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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

So as i play more and more with illustrator i learned something. I wanted to "remaster" the older comics. What i did was print them, trace them, scan them, vectorize them, and bam. They look 1000x's better. I've done it to about the first six comics. I'm pretty thrilled about the idea that i can go back to my un-editable mess ups (due to the fact that i no longer have the files) and fix them!

During this process i realized this my be a more efficient way to get my comics in the future done. So far it seems to be that this will be the way that i will do it but my one problem lies in the nature of fill tools. I every line (since they were traced) was black.. so this means that i couldn't differentiate from the rabbits to the outlines of the comics, etc. I found a sloppy way around it (which I'm super pro at doing) but i quickly came to an understanding about something. You know how in Movie Production sometimes they put actors in front of a blue or green screen so that they can later ad CG? WELL, if i were to apply that same concept to fill tools i can now do the following. Hand draw the comics (which I'm rather fast at)and edit and play around with them on paper, then trace the rabbits in lets say gray marker, then the borders in black, objects in red (or varying color depending on whether these objects touch or not), and talk bubbles in blue. Problem at that point solved! I can then fill eveything thing else in with in moments with no pixels in the images. If this is true then i should have a very streamlined way to go about drawing. I was never quite able to figure out the way Jeph Jacques does his drawing completely in photoshop.. but i think this way will be just as efficient! lets hope so!

thinking on this a moment more i can probably also draw the shadows in a different pen as well. then i could shade them in too! This should be amazing if it works.

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

"Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment", by M. Rickert

Thursday, April 16, 2009
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I first became aware of "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Personal Account" sometime last year through the commentary of Abigail Nussbaum and Niall Harrison. Since F&SF has made the story available to read on their website, and because this is an M. Rickert story, it was time to see what the fuss was about.

The story opens with the following:

IT TOOK A LONG TIME TO deduce that many of the missing women could not be accounted for. Executions were a matter of public record then and it was still fairly easy to keep track of them. They were on every night at seven o'clock, filmed from the various execution centers. It was policy back then to name the criminal as the camera lingered over her face. Yet women went missing who never appeared on execution.

Then, the narrator mentions that her mother went missing and that her father could not find out where she went, or if she had been admitted to a hospital. Her mother was a criminal, one who would have been executed. At this time we do not know what the crime was, except that it is only women. No men.

M. Rickert hints early on about what the crime is, but the opening quote from the founder of Operation Rescue should leave little question: abortion.

Sometime in the future, perhaps the near future, America has outlawed abortion and ex post facto has criminalized those women who had abortions while it was legal. That's the basis for "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment".

Logically, the premise of the story feels like a stretch, like it is an extreme reaction to Operation Rescue and uber-Conservative thought. So, that's my main issue with M. Rickert's story. I question how plausible it is.

Of course, I quite enjoy and appreciate the Marq'ssan novels from L. Timmel Duchamp, and that also presents a radical change in American (and World) society. From the perspective of accepting the premise of this story (suspension of disbelief), "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment" is a solid story. If such a world could exist, and if the reader can buy into the basic premise, it is plausible that the narrating daughter of this story would react as she has. Disgust that her mother is a murderer of an innocent, shame that she (daughter) will be viewed as being tainted because of her mother's actions, still missing her mother.

Actually, the part of the story that still stretches credulity is that women are once again reduced to thinking about their marital options. Status determines her possibility. The father mentions that if she were lucky the daughter could still become a "breeder".

Seriously? Even granting the concept of such a complete and utter reversal of abortion law in the United the point that prior legal abortions would be criminalized to death...that the "options" of women would be flipped again so far is a stretch...and that's in a story that has quite a stretch as a premise.

Despite all of that, "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment" remains a compelling story due to the strength of M. Rickert's writing. Dystopian futures (such as the similar The Handmaid's Tale) are curiously compelling. Even when they don't make sense. Perhaps because they don't make sense.

Does "Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment" serve as a warning, that if we take seriously the concerns of Operation Rescue and pander to that organization, this is a future that we could face? So, take action?

I don't know.

Outside of the implausible premise, this is an otherwise well crafted story that drew me in early on. That I didn't believe for a moment that was a possible future did not matter. Sometimes the implausible is what makes a good story. It's just that when I stop to think about the story that the questions begin to jump out.

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Monday, March 30, 2015

JoJo Swimming around Sea Dancer

Hi All,
The weather turned nasty yesterday and we came in early enabling me to catch up so here's what I did.
This clip is from Saturday the day  I swam with JoJo as he circled around and around the big motor yacht Sea Dancer. Toward the end of the clip JoJo was following me to Spy Hop. It's really hard to swim forwards while filming backwards! Please keep that in mind as you watch!
I also spent most of the night with apple to figure out how to get video from camera to iMovie so I could put JoJo leaping to music and here's the result!

  1. Rolling with joy he simply wants to play with you his friend. Perfect conditions for filming. Thanks for sharing the happiness!

  2. How fun and beautiful - great job with the music!


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Monday, June 2, 2008

Life moves on...

Pratim's birthday yesterday brought in fresh thoughts of grief...his untimely death was major blow to my emotions,a vibrant enegetic life brought to a standstill by this omnious unchanging reality of life. I recall my friendship with him on the net that lasted precisely 3 days. A very interesting conversationalist, I looked forward to chatting with him. I was new to my job those days, didnt really know if we were allowed to go into chat channels during working hours and so restricted myself to small chats. It was a friday when I last scraped to him and was looking forward to a weekend masti which alas never came! By monday my worst fears were comfirmed, Pratim was no more...the frantic search for and his whereabouts landed me with new friends, new relationships, heartbreaks, short a new bag of emotions. It is really amazing how life really is our greatest teacher.
More recently, I lost a dear student, just graduated from our portals and new into his job, when life held only promises for him, his death on the railtracks was a gruesome reminder of the promiscuousness of life, that plays games with us at all times. I regret that on our last meeting during the convocation, Roshan, the student in discussion, was very keen to click a pic with me. I am most enthusiastic about pics, dont know why, get a childlike glee in posing for photos, but on that particular day, I had no time at all, loads of work, and so had to decline Roshan's offer for another time...time that will never come again. His smiling face surfaces on my minds eye ever so many times...Life can be really cruel.
This year has been one of emotional upheavals, coping with them is a herculean task. My sound professional life is the only thing that holds me together when both family and friends whom I have depended on have let me down. Everytime I dress up to go to work, I think to myself. life just goes on, I smile at my reflection in the mirror which looks like a stranger to me sometimes because of the incongruity of the emotions and the image it portrays, and move on...on this path called life.


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Since autumn 1996, Jon has facilitated the design, identification and purchasing of five laboratory spaces (14 rooms). The first involved the newly arrived IC-CSB group of Prof. MvH during the period October 1996-February 1997, during which time desks, PCs, wet lab equipment, electron microscope liquid nitrogen facilities, were co-ordinated and personally installed, in parallel with his research. He was awarded a small financial bonus in recognition of these efforts, which was unexpected, but gratefully received. The second is from Jan 1999, as workstation / LAN identifier and co-ordinator maintaining a PC cluster (20 machines), its 100BaseT network and associated peripherals (DVD+/-R,RW/ CDR-W/ SCSI/ scanners/ printers/ NICs, etc.). He has also learnt Tru64 Unix system administration, configuring 6 Compaq EV6/67 class XP1000 workstations, incl. stereographics 3D modelling. See his Computers page for more details.
    More recently, he has replicated such activites for his own independent position, both at Imperial College and Queen Mary, moving his laboratory, as required through managerial oversight, four further times. His previous (2003) Beowulf-style cluster of gigabit (1000baseT) switched PCs (60 CPUs; 125 GHz; 44 Gb DDR; 4 Tb) was deprecated in favour of an off-line, self-build, scaleable, quad-socket G34 opteron solution, currently at 160 nodes, 256 Gb, NAS, etc., constantly added to (funding dependent).

Over the last decade, Jon has a organised a significant number of social, research and commercial events:
1. Departmental Student Representative (1992) - a Life Sciences Summer Ball (125 people), which gave a minor profit for the following year's ball.
2. Hall of Residence Subwarden (1993-1998) - Five Dinner Dances (75-80 people); Leader of 15-student party to Calais; 10+ wine tastings of ~20 persons.
3. Post-graduate Representative (1993-1995) - Departmental Christmas Party (80 people).
4. Post-doctoral Researcher (1997-2000) - Initiated and organised lab retreat (20 people); other seminars.
5. Current position (2002) - Poster organiser; Royal Society Discussion Meeting (100+ people; 20 posters).
6. Divisional seminar series organiser (2005-2007) - 26 lectures/speakers
7. Divisional representative on the Faculty Safety Committee (2005-2007)
8. Divisional representative on the Faculty GM-safety committee (2005-2007)
9. Co-ordinator (2007) - PS07 international conference satellite meeting (350+ people; 46 posters).
10. Local organiser (2007) - Christmas Photosynthesis meeting, Queen Mary, University of London.
11. Local organiser (2008) - International Photosynthesis 'Symposium' at Queen Mary.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Just You (revisited)

Just You

I summered in your garden
before life happened
There, on the hill by the lake
There were no other gods yet
Just you

Your door, open
Love spilled out
across the grass
wetting roots

I did not drink deeply
there on the hill
Dark clouds gathered
for me
The voice of false gods
on the breeze

Outside the garden
a season of rain
Love’s compass fast
with rust
Empty circles turned
wearing grooves

And you waited for me
There, on the hill by the lake
The grass strong in your garden
Above your door
welcome home

by D. Tkon Copyright 2008

SweetTalkingGuy said...

Hi, I don't pretend I understand but I like it!

tumblewords said...

Very nice!

karen crone said...

The prodigal lover?
I liked this.

Pauline said...

"Love’s compass fast with rust"

a lovely line

Stan Ski said...

Many things need to be 'discovered', before we accept the invitation of a familiar open door.

paisley said...

a summers lament.. i feel sadness in this memory....

Al said...

beautiful. and a phenomenal photo to go along with it.
made my morning.

gel said...

Hi Dennis,
I've been out of blogland for a long break, but I'm back.
This poem, like most I read of yours, seems to erupt from the depths of your soul. This is strong and I feel what I imagine was an arduous journey and much unsaid that we, the readers couldn't possibly know.

I'm glad she was waiting for you. (I assume it is she.) It seems as though you struggled with internal journey and love welcomed you home, strong and steadfast. (If I misinterpreted or said too much, please let me know. I've been away so long, I forgot who likes something said about their poem and who does not.)

Dennis said...

GEL: Thanks for reading. Since you asked me to let you know about your interpretation, I will. The "You" in that poem isn't a woman, though I can see how many people would assume that since I'm writing about love. In this case, the "You" is god, or Source as I like to say.
When I was a young boy, I had some amazing spiritual experiences at a religous summer camp I attended. The poem is about how I first experienced spiritual love and then lost my way for a very long time before I finally found my way back to Source.

Thanks for asking! Much love,

Paul Maurice Martin said...

Tells the story succinctly but vividly --

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Getting Married in Cayman ...Is it legal back home?

Probably the question I get asked most often about getting married in Cayman is "is it legal back home?" The answer is a resounding YES! Let me walk you through what happens.

First your marriage must be performed by a person who is licensed by the Cayman Islands government as a "Marriage Officer". I get quite a few requests from couple who want to bring their own officiant with them. That's fine...as long as you understand that whom ever says the words, your Cayman Marriage Officer has to do the paperwork which makes it legal.

As a visitor, you must be married by a Special Marriage License. Your Marriage Officer will do the documentation for this, and then sign that everything is in order. You will be given the Special License to keep as a souvenir. It is rather nice, as it has the seal of the Governor of the Cayman Islands. There are other arrangements in place for residents, and one requirement is a time requirement for the Banns of Marriage to be posted.

Visitors can be married the same day they arrive, as long as I have time to get the Special Marriage License. Special arrangements can be made for visitors who want to be married on a weekend or Public Holiday, when the Governor's Office is closed.

After the ceremony, you have to sign three documents. Ladies, you sign your maiden name, or the name on your documents. You don't sign your new married name at this point. The first document is a certified copy of the Marriage Certificate, which is yours to keep. It will have the couple's signatures, the witnesses signatures, and my signature and seal as a Civil Registrar of Marriages aka Marriage Officer.

The next two documents will be handwritten, and you should check that all your details, especially your legal names, and your postal address is correct. One of these documents is kept in my Marriage Book, and I file the Duplicate Marriage Certificate with the Registrar General.
This is akin to your County Clerk, or Public Records Office at home.

When your marriage is filed, I make an application on your behalf to get your Registered Marriage Certificate. This document will be sent to you by mail, within 3 working days of your marriage. This is the legal document you will need to have your driver's license changed to your married name, your passport changed etc. It will have the seal of the Registrar General. a watermark of the Cayman Islands crest, and on the back it will say "Secure Document."

Some European and Asian countries require an Apostille. If in doubt, be sure to ask. The USA and UK do not require an Apostille.

Many people tell me they want to be married "just the two of us". Well, under Cayman law you must have two witnesses over the age of 18. Here is a picture of me explaining to some witnesses where you have to sign. If you don't have witnesses, then let me know and I will provide them. You should give these witnesses a small tip ($20/$30) as a token of appreciation for them getting dressed nicely and coming out specially for your wedding.
This is what your certified copy looks like. I like to take a picture of what I call "The Proof"! If you have any questions, email me at mywedding@candw.ky.

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Friday, July 27, 2012

A Treasured Olympic Memory

When Pita Boy and Word Girl were four and six.. I came home one day and word girl was running.. then she jumped.. then she fell down.. then Pita Boy came running out and helped helped her.. and they hobbeled off. I asked what are you two doing.. and Word Girl looked up at me with her beautiful smile and said.. "We are playing Olympic Gymnast mommy"..

Monday, July 16, 2012

18 and a Tattoo

Blond Girl had a birthday today.. Yes the last of my babies is now a grown up.. and as a right of passage she wandered off to the local tattoo shop and got her first tattoo.. hopefully this has fulfilled her needs and she will never want another one..

It was a fun story, she and a couple of friends left for the tattoo parlor that had been recommended to them.. They said the guy was so high it was ridiculous..She said she could smell him and his pupils were so dilated that she couldn't even see any color.

Then the lovely gentlemen was rude to her.. said she couldn't have it on her wrist.. that it would look stupid as an anklet and the only place she could get it done was on her shoulder blade.. Then she had an id issue.. So she called me..

I called Word Girl who told me the name of the place where she got hers. Then I called them.. they were lovely.. and had a way to work with my id instead.. So the gang all came by and picked me up. Off to the tattoo parlor..

This place was a rather interesting it looked more like a hair salon than a tattoo parlor. Very upscale.. The guys working there were great, they talked her through everything.. and if you will notice, there it is right on her wrist where she wanted it... Oh and the best part about the other place.. they spelled Lamentations wrong..

If one has to have a tattoo.. this was a wonderful.. made ,e consider getting one.. except that unlike my children, I am afraid of my mom.. and she said no tattoos!

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Last Home Swim Meet

There is a tradition here in town where the 15&Over Boys dress up as girls for the last relay of the season. A Few years ago the girls got tired of the boys getting all of the attention. Since this was Blond Girl's last home relay she was in on it.. here they are

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What I want to know is I know blue is for good luck but how do we know which colours to use for our wedding day?

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

The Global Debt Crisis, IX: Is it Safe to Expand Public Debt?

Another issue addressed by Moulton was the question as to whether there were any circumstances under which the national debt could be gradually and safely expanded. Moulton conceded that there are two circumstances under which it would not necessarily be financial suicide to expand public debt. The first is where a large project needs to be undertaken for which financing does not exist in either the private or the public sector. The second is where the tax base is expanding and can support a greater amount of borrowing on the part of the government.

In the first instance, Moulton was very clear that the only time the government should go into debt to finance anything is if the project is expected to generate cash revenue sufficient to repay the cost of the project and thereafter cover its maintenance. In other words, as long as a project is expected to pay for itself out of future revenues, then the government can justify emitting bills of credit (the governmental form of bills of exchange) to pay for it.

Our response is to agree with Moulton — with a qualifier. The usual rationalization for having government undertake the financing (and thus ownership) of infrastructure such as bridges, roads, sewers, and so on, is that this sort of capital improvement is believed to be beyond the ability of the private sector to finance out of existing resources. It seems to have escaped the notice of the experts, however, that if the government needs to create money to finance the construction of such things, then the cost is obviously beyond the ability of the public sector to finance out of existing resources as well.

The solution to this conundrum is to allow the citizens of an area for the benefit of which the project is being constructed to finance its construction and become the owners of the capital, not the government. If a project can pay for itself out of future revenues, and there is no other reason for having the government own it except for the presumed inability of either the private or the public sector to finance out of existing resources, it is far better to have the citizens directly own than the government, financing the construction using future savings.

CESJ developed the "Citizens Land Bank" concept to devolve State-owned infrastructure to private ownership. This would allow every citizen and legal resident to be an equal, direct owner of the land, natural resources and infrastructure in an area. Ideally, government should own nothing.

The second instance Moulton cited is even harder to justify, even in traditional, non-Just Third Way terms. When the tax base is expanding, the State should not borrow money just because it can. No government should ever spend a cent of the taxpayer's money, or create money for which the taxpayer will have to foot the bill, if not justified by need.

As Moulton explained, while an expanding tax base could, in fact, support a greater level of government debt . . . why? When the tax base is expanding, taxes should be used to meet current expenditures and pay down existing debt, not run up a larger debt, taking away any potential cushion for the bad times that seem inevitably to follow the good times. Going into debt in good times just because you can is (although Moulton would never have expressed himself so crudely) stupid in the extreme. Part of the problem today was caused by the expansion of public debt far beyond the ability of many countries to repay under Keynesian assumptions, and only with extreme discipline under Just Third Way conditions.

The debt can be repaid, but only if discipline is exercised now. Following the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia imposed an indemnity on France that Bismarck believed sufficient to destroy the French economy, neutralizing France as a rival to his new Second Reich. Contrary to expectations, the French were able to repay the entire amount in less than three years, thanks in large measure to the immense production of marketable goods and services by an economy in which the most productive enterprises — the vineyards, farms and livestock that were the backbone of the French economy — were broadly owned. Immense public debt can be repaid, but it takes the political will combined with increased production in which all citizens participate through capital ownership, and adequate financing repaid not with cuts in consumption, but with increases in production. That is, not past savings, but future savings.

That, of course, is the basis of binary economics and the Capital Homestead Act. Financing new capital formation by printing money backed only by the "full faith and credit" of the government, as today's experts insist is the only way it can be done, is economic and financial suicide. The only sane and feasible way of financing the future is to turn the present value of future marketable goods and services into cash by discounting and rediscounting private sector bills of exchange, not by emitting bills of credit in the hope that somebody will use the money to invest in capital and create jobs to maintain propertyless workers in their present condition that Pope Leo XIII described as "a yoke little better than that of slavery itself."


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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

my blog, my rant

Since graduation, I kind of have had a lot of breakdowns, like hugely emotional breakdowns, where my heart just feels like it is being ripped into a million pieces over and over with no sign of stopping. This isn't because I miss Guelph, and it isnt because trying to find jobs, or even trying to figure out what I want to be in life is frustrating.

Its because I finally realize that all those expectations I had as a child are finally coming to the breaking point. They are either going to happen, or they aren't.

We all have dreams, you are lying to yourself if you say you don't... but we grew up, and most of us realized some of those dreams just aren't realistic. I don't know, for some reason I NEVER got past that. I just didn't know how to separate dreams from reality.

For example, there was a time (a very long time) where with my whole entire self thought that Joe Jonas was going to fall in love with me. And not even like every other fan thought so, I thought if I had a moment I would totally swoon him and that would be it. That would be my life. Every day it didn't happen it literally hurt me. Just thinking about it gives me that same feeling in my stomach, that feeling that you just want something SO bad. And I didn't think it was stupid, or just a pipe dream. nope, never. It always seemed attainable to me.

That is how every other picture of the future I ever conjured seemed. It wasn't so much a dream as it was something that just was going to happen. That I didn't really have to worry about it because I was just destined for this, or this was what I was going to do. It sounds cocky and whatever, but I always felt like I was going to be something a lot more than what I am. I thought I was going to change the world. And that I was going to change it doing something that I loved and that inspired me every day.

But now, its like... That isn't happening. And a normal person would probably be okay with that because they learned a long time ago that dreams aren't always realistic. But when I dream, I dream effin hard. And I don't know. Now it feels like I am failing myself. Its not like I am not happy and I am not proud of myself and all that I have accomplished.. its just like, I finally realized that all those amazing things I believed so so soooooo truly about my life and my future, well, they just aren't happening. And that hurts. It feels really really really crappy. It makes me sad. Whatever, growing up is alright... but realizing those dreams are over? that isn't.

We are told to follow our dreams, right? But what we should be told is to "let your dreams inspire you, but make them into something realistic, and then follow those". There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but we just have to understand those dreams and not let out life and our happiness revolve around those.

Well said, Mitch Hedberg. Well said.

  1. This is a good one :)

  2. if dreams were achievable they wouldn't be dreams, they'd be goals. we need dreams because they aren't achievable, they give us something to strive for. let go of them and what do you have left, some more boring realistic crap. dream big, you've got nothing to lose.

  3. good point. i guess that is true... but in my case, my dreams werent really dreams. i didnt view them like i should have. i viewed them as these things that were going to come true. like i didnt see any other option in my life. i love dreaming, but i love it more when i know i have a life OTHER than just my dreams.. ya know what im trying to say?

  4. Thank you for being so honest Kelsey! It reminds people that they're not alone in dreaming, in sometimes getting carried away with those, even when we know they're unrealistic, and being disappointed that our dreams didn't come true. But don't stop dreaming big. You'll eventually get everything you wanted, and probably lots of things you didn't know you wanted til you had them :) You'll change the world, and you'll do it with something that inspires you and makes you happy, you just might have to wait a little while longer to figure it out! Don't give up hope!


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Bunnies & Blossoms Banner Hop Day 2

Welcome to the Bunnies and Blossoms Banner Hop for Special Needs Children Day 2! If you missed yesterday, please hop over to my BFF the Cardmonkey and see yesterday's line-up.

30+fantastic papercrafters have come together to create Spring-themed banners.We will then donate these banners to Ellen (CardMonkey), who works as Admissions Coordinator at Pediatric Specialty Care (PSC), www.pediatricspecialty.com.
PSC is a long-term care facility for specialneeds children who are medically-fragile and/or technologically-dependent. Thebabies, children and youths at PSC range in age from birth to 21, and areadmitted from all over the country.

Some are infants, born prematurely and beforetheir lungs have had a chance to mature. Others have serious birth defects,illnesses or injuries from accidents that cause them to need tender loving carein a home-like environment -- many for their lifetimes.

Our banners are meant to cheer the youngpatients, their families, and the staff at PSC. Here is the banner that I made and will be sending to Ellen to decorate a child's room:

The cute bunnies are cut from Create-A-Critter at 5". All the bunny papers are Recollections. The scalloped pennants are from a Spellbinders Die. The pennant paper is from a Mambi pack. The ribbon is standard Wal-mart.

Has all this hopping made you hungry?
How about a lil snack?

Here's how to win...

1. Be an awesome follower of my blog!
2. Leave me a comment on this post.
3. Check back on Winner Tuesday, March 27th to see who Mr. Random Number Generator chooses as the lucky winner ;0)

So now .... onto your next stop on the Bunnies and Blossoms Banner Hop:

Be blessed & be a blessing, Beckie

Cindy :) said...

adorable bunnies Beckie, love the buttons for cheeks how cute, great bright and cheerful banner, they will love it for sure, it made me smile :)

Creations by Shirl said...

Adorable Beckie~
So darn cute love everything about it.. and I'm sure this will make those patients smile from cheek to cheek when they see this banner hanging up.... You are so sweet!

Jovan said...

This banner is so super cute...LOVE IT!

gypsyrps said...

Really sweet banner. Project from the heart!

Ellen ♥ CardMonkey said...

Oh Beckie, this is SOOOO cute!! Did your little sweetheart fall in love with this banner? You'll have to make her one too! It's adorable.

Thank you again for participating in the banner hops for special needs children. May your life always be blessed for the many kindnesses you show these children.

Ellen ♥ CardMonkey
E-mail: cardmonkey@comcast.net

nzillingworth said...

Never thought to put buttons on. There are no rules when crafting. Go for it and u did. Wonderful shape. Getting harder to choose a favourite now.

jessica said...

What a super duper adorable banner Beckie!!! Those bunnies are adorable with all their doodles and button cheeks!
TFS and have a great day my friend!

ottersln said...

Create A Critter is one of my favorite cartridges and I just adore that you made these cute bunnies the focus of the banner for the children. They are going to enjoy looking at them for a long time to come. Thanks for sharing!

Shelby said...

Amazing work and just love how this banner turned out. I'm sure it will bring smiles to the kids as well as to the adults!

Carley said...

This is so wonderful and springy! I love the cause that you guys chose and I think all of you are saints! Thank you for sharing this with me!

glassgraffitix2 said...

So cute Beckie!

Edwina said...

Very cute banner! I love the bunnies and the decorating of them. I love the buttons on the cheeks. That is a fun accent. Did you use real pearls or paint to do the pearl drops? thanks for sharing. Edwina Brown edwina.brown@live.com

Anita Braddock said...

Adorable Banner love the Flower base and the Bunnies are supper cute. love the colors and the buttons for the checks are cool. thanks for sharing.
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M&Ddesigns said...

Beckie: I like how you used the scalloped pennants. My daughter is always using buttons, but we've never used them for cheeks (thanks for the tip).

Happy to participate with you in the hop. :)

Rachelle said...

Hi Beckie,
What an adorable banner :) I am so happy to be in this hop with all of you.
joyfulhrt at gmail dot com

Schell said...

What a wonderful cause! Such a cute banner :o) I love that bunny! Hugs!

Nancy said...

I follow via GFC: allibrary.

Your banner is darling.

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Amy said...

Adorable banner!! I love the fun bunnies and cute little buttons you added to the cheeks :)Amy

Lisa said...

This is so sweet, Beckie!! I love the adorable bunnies and the buttons on the cheeks is so creative!! I love it :)

A Mermaid's Crafts

Janet said...

Absolutely adorable I love the col,ors and the background paper is great and the buttons for the cheeks are great!
Big Blog Hugs, Janet

ChatterScene.com said...

Very cute!

Ashley Nicole said...

How cute! I love the bunnies. Create A Critter is my fav cart. Love that each bunny is different. Nice being in the hop with you.

Debbie T said...

Your banner is lovely,cute and colourful, the kids are going to love it! I think its beautiful and just what they need to hang over their beds. Thanks for sharing.

Rosie said...

this is the cutest banner ive seen love the bunnies

Arielle ~ SnappyStamper said...

Beckie, this is adorable! What a great cause, too! Blessings to you!

Robin said...

Super cute banner. Love the bunny.

Sue D said...

Adorable bunny banner!
I am a follower.
slrdowney at hotmail dot com

marg0006 said...

Great job on your sweet little bunnies.

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Friday, June 22, 2012

I love my ERGO but.... I made a sling!

We didn't buy a lot before Miss Daisy was born. We had a few generous families give us all their girls clothes - WOW! And we had gifts from the Baby Shower which helped to clothe, wrap and entertain our little girl.

However, prior to her arrival we had our hearts set on two purchases. I guess you'd call them our Baby Essentials... cloth nappies and a baby carrier.

Well, we found both at the Sydney Pregnancy Baby and Kid's expo in 2010!
We purchased a Birth To Potty Pack from Real Nappies - and currently have our two girls in them! We LOVE them! And we bought an ERGObaby carrier from Babes In Arms as well!

The ERGO is such a wonderful carrier, loved by both hubby and I! I was actually wearing Miss Daisy on my back around town the day before her baby sister was born! Super comfy I tell you, even at 38 weeks pregnant!!

However, I've often eyed off cute little newborns curled up in slings with their mumma's. So I started googling today and found this easy pattern for a basic Baby Sling. The instructions were super easy to follow. I used a vintage sheet I had to make a prototype (the sheet was fraying/breaking just from being looked at so couldn't be used for much else!) I loved it - even though I was only game to try it out with dolly in it!

I decided to make another one as I was happy with the pattern/style. However, I decided to sew in an added lining to make the sling reversible and also to give it some added strength/durability. Two more vintage sheets later and I had this beautiful sling! It took all my self control not to wake Miss Peppa up early to try it out!

The website the pattern came from also has a great page dedicated to sling safety and different positions you can use the sling in. I decided I'd give it a go with Miss Daisy in it today too! Excuse the dummy - we were having a needy morning!!)

Babywearing DIY sling - Just For Daisy
An easy one to sew together and a great way to get an extra baby carrier/sling in your collection without any added cost!!

Tell me!? What are your baby essentials?!
We seem to be going without a lot of things this time around!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

A Baby Girl!

Our beautiful daughter Ivy Joy arrived on Monday. Two weeks early... a very quick and beautiful birth.

Will do a blog post once I've taken more delicious photos of our girls! :)

11-6-12 :: 6:02pm

Monday, June 4, 2012

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

This was taken this week in the Botanical Gardens when we went to take pregnancy shots of my baby sister! Miss Daisy kept herself occupied (and got soaked!) with this bubbler!
She kinda got the hang of it!

Pregnancy is one of those things that can go fast and slow all at the same time! Here is my sister 41 weeks pregnant (she's now 41+3..eek!) when we took some pregnancy shots on Friday in the Botanical Gardens.

She's on my left... does that count? ;) This was at my niece's 3rd Birthday Party a few weeks back.

Mummy has been tired of late (go figure!) and so we've been doing lots of fun things with art, craft, books and other exciting games to keep Miss Daisy occupied and give me some peace! :)
I love her new obsession with lining things up and stacking them! We do it with books, toys, food! Fun!

I was feeling a little plain and ordinary on Saturday morning... tired and grumpy even, perhaps! So I told hubby I was heading out into our garden for a while with the camera. Our whole yard was filled with mist/fog and I found this beautiful web. Nothing plain about this web.

That's me for this week's Scavenger Hunt! :) Linking up with Ashley over here


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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Minimal change problem

A popular problem to introduce dynamic programming is the minimal change problem. Suppose a cashier needs to give me a certain amount of change and wants to do it with the minimal amount of coins possible. The input is a set of denominations and the amount, and the output is the set of coins.

For example, I may need to give 45 cents change and available coins are 1, 5 and 20. A solution intuitively is 20 + 20 + 5, but what is the best way to achieve it?

A recursive solution may be the first to try. A minimal collection of coins definitely belongs to the following set:

  • minimal collection of coins totalling 44 cents, plus 1 cent coin
  • minimal collection of coins totalling 40 cents, plus 5 cent coin
  • minimal collection of coins totalling 25 cents, plus 20 cent coin

So on the next step we will apply the same logic to our new change amounts: 44, 40 and 25. This looks like a classic recursion problem, which can be illustrated by the following image

Solving Minimum Change with Recursion

and described by the following algorithm / pseudocode (where |coins| is the number of denominations available)

	if money = 0
		return 0
	MinNumCoins ← ∞
	for i ← 1 to |coins|
		if money ≥ coini
			NumCoins ← RECURSIVECHANGE(money − coini, coins)
			if NumCoins + 1 < MinNumCoins
				MinNumCoins** ← NumCoins + 1
	 output MinNumCoins*

This should work, but is there something wrong with this approach? Well, one can see that the recursive algorithm will calculate the full solution for 19 cents 6 times on the third step only, and it will only get worse on the following steps. If the input value is large enough, the memory and time required to compute the solution will be huge. So, this is a classic example of the benefits of dynamic programming. I came across dynamic programming a few times before, but just couldn't properly figure it out.

Finally I found a good explanation. It came as a part of a free course in Bioinformatics Algorithms. Here's how it goes:

The key to dynamic programming is to take a step that may seem counterintuitive. Instead of computing MinNumCoins(m) for every value of m from 45 downward toward m = 1 via recursive calls, we will invert our thinking and compute MinNumCoins(m) from m = 1 upward toward 45, storing all these values in an array so that we only need to compute MinNumCoins(m) once for each value of m. MinNumCoins(m) is still computed via the same recurrence relation.

MinNumCoins(m) = min{MinNumCoins(m − 20) + 1, MinNumCoins(m - 5) + 1, MinNumCoins(m - 1) + 1}

For example, assuming that we have already computed MinNumCoins(m) for m < 6, MinNumCoins(6) is equal to one more than the minimum of MinNumCoins(6 - 5) = 1 and MinNumCoins(6 - 1) = 5. Thus, MinNumCoins(6) is equal to 1 + 1 = 2.

This translates into the following algorithm / pseudocode

DPCHANGE(money, coins)
 MinNumCoins(0) ← 0
 for m ← 1 to money
        MinNumCoins(m) ← ∞
        for i ← 1 to |coins|
            if m ≥ coini
                if MinNumCoins(m - coini) + 1 < MinNumCoins(m)
                    MinNumCoins(m) ← MinNumCoins(m - coini) + 1
    output MinNumCoins(money)

And a further C# implementation, which takes a comma-separated string of denominations available, and the target amount.

public static void DPCHANGE(int val, string denoms)
	int[] idenoms = Array.ConvertAll(denoms.Split(','), int.Parse);
	int[] minNumCoins = new int[val + 1];

	minNumCoins[0] = 0;
	for (int m = 1; m <= val; m++)
		minNumCoins[m] = Int32.MaxValue - 1;
		for (int i = 1; i <= idenoms.Count() - 1; i++)
			if (m >= idenoms[i])
				if (minNumCoins[m - idenoms[i]] + 1 < minNumCoins[m])
					minNumCoins[m] = minNumCoins[m - idenoms[i]] + 1;

Bioinformatics Algorithms
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Data: January 29 – February 1, 2017 in Austin

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The TASA Midwinter Conference has become the most popular conference of the year for Texas school leaders because it provides such a valuable opportunity to come together to discuss and share innovative practices, network with peers, address the administrative issues administrators face every day, and gain fresh insights. We hope you and members of your leadership team will join us in Austin January 29-February 1, 2017.


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A Call To Test And Hold For Poultry And Meats
The U. S.  Department of Agriculture has long recommended that meat and poultry processors, after testing samples for contaminants, hold back the tested lots from sale until results are in.
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Xtreme Dubstep [VIDEO]
Dubstep is on EVERYTHING lately. Of course, it separates the pros from the amateurs on the dance floor... and this guy makes Chris Brown look like a rookie!
Now THIS Is How You Dance to Dubstep [VIDEO]
Full disclosure: I don't have rhythm. I can't dance, but I can appreciate sweet dance moves when I see them. And this guy has the *sweet moves.* I wonder how much practice he put in? Watch and see if you can pick up (steal) some moves from this talented dancer.
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Well that didn't take long.  Dubstep is the basic driving force behind pop music these days.  You say, "Hey, where did all the drums and guitars and actual singing go in my music?" Well, it's actually guys sitting at computers and turntables making noises all da…


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The Power of System Call Traces: Predicting the Software Energy Consumption Impact of Changes

This blog post is from the work - “The Power of System Call Traces: Predicting the Software Energy Consumption Impact of Changes” that has been accepted at CASCON 2014 to be held at Toronto from 3-5 November 2014 . The work relates the energy consumption of android applications to system calls made by the application. You can find the work here.

Limited battery life is a pressing issue for the common smart phone users. This has forced the developers to consider the energy profile of their application. However, profiling energy consumption of an application requires special external instrumentation for measuring the current and voltage reading to estimate the power consumption. Studies have shown that on device measurements are not reliable. Thus, developers for the most part are clueless about the impact of software change on their application's energy profile.

System calls, act as buffer between the OS and the applications to provide the OS services and resources to the applications. It is hence, interesting to consider the relationship between the energy profile and system call trace of the application. So, we considered two applications – Firefox and Calculator on Android. We took 101 and 156 versions of the Calculator1 and Firefox2 applications respectively, with each version being separated by one commit in their repositories.

To get the system call trace, we use the strace tool , that needs to be cross compiled for Android3. The strace executable cross-compiled needs to be placed either on the phone or even on a system that's connected to phone. To trace an application just use “strace -c appProcessID”, after starting the application4. If it is on the system, connected to phone, the command can be run from the adb shell. For the Calculator application, we had 26 different system calls made, while for the Firefox we had 53 different system call invocation.

You will also like to device a particular test sequence, for the applications, which can then be emulated on the phone using the monkey script runner. To devise the tests, you will need to emulate the test sequence on the android emulator, which ships with the Andorid studio. Just enable the developer options tool on the device, which helps to note the pixel values of the screen. To emulate a touch action on the phone, we note the pixel value at the screen where touch is made. Similarly, for a swipe action , we note the starting and ending pixels on the screen. The emulator provides the option to note the pixel values at each tap or swipe on the emulator screen. Using this noted sequence, we need to build the monkey script, that can be run on the phone using the monkey runner, that also ships with the android -sdk, and needs android-ndk.

We had a special test bed to measure the energy use, called Green Miner. We tried to establish the relationship between system call counts and energy usage of the applications. We did multiple tests for each version to see whether, a change in the system call trace leads to a significant change in the energy use. To achieve this, we use the Student's t-tests to establish whether the two consecutive versions are same with respect to system call profile and energy consumption. Now, developers are not statisticians, so we tried to formulate a rule of thumb to help them say whether they should be concerned when their system call count change.

To do so, we calculate simple frequency of occurrence of this phenomenon, “Significant Change in system call count leads to significant change in energy consumption”. To see the significant change in the applications, system call count, strace the previous version and as well strace the next version after the change in the application code, multiple times, say 10 times. Then to see whether the change in the system call count is significant, use the t-tests. Example below shows the same in R, where the 3-D matrix sysCounts, contains the system call counts for the ten runs for a version:

ttestResult <- array(0,dim=c( 100,26 ))
noSysCalls <- array(0,dim=c(26, 10 , 101))
/* Read the data to noSysCalls matrix */

for (y in 1:noSysCalls)
          for (i in 1:(noVersions-1))
             tvalue = t.test(sysCounts[y,,i],sysCounts[y,,i+1])

ttestResult saves the result of the Student's t-test. To test the significance of change between versions we need to see p-value < 0.05.

For the Calculator application results were astounding, some system calls like pread, or stat64 had 100% frequency of occurrence of this phenomenon while on an average for each system call, this phenomenon occurred 58% of the times. For the Firefox, application, with the sheer number of system calls as compared to the Calculator application, this average frequency rate is 25%. Hence, with once in four times, a system call's count changes significantly from the previous one, we can say that there is a change in the energy profile of the application.

This saves the developers from the worry of setting up an exclusive and expensive instrumentation to measure the power use, to see the impact of software change on the energy. They just need to use the strace to profile the system calls. Hence, developers just need to notice the change in the system calls profile, and hence can expect the change in energy use of their applications.


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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Reviews

Average customer review: 5.0 star rating (5.0 Stars)

Number of reviews: 4

5.0 star rating Kevin McCarthy from Charlton, Massachusetts

Tom and the band are always spot on and last night was the same show. They are so good and have been for so long the consistency is hard to fathom. I am not really sure how many times I have seen them but it started in is easily in the double digits. All those years and all those shows I have never been let down....EVER. If you have never been you need to go. All I can say is thank you to Tom and the band for many years of joy and letting us share in their experiences and artistry. It really has been FUN every step of the way.

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5.0 star rating Dina from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

As usual Tom Petty NEVER disappoints. The crowd in Philly is the best. Everone sang their hearts out and I can't express the joy I felt! The venue is excellent!

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5.0 star rating Doug & Lolly- Billy and Mike Christy from Gates County, North Corilina

My wife and have never seen a better show from Tom. We've been to many but we had to go for our 35 wedding anniversary and both our birthdays which fell on this date. He wasn't coming any closer on this tour so we got front row seats for four and were brought to tears from the heart and emotions he put on the stage for all to see. Peter wolf also put it all on display. Impressive isn't a deep enough word to describe it as we watched Tom place his guitar down next to Cambells last notes. As the guitar strap slowly slipped from his fingers you couldn't help but feel he put his best out for us all. Thank you for an experience we will surely never forget. The Maryland venue at Royal farms supplied great acoustics easy access, great seating, and everyone was helpful with a smile.

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5.0 star rating Cary from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Tom came out and put on the best show that I have ever seen from him, This was the 5th time I have seen him in the last 20+ years. He seemed to be have a really good time on stage. The set list did not include every hit, however he only had 2 hours! The crowd was very much engaged and most people knew all the lyrics and were singing along. If you are a Tom Petty fan this was the show to see, I loved every minute of the show. Damn, if he were playing every night all week I would go to every show. Everything was spot on as you would hope for from a band that has been together for so long. If you are a fan of Tom see him while you can, it doesn't get any better than this.

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Headlights, Tail Lights, Fog Lights, And Extra

Lately I went through the method of changing most of the incandescent bulbs in my automobile with LEDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_lighting are attached to both sides of a automotive's airbox, under the digital camera mount and roll hoop. The present running position of every automobile is displayed in crimson numbers and up to date multiple instances every lap as cars cross the various timing strains embedded in every monitor. A running clock will show a automotive's pit cease time in green lights on the panel and a flashing inexperienced PP” will indicate when a driver activates the push-to-pass button on the automobile at road and road course events.
Some vehicles have a light-weight bulb for the license plate that matches the light bulb used within the taillights. In an emergency you possibly can swap them, but replace them as soon as attainable. Floor Wires: When these turn out to be free or disconnected power will not be supplied prefer it ought to, which may manifest by flickering lights. Like we stated earlier, the opposite aspect of LED headlights are Xenon HID headlights Functioning similar to halogen headlights, but the one difference is the light output. Also, over time the costs for hid kits have dropped dramatically. A great package will not cost you any greater than 80-100 dollars.
Far too often car and truck enthusiasts focus on exterior and performance mods and neglect upgrading their interiors, and even when they do not custom lighting normally isn't high on the record of desired improvements. Nevertheless it should be, as a result of whereas a dash kit , efficiency seats , and chrome trim can do so much to enhance the look and feel of your cabin, nothing could make a distinction in inside look, ambience, and functionality like LED lights From cargo space to instrument panel, you may discover all the pieces you want to amp up your inside lighting with bright and colourful LEDs right here.

The dominant shapes of the immediate future will look not in contrast to the unusual, rippling buildings now you can see inside headlights and brake lights. More and more objects could quickly resemble them, however car lights are within the vanguard for the simple reason that they are manufactured in such big quantities that they can command hefty research and growth budgets, which is why technologically advanced lamps appear on low-cost vehicles as well as costly ones.led car lights
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Local favorite; Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel

Location: Chicago, IL
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Just before Thanksgiving, I got the opportunity to take a peak into one of the newest hotels here in Chicago, the Radisson Blu located in the famed Aqua Building. I will admit, I was intrigued and a bit doubtful about what the space would present design-wise. All preconceived ideas were thrown to the wind the moment I stepped through the doors. Before me was a well thought out concept that was more  W Hotel than any Radisson I'd been in before. With a modern and warm atmosphere, the design took cues from Chicago's rich history and featured tons of brick contrasted with gilded and brass details. Many art deco elements were also present and are heavily noticeable throughout the martini bar and lounge space on the first floor. What I love the most about the space is that they took inspiration from their architectural gem of a location and layered it with the rich history of Chicago's past & present.

Rich woods, weathered steel, reclaimed bricks and glitzy gold details create a space perfect for a romantic date, late night drink with friends, or cozy gathering of family.

I haven't had the chance to take a look at the guest rooms yet, but I can only image the level of finish and details that would be present given the polished public spaces.

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Monday, August 22, 2011

Ephesians 4:29

Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. -Ephesians 4:29

Today, I thank the Lord for reminding me about this verse. I thank Him for giving me the wisdom to understand His Word and the grace to apply it in my life.

WORDS we say can never be back. Good as sold, no return, no exchange. It is a tool that can break hearts and break lives that's why we really need to choose every word that we will utter. Let Him and the Holy Spirit guide us and guard our hearts in our everyday walk with God.

WORDS are like swords - it can kill, it can hurt. So we better be careful and mindful of how we say things. May the words that come from our mouth bring joy, strength and encouragement to other people's lives. Let these words be a tool to edify our brothers and sisters. May it be a BLESSING to them.

Now I'm praying forgive me Lord for all the unkind words I have said. I'm sorry if the words that I uttered have caused so much pain to my brethren. I pray for a life that is pleasing to You. Amen.

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