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Category: atomisation
June 3, 2007 June 3, 2007 Tom Hopkins
Probably the most interesting debate at the moment in digital is about DRM. Digital Rights Management – the attempt to restrict and control the distribution of copyrighted digital (entertainment) content – has a sort of farsical quality.
Typically DRM only really impacts on all the sorts of people who would never dream of copying music in the first place. All the others – the ones that scare the record companies to death, basically clued up kids – simply ignore and circumvent it.
Bill Gates (and bear in mind that Microsoft created the most widely used DRM platform outside iTunes) advised customers to buy music on CDs and rip them, because DRM was so problematic and badly implemented. In particular, we are now expecting customers to pay for something that they don't then get to own – they can't resell it, lend it or even store it somewhere temporarily. If their computer goes "bye bye", the music will probably go with it.
EMI's move to sell DRM-free music is bizarre for two reasons. Firstly because they are charging 20cents more per track which is DRM free. What signal are we sending there if not 'pay us 20cents more and get to share it with your mates'? Secondly because it seems to have been done without any strategy for how it might be made to work. It feels incredibly last chance saloon.
Peter Gabriel has just launched a new site that hopes to solve this problem by inserting pre-roll ads on otherwise freely downloadable music. We7 gives you the track free, and if you listen to ads on the track for a few weeks, you get to download a version without ads. I love the desire to solve the problem but don't think it will work. The problem is that these sites aren't really competing with paid-for music, they're competing with free music on bit torrent. The youth of today (!) simply don't expect to pay for this stuff. It's a big problem. As Peter Gabriel said on News 24 Click, the record companies seem to be a bit like King Canute, sitting on the beach and ordering the tide not to come in.
One commentator on this subject is Andrew Orlowski. He's been predicting some sort of PRS-style blanket licensing of music, although this dream has only recently been shot down by the head of the Collection Societies (of PRS-style organisations around the world).
In this lecture (on the site you get the slides and an audio recording), Larence Lessig points to the fact that despite the internet we are actually less free than we ever have been with regards to what copyright law allows us to do. Some of the laws may be unenforced or unenforcable, but he argues – quite brilliantly – that rights' owners are pushing their luck more than ever before, and that this control is actively stifling creativity.
It's quite a long presentation (30 odd minutes) but I'd strongly recommend anyone who's interested in this area to take the time out to give it a listen. One brilliant observation is that Walt Disney took most of his inspiration from uncopyrighted works to create everything from Steamboat Willie (the first Mickey Mouse movie, above, a take-off of Steamboat Bill with Buster Keaton) to Snow White (from the Brothers Grimm). Of course, Disney now protects copyright as its most important asset.
The solution remains elusive. It seems it's more likely to be around the major labels disappearing and artists and consumers having more direct relationships. Will users pay for value? of course. But heaven knows if it will be in the form of a music download. With the DRM genie firmly out of the bottle, we need to find a way to pay artists for their work but perhaps not to milk the content for time immemorial as we are today.
Posted in atomisation, DRM, rights
Atomic experiments
May 22, 2007 May 23, 2007 Tom Hopkins
It was a pleasure to go along tonight to the final event of widget week, NMK's Widget Nation (part of the Beers and Innovation series). The panel was Fergus Burns of Nooked, Ivan Pope of Snipperoo, Matt Looney (who was chairing) and, slightly bizarrely, me.
It turned out to be a very different evening from the Chinwag widget event, even though Fergus was on both panels. If the downside was a smaller crowd, the upside was that the whole setting felt more intimate. There were certainly more questions, and more open discussions, without the pressure of a 200-strong audience.
While the panel did spend a lot of time on definitions, we also touched on broader topics with plenty of detailed discussion about copyright and monetisation.
All round, an enjotable experience, so many thanks to Ian for inviting me and for keeping up the excellent work.
PS: Unlike the last one of these I was on, I had been asked to prepare a little intro to me and my views. It came out very differently on the night but here's what I had planned to say!
I'm from Conchango. For those of you that don't know, Conchango is one of the biggest and best digital agencies in the UK.
I work in the interactive media department of that company. Traditionally that's meant doing a lot of big sites for big brands. More recently it has meant lots of smaller widgets and lot of proofs of concept around widgets.
Quite a few of the people who are here tonight (including Fergus in particular) were at the Chinwag event last week in a slightly less salubrious pub about 500 meters away! Like all of these events we ended up in this strange quagmire where everyone had been talking about widgets for some time with relative confidence before some one put their hand up and asked what a widget was.
This would have been less worrying if they'd got a straight answer from the panel but there still seemed to be a fair amount of confusion.
One audience member suggested that widgets were the "bumper stickers of the internet". Well I'm sure that's a great definition of something, but certainly not of widgets.
While we try and define widgets using metaphor and simile, we'll become unstuck. Widgets are a symptom, in my view, of a much broader shift in how we consume information and services.
We can call the new paradigm "atomization" and say that it is about streams of content being delivered seamlessly into new and alien environments – like the adwords that sprouted overnight onto just about every surface of the internet in 2003.
We could talk about the new paradigm being about personalization, users can now take just the content they want and see it just where they want it.
But the real shift is deeper than that. It is the resolution of all of the systems integration problems which made it difficult to deliver truly customer focused website solutions the first time round in "Web 97". RSS does bits of that, and so does XML. Although personally I think it's crazy that the public to know about RSS. It is like them knowing about SQL and C#.
RSS is just the tip of it, of course. For an industry that normally can't agree on anything, it's amazing that there are now shared paradigms in webservices, in APIs. There are standardized design patterns for cross site interfaces of all types. And this is why we now have mashups all over the place – both very publicly on the web, where you can see them, and more quietly in lots of back offices, where you can't.
Widgets are a symptom of that. For a developer of a large website widgets are a way to get their services out there (in this respect content is a service). And that is why they are often seen as little more than affiliate marketing schemes; designed to return traffic to the mothership
From a pure developer's point of view, widgets are a great way to expose one webservice or a number of webservices to users. They're also often the easiest coding project in the end-of-year computer-science project.
But widgetisation isn't the end game. It's the middle game.
I don't know if you've seen the Last FM / MySpace widget. You go to Last FM and type in a few details and WHAM, they go and stick a load of javascript onto your myspace page, to make it look even uglier. Think the Last FM / Facebook integration will look like that? I don't. I think it'll be properly integrated to create a good user experience.
As with all significant technological improvements, users will adopt it when they hardly even know they're doing it. We can't very well make that claim now for adding widgets in Vista. It's easier on Live.com or iGoogle but is still not easy enough for my mum.
So many widgets are born in the name of "branded utility" (the idea that brands should "do something" for their customers). But what good is a widget with all the utility in the world if only the uber-geeks can get the bloody thing working.
To install a third party widget on my desktop the other day for Nike + ipod, I had to agree to seven Vista security warnings- each with a bigger and more inflamed error message. And that was after spending 5 minutes finding the bugger.
Even then it didn't work very well. No branded utility there.
Apart from poor usability (and to a certain extent, findability), what else will limit the spread of distributed technologies, not just widgets but general integration across systems and desktops? Well content owners are going to have to find a way to let go a bit, and yet still keep their eyes on revenue streams. If this means advertiser funded content, then we'll have to find a way to make that acceptable. If it's micropayments, then we'll need much lower barriers to entry.
We hear the cries of foul play from Newspaper owners like the Telegraph about RSS content devaluing or ripping off their output. These sectors should look at what's happening to music now and for the last couple of years. Don't fight the tide, find a way to profit from what consumers want, because they will get it in the end.
Taking the broader picture of data and service integration, if we look at the medium term we'll be seeing plenty of plays in Software as a Service from people like Google and Microsoft, and webservice integration will be a battleground, not because customers want to tailor the interface themselves or geek around with mashups, but because they just want it richer and more fulfilling.
On the flipside the idea of 'download' will become fairly meaningless with the speed of connection and the ability to install light, protected applications within the new operating system frameworks, or even straight within browsers will seem like a good, helpful thing for users. And we'll start to see rich interface applications which again will be fully integrated but don't just reside in the sidebar – 'widgets' plus.
My favorite prediction du jour is not just a facebook widget for my mobile phone, but a facebook app for my phone that replaces it's current, annoying interface with one that tells me the status of whoever I'm about to call, their location and their last change of favourite film and all that. Think what we can do when we start thinking seriously about integrating these services quietly at the back-end rather than painfully on our desktops, phones and browsers.
Posted in atomisation, marketing
Would you like widgets with that?
May 16, 2007 May 17, 2007 Tom Hopkins8 Comments
Tonight's media widgetised was the fourth in the Chinwag live series of events. This one is part of a broader collection of discussion groups about the effects of widgets, and I'm delighted to be speaking at the next one, being organised by Ian at NMK and Beers & Innovation.
Staging was massively improved but more importantly we were also treated to an exciting panel and an engaged audience. Steve Bowbrick kept things moving along swiftly and Fergus Burns of Nooked and Kaj Häggman of Widsets both had massive depth of experience.
I suppose it's unsuprising that there was a few detours into the definition of the term. We ended up with the "content or service atomised and made available for sharing", as well as "website peel offs" which is a nice take. Interesting discussions too about the common runtime environments and sandboxes that are coming from Microsoft and Adobe.
Obviously there's been a lot of talk about this year being the year of the widget. If that means anything, we're going to have to work out what these things are for and how they provide business value as well as consumer value.
The response to the question about whether widgets were just complex affiliate marketing wasn't brilliantly complete but three basic models did get talked about in a variety of terms
Widgets as affiliate-style traffic generation, allowing relevance and atomisation but returning users to a base website
Widgets as branded utility
Widgets as the whole experience, just in the wrong place (as it were)
(I'd add a fourth, widgets as just a subset of the broader church of mash-ups, SaaS and web-service integration)
One thing irked a little. The panel as a whole and the chair in particular were very scathing about widgets on mobiles, the claim being that the networks have excessively locked down handsets (preventing widgets) in order to protect revenues.
Well, I'm not saying networks don't think about protecting revenue streams but I think this is exceptionally over simplistic, especially when networks could benefit enormously from the traffic such tools would generate. For all the that the widget-merchants on the panel talked about the importance of user-focus and usability, no one could see the problem with opening up mobile phones to the random and unpredictable behaviour of unpoliced widgets. Widsets may well provide the decent security and usability framework that is required. The alternative is an unthinkable security and usability nightmare as Andrew Orlowski points out here. How exactly will Vodafone or Orange's oursourced call centres handle calls about a malfunctioning widget!!
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Q: Read process memory failing to read the correct value? I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why this isn't working. I'm trying to display the local player health using some generic Read Process Memory template I've found on the internet. This is all from a dll which is injected into a process. The rpm and wpm template:
#include <cstdint>

template<typename TYPE>
TYPE RPM(HANDLE proc, DWORD address) {
    TYPE buffer;
    ReadProcessMemory(proc, (LPCVOID)address, &buffer, sizeof(buffer), 0);
    return buffer;
}

template<typename TYPE>
void WPM(HANDLE proc, DWORD address, TYPE dataToWrite) {
    TYPE buffer = dataToWrite;
    WriteProcessMemory(proc, (LPVOID)address, &buffer, sizeof(buffer), 0);
}

Some things I declared:
HANDLE hProc;
uintptr_t client = (uintptr_t)GetModuleHandle(TEXT("client.dll"));
constexpr ptrdiff_t LocalPlayer = 0xd3dd14;
constexpr ptrdiff_t m_iHealth = 0x100;

The code I used to read off the local player health:
int Health = RPM<int>(hProc, client + LocalPlayer + m_iHealth);
std::cout << Health << "\n";

It returns a really large negative number, which I believe is the minimum value an int can have. I cannot change m_iHealth to a DWORD because I'm using GetClientEntityList, which requires m_iHealth to be a constesxpr ptrdiff_t.
The only issues I could think of are:

*

*RPM isn't taking a fully DWORD value in. -- Cannot fix

*The type of RPM is an int, but that is what the value of health is in.

*For whatever reason the template doesn't support constexpr ptrdiff_t's. If this is the case, could someone pass me a template that supports constexpr ptrdiff_t values?

What I've tried:

*

*Declaring a new DWORD, localClient, as client + LocalPlayer, then reading from localClient and health.

*This:

uintptr_t localPlayerAddr = RPM<uintptr_t>(hProc, client + LocalPlayer);

*Declaring 2 as a DWORD.

The expected outcome: What I wanted to happen was for it to print to a console window (which it does) and show me the correct health value of the local player (which it doesn't). I've made sure to click the button that does this (Im using Dear ImGui) while the player is in the game. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've added checks to make sure the value exists and is an int, which both pass.

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title: Turing Machines! (#1)
summary: An introduction to turing machines, haskell, and red-black trees

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I am planning to use turing machines as the first subject for Commonwealth math club 2015, so I thought I would implement them in haskell to make sure I really understood them. This series of blog posts follows how I did that, teaching how a turing machine works along the way. Like the last post, I will try to make this accessible to a non-technical reader, but no promises!

For the first post, I will explain what a Turing machine is.

A formal definition of a Turing machine, (slightly modified from the one on Wikipedia), is a seven-tuple consisting of:

- Q (A finite, non-empty set of states)
- Γ (A finite, non-empty set of tape alphabet symbols)
- b ∈ Γ (The blank symbol)
- Σ ∈ Γ* (The string of input symbols)
- δ : (Q \ F) × Γ → Q × Γ × {L, R} (the transition function)
- q0 ∈ Q (The initial state)
- F ⊆ Q (The set of final or accepting states)

But of course that's completely useless, because it doesn't describe at all what the turing machine does. Keep it in the back of your head, though.

The conventional mental picture of a turing machine is a little mechanical head on an infinitely long tape. If you didn't grow up 30 years ago, the "tape" might be a bit of a bad metaphor, because computers no longer use tape. So instead, perhaps a better metaphor is a little robot with a one-dimensional scrabble board that reaches out infinitely on both sides. Like this.

```
   ---------------------------
...| | | | | | | | | | | | | |...
   ---------------------------
             (o - o)
```

The robot can interact with her environment in three ways. She can look at the tile her nose is in front of (her nose is the hyphen). She can replace the tile that her nose is in front of with another tile from her infinite bag of tiles (though there are only finitely many types of tiles). Or she can move one space to the right or left.

However, the robot cannot do any of these things at any time: she must follow a set of rules. To understand these rules, we must two more parts to our robot, a color and a decoder ring.

```
   ---------------------------
...| | | | | | | | | | | | | |...
   ---------------------------
             (o - o)
             (GREEN)
             decoder
```

This robot has a little light on top of her head that can change to a finite number of predefined colors, for instance {RED, GREEN, BLUE, CHARTREUSE}. The decoder ring is a bit like the kind you get in cereal boxes, except it has two inputs: a scrabble tile and a color, and three outputs: a new color, a new scrabble tile, and a direction (left or right). You can imagine two rings on the outside that have a position for each tile and each color, and a little dial on the inside that displays the output the same way the score at a quidditch match is displayed. You move the outer rings around until the symbols you want are at the top, and the dial on the inside whirs around to display new things whenever the two rings on the outside move. The important thing about this model is that the inputs and outputs are both finite, and the dial depends only on the position of the two outer rings, not on whatever happened before.

The robot follows the following procedure every step:

1. Look at the tile in front of her nose.
2. Set the inputs of the decoder ring to the tile in front of her nose and her current color.
3. Change color to the new color specified by the decoder ring.
4. Replace the scrabble tile in front of her with one of the type specified by the decoder ring.
5. Move in the direction specified by the decoder ring.

For instance, if the board looked like this:

```
   ---------------------------
...| | | | | |a|q|s|a| | | | |...
   ---------------------------
             (o - o)
             (GREEN)
             decoder
```

and the decoder ring specified for inputs "q" and "GREEN" the output "f", "RED", "LEFT", at the end of the step the board would look like this:

```
   ---------------------------
...| | | | | |a|f|s|a| | | | |...
   ---------------------------
           (o - o)
           ( RED )
           decoder
```

There are just a couple other things we have to describe about this robot.

First, how does she start? She starts with a board filled with a certain configuration of tiles. This configuration must only be on a finite stretch of board. She also starts with a certain color. This configuration is called the "input", and her color is called the "initial color". She begins at the leftmost non-blank square (or anywhere if all the squares are blank -- then it doesn't matter).

Second, how does she end? There are certain colors that will her stop her at the beginning of her next step. For instance, if her set of "terminal" colors is {CHARTREUSE} and she switches to CHARTREUSE, she will finish the step and then stop doing anything. This is known as "halting".

At this point, you may have already made the connection to the formal definition above. Before I tell you the connection, I'll clear up some terminology you may be unfamiliar with, and then you should try and look aback at the formal definition and see if you can make the connection yourself. If you think it's obvious, feel free to skip the next paragraph.

- Tuple means list. (1, 3), ("seven", {4, 2}), (1, 2, 5) are all tuples. You can also say three-tuple, ten-tuple, etc. to refer to tuples with that many elements.
- String also means list, but strings can have any (finite) length. You refer to the set of all strings formed by elements of a set A by A*.
- A × B refers to the set of tuples of the form (a, b) where a ∈ A and b ∈ B.

Now, without further ado, I present the Little Machine-Formal Definition of Turing Machine Correspondence, in spectacularly dull and straightforward style. The set Q of states corresponds to the colors our robot can change to. The set Γ of tape alphabet symbols corresponds to the different types of scrabble tiles. The blank symbol is the blank scrabble tile. The string Σ of tape alphabet symbols corresponds to the initial configuration of the scrabble board. The function δ is the decoder ring, it maps from states (except for halting states) and symbols to states, symbols, and directions. The set F is the set of "terminal" or "halting" colors, and finally q0 is the initial state. As you can verify yourself, this seven-tuple completely defines the actions of our robot.

Next time, I will go into how to program a version of this in the programming language haskell. Feel free to use the little robot model or the mathematical model whenever you hear about a turing machine, whichever works best for you. Sometimes it's helpful to think of a turing machine as a mathematical object, for instance if you want to represent it. But it's also good to have this intuitive model of what it does.

-Owen

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Spade talks about his life from childhood through the Tommy Boy/Black Sheep days.This one was a hoot. Spade is one of my favorite stand-up comedians, and of course he brings his excellent timing and sense of humor to his memoir, which is filled with fascinating tidbits from his early career and SNL days. I highly recommend the audio version, because he reads it so well, and that goofy laugh cracked me up every time.
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I'm surprising myself by giving this audio 5 stars. I thought Spade's snarky sense of humor would bother me, but it made me laugh more than ever. He's funny, seemingly honest and as the title suggests-Almost Interesting.
My highest recommendation to fans of Spade's humor and for fans of SNL.
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Very funny book it is as spade said almost interesting.
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There are a few different approaches to comedy memoirs. You can go with the actual story of your life (with jokes), a la Amy Poehler: This requires you to a) have an interesting life, and b) be funny. You can try for the structured set approach: You set the book up as a connected strand of narratives, each one with its own theme, and riff as you go. This is the most common approach, at least as practiced successfully: Patton Oswalt's Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, Jim Gaffigan's Dad Is Fat and Tina Fey's Bossypants.
All of this is by way of saying that David Spade could have really used a thoughtful approach here. The book's a bit schizophrenic: The first part is a pretty straightforward narrative of his life coming up in comedy. It's not peppered full of jokes, but memoirs don't need to be — it's about the person's life, and in Spade's case that life is worth reading about.
He of course covers Saturday Night Live, where most people know him from, and it's a worthwhile addition to the numerous full books that have been written about the show from Studio 6H. He also touches a bit on his most-well-known partner, Chris Farley, which I mention only because I've read him in other places talking about the emotional bond between the two. There's plenty of Farley information (with new stories), but Spade doesn't delve as deep into himself and his own feelings as he did in the beginning, so it winds up feeling a little bit like fanservice. Which is understandable — maybe he didn't want to linger too much on Farley (whether because of genuine emotion or not wanting to be eternally Farley's sidekick is immaterial) yet knew there would be an expectation for it — but it's noticeable, nonetheless.
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10 Tips to Effectively Create Fun in the Workplace
In today's workplace, threatening people has proven to be ineffective as a motivational technique, while paying them a higher salary has only shown short-term success. On the other hand, making the workplace more enjoyable has a track record of effecting real change.
Most people understand that work has to be done at work, but what many people forget is that work can also be enjoyable by ensuring fun has a place in the office. I have become convinced that making work fun makes everything more enjoyable while also boosting worker's ability to perform their duties and provide quality service under increasingly demanding work conditions.
But how do you go about introducing elements of fun into your work setting? Here are ten things to focus on to ensure a positive, friendly, and fun work environment.
Give Up the Notion that Professionalism Means Being Serious
It's possible to take yourself lightly and still be competent and productive. Start to promote the benefits of humor at work. Laughter releases endorphins with the same exhilarating effect as doing strenuous exercise. Laughing also increases oxygen intake and boosts immunity, while continuously relieving stress. Humor also levels the playing field to create an atmosphere that encourages honest dialogue, open communication, and increased risk-taking. Creating more equality like this shows people respect and builds pride in their work.
Add Some Fun to Meetings
Set aside time in every meeting for a little bit a fun, like starting a meeting with a humorous joke or story, to encourage a more casual demeanor.
Collect and Share Your Favorite Jokes or Cartoons With the Team
Create a joke board or email chain. Look for tools to disseminate fun and funny things on a daily basis. While it is important to keep jokes workplace appropriate and fairly benign, there is humor out there that everyone can find funny.
Let Customers Know You Are a Fun Company
Do something just for fun (organize customer events, dress for fun, share humorous things with customers) and give employees tools to create a playful relationship with customers. This makes work more enjoyable for employees and it strengthens the relationship with customers. Disneyland is a good example of having the same kind of approach. Employees are part of an entertainment experience, and they aren't just doing a job.
Respond to Fun When it Happens
Funny things occur all the time and some might find it hard to stop and respond. Natural spontaneous humor is a blessing. Encourage your employees to stop and take a moment to give themselves and customers an opportunity to see the amusement in the event.
Commit to a Fun Atmosphere and it Will Change Everyone's Approach to Work
Start slowly with a few activities and communicate the company desire to create a more relaxed workplace. This can be a casual dress code, employee events, fun activities on Fridays, or simply the space to allow for employees to just be themselves. When an employee is able to have fun at work, it creates an atmosphere where work and fun mix, and more work gets done.
Put Fun Items and Activities Throughout the Office
This allows people to take their mind off of the seriousness of work for a short period, so they come back to work with a more positive and balanced perspective. We have games, lounge areas, and a "backyard" to hang out and bbq, which all help balance out the work at hand.
Encourage Employees to Develop Their Own Style of Fun
Create a fun "humor in the workplace code of conduct" to remind people of the importance of having fun, but in a safe, professional way.
Create a Few Rituals or Traditions That Encourage People to Have Fun
Rituals and fun workplace traditions create a sense of shared history and shared team experience. They also give employees a chance to lighten up, have something to look forward to, and something to reminisce about.
Encourage Staff to Leave Work Behind at the End of the Day
Employees shouldn't be so consumed with work that it affects their family life and leisure activities. Find fun ways for employees to "unload" at the end of the day or week. Create a ritual like writing a "to do" list and posting it on the bulletin or white board. By doing this, you show your staff your commitment to not thinking about the to do list until the next day.
The key is to make sure you have a relaxed enough working environment where it's okay for these steps to happen! Remember, fun in the workplace is both a tool AND the end result of working in a great, inspiring, "want to" workplace environment where people feel valued, respected, and trusted, and where people feel free to simply be themselves.
Stacey Dockrill
After 5 years at Gigasavvy doing all of the behind the scenes stuff that no one else wanted to do, she has earned the title of Director of Business Operations. She is now a part of our senior leadership team, and oversees the ongoing growth of multiple areas of Gigasavvy's business operations including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Office Management, Legal matters, and much more. Prior to joining the Gigasavvy team in 2010, Stacey worked in various industries within the Corporate world - nothing like Agency life. Stacey provides support to virtually every department within the company, overseeing and implementing the day-to-day minutia every business needs to run efficiently. Stacey also holds another full time job as a mother of two and a wife of one. In her spare time, you can usually find her enjoying a good glass of wine, rocking out at concerts, checking out the latest movie, or doing pretty much anything outdoors.


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Thank you for taking the time to fill up the web design quotation form.
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However, we will call you if you actually feel the need to talk one on one prior to starting the web design project.
What Would Be Included In The Web Design Quote?
We will first send you a tentative design quote, which outlines briefly what is involved, the technologies we will use, and the tentative time-frame from the project. Once you revert to that email in affirmative, we will send you a detailed proposal in PDF format. Signing is usually not required for smaller projects unless the client wants to have it signed. For us, a simple email acceptance of the proposal is good.
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The chances are that we already have, if you belong to the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, or other parts of Europe. To see the list of websites we have built in the past please visit our web design portfolio. Next to each of the project, we also have the country mentioned.
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I Already Have Domain & Hosting.
That is fine. It is not required for you to switch hosting to us or transfer your domain to us in order for you to work with us. We are happy to work with your existing hosting provider while publishing the final site for you. However, many clients do prefer to hand over their site maintenance and upkeep to us. In such a situation, it is a better option to have your site hosted with us. It makes it easy for us to manage your site on an ongoing basis.
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Client Questionnaire to understand your requirement in depth.
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Coding the design to convert to an actual site.
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A miraculous form called the "Victory Mode", born from four Digimon's powerful desire to gain absolute victory. Its raison d'être is nothing but enforcing this conviction. That power is tremendous, and it isn't a mistake to count it as one of the strongest Digimon.
Its main specialty is in battling on the ground, where it can cut any opponent in two with a single stroke, even if they are moving about quickly (Burning Star Crusher), use a comeback punch that will find it a way out of any predicament (Three Impact), and so forth. Incidentally, it can also hurl a wave from the Star Sword DX (Burning Star Slasher).
This profile matches the one used on Digimon Life.
Its main specialty is in battling on the ground, where it can cut any opponent in two with a single stroke, even if they are moving about quickly (Burning Star Crusher), use a comeback punch that will find it a way out of any predicament (Three Impact), and so forth.
The "Victory Mode" which gains absolute victory!
The DigiXros of Shoutmon, Ballistamon, Dorulumon, and Starmon and the Pickmons! This "Victory Mode" was born from their powerful desire to gain absolute victory. It is one of the strongest Digimon.
It pulverizes the opponent with "Burning Star Crusher", which can cut any opponent in two with a single stroke, even if they are moving about quickly, or "Three Impact", a comeback punch that will find it a way out of any predicament!
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Uses a comeback punch that will find it a way out of any predicament.
Burning Star Crusher  バーニングスタークラッシャー Bāningu Sutā Kurasshā Great Sword of Victory Cuts the opponent in two with a single stroke.
Burning Star Slasher  バーニングスタースラッシャー Bāningu Sutā Surasshā V For Victory Hurls a wave from the Star Sword DX.
Shoutmon X4 is only obtainable as a collectible card. Its card is part of the Shoutmon Evolution (シャウトモン進化 Shautomon Shinka) set.
Shoutmon X4 is the main evolution of Dorulumon, one of the twelve playable characters.
This Victory Mode of miracles was born from bonds!
Born from the Digi Xros of 4 Digimon from team Xros Heart, including Shoutmon, it is skilled at using its sword to battle.
Shoutmon X4 faces a strong enemy, Daipenmon, using Team Xros Heart's passionate bonds as its weapon.
It engaged in an intense battle with a member of the Bagra Army, Baalmon, in Sand Zone, with both parties not letting their guard down one bit.
While in Forest Zone, it cooperated with its rival Kiriha's Metal Greymon to fight Dark Knightmon.
The Victory Mode, formed when Shoutmon X3 came to wield the Star Sword. It slices all enemies in half.
A form equipped with the Star Sword, which excels in both offense and defense. The Star Sword improves the battle capabilities Shoutmon X3 had considerably.
The form attained when Shoutmon X3 received the Star Sword, a weapon that excels in both offense and defense. It is able to conform to a variety of strategies.
The Victory Mode, formed from the fusion of Shoutmon, Ballistamon, Dorulumon, and Starmons, who pledged to attain victory.
When all the hotly burning hearts become one, Shoutmon X4 can unleash a further strengthened Special Attack.
A Digimon of the strongest class that was born from Shoutmon and co.'s feelings of 'definite victory no matter what happens'.
It specializes at unleashing quick sword techniques in battle. Shoutmon X4 can slice even tough opponents into half with one slash of its sword.
The Digi Xros of Shoutmon, Ballistamon, Dorulumon and Starmons. A Digimon that possesses strong will.
A miraculous Composite Digimon that sticks to its strong conviction to never fall, even when driven to a corner.
The Victory Mode born from a miracle created by four Digimon in order to seize victory. It has a strong conviction that aims only for victory, and is armed with power allowing it to push forth to victory without buckling under the pressure.
The DigiXrosed form of Shoutmon, Ballistamon, Dorulumon, and Starmons. It specializes in land battles, fighting bravely by swinging the Star Sword DX in tandem with its speedy movements.
↑ Digimon Xros Wars: "Fierce General Tactimon, Approach!"
↑ Digimon Xros Wars: "Sand Zone, A Great Adventure in the Ruins!"
↑ Digimon Xros Wars: "Taiki, Go to Another World!"
↑ Digimon Xros Wars: "A Targeted Taiki! The Super Celebrity-star's War Cry!"
↑ 9.0 9.1 Super Digica Taisen: "First Act DigiXros Units"
↑ Digimon Xros Wars: "X4, The Crisis Breakthrough!"
↑ Digimon Xros Wars: "Heaven Zone, The Snare of Paradise!"
↑ Digimon Xros Wars: "Sweets Zone, The Sweet-toothed Digimon Rampage!"
↑ Digimon Xros Wars: "Miraculous Digi Xros! Shoutmon X5 Flies!"
↑ 16.0 16.1 Super Digica Taisen: "Fifth Act DigiXros Units"
↑ Super Digica Taisen: "Sixth Act DigiXros Units"
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It has been a while since Fatshark released a new set of FPV goggles. The Dominator HD V2s were a huge success and therefore Fatshark has already set the bar high. Fatshark has produced another set of FPV goggles called the Fatshark Dominator SE.
Fatshark claims that these goggles are meant to be cheaper than the HDV2 but at the same time provide the same level of performance in terms of video quality and comfort. You can pick these goggles up here for $349.95 USD.
– Battery charge adapter cable.
There are a few things that stand out to me. Firstly, I'm surprised (and relieved) that Fatshark are finally including an antenna with their goggles. This is a small issue that lots of people have been complaining about and I'm glad they have listened.
Nevertheless, for $350 I would be expecting a battery that is more than 1000mAh. To be honest, you can easily just switch up the battery but that will include an extra cost which is a little bit annoying. It also does not come with a battery charger so you will have to order one for $18.
Here are the specs of the Fatshark Dominator SE Goggles.
features like head tracking are not included. It has a VGA 640×480 display which is the same as the Attitude V3 (I would expect at least 800×480 for $350.) I do really like the orange and black colour scheme and the fact that you can use 3S batteries with these goggles is a bonus too.
Overall I don't quite know what to make about these goggles. I've ordered a pair and will be reviewing them as soon as I get my hands on them. However my first impressions are that Fatshark is using old technology on a rather pricey 'new' set of goggles.
I think that the release of the Fatshark Dominator SE Goggles combined with the discontinuation of HD V2's means that the Dominator HD V3's are soon to be released? Leave your thoughts and comments below. Thanks!
lack of DVR and HDMI is a big turnoff.
It does have a DVR…..But they suffer from the 2 main problems that the HDV2 had. Blurry edges of the screen that can be somewhat fixed with Diopters and the contrast is awful. They use the same lenses that are in the HDV2, that everyone complains about. The image I see in the goggles is a bit washed out, doesn't have the fine detail in the branches and color fidelity. It almost looks like the contrast is cranked up, but reducing contrast makes it just more washed out without gaining detail. I tried using them at dusk and I had to switch back to my Dominator V2 goggles. I own the Dom V2, Dom HDV2 and the Dom SE and I am still using my Dom V2. The battery it comes with is missing the middle wire on the balance plug so you can't balance charge it, as if there batteries don't have a short lifespan already. Your lucky to get 3 months out of their crappy LiPo. I made a battery with two 18650, 3400mah LiIo over a year ago and it's still working great and lasts much longer. I guess the orange and black color scheme is the only thing special about the SE goggles.
The battery has an integrated balancing circut so you don't need to balance charge it.
It is a pity they just keep putting those crappy low res low contrast, low grey scale display panels into their goggles. If they moved up from the nineties to 2016 display technology (look how far mobile phone screens have come in the last few years) and used proper optical grade coated lenses that stop colour splitting and edge distortion rather than cheap plastic, they would probably be on the mark with the money (price) they are asking. I made a set of goggles using a top quality 5″ photography PVM with very high contrast (>2000:1) and 1200×800 resolution, the image and colour are just stunning, razor sharp, full fov image size, it is very deep and immersive.. one day I hope one of these manufacturers will do the same or better with a set of glasses so I can shift to something smaller. Sadly they don't seem to be in much of a hurry. These days the HDMI is a total no brainer, but likely caused by utilising cheap ancient componentry… like the 1990's lcd's..
I totally agree. It seems like these companies are stuck in the 1990s and don't want to invest in new technology for monetary purposes.
I think they also have the drip feed marketing mentality. Why give the customer everything when we can upgrade them ten times over, and still have another trick up our sleeves. I think it is (hopefully) just a matter of time until a big player like Samsung will notice there is many million here to be made with 'current' technology adaption into something as simple as goggles, and not just throw some crusty low spec composite video converter chip into them, but push the envelope with high spec scan conversion that can rival hdtv. It seems so simple, and still we wait..
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Back to school season is here and your co-op is stocked with amazing deals for every budget on products your family needs. Save big on healthy snacks, lunch box fillers, and wonderful weeknight meal essentials. Save over $55 on products like Woodstock, Clif, Annie's and Organic Valley. You'll also find some late-summer recipes to try!
Look for coupon books at the store entrance. We also try and provide the coupon right at the shelf near the products. Coupons are valid through August 31, 2018.
Check the back of the peppermint marshmallow bag for a recipe for all natural crispy rice cereal bars. Happy holidays from the Co-op!
The wonderful cooks in our deli are making holiday pies this year. Pumpkin and apple are available. They're made with high quality organic ingredients. Got a special diet? No problem! Gluten free options are available for both types of pie and our apple pies are vegan. Just talk to a cashier to order your pie and we'll have it ready to pickup the day before Thanksgiving.
Co-op owners, we hope you can join us on Wednesday September 14 at 6 p.m. for our annual meeting. It takes place at the beautiful Red Building located at 20 Basin Street Astoria, OR. The meeting will include an annual report presentation by our general manager Matt Stanley, a board of directors election and fabulous food catered by North Coast Food Web.
LaVieille Ferme Rose, Blanc and Rouge are some popular wines at the Co-op. They're solid drinks at a very good price. Lisa Parks from Galaxy Wine Co. will be at the store with samples on Saturday May 14 at 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. It's all part of the fun for the last day of owner appreciation week.
Jean Pierre Perrin established La Vieille Ferme over 35 years ago, when he chose to produce an inexpensive, straightforward Rhône wine to sell by direct mail to French wine lovers. He used the same grape varieties in similar proportions to those planted at the family's Château de Beaucastel, in a similar vinification process. The result was an immediate success in France, a wine of character and style in keeping with its Beaucastel heritage.Initially, Jean Pierre made only Côtes du Rhône, but steeply rising grape prices in 1976 caused him to switch to Côtes du Ventoux and eventually to produce a white wine from the mountainous Côtes du Luberon. La Vieille Ferme was introduced to the United States in 1970. The response was an immediate, overwhelming acceptance and an outpouring of critical acclaim from eminently knowledgeable critics who recognized La Vieille Ferme for its consistently fine quality and value.
We're really hoping to get your blood pumping with our next monthly food and wellness talk in March. The circulatory system is important to everybody and a local naturopath will teach why. Dr. Tracy Erfling's talk is titled, "Head to Toes Circulatory Health".
"This is a great time of year for a circulatory review since we're moving out of the cold and dark; we can plan ways to boost things we're doing for our circulatory system. People might not be moving as much, and with the passing of that sedentary heavy-food time of year, we want to start a clearing process. This should be a refreshing talk to get people excited about movement, activity, and health," Dr. Erfling said.
All cells in the body need oxygen and nutrients as well as waste removal. This is an important role of the circulatory system. The heart, blood vessels, lymphatic system and blood itself work together to service the cells of the body. Using the network of arteries, veins and capillaries, blood carries carbon dioxide to the lungs (for exhalation) and picks up oxygen. From the small intestine, the blood gathers food nutrients and delivers them to our cells.
Dr. Erfling will review this system, problems that can affect its function and therapeutic ideas for health and healing. There are many ways to naturally boost your circulatory system and exercise is one example.
"When we move our muscles it assists the pumping of blood around the body. Generally we rely on the heart to do the work, but when we exercise it helps the whole circulatory system function more smoothly," Dr. Erfling said.
Dr. Erfling graduated from the National College of Natural Medicine in 2000. She has been practicing natural medicine in Astoria for 15 years (at a shared office with Astoria Chiropractic) and works at the health department doing family planning. Outside of medicine Dr. Erfling enjoys yoga, swimming, dog walking, the occasional "delicious" beer, and shopping at the Co-op (she served on our board for many years).
You can attend Dr. Erfling's presentation on circulatory health on Thursday March 10 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) at the Fort George Lovell Showroom on 14th and Duane Street in Astoria. The talk is free and open to all ages.


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Burnley's Secret Garden Part 4 – The Sunken Garden
Dr Anne Vale August 18, 2015
If you have been following parts 1-3 of this tour of the Burnley Garden you will know that at the heart of the garden is the heritage landscape designed by Bogue Luffman. Wrapped around this central core there are numerous spaces showcasing almost every imaginable type of garden including herb, rose, perennial and cactus. There are also two courtyards, the Pear Tree Court and the Sunken Courtyard.
Original driveway with herbaceous border c1916 (courtesy Burnley Archives)
The Sunken Courtyard was created on the footprint of the original Principal's Residence. The residence faced the Pavilion across the lawn providing the semi-domestic flavour that Luffman wished to demonstrate. The Pavilion was demolished during 1949-1950 as the new Administration Building was completed.
The residence was demolished in the mid-1980s, the former Luffman driveway was replaced with lawn and paths and its lovely border transplanted. The border had featured a stunning collection of shrubs and perennials including, strelitzia, plectranthus, purple leaf hazelnut, rhododendrons and camellias. Many of these still thrive at Rock Point, a curved stone wall that marks the original start of the drive.
Geoff Olive (Courtesy Geoff Olive)
Lecturers John Patrick and Geoff Olive are generally attributed with the idea of converting the open scar into a Sunken Garden with Geoff Olive the main designer and driving force.
Many staff and students were unhappy about the removal of the old building, Phil Tulk, who later became garden manager, was a student there at that time, and he later recollected the impact of this change,
By far the most distressing thing to happen to the gardens over the last 20 years was the removal of the Principal's Residence. The residence was the focal point of the grounds, all paths lead to the old building and many of the plantings framed the structure. It was a fine old home. As a student I remember being part of the group engaged in the removal of plantings along the drive that ran to the Principal's Residence and the initial digging for the Sunken Garden. At the time few of us realised that the changes that were taking place in the grounds were the beginning of the modernisation of the old Burnley Gardens. While the Sunken Garden was beginning to appear a few traditional aspects of Burnley were disappearing. The great beds of annuals, along the main path through the gardens, the island beds and outside the main building were gone.
Sunken Courtyard (Anne Vale)
The Sunken Garden was also designed to provide an amenity for handicapped people. Ramps provided wheelchair access, and walls were built to a height that would facilitate close interaction with the plants. Original planting included many sensory plants, such as Lavandula species, with bulbs and annuals added for seasonal colour. Three small rectangular ponds were incorporated into the walls at sitting height. The Sunken Garden was built with bluestone blocks, it stands in stark contrast to the colours, soft lines and curves of the surrounding heritage landscape but it also provides a retreat from the rest of the garden and the outside world.
The Pear Tree Courtyard (Anne Vale)
The Pear Tree Courtyard
Another courtyard space was created late in the 1980s by an American academic on secondment to Burnley. The designer Steve Mullany described its condition when he was given the design task as,
… a neglected and tree-less weedy patch with some paved paths closely parallel to the classrooms and no other defined use or functional features. I thought the entire area could be improved as a perfectly usable and comfortable space for students and staff and for easier access to all the lecture rooms.
The new Quadrangle was formed between a rectangular group of portable buildings that had been installed to provide a new Library and some badly-needed classrooms. Plane trees with understory of groundcovers formed the initial planting but these died due to water logging and poor soil.
Autumn leaves Manchurian pear (Anne Vale)
Steve Mullany was responsible for the final design and he determined all the shapes, dimensions, spacing and final details, and produced the plan drawing. Steve described his concept as,
A College Courtyard with plenty of paved surface for active circulation to and from the many lecture room doors, plus passive seating zones for studying, conversation and general lingering…limited maintenance resources guided my choice of repeated masses of resilient plants rather than a variety of more showy perennials with seasonal care requirements. I noted the junipers performing very well at the main Melbourne University campus and specified them around the seating areas. The rectilinear theme for the ground plane shapes was an orderly, unified fit within the strictly enclosed larger rectangular space.
Manchurian pear, Pyrus calleryana was used to create a grid of trees. Thirteen 2.5 metre trees were donated in 1989 by a Melbourne nurseryman.
Steve also undertook a landscape design project at the Swan Street entrance. He suggested a double row of Corymbia citriodora (Lemon-scented Gums) along the Entrance Driveway. The trees were grown as seedlings from an original tree in the Citriodora Court and were planted in about 1990. They now provide a mature and elegant avenue into the Campus from Swan Street.
The design for the brick, concrete-bagged gateway, walls and gates at the Yarra Boulevard entrance was undertaken in Steve's last days before returning to California. This was part of a process in which the main College entrance and address was transferred from Swan Street to the Yarra Boulevard.
Many other areas of the gardens were redeveloped throughout the 1980s. Using the garden as a practical teaching tool was a prime objective. Gardens that were created or rejuvenated included the Rose Garden, the Grey Garden the Cacti Garden and the Herb Garden.
Entrance to the Rose Garden (Anne Vale)
Many of the principals at Burnley have been keen on roses. Alex Jessep, Principal from 1926 – 1941, had some 500 specimens which were spread about the gardens wherever the planting conditions suited. Tom Kneen, Principal from 1946 – 1967, with design assistance from Emily Gibson had a new rose garden created as part of the landscaping around the new administration building. Tom's wife Dorothy remembered the creation of the Rose Garden,
Arnold Teese, son of Greg Teese, who worked at the Pasture branch, designed and with the help of students, built the Rock Garden at the Swan Street entrance and the Rose Garden near the Victorian Plant Research Institute.
In the Rose Garden at Burnley you can follow the development of the rose from the early European and Middle Eastern roses, the introduction of repeat-flowering Chinese roses, through to the Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, David Austen and other Modern roses (Anne Vale)
This site was eventually abandoned and returned to mown grass, but the roses remained in various locations before another dedicated bed was created where the Perennial Border is today. They remained in this location, on the southern side of the Oak Lawn, until late 1980 but they did not flourish. Many of the roses became diseased and died due to inadequate drainage. As a student in the 1980s, Phil Tulk recalled how unpleasant it was to prune the roses in the winter time:
The herbaceous border site was not ideal for the roses, as a student I remember sinking in mud as we tried to prune the prickly beasts.
In 1981 a new site, originally known as Lover's Lawn, was chosen near the south-eastern corner of the old ornamental garden. The Rose Garden was designed and constructed along traditional lines by Geoff Olive. The garden beds for new roses were cut out of the lawn, leaving turf paths in between, and a collection of modern hybrids planted. Later, brick manufacturers Nubrick donated both the paving and the installation to replace the turf paths. Warm-coloured, Victorian Blue bricks were laid in a semi-formal circular pattern with paths radiating from the centre.
The modern roses were replaced with a collection of old fashioned and species roses (Anne Vale)
Spring bulbs, perennials and forget-me-nots provided colour and interest when the roses were not in bloom. In the early 1990s, the modern roses were replaced with a collection of old fashioned and species roses. The radial beds are currently planted with a variety of rose cultivars, low growing herbaceous perennials and sub-shrubs. Two timber gazebo structures are located at the western and north-western entry points, with treated pine frames located on the north and western periphery for climbing specimens. The southern boundary fence is festooned with Potato Vine (Solanum laxum 'Album'). If you enter the Rose Garden through the arbour from the Oak Lawn and circle clockwise, you can follow the development of the rose from the early European and Middle Eastern roses, the introduction of repeat-flowering Chinese roses, through to the Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, David Austen and other Modern roses.
Melianthus major (Anne Vale)
The Grey Garden
The Grey Garden is set in an area between the Engineering Buildings to the north and the Luffman Garden to the south. In 1979, a raised bluestone retaining wall was installed and the site topped up with cheap fill, the only garden bed at Burnley to be created using imported material. Geoff Olive engaged students in a project to develop a Spring Perennial Border to contrast with the Summer/Autumn Perennial border across the lawn. The bed was not a success due to poor quality sandy loam, together with competition from the roots of a large Araucaria sp. and an equally large Ficus macrophylla, When lecturer James Hitchmough arrived from the UK in 1983, he proposed the planting be replaced to create a drought-tolerant grey foliage garden. This type of plant selection was gaining popularity in England with celebrity horticulturists such as Penelope Hobhouse and Beth Chatto.
Echium fastuosum (Anne Vale)
Geoff created the Grey Garden by building on a large clump of Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii and a scattering of cactus and succulents already near the site. Planting primarily consisted of grey foliage plants which exhibited protective devices and fleshy leaves, plus a few garden stalwarts such as Acanthus mollis (Bear's breaches) and Limonium perezii (Statice). Today, the selection of plants, with contrasting foliage and form, includes the Canary Island Sage (Salvia canariensis), a clump of Giant honey flower (Melianthus major) with its lovely jagged silver and blue-green toned leaves and Pride of Madeira (Echium fastuosum). Ground covers include Canary Island Daisy (Ondontospernum sericeum), Cat Thyme (Teucrium marcum) and Bachelors Buttons (Cenia turbinata). The Cushion Bush (Leucophyta brownii) provides a smoky gray haze in contrast to the striking silver leaves of the Eucalyptus macrocarpa. The impetus for this plant selection was poor soil and compacted, dry conditions, but the Grey Garden has evolved into a garden with a very long season of interest where there is always something in leaf, flower, seed or bud.
Yucca faxoniana. Photo Anne Vale
The Cactus Collection
Walking westward from the Grey Garden towards the Centenary Building there are two Feltbush (Kalanchoe beharensis), which look like succulents on legs. This is a garden of contrasting architectural shapes and interesting foliage textures. A stand of Yucca faxoniana, about four meters tall, features shards of dead leaves drooping down their trunks. The common name for these is Spanish Dagger which is quite confusing as this is also the common name for Yucca gloriosa, which has a completely different form. Yucca gloriosa, with its eye catching stems of creamy flowers features in a number of areas around the Burnley Garden. The Strelitzia nicolae, the Giant White Bird of Paradise or Wild Banana, lives up to its common name. It towers over the other plants with its multiple trunks and paddle shaped leaves. These are under planted with Fox Tail Agave (Agave attenuata) a dense ground cover of contrasting form and foliage.
A large Paddle Cactus (Opuntia), with its delicate creamy yellow flowers and fine prickly spines (that should be avoided at all costs), forms the end of the Cacti Garden.
Opuntia (Anne Vale)
South of the cactus bed there are a pair of mature Canary Island Pines (Pinus canariensis), planted in the late nineteenth century. They are of primary significance as remnant elements of the nineteenth century landscape and make a considerable contribution to the heritage character of this part of the garden.
Mrs. Jessep's Seat (Anne Vale)
The Herb Garden
The Herb Garden was constructed over the area which originally formed the back garden of the Principal's Residence. The only remaining part of the residence is the low Coldstream rock wall, raised garden bed and seat. The seat is known as Mrs. Jessep's Seat as it was built during the time of the Principal, Alex Jessep (1926-1946). Work on the Herb Garden began in 1984 with the enthusiastic involvement of the Herb Society of Victoria. Redesigned in 1993, the beds are planted with a selection of herbs with culinary, medicinal and perfumed or infusion properties, including a Bay Laurel (Laurus nobilis), Rose-scented Pelargonium, Salvia dorisiana, Rosa rugosa cultivars, and suckering species roses valued for their hips. Rosemary, thyme, oregano, bronze fennel and globe artichokes thrive alongside numerous other aromatic plants. Perennial herbs, sub-shrubs, woody shrubs and trees provide further interest and form to the planting. These consist of a Jacaranda (Jacaranda mimosifolia) and a flowering peach (Prunus 'Pollardii'). There is also a Common Yew (Taxus baccata), some citrus trees and a Lemon Verbena (Aloysia triphylla).
Bronze sculpture in the Herb Garden
The focal point of the Herb Garden is a bronze water sculpture located within a circular bed edged with Box (Buxus sempervirens). The Bird Bath was constructed in 1987-88 to commemorate the life and work of Enid Carberry (1896-1983). Enid was a founding member of the Herb Society of Victoria and a skilled gardener and naturalist. She graduated from Burnley in 1914 with a Diploma of Horticulture. Enid was part of a significant group of women who took advantage of the early full-time classes for women at Burnley established by Bogue Luffman. She attended classes with Edna Walling and Millie Grassick (Gibson). Olive Holttum (Mellor) was one of her instructors.
The Herb Society Victoria members continue their long association by assisting with the maintenance of this most attractive and important selection of plants.
[Historical research for this article was conducted by Dr Anne Vale and Associate Professor Don Garden]
Burnley Secret Garden Part 5: There have been many changes made to the Burnley Gardens since Bogue Luffman's time but in more recent years the focus has been on management and maintenance. Changes to courses offered at Burnley have resulted in a significant drop in student engagement in garden making. New projects tend to focus on environmental sustainability as exercises for post graduate research. The final exploration of Burnley's Secret Garden will look at contemporary developments including green walls and roofs.
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About Dr Anne Vale
Dr Anne Vale is an author, historian, lecturer and garden photographer. Anne is the author of award winning Exceptional Australian Garden Makers (2014). The sequel, Influential Australian Garden People, which follows the influences of the next generation, is due to be published late 2016. Anne records and assesses gardens with history through her consulting practice Heriscapes. She has written garden guides and histories on significant Australian heritage gardens including Dalvui, Mawarra, Wombat Park and Burnley. She has contributed articles to the online directory on Australian Women Leaders, the Australian Garden History Society journal, Historic Gardens Review journal and the Royal Historical Society Remembering Melbourne (due late 2016).
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2 thoughts on "Burnley's Secret Garden Part 4 – The Sunken Garden"
James Will on March 26, 2017 at 5:47 pm said:
Anne, these are Pyrus calleryana in the courtyard; they were sold as P. ussuriensis, but Jill Kellow and I discovered that they were mis-named, as published in Landscape Australia. I introduced true P. ussuriensis in the mid-1990s, sourced from the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
Anne Vale on March 27, 2017 at 7:05 pm said:
thanks James I have asked Catherine to change it.


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Cup holders, Super Falcons of Nigeria will on Wednesday fly into the Ghanaian capital, Accra before making their way to Cape Coast ahead of the commencement of the 11th Women Africa Cup of Nations finals.
The Falcons have now spent six days at the world –renowned football facility, Sol Beni Sports Centre (owned by ASEC Mimosas Football Club) in Abidjan, following a three –week preparatory programme at the Jubilee Chalets and Resort in Epe, Lagos State.
Eight –time champions, Nigeria head Group B of the continental showpiece and will contend with the Banyana Banyana of South Africa, Chipolopolo Queens of Zambia and an Equatorial Guinea team restored into the tournament only a few days ago following a CAF Appeal panel ruling.
Only Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea have been successful at the 20–year-old continental fiesta, with the latter emerging winners on the only two previous occasions that Nigeria did not triumph.
While the Guineans have won on the only two occasions they hosted the tournament (2008 and 2012), the Super Falcons have established Africa as their footstool, winning at home in 1998, 2002 and 2006, winning in South Africa in 2000, 2004 and 2010, winning in Namibia in 2014 and winning in Cameroun in 2016. Hosts Ghana, Algeria, Mali and Cameroun are in Group A based in Accra.


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