text: Apr 9, 2013 21:33 Meschiya Lake and New Orleans a perfect fit Meschiya Lake and New Orleans a perfect fit Photo by Becca Lemire -- Meschiya Lake Photo by Becca Lemire -- Meschiya Lake, shown, and her band Little Big Horns will perform at 6 p.m. Friday at DBA, 618 Frenchmen St. Photo by Becca Lemire -- Meschiya Lake Allison Taylor| Special to theadvocate.com March 5, 2013; 2:04 p.m. Comments Meschiya Lake has called New Orleans home for more than 13 years now, but her music career started at the Elk Creek Lounge in South Dakota when she was only 9 years old. Armed with the only song she knew by heart, Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight," Lake's mother entered her in an adults-only singing contest, and she took home the $500 prize and the beginnings of an exciting career. "They weren't expecting such a big sound to come out of such a little girl," Lake said. "They gave me a job singing there every Saturday night." Growing up in a town very different from New Orleans, Lake admitted that she never really felt like she fit in. The day after high school graduation, 17-year-old Lake hit the road in search of a place in which to belong. She spent time traveling with the Know Nothing Family Zirkus Zideshow and End of the World Circus, where she performed such acts as glass and insect eating and fire dancing. "The circus was a beautiful and wild time in my life," Lake said. "It's not something I would do now that I'm in my early 30s and require more amenities, but in my early 20s, it was great! I got to travel, and put on shows with my best friends for a living. I guess that part of it hasn't changed." Traveling with the End of the World Circus brought Lake to the Crescent City. Immediately, she knew she had found her home. "I ended up in New Orleans at the age of 20," Lake said. "I fell in love as soon as I hit the ground. It was more of a home base for the first five years, as I travelled as often as I was home." Throughout her career, Lake and her band, The Little Big Horns, have been lucky to travel the world and experience many unique opportunities that some artists may never have a chance to experience. "We've played everywhere from Canada to South America, the U.K. and The Netherlands. I'd really like to add Africa and Australia to that list. In two weeks, we'll be in Moscow," Lake said. Last September those travels allowed Lake to perform in her dream venue, The Paradiso in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "The same stage where The Rolling Stones, Joy Division, Willie Nelson, Nick Cave, Amy Winehouse and countless others of my musical heroes have performed and made live recordings," Lake said. "You can literally feel the energy that the greats have left behind." While she has traveled the globe playing her bold style of jazz and blues, Lake honors and respects all genres of music. Any music that is genuine and creative strikes a chord in her, but it is old music that truly has her heart. "I love the honesty of the old music," Lake said. "I love how it is melody-based, how it can be danceable with simple or complicated chord progressions and how it spoke of the new-found freedoms and sadness of oppressed people. If it has some kind of force or grace to it, I love it. You can find that in nearly every genre. I even love some pop music." Lake acknowledges there are more challenging sides to what she does, like taking on the roles of both manager and businessperson while maintaining the integrity of the music. "I handle all of our bookings, except Europe, and all the accounting and band management, and at times, it can be overwhelming, as I'm balancing that with being the artist, too," Lake said. "I'd really like to do less of the business, so I could produce more. If I didn't spend my days answering emails, writing checks and negotiating contracts, I could write more songs, learn more material and practice my instruments." Practicing is what Lake does when she is not playing music, but even if music was not her career, she would perform on stage in other avenues. "I could imagine stage acting," Lake said. "I need the high of the performance and the connection with an audience, though, to exercise my demons and share my joy." Lake's career has spanned two decades, garnering critical acclaim worldwide, and she is not planning to slow down any time in the future. "I've done everything from eating glass in a punk house in Detroit to singing acoustically over a 13-piece orchestra in Seattle's largest concert hall," Lake said. "Of course it's hard to be 'on' all the time, but once the performance starts, it's my responsibility to give the audience all that I can." Lake and band members Jason Jurzak (bass and sousaphone), Russell Welch (guitar), Charlie Halloran (trombone), Ben Polcer (piano and trumpet) and Mike Voelker (drums) completed their first album, "Lucky Devil," in 2009 and received international acclaim. They are currently working on their new album, which includes two of Lake's performance favorites, "Midnight on the Bayou" and "The Fragrance of Your Charms." As for the future, Lake wants to continue growing as an artist. "I see myself maturing," Lake said, "learning. I feel that once you stop learning or start closing yourself up to new ideas, you might as well give up. That's the death of an artist." Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns perform at The Spotted Cat on Tuesdays from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Lake also performs a duet with Tom McDermott at Chickie Wah Wah every Wednesday night from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information on Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns, check out their website at www.meschiyalake.com. 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Parents and Children
For 40 years, until my father had a stroke five years ago, my mother and I were mirror opposites, each brilliant in realms where the other could barely cope. Except for her two years as a high school art teacher, she had never worked outside the home, and I had never worked within it.
She made sure her Connecticut household ran like a fine Swiss watch. She could sew a silk blouse from a photo in Vogue, cut my father's hair, stain a deck, make coq au vin with her own chicken stock, refinish a dining room table, and knit a sweater. After her blonde, Grace Kelly twist turned white, she had taken to wearing her hair gathered loosely at her nape. In slim black jeans and a cashmere sweater, she was more elegant than I could ever hope to be.
Before my father's stroke, however, she had never balanced a checkbook. And in all my adult life, I had never been supported by a man or raised anything more complex than a ficus tree.
She and I were often at odds when I was young. I felt I could never measure up to her standards, and she thought I was oversensitive to her criticism. So after college, I fled to California. There I spent my working days in clattering newsrooms and tiny rented offices. I interviewed mayors, picked stocks, negotiated leases, translated neuroscience into kitchen-table English for the New York Times, and won awards. But the tailor hemmed my pants; Whole Foods roasted my chickens; and every two weeks, Renata cleaned the house I shared with my man. The rest of the time I tolerated levels of household disorder that would have driven my mother nuts.
Then, on an October morning in 2001, my father, a retired university professor, collapsed on the kitchen floor. When my mother called me in tears, something primitive rose from my core and pushed me onto a plane and straight to the hospital where my father lay. My two brothers stayed put in California. Six weeks later, with my father ready to go home, I flew out a second time and found my mother a caregivers' support group, a doctor specializing in medical catastrophe, and a lawyer specializing in elder issues.
Now I watch her struggle with ambiguous loss — my father is not quite alive and not quite dead — and unending physical caretaking. He can no longer shower unaided, and he struggles to complete a sentence. He is becoming her child, and she in some ways is becoming mine.
Trying on a New Role
Since my father's stroke, I have supervised my parents' investments long-distance, and I have assumed legal control of half their money. I fly home when I can and worry when I can't. I nudge my mother to hire more help. I send my dad letters with drawings in the margins and look forward to the ones he sends back, written in a cramped, spidery hand. Sometimes when I'm visiting from California, tears fill my mother's eyes and she takes my hand in a soft, unfamiliar way. "If only you lived closer," she says.
For a moment, I wish I could respond like the selfless spinsters I used to read about in Victorian novels — that army of single women without other prospects who stayed home through the long years of their parents' dying. I can't do that. I've been on my own too long. Yet much to my surprise, and despite the strains, I'm finding the role of dutiful daughter far more gratifying than I ever expected.
I'm grateful I can help. I'm amazed I want to. I am an accidental inheritor of a long tradition of unpaid female altruism, without which most families would collapse when they hit black ice. Yet I want to preserve my own life — my livelihood, my dreams, my friends, my relationship, and my sanity-preserving walks on the mountain. This has meant learning to accept my limits.
For five years, I've groped my way through an unmarked landscape between two well-trod pathways for women's lives. One is the path my mother followed: the ancient tradition of home-centered self-sacrifice, in which such notions as saying no, talking about money, and having boundaries are irrelevant, if not immoral. Then there's the feminist road I'd taken for nearly 40 years: going out into the world to earn a livelihood, express myself creatively, and live a self-actualized life. But if I followed this path slavishly, I realized, I'd be in danger of denying my deepest emotional bonds. I wouldn't be able to live with myself.
No fairy tale of filial devotion and no image in my storehouse of cultural cliches can guide me. I've had to learn when to say yes, when to say no, when to ask for help, and when to draw the line.
The Perils of Aiming for Sainthood
Being assertive wasn't hard for me when, nearly 30 years ago, I helped crash the gender barrier on a city newspaper. Nor did I have trouble speaking out when I walked picket lines, negotiated raises, and participated in give-and-take with my editors. But when it came to family, my backbone melted.
My yeses, at first, brought enormous rewards. Visiting home the year after the stroke, I found my father sitting in the living room, stripped of all the markers of his professional adulthood. Gone were his wallet, his belt, his car keys, his watch, and the ID from the university where he used to teach. I quietly took him on a drive to check out local swimming pools, signed him up with a community van service, and bought him a waterproof plastic watch. By the time I packed to leave two weeks later, he was taking the van to the pool three mornings a week and doing water aerobics on his own. On my last day there, as I swam laps and he did his water walking at the shallow end, he looked over and said to me, "This is something I could really come to enjoy." He looked at his wrist. "It's so nice having a watch."
That moment was more important to me than most of the articles I've written, more valuable than every plaque and hunk of engraved crystal that bears my name. My self-confidence took a leap, and so did my capacity for unconditional love.
In my teenage years and beyond, my mother had frequently called me selfish, and I'd been perplexed and cut to the quick. But I'd gone on to live much of my adult life as a single, childless career woman who loved her solitude, and I worried that my mother's accusation was right. Now I had become the family heroine. I liked that.
In fact, I liked that so much it took me years to notice that my brothers weren't carrying much of the load. Middle-aged men whom my mother and I still called "the boys," they rarely visited. Jon, the youngest of us three, had been a long-haul truck driver in southern California and was now "taking a break" and living off his savings. My other brother (I'm withholding his name for privacy) was an impoverished actor who had been estranged from our parents for years. Perhaps in an expression of our female chauvinism, my mother and I neither asked for, nor expected, much from them.
Truth be told, this had a strange, perverse payoff. During one of my visits, as I was explaining my mother's investments to her for the nth time, she sighed and said, "Thank God I have a daughter. Sons are useless."
Slowly Preparing for Death
Initially, this classic, sexist, and voluntary division of labor didn't bother me. To the degree that I thought things through, I figured that we faced a short-term crisis, not a new life stage that would require of us new language, new roles, and the stamina of marathon runners. Although neither my brothers nor I put our thoughts into words, I think we assumed that my father would pretty much recover within a year or so — or die.
Things dragged on. My father's heartbeat slowed, and doctors implanted a pacemaker, practically guaranteeing that this damaged man will live far beyond his ability to care for himself.
When my mother couldn't sleep, I was the one who looked up her medications in the Physicians' Desk Reference and had trouble sleeping myself. When her financial adviser mistakenly sold a chunk of high-interest bonds, it was I who got my mother to fire the woman and helped her choose someone better. The time I spent on family business bit into my earnings. The second post-stroke year passed, and the third began.
I've heard it said that quick deaths are easier on the dying and harder on their families. Slow deaths, they say, are harder on the dying but give family members more time to prepare, talk and accept. Within limits, that has been true for us. Exhibiting the stoicism, dignity, and patience that are part of his legacy to me, my father has doggedly settled for little victories and accepted losses. He learned to fasten his belt again, to comb his hair, to brush his teeth. With the help of a speech therapist, he returned to his computer and wrote compelling passages about being wounded by shrapnel in a foxhole in Italy during the Second World War. An old colleague from the university regularly took him out to lunch.
A Mother's Love
At the same time, my mother grew stronger. She is descended from French Huguenot refugees who fled to South Africa, and with the toughness of her ancestors, she adapted. She hired a woman to give my father a shower three mornings a week. She learned to balance her checkbook and started doing it far more faithfully than I ever have. She became more accepting of human frailty, including her own. She took over my father's computer and signed up for Netflix. She reestablished her morning routine of meditation and yoga. In my home in California, I returned to sleeping through the night.
As she grew more confident in her dealings with the outside world, I grew more confident in the natural kindness of my heart. Talking to her on the phone, I sometimes felt the protective softness mothers must feel. Finally, it seemed that my mother and I had erased decades of pain. I kept saying yes, and the approval I got in return was like a drug.
Then my father had another small stroke. He could no longer remember how to get his computer to open Microsoft Word. Not long after that, the honeymoon between my mother and me ended. I came for a visit, got the flu and extended my stay until I got on her nerves. I cooked my own meals in her kitchen and borrowed a pair of socks, which I returned without washing. Finally, irritated by my thoughtlessness, she stood on her doorstep and shouted that I was "selfish, excessive, and disgusting." I could have been a teenager again, standing in the cold, tears filling my eyes. There on the doorstep, as alive as ever, were my ancient angers and griefs: my craving for my mother's love and my fury at not getting it.
Hard Lessons in Setting Limits
I left in a depressed fury, staring out the window of the plane as it flew west, ticking off resentments. When my brothers hinted that they needed money, my mother gave them cash: $1,000 here, $500 there. But she had insisted that I pay separately for a Burt's Bees lip balm that I'd put into her grocery cart. The old strategies of female altruism — help out, don't be petty, it's only money, she's got enough on her mind — were no longer enough.
After I got home, I took a walk on the mountain with a close friend I'll call Audrey, a successful artist in her 50s who manages finances for a widowed mother and a brother disabled by muscular dystrophy. She had recently had a stare-down with her mother, and she advised me to do the same.
Audrey had been staying at her childhood home in West Palm Beach when, one evening, the bedroom door burst open and her mother flew in, scolding her like a teenager for being on the phone past 11 p.m. The next morning, Audrey sat her mother down at the kitchen table. "I'm 50, and I've been taking care of myself for a long time. It isn't your business when I go to sleep," she said. "If you ever walk into the room without knocking again, I will stop coming here and stop helping you. Do you understand what I'm saying?"
Her mother first tried to hold on to her old maternal power, saying, "Well, I am your mother." Audrey looked her in the eye and would not let the topic drop until her mother explicitly promised not to barge in again. (She hasn't.) It was a necessary upending of the generational hierarchy, as brutal in its way as the physical knockdowns that sometimes occur between violent fathers and their strapping adolescent sons.
I was too upset to confront my mother face-to-face. Instead I wrote a letter demanding an apology and detailing her small but humiliating slights. She found my letter searing but shrugged off her behavior as "just impatience."
After that, I didn't talk to her for months. I even flew east on business without telling her. On a train from Washington, D.C., to New York City, I heard the conductor call out "Meriden," the station five miles from my parents' home. My stomach was in knots, but I didn't get off.
A few months later, my mother sent me some newspaper clippings and then a letter and a book. She surmised I'd been east and hinted that she missed me. One day I called her. That Christmas I visited. My parents had settled into a manageable, though constricted, rhythm. A week later, reconciled and relieved, I flew back to my writing, my mountain and my partner, Brian.
Stepping Back
That spring, my father started losing his sight. After a trip to the pool, he could not remember how to get home and wandered instead down Main Street. Some months later, he went out for another walk, and my mother found him crumpled in the driveway, one eye covered in blood. A CT scan at the local hospital showed more bleeding in his brain, and he was taken to a crowded university hospital an hour away. There my 82-year-old mother stayed up all night with him while he lay delirious on a gurney in a hallway; they waited nearly two days for a bed.
She cried to me over the phone — he was being neglected, she didn't know what to do. She needed an advocate. She needed a driver. She needed me. But I was exhausted, and Brian and I had booked a nonrefundable week in a cabin in the mountains.
It was time to say help instead of yes. I called the older of my brothers. He wouldn't give up an upcoming acting workshop but was willing to go to my parents' a week later. I said thank you instead of "I'll do it."
Brian and I went off to our rented cabin, and I had a good, restful time. My brother, meanwhile, stayed east for three weeks, where he and my parents talked late into the night. He gave them emotional support that I realized was often far more skillful than mine. I had believed I was indispensable. Now I'd stepped back, and my brother had stepped forward.
Love and Money — and More Love
Family growth follows a zigzag path. A month later came another opportunity to put my foot down. My mother told me over the phone that she was giving my brother Jon $20,000 to buy the Jaguar he had told her would "improve his self-esteem." For years I'd felt guilty for being more financially successful than my brothers. Now I was done with guilt. I told my mother that unless I had a vote — and a veto — in major money decisions, I was going to stop managing the family assets.
At the same time, Jon began fiercely lobbying my mother to pay me for the hundreds of hours of family work I had done. I'd developed a tyrannical sense of grievance, he said, and it was poisoning the well and compromising my ability to be fair. At first, my mother called the idea ridiculous. Two months later, she came around. I still feel uneasy being paid by my family — shouldn't I be pitching in out of the goodness of my heart? But now I can pay for bookkeeping and housecleaning, so I can help my parents without working through every weekend.
The way we deal with money is the most obvious change in our family, but not the only one. I listen more to my brothers. I ask them for help. We are now, and will always be, an imperfect family, but we're doing our odd dance together with a lot more grace.
At my insistence, my mother did not fund the Jaguar. Instead, she gave all three siblings an equal chunk of cash, and agreed — again, at my insistence — that future gifts will be equal. Jon went back to work as a truck driver and saved his paychecks. Last week he got the first car loan of his life and bought himself a burgundy Jaguar with a tan leather interior.
The Tipping Point
I've learned, meanwhile, that I have to keep speaking my mind. Let me tell you about my mother's recent visit to my home in California, the first she'd ever made without my father. My brother, the actor, picked her up at the airport. She got out of his car full of energy, dressed in her trademark black jeans and black-and-white scarf, as chic as ever. But I noticed she did not insist on her usual hour of yoga the next morning. I was shocked to see how bent she has become from osteoporosis. When we sat down for dinner, she put a pillow on her seat. I fed her expensive cheeses and put flowers in her room. I found her, as ever, entrancing and nerve-racking. I was delighted to see her.
She didn't take over my disorderly household. But without criticizing, she brought little touches of order to the chaos, lining up the salt and pepper shakers, clearing off counters. I took her for short walks and showed her my office. My brother spent hours with her: They grew closer than they had been in years.
The final stage of my parents' lives is bringing about reconciliations that I never would have predicted. Not long before my mother flew back to her exhausting and lonely life with my dad, she and my brother and I went walking along a California beach. After the sun set, we dropped in at a restaurant, and there we were, sitting in front of a gas fire in a beautiful yellow room, enjoying a feast of mussels and scallops and salads sparkling with dark red beets and white goat cheese. Apropos of god knows what, my mother said, in a hauntingly familiar combination of envy and disapproval, "The life you and Brian live is luxe." I could feel something coming. "There's a lot of waste in your house," she said.
I felt the little bomb detonate, as if underwater, but it was my brother who called attention to it. "That's rude," he said. There was a small silence. "It's insulting and critical," I added. There was another small silence. But this time my mother didn't come back with "You're oversensitive." Instead she apologized, several times. It warmed my heart, and I forgave her.
It was a small moment, but it showed us at our best: my mother humbling herself, my brother supporting me, and me being my mortal self and not an invulnerable daughter-saint. I still marvel at my mother, not only because she is elegant in a way I will never be, but also because, at the age of 82, she is still growing. And I marvel that at 57, I am capable of changing too.
Katy Butler's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Vogue, Tricycle, and the Science section of The New York Times.
Originally published in MORE magazine, May 2007.


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October 11th, 2005 #1
Creating a Captured Dab Brush in Corel Painter
Creating a Captured Dab Brush in Corel® Painter
This week we are going to create a Captured Dab (CD) brush variant. CD variants are made by first creating a graphic element, then capturing it for use as a variant's mark-making tip. This is one of the most personal brushes you can make as the process gives you complete control over the source of the mark made by your brush. There are a few rules you'll need to learn to successfully put CD variant to use. Once you've got these rules under your belt, you'll have a valuable tool for expanding your personal expressivity. Let's go!
Captured Dab Rule #1: Always Make a Copy!
The easiest way to create a CD variant that behaves in a manner that you expect is to start with an existing variant, preferably one that is also a CD variant. Why? Most CD variants commonly utilize a set of settings unique to CDs. By starting with an existing CD variant, you won't have to go through the Brush Controls and adjust all of these settings. Of course, it is important to understand what these settings are, as well as adjusting them for specific brushes. I'll go through these settings later in this tutorial.
Before we even begin, the most important single Captured Dab rule to remember and follow is this: Always make a copy of the source variant that you intend to utilize as your starting point. Why? Besides the usual XML brush description file, the CD variant has an additional JPG file associated with it. This JPG file stores the captured dab. When a new graphic is captured and applied to the source variant, the original JPG file is overwritten. Neither the Undo nor the Restore Default Variant commands can revert this original JPG file; consider it gone. To avoid overwriting an existing variant, always first make a copy to avoid this scenario.
Copying a Source Variant
As I mentioned earlier, the best choice for creating a CD variant is to start with an existing one. For our exercise, we'll use the Square Chalk variant (Brush Selector Bar: Chalk: Square Chalk). Select this variant, then use the Save Variant command (Brush Selector Bar: Flyout menu) to create a copy with a different name. This places the copy in the same brush location that the source variant came from; in this case, the Chalk category.
Examining the Donor Variant
Let's now take a closer look at our copied CD variant. You can look at the original captured dab by going to the Size Palette (Brush Controls) and clicking on the Brush Dab Preview Window to toggle the display to the CD view. We can see that this captured dab is designed to simulate the texture of the tip of a piece of porous chalk. In order to get a better sense of how this CD variant works, we are going to capture our initial dab: an arrow.
Performing Captured Dab Surgery
I've constructed my arrow graphic using the Pen Tool; however, you can just as easily paint one with an existing brush. The final graphic must reside on the Canvas (not on a layer) and should be 100% black. Color will not be recognized; only the Value component matters.
Note: you can take advantage of this by using grayscale values to represent opacity control within the captured dab. For example, a captured graphic created with 50% gray will paint with 50% opacity when used as a captured dab.
To capture a canvas-residing graphic element, you must first select it with the Rectangular Selection Tool (Tool Palette). Note that the rectangle must be a square to avoid introducing geometric distortion into the captured dab. A square selection is created by first placing your cursor at a corner location of your soon-to-be square, clicking down, then holding down the Shift key and dragging to constrain the selection to a square (If you first hold down the Shift key, then make your selection, Painter will interpret this action as an Add To Current Selection option).
With the arrow graphic properly selected, use the Capture Dab command (Brush Selector Bar: Flyout menu) to perform the capture. The Brush Dab Preview Window will update to display the new arrow dab (if it is showing the Max/Min circle display, click on the display to toggle it). Go ahead and try out your new variant (be sure to deselect your arrow graphic; otherwise the new variant will not draw to the canvas). Under some circumstances, Painter will initially use the former dab; in this case, adjusting the brush size a bit will purge the old captured dab and activate the new one.
Because this variant is based on its Square Chalk source, the resulting strokes will interact with the current paper grain. To change this grainy behavior, we'll need to adjust this variant's Subcategory (Brush Controls: General Palette) from Grainy Hard Cover to Soft Cover (Subcategory Pop-up). This will change the variant's behavior to paint a stroke with a solid arrow graphic.
You'll notice that the arrow dab is closely overlapping each painted iteration. Let's adjust the Dab Spacing (Brush Controls: Spacing Palette). The Spacing slider controls the distance between brush dabs in a stroke. The Min Spacing slider specifies the minimum number of pixels between dabs. I've set both sliders to their maximum in my example to prevent any overlapping.
Further Refinements
If you take a look at the Angle Palette (Brush Controls: Angle Palette), you'll see that the source variant had the Squeeze percentage set to 74%. Try adjusting this value and you can observe the arrow dab's geometry change. To minimize any geometric distortion with respect to the originally graphic, set the Squeeze slider to 99%. Why not 100%? If the Squeeze slider is at 100%, Painter interprets this to mean that the dab is round (a vestige of the earliest versions of Painter) and will therefore not have any rotational behavior. Setting the Squeeze value to anything less than 100% indicates that rotation will be applied to the dab.
When a Custom Dab is created in Painter, an internal array of dab graphics representing all of the potential sizes and angles is created. These internal representations can get quite large. Depending on the particular system Painter is running on, larger internal arrays can tax system performance. For this reason, it is important to adjust the Size and Angle Steps to acceptableyet not performance affectingincrements. This is what I call the sweet spot.
There almost always is a trade-off between graphic fidelity and brush performance. The sweet spot represents the best balance of these two factors. If your arrow brush is behaving sluggishly, then you may want to adjust the Angle Step slider (Angle Palette) up a bit. Set too high, there will not be enough angular iterations of the arrow to create a flowing stroke; set too low and the brush performance will degrade.
The same advice applies to the Size controls (Size Palette). I wanted to add pressure-controlled size variation to my example, so I set the Minimum Size slider to 25%. I additionally set the Size Step slider to 10%. I then set the Size Expression Pop-up to Pressure.
My final adjustment was for the Brush Opacity (Brush Controls: General Palette). For this arrow-painting brush, I don't want any opacity changes. I reset the Opacity Expression Pop-up setting from Pressure to None.
Once I have this variant adjusted to my liking, it's time to Save it (Brush Selector Bar: Flyout menu: Save Variant). Note that after saving a variant, your current brush will remain active. My customary practice is to apply the Restore Default Variant command (Brush Selector Bar: Flyout menu) to this variant and then select my new variant from the Brush Variant list. If I want to continue experimenting with new captured dabs, I'll begin the process again by saving this variant with a new name.
What Will Your Captured Dab Be?
With the procedure outlined in this tutorial, you can create the arrow variant, save it, and then start creating your own CD brushes. This is one case where the phrase, "If you can imagine it, you can create it." is true!
Viva la Painter!
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Hide this ad by registering as a memberOctober 12th, 2005 #2
Nice tutorial, John.
I followed your tutorial, with a few exceptions:
Before saving a copy of the Chalk's Square Chalk variant, I restored all brush variants in the currently loaded brush library to their default state. (I could have just restored the Chalk's Square Chalk variant to its default state.)
Instead of creating a new arrow to use as the Captured Dab image, I opened the Selection Portfolio and dragged the Curved Arrow selection onto the Canvas, then filled the selection with black. Then I used Ctrl/Command+D to deselect the arrow shaped selection.
NOTE: If we forget and first hold down the Shift key, then drag a square around the arrow, in addition to Painter IX interpreting the selection as Add to Current Selection, the Capture Dab command will be greyed out.
With the Angle Step slider set to 25%, Painter IX told me there was not enough memory so I went back to your previous paragraph and adjusted the Angle Step slider to 10 degrees.
A couple of demo images based on John's tutorial, the first showing how Angle Expression: Direction works and the second, just some extra playing around with the brush variant, painting on a Layer, using Color Variability, and adding a colored drop shadow:
Using Captured Dab variants is fun!
In addition to creating custom brush dab shapes for painting a wide variety of more interesting brushstrokes, there's lots more we can do with them by making other brush control adjustments.
For instance, below is an image originally used to demonstrate wet on wet painting using the Watercolor's Eraser Salt variant (that's what the circular "water drops" are). The leaf pattern was painted using one of my Captured Dab variants based on a much larger drawing/inking I did of a rose leaf back in the early '70s. I probably used Color Variability set to "from Gradient" and a Two-Point Gradient. It's been a long time (the file name indicates October 1, 2001) since this was done so I don't recall for sure. Though I didn't think of it at the time, this image could have been painted as a seamless Pattern, then printed to use for wrapping paper, or for whatever other use one might think up.
They can also be used (to borrow David Gell's descriptive word) to "stamp" an image wherever you want, as well as to paint a continuous stroke. The stamp idea could be adapted to use for an embossed or flat signature or logo, for instance. (Ignore the specific examples and just take the general ideas then launch off using your own creative imagination.):
Just to see if it could be done, I painted the two images linked below entirely with the Jin's Firefly Brush only changing color, brush size, and adjusting pressure to control opacity and blend:
Thanks, John, for reminding us of another neat thing we can do with Painter IX and earlier versions! (And for giving me an excuse to play again.)
JinnyPlease do not PM me with Painter questions. Instead, post them here where everyone can benefit from them. Thanks!
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October 13th, 2005 #3
Just because I don't think it's really been said, thanks for posting these here. Good stuff.
October 14th, 2005 #4
There are endless possibilities using Captured Dab brush variants, only a few of which can be demonstrated here. Since my previous demo included some fun stuff that's not always practical for people who paint, I'll add an example using one of my custom variants and a few alternate versions of that variant.
Here are a couple of demo images showing how one of my "more for painting" Captured Dab variants works. The first includes only one variation painted over several Paper textures. The second includes more take-offs on the original "Jin's Skip Brush 04" variant, along with a 25% view of the Captured Dab image file:
A few notes on this group of custom brush variants in the second demo image:
When the brushstrokes were painted, the dab angle was rotated 147 degrees while in the black and white Captured Dab 25% view it's at 0 degrees.
You may be able to see that some of the brushstrokes in that demo image are painted with the variant set to Impasto Depth and Color.
For most of the strokes, the variant was set (in the Well section) to Dryout: 17.4. The top row second from left stroke was made with the variant set to Dryout: 6.9 which accounts for the stroke "running out of paint" more quickly than when Dryout was set to 17.4.
The goal when creating the original variant, on which the others are based, was to make a brush variant that skipped over the Paper texture surface allowing the texture to show through and also to have the ending of the brushstroke run out of paint more or less quickly.
JinnyPlease do not PM me with Painter questions. Instead, post them here where everyone can benefit from them. Thanks!
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Again, it is essential that the UN put in place much more resources and specific means and mechanisms for capacity development, investment for implementation and development at the community level, and training and resource programs. So many times the UN supports the development of model programs and best practices, but usually there is not much funding for scaling up these best practices and success stories and for replication.� It is thus time to put in place the means and mechanisms needed to support capacity development and reward people economically for their contributions and services. UNDP established a number of Thematic Trust Funds that included funding for capacity building but none of them were sufficiently funded; and it did not seem like they supported many civil society initiatives. New means must be established across all sectors to provide opportunities for civil society to be compensated for contributing to implementation.�� One program that we believe has been quite successful is the GEF Small Grants Program. The Global Ecovillage Network - Senegal received $650,000 from the Small Grants Program for 13 villages� ($50,000 per village) to implement and carry out a series of activities in an integrated, multi-sectoral community based approach to development after the Johannesburg World Summit for Sustainable Development. This has resulted during the past ten years in Senegal creating the first National Ecovillage Agency and the intention to carry out the ecovillage development model in all of the villages throughout the country.� INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT It has been recognized at the United Nations that insufficient progress has been made in integrating sustainable development into policymaking and implementation at all levels. It is thus most important that the UNCSD conference secretariat, Bureau, and UN Member States focus significantly on what would be required to fulfill and fully achieve the agreements and commitments that have already been made; and that this include a focus on how sustainable development could become the basis for policymaking and implementation at all levels of governance.� This should start with global support for fully implementing the Local and National Strategies for Sustainability; and a goal needs to be set to ensure that all of these Strategies are based on achieving the Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and all of the other sustainable development agreements.� In particular we want to draw attention to Chapter 28 of Agenda 21 and its commitment to provide international financial support to local agenda 21 processes around the world, which has never been forthcoming and still needs to be provided, along with� the failure of the UN community to follow Capacity 21 with the planned Capacity 2015 program - which should have continued to support UN Member States in implementing their national sustainability strategies as required and needed.� International programs and processes also need to be established as a primary outcome of the Rio+20 process to provide financial assistance and support all countries and communities in fully developing and implementing their local and national sustainability strategies; action plans on sustainable consumption and production; participation in the UN Decade on Sustainable Development; and all other international sustainable development agreements in an integrated fashion.� All of these programs and activities must also be based on the need to make a complete transition to full sustainability as rapidly as possible, along with achieving all of the MEAs and sustainable development agreements.� We also call on the UN to complete an agreement and enabling resolution on the Global 10 Year Framework of Programmes (10 YFPs) on Sustainable Consumption and Production as soon as possible; to include civil society initiatives as primary programs within the initial 10YFPs; to include a primary focus on Sustainable Rural Development in the 10YFPs; and to develop a supportive global program and review process to ensure that all countries develop and implement local and national action plans for SCP.� The Rio+20 process should also focus specifically on each of the earlier agreements that have been made and particularly on what would be needed to fully achieve each of them. Indeed a first step should be to agree that sufficient means, mechanisms, and funding must be put in place to fulfill and achieve each of them; and a process needs to be developed through the Rio+20 preparatory process to ensure that this is done.� Most�importantly, a synthesis of the accumulated knowledge on sustainable development over�the past two decades, in the form of a dynamic stocktaking exercise, could be undertaken�with the objective of providing a sound basis for thinking ahead on how to address 21st�century sustainable development challenges. The UN Secretariat and agencies should thus be tasked to do a full scale analysis, article by article, of the extent to which each of the commitments made in Rio and Johannesburg has or has not been implemented or met, along with a full on evaluation as to what would be needed to fully achieve and fulfill each and every one of these� commitments.�This should then be coupled with an analysis of the failure of the governments to come up with the required funding mechanisms, along with a full on discussion as to what could be done to rectify this so that adequate funding and funding mechanisms are finally put in place that are sufficient to fully achieve all of the commitments that have been made.�All stakeholders should be invited to contribute to this analysis in a proactive manner.� The Secretary-General's Gap Report includes a number of important findings, including that, "There are several critical gaps with regard to the fulfillment of national and�international commitments, although a number of achievements have been made. While�countries have expanded their menu of policy options, this has not led towards greater�policy coherence. While integrated planning or policies and national sustainable�development strategies have become acceptable, their impact remains limited because of�ad hoc and inconsistent application." "While important institutions have been established to�promote or monitor the integrated pursuit of sustainable development, many have not�received adequate support, some have languished, and most have not been able to�synergize well with complementary processes or institutions." "UNCSD will provide an opportunity to seek ways to�strengthen knowledge creation and sharing with all major groups with a view to ensuring�wise sustainable development decision-making and governance at the local, national,�regional and global levels.�" This is an opportunity that the United Nations, the Bureau, DESA, and the Governments must take advantage of; but if focused, proactive efforts are not made it will probably be missed.� "As of 2009, 106 countries have reported that they are currently implementing national�sustainable development strategy (NSDS), but these are rarely viewed as the principal�vehicles for policy coordination. In practice, a number of coordinating and planning�mechanisms have been used in developing countries, often in parallel, and with similar or�overlapping tasks, including conventional development planning, PRSP, UNDAF,�DWCF, NCS, NEAP, and others.�The resulting proliferation undermines their very purpose by weakening and�fragmenting the efforts to introduce coherence." It is thus essential that a support mechanism and process be developed (such as the Capacity 2015 program that was never implemented) to ensure that all countries and most communities have the resources and support needed to develop and carry out their strategy plans. And in addition, all local strategies should be linked with national strategies which should be linked as well with the SCP Action Plans, and with programs on Education for Sustainable Development at the local, national, regional, and global levels. There needs to be synergy, coherency, and collaboration throughout. In addition, the Rio+20 Outcome Document should call for the adoption of a Commons Based Approach to Sustainable Development to ensure the equitable sharing and benefits from the use of the Local to Global Commons. Finally, if the UN and world community wish to create a Green Economy then we� should put forward and focus on the requirements that are needed in order to achieve such a green and fully sustainable economy. Then the UN needs to set and agree on such goals. This should be required in order to fulfill and live by the Rio Principles. This would also require that we focus on achieving such prerequisites as: Zero Waste Transitioning rapidly to 100% renewable energy Extended Producer Responsibility coupled with cradle to cradle production and consumption practices and including all externalities in all SCP processes Living within the Carrying Capacity of the Earth Getting the incentives right by shifting taxes onto Land and Natural Resources Phasing out the use of all toxic chemicals Restoring the Natural Environment Etcetra In addition, a global protocol, convention, implementation process and secretariat needs to be created to assist all countries in fulfilling the commitment to phase out all harmful and unsustainable subsidies as soon as is possible.� For More Information Please Contact: Rob Wheeler UN Representative Global Ecovillage Network Scotland, Pennsylvania, USA email@example.com 1-717-264-5036 Skype: robineagle333


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Morning folks. Hope this Tuesday finds you with more W's than L's – was a wacky first weekend and the best advice I can give you is not to panic or overreact. Of course, you need to make moves, but make sure they are the right ones and try not to throw the baby out with the bathwater on many of the players who struggled. Of course, conversely, some players may have peaked in week 1 as well. Today and tomorrow, in preparation of waivers, I will try to help you sort out who is who.
With the Daily News show, these morning news posts will probably morph into something more in the way of analysis and strategy so I am not just repeating myself and you'll get full value. There will still be plenty of news-centric posts throughout the days – especially on days were the injury reports come out. But you need more analysis going forward and that's what I'll be doing.
In direct contrast to what I have just written, here's the morning news stampede -
Darren McFadden
McFadden left last night's disaster against the Broncos in the 4th quarter with an apparent shoulder injury. His constitution was a concern for some analysts but what should be more of a concern was the majority of the carries going to Justin Fargas. Fargas had a solid day, no doubt (18 carries for 97 yards), but McFadden was supposed to provide a huge offensive spark and he averaged around 5 ypc. What was going on? Along with the terrible play by the rest of the offense, that's a huge concern for me.
Well that and Mike Ditka sounding hammered in the booth. TE Zach Miller also played well, both blocking and catching the ball. A lot of his touches came in garbage time, but that's about when the offense started clicking. Very worried about the Raiders offense though not surprised that it remains a mess.
Aaron Rodgers
Aside from Tony Kornheiser's inability to talk about anything but how Rodgers looked like 'someone the Green Bay Fans should know', this game should ease concerns about Rodgers taking over for Favre. While not a huge game by any means (18-22, 178 yds and a TD) Rodgers played with poise behind an offensive line that was shaky at best and with run game that never really got going (Ryan Grant's 57 yard TD notwithstanding). He also ran for 35 yards and a game clinching TD. He did what he needed to and made plays when he needed to. As far as what he holds for your Fantasy team, he remains a solid part of a QBBC. He probably won't kill you but he won't put up too many 300 yd, 3 TD games either. At least not until that Oline gets fixed. That group nearly got him killed and had way too many penalties. I wasn't happy with Ryan Grant's performance for most of the game. Half his yards came on one – admitedly spectacular – run. He didn't look good for most of the game and if you played him, you dodged a bullet. I want to hear about that oline getting healthy and Grant getting full carries before I start doing cartwheels about a weak 92 yard performance which lacked a TD.
Tarvaris Jackson
Why pay Bernard Berrian big money if you aren't going to throw deep? Berrian might have had a huge day but got tripped up on with nobody in front of him and couldn't get both feet in bounds on a catch in the end zone. But Tarvaris Jackson continues to look like he can't get an accurate ball thrown beyond 10 yards. When you have the run game they do and the oline is giving you time (which it mostly was) there is almost no excuse. I am not calling Jackson a bust – this is just another example of a guy who missed too much preseason and looked out of synch. Here's hoping he gets a little better next week. One to watch, by the way – and this is notthe first time you have read this – Sidney Rice looked good gathering 5 targets which resulted in 2 catches for 31 yards and a TD. Again, I think you will see Berrian start to get his (if Jackson can get it straight) but Rice will put up decent numbers and may be the better value play for a great deal of the year.
Denver RBBC
Finally, you can once again see why Fantasy owners hate Mike Shannahan. I know he doesn't care, but what the hell is going on in that backfield? Pittman 2 TDs? Andre Hall got the majority of the carries? And Selvin Young just flat dissappeared for almost half a game? No clearer today than yesterday than preseason. It's goign to be tough top start anyone with confidence in the backfield anytime soon.
So basically, same old, same old.
Ok – News Blurb at noon EST/9am PST – we'll see you then and back here for some analysis of the studs and duds of Week 1.


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MalvarosaThis farmhouse cheese from Valencia, Spain is one of the most ''snackable'' I've had in quite some time, and part of my job is to eat cheese all day, so that's saying something. Buttery, rich, and sweet, with a compliant texture. Made with pasteurized Guirra sheep milk. Read More
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Aged ManchegoPerhaps Spain's most famous cheese, Manchego is a D.O. (Denominacion de Origen) protected cheese, meaning the traditional recipe must use 100% Manchega sheep milk. The breed has proven sturdy enough over the centuries to traverse the rocky, arid central plateau region of La Mancha – where cows just can't hang. Read More


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THE PARTY Coach celebrated its new partnership with Step Up Women's Network, which strives to empower teenage girls from under-resourced communities to reach their full potential, with a glam cocktail party. THE SCENE Along with hosts Helen Berkun, Megan Taylor and LeeAnn Trotter, guests took advantage of the evening's 25 percent savings on all sales, shopping the boutique's selection of flats, boat shoes and espadrilles for summer, as well as handbags and jewelry. With every pair of shoes purchased, Coach made a donation to Step Up. Photography by Barry Brecheisen


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College athletes at major football and basketball programs are worth a range from $300,000 to $1 million in fair market value with the average FBS football player earning $120,048 and basketball player earning $265,027 according to a groundbreaking new study titled "The Price of Poverty in Big Time College Sport."
The National College Players Association and Drexel University Department of Sport Management conducted the joint study and found that Duke basketball players ranked the highest at $1, 025,656 and the lowest were Michigan football players worth an estimated $345,683. University of Florida football players are worth an estimated$375,916 according to the study.
The study blames the NCAA for the black market created by unethical and unpractical NCAA restrictions on college athletes.
Despite a full scholarship, the average out-of-pocket expenses in the 2010-11 school year for college athletes amounted to $3,222 . According to the research, Florida had the highest combined football and basketball revenues while its football and basketball players' scholarships left them living $2,250 below the federal poverty line and with a $3190 scholarship shortfall.
Tim Tebow addressed the topic of the NCAA paying college athletes in his book "Through My Eyes" on page (203).
"The NCAA's stance on paying players – or not paying them seems unfair to me, with the preposterous amounts of money being made by the schools, television, coaches and the like. And the players?"
It's sickening to imagine how much money Tim Tebow earned the Florida Gators in comparison to his scholarship money. Strictly from a moral standpoint, I'll never have a problem with his multimillion contract with the Denver Broncos.
If you have some extra time, check out the full report and you will see the numbers just don't add up to the value of the scholarship.
As a result of the study, the NCPA is urging the US Department of Justice to pursue antitrust suits against the NCAA and for Congress to deregulate the NCAA allowing athletes to, but not limited to, receive a portion of the revenue that will be placed in an educational lockbox and be allowed to earn money on the commercial free market. This is a AOL Fanhouse columnist David Steele strongly supported in his column.
None of this, of course, excuses rule-breaking from athletes. But darn it if the NCAA rules aren't fair.
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PLASMA is supposed to be a replacement for LAPACK, for now just covering a small subset of LAPACK's routines.
At the same time PLASMA internally calls some LAPACK routines.
In the next release the user will have the option to provide LAPACK (give path to LAPACK's location) or use PLASMA's installer, which will automatically download and build LAPACK for the user.
PLASMA provides CGETRF and CGETRS. It also provides CGESV, which does the work of both CGETRF and CGETRS.
PLASMA does not provide CGETR2. CGETR2 is required because it is called by CGETRF.
PLASMA's CGETRF also calls LAPACK's CGETR2, which is one of the reasons why PLASMA requires LAPACK.


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Mashing up multi-media installations with music, Hennessy Black presents the first installment of Project Art Chicago on Friday, May 22nd at Climax Lounge. Featuring Lupe Fiasco's recording artist Hey Champ on 1st and 15th Music, the event will help build awareness for the alternative art scene through Paintings, Graffiti, Photography and other mediums, while all being intertwined with Live Music, Live DJ, Dance and Breakin.
Project Art Chicago
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Climax Lounge
326 W Chicago Ave
Chicago, IL 60654
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The second and third in the series will follow in June and July, featuring Miz Metro, Hollywood Holt, Brittany Bosco, Million $ Mano, Shala and more.
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The Williams Administration Meets with Civic Associations Throughout the City to Share Mayor Williams' Vision for Wilmington
Posted on 01/30/2013 3:21 pm
(Wilmington, DE) – Members of the Williams Administration are visiting each civic association in the City of Wilmington to share Mayor Williams' vision and Preamble with community members.
Alexandra Coppadge, Director of Media and Community Relations, recently met with the Brandywine Hills Community Association and is scheduled to meet with all neighborhood civic associations located within the City of Wilmington.
"The Williams Administration wants to be open and transparent with our local communities, so it is important to reach out and share our vision with each neighborhood. The goal is for the Administration and the communities to work together on moving Wilmington forward," said Coppadge.
During the meeting, Coppadge shared the Mayor's Preamble, an introduction into ideas and concepts of the Williams Administration, with attendees to create dialogue around the City's current state and possibilities for the future.
The Preamble features five main focal points:
- Our City: "Working together with a unity of purpose we will restore pride in our City."
- Our Government: "Mayor Williams will require City employees to be true civil servants who work effectively and embrace a culture of service."
- Our Neighborhoods: "Mayor Williams will energize our diverse citizenry to create a safe urban environment composed of wholesome neighborhoods, beautiful parks, clean streets, vibrant local commerce, enriching cultural experiences, and positive recreational activities."
- Our Children: "Mayor Williams will work side by side with families to ensure that all institutions affecting the early development and education of Wilmington's school aged children fulfill their responsibilities."
- Our Outlook: "Mayor Williams and his directors will partner with our fellow citizens and public and private institutions to build a resilient economy."
For more information regarding the Administration visiting your civic association, please contact Alexandra Coppadge at (302) 576-2100.


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Oodles of Noodles RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
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My mom made the most delicious noodles using our own farm-fresh eggs. She rolled out the dough paper-thin on our big dining room table.—Karen Ann Bland, Gove, Kansas
- 3-1/4 to 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 eggs, beaten
- In a small bowl, combine 3-1/4 cups flour and salt. Make a well in the center. Pour eggs into well. Stir together, forming a dough. Turn dough onto a floured surface; knead for 3-4 minutes or until smooth, adding remaining flour if necessary.
- Divide into nine portions; cover and let rest for 15 minutes. Roll each portion into a 12-in. x 5-in. rectangle. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a short side; cut into 1/4-in.-thick strips. Unroll noodles and allow to dry on kitchen towels for 1 hour before cooking.
- To cook, fill a Dutch oven three-fourths full with water. Bring to a boil. Add noodles; cook for 9-12 minutes or until tender. Drain. Yield: 9 servings.
Editor's Note: After drying, noodles may be stored in the freezer for up to 2 months if desired. Using waxed paper, store noodles in layers in an airtight container. Frozen noodles are ready to cook.
Originally published as Oodles of Noodles in Taste of Home
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Reviewed Nov. 3, 2011
"I really enjoyed making these noodles with my family... We all really loved them :0)"
Reviewed Nov. 18, 2009
"I have made noodles for 34 years and I think my receipe is better, plus I cook noodles in chicken broth for more flavor, not water"
Reviewed Sep. 11, 2009
"This is the same basic recipe I use, but I cook the noodles in chicken broth. My mother added them to her beef vegetable soup,letting them cook in the broth. This was my favorite meal when I was growing up."
Reviewed Apr. 19, 2009
"My mother used this same recipe when I was a girl. I am 60 yrs old and it is still a favorite in our house hold. Have now taught my granddaughter. Wonderful noodles."
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"I am on a restricted diet and wondered if egg beaters could be used in this recipe."


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Sweet sweaters work for summer if they're light, lace-up and lovely like @ispyoby's. #OOTD https://t.co/PIH2uUpHtc https://t.co/6IhEME0JbX/p>
Who knew contrasting stripes would line up perfectly? #ClosetVIPs. @JamieChung1 https://t.co/iEF8NfH6jT https://t.co/R0evZEP1zV/p>
Taking ombre elegance out for a spin. #ClosetVIPs @JamieChung1 https://t.co/c2F3r25IE8 https://t.co/z1OJGa2STv/p>
Shop. @Rinse. Repeat. Want10 days of free dry-cleaning? Done. Deets here #BRxRinse https://t.co/zhUbJExzzi https://t.co/tTqHLHcIYJ/p>
Skirt the "what to wear?" quandary with one perfectly gorgeous skirt #YourLifeStyled https://t.co/XC2hdzarbM https://t.co/JChbKJwmx5/p>
Summer chic #YourLifeStyled
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