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Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:13:00 -0700 Handy Apple mac tips! http://peticawatson.posterous.com/notes-from-evernote http://peticawatson.posterous.com/notes-from-evernote

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Apple - Pro - Tips - Searching by Color Label

Clipped from: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/colorlabel.html

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Searching by Color Label

Besides the visual benefits of having certain files tagged with a Color label, there’s a hidden benefit: You can search for files by their color. For example, let’s say you misplaced an important file for a project you were working on. You can press Command-F to bring up the Find function, and from the top-left pop-up menu, choose Color Label.

Then, click on the color for the files you labeled in that project, and it will instantly find and display all the files with that color. Searching by color—only Apple is cool enough to come up with a search like this!

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Apple - Pro - Tips - The Immaculate Desktop

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/immaculate_desktop.html

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The Immaculate Desktop

Are you the sort of neat-freak who abhors Desktop clutter? Who keeps all apps and docs in carefully organized folders? Consider diving deeper into onscreen clean by making your mounted drives and discs disappear from the Desktop and accessing them instead via Finder windows.

Here’s how to try it: From the Finder, pull down the Finder menu and select Preferences — or just press Command-comma [⌘ ,] from within the Finder. Click the General tab and uncheck Hard disks; CDs, DVDs, and iPods; and Connected servers.

Next, click the Sidebar tab and check the boxes next to all the items you unchecked under the General tab.

When you want to access a drive, disk, or server, just open a Finder window by pressing Command-n [⌘ n] from within the Finder. And when you close the Finder windows, your desktop will be spotless. (Remember, Command-w [⌘ w] closes a Finder window, and Command-Option-w [⌘ ⌥ w] closes all Finder windows at once.

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Apple - Pro - Tips - Speed Navigating in Save As, Part 2

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/speed_navigating2.html

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Speed Navigating in Save As, Part 2

Want to speed things up by using the keyboard to get around in the Save As dialog? There’s just one thing you have to do first — press the Tab key. That removes the highlighting from the Save As naming field, and changes the focus on the sidebar (notice the blue highlight rectangle around the sidebar shown here). Once the sidebar is highlighted, you can use the Up/Down Arrow keys to move up and down the sidebar. Press Tab again and the search field is active. Press Tab once more and the Column (or list) view is highlighted, and you can use the Arrow keys on your keyboard to quickly get right where you want to be. When you get there, press the Tab key again to highlight the Save As field so you can name your file, and then hit the Return key to “make it so!”

Note: if you don’t see the sidebar or viewing modes, click on the little blue down-facing arrow button to the right of the Save As field.

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Apple - Pro - Tips - Summarize Your Stories

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/summarize.html

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Summarize Your Stories

When laying out a long story in a newsletter or magazine, it’s often helpful to summarize a story, or a section of a story in a pull-quote or abstract. But how to find the best quote when you’re on a deadline and need it fast? Fortunately, Mac OS X offers a great tool that almost no one knows about: Summary Service.

To find this utility, select some text in Adobe InDesign or some other program that supports this Mac OS X Service (such as TextEdit) and choose Summarize from Services under the Application menu. You can adjust how long you want your summary (in number of sentences or paragraphs) in the Summary dialog box. Drag the Summary Size slider to the left to get a more focused summary; for a pull-quote a one- or two-sentence summary is best.

You wouldn’t expect a computer to be able to analyze some text and provide a good summary but Summary Service is surprisingly good. Try it!

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Drag the Summary slider to the left to get a more condensed version of your selected text.

Apple - Pro - Tips - Adding Automation Through Folder Actions

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/folderactions.html

Adding Automation Through Folder Actions

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At the office, I’m on a network and I have a Drop Box where my co-workers (freaks that they are) can send me files. However, for a long time, if a freak put something in my Drop Box, I wouldn’t know it unless they called or emailed me and told me so. But now anytime one of them drops something in my Drop Box, a message dialog appears that says, “Something freaky is in your Drop Box.” This is a simple AppleScript (think of an AppleScript as a built-in automation for your Mac, just like Photoshop actions add automation to Adobe Photoshop). Mac OS X includes some cool sample scripts (actions), or you can download about a bazillion from the Web for free.

To assign a script to a folder, Control-click on that folder and choose Configure Folder Actions from the contextual menu that appears. This brings up the Folder Actions Setup dialog, where you toggle various scripts assigned to folders on and off, or even edit scripts (if you know how to write AppleScripts). Click the plus sign (+) button at the bottom left of the dialog to add your folder to the list (this actually brings up a standard Open dialog showing your folder, so click on your folder in the dialog and click Open). Once you do this, a window will pop down with a list of built-in sample scripts you can assign to this folder, and their names give a cryptic description of what they do. Pick the one that sounds like what you want to do (to replicate my Drop Box warning, choose “add — new item alert .scpt”) and click the Attach button (you’ll see your newly assigned script appear in the column on the right of the dialog). Now click the Enable Folder Actions checkbox at the top-left corner of the dialog.This is a global on/off switch, so any folder to which you’ve attached scripts is now “activated.”

By the way, once you’ve applied actions to a folder, you can turn Folder Actions on or off globally by Control-clicking on any folder and choosing Enable Folder Actions or Disable Folder Actions from the contextual menu.

Apple - Pro - Tips - Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/keyboard.html

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Create Your Own Keyboard Shortcuts

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Keyboard shortcuts are such huge timesavers, but sadly, not all Finder commands have them. But they can, because you can create your own. Here’s how: Go under the Apple menu, to System Preferences, and choose Keyboard & Mouse. When the dialog appears, click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, then click the plus (+) sign at the bottom left of the dialog. Another dialog will appear. Choose Finder from the Application pop-up menu, and then type the exact name of the menu command you want to add a shortcut for. Now type the shortcut you want to use and click the Add button. It’s that simple.

Apple - Pro - Tips - Emailing Web Pages

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/emailwebpage.html

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Emailing Web Pages

If you run across a web page you want to share with a friend, don’t send her a link to it — send her the page itself. Just press Command-I and a dialog will appear, asking for the email address of the person you want to send this web page to. Just enter her email address, along with your text message, and click send, and it will send the contents of that page (complete with graphics, formatting, links, etc.) to your friend. She’ll be able to see that page right within her email application.

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Apple - Pro - Tips - Can’t Remember the Password?

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/password.html

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Can’t Remember the Password?

If you can’t remember a password for a website (or anything else for that matter), all your passwords are saved in the Keychain Access utility (which probably isn’t news to you), but the cool thing is you can do a Spotlight search from right within Keychain to quickly find the password you’re looking for.

Start by looking inside your Applications folder for the Utilities folder, and inside of that double-click on Keychain Access. When it opens you’ll see a search field in the upper-right corner. Type the name of the site you’re looking for, and it will appear. Double-click on the result and an info dialog will appear, and to see your password, turn on the show Password checkbox.

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Apple - Pro - Tips - Finding the Combined Size of More than One Document

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/combined_size.html

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Finding the Combined Size of More than One Document

Let’s say you have several files on your desktop, and before you copy them all onto your jump drive, you want to find out their combined size. Here’s how it’s done: Select all the files for which you want the combined size, then press Command-Option-I, which brings up the Multiple Item Info dialog, complete with a list of how many files are selected and their combined size.

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Apple - Pro - Tips - Annotating PDFs in Preview

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/pdf_annotation.html

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Annotating PDFs in Preview

Annotating PDFs in Preview

You may already know that Preview is a terrific application for viewing PDF files. But did you realize it’s also great for annotating PDFs? It’s a fast and efficient way to share comments when collaborating on group projects.

Under Preview’s Tools menu, you’ll find the options Mark Up and Annotate. Mark Up lets you highlight, strike through, or underline selected text within a PDF. Annotate allows you to draw circles and rectangles around parts of a PDF, append Stickies-style notes, and add hyperlinks.

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To use Mark Up, choose the Text tool from Preview’s Toolbar. Select your target text with the cursor, and then choose a Mark Up option from the Tools menu (the choices are Highlight Text, Strike Through Text, and Underline Text).

To add shapes, links or comments, select a command from the Tools menu’s Annotate list (the options are Add Oval, Add Rectangle, Add Note, and Add Link).

If you’ve selected Add Note, simply click anywhere on the PDF. A colored tag appears in the left margin alongside the spot where you clicked. Its default text consists of your user name and the date, though you can alter or add to this by double-clicking on the note. To move notes, double-click their icons (those little cartoon-style balloons) and then drag them. When you double-click a note icon, you can also specify the note’s color and other attributes. To remove a note, double-click its icon and press Delete.

All Mark Up and Annotate tools can be summoned via key command. Also, if you use these tools frequently, you may want to add them to Preview’s Toolbar. (By default, they are not shown.) To add them, select the View menu’s Customize Toolbar command, then drag the tools you want from the pop-up onto the Toolbar.

Apple - Pro - Tips - Seeing a Photo’s EXIF Metadata

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/exif.html

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Seeing a Photo’s EXIF Metadata

When you take a photo with a digital camera, a boatload of background information is embedded into the file (called EXIF metadata), including when the photo was taken, the make and model of the digital camera, the exposure, shutter speed, lens focal length, whether the flash fired, and a host of other related info. Believe it or not, Preview can display all this EXIF metadata — you just have to know where to look. To see the EXIF data for the current image, just press Command-I, then click on the Details tab, and if you scroll down a bit, you’ll see a header for EXIF Properties, along with the full scoop on your image.

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Apple - Pro - Tips - Become the Ultimate Menu Master

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/menu_master.html

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Become the Ultimate Menu Master

Want to really speed things up? How about jumping right to the Apple menu without even clicking the mouse? Just press Control-F2, press Return, and the Apple menu pops down (if you’re using a MacBook, press Function-Control-F2). Oh, but there’s more! Now that you’re in the Apple menu, press the Right Arrow key on your keyboard to move to the other menus (Finder, File, Edit, View, etc.) and the Left Arrow to move back.

Once you get to the menu you want, press Return, then type the first letter of the command you want in the menu and it jumps right there. Now press Return again to choose that command (and you did it all without ever touching the mouse).

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Apple - Pro - Tips - The One-Click Trick to Moving the Dock

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/movedock.html

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The One-Click Trick to Moving the Dock

Okay, so you’re working in a program like Final Cut Pro or iMovie, which takes up every vertical inch of the screen, and when you go to adjust something near the bottom, the Dock keeps popping up. Oh sure, you could move the Dock to where it’s anchored on the left or right side of the screen, but that just feels weird. But what if you could move it temporarily to the left or right, and then get it back to the bottom when you close Final Cut Pro, in just one click?

Here’s how: Hold the shift key, click directly on the Dock’s divider line (on the far right side of the Dock), and drag the Dock to the left or right side of your screen. Bam! It moves over to the side. Then, once you quit Final Cut Pro, just shift-click on that divider line and slam it back to the bottom (okay, drag it back to the bottom). A draggable Dock — is that cool or what!

Apple - Pro - Tips - Create Your Own Icons

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/create_icons.html

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Create Your Own Icons

You don’t have to live with the icons your Mac displays by default. Instead, personalize your folders, files, and drives with custom icons using just about any graphic file you desire, whether it’s a jpeg, gif, png, Photoshop or Illustrator file, or even a PDF.

First, choose an image you want to use and open it in Preview. If the file doesn’t open in Preview by default, select the image in Finder, select Open With from the File menu and then select Preview from the drop-down list.

Once your image has opened in Preview, press Command-C to copy it.

Next, select the file, folder or drive whose icon you want to change, and press Command-I to show its Info window.

Click the file, folder, or drive icon at the top left corner of the Info screen, then press Command-V to replace this icon with your chosen image.

Close the Info window. The new image should appear in place of the old icon on your desktop or Finder window — even in List view.

To make your icons appear larger or smaller, go to the Finder and select View Options from the View menu. Use the slider in the pop-up window to change your icons’ display size on the desktop or in Finder windows.

You can also copy icons from the Info window of one file, folder, or drive to another. Just select the desired icon, copy it, then select the icon you want to replace and paste. Want to revert to the default Mac icon? Select your custom icon in the Info window and press the Delete key.

More Icon Tips: The most successful icons are clear, small images without too much detail, like a close-up photo of a face or a flower. You may want to crop an existing image down to a single detail in an image-editing program to create a better-looking icon — or use one of the thousands of purpose-made icons available in various online collections.

Keep in mind that using a large image as an icon increases the file size of your destination folder or file. For example, using a 3.4 MB photo as an icon for a 36 KB document increases that document’s total file size to 92 KB. Try creating a lower-resolution or smaller version of your image instead.

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Apple - Pro - Tips - Setting High-Quality Fractions

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/fractions.html

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Setting High-Quality Fractions

When was the last time you saw a cookbook specify .125 teaspoons of salt? No, in virtually all non-metric publications, this would be written 1/8 tsp. That’s not so bad on a web page, but in print, regular-sized numbers separated by a slash looks clunky and unprofessional. Instead, you should use true fractions, such as ½ and ¼. But how do you get these special characters?

Most fonts contain two or three few special fraction characters, and both InDesign and QuarkXPress 7 offer a Glyph palette that lets you find them by searching through all the characters in the font. You can also use the hidden Character Palette to find these characters in other programs.

But the easiest and best way to get professional-looking fractions is to use OpenType fonts that enable intelligent fractions. When you’re using this kind of font, and you’re using an OpenType-aware application (such as Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress 7) you can select a regular fraction in your text and choose Fractions from the OpenType menu. (In InDesign, this menu is in the Control panel or Character panel flyout menu. In QuarkXPress, it’s in the Character Attributes tab of the Measurements palette.)

In general, it’s not a good idea to turn on Fractions for a large range of text—you should only apply it to true fractions. The reason: Turning this on can occasionally cause other numbers and some punctuation in your text to shift from its baseline.

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Converting a regular fraction is as easy as choosing from a menu, as long as you have an OpenType font that supports this kind of substitution. Note that the regular slash is also automatically converted to a fraction virgule

Apple - Pro - Tips - The Secret Screen Capture Shortcut

Source URL: http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/secretcapture.html

The Secret Screen Capture Shortcut

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Okay, you probably already know the ol’ Command-Shift-3 shortcut for taking a screen capture of your entire screen, and you may even know about Command-Shift-4, which gives you a crosshair cursor so you can choose which area of the screen you want to capture. But perhaps the coolest, most-secret hidden capture shortcut is Control-Command-Shift-3 (or 4), which, instead of creating a file on your desktop, copies the capture into your Clipboard memory, so you can paste it where you want. (I use this to paste screen captures right into Photoshop.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:10:46 -0700 Furniture I covet http://peticawatson.posterous.com/furniture-i-covet http://peticawatson.posterous.com/furniture-i-covet

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Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:55:53 -0700 Actual Gardening lessons in London http://peticawatson.posterous.com/actual-gardening-lessons-in-london http://peticawatson.posterous.com/actual-gardening-lessons-in-london Where you can learn to garden in London ? A few years ago there were
hardly any courses to do (unless you were studying gardening properly
at a college). But now, thankfully they are proliferating.. slowly
though.

Here's my synopsis of where you can get a gardening lesson:

City Leaf Ltd, 14 York Rise, London NW5 1ST 020 7485 9262
Holds them in Regent's Park.
Not enough and always seem to be sold out
Linked to Capital Growth and Sustain Web

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Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:00:09 -0700 rather good office chair but is it really ergonomic? http://peticawatson.posterous.com/rather-good-office-chair-but-is-it-really-erg http://peticawatson.posterous.com/rather-good-office-chair-but-is-it-really-erg
Check out this chair from Dwell I found at this link

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Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:37:44 -0700 Castle Gibson! http://peticawatson.posterous.com/castle-gibson http://peticawatson.posterous.com/castle-gibson
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Wish I'd bought this...
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Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:01:08 -0700 Coconut Oil Miracle: Fourth Edition: Amazon.co.uk: Bruce Fife: Books http://peticawatson.posterous.com/coconut-oil-miracle-fourth-edition-amazoncouk http://peticawatson.posterous.com/coconut-oil-miracle-fourth-edition-amazoncouk
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Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:53:51 -0700 extortionately expensive French shabby chic furniture http://peticawatson.posterous.com/extortionately-expensive-french-shabby-chic-f http://peticawatson.posterous.com/extortionately-expensive-french-shabby-chic-f 19th century grey painted 4-door cupboard from Appley Hoare in Pimlico...
and while we're about it, see Appley Hoare's lovely house in France on
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Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:30:06 -0700 Station Mill Antiques Centre http://peticawatson.posterous.com/station-mill-antiques-centre http://peticawatson.posterous.com/station-mill-antiques-centre
Check out this website I found at stationmill.com

Don't tell anyone about this place, but I think you can get some really great bargains here... and also Annie Sloan paints - which, when the rest of the world has run out of titanium dioxide (main ingredient of paint), is very useful to know!

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Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:20:08 -0700 Amazing dairy-free milk http://peticawatson.posterous.com/amazing-dairy-free-milk http://peticawatson.posterous.com/amazing-dairy-free-milk Hurray! I’ve finally discovered a non-dairy milk I actually like the taste of!

Kara Coconut milk – it’s drinking milk, not the coconut milk you’d use
for Thai curries. And, it’s better than soya and rice milk as it’s
even healthier. It only got released on the market recently – it’s
cholesterol and lactose free, and contains the richest source of
Lauric Acid of any kind of milk. Lauric Acid is a medium chain fatty
acid, which is healthier than saturated animal fats and also helps
control cholesterol.

http://karadairyfree.com/

Coconut milk is from the coconut flesh, not the same as the coconut
water, which sits in the middle of the fruit, which is also full of
electrolytes – a natural isotonic beverage. (see other posts)

http://www.talkingretail.com/products/product-news/14219-kara-dairy-free-the-...

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Mon, 24 May 2010 19:16:49 -0700 How not to get clutter in the first place... http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/24/how-not-to-get-clutter-in-the-first-place http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/24/how-not-to-get-clutter-in-the-first-place From Zen Habits... via Suzy Greaves....via John Williams' scanners' site Avoiding The Accumulation of Stuff. Zen Habit's ideas:
  • Rediscover a passion for life. Get outside and feel nature, appreciate the beauty of the world around you. Get active, do some gardening or yardwork, play a sport, go for a walk, take a hike, go for a swim, ride a bike. Feel the life coursing through you. Breathe it in.
  • Give experiences as gifts, not stuff. Instead of shopping for someone come birthdays or Christmas, think of an experience you can give them instead. A date with you, doing something fun, hanging out, cooking, playing, talking, exploring. A fun time at a park or beach. Something other than everyday. An experience is much more meaningful than an object.
  • Connect with others. In real life. If you haven’t hung out with a friend recently, give him a call and go hang out. Get your kid away from the TV or video game player and take her outside to do something. Go on a date with your partner. Visit your mom or grandparents. And be present while you’re with them — really listen, really be there.
  • Deal with your emotions. If you have a need to buy things, to shop when you are having emotional issues, be more aware of this. Then deal with the underlying emotions, rather than using shopping as a way to forget about them. If you’re depressed, or anxious, or lonely, deal with those. Find solutions, figure out what’s causing them. Good news: experiencing life, getting active, and connecting with others all help you deal with those emotional issues.
  • Disconnect your attachment to stuff. Sometimes I find myself reluctant to give something up, even if I don’t really use it. And that’s when I ask myself, “Why?” What is holding me back from getting rid of this possession? Sometimes, the item has an emotional connection, but then I realize that it’s just an object, it’s not the emotion or the actual source of the emotion. Then I’ll take a picture of the item, upload it to my computer, and get rid of the object. I feel liberated, because I’ve broken an attachment to a physical object (but saved the memory). If you are attached to an object, figure out why — it’s not healthy in the long run.
  • Realize that life, not stuff, is what matters. Objects are just objects — if you lose them, if they get stolen or destroyed … it’s not a big deal. They’re just objects — not your life. Your life is the series of moments that is steaming through your consciousness right now, and how you use those moments and what you fill them with is what truly matters, not what you fill your home with. At the end of this short journey, you’ll look back and remember your experiences, the people you loved and who loved you back, the things you did and didn’t do. Not the stuff you had.
Yep yep yep. I know all that.

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Tue, 18 May 2010 17:11:37 -0700 Transforming Rio's Slums to ...stripey rainbows?! http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/18/1077 http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/18/1077
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A splash of colour and design can go a long way toward beautifying a grey, ugly space, as Carspaze and Style-your-garage have already shown. Now aiming to do something similar for the slums of Rio de Janeiro through large, community-driven murals, the Favela Painting project also goes several steps further by incorporating training and employment for local residents. The brainchild of Dutch artist duo Haas&Hahn, Favela Painting has already completed two community painting projects in Vila Cruzeiro—Rio's most notorious slum—along with the first portion of O Morro, its current effort to paint an entire hillside slum. Some 34 houses and 7,000 square meters of Praça Cantão in Santa Marta have already been transformed through paint, and the project hopes to return later this year to paint even more of the hillside. In each of its projects, Favela has focused on recruiting local residents to do much of the painting, including training and paying them. In this latest one, local inhabitants were trained through a partnership with Brazilian paint company TintasCoral on everything from different types of paint to safety measures while working on scaffolding. Dre Urhahn, one of the Favela Painting artists, explains: “This work of art can make a colorful difference in the lives of local individuals, the community and the city of Rio. It has the potential of working as a catalyst in the processes of social renewal and change.” Favela Painting is supported by Firmeza Foundation, and recently the decorative paint division of Dutch AkzoNobel—which is also conducting a community campaign of its own—signed on as a partner as well. There are all too many grim, unadorned spaces throughout the urban world. Paint brands around the globe: time to sponsor some community action near you! Website: www.favelapainting.com Contact: info@favelapainting.com

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Mon, 17 May 2010 20:47:40 -0700 John Newbery - Great great great x10 grandfather? http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/17/john-newbery-great-great-great-x10-grandfather http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/17/john-newbery-great-great-great-x10-grandfather John Newbery is properly considered the father of children's literature. Born in 1713 in Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, England, he moved to Reading at age 16 to apprentice himself to a printer named William Carnan. When Carnan died in 1737, Newbery inherited part of the business and in 1745, at age 32, he moved it and his family to London. There in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral, he opened his bookshop, The Bible and the Sun, where he spent the following 22 years publishing religious periodicals, newspapers, books, and children's books, some of which he wrote himself. His first children's book, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book ("for little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly") appeared in 1744, the first of a series of well-made little books --"pretty gilt toys for girls and boys"--that followed the notion stressed in his era that literature should both please and instruct. In 1751, Newbery began the first periodical designed for children, The Lilliputian Magazine. As "Abraham Aesop" he wrote Fables in Verse in 1758 and as "Tom Telescope" he wrote The Newtonian System of Philosophy in 1761. In addition to launching a newspaper in 1760 (The Public Ledger), Newbery published the first English version of Charles Perrault's Tales from the Past with Morals, subtitled Contes de ma mère l'oye, or "Tales from Mother Goose." Finally, in 1765, shortly before his death, Newbery wrote and published his classic children's book,The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, in which success is keyed to education, very much in the tradition of the time and the use of the term "morals" in the title of Perrault's original collection. Postscript: In 1922, in recognition of Newbery's pioneering work as an author and publisher of children's literature, The American Library Association instituted the Newbery Medal to be awarded annually to the most distinguished work of children's literature.

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Wed, 12 May 2010 20:14:00 -0700 Victoria Thornton of Open City interviews Ed Vaizey MP on architecture policy http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/12/victoria-thornton-of-open-city-interviews-ed-vaizey-mp-on-architecture-policy http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/12/victoria-thornton-of-open-city-interviews-ed-vaizey-mp-on-architecture-policy

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Wed, 12 May 2010 18:40:42 -0700 Clutter quotes http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/12/clutter-quotes http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/12/clutter-quotes Clutter is a physical manifestation of fear that cripples our ability to grow. H.G. Chissell The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are. Mother Teresa Clutter to get rid of.. my clothing and shoes I never wear broken things which need mending (but which I have an attachment to) computer leads etc I dont need old cameras I dont use? friendships that don't serve me activities and obligations that don't serve me.. imagined fears and worries negative self-judgments tasks and odd jobs around the house superfluous noise and stimulation surrounding yourself with lots of stuff, activities, people, and so on can also be a nice, convenient way to keep yourself distracted from noticing the bigger issues you may have been ignoring, or going after what you really want (because that might really be scary)!

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Sat, 08 May 2010 15:04:47 -0700 Paypal: easy to be paid over the web http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/08/paypal-easy-to-be-paid-over-the-web http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/05/08/paypal-easy-to-be-paid-over-the-web Paypal is really good if you are selling anything.  When you signup for PayPal, you can start accepting credit card payments instantly. As the world's number one online payment service, PayPal is the fastest way to open your doors to over 150 million member accounts worldwide. Best of all, it's completely free to sign up. To sign up or learn more, click here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/mrb/pal=GPTRGFD8DYZZ2

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Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:50:25 -0700 BBC series on maps http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/04/25/bbc-series-on-maps http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/04/25/bbc-series-on-maps I'm really loving the BBC series on maps... (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s5m7w_ ) I've always been overly-interested in maps, poring over medieval maps which document the Christian known world and the strange, beast-ridden lands further afield, to Google Earth which in one click allows me to see my front door, or search the jungle ruins of Angkor Wat just before I visit them, from my iphone! Maps have helped us make sense of the world, and communicate the world view of the humans who made them; they've been tools for propaganda, showing the way to Heaven, exerting control; navigation, understanding how to deal with poverty,  disease, populations... and so fascinating to see what the maps of different societies, over thousands of years, reveal about the political and cultural forces that created them. Here are some important maps everyone should know about. Here's Tupaia's navigation map from the British Library. He's always been thought of as a mere interpreter on Captain Cook's expedition, but in fact his role was crucial and they would have probably been killed and eaten without him - Polynesians saw him as the expedition leader.

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Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:27:01 -0700 The luckiest nut in the world... http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/04/22/1044 http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/04/22/1044 I don't know why I suddenly thought of her now but I've always thought Emily James was a genius after I saw this film. She worked at Fulcrum TV when I was there. Watching this film was the first time I understood what the IMF did... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtlYyuJjACw&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Here's her blurb:
The film follows an animated American peanut, who sings about the difficulties faced by nuts from developing countries. Supported by a mixture of animation, music, our American peanut takes the viewer through the stories of the cashew, brazil and ground nuts - all of whom suffer as world trade is liberalized. But it is a different story in America - where the peanut is protected by tariffs and heavily subsidized, and worth over four billion dollars a year to the American economy. Certainly the luckiest nut in the world. The film helps people to understand how the pressure to embrace ‘free market' economics, with it's promise of a wealthy, abundant market place has actually driven many countries further into poverty. The response to the film has been amazing. After screening to over 1 million people on Channel 4, the film has been in numerous festivals, including, the One World Human Rights Film Festival in Prague, and taking Best Short Documentary at Full Frame. Christian Aid in the UK used the film and it's characters in their “Trade Rules are Nuts, Let's Crack'm!” campaign
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Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:51:23 -0700 Zizzie http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/04/19/zizzie http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/04/19/zizzie Elizabeth Cornelia Johanna (née Reventlow)  Elizabeth was born in the city of Sønderborg in 1912, which was then part of Schleswig-Holstein, but became part of Denmark after 1918. Having been born in Sønderborg Castle, she had previously changed her name to Berndt, to avoid association with pro-Nazi elements of the aristocratic Reventlow family, and spent much of World War II in Palestine and Egypt. Both Ronald and Elizabeth Tylecote maintained pro-Communist sympathies until the Russian invasion of Hungary in 1956. Why was she born in Sonderborg Castle (in 1912)? After the war of 1864, the province and the castle became Prussian property and served as barracks from 1867-1918, until the area was reunified with Denmark in 1920. Are there any Reventlow family trees which would give me the name of her parents? Why did she choose Berndt as her surname? When did she leave her parents for good? Did her parents know Kaiser W and what were they up to at this time? What did her father do? What was her relation to the Danish royal family?

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Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:46:45 -0700 Ronnie Grandpa http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/04/19/ronnie-grandpa http://peticawatson.posterous.com/2010/04/19/ronnie-grandpa Someone has written a wikipedia post:

Ronald F. Tylecote

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Ronald Frank Tylecote (15 June 1916-17 June 1990) was a British archaeologist and metallurgist, generally recognised as the founder of the sub-discipline of archaeometallurgy.

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Education and profession

The son of doctor Frank Edward Tylecote, he was born in Manchester and educated at Oundle School. He obtained an MA from Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1938, and an MSc from the University of Manchester in 1942, and a PhD on the oxidation of copper from the University of London in 1952. After a period in industry working as a welding research engineer, he became an ICI Research Fellow at University of London. In 1953 he was appointed as a lecturer at Newcastle University, where he became a Reader in Archaeometallurgy, a pst from which he retired in September 1978. In 1976 he began teaching Archaeometallurgy at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, which led to him becoming an honorary Professor there in 1979.

Work

His early publications on metallurgy include The solid phase welding of metals (1968). He participated in his first archaeological excavation in 1939, and became known for combining the two interests. Tylecote investigated early mining and smelting sites around the world, including Timna in Israel and the Roman silver mines of Rio Tinto in Spain. He also excavated sites in Sudan, Nigeria, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. A notable study was . Other work included Metallurgy in Archaeology: a Prehistory of Metallurgy in the British Isles (1962), which became the standard reference work, and (1987). In 1976 he published A History of Metallurgy, and completed the revised second edition just before his death. In 1962, with G. R. Morton, he founded the Historical Metallurgy Group, initially as a group within the Iron and Steel Institute, and edited its first Bulletin, publihsed in April 1963. He remained its editor for the rest of his life, as the group became the , and the Bulletin became a journal, Historical Metallurgy. He is commemorated in the R. F. Tylecote Library of Archaeometallurgical Literature at University College, London, the R. F. Tylecote Fund at the same institution, and in the grant-giving R. F. Tylecote Memorial Fund of the Historical Metallurgy Society. Following his death the Society published tributes to him from other scholars with whom he had worked, together with a list of his publications.[1]

Personal life

Having originally married Angela (née Lias) whom he divorced in 1950, he married his second wife, Elizabeth Cornelia Johanna (née Reventlow) in 1958. Elizabeth was born in the city of Sønderborg in 1912, which was then part of Schleswig-Holstein, but became part of Denmark after 1918. Having been born in Sønderborg Castle, she had previously changed her name to Berndt, to avoid association with pro-Nazi elements of the aristocratic Reventlow family, and spent much of World War II in Palestine and Egypt. Both Ronald and Elizabeth Tylecote maintained pro-Communist sympathies until the Russian invasion of Hungary in 1956. His son, Andrew Tylecote is an economist.

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