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Angel of the Heart Trellis Personalized Ornament

Angel of the Heart Trellis Personalized Ornament

Item: angel-ROD26258
Material: Various Materials

Personalized Example Only: Personalized words/dates are your choice. All ornaments are hand painted by a calligrapher, not screen printed by a computer.

This Christmas ornament is not a toy, nor is it intended for small children.

Dimension: 5"H

Material: Resin, Metal & Other Materials

Price: 20.97

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Gift box packaging is available for this ornament. Check box to see our gift packaging. We will choose the correct size for your ornament. Gift packaging service includes: removal of all stickers and glue residue; removal of tags except for Radko; interior tissue wrap for the ornament; and the heavy-stock, white giftbox completed with white grosgrain ribbon. The packaging and service are sized and priced per ornament. If ordering a number of gifts, we will write the recipient's name on the bottom of each box neatly so you do not have to open everything to see to whom it belongs. Leave checked to order; uncheck to cancel. $7.95.
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New Spring 2017: This lovely design is selected to celebrate love and is a popular choice for newlyweds and couples marking an anniversary. The angel of the heart trellis ornament features an angelic creature clutching a heart while standing under a trellis. The sentiment delivered is that the angels above support loving relationships by inspiring devotion, commitment and joy in being together. This durable resin ornament is a reproduction of a sculpture from noted artist Susan Lordi and part of a collection available here at Russell Rhodes. It comes with cord attached for easy display wherever it brings the most pleasure. Share beautiful thoughts of heaven-inspired love with those who are special to you with the angel with heart trellis ornament.

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White Mantel Family of 7 Personalized Tabletop Christmas Decoration

White Mantel Family of 7 Personalized Tabletop Christmas Decoration

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Material: Resin

Personalized Example Only: Personalized words/dates are your choice. All ornaments are hand painted by a calligrapher, not screen printed by a computer.

This Christmas ornament is not a toy, nor is it intended for small children.

Dimension: 7.5"W x 6.25"H

Material: Resin

Price: 28.97

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Gift box packaging is available for this ornament. Check box to see our gift packaging. We will choose the correct size for your ornament. Gift packaging service includes: removal of all stickers and glue residue; removal of tags except for Radko; interior tissue wrap for the ornament; and the heavy-stock, white giftbox completed with white grosgrain ribbon. The packaging and service are sized and priced per ornament. If ordering a number of gifts, we will write the recipient's name on the bottom of each box neatly so you do not have to open everything to see to whom it belongs. Leave checked to order; uncheck to cancel. $7.95.
This ornament arrives with retail tags/stickers. Some are easier to remove than others, and some when removed, leave glue residue that we have to use a petroleum solvent to fully remove. For a nominal fee, we would be happy to remove the tags, stickers and glue for you ($0.89). If you checked this option and are selecting our giftbox service, uncheck the box as we include tag and sticker removal within the giftbox service. No need to pay for it twice.

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Gleaming red stockings are hung by the fire in joyful anticipation in the white mantel family of 7 tabletop personalized Christmas ornament featuring lovely holly trim. One of the prettiest family ornaments personalized by hand you're likely to see this season, its elegance makes it a perfect gift for friends, neighbors and work associates. Say "Merry Christmas" in style this year with the white mantel family of 7 Christmas ornament that looks marvelous on tables, shelves and other favorite spots.

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Fedora 25 is out, virt-builder images available

$ virt-builder -l | grep fedora-25
fedora-25                x86_64     Fedora® 25 Server
fedora-25                i686       Fedora® 25 Server (i686)
fedora-25                aarch64    Fedora® 25 Server (aarch64)
fedora-25                armv7l     Fedora® 25 Server (armv7l)
fedora-25                ppc64      Fedora® 25 Server (ppc64)
fedora-25                ppc64le    Fedora® 25 Server (ppc64le)
$ virt-builder fedora-25
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm:tcg \
      -cpu host -m 2048 \
      -drive file=fedora-25.img,format=raw,if=virtio

Or to try out Fedora on a different architecture:

$ virt-builder fedora-25 --arch ppc64le -o fedora-25-ppc64le.img
$ qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER8 -m 2048 \
      -drive file=fedora-25-ppc64le.img,format=raw,if=virtio

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OCaml 4.04, RISC-V, S/390, POWER and more …

I pushed OCaml 4.04.0 to Fedora Rawhide last week. There are loads of new features for OCaml users, but the ones that particularly affect Fedora are:

  • New, upstream POWER (ppc64, ppc64le) backend, replacing the downstream one that we have maintained for a few years. I was quite apprehensive about this change because I had tried the new backend during the OCaml 4.03 release cycle and found it to be quite unstable. However the latest version looks rock solid and has no problem compiling the entire Fedora+OCaml software suite.
  • New, upstream S/390x backend. I actually found and fixed a bug, go me!
  • New, non-upstream RISC-V backend. I found a bug in this backend too, but it proved to be easy to fix. You can now install and run most of the OCaml packages on Fedora/RISC-V.

And talking about Fedora/RISC-V, it took a month, but the mass-rebuild of all Fedora packages completed, and now we’ve got about ⅔rds of all Fedora packages available for RISC-V. That’s quite a lot:

$ du -sh SRPMS/ RPMS/

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Not very serious quest to run Linux on every architecture

Just looking at the Debian Ports page, how many of these architectures do I own?

Arch Notes
Alpha Good, working Alpha hardware is getting hard to obtain these days.
amd64 (x86-64) Obviously …
ARM (32 bit) I don’t really care about anything less than ARM version 7 these days, although I do have a Sheevaplug which I think is v5 or v6. My “go-to” 32 bit ARM board is the Cubietruck.
ARM (64 bit) I don’t own, but have under my desk at work, the Applied Micro X-gene (picture), and a lovely piece of kit it is too.
HP-PA I would love to get my hands on some HP-PA RISC hardware, but it’s even harder to get hold of than Alpha. Edit: If you really want HP PA then the HP C8000 workstation is available on eBay for $300 or so.
i386 I own a Lenovo X60s laptop, which is one of the few 32 bit Intel processors with (very slow) hardware virtualization
ia64 HP Itanium RX2620
M68K As I started out my professional career writing 68k assembler, I’d love to buy an MVME crate, but incredibly they go for upwards of $1000 on ebay, even 20 years after they stopped being made.
MIPS ✓/✗ I just bought the MIPS Creator CI20. I don’t own any Big Endian MIPS hardware, nor any 64 bit MIPS hardware.
OpenRISC I have this burned into an FPGA, but in storage.
PPC (32 bit) I recently sent a couple of old 32 bit Mac G4s to recycling.
PPC/POWER (64 bit) ✓/✗ I own a Mac G5 running Linux (picture). However I don’t own, and as far as I know cannot get my hands on any of the more interesting POWER7 or POWER8 hardware, although I have remote access to it through Red Hat.
s390/s390x Similar to ppc64, no possible way to own it, but I am able to remote access it through Red Hat.
SPARC (32 bit) Currently sitting in storage, but it’s there and it used to run Linux, albeit with only 128 MB of RAM
SPARC (64 bit) Is it possible to buy 64 bit SPARC hardware for a reasonable price?

Looks like I’m about half way there!

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virt-builder: Fedora 21 ppc64 and ppc64le images

virt-builder now has Fedora 21 ppc64 and ppc64le images available, and you can run these under emulation on an x86-64 host. Here’s how to do it:

$ virt-builder --arch ppc64 fedora-21 \
    -o fedora-21-ppc64.img

$ virt-builder --arch ppc64le fedora-21 \
    -o fedora-21-ppc64le.img

To boot them:

$ qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries -cpu POWER8 -m 4096 \
    -drive file=fedora-21-ppc64[le].img \
    -serial stdio

Oddly the boot messages will appear on the GUI, but the login prompt will only appear on the serial console. (Fixed)

Libvirt also has support, so with a sufficiently new version of the toolchain you can also use:

$ virt-install --import --name=guestname \
    --ram=4096 --vcpus=1 \
    --os-type=linux --os-variant=fedora21 \
    --arch=ppc64[le] --machine pseries \
$ virsh start guestname

It’s quite fun to play with Big Iron, even in an emulator that runs at about 1/1000th the speed of the real thing. I know a lot about this, because we have POWER8 machines at Red Hat, and they really are the fastest computers alive, by a significant multiple. Of course, they also cost a fortune and use huge amounts of power.

Some random observations:

  1. The virt-builder --size parameter cannot resize the ppc64 guest filesystem correctly, because Anaconda uses an extended partition. Workaround is to either add a second disk or to create another extended partition in the extra space. (Fixed)
  2. The disks are ibmvscsi model (not virtio or ide). This is the default, but something to think about if you edit or create the libvirt XML manually.
  3. Somehow the same CPU/machine model works for both Big Endian and Little Endian guests. It must somehow auto-detect the guest type, but I couldn’t work out how that works. Anyway, it just works by magic. it’s done by the kernel
  4. libguestfs inspection is broken for ppc64le
  5. Because TCG (qemu software emulation) is single threaded, only use a single vCPU. If you use more, it’ll actually slow the thing down.

Thanks: Maros Zatko for working out the virt-install command line and implementing the virt-builder script to build the images.

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Caseless virtualization cluster: power usage

I have a handy power meter which is useful for measuring the power consumed by my virtualization cluster under various loads.

Note in the figures below I’m only including the four cluster hosts. Not included: the NFS server (which is my development server, so I have it switched on all the time anyway), or the network switch.

With all four hosts idling, power usage of the total cluster was around 174-177 watts. To give you an idea of how much that costs to run, it would be about £263 p.a. at a typical UK rate for electricity.

Interestingly, with one host running, power usage was 50W (I would have expected it to be exactly one quarter), and with no hosts running, something consumes 7W. I suspect the PSUs leak a bit even when nominally off but with the hardware switch still in the ON position.

Under some moderately heavy loads (parallelized compiles in a loop) I was able to drive the power usage up to a maximum seen of 584W (£869 p.a.). Note that was a one-off, and most of the time it bumps wildly around the 300-500W range (unfortunately my simple power meter doesn’t do running averages).

So low power ARM this ain’t! One thing we can do to mitigate this (apart from turning it off) is to migrate VMs to a single node when load is low, and turn the other nodes off. That should save a fairly considerable amount of power.

I also installed lm_sensors so I could monitor temperatures and fan speeds, but there’s not really anything interesting to say. Under load the fans of course spin like mad (typically 3000 RPM), but the temperatures stay at a cool 40°C or so. Even though there is only one fan per motherboard (the CPU fan) there don’t appear to be any cooling issues.

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How to power computers from solar panels?

The garden office has got one entirely unused feature — a large roof! What better place to mount solar panels for an off-grid power supply …

These Sharp PV modules (ND-R245-A6) [PDF datasheet] are manufactured in Wrexham and (although pricing is very opaque) appear to cost around £250 per module. I would need three or four. Each module produces a peak of 30V, 8A (= 240W) although in reality I’d guess the voltage would vary wildly from 0-30V.

Inverters, the part which normally converts the DC and highly variable power from the modules to mains AC voltage, are expensive, costing likely as much or more than the panels themselves. As this is an “off-grid” installation, this is useless. It would seem to be better to use the power to charge car batteries.

The car batteries provide the smoothed 12 V supply which would be used to run servers and lighting.

So there seem to be two problems in the way: (1) How to charge the batteries. I think I need something like this? (2) How to power servers directly off 12V …

As always, it becomes much clearer once you have the key search term, and the word in this case is caravan. Apparently people who own caravans, static caravans, narrow boats and so on are in precisely this situation, and there are special purpose charge controllers used for this (made by Steca, amongst others).

Here and here [both PDF] are two excellent starter guides for the self-builder.

Now all I need to do is to size my requirements and work out how to power a server off a 12 or 24V supply.

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Articles: Inside Apple chargers, real and fake

Two really interesting articles from Ken Shirriff’s blog:

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Website Update – Galleries

I’ve created the below galleries to see just about all of my artwork on that particular theme:

Dancers – Ballet

Dancers – Belly Dance

Dancers – Flamenco

Dancers – Modern

Dancers – Tango and Ballroom

Musicians and singers

Or hover over the Galleries menu on my home page to see a drop down menu.

All are available as signed Prints at different sizes up to 60 cm wide. Typical sizes are A1: 60cm x 90cm and A2: 40cm x 60cm.

Those with red text are still available as Originals.

See my How to Order page should you wish to purchase either.

Other Merchandise and supplementary materials may be purchased through affiliate companies as referenced here.

Please check Image Use for details of how to obtain my permission to use one of my artwork images should this be required.

I am still updating the text and a few galleries which will take me a day or so, but I am getting there!!!!

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Full Name: Sakamoto Shogo

Live action movie            : –

Live action dorama            : Hammer Session

Live action musical            : Prince of Tennis, Kuroshitsuji 1

With a shy smile and crispy voice, Sakamoto Shogo has been captivating a lot attention since he portrayed Echizen Ryoma in Prince of Tennis Musical. There had been many Ryomas I watched, but Shogo’s is quite different. Despite of showing arrogance prodigy, this Ryoma looks kind and sweet. Ah, Shogo!

Shogo was born in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Perfecture at June 13 1993. Well, they say that a Gemini is mostly adaptable. At the same time, he gets nervous easily, too. I think that’s why Shogo’s image never shows arrogance.

He’s currently working under Amuse *Ah, there are so many Amusers I wrote in this blog* He has not yet given leading role in dorama/movie, but I hope it’s just a matter of time. However, Shogo announced his “retirement” from showbiz in December 2011 to focus on his study.

I always admire actors who played musical. When you act on TV, you get “TAKE 2” or “TAKE 3”, but you don’t have any in musical. That’s why only great actor can make one show success. That’s why I salute Shogo for having such musicals’ experiences. The funny thing is that all his musical characters are supposed to be chibi (small), but Shogo is 170 cm tall * I can’t see how we could see him small* Lucky his fellow cast members are waaaaaaaaaaayyy too tall. When he portrayed Ciel Phantomhive, he acted with Matsushita Yuya who’s 180 cm. When he played Ryoma, all the Seigaku regulars are 180 above. huff

  • Gou~ Himetachi no Sengoku as Mori Rikimaru (NHK, 2011)

  • Hammer Session! as Yajima Kenta (TBS, 2010)
  • Sunao ni Narenakute as Matsushima Kenta (Fuji TV, 2010)
  • Aibou: Season 8 as Murakoshi Yoshiaki (TV Asahi, 2009, eps 6)
  • O Banzai as Hanazono Momotaro (TBS, 2007)
  • Koisuru Nichiyobi 3 as Himura Koki (TBS/BS-i, 2007)
  • Kakuker Karakuri (TBS, 2006), he plays the young character of Shigeaki Kato.
  • Jyoou no Kyoushitsu SP (NTV, 2006)

  • Prince of Tennis as Echizen Ryoma
  1. The Prince of Tennis Musical : The Progressive Match Higa Chuu feat. Rikkai (in winter of 2007-2008)
  2. The Prince of Tennis Musical: Dream Live 5th (2008)
  3. The Prince of Tennis Musical: The Imperial Presence Hyotei Gakuen feat. Higa Chuu (2008)
  4. The Prince of Tennis Musical: The Treasure Match Shitenhōji feat. Hyotei Gakuen (2008–2009)
  5. The Prince of Tennis Musical: Dream Live 6th (2009)

  • Honda Informercial (2006)
  • PlayStation 3 (2007)
  • KDDI Company (2007)

  • Shinchōsha [Nicola]
  • Junon April edition (Feb. 23, 2010)
  • Good Come Vol. 14 (March 2, 2010)
  • Visualboy Brush Vol. 7 (March 24, 2010)
  • Cool-up Vol. 28 (March 27, 2010)
  • Emugura Vol. 5 (31 March 2010)
  • Junon April edition (23 February 2010)
  • The Television Weekly- Released May 19
  • Junon July edition – Released May 22
  • Good Come Vol.15 – released June 2
  • Cast-Prix Zero Vol.11 – Released on June 3
  • Gyao Magazine July on edition – Released June 4
  • Cutie July edition- Released June 12

  • Narumiya International [Blue Cross]

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It is virtually taken for granted nowadays that multi-tasking is a must. The demands on our time seem to be coming ever faster and in more complicated ways than we ever had to deal with before. Most of us are resigned to the fact that we are expected to be able to type up emails while on the phone and organise our calendar at the same time. If you’re a teenager (or ultra-hip oldie), throw in txting friends, updating your Facebook status and keeping a running commentary on pointless activities on Twitter. Previous studies on multi-tasking have shown that switching rapidly between tasks incurs a cost in time but what is actually happening when we do two (or more) things at once?

It certainly seems when we perform two tasks we are familiar with that we drop into “autopilot” where we might do one task without conscious thought while we focus our attention on another task, say driving while talking to a passenger. While we are deep in discussion it seems as though we are allowing the actions required for driving to be  handled by a “lower” part of our brain while we actively think about appropriate responses to the conversation. Anyone who has accidentally “driven to work” while meaning to go somewhere else would swear this interpretation is true.

Recent work published in the July16th issue of Neuron however disputes this interpretation of how our brain works. The study seems to show that instead of tasks becoming automatic and thus not requiring oversight by the pre-frontal cortex (responsible for conscious control), this area actually works more efficiently and switches tasks faster. In other words we are still only doing one thing at a time but swapping between tasks fast enough that it gives the appearance of multi-tasking. In the words of the researchers:

“The effect of training is to speed up information processing through this pre-frontal bottleneck, thereby reducing temporal processing overlap of the sensory-motor tasks in this brain region”

So, next time you boast of being a multi-tasking maven you can add that this actually means your brain works faster than those lounging in non-multitasking mediocrity. On the other hand, no need to inspire unnecessary ire among your peers unless you can handle the multiple tasks of running away and dodging projectiles.


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iPad Setup for Individual Classrooms Managed by the Teacher

So, these are a lot of words but not a lot of time. Having to spell out each touch makes this seem like a lot but it’s really not. Total time, minus the actual App installs, is maybe 10 minutes.

iPads in a classroom are the new boardgames, (educational of coarse), and as teachers, you want to have control over what is played in your classroom and not rely on the IT Guy every time you come across an App you would like for your classroom.

This guide is how I tell my teachers to setup iPads so they become living machines. Changing content when you want and not through a trouble ticket.

I am just copying and pasting the directions I sent out to our classrooms that got 5 iPads for their rooms, each. Your exact needs might not be here but you can adapt… Read everything first!

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Microsoft Office for iPad (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote)

Microsoft has just recently released iPad apps for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. These aren't just sloppy ports of the Windows programs, either. These apps were designed from the ground-up to work efficiently on the iPad and with touch controls. I was able to download them and check them out, and here are my impressions.

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Apps in the Classroom – Duolingo

So, you are a foreign language teacher with a dozen different classes of elementary, middle, or high school students struggling to learn Spanish, or French, or whatever. You are actually pretty lucky when it comes to utilizing the iPads. Very few subjects benefit from this technology as much as a foreign language class. You can do research on foreign countries, look up photos of different cultures, find recipes for ethnic foods, use translation and dictionary apps, check out video lessons on pronunciation or watch episodes of foreign TV shows, and find a huge wealth of language-learning apps to help your students practice inside and outside of class. And out of all the language-learning apps available, Duolingo is one of the most impressive I have encountered thus far (and it's free).

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Auto Play & Transition Keynote for iPad Video Slides Longer Than 60 Seconds.

Keynote for iPad is a staple in schools with iPad programs. Students are presenting to the class more and more with projects created all from an iPad. One great feature of keynote is its ability to embed video in a slide and at the end of the video, transition to the next slide. It just makes your presentation so much smoother and can make the whole thing play without any interaction. This is useful for getting everything in with a given amount of time or looping the presentation at your baking soda volcano exhibit. On keynote for mac you get 600 seconds to allow for this, on an iPad you get just 60.

Well with a little creative thinking, you can make this much longer.

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Cloud Storage Tutorial for Teachers and Students

I have already done a detailed post on advanced Dropbox tips for teachers, but I also wanted to do a more general post about cloud storage, give you some options, link you to some important apps, and explain why cloud storage is so important for students and teachers.

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Apps in the Classroom – Splash Math

Splash Math is a series of apps that helps elementary school students practice pretty much every math skill imaginable. It is basically a collection of quizzes/worksheets that are dressed up with fancy graphics and animations, but the kids love it! Not only that, but the apps have some excellent stat tracking and other educational features that make it perfect for use in a classroom as a reward for early finishers or as a station in a small-group classroom setting.

Let me walk you through the features, and then I will give you links to all possible versions of the app at the end of the post (they even have demo versions available).

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Archive for April, 2007

The Black Mages – Rocking Final Fantasy!

April 30, 07

No two ways about it… The Black Mages are by far my favourite rock group, and right now my overall favourite music to listen to! Plus, their bass is my personal inspiration to aspire to. (And no, they aren’t evil death metal – the Black Mage is a character class in the Final Fantasy series that casts attack spell.)

If you’re a Final Fantasy fanatic and wonder what’s so great about some old rock band, then get the following: The genius savant master himself, Nobuo Uematsu is their organist. They play totally rocking, real-instrument remixes of Final Fantasy music tracks, including the hardest rocking battles. Need I hype more?

They have amazing technical skill, timing and complementing of each other. They have excellent melodies courtesy of Nobuo Uematsu’s genius composing.

And you can see just how much FUN they’re having playing their best! Look at them laughing, smiling, swaying, bouncing up and down to the beat without a care… Now THAT’S what great music is all about! Not skill, not speed, not hardcoreness… But the genuine feeling!

                 Image sourced from http://www.doupe.cz

With a music style heavily reminiscent of 80’s and video-game rock nostalgia, plus being the always-cool JRock, they’ve released two wicked albums. And now you can get to see and hear them playing at their live concerts, courtesy of YouTube! With several cameras and generous zoom-ins, the technical fans among you can catch their blazing fast moves.

Although not as smooth or perfectly polished as their studio recordings, but it’s refreshingly different… And it’s still more than enough for you to: Enjoy!

To start you off, my personal fave tracks in order are: Matoya’s Cave (FFI), Zeromus (FFIV), The Decisive Battle (FFVI), The Rocking Grounds (FFIII),  Force Your Way (FFVIII), and Clash on the Big Bridge (FFV). Now on to the music…

1. J-E-N-O-V-A (FFVII) – Very techno, not a favourite of mine, and can’t find the live band version anyway.

2. Force Your Way (FFVIII) – Keyboard and guitars show off their skill!

3. Battle Theme (FFVI)

4. Battle Scene (FFI)

5. Battle, Scene II (FFII)

6. Matoya’s Cave (FFI) – A little too soft, so turn up those speakers. See Track 13 in LIVE “Above The Sky” for more.

7. Those Who Fight Further (FFVII) – Followed by instrumental solos as band members are introduced… And Chocobo!

8. The Decisive Battle (FFVI)

9.  Clash on the Big Bridge (FFV) – Gilgamesh! Couldn’t find the first concert’s version, so see LIVE “Above The Sky” track 10 for it.

10. Part A and Part B of Dancing Mad (FFVI)

11. Fight With Seymour (FFX)

LIVE “Above The Sky”

1. The Rocking Grounds (FFIII) – Perfect titular description.

2. Zeromus (FFIV) – Better in the studio recording, but great stuff nonetheless.

3. Hunter’s Chance (FFIX)

4. Battle Theme (FFVI) – Different from “THE BLACK MAGES” Live version.

5. Battle with the Four Fiends (FFIV)

6. Vamo’ Alla Flamenco (FFIX) – Spanish feel, with beautiful Spanish guitar.

7. Maybe I’m A Lion (FFVIII) – Hard and heavy rock, with middle part done in the technically-skilled style of Dream Theatre’s instrumental Erotomania, or Finnish group Stratovarius’ instrumental Stratosphere.

8.  Those Who Fight Further (FFVII) – Different from “THE BLACK MAGES” Live version.

9. The Man With The Machine Gun (FFVIII)

10. Clash on the Big Bridge (FFV) – Different from “THE BLACK MAGES” Live version.

11. Otherworld (FFX) – Featuring KAZCO’s impressive vocals for the lyrics. The bridge is totally Megadeth!

12. The Skies Above (FFX) – Vocals by Mr. Goo.

13. Matoya’s Cave (FFI) – The closest song to being sentimental rock, with an old rock ‘n’ roll style in the middle and an ‘8-bit nostalgia’ piece towards the end. You can clearly catch each of the different instruments’ contribution to the song, love the bass. Jazzman Jon Chen says it’s all very Deep Purple.

14. Blue Blast – Winning the Rainbow (Original piece)

More Friends

1. The Rocking Grounds (FFIII)

2. Maybe I’m a Lion (FFVIII)

3. One Winged Angel (Advent Children) – The whole shebang with the Black Mages rock band, conductor, full orchestra and Latin vocals choir… Complete with video screens, strobing lights and lengthy rock opera bridge! Totally cool experience! Originally from FFVII, this version is the one used in Advent Children CG animation movie, different lyrics from the FFVII game.

And from their third tour, a promo where they play Neo Exdeath:

And in case any are removed…

You can just search for black mages. Cheers!

PS. Related to my previous post on the classical versions of Final Fantasy music – Tour de Japon – Music From Final Fantasy.

You Reach Your Right Hand In, And Pull The Baby’s Brains Out

April 30, 07

…You reach your right knife in and you slash it all about.

You do the cuttey pokey and you scrape the baby out.

That’s what it’s all about.

From The Ryskind Sketchbook

This cartoon basically goes through each step of partial birth abortion

Related strongly to my post, Hey, Do You Think We Should We Kill Babies?

I personally, strongly feel that abortion is murder inside the mother’s womb. Apart from that, there is no difference between abortion and killing pre-schoolers with a hammer.

Ah, but then to liberals, babies are not really people.

Also, take a look at Back to the Future Stem Cells and Are Your Babies Inside Your Parents? similar situations: How would YOU like to be aborted out of convenience? I’m sure your suddenly discovered pro-life arguments would be really futile against the liberal right to choose right then.

Tour de Japon – Music From Final Fantasy

April 26, 07

Nobuo Uematsu is by far my favourite composer – I and many others consider him the best in the world. If you don’t know who he is, in brief he is the main composer for all the earlier Final Fantasy games, and also the amazing organist for my favourite rock band, The Black Mages.

My brother Jamie recently forwarded me two links to the Tour de Japon performances on YouTube. It’s a live orchestra rendition of some of the Final Fantasy music pieces. Beautiful, beautiful music!

Taizo Takemoto

                          The conductor, Taizo Takemoto

                           The singers for Maria and Draco

                                   The orchestra’s violins

             Nobuo Uematsu takes the baton in the last piece

A little research and browsing, and I found and collected the links to each of the pieces. Click and enjoy!

I personally recommend pieces 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 (Opera “Maria and Draco” – the famous FFVI Opera scene).

1. Opening, Bombing Mission (FFVII)

2. At Zanarkand (FFX)

3. Ronfaure (FFXI)

4. Aerith’s Theme (FFVII)

5. The Oath (FFVIII)

6. You’re Not Alone (FFIX)

7. Main Theme of FFV (FFV)

8. Main Theme of FFVII (FFVII)

9. Theme of Love (FFIV)

10. Final Fantasy I-III Medley 2004 (FFI, FFII, FFIII)

11. Opera “Maria and Draco” Part A and Part B (FFVI)

12. From FFVII Advent Children (Advent Children)

13. Final Fantasy Main Theme

If any of the links fail, you can always use the fail-safe YouTube Search for Tour de Japon. Cheers!

John Stossel on the Global Warming Myth?

April 26, 07

A rather well written piece that’s not so heavy on the statistics and facts, but still manages to give some good examples, make a lot of sense, and be convincing.

I first found it from the Is It Getting Warmer? blog. Or see the original article directly thru the link later. And I’d like to get this book which delves into various misguided media panic-scares over the recent decades, including global warming paranoia.

Excerpt from The Global Warming Myth? article by John Stossel of ABC News:

MYTH No. 4: Signing the Kyoto Treaty would stop the warming.
TRUTH: Hardly.

And even advocates of Kyoto admit that if all the nations signed the Kyoto agreement and obeyed it, global temperatures would still increase. The difference by 2050 would be less than a tenth of a degree. The fuss over Kyoto is absurd. Even if Kyoto would have an impact, do you think all the signers are going to honor what they signed? China is predicted to out-emit us in five to 10 years. India will soon follow. What incentive do they have to stop burning fossil fuels? Get the shovel.

To think that solar energy could stop the predicted temperature increase is nonsensical. EPCOT, a theme park with a solar energy ride, consumes about 395,000 kilowatt-hours per day. The Department of Energy says you’d need around a thousand acres of solar panels to generate that much electricity. EPCOT itself only sits on 300 acres, so you’d have to triple the size of the park just to operate it. (Windmills are no panacea either. They are giant bird-killing Cuisinarts, and we’d have to build lots of them to produce significant energy.)

In 2000, a group called Cape Wind proposed to erect 130 windmills in Nantucket Sound, off the coast of Massachusetts. I think the drawings make them look interesting, but — horrors! — they would be visible from the Kennedy family vacation compound in Hyannis Port. Robert Kennedy Jr., grand poo-bah of the environmental zealotry movement, is leading a campaign to ban the windmills from Nantucket Sound. The group he leads, the Waterkeeper Alliance, said it supports wind farms — but Kennedy fights the one near his home. What a hypocrite.

John Stossel is particularly harsh on Kyoto and so-called ‘green’ energy, and with good reason. See my posts Star Opinion: Guard Against Kyoto Protocol Hype, Stop Focusing on Global Warming, Start Focusing on Humanity and Ann Coulter Junks Global Warming Too for more on why.

More information also available on Cape Wind, Robert F. Kennedy’s involvement, and hypocrites in general.

The Soup Kitchen Opening in KL

April 25, 07

I found this post really inspiring. It brings a smile to my face! RM 2000 a month is not a large sum to feed so many needy, every month!

If anyone can get more information or links on the Soup Kitchen, its founder Pastor Clarine Chun, or the Superflow Foundation, please do comment!

From The Star 25 Apr 2007:

Soup kitchen opening up in KL

ALOR STAR: The Soup Kitchen, a coffeeshop-style eatery that provides free lunches for the poor and downtrodden here, will be extending its operations to Kuala Lumpur.

Its founder, Pastor Clarine Chun, said the Superflow Foundation that runs the kitchen was now identifying a suitable site in the capital city.

A good deed: Some of the poor folk from various ages and races enjoying their lunch at the Soup Kitchen in Jalan Putra, Alor Star.

“We are going beyond the feed-the-poor programme by setting up a permanent place where poor people know where to go when they feel hungry,” she said.

Pastor Chun said the Soup Kitchen at Jalan Putra here, which opens from 11.30am to 2.30pm from Sunday to Thursday, attracted about 160 people daily including drug addicts, jobless youths, and senior citizens.

“We open our doors to anyone who feels hungry. We also allow them to take food home for family members,” she said, adding that no pork or beef is served.

“Some of the drug addicts who frequented Soup Kitchen listened to our advice and underwent drug rehabilitation,” she added.

“One construction worker who could not feed his young family comes here to pack home food for his family whenever his finances run low.”

Foundation trustee Penny Khor said it costs about RM2,000 a month to run the Soup Kitchen.

“Most of the ingredients are sponsored. A company sponsors rice. Fishmongers call us whenever they have extra fish to spare. Some people come and drop off vegetables. Most of the vegetables may not be that fresh, but they are edible,” she said.

The foundation employs a cook and an assistant. A token sum is given to seven mentally challenged individuals who help out at the Soup Kitchen, Khor said.

For more information on the Soup Kitchen, call 04-731 9189.

Johor Cops Put Brakes on Car Thefts

April 25, 07

More good news regarding the Johor crime scene. Carjackings seem pretty common around here, sometimes with the victim still in the car! So now this is the kind of ‘traffic policing’ that should be carried out more!

From The Star 25 Apr 2007:

Johor cops to put brakes on car thefts

JOHOR BARU: Police are in the midst of a war on vehicle thieves and the score so far is two major gangs busted, 12 suspects nabbed and 15 vehicles recovered.

Johor Baru (North) OCPD Asst Comm Ruslan Hassan said police would not allow vehicle thieves to run rampant in the city.

“They are not welcome here. Their time is up and we are coming to catch them,” he said, adding that police were determined to make the state capital a safer city for the public.

In an operation on March 3, police raided an oil palm estate in Gelang Patah and arrested four suspects, aged between 17 and 31, including an Indonesian woman from Kalimantan.

“We seized nine lorries and a car at an oil palm estate. The vehicles were reported stolen in Ulu Tiram, Kangkar Pulai, Senai, Plentong and Tampoi,” said ACP Ruslan.

Among the vehicles recovered were four trailers, a Daihatsu Delta lorry, two Hicom lorries and a Honda Civic car.

Police believe they have solved seven vehicle theft cases with the arrest of the suspects.

Press Start to Play!: Old Flames

April 24, 07

Heh heh… I had a bit of difficulty deciding which panel was most interesting to use as the preview. An interesting, different take on the whole Mario-Princess-King Koopa relationship, and the shackles of emotional denial.

Johor Police Seize Two Guns and Ammo

April 24, 07

Nice one, cops! Stop the crimes BEFORE they happen, now that’s sucessful case resolution!

Knowing Johor criminals, the suspects wouldn’t have hesitated to blow holes in their robbery victims, even blind, quadriplegic and completely cooperative octogenarians.

From The Star 24 Apr 2007:

Police arrest two and seize two guns and ammunition

JOHOR BARU: Police nabbed two suspects and an array of items, including two guns and some 60 rounds of ammunition, after a raid at a hotel in the city.

Acting on a tip off, eight policemen from the Johor Baru (South) police headquarters led by district CID Chief Deputy Supt Noor Hashim Mohamed raided two hotel rooms on April 19 at about 5.30pm.

Johor deputy police chief Senior Asst Comm 1 Datuk Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said that police seized 26 bullets in the first room and some items that led police to another room at about 10.30pm.

Speaking at a press conference held at the Central police station on Tuesday, he said police detained a man and woman aged 43 and 35 respectively and seized two pistols.

“We seized a revolver loaded with five bullets and an empty Colt Automatic. We also seized a bag containing RM1,039 in cash,” he said.

He added police also seized some 30 bullets of different types.

SAC 1 Mokhtar said that the suspects have since been remanded until April 27 and the case was being investigated under Section 8 of the Firearms Act.

He also thanked the public for giving the tip off to the police and he also urged them to cooperate more in the future.

UPDATE The Star 25 Apr 2007:

Police nab couple and seize guns in hotel raid

JOHOR BARU: Police nabbed a man and a woman and seized an array of items including two guns and some 60 rounds of ammunition after a raid at a hotel in the city.

Acting on a tip-off, eight policemen from the Johor Baru (South) police headquarters led by district CID chief Deputy Supt Noor Hashim Mohamed raided two hotel rooms last Thursday at about 5.30pm.

Seized arms: SAC 1 Mokhtar (left) and Johor Baru (South) OCPD Asst Comm Shafie Ismail (right) showing pressmen the guns and other seized items in Johor Baru yesterday.

Johor deputy police chief Senior Asst Comm 1 Datuk Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said that police seized a revolver loaded with five bullets and an empty Colt Automatic.

“We also seized a bag containing RM1,039 in cash,” he said, adding that police also seized some 30 bullets of different types.

Speaking at a press conference held at the Central police station, he said police detained a man and woman aged 43 and 35 respectively.

SAC 1 Mokhtar said that the suspects have been remanded until Friday.

He urged anyone with information to contact the police hotline at 07-221 2999 or the nearest police station.

Global Buuuuurrrrning Hits

April 24, 07

Since my post collecting various Global Warming Editorial Cartoons was aired beginning on 20 April, my hits went up substantially.

It’s been kind of a slump lately, both in my posting frequency and the number of visitors to my blog. But the hits on the GW Cartoons helped pick up the slack.

Conclusion? Politics are about as crowd-pulling as fun and mindless entertainment. Sometimes, there’s no difference, if you’ve heard about some of our Menteri name-calling spats!

Recent Top Three Posts:

Global Warming Editorial Cartoons 31
Tom & Jerry: Solid Serenade (Is You  19
WRYYYYYY!!! Dio Brando The World 19

Global Warming Editorial Cartoons 28
WRYYYYYY!!! Dio Brando The World 9
How to Stop Chili or Chilli Burning 6

Global Warming Editorial Cartoons 25
WRYYYYYY!!! Dio Brando The World 12
Russell Crowe Fightin’ Around the World 8

Global Warming Editorial Cartoons 30
WRYYYYYY!!! Dio Brando The World 10
Tom & Jerry: Solid Serenade (Is You  8

As you can see above, my post on GW Cartoons managed to beat the likes of Russell Crowe and Tom & Jerry, both consistent mass-media favourites. And amazingly, it even surpassed my all-time most viewed post, WRYYYYYY!!! Dio Brando The World! (312 views in the last 30 days)

Also some props due to the Is It Getting Warmer? blog, which featured my GW Cartoons post. I got several references from his site. Return the favour for me by visiting his site and learn more about the whole global warming yes/no debate, will you? Thanks!

References from Is It Getting Warmer:

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Burglar Cuts Thru Roof, Robs and Stabs Woman

April 23, 07

Oh no. It’s been a long while since I last came across news of horrific, violent crime in JB. But once again, when it happens, the daring and brutality of the act are nothing short of SHOCKING!

I mean, I had my own experience where the burglars ripped the metal grill off its hinges and battered down the not-plywood wooden door to get in.

But now it seems that the entire house has to be made of a single, die-cast piece of high-strength steel if we want to sleep soundly in JB! At least then the burglars will wake all the neighbours up when they use welding torches and TNT to break into the house… Because they probably will.

Johor criminals are a notch above the rest of Malaysia in terms of brazenness and skill… And many notches below the rest in terms of humaneness and mercy.

From The Star 23 Apr 2007:

Woman robbed and stabbed

JOHOR BARU: A 21-year-old clerk was robbed and brutally stabbed to death as her father slept in another room.

Lim Hoon Hwa’s assailant came through the roof of her double-storey house in Taman Skudai Baru early yesterday morning, ransacked the living room and found a few handphones before making his way into her room through the bathroom.

Johor Baru (North) OCPD Asst Comm Ruslan Hassan said Lim fought her assailant before being stabbed in the head, chest and abdomen.

Her father found her body at 8.30am.

The maid was away.

“The victim’s father was sleeping in another room and he did not hear anything,” he said.

Police found a zinc cutter on top of the roof.

ACP Ruslan said the body had been sent to Sultanah Aminah Hospital for post-mortem.

He urged anyone with information to contact the police hotline at 07-2212 999 or the nearest police station.

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Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Cucumber & Sprout Salad

Here's a nice simple side-salad. Greenhouse cucumbers were on sale this week, so a cucumber salad seemed in order. Also, it was HOT! And I do mean hot. Not like April at all.

It's too soon for radishes or green onions, but in a month they will be around. Or sooner, if this weather keeps up. I used some onion tops from the garden. They are the first thing up in the Spring, and even if you have a very small garden I think it's worth finding a few square inches for some chives and welsh onions. Carrots are still around, but not for much longer. I always try to buy a couple of bigs bags around now to tide me over the period in early summer that they are not available.

2 to 4 servings
15 minutes prep time - 30 minutes to marinate

Cucumber and Sprout Salad
Make the Dressing:
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons sunflower seed oil
3 tablespoons dill pickle juice
pepper to taste

Mix them up and set them aside.

Make the Salad:
2 or 3 mini greenhouse cucumbers
1 cup sunflower or other sprouts, chopped
1 medium carrot
OR 2 or 3 tender young radishes
1 green onion, or equivalent onion greens or chives

Wash the cucumbers and trim the ends; cut them in dice. Rinse, drain and chop the sprouts. Peel and dice the carrot or radishes, a little finer than the cucumbers. Rinse, trim and chop the green onion.

Toss with the salad dressing, and let marinate in a cool spot (fridge) for about 30 minutes to allow the flavours to blend.

Last year at this time I made Maple Gingerbread.

Myunghee said...

i really like your seasonal recipes. thank you and your posting.:)

Ferdzy said...

Myunghee, thank you!

CallieK said...

I've got spring onions already here in Toronto - we've been eating them for about a week! We had a really mil winter this year and then that heat wave last week sent everything into a crazy growth spurt- I swear I could actually see the lilies growing from up on my deck!

Ferdzy said...

Callie, that's great. I've got a fair bit of onion greens too.

It's pretty wild. On the down side, the early spring bulbs are *finished*. And of course, we are expecting some snow tonight, ugh. Still, I'm pretty optimistic that that will be the end of it - the next week is supposed to be mild again.

mark said...

hi ferdzy-
just wanted to let you know that we grow 260 lbs/week organic sunflower, buckwheat, pea sprouts and wheatgrass and our customers say they are awesome, best they've ever had!
thought you might be interested...
and we too just picked our supply of spring onions on our property in hockley valley.


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In the Hospital…Again

October 29, 2013 at 7:11 pm | Posted in Hospital, Hubby | 4 Comments

I’m not sure exactly what happened, nor why but yesterday morning, hubby woke up in a confused mood; he was a bit off and I had my eyes on him.  After his shower, he snoozed in his chair and then asked me if supper was ready.  I answered that it was breakfast time and he asked me to make some poached eggs for him.

He came into the kitchen and as I was talking to him, I turned to see him tip sideways on the bench seat.  I raced to the table and pushed it away and tried to stop him from hitting his head on the ceramic tile.  What I hadn’t thought about was the edge of the bench seat; the back of his right arm is scraped and is in horrible shape.

I called 911 because he wouldn’t awaken.  By the time the paramedics arrived, he was a bit more alert yet I could tell he wasn’t 100%

He refused to go to the ER, either the local one or the one in Springfield.  Since I didn’t have a copy of my Power of Attorney (I gave it to the insurance agent last week), I had no proof that I could force him to go.

The paramedics wrapped his arm and left.  I was so angry and was crying and growling at him for not going.  Eventually he went to bed, so I drove down to the bank to grab my original Power of Attorney, made two copies and stopped by the attorney’s office to make certain that I did have the authority to have him taken by the paramedics.  Thankfully he was free to see me and pointed out the specific paragraph.  On the way home, I stopped by the ambulance service and showed the Power of Attorney form to the office manager.

Around 3:00 p.m., I went to check on hubby and he had bled through the bandages.  I re-wrapped his arm and put my foot down:  either he agreed to go by car to the local ER or I would call 911 and use my Power of Attorney.

To make a long story short, he was severely anemic; his blood count was WAY off from being on the Warfarin; his kidney function was off; the local hospital couldn’t handle him and they loaded him onto an ambulance and now he’s here at the big hospital.

AND the same two paramedics who were at our home that morning are the same men who showed up last night at 8:00 p.m. to take him to the hospital in Springfield.

Hubby’s spent most of his day sleeping; he ate a bit of breakfast and lunch.  He’s had numerous blood and plasma transfusions, Vitamin K shots and is on another antibiotic because he’s got a blood infection.  My question (and one that can’t be answered yet) is:  is that infection from the minor pneumonia he developed a couple of weeks ago or is it something new?  The blood culture won’t come back for another day or two.

The “wound care team” is supposed to be in tonight to check his arm.  I am concerned that it is cleaned well, because he doesn’t need ANOTHER infection.

Anyway, here we are again.  My mom has graciously stepped into the role of caregiver of my teen, my German Shepherd and two cats.

I would appreciate any and all prayers – thanks!

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  1. I am so sorry to hear of this mishap to your hubby now when he seemed on the mend, but we never know from one day to the next what may happen or for that matter, one hour or minute. You know that God has this and it is all in his control. Please do this and take care of yourself. Prayers are going up for your hubby and you so try to relax and “Let God”. Let your thoughts wander to some pleasant things to think about and remember and you will be surprised as to how things will come into place for the better; most of all think on God for: “He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands”. Good night luv and try to get some rest.
    Luv U Patty;

    • Thank you, Alice, I needed to hear this tonight 🙂

  2. Oh Patty, I am so sorry to hear and have your family in my prayers. Stay strong, praying and do not forget to take care of yourself as well.

  3. I found your blog today while looking for crock-pot recipes. I’m sorry to hear about your husband and hope that by now he is doing well and you are both safely home.
    My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family,

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Going Behind the Scene

Not long ago I had the opportunity to go behind the scenes of the Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport. Of course there are the typical layers of security, but then there is also the security you don’t see. Like the place where your baggage goes to be sorted, searched (sometimes) and spit out to your proper destination.

Passenger security can be a nightmare (Orlando, for example), but it’s nothing like the adventure your luggage will experience. In Quebec, luggage moves through six layers of security. One of the steps, if necessary, will be a manual search.

The Quebec airport is the 12th largest flight terminal in Canada. It’s not big, but it is ultra-modern and a pleasant experience as far as airports go. It used to be managed by the government, but in 2000 it was privatized. That change has been so successful that the airport staff is spending money ($277 million in federal grant money) for expansion. In fact, the terminal is expected to double in size by 2018, and will add self-service technology. Airport officials are also exploring the development of a U.S. Preclearance center.

For me, the tour was all about security. For areas that are restricted, biometrics have been installed. The airport has two active runways that are surrounded by an 8-foot perimeter fence. An inside perimeter roadway allows for consistent patrols and outside the terminal; on the air side, the tarmac is restricted to airplanes and authorized vehicles only. As far as security staff, the airport employs about 200 officers, and they are responsible for the operations control center, terminal patrols and air-side patrols.

Officers that work in the dispatch office are aware of all alarms and understand the proper officer to the scene. You have to wonder how they stay on top of and track everything, including the security we don’t see. Genetec plays a big role in airport security. Integrators that install the equipment are Genetec-approved people.

“We currently have 300 cameras at the airport,” said Christian Labrosse, director of the security and operational control center. “By 2018, we expect to have 500 cameras installed that will provide a general view of the entire airplane side of operations. The cameras are networked with Genetec at the head end.” While on the tour, Genetec president Pierre Racz said that they sell their product to the integrator but that this company plays a key role in getting the solution placed on site.

“We see people using our solutions, using our tools to do things we never imagined,” Racz said. “It is poetry.”

Racz has mentioned several stories about skeptics he faced as he was building Genetec from scratch. They laughed out loud as he showed them networked video management, but as good things often happen, Genetec became the vendor on record to the Montreal Police Department. They are still a top customer, and with that installation, Racz was in the race.

The Genetec VMS offers the hybridization model (Stratocast), introduced in 2013 as a cloud-based solution. The company recently partnered with Microsoft’s Azure. Racz said today’s IT departments are overwhelmed and this cloud solution eases their burden, and is cost-effective overall. The integrator comes out with a win because this establishes a recurring revenue stream.

Not finished with his cloud conversations, Racz talked about hybridization as the final step to cloud. His intent is for Genetec to make it seamless to the end user. He also talked about vulnerability. Racz said today’s cloud is well suited for locations using three to four cameras, but that it is only a matter of time before it is viable for larger applications.

Through older products, one from an acquisition, Genetec believes that its Synergis IP access control will unify with AutoVu (acquired in 2006) license plate recognition. Racz said that his Security Center can integrate with the majority of intrusion detection solutions and with other types of security systems, and work as a common platform. Genetec is searching numerous vertical markets, such as education.

Genetec is big on educating the masses about cloud and the promise of cloud. Christian Morin, vice president of cloud services said when people are educated, it makes implementation much easier. It provides greater flexibility and it lowers the barrier to entry to implement enterprise systems that customers could not afford previously.

One of Genetec’s recently launched initiatives, “citywise” allows for federation and openness to the municipal level where the company can bring in city leaders and educate them on the impact greater security and safety play in the larger picture.

The initiative is how to work with world leaders and build more meaningful cities. Andrew Elvish, vice president of marketing and product management said this leads to networks that are effective and provides sustainable growth. The bottom line, “Cities drive our business,” he said.

This article originally appeared in the April 2016 issue of Security Today.

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Sac City Student Center
12 noon – 6pm
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Featuring A Variety of Sexy and Health Participants, Tabling, Presentations, Performances, Fun & Games.
This is the kick-off event of SEX+CITY, Sex-Positive Week at Sacramento City College.

Participants include:

SCC Health Center
SCC Counseling Office
SCC Safe Space Program
Women’s Health Specialists
Gender Health Center
Sacramento LGBT Community Center
Our Whole Lives (OWL) – teen sex-ed program
AmyJo Mattheis – “The Good Core Goddess,” author, speaker
Lavender Library
Holistic Family Services – Relationship and Personal Counselors
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‘Roach killer’ found on toys at dollar store

Cotati police said a suspicious white powder believed to be cockroach killer was sprinkled on children’s toys at a Dollar Tree store Saturday.

A customer discovered the powder and a partially empty bottle labeled “roach killer” by the toys at the store at 640 E. Cotati Ave. around 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Cotati police Chief Michael Parish said.

The discount store sells both items, Parish said.

The customer notified a store employee, who called the Rancho Adobe Fire Protection District. Responding firefighters considered the powder suspicious and called police, Parish said.

Police Officer Brandon Mitchell responded but found no fingerprints on the bottle of roach killer. The active ingredient in the roach killer is boric acid, which is mildly toxic, according to Parish.

Parish said if video from the store’s surveillance camera doesn’t show a possible suspect, the case will be closed:

“We don’t know if it was intentionally done by an adult or if a child got ahold of the bottle.”

The Dollar Tree store contracts with a hazardous materials cleanup company, which cleaned the area. The business was open again Sunday, Parish said.


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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

14 Musical Moments from 2014 (Part 2)

8. Tetzlaff Plays Bartok
The German violin soloist Christian Tetzlaff played Bartok's monumental 2nd Violin Concerto with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony in a stunning performance that was both virtuosic and soulful.

9. Vladimir Jurowski
I was able to see my favorite conductor in the world, Vladimir Jurowski, twice this year. The first opportunity was in May, during his debut with the New York Philharmonic where he conducted Szymanowski's Violin Concerto #1 with Nicola Benedetti as soloist and Prokofiev's Cinderella ballet. The concert was on my birthday during my first visit to Avery Fisher Hall, with press seats kindly provided by the Philharmonic which made me feel like I had made it in New York City without even having to move there. The second Jurowski sighting was in October when he conducted the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall in a great, ear-shattering performance of Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony.

10. Peter Grimes
As the capstone to a Benjamin Britten festival in June, the San Francisco Symphony presented a "semi-staged" production of Peter Grimes which was so outstanding it left both performers and audiences in a state of shock. The cast was as strong as any in the world, with Elza van den Heever and Stuart Skelton leading the way, the chorus sublime, the orchestra under Tilson Thomas perfection, and the understated staging by James Darrah absorbing and powerful.

11. Don Giovanni
The young Los Angeles director James Darrah pops up twice in a row on this list because after finishing Peter Grimes, he hopped over to the Merola Opera Program for a staging of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Everett Middle School in July. Set in a successful young artiste's loft, the production was inventive, musical, and at times genuinely shocking. The student singers in the cast sang and acted with complete conviction.

12. Wild Rumpus
The Bay Area suddenly has an abundance of contemporary chamber musical groups started by young performers and composers, and Wild Rumpus became an instant favorite after I heard a program at Old First Church in September. Attending an open rehearsal in November with the group practicing world premiere compositions at the Center for New Music in November just confirmed that this is a smart, interesting group of musicians.

13. Norma
The San Francisco Opera opened their fall season with Bellini's Norma which made me fall in love with the opera all over again after one too many bad/mediocre productions over the years. This production was silly and serviceable, but the conducting by Nicola Luisotti of the SF Opera Orchestra was exciting, and the singing by Sondra Radvanovsky, Russell Thomas, a beefed up SF Opera chorus, and especially Jamie Barton was Golden Age exceptional.

14. Dvorak's Stabat Mater
The Czech Philharmonic, complete with four vocal soloists and a huge chorus, performed Dvorak's achingly beautiful Stabat Mater at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall in November. Jiří Bělohlávek, the founder of the orchestra, conducted smoothly and there was a standout performance by tenor soloist Jarosla Brezina. The final movement of the 90-minute work had me in tears.

14 Musical Moments from 2014 (Part 1)

2014 was probably the richest year in my experience for the breadth, depth and great performances of both old and new music all over the Bay Area, by institutions grand and small. Here are 14 moments that were exceptional.

1. Cahill Plays Cowell at San Quentin
In January the Berkeley pianist Sarah Cahill produced and performed a brave, visionary program of music by California composer Henry Cowell, written while he was imprisoned for four years during the 1930s at San Quentin on a spurious "morals charge." The two performances took place over a morning and evening at the chapel of San Quentin Prison itself in front of an audience of inmates. If you believe in spirits, it was obvious that Cowell's was presiding over the concerts that day.

2. Magik*Magic Orchestra at the Fox
The freelance orchestra of young conservatory-trained musicians who back up everyone from Death Cab for Cutie to Zoe Keating threw themselves a five year anniversary concert party at Oakland's downtown Fox Theatre in February. It was beautifully produced and the long roll call of collaborators performing onstage was fun and impressive.

3. Joan La Barbara
The New York composer/singer and pioneer of extended vocal techniques visited the Bay Area in March, collaborating with young improvisational performers at the Center for New Music in the Tenderloin (click here). Later in the week, she gave a solo performance at the UC Berkeley Art Museum that only confirmed her divinity (click here).

4. BluePrint of The Soul
As an instructor, Nicole Paiement above selects the cream of the crop at the SF Conservatory every year and presents performances of contemporary music that are some of the finest concerts in the Bay Area under the BluePrint imprint. In April, she gave a concert that included music by Lou Harrison, John Adams, Terry Riley and a wonderful world premiere called The Exact Location of The Soul by local boy Ryan Brown, one of the founders of the Switchboard Festival and a new Conservatory instructor himself.

5. Herbert Blomstedt
The 86-year-old former SF Symphony Music Director certainly makes a good case for the healthy lifestyle of the Seventh-day Adventist church because he hasn't seemed to age physically over the last 30 years, and his conducting just gets better. In April he guest conducted SF Symphony in the Clarinet Concerto of Carl Nielsen with Carey Bell (the tall dude) as the soloist, but the shocker was Schubert's Symphony in C Major, The Great, which I had always considered a very dull hour of music until this performance where it sounded supremely beautiful.

6. Mahagonny Songspiel/Les Mamelles de Tiresias
Under the music direction of Nicole Paiement and the dystopian mashup conception/direction of Brian Staufenbiel, Opera Parallele pulled off a tricky, brilliant operatic double bill of Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel and Francois Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tiresias in April. Poulenc's music was a revelation, and being a supernumerary guard onstage allowed me the pleasure of hearing it over a period of weeks. The baritones above are Gabriel Pressler and Hadleigh Adams, members of an exceptionally good ensemble cast with no weaknesses.

7. Ted Hearne and Volti
In May, the Center for New Music hosted an open rehearsal by the choral group Volti of Ted Hearne's cantata Sound from the Bench for electric guitar, percussion and chamber chorus with the young composer leading the affair. Hearing the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling on corporate citizenship translated into hard-edged music turned out to be perversely thrilling.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

A Clear Day

After a month of blessed rain, the Northern California coast has become crystal clear, with Point Reyes miles away appearing on the horizon like a hallucinatory mirage.

At Ocean Beach on Friday, there were hundreds of tourists out to see the ocean sunset...

...while surfers caught the last waves of the day below the Cliff House.

The Farallon Islands looked like a short walk across the water rather than 30 miles away.

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Brass Boys for Christmas

A quintet of handsome young brass players arrived at Patricia's Green in the Hayes Valley last weekend and played Christmas music for passersby.

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music has partnered up with the Civic Center Community Business District the last couple of years to offer free outdoor Christmas concerts in the neighborhood, and I wondered if this was the SFCM Brass Quintet in action.

I wrote to Sam Smith at the school for confirmation, and received the following reply, "These are not the same players hired by the CBD, but they look suspiciously Conservatory like!"

So whoever you are, mystery brass quintet, you sounded good and this is coming from somebody who can only take a little bit of Christmas music before turning into Scrooge.

Merry Christmas to everyone, and happy birthday to Heidi, my Santa Barbara buddha.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Bye Bye to the Berkeley Art Museum Building

Designed by the San Francisco modernist architect Mario J. Ciampi in the 1960s, the 1970 Berkeley Art Museum on Bancroft Street closed its doors as a public museum on Sunday with a free admission day of "revels" and ceremonial final performances.

Though the cast-concrete building has always been a bit brutalist for my taste, the place was very important. Besides its decades of art exhibits, the building also hosted the original home of the Pacific Film Archive which burst on the scene in the early 1970s as an equal to the Paris Cinematheque.

The list of creative live performances by musicians, dancers and artists will soon become historic legend, and some UC Berkeley PhD candidate should get to work now interviewing and cataloguing the enormous range of performers and performances held in the space, with its fabulous sightlines and weird acoustics. A good place to start would be Joan La Barbara who recorded a live album in the building in 1976 and returned for a farewell concert earlier this year.

Those interviews should also include the pianist and concert "curator" Sarah Cahill who has been hosting Friday night concerts for years with the enthusiastic collaboration of Museum Director Larry Rinder above.

Their final collaboration in the building was a performance of György Ligeti's 1962 Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes. Composers, musicians, museum staff, donors, friends and patrons were recruited for this final musical gesture with about 50 people divided among the 100 metronomes.

A friend, Patrick Vaz, jokingly asked me if the performance used "original instruments," and the serious answer was "yes, the piece is going to become rarer and rarer because wind-up metronomes are going the way of the slide rule on account of digital technology."

After a short rehearsal with our metronomes, we fled an overamplified dance performance for the safety of the Durant Hotel bar across the street, and returned for the extraordinary composer and performance artist Dohee Lee's leaving the building ritual.

"This is imporTANT!" she instructed. "You must feel the floor with your feet before you leave it, stomp on the floor with the beat and really grasp it," and the audience surrounding her did just that.

After a few mercifully short speeches from a trio of museum directors, the metronome volunteers including myself assembled at our various tables. My table was under the direction of UCB Chorus Director Marika Kuzma above, with her former student James Parr roped in at the last minute.

Sarah Cahill gave a short explanation of the piece to the audience, turned to the assembled throng of performers and cued our ritualistic winding of the microphones (three full-turns or six half-turns), finally giving us the signal to unleash the phasing cacophony which wound down to a single metronome 28 minutes later. For a video of the entire performance by Tony Hurd, click here.

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Hands Up, Public Defender

A protest vigil by the Public Defender's Office, headed by Jeff Adachi below, was held at noon on Thursday in front of San Francisco's Hall of Justice, the one-stop court and jail complex at 8th and Bryant Streets.

The protest was being held in conjunction with Public Defenders' offices throughout the Western states since they are in the front lines when it comes to witnessing institutional racism in the justice system.

Adachi noted that the problem was larger than bigoted police departments, declaring that "We are all complicit. We see judges and prosecutors routinely asking for higher bail and longer sentences for people of color for the same offenses committed by whites. And if public defenders' offices provide a lousy defense, that can be the worst thing imaginable to happen to a defendant."

He pointed out that San Francisco's population is 6% black while 56% of the jail population is black, before urging the small crowd to chant, "Black Lives Matter" for the inmates in the jail above us.

Adachi mostly played emcee for a series of smart speakers, including Oscar Grant's "Uncle Bobby" Johnson above. Johnson had just returned from Phoenix where they are having their own police shooting controversy. When I Googled "Phoenix Police Shooting" to see what the story might be, it turned out that the Phoenix police have shot and killed three different people this month, but the first one was a white cop shooting and killing the black, unarmed Rumain Brisbon.

As Adachi pointed out, the problem is structural and everywhere, not just Ferguson or Staten Island or Cleveland or San Francisco.

According to Yolanda Jackson above, the new Executive Director of the Bar Association of San Francisco, lawyers of all stripes need to be part of the effort to change the system, and quantifying the injustice is going to be a huge part of that effort.

The vigil ended with four and a half minutes of silence on the Hall of Justice steps, in remembrance of the four and a half hours that Michael Brown was left on the streets to die in Ferguson.

I used to write more about local politics on this blog but found the provincial, corrupt San Francisco City Family too depressing to think about after a while. There are a few exceptions among San Francisco's elected officials, and Public Defender Jeff Adachi is first in line, the most admirable local politician I have met since Harvey Milk. He's smart, compassionate, honest, an inspiring leader, and a great speaker. We would be lucky to have him as Mayor of San Francisco, but that will never happen, partly because he had the temerity to point out during the last mayor's race that the current municipal compensation and pension system is unsustainable, particularly among public safety unions. You don't say those kind of things and get elected Mayor.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

12-13-14: SoundBox

Saturday night the San Francisco Symphony premiered a new "late-night, experimental music performance space" called SoundBox in a large, undecorated, 50-foot-ceiling room at the back of Davies Hall that is primarily used as a rehearsal space for the San Francisco Opera. Knowing the room well from decades of Opera rehearsals, I was dubious about the proposition, but the evening turned out to be a fun, surprising, exuberant success on every level. The enchantment started with the sunken orchestra pit at the entrance to the hall which had been transformed into a cactus garden where performers created an ambient soundscape "derived from John Cage's Branches" by manipulating amplified plants.

The sound installation was the background for the first hour of drinking and socializing in the dark, theatrically lit room with comfortable, low-to-the-ground seating, flanked by a full bar with stand-up cocktail tables on one side and two performing stages on the other side.

The larger stage was surrounded by vertical screens while a smaller stage to the side was dominated by a huge screen that created the fourth wall of the room, all of them featuring projections by Adam Larsen that were very striking without competing with the music.

The theatricality extended to the contingent from the San Francisco Symphony Chorus who arrived singing in a procession as if we were in a cathedral as they intoned ancient liturgical music by "Anonymous" and Josquin des Prez (Plainchant and Kyrie from Missa Pange lingua). The chorus then jumped in time to Panda Chant II from a 1984 science fiction opera by Meredith Monk, complete with choreographed stomping and hand jive movement.

Attention then shifted to the smaller stage where five master percussionists, including Jacob Nissly above, played Steve Reich's 1973 minimalist masterpiece Music for Pieces of Wood. Watching the intense concentration of the performers as they tried to stay in or out of phase with each other was hypnotic.

What was unexpected was how quiet and attentive the audience was throughout the musical sections, which were broken up by two long intermissions for drinking and socializing. The older audiences at Davies Hall concerts tend to be quiet but burdened with constant coughing fits, particularly this time of year, while you could hear a pin drop during most of SoundBox's Saturday performances.

At the beginning of the concert, Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas explained how dead the natural acoustics of the room usually are and how they had been enhanced by the Berkeley based Meyer Sound Constellation Acoustic System. I was dubious about this too, because I usually hate amplification of classical music and my experiences at Davies Hall whenever they have used electronics has been awful. I also wasn't that impressed with the Meyer Sound system at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. However, the discreet amplification at SoundBox was an unobtrusive marvel, especially since it changed properties for each musical number in a sort of sonic sampler.

The second act opened with the projection of a short, boring 1986 art film called Voice Windows by Steina featuring the incomparable voice of Joan La Barbara.

This was followed by the 1904 chamber piece Introduction and Allegro by Maurice Ravel played with grace and commitment by some of the finest musicians in the world about five feet from our ottomans. (Above are violinists Alexander Barantschik and Dan Carlson, violist Jonathan Vinocour, cellist Amos Yang, and clarinetist Crey Bell.)

The real star of the performance was harpist Doug Rioth above, flanked by Bell and flautist Tim Day.

Tilson Thomas then led a contingent of brass and percussionists in Varese's Integrales, a modernist landmark that sounded perfectly at home in the space. After another intermission, we were treated to the Magnificat from Monteverdi's 1610 Vespro della Beata Vergine, complete with chorus and soloists ranged around the room echoing each other as if they were in an Italian cathedral. The Meyer sound system came through again perfectly.

After a day of drunken Santas, racial justice protest, and a gay rugby tournament party (in the immortal words of Anna Russell, "I'm not making this up, you know"), this concert felt like the topping to an extraordinary San Francisco day. The SoundBox series continues with more concerts in early January, and tickets are only $25 for general admission. Click here to check it out.


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Hidden Letters on Your Split iPad Keyboard: How to Split and Find

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Are you a thumb typer? Many people type with their thumbs on their phones. But on the iPad?

Balancing the iPad while you type can be difficult. Holding it with one hand as you type with the other feels a bit unbalanced and the thought of dropping it is just too costly to even consider.

If you split the keyboard, you can hold the iPad securely, and, yes, type with your thumbs. This might not be your choice for all-the-time, and many people don’t like it at all, but for those who do, you might be interested in some HIDDEN keys beyond the split.

Before we find those hidden keys, let’s split your keyboard:

Bring up an email, or notepad or something else where the keyboard appears.

Look for the key with the picture of the keyboard on it that is next to the 123 button on the lower right side.

(If you tap on that button, the keyboard disappears. But we don’t want to make the keyboard disappear, we want to split it.)

To split the keyboard, touch and HOLD that button. You’ll see a little menu appear that gives you two options: undock and split.

Tap on “split” to split your keyboard. As soon as you tap on “split”, you will see the keyboard separate, and rise up into the lower middle area of the iPad screen. It will also get a bit smaller to fit your thumbs.

Now you can hold the iPad securely with two hands while you type.

Touch and hold the button again to merge the keyboard and re-dock at the bottom on your screen.

The HIDDEN keys are in the blank areas on either side of the keyboard. Just stretch your thumb out a little further beyond the ”t” and you can type a “y”. Tap the blank area next to the “v” and you’ll get a “b”.

This also works if you split the numbers keyboard. Tap the empty space next to the “5” and get a “6” and so on.

I’m not a thumb typer, so I can’t really judge the value of all this, but I think it’s always fun just to find a hidden feature, in this case, an “easter egg” in the keyboard : )

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  1. I love that idea of being able to type with my thumbs but can’t do that on the Galaxy tab (as far as I know). I’m now on a mission to find one of those external bluetooth keyboards for it.

  2. You can also split the keyboard by dragging the G and H apart, and put it back together by smooshing them back together ( drag G and H together again). Although I am not a split keyboard typer at all!

    • Oh, that’s so cool! I didn’t know that. I love learning new things like this. I just tried it, and watched the keyboard part as you said, then I smooshed it back. Love it! Thanks so much. Let me also say that I thoroughly enjoy your blog. Your students are very lucky. 🙂

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Title Goes Here, or Why I Love Theater

I have been reading a lot and seeing a lot of plays.  Finished reading “In the Lake of the Woods” by Tim O’Brien in the morning yesterday.  Then I picked up “A Spy in the House of Love” by Anais Nin, obviously I read in no particular order.  Last night we saw “Apartment 3A” by the Workhorse Theatre Company in North Minneapolis.  This morning, more reading of Nin.

In the last three weeks, I got the chance to volunteer in the box office for Off-Leash Area’s production of “The Jury,” which I was fortunate enough to see three times.  As Jay and I watch less televised material, I find myself filling the space with theater and reading.  This is a good thing.  I feel so much more like ‘myself’ – more natural, less dissatisfied.

I don’t know what it is about live theater that touches me so – whether it’s great work or not – I think it’s that it’s the honest effort to be alive.  More than alive.  To be alive and at the same time juxtapose another life onto life.  I find it magical and fascinating, and I love that people try.  Another thing I love about live theater is that it only happens once.  The same play runs, obviously more than once, but the experience of it as an audience member – that only happens once.  If you see a show multiple times, you have multiple experiences, not the same experience muptiple times.

Normally, theater is just something I do for fun, enjoyment, enlightenment, too, but I have made  the discovery that it is also a coping tool for me.  When I can’t stand life – when things are just too difficult, take me to see a play.  I don’t care if it’s A Charlie Brown Christmas or what.  Live theater is a curative.  A salve.  Neosporin to my soul.  🙂

Anyway, I love theater.  So there you have it.  And books are not bad either.


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Hiver Glassware (6 x half pints)

We're thrilled to finally have some branded glassware to fully enjoy a Hiver in!

Our glasses are toughened (so they wont break as easily), dishwasher friendly and are designed to capture the aroma of the beer as well as maintain a lovely crisp head while you savour your award-winning Hiver.

We'd also like to think they look quite nice and are easy to hold in the hand...swoon.

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Shaped Lacquer Dish

by Maiko Okuno

A lacquered dish by Japanese maker and craftsman Maiko Okuno. This piece has been hand turned on the lathe and is smoothed using different variants of sandpaper, once finished and dried it has a lacquer solution applied to protect the wood.

This plate is particularly beautiful as each one is slightly different in shape and size, the curved appearance is unique to each plate and would be perfect in a set. These could be used to present sweets to guests or just as a beautiful handcrafted ornament that resides in your home.

This is for one dish only.

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The Scariest Moment Came When

Getting SO involved in a movie!

She was up past her bedtime. Her parents had gone out on a rare get-together with friends and had left her to babysit for her siblings.

Susan was almost 14 and alone in the den with the late show.

The Skull was on. A story about the skull of Marquis de Sade which roamed around killing people! The den was dark and the 14 year old sat on the edge of her chair near the corner table.

~Creepy harpsichord music~

The plot thickened…the skull floated across the library in search of a new victim.

~goose bumps on her arms~

Susan became aware of the grasp the film had upon her and flirted with the idea of turning on a light. She pulled the afghan over her shoulders.

The light switch seemed a bit too far across an unlit sanctum…

The skull floats toward the screen…it was getting larger and it’s eye sockets were glowing…when suddenly!

Her cat jumps upon that corner table knocking over her drink and it crashed to the floor!

Susan’s feet did not even touch the floor…light on …TV off…no more late shows for quite some time!

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What Makes a Simba Mattress Special?

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Have you ever gone mattress shopping, just to be completely dumbfounded by how much choice there is? One company offers memory foam that ‘feels like a cloud’, another says ‘it’s the best night’s sleep you’ll ever have’ and you never really know which direction to turn or who to trust. Take a moment, don’t stress and give this a read.

2,500 conical springs combined with memory foam in a bed tested on 10 million people means a very high quality mattress.

We’re Not Reinventing the Wheel, Just Your Night’s Sleep

Have you ever heard of The Sleep To Live Institute? They’re the experts when it comes to sleep, they study the science of sleep and use their expertise to promote better sleep health. We worked with the sleep scientists, to develop our Hybrid® mattress. We profiled over 10 million people, with 180 million body profile data points to test our product. That is pretty comprehensive but we wanted to be sure that what we were offering was the real deal.

One ‘Perfect’ Mattress

The mattress world relies on confusing you with its ridiculous number of options. Mattress salesmen will complicate things for you in an attempt to upsell. This is not our way of working. We offer one high quality product, in a range of sizes. We call our mattress perfect because we have specially engineered it to give people of all shapes and sizes the best possible night’s sleep.

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The Simba Hybrid®: Memory Foam and 2,500 Conical Springs

Our Hybrid® mattress offers the comfort of memory foam with the support of springs. Our 2,500 conical springs move both horizontally and vertically to adjust to the shape of your body whilst you snooze. This is set above a layer of Visco memory foam which profiles your body ensuring that your comfort feels tailor made. Both layers are topped with a uniquely developed synthetic latex, below all of this is a support base with seven different zones perfectly designed for airflow. When covered with a hypoallergenic sleep surface, the product is completed. It’s all very scientific and believe us it’s extraordinarily comfortable.

We’re sure you’ll love our mattress, this is why we offer a 100 night guarantee – so you can sleep on it! If you want to give one a test then head down to your local John Lewis store and have a lie down. Want to read more? Find out everything you need to know here.


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Brian Yoshimura

Looking for weekend babysitter. Friday Nights, Saturdays, and Sundays.

Family in Temple City

We are a family of four, looking for a great nanny/Babysitter to watch over our spawnlings so the Mr & Mrs. can have date night or trips occassionaly. It will be on an as needed basis, however we are looking for a long term relationship. Unfortunately our closest family are either too far, or not healthy enough to help us on this front. So this is where you will fit in. =)

Family Details

Email Address Confirmed
Phone Number 626-233-... Confirmed
Preferred Applicants Individuals
Age Group Early School Age (4-6 years)
Primary School Age (7-11 years)
Services Nanny
Number Of Children 2

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