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Psychological Art Circus (2004-06)

Psychological Art Circus began with an eponymous work of precisely two years duration reflecting the timeframe of its dramaturgy, Josef Breuer's Case History of Fräulein Anna O. An interdisciplinary eight-nation troupe devised an evolving repertoire of acts in mime, shadow, aerial, projection, balance, fire and object manipulation for a diversity of site, situation and context in Europe and South America.

Human Document (2006-11)

Based upon Olive Pixley's Spiritual Journey, Human Document was an audio-driven mix of mime and aerial extensively road-tested over three years under several working titles throughout London and Iberia before its official première in 2009 at the Underground Theatre Festival in Arad. The show most notably went on to play the New Circus Festival in Zagreb and headline a UK tour culminating in sold-out London shows at Wilton's Music Hall and Stratford Circus.

Illusions of Reference (2012)

Seven years in gestation, Illusions of Reference (23.06 Peckham Rye Common) was the epic conclusion of Obus, a project solicited by Arts Council England to make use of a decommissioned double-decker. Animated by a psychedelic scenography, inhabited by a headless woman, Illusions was an attempt, in London's Olympic year of 2012, to revivify a dead bus with the dramaturgy of Delphi.

PAC, HD & IOR posters: Harald Smykla; HD UK tour management and IOR production: Irini-Mirena Papadimitriou; IOR event management: Lucy O'Regan, marketing: Francesca Brooks

All shows had support-in-kind by way of very generous development time at Area 10 Project Space Peckham, courtesy of the London Borough of Southwark. Human Document had a Freedm Studio R&D residency at Roundhouse in 2008 and the Arts Council of England supported its 2010/11 UK tour. Illusions of Reference was project-funded by Arts Council England and received venue hire support-in-kind from Southwark Council.

funding logos: Area 10, Arts Council England, Roundhouse, Southwark Council

A Brief History

The first Psychological Art Circus troupe members came together while developing their work at the former Area 10 Project Space in Peckham, London. The company was incorporated in 2004 by Myles Stawman with Lina Jungergård and Christelle Lafille alongside co-founding members Harald Smykla, Andrea Meneses Guerrero, Edgar de Oliveira, Dagmara Bilon and Marta Angelozzi.

Aside from the creation and international touring of original work through its eight years of existence, the company acted as producer to core troupe members and associate artists for the showcasing of their work. Grants were secured from Arts Council England to enable six new performance commissions under the umbrella of the company's Obus project, and fund two Homo Ludens Cabarets by the Sawmill Collective.

The Sawmill was the Psychological Art Circus rehearsal and training base at Area 10 and a performance space for which it regularly coordinated programming. Events organized there to try out new versions of its shows would often also became a platform for the work of others, usually in the early stages of their performance career.

PAC developed an educative role, accompanying its touring shows with physical skills-based workshops created and led by Jungergård and Guerrero, and latterly administrating to provide regular aerial tuition on the BA Physical Theatre course at East 15 Acting School.

Many Thanks

Emily Druiff, Dimitri Launder, Anila Ladwa, Adrian Fisher, Luna Rojas Montenegro, Dani d'Emilia, Łukasz Gargala, Yoshi Imamura, Alon Ramage, Jon Roome, Suzy Adderley, Beth Elliott, paula roush, KISSS, Kevin Leahy, Louise Venn, Scènes de Cirque, Exploding Cinema, L'Imprimerie, Circle Community, Sunčica Remenar, Autonomni Kulturni Centar Attack, Vlaamse Mime Federatie, Muro de Espuma, Guerrilla Zoo, Mad Chicks, Bermondsey Artists Group, Amanda Rodgers, Index Arts, Violaine Bailleul, Jorge Delgado, Animasur, Lucia Marques, Jorge Rocha, Cultural Centre of Lagos, Chapel Project, Collision, Victoria Frolova, Casa de Cultură a Municipiului Arad, Ivan Kralj, Mala Performerska Scena, Clifftown Theatre, Adrian Berry, Frances Mayhew, Rae Boswell, Paula Van Hagen, Tania Wilmer, Spyro Kotsaftis, Manuel Vason, Madalena Pinto, Boom Festival, Jaime Valtierra, Loz Buzzard, Virginia Fernandez de Gamboa, Antigone Mavridou, Geneva Foster Gluck, Chelsey Johannsen, Meline Danielewicz, Astra Beck, Dagmara Bilon, Christelle Lafille, Maia Sambonet, Ossian Jungergård, Krystian Godlewski, Kamil Piotr Adamus, Magdalena Tuka, Sandro Spanu, Ágnes Czérna, Janeina, Shantalle, Chiara, Leila Jones, Lucy Bramley, Old Lambeth Fire Station, John Carroll at La Gare, Marigny le Cahouët, every helpful venue technician along our way, and all the wonderful volunteers for our own events. Special thanks to Linda Dobell, Pim Conradi

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Care to share a story of a phase when you were obssesed with a particular character?

Here are the rules:
It must be an actual PHASE, so it should be pretty short lived and can't be a character you have been obsessed with since the beginning of time or a new character you are currently obsessing over (because that character can end up being one of your favoritos and not just a phase. But you can put a new now one if you really want to! Also when you start loving a character for the first time you become obsessive haha). I also prefer it to be a middle school- present since in earlier childhood your mind isn't as developed haha.

Here's mine. When I was in 6th or 7th grade I was obsessed with Lola Bunny. I didn't have a great reason to amor her. I only liked her because I thought she was cool and pretty. Anyways I was so obsessed I used her as my ícone for a lot of my things, had her as my phone wallpaper, drew lots of pictures of her, and watched stuff with Lola on it. I spent a lot of my internet time on Lola Bunny. I didn't watch o espaço geléia, geleia though because she only appeared for 3 minuets and I was so mad! If she had mais minuets of screen time I would of watched the boring parts for her! I always thought she was a pretty simple character, but that didn't matter to me.

Also just last ano there was time where I was obsessed with Princess Mandie from The Fairly Odd Parents. I always thought she was an interesting character and she had a cool design. I brought episodes of the Fairly Odd Parents that featured Mandie in them from iTunes just to watch her (keep in mind I usually don't buy anything from iTunes but I just wanted to see her really badly!) Just like Lola Bunny, I also drew lots of pictures of Mandie.

Believe it or not, I'm really in closet about my obsessions!

Other characters I had short lived obsessions with: Wonder Woman, Blackfire (DC comics), Gummy (MLP), Tune (Winx), Raimundo (Xiaolin Showdown), Neopets, and gir (Invader Zim)

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When I was about 12 years old, I was obsessed with Wonder Woman. I watched all the shows/movies she participated in, I collected informations about her, learned everything about her story e.t.c. I thought she was so badass and amazing (I still do actually, but I'm not obsessed with her). I even pretended to be her when I was fighting for fun with my friends (only the boys obviously, the girls didn't even know who she was).
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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Why it’s so hard to fight extremist propaganda online

"Why it’s so hard to fight extremist propaganda online,"

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How do you deter people from being seduced by messages of extremism on social media? Science correspondent Miles O’Brien looks at some of the strategies, including videos that provide a counter-narrative to the Islamic State and a computer program that uses digital signatures to track the movement of images on the internet.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: how the U.S. government is trying to stem the tide of terrorism messages online, and the role played by social media.
The story is part of our coverage of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It was produced in partnership with tonight’s PBS “NOVA” special, “15 Years of Terror,” reported by Miles O’Brien, and it’s our weekly segment about the Leading Edge of technology.
MILES O’BRIEN: They called it Think Again, Turn Away. The concept? Use sarcasm as way to turn Islamic State images into an argument against their grim techniques of terror.
The creator and producer? The U.S. State Department. Today, everyone agrees the message was worse than ineffective. It played right into the hands of the terrorists.
RICHARD STENGEL, Under Secretary of State: You know, part if it is that I don’t think the government should do snark or sarcasm. I don’t think we’re good at it.
MILES O’BRIEN: Richard Stengel is the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. He realized he was the one who needed to think again.
RICHARD STENGEL: So, one of the things that we realized is that we’re not the best messenger for the message that we want to get out there. In fact, when we are a messenger at all, they use that against us.
MILES O’BRIEN: So they stopped trying to do it themselves, and hired some marketing pros.
TONY SGRO, Edventure Partners: I think that they just — it was out of their league.
MILES O’BRIEN: Tony Sgro is an advertising and marketing veteran who is spearheading a novel competition for college students to create a counter or alternative narrative to the Islamic State propaganda campaign.
TONY SGRO: The government is not the most capable person to develop a counternarrative for a 21-year- old. There’s no credibility factor there.
MILES O’BRIEN: The competition is called Peer to Peer. Undergraduates at two dozen schools all over the world have participated.
In Afghanistan, they created a campaign that included a talk show that focused on understanding the real message of the Koran against extremism. They reached more than five million people. Lahore University produced a plea from students to students to turn apathy into empathy.
The winner of the competition was the Rochester Institute of Technology. Students there came up with this multiplatform campaign.
MAN: Join the campaign.
WOMAN: Because it’s time.
WOMAN: To ex-app.
TONY SGRO: It’s beyond bombs, bullets, and drones. It really is. I mean, we need that stuff. But we really — how are you going to win the hearts and minds? That’s communications. It’s a marketing communications issue.
MILES O’BRIEN: Countering the messages is one thing. Trying to stop them from spreading in the first place is another. For years, the social networking platforms took a laissez-faire approach to this problem. And it only got worse.
But in 2013, things started to change. During a horrifying assault on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, attackers with the al-Qaida affiliate Al-Shabaab live-tweeted for hours as they shot more than 175 people, killing 67.
JEFF WEYERS, Ibrabo: That was the first time where Twitter was actively removing the content that they were posting.
MILES O’BRIEN: Jeff Weyers is a police officer and terrorism analyst based in Ontario, Canada.
JEFF WEYERS: They were actively tweeting their attack online, and it was the first time we really saw that. ISIS completely blew that out of the water. Right? They took that concept and magnified it by a million.
MILES O’BRIEN: Today, Twitter claims it aggressively goes after accounts linked to terrorists. The company says it closed 360,000 of them in the past year.
JEFF WEYERS: They were very much pushed into it, as opposed to wanting to go down that road. And now I have no doubt that they’re spending millions of dollars just countering that message.
MILES O’BRIEN: Facebook is the largest social networking platform on the planet. It says it has a zero tolerance policy for extremists, but it must contend with a tsunami of content.
Facebook has more than a billion users actively posting every day. The company says about one-half of 1 percent of flagged items are linked to terrorism. But that is still a lot of material.
Monika Bickert is Facebook’s head of global policy management.
MONIKA BICKERT, Facebook: We use photo-matching technology to identify when somebody is trying to upload to Facebook an image that we have already removed for violation our policies.
Of course, the image may or may not violate our policies when it’s uploaded again, because it could be somebody who is sharing a terrorist image the Times Square part of a news story or to condemn violence. So we use automation to flag content that we will then have our teams review.
MILES O’BRIEN: But are there more advanced ways to stop the extremist messages from spreading? Is there a better technological solution?
HANY FARID, Dartmouth College: We have the technology to disrupt, not eliminate, but to disrupt the global transmission of extremism-related content.
MILES O’BRIEN: Hany Farid is a computer scientist at Dartmouth College. He has developed a technique to permanently attach unique digital signatures to images, making it possible for the social networking companies to identify and stop the spread of videos made by, of and for terror.
HANY FARID: So, here is the actual raw frame that you’re seeing processing one frame at a time. And in the frame, we actually analyze multiple blocks within it. The yellow crosshairs that you’re seeing are enumerating the various blocks of the video that we’re analyzing.
This yellow histogram is a distribution of the measurements that we’re making from each individual block, and then that gets translated into an actual digital signature, which I visualize here with a stemplot.
MILES O’BRIEN: The sheer volume of the problem is daunting, billions of uploads a day, each of them with millions of pixels. Can a computer possibly be trained to sort through it all and find the images that inspire new recruits, incite new violence and terrify us all?
Farid has already proven the technology works. He got the idea 10 years ago. The Internet had become a platform for child pornographers. Applying digital signatures to those images has greatly reduced child pornography on the big social networking sites.
HANY FARID: So, if there’s just one image in an upload of yours that has child pornography, we — the account can be frozen. The contents of that account can be assessed, and new content can be discovered.
MILES O’BRIEN: But extremist content is much harder to clearly define. The director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology is Emma Llanso.
EMMA LLANSO, Center for Democracy and Technology: The challenge with having a hard-and-fast rule against any a kind of content is that it really does shut down the opportunity for discussion around that sort of material.
MILES O’BRIEN: In June 2016, David Thomson, a French journalist who reports on Islamic extremism, found his Facebook page suspended for three days. The offense? A photo he had posted in 2013 as part of the story he was doing included a partial depiction of the Islamic State flag, a cautionary tale of the unintended consequences of targeting terrorism online.
EMMA LLANSO: It seems appealing to say, oh, just have the major social media companies take a hard-line approach to anything having to do with ISIS. But the fact is, that will end up blocking a lot of speech. That will end up deactivating the accounts of many users.
I mean, some of the platforms have had issues with just deactivating the accounts that women whose first name is Isis. This is a difficult kind of censorship to enact.
MILES O’BRIEN: It’s no longer just a war of bullets, drones and bombs. Technology has created a new battlefield online, and civil society is still grasping for strategies to engage in a virtual battle.
Miles O’Brien, the “PBS NewsHour,” Washington.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And you can watch Miles’ full report, “15 Years of Terror,” tonight on “NOVA” on most PBS stations.

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

PowerPoint Puts Them To Sleep

I was having a conversation with Jana Christi about PowerPoint. We were talking about how PowerPoint does not keep your audience engaged and then she said something that I thought was worth blogging about: "I remember back in school during a presentation, when it was time for the slides, it was time to go to sleep." That's because, they would turn off all the lights.

Use PowerPoint only if you really have to and when you do, keep the lights on so your audience will stay awake, alert, and alive.
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Does Your Audience Make You Nervous?

During one of my presentation skills coaching programs, one of the attendees said to another attendee when he presented to us: "Do we make you nervous?" He then replied with a statement that I thought was so profound I just had to blog about it. He said: "I wouldn't put that on you. I bring it on myself."

Your audience does not make you nervous. You make yourself nervous. It's up to you to be nervous or not. Remember that just because you may be nervous doesn't mean you have to show it. Act as if you have total confidence when you speak in public.

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Sunday, 24 June 2012

Ivor Porter has died

Ivor Porter

I forgot to post here the obituary in the Daily Telegraph of Ivor Porter, an English hero who who died a few days ago, aged 98. He knew Olivia Manning and her husband, Reggie Smith, in Bucharest when he was a junior lecturer at the university and a few years back published a very good biography of King Michael, which I recommend. I had always hoped to meet him and Patrick Leigh Fermor but, as Gorbachev said, history punishes those who delay. The obituary is by Porter's friend, Professor Dennis Deletant.

Porter's nephew by divorce writes about Porter here. I look forward very much to Dennis's book on the SOE in Romania during the war where no doubt we shall learn more about Porter.

Nowadays the British Council which once gave paid employment to all sorts of odd people who needed to live now tries to sell language classes for a greater profit than its competitors. Such is the impression I have from meeting the head of the British Council in Bucharest the other day at the Jubilee Party. Ill fares the land...

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Monday, 20 July 2015

Who were the worst US Presidents? George W Bush, Lincoln, Wilson. Washington if you are British. Were there (m)any good ones?

I remember back in my first term at Cambridge studying US history noticing that American history unlike British history is largely mythic. We see this especially with Washington, Lincoln, Martin Luther King, FDR etc

The Second Iraq War has cast new light on the Civil War. There are many parallels between Lincoln and the younger Bush. Both launched unnecessary and from a legal point of view probably unjust wars that overturned the local elites and social structures of the conquered peoples, with disastrous short-term and long-term consequences. By his foolish over-reaction to the September 11th murders Bush handed the islamists an unimaginable victory.
Lincoln and Grant are responsible for 100 years of racial disharmony in the South and a race problem that has still not been solved. Though had Lincoln lived he might have been much more conciliatory than the Republican zealots.

If only Lincoln had not won in 1860 but someone else - maybe poor, decent Buchanan - war would not have happened. Not for a while, at least. Buchanan said the Union had no right to prevent secession by force. I think he was right. In any case his view would have saved 800,000 lives.

Washington and his cronies, of course, were responsible for another unjust, unnecessary war.

FDR I have to be grateful to, I know, as an Englishman but I don't like his domestic policy. Thank God he lived to start his fourth term and the world thus escaped President Henry A. Wallace.

I believe people should submit to lawful governments, so I do not think the 1776 rebellion is justified, especially as George III's government was a benign one. I sympathise with the good, patriotic people who died or were ethnically cleansed because they were loyal to their King.

Why do I not therefore think the South should have obeyed the federal government? Simple. Because how can a government that derives its legitimacy from a revolution in 1776 and the pooling of sovereignty between sovereign states then insist that as a legitimate government it is entitled to stop those states seceding. The constitution says nothing on the matter, which means, I think, that the states had not give away their essential right to join or leave but even if I do not persuade you of this, why wage a war to stop the Southern states leaving. As Gladstone said the Confederacy was
a nation rightly struggling to be free.
I am a monarchist, a throne and altar man, an admirer of Clarendon and Metternich, a conservative in short. But, most of all, I think war needs a strong justification. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Lincoln WAS justified in making war on the South. Very well but how much infinitely more admirable he would be had he given them the right of self determination. If Americans disagree with me why do they approve of European countries giving their colonies independence?

Who were best? Truman was good, though I have never decided whether the Cold War was necessary. George Kernan opposed it for good reasons. Dr Tim Stanley thinks Calvin Coolidge was the best president ever. Dr. Ivan Eland thinks John Tyler was.

It's worth reading Dr. Ivan Eland's criteria for presidents. He's thinks John Tyler was the best. Eland has amassed a presidential ranking system that rewards such qualities as:
commitment to small government;

faith in a limited role for the executive branch;

ability to avoid war;

yielding power to Congress.

I wonder if, apart from Truman and possibly Theodore Roosevelt and maybe Jefferson, there might not have been any, at least not by the standards of English Prime Ministers. There's no one to compare with the Pitts, Canning, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone or Lloyd George. Wellington was not as good a political leader as Eisenhower, it's true, but no one pretends Wellington was much of  a statesman. Gladstone infinitely excels the wretched Wilson, who kept his bust on his desk. I suppose, if you are a socialist, Lyndon B Johnson is a great president.

All Americans are liberals in a very important sense. The Declaration of Independence is a very un-conservative, very Whiggish document. Republics, as opposed to monarchies, are liberal and so is the ridiculous idea that all men are equal. Goldwater and Reagan were right-wing liberals, Mrs. Clinton is a left-wing one. Most presidents were also liberal and idealistic in foreign policy, including Ronald Reagan, although Nixon and the elder Bush were in foreign policy terms conservatives. But George W Bush, egged on by the neo-cons, ex-Marxists who never had a conservative bone in their bodies, was a consummate liberal in his idealistic, un-pragmatic foreign policy. He was very much the illegitimate son of the very disastrous Wilson.

Wilson's legacy was the disintegration of Austria Hungary, innumerable ethnic conflicts and the Second World War. Reader, if you seek George W. Bush's monument, look around you.

One more thing. It was George W Bush's talk about 'the Axis of Evil' (Iraq, Iran and North Korea) that led North Korea to get the bomb.

  1. Many would say Lyndon B Johnson. I know a few who would. I would have said Calvin Coolidge.

    1. He was a eugenicist which I dislike but on balance Cal was not bad.

  2. Jefferson was a Jacobite, and though he had many admirable qualities,he wasn't above smear campaigning his adversaries through the newspaper he bankrolled, run by James Callender. I like TR and despise FDR. FDR, and Churchill to a degree, betrayed Poland at the end of WWII. Oddly a war that was initially fought over Poland's invasion ended with sycophantic pandering to Stalin. Poland was sacrificed to keep him happy. FDR mistakenly had thought he could jolly and schmooze Uncle Joe into doing the right thing. Churchill, trying to keep on the right side of FDR, found himself destroying a people who had fought so hard for Britain, during the Battle of Britain and in Italy. Churchill ironically created his own Munich Agreement at the end of the war. Taft was a lack luster president, but perhaps he knew how to hold the Constitution dear. A good thing.

  3. American history compared with British is essentially on the other side of the ocean. Are such figures as Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, William and Mary not perceived by the public more or less mythically?

    What war was Washington and his cronies responsible for? As an officer of (ultimately) the crown, he fired the first shots of what we call the French and Indian War. When he showed up to command the troops outside of Boston, Massachusetts was already in rebellion, owing to a series of events that he had nothing to do with. He did, as president, send armies to fight with the Indians of what is now Ohio; yet one could argue that this was the logical consequence of the British government's earlier claim to the Ohio basin.

    Buchanan was not on any party's ticket in 1860, as you must recall. Douglas could easily enough have won, had the south been willing to imagine any limit on slavery in the territories, even the democratic vote of the territory's inhabitants. Instead the southern Democrats nominated and voted for Breckinridge.

    "If Americans disagree with me why do they approve of European countries giving their colonies independence?" All of the US west of the Appalachians or south of the St. Mary's river was acquired by the joint effort of the US, commonly in gold for the claims and to some degree in blood for the effective control. Much of the north perceived that the Mexican War was fought for the acquisition of territory for the benefit of slaveholders, but the north jointly with the south funded and fought the war.

    To be an altar and throne man in the days of Elizabeth II, D.F.? My goodness.

  4. I would err on the side of Eisenhower for the 20th centuries greatest President, not just for his Presidency, but for his handling of the Germam people as victims of the Nazis, his insistence on documenting the Holocaust and the very fact that he was simply less venal than so many of the others who held the office. Despite being a soldier he sought ways to lasting peace and tried to warn both America and the world about the inherent dangers of allowing the buildup of a Military Industrial complex, his stand on ending segregation was firm and in my opinion right, though I know not everyone on this forum agrees . However for me his greatest achievement and failure was his attempt to steer the world away from a nuclear arms race before it began. as well as a great Soldier, he was a natural politician, a superb statesman and human.
    In true MP style , finally what did Eisenhower ever do for me? Well there is the enduring legacy of the Interstate system which did more to help the healing of the economic rift between North and South than almost any other single act since the end of the Civil War.

  5. Presidents are compromises and I find it hard to favor any. I think Adams best, Taft next and I respect Washington and Jefferson. Many Americans would say Reagan was the best. I imagine most blacks would say Clinton at one time now Obama.

  6. William Henry Harrison was our best president. Of course he died after a month in office. Would that more of them followed his example.

  7. Presidents don't make history, they deal with it.


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Thompson Square's days as a duo are numbered. On Monday (Jan. 13), Shawna Thompson posted two photo on Instagram, showing off her bulging baby bump. The singer admits she's ready — but not quite ready — to become a mom.

"38 weeks and two days as of today," she writes, also revealing Baby Thompson's name. "Little Cooper will be here before we know it! #crazy #readybutnotready"

This will be Shawna and Keifer Thompson's first child together. The country duo announced that they were expecting in August with a photo drinking from Coke cans that read "Mom" and "Dad."

In September, they revealed the sex of the baby in a video, which showed the couple releasing a handful of blue and pink balloons as one remained that read, "It's a Boy!"

The pair have been married for 16 years — they met while both pursuing separate artist careers. They later joined forces as Thompson Square and saw success with their Grammy-nominated single "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not." The duo's latest single, the edgy "Trans Am," was released last year.

In an interview with Billboard, Keifer revealed the band's new sound. "It's been a little while since we had a single," he said. "We've just been writing our guts out and trying to prepare for the next chapter of Thompson Square and what we want to do next. 'Trans Am' is going to be the first page in that chapter. The whole album is going to be pretty aggressive and very rockin.' Hopefully, it won't sound like anything you hear on the radio."

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Brett Eldredge returns to reign at the top of the country music charts with his current single "Drunk On Your Love," which reached No. 1 this week. This marks his fifth consecutive single to hold that position.

“This is a special one,” Eldredge shares in a press release. “I wrote this song back before I had one number one, let alone five! I always wanted it to be a single one day and now it’s at the top of the charts! I am constantly floored by the amazing support from my fans and country radio. Grateful is an understatement!”

The 30-year-old country singer posted to Instagram to show his gratitude to all those who made this feat possible.

This is the song that wasn't almost, though. The hit was one of the very last songs recorded for his sophomore project, but because fans loved the song so much, Eldredge and his label decided that it had to make the cut.

"Drunk On Your Love" is the follow-up single to his smash hit "Lose My Mind," both of which were released off Eldredge's second album, Illinois, which hit shelves last fall.

Eldredge is gearing up to hit the road this summer along side Maren Morris, as they open for Keith Urban on his Ripcord Tour. The trek will kick off June 2 in Kansas City, Mo., and run through more than 50 cities before it wraps in November.

Before road-tripping with Morris and Urban, though, Eldredge will take the stage to perform at the 2016 ACM Awards, which air this Sunday (April 3).

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Bowie first came to Quinebaug in April of 2015 because she was showing some aggressive behaviors at home in New York City. When she came to us, she was growling at anyone she saw and would put on a big scary act to try and intimidate whoever she met. Bowie came in for our 4 week E-collar program to help teach her that she was no longer the leader of her household and that her growling, snapping and jumping was not going to get her anywhere. During her 4 week stay we worked on her aggressive behaviors, which turned out to be fear based. She lacked a lot of confidence and needed to learn to trust people. She also showed she was very nervous of children at home, so our head obedience trainer, Sharon brought in her son (5 at the time) to work with her. She fell in love with him and was obeying his every command. By the end of Bowie’s 4 week’s here she had turned around completely. She was a happy girl who loved to play and wanted to work. With a job at home and being worked daily, she has been doing much better for her owner and he is enjoying her company so much more. Bowie continues to return as an avid QK Training dog to further improve her obedience and work on her socializing with people. She has been on many field trips while here at QK and everyone falls in love with her looks and happy personality.

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QTP Multiple Choice Questions - Set 22 - Recovery scenarios

Recovery scenarios activate specific recovery operations when ......... occur.

A) Specific Errors
B) Test Errors
C) Trigger Events
D) QTP Errors

You can also control and activate your recovery scenarios during the run session by inserting .............. into your test.

A) Trigger Events
B) Recovery Events
C) Recovery Statements
D) Catch Statements

If you choose On error in the Activate recovery scenarios box in the Recovery tab of the Test Settings dialog box, the recovery mechanism does not handle triggers that occur in the last step of a test.

A) True
B) False

By default, recovery scenario operations are activated only after a step returns an error.

A) True
B) False

A ....... is a convenient way to organize and store multiple recovery scenarios together.

A) recovery file
B) recovery folder
C) Recovery Log
D) Log File

The Recovery Scenario Manager dialog box enables you to create and edit recovery files, and does not let you create and manage the recovery scenarios stored in those files.

A) True
B) False

Each recovery scenario is represented by an icon that indicates its type.

A) True
B) False

The Recovery Operations screen in Recovery Scenario Wizard enables you to manage the collection of ........ in the recovery scenario.

A) recovery operations
B) recovery Files
C) Trigger events
D) All of Above

If you define a Restart Microsoft Windows recovery operation, it is always inserted as the last recovery operation, and you can change its position in the list.

A) True
B) False

If more than one scenario uses a function with the same name from different function libraries, the recovery process may fail.

A) True
B) False

1) c, 2) c, 3) a, 4) A, 5) A, 6) b, 7) a, 8) a, 9) b, 10) a


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Defect Tracking Tools

Bug tracking is the process you use to address programming errors found. This process includes recording the bug, reviewing it, recording the fix needed, and deciding whether or not the bug will be fixed considering budget and schedule. [Source]

A bug tracking system is a software application that is designed to help quality assurance and programmers keep track of reported software bugs in their work. It may be regarded as a sort of issue tracking system. [Wikipedia]

Below table shows important features of different Bug Tracking Tools or Issue Tracking Tools .

For OS, Price and Support see here.

1.Bugzilla1. Advanced Search Capabilities.
2. Email Notifications Controlled By User Preferences.
3. Bug Lists in Multiple Formats (Atom, iCal, etc.).
4. Scheduled Reports (Daily, Weekly, Hourly, etc.) by Email.
5. Reports and Charts.
6. Excellent Security.
2.BestPractical1. Dashboards and Relationship Graphs.
2. Rich-text Editing.
3. Time Tracking and Reporting.
4. Integration with your existing User Login system.
5. A self-service interface for non-users to interact with their tickets.
3.AdminiTrack1. Proven track record - serving subscribers in over 25 countries since 2001.
2. Track and view issues across multiple projects - link any user to any project.
3. Define your own custom fields.
4. Easy to learn and use - online help provided.
5. Very fast - even for low-bandwidth connections.
6. Free support and version upgrades - no software installation required.
4. Borderwave1. Quickly create defects/feature/suggestions by product and version.
2. Unlimited number of products and versions for each product.
3. Employees can easily find out what work is left to be done on a product and version.
4. Custom terminology so the software fits your business model.
5. Audit Trail accurately tracks additions, modifications and deletions in the database.
6. Manager Summary - At login, project managers are given a summary of their project statuses.
5. BugAware1. Enterprise Wide Access
2. Highly Customizable
3. Multi-Lingual
4. File Attachments
5. Dynamic Reporting
6. Advanced Searching
7. Custom Fields
8. Role based security
6. Bugtrack1. 24/7 Web access from anywhere in the world through a standard Web browser.
2. Secured with SSL encryption.
3. RSS feeds. Subscribe to updates via RSS 2.0.
4. Time Estimation. Track estimated time and the actual time to resolve a bug.
5. Role-based permissions. Manage user roles and access for each project.
6. Easy bug addition, using rich text with editing and spellchecking tools.
7.Bughost1. Defects per project
2. User Licenses
3. Project Licenses
4. Defect Retention
5. Audit Trail
6. SSL Secure Forms
7. Custom Reports
8. Export to CSV
9. Export to XML
10. Statistics Reports
8.Bugcentral1. Query database through lookup tables to track severity, operating system, category, version, browser, test case, priority, and module.
2. Review bug history and audit log.
3. Auto-notification to managers and quality assurance teams when status changes.
4. Set group and user-level security for each menu and field.
5. Set fields and menus as hidden, read-only, or editable.
6. State-of-the-art firewall security.
9.Bugimpact1. Unlimited : projects, entries/bugs/issues, and attachments storage space.
2. History : record's discussion thread may contain as many comments as you need. Details size is unlimited. All comments are saved and logged in the bug tracking system.
3. Project management : Ability to add components, Requirements and test cases to the project. We keep History if Requirements and test cases are changed.
4. Hierarchical area : to better categorize where the bug/issue belongs.
5. Link : related bugs may be linked.
6. Role-based permission : ability to manage user roles.
10.Bug-track1. Easy to use Dashboard.
2. Context sensitive help.
3. Complete tracking features including: versions, components, operating systems, history etc.
4. Linked bugs function allowing the creation of relationships between bugs/tasks.
5. Copy bug function from one project to another.
6. Saved user queries per project.
11.Websina1. Bi-directional relationships between projects, for example, a bug report can be linked to a test case entry in Test Case.
2. Works in any languages using UTF-8, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
3. Support direct screen capture for attachment (available as add-on).
4. Configurable email notification triggers or listeners (per project, per user).
5. Metrics reports, advanced search, and re-usable stored queries.
12.CENSUS1. Nothing to install on client machines.
2. 24x7 access from any computer.
3. Easy to deploy, setup, and administer.
4. Tight integration with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.
5. Provides Web-based, distributed access to VSS projects.
6. Send e-mail notifications whenever a Bug Tracker issue is updated.
13.FogBugz1. Infinitely customizable.
2. You can use Filters to sort, search, slice, and dice based on any criteria you want.
3. You can add, remove, rearrange, and size columns to show the exact report you want to see.
4. FogBugz filters can be saved, named, and shared with your entire team.
14. Fastbugtrack1. 5 Minute Installation.
2. Increase productivity.
3. Improve workflow.
4. A Proven Track Record.
5. Minute Installation.
6. Easy-To-Use.
15. Atlassian1. Create new bugs in seconds from your browser, email, IDE or smartphone client.
2. Navigate JIRA menus and execute frequently used actions using keyboard shortcuts.
3. View activity history to access recently opened issues, projects and searches.
4. Use Quick Search to find bugs based on user, project, issue key or filter shortcuts.
5. Activity streams display recent changes across bugs, issues, projects or people.
16. Jtrac1. Extremely easy to install.
2. Unlimited project spaces per installation.
3. Custom fields and drop-downs for each project.
4. Customizable workflow per project.
5. Field-level permissions.
6. Translated into multiple languages.
7. Support for LDAP, Active Directory or CAS based authentication.
17. Mantisbt1. Simple User Experience.
2. Email notifications.
3. Customizable Issue Pages.
4. Multiple Projects per instance.
5. Support for Projects, Sub-Projects, and Categories.
6. Available in 68 localizations.
7. Built-in Reporting (reports / graphs).
18. Ozibug1. Audit trails.
2. File Attachments.
3. Multiple Module Support.
4. Email Notifications.
5. Custom Reports and RSS feeds.
6. System Statistics.
7. XML data storage.
19. Problemtracker1. Easy to use and deploy.
2. Provide full access from any platform, anywhere.
3. No client-side installation.
4. Works well with multi-national products & organizations.
5. Easier to use and less error prone for multi-location deployment.
6. Leverage standard databases and tools.
7. Automate escalation of problem areas to ensure timely resolution.
8. Virtually limitless expansion as your user-base grows.
20. Squishlist1. Easily add, modify, or remove fields.
2. View the entire history of an issue, including all comments, attachments, and field changes.
3. Perform advanced user-defined searches.
4. Save or share searches to continuously monitor changes.
5. Generate custom statistics about project issues.
6. Watch issues or custom searches so you can easily track changes from your project home page or through automatic emails.
21.Projectlocker1. Full-Text Searches: Find tickets, code changes, and Wiki pages by keyword search.
2. Create Tickets from Email: Let your team, partners, and customers file new tickets in Trac using E-mail.
3. Customize fields: Instantly add custom fields to your Trac.
4. Web-based trac-admin: Manage your components, milestones, and other settings using a simple Web-based UI.
5. Web-based trac.ini Management: Customize your Trac settings.
22.Teamatic1. Create, edit and deactivate users.
2. Create, edit and deactivate projects.
3. Customize your search criteria.
4. Define up to five additional fields in the case detail form.
5. Define up to four different Case Types for each project.
6. Backup your own data in XML format.
23.Trackstudio1. Fully configurable workflows.
2. Hierarchical task tree.
3. Multi-role support.
4. High usability.
5. Fast and scaleable design.
6. Database and O/S independence.
24.Visionproject1. Manage projects.
2. Manage issue.
3. Manage versions.
4. Manage time/cost.
5. Share document.
6. Search and filter.
7. Alerts/Escalations.
8. KB and Forum.
9. Access control.
10. Customizations.
11. Reports.
25.yKap1. Create and track bugs/defects.
2. Assign built-in or custom values for defect status, priority, complexity.
3. Assign Project/Module for the defect.
4. Optionally enter a preferred closing date.
5. View the complete history of a defect.
6. Exhaustive customization.
Create multiple projects where each project has its own data entry and workflow
2. Restrict access to projects by PR-Tracker username and network login name.
3. Specify permitted operations for each username on a project by project basis.
4. Create and save powerful queries using AND, OR and NOT operators and wildcard text search.
5. Create and save multiple views of problem report lists sorted anyway you want.
27.Unfuddle1. Unfuddle provides a complete solution for bug tracking via a robust ticket system. With Unfuddle's free bug tracking features it is easy to create tickets, track progress, and keep your customers happy.
2. Unfuddle is a secure, hosted software development environment and project management solution for small software development teams.
3. Unfuddle tickets help your project to stay organized. Prioritize, comment upon and then assign your tickets to your team members. With time tracking you can even keep track of which team members have been working on the tickets for the project.
4.Every ticket benefits from workflow management and a verbose audit trail so you can keep track of who made certain changes for a ticket and when these changes were made.
28.Codebeamer1. Highly customizable standard and custom issue fields.
2. Configurable tracker workflows.
3. Comments and attachments.
4. Associations to other issues, wiki pages, documents or source code.
5. Audit trail.
6. Cut / copy / paste / duplicate / move issues between trackers and projects.
7. Mass editing.
8. Versioning.
9. Locking.
10. Access and audit trail.
11. Full text search on MS-Word, RTF, PDF, HTML, Wiki and text documents.
29.Flyspray1. Multiple database support, currently MySQL and PGSQL
2. Easy installation
3. Easy to use
4. Multiple projects
5. 'Watching' tasks, with notification of changes (email or Jabber)
6. Comprehensive task history
7. File attachments.
8. CSS themes.
9. Dependency graphs.
30.Fossil1. A bug-report in fossil is called a "ticket". Tickets are tracked separately from code check-ins.
2. Every ticket change artifact contains (among other things)
A.  a timestamp,
B. a ticket ID, and
C. one or more name/value pairs.

The current state of a ticket is found by replaying all ticket change artifacts with the same ticket ID in timestamp order. For a given ticket, all values are initially NULL. As each ticket change artifact is encountered, values are either replaced or appended, according to a flag on the name/value pair. The current values for the fields of a ticket are the values that remain at the end of the replay process.
3. To create a new ticket, one inserts a ticket change artifact with a new ID. The ticket ID is a random 40-character lower-case hexadecimal number. The "tktnew" page in the fossil web interface creates new ticket IDs using a good source of randomness to insure uniqueness. The name/value pairs on the initial ticket change artifact are the initial values for the fields in the ticket.
4. Amending a ticket means simply creating a new artifact with the same ticket ID and with name/value pairs for those fields which are changing. Fields of the ticket which are not being modified should not appear as name/value pairs in the new artifact.
5. This approach to storing ticket state means that independently entered changes are automatically merged together when artifacts are shared between repositories. Tickets do not branch. This approach also makes it trivial to track the historic progression of changes to a ticket.
31.Countersoft1. Grouping related projects by department, line-of-business, clients helps encourage user participation. Break down each project into hierarchical components and versions to ensure bugs end up in the right place. Slice and dice your bugs any way you like and save common project filters
2. Issues drive projects so make them simple to create, easy to view, and flexible to manage.
3. Workflow should help you control who can do what and when. But you also need to control who can see what and when. Set up workflows and apply them to your bug tracking projects.
For even more granular control define workflows at the Issue Type level to help you
control how different business processes should start and finish.
4. Automatic Project Road Maps and Change Logs provide forward-looking and historic views of what is coming up and what was done.
Users can define an unlimited number of object properties, item types, and relationships.
2. IssueNet’s web service architecture allows access to both a rich client and browser based interface over the internet, via ClickOnce Technology. It permits administrators to deploy and update the software from a single location.
3. IssueNet has an extensive integration with email clients, including Microsoft Outlook.
4. Tasks are automatically created and assigned during the workflow execution.
5. Model and organize business processes into distinct workflows and tasks.
5. Scalability is crucial. As such, IssueNet allows for multiple and nested workflows associated with any issue type.
6. SimpleKnowledge Capture interface allows team to quickly create a formatted and
categorized Knowledge Base article and make this available to other users via IssueNet client and web portal.
33.Redmine1.Multiple projects support.
2. Flexible role based access control.
3. Flexible issue tracking system.
4. Gantt chart and calendar.
5. News, documents & files management.
6. Feeds & email notifications.
7. Per project wiki.
8. Per project forums.
9. Time tracking.
34.Trac1. Trac is a lightweight project management tool that is implemented as a web-based application, written in the Python programming language. It emphasizes ease of use and low ceremony, and is open source.
2. As it's open source, if it doesn't quite fit your needs, you can always make changes yourself, write plugins, or commission someone else to do so.
3. Track the progress of resolving individual bugs, issues, feature requests, and ideas - each with its own ticket (numbered, as in a waiting room queue system).
4. Trac gives you a number of convenient ways to stay on top of events and changes within a project. You can set milestones, and view a roadmap of progress towards them (as well as historical achievements) in summary.
5. Trac has a simple permission system to control what users can and can't access.
35.Seapine1. Support distributed teams with centralized and automated issue management.
2. Use TestTrack Pro Web or the cross-platform TestTrack Pro.
Client to access projects and issues.
3. Attach files to issues and view them in TestTrack Pro.
4. Integrate with popular IDEs, including Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET, using the TestTrack add-in.
5. Easy Installation and Maintenance.
6. Perform a complete installation in minutes.
7. Configure and maintain TestTrack Pro using a cross-platform.
8. GUI client or a Web-based client.
36.Getdonedone1. Open, In Progress, Not reproducible, Missing information, Ready for
retest... Most issue trackers treat these statuses as just another "tag". But, they're much more than that.
2. Issue statuses have meaning. If someone needs more information on an issue you've assigned, it should be obvious. DoneDone issue pages make it clear what has to happen next and who's responsible for it.
3. Most issue tracking tools don't tell you what's new or updated. You're left having to sift through a laundry list of updates, comments, and status changes to figure out what you haven't seen yet.
4. DoneDone keeps track of all this for you. All new issues are highlighted in blue with an icon. All updated issues are highlighted in blue. We also highlight updates in an issue history that you haven't seen yet.
37.Tbitsglobal1. Configurable workflow and Business Rules: Model and enforce your company's existing process. Automatically route issues around to get them resolved. Improve productivity and quality.
2. Automatic Notifications and Reminders: Configurable email notification; separate rules and settings for each various types of Issues to be tracked. Automatically notify appropriate users on change of assignment, change of state, etc.
3. Alerts and Escalations: Time-based alerts for each issue, as reminders or escalations if the issue is not taken care of by the specified date & time. (In addition to the event-based email notification described above).
4. Advanced Search: Freely define report queries based on any value of any field. Use AND, OR, NOT operators to define complex queries. Save queries for quick access to information in the future. Design and save report formats. Obtain summary reports for high-level views of the status of each user and every product in the Tracker database.
5. Email Integration: Submit an Issue to Expediter by simply emailing, to take an action on an issue all a user will have to do is reply to the email for the Issue which he receives.
38.Trackplus1. Manage all types of projects.
2. Manage all types of issues and artifacts.
3. Monitor project progress.
4. Manage budgets and expenses.
5. Support your custom workflows.
6. All reports are based on issue filters.
7. Filters can be stored and reused.
Sifter lets you organize issues by project with a focus on status and accountability.
Everything is designed from the ground up to help team members focus on their issues.
2. Creating an issue is quick and concise. Once they're created, everything is color-coded and important details are only a glance away.
3. Quickly and easily update issue statuses with a comment. Sifter always knows which options are relevant based on the current status.
4. We all work differently. Sifter lets you filter your issue list so you can work through your issues your way.
40.Hedgehoglab1. Track anything: You can track everything from bugs, features, requirements, tasks and incidents.
2. Search & Filtering: Powerful full-text search enabled with filtering capabilities that allow you to view only the information you need.
3. Email: Geared towards preventing notification spam and enabling you to keep informed.
4. Reporting: Activity streams, time reports, change history and release notes to enable intelligent reporting.
5. Mobile compatible: fixx comes with an enhanced mobile web experience for your
41.Bug Genie1. Reporting an issue takes place on one page - no need to click through several pages. Because we use Web 2.0 technology to update the content as the issue is created, information presented is relevant to the user at all times.
2. A sidebar presents the user with helpful information - such as how to write a good issue description - making sure the user is never lost. The same sidebar also provides information about other similar issues, reducing the chance for duplicate issue reports.
3. Easy to use and administer. There are no configuration files. No, seriously. Administer anything from our Configuration center, and it's updated instantly.


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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Dates and Nuts Laddoos (sugar-free)

Dates and nuts laddoos (sugar-free)

If you want to avoid sugar, yet enjoy a sweet and healthy snack, these Dates and Nuts laddoos are for you. And they are nutritious to boot. The recipe is from Manjula's Kitchen.

Here's how I made these date and nut laddoos:

1 cup pitted mejdool dates
1 cup mixed nuts - almonds, pistachios and walnuts (all unsalted)
1 tsp unsweetened cocoa pwd
pinch of salt

My dates were quite soft, so I just added them to the food processor and let it run for a minutes. Then add the salt and cocoa pwd and run it again for a min or 2 until it forms a lump.

Chop the nuts roughly. Take the dates lump from the food processor and knead it with the nuts till well incorporated, about 1 min.

Grease your palms with ghee and form into laddoos. Enjoy!

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The Commissioner Brings Sunshine on a Rainy day
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Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, commissioner of the Department for the Aging (DFTA), held a borough-wide roundtable discussion on the future of senior centers in New York City recently. While the weather outside was pouring buckets, in the Queens Borough Hall conference room the sunshine was streaming in.

In all my fifteen years as a senior center director, this is the first time I have witnessed such warmth, honesty, and humor coming from a commissioner of the DFTA. She started her presentation by saying the “commissioners cannot make change unless they have buy-ins from the partnerships.”

She stated that she used her first year to get to know how the department worked. “We need to find a way to change how we work with our centers; to look at them not as venders but as partners.” This is something that the former commissioner never understood.

He tried to push through a program of “super centers” with a system of outcome measures. He disregarded the social service aspect of centers - that we were dealing with people not robots. Commissioner Barrios-Paoli stated the outcome measures don't serve any purpose unless people buy into them.

The commissioner explained her new initiative of Charter Senior Centers. This initiative is still in the planning stages so the ideas are not concrete and subject to change. These 10-15 centers would be better funded, experimental, novel approaches to senior centers. They would not eliminate the traditional neighborhood centers.

Initially these Charter Centers would be spaced out in each borough. Eventually the commissioner would like to see one Charter Center in each community board. Although not approved yet, she is asking for all current centers with contracts to receive a two-year extension while the the department develops the Charter Senior Centers.

Barrios-Palio spoke on the need to change the way the DFTA functions. Last year, they reduced the number of home delivered meal venders from 120 to 20. She stated that DFTA needs to look at that number and move it somewhere in the middle range to improve the service.

She talked about the changing the prior commissioner's initiative of outcome measures to more realistic goals. “We need to reevaluate the way our centers are evaluated,” she stated.

If you weren't in Room 213 on Queens Boulevard Monday morning, you wouldn't have seen the rays of sunlight cracking through the system. Outside it was cold, damp, and very windy, but inside it was warm and bright with a definite breath of fresh air coming from Commissioner Lilliam Barrios-Paoli.

Donna Marie Caltabiano is the executive director of the Forest Park Senior Center.

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Monday, February 6, 2012

New year, new quilts!

So many quilts, so little time to quilt seems to be the story of my life right now. I'm continuing to work on several quilts at once, as usual. I have a quilt cut out for a friend's baby, one I'm making for the spare room, very modern, Split Decision in Jovial jelly roll, and my 4 patch posie still not done. When I get the backing finished, I'm ready to send out 2 quilts to my quilter, Shirley Stauffer, a Jelly roll fast quilt and my Art Deco quick quilt. I will post pix if Blogger lets me!
That is the main reason that it's been so long since I posted here. I can't seem to get my pix downloaded. Very frustrating. DH, of course, would do it for me, but stubborn me, I want to do it myself so that I know how to do it!!


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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Fatally Flaky

Fatally Flaky by Diane Mott Davidson is the 15th book in the Goldy Schulz mystery series.

It's wedding season and Goldy has two weddings to cater. The first is over in a matter of pages so the real story is the second. However, the first is needed to set up what a complete Bridezilla Billie (the bride in the second wedding) is and to have a venue for the first murder.

The first murderee is old Doc Finn - best friend of Goldy's never before mentioned but apparently very beloved godfather who recently moved from NJ to Colorado - directly across the street from Goldy. I know that when you get to book 15 in a series you have to come up with characters that will provoke emotional ties but to somehow have a character that is supposed to be a major part of one's life and is never mentioned before and just brought on to be killed off - it just seems like reaching.

That said, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I've read lots of reviews about this book and find that yes in every book Goldy withholds evidence, lies to her homicide cop husband Tom and gets hit on the head and knocked unconscious but that's part of the "signature" of Ms. Davidson's storytelling. I don't find that a drawback. It's more of "yes, that's the Goldy I've come to know and love over the years". If she didn't have those things from book to book it would be almost like having a different lead character each time.

So put your feet up, cover up with a quilt and join Goldy, her homicide cop husband Tom, her best friend Marla, assistant Julian, son Arch and the rest of the gang as they cook their way to finding a killer.

Oh and don't forget to look at the back of the book for the recipes. There are some good ones there.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The Aloha Quilt

The Aloha Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini is the latest in the Elm Creek Quilt series.

I have to admit I was a bit skeptical about this book. I have loved all the ECQ books but my absolute favorites are the ones set in the distant past. The Runaway Quilt continues to be my all-time favorite. But the issue I had with this book was it was to focus on a single character. Ms. Chiaverini did a book called Round Robin that gave each character a section of their own. But this time it would be the entire book. I wasn't sure how I would feel about leaving the other characters behind.

But I climbed on the plane with Bonnie and headed over to Hawaii with an open mind.

And I had a blast! The descriptions had me feeling like I was there. I could almost see Diamond Head, the hula dancers and the beautiful Hawaiian quilts. I could feel the breeze as I sat on the lanai. I could taste the fresh pineapple (helps that I've had fresh pineapple lol).

Bonnie goes to Hawaii to help her college roommate start Aloha Quilt Camp. Using her experience as an Elm Creek Quilter, she helps Claire plan classes, hire teachers and plan evening activities. Along the way she has to deal with her no good soon to be ex-husband Craig. Feeling he has no other way to get to Bonnie he hits her where he knows it will hurt - he wants half of her share in Elm Creek Quilts. (No spoilers here - these things are in the book jacket and online bookseller reviews).

Oh and of course the Elm Creek Quilts ladies do show up here and there so we aren't completely without them.

So hop on board and head over to Hawaii where Bonnie spends her time with Claire, Claire's husband Eric, Claire's cook Midori, Midori's nephew Hinano (oh, a handsome single man Bonnie's age) and the beautiful scenery.

Forget Me Not

Forget Me Not by Vicki Hinze is a thriller you don't want to miss.

Crossroads Crisis Center owner Benjamin Brandt was a content man—in his faith, his work, and his family. Then in a flash, everything he loved was snatched away. His wife and son were murdered, and grief-stricken Ben lost faith. Determination to find their killers keeps him going, but after three years of dead ends and torment, his hope is dying too. Why had he survived? He’d failed to protect his family.

Now, a mysterious woman appears at Crossroads seeking answers and help—a victim who eerily resembles Ben’s deceased wife, Susan. A woman robbed of her identity, her life, of everything except her faith—and Susan’s necklace.

The connections between the two women mount, exceeding coincidence, and to keep the truth hidden, someone is willing to kill. Finding out who and why turns Ben and the mystery woman’s situation from dangerous to deadly. Their only hope for survival is to work together, trust each other, and face whatever they discover head on, no matter how painful. But will that be enough to save their lives and heal their tattered hearts?

I have to admit that I found the first part of this book rather frustrating. The first chapter seemed to be completely from a different book and it took quite some time for it to come out how it was all connected. Since it is a mystery there are a lot of unnamed people, especially in the beginning (the subject, his unnamed contact, the inside man, etc.) and I personally was rather confused by it all.

However I read on. And I am so glad I did. The mysterious woman, who is called Susan (because of her resemblance to the deceased Susan and not knowing her real name) for a good part of the book, was carjacked, beaten and left for dead. When she was rescued she remembered only bits and pieces of her life - but the one thing she remembered without a doubt was God. We follow her journey as she lets her faith in God bring her through some horrendous happenings. We follow as Ben fights his doubts about who she is and what brought her to the crises center - and what her connection to his deceased wife is. And we watch as he struggles to find the faith he lost when he lost his family.

An absolute page turner - it was so good I even took it along to work to read on those short 15 minute breaks.

If you would like more information or would like to purchase a copy, please use this link

If you would like to win a copy of this book, simply leave me a comment with your email by April 23.

This was book was provided for review by WaterBrook Multnomah.

Monday, April 12, 2010

There Goes The Bride

There Goes The Bride by MC Beaton is the latest in the Agatha Raisin series. If you are familiar with my blog you will recognize MC Beaton as the author of one of my absolute favorite series featuring Hamish MacBeth.

Agatha Raisin is a detective who lives in the picturesque Cotswolds. In There Goes The Bride Agatha is hired to solve the murder of her ex-husband James Lacey's fiance. Another fabulous mystery with travel to other countries and multiple murders. And of course peril and possibly love for Agatha.

The regular cast of characters put in an appearance - ex-husband James, former employee Roy Silver, Sir Charles, Mrs. Bloxby, Bill Wong and Toni and the rest of the gang from the detective agency.

Thoroughly enjoyable - I only put it down to sleep and go to my son's school concert.

Friday, April 9, 2010

I will admit that I often pick up a book based on the cover - I think that is what drew me to Leila Meacham's Roses. It's a rather simple but beautiful cover. And what lives within - well, I haven't enjoyed a book this much since Kate Morton's last book.

Roses revolves around the lives of three families - the Tolivers, the Warwicks and the DuMonts - and spans over 100 years in their lives. The central character of the story is Mary Toliver. Raised in Texas on a cotton plantation, Mary sacrifices her entire life to keep the plantation no matter what the cost. And there are costs.

I absolutely loved this book. The descriptions make you feel like you are there. There are spots in the book where my breath caught in my throat and tears immediately sprung in my eyes. I cried, I laughed, I loved it.

I will say that I think the ending lacked a bit compared to the rest of the book. I remember being about 10 pages from the end of the book thinking how is she going to wrap this up in 10 pages? It seemed a bit rushed and not up to par with the rest of the book.

I've been borrowing more books from the library (as my husband's unemployment stretches to a year and a half now), which is how I got this one. But you can bet I'll be saving my pennies to purchase myself a copy of this lovely book.

Pick up a copy - you won't be disappointed.

Monday, April 5, 2010

An Award!

I'm sort of new to this blogging business. I've had a quilting blog for a year or more now and my book blog is a bit newer but I'm still learning all the ropes and how to do different things. So imagine my surprise when Molly at Book Reviews by Buuklvr81 bestowed this wonderful award on me. Be sure to pop on over and check out her blog.

But I have to say Molly left me with a bit of a quandry. I'm supposed to pass this award on to 15 more bloggers and I have to say that I don't follow that many blogs.

But I will pass it on to the few blogs that I follow and enjoy.

So here are the rules of the award.

1. Thank and link to the person who gave you the award.

2. Pass this award on to 15 bloggers that you've recently discovered and think are fantastic.

3. Contact those blogs and let them know they've won.

4. State 7 things about yourself.

So here are 7 things about myself.

1. Reading and quilting are passions.

2. My family is more important than anything.

3. My favorite color is pink.

4. I have a golden retriever named Thunder.

5. I love tulips.

6. I actually enjoy my job (for the most part lol)

7. I've made better friends over the computer than I have "in the flesh".

And here are my reward recipients:

1. Barb at Confessions of a Bookaholic

2. Annie at Annie's Quilting Adventures

This Little Prayer Of Mine

This Little Prayer Of Mine by Anthony DeStefano with illustrations by Mark Elliott is a charming book endorsed by the National Day of Prayer.

Rhyming text and precious illustrations make this book a joy for children to read. Written in a child's view it shows how we can depend on God to meet all our needs. It shows that children are not always perfect and that's okay - God still loves us all.

It's not overly wordy and the text is easily read by an early reader - great for kids to read on their own.

If you would like more information about this book or to purchase a copy of your own:

This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.

Montana Rose

Montana Rose by Mary Connealy is the first in her Montana Marriages series.

Ms. Connealy is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. She writes a humorous but touching tale about the frontier life that keeps you turning the pages.

In Montana Rose we follow Cassie Griffin. Life on the Montana frontier hardly seems the place for this fragile little china doll. Spoiled and stand-offish is what the other residents of Divide, Montana call her. The Griffins live in a big, fancy house and Cassie dresses in silks - not at all the normal.

But all that changes when Cassie rides in to town with the news that Lester Griffin has died. Women alone in the Montana Territory don't stay alone and during the funeral men from all around the area show up - not to pay respects but to vie for the hand of the newly widowed lady. Widowed one day - married the next.

What follows is the story of two people who don't really know each other coming together and forming a family. It's a heart-warming tale that was hard to put down. And, as with many of Ms. Connealy's stories, it lays the foundation for the next book in the series (which I am terribly anxious to read).

I highly recommend this book - and any other by Ms. Connealy. If you read a series from her though, be sure to read them in order as they do build on each other.

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is a different take on the slave story than I have seen before.

Set in Ohio in a resort called Tawawa House it follows four female slaves who are their masters' mistresses. Every summer the slaves and their masters come to Tawawa House on vacation. The women openly live with the masters in small cottages outside of the main hotel.

Three of the ladies, Lizzie, Reenie and Sweet have been coming for years. New this year is Mawu - and she brings with her a frightening proposition. You see, Tawawa House is situated in free territory.

I found this story fascinating. That period in history is probably my favorite to read about. But I have never read a story showing this view of a female slave's life. Of course I knew how many of these slaves bore children for their masters. But most of what I read showed them being used and discarded. Not kept around as a "mistress".

Lizzie is the main character and for a period we go back in her earlier life and see what led her to where she is. When the discussions of running come up for most of the women the biggest issue with running is the children they would leave behind. Lizzie also doesn't want to leave her children but she also believes that she and her master love each other.

Be sure to grab a copy of this book and read the triumphs and tragedies of these four women. It was a fascinating read.


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Saturday, August 23, 2014

The Repurposed & Upcycled Life by Michelle Rayburn

Have you ever wished you could...

  • Unpack emotional baggage and deal with the past
  • Confront perfectionism and negative attitudes
  • Change your perspective on your circumstances
  • Let go of regret and shame
  • Build positive healthy relationships
  • Dream big and live with purpose
Discover the repurposed and upcycled life. With her laugh-out-loud Erma Bombeck way of looking at life, Michelle will help you see how some of your greatest disappointments, mistakes, and hurts can be beautiful treasures from God. Part memoir, part inspiration and self-help, this book will help you: Through inspiration from God's Word and examples from everyday life, you'll discover the joy-filled, hope-rich way of viewing your past, present, and future.

What a fun book this is! Michelle offers tips for addressing real life issueswith a generous dose of humor. She's not afraid to let us see the real Michelle and give us comfort in knowing that the trials we are dealing with are not ours alone.

There are great ideas and if you like crafty things, there are some suggestions at the end of each chapter to make something to remind you of what you've learned.

I did the book as sort of a Bible study - a chapter a week - and really enjoyed having the week to think on what I had read before moving on to the next chapter.

Click here for a wonder Q&A with Michelle to get some insight to her life.

I highly recommend this book.

Many thanks to Michelle and KCW Communications for my free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Saturday, August 16, 2014

I Shall Be Near To You by Erin Lindsay McCabe

An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight beside her husband, inspired by the letters of a remarkable female soldier who fought in the Civil War.   Rosetta doesn't want her new husband Jeremiah to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough money that they'll be able to afford their own farm someday. Though she's always worked by her father’s side as the son he never had, now that Rosetta is a wife she's told her place is inside with the other women. But Rosetta decides her true place is with Jeremiah, no matter what that means, and to be with him she cuts off her hair, hems an old pair of his pants, and signs up as a Union soldier.
   With the army desperate for recruits, Rosetta has no trouble volunteering, although she faces an incredulous husband. She drills with the men, proves she can be as good a soldier as anyone, and deals with the tension as her husband comes to grips with having a fighting wife. Rosetta's strong will clashes with Jeremiah's while their marriage is tested by broken conventions, constant danger, and war, and she fears discovery of her secret even as they fight for their future, and for their lives. Inspired by more than 250 documented accounts of the women who fought in the Civil War while disguised as men, I Shall Be Near To You is the intimate story, in Rosetta’s powerful and gorgeous voice, of the drama of marriage, one woman’s amazing exploits, and the tender love story that can unfold when two partners face life’s challenges side by side.

When I first read the description of this book I was simply fascinated. I love all things Civil War but I had never heard anything at all about women disguising themselves as men and fighting alongside their husband, fathers and brothers.

When the lists of casualties start being posted, Jeremiah and his friends decide they need to join up. Rosetta doesn't want Jeremiah to go without them being married, so in just a few short weeks time, they get married and he goes off to fight. Once he leaves, Rosetta decides she can't stay behind and be a wife without a husband so she cuts her hair, puts on a pair of pants and heads off to join him. These actions are tied to the Bible in a couple of different ways - a husband and wife leaving their parents and cleaving to each other and the story of Ruth and Naomi (wither thou goest, I will go). It's a beautiful action of a woman who can't bear to be separated from her husband - and a husband who can't bear to be separated from his wife, because when Rosetta finally reaches Jeremiah, even though he fears for her safety, he can't bring himself to insist she go home.

This book was very compelling. The descriptions make you feel like you are there. The courage of all these people - men and women - is simply amazing. The raw fear combined with the need and desire to fight for what they believed in is inspirational.

I laughed, I cried, I loved it all.

Be sure to read the author's notes at the end of the book - some really interesting information - and I was, quite frankly, shocked by some of it.

This is a not to be missed book.

More information can be found here:

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

Rumspringa's Hope by Beth Shriver

Torn between the affections of two men, will Emma's time away from home help her choose?

Although promised to the widowed neighbor Zeb, Emma is considering leaving her Amish community to watch over her younger brother Mark when he leaves for Philadelphia to explore the outside world during his Rumspringa.

There, she reconnects with her former beau Caleb, who protects the Amish teens, introducing them to his life evangelizing and helping the homeless. Unbeknownst to Emma, Caleb is glad for the opportunity to spend time with her and hopes to win her back.

Struck by the power of evangelism and outreach, Emma begins to feel a draw to Caleb's way of life. When she doesn’t return home when she promised, Zeb goes to the city to find her, forcing Emma to choose in which of their two worlds she really belongs.

I was thrilled to win a copy of this book on one of my favorite authors, Vanetta Chapman's website.

I really enjoyed this book. It's a bit different than some of the other "Amish" books I've read. I know that all Amish communities are not the same. In most books I have read "rumspringa" is a time of experiencing the outside world - and so it is in this book. But in this book it's more of a specific "time and place". What I have heard about it before is that it's mostly a secret thing - the parents not necessarily knowing where and what the kids are doing and a lot of it is done with the kids coming home at night and still, for the most part, carrying on with the normal day to day life.

In this book it's a group of kids going to the inner city and staying at a homeless shelter. The parents know where they are and they either stay there and make a life for themselves or return home after weeks or months there.

It was interesting reading about a different way to do rumspringa. This one reminded me a lot of what our local churches do as an outreach - although for only a week or two at a time.

These characters were easy to like - they had flaws, no one was perfect and they had struggles. What happened at the shelter was a good view in to inner city life and very real.

I highly recommend this book. It's book one of a series and I'm looking forward to reading the next two.

Thanks to Beth Shriver for sending me the copy and to Vanetta Chapman for the offer to win it.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

A Giveaway!!

The wonderful folks at Blogging for Books is coordinating a giveaway for a copy of this book. My review (I really liked this book!) can be found here.

The contest starts on July 31, 2014 at 6:00am EST and ends on August 20th, 2014 at 11:59pm. One winner will be chosen at random on August 21st, 2014 and will be alerted by email. For a complete listing of the rules, please see below.

Here's where you will go to enter the drawing:

Please make sure to read through all their rules and guidelines before entering.

Good Luck!!

Sunday, August 3, 2014

A Heartbeat Away by S. Dionne Moore

When a band of runaway slaves brings Union-loyal Beth Bumgartner a wounded Confederate soldier named Joe, it is the catalyst that pushes her to defy her pacifist parents and become a nurse during the Battle of Antietam
Her mother's mysterious goodbye gift is filled with quilt blocks that bring comfort to Beth during the hard days and lonely nights, but as she sews each block, she realizes there is a hidden message of faith within the pattern that encourages and sustains her. Reunited with Joe, Beth learns his secret and puts the quilt's message to its greatest test—but can betrayal be forgiven?

This is a fabulous addition to the Quilts of Love Series.Each book is by a different author and I have loved each one I have read.

This one is very special to me because I love anything and everything about the Civil War and I know the places they talk about in the book - Sharpsburg, Frederick, Hagerstown (I work in Hagerstown!).

This book highlights something that I suppose was pretty common but yet untalked about in a lot of books - the relationships that built between Northern and Southern people. Yes, by shear definition of the war, people from one side were not supposed to support or aid people from the other side. But human nature and emotions don't always go by rules.

So grows the affection between wounded Rebel soldier Joe and his Northern nurse Beth. And what of Jim, the free black man who helps Beth to take care of Joe? Can he care for a Rebel soldier?

And what about the package Beth's mother sent her - a package of quilt blocks. What could she have been thinking - sending quilt blocks to a nurse who would be overwhelmed with wounded and dying soldiers? What is so important about those quilts blocks - and how will Beth figure out the riddle.

Highly recommended - this book as well as the series.


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Was there just a coup in Portugal? Why did Canada's media ignore the story?

Aníbal António Cavaco Silva

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Did you know a coalition of the left has been denied the traditional democratic right to replace Portugal's Eurocentric right-wing austerity government by the country's president, who fulfills the same constitutional parliamentary role as Canada's governor general?

You're forgiven if you didn't. As far as I can tell, there's been zero coverage by Canada's mass media of the serious constitutional crisis now brewing in Portugal.

Nothing in the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star since the Portuguese national election that sparked the crisis on Oct. 4. Ditto for the CBC. Nothing at all in the National Post or any of Postmedia's little Regional Posts in the same period.

This is a moot point now that our federal election has ended in a majority government, I guess, but it's still more than passing strange when you consider Canada has just been going through a long campaign that could very well have ended up much the same way as did Portugal's national election.

Don't you think this would have been a worthwhile topic for discussion by Canadians as our country neared a close election in which the Conservatives could easily have emerged as a minority government?

After all, that's just what happened in Portugal when the pro-austerity conservative governing party failed to win a majority. A coalition of parties on the left with an absolute majority and an agenda to get out of the austerity program established by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund tried to form a government. President Aníbal António Cavaco Silva told them to take a hike.

"He deemed it too risky to let the Left Bloc or the Communists come close to power, insisting that conservatives should soldier on as a minority in order to satisfy Brussels and appease foreign financial markets," wrote Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Friday in Britain's Telegraph newspaper, which is covering the affair, as are a few U.S. papers.

The Telegraph summarized the president's view as, "democracy must take second place to the higher imperative of Euro rules and membership."

There's a word for this: Coup. And at least some people in Europe, on both the left and right, are using it.

The Portuguese president, unlike the Canadian governor general, is an elected figure. Governor General David Johnston was appointed by outgoing Prime Minister Stephen Harper, he of the autocratic instincts and seething contempt for Parliament.

But it's still a fair question to ask what would have happened in Canada if the Oct. 19 election had ended in a Conservative minority but the Liberal, New Democratic and Green parties had been willing to work together to form a coalition government?

We can't know. Johnston would probably have done his constitutional duty. He certainly can't be blamed for the disgraceful and anti-democratic scheme cooked up by Harper and then-governor-general Michaëlle Jean to prorogue Parliament rather than face a democratic confidence motion in the House of Commons in 2012. But it's something to think about, isn't it?

History tells us that neoliberal governments don't give up power easily, or have much time for democracy when their primacy is threatened.

All this is being watched warily next door to Portugal in Spain, where another conservative government that has obeyed the austerity diktats of Brussels and the IMF faces what could be a close election on Dec. 20.

We should probably be careful of imagining conspiracies where garden-variety incompetence is the more likely explanation. Still, one thing is very clear: Canadians are no longer being very well served by our mainstream media when they fail to cover important and relevant stories like this.

You have to wonder: What else are they missing?

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

killing the giants

It's mid third week here on project and Mission beach is sure starting to feel like home. It's really sweet to see how God is working. Between job searching, beach evangelism, speakers, campus ministry, tight living quarters, and developing friendships it is so apparent that God is present.

Sunday night we had our third project meeting and we were challenged with this week's theme: Killing the Giants. We all have Goliaths in our lives, those big struggles that we need to surrender, and because Jesus has gone before us on the cross we are able to fight and conquer our battles because He is so much bigger!

One thing for me is that I really want to be trusting God when we go out on campus and around the community sharing. When it comes to going up to random strangers I don’t generally get too nervous so sometimes I think that can become a pride issue for me. I want to make sure that I don’t let that cause me to rely on my own efforts rather than relying on the power of Christ. I’m being reminded that it’s not about what I say or do. After all, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6).

The results really are incredible when we let God have control and rely on his spirit. Yesterday was our second time on the UCSD campus and I was really praying that God would open doors, give us boldness, and speak through us. Guess what? He provided four opportunities for my friend Melanie and I to share the Gospel!

One of the conversations we had was with a girl who grew up muslim. Before talking to her I really didn’t know much about the muslim religion so it was cool how we were able to ask her questions about what she believed and understand where she was coming from before sharing what we believed with her. We shared the Gospel and she had a lot of questions for us and was so willing to talk. She asks some tough questions that definitely stretched both Melanie and I but it was awesome to see how the Holy Spirit gave us the words to say. We got her contact info and invited her to our DNA group that meets every week on campus so we'll hopefully be able to meet up with her again!

On another note, this past week has mainly consisted of one thing: job searching. What a process! It's been nothing short of frustration and discouragement, thats for sure. This has been one of the most challenging things for me here so far but I’m continuing to persevere! We have one more week to find a job before we start doing volunteer work instead. We’ll see what God has in store! He always provides and I know he's up to great things for each one of us here.

The San Diego Summer Project 2013 Crew!
So many wonderful people.
The beautiful sunset I was blessed to watch as I spent my
quiet time on the beach last night!

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