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Vintage shopping!
I have always loved vintage and antique shops. I could spend days even weeks trailing through everything and falling in love with different finds thousand times. In the back of my mind it is how I've always wanted my on wardrobe to be. Stacks of hidden treasures a collection of amazing peices, new, old, cheap and expensive. Watching old hollywood films and seeing the film stars' backstage wardrobe of costumes, jewels and make up. I've dreamt of having wardrobe that makes people go 'wow' when they walk into the room.I have in way already created this as my friends refer to my wardrobe as Narnia, and love tracing through looking for something to wear on a friday night.
A couple of weeks ago, before all the snow my boyfriend took a drive to get lost, (we do this a lot) and stopped in the next town from me which is called Hungerford.
Steeped in History, Hungerford once housed Henry VIII on a trip to London through the shire, as well as King William and Mary. It is also the hometown of popstar Will Young and a amazing salvage yard that could only be described as Kerry Katona's Living Room. (If you've seen it you know what I mean!)
Anyway, the point I am trying to make is, Hungerford is home of 85342 antique shops, some specialising in percifc's others just piles on piles of absolutely anything. These are some photo's I took while shopping not for anything in particular but having a good old fashioned window shop.
Hugerford High St
Lots of vintage jewellery!
Me in a mirror! wearing my tea and cake rave face t-shirt.
Fell in love with all these furs!
Amazing wall divider! Want this in my house
I love map drawings!
Cool knife/hand gun
Fake Chanel clip on earings! Wish I brought them! but it was a few days before payday :(
Love coloured glass!
Books books books! could spend hours looking through them all, though the Boy will probably end up picking the heaviest one and wacking me around the head with it!
I really fell for this Religious print cabinet. Think was £500 but as my boyfriend pointed out I could easy create the same effect with PVA glue and a copy of the bible.
Have you got a favourite Antique place to shop?


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5 QUESTIONS WITH THE BRUINS NATIONBruins Nation is one of the best CFB blogs anywhere - comprehensive and intelligent. It's also become the Lord of the Flies of the CFB blogosphere since Karl Dorrell assumed command of the Bruins program and, in their eyes, engineered its systematic collapse. To borrow a different literary metaphor, I prefer to think of them as CFB's Don Quixote, tilting at the remaining windmills of indifference that surround the UCLA football program and urging decisive action from typically indecisive university bureaucrats. God bless them - it's refreshing to find such passion on the left coast.
The good folks at BN exchanged questions with us this week regarding this Saturday's game. Our answers will be posted on their site at some point along with those of Tedford is God, here are theirs:
1) What advice do you think Ben Olson would have for Nate Longshore, who is apparently contemplating taking his Mormon mission at some point in the near future? (Question from TedfordisGod - By the way, he's not. God wouldn't have kicked to Drew.)
BN: Not really sure. From what we have heard from Olson he has nothing but positive things to say about his two year mission. He is truly a remarkable guy. And I don't think his mission hampered his ability to develop as a blue chip quarterback. He looked just fine when he started that first game of this season. His numbers went down after Dorrell and co. put the shackles on with very predictable, dull, and boring offensive game plans. So I am not sure Olson will have anything but positive feedback when it comes to giving advice to other athletes who are contemplating taking his or her Mormon missions.
2) What makes you think Dan Guerrero will pull the trigger on Karl Dorrell, given the time left on his contract and the prospect of better talent in 2007?
BN: Steve Lavin also had "time left on his contract," when Dan Guerrero booted him out of Westwood. So did Bob Toledo as well as other incompetent head coaches who routinely get fired from high profile programs around the country when they are not getting the job done.
If Dorrell continues to underachieve in Westwood maintaining the trend of meltdown during second halves of our seasons, he is not going to be in line of landing better talent in 2007 when UCLA will have more 25 scholarship rides to give out.
Right now we have no idea what Dan Guerrero is going to do. No one does. But we do know if the UCLA football programs continue to collapse through rest of this season, Dorrell is going to be in huge trouble (if he is not already). The outcry from Bruin alums, students, and season ticket holders will increase exponentially with every loss from here on out.
3) Which was the worst moment of the Dorrell Era so far: The last-minute loss to Notre Dame two weeks ago or losing to Wyoming in the 2004 Las Vegas Bowl? (from TisG)
BN: As alums who originally started blogging over here , the worst moment in the Dorrell era was neither the disgraceful loss against Wyoming nor the last minute choke against Notre Dame. The worst moment during the Dorrell era came after a close loss against Southern California in 2004, when we saw tons of Bruin fans celebrating a moral victory as a sign of turnaround in the Dorrell era. Those reactions to us summed up what was going so horribly wrong under the failed experiment we now know as Dorrell.
Sure Notre Dame was a devastating loss stemming not just but from that last drive by Brady Quinn, but also due to botched clock and game mismanagement. It was an epiphany for lot of folks in the traditional media, but we caught on to the real story long time ago.
4) Do you think Dorrell and Svoboda will open things up a bit on Saturday? If so, will Cowan be up to the task?
BN: Every week we have been hearing from Dorrell and Svoboda how our offense has been "growing" and how they are working out their "issues." Every week we have gotten our hopes up this season perhaps this will be the week when the offense shows some sign of life since the opening game Utah. Except it hasn't happen. You can only cry wolf so many times.
Perhaps Dorrell's much hyped West Coast offense will finally open up this Saturday. However, we are not holding our breath.
5) Can you confirm that Maurice Drew is no longer returning punts for UCLA?
BN: Ask Jeff Tedford and his special teams coach. I am sure they are on top of this.
Thanks again for the questions guys. Good luck in the rest of your season, especially against Pom Pom Carroll. GO BRUINS.
And thanks to Bruins Nation once again for their participation, and for their perpetually entertaining site.

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The demise of Flash has been greatly exaggerated. The news that Adobe are to stop developing Flash on mobile devices has had many people declaring the war between Adobe and Apple has finally been won by Apple. But there are many reasons why Flash isn't going to disappear anytime soon. Here are five of them to consider:
1. Flash is an integral component to Adobe AIR which is increasingly the platform for more and more Adobe products. Adobe AIR consists of Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML and Ajax.
2. Adobe have only recently launched version 11 of Flash which is the most powerful yet. This means that there's still a lot of development possibilities for Flash, and lots of new potential for developers to harness.
3. Adobe is likely to make Flash open-source by releasing the source code. This means that Flash will probably continue to be developed enthusiastically by the open source community.
4. HTML5 is still a long way behind Flash in terms of video capability. Of course that will change but for now, web developers, video providers and designers will get more power out of Flash.
5. Despite Apple's refusal to support Flash, it's really not all that bad. It's certainly less buggy and clunky than other proprietary platforms such as Java. If it's good enough to have got YouTube as far it has today, it can't be that bad.


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Guided Snowshoe Hike
January 7, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmFREE
This is a family friendly event you don't want to miss! Meet at the Vasa trailhead warming building at 1:00 pm. Participants will need to bring their own snowshoes. There are three stacked loops, with the total distance being around 2.5 miles. We will travel at a leisurely pace. The Vasa Snowshoe Trail starts behind the grooming barn and goes up the west side of the West Branch of Acme Creek and returns down the east side. A very scenic trail that offers the chance to see salmon in the creek and to hear Barred Owls. If there isn't sufficient snow for snowshoeing, we will still hike the creek valley – sturdy hiking boots highly recommended. The hike will be led by TART Trails Ambassador, Jim Heffner. For more information you can contact Jim directly by emailing: jhefgan


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I got a request from a user for these Primary Reminders in wristband form — what a great idea!!! She says the wristbands don't get lost like a slip of paper, and parents are more likely to notice them.
Write the assignment on the wristband and tape it around the child's arm at Primary like this:
The blanks are for the date, time, and a contact person's telephone number. The talk and scripture wristbands have a space for subject, too.
7 per page, color. 8 1/2 x 11.
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As you know, MrsMJ and I are spending the weekend aboard Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas. Majesty has a few special distinctions for us. One, she was the first ship we ever cruised aboard together, and is the ship we share the most cruises aboard together. She was also the ship that was the site of my bachelor party, but that's a blog post for another day. 🙂
We are at sea today after canceling the stop at Coco Cay due to sea conditions. I admit, I was a bit worried as to whether we would make it to Coco Cay given the sea conditions departing Miami yesterday afternoon. It was by no means "awful," but the ship was rockin' a bit yesterday afternoon and into the night. It doesn't take much to cancel a stop at a tender port, and as it turns out, I was right in thinking that our stop at Coco Cay was at risk.
Early this morning, the Captain announced that due to the sea conditions, we would be unable to conduct tender operations to shore. If you've spent much time on a tender, you understand. Eight foot seas are a challenge for a bit of a flat bottomed boat, so no Coco Cay for us. Happily, we are proceeding to Nassau where we will dock around 6:30PM, and spend the night before departing at 5:00PM tomorrow afternoon. So…what does one do on an unexpected day at sea?
First, you go back to sleep. And when that no longer works, you take a late breakfast and then do the things one does on a cruise. Relax, soak in a bit of sun by the pool, or work. Yes, I said work. It is possible from a ship even though cruising is the epitome of "vacation." This is a short cruise…. I'm buried at work….. and I probably should be at work this weekend. But I'm not. That said, I'm taking advantage of the opportunity to get a few things done. This is what a working on a weekend cruise looks like.
Public service announcement: Yes, I know I'm doing this wrong, and only do this if you have to! Not only do I have to, but MrsMJ does too. Not a bad way to do the work thing though. 🙂
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LinHES R7.3
The LinHES team and I are happy to announce the release of R7.3 (Crave). The changelog is up. To upgrade see this forum post.
URL and domain name shuffle
During the recovery from the recent hardware failure, some services were moved to new locations.
The change made the rebuild easier and will make future administration easier
Below is a list of services and their URLS.
- Main website http://www.linhes.org
- Cgit http://cgit.linhes.org
- Forums http://forum.linhes.org
- Mailing lists http://lists.linhes.org
The domains knoppmyth.net and mysettopbox.tv will be redirected to linhes.org
We apologize for the inconvenience™
Outage and a new home
Well, you are most likely aware we were offline for a little while. We experienced hardware failure... But thanks to jams, we are back up and running! Also, much thanks to liv2cod for allow us have a server in his data center! At the moment, linhes.org is located there. mysettopbox.tv is still up and running at OSUOSL. We plan to transition everything to Paxio and use a VM at OSUOSL to mirror the package repos.
New packages in core and extra
Several bugfixes and a couple features were moved from testing to release today.Some of the changes include.
- new nvidia driver
- new cron
- new mplayer
- new mythtv
Currently these features are considered stable but beta.
LinHES R7.1 Released
LinHES R7.1 has been released!
LinHES R7.1 features MythTV 0.24-fixes, Linux kernel 22.214.171.124, Xorg 1.9.2 and much more. Virtually, every package has been updated and recompiled since R6.04.00. Browse the changelog to see specific features and bugs that were addressed in R7.1. For more detail on all the changes in R7.1 browse the repository.
Along with the release or LinHES R7.1 many pages in the wiki have been added or updated. Take a look and if you have how-to, hint, or tip, please consider adding it to the wiki for the benefit of the community.
With LinHES R7.1, you'll find the finest Linux HTPC distribution is only getting better!
R6 Repo Change
The repo for R6 has been changed to:
Server = http://knoppmyth.net/repo/i686/R6/core
Server = http://knoppmyth.net/repo/i686/R6/extra
This is in preparation for the release of R7. If you don't want to immediately upgrade to R7, change your
The Myth packages have been upgraded for R6. This includes MythInstall which should resolve any Service Menu issues.
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The new LinHES.org is now live.
The LinHES.org homepage is now integrated with our project tracker (Redmine) for easy access to the latest news, forums, wiki, code repository, and reporting bugs.
LinHES R7.00.03 Beta Release
LinHES R7.00.03 is available for download. R7.00.03 is a beta release before the final R7.01.00.
We worked out various issues with upgrading from earlier releases to R7.00.03 so doing an auto upgrade from the CD or via pacman should work (Backup First!). However, we'd ask you wait until the R7.01.00 release before upgrading your production systems. If you have the hardware to test upgrades or want to do a clean install, please give R7.00.03 a try. Please report any bugs you may encounter.
PCS-2 External edition
If your looking for a simple and clean way to power your HTPC on/off via your remote, I would give the PCS-2 some serious consideration.
The fine folks at SIMEREC let me preview the external edition of the PCS-2.
Gotta say they did a great job with it, I like it even more then the internal product.
The internal PCS-2 works very well. However the install involves a little bit of wire splicing, which can be a little off-putting.
The external edition removes the need for wire splicing and only requires 2 connections inside the case and one free PCI bracket.
From start to finish the product can be hooked up in as little as 2 minutes. As an added touch they included a power button with the external receiver.
For people that like to hide their htpc, this effectively give you the ability to relocate the power button to someplace within easy reach.
There is no firm release date yet for the external edition of the PCS-2, but I believe it is targeted to ship before the end of the year.
Redmine update
Redmine (the bugtracker) has been updated to 1.2
Once again lots of little bugfixes and performance enhancements.
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The Southampton Nanofabrication Centre is a state-of-the-art facility for microfabrication and high-spec nanofabrication, as well as a wide range of characterisation capabilities housed in the new Mountbatten Complex at the University of Southampton.
One of the premiere cleanrooms in Europe, the Centre has a uniquely broad range of technologies, combining traditional and novel top down fabrication with state-of-the-art bottom up fabrication. This allows us to develop and produce a wide range of devices in diverse fields such as electronics, nanotechnology and bionanotechnology and incorporate them into an equally comprehensive array of nano and microsystems for analysis and use. The characterisation capability is similarly extensive catalogue of microscopes and test gear, from nanometre resolution scanning microscopes to electrical, magnetic and RF analysis.
The facility is run by the Nano Research Group of the School of Electronics and Computer Science and is intended to be available for research, development and small-scale commercial projects through collaborative work and the placement of staff in the facility. Researchers will be encouraged to use the clean room for their research and to develop skills and techniques that allow them to innovate in imaginative new ways. Potential research collaborators are encouraged to contact one of the academic staff through the group research pages. Visitors with industrial or commercial interests should contact our commercial development office.


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Inbox/Outbox: December 7, 2012
I'm not sure I've ever realized how many books I read that have subtitles. Perhaps this is fitting since I so often feel like I need to add a little explanation of my own when writing (and often revert to the good old parenthesis for that). Also, while reviewing this list, I realize how very eclectic my reading is… one minute I'm baking with booze in the kitchen, the next I'm reading about D-Day and colorful writers. Also, very fitting.
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Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine, and Beer by Krystina Castella and Terry Lee Stone – I'm not sure this needs much explanation, but here it goes… this was sent to me by Quirk books; it's part of their Gift Guide for the holiday season. I'm pretty sure I'll be the most popular person at holiday parties when I bring, oh let's say the Tequila Sunrise Cake instead of chocolate chip cookies.
Conversations With Capote by Lawrence Grobel – I've had this book marked as to-read for ages, so imagine my delight when I found a copy at a used book store. This old, fell-off-the-map-but-shouldn't-have book is basically conversations that the author had with Truman Capote over the last two years of his life. He dishes on everyone from Jacqueline Onassis to Norman Mailer. Me thinks this one might go well with a pairing from Booze Cakes.
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan – I can pretty much be talked into anything that has to do with France… ok, "talked into" might not be the best phrasing; if you mention Paris to me, I'm in. Done. Boom. No more effort needed. So reading about these three influential women and how living in Paris changed who they were is a no-brainer. (Like I need any more reasons to tempt me to become Parisian.)
Outbox (Books Finished)
Charms For the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons – This sweet, short novel is basically full of vignettes told by a young woman about her mother and grandmother (but especially her grandmother) during the first half of the 20th Century. The stories are fun, most things work out for the best, and, if you like ladies with gumption, this will be a good read for you.
Just Kids by Patti Smith – Hello my lovely, hello my inspiration, hello my cool new
friend muse. Um, how was I not already obsessed with Patti Smith? I feel like my mom somehow failed me as a child by not introducing me to the coolness of the 1970s rock/art/drug scene (you know "failed" or was a responsible parent, take your pick on the wording). Seriously, if I had read this book as a teenager, there may have been more drugs in my past. As it is, as a responsible adult, it inspired me not only because of the incredible love story (not romantic, a different, much cooler type of love story), the expression and passion for art (and the never giving up), but also the style and the culture. I now am a proud owner of a temporary tattoo (ok, so Patti Smith had someone literally carve a tattoo into her knee at the Chelsea Hotel and I soaked one on with a washcloth over my sink… still influenced, people).
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling – I love laughing out loud, and I love Mindy Kaling's new TV show, The Mindy Kaling Project. Therefore, it will be no surprise that I love this book. I would open it and say, entertain me Mindy, and she did… usually by making me laugh and utter, "sooooo true!" in that really annoying way that chicks have of drawing out words when they want to emphasize them.
In the Queue
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre – This is the story of the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever carried out, and it was done against Hitler. Can anything beat that? This is the story of D-Day from the perspective of the double agents who convinced Hitler that a fake invasion was happening elsewhere, which ensured an Allied victory in one of the most critical junctions of the war. Even though I know it all worked out (thank our lucky stars), my heart will be pounding the entire time. How many guesses for how long it will take for this to become a movie?
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead – This story of the Parisian (yes, Paris again) women who were fiercely anti-Nazi during a time of German occupation in their country is sure to be inspiring and heartbreaking. Out of the 230 women the Gestapo hunted down, only 49 would return to France from Auschwitz; yet this story will show us how the bonds of friendship and an unshakeable passion for stopping the evil that was happening around them turned ordinary people into the bravest of heroes.
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How do you count words? Ashley Wagner discusses the question as part of our video on the number of words in the English language.
Definición de encurtido en Español:
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Verdura, hortaliza o fruto que se conservan en vinagre, sal y hierbas aromáticas y toman el sabor ácido de este preparado.
algunos encurtidos, como pepinillos, alcaparras, coliflor o zanahorias, sirven para preparar ensaladas
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A lot of people get compliment and complement confused: they're pronounced in the same way and have very similar spellings but they have completely different meanings.
Should you capitalize the word "Internet"?Read more
The question of whether the word internet should be capitalized is so passionately debated and rife with controversy that it has its own Wikipedia article.
14 ways to hugFind out more
We've delved into the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary to come up with some historical substitutions for hug as a verb.


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It doesn't seem long ago that Hope was one of the teeny-tiny babies upstairs in the baby room...
...but she grew, and new babies arrived, and eventually the time came for Hope to graduate downstairs to be with the big kids.
There were new toys to play with!
New friends to make!
Big, grown-up friends who give cuddles...
Hope loves to be held, and everyone loves to hold her, so that works out pretty well.
Sometimes, when babies are so adorable, it's hard to contemplate them growing up. We have a feeling though, that Hope is just going to get sweeter as she gets bigger.
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Hi, everyone! With Fall upon us, the beauty world resumes its buzz about deep, vampy lips. I'm a true sucker for a bold lip, but I'm also glad to see that MAC is here to remind us that the colder months can be all about fabulously deep, intense, mesmerizing eyes as well! The brand new Spellbinder collection is about just that, including 8 limited edition shadows to add some metallic, sultry glitz to the eyes.
Here's what MAC has to say about the collection:
"This is one attraction that's impossible to resist. M∙A∙C Spellbinder Shadow creates mesmerizing eyes with the deepest, most mysterious shades, clinging to lids like pure velvet. Black, ionized pigments are magnetically charged, fusing the loose powder together so it magically maintains its form and dimension. Hexing hues pull you in, casting their spell in blackened emerald, cobalt and teal, as the metallic finish captivates all that crosses its path."
The Spellbinder Shadows ($22.00 US/$26.00 CAD) come in eight shades:
Aphrodisiac: rich cobalt blue
Blue Karma: soft greyed teal
Cosmic Clash: deep green
Dynamically Charged: taupey cool bronze
Gravity's Pull: dark purple
Higher Power: rich deep brown
Mysterious Influence: rich olive golden green
Retrograde: greyed black
The textured surface of the shadows looks absolutely stunning and the texture sounds incredibly unique! I cannot wait to test them out. Each shadow is housed in a little black pot with twist-off lid.
The collection is also accompanied by the 283 Duo Fibre Small Eye Shadow Brush ($25.00 US/$30.00 CAD), designed to work perfectly with the texture of these shadows.
Tempted by the unique texture and mesmerizing shades?
The MAC Spellbinder collection will be available online October 13th and in-store for a limited time starting October 20th.
Thanks so much for stopping by! xo


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Ride-on sweepers from Kärcher have patented features26th of January 2015
The ride-on vacuum sweepers KM 105/100 R and KM 105/110 R from Kärcher incorporate a number of patent-protected features. Innovations include hydraulic forward travel drive, sickle-shaped brush, automatic adjustment of the roller brush between the rear wheels, automatic TACT filter cleaning, intelligent KIK operator system and a new bivalent drive design.
Hydraulic forward travel drive makes the sweepers easy to manoeuvre - they can rotate almost on the spot. The roller brush is positioned directly on the rear axle to ensure ground contact at all times when working on inclines or uneven surfaces. Rolling pressure and sweeping levels can be adjusted to three modes, with the machine starting automatically in a wear-resistant efficiency mode which is adequate for routine cleaning.


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Here's a delicious dish to make with your Homemade Roasted Red Bell Peppers, and you're in luck because it's another recipe I've sneakily stolen from my Neapolitan Culinary Whiz, Tina. Also take note: the Italian flag colors are proudly on display in this salad, in case you doubted its authenticity. Tina serves this dish with a … Continue reading
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Creamy Cucumber Salad
This classic salad is popular with apron fitted, whisk wielding Betty Crockers all over America, and with good reason. It's smooth and crunchy with just the right balance of sour and sweet. It's a staple at any picnic or potluck but I discovered how well this salad accompanies fish while spending time in Austria. Most … Continue reading
Tomato, Cucumber and Mozzarella Salad
It seems I'm making this recipe all the time due to the lovely tomatoes and cucumbers currently flowing from my garden. But actually I happily make this salad any time I have access to good tomatoes, garden or not. It's always refreshing, shining on its own as a quick lunch or nicely accompanying most entrées, … Continue reading
Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Salad
Roasted beets and goat cheese… A more perfect flavor combination is hard to imagine. The intense sweetness of the roasted beets balances perfectly the tangy goat cheese, sending my taste buds straight to their own personal happy place. I have had a thing for beets since I was very young. My parents used to take … Continue reading


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Jackie's Bridal Shower will be taking place at a beautiful and very hip restaurant named Crazy About You in Miami's popular Brickell area. This place is ultra-modern and has gorgeous views of the bay {and the food is delish!} so we needed to create something amazing to go with the setting.
We went with a peacock theme, silver to match the decor and wording that was just as appropiate. The result was a square-shaped card with an actual peacock feather attached.
Note: The location was Crazy About You in Miami, Florida. Linens were provided by Mystical Memories of Miami, Florida. Flower centerpieces were done by me as well as the menu cards, favor boxes, place cards and wire mannequin setup. Cupcake fondant feather idea came from a Bride's 2010 issue I fell in love with and Cake Designs by Edda of Doral was able to recreate *EXACTLY* what I had in mind for this event.
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Lu Summers of Blu-shed asked for help recently in naming her new screenprinted fabrics. She needed names for the flowers on their own and for the flowers on the check background. Michelle suggested "Meadow" for the flowers by themselves and I suggested "Flower Basket" for the flowers on the check background and she liked it. Lucky me then got an envelope in the post with these lovely three pieces of fabric in it.
I already have plans for how I am going to use it and I am seriously considering buying up the teal and rose and plum colourways as well. They are gorgeous. Check the fabrics out here.
But you have probably already heard about Lu Summers in Modish, Design Sponge and Poppytalk.


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The Marxist attitude toward philosophy is far more nuanced than either Boyer or Althusser suspect. For the young Marx, the entire goal of historical development was the "immediate realization of philosophy," or to make the world philosophical. "[A]s the world becomes philosophical," he explained, "philosophy also becomes worldly." Philosophy had been consummated in thought with the arrival of Hegel's philosophy. Now the more pressing task was to bring this philosophy into reality — not by grafting its systematic features onto the world as it is, but by employing its dialectical methodology in order to ruthlessly criticize the world as it is (to invoke Engels' distinction from Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy). Later Marxists, during the Second International, had very little patience for philosophical questions, preferring to have done with it rather than study its implications. Many of them fell under the sway of fashionable philosophies or intellectual currents from the time, such as Comtean positivism or neo-Kantianism, without even knowing it. Such "eclecticism" was the primary target of Lenin's 1908 polemic Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, and a decade later the Marxist theorist Georg Lukács would provocatively assert that
[o]rthodox Marxism…does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the results of Marx's investigations. It is not the "belief" in this or that thesis, nor the exegesis of a "sacred" book. On the contrary, orthodoxy refers exclusively to methodology. It is the scientific conviction that dialectical materialism is the road to truth and that its methods can be developed, expanded and deepened only along the lines laid down by its founders. It is the conviction…that all attempts to surpass or "improve" it have led and must lead to oversimplification, triviality, and eclecticism.
Shortly before his death, Lenin called upon Marxists everywhere to "arrange for the systematic study of Hegelian dialectics from a materialist standpoint, i.e., the dialectics which Marx applied practically in his Capital and in his historical and political works." This quote soon became the epigraph for Karl Korsch's Marxism and Philosophy (1923), released the following year. In this work, Korsch argued that Marxists' general neglect of the philosophical questions that had preoccupied Marx and Engels had allowed a major theoretical conflict brewing within revolutionary Marxism to go unnoticed until it was too late. Lenin was virtually the only exception to this rule. Korsch therefore maintained: "Bourgeois consciousness must be philosophically fought with revolutionary materialistic dialectic, which is the philosophy of the working class. This struggle will only end when the whole of existing society and its economic basis have been totally overthrown in practice, and this consciousness has been totally surpassed and abolished in theory. — 'Philosophy cannot be abolished without first being realized'."
Philosophy should have been sublated — simultaneously realized and abolished — during the global conflagration that took place a century ago this year. Because this opportunity came and went without bearing fruit, philosophy lives on in a kind dim afterlife. Or as Adorno put it in Negative Dialectics (1966): "Philosophy, which once seemed obsolete, lives on because the moment to realize it was missed. The summary judgment that it had merely interpreted the world, that resignation in the face of reality had crippled it, becomes a defeatism of reason after the attempt to change the world miscarried."[1]
[1] Adorno, Theodor. Negative Dialectics. Translated by E.B. Ashton. (Routledge. New York, NY: 2004). Pg. 3.


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Salt River Fields Announces 'World's Best Sand Sculpting Championship Presented by Talking Stick Destination' Sat. & Sun., Dec. 12 & 13
First Sand Sculpting Competition ever hosted in Arizona
10 World-Class Artists Competing for $19,000 Purse
Tickets at www.SaltRiverFields.com
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Aug. 24, 2015) — Salt River Fields is proud to announce the 'World's Best Sand Sculpting Championship Presented by Talking Stick Destination,' a family-friendly two-day beach themed festival (www.SRFSandCastleFest.com), Sat. and Sun, Dec. 12 and 13, noon-8pm, featuring the first sand sculpting competition ever hosted in Arizona.
Ten world-class artists will begin to design and build one-of-a-kind sand sculptures on Saturday and will carve live until 5 pm. Sunday, the general public will be able to cast their vote for the People's Choice award while the artists apply the finishing touches to their creations, which will range from 10 to 20 feet in length. Artists will compete for a $19,000 purse, and the sculptures will be judged with the winner announced Sunday evening.
"Only in Arizona can you have a beach bash in the middle of winter," said Dave Dunne, General Manager, Salt River Fields. "Where else than in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona, can you plan a family photo with Santa, and be awed by amazingly creative sand sculptures. It can only happen in the middle of the Sonoran desert, and we're excited it's happening here at Talking Stick."
The two-day event also will feature beach-themed live entertainment, food, holiday vendors to top off seasonal shopping lists, FREE sandcastle lessons taught by Andy Hancock from Sandcastle Lessons (www.sandcastlelessons.com), photos with Santa Claus as he stops by on his last few days of vacation and much more. The sand sculpting competition is organized by renowned multimedia artist Sean Fitzpatrick from Fitzy Snowman Sculpting (www.fitzysnowman.com.)
TICKETS. General admission tickets are $12; children 2 and under are FREE. Tickets are available at www.SaltRiverFields.com.
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About Salt River Fields at Talking Stick. Salt River Fields is a central landmark within the Talking Stick Destination. Completing its fifth season in 2015, the world-class, LEED Certified Gold venue serves as Spring Training home of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies. The facility is surrounded by some of the world's most beautiful mountain panoramas, and also serves as a popular year-round destination for major community events. Salt River Fields is an enterprise of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and in 2015 earned a Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence and was named Best Spring Training Field by Arizona Foothills Magazine. The facility also is a winner of the 2013 Good Design is Good Business competition by Architectural Record; Best Sports/Entertainment Project by News-Record Southwest; and Ballpark Digest named it Ballpark of the Year. Salt River Fields, 7555 North Pima Road, Scottsdale, Ariz. 85258. Visit www.SaltRiverFields.com for the latest information. Follow on Twitter @SaltRiverFields and Facebook www.facebook.com/saltriverfieldsattalkingstick
About Talking Stick Destination. The Talking Stick Destination is Scottsdale's premier entertainment destination, featuring eight entities that are surrounded by a rich cultural history and spectacular valley views. The Talking Stick Destination is home to Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, Talking Stick Resort, Talking Stick Golf Club, the Pavilions at Talking Stick, Octane Raceway, Topgolf, Butterfly Wonderland, Courtyard Scottsdale Salt River and OdySea Aquarium, opening Summer 2016. The Talking Stick Destination is a collaboration marketing initiative lead by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. In 2014, Talking Stick Destination was voted Best Tribal Enterprise by the Arizona Indian Chamber of Commerce. www.TalkingStickArizona.com
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Knowing Me, Knowing You 2 - Learning exchange reports and video
Community Food and Health Scotland, CHEX and Voluntary Health Scotland recently organised a series of learning exchange and study visits between public sector workers and those working in the community and voluntary sector. Reports for these events have now been completed and are available to download, along with videos from the days.
The learning exchange took place on 3rd March 2015 and brought together people from a range of backgrounds to discuss their differing perspectives on the shared task of tackling Scotland's health inequalities.
Following this, a series of study visits were attended by civil servants and members of staff, firstly to Lothian Community Health Initiatives Forum in Edinburgh. LCHIF support the work of community projects across Edinburgh and the Lothians who use a community development approach to tackle health inequalities.
This was followed by a visit to 3D Drumchapel, COPE Scotland and Drumchapel L.I.F.E, all organisations working around health and inequality in the west of Glasgow. Members of staff from the Scottish Government and NHS Health Scotland attended and heard about the work each organisation is carrying out.
Funded by The Third Sector Unit of Scottish Government, the learning exchange programme from was built on lessons from a pilot which was organised in 2012/13.
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WITH A cordial handshake, US president Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro have set the stage for a ground-breaking meeting on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas, in what would be a remarkable display of reconciliation between the two nations.
The powerful symbolism of a substantial exchange between the leaders with the leadership of the Western Hemisphere gathered around them could signal progress.
Both sides are still working through nettlesome issues that would lead to the opening of embassies in Washington and Havana, the first stage in a new diplomatic relationship.
The first visual clues of an improved relationship - at least among leaders - came as Mr Obama and Mr Castro arrived at a Panama City convention centre for the summit's opening ceremonies.
A reporter for a Venezuelan TV network posted video online showing the two greeting each other comfortably with multiple handshakes and extended small talk, while United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon and Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez looked on.
The White House said the interaction was informal and they did not engage in substantive conversation. The two men are expected to speak further later - the first extended conversation between the leaders of the US and Cuba in more than 50 years.
Mr Obama, speaking to a meeting of civil society groups, cast the move to end hostile relations as a triumph for the Cuban people.
"As the United States begins a new chapter in our relationship with Cuba, we hope it will create an environment that improves the lives of the Cuban people," he told the gathering, which included Cuban dissidents.
"Not because it is imposed by us, the United States, but through the talent and ingenuity and aspirations, and the conversations among Cubans from all walks of life so they can decide what the best course is for their prosperity."
The White House was coy over the status of the State Department's recommendation to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terror. Removal is a top issue with Mr Castro because it would not only eliminate Cuba's status as a pariah, but also ease Cuba's ability to conduct simple financial transactions.
Nevertheless, the pace of activity over the terror list suggested that even if Mr Obama did not make an announcement, one would come soon.
• Obama and Castro's historic handshake
The US-Cuban outreach entered a new, accelerated stage in recent days, with Mr Obama speaking with Mr Castro by phone on Wednesday and US secretary of state John Kerry holding a lengthy meeting with Mr Rodriguez.
The Cuban foreign ministry issued a brief account of the Kerry-Rodriguez meeting, saying they met for nearly three hours in a "respectful and constructive atmosphere".
It was the highest level, face-to-face contact between officials from the two countries since the December 17 announcement that Washington and Havana would move to restore diplomatic relations severed in 1961.
Even as Washington talked up the historic shift toward Cuba, leftist leaders in Latin America took shots at the US in solidarity with Venezuela.
Barely off the plane, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro laid a wreath at a monument to victims of the US invasion of Panama in 1989. To shouts of "Maduro, stick it to the Yankee", he vowed to personally ask Mr Obama to apologise to Panama and compensate victims of what he called a "massacre" that left more than 500 people dead during the invasion.
"Never again a US invasion in Latin America," Mr Maduro said.
President Evo Morales of Bolivia said he backed Maduro's drive to end US intervention in the region.
• Stephen McGinty: Cuba comes in from the cold
The Obama-Castro conversation on Wednesday was the first since they spoke on December 17.
The flurry of diplomacy around the summit was recognition of the historic nature of the new relationship intended to end five decades of American presidents either isolating or working to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
Still, Mr Obama made a point of meeting about 15 Latin American activists, including two Cubans who have challenged Mr Castro's government. The White House said the Cubans were Laritza Diversent, a human rights lawyer and independent journalist, and Manuel Cuesta Morua, a leader of a centrist opposition group.
A large contingent of pro-Castro Cubans who were supposed to participate in a larger civil society forum left shortly before Mr Obama spoke, to protest at the inclusion of Cuban dissidents.
Mr Obama was already getting praise from allies in the Americas.
"President Obama is going to leave a legacy the way he is supporting Hispanics in the United States, and also his new policy for Cuba for us is very important," said Panamanian president Juan Carlos Varela.
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Sunday, June 11, 2017
What Makes Corbyn Shine?
If Corbyn can elicit a letter from the Labour Friends of Israel head, Joan Ryan MP (Enfield North), to her constituents that opens thus:
"Dear Resident, I know from speaking to people around here that many who have previously voted Labour are thinking hard this time because, they tell me, they have more confidence in Theresa May as PM than they would have in Jeremy Corbyn" (2/6/17)...
Or if he can prompt a post-election confession such as this from the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland:
"I opposed Jeremy Corbyn when he first stood for the Labour leadership in 2015, and thereafter, and I did so on two grounds. First on principle: I was troubled by his foreign policy worldview, with its indulgence of assorted authoritarian regimes, and by what I perceived as his willingness to look past antisemitism on the left... " (Jeremy Corbyn didn't win - but he has rewritten all the rules, 10/6/17)...
(The Zionist Freedland really means here Corbyn's willingness to criticise Israel.)
... then we have reason to conclude that he passes Kishore Mahbubani's infallible litmus test for intellectual and moral courage, namely, speaking truth to power on the Middle East in general, and on Palestine/Israel in particular.
And all intelligent, right-thinking people respect those qualities in a leader.
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- Grappler said...
Saudi Arabia and Egypt under Sisi are not included in the list of "assorted authoritarian regimes" that Corbyn would "indulge" but that I am fairly convinced Freedland would. Let me try to work out why.
At least Haim Saban (funder of Hillary Clinton's campaign) is honest: "I'm a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel."
On the other hand, Corbyn would not send British forces to fight wars of regime change, resulting in more suffering of the people of those countries.
- June 11, 2017 at 7:33 AM
- Grappler said...
You will enjoy this, MERC. Check out the comments with the most likes.
- June 11, 2017 at 8:56 AM
The question I have; will Corbyn's win finally kill off the sickening, one line media grab politicis we have here in Oz?
- June 11, 2017 at 11:50 AM
- Grappler said...
On the role of media and our Western foreign policy in the ME, see this article by Elijah J Magnier:
- June 11, 2017 at 9:06 PM


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One good thing that came out of not going to India (one has to look for silver linings, right?) is that I now have time to make pineapple tarts for Chinese New Year (CNY). It's a staple snack in Singapore's CNY celebration but I've never had it before moving here. The Taiwanese has a similar version, but not entirely the same.
Traditionally people start from fresh pineapples, grate them, and cook them with sugar and some spices to make the filling. The tart base is pretty standard, but some people make a closed version instead of an open-tart. They wrap the filling in the pastry dough and either stop at a smooth ball or clip the ball with scissor points all over to make them look like pineapples. I've done the latter once, and vowed to never do it again.
I never have time to make my own pineapple filling, so I cheat a little. I buy ready-made pineapple filling from Phoon Huat, then add some spices and syrup to it to increase the moisture content and adjust the flavors. As a result my fillings taste a little different because I use western spices. Purists will turn up their noses at this practice but I like them this way. Besides, if you ask people for their pineapple tart recipes, they're all a little different. This is just how I make mine =oP
Besides the filling, the tart base is also very important. Like any tart, you never want the base to be tough. The key to a crumbly and soft tart base, other than using tons of butter, is to handle the dough as little as possible to minimize gluten formation. I use a food processor and pulse together the butter and dry ingredients first (photo 1), until it resembles sand (photo 2). Then I add the eggs and pulse again (photo 3), until the eggs are incorporated. I then dump the contents into a large bowl (photo 4) or directly onto the kitchen counter and squeeze with my hands for them to stick together.
The final step is to push the dough with the heel of my hand, until it's one cohesive mass, pick it up, and slam it onto the counter a few times. By now you should have a very smooth ball of dough. (See videos, top view and front view)
I wrap the dough in saran wrap in a square packet, roll the dough out with a rolling pin until the square packet is filled, then I chill it in the fridge overnight. If I'm short on time I chill the dough in the freezer, but it's much easier to roll the dough out without cracking if you let it slowly chill in the fridge.
The next day, it's time to bake the tarts. When you take a piece of dough that's cold and hard, the best way to soften it is by hitting it with a rolling pin and turning it 90 degrees as you go, until you've hit it in all directions. I then turn the dough 45 degrees so I can beat it on the diagonal. This it to ensure the dough stretches out evenly.
I like my tarts with a thickish base, so I place two 5mm thick metal rulers on either side of the dough and place the rolling pin on top. This way I can be sure the dough is 5mm thick all over. When rolling the dough out, you want to make sure to do it slowly, and turn it often. Make sure you dust your work surface with flour after each turn to prevent sticking. If the dough gets stuck on your rolling pin, dust the dough with flour, but don't do this too much because the more flour you add to the dough, the tougher it gets. If the dough starts to show cracks on the edges, simply overlap the broken edges and roll over it to patch up. You can see me doing this in the video. (Note to self: need to get myself an iPhone stand so I can take better videos...) When the dough is at the thickness you want, brush away any excess flour and start cutting.
I use a special cutter (here is a similar version)which has a plastic insert. After cutting out a round piece of dough you push down on the plastic plunger, which presses an indent in the center of the dough while making patterns on the edge. Once you've gotten all the tarts you could out of this piece of dough, gather up the scraps, ball it up, wrap and roll into a square and freeze again.
Arrange tart bases on a cookie sheet without greasing. They don't expand so you don't have to leave too much space in between. Bake in a 150C oven for 10 minutes, remove, and brush the edge with egg wash, plop a pineapple ball on top and bake for 10 more minutes.
You can parallel process and here's a picture of the tarts in various stages of finishing.
They make for great little gifts during CNY =o)
Pineapple Tarts (Makes about 60)
Pineapple Jam
500g ready made pineapple tart filling
50g Golden syrup
25g corn syrup
25g + 25g water
1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
1/4 tsp Allspice powder
1/2 tsp clove powder
1/8 tsp cardamom powder
gratings of nutmeg
1. Bring Golden syrup, corn syrup and 25g of water to a boil in a large pot. Add pineapple fillings and mash together with potato masher while heating gently.
2. Add the other 25g of water and the remaining spices, continue to mash until fully incorporated
3. Let cool to room temperature.
4. Roll into balls weighing 8g each.
Can be prepared a few days in advance and kept covered in fridge
Tart Base:
500g plain/all purpose flour
330g unsalted butter, cold, cut to 3mm slices
4 egg yolks
69g eggs
33g milk powder
33g custard powder
pinch of salt
1. Place all the dry ingredients in a food processor. Add butter pieces and pulse until mixture resembles sand.
2. Add yolks and eggs and pulse again until cohesive
3. Pour mixture into a large bowl or onto kitchen counter. Squeeze with hands until dough comes together.
4. Push dough with heel of hand until they stick together. Gather into a ball and slam onto the counter a few times, until smooth
5. Wrap in a piece of plastic wrap and roll into a square shape.
6. Chill in fridge overnight, or place in freezer until hardened.
1. Preheat oven to 150C
2. Roll tart base into 5mm thickness. Using a pineapple tart cutter, cut out rounds and place onto a cookie sheet.
3. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and brush the edges of the tarts with egg wash
4. Place a ball of pineapple jam onto each tart and press down lightly
5. Bake for another 10 minutes.
6. Cool on rack completely before packing.


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The enlightened one…meet Gordon
I ask the same question to every driven, motivated and successful person that I get in touch with: "What book has helped to define your success?" (You should be doing the same) The first person I ever asked this question to was my uncle, who is the CEO of one of the world's largest shipping companies.
Based in Hong Kong, I'd been told one of his keys to successfully navigating the foreign business world was his immersion into the Asian culture by poring through every relevant cultural/business text he could get his hands on.
As we sat down and watched golf at my parent's house over the summer holidays years ago, he affirmatively suggested a book that has come to define the way I make decisions at work and in life. This book, Thick Face, Black Heart, is a mix between the Art of War, and a spiritual text by someone like Deepak Chopra or Eckhardt Tolle.
The book's subtext describes it as, "The warrior philosophy for conquering the challenges of business and life." If you've ever wondered how business titans sustainably and ethically climb the ladder with ruthless fervor, this book teaches you the steps to take and the mentality you need in order to act with 100% integrity while hurdling obstacles and leap frogging your competition to rip your goals out of whatever or whoever's hands may be holding them back.
In my own life, I left my first entrepreneurial position at a family founded beverage startup to head to Washington DC for a completely different career path with the help of the mindset that the author Chin-Ning Chu instills in her readers. It was the unknown path, and as terrifying as that may be, I was 100% confident in my vision. In later blog posts, I will get deeper into the actions I've taken, the tough decisions I made and the thought process that I use in order to reverse engineer my goals before ethically and aggressively executing towards the next step as described in this book.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from the book:
"Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through the dark of the night, we will not see the glory of daybreak."
"The world has a tendency to accept our own judgment of ourselves. By his/her absolute self confidence, the thick-faced person instills confidence in others. They see him as successful and allow him the latitude to succeed."
"If you are not concerned about the outcome of a circumstance, you will experience no fear. Whatever the outcome will be, will be, whether you fear it or not."
…Every book that I suggest in this continuing series are the kinds of books that you re-read over and over again. Books that you keep around with you – that gather notes and frayed pages. Buy this book here: Thick Face, Black Heart
(Oh yea… and dad, you were right. I should have read more when I was younger)


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Indulge Your Senses with Endorfin Foods
We are a family of chocolate lovers and are always looking for tasty chocolate combinations to try. Endorfin Foods was founded by Brian Wallace and his love for the cacao bean. Brian set out to deliver a unique, chocolate bar one that would reintroduce cacao to the modern world as the highly nutritive, uplifting 'food of the gods' that it once was How did he plan on achieving this goal? With … [Read more...]
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Snuggle Like a Mermaid
Everyone has seen those adorable crochet mermaid tail blankets floating around the internet. I know I have. Like every week I see it at least a few times and I think to myself how much my daughter would love this. However, it's made from yarn and we have cats. Cats and yarn do not mix. Sure the cats would have one heck of a Saturday evening rolling around and unraveling the blanket but my … [Read more...]
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Are you a child of the 80s? Or even 90s? Remember how cool it was to have a mood ring? To watch it change colors? I do! I remember cherishing my mood ring in middle school and wearing it all the time. But now that I'm older and a mom myself I don't think wearing a mood ring is going to working out for me. But there is a stunning piece of jewelry that is reminiscent of the mood ring of years past, … [Read more...]


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- The role of HR and management
- Dismissal as an academic boomerang
- Expired disciplinary actions...
- Staff are silenced by fear of reprisals
- Academic unions have their head in the sand...
- Skorupski's Law and other related laws
- Backfire basics - The keys to backfire
- Are they claiming that you are emotionally unstable?
- The spinless Mob...
- The Seven Principles of Public Life - Higher and Further Education
- Dignity at Work - A Good Practice Guide for Higher Education Institutions on Dealing with Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace
- The experience of injustice...
- The no-Asshole rule...
- Six degrees of collaboration
- Academic leadership - The bullying boss
- Procedures for making allegations concerning Higher Education institutions and the 2008 RAE - UK
The bullying of academics follows a pattern of horrendous, Orwellian elimination rituals, often hidden from the public. Despite the anti-bullying policies (often token), bullying is rife across campuses, and the victims (targets) often pay a heavy price. "Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence." Leonardo da Vinci - "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men [or good women] do nothing." Edmund Burke
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Pink Flamingo Gift Tags
Today is hump day and I'm feeling like a lump! I had a great work out today but I'm really tired from having to out the door before 8:30am inorder to drop my daughter off at camp. Today I am really dragging my feet. You would hope that I would get used to the routine by now, but tomorrow is the last day of camp so I'll have a bit of a relief until I have to do it all over again next week.
Today for my Challenge I am featuring Crickleberry Cottage
I love the feel of this shop, it is very cottagey and vintagey (for lack of a better word). I love the look of these gift tags! They are pink, girly and oh so pretty.


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Delays in Issuing SSNs to Aliens by the Social Security Administration
Sometimes aliens experience significant delays in obtaining social security numbers. The consequences of these delays are discussed below.
There is no federal law administered by any federal agency which prohibits the hiring of a person based solely on the fact that the person does not have a Social Security Number (SSN). Similarly, there is no federal law which prohibits the making of a payment to a person based solely on the fact that the person does not have an SSN.
However, there are federal laws and regulations which require the reporting of a payee's TIN (Taxpayer Identification Number--SSN or ITIN) on federal information returns and payee statements such as forms W-2, 1099, 1042-S, etc. In addition, federal regulations require (with a few exceptions) that all tax treaty claims made on Forms 8233, W-8BEN, or W-9 be accompanied by the beneficial owner's TIN.
The IRS is quite aware of the Social Security Administration's new procedures effective since 09-30-2002 about not issuing an SSN to any alien for whom it cannot confirm his identity and immigration status from the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Servicesformerly the INS). In addition, the IRS is quite aware of the delays in securing an SSN which these new procedures will cause many aliens. Furthermore, in the situation in which an alien is work-authorized under the immigration law and is eligible to request an SSN, but who is experiencing delays in securing an SSN caused by the SSA's new procedures, the IRS will not issue an ITIN (Individual Taxpayer Identification Number) to such an alien.
With respect to IRS penalties related to the payor's failure to furnish a payee TIN on an information return and on a payee statement, the fact that the payor does not have a payee TIN to report because the SSA is delaying an issuance of an SSN to a work-authorized alien solely because of its new procedures, will cause the IRS to be quite favorable toward considering this situation one in which "reasonable cause" exists for not asserting such penalties. The payor should keep documentation to show that his failure to supply a payee TIN is caused solely by the SSA's new procedures for issuing SSN's to aliens.
However, please remember the following two points:
The IRS cannot speak to the issue of potential penalties which could be imposed by other federal, state, or local agencies for the failure of an employer or payor to report a payee's TIN on any required documents, except to note that the filing of the immigration Form I-9 without an SSN does not constitute grounds, in and of itself, to reject the validity of the Form I-9. If an alien employee can prove his work-eligibility with documents listed on Form I-9 other than a U.S. social security card, then the alien's Form I-9, even though submitted without an SSN, is valid under the immigration law.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
inventory weekend
good morning
how was your weekend?
ours was up and down but, mostly up. friday night i did a little knitting and watched a movie - the first time i have sat down all year to watch one! it only took 11 months-ha! we watched 'lars and the real girl' which i thought was a really cute movie. saturday, we went to lunch with the kids and i worked on some inventory and then we were off to hoboken to drop some items at mackey blue and visit my coffee girls. sunday, the boys did yard work and i worked on some inventory for perch home with a quick outing for some drinking chocolate. there also was a touch of sickness and teething unfortunately but, all seems well today so far.
i had intended a little sewing on a dress but got sidetracked to inventory and completed 3 smocks, onesies & some button bobbies which is always something one needs to keep up with so i'm happy with the result. oh, and i also got a little more work done on that little gift i'm making for the baby which involves flannel, felt and embroidery.
2 comments:
- Amelia Plum said...
love the bobby in the middle row, second from top. hope that things are going well with your sales at perch. i thought lars and the real girl was cute too. ryan gosling is an incredible actor - you should see him in 'the believer' it'll blow you away.
- November 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM
- kristi said...
i really really LOVED that movie! and your crafty things are cute.
- November 25, 2008 at 4:31 PM
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— If you are signed up and are here to just get started with the workshop, click on the workshop title you have signed up for, either under the tab above or on the right side in the sidebar. Then put in your main page password. Caution to not click on a certain week the first time. Only main page. Then go from there.
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Again, welcome to WMG Publishing Online Workshops.
Each regular workshop is 6 weeks long and is limited to 5 writers. (Classic workshops are unlimited.)
Again, it will take you about three hours per week to do each of these. These are the starting dates of upcoming regular workshops. All have openings at the moment.
Workshop Curriculum 9/19/2016
I'm going to divide these down into areas of study.
And the numbers are my suggestions on the order to take these workshops because many of them build on others. This does not include the workshops starting in 2017. I will be adding those soon.
1… Depth
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These nine workshops will jump you so far ahead in your writing skills, you won't be able to see it, but your friends and readers will. And I know, interesting that Teams workshop is the 4th most important, but trust me, it is a foundation course and important.
Don't worry about the Advanced Character title in the Dialog workshop. It was just a name that got stuck on it to help people understand it.
And yes, we have not yet done any workshop on Endings. We will, but not until 2017.
CRAFT FOCUSED COURSES (Depth suggested for all of them except Ideas)
… Character Voice
… Adding Suspense
… Ideas
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No order on these. But don't take them ahead of the three depth foundation workshops except for the Ideas workshop. If you are having problems getting past finding ideas for your work, that workshop can be taken at any point.
Don't even think of starting into these workshops without first getting Lecture #1 Heinlein's Rules. Or read my blog posts or get my book. Also, you might want to do Lecture #12… Stages of a Fiction Writer.
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The order above is my suggested order. After finishing these, you might want to do lectures. Almost all lectures are focused on one aspect or another of business, from pen names to investments to writer's block and so on. This area we put most of the attention into the lectures.
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The mystery workshop in this area can be used in most genres. Might want to take it even though you have no thoughts of being a mystery writer. Genre structure will help you figure out where to tag and list your books when putting them out for sale.
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One could describe Dell as acquisition-crazy and not be far off the mark. It has now captured two new companies in three weeks and 13 in the last two years, if you're keeping score.
That's a lot of new-generation IT to uproot and move inside a company firewall. However, Dell has a system on how to do this and is pretty picky about what it acquires. Michael Dell told eWEEK during a visit to Round Rock, Texas, last summer that his company, led by Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy Dave Johnson, might look at up to 250 companies a year for possible acquisition and will settle on maybe seven or eight.
So if you're one of the seven or eight, you're obviously high on the charts in your sector.
Of course, Dell's competitors in the full-service IT products and services business are doing the same thing. EMC, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and IBM (well, not so much lately) have all gone through similar asset-collecting binges. In fact, EMC may have set a record of sorts in the 2006-2010 time span with 34 companies added to its roster.
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The fact is, mammoth companies like theseeven with all the research and development resources they already have in placecannot keep up with all sectors in IT evolution. Innovation tends to happen elsewhere, and current standards now morph into something better so quickly that industry leaders have to buy ready-to-use IT and plug it into their existing catalogs.
This is what Dell did March 13 in picking up SonicWall, a strong SMB-midrange play in the threat management software business. Oh, by the way, SMBs and midrangers are also where Dell is strongest.
Unified threat management (UTM) is a relatively new product/service category that includes firewall, intrusion prevention, virtual private network, data leak prevention, gateway antivirus, email security, Web security and application control. IDC estimated the UTM market to be worth about $2.4 billion in 2011 and expects it to grow at a 13 percent CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) through 2015.
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Palmistry's finger analogue: will the 2D:4D digit ratio become the new Chiromancy?
Chiromancy (cheiromancy), the notorious pseudoscience, has for two decades been creeping back into scientific favour. Is John T. Manning its new high priest?
The simplicity of the measure has inevitably launched a thousand research papers on hundreds of topics – including: heart attacks, breast cancer, running speed, football ability, sexual attraction, homosexuality, and schizophrenia.
How to understand the new Chiromancy? Hold up your right hand, and put your palm towards you and keep your fingers together; then measure the lengths of the 2th finger (index finger) and 4th finger (ring finger) – measure each finger from the tip to the crease where it joins the palm: see the picture below. Dividing the length of the 2th finger by the length of the 4th finger gives what in the jargon is known as the 2D:4D ratio!!!
Folk mythology has long suggested that men with large hands or feet will be well endowed, but there seems to be biological truth in that adage, with biologists finding that the same gene family, the Hox genes, underpins the development of "apical appendages".
Professor John T. Manning says:
"I believe that the pattern and nature of our decline in middle life and the disease which will eventually lead to our death, is dependent to a large extent on our experiences as a foetus."
The handedness-expert Chris McManon (psychologist from the UK) wrote a critical review of John T. Mannings 'digit ratio' work. You can read the full review via:
• Palmistry's digital analogue: is 2D:4D finger ratio the new Chiromancy?
• The finger book – about the 2D:4D digit ratio
• Hands up: what your fingers reveal about you
• Digit ratio: a pointer to fertility, behavior and health
• More digit ratio and finger length news
Finger length: five things that your 5 fingers can tell you!
March 13, 2009
Your five fingers relate to the Big Five of life: evolution, sports, behavior, diseases & your sex life:
John Manning is a professor at the University of Swansea and he wrote the book "The Finger Book". Professor John Manning explains in his book how the ratio of the index finger and ring finger (= the '2D:4D digit ratio' finger length) is related to the 'Big five' of life.
The human thumb is known as a 'marker' for the evolution of human kind; however our relative long index finger – compared to the ring finger – is a likewise example. In the chimpanzee and gorilla, this hand feature is different: they always have longer ring fingers and a short index finger.
Exceptional performances in sports are being linked to the amount of male hormones that people absorb before birth while they stay in the womb. The 'digit ratio' has frequently been used to predict performances in various sports leagues.
Interestingly, especially among children a short index finger may indicate a lack of empathic ability.
There is growing statistical evidence that our finger ratios are a reliable predictor of our receptiveness to diseases. However, in real life the findings have not yet shown to have a significant impact.
Men with long ring fingers, consider themselves as attractive. Studies show that women in the general rule agree and confirm the judgements of these men. Surprisingly, a likewise result has been found in women.
The international 'digit rato' & 'finger ratio' vocabulary!
November 12, 2008
Take a look at some of the international vocabulary + synonyms for the word 'DIGIT RATIO':
Cupid's science: your hands & your sex life!
October 5, 2008
Anthropologist Helen Fisher explains what online dating sites can learn from the biology of love and what the length of your ring finger says about your sex life.
|Last year you may have seen ads for Chemistry.com, the ones about people who have been rejected by online matchmaking sites like eHarmony for being gay, depressed, or generally unmarriageable for murkier reasons. In one ad, a young man stares hopefully at heterosexual p o r n, only to conclude, "Nope, still gay." At Chemistry, spokespeople like to crow, you can "come as you are" (as long as you come as someone who is over 18).
The company is an offshoot of Internet meet-market Match.com, which has been around since 1994. In 2004, Match approached anthropologist Helen Fisher about designing a site where, like at the successful but restricted eHarmony, members would not shop blindly for dates, but would be matched with each other based on personality profiles and compatibility.
Fisher, whose work on s e x, love and the brain had made her an authority on human mating, developed a theory that human beings fall into four categories – negotiators, directors, explorers and builders – and that your type helps determine who you fall for.
Passage in the interview:
RT: What is this thing about your fingers? It's on the Chemistry questionnaire.
HF: It's called 'digit ratio' (finger length ratio). In the womb – during pregnancy – the brain is washed over by estrogen and testosterone. If you have a lot more testosterone than estrogen in the womb, it is going to build a longer fourth finger than pointer finger. If you've got a lot more estrogen in the womb, the pointer finger will be longer.
RT: What does it say about your personality?
HF: If you have more testosterone in the womb and you have a longer fourth finger, you're more likely to have musical ability, mathematical abilities, to be an engineer or architect or good at computer programming. You tend to have poorer social skills but be direct, decisive, ambitious, competitive.
Finger length & early heart attack:
The length of a young boy's finger may provide a clue as to whether he will be at risk of a heart attack in early adulthood. This is because these boys tend to have lower levels of the male sex hormone testosterone, which is known to protect against heart attack.
|Scientists at Liverpool University have established a link between the length of baby boys' fingers and their chances of going on to have a heart attack at an unusually young age. They believe the link could provide doctors with a simple way to to spot potential heart disease victims at a very early age. The research shows that boys with shorter ring fingers tend to be at greatest risk.
Lead researcher Dr John Manning told the BBC:
"Males tend to have a relatively longer ring finger compared to the index finger than females."
"There is a relationship between the ratio between these two finger lengths and the age at heart attack of people who do have heart attacks."
Dr Manning and Dr Peter Bundred examined 151 male heart attack victims in Merseyside. They found the age range for heart attacks in men where the index finger was relatively long was 35 to 80 years of age, but in those with relatively long ring fingers it was 58 to 80.
The research was published in the British Journal of Cardiology.
An overview of the scientific sources which have found a link between finger length (high 'digit ratio': >1.0) and heart problems:
* Endurance running and digit ratio (2D:4D): implications for fetal testosterone effects on running speed and vascular health. – 2007
* The 2nd-4th digit ratio (2D:4D) and neck circumference: implications for risk factors in coronary heart disease. – 2006
* The ratio of 2nd to 4th digit length: a new predictor of disease predisposition? – 2000
How lingerie sharpens the financial mind in men with low 'digit ratios'!
According to recent news reports, the sight of lingerie or a sexy woman significantly impairs male decision making. But actually, the research under discussion … indicates the opposite!
The study involved a well-researched financial task known as 'the ultimatum game', where one participant is given a sum of money (10 euros in this study) and has to decide how to split it with another. If the other participant accepts the split, both get to keep the money. If they don't, no one gets anything!
Researchers Bram van den Bergh and Seigfried Dewitte asked heterosexual male participants to play the game in pairs. Before they started the game, they were variously shown pictures of a sexy woman in bikini, landscapes, older women, younger women, or lingerie to handle.
The best write-up of the study's details is from Nature, who do point out that the results actually CONTRADICT the idea that sexy images makes men less rational!
In the study, they actually made men more rational. The fact that men who saw sexy images were more likely to accept lower offers rather than reject them and get nothing at all, suggest that their short-term rationality was actually … enhanced!
Finger length related to autism! | Low 'digit ratio' (0.94)
October 1, 2008
The world's most famous 'digit ratio' research, John T. Manning, has begun examining autism too. He teamed up with Simon Baron- Cohen and Svetlana Lutchmaya from the University of Cambridge, who have used samples of amniotic fluid to directly measure the levels of hormones that babies are exposed to in the womb.
|When the children reached their first birthday, the researchers measured their vocabularies and ability to make eye contact. Poor language skills and an unwillingness to make eye contact are early hallmarks of autism. They found that babies who'd been exposed to high levels of testosterone in the womb fared the worst.
"What we're hoping to look at is whether finger ratios can be used as a proxy for hormones," says Lutchmaya. Amniocentesis (sampling the amniotic fluic surrounding the unborn baby) is a risky procedure that only a few mothers choose to undergo, she says. But by measuring finger lengths instead, researchers can assess a random sample of children for possible early signs of impaired language and social skill development. Currently, they are checking the fingers of children for whom they have amniotic samples.
Meanwhile, Manning and Baron-Cohen have looked at the finger ratios of 49 children with firm diagnoses of autism, 23 with a mild form of the disorder called Asperger's syndrome, and their families. The researchers found that autistic children tended to have very low 2D:4D ratios. Interestingly, children with Asperger's syndrome had ratios that fell between those of autistics and unaffected children. "It fits exceptionally well with the theory," says Manning.
Clearly genes play a role too in these conditions. But could fetal hormone levels explain other cognitive differences between the sexes? Janel Tortorice at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, thinks they may. She has measured finger ratios in 2D:4D ratio gay women and found that their hands were significantly different from those of heterosexual women-in fact, they tend to resemble those of heterosexual men.
But she has also found differences in the way these women's brains work. "They have more masculine fingers and more masculine cognition," she says. On tests of spatial and verbal ability, lesbian volunteers perform more like men than heterosexual women, she says. If this can be confirmed by further studies, perhaps Manning's most recent suggestion is not as outrageous as it sounds. He claims that musical talent, too, is nurtured in the womb.
An overview of the scientific sources which have found a link between finger length (low 'digit ratio': 0.94) and autism:
* The 2th to 4th ratio and autism – 2001 (PDF)
* [Evaluation of the 2nd to 4th digit ratio in the patients with autism] – 2005 (Japanese study)
* Differences in finger length ratio between males with autism, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified, ADHD, and anxiety disorders – 2006
* Motion and form coherence detection in autistic spectrum disorder: relationship to motor control and 2:4 digit ratio – 2006
'The Finger Book' – by John Manning: a book about finger length!
September 29, 2008
Book Review:
The Finger Book – author: Prof. John T. Manning, psychologist, University of Liverpool
Publisher (Fabe and Faber, 2008) comment:
"This book employs finger ratio to examine a group of questions about human behaviour, from sexuality, to musical ability, to predisposition to disease."
|The publisher writes about John Manning's book The Finger Book:
"This book is about a simple measurement of the human hand: the 'finger ratio'.
What could fingers & sex possibly have in common? What does the shape of a child's fingers reveal about future music talent? Why should professional footballers have longer ring fingers than other men?
This book is about a simple measurment of the human hand. You may not have noticed that men tend to have longer ring fingers relative to their index fingers, and it turns out this tiny sex difference is highly revealing.
John Manning, 'a pioneer in this field' (New Scientist) uses it to examine a dizzying group of questions about human behaviour, from sexuality, to music ability, to predisposition to disease. Controversial, but untainglingly clear and balanced, John Manning presents his cutting-edge research for the reader to consider.
The finger length ratio (2D:4D) appears to tell us what happens to babies in the whomb, indicating the amount of testosterone and oestrogen to which each foetus is exposed. This early evens has, it seems, profound consequences in each of us. Provocative, arresting and direct, The Finger Book makes accessible a whole new area of evolutionary science, and poses many fruitful questions about what makes us as we are."
Digit ratio: finger length research in primates!
September 29, 2008
'Digit ratio' in non-human primates:
The major focuss in Emma Nelson's "digit ratio' research in primates is:
|"Using digit ratios (2D:4D) to investigate social systems in anthropoids; implications for the study of the evolution of hominin sociality.".
Variation in non-human primate 2D:4D is currently unknown. One of the aims of this project is to map differences in mean 2D:4D within and between non-human primates species.
7 Milestones in the history of 'digit ratio'!
September 28, 2008
A short history of major the developments in the concept of 'digit ratio':
More than a hundred years ago, a very entertaining paper concerning various customs and superstitions associated with the hand – titled: 'Anthropological Notes on the Human Hand' (1888) – was presented to the Antropological Society of Washington by Frank Baker, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Georgetown. Following some fascinating tales, and a debunking of palmistry, he concluded by discussing the comparative lengths of the digits, and noted that the second (index) finger is usually shorter than the fourth (ring) finger.
Some years later R. George described in a paper – titled: Human Finger types (1930) – a sex difference in the distribution of finger length ratios in that males are more likely to show the 2 < 4 pattern (i.e. a longer ring finger relative to the index finger), while females are more likely to show the opposite pattern (2 > 4).
Two decades later the sex difference findings reported by George (1930) were confirmed in the work of V.R. Phelps – titled: Relative index finger length as a sex-influenced trait in man (1952) – noting that such differences were observed in foetuses, and then appeared to be stable throughout life.
* In 1983 Psychologist Glenn Wilson introduced the word 'digit ratio':
Dr Glenn Wilson of King's College, London published a study – titled: 'Finger length as an index of assertiveness in women' – which introduced the 2D/4D 'digit ratio' as a marker of exposure to prenatal testosterone + examining the correlation between assertiveness in women and their digit ratio. This was the first study to examine the correlation between digit ratio and a psychological trait within members of the same sex.
* In 1998 Psychologist John T. Manning presented a link between 'digit ratio' and testosterone + sperm counts:
This link was described by Manning in a study – titled: 'The ratio of 2nd to 4th digit length: a predictor of sperm numbers and concentrations of testosterone'.
* In 2002 Psychologist John T. Manning presented the book 'Digit ratio':
Psychologist John T. Manning presented his first book about the 2D:4D ratio – titled: 'Digit ratio: A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior and Health'.
In this book Manning presents a first overview of the digit ratio research which has been presented uptill the year 2002.
* In 2008 Psychologist John T. Manning presented the book 'The finger book':
Psychologist John T. Manning presented his first book about the 2D:4D ratio – titled: 'The finger book'.
Quote from New Scientist:
"According to evolutionary psychologist John Manning, who has spent years researching the secrets they betray, your digits reveal all sorts of things, from your sexuality to whether you are socially disadvantaged or likely to suffer a heart attack. They even, as the legend goes, give away the size of a man's penis."


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