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First, not only does this show how ignorant our critic is of the traditional orthodox view of inspiration and authorship (i.e., dual authorship), but this also demonstrates that our critic's standards for inspiration are higher than God's! Dual authorship teaches that both God and man are responsible for producing the original writings of the Bible. 2 Peter 1:19-21 sums it up quite well,
So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. 20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.Second, the reason why the Scripture uses different stylistic elements, different language, and reflects different cultural understandings and time periods is because "men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God." Those "men" were the product of a variety of cultures, times, and languages and they were the God-ordained secondary cause, or the earthly means that God used to produce Scripture. Thus, a human influence on Scripture is expected and appreciated.
Third, Notice that v. 21 tells us that "no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will" meaning, that the first cause of Scripture doesn't originate from man's will but from God's mind. As noted above, the secondary cause is man; i.e., God carries the man along with his individual talents, abilities, and characteristics to put a pen to the page to write God's word; nevertheless, the end product is the God-breathed text. Dr. Robert Reymond explains this quite well when commenting on 2 Peter 1:20-21,
In this remarkable statement Peter first asserts two negatives about the production of prophecy: first, that no prophecy of Scripture originated in ("arose, came from," ginetai) the prophet's estimate of the current state of affairs or or in his prognosis about the future, that is, no prophecy of Scripture emerged from his own understanding, and second, that no prophecy of Scripture was motivated by man's will, that is, no prophecy of Scripture came from mere human impulse. By these negatives Peter totally excludes the human element as the ultimate originating cause of Scripture. [Robert Reymond, A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith, 2nd ed., (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1998), 38.]Fourth, here's a few Scriptural examples:
So Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel. 10 Then Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of remission of debts, at the Feast of Booths, 11 when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place which He will choose, you shall read this law in front of all Israel in their hearing. 12 "Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the LORD your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law. (Deut. 31:9-12 NAU)Moses wrote God's law, but they weren't to fear Moses, they were to fear God if they failed to heed what Moses wrote down. This show that the authority for the writing didn't rest with Moses, but with God. Thus, God inspired Moses, Moses wrote what God wanted him to using Moses' own writing style and characteristics, but God gets the credit and the authority. This is what 2 Peter 1:21 is talking about.
God also commanded Isaiah,
And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever. (Isa 30:8 ESV)God told Jeremiah,
"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book. (Jer 30:2 NAU)Fifth, in the New Testament, Jesus promised His disciples that the Holy Spirit would bring to their remembrance the teachings which Jesus Himself had spoken to them (John 14:26; cf. 16:12-13). These teachings could be expressed in different ways by the different gospel writers in such a way that the exact words Jesus spoke were not necessarily repeated verbatim in every context (esp. since He more than likely preached in Aramaic and the gospels were written in Greek), but that the essential content of Christ's teachings are transmitted without error in the original texts. Thus, there's room for the human writer to use his style, gifts, and characteristics while the Holy Spirit carries him along to put on the page what God wants on the page without making the human author an automaton. As Grudem is quick to note,
Once again it must be noted that these word are still considered to be God's own words, even though they are written down mostly by human beings and always in human language. Still, they are absolutely authoritative and absolutely true: to disobey them or disbelieve them is a serious sin and brings judgment from God (1 Cor. 14:37; Jer. 36:29-31). [Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000), 50.In conclusion, we don't expect a consistent style throughout since the Bible doesn't expect it. However, contrary to the claims of our critic, we do see a consistent overall message throughout; at least those who have eyes to see and ears to hear can see it.

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Meet the Wilds! Mom, Dad, and 3 Wild brothers. The Wilds are an amazing family serving as missionaries in the remote tribal jungle of Indonesia.
We received Volume 1 and 4 of the Growing Up Wild dvds. Each included 3 15-minute episodes as well as an activity guide for teachers.
Volume 1 included the following episodes:
1. Home Sweet Hut - Get an insiders peek at the Wild Family Hut.
2. Supply Trip - Living in the jungle means flying in supplies.
3. Sun & Water - Learn with the Wild's about how sun and water power their home and help them to live in the jungle a little more comfortably.
Volume 4 includes the following episodes:
1. Amazing World Around Us - Amazing episode about the wildlife in the jungles of Papua.
2. Adventures in Culture - Learn along with the Wild brothers about the tribal culture...including nose piercing! (My kids loved this episode!)
3. Tribal Calling (See why the Wilds and other missionary families feel called to tribal missions.)
These dvds are a part of a 5 dvd series filmed by the Wild Family. It took them 3 years to film and produce these films that they consider "a tool to influence an army of future missionaries that would take the Gospel to the remaining unreached people groups of the world."
Our entire family have truly enjoyed each episode of the Growing Up Wild dvds. It has been particularly timely for us as we have been studying missionaries this year as part of our read-aloud studies. It's been wonderful for our kids to get a glimpse into the lives of current day missionaries and to learn how this Christians are sharing the gospel "to the ends of the earth"!
As well as watching the episodes, we also enjoyed doing the follow up activities suggested on the teacher's guide which are a part of the DVD-Rom. Some activities were as simple as watching a creation video that the Wild brothers enjoy.
One activity included making a Venn Diagram to show the similarities and differences between the Wild hut and our own house. Our kids liked comparing our house to the Wild's hut, but that experience was quickly topped when they had the opportunity to make their own hut...
It is far more crude then the Wild hut, but such a fun project!
The Growing Up Wild dvd series would make a great addition to your homeschool studies and would also be perfect for a Sunday School Class series. The quality of the filming is excellent and the episodes are educational and inspiring.
You can purchase each Growing Up Wild dvd for $18.99 and you can read more reviews at the Schoolhouse Review Crew blog.


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Cookies are a very important method for maintaining state on the Web. "State" in this case refers to an application's ability to work interactively with a user, remembering all data since the application started, and differentiating between users and their individual data sets.
An analogy I like to use is a laundry cleaner's shop. You drop something off, and get a ticket. When you return with the ticket, you get your clothes back. If you don't have the ticket, then the laundry man doesn't know which clothes are yours. In fact, he won't be able to tell whether you are there to pick up clothes, or a brand new customer. As such, the ticket is critical to maintaining state between you and the laundry man.
Unfortunately, HTTP is a "stateless" protocol. This means that each visit to a site (or even clicks within a site) is seen by the server as the first visit by the user. In essence, the server "forgets" everything after each request, unless it can somehow mark a visitor (that is, hand him a "laundry ticket") to help it remember. Cookies can accomplish this.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a text-only string that gets entered into the memory of your browser. The value of a variable that a website sets. If the lifetime of this value is set to be longer than the time you spend at that site, then this string is saved to file for future reference.
Where did the term cookies come from?
According to an article written by Paul Bonner for Builder.Com on 11/18/1997:
Lou Montulli, currently the protocols manager in Netscape's client product division, wrote the cookies specification for Navigator 1.0, the first browser to use the technology. Montulli says there's nothing particularly amusing about the origin of the name: 'A cookie is a well-known computer science term that is used when describing an opaque piece of data held by an intermediary. The term fits the usage precisely; it's just not a well-known term outside of computer science circles.'
Why do sites use Cookies?
There are many reasons a given site would wish to use cookies. These range from the ability to personalize information (like on My Yahoo or Excite), or to help with on-line sales/services (like on Amazon Books or eBay), or simply for the purposes of collecting demographic information (like DoubleClick). Cookies also provide programmers with a quick and convenient means of keeping site content fresh and relevant to the user's interests. The newest servers use cookies to help with back-end interaction as well, which can improve the utility of a site by being able to securely store any personal data that the user has shared with a site (to help with quick logins on your favorite sites, for example).
Where Can I Get More Information?
There's a great article about cookies on Marshall Brain's
How Stuff Works. Worth a look!
The World Wide Web Consortium has an excellent FAQ to answer the majority of Internet and Web-related questions. You can read their topic:
Do 'Cookies' Pose any Security Risks?
Are Cookies a Threat to My Privacy?
The sad truth is that revealing any kind of personal information opens the door for that information to be spread.
Consider the growing trend of technology conveniences in our lives. We use "frequent buyer" cards at supermarkets and gas stations. We place electronic tags on our cars to pay tolls faster and easier. We let banks pay our bills for us automatically each month without checks.
While each of these technologies (and others like them) have made our lives more convenient, each time we use them exposes us to a loss of privacy. Stores know what foods you eat. Gas stations know how much you spend on gas per fill-up. Turnpike operators know how fast you drive on their highways. Banks know how you spend your money each month.
It's the same with cookies. In fact, one may argue that cookies in the long-run will be less damaging to privacy efforts than those technologies described above. If you're going to single-out cookies as your sole vulnerability to personal privacy, you should re-examine how you live your daily life.
The never-ending ethical debate associated with these facts shall be left to other forums. However, it is wise to consider carefully the information you collect and share over the Internet.
The above information is from The Unofficial Cookie FAQ by David Whalen.


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Prime View International (PVI) signed an agreement to acquire eInk Corporation (producer of electrophoretic used in Amazon Kindle and Sony PRS eReaders) for $215,000,000. PVI has been consolidating eInk related assets for quite some time, starting with acquision of ePaper business from Philips in 2005. In 2008 PVI acquired Hydis technologies, a company that produces elements for eInk screens.
Most analysts agree that this will eventually lead to cheaper eInk displays available to device manufacturers like Sony and Amazon. However eInk CEO Russ Wilcox told Forbes in an interview that integrating two companies will take time so there will be no immediate price drop.
Well, it's good news for us consumers…
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The week culminated in a small gathering Saturday night on Mainstrasse. The weather was perfect for sitting outside and imbibing... and of course people watching... and laughing, there was lots of laughing!
I have to admit to one fairly critical mistake that I made Saturday night... I didn't stick to just one alcohol.
When will I learn?? Once I start drinking, EVERYTHING sounds like a great idea.
We started the evening with a little absinthe... which totally had me buzzing before it even hit my stomach.
Then there was bourbon and coke at the bar, some Horny Goat, then some Pink Ladies... the Pink Ladies did it... pushed me totally over the edge...
Even with the brutal hangover that I had Sunday, my birthday was AWESOME!
I really liked having BT out with me (flutters eyelashes).
Anyway... for your viewing (dis)pleasure... teenage TrippyBeth.... It's hard to tell, but that is an elephant on my velour sweater... UG


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Last night I was feeling crafty, but didn't have a lot of time. So I pulled out Tee Hee Hee, my favorite Halloween set, and challenged myself to make 2 quick Halloween cards.
I think that you would be hard pressed to find a card that is as simple or came together so quickly.
- Stamp the witches shoes on a piece of whisper white cardstock using black ink of your choice. (I used Memento Tuxedo Black because that was what was already sitting out!)
- Punch the shoes out using the 1″ square punch.
- Adhere to a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock that has been trimmed to 1.5″ x 1.5″
- Trim a piece of Whisper White Thick cardstock (great for card bases!) to 4.25″ x 11″.
- Fold in half to form your card base, then using your bone folder burnish across the folded edge, making the edge nice and crisp. Your finished card will be 4.25″ x 5.5″.
- Adhere your stamped image to the front and center of your card front.
- The sentiment is one stamp. Now, I have no issues with cutting apart my stamps to make the sentiment work for me, which I did in this case. But for those that are uncomfortable with that, put a piece of tape across the "It's all about the shoes" portion of the sentiment. Ink up your stamp, then remove the tape. Your sentiment will then have ink only on the "Whether you're a good witch or a bad witch" portion. Stamp that right above your image.
- Put a piece of tape across the "Whether you're a good witch or a bad witch" portion, ink your stamp, then remove the tape. Stamp the remainder of the sentiment under the stamped image.
Easy right??
This card actually used up about 45 minutes of the hour I allotted myself lol Not quite as simple as the one above, but still easy and fun.
- Stamp cauldron onto a piece of whisper white cardstock using Memento Tuxedo Black ink
- Make a mask for the smoke: either draw an outline onto a scratch piece of paper where you want the "smoke" to be, and cut it out, or using the smallest circle die from the Circles Collection Thinlets, run the scrap piece of cardstock through your Big Shot multiple times, moving the die each time to form the perfect circle outlines. I did it that way, and it came out perfectly!
- Lay your mask over the cauldron image and tape it down (I use blue painters tape). The opening should be directly above the cauldron.
- Using a dauber, very lightly tap onto the Hello Honey ink pad. You want a tiny tiny bit of ink on the dauber.
- Using circular motions, ink into the exposed of the areas of the mask. You don't want the color perfectly smooth, smoke has lighter and darker portions. That is the look you are going for.
- Do the same as above, except use Old Olive and a new dauber so you don't mix colors on your ink pads. Remember to use a VERY light touch when applying ink to the dauber. If you use too much just transfer some from your dauber to a scratch piece of paper.
- Keep alternating between the two colors, blending as you go, until you are happy with the result.
- Remove the mask.
- Stamp the bats 3 times using Basic Gray, making it appear they are coming out of the cauldron.
- Fussy cut the bottom of the cauldron out. I measured how far up I wanted to cut, then drew a faint line using a pencil horizontally across, so I knew where to cut. I then used my trimmer to cut from the left edge to about an eighth of an inch from the left side of the cauldron, then repeated on the right side. That assured that I would have a straight line. I then fussy cut everything out.
- Mount onto a piece of pumpkin pie cardstock.
- Mount onto a piece of black cardstock.
- Stamp your sentiment onto the black cardstock using Versamark. I again cut my stamp, but if you prefer, use the tap method described above.
- Heat emboss using White embossing powder.
- Mount onto the front of a piece of Whisper White thick cardstock, that has been trimmed to 4.25″ x 11″, then folded to form a 4.25″ x 5.5″ card.
- Add White Perfect Accents to the cauldron, to look like bubbles floating up and over the edge of the card.
All materials used can be found below 🙂
It's All About the Shoes materials:
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Brew Up A Little Fun materials:
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So, reading xhtml. Dead easy, right? After all, it's just xml. Whack it into an XmlReader and Bob's your uncle.
Unless your xhtml uses an entity such as £.
Xml has 5 defined entities, < (<), > (>), & (&), ' (') and " ("). All self-respecting xml parsers will handle these. But xhtml, and it's poorer cousin, html define a whole raft more. Try and put such an xhtml file through an xml parser, and there will be problems.
What you need to do is tell the xml parser about these extra entities. Which means getting the xml parser to also read in a bunch of dtd's. Again - dead easy, right?
Well, when you know the correct voodoo, yes, it's kinda easy.
This post provides sample code on how to do this in .net. The idea is that you need to tell the parser that it's reading an xhtml file, and then provide the xhtml dtd for it when it asks. The code here does just this, and also shows how to keep that dtd and associated files in your applications resources. Unfortunately, it's all a bit confusing as to how and why it actually works, so I thought I'd try and demystify it a bit. For the moment, we're going to ignore the idea of pulling content from resources, and just explain what's happening in the normal case.
Firstly, let's tell the parser that we're reading an xhtml file. This just means giving it a DocType, such as:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
This should really be specified in the file itself, but if you're just parsing a fragment, you need to tell the XmlReader explicitly. This is accomplished by populating the DocTypeName and PublicId fields of XmlParserContext, as the post demonstrates.
The next step is to get the dtd into the parser. Which is where we start looking at XmlResolver, and where things get a little confusing. The interaction and relationship between the XmlReader and the XmlResover isn't very well documented, but it boils down to this - any time the XmlReader has to get content from a URI, it defers to the XmlResolver.
The best way to explain this is by example.
Say you're reading an xhtml file, via a call to XmlReader.Create, passing in a filename - at least, that's the common usage. The filename is actually a URL and could easily be a http URL. The first thing XmlReader does is pass this URL into XmlResolver.ResolveUri. This allows us a hook to modify or replace the URL of the file, if we want to (e.g. instead of loading it over http, get it from a cache on the local file system). Essentially, we just return back a new URI that is the actual location of the file.
Once the URL to the file has been resolved, it's passed into XmlResolver.GetEntity, which will open and return a stream to the file. Since it's a stream, the file could be anywhere - on the file system, over http or in a resource. Now the XmlReader has the file to parse, and the resolved URL is considered to be the base URI of the file.
Incidentally, if we don't use a URL to load the file into the XmlReader, we can still pass in a URI via the BaseURI field of XmlParserContext. The resolved version of this URI is then the base URI of the file.
Note that the base URI is the URI to the file itself - not to the parent "directory" of the file. This is actually the same as the base attribute in html, even though I was expecting it to be the directory.
If the XmlReader needs to bring in any more content from within the file (a nice example would be xlink or xinclude, except I don't think they are supported), it will pass the URI identifying the content to the XmlResolver, and then pass the resolved URI back to GetEntity to actually get the content.
If there is a DocType associated with the parser (via the file, or via the context) that will need to be resolved. So the public id is passed into ResolveUri. In the case of (strict) xhtml, this will be "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN". The XmlResolver needs to know about this DocType and return back a URI that can GetEntity will be able to open a stream on. Let's assume we've subclassed XmlUrlResolver so it's ResolveUri knows that the xhtml DocType maps to the correct http URL so we simply return "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" and let the standard implementation of GetEntity download it for us.
Now the xhtml1-strict.dtd references other files to pull in the actual entity definitions. The XmlReader follows the same procedure - it calls ResolveUri and then GetEntity. The important part to remember here is that these references might be relative. In other words, the dtd might not have fully qualified http URLs. The base URI passed to ResolveUri is the resolved URI of the DocType - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd". Resolving "xhtml-lat1.ent" against that URL means we should return "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-lat1.ent", which is the correct location for the entity file. The reader will just download that file and continue.
Of course, it's entirely possible that the reference is fully qualified, in which case, we could just return it directly.
To recap:
So, it's actually quite straightforward, especially in the use case of file:// and http:// URIs.
Now, back to the sample code. The code is absolutely fine as it stands, but I think I'd implement it differently. It currently has a list of known URIs, made up of "urn:" plus the DocType or the dtd/entity filename. In the ResolveUri method, it takes the given relative URI and appends it to "urn:" and then compares it against the list of know URIs. The GetEntity method just compares the given absolute URI and returns the relevant resource stream.
This feels a bit fragile. I'd implement it more like the file or http URI handlers. I'd have one known resource, and that's the xhtml dtd, keyed on the DocType URI. ResolveUri would match the relative URI against this DocType URI and return back a resource:// URI, which would contain an assembly identifier, plus the namespaced resource name, such as "resource://sticklebackplastic.xhtml/sticklebackplastic.xhtml.resources.xhtml1-strict.dtd". The GetEntity method can then parse this to get the relevant resource stream. I think this way is better because when the dtd requires an external reference, it will call ResolveUri with "xhtml-lat1.ent" as the relative URI and "resource://sticklebackplastic.xhtml/sticklebackplastic.xhtml.resources.xhtml1-strict.dtd" as the base URI. Simply combining the URIs gives me "resource://sticklebackplastic.xhtml/sticklebackplastic.xhtml.resources.xhtml-lat1.ent". Doing this requires that all the external references are stored in the same resource namespace, the same as with the file or http cases, and the same for the sample code. But it also means that the resolver only needs to know about the mapping between the DocType and the dtd, and doesn't have to worry about creating resource URIs for all stored files.
Now I've just got to implement it.
I think I might be stuck in too much of a traditional enterprise mind set. I was wondering who would use Amazon's message queue service, arguing that it's a B2B enterprise style offering, yet surely an enterprise would host its own queues?
Turns out I need to be thinking a bit more web 2.0.
Here's a post from the Gravatar blog that gives some insight into their infrastructure (along with some technical difficulties they've been having recently).
(In case you haven't come across Gravatar before, it's a site that allows you to upload an image (avatar) that you can assign to your email address. Blog sites can then link to the image in their comments. Nice, but I don't know how they pay their leccy bills.)
This is a nice decoupling of the image serving servers, the safely backed up images and the image upload process. It may not be B2B, but it's an enterprise scale system and it's "publicly" hosted.
Who needs data centres?
Does REST need a service description language? Great question. And one I would have initially said a most emphatic "yes" to. Now I'd probably so "no". Or more accurately - "you're asking the wrong question".
I think some of the fundamental differences between WS-* and REST are finally beginning to sink in. I've been viewing them as pretty much the same thing, just with different formats and tool support and stuff. But conceptually, they're actually pretty orthogonal.
WS-* is all about messaging. You send and receive messages to and from an endpoint. That endpoint is simply a processor - by and of itself, it means nothing. It's just an address. The interesting stuff is in the message. This tells the service what to do and with what data. The reply message contains the data relevant to the operation - what happened, the returned data, whatever.
REST is all about interacting with resources. You POST, PUT, GET or DELETE resources. The url is all-important - this identifies the resource. As the above post mentions:
The consequence of [this] is that there isn't much to describe; there aren't any methods or signatures thereof to document, since access to resources is uniform and governed by the verbs defined in RFC 2616 (in the case of HTTP, anyway)
The consequence of [this] is that there isn't much to describe; there aren't any methods or signatures thereof to document, since access to resources is uniform and governed by the verbs defined in RFC 2616 (in the case of HTTP, anyway)
You don't need a service description language, because there isn't a service. You're accessing and operating on resources. The service is pretty much implicit in the HTTP verb.
What you do need is a specification for the media type. And preferably in a machine readable format that can be used to generate code for interacting with the resource's data.
This is the question you should be asking.
The Atom Publishing Protocol is one such media type, and there are libraries (not necessarily tools) for working with that. Interestingly, following the small flurry of (*cough*knee-jerk*cough*) reactions to Dare Obasanjo's posts on Google's (out of date) implementation of the APP spec, (and without reading the spec at all!) it looks like APP is able to act as a kind of REST envelope. By which I mean when you POST a new customer to a resource (such as a collection of users), you can get an Atom doc back detailing the url of the newly added resource (customer). My knee-jerk reaction - is APP REST's SOAP?
I'm being kinda oblique with this - I know I need to study the APP before I can really make remarks like this, and I think this example was how to use the Atom Publishing Protocol to publish non Atom (as in RSS-like media type) entries. But if the cap fits...
(One point made that I really like is how the http protocol provides the optimistic concurrency for the updates via the humble etag. Very clever of the http people, and this really helped with defining the REST ideals for me. But it does mean state is maintained at the transport level, rather than at the resource level, something which SOAP has worked around by trying to be transport neutral. Another difference for you to weigh up.)
I don't buy that a client shouldn't know about the URI space of the server. For individual resources, yes. But for collections, or resources such as locks or printers, then surely the client needs to know about these (or how else does it add a new customer? Print?) So a description/discovery language of some sort is needed here too - at the least a means of knowing what media type + verb a particular resource endpoint accepts. Perhaps this is where WADL comes in (but I have to agree with Don Box's analysis of WADL vs WSDL)?
And I don't know how security and authentication is solved, either. Whatever happens, this will demand a spec at the least.
So, with all of this, is REST any simpler than WS-*? Or is it just an orthogonal concept, but just as complex?
Looks like Microsoft are actually working on a fix for the circular reference memory leak in their JavaScript implementation. About time, perhaps, but I'd love to know the techy details. How do they get their JavaScript garbage collector to know what references (direct or indirect) an unknown COM object holds?
Is there going to be a separate interface that lists references? This would have to be implemented on the HTML element objects, and so would fail with ActiveX COM objects.
Perhaps the GC lists all properties of a (non-JavaScript) expando object and examines them for a known interface to indicate a JavaScript object. This would allow it to know when a circular reference was made, but it wouldn't identify if the original non-JavaScript object was referenced outside of the script engine.
It's an interesting problem.
But there goes my theory about them using the new managed JavaScript from Silverlight...
Right. Let's brush away some cobwebs, and write this down so I don't have to google all over the web whenever I need a quick COM 101 refresher:
A type library can be used to store interface information. It can contain vtable layouts and the DispId's required to call IDispatch based interfaces.
You can implement IDispatch by hand, with a huge switch statement, if you want to, but remember that you'll need to crack the parameters out of arrays and stuff them back in again for the return value.
Alternatively, you can let someone else do the heavy lifting for you and use an implementation of IDispatch which is based on a type library. (And seeing how one of the methods of IDispatch is to get a pointer to an ITypeInfo interface representing a type library - you might as well). This works by calling LoadTypeLib to get an instance of ITypeLib, then calling ITypeLib::GetTypeInfoOfGuid. The resulting ITypeInfo can be used to defer the interesting IDispatch methods (including Invoke). This is what ATL's IDispatchImpl does. It's interesting to note that the Invoke method will call vtable based methods on your interface. This is pretty good voodoo.
As far as I can make out, you could also use CreateStdDispatch to create an IDispatch interface for you, which essentially does the same thing as IDispatchImpl. Or, you can implement bits of IDispatch yourself and defer to methods such as DispInvoke and DispGetIDsOfNames.
If you want to support dispinterfaces, you can use ATL's IDispEventImpl. This is an implementation of IDispatch that doesn't require an implementation of each member on the dispinterface. It does this by using a map that routes DispId's to functions - ideal for an interface that doesn't actually have a vtable. You could even use IDispEventSimpleImpl if you didn't want to use a typelib.
Sheesh. It's nice that .net moves well away from all of this malarky, but it's still something that you need to know from time to time...
In the hopes that I can save someone wasting quite as much time as I just have on this - Customer Debug Probes have changed name and become Managed Debug Assistants. (Google doesn't appear to have joined the dots on these two, so let's hope this helps).
They're exactly the same concept, but have had a bit of an overhaul, including a new name and naturally enough, a completely different way of enabling them. This MSDN page details how to enable and configure them (individually, and in an application.mda.config file).
These are debugger messages, so you have to be in a debugger to view them. One gotcha is that the application.mda.config file doesn't work when in Visual Studio. Instead, you need to go to the Debug menu -> Exceptions window and you can enable and disable the assistants there. In use, they interrupt your running as though an exception were thrown.
This has been a public service announcement on behalf of those struggling with COM interop.
Here's a right little collection of links for you. I should really put them on my list of Programs What I Run.
Anyway. Vista's got this nice preview pane that allows you to see, well, a preview of a selected file. Handy. Naturally enough, not all of your favourite file types are going to be supported out of the box, so here's a list of shell extensions to add that special magic.
Right. I feel a bullet list coming on.
But first things first. There is an MSDN article that showed how to build these extensions in managed code (which is allowed, because they run out of process. Don't run .net shell extensions in-process.) It adds a whole heap of previewers, but since it comes from a developer centric article, it's not exactly user friendly in terms of either installing or documentation. So, download the file, double click to extract it, go into the Installer directory and read the README.txt.
Now, you should have a previewer for:
Now, a bunch of those preview handlers could handle other file types. The IE handler could display, oh, I don't know, html files? The MSDN article does have a sidebar on how to register other file types with existing extensions, but if that's too much of a drag, you can try this association editor.
And that's all from the same guy. What can anyone else add?
Oh, and these all work in Office 2007 on Vista, too. But not XP. Fortunately, someone has done all the dirty work of back-porting support for Office 2007 on XP. This package also includes most of the preview handlers already mentioned, but with a few more file types registered, such as .html, .htm, etc.
Vista | Shell Extensions | Preview Handlers
I kinda like this web site. It offers a C++ source file with various functions to help in install time situations; functions like IsVista() and IsWow64(). And it also gives some functions to deal with User Account Control. GetElevationType(), IsElevated() and RunElevated() are going to be very useful.
The killer function, though is RunNonElevated(). This is a doozy.
Picture this - I run my installer. It needs to write to C:\Program Files, so gets elevated. Trying to be as nice as I can to my user, I offer them a chance to run my program at the end of the installer, as is common. Unfortunately, since the installer is now running elevated, my newly installed program will run elevated, which is not what I want.
So this function could be very useful. The downside is that Microsoft haven't actually provided any means of running a program non-elevated, so this function has to hack around it by injecting itself into the shell, which it knows is not elevated and getting explorer to spawn the process.
Is it just mean that sees the irony in having to inject code into one process to run another process securely?
I'm looking forward to Orcas. It's a (mostly) additive release, similar to 3.0. The CLR itself doesn't really change (there is a service pack level update, but you're essentially still running v2). There are updates to the compilers, the IDE and new libraries that add to .net 2 and .net 3.0 (such as System.Core.dll).
One of the nice things Orcas allows is "multitargeting", where you can target different versions of the framework (2.0, 3.0 or 3.5). Of course, if you're targeting a down-level version, you'll lose support of that framework version's assemblies (e.g. no WPF apps in a 2.0 targeted application). What might not be obvious is that the compiler still supports the 3.5 features, including the nice LINQ "select ... from ... where" syntax (although there's a caveat around that one).
Thanks to Daniel Moth for all this info!
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Wow. I've only just realised how impressive Amazon's web services are. I've always liked their Simple Storage Service (S3), but well, that's just data storage - it's not terribly exciting (although I keep meaning to look into the opportunities for backup-to-the-cloud).
Today I stumbled across their hosted message queue service. This is all a bit more, well, enterprise-y. It's a B2B type solution, and normally, if you needed a message queue in your enterprise architecture, you'd host it yourself. Now you don't have to. Instead, you can pay Amazon to do it - per message, per amount of data in and per amount of data out.
And on top of this, Amazon have released a WCF transport for it, making it nice and easy to use from your favourite Microsoft messaging library. (Although looking at it, it's a community sample, albeit one provided by the Amazon team - the download is hosted on Microsoft's .net 3 sandbox site.)
Microsoft have recently dipped their toes in this area, too, with the release of a CTP version of their BizTalk Services (of course, Amazon's queue is already released). Microsoft's offering is perhaps broader in scope (as always), including identity federation (via the marvelous CardSpace) and a service relay, which is, at a squint, the closest match to Amazon's queue, although it's most definitely not a queue. It looks like Workflow hosting will come soon, too, which will be one to watch.
These are interesting moves, pulling key enterprise architecture out to hosted providers. I wonder where this will go, and who will use it? And I wonder if the people who do use these types of queues will still have queues at their end of the wire?
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Canadians lack basic financial literacy, according to a 2014 Statistics Canada Canadian Financial Capability Survey, sponsored by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. On a financial literacy test requiring a score of 5/14 to pass, only 22 percent of the male respondents and 15 percent of the female respondents made the grade.
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"We like to see Canadians feel better and get back on their feet, so it makes sense for us to want to put our oar in the water to help on the common financial literacy front," says Farber.
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I have seen about a bajillion versions of this super simple game. We're headed up north next weekend with some family, and I wanted to come up with some fun little games that Abbey can play with her cousin, who is a year and a half older than her. We are on a seriously shoestring budget, so when I remembered this game, I knew I just had to make it! I already had clothespins, so this game was completely FREE! Woot!
Head to the local hardware store and grab some paint chips. I used some from Behr, because I like that they were nice and wide, and I only had to grab one of each color. If you're using skinny paint chips, you'll probably want 2 of each, but it's your call.
I trimmed the rounded edges off of the paint chips, and most of the words. Some colors had really long names, so they didn't all get trimmed away...oh well! I trimmed what was left into a wide strip and a narrow strip. The narrow strip got trimmed into individual colors. These pieces were hot glued onto the clothespins.
Now it's time to play! Abbey LOVES matching all the colors! She still has a hard time pinching the clothespins, but that will improve in no time. Fine motor practice...bonus!
This game could not have been any easier to put together. And nothing beats free fun!


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|get ready, Declan-this is your Valentine.
(majorly regretting not getting this on my big camera, sigh.)
-I feel like for once we don't have Valentines Day plans, and because of the impending doom, I mean, snow, I'm actually all whatever about it-since they would have been ruined anyway, likely. We always 'celebrate' the day because A BILLION AND ONE YEARS ago Declan asked me to be his girlfriend on that day. So it's special. And if my calculations are correct, I believe it was 12 years ago. Holy cow. I've been with this guy for 12 years, that's insane! We were such babies. But I'm glad it worked for us (duh).
Saying yes to be his girlfriend. Saying yes to be his wife. Two cute girls. I still like him. I'd say we've done good so far.
We'll celebrate with popcorn & probably some kid movie on the couch, let's be honest. Cheers to being super awesome.
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Since the release of her book, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, Arianna Huffington has been touting the virtues of "Well-being" as the third metric of success! Her epiphany in 2007 was the result of her misguided perception… "I think I was under the collective delusion that burnout is necessary for success… I collapsed from burnout, exhaustion, and sleep deprivation. I hit my head on my desk on the way down, broke my cheekbone, and got four stitches on my right eye…
…by any sane definition of success,
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Congratulations Arianna, on connecting-the-dots! The issues that confronted Arianna (apparently in a state denial at the time) in her stress-intensive pursuit of fame, money & power are the same that currently exists for all executives on the corporate fast-track as well as entrepreneur's obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth, all of which being supported by a culture with a warped perspective where "profits" are more important than "people". Stress (mental, emotional, physical as well as financial and relationship) is the number one risk factor for all chronic degenerative disease and most metal illness – one of the fastest growing health challenges in America – with no medical cure in sight for the neuro-chemical imbalances created by chronic stress & other lifestyle issues!
So the practical question remains…can you have it all without selling your soul to the devil to achieve it? In a culture that defines success in terms of "money" & "power" where the bar defining success has been raised so high, is it possible to achieve or create wealth, if you are starting from ground level zero, without becoming totally obsessed & consumed by the mission? And, can you do so while maintaining spiritual, metal, emotional and physical health & healthy relationships? And if not, is it worth the price you will pay, or maybe have already paid, in terms of your mental, emotional and physical health, spiritual well-being & healthy relationships in both your personal and professional life? Food for thought.
Is there a greater wisdom in the Dali Lama's observation "The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers & lovers of all kinds."


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Minister publishes Department's Statement of Strategy 2015-2017
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, today published his Department's Statement of Strategy 2015-2017, aimed at supporting the drive towards full employment.
The strategy, prepared under the Public Service Management Act 1997 and approved by Government in recent weeks, sets out the framework for actions by the Department and its agencies, as well as the wider Government system, to create and sustain jobs and avoid returning to boom-bust cycles in the employment market.
Since 2012, the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has, along with the Department of the Taoiseach, led the annual Action Plan for Jobs process, which is on course to hit the target of 100,000 extra people at work some 18 months ahead of schedule. This document is an important step in the next phase of jobs strategy, aimed at delivering sustainable full employment by 2018.
Publishing the document today, Minister Bruton said:
"Twice in my lifetime I have seen the opportunity for full employment in Ireland, only to be squandered by bad policies. Full employment is what will make all our other plans possible – better services, higher living standards, and ultimately better lives for people living in Ireland.
"That is why at the heart of Government's plans for the coming years is not only delivering full employment, but sustaining it for decades, for a generation. Achieving that means orienting all aspects of our public policies towards this crucial goal.
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"I wish to pay tribute to all our team in the Department, offices and agencies for their work and achievements over the past four years – and I look forward to working with them as we drive towards sustainable full employment".
Minister of State for Business and Employment Ged Nash TD said: "As we move towards the goal of full employment, the Department also has a role in ensuring that the jobs being created are decent jobs where workers' rights are protected and enhanced. The Strategy reflects this vision as we progress important initiatives like the Low Pay Commission and Collective Bargaining legislation. As our economy recovers, the Strategy will be used to assist us in ensuring a fair recovery with balanced regional investment to benefit workers and employers in every part of the country."
Minister of State for Skills, Research and Innovation Damien English TD said: "If we are to deliver sustainable full employment in the coming years, skills and innovation will be at the heart of that drive. The strategy published today lays out ambitious goals in these areas, and I am determined that the research and skills systems will play their part in delivering the jobs the country needs".
A copy of the Statement of Strategy 2015- 2017 IS available here:
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The audio signal was severely high-cut filtered (10 kHz was standard at that time) because of the limited sample clock. Some units used 12 bit gain stepping converters to achieve a 15 bit resolution and others used the first 16 bit converters. Then the samples were digitally processed through a 16 to 20 bit fixed-point CPU with limited memory. The algorithms had to be simple but efficient to create the most musical and versatile reverberation from these limitations. And the hardware itself added grain and warmness to the sound.
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Bout of Books 18 rolls on! I started out fairly strong, but then had a busy day followed by a couple of relatively lazy days. But...that's what I like best about BoB. No pressure, just read when and what I feel like.
I did show up for the first of two Twitter chats and it was fantastic as usual. Always so many fun people. It goes at a ridiculously fast pace. Be advised...you need TweetDeck to survive a BoB chat.
Though I haven't busted out a pile of pages, I did manage to finish my first book of 2017. On Monday, I completed John Green's An Abundance of Katherines. It was just what I always expect from a John Green read. It was relaxed and fun, the kind of book that can always drag me out of a reading slump. His books are always worth a read.
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I got this one from my sister-in-law when I was back in Idaho for Christmas. It's nonfiction, all about taking charge of your creativity and going after what you want to do when it comes to producing your own creative product, whatever the medium may be.
For me, this is coming at just the right time and I'm very glad she thought of me when she had an extra copy. I used to write a lot, but I've let it fall aside, questioning my own abilities and wondering what they could possibly do for me in the grand scheme of things. But this book is reminding me that it's not important that your creative endeavors result in something earth shattering or magnificent. It's important to instead pursue your creative interests with appropriate passion and a lack of fear. It's been fairly inspirational thus far.
And now...there are still three days to go. AND another Twitter chat on Saturday morning. I'm a little giddy about it.
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You have problems connecting or disconnecting USB devices on a Linux host system.
You are prompted to disconnect the driver on the host system when you connect a USB device to the virtual machine or disconnecting the device fails.
On Linux host systems, guest operating systems can use devices that are not claimed by a host operating system driver. A related issue sometimes affects devices that rely on automatic connection, such as PDAs. Occasionally, even if you successfully use autoconnection to connect the device to the virtual machine, you might experience problems with the connection to the device.
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Harriet has suffered from a variety of food intolerance's since birth and is still on Neocate Active formula milk prescribed by the GP. We see a dietitian every six months and are currently avoiding all dairy, soya and eggs. It is something she should eventually grow out of however in the mean time her intolerance's present themselves in a similar way to an allergy. I can tell when she has eaten something as she will develop a rash on her face and she suffers from tummy issues.
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I have in the past tentatively tried making her some bits but I have never been very successful. There has been a definite difference in the end result between the allergy free version and the standard recipe. I know so many children who have either suffered from an allergy or an intolerance like Harriet yet there are no decent reliable cookbooks out there to help you.
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text: Escape Character for CSV Explore the community › Forums › Lectora › Lectora Questions & Answers › Escape Character for CSV Tagged: CSV Import, Escape Character Viewing 6 posts - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) Author Posts January 20, 2017 at 1:55 pm #342847 Score: 0 Darrel SomozaMember Karma: 192 pts@Klaatu What is the escape character for use in CSV files? Some multiple choice questions contain comma separated items. Without using an escape character some of the questions imported correctly while others (seemingly identical) did not. January 21, 2017 at 11:54 am #342909 Score: 0 Tim KMember Karma: 265 pts@timk Citation from the Help: If you are using a text-file version of CSV, text that contains a comma must be enclosed within quotes. "For example, this sentence contains a comma." Hope it helps, I've never used CSV files. January 21, 2017 at 12:43 pm #342913 Score: 0 Darrel SomozaMember Karma: 192 pts@Klaatu Unfortunately, it doesn't. I tried that as well as other stuff from the actual CSV spec. Whats real odd is that some questions with comma separated lists in the answers imported okay without using double quotes at all. I found that trying to use double quotes either included the quotes like they weren't escape characters, the questions partially imported or parts of the questions didn't import at all. It probably would have been a better idea to use pipe delimited CSV files instead of comma's, no? I also thought it might be the format of my csv file, or that it might be corrupt so I made a new one and got the same results. I'll post the csv file next week as I do not have it with me (and I wont be typing it out again..lol). Thanks Tim. January 27, 2017 at 12:41 pm #343487 Score: 0 Justin BallMember Karma: 3 pts@8ball We commonly get our questions in excel template that we convert to csv and often have special characters like trademarks, apostrophes, and others get imported as a rectangular character.. The solution is to make sure the csv file is using the correct encoding which I think Lectora is using Unicode (UTF 8). When you open or save a csv file in excel the encoding might get messed up. (I see some get ANSI, or plain unicode and not UTF-8) The easiest way to fix this before importing into Lectora is by doing this: Open your question file CSV using Notepad. Click: File>Save As, below the file name expand the list of Encoding field and select UTF-8. Save the file and import it into Lectora Attachments:UTF8.jpg January 27, 2017 at 1:01 pm #343490 Score: 0 Darrel SomozaMember Karma: 192 pts@Klaatu Thank you, Justin. I'll make sure to check that. September 8, 2017 at 9:15 am #370305 Score: 0 Kelsey ArnesonMember @karneson7637 We're experiencing the same issue. Many of our answer options have commas and they are not being imported correctly. The odd thing is that some import and some do not and we are not able to find a pattern for why this occurs. We have tried to use the quotations as escape characters and have made sure the file is UTF-8, but we still are not having any luck. Author Posts Viewing 6 posts - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) You must be logged in to reply to this topic.


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Kellie Baker, a 30-year-old woman with Down's syndrome, was trying to call her friend, Kelly Ann Burkhart, but dialed "The Mo Show," a program on a Canton, Ohio radio station, Q92, by mistake. The phone call took an odd and unsettling turn when "DJ Mo" started making fun of the way Kellie spoke.
"Eh, Uh ... I don't want to come across -- obviously you have some sort of a speech impediment," Mo told Kellie. To which she replied, "Uh … no, this my voice." Realizing what was going on, Kellie tried to get off the phone, but Mo stopped her. And then things got much, much worse.
Here's a snippet of their conversation:
DJ Mo: Hey, I can't -- I, I, I -- listen -- I can't understand you. Again I can't be the first person to have told you that it's tough to understand you.
Kellie: All right, never mind.
DJ Mo: All right?
Kellie: I'll see ya later ok, bye.
DJ Mo: K -- say it real slowly.
Kellie: Never mind, never mind.
DJ Mo: No, say it real slowly. I want to try to figure this out. It's a little game.
According to Kellie's sister, Kara Ball, after she hung up, she frantically called her mother crying. "She told my mom, 'I'm a 30-year-old woman, I have feelings too, and I hurt, too," Ball said. "Why would he make fun of me?'"
After the incident, DJ Mo was suspended -- still is. At first, Kellie's family was completely outraged and wanted him fired, but after several family conversations, they decided that they just want a face-to-face apology from him; and they want to use this opportunity to spread awareness on how to treat people with disabilities. DJ Mo has issued an apology to Kellie and says that he thought the phone call was a prank.
Be that as it may, radio stations typically pre-screen calls before putting them straight to air. You don't just dial up a radio station and quickly get connected to the DJ of your choice. I'm not quite sure how this phone call made it to air -- or why it went on so long. And this doesn't even sound like a prank phone call; it sounds like Baker dialed the wrong number and was looking for a girl named Kelly.
I hope that Kellie and her family get what they're looking for out of this terrible situation. If it were me, I'm not sure I'd be so forgiving. Everyone always seems really sorry when their jobs are in jeopardy.
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The plant collections at the Botanic Garden are used extensively for undergraduate teaching in the University's School of Biological Sciences where courses are available in Biology.
The Evolution Collection and Useful Plants Collection are important for teaching first year plant-based modules such as: Evolution of Land Plants, Plant Evolution in Action and Evolution and Exploitation of Crops. The Flowering Plant Phylogeny Display and Floral Diversity Display (both sub-collections within the Evolution Collection) provide living plant examples to illustrate topics covered in the third year course on Flowering Plants. Third year project students use the garden as a source of material and have developed a range of innovative interpretation now used by garden visitors. You can view some third year projects here.
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Mike McQueary's whistle-blower lawsuit claims his treatment by the university since Sandusky was arrested in November has caused him distress, anxiety, humiliation and embarrassment.
The complaint, filed in county court near State College, where the university is based, seeks millions of dollars in damages.
Penn State spokesman Dave La Torre declined to comment.
The lawsuit discloses that shortly after Sandusky was charged, the university's then-president, Graham Spanier, met with athletic department staff inside the university's football stadium and expressed his support for athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz, who had been charged with perjury and failure to properly report suspected child abuse in the Sandusky case. Spanier also issued a public statement with the same message.
Curley, now on leave, and Schultz, who has retired, have denied the charges against them and await trial.
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I'm going to give you a bit of a tease here. Overall, I'm not sharing much.
Because I want you to come and see for yourself. ;-)
That's right...I am all about sharing close-ups and details and dropping tiny bits of bread crumbs to help push you to get in the car and drive right on over to see us!
All 18 designers have put on their holiday best just for you, designing some fabulous rooms in an incredible luxury home on Lake Woodlands, 54 N. Windsail Place, The Woodlands, TX, 77381.
I snuck around the house this past weekend and snapped some close-ups of each room just to share a hint of what's in store for you. You're going to love it!
Right at the front door we have Nancy Charbonneau of Woodlands Fabrics and Interiors who designed the front entry hall, grand stairway, and upstairs landings. What a task this was; this entry is huge, and there are all kinds of interesting nooks and crannies. There's lots of holiday goodness here to celebrate. You're going to get so many good ideas!
The living room and adjacent wet bar was designed by Andrea Garrity of Garrity Design Group. I absolutely love her seating arrangement; it's such a fave of mine, done with seating upholstered in luxurious hair on hide from Lee Jofa. She cleverly tied her two spaces together in a way you'll have to see for yourself.
The gorgeous dining room features the work of Jillian O'Neill of Jillian O'Neill Interior Design. It's stylish, chic, and glamorous, just like her. Set for some fabulous holiday dining, you will love all of it. My favorite part: the fabric on the dining chairs; it's truly showstopping. (But you'll have to come and see those for yourself!)
The study had a huge transformation. Originally full of orange toned wood paneling and tons of bookshelves, Teena Caldwell of Twenty Two Fifty Interiors transformed this two story space into a masculine library with all kinds of special finishes and treatments. Her Christmas decor is especially spectacular.
Next stop is the powder room. Designed by Crystal Reeves of CLR Design Services, this room was a total redo and Crystal has turned it into a beautiful little jewel box! Pretty wallpaper, polished lighting, white marble… What more could you ask for!
And on down the hallway at the very end… My room: the Woman's Retreat which I designed as a designer's home office. It's dark, rich, dramatic, and feminine without being too sweet. We're kind of proud of it. :-) Here's how it looked when we got it.
The master bedroom and bath were designed by Cheryl Baker of CBD Interiors. Custom furniture and lovely colors make it a restful, beautiful retreat. This suite has an elegant ambience, with a spectacular view of the lake that you'll be ready to move into.
Back to the main part of the house, where the kitchen was designed by Donna Vining of Vining Design. Donna is also a fellow design blogger. She designed a totally new kitchen for the house by relocating some of the major appliances and functions of the kitchen, making for a light, bright, beautiful space with some gorgeous finishes. This was a major transformation.
All in the same large room, Cecilia Pacheco of Cecilia Pacheco Interior Design designed the family room and breakfast area by reworking a dark stone wall with light, white stone tile featuring a beautiful stone fireplace surround. The art and soft color in this room reflect the water just outside the window — such a nice nod to the property.
Down the back hallway is a guest bedroom and bath designed by Veronica Solomon of Casa Vilora Interiors. This charming space has been transformed into a beautiful bedroom with a feminine, glamorous style. She's done some creative wall and ceiling treatments in here, hung some fabulous art, and has made this space a complete delight.
The outdoor spaces were designed by Jamie Haskins of Stylized Interiors. As if this property wasn't amazing enough, with an infinity pool, a floating dock, a private hot tub off the master, and a screened porch/barbecue space, Jamie added a firepit and seating to complete this outdoor oasis.
Okay, we're not done. This home goes on and on. Let's go upstairs...
Just kidding! Not yet. You'll have to check back on Thursday. I'm worn out!
Btw: We do have an elevator. This home has three floors of loveliness to see. And there are some really unique special rooms upstairs. I can't wait to share those next. :-)
In case you're wondering who the builder is that would work on a two month remodel of a 10,000 s.f. home with 18 different interior designers, here he is: our Commander-in-Chief, DC Peterson of Peterson Homebuilders, Inc. He has done this before, too; so he should know better! :-)
He has some secret weapons though. Karen Ruccius, who was onsite constantly, helped make this happen every day. And Sara, the woman behind all the paperwork that needs to happen in a job like this. This group makes an awesome team!
Here's the link to the sneak peeks of the rest of the house!


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The Bruins weren't able to clinch the Northeast Division title on Monday night, but head coach Claude Julien still thinks his team is in a great position heading into the playoffs.
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