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This process what a bit tedious and the results are not as visually exciting as I had hoped. I am not an artist in the drawing sense, but it was a fun medium to try and it's a great visual reminder. The instructions I found said to use an ink pad to imprint your thumb on the middle of a blank paper. You then scan the picture and enlarge it until it's the full size of the page. Then using a light table or a window, trace the lines for your text. Easy peasy, right? Well, getting a clear imprint that I could enlarge to that size was tricky. I ended up photographing the print for a clearer image and then I monkeyed around with it in my photo program to get a darker image to trace. It wasn't perfect, but it got the job done. I traced roughly with pencil and wrote in the words. I basically copied a couple of printables I found on Pinterest. It took a good portion of the afternoon, but I soaked in each sentence as I wrote it down. It's a start, a way to get the head to the heart.
There are other things that have been on my heart lately, too. I am a creative being. That's one of the reason I blog. I love doing creative thing and I often find there isn't enough time to express that creativity in the daily grind of life. By the time I find time to sit down and create, it isn't a whole lot of time and it is always in sacrifice of other things. (I don't "do it all". I often neglect dishes or other housework in order to craft. I have also sacrificed time I could be spending with my David after the littles are in bed, or *gasp* ignore, to some extent, my littles for a half an interrupted hour at a time.) Those times sometimes feel "stolen" and rushed and not nearly as enjoyable as I'd like them to be. How to find balance is a challenge. I don't want my children to be tasks that I need to get through until I can do other things. Honestly, I've felt that. I'm trying not to focus on the guilt that comes with those feelings, but to recognize them and turn them over to God for Him to help me sort them out.
Do you want to know something cool?! God is teaching me something new for this season I am in. This season of little personal time and a lot of tasks that need my daily attention. His soft direction is guiding me to find the ways I can use the creativity, that He's put inside of me, in the ordinary and everyday tasks. For example, the daily task of doing Abby's hair. I discovered that I like to try new hairstyles in her hair. Abby likes to watch Youtube videos with me as we research new ways to do her hair. I don't like to do kids crafts, but I like to do Abby's hair. Her gratitude after each new hairstyle makes me want to cry. We've found something to do together that we both enjoy and can spend special time just the two of us, everyday. Abby has even begun to play around doing my hair and we can extend that time even longer. Dishes can still wait!
|I am inspired by Princes Hairstyles, but often just play around with the basics to create new styles.
This was a revelation to me! I can turn the mundane into creative time. Do you want to know what I'm starting to be excited about now? Making my littles' their school lunches. Me!? I hated making lunches growing up to the point that I quit making lunches and just ate apples that my classmates didn't want. I've stumbled upon Bento box inspired lunches. This certainly isn't new, but I'm loving the possibilities. Cheese animals... just because! I'm sorry moms, if your child is in Abby's class this fall and wants lunches like hers and you're thinking "Aint nobody got time for that!" I'm making time for that and for other ridiculous things that I never thought I'd do. It's only that I want to enjoy my children and not just endure the preschool years until I can do a "real" job. The truth is, this is my real job and I want to do a good job of it. If I am created to create, then I can create to benefit my family and to the glory of God. By the way, I did an amateurish version of a bento box lunch for Abby this week and she was thrilled. It made me feel great blessing her with something so simple.
So, Pinterest might have new function for my creative researching these days. Maybe less sewing tutorials and more lunch ideas or hair ideas or whatever other ways I can make the mundane extraordinary!
P.S. In case you're wondering, I am not giving up on finding time to do my favourite creative things, like sewing, I am just finding ways to be creative in more ways and more often.
P.P.S If you follow me on Instagram, that's where you can see the hair-do's and box lunches (in the fall).


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What is real?
Is your life real? When you hold your loved ones, are they tangible?
Do they drift through your fingers like mist?
What if every experience you've ever known, every thought and laugh, each memory and emotion, all the tears and sunsets and people, what if they were all a dream? A dream that you had while waiting in your mother's womb to be born and as soon as you finish this sentence you'll wake up? How do you know you're alive? I mean really know. Just because you breathe and bleed and can have an orgasm? Is that real? Are you real? Are you sure? Prove it . . .
Sounds like a bad trip on L.S.D, doesn't it?
Welcome to the ultimate mind fuck: 1990's JACOB'S LADDER.
Written by Bruce Joel Rubin (DEADLY FRIEND, GHOST), this film is a paranoid roller coaster ride through hell. Just when you think you know where the plot is going, it veers away from you, hurtling in a new and horrifying direction. Rubin spins a masterful web of terror and deceit, where everything you think you know proves to be false.
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, ARLINGTON ROAD, ANTITRUST, MYSTIC RIVER) is having a bad life. Emotionally crippled by the death of his young son (Macaulay Culkin: THE GOOD SON, PARTY MONSTER), Jacob leaves his wife Sarah, (Patricia Kalember: Stephen King's: CAT'S EYE) and other sons behind and hides amidst the carnage of the Vietnam War. While "in-country" his battalion falls under a vicious attack. During the ensuing firefight, his fellow soldiers become the victims of some harrowing physical and mental alterations from unknown forces. Blind with panic and confusion, Jacob is wounded from a bayonet attack.
Fast forward six years later. Jacob has deserted his ex-wife and thrown away his Ph.D for a sexual and spiritual relationship with a fiery Latin co-worker (Elizabeth Pena: STRANGELAND, THE INCREDIBLES) and a mundane job with the Postal Service. His only friend is his chiropractor, Louie, played by Danny Aiello (THE STUFF). Jacob finds himself not only haunted by self-doubt and the memories of his life before the war, but by the shade of that near mortal encounter and wound. His recollections of that night are hazy and disjointed. He is a man on the edge of everything.
Jacob fears he is losing his mind as his reality begins to crumble around him. The New York subway system becomes a portal to hell, the trains ferrying lost souls like cattle to the slaughterhouse. Demons leer from park benches and genetic mutants lurk in abandoned buildings. Abhorrent freaks keep watch on him from the rear seats of passing cars. As the horrifying hallucinations continue, Jacob tries to unravel the tapestry of tangled memories from the bizarre incident in Vietnam. Reality and fantasy, past and present, heaven and hell, all mix together, as Jacob begins a nightmarish descent into the depths of the human mind and soul.
To say that JACOB'S LADDER is densely plotted would be an understatement. Layer upon rich layer of plot and symbolism exists within this film. It is a movie that changes with each repeated viewing, a cinematic chameleon that remains ever elusive. With one of the most surprising and shocking twist endings in Hollywood history, JACOB'S LADDER is a triumph of psychological horror.
Directed by Adrian Lyne (FATAL ATTRACTION) and featuring riveting early performances by Jason Alexander (THE BURNING), Ving Rhames (BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, FINAL FANTASY, DAWN OF THE DEAD [2004]) and Eriq LaSalle (WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN?), JACOB'S LADDER is a terrifying whirlwind nightmare that will haunt you long after you've returned the video to the store.
I give it the highest rating Feo has created.
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New Deal for Consumers
In his State of the Union address of 13 September 2017, the Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announced the "New Deal for Consumers", which aims at strengthening enforcement of EU consumer law amid a growing risk of EU-wide infringements.
You can find here five Factsheets explaining what the New Deal for Consumers is about.
Delivering on this commitment, on 11 April 2018, the Commission adopted the New Deal for Consumers package composed of two proposals for Directives and a Communication:
- COM(2018) 183: Communication on the New Deal for Consumers.
- COM(2018) 184: A proposal on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers and repealing the Injunctions Directive 2009/22/EC. This directive aims to improve tools for stopping illegal practices and facilitating redress for consumers where there are widespread infringements of their rights.
- COM(2018) 185: A proposal to amend Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair terms in consumer contracts, Directive 98/6/EC on consumer protection in the indication of the prices of products offered to consumers, Directive 2005/29/EC concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices and Directive 2011/83/EU on consumer rights. This proposal aims at improving the enforcement and modernising EU consumer legislation in light of market developments, in particular the digital economy.
The adoption of the package follows a major evaluation of the EU consumer law directives, results of which were published on 29 May 2017.
This evaluation - the Fitness Check of six consumer and marketing law directives - assessed whether these instruments are still 'fit for purpose'. A specific evaluation of the Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU was conducted in parallel.
Citizens' Dialogues on the New Deal for Consumers
Impact assessment
Based on the results of these evaluations, the Commission proposed to consider revising specific consumer law provisions (for further details see the Inception Impact Assessments under "Documents").
To this end, the Commission sought stakeholders' views, including via pulbic consultation.


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Nickole Renee Baxter, 46, of Mason, Illinois, passed away on Saturday, April 7, 2018, at her home in Mason, Illinois surrounded by her family.
Funeral service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at the Pagel Funeral Home, Edgewood, Illinois with a one-hour visitation prior to the service. Michael Durre will be officiating. Burial in Leith Cemetery, rural Mason, Illinois. Memorials may be made to the family, Leith Cemetery or donor's choice.
Nickole was born April 1, 1972, in Effingham, Illinois, the daughter of Melvin and Helen (Depoister) Smith. She was a member of the Calvary Apostolic Tabernacle Church, Iola, Illinois. Nickole enjoyed playing darts, gardening, deer hunting and had a great love of the outdoors.
Nickole is survived by her parents Melvin and Helen Smith, of Mason, Illinois; Special companion, Dennis Dunn of Mason, Illinois; sons, Jacob Daniels (companion, Jasmine) of Altamont, Illinois, Brandon Smith (companion, Caitlyn) of Mason, Illinois, Nathan Baxter of Effingham, Illinois; daughter, Emily Daniels of Cape Girardeau, Missouri; brother, Paul Smith (wife, Stephanee) of Mason, Illinois; sisters, Dana Flowers (husband, Ron) of Mason, Illinois, Carla Smith (companion, Dan) of Beecher City, Illinois, Cheri Greear (companion, Ed) of Salem, Illinois; three grandchildren, Summer, Skylyn, Madilyn and several nieces and nephews.
Nickole was preceded in death by her grandparents; Keith and Bernice Smith, and Leroy and Ida Depoister; one Aunt, Betty Ramsey.


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I have a few fruit trees in my current garden and since I have a limited amount of space I have espaliered them along the back fence. Briefly, espalier means to train the trees to grow only in two dimensions. It allows you to grow in restricted space and it gets more sun directly on to the parts of the tree that are there since the sun does not have to penetrate through any other parts the tree.
The trees are now about 5 years old. I will admit that I have done better in past espaliers because the back fence does not get a full day's worth of sun. Never the less, I got a decent crop of peaches, apricots and quince last year. This year looks promising for most everything.
I am particularly excited about the pears. They have been slow to develop and only this year are they loaded with fruiting buds. I have two of them, one a Comice and the other a variety of D'Anjou. I have espaliered them differently. The D'Anjou is a 45 degree espalier and the Comice is a 90 degree. The number refers to the angle the branch makes from the trunk of the tree. Pears are exceptional candidates for espalier because of their susceptibility to fire blight. In hot humid conditions, fire blight ravages the soft growing tips of pears. It can be controlled naturally by slowing the growth of the pear branches and one does that by moving the branch from vertical growth to somewhere between 45 and 90 degrees. If you have seen pears growing wild they have a rather columnar appearance. That's because they love to grow straight to the sky. Espalier controls that. It should also help budding because budding is enhanced by the same technique. So, now that my pears are getting established at a lower growing angle they are starting to set fruit buds. Here are some pictures.
You can easily see in the espalier picture the scaffold I use to hold the branches in place. The uprights are 2X2 treated posts and the horizontals are 1X2's … cheapest I could find. The boards that go at 45 degrees are simple wood lath. All of it is held together with small drywall screws. The branches are selected when young and supple for being in the right place and then held in place and angle as they grow with gardener's velcro tape. It takes about 12-18 months for the branches to hold the shape you put them into on their own. Every winter you have to prune them to take out the branches that are growing in the third dimension, the branches that are growing up straight or those that are growing where you don't want them.
Here is the 90 degree Comice … not as vigorous because 45 grows more like vertical than does 90 degrees.
Next is a picture of my wife's quince. It is harder to work with because it is more shrub-like and thus puts out branches like crazy. It also fruits on new wood so you never quite can predict what you will get or where the fruit will grow. You can see the size of the branches I pruned out especially at the top which gives you an idea of the raw vigor in this plant. They were new branches just last spring.
Finally, here is my Gravenstein Apple … the single best apple for sauce there is and a good eating apple for early September. BTW all of my trees came from Raintree Nursery
There is a lot to cover about espalier. If you have specific questions, drop a comment
Tags: Comice Pear, D'Anjou Pear, espalier, Fruit trees, Gravenstein Apple, Quince, Raintree


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There have been rolling blackouts throughout the San Fernando Valley, at least from Hollywood to Encino (the pace of my 20 mile, 7.5 hour-long walk, round trip, yesterday). Actually over 100,000 homes were without electricity in a much greater area. From 8 PM last night to 3:45 AM this morning, Encino was in the dark (at least the north side of Ventura Blvd). It is pretty cool davening maariv by candlelight and kind of annoying going to the bathroom with a flashlight (I think the last time I did the latter was almost three years ago on a camping trip in Point Mugu; the former was during Bedikat Chametz 12 days ago. The blackouts occurred throughout the day yesterday. I know this because on my walk I noticed many of the traffic lights were out; one even went out while I was crossing. Everything by candlelight, how romantic!
So this was quite the walk I have been walking a lot over the past couple of months. I lost a significant amount of weight over the past 4.5 months, 70 lbs in the first 3.5 months. During Pesach, during a hiatus from the diet I gained 10 lbs but have since lost most of it just in the past couple of days. That's what I do with the little free time I have nowadays: I walk whenever I can.
I'm going to stop it here because I need to get ready for Shabbos. Shabbat Shalom.


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You're right. I was a bit quiet last week. That's mostly because after Tuesday, every evening saw me getting home from work cold and tired. So, I didn't really get anything done apart from finishing touches on the spaceship.
J Peasmold Waste Reprocessing Ship
I've finished this today and sent the pics to Curt. This should nudge me over Ian's 1066 point target which I think means I win the race.
You should see the pics later today or tomorrow.
Entry Fee & Favourite Character Figure
The green stuff additions have hardened and the bits you saw lying at it's feet added. He is no longer headless! I've also glued him to a base and added some texture. This morning, I brushed off loose bits of ballast and rubble, then primed the figure and texture black.
Blue Moon Pirates
Last night I spent a couple of hours painting the trousers/shorts on all of them. Today I've been second colours - mostly shirts and coats, but some headscarves. These are painting up quite quickly in comparison to the Rebel Minis pirates, so I have high hopes of finishing them by mid-week.
Tomorrow night I've got my second game in the club's 30 Years War FoG:R tourney, this time against Andy's 1632 Swedes. I think lots of artillery is the order of the day, to try to chew up his foot before they get to charge.
About Me
- TamsinP
- London, United Kingdom
- A mythical beast - a female wargamer! I got back into wargaming in the summer of 2011 after a very, very long break. My current interests are Ancients, ACW, 30YW and SciFi gaming.
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Challenge Day 57 - A Sunday Update
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Good progress all the same Tamsin.ReplyDelete
That's a lot of Pirates - very impressive!ReplyDelete
And I thought I had a lot of pirates ffs.ReplyDelete
Good luck in the challenge
Nice motley crew you have there, Tamsin!ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to seeing your entries in the challange!
Progress is Progress they will look good when finished.ReplyDelete
Very impressive Tamsin!ReplyDelete
Great progress TamsinReplyDelete
Regular conveyer belt of productivity.ReplyDelete
Pirates are coming together nicely and good luck with FOG tonight.ReplyDelete
Not much progress, but a desk full of pirates and a score over a 1000 points, stop being so hard on yourself! Great stuff Tamsin.ReplyDelete
Cheers guys!ReplyDelete
Do you ever listen to music whilst you paint?ReplyDelete
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When Mozilla removed the status bar from Firefox 4, it didn't find new homes for all of the elements that previously resided there, while others may have been moved to places you're not that happy with.
Status-4-Evar aims to resolve this problem by restoring missing items like status text, progress bar (useful when judging if a website has finished loading or not) and download status items. Once installed, all of these elements are set up by default so if you're happy with how they're set up you can leave well alone. If you don't like the default settings, then unlike earlier incarnations of these status bar items you can tweak pretty much every aspect of them from the Add-ons Manager.
Each element has its own dedicated section, and you can choose to place it on the Toolbar, the URL bar or as a popup. If we had just one tweak to recommend it would be with the progress bar – by default, Status-4-Evar sets it up as a weedy green line at the bottom of the Location bar – set this to Fill for a more visible – and satisfying – experience.
If you need any of the supported elements that have been removed in Firefox 4, this is the best – and simplest – way to get them back again.


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Mathematical models for predicting gas performance of Devonian gas shale reservoirs can be divided into two groups: single and dual porosity models. Further, two dual porosity models have been developed. Although the shale matrix is known to contain a large quantity of gas, it is not known what fraction can be produced economically. No conclusive evidence in support of the various model concepts is given, but the information in this paper will facilitate comparison of existing models. Area requiring further study in order to advance current modeling technology are discussed.
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(CBS News) New Orleans - A lot of people have come here to New Orleans for the Super Bowl but one man named Dominique has come for an entirely different reason.
Nearly a million visitors are pouring into the Big Easy this week and most are coming the easy ways -- on wings and wheels -- but we found one guy doing it the hard way.
Dominique Liboiron of Medicine Hat, Alberta, started canoeing, clean shaven, eight months ago. He began on a little stream in Canada called Frenchman River, followed that down to the Milk River, to the Missouri, to the Mississippi -- nearly 3,300 miles total -- all in a canoe.
Dominique knows there are planes in Canada, be he joked "We have to get to them in dog sleighs ... makes it tough."
He actually does have a legitimate reason to visit New Orleans, and it has nothing to do with football. In fact, when he started this trip, he didn't even know the Super Bowl was going to be in New Orleans. All he knew was that his favorite uncle Mitch loved this town.
"It's really hot. It's nice," Mitch said of the city.
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Mitch drove into the city on his one and only trip to New Orleans in 1992. He spent just a few days here, although according to his nephew, he never really came back.
"When he returned to Canada, he had a bunch of Cajun recipes with him. He started his own Cajun catering company," Dominique said.
Mitch also started up a local radio show called "Mardi Gras Mambo." All this in Saskatchewan, of all places.
Growing up, Dominique heard so much about New Orleans from his uncle, he knew he had to get there someday. And when Mitch died a couple years ago of a heart attack at 42 years old, Dominique realized you can't wait for someday.
And so he began this epic journey. Dominique did it partly as a way to let off some grief, but mostly just to give his uncle one last great adventure.
Tucked in the boat, safe and dry, he carried a small vial of his uncle's ashes.
Dominique's family met him at the dock and then they all went to a quiet corner of New Orleans, held hands, and let go.
"Alright, you're where you belong," Dominique said, pouring his ashes into the New Orleans ground.
This weekend, some men on a field are going to try to reach for greatness, but real greatness isn't always what you do in life; real greatness is often best measured by the greatness you inspire in others. By that standard, it's going to be hard to top uncle Mitch.
"He was my hero," Dominique said.
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Van Valen
I was born in Albany and raised in Cincinnati. I went to Miami (Ohio) University because Chicago rejected my undergraduate application, and then to Columbia and the American Museum of Natural History for graduate work with George Gaylord Simpson and Theodosius Dobzhansky. I did a postdoc in London with John Maynard Smith and then supported myself on grants until I arrived at Chicago in 1967. After a few years I escaped from what was then the Anatomy Department and joined what is now Ecology and Evolution.
I'm a relative generalist; e.g., I've supervised doctoral theses in all four graduate Divisions. Such deviance still causes problems. Thus I can't predict even what field of science I'll be working in even a year in advance, and I'm unwilling to say falsely that I can. I've therefore been ineligible for grants (for myself, not students) from all sources for 35 years, although I had been 100% supported for about ten years before this. In 1976 I published an account of the problem in Nature.
Most of my work has been in paleontology, ecology, genetics, macroevolution, and philosophy, but I've done a good deal of work in other areas in and outside of biology. An advantage of being a generalist is the ability to see important gaps in a wide variety of areas. My work has been more in finding new ways to look at gaps rather than filling them in, although I've done quite a bit of the latter too. I've originated a moderate number of widely used concepts, not all uniquely, probably the most important being:
- Fluctuating asymmetry
- Fuzzy sets (as later renamed by Zadeh)
- Red Queen's Hypothesis (which has always been primarily a hypothesis in ecology)
- Metapopulations (published a few months earlier by Levins, but our only communication on it had been from me to him; the term is his)
- Source-sink equilibria (published a few months earlier by Lidicker, in a book I hadn't seen; the term is his)
- Ecological species concept
- Hennig's Principle, published before I or most other non-Germans had heard of his earlier book (but this one might be considered reinventing a wheel)
- There is also something called Van Valen's Test in statistics, to which the current Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences devotes four pages.
I founded two journals that partly filled large gaps (by their approaches rather than subject matter). I avoid hot areas, including those I've originated myself. In general I try to do work nobody else is likely to do, at least not in ways that I want to do it.


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"Some might view a rule against preferential treatment as exhibiting hostility toward religion, but equality should never be mistaken for hostility. It is important to remember that the establishment clause protects the religious and nonreligious alike."
-- U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb, ruling ruled last week that tax-exempt housing for clergy violates the U.S. Constitution. The IRS exemption dates back to 1921. Crabb's ruling will most likely be appealed and reversed by the appeals court.


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Pertaining to the Philippines or Filipinos.
When Mario Lopez realized that Team Millennia had Filipino members, he immediately acknowledged, "Pinai in the house!" while raising the roof.
by Steve Wizzlez October 27, 2008
A quadruple reed instrument from Thailand, that you have to blow really hard to play. Therefore, it may be used as a metaphor for a really hard blowjob, or anything relating to hardness. Also called Sralai in Cambodia, where things happen to be fucked up.
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We previously announced that Thorzain and Naniwa would be heading to Korea to compete in Code A as part of the MLG/GSL League Exchange Program. Today, we are very happy to announce that they will be joined by Fnatic.Fenix, our third qualifying player. Fenix will be competing in GSL Code A August and will also be participating in the August GSTL as a part of Korean pro team WeMadeFox, alongside Naniwa and Thorzain. It's an incredible lineup, and we can't wait to see how they do.
Thanks once again to GOMtv and to the GSL for helping make the League Exchange possible. We'd like to wish the best of luck to Fenix, Naniwa and Thorzain; tune in to the GSL and GSTL in August to cheer them on!


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How motorcycle accidents happen
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I've been riding motorcycles for more than twenty years now. I never feel more at home than when I'm out on the open road. I've made lots of friends in the motorcycling community through attending rides and meetups with other biking enthusiasts. Some of my closest friends in the community have been very unfortunate and found themselves in life-altering accidents while on the road. Two of my friends sustained serious injuries because another full-sized vehicle pulled out in front of them on a roadway while they were traveling at the speed limit.
This situation puzzled me as well as angered me. How could someone be so negligent that they don't see a motorcyclist clearly coming right down the center of the road that they're about to pull into? Are they just not paying attention? Perhaps there are more subtle aspects at play.
I found out that one thing that contributes to these accidents is a serious psychological phenomenon that happens between our eyes and our brain. If we were able to see the raw images that our eyes sent to our brains, we would probably be pretty freaked out. Most of the image would be blurry, there would be some blind spots, and the image would be upside down. The reason that the world we perceive is so in focus is that our brain chooses to focus on what's important and also based on what we are expecting to see. This is an important thing to note as a driver on the road. While driving, most drivers do not own a motorcycle and have never ridden one. This contributes to bias within them. It causes drivers to expect to see other full-sized vehicles only on the road. When we see a motorcycle on the road we aren't shocked, but we also aren't looking out for them, considering that they may be driving around us. This means that when we pull up to a street and are looking for a clear coast before pulling out, it can take our brains a bit longer to process and recognize the image of a motorcycle, even though it is right in front of us. It's harder to process the image just because we aren't expecting it. This is important information for motorcyclists and drivers to understand. Drivers should take an extra second to watch out for motorcyclists. On the other hand, motorcyclists should recognize that drivers are often not anticipating a motorcycle on the road, and may have slower reaction times towards them.
Luckily, there are attorneys that specialize in dealing with motorcycle accidents. According to the Glover Law Firm, motorcyclists are much more exposed to injury in the event of an accident than other drivers. This means that their medical bills can be catastrophically high, even if they are involved in a relatively low-speed collision. Lawyers in this field of work are able to look at all the relevant aspects of an accident to prove who was negligent towards the other drivers on the road.Read More


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Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday. A big day for football and partying for many. I'm not really into NFL football, (college football is another story!) I'm not even sure which two teams are playing this year. So for me the Super Bowl means two things: funny commercials and tailgate food. It's really just an excuse to break out the chips and dips, chicken wings, and see how many foods can be made into the shape of a football. I stashed this recipe away for just such an occasion. The combo of sweet and spicy make this party mix the perfect addition to your Super Bowl parties. Make a big bowl of this or it might not last until halftime. (like how I threw in that football reference?!?) Whether or not you watch the game or just the commercials, grab a handful of this party mix and enjoy!
*full disclosure: Hubs won't be home for the Super Bowl this year so I'll actually be munching this while watching Downton Abbey. I'm still upset/angry about last weeks episode, so party food will be needed!
Sweet and Spicy Party Mix
Source: Hannah Klinger, Cooking Light DECEMBER 2012
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme, divided
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/2 cup pecan halves
1/2 cup plain whole almonds
1 1/2 tablespoons butter
3 cups mini pretzels
1 cup crispy rice cereal squares
2 tablespoons maple syrup
Preheat oven to 350°.
In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, 1 teaspoon thyme, salt, cinnamon, and red pepper.
Put the pecans and almonds on a jelly-roll pan. Bake at 350° for 10 minutes or until the nuts begin to brown. Keep an eye on them because the nuts can burn quickly! In a medium bowl, combine the nuts with the butter ,stirring until butter melts.Stir in pretzels, cereal, and syrup. Sprinkle the sugar mixture over pretzel mixture; toss gently to coat. Spread pretzel mixture in a single layer on jelly-roll pan. Bake at 350° for 10 minutes, stirring once. Sprinkle with the remaining 1 teaspoon thyme. Cool completely.


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Full, feathery lashes are "the fastest and best way to feminize the face," says celebrity makeup artist Troy Surratt. Here's how to get 'em.
Curl your lashes.
Before applying mascara, give your lashes a good squeeze for a few seconds with a tool like Surratt Relevée Lash Curler. "This changes the natural angle of your lashes, making them look two to three times longer," says Surratt. ($30, available at Barneys)
Swipe on mascara.
Apply a lengthening and defining mascara (we like Lancôme Definicils High Definition Mascara) by starting at the root of the lashes and sweeping the wand out toward the tips. Shade-wise, deep black is an always-classic choice; dark brown or black-brown gives a softer, more romantic look — so pretty for a boho, beach wedding! ($27, available at Lancôme)
See More: 4 Wedding-Ready Alternatives to a Smoky Eye
Get rid of any clumps by brushing through the lashes with a lash comb. Try Tweezerman iLashcomb. ($12, available at Neiman Marcus)
Don't forget your lower lashes.
"Capitalizing on them creates the optical illusion of bigger, brighter eyes," says Surratt. Avoid volumizing mascaras in this area (they add too much bulk) and instead try a soft sweep of a specialized formula like Clinique Bottom Lash Mascara ($10, available at Clinique)
Add falsies.
They make your eyes look amazing in photos! For the most natural look, use individual lashes or strips cut into three equal pieces. "That makes them easier to apply and less detectable," says Surratt. After gluing them on, swipe on another coat of mascara to marry your natural lashes to the faux ones.


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If you haven't heard, former Trump campaign communications advisor Michael Caputo will soon be sitting before the House Intelligence Committee to testify about his connections to (gasp!) Russia.
Caputo, the latest cloud of smoke in the political equivalent of a raging forest fire, once worked in Moscow and has numerous connections to Russia but calls the investigation "pure unadulterated bullshit."
Upon learning that Caputo will be testifying, Montel Williams had the same reaction any of us would have upon learning that a terrible human being has to do something that is uncomfortable for him:
Fantastic – those legal bills couldn't go to a more insufferable human than @MichaelRCaputo https://t.co/SS5ca0hIXX
— Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) June 30, 2017
Caputo, who was apparently scouring the interwebs for comments about himself, hit back at Williams, bringing up some work he did in the past as a paid spokesperson for a payday lending service.
How about you loan me the money at 30 percent interest, Montel? Oh. Ouch. Too soon? https://t.co/LUGjzp8vyg
— That Michael Caputo (@MichaelRCaputo) June 30, 2017
On May 9, the committee asked Caputo to provide "any documents, records, electronically stored information including email, communication, recordings, data and tangible things" that could "reasonably lead to the discovery of any facts within the investigation's publicly announced parameters." He says he is coming forward voluntarily with the information.
In his haste to attack Williams about something entirely unrelated and not even approaching the level of colluding with a hostile foreign dictatorship to undermine our election and install a fascist in the Oval Office, Caputo seems to have forgotten that he's under investigation — so Montel reminded him.
Lol Mike one of us is under investigation for collusion with a hostile foreign power. That isn't me. https://t.co/8pLlOWFw4I
— Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) July 1, 2017
Then he brought it home:
One of us is hemorrhaging money on lawyers – although probably less for you since decent lawyers won't work for Trumpster Trash https://t.co/wQnDQAaktQ
— Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) July 1, 2017
It's not clear what is happening lately, but sh*t is going down. On Friday morning — at just after 3:20 a.m. — former Attorney General Eric Holder tweeted support (and a warning) for FBI and Department of Justice personnel.
"To the career men & women at DOJ/FBI: your actions and integrity will be unfairly questioned," Holder said, apparently alluding to the increasing right-wing efforts to discredit both institutions. "Be prepared, be strong. Duty. Honor. Country."
To the career men & women at DOJ/FBI: your actions and integrity will be unfairly questioned. Be prepared, be strong. Duty. Honor. Country.
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) June 30, 2017
Caputo seems worried about something. Wonder what it is?
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Live to Win
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Live to Win is the second solo studio album from Kiss vocalist, guitarist and co-founder Paul Stanley, released on October 24, 2006. The album's title track was featured in the South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft", twenty days prior to the album's release.[3] Stanley last released a solo album in 1978, Paul Stanley, which was officially released as a Kiss album. Comparing the two albums, Stanley said "It's not 1978 anymore... It's certainly the same mentality, and certainly I'm a better singer today. My perspective and where I'm at in my life at this point, and what I've experienced and seen, brings something else to the table that wasn't there then. But I still look back on that album as a really great snapshot of who I was and what I was doing then."[4] Stanley supported the album's release with a club tour in late 2006.[4]
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- "Live to Win" (Paul Stanley, Desmond Child, Andreas Carlsson) – 3:08
- "Lift" (Stanley, Child, Marti Frederiksen) – 4:04
- "Wake up Screaming" (Stanley, Child, Carlsson) – 3:00
- "Everytime I See You Around" (Stanley, Pete Masitti) – 3:28
- "Bulletproof" (Stanley, Carlsson) – 3:01
- "All About You" (Stanley, Child, Carlsson) – 3:16
- "Second to None" (Stanley, Carlsson) – 3:35
- "It's Not Me" (Stanley, Holly Knight, Charlie Midnight) – 3:19
- "Loving You Without You Now" (Stanley) – 3:16
- "Where Angels Dare" (Stanley, Child, John 5) – 3:22
- Paul Stanley – lead and backing vocals, guitar, percussion, string arrangements
- Corky James – guitar, bass guitar
- Brad Fernquist – guitar
- John 5 – guitar
- Tommy Denander – guitar on "Live To Win" and "Wake Up Screaming"
- Andreas Carlsson – guitar, backing vocals
- Bruce Kulick – bass guitar on "Everytime I See You Around", "Second to None" and "Loving You Without You Now"
- Victor Indrizzo – drums
- Greg Kurstin – piano
- Zac Rae – piano
- Alex Gibson – audio engineering
- Russ Irwin – additional keyboards and programming
- John Shanks – backing vocals
- David Campbell – string arrangements on "Every Time I See You Around", "Second to None" and "Loving You Without You Now"
- Tom Jermann/t42design – art direction, design
- Neil Zlozower – photography
Album - Billboard (North America)
|Billboard 200
|Rock Albums
- ^ Prato, Greg (2006-10-24). "Allmusic review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "About.com review". Heavymetal.about.com. 2012-04-10. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ "Live To Win on South Park". Kissonline.com. Retrieved 2012-08-20.
- ^ a b "Paul Stanley Solo Album Due In October". billboard.com. August 18, 2006.


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President Ford pardons former President Nixon
On this day in 1974, President Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon's resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
Congress had accused Nixon of obstruction of justice during the investigation of the Watergate scandal, which began in 1972. White House tape recordings revealed that Nixon knew about and possibly authorized the illegal break-in and wiretapping of the Democratic National Committee offices, located in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. Rather than face impeachment and removal from office, Nixon chose to resign on August 8, 1974.
There were no historical or legal precedents to guide Ford in the matter of Nixon's pending indictment. In the end, he decided to give Nixon a full pardon for all offenses against the United States in order to put the tragic and disruptive scandal behind all concerned. Ford justified this decision by claiming that a long, drawn-out trial would only have further polarized the public. Ford's decision to pardon Nixon was condemned by many and is thought to have contributed to Ford's failure to win the 1976 election.
From his home in California, Nixon responded to Ford's pardon, saying he had gained a different perspective on the Watergate affair since his resignation. He admitted that he was "wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate, particularly when it reached the stage of judicial proceedings and grew from a political scandal into a national tragedy."


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Author and Pastor Eugene Cho to Present Asian Heritage Education and Diversity Lecture on March 14
Author and pastor Eugene Cho of Seattle, Washington, will present the address "Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World than Actually Changing the World?" as the 2018 Asian Heritage Education and Diversity Lecture at Hope College on Wednesday, March 14, at 7 p.m. in the Maas Center auditorium.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Cho is the founder and lead pastor of Quest Church, an urban, multicultural and multi-generational church in Seattle. He is also the founder and visionary of One Day's Wages, a grassroots movement of people, stories, and actions to alleviate extreme global poverty which has been featured in the New York Times, The Seattle Times, NPR and numerous other media outlets. His book "Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World?" was published in 2014.
For his entrepreneurial work and spirit, Pastor Cho was featured in the 2012 book "Everyday Heroes: 50 Americans Changing the World One Nonprofit at a Time" and received the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award from Princeton Theological Seminary.
The address is being sponsored by the college's Center for Diversity and Inclusion in collaboration with the college's Phelps Scholars Program, Hope's Asian Perspective Association (HAPA) student organization, Paul G. Fried Center for Global Engagement and American Ethnic Studies program.
The Maas Center is located at 264 Columbia Ave., between 10th and 13th streets.


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In use, we have no complaints about the LG Optimus Pad.
It starts up fairly quickly, it's fast and responsive, and most of the hardware functions perfectly.
Wireless networks can be connected to very quickly, and 3G performance is as rapid as you'd expect it to be when there's a strong signal to be had.
Indeed, after running several different benchmarking apps, the Optimus Pad returns almost identical results to the other Android 3.0 tablets – which isn't too surprising seeing as it's powered by the same Tegra 2 platform .
Battery life
Because this is a pre-release model, we can't give you a precise battery life as it's subject to change.
However, we can confirm that it's at least a match for the other Android 3.0 tablets we've tested lately. With the screen on a medium brightness setting we were able to use the device on and off for a working day without draining the battery too much.
The fact that the Optimus Pad is basically packing the same CPU as the other Honeycomb tablets, whilst incorporating a smaller screen than the likes of the Xoom, means you can expect to get a bit more juice out of the battery anyway.


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Actors: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick
Director: Orson Welles
Genres: Drama, Mystery & Suspense
PG 2002 1hr 59min
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Darcy L. Mott | 10/19/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I had no intention of writng a review, but after reading several I couldn't stop myself.It seems like most of the people here are falling into two camps, the "Film Snobs" and the " Folks whose brains have been rotted by MTV, etc..." The comments of the"MTV people" seem to be typified by this quote I picked from out of many bad reviews: "Maybe you intellectual, artsy types go for this, but give me Star Wars any day!" Where the "Snobs" counter back with:"I cannot think of another film which so challenges the viewer time and time again. I still pick up little nuances, incredible effects and camara angles, and overlapping dialog on subsesquent showings. Gregg Toland's camerawork is justifiably among the most memorable in film." Oh boy!I, of course believe Citizen Kane is a great film, but I believe both sides in this argument are missing the point.I really wish those who defended this movie spoke about it in human terms, rather then talk about the camera work, or Welles' age or it's "impact" on film history.It is great because (if you let it)it will tell you a deeply emotional story.It is no accident that the very first and very last image of the film are the same. A locked gate with a sign that says,"No Trespassing." For in this movie, Kane is a guy with a virtual "no trespassing" sign around his neck. He is a man who wants so deeply to control those around him, to FORCE them to love him, that he allows nobody close. He essentially locks out all hope of love! Give it a chance...don't expect Star Wars. Pay no attention to the camera work and special effects, they are beside the point. Welles is talking about the very saddest, deepest, loneliest part of us all...you might find something to relate to....if you are patient."
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flickjunkie | 06/05/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Probably the most unfortunate thing that ever happened to `Citizen Kane' was that it found itself atop the AFI top film list. Now, no one can simply enjoy the film. Everyone feels compelled to scrutinize it and make a decision about its greatness. Asking whether `Citizen Kane' is the best film of the century is like asking if Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman. It depends on whom you ask.`Citizen Kane' is not the most entertaining film I've ever seen, but it is certainly one of the most important. It is a vanguard motion picture and a gargantuan achievement for Orson Welles. If you consider the fact that Welles was a 24 year old Hollywood outsider who had only done radio and theater when he landed the contract for this film, you begin to appreciate what a big deal it was. This was during a time when a few studios controlled every film that was made. How many 24 year old actor/directors can you name today, even in a world where independents abound?The story is based on the life of William Randolph Hearst. Writer Herman Mankiewicz had an up-close look at Hearst as he had been an occasional house guest at the Hearst mansion. The similarities were striking, right down to the paramour whose career Hearst promoted, who loved to do jigsaw puzzles. The fact that this film was released at all is a marvel in itself. Hearst went on a personal campaign to crush the film and enlisted every powerful friend he had to stop it. Louis B. Mayer offered RKO $800,000 to destroy the print. John D. Rockefeller ordered the Radio City premier cancelled. All of Hearst's newspapers were forbidden to mention the film. Hollywood was uniformly against it and Welles was branded an insolent maverick. The film was snubbed by the Academy. It was nominated for 9 Oscars and won only best screenplay. The film turned out to be a commercial failure, losing $150,000. With all the forces stacked against it, we are lucky to be having this best film debate at all.The story has a simple moral; that money and power can't buy happiness. We see Kane's progress from a happy child, to an idealistic young journalist intent on helping the common man, and finally to a bitter and angry old man whose innocence has slipped from him. One of the most effective scenes that illustrated this was the two minute overlay of breakfast conversations with his wife. It starts with cooing lovers and progresses through increasing levels of discord. It ends in silence with the two reading separate newspapers, her disdain for him subtly indicated by her choice of the hated Chronicle as her newspaper.What is so remarkable about this film is the filmmaking. Director after director has pointed to some aspect of this film as having influenced them. The use of shadows and various perspective shots was not unprecedented in 1941, but never before had they been used with so much dramatic impact. What was unprecedented was that `Citizen Kane' was the first film ever to depart from the strict narrative format, which moves forward chronologically. The film starts at the end and jumps around in time based upon the perspective of the person who is telling his or her story about Kane. So the next time you see a flashback, remember it started here. The makeup was revolutionary. Welles often went through four hours or more of makeup to be properly aged for each scene. The film also launched a number of brilliant careers. Besides Welles, Joseph Cotton and Agnes Moorehead went on to long and prominent film careers.If `Citizen Kane' is not the best film of the century it is certainly one of them. Its influence on a generation of filmmakers cannot be ignored in the equation. People who watch this film and ask, "What's the big deal?" are comparing it with modern films that have borrowed from this film's techniques and undergone 60 years of evolution. It's like going back to Kitty Hawk and saying, "What's the big deal, the flight only lasted a few seconds."There is only one rating to give to a film of such monumental importance. It is the consummate 10."
Don't Buy this Version
Darcy L. Mott | 06/04/2004
(1 out of 5 stars)
"Don't buy this version of Citizen Kane. 1.) Two of the DVDs come stacked on top of each other, something Warner Brothers (the makers of the regular and collector's version) highly do not recommend. 2.) Hairline cracks: my first copy came with hairline cracks in the feature disc and with severe cracks in one of the supplemental discs; my second copy came with hairline cracks in one of the supplemental discs; again Warner Brothers themselves warned me not to play a disc with hairline cracks. 3.) Within 5 minutes of buying this version the glue on the box failed and it started to fall apart.
I thought the problem was with Warner Brothers, but they disowned any connection to the gold version. Save yourself the headache and just get the special edition version and not the Gold."
It really is a great movie!
Darcy L. Mott | 12/30/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I have just been going through the poor reviews of this film, and I would like to respond. (1) If you approach this film as the greatest movie of all time, you are bound to be disappointed. With expectations that high, what film could possibly match up? Expectations are everything. I try very hard to be noncommittal when recommending a movie I love to my friends so that they can approach it with limited expectations.(2) The film is 60 years old. If you dislike black-and-white, or are unwilling to make some adjustments for older styles of acting, etc., it's not for you.(3) I don't think it's a very lovable film. It is simply not the kind of old movie that sweeps us away emotionally like, say, Casablanca. We watch these characters from outside; we're not really invited to empathize with them much.
It's not surprising that those reviewers who cite Gone With the Wind as the greatest American movie, with all its romance and emotion, are outraged that the AFI selected Kane over it.(4) We all have our favorite movies. Saying one movie is the "best" is a silly sort of game anyway. I'd bet that most of the 5-star reviewers could name movies that are as much or more a personal favorite than Kane.... I can not think of a movie that I think is superior to Kane in craftsmanship.(5) Yes, Kane does take concentration and alertness to follow. One of the key motifs is a jigsaw puzzle, and the film is definitely constructed that way. To those who love it, the intricate structure is a source of endless enjoyment. But if you just want to kick back and let the movie do all your work for you, this is not the film.To sum up, I first saw this movie several years ago, with extremely high expectations, and felt let down. I received the excellent DVD for a Christmas present. I approached the movie with lukewarm expectations based on my previous experience and was totally knocked out! It truly is a brilliant film, but try to approach it as just another movie. Forget all the "best American movie"... If you are the sort of person who is able to appreciate a 60-year-old, black-and-white movie that is emotionally cool but artistically stimulating, you're in for a treat!"


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This morning I woke up really early to prepare a yummie surprise breakfast for my mother and the rest of my family. The moment I opened my eyes I saw this strange orange light coming out from the window shutter holes. It was really awkward, so I went outside on the balcony and saw this amazing sky, the sun was just raising and the rain clouds were about to arrive.. with a perfect rainbow in between. Really spectacular.
So, with this post I wanted to I wish all of you and your families, and especially your mothers, a really lovely day.
PS! Though lately I haven't been able to post as much as I would have liked, I wanted to thank you all for the support and for sticking by, YOU make the whole blog-keeping process a lot more exciting!


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Unified communications (UC) vendor, Mitel, has appointed Brightstar as its newest distributor.
Mitel produces software and hardware products that integrate mobile and fixed line services seamlessly into a business environment.
The US-headquartered distributor was seeking to branch out from its Telstra commitment and will leverage its knowledge of the mobility and telco market in its Mitel partnership.
Brightstar has an exclusive agreement with Telstra for the distribution of mobile devices at a retail and enterprise level.
"Outside of Mitel, our main customer will continue to be Telstra," Brightstar managing director, David Nanayakkara, said. "But for our business to be sustainable and continue to grow, we have to look outside of the telco but not move completely away from it."
"Looking at Telstra's ecosystem; fixed, broadbrand and mobile, we want to develop it deeper and Mitel fits in well with that strategy."
The distributor has no resellers under its wings, but will be working with Mitel's existing partner base. This means Brightstar will be competing directly with the vendor's existing distributor, 24/7 Distribution.
Mitel vice-president of Asia-Pacific, Gwilym Funnell, said 24/7 Distribution had been kept up-to-date on the situation but he could not comment on whether there has been a negative response from the distributor.
"By having two distributors, it gives our channel choice," Funnell said.
The vendor anticipates the Brightstar arrangement will help grow its business, and has hired two technical support engineers to its Sydney technical support centre.
Mitel also has an existing relationship with Telstra Business Systems and decided to further expand on the arrangement 12 months ago. It hopes Brightstar's established partnership with the telco will help achieve that.
"It was better to find a separate expert distributor to grow that business with Telstra," Funnell said. "We went to look at all the options and the key component for us as a UC provider, is the mobility side of things."
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- My apologies for the lack of posts. Teaching summer school and a serious family illness has essentially eaten up all of my time. August promises to be just as hectic on the family front, but summer school will be over after the 8th so I'm hoping to be a more productive blogger soon!
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- AnonymousJuly 29, 2013 at 10:07 PM
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Polymer Clay Tutorial: Mica Shift Swirl Technique
Introducing my newest tutorial "How to Create Mica Shift Swirl Pendants". This is the 5th tutorial I have written about Polymer Clay techniques. It contains 51 photos & step-by-step instructions (30 pages) that guide you through the process. The tutorial also includes a bonus section, explaining how to make the matching earrings, and how to add the earring/pendant findings.Below are a few different variations on the same technique. If you are interested in my tutorial it is available in my Etsy Shop: Beadazzle Me
Polymer Clay Mica Shift Bracelet
Mica Shift cabochon bracelet features a design motif of various plaids, squares & dots. The handmade cabochons are paired with russet colored freshwater pearls & assembled with copper findings.
For these cabochons I used a Mica Shift technique that involves using a deep cut rubber stamp. Some stamps are made specifically for use with clay & are therefore deeply cut & leave a nice impression. Lisa Pavelka makes a fabulous line of rubber stamps , for polymer clay & PMC. By pressing a stamp into the prepared sheet of metallic clay, the particles are forced out of alignment. Now the raised areas of clay are gently sliced off using a tissue blade, leaving a holographic 3-D effect. These scraps that are sliced off are also useful (I save everything) for creating a pendant or matching beads. When I am working with the Mica Shift technique I always have a prepared square of clay ready to lay these shaved off scraps onto. My favorite brand of clay for this technique is Premo, it seems to have the largest particles of mica per ounce. I also use Fimo Soft white pearl in many of my beads & pendants. It adds a lustrous pearly glow to the piece & is a different shade of white than the Premo pearl.
I hope you will try this technique, it is really lots of fun & surprisingly easy! You'll be amazed when you see the ghost effect appear! The real magic happens after you've baked your pendant & sanded it smooth:)


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A young Timothy McVeigh, wearing quasi-military garb. [Source: ForbiddenTruth (.com)]Timothy McVeigh, a distant, solitary young man in Pendleton, New York, takes a job as a security guard with an armored car company after graduating from Starpoint High School in 1986. (Some sources will inaccurately give his home town as nearby Lockport, New York; he did live there for a time as a child.) He grew up as an outgoing and easygoing young man, but began to withdraw into himself after his mother began leaving home (and having extramarital affairs) in 1977. McVeigh began retreating into himself even more after his parents separated in 1984 and his mother left for Florida with his two sisters. He received his first rifle, a .22 caliber gift from his gun-collector grandfather, when he was 13, and was immediately fascinated with the weapon, though he never became interested in hunting, as so many others in the area were (McVeigh always displayed a strong empathy towards animals). He joined the National Rifle Association in 1985. In high school, he told counselors he wanted to be a gun shop owner; though he earned a Regents Scholarship upon graduating, he only spent a few months at a nearby business college before deciding further schooling was not for him. McVeigh has already begun to turn his father's home into a survivalist compound, stockpiling water, gunpowder, and other items in the basement and amassing a collection of magazines like Guns & Ammo and SCOPE Minuteman, a local publication distributed by a Niagara County gun advocacy organization. His father, William "Bill" McVeigh, will later explain: "I guess he thought that someday a nuclear attack or something was going to happen. That was my feeling. You know, he was ready for anything." [New York Times, 5/4/1995; Stickney, 1996, pp. 44, 49, 65-66, 70; Serrano, 1998, pp. 11-20; Douglas O. Linder, 2006] First Exposure to African-Americans, Survivalism - McVeigh, a 19-year-old sometimes called by the disparaging nickname "Noodle" who is unable to connect with women on almost any level due to his shyness, works for a firm currently called Burke Armor Inc., which will later rename itself as Armored Services of America, though he has a considerable amount of expertise with computers and conceivably could have landed a job in that field. McVeigh works out of a depot in Cheektowaga, near Buffalo, mostly delivering money to and from banks and stores, quickly earning a reputation as a reliable, hardworking employee. He works for eight months with a partner, Jeff Camp. This job gives him his first opportunity to work closely with African-Americans; the region of upstate New York he resides in is almost devoid of African-Americans, and the area has long supported a large and active Ku Klux Klan chapter. McVeigh learns from some of his fellow employees about inner-city strife and other related racial and economic issues. Later, he will recall making special deliveries at the beginning and end of each month to check-cashing firms; sometimes he would have to wade through long lines of African-American welfare recipients, and on occasion would brandish his gun to get through the lines. He often drives by African-American homes and sees the residents sitting on their porches, one of the reasons he begins calling African-Americans "porch monkeys." He also begins reading "survivalist" books such as The Turner Diaries (see 1978), The Anarchist's Cookbook, and The Poor Man's James Bond. Discomfits Co-Workers with Militia-Style Appearance - Several months into the job, as Camp will recall, McVeigh begins coming to work "looking like Rambo." McVeigh has frequently expressed an interest in guns—some sources say he calls guns "the great equalizer[s]"—and has a licensed handgun for his job along with other weapons, including an AR-15 assault rifle. On one particular morning, he comes in with a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition bandoliers slung in an "X" over his chest, apparently as a joke meant to surprise and discomfit his colleagues. "It looked like World War III," Camp will recall. McVeigh's supervisor refuses to let McVeigh go out on the truck, angering him. Camp will later recall: "He used to bring in two or three guns that he carried all the time. He had a .45 and a .38. He had a Desert Eagle [pistol]. That thing was huge." (McVeigh will later sell the Desert Eagle, calling it "unreliable.") McVeigh, Camp will continue, is "intense.… He ate a lot. I don't know if it was nervousness. Sometimes he could be quiet. Some days he was hyper, some days he wouldn't say a word." Buys Property for Shooting Range - After getting his first gun permit, McVeigh buys 10 acres of wooded property north of Olean, New York, with a partner, David Darlak, and the two use it as a shooting range. As teenagers, he and Darlak formed their version of a "survivalist group" after watching movies such as The Day After, a television movie about the aftermath of a nuclear strike in Kansas. A neighbor, Robert Morgan, later recalls his father calling the police to complain about the incessant gunfire. "My dad turned him in," Morgan will recall. "One day it sounded like a war out there. Sometimes he'd come down during the week, sometimes the weekend. He had on hunting clothes. Camouflage." McVeigh continues his shooting activities even after Darlak loses interest. Joins US Army - On May 24, 1988, spurred by his partner Darlak, he joins the Army (see March 24, 1988 - Late 1990). [New York Times, 5/4/1995; Stickney, 1996, pp. 54-57, 72, 82; PBS Frontline, 1/22/1996; Serrano, 1998, pp. 20-24; Douglas O. Linder, 2006]
Entity Tags: Timothy James McVeigh, Robert Morgan, Armored Services of America, David Darlak, William ("Bill") McVeigh, Jeff Camp
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Everybody Hates Tasha was the 20th episode of the fourth and final season of Everybody Hates Chris. It was the 86th episode overall. It premired on April 24, 2009.
SHORT SUMMARY: Chris asks Tasha to be his girlfriend and is shocked when she agrees. But he's also surprised to find out that having a girlfriend means sacrificing most of his free time. Meanwhile, Rochelle learns that Julius was married once before. Even worse, he isn't legally divorced.
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