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EVENT: Winners Announced from TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING's 17th Annual Riders' Poll Awards
The legendary Peter Line and Eddie
Wall played host to the biggest night in snowboarding on Friday as over 1,100
pro snowboarders and industry members packed the Ogden Theatre in Denver,
Colorado to see the world's best riders honored for their accomplishments. With
an epic start to winter this year, the energy was epically high as winners took
the stage to receive their awards.
Watch the winners' acceptance speeches at TWSNOW.com/RidersPoll now.
The Yawgoons stoked to accept the Online Video Series Of The Year award. Photo: Chris Wellhausen
For 17 years, TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING
has polled the professional snowboarding community to find their picks for the
best riders of the year. Each season, these awards are decided by the opinions
of over 100 pros. While TRANSWORLD
SNOWBOARDING hosts the awards, the winners are truly a reflection
of peer acknowledgement—the highest honor any rider can receive.
This year veterans like Arthur Longo, Chris Grenier, Eero Niemela, Scott Blum, Kimmy Fasani, and Pat Moore all voted alongside up-and-comers including Jake Kuzyk, Blake Paul, and Ozzy Henning to determine which of their fellow riders would receive the most prestigious awards in snowboarding.
Women's Rookie Of The Year
Hailey Langland
Men's Rookie Of The Year
Cole Navin
Women's Video Part Of The Year
Desiree Melancon, Methods Of Prediction
Men's Video Part Of The Year
Louif Paradis, Encore
Online Video Series Of The Year
Video Of The Year
Eversince, Absinthe
Standout Performance Of The Year
Dylan Gamache – Carving Progression
Women's Readers' Choice
Mary Rand
Men's Readers' Choice
Scott Stevens
Women's Rider Of The Year
Jamie Anderson
Men's Rider Of The Year
Mark McMorris
For those who weren't at the big show, follow us on Instagram and Twitter @TWSNOW and catch videos of the winners at TWSNOW.com/riderspoll.
The Riders' Poll Awards are sponsored by Under Armour, Protect Our Winters, and Pabst Blue Ribbon.


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Matches to watch and a full schedule of Day 1 on Sunday at the 2015 French Open in Paris. Roger Federer, Simona Halep, Ana Ivanovic, Kei Nishikori and others will kick off the tournament.
PARIS – The 2015 French Open gets underway on Sunday with the bottom half of both the men's and women's draw in action. Play begins at 5 a.m. ET on ESPN2, with some coverage moving to NBC at 1 p.m.. Full television and broadcast schedule can be found here.
Here are the matches and storylines to watch on Day 1:
Simona Halep and Roger Federer open Court Philippe Chatrier: Halep told reporters on Friday that she's not dwelling on the past as she returns to the one major that has defined her career. A finalist here last year (and a junior champion in 2008), the No. 3 seed will open play on Chatrier against No. 91 Evgeniya Rodina.
No. 2 seed Roger Federer will follow her, as he takes on an opponent he knows all too well in No. 111 Alejandro Falla. Federer has never lost to the Colombian but Falla held a two-sets to love lead on Federer in the first round of Wimbledon in 2010, only to succumb to nerves and lose in five sets.
The French will close out play on Chatrier, with Caroline Garcia playing 18-year old Donna Vekic. With Vekic's ranking tumbling to No. 165, it should be smooth sailing for Garcia. Then Jo-Wilfried Tsonga plays No. 200 Christian Lindell. No upset alert here.
Ana Ivanovic and Ernests Gulbis on upset watch: After resurgent 2014 seasons, both Ivanovic and Gulbis have been completely unreliable this season. Well, that's not true for Gulbis. Last year's French Open semifinalist has, unfortunately, become a fairly reliable loser. He's won just two matches all year.
Ivanovic opens against the talented No. 65 Yaroslava Shvedova (fourth match, Lenglen), while Gulbis plays No. 166 Igor Sijsling (third match, Court 1). Both should roll. Emphasis on should.
Another result to keep an eye on is Garbine Muguruza vs. Petra Martic (second match, Court 1). The Spaniard upset Serena Williams here last year and went on to make her first Slam quarterfinal, but she's been mired in a slump since February. No. 155 Martic has a few wins under belt after coming through qualifying. Qualifiers are always dangerous first round opponents if you're struggling with your form and confidence.
Americans on deck: Three Americans play on Sunday and they all are going for upset wins. Steve Johnson takes on No. 26 Guillermo Garcia Lopez (fourth match, Court 3), Lauren Davis plays Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (first match, Court 17) and 19-year-old American wildcard Louisa Chirico gets to open up play on Lenglen against No. 9 Ekaterina Makarova. Here's hope the teenager savors the experience.
The best match-up of the day: In a first round match that could be the final of a mid-tier WTA tournament, No. 13 Lucie Safarova takes on No. 38 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (fourth match, Court 2) in what is the most even match-up of the day. Pavlyuchenkova leads the head-to-head 4-1 but this is their first meeting on clay.
Newbie to watch: Sweden's Elias Ymer. The 19-year-old, born to Ethiopian parents, seems primed to be the next breakout teenager. Currently ranked No. 175, he trains at Magnus Norman's Good to Great Academy and is coached by Milos Raonic's former coach, Galo Blanco. It should be fun watching him go against No. 40 Lukas Rosol in the first match on Court 3.
See the full schedule for Sunday, May 24 at the French Open here.

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Location: Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory
Project Number: 8042-21000-276-07-R
Project Type: Reimbursable Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Oct 1, 2013
End Date: Feb 28, 2018
The identification of specific loci, their alleles, as well as the inter- and intra-locus constitutions in cranberry that confer agronomic elite phenotypes.
This is a multi-disciplinary project involving three Co-Principal Investigators, Rutgers University, USDA ARS BA BARC Genetic Improvement of Fruit and Vegetables Laboratory and USDA ARS MWA Vegetable Crops Research Unit. A next-generation sequencing approach will be used to genotype a cranberry germplasm collection and to combine those data with phenotypic data for association mapping. ARS' involvement is to co-supervise a Rutgers University postdoc to process and analyze data for association mapping and assistants for processing of materials, phenotyping, data entry, and other tasks as needed.


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A bit older shader on fhtr.net this time, from the time I was getting started with ray tracing. This one's path tracing spheres and triangles with motion blur. Might even work on Windows this time, but YMMV. I should get a test machine for that.
"So", I hear you ask, "how does that work?" I'm glad you asked! It's a common Shadertoy-style WebGL shader where two triangles and a trivial vertex shader are coupled with a delightfully insane fragment shader. In this case, the fragment shader takes the current time as its input and uses it to compute the positions of a few objects and the color of the background. The shader then shoots a couple of rays through the scene, bouncing them off the objects to figure out the color of the current pixel. And yes, it does all this on every single pixel.
Path tracing
The path tracing part is pretty simple. The shader shoots out a ray and tests it against the scene. On detecting a hit, the ray is reflected and tested again. If the ray doesn't hit anything, I set its color to the background color. If the ray does hit something and gets reflected into the background, I multiply the object color with the background color. If the reflected ray hits another object, I give up and leave the color black. To make this one-bounce lighting look less harsh, I mix the ray color with the fog color based on the distance traveled by the ray. For the fog color, I'm using the background color so that the objects blend in well with the bg.
Digression: The nice thing about ray tracing -based rendering is that a lot of the things that are difficult and hacky to do with rasterization suddenly become simple. Reflections, refractions, transparent meshes, shadows, focus blur, motion blur, adaptive anti-aliasing schemes, all are pretty much "shoot an extra ray, add up the light from the two rays, done!" It just gets slowwwer the more rays you trace.
And if you're doing path tracing, you're going to need a whole lot of rays. The idea behind path tracing is to shoot a ray into the scene and randomly bounce it around until it becomes opaque enough that further hits with light sources wouldn't contribute to the pixel color. By summing up enough of these random ray paths, you arrive at a decent approximation of the light arriving to the pixel through all the different paths in the scene.
For specular materials, you can get away with a relatively small amount of rays, as the variance between ray paths is very small. A mirror-like surface is going to reflect the ray along its normal, so any two rays are going to behave pretty much the same. Throw in diffuse materials, and you're in a whole new world of hurt. A fully diffuse surface can reflect a ray into any direction visible from it, so you're going to need to trace a whole lot of paths to approximate the light hitting a diffuse surface.
Motion blur
The motion blur in the shader is very simple. Grab a random number from a texture, multiply the frame exposure time with that, add this time delta to the current time and trace! Now every ray is jittered in time between the current frame and the next frame. That alone gets you motion blur, albeit in a very noisy fashion.
I'm using two time-jittered rays per pixel in the shader, first one at a random time in the first half of the exposure time, the second in the second half. Then I add them together and divide by two to get the final motion blurred color. It looks quite a bit better without totally crashing the frame rate. For high-quality motion blur, you can bump the ray count to a hundred or so and revel in your 0.4 fps.
Background color
I made the background by adding up a bunch of gradients based on the sun position and the plane of the horizon. The gist of the technique is to take the dot product between two directions and multiply the gradient color with that. Quick explanation: the dot of two directions (or unit vectors) is the cosine of the angle between them, its value varies from 1 at zero angle to 0 at a 90 degree angle and -1 at 180 degrees. To make a nice diffuse sun, take the dot between the sun direction and the ray direction, clamp it to 0..1-range, raise it to some power to tighten up the highlight and multiply with the sun color. Done! In code:
bgCol += pow(max(0.0, dot(sunDir, rayDir)), 256.0)*sunColor;
You can also use this technique to make gradients that go from the horizon to the zenith. Instead of using the sun direction, you use the up vector. Again, super simple:
bgCol += pow(max(0.0, dot(vec3(0.0, 1.0, 0.0), rayDir)), 2.0)*skyColor;
By mixing a couple of these gradients you can get very nice results. Say, use low-pow sun gradient to make haze, high-pow for the sun disk, a horizon-up gradient for the skydome, horizon-down gradient for the ground and a reversed high-pow horizon gradient to add horizon glow (like in the shader in the previous post).
Let's write a path tracer!
Here's a small walk-through of a path tracer like this: First, normalize the coordinates of the current pixel to -1..1 range and scale them by the aspect ratio of the canvas so that we get square pixels. Second, set up the current ray position and direction. Third, shoot out the ray and test for intersections. If we have a hit, multiply the ray color with the hit color, reflect the ray off the surface normal and shoot it out again.
vec2 uv = (-1.0 + 2.0*gl_FragCoord.xy / iResolution.xy) * vec2(iResolution.x/iResolution.y, 1.0);
vec3 ro = vec3(0.0, 0.0, -6.0); // Ray origin.
vec3 rd = normalize(vec3(uv, 1.0)); // Ray direction.
vec3 transmit = vec3(1.0); // How much light the ray lets through.
vec3 light = vec3(0.0); // How much light hits the eye through the ray.
float epsilon = 0.001;
float bounce_count = 2.0; // How many rays we trace.
for (int i=0; i<bounce_count; i++) {
float dist = intersect(ro, rd);
if (dist > 0.0) { // Object hit.
transmit *= material(ro, rd); // Make the ray more opaque.
vec3 nml = normal(ro, rd); // Get surface normal for reflecting the ray.
ro += rd*dist; // Move the ray to the hit point.
rd = reflect(rd, nml); // Reflect the ray.
ro += rd*epsilon; // Move the ray off the surface to avoid hitting the same point twice.
} else { // Background hit.
light += transmit * background(rd); // Put the background light through the ray and add it to the light seen by the eye.
break; // Don't bounce off the background.
gl_FragColor = vec4(light, 1.0); // Set pixel color to the amount of light seen.
Ok, let's get real! Time to trace two spheres! Spheres are pretty easy to trace. A point is on the surface of a sphere if
(point-center)^2 = r^2. A point is on a ray (o, d) if
point = o+d*t | t > 0. By combining these two equations, we get
((o+d*t)-center)^2 = r^2 | t > 0, which we then have to solve for t. First, let's write it out and shuffle the terms a bit.
(o + d*t - c) • (o + d*t - c) = r^2 o•o + o•dt - o•c + o•dt + dt•dt - c•dt - c•o - c•dt + c•c = r^2 (d•d)t^2 + (2*o•dt - 2*c•dt) + o•o - 2o•c + c•c - r^2 = 0 (d•d)t^2 + 2*(o-c)•dt + (o-c)•(o-c) - r^2 = 0
Ok, that looks better. Now we can use the formula for solving quadratic equation and go on our merry way: for Ax^2 + Bx + C = 0, x = (-B +- sqrt(B^2-4AC)) / 2A. From the above equation, we get
A = (d•d)t^2 // We can optimize this to t^2 if the direction d is a unit vector. // To explain, first remember that a•b = length(a)*length(b)*cos(angleBetween(a,b)) // Now if we set both vectors to be the same: // a•a = length(a)^2 * cos(0) = length(a)^2, as cos(0) = 1 // And for unit vectors, that simplifies to u•u = 1^2 = 1 B = 2*(o-c)•d C = (o-c)•(o-c) - r^2
And solve
D = B*B - 4*A*C if (D < 0) { return No solution; } t = -B - sqrt(D); if (t < 0) { // Closest intersection behind the ray t += 2*sqrt(D); // t = -B + sqrt(D) } if (t < 0) { return Sphere is behind the ray. } return Distance to sphere is t.
In GLSL, it's five lines of math and a comparison in the end.
float rayIntersectsSphere(vec3 ray, vec3 dir, vec3 center, float radius, float closestHit)
vec3 rc = ray-center;
float c = dot(rc, rc) - (radius*radius);
float b = dot(dir, rc);
float d = b*b - c;
float t = -b - sqrt(abs(d));
if (d < 0.0 || t < 0.0 || t > closestHit) {
return closestHit; // Didn't hit, or wasn't the closest hit.
} else {
return t;
Right, enough theory for now, I think. Here's a minimal ray tracer using the ideas above.
float sphere(vec3 ray, vec3 dir, vec3 center, float radius)
vec3 rc = ray-center;
float c = dot(rc, rc) - (radius*radius);
float b = dot(dir, rc);
float d = b*b - c;
float t = -b - sqrt(abs(d));
float st = step(0.0, min(t,d));
return mix(-1.0, t, st);
vec3 background(float t, vec3 rd)
vec3 light = normalize(vec3(sin(t), 0.6, cos(t)));
float sun = max(0.0, dot(rd, light));
float sky = max(0.0, dot(rd, vec3(0.0, 1.0, 0.0)));
float ground = max(0.0, -dot(rd, vec3(0.0, 1.0, 0.0)));
(pow(sun, 256.0)+0.2*pow(sun, 2.0))*vec3(2.0, 1.6, 1.0) +
pow(ground, 0.5)*vec3(0.4, 0.3, 0.2) +
pow(sky, 1.0)*vec3(0.5, 0.6, 0.7);
void main(void)
vec2 uv = (-1.0 + 2.0*gl_FragCoord.xy / iResolution.xy) *
vec2(iResolution.x/iResolution.y, 1.0);
vec3 ro = vec3(0.0, 0.0, -3.0);
vec3 rd = normalize(vec3(uv, 1.0));
vec3 p = vec3(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
float t = sphere(ro, rd, p, 1.0);
vec3 nml = normalize(p - (ro+rd*t));
vec3 bgCol = background(iGlobalTime, rd);
rd = reflect(rd, nml);
vec3 col = background(iGlobalTime, rd) * vec3(0.9, 0.8, 1.0);
gl_FragColor = vec4( mix(bgCol, col, step(0.0, t)), 1.0 );
Demo of the minimal ray tracer.
I also made a version that traces three spheres with motion blur. You can check out the source on Shadertoy.
Demo of a motion blur tracer.
If you got all the way down here, well done! I hope I managed to shed some light on the mysterious negaworld of writing crazy fragment shaders. Do try and write your own, it's good fun.
Simple ray tracers are fun and easy to write and you can get 60 FPS on simple scenes, even on integrated graphics. Of course, if you want to render something more complex than a couple of spheres, you're probably in a world of pain. I should give it a try...
P.S. I put together a bunch of screenshots from my ray tracing shaders to make a project pitch deck. You can check out the PDF here. The first couple screenies have decals and clouds painted in PS, the rest are straight from real-time demos.


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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Love by Blood-type
Blood-types are generally divided into four, A, B, AB and O. For example, A person whose blood-type is A is prudent and careful, so he/she does not show his/her personality easily to others. A person whose blood-type is B values freedom, and he/she does not like to be bound by a rule. A person whose blood-type is AB likes to be reasonable and fair, and he/she sometimes comes up with ideas that others normally do not think of. A person whose blood-type is O usually is equally nice to all people who he/she knows, and he/she is active and enthusiastic. These illustrations are a part of aspects of blood-type personalities. As you might notice, these personalities are sometimes very specific and sometimes very general. In addition, Koreans made some mate matching test in terms of the blood-type personalities. For example, a man whose blood-type is O matches well with a women whose blood-type is A.
Generally, Koreans enjoy talking about blood-type personalities for fun. However, some people think about them seriously. I think that a person's personality does not depend on his/her blood-type. There may be some relationship, but I think that personality varies a person to a person in terms of many factors. I thought that this would be an interesting thing to tell you because our class's study is related to love.
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Hey Kwon,ReplyDelete
This was definitly a very interesting blog and totally caught my attention. It's interesting how you mentioned what each blood type would mean and even more interesting to me is that you said a person with A blood type would work well with a person of O blood type. Even if this idea about blood types determining if 2 personalities are right for eachother hasnt been proven, it still seems to hold true for me and my significant other. My boyfriend is A blood type and he is as you mentioned above very prudent and careful, while I am O blood type, and I am certainly enthusiastic (well for the most part haha). My boyfriend and I have been happily together for 9 months and I suppose this korean love myth is true and can be forwarded by accounts with my boyfriend.
Cool blog,
Lauren V.
Hey this was quite interesting. I never knew about this blood typing thing with Koreans even though I know many it has never came up. The A,B,O blood typing it seems was first introduced in the UK and then to Japan which then passed to Korea. Mass media has spurred this blood type/ dating issue as a fun and playful way for couples to come together. The personalities are divided into four separate categories (one for each blood type, A, B, O, AB). Each has its own set of criteria which make what they are. Mine isn't exactly right but close, I'm type O but according to the personalities I could be a combination of almost any of them. I think this is a fun way to give newly starting out couples something to talk about and laugh at. It should be done in the US for a good laugh!ReplyDelete
In this blog, Kwon talks about the relationship between blood type and personalities in Korean culture. Much in the same way some people view the astrological symbols based on their birth dates, Koreans believe that blood type has a similar meaning and influence in relationships. Studies have not found any scientific proof that blood type has any influence on personality, but in Korea it is still discussed for the shake of conversation. This is just another myth and way to explain relationships from a Korean perspective.ReplyDelete


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take a look at the "make" section of athinds.com
it is a beautiful joomla based website.
the navigation was inspired by the film spirited away.
there is also an ecommerce component from joomla as well. but virtue mart was not loading to the CMS, so i used a light version.
the design of the project has taken most of the time, and you will see my preference for standard bending alignments. which although quick, the IA takes some time.
and of course im not done, if you are a drupal, joomla, or fashion designer and have any comments please do…
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Our year-round crew
Camp Illahee is not just a special place for its campers, but also for its staff. It takes every one of these unique, talented and devoted individuals to make Camp Illahee the extraordinary place that it is.
Laurie Strayhorn
Camp Illahee's current owner was drawn to camp by the happy challenge of giving young campers the very best of summer experiences. She has 28 years of experience running summer camps and has devoted her life to making each summer the best ever. Laurie spends much of her days talking to parents and is the camp's director while Gordon makes sure that the business end of camp is running smoothly, including Illahee's top-notch facilities.
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The Associate Director of Camp Illahee remembers 11 summers spent at summer camp (eight as a camper, three as a counselor). Along with her own memories of making new friends and singing spirited campfire songs, Gretchen also brings a decade of teaching experience to Illahee. Since joining the year-round staff in 2004, Gretchen has lived in Brevard with her husband, Gary, and son, Ezra.
Dave Hartsock
Camp Illahee's tennis director since 2004, Dave joined the year-round team in 2011 as program director. A former teacher and tennis coach, Dave has grown Illahee's program over the years so that almost every girl takes tennis as one of her activities. Dave continues to develop our programs in the off-season and to assist with staff hiring as well as taking care of the details needed to make each activity the best we can offer.
Lindsey Guye
Lindsey joined our year-round crew as Assistant Director of Programs and Office Operations in 2015. As a former camper and counselor, Lindsey has worn many hats from cabin counselor, swimming instructor, and tour guide. Known for her willingness to tackle any obstacle at camp, Lindsey worked as a Registered Nurse before discovering her true calling remains with Camp Illahee.
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Gardner joined the year-round staff upon her May 2016 graduation from University of North Carolina, Asheville. Having grown up at Illahee, she offers a unique perspective to camp families. Her good cheer and enthusiasm are great additions to the camp community and to her work as a mentor for older campers, particularly in leading the Spark and CIT summer activities. Gardner and her toddler age son, Brooks, live next door to camp.
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Each summer welcomes an extraordinary group of young women who come to Illahee to nurture, inspire and lead its young campers. These smart and energetic counselors bring new life to old traditions and make every camper's experience one that is memorable and unique.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Bethleham star
41 comments:
- Allie said...
That is soooooo beautiful! What a LOT of work. But worth it! You do wonderful applique and embroidery.
- June 29, 2009 at 1:13 PM
- Lurline said...
Very beautiful! I love your attitude toward quilting, Janet - you really do quilt for your own pleasure and that of others, the joy and passion are wonderful things!
Hugs - Lurline♥
- June 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- Kathy said...
I love your postive attitude and I have so needed to hear this! I have beating myself up over so many UFO's and in fact just posted about some of them. Your work is beautiful!! Thanks for sharing.
- June 29, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- Julia said...
It's truely beautiful!
Janet your passion for quilting comes out in your work, and everything you do is just amazing..
I love it!
Julia ♥
- June 29, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- Terrie Sandelin said...
What a beautiful quilt! Those subtle shadings are just so gorgeous! And I love what you have to say about quilting and learning and just doing what we love. I totally agree.
- June 29, 2009 at 1:51 PM
- Valentina said...
I had an attitude adjustment about UFO's a few months back, when in a conversation with other quilters we realized that no one ever blames Da Vinci for all those sketches and ideas that he never actually completed... humm... maybe we are just expanding our artistic genius...
- June 29, 2009 at 2:25 PM
- Sarah said...
Your work is just beautiful as is your wonderful outlook on the quilting journey.
- June 29, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- Lindah said...
This is a very special quilt. It is beyond beautiful! I would treasure it as an heirloom, not to be hurried through, but savored with each stitch.
- June 29, 2009 at 2:47 PM
- Nedra said...
I don't mind UFO's. I figure the time spent made me happy and that is all that matters. Thank heavens there are no quilt police standing over us, rattling off the rules. We are the only ones who know what is finished and what still lurks in a box or closet.
I think the process can be just as much fun as the completed project.
- June 29, 2009 at 2:57 PM
- wishes, true and kind said...
Very wise words, Janet. I agree that I have learned from every class I've taken -- from the teacher and often from fellow students. Each quilt has taught me something, too.
I LOVE the beautiful applique quilt! It is absolutely outstanding! You can be proud of how much you have already accomplished. Wishing you continued joy in quilting!
- June 29, 2009 at 3:07 PM
- Stina said...
Wow.. I love this one...so beautiful... :o)
- June 29, 2009 at 4:28 PM
- Betweens said...
Janet you may have the joy of going through the journey of making the quilts but I surely love to see your journey's progress and the end results!! gorgeous quilt. Classe are great for learning many techniques that can be utilized in other quilts..I have had my share of taking classes and also love the ability of learning through other quilters.
- June 29, 2009 at 7:14 PM
- PatchworkRose said...
I just love your quilt and totally agree with your comments as that has been my philosophy too. When my children were small I had time to learn but not to finish. Also collected fabric :-) as that soothes the soul. My sons as two year olds used to go in and choose fabric for me
- June 29, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- Robyn said...
I loooove the way you think and it shines through your sewing and everything you show us!!
Heartfelt thanks again for more inspiration!!
Many are the times I decide not to tackle things for fear of NOT finishing them.
I wanna quilt like you when I grow up *giggle*
Robyn xx
- June 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM
- Kaaren said...
I only wish that more people shared your attitude towards learning, Janet. So many of us, no matter what creative journey we decide to embark on, are more project-oriented than technique-oriented. How many times have you heard the excuse, "Oh, I don't like that color" or "I have a queen sized bed and that project is only for a single bed."
What you've said and how you've said it, Janet is a teacher/designer's dream. That is why you've become the amazing quilter that you are and the inspiration for most of us who faithfully read your blog. Thanks.
- June 29, 2009 at 9:10 PM
- Crispy said...
OMGosh Janet the flowers are just stunning!!! You have such a wonderful eye for color and shading, I'm in awe!! I too quilt for the love of quilting. Some day I may actually keep a few quilts I make. If someone shows a great interest in a quilt that I'm making, I gift it to them....after all I could always make another, though I never do LOL.
- June 29, 2009 at 9:12 PM
- Jackie said...
I whole heartedly agree with you. Classes can really build on your skills even if the tops don't become complete. I don't see anything wrong with having a UFO or two, we all do and it doesn't make us any less adept at quilting.
- June 29, 2009 at 9:14 PM
- Kathie said...
another beautiful quilt
you said it well...love my ufo's but hey love starting what inspires me.
its not a race its a journey for me!
- June 29, 2009 at 9:16 PM
- Fiesta said...
Janet that is a lovely concept and I thank you for sharing it with us.Your quilt is lovely. Time consuming as you stated but the end result will be worth it.
- June 29, 2009 at 9:51 PM
- ranette said...
You are not only a wonderful and talented quilter, you have an uncanny ability to express exactly what I think and feel about my projects! Seriously!!! Thank you for your amazing attitude.
- June 29, 2009 at 9:53 PM
- free indeed said...
That is going to be one GORGEOUS quilt and quite and heirloom someday! I love the colors, and your applique is wonderful!
- June 29, 2009 at 10:42 PM
- Lori said...
The quilt is very beautiful, Janet!
I agreee 100% about what you said about unfinished quilts and classes. I don't always love my class quilts, but I generally learn something that I'll put to use for years.
- June 29, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- Christine said...
Ooooh, that is very pretty. But I agree, it's really all about the destination. I try to apply that to everything in my life not just the quilts.
- June 29, 2009 at 11:36 PM
- Janet said...
I'm so impressed. The star is perfect and the applique is amazing. The fabrics you used for the petals are perfect and of course the sewing is too. I hope you find the time to finish this one. I agree, its the journey. I only make for myself and my loving friends and family. I can imagine quilting for money I sewed for money when our kids were young and I was staying home. Now its for my pleasure. I'm amazed that at this stage in your life that you find time and the energy to do so much.
- June 30, 2009 at 1:27 AM
- Carrie P. said...
Beautiful! I just love the fabrics you used for the petals.
- June 30, 2009 at 1:44 AM
- Kate the Quilter said...
Hi, thank you so much for sharing the photos of this quilt. I absolutely LOVE it!! It's definitely my kind of quilting. Did you do 'needle-turn' applique for the flowers and leaves? Or how did you get it so neat!!! Just gorgeous! And there's nothing wrong with UFO's!! They are real life evidence of long life learning!!!!
Keep sharing. It encourages us all.
- June 30, 2009 at 1:59 AM
- Sherri said...
Oh, I love everything! Beautiful work...thanks so much for sharing!
- June 30, 2009 at 2:34 AM
- Gwendie said...
Janet - this is another gorgeous quilt! I love the fabrics you chose for it - they're just perfect.
I like to try a lot of different techniques, too. Then when I need one for a quilt I really want, I know how to do it.
- June 30, 2009 at 4:55 AM
- Sheri Howard said...
Very, very pretty indeed!!!
- June 30, 2009 at 5:20 AM
- Marcy said...
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! STUNNING!!
Beautiful work as well.
- June 30, 2009 at 7:12 AM
- Karen said...
My, what a lot of work you have put into the Bethlehem Star and it is just gorgeous. Hope you get back to it some day soon as it is sure to be a gem! And it can come live at my house any day you care to send it. LOL!
- June 30, 2009 at 7:27 AM
- Karen said...
Such a lovely quilt. I love the soft colours.
- June 30, 2009 at 8:35 AM
- Maree said...
Your Quilt is Beautiful..I can relate to what you are saying regarding the Lessons that we learn along the way..I too have thrown pieces away...it's the Technique that I am Interested in...couldn't have said it better myself...
Thanks for sharing
- June 30, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- chookie said...
those roses look so real. well done. Your blog is one of my favs, thanks for sharing
- June 30, 2009 at 6:48 PM
What a beautiful quilt.....a beautiful journey!!
I love the process of making a quilt and I am a handquilter...so the quilt is a labor of love and the learning experience that brings it to a finish. I could quilt my quilts on my machine or have them quilted but then it wouldn't be all my work and my experience.
Hugs, Barb
- July 1, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- Lissa Jane said...
I am stunned.. this quilt MUST be finished, the applique is, um beautiful isnt strong enough.. I just love this quilt...
- July 1, 2009 at 5:22 PM
- Jantine said...
Ohh your appliqué is sooo neat, I really love it! Which method do you use? You have learnd well with all these classes.
- July 1, 2009 at 6:25 PM
- CabbageQuilts said...
I do understand about making some quilts in a class, and not finishing them or even liking them, but learning new processes through them. Your work is always incredible, your applique is faultless. I love seeing what you create, finished or not!! xo
- July 1, 2009 at 6:57 PM
- Quilt Online said...
wonderful!love the design
- July 2, 2009 at 1:44 AM
- Nanette Merrill and daughters said...
No matter what class I take I learn something valuable. I'm never too good to learn. Ever. Your work is always so lovely.
- July 2, 2009 at 3:08 AM
- Rose Marie said...
I'm speechless .....
- July 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM


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The second coming of Christ is mentioned more than 300 times in the New Testament! The Apostle Paul refers to it at least 50 times in his Epistles alone. It is claimed that the second coming of Jesus is mentioned 8 times as often as his first coming 2000 years ago. Whole books (1 and 2 Thessalonians) and entire chapters (Matthew 24; Mark 13) of the bible are devoted to it. It is without doubt one of the most important doctrines of the New Testament. Jesus is coming twice in the future, not once. He will come once for His beloved church (Rapture) and the second time to judge the world in Power and Glory.
How will the manner of His coming be?
- Personal – (John 14:3, Acts 1:10,11; 1 Thess 4:16, Rev 1:7;22:7)
- Literal – (Acts 1:10, 1 Thess 4:16-17; Rev 1:7, Zech 14:4)
- Visible – (Heb 9:28, Phil 3:20, Zech 12:10)
- Glorious – (Matthew 16:27, 2 Thess 1:7-9, Col 3:4, Matt 25:31).
When exactly is He coming back (the first time)?
- No-one knows, as it is hidden in the counsels of God (Matt 24:36-42, Mark 13:21-22). Although we may know His coming is near by the signs that are abundant.
How will he come (the first time)?
- Suddenly – (1 Cor 15:52; Matt 24:27)
- Unexpectedly – (2 Peter 3:4, Matt 24:48-51), Rev 16:15)
What are we supposed to be doing in the mean time? – Luke 19:13
What are the signs of His first coming?
Scriptures teach that the appearing of Christ again will usher in the Millennial age where he has total rule and sovereignty for a thousand years, prior to God creating a New Heaven and Earth (Isa 65:17, 2 Peter 3:13, Rev 21:1). In the time period prior to His first coming there will be a cross over or transitional period characterized by the following:
- Physical disturbances (signs in the moon, heavens, stars) – Luke 21:25
- Wars (Rumors of wars) – Matt 24:6
- Economic instability
- Moral decay
- Religious apostasy – 2 Thess 2:3.
- Infidelity
- General panic, perplexity and loss of leadership – Luke 21:25
What is the precise order of events just prior to His first coming?
- After 70 AD, the Jews will be wanderers among all nations, driven from their land and persecuted. Their land will come under Gentile control until the 'times of the Gentiles' be fulfilled (Luke 21:24). One major indication that the time of the Gentiles is drawing to an end is the reformation of Israel as a nation (1948) and gaining Jerusalem back (1967). Never before in History has a dispersed nation been re-born.
- During this 2000 yr. time period (approx.) from 70 AD until Christ's coming, Christ's servants (the Church) will carry on His work by preaching the Gospel to all nations, in every language and occupying until he returns (Luke 21:24).
- It will seem like Christ is delaying his coming (Luke 18:1-8), when some will prepare themselves diligently, whilst others will be negligent (Matt 25:1-11) and fall away.
- At a time when 'no soul knows the day nor the hour,' Christ will appear (Matt 24:36, 42, 50). This event is called the "Rapture" in common vernacular although the word Rapture is not found specifically in scripture (1 Thess 4:17). In times past, this event was known as the "Great Assembly" or the 'gathering' of the saints. At this time, He will gather his servants and judge them according to their works (because their salvation is assured) (Matt 25:19, 2 Cor 5:10).
- There is some speculation as to the timeframe between the 'Rapture' and the commencement of the following 7 year tribulation period (Matt 24:21), but most scholars agree that it is simultaneous. The definition of when the tribulation starts is the signing of a peace treaty between the Jews and the Antichrist (Dan 9:27).
- The Second Coming of Christ will occur at the end of the Great Tribulation as he arrives on Mount of Olives (Zech 14:4) for the world to see. Utter oblivion and catastrophe, as it was in the days of Noah and Lot, are the pre-cursors to his 2nd Coming (Matthew:37-39, Luke 17:28-29). When Christ appears in his second coming, it will be in outward glory and power to judge and rule over the nations of the earth.
Who is the Anti-Christ? (short response: a punk)
The spirit of the Antichrist is already in the world (1 John 4:3, 2:18, 2:22) and its goal is to deny that Christ came in the flesh (1 John 4:3) and that God has no Son (1 John 2:22). There is a final Antichrist who is to come (2 Thess 2:3). The Antichrist will be the paragon of evil, who will oppose and attempt to usurp any form of Yahweh's rule in the earth. It is believed he will arise from the old world (Rev 13:1) and become ruler over a resurrected Roman Empire and super-state of coalesced nations. He will assume great power politically (Dan 7:8,25), commercially (Dan 8:25, Rev 13:16-17), and religiously (Rev 17:1-15). Knowing that man must have a religion of some kind, he will establish one based on the divinity of man and supremacy of the State. As the embodiment of the State, he will demand worship, and will appoint a priesthood to enforce and foster this worship (2 Thess 2:9-10, Rev 13:12-15).
The Antichrist will carry his doctrine to the extreme of the supremacy of the state. He will have complete control over world commerce, with all people requiring a "Mark of the Beast" to buy and sell (Rev 13:17). With the advent of modern technology in the use of RFID chips and electronic tattoos the resources are literally in place today to fulfill this prophecy. The Antichrist will teach that the State and its laws are supreme to God's. He will command worship and even man's conscience must be subordinated. The OT shadow of this was revealed by King Nebuchadnezzar's totalitarian regime in Daniel chapter 3. A modern example would be the French Revolution, where God was cast out and a goddess was made of, "La Patrie" (the State). Said one of the leaders, "The State is supreme in all things. When the State has spoken, the Church has nothing to say." Loyalty to the State was and will be elevated to the place of religion by the Antichrist and his False Prophet. When all is said and done, his 'rear end' will be thrown into the Lake of Fire for his evil deeds (Rev 20:10).


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In Library Services at Imperial College London, between January and April 2015 the systems team completed two iterations of user experience testing of our Ex Libris Primo discovery system with a view to redeveloping the user interface to provide improved an user experience.
For the #CityMash Mashed Library unconference, Karine Larose and I are running a workshop on the methods we used in our second iteration of testing. Rather than run a 'show and tell' about our approach, the workshop will provide experience using our methods with some of our data in a similar way to how we conducted the research ourselves. We will provide hands-on experience of these methods, attempt to demystify the approaches used, and hope to demonstrate how exciting we find the professional praxis of systems librarianship.
This blog post explains the background and provides a practical overview and some theoretical scaffolding ahead of #CityMash. What we present is just one approach and all methods are flawed; we are extremely interested in hearing comments on or objections to our methodology around discovery user experience.
We'd like to acknowledge the work of George Bray, Master's student at UCL Department of Information Studies, during a work placement with our team. George designed and undertook much of this testing during his work placement, based on our overall guidance, and we would not have been able to produce what we did without him with us.
Why we use constructivist grounded theory
The methods we chose for our user experience research were qualitative and post-positivist. They are based ideas developed by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss (1967) in their classic (and arguably classical, read on…) The discovery of grounded theory. Grounded theory includes:
- Data collection and analysis as a simultaneous process
- Analytically constructing "codes" and categories from data itself
- The "constant comparative method" of comparing existing and new data in an ongoing process
- Developing theory during each stage of data collection and analysis
- Sampling to aid building theory, rather than being representative of the population
- In pure grounded theory, the literature review comes after the analysis
This list is paraphrased from Charmaz (2012; 2014 p. 7).
The above may sound unusual to those with experience of more quantitative methods, and the idea of the literature review coming last may sound unusual to everyone. Bear with me. If you are interested in reading more I don't necessarily recommend Glaser & Strauss as a first step. For an introduction to grounded theory at LIS Masters's level, there is a chapter in the second edition of Alison Pickard's Research methods in information (2013) which provides a detailed and readable outline.
Our touchstone work has been Kathy Charmaz's Constructing grounded theory (2014) where she explains a constructivist approach to grounded theory. Core to her ideas are the acknowledgement of subjectivity and relativity in the research process, and a drive towards abstract understanding of observed phenomena within the specific circumstances of the research (Charmaz, 2008) which particularly resonated with us doing discovery research.
Charmaz is no ideologue, for her different traditions in grounded theory represent a "Constellation of methods" (2014 p. 14) rather than binary opposition. We have drawn on elements from both the empirical interpretivist grounded theory tradition, constructivist grounded theory, and the critical theory approaches that inform my thinking elsewhere in LIS. These are the differences we understand:
|Objectivist grounded theory
|Constructivist grounded theory
|Theory 'emerges' from the data
|Researchers construct categories from the data
|Researchers develop generalizations and explanations out of context
|Researchers aim to create an interpretive understanding accounting for context
|The researcher's voice has priority
|The participant's voice is integral to analysis and presentation
What does this mean for user experience work?
You can see how a constructivist approach will focus on the voice of the user as an integral feature in understanding and presenting data. In my team (and I hope in your team) user experience work has never been informed by the "Librarian knowing best", but this approach provides a particular emphasis. My experience is the voice of the user, seeing her context and affective responses, is a powerful way of making the case for making changes to our systems. This presentation can be extremely eye-opening even for those who work day-to-day in user-facing roles and know our users well.
We definitely did want to inductively develop theory from our data, but we wanted to be mindful of the user's context and be interpretive, as we know our discovery system is just one part of a complex and shifting information landscape our users inhabit. We use the iterative and analytical approach of coding, and codes necessarily result from the researcher and data interacting (Charmaz, 2012). However our focus is wherever possible on trying to analyse the data rather than describe it. Ideally this should happen from the first moments of coding; more on this below.
Fundamental to constructivist grounded theory, the resulting ideas we develop are based on our interpretation of data and as researchers we cannot stand 'outside' that interpretation. What we create from the data is based on conceptualizing what we have studied and observed in user behaviours: we must stand inside and 'own' our analyses which will be affected by our biases, our preconceptions, and the emotional investment in the work we do.
This is not unprofessional, but an acknowledgement of the shared humanity of the researcher and the participant, and of the value of our work experience as practitioners that allows us to critically reflect on and develop theories of practice. To balance our subjectivity as researchers, a key part of the constructivist process has been to critically reflect on our preconceptions about discovery, information literacy, and users' behaviour and expectations of doing their research using the tools we provide.
Working with qualitative data for user experience research
We are doing analysis of qualitative data collected during interviews to investigate Primo user experience. Ahead of interviewing proper, we held planning meetings with Library Services staff drawn from all sections of the library to work through starting points: primarily, what we wanted to get from the interviewing process, and what we wanted to know by the end of this round of investigation.
Extensive notes of these workshops were taken, and used by George to provide an initial focus for our interviewing. These are not quite research questions, but areas to focus on. These were:
- The purpose, construction, and use of search and resources
- Presentation of information in search: what matters to the user when selecting the right result?
Following this the team developed an interview script for use by facilitators. This included general questions about information seeking as well as some specific tasks to carry out on Primo. This interview is structured and in grounded theory ideally would be based around open questions, helping us as researchers unpick meaning and move towards answering "why" questions in our analysis. We used a mixture of questions and posing specific tasks for users to complete. Our interview script is available: Primo UX Interview questions June 2015 (PDF).
In practice interviewers have different styles, and some facilitators stuck more closely to the script than others. This is not necessarily a problem, remember as an observer you are free to suggest places where we need to run another iteration and gather more data.
Our research data comprises the audiovisual recordings and the facilitator's notes. The notes help understand the facilitator's perspective on the interview and provide useful observations.
For #CityMash, we are providing a recording of the first part of an interview. In the full interviews at Imperial we did longer interviews making use of other methods drawn from web usability testing. The #CityMash data does not contain these. We gained informed consent for participant interview recordings and our written notes to be used for presentation and data analysis at #CityMash.
#CityMash technical requirements
- You will need at least a tablet, ideally a laptop, to watch and listen to the audiovisual recordings. A smartphone screen will likely not be big enough to see what's going on. Headphones are ideal but are not entirely necessary.
- Sharing a device with another delegate is possible. Coding together and sharing your observations and thoughts as you go in a negotiated process would provide an interesting alternative to doing this on your own.
- You will need a way of recording your coding and writing memos and any other notes. Any text editor, word processor, or pen and paper will work fine. (At Imperial College to facilitate collaborative coding, sharing, and to save time, we just write directly in our staff wiki.)
Beginning the process of open coding
Charmaz's (2014, p. 116) guidance is that during initial or open coding, we ask:
- What is this data a study of?
- What do the data suggest? [What do they p]ronounce? [What do they l]eave unsaid?
- From whose point of view?
- What theoretical category does this specific [data] indicate?
Grounded theory textbooks often give examples of coding based on narrative such as diaries or written accounts and show example codes side-by-side with this. We are using audiovisual recordings instead, but the process is similar: listen to each statement and sentence spoken and the user's behaviour as you go through the video and code piece-by-piece. Try to "sweep" through the data fairly quickly rather than spending too much time on each code. You will get better and faster at this as you go.
For codes themselves, try starting by writing down short analytic observations about the data as you experience it. Codes should "result from what strikes you in the data" (Charmaz, 2012) and should be "short, simple, active, and analytic" (Charmaz, 2014 p. 120 ). Remember you're trying to be analytical about what you see, not just record what is happening.
Charmaz's (2014 p. 120) 'code for coding' is:
- Remain open
- Stay close to the data
- Keep your codes simple and precise
- Construct short codes
- Preserve actions
- Compare data with data
- Move quickly through the data
Keep the facilitator's notes alongside you and try to understand how these relate to what she saw and understood in the interview.
Don't worry about being perfect the first time. Coding is iterative and you are allowed to go back and rework things, and make new connections between data. Initial codes are provisional, and working quickly both forces you be to spontaneous and gives more time to go back and iterate over the data again.
It is very difficult, but try to put your favourite theoretical "lens" to one side during initial coding. It's perfectly fine to bring in these ideas later, but for open coding you are trying to spark thoughts and bring out new ideas from the data rather than apply someone else's grand theory.
Focused coding: refining data to begin to develop theory
Our #CityMash workshop is limited in time so we will do an initial round of open coding followed by small group discussion exploring focused coding.
Focused coding is the process of analyzing and assessing your first round of codes, and as a guide it should be a reasonably fast process. You are looking for connections and relationships between codes, and comparing them with the data and with each other. Looking at particular pairs of codes, which work better as overall analytical categories? Which give a better direction in developing an overall theory from the data?
Think about how you might create a theoretical framework later about discovery user experience to help inform changes to the system. Which codes better fit the data in allowing you to do this?
Charmaz (2014, pp. 140-151.) poses the following questions to help make choices about focused coding:
- What do you find when you compare your initial codes with data?
- In which ways might your initial codes reveal patterns?
- Which of these codes best account for the data?
- Have you raised these codes to focused codes?
- What do you comparisons between codes indicate?
- Do your focused codes reveal gaps in the data?
The results of George's analysis of our focused coding was written up into a summary report of the things we needed to concentrate on in redeveloping our Primo interface. The systems team is currently working on Primo back-end configuration and front-end design to fulfill this, and these findings will be the subject of an upcoming blog post.
#CityMash slides
Our slides from our #CityMash talk are also available.
Charmaz, K. (2008) 'Constructionism and the grounded theory method', in Holstein, J.A. & Gubrium, J.F. (eds.), Handbook of constructionist research. New York, NY: Guilford Press, pp. 397-412.
Charmaz, K. (2012) 'The power and potential of grounded theory', Medical Sociology Online, 6(3), pp. 2-15. Available at: http://www.medicalsociologyonline.org/resources/Vol6Iss3/MSo-600x_The-Power-and-Potential-Grounded-Theory_Charmaz.pdf (Accessed: 11 June 2015).
Charmaz, K. (2014) Constructing grounded theory. 2nd edn. London: Sage
Glaser, B.G. & Strauss, A.L. (1967) The discovery of grounded theory. Chicago, IL: de Gruyter
Pickard, A.J. (2013) Research methods in information. 2nd edn. London: Facet.
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Dear President Trump,
Last Thanksgiving, we had a dear friend over for lunch.
She'd never been to an American Thanksgiving before, but she said yes, because she loves my boys.
She's a florist in our city, and when we began buying flowers from her, she formed a bond with these two boys who hugged her and knew her name and cared.
She is Muslim, but spent what I'm sure was a slightly uncomfortable few hours in our noisy home and ended up playing hide and seek in the front yard with our oldest son.
Don't you see the beauty in this?
A Native American, her best friend who is white, a Muslim, a man of German-European descent, and two toddlers gathered in our dining room to celebrate an America-created holiday.
These are the moments you are threatening.
These are the moments you are trying to steal from us with executive orders.
But perhaps the real spirit of America, the one I see in my own people and indigenous brothers and sisters, the one I see in the immigrants and refugees who are planted here, is that we keep going.
We keep telling our stories and gathering at the table and we keep sharing our lives, because we refuse to live in fear and we refuse to act out on our hatred's behalf.
So it is in this second letter to you that I ask you to remember the people you grew up around.
Remember the ones who gathered at your table, friends of your mother and father, friends who knew your story, knew their stories, cried and laughed because humanity was that important.
Remember those people who gathered at your table, and ask yourself how we make room for more of those kinds of experiences today, outside the bounds of national security interests.
Remember, President Trump.
With Watching Eyes & Steady Hand,
Kaitlin Curtice


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Tonight's entry is bound to be shorter because I've been up since 6:45 a.m. (no thanks to the wake up call I had requested for 6:30 but didn't get until 6:50), because it's now 12:30 a.m. and I've been up meeting new people AND because really bad porn is on TV.
Why get up so early? Today, I went to the Mayan ruins at Tulum which were amazingly set on cliffs overlooking the Caribbean Sea. The ruins are small compared to other sites in the Yucatan, but are still architecturally and archaeologically fascinating.
After Tulum, our bus went to Xel-Ha, a water park on steroids. Imagine Sunsplash, Raging Waters or whatever you had where you grew up with real, natural water, a picturesque setting and free Mexican food! You can go tubing down a river, snorkel, play with dolphins and snuba which is some bizarre combo of snorkeling and scuba that I declined to try.
Since I'm not such a fan of swimming in non-chlorinated bodies of water, I opted for tubing and then lunch, a massage and a little laying out. Everything was great and I was the most relaxed that I've been in ages... until I realized that my massage exposed me to crazy mosquitos who took advantage of my partially clothed status and bit me! Sadly, the most action I've gotten on this trip is having the first aid guy at Xel-Ha dab antiseptic and cortisone on the top of my right breast. Fun!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
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- SaraK said...
Sadly, the most action I've gotten on this trip is having the first aid guy at Xel-Ha dab antiseptic and cortisone on the top of my right breast.
- July 24, 2007 at 9:47 PM
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On May 10th, Bold Hype Gallery in NYC will be hosting Suggestivism NYC, curated by Nathan Spoor, the show follows on from the last Suggestivism show at GCAC last year.
Im really stoked to be a part of this- i was blown away by the work in the first show, this one promises to be even greater with work from some truly amazing artists:
Chris Mars, Skinner, Chet Zar, Dan May, Nathan Ota, Jeff McMillan, Rod Luff, Sas Christian, Colin Christian, Joe Vaux, Bob Schneider, Mia, Naoto Hattori, Bob Dob, Tom Bagshaw, Jason Maloney, David Molesky, Darren LeGallo, Michael Page, Kevin Peterson, Thomas Doyle, Sandow Birk, Heidi Taillefer, Yevgeniya Mikhailik, Brendan Monroe, Annie Owens, Eric Althin, Jason Limon, Joey Remmers, Chandler Wood, Martin Wittfooth, Eric Richardson, Francesco LoCastro, Nathan Spoor, Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters, Scott Scheidly, NC Winters, Christian Van Minnen, Winnie Truong, Julian Callos, Heiko Müller, and Marco Mazzoni.
Heres the show flyer and i will do a post with my piece when its a little closer to the show start!
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
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Xplain the Role of Computer Systems in Different Environments Such as Home, Business, Networking, Communication,
Executive Summary6
Different types of computer (Based on configurations)7
Super Computer7
Mainframe / Server7
Mini Computer8
Micro Computer9
i.)Laptop / Notebook Micro Computers:9
ii.)Desktop Micro Computers:9
iii.)Handheld Micro Computers:9
Necessary devices to assemble a computer10
Processor :10
Motherboard :12
RAM (Random Access Memory) :14
Graphics Cards :16
HDD (Hard Disk Drive) :-16
Power Supply :17
Monitor :18
Case :19
Keyboard :20
Mouse :20
Computer systems for the Digital WORLD21
Branded PC Vs Assembled PC :-21
Computer system for the Administrative department23
Computer system for the Desktop publishing department25
Printer for the Desktop Publishing department27
Printer for the Administrative department29
Comparison between HP TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 printer and HP Officejet 6000 printer :-31
Wireless router for the Digital WORLD32
PCI card for the Digital WORLD33
Internet package for the company34
Cost Analysis Report35
Necessary software and Operating system for the suggested system36
Necessary software :-36
1)Adobe package CS536
2)Microsoft Office 2010 (Home and Business package) :-40
3)Bitdefender Total Security 2012 :-41
Operating System :-44
Reasons for choosing Windows 7 Professional :-45
System requirements for MS Windows 7 :-45
Comparing Windows 7, Mac and Linux :-46
Health and safety policy statement47
General statement47
Organization and Responsibility47
Procedures and safety arrangements48
Test plan for the system unit52
1)Disk Defragmentation :-52
2)Disk Cleanup :-53
3)Performing test software :-56
4)Other things to increase the performances of the computer :-60
Security policy for standalone computers61
1)Beware of Viruses, Spyware and Malware (Malicious Software) :-61
2)Password Management :-61
3)USB drives :-62
4)Security of the information in the computer :-62
5)Internet security :-63
6)Physical and hardware security :-63
Future developments for the system64
1)Network connections for the company64
What is a Network ?64
Network connection to connect the two departments of the company :-65
Wireless LAN Vs Wired LAN :-65
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10. At least I didn't leave 1,000 buses sitting around the flood, like that do nothing Nagin. I would have used at least one of them for rescuing crucial information from my residence. But, since that wasn't possible, I had the National Guard help me instead. - Lawhawk
9. Jefferson (D-La): Where da white women at?! - fmragtops
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NZXT unveils 5th addition to Phantom gaming chassis lineup
NZXT debuts Phantom 530, a new full-tower case in the Phantom line
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Computex Taipei 2013 - NZXT has just unveiled the fifth iteration of its flagship Phantom series of PC cases. The Phantom 530 is a full-tower chassis with space for dual 200mm fans on top.
Like the other cases in the Phantom line, the 530 features a front door covering the optical bays and power buttons. While the exterior is pretty much identical to other Phantoms in the series, the real differences begin to shine through when the side panels come off.
The Phantom 520 features space for up to six 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch hard drives with an additional space for a single 2.5-inch SSD behind the motherboard tray. Room for a 360mm liquid cooling radiator is open up top with the 200mm fans, as well as space for a 240mm radiator down below.
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Storyline: What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in The Walking Dead (2010)? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.
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Mould Inspection
When mould – a fungus – gets out of control, it can start to impact your family's health. While mould is often visible indoors where there has been water damage or excessive moisture, it can hide from view inside your HVAC system where it can thrive unchecked.
Mould in your ventilation system is almost impossible for you to detect without the right tools and knowledge of what you're looking for, which is why you need a professional. Once mould has formed in your system, it can travel easily – like a virus – to other areas of the home through forced air vents.
The problem is that airborne mould spores are easily breathed in and can complicate health issues such as asthma and bronchitis, while also triggering coughing, shortness of breath and even a sore throat. You can have the mould cleaned from ductwork, but if you don't know the underlying causes of the mould, you may find the problem returning again and again.
As a Ventilation System Mould Remediator, Stephen can identify mould issues and advise how to fix the problem. While he has the training to do so, Stephen doesn't remove the mold himself. Why? It means you can count on an unbiased report – he has no incentive to tell you that your home has a mould issue if it doesn't, so he won't recommend additional work unless it's warranted.
Don't let mould be an unwanted visitor in your home! If family members are experiencing some health concerns, be sure to call Stephen at Integrated Clean Air Services to have a closer look for mould. Even if you have no symptoms currently, it's best to have your systems inspected regularly to catch a problem before it starts to affect you or your loved ones.


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PLAINFIELD — Mount Saint Mary Academy junior Carly Whitmer of Scotch Plains was recently honored with the Girl Scout Gold Award, one of the highest honors the organization can bestow on its members. Whitmer received this special recognition as the result of a unique educational project she created aimed at helping area children.
Whitmer, who studies world languages at Mount Saint Mary, created and ran a 17-week basic skills enrichment and foreign language instruction program at Stillman Elementary School in Plainfield. She worked closely with the Academy's Latin teacher, Jennifer Larson, in developing the program.
"It brings together children from all areas of the financial and emotional spectra," said Whitmer of the project. Each week, she and a number of her friends visited Stillman after their own classes to tutor students. They aimed to help students better understand their homework by providing individualized attention based on each student's unique needs. They also offered instruction in Latin, Italian, and French, teaching students new skills above and beyond their current course work.
"It was especially helpful that most of the children were bilingual," said Whitmer. "They were able to notice connections well, for example grazie and gratias ago."
In addition to making lessons informative, Whitmer and her friends aimed at making them fun by incorporating projects and activities. In one Latin lesson, for instance, Stillman students and their Mount instructors dressed as ancient Romans so students could better understand a culture in which the language was spoken.
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By Karen Rose | October 14, 2016 |
Downtown artist Diane Bush camps up campaign season.
America, You're Screwed, acrylic on wood panel, by Kat Tatz
Betting on election outcomes isn't quite legal in Las Vegas, but colorful commentary most certainly is. That's lucky for Downtown artist Diane Bush (no relation to the former first family), who in honor of this campaign season has put together "Dishing It Out," a series of socially engaging art events to rock, schlock, and mock the vote.
"Over the last 10 months we've gathered together political art from around the country," explains Bush. She invited artists across the nation to create satirical work, in any medium, representing any of the 16 major party candidates who have made this election season oh, so memorable. And for the next event in this series, the family-friendly "Let America Break Again" (on October 19, at the Arts Factory, coinciding with the final presidential debate, at UNLV), some of those pieces of art have been turned into commemorative gold-trimmed art plates, which attendees will be invited to smash.
Remaining shards will be made into a community mosaic. "It's a patriotic art carnival where the public can smash plates, in a campy atmosphere," says Bush. There will also be live entertainment, pictures with Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty, jugglers, and face painting, of course. The whole series wraps up on election night (at the Victor Xiu Gallery inside Art Square) with "Final Tally." Gallery walls, says Bush, "will show new work, and I will project works from throughout the year outside the gallery." Election results will also be projected, and, if you've got the stomach for it, parked right outside will be—what else?—taco trucks.
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
787 firing order gives clues to unidentified customers
With the latest update to the 787 firing order we're able to have some clarity on some unidentified customers. This is my own analysis based on the information that I have in hand.
What is notable is the number of 787-9s that is on the firing order for United Airlines. To date, UAL has announced a total 787-9 commitment of 18 787-9. 14 have been delivered with 5, not 4, but five more 787-9s yet to be delivered. There can be one of three explanations for this apparent discrepancy: 1) UAL has converted existing options into firm orders but has not been announced, 2) UAL has converted 2 existing orders for the 787-10 into the 787-9 which has not been announced or 3) UAL is one of the unidentified customers who has ordered 2 787-9. I am leaning towards number 3.
More revelations from the firing order: There appears to be a direct purchase of at least 1 787-9 from Abu Dhabi Amiri Flight. Here it could only be that this order is currently listed as an unidentified customer for 2 787-9s.
Abu Dhabi Amiri Flight isn't the only Middle Eastern order for an executive 787-9. It appears that the House of Saud has bought a 787-9BBJ to join the two 787-8BBJs already in their fleet. The Saudi Ministry of Finance will be taking a 787-9BBJ sometime next year and it appears that this is the only -9BBJ that they will buy for now.
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- greg smith said...
Why the delay in posting Hainan's,Xiamen's,and Oman Air's 787-9 orders in Boeing's Order book..
Especially with deliveries beginning this year..
- February 5, 2016 at 10:54 AM
- Uresh said...
Hainan - posted still listed as unidentified
Xiamen - posted still listed as unidentified
Oman - posted - being leased from CIT Leasing (customer)
- February 5, 2016 at 11:09 AM
- Andrew Boydston said...
Uresh, I've noticed Boeing has added 1 787 to its total during January from an ALC order. I have added that one as a 787-9, since ALC only shows only the bigger types on its order count, and it's been awhile since a 787-8 has been ordered. My own tally now shows 1144 787's on order instead of your 1143 total and I have arbitrarily added one 787-9 to the type count on my notes: Do you agree with those changes? Let me know if I am in error.
- February 5, 2016 at 11:33 PM
You post an earlier question in an earlier blog of Uresh about how many pre delivery flights of the 777 and the 737 are makend before the delivery t the customer. Because i was in holiday, i could't get the exact numbers. Now I am back I can.
I have made a check of the last 50 actual delivery's of each type.
737: Average of 3.26 flights before delivery
777: Average of 4.44 flights before delivery
787: Average of 4.12 flights before delivery
Hopes this answers your question.
- February 6, 2016 at 2:33 AM
- Uresh said...
I have 1143 which is the correct number. You may be accounting for the 787-8 ordered by Crystal Cruises twice. I'm accounting for it as a BBJ.
- February 6, 2016 at 12:53 PM
- Tom Toms said...
Uresh, any idea whats happening to VS G-VDIA? Your current production table shows it back on the production line?
- February 6, 2016 at 6:45 PM
- Uresh said...
There might be an engine issue on that particular aircraft.
- February 6, 2016 at 7:20 PM
- Piotrek_ said...
CKE is probably BBJ, but list doesn't show customer, just operator. LN4 and LN5 are indeed listed with BBJ as customer.
- February 7, 2016 at 1:14 AM
- 1coolguy1 said...
b767300er - Thank you! Surprising the 787 is now using fewer flights than the 777.
- February 9, 2016 at 2:35 AM
- Randy Austin said...
Both the 787 and 777 flights before delivery are distorted by the requirement to fly away for paint. When the paint facility becomes operational in CHS the 787 number should come down a little.
- February 13, 2016 at 12:28 PM
- Christopher Kemp said...
Hi Uresh. Any idea what is going on with the United 787-9s? There seem to be many more pre-delivery test flights than normal for ZB-181 and ZB-182.
- February 18, 2016 at 2:23 PM


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On my home pc the MVC4 developer preview installed on my box but at the office I tried a few different times with no success.
It's required for MVC4. Already have it on your box? That's likely the reason WPI is failing to install.
Reading the log didn't really give me much information but I was very sure that I had already installed VS 2010 SP1 on my box. Time to go around WPI.
Aren't sure where WPI installers are stored?
They are stored in your profile's AppData\Local\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\installers folder.
When I ran the MVC4VS2010 Installer by itself, outside WPI, the install worked.
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Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 or Visual Phone Developer Express 2010 that matches the language version of Silverlight Tools 4 must be installed before installation of Silverlight Tools can continue.
I was running into the above error when I tried to install Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 whether I did it from the downloaded install or via the Web Platform Installer.
Downloaded Silverlight4_Tools.exe error message:
If you open the first log file you will find the error at the bottom:
Installation Blockers: 1) Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer Express 2010 or Visual Phone Developer Express 2010 that matches the language version of Silverlight Tools 4 must be installed before installation of Silverlight Tools can continue. Silverlight Tools is available in other languages at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177432.
When I looked online for this error I was only seeing references to the Beta and Release Candidates of Visual Studio 2010.
After a little thought, I decided to open up the readme file for the SP1 Beta of Visual Studio 2010 that I installed a while back and there was the answer:
An error message may appear when you try to install Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 on Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta.
To resolve this issue:
Because Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=b3deb194-ca86-4fb6-a716-b67c2604a139&displayLang=en) is included in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta, you do not have to install Silverlight 4 tools separately. Also, you do not have to uninstall Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 before you install Visual Studio SP1 Beta.
There you have it. If you installed VS 2010 SP1 Beta then you already have the Silverlight 4 Tools. How's that for a descriptive error message.
This weekend I was trying to install the WebMatrix and it was hanging on the SQL CLR types install. I've had a couple of times now when the Web Platform Installer doesn't quite work and I don't get any error.
I tried a couple of things like shutting down SQL Server, restarting WebPI, etc. I found the easiest way around this is to use WebPI's installation information window to see what the prerequisites are and run them manually.
WebPI downloads the install files to C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\installers.
Manually installing the prerequisites worked even though WebPI hung on the SQLCLRTypes install.
It's nice to know where WebPI downloads the install files in case you want to backup the files or install on another box without having to re-download them. You could copy the installers directory to/from machines to avoid this.
The Web Platform Installer is a great little tool that has made life a lot easier but it's not perfect. Hopefully this little trick will help someone else out when WebPI doesn't quite do the trick on it's own.
This weekend I decided to update my VS 2008 Express with MVC2. You can do this with the Web Platform Installer (WPI). In order to install MVC2 you do need to be on SP1 for VS 2008 Express. Your version needs to be "9.0.30729.1 SP".
Installing with WPI is a breeze but in my case WPI stated it installed MVC2 successfully but I didn't have the MVC2 Project as a choice in my project list. I tried it a few times and I always received a successful install message but still only had the MVC1 project choice.
The fix for me was pretty simple. I just downloaded and installed MVC2 directly from the download center.
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