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Functions of Different Components of a Needle
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What is Needle:
Needle is used to sew the fabric by thread.
Way of needle movement is related to:
- Seam strength.
- Seam appearance.
- Seam durability.
- To make a hole in the fabric without damaging the threads of the fabric.
- To make a needle thread loop.
- To pass the needle thread loop through the loop or loops of the looper thread.
|Anatomy of needle
- Butt: For setting the needle on to the needle bar or clamp.
- Shank: Upper part of the needle which is tied in the needle bar and which supports the needle.
- Shoulder: Middle part of the shank and blade is shoulder. It helps to make the hole of the fabric and strengthen the needle blade.
- Blade: Longest part of the needle from the shoulder to needle eye. In this portion, friction between fabric and needle is maximum. Blade is gradually tapered to tip.
- Long groove: The long and thin groove between shoulders to needle eye in the blade is called long groove. When the needle penetrates the fabric with needle thread, needle thread takes position in the long groove.
- Eye: The hole present in the front of the needle is called eye. Eye through which sewing thread is passed.
- Scarf: The groove of the needle above the eye is called scarf. Its purpose is to enable the closer setting of looper to the needle.
- Point: The portion from the eye to the tip of the needle is called point. Point should be different for different type of fabric.
- Tip: The last (extreme end) part of the needle is called tip. It helps to create hole in the fabric during sewing.
The portion from the eye to the tip of the needle is called needle point.
Two types of needle point-
- Cutting point.
- Cloth point.
Cloth point / Round point needles used for sewing cloths. The point of cloth point needle is round.
Two types of cloth points:
- Set point.
- Ball point.
3 types of set points namely:
- Slim set point: For sewing densely woven fabric or top stitching like collar, cuff and pockets.
- Set point: For sewing medium densely woven fabrics.
- Heavy set point: For sewing buttons ( attaching buttons)
|Set point
Ball point: Ball point needles used for sewing knitted garments.
Ball point needles are of 3 types:
- Light ball point.
- Medium ball point.
- Heavy ball point.
|Ball point
Needle size expression
Metric system (Nm):
Easy process, most usable, based on blade diameter.
Needle size = Blade dia in mm X 100
= 0.8 mm X 100
=80 Nm.
Singer system:
5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
Needle system number more, needle coarser.
Causes of damaging needle point:
- Needle heats with m/c parts specially throat plate.
- Faulty fabric handling during sewing by m/c operator.
- Needle deflection during sewing.
- Improper needle size selection.
- Improper needle point selection.

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- How do you become a millionaire? There are many ways, of course, but to hear millionaires themselves tell it, saving is the most common path, beating out investments, inheritance or marrying a sugar daddy (or mama).
That's what PNC Financial Services Group found when it interviewed 923 millionaires last fall. The findings may prove heartening to ordinary folk seeking financial security, even if they don't attain millionaire status. It seems there's no magic formula, and saving is a technique available to anyone who's not living paycheck to paycheck.
Asked what "decision" had most influenced their financial success, 56% of those polled cited saving early and regularly. Next came controlling spending and good investment decisions (each named by 38%), followed by earning a lot of money (26%), inheriting (12%) and marrying someone with money (3%). (The figures add up to more than 100 because some millionaires credited more than one factor.)
Asked a slightly different question about the "influences" that helped them become millionaires, 65% said hard work, 16% said good decisions, 8% said discipline and 7% said luck.
These last findings might be taken with a grain of salt, as people like to attribute their success to personal virtues rather than luck. It's also worth remembering that being a millionaire isn't what it used to be. The super wealthy, as opposed to mere millionaires, might put starting a business or inventing a product above run-of-the-mill saving.
Still, the benefits of saving more each month are rooted in simple math. Using the Savings Goal Calculator, you can find two ways to accumulate $1 million over 30 years. With a 12% return, you could get there by saving $325 a month. But since 12% would be hard to achieve, you could also get there with an 8% return if you increased your monthly saving to $705.
In other words, by saving more, you can reach the goal with a more modest return -- one that would be easier to achieve, and with less risk. If returns were better than expected, well, you'd just hit your goal sooner, or build a bigger nest egg.
And the millionaires are also right about the value of starting early. To get a million by age 65 with an 8% return, you'd need to save $308 a month if you start at 25, but $1,093 a month if you wait until 40.
Saving early and often also gives the saver resources to jump on opportunities that can otherwise be missed. Those might be good investments, a chance to start a business or to get more education.
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Using a higher savings rate to become a millionaire is a simple strategy -- far easier than buying sow bellies or gambling on stock options or foreign currencies. It does, however, entail some risk, as bank savings and other cash holdings earn almost nothing.
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Flavours of Streaming Processing
In his excellent recent blog post "Streaming 101", Tyler Akidau made a great contribution to the streaming community by teasing apart certain notions that have been confounded by standard albeit increasingly obsolete practices. Within that same spirit of paving the ground for the streaming revolution, this blog post wishes to emphasise the observation that streaming does not necessarily mean approximate, with a particular focus on machine learning.
Let's start with the simplest possible example, that of a linear sum: it can be easily computed in an incremental (exactly-once) processing manner:
The answer in this case is exact: it agrees precisely with a batch sum. Such examples are referred to as exact incremental or exact online processing.
However, not all queries can be computed exactly in an online fashion. A classical example is top-N, or a median. To understand why, it is best to define our terms: what does incremental or online really mean? Put simply, it means that the memory and time requirements of the process do not grow over time - despite the fact that the number of data entries processed does (since data streams are by definition semi-infinite - in Tyler's terminology: unbounded).
Indeed, to maintain a sum, one only needs one to store one floating number in memory (the last value of the sum). To maintain an average, one needs to store two: the sum, and a count of how many data entries have been seen so far. However, to maintain a median, one needs to keep in memory an array whose size grows with the total number of data entries seen. Similarly for top-N. Consequently, the best we can do in a streaming context is offer approximate answers to queries such as a median, top-N, or a percentile calculation.
"Approximate answers" has been a longstanding criticism of streaming processing. MapReduce enthusiasts have always argued that, no matter how big your dataset is becoming over time, unless you desperately need real-time answers, you should always scale out and run batch to ensure correctness.
Needless to say that, as Tyler also mentions, approximate queries could be implemented in batch mode, too, in time-critical contexts. In fact, the initial motivation behind online processing was precisely that: to generate fast approximations by sequentially processing massive datasets.
However, as soon as we move beyond simple analytics such as sums and top-Ns, and into the realm of machine learning, the situation becomes a lot more interesting. Very few batch Machine Learning algorithms have exact online counterparts (one example being linear regression which can be exactly computed online via the Recursive Least Squares algorithm). Therefore, your favorite batch random forest will only approximately match its online version.
Does that automatically make the online algorithm inferior, or sub-optimal to the batch version? The answer is a definite (and perhaps surprising): No !
A major distinction between analytical queries and machine learning algorithms is that the former are fixed functions of the data, such as a sum or a rank, whereas the latter is a process, rather than a function, whose objective is to discover hidden patterns or rules that generalise well against future datapoints. There is therefore no theoretical reason why a batch random forest must necessarily outperform a well-designed online random forest.
In the seminal book Principles of Data Mining the chairman of our advisory board Professor David Hand and his coauthors make this point really nicely. They break down a data mining algorithm into the following constituents:
Possibly the easiest way to understand this is to consider a neural network with a fixed architecture (i.e., number of hidden layers etc.), which has to be trained on a dataset of labelled examples. Because neural networks are infamous for producing optimisation surfaces with a huge number of local optima, no gradient descent method is guaranteed to identify the global optimum, and, indeed, conjugate GD might produce a different answer than simple GD. In this sense, an online algorithm using Stochastic Gradient Descent is just another candidate, which might or might not outperform the batch candidates. In any case, it makes no sense to consider the SGD answer as an approximation to the GD answer. In truth, they are both approximations of the unknown "true" decision boundary, and, if they are well-designed, they should both approach the "true" answer as the size of the dataset increases. Which one gets there faster is largely dependent on the problem and the class of methods. Put differently, in machine learning, both batch and online algorithms are approximations, that use data and computational resources differently.
A clarification is in order at this point: sliding windows are an extremely inefficient way to perform streaming learning, precisely because they are designed as approximations to batch learning, albeit starved of information due to the fact that they use only a fraction of the available data. Overarching frameworks for online learning such as stochastic gradient descent and stochastic approximation ensure instead that information is extracted and stored in the most efficient manner possible and updated sequentially.
But, surely, you might argue, the batch paradigm has more computational resources and can therefore support superior algorithms, right? As a general statement, this argument makes sense, but in practice, several statistical phenomena conspire to make online algorithms extremely competitive. We only mention here a few, and promise to analyse further in a future post:
Finally, are streaming algorithms really "more complicated"? We think this question is moot. Some models admit simple algorithms whereas others don't, and the same holds of streaming versions. Moreover, online learning is no longer as fragmented as it was ten years ago, since overarching frameworks such as Stochastic Approximation and Stochastic Gradient Descent haved matured to the extent that it is now possible to reuse a lot of components in a streaming machine learning library.
Let's recap our key observations:
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Baltimore's Rap Sheet Grows
I was as eager as anyone to see Netflix new television miniseries, The Keepers. The program, which investigates an unsolved murder in 1969 Baltimore, has received admiring reviews. It's the story of former Keough School students--now women in their sixties--trying to identify the killer of their beloved teacher, Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik.
The Keepers is a sensitive, well-produced show which gives proper gravity to the crime and its lifelong impact on family and friends. I was sad at the end of the first episode, but for reasons that go beyond what I'd watched.
You see, The Keepers is just the latest Baltimore crime story.
It follows a wildly successful podcast called Serial that re-investigates the prosecution of Adnan Syed, a young Baltimore man for the 1999 murder of his girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Sarah Koenig, the investigative reporter who wrote the podcast, discover many pieces of suppressed evidence that might have kept Adnan from jail. After the podcast, a series of legal challenges were made, and Adnan was granted a second trial, which will be held next year.
Serial made its splash following David Simon's The Wire, an internationally celebrated HBO series focusing on Baltimore police's battle against crime, and before that Homicide, another Simon series with crime on Baltimore's streets.
Interestingly, each of these crime dramas involves the hand of an alumnus or alumna of the Baltimore Sun--the great daily newspaper where I began my own writing career. When I was a college intern working at the paper, I had Sunday duty on the "crime desk." It meant calling the various police stations to learn how many people had died and by what means. What I did was the very opposite of hardboiled beat reporting.
David Simon of Homicide and The Wire, Sarah Koenig of Serial, and Bob Erlandson, who's interviewed in The Keepers--were highly seasoned Sun writers who followed some homicides for months--or even years. A freelance journalist, Tom Nugent, collected research on Sister Cathy for years and wrote a 6000-word article about her for the Baltimore City Paper in 2005.
I greatly admire the reporting and editing that went into all of these programs. But the rise of this genre disturbs me. It makes me concerned that Baltimore's image around the world is nothing but murder.
It would be cool if network executives were interested in a parallel track: dramatic programming about Baltimore that weren't so deadly. The only non-murder show that comes to mind is Ace of Cakes, a reality show on the Food Network.
Just thirty years ago, the city's image was charmingly quirky. In the late 1980s, films like The Accidental Tourist, Hairspray, and Diner served up a historic East Coast city short on glamour, but full of characters. People fretted that Baltimore was always typecast as the home of cheerful, blue collar people who spoke with long Os. We all wanted to get beyond that stereotype and diversify.
I wouldn't mind a few Os, if I could get some back.
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Alas, I think crime has been a big part of Baltimore's reputation for a long time. Kurt Schmoke was elected mayor exactly 30 years ago, and I remember when local wags remarked that his slogan, "Baltimore: The City That Reads," would be more accurately changed to "The City That Bleeds."ReplyDelete
I think that kind of attention comes in waves, as if one big story attracts the attention and the focus is all there.... then a big story breaks elsewhere and the focus goes there for a few years.ReplyDelete
Except if you live were I do, murder capital of Scotland. The city is trying to win the city of culture for 2021. If only they put the money they are spending on that campaign to keep the young off the street and keep them occupied then we might get somewhere.
Sujata, these things change. I swear to you they do. I don't know how long it will take but I can tell you this: I lived in New York City in the 1970s, at which point it was considered a sink of depravity and violence. One of my clients once said to me, "New York City should be sawed off the United States, towed out to sea, and sunk." Another told me that raising my child in New York City was a form of child abuse. The place where I raised her is now the precinct of billionaires. And New York City is the greatest city on earth.ReplyDelete
I think Baltimore has so much going for in terms of its building stock, it's history gets geographical position, so many things. It will survive all this.
One of the things that really turned in New York City around when the streets weren't safe, was our mayor Lindsay who advised us to stop hiding from the violence in the streets, to get out in the streets, and take them back from the night vermin who had turned them to their criminal pursuits. People started having block parties, the police force helped by providing some security but in discrete ways. And the tide turned. There are a lot of things citizen groups can do. Baltimore has a lot of patriotic citizens who appreciate its advantages. They will figure out hoe to make their city back into the place they want it to be. They will.
I think your concern is well placed, Sujata. The City of Pittsburgh (Ravens fans have heard of that place I'm sure) has been smoke free for seventy years, yet its image is still haunted by those WWII pre-emmission controls, industrial output photos, newsreels, stories and jokes. But the upside to all that is it does keep the town from being overwhelmed by those who don't know what a terrific place it is to live.ReplyDelete
Don't worry about it! I live in Johannesburg so we probably get through in a day what takes you a month in Glasgow and Baltimore as far as crime is concerned!ReplyDelete


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Thanatos tossed Marcus to the ground, deflected Solos' attack, and turned on me in a nanosecond. It was pretty epic.
A bolt of white light flew from Thanatos' hand and there wasn't a single thing in this world that could move fast enough. Not even Seth, I was betting.
It hit me just below the chest and my legs collapsed from underneath me. Red-hot, searing pain sliced through my skin and my face smacked off the ground. I didn't even feel it. There was nothing but the razing pain locking up my muscles.
God bolts sucked.
Aiden yelled my name, and then I thought I heard my name called again, but it was inside my head, loud, and so very angry… and it sounded like Seth.
Without any warning, the ground trembled under my twitching body. A flash of golden light cascaded through the clearing. Warmth stole over my body. Weakly, I lifted my head.
Two leather-clad legs stood before me.
"That is enough, Thanatos." Apollo's voice was calm, but it was that creepy, deadly calm I never wanted to be on the receiving end of.
"N-n-nice of y-you to s-show up," I gasped.
"Shut up, Alex." Apollo strode forward. A ray of light followed his steps.
I glared at him as I not-so-gently removed his hand. The contact of his flesh on mine brought the marks of Apollyon out like nothing else. And I knew he saw them by the way his eyes darted over my face. "It's not hurting you," I said.
"It's annoying."
"You're annoying," I shot back.
Alex has always feared two things: losing herself in the Awakening and being placed on the Elixir. But love has always been stronger than Fate, and Aiden St. Delphi is willing to make war on the gods—and Alex herself—to bring her back.
The gods have killed thousands and could destroy entire cities in their quest to stop Seth from taking Alex's power and becoming the all-powerful God Killer. But breaking Alex's connection to Seth isn't the only problem. There are a few pesky little loopholes in the whole "an Apollyon can't be killed" theory, and the only person who might know how to stop the destruction has been dead for centuries.
Finding their way past the barriers that guard the Underworld, searching for one soul among countless millions, and then somehow returning will be hard enough. Alex might be able to keep Seth from becoming the God Killer… or she might become the God Killer herself.
All the rumors you heard about her state aren't true.
Well, mostly. When she's not hard at work writing, she spends her time, reading, working out, watching zombie movies, and pretending to write.
She is the author of the Covenant Series (Spencer Hill Press), the Lux Series (Entangled Teen), Don't Look Back (Disney/Hyperion) and a yet untitled novel (Disney/Hyperion), and new YA paranormal series with Harlequin Teen.
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|the jailer's daughter brings toad some toast
illustration by E.H. Shepard
Like so many seriously yummy, homey dishes, it is sadly unphotogenic.
We had it again tonight, for dinner, and I feel about three pounds heavier than I did an hour ago, but also inspired to dig up the quote from The Wind in the Willows. It occurs in the chapter called "Toad's Adventures," after Toad finds himself "immured in a dank and noisome dungeon, and knew that all the grim darkness of a medieval fortress lay between him and the outer world of sunshine and well-metalled high roads where he had lately been so happy." Shedding "bitter tears" and abandoning himself to "dark despair," he laments, "This is the end of everything . . . at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing; the popular and handsome Toad, the rich and hospitable Toad, the Toad so free and careless and debonair! How can I hope to be ever set at large again . . . who have been imprisoned so justly for stealing so handsome a motor-car in such an audacious manner, and for such lurid and imaginative cheek, bestowed upon such a number of fat, red-faced policemen!"
It is the jailer's (or "gaoler's) daughter—"a pleasant wench and goodhearted"— whose heart breaks for Toad, and who brings the miserable animal the fragrant, melodious dish:
It was bubble-and-squeak, between two plates, and its fragrance filled the narrow cell. The penetrating smell of cabbage reached the nose of Toad as he lay prostrate in his misery on the floor, and gave him the idea for a moment that perhaps life was not such a blank and desperate thing as he had imagined. But still he wailed, and kicked with his legs, and refused to be comforted. so the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry, and deeds till to be done; of broad meadows, and cattle browsing in them, raked by sun and wind; of kitchen-gardens, and straight herb-borders, and warm snapdragon beset by bees; and of the comforting clink of dishes set down on the table at Toad Hall, and the scrape of chair-legs on the floor as every one pulled himself close up to his work. The air of the narrow cell took on a rosy tinge; he began to think of his friends, and how they would surely be able to do something; of lawyers, and how they would have enjoyed his case, and what an ass he had been not to get in a few; and lastly, he thought of his own great cleverness and resource, and all that he was capable of if he only gave his great mind to it; and the cure was almost complete.But we can't stop here. Though Toad never actually eats the inspiring bubble-and-squeak, he does eat some of the most delicious toast in all of literature in the very next paragraph:
When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on it; and a plate piled up with very hot buttered toast, cut thick, very brown on both sides, with the butter running through the holes in it it great golden drops, like honey from the honeycomb. The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cosy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries. Toad sat up on end once more, dried his eyes, sipped his tea and munched his toast, and soon began talking freely about himself, and the house he lived in, and his doings there, and how important he was, and what a lot his friends thought of him.RELATED POST: Ratty's Picnic


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Sony ICFCS15IPN Lightning
Positive feedbacks are pouring for this clock iPhone/iPod clock radio speaker dock made by one of the world's biggest manufacturer of electronic gadgets. The Sony ACFCS15IPN is a very affordable speaker dock with lots of convenient functions. Aside from producing quality sound from iPods and iPhones, it also functions as a clock and radio. The connector is flexible and accommodates the iPhone or iPod even if it's not placed in the right angle.
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Philips Fidelio Premium DS7550 30-Pin
This product from Philips is popular on the market because of its simple yet elegant design, not to mention its incredible performance in producing great audio from all kinds of iPods and iPhones. The Philips Fidelio Premium DS7550 portable speaker dock for iPods and iPhones delivers rich and balanced sound with the help of its neodymium magnets. This feature is unique to Philips products and it is very effective in producing crisp and detailed sound.
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Sony ICFC11IP Lightning
The Sony ICFC11IP is nothing close to the ICFCS15IPN in terms of appearance, but a lot of customers report it to deliver a better performance. It can play any iPod and iPhone units but it is especially designed for the iPhone 5. The radio and clock features are very convenient. The sound it delivers is clear and crisp. The remote is very easy to use. However, it cannot play iPhones in cases and some people find this to be a disadvantage.
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Philips DS3205
The Philips DS3205 charging speaker dock is not as impressive as the previous low-end units but it does have excellent features and it looks very stylish. Even though it isn't as popular as the other speaker dock models mentioned in the top iphone/ipod speaker dock reviews, it is still being complimented for its amazing audio performance. Most of the comments on its flaws are about volume and the fact that it doesn't play iPhones with cases on.
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Highlighted in the document are VMware ESX Server and VMware VirtualCenter, which are part of VMware Infrastructure 3. The timely development and publication of implementation and deployment best practices have been challenged by the rapid rate of Virtual Infrastructure adoption by organizations seeking the immediate benefits to the business. This white paper will explain how to deploy VMware Infrastructure 3 in a secure manner.
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EE (Everything Everywhere) is one of the biggest mobile operator in UK. It was as a result of a merger between Orange and T-Mobile. Since the merge happened, a few clients remained on T-Mobile tariffs, so as to save money. Nevertheless, the clients will still need to make the switch later on, so it is better to do it early enough. It is also important to note that EE was recently bought by British Telecom, so it is better to think about making the switch now rather than later.
Getting the Necessary Assistance
When it comes to moving or making the switch from T-Mobile to EE, you will need to get in touch with customer care services. You can do so you need to contacting EE addition info. One can also do the switch online, but it is better to contact customer care since they will provide you with the necessary details and steps to follow. If you are a customer on T-Mobile, and have less than thirty days on your current plan, you can easily switch to EE in an instant. If you are in an EE retail store, you can be able to get direct assistance from a sales advisor. He or she will be able to help you make the switch with al you necessary data, such as contacts. Also, as you are making the switch, the advisor will make sure that you have a fully understanding of the package you are migrating to.
Does one have to switch to EE?
You may be wondering if you have to make the switch to EE and whether it would be beneficial to you. As a client, there are numerous benefits of making the switch. You will be able to get faster mobile services and also you will be part of the biggest mobile network operator in UK. As you are making the switch, each consumer is eligible for a free boost services. This means that you will get rewarded once you make the switch. You will qualify to get free text, data and minutes. Also if you have a 4G enabled devices, you will be able to get free 4G data.
If you were using a Smart Pack while on T-Mobile, you will be directly transferred to the Everything Pack in EE. These two packages are similar and while you are making the switch, you will be provided with the information ensuring that you understand.
Once you make the switch to EE it does not mean that you will not continue enjoying your service are normal. In some case, you might find it much better for you. Once you make the switch from T-Mobile to EE, you can still use the T-Mobile contact number to get in touch with customer care. If you have any queries, make sure to call customer care.


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Today I'm dreaming of desert getaways and this sun soaked architectural beauty in Joshua Tree. I love when a design creates a perfect marriage with it's landscape and this indoor/outdoor structure takes every grain of sand and patch of blue sky into consideration...
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Architect Robert Stone created this rental space with every existing surrounding element in mind and the outcome is extraordinary because of it...Enjoy!
"Somewhere along the way I became interested in the meaning, as well as the form, in architecture."-Robert Stone.


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The MW3018 Limited Edition comes with the features you need for great sewing.
Priced affordably, it's the perfect machine for the returning or beginning sewist.
The absolute workhorse of the range. In the lid of the machine is a Quick Reference Chart listing all stitches.
Also listed for each stitch is the recommended stitch length and width, the recommended foot to use and the stitch application.
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"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
Henry David Thoreau
Spicy, Creamy & Delicious – Elevate your Plate!
A few weeks ago I talked about a project I was starting, it was sufficiently exciting that I had to take a week away from Be Still & Eat to determine if it was going to have legs to stand on. I'm happy to report that it does!
I spend time each week dedicated to it, both in research and its actual creation. It will be a while before I can really discuss it at any length but will share all as soon as I feel it's at a point worthy of your time.
I've been talking to a few friends with experience in the area, all of whom have been both helpful and encouraging. One friend, in particular, shared the Thoreau quote above and I've realized that it applies to not only my recent venture but also to many of my kitchen exploits – this creamy & spicy concoction not least of which.
I originally made it as part of a chicken dish. Delicious undeniably, but as you can see, not the most gorgeous of all creations. Striking a balance between simply delicious and simply gorgeous is not always the easiest of tasks. Stubbornness however is one of my innate qualities and so I persisted.
I won't show you all my failed attempts at plating this otherwise DE-LUSH dish… we all only have so much patience. But when John suggested that it would be really good with a nice little pork tenderloin followed up with, "Hey! We haven't had a pork tenderloin lately!" I realized that it didn't have to be committed to one single dish. It would work with chicken, pork, fish or imagine it with a few slices of rare roast beef. MMMMMM!
This sauce is insanely easy to make and rather healthy I must say, so it wasn't really a hardship to have made it a few times before deciding how to present it. After a long and crooked walk with my beloved Kozlik's mustard, I will continue to pursue my path, both in the kitchen and (to quote a famous live action toy) BEYOND!
Menu suggestion: As I discussed in the body of this post, this sauce is worthy of many different dishes; chicken, pork, a lovely rare roast beef or fish, but I'd be willing to bet that this spicy deliciousness would also be pretty amazing on a sandwich or even a pasta! Use your imagination, this stuff is WONDERFUL!
Wine pairing: GK was off to a burgundy tasting dinner the night I asked him for this recommendation and he admitted that he was having a hard time getting out of a burgundy mindset – understandable me thinks! He managed however and here is his suggestion.
"Yoghurt requires some acidity. So does mustard. I like the idea of a classic Bordeaux blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon."
Enjoy & Namaste!
- 1 small onion, finely diced
- 1 medium shallot, sliced thinly
- ½ cup chicken stock
- ¼ cup dijon mustard
- ¼ cup grainy mustard (I used a really hot one which was amazing, heat will depend on personal preference)
- ⅓ cup plain greek yogurt
- 4 or 5 sprigs fresh thyme
- more chicken stock as required
- Heat a few TBSP of olive oil in a sauté pan
- Cook onion and shallot over medium high heat until translucent
- Reduce heat to medium low and add both mustards stirring to combine well
- Add chicken stock and fresh thyme, stirring to combine, stirring over heat for a few minutes
- Remove from heat and add Greek yogurt and stir well
- Allow to sit off the heat for a few minutes
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A LINDEN taxi driver was stabbed to death after he violently invaded his ex-lover's apartment.
The lifeless body of 24-year-old Orlando Flatts, also known as Orandy or Rango, was found by the police after they were called to Lot 74 Amelia's Ward, Linden.
According to the police, at around 00:30hrs on Friday, Flatts, of Blue Berry Hill, Wismar, who was allegedly armed with a piece of metal, violently forced his way into the apartment of his ex-reputed wife and was stabbed once in the left region of his abdomen by a male with whom the woman now shares a relationship.
The suspect, a 22-year-old labourer who received injuries to his left elbow and left palm, has been arrested and is assisting the police with the investigation.
When the Guyana Chronicle visited the crime scene, the dead man's ex-lover was being comforted by loved ones.
The woman was too distraught to speak, but this newspaper was told that the police are in possession of her phone as a source of evidence.
According to a woman who lives on the lower floor of the two-storey building, she was awoken by loud tumbling noises in the middle of the night, so she decided to see what was going on.
"I was sleeping, then I heard de noise," she said. "Big tumbling upstairs, and then I heard the louvre window fall out in the kitchen and de girl upstairs say, 'Al'yuh come see! Al'yuh come see!' Then I go through this li'l hallway and I go at the step. I peep through at de step, then I calling for them, but me ain't see nobody.
"Then, for like a good three minutes or so, I see de two of them appear, and de boy with de knife in he hand with the blood.
"So I say, 'Wha happen? Hear he, 'Umm! T'ief just break in upstairs, and me and he had a li'l scuffling and he end up getting jook. Call de police! Call de police!'
"So I seh, 'Wheh he deh?' And he seh, 'He deh upstairs lie down.'
"Suh I say, 'And whuh you doing here? What if de man run away?' And he seh, 'No; he lie down on de ground; he cyan move.' And I run and I holler fuh t'ief! T'ief!"
The body is presently at the Linden Hospital Mortuary awaiting a post mortem and the murder scene has been processed.
Both the knife and a piece of metal have been retrieved and lodged with the police.


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Arctic Silver 3 Review for January 25, 2002
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AtlantaOC not only has a new look but also a review on Arctic Silver 3 which they compare to the original Arctic Silver, Arctic Silver II and Arctic Alumina. So go and see how the new comer performs against the others.
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Most of the recipes I've chosen come from the north of our region but this one is straight from Beaujolais, 15 minutes south of Macon. Originally a leg of lamb braised in red wine I've modified it for lamb shanks which I adore, are cheaper than a leg and look so good served on a plate. It's a very variable recipe that can be cooked for two or twenty people, the only limitation being the size of your casserole or oven. Therefore there are no weights or quantities, just use as much as is needed. So here goes!!
Lamb shanks braised in red wine with haricot beans served with mashed potato.
Heat some oil in a cast iron casserole.
Take one lamb shank per person, season and brown on all sides two or three at a time. Keep them to one side.
Slice onion and carrot (enough to cover the bottom of the casserole by an inch – this is to keep the meat from being in contact with the base of the dish). Allow it to cook gently until starting to soften but not brown. The onion should start to become translucent.
Arrange the shanks on top of the onion and carrot – it doesn't matter if they don't fit in one layer, just stack them up remembering that you have to put a lid on this! Sprinkle a spoonful of plain flour over the top and turn the shanks gently to coat them and start cooking the flour. Pour over a glass or two of red wine just to cover the vegetable at the bottom. Bring to the boil, sprinkle with fresh rosemary, cover and put in a slow oven (gas 3, 160 degrees C) for 60-90 minutes depending on how many you are cooking. Test with a skewer, but the meat should have shrunk away from the bone and be dark brown, the skewer should go in very easily and the juices run clear.
Remove from oven, take out lamb and keep warm. Drain a can or two of white haricot, butter or mixed beans (one 400g tin will do 3-4 people), pour in with a tin or two of chopped tomatoes, and mix well. Bring to a simmer, check seasoning and adjust as necessary. Put the lamb back on top and return to oven while you cook your potatoes which should be mashed with melted butter and milk.
To serve, put a large dollop of mashed potato on one side of the plate, take a shank and rest the bone end on the potato and spoon the bean mixture over the meaty end. Serve perhaps with a few florets of broccoli just to give a bit of colour. Enjoy!!
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There's a disease you've likely never heard of that kills more people every year than breast or prostate cancer.
In fact, it accounts for 4 in 10 hospital deaths, but less than half of people in the United States have ever heard of it.
Patti Alber, 54, and Ashley Gallegos, 27, were unaware of it until the illness took them to death's door.
Alber felt fine on Memorial Day in 2013 as she enjoyed a local parade in North Conway, New Hampshire. Afterward, she decided to take a nap before heading to her job at a restaurant that evening. But she woke up in the worst pain of her life.
The skeleton crew of doctors on duty at her local hospital said Alber had a kidney stone and advised her to go home and wait for it to pass. The next morning, perhaps rethinking that diagnosis, one of the doctors called to see how Alber was doing. She wasn't well at all and returned to the hospital.
The last thing Alber remembers is the doctors and nurses gawking at her as they realized that their blood pressure machine wasn't broken — her pressure was that low. She was quickly flown by helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland and put into a medically induced coma for 10 days while she was treated for septic shock.
Alber remained in the hospital almost until the Fourth of July. Because she was uninsured at the time, Alber owes the hospital a bill that she and her husband believe they will never finish paying.
She has chronic kidney disease because of the septic shock and has had eight fingers and 10 toes amputated. Her doctors think she may need to have her legs amputated to the knee.
At least she's starting to feel like herself again, she told Healthline.
From the Wedding Chapel to the Hospital
Ashley Gallegos had been feeling "off" for a few weeks, but she was determined to make it through her cousin's wedding in September because she was the maid of honor.
That morning, a Friday, she threw up repeatedly. She had trouble standing and was saying things that didn't make sense, her family later told her. Though she barely remembers her speaking parts at the Lake Tahoe wedding, Gallegos managed to get through it.
The next morning, she went to a nearby urgent care center. The doctor told her she probably had meningitis and should get a blood test to confirm on Monday.
If she had waited, Gallegos would almost certainly have died. Instead, she went to the hospital again the following day as she returned to her home in Sacramento. By then she was shaking uncontrollably.
Thanks to a nurse with a hunch, Gallegos was correctly diagnosed with severe sepsis. She spent 10 days in the intensive care unit, much of it on a ventilator.
Even now, six months later, she has trouble sleeping and her lung function hasn't recovered completely.
Both Alber and Gallegos are among the lucky ones who survive sepsis.
"Between a quarter and a third of patients who have this condition will die, and that's despite getting all the best care," said Dr. Jonathan Cohen, an emeritus professor of infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the United Kingdom.
Cohen authored a recent commission report on sepsis published in The Lancet. The report concludes that progress against sepsis has lagged behind other diseases.
'Friendly Fire' Causes Sepsis
Sepsis is an immune response to an infection gone haywire. It causes systemic inflammation and, eventually, multiple organ failure and death.
Dr. Jim O'Brien, an intensive care doctor at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and the chair of the board of directors at Sepsis Alliance, describes the condition as a kind of immunological friendly fire.
"The immune system is set up to be an army, and normally what happens is it surrounds the infection and destroys it. What happens with sepsis is that it may contain the infection, but it also turns around and starts shooting in the opposite direction," he said. "You wind up with this cascade of destructive response."
The condition is fairly common, despite its lack of name recognition. One in 200 Americans will be hospitalized with sepsis this year. Some come in with sepsis. Others develop it in the hospital as the secondary effect of another illness or as an infection acquired in the hospital.
Sepsis often hides in plain sight. It's frequently called simply "complications" of something else. According to O'Brien, Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, and the comedian Bernie Mac both probably died of sepsis.
Doctors sometimes avoid calling sepsis by name when talking to loved ones in the hospital.
"If I go to family members as a clinician and say their loved one is dying of sepsis, I've just bought myself a 45-minute conversation. But if I say 'complications,' that avoids the conversation," O'Brien said.
Gallegos said her doctor encouraged her family not to Google "sepsis" until she'd begun to improve. It would just add to their worry.
But with no name, it's hard to drive more awareness of sepsis.
"After repeated episodes of having to talk to families and tell them that their loved one is dying of something they've never heard of, I started realizing that part of our problem is a lack of general awareness in the community," O'Brien said.
A Medical Mystery
Though common, sepsis retains an air of mystery, even for doctors and researchers.
The initial infection that turns into sepsis can start anywhere, but the kidney, abdomen, and bloodstream are most common. No single infectious agent causes sepsis, and there's no hard-and-fast diagnostic test. Only a combination of symptoms points doctors toward the diagnosis.
Anyone who gets an infection can develop sepsis, but those with compromised immune systems are most susceptible. Recent research suggests there may be a genetic component that makes some people more prone to the immunological friendly fire of sepsis.
Treatment consists of powerful intravenous antibiotics combined with supportive care, often including fluids and a ventilator.
Not a single new drug has been approved to treat sepsis in 20 years. Efforts to find a biomarker to use for a diagnostic test have also failed.
In fact, there are no drugs that specifically treat sepsis. Antibiotics treat only the underlying infection while doctors provide fluid and oxygen.
It's not that sepsis has been ignored by medical research, the Lancet article argues. It's just that "it's a tough nut to crack," as Cohen put it.
Still, the medical community may not be devoting enough money to cracking that nut. On a per-person basis, we spend about 1/100th of a cent on sepsis research for every per-capita research dollar we devote to HIV, O'Brien said.
"It's as if the way we defined cancer was saying that people had an abnormal growth and providing no further information," said O'Brien. "That's what we're doing with sepsis."
Cohen also compared the lack of progress against sepsis to the dramatic medical progress against cancer.
"If you compare the number of new drugs for sepsis with the number that have come in for cancer in the last two decades, it's an extraordinarily stark contrast," he said. "The exact number of new drugs for sepsis is zero."
In the Lancet review, Cohen and his co-authors argue that efforts to develop better treatments for sepsis have failed partly because different patients with different sources of infection are lumped together for clinical trials.
They say researchers should take a page from newer cancer clinical trials and divide patients into strategic subgroups, such as those based on other illnesses or on the bacteria driving the original infection.
"In developing a treatment plan in cancer, we're now at a stage where for many types we can carry out molecular analysis and tailor-make a treatment based on the molecular signature of the cancer," Cohen said. "We don't do that in sepsis."
O'Brien said doctors were "40 years behind that in terms of sepsis."
Cohen and his colleagues argue for a new way of structuring the clinical trials where new drugs are tried. Currently, young, healthy patients like Gallegos are grouped into trials with elderly patients with a laundry list of other illnesses.
Dr. Akram Alashari works in the surgical critical care unit at the University of Florida. There are a few patients with sepsis in the unit at any given time, he said. But they couldn't be more different.
"I see … very old, debilitated patients that come in with sepsis from nursing homes," Alashari said.
Sometimes they've had sepsis before and have been left with a tracheotomy or a feeding tube or a colostomy bag.
"And then I get all of the young college kids who are in motor vehicle accidents, and they're getting sepsis secondarily to infections from their injuries," he added.
It's no wonder clinical trials haven't turned up any clear answers about what works.
"The difficulty is the signal-to-noise problem. Some of the drugs we've tried probably were effective in some patients," Cohen said.
Speeding Up Treatment
Until there are new drugs to treat sepsis, the most powerful tool in a doctor's toolkit is speed.
Yet many doctors, like those Alber and Gallegos first saw, don't think immediately of sepsis, especially in patients who are otherwise healthy.
"Sepsis is way up there in terms of causing mortality, but it has an extremely low public profile, and it's part of the problem because if it's not recognized quickly enough, the chance of death goes up," Cohen said.
For every hour that passes between when a patient develops sepsis and when doctors begin antibiotics, the victim's chances of dying of septic shock increase 8 percent.
O'Brien believes hospitals should focus on time when dealing with sepsis, much as they have when treating heart attacks. In hospitals that do that, mortality rates dip from 25 to 30 percent to 10 percent. Just 4 percent of patients die from acute heart attacks.
"If we started by just applying the best care, mortality rates would drop," he said.
There's also a financial argument for doing more to fight sepsis. Sepsis patients cost the healthcare system more than those with almost any other diagnosis. All told, the disease costs $20 billion each year for hospital care alone, O'Brien said.
Underscoring the inadequacy of care, patients with severe sepsis are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days as frequently as patients with heart failure, according to a study by Dr. Darya Rudym, of the New York University School of Medicine.
The study results will be announced at the end of this month at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.
All told, said Cohen, "Sepsis is a challenge which we can't afford to ignore."


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The 'Build-On Brick Shot Glass 4-Pack' is a fun shot glass set from ThinkGeek that combines a beloved kid's toy with an adult drinking ritual.
Although it's not an official LEGO set, the Build-On Brick Shot set is compatible with LEGO toys, as well as PixelBlocks, Mega Bloks, KRE-O, or K'NEX Bricks if you've got your own to add on. With tons of little raised pegs, you can put wheels or wings on the shot glasses and transform them into even more crazy vessels to get a drink into your mouth.
The pack of shot glasses comes in a set of four, including three primary colors plus white, for about $20. Hopefully the alcohol involved with these small parts won't make choking become a hazard for adults.
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CAPRICORN - The Passionate Lover
Love to bust. Nice. Sassy. Intelligent. Sexy. Grouchy at times and annoying to some. Lazy and love to take it easy. But when they find a job or something they like to do they put their all into it. Proud, understanding and sweet.
Irresistible. Loves being in long relationships. Great talker. Always
gets what he or she wants. Cool. Loves to win against other signs especially Gemini's in sports. Likes to cook but would rather go out to eat at good restaurants.
Extremely fun. Loves to joke. Smart. 24 years of bad luck if you do not forward.


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To date, I've lost near 150 lbs. by cutting out sugar and refined carbohydrates. I now eat a wide variety of whole real foods. These are the recipes I've used to lose the weight and regain my health. The recipes are all low-carb and diabetic-friendly, with philosophies weaving through the primal and paleo diets, with a focus on fresh foods and a variety of nutrients. Everything is presented with a touch of whimsy and tongue planted firmly in cheek. Please ... make yourself at home. Enjoy looking through the newest recipes, reading through my blog, registering for weekly-ish recipe and blog updates or just learn a bit more about me!
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"Some memories linger. (...) It is as though they are inhabited by ghosts, for like ghosts they will not leave us."
In order to rekindle their slagging marriage, Peter and Sarah Clare rent a remote old house in Cornwall. At first, it seems to work. Peter's writing is going great and Sarah is painting near the beautiful cliffs all the time. The couple is growing closer together again. But Sarah doesn't feel comfortable inside the house; she feels an evil presence there and wants to leave. Peter doesn't want any of that though. One day, he finds that Sarah has disappeared. At first, he thinks Sarah has left him and gone back to London, but when strange things are starting to happen, he understands that Petherick House is haunted. He starts investigating the history of the house and what he finds out is absolutely chilling.
"The Vanishment" is a traditional gothic horror story, clearly influenced by the classic short stories of M.R. James and reminiscent of Susan Hill's ghost novels ("The Woman in Black"). No blood and gore here, but more than enough chills that go for the throat. It isn't easy to put an original slant on this kind of story, and the author doesn't completely pull it off this time. He's thrown together lots of clichés: slamming doors and the powerful presence of an evil ghost are of course obligatory in a ghost story, but there's also the history of child abuse, the Exorcist-like convulsions young Rachel is having, the dark revelations about the narrator, the unexplicable choices the characters make... Aycliffe hasn't quite managed to blend them nicely into a coherent whole.
I've read better by Jonathan Aycliffe (be sure to read "Naomi's Room"), but it's still a good novel.
Author: Jonathan Aycliffe
Title: The Vanishment
Publisher: Constable, London
Year: 2014 (orig. 1993)
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At about 3 p.m. this afternoon (Saturday, July 7), an emergency call came into the National Park Service (NPS) Dispatch Center on Marine Band Emergency Channel 16.A woman reported that her husband had been swimming in Lake Mohave when she lost sight of him. Park Rangers were on scene in about six minutes. The area the man was last seen is almost directly across from Cottonwood Cove on the Arizona side of Lake Mohave.
At least four private vessels who heard the emergency call over the radio also responded to the area to help locate the man. About an hour after the initial call for help came in the victim's body was located by one of the private citizens assisting with the search. Park Rangers on the NPS Dive Team and a diver from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department recovered his body at about 8 p.m.
The victim's wife reported that a group of family members and their pet dog had been boating and were swimming in the water. The couple had brought along four nieces and nephews from Los Angeles on their trip. It was reported to Park Rangers that the group decided to head back to shore when the wind caused some wave action (about 2-3 foot waves). The victim's wife reported arriving at the shore and she could no longer see her husband swimming behind her. The children who were all wearing life jackets made it safely back to shore. The victim did not have on a life jacket.
At this time he is presumed drowned but the Mohave County Medical Examiner will determine the exact cause of death. National Park Service Rangers and Special Agents are investigating the incident.
The victim's identity will be released after the Mohave County Medical Examiner makes a positive identification of the victim. This is all we know at this time. Updates will be sent via email when new information becomes available.
If the cause of death is confirmed to be a drowning, it will be the fourth drowning and 15th fatality of the year at Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Both Lakes Mead and Mohave are part of the approximate 1.5-million-acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Park Rangers want to remind all visitors to always wear a life jacket when swimming in Lake Mead and/or Lake Mohave.About 99 percent of the drownings that have occurred in the recreation area could have been prevented if the victims had been wearing life jackets.


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Protesters are demanding that Brazil's legislators sweep out corruption. They're making that point by planting 594 brooms in front of Congress. The brooms are green and yellow, the colors of Brazil's flag, and there is one for each representative. They were planted in front of Congress Tuesday night so the 513 members of the House and the 81 senators could see them (SF Gate).
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Bolivian Interior Minister Sacha Llorenti has resigned after being heavily criticised over a police crackdown on a protest march. Police fired tear gas and arrested hundreds of activists protesting against the building of a road through the Amazon. The proposed 300km (190-mile) road, financed by Brazil, would link Brazil to Pacific ports in Chile and Peru (BBC).
As general debate of the United Nations General Assembly's (UNGA) 66th Session got underway this week, the issue of UN structural reform was again brought into focus—with Brazil leading the charge. A thriving democracy and one of the largest emerging economies in the world, Brazil has powerful ammunition in making its demand—especially paired with the collective declining influence of deficit-ridden, developed nations. The desired trophy for Brazil comes in the form of a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) (Americas Quarterly).
Long vulnerable to periodic financial crisis in neighboring Argentina, Uruguay's growing ties with Brazil and more diversified exports are prompting investors to bet the country is heading toward its first investment-grade rating since 2002 (Bloomberg).
Guatemala will purchase six Brazilian military aircraft Super Tucano, radars and other equipment to combat the narcotics trade traffic of which the Central American country is considered a crucial link between South America and the United States (MercoPress).
Boeing Co. says it has appointed a former U.S. ambassador as president of its soon-to-be opened office in Brazil. Boeing says that Donna Hrinak will open the company's office in Sao Paulo Brazil on Oct.14. She served as U.S. ambassador to Brazil between 2002 and 2004 (Washington Post).
Hrinak will be based in a new Boeing office to be opened in Sao Paulo and will report to Boeing International President Shep Hill, who is also senior vice president of business development and strategy. Boeing is expanding its presence in Brazil and one of the key aims of the new office in Brazil's business capital will be to strengthen the company's engagement with customers, industry and government stakeholders (UPI).
President Dilma Rousseff signed a bill, exempting defense companies from taxes for five years. The measure aims at encouraging defense companies to produce locally and reducing the share of imported equipment in the armed forces. In addition, Brazil is interested in exporting defense equipment (xinhua).
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Staff turnover is always a delicate subject as it is directly related to the operation of any organization. This Brazil Business article will give you an overview of the current situation in Brazil and point out the reasons that have led to it.
Brazil's ministry for women has called for a TV advertisement featuring supermodel Gisele Bundchen in her underwear to be suspended. The ministry has asked the advertising authorities to ban the lingerie ad, which it says "reinforces the erroneous stereotyping of women as sex objects" (BBC).
A jealous Brazilian woman could not tolerate her man's double life with a second lover, so she appealed to her life's savings to have the competitor for the same love, 'Lupita' disappeared (MercoPress).


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I am always shocked to discover that I actually accomplished something during past four weeks. Without exception I arrive at the end of the month tired and overwhelmed thinking that I haven't done anything....and without exception this exercise reminds me that I am most often wrong!
Tops to Treasures is still booming. As I write this I have 9 quilts on the shelf to do in August, and at least 4 more that haven't made it to my door yet but have expressed an interest. I don't think I will be board. July - saw 15 quilts slide past my leaders.
My efforts at writing patterns were rewarded with another publication on Moda Bakeshop.
and I finished writing my next pattern for them as well. It will air on August 4.
On other fronts....my boys are all home for the summer and it has been breath taking to say the least.
#1 son, Noah (nearly 21) quickly damaged his elbow. We thought perhaps he had torn a ligament and would need surgery. I can't count the number of times I have been down this road before with him....he plays hard. Three doctors appointments, and three weeks later we discovered that nothing was torn (Thank you God) but he did severely strain an interior ligament. Physical therapy has helped that a great deal and the Noah drama has passed....for now.
|A proof from John's Sr. pictures. I had to share it.....don't know where I got such a handsome boy.
Son #2, John (17 1/2) has also had some drama going on. John is a quiet, thoughtful boy who doesn't usually have a lot of drama in his life. However, he has been having episodes of heart palpitations since last May. We've been trying to capture an image of it for the cardiologist, with not success....until yesterday. Hopefully we will have some definite answers soon...all we know for sure is that there are no structural issues with his heart. Good news for sure, but not an answer.
If any of you happen to have an athletic kid with heart issues I highly recommend a foundation called The Athlete's Heart. They have been more than a blessing through this ordeal.
With my heart in my throat I just keep moving....keep quilting....keep designing....keep praying that my boys will mend...which I know they will. Unfortunately I keeps me from posting here. Thank you to all of you who have been praying for us, and those of you who have thought to write and ask where I've been. You do my heart good.
PS I know I still have a week of July left...but I am headed out of town on vacation!!! I think I earned it. See you in August.


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Darwin knew what he was doing. The Galápagos draw visitors for their rare wildlife, spread across an archipelago of 4,900 square miles. Españolais best for sea lions, Santa Fe for land iguanas, and Genovesa for the Galápagos penguin.ACTIVITIES/SIGHTS
Seeing the islands requires a licensed guide; most people go on cruises or with tour operators. Don't leave without a sighting of the famed giant tortoises, once nearly extinct; they're easiest to spot on Santa Cruz and Isabela islands.RESTAURANTS/FOOD
No one comes to the Galápagos to eat. Most travelers dine on the boats ferrying them around, and hearty but not creative fare is the rule. Look for ample midday spreads—Ecuadorians have their biggest meal at lunch.PEOPLE
The population has skyrocketed to 16,000 over the past few decades (including 10,000 in the main town of Puerto Ayora), but the 65,000 annual visitors still far outnumber locals.VALUE
The most reputable packaged tours can be expensive, but the quality of vessels, itineraries, and (most important) guides is usually high. Visiting during the low-season months of September and October can save you about 15 percent.


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It tugs at my heart to know that my baking blog hasn't been updated in over a month. However, it isn't for lack of interest, no, I am officially a college kid. With all of the classes, clubs, and commitments, it is hard to find time for cookies! Even with delicious desserts in the dining hall (think self serve fro-yo!), it has been sad to spend time away from my Kitchen Aid mixer. Since I couldn't pack up all of my cookie sheets and mixing bowls, I am happy that my school has baking materials that students can check out for all of the impromptu baking that goes on!
Yesterday was the perfect occasion for baking. Word has gotten out that I have a baking blog, and it is hard to keep denying my fellow students delicious baked goods. How else can I convey that my alias is Betty Crocker!
What made yesterday an even better occasion to bake is that my friend Hannah and I had our first college chemistry test. We spent many hours practicing problems, reviewing our polyatomic ions, and lugging around our textbooks, but needless to say, science tests in college are challenging. So what does one do after suffering through a 2 1/2 hour chemistry test? Bake my favorite cookies!
No joke, these cookies are my favorite. Brown butter chocolate chip cookies will please everyone's sweet tooth - whether you enjoy the traditional chocolate chip cookie or you set your cookie standards higher, this recipe is perfect. With two sticks of butter and brown sugar, how could they not be???
The aroma of brown butter was escaping the community kitchen, and I made many new friends who couldn't wait to taste the cookies! Nothing puts a smile on people's faces like receiving a homemade cookie. Typically cookies made in college are from Toll House pre-made dough, but after tasting these cookies, my friends understand why I adhere to higher standards :)
My resources for baking and photo taking were limited, but nonetheless, here is a recipe for no-fail cookies. So whether you need cookies for a bake sale, a party, or simply to indulge after a hard chemistry test, these cookies are for you. I hope to periodically keep updating the site, and look forward to Thanksgiving and Winter break when I can bake up a storm! Until then, Happy Baking!
|The dorm community kitchen!
printable recipe
2 sticks butter
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
|Studying chemistry...
Brown butter in medium saucepan over medium heat until it is melted and turns amber in color. Allow butter to cool.
Cream brown sugar, sugar, and melted butter. Add eggs and vanilla.
Mix in flour, baking soda, and salt. Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 12-16 minutes depending on your preferences!
Yields 40 cookies.
Recipe adapted from one of my favorite baking blogs Sweet Peony!


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On Saturday April 21st at 7pm there will be the Montreal Launch for "Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith, & Sexuality" (in the York Amphitheatre (EV 1.615) at Concordia University, located at 1515 St. Catherine St. West). The launch will feature readings and discussion by contributors, Shadi Eskandani and Nuzhat Abbas, followed by a book signing.
Nuzhat Abbas is a writer based in Toronto, Canada . She was born in Zanzibar , educated in Karachi and immigrated to Canada in 1981. On receiving Canadian citizenship, she promptly left to work in Spain, Turkey , and the UK , and later studied for several years in the US. She returned to Toronto in 1999 and since then, she has published literary non-fiction, reviews and poetry in Fuse, THIS magazine, CV2, Herizons , the Globe and Mail as well as Znak (inPoland). At present she is working on a novel as well as a book of essays about Zanzibar. She has taught literature at Ryerson, OCAD and George Brown College and currently works as an educator and consultant on anti-oppression, human rights and equity issues.
Shadi Eskandani was born in Tehran, Iran , in 1978, a few months before the Islamic Revolution. She spent her formative years in Tehran until her family's emigration to Canada in 1987. Shadi has completed a Masters degree in social anthropology, and is pursuing a degree in education. She works for an education support program for youth in a marginalized community in Toronto , and spends the rest of her time writing. Shadi is currently working on publishing a collection of her poetry.
Edited by Sarah Husain, "Voices of Resistance" is a groundbreaking collection that explodes current contentions about Muslim identity, gender, war, and citizenship. Muslims—literally, "people of the book"—must seek knowledge wherever and however they can. As the prophet Mohammed sat in a cave of Mount Hira, the first command he received from the angel Gabriel was "Iqra!—Read!" The Quran instructs that obtaining knowledge is integral to one's spiritual practices.
Hailing from Yemen, Iran, Palestine, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Canada, and the United States, the contributors to Voices of Resistance also insist on a politics and spirituality that command knowledge—but not dusty facts fixed long ago. They demand knowledge that is fluid, contextually engaged, and dynamic. And in their pursuit, they are sharing wisdom of their own. They engage in conversation concerning their bodies and their communities and share compelling stories: a woman mourns the death of a cousin killed in a suicide bombing; a transsexual man remembers with fondness the donning of the veil he no longer wears; a woman confronts sexism and hypocrisy on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia; several experience being judged on the basis of skin color and political and religious affiliation that is far more blatant and ubiquitous since the September 11 attacks.
This event is co-presented by QPIRG (Concordia & McGill), the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, the Concordia Co-op Bookstore, and the Simone de Beauvoir
For more information, or to request ASL or Childcare (up to 48 hrs prior) for the event, contact the: 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy 2110 Mackay (metro Guy-Concordia) tel: 514-848-2424 ext. 7431


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I have a few minutes before we go to our neighborhood's annual Turkey Trot, and I've seen so many wonderful thankful posts on here.
This year I am thankful for change. This is a rarity for me. Change spikes my anxiety, can make me sad, and just generally tends to be something I am afraid of. But this year, I embraced change, and it was beautiful. I left a job of four years that was no longer the right place for me, and followed my dream of becoming a lead teacher. I moved out of the apartment I had lived in for seven years, and found a new, cozy, wonderful apartment.
I am thankful for my family and friends, and my furry baby Sherlock.
I am thankful for books, and book bloggers, and for getting the courage to become part of this wonderful community.


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Here's what's floating around in my head today...
- I went into school yesterday to go over a few things with my sub. She has been doing an awesome job with the kids and they seem to be learning everything they are supposed to. However, my anal, controlling, OCD self couldn't stand that there were no extra sharpened pencils in the bucket for extra sharpened pencils. In fact, I sharpened a whole bunch when I was there last Thursday after school because there weren't any then either. So in less than a week, my hoarding students went through eleventy jillion pencils and there are no more. Good thing school is almost done because apparently no more pencils will be sharpened. So stupid, I know. But these are the things that bug me.
- I started the massive project entitled, "Pack for a week-long road trip with your newborn and your mother including clothes and the like for a wedding you are in." It is overwhelming to say the least. Liam's crib is currently the place that all things that are being packed have landed. Good thing he doesn't sleep in it yet.
This is like 4 things out of the 6 million more that need to be packed. I have lists all over the house.
- If Max steals one more pillow off the couch or sock or towel or blanket, I may kill him. He's been warned.
- I am really craving a Passion Tea Lemonade from Starbucks. And also the Fuji Apple Chicken Salad from Panera. And some chocolate. There will definitely be a food stop or two when L and I go out to run errands in a bit.
- Hubs is on a "we are moving" kick. I have been on that kick for a while for space and school reasons, but now he is suddenly on the bandwagon because he wants a new car. Do not even ask how making a huge purchase like a house would mean that he could get a new car. His logic baffles me.
- I am working on this project for my best friend's wedding shower gift. She already knows about it, so it's not like I'm ruining the secret or anything. Relax. It is also getting packed for the road trip next week.
- My kid is the loudest freaking waker-upper ever. He stretches, grunts, groans, farts, and makes all these ridiculous noises for like an hour before he actually wakes up. It's hysterical to listen to. Unless it starts at 4 am. Then it's terrible. But still kinda hysterical and definitely still adorable.
- Big Father's Day plans in the works for this weekend. Recap post coming next week.
- After taking an hour and a half to wake up this morning, I leaned over and saw this. ::melt my heart::
Off to run those errands. Have a wonderful Thursday!


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May 15, 2015 –
Deciding to pursue education past high school is a big
decision that can seem intimidating, especially if you're the first person in
your family to go to college.
One thing that often holds people back is not understanding
all of the terminology surrounding higher education. Don't let that stand in
your way of earning your diploma.
We're here to decode those higher education terms, so you
can focus on pursuing your dream of becoming a college graduate. We'll cover
everything you need to know, starting with what exactly higher education means.
Higher Education
– This refers to any and all schooling past the high school level. It includes
community college, four-year universities and career and technical schools.
Associate Degree
– A two-year degree that you earn at a community college. An associate degree
is often the equivalent of the first two years of a bachelor's degree.
Bachelor's Degree – A four-year degree that you earn at a university or college, like NAU. If you
earn an associate degree from a community college first, you can transfer those
credits and complete your bachelor's degree at a university in two years or
less. This can be a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or
other discipline.
Undergraduate Student
– A student pursuing their associate or bachelor's degree.
Master's Degree –
A degree that you earn after your bachelor's degree. Like a bachelor's degree,
the qualifications you can earn include Master of Arts (M.A.) and Master of
Science (M.S.), among others.
Doctoral Degree –
A doctorate, or Ph.D., is the degree that you earn after your master's. It is
the highest level of degree that you can earn, and is therefore considered a
"terminal degree".
Graduate Student
– A student pursuing their master's or doctoral degree.
Accreditation – The process that validates an institution's quality
of instruction. Accreditation is incredibly important, because unaccredited
universities' degrees are not as well respected and many institutions won't
recognize your college credits as legitimate.
Course – A single
Credit Hours – You
earn a certain number of credit hours, also known simply as credits or units,
per course. One credit equates to approximately one hour of class time and 2
hours of out-of-class work per week, which works out to 3 credits per course
for most classes. Each degree will have specific credit requirements you have
to fulfill.
Prerequisite – A
course you must take before taking another course. This is typically because
the knowledge acquired in the prerequisite course is required to succeed in the
higher level course.
Academic Advisor
– You are assigned an academic advisor when you are admitted to a higher
education school. They will help guide you through your degree program, so you should meet with them once a
Tuition – The
cost of attending classes. This is usually broken up by number of credit hours
or per semester. Be aware that tuition does not necessarily include all costs.
Check with your school to see if you have any additional fees.
Financial Aid –
Assistance offered to help pay for school including scholarships, grants and
loans. Contact your financial aid office to learn more.


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Tribal, saharan themes are often colorful and exotic; the Josefine Nielsen Dansk SS12 editorial may focus on this theme, but in a darker and more futuristic way. Alternating between color and monochromatic shots, this editorial still has an exotic appeal, although in a more subtle way. The desert landscape is barely recognizable and the indoor settings are abstractly shot to give them a minimalist aesthetic. Nevertheless, the Josefine Nielsen Dansk SS12 editorial takes place in Africa.
Lensed by Sean McMenomy, the Josefine Nielsen Dansk SS12 editorial features a two-toned wardrobe, which was styled by Anne Stockmann. As though clad in armor, Nielsen's warrior looks are completed by beauty artist Trine Skjøth. who opted for thick eyeliner and slicked-back hair.
Dark Saharan Shoots
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Haunted Forest Photography
Femme-Fatale Flapper Fashion
Beautifully Blurred Pictorials
Hazy Light-Infused Editorials
Delicate Saint Photography
The Josefine Nielsen Dansk SS12 Editorial is Minimalist and Futuristic
- By: Meghan YoungFeb 10, 2012
References: danskmagazine & fashiongonerogue
References: danskmagazine & fashiongonerogue


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After a couple of days in Canggu, we were ready to see more of Bali. Despite concerns about road safety, we decided to hire a motorised scooter for £4/day – this has to be the bargain of the year.
After a two minute lesson on the controls, Hilary set off with Roger holding on behind, doing the navigation. As we sped along, it was like one of those DVLA Hazard Tests. Everywhere wayward chickens, stalking dogs, kamikaze pedestrians, sudden potholes and hundreds of other scooter drivers who were happy to drive on both sides of the road. At a crossroads your bloggers nicknamed "the junction of death", we narrowly avoided both a woman scooter rider with dozens of egg trays on the back and a man with carpets, rolls of long grass and everything but the kitchen sink on board his scooter. Despite the risks it was great fun and our senses were bombarded with colour and sounds!
It was a round trip of 90km to the UNESCO World Heritage Jatiluwih rice terraces and back. Originally built in the 9th century, these terraces have provided the staple diet for generations of Balinese. The communal irrigation still works brilliantly, though sadly we spotted some barren terraces, no doubt youngsters deciding it's vastly more profitable (and easier) to be driving tourists around, than doing back-breaking work in the sweltering sun.
The journey there had been hot and noisy, but at last we found an oasis of calm and green beauty. A rarity in this crowded island of 4.2m people.


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There seemed to be a trend in '80s Hollywood of remaking old science fiction films, the most famous examples being John Carpenter's The Thing and David Cronenberg's The Fly.
However, Tobe Hooper's Invaders from Mars and Chuck Russell's The Blob seem to have faded to obscurity in the last 30 years. The Blob, while it may not be as timeless as The Thing, is a very underrated remake.
The film's premise is pretty much the same as the original. A meteor crashes in small town California and is discovered by a homeless man. As he prods the strange red goo with a stick, it slithers up his arm and sticks to his hand. He's found by three teenagers and is taken to a hospital, where the Blob devours his body and escapes. Now it's up to a couple of youths to convince the authorities of the Blob's existence before it consumes the whole town.
The Tension
In the first half-hour we are introduced to a large cast of characters, all of them of different ages, occupations and positions in the community. In the 1958 original when characters and relationships are established, it's an indication that they are the main characters who we'll follow all the way through the film.
In the 1988 version however characters and relationships are established but are abruptly killed off. Within the first act, characters you assume would be the protagonists are devoured by the Blob. This creates a persistent tension that the 58 film did not possess. When a character encounters the Blob, it's terrifying because you know that there's a good chance he or she will get killed. No one is safe.
The Characters Are More Complex
When reviewing a remake I think it's important to consider the film it's based on, so we can see what the remake is building on. Nowadays the characters in the 88 version may appear like typical film archetypes but compared to the original the characters are a little more complex.
Brian Flagg for example is more three-dimensional than Steve Andrews (McQueen) was in the 58 film. At first, he comes across as selfish, amoral and overall very unlikable. The complete opposite of the confident and charming Steve Andrews. However, as Brian encounters the Blob and its victims, he takes action and protects others rather than himself.
Another example is Dr Meadows, the leader of the biological containment team trying to stop the Blob. Like Brian he is more than he appears. He and his team come across as allies at first. You think they'll work with the youths to help find and catch the creature, but when Brian listens in on a conversation Meadows has with his colleagues, we discover that the doctor is willing to go to extreme lengths to contain the Blob, even if it means endangering the townspeople.
The selfish rogue who starts caring for others and the villain who resembles an ally are common archetypes in today's media. Hence the film's characters are not that complex seeing them now but as I said I think it's important to consider the original when reviewing a remake as a remake should be an improvement on the original. So, when comparing 88's characters to 58's, I think that the remake is indeed a fine improvement.
The Effects
Like Cronenberg's The Fly and Carpenter's The Thing, the special effects in The Blob are so good they almost overshadow the other elements in the film. The use of puppets, both miniature and large-scale, gives a clear sense of the creature's size. You are convinced that this thing is a living, expanding flood.
The make-up effects enhance the tension as we see in gruesome detail what happens to people when they're consumed by the Blob. People dissolve like they're in acid, we see their skin and flesh burn inside the creature. Whenever it appears you're on the edge of your seat because you know how fast the Blob can move and what happens when it touches you.
Overall The Blob is a very strong remake with multidimensional characters, persistent tension and outstanding special effects. The only major issues regard the film's longevity as like the original it's a product of its time. With the clear '80s fashion and music The Blob lacks the timeless aesthetic of films like Carpenter's The Thing. Those issues aside, I think The Blob is still a strong '80s horror film that deserves a lot more attention.
I give The Blob a solid 7 out of 10.