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Ode to Kate Moss – Mario Testino

Posted in Amazing stylists/Fashion Gurus, BOOKS, Interviews, Keep an eye on it, Shop Online!!, the big guys., we like., wonderfully famous. with tags , , , , on June 16, 2011 by streetcredthread

Mario Testino is the ultimate fashion photographer of our generation. Working for the likes of Vanity Fair, Vogue, Dolce & Gabbana and Burberry, the Peruvian-born photographer transcends fashion in his imagery and creates works of art.

His latest compilation of photographs – shot of life-time friend Kate Moss – could be his greatest work yet. In a limited edition bound book, he has composed over 100 images in both black and white and colour of the model.

Kate Moss has also contributed to the book with her own personal essay regarding her friendship and work relationship with Testino.

This book is the consequence of two decades of extraordinary friendship, and phenomenal glamour, this iconic collaboration is an intimate insight into the lives and minds of two of the world’s definitive style leaders.

Mario says “I met Kate very early on. Shortly after her first Galliano show I went backstage to congratulate her, only to find her crying: she was disappointed that she had only been given one outfit to model in the show. My answer to her was this: “In life there are perfumes and colognes. You need to use lots of cologne as the scent fades away; with a perfume you just use a drop and it lasts all night. You are a perfume, you will go on and on.” Little did I know just how true that would become! And that I had made a friend for life.”

In a rare glimpse into the mind of one of the industry’s most private figures, Kate Moss also gives her insights into her life with the celebrated photographer, expanding on both their professional and personal relationship.

“Mario took me to a new level of glamour. I don’t think anybody had seen me as any kind of sexy model before he did. He was the one that transformed me. Before him I was just a grungy girl, but he saw me differently. He’d seen me in a pair of heels, getting glamorous – and he was the first to start taking pictures of me in that way. He changed the way people thought about me as a model, for sure. Later other people started working with me in that way, but he was the first.”

As huge fans of Kate Moss and Mario Testino, we are definitely ordering a copy of this amazing work. sell the book online. Check out some of the images;

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Posted in Amazing stylists/Fashion Gurus, An excellent cause, effing amazing., global trend, Interviews, Keep an eye on it, Stores we adore, the big guys., we like., wonderfully famous. with tags , , , , , , on March 2, 2011 by streetcredthread

He’s coming to AUS!

He has taken the TV and Fashion worlds by storm, and is an internationally renowned author. Gok Wan never thought he would be someone who people would one day aspire to be like, however now his title falls no shorter than that of ‘guru.’ In an Australian first, Gok is teaming up with shopping centre giant Westfield in order to launch the Westfield Styling Tour accross the country! He will be visiting Westfield stores in VIC, NSW, QLD and SA so stay tuned for more information and permanent marker the tour dates into your calendar!

And big kudo’s to Westfield for continuously providing Australian women with style advise, help and most importantly, amazing places to shop! For your nearest Westfield store and all the Gok tour dates head to

Westfield today announced that it will play host to one of Britain’s top fashion gurus, Gok Wan, for a national tour that shoppers across the country won’t want to miss.

Fashion stylist to the stars, author and host of TV show How To Look Good Naked and Fashion Fix, Gok will hit our shores late March, embarking on a national tour with Westfield’s talented team of Stylists on the Westfield Style Tour.

Taking Aussie women under his wing, Gok will share his style tips through a series of revealing makeover sessions, showing ladies how to maximise their body shape with this season’s trends from the best Australian retailers.

Launching Westfield’s team of Stylists and services, the Westfield Style Tour will hit the road for 10 days – bringing Gok’s brand of bold, brassy and interactive fashion fun to Westfield centres in NSW, ACT, SA, QLD and VIC. During each show, one lucky winner from Westfield’s online ‘Win a Makeover with Gok’ competition will receive a full makeover, along with selected audience members.

Commenting on the tour from his home in London, Gok said, “I can’t wait to get Down Under. I love Australians and wish I could spend more time there! It’ll be fantastic to see what looks everyone’s wearing because every country has its own unique style.”

The Westfield Style Tour will further bolster Westfield’s position as the destination for style inspiration and guidance, translating the latest Autumn Winter trends into real fashion for different body shapes.

With services available 24/7 at home and in-centre, Australians can get style-savvy with the following services from the Westfield Stylists:

Free 15 minute one-on-one Style Sessions – Launching mid March, these sessions will take place with Westfield Stylists at Style Lounges in selected Westfield centres; Personal Style Sessions – A current favourite, these in-depth, personalised shopping experiences start from one hour, with a Westfield Stylist in-centre; Style Workshop – Sessions designed specifically for larger groups, the Style Workshop offers tips and advice for an audience of 30+ shoppers; ‘Ask A Stylist’ – This brand new online function joins the Westfield Style stable from mid March allowing shoppers to seek professional style guidance at and receive free, personalised advice from a Westfield Stylist within 24 hours.

“We’re excited to be expanding our Westfield Stylists offering and can’t wait to bring Gok to Australia to help kick it off. Whether you’re visiting a Westfield centre, or seeking style advice online, Westfield will show you how the latest trends from leading Australian retailers are right for you,” said John Batistich, General Manager Marketing, Westfield.

For the chance to be in the running to ‘Win a Makeover with Gok’, visit for more details.

Thursday, March 31 Westfield Parramatta 6.00pm – 7.00pm
Friday, April 1 Westfield Miranda 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Saturday, April 2 Westfield Belconnen 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Sunday, April 3 Westfield Kotara 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Tuesday, April 5 Westfield Hornsby 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Wednesday, April 6 Westfield Marion 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Thursday, April 7 Westfield Chermside 6.00pm – 7.00pm
Friday, April 8 Westfield Carindale 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Saturday, April 9 Westfield Southland 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Sunday, April 10 Westfield Fountain Gate 12.30pm – 1.30pm

A Close look at Melbourne’s hottest new label: Amie & Me

Posted in aussie greatness, collegefashionista, effing amazing., Interviews, Keep an eye on it, Melbourne Designers, Stores we adore, we like. with tags , , , , , , on February 21, 2011 by streetcredthread

Best friends and entrepreneurs Amy De Forest and Ammie Doherty are stitching their signature into Melbourne’s fashion scene. Their two year-old label is as imaginative as it is visionary, and is generating it’s own publicity and a wide interest amongst young Melbourne trend-setters.

A conversation over pizza and wine changed the dream of owning their own label into a reality. Starting off with a small Spring/Summer 2011 collection, they sold exclusively to only 20 boutique stores around Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide. A year and a half down the track, they have doubled their stockists and their Autumn/Winter collection is due to hit shelves in February and March, with plans to open stores in Western Australia later this year.

If you add to this a front cover spread on Fashion Journal’s 100th Edition and increased prominence on the pages of Melbourne’s fashion blogging culture, it seems these two 24 year-olds are on the quick road to success.

Although admitting that the reality of running and funding your own business got hard around the six month mark, the girls pushed through and weren’t scared off by the competitiveness of the industry. “In the first year of owning our business we were both working eighty hours a week minimum,” said Doherty. “But it’s good to have [the other] there to hold your hand when it gets tough.”

The girls find their point of difference in that they are the market to which they are designing for. “We create designer pieces at an affordable price. We are the market, and so we design for ourselves and other women can relate.” Ensuring  their clothing is affordable to all women will be a consistency within the Amie & Me line.

Throughout our interview a few things grabbed my attention about the two go- getters. They are both involved in every aspect of the business – both design and garment construction to the finances, advertising and promotion. Interestingly, they like to think of themselves as best friends rather than business partners. They do everything together – work, play, socialise – and yes, they even finish each other’s sentences.

“We don’t ever fight,” said De Forest, “Ammie knows me better than anyone.” “Women our age can be erratic, insane and emotional, especially when under this amount of stress, but we completely support each other.”

Both Doherty and De Forest come from a strong background of fashion – Doherty studied design at RMIT in Brunswick, and De Forest studied design and product development at Melbourne School of Fashion. Despite their extensive study the girls know that being successful requires knowledge of the industry and of running a business.

So what can we expect for Amie & Me Autumn/Winter 2011? A goddess inspired collection featuring ivories, crochets and open shoulders. “The garments are draped and free flowing but still compliment the female silhouette. The typical client is feminine with a strong undertone of female perspective. It is for strong passionate women, like us,” said Doherty. From what has been previewed so far, there is a lot to look forward too for those looking to find wardrobe pieces that are different to anything else on the market.

The Amie & Me website is due to launch this week, and listed below are some stockists from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. Make sure you get down to these stores as soon as the Autumn/Winter collection arrives, because I have a feeling it wont take long to sell out.

City Dweller – Brisbane, QLD

Drobe – Fortitude Valley, QLD

A-Store – Chapel St, VIC

Liquid Clothing – Fitzroy, VIC

Toyah Boutique – Eltham, VIC

Piink Boutique – Niddrie, VIC

Tuchuzy ,NSW

To see the Amie & Me ‘Designer of the week’ feature head to !!

Posted in Interviews, Melbourne Designers with tags , , , , , , , , on January 17, 2011 by streetcredthread

Sit tight people. We have an exclusive Amie&Me interview on it’s way. Purely for your enlightenment and physical joy. It will be truly stimulating.. I promise.


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Friday, June 24, 2011

Olive oil linked to stroke prevention?

Interesting research reported - maybe something to consider in your own diet...

Olive oil linked to reduced stroke risk:
In the new study, seniors who regularly used this healthy monounsaturated fat had a 41% lower risk of stroke compared to their counterparts who never used olive oil.

“This is the first study to suggest that greater consumption of olive oil may lower risk of stroke in older subjects, independently of other beneficial foods found in the Mediterranean diet,” study author Cecilia Samieri, PhD, with the University of Bordeaux and the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux, France, says in an email.

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more info on stroke here - Physiotherapy for Stroke Patients

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Kelly: Humming John Lennon

gypsy-moon1The girls and I lay down and stared at the moon and the stars last night, all cuddled up like three little ladybugs, telling stories. We weren’t outside. No, we were laying in Sarah’s bed, staring up at this particular moon and stars you see here. Aren’t they fabulous? This now covers our attic access, which just so happens to be in the girls’ room, courtesy of my friend Gypsy who came for a visit earlier this week. Not the best picture, but the best I could do shooting up while laying in Sarah’s bed! Gypsy, her apprentice Michelle, and I spent two days doing some painting, having some heart-to-hearts and enjoying a sunny Florida afternoon in Fernandina Beach gallery hopping and scarfing down some awesome barbecue at the Happy Tomato Café (highly recommended if you are ever in Fernandina!). Gypsy’s visit was definitely food for the soul for me.

Gypsy (otherwise known as Lizz Hundley) is a wonderfully free spirit, making her way in the world while living life to the fullest each and every moment. I’ve been trying to do that more lately, too. In case you haven’t read my comment in my Dodging Curve Balls post, I got good news from the surgeon Monday, so I’m going to be fine for now. Dr. H met with the radiologist and pathologist again and decided that sometimes radiologists and pathologists are a little too quick to recommend further surgery in cases like mine. He wants to wait a bit and re-evaluate in six months. I’m glad Dr. S sent me for that surgery consult as a second opinion.

These past few weeks have made me slow down a bit, though, and I think that’s good. Between this little health scare and learning of a friend’s death by a massive heart attack at the ripe old age of 39, I’ve definitely taken a step back from my usual going in eight different directions. When we started the February Finish-a-thon, my “I can do anything” self took over. I definitely didn’t need to add another thing to my plate, but I went ahead and signed on anyway with the goal of creating a new affordably priced pendant line in preparation for the kickoff of the Riverside Arts Market April 4. Well, today’s February 20 and I haven’t made a one. Heck, I haven’t even gotten around to photographing all the new pieces I finished in November and December! My workshop has been sorely neglected. But I’ve decided that that’s really okay (and that seems to be a realization hitting a few of us right now). Yep, I’ve decided that’s just fine because what I have been doing instead? Just hanging out…and I’ve really been needing to just hang out. I’ve been hanging out with DH and the girls…hanging out on the dock looking at the river…hanging out with my furry four-legged friends…hanging out with all the art currently leaning against the walls of my great room waiting for me to rehang it all…hanging out with my students on Facebook (I actually had to learn Facebook for work!). I’ve been moving at a snail’s pace, and it’s been nice.

blue-doorI’ve been keeping up with our running comments on the February Finish-a-thon post. Obviously, since I’ve made zero progress, I haven’t had much news to post, but I’ve tried to be encouraging to the rest of you. I have noticed one thing coming through though. This is truly an incredible group of women, but from my prospective anyway, I think we all have “superwoman disease.” We think we can do it all, and we get frustrated with ourselves, our self-imposed deadlines, and our self-inflicted failures and misgivings when life gets in the way (okay, go ahead and throw darts at me if you think I’m wrong 🙂 ).

I refuse to do that anymore. Life should not be what gets in the way. Life should be what it’s all about. It should be about taking a few days off to spend time with a good friend and go chow down on some barbecue. It should be about making up stories about the things we see in a whimsical painting of the moon and stars while cuddling up with our children. It should be about creating simply for creating’s sake, not for a deadline hanging over our heads. And don’t tell me you can’t do this because you’re too busy dealing with the kids, ladies…we’re all in that boat together. Sure, sometimes deadlines are necessary, and I’m not knocking the idea at all; I think it was a good one to give a kick in the pants if needed. But for me a deadline takes all the joy out of creating. It becomes a “I must do this to meet my deadline” instead of a “Hey, I wanna try this just for fun.”

There’s definitely been some good wisdom in the comments, all from different perspectives, but as I mentioned in one of my comments, something Kristine said has struck the biggest chord with me: “So I’m taking a step back and giving myself a break. I’m taking pleasure in my daily accomplishments and no longer obsessing over what I need to accomplish by the end of the month. It’s a journey, not a sprint.” Yep, it is a journey, not a sprint. I shared a John Lennon quote in my “Keeping Calm and Carrying On” post on my Happy Shack blog last week, and it bears repeating here: “Life is what happens to you while you’re too busy making other plans.” And life in general is the best part of the journey. Don’t let it be what gets in the way; make it what counts most instead. Go live it.

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  1. I love this post, Kelly, and more than that, I love the fact that collectively, a lot of us have decided to give superwoman the heave-ho.

    I see the world in cartoonish images sometimes, but I’ve been picturing us all in our power suits and no-nonsense hair, dayplanners open and our creative time scheduled in. “I will produce from 7 to 10, with a pee break at 7:45 and a snack break at 9. Don’t disturb Mommy. Mommy’s working. So what if it’s beautiful outside and you want to go on a picnic. Mommy must suffer for her art.”

    I’m glad we’ve realized, what you said, that “It should be about taking a few days off to spend time with a good friend and go chow down on some barbecue. It should be about making up stories about the things we see in a whimsical painting of the moon and stars while cuddling up with our children. It should be about creating simply for creating’s sake, not for a deadline hanging over our heads.”

    And on another note, I absolutely love the moon and stars and what you’ve done to your stairs. How fun to have a painting party and find fun places to paint the unexpected! I’d like to do that in my next house. I think living in a fun, funky house would be inspiring in and of itself.

    February 23, 2009
  2. cathy #

    i agree with brittany on your fun decor!

    i also agree about taking supermom costume off and allowing for downtime is essential.

    February 23, 2009
  3. i love your cartoon images vision, brittany! yet i’ve never been a power suit girl and i don’t carry a dayplanner (i’ve never been able to be that organized!) . the scheduling thing really hits home though. “Mommy must suffer for her art.” 🙂 i guess that’s the point i was really trying to make. if we’re suffering, what’s the point? it should be fun fulfilling, not make us kick ourselves for not completing something.

    living in a fun, funky house is rather wonderful, i must admit. we are finally getting everything back together after our painting frenzy. the picture of the steps aren’t my steps….yet! that’s the entrance to the blue door artists gallery in fernandina and what i WANT to do to my steps. maybe by the time you come through in may, they will be done, brittany!

    cathy, saw your “vent” message on facebook. not having a good day? mine started off with 2 hours in traffic due to road closings for construction and accidents. definitely a monday. hope your day gets better!

    February 23, 2009
  4. wow, yet one more message telling me to slow down and smell the roses. just got a call from the wife (nancy) of a dear friend and colleague of mine (ken). ken passed away suddenly this weekend at 59. most likely a heart attack. only good thing to say is that at least he was enjoying life at the time. he was on the golf course.

    February 23, 2009
  5. cathy #

    oh no, so sorry, kelly! didn’t you just lose another friend at 39 the same way?

    (i just needed to call a friend before i blew a vein over housework and the lack of the right kind of help after spending 8 hours of saturday sorting through half the disgusting lego bucket….very small by comparison to your losing another friend suddenly.)

    February 23, 2009
  6. Liz #

    OMG. I. MUST. HAVE. THOSE. STAIRS. That is the coolest idea I have seen – I might copy you one day, but it’s okay because we live in different states, right? It’s not like wearing the same dress to a party.

    It is really hard to realize the precious moments falling all around you, especially when you have people you care about dying and health scares. It sounds like you have really been having a wonderful time, amidst all the chaos. And that is what matters.

    February 23, 2009
  7. So very glad to know that you’re in the clear health-wise, Kelly. Terrific, fabulous news.

    I’ve been thinking a lot about the comments of late; trying to avoid Superwoman complex, giving yourself permission to smell the roses, etc.

    For me, the problem is not guilt about enjoying myself, or thinking that I (or my kids) need to suffer for my art. It is simply that the logistics of my life are so all-consuming that unless I plant a stake in the ground, my creative time utterly evaporates.

    This, combined with the fact that creativity and writing are my life’s work, means that for me, feeling like I can’t find the time to be creative makes for a dire situation. I don’t always love the creative work itself, but it is extremely important to me. I don’t want to be someone who just talks about all her big ideas but never sees them through to completion. That will kill me.

    Maybe my life is just that much more complicated, what with the five kids and self-employment and all, but I doubt it. We all have variations on the theme of chaos in one way or another.

    I do use a planner, and I would be adrift without it. My brain simply can’t retain all of the important stuff. That includes creative time. If I don’t schedule time for myself — even just a loose target — the opportunity is swallowed up whole by the domestic machine. If I don’t fight for it, it just won’t happen.

    That doesn’t mean that I’m turning down barbecues in order to write. Far from it. For me, the process requires constantly editing out the activities and events that aren’t important to me — including things that I do by habit that I would do better to avoid. I firmly believe that by aligning your actions with your true priorities results in “enough” time for what’s really important. And I don’t think that the kids have to get the short end of the stick in that equation. Maybe it means not watching TV for a week or two or relying on Trader Joe’s frozen food a couple of nights a week in order to scrounge up some more time. But it’s there, and it doesn’t have to be painful. It simply means staying in touch with what your priorities are.

    For me, that’s what the February Finish-a-thon is all about. Keeping your priorities in focus, so that when those million other things that need your attention start coming after you, you can say “Not right now — ask me in March.” Obviously that doesn’t mean putting your kids off for a month or missing out on a fun social event. But it might mean giving up a few other things that you actually wouldn’t mind giving up anyway. I think we all have a little “junk food” somewhere in our lives that makes for a relatively easy swap.

    Just my hat in the ring.

    February 23, 2009
  8. cathy #

    *…a wonderful time, amidst all the chaos. And that is what matters.*

    *I don’t want to be someone who just talks about all her big ideas but never sees them through to completion. That will kill me.*

    hear, hear! or here, here! either way works.

    February 23, 2009
  9. Kristine #

    I’m coming in late today, and boy oh boy, what a great post and discussion here.

    So many things in your post, Kelly, and in everyone’s comments are pure wisdom. I’m also shedding my Superwoman costume. It’s been sort of tight and itchy, anyway! 🙂

    My creative writing is what fills the well when the rest of my life goes crazy. It’s my anchor. And like Miranda, I also don’t want to be one of those “all talk and not action” writers. That’s just not me.

    What I’ve had to learn how to do, however, is to not push myself too hard. Yes, I try to write every day, but instead of setting a deadline of an entire chapter, I’m striving for smaller goals so I can enjoy the rest of what’s in my life, like my daughter and my family and the other things that bring me so much joy. The writing is there, and it’s a top priority, but it’s okay to meet my goal in smaller increments, at least for now.

    Kelly, I’m so sorry to hear about the passing of both of your friends. Talk about a wake-up call.

    Thank you for this post. It just shows how truly connected we all are.

    February 23, 2009

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Almost One of the Gods. “The Odyssey”, by Homer Essay

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Almost One of the Gods. “The Odyssey”, by Homer

An epic hero is one who does not act irrationally and contemplates his actions and their implications. Odysseus, of Homer’s The Odyssey, is an appropriate epic hero because he embodies the values of bravery, intelligence, astuteness, and competency. Numerous examples are found throughout The Odyssey. Such illustrations include Odysseus’ conflict with the Cyclops, the Sirens, and Scylla and Charybdis.

First, Odysseus proves that he is a mortal laudable of being dubbed an epic hero during his conflict with the Cyclops. Odysseus shows evidence of his intellectual abilities by first devising a plan to disable the Cyclops and then by cleverly telling the Cyclops that his name is “Noman.” Odysseus exemplifies his physical strength by putting his plan into action and ramming a monstrous spear into the Cyclops’ eye. Later, when the Cyclops calls for help, he says that Noman is doing harm to him.

Another event in which Odysseus displays his physical and intellectual abilities is during his passing of the Sirens. Odysseus shows that he has wisdom by listening to the goddess Circe’s advice and putting wax into his crew’s ears so they will not take notice of the Sirens and try to swim across the ocean to them. He also has his crew lash him to the mast so he can listen to the Sirens without being able to jump out of the boat. This incident also tells of Odysseus’ physical force because when he attempts to free himself from the mast the crewmen have to fasten him down even tighter.

Finally, Odysseus confirms his great intellectual aptitudes by getting past Scylla and Charybdis. Odysseus, following Circe’s instructions, avoids Charybdis, and chooses the side of the six-headed monster, Scylla. Odysseus recognizes that the six-headed beast is too large for him to mêlée with and rows very swiftly, successfully surpassing it.

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For this task I have been asked to describe the type of business purposes and ownership of two contrasting business, the two businesses I have chosen are

The Post office and Tesco, I will be contrasting these two businesses in this report.

The post office was established in England in 1660 by Charles II, it has been running ever since and is known world wide and is used every day of the week,

The post office is in charge of mail and deliveries that have been paid for by customers and they will post them to the place listed on the item, the post office will then dispatch the item to the receivers location through planes/vans to postmen to the receiver, sometimes you have to sign for the product which helps customers with things like insurance of the item.

The Post office is a government owned business as it is paid for using the tax payer’s money which means the government takes care off expenses of the business and they will also have to deal with any problems that are going on the will also take the profits that the business makes, the post offices operates nationally as the postal service operates only in the country and post is sent every day, The post office falls under the tertiary sector because they sell a service for e.g. they sell people mail deliver as they deliver they mail for money,

The post office supply a postal service in which they post/deliver your letters so they can make profit, the post office supplies its services to customers by allowing them to use post boxes to post their letters, but the letter must have a stamp that has to be bought at a post office, for larger items like packages you will have to take them to the post office and get them sent from there, the post office exists to offer a postal service to the public so they can deliver your packages/letters to other destinations the post office also charge money to send letters using them, they also exist to make profit for the government, it was first open in 1660 as a way to deliver letters/notes from city to city but has developed in the years which has made it more complex.

The post office supplies services to the public by charging them to deliver their letters at a fee, you will have to go to a shop and purchase a stamp which can be used to send letters, also for larger letters or packages you will have to visit the post office and they will take care of the package for you and also will charge you depending on the weight off the package/letter, The Post office business operates nationally, The Post Office is needed for the country’s postal service to run, if this business was to close down many people would loose their jobs and also the country’s postal service would collapse and the mail would be unorganized, as this is a government owned business the government will try anything to keep this service/business running because it could cause the country’s postal service to collapse.

The first Tesco was opened in 1919 by a man called; Jack Cohen from that 1 store Tesco has grown in the market and now has 923 stores worldwide,

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Tesco is a supermarket that sells all kinds of household items such as food, clothes range, Technology range, phone range furniture, toys and many more, Tesco has many different stores which make a lot of money every year.

Tesco falls under the tertiary sector as they are a supermarket who sells products made by other companies to the public/customers who use their services, Tesco buys a lot of stock from other companies such as Wholesales and sells them off a profit, Tesco is a Public limited company (PLC)which means that it is a business that has over £50,000 the business isn’t owned by one person, it is owned by different shareholders who all share decisions made in the business, and also share the profits and the responsibilities of the business.

Tesco has stores all around the world which means it is a Global business It has many stores in places like Korea, Poland, Taiwan and Thailand and over 923 stores worldwide, Tesco sell household goods such as foods, clothes and even furniture they sell these products so that they can make a decent profit at the end of the year, Tesco exists to make money, they make there money by selling stuff at suitable prices which customers can afford so it is easier to shop with them and so they can also make more money, Tesco was opened in 1919 as one store which has transformed into a Globally known business.

They operate in different parts of the world but mostly in the U.K. Tesco supplies its services/products to customers by allowing them to come in store and buy the products that they need and when they are done they will go to a checkout to pay for them, Tesco exists to offer goods at reliable prices, for the public to buy, Tesco is well known for cheap products at suitable prices that people can afford, it has also uses advertising and is on price comparisons sites to show how cheap they are. If Tesco was to close down a lot of people would loose their jobs, but it wouldn’t affect customers as much as if the post office closed down, because there are many other supermarkets which the customers could change to, there are other supermarkets like, Asda, Morrison’s, Sainsbury’s and many others we’re people could shop instead of Tesco so it wouldn’t affect the government/customers that much.

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She was born as Christa Päffgen in Cologne, grew up in West-Berlin. In the 50s she worked as a  model all over the world, with base in Paris. She also appeared in Federico Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’ . In 1960 she gave birth to a child (Ari Boulogne, son of Alain Delon) and met Robert Zimmermann (probably better known as Bob Dylan). In the late 60s Nico moved to New York where she became an essential member of  the controversial Velvet underground band with roots in Andy Warhol’s famous ‘Factory’.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

Our entry may require glasses or magnifier to see the helicopter silhouette in the clouds! This shot was taken from the rooftop of The Grove shopping center parking garage, in West Los Angeles. I used the sunset setting on my Nikon 5100, which added the red color, although the sunset was spectacular to begin with. The close-up was cropped from the city skyline photo below. Look closely and you’ll find the helicopter! ~SueBee (photo by SueBee)Weekly Photo Challenge, Silhouette 01Weekly Photo Challenge, Silhouette 02

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    Stunning! (I love using the sunset setting!) 🙂

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Choosing Joy

Joy is being content beyond our circumstances. We can have joy when we recognize that God’s plan is greater than our own. Our joy is a response to our trust in God.

So many of us spend our days chasing happiness – looking for that one thing that will finally make us happy. But when life takes a disappointing turn, happiness fades and we’re back on the hunt. This is where joy is different. Joy will thrive in life’s triumphs and endure through life’s challenges. Joy is a deep, sincere way to approach life that allows us to know that the hard times will make us stronger and draw us closer to God. Having joy may not mean always wearing a smile, but joy lets us reflect God’s love and shine through the dark moments in life.

This month, our 2nd – 5th grade Sunday School classes will be encouraged to think about how:

1. Choosing joy is not always easy.

2. The Bible challenges us to respond to life’s challenges with joy.

3. Showing joy in all circumstances proves that God is at work within us.

As Philippians 4:4 says: “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” We can know that our God has the power to do things we can only imagine and can provide a solution even when we can’t see one. Therefore, our joy can always be in God, who can do anything.

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Workin’ Birds…

This article reports on the Blue Jays and Crows doing their work for the ecosystem…although I would say that most birds would fit this description.  A lot of them eat seeds and distribute them to faraway places. I have seen over and over where birds have helped start plants in other locations.

In a kindergarten class I had, the lesson was on blue jays.  One little boy must have had a bad experience with them, because he kept repeating that Jays were aggressive birds.  He pretty much demonized them.

I’ve watched Jays for decades and I can’t say that they are any more aggressive than any other bird.  They all peck at one another to get at the seed in a bird feeder.  I have seen the Jays get a few seeds, and then leave the feeder — they don’t stay there and continually peck at the other birds to hog all of it.  I’ve also heard them mimic a hawk’s cry.  Squirrels were trying to eat all the seed, and I think the Jays were mimicking the hawk in order to scare the squirrels off the feeder.

In the magazine, Birds and Blooms, a reader wrote in about an observation:  she hated grackles until she observed a grackle on the bird feeder, pushing seed off the side.  At first, she was disgusted that it was wasting seed…and then she followed where the bird was pushing the seed…a grackle with a broken wing was down below, gobbling up the seed.  It changed her perspective of the birds.

Nature works towards regeneration while we humans work at destroying it.  Nature shows generosity and wit while we become more greedy and humorless.

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The idea of acquired characteristics proposes that certain characteristics acquired during the life of a parent organism can be passed to its offspring. In this theory also known as Lamarckism, individual efforts acquired during the life of a parent organism were the main mechanisms that drive species to adaptation. This is majorly because they would acquire adaptive changes and pass them to their offspring. This theory was proposed by Jean- Baptiste Lamarck. In this theory, Lamarck incorporated two main ideas which at that time were considered to be true. The first idea he based his proposition on was that of Use and disuse. In this he stated that individuals lose characteristics that they do not find useful to them and develop those that are useful to them. The second main idea behind Lamarckism is that of Inheritance of acquired traits. This idea basically relates to the traits individual organisms inherit from their ancestors.

In essence, according to Lamarckism, a change in the environment brings about change in "needs", resulting in change in behavior, bringing change in organ usage and development, bringing change in form over time - and thus the gradual transmutation of the species. Natural selection on the other hand is a process by which traits are modified by the consistent effects upon the survival or reproduction of their bearers. This is what generally described evolution in context. Darwin, who is a great proponent of this theory states that natural genetic variation within a certain population of organisms may cause some individuals to survive and reproduce more successfully than others in their current environment.

Root-Bernstein employs the questioned Lamarckian theory of evolution by transmission of inherited somatic modifications to support evolutionary theory and still not challenge out of his student religious beliefs. Having proved to his students that that theory to be wrong, he then explains to his students that for the same rationale one offspring would still have thumbs even if their parents would have had theirs chopped of, Adam's offspring would have the typical number of ribs although God removed one of his. If it did happen, then it would be Lamarckian inheritance which is by now established incorrect. He then explains to the class that even if Lamarckian evolution hypothesis was to be valid, all Adams descendants, both males and females, would take over his number of one ribs since ribs are without doubt not a sex linked trait similar to too much facial hair.

He also explained to his students that there is not a thing that is written in the bible to suggest how many ribs Adam had before one was taken so we cannot look forward to to knowing if one absent by counting. In the end he manages to illustrate to his students that the real number of ribs in men and women does not in any way insinuate that the creation theory is not true and also one that one cannot use a questionable hypothesis to question religious beliefs. He also manages to show the students that the number of ribs in men and women supports both the creation theory and the evolutionally theory.

There is thus a disparity between Lamarckism and Darwinian school of thought. In Lamarckism the evolution of species is entirely based on the individuals themselves while in Darwinism it is because of survival that species evolve. The idea of survival for the fittest best brings itself out in the Darwinian school of thought. Lamarckian hypothesis hold that selection is a process that is non- arbitrary and environmentally determined while on the other hand Darwinian Theory posits that evolution develops by the process of differentiation and is a genetically random. Darwinian school of thought holds that organisms evolve to attain a characteristic that they need through inner requirements or by use and disuse. Another difference is that in Darwinism, mutations are not meant to necessarily profit the creature; rather, it is a random process of selection.

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Monday, January 8, 2018

Crossing Guards

We have lots of snow in my neck of the woods. How are you doing where you live? No matter, that, they never plowed lots of the streets , I plowed threw the snow with my car to get to my corner as a Crossing Guard. They closed every other city and towns schools in Perth County except for Stratford... Go figure? The kids are real troupers to walk in all that snow. It was two -three feet high in some places because the sidewalks were also not plowed yet. I only started this job but already find it a rewarding experience to keep the kids safe on the streets of Stratford Ontario. So snow or not I will be faithful to my corner twice a day until June :)

Monday, January 1, 2018

DIY Wine Cork Bird Feeder

Photos by Suzzycue Hi, Happy New Year to you all ,this fine, snowy ,first day of 2018. If you are anything like me, I have been hibernating through these two weeks of freezing ,record breaking cold spells, we are in now, in Ontario. Hope you enjoyed your New Years Eve. Stratford had a beer tent with music behind the Grand City Hall this year. I didn't attend this Celebration. The thoughts of going into an outhouse at 28 degrees below zero were not welcoming to me but I bet the younger Generation enjoyed it. I stayed home with my bottle of wine and watched the New Year burst in from the comfort of my electric throw. Since we are now snowed in and my hangover has passed. What do we do with all the wine corks my friends and I saved throughout 2017 from good dinners and great times together. Do you hang on to your corks like a good memory? I do it is something about throwing out a wine cork that isn't in my DNA. :) I made a DIY wine cork bird feeder that is a fun up-cycle project. The birds will love it and I can put it on my balcony now , for the birds to enjoy the New year too. Make yourself a wine cork bird feeder and here is how to do it :)

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Portobello Mushroom Burger

Check this out a yummy #portobello mushroom burger with all the tasty drippings of a hamburger with a lot less calories. Taste,is what, I was really after but saving a few calories won't hurt me either :) I didn't even miss the meat. Why did I try this, because two big mushroom caps were on sale for a $1.00 yesterday at walmart's vegetable bargain rack. So I brought them home and cleaned off a bit of soggy bad part, do not wash a portobello mushroom because they will end up a black mess in your hand... I found out the hard way. You can wipe them off with a towel, like you do other mushrooms because if you rinse them with water they become tough.Then you scrap out all the black ribs found on the underside of the mushroom. How to Cook : I fried it skin side up in butter in my cast iron frying pan. Then I tossed in the pan, fresh spinach to wilt, s/p. I flipped the big mushroom cap over and melted old cheddar cheese on the top. I had no buns so I toasted bread. Then I piled on mayo, portobello mushroom cap with cheese and topped it with the wilted spinach. Oh man... if you love mushrooms like I do you need to try this :)

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Steak and Eggs

Photo by Suzzycue Hi friends :) If you are like me ...this time of year, I play casino games on my laptop. My favorite right now is solitare areana , but I love the slots and poker. I was sitting at home playing on my laptop[ for free of course, it doesn't get any more, good ,#frugal entertainment than... that LOL],and I wondered how to make my home casino experience seem more like the real thing. I did do the Vegas trip and realized it was the food, that was missing. I wasn't going to cook up a big smorgasbord on my budget but realized #steak and #eggs would add a nice touch. I had some AAA Angus, boneless, stewing beef that I bought half off at Walmart and a 2$ dozen eggs in the fridge. So I heated up the cast iron frying pan, dabbed in some olive oil, 2 smashed toes of garlic, 4 mushrooms sliced , and about 5 chunks of the stewing beef. After flipping the stewing beef once, I added some butter and an egg to the bottom of the pan. When the egg was fully cooked sunny side up , I layered my plate, with the beef, mushrooms, egg , and poured all that buttery, garlic oil goodness from the pan over the top with s/p to your taste. YUM :) My home casino now is complete and the breakfast was so good, I will visit again tomorrow morning. Enjoy!

Monday, November 13, 2017

One Pot Chicken Cacciatore Recipe

All Photos by Suzzycue I watch a lot of #RachaelRay shows and I have for many years. The show last week about cooking a spaghetti dinner , by throwing raw spaghetti noodles in the bottom of your roasting pan and coming out good... made me a real skeptic. The rule of thumb, is to boil the noodles, in the biggest pot you own and put in enough salt, in the water, to taste like the ocean. The bigger the pot, the better, then you pour the noodles into a strainer, over a sink to get the water off, saving one cup of the starchy water to bind the sauce to the noodles after you add it all to the pan of sauce on the stove. So my curiosity was up and I had to give it a try. My thoughts were that, all the starch from the noodles, would make the dish one gummy mess :(
I shook my head as I laid the raw spaghetti noodles on the bottom of the roasting pan. On top of the raw noodles I added ,chopped green beans, 4 halved brussel sprouts, 6 garlic toes smashed,a few hot chilly peppers I had in olive oil, and one chopped green pepper, s/p and fresh oregano, thyme, and chives that I grow myself. I put the raw skinless chicken legs ,attached to thighs, right on top of it all and poured the tomato sauce, over the top of everything in the roasting pan. This is my own recipe for this dish. I then put it into a pre-heated 350 degree oven and roasted it for two hours. I was scared to look at what it would become.
Well... I will tell you it was the best #chicken-Cacciatore I have ever made. The noodles didn't even stick to the pan. I guess there was enough juice from the chicken legs and the vegetables to cook them. The starch and the fat from the chicken legs made a rich, thick tomato sauce that really stuck onto the spaghetti noodles. The chicken legs were moist and cooked through perfect which is important. YUM... just the way I love it. Throw everything into the pot and two hours later you have dinner... this is my kind of cooking :) A big thanks to Rachael Ray for this idea.

Saturday, November 4, 2017

One Pot Thanksgiving Dinner Scalloped Potatoes and Ham

Photos by Suzzycue Thanksgiving is one of my Favorite Holidays... no presents :) I think we should take the time to enjoy this Holiday and give Thanks for all our Blessings. If we don't celebrate the Holidays, then it gives some people, like ME :) ,nothing to look forward to and that is not good. That is what this #Frugal one pot #Thanksgiving-Dinner is all about. A friend of mine asked me over ,to help clean out her freezer, and gave me a chunk of ham she wasn't going to use. Driving back to Stratford , I decided to stop in at Walmart and see what, was, their, leftover dollar bags of veggies, I could use with this ham. I found about five pounds of potatoes and decided to make scalloped potatoes and ham for Thanksgiving dinner. Then, I thought... since I am older, I have trouble with dairy products( #Lactose intolerance) so, I bought some cream of mushroom soup to use, instead of all that milk, ( would be 2 cups if you used milk and a dab of butter) and found a dollar box of mushrooms to add also.
Here is the One pot Thanksgiving dinner recipe, depending on the size of the baking dish you use: 6 new potatoes sliced as thin as you can, 1 onion sliced thin,slice all the mushrooms thin, 1 can of cream of mushroom soup, 1 teaspoon of cornstarch, salt and pepper to your taste. and of course the star of the show, is the chunk of ham thinly sliced. Then you alternate the ingredients, as you stack them, in rows, until the pan is full. Open the can of mushroom soup and pour over the top of everything. While cleaning the mushroom soup can out with 1/2 can of water mix in, the teaspoon of cornstarch, and pour it on top adding salt and pepper. Cover the dish with foil,Bake for 90 minutes and I shared this dish with the lady that give me the ham and her neighbors. The four of us had a great celebration with a great one pot Thankdgiving dish. Please try this at home :)
Cooking Tip for this recipe You can use any kind of cream soup for this recipe. they are all good. If you use cream of chicken ,then put chicken in the dish. If you use cream of celery then add celery to this dish and so on. I added extra mushrooms because I used cream of mushroom soup Delicious :) Here are some more frugal, easy, great recipes you might like to try.

Monday, October 23, 2017

Small Yellow Roasted Potatoes

Photos by Suzzycue This is another Fall Favorite of mine :) These small yellow potatoes can be found in any grocery store in the fall. You can also buy them in white, red, yellow, and multicolored with even purple potatoes in the package. The big yellow potatoes are the best for making latke potatoes or potato pancakes as I call them. There is so much starch in the yellow potatoes that all you need to make potato pancakes is : grated yellow potatoes ,salt/pepper and shallow fry in your cast iron frying pan until brown on both sides... YUM:) The small yellow potatoes ,wash, I cut in half,mix up on the cookie sheet with olive oil,and rosemary. I put the pan directly under the broiler and ten minutes later, turn over potatoes for another five minutes. Plate them up with butter s/p and feel them melt away in your mouth. I love this dish :) SOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOD!


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RE: svn commit: r1657782 - /subversion/branches/reuse-ra-session/BRANCH-README

From: Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 13:55:21 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: brane_at_apache.org [mailto:brane_at_apache.org]
> Sent: vrijdag 6 februari 2015 12:10
> To: commits_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: svn commit: r1657782 - /subversion/branches/reuse-ra-
> Author: brane
> Date: Fri Feb 6 11:09:54 2015
> New Revision: 1657782
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1657782
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> On the reuse-ra-session branch: Documentation change: Instead of expecting
> clients to manage the lifetime of idle sessions, expect that the RA cache
> implementation will take care of that itself and hide the complexity
> from the API.
> Remove todo item about svn_client_close_all_sessions.
> Add todo item about idle session expiry.

How do we expire idle sessions if a client only uses Subversion api's once a day?

I don't think we want to rely on timers or threads.

Before this is merged back I would really like some supported option to just close all sessions (perhaps including those to the working copy databases), without destroying the client context.

The context also caches credentials, etc.

In shared process environments such as Eclipse and Visual Studio where libsvn_client is indirectly used, we can't just always hold on to expensive/limited resources.

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Re: Subversion 1.10 RC1?

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 23:31:58 +0100

Op 5 dec. 2017 22:13 schreef "Evgeny Kotkov" <evgeny.kotkov_at_visualsvn.com>:

Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan2_at_apache.org> writes:

> There seems to be little that could be done here (suggestions welcome).
> The problem is that the asterisk is being expanded by the shell itself.
> I made SVN print its command line parameters and this is the result:
> $ ./subversion/svn/svn ls svn://localhost/kde --search M*
> 0: ./subversion/svn/svn
> 1: ls
> 2: svn://localhost/kde
> 3: --search
> 4: Makefile
> 5: Makefile.in
> That can be prevented by adding quotation marks:
> $ ./subversion/svn/svn ls svn://localhost/kde --search "M*"
> 0: ./subversion/svn/svn
> 1: ls
> 2: svn://localhost/kde
> 3: --search
> 4: M*

Unfortunately, on Windows both `--search M*` and (quoted) `--search "M*"`
would expand the asterisk. While this is not the default shell behavior,
currently it's enabled for svn and a couple of other binaries by linking
to setargv.obj. In turn, this probably means the command-line client
users on Windows could get quite unexpected results when using the
`--search ARG` syntax.

A potential cheap solution for this issue, I think, would be to make the
--search argument work as a substring to search for in filenames, instead
of using it as a pattern that the (whole) filename should match. While
there are some cases where the latter approach gives more flexibility,
my guess would be that a substring search would work well in the majority
of scenarios.

(Also, as far as I recall, `log --search` currently searches for a
 so that would be consistent with it, and would probably avoid surprising
 the users by having a switch with the same name, but behaving differently.)

Evgeny Kotkov

(Sorry if quoting is broken above ... I blame Google)

We've discussed whether ls --search should always match substrings or exact
before, and the people participating in that thread were in favor of exact

Consistency with log --search also came up, but wasn't a good argument for

Of course, if this would be the only way to make this work on Windows, some
people might reconsider ...

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Taking Flight

Well …

I have now completed my Master Degree and find myself facing the big unknown. Question is … where do I go from here?

We learn so much during our higher education – how to write, how to research, how to present our thoughts, ideas and opinions once we are working in different environments. However these skills will only come into play if we can breach that most difficult of challenges … landing our first big-time job in our chosen field.

I feel I have an advantage over some … topics in International Environmental Law,Economics of Climate Change, Communicating Science, and Community Engagement. In addition, I have expanded my original field of marine biology to include both terrestrial sciences and Climate Change, a topic at the forefront of all business, studies and fields in today’s society. But how can these be brought to the attention of prospective employers? And is this enough without experience to accompany such skills and qualifications?

A Master Degree can give you an edge. I am certainly glad that I did it. But is it enough? Only time will tell … What I do know is that with the new year comes exciting times, a realm of possibilities and all the opportunities I can create for myself… Like a bird taking flight for the first time I set myself up to fly with only the wind to determine my direction 🙂

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Whistling Past the Graveyard review

**I was provided a copy of this book by netgalley.com in exchange for my review.

Whistling Past the Graveyard

Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

From Goodreads: The summer of 1963 begins like any other for nine-year-old Starla Claudelle. Born to teenage parents in Mississippi, Starla is being raised by a strict paternal grandmother, Mamie, whose worst fear is that Starla will turn out like her mother. Starla hasn’t seen her momma since she was three, but is convinced that her mother will keep her promise to take Starla and her daddy to Nashville, where her mother hopes to become a famous singer—and that one day her family will be whole and perfect.

When Starla is grounded on the Fourth of July, she sneaks out to see the parade. After getting caught, Starla’s fear that Mamie will make good on her threats and send her to reform school cause her to panic and run away from home. Once out in the country, Starla is offered a ride by a black woman, Eula, who is traveling with a white baby. She happily accepts a ride, with the ultimate goal of reaching her mother in Nashville.

As the two unlikely companions make their long and sometimes dangerous journey, Starla’s eyes are opened to the harsh realities of 1963 southern segregation. Through talks with Eula, reconnecting with her parents, and encountering a series of surprising misadventures, Starla learns to let go of long-held dreams and realizes family is forged from those who will sacrifice all for you, no matter if bound by blood or by the heart.

My review: Nine year old Starla lives in the south in the 1960s with her grandmother. Her father works on an oil rig and rarely gets to visit, and her mother left when Starla was three and moved to Nashville to become a singer. When Starla runs away to find her mother, she finds herself in heaps of disastrous situations. Caught in a turbulent time between southern whites and African Americans, Starla learns more about the world, and herself, than she had ever anticipated.

While the story lines in this book at times feel very familiar, the tone, style, and language feel very authentic and original. I liked Starla from page one, and found her spunky, full-of-life attitude entertaining. The dialogue was rich and well-written, though I might have preferred more description of time and place to fill in the stories a bit more. I love that the ending was not all peaches-and-cream, and some works of fiction tend to be. Overall, I would recommend this book to those who enjoyed Secret Life of Bees, The Help, and Saving CeeCee Honeycutt. When it is released in the stories I will also be picking up a copy for my students’ historical fiction projects, since its easy, engaging plot will probably appeal to my high school kids.

With or Without You review

**I was provided a copy of this novel from netgalley.com in exchange for my review. This book will be published in late March 2013.

With or Without You

With or Without You by Domenica Rutka

Goodreads summary: Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trash-filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin. Growing up, Domenica knew she didn’t fit in-she was far smarter and worse dressed than everyone else she knew, and she clearly had the most flamboyant mother of anyone in town-but she found solace in writing and reading. As she grew older, though, and as her mother’s behavior grew increasingly outrageous and her home life increasingly untenable, Domenica fled Danvers only to become ensnared by the demons of addiction.

A thoroughly textured and masterfully written book, layered with wildly colorful characters, a biting sense of humor, and penetrating, deeply sympathetic insights, With or Without You finally ends with Domenica’s increasing awareness that she must leave the life she grew up with in order to survive.

My review:

I typically love a good memoir. In fact, many of the books that have stuck with me the longest have been memoirs. This, however, will probably not stick with me much past today.

In order to write a memoir, you should either a.) be famous for something or b.) have some terribly horrific/inspiring/life-altering/ mind-blowing story to tell. Rutka has neither. I still can’t figure out why someone decided her story is any different from the hundreds of kids in my high school, the thousands of people in my town, or the many millions of Americans who have led lives exactly like hers. I can find no discernible reason why one should read this book or care about this story beyond the typical empathy we possess for any normal human being.

All that being said, I could have enjoyed a memoir that was well-told simply because of my love for good writing. I could have forgiven her for being unimportant (because, really, aren’t most of our lives individually unimportant to the masses?) if she’d just told a decent story. So here’s the crux- I really, really disliked the method of delivery of this story too. The first half skips willy-nilly through the 1980’s, 90’s, and well into the 00’s with absolutely NO discernible path or pattern. One minute she’s 3 in the early 80’s, a page later 16 in the 90’s, and then back to fresh-from-the-womb paragraphs after that. It’s maddening in its irregularity. While there were parts that were well-written, even mildly entertaining, overall I found this book whiny, bitchy, and wholly unsympathetic.

Perhaps this book would sit better with me if Rutka were even a decade removed from her tale of addiction and despair. As it sits, however, all I found was someone fresh off her ordeal with no ability to provide perspective on her recovery. It just left me repeating “So what?” and “Who cares” over and over again.

A Review of Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, # 1)

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

From Goodreads:

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town’s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

Jacqueline’s review:

The bookclub that I belong to on Goodreads announced this was the first book we would be reading and I will admit I was not too thrilled. The movie comes out in just a few weeks, and I generally avoid reading books being turned into movies to hopefully avoid all the book-to-movie bandwagoners. Anyhow, I am glad that I picked this book up and maybe (!) even glad that it’s being made into a movie.

Some of the reviews/comments I had heard mentioned that they thought this book started out really slowly. I have to say, I feel that way about books but I did not feel that way at all with this one. Right from the beginning I was sucked into the story and wanted to see where it was going. I purposefully hadn’t read much about the plot, so the twists and turns kept me reading. While the main male character, Ethan, was a little too cheesy for me, I really enjoyed the female main character, Lena. While I can’t pretend I understand what it would be like to have my life decided for me the moment I turn 16, I could put myself in her shoes and feel the terrible pain she must have felt being treated the way she was by the people in her hateful little town.

All-in-all, this book contains a lot of the things I really enjoy in a good book: it’s set in a tiny town in the South, involves a bit of supernatural, features a smart female lead, and kept me guessing until the end. There was just the right amount of description and character development without making me want to skip over pages or paragraphs. While the middle might have been better if shortened up a chapter or two, overall I felt the pacing and writing style were spot-on. I will definitely be sharing this book with my students; I just hope they read the book after I talk about it instead of just going to see the movie.

Girl of Nightmares, a Review

 From Goodreads: t’s been months since the ghost of Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell in her basement and disappeared into it, but ghost-hunter Cas Lowood can’t move on.

His friends remind him that Anna sacrificed herself so that Cas could live—not walk around half dead. He knows they’re right, but in Cas’s eyes, no living girl he meets can compare to the dead girl he fell in love with.

Now he’s seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he’s asleep and sometimes in waking nightmares. But something is very wrong…these aren’t just daydreams. Anna seems tortured, torn apart in new and ever more gruesome ways every time she appears.

Cas doesn’t know what happened to Anna when she disappeared into Hell, but he knows she doesn’t deserve whatever is happening to her now. Anna saved Cas more than once, and it’s time for him to return the favor.

Jessica’s Review:

When I read Anna Dressed in Blood last year, I was genuinely freaked out.  I remember laying in bed and checking over my shoulder because I was convinced someone, or something, was watching me.  Blake did not disappoint with the sequel and conclusion in Girl of Nightmares.

As much as I loved Anna in the first book, this one really focuses on Cas.  I was able to feel for Cas even though I wanted to agree with everyone else that he needs to move on.  There was a whole new side to Cas that we did not see in the first book that made me love him more.  I will admit, I was hoping for more Anna in this novel, but I was not disappointed overall even with less Anna.  I enjoyed the continued development of Thomas and Carmel.  I also adored the shady new character of Jestine in this book.  I don’t want to give too much away about her, but I can appreciate another tough female character.  And, of course, the humor is there among all the character as before.

Blake takes the plot in a whole different direction (London!) than I expected, and I love when authors do that.  Blake is also able to explain much more about the athame and the whole business of ghost hunting.  I was able to accept things without explanation in Anna Dressed in Blood, but I definitely appreciate a better understanding of everything now.

I am so glad that this book is not only the sequel but the conclusion of Anna and Cas.  I am a little “seried” out right now.  I am happy with how the story ended up and loved that Blake kept me guessing on how it will all end throughout.  If you liked Anna the first time through, make sure you pick up Girl of Nightmares.

It’s Monday! What are YOU reading? 1/14/13

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It’s Monday! What’s Are You Reading? is a meme originally hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.  Jen and Kellee over at Teach Mentor Texts  host a KidLit version celebrating picture books to YA novels.

What I read last week…

So last week I was successful in reading both books that I set out to read:

Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake – I was very happy with the conclusion on the Anna series.  After loving Anna Dressed in Blood, I could not be happier about the sequel.  Stay tuned for a review of Anna and this one later this week!

The Evolution of Mara Dyer – Michelle Hodkin is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!  Thank goodness The Retribution of Mara Dyer  is being released this year!  I am totally engrossed in Mara’s world and want t know what is going to happen next!

What I plan on reading this week…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – I still don’t know how I have never read this one before!  I am lost in the 1920’s when I read this.  I will probably be done with this by tomorrow.

Dead to You by Lisa McMann – This one has been getting a ton of love from my friends on Goodreads and Twitter.  I used a Christmas gift card from my uncle to get this one.

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson – Another loved one by Goodreads and Twitter fans.  I have also been approved from Netgalley to read Hattie Ever After.  Have to get the first one done to appreciate the second!

Last week I finished reading several books, and have just begun a couple more. Here’s a recap!

Before I Go To Sleep I finished reading Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson. While not really YA (really, not at all) this book was extremely interesting and thought-provoking for me.  It’s about a woman with double-amnesia- she can’t remember what happened to her yesterday, nor can she remember what happened to her 15 years ago. As she struggles to get through every day, I was left with a million questions about what life must be like for someone in that condition.

Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)I also finished reading Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake, which I will review for you in full in an upcoming post (see? Making good on my resolutions already!). Suffice it to say that the top of my to-read list this week includes the sequel. We’ll talk more about that later.

My currently-reading list is fairly short, for me. I am reading this little gem:  it’s called Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Shakespeare: The World as Stage and it’s written by the ever-witty Bill Bryson. It’s not really a biography of our friend Will, but instead an examination of the previous works written about him and why they are all-too-often wrong. It’s actually making me a little sad, as I just keep thinking about how little we know about the man and the fact that we will probably never know much more than we do now. It’s cleverly written, and very interesting.

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

I am also reading The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness in my attempts to find more books that appeal to teenage
boys. I’m about a third of the way though, but I’m not quite sure just yet what to say about this book. I’ll review it in full once I’ve finished it.

It’s Monday – What are you reading? 1/7/13

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is originally hosted by Shelia at Book Journey and Jen and Kellee at Teach Mentor Texts  host a kidlit and YA version as well.

Mrs. Crawford

With last week still being break, I read a little more than I usually do over the last two weeks.  I read two books last week.

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix – I loved this piece of historical fiction.  I learned so much more about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and the fights for rights as well as the fire.  I book talked it today to my classes.

Matched by Ally Condie – I have heard a lot about this one and finally read it.  Overall, I enjoyed it and plan on reading the rest of the series.

I have a few plans for this week, which I am calling the week of book 2’s:

Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake – I loved Anna Dressed in Blood last year and am enjoying reading the next part of Cas and Anna’s story.  I can’t wait to see where this ends up!

The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin – I also loved The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer.  My sister-in-law even got me a signed copy of it for Christmas.  I read the first chapter at the end of the first book and desperately want to know what is happening with Mara.

Mrs. Terbrack

This week I am finishing up a few books and looking forward to starting another. I listen to a lot of audiobooks, mainly while I drive. I used to think there was no way I could follow a story in short bursts and with no visual reference, but I have really grown to love audio over the years! I never listen to the radio, and love the feeling of extra accomplishment I get when I’m driving to work or out running errands. I have been listening to Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor for awhile now, and am almost to the end! It is slightly more fantasy than I am used to, but I am really enjoying it. I will probably be picking up the sequel, Days of Blood and Starlight, sometime soon.

Next up I plan to listen to Speaker of the Dead by Orson Scott Card, which is the sequel to Ender’s Game (which I LOVED). I’m also powering through a challenge another teacher friend and I embarked on to read the Bible from cover to cover in 90 days. I’m 60% through!
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)

As soon as I get a second, I am going to start reading Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson. While technically an adult novel, I think the concept would be interesting for high school kids to think about: the main character, Christine, suffers from both types of amnesia. Most days, she wakes up thinking she is a child and soon realizes she is a middle-aged, married woman. She cannot remember anything past her youth, and forgets everything that happens in her life every night when she goes to sleep. I can’t wait to get started reading!

Before I Go To Sleep

Jessica and I also both created our reading goals for 2013 on Goodreads. If you don’t already use Goodreads, you should! We love to make new friends, so please add us both so we can see what you are reading too!

Happy Monday everybody!


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GroundLink — a New York City transportation technology and travel services business — released a new mobile app this week. The second iPhone app from the company, GroundLink allows users to book a hybrid, electric or otherwise clean-vehicle car, shuttle or limo to get around cities around the world.

Users can also opt to book a ride by lowest price, highest service rating or soonest and nearest available driver with the app. The company’s chief executive Alex Mashinsky noted:

“Over 5,000 of our [transportation] providers offer green vehicles – all forms, including hydrogen fleets in Los Angeles, even. It’s not all hybrids and electrics. Some countries have promoted natural gas vehicles.

That said, we let the customer choose by their own preferences. If they want an SUV, a stretch limo or whatever, they can book that service, too.”

Mashinsky expects to see the user-base for his company’s phone apps grow in travel hubs in the U.S. and Europe, rapidly. GroundLink’s goal is to have 10% of its overall bookings being taken on smartphones by the end of the year, increasing to over 25% by 2013. It plans to release an Android app in March.

In late January, GroundLink struck a partnership with the travel search engine, KAYAK hoping to reach new audiences online and on mobile networks.

KAYAK now uses a GroundLink API to offer a ground transportation marketplace within its own applications. Overall, GroundLink’s service covers some 5,000 airports, 15,000 cities and 45,000 providers of ground transportation related services, today.

If it takes off in the Bay Area market, the GroundLink app could prove a competitive threat to Uber, the sometimes controversial California startup that also offers driver-booking services via iPhone.

As with Uber GroundLink users can view a map that shows a vehicle’s whereabouts in real-time, once it is booked and en route to a pick-up. Users can also share a map showing their whereabouts and progress towards a destination (Loopt-style) with authorized friends, family, colleagues, or employees.

Avoiding some problems that Uber encountered with the incumbent taxi industry and its regulators around San Francisco, GroundLink books rides through a central dispatch system that company representatives say is controlled by a local base, and authorized by relevant regional and national transportation authorities.

GroundLink deals with taxis but does not focus on or make revenue from sending business to taxi dispatchers at this time, nor does it advertise itself as a cab-hailing service. If users want an immediate taxi service, they can access a list of dispatchers in the area through GroundLink, which refers users to book through the dispatchers, directly.

Instead, GroundLink bills itself as the OpenTable of ground transportation, a reservations system and marketplace that lets travelers book a limo, car or shuttle ride within 30 minutes’ notice in the U.S., or in the world on 1 hour notice, seeing a price for the ride before they book it.

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Instagram hires Twitter’s former VP of revenue product

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Instagram made a big hire last week when it brought on board Ameet Ranadive, Twitter’s former VP of revenue product. At Instagram, Ranadive is working as director of product overseeing the Wellbeing team, “which helps promote positive behavior on Instagram and protects the community from bad behavior and content,” he posted on Twitter on Friday.

As head of the Wellbeing team, Ranadive will be tasked with building products that foster better behavior within the Instagram community. Quick fun/sad fact is that Instagram was ranked as being the worst social media app for young people’s mental health, according to a report from The Royal Society for Public Health and the Young Health Movement.

Ranadive will be reporting to Kevin Weil, Twitter’s former VP of product who joined Instagram last year. Ranadive first announced his plans to leave Twitter back in May, saying he’d be gone sometime in June. Ranadive joined Twitter in the first quarter of 2012 and oversaw 10x growth in advertising revenue from that point to Q1 2017.

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Mumbrella, a media startup focused on APAC’s marketing industry, gets acquired

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Inside baseball klaxon: media writing about media story incoming:: Mumbrella, the Australia-based media company, has been sold by its founders to U.S./APAC events company Diversified Communications.

Mumbrella operates media and marketing industry-focused websites for Australia and Asia, an events business and a database service called The Source. It has 33 staff across four offices. The company started out in Australia nine years ago and it has expanded into Southeast Asia with an office in Singapore. Now, post-acquisition it looks like it has ambitions to go further.

The size of the deal is undisclosed, but founder and content director Tim Burrowes said it “guarantees Mumbrella remains an independent voice and in time, I hope, will give Mumbrella the opportunity to become a global brand.”

“I’d describe it as a good price. But also one that won’t see us wanting to take an early retirement,” he added, revealing also that other would-be suitors included traditional media companies.

Burrowes said the business itself hit $1 million in profit during its last financial year with total revenue reaching $7 million. Its flagship Mumbrella360 conference, he added, grossed $2 million split equally across ticket sales and sponsorship revenue.

The deal marks an interesting exit for niche media in the Asia Pacific region. Over the past year or so, we’ve seen a range of media companies that also run events raise funding including (but not limited to) Tech In Asia and E27. Yet at this point, exits are few and far between. We’ll see if Mumbrella’s deal is a one-off or a sign of what might come in 2018.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti - Angled
by Rob Williams on March 9, 2017 in Graphics & Displays

If you want to dial your gaming to 11, the ideal GPU has just landed: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. This card might sport an odd-sized 11GB framebuffer, and memory bandwidth of 11Gbps, but what ultimately matters is that it becomes the most suitable 4K gaming card to date (and not to mention, an amazing ultrawide card.)

DirectX 12: Ashes Of The Singularity, Hitman & Rise Of The Tomb Raider

DirectX 12 Testing

Considering the fact that we’ve been hearing about DirectX 12 for what feels like forever, it’s a little surprising that the number of DX12 titles out there remain relatively few – although the situation is improving at a faster rate than a year ago. In our next GPU suite overhaul (due next month), we’ll be evaluating more DX12 titles to include.

Of all the DirectX 12 games out there, Ashes of the Singularity takes some of the best advantage of its low-level API capabilities. As a strategy game, there could be an enormous number of AI bots on the screen at once, and in those cases, both the CPU and GPU can be used for computation.

I should be clear about one thing: low-level graphics APIs are designed to benefit low-end hardware better, but when we’re dealing with GPUs that cost over $500, that rules that kind of test useless. For that reason, I’ve chosen to benchmark these three games as normal; the results might not be specific to low-level DX12 enhancements, but they’re still fair for comparisons against other high-end graphics cards.

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Rise of the Tomb Raider
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Hitman (2016)
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These results back up most of our others: the GTX 1080 Ti doesn’t just reign supreme, it even leaps well beyond the GTX 1080 – NVIDIA’s flagship up until this point.

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Rob founded Techgage in 2005 to be an ‘Advocate of the consumer’, focusing on fair reviews and keeping people apprised of news in the tech world. Catering to both enthusiasts and businesses alike; from desktop gaming to professional workstations, and all the supporting software.

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Resizing images in Java using Java2D

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Last friday a customer asked us if we knew how to resize
images in java. Their clients are uploading images that need to be resized
automatically. In the past I did some things with Java 2D and knew there was a
lot possible with Java 2D. So I started to look there. After a few minutes I
found the Java2d FAQ with a perfect explanation in it

And when you read further in the FAQ youâ€™ll also find out
how to create a servlet that outputs an image

Merging the two FAQ sections and adding some extra things is
all you need to do.

Create a new class called ImageResizeServlet:

public class
ImageResizeServlet extends HttpServlet {

    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest
request, HttpServletResponse response) {

Add the servlet definition in your web.xml:

Everything in your browser that ends with .jpg will be
redirected to the ImageResizeServlet. Copy the method fom the Java2D FAQ that
resizes the image:

BufferedImage createResizedCopy(Image originalImage,
                                int scaledWidth, int scaledHeight,
                                boolean preserveAlpha)
    int imageType = preserveAlpha ? BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB : BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB;
    BufferedImage scaledBI = new BufferedImage(scaledWidth, scaledHeight, imageType);
    Graphics2D g = scaledBI.createGraphics();
    if (preserveAlpha) {
    g.drawImage(originalImage, 0, 0, scaledWidth, scaledHeight, null);
    return scaledBI;

I also added the line g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,
before the
drawImage() to get better resizing quality. The Boolean preserveAlpha is meant
for images with alpha channels (like PNG), but when I set it to false with a JPG
image (which has no alpha channel) I got strange results, so itâ€™s better to use
true here, even if you donâ€™t use an alpha channel.

The last step is putting the next piece of code inside the
doGet method:

image = null;

try {

    image =

} catch
(IOException ioe) {

    // TODO log error

int x =

int y =

int new_x =

int new_y =
(new_x * y / x);

try {

    // Write image to the output stream

    ServletOutputStream os =

new_x, new_y, true), “jpeg”,

} catch
(IOException e) {

    // TODO log error

The response type is set to jpeg, other formats are also
available (GIF,  PNG, BMP and WBMP). Now
create a BufferedImage from a file.

The next section with all the ints is needed to preserve the
aspect ratio of the image. We want an image with a width of 640 pixels.

The last step is writing the resized image to the
outputstream (the web browser of the client) with the method from the Java 2D

Instead of using a servlet it is also possible to use a
Struts Action or a Spring Controller, as long as you have a HttpResponse object
and return null at the end (instead of an ActionForward or ModelAndView)

In the past it wasnâ€™t possible in Linux to create images
from the command line, only when you started your jvm inside an X-enviroment.
Servers usually only have a command line so this is quite a limitation. When I was
testing my example I deployed my application on my Linux server at home (a 6
months old Ubuntu installation) and it worked like I hoped it would! It’s no longer needed to run your jvm in a graphical enviroment, it might perform a little bit worse (because you’re not using the buffer of your video card) but it still performs quite good.

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— 2:30 PM on March 31, 2017

There's really no argument to be had: the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is the fastest graphics card on the planet under a thousand dollars. Folks who really want to push it to the limit are going to stick it under water—or better yet, liquid nitrogen. For the rest of us who want to push it near the limit, MSI and Corsair have created the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk and its Sea Hawk X variation.

If you're a regular reader, you've probably seen the Sea Hawk cards before. These offerings blend a fairly traditional blower-style air cooler with a customized version of Corsair's H55 all-in-one cooler. In fact, Corsair also sells some of the same cards as "Corsair Hydro GFX."

So, to the surprise of no-one, MSI and Corsair are teaming up again to put the GP102 GPU of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti under water. Even if you're not super-enthusiastic about overclocking, consider that the Sea Hawk cards should run pretty quiet. Plus, the GP102 is an absolutely massive processor, so beefy cooling will help it boost as far as card's power delivery hardware will allow.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk X will be the faster of the two cards. MSI's product page puts it at 1569 MHz base clock and 1683 MHz boost clock while in OC mode. That's an 89 MHz bump to the base clock and 101 MHz to the boost clock when compared to the reference design. The non-X variant of the card "only" hits 1506 MHz base and 1620 MHz boost clocks, although the standard GPU Boost 3.0 disclaimer applies.

The Sea Hawk and Sea Hawk X also restore the DVI-D port that was absent on the reference model. Besides that, they appear to be similar to the reference cards. Both cards take one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector. MSI hasn't announced pricing or availability for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk series yet.

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