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Mineral Point Peaks

Friday & Saturday, August 11-12, 2017

Houghton Mountain Sunset
Houghton Mountain during a beautiful sunset in the San Juan Mountains.

This weekend I headed down to the San Juan Mountains by myself to hike to the summit of a few mountains above the ghost town of Animas Forks near Mineral Point. I left after work on Friday afternoon and after a quick dinner in Montrose I drove over Red Mountain Pass to Silverton. From there I followed the Animas River to the base of Denver Hill (12,300) so I could go on a late evening hike to its summit. It was a short hike to the top, but it offered me some nice views of the surrounding mountains including Houghton Mountain (13,052), Seigal Mountain (13,274), Tuttle Mountain (13,203), Animas Forks Mountain (13,722), and Engineer Mountain (13,218). After hiking across the rolling tundra I reached PT 12340 which gave me a good overview of Mineral Point below and I caught a nice sunset on my way back to the Jeep.

A view of Denver Hill above Denver Lake as I started hiking to the summit from the Engineer Pass Road.

Denver Hill

Looking down the North Fork of the Animas River with a little spotlight on Animas Forks Mountain.

North Fork

Nice evening light on Niagara Peak (13,807) and Jones Mountain (13,860) above Burns Gulch.

Burns Gulch

There was plenty of water to be found between the two 12,000 highpoints.

Evening Reflection

The sun peeks through a break in the clouds reflected in a small tarn in the alpine tundra.

Clouds Reflected

After returning to my Jeep I drove up the spur road that follows Burrows Creek and found a campsite for the night. It was very peaceful up here and I hadn’t seen anyone else all evening. I went to bed early so I could get an early start on Saturday morning. The sky had cleared up before I went to sleep, but during the night I woke up a couple of times to find that I was in the clouds and thought that I might be hiking in foggy conditions in the morning, but when I finally woke up for good the sky had cleared up again.

I didn’t get up as early on Saturday morning as I usually do when hiking in the mountains since the weather was supposed to be good all morning and my planned hikes were not very long. I got up about a half hour before the actual sunrise, finished driving almost to the end of the road I had camped along and started hiking to the saddle between Houghton Mountain and Tuttle Mountain. My plan for this morning was to climb both of these low 13ers that I have seen many times as I explored the Jeep roads in the area and climbed other nearby peaks. I started off turning left at the ridge and following it to the summit of Houghton Mountain. This peak has always interested me since dominates the view when visiting Animas Forks. It was pretty easy hiking most of the way with a couple hundred feet of elevation gain. As soon as I reached the ridge I could hear a flock of sheep that were across the gulch on the side of California Mountain (13,220). I would be able to hear them throughout the remainder of the hike which got a little bit annoying. While hiking along the ridge I got to watch the sunrise on Hurricane Peak (13,447) over California Gulch and Placer Gulch.

Sunrise on California Mountain. If you look closely you can see a big flock of sheep on the mountain above the shadow.

California Sheep

View from the summit of Houghton Mountain.

Houghton Mountain Summit

Looking down from the summit over the Mineral Point area toward the Sneffels Range on the horizon. You can even see my Jeep parked down below if you look for it.

Parked Below

After reaching the summit and checking out the surrounding view I returned down to the saddle and then continued on to the summit of Tuttle Mountain. Most of the route was also easy, but there was one pretty steep section that slowed me down. From the summit I had a great view over Poughkeepsie Gulch to Brown Mountain (13,339) and Abrams Mountain (12,801) toward Ouray. Instead of returning the way I had come, I hiked straight down the south face of the mountain to a little-used trail that passed a few old mines and brought me right back to the saddle again.

Following the ridge back down to the saddle with California Gulch on the left.

Ridge Walking

Back at the saddle and on my way to the top of Tuttle Mountain, the high point straight ahead.

To Tuttle

A nice view of Hurricane Peak from the ridge.

Hurricane Peak

The final ridge to the summit of Tuttle Mountain.

Tuttle Summit Ridge

A nice view from the summit towards Hurricane Pass, which I’ve driven over many times, and Lake Como.

Hurricane Pass

Looking the other direction down Poughkeepsie Gulch and following the Uncompahgre River towards Ouray and all the way to the Grand Mesa on the horizon.

Home View

An old mine along the trail back to the saddle.

Mining Tracks

When I reached the road I also stopped to check out some old mining equipment in the area.

Boiler With A View

Since I finished the hike in the late morning and the weather was still looking pretty good I decided to try to hike at least one more 13er today. I drove back down to Animas Forks and then up the road through Placer Gulch where I would have to drive through the same flock of sheep that I had heard all morning. I parked near Treasure Mountain Pass above Parson Lake and hiked the short distance to the summit of PT 13075. Again, this was a short and easy hike, but there was a very short section of fun scrambling involved to reach the actual summit.

My Jeep below PT 13075 on the left.

Treasure Mountain Pass

Here’s a view of the rocky summit that required a little scrambling.

PT13075 Summit

From the top I had a good view down Parson Gulch toward Dome Mountain (13,370) and Tower Mountain (13,552).

Parson Gulch

Looking the other direction down Placer Gulch.

PT 13075 Summit

I was hoping to be able to squeeze in Hanson Peak (13,454) today as well, so I headed over there next. I drove up an old mining road to the first switchback and parked there and then climbed up a steep game trail to a saddle overlooking Eureka Gulch. From there I followed the ridge toward the summit, but stopped about 300 feet from the top when I reached a very steep and loose section above an old mine because the weather wasn’t looking good and I decided to not take my chances. I will definitely have to return another time to try again.

Hanson Peak

Hanson Peak

The ridge to the summit. I turned around near the reddish rocks straight ahead.

Hanson Ridge

Looking down Placer Gulch from the ridge with my Jeep parked below.

Jeep Below

By this time I was starting to get pretty hungry, so I drove back down to Silverton and had a late lunch at the Kendall Mountain Cafe to finish off my day in this area. After lunch I would be driving west to Norwood so I could climb Lone Cone on Sunday morning.

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October 24, 2007

Does Autism Speaks Support Autism Eugenics?

Whose Planet is it Anyway has called our attention to some truly upsetting information about Autism Speaks associations.

I have repeatedly mentioned that if AS is successful in their autism gene search before treatment options are fully developed, that the "Cure" for autism will become the same as the "Cure" for Downs Syndrome. Abortion.

I have always assumed that AS did not actually intend this to be the outcome from the beginning, but I may have been naive.

Autism Speaks' Eugenic Agenda

It's not really news that the ultimate goal of Autism Speaks is to wipe out the entire autistic population through prenatal testing and eugenic abortion. After all, one of their leading researchers, Dr. Joseph Buxbaum of the Autism Genome Project, frankly admitted as much in an interview almost three years ago, before NAAR merged into Autism Speaks.

But for the most part, they've managed to put up a somewhat plausible pretense of being a mainstream charity that just wants to prevent suffering, and so forth. Most of the material on their website is carefully designed to keep the public unaware of their close ideological affinity with the white supremacist agenda of creating a master race through eugenics. A casual reader might not notice a page featuring the views of Dr. James Watson, with whom Bob and Suzanne Wright had a friendly chat regarding autism genetic research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory:

Watson, a molecular biologist, is famous for his genetic research discoveries. He is equally infamous for his long history of advocating white supremacy and eugenic extermination of people with neurological differences, which he characterizes as curing stupidity.

On October 18th, Watson was suspended from his position as the Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after making racist comments during an interview with a British newspaper that included these remarks about blacks: "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really" and "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."

It's frankly impossible that Autism Speaks, in making the decision to feature their association with Watson on their website, could have been unaware of his bigoted extremist agenda. His racist attitudes have been well known for many years.

October 22, 2007

Local Chapter of Autism Speaks Splits From Autism Speaks

Apparently the good folks of Burlington, VT have wised up to the fact that Autism Speaks sucks the money out of local communities and does not give back.

Local autism group splits off from national nonprofit
October 21, 2007

BURLINGTON – The state chapter of a national autism group has spun off to form a separate nonprofit.

The Burlington-based Autism Support Daily was formed by a group of advocates who split off from the national Autism Speaks last year.

The schism was over money.

Now there will be two autism fundraising walks in Vermont. Autism Support Daily held its event on Sept. 29; Autism Speaks, which had its own walk scheduled for Sept. 30 postponed its fund-raiser because of the timing conflict. It plans to hold a similar event in early summer.

That's because the Burlington group questions how locally raised funds were used by the national organization. Autism Support Daily believes money raised in Vermont should remain in Vermont.

The local organization also questions how much of that money should be devoted to medical research, and how much should be made available to help local families with autistic children cope with living and medical expenses.

The chance that a child, particularly a boy, will develop autism is now about one in 160, records note. NIH officials define autism as a complex brain disorder.

"Autism involves communication and social difficulties, as well as repetitive behavior or narrow interests. Autism is often grouped with similar disorders, all of which may be referred collectively as autism spectrum disorders. The underlying causes of ASD are unclear. Currently there is no cure for the disorders and treatments are limited," an online report states.

New York-based Autism Speaks in its first Vermont walk last year raised about $50,000, according to Erica Jacobson, an event planner and fund raiser for one of the New England Autism Speaks chapters. Jacobson, who earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Northeastern University, has spent her career working for nonprofit groups.

She is relatively new to the national group's staff. She said she walked alongside Autism Support Daily members last year. One of Jacobson's tasks has been to rebuild staff at the New England regional office. Jacobson said that she is completely supportive of Burlington-based Autism Support Daily.

"As a parent, you want what's best for your child," she said.

For members of Autism Support Daily, that means giving out all of the money raised for an awareness walk in Vermont to local families in need. The group's Web site, www.autismsupportdaily.com, gave its first financial award at the close of December 2006.

The first "wish it could be more" grant totaled $1,350. Three additional grant awards were given out for $10,906, $2,600 and $2574, totaling $16,080.

According to the group's Web site, funds are given "to families of children and young adults with autism to help them offset the huge expenses they incur on a daily basis in order to get necessities, prescriptions, supplements, and many other items that place a huge financial burden on families."

The names of the 10 leaders of Autism Support Daily, including Angela Timpone and an honorary member, comprise the group's executive list. The all-volunteer organization, recently received its 501(C) 3 nonprofit charitable status, said Timpone.

That's a major difference between Autism Speaks and Autism Support Daily, she said. There is no payroll for any of the staff of the Vermont group, Timpone said.

"Think of this as a grassroots effort," said Timpone. "I think we're completely different."

Autism Speaks Inc., which was formed in February 2005, is the largest national autism group. Its focus, according to its Web site, is on medical research. Its total public support revenue for 2006 was $33.3 million. Its mission is to "aggressively fund global biomedical research into the causes prevention, treatments and cure for autism," according to the Web site, autismspeaks.org. Autism Speaks has 26 board members, plus 20 upper management employees at its offices based in Manhattan in addition to employees working in states across the country, according to its 990 form filed with the IRS in 2006.

Seventy-five percent of the money raised during a state walk goes toward funding research, research dollars overseen by the national group, Jacobson said. The other 25 percent goes toward running the organization, she said.

"It's not a competition. We're all here for the same cause," said Jacobson. "We're here for research and we're here for awareness."

Timpone agrees that more research is needed. "Why is this? We're in the midst of an epidemic and more research does need to be done but at the same time we need the organizations to help support the family who is here now with autism."

"We are not in any way saying we don't support Autism Speaks," said Timpone during a telephone interview. "There needs to be an added component to that. There's families in Vermont that really need help."

Jacobson said she received an e-mail from the local group, indicating it would go its own way. If she had known earlier on of the Vermont group's concerns about where the money raised should be directed, she would have made an effort to deal with Timpone's concerns, said Jacobson.

"We are also dedicated to helping families," said Jacobson. Whether a parent or adult supports the goals Autism Support Daily or Autism Speaks, there is commonality among the two groups, she says. "Because at the end of the day, it's just people supporting autism research and awareness, whether they're directly affected or not," said Jacobson.

October 18, 2007

NAA: Sad News From Our Friends At BrainChild

From the National Autism Association:

Michael Lang, founder of BrainChild Nutritionals, died on Tuesday, October 16, 2007, after a brief but heroic fight with Pancreatic Cancer. Michael passed at home, surrounded by those who loved him. Michael was a brilliant, stubborn, generous, incredibly good and gentle man, who made great strides toward his great hope for curing autism.

Michael created vitamin and mineral supplements to help his own children, and then extended that gift to thousands of children, by founding BrainChild Nutritionals, to make exceptional liquid supplements for kids on the autistic spectrum. Michael used his last bit of energy to make a presentation to the DAN! Doctors' Think Tank from the hospital less than a week before he died. He was very excited about this presentation showing new information he'd recently gathered using his natural chelation program and wanted others to help carry on his work.

BrainChild Nutritionals will continue as it always has, in Michael's memory. Thank you all for being part of our extended family. We know that many of you loved Michael as well, and that he helped many of your children. Please know that Michael didn't suffer, and that his work will continue.

A fund is being set up to help Michael's children. A link with details on how to donate to this fund will be on the BrainChild website within the next couple days.

Michael Lang has been a great friend to NAA with his long time support of our Helping Hand Project, and to many of us here on a personal level. He was the ultimate "nice guy". He was genuinely caring, thoughtful and kind. We send our love and sympathy to Michael's children, family and everyone at Brainchild Nutritionals. He will be sadly missed.

October 13, 2007

Autism: The Non Urgent Crisis.

I thought Anne Dachel's response to this piece deserved a good read.

Autism Center Helping Families Cope With Disorder
WISC, WI - Oct 11, 2007

The story on the new autism school called Common Threads gave us some disturbing information. We're told that one in every
150 children in the U.S. now has autism. WISC-TV calls autism "a crisis" yet they can give us no reason why so many children
are affected with this devastating disorder.

Associate Dean of Research for the Waisman Center Dr. Susan Ellis Weismerm tells us that "in the past 10 years, there has been
an explosion in autism research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and much of it is being done at the Waisman Center.

Actually, there's been an explosion in the number of children with autism from one in 10,000 in the 1970s to one in every one
150 kids today, including one in every 94 boys, but the Waisman Center has long told us that there is no "crisis" or any

increase in autism.

A Spectrum of Disputes - New York Times

What's happened according to the Waisman Center is "better diagnosing" by doctors and an expanded spectrum of autism disorders. In other words, we've always had so many kids with autism, they were mislabeled. The problem with that claim is that no one asks people who make that claim to prove it. Why isn't there even one study that can find the misdiagnosed/undiagnosed adults with autism at a rate of one in 150?

When we talk about autism, we're talking about kids with autism. The rate of one in 150 came from studies of eight year olds, not eighty year olds. That simple fact should be scaring us all. Most adults never knew anyone labeled autistic or who displayed autistic behavior when they were young, but anywhere you bring up the subject, people start talking about kids they know with autism.

Research has shown that eighty percent of Americans with autism are under the age of eighteen. That means that within the next five to ten years these autistic kids will be adults dependent on the taxpayers for their support and care. Imagine what it will be like when one in every 150 eighteen year olds isn't going to work, or to school, or into the military, but applying for Social Security Disability for life with autism.

Right now the impact of the autism epidemic is being felt in our schools. Boston Globe reporter Carey Goldberg for example, wrote the story on July 5th, With rise in autism, programs strained - The Boston Globe in which we were told, "Statewide, the number of schoolchildren diagnosed with autism has nearly doubled over the last five years, from 4,080 to 7,521, according to soon-to-be-published data from the Department of Education."

In Massachusetts, one in every 130 kids has autism officially. Goldberg wrote, "Autism programs are faced with enormous needs and no one feels like we have enough programs to meet the up-and-coming numbers of children," said Rita Gardner, executive director of Melmark, in Andover
, which serves children in its school, in their homes, and in public schools. "I would argue that this is one of our biggest public health crises in this country.

"A few years ago, when state public health authorities began providing autism services to children under 3, they expected about 500 children to enroll. At last count, they are serving more than 1,100.

Goldberg also reported that educating all these disabled children costs the state over $3 million dollars a year. Does anyone seriously think that this is happening merely because doctors are better at diagnosing? The same autistic children who are bankrupting school districts and on endless waiting lists for services will be overwhelming Social Security in the next five to ten year.

These are the current statistics on autism in the U.S. based on Dept. Education figures. http://www.vaprojec t.org/autismasds tatistics. html The explosion in the autism rate is clearly evident. Now imagine a similar increase in the number of young adults applying for Social Security Disability. This is also a double blow. These disabled young people are meant to be the replacement work force to help support the retiring post WWII generation. Not only won't they be paying into Social Security, they'll be living off of it for the rest of their long lives.

Findings by Michael Ganz at Harvard makes a chilling prediction of the future cost to our society as more and more autistic kids become autistic adults. His findings are felt by others to be a gross underestimate of the eventual autism price tag.Autism Has High Costs to U.S. Society, press release of Tuesday ....
It can cost about $3.2 million to take care of an autistic person over his or her lifetime. Caring for all people with autism over their lifetimes costs an estimated $35 billion per year.

See other figures from Lifespire: http://www.a-champ.org/documents/Lifespire%20Costs%20rev.2-23-06.ppt.pdf

Lifespire puts lifetime cost for a single autistic person at $10.125 million.

For more information on the cost of autism, contact Robert Krakow <rkrakow@earthlink.net>

At the height of the polio epidemic in the 1950s, one in 3,000 Americans was affected. That was a national crisis. A major effort was made to address it. Autism affects far more people, but no one seems concerned about what's going to happen to all these children. The most important comparison to be made with polio is the fact that most of the victims of polio recovered and went on to lead productive lives. The same won't be said about the victims of the autism epidemic. They will need support and care for life.

The words of Laura Bono of the National Autism Association are a grim forecast for the future: "As those children reach adulthood, the U.S. is ill-equipped to care for them. Not only do we not have enough services for adults now, the light at the end of the tunnel is a train. Frankly, we don't know what we're going to do."

Anne McElroy Dachel
Chippewa Falls, WI USA

October 7, 2007

UK: GMC Advises UK Docs To Commit Fraud over MMR

The GMC is Britain's medical ethics council that is currently trying Andrew Wakefield over alleged ethics violations in regards to his research on the MMR.

Apparently they are encouraging doctors to remove children who refuse the MMR from their list of patients to fraudulently raise the MMR uptake statistics.

The docs can then get payments for seeming to have met the governments MMR uptake goals.

So the GMC, whose job it is to maintain ethical medical practices, is apparently giving the nod for docs to commit fraud to prop up vaccine uptake stats and to get cash payments.

I am sure that Wakefield will get a fair hearing.

From UK Lawyer, Clifford Miller:

GMC Advises UK Docs To Commit Fraud over MMR

Is medicine institutionally corrupt? Here you will see the UK's General Medical Council advising UK medical doctors how to commit fraud on the UK's National Health Service for personal financial gain.

The GMC's role is to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public by ensuring proper standards in the practice of medicine by medical doctors. This includes prosecuting UK medical doctors when their behaviour may bring the medical profession into disrepute. Dishonesty, financial impropriety and fraud fall within its purview. This link [1] provides an example of a decided case from its website.

The GMC is a statutory body independent (allegedly) of the NHS and of Government, with responsibility for maintaining the medical register for the United Kingdom. The GMC has statutory powers under the Medical Act 1983 to take action where there are concerns about the fitness to practise of a registered medical practitioner. Where the GMC finds that a doctor is not fit to practise, it has powers to erase that doctor's name from the medical register, to suspend the doctor from the register or to place conditions on the doctor's practice. These restrictions apply to practice in any sector of employment in any part of the UK. [2]

In the UK if doctors meet target levels for numbers of MMR and other vaccinations administered they can claim bonus payments for doing so. If they fail, they cannot claim those payments. One way of claiming the payments is to make a false return.

So how can it be that the GMC advises doctors on how to commit fraud? The GMC pose the question "Can GPs remove some children from their lists, temporarily, for the purpose of calculating the MMR target payment?" Here you will see that its currently available advice is to the effect that "it's OK provided you have patient consent" [3], [4]. It seems it also happens to be OK if it helps to increase the MMR uptake figures. The advice does not appear to be offered for other vaccinations.

And notice how they fail to make any mention of the financial and moral impropriety of doing so when they answer the question they pose like this:-

"This must not be done without the parents' agreement. Parents must be given a full explanation of what was proposed and why, their child's rights as an NHS patient, and the implications for their child's future care. Doctors working within the NHS must treat all patients entitled to NHS services on an equal footing. So temporarily removing a child from a GPs list must not adversely affect their care, for example in accessing secondary care and out-of-hours services, or in providing relevant information to ensure continuity of care and allow effective working with other agencies. Doctors must act honestly in their financial dealings. So GPs must ensure that any arrangement to remove a child from their list and re-register them for ‘immediately necessary treatment', or on some other basis, would be in line with their contractual obligations to the NHS."

Notice that provided the doctor does what the GMC advises and ensures "that any arrangement ... would be in line with their contractual obligations to the NHS" it is fine as "Doctors must act honestly in their financial dealings". Am I missing something or is this starting to look like we need the "men in white coats" to take away the men in white coats?

Not only that but the GMC advice is that if the evidence is available this is not contrary to GMC guidance on good medical practice:-

"Are temporary removals from a GPs list acceptable to the GMC? In the absence of evidence that ‘temporary removals' satisfy the concerns outlined at Q5, we cannot give any reassurance that such arrangements would be seen as consistent with our guidance on good practice."

GMC advice to UK doctors is that doctors "must not ask for or accept any inducement, gift or hospitality which may affect or be seen to affect the way you prescribe for, treat or refer patients." [7] But it seems the GMC do not mind when it comes to MMR, even where the inducement is so strong it encourages fraud on the NHS. But then, the GMC does not seem to mind about that either.

So now you know. If it concerns getting MMR uptake up, fraud is fine. But you had better make sure you implicate the parents and what better way to do that than to pressure them into agreeing their children become temporary patients possibly for emergency treatment only or else be dumped from the patient roster completely. Naturally, I am not saying that is happening nor am I saying the GMC advice is taken to suggest that be done - as it does not, but it could encourage that kind of behaviour. As a lawyer advising pro bono I have direct experience of patients being removed from an NHS doctor's roster after objections to childhood vaccinations.

The GMC has an agreement on cooperating and coordinating with the NHS Counter Fraud service [5]. And "GMC Today" newsletter carried a story ironically titled "Is the NHS immune to fraud?" about reducing and reporting fraud in the National Health Service [6]. The story gives a number to call the confidential NHS Fraud and Corruption Reporting Line and an email address too. It reports:-

"If you have a concern about a fraud taking place within the NHS, please call the confidential NHS Fraud and Corruption Reporting Line on 0800 028 40 60. All calls will be dealt with by trained staff and professionally investigated. Lines are open Monday to Friday 8 am–6 pm. You can also email us at nhsfraud@cfsms.nhs.uk at any time."

I haven't got the heart to tell 'em. Have you?

[1] http://www.gmc-uk.org/concerns/hearings_and_decisions/ftp/ftp_panel_islam_20061013.asp

[2] http://www.gmc-uk.org/about/partners/national_health_service_counter_fraud_service.asp

[3] http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/current/library/targeting_preventative_measures.asp

[4] http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/archive/Target_payments_for_preventative_health_measures_2003.pdf

[5] Memorandum of Understanding between the General Medical Council (GMC) and the National Health Service Counter Fraud Service (NHS CFS)

[6] Is the NHS immune to fraud? - GMC Today - Oct 2005

[6] Paragraph 74 Good Medical Practice

October 4, 2007

New Biomedical Support Group in Rockport Maine

From Laura Plorude of the Portland Maine biomed support group:

The new midcoast support group will be starting the 27th of October and will always be the last Saturday of the month. It will be held from 10 to 12 at Namaste Institute in Rockport.

This is on Beech Hill road across from Hobokin garden on Rt 1. It is about one mile up that road on the left. A little black sign is at the foot of the drive. (for the local MOMs)

The directions are also at Namasteinstitute.com

October 2, 2007

Dan Olmsted Is Back

... and calling out the CDC's shenanigans on The Rescue Post.

If you have not already made The Rescue Post a part of your regular blog reading, time to grab the feed.


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Chuck and Beth are trying to walk a couple times a week and I joined them the other day. While we walked down the trail away from the car, Beth was going very slowly and you could tell she really didn't want to be there. She had her head down, was kinda mad.

But on the way back, she ran ahead of us, swinging her arms out wide, spinning in a circle. We could tell she was singing! She can be so goofy sometimes!

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Friday, May 20, 2016

Solar Energy and Electric Vehicles

It is quite sometime I wrote in this blog. The main reason is, now a days for some reason, I am reluctant to make critical comments about other's creativity. Creativity is a thing of evolution.

For every original creation there may be ten pseudo creations, akin to trend in movies or music. The originals survive the test of time. Some creations are ahead of time only to be recognized several years later like 'barcode'  inventions

However sharing our views and concern regarding what is happening around us need not stop. Hence I decided to share things -though they are not blog specific - with one and all.

In this issue I wish to share the power point presentation I made regarding electric vehicles which are environmental friendly. The summer temperatures of Bangalore  touching 39 degree Celsius is hitherto unheard of.

The obvious reason is increase in traffic on roads emitting smoke and heat. Not only Bangalore all towns and cities face a similar situation.  The picture shows the news item how two wheelers dominate the Indian roads.

Any true solution can emerge only if we understand the root cause of the problem. The pollution caused by vehicles on Indian roads  is mainly from  scooters and motor cycles,

Please go through the following presentation and  inform what comes to your mind. Your feedback will be valuable for other readers also.


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Carly Fiorina

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Carly Fiorina’s disastrous stretch as Hewlett-Packard’s CEO can be summed up thusly: a huge debacle, a golden parachute, a long period of inactivity. Now she’s trying to ride failure and inertia to the White House, and in this strange era of anti-politics, she’s actually one of the Republican frontrunners, seemingly rewarded for her lack of government experience.

Fiorina namechecked Steve Jobs at the most recent GOP debate, trying to get a posthumous rub from our era’s most-celebrated businessperson. Steven Levy, having written the book on the iPod (quite literally), recalls in a Backchannel article how the Apple chief defeated Fiorina in a landslide in the two companies’ dealings. Let’s put it this way: Steve Jobs would have been a terrible President, and the person he clearly outmaneuvered maybe shouldn’t get the gig, either.

From Levy:

Ms. Fiorina’s trainwreck stint at HP has been well documented. But I want to address one tiny but telling aspect of her misbegotten reign: an episode that involved her good friend Steve Jobs. It is the story of the HP iPod.

The iPod, of course, was Apple’s creation, a groundbreaking digital music player that let you have “a music library in your pocket.” Introduced in 2001, it gained steam over the next few years and by the end of 2003, the device was a genuine phenomenon. So it was news that in January 2004, Steve Jobs and Carly Fiorina made a deal where HP could slap its name on Apple’s wildly successful product. Nonetheless, HP still managed to botch things. It could not have been otherwise, really, because Steve Jobs totally outsmarted the woman who now claims she can run the United States of America.

I can talk about this with some authority. Not only have I written a book about the iPod, but I interviewed Fiorina face to face when she introduced the HP iPod at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show, and then got Steve Jobs’s side of the story.•

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When people defend CEO pay, they often argue that business leaders like Steve Jobs deserve every cent they get, without mentioning how these are the most extreme outliers. There are also CEOs like probable Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, who did a really cruddy job running Hewlett-Packard, collected a monumental golden parachute when she was fired and was safely out the door when thousands of employees lost their jobs. Okay, maybe she’s an outlier also, but your average company leader isn’t an innovator (that word) but a steward. They’re very overpaid.

Automation has allowed many of these corporate titans to reduce staff over the past decade and the practice will likely continue apace, but that blade has two edges, and the received wisdom of the importance of the CEO will likely be threatened by technology as well.

From Devin Fidler at Harvard Business Review:

For the last several years, we have been studying the forces now shaping the future of work, and wondering whether high-level management could be automated. This inspired us to create prototype software we informally dubbed “iCEO.” As the name suggests, iCEO is a virtual management system that automates complex work by dividing it into small individual tasks. iCEO then assigns these micro-tasks to workers using multiple software platforms, such as oDesk, Uber, and email/text messaging. Basically, the system allows a user to drag-and-drop “virtual assembly lines” into place, and run them from a dashboard.

But could iCEO manage actual work projects for our organization? After a few practice runs, we were ready to find out. For one task, we programmed iCEO to oversee the preparation of a 124-page research report for a prestigious client (a Fortune 50 company). We spent a few hours plugging in the parameters of the project, i.e. structuring the flow of tasks, then hit play. For instance, to create an in-depth assessment of how graphene is produced, iCEO asked workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to curate a list of articles on the topic. After duplicates were removed, the list of articles was passed on to a pool of technical analysts from oDesk, who extracted and arranged the articles’ key insights. A cohort of Elance writers then turned these into coherent text, which went to another pool of subject matter experts for review, passing them on to a sequence of oDesk editors, proofreaders, and fact checkers.

iCEO routed tasks across 23 people from around the world, including the creation of 60 images and graphs, followed by formatting and preparation. We stood back and watched iCEO execute this project. We rarely needed to intervene, even to check the quality of individual components of the report as they were submitted to iCEO, or spend time hiring staff, because QA and HR were also automated by iCEO. (The hiring of oDesk contractors for this project, for example, was itself an oDesk assignment.)

We were amazed by the quality of the end result — and the speed with which it was produced.•

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The best and brightest people I’ve met in my life haven’t been the most successful ones. America doesn’t work that way now. It probably never did, but it seems to be getting worse. What people believe to be a promise has become, at best, a lottery ticket.

I watched Carly Fiorina on TV the other day extolling Mitt Romney’s great command of facts and figures at the first Presidential debate. Like, say, his assertion that half of the clean tech companies that the President invested stimulus money in had gone belly up. Except that isn’t close to the truth. From what I can gather, more than 90% of those companies have thus far been successful. That’s an amazing rate. Far better than Romney’s record at Bain and far, far better than Fiorina’s lousy tenure at Hewlett-Packard. I’m all for inventors and creators and builders making good, but you have to question a system that so richly rewards an executive like Fiorina, who contributes little, or Romney, who doesn’t acknowledge he had a huge advantage in a very uneven playing field because of family money and connections. The disconnect between such people and most Americans is enormous.

Economist Joseph Stiglitz has been calling bullshit on the situation for some time now. From a recent Q&A with him at Spiegel

The US has always thought of itself as a land of opportunity where people can go from rags to riches. What has become of the American dream?

This belief is still powerful, but the American dream has become a myth. The life chances of a young US citizen are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any other advanced industrial country for which there is data. The belief in the American dream is reinforced by anecdotes, by dramatic examples of individuals who have made it from the bottom to the top — but what matters most are an individual’s life chances. The belief in the American dream is not supported by the data.

What do the numbers suggest?

There has been no improvement in well-being for the typical American family for 20 years. On the other side, the top one percent of the population gets 40 percent more in one week than the bottom fifth receive in a full year. In short, we have become a divided society. America has created a marvelous economic machine, but most of the benefits have gone to the top.”

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Favourite Nail Polishes - Rainbow Edition

I love nail polish, and I love rainbows, so thought I'd combine the two! I was initially going to pick just one polish for each colour, but that was far, far too difficult! So I picked two instead (which was still a challenge, I tell you).

One of my favourite reds, and Winter favourite, is Barry M's Raspberry. It's dark yet vibrant at the same time, and has just enough pink in it. Models Own Hedonist is amazing! It's a neon coral/red, and the photo really doesn't do it justice.

Sinful Colours Orange Cream is one of the most recent additions to my collection (look at the post before this to see it on!). It's the most beautiful peach shade. I initially had Barry M's Gelly Nail Paint in Papaya in place of this, but swapped them. The second orange I chose was Models Own Beach Party. This is the brightest yellow toned orange I've ever seen!

Etude House Ice Cream Nail Polish in Banana is another polish I've recently blogged about (go to the search bar on your left to look for swatches). I bought this for the cute packaging, but it's actually a really nice polish. It takes 2-3 coats, which is good for a yellow! Models Own Luis Lemon, on the other hand, is rather sheer, but it's a neon, so I'm not surprised. I just wear a white base coat underneath! It's probably the brightest nail polish I own, and that's why I love it.

I don't own many greens, so it was easy picking my favourites. Barry M's Gelly Nail Paint in Greenberry is beautiful! I've also blogged about this. The next green I chose was Sinful Colours Rise & Shine. This shade is so hard to photograph! The photo really doesn't do it justice. It's not a muted teal like above, but a... green (I don't know how to describe it!) with blue and green shimmer.

For blue, I didn't choose a sky blue, but shades at different ends of the spectrum. You have Barry M's Gelly Nail Paint in Guava, one of the new Summer shades, and then Barry M's Gelly Nail Paint in Blueberry. Guava is a turquoise, whereas Blueberry is a cornflower blue (incredibly pretty).

Indigo... I only have one indigo polish! And that's the fourth shade in the photo - Barry M's Indigo. Another Winter favourite of mine. It's not just a navy, like the photo suggests, but a vibrant indigo with lots of purple tones, too. The polish before it is Astor's 070 (A Spanish brand that I found on Fragrance Direct). I know it's not indigo, but it's close enough!

Violet/lilac/purple was a category with lots of possibilities. I ended up choosing a cool lilac and a warm lilac. The cool toned variety is Barry M's Gelly Nail Paint in Prickly Pear, and the warmer one is OPI's Lucky Lucky Lavender

Pink isn't a colour of the rainbow, but you can't leave out pink when it comes to beauty! I love most shades of pink, cool or warm toned, so chose the Barry M Gelly Nail Paints in Dragon Fruit and Grapefruit to represent this. I think they're the epitome of pink shades.

Because choosing 16 favourite nail polish shades was too hard, I'm also going to be showing you my favourite glitters and extras in another post soon. It's hard to narrow down my favourites because I only buy shades I love (of course!).

I also took photos for five other posts earlier, so look out for them!

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June 13, 2011 under CANR News, Cooperative Extension, Events

The Sussex County Master Gardeners are pleased to invite the public to a Garden Walk at the Master Gardeners’ Demonstration Garden on, Thursday, June 16, 2011, 5 – 7 p.m. The garden is located behind the county Extension office, 16483 County Seat Highway, Georgetown. The event is free.

Master Gardeners will feature a look at a June garden filled with flowers. In addition to enjoying the garden, a number of Master Gardeners will be available to provide information and help on a wide variety of gardening topics including an exhibit of Accessible Gardening Tips and Tools.

Following the Garden Walk, Master Gardener Vicki Thompson will be presenting a workshop on ‘Hostas’ at 7 p.m. in Conference Room 3 of the Extension Office. Pre-register for this workshop by contacting Tammy Schirmer at (302) 856-2585 ext. 542 or

Master Gardeners are working volunteers and are supported by Delaware Cooperative Extension through the University of Delaware and Delaware State University Extension offices. It is Delaware Cooperative Extension’s policy that that no person shall be subjected to discrimination on the grounds of race, creed, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran or handicap status. If you have special needs that need to be accommodated, please contact the office two weeks prior to the event.

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Just wondering if anyone has advice, experience, input, etc. regarding the workshops offered through the Highlights Foundation.   www.highlightsfoundation.org    I am thinking of attending one.  They are costly, but seem amazing.  I have submitted stories and articles to Highlights Magazine for Children but only get rejected.  I was thinking perhaps this might improve my craft?  Do they publish authors who attend their workshops?  Thanks!

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Friday, June 8, 2007

Being Silly

When we were kids it was alright when people see you talking to yourself. They'd say, "What an imaginative kid. She'll grow up to be a lucrative writer."

And when they see you messing around with your Lego, building blocks or putting together stuff with clay or whatever you can put your hands on, they'd say, "She'll become an engineer or an architect!"

And when your momma catches you writing on the wall, you'll get a spanking, but at the back of her mind she's thinking, "My child's going to be the next Picasso!"

How come we all grow up? Have responsibilities. Bills. Problems. Bad-hair days. Break-ups. Misery. Whatever.

Goodness, let's not think about those ugly things.

If there's one thing that I never lost despite everything I've been through, it's my talent of being silly. Yeah. SILLY.

Embrace life. Be happy. Be always happy. Things will ALWAYS be okay. Have faith.

That's just about it. I'm feeling quite silly now :)


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Saturday, June 2, 2007

Due in 9 Years

I've got less than 9 years till my deadline. What's this crazy deadline? A bet my Kuya and I did. And it's all about acquiring financial freedom!

Back in 2004 my Kuya asked me, "What are your plans to acquire financial freedom?" I told him then that I wanted to become a consultant so that I can earn some regular income while I'm building my export business. I projected that I'd be a consultant by 2006 and then I'd be exporting by 2015. My Kuya looked at me and said, "Fair enough. Let's make a bet. You should have completed all those by the age of 40 and me when I'm 50." (My Kuya is 13 years older than me).

At that time, I had no idea how I would become a consultant. I was very busy then with the launch of LUK4 and cooking up plans to re-launch E-Yellowpages as well. Who'd have known I'd meet my 2006 deadline? I quit my job at the yellow pages, moved on to a satellite TV provider, then became consultant for a property developer and then a search engine. All in one year! Whew!

I've been so caught up with work, but mind you I've been thinking about my 2015 deadline! And I've thought of doing an e-commerce business (which may be considered an export business when you're clients are abroad), but I haven't figured out what product to sell yet, it definitely has to be something that interests me.

I learned though from the Think Rich Pinoy seminar that you have to have different revenue streams, so I thought about maybe investing in the stock market/bonds or what have you (I'm attending a workshop on this early next week) or maybe look into the franchise market as well. I've read some stuff about this on Entrepreneur Magazine and I'm also looking for an interesting Singapore Franchise Opportunity.

I should really start working on this personal mission of mine. My Kuya already inaugurated his first venture, a dorm located in Naga City - if you see a very pink building called Apolo Bldg. along Ateneo Avenue in Naga, that's my Kuya's building! Hehe.

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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Beauty at Taste Asia (the Pond's Party)

Ask me about beauty stuff and you'll surely get me stressed out. LOL. I've never been to the derma in my whole life and I think I fear going to one more than going to the dentist. I just wash my face before I sleep, drink lots of water and I honestly just put on moisturizer whenever I go out. And our friends from Pond's were promptly shocked when I said this.

I was quite happy that Pond's offered to host a party for bloggers. It definitely shows that big brands are already willing to experiment with doing more online stuff (so let's help them guys ha). Pond's is quite a niche market and geared more towards women and I was quite surprised that a lot of girl bloggers actually turned up at the party last night.

I was enthralled with how they managed to transform Taste Asia. From orange it became very pink! And despite the rains a lot of people still turned up and a number of newbie bloggers from far, far away also came.

There was a number of games! And the star of the night was Poyt! Here's the debut of her singing career -

Also get a chance to win an iPhone! Join the Pond's beauty blog contest. More details at the SM Hypermarket blog. (I wonder if I can join? I actually tried out the cream they gave out last night! Teehee).

We capped the event by having cozy fun at Starbucks.

Some more reads/photos `bout the party. Let me know if you have one too!

An Apple a Day
Rock ko toh! Photos
Ronald Guanzon
Something Sweet & More
Travel Tayo
Halo-halo Pinoy
Ken Pun
Ken Pun Photos
An Apple a Day Photos
Abbie unReal
AJ's Flickr
Tom's Library
Fritz the Paparazzi
Poyt's Photos
The Life of a Breadwinner
La Bubbly Chica
I'm Roanne
All the Vanity
Brown Pinay
JayDJ's Photos
A Doll's Mask Unmasked
Christa Uy's Photos


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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Short inter F.R.A.M.E

Ahh..never underestimate my brain y slow nih..hahaha..it happen ol the time wen u mamai ol the way and u hit shower door!skank!hahaha..that was creatively made me olmost fell in d shower..syez brain damage in frontal lobe that shud be cure using fmri surgery
Well i gez m late for claz arab today..lewat ke?xla..kan3..(tp dah 3 text in my inbox.."ney kau aisya")hahahaha..
Hmm,btw now in this lab waitin for my garang lab demo stil sempat crappin around in diz bloggy..hope today no more spotlite plezz..m so tired answerin question(cm fofuler la plekkk)..
Wipe those perasan thingy off la babe dats just a coincidence~~now is 4 smth2 n my tummy croackin lyke hell~~~

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Sometimes I feel like m goin outta my mind boy the way u do me it’s a damn do u feel wen someone dat u truly love oppose u and “hating u”. Rolling back to wen I 1st knew him…he is my everything. I had enough hiding my feeling..i had enough pretending I can forget him..while therez no way on diz earth I can do to erase him from my life. He left me and he came back wif hope and he left and came again with disaster. Sometimes things just happen and nothing we can do bout it. But I think he’s my soulmate..i had so many dream bout him and me. We promised dat we gonna make it to be the sweetest pak cik and makcik forever. I was havin enough trouble in a the morning it was him and at night mom and my lil bro got a motor crash..i really cant take this in one single day. My life seem blurred and my heart seemed to be lost how to digest things.

I was trying to convince myself I have to be strong I have to make it and breakthrough all this rebel tests. I knew I could but this time..i was so scattered into pieces dat can never ever be glued again. I had stop lying wen I knew him. But wen I starts to tell the truth I always been objected. Hows dat suppose to make me a better person. I’m tired doing things alone. Is it damn wrong to love him (oxygen)?? He is my oxygen. He’s my key spirit. He’s my everything. I really wanna take out subwoofer speaker and hell tell d entire world how much I love him. How much I fell for him wen he said he still love me..i miss his jokes..i miss his eyes..i miss his typing evil laugh..i miss his bubbly words..i miss his reverie cuddle..i miss our dream planner..i miss our song..i miss his innocent..i miss wen I woke up from bed and he called me baby..i miss everything bout him..more than what I wrote..more than what I could feel..because I love him damn fucking much and I never regret knowing him..but he did regret knowing me..

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Friday, December 18, 2009

Party time

It certainly seems to be THAT time of year again. Time to dress up in clothes clearly unsuitable and insufficient considering the weather/temperature, drink mulled wine and tolerate the company of people you spend most of your days with anyway. It is, of course, the office Christmas party time. I know I say office, I mean work in general. I don't work in an office. We do have an office but it is a little more than a glorified cupboard, really.

See, we thought we weren't having a
Christmas party for staff this year on account of it having been a bad year all around as well as our company having been leased to an outside party. I'm not saying the new "owners" aren't the type of people to deny their staff a party, but it has been a transition with quite a few characteristic teething problems to say at least. It hasn't been an easy year, so we thought maybe they were going to spare us the trouble of getting dressed up and spending time with people we're only getting to know as it is. Secretly we were all just a little bit relieved. This meant no wardrobe crisis, no shoe crisis, no hair crisis, make up crisis... well you get the point. You can tell I'm a girl, right?

Anyway, I returned to work last week after 6 glorious days off, sat down in my glorified cupboard and was met with an email from our newly-appointed GM informing me of a
Christmas party this coming Sunday. (which I now realise is the day after tomorrow) The party is at a quite a lovely hotel in the city, a hotel owned by our boss, hardly a coincidence there. We're all invited to eat, drink and stay free of charge. Having gathered my jaw up from beside my feet, I read the email again just to make sure I had got it right. I had. Free of charge. In a 4 star hotel. Fantastic.

At this very moment the "
Christmas party crisis" -part of my brain went into overdrive. I'm sure there was a little puff of smoke rising up from the vicinity of my left ear. It meant I had less than a week to find an outfit, sort out my hair, book an appointment with my beautician, organise lifts, colour co-ordinate my outfit of choice with my make up bag and SO MUCH MORE! All of this was obviously on top of the usual Christmas arrangements such as Christmas cards, shopping, wrapping and this year, since Mr S and I are staying in Ireland, sending the bought and wrapped presents to my friends and family.

Office parties are tricky to say at least. It really is a lose-lose situation to many people. If you decide to be sensible, not have any alcoholic beverages and in general just to behave yourself, you're running the risk of being perceived as a bit of a bore. And there's of course the added disadvantage of having to listen to the drunken rendition of "Fairy Tale of New York" for the umpteenth time, grinning manically and trying to pretend it's just as hilarious as it was the first couple dozen times. If, on the other hand you're one of the people singing said much loved classic after your ninth glass of mulled wine and a few shots later, you probably will be considered a little bit of a liability.

I usually fall on the latter category. There is a degree of drunkenness at which I will inevitably start singing. I cannot help it. I have gotten up on stage in pubs and clubs, informed the actual artist performing that it was MY TURN and proceeded to sing a song of my choice. I know I do this, I'm not ashamed to admit it. I can sing, by the way, so all is not lost I suppose.

Wardrobe crisis was averted after chatting to a few colleagues. Blaming the recession, I have shamelessly recycled an outfit worn to a party earlier on this year. Few new accessories later it will look appropriately seasonal without breaking the bank. Maybe new shoes. I could do with another pair of ankle boots, I'm sure. See? Some things never change.

The reason this year's party will be different is the fact that we don't know everyone there as well as we'd like. In the years gone by, our staff has been a bit like a family. A family of over 80 members in the high season, with about 35 permanent, full time staff. We all know
each other well enough to be able to make complete fools of ourselves and then laugh about it together the following day while nursing one of the hangovers of the decade. This year will be different, however. Everyone seems to be feeling like we're going to be judged based on our behaviour on the night. Maybe we will, maybe we won't. I, for one, have already decided on my song. Bring on the wine, good people!

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Ooops I done it again ... won another tournament

Last night, after a wonderfully hot shower (after a rather disappointing game of football), I climbed into bed and fired up Party Poker to play a few hands as we watched the television.  Was doing very well on the money tables, having doubled my original stake.  But I lost it all after missing out on a diamond flush by one card.  3 diamonds on the table, and I was hold Q9 diamonds.  The chap beside me was doing a lot of checking and only raised me once.  I then went all-in and he managed to produce a KT diamonds, giving him a much better flush.  Very rare you lose to hands like that.  Oh well, it was only $5.

While that was happenning I had started a tournament and things were going much better there. Never took the chip lead that often, but the table was fairly tight after the 2 or 3 maniacs got knocked out.  Crawled my way to the top 4, and then it was all very conservative play with no one playing a hand.  I started playing some cards, K9, Q9 etc but these were going no where and simply ended up giving a stack of chips to my opponents.

Then it came down to the last 3 and the blinds where right up so we were passing blinds between us for a few rounds.  Took out my second chip guy with a flush draw, leaving me with 2:1 in favor with my last opponent.  This is where my skills are getting better; I played the same style before, playing 2 out of every 3 hands and forcing the weaker player to either fold or play.  They can't afford to fold too often as the blinds will simply eat away at their chip count.  It wasn't long before he was down to just 164 chips and had no choice but to go all-in, sadly his 77 wasn't enough to beat my 88 77 double pair.

One more tournament chalked up, completely wiping out the $5 loss suffered at the money table early in the evening.

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Fulden Aran

October 3, 2013 – October 26, 2013

ALAN İstanbul hosts young artist Fulden Aran’s first solo exhibition, named A Midsummer Nigth’s Dream. The exhibition is able to be said the last series of the works she produce for last 2 years in her workshop in İzmir, and especially may take attention of art-lovers interesting with “peinture”style with their highly aesthetical level. The artist was chosen for exhibitions Siemens “Borders and Orbits” in 2008 and “Akbank Today’s Artists” in 2009, also made some grades in early age, including honorable mention in 2010 and 2011, consecutively, for “New York Artist Workshop Residence”. Some of her works, which previously have been exhibited in various group exhibitions, were shown İstanbul audience in September 2013 in a group exhibition named “Öner Kocabeyoğlu Koleksiyonu’ndan Bir Kesit: Çoğulcu, Şiirsel, İronik (A Section From Öner Kocabeyoğlu Collection: Pluralistic, Lyric, Ironic)” that was curated by Hasan Bülent Kahraman, concurrently with İstanbul Biennale.

Fulden Aran is close to photo-realism, and thanks to her technical competence of peinture, she causes a dense sensation by making audience feeling the figurative realism on paint touches. The perspectives getting deep in extensive nature and flora, interacts with human or human-made objects in a relation of contrast in which they define with each other. In this respect, the artist touches the audience by revealing the “situation” between artificial/civilized status of human and its wild nature. Each painting creates striking sequences having the combination of this dense realism and lyricism.

The works, to be exhibited in ALAN İstanbul main hall will make a dialog with the video performance of video artist Volkan Ergen that to be exhibited in ALAN İstanbul Project Room. The exhibition will be available to be seen between October 3, 2013 and October 26, 2013.


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Original Music Inspired By New Documentary on the Life of Former Clipse Member No Malice to Release 3/25

‘Movin’ Weight’ Available on iTunes Friday Prior to ‘The End of Malice’ REVOLT TV Premiere on March 27

DALLAS, March 24, 2016 –Movin’ Weight,” the much-anticipated 10-track album inspired by the new film, “The End of Malice,” will release Friday, March 25 across all digital music platforms prior to the film’s worldwide premiere on REVOLT TV on March 27.Movin_Weight_small

Movin’ Weight” takes listeners on a journey through the lives of those who have first-hand experience with street life.

The album includes original tracks from Former Clipse member and hip-hop artist No Malice; Grammy award-winning songwriter and vocalist Crystal Nicole; Toronto-based hip-hop soul artist and songwriter Promise; singer/songwriter and producer Tony Ray; and new up-and-coming emcees Rod T, RasRok and MD Uno.

“Movin’ Weight” features sounds and rhythms faithful to the origins of the hip-hop genre, while also infusing soulful harmonies and melodies that embody the struggles of the inner city. Using touches of jazz and R&B, each song tells part of a larger story — a story that begins with the idea of movin’ weight, but ends with deeper spiritual truths about the condition of the soul.

“This is not just an album, it’s an experience in storytelling,” said Executive Producer Brandon C. Ricks. “’Movin weight’ is a central theme in the context of rap music and inner-city street culture. It is our goal that this album will move listeners through a progression from understanding the basic meaning of ‘movin’ weight’ to recognizing a greater truth about the moving of the weights that bind the hearts and minds of those trapped in destructive lifestyles.”

Ricks serves as executive producer on “Movin’ Weight” alongside composers and producers Christopher “O.Z.” Billik, Lord Quest, Tony Ray and Jamaal Pompey.

“Movin Weight” is available through iTunes, Google Play and select streaming services. The album is inspired by “The End of Malice,” a 40-minute intoxicating, first-person narrative of the life of No Malice. The film masterfully tells the story of an extraordinary artist confronting the dualities of fame and family, success in the dope game, and the demanding world of mainstream music.

Featuring commentary from No Malice’s brother and fellow Clipse member, Pusha T, as well as his close friend, Pharrell Williams, “The End of Malice” gives never-before-seen insight into Clipse’s successful rise as pioneers of the hip-hop subgenre, coke-rap, and No Malice’s abrupt departure from it all that still has fans begging for more.

“The End of Malice” premieres on REVOLT TV on Sunday, March 27 at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT.

For more information, visit http://www.endofmalice.com.

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Great looking video, awful file format

I purchased this camcorder for shooting interviews due to the positive reviews I read. The auto controls were very glitchy. Once I imported the footage and tried to edit, it was a nightmare. Great video but no audio even though there was audio press...

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This camera is light and very nice. Already done 15hours of recording without a problem.

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Price vs Performance = Great Buy !

At this price point there is nothing which comes close. Video is superb. I have the 4K option but don't use it that much. 1080P XAVC has made several cablecast shows. In my opinion, this is an interview/B-Roll cam not an action cam. Don't buy a Prius...

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Posted on February 4, 2016

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

4 Soups, $5.00, 15 Minutes Prep in the Crockpot, Again!

Tuscan White Bean and Spinach Soup topped with fresh Parmesan

This blog post accompanies my talk on BTO for Friday July 30th.
**Edited to add- cinnamon roll recipe I spoke about here!

I had such a great time last time making soups in the crockpot for 5 bucks or less I decided to do it again! This time with a few more exotic options.

Lets get to the recipes!

Tuscan White Bean and Spinach Soup

3/4 lb dried small white beans- a whole bag is 1.09, so for this about .80 cents
2 sm cans (15 oz each) diced tomatoes, mine are .59 cents each, so 1.20
pkg frozen spinach, chopped (sm box) 1.25
4-8 cloves garlic, minced (I used about 6) .30
1/2 med onion , chopped.20
1 stalk celery diced .10
1 large carrot chopped .12
5 cups water or homemade broth or a combination of both
salt and pepper to taste
2 bay leaves
dried Italian seasoning, or if you don't have that, you'll want some basil, oregano, parsley and thyme and perhaps some rosemary, about 1 tsp each, or start with 1/2 tsp each, and taste it, adjust accordingly.

TOTAL $3.97

The night before, place beans in a bowl covered with water by 4 inches or so. They will expand.

The next morning when you are ready to make the soup, drain the beans and place in crockpot. And everything else except the spinach. Cook on high for 6-7 hrs. or low for 10-12. During the last half hour of cooking add the spinach and heat through. Remove the bay leaves. You can puree some of the beans to thicken it if you wish. Delicious topped with fresh grated Parmesan cheese.

Options- Use fresh spinach, it will take 4-6 cups or so. The directions for it are the same, just add it in at the end of cooking. Or you can use kale or escarole.

If you want to add meat, ground beef is good, or small meatballs, add them precooked at any time.

You can add pasta to this also to make it very hearty. Add about 1/2 to 3/4 cup during the last hour of cooking. It expands alot, so beware.

Pesto would be a good topper for this as well.

Turkish Red Lentil Soup

1 lb red lentils-mine are from the bulk dept. at Fred Meyer-1.99 lb
1/2 med size onion, chopped .20
1 cup potato peeled and diced, I used 1 med potato .25
2 cloves garlic, minced .10
1 sm can (15 oz) diced tomatoes .59
8 cups water or homemade vegetable stock
2-4 tsp paprika (I used part sweet paprika, and some smoked paprika, your choice)
1-2 tsp salt (to taste) be careful if you are using bouillon or broth it may add a good deal of salt
cumin about 1 tsp (or more if you like)
coriander about 1 tsp (to taste)
2 bay leaves
2 or 3 pieces roasted red bell peppers chopped(from a jar) .50 (or if you have a fresh red bell pepper, than by all means add that, chopped.)
1/2 to 1 tablespoon vinegar for the end of cooking
TOTAL $3.63

Add everything to the crockpot except vinegar. Cook for 6-8 hours on high, or about 10 hrs on low. At the end of cooking, taste and adjust spices as necessary, add the vinegar. And remove the bay leaves. Puree with a stick blender, or regular blender or food processor if desired. Red lentils cook down alot, they don't keep their shape as well as the brown variety, so it will be sort of almost pureed.

Beef Barley Soup

1 lb. Beef Stew Meat (which is Round Steak) or you may use Chuck Roast or Chuck Steak, Chuck has a little more fat, and some would say a little more flavor, Round is much leaner, your choice.

Mine is from Stewarts, both are about the same price at $3. 39 lb.

1 onion chopped .33

1 lg carrot chopped .12

one stalk celery chopped .10

one clove garlic chopped .5

one cup barley (the whole pkg of barley at Fred Meyer is .59 cents for 1 lb.) one cup is less than 1/2 pkg. .30

bay leaf

4 0r 5 shakes of Worcestershire sauce

1/2 tsp dried Thyme

1/.2 tsp dried Basil

1/2 tsp dried Oregano

4 cups water or broth

Salt and pepper to taste

TOTAL $4.74

Cut the beef in cubes if it's not already. Salt and pepper all of the beef. In a large pan add a little oil. Heat the pan to med high. Wait until the pan is very hot. Sear the meat in batches, making sure not to crowd the pan. Turn the meat to get a nice sear on all sides. Add the meat to the crockpot.

** If you are on a very tight schedule and don't have time to sear the meat, go ahead and throw it in the crockpot as is. (After it's been salt and peppered.) The sear you get from pre browning it gives it a nice flavor, but the meat is still going to be nice and tender.

Add everything else to the crockpot as well. Cook on low is best for 10-12 hrs. Cooking the meat low and slow is going to result in yummy falling apart tender meat. If you need to cook it on high go ahead, for about 7 hrs. When finished taste and adjust seasonings as necessary. Remove bay leaf.

Options- You can add sliced or chopped mushrooms to this. Or you can omit the beef and add a pound of fresh mushrooms sliced or chopped and have mushroom and barley soup.

If you want a more meaty soup, you can increase the beef, up to 2 lbs.

Persian Split Pea and Barley Stew

This recipe is based on one from the Moosewood Cookbooks

1/2 cup barley (from 1 lb bag which is .59 cents at Fred Meyer) .20

1-2 garlic cloves minced .10

bay leaf

1 cup split peas (from 1 lb pkg, less than 1/2 the pkg) .42

one small onion chopped .33

1 lg carrot chopped .12

2 medium potatoes peeled and diced into cubes .50

one 15 oz can diced tomatoes .59

1/2 to 1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 to 1 tsp ground cardamom

pinch to 1/4 tsp ground cayenne pepper

6 cups water or broth or combination of both

bay leaf

lemon juice for finishing (optional)

fresh parsley chopped for finishing (optional)

TOTAL $2.26 This amount baffles me! This stew has so much flavor and is so unique. But I warn you, you must like cardamom to like this dish. It's not for everyone, but I think it's absolutely delicious.

Place everything besides potatoes in crockpot. Cook for 10-12 hrs on low, or 7-8 on high. Add the diced potatoes at the last hour or 2 of cooking. OR if that isn't convenient for you, you may add the potatoes in the beginning, they will just be quite soft, but if that doesn't bother you, then go for it! When the stew is done, taste and adjust seasonings as necessary, remove bay leaf, and if using, stir in some lemon juice, and top the bowls with some chopped parsley.

A note about the spices in these recipes. I talked last time about buying spices, but if you are reading this and didn't read my last post, this is for you. The best place to buy spices is in bulk at a natural food store. In this area, the co-op in Olympia has bulk spices very inexpensively. Also Fred Meyer has a bulk spice section. This allows you to buy only the quantity that you wish. It really cuts down on waste, and lets you try different spices you wouldn't have tried otherwise.

Crockpot and Energy Usage
Did you know? Using the crockpot instead of the stove can save you money.
This Blogger Energy Miser 101, states that using her stove for 3 hours to cook a soup takes one dollars worth of energy, whereas using her slow cooker for 8 hours to make the same soup only cost .20 cents! She states that if she cooked a soup in the crockpot every week with a savings each time of .80 cents, she could save $50.00 a year!

This article, How to Use Less Energy While Cooking, states that using a crockpot costs .2 cents an hour, whether on high or low. Using an electric oven costs .30-.60 cents an hour, a gas oven is between .5-.10 cents an hour.

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Melanie said...

I need to try the Tuscan bean soup recipe! Looks delicious!


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Saturday, December 4, 2010

My Spice Rack - Spice Organization with Baby Food Jars

"Anybody can make you enjoy the first bite of a dish, but only a real chef can make you enjoy the last."
- Francois Minot
I spoke about my spice cabinet during my show on BTO yesterday, during my talk about
making your own baby food, and this came up talking about reusing baby food jars. So I promised I'd put up a picture.

What you see is a picture of the inside of my pantry door. This is knife magnets, purchased from Ikea with baby food jars holding the spices. The baby food jar lids are metal, so they grasp onto the magnets well.
I came up with the idea when I decided I wanted magnets to hold the spices, they do sell jars that are metal for this purpose, but I didn't want to spend more than a dollar a jar when I knew I wanted roughly 40 of them. So this came to mind. The jars were free since I got them from a mother on Freecycle who saved the jars.

The bottom few racks and jars (purchased at Ikea as well) hold spices that I use alot, since the only real issue with the baby food jars is that they don't hold very much, although you could buy or seek out the larger size baby food jars. The rack above holds the spices I use frequently this time of year, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, (whole only) allspice, cloves and pumpkin pie spice.

The very bottom rack holds extracts and miscellaneous (I don't have a close up of that).
I really love this system. Everything is very readily at hand.

Luis said...

what an AMAZING idea!

Anonymous said...

awesome blog, do you have twitter or facebook? i will bookmark this page thanks. jasmin holzbauer

The Alchemist said...

Jasmin, no I'm not on Facebook or Twitter. You can recieve email updates, by subscribing that way or subscribe in a Reader so you don't miss a post, (you can do that in the column on the right.) Thanks I appreciate it.

MsByn said...

My dad used to screw babyfood jar lids to a board/bottom of a shelf and then use the jars for nuts & bolts and things in his workshop. I always thought it was a genus idea. This one is just as awesome!

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02.03.2012 to 04.03.2012

A two-day symposium interrogating the deployment of humour within contemporary art practices. - - - - - - Organised by Lee Campbell, PhD researcher, in conjunction with Politicized Practice Research Group, Loughborough University School of the Arts in cooperation with Mostyn. To coincide with ‘Ha Ha Road’, 03 December 2011 – 11 March 2012. - - - - - - - Guest speakers: Gillian Whiteley (aka bricolagekitchen); Gary Stevens and Frog Morris are joined by Andrew Paul Wood (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand); Dave Ball, curator of Ha Ha Road, Mostyn; Jonathan Roberts; Alison O’Connor (Oxford University); Ana Milovanovic; Shaun Belcher (Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design); Eve Smith (Liverpool John Moores University); Jennifer Jarman; Hannah Ballou (Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London); Steve Fossey (University of Northampton); Simon Bell (Anglia Ruskin University,Cambridge); Waldemar Pranckiewicz; and Dean Kelland (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London).


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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Tacoma Little Theatre's 'A Flea in Her Ear" a farce most fantastic

The News Tribune, March 11, 2011

Heidi Walworth-Horn plays Raymonde, from left, Alex Smith is Victor, Rachel Permann is Lucienne and Mark Peterson stars as Romain in “A Flea in Her Ear.”

Georges Feydeau’s popular French farce “A Flea in Her Ear” has been entertaining audiences worldwide for more than 100 years. It seems to never go out of style.

It has all the expected elements of an absurdly farcical romp: slamming doors, mistaken identity, silly fights and witty repartee with loads of sexual innuendo – or in this case not so much innuendo as comical attempts to clean up sex talk as when Victor (Alex Smith) tries to explain to Doctor Finache (Kerry Bringman) that he suffers from what is now popularly known as erectile dysfunction. The conversation is peppered with euphemisms and references to size, all of which are funny precisely because they are so obvious.

Tacoma Little Theatre’s website calls this play “perhaps the greatest farce ever written.” That is an overstatement perhaps; I can think of some Marx Brothers and Shakespeare that may top it, but it may certainly rank right up there among the greatest.

Victor’s wife, Raymonde (Heidi Walworth-Horn) suspects her husband of infidelity. At the urging of her best friend, Lucienne (Rachel Permann), she fakes a letter to her husband from a secret admirer suggesting a rendezvous at The Frisky Puss Hotel (Hotel Coq d’Or in the original) in order to entrap him. Victor is flattered when he receives the letter but thinks it was mistakenly sent to him but was meant for his handsome friend Romain Tournel (Mark Peterson). So Tournel goes to the hotel in Victor’s place, and eventually everyone else in the play, including Victor and various spouses, friends and servants all end up in the Frisky Puss – some in search of romantic rendezvous and some in search of two-timing spouses.

To stir the pot even more (and there is always something to stir the pot even more), Poche, the bell boy at the Frisky Puss is a dead-ringer for Victor. Smith is fabulous in the duel roles of Victor and Poche. Note his walk. As Victor he leans forward so much that he looks as if he’s in constant danger of falling on his face, and as Poche he leans backward just as much, seemingly defying the laws of gravity. People push him and kick him, and he’s like a rag doll being tossed about, handling the physical comedy with flair.

Some of the shouting and door slamming is overdone, but one person’s overdone is another person’s insanely funny. In fact, overdone may be the only way to effectively do farce.

Most obviously overdone was Ferraillon (Robert Osborne) kicking Victor/Poche in the rear-end every chance he got. The kicking did not have the comedic boot it should have, as it became too predictable.

Among the best actors were Smith, Permann, Peterson, Paul Neet as Camille, and Mike Slease as Lucienne’s crazy, gun-toting Spanish husband Don Carlos Homenides De Histangua.

Permann’s exasperated explanation of how she and Poche, whom she mistook to be Victor, tumbled and tumbled down the stairs was a masterpiece of comedic acting. Neet did a great job with the challenge of speaking with an absurd speech defect – his character, Camille, cannot pronounce consonants. Likewise, Slease’s booming Spanish accent made him just hard enough to understand to be funny without his speech being incomprehensible, and his bluster and facial tics were riotous.

The set by Dane Goulet was very nice, especially the gaudy colors and the revolving bed in the hotel. Frances Rankos’ costume designs were also fine. The turn-of-the-century dresses with the big bustles were great as was Don Carlos’ suit coat.

When: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sundays through March 26; actor benefit at 2 p.m. March 26
Where: Tacoma Little Theatre, 210 N. I St., Tacoma
Tickets: $15 - $24
Information: 253-272-2281, www.tacomalittletheatre. com

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Quick Tip On Writing A Thriller

I'm sure 99.99% of us have heard of James Bond. Well, famed 007 agent creator Ian Fleming wrote an essay in 1963 on how to write thrillers, including the following tip:

We thus come to the final and supreme hurdle in the writing of a thriller. You must know thrilling things before you can write about them. Imagination alone isn't enough, but stories you hear from friends or read in the papers can be built up by a fertile imagination and a certain amount of research and documentation into incidents that will also ring true in fiction.

As a bonus, here is another quick tip:
[N]ever correct anything and never go back to what [you] have written, except to the foot of the last page to see where [you] have got to. If you once look back, you are lost. How could you have written this drivel? ... If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following [Fleming's] formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren't disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks."

So keep your eyes peeled and your ears unplugged for any information or tidbit you might want to swipe and place into your own writing!

For more tips from Ian Fleming, refer to MI6

  1. Hi Alessa,
    I will be back soon. I had incredibly busy November and December and then I landed in emergency room with huge oscillations of blood pressure. Getting better.

    1. OMG, I hope you're better and taking it easy! I will be emailing you a long response to your lovely email later. Please take care of yourself, and I hope 2015 will be 1000 times better than 2014 :)

  2. Ian Fleming's advice, especially the "quick tip" about never looking back to what you have written, may work for writing thrillers. I can't say as I have never attempted to write one. From my writing experience (letters, essays, various papers), I am positive that my first version is utter garbage, and then, with heavy editing work, it becomes less so. I guess it depends on the personality and on the type of writing. Incidentally Mr. Fleming does not strike me as a particularly good writer. I read his "From Russia with Love" and I have had enough.

    You know Jane from our department. We are a great writing team when it comes to various department papers. She is a genius, who can create the structure in 15 minutes, and then I polish it for a few hours, and it sometime comes presentable.

    1. I agree that it takes a certain talent to be able to write things in one sitting and have it be perfect (I'm thinking of Stendhal, for instance). I know I need to revise and revise and revise, and still I can't consider myself a literary writer (at all!!). But I think in this quote Ian Fleming was talking about writing your full draft first before going back in to revise, otherwise one risks never finishing his/her work, as he/she would be stuck rewriting the previous passages over and over again.

      How great that you and Jane are such a fantastic writing team! :)

      It does help to have another pair of eyes on the material. I feel that in movies (I'm taking Pixar as an example), their best stuff always came because multiple people (with a similar global vision so it wouldn't make a total chaotic mess of the thing) worked together to elevate the film to greater heights!