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Step 3: Cut out the vinyl area around the design, and then peel off all the excess vinyl.
Laptop Cover Vinyl Tutorial
48 comments:
- Karli said...
Oooh I love this! Such a great idea, i've never thought of that. Well maybe I would have if I actually owned a vinyl machine thingy... its on my wish list :)
- March 19, 2011 at 12:33 AM
- Lizzy @My Mind..My Life said...
So cute! What a great idea. I think I may have to do something like this to my laptop.
- March 19, 2011 at 12:48 AM
- Hugs & Loves, Ariel said...
this is super super cute!! great idea! i like how the hearts have steams and look like flowers!!
Hugs & Loves, Ariel
- March 19, 2011 at 1:36 AM
- Rissa @ Hazel and Honeysuckle said...
Aww, very sweet! I love it!
- March 19, 2011 at 3:02 AM
- Laurie said...
Adorable! Great job! I'm featuring you today on my blog, Scene of the Grime:
- March 19, 2011 at 8:42 AM
- Stephanie {Luxe Boulevard} said...
I love my Silhouette. And I just recently discovered Expressions vinyl, just in time. I'm going to make some his and hers pillow for an engagement party my husband and I are going to next month.
- March 19, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- Bethany said...
Is it satisfying to pull the vinyl off and it leaves your design behind? It looks satisfying...
And that is adorable--pink hearts--one of my faves!
- March 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Valerie said...
Love this! What a great idea!! Thanks for sharing, found you at Lovely Crafty Weekend!
- March 19, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- Little Treasures said...
Well this is fabulous! Maybe should consider doing this for my laptop!
Thanks for sharing!
- March 19, 2011 at 3:00 PM
- April said...
Super cute! I need a Silhoutte!
- March 20, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- Divya N said...
its looks adorable
- March 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM
- Marriah said...
It looks so cute! I think you might have inspired me!
- March 20, 2011 at 1:09 PM
- Marriah said...
After I saw this I went and painted my wall like it! I had been looking and looking for somthing to go on my bare wall in me new sewing room and then when I saw this I got excited and went and painted it!
- March 20, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- Theresa @ Just Call Me "T" said...
Oh I love this!! :) Very cute. I need to make me a custom one... but sadly no silhouette. :(
( found you through The Girl Creative's Just Something I Whipped Up linky... now following you too. Pls come over and visit me http://just-call-me-t.blogspot.com/ )
- March 20, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- Christine said...
Love it, so cute! I have a Bosskut Gazelle so I might have to try this tutorial.
- March 20, 2011 at 10:32 PM
- Fancy Lads said...
This is amazing! Love the pattern you chose :)
- March 20, 2011 at 10:34 PM
- Julie said...
I'd love for you to link up at Inspire Me Mondays!
- March 21, 2011 at 6:38 AM
- Tanyia said...
one more reason why I wish I could make vinyl things!!! I would love to have something like this.
I found you from Sumo's blog, Id love to have you stop by and check out my project! http://xsurvivingmotherhoodx.blogspot.com/2011/03/i-made-it-kindle-kozy.html
- March 21, 2011 at 10:39 AM
- The Autocrat: Haley said...
Ack!! That looks amazing! I have been wanting to do the same thing!
- March 21, 2011 at 11:49 AM
- Judy said...
Such a cute idea. I want a silhouette machine more than you can imagine. I sign up for every give away. If I don't win one soon, I'm going to have to just give in and buy one. I am your latest follower. I would love for you to come and check out my blog and follow me back at www.diybydesign.blogspot.com. Thanks so much.
- March 21, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- Natalia Lynn said...
Wow, I love it! I also love your blog which I just found! I am not following. Super cute!
- March 21, 2011 at 3:52 PM
- Katie @ EyeSpyDIY said...
So cute! Now I need a silhouette so I can do this too!
- March 21, 2011 at 11:29 PM
- Ashley said...
Aww so cute I love it!
- March 21, 2011 at 11:37 PM
- Jessica Lauren said...
So cute! What a great idea!
- March 22, 2011 at 8:11 AM
- Erica said...
So adorable! I love it. I definitely want to decorate my laptop now. Thanks for sharing!
- March 22, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Shannon said...
Very cute idea! I knew I should have bought a silhouette - so many cool things you can do with them! I love the way your design turned out!
- March 22, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- Lauren @ YoungNester said...
I LOVE THIS! I want a Silhouette so bad! Thanks for linking up :)
- March 22, 2011 at 6:43 PM
- frillsfluffandtrucks said...
Adorable! I have a Cricut and wish I had a Silhouette.
- March 22, 2011 at 9:05 PM
- Kelly said...
SO cute! I love my silhouette!!!!!!
I'm hosting my first Linky party and would love for you to submit to it!
- March 23, 2011 at 12:09 AM
- Amanda said...
This looks so cute, love the colour you used!
- March 23, 2011 at 3:23 AM
- Jacque said...
Love it! :) I might have to look into getting that machine! I could see lots of projects happening with that! Thanks for sharing!
- March 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- Michelle @ Loving Every Second said...
Such a great idea! And now you'll always know which laptop is yours - so unique!
- March 23, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- Stephanie said...
The possibilities are endless with that machine! Love the pink heart flowers, too cute. I am on the fence on buying one, since I have an expression machine that isn't very old.
- March 23, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Amy said...
LOVE IT! I want a silhouette. I think I will be asking for one for my bday this year so I can have a laptop as cute as yours!
- March 23, 2011 at 12:32 PM
- email@example.com said...
Very cute! I love my silhouette too! :)
pink vinyl is adorable!
- March 23, 2011 at 3:10 PM
- Stephanie said...
OH My! I love your design so much more than mine! I also wish I had some pink vinyl. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Stephanie at Full of Great Ideas.
I am having a party on April first for $0 craft and decor ideas. If you have anything I would love for you to stop by and share.
- March 23, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- Jenn said...
That looks great! I have been meaning to do mine too but I don't have any fun vinyl colours right now. I love the pink!
- March 24, 2011 at 1:35 AM
- Amanda @ Serenity Now said...
LOVE this idea! My laptop has a bit of texture to it...wonder if the vinyl would adhere? Guess I better give it a try? ;) I really like the cute graphics you chose for yours, and of course--the PINK! :)
Thanks so much for joining my Crafty Cutter party. :) Have fun finding some crafty inspiration, and I hope you'll visit me at Serenity Now again soon. :) I have a new Silhouette project up today! :)
- March 24, 2011 at 1:42 PM
- Christina said...
I love this! It's so fun and girly :)
Thanks so much for linking to "20 Below Thursday"! :)
- March 24, 2011 at 7:52 PM
- rochelhorowitz said...
Do you have to have one of those machines or can you cut out the vinyl with an xacto knife?
- March 24, 2011 at 8:26 PM
- Amanda @ Serenity Now said...
Still wanting to try this out. ;)
- March 26, 2011 at 11:36 PM
- Allison {A Glimpse Inside} said...
Cute, Cute, Cute! Love it! Thanks so much for linking up to my Catch a Glimpse party! :)
- March 27, 2011 at 12:16 AM
- Christina @ The Tattered Tag said...
So stinkin' cute & creative!! Thank you for linking up to my K.I.S.S. blog bash last week. This weeks blog bash is in full swing again!! If you haven't already please be sure & link up more of your creativity, I look forward to seeing all your great ideas. :)
Drop by The Tattered Tag
- March 27, 2011 at 2:02 PM
- Dominique @ Craft Couture said...
so cute! Thanks for linking up to Craft Couture Monday.
- March 29, 2011 at 11:00 AM
- Lauren @ YoungNester said...
I loved this so much I featured it on this week's Ten Buck Tuesday! Email me at youngnester(at)gmail(dot)com to get the code for the "I've been featured" button! :)
- March 29, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- Survey Junkie said...
I was just visiting Young Nester and saw your laptop vinyl and I LOVE it. So cute I have been looking for something for mine and thats such a good idea ..
Thanks for sharing!!
- March 30, 2011 at 5:36 PM
- jojo said...
sublime merci tu es tres douee bises ma grande jojo
- April 3, 2011 at 4:06 PM
- Kashfiya said...
Wow, really superb. I want to try this in my laptop. Although I collected nice Louis Vuitton agenda PM notebook cover at PIJ, but I also want this wonderful flowers in my Laptop. :D
Its really pretty amazing.
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Popular culture has made murder, rape, mayhem, hatred, and violence "cool"
by Timothy Birdnow
The recent massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut (the ironically named Sandy Hook - it's been a bad year for anything named Sandy) has, predictably, brought a chorus of calls for gun control and to double down on Progressive social reform schemes.
It appears no tragedy, no matter how horrendous, is to be allowed to "go to waste" as Rahm Emmanuel would say. And, given the hundreds of dead Mexican citizens as a direct result of one such anti-gun scheme (known as Fast and Furious) one wonders if Misters Obama and Holder are really that broken up by the carnage; it will do more to advance the cause of disarming the American People than any number of drug cartel murders using American government supplied weaponry.
On KMOX radio here in St. Louis Mo. they were running analysis by CBS people, and Bob Schiffer made the statement (I paraphrase) "I've seen a lot of these sorts of tragedies over the years, but I now have a sense that we are no longer going to put up with it." Now, whatever could that mean?
In his liberal world you can't stop this sort of thing except through law, and that of course means gun control.
The idea of restoring standards of right and wrong never occur to anyone on the Left. Last night on television a reporter referred to the shooter's "damaged mind and broken soul" as if he were somehow a VICTIM! In the old days we would not call this anything but a heinous crime, a horrible mass murder of innocent children. Now we act as if it is the equivalent of Hurricane Sandy, something that happened by accident. Oh, not quite by accident; we know that guns were the cause. No guns and no crime!
I'm tired of the therapeutic culture that spawns this sort of thing; cultural relativism makes it impossible to condemn the worst villains. In the old days everyone would be mad as hell - now we are sad and weepy. The change in the American character is astonishing. And still nobody will stand up and lay blame where it belongs - in a culture that has kicked God out of our collective sight, that eternally blames cultural institutions and our most cherished principles for acts of criminality rather than moral character flaws, that refuses to recognize Evil.
There is the key to our whole cultural disintegration; we refuse to recognize Evil as a transcendent thing. Good and Evil presuppose a God and a Devil, and those concepts are soooo last century (or even prior). We are now too hip for these "children's stories" about a Creator and a rebellious angel. We aren't even really willing to recognize good and evil as things outside of ourselves. We have become such a narcissistic culture, a culture devoted to the Church of Materialism, that we cannot accept some sort of transcendent moral order or Natural Law, but continue to place all things into basic animal drives and mechanistic clockwork universe random principles. This was no act of lust, or even of hatred, but a monstrous act of Evil. Until we call it thus we will see more and worse.
Moral relativism: Sin of judgementalism
Back in the 1980's the moral relativism movement gained momentum, and the worst sin was the sin of judgementalism. This murder is the most recent fruit born of that diseased tree. Yes, we have a right, nay a duty, to judge. Evil cannot be ignored or dismissed lightly. That is precisely what we have done.
You see it in the schools where children may no longer be corrected. There was a time when teachers actually spanked children; now a teacher is in peril if he verbally chastises a bad kid. God, of course, has long been gone from the schools. We tell children they are animals, and that it's o.k. to do whatever feels right because it's "natural". So we have 14 year old girls getting pregnant, 15 year old boys with venereal diseases and multiple children, we have gang warfare, drug abuse, alcoholism, violence. Revenge is a no-brainer to these youths, who have never been instructed in "vengeance is Mine, sayeth the Lord" and taught that an accounting will be made by the Great Judge later. No; you have to get vengeance now or the injustice will be eternal.
Think about television programs; vengeance is always presented in not just a neutral light but as a societal good. Consider this new movie that has come out "Django Unchained". An ex-slave murders a bunch of white people to free his slave wife. Yes, slavery was a terrible moral evil, but so too is murder. When Django star Jamie Fox was talking about the film to a studio audience he said that basically I kill all the white people" at which the crowd burst into spontaneous applause. http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ben-shapiro/jamie-foxx-celebrates-murd... Is it any wonder that we are witnessing things like this mass murder with an America holding such opinions?
Popular culture has made murder, rape, mayhem, hatred, and violence "cool"
Popular culture has made murder, rape, mayhem, hatred, and violence "cool". Rebellion has become the noblest of acts. All this with the blessings of people like William Ayers, who has been very influential in modern education. We are creating monsters in our schools.
If people are serious about stopping this sort of thing they will take a number of steps:
1. Homeschool. Take away the power of the radicals in the classrooms. Makes your kids safer, too.
2.Back Right to Work legislation for the public sector. Teacher's unions have helped cement much of this in place. As long as we have group think in the classrooms we will never see the end of this.
3.Engage in more frank discussion of race and culture. For far too long we have tiptoed around these issues, fearful of being branded a racist. If black thugs kidnap and rape a woman, ask if there is something in the black culture that fostered that. If an evil white kid murders a bunch of children at the school, ask the same question of the white community. What was it that spawned this behavior? What was this kid taught? We have to stop hiding from our respective national sins.
4.Stop reporting on these things so much. One of the biggest drivers in modern popular culture is the thirst for fame. It's the reason social networking media is so popular; it makes the individual feel as if they are somehow famous or important. It has become the Quest, the modern El Dorado, for our young people today. I suspect many of these killings are at least partly driven by the knowledge that for a time the perpetrator will have great notoriety, people will know their names. Much like Old West outlaws (and I suspect many of these punks see themselves that way) they will be remembered for the evil they have done. And why not? In a Godless, material world there is nothing more important than to be remembered. Who cares if the memory is bitter? At least you are going out with a blaze of glory.
These people should generally remain nameless when they do their deeds, and the intimate details of their lives should be put aside for the most part. Oh, it's important that we know who they are and what they did and perhaps even why, but there should be an effort to keep them at arm's length. These sorts of things used to happen in the past, but were largely ignored or downplayed for this very reason. The 24/7 news cycle has made it so that the most heinous acts are now given wall-to-wall coverage, and the evil person who did them becomes notorious. That has to stop.
5.Call evil out. We have to stop being sorry and start being angry. This is not a time for national grief so much as a time for national anger. We should stop tolerating this sort of thing. Indeed, stop tolerating any bad behavior. If you see kids jumping ahead in line, say, call them out. If you see punks bothering their neighbors call them out. Say something to the idiot blaring his car stereo. Say something to the foul-mouthed teens. Tell the brats to pull up their pants; nobody wants to see their filthy underwear and pimply behind. We have to start saying something, stop ignoring it. The first way any society maintains order is through social pressure from individuals. We have insanely given that up.
6.Work to devolve power back to the parents, the local officials, and the communities. A society that is top-down will inevitably lead to alienation of the sort we have seen here. This young man was twenty years old, and his actions were neither spurious nor random. As an FBI profiler said on television last night, he undoubtedly felt powerless and sought to remedy that. Why does a twenty year old feel powerless? He could leave his mother's home at any time at his age. He feels powerless because he has lived in an over-bureaucratized society, one run ultimately from a far-away central location. He sees his life as at the mercy of others, and sees himself as having no real input or control. He has been coddled all his life, given free rein to indulge his senses but not to face the responsibilities that freedom necessitates. He was an eternal juvenile, a child who was not allowed to grow up. He lived in a world of the Progressives making, not in reality.
The family is the fundamental building block of civilization, and from it all power originates. The Left has systematically destroyed the family for the purpose of empowering the State, and this has destroyed so many lives. Individuals - especially immature individuals - need to be taught how to live, how to think, how to believe. Man's animal passions must be placed in check and his rational faculties engaged. His moral compass must be set. Liberalism sought to destroy all the controls by destroying the family and community, centralizing power in meta institutions and granting the individual absolute moral autonomy without giving him the wisdom he needs to exercise it. . It is a recipe for disaster, as we have seen.
7.Restrict the sex in movies, television, on the internet. There is a reason why young people commit these sorts of crimes, and sex plays no small part. Their passions are eternally inflamed, and they wander the Earth with no outlet for their overstimulated glands. People have understood the close relationship between sex and violence through history; sex was an inducement to military service in ancient times (and modern, too) and it has traditionally been understood that a sexually robust individual will fight harder and more aggressively. We are engaging half this equation, overstimulating our youth while denying them a planned outlet. Even if they were to live promiscuously (a very bad thing for society) they still cannot find adequate outlets for their passions, which have grown to titanic volume. Fighting is the traditional outlet. Societies have always carefully planned ways to release this tension constructively - through physical labor, through hunting, through military service, sometimes even through intellectual pursuits. Now we have nothing, no place for this pent-up frustration to go. The only answer is to follow the other societal coping mechanism, which is to tone down the sexual stimulation, encourage chastity and modesty. Our society has conveniently thrown that away as well. We have to restore it.
Parents, monitor what your children watch, what they look at on the internet. Make sure they dress modestly.
8.Control drugs. Do not think that puffing a joint is harmless. Several American states decriminalized Marijuana, and it is actually legal in Washington and Colorado. Is it a coincidence that this shooting just occurred? Probably, but not in the long haul. Drugs and crime and violence go together. Trayvon Martin, the youth shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain after he was assaulted , was likely high http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2888655/postswhen he was shot - and George Zimmerman has claimed Martin assaulted him, something backed by medical testimony. Martin had trace amounts of marijuana in his system, http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-05-17/news/31753474_1_medical-... should be pointed out. Would Martin have done that had he been sober? And medical marijuana is a joke; there are far better substances that can be used. It is nothing but a way to backdoor legalization.
9.Support the creation of local organizations to act as "neighborhood watch" for schools. Had George Zimmerman been at the front door instead of some mechanical card reader those children would still be alive. Perhaps it's time we start asking for volunteers to protect our children. It will require security checks, but isn't that worth it? This dovetails with the union problem; the unions will fight this measure tooth-and-nail.
10.Go back to church. We need God more than ever, need prayer. It's time the Ten Commandments were taught again. It's time the Bible was taught. It's time people learned the examples of the heroes of our Judeo-Christian heritage - heroes like Moses, who gave up his life as an Egyptian noble to become a shepherd and eventually lead his birth mother's kin out of slavery, or David who spent years hiding from King Saul, and who, at one point, had Saul completely under his power (in the cave of Adullum) but would not smite the Lord's anointed, or of John the Baptizer, a man who spoke the truth until his head was cut off, or of any of the Apostles who died for their faith. Most of all they should learn of Jesus, who refused to turn from the Truth and allowed himself to be sacrificed in the most painful manner possible for other people's sins.
This evil can be fought, but not by any methods likely to be proposed by Progressives or imposed by our government. At best it will entail a top-down approach that will impose greater restrictions on the individual, on the family, and on the community. The solutions will be more of what caused this in the first place.
And doubtless the first proposed solution will be gun control. Now, with gun control this shooter would have had to modify his approach, but it would not have stopped him. Any fool can make thermite, for instance; it's quite easy and requires materials that can be obtained virtually anywhere. He could have made thermite grenades and blown whole classrooms to bits. He could have made poison gas; there are several types that can be made fairly easily. Not the most efficient but his purpose would have been served (in an enclosed classroom it would have killed all the children). He could jelly alcohol and build a make-shift flame thrower. He could make his own guns, including gunpowder. He could make any sort of explosive - including the simple Malatov cocktail. . There are innumerable ways any determined person could carry out such a massacre without a firearm. It may take an extra bit of work, but it can be done. And it could well be worse than just using a gun, which is limited to hitting people with little hunks of lead.
Certainly the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan did not have superior knowledge, or raw materials; the IED has killed a great many experienced soldiers in both wars.
Therein lies the problem; we are not even willing to fight when attacked. The war in Afghanistan was absolutely necessary, as America was attacked and three thousand of her citizens murdered, and yet the Democrats and Progressives speak of our involvement as some sort of act of imperialism. There appears to be nothing worth fighting for, nothing worth defending to the post-modern ennui-consumed generation. The best an individual can hope to achieve is to indulge one's desires and seek a bit of fame or notoriety.
And Mr. Obama and his Administration refused to condemn threats and assaults by union people up in Michigan this last week http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/11/white-house-declines-to-condemn-u..., thus creating the impression that any sort of behavior, no matter how violent, is acceptable. For that matter, he has refused to condemn pretty much any violence where it helps the Left and Islam. And this includes a rising hate-crime level against Christians http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/12/hate_crimes_the_media_a... in the United States and abroad (like the Copts in Egypt). Recently some Muslims stoned Christians http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/american-muslims-stone-ch... in Dearborn Michigan and the police did nothing. Obama remained silent.
This sort of thing is not lost on these "troubled" youths and evildoers. They see a world that refuses to condemn violence, that approves of vengence and hatred, that shrugs off any and every sort of vile action. If the President won't condemn evil why worry?
There will always be criminals and evil people, but their numbers can be reduced and their actions restricted. Societies have always been able to do it, but only when they are reasonably healthy. Our society is not.
Rome was brought down by barbarians from outside the Empire - and by the corruption and weakness of the Roman people and system. We are busily creating our own barbarians out of our own corruption and weakness.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
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Thank you David - such a complex issue, protection - what is protection for one person is harm for another - having grown-up Catholic, in an grossly abusive home, there the abuser had rifles and out of protecting himself, deeply harmed myself and my brothers - I found the best protection for myself, was not another gun, but to move very very far away to a place where the orientation was do no harm - and to learn to speak my truth - to stand tall and know when to walk away - I myself would feel a lot safer if the lessons of my lord, Jesus was taken more deeply to heart - I love Christmas, as it reminds me - we are all made in the image of G-D and therefore deep inside we all have the spark of the Divine - we are all able to learn to listen to deep - some how it is just very very difficult for me to feel Jesus, holding or using a gun - I am a lover of the NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS - and frankly have never been called to the harsh images of G-d in the old testament - I am just sorry there is so much fear and hatred in this sad world - and take to heart the bleeding heart of Jesus - and if in the short run, our schools need trained armed guards -as not everyone can move away, like I could - then so be it -
Merry Christmas, Ann Moore!
Hiring many thousands of armed guards at many thousands of public places might help a bit. And it would decrease unemployment! Perhaps one in ten thousand would have something to do for a few minutes, every couple years.
Best of all, the solution would always be at hand! Each time we experience such a mass murder we can double the number of guards paid to stand around and do nothing......
There seems to be something wrong with this logic. Perhaps somebody can explain this?
An armed guard or multiple guards is one idea. Anyone can be properly trained use firearms. The American military has trained millions do do that.
I am a red blooded american woman who LOVES Christmas, it has always been a toss up for me, which I love more, the birth of G-D's son, or his resurrection- for me they both speak to the mystery ( being an old Catholic Girl - we are into the mystery of G-D, Jesus, the Holy Ghost, Mary ) of the Body/Spirit connection - so granted I am very very mixed about guns, and what they do the human body and human soul - I graciously accept all Christmas Greetings Warm Blessings, right back to you Judson- and it is true, I had heard all these things about Newtown and I was confused by Mr. Birdnow's comments and what they where saying about the this Northern town and yes, I was born in NY state and was just back east working in Connecticut so I do feel very touched by what has happened and yes, being a Nurse, who has worked in schools, with children, I understand most teachers, are not ready to learn to be gun carriers, let along uses - an armed guard makes more sense - the Israel approach -
Ann is our latest liberal troll. Everyone offend Ann by wishing her a Merry Christmas.
Dear Mr. Birdnow, thanks for your clarity, I have been confused as I have been hearing and reading that Adam's dear mother had a passion for guns, who took her son to gun clubs - and that NEWTOWN - had an active hunting/gun community - and in addition that many of the families and children involved where active in their Church communities - I had not realized it was a hot bed of radical, secularism that was blind to the evil in its community -
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This post was one of the most powerful posts I have ever read. I have no words, this post said anything I could think of.
The moral bankruptcy of of our nation & world can only be reversed when we ask the Lord to come back into our hearts. The more we squeeze Him out, the darker the night gets. Some may ask "where was God" during these grievous times? He is crying along with us. Ps 56:8 You keep track of all my sorrows.
You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.
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A few years ago I was diagnosed with cancer, and about five minutes later I started having chemotherapy. I expected to lose my hair, but I didn't care that much. I've always felt a little distanced from it. I grew up in the '60s and '70s, when hair was supposed to fall in great lank sheets to your waist, but mine was naturally curly, so kids called me Medusa.
Still, the prospect of not having any hair forces you to take stock of your personal style, your sense of yourself. What kind of cancer person was I going to be? How would I wear my disease? Would I cover it up, or would I announce it to the world?
In other words: Would I be a scarf person or a wig person? The scarf person knows that people will see she's bald and will probably ask why. The wig person hopes that even if people notice her wig, they will assume she's wearing it because she doesn't want to talk about why; she just wants to blend in.
I decided that my truer, if slightly holier-than-thou, self would wear a scarf. A wig would be dishonest. I wasn't ashamed of having cancer. I would go out into the world in my scarves and bandannas, and to hell with discretion.
One night, after I'd started chemo but before it made my hair fall out, I ran into my friend Ruth. By horrible coincidence, we had the same kind of cancer—only Ruth was much further down the chemo path than I was and had already lost her hair. When I'd seen her a few weeks earlier, she'd been wearing a scarf, but now I noticed that her hair had grown back.
I said, "Ruth, your hair looks so great!"
"It's a wig!" she said. "I never thought I'd wear one, but sometimes I do when I go out. It feels dressy. A little creepy, but dressy."
When I looked more closely, I could tell it was a wig, but it still looked nice. And if Ruth felt good in a wig, maybe I would, too.
Then Ruth said, "My medical insurance covered the whole thing." This seemed so bizarre as to be almost unbelievable, and reason enough to get a wig. It was swag, even if you were getting it for having cancer. When was I ever going to get this chance again?
The wig store Ruth recommended, Bitz-n-Pieces, is on the third floor of an office building right near Columbus Circle in New York City. My fitter is a Frenchman named Gwen. Gwen is cool at first, practicing his native country's ancient art of rudeness.
"What do you want," he says.
"A wig," I say.
"What kind of air."
"What kind of hair? How many kinds are there?"
"We 'ave synthetic wigs, wigs made from the air of Indian women and wigs made from European air."
Wigs made from the hair of Caucasian European women cost $4,000 to $5,000, but the Indian wigs go for about $900. Why is the hair of Caucasian women four times as expensive as the hair of Indian women? Much better to go with the Indian women's hair, even though I know they've been paid 22 cents to have it shaved from their heads.
I settle on a nice, unassuming brown wig. It doesn't look that wiggy—more like I've finally gotten a good haircut. The hair behaves, falling in nice layers, and it has soft bangs. I look casual but put together, maybe for the first time.
In the hour he spends shaping the wig to my head by trimming and styling it, Gwen gets much nicer. He has cancer, too, and spent months wearing a wig; his own hair has just grown back.
Gwen sends me home with a big bag, which contains my wig on a Styrofoam head. "Take good care of it, my dear," he says. "Bonne chance." And we hug.
I leave my wig on the Styrofoam head in a corner of my bedroom. It's spooky to look at, like a specter that is much better groomed than I am.
A few weeks go by, and my hair falls out. When you have chemo, your hair doesn't fall out all at once. It gradually gives up the ghost, first in strands and then in little tufts that clump in the shower drain and make you think there's a dead mouse in there.
Every time you look in the mirror, your baldness reminds you that you are very sick, in spite of all the cheerfulness and optimism you've talked yourself into. If you're wearing a scarf, people assume you're forthright about your cancer, and they ask you how you're feeling. "I'm good! I'm good!" I kept saying, but the more I said it, the less I believed it, which made me say it even more forcefully. "I'm great! Doing great!" But I wasn't doing that great. Especially when people looked at me as if they were about to cry
After a few weeks, I'm tired of my daily uniform of scarves and bandannas. I look like a lady pirate or one of those 100-year-old women pushing their grocery carts down Broadway.
Then my eyebrows fall out. For some reason, this is totally unexpected and makes me feel surprisingly sorry for myself. My hair was part of my head, but my eyebrows were part of my face. Having no eyebrows makes me feel very vulnerable. I look like a baby, a bald, eyebrowless baby, and I am so sorry for the baby, I feel like crying when I look at her in the mirror.
I want a buffer between my head and the world. I want to take the attention off my hairlessness. I want people to stop looking at me as if they're about to cry. I'm ready for my wig.
My friend's daughter is graduating from the University of Chicago, and this seems like the perfect occasion to wear my wig. I fly to Chicago, and the morning of the graduation, I put the wig on and head over to the campus. Right away I know I should have been practicing wearing my wig all these weeks. I fuss with it, fretting about stray hairs of my own sticking out. I feel like an impostor, as if I've just robbed a bank and am trying to blend in with the crowd by going incognito.
The ceremony is outdoors. It's only 10 in the morning and already 97 degrees. In the crowd, I see Eden, an editor of mine from New York. Her son is also graduating. Eden is a wonderful editor and a kind one. Instead of saying, "This piece is way too long," she'll say, "This lovely piece is going to be so hard to cut!" She's also very organized, so it doesn't surprise me when she says, "Here, Jenny! Take one of these!" and holds out a stack of wide-brimmed sun hats that she's brought along.
I thank her, take one of the hats and put it on—partly so I don't get sunburned, mostly so I won't feel as self-conscious. My wig will be under wraps.
I sit down in an ocean of folding chairs. The ceremony starts, and it goes on and on. By the second hour or so, my head is baking. No, broiling. Lines of sweat roll down from under my wig onto my neck. My wig feels heavier and hotter by the minute; I might as well be wearing my cat on my head. If I take off the sun hat, maybe my wig will let some air onto my head. And so I take off the hat and—in one of those slow-motion moments that seem at once like a dream and the realest, truest thing that has ever happened to you—the wig comes off with the hat.
The moment is beyond embarrassing. Embarrassment doesn't begin to describe my feeling. I've lost everything—hat, wig and hair—and feel strangely free. I laugh, because this reminds me of a Lucy episode. I put the wig and hat right back on—for the people behind me. I feel bad for having shocked them.
When I get home, I stash the wig in the back of my dresser drawer, and when I go out, I stick to scarves. After my chemo is done, my hair grows back. It's the same old hair, but for the first time in my life, I'm glad to see it.
My wig stays in the back of my dresser drawer. I can't imagine throwing away anything so expensive.
Ruth's hair grows back, too, and we have fun doing normal things—-worrying about our children, eating the delicious food she cooks, telling funny stories about having cancer. She does the best rendition of something that happens a lot when you have cancer: People tell you an inspiring story about a mother or aunt who went into remission and then got a PhD or took up sailing and had a whole new life.
"How's she doing?" you ask the teller of the story.
"Oh. She died," they say.
I always say, "Do it again, Ruth! Do the inspiring people!" We crack each other up with our stories.
Then, two years later, Ruth has a recurrence of her cancer, and this time she dies of it. Eden, my editor, who didn't know at the graduation that she had cancer, dies, too.
All this makes throwing away the wig seem cocky. Who am I to say that I'm done with being sick, that I might not have some occasion when I'll need it again? Then one day I read a magazine article on decluttering your closet and how you must ask yourself, realistically, if you are ever again going to wear that old bridesmaid's dress or those culottes, and how if you aren't, you must get rid of them.
And I think, Realistically? Realistically, I might need those chemo drugs again, I might lose my hair again, but I would never, ever wear that stupid wig again. Better to wear the stupid scarves and have people look as if they're about to cry. Better to let the other women walking around with no hair see that I'm one of them.
And I threw it away.
Essayist and performer JENNY ALLEN is author of the play I Got Sick Then I Got Better.
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In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas.She was always doing good works and acts of charity<>>(Acts 9:36)<>>March is Women�s History Month. It�s 2013 and I am both confused about the debates over protecting women from violence or protecting women�s reproductive rights, while I celebrate Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the historical number of women elected to office or running major corporations. As a working mom, I know that we are making progress and preparing a better way for the next generation of women leaders.<>>
In my own industry, I see phenomenal changes taking shape. In 2011, I participated in the inaugural Women in Manufacturing conference. It was rewarding to network with high-powered women who shared my passion and experiences. I left the 2012 conference feeling less enthusiastic. It appeared to me that affluent women had decided to become champions of manufacturing by using their position to influence policy. Their efforts are sincerely needed, however, I question if a person who has never worked in the environment understands the real world needs. I was actually turned off when I heard references to the �pink ghetto,� a take on a term assigned to jobs or functions typically filled by women. In their minds, it is not enough that women are ascending to C-level appointments in functional areas like human resources, finance, and marketing�that more women are needed in research and development, engineering, technology. The premise is true, but my lived experience is that the road to CEO is through the financial/commercial side of the business, not the operational side.<>>
I was frustrated because the affluent women most likely to have a voice in the political world are least likely to know what really happens in the lower levels of manufacturing. One of my favorite songs has these lyrics: You don�t know my story. You don�t know the things that I�ve been through.These women do not know my story of a college educated, front line supervisor/manager in manufacturing, and what it is like to work in a wet, sub-50 degree turkey processing plant, taking both vitamin B (to ward off pain in my hand from holding a knife for hours at a time) and vitamin C (to prevent colds) tablets daily or to work twelve hour shifts or to be pregnant and trying to navigate across a production floor covered with hydraulic fluid. These are the jobs you take throughout your career to prove yourself, to get the real experience to qualify you for those promotional opportunities en route to the C-suite or corporate board appointments.<>>
I thought about this after last week�s controversy surrounding Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, and the flack she�s catching for her presumed inability to understand the challenges of women less affluent than herself in attaining professional achievement and financial prosperity. I applaud her attempts, but I question if she understands that it takes more than Lean In Circles for women to achieve their professional goals. To learn more about Sandberg�s movement, visit her Lean In community at http://leanin.org/<>>
My self-reflection is asking what I am doing in preparing a better way for future leaders in manufacturing and technology. I can turn my frustration into a voice in the community I work and serve. I can use my participation in industry associations to discuss real world needs. I can mentor young women, advising them of career possibilities and sharing my experiences of navigating in and out of functional assignments. I can share with them the benefits of the work I have been graced to accomplish. <>>
Sidenote explanation of the scripture reference: I remembered that my club alias, back in college, was Tabitha. Little did I know then that the name represented a woman of the bible or that the name is synonymous with a woman who does good works (Acts 9:36).<> >


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Except for the part where I'd have to check out with them, I almost bought the pajamas in the photo. It's not a really clear picture. I didn't want anyone in the department store to see me snapping away on my camera phone. I especially didn't want them to see me trying to capture for posterity the posterior of penguin pajamas. (I just love alliteration, don't you?) The scary part, of course, is I'm serious. I really, really wanted the black velour penguin pajamas with the feet in them. Who knew they still made those things, much less in adult sizes?
See, the fantasy part of me — the part that's so much more real than any real part of me — could see me in those things, cozy, snuzzy, sipping cocoa by the fireplace, yule logs blazing, listening to carols and writing out Christmas cards. Feel free to sigh with me if you'd like.
Sadly, that scenario is pure fantasy — ignoring the harsh reality of short waistedness, estrogen depletion, and not being a size 2. O.K., I was trying to be delicate. You want me to spell it out for you? Hot cocoa, a roaring fire, and a slightly overweight chick clad in a claustrophobic one-piece sweatsuit suffocating from neck to toenails? Washed down with a hot beverage chaser? Are you kidding me? You're worried about global warming now; I'd have a hot flash that would take out every igloo in Antarctica.
Fortunately, I'm getting better at distinguishing between what I'd like to like to have or be or do or see and what I'd really like to have or be or do or see. I'm realizing I enjoy the idea of bungee jumping, performing stand-up comedy, and wearing one-piece jammies way more than I ever would if I experienced the reality of them. Sometimes, it's perfectly okay to live in my head. I have so much fun there! In reality, I only hope some size 2 lady gets to enjoy those penguin pajamas.


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Since many existing js menu's rely on ID, you would have to create a partial view every time you use the navigation. Also, to write efficient css rules you would many times be better off with an ID on your navigation menu.
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Cadbury Picnic is a bar hailing from the Land Down Under. I've heard about it, but it wasn't until an Australian friend sent me a candy care package that I finally encountered one. The specific one I got is actually a limited edition Picnic bar of the "Honey Almond Nougat" variety. "New!" and "A unique combination of almonds & crunchy pieces of honey almond nougat caramel & wafer covered in delicious Cadbury milk chocolate" are the descriptions on the wrapper. I'd by lying if I said it didn't sound appealing and terribly tasty.
The regular Cadbury picnic bars have a wafer center, creamy caramel, and rice crisps all covered in chocolate. So this new variety adds more textural and flavor elements by replacing the rice crisps with the almonds and nougat. I still think that this will give me a pretty good indication of what the original bar is. It's kinda funny how the Picnic sounds like the offspring of a Kitkat, a Nestle's Crunch and a Milky Way.
I'm relieved to say that according to the ingredients list, this Picnic bar is using real chocolate! Yay! It's gotten to the point where that's always the first things I look for in candy bars. Yes, I'm a stickler for quality.
The bar itself looks like a very large, lumpy 100 Grand or a smaller, chocolate covered PayDay. Take your pick. It smells very strongly of sweet honey and almonds. It's hard for my to explain but something in it also smells really "carb-y" and it's hard to lay my finger on it. I don't know what else it could be other than the nougat.
My first bite was extremely crispy. The center is the wafer and very similar in structure to a Kitkat. Wrapped around the wafer is the caramel, so already we have a crispy/chewy texture working here. The nougat and almonds add a slight crunch and it's very addicting to chew and munch.
As for the flavor? It took me a moment to concentrate on it to be honest, I was already too busy trying to dislodge the pieces of nougat and caramel on my teeth. It's got a lot going on: I get nice milky caramel notes, some light blandness from the wafers, then there's a big salty hit from the almonds and finally a honey sweetness of the nougat. I don't hardly taste any of the chocolate, as it cowers behind the big three of the caramel, nougat and almonds. I do like how the honey stands out, it proves a nice sweetness, especially blended with the caramel, and the saltiness provides a wonderful contrast. I just wish I wasn't going to be picking bits of this out of my teeth for the next couple of hours. Ah, sacrifices, right?
Rating: Will Eat Again
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The Oregon Athletic Department will conduct 2012 "Fan Day" on Saturday, August 25th. The annual event, which runs from Noon to 2:00pm, allows fans to meet and greet players from this year's football team. The event will again be held inside Autzen Stadium.
Fans must park in the East Lot of Autzen, next to the PK Park
baseball facility. Entry 5 will be available with the lot opening at 10:30 am. Enter Autzen through the East entrance,
closest to the parking area.
Doors will open up at Noon and will feature an array of fan activities led by Oregon Football players, including:
- The Oregon Community Credit Union TD Pass
- The Carl's Jr. Obstacle Course
- The Umpqua Dairy Football Toss
- The Pepsi Webfoot Power Kick
- The Bi-Mart Get-in-Gear Station
- The Jerry's Home Improvement Blocking Bags Station
Due to split team meetings, the appearance by Oregon Football players will be divided in half, with one half of the team participating from Noon to 1:00pm and the second half available from 1:00pm to 2:00pm.
The team will exit Fan Day PROMPTLY at 2:00pm.
Fans will be permitted to bring bottled water into Autzen Stadium. Additionally, there will be two watering stations located on the field for fans. No other concessions will be available and no other food or beverage will be permitted into the stadium.
The event will be preceded this year by the unveiling of the 2012-13 Spirit T-shirt slogan at 11:00am in front of the East entrance of Autzen Stadium. This will be your first opportunity to buy the new Spirit Tee, and pick up some free samples from Umpqua Dairy and Pepsi.
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A Mountain Hut
On my second night in Iceland, with the July sky showing no signs of sunset at 11 p.m., I slept with a couple of 28-year-old Spanish men who had, an hour earlier, produced two bottles of earthy Rioja from their backpacks and poured the wine by candlelight. After that, conditions only improved.
I should explain. The candles took the place of electricity in the cramped mountain hut that served as my introduction to eight days of Icelandic adventure travel. (The wooden hut, located on the edge of the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, also lacked plumbing, running water, and the possibility of making tea until the hut warden melted a huge pot of glacial ice on his gas stove.) The sleeping arrangements were head-to-toe on a wooden floor, with each of us insulated in as many thermal layers as we could scrunch into our individual sleeping bags. Curled up next to me were two German women, a British couple who had teenage children back home, a middle-aged French-speaking husband and wife from Montreal, and a gnarled hickory stick of a 70-year-old doctor from North Dakota (bred of Icelandic stock) whose wife had passed on the rigors of the itinerary. With no coercion, we had united as strangers to spend our vacation time and money hiking up to 15 miles a day across rough terrain alien enough to be mistaken for a galaxy far, far away.
What's more, we put our faith — our lives, really — in the care of a spry Icelandic guide named Siggi, whose pale blue eyes glittered with benign madness. We trusted in him as he negotiated our group over glacial ridges, deciphered paths through rock and water, maneuvered the vehicle that carted us from trail to trail, and downed his morning muesli mixed with thick, sour milk. "Crazy Icelanders!" he would cackle about his countryfolk.
Arriving There
Before our international potluck group convened, I had plunked my hiking boots down in a cheery, dorm-style hotel in an old part of Reykjavik, ambled the capital's cosmopolitan streets, drunk a $10 beer at a pub packed with spiky-haired 20-year-olds, and let the mystery of sunsetless summer nights and the music of Bjork wash over me. But it was on that second night in the mountain hut that I knew I'd arrived where I really wanted to be: in the middle of a pristine, raw nowhere, making my way step-by-boot-step across treeless mountain stretches, with fellow adventurers for company.
That night, I learned to pee in the hut's Rube Goldberg-rigged unisex urinal and discovered that I could sleep even when surrounded by five champion snorers. In the days that followed, I also learned that in the middle of the journey of my life, with a cosmetics bag dedicated to Advil and knees grateful for compression bandages (and little more than two pairs of hiking pants, three long-sleeve T-shirts, six pairs of wool socks, and a fleece hoodie that doubled as a pillow), I felt as radically free, as adaptable and as bold as Neil Armstrong on the moon.
Only later would I learn that NASA once trained astronauts on Iceland's otherworldly terrain. One small step for woman.
All Trails Lead to Iceland
This woman is not one who falls into strange sleeping bags easily. I take my bath oils seriously; I'm only half joking when I say that the most effective technique with which to extract state secrets from me would be to confiscate my tweezers. But my life, and its comfort requirements, changed when I discovered the lures of guided group adventure trips some 13 years ago. With their promise of exoticism and convenience, I found an ideal way to travel — and hike, my passion. I love the notion of ending a good, hard trek with a hearty meal in a simple hotel. I like carrying a daypack while a support vehicle (to use catalog-speak) transports my duffel bag from inn to inn. But even more, I love the liberation of packing minimally and covering territory by foot maximally.
Or at least I do now; in my novice years of decluttered adventure travel, I confess to having overestimated my T-shirt needs. At first, I gravitated toward middle-priced U.S. companies that offered beginner itineraries to much-traveled destinations: the cheese-producing Auvergne region of France, and apricot-colored Tuscany, where our well-heeled group had to beg like underexercised racehorses for longer walks. Then I graduated to operators based outside the States who placed less emphasis on the American taste for six towels per person, per hotel room. I hiked the steep mountain trails of Morocco with a group of young Brits, Aussies, and Kiwis, losing track of my age (except, that is, in my knees) as we talked easily about music, movies, hometowns, and passing shepherds. A year later, I trekked around Turkey, spending a memorable night on the floor of a farmer's living room while the women of the house cooked over a hearth pit. With each trip, I challenged myself to do more with less: more trail covered, fewer changes of clothes, fewer opportunities for shampoos.
Trip of a Lifetime
And that is how I came to Iceland, a hardy island that has always tantalized me with its alluring self-containment, its beautiful harshness, its dried fish, and its rock music. Iceland, land of sagas, midnight sun, and 99 percent adult literacy, where over half the population believes in hidden nature sprites called huldufolk. Iceland, a place where few American adventure outfitters go because there's no comfort grade higher than basic to be found in the shelters along the rough hiking trails.
In my quest to explore a bit of the relatively young yet prehistoric-looking landmass, I found Isafold Travel, a small Reykjavik-based company that offered an eight-day hiking trip, which culminated in an add-to-the-life-list march along the 33-mile Laugavegurinn Trail into Iceland's meteorologically temperamental interior. From mid-July to mid-September, the dramatic route, with its ice fields and thermal hot springs, is accessible to those willing to leap over streams and wade through floods caused by melting ice. For the rest of the year, it's more suited to the march of the penguins than to the march of the people in Gore-Tex.
Not that I knew anything about the Thorsmork to Landmannalaugar trail (also known as the Hot Springs Route) at the time. And I certainly didn't know that Dr. Hickory Stick and I would be the only Americans. Or that I would share confidences in French and English with a Quebecois social worker as we plodded through glacial slush — Michele and her husband, Claude, turned out to be expert survivalists stocked with emergency whistles, wound disinfectant, and duct tape — and trade tongue twisters in Spanish and English with two dark-eyed Spaniards whose mothers were probably younger than me. I simply knew that I was in reasonable physical condition, that the cost of the tour was modest, and that for the first time in my postcollege life, I was ready to forgo the dignity of my own room in pursuit of authenticity.
Pay-Per-Use Showers, Flash Streams, and Ambien
Northward ho! And ow — the trip was bloody arduous. Sizing me up that first night in the candlelight, after trudging to our hut through snow and ice for the better part of an afternoon, Claude diplomatically chose not to tell me what he could readily see: My boots were too light, my gloves weren't waterproof, and my rain jacket could have been sturdier. (Had I not brought along hiking poles, I would have been in big trouble.) Blissfully ignorant, I set forth in the wrong boots and ate everything put in front of me. "Do you have salt?" asked Doerthe, one of the German women, at our first dinner of lamb, potatoes, and coleslaw. "We don't have anything!" replied Siggi with a giggle.
After a breakfast of muesli, cheese, bread, and tea the next morning, we trekked over more snow and ice and tried to scale down a steep glacier that frightened me. (Full disclosure: I hung back and watched the Spanish boys, Jesus and Gustavo, whoop and slide, then climb back up.) At our second, more "luxurious" hut, we were revived by access to electricity, toilets and pay-per-use showers that we gladly fed with krona coins to produce blessed three-minute streams of hot water. By 11 p.m., the sky that covered us was the color of midafternoon.
On our third day, we explored the mountains and gorges of Thorsmork, clambered through the Stakkholtsgja gorge, and spent another night in the hut whose name I preferred to translate from the Icelandic as "place with showers." In a gesture of group bonding, the Brits, Jonathan and Marion, produced tea bags, and even better, an ambrosial half-liter of Scotch. That night, the hut vibrated with snores of hard-earned exhaustion.
Cross Between a Refugee Camp and a Lunar Paradise
And so our U.N.-flavored expedition team settled into its own viable rhythm and flow. We devised an informal rotation to fulfill table-setting or dishwashing duties (or cheese-sandwich preparing; it was always and forever cheese sandwiches for lunch) in whatever hut Siggi had arranged for the night. And we established a casual choreography for walking in pairs or in quiet solitude, watching puffs of steam rise out of volcano-heated outcroppings along the way. We became comfortable enough with one another to joke, or to complain. Often we would nod international hellos to other wind-chapped hiking groups, many of them Danish, Swiss, French, or Australian, but none American.
By the fourth day, we began to traverse the Laugavegurinn Trail in earnest, crossing the Krossa River to the northern part of Iceland's glacial valley. "A terrain built from fire and ice," said Siggi, pointing to black sand created by lava. Flash streams required the removal of boots, the strapping on of water sandals, the fording of currents, the removal of sandals and the relacing of boots. As our team trudged on, the Spaniards sang while Dr. Hickory Stick free-associated about birds, flowers, weather patterns, and the splendors of North Dakota. (The guy also forged ahead with no hiking poles!) That night, I shared the gifts of hand sanitizer and the precious sleeping potion, Ambien, which made me a very popular bunkmate with the nonsnorers.
One morning, I realized, with no little pride, that I hadn't seen my face in a mirror for two days. Then, about the same time that Dr. Hickory Stick had stopped bathing or changing his clothes, I decided that if I, a woman used to plenty of space and time by myself, couldn't eke out a simple hour alone, I'd go mad as a hag in an Icelandic saga. I went outside, took deep breaths, gazed at the noon-colored night sky and returned to my sleeping bag. The last day of our expedition, we admired the great Icelandic volcano Mount Hekla, shrouded in mist. "She is very shy," Siggi explained, sounding like a Viking bard. "She is covered with clouds to her shoulders." The roughing-it portion of the hike had ended just in time: My travel-diary description of the large mountain hut at the end of the trail reads "a cross between a refugee camp and a lunar paradise."
Finally, Rejuvenated
How my hair looked I could only guess, but how my sense of self had strengthened needed no mirror for corroboration. With each adventure I take, journeying on my own to meet other pilgrims and committing myself to flexibility have become sources of psychic rejuvenation. I love the group camaraderie, the friendships that become as dissolvable or sustainable as desired by journey's end; I love studying the astonishing ways of strangers who become my temporary intimates. I even (almost) feel sisterly love for snorers. Nothing is intolerable when every situation is fresh, and the facts of my career, my home address, and even my hard-won definition as a woman of a certain age, status, and fastidiousness of grooming shrinks in importance.
Back home, these contours will matter again. But in the mists of Mount Hekla, I feel giddy with the excitement of life without borders.
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Although her official title was as a director of Motown's artist development department, Maxine Powell was much more than her role suggested. "Motown owes a great debt to Maxine," says Ruthie Brown, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's director of community programs and friend of Powell. "The artists knew what she was trying to do, and deep down, they wanted her refinement. They mimicked the image of the average American teenager – white, black, it didn't matter. The crossover was extremely successful. Motown was 'the sound of young America," and Maxine helped Berry Gordy get that image across." Powell passed away on October 14, 2013. She was 98.
Powell worked with Motown artist during a pivotal period in Motown's meteoric rise, from 1964 to 1969, when she helped shaped the public – and often private – personalities of the Detroit label's biggest names. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Berry Gordy Jr., the founder of Motown Records, said that Powell "brought something to Motown that no other record company had," adding of his artists, "She was tough, but when she got through with them, they were poised, professional and very thankful."
Born in Texarkana, Texas, on May 30, 1915, Powell was raised by an aunt in Chicago. Powell moved to Detroit in the 1940s, where she founded her namesake Finishing and Modeling School in 1951. Among its credits, the Maxine Powell school helped place the first black models in the automotive campaigns of the Motor City's biggest marques.
"I believe everybody is a star and everybody is someone, so I want you to feel like that," Powell explained of her earliest days working with artists at Motown. "I said we're going to open up a department that has nothing to do with the records… you're going to be trained to appear in number one places around the country, and even before the king and the queen. These youngsters said, 'you must be out of your mind. All we wanted was a hit record.'"
Powell did not mince words with her impressionable pupils, explaining to them: "Some of the things that I'm going to make you aware of or whatever, you heard before from your parents or from someone, but don't confuse me with your mother now, because she's stuck with you and I'm not."
Diana Ross had previously described Powell as "the person who taught me everything I know." Brown recalls a story about Powell's advice to one aspiring performer: "She told Marvin Gaye 'you would be a handsome man if you sat up straight; and you close your eyes when you're singing, so you're not getting enough sleep." Both Gaye and Ross are Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees.
"I never had a cross word with Motown artists," added Powell during a February 1997 interview at the Museum alongside the Velvelettes and interviewer Ruthie Brown. "I had the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Velvelettes, the Marvelettes, Diana Ross… Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell – just all of them, because I only tried to help them."
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J.R. Smith is said to be leaning toward opting in and staying with the Knicks next season.
He has a $2.5 player option and sent out an ominous tweet about leaving the Knicks on Wednesday night, but back pedaled the next day. Smith hit just 3-of-15 shots in the final loss of the season and caught the ire of many Knicks fans after the game on Twitter. Had Smith been better in the playoffs (he shot just 31.6 percent), opting out might be a viable option, but as it stands now, chances are he's going to take the $2.5 million and return to the Knicks next season.
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Smith leaning toward staying with Knicks
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J.r. Smith said yesterday he was just joking on his Twitter feed Wednesday night and didn't mean to threaten Knicks fans that he is departing.
In fact, the Post has learned Smith is leaning toward opting into the final year of his contract with the new CBA's structure for middle class players.
Smith stands to make $2.5 million next season, but his lousy playoff in which he shot 31 percent could lead him to return.
Smith was being attacked on Twitter after his 3 of 15 dud in Game 5's series-ending loss. Smith tweeted late Wednesday night: "Damn, didn't know this many people don't want me in New York. Might just get what you asking for.''
Yesterday, Smith laughed when asked about the threat.
"A lot of people were talking stuff,'' Smith said. " I was just messing, nothing serious.''
Asked about whether he'd opt-out, which would assure his departure, Smith said he would talk to Knicks general manager Glen Grunwald and his agent Leon Rose.
"The way the economy is working nowadays, I don't even know,'' said Smith, who signed with the Knicks in February after a failed stint in China. said. "In my heart I believe I am [worth more than $2.5M]. But you got a look at it from a standpoint of where everyone else is as well.''
— Marc Berman
Smith is from Freehold, N.J. and sounded like he doesn't want to move. "Without a doubt, I wouldn't want to play anywhere else," Smith said. "It's the great place to play. This is my home.''


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Hello everyone! We are really pleased to announce the return of our fantastic audiobook podcast - Audiofictions!
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We've been growing up with the dogma: "AJAX cannot make cross site calls".
Then CORS happened: with some configuration on HTTP server headers it's possibile to make cross site AJAX calls, it's widely adopted by modern browsers but it was not love at first sight: I'm not particulary happy with people calling my APIs from a different domain and when I have to, JSONP is just fine.
Eventually came the day when I cannot pretend CORS doesn't exist.
I'm using Heroku for my projects and I usually keep all my static resources on Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage. During the last deploy I noticed that Firefox stopped loading a font with CSS @font-face rule on productions servers. It took me hours to realize that was a security restriction: Firefox will not load any font file from a different domain unless CORS is enabled.
Unfortunately Amazon S3 doesn't support CORS (and it won't support any sooner, there's a two years old thread about this topic in the support forum, still unresolved), Google Cloud Storage does and it's quite easy:
Install the tool gsutils and create this file cors.xml:
And then cast the command
It will enable CORS for the whole bucket (be sure to match exactly the domain in the Origin tag, with protocol and host port).
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May 30, 2013
LOS ANGELES - UCLA senior Natasha Schulman, juniors Becca Dorst, Victoria Kent and Kelly Ronimus and sophomores Shelby Couture and Emily Donohoe have earned 2013 MPSF All-Academic honors, as announced by the conference Thursday.
For Dorst and Schulman, it was the second straight year the pair were honored by the MPSF for academic achievement.
Schulman, a senior defender from Laguna Beach, Calif., had a 3.08 GPA. She played in all 35 games as starter and only registered 32 ejections. She scored four goals and tallied seven assists, four field blocks and 12 steals on the year.
Dorst, a junior utility from Menlo Park, Calif., had a 3.24 GPA. She missed a lot of the season with an injury, but played in enough games to qualify. She scored 16 goals and had 14 steals while drawing 22 exclusions to rank third on the team.
Donohoe, a sophomore attacker from Upland, Calif., had a 3.44 GPA. She was named Second Team All-MPSF while leading UCLA in scoring with 70 goals (2.0 gpg), which ranked eighth in the MPSF. She also was second on the team in field blocks (14) and third in steals (26).
Kent, a junior attacker from Corona del Mar, Calif., had a 3.30 GPA. She recorded 12 goals, nine assists and eight steals on the year.
Ronimus, a junior attacker from Coronado, Calif., had a 3.13 GPA. She was sixth on the team in assists (25) and seventh in steals (15). She also scored 16 goals and had four field blocks in 2013.
Couture, a sophomore defender from Coronado, Calif., had a 3.00 GPA. She tallied three goals and had three steals and one assist this season.
Student-athletes nominated for the conference's All-Academic Team must record a 3.0 or higher cumulative GPA, be at least a sophomore academically, have completed in over 50 percent of the team's competition during the season and have completed one full academic year at the university prior to the season.
UCLA finished the 2013 season with a 28-7 overall record and third-place finish at the NCAA Championship. The Bruins finished fourth in the MPSF with a league mark of 3-3.


text: Jackson Browne (vocals, guitar, keyboards; born October 9, 1948) Jackson Browne has been both an introspective, cerebral songwriter and a politically attuned voice of conscience. He emerged in the early Seventies as a soul-baring young folksinger whose songs dealt with riddles of romance and existence. In his middle period he became a more extroverted rock and roller. Later work grew more topical in nature as Browne sang of political and social realities within and beyond our borders. "In a way, I don't choose what I write about - my subjects kind of choose me," this vanguard singer/songwriter explained in 1993. ...full bio


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Stuff your face with food samples and wash them down with beers from all over during this year's Florida International Beer Festival. The annual event will again take place at Heritage Square Park in downtown Orlando and offer samples from area restaurants as well as free soft drinks, bottled water and imported and craft-beer samples. There will be live music from Blender and free entry into Latitudes at 33 W. Church Street in downtown Orlando later that night. The festival is a 21-and-up event and it will take place rain or shine. No pets are allowed. Tickets can be purchased in advance at several locations around Orlando; go to http://www.floridabeerfestivals.com for a complete list.
WHEN: 4-8 p.m. Saturday
WHERE: Heritage Square Park at 65 E. Central Blvd. in downtown Orlando (next to the Orange County Regional History Center)
COST: $25 advance (cash only), $30 online, $35 at the gate. "Instant-In" tickets for $40 allow you into the festival first (purchase online only) and VIP tickets are $55 (purchase online only).


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Rated 5 out of 5 by 11 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Mel27 The WM Milk Chocolate Macadamia Nut Laceys are Amazing. Got these Milk Chocolate Macadamia Nut cookies for Christmas. They were so good that they were gone in no time. Ended up ordering 4 more boxes. They are amazing. January 31, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by Maven1949 THE BEST CHOCOLATE THINGS EVER! I sampled these in the store and kept circling back for more. I ended up only buying 2 of them. So for the holidays and gifts I ordered 10. I confess, I only gave 2 away. I could sit and eat the whole container in one sitting....they are that good. January 9, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by juleslaw buy more than one box.. these are the best cookies EVER. They are rich, decadent, and oh so delicious. My daughters and I got one box at the store on a recent trip, and I ended up going on line and buying three more boxes :) January 7, 2015
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Rated 5 out of 5 by LadyZe Milk Chocolate Macadamia Nut Laceys A great chocolate treat. So happy this is now available online. The only bad thing is they disappear so fast because they are just that good. March 8, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by lknc Delicious!! These cookies are extremely addictive. Once you start it is hard to put them away. The cookies are crisp, the chocolate coating thick and decadent and there is just enough of the macadamia nuts to offset the sweetness. Absolutely fantastic. January 24, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by The4dogwoman Lacey's If you want the feeling of dying and going to heaven, then Lacey's cookies are for you. Far superior to any other Florentine cookie I have ever tried. My fav is the milk chocolate Macadamia, although the dark chocolate almond is a close second. Be sure to put them under lock and key so you can have them all for yourself, December 28, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by pepper55 Melt in your mouth delicious!!!` This are like the best cookies ever. They are actually more like candy and when I wake up in the morning I think about how good one would be with a cup of coffee. Pure bliss!!! December 27, 2013