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Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc. (AFH) ("Atlas" or the "Company") is pleased to confirm the approval of its mobile phone driven usage-based commercial automobile product from both an insurance regulatory and technology platform perspective. This straightforward product is the first of its kind for part time Transportation Network (TNC) or “ride share” drivers and has already been downloaded by hundreds of potential insureds.
This unique product, which is designed specifically for individuals driving on a part-time basis for TNCs, is being introduced as a pilot program in Illinois under the brand optOnTM. The easy-to-use mobile app provides short-term, primary, commercial automobile insurance coverage for rideshare drivers across all rideshare driving periods, with premium priced per mile. The optOn mobile application, which supports coverage and pricing as well as claim detection and reporting, is now available on Apple App Store and Google Play Store. As previously announced, the Company will be initiating a limited direct digital marketing strategy during the fourth quarter 2018 and is also exploring other potential strategic partnerships in connection with this new product. Beginning this week, optOn will be featured by key industry resources including SherpaShare (www.sherpashare.com) and The Rideshare Guy (www.therideshareguy.com).
The Company conducted extensive research of this Usage Based Insurance (UBI) digital product during the past few years as the TNC landscape developed. Atlas focused on ensuring that regulatory and consumer priorities were addressed during the development and believes that it has created the first UBI product tailored to part-time TNC drivers. Atlas’ optOn mobile product is a straightforward solution that addresses insurance gaps that may exist, as personal auto insurance policies might not cover drivers or their vehicles during rideshare trips. It leverages the power of fintech with the niche specific expertise and infrastructure at Atlas.
Scott D. Wollney, Chief Executive Officer, stated, “We understand that rideshare drivers are faced with unique challenges in the freelance economy. The optOn mobile-based platform allows drivers the flexibility to choose the policy that works best for their budget and risk tolerance. In addition to engaging and supporting customers through a proprietary mobile platform, our customer-centric claims team with decades of experience will be ready to respond when claims occur. Early downloads of the app are consistent with our expectations and we look forward to assessing the impact of our initial digital marketing campaigns in coming weeks to help project potential future scale.”
Atlas’ optOn product Receives Regulatory Approval from the Illinois Department of Insurance
Mr. Wollney noted the constructive role played by the Illinois Department of Insurance in bringing this new product to market. "Consumers benefit from competition and choices," said Jennifer Hammer, Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance. "We are committed to embracing efficiency and innovation to educate and protect insurance consumers while encouraging a vital and robust insurance market. The newly-created Division of Innovation & Market Analysis reflects the Department’s commitment to being an effective steward of these principles.”
Atlas’ optOn product provides the flexible protection that rideshare drivers deserve. Key features include:
Three different levels of coverage from which drivers can choose each time they initiate a policy;
Micro policies that last up to 4 hours with no monthly fees or subscriptions;
Coverage for all periods of rideshare driving; and
Guidance on what to do after an accident and tools to report a claim from within the mobile app.
If you would like more information about this topic, visit www.getopton.com.
The primary business of Atlas is commercial automobile insurance in the United States, with a niche market orientation and focus on insurance for the “light” commercial automobile sector including taxi cabs, non-emergency para-transit, limousine/livery (including certain transportation network company drivers) and business auto. The business of Atlas is carried on through its subsidiaries American Country Insurance Company, American Service Insurance Company, Inc., Gateway Insurance Company, Global Liberty Insurance Company of New York, Anchor Group Management, Inc., Plainview Premium Finance Company, Inc., Plainview Premium Finance Company of California, Inc., UBI holdings Inc., optOn Digital IP, and optOn Insurance Agency Inc. Atlas’ insurance subsidiaries have decades of experience with a commitment to always being an industry leader in these specialized areas of insurance.
This release includes forward-looking statements regarding Atlas and its insurance subsidiaries and businesses. Such statements are based on the current expectations of the management of each entity. The words “anticipate”, “expect”, “believe”, “may”, “should”, “estimate”, “project”, “outlook”, “forecast” or similar words are used to identify such forward looking information. The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release may not occur and could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting the Companies, including risks regarding the insurance industry, economic factors and the equity markets generally and the risk factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s 2017 Annual Report on Form 10-K. No forward looking statement can be guaranteed. Except as required by applicable securities laws, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Atlas and its subsidiaries undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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Some Critters are getting the message, and the ones that don’t will no doubt get it come 2010:
…“There’s three times as many people coming to my town hall meetings than came in the last ten years on average,” said Grassley.
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Very dated - Review of Fiordland National Park Lodge, Te Anau, New Zealand - TripAdvisor
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Review of Fiordland National Park Lodge
We had to stay here because we hadn't booked a hotel and there was nowhere else. It looks like it was built in the 70s and hasn't been updated since - but the bed was comfortable and the kitchen well equipped. The duvet cover was very faded and the furnishings damaged. The bathroom was in a very poor state but everything worked ok. It is shocking that this place can get away with charging $20 per night more than a really lovely motel just because of it's position. My recommendation would be to book a quadruple room and just go in expecting the worst - then you won't be disappointed!More
Room Tip: No such thing I'm afraid. Quadruple room probably the safest choice.
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Ryan H, Owner at Fiordland National Park Lodge, responded to this reviewResponded September 30, 2017
As the new owners we are working hard to upgrade and update all areas of of Fiordland National Park Lodge.
We have made some improvements already, that address some of your comments. We will continue to make improvements in the future.
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Clean but run down
We stayed in a double room. This lodge is in need of TLC. The outside lights have not been cleaned in years and are full of webs, the gardens need weeding and tyding up. Inside is comfortable but could do with a revamp. Bed linen is old and needs to be replaced. No cell phone connectivity or WiFi. Must have been a great resort in its hey day.
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We are pleased to let you know that since purchasing Fiordland National Park Lodge we have been working hard to make improvements, many of which were brought up in your review.
There is now WiFi available throughout the Lodge and Backpackers (1GB free per night). We are working on extending this to the Motel rooms. We are updating the rooms and have begun tidying the outside spaces.
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Terrible does n't describe this awfull place
The title says it all. PLEASE DO NOT GO HERE!. Wifi is n't working, only if you sit near the reception. We took a shower in a bathroom that riekt of urine. The beds were sagging, in short a terrible place. Thank God we only stayed here for one night. Rest asured, iff we visit Te Anau again, we will never again visit this place. A bloody shame!
Room Tip: do not go!
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As the new owners we are working hard to improve all areas of Fiordland National Park Lodge. We are updating the rooms and are prioritising cleanliness throughout the premises. We have upgraded the WiFi and it is now available in the Lodge and Backpacker rooms (1GB free per night).
Good Motel in Beautiful Surroundings
Fiordland National Park Lodge motel is a quiet place but with good facilities for a hotel in such an area. The shared kitchen could have done with being slightly bigger, but the rooms were of a good quality and the furnishings where good. Laundry facilities are good and the wading powder is free.
The TV didn't have a remote and was of an old style, but it wasn't really a worry as I don't imagine many people would book into this motel to watch TV.
The views were great, and it was easy to find on the Milford road.
Ask Mark T about Fiordland National Park Lodge
We agree that Fiordland National Park Lodge is located in a beautiful place with magnificent views.
As the new owners, we are working hard to make improvements so that more people want to come and enjoy the amazing location too.
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Very handy to Milford Sound with screens on Windows so you can enjoy beautiful air
After reading mixed reviews , I was very pleasantly surprised by our stay. The motel room was very clean, and had everything we needed, bathroom vg, bed and pillows very comfortable, kitchen good enough to cook a lovely roast pork dinner and sit with glass of wine looking at the sunset on mountains. My husband got coverage on phone by just walking a few meters from the room, the only slight annoyance was paying for the wifi ( only $6 ) and the lodge router not working properley, but if you just go expecting not to have wifi its a small price to pay for being in such a lovely place. We had a motel room, so this is what I would recommend. Unlike so many places in New Zealand this motel had screens on their windows so for this alone I would give it 10/10 !
Room Tip: Choose a motel room, well worth bit extra money and you dont have to share a kitchen
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This was the only place we could book 2 month in advance, and now we understand why. The place might be the right place for Backpackers who does not care, but standard does not at all meet the website pictures or description.
The location 28 km outside the city of Te Anau, meant that we spend 30 min going for dinner, but the view form the location was beautiful as the nature in general at this place.
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Dani Clos leads Day 2 morning session | the teams, their drivers and the economics behind GP2
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Day 2: Maldonado P1 in afternoon session again →
Dani Clos leads Day 2 morning session
Racing Engineering’s Dani Clos has set the fastest time this morning in the second day of testing at Paul Ricard. Dani is followed by yesterday’s quickest, Maldonado, the ART duo of Bianchi and Bird, teammate Christian Vietoris and Arden’s Charles Pic.
Times from the morning session:
1. Dani Clos – Racing Engineering – 1.10:266
2. Pastor Maldonado – Rapax – 1.10:375
3. Jules Bianchi – ART Grand Prix – 1.10:481
4. Sam Bird – ART Grand Prix – 1.10:497
5. Christian Vietoris – Racing Engineering – 1.10:532
6. Charles Pic – Arden International – 1.10:576
7. Sergio Pérez – Barwa Addax Team – 1.10:619
8. Josef Kral – Super Nova Racing – 1.10:651
9. Giacomo Ricci – DPR – 1.10:746
10. Luiz Razia – Rapax – 1.10:816
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13. Jerome d’Ambrosio – Dams – 1.10:934
14. Johnny Cecotto – Trident Racing – 1.10:934
15. Davide Valsecchi – iSport International – 1.10:972
16. Alberto Valerio – Scuderia Coloni – 1.11:030
17. Rodolfo González – Arden International – 1.11:095
18. Ho-Pin Tung – Dams – 1.11:111
19. Oliver Turvey – iSport International –
20. Max Chilton – Ocean Racing Technology –
21. Adrian Zaugg – Trident Racing –
22. Marcus Ericsson – Super Nova Racing –
23. Fabio Leimer – Ocean Racing Technology –
24. Vladimir Arabadzhiev – Scuderia Coloni –
One Response to Dani Clos leads Day 2 morning session	haho says:	March 24, 2010 at 14:48
Competitive field. Big up to Kral, he is doing very well.
Big up to for Valsecchi, 15th, what an improvement!


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World Heritage Monuments and Related Edifices in India - Ali Javid, ʻAlī Jāvīd, Tabassum Javeed - Google Books
books.google.co.in - Hundreds of India's stunning temples are catalogued and copiously illustrated in this two-volume work loaded with color photographs. A brief introduction to the principal religious groups who have made their home in this dynamic region leads into a description of the developmental stages of various architectural...https://books.google.co.in/books/about/World_Heritage_Monuments_and_Related_Edi.html?id=54XBlIF9LFgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWorld Heritage Monuments and Related Edifices in India
Ali Javid, ʻAlī Jāvīd, Tabassum Javeed
Algora Publishing, 2008 - Architecture - 309 pages
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Hundreds of India's stunning temples are catalogued and copiously illustrated in this two-volume work loaded with color photographs. A brief introduction to the principal religious groups who have made their home in this dynamic region leads into a description of the developmental stages of various architectural components and artistic styles in the different regions over the past 1500 years, from pre-historic cave art and ancient temples hewn out of solid bedrock to more recent European-style Christian churches such as those in Goa. India's religions and historical turning points are briefly discussed, enabling readers who may be less familiar with Indian cultures to recognize the value of the region's cultural heritage. The author details the technological and artistic progress of Indian temple construction in the context of cultural and religious shifts throughout history. The four indigenous religions of India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, as well as Christianity, are each appreciated on their own merits. The Taj Mahal, the most famous, was declared a World Heritage Monument in 1983. It has been described lyrically as a tear drop on the cheek of time, poetry in marble, a dream in marble, and an image of paradise; and in such superlatives as 'the greatest achievement of all Indo-Islamic architecture, the most beautiful of all monuments made by the hands of man.' But the UNESCO World Heritage Center has also singled out a wealth of monuments that preceded and followed its construction, denoting them as important elements of the heritage of human civilization. In this work, researched through personal visits to World Heritage sites in India and the monuments associated with them, the author shares his enjoyment of the depiction of human beauty in decorative sculpture and architecture and the narration of mythology therein. This is one work bound in two volumes.
Jainism Buddenism Sikhism
Buddhist and Jain Temples
Sikh Monuments
12 The Caves at Ellora 550 950
13 The Monuments at Malapurum 600800
14 The Temples at Bhubanesvara 6501275
15 The Monuments at Khajuraho 10th12th Century
16 Rajarajeshvara Temple at Tanjur 10031014
17 The Statue of Bahubali 10tH Century
18 The Hoysala Temples 11171268
19 The Sun Temple at Konarak 12381264
3 Bodh Gaya 260 BCE11th Century
4 Jain Caves at Udayagiri Khandagiri 100 BCE100 CE
5 Karli and Bhaja Caves Ca 1st Century bce120 ce
6 The Great Stupa at Sanchi 250 BCE11th Century
7 Buddhist Caves at Ajanta 200 BCE600 CE
8 The Siva Cave at Elephanta 540555
9 The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad 1st Century BCE6th Century
10 Early Western Chalukya Monuments at Aihole Badami Mahakuta Alampur and Patadkal 535756
11 Chalukya II
20 The Monuments at Vijayanagara 13361565
21 The Monuments at Delhi 11921842
22 The Monuments at Agra 15561657
23 The Monuments at Fatahpursikri 15711586
24 Churches and Convents at Goa 1618tH Century
World Heritage Monuments and Related Edifices in India, Volume 1
ʻAlī Jāvīd,Tabassum Javeed
ʻAlī Jāvīd
7th Century Agra Aihole Ajanta Alampur apsaras arch architrave Ardhanari Ashoka back wall Badami Basalt beautiful Bhimbetka Bhubanesvara Bodh Gaya Bodhisattvas body bends Brahma Buddha Buddhist built carved Cave ceiling cell century BCE chaitya chaitya windows Chalukya church constructed corners couples courtyard decorated deities Delhi demon depicts Durga dynasty elephants Ellora entrance excavated exterior walls façade face female flanked flowers front Ganesha Ganga gateway goddess gods Granite hall hand head Hindu holding India Indian temples Indra jagamohan Jain Kailas Khajuraho king Konarak Lakshmi legs Lingam lion located lotus Mahabodhi Temple Mahal Mamalapurum mandapa marble monuments mosque Nandi niches paintings palace panel Parvati Patadkal pavilion pilasters pillars platform plinth porch possibly Ratha Ravana rear wall roof Sanchi sanctum Sandstone sculpture seated shrine side walls Siva square standing statue stone storey stupa Surya Tirthankara tomb tree upper verandah vihara Vijayanagara Vishnu
Title World Heritage Monuments and Related Edifices in India
Authors Ali Javid, ʻAlī Jāvīd, Tabassum Javeed
Publisher Algora Publishing, 2008
ISBN 0875864848, 9780875864846

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Scrapnesia Gallery & Inspiration: 2011
Layout by Jeannie Larsen
Hattie "Boy" Trim
Hattie "Family" Lots of Dots paper
Gertie "Girly" Lace paper
Gertie "Girly" Diamonds paper
Gertie "You and Me" Ornamental paper
Gertie "Friends Forever" Layered Chipboard"
Gertie "Little One" Label Stickers
Hazel "Special" Journal Card
Hazel "Fancy" Buttons
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Labels: Cricut, Design Team Creations, Double Page, Jeannie Larsen, MME-Stella and Rose, Multi-Photo, My Mind's Eye, PageMaps, PPC, PPC-Ruler, Scrapbook Layouts
GP509 - Decorating Eggs paper
GP505 - Hunting for Eggs paper
GP513 - Springtime Borders paper
Gum Drops Dew Drops
Computer Journaling ~ Kristen ITC Font
Labels: Angie Sprouse, BC-Bunny Love, Best Creations, Design Team Creations, Multi-Photo, PPC, PPC-Ruler, Robin's Nest, Scrapbook Layouts, Single Page
Best Creation Ballet Princess Collection:
BP001 - Love to Dance paper
BP002 - On Your Toes paper
BP007 - Ballet Slipper paper (2 sheets)
BP008 - Pink Stage paper (2 sheets)
BP013 - Ballet Princess Combo Stickers
BP014 - Ballet Princess Expressions Chipboard
Retro Flower Rhinestones Light Pink (Circle cut out)
Retro Flower Rhinestones Hot Pink (Circle cut out) - 2 packs
Premium Ribbon Black Velvet #58316
Perfect Layers Rulers (1/16", 1/8", 3/16", 3/8", 1/4")
November 2010 12x12 Double A
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Labels: American Crafts, BC-Ballet Princess, Best Creations, Design Team Creations, Double Page, Evelyn Larsen, KaiserCraft, Multi-Photo, PageMaps, PPC, PPC-Ruler, PPC-Square, QQ-Chalks, Scrapbook Layouts
Twinkle Twinkle Little Boy Glitter Paper Pad:
Perfect Layers Rulers (1/16", 1/8"
January 2011 Single 12x12
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Easter Egg Hunt with Friends & Family by Lorie Waller
#GP505 - Hunting for Eggs Glitter Paper
#GP506 - Hiding in the Garden Glitter Paper
#GP510 - Garden Bunnies Paper (trim above & below photos is both sides of paper)
#GP511 - Bunny Tags Paper (Cutout Title)
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Girl Swirl paper (both sides)
Rock Diva Collection
Rock Diva Cardstock Stickers
Computer Journaling - Batang Font
Labels: Angie Sprouse, Design Team Creations, Imaginisce, Imaginisce-IRock, Moxxie, Moxxie-Just a Girl, Multi-Photo, PPC, PPC-Ruler, Scrapbook Layouts, Single Page
Hazel "Fancy" Doily paper
Mabel "So Sweet" Stamps
Hazel Buttons
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Labels: Cindy Bridger, Design Team Creations, MME-Stella and Rose, My Mind's Eye, PPC, PPC-Ruler, Scrapbook Layouts, Single Page
Card by Design Team Member, Cindy Bridger
Boy "Star Bright" paper (both sides)
Boy "Super Stripes" papere
Fozz Felt Cream Stars
Card Map September 2010 5"x7" B
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Labels: American Crafts, Cards, Cindy Bridger, Contest, Copic, Design Team Creations, KaiserCraft, MME-Alphabet Soup, My Mind's Eye, Rubber Stamping
Layout by Amber Piper
Princess Promenade paper
Princess Posies paper
Mirror Mirror paper
Fairy Trails paper
X36 Princess Vellum Quotes
4 Rhinestone Brads
1 Rhinestone Flower
1 Small Pink Paper Flower
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Boy Glittered Paper Pad
Premium Ribbon Grosgrain ZigZag Brown Sugar
Cuttin Up (3/4")
September 2008 Single 12x12
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Labels: American Crafts, Cricut, Customer's Creations, Jeannie Larsen, Multi-Photo, My Mind's Eye, PageMaps, PPC, PPC-Ruler, QQ-Chalks, Scrapbook Layouts, Single Page
Sugar Tree Design:
Nascar Flag brads
Black & White Checkered Ribbon
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Labels: Design Team Creations, Double Page, Lorie Waller, Multi-Photo, Scrapbook Layouts, SugarTree
Hazel "Mother" Meadow paper
Hazel "Special" Fine Floret paper
Pappillon Pink Glitter Ribbon
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Labels: Cindy Bridger, Copic, Cricut, Design Team Creations, Flowers, MME-Stella and Rose, Multi-Photo, My Mind's Eye, Papillon Ribbon, PPC, PPC-Ruler, Scrapbook Layouts, Single Page
Cricket cardstock
Lollipop cardstock
Premium Ribbon Key Lime Ribbon #58219
SF004 - Water Waves paper (2 sheets)
SF005 - Splish Splash paper
SF008 - Wave of Fun paper
SF009 - Fun in the Sun Tags paper
Crystal Stickers Clusters #6606
Project 12 September 2010
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Labels: American Crafts, BC-SF, Best Creations, Design Team Creations, Evelyn Larsen, PageMaps, PPC, PPC-Ruler, PPC-Square, QQ-Chalks, Scrapbook Layouts, Single Page, Single Photo
Girl "Flower Patch" paper
Girl Cardstock Die-Cut Accessories
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Labels: Angie Sprouse, Design Team Creations, MME-Alphabet Soup, Multi-Photo, My Mind's Eye, Papillon Ribbon, PPC, PPC-Ruler, Scrapbook Layouts, Single Page
Rivulet Vintage
Labels: Allison Thompson, Cricut, Customer's Creations, Design Team Creations, Multi-Photo, Scrapbook Layouts, Single Page
Gertie "Little One" Darling Dots paper (2 sheets)
Hazel "Special" Fine Floret paper (1 sheet)
"Girly" Sticker Tags
Quick Sand (2 sheets)
March 2011 Double 12x12
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Today's card shows how easy it is to balance a design with two elements on a square. The strong vertical feather and strong horizontal sentiment balance well, but the black draws the eye strongly to the sentiment, which is, after all, the main idea of this card. The feather is support here...pretty support, but support nevertheless.
I adore this sentiment from Emily Dickinson, and it's so useful on a card to send to someone who is struggling. (And who doesn't struggle, at least every now and then!?!)
Is there someone you know who could use a little lift of hope right now? Perhaps you could make them a hopeful card and send it. April is the cruelest month, and the timing might be just right.
Let's call this a Minimalist Monday post. I'm throwing this one out there to remind you how little you need to make a powerful card.
Isn't all that white space GLORIOUS? Or perhaps you're starting to break out in hives thinking about using so little to say so much? Either way, part of what makes this work is the overall triangle shape of the sentiment and the row of hearts. Also, its placement on the bottom third line works best because the hearts extend higher above the sentiment than below. If I'd placed it on the top third line, it would have looks squished.
Hard to believe anything could look squished with all that white space, right?
Today's cool layout comes from this colorful card by Heather Stolar published in the spring issue of Take Ten.
Heather used texture very effectively on her card, but what caught my attention were her layout and use of stitching to unify the three squares.
Here is my first card, which sticks pretty much to Heather's layout, although the focal point is shifted slightly down because my squares were a good bit smaller than hers. Pulling everything down gets it in the "sweet spot" of the card, which I felt was important given how much less of the card my three squares take up than Heather's.
My one-layer version of the card uses pops of color on white with gray images and stitching. I chose the images for their curvy nature, as it contrasts so prettily with the straight lines of the squares and stitching.
Also note I added a sentiment because I wanted to do so.
Then, I wondered what would happen if I lined up the squares top and center.
Heather's original layout is much more dynamic, with the triangle of squares lending wonderful movement to the design. My adaptation is linear/static (although the zigzag stitch was chosen to give some movement here), but the static layout allows the color gradation to really stand out.
Which of my two versions do you prefer?
BTW...These inks are all from Hero Arts, and I've had a blast playing around with them!
I decided to duplicate Heather's layout using a couple of the feathers cut out as Heather did with the tissue boxes. My ground is Text Style from Papertrey and twine (because baker's twine looked busy). Because I lacked the speech bubble (my feathers don't have faces...and their words are the text background anyway), I centered my panel rather than off-setting it as Heather did. Her offset of the mat balances that bubble nicely, but an even mat serves my feathers better.
My card lacks the nice triangle of Heather's card, but the position of the two feathers and the softer colors generate enough unity (in my opinion, at least).
And don't you love how the feathers could have written the text background?
Many thanks to the always inspiring Heather for her card, without which my card would not have been possible!
Posted by Susan Raihala at 4:03 PM 5 comments:
Sue sent me this beautiful card and a copy
of the adorable flower stamp,
Sheila sent this fun card. I love the colors
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This week's IC challenge at Splitcoast is simply delightful! The site for inspiration is Ruth Bleakley's Flickr portfolio.
(And can I say how hard it was to type Flickr without adding the missing e? Annoying how my fingers type without my brain...correctly.)
Ruth's portfolio is filled to the brim with all sorts of inspirational goodness. I made two cards in record time, inspired by two of her books! I'm not sure why my cards are so lacking in color, as Ruth's overall color sense is bright and happy and smart. She makes some amazingly colorful and pretty marbled papers, for instance. But I needed a sympathy card to restock my stash...why does the stash always empty so quickly?!? :(
Anyway, her little gray book proved the inspiration for this sympathy card highlighting stamps from Gina K.
My second card is a masculine birthday card. Can we ever have enough of those? Ruth's banded agate book got me thinking about natural patterns, and this Hero Arts wood grain stamp popped into mind. Add a band, a sentiment (Papertrey Botanical Silhouettes), and some bright blue bling, and you've got proof that bling works on guy cards.
I hope all of you are having a lovely weekend. My own has been nice, although I happily ruined a lot of paper yesterday before I went to the IC and finally found my groove, thanks to Ruth.
So you could say I was figuratively kicking down the cobblestones, looking for fun, and feelin' groovy.
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Note: Jonah is turning 5 on April 12. If you would like to send him a birthday card, address it to Jonah, c/o Susan Raihala, 7430 Waterway Dr., Waynesville, OH 45068. I will deliver cards in batches once a week as they come in. He likes animals and bright colors.
As I scanned my January and February picture files this morning, I realized there are a number of cards that never made it to the blog, so this post will include the best of those poor, neglected rectangles of card stock from January.
Lily Bee's Memorandum set has a row of
typewriter key-like numbers, so I experimented
with making a border of it. Sentiment from
Papertrey's Birthday Bash Sentiments.
More fun with Avery Elle's Fun with Letters. The
patriotic colors were intended for OWH. I like this
The polka dot circles and flower come from Paper Tray,
the first set released by Papertrey Ink.
tape, not washi. Scotch brand now sells deco
tape that's the texture/feel of its regular clear tape.
And there you have it. We're caught up for January! Not too bad for the second half of March.
When Leslie (Crooked Stamper) learned that I was enamored of Kaleidacolor spectrum ink pads, she dug out some old, long unused (and a few unopened) ones she had and gave them to me.
Can you believe not a one was already in my collection? Yippy!!!!
I positioned the shadow stamp on the edge of the card, one third of the way up after inking it and spritzing with water. Then, I put each sentiment half-on, half-off the stamped area, and added a triangle of little flower stamps with color-coordinated bling added for a bit of shine.
Easy, fun, and colorful!!!
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I hope all his chemo treatments will be finished by that date (with no further complications), and also that he gets the dog he wants!
Blessings to all who have sent Jonah cards in the past. What a great way to use our hobby!
"Would you share your path of getting onto the design team and making the decision that it is not for you? The broader question is: how did you know it wasn’t for you until you worked as a design team member. I can’t help but wondering how I can decide if my goal is unhealthy or unrealistic if I have not achieved it. I worry that if I quit too soon I will regret that I didn’t try hard enough. At what point should we let go and move on because it is an unattainable goal? To me it is an extremely difficult question. The harder I try, the more self-criticism, frustration and unhappiness will result; but it is just equally sad to learn that the goal has not been achieved. It will then lead to more blood and sweat which does not necessarily transform to success. Isn’t it a vicious cycle?"
Joyce's question makes my heart hurt for all who struggle with the issue of design teams. I very much wish I had an easy answer, but of course, I don't. All I can offer is my own personal experience (which is of limited help, actually) and provide some things to think about as a person grapples with this question.
Periodically, I look for ways to shake up my crafting. Several years ago, I was contemplating either trying to get on a design team or trying to get published. I was very much in the contemplating phase, though, and hadn't started acting on either impulse, when I was contacted by a company asking me to be on its design team for six months as a representative of clean-and-simple style. I didn't try out or compete for a spot.
I chose to accept the offer because of the timing and because it was something of a challenge. It was also temporary, with the option to extend if both parties were satisfied. The company's stamp style was not obviously CAS (the reason they wanted me on board), and I knew it would be interesting to adapt it to my style. But I felt safe that if I didn't like being on a DT, I had an easy out in six months. I can do anything for six months, right? Yep. I'm a big girl that way.
The company had excellent lead times for its DT. I had my stamps months ahead of time and never once felt pressured by last-minute requests or production delays, as can happen on other design teams. I also felt that my compensation in free stuff was adequate to what was expected of me as far as projects and number of posts.
But I knew after the first month that DT work wasn't for me. I disliked the blog hops for monthly releases and also disliked putting marketing copy on my blog that I hadn't written. I worked in marketing for years and have very strong opinions about it that were not in line with the company's philosophy. Let me stress there was nothing wrong with the copy the company provided...except that I didn't write it. Most DT members likely don't care about that at all.
Also, while it was both fun and educational for me to use the stamps and product I had to use, it was also work. After a few months, I knew I preferred the utter, absolute freedom of being a hobbyist. As a hobbyist, I do what I want, when I want, how I want. Being on a DT let me know how important that was for me and my creative identity. I'd suspected that about myself, but didn't know for sure until I tried.
So, if my very individual experience helps you feel better about trying to be on a DT or about giving up on it, well, then, YAY. If not, here are some more, ahem, intellectual things to think about.
1. Why do you want to be on a design team? There are lots of reasons a person might want to become a DT member. She might want free product. She might want the exposure in the stamping community (who doesn't want to be popular?). She might want or need recognition and validation of her talent. She might want to stretch her creative boundaries and feel that the structure of a DT will push her in good ways.
So in my opinion, the best reason for wanting to be on a DT is that you love the product you'll be promoting. Adding a work element to what is, for most people, a fun hobby can kill the joy you feel creating.
2. Don't take anything personally. Selection processes for DTs vary from company to company. Some have competitions, and some just ask the people they want. And you can bet your bottom dollar the people who are usually asked to be on DTs are those who already have an established presence and following in the stamping community. If you're not that well known, it's going to be hard to break in. And even if you are well known, if your style or skill set doesn't fit what the company wants at that moment in time, they won't pick you. It's nothing personal. They just want to sell product.
If stampers don't get on DTs, they might start questioning the quality of their work. As Joyce expresses in her comment, self-criticism escalates when we don't feel successful. There is a huge difference between healthy self-criticism and unhealthy self-criticism. Healthy self-criticism makes you try harder and fills you with determination. Unhealthy self-criticism makes you feel beaten up and depressed.
I believe there are more "good enough" stampers for design teams than there are spots. In other words, plenty of people who are good enough will never, ever get spots because there aren't enough spots to be had. If you judge your creative worth by whether you get on a design team, you're definitely selling yourself short.
I also believe some people could easily be "good enough" if they took a design class or two. Not everyone is good at self-teaching, and putting yourself in a classroom setting (there are some great online classes) can improve the quality of your work. Ask a few people (not just one) you respect and trust to be honest for their opinions about your work.
Finally, I believe that we all should do what we love: make pretty stuff. Who cares if your pretty stuff is professional quality or not? It's your stuff. Own it. Love it.
4. Is your personality right for DT work? There are some personality characteristics that make some people more suited to DT work than others. For example, DT competitions are often intense, with quick turn-around times. You have to be creative on demand. Some people struggle with that while others thrive.
Also, we carry around all sorts of unconscious expectations of what the judges want to see in competitions, and in trying to fulfill them, we can totally miss the mark. During my time judging for the CAS challenge DT on Splitcoast, I saw perfectly talented entrants miss the mark, sacrificing good design to "dazzle" with a "creative" use of a product or pushing limits on requirements. Others just didn't read and follow the rules.
5. Are you valuing your joy highly enough? I'm going to tell you a story about my sister, Lisa, who started taking ballet lessons in second grade. In eighth grade, she went to the North Carolina School of the Arts. After she graduated high school there, she was an apprentice at the Pennsylvania Ballet. She auditioned for lots of companies, but never got a call-back.
Finally, one of her mentors at Pennsylvania called a friend at the American Ballet Theater, then under the artistic direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov. Lisa's mentor told her friend to pay attention to Lisa at their next cattle-call audition.
Lisa's name was one of seven called at the end of the that audition. She swears no one looked at her on the stage with 70 or so other dancers. It was her mentor's phone call that got her a call-back, not her talent. So many lesser companies had turned her down, and she felt that she was nowhere near talented enough for one of the top ballet companies in the world.
Plus, Baryshnikov, people!!!
So my advice to Joyce and all the other stampers who are trying to get on design teams is this: focus on your joy, not the competition. Stamping won't make your feet bleed (though it might bloody up your ego), but it can bring you incredible joy to create stuff. Never lose the focus on that joy in favor of approval-seeking through design teams or publications or other measures of popularity or success.
Because it's your joy that will clinch it.
And now it's your turn. What are your experiences with design teams? What advice do you have for those who are trying? How can stampers break what Joyce aptly calls the "vicious cycle" of hard work not leading to success?
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Here is another card (in three versions) I made for the IC432 challenge. The clean simplicity of the inspiration packaging BEGGED me to convert it to a card design.
Begged!!!!
Posted by Susan Raihala at 9:10 PM 4 comments:
Subtle. But a definite improvement.
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If you've been reading this blog for a while, you've probably noticed that I'm a little tight when it comes to design. Everything must have a place on the card and be in that place...and not a millimeter to the left or right of that place. As a result, I rarely make whimsical or juvenile or cute cards.
When I bought Springtime Doodles from Papertrey, I hoped to change that. The set's whimsical, loosely sketched images are just so cute! My first run at the set was...unsatisfying, but my second take on it feels much more like me...but loose.
Well, a little loose. I think that's probably the best we can hope for, don't you?
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I have no idea what these arrows mean, exactly, but I love the effect of them with this spectrum ink pad from Kaleidacolor. Red to orange and back again. Then I found the sentiment from Waltzingmouse's Blessed by You set...with its staggered two lines and the word "warmed" to reinforce the warm colors of the arrows.
Abstract? Yes. Random? No.
Posted by Susan Raihala at 4:13 PM 7 comments:
I wanted to try using the tiny flower stamp instead of the blossoms that are supposed to go on the stem. I'm not sure it works (perhaps a bit more off-stamping to blend in the darker flowers better might help), but I adore that lattice stamp border on this card.
A. Dore.
And now I've used all the stamps in that set, and in the SU flowers box, so I'm that much closer to using all my stamps!
Posted by Susan Raihala at 1:54 PM 57 comments:
And yes, I did use a stamp positioner to get the placement of the blossoms right...because I'm AR/OC and rubber isn't see-through. But it's worth it, totally, for these beautiful flowers. Just love them.
I've had several people ask for details about finding my stamping joy again, and I'll post more this weekend. Right now, I'm pooped. Must go to bed.
And I'm hoping that "pooped" isn't just a Southernism I grew up with and that the rest of the world knows it means "tired."
Posted by Susan Raihala at 10:02 PM 10 comments:
I guess pink erasers will work just fine for conditioning clear and rubber stamps! Thanks to everyone who took time to answer that question.
So first up is a card using the leaves and flower blossoms in the set. I inked and spritzed these using Hero Arts inks and Glimmer Mist. I'm finding that the Hero Arts inks turn into distress inks when spritzed with water or Glimmer Mist. They turn very blotchy, and some of the colors are unattractive.
Lime Green and Pale Tomato, however, work nicely!
The sentiment is from an old, discontinued Hero Arts clear set...one whose name is lost to time (at least in my craft room). But it's a useful set, and I plan on sending this to a good friend whom I've neglected lately.
Finally, I want to offer up thanks to Audrie Magno Gordon and Ardyth Percy-Robb. Though they don't know it, they helped me find my stamping joy again, and I am grateful.
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Here, I used the three other stamps in the same random way as on yesterday's card, but on a portrait-oriented base rather than landscape. The sentiment, from Hero Arts Year Round Sentiments, looks like it's being pushed up by the flowers, and the three rhinestones serve to unite the flowers and the sentiment.
Also, that the rhinestones appear on the single Tidal Pool stem rather than scattered over the other flowers helps reinforce the sentiment of being special.
On a completely different note, I encourage you to check out Virginia Lu's new challenge blog: Virginia's View Challenge. Her challenge right now is Watercoloring, which is broader than Karen's OLS challenge but still related!
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Liesl Loves Pretty Things: BadAss Polish Chocolate Covered Cherry
Hi friends! Today I get to show you the second new BadAss Polish spring release, the delectable and sparkly Chocolate Covered Cherry. Chocolate Covered Cherry is a semi-dense red, brown, and gold glitter with holographic bits that flash bright green and ultra violet in a clear base. It's a twinkling and complex beauty and my mind's been spinning with layering possibilities. First, I layered it over Ulta Chocolate Kiss, a deep, reddish brown metallic shimmer.
Chocolate Kiss and Chocolate Covered Cherry. Is a run to See's in order, yet?
Here it is over L'Oreal Broadway Boogie, a toasted marshmallow creme. This is totally giving me a mid morning sweet tooth, lol.
Next to each other, the two look pretty cool. I thought the gold might bounce off this a little more. On the nail, though, it's not my favorite. Broadway Boogie doesn't really do anything for the glitters, but now you know how it looks over a lighter base. If you're going to go light, I think a shimmer or metallic would work better.
As I was going through my stash looking for layering duos, I could not help but notice that Zoya Jem is a near perfect match to Chocolate Covered Cherry. Observe.
Of the three duos I tried, this one's my favorite. The slight duochromatic purple-green-gold nature of Jem plays perfectly with the holo bits, and the reflectiveness of both make this duo so sparkly. The tiny, uniform size of the glitters keep this look elegant and classy, which is what I love so much about BadAss glitters in the first place. They're glitter for grownups.
I used one coat of Chocolate Covered Cherry over each base. This is topcoat hungry and I used three coats of my Out The Door before I was satisfied with the texture.
Chocolate Covered Cherry will be available for purchase for $8.75 in BadAss Polish's etsy shop here on Wednesday, March 20, BUT creator Amy is holding a flash giveaway for one bottle before it is officially released on BadAss's facebook page. Like the page here and share the giveaway link for your chance to win a full-sized bottle of this beauty.
Some product(s) used in this post were sent for review.
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Cat RayMarch 14, 2013 at 11:25 AMWow, this is amazing! So gorgeous! I love the first and last combo, it looks so beautiful. I'm craving chocolate now. ReplyDeleteRepliesLiesl (lieslloves)March 14, 2013 at 11:39 AMRight?! And yes, I think it's definitely best over something dark and shimmery. It's going to be a totally distracted by my nails day, lol.DeleteReplyEssie Rae iHeartPrettyPolishMarch 14, 2013 at 12:02 PMBeautiful Combos! Love your close-up shots, they are perfect in every way.ReplyDeleteRepliesLiesl (lieslloves)March 14, 2013 at 7:24 PMThanks, Essie :) They were pretty fun to edit, I must admit ;)DeleteReplyLittle Miss CandorMarch 14, 2013 at 12:17 PMSuch an amazing polish. Love everything about it from the name to the color.ReplyDeleteRepliesLiesl (lieslloves)March 14, 2013 at 7:25 PMMe, too! It's all just so delectable ;)DeleteReplyPolished MarvelsMarch 14, 2013 at 12:38 PMHi sis, awesome post, excellent review and thank you for taking the time to show it over various base colors. I like the first best - I think its is vampyliscious sparkliness :-)!!! I love small sized glitters too, they are a lot easier to carry off for an every day look xxxReplyDeleteRepliesLiesl (lieslloves)March 14, 2013 at 7:32 PMThank you, thank you :) :) It was fun to do a multi look post, as it were. It does look pretty scrumptious over the dark brown. I actually have that mani on six of my digits and the Jem mani on my swatch fingers, lol. Shh ;)DeleteReplyYun, The Polish HideoutMarch 14, 2013 at 2:34 PMNice combos! I agree, that last one is the best! Jem is the perfect base for this glitter! :-)~ YunReplyDeleteRepliesLiesl (lieslloves)March 14, 2013 at 10:38 PMYeah, it's pretty cool how close they match :) Thanks, Yun ♥DeleteReplyK @ Karines Vernis ClubMarch 14, 2013 at 3:19 PMThe blue and purple glitter peaking is just the icing on the cake, really unique polishReplyDeleteRepliesLiesl (lieslloves)March 14, 2013 at 10:41 PMI know, isn't that the coolest?!DeleteReplyStacy SankarMarch 14, 2013 at 5:29 PMWow that's a beautiful colourReplyDeleteRepliesLiesl (lieslloves)March 14, 2013 at 11:00 PMIt is! Amy's so talented :)DeleteReplyJournailsMarch 19, 2013 at 3:08 AMThis polish is really gorgeous ! *___*ReplyDeleteRepliesLiesl (lieslloves)March 19, 2013 at 9:01 PMI agree, SO gorgeous....DeleteReplyErica JaneApril 18, 2013 at 11:09 AMThis color is making me melt! Beautiful swatches as always! <3ReplyDeleteRepliesLiesl (lieslloves)April 18, 2013 at 1:24 PM..like the melted white fondant in a chocolate covered cherry? :D And thank you very much :)DeleteReplyAdd commentLoad more...
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Notes From Eastern Oregon, Day 2.
The second day of vacation was really the first since it was evening before we arrived at our destination the day before. We woke early, energized to make breakfast. This was the point at which we realized we had forgotten the skillet and while we rented a home that was nearly fully furnished…it did not have a usable skillet in it. So we resolved to make breakfast anyway…Egg, potato and veggie casserole with grilled bacon in it. I am now a true believer in grilling bacon. It turned out amazing and really featured that fresh from the grill flavor. And, we got to use our new french press. Very cool.
After breakfast the real debauchery started! I mean this lovingly. Being from Portland and loving beer as we do, we wasted no time all patronizing the local Eastern Oregon breweries. The first on the list was Terminal Gravity. They are located in Enterprise Oregon and brew fantastic beer. This is one of those great breweries you think you will never make it to in person. Lo and behold, we did. They have one of the most relaxing and fantastic garden areas near a babbling brook. The Skis lounged in the grass and we enjoyed a couple of pints.
As we headed back into Joseph we were feeling a bit peckish and just happened to be passing Mutiny Brewing. They too had an outside garden, of course a requirement when traveling with Skis in 95+ degree weather. We ordered up a couple pints and some lunch. The meal was divine. It was really just that freaking good. While the Sysco truck might stop by, they don’t drop off much, all of the produce was garden fresh. The heirloom tomatoes tasted as though they had been picked with love that morning and the same can be said for the greens. The fries were baked whole slices of potatoes and the bread was homemade. Delicious!
So it can be said that our second day of vacation was spent eating and drinking. Hmmm, nope that is just our style. So don’t think we didn’t go back to our house and continue the party.There were brie stuffed burgers for dinner.


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Kia, seems just like an ordinary student. She is one of the many people Ban & friends met, but she has special capabilities. She was offered a chance to join TRAL , but is still making her choice
Kia has a mysterious background. She is known as the Killer's Child in her school because of her Father's Crimes. She hardly speaks out and has only two friends, due to her schoolmates fright against her family. She would secretly go out to play with LBX's.
Quiet but Fast. She always keeps quiet at times, but can be noisy. She has a good amount of patience. She is very athlethic and gets annoyed easily. She loves LBX's but is too afraid to show it, She is secretly talented in using an LBX
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The Social Gospel...what is it if it doesn't get social? - Matthew - pages 180-185
The reading today stirred up an old "derogatory" phrase I used to hear in my church growing up. "The social gospel" It was spoken of as some cheap and liberal version of the real gospel. Anathema...Accursed! I understand the danger of the ditch on either side of the road, but as I've read the Scriptures, I can't see how you could read them without picking up on Jesus' heart for social justice and humanitarian compassion.
Based on the verse in Matthew 25 today, I spun off and grabbed a few more verses that provided some fundamental tweaks that need to be made with what I call anti-social Christianity:
1. Christianity isn’t just about going to church to find Jesus, it’s also about looking for and finding him in the hurting world.
**Matthew 25:34-40 - “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.
The Church building is the place you go on the weekend to find out what Jesus looks like so you can spot Him throughout the week.
2. Christianity isn’t just about a weekend service, it’s a weekday movement.
**Isaiah 58:5-8 - 5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for a man to humble himself? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?
“A [so called] Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.” – Thomas Ybarra
3. Christianity isn’t just about a personal holiness, it’s about social wholeness.
**James 1:27 - Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
4. Christianity isn’t just about right doctrine, it’s about right action.
**Galatians 2:9-10 - James, Peter and John, those reputed to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews. 10 All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
5. Christianity isn’t just about meeting spiritual needs, it’s about meeting physical needs.
**I John 3:16-18 - This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
When you go to church you encounter the body of Christ, but when you go to the world, you encounter the face of Christ.
Lord, I want to see your face today.


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The Observant Dilettante: June 2011
Anyone on this yet? Looks like Google's pulling together some current functionality, renaming parts of it, and creating a platform for connecting with people. Also looks like the emphasis is on f2f interaction, unlike Facebook, which emphasizes Facebook interaction. Hard to say if the pendulum is swinging back toward f2f activities yet.
My Paint skills are UNRIVALED.
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Heaven is not complete without a singing Neil Gaiman.
Quote from BoingBoing writeup by Maggie Koerth-Baker:
WITS is best described as the very nerdy, slightly tipsy, younger cousin of A Prairie Home Companion. There are authors, there are musicians, there are the creators of MST3K heckling from a balcony seat. In other words, you'd love it.
I very much miss this kind of environment. Aye, DC, I love you, but you're a bit dull.
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The ring chose you. Use its power to defend our universe.
Beware my power...Green Lantern’s light!
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On the one hand, I see its value. Looks like some good core strengthening work. Then they start galloping and jumping verticals. All I can think of are ponygirls.
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What a tragic life you led, Dr. Turing. I know you not so much through your own work, but through your characterization in Cryptonomicon. I would have liked to have known you.
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Another sign of the apocalypse, or, Heather sees naked people and gets confused.
This gallery (totally NSFW) on BoingBoing has me confused. They're supposed to be naked, right? So why are they wearing clothes, body paint, and/or masks? And shouldn't the gentleman in this image be mindful of that bike seat?
Scratch that. I might find out that he's feeling inviting.
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Woolite: Your demise is imminent, but your laundry is brighter.
Reassurances about your delicates courtesy of Rob Zombie. Now, if we could just get Treyarch to make commercials for Walmart....
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Link is to an excellent, though brief, article in The Scientist about the first NIH researcher. Yes, there was only one. James Kinyoun was the NIH Highlander. He was such a badass that he did not require a sword to decapitate his foes.
Corollary 1: Scientific thought, as derived from rigorous examination and the scientific method, will lead us to ideas that will eventually become axioms.
Corollary 2: The more rigorously derived ideas we have, the better.
Corollary 3: It is important to distinguish between bad ideas rising to the surface for examination and dismissal, and bad ideas being recycled by those with even worse motives.
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Who couldn't love these lollipops?
After the cold I've been nursing for the past 10 days, I think Doctor Muñoz would give me one. Strange, I suddenly feel a draft in here...
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I read a fair bit about blogs, blogging, and how to do more/be better/all that. Reading about productivity is one of the biggest time sinks I practice. Ever since I got onto Twitter, which mind you was in June 2006 (yowza five years ago), I've been drawn to the production of social media. Early debates about Twitter versus blogs had to do with audience. Some argued that a good tweet could sum up a blog point (valid only if you're interested in communicating solely through topic sentences), others insisted that blogs would die off in the face of tweet competition, and yet others used Twitter to sell their blogs (which were usually about blogging itself) and blog services. Lots of recursive data in those early days.
I think it's clear now that there's space for both, though I am always concerned about the value of information versus the time spent reading it. I worry about shortening attention spans; perhaps I would be instead cheering the demise of assigned research papers of specific lengths.
So if it's okay to be a blogger, then how does one gracefully mention one's blog? Where does good taste fit into this?
I've decided that a blog should be mentioned with the grace and frequency that one would produce a business card. Nothing is more off-putting than having someone comment solely to mention his blog, just as nothing is more graceless than a party arrival who's plastering hands with his business card.
Be a good person, worthy of attention, and you'll be someone people will want to read.
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Contrary to what most people think, HP Lovecraft was not a horror writer. In fact, he considered horror to be hack writing. Instead, he wrote weird fiction, and defined it thus in his essay, "Supernatural Horror in Literature":
Or as I call it, Thursday. Interestingly, Lovecraft's feel for the tone of shifting perception was mentioned in this article on four-dimensional space and topology. The author, Richard Elwes, uses Lovecraft as an intro to his notion that four-dimensional spaces are remarkably similar to the shape of Yog-Sothoth as Lovecraft described it. Perhaps that's all we should say about that, lest eldritch horrors appear.
You're feeling courageous? What about an automatic sanity check fail? Here's a mashup of Stephen Colbert and Cthulhu, intended for 3D printing at Thingiverse. Never heard of 3D printing? It's just the most awesome thing ever. Almost as awesome as finding two Lovecraft references to start your day. Tip o' the hat to BoingBoing for both of these.
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Holy crap--part of the sun just freakin' blew off. Tip o' the hat to Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy fame (@BadAstronomer).
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Providence has dropped wonderful things into my lap once again. First up is Time magazine's list of The Best Blogs of 2011. I'm not going to debate blogs, or the legitimacy of their list, because what's important to me is the descriptions of what makes these blogs interesting. Want to know why anyone should read a given blog? Peruse and adapt.
Second is a list from Famous Writers about the process of writing a book. The range goes from David Crosby (yes, the one of rock music and liver transplantation fame) to Cory Doctorow. I cannot imagine two more different people. At this point, I am not in mind of writing a book, but this is a fine set of pointers from people who know, from my point of view, everything that needs to be known about the process.
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It's been a crazy two days, with a multicelebrant birthday party most of yesterday and last night, and the Washington Post Hunt today. I'm holding down the fort at Corner Bakery (14th and G NW) while the rest of our group of about 25 solves the puzzles.
This year's format is different, it seems; no opening puzzle to determine coordinates, no list of extensive red herrings mixed in with a few correct answers. Here's hoping that everyone has fun. If not, there's always dinner at Gordon Biersch tonight at 6.
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I'm a fool for scientific and geekly pics. And I'm going to ask the GE tumblr out on a date this weekend. They've even got a pic of an electric car charger from the 1900s. This, however, is my favorite:
As of this post, the "GE Instagram" (as they're calling it) has only two tumblr pages. Best get on it early to stay caught up. Happy drooling!
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Now this is snappy.
While watching this, I concluded that the one message I would send those in our collective past would be, "Thank you." What was normal for them seems insurmountable to me. It's not just that we're soft today; I don't have the skills needed to make my way in that world. They're just as smart, crafty, and innovative as we are, yes, but still, there's something about the world of 1814 that reminds me I'm suited only for my current time at the earliest.
I'm also reminded that I have nowhere near the skills of the people who did the work on this mapping project. Thank you, geologists and geographers of the past. Your data has provided essential continuity for the lives of those who have followed you.
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Foragefor... news: 2016
It's my first year growing narcissi 'Katie Heath' in my ever expanding interest in narcissi with apricot tones. She was planted on 14th October last year and has now been flowering beautifully for two weeks. She is shorter than most narcissi I grow for cutting, reaching apporoximately 20cm in height with creamy white perianths gently reflexing around a frilly apricot cup. She produces some double heads with the added delight and surprise of one cup being apricot and the other pale yellow which is a real treat and perhaps hints back to her hybrid nature? Her scent is sweet and quite strong with a 'jasminey' tone to my nose. When the flower is cut the cup gradually fades to almost white giving that wonderful bit of visual dynamics in the vase over a period of a week.
Here are a few photos to share of her first welcome year in the foragefor cutting garden.
Growing in the spring sunshine.
Her gradual fade after a week in the vase.
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Edible Flower Valentine's Day Ideas
The most romantic day of the year but in the truly seasonal English flower garden you will not see any red roses but so much more is available at this time of year to woo the 'object' of your affection. The heart collage below gives you a sample of what is growing today in our walled garden.
Some of the blooms growing in our cutting garden at the moment are also edible. So to stimulate the seasonal floral tastebuds, here are a few edible goodies we have made in the past.
Primrose and raspberry jammy dodgers.
Chocolate viola, primrose and violet souffle cake.
Primrose shot glasses
Chocolate violet leaves.
Violet cosmopolitan.
Have a fantastic floral St Valentine's Day!
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the positive psychology link to drive | Northofneutral's Blog
the positive psychology link to drive
How would you best describe your workplace behavior?
What? Type X and Type I? Yes, it’s true…Type A and Type B behavior is so passé! Instead, the behavior types du jour are Type X or Type I. X and I (stand for extrinsic and intrinsic, respectively)are terms used by Dan Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, to describe motivational behavior. Learning more about these types can help you better understand what drives you (and your team) at work. It can influence how you approach your job and how you manage your direct reports.
Pink provides simple explanations of each type. Type X behavior is driven largely by extrinsic desires and external rewards. For instance, one’s desire to work simply to make large amounts of money, deriving nothing but a large paycheck from a job that provides no satisfaction is an example. On the other hand, Type I behavior is “powered by our innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world,” explains Pink. Fostering more of Type I behavior in the workplace, he suggests, would help develop stronger organizations that achieve more.
A closer look at the definition reveals three elements identified through research as necessary to motivate employees involved in non-routine, conceptual work, led by right brain thinking. If you read our blog, you are most likely a non-routine worker, as opposed to what Pink refers to as an “algorithmic” worker, whose work can be reduced to a set of rules. Non-routine workers depend on three elements to feel truly motivated, according to Pink. These three elements are autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Most people working in leadership roles enjoy success because of these three drives. Without autonomy, it is difficult to shine as a leader. Leaders pursue mastery through continued learning (i.e. pursuit of an advanced degree, on-the-job experience) and the opportunity to use their strengths on a daily basis at work. And our emotional connection to our work is often related to a sense of purpose, something larger than ourselves.
Pink’s book has a chapter dedicated to each of these elements. However, I am struck how two in particular, mastery and purpose, play a large role in how positive psychology relates to the workplace. Mastery could also described as flow, a term coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi two decades ago in his famous book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (see our blog). People experience flow when they are so completely absorbed in an activity there is no awareness of their surroundings. Flow is the perfect tension when skill meets challenge. Those are moments of mastery!
Sense of purpose is also a cornerstone of happiness. Martin Seligman (a founder of the study of positive psychology) uses the phrase, “the meaningful life” to describe one of three paths to happiness. The meaningful life, he states, is “using your signature strengths and virtues in service of something larger than you are.” Pink echoes this idea, stating, “The most deeply motivated people—not to mention those who are most productive and satisfied—hitch their desires to a cause larger than themselves.”
Purpose, along with autonomy and mastery, speaks to organizational strength and achievement. How could you use this information in your work? While you may be aware of your own sense of each of these, have you asked those who report to you? (Dan Pink offers a 30-question free assessment at: www.danpink.com/drive.html )Find out what motivates them. Are they Type X or Type I? Does this influence how you manage them? Start the conversation! It benefits you, your team, and the organization.
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September – 2011 – Anniespickns's Blog
A Great Interactive Site For Finding Information on California Markets, Farms, and Agricultural Events
I just found this great website called, California Agricultural Almanac, that has all kinds of information about vegetable, fruit and nut specialty crops in California. Using interactive maps and data you can check out where to find locally grown produce, farms, farm markets and agricultural events. Give it a try for the area you live in or for the area of California that you might be visiting. As much as I love finding off the beaten path places, I can see where this is going to come in handy. This site is definitely getting bookmarked.
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A One of a Kind California Farmers’ Market
While on vacation at Packer Lake in Sierra County I learned about a farmers market that is touted as the only “on-farm” farmers market in the state of California. Locals call it the The Romano’s Farmers Market, aka Sierra Valley Farms Farmers Market . It is not large, it hosts only 10 – 12 hand-selected vendors. It typically opens the first Friday in June and continues for 15 weeks until the second Friday in September. We were in luck it was only the first Friday in September when my sister, Gwen, and I decided to leave the solitude of Packer Lake and travel over to Sierra Valley and see what all the talk was about.
The farm sits on the northern part of Sierra Valley. This valley sits at approximately 4850 feet and is surrounded by mountains ranging in elevation from 6 to 8000 feet. The former lakebed covers 120,000 acres and receives an annual rainfall of less than twenty inches, most falling as snow. It is what I call high desert, filled with grassland, sagebrush and extensive freshwater marshes that drain into the middle fork of the Feather River. It is an important area for migratory bird species that stop over in the fall and nest there in the spring.
It was in the 80s when we arrived around 11am and the wind, which can blow pretty hard here, was gentle, a perfect vacation day. We pulled in to a dirt parking lot, found a spot, grabbed a reusable bag from the back of my car and headed off to do some serious exploring. We had heard that the farmers market is presented among unique old farm buildings; an old grainery built in 1939, now houses a produce stand and walk-in cooler and the quaint farm store, that contains the checkout stand and hand made items for sale, is part of the old chicken shed. To say the setting is quite unique is an understatement.
We wandered through looking at everything from hand made pottery to some tasty looking bakery items, from gorgeous produce to some pretty interesting pasta and olive oils from Pappardelle Pasta (a pretty large company that sells directly at farmers’ markets and a few specialty gourmet retail stores throughout the country). For not needing anything and thinking we would just take a look, we walked out with one of the biggest pineapple heirloom tomatoes I have ever seen (and now that I have eaten the softball sized wonder I can say it was one of the best I have ever tasted), a small package of Southwestern Blend (Blue Corn Ziti, Red Southwestern Chile Lumache, Green Jalapeno Fusilli and Yellow Maize Amore) that I want to use in soup this fall, Smoked Mozzarella Ravioli, a beautiful little cantaloupe, some lovely orange peppers and a couple of bottles of cold water from the cooler in the old grainery.
As we were leaving Sean Conroy, chef at Longboards Bar & Grill, Plumas Pines Golf Resort was setting up for a cooking demonstration. They evidently have one each week, something I have seen at urban farmers markets but out here in the middle of nowhere (sorry Sierra Valley folks), it was really unexpected, but a very nice touch.
Later I read on the market’s website that they also host a \”Dinner in the Barn\”, a four course gourmet meal featuring farm-fresh produce harvested specifically for the dinner. The setting is inside a historic rustic barn overlooking the farm fields. There is a farm tour before the dinner, which is catered by Moody’s Catering in Truckee. If they have one of these during the time I’m at Packer Lake next year I’d really like to go.
If you’re ever up in this neck of the woods during the summer months, seek out this market. It is definitely worth a visit.
Posted on September 18, 2011 by anniespickns.	Posted in Farmers' Market, Food, Produce, Summer vegetables, travel, Uncategorized	| Tagged Dinner in the Barn, Food, local food, Longboards Bar & Grill, Moody's Catering, Papparadelle Pasta, pineapple tomato, Plumas Pines Golf Resort, Romano's Farmers Market, Sean Conroy, Sierra County, Sierra Valley, Sierra Valley Farms Farmers Market, Smoked Mozzarella Ravioli, Yellow bell peppers	| 2 Comments
Carson Farmers Market, Carson City, Nevada
My sister and I found the Carson Farmers Market, quite by accident, while traveling through Carson City on our way north to Reno. It is located at 3rd & Curry Streets and is open Saturday, from 8:30 until 1:30. There’s lots of shade, plenty of parking and some of the nicest people you will meet anywhere.
The first place we stopped was Lattin Farms. They have a really nice farm in Fallon. I know they grow incredible tasting cantaloupe so we stopped to see if we could pick one up. Since we were at the market late in the day they were sold out of the cantaloupe so we decided to try a melon called “Arava”. It’s not a true cantaloupe but a cantaloupe honeydew cross, an early producing Galia hybrid that does well in growing seasons that are too cool or short for most melon production. Perfect for the short growing season in northern Nevada and where it originated in 1970, Israel.
The Galia-Arava is very aromatic and the flavor is more like a honeydew than a cantaloupe. It was juicy, sweet and tasty. You may be able to find this variety if your area has a short growing season. It’s definitely worth a try.
Another great find was Basque Chorizo from Butler Meats. After tasting a sample we deiced to buy some to have with our breakfast on Sunday. It’s not too hot, not too spicy, definitely just right. I wish we had bought two packages so I could have taken one back to California with me.
A definite stop on your market wander should be Carson City Confections. Especially if you like really good chocolate. We tried several creative goodies and finally decided on the Ginger O’Snap (with fresh ginger) and Lemon Cream (with cashews and lemon zest). Sorry no photo, we ate them before I thought about photographing them. Obviously, they were very yummy!
This is a wonderful little market with lots of fresh local choices for produce and products. I’ll definitely stop by again.
Nevada Farmers Market resources:
Nevada Grown – A resource for Nevada’s rich selection of locally-grown food.
Posted on September 14, 2011 by anniespickns.	Posted in Farmers' Market, Summer fruit, travel, Uncategorized	| Tagged Arava hybrid melon, Basque Chorizo, Butler Meats, Canteloupe-honeydew cross, Carson City Confections, Carson City NV, Carson Farmers Market, Fallon NV, Food, Galia melon, Lattin Farms, local food	| 6 Comments


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