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New year, new resolutions, right? There are some things in my house I've been itching to change and I've been binge watching Fixer Upper (I'm currently obsessed just like the rest of the world) which has made things a lot worse (or better?). So I thought NOW IS MY CHANCE! Start 2016 with a clean, fresh look. I got mostly money for Christmas this year (dat adult lyfe) so I decided to dedicate some of it to those (un)necessary house fixer uppers I've been dying to try. I know, before you go judging me for redecorating after only 2 years of being in this house (btw we moved in exactly 2 years ago this week. CRAZY), styles and trends do change way too much. I think I like one thing then a year or 2 later I'm bored and I'm ready to try something new. Being self-diagnosed OCD and obsessed with crafting and home decor paired with being a stay-at-home mom where I'm staring at my house all day every day makes things a little worse (well worse for my husband, better for me ;)). I promise I stare at my baby too. She's almost ONE and I can't believe it. I'm completely in love with her and still can't believe she's all ours (PS 1st birthday post to come within the next few weeks).
Here are some pictures of her LOVING Christmas. SO many prezzies! And more to come with her birthday being in January.
I redid my dining room entirely, my kitchen mostly, and my living room a little bit. I did all of this in less than a week because I have a problem. I had a little help from Presley's grandma's some during the day but I mostly did it after bedtime until like 12-1 AM. Matt says I'm impatient (which is completely true) but I like to refer to it as motivated.
First came the dining room. I had previously painted the dining and kitchen/half bath/laundry Sand Dune by Benjamin Moore. It really was a great neutral color but I got so bored with it after a while. I needed something more interesting. I also had made burlap curtains that I loved but I didn't like them up next to the wall color. Another thing that bothered me was that my entry hall next door is painted Wool Skein also by my bff Benji Moore. I absolutely love that yellowy neutral and still do but I thought it clashed with the Sand Dune. I wasn't thinking when I picked them out and it has bothered me ever since. My living room as well as our master bedroom is painted Sea Salt by Sherwin Williams (good ole Willie) which I'm a huge fan of. I was dying to paint the dining room that color as well. I love the white molding in there and thought the blue would look great with it and be a nice contrast. So the first thing that had to go? All that PINK! I loved my coral, yellow and green gingham fabric that I built the room around but, again, I got sick of it fast. I was ready for an upgrade.
Here's the original before when we bought the house. The whole house was painted this peachy neutral:
Here it was it looked like as of a week and a half ago painted in Sand Dune. Click here for my post on this version of the dining room:
Here's what I changed:
New paint (Sea Salt)
Recovered chairs, removed window valence
New curtain rod
Painted buffet furniture
New mirror
This really wasn't an expensive change at all (about $150 total) but it looks totally different.
July 2016 UPDATE Plate Wall:
I've always loved the idea of a plate wall. All of my Pinterest dreams came true when it finally became a reality. I found plates in all shapes and sizes from Target, TJ Maxx, Marshalls, etc. I used simple $2 plate hangers from Lowes. Once you collect all of your plates you just figure out a design and go for it. I love its Southern Living-esque charm.
The mirror and curtain rod came from Tuesday Morning. The mirror is actual wood and was only $80! At Pier One it would've been like $500. I was super happy about this find. The curtain rod is made of iron and came with extenders for windows up to 120 inches. It was only $20. I love that place. They have so many weird little finds. I got the greenery in the middle of the table there last year. The cute little preserved boxwood plant on my buffet table came from Pier One for only $15. I'm obsessed with preserved boxwood and want it all. Is that a weird thing to be obsessed with? Don't care. I love the pop of green it adds to the space.
I actually spray painted the buffet furniture. They have chalk spray paint at Hobby Lobby (Krylon Chalky Finish in Classic White). Did you know that was such a thing?? Life changing. It's usually on sale for 30% off but if not you can use your 40% coupon. It's usually around $8-9. It's not exactly the same but it looks very similar when dry. I used 2 cans. I ended up painting the top using my leftover Big Spender by Farrell Calhoun. I painted the inside of my china cabinet (on the other side of the room) this color and wanted to tie them together. Plus it would've been way too white with the it being up next to the white molding on the wall. I spray painted the handles with an oil rubbed bronze spray paint.
The chairs I covered in a fabric from Premier Fabrics. They also have other coordinating fabrics you could alternate with. I stuck with 1. I got 2 yards and it covered my 6 chairs perfectly with not much to spare. The 2 yards were $20 total. Not too bad!
In my previous dining post I talked about my dining table my dad helped me transform. Still love it so much.
That was it! Not much to it but made a huge difference. I love the cool, fresh look it gave the room.
2017 DINING UPDATE (I know I have a problem)
At the beginning of every year I have this longing to redecorate my house. Or at least fix the things that bothered me throughout the year. I loved my 2016 dining makeover but a few things started bothering me: The chair covers and the plate wall.
The blue clashed a little with my wall color and I could never find the inspiration to bring more yellow into the room so it felt out of place. I covered them again and sold the blue/yellow fabric on a Facebook resale site for $10. The new fabric was on sale. I needed 2 yards and it was $2 off a yard (originally $10/yard) at Premier Fabrics. So with the old fabric sold this update technically only cost me about $7. Totally worth it since I found this new fabric I'm obsessed with that couldn't match my blue walls any better.
Now my plate wall was buggin me. All I did was take out the color and make it more neutral. I love how it matches the chairs so well.
2017 DINING UPDATE (I know I have a problem)
At the beginning of every year I have this longing to redecorate my house. Or at least fix the things that bothered me throughout the year. I loved my 2016 dining makeover but a few things started bothering me: The chair covers and the plate wall.
The blue clashed a little with my wall color and I could never find the inspiration to bring more yellow into the room so it felt out of place. I covered them again and sold the blue/yellow fabric on a Facebook resale site for $10. The new fabric was on sale. I needed 2 yards and it was $2 off a yard (originally $10/yard) at Premier Fabrics. So with the old fabric sold this update technically only cost me about $7. Totally worth it since I found this new fabric I'm obsessed with that couldn't match my blue walls any better.
Now my plate wall was buggin me. All I did was take out the color and make it more neutral. I love how it matches the chairs so well.
Again, although a great color, I was sick of the Sand Dune in here as well. I really wanted to go light gray. My craft room and our upstairs guest bath is Agreeable Gray by Willie and I love it. It didn't turn a weird color when painted (like green or blue) and it was just agreeable (for lack of a better word). I decided to do this in the kitchen as well. It's still a neutral but it's a lot more interesting, in my opinion. I painted the walls and then guess what happened..I hated it against my ivory-painted cabinets. The previous owners painted the cabinets to put the house on the market and they looked good but it has always bothered me that the cabinets and trim were painted a drastically different white. I got new cabinet hardware (hinges and handles) for Christmas (more of dat adult lyfe) and thought this was a good time to paint my cabinets since I have to take all of the hardware off anyways to change it out. I was super pumped about my new hardware actually. I didn't like the previous bronze hardware. Most everything in the house is brushed nickel including the light fixture in the kitchen. It bothered me so bad that they didn't match. I know this is like a true first world problem and I'm embarrassed admitting the things that go through my brain on a daily basis. I put these new nickel handles/hinges in the living room when we painted those built ins 2 years ago so I knew they'd look good. I wanted the cabinets more of a pure white that was the same as the trim. I had it matched and went for it. Not something I was planning on doing but I'm so glad it happened. It also just heightened my hatred for oil-based paint. THE WORST!! I really love the outcome, though. I painted the cabinets in the kitchen, bar area in the living room and the cabinets in the laundry room.
Original before:
Here is the before as of about a year ago before we redid the backsplash. Here are those posts:
What I changed:
New cabinet paint and hardware
New wall paint (Agreeable Gray)
New curtains + spray painted curtain rod + diy curtain tiebacks
New After:
Ok so it's not a huge difference, especially in pictures, but I'm so happy with the change. I love the freshness the purer white added to the room (fresh is apparently my word of the day).
I got the hardware and curtains on Amazon (both panels for $22). I made the tiebacks with leftover fabric from my window cornice/chair covers. I'm currently obsessed with the shop Printable Wisdom on Etsy. They have the cutest lyrics, Bible verses, etc printables available for around $5 for an instant download. I got the verse on my coffee station above from there. It was $5 and I sent it to be printed at Walgreens in whatever size and framed it. I got an 8x10. I got different ones for my bedroom and living room as well. Now I have them saved on my computer and can use them for gifts in the future as well! All they need is to be printed and framed. Definitely worth the whopping price. And they're so cute!!
I did get a new rug and door pulls for the bathroom. The pulls are mercury glass and came from my favorite place, Hobby Lobby for just a few dollars a piece (I only buy them there when they're 50% off). The rug, like everything I buy these days, came from Amazon.
So lastly, our living room!
I didn't change much but I feel it made a big difference. I did some rearranging and changed the mantle decor as well as painted the backs of the shelving with leftover cabinet paint (which was a trim/shelving paint match). Before they were blue (wall color) but I wanted them to look more like built ins and not shelves in front of the wall. Plus the gray shutters I added didn't look good right next to the blue because they're similar in color. I love the brightness the white added and now my shelf decor looks alot better than it did with the blue. Everything matches white! Lastly, I made pillow envelope covers for the couch pillows. I got both fabrics at Joann.
Original before:
First after. And here is that post.
And currently!
SHE'S SO CUTE!! (sorry had to)
I absolutely loved my painting I had in here. It was a wedding gift painted by my friend Lisa. It's beautiful and I can't tell you how many compliments I've received on it over the years. It was the exact colors of our last house and looked awesome hanging above our couch. I did some rearranging and ended up moving the poppy painting from my previous dining room into the living room because the colors matched so perfectly. To even out the space I added 2 shutters on either side.
The shutters were actually 1 big shutter that I got at Sheffields. I think it was an antique because it looked pretty old. Well, I asked my brother and his sweet girlfriend to redo it for my Christmas present. They did an awesome job. They cut it in half, sanded it and spray painted it light gray.
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News Briefing: Alumni Try to Keep Ohio College Open
By Kate Golden on October 23, 2007No Comment
- A growing number of retirees insist on being paid for their volunteer work. [New York Times]
- $5 million leadership prize is awarded by new foundation to Joaquim A. Chissano, Mozambique's second president, for his role in ending his country's 16-year civil war. [New York Times]
- Alumni of Antioch College fight to keep the school open, raising $15 million to prevent its temporary closing. [Associated Press]
- Prosecutors will likely retry the former leaders of the Holy Land Foundation, after the case ended in a mistrial yesterday. [Associated Press]

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The announcement due Wednesday at the end of the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting should be as predictable as April showers bringing May flowers.
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Unless something extraordinary occurs, the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee will approve another $10 billion reduction in monthly bond purchases and reiterate the Fed's position that interest rates will remain at their current near-zero range for the foreseeable future.
The FOMC statement that will be released Wednesday is certain to remind market participants that the Fed will maintain its accommodative policies for as long as the economic recovery remains susceptible to setbacks.
"The April FOMC meeting will probably be a quiet one compared with the March meeting, with no press conference or Summary of Economic Projections to be released. We anticipate that the Fed will want to make relatively few changes to the statement, especially in the monetary policy paragraphs," Goldman Sachs analysts said in a note to clients.
No surprises are in store and markets are expected to respond in kind, possibly with some cheering for the persistently dovish language.
A Little Too Dovish?
At the same time, others are concerned the Fed may be a little too adamant about remaining dovish.
"In their statement on Wednesday, the FOMC will likely go to some lengths to avoid any suggestions that their dovishness is waning for fear of triggering a spike in long-term interest rates," said David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan Funds.
"However, the general warming up in the economic data, while welcome news to the Fed, does make their current projections of a delayed and soft takeoff for the federal funds rate seem both unwise and potentially unsustainable," Kelly added.
In other words, if the economy continues to gain momentum without suffering any more significant setbacks, the Fed may have to rethink its commitment to hold interest rates at their current range of 0-0.25% for a "considerable time," to use the Fed's own wording.
The concern is that a surging economy combined with very low interest rates could lead to runaway inflation very quickly. Economic growth would mean more jobs and increased demand for workers would push wages and consumer prices higher. Low interest rates that make it easier to borrow and increase the amount of money circulating through the financial system would only add to inflationary pressure.
Still, the Fed has seemed determined to emphasize its dovish stance ever since newly installed Fed Chair Janet Yellen made what appeared to be a gaffe last month during her first press conference.
No Reason to Stray
Yellen, in response to a reporter's question, suggested that interest rates could start moving higher "six months" after the central bank's bond purchase program ends likely in the fall. That would have meant interest rates would have started to move higher in the spring of 2015, well before such a move had been predicted either by markets or the Fed itself.
Yellen has since clarified – in some detail – that interest rates aren't likely to be raised until the Fed meets its dual mandate of full employment and price stability, which she most recently defined as an unemployment rate of between 5.2% and 5.6% and inflation in a range of 1.7% and 2%.
Neither of those thresholds are likely to be reached until the latter part of 2015, and even then the Fed has offered no guarantees that it will start raising interest rates.
The Fed tried once before to set a threshold target -- a 6.5% unemployment rate -- for possibly raising interest rates only to have it backfire on them when the threshold was approached well before it was expected.
In sum, the recent economic data -- labor markets, housing, manufacturing, etc… -- have provided no reason for the Fed to stray from its course established earlier this year of gradually tapering bond purchases and offering assurances that interest rates will stay low and accommodative policies will remain in place just in case the numbers start to slip.
That's the message the FOMC will convey on Wednesday.


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I had a great experience last night went to a show called Mamootot - a modern dance show by the Israeli dance company Bat sheva. The show took place at Susanne Dellal's rehearsal studio. The audience sat along all four sides of the studio stage and by this the dancers were exposed to the observing eyes of the audience on all four sides of the open stage area. Repeatedly the dancers would take a seat in the audience, becoming like us outsiders to the action.
"Audience is seated in a square. Inside the square - the dance. Nine dancers, sound track of eclectic Japanese music, no text, no video, no probs. For me, a research of new possibilities of movement, structure, organisation, timing, tension, relationship of audience-performers, humor, repetition, dimensions, virtuosity, stillness, emotional development, sexuality, slowness, unison, speed, improvisation, overstatement, understaement, place I never have been before ..." Ohad Naharin
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Welcome to the home of Malmesbury Cycling Club (MCC). Situated at the very edge of the Cotswolds we are ideally placed to enjoy some great cycling. You will find that we're a friendly bunch and no one is ever turned away.
On a Saturday there will normally be at least two rides. The Sporting Group, which leaves at 9.00am, is for the fitter riders and covers around 35 to 40 miles. You should be able to keep to an average speed of about 14 mph or faster. No one will be left behind.
The Social Group's courses are closer to 30 miles. Their rides leave at 10.00am. The pace is slower, and again, no one will be left behind. If you are not sure of your ability or fitness it might be best to join this group on your first ride.
The Leisure Group also leaves at 10.00am. They cover about 15 to 20 miles. It runs most weeks, but can be weather dependent. This will be at a very relaxed pace and similarly, no one will be left behind.
All of the rides include a coffee stop. Sometimes all of the groups will meet up.
If you've any questions, please don't hesitate to contact our club chairman Howard Sprange at email@example.com or feel free to use our contact page.
Riders participate at their own risk. New cyclists are always welcome, but please make contact with Howard first.
Saturday Club Rides
Tuesday & Wednesday Evening Rides
Thursday Lunchtime Club Meet
Sunday Series Rides
We're fortunate in Malmesbury to have two cycle shops. Our latest is Wheelers' Retreat Cycle Emporium, 4, Gloucester Street, Malmesbury, telephone 01666 238835. The owner, Gary Walker is a member of Malmesbury Cycling Club and offers fellow members 10% discount.
We also have the long established company, CH White & Son, 51, High Street, Malmesbury, telephone 822330. They also offer 10% discount to club members.


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Flavr of the Month
Daniel Kevles
- Perilous Knowledge: The Human Genome Project and its Implications by Tom Wilkie
Faber, 195 pp, £14.99, May 1993, ISBN 0 571 16423 4
- The Language of the Genes: Biology, History and the Evolutionary Future by Steve Jones
HarperCollins, 236 pp, £16.99, June 1993, ISBN 0 00 255020 2
Nothing in contemporary science seems to trouble the public more than genetic engineering. Despite the cloying sentimentality that Steven Spielberg has introduced into Jurassic Park, the film expresses the sharp scepticism about the benefits of manipulating DNA that forms the moral core of the novel by Michael Crichton on which it is based. In the novel, Ian Malcolm, the conscience of the tale, remarks as he lies dying from a raptor attack (in the film he doesn't die; only villains die on Spielberg's screen): 'Science, like other outmoded systems, is destroying itself. As it gains power, it proves itself incapable of handling the power.' According to a recent poll, a substantial majority of Americans believe that the risks of genetic engineering outweigh the benefits.
Since the discovery of recombinant DNA – the technique for slicing genes from the cells of one species and inserting them into the genetic strands of another – the risks that have drawn the most attention have had to do with the environment and public health. Activists have contended, for example, that bacteria engineered to contain a gene to make plants resist frost better might contaminate the wild population, with unpredictable and, probably, adverse consequences. The imminent arrival in the food shops of genetically-engineered vegetables – notably, in the United States, the Flavr Savr tomato – has provoked threats of a boycott of any food-processing company that uses them and pledges from almost two dozen leading American chefs that they will not allow genetically altered food into their kitchens.
These apprehensions about bugs and plants and animals have a subtext: what can be done with such organisms today, including with dinosaurs on film, might be done to human beings tomorrow. History unfortunately provides a precedent: the eugenics movements of the first third of this century, when various scientists and social engineers proposed to improve the quality of the human race by encouraging people with 'good' genes to proliferate and discouraging those with 'bad' genes from procreating at all. These presumptions were scientifically ludicrous and rooted in social prejudice: eugenic theorists took race and socioeconomic class as proxies for the possession of 'good' or 'bad' genes. Among the measures proposed was forced sterilisation, which was adopted as government policy in a number of American states (although it was enforced in only a few). In Nazi Germany, eugenics produced several hundred thousand sterilisations and was one of the factors that led, ultimately, to the death camps.
It is no surprise, then, that a common element in the disquiet about genetic engineering is that what is most at risk is us. The eugenic ideal, which has been around in Western cultures at least since Plato, continues to tantalise some. Indeed, in the Sixties, when the genetic code of DNA was worked out, biologists here and there began calling for a new but sanitised eugenics, for human biological engineering free from racial and class bias and devoted to genuine improvement of the species and its members. In point of fact, only in recent years have techniques become available to make the analysis of human heredity at the level of DNA practical and rewarding. At the end of the Eighties, the new tools of molecular genetics were recognised as sufficiently powerful for a major enterprise to be mounted that would locate and identify all the one hundred thousand or so genes that comprise our genetic essence. The Human Genome Project has support from a number of governments, including those of Britain and the United States. It is advancing rapidly on the scientific front – and raising a variety of social spectres, including the 'fear', as Tom Wilkie writes in Perilous Knowledge, 'that the project may open the door to a world peopled by Frankenstein's monsters and disfigured by a new eugenics.'
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The Awakening (Paperback)
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Novelist and short story writer Kate Chopin (1851-1904) was the first American woman to deal with women's roles as wives and mothers. The Awakening (1899), her most famous novel, concerns a woman dissatisfied with her indifferent husband. She eventually gives in to her desire for other men and commits adultery. It is a searing indictment of the religious and social pressures brought to bear on women who transgress restrictive Victorian codes of behavior.
About the Author
KATE CHOPIN was born Katherine O'Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri,on February 8, 1851. Following the death of her father, a warehouse worker and a director of the Pacific Railroad, in a train wreck when she was four, Kate was partly consoled by stories of old St. Louis told her by her French great-grandmother. These stories, and her combined Irish and French ancestry, helped develop her taste for music and for strange tales.
By the time she was fifteen, Kate had lost both her parents, her brother and half-brother, and her beloved great-grandmother. The tragedies suffered in early life left their mark of sadness, and the shadow of death hung over her later stories. But Kate was also self-possessed and independent. At eighteen she visited New Orleans, where she met, and two years later married, Oscar Chopin, a Creole cotton trader and commission merchant. During her years in New Orleans, Kate became acquainted with the Creole, the Cajun, the half breed, and the newly freed blacks, and drew from her experience there to create her fiction.
Following her husband's death in 1882, Kate returned with her six children to St. Louis, where she would spend the rest of her life. There she began writing stories and a novel, At Fault (1889), whose action takes place on a Southern plantation not unlike that of the Chopins near Cloutierville. This novel, published at Chopin's own expense, was a critical failure; but it suggests themes that Chopin would take up in her best work: restrictive versus genuine love; freedom versus the bowing to convention, with its attendant risks; and women throwing off traditional restraints. Chopin's stories became popular with readers, though they found her emphasis on women's liberation disquieting, as her female characters sought their own fulfillment. Chopin's stories were later collected in Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897).
These stories served as a prelude to Chopin's great novel, The Awakening (1899), about Edna Pontellier, a young married women with two small children who is gradually "awakened" to "her position in the universe as a human being." Though fond of her husband and children, Edna feels an "indescribable oppression . . . a vague anguish," arising out of her passionless marriage, and gives in to her strong desire for other men. Chopin, who was a close reader of Walt Whitman's poetry, imbues The Awakening, as well as several of her stories, with astrong sensuality and a call to self-awareness. Both Chopin's heroine and her carefully designed story bring to mind Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. Though her novel outraged contemporary critics for its frank depiction of the main character's love affairs, Chopin has created a compelling and ultimately tragic drama of self-discovery and doom.
Kate Chopin died in St. Louis on August 22, 1904.


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Today I'm on the Avery Elle blog featuring some products from their Fall release. I made a Christmas card and a Christmas tag just to be ready when the time comes ;)
For the card I used Happy Howlidays and Caroling Critters to create this little scene. It seems that I'm in a purple mood for cards lately haha
I used some GLossy Accents on the light and my Wink of Stella pen to add some shimmer to the scarf and snow.
I kept the tag super simple. I used the Large Pinecones die on a tag and then I just watercolored on top of it. I think it'd be perfect for rustic packaging, don't you think?
I hope you like them! Thanks for stopping by, hugs!!
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Two people were killed and nine injured when a helicopter plummeted into a crane in central London during rush hour on Wednesday morning. Imagine what that must have been like to be on a crowded street when that happened. The news went viral within seconds thanks to social media.
Police say the commercial helicopter was on a scheduled flight and that the pilot had requested to divert and change his landing due to bad weather. And then the accident happened. Four of the injuries were critical in nature and all were on the ground as the helicopter only carried one person.
Naturally, many people thought a bomb had gone off. See below:
Of course, Twitter was quickly reporting the story with the hashtag #Vauxhaull. The problem with Twitter is that, very often, the news, while extremely fast, is also wrong.
Remember Newtown? The news was coming in so fast and furious on Twitter that much of it was wrong and the regular newspapers were struggling to keep up with it all.
News comes in so fast now, it isn't always correct. But reporters are under enormous pressure to deliver when anyone standing near a situation like this can tweet the news and have millions of people watching within seconds.
Many thought a bomb had gone off at first. If that was the first thing you read, you might have a very different notion of the situation than if you read a newspaper article that had the truth. So the lesson here is to be careful what sources you read and who you trust.
Twitter is great, but the people who report there aren't trained journalists. For a story like this, it's especially important to try to be patient. Consider the source. Twitter could cause mass panic.
Do you get your news from Twitter?
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Our challenge this week is Easter OR Bunnies OR Chocolate...take your pick...or combine all three if you like :) We'd love to see what you come up with for this theme, so hop on over and play along with us.
I'm not really into Easter cards so decided to do a calendar page. Easter is in March next year...just as well I Googled it or I'd have put it on the wrong month! Here's my page:
Please let me introduce you to Celeste Amberglow...isn't she cute :) Celeste is the newest member of the Pollycraft family...there were 6 images in this release. Of course I HAD to buy all of them lol
I've layered her onto digi paper and added the label and wording in My Memories Suite, then printed out the panel onto X-Press It blending card and coloured her with Copics.
Here's a close up of the cute little lady:
No Copic colours for this one...sorry. I can tell you there were a LOT of them though!! I never cease to be amazed at how many markers I use when I colour what looks to be a fairly simple design.


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Principle Seven: Design from Patterns to Details
Holmgren's Proverb for this Principle: Can't see the forest for the trees.
The icon for this principle, the spider web, provides a great example. Each spider web is easily recognized by its pattern of multiple radial threads with numerous circular threads. However, the details of the specific location of each spider web mandates small variations in how the basic pattern is implemented. The exact same relationship of patterns and details exist when designing a Permaculture System.
The most useful and recommended patterns in all land based Permaculture Systems are those of Permaculture Zones, Permaculture Sectors, and Permaculture Guilds. I have elaborated on these design patterns in much greater detail; just follow the links to read more. Zones, Sectors, and Guilds are all patterns which are more conceptual in initial design, yet, like the spiderweb, the implementation or application of these patterns are shaped by the unique details of the relative location at which you are working.
"Can't see the forest for the trees" reminds us that in design we need to start with the big picture first. What are we trying to achieve? How will the components interact with each other? What are the consequences, good and bad? Should we be doing this in the first place? By designing Permaculture Systems with the end goal in mind, while staying true to the Ethical Principles of Permaculture, and using the tools of Zones, Sectors, and Guilds, we can create truly sustainable Permaculture Systems.
By stepping back, we can observe patterns in nature and society. These can form the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go.
- David Holmgren


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NOTHING IS WRITTEN - trailer - 160g magazine from nicolas valois on Vimeo.
160g's new issue is all cooked up and ready to be launched! Vol. 11 will be out in a few days and it's packed with amazing shots, interviews, articles and... an outstanding fashion film styled by my friend René Gloor and shot by Nicolas Valois! I'm a really big fan of this one, not only because David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (the movie on which the fashion film was based) is one if my all-time favourites, but also because René and Nicolas's film is really good and perfectly captures its spirit! All I can post for now is this teaser, but really soon you'll be able to watch the real deal here. Only a few days to go!


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Spiced Mexican hot chocolate doesn't come in little packets—it comes in disc-shaped blocks, partially cut into wedges—like miniature pizzas made entirely of chocolate, sugar, and spices. A couple of wedges whisked (or immersion-blended) into hot milk makes smooth, rich, spicy hot chocolate. "It's good left over and cold too," says chocolatetartguy.
Abuelita and Ibarra are the brands that show up most often on American grocery store shelves. Of the two, Ruth Lafler prefers Ibarra slightly, and finds it less sweet than Abuelita. jumpingmonk likes the smoky taste of Zingerman's house brand Oaxacan chocolate—"they dry the chocolate over wood fire," he says. kattyeyes found that La Soledad was her favorite during a visit to Oaxaca. "I brought plenty home," she says.


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Prepare for Easter at Jersey Open
NatWest Jersey Open is 'The friendliest tournament with high class competition' in the opinion of the organiser Chris Band of the Jersey Table Tennis Association. Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands situated off the coast of Normandy and Brittany in northern France.
Enter the 10th NatWest Jersey Open to be staged at the Geoff Reed Table Tennis Centre in St Clement from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th March 2016.
"Repeat entries have been coming in thick and fast for this 10th Anniversary NatWest Jersey Open at Easter part of the Table Tennis England Grand Prix circuit for 2015-2016," said Chris Band. "Good Friday sees the team tournaments for Men, Women, Veterans and Juniors, giving players something different and an extra day of competitive play."
The tournament is organised as part of the Grand Prix Circuit administered by the English Table Tennis Association which witnesses a series of tournaments held in various locations throughout the United Kingdom.
"Saturday and Sunday are the standard Grand Prix format of bands and then open singles events", continued Band. "Early booking is highly recommended to get good transport deals either by air or by sea. Coupled with this we have negotiated an excellent deal with a great hotel very near our purpose built table tennis centre and also car hire with Avis."
Jersey is a popular holiday destination and late March is the perfect time to visit with the Spring flowers in bloom and the weather sunny and warm.
"Everyone can therefore enjoy some excellent table tennis and couple it with a holiday break in our beautiful island during Easter, which is a perfect time to see the Island at its very best", added Band.. "Not only this, but all events over the three days carry prize money from with a minimum total fund of £ 2,500.00. Last year's Men's and Women's Singles Champions took home just under £1000.00 between them.
An attractive prospect and of course places are limited.
"This is obviously another incentive for players to book their places early as there is a limited maximum entry", explained Band. "We will also be offering a masterclass training camp for the week after the tournament with full details of this to be released very soon; I would, however, strongly recommend that anyone interested in entering to book without further delay so as to avoid disappointment."
"We have 18 new top of the range tables and ancillary equipment all housed in a purpose built centre. We have also just installed state of the art LED lighting and a new Naxos modular floor. With entry fees the cheapest of the United Kingdom Grand Prix Circuit", concluded Band. "What is stopping you from booking up now?"
Nothing at all!
The closing date for entries is: Friday 13th March 2015


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While The Pipe's away, the records will PLAY! Currently on a European tour, your fave rave DJ will return soon...but until then...
A new episode of THE VINYL SHELF this week features interviews with ANN & NANCY WILSON of HEART and ALVIN of THE CHIPMUNKS from ultra-rare radio transcription LPs plus music from ANTHRAX, THE CLOVERS, EDDIE COCHRAN and reggae from THE UPSETTERS (Lee "Scratch" Perry)...
Plus, NEIL PEART talks about RUSH fans and THE BANANA SPLITS sing "The Tra La La Song"!!
Also, STYX, JOAN JETT talks about her favorite soap operas, a rare CULTURE CLUB dub mix and VILLAGE PEOPLE go 'new wave' and sing about FOOD.
ANYTHING GOES on the internet's favorite VINYL-ONLY radio show.


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Dutch Design Week is arguably the most unique annual design event, a perfect storm of time, place and raw creativity, that attracts some 275,000 visitors over nine days. That the attendance figure surpasses the population of Eindhoven — the quiet city in the south of the Netherlands where DDW has taken place since 1998 — is remarkable in itself, but the fact that the general public (i.e. Dutch families) makes up the majority of visitors makes the atmosphere rather unlike any other design festival in the world.
And while there is no single anchor event of DDW, the Graduation Show at the Design Academy Eindhoven is widely regarded as the single must-see event, in which the fresh crop of Masters and Bachelors — 141 in all, this time around — exhibit proudly present their thesis projects to the 45,000 visitors who visit the galleries at the Witte Dame building (the former Philips light bulb factory that now houses the school). Suffice it to say that DAE students' design education culminates not in June, when they graduate, but in October, during DDW, and it's worth mentioning that these photos largely belie the sheer number of visitors.
For the last three editions of DDW, the academy has also organized a complementary exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum, a short walk down the street from the school itself, where the DAE's Creative Director Thomas Widdershoven conceived a trilogy of shows in collaboration with museum director Charles Esche. Starting with Self/Unself in 2013 and followed by Sense/Nonsense in 2014, the arc concludes with this year with Thing/Nothing, for which Widdershoven has once again selected a handful of graduates to be exhibited in the museum context, alongside dozens of others of emerging and established artists and designers. (This year includes works by Ai Weiwei, Kenya Hara, Dunne & Raby, and MVRDV, as well as DAE alums such as Lucas Maassen and Chris Kabel, among many others.)
I should disclose that I am currently a student in the newly launched Design Curating & Writing Masters program at the Design Academy, which all but precludes an unbiased perspective. Nevertheless, this gallery is intended to serve as a representative — not comprehensive — sample of the projects on view, in the interest of illustrating the breadth of the work from the Class of 2015.
Last week over 300 attendees gathered in downtown Los Angeles to participate in Designing Here/Now, the second annual Core77 Conference. Over the course of the three-day event, participants had an opportunity to explore the spaces between design disciplines where today's most impactful work is taking place. This year's speakers are
This is the second of two photo galleries from Beijing Design Week 2015. At first blush, this photo gallery from Beijing Design Week would be the more prosaic of the two, loosely divided into the "ground-up," grass-roots-y exhibition areas of Dashilar and Baitasi — maze-like neighborhoods that reward those willing
This is the first of two photo galleries from Beijing Design Week 2015. A simple geographical distinction coincidentally maps onto well-worn bywords for a greater hemispherical binary: East and West. In the case of Beijing Design Week 2015, it happens to be a simple heuristic for organizing the exhibition areas
Occupying multiple galleries and two floors of the Old Truman Brewery, the 9th edition of TENT London was an international showcase of design with country pavilions from a diversity of regions including Ireland, Korea, Norway, Italy, Poland and Australia showing alongside local design talent from across the United Kingdom. New
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In September 2017, 18 intrepid trekkers headed off on the adventure of a lifetime, trekking along The Great Wall of China.
There were highs (steps) and lows (valleys on either side of the wall!!)…..and even though every day bought a new challenge for the team to face, there was always smiles and laughter! People faced their fears of heights and squat toilets, and the whole team conquered the most challenging day at Simatai, where they were faced with an almost vertical climb of around 900 meters!
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Okay, I know you're all going to see "Knocked Up" this weekend, but let me heartily recommend Rolf de Heer's "Ten Canoes," a far more original and visually stunning cinematic experience that is probably just as funny. It's a shame in today's increasingly competitive theatrical marketplace that a lush, inventive picture such as "Ten Canoes" is relegated to a mere footnote (or a "Tracking Shot," as the Voice dubs their lesser-profile mini-reviews) in our film culture pages.
At Cannes last year, the film was one of my favorites — "one of the festival's simple delights," I wrote. "Told in voiceover by a joking storyteller ('Walkabout's' David Gulpilil), the film leisurely chronicles a story of his ancestors, involving a young man who covets one of his father's wives. In between, there are dazzling images of Australian swamplands, a healthy dose of laughter and a little bit of death. As Gulpilil's narrator declares, evoking a sentiment that could apply to many of Cannes's distinctive and alluring pleasures, 'It's a good story – not like your story – but a good story all the same.'"
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So the big day of the Consider The Sauce/Footscray Food Blog Spring Picnic finally arrived … would anyone turn up? Or would too many?
Neither, of course – just a really nice crew of friends, loyal blog followers, food fans and a fellow blogger, too.
The rain stayed away, but it was cool – though not to the point of discomfort.
Bennie and I loved meeting folks.
Ms Baklover brought some criminally delicious pastries from the South American Bakery in Sunshine.
Yours truly fronted with a beetroot salad and another of eggplant and tomato.
Best of all, Andy from Krapow fame rocked up with a big pot of Thai-style chicken rice and a tangy condiment.
Count on another Spring Picnic next year – almost certainly later in the year, but not too close to the festive season.
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Continue with week 4. I've been quite behind the schedule and needs to stick back the schedule. Managed to finally sit down and went through all the week 4 modules in one session straight which took me around 3 hours. For the coming weeks, I should be able to get back on track.
4.1 More paragraph practice
The key take away from this module is emphasis on paragraph. Two important things:
(1) What's the paragraph about?
(2) What's the main idea or important points?
Good exercise to learn this is to summarize the main idea of the blog posts, papers, or other published literature. Webshit Daily is a good example of such writing with humour and sarcasm.
When you've a paragraph with complex idea, we can represent the concept as table or diagrams. As they said, a picture is worth a thousand words. If there are repetitive words or ideas, shorten it to take away the repetition. Wordiness may also leads to ambiguity, rewrite it to become more specific.
When to use passive voice? When it doesn't matter who did it.
Use "However" when you want to contrast something in the previous sentence.
One paragraph should contains one main idea. If you have two ideas within a paragraph, rewrite it into two paragraphs instead.
A paragraph can contains 1 - 3 sentences. Yes, there a paragraph with one sentence. I always think that a paragraph should at least have four sentences. One topic sentence, two supportive sentences, and one final concluding sentence.
4.2 Overview of the writing process
The main point is how do you approach writing? There are three major steps:
(1) Pre-writing.
A process of collecting, synthesizing, and organizing your data and ideas of your writing.
(2) Writing the first draft.
Turn the ideas into complete sentences. Writing should be fast and quick. Fsck grammar!
(3) Revision.
Revise to make it sounds better.
As a writer, you should follow the three steps in a sequential manner. Don't do two steps in one time. Multi-tasking is always bad! For example, start writing without much research is a typical approach by most people but this is not recommended. Not only this will stress you out, you are also prone to distraction as you're busy googling and doing something else. As you all know, googling for information will often leads to other unproductive online activities like reading news, checking social media status, and others. Also, when you're focus on the details of writing, you will lost focus on the big picture. Therefore, invest more time in pre-writing step.
Similarly, do not carry out writing the first draft and revision at the same time. Fsck grammar! Just make sure you have written down the ideas in complete sentences. Is okay you've wrong grammar, spelling, or the sentences do not sound good. That is for the last step -- revision!
The next question is how much effort or time we should spend on each step? The recommended breakdown are as follows:
- Pre-writing (70%)
- Writing the draft (10%)
- Revision (20%)
See how important the pre-writing process is. While going through this module, I've realized that my approach to writing, especially writing for learning should follow in this sequence!
4.3 The pre-writing step
Again, remove the bad habit of writing and gathering information simultaneously. Focus on gathering information. Don't starting writing unless you've gather and organize the information. If you have a sense of overall structure of your writing, then you can proceed to the next step.
To have an overview, use several available organization system. For example, mind map or road map so that you've an outline of the overall document. By organizing the ideas, you will know what are the missing pieces and what to search next. This process will take a while. If you're stuck, do something else. Subconsciously, the missing pieces will come to you, eventually in one way or another. Always carry a recorder, a pen, or any capturing ideas tools. You can even put a water proof whiteboard in your bathroom.
When come to organizing ideas with different viewpoints, group the arguments. For example, you can group the ideas by those who support it, the counter arguments, and the rebuttals.
4.4 The writing step
Just write. Fsck grammar or spelling or what ever style. Convey your organized ideas into complete sentences. Focus on the logical organization of your ideas. Best to set a timer on this so that your priority is to finish the writing instead of doing any revision or editing.
Do not edit your writing. Just write it down!
4.5: Revision
Six important steps which will improve the revision process. These are:
(1) Read your writing out loud.
The main purpose is to identify awkwardness in your writing. When the writing sounds good, then the reader will appreciate the natural flow of the writing.
(2) Do a verb check.
To make sure your writing is expressed in a direct way, underline all the main verb in each sentence. There are three issues with verb:
(a) Lackluster verb. For example, "are".
(b) Passive verb. For example, "was".
(c) Burried verb. For example, the main verb is too far from the subject. We have discussed this in previous week.
(3) Don't be afraid to cut.
Identify these issues to improve your writing. Those marked in bold are my bad writing habit.
(a) Dead weight words or phrases.
(b) Empty words or phrases.
(c) Long words or phrases.
(d) Unnecessary jargons and acronyms.
(e) Repetitive words or phrases.
(f) Adverbs. (very, really, quite, or basically)
(4) Organizational review.
Tag the paragraph of your writing. Each tag is a summed up main point of the paragraph.
(5) Get outside feedback.
As the reader with or without the domain knowledge for feedback. The reader should be able to identify the main point, the take-home message, or the significance of your writing. If they are unable to do so, ask them to identify the part which are hard to grasp. Their feedback is the focus of your revision.
(6) Find a good editor.
Someone know have the domain knowledge and good in writing.
4.6: Checklist for the final draft
Finally, before sending out the writing to the editor or journal, go through these check list below to ensure consistency and accuracy.
(a) Check for consistency.
You writing style and so forth.
(b) Check for numerical consistency.
For example, is the writing match the result in the table? Sometimes, sloppy copy and paste can cause inconsistency between the numerical data and the writing.
(c) Check your references.
One main issue is citation propagation where the writer back his/her statements based on a secondary source instead of the main source. Always do fact checking and reference to the main source.
Learning Objectives
(1) Practice writing clear and concise paragraphs.
Some common tips.
(2) Describe the steps in the writing process.
Most important lesson learned here. Pre-writing is so crucial that we also neglect it and do it together with writing. There will be no writing until you have completed the pre-writing step.
(3) Recognize the importance of spending sufficient time pre-writing.
This learning note was done in such way where I jot down the ideas which took me 3 hours. The writing was fast and it took around 1 hour.
(4) Recognize that good writing requires extensive revision.
Read, review, revise, and repeat.


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On Ash Wednesday, churches hold services where we receive the sign of the cross on our foreheads using ash from palm branches.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the season of preparation for Easter. From today, there are forty days until Easter (excluding Sundays, which are always for celebrating resurrection, not fasting).
Today churches hold services where we receive the sign of the cross on our foreheads using ash from palm branches, connecting us to last year's Palm Sunday. This imposition of ashes is a sign of penitence and mortality. That is, it symbolises that we are both broken and dying, flawed and finite, fragmented and fragile, dirty and dusty.
As the mark is made, these words are spoken:
"Remember, O mortal, that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Repent and believe the good news."
Notice that while both mortality and sinfulness are referenced, the appropriate response to each differs. We remember our mortality; we repent of our sins. Our mortality is not itself a fault, but part of our creaturely existence. We receive the breath of life, it is never ours to claim or secure, our life is always dependent upon a source beyond us. The call to remember this is the call to relinquish control over our deaths, to relinquish the demand that I must be kept alive at all costs, and so to discover the freedom that comes from giving space in my life to projects other than survival.
While being exhorted to remember our mortality - that we will return to dust - we are also encouraged to remember our origin and identity- that we are dust. Like Adam, we are from and of the earth (humans from the humus). Being dusty means not only that our life is received as a gift, but that we exist as a member of the community of creation, in solidarity with the rest of the created order. Although we are often quick to lay claim to human uniqueness, part of lenten penitence is re-membering ourselves within this larger sphere. This is both dignity and frustration. Dignity because we too belong to the ordered material world over which God declared his blessing. Frustration because we share with all created things a present "bondage to decay". But our origin and destiny are bound together with the non-human world. Thus, to be smeared with cinders is to be humbled, and yet simultaneously to discover in that humility a properly human and creaturely glory.
So we remember our creaturely mortality, but we are to repent of our sins, to turn from our self-obsession and to discover the sometimes painful joy in meeting and loving others beyond the echo-chamber of the self. This repentance will make no sense unless it is accompanied, enabled and completed by believing the good news. Only the good news of the risen Jesus liberates us from the patterns of false behaviour that diminish our capacity for life and love. That is why the sign that is made in ash is that of a cross. The cross symbolises the good news of liberation: not liberation from being creatures of dust, but freedom from guilt at our dirty lives, freedom from sin and its false dreams, freedom from despair and so freedom to live as mortals, freedom to share in extending God's hospitality, freedom to be truly human.
On Ash Wednesday, Jesus' followers are marked as dirty and dusty, but the shame of the dirt and the frustration of the dust are both placed within the hope of the cross.
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Despite his nerves, Jason John knew he had to raise his voice to Parliament to call for climate action. Prayers without action were simply not enough.
Aboriginal Christian Leader Brooke Prentis reflects on her time travelling the nation for the #Jan26 Prayer Services where over 2000 people were in attendance.
Last year, an incredible movement called for #KidsOffNauru. Last weekend, it happened!
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Charter School Renewal
The charter school renewal process is similar to the initial charter school petition process, but there are substantial differences. Renewal applications must meet the same legal requirements and cover all the required elements of a charter petition, but in addition, they must include renewal criteria demonstrating school progress and success, including state API data. Additionally, there may be recently added requirements not addressed in the previous petition application that will need to be included in the renewal petition.
With almost 150 charter schools supported across the country, CSMC has effectively helped our clients through numerous renewals with their authorizer. Get the Charter School Renewal Support that your school needs.
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Monday, September 16, 2013
Peach –Cashew Coffee Cake
23 comments:
Veri nice looking fluffy cake u have here.. I love d colour & d so crispy cake's top..ReplyDelete
Chaya sure did pick a winner this time Kit. Peaches and Cashews aren't a match I have ever thought of but, I sure can imagine the deliciousness.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing, Kit...
sounds like my cup of tea!!ReplyDelete
So moist and beautiful! I like the combo of stone fruit and cashew. A fantastic afternoon coffee cake, Kit.ReplyDelete
I enjoyed the texture of this cake, and really liked that it was topped with peaches and cashews.ReplyDelete
Wow,So beautiful and looks delicious too!ReplyDelete
Kit, one piece for me please :)
This looks perfect!ReplyDelete
Hi Kit,ReplyDelete
The texture of your cake looks really nice! I'm baking mine maybe tomorrow, yup, I'm late this month, got to finish up some leftover bakes from the fridge first! LOL!
And canned peaches for us! Jealous of your fresh peaches!!
Love this cake, really good!
Peaches are one of my favorite fruits in the summer. This looks lovely.ReplyDelete
Kit, your peaches look so beautiful. Your cake looks very good with the peaches and cashew nuts :) It looks so soft and just the way I like my cakes.ReplyDelete
I can only wish mine looks as good as yours. I bet it tasted as good though.ReplyDelete
The cake looks gorgeous and I found myself smitten by the very first click of your post.ReplyDelete
Hmm.. peaches and cashews! New flavor that I'm sure is so sedap. Next time I shall try this recipe.. yum yum.ReplyDelete
i am in slow mode again ! if i can get hold of fresh peaches, i will use them.ReplyDelete
I love peach cake and this is definitely my favourite :)ReplyDelete
Kit, this looks like a yummy cake but I'll leave out the cashews. But I love the peaches!ReplyDelete
I've seen some donut peach around here but I'm sure not as good as the ones you have there :D Love the cashew and peach combo , so delish !ReplyDelete
This looks fantastic.ReplyDelete
Picture perfect cake and post!ReplyDelete
Lovely little cake this is, Kit. I love donut peaches -- they are my favorite!ReplyDelete
Hi Kit, your peach cake look so moist and soft, very nice cake. Got coffee? As usual love your presentation and beautiful flowers.ReplyDelete
Have a nice week ahead,regards.
Hi Kit!ReplyDelete
Just found this new Jane Austen link you might enjoy:)


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SICOM6496 is a layer 3 managed industrial Ethernet switch designed to operate reliably in electrically harsh and climatically demanding utility substation and industrial environments. SICOM6496 supports up to 48 gigabit fiber/copper ports or 8 gigabit SFP port and 96 fast Ethernet ports. SICOM6496 is a 19-inch rack mountable device and allows the front and rear panel mounting. SICOM6496 Offers hardware wire-speed layer 3 switching, and supports many Layer 2 software features such as port, VLAN, multicast, QoS, fast redundant ring and Layer 3 functions such as RIP, OSFP. It supports Console, Telnet, Web management and network management software based on SNMP. SICOM6496 can provide solutions with high performance and high reliability for the industrial communication systems.
Modular design, supports max 48 gigabit fiber/copper ports or 8 gigabit SFP ports and 96 fast Ethernet ports
Supports Layer 3 routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF and PIM
Supports DT-Ring , MSTP and VRRP for network redundancy
IP30 protection class
|Software Functions
|Switching Function
|Supports VLAN
Supports GVRP
Supports port aggregation
Supports flow control
Support port rate limit
|Redundancy Protocol
|Supports VRRP
Supports DT-Ring, DT-Ring+, and DT-VLAN and the recovery time<50ms
Supports RSTP/MSTP and compatible with STP
|Multicast Protocol
|Supports IGMP v1/v2
Supports IGMP snooping
Supports static multicast
Supports PIM-SM, PIM-DM
|Routing Protocol
|Supports RIPv1/v2
Supports OSFPv2
Supports static routing
|Service Quality Management
|Supports ACL
Supports SP and WRR queuing
|Management & Maintenance
|Supports Console, Telnet, and Web management methods
Supports SNMPv1/v2c and can managed by Kyvision
Supports file transfer and software update over FTP and TFTP
Supports the power alarm, port alarm, and ring alarm
Supports port mirroring
Supports Syslog
Supports LLDP
Supports RTC
|IP Address Management
|Supports Bootp
Supports DHCP server/relay/client
|Product Specifications
|IEEE 802.3i (10Base-T)
IEEE 802.3u (100Base-T)
IEEE 802.3ab (1000Base-T)
IEEE 802.3ad (port aggregation)
IEEE 802.3z (1000Base-SX/LX)
IEEE 802.3x (flow control)
IEEE 802.1p (priority)
IEEE 802.1w (RSTP)
IEEE 802.1s (MSTP)
|Switch Properties
|Priority queue: 8
Number of VLANs: 4K
Number of multicast groups: 256
Routing table: 30K
MAC table: 16K
Packet buffer: 512 Mbit
Packet forwarding rate: 71.4 Mpps
Switching delay < 10 μs
|Gigabit ports:
1000Base-X, SFP port
10/100/1000Base-T(X), RJ45 port
Fast Ethernet ports:
100Base-FX, single/multi mode, SC/ST/FC connector
10/100Base-T(X), RJ45 port
Console port: RS232,RJ45
Number of slots: 4
|LED on front panel
Running LED: Run
Power LED: PWR1, PWR2
Port LED: LINK/ACT, LINK, ACT
|Power Requirements
|Power input:
Power terminal: 3-pin 7.62 mm-spacing plug-in terminal block
Power consumption<150w
Overload protection: Support
Reverse connection protection: Support
Redundancy protection: Support
|Physical Characteristics
|Housing: Metal
Cooling: Natural cooling, fanless
Protection Class: IP30
Dimensions(WxHxD): 482.6mm×355mm×405mm (19×13.98×15.94in.)
Weight<20Kg (44.09 pound)
Mounting: 19 inch rack mounting
|Environmental Limits
|Operating temperature: -40°C to +85°C (-40°F to 185°F)
Storage temperature: -40°C to +85°C (-40°F to 185°F)
Ambient Relative Humidity: 5% - 95% (non-condensing)
|Quality Assurance
|MTBF: 137,000 hrs
Warranty: 5 years
|Industry Standard
FCC CFR47 Part 15,EN55022/CISPR22,Class A
IEC61000-4-2(ESD) ±6kV(contact),±8kV(air)
IEC61000-4-3(RS) 10V/m(80MHz-2GHz)
IEC61000-4-4(EFT) Power Port:±2kV;Data Port:±2kV
IEC61000-4-5(Surge) Power Port:±2kV/DM,±2kV/CM;Data Port:±2kV
IEC61000-4-6(CS) 3V(10kHz-150kHz);10V(150kHz-80MHz)
IEC61000-4-16(common mode conduction) 30V(cont.),300V(1s)
IEC60068-2-6 (vibration),
IEC60068-2-27 (shock),
IEC60068-2-32 (free fall)
|SICOM6496 Chassis
|Power Supply Module
|Interface Module
|4x1000Base-X,10/100/1000Base-T(X) Combo port;20x10/100/1000Base-T(X) RJ45 port
|4x1000Base-X,10/100/1000Base-T(X) Combo port; 20x1000Base-X,SFP port
|4x1000Base-X,SFP port; 48x10/100Base-T(X) RJ45 port
|4x1000Base-X,SFP port; 8x100Base-FX,SFP port; 40x10/100Base-T(X) RJ45 port
|Accessory Model
|Gigabit SFP module
|See the selection table of industrial gigabit SFP module
|100M Fiber SFP module
|See the selection table of industrial 100M fiber SFP module
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Fast-Food Worker Strikes Herald New Organizing ModelAugust 23, 2013 – In The News
Carolyn Richmond was quoted in the Law360 article "Fast-Food Worker Strikes Herald New Organizing Model." While the full text can be found in the August 23, 2013, issue of Law360, a synopsis is noted below.
With strikes by fast-food workers gaining momentum, many have said that the walkouts are unlikely to produce a large number of new union members but could still advance organized labor's goals by gaining support for higher wages.
"This is not about organizing, on a micro level, these small workplaces; it's really about organized labor on a macro level bringing attention to certain issues like the minimum wage or immigration," said Carolyn Richmond. "It's the next wave of organizing labor."


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The last stages of painting our house is underway, but this responsibility has been entrusted to experienced professional St Marys' painter Eric Voermans. I can handle many repairs, but I know my limits; vertigo is one of them. Facia, soffit, brackets, sawn scroll work, bargeboard, finials, are all outside my comfort zone because they are 20 to 26 feet above terra firma.
Eric's process is to first go all around the house, scraping, sanding and priming.
Then, go around again to paint.
Four colours will be used.
Day 1: Eric started with the front corner of the north face and made his way to the back.
Day 2: Here he is ending the northern face on the narrower portion of the house (aka the servants' quarters).
Day 3: He started on the eastern face of the servants' quarters.
Day 4: He made his way around to the south side of the servants quarters.
Stay tuned for Eric's progress on the DV.


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The current title of this blog comes from the effervescent Tom Stoppard. In The Real Inspector Hound (1968), theater critics Moon and Birdboot utter running commentaries on the play they're seeing. At one point, Moon says, "There are moments, and I would not begrudge it this, when the play, if we can call it that, and I think on balance we can, aligns itself uncompromisingly on the side of life. Je suis, it seems to be saying, ergo sum."
My name is John E. Branch Jr. I'm not the New York Times sportswriter of the same name, who doesn't actually have (quite) the same name. I learned how to mix tequila and champagne from playwright Beth Henley, once had breakfast with Charlton Heston (not like it may sound), worked briefly for John F. Kennedy Jr.'s George magazine, and have appeared on TV. (Gore Vidal once said you should never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on TV; who am I to disagree?) More seriously, I've worked in journalism, theater, film, the computer industry, and television. I currently live in New York City, where I devote my spare time to working for Yahoo Media; I was previously a freelance comma cop for Vanity Fair magazine. My writing also appears on Medium (where I cross-post just about everything that appears here) and sometimes on HuffPost, and earlier I contributed to the Don't Miss It blog, which features commentary from New York and London writers.
I've received some honors and awards, and I've contributed to establishing some. But if there's any distinction to be had in this line, it comes from saying no more about it. For further thoughts on awards, see this post and this follow-up.
Apart from the sites just mentioned, you can also find me here:
On Facebook
On Twitter
On Google+
On Goodreads
On Flickr
On Instagram
Current header image: a cropped version of my photograph Blonde haste, taken in Paris on November 25, 2005. The original is on Flickr.


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Hans-Adams II and the cloak of secrecy
The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is scheduled to hold a hearing today which will, in their rather restrained language,
"examine how financial institutions located in offshore tax havens, including Liechtenstein and Switzerland, may be engaged in banking practices that could facilitate, and in some instances have resulted in, tax evasion and other misconduct by U.S. clients."
This comes amid an ongoing scandal concerning the Swiss bank UBS under investigation for helping wealthy US citizens evade taxes. TJN's John Christensen was on ABC News on U.S. television last night talking about the affair, as well as the lawyer Jack Blum, who is a Senior Adviser to TJN.
The Financial Times has an advance copy of a 100-page report saying the Subcommittee will accuse UBS and Liechtenstein's LGT Group, owned by Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein (you should refer to him as Johannes Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marko d'Aviano Pius von und zu Liechtenstein, styled HSH The Sovereign Prince of Liechtenstein: see the picture) of using the "cloak of bank secrecy laws" to help American clients evade billions of dollars in taxes. The report estimates the US Treasury loses $100bn (€63bn) annually to offshore tax abuses.


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Photos, people will always take photos at events says Captain Obvious!
If you score a wonderful venue for your wedding, photo backdrops wouldn't be a challenge to spot. Sometimes, you have to create that special photo spot for your guests. You can have your stylist create a space that's not only the designated photo backdrop but a spot that flows with the entire space. It's an element that can add to the event's aesthetic for sure.
Event stylists can create these backdrops to add to the decor of your event. (You might have seen our model Linda in our previous post. =)).
Showing off a simply styled prop.
Floral design piece that adorns the hair.
And it could be used to dress your outfit.
Thanks to Sitha and Linda for all your help with this concept shoot.
~ Enjoy
Styling & Floral Design: Style This Shindig
Photography: Sitha Vorn
Model: Linda Moore


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I love taking part in quilting bees, swaps etc but the biggest challenge I have is working out how to make some of the wonderful quilts that I spot. I end up searching through books or surfing the internet looking for instructions. I have decided to start writing up my own tutorials for some of the blocks that I try out and then maybe I'll help someone else who wants to have a go!!
Tutorials available:
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Directed by: Jonathon Frakes
Release Date: 2008
Contains spoilers
'The Librarian' series are a set of films starring Noah Wyle as Flynn Carsen, a librarian at the New York metropolitan library. The library hosts a secret area (as big as it needs to be) where relics are kept, and the job of librarian has a lot more excitement attached to it then one would immediately believe. Of course there is absolutely nothing original about the TV films, of which this is the third, there is a great big dollop of Indiana Jones (but let me tell you at this point that I rate this Librarian offering a lot more than I did the recent and inferior fourth film of that series, may the series rest in peace now). But more than that, this is Boys Own Adventures for the noughties.
You see whilst there is little that is original in these films – though by my looking at this episode here it is obvious that this one features vampires – it really doesn't matter. They know they are not original, they carry references like some folks wear hearts upon their sleeves and they look to have a good old fashioned adventure. This film began its UK TV run on Sky Movies last night and started airing in the States a week before
In this one we begin with Flynn over in England, bidding on a Ming vase that is being auctioned. The entire opening has a James Bond feel, with Flynn in Tux, until he blows it by sneezing on champagne bubbles and then explaining that it wasn't champagne anyway but cava – the man is a geek. His contact back at the library, Charlene (Jane Curtin), has told him to stop rival bidder Mason getting the vase but to not go over budget.
Unfortunately, as the auction goes on, he is on the phone to his upset girlfriend and the price goes up due to his conversation as much as anything. By the time he gets back to New York, he has smashed the vase to retrieve the philosopher's stone, had a sword fight with Mason, lost his girl and spent a million pounds. By the time he threatens suicide by (self animated) Excalibur, Charlene and head librarian Judson (Bob Newhart) suggest he takes a vacation.
Whilst Flynn was melting down, over in the Carpathians and (presumably) at the rather impressive castle of Vlad Draculea a group of balaclava wearing men abseil into a vault. They are there, it becomes clear, for the sake of Russia. They find what they are looking for. Later they appear in the lecture of a professor at Bucharest University, one Professor Lazlo (Bruce Davison). They are led by ex-KGB bigwig Sergei Kubichek (Dikran Tulaine) and are now looking for another artefact – a chalice.
Flynn doesn't do much with his vacation time, he is winning virtual dollars in online poker and catching up on his reading. Charlene turns up at his flat, apparently a little drunk, and tells him not to give up on life. She shows him a set of travel brochures from vacations she never took, including New Orleans. Flynn falls asleep and dreams of a mysterious woman calling to him and the Andrew Jackson Statue (I think). He heads to New Orleans.
He lands and looks the über-geek in his pastel blue suit, he meets cab driver Andre (Werner Richmond), who actually states that Flynn is the tourist. He gets into the city that night and is drawn to a song. He follows the song to a night club, converted from a monastery, and sees the woman from his dreams performing, her name is Simone (Stana Katic). She seems to be singing to him and he approaches her. She, however, spots the Russians enter and takes Flynn somewhere more private.
Somewhere more private happens to be a chapel within the building and she gives Flynn a medallion and calls him librarian. The Russians come in for the medallion – Flynn actually drops it in wax and leaves an imprint – but Flynn uses the natural resonance of the chapel (and a high C sung by Simone) to shatter a stained glass window over their foes and make their escape. They reach a doorway leading nowhere but thin air. She manages to jump to a nearby roof, Flynn tries to follow suit but ends up scrabbling onto the side of the roof and needing Simone to pull him to safety. He seems pleasantly oblivious to the unnaturalness of her jump and subsequent strength and ends up bedding her – she is rather an aggressive lover who, playfully, tosses him across a room.
The next day she has vanished, leaving a rose on his pillow, and he goes to a barbershop for a shave. The various clients and the barber himself become, in turns, Judson who discusses the mystery with him. Flynn has worked out that the medallion refers to the Judas Chalice, said to be made from the thirty pieces of silver paid to Judas for the betrayal of Christ. The cup has other myths attached to it. It is said to be able to revive dead vampires. Judson says that Judas was the first vampire, hence the vampiric hatred of silver and holy items. A stake through the heart works only if the stake is cut from aspen – the tree Judas hung himself from. Flynn then follows the clues to a Judas shrine in a cemetery and, having paid the silver dollar, retrieves the next clue – only to be captured by the Russians.
The Russians have the body of Vlad Draculea and want the chalice to revive him, so he can create an army of unstoppable vampiric soldiers and they can restore the glory of Russia that they believe has been lost. They have Lazlo with them and so do not need Flynn, just his clue, so they feed him a drug and aim to kill him. Flynn, however, escapes, manages to decipher the next clue with Lazlo but then leaves without the professor as the older man says that he cannot keep up and Flynn should get away.
By this time the drug is kicking in and the Russians follow him through mardi gras and eventually corner him in a warehouse. Suddenly Simone is there, floating in the air. She seems to vanish and reappear in a cloud of swirling dust. She takes out two of the Russians but, eventually, she is shot protecting Flynn. He manages to carry her body out and make his escape but when, subsequently, she sits up he passes out.
He comes around in her home and she reveals that she is a vampire – hence she knew he was a librarian as the vampires have always known about the library. She is 403 years old – Flynn admits he has dated older women before but until then has never dated the dead – and was turned in Paris. She hunted for the one who turned her, to kill him, and then, when she heard about the chalice, travelled to be a guardian for it – though she never found it herself. They head to where the chalice is meant to be…
Now I don't want to spoil too much of this but it won't be a spoiler to say that, eventually, Flynn wins – the hero always does in movies such as this. I also don't think it is too much to reveal that Simone dies and it is vampiric suicide having helped Flynn and fulfilled her goals in unlife. I reveal her fate as I want to point out that, when in the sun, the vampiric death is sort of a breaking up into dust – much like the dust as they transport themselves and exert their powers. Also this is an area where the film was clearly derivative as I can think of at least two similar, vampiric suicide endings from quite modern films.
The other ways in which a vampire can die include beheading and, as Judson pointed out, having an aspen stake thrust through the heart. Now the head vampire dies this way and it is obviously cgi but quite spectacular none the less. The stake goes through and then the vampire bursts into flames. Before they explode we see CGI skull like faces flying around, reminiscent of Raiders of the Lost Ark and, presumably, representing victims finding release. Drinking infected blood could cause long term damage to a vampire.
Vampires do not have to be evil. Simone lives on blood packs (though one assumes she used to hunt and not kill before they became available) and is generally a good vampire. However vampires, including her, react quite strongly in the presence of the Judas Chalice – vamping out with glowing eyes and fangs. The idea that Judas was the first vampire is not original, Dracula 2001 got there first – though there is no suggestion in this that Dracula and Judas were one and the same, which was the case in the earlier film. The idea of tying Dracula and some form of Chalice together was previously used in similar archaeology/artefact adventure programme Relic Hunter as well as in an Indiana Jones adventure book and probably derives from the legend that Vlad Tepes had a golden cup that was by a well or spring and was never stolen as people well knew their fate if they stole from Vlad.
The performances are good all the way through, Wyle is so self-effacing as the nerd turned adventurer that one cannot help but root for him and as for Stana Katic – well she is good in role but, woohoo, she looks absolutely fine as well. I should just quickly mention Ted Alderman, director of Vampyre Tales, who has a small acting role in this. Some CGI is obvious but generally the effects work and, all in all, this is good adventure material. It does what it says on the tin and it isn't afraid to be derivative, rather it revels in it. 6.5 out of 10 for 90 minutes of adventure that asks if you will come along for the ride.
The imdb page is here.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice
Directed by: Jonathon Frakes
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The latest storyline that has Uzalo viewers in the feels involves viewer favourite, GC, who's caught between his family and the man he loves. Now viewers are wondering how much longer he'll be part of the soapie. The Daily Vox team rounds up.
GC, played by Khaya Dladla, is a homosexual man who left home for the township in order to live his life openly. But when his parents arrive in KwaMashu, GC has to pretend to be straight, much to his friends' surprise.
But his parents are there to surprise him – he learns they're there to take him back home, to arrange his marriage – to a woman! His father Cetshwayo is a chief back home, and GC is expected to return there to marry and have babies with Hleziphi, who his parents have chosen for him, naturally unaware that he's not interested in that kind of life.
GC is too afraid of revealing his sexuality to his father for fear that his family will disown him. His parents are typical traditional parents who won't hear a word about homosexuality.
Living in a society that is dominated by heterosexual reality and so much judgement make it difficult for people like GC to live free #UZALO pic.twitter.com/wX2wccJF23
— Kedibone Digashu (@Kedidigashu) July 10, 2017
After trying to convince his parents that he has a girlfriend in KwaMashu, GC appeals to his friend Thobile to be his fake girlfriend. Cetshwayo was thrilled to learn that GC has a girlfriend who is four months pregnant, but the plan backfires when the family tells GC he will have to take Hleziphi as his second wife.
When the whole drama becomes too much for him, he writes a suicide note to his friends, thanking them for all their support. In the letter he pours out his heart, thanking them for having his back for years and allowing him to be himself. He is devastated about the fact that life is tearing them apart, but he can't stand his situation of being forced to be someone he is not. He says that he has decided to go somewhere, where he will find eternal peace.
GC's situation is hard guys. It's not easy coming out and tell your parents that you are gay. They expect more from GC as a man #Uzalo
— Mr Twittar (@EraBaloyi) July 10, 2017
GC has written a letter to his parents too, confessing his love for Jojo. His mother knew all along that GC is in love with Jojo but she still forced him to go back home and get married to Hleziphi. Will she be able to live with herself if her only son goes ahead with committing suicide?
Viewers can't wait to find out what GC will choose. Will he go home, marry Hleziphi and live in a closet for the rest of his life? Or will his boyfriend Jojo save the day?
Viewers are adamant that Uzalo will never be the same without GC, with some saying he is the driver of Uzalo and producers dare not get rid of him.
@Khaya_dladla I just hope GC is not leaving #Uzalo, and not for good. Hape there's no Uzalo without GC.😭😭😭
— the realist. (@TheRealNkaiseng) July 10, 2017
Uzalo writers have received praise for introducing a storyline that addresses homosexuality within the black community, and Dladla has been lauded for mastering his role. His storyline has resonated with many viewers, whether they are homosexual or not.
GC's storyline 💔 I'm so affected yerr #Uzalo pic.twitter.com/oyJvqtj7Jn
— Mondli Nhlaka Motha (@mondli_motha) July 10, 2017


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Home - Maine Invasives Mapping and Other Data
The following links represent a comprehensive compilation of map and other database resources publicly available for invasive and pest species in Maine.
Multi-taxa (with particular strength in terrestrial and wetland plant species)
iMapInvasives Maine (http://www.imapinvasives.org/meimi/map/)
Provider: Maine Natural Areas Program.
Map and database that shows where invasive species are on Maine's landscape.
To view specific locations or use iMap to record treatments and monitor infestations, request a free user account.
Find more information about iMap Maine at: http://www.maine.gov/dacf/mnap/features/invasive_plants/imap.htm
All-taxa Forest Pests
Eastern Forest Environemtal Threat Center (threatsummary.forestthreats.org)
Provider: US Forest Service
From insects to diseases this all-taxa resource has photos, species descriptions and distribution info.
Multi-taxa (plant, marine, freshwater aquatic, native species)
Vital Signs (vitalsignsme.org)
Provider: Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Educational effort engaging school age participants and other contributors who make observations to be confirmed by experts. Focuses on many invasive species as well as select native species. Citizen science at its best.
Multi-taxa (agricultural pests)
Pest Tracker (pest.ceris.purdue.edu)
Provider: Purdue Univ. / US Dept. of Agriculture
Photos and Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) results focusing on agricultural pest species.
Plants (terrestrial)
Invasive Plants Atlas of New England (IPANE – nbii-nin.ciesin.columbia.edu/ipane)
Provider: Univ. of Connecticut
Includes an excellent compendium of records compiled from botanical collections, surveys and trained volunteers. County-level distribution is available for some species!
EDDMapS (www.eddmaps.org)
Provider: Univ. of Georgia – Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health
Excellent resource containing a multitude of spatial data sets of invasive plant species including the IPANE dataset described above.
UMaine Herbaria (herbaria.umaine.edu)
The terrestrial plant resources listed above include specimens vouchered at UMaine but you can search their dataset directly which also includes lichen, moss, fungi and algal collections!
Marine Invader Tracking and Information System (MITIS – massbay.mit.edu/mitis)
Provider MIT Sea Grant
Houses data collected through the Rapid Assessment Surveys and other survey and monitoring efforts for marine invaders.
Nonindigineous Aquatics
Nonindigineous Aquatics (nas.er.usgs.gov)
Provider: US Geological Survey
USGS repository for aquatic species information – includes known distribution maps and factsheets.


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Dynacare Acquires Hooper-Holmes
Hooper-Holmes, one of the largest independent paramedical providers to the life insurance industry, was acquired by Dynacare effective Sept 1, 2017. Dynacare brought these industry-leading companies together to create an end-to-end, forward thinking solution based in Canada.
As Canada's largest provider of insurance medical services, this allows Dynacare to continue to evolve and provide the customer service, digitization, and data required as the insurance landscape changes.
Dynacare and Hooper-Holmes is fully committed to ensuring a smooth and seamless transition for our clients. Please do not hesitate to contact your Dynacare or Hooper-Holmes representative if you have any questions or concerns.
Health Information Division providing mobile paramedical services.
Tele-Information Division providing electronic underwriting information services.
Secure web based document downloads.
Personal and Financial Information Division, providing Inspection Report and Attending Physician Statement Services.
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Cyprus/ 5.1 General legislation
5.1.8 Data protection laws
In Cyprus the Processing of Personal Data (Protection of Individuals) Law 138(i)/2001 is being implemented by the Office of the Commissioner of Personal Protection Data. The legislation applies to the private as well as the public sector. Educational seminars and presentations are offered in schools so as to raise awareness for the children's rights of personal data protection.
Chapter published: 29-07-2015