little bits of a cookbook: the epilogue, sidebars, introduction, etc. He cited the example of learning to salt before, during, and after cooking by thoroughly reading one of Daniel Boulud's cookbooks.
Resting is key when cooking proteins, so the juices redistribute evenly throughout the piece of meat. He recommends seven minutes.
Don't forget to use the sides of your pan when searing things—you can lean a piece of meat (he was demoing with a lamb loin) up against them to keep it balanced so that you are truly able to brown it on all sides.
Anita Lo, chef-owner of Annisa and Bar Q (look for her tips in video form soon!):
If you need to add more oil to something while you're sautéing, drizzle it around the sides of the pan so that it's hot by the time it reaches the bottom.
Salt things from fairly high above, and sort of throw it on to get a better, more even dispersal. She likes kosher salt, rather than regular table salt, because it doesn't have an iodine flavor.
For a versatile and flavorful marinade, use a few cloves of garlic, some lemongrass, and two parts brown sugar to one part fish sauce, and blend it until smooth in a food processor. She slathered it on St. Louis spareribs, but says it can work on just about anything. It cooks up salty, sweet, and tangy.


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Damien Hirst is one of the wealthiest artists alive, but now is he going to be a property developer? According to a new report by Art Newspaper, The UK's most expensive living artist's plans to build an entire town in the British countryside and from legal standpoint, he has already received the approval of the local council.
The artist first announced his plans to launch this unusual project in 2012, which would see the construction of 750 homes as well as a school, playgrounds, stores, office buildings, and a health center. The development would lie on the outskirts of the town of Ilfracombe, a seaside resort in north Devon, and is being called the Southern Extension project.
Hirst plans to incorporate environmentally-friendly architectural elements such as rooftop wind turbines, photovoltaic solar panels, and high-tech insulation in the buildings' design. In 2012, architect Mike Rundell, a representative for the artist, told the Telegraph that Hirst already owns 40 percent of the Southern Extension land. Hirst also has a studio, restaurant, and several other properties in Ilfracombe.
Mallika Rao of Huffington Post believes Hirst sees Ilfracombe as mere setting for temples to himself. Of the many institutions he's already backed in the town, few if any seem to take residents into account — unless everyone in Ilfracombe is as obsessed with Hirst as he seems to be.
Southern Extension is not Hirst's first controversial project in Ilfracombe. In 2012, the artist installed Verity, a 67-foot-tall bronze statue of a pregnant woman with half of her skin peeled back to reveal her skull, muscles, and unborn fetus, on the town's harbor. The piece doesn't seem to have inspired the same level of outcry as a similar statue by the artist (in which the internal organs were painted red) that real estate mogul Aby Rosen recently agreed to place in a less prominent position on his Old Westbury, New York, property, but has met with less than universal acclaim among Ilfracombe locals.
Whether the new project will get more positive reaction from the local community or the art world in general, is something which remains to be seen.


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