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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

DS7EP1: Extremely Bad Home Makeover

They're calling it Design Star Goes Hollywood, though it's more like Design Star Goes Hollywood Blvd. You know whores and meth dealers. And, as usual, the first episode is the one where the designers work together to makeover their home away from home. Host/Mentor, David Bromstad--and will someone please explain the outfit with the pants tucked into the work boots, because Homo HQ didn't alert me to that Fashion Don't--tells our motley crew of designtestants that the special item they sent from home which tells their POV will be magically, er, randomly, paired together to create six teams of two.
In other words, crazy will be paired with crazy. And I'm talking to you, Kris and Bex.

Danielle and Luca get the Great Room
I'll first start off by saying I was wrong; wow, that was hard for me. But Luca isn't a Friend of Dorothy; he's more of an arrogant straight man, who wears plaid and says "dude". I know! And his Home-Away-From-Home item is a pair of steel, um, jacks.
Danielle is given the "I'm doing this show because my mom just died and she'd want me to win" sympathy edit. But, after that one brief mention, it doesn't come up again. Her POV item is a silver angel wing. Okay.......
The Great room is one of those useless rooms in new homes that are actually taller than they are long and wide. Seriously, thirty foot ceilings are just a waste. But Danielle decides to have molding made for one wall to add more height, because the room demanded it, I guess. And she decides to takes photographs of their two POV items and mount them on the opposite wall. She picks a gray paint color because gray is all warm and cozy and stuff.
Luca buys two big couches and then shows off his big ego--he actually tells us he can do anything--by telling the carpenter how to cut the molding and basically being the Project Manager. Yeah, I didn't see design in there at all; I saw shopping and bossing.
I didn't like the room; it looked like it was set on end because it's so tall and narrow, and the light blue wall just seemed odd. Plus, it was gray, white and blue. There was no Pop Of Color, which is a crime for a designer and just seemed to border on bland.
Still, Vern Yip--modeling Garanimals for Grown-ups--liked that Danielle's paint choices humanized and "inspired" the space. Genevieve The Goiter--dressed like a Naughty Schoolboy, apparently to the delight of a certain HGTV executive--wasn't sure about the moldings but she gestured a lot and said "verticality" so it looked like she knows design. Guest judge, Daisy Fuentes liked the photography.

Bex and Kris get the Master Bedroom
Bex is married to a soldier. I don't know what that has to do with Design Star unless they want to appear patriotic. Kris says his style is "client driven modern eclectic." Um, isn't all design "client driven"? These two, the nerdy gay guy and the nerdy straight gal seem like a match made in TV heaven. Not so much.
The tension begins. Bex talks, Kris cuts her off. He suggests paint, she faints. This won't end well, I imagine.
Kris POV piece is a Lucite table he covered in stripes of painters tape. Kris dubs it "pure brilliance" and, yes, that gets you on Design Star. But, if that doesn't work, send them a wooden hand that artists use as a model, because it worked for Bex.
Seriously, Your POV is a wooden hand? Who are you, Hannibal Lecter? When she asks Kris how she could use her hand in the room, Kris tells he doesn't really care by grabbing the hand and showing his disdain for Bex with one finger.
I’m getting The Bitch Vibe from Kris.
While shopping Bex spots a giant matchstick lamp. No, not a thin lamp, that resembles a matchstick, but an actual lamp that is a matchstick. She must have it, but Kris isn't so sure, though he does end up dragging a piece of tape from his homemade table, across the floor, up the wall, and toward the red light of the matchstick. Pure.Brilliance.Not. But Kris loves his tape, and so he tapes a teensy piece of wood for the mantel so that the tape from his Lucite table has a mate across the room.
For her design element in the room, Bex creates a daybed. Yawn. But then she drills big holes in it and will light it from within, and the holes will be in the shapes of constellations because they're stars and this is Design Star and.....Christina!! Bring me my nailgun! Then she takes her Wooden Hand and mounts it to the all alongside some neon-painted saw blades so it looks like the hand is spinning the blades. Seriously.
The Goiter hates the wall color, whipping out her Handy Dandy Designer Words handbook to call it too "muddy and saturated." Then she sucks a lollipop and spins the saw blades while Daisy and Vern look at the room.
Daisy actually likes the saw art, which makes me wonder about Daisy. But she and Vern hate the daybed and daisy comments that the holes are so big you get blinded by the lights.
The Goiter stops sucking....the lollipop, people, get your minds out of the gutter...long enough to say she likes the tape.
I imagine she and a certain HGTV exec like to tape each other up.

Britany and Mikel get a Bedroom
Mikel shows up in red wine pants, so the whole question of whether he's gay or not is answered without having to say a word. He calls his style Vintage Chic AKA Recycled Gay Male, and warns that even though he has a manicure, he'll get his hands dirty.
Britany Not Spears, though it's hard to tell the difference, tells us she's a designer and a photographer so she'll have an edge creating rooms that look good in pictures. Not rooms that look good for a client, mind you. But she's build, she says, because she wears pink. This will not end well.
His item is a globe he's covered in chalkboard paint, which.....I have no idea what that means. Her item is an ottoman which she covered in fabric which means she knows a fabric store and has a staple gun. Still, both their items are black, and so The Gay Guy and The Blonde seem to hit it off.
She creates a piece of wall art, and he picks the paint color. She doesn't like the color, so she picks a deeper shade, and now he can't take credit for that either. Mikel needs to find "his moment".
Mikel takes an ottoman and covers it with a shower curtain because that screams vintage, which is his style. Shower curtains? Style? Honey. No.
The Goiter liked Britany's lattice molding, because molding is design, and she mentions it in every single room. She also loves the ottoman.
That's all the critique we get of the Britany-Mikel Bedroom, so I'm assuming their safe because they're really not worth mentioning further....

Hilari-I'd-Like-To-Buy-An-'e' and Rachel Kate are given the Den
Rachel shows up in plaid, but she isn't a lesbian, she's just a bad dresser, who apparently has no gay male friends to tell her plaid doesn't work. She plays the 'I left my child to come here' and gets that Teary Edit.
Hilari-I'd-Like-To-Buy-An-'e' is a self-taught stylist and calls her style Glitzy Transitional. [Note to designers: don't just take two random words, slap 'em together and call 'em a style.] And she said Glitzy with Jazz Hands. Di.Va. She brought as her POV item a leopard pillow. I don't know what to say about tha.....
Yes I do. Leopard.Is.Over!
Rachel brought a large white acrylic moosehead which she says shows off her "high fashion outdoor girl" style, while I think it really says, "Home Goods had a sale."
The den is a mess. Rachel paints a giant 10-x-10 black square on one wall and slaps the moosehead right in the middle, while Hilari-I'd-Like-To-Buy-An-'e' builds a molding installation and slaps a tiny TV right in the middle. The room has two focal points and yet I find it hard to look at either one.
Hilari-I'd-Like-To-Buy-An-'e' also buys a barfy gray-brown comfy sofa and calls it a day. Oh, but she tosses the leopard pillow onto the couch, so there's that.
Vern likes the moosehead on the black wall because, well, he's an idiot who has no discernible HGTV style or even an HGTV show of his own. He also calls the black painted, cut from plywood, coffee table that Rachel made "high end" as if to further prove my point.
The Goiter loves the couch, which means she loves how Hilari-I'd-Like-To-Buy-An-'e'  shops, but, and this is a shocker, she doesn't like the molding. I think her HGTV exec married-with-children boyfriend told her to stop being so one-note.

Yuki and Stanley get the Designer Lounge AKA The Garage
Yuki tells us she's married, with children and, well, that's all we get. She seems out of her element from the get go and I begin hearing ominous drumming in the background.
Stanley is a big-gunned, tattooed, seventies hair wearing, metal sculpting doofus, and I think I’m in least once I get the clippers out and take care of that hair.
He’s brought a metal sculpture as his POV and instantly says he'll take it, expand it, and make a window installation out of it. Stanley ain't messing around.
Yuki, however, brought a decoupaged fleur de lis which, well, has no meaning whatsoever and she cannot even begin to think of how she'll place it in the room.
She can think, though, or painting two walls royal purple, and two walls pea soup puke green and then buying a twelve-foot neon orange couch for the room.
Yes, she did. Her one saving grace was the striped flooring created from laying two different colored woods down on the floor. I'll give her that.
But then I move on because we get to see Manly Stanley welding. On a table. Welding. Big guns. Welding. Hot but dumb. Welding. His art piece turns out very cool, and, of course, fits the window perfectly.
Yuki, however, isn’t so lucky. She decides that her fleur de lis needs to be a part of a collage created from making a paper sign that tells where the designers come from, with neon painted empty picture frames and crumpled pieces of paper. Seriously. Her designer aesthetic is My Six year Old Could Do This.
Of course, everyone loved the sculpture, and they loved the flooring. Vern said the paint colors were so awful they could be seen on the inside of his eyelids. And they all agree that Yuki's collage was a giant waste of time and space.

Jordan and Miera get a Bedroom
Jordan. I’ll stop for a moment because I love that accent. I don't care if he designs at all, just let him talk. And talk he does about Mikel's wine-colored pants, so i see a lovely little Besties Couple being made right before my eyes.
Miera tells us she's 63, though he bio says she's 64, and she spends most of the show talking about how old she is and how it's been forty years since she's sewn, or handpainted a wall, or, well, been young.
Jordan's POV piece is a very sexy--and I'm not saying this because he's Aussie, I’m saying it because it's true--Plexiglas end table. I immediately make a mental note to find out where he sells that table. Miera brought a blue and white vase because she lives in Florida and she likes all things coats and she's old and retired and .... yeah.
She shows her age by suggesting they use a soft basket-weave textile to make a headboard and luckily for her, and us, Jordan nixes the idea and fins a metallic alligator print.
Of course, the print doesn't come in a roll of fabric, it actually comes cut in hides, and so there is drama over how to make headboards. Remember, Miera hasn't sewn since she made the Stars and Stripes a few hundred years ago, but Jordan decides to make the headboard out of smaller square so the hides can simple be stapled to them and all is saved.
Vern loves the "specialness" of Miera's hand-painted, really wobbly, chevron pattern on the wall, while Daisy never met a metallic animal hide print that didn't strike her fancy. The Goiter liked the headboards.

Instantly BritanyBarbie and Mikel are safe; as are Jordan--and his accent--and Miera--and her Imodium AD. The others represent both the best and the worst of show.
Vern loved Danielle and Luca's great room; he loved the paint and the photos. Daisy liked that they took the great room and made it like a chic hotel lobby, which is something everyone wants in their home.
But The Goiter asked Luca what exactly he did in the room, and his ego came out. He "brought it to the table" and then he "worked with the carpenter" and he "figured out how to get molding that big in there."
In other words, he was a handyman. But The Goiter soothed his savage beast by telling him she loved the couches he bought, making this, not Design Star, but Design Shopper.
Danielle and Luca are safe.
The Goiter turned to the 'r's in her handbook of Design Terms and said she loved Hilari-I'd-Like-To-Buy-An-'e'  and Rachel's "little reprieve" whatever that means. Vern loved the coffee table. Daisy again mentioned the moosehead.
Hilari-I'd-Like-To-Buy-An-'e' and Rachel are safe, and Rachel actually is declared the winner.
That, in my mind, does not bode well. A black square and a plywood table are winning? Even Charlie Sheen finds that incredulous.
For Bex and Kris, The Goiter loves the little "vignette" of the taped table and the matchstick; she hated the color. Vern complimented the Saw Art, but Daisy said design isn't just about art installation.
Thank you Daisy.
And they all hated the day bed.
Just before being told they were safe, though, Daisy leapt from behind the judges table, tore that stupid hat off Bex's head and stomped it into the ground. I'd like Daisy back every week please.
Which brings us to what I like to call YukiStan, and the awful room. The floor gets points, the paint colors get points taken away. The sculpture gets points, the collage get points taken off.
You know what's happening.
Yuki goes home. And deservedly so. What isn't deserving is that Manly Stanley gets the bottom slot because Bex and Kris should have been there for saw blades and tape. His sculpture was easily the best use by any designer for the POV piece.

My Take
Not one room looks designed. they look, as Nina Garcia might say, on that other show, hand-sewn.
It's a "design" show and yet people get props for the couches they bought.
It's a design show and people get props for the pieces of art they made in a horribly colored room.
I mean, if you're gonna call it Design Star, talk design. Talk about how the whole room works, not how the coffee table looks good, or that chevron pattern is cool. How did the two designers create a good room, if they did?
Luca is arrogant.
Jordan needs to talk more.
Kris is a bitch.
Bex is a geek.
Stanley is a big lovable galoot.
Britany is Britany.
Hilari needs to lay off the leopard.
Mikel needs to be more fabulously gay.
Miera needs to stop being ageist.
Danielle needs to be more memorable because seriously, i had to go back and see who I missed.
Rachel Kate needs to.....which one is Rachel Kate?
Bring back Candice.
Lose the Goiter because she's nothing but an HGTV commercial whore.
Lose Vern Yip because, although he actually is a designer, he does nothing for HGTV except judge this show and look cute in his little boy clothes.
Make it about design. And talent. Not good shopping and painting ability.

the dogs mother said...

The work boots left us puzzled too. Maybe someone lost all his luggage.
LOL, Luca - Daughter and I said, ooops, Bob got that one wrong.
The Great Room - 'Garanimals for Grown-ups' -snorkle! Light blue wall, that nobody commented on - odd. Also find great rooms too 'I can afford to waste space!'
Master - Kris is already stacking up points on our last nerve. He may get strangled with his scarf.
Britany-Mikel Bedroom - we hated it - the floor looks freezing in the morning and the paint would ruin your day.
Rachel's coffee table - The Engineer made one in high school shop. Earlier labrador landed in the middle of it and smashed it to smithereens. Keep labradors away from that room.
"Stanley is a big-gunned, tattooed, seventies hair wearing, metal sculpting doofus" - LOL! Tar likes him - he a kindred spirit.
Miera - where did she get that name in 1948??
I bet there is a hat for each week in Bex's luggage. Be afraid.
Totally agree with your assessment. I always wonder what they could do if they were not under a huge time constraint. They are going to be sick of that place by the end.

Stellar job as always!

Tivo Mom said...

I can't believe I missed it. Will try to track it down on ondemand and watch although your recap was great for details. Wow am I out of it these days...

mrpeenee said...

Every season it's less about the contestants' design and more of just a stupid game show. I'm waiting for the challenge where they have to keep their eyes closed the entire time cause, really, what difference could it make?

Anonymous said...

David left his riding boots at home (probably in his stirrups) what else can you pair with jodhpurs?

Diane said...

This made me laugh:
...while I think it really says, "Home Goods had a sale."
good one!
I think your comments are spot on. Lots of flaws in the room. and stop complimenting purchasing something any idiot could do.
But if you think back to last year - this was 100% better! I think they must have been given more time, more money and more places to shop. said...

Great review ... terrible episode. I fear this may be the last season of Design Star. Bring back Candace!

Ask the Cool Cookie said...

Let me just say because someone needs to say it. I hate David Bomstad.

As for yucky, I mean Yuki, that bitch has been around. Serially, I know that bitch, and she has been round more times than a 78rpm record.

Bex Hale said...

This is hilarious! I think I'd rather read your blog than watch the show. - Nerdy Bex

Biki said...

This was some lovely snark, and totally spot on. I just wish one of the rooms had of been anywhere close to being spot on. I'm a thinking if things dont pick up with the white room challange, I'll forgo watching the shows and just read your version.

Miss Lisa said...

When Design Stars are bad, they'll be sent to the YukiStan room as punishment. HGTV keeps trying to make skintight beige pants a "thing." It's a thing but not a good thing.

Jordan Cappella said...

You are too Funny I loved the review of DS7 what a great laugh! Thanks Jordan


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Wedding Bling

Here's a sneak peak from our 11/11/11 Maui wedding ! Kaylee's sandals and wedding ring both had "bling" status, so I felt it was only fitting to photograph them together for the ring shot :) More posts to come from this wedding!

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NaBloWriMo #7, 7 non-Oracle links to know about

  As you may have discovered by now, Oracle (and databases in general) are a passion of mine but not my only interests. I am into writing, sci-fi (which I prefer to call SF), gadgets and nifty software and apps.

Here are a few links relating to my non-Oracle interests.

A daily dose of science fiction. I don't always like the story but reading a short story per day is a great way to open the mind. You can get some sci-fi from Daily Science Fiction.

This link might be Oracle related. At least on some days it is. It's the Apress Deal Of The Day. You can get it on the Apress home page or sign up for the RSS feed.

Like to read? How about borrowing free ebooks? You can at the Open Library.If you belong to a participating library, you'll have access to over 100,000 ebooks. If not, you'll have access to about 10,000 ebooks.

Along those lines, you can get access to a worldwide library of historical and cultural etexts via the World Digital Library. This site has some amazing poetry. There are plenty of non-english resources also.

Continuing my trend of libraries, I like Overdrive.Overdrive allows you to check out ebooks from your local public library (USA only I am pretty sure). You can read the books on almost every platform. I currently have an old Isaac Asimov collection of science essays that I am reading on my nook.

Since we are covering where to get ebooks, we might want to discuss how to manage those ebooks. I use Calibre. This is a free, open source package for managing ebooks. I swear by it. Every book I get goes into Calibre.

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Cool. My library uses Overdrive for its audio books, etc. I'm thinking of using it to listen to books on my Andriod perambulating. Like Frederick Douglass' autobiography (someone bravely was handing out literature from the F.D.R. near the polling station when I was waiting for early voting on Sunday in downtown Cincinnati). I was carrying a Louis L'Amour paperback, but I thought: although I normally don't consider audio books, it might work while doing a walk-about.

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Decided it was time for a blog post but I just don't know what to post about. I'll think of something...

I was wanting to do E's hand and foot moulds when she was around 9 months, she is now about 10 and a half months old and we have only done one hand and that's about as far as it went. Apart from it being extremely cute I'm sure we would have to do it again if we get around to doing the rest. I can imagine in later years "mum why was one of my hands abnormally smaller then the other?"

It didn't turn out as good as I had hoped so I guess I'm glad I'll have to do it again. Maybe we will aim for 12 month moulds...

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The things we share

The memories I have of my childhood are cherished as most are. I can remember certain sounds, smells, people and most of my world around me. There are certain memories that I hope to share with my son. Some things that I can't wait to hear if they have come to form an important part of his recollection of comfort.

One of the is Disney. Mickey Mouse and his friends and story telling. God blessed me in such a way that Chip and I were able to take Carr to Disney. I was able to give this to my son as a result of my hard work and incredible and generous employers. Without them, we would not have been able to experience this, at least for a very long time. Carr might not remember but I have the photos to show him and I have the immense feeling of overwhelming gratitude each time I recall this trip. Needless to say that I cried everyday at the thought of a childhood dream come true. The incredible part of this is that by 8 months, you knew who Mickey Mouse was. I made sure of that. It was our weekend ritual, to watch MM clubhouse together at 10 am ever since you were 4 months. Today, your almost 2 and you still watch the show with mommy. Yes, there are times where I stop and think if watching this so young might be detrimental but hey, I consider myself to be well rounded and I watched it. It was very different, it was live action and no cartoons, you know actors like Annette Funicello, Avalon and the gang. Then I grew up with the disco musketeers 1970s, with their primary colored pantsuits, ha ha. Such great memories.

Carr was so happy to be with Mickey!

He loved the parade at Magic Kingdom!

The second,is Sesame Street. It is Sesame's Street 40th anniversary, yeah about my age. Talk about learning, I was raised by two great and extraordinary women, both knew English as a second language. Which made this show essential for them to teach me. They my mom and grandma learned as well. Sesame street was my preschool teacher. Sesame street taught me about different people, I was not exposed to, other colors, handicapped, different exposed me to things and people that I had no way of knowing...not at that age. It made them common, normal. I wish every child would have this opportunity, maybe, just maybe the world would be a better place with no discrimination.

And guess what, my son loves it! He loves Elmo and I loved Cookie Monster but hey same family. It is so cool to see how my son went from just watching this show to becoming an engaged participant. He will point, try to sing and dance and laugh. I wonder if my mother gazed upon me, as I do with Carr, in utter humility at the blessing God gave me. I am thankful that I can sing along with Ernie about his rubber ducky and it all has remained the same, just things to share.

In a world that is filled with new things, Disney and Sesame Street bring solace to my old soul and grant me the possibility of having something in common with my boy. Unfortunately, I know this is the last, he will sooner rather than later come to me with Japanese characters and playing cards, and boyish toys that I will learn and enjoy with him. But we will always have in common our two first childhood friends forever.

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  1. Happy B-Day Sesame Street... I hope they don't change the basic elements that have made the show work so well for all these years


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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

August stitches

Dear friends, another month has passed with no news from me. In the first days of August I thought that I would have plenty of time for posting during my 2 weeks of holiday. But in the end my holidays turned out so full that I really didn't manage one single post! But I've managed quite some stitching because the weather has been so hot around here that I've spend many hours inside.

 I've completely fall out of the schedule of the Theme-a-licious posting even though I try to theme-stitch a bit every month. In my last post I've showed you my progress on the December cat of Calendar Cats and since it was close to be finished I was hoping for a coming soon of a big Happy Dance, but since there's backstitch between me and that Happy dance, it has still to happen, the poor little cat still waits his whiskers!

The August Theme-a-liciuous was Altius August: Embrace the Olympic motto--Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger)--by elevating your mind. It's the perfect time to learn something new! Or maybe achieve some goals...

I went for achieving a goal: stitching the first eight blocks of Christmas Rules. I've only managed four and a little bith of the fifth before getting bored so I really didn't reached my goal but nevertheless is a steady progress on this one.

 Now the moon is almost full again and I'm late with the TUSAL!

There's my jar with lots of reds, pinks and purples on top: they come from the DMC Colour Card which for the first time this year received some attention. I've only showed this once, at the very end of 2011 when it looked like this.

And here it is

I've stitched a bit on this since I've been buying a lot of floss lately: I've decided to have the whole lot of DMC colours because I have a careful and well balanced choice to make, I have to choose all by myself, and I've never done it before, the colours of a design I'm about to stitch. I know this is the Wipocalypse year and I really shouldn't start (or let's say sholdn't have started, because I've alredy made some stitches) but you know how a brand new start makes you feel good. And I'm not talking of a just a brand new start, I'm talking about a brand new big and gorgous start, a design I've fell in love right the first time I saw it, a design that I've tried to resist for four months but in the end I had to start....

It's Around the World in 80 stitches by Papillon Creations!

The first stitches with one of the three already chosen colours, that's DMC 3345.
 I have to take another pic in daylight because in this one the colours are all different from the real ones!

That's all for the actual stitching but in these past weeks there has been a lot of planning future stitching... more to come! Happy stitching


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Sunday, December 22, 2013

Zephaniah 3

Prophet Zephaniah pronounced divine judgement upon Jerusalem for it's many sins - chiefly idolatry. Jerusalem obeys none, accepts no correction, does not trust in the LORD, her officials are corrupt, rulers are like wolves, prophets are unprincipled, priests are profaned and do violence to the law.

Rebellion against the LORD and corruption has entered every sector within the society. The LORD has no choice, but to wipe the city out.

The prophet speaks about those survivors - those few humble and faithful, who will remain while the nation is purged and purified. The remnant will trust in the LORD, do no wrong, tell no lies, and nobody will make them afraid.

The LORD is with them, caring and protecting them - it is a reason to rejoice. He is pouring out His love upon them. When He gathers and brings them home, He will honor and praise them, and restore their fortunes.

Zephaniah 2

There is only one hope for LORD's people - to seek righteousness and humility while there is still time. Perhaps there is hope that people may be sheltered on the day of His anger.

LORD will destroy the cities of Philistines and nothing will be left. He will  give their land as pasture for the remnant of the people of Judah.

Moab has insulted and threatened LORD's people. Due to their pride, for mocking and insulting, Moab shall be like Sodom, and Ammon like the people of Gomorrah. The LORD will reduce all the gods of the earth to nothing; people from all shores shall worship Him.

Ethiopians will be slain by the sword, and the Assyrians, who lived in revelry and safety will be destroyed on account of their pride.

Zephaniah 1

Prophet Zephaniah, the great great grandson of Hezekiah prophesied during the days of Josiah. He prophesied even before those 'books of law' were discovered by Josiah.

The day of the LORD is coming and on that day of judgement, the LORD will utterly consume everything from the face of the land, especially those idolaters and idolatrous priests.
Zephaniah 1:7 Be silent before the Sovereign LORD,
    for the day of the LORD is near.
The LORD has prepared a sacrifice;
    He has consecrated those He has invited.
He will punish those princes and the king’s children, those who wear foreign apparel. Those who practice violence and deceit will be set apart for destruction. Their cry will be heard everywhere. Neither their gold, nor their silver will be able to save them on the day of LORD's wrath.


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Thursday, May 1, 2008

In a bucket

Miller Mommy said...

I love the look on her face in the bottom picture, it looks like "yep doing the picture thing for my mom" :) HA!! You have such cute ideas!!!

Jami said...

so cute - just chillin' in a bucket. No big deal!

Kimberly said...

LOOOVE her little foot sticking up!


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Wikileaks doubles down for second day on Podesta emails

By Jamie Dupree

For a second straight day, Wikileaks has done double duty on Hillary Clinton, as the internet group released a second batch of hacked emails to and from top Clinton aide John Podesta. The release – the 30th overall about Podesta’s emails – comes just four days before the elections.

Here’s what we’ve seen today:

1. Wikileaks is trying very hard to knock Clinton off. The Twitter timeline for Wikileaks almost looks like it could be for a conservative political website, as most of their tweets in recent days have been aimed at throwing some bad light on Clinton and her allies. Friday afternoon’s email release made it four different batches in less than 36 hours. Donald Trump used the latest release to tease his supporters during an afternoon rally in Wilmington, Ohio. “Let me run back on the plane and find out” what’s in there.

2. No big bombshells again on Friday. Yesterday, Wikileaks promised something big on Huma Abedin, the Department of Justice and the FBI – but there was nothing along those lines, just more of the same of what we have seen in the last month from the group. Today’s two releases have not generated as much activity – I could see that from the numbers showing fewer people reading my stories about the Wikileaks release. Others saw a conspiracy on the internet to deprive Julian Assange of attention:

3. More Clinton Team battles with David Brock. David Brock’s surrogate work on behalf of the Clintons has created some issues at times, as that was evident in this email from mid-January of 2016, when Brock was expected in news reports to be ready to demand that Bernie Sanders release his medical records. That was not received very well by the Clinton Campaign, as former Clinton legal adviser Lanny Davis laid into Brock, and forwarded his missive to Podesta. “For God’s sake David stop,” Davis wrote.

4. Clinton critics taking some liberties with emails. One thing I have noticed is critics of Hillary Clinton doing all they can to take emails out of context and claim they say something else in the daily Wikileaks releases – for example, this email with a subject line of “New Questions – post Jake.”

This email was immediately picked up and advertised as more evidence that Clinton was given debate questions early. But when you download the attachment – it’s a 12 page memo filled with talking points for Clinton for a February debate in Milwaukee.

5. Fighting back against “Clinton Cash.” As the book “Clinton Cash” was released to great fanfare in conservative circles in 2015, Team Clinton swung into action to fight back. Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon sent a memo to set out talking points on how best to push back, and defend the work of the Clinton Foundation. “It is sad, but not surprising, that their philanthropic work has become the subject of false, right-wing attacks,” Fallon wrote. The subject line reads: “What We Already Know About ‘Clinton Cash’: Book and Author Attacking Hillary Clinton Widely Discredited.”

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Why Prejudice Against a Scientific Approach to the Bible?

Alice C. Linsley

The Bible contains 66 canonical books. These books include sacred music, history, genealogy, legend and myth; all of particular interest to cultural anthropologists. So why the prejudice against biblical anthropology?

Some anthropologists regard the words Bible and Anthropology as an oxymoron (from Greek ὀξύμωρον, "sharply dull"). Why would a volume of poetry, prayers, oracles, sacred centers and curses, etc. stand as a contradiction to the discipline of Anthropology? Cultural anthropologists investigate such things when it comes to shamans, native healers and griots. Why not also investigate the sacred world of Afro-Asiatic ruler-priests and their Arab and Jewish descendents?

Here is what some people have to say on this topic. I'd be interested in readers' opinions on this question. Please leave a comment.

Michael F: Science and beliefs do not mix.

Alice L: Science begins in belief. One must believe something to even begin to think scientifically.

Gioiello: Bible and theology are not the enemy of the biological evolution; they are superfluous.

Alice L: That's the sort of caustic remark one reads at science sites "where graduate students, researchers, doctors and the 'skeptical community' go not to interpret data or review experiments but to chip off one-liners, promote their books and jeer at smokers, fat people and churchgoers? And can anyone who still enjoys this class-inflected bloodsport tell me why it has to happen under the banner of science? " -- Virginia Heffernan, The NYT Magazine

Susan B: There is a chasm between science and religion that needs to be bridged before our understanding of the human condition can be fully formed.

Alice L: I agree, and biblical anthropology, biblical archaeology, linguistics, and migration studies are the disciplines that must close the gap. Biblical anthropology, like biblical archaeology, uses the Bible as a resource in advancing knowledge of the ancient Near Eastern and ancient African peoples and cultures. Both seek data and material evidence, only of a different kind. The two disciplines work hand-in-hand.

Elsbeth T: An anthropologist is always seeking data. Perhaps this is the key to finding a common ground between the theologian and the anthropologist. Both are looking for evidence (data) to confirm truths (conclusions). I think that using a scientific methodology can be beneficial to all sides of the conversation.

Susan B: If the study of biblical humanity is to be undertaken then science and religion are going to have to "mix it up". I see nothing wrong with stating our personal beliefs. They are conclusions reached through research and evidence no different than an atheist declaring the fact that there is no god. Science does not have the ability to definitively prove this theory one way or the other and does not take a position. That doesn't stop popular scientists and other vocal critics from suggesting we would be better off without a "belief" system. But before religion is relegated to the trash heap of human progress, don't you think it would be a good idea to see what selective benefit it afforded us?

Hope R: Throughout history skeptics in the field of anthropology have denied the existence of many cities and events described in the Bible, only to have them discovered, uncovered, and confirmed by people in their own field. To quote Bill Boyd, "Faith goes beyond the evidence, but not against it."

Alice L: But there is a bias against faith-talk in the scientific and academic communities, often even open hostility. I've experienced it. My research has been called a "mixture of faith and reason" which was meant as a slight, but which some might take as a compliment. Still, you have to wonder about the dismissal of belief or faith. Every scientist operates on belief and faith of some kind, if nothing else than the faith that the laws of physics will be the same tonight as they were this morning.

Beside an anti-faith and anti-Bible bias, there is ignorance of the Bible and the usefulness of biblical data in making connections. Or the problem is unexamined assumptions about what the Bible says, often on the part of people who have never read the Bible. For the most part, Americans are biblically illiterate. Even church-goers according to Gary Burge, professor of New Testament at Wheaton College (Illinois). Burge is astonished by the ignorance of the Bible among the students who come to Wheaton from "Bible-believing" churches. He says, “If it is true that biblical illiteracy is commonplace in secular culture at large, there is ample evidence that points to similar trends in our churches."

Susan B: How very disappointing that Biblical Anthropology is not a recognized scientific field of study! I have been knocking at that door for many years but have been either ignored or belittled. Biblical anthropology is my passion but, unfortunately, not my career path. Until a few days ago, I didn't know we were allowed to connect those two words together.

Marty P: Biblical anthropologists start out by ignoring existing data or by assuming they are the first scholars in history to pay attention to such things as locations and genealogies! I agree with the atheists to the extent that the Mesopotamian myths are remarkably similar to the stories in Genesis 1-11. The parallels cannot be denied. I don't think Genesis is derived from those myths, but contains parallel accounts of the same historical events.

Alice L: That is an example of how a false assumption can cause confusion. Close analysis of the Gilgamesh Epic and the Genesis Flood narrative reveals that they are not similar in any detail except that both have a hero who overcomes the chaos. The Genesis creation and flood stories find their closest parallel in African narratives. The details are sometimes startling! The motifs of the tree of life, the serpent, the first parents, God walking on earth - all these originate in Africa and spread across the Afro-Asiatic Dominion. But now we have to ask: are we leaving science when we compare and contrast legends, narratives and myths? Or is comparative mythology simply another tool in the anthropologist's tool box? Can any science make progress without drawing on other disciplines?

Marty P: Interdisciplinary studies have long been conducted into the engrossing and popular topic of Middle East history. Christians, Jews, Arabs, Persians (Iranians) and secular scholars are all intensely interested in this part of the world. Scholars are so interested in all aspects of research that some of the early Middle East history experts found themselves trying to master all related scholarly disciplines. Consider, for example, Professor William Albright, described as follows:

"The fields of scholarly research that Albright controlled were vast and included archaeology, Semitic linguistics (including all branches of the great family of languages, especially the numerous dialects of Northwest Semitic, but not neglecting Akkadian and Arabic), epigraphy, orthography, ancient history, chronology, historical topography, mythology—in short, all facets of ancient Near Eastern civilization from the Chalcolithic period (ca. 4500 BCE ) through the Greco-Roman period."

Froilan S: Or Noel Freedman, a Jewish Bible scholar and well known in biblical archaeology. He says there’s a difference between the Jewish understanding of Genesis and the Christian understanding of Genesis. In the Jewish perspective Genesis is all about how the Israelites lost the land, lost the temple, and how they were in exile. Genesis is all about the story of Israel and God’s covenant with the Israelites. Genesis can only be interpreted by way of allegory, not by way of history. What’s your opinion?

Alice L: Later in his life, David Noel Freedman saw that his allegorical scheme didn’t work perfectly. He and William Albright contributed greatly to the world’s understanding of biblical texts. They were masters in their fields but also willing to admit that not all the evidence aligned with their theories. Freedman once said: “The Hebrew Bible is the one artifact from antiquity that not only maintained its integrity but continues to have a vital, powerful effect thousands of years later.”

In the end, the Bible is as reliable and useful a resource for anthropologists as it is for Bible scholars and biblical archaeologists. But we have to keep an open mind.

Susan B: Here’s a case in point: Cyperus Esculentus is a C4 sedge and Ardi was found to have traces in molars ( Chufa (Cyperus E) is a rhizome with underground storage units with protein levels equal to chimp food and much less fiber content than that consumed by chimps ( Also, Ardi was found with many pig bones and pigs are tuber feeders. Whether Ardi consumed the pigs or not is irrelevant to the point that pigs were able to find food.

It just seems to me that chufa is a primary candidate for Paleolithic food source shared by apes, proto-humans and humans alike. Why discount it simply because it appears in the Bible? Instead of looking in remote China for the source of C4 sedge why don't they look in front of their noses? Pardon the sarcasm. C4 sedge grows in swampy areas much like rice. It is one of the oldest domesticated plant species if not the absolute oldest.

Alice L: And it grew all over the swampy grasslands of west central Africa before the Sahara started to dry out. That’s another example of how European and American researchers tend to ignore Africa when making connections. Even "Bible-believers"ignore pertinent data, such as the fact that one of Abraham's ancestors was Nimrod, the son of Kush. Kush is the ancient name for the eastern part of modern Sudan around the Upper Nile.

I’m reminded of how many anthropologists have been ignoring Thomas Strasser’s work on Crete. He and his team have discovered hundreds of stone hand axes dating to 130,000 years and they are identical to hand axes fashioned in Africa about 800,000 years ago. He believes that ancient Africans used rafts or other seagoing vessels to cross from northern Africa to Europe and the Near East via larger islands in the Mediterranean. This is what the data in Genesis indicates: that Abraham's ancestors came out of Africa and were great explorers and kingdom builders. Nimrod, who was from Kush (ancient Sudan and Upper Nile) left Africa and built a kingdom for himself in Mesopotamia though he lived much later than Strasser’s seafaring explorers. Although in the Bible we first meet Abraham in Ur, his ancestors came out of Africa. Biblical anthropology can help us reconstruct the African cultural context of Abraham's ancestors. In fact, it may be the best science to undertake that task.

Related reading:  Biblical Anthropology is Science; What Does a Biblical Anthropologist Do?; Dismantling Outdated Interpretations

Timothy Hicks said...

There seems to be a growing trend to think of things like "atheism" and "materialism" as somehow NOT being a belief system. But that isn't true. I agree with you that one has to have beliefs in something, otherwise no scientific research can be done. I've had a friend who told me that it's better to not have any beliefs at all ... even after admitting that that statement, itself, was a belief!

If you look at the 18th and 19th century scientific literature, you'll find that it's quite the mix of faith statements, as well as technically detailed scientific research. There wasn't this clear-cut distinction as it is today.... faith/religion over here, and science over there.

Manna said...

Hi, your statement, "That’s another example of how European and American researchers tend to ignore Africa when making connections" hits at the core of the matter. There is something deeply embedded in those who ignore biblical anthropology to not embrace the "Africa" connection. Some may call it a racial or ethnic, etc. bias--by admitting that Africa is the connection is to admit something much larger. I think, from trying to understand your blog, that we are truly talking about anthropology and not race but more tribal connections and skin color is part of such and the many hues of skin color are part of that discussion. I think the reason people ask you "what color was Abraham?" is because your research goes even against the images of Abraham and others in the old testament. Your research goes against the images of what had been presented to many. Those images for many are not African based at all. I grew up down south(the bible belt of America) and there was nothing of any "red, dark, ruddy, brown, dark, etc" skin tones in images of Abraham, etc. in those early books of Genesis. I think the resistance is so deep that even some researchers and scientist cannot accept such--even despite the clear evidence. Some people will ever accept a "ruddy, brown, red, olive or even dark" type of Abraham. Does it matter? For some of us, it does for many different reasons. Your research intrigues my thoughts on many levels. I must admit that I have a lot to learn on this--this is my basic reaction.

Manna said...

My question is that, "Is archeology biased and based more on a european type of model than facts? Or, is current research and evidence dismantling the bias of the past?" Are we closer to a more accurate picture or further away?

Alice Linsley said...

Manna, archaeological finds are constitute important physical evidence, but keep in mind that artifacts are often misinterpreted. I have seen many examples of this over the years. That is why I do not rely on any single discipline, but rather I seek to gain a wider picture by looking at multiple sciences, including linguistics, DNA studies, anthropology and climate studies.

The assertion of a red skin tone for Abraham is strictly based on the data of the Bible. What is that data?

Abraham was a descendant of Adam. Adam refers to the color of blood.
He was also a descendant of Kush, an African of the Upper Nile Valley where red Nubians lived.
His ancestors were Proto-Saharan cattle herders.
One of them was Noah, a ruler in the region of Lake Chad.
Both Lake Chad and the Upper Nile were populated by people in the R1B Haplogroup. This Haplogroup is usually regarded as European, rather than African, but it is both.
Abraham's territory was entirely in the land of Edom, ruled by Horite Habiru/Hebrew kings. Many are listed in Genesis 36.
In this list we find Esau who is specifically described as red or ruddy in the Bible.
The ancient Greeks called Edom "Idumea" which means land of red people.
David was a descendant of Abraham and he also is described as red.

Here are some articles that you will find helpful:

Alice Linsley said...

Manna, I provide a fuller explanation here:

Manna said...

Alice, this helps a lot. Now I see that it is important to look at a multi disciplinary approach -- I do wonder (may be well beyond my lifetime) that those many disciplines will see the value in biblical anthropology and more look at your work more closely. Those like me--who are not academics in this matter--find such topics interesting. I must say that I have never run across such research as you have presented and it has opened my eyes to so much--but also resulted in so many more questions. I also seriously question some of those who teach the bible without knowledge or worse withhold such knowledge-not so much teachings or just a lack of strong theology, history and even anthropology. I wonder sometimes if some think it is best to keep the masses ignorant. I don't know but the more I research your site and others, I do wonder and think much deeper. I am not learned on these matters--just one who loves history. But, knowledge is power and comes with great responsibility. Thanks God for faith. Keep up the work.


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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Scarlet dressage pad

Here is a new pad hot off the sewing machine! Deep scarlet, it may appear an orange red but isn't. The Dancing Horse head fabric in the corner is almost gone and I can't find any more, it is being discontinued, darn!
This pad measures in the spine 22 inches and the drop is 21 inches. I don't put the front billet strap on unless someone wants it on, I never use mine and know other who don't like them and will cut them off.
I love the color of this one, really bright and colorful. It's listed on Gilly Wear web site and is $79.00 if anyone is interested.

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Gail H. Ragsdale said...

Love the dancing horse head fabric!

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Hello Jaxov, I am using an iPhone 4 which was previously jailbroken on iOS 4.2.1 and unlocked with Gevey SIM Pro. I have also saved my SHSH blobs for iOS 4.2.1. Yesterday I restored my iPhone to iOS 5 and got it jailbroken using Redsn0w 0.9.9b4. However, it seems like the new firmware is not supported by Gevey SIM since I wasn’t able to use my T-Mobile SIM. Will I get it fix if I downgrade my iPhone back to iOS 4.2.1? Thanks for the help.

Asked by: Grace from Crab Orchard, Kentucky

Hello Grace, unfortunately, Gevey SIM will not work on iPhone 4 running on stock iOS 5 firmware. This is primarily because of the fact that Gevey SIM does not support the new baseband 04.11.08 of the newly released iPhone firmware. So far Gevey SIM works only on iOS 4.1 up to all iOS 5 beta versions. And since Gevey SIM is a baseband dependent unlocking solution - just like the Ultrasn0w carrier unlocking software – downgrading your iPhone to previous firmware will not fix the problem as you will still carry the same baseband 04.11.08. In your case, the only way you will be able to unlock your iPhone 4 on iOS 5 is by using a new Gevey SIM that is tailored for iOS 5 but that Gevey SIM is not yet available at the moment.

On the other, iPhone 4 users who rely on Gevey SIM unlock should STAY AWAY from stock iOS 5 firmware as it will upgrade the baseband version of your device. So, if you want to unlock your iPhone on iOS 5, you will need to create a custom iOS 5 firmware and restore it on your iPhone. To do this, you can use the new Redsn0w 0.9.9b5 (available for Mac OS X only, Windows version will be released very soon) or with Sn0wbreeze 2.8b8. And then refer on this guide to unlock your iPhone on iOS 5 using Gevey SIM.

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    Godha4 years, 8 months ago

       Hi Jaxov, Iphone 4 first unlocked with gevey sim and then jailbroken to iOS 5.1.1 retaining the baseband using custom firmware with snowbreeze. worked fine for 6 months till yesterday the gevey sim pop up disappeared. despite several attempts at switching on and off i havent been able to access the gevey sim pop up. any ideas on how i can sort this out?


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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Relief, Indeed!

The Sweet Relief of Missing ChildrenThe Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Five stories going back and forth through time.....ending, or focusing, on the disappearance of 12-year old Leonora Coulter...deemed a "good" girl by her family and friends...a girl who got caught in a 'twist of fate"

Five sets of characters who interact with each other in unexpected ways throughout the book.

Awkward, damaged people going through life with enough "baggage" to down an airplane.

Small town life...the flip side of Bucolic

The awkward style of this book bothered, and distracted, me...until i realized it was perfect for these characters...most of whom are searching for reinvention...seeking acceptance, and comfort, and a sense of identity. The surprising ways in which they interact and separate remind me of broken glass on the sidewalk....that, in spite of the separateness of the pieces, the whole splintered mess, in fact, forms a weird kind of Whole

This wasn't an easy read and these people are not lovable......the atmosphere was desperate, claustrophobic, and strange....In an odd way I like it, and respect Ms Braunstein for letting her characters speak in their own tongues...

*this was an ARC from Library Thing Early Readers*

3 stars

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Is Dinner Ready?

One Bite Won't Kill YouOne Bite Won't Kill You by Ann Hodgman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is one of my "Reviews-on-the-Fly"....Be Warned:

I became aware of this book through some Childrens Catalogue (to remain nameless because I can't remember) where it was tucked in the last pages.

Now that i own my copy...I was looking at it, the other night...and figured it needed a review

Ann Hodgman is a wonderful comedienne "on the page"...and Roz Chast is...well..."i swoon" at her talent..

The book itself is full of recipes...some good..some bland. BUT...this book is geared toward parents with kids who are "picky eaters" alien life form, when I was a kid. I ate what was served...or creeped downstairs after dark for a bowl of cereal...UNTIL i learned how to cook....for my own self ( and after my Mom went AWOL). Ms Hodgman does a bang up job in the Introduction....explaining the world of "Kids & Food"...i skipped kids here...Her Afterword WHY NONE OF THIS it.

The recipes:

BROC BAKE-page220- is seriously sure to use Fresh Broccoli

PERFECT BROILED CHICKEN-page68- is just that

BREAKFAST "ZA-page 29- is so good..and a good reason to keep Crescent Roll Dough "in the house'

I recommend this to anyone who has to feed kids every day..if only for the humor element....and to anyone who loves to cook...and can tweak otherwise pedestrian recipes

4 Stars


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21 July 2009

Patience anybody ?

I am not a patient person. Passion yes but patience no. Better fast, finished and sometimes wrong than slow, almost never finished but always get it right. Need I say that my husband is the opposite? Well now my total lack of patience is showing it`s ugly face and I walk around feeling annoyed and irritated all the time. It might be due to the three weeks of vacation that I have already had and the two weeks yet to come. How so you might wonder. Oh I have had a marvelous vacation so far it`s not that it`s just that I`ve had all the time in the world wandering around the country house seeing all unfinished projects, gritting my teeth and knowing that they won’t be done this summer either. You know little things like isolation on the second floor so that we actually can stay here during winter and won’t have to spend a fortune on central heating. Oh yes why not some central heating while we are at it and a bathroom that doesn´t look like a hole in the wall. No luxury mind you but something else than concrete floor would be nice and maybe some tiles and a basin…. Speaking of the second floor , it would be very nice if the daughters rooms were started on up there since sleeping four persons in the same bedroom doesn`t do much for the matrimonial bliss. But then the isolation must be done first and….. well, it`s catch 22 folks. Or like one of them little games you had when you were a kid, a square with the numbers 1-15 on it all in the wrong order and you had to move them around to get them in the right order again. Or that multicolored cube thing, Uck! I never were any good at those games either…..didn`t have the what’s you call it, ah yes PATIENCE that’s the word I was looking for.

I read an article the other day about a woman that had a gigantic garden and a very nice one at that. The interviewer asked her how she managed to tend to the garden all on her own not getting stressed by the enormity of the task. She said that she did one little project at the time and focused just on that and when it was finished she took time to enjoy the fact that she had done it instead of thinking about all the things that was still left to do. It sounded dead easy. Like something even I could manage.So from tomorrow on I will try to do just that…....

......but tonight I still want my garden to look like this

Yeah I know it`s hard to compete with Gertrud Jekyll .... but I am sure she had lot`s of patience.....and a few gardeners.

My house like it came out of this.....

and me feeling ( and looking) like this......

But tomorrow thats when I start laughing at clouds.....

Take care

17 July 2009

Lat N 55 grader 42' 24' Long E 14 grader 05' 15'

Sea eagle by Mattias Klum

As you all know I am a great fan of photography and I try to visit as many exhibitions as I can. Today my husband asked me if I wanted to go and see some of the fabulous photos of Mattias Klum Now would I ? You bet ya! Not only would I be able to see the work of the Swedish photographer who has made the cover of National Geographic 8 times (so far...) but also have an outing on my own with my husband. Little did I know that I also was to see the most amazing of buildings….

The exhibition was held at the brewery at the Södra Björstorps manor and I had never heard about it before although I visit that part of Skåne very often and its not that far at all from my country house.

Oh you want to tag along do you? Well, hop in! Fasten seat belts and woohoo here we go!

We drove to just outside Brösarp, took a right turn to Södra Björstorp, went through the woods and then down this beautiful alley...

.....and suddenly I saw it through the trees…..a yellow gemstone of a house….octagonal …..

It was a strange feeling to so unexpectedly see this amazing house rise from the woods. It was love at first sight and I couldn’t get out of the car fast enough to inspect it. You see at first I thought my eyes where deceiving me and that I would find it not octagonal at all when walking around it. But to my joy it was! You can see much better from the air photo from the manors website.

The exhibition was held not in the manor house it self alas as I would have liked to get a peak inside….but in the old brewery. The brewery was beautiful too though and it was a perfect setting for the photos.

Now this is what I would like my old barn to look like...in ten years time or so....
You wish!

Stepping inside we met the very nice owner who told us a bit more about the history of the house. She was very kind and a joy to talk to not like some galley owners I have met over the years. You know the type where it is more important that you are "someone" in the art world than the fact that you are acually interested in the pieces shown. Oh well, enough about that. We learnt that the house is one of its kind in Sweden and built 1775 but the manor go back to ancient times and some of the wood work in the cellars where from 1300. The house is actually sixteen-sided on the outside and octagonal on the inside. Now that must be quite a challenge for interior decorating don’t you think!

The owner

Did I forget to mention the photos? Going on and on about the house am I ? Sorry about that, got a bit carried away I guess! Well the photos where simply wonderful and very inspirational for me! He is such a talented photographer and some of the photos was pure poetry! You can see more of them here. So if you happen to be in the neighborhood you absolutely must pay the house and the exhibition a visit. You won’t regret it! The exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday until the 30 of august. The opening hours is 11-17. My self I hope to go back really soon bringing a friend from Stockholm.

How to find it?

GPS coordinates:
Lat N 55 grader 42' 24'
Long E 14 grader 05' 15'
or visit the website: http://www.sodrabjorstorp.se/ for more information.

Hope you all have a really nice week end!
Take care

13 July 2009

Blog friendship

There I was reading Eleanor’s blog in Australia always being intrigued and fascinated by her posts but also by the comments made by Anna from Helylle. So I started reading her blog too and one day she posted a picture of a place I knew well and I realized that she must live in my hometown. So I asked her….and to my surprise she lived just a block away from me on the other side of the park! Oh I know it’s a small world I just never imagined that it was that small.

Now we meet regularly for a bit of creativity and lots of laughs. Like tonight! I had planed to do some wet felting but it was so warm we had to sit outside on the porch so I had a go at one of my two ongoing knitting projects instead and we actually managed to get some knitting done in between laughs…..She is even more funny, witty and wise in IRL…can you imagine that ! Strange isn’t it that I should find a new friend by way of Australia!

Productive eh?

Tonight Anna borrowed me a book with lots of creative knitting
Hurrah, the long autumn evenings soon to come are saved

Thanks for a great evening Anna!
Take care

12 July 2009

Back in business

Wooohoo I am back, thanks to my husband who not only fixed my computer but also managed to save all my photos and documents in the process! Is he the shit or what? So will I start doing back ups ? Yep! Regularly? Nope, knowing me the answer is probably not. Unfortunately I am not a back up kind of gal although my husband ( on the second day of computer fixing) mumbled something through clenched teeth about this being the first and last time he ever would help me out did I NOT start making back ups. So I better start making them I suppose. Not that much work really just very boring…..but on the other hand I had enough of excitement when I though all my pics where gone….

So what have I been doing this computer free couple of weeks? Well I have been at the country house walking by the sea taking pictures, started on two knitting’s, made some new granny squares’ and visited a few jumble sales. I also spent a lot of time lying in the hammock reading…. Doesn’t sound too bad eh? I also took up my recycled art again and made three brooches out of a tin can, some comic magazines, pearls and wire. I am a great fan of Modesty Blaise as you might see….

Tomorrow my dear blogfriend Anna from Helylle is coming over for a creative evening and then I think I just might do a bit of wet felting. Haven’t done much felting since the exhibition but found this lovely felted vessel when I was surfing around and I got very inspired. Hopefully mine will look something like Zeds. Do visit her blog too!

Oh and I ate crayfish. Yes I know you are not supposed to eat them until august (accompanied with aquavit and obscure songs….) but I was craving….. and it almost doesn’t count since I did without the aquavit…. and just the one song...

Take care


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Central Plateau, North Island

Central Plateau, North Island
View from a friend's farm

Friday, 14 July 2017

Not A Partridge in a Pear Tree

12 Days Of Christmas in July Blog Hop banner
Hi Readers, North and South, and everywhere else  …
Starting on 14th July, Northern  time zone , Sarah over a
 Confessions of a Fabric Addict
is again hosting a wonderful event, the 12  Days of Christmas in July Blog Hop. Join in to see inspiration galore, with new bloggers each day showing some goodies to make, quilty,  Christmassy, or  otherwise. Sarah has a quilt-along, and at the finish line, you will have a quilt all made. As well, there are giveaways. Will this tempt you even more? Visit a blog, leave a comment, and each day  a name will be drawn, and at the end one grand winner. This is international as well, so come on in and join the fun.
Come and see my suggestions on 22nd July, again Northern time zone, and the finish is on a very auspicious day, 25th July, my birthday.
To start the ball rolling here are the first three blog hoppers and a link to their blog.
Come and see Carole at    From My Carolina Home
Next on the list is Sharon  at VROOMANS QUILTS
And the third blogger is Brandy over at Pampered Pettit.
And not like here in New Zealand, where roads are closed with snow, and 9,500 homes  are without power in the central North Island area,  and travel is very restricted  in so many areas, you do not have to travel to be in the hop… We had no snow, the power stayed on, no trees down at our place, and the fires kept everyone cosy and warm.
The fire in our lounge, with Poppy all stretched out in prime position.

Poppy and the fire
The fire when we were camping in Pureora Park. 5 a.m. on a very cold morning!!!
Fire at 5.30 a.m. Piropiro Flats, Pureora
And the heap of cut and split wood, almost all gone now!!!
The mighty heap of firewood 2016
Quotation of the day, author unknown
“ Be like a Boy Scout,
and prepare for anything and everything”

Greetings from Jean.

Jenn Jilks said...

Gosh, everyone is complaining about the rain here!
They forget about the 4 seasons!!!
It's comforting seeing your lovely fire!
Happy quilting!! xo

QuiltinLibraryLady said...

Oh, Lordy! I don't even want to think about Christmas yet! It's hard to think of it being winter somewhere when it's been so hot & humid here, but I'm glad you're warm and cozy. There's just nothing like wood heat.

Paige said...

I can't believe it's starting up already! And snow for you, I can't imagine!

eileeninmd said...

Hello, the Christmas in July blog hop sounds like fun. I am sure there will be lots of beautiful goodies. I hope you are staying warm and safe there. The wood stove looks toasty, especially for Poppy stretched out in front.

Happy Friday, have a great day and weekend!

Carole @ From My Carolina Home said...

Stay cozy and sewing, while it is snowing! That fire looks so warm and inviting, perfect for a chilly day.

Carol Mattingly said...

Stay warm down there gal. It seems to be a serious Winter going on. Love your background image behind your post. All those gorgeous patterns fits in with all your gorgeous quilts. Carol

Mystic Quilter said...

You were lucky to avoid the snow at your place, we were told that Auckland may have hail the other day but I din't see any, it has been mighty cold, wet and windy though. However, I'm thankful we're not having the weather that South Islanders are dealing with, nor the Central Plateau. Your afire looks extremely inviting!


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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Anonymous Declares War Against the U.S.; And Calls "Bullshit" At The Same Time

Here's a glimpse at the confusing landscape of a "stateless nation". I spent some time yesterday on Twitter speaking with a variety of individuals who associate themselves with Anonymous over a literal declaration of war against the U.S. by Anonymous. Here are links to the video and its transcript. It contains pretty inflammatory language:
We are not calling upon the collective to deface or use a distributed denial of service attack on a United States government agency website or affiliate. We are not calling upon the people to occupy a city or protest in front of a local building. This has not brought on us any legislative change or alternate law. It has only brought us bloodshed and false criticism. For the last 12 years, voting was useless. Corporations and lobbyists are the true leaders of this country and are the ones with the power to control our lives. To rebuild our government, we must first destroy it.
Our time for democracy is here.
Our time for real change is here.
This is America’s time, to have its own revolution.
Therefore, Anonymous has decided to openly declare war on the United States government. This is a call to arms. We call upon the Citizens of the United States to stand beside us in overthrowing this corrupted body and call upon a new era. Our allegiance is to the American people, because they are us, and we are them.
Operation V, engaged.
Although the video in question looks like other Anonymous videos, the operation has been called "bull shit" by Anonymous IRC and other individuals who consider themselves part of the collective. It's also been labeled a "fake op" on YouTube

Operation V points out a serious problem for Anonymous. By having no centralized authority, it leaves itself open to suffering repercussions by the U.S. government for these questionable operations launched by pretty much anyone who feels like it. The organizers or "old fags" could easily see the non-violent protest organization that they worked to create over the years become radicalized by "new fags" who have no respect for their efforts and will subvert it to their own ends. A declaration of war against the U.S., fake or not, may come with serious consequences for the group and its members, including those who don't support it.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Reflections on Suits and Spooks DC

It's been one week since the Suits and Spooks DC (SNSDC) event took place and I've made four of the presentations given that day available for download. Not all of the speakers, including me, wanted their information available outside of the protected venue that we offer so for those of you who couldn't make it last week, watch for our upcoming announcement of Suits and Spooks LA this summer. Yes - the next event will be in Los Angeles - probably Santa Monica, to be specific. The exact date and venue is still being explored. but I can tell you that it will be held on a Friday so that, if you're traveling in, you can enjoy the weekend on the beach afterwards.

The general consensus of those attending Suits and Spooks DC was overwhelmingly positive. Dr. Mark Drapeau attended and wrote a review of SNSDC: "Suits and Spooks Rendezvous for the Greater Good". It was my hope that by inviting a multi-disciplinary lineup of speakers that some common themes would emerge, and in fact - that's what happened. One of the points that I made in my opening remarks was that we should re-assess which attacks should be investigated and which should be let go. The FBI and US-CERT are overwhelmed with tracking everything from probes against government networks to DDoS attacks to targeted attacks against the Defense Industrial Base. That's far too much to expect any agency to do let alone ones burdened with budgetary and staffing problems. One of John Robb's 27 Rules was that "it’s better to damage and impair a network than to completely destroy it, because it forces the target to use up more resources for repair." That's what Anonymous is succeeding at doing so brilliantly - using up massive amounts of federal, state and local resources in multiple countries without ever actually destroying anything. Someone needs to conduct a hard target evaluation on whether Anonymous attacks deserve the same importance as the theft of critical data or attacks against critical infrastructure.

While Anup Ghosh gave example after example of how inept our past approaches to information security have been, Dan Geer made an elegant argument for the need harness the world's "unemployed geniuses who are, incidentally, desperate for a job" rather than continue to turn over our security to machines. Jonathan Hutson started off his remarkable presentation on the Satellite Sentinel Project by explaining that the worst question one can ask when faced by a seemingly impossible task is "how can I help?" The passivity of that question doesn't fare well against insurmountable odds. A far better question, Jonathan explained, is "what needs to be done?". Then do it, no matter how impossible the problem looks to be. That's great advice, regardless of the challenge.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Cyber Threats Require An Expansion Of The Sensitive Countries List

The website Public Intelligence has released Sandia National Labs and the Department of Energy's Sensitive Countries List. This is a list of 26 countries where approval is required for a visit or an assignment by a DOE employee because the country is known to engage in activities which may be contrary to the interests of the U.S. Of those 26 countries, I've identified 11 who are also developing CNO (Cyber Network Operation capabilities including CNE (Cyber Network Exploitation):
  • Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea)
  • Peoples Republic of China (including Hong Kong)
  • Georgia
  • India
  • Iran
  • Israel
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Russian Federation
  • Syria
  • Republic of China (Taiwan)
  • Ukraine
There's actually many more countries with these capabilities that do not appear on the Sensitive Countries list and I hopeful that that will change in the next few years.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Did Symantec's 2006 Breach Impact These High Risk Customers?

The fact that Symantec (NYSE: SYMC) never knew that its 2006 source code had been compromised until the Lords of Dharmaraja announced it was astoundingly bad news. As the world's largest vendor of security software, it's more than just an embarrassment; it puts all of its corporate and government customers at risk because if Symantec didn't know the extent of its breach back then, how do Symantec's customers know that their current product line is safe to use? Nothing that Symantec has said since it acknowledged the loss of its Norton source code has addressed this core issue of why they didn't know their that source code had been breached and what they're doing differently to be sure that it doesn't happen again. Until they answer those critical questions, the security of their entire product line should be considered at risk.

I've begun looking at who their customers were post-2006 that have been attacked for a talk that I'm giving next week at Suits and Spooks DC. This doesn't mean that their customers' breaches were the result of Symantec's own poor network practices, nor does it rule out the possibility that other breaches may have occurred that were never discovered. I hope, however, that it will illustrate the potential scope of this problem and encourage Symantec's customers to put pressure on the company to fully disclose what happened and put its own house in order. Here's a small sampling of what I've found so far:

NASDAQ suffered a breach of its network in early 2010 which wasn't discovered until February 2011. It's been blamed in part on NASDAQ's use of out-of-date software and uninstalled security patches. As a Symantec customer, NASDAQ used Endpoint Protection, which was included in the list of products affected by the 2006 source code breach.

U.S. Department of Energy
The Energy Dept and its many agencies and national labs have been Symantec customers since before 2006. The number of cyber security breaches that have occurred during those years and up to the present (five last summer alone) are too numerous to recount however this GAO report describes some of the security problems at Los Alamos National Laboratory's unclassified network including weaknesses in its remote access policies. It'd be interesting to know if pcAnywhere was used to facilitate that remote access.

Other U.S. Government Departments
Symantec's government customers include every major department including:
  • Department of Justice
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • Department of Treasury
  • Department of Defense
  • Department of Commerce
  • Department of Energy
  • Department of Health and Human Services
  • Department of Agriculture
  • Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Department of the Interior
  • General Services Administration
  • Executive Office of the President
  • Federal Trade Commission
All of these departments (and this is not a complete list) have used Symantec products during the years from 2006 forward which means that any of them could have been victims of a person or group who exploited their knowledge of Symantec's stolen source code to successfully breach their network at will. This isn't limited to its U.S. customers either. The British government's entire email system has been managed and secured by a Symantec subsidiary since 2008. I'll be addressing that in more detail on Feb 8th. In the mean time, which is more likely - that someone acquired Symantec's source code and did nothing with it or that they did?


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There’s a great deal to love relating to this bread maker, the smooth design and style, the elevated buttons in lieu of only a flat Screen you force, but I need to say it definitely appears to more than cook the bread

The resulting loaf had a good, even crumb but was somewhat as well dense. The sides and foundation have been a little bit crunchy but not a lot of on leading (we chose the medium environment).

The CBK-a hundred design does just as well so I’d have imagined Cuisinart would supply slightly bigger pan. Not A serious issue for many handmade bread bakers but The shortage of a wow aspect here is a bit disappointing.

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This is a wonderful device. Does The work very well. Menu is quite simple to work with, even so acquired negative final results each and every time making use of the basic white bread recipe included with the breadmaker

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