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bomi development house is REGISTERED BUSINESS company incorporated in South Africa with identification number of 2004-111775-23. Company was incorporated on 2004-10-28, so the age of company is approximately 12.41 years. The type of company is Close Corporation. bomi development house detailed status is In Business. More details...

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Unnamed Player: Jets Doubt Validity Of Quotes; Colleague Defends Report

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – As the Jets’ matchup against the St. Louis Rams looms, the talk surrounding Gang Green continues to be the anonymous criticism of Tim Tebow, most notably the remark that he’s “terrible.”

Which player or players said it? What was their motive? And why now?

These are the unanswered questions, and they will most likely remain unanswered with the Week 11 contest just two days away.

But some players — and former players — have opinions on the matter, and they’ve begun to express them as the media attention grows.

On his radio show, former Jets running back LaDainian Tomlinson pointed the finger at Antonio Cromartie and Bart Scott as the possible unnamed players, something they both strongly denied.

And now, according to one player, the feeling around the Jets’ locker room is that the comments first reported by Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News were concocted out of thin air, reported Kristian Dyer of Metro New York.

One big conspiracy? The anonymous Jet thinks it’s certainly a possibility.

“That one right there (that Tebow is ‘terrible’), we don’t know if that necessarily came out of the locker room,” the player told Dyer. “We think that was made up or that was from an old story that he took and rewrote again. We don’t think that came from here and was recent. Whatever one comes from in here has a name on it, like the [Matt] Slauson one, we talked about it and moved on.

“But we’re not buying all this spin that is coming out right now, and we’re not necessarily buying that the quote came out recently or even from this locker room.”

On Friday morning, Daily News columnist Gary Myers defended his colleague to WFAN co-hosts Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton, saying that he has no question that Mehta’s report was nothing but the truth.

“It is accurate … I think Manish is a great reporter, and he’s got that place wired,” Myers said.

As for Slauson, who insists that he didn’t make his derogatory remarks recently?

“Within the last three weeks, he did say that,” Myers said. “I know that. Manish did tell me that, and I trust him on that because he’s never not told me the truth.”

LISTEN: Gary Myers defends colleague Manish Mehta to Boomer & Carton

Many Jets have adamantly insisted that the controversy isn’t bothering them — as they feel that the quotes don’t accurately portray the sentiment in the locker room — and have even indicated that this incident has brought the team closer.

“The media is making this an issue, we’re not making it an issue,” the player said. “We’re not even really concerned about it because we’re not buying it.”

Owner Woody Johnson agrees that the team is unified, and despite his frustration with the team’s on-field play, he seems to feel that his 3-6 team still has its integrity.

“Anonymous people don’t speak for the New York Jets, they really don’t,” Johnson said. “I’m out here every day talking to players, looking at players, talking to the coaches, meeting with the coaches and the players, so I think I’m a reasonably good judge. I’m not a coach, but I’ve been around this for 13 years now … I see this team as really tight knit.

“Maybe it’s because of the stories that have been circulating recently — the unfair criticism and the anonymous criticism particularly — which is kind of cowardly in my opinion. Put your name on it. If you have a criticism, stand up and we’ll be glad to talk to you about it. I think it is having kind of an effect of maybe bringing the guys closer.”

Tebow has barely played on the offensive side of the ball this season, completing just five of six passes for 40 yards. He’s also only rushed the ball 27 times for 92 yards. He doesn’t have a touchdown on the season.

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Guess Which Institutions the American People Have the Least Confidence In?

According to a recent Gallup poll, confidence in several institutions are at all-time lows. Respondents were asked about 14 different institutions and how much confidence they have in them. Not surprisingly, Congress has the lowest figures, dropping over the last ten years from 19% to 9% of respondents saying that they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the institution.

The four biggest losers according to the Gallup poll were banks, organized religion, news media, and Congress. Gallup reported:

Confidence in banks — which took a hit amid the bursting housing bubble in 2007 and 2008, and dropped further after the ensuing financial crisis — fell the most, plunging from 49% in 2006 to 27% now. Confidence in organized religion, which has felt the effects of the scandals enveloping the Catholic Church, dropped from 52% to 41%, one point below last year’s previous low of 42%. Television news, newspapers and Congress all dropped 10 points — pushing newspapers to a 20% confidence level, two points below their previous low of 22% in 2007 and 2014.

Despite the declining percentages of Americans having high confidence in these institutions, the majority have at least “some” confidence in all but one of them. Congress has the ignominious distinction of being the only institution sparking little or no confidence in a majority of Americans.

In contrast, the Gallup poll found that Americans’ confidence in the military has remained high, even over the last decade. Over the last ten years, confidence in the military has remained at 73%.

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It’s this extreme loss of confidence in the news media and Congress that made Donald Trump’s candidacy so receptive to voters. He has been able to run as a political outsider and harsh critic of the media and elected officials in government, all of which has helped propel him to victory. It remains to be seen whether it will be enough to help him win in the general election.

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A magical author

This month we’re discussing writers we admire. This is a tough one to answer because there are so many authors that I love, but there is one in particular who makes me want to be a better writer. If you haven’t already fallen in love with Sarah Addison Allen’s work, allow me to introduce you.

I stole this from her website: North Carolina novelist Sarah Addison Allen brings the full flavor of her southern upbringing to bear on her fiction — a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town sensibility.

This little blurb only hints at what you really need to know about Ms. Allen’s stories—they’re filled with magic so beautifully written that you can’t help but believe, and romance so sweet it leaves you hungry for more.

Need examples? Here are a few of my favorite bits and pieces from her books:

“Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word,” Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer’s progress, helpless, almost as if they couldn’t look away. “They remind you of something good–picnics or carrying sparklers around at night. Southern men will hold doors open for you, they’ll hold you after you yell at them, and they’ll hold on to their pride no matter what. Be careful what they tell you, though. They have a way of making you believe anything, because they say it that way.”
Sarah Addison Allen (The Girl Who Chased the Moon)

“I’ll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I’m thousands of days ahead already.”
Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there’s more to what’s written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don’t see.”
Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

“Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved there on its own, just to get your attention. Sometimes what’s inside will change your life, but sometimes you don’t even have to read it. Sometimes it’s a comfort just to have a book around. Many of these books haven’t even had their spines cracked. ‘Why do you buy books you don’t even read?’ our daughter asks us. That’s like asking someone who lives alone why they bought a cat. For company, of course.”
Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

I think the best authors are the ones who can take a common feeling or observance and wrap it up in a way that makes the reader say, “Yes, exactly!” as they are reading along. Ms. Allen does that in every book.

Yes, I’m a huge fangirl, and I’m not even ashamed to admit it. Since I’m so shameless, I’ll share this one last quote because I think it holds true when we fall in love with an author’s work:

“It feels like he’s taken your heart, doesn’t it?….Like he’s reached in and pulled it out from you. And I bet he smiles like he doesn’t know, like he doesn’t know he’s holding your heart in his hand and you’re dying from him.”
Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

How about you? Is there an author who holds your heart?

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  1. *happy sigh* Brilliant choices. That final one gets me every time. I have you to thank for introducing me to SAA and I’ll be forever grateful for that. She’s a marvelously talented author, but you’re right up there with her in my mind, Maggie! :)

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The Road To Publication – by Dani Collins

The Ultimate Seduction, 21st Century Gentlemen’s Club

For me, the road to publication was a rocky one with many, many detours. I started when I was twenty-one and didn’t receive the call until I was forty-six. Not only did little things like marriage and babies and day jobs get in the way, but the entire industry shrank then evolved and exploded.

One question I’m often asked is, How did you persevere for twenty-five years? My answer is simple: I didn’t know it would take that long. Every January first I told myself, This is the year. Every new manuscript was The One.

Yes, absolutely, I had dark times, but those few times when I really, really thought about quitting, things would happen to coax me along. My husband would say, I think you should keep at it. I’d place in a contest or get an encouraging letter from an editor.

By year twenty, I realized I’d already worked longer at being unpublished than many people do in paying jobs. It was a career in itself. And I was so mad, and in so deep, I refused outright to let publishing lick me. I was going to show it that I was made of sterner stuff.

I wish I could say there was one specific action, one secret I figured out, that tipped me from ‘pretty close’ to ‘first sale.’ I was lucky enough to final in Mills & Boon’s Instant Seduction contest, but even though I was given the opportunity to work with an editor, it still took four years and half a dozen manuscripts to level up to The Call.

I’ve actually given up trying to figure out why my journey was the long way and so many other authors seem to find short cuts. It’s really easy to compare yourself to others, and can be really self-destructive when you do. I had to overcome a lot of envy in those early years and knew I’d come a long way the other day when a friend was asked by her publisher to do a signing and I had a mixed reaction of, “Wow. Good for her!” yet gave a little sigh of relief that it hadn’t happened to me. Not that signings are bad things. Obviously not and of course I’d be thrilled to be asked, but that’s her journey, and traffic is plenty busy on mine without my taking on something more.

Because here’s the other thing about the road to publication. You don’t travel it once. You get The Call and think you’ve arrived, but guess what? You have to turn around and drive that same road again with a second manuscript and a third. You also have to stop by the social media outlet on the way and talk up yourself and your story. Maybe you were tracking your mileage before, but now your accounting involves trying to work out how much you’re spending and making by title. (If you’re me, you do. I’m nuts that way.)

Everything is bigger better faster, but guess what? All those synopses and query letters and pitches that I thought were a waste of time when they were rejected turned out to be valuable learning ground. In fact, now that I’ve got some street cred, I’ve been able to revise three of my rejected manuscripts into paying titles and I have hopes for two more. I like to think I just showed up too early with a lot of them. Publishing wasn’t ready, but it is now.

This has turned into a bit of a preach to fellow unpublished authors. Given my long journey, I really did have to learn to be all zen about enjoying the process and embracing all the good things about being an unpublished author. It’s a time when your writing belongs solely to you and the outside noise is much lower. But I think anyone pursuing any goal should look at how far they’ve come rather than agonizing over how much more distance is still to be traveled.

I usually try to tie my guest posts to my current release. In this case, The TheUltimateSeductionUltimate Seduction is a good example of the sorts of bumps I wasn’t really prepared for. On the one hand, my editor requested I participate in the series, which was a feather in my cap, but it was a really tight deadline and it was a collaboration project. As lovely as my fellow Presents authors, Maya Blake and Victoria Parker turned out to be, collaborating was a new skill for me, not something I had previously trained for.

So the scenery shifts as the road continues. Publication is not a destination. It’s a journey.

Have you pursued a goal that’s taken a lot of time and grit? What kept you going? Any struggles with jealousy and (pun intended) Are we there yet?

A commenter’s name will be chosen to receive a print copy of THE ULTIMATE SEDUCTION!

“I’m about to make you an offer you can’t refuse.”

Tiffany Davis takes her first delicious step into the exclusive masquerade ball hosted by the secretive Q Virtus gentleman’s club. Here, behind the mask, Tiffany can hide her scars and reveal her true self—a powerful businesswoman with an offer for the president of Bregnovia, Ryzard Vrbancic.

Astounded by her audacity, only the fire in Tiffany’s eyes makes Ryzard look twice. He has no interest in her business deal, but the promise of a woman who can match his ruthless determination makes him eager to seduce from her the one thing she’s not offering….

Ryzard followed the man’s gaze and his entire being crackled to attention.

Well beyond the pool’s light, in a corner mostly blocked by a buffet table and ice sculpture, a woman undulated like a cobra, utterly fascinating in her hypnotic movements timed perfectly with the music. Her splayed hands slid down her body with sexy knowledge, her hips popped in time to the beat, and her feet kick-stepped into motion.

She twirled. The motion lifted her brassy curls like a skirt before she planted her feet wide and swayed her weight between them. The flex of her spine gave way to a roll of her hips, and she was back into motion again.

Setting down his drink, Ryzard beelined toward her. He couldn’t tell if the woman had a partner, but it didn’t matter. He was cutting in.

She was alone, lifting her arms to gather her hair, eyes closed as she felt the music as much as heard it. She arched and stretched—

He caught her around the waist and used the shocked press of her hands at his shoulders to push her into accepting his lead, stepping into her space, then retreating, bringing her with him. As he moved her into a side step, she recovered, matching his move while her gaze pinned to his.

He couldn’t tell what color her eyes were. The light was too low, her feathery mask shadowing her gaze into twin glinting lights, but he reacted to the fixation in them. She was deciding whether to accept him.

A rush of excitement for the challenge ran through him. After a few more quick steps, he swung her into half pivots, catching each of her wrists in turn, one bare, one clad in silk, enjoying the flash of her bare knee through the slit of her skirt.

How had she been overlooked by every man here? She was exquisite.

Lifting her hand over her head, he spun her around then clasped her shoulder blades into his chest. Her buttocks—fine, firm, round globes as if heaven had sent him a valentine—pressed into his lap. Bending her before him, he buried his nose in her hair and inhaled, then followed her push to straighten and matched the sway of her hips with his own.

Tiffany’s heart pounded so hard she thought it would escape her chest. One second she’d been slightly drunk, lost in the joy of letting the salsa rhythm control her muscles. Now a stranger was doing it. And doing it well. He pulled her around into a waltz stance that he quickly shifted so they grazed each other’s sides, left, right, left.

She kicked each time, surprised how easily the movements came back to her. It had been years, but this man knew what he was doing, sliding her slowly behind his back, then catching her hand on the other side. He pushed her to back up a step, bringing one of her arms behind his head, the other behind her own. A few backward steps and they were connected by only one hand, arms outstretched, then he spun her back into him, catching her into his chest.

He stopped.

The conga beat pulsed through her as he ran his hands down her sides. Her own flew to cover his knuckles, but she didn’t stop him. It felt too amazing. His fingertips grazed the sides of her breasts, flexed into the taut muscles of her waist and clasped her hips to push them in a hula circle that he followed with his own, his crotch pressed tight to her buttocks.

Sensual pleasure electrified her. No one touched her anymore. After being a genderless automaton for so long, she was a woman again, alive, capable of captivating and enticing a man. She nudged her hips into his and flashed a cheeky glance back at him.

After a brilliant debut in the UK with No Longer Forbidden, a Mills & Boon Modern Book Of The Month January 2013, Dani’s first Harlequin Presents, Proof Of Their Sin, won the Reviewer’s Choice by Romantic Times Book Reviews for Best First In Series. While her focus is Harlequin Presents, Dani has also published a romantic comedy, a medieval fantasy, and coming August of 2014, an erotic romance collection with HarlequinE. Whatever the genre, she always delivers sexy alpha heroes, witty, spirited heroines, complex emotions and loads of passion.

Enter Dani Collins’ Masked Desires Contest for a chance to express your secret desires from behind a masquerade mask.

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Good Shepherd (movie review)

This very stylish piece plays it straight with our man Agent Buttercup, a shy guy, both ostensibly and for real, who turns his back on every one of his angels in exchange for some vaguely lewd Castle of Whispers (plus a haunting piano).

I was reminded of both eXistenZ and A Beautiful Mind (imagine oscillating between the two in some random sequence).

Other spins in this literature make it so much less of a guy thing. I contribute to this genre in part because of inbreeding: my Princeton's 2D (Class of 1980) was more coven-like than anything bonesmen (more of a Yale thing). But hey, this movie isn't about me, so I should just save it for my blogs, right?

De Niro both directs the film and plays Wild Bill Donovan, titular founder of the OSS, which later transmogrified post Truman, as we all know, to become the beloved Cold Warrior agency, since then eclipsed by this weird constellation of like sixteen little agencies around some D'ni in Uru (or whatever (I don't pretend to follow too closely)):

The Americans don't make out very well in this film. Agent Buttercup & Co. basically botch every operation they get close to, like the Russians are simply better at it and so? All water under the bridge by now; cold warriors having their fun in the sun.

I kept thinking of the Matt Damon character as a Sim, like you don't want too many of these guys in your reality (idiocrats, "pompous and faggy" (allusion)). Damon gets points for doing him so effectively (another "quiet American" you just want to scream at, tell him to get off the phone and get a life (like, you're married to Angelina for crying out loud)).

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Chance of Rain

One of the most light hearted autobiographies I ever encountered was at a nearby coffee shop with this name. I don't know if it still has that bookish look any more (a passing phase), plus I know it no longer shows those Governor Schwarzenegger movies. Anyway, Salvador Dali's. Check it out sometime.

Wanderers: Barry is describing pre-WWII banking situations, leaving some guy to sleep it off in the vault.

I came in late, giving a heads up about another four-legged Wanderer candidate that might join us briefly. It's my practice to include non-humans in our gatherings.

We shall see. We also discussed fund accounting, vs. the more usual for-profit kind (DWA's specialty, and TBC's, is/was the former type of bookkeeping, used by many a 501(c)(3)).

We then broke out into some full blown kabbalah type conversation, lots of Hebrew letters (more unicode fun), thanks to Milt and his invited guest Ken. The Mayan and Wiccan calendars also received significant attention from the other end of the table. Portland is just like that.

I name dropped Stan Tenen but otherwise didn't have much to offer in this department. I've never read much Suarez, given all that time squandered on Synergetics (plus R&R).

The dog was beautiful. My sincere thanks to her handlers for sharing her with us.

Monday, November 26, 2007

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I was out stumping for Unicode again today, welcoming its centrality in the newer Pythons (3.x generation).

The XOs come with various swap-in keyboards, such as the one depicted above.

Consider the hexadecimal U+0436 for example, the lowercase letter Zhe (ж), 8th letter in the Russian alphabet: Python source code is now able to include that.

Showcasing Python's new internationalization features might be a theme at Vilnius again next year.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Wanderers 2007.11.21

The agenda for this meeting remained volatile right up through the opening, oscillating somewhere between "open" and "programmed."

The Tiller video (Stanford emeritus, one of the Bleep guys) was somewhat Wanderers like, but the audience was more polite and deferential than is our wont, so after about 45 minutes we paused the DVD and went ape for a few.

Then I had to bow out (taking my Dell laptop which had been playing the DVD -- fortunately we still had Bill's), owing to this being that Thanksgiving Season again, and I have a great deal to be thankful for, even amidst sorrow, plus a lot of logistics to handle.

Yesterday I thought Glenn was appropriately skeptical of this cymatic "face" as they call it, which might actually be one of those grays, and cousin to the one on Mars.

This political ad by Mike Huckabee and his friend Chuck Norris is hilarious.

Thank you Trevor, for turning me on to the Ulam Spiral.

As I was saying, I have much gratitude to express, many lucky stars to thank.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Home Appliance Story

Les & Elise tackled my dishwasher problem with gusto. The thing had become anemic, only the bottom rack usable, and the heating element was looking pretty fried.

The Yellow Pages guy had failed to find the real problem, had charged me $70 anyway, whereas Les quickly got to the heart of the matter: the chopper blade had come off the circular pump intake mesh, leaving it to clog with grime, which explained the low water pressure. The plastic mounting post was irreparable.

Elise, a mechanic in her own right (she fixes old Volvos etc.), managed to track down and secure this obscure assembly, along with a new heating element, just minutes before Saturday closing time at a nearby supply depot.

The heating element came with a replacement circuit board controller and a warning to only install both, suggesting to Les there'd been some shortcomings in the previous programming i.e. I probably wasn't the first to experience a heating element melt down.

My only role in all this was to dash to the hardware store for a Torx screwdriver kit, and to hold the flashlight.

During final reassembly, Les and I took a time out to express our patriotic fervor regarding our privileged position as civilians in a society with its act together enough to make such repair stories possible.

I attributed our success as a culture in part to our willingness to rant against ourselves, often in the context of hard core trainings, illustrating with a five second Full Metal Jacket impersonation crossed with some football coach.

Les agreed, then told the story of this top manager he knew, who lived across from a high school and finally got tired hearing coaches screaming at their male trainees about their being "women" in the sense of incompetent sissies. She went over there and really gave 'em a piece of her mind, again making a positive difference to our culture.

Later, while Ruth and Tara played upstairs, the three of us watched a show about the Galapagos on the National Geographic channel, which is where Les & Elise got married. The dishwasher is working great now.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Defending the USA

At least the Pope is doing his job, coming out swinging against nuclear weapons across the board.

Inferior brands of pseudo Christian take a more forked-tongue approach: put the screws on Iran while hypocritically reserving the right to stockpile, not just nukes, but WMDs of all kinds, to be used not just in self-defense, but in preemptive wars of choice that pander to mob hysteria fanned by self-interested corporate media invested in war profiteering.

These hollow-voiced pundits and newscasters are selling out their country by turning it into a ridiculous paper tiger, worthy only of mockery and disdain.

Fortunately, the USA still has a few patriotic defenders able to rise above being cynical, manipulative losers. One or two of them might even get to be president someday.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

An Evening of Meetings

Our Python Meetup at PDX Cubespace was quite successful, owing in part to our sponsor, Kavi, who provided some first class salad and pizza. We took some of the excess za over to the PHP group, meeting elsewhere in the building, returning the favor from last time.

Our featured talks: ReportLab, simplifying development, Django, and myself on open source in medical research.

My main point was to distinguish an open source process, which inherits from the liberal arts ethic (tipping my hat to Robert Lefkowitz here), from its fruits, which might be shared tools or standards.

Engineers have a tendency to actually brand their stuff "open source" these days, whereas the medical community has other shoptalks.

To some extent, merging the expertise of our communities is an exercise in translation.

Jeff clued me about some recent announcements from Google about its intent to make on-line medical record keeping more of a reality, with Microsoft making similar plans. Thanks Jeff.

The beer part afterwards was fun though I didn't drink any, sticking to champagne with orange juice (not necessarily any less caloric I realize). I had some good basic conversations about SQL Alchemy, Postgres and so on.

It's not my style to try to sound all-knowing in when geeks talk turkey. On the contrary, I'm more like the guy who asks "what's a turkey?"

Immediately following, I buzzed over to Wanderers to catch the tail end of Greg's presentation, but it was over already. I enjoyed some informal banter with my cronies before turning in.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Calling it "TechNation" (with or without a space) connects in esoterica to TechNate, a term of art in the Technocracy movement, about which most North Americans are clueless (hey, there's just no time to learn history -- though maybe this Hollywood writers' strike will open a window, by giving viewers more time to catch up on their nonfiction?).

Anyway, going back to the dot com boom and bust, I sometimes tell the story of how I was approached by some guy, early in the boom phase, suggesting I move to New York City and become the CEO for his startup. I looked pretty good on paper, plus had a web site pretty early, even some good press. I'd be like his trophy executive. Then, went the plan, once venture capital was secured and it was time to "go live," I'd be replaced with someone more savvy, no doubt one of my would-be recruiter's cronies, already waiting in the wings.

There might've been some real bucks in it for me, no question, but the prospect of leaving Portland was not appealing, plus when I got the guy's business plan in the mail, I could see through the jargon and buzzwords to another plain vanilla ISP, another Internet Service Provider. I just didn't like the hollowness of the hype, so said thanks but no thanks.

A disconnect I sense in the storytelling is most North Americans aren't up to date on this whole Open Source thing. Didn't Linux take a hit when the dot com bubble burst? Or if it didn't, don't we at least know that those scruffy hacker types, "dot commies" with pipe dreams of world domination, were forced to eat their own dog food, roll over and die?

How many on Main Street know the story of SCO, which tried to eat Linux's lunch, yet ended up delisted? How many know that IBM is a major contributor to the Linux kernel, or that Microsoft now sports a lot of Open Source DNA? If you still think it's scruffy hackers vs. Microsoft, think again. Of course those pathetic loser patent trolls in Texas still plan to put up a fight. I can't say I'm much interested in their sorry fate.

The story I tell goes more like this: lawyers still held enough cards to make the first dot com boom a Wall Street phenomenon, all about making money the old fashioned way, with lots of smoke and mirrors. Round two still involves mirroring, focusing, but engineers now hold enough cards to keep the smoke levels way down. Transparency in business processes is now part of what Open Source means. Investors should like this, though it'll mean a shakeout process as those over-depending on smoke get a taste of the competition. The result: a more robust economy, and not just in North America, not by a long shot.

Friday, November 09, 2007

Science Friday

I thought Harold Salzman of the Urban Institute did some significant backpedaling today, conceding most points his rhetorical opponents were making.

Salzman's view: the education situation may be dire, concerning, but it's not apocalyptic. Kids today know a lot more about computers than did kids thirty years ago. Compared to where we were, we're not all that different, on average -- never mind where the rest of the world is going, that's not what this study was about. "If my son or daughter is as informed and aware as I was, when I was his or her age, then things can't really be that bad" seems to be the attitude here. A semi-static picture should be no cause for alarm.

Yes, the cream of the crop is still pretty creamy, and given the intellectual squalor in which we live, there's really not that much demand for even more engineers, not counting those in the destruction business, of which there's a severe shortage right now (hence Stop-Loss). Destructive engineering is still a bonanza source of family wage jobs, thanks to myopic policymakers. Cruise missiles R Us.

Those disillusioned would-be design scientists might be more in demand in some other, more futuristic civilization, some parallel universe, one in which World Game was actually mentioned out loud (gasp!). Indeed, lack of hope in the future was cited as a major reason for students getting turned off, abandoning their hopes and dreams i.e. all that homework to what end, given global warming and the impending economic downturn? Fear over longing, once again (an old story).

So what's this Urban Institute anyway? Mostly middle of the road liberal types, of the kind who lost the War on Poverty, got us mixed up in Vietnam?

I liked Intel's Craig R. Barrett's thinking better: if we don't shape up, USAers will get creamed in the global jobs market. I think that's correct, but in the backs of their minds, some so-called liberals still just knee-jerk assume we'll have to write off the less privileged as unsalvageable. They then sugar coat their thinly disguised Malthusianism in various bureaucratic policymaking voices, like FEMA does when talking about those post-Katrina toxic trailers: all blather, and no action, because the mindset between the ears is quite broken.

Let's talk about "mental poverty" for a change, and acknowledge it might come dressed up in a suit and carry a briefcase, with fancy degrees and all the rest of it. Losers come in all stripes, don't they?

Sunday, November 04, 2007

More Commenting on News

From the CBS News website:

"The image that's been portrayed is, we sat around the campfire and said, 'Oh, boy, now we go get to torture people.' Well, we don't torture people. Let me say that again to you. We don't torture people. Okay?" Tenet says.

"Come on, George," Pelley says.

"We don't torture people," Tenet maintains.

"Khalid Sheikh Mohammad?" Pelley asks.

"We don't torture people," Tenet says.

"Water boarding?" Pelley asks.

"We do not – I don't talk about techniques," Tenet replies.

"It's torture," Pelley says.

"And we don't torture people. Now, listen to me. Now, listen to me. I want you to listen to me," Tenet says.

My comments on Quaker-P (Sun Nov 4 10:41:21 PST 2007):

So was that all a lot of hooey? Why should we believe as he believes, right?

Another gestalt: if you use torture, you're simply not part of the CIA in Tenet's view. Something of a tautology perhaps? Doesn't he have the right to a view though, as an exDCI and all?

At some level we're each a walking microcosm. How you tell history is really a window into your own personal psyche no? This was Kierkegaard's point in his Concluding Unscientific Postscript I think.

This idea of an Objective Voice that narrates history from some omniscient God's eye view is a literary conceit. One may pretend to such a voice, but is it ever authentic?

These "objective stories" are a manifestation of people herding together, seeking comfort in a shared telling -- more Will to Power at work, to take Nietzsche's slant.


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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Yam Fried Rice

Since there are still some yam left over so I used it to fried rice with yam. What you need to do is just cut the yam into cubes and deep fried in hot oil till soft or cooked. I added some dried prawns into the fried rice.

Next step is to make some scramble eggs and then saute the dried prawns and some chopped garlic till fragrant. Then add in the rice and stir well. Throw in the yam and season with salt and soya sauce to taste.

Here you go a nice bowl of fragrant Yam Fried Rice for dinner.

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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Killer Tracks: Best Coast - When I'm With You

Just stumbled upon the new video for Best Coast's 2009 single "When I'm With You" and I'm absolutely loving it! Seems that the whole '60s-style girl-group thing meets garage-punk guitars meets shoegaze (there's even an actual shoe/feet-gazing scene in the video!) is really taking off this year (see also the recent excellent  Dum Dum Girls debut LP).

We're expecting Best Coast's full-length debut to drop later in the year, while Bethany Cosentino and her band stay busy releasing new singles - "Something In The Way" is already out and there is another one on the way ("Far Away") for early May (but in a weird marketing ploy, you'll need to buy a pair of headphones to get it). Meanwhile, let's get a taste of summer with the breezy pop of "When I'm With You":

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Wooden Shjips, Live @ An Club, Athens (April 23, 2010)

This weekend San Francisco’s Wooden Shjips set sail for Greece, for a short tour that includes shows in Athens, Thessaloniki and Larissa. Their first stop was at An Club on Friday, where they played their first ever gig in the Greek capital in front of a small but wildly enthusiastic crowd.

Weirdly named local act Nechayevschina (no idea how it’s pronounced) played before the main attraction, offering a mainly instrumental 45-minute psych-rock jam, not too far away from the trippy drone of Wooden Shjips.

The four San Franciscans arrived on stage a little after 11 o’clock and for the next hour and a half took us on a wild space ride with the power of their repetitive, entrancing psychedelic sounds. Both of the band’s albums (“Wooden Shjips” and “Dos”) were well represented in the night’s setlist that also included several tracks from the recently released “Vol.2” rarities compilation. Some of the most memorable moments of the show included “We Ask You To Ride”, “Losin’ Time”, “Loose Lips”, “Vampire Blues” (amazing how they transform this Neil Young track into a Suicide - Kraut-rock hybrid), “Death’s Not Your Friend”, “I Hear The Vibrations (E-Z Version)”, “Motorbike”, “For So Long” “Fallin'” and “Aquarian Time”, my choice for best song of the night. Check out below a few more exclusive photos from Wooden Shjips' performance as well as a video playlist including “Loose Lips” and an unidentified, possibly new (?) track:

Wooden Shjips live @ An Club, Athens

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Vintage Tracks 4: Hard Corps - Dirty

As the introduction of their website goes, this is "machine music for modern lovers". This month's addition to our Vintage Tracks Hall of Fame is "Dirty", the 1984 debut single from Hard Corps, a band that, unsurprising, very few people know about, given that they only released a handful of singles before they disappear in record company hell sometime in 1988.

Hard Corps were formed in 1983 in Brixton, London, when Hugh Ashton, Rob Doran and Clive Pierce met French vocalist Regine Fetet. The first fruit of their collaboration was the astonishing "Dirty", simply put, one of the finest electro tracks ever committed to wax. The punishing, Kraftwerk-influenced, machine beats violently slash through the fractured electropop melody, cutting it to pieces and reassembling it into an electropunk monster that obeys only to the sound of Regine's dominatrix voice. The feral intensity and sexual innuendo of "Dirty" was never recaptured in subsequent singles but the blueprint for the latter day electroclash sound was perfectly formed there and then, and, frankly, I'd be very surprised if, say, Crystal Castles have never heard of this track.
My white label 12" copy of "Dirty" is another one of my prized vinyl possessions that give the inspiration for this series of posts. Although I would imagine that it could prove quite difficult to obtain this single today, luckily there is another way to find Hard Corps music. As I found out at the band's MySpace page, the 1990 compilation "Metal & Flesh" recently became available for download and it consists of the majority of their recorded output, including "Dirty" and its more mellow, less dirty but equally sexy B-side "Respirer".

Here's the video for "Dirty" with footage from a live performance at the Fridge Brixton:

Hard Corps - Dirty

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Happy Record Store Day

Long before the outbreak of the global financial crisis, there was the global music crisis, with CD sales falling rapidly and panicking record companies suing their own customers and starting futile witch hunts against the "mp3 pirates".

The fact is that the ease of downloading (both legally and illegally), the inflated CD prices and the economic crunch combined with, perhaps, a decline in the quality of music on offer, drove many, big or small, record shops out of business.

In this climate, in 2007, the idea of Record Store Day was born in the U.S. in an effort to strengthen the small independent record shops - in America and internationally - so as to survive the adverse economic climate of the era.
Record Store Day is now celebrated on the third Saturday of every April (this year it's on April 17th of course), while the first celebration took place on April 19, 2008, with Metallica officially kicking it off at Rasputin Music in San Francisco.

According to the organizers: “This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on.”

Record Store Day got bigger every year, with more and more artists from the alternative and mainstream music scene showing their support with both statements and collectible releases.

Some of the dozens of special releases of this year’s Record Store Day are:

Sub Pop Records has scheduled several releases such as: Beach House - "Zebra", 12" vinyl with 4 songs, Dum Dum Girls / Male Bonding split 7", Soundgarden’s first single since 1987 "Hunted Down"/"Nothing to Say"

Wichita Records has a series of reissues on vinyl, including Bright Eyes' "Fevers & Mirrors", the self-titled debut LP from The Cribs, Bloc Party's debut "Silent Alarm" and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' self-titled first EP.

4AD is releasing "Fragments From a Work in Progress", a 12" compilation including groups like Blonde Redhead, Gang Gang Dance and The Big Pink.

 • The Fall release "Bury Pts 2+4 /Cowboy Gregori" as a 7" single in just 750 copies.

Blur release a new song (their first since "Good Song" in 2003) as a 7" single in 1000 copies only.

• From Crystal Castles we have "Doe Deer" on 12", a first taste from their forthcoming second album.

Modest Mouse reissue the amazing "The Moon and Antarctica" for the album’s 10th anniversary.

Pavement's new compilation "Quarantine the Past" will be released with a different track list from the original version.

Bon Iver and Peter Gabriel have a split single where they cover each other’s song as part of Gabriel's "Scratch My Back" project.

The Thermals and The Cribs have a split single with new songs in 2000 copies only.

Rough Trade in association with British turntable manufacturer Rega will sell exclusively at the Rough Trade Shops a special edition turntable with the Rough Trade logo, while they will also be releasing a range of special, very limited edition vinyl records including Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Mercy Seat" on white vinyl.

The full list of Record Store Day releases is here.

Greek record stores that participate in this effort where you may find some of the above releases are Rock & Roll Circus, Sonic Boom Records & and Vinyl Kiosk in Athens, Mister CD in Chalkis, Play Our Music in Kilkis, High Fideliy in Nafplio and Sticky Fingers in Patras.

For the Record Store Day website click here. Watch Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age below, the official ambassador of Record Store Day 2010, talking about this day and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth telling us all about the first album he ever bought.

"The 'cool' record store. It is where you can talk to people who are like you. They look like you, think like you and, most tellingly like the same music as you - the only comparable experience these days would probably be an art museum - an actual place where you can stand and simply be surrounded by your heroes." Wayne Coyne

"I think it’s high time the mentors, big brothers, big sisters, parents, guardians, and neighborhood ne’er do wells, start taking younger people that look up to them to a real record store and show them what an important part of life music really is. I trust no one who hasn’t time for music. What a shame to leave a child, or worse, a generation orphaned from one of life’s great beauties. And to the record stores, artists, labels, dj’s, and journalists; we’re all in this together. Show respect for the tangible music that you’ve dedicated your careers and lives to, and help It from becoming nothing more than disposable digital data." Jack White

The above quotes are from here. Perhaps today it's a good day for a visit to your local record store. Who knows what goodies await for you there?

Josh Homme - Ambassador of Record Store Day 2010

Thurston Moore Talks First Record, Major labels, and Record Stores

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Listening Habits 03.2010

Welcome to the redesigned Cool Music Central - I hope you like the new look and shiny colored background, courtesy of the brand new Blogger template designer. I find this blue-green theme strangely soothing and relaxing, although it’s possible that this unusual relaxation is due to my brief Easter vacation. Anyway, we’re back in business and we’re about to take a look at some of the finest records we’ve listened to in the past month, some soothing and relaxing, some tense and noisy as f*ck!

And talking about noise and tension, nobody does it better than Liars. “Sisterworld”, their fifth LP, unfolds like a well-made thriller, the tension building up track by track until its anticipated but still startling violent release. The noisy outbursts of “Scarecrows On A Killer Slant” and “The Overachievers” are two of the album’s highlights, along with the opening “Scissor” (which has the feel of an early Polanski film) and the hypnotic, kraut-rockin’ mantra of “Proud Evolution”, the album’s majestic centerpiece. Highly recommended is the special edition of the album that comes with a second cd of remixes/reinterpretations of all its tracks by artists like Alan Vega, Kazu Makino, Tunde Adebimpe, Thom Yorke, Devendra Banhart, Melvins or Atlas Sound. The results may vary here, but it’s still very interesting to hear, for example, how a Liars song would sound if it was turned into a bangin’ rap tune (“Scissor” as remade by Pink Dollaz, Lance Whitaker & Transformation Surprise).

High Places vs. Mankind”, the sophomore High Places album, finds the experimental duo of Rob Barber and Mary Pearson relocated from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and exploring darker lyrical themes than their more optimistic, nature-loving self-titled debut. The band moves away from the lo-fi, home-made sound of its earlier work and into a more melodic, dance floor friendly direction, a luscious sound hinted at by their debut’s closing track, the exquisite “From Stardust To Sentience”. The music still relies on dense layers of synthie sounds, unusual samples and polyrhythmic beats but guitars play a bigger part in the creative process this time, giving the album a richer sound. Mary Pearson’s ethereal vocals remain High Place’s most potent sonic weapon, giving an otherworldly beauty to the dreamy electronic pop of “High Places vs. Mankind”. The album’s only flaw, apart from a couple of nondescript instrumentals (why sideline your most valuable music instrument, i.e. Mary’s voice), is the omission of last year’s excellent single “I Was Born”, although there are several tracks here that match its quality, most notably “The Longest Shadows”, “On Giving Up”, “On A Hill In A Bed On A Road In A House” and “When It Comes”, one of the most uplifting songs about death I’ve ever heard.

And while we are one the subject of beautiful female voices, here comes Dee Dee, aka Kristin Gundred, with her Dum Dum Girls. I’ve already raved about the garage pop slice of heaven that is the single “Jail La La”, now I’m happy to report that “I Will Be”, the L.A. band’s debut on Sub Pop, is everything that an indiepop or garage rock fan could hope for. Gorgeous vocals in a ’60s girl group style, strong pop melodies, buzzing guitars and urgent drum beats combine to create a delicious half-hour treat that draws inspiration from the holy trinity of ’60s garage, ’70s punk and ’80s new wave and noisepop. The album is over before you realize it and the only option left to the stunned listener is to hit the repeat button again and again.

And if that hunger for delicious garage pop persists, then move on to The Soft Pack and their fine, highly flammable self-titled debut. For fans of the big and sexy noise, nothing is bigger or sexier than the formidable combination of Lydia Lunch and Gallon Drunk as Big Sexy Noise (last year’s release that’s not to be missed). Yeasayer move to the dance floor for their sophomore release, where they find Gorillaz having a party with their distinguished guests (from Mos Def and Bobby Womack to Mark E Smith and Lou Reed). James Mercer and Danger Mouse join forces as Broken Bells to offer eclectic, melancholic pop, but not as melancholic as the sad and beautiful “The Golden Archipelago” of Shearwater. Our March Top 10 is completed with the guitar-heavy “American Gong”, the seventh album by Quasi, now a trio with the addition of Joanna Bolme on bass, which finds the band invigorated and ready for more after 17 years in the game. A career retrospective compilation “So Far So Good” comes as a bonus with the album, making it a good starting point for new fans of the band formed by ex-husband and wife Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss.

Top 10 Albums

1.  Sisterworld - LIARS
2.  High Places vs. Mankind - HIGH PLACES
3.  I Will Be - DUM DUM GIRLS
4.  The Soft Pack - THE SOFT PACK
5.  Big Sexy Noise - BIG SEXY NOISE
6.  Odd Blood - YEASAYER
7.  Broken Bells - BROKEN BELLS
8.  The Golden Archipelago - SHEARWATER
9.  American Gong - QUASI
10. Plastic Beach - GORILLAZ

Top 20 Tracks

1.  The Longest Shadows - HIGH PLACES
2.  Proud Evolution - LIARS
3.  It Only Takes One Night - DUM DUM GIRLS
4.  Bloodbuzz Ohio - THE NATIONAL
5.  Latin America - HOLY FUCK
6.  Glitter Freeze - GORILLAZ feat. MARK E SMITH
7.  Pull Out - THE SOFT PACK
8.  Baby Faced Killer - BIG SEXY NOISE
9.  Skinny Little Bitch - HOLE
10. Repulsion - QUASI
11. Landscape At Speed - SHEARWATER
12. Mongrel Heart - BROKEN BELLS
13. Flash Delirium - MGMT
14. Tremel - GLASSER
15. Apparent Horizon - TRANS AM
16. Madder Red - YEASAYER
18. Found Love In A Graveyard - VERONICA FALLS
19. It Feels Alright - WOVEN BONES
20. Pillow Talk - DOUBLE DAGGER


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Time Management & Online Earning

By | February 28, 2015

Happy weekend to everyone!  This morning after 3 long months I finally reached cash out on InboxDollars and SendEarnings. For people familiar with these sites? They are NOT big earners and most online workers quickly stop using these two sites and label them as worthless. Oddly enough? For the most part I agree with them! Most of the surveys are long and offer poor payouts, tasks are boring and low paying, its easy to waste hours on these sites for very little pay. With this in mind? It brings up a very important subject. Time Management, and how you need to approach these sites and dozens like them so they become worth your time. This is a VERY important subject but my time is limited this weekend so please accept this poorly written excuse of a post because there are some valuable points to be taken if you are willing to sift through the bad grammar and structure : (

On Reddit there is a sub thread called Beermoney. The thinking behind the title is that all these online tasks? are NOT real money but rather chump change.. extra pennies.. beer money. The flaw to this thinking is they leave you believing its impossible to earn serious money. They point to sites like Inbox, or even Apps like Perk TV or GrabPoints and how even the hardest working individual can only produce $20-30 a month from the sites. If you read some of my longer posts such as Online Earners Bible? You’ll see over and over I hammer the theme of time management and incorporating tasks into your daily routine to increase your earnings. It is so important to understand how critical time management is to yielding results that are far more then beer money. Amazon Turk can earn you $700+ a month so its worth devoting hours each day, but while you are doing that its also wise to earn extra watching videos or getting paid to do internet searches or even the measly $.02 you can earn reading paid emails on Inbox dollars. Its all about managing your time and efforts and not getting lost in a sea of small earners.

Each  month I earn roughly $1500+ on the tasks I write about on this site, hardly beer money unless I had a serious drinking problem! Its worth pointing out that I make very little off my website or referrals in fact as of writing this? I barely gain $50 a month from Google Adsense and referrals to sites like Mintvine, InboxDollars etc etc. These are REAL earnings, and if anything the website reduces my ability to earn because it takes a lot to maintain. Cry me a river Paul!  but my point is- what I produce is exactly what any other person can produce.. It just takes some effort.. As sick as I am when I see blogs lying about huge earnings? its equally upsetting hearing people say this is not worth it. Sadly its very hard to separate fact from fiction on the net. Remember- blogs make money only if they have tons of traffic so bragging about huge earnings to attract traffic is MUCH easier then working in the trenches and sharing that information every week and slowly building a solid base of viewers. What will take me years to achieve in page views they can do in a few months by fibbing to gain traffic which is exactly why its so hard to take any of this serious. but enough about that for now..

Amazon Turk, Focus Groups(Both Online and Off), Product testing, and REAL survey sites. This is where the money is folks. 3/4 of what I earn comes from these methods and as such this is where my energy goes each day. My time is well rewarded here and its my primary focus from the moment I wake up till the moment I shut down for the night. My main computer is devoted to these efforts and nothing else. Which brings up an interesting point- GET a second computer!  You can get used computers for a few hundred dollars and it will pay for itself in a month. All of the other tasks I do whether its Radio Loyalty, Encrave Videos, QuickReward Videos, Paid Searches, Browser Extensions, All of this is done on a second computer. As I am focusing my time and energy on what makes me money? The second computer is always running smaller tasks. This second computer is where dozens of small tasks are performed all day some earning $5 a month, others earning $30 but when you combine it all together you have $200+ extra in your account. The key is not to let it distract or take time from your main earners. Its secondary, its watching videos for $2 a day on Swagucks or $1.25 having Radio Loyalty open. These are your beer money tasks.. Below are tasks I perform entirely on my second computer. These should not be your main focus, but it sure is nice to earn a few hundred on the side with very little effort while focusing on the real money. Below is a list of the most popular (and easy) to use sites I run on my second computer daily.

BingSearchRewards– $.25

MXMWK– $.40  (Yes, I caved and reloaded this extension! )

SwagBucks Radio Loyalty– $1.20

FusionCash Paid to Click daily advert+Vids- $.25

SwagBucks Encrave Searches, Other Vids $2.50

QuickRewards Videos– $1.50

InboxDollars & SendEarnings Paid Emails/Searches- $.50

GiftHulk Card Guessing, Videos, App Downloads- $.40

LootPalace Videos– $1.00

This is $8.00 a day or $240 in earnings each month- I went out of my way to be extremely conservative and the true number is more like $3-400 monthly. It would hardly be worth spending all day watching videos or doing searches to earn this but doing them off to the side on a second computer takes little to no effort. Of course it goes without saying if you don’t plan on devoting 12 hours a day to this madness? You can pick and choose your tasks. If you have 2 hours each evening, or perhaps just a few hours on the weekend? Always devote your time where the most value is and while doing those tasks? Keep these smaller earners on the side as complimentary to your main focus. Its all about managing your time!

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Saturday, November 18, 2006

I'm still trying to get dates straight but I didn't have straight hair and boy, was it red.

The first year of my forgetfulness has been revealed. My Mother had a lump removed from her breast and I found one in mine but both were benign. She then had a breast reduction and she was never happier at not having to drag two bags of concrete around on her chest. I don't know how Pamela Anderson does it. She got over that and broke her leg. It didn't slow her down though, she was seen to mow the lawn with a plastic bag over the plaster. That's probably what caused her heart attack.

The heart attack caused suicidal depression which she neglected to mention to anyone. She said she used to watch the window for that red hair to go past and she'd feel as though she could get through the day. She finally told her doctor and two weeks on anti-depressants, she was raring to go.

Apart from riding my bicycle to Mum's everyday, what was I doing. I was looking after my kid, my sister's kid, three dogs, four cats, an incompetant husband and dealing with my father who was terrified something else would happen to mum. I found it very difficult to be an adult with him, I was still his little girl while my sister was his little mate. He found it very hard to show his feelings because of his childhood so to thank me he had a gift delivered in the mail. It was from Franklin Mint and a copy of one of Faberge's eggs on a chain. Nothing he did before or after ever came close to that gesture of thanks.

As I said in the comments earlier, I didn't forget, for the next five years I think I was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. My sister said she was suffering from permanently being pissed. The Blight mostly just hid under a rock. So I think Dr. Watson, we have a solution to the mystery of the dreamings, nightmarings and panicpanicpanic, it's just the past coming back to bite me.

janet said...

The dreams aren't reality; the reality is that you have traveled through all that and come out in one magnificent piece. You go, girl.

Zoe said...

Wow! Is that really your hair? Its magnificent, I wish my hair was as stunning!
Isn't it funny how the woman are the tough old creatures! Your mum's a gutsy lady as are you for dealing with so much crap! (Ive always found the male crap the most wearing!)
Perhaps your sisters coping strategy, although bad for brain cells, was the most effective???

Yes exactly janet....YOU GO GIRL!
Zoe xx

Davo said...

mm, post traumatic stress disorder. Funny really.. blokes seem to always suffer from "disorders" (as in ADHDD) but females only suffer "syndromes" (as in PMS). Curious.

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Janet, there have been other bad times but either the devil or heaven doesn't want her.

It's been toned down quite a lot since then Zoe, not to mention shrinking. I used to use platinum blonde then titian red on top but the minute I changed I felt like me.

Davo, now I'm going to have to look up the difference in the two. Curiosity kills internet hours.


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Rita accuses Natalie of enjoying ruining people's lives. Natalie is baffled until Rita tells her Ian is Sharon's fiancé. Rita and Betty are certain she's lying when she swears she didn't know. Vik tells Steve his accounts are in a terrible state. Gary's father, Peter Mallett, and brother, Shane arrive for the christening. Shane feels Gary should be relieved the twins look like him after Judy's affair. Ian is stunned when Natalie confronts him over his lies. He tells her he's confused by his feelings and never planned to hurt either Sharon or her. She tells him he's weak and pathetic and is amazed that he intends to go through with the wedding. She is stunned when he says he hopes they can still see each other after he's married. Ian begs Rita not to tell Sharon about him and Sharon, swearing Natalie did all the running. Vera, Jack and Jim are the Malletts' godparents. Jack discovers he can't be godfather as he hasn't been christened himself so the vicar quickly christens him. Ken and Vera are forced to be his godparents. Natalie proves to Rita that Ian would carry on being unfaithful by phoning him and letting her listen as he tries to woo her again. Sharon is nervous on her wedding day but is taken care of by Sally. Whilst everyone goes to the church, Rita tells her that Ian has been seeing Natalie. Sharon blames herself for rushing Ian into marriage and makes excuses for him. She tells herself he still loves her and feels it was a last fling. Rita is amazed when she says the wedding will go ahead. Vik warns Steve that his business is going down the drain. He suggests he reduces his outgoings. Rita gives Sharon away at St. Mary's Church but whilst Ian says his vows Sharon attacks him, calling him a liar before running out of the church. Sharon goes for Natalie, calling her a whore. Natalie pities her. Curly returns to find Jackie and Tyrone living in his house.

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Monday Challenge #1 Anything Goes

Welcome to the new look Crafty Bloggers Network & new look design team!!

We have all been working hard behind the scenes to bring you an new look, regular posts and exciting prize winning challenges.

First the design team, we have Jo, Ger, Becky, Kaz, Angela, Sarah and Caz, you'll find the blog links on the right hand side so please go have a peek at their fantastic creations.

Now are you sitting comfortably ;D

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1st Wednesday Guest Blogger Post
1st Friday Show & Tell Technique

2nd Monday Design Team Inspiration

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So here are the design teams take on 'Anything Goes'

Docrafts Papermania Beautiful- Embossing Folder, Papers, Fabric Buttons
Lucy Cromwell Rubber Stamp Sentiment
Own Made Faux Leather Background
Ranger Distress Ink Pad
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Prima 6 x 6 paper pad: Meadow Lark
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Stampin up A4 Cardstock: Crumb and whisper white
Fiskars border punch
Mustard Gosgrain ribbon
Corner Edger
Handmade fimo flowers
Stampin classic ink pad: pink and blue
Stampin up Everything Eleanor stamp
Stampin up Creative Elements stamp
Penny Black thinking of you stamp

Supplies -
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Papermania Wellington toppers
Papermania Lucy Cromwell papers
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We would absolutely love to see all your creations please leave us a link to your entry. If you are joining us and don't have a blog then please take a look at the CBN group on Facebook and edit the document (found at the top of the page) for us to check out your entries. Please remember not to link to old work- we would love it if you can create something new. Happy Crafting!

  1. WOW fantastic cards team well done, looking forward to working with you all each month :D

    Ger x
    CBN DT

  2. WOWSERS fantastic cards from the design team, great inspirational creations too. Wishing you all the best for your new look and looking forward to seeing more inspirational creations from the team.

    Big Hugs
    Linda xxx

  3. brilliant new look ladies - it all sounds very exciting and the DT cards are just fabulous - well done all! Hugs rachel xx

  4. Beautiful projects from the DT! Great new look. xx Denise (Crafty Daffy)

  5. Fantastic projects by the DT, well done ladies. The new look if fab xxx

  6. Congratulations on your new look. DT cards are great
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  7. Thanx so much for stopping by to leave such wonderful comments :D
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  8. Thank you so much for each and every one of you to leave us such positive comments.. it means alot!

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    Jo xx

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  9. Fab projects, and what a great sponsor too! Good luck with your amazing blog. Maddy x

  10. WOW, just found you and can't wait to play along. Fabulous DT inspiration. Take care, Jane x

  11. Wow! wonderful inspiration from all the DT. You rock!
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  12. Hi Everyone, I've just entered my first challenge with you guys! Thanks for the opportunity to come and play ;0)

  13. Thanks for the inspiration.

  14. Wow fantastic inspiration from the DT I look forward to following what you all get up to! By the number of entries for your challenge it certainly looks like you are off to a good start! xx

  15. Wonderful DT inspiration.Good luck with your new start.
    Lisa x

  16. Have been a member for a while now but I am now entering your fab challenge , great sample cards girls fabulous work Hugs Elaine

  17. OOPs forgot to say I LOVE THE NEW LOOK , you have all worked so hard well done Hugs Elaine

  18. What a coincidence! You have a new look and I have a new creation after being MIA from my craft room for a month due to illness. It's soooo nice to start fresh and Good Luck to you and your awesome DT!
    creative Wishes,
    Claire S.

  19. New look blogg & dt work are looking great good luck & happy crafting to the new DT xx Jan

  20. Thanx so such for your wonderful comments and the great backing you've shown us by joining in with the challenge, the whole team are thrilled to bits by it all :D

    luv you all heaps Ger xxx

  21. Beautiful DT samples - thanks for the anything goes challenge!

  22. Wonderful creations of DT members :)

  23. Great stuff from the DT. Love an Anything Goes, as you get to see everyone bring out their own style big time! Thanks to all for the inspiration...

  24. Truly superb creations - such lovely inspiration.

  25. Beautiful work by the Design Team! And beautiful challenge blog too.

  26. You guys are all brilliant thanx so much for your great comments and joining us xxx

  27. Thanks for a fun challenge and great inspiration from the DT! I haven't "played" here before, so I hope I've got it right. Helen x

  28. These are fabulous creations by the DT team

    Joan x

  29. What a wonderful challenge!!New follower!

  30. Hi, I have just discovered your Blog and love the idea of having guest spots and extra inspiration throughout the month. I am definitely going to have a go at the toilet roll idea!

  31. I am so embarrassed - I've just realised that you restrict entries to three per challenge. I've just been through and deleted all my other entries and just left my first three - I'm really sorry. x

    1. Hey Hazel, can I join your embarrassment party ;0) I was just about to enter another project and thought I'd better check and somehow I've managed to enter a 4th project never mind the one I was about to submit...eeeek! But how did you delete our entries, I'm not seeing any options to delete mine?

  32. I everyone, please will you ignore my #375 entry, I didn't realize that was my 4th entry into this challenge! I'm not seeing an option to delete it so if you can that would be great! So sorry!

  33. Hello, new follower! Great Work DT! :)

  34. Beautiful work by the DT and terrific entries! Thanks for the challenge!

  35. Thanks for an amazing challenge!
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Happy Valentines Day from Crafty Sisters!
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Remember these beauties Candace recovered a few years ago?

Well 4 boys later.....she was ready to toss them in her house purge she did over Christmas.
Of course I was more than happy to be her charitable recipient.

I found some really cute and super thick quality upholstrey material at Home Fabrics for about $20.  It's a gorgeous houndstooth pattern that is almost a taupe/dark grey color on a creamy white.  An hour later I now have these!
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WYLTC Valentine Love Birds

This week Valentines is in the air for the ladies at Wood You Like To Craft!
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“The Yellow Ones Taste Funny”

So says the child, who refuses to eat the golden raspberries.

I do have to admit that I ate one of the first of our red ones to ripen yesterday, and it was the best tasting raspberry I’ve ever eaten.  Way better than any of the golden ones so far.  Not sure why, but all of the red ones we’ve gotten so far are tiny – less than half the size of the gold ones.

My father has a theory he calls the Unit Flavor Theory – basically that things like strawberries have a finite amount of flavor that each berry can have, and so the small ones will have a much more concentrated flavor than the big ones will.   Elephant garlic is a fine example, too: giant and bland.  The little red raspberry I ate yesterday proved his theory to me once again.  Mmmmmm.  Raspberries.

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  • red rasberries: 5.7oz (161g)
  • beets: 3.4oz (96g)
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  1. I’m with the child… golden raspberries just don’t do it for me. It’s like they are missing taste along with color. It’s just novelty fruit.

    You can always freeze the berries on cookie sheets, or so people say. Whenever I have tried freezing berries, I always regretted it. There’s jam, of course. Makes nice gifts. Or you can just bring the berries in to work and spread the love around. Find someone who gardens something you don’t, and trade!

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