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IT ecosystem: IT Program Management, a Retrospective Analysis
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IT Program Management, a Retrospective Analysis
The global IT workspace today is inundated with IT organizations who are delivering highly complex solutions to enterprise scale customers. The delivery of such solutions generally ends up in efforts which disseminates into several parallel projects. The key success factors for such solutions require much stronger governance and management infrastructure.An IT program generally comprises of multiple projects running in parallel to deliver a solution. Hence there are much more complexities in managing programs then a project. The ramification of a program failure has a ripple effect on the client organization and also the solution provider as it ends up being a failure of multiple projects.Program GovernanceAn individual project governance structure generally consists of a project manager, a technical specialist capable of integrating technology with business philosophy and a business sponsor who is responsible for ensuring that the deliverables are in line with the business goals to be met.A program governance structure on the contrary generally has a steering committee comprising of senior level personnel whose accountability and role is often decided by the board of directors, a program manager entrusted by the steering committee to guide the workforce and ensure that the program achieves its desired results. A set of project managers reporting to the program manager are responsible for managing individual parallel projects which form a part of the program.In short program management generally requires a three to four layered management structure as compared to project management which generally requires a single or double layered management structure.Program’s successThe Role of PMOThe success of a program depends on the foundation of the technical and a comprehensive administrative infrastructure. The administrative infrastructure is provided in the form of a PMO. The PMO is responsible for resource loading, facilities management, expense monitoring with respect to allocated budget, KPI creation on program’s progress. The Role of technical specialist/ArchitectThe technical infrastructure is provided by a technical specialist and his team overseeing and ensuring the creation of robust application architecture and Data centre operations. The success also depends on the selection of a methodologies and best practices in technical,administrative and business process areas. The role of Methodologies and Best PracticesAcheving Technical efficiency & SustainabilityOn the technical front The delivery of a quality software product requires focus on the application’s architecture, artifact design and delivery model. Careful selection and efficient use of industry standard methodologies and frameworks can bolster the stability of the technical infrastructure and ensure quality product delivery.Frameworks like TOGAF and Zacman provides a robust architectural foundation whereas development methodologies like CMMI for a waterfall approach and SCRUM, RUP, DSDM and Enterprise XP for an agile approach can streamline the development cycle and enable on-time delivery of quality software artifacts. System maintenance and upgrade can be streamlined by implementing service management methodologies like ITIL, which predominantly focuses on service desk management. Achieving Business Process Excellence Streamlining of the business processes within the client organization is also required.Industry standards and best practices like Six Sigma can provide the necessary impetus in this regard. Achieving Governance GoalsSome restructuring of organization’s governance framework might also be required. This may well be an assimilation of bureaucratic and matrix structures. Continuous MonitoringThe project’s objectives can be met only by periodic audits and reviews to track progress with respect to delivery schedule, expenses incurred, payment milestones etc. Strict controls are required from program management perspective to ensure that functional requirements are signed off by customer and an effective change control mechanism is put in place to reduce scope creep.Program management metrics if prepared in adherence to the program’s objective can significantly help in measuring the current progress made and optimize the processes to fulfill the program’s objective.Building a Product roadmapThe program management should have a strategic focus on building a product roadmap. This will increase ROI.ConclusionHence as discussed above, efficient program management requires careful evaluation of the strategic goals of the program, a robust management infrastructure, a careful selection of matrices to measure progress and a vision to build a product roadmap.
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Rock Creek Park: 20 Deer Down, 130 to Go.
Despite protests by concerned DC citizens, sharpshooters have bagged 20 deer in Rock Creek Park, which runs though the middle of the Nation’s Capital. The National Park Service is reducing whitetail over-population in the urban outdoors, and hopes to harvest a total of 150 critters by the end of a 3-year deer-reduction period. Resulting venison is donated to local food banks and shelters.
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Bye-Bye Bambi: The Hunt Is On In Rock Creek Park.
In the dead of night, while half the city is out of town for Easter Week, the National Park Service is implementing its ruthless slaughter of helpless, cute, fuzzy deer whitetail reduction plan in Rock Creek Park.
“‘Deer Reduction Operations’ to Begin Tonight in Rock Creek Park,” Martin Austermuhle, DCist
“Sharpshooters to begin killing deer in Rock Creek Park for National Park Service,” AP via Washington Post
“Rock Creek Park Deer Slaughter Starts Tonight,” Will Sommer, Washington City Paper blog.
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Rock Creek Park: The Hunt Is On
Rock Creek Park runs right through the middle of Washington DC, and it has a problem. The skinny ribbon of National Parkland is infested with deer, five times more than the 1,750 acres can support. The deer wander onto Rock Creek Parkway where commuting motorists mince them into Bambi-burgers. They cause international incidents by browsing backyards on Embassy Row and visit the grounds of the Vice President’s residence for wrestling matches with the Secret Service.
The National Park Service issued shoot-to-kill orders, but five DC residents went to court to stop the hunt. A judge just threw out their lawsuit so the hunt is back on. The NPS plans to donate harvested venison to area homeless shelters.
“Rock Creek Park Deer Killing for Me, Not for Thee,” Will Sommer, Washington CityPaper blog
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Vehicular Venison
It’s that time again. The leaves are turning bright autumn colors, and lovesick deer on the road to romance are finding it crowded with motor vehicles. There are more deer and cars in the U.S. than ever before, so the situation isn’t as amusing as it might initially seem. Deer cause car crashes that kill about 200 people in the US each year, twice as many as Hurricane Sandy. State Farm Insurance says deer collided with 1.23 million vehicles between July 2011 and June 2012, 7.7 percent more than last year. The company’s claims from deer collisions rose almost 8 percent while those for other collisions fell 8.5 percent.
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“. . . wildlife managers slice intact forests into sunny woodlots that maximize the number of deer and the frequency of encounters between deer and hunters. Private landowners are encouraged by wildlife agencies to crisscross their forest acreage with tasty plantings of clover and wheat in support of what is now a burgeoning population of perhaps 50 million white-tailed deer — in some places as many as 75 deer per square mile.
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Omnivore, Animated
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce or RSA, home of the amazing RSA Animate series of visually-interpreted lecture videos by Cognitive Media, is running a film contest. Maria Popova at Brain Pickings harvested this brilliant short interpretation of omnivore Michael Pollan’s Food Rules by Marija Jacimovic and Benoit Detalle.
If you find the video tasty, leave a tip beside your plate. Vote for this entry in the RSA/Nominet Trust competition (click here).
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the running wave: January 2015
Firstly, the buzzard I saw this morning and I would like to congratulate Helen Macdonald on winning Costa Book of the Year 2014 for her wonderful book, H is for Hawk. I enjoyed reading it very much, even though at times it was quite tough. It is very intense, sometimes exhausting, occasionally slightly irritating. At times, the author seems to be incapable getting a grip on life. She is overwhelmingly broken by the loss of her beloved father, and is dealing with a new, challenging love in her life - Mabel, her goshawk. But she brings it all together to produce a great portrait of our precious countryside, the fabulous bird, as well as an insight into the tortured life of T H White. It's an interesting mix!
To watch the weather forecasts over the past day or so, I had expected to wake up to a world of white this morning. No such luck. However, the sky is blue, the sun is shining and we have our own version of snow in the wood - the snowdrops are up and out. I couldn't be happier - I love snowdrops. Here are just a few. They are scattered around the wood in drifts of varying size, and this is just the beginning - it's early days - there are lots more to come.
There is a lovely light in the wood today. On the south side, most of the trees are silver birch and their bark gleams in the sunlight.
While there are no paths through the wood, except for one track which reaches a small clearing, the deer, and other wild animals, have made their own pathways, which weave between the trees and through the bracken. They are really rather magical.
The track stops here, by the gamekeepers' lookout This is where the miserable creatures sit with their guns and an unfair advantage over their exquisite prey.
Since we got back from Australia I have driven past a field of swans, several times. There are over 100 of them. Mostly they are Whooper swans, on a winter holiday from Iceland, with a few mute swans mixed in. They are quite an impressive sight!
They have been feeding on the same junior rapeseed field for several weeks now. The above photo doesn't look very sharp - the wind was buffeting so probably jogged my freezing cold hand! In the background today, North Berwick Law sat in the sunshine, with everything else under cold grey cloud, and the occasional passing snow shower. Apparently there is proper snow to come tonight. Fingers crossed!
I do love the late afternoon skies, at this time of year. The sun comes out as an afterthought, just before sunset, and the colours are glorious!
I have to admit that I have become mildly obsessed by the red cabbage field up the road. It has captivated me ever since I noticed its lavender coloured haze towards the end of last summer. I have posted several photos of it already, over the months, but as it is now in its death throes, accelerated by a combination of harvesting and frosty weather, I just want to record it here one last time.
I have never been so aware of how light, and in particular sunlight, can affect the colour of a natural object. This field has displayed a multitude colours ranging through every shade and tone of lavender, purple, grey, navy blue, changing from one minute to the next as the sunlight has swept across the plants, and then gone again, hidden by cloud. It has been a real joy to observe.
And this morning, with the colours dulled by the frost, I took most of the photos shown above, and then did a spot of gleaning before walking home. This little chap should round the red cabbage experience off nicely, served this evening, alongside a local pheasant!
PS : It is now early February and, from a distance, the red cabbage field is now a very dark grey. Today 8 February, there was a row of seagulls strung out along the edge of the field.
Today dawned frosty, but with a gentle morning light, so, after breakfast, Tilly and I went for one of our favourite walks. A bit of country, a bit of coastline and a short walk through a wood on the way back to the car. We had the place to ourselves, just us and the seabirds. Oh happy day!
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I love this coastline, with its distinctive landmarks - the Bass Rock above, and that's the Kingdom of Fife beyond, on the other side of the Firth of Forth. And below, in the distance, a tiny grey North Berwick Law, presiding moodily over the town. Today was a calm day. Quiet and peaceful, in stark contrast to the relentless gales of the last week or so. Our walk was a cracking start to the weekend.
The girls, Tilly and Bo, my daughter's dog, and I have just had our first walk of the year. It's raining now but earlier the sky was a very pale blue and the sun shone, weakly, but with resolve, so we had a wander down the drive and along a short section of the John Muir Way. Not far, the wind was cold, and I knew, from a telephone conversation with a friend in Edinburgh, that deteriorating weather was on its way. We got home just in time. It's all changed now!
I am always on the lookout for new life. It's one of the joys of having very clearly defined seasons, in this part of the world. Plants are a key indicator of that passage from one season to the next. Today there was virtually nothing on our walk that warranted a photograph, except for a lovely spread of young, soft floppy-leaved foxglove plants in the wood. A happy sign that life is doing what it does best - asserting itself.
Monday, 5 January 2015 and time to go home. The six weeks have flown by. We have covered quite a bit of ground, blessed by lovely early summer weather. We have spent precious weeks with our son in Melbourne, seen him happily married to his lovely lady, with his little daughter looking on, merrily swinging her basket of flowers. We've enjoyed an Aussie Christmas, a great New Year celebration, and caught up with family and friends, all since we arrived at the end of November. We spent our last morning in Melbourne wandering around the Botanical gardens. I had thought they would be more colourful, it is summertime after all! However, surprisingly, the colours weren't there, except for the cannas, but the gardens were peaceful, the sun was shining and the air, cool. Very enjoyable.
These photos are not great - I was using my old camera and it's not behaving that well. But they recorded the day, so that's fine with me!
This young lady was seizing the day, lying in the sun on the banks of the Yarra River! I only took this photo because initially I couldn't see where the tattoo started and the waistband finished!
And so the sun goes down on another holiday in Australia! Time for the long journey home.
Whoohoooo, road trip! For Christmas Mr Gaucho and I were given tickets for a trip along the Great Ocean Road. We had the sunset tour, which meant we left Melbourne around 11 am and got home very late indeed! Here's a photographic record of our day. The Great Ocean Road, and for me, it was all about the waves. They were glorious!
The colourful feathers of a rosella.
We had the opportunity to walk through a bit of rain forest, with its towering Myrtle Beech trees and tree ferns.
Mr and Mrs Gaucho were here!
Pizza delivery for the Twelve Apostles! These limestone stacks are a huge attraction. Cameras clicking all over the place.
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Hamilton and The Bechdel Test – The Whole Cat
Hamilton and The Bechdel Test
July 24, 2016 July 24, 2016 | Cat Scheer
For a musical theatre person with a deep interest in history I’ve been surprisingly slow to get around to investigating the music of Hamilton. But, this past week I finally caved and purchased a copy of the music on iTunes.
I’ve listened to the music all the way through a couple of times and agree that it is fresh, intellectual, clever, funny, and has incredibly powerful character depictions. Lin Manuel Miranda has a real talent for meta-theatre; there are constant, clever nods to the fact that this is a story about the past told by a self-deprecating historian hungry to understand how things were and who these people were. The show also totally fails the Bechdel Test.
The Bechdel test is a screening test used for storytelling art forms (movies, books, plays) used to evaluate the level of realism in depictions of female characters. The test jokingly suggests that stories should be evaluated for whether or not there are at least two, named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a guy. According to http://bechdeltest.com/statistics/ only about 58% of movies manage to pass this ridiculously low standard for depictions of women as actual human beings.
I did some quick Internet research about Hamilton and the Bechdel Test and discovered there is technically some debate as to whether or not the musical passes the test on the grounds that about 3 sentences worth of lyrics inside one song (The Schyuler Sisters) can be interpreted as the sisters discussing the American Revolution.
I think the question of whether or not Hamilton *technically* passes the test is irrelevant. If you have to obsessively focus on the lyrics of a single song in order to uncover the hidden implication that women might actually have opinions about the war they are living through then you aren’t doing a good enough job of representing women as real people with thoughts, ideas, and relationships with each other that have nothing to do with men.
You could, in theory argue that this show is focused sharply on Alexander Hamilton, and to a lesser extent on Aaron Burr, and so it only makes sense that the characters are shown solely in their relationship to these characters. I think this isn’t a good enough excuse for two main reasons:
Reason One – All the other male characters floating through are allowed to have opinions, thoughts, and political positions that aren’t about Hamilton/Burr, nor about their relationship with their wives and girlfriends. Without changing the focus of the story a bit, the male characters are seen as fully developed characters with independent thoughts who interact with each other in addition to interacting with Hamilton/Burr.
Reason Two – Stories about two women and their relationship with each other do not struggle with the reverse gender version of the Bechdel Test. For example, yesterday Sam and I watched Frozen. Aside from the fact that in this supposedly female-centered movie Elsa and Anna are the only two females in the whole movie who have names, there are about a gazillion examples of males talking to each other about things other than women. Daddy and Grandpa B talking to each other about Anna’s injury and Elsa’s powers, Oaken and Kristoff talking to each other about Kristoff’s purchase of supplies, Prince Hans and the Duke of Weaseltown talking about Prince Hans’ handling of the unexpected ice age, etc. It is possible for small characters to have fully developed personalities and motivations, it just isn’t the storytelling norm when it comes to female characters. Hamilton creates the character of Angelica as Alexander Hamilton’s equal in intelligence, yet never allows her to talk about anything but her feelings for him. There was ample opportunity for the women of the show to also have opinions about war, independence, government, politics, the constitution etc. They just don’t. Is it really so far fetched to think that women would also care about the structure of the country they have to live in?
When I was 8 years old I spent 3 solid weeks of my life walking around the house with a dish towel draped on my head (like a kerchief) singing all the female parts from Fiddler on the Roof (another story that fails the Bechdel test). By the time I was 10 I had memorized the entire Rogers and Hammerstein canon (several more shows that don’t pass the test). My obsession with musical theatre runs deep.
When I hear the female songs in Hamilton, I can’t help but picture the next generation of musical theatre girl, who has just been given 5 more songs to sing about men. The songs are always about men. With every song memorized we reinforce the idea for her that the only thing women are ever supposed to think about, talk about, and care about, is men. There is no place for her ideas, thoughts, opinions on other topics in the cultural narrative. By refusing to treat women as independent, three dimensional people in our culture’s storytelling we perpetuate the idea that girls are lesser people who have no right to equal representation. We are building the culture that pushes girls out of board rooms and political halls.
Lin Manuel Miranda has written a brilliant show. He has also written a show that reinforces the idea that women exist primarily to be supporting players to men. We must demand better of our storytellers.
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I do like to hold things up to the Bechdel test. Here is one that is kinda hard to slice, Into the Woods. I’m not sure it passes, although there are plenty of named female characters, and they talk to each other… Often the conversations turn to the men in the story…
Cinderella and her step-mother/sisters talk about the ball. Red Riding Hood and the Baker’s Wife talk about buying bread. The witch and Rapunzel have many conversations about their relationship as mother and daughter and where the line is between protection and smothering. Red Riding Hood, the Witch, and Cinderella are all part of the group discussion about who is to blame for the troubles. Cinderella and Red Riding Hood talk about not being alone because even as an independent person you have friends to lean on.


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Jeremiah 33:2-3 I know that from time to time I go about my world trying to do things in my own way, I forget to call out to Lord, but He is there waiting for us to call upon Him, at any time.
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les histoires de moi: Happy New Year!
I've been very bad about posting lately, but that will all change soon. I have been saving up things to write about, actually, and hoped to get some good posting in over the break, but the stomach flu (followed by a brief but lovely vacation -- life is not so bad) took precedence.
I started work today at a small private school, filling in for a friend on maternity leave. I'm teaching 5-12th grade choirs and music directing their spring show, Seussical the Musical, which is based on the writings of Dr. Seuss and promises to be very fun. My schedule at the school is great (for example, I'm currently in the middle of a 3-hour break), and should leave me at least some time for practice and editing. So far, the worst part about it is getting up early -- my first class starts at 7:20 every morning! It's amazing how much longer the day is when one rises that early. Other than that, it's a great job. I've worked here, as a sub and as part of their musicals, on several occasions, so I feel at home, and the kids are great. My room is right next to the school theater, and has a very comfy couch in it, on which I'm currently lounging.
One down side to this job is that I'll be here more or less all day, Monday-Friday. It really cuts in to my flexibility schedule-wise, and I'm already feeling the effects as I try to schedule lessons and rehearsals around my job. It really makes me realize how lucky I am the rest of the time to have such a wonderfully flexible schedule. However, being so busy (and I'm in for one extremely busy spring) also makes me more productive, and believe it or not, more organized, if only out of necessity. I've cleaned my bathroom (sorely needed), and cleared off my desk, which I haven't seen the top of for months. I've organized my music and finally put away my summer clothes. I've even taken time to write out my 2006 goals and break them in to monthly installments. Some highlights:
pay off all my remaining credit card debt and my car loan (this has been decreasing steadily this year, but this full-time job will definitely help!)
continue to grow musically and vocally, and follow all paths I can find to help advance my career (there are specifics here, to be dealt with in another post.)
keep my apartment organized and clean (a tall order, as both my husband and I tend to be slobs unless we have company coming over, but I'll never maintain my sanity this spring if I come home every night to a messy home). So far so good, and it feels great! Actually, Alec and I will hardly be there, which should keep it from getting too messy!
re-lose the 10 pounds I gained back after losing 25 pounds on Weight Watchers last year
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AfricanCultureDirect: UN boss congratulates Kenya on poll
UN boss congratulates Kenya on poll
President elect Uhuru Kenyatta (right) with his deputy William Ruto after addressing the nation on March 9, 2013 at the Catholic University. Photo/DIANA NGILA NATION MEDIA GROUP
Posted Sunday, March 10 2013 at 15:12
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon refrained on Saturday from extending congratulations to Uhuru Kenyatta on his declared election as president of Kenya.
But the statement added that Mr Ban "congratulates the people of Kenya for their impressive determination to participate peacefully in the elections, and for the patience they have demonstrated while awaiting the results."
The UN chief's response was similar to that of US Secretary of State John Kerry, who also did not congratulate Mr Kenyatta in a statement on Saturday but did congratulate Kenyans on conducting a peaceful poll.
The United Nations thus joins powerful Western nations in declining to offer a figurative handshake to Mr Kenyatta.
The charges of crimes against humanity brought by the International Criminal Court against Mr Kenyatta and his running mate, William Ruto, account for the cold-shoulder response to the Jubilee team's victory.
The UN chief did speak with Mr Kenyatta and with Prime Minister Raila Odinga by telephone on Friday.
According to his spokesman, Mr Ban "reiterated his call for both leaders to send clear messages of calm to their supporters, and he reminded them of the commitments they have made throughout this process to channel any electoral grievances through the established legal avenues."
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My Bloomin' Life!: He is Able . . . Part One
He is Able . . . Part One
Do you ever just step back from your life and reflect in amazement at what God has done for you? I do . . . and I'm often overwhelmed by His blessings on our family and how He meets our needs and makes our very dreams a reality. It is true what the Bible says: He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask of Him! He doesn't just answer our prayers; He answers them far, far beyond our expectations and in ways that make us look to in in awe of His love and concern for us!When my husband and I had been married but a year or so, my desire to start our family was overwhelming. After some begging, pleading, and sweet talking, I finally convinced him that we needed to fill our home with little people . . . a mini him and a mini me! Except, eventually that turned out to be a mini me, a mini him x2, another mini me, and then another. And they all came along rather quickly. In fact, five years, four months, and twenty-two days is all the difference there is between the birth of our oldest and youngest children . . . and the three that fall between the two. And, boy, was it an interesting journey getting to that place.I think one reason Mister was reluctant to start a family then was the fact that I'd have to quit my job when a baby came along. He probably was weighing the financial shift this would cause and wanted to be sure that he would be able to support his growing family on an income that was a lot less than it had been. This is definitely one area that we have seen God bless us in. And I'll share more about that later.At first, conceiving a child seemed to be beyond our reach. It was disheartening each month to realize that it wasn't happening. Long story short, I did end up at a GYN who figured that things with me were not quite in working order and had me take a fertility drug called Clomid for a about six months. Well, obviously things were so broken and I was pregnant within the first month. I was so excited! My dream of being a mother was going to come true! It was something I had dreamed of since I was a very young girl . . . getting married and having children of my own.You should have seen my collection of dolls, doll clothes, toy dishes, and doll furniture growing up. Every year from the time I could remember, I received a doll for Christmas . . . and occasionally on my birthday. I don't remember ever losing one of those dolls either! In fact, I've still got all of them and most of the clothes and dishes . . . and a doll cradle that my grandfather picked up at a yard sale or something. My favorite thing to play growing up was house. Once our daughter was born, everything just sort of fell into place. I was not one bit apprehensive about taking care of her. In fact, I'm ashamed to say now that I didn't even allow my mom or my mother-in-law to come over and help take care of the baby or me when we came home from the hosptial. I wasn't trying to be selfish, but I've always been fiercely independent. Not in a rebellious way . . . but just in a "I can do it my self" way. My husband took a few weeks off to help out but then I was happily on my own at home was he was back at work. Being a mother was second nature to me and I was right where I wanted to be.I think part of it stemmed from wanting something I could call my own. My own husband . . . my own home . . . my own children. When I was growing up, finances were generally pretty tight and I didn't have as many opportunities for lessons and classes and activities that many of my peers had. I didn't really have anything I was really good at, no special talent or anything like that. I was still very young when I got married and not really ever had the opportunity to do anything that defined who I was. This was my chance and I latched on with gusto.During this time, we weren't trying to have more children, but at the same time we didn't do anything to keep from having more children. I was just sort of under the impression that I would always have problems becoming pregnant. I mean, it wasn't easy the first time and I just thought that it would always be like that.But what happened next in my life would forever change who I was.To be continued . . .Julia
WOW! It's Julia!! I'm so glad to see you back....I checked...it's almost a year since your last post.I sure hope I don't have to wait another year for the continuation of your story! hehehe
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Comelec sets early voter's registration for 2013 polls - Yahoo News Philippines
Comelec sets early voter's registration for 2013 pollsloQal – Wed, May 4, 2011
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MANILA CITY, METRO MANILA— Starting May 3, new and eligible voters for the upcoming 2013 elections can start filing their applications, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said.
For inquiries, contact the Comelec education and information department at (02) 525-9294.
Odd StoriesNext round's on U.S.; Obama to deliver on beer bet with CanadaReuters - 4 hours agoThe United States defused a brewing, and cordial, crisis with Canada on Friday, after Prime Minister Stephen Harper joked that Barack Obama has yet to deliver the beer he promised if the U.S. hockey teams lost to Canada in the Olympics. The White House responded the president does not welsh on his bets. "In fairness to President Obama, he's lost bets to me before, and he's always paid up before," Harper said to laughter from his interviewers on TSN 1050 Radio in Toronto. The Canadian men …LaughFest organizers claim new sunglasses recordAssociated Press - 15 hours agoGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — There appears to be another arcane world record in Grand Rapids, this time for the most people wearing sunglasses at night. …Iconic Australian paparazzo's oddest gig yet: mayorReuters - Thu, Mar 6, 2014By Matt Siegel GEELONG, Australia (Reuters) - Darryn Lyons has been called many things - heroic war photographer, parasitic paparazzo, reality TV star - but his latest title may be the most shocking yet: Mr. Mayor. The 48-year-old Australian, whose Big Pictures photo agency in London helped to usher in the modern paparazzi era with its ruthless pursuit of celebrity pictures, was recently elected mayor of his hometown of Geelong, just south of Melbourne. Whether or not Lyons is on a par with …Trash and stink rise after Rio Carnival due to garbage strikeReuters - Thu, Mar 6, 2014By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - If the hangovers many are nursing after their annual Carnival celebrations weren't enough, residents of Rio de Janeiro awoke Wednesday to smelly streets, mounting household garbage and heaps of party refuse uncollected for a fifth consecutive day. The result of a trash collectors' strike timed to coincide with the festival, which officially ended Wednesday, the growing garbage backlog is a fetid after note to revelry that this year drew as many …NYC artists live on 'human hamster wheel'Associated Press - Wed, Mar 5, 2014NEW YORK (AP) — Ever feel like you're on a big hamster wheel and you can't get off? …

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Rebecca's Emporium: InkLinks
Everyone, I would like to introduce you to InkLinks!
InkLinks, please tell us about yourself.
http://www.etsy.com/people/Inklinks
Greetings Etsians and friends from Lito, the creator of Inklinks. As far as arty streaks go I had always one under my sleeve, but apart from doodling and painting pebbles I didn’t do much with it. I focused on words instead: words that get inked down (Ink) and words that are linked to each other crafting new meanings (Links). Do the materials that we use to write –writing implements and instruments like pens, pencils, writing surfaces, inks, paper – influence the way we write or even the way we think? I went hunting for vintage office and desk supplies and I made some of my own. And so Ink Links was born.
There is something about vintage writing instruments and supplies – they have got stories which are embedded in their signs of wear and tear, they are written on – by time. These untold stories inspire me. I salvage all kinds – writing cases, old stamps, boxes, ink bottles, vintage stationery, battered hole punchers and Sellotape tins – and put them on Inklinks to pass them on to others, so that more stories can be written. Sometimes I add something to them – images from my pencil collection have been used to upcycle cigar boxes for example – and I use my own images or vintage pen adverts to create paperweights out of pebbles found on English coasts.
I’m a historian, freelance web content writer and blogger. I write about pens, pencils, inks and nibs in past and in the present, in the hands of writers, artists and thinkers in my blog Palimpsest.
You are so inspiring Lito. I love how you see so much further into "everyday objects", rather than just letting the physical presence of items take the focal point, you see so much more.
If cost and time wasn't an issue, what would you do with your talent?
That's a brilliant idea! I love how you take the meaning of objects and share them with us all!
To see more of InkLinks work, please follow this link and be inspired!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Inklinks?ref=pr_shop_more
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Erika Price 1 July 2011 at 23:48
Nice to meet you, Lito - love your Inklinks, and your blog! Erika Price Jewelry
Lito Apostolakou 8 July 2011 at 10:58
Thank you Erika! And thank you Rebecca for featuring my shop. :)
Just popping in to say that Inklinks has now got a page in Facebook and is giving people who "Like" it the chance to win two prizes from the shop. Two winners will be chosen at random on July 14. If you tweet about it you double your chances ;)
Anyone else with FB pages please feel free to connect. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inklinks/215763751793395?sk=wall


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Opinion | On Cybersecurity: Two Scoops of Perspective - The New York Times
Opinion|On Cybersecurity: Two Scoops of Perspective
“I Work for N.S.A. We Cannot Afford to Lose the Digital Revolution,” by Glenn S. Gerstell (The Privacy Project, nytimes.com, Sept. 10), crystallizes the Orwellian absurdity of our national security situation.
It’s not enough for the United States to spend more than half of our country’s discretionary budget each year on endless war. Now we’re told that we must spend trillions more, sacrifice our privacy and essentially nationalize Google. All in the name of national security.
It is a tragic waste of money. But more than that, it is a fool’s errand. It’s an arms race in which the whole world loses. Including us. We could decrease the defense budget by 50 percent, still spend more than Russia and China combined, and spend the rest waging peace, not war.
Let’s use our defense budget to help people struggling with the kind of economic deprivation that President George W. Bush called “the breeding grounds for extremists.”
We cannot buy our way to security with weapons and counter-weapons and counter-counter-weapons. The only way we will achieve security is through cooperation and mutual aid.
Deride me as a hippie peace and love child. Jesus makes for good company in that regard.
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Acts of Minor Treason: An Elevating Sense of Perspective
Some of the most valuable things are those that can teach without you realizing it. On the surface you're just playing a game or having a fun time, but in the hours and days afterward the content of that game percolates in your mind, bubbles and eventually boils over into a realization that you wouldn't necessarily have had without that original impetus.Kerbal Space Program, the launch-to-orbit sandbox alpha game I reviewed here last week, works like that for me. Sure, the education it provides about rocket engineering and basic orbital mechanics is obvious, even though the lessons - like how the most fuel-efficient way to deorbit is to thrust retrograde at apoapsis, thus lowering your periapsis into the atmosphere, and not simply just thrusting directly toward the planet - aren't necessarily so, given the vast disconnect between our day-to-day experiences on a planetary body and the way things work out there in space.No, what Kerbal Space Program really helped reinforce for me was a humbling sense of perspective. Now, this ain't no Total Perspective Vortex - it's ordinary, and in that respect, for me it's that much more powerful. One moment your capsule can be in a stable orbit, nearly even circular, far above the world; the next your engine is roaring with the deorbit burn, and only a few moments after that, the command pod parachutes to a safe landing - sometimes in the middle of the ocean, without even a scrap of land on the horizon. Yet only five minutes ago you were up so high that you kept missing the ground and could see an entire continent in a single gaze. I can't help but think that it doesn't seem possible that in less time than it takes to peel the potatoes for dinner, the capsule was up there in orbit; with the familiar world reasserting itself around you after landing, this whole business of "orbit" and "space" almost feels like a dream.It all looks so small from up here...My opinion: this is something that more people need to experience, to have that feeling of descending from the heavens to Earth, to watch the world go from something you can see all at once to something that surrounds you and enfolds you and becomes your entire universe. I think we dearly need that humility if we're to prosper in the years and decades ahead, if we're ever to go beyond societies dominated by avaricious corporations and greedy, skittish stock traders and all the other sorts of people who don't care one whit about the consequences of their actions... because, in the grand scheme, their actions are unimportant. You cannot, unfortunately, say the same thing about the consequences of those actions.The world could be a better place if people could be elevated, if people could see it in a different way. If they could get a broader sense of perspective - to help understand the things that, in the end, are truly important. But it's a world we couldn't easily realize. Some people - be they iron-fisted dictators, money-chasing plutocrats, or whatever else they may be - are supremely wedded to the idea of the world as it seems.(Incidentally, for the KSP players looking for suggestions on rocket-building - since I know from the search terms that there is no shortage of you all - here's the details of Adventurer III, my current reliably-to-orbit rocket: Stage 6, 4x KSP-30 Solid Fuel Boosters, each equipped with SAS modules and decorative nosecones, attached to the Stage 4 fuel tank by radial decouplers; Stage 4, one 4X-800 Liquid Fuel Engine Cluster fueled by two FL-R1000 Fuel Tanks, topped by a 1X3 Module Adapter Shroud; Stage 2, a NERVA Mk. I Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine fueled by one FL-T500 Fuel Tank and topped with one SAS module and a stack decoupler. The command pod is also equipped with a parachute. Aside from the NERVA's fuel tank and the SAS modules, this rocket is entirely built with equipment from Sunday Punch's parts pack. To install, just unzip the .zip file into your /Kerbal Space Program/Parts directory.)


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United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Colleen M. Barcus, Defendant-appellant.united States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Norma A. Gilham, Defendant-appellant, 50 F.3d 16 (9th Cir. 1995) :: Justia
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United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Colleen M. Barcus, Defendant-appellant.united States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Norma A. Gilham, Defendant-appellant, 50 F.3d 16 (9th Cir. 1995)
Argued and Submitted Feb. 10, 1995. Decided March 15, 1995. As Amended May 19, 1995
Colleen Barcus and Norma Gilham appeal their convictions and sentences for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) (1) and 846. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
On April 17, 1993, Bureau of Indian Affairs Officer Mike Parker received a tip from a confidential informant ('CI'). The CI stated that Norma Gilham was in Tacoma, Washington, with a companion, attempting to buy cocaine. Parker relayed this information to Glacier County Sheriff's Deputy Wayne Dusterhoff. Based on other information they had received, Dusterhoff and Parker had reason to believe that the companion was Colleen Barcus, and that the CI's tip was reliable. On the basis of this information, the Glacier County Sheriff's Office applied for and received a State of Montana search warrant for Gilham's vehicle. The Sheriff's Office then organized several law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for the vehicle on U.S. Highway 2.
The next afternoon Montana Highway Patrolman Tony Cox, whom Dusterhoff had told of the warrant and the investigation, spotted the vehicle on Highway 2, just outside the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. He turned on his flashing colored lights and started after the car approximately one half mile outside of the Reservation. The car pulled over approximately one half mile inside the Reservation. Cox told Appellants that they were being stopped for speeding, and radioed Dusterhoff. Dusterhoff arrived within ten minutes, as did Parker. Dusterhoff then left to get the state warrant. During this time, Appellants were not handcuffed and no search was performed. The officers did not execute the state warrant, for fear it was not valid on the Reservation. They instead planned to procure a federal or tribal warrant. When Dusterhoff returned with the state warrant, he started reading it to Appellants to apprise them of the real reason they were being detained. Before he could finish, and before a federal or tribal warrant could be obtained, Barcus jumped into Gilham's car and sped off. She drove at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour to avoid arrest, and proceeded to Lake Hurley, where she was seen throwing a white powdery substance into the lake. Numerous plastic bags with traces of cocaine were subsequently discovered. The car was towed to a holding facility, and a federal search warrant was obtained by the FBI. The search of the car pursuant to the federal warrant revealed traces of cocaine throughout the car and in Appellants' purses, $1,600 in the glove compartment, and handwritten notes in both purses that allegedly are evidence of drug transactions.
Appellants were indicted on charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(a) (1). The district court denied two motions to suppress evidence seized from Gilham's automobile. Appellants were convicted by a jury, in a joint trial, on all counts. Gilham was sentenced to concurrent terms of 63 months on each count. Barcus was sentenced to 78 months. They both appeal their convictions as well as their sentences.
Barcus and Gilham argue that the district court should have suppressed evidence (cocaine and drug paraphernalia) seized from Gilham's car, because the stop of their car violated the Fourth Amendment. We disagree. Even if the initial stop was improper, the challenged evidence is admissible because it fits within the 'independent source' exception to the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.
The initial stop was supported by probable cause. The CI who provided the initial tip had proven to be reliable several times in the past. As this circuit has noted: "If the informant has provided accurate information on past occasions, he may be presumed trustworthy on subsequent occasions." United States v. Angulo-Lopez, 791 F.2d 1394, 1397 (9th Cir. 1986). The Fourth Amendment does not require police to obtain a warrant to search an automobile when, as here, they have probable cause to believe it contains contraband or evidence of a crime. Arkansas v. Sanders, 442 U.S. 753, 760 (1979); United States v. Hatley, 15 F.3d 856, 858 (9th Cir. 1994). Further, because Montana Highway Patrolman Cox had probable cause to make the stop based on a belief there would be evidence of drug trafficking activity, this was not a pretextual stop, as Appellants argue. See United States v. Mota, 982 F.2d 1384, 1386 (9th Cir. 1993).
The stop may have been improper because Patrolman Cox lacked jurisdiction to make the stop on the Blackfeet Reservation, however. Appellants note that the Blackfeet have not ceded general jurisdiction to the state of Montana, and that Cox's cross-deputization is restricted to enforcement of traffic laws on the Reservation. On the other hand the stop, which was supported by probable cause, was initiated outside the Reservation. The doctrine of hot pursuit therefore may render the stop permissible. We do not need to reach this question, however. We agree with the district court that even if the initial stop was improper, the challenged evidence is admissible. The evidence fits within the 'independent source' exception to the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.
b. Independent Source Exception
Under the 'independent source' doctrine, evidence that is found not as a result of an illegal search or seizure, but by independent means, is admissible. See Sequra v. United States, 468 U.S. 796, 813-14 (1984) ("whether the initial entry was illegal or not is irrelevant to the admissibility of the challenged evidence because there was an independent source for the warrant under which that evidence was seized."). This exception applies in the present case.
Appellants contend that the federal warrant under which the search was conducted was tainted. That is, the probable cause supporting the issuance of that warrant was supplied by Barcus' actions in response to the allegedly illegal stop. It is true that FBI Special Agent Wilson's affidavit in support of the federal warrant contained information regarding events subsequent to the objectionable stop. This does not necessarily mean that evidence seized pursuant to the warrant must be suppressed, however.
This circuit has ruled that evidence seized pursuant to a tainted warrant need not be suppressed if, after excising the improper information from the affidavit submitted in support of the warrant, the remaining, untainted evidence still provided probable cause sufficient to issue the warrant. "The mere inclusion of tainted evidence in an affidavit does not, by itself, taint the warrant or the evidence seized pursuant to the warrant. Rather, a reviewing court should excise the tainted evidence and determine whether the remaining untainted evidence would provide a neutral magistrate with probable cause to issue a warrant." United States v. Reed, 15 F.3d 928, 933 (9th Cir. 1994) (citations omitted).
As described above, there was sufficient evidence to provide probable cause to search Gilham's vehicle before the initial stop took place. The affidavit submittted in support of the federal warrant included not only evidence resulting from the objectionable stop, but also all of that pre-stop information that had served as the basis for the initial warrant. The federal warrant thus was supported by probable cause wholly apart from any information obtained as a result of the initial stop. Because the excised version of the affidavit was sufficient to establish probable cause for the warrant, we hold that the independent source exception applies in the instant case. The evidence is therefore admissible.1
Scraps of paper found in Appellants' purses were admitted as "drug ledgers." Appellants argue that the papers, which contained mathematical equations and lists of names and numbers, should not have been admitted into evidence. Even if we assume that the district court erred by admitting the papers, we hold that the error was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence against Appellants.
We also reject Appellants' assertion that the evidence was insufficient to support their convictions. In reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence, we must uphold the convictions if, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. United States v. Reyes-Alvarado, 963 F.2d 1184, 1189 (9th Cir. 1992). Appellants argue that the essential elements of conspiracy were not proven. The elements of conspiracy are: 1) an agreement to accomplish an illegal objective; and 2) the requisite intent necessary to commit the underlying substantive offense. United States v. Penagos, 823 F.2d 346, 348 (9th Cir. 1987), modified by United States v. Shabani, 115 S. Ct. 382 (1994). Appellants drove thousands of miles together to get the drugs; cocaine was found in both of their purses; Gilham owns the car and was the subject of the original CI tip, but it was Barcus who jumped in the car and sped off to get rid of the evidence. In sum, there was sufficient evidence to allow a rational trier of fact to conclude that these Appellants were working in concert to accomplish an illegal objective.
Appellants also appeal their sentences on various grounds. They first argue that the district court erred in basing their sentences on a finding that they possessed with intent to distribute 500 grams of cocaine. The district court's factual findings in the sentencing phase are reviewed for clear error. United States v. Buenrostro-Torres, 24 F.3d 1173, 1174 (9th Cir. 1994). Under the Guidelines, the sentencing judge must approximate the quantity of the controlled substance when the amount seized does not reflect the scale of the offense. U.S.S.G. Sec. 2D1.1 application note 12.
We hold that the district court did not clearly err in estimating the amount of cocaine to be 500 grams. First, on a scrap of paper found in Gilham's purse, the number 500 was divided by 28. Agent Clouse testified that this was the normal means of converting grams into ounces, which was consistent with the drug trade.2 Second, the 500 figure from the note was corroborated by other evidence. Agent Wilson testified (and demonstrated) at the sentencing hearing that the empty containers found at the scene easily could have held 500 grams. Lastly, as the district court noted, the reason that the evidence of amount is not more reliable is because Barcus destroyed it. We agree that to allow her to benefit from that act would not "make a whole lot of sense."
Appellants also argue that the district court erred by not subtracting from the 500 grams the amount they intended for personal use. The district court cannot include the amount of drugs intended for personal use in its computation of the base offense level for possession with intent to distribute. United States v. Kipp, 10 F.3d 1463, 1466 (9th Cir. 1994). However, in this case, the district court did not include personal-use amounts in his 500 gram determination. It is clear that the 500-gram figure he settled upon represented the amount he believed Appellants intended to sell. The issue of personal use was before him, having been brought up repeatedly by both Appellants. Yet he agreed completely with the findings of the officers and the probation department: "For the record here, I reaffirm my judgment ... that this number ... is an accurate number of what happened here."
Gilham also argues that the district court erred in not adjusting her sentence downward for her acceptance of responsibility or for her minor role in the offense. Gilham's statement at the sentencing hearing does at first blush appear to be an acceptance of responsibility. However, U.S.S.G. Sec. 3E1.1 application note 2, states that this adjustment is not meant for those who put the government to the burden of proving their factual guilt at trial, and then demonstrate remorse. Rather, the determination of whether the defendant has accepted responsibility "will be based primarily upon pre-trial statements and conduct." Id. Accordingly, the district court's refusal to grant this adjustment was not clearly erroneous. The district court's refusal to adjust Gilham's sentence downward under the minimal participant provision of U.S.S.G. Sec. 3E1.1 also was not clearly erroneous. There is much evidence to support the district court's denial, including the facts that the initial tip was focused upon Gilham, and that her car was used for the trip from Montana to Washington.
For the foregoing reasons, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court, with regard to both Appellants, in all respects.
We understand that this exception may mean that police sometimes benefit from illegal stops. In the instant case, for example, the stop prevented Appellants from driving on and hiding the evidence. This, however, is not a bar to the exception's application: "It may be that, if the agents had not entered the apartment, petitoners might have arranged for the removal or destruction of the evidence, and that in this sense the agents' actions could be considered the 'but for' cause for discovery of the evidence....The essence of the dissent is that there is some 'constitutional right' to destroy evidence. This defies both logic and common sense." Sequra, 468 U.S. at 816
The fact that this paper was not admissible at trial does not mean that it cannot be used for sentencing. To be used in sentencing, it must be reliable, and we find that it is. Agent Clouse's testimony, as well as the other corroborating evidence, indicates that this is a reasonable estimate as to the amount of cocaine

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Underthings | A reluctant seamstress
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Posted by bristowjen in chemise, HSF, Regency, Underthings
I love Regency – the clothes are just so comfortable… and I wanted to make a long sleeve chemise based off one I saw in a painting.
Statens Museum for Kunst: Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg: The Nathanson Family 1818
As the chemise in the painting is sheer – and I’m going to be wearing it under a (probably) poly velvet dress I got at a festival fundraiser last year – I decided to use Indian cotton. I purchase my fabric at a local Indian food store in in town at about $2/yard. I’m sure the owners think I am crazy for all the turban fabric I buy…
Since I was going for fast and easy, I used a pattern I’ve had for a while as the basis. I went ahead and cut out full widths of fabric for the front and back pieces and pieced it together following the patterns instructions (from memory) and then measured my neckline. After cutting out a rectangle about 30 inches long and 5 inches wide, I started to gather the bodice. I used the “zigzag over thread” method of gathering that my Mam-ma used.
I was worried about getting the armband tight enough to stay up until I decided to use elastic cord and the place the lace over it. Check it out!
The Challenge: Lace and Lacing
Fabric: Indian cotton and cotton lace from my stash.
Pattern: Butterick 6196 (the shirt part)
Notions: Lace and elastic cord
How historically accurate is it? Its mostly hand sewn and the fabric is cotton – but I used elastic cord so I wouldn’t have to tie it every time…
Hours to complete: about a day
Total cost: <$10
More Victorian Corset…
Posted by bristowjen in corset, COSTUME, Dicken's Fair, Underthings, VICTORIAN
While the corset is functionally complete, I will add embellishments later on.
Victorian outfit…
Posted by bristowjen in chemise, corset, COSTUME, Dicken's Fair, GBACG, pantalettes, Underthings, VICTORIAN
So since I want to go to (and work) Dicken’s Fair this year my main project is a Victorian outfit. Well, really two since I want a fancy party dress (for GBACG day) and a work (Upper Middle Class) outfit. As with everything in costuming, ’tis best to work from the inside out. For further disclosure at the age of 18 (or so) I spent 6 months to a year playing around doing Civil War re-enactments and made a complete outfit. (Yes I went camping in my corset. I’ll have to hunt up the photo(s) and post about it later.)
Chemise – While I want to make a new one with the Indian cotton that I made V’s from, I’ve a perfectly acceptable substitute for now – an old nightgown made of lawn.
Pantalettes or drawers – Yes, they will be split crotch. No, I haven’t a pattern for them yet… Do you have ANY idea of how difficult it is to go to the ladies room in hoops and a corset?
Corset – project du jour
Corded petticoat – project for tomorrow (or next week or really when I can get to it.)
Hoop skirt or cage crinoline. – Sigh. My choices are:
Make one myself – I haven’t done this in 20 years, but I know how. Without a pattern even. Really it’s more about do I want to… (The question becomes – Is it worth being able to say ‘I made everything I’m wearing except the shoes…’) Supplies (if I use a pattern) will run
Pattern $10.50 (TV 142)
Hoop wire $48
Bone casing $24
oh an some fabric <2 yards and 5 yards of grosgrain ribbon…
plus shipping and time (I estimate it will take about one day to make.)
Buy one. <$100 – the down side to this is that it’s hard to find hoops in natural fabrics…
Over-petticoat – the last time it was all ruffled like Scarlet’s…
the Fancy dress… (TV 456) – I already have a pretty brown plaid for it… and some cool olive green trim…squee!
the Work dress – well I have a skirt (in blue), really I need to make a bodice to go with it. The skirt is one I use for many eras, re-working the waist as necessary to add fullness to the back or even it out.
Well, I’m off to the fabric store to pick up grommets for the above mentioned corset… Wish me luck!


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Temple of the Seven Golden Camels: A Kick in the Head, Part Seven
This final one is a little bit different.One day I was on CNN.com and I saw a story about how Conan O'Brien's closing words on his last show had really affected a lot of people and caused them to change their lives.“All I ask of you is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism - it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.” – Conan O’BrienEverywhere I've ever worked, certain things have always been the same. Our jobs are very difficult and there are a lot of long hours. In the Feature Animation world, you can work for years on a picture and never really know if the film you're working on will get finished, be released, and if so, will ever really be any good. The story process of making a Feature is filled with experimentation, blind alleys and false starts. People in every department tend to get nervous about the amount of work ahead and they have to have a lot of faith in order to believe that the ultimate product will be worth all the long hours and effort.It takes a lot more energy to stay positive and have faith in the process. It can be easier to give in to the temptation to become bitter and cynical. Working long hours and seeing screenings of the movie that don't quite work can easily lead to complaining behind closed doors and becoming cynical about the whole thing.Some people fall into this type of attitude because their personality is disposed to be that way. And some people are easily influenced by their co-workers and they end up becoming negative because that's all they hear from their office mates. And some people just don't want to sound like a simpleton, and they know they'll be ostracized by their friends if they try to stay positive, so they just give in.Certainly there's never any shortage of people on the internet willing to be negative about our films before they're even completed and that can have a devastating effect on the morale of our crews as well.As with any kind of faith, there's always way more reasons to give up and be cynical than to stay positive and believe that things will turn out for the best and that all the hard work will be worth it (I'm not a religious man, by the way, but I do have a lot of faith in the story process).So the only argument I can offer is to ask you what kind of people you, personally, would rather be around. What type of people do you like to work with? Spend time with? Date? Marry? What kind of attitude would you like your kids to have?If you became a supervisor, or director, or the head of a studio, what type of people would you want working on your crew? What would you want them to be saying about you and your movie when you're not around? Cynicism and bitterness are very unpleasant and unattractive qualities. Everyone gets discouraged and frustrated and needs to express that sometimes. There's nothing wrong with that....otherwise we wouldn't be human. Relentless optimism in the face of all evidence to the contrary can be just as unattractive (and scary) as the other side of the coin. But once people become permanently embittered and react to everything with cynicism it becomes impossible for them to do great work. To do great work you need to be inspired at least a little bit and embittered people are incapable of any amount of inspiration. Once you become cynical it's very difficult to keep developing as an artist. We need fresh eyes and hope to keep seeing the world anew and learning and growing artistically.So stay as positive as you can and always try to see the situation from the other side. If you were directing the project you're working on, would you look forward to meetings with you? Or would you dread them because your negative attitude is discouraging? It's easy to fall into being cynical but it's also a very quick way to turn a job that can be uplifting and amazing into a living misery and your own personal Hell. If you bother to read this blog I know you're interested in doing great work and staying inspired at any cost. I know how hard that can be. Believe me, I do. But to do great work and create something of value it's one of the prices we have to pay.
Fantastic words on a subject that has been at the forefront of my mind for many months now. Thanks for giving your point of view on it :)
Couldn't agree more with all you said. You did miss one thing though. The strange belief that only from misery can creativity grow. I think cynicism and misery are often the source for peoples first burst of creativity, My first real bout of storytelling creativity came out of a series of break ups of very bad relationships. You then get trapped into thinking that's the way it's got to be. It took me years to create something out of any positive emotions although now I have I'm doing more than ever.Keep up the excellent posts.
Great words to bookmark and keep yourself in check. There's a lot to get discouraged about out there. Fortunately, I still get inspired all the time, so maybe I'm not as cynical as I think I am.
How true. Reminds me of what Don Bluth said in an interview:"People must sit in the dark for an hour and a half, two hours, and see something of value that will entertain them but at the same time, perhaps, enlighten them. It may give them a feeling that they are important, that the world is an important place and that it's a great place to live in and a great time to live. Now a director, to do that, has to actually feel that. You have to get that from somewhere in yourself."http://www.cataroo.com/hbluth.html
Absolutely spot on!It takes no creativity to be negative or cynical.And it's not like you have to walk around with a Pollyanna attitude on not believe things could be better than they are. But it is your job to come up with creative solutions and move your project forward.Great post.
Drew Petursson:
thank you so much for this post! i really think this is the most important outlook to have on life...it truly makes everything better. i really thought it was good to hear it from an artistic perspective. i think i needed to hear it today :)
Thank you so much for posting your thoughts on this. As a graduate just out of school its so hard to continue if things didn't work out. Working on a short film can sometimes be a monumental task especially if your not in school anymore but when i read posts like yours it encourages me to continue and keep being inspired knowing there are people in the same boat out there just like me.
Mehhh, you're just saying all this because "the man" paid you to say it.(Kidding. Kidding!!!)Seriously, great post. This is crucial stuff, especially for anyone who's young and impressionable and wants to have a long and healthy career. In any creative collaboration there must always be room for constructive critique--but cynicism is poisonous, and it's kind of the opposite of critique. An honest critique sends a positive message: "I believe in you, and I'm telling you about this problem, because I think you will try, and maybe even succeed, at fixing it." That takes some courage. I think cynicism is a form of cowardice, because it stems from a fear of direct confrontation. It's much easier to complain behind someone's back, which is a guaranteed way to produce no useful results.
Good stuff, Mark. I've stopped reading certain websites and left jobs because the level of cynicism was too high. It's just not a productive attitude.
Really inspiring post, thank you so much. As I am in my early twenties, it surely will be something to keep in mind.
I'm a deep cynic, but somehow have always had that spark of picking myself up one more time to follow the creative muse. I do like the positive attitude thing and go in with one in every job I take. I like TV as there is less time to second guess and tone down. I think that core need of self-expression just burns deeper in some than others. When it burns to brightly-- When you can't listen, never compromise, and passively avoid true collaboration, is when you will ultimately fail, unless you run the studio. ;-)
Thanks. This is so true. :)


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India/Pakistan Talks Begin and End
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NEW DELHI: The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan met Thursday in New Delhi for the first official talks between the rivals since the 2008 Mumbai attacks which derailed their peace dialogue.
The Pakistani delegation, comprising eight members, is headed by Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir.
Earlier, talking to media before the commencement of talks, Salman Bashir said all longstanding issues including Kashmir Row, Terrorism, Water Distribution, Insurgency in Balochistan and others will come under discussion.
He said terrorism is an international menace, which needs to be encountered at all levels.
The spokesman to Foreign Office Abdul Basit, on the occasion, said no agenda has been set for the talks therefore every issues will be discussed.
He said we are going to hold talks with a positive approach, adding that Pakistan has shown seriousness in taking concrete actions against accused of Mumbai attacks.
Later, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao shook hands with her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir at a former princely palace in the centre of the Indian capital.
“I welcome the foreign secretary of Pakistan Salman Bashir to New Delhi this morning and I look forward to our talks,” Rao told reporters.
India broke off a slow-moving peace process with Pakistan after the attacks on Mumbai in November 2008, which left 166 people dead. New Delhi blamed militants based in Pakistan.
Bashir said he looked forward “to a very good, constructive engagement”.
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NECCC News: The Art of Phoneography Saturday, March 16, 2019 free
The Art of Phoneography Saturday, March 16, 2019 free
I thought your members might find this free workshop of interest. A press release is below, which you can also see (along with photos) at https://xiomaro.wordpress.com.
Saturday, March 16, 2019 | 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Mark Twain Library | 439 Redding Road, Redding, CT 06896
Free Admission | Register at (203) 938-2545 or RSVP online
Please feel free to reply with any questions or comments. I hope to have the pleasure of meeting folks from your organization.
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Point-and-shoot cameras and professional dSLRs are welcome, but the workshop is primarily designed to take advantage of the “best” camera – the smartphone that is always in one’s pocket. “The secret to better photographs is not in the camera. It’s in applying the principles used by artists like painter Julian Alden Weir and photographer Edward Steichen” noted Xiomaro. Steichen (1879-1973) lived in Redding and is regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20thcentury.


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meanning of dream: Henna Tattoos|Latest Mehndi Pattern Designs
Henna as it is called in Muslims countries or Mehendi as it is known in India is named in Latin as Lawsonia inermis. This is a plant extensively grown and used in UAE, Africa and India generally for cosmetic purposes as it is considered highly auspicious. Henna is also used as a medicinal plant by Unani and ayurvedic doctors with excellent results.
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Up to 10 guests ages 18 and up can attend. Not required, but it you have a boating licence your experience will be even better. Most people can get a licence via 4hr online courses. Google search it.