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Kids Face Painting
Face Painting Plus offers many Added Attractions!
The selection of talent is extensive. Just ask us for a quotation and we will provide you with a number of creative choices to enhance and make your event a memorable one!
Our talent promises to make a lasting impression, so pull out your cameras and cell phones, you don't want to miss the look on your little ones faces as they engage and become part of the magic.
Each Added Attraction bring color, pageantry, energy and high performance to your special occasion. Always interactive, always fun, always a success! Please take a look at just some of the many options available.
Added Attractions include…
– Clown Acts / Strolling
– Clown Bands
– Magic Shows/Strolling Magic
– Jugglers/Unicycle
– Circus Acts of all types
– Puppets? Ventriloquists
– Yo-Yo Champions
– Costumed Characters/Mascots
– Super Hero's
– Fairytale Characters /Shows
– Animal Acts/ Dog Shows/Reptile/ Bird/Jungle
– Science and Educational Shows
– Interactive Dance Parties
Linda's Face Painting Plus…
Linda's "Face Painting Plus" will most definitely Color any special event ! We have provided shows, performers, and artists for Fairs, Festivals, Exhibitions, Rib Fest's , Street Sales, Mall Promotions, Schools Fundraisers, Grand Openings, Farmers Markets , Family Reunions , Restaurants and more!
Whether you are having a kids birthday party, picnic, or corporate holiday event , we offer a professional team of creative and personable Face Painting Artists and Performers. Linda has hand picked each and every artist. The roaster of face painters and entertainers is extensive. We happily service all of Ontario , and are also Canada wide.
Face Painting Plus offers everything from quick and cool cheek and eye designs to half and full faces. Kids and parents of all ages love face painting when it is spectacular, and we deliver spectacular! We have hundreds of designs so there is always something for everyone.Menu's can be totally customized to suit any theme. Our team will also dress in theme (additional costs maybe incurred should the costumes not be in our stock ).
All make up and supplies are safe for kids, and FDA approved. Warm water and a gentle soap is all it takes for easy removal.We only use cosmetic grade glitter made for face and body which is safe for the eyes. Designs are hand painted with brushes and sponges. Hygiene comes first, brushes are cleaned and sponges frequently replaced.
Speaking with Linda personally either by email or phone, will ensure that your demographics, logistics, and budget is met. Each quotation is emailed in a timely and detailed fashion. We will help you determine how may hours and artists to contract, after all every party and event is different. Once the agreement has been set….a confirmation booking contract is sent directly to you.
If your having a Bat Mitzvah or Bar Mitzvah…your never too old!
Check out the "Dudes and Diva's " Menu…where you become Art!
Linda Googh Enterprises has provided our services for face painting demonstrations, adverts for magazines , sporting events, and even golf tournaments!
We are very happy to offer packages that include Activities.
If you are looking for some additional enhancements for your next Birthday or Corporate Party, let us help you choose. There is something for all ages, Bouncy Castles, Jungle Slides, or Mini Tracks are just a few examples of many unique and entertaining offerings. All activities and Inflatable offerings come with an operator for your child's safety.
Themed Décor
Whether you are having a Fairytale Princess Party or a Super Hero, we have the theatrics' to bring your vision to life! Our quotations include picture support, and all the details you need to know, such as set up and tear down times, prop and décor dimensions, plus labor and transportation details. We have décor for indoors and out door events.
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As debuts go, this has to be up there with one of the best.
Adam Bogdan, who only sealed a season-long loan move to Wigan Athletic yesterday, enjoyed an incredible debut for his new club this evening as he saved a penalty with his very first touch of the ball!
47′ SAVED!! Adam Bogdan's first touch of the ball in a Latics shirt sees him deny Jack Sampson from the spot! #wafc
— Wigan Athletic (@LaticsOfficial) July 20, 2016
His new club were up against North West rivals Macclesfield Town in a friendly at Moss Rose.
Agger on Roy Hodgson's shocking abilities
Agger on dressing room fight with Rodgers
Klavan shirt number revealed
Bogdan came on as a sub at half-time, saving a Jack Simpson penalty just two minutes later.
It proved to be a vital save, as the two sides went on to play out a 0-0 draw.

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Steel Shrikes are a faction that appears in The Elder Scrolls Online. They have occupied Fuller's Break, and are preventing The Dancing Scrib from leaving the dock.
The Show Must Go On
Raise the Curtain
Heist: Glittering Grotto
Known Members
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Known Locations
- During Raise the Curtain, Steel Shrike Armor may be obtained, allowing for easier access through the Steel Shrikes.
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The hotel is hidden in a small back street in the center of Urgup, and is quiet, yet conveniently close to the town centre where most of the local shops and restaurants are found. It is one of the most luxurious of the small boutique hotels of Cappadocia, decorated with the best antiques. Complimentary breakfast is provided as well as fresh cake, tea and cherry liquor in the rooms which add to the luxurious feeling that this hotel will give you during your stay.
Awarded for Excellence in 2009 by Condé Nast Johansens
Awarded for Most Excellent Hotel for Design and Innovation in 2011
The Sacred House in Ürgüp welcomes their guests in a different atmosphere with its magnificent decoration and interesting foods from Turkish, Greek and Armenian cuisine.


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Installing Wood Fences
A wood fence provides a natural-looking boundary to your property. Whether you want a decorative picket fence or one that offers your family privacy, you can find a style to suit your needs. You can build the fence from the ground up, or you can purchase ready-made wooden panels that you attach to the fence posts.
Fence posts are the key to a sturdy fence. For best results, plan on setting fence posts with at least one-third of the post in the ground. The length of the posts depends on the height of the fence. Corner and gateposts are typically larger posts because they support more weight. Posts are typically set six to eight feet apart, depending on the length of the panels you are installing. It's important to space posts properly, or the panels won't fit. While you can dig post holes by hand, a rented power auger makes the job easier. Placing 2 to 3 inches of gravel in the bottom of the post hole allows for drainage. If you prefer, you can pour concrete around the posts in the hole. As you set posts, check they are straight up and down, or plumb, with a carpenter's level.
Picket fences lend a traditional look with their spaced pickets. Post and rail fences have two to four horizontal boards attached to posts. Privacy fences often have their upright members spaced closely together. The flat, "pretty" side of a privacy fence is set facing away from your property. An alternative is to build a shadowbox fence. It alternates boards between one side of the fence and the other. A shadowbox fence also allows for more air movement into your yard. All fence styles can have decorative tops.
No matter which type of wood fence style you select, paint the fence before you install it. If you are making the wood panels yourself, paint all exposed surfaces of each piece before assembling the panels. For premade panels, paint the surfaces you can before installation. Assemble and install panels with galvanized or stainless steel nails or screws to prevent rust. Once you build the panels, attach them directly to the posts. You can face nail the panels to the posts, create mortise and tenon joints on the posts and panels or purchase fence post hangers to attach the panels.
Gates complete the wood fence installation. Build a gate in a style similar to the fence itself and use the same types of fasteners. To prevent the gate from sagging, build a diagonal brace on its back side that runs from the latch side on the top and the post side on the bottom. Gate hinges and latches complete the gate.
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The moment you reach Level 3 Mecca Beauty Loop status…you know you have a serious makeup problem! Here's what I received in my first Level 3 (and third overall) Beauty Loop box!
It seems like L3 holders get four deluxe size samples, meaning no sachets for me this time around! There was a good mix of makeup and skincare, and I can genuinely see myself using all four items in this box.
Urban Decay Optical Illusion Complexion Primer
I love deluxe sample sizes for travel and work, and this one comes in pump form, which is a nice touch for a sample! I love the All Nighter Setting Spray, so I have high hopes for this item too. It's definitely a thicker primer formula, but not as heavy as Benefit's POREfessional. My skin feels smoother from the Urban Decay primer, and I think this formulation would suit most skin types.
bareMinerals Lash Domination Volumizing Mascara
I love trying out mini mascaras, as I'm never able to use up a full tube within the recommended three month expiry period (although this sample size is tiny, so maybe I will?). It has a spiraled 180 degree wand, which is meant to curve around and coat the lashes. Possibly the most unique mascara wand I've seen so far!
Ren Glycolactic Radiance Renewal Mask
This mask smells almost identical to the Josie Maran Grapefruit one I received in last quarter's box. On the tube is says not suitable for sensitive skin though, so I'm not sure why it was included in some of the boxes!
NARS Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base
This eyeshadow primer comes with a doe-foot applicator, which is my favourite type of tool to use when applying eye primer. The eyeshadow base is white, but doesn't seem to do any colour correcting once blended out (it sets clear). And if you are looking for something similar at the drug store, try the Elf eyeshadow primer!
All up I'm really happy with the items I got in my box, but with their full-sized price tags, I'm not sure there's anything I desperately want to add to my collection. If you'd like to try some high-end items, but aren't eligible for Beauty Loop status, you can always request samples in store.
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The time to broaden the range of vision of our readers about the types of earnings and SEO as well has come. This article is intended to make you understand the diversified types of earnings with the help of SEO and other partnership software.
The main topic for today is to appreciate and understand fully the meaning of PPC (Pay Per Click) as well as its full scope and learn the ways you can start earning money by using PPC already today. Of course the first question that you might have is "What is PPC actually?" PPC is actually the abbreviation that stands for Pay Per Click. Meaning that every time you make a click, you earn money. Now the only thing left to discover is to understand where to start clicking. However, be careful about the meaning of click itself. PPC is not one of the types of those procedures of clicking sponsors where you earn 0.01 cent for each click. PPC is way better and you should definitely try it out!
In order to properly understand it you should use your imagination. Let's imagine that there is a certain company that is selling some goods via internet. And this company cannot afford the advancement in top searches due to some reasons. The reasons of that could be due to: lack of funds for advancement; huge rivalry; lack of time to get to the top searches etc. Since the website is not included in top searches of searching systems and searching engines, then the website of the company gets a small amount of traffic. Hereby the amount of sales ends up being critically minimal.
So in order for the company to start earning income, it should start attracting targeted traffic or in other words find sources of interested customers. These sources should not be so expensive. And one of such sources is PPC systems. Over there the traffic is coming from sites of webmasters, like you and me. In reality PPC is an intermediary between the advertisers (e.g. a company that is selling goods online) and webmasters (owners of the website, from which the traffic is coming from). Webmaster installs a special code at its resource. And this code sends all the visitors to the webpage of PPC partnership. This webpage contains the links of the websites of advertisers, who are buying these clicks according to certain request. When you are redirected to the website of the advertiser, then webmaster receives a certain amount of money. This amount directly depends on the bid value and also the percentage, which is being paid to webmaster by PPC itself.
Bid – is the actual value of the click. The value of the bid is directly dependant on the goods or service and so n. For example, if you look at the bids of the keyword «buy Viagra» in different PPC partnerships, then you will see that the minimal value of the bid is $1.4 for 1 click. The maximum value is $ 1.7. On the other hand the bid of the keyword «SEO» has the minimal value of $ 0.01 and the maximum value of $ 0.11. These bids are being assigned by the advertisers.
In case if you face any sort of difficulties and need help, then do not hesitate and feel free to contact our support service team. Over there you will surely find all the answers for your questions. We do care about our customers and make our best, so that once you join PromoHeads you never feel like leaving it and enjoy doing business with us and earning more money for you!


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October 16, 2008, was a big day for the Chinese astronomical community. Nearly 200 kilometers northeast of Beijing, at the Xinglong Observing Station of the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC), leaders of the Chinese Academy of Sciences held a ceremony to celebrate the founding of something new and unique: LAMOST, the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope.
LAMOST is a survey instrument like no other. It was designed for maximum efficiency for one vital purpose: taking spectra of many millions of individually selected, very faint objects. Its designers had to find the best balance for this purpose between aperture, field of view, and many other factors.
The instrument's segmented thin mirror, seen above, has an aperture of 4 meters (160 inches), with the segments controlled by active-optics techniques. This aperture will enable LAMOST to obtain spectra of objects as faint as magnitude 20.5 magnitude in a 1.5-hour exposure.
That's not remarkable by today's standards — LAMOST's real power comes from its extraordinary field of view. The working focal plane is an immense 1.75 meters in diameter, corresponding to a 5° field on the sky.
As many as 4,000 optical fibers can be automatically positioned onto selected objects in the field, with each fiber feeding light to a spectral analyzer. As a result, the telescope has the highest spectrum-acquiring rate of any in the world.
Being a survey telescope, LAMOST needs to look only near the sky's north-south meridian to catch, in time, a large fraction of the celestial sphere passing across. As a result the telescope occupies special domes that look less like a traditional observatory than like some spaceport from a sci-fi movie.
"LAMOST's equipment was completely installed by the end of August after four years' of building," says Yongheng Zhao, the general manager of the project. "We are now in the stage of doing test observations and refining performance, which may take two years."
FAST Radio Dish
Meanwhile, the ambitious Five hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has been allocated government funds of nearly 700 million RMB yuan (nearly US$100 million). FAST will be built in a limestone karst valley in a sparsely populated mountanous area of Guizhou province about 1,800 kilometers southwest of Beijing.
FAST's dish will be composed of about 2,000 active panels, each 15 meters square, that can reshape into a paraboloidal surface for pointing in any direction as much as 40° from the zenith. Construction has begun and should be finished in 2014. FAST is expected to be 10 times as sensitive as the 300-meter dish radio telescope near Arecibo, Puerto Rico, currently the world's largest.
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A Latvian couple have described their lucky escape after one of histories biggest storms devastated the Philippines.
Around 10,000 people are feared dead and an estimated 11 million people affected after Typhoon Haiyan struck the country on Friday, Nov. 8.
Arnis Parkers and Liga Jankova from Riga, both 25, moved to Cebu City, Philippines this year for work.
They told the Baltic Times how they feared the worst after they being told the storm was coming.
"The typhoon was announced three days before and people got time to prepare as much as possible," said Arnis.
"We bought food, water, flashlights and pretty much stayed at home waiting for it to hit. Since we live in a new building we were not so scared and the building management gave us clear guidelines of what to do when the storm would hit. We stayed up all night waiting for it come and passed out just before it came, so we slept when it passed by.
"Although it was supposed to hit strong, they announced signal 4 - wind speeds up to 300kph, eventually the typhoon went north and all we had was strong winds so we got lucky."
He added: "One of my colleges is from Leyte, the city that was wiped out. After the storm he got on a military plane and went looking for his family, we didn't hear from him for two days. Luckily he came back with his mom and brother with only minor injuries and lack of water for those days."
It's not the first time the young couple have had a lucky escape, In October, the Philippines suffered a 7.2 richter earthquake causing extensive damage.
"That was pretty scary," said Arnis.
"There were about 4000 after shocks in the coming weeks. I was on the 15th floor at that time, it was pretty hard to keep on your feet, since it was shaking badly.
"Both me and Liga moved to the Philippines this summer, since then we've had the strongest earthquake here in 23 years and the strongest storm in history, not the best place to live."
Aid agencies have launched urgent appeals to help raise funds towards the relief efforts.
Estonia has sent two experts and 150,000 euros of aid to the Philippines. Latvian and Lithuanian officials have expressed their condolences to the people of Philippines.
For more information on how to donate to the rescue efforts visit www.redcross.org.ph.


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Over the last year I've become a strong believer in the power of manifestation.
After picking up a copy of 'The Magic' (you can read about my experience with the book here), I've seen a huge shift in my mindset and as a result, my lifestyle.
But, I'm still the same person. I've just become more grateful for the opportunities that have come into my path. Even when problems have emerged, I've been able to adopt a positive attitude and still find gratitude in
Since blogging, vlogging and sharing my travel stories online I've had a lot of people reach out to me saying the same thing: "I wish I could travel more."
Of course, everyone has their own reasons that keep them from travelling such as money, family commitments, not being able to take the time off work etc. But I'm also a big believer that living the travel life of your dreams begins BEFORE you step foot anywhere.
It begins with the thoughts inside your mind.
Your thoughts are powerful and have the ability to influence both the good and bad experiences in your life.
And affirmations are powerful phrases that can help you to reprogram your subconscious mind, improve your mood and manifest more positive things into your life.
Afterall, a
So without further ado, here are my 10 affirmations to manifest more travel into your life.
Happy travels to the future!
1. I AM thankful for the time I have available to travel.
2. I AM happy when I travel ALONE and also with great company from FRIENDS or FAMILY.
3. I AM grateful that I travel SAFELY to every destination.
4. I AM full of EXCITEMENT as I travel and explore everything this world has to offer.
5. I AM able to find PEACE when I travel.
6. I AM CURIOUS when I travel and this often leads to unexpected stories with brilliant people.
7. I AM thankful for all the RESOURCES available to me that allow me to travel.
8. I AM grateful for the JOURNEY as well as the destination.
9. I AM thankful for the HELP and guidance I always receive when I have a problem.
10. I AM grateful for the MONEY I have which allows me to travel.
After say each affirmation out loud remember to say 'Thank You' 3 times.
As always thanks so much for stopping by and taking a read. I hope these 10 affirmations will help you manifest more travel into your life!
And if you use affirmations, don't forget to leave me a comment below.


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- MATERIALS: Street fashion mens sweatpants with side stripes are made up of 70% Cotton and 30% Polyester to elaborate the streetwear style. You can either wear it when exercising or put it on for daily casual occasions to complete your outfit combination.
- SIZE GUIDE: Model's height and weight: 175 cm and 70 kg. Model wears size 30.
- COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Made in Turkey. Streetwear mens striped joggers with elastic ankle made exclusively in Istanbul, Turkey, - the bridge connecting Europe and Asia.


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Financial capability combines the ability to act with the opportunity to act in ways that contribute to financial functioning. As large numbers of people struggle to manage their household finances, financial capability has become increasingly important. Improving financial capability requires financial education and guidance as well as improved access across the life span to appropriate and beneficial financial products and services. Examples of policies that promote financial capability across the life span include Children's Development Accounts and myRAs, long-term investment vehicles that build financial capability. Social work can play a key role in building financial capability through interventions in households, communities, and policies. However, these contributions require practice and research to develop and test interventions. They also require financial education for social workers.
Keywords: Child Development Accounts, debt, financial capability, financial education, financial services, inequality, myRA, saving
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The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe.
THE GOOD: Coulda Been A Contender. From May through August, the Rays were 62-45. Over 162 games that would translate to a 94-win team. The Red Sox have 91 wins with 10 to go.
THE BAD: Coulda Had The Top Pick In Draft, Again. In April and September, the Rays are 16-29. So, at the start and end of the season, the Rays have played like a 104-loss team. the Nats are 52-100 with 10 to go.
THE TELLING: Not So Big Game. Since the all-star break, James Shields has the worst ERA (5.23) and WHIP (1.51) in the American League (min. 75ip).
- Joe Smith writes about Evan Longoria's strong finish. [St. Pete Times]
- From the "Can't make it up" department is Ben Zobrist: "Jew or not a Jew." Of course, Zorilla is the son of a minister, married to a Christian Rock singer, attended Olivet Nazarene University and runs bible studies in the Rays clubhouse with Gabe Gross. And yet, Zobrist ranks a "4" on the Jew scale. [Jew or not a Jew]
- David Chalk has finally concluded his epic journey through the Top 177 Devil Rays ever with the top 28. [Bugs and Cranks]
- Chad Bradford's problems may be that he is throwing too many strikes…Knowing that, would you want him back in 2010? [The Rays Party]
- From the department of "It could be worse," the Pirates had about 3,000 fans attend yesterday's game. Of course, the 15,892 paid attendance is still better than the Rays last 2 home games. [Deadspin]
- WRAL in Durham interviewed Elliot Johnson after the Bulls championship run. [Watching Durham Bulls Baseball]


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October 20, 2020
|GJD at The Shows: Experience PRS
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By Tyler Bothe - GJD
Here it is, a year has gone by and we are at the second annual Experience PRS. The event started off with a bang on Thursday night at a private party at Paul's house filled with artists, press folk, and many PRS dealers from the dealer network. Paul's high tech studio and the rest of the property were open for any of the guests to take in and observe while the atmosphere was filled with good food, and a friendly vibe. It's always good to see people from all different areas of the industry and different parts of the world come together for a common good. After some great food and networking the music started and on this night, it was an acoustic set featuring Paul's new acoustic models, with special guest Ricky Skaggs. There was an amazing display of talent and humor from Ricky which translated into obvious appreciation to all that attended, capping off a great evening.
Friday at noon the festivities at the PRS facility got underway with live music right off the bat. There was an assemblage of artists being showcased at different stages throughout the facility with the sounds of Johnny Hiland, David Grissom, and many others ringing over the grounds. It was apparent from the start that this years event eclipsed last years in terms of the overall layout and points of interest. We attended a rare and unique seminar featuring Paul and the legendary Jim McCarty who talked about the history of electric guitars, and many interesting stories about artists that helped shape the music of today. There were some great product demonstrations, and mini-clinics on guitar building and set-ups. We also had a chance to hear about the PRS signature club which lets you travel deeper into the world of PRS allowing members discounts on PRS products as well as exclusive gatherings with Paul himself. This event truly is an Experience: it gives you the chance to listen to listen to great music, take pictures,videos, learn more about the development of new PRS products, and meet your favorite guitar stars of today. Tonight we are heading back to see a concert featuring many of the great artists the PRS family has to offer. Stay tuned for some great exclusive GJD coverage and content about the concert and the rest of the Experience PRS.


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David Moves in with the Philistines (1 Samuel 27-28:2)
First Samuel 26 ended with Saul offering David an invitation to return with him, but David sensed that Saul was not presenting him with a legitimate offer of reconciliation. David departed from Saul, and, to our amazement, he decides to go live among the Philistines (vv. 1-2). David rightly believes that Saul will not come after him in Philistia, since bringing a 3000 man army into that region to track down a fugitive would be interpreted by the Philistines as an act of war. His plan worked according to verse 4.
David's decision to move to Philistia is remarkable in light of David's previous exploits against the Philistines. David, after all, was the man who had killed Goliath of Gath (ch. 17) and had killed 200 Philistine men as part of the dowry agreement he made with Saul to marry Michal (ch. 18). Apparently, David's status as an outlaw in Israel had changed his relationship to the Philistines. Since David was the express enemy of Saul, Israel's king, it stood to reason from the Philistine perspective that an enemy of Saul's was a friend of the Philistines. Achish saw an opportunity to employ one of Israel's greatest warriors in his own cause (see v. 12). We are told in v. 7 that David would ultimately spend a year and 4 months living with the Philistines.
David's time in Philistia would ultimately turn out to Israel's advantage. David, in an effort to distance himself from close Philistine supervision, asked Achish if he could have a town in the country where he and his men could live. This arrangement would be mutually beneficial for David and Achish. From Achish's standpoint, David and his men would constitute a defensive outpost for Philistia, and David's absence from Gath would reduce potential social and economic turmoil in the city. From David's perspective, he would not be under the close supervision of Achish and could carry out raids against Israel's enemies without being detected.
David wasted no time in going to war for Israel. In effect, David renewed the conquest of Israel that remained incomplete from the time of the Judges (see Judges 1:27-36). Israel had been commanded to completely destroy the inhabitants of Canaan and had failed to do so. David would not make the same mistake. David's total destruction of the villages he raided was consistent with the teaching of Deuteronomy 20:7, which required Israel to completely destroy the inhabitants of the land. The complete destruction of these villages also ensured that no one could tell Achish what David was doing. David kept Achish from knowing his activities by provided vague answers about his exploits by using the term "Negev" to describe the location of his attacks. The word negev simply means "south," so his answers were never very specific. He led Achish to believe that he was conducting raids against Israel when in fact he was attacking Israel's enemies. Hence, Achish's belief that David "had made himself an utter stench to his people Israel" (v. 12).
David's good relationship with Achish, however, leads to a very awkward situation. At the beginning of chapter 28, Achish wants David to lead his men in battle against Israel on behalf of the Philistines and is even willing to make David is personal bodyguard. Our author, the master story-teller his is, leaves the subject of David fighting against Israel for the remainder of chapter 28. We are left to wonder if David, the anointed king of Israel, will go and fight against his own people. We will have to wait until chapter 29 before we find out what happens to David.
Theological Notes:
This passage gives us some helpful information in understanding the Bible's inspiration. Twice in this passage, our author reveals the thoughts of the characters in the narrative. In verse one we are told what David "said in his heart." In verse 12, we are told that Achish was thinking that "[David] has made himself an utter stench to his people…." Such insight requires divine revelation. Only God knows the thoughts of men, and he revealed those thoughts to the men who wrote his word while under the guidance and influence of the Holy Spirit.
Another note about David's destruction of different villages is in order. It was morally acceptable for David to do what he did because God had commanded these actions. God was using the people of Israel to bring judgment on sinful people groups. We should not view the Canaanites as innocent people who were unjustly destroyed. Rather these people were immoral idolaters who deserved the wrath of God for their sins. David was merely the agent of God's wrath. However, we should also note the differences between Old Testament Israel and the New Testament church. Such behavior today would be unacceptable because we have not been commanded to carry a physical sword into the world but rather the sword of God's Word. Israel was a political nation, with a king, an army, and physical boundaries. The church has no earthly king–our king is Jesus Christ–and we have no political boundaries or national identity. Our citizenship is in heaven, and the church is a transnational, multi-ethnic assembly from every nation, people, tribe, and language. We have no business doing what David did then, today.


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- 3 racks Ontario pork back ribs
- 1 tbsp Fresh ginger
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1 tbsp orange zest
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 3/4 cup beef broth
Servings: people
- Using a fork, lift the membrane from a corner of the rib bones on the underside. Gently peel it away from the ribs and discard.
- Place all ingredients except ribs in a large food-safe plastic bag; mix well. Add ribs and turn to coat.
- Close bag securely and marinate in refrigerator for 2-6 hours.
- Preheat oven to 325 F (160 C). Place ribs in a single layer in a baking dish, meaty side up; pour marinade over top. Cover with foil and bake in oven for about 1 hour.
- Remove ribs from oven and allow them to cool. Place in fridge until ready to grill. Pour liquid from marinade into a small saucepan. Reduce over medium-high heat for 30-40 minutes until sauce thickens.
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"I am in agreement with JPMorgan [chief executive Jamie] Dimon," he added, referencing Dimon's bombastic claims that bitcoin is a "fraud" that is "worth nothing". Dimon has even called bitcoin buyers — a group that includes his own daughter — "stupid", warning that they will pay the price when its value crashes to zero. Like Alwaleed, Dimon is skeptical that a currency can flourish without the approval and backing of a central bank. "Governments are going to crush it," he has said.
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So pretty.
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I wish I could be at Sauder Village with all the other hookers...maybe next year. Have fun!
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Have for at your hook in!
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Your baskets are beautiful (I know I have a little one!).
You live in a great area to do all these wonderful things...wish there was something like that close to me - enjoy your hooking!
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ATLANTA - At the first legislative hearing to tackle the spike in violence in Georgia prisons, two state senators called on corrections officials to answer for how prisoners in many cases were able to predict their own deaths.
"This is long overdue," said Sen. Nan Orrock, D-Atlanta."We need to move heaven and earth to address this."
Since 2010, 32 prisoners and one officer have been killed by prisoners in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections. In 2012 alone, Georgia had more homicides in its state prisons than several states had in the last 10 years.
Four of those slain prisoners in late 2012 and early 2013 were at Hays State Prison in Trion, Ga., where audits revealed many of the cell door locks hadn't worked in years.
Members of five families were called to testify at the Thursday hearing in the Georgia State Capitol held jointly by the Southern Center for Human Rights and Sen. Vincent Fort, D-Atlanta. About 70 people crammed into the room, but no one from the corrections department attended. Nor did any invited North Georgia legislators.
Department spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan said in an email that it was the officials' understanding that there will be a follow-up hearing to address concerns.
Before taking further action, Fort said, he will ask the corrections department to answer questions raised at the hearing.
"This has become an issue of great public concern," he said after the hearing. "I think [corrections officials] ought to communicate on some of these issues."
Among those who spoke was Lysander Turner, who held up a picture of his 27-year-old nephew Damion MacClain. MacClain, a convicted armed robber, was beaten to death and left to die in his bed on Dec. 26, 2012.
Turner, a former Angola State Prison corrections officer, spoke for his sister, RoHonda, who died in February after she tried for a year to get answers about how and why her son died.
Before Damion MacClain died, he told his mother "he wouldn't make it out alive," Turner said.
Yolanda Jackson told a similar story of her 19-year-old son, Pippa Hall-Jackson, who had been in the prison system's custody only two months before he was stabbed in the heart after stepping off a transfer bus from Hays State.
Fort read a portion of a letter Hall-Jackson wrote to his aunt a week before he died.
"I don't think I'm going to make it down here, honestly," Fort read. "I want you all to keep in touch because you never know what tomorrow has in store."
Sarah Geraghty, a senior attorney for the prison advocacy center based in Atlanta, told senators that the center has requested multiple times that corrections officials take immediate steps to address the violence.
"Too many people have died in the Department of Corrections," she said. "The message that this communicates is that these are lives we value less than other lives, and that is totally incorrect."
In February 2012, attorneys sent a letter to Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens calling for action because of the spike in violence. The letter also warned that special measures should be taken at Hays because of the high number of assaults -- that was 10 months before the first in a series of five killings of Hays State inmates.
In a second letter sent in January 2013, attorneys called for an outside auditor to inspect Hays and other facilities because of increasing reports of out-of-control violence and corruption.
Corrections officials never responded, Geraghty told the senators.
"This is an egregious situation," Orrock said.
The Southern Center for Human Rights is suing the Georgia Department of Corrections over Damion MacClain's death. Turner will represent his sister, RoHonda.
One by one the families told similar stories in which their sons or nephews had been in fear for their lives, but said the corrections department didn't appear to do anything to protect them from the violence.
The last story got the attention of everyone in the room.
James Jackson said family members were told that his nephew, Detravia Bryant, had committed suicide at Ware State Prison. But when the funeral home received the body, officials called the family to come and take pictures because his body was bruised and it appeared he had been strangled.
A year later and after a second autopsy, Jackson said, the family hasn't even received a cause of death.
"That disturbs me," Fort said. "I'm trying to be objective here, but that disturbs me."
After the hearing, several family members said they're hopeful the hearing will lead to the corrections department being held accountable.
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Like many single mothers of prodigal sons, Evenor Pineda's Mom struggled against, formidable forces – the streets, the gangs, jail, then prison – but never gave up.
Toya Graham is not exactly a household name, but odds are you've seen her. Just about every cable and network news outlet in America carried a video clip of Mrs. Graham chasing her masked and hooded teenage son down a Baltimore street last month. She searched for him, and found him in the middle of an urban protest surrounded by police in riot gear. Not long after she left with her prodigal son in tow, the crowd erupted into a rampaging mob that laid waste to one of the poorest neighborhoods of Baltimore.
As the news footage of a desperate mother chasing down her son went viral, Toya Graham quickly became a national icon of sorts, a single mother struggling to raise her son alone against the lure of the streets. My heart went out to this woman. The very scene she unwittingly brought to national attention was one I described in a post entitled, "In the Absence of Fathers: A Story of Elephants and Men."
I hope you will read it and share it in these weeks between Mother's Day and Father's Day in America. That article has been the most widely read and shared post on These Stone walls, having been republished in hundreds of venues and shared over 3,180 times on Facebook alone. It seemed to touch a national nerve as it told a story that might be the real catalyst behind the looting, raging mobs that-overtook the streets of Ferguson, New York, and Baltimore in recent months. It is a story about much more than race.
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A few days later, Mrs. Graham and her son, Michael Singleton, appeared on one of the morning network news shows. He presented as a remarkably articulate and respectful son, traits that no doubt spoke more of his Mom than himself, and he joked that running toward the police in riot gear on that street that day made more sense to him after seeing the look on his mother's face.
For her part, Mrs. Graham apologized to the nation for a few foul words delivered before cameras in the heat of the moment, but she apologized to no one for the almost comical smack she delivered to the son who towered over her. "As long as I have breath in my body," she said, "my son will not be down there doing that!" If These Stone Walls had a Mother-of-the-Year award, it would go to Toya Graham.
But she would have to share it with Rosa Levesque. Rosa is the mother of another young man I know, Evenor Pineda, and I have come to admire her very greatly even though we have never actually met. You have previously met Evenor Pineda however. He appeared awhile back in a guest post by Michael Ciresi, "Companions in Faith Along a Road Less Traveled."
You have also seen Evenor many times as described below. His is a remarkable story of the undying love and urgent hope of a single mother struggling to redeem her prodigal son. It is best to tell it in Evenor's own words:
I was born on Wednesday, December 30, 1981 to immigrant parents in Nashua, New Hampshire. My father, Cosme, was a political refugee who fought on the losing side of a civil war in Nicaragua. My mother, Rosa, was an orphan adopted into an oppressive and abusive family that immigrated to the United States. My sister, Lina, was born two years and a day after me, and by her second birthday our mother left our father, fleeing in an attempt to protect us from the drug dealing and growing addiction that was consuming his life and our family.
As I grew into adolescence with the wonderful woman struggling to raise us alone, I betrayed her faith, hope, and trust by becoming the next male role model in our family to become an abuser and addict, and I added a new twist – a gang member.
While my mother struggled to pay the bills I did everything to undermine her. Our home became a hangout for the gang. I brought alcohol and drugs into our home and police to our door, because there was no one there to stop me. Under my influence, even my younger sister began to stray into my world, but our mother took a much harder line with her, pulling her back from the brink upon which I lived.
It wasn't that my mother didn't take that same hard line with me. She did. But she also knew that outside our home were the streets always luring her rebellious son from beyond her influence. She knew that she risked losing me forever, so my Mom did what she always did. She struggled as best she could.
Between the ages of fifteen and eighteen I would drop out of school, be arrested a dozen times, incarcerated four times in both juvenile detention and then county jails, but my mother never gave up on me. Not even when I gave up on myself.
On my eighteenth birthday, I maxed out of a county jail and was able to land a real job. I held it for five years, but the ties to my gang grew stronger and I simply became better at evading arrest. And my Mom still struggled against them.
By the time I was twenty-two, I had two beautiful children of my own, my son, Tito and my daughter, Nati. Fatherhood was something I had to learn from scratch, having had no personal experience of it in my life. The relationship I was in with their mother collapsed, but my mother was, as always, right there to help me raise my children. She was an incredible grandmother.
I was balancing two different lives, however, one as a young father and family man and the other as a gangster. Those two lives collided on April 17, 2005. My friend Kaleek and I had a falling out over drugs that escalated. We both fell victim to the street culture we had embraced, and that would not release us from its grip. It ultimately took Kaleek's life, and my freedom.
This marked the lowest point in my life. It was the point at which I learned who my true friends were – and were not – and it reinforced how much the adage is true – that blood is thicker than water. It was a selfish moment in my life where I thought of no one but myself. I knew I suffered, but I had no idea how much I made my family suffer. By this time, my sister, Lina was serving in Iraq, and at a time when I should have been a support to my family, I instead went to prison I have been in this place for ten years, with eight more left to serve.
My mother had become both grandmother and mother to my children, and the one mainstay of my life who never stopped struggling to save me. So when there came a time when I had to decide who I am, I looked to the one person who might know. My mother taught me by the sheer force of example the meaning of love and sacrifice, the meaning of parenthood.
In 2010, I became a volunteer facilitator for the prison's Alternatives to Violence Program. I trained for this alongside two men you know: Michael Ciresi and Pornchai Moontri. In 2012, Pornchai Moontri and I graduated together from Granite State High School, an accredited school in the Corrections Special School District. My friend, Alberto "Kokolo" Ramos graduated with us.
One day, my friend, Gordon MacRae showed me an article he wrote about our graduation. It told my friend, Kokolo's story and was titled, "Why You Must Never Give Up Hope for Another Human Being." It was then that I realized that I must never give up on myself. I know you have seen the photograph of us that I am told is now rather famous. That is Pornchai in the middle with Kokolo just behind and to his right.
I am on the left, and clearly in the very best of company. Gordon is not in the picture, but stood next to the photographer. We were all proudly showing him our diplomas.
Today, I serve with my friend "G" on the Inmate Communications Committee (ICC) a representative group of ten prisoners that meets with the prison administration to keep open channels of communication and to try to make this a better and safer environment. Last year I was appointed co-chairman of the ICC after being nominated for that post by G. I want to thank him. At least, I think I do!
I also am a member of Hobby Craft and its woodworking department where I have learned the skill to produce furniture and other items that are now sold to the public. I use the funds I earn to help my mother and my children, and also to further my education. Through this effort, I am able to afford one or two courses per semester at New England College which has a presence in this prison.
I have formally renounced my gang membership. There is no longer any room for that past in my present. I remember something my friend, Pornchai Moontri wrote in an article I read. "One day I woke up with a future when up to then all I had was a past." Sometimes the truth just smacks you in the head. Today, I find reason to be proud, not only of my mother, but my sister, Staff Sergeant Lina Pineda of the New Hampshire National Guard, and of my children. I am their future, and it is an awesome responsibility from which I must not shrink.
When we graduated from high school in 2012, Gordon MacRae was there to hear Pornchai's great graduation speech. He wrote about this in an article I read, "The Elections Are Over But there's One More Speech to Hear." I gave a speech that day, too. My mother, Rosa, was there, and I wrote it for her. Gordon recently asked me for a copy, and then asked me to reproduce it here.
"Not everyone is fortunate enough to have an opportunity to receive an education or to have parents to encourage their education. I, however, was one of those fortunate enough to have both an opportunity and someone who cared enough to show interest in my education.
Yet I then took for granted what I now recognize was then a luxury and I squandered a wonderful opportunity to seize a controlling stake in my future. It was a future which up until high school was very promising. All I had to do was stay the course.
It was a far cry from other children in the world not as fortunate as I was to have a parent who cared and who valued education, children whose future is bleak, at best. The most shameful part about this is that I knew how good I had it and how bad others did.
I know of such a woman whose childhood was the polar opposite of mine. She was parentless at the age of three, placed in an orphanage with her six sisters all of whom were eventually placed with different families. At nine she found herself in a home where she was denied an education, robbed further of her childhood, forced into a life of servitude: cooking, cleaning, caring for that family's biological children, and abused both physically and mentally. She was told that she would amount to nothing, would be nothing.
Yet this woman did not allow circumstance to dictate her future, and as fate would have it, when the family she was living with immigrated to the United States, the Land of Opportunity, she did just that. She seized an opportunity and a controlling stake in her future. At the age of just seventeen in a foreign land, she struck out on her own, started her own family, learned English, and with only a third grade education, earned her GED.
Then she earned a college certificate in her field of work, earned her citizenship, earned a home, and earned the American dream. It was a dream this woman, my Mother, struggled to obtain, and I was a product of that American dream. I was born into an opportunity not afforded to my mother, yet she – unlike me – capitalized on her opportunities.
I had to endure great loss and suffering to finally grasp and understand to what lengths my mother had to struggle and sacrifice to solidify her place in this country, and how much it must have pained her to see me throw away the opportunities bestowed upon me.
Not everyone is fortunate enough to have an opportunity at an education, let alone a second chance. This is why this diploma has taken on a whole new meaning. It is a step toward redeeming myself to my mother and my family. It is a symbol of my commitment to follow in the steps of my mother in pursuing the American Dream."
I'm sorry to be late this Mother's Day, Mom, and all the Mother's Days past. I love you, and I thank you. I am so very proud of you. Your struggle has not been in vain.


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Samsung Engineers Discuss the Galaxy S7's Heat Pipe
The Samsung Galaxy S7 series is now one of the highest rated smartphones on the market, with several consumer media outlets from the U.S. and Europe recommending both the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge as two of the best handsets currently available for purchase. Needless to say, there are many reasons why Samsung's latest flagship series has been the subject of positive reviews, and there are many features that contribute to making the Galaxy S7 series a hit. Most of these features are visible to the naked eye and include components such as the Dual Pixel autofocus camera, the brilliant display, or the premium exterior design, but other features contributing to the Samsung Galaxy S7's success are concealed under the hood. Such is the case with the new cooling system found inside the new series, which relies on a heat pipe to dissipate thermal radiation. This is a rather new addition to the world of smartphones, and earlier today Samsung's Haejin Lee, Sanghyun Yi, Kyungha Koo, and Jeonggyu Jo have discussed the reasons behind adding a heat pipe as well as the benefits of using this system.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge have been equipped with a heat pipe designed to keep the CPU and GPU's temperatures in check. This is important because, as an application processor operates under heavier load, the unit's temperature increases and the CPU's clock rates are decreased in order to prevent heat from building up excessively. This is called thermal throttling, and it generally prevents a chipset from reaching dangerous heat levels. However, as thermal throttling occurs performance also decreases, and one way to prevent this while also maintaining a healthy temperature for the chipset is to use a cooling system, similar to how most desktop computers use a radiator and fan to keep the CPU's temperatures in check. However, a smartphone is a completely different beast compared to a PC, and obviously, a new cooling system had to be devised. For the Samsung Galaxy S7 series, the Korean tech giant had to manufacture a thermal spreader measuring only 0.4 mm in diameter, effectively making it the thinnest heat pipe in the market.
What's even more interesting is how this special heat pipe works. Unlike conventional thermal spreaders, the heat pipe used inside the Samsung Galaxy S7 series contains cooling liquid which turns into steam once it reaches a certain temperature. The steam moves through the pipes spreading thermal radiation, and once the spreader loses heat, the steam inside liquefies and returns to its usual state. However, there's also a bit of software wizardry involved. According to Samsung's Advanced Product Senior Engineer, Jeongguy Jo, due to spacial limitations the thermal spreader alone is not enough to maintain a healthy temperature for the application processor, and as such the engineering team had to calculate the amount of electric current used by the CPU, while optimizing the heat control algorithm "to minimize occurring heat". The developers also had to "thoroughly evaluate" whether the cooling system could affect other internal components and their performance while cooling down the device. Needless to say, a lot of work went into creating this particular cooling system, and following the Samsung Galaxy S7's success, more smartphone makers could adopt similar solutions for their future models.
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Imbolc, or the Festival of the Lactating Sheep
This day, Imbolc,¹ splits the year between winter solstice and spring equinox. On this day, sheep with heavy bellies and swollen teats prepare for lambing. On this day, we wait to see if spring will come early—if Brighid² will walk the earth. They say on Imbolc Eve she will send her snake forth from the womb of the Earth Mother to smell the thawing air. If her snake ventures out from its hole, Brighid will walk and her rain-steps bless us. Brighid is spring: purity, renewal, growth. On this day we honor her and all maidens. We bless seeds and ploughs and sew the sacred furrows. We watch for crocus flowers winking in the loam.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
(Difficulty Level: Moderate)
The word woodchuck, a synonym for groundhog, has nothing to do with wood or chucking. It is derived from the Algonquian name for the animal, wuchak. The word may have originated with Rhode Island's Narragansett tribe, a farming people who waited eagerly for spring.
This year, Groundhog Day falls exactly one week after January's full moon³. Algonquin Indians called it Hunger Moon because hunting was difficult this month and Snow Moon for the heavy snowfall. The full moon, like Brighid and the groundhog, is a symbol of fertility, transition, and promise.
May the waning moon help the serpents to come forth, Brighid to walk, and the groundhog to see his shadow. –EGV
₁ Imbolc is derived from the Gaelic "oimlec," meaning "lamb's milk."
₂ Brighid is the Gaelic goddess of healing, poetry, and smithcraft. In Christian tradition, she is called St. Brigid.
₃ The moon was full on Saturday, January 26, 2013, at 11:38 PM EST. It was in Leo.
"I Don't Believe The Groundhog Ever" can be roughly translated to "I Don't Accept that the Groundhog's Predictions are True, Especially Without Proof, Ever."
According to Groundhog Day organizers, the rodent's predictions are accurate between 75 percent and 90 percent of the time. A study conducted by The Canadian Encyclopedia of 13 cities over a span of 30 to 40 years found a 37 percent accuracy rate, a value very close to the 33 percent chance that a predication could be correct by pure chance. The National Climatic Data Center has stated that the overall accuracy rate of collective groundhog predictions is around 61 percent.
Individuals attend the Groundhog Day festival in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania from countries as far as 4736.62 miles away.⁴ Online gambling site Intertops.com has listed the odds in favor of Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow this year at 2/9. The odds that Phil won't see his shadow are correlatively 13/4. Phil's odds might be higher, CBS surmises, if he lived in New England, where winter tends to stretch further into spring.
In spite of the aforementioned media coverage questioning the meteorological validity of groundhog prognostications, as many as 15,000 tourists attend the celebration in Punxsutawney. The number can swell to twice that figure if the festival falls on a weekend. Weather is fluctuation in air pressure, The Guardian points out, and oftentimes it is too cloudy for a groundhog to see his shadow. But when polled, 100 percent of tourists who were present to watch Phil surface from his burrow believed his prognostication. "It's our tradition," a man noted in a local paper. "We believe that groundhogs are great animals to celebrate." –EJ
₄ cf. Russia.
His full name is "Punxsutawney Phil Sowerby, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinary" but you can just call him Phil. Punxsutawney Phil, that is.
But you'll never get close enough to call him anything. Phil's been on Oprah, he's met Reagan. Most groundhogs can't live a day past three years, maybe four if the alfalfa is good. But Punxsutawney Phil? He's going to make his 123rd appearance atop his Gobblers Knob burrow on February 2.
They say he's lived so long because every summer he drinks from the Elixir of Life, brought to him by the elites of the Inner Circle. They say it's because of his strong wife Phyllis who takes care of him while he hibernates in their underground home outside of Punxsutawney Memorial Library. They say it's because Punxsutawney, a rural town in Pennsylvania named after its mosquitos, needs him. They say that Phil is "being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania," or so says Bill Deeley, president of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. Some wish to protect Phil. In 2010, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sent a letter to the president of the Inner Circle demanding the release of Phil to a sanctuary. They argued that the shy, burrowing creature is badly treated by the chaos of the crowds at Groundhog Day. Their suggested replacement? A robot. The idea was quietly dismissed. An animatronic groundhog may be more humane, but it wouldn't have Phil's ephemeral spirit. Phil lives on simply because he wants to. He can make winter snows swirl into April or make spring rain drench March. When Phil gets out of that hole and looks for his shadow, he can make the weather. –DSF
The Elixir of Life
Serves: 1 Punxsutawney Phil
Preparation time: 4 days
7 large carrots
3 stalks celery
5 lbs. alfalfa sprouts
1 bucket of acorns
1 cord firewood from a California Giant Sequoia
2 Gingko tree limbs, dried
100 lbs. Antarctica ice
10 lbs. apples
1 bushel dandelion roots
3 cloves garlic, crushed
20 packages strawberry Kool-Aid
2 c. Lochness Monster urine, distilled
1 pair underwear from a member of the Inner Circle, laundered
Salt and pepper to taste
1. Place a 50-lb cast iron kettle above cord of firewood. Light fire by rubbing tree limbs together.
2. Place Antarctica ice in kettle once firewood burns into flaming embers. Bring to boil.
3. Add carrots, celery, alfalfa sprouts, acorns, apples, dandelion roots, garlic, and Kool-Aid to kettle.
4. Simmer for four days at exactly 215° F.
5. Add Lochness Monster Urine.
6. Let cool, then strain through underwear into another container.
7. Season to taste.
Serve elixir to the Great Prognosticator, Punxsutawney Phil, every September to ensure another seven years of life per sip.


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More often than not I am singing the song, "My eyes adore You", in my head. It's true. It is on an endless loop with the other nonstop chain of melodies and jingles. There are countless references to body language and speaking with only the eyes. We certainly can speak with our eyes, as it was pointed out to me last night at the Social Studies fair at my kid's school.
Me: While putting my full open hand on the area where my sternum and clavicles meet asking and stating, "Who is that dad over there? He makes me a little uncomfortable."
Other Blonde mom states frankly: "The one that you just exchanged eyes with?"
{Was I unnerved with my transparency or her ability to read me}
My son was two when I started to find my identity again. I am still becoming that woman on a daily basis. It is absolutely a one day at a time thing. Along with that I am reminded of the importance of being genuine and kind to one's soul. When I began to take care of the garage for my soul again, I was able to begin to like myself. It was that fateful night when Carrie was in Paris waiting for Mr. Big. It was the last show of the series. My kids were asleep, my husband was in another country and I lit my first cigarette in over two years. As I stood on the cold concrete of the front stairs, I stared at the giant beech tree on a street that I have walked down a million times in my life time and I remembered my name was Leigh.
"Grey sky, always in your eye. Where is the girl behind the cloud?
Grey sky, always floating by But I only peek when I'm allowed." –Grey Sky Eyes, Carbon Leaf
My eyes had been cloudy for so long. Fogged with the smog of what I felt that society expected from me as a woman. The expectations to be a super woman. Given to extremism, the pressure I put on myself had grown to take over my mind and I found myself unhappily married, very overweight and surrounded by people who made me feel inadequate. I wore clothes that hung on my body that didn't make me smile only covered my up. I kept a baseball hat on most days and generally fell into the given up on that part of myself look. My kids, my house and my husband all looked good though.
{The gig was over and I felt trapped}
You see, I have always enjoyed cosmetics. I have been playing with them since I was a little girl. All of those colors and concoctions not unlike a found steamer trunk filled with costumes and fancy hats to be fashioned any way your imagination or mood inspires. When I began my journey into the palette of mediums of make up it was the late seventies, by the time I was a ten it was mid eighties and I was never comfortable with the bright colors on my eyes or lips for that matter.
My brown eyes are almond-shaped and I find them to be small. I never liked the way mascara and liner and swooshes of color made them stand out. My lips are full and I seemed to get away with pink lipstick some eyeliner leaving my bangs covering my eyes until I was about thirty five. When I would do housekeeping or mundane around the house chores I would often surround my eyes with dark liners and royal purples and fabulous blues. NARS and Urban Decay palettes are my favorite. I have stacks of singles in my closet and can be found touching the display racks in Sephora and Ulta like Helen Keller reading braille.
My sunglasses qualify as an eye shadow. I wear them most of the time. I have a bunch and I collect different shapes, colors and styles to compliment my mood or activity. My absolute favorite fall upon are Ray Ban Aviators. I wear Oakley's for working out, they have the best grips in my humble opinion. They have sat on my face for hundreds of training hours, blood, sweat and tears. And throw up. When I started writing again and made the commitment to live my life authentically, I had no idea the challenge I had ahead of me. How the hell would I? I had been a chameleon for my entire life. i am expert in blending in. That is why I say that I am invisible. I have practiced it so deeply that I can summon a vibration, a cocoon of comfort. I imagine now that I could use it as a form of meditation.
If I had to choose one of the funnest benefits of being true to myself and affording the universe my true self – it has to be dressing and wearing make – up just the way that makes me most comfortable. I can fashion an outfit or a face appropriately for any occasion that makes me feel good.
I don't really care if you don't like my dark long eyelashes smudged with black and gold and a fedora during the day. If I feel like wearing a creamy peacock turquoise eyeshadow to the dog park with a True Religion trucker hat – so be it. It is fun, it is girly and pretty. Sometimes a sparkly pink MAC shadow will be released and seeing it makes me want to twirl.
TWIRL! How many things during the hum drum of daily life make you want to twirl around?
Discovering the beauty in engaging another in heartfelt conversation; or giddy banter while letting someone look into my eyes, is wondrous. Feelings in any realm can be realized when connecting with somebody else's eyes. I remain careful with my emotions as I am truly awkward with intimacy and will trip over myself physically if I feel like I am the center of attention or people are just vaguely looking at me. The more comfortable I become in my own skin and the more I live my life with conviction – the less need I have to cover my eyes. I am enjoying the feeling of acceptance. And I adore batting these long silky dark eyelashes at anybody who I care to.


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How many times have you had a stressful experience, and the first thing you do is go down the hall to a co-worker or get on the phone to your spouse, and tell them all about it. You describe it in minute "he-said-then-I-said" detail. You think by venting in this way, you get it out of your system.
Unfortunately, what you are doing is re-experiencing it. And because your body reacts to imagined or visualized threats in exactly the same way as it does to real ones, you've just given yourself twice the dose of spiking blood pressure, increased heart rate, and cascading stress hormones. Oops.
But it gets worse. Mirror neurons firing in your listener's body make it seem like your anxiety, anger and angst are their own. So you've just infected them with your stress virus, effectively transferring your spiking blood pressure, increased heart rate, and cascading stress hormones to them. Ugh.
What's a stressed out person to do? Learn from your dog.
The first thing your dog does after being in a state of upset is to literally "shake it off." This discharges the stress response state and resets his nervous system. You can do the same. Starting with your head, and moving thru your shoulders, torso, hips, and down your arms and legs to your hands and feet—rapidly shake through your body. Kind of like when you get a cold chill, only more sustained and intentional.
Your dog is also likely to stretch and yawn. Give it a try. Add a big inhale with an audible sigh on a long exhale. Then end with a minute of belly breathing. By the end of all that, your fight/flight/freeze reaction should have switched to the parasympathetic nervous system tend/befriend state.
And who doesn't like an ear rub? Called "auriculotherapy" for humans, massaging the outer ear releases endorphins, enhances relaxation, and improves attention and focus. Easy to do at your desk!
Lastly, your dog will go empty his water dish. Making sure you are hydrated will help to reduce the long-term effects of stress. And when you get home, take your dog for a brisk walk. You'll both feel better!
Of course, there are those times in our lives when we need to address the stress at its root because it has become chronic. That's when a good coach well-versed in conflict resolution comes in handy. Contact me to learn how to drop below the he-said-then-I-said growling to get you wagging your tail again.
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