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A Modern Hiker reader contacted me last night, alerting me to the feed of street artist Andre Saraiva (Mr. Andre).
On Andre's Instagram feed, the well-known street artist appears to have spent some time in Los Angeles before heading out to the desert, partially to enjoy the setting of Joshua Tree.
Unfortunately, one of his posts dated February 25th, Mr. Andre took his particular brand of artwork from the street to nature.
Unlike the Creepytings instances, there was no geotagging or easily identifiable location inside the National Park attached to this image.
Via Instagram, Andre claimed this piece was "created with love in a friends privet [sic] backyard."
Previous images showed the artist's work on the 29 Palms Inn. When I called, they verified the artist did have permission to paint on their walls.
Andre asked me to remove the boulder image from my Instagram feed. All I asked for was an update to the original image stating clearly that the work was done on private property, something that might show his fans and followers how to be a responsible street artist.
After more than two hours, Mr. Andre has not responded to our questions or updated the original image, although he has removed critical comments from his original post and banned people asking about the image from his account.
I can't tell you if there's a direct link between things like this and the truly staggering amount of graffiti that's appeared in Joshua Tree over the past few years, but when street artists as famous as Mr. Andre post photos that even appear like they're painting in nature without permission, it sends a powerful message that the outdoors is a fine canvas for your street art. And that, we feel, is a message that needs to be stopped.
Our good friend and partner in crime-fighting Rebecca from Calipidder recognized the terrain from Mr. Andre's photo, and has identified it as the trailhead to the Contact Mine – located inside Joshua Tree National Park.
I snagged some screenshots from Google Maps Street View (where you can almost definitely see the boulder Mr. Andre painted on underlined in red), as well as the topograpghic profile in 3D from CalTopo.
Still no comment from Mr. Andre.
Twitter user DarthJenni clued me into the web privacy app Ready or Not, which tracks a user's social media posts and maps their likely location.
Here is Mr. Andre's recent posting activity:
… and look who appeared to post right at the Contact Mine trailhead!
Jeff from SoCalHiker noticed this image on Mr. Andre's web site (under Graffiti, Mr. A if you're interested).
Not sure where this is but it certainly looks like Joshua Tree, doesn't it?
Reader DESERTED just noted the EXIF data in this image is from July, 2013. We still don't know where this is but it's definitely not from this recent trip to Southern California. It does, however, show his willingness to tag on natural surfaces.
We've been blocked from Mr. Andre's Instagram account, but reader Kevin noted in the comments that Mr. Andre has deleted the original image from his Instagram feed.
We just got off the phone with Joshua Tree's Chief Ranger Jeff Ohlfs. He thanked Modern Hiker readers for their diligence and "for being (their) extra eyes and ears in the park." It sounds like a lot of you have called in or tagged Joshua Tree on social media, and Ohlfs said they had Mr. Andre "in (their) sights."
We'll stay on top of this story and will update as we get more information. Thank you to everyone who helped identify the location and report this story to the proper authorities. We hope Mr. Andre is held accountable for his actions and more importantly, learns the value of our natural landscapes.
Readers sent in this Facebook photo from today. A visitor was reading about the story and happened to be near the northern entrance – so she drove down to the trailhead to see if the tag was still there.
And it was.
On another user's Instagram account, Mr. Andre claimed that the larger rock formation image was not done in Joshua Tree. He also said it was "much appreciated here over sea" and that "(his) graffitis are all about love and have the greatest respect for nature."
We think there are much better ways to show love and respect for nature, don't you?
LAist has picked up our story and hopefully will help spread the word and follow Mr. Andre. From what we've heard, Mr. Andre has left the country.
Readers have found a profile on Mr. Andre in GQ from earlier this year.
In it, you can read about the artist's fashion sense, his wonderful nightclubs, and how much he loves visiting Joshua Tree when he's in Southern California.
The article has a comment section and also mentions many places he does business, just in case you have any strong feelings about the artist's work you'd like to share.
Mr. Andre has contacted us via his lawyers. Both his letter and our response can be read on our follow-up post.
Tami Roleff, Managing News Editor for KCDZ-FM, saw our story and traveled out to the site of Mr. Andre's alleged graffiti.
As of March 11th, 10:30AM, the graffiti has been removed and stripped clean of paint. She has provided images which we have posted below.
At this time, we have not been able to determine who is responsible for the cleanup. The National Park Service is not commenting due to the ongoing investigation.
Roleff noted an abundance of sand on the back of the boulder and a lot of soil disturbance at its base, and it looks as if a layer of desert varnish may have been removed by whoever did this. According to the National Park Service web site, desert varnish generally takes thousands of years to form on rock surfaces like this.
Some readers have noted that the boulder looks like it may have been moved in comparison with earlier photos.
We found this image on Instagram of the boulder as it appeared last week, with the alleged markings covered up. The photographer is writer, environmental journalist, and tireless desert advocate Chris Clarke, who lives nearby.
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Tagging is not art. Tagging boulders where it is going to be there for a hundred years is not respect for nature- it is defacement. Graffiti can be artful, but most of what I see doesn't come close to the level of art. Given that graffiti is a public form of expression, we are subjected to having to view mostly visual garbage, but it has moved from the mostly urban sphere to non-urban sphere where every Kilroy (or Andre) has to make their presence felt. Unfortunately these dumb marks they are making say nothing of value except to try and raise their profile for people who actually think this crap is valuable.
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Virgil, it's less about the rock than it is about the casual disrespect afforded to the natural environment, which in this case is heavily protected down to the smallest grain of sand. The act of painting on a rock is one of the most obvious symptoms of this disrespect; much more common is litter, more apparent vandalism on plants and trees, human and pet waste, shortcutting trails, and noise pollution from other hikers. For the people who care about their open spaces and are disheartened and disgusted about the way a fraction of hikers treat them, a little bit of paint on a rock is a straw breaking a camel's back.
Its a fucking rock you guys. Welcome to the USA. Rather seeing an empty rock than some random art. It's clean now, and now it looks like a billion other rocks. Congratulations. Now you can walk by it and not notice it because it's a plain old rock.
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Great article modern hiker. People disrespecting natural environments with painted images is absolutely disgusting and you have inspired me to undertake my own vigilante mission. Did you know that scumbags have been painting on these rocks for over 10,000 years? over the last 3-4 weeks i have cleaned thousands of disgusting native american paintings off rocks found throughout the south-western united states to great success. I did run into some problems with the carved images until i realised that i could simply use wall spackle to fill them in, then rub some dirt on the surface to make it look like they were never there. I thank you for the inspiration and hope that with some motivation and vigilance we can do away with this vandalism. Since this abomination of a human being was a french man my next stop is to France, where i will enter and clean the walls of the Lascaux caves. Just look at this vandalistic garbage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux#/media/File:Lascaux_II.jpg
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Andre is using the media and his aggressive brand of disrespect for the natural environment and heritage sites as leverage to increase his visibility within the social spectrum which in turn, magically manifests into a significant positive cash flow into his bank account. His ego apparently only sees those things in which others find value as a target and an opportunity force himself into places where he's not wanted. He's no more that a spoiled, immature, self-centered, common, imbecilic, whiny brat. I'd suggest two things to stop Andre and his ilk;
1. follow him where ever he goes and physically restrain him when the paint can appears. He has no right to destroy or deface anything he does not personally own;
2. visit property he owns and find out how he feels if graffiti were to appear in places he considers off-limits. Help him imagine motor oil spread across the carpet of his living room or tastefully painted on the walls of his house. Or perhaps he could come to appreciate beautiful messages expressing love and peace engraved across the windshield of his favorite modes of transportation. Or maybe he might even consider a tattoo - one that someone believes is tasteful, loving, and peaceful, and that would look quite nice painted on his forehead.
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I can very much understand people's anger about this, but I adamantly disagree with the logic of going to deface Mr. Saraiva's property. Two wrongs do not make a right. What is more damaging to him is the public perception that he has created for himself through this incident. If what he is displaying is in fact arrogance, it will - as arrogance almost always does - come back to him.
Today's Los Angeles Times has an article re this incident and mentions Modern Hiker's initial article. Apparently numerous readers have demanded Saraiva's address. I had to laugh because that was my immediate thought: hey, what's his address, so people can go tag his home and see how much he enjoys their "art." I've been an avid hiker for decades and am so distressed at this trend. It takes appalling arrogance to deface nature in this manner. Thank you for your commitment.
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He's fµck|ng swedish, not FRENCH
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Thanks Modern Hiker for doing this investigative journalism on this Lying foreign criminal. I think the lying shows what a coward this person is.
I hope this man is added to Homeland security no fly list, and his green card is revoked. Or he is arrested next time he visits the US.


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Over the years I have come to realize "You get what you pay for" and "You pay for what you get." Similarly "good things are not cheap and cheap things are not always good." Though not all things expensive are good, so 'buyers beware'.
Almost everything has a cost though not always financial. Cost could be in terms of time, stress, peace of mind; safety, reliability, service and so on.
As a young worker I could only afford the very old vehicles, which kept me repeatedly in repair shops with tradesmen ranging from the very cheap and incompetent to the very expensive and still incompetent. The odd angel-mechanic, whose price is reasonable and does good work, is always overwhelmed. The secret behind owning an older vehicle is to know a little about cars, being assertive, have lots of time and a generous serving of patience.
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The more time and money I invested in acquiring knowledge and skills that earned me more money, the time lost via vehicle breakdowns and repair shops carried progressively higher costs per hour, and so the need for a new vehicle came into focus. We trade units of time to acquire units of money and in turn invest units of money to acquire more valuable units of time.
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In accounting terms a vehicle is treated as an asset on one's balance sheet or net worth statement, regardless of depreciation. The real worth of a new car is not just in the market value but in the utility it provides. This 'use value' is what Elena is most in need of as she weighs the quantitative and qualitative opportunity costs and benefits of owing or not owning a new vehicle.
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Over six months Elena's costs include: repairs of $18,000 (average $3,000 per month) plus the cost of car rentals, taxi fares and overall loss of productive time. These costs are in addition to the normal vehicle costs such as: fuel (gas versus CNG), parking, servicing and insurance. The new car's cost includes: interest costs, legal and loan fees for a time.
The Financing Decision
Whilst making a significant down payment of $35,000 (Cash: $10,000 + Car: $25,000) minimizes her debt and interest costs, good financial planning calls for enough liquidity to deal with emergencies. If she earmarks two months salary ($30,000) for emergencies, the extra $5,000 can pay insurance or loan fees.
With a loan period of 3 years, the interest cost would be less but the monthly payments would be higher: $170,000 at say 9% over three (3) years is $5,406 whilst over 7 years it is $2,735, a difference of $2,671, a Debt Service Ratio of 36% and 18% respectively.
As long as transport remains an essential part of life, the goal of vehicle ownership is considered an asset, which builds and protects wealth.

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Adopting an information processing perspective, we argue that in pay-for-performance contexts, pay secrecy may adversely affect the ability of members of newly formed, virtual work groups to source assistance from those most able to provide it, referred to here as efficacious help-seeking.
We conducted a repeated-measures laboratory study in which one hundred forty-six participants interacted with three confederates, each with a varying level of skill. Participants' help-seeking behaviors were recorded and efficacious help-seeking was examined as a function of the four pay transparency conditions.
Our findings reveal that accurate perception of task expertise of the highest paid work group member mediates the impact of pay transparency on members' efficacious help-seeking. The findings also show that the positive relationship between pay transparency and efficacious help-seeking is amplified for average and high performers and that for these same individuals a shift from secrecy to transparency is accompanied by a significant increase in efficacious help-seeking.
This study extends pay secrecy research by shifting the focus away from fairness, instrumentality, and sorting and toward information processing. More specifically, the study highlights how pay and pay comparisons can influence inter-relating behaviors in organizations in general and expertise identification and help seeking behaviors in particular.
We believe this is the first study to directly examine how the availability of pay comparison information determines inter-relating behaviors in organizations. The study offers insight for pay policy in organizations that rely upon employee help-seeking, showing that efficacious help-seeking can be enhanced through transparent pay practices. This is particularly evident in the virtual teams examined in the present study.
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Preliminary analysis tested and found no support for an alternative hypothesis, namely that pay transparency motivates all help-seeking and not necessarily only help-seeking from that team member with the greatest problem-related knowledge and competencies.
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Belogolovsky, E., Bamberger, P., Alterman, V. et al. Looking for Assistance in the Dark: Pay Secrecy, Expertise Perceptions, and Efficacious Help Seeking Among Members of Newly Formed Virtual Work Groups. J Bus Psychol 31, 459–477 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-015-9427-4
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Understanding the Sleep Cycle
The modern medical establishment divides sleep into two broad categories: non-REM, which comprises the vast majority of sleep time, and REM. Within the non-REM category, there are four subcategories, aptly labeled NREM1 – NREM4. Of course, each of these five total stages are slightly different:
- NREM 1: the lightest stage of sleep, you would recognize NREM 1 as the hazy time between sleep and wakefulness. Though sleep always begins in NREM 1, it is possible to "jump" back to NREM 1 if you are disturbed while sleeping.
- NREM 2: this is considered "total sleep" and makes up the majority of your time spent asleep—usually 45 – 55 percent in adults.
- NREM 3 and 4: earlier classification systems coupled stages 3 and 4 together, and for our purposes they might as well be one unit (the differences between them are highly technical). NREM 3 and 4 are the deepest levels of sleep, in which sleep is most restful, and they typically comprise 15 – 25 percent of sleep time.
- REM: perhaps the best-known stage of sleep, REM actually only comprises 20 – 25 percent of the cycle. The reason for REM's notoriety is that it is the stage in which dreaming occurs.
Over the course of the typical night, people cycle through these stages four or five times.
Cannabis' Effect on the Sleep Cycle
According to studies, regular cannabis use—q.v. medicinal cannabis users—has a twofold effect on sleep. One the one hand, THC, the active compound in cannabis, has been shown to decrease the amount of REM sleep that users undergo. On the other hand, that lost REM sleep is filled in by longer periods of NREM 4. In other words, the studies found that regular cannabis users will have fewer dreams but will have deeper, more restful sleeps.
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Anyway, I'm home again, and glad to be. I arrived just in time for the Full Moon Festival four days ago, and have only just recovered from the feasting and singing and feasting and dancing and feasting. And in a very few days, I'm joining a fishing expedition up the coast, where the biggest salmon run. It's a sort of holiday for the warriors: they spend long lazy days catching the big fish, and long lazy evenings lying in the pools of the hot springs, where they boast about the big fish that they caught and gave back to Dea (lying is allowed) and their hosts ply them with delicious food and drink. At least, this is what I hear - I've never been before. There's almost no pretense that it's really a food-gathering expedition.
The truth is that the blondes do most of the food-gathering here, as everywhere. They catch most of the fish. The first big run is shortly after the spring equinox: the oolichan (a little oily fish that looks like a herring or a smelt) run so thick you can wade out into the sea and scoop them up in baskets. When the days get hot, the salmon return to the rivers that spawned them, and although some of them must get back to their spawning grounds to ensure future generations, there are so many that they are easily lifted from the water. The young brunettes make a sport of spearing them, but most are caught by nets strung across the River. The blondes clean them and hang them to dry in the Sun, just like laundry! They wear big sun shades for comfort, and they move slowly and hypnotically and sing the songs their grandmothers have sung since time began, and the shores of the River hum with their music. (The brunettes string and tend the nets, and bring the blondes baskets of fresh caught fish, and generally hang around and admire them.)
The rest of the year the blondes and all the children, gather the shellfish from the beaches, and the acorns from the forest. There are almost no fruiting trees here, Mary Margarete, but there are many different kinds of berry bushes, and the summer is marked off by their fruiting: salmonberry (they look like raspberries, only pinky-orange), strawberry, raspberry, blueberry, gooseberry, bogberry, cranberry, blackberry (that's where we are now) and then plum and apple. (Inland, in the hot valleys, they have wonderful orchards of every kind of plum and peach and pear and apple, and huge fields of grapes, but here food is so easily gathered that there is almost no cultivation at all.) Every family has their own gathering places, where the good bushes are, and these are something of a family secret!. From the time of the salmonberry to the blackberry we leave the shellfish alone; in the summer heat they can be dangerous to eat - not just a bad tummy, but paralysis and even death. The little girls are taught about that with a very sad story.
The reason why there was so much food at this Full Moon Feast is that this is the time of year when there is plenty of every kind of food: fresh salmon, smoked salmon, shellfish and dried oolichan, dried berries of every kind, and fresh blackberries, acorns and beans and all sorts of vegetables you don't have names for. You haven't lived until you've had fresh salmon stuffed with wild onions and roasted, dressed with a sauce of dried cranberries, with a side dish of scallops, oysters and pine nuts simmered with an herb that tastes something like tarragon, and a dessert of whipped soaproot, blackberries and honey!
At any rate, everyone is so busy gathering and smoking and drying food that there are hardly any raids at this time of year, so half of the warriors can go on this little fishing holiday. I'm so excited about it. I confess, as a lover of comfort I'm mostly looking forward to the part where we loaf about in the hot springs pools and tell lies about the big fish we caught.
Mary Margarete, thank you for your kind comments on my notes at the Academy. I considered the response of the Sagette most seriously, but it is still all a Mystery to me. But it might interest you (oh, I hope this is not too serious for the Cocktail Bar) that I was sharing some of these thoughts about the origin of language with one of the elders here, and she astonished me by saying that I had it all backwards: first there was reading, then writing, then speech. First (she said) people read the sky, for what it said about the weather to come, and they read the trees and the marks on the ground, about who had passed that way. And then they began writing, leaving signs for each other, signs that said "this is my place", or "I have been here and the fishing is good", and the last step was putting these thoughts and messages into sound, into words, and marrying them with music (which came first of all, she said, before even reading). Now, this is not the commonly accepted view of things here; this teacher is very eccentric and she likes to shake people up - but isn't that an interesting way of looking at language?
Well, now that I've delivered myself of all that babble, I can listen. Candice Amadea (what a lovely name: Amadea) come and sit by me, and tell this sympathetic brunette more. I, too, am much better at conversing with brunettes than blondes; I never seem to have that much to say to them - unless they are intellectual blondes, and then we can talk about ideas. Most of the time I am happy just talking to the brunettes - unless of course, there is some special blonde that I want to address... Is that the problem, my dear? Is there some special girl? Perhaps if we talk awhile we can figure something out... Oh, and thank you for your offer of a drink, but not tonight. It is the very pleasant custom of the Cocktail Bar to toast its brand-new guests in their choice of tipple, and I see the barpette is on her way with yours even as we speak.
You see, I've always been a little bit of a laughing-stock amoung the other brunettes in my town. There just seem to be so many great books to read, so many very important works not to be ignored that, well... it's not that I don't notice the blondes about. On, the contrary, I have ocassionally been driven to distraction by... what I really mean to say is that I'm not very good at Addressing the Fairer Sex.
It just seems that the gift of words abandons me when I'm face to face with a golden beauty. All of my pals at University say "come on, old girl, that one is looking at you," but I just can't imagine it's so! How could a blonde of gentle up-bringing find such a booklish brunette as myself interesting?
If there is a sympathetic brunette present, I'd gladly buy the next several rounds in exchange for a sypathetic ear.
Some one has described Aristasia as "one long conversation". Well, Aphrodite is rather like that. If you want to catch up on the conversation so far, the Archive is the place to do it.


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Andrew Greenhalgh of Johns Hopkins just successfully reset the record books in the men's 500 freestyle in the finals of the Division III NCAA Championships. The previous record was set in 2012 by Al Weik of Denison at 4:21.79. In finals, Greenhalgh clocked a 4:20.30. Runner up Arthur Conover of Kenyon also slipped under the old mark, posting a 4:20.95 to claim second place.
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Why restorative yoga is great between massages
If you've ever walked out of a massage and felt like a wet noodle, you know how deeply relaxed it can make you. It would be nice to feel that relaxed for a bit every day, but it's unrealistic to find time to fit a massage into your routine on a daily basis. In between massages, you can find deep relaxation through restorative yoga.
What Is Restorative Yoga?
Unlike other forms of yoga, restorative yoga doesn't go through postures quickly or in continuous movement. Instead, with the support of props including bolsters, blocks, straps and sand weights, you are guided through supported postures that are held for an extended period of time, often up to ten minutes. By relaxing your body against the supports, you are stretching, but not using effort to hold the position. This allows your muscles to stretch and relax as you hold the posture.
Why Relaxation Is Important?
There are a variety of health benefits that come from taking time out to de-stress, whether through massage or restorative yoga. These include:
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- Boosting your immune response, and reducing inflammation down to the cellular level.
- Assisting in memory function.
- Reducing risk of stroke.
- Helping in preventing depression.
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- Lowering cortisol levels, which can lead to obesity if they are too high.
- Stimulating the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
- Improving circulation of blood and lymphatic fluids.
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This ancient Greek coin dates to the period of Alexander the Great. On the obverse, Zeus is shown, seated with a bird - the Eagle of Zeus, or Aetos Dios. It was said to be Zeus's own messenger. The eagle began his life as a mortal king whose rule was so great and beloved that he was celebrated by the gods, with this divine role. At the end of his life he was turned into a star and became part of the Aquila, with his true love, the heavenly vulture Lyra. On the reverse, the coin shows the ancient mythological hero Heracles, draped in a lion's pelt.
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Wheat Grass Powder
I had my first wheat grass shot at Liquid Earth a couple weeks ago and I'm not going to pretend that it was easy getting it down. Regardless of the taste (which really wasn't that bad), I know how wonderful it is for you and I would like to integrate wheat grass juice into my diet. So, when I saw a packet of Amazing Grass Wheat Grass Powder at Whole Foods yesterday, I decided to pick it up. I've been making a smoothie everyday a few hours after juicing, so I decided to add the powder while blending my daily smoothie. The end product is pictured above. I could taste the difference in the smoothie, but it was still enjoyable (I am trying to develop a wheat grass palette).
I have decided to move away from fruit smoothies. They appeal too much to my affinity for sugar and I find myself becoming addicted to them. Until I get my Vitamix and start blending some serious veggie smoothies, I think I'll stick to my green juice:) I'm learning about how my mind reacts to my diet and I can recognize when I'm developing an unhealthy relationship with certain foods. Too much of anything isn't a good thing. I am committed to developing a diet that consists of foods that I enjoy consuming in moderation.
Posted by Anonymous at 10:18 PM
Labels: Addiction, Green Juice, Liquid Earth, moderation, smoothies, wheat grass powder, Whole Foods
3 comments:
- Allie said...
I've read that you can get used to the taste of anything in 14 days. It takes time for your taste buds to adjust, but they do. It always makes me feel better about trying new things.
- March 23, 2008 at 11:09 PM
I hope you're right! Thanks for the tip:)
- March 24, 2008 at 9:38 AM
- Carrie Nicole said...
Not sure if you saw that Debbie over at the forum started selling some super fantastic wheatgrass powder at cost... she signed up to be a distributor but is passing along the savings and just charging what it costs her bc she was so exited to share with folks. I ordered some from her and I'm loving it!! I either put in my smoothie or in my green juice in the am. Let me know if you want me to point you to her info. Hugs
- April 3, 2008 at 1:15 AM
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Michael Kiwanuka - Kiwanuka (Hardcover Book CD Edition)
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The 13-track Kiwanuka follows the 2016 full-length, Love & Hate. Working with the previous album's producers, Kiwanuka recorded the new LP with Danger Mouse and Inflo during sessions held in London, New York City and Los Angeles.
- You Ain't The Problem
- Rolling
- I've Been Dazed
- Piano Joint (This Kind of Love) Intro
- Piano Joint (This Kind of Love)
- Another Human Being (Interlude)
- Living In Denial
- Hero
- Hard to Say Goodbye
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By Sally
My friend and I decided to take a trip to Bisbee and go by a back road way through the Cochise mountain range.
I had an old Dodge pickup. So we prepared the truck and put a cooler chest in the back with water and snacks, and off we went.
We traveled a main road for a while and then turned off on a self-made road – part gravel, part mud – to take to the other side. Some of the road was very narrow and rocky. But we kept going. And then the road turned into a one track path right into the trees. We stopped the truck and got out to walk around looking for another path to follow. After walking around for a while and having some snacks, we drove a little further with still no signs of a road or civilization.
Stopping the truck again, we got out and walked some more. "I hear cars," I said. So we jumped into the truck and drove straight ahead, and came to an abrupt stop.
We got out of the truck (once again) and looked out, realizing we were sitting on top of a mountain side which ended at the highway. There were no fences or barriers. Thinking it over, and checking the steepness of the mountain side, we decided to go for it. Down we went, straight for the highway, stopping just short of it. Checking for oncoming cars, we came off the mountain side landing onto the highway, like someone had just picked us up and dropped us on the road.
Then we wondered which way we should go. Straight ahead, of course. And 20 miles later we found ourselves overlooking Bisbee!
We went around town, had lunch, and drove back – by regular highways.
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Group Interviews (Practical (Weaknesses (They are unstructured interviews…
Group Interviews
They are unstructured interviews so therefore they will take longer due to going off into conversations.
Difficult for every member to agree on a suitable time and place
Video camera needed to record data to analyse - makes group interviews expensive.
Quicker than doing separate interviews, this method interviews all interviewees at once.
Very high in validity due to:
A range of views from a variety of people from different backgrounds
Debates between interviewees may throw up points nit previously considered
You get to see body language and reactions between interviewees
No reliability as you cannot compare one group to another as they are each a group of individuals
Small groups of people so it's not very representative and you cannot generalise findings to the research population
You get consent and informed consent due to the researched topic being clearly stated to the participants.
Debriefing everyone can look at the potential for harm and help to avoid it.
Confidentiality and anonymity not really possible due to everybody talking face to face and everyone can hear what each other.
potential for harm; invasion of privacy and the possibility of conflicting views resulting in bullying.
A group interview consists of a researcher interviewing a group of participants instead of interviewing them one at a time. They are unstructured interviews so therefore produce Qualitative data that is high in validity - therefore Interpretivists prefer this interview method as they value validity over reliability.


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When Will I/You Die?
This page is about a screamer of which the original copy was deleted.
When Will You/I Die?[edit]
When Will I/You Die? was a screamer created by Liquid Generation. It shows a quiz that supposedly tells the player how and when they will die by asking them simple questions. After these questions, it shows a box that generates the player's type of death, although it says the same one every time (you will die from a heart attack) then has the same box that chooses the player's date of death. After a couple of seconds, the words "you will die TODAY!" will appear with a loud scream. Then the text "Just kidding" appears, and a button that says "Get your real death date." When the player clicks, it will start to generate their date. Below the text "You will die:", the word "NOW!" suddenly pops up, and the scene from Peter Jackson's BrainDead (Dead Alive in the U.S.) where Vera is overfilled with embalming fluid appears on the screen, with a picture of a bloody man with glasses from the same movie, BrainDead one popping up twice. The picture zooms in and out. This is followed by the text "You've been Sabotaged," as well as a link to the website and a button to play the prank over again. There is another version featuring the bloody man with glasses appearing when it says "you will die TODAY!" before it says "Just kidding" and can be accessed on Web Archive. The screamer was taken down along with the entire Liquid Generation website.
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- liquidgeneration.com/content/a55hat.aspx?cid=506
- youtube.com/watch?v=5sip_9_VXs8 • YouTube video preview
- web.archive.org/web/20060820205611/.liquidgeneration.com/content/showMeDaContent.aspx?cid=506


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Thanks to the new Audio Sequences you can now use samples directly in a composition, without the need to plug in (multi-) samplers and MIDI notes to play them.
Audio Sequences also let you play samples at a different tempo without changing the original pitch. This is done by slicing the sample into discrete audio events and each audio event is time stretched as needed. You have perfect control over the transients, the quantizing, etc. so any piece of audio can be blended into your composition, even if it's at a different tempo, pitch and groove.
Even better: The sample events in an audio sequence are not limited to the original sample. You can easily switch each sample event to play another sample, at another pitch, with another stretch factor. So, for example, you can replace the snares in a sample loop with one of the snares in your sample library, or with a different sound. Musical freedom and fun.
Last but not least: MuLab 8 also supports extremely high time stretch factors which let you make new sounds out of sample slices also within the MUX Modular synth and effect environment.
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Everyone loves playdough!
Homemade playdough is so simple and very easy to make and you get hours of fun from it. I used these ingredients and it took less than 30 minutes to make.
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 cup of water
- 1 cup of salt
- 2 tablespoons of oil
- food colouring (optional)
- scents (optional)
I mixed the dry ingredients together first then the wet ingredients, I sprinkle a little flour on the worktop and roll out the dough until light and not sticky. There are so many activities you can do with playdough.
It is perfect for fine motor skills, imaginative play, maths and communication. I make playdough mats to help guide play with my children.
Moon dough
Moon dough is perfect for babies especially as they like to put things in their mouths. unlike playdough it does not have salt in it. I used 1 cup of baby rice and 3 tablespoon of coconut oil. Mix together and that is it, perfect sensory activity.


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When choosing to refinance a Wisconsin home loan, the borrower has many resources and options to consider. Wisconsin has many different housing markets, and depending on where the borrower wants to refinance the Wisconsin home loan, will determine the corresponding interest rates. If the borrower is not pleased with the current monthly payment, it is possible to check into better Wisconsin mortgage rates and lower payments. There are likely to be Wisconsin refinance home loans that can meet the individual's needs. Wisconsin mortgage companies that provide assistance are a great place to start the search for a better service. These specialists desire to see the individual become a happy and successful homeowner, and want to provide the consumer with all the perks and benefits that go along with a Wisconsin home loan.
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Because legacy apps have various factors dependent on their platform, many are not portable to the Cloud easily.
Methodologies are thus needed to prepare well for modernization.
In government IT systems, for example, older systems account for more than half of the IT expenditures and cost literally billions for maintenance.
This is money that may keep some IT officers in government sectors from investing in all that Cloud has to offer, Neil McEvoy writes for Cloud Best Practices Network.
The UK's government pioneered some prominent projects including voter registration by creating custom software, and has a robust IT staff to do such overhauls. But estimates are that legacy applications still are overwhelmingly primary in terms of the overall system.
The Canadian government's office of audits also states that legacy applications are an integral part of the network, and has veered away from modernization generally.
But modernization can deliver major benefits such as:
- Untangling and clarifying complexities of legacy apps: Mapping existing architectures and how well they serve or don't serve the demands of the business is valuable, and developers who don't know the legacy system are able to work on the goals.
- A custom modernization can actually extend the life of a legacy app.
- Applications can be moved to Web enabled.
- More modern software usually can be linked to more innovation.
Modernization would enable government agencies to get rid of obsolete technologies, which are a huge unnecessary cost, among other benefits.


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