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3 out of 4 stars
Ken's Ramen, the new restaurant located in the heart of downtown's culinary scene, opened early February of this year and has been much hyped since. Despite the fact that the restaurant only has a few tables and a small noodle bar, the restaurant's vibe is evident the moment you step inside. Loud hip-hop music blasts over the speakers, chefs busily strain noodles in an open kitchen setting, and waiters and waitresses hurry between taking orders and telling hungry onlookers that the wait will be half an hour.But is the food worth the strain of shouting over the noise, waiting for the table, and feeling deadly full after you're finished eating? The answer is whole-heartedly yes. I ordered the Tsukemen ramen, a modern version of the ramen dish that involves two bowls. In one, you receive a sheet of nori (a delicious sheet of dried seaweed) placed atop the noodles (sourced from Sun Noodles) . A lime wedge is hooked onto the side of the bowl along a smear of spicy Yuzu pepper. In the other bowl is a deeply rich Katsuo broth made using bonito and a whole chicken. Swimming within the depths of the slurp-worthy broth is menma (bamboo shoots), scallions, kikurage mushrooms, and your choice of either two pieces of char-siu pork belly or 100g of "soy-braised" chicken.
The wide range of flavors, from the chew of the noodles to the depth of the broth to the texture of the meat blend, somewhat surprisingly, well together. There are a total of ten extra toppings that you can add on to any of the four bowls of ramen, most of which are included in at least one of the ramen bowls already. They range from corn to homemade chili oil. I added ajitama to mine, which is a soft boiled egg that is, so says the menu, "soy sauce injected". I expected to be able to see it with one look at my broth, but it was actually hidden, having sunk to the bottom of the bowl. This at first led me to believe I had been deprived my egg, but was made up for by the fun of finding it in the bottom of my bowl—especially one so perfectly soft and runny—a soft boiled delight.
Other than ramen, there's not much here. There are seven alcoholic drinks to choose from, sake being one, plus eight different sides, one of which is plain rice. I split a Hirata Pork Bun with my brother that was divine. The bun melted in my mouth with it's perfectly soft chewiness that makes you want to leave it in your mouth forever. The pork itself is seared through with a blowtorch (right in front of your eyes if you're as lucky as me to sit at the noodle bar). A small handful of greens add some lightness to the dish and it is all topped off with Ken's spread sauce.
On a whole, Ken's Ramen is certainly worth the long wait you'll have to go through. Having just opened and being the talk of the town with a star menu item as trendy as ramen has filled their doors the couple times I've peeked inside, but I insist that shouldn't turn you off. In fact, it should only build your interest. With so many other good choices for food downtown (Coal Fired Pizza, Viva Mexico, and even Figidini right next door), Ken's could easily be lost. But with such creative chefs who obviously care about the food, Ken's seems to be bubbling up to the top of the city's bowl.
For more info, visit www.kenramenpvd.com
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I was going to wait to show you these pictoowes untill I was suwe Jake and Just Hawwy wewe home fwom camp, but I think I bettew show you now, in case I have to wun away fwom home aftew meeting my goob love ( I mean what if he doesn't like me..I will have to hide in shame fuwwevew)
The Bawkalot Boyz went to camp, but sent theiw ambassadows Dogmom and Dogdad to come visit me last week.
I knew immediately I'd love them fwom theiw smiles
I gave one of my patented smoochie kisses to Jake and Harry's Mom..she's a Love!
I think she and theiw Dad bof wewe suffewing fwom JJHDA
( Jake and JustHarry defficiency anemia) I twied to supply some WFT love, but thewe's only one of me
ouw Dad's got along instantly and giggled a lot ( I think you have to have a good sense of hoomow to have a WFT)
then came some pwetty blue bags..Jake and Just Hawwy sent me pwesents! Let me see pleeez!!
a faboolous monkey!!!
I've nevew had a monkey..he is soo cooooool! C'mon Mommi let me sniff him
now that's not faiw! don't play keepaway
and next! a FOX!!!! can you imagine? a FOX!!!!! even the faboolous Aggie wif hew E only caught a wat...but now I can catch a FOX!
I played and played till I collapsed in a heap. I got my flowew stuffy out to show them, since I wemembewed seeing pwetty flowews on theiw boyz ' bloggie..I figoowe they must like flowews
All the hoomans went to dinnew and I stayed home to nap wif my new stuffie fwiends and dweam of my sweet Bawkalot Boyz. I suwe hope they get to come in pawson to see me one day.
aftew dinnew , they came back and I got some supew scwitchies fwom auntie Joan . I think ouw pawents could have talked fow anothew twelve houws..just look at them..even on the way to the doow they sit and talk, hehehe
We had the bestest visit..it could only have been impwoved by the Boyz themselves being hewe too.
Jake and Just Hawwy,
Thank you so much fow sending youw pawents and fow all the wondewful pwesentses.(even Mommi and Daddi got gifts that they will tweasoowe!)
Mywna and Gilbewt got a bootiful pwesent too, but I'll let Myrna tell you about it when she gets back fwom hew vewy long honeymooning.
thanks also to the Hewon cam , who took tewwific pictoowes in between fishing in the Hudson Wivew and sent them home to his clients , the Boyz..

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DEA Warns of Stoned Rabbits if Utah Passes Medical Marijuana
Reefer Madness meets Night of the Lepus!
Otoh, this could benefit Utah's numerous defense contractors if the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch can be mass produced.
Utah is considering a bill that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of humans, and basically be high all the time. That's according to testimony presented to a Utah Senate panel (time stamp 58:00) last week by an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"I deal in facts. I deal in science," said special agent Matt Fairbanks, who's been working in the state for a decade. He is member of the "marijuana eradication" team in Utah. Some of his colleagues in Georgia recently achieved notoriety by raiding a retiree's garden and seizing a number of okra plants.
Fairbanks spoke of his time eliminating back-country marijuana grows in the Utah mountains, specifically the environmental costs associated with large-scale weed cultivation on public land: "Personally, I have seen entire mountainsides subjected to pesticides, harmful chemicals, deforestation and erosion," he said. "The ramifications to the flora, the animal life, the contaminated water, are still unknown."
Fairbanks said that at some illegal marijuana grow sites he saw "rabbits that had cultivated a taste for the marijuana. …" He continued: "One of them refused to leave us, and we took all the marijuana around him, but his natural instincts to run were somehow gone."
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A Northern Idaho woman has been charged in connection with the crash last month that killed one daughter and seriously injured another.
Brittney Bullock is charged in Bonner County Magistrate Court with vehicular manslaughter, injury to a child and other charges.
The Bonner County Daily Bee reports that 6-year-old Adilynn Johnson was thrown from the wreck and died of her injuries. Her 11-year-old sister suffered broken ribs and other injuries.
An Idaho State Police trooper's affidavit says Bullock, of Bayview, was driving Sept. 6 when she lost control, slid off the paved, wet roadway and crashed into trees.
Bullock reportedly told a trooper that she was looking at her 11-year-old daughter in the front passenger seat just before losing control of the car. She also told the trooper her children are usually in safety restraints and that she was driving 25 to 30 mph.


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"Sanremo è Sanremo": a payoff to the point of populism that speaks about our being Italian.
But it is true. Sanremo will always be Sanremo, and, that we like it or not, everybody talks about it... especially online!
The first basic effects of media communication were witnesses since Nilla Pizzi, that with her historical "Grazie dei fiori" won the first Festival and got into our houses, in the days when a stranger was not welcome after dinner.
Today, TV personalities are also the stars of the Web and of social networks. We at Velvet know that, due to our proximity with the spotlight, since we see to the social network pages of personalities such as Simone Rugiati and Roberto Farnesi.
TV cannot do without social networks, and vice versa.
Even Sanremo is leaving behind its vintage aura, by renewing itself and bullying its way into the Web. The Web is full of conversations centred around the Festival, as never before.
It is no accident that the Festival starts with interviews and social media, with a slideshow of clips where the singers tell their stories, their fears and their desires.
An example of digital storytelling aimed at telling the truth. The artist strips off his role by showing the social image. The close up on his face, his story in the background and a tweet or video as a slice of truth.
Sanremo renews itself by focusing on social media. The Web rewards this choice and reacts decidedly.
The formula "couch & Sanremo" has become obsolete, and the audience groups move from living rooms to chats. A virtual talk sparks, allowing the protagonist to interact with the audience who is anything but passive. The singer twits, the Web answers and a crossmedia dialogue takes shape, shattering the TV screen.
Hashtags don't leave much to the imagination and there is no shortage of side phenomena: every media event has at least one!
The catchphrase draws attention and is engraved in your mind as the notes on old vinyl.
This year the Web was focused on the mystery of Vessicchio: where did the Maestro go? The Web is torn up, Beppe went AWOL. #uscitevessicchio floods social network, along with images, gifs and real time marketing actions based on newsjacking activities that would make Scott extremely proud of the made-in-Italy.
The most interesting one? Montenegro! But we will discuss about this tomorrow.


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Mommies squawking about new North Mianus pick-up zone. $700,000 wasted on this project, when there's not a friggin' kid in the school zone who couldn't walk to the place. Worried about traffic? Stay home, and let your precious child walk over to school. No cars, no traffic, no worries.
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Oh, for Crimminey's sake
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Yeah, that worked out last time
Commies go back to using their own phony currencies for bi-lateral trade. Screw 'em – the laws of economics still apply.
Here's a nice Thanksgiving story
Three teens, 14 and 15, long since given up for dead after drifting out to sea, found alive and well after fifty days. Undernourished and thirsty, but I'm sure their parents will fix that up.
Dot.com millionaire feeds 8,000 families today. I've never heard of the man or his company – my loss, not his – but he started giving after 9/11 and has been expanding his efforts ever since. I try always to stay grateful for the blessings in my own life, but I've always thought it might be difficult to do that when swamped with success (no danger of that here). But not for this guy, and I'm hugely impressed.
UPDATE: the man also employs 400 people, which is even better.
Alice's Restaurant at noon
WFUV (90.7, or WFUV.org) plays Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" every Thanksgiving, beginning around noon. If you're of a certain age, it's a don't-miss tradition. Younger listeners are no doubt indifferent, but to me, it's as important as listening to Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales". You've got to have tradition.
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I'm awed
I like to think I have a genius for creative destruction, but this prankster has me, ten-fold.
Spartanburg County, S.C., sheriff's deputies told WXII sister station WYFF that they were called to a Motel 6 on Sunday night after a guest nearly punched through to the next room with a wrench. When deputies arrived, 73-year-old Joseph Jones told them someone had called his room about 11 p.m. and said he was a manager at the motel. Jones said the male caller told him the previous guest had installed highly sophisticated cameras in his room. The caller told Jones not to bother looking for them and instead, the caller would instruct him on how to get rid of the cameras…Next, he was told to remove the back toilet cover and to smash the TV with it. He did and the cover shattered without breaking the TV screen, so he was instructed to throw the TV outside. Jones did as he was instructed. At some point, according to the report, Jones gave the caller his cell number so he did not have to keep running back to the room phone…Jones said the caller then said that a "midget" who was 4 feet 3 inches tall was barricaded in the room next to him and that he needed to help police get to him. With that, the report said, Jones took his wrench and began to break away the wallboard behind the room door. He broke through to the next room, but then stopped due to complaints from other guests about the loud noises. [WXII, previously]
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On Thanksgiving, the question arises: are we ready for a chubby-wubby president?
That's the question asked here. Opponents tried using then-candidate Christie's weight against him in his campaign for Governor but New Jersey voters obviously reacted as I did – they listened to what he was saying and were impressed. Besides, Teddy Roosevelt was a large man too. So chow down on that second turkey leg today, grab an extra helping of sweet potato with marshmallow, and run for president. If you make sense, the voters won't care what you look like, and isn't that a nice change?
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So what do we pay these people for?
Man calls cops to complain about two hookers ripping him off and they arrest him! There's just no justice in this world.


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Terrorists Kept US-Canadian Hostages For 5 Years In Pakistan, Raped Woman And Killed Her Child
CIA chief Mike Pompeo has said a US-Canadian couple kidnapped by militants in Afghanistan had been held for five years inside Pakistan before being freed, contradicting the Pakistan Army's claim that the hostages were rescued shortly after entering the country from Afghanistan.
"The couple had been held for five years inside Pakistan," Pompeo on Friday said during a wide-ranging discussion at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, a Washington-based think-tank.
His remarks contradict the Pakistan Army which had said in a statement that the hostages "were captured by terrorists from Afghanistan during 2012 and kept as hostages there."
Caitlan Coleman, an American citizen, and her husband Joshua Boyle, a Canadian citizen, were kidnapped in 2012 in Afghanistan while on a backpacking trip.
Coleman, 31, was pregnant at the time of the abduction. All of the couple's three children were born in captivity.
The Pakistan Army statement issued on October 12 did not identify the group which had held the family captive, but the US leadership have blamed Haqqani Network as the perpetrators.
After the recovery of hostages, the Pakistan military officials emphasised the importance of co-operation and intelligence sharing by Washington.
"The success underscores the importance of timely intelligence sharing and Pakistan's continued commitment towards fighting this menace through cooperation between two forces against a common enemy," the Army statement said.
The operation came at a time when Pakistan is trying to rebuild bilateral ties frayed after President Donald Trump accused the country of sheltering terror groups.
Trump, in August, had accused Pakistan of harbouring "agents of chaos and terror" and the "very enemy US forces have fought in Afghanistan" for the past 17 years.
Last week, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif had said his country was ready for a joint operation with the US to destroy the Haqqani Network if it provides evidence about the presence of safe havens of the dreaded terror outfit in Pakistan.
The Haqqani network has carried out a number of kidnappings and attacks against US interests in Afghanistan.
The group is also blamed for several deadly attacks against Indian interests in Afghanistan, including the 2008 bombing of the Indian mission in Kabul that killed 58 people.
US officials believe Pakistan's spy agency ISI maintains close ties with the Haqqani Network and provides safe havens to its top leadership.
"I think history would indicate that the high expectations for the Pakistanis' willingness to help us in the fight against radical Islamic terrorism should be set at a very low level," the CIA chief said.
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Legislative session gets underway in Delaware
By Randall Chase, Associated Press
DOVER — House and Senate members took their oaths, elected their respective leaders and took care of other housekeeping matters as this year's legislative session got underway Tuesday.
The convening of the 149th session of the General Assembly comes exactly one week before the inauguration of Democratic Gov-elect John Carney.
"I encourage them to really give the new governor the benefit of the doubt…. I'm sure he'll do a great job of reaching out to them," said outgoing Gov. Jack Markell, who is finishing his second term and is barred by state law from seeking a third.
Markell also urged Democrats and Republicans to work in a spirit of bipartisanship to tackle the challenges facing the state.
Already, there appears to be a bipartisan consensus among lawmakers to reject a state panel's recommendation of higher salaries and expense allowances for legislators, higher salaries for statewide officials except the governor, and pay raises for several cabinet posts.
Judges also would see their salaries increase, in some cases by more than $20,000 over four years, under the Delaware Compensation Commission's recommendations. Under state law, the panel's recommendations take effect automatically unless lawmakers vote them down in their entirety. A resolution to do so is expected to be introduced Wednesday.
"We are facing a large budget shortfall this coming year, and issuing raises to select state officials is absolutely the wrong thing to do at this time," House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf said in a statement earlier this week.
Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth, was re-elected as speaker by his colleagues Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Sen. David McBride, D-New Castle, was elected president pro tem of the Senate. McBride, who previously served as majority leader, replaces longtime state senator Patricia Blevins, D-Elsmere, who lost her seat to Republican newcomer Anthony Delcollo in November.
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Something is still hinky with my computer system. In the not-good hinky sort of way.
Special level of hell should be set aside for virus and trojan writers.
I was told by a friend years ago "Assholes, armpits, and opinions. Everyone's got 'em. Almost universally they stink."
Well it is true. Here's mine.
Australian op-eds who are so rabidly anti-US that they worship Osama bin Laden really irritate me.
It's taken me days to figure out how to say something in response to Bob Ellis' op-ed that involved civilized and professional speech.
How shabby the Americans are. How secretive and stupid.
How arrogant you are. How lacking in empathy and purposely ignorant.
What klutzes they are. And how dearly we all must pay for their clumsiness, in a rejuvenated al-Qaeda and acts of terror without end, in this country too. And an atomic war, perhaps.
You are paying dearly… how? Al-Qaeda wants(ed) terror with or without our removal of Osama.
Osama was unarmed, we now are told, but he 'resisted' and so was shot 'above the left eye' and 'part of his brain was blown away'. This, and other details, might explain why Barack Obama spent so long rewriting his speech, his worst thus far on a great specific occasion, and why he seemed uneasy giving it. What, we may ask, is he now to say of a murder committed by uninvited American troops on foreign soil, illegally?
If he so much as twitched an anal sphincter it would be "resisting".
As for Obama, he had many reasons to rewrite his speech(es). Chief amongst them is the ultra-high level of incompetence.
Want to know what I think happened?
When Obama ran for president he had many rainbow and unicorn thoughts that possess many of the liberals out there. When he actually won and discovered that by golly he couldn't walk on water more than an inch deep, he was shocked, angry, and confused.
So, too, was Obama shocked when he discovered that "getting Osama" actually could involve a monster dressed in the flesh of a human being having his cranium vented in a really messy way. My goodness! That's not a photo-op moment and it wasn't supposed to happen this way! Why, this isn't at all how it is portrayed in the movies! Oh, dear, how messy. The military said nothing about brains and dead terrorists. And there are realities with ordering someone killed, namely that you might not look like you walked on water, and that you might be inept – and that maybe, just maybe, the minds that ran such a successful campaign can't actually orchestrate the appearance of leadership when real leadership is needed.
Claim Bush to have been anything you like, but he knew when 9/11 got really rolling that it would be a long, hard, and lonely road to walk.
By the way, Mr. Ellis – you are cordially invited to S.E. Michigan any time you would like to come for a visit. I have many many friends who would like to meet you and talk about your views on the US.


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If you are new around these parts my name is Juliet. I think its safe to call me a foundation paper piecing nut! When I am not designing a new pattern, I am sewing up another one to see if it works- we go through a lot of paper in this house!
To participate in the Blog Hop, I am required to answer the following four questions. I hope you enjoy my answers.
1. What am I working on?
There is quite a lot happening in my quilty world at the moment. Its exciting, fun and stressful all rolled into one. I hope that I can get everything finished in time!
For the last few months I have been working on a set of twelve patterns for the In Flight Quilt Along. Until recently it has all been computer work and I have gone through phases of loving, hating, being bored and being inspired by the patterns, but I am finally really excited about it all. I have sewn my first 6 blocks and I can't wait to see how everyone else interprets the patterns.
It's been a lot of work and it's pretty nerve racking- what happens if nobody joins in? But judging from the reception that the blocks are getting on instagram, I hope that I've got nothing to worry about.
I've never organised anything this big on my blog before and I'm making it up as I go along. If you are interested in joining in the fun, then you can find out more about the patterns and the fabric requirements here. The fun kicks off in January.
I have more or less finished work on my mini quilt for the Schnitzel & Boo Mini Quilt Swap. Its fun releasing snippets of detail about my design on instagram and seeing how people react. At the same time, I am slightly nervous as my work doesn't naturally fall within the spectrum of my partners taste. I hope she approves of what I have planned for her.
Another fledgling project is my safari quilt. I am loving this project. It has taken on a mind of its own and its really enjoyable seeing where it takes me.
It all started when I was sent a bundle of Utopia fabric designed by one of my favourite designers- Frances Newcombe.
As I think I've said before, most of the time I design a block first and then go looking for suitable fabrics so its a fairly new experience for me to have to work the other way round. Also being limited to the (awesome) utopia fabrics is weird as it places constraint on which patterns and colours I can use and by default affects the animals that will end up in this quilt!
The first thing that I decided when I saw the bundle was that I HAD to design a giraffe pattern. Here is the layout that I initially planned, but when I laid the fabrics together, the yellows were just too similar to the white background. What is the point of going to the effort of piecing a block if nobody can make out the details?
In true Juliet fashion, I scrapped plan A and am now making it up as I go along. So far I have pieced a giraffe, and a big cat. A hippo pattern is designed and ready to sew the next time that I have some childfree time.
|Held up by my tallish 6 year old for scale
I will eventually release these safari patterns for sale, but for the time being I am really enjoying just sewing and designing without the pressure to turn them into patterns immediately.
I've got a few other patterns in the works, but I need to find the time to get back to them.These days I am increasingly finding it difficult to find the balance between family, design and sewing. If I do too much of one, I get withdrawals from the others.
2.How does my work differ from others in the genre?
I've been doing a lot of thinking about this and I'm not really sure.
If I have to try and define my style then I think there are three things that define my patterns and my style.
One is the detail. I am constantly treading the thin line between too much detail and not enough. I will admit that I've had too much detail in a few of my earlier patterns, but these days I think that I am finding it easier to find the balance. If the detail is becoming too insane, then I just make the finished block bigger, it's a really liberating way to work.
I love paper pieced detail and do my best to include all the detail within my design as I just don't trust my embroidery skills to do the patterns justice!
Another thing that I hear a lot about my patterns is that they show movement. I don't like my animals to be static and boring, I try to give them personality and movement.
Recently, I have decided that it's madness not to make use of the amazing prints that are out there. I venture to say that this attitude towards fabric is unusual with regards to the kind of patterns that I design. I'm trying to show that pictorial paper pieced patterns can be detailed without being super literal. We don't always have to use realistic colours! Bears can have fussy cut zebras on their legs. Awesome tree fabric can be used to mimic giraffe markings.
This is the attitude that I take when I release my patterns too. I really want to encourage you guys to try your own thing. Make the pattern your own. Who am I to limit your creativity?
3. Why do I create what I do?
It all started for me almost five years ago when we moved towns. I had left my job behind and I didn't know anyone in the new town. Although I enjoyed being at home with my young daughter, I knew that I was going to suffer if I didn't find something to occupy myself. I started my blog, got my sewing machine out and taught myself to sew. Little did I know that I would end up quilting and selling patterns!
It has been a long journey filled with friendship, laughter, lots of learning and the occasional tear of frustration. These days I can't imagine not sewing and quilting. It has become such an integral part of my being. The journey is by no means over and I can't wait to see where it takes me!
I am a puzzler by nature. When I was an archaeologist I loved sitting in the lab and reconstructing ancient artefacts. It was so so rewarding to reconstruct items which had been broken for hundreds of years. In the same way, I get a huge feeling of satisfaction when I work out a better way to construct a pattern. Sometimes extending a line in a different direction or starting numbering from a different place can make all the difference.
Who would have thought that through designing paper pieced patterns I would find a creative outlet which is such a perfect fit for me. Equal parts creativity and logic.
4. How does my Creating Process work?
It starts with an idea. These can come from anywhere. My Cunning Mr Fox pattern was inspired by my daughter's school reading book, the big bear and 24 inch elephant came out of the blue. I knew that I wanted a whimsical design for the singing in the rain pattern and the pattern developed from there.
Once I have the idea, I generally have a quick search online for any similar patterns. A few ideas have been scrapped at this stage as I have felt that my idea is too similar to something out there already or when I saw that there are just too many designs of that particular item and I have nothing new to offer.
After satisfying myself that the pattern idea is relatively original, I go in search of an image (generally a photograph) to base the pattern on. These are generally just a very rough guide and give me a framework to hang my design on.
I tend to sketch patterns first to give myself an idea if they will work. Once this line sketch is complete then I will rework it again and again until I am happy that the piecing is logical.
Some patterns come together in one sitting, others take numerous sittings before I am happy with them. At times I find that leaving a pattern can be really good for me, when I get back to it, a suitable solution almost always presents itself.
I have previously written about the process of sending patterns to testers. Sometimes (like with the Odd Socks) it is not strictly necessary to get a pattern tested, but I still enjoy getting the extra feedback and having someone else look over the pattern. Its amazing what an extra pair of eyes can find.
Once the design is finished, I go looking for fabrics. Most of the time I have a vague idea of what I want, but there is always room for me to change my mind. Most of the time I work from what I have in my stash, purely because I am impatient and once I get to this stage of the project I just want to sew sew sew!
Thank you for taking the time to read my answers, I hope you enjoyed them.
I have asked my wonderful, warm and generous friend Leonie- the pattern testing extraordinaire to tell you a bit about her process to.
Thanks for dropping by!
Juliet x


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[highlight]Create a simple navigation application in Windiows Phone 7 ( WP7 ) [highlight]
In a Windows Phone application it is highly probable that you will have more than one screen in your application and you will need to navigate between them. We can make use of the navigation framework for the same. This navigation will be very similar to navigating from one web page to another. This navigation framework also supports query string.
So without much talk let's go ahead and create a simple business information application of financial company ACME and learn navigation in WP7.
- Goto visual studio 2010 and create new Windows Phone Silverlight and XNA Applicationand name it NavigationExample.
Add new folder to the NavigationExample named Views and inside Views add a new folder Locations.
Now add Windows Phone Portrait Page named About and Contact in the Views folder
Similarly add Windows Phone Portrait Page named Corporate Office and Satellite office in the Locations folder.
Now lets open the pages and edit the default text on the pages.
Open MainPage.xaml and edit the text to as shown in the image below. Also drag and drop four HypelinkButton onto the MainPage.xaml
Now edit the HyperlinkButtons to point to the proper pages to be navigated. Use the image below to do the same.MainPage.xaml
Now open about.xaml, contact.xaml, corporateoffice.xaml, satelliteoffice.xaml and edit the headings.
Now run the application and you will see the screen as below. You can also navigate to different screens.
You can download the full source code here
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Prepare our Matcha Latte Chia Seed Pudding Recipe at night and wake up to a creamy delicious jump start to your day!
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- 1/4 cup chia seeds
- 3/4 cup almond milk
- 1/2 cup full-fat coconut milk
- 1 tsp Boku Super Matcha
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp organic maple syrup
- Whisk all the ingredients together in a bowl until well combined.
- Place in the fridge for at least 3 hours or overnight.
- Top with additional chia seeds, a dollop of yogurt, or fresh fruit! Makes two servings.
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To LIVE in the world is hard to not watch the media of what they tell us how yo look, talk, act and even walk is so difficult. We belong to Him. He tells us who we really are. ASK HIM!!! Ask Him what He thinks about you. (I would love to hear the stories of how He responds!)
To LOVE in this world when There is hate, crime and injustice is gut wrenching. What would it look like to just love with no agenda or expectation? Love WINS every time.
To have and to give HOPE. Dream BIG. Be hopeful. There's more. Ask for more. Be extravagant in what you ask for. Ask for more than the box you have put Him in!!


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Too many people believe it's their company's job to carve out a career and professional development plan for them. It can be awesome when a company does this — it's one of the big goals of our company this year. But it's rare.
It's also not an excuse. Your inability to make progress is not a function of your company's ability to train you.
It's your job to train yourself.
What You Do At Night Matters
I was lucky to have this drilled into my head when I was younger by my parents and mentors. I graduated with a marketing degree but wanted to become a designer. So I spent my evenings and mornings practicing, doing real projects for free to get the skills I needed. It took a long time, but eventually it paid off.
When I become a business owner we decided UI/UX was no longer my highest and best use and I switched back to marketing. After the kids went to sleep I practiced and learned and experimented. It took a long time, but eventually started paying off.
I never would have become a creative director or led product development or taught marketing to MBA students if I relied on professional development initiatives from my employers. I had to create my own curriculum, and I had to practice. For a long time.
Most people I know who are successful follow the same pattern. One friend graduated with a history degree, but had an interest in technology and sales. He started doing inside sales and learned programming at night. He eventually became a VP of sales at a startup. Now he's a CTO.
Another friend had a political science degree, but was interested in startups as well. He learned enough design and development to build an agency that he later sold, and he ended up in venture capital.
In both of their cases, the things they did between 6pm and 12pm were what determined their future.
There obviously needs to be balance. If you have a spouse and kids, you need to be fully present with them each night. Even if you're single, you need to carve out time to exercise, see friends, connect spiritually, etc. And of course, giving yourself the opportunity to catch a movie or a game periodically is fine.
But what you don't need to do is queue up another season of Downton Abbey on Netflix, spending the 14 hours a week the average American spends watching television. You don't need to spend as much time playing Candy Crush or stalking high school friends on Facebook.
So what should you do instead?
Read more
My college mentor grew up in a poor African American family in Alabama. He managed to be the first in his family to get into college, attending West Point. He was a decorated officer before getting his MBA at Harvard. When I met him, he ran economic development in Colorado Springs.
When I asked him what he most attributed his success to, he said it was because he started reading and never stopped.
He believed knowledge was the key to getting what you wanted in life. So much so that his life goal was to build libraries in underprivileged communities like the one he grew up in.
He always asked job applicants what book they were currently reading. The A players were folks who could answer without hesitation. They usually were in the middle of 3 of 4 books, and at least one of them was professional in nature.
Reading gives you a huge head start on your peers who don't.
You're more likely to identify strategies and tactics from other industries that might work in your company.
You're more likely to avoid making common pitfalls that otherwise would only come with experience.
You're able to transfer that knowledge in your organization, creating new capabilities for your company.
And you're more interesting to talk to.
It's unlikely you're going to have a conversation at a networking event about the 4 P's of marketing or some other concept you picked up in your textbooks. But it's very likely you'll have a conversation about the long tail, or the 10,000 hour rule, or the build-measure-learn loop.
Anthony Robbins used to say that if you spend 1 hour a day learning about a particular topic, you'd know more about that subject than 99.999% of the world within a year.
Even if you have only 30 minutes a night, you can easily read a book a week. Maybe you're not an expert, but I guarantee you'll know more than your peers.
Read. Take good notes. Repeat.
Work on (Real) Projects
Ideally, you're able to take what you're learning and apply it in real world situations. If your company doesn't provide that opportunity, you need to create it yourself.
The reason is that it gives you reps. You simply learn more on real projects with real constraints than you do working on imaginary projects for a portfolio.
You get to learn how a principle applies in an actual industry, with actual team members, and how it impacts actual customers. You learn how to execute under a deadline, and have the benefit of a real feedback loop to see if what you did actually worked.
When you're not very good yet, that experience is invaluable. May more valuable than the measly fee you'd collect as a novice.
If you can realistically justify charging for it and you can convince someone else, go for it. But don't let fees get in the way of the work. Do whatever it takes to get as many reps as you can. The more times you get to practice the faster you improve.
The other way to get more reps is to take on projects no one else wants at work. By taking on those projects, reframing them, and making them successful you get opportunities to acquire new skills and influence within your organization. It's unlikely you'll have a ton of time to do this during the day since you'll have your normal job responsibilities. You'll have to do these projects at night. But the payoff can be huge.
Aggressively Build Your Network
A strong network accelerates everything you do in your career. You should spend considerable time building yours if you aren't already.
A good network gives you smart people to bounce ideas off of.
A good network gives you access to information and knowledge that are otherwise hard to come by.
A good network gives you introductions to consulting or freelance work that can give you more reps.
A good network will lead to more potential partnerships or revenue opportunities for your current company.
A good network will become the source of your next gig.
If you start your own business, your network will be the source of your early customers, your best employees and your most favorable sources of capital.
Rather than going home or going to the bar with your college buddies, you should be hitting up Meetup groups.
You should join your local chapter of whatever professional organization is most relevant to your career.
You should be grabbing coffee or drinks or breakfast with new people every single week.
And you should always stay in touch, actively looking for opportunities to help your network — to make new introductions, offer advice or share knowledge.
Your network can become your most powerful career asset, and the time you're spending watching Duck Dynasty can be spent building it.
Change Your Destiny, Starting Tonight
The great thing is you don't need permission. Your boss doesn't control your down time. When you're home, your kids are in bed, and you normally shut your brain off, you can instead be doing things that will make you smarter, more capable and more connected.
If you spend an hour a day doing these things, I guarantee your professional life will be dramatically different in a year than it is today.


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Check out photographs of the event here; I hope to have video of the talk ready to post within a couple days. Feel free to email myself or the gallery owners with comments and feedback, or questions about purchasing.
Also, know that this show continues until July 6th! If you missed the opening, you're still in good hands! Check out www.blindfoldgallery.com for hours and location.


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Although I have for many years rejected racial categories as social constructs and have made commitments to try to stop using racial language, I am not very good at walking my talk. Case in point, when referring to a friend that had visited my house at the same time as my sister, I said "the lady from the older black couple you met." After a few more thoughtful seconds, I was able to formulate a color reference even more specific and with less baggage: the lady with the purple lipstick. But that is not what I said.
Color is too easy to notice. Now more than I can remember, the color of a person's skin is an enduring symbol of a shared experience of oppression and violence for Americans. This experience promises to continue as the explicit and implicit racist factions within our society declare that they have no intention of retreating into obscurity. It seems inappropriate now not to use racial language. Despite the ridiculous and insidious origins of racial constructs, the consequences of the perception of race are profound, and they are very real.
Having a black appearing name can eliminate you from the final cut of applicants. Having a black sounding voice can inspire indignation in the listener. Having a black attitude can get you suspended or arrested or convicted. Having a black address can increase your interest rate. Having black skin can get you killed.
I am finding it more and more difficult to work toward a world in which our children have so many rich experiences of their friends that the last thing they would think to use as a reference is skin color. In many ways, it is my white privilege that has permitted me to try and ignore racial language. In quieter times, I might wax philosophical about how our tolerance of racial language, our institutional use of racial categories, and our media's insistence on reporting the race of their subjects all works to undermine progress and distract from the real issues. I think this conversation has its time. Right now is not that time.
Right now is the time to recognize blackness, oppose our worse definitions of blackness, and celebrate the blackness of our friends, family, and fellow citizens. I'll take a break from my intellectual pursuit and try again: Do you remember that beautiful, black diva with the purple lipstick?


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We've heard of SK (Sekolah Kebangsaan), SJKC (Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina) and SJKT (Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil) for primary public schools in Malaysia. However, some of us will be familiar with SMK (Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan) but have not heard of SMJK (Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan).
What Is SMJK?
SMJK stands for Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan or National-type Secondary School. The Education in Malaysia Wikipedia has a good definition of SMJK and a little history to help you understand SMJKs.
Read this wikipedia link on Secondary Education to understand the history of SMJK and What is SMJK.
In short SMJK used to be Chinese medium schools and they continue to be run like one. They teach the same syllabus as a SMK with all subjects in BM (unless the school has been approved to run the DLP or Dual Language Programme in which case, Math and Science will be taught in English) except there are 5 periods of Chinese instead of 3 and Chinese may be a compulsory subject for SPM in most SMJK. They are rather like a cross between a SMK and a CIS (Chinese Independent School)
What Is The Difference Between SMJK and SMK?
- SMJK has a higher ratio of Chinese students and teacher
- SMJK and SMK uses the same syllabus except Chinese is a compulsory subject for SMJK. All subjects are in BM unless they are a DLP school where Math and Science are taught in English
- Read this archived news link to understand the Characteristics of SMJK.
How Many SMJKs are there in Malaysia?
There are 78 SMJKs in Malaysia. Here is a List of the 78 SMJKs in Malaysia. You can also view the map below for the geographical location of the 78 SMJK in Malaysia to search for a SMJK near you. If you prefer, you can check out this map for the list of SMJK according to states in Malaysia.
Where Can I Get More Information On SMJK?
You can visit the SMJK Education Portal for the latest SMJK news. Here is another archived news article on SMJK which may interest readers seeking more information on SMJK.


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I once had occasion to travel to Perth with her. After a full day's work, and a glass of champagne, Angus – a mother of three children, including twins, settled back with a pile of reading for her PhD nanotechnology studies.
Today Angus is the programme director of iLab, a Queensland based technology incubator and accelerator, and also involved in her own start-up.
Owned by the University of Queensland's Uniquest operation, iLab was set up to service the general technology community across Queensland and also forge a close association student entrepreneurs. Angus took on the role to lead the organization in April 2012.
"iLab is helping to create a community that is empathetic and supportive of entrepreneurs and founders. This is the most difficult stage - trying to find money and resources, to help them build out their idea. We create an environment that does that and give them the knowledge they need and provide them with the resources they require and to have that as accessible as possible and with as little expense to the start up as possible."
In addition iLab provides access to a community of mentors and advisors to: " Provide the knowledge, expertise or guidance to help them progress down the commercialisation path."
Angus says that to be considered for the programme entrepreneurs need to demonstrate tenacity, a strong desire to succeed and a reasonably good idea. He sees her role as to remain neutral about the business, but to act as a confidante who can find people to "unstick" any problems.
As to who makes the grade Angus explains; "We have an external selection panel – we had programme in June - there were 260 expressions of interest, 100 full applications. We shortlisted that to 19, ten were chosen to pitch and over three months six have finished with us."
Over that three month intensive period entrepreneurs work to build out a concept into a business.
While Angus is today extremely focused and well connected, as a girl there was little evidence of that drive. Although Angus was born in Victoria, her parents and three siblings moved to Queensland early on, and she spent most of her school years in Mackay – a very relaxed environment where; "School was a distraction from everything else." Although interested in art and design Angus was nudged toward a hospitality traineeship, where she uncovered for the first time an ability to study hard and do well if she put her mind to something.
At 21 Angus went to Queensland University of Technology and undertook a business degree in HR and psychology. She had a series of jobs during and after her studies, and also uncovered a passion of learning that was more about learning itself, than a career stepping stone.
She began a diploma in teaching, then a masters in social science – both of which were completed while Angus took off travelling. She reckons she was one of the very few backpackers with a laptop and university reading materials in her rucksack.
"I was staying in little poky villages and trying to find the internet where I could and tapping away late at night to get assignments done – and going through countries that I was writing about. Indonesia was in all sorts of turmoil –I was seeing it all as I was writing my assignments."
"In Argentina we started to think and put down a plan of what we were going to do." Israel loomed large, and after converting to Judaism in Buenos Ares, the couple moved to Israel for four years where their daughter was born, along with their interest in technology start-ups.
After a stint in a start up which foundered shortly after the dot com boom, Angus worked in a marketing role for a business specializing in long range telemetry and security systems and completed a diploma in technology management from UNSW and gave birth to a daughter. Her partner meanwhile was working in an electronics business in Israel.
By the time they moved back to Australia there were steeped in technology and used to entrepreneurial environments. Sydney however was something of a desert, with little entrepreneurial focus back in 2004. Angus found work with Canon which supported her intent to study for a PhD exploring how nano technology and science might impact a range of different industry sectors.
Eighteen months into her PhD studies Angus learned that she was expecting twins, and although she continued with her studies, six months after her twin sons were born the load of work, study and caring for three small children led her to drop the PhD.
Along the way however she had delivered a paper in Melbourne on the perception of the brand of nano. In the audience was a Uniquest manager who sought angus out at the end of the presentation.
Shortly after Angus was offered a role working with researchers in the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Industrial Design at the University of Technology Sydney to help commercialise their research. She and Nimrod also established a start-up of their own called Wizzyboard.
When Uniquest completed the purchase of iLab the opportunity to take on the role as director arose.
Over the last eight years since Angus returned to Australia she feels that there has been a seachange in the local startup scene.
"It's now very exciting and vibrant particularly in Sydney – start ups are celebrated, the investment community is very active the Sydney angels have taken a structured approach and active in their investing."
In addition Angus believes that organisations such as Atlassian are "Putting Australia on the map in terms of their ability and attitude about keeping Atlassian in Australia and attracting overseas investors."
She also believes that Australian business students are realizing that they don't always have to work for the man when they graduate – but can start their own business. Technical graduates now need to make similar decisions says Angus.
"Starting a business can be very profitable and viable career path.
"People with technical skills need to consider start ups as an alternative – they are still thinking about graduate recruitment. There is an abundance of business entrepreneurs who need technical talent to complement them.
"In Sydney you starting to get that a lot. More technical graduates are coming out and thinking 'I'm going to start my own business and take a crack at that while the risks are low for me personally'. If it doesn't work out their skills are competitive and they can pick up a role later."
As to Angus' long term (she's 41) plans? "I think I'm a frustrated entrepreneur and think I have a start up in me – if not Wizzyboard then another.
"The value I bring to iLab is that I have my own start up and know what it feels like and how difficult it is and the challenges you face in raising capital and attracting investors. I would hope to retain that empathy and understanding for entrepreneurs and to influence and engage at senior level at policy level to promote the community further."


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Calvin Harris' Latest Snap Shows Taylor's Not the Only One Moving On
It looks like Taylor Swift isn't the only one moving on from her break-up with Calvin Harris. Tay's ex, who recently shared a sizzling shirtless pic of himself, has posted another pic, and it's quite brow-raising for another reason. That's because it shows Calvin posing with a group of smiling, super hot gals, which seems to be his way of telling the world that he's doing juuust fine.
Sharing the pic on Snapchat with the simple caption, "I write songs," Calvin's slight grin seems to be due to the four lovely ladies next to him, notably all brunette. Perhaps the newly single DJ is looking for someone who DOESN'T remind him of his headline-making ex.
Although this could be a simple shot showing that he's moving on in the wake of his breakup with Taylor, it still seems like we're watching a bit of subtext play out in public pics and posts.
Who would you hook Calvin Harris up with if you were playing matchmaker? Tweet us @BritandCo!
(Photos via Calvin Harris, Jesse Grant, Jamie McCarthy/Getty)


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Related to my previous post "new related reviews in Pubmed" (which appeared possibly an anouncement) is this post on "possible announcement of possibly related post" appearing in WordPress. Are you still with me?
Matt wrote a post "Possibly an anouncement" about the introduction of a new feature in WordPress: Related Posts. In English posts to begin with:
"In a feature we're calling possibly related posts we'll now try to show posts related to yours a little section at the end. If we find any posts on your blog that are related, we'll put those at the very top and in bold. Next we'll show other posts from around WordPress.com, and finally we'll check if there's anything in the mainstream media."
In the ensuing discussion Matt reveals that "related thingy" as someone calls is not done via tags or keywords, but with all the content in the post. According to Matt "Sphere" creates something they call a "document genome" (LS: Wow! they sequence it!) and use it to do the matching, which can work a lot better than tags and categories".
It is still in an experimental stage and will be tweaked on basis of feedback and data collected. Introducing related posts may increase traffic between blogs as one can easily go from one interesting item via another to an even more interesting item. A kind of "post-hopping" or lateral navigation, as Matt calls it.
Interesting idea, but is it working?
Well, I surveyed some of my blog posts in a similar way as Hugh from the "I'm not actually a geek" blog to see what the possibly related posts to my posts were. They're shown below, along with a rating of '++' for related and interesting, '— ?' for not related, '±' for posts show a certain similarity. ↔ = reciprocal
A. new-related-reviews-in-pubmed/ (Dutch/English)
(it is about PubMed, o.k. but mature and about the display format, not really about related articles and certainly not about related reviews-which are new ; the site itself is interesting -for me, but not updated for a year (Quite the opposit, Anna updates here blog daily. See somments. Sorry!)
- Eureka! — ?
- >> Grote kist — ?
the first two are from the same site and they link to each other but not to me.
Hé: Dutch posts show the relating feature as well 🙂
C. appropriate-bedside-manners (Dutch/English)
- Why paternalism isn't dead « WhiteCoat Underground ± (about doctor -patient communication, but not about bedside manners or doctors crying
- The Art Of Medicine, kind of book review ± (same, and a book review)
- Building Physician Practices in Florida through Interactive Websites — ?
- At Bedside, Stay Stoic or Display Emotions? ++ (but it is a reference in my blog
The last post (4) is a reference in my blog (yeah, easy!), and does not relate to me, nor do the other ones but 1 and 3 do relate again to 4.
D. etiquette-based-medicine (Dutch/English)
No resemblance whatsoever, except perhaps some english words/an English title next to Dutch ones. The second one is again a nice blog (a dutch biologist, brughagedis!)
Well E, I see at a glance, yields nonsense again. I don't take the trouble to write this down.
This trial was unsuccessful, indeed. The extremely low yield of NEW interesting posts might relate to the usage of both Dutch and English, but I can't understand why a new subject as Etiquette based medicine (NEJM-paper) does yield only irrelevant Dutch posts. In addition the related posts do not link back. Till now I never received any hopping guest (except via the WordPress dashboard, news, or tags).
Which brings me to a more generally uttered criticism, that is that Related Posts brings your reader(s) away from your blog, so you loose and don't gain.
Others criticize is that the posts linked to their blog are not remotely related and sometimes even quite contradictory (vegy food gives meat) or even link to racist and offensive material and that there is no control over the links, even a kind of intrusive to put (unrelated) links below a post without any notification. Somebody noted that It would be great if we had an easy-to-use formatting tool to list related posts of our choosing, not random word-search weirdness from the internets. Others object that tags (added yourselves) already serve this purpose of lateral navigation.
My feelings are quite similar to those of Douglas Bell (commenting on the announcement)
"I'm sorry, but I am astonished at how this feature was added. The particular blog that I run on WordPress.com is a professional blog with important content, and now to see something called "Possibly Related Posts" appearing in the exact same place and format as my own content, displaying links to blogs that I have no control over (and many of these links having absolutely nothing to do with my blog and linking to very inappropriate non-PG, non-English content) is quite infuriating. It's fine that this feature can be turned off, but shouldn't it have been opt-in, instead of opt-out?"
Of course there are positive reactions as well, mostly very short comments : awesome, I like this, you guys are great….
But I don't like it, not when it works this way and I will put the feature off. I might give it a second chance later to see if it performs better.
And the missed traffic to my blog? I don't mind. I rather have a few interested people here, than just traffic passing by. I hate highways anyway. Prefer the quiet countryside and wait there for somebody to visit me and stay for a while. And of course I pay a visit back.
Note added in proof: some related posts have been refreshed in the meantime.
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