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AIU - American InterContinental - Career Education ripoff AIU using overly aggressive tactics targeting military personnel Hoffman Estates Illinois
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The military-education scene looks far different than it did even a decade ago. Newcomers include all-online, for-profit institutions like American Military University, Capella University, and Grantham University, which depend heavily on Internet advertising to get their "military-friendly" message onto the search-engine pages of prospective students.
The University of Phoenix, the biggest for-profit institution of them all, is also now a major player in the military market, due in part to its high visibility on the Internet, and to its winning a piece of two Department of Defense contracts in 2003. The contracts give it exclusive status as the on-base provider of graduate business and education degrees on every military installation in Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific Rim.
Several entrepreneurial nonprofit institutions like Saint Leo, Troy, and Webster Universities are also stepping up their profiles, with splashy online marketing campaigns and tuition-pricing strategies tailored to the military's reimbursement rates.
For military personnel, the dynamic market creates greater choice and, thanks to the growth of online education, far greater flexibility, particularly at a time when so many military personnel are being deployed. It is also turning some little-known colleges into online giants. In a mere four years, for example, Grantham's enrollment has grown from a few hundred students to nearly 11,000, about half of whom pay for their courses through the military's tuition-assistance program.
Along with a fresh robustness, the increasingly competitive market has introduced some anxiety in the military-education arena.
The colleges offering courses today vary widely in quality. The little oversight the military is able to exercise on behalf of its service members through an accreditation-like program called the Military Installation Voluntary Education Review doesn't cover most of the new institutional entrants because it only applies to colleges that operate on bases. Meanwhile the military itself has been forced by budget constraints to cut back on its education counseling.
The service members are left "trying to negotiate this sea of institutions in a way they didn't have to 10 years ago," says J.J. Jones, a 26-year veteran of the Air Force who now directs military programs at University of Maryland University College.
Colleges with long experience in the field are not the only ones raising alarms.
Education chiefs at the military services and the educational organizations that work with them using words like "egregious," "predatory," and "duplicitous" are becoming increasingly unhappy with the high-pressure marketing tactics that some colleges are using.
These include Internet come-ons that require prospective students to provide personal data before the site lets them see information about the college's programs. Often, officials note, immediately after the students submit the data they are bombarded by recruiters' e-mail messages and even, sometimes, telephone calls.
The administrators are also concerned that some of the colleges that are most actively pursuing military students do not provide clear enough information about their accreditation. That, they say, could mislead students into wasting years taking courses, financed with taxpayer money and perhaps some of the service member's own savings or loans, only to discover that the credits will not be transferable to other colleges or recognized by a graduate school.
"We saw an awful lot of institutions coming out of the woodwork" when the military raised its reimbursement rates in 2001, says Thomas H. Beebe, director of military programs at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. "I'm not necessarily sure that a lot of them have the best interest of the soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine at heart."
Mr. Beebe and seven colleagues have recently completed work on recommendations designed to curtail the marketing abuses. The recommendations were commissioned by the leaders of the Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges consortium, in response to complaints from the military services.
Participants in the drafting of the recommendations say they are designed to encourage colleges to be more forthcoming about their prices and offerings.
The proposals could also give the consortium more teeth for enforcement. Now, its officials must depend mostly on friendly coercion to keep colleges in line, as they did recently after receiving complaints from the military services about the high-pressure recruiting practices of Phoenix and of another for-profit institution, American InterContinental University."
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The Next Electronics Breakthrough: Carbon Atoms
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Published: February 17, 1998
SCIENTISTS experimenting with a fascinating speck of matter called a single-walled carbon nanotube predict that this elegantly geometrical molecule is about to ignite a revolution in electronics, computers, chemistry and new structural materials.
In place of the relatively large electronic devices incorporated in silicon-based chips, physicists have proved that it is possible to create devices on an atomic and molecular scale. A single electron in a single-wall carbon nanotube could function as a microminiature transistor.
Nanotubes only a few atoms in diameter, which spontaneously form from hexagonal arrays of carbon atoms, were discovered in 1991 by Dr. Sumio Iijima of NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in Tsukuba, Japan. These tubes, actually elongated molecules, form in furnaces from vapor generated by carbon arcs and lasers. They take their name from the nanometer, a unit of measurement one-billionth of a meter long -- a convenient length for specifying molecular dimensions.
Several recent reports show that nanotubes only one-50,000th the thickness of a human hair can perform the same electronic functions as vastly larger silicon-based devices. As a result, a computer based on nanotube devices could be extremely compact, fast and powerful.
Dr. Alex Zettl and his research group at the University of California at Berkeley recently showed that when two slightly dissimilar nanotube molecules are joined together end to end, the ''junction'' between them functions as an electronic device called a diode. Diodes are the basis of rectifiers, devices that are commonly used to convert alternating current into direct current.
''When we grow nanotubes,'' Dr. Zettl said, ''electronic devices naturally form on them.''
As ever smaller electronic devices are needed to improve the speed and power of computers, ''the silicon industry is coming up against a brick wall,'' Dr. Zettl said. The solution may be to replace the silicon-based devices used today with minuscule carbon molecules, which would have another advantage: they conduct heat much faster than silicon, and therefore would be more suitable for microelectronics.
Looking farther into the future, Dr. Zettl suggested that clumps of carbon nanotubes might spontaneously organize their electronic interactions into complex webs analogous to the neural networks of the brain. The density of nanotube interconnections achieved by clumping them together is staggering; if all the nanotube carbon molecules that could be packed into a one-half-inch cube were laid end to end, they would extend 250,000 miles.
Dr. Zettl speculated in an interview that a random jumble of nanotubes in such a cube could generate a network of nanocomputers that might be able to perform complex tasks and to reconfigure itself to improve its own efficiency.
Such a ''tube cube,'' as Dr. Zettl calls the imaginary nanotube brain, may never materialize. But recent research offers strong evidence that nanotubes have, at least, a great electronic future.
Research reported last October by Dr. Zettl and his colleagues produced evidence that a single nanotube molecule could contain many tiny devices: transistors and other essential components of electronic systems.
Similar research is in progress at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California. Dr. Jie Han and his group at Ames recently reported that by inserting defects into the junctions between metal-like nanotubes and semiconductor nanotubes, they had created a variety of junction types within a single nanotube molecule.
A pair of papers published last month in the journal Nature, one by chemists at Harvard University and the other by scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and Rice University at Houston, independently reported the discovery that the electronic properties of a nanotube depend on the molecule's twist.
Chemists describe the raw material of nanotubes as sheets of graphite only one atom thick that are condensed from carbon vapor. Carbon atoms linked together in graphite sheets spontaneously form a pattern resembling chicken wire. When such a sheet rolls itself into a tube so that its edges join seamlessly together, a nanotube is formed. In some cases concentric tubes form, one inside another. Usually, hemispherical caps form at the ends of each tiny tube, thereby closing it.
In their studies, the Dutch and Harvard teams used scanning tunneling microscopes, probes so fine that their tips consist of single atoms. Such a microscope can scan the surface of an object and detect individual atoms.
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If the graphite sheet forming a nanotube is rolled up perfectly evenly, so that all its hexagons line up along the molecule's axis, the molecule conducts electricity as readily as if it were a metal. But if the graphite rolls up at a twisted angle, the resulting nanotube behaves as a semiconductor. That is, it conducts electricity only when electrical or other energy applied to it exceeds a certain value. The scientists also found that there were certain twist angles that permitted the nanotube to conduct electricity almost as freely as it would with no twist.


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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
"What a ridiculous saying."
Jenny nodded. "Bruises heal, eventually, but the words – they're there forever."
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Complaint Review: Rainmaker Recovery
Rainmaker Recovery16155 W Twelve Mile Rd #6 Southfield, Michigan U.S.A.
Rainmaker Recovery FCRA/FDCPA MAJOR Willful + Noncompliant Violatons, Illegal unregistered business Southfield Michigan
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Dispute agains Rainmaker Recovery is not valid
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First, Rainmaker Recovery, including RRI's president, Victoria L. Targosz, is unregistered with the State of Michigan- Department of Labor & Economic Growth. This company is subject to criminal/civil sanctions pursuant to the Michigan Occupational Code of 1980, which includes a ninety day misdemeanor/ $500 dollar fine.
Second, Rainmaker Recovery uses false, misleading representations of their business name by using: Rainmaker Recovery III, etc on consumer credit reports. This is a violation of federal/state statutes.
Third, Rainmaker Recovery sends out "computer generated/crafted" debt collection validation responses in order to trick the consumer into proper validation pursuant to the FDCPA.
Fourth, Rainmaker Recovery fails to respond to your FCRA complaints, even if you send them through the fax/Certified Mail.
Do not trust this collection agency. This company has been reported to the Department of Labor & Economic Growth- Enforcement Division and STILL to this day, violates MAJOR federal/state codes.
Livonia, Michigan
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Dispute agains Rainmaker Recovery is not valid
AUTHOR: Rainmaker Collections Dba Rainmaker Recovery - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Monday, May 11, 2009POSTED: Monday, May 11, 2009
To my best belief and knowledge Tracy June Hubbard has placed this fictious and very harmful report on this website.
Ms. Hubbard is referring to the WRONG company in her complaint. The company she had previous communications from was Rainmaker Collections a fully licensed bonded collection agency. She is listing the wrong name, and phone number as well.
There are other Rainmaker companies filed. She is erroneously making very serious abusive and deceptive remarks.
I ask her to contact me at my proper number. Under my proper corporate tax id#38-3665780.
Your complaints listed are false. I expect this to be immediately removed along with an apology recant. You will be held liable for all damages realized. This is a very serious conduct you have engaged in. You are formally on notice.
Further, Rainmaker Collections Inc # 38-3665780, the company that previously contacted Ms Hubbard. is: 1) fully compliant under all state and federal laws 2) is fully compliant and in good standing with the Department of Labor & Economic Growth. 3) Takes pride in operating an upstanding company.
Ms. Hubbard I invite you to contact me so this matter may be put to rest.
I expect this complaint to be removed immediately along with the above mentioned requests. Fail to govern yourself accordingly will result in immediate action.
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Richard Weyand, Peter Thiessend, Kelly RogersFrisco, Texas U.S.A.
Richard Weyand, Peter Thiessend, Kelly Rogers, Frisco Texas, Ponzi BEWARE! These individuals have a history of fraud and embezzlement Frisco Texas
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Texas businessmen Richard Weyand and Peter Thiessen bought the theater in 2006. Weyand has a business address in Frisco, Texas. The owners, who already owe $20,350 in delinquent property taxes and interest to the city, have not responded to an April 2 warning letter sent by the commission.
While the theater deteriorates, Weyand has been parrying lawsuits in at least one state court and two federal courts. A group of investors sued him in federal court in Dallas in 2007, alleging he defrauded them of millions of dollars on an oil and gas deal in the Vinton Dome area of Louisiana. In an April ruling, a federal arbitration panel found "clear and convincing evidence" of fraud in that case.
That panel awarded more than $14.4 million in damages to the investors who had entrusted money to several companies controlled by Weyand, who is personally responsible for $13.4 million of the total claim.
Meanwhile, Paragon National Bank has sued Weyand and his wife, KayLynn, in federal court in Memphis over a delinquent loan for a project in Oxford, Miss. The couple owes the bank more than $2 million plus accrued interest.
Weyand and several business partners are also fighting a lawsuit in state court in Connecticut over a hedge fund gone bad.
Be careful with your investment money. People like Thiessend and Weyand and their ex-business partner Kelly Rogers also of Frisco Tx, who was connected to a major ponzi scheme, have no morals and will just steal it.
Dallas, Texas
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Looking for NFC University Multan Admission 2015 and Admission Forms with Entry Test Result Date then you are at the right place. AS NFC Institute of Engineering and technology, Multan has opened its Engineering and Non Engineering Program Admission for Undergraduate courses of classes of 2015. NFC Institute of Engineering is the fine institute to produce the well educated professionals to the nation. From the first day of its inception the University try to facilitate the students more than the expectation and the motive to the University is to provide the quality education to the students of the Pakistan. Every year there are number of students who got their engineering degrees from the institute and enter to their professional life.
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I have a more generic question...so I am currently on Not Alone Anymore...well the thing is when I reached the part with the goo (Museum's Visitors) I had literally no charge in my flashlight >_> and I tried to run around to see if I could find batteries or glow sticks...even tried using chair on fire and stuff but to no good. So eventually I decided to rewind and see if I could run back to where I um dropped my battery pack...well apparently if you rewind you lose your items but get gun and full battery on flashlight. Now I was wondering...if I rewind to a checkpoint I got to...and continue from there; everything is orange in the start menu till this point...will it still give me the achievement for completing without skipping or since I rewinded to the checkpoint will it not do so even if I complete all the segments? I stopped at the boss fight...if I have to redo might as well redo now so I won't have to fight him twice...any suggestions would be helpful if anyone still checks this place lol. Thanks!
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Cale Kids Midlothian Remodeling, Kids Contstruction, B&C Investments = DISHONEST, RIP-OFF, DO NOT HIRE Midlothian, Texas
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This guys will cut any corner he can, skimp wherever possible, and leave you to deal with the fallout. I was in the unfortunate predicament of buying a house he was "remodeling", only to find out the hard way what I'd gotten myself into. Cale has no qualms about finding the absolute cheapest unskilled labor to do his jobs (reputable craftsmen know to stay away from him - sometimes he won't even pay them, and they come looking for you - that's fun!). He also won't stand behind his work when something breaks (good luck ever getting him to return your phone call). All of this means you'll end up having to pay twice for someone who's qualified to come and fix his terrible work.
Specifically, work for me he screwed up includes: AC wiring ($600), sprinkler system ($700 and counting), electric gate ($150), foundation (at least $600 in additional inspections, plus other other obvious damage such as drywall and door fixes)...I could go on.
On top of how poor his work is, he's dishonest, he'll lie to you (despite claiming to be a Deacon - don't get me started), and in the case of my next door neighbor, he totally vanished - didn't even come back to finish the job! (unfortunately, she hired him before asking me what he was like to work with).
Long story short...STAY AWAY from Cale Kids! He's an absolute NIGHTMARE to work with!
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Here is the report we placed on this site.
Cale Kids, took over 93K from our family. He is a rouge contractor that used Christianity to lure us to hire him. We stated we only wanted to do work with a christian company. It is saddening that one can not even trust a Christian. We are in a lawsuit and if you want to persue another lawsuit email me. We can move it up to federal court.
Cale Kids is known for being a part of this church community:
Sunday Morning Bible Study: 9:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship: 10:00 a.m.
Herb Pedersen, Pastor Cale Kids, Congregational Leader Don Jackson, Worship Leader
Mt Peak Community Baptist Church 751 W. FM 875 (corner of FM 875& FM 663) Midlothian TX 76065
REMODELING & ROOFING Cale Kids Phone: 469-245-9906
SECRETARY DeeDee Bailey, Legal Secretary Phone: 972-351-3281
There is the information as to his current location. If you are looking for him you can find him at this church or at DeeDee Bailey's location. She was supposedly his legal representative but who knows for sure. I can see why she would want to support his as he gives money to her FATHER's church. Cale Kids, took over 93K from our family. He is a rouge contractor that used Christianity to lure us to hire him. We stated we only wanted to do work with a christian company. It is saddening that one can not even trust a Christian. [continued below]...
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It only works default wordpress themes.
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It only works default wordpress themes.
Pretty disapointed.
In principle, the plugin should work with all themes, assuming they insert the featured image using WordPress' built-in function "get_the_post_thumbnail" (which they usually do). Now, when using that function, it is possible that external featured images do not use the appropriate size in different pages of your WordPress site (which I understand is the incompatibility you're talking about).
WordPress creates several thumbnails -different sizes- for each image in the Media Library, and themes request one version or the other depending on what they need at each point (for example, they use a smaller version in the index page, the full-sized image in the post, and so on)
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I'm sorry the description was confusing and the result was not as good as you expected. Please, let me know if I can help you with anything else!
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Bonnie Gillespie's Advice on Taking your Kids to Auditions
By Stephanie Ciccarelli
July 11, 2007
Is taking your kids to agency auditions a faux pas?
Find out more from casting director Bonnie Gillespie as we share an excerpt from her column on Showfax.com!
To continue our Family Week, let's take a look at kids and your career.
Not too long ago, Bonnie Gillespie wrote an article in response to a question received on her column at Showfax.com for the Actors Voice, Q&A style.
Essentially, an expectant mother who was moving to LA was wondering if it was proper etiquette to take young children to auditions, and if so, was it a good idea to leave them in the waiting room while the audition took place with a caregiver.
If you're a mom (or dad - bless you!) and have pondered this very question, you'll want to read Bonnie's answer to the question about kids and auditions.
Here's part of Bonnie's response:
As for auditions I'm holding, I might not even know that babies are along for the ride much of the time, since many actors--like those you've observed in Chicago--choose to leave their young ones in the waiting room with friends or other family members they have brought along. I would imagine that session runners might have a less-tolerant stance on this sort of thing, simply because of the overcrowding involved, when you show up with an entourage. But the handful of actors who have brought babies into my audition rooms with them have either done just fine or had their focus so completely split that their auditions were blown from the beginning. Of course, I'm just one CD in a city of 600 of us. And I cast SAG Indie feature films. So, what about the other CDs who are casting studio features, TV shows, commercials, theatre, industrials, voiceovers, and so on? Well, for a sense of what the general vibe might be about kids joining their parents at auditions, I decided to check in with a few working actor parents (some whose kids are also actors, others whose are not) and Anne Henry of BizParentz.com for their advice on this issue. Huge thanks to Robert Clendenin, Eitan Loewenstein, James Runcorn, Anna Vocino, and the amazing BizParentz.com for giving us a sense of what's going on in casting offices all over Los Angeles.
To continue reading the article in its full context, visit this link at Showfax.com.
I was excited to read that Anna Vocino was mentioned in this article too! I am always amazed by the sacrifices and indomitable spirit that parents have in this industry when it comes to balancing work with home.
If you've had an experience similar to the one described above or found this article helpful, please leave a comment.
- Brian Hart
- July 11, 2007 10:54 PM
- Melanie Haynes
- July 12, 2007 11:05 AM
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Family week. What a cool idea. Being in Raleigh, I don't have auditions to go to but I do have my 6 month old in my studio with me almost every day. It can be quite the challenge at times.Posted by:
It's funny, but for many of the first film/tv roles I had, I was either newly pregnant or nursing! I have 3 sons who are about 2 to 2 1/2 years apart. One of the roles, in Challenger, was particularly dicey because I was in two back to back scenes, but one was shot about 2 weeks before the other and I was right at about 3 months when things sometimes begin to pop out!
I posted the rest of this to Stephanie's blog on voice acting while pregnant, too:
First off, Congratulations,Stephanie! I'm assuming this is your first. Being a Mom is the most rewarding experience you'll ever have!
I am the mother of 3 boys - teenagers and a college student, now. I recorded voice overs in other studios - that was before the days of my own studio - up until the day before delivery and the soonest after giving birth was 3 days! I literally got the booking from my agent in the hospital. Ok, that was with my 3rd, and I was a pro at it all by then!
The hardest thing is getting a sitter at the drop of a hat unless you have family close enough or someone who can help. Being freelance at the time, there was no way I was going to drop them off at day care every day! Of course, with our own in home studios nowadays, that helps a lot. However, I'm not sure I would have been able to shut myself into the studio to record live sessions during those days either. In fact, it wouldn't have been possible unless someone else was there to watch all of them.
It is a challenge, but we moms usually can figure it out. Multitasking is our middle name! I have been known to take a tiny one into the studio with me attached to my body with a baby carrier. Bless him, he slept through the whole thing! I've also placed them in a seat in the control room when desperate for a sitter. And, I did the entourage thing a few times.
Bottom line, my voice was not negatively affected. In fact, I was told by some that my voice had a richer quality after having given birth.
Most of all, enjoy and absorb every moment you can with your little ones. The time does pass so quickly. I do remember questioning my mother and mother-in-law as to whether I should try to work at all once the baby arrived and they both said "Yes!". While being immersed in motherhood is wonderful for you and your child, and you will most likely have tunnel vision for the first few months, at least, it is a good thing for everyone, too, that you keep in touch with your profession at some level.
Hello Stephanie & Bonnie,
The only problem I had in doing VO while pregnant was having to constantly leave the room to vomit... over and over... and fortunately, I did take my baby to auditions and sessions with me... the clients actually loved it. The ladies at the studio would fight over who got to hold the baby while I was in the booth!
Julie Williams
I only brought my kids twice to auditions. Once was an audition that had to be done in 2 hours and I had no one to watch the infant. The receptionist reluctantly watched him while I ran into the booth. The other was when my daughter wanted to watch me do my regular character in person. She thought it was cool and I asked if she could say some stuff in the microphone. It was really cute.
But BOTH of those times, and I do not think it was a coincidence, I got fired right after. My agent dropped me and I lost my regular character. I never did that again!Posted by:
I have brought both of my sons, now 25 and 15, to recording and video gigs and they were rarely trouble. Both of them got work as a result. The key for me was to acknowledge that it was rare for me to ask it of the studio, to be prepared with food, drinks and distractions and to have someone who would sit with him while I was in the booth or on the set. The only consequence is that they both love the biz! The other comments are similar to mine--MOST folks love babies and little kids and will accommodate the occasional inconvenience. Good luck!Posted by:
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Different Lenses
07 Jul 2016 1 Comment
in Daily Living Tags: being human, kn, life
Old photos tell stories. ::stage whisper:: They steal your soul, you know. I joke, but I do love the older images that show us a time other than our own. Not necessarily better, but different. Old letters tell stories, too, through the paper they're written on, the handwriting, the ink, and of course the contents. Taken altogether and they open a window onto another time and place, a time of ideas we've lost, and mindsets limited by what we didn't yet know, or were unwilling to grasp. We are given the chance to experience life, for the span of the pages, through another's eyes.
For me, tarot cards open windows as well. I had a ton of them at one point–35 or so decks–which, looking back, seems excessive. I guess I felt it was excessive then, too, as I gave most away. They should be loved and used. No point in hording, or keeping things in a box. I feel this way about anything "collectible" whether rare or not. You won't do anything with it once you're dead. May as well enjoy it.
A few years ago I put away my tarot decks. Stacked them neatly in a tray in their wraps, then let them collect dust. There "wasn't time" for them, and I wasn't reading for anyone anymore, even myself. I had no more questions to ask. Life was life, and you take it as it comes, and you make things work.
I sometimes drift away from a passion to never really pick it up again. I'm famous for dabbling. Or–as someone once told me–I take in all I can from something, and when it no longer nourishes, I slough it off, like a snake does its skin, then move on. I thought that was a very gracious way of putting it. In this case, however, it didn't feel true.
Last week, I met with two friends who also do the tarot thing. Before we met, I pulled out a few decks to see if I wanted to take any of them with me on the visit.
In going through the different cards, I felt I was throwing back the curtains on a window, exchanging my black-and-white view to one of color and birdsong. I had a sense of coming home again.
I mostly used tarot for inspiration and storytelling, for clarification, insight, and even focus. And when I call them windows, I really mean lenses–often 78 different lenses in each deck. They remind me of the gels I used to use when doing lighting design back in long ago. The light fixtures we used were always the same, but by placing a different colored or textured gel front of the beam, it changed the way we saw what was on stage. Mood, focus, drive, subtext all changed with the use of a gel. And that's how tarot works for me. I have a subject I'd like to see revealed or enhanced, or whatever my focus is … and the card gives me a new way of viewing it, of considering it. Pretty much as simple as that. There are other ways of using them, of course. This just happens to be mine.
For twenty years I'd used them. Some of these decks are old friends. They fit my puny hands. There's a whispering *whuffle* as they're shuffled together, a worn softness to their edges from repeated use. The colors please my eyes, the illustrations intrigue, inform, reassure, and reveal. I love how their depicted archetypes and incidents cover the whole range of human existence.
I'd missed them, and not even known it.
Tarot has its lovers and its haters. For me, they're a tool, and like all tools it depends on what you do with them. Evil and good come from the hand which wields the tool. It is one aspect of my life I don't talk about much, though. I find it's less socially acceptable to read tarot cards than it is to be a role-play gamer, which is weird to me, but hey, I don't write the social norms … I just try to change them.
I realized that I'd put aside my cards–my form of meditation and inspiration–because I'd also stopped being in a community which valued such tools. The greater world didn't seem to have room for them, or me as a user of them. There's a lot of side-eye to sidestep when you pull out a deck.
And that's fear talking. I may write about socially unacceptable people, but I've always tried to pass as socially acceptable myself. Somehow, after stepping away from that community, my use of the cards made me an outlier in my own eyes, and set me up for judgment.
Guess whose voice was the loudest Judgey McJudgerson? My own.
So … all this is to say, "Just do what brings you joy." As long as it harms none, go for it.
As for me, I'm back to my old morning routine of a card with my second coffee, and a page of poetry. It sets my brain right, starts the day with imagery and lyricism. And we all need a different view on the world now and then.
What's your jam? What have you given up from imagined peer pressure, or the real thing? What would you do again, if you could? What tool do you like to view the world through?
It's Personal
26 May 2016 Leave a Comment
in Writing Tags: craft, gaming, kn, plots, plotting
Twice a year, like clockwork, I ponder the correlations between writing fiction and running role-playing games. The first is in the spring when I start thinking about what games I want to bring to AmberCon Northwest (an excellent roleplaying convention in Portland that centers around the Amber Diceless RP Game). The second time is in November immediately after the con wraps and I have to decide whether my games were a success.
Some writers I know gaming and writing are two very different things. I beg to disagree. On the gamemaster side of things, you're creating plot, history, world-building, secondary characters, and conflict. The only thing that is different is that the main characters are out of your control … though a good GM will find ways of giving player characters growth through an emotional arc–exactly what a good writer will give their own main characters.
My metrics for gauging success of both novel-style fiction and gaming are the same: Did you enjoy it? Were you engaged? Or, better yet, did you have a stake in how it turned out? Did the ending satisfy? Do you want more?
The mechanics for building a satisfying story differ for each form–or at least I find them to differ substantially in most respects. The thing I have been coming back to though, the similarity between them, is finding ways to make the plot personal to the main characters, whether they're yours or a player's in your game.
Okay, I say that like I know what I'm talking about, but this is all a work in progress–a hypothesis undergoing rigorous testing.
By "make it personal" I don't mean that the player characters are the center of the plot–though if it's a small enough group and they're tied together in some way, maybe they are!–but that the choices they make can change the outcome or move the plot forward in significant ways. Their choices have consequences, for good or ill. The plot moves forward because the PCs made choices. Even choosing not to choose is something which should bring consequences.
And that's not any different from making the plot of a written story tie intimately to the main character, even when the events propelling the MC into the plot didn't have anything to do with them previously. With written fiction, we have the luxury of knowing our character's backgrounds, and knowing which part of their history is driving them with each scene. With gaming, not so much, even if your players send you a ten page history to work with. The best–if not only–thing we can do to make a plot personal to them, is give them the chance to make decisions which matter. Each time they move on a decision, there's buy-in. Once there's buy-in, stakes can be raised. Once stakes are raised, consequences become greater and rewards that much sweeter.
So that's my goal for my upcoming games (and the story Simone and I are in the middle of) … to make it personal. I'm sure I'll let you know how successful I am come mid-November.
How do you make your RP scenarios and/or stories personal to the main characters, assuming the plot isn't all about them? This inquiring mind wants to know.
Writers' Fuel
14 Apr 2016 Leave a Comment
in amazing stuff, Shout Outs, Writing Tags: coffee, community, kn
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a wordsmith writing a story is in want of some coffee."
I'm pretty sure that's what Jane Austen said. Followed by, "Gimme some java."
I write, sure. I plot and plan. I noodle with friends. And yes, I'm invariably in want of some coffee. But more, I want a lovely, quiet, clean place where I can sip and type, or lounge and talk in peace for a few hours.
Shout out to STORYVILLE COFFEE!!
If you're in the Seattle metro area, give Storyville a try. Four locations. Two types of extremely freshly roasted coffee: Prologue for the full caff, and Epilogue for the decaf. Breakfast bits. Luncheon stuff. Beautiful ambiance. Comfortable seating. Uber kind people behind the bar.
Also? Hand-crafted espresso. This means they don't push a button and let the machine do all the work. They actually know how to pull espresso. It's a disappearing art here in Seattle, lemme tell ya.
What's more, they have a wonderful objective:
"… STORYVILLE is a FOR GIVING company, created for giving. At STORYVILLE, our desire is to support the fight against human trafficking worldwide until no child, woman, or man is trapped in slavery."
This is a coffee company I can get behind.
If they were also open until 9pm, it would be a match made in heaven. However, they are open 7a-6p M-Th, and 7:59a-6p weekends. [edit: summer hours begin THIS weekend, so they'll be open at 6:59a Saturday and Sunday. Wheee!]
Pssst … you don't have to be a writer to enjoy Storyville Coffee. All that is required is a desire for a bit of something lovely in your day.
Give them a try.
PS: They did not pay me for this endorsement. I just loved them.
Have you been to Storyville? What did you think? What is your favorite place to write, muse, converse, chill?
Open Letter
31 Mar 2016 2 Comments
in Daily Living Tags: being human, kn, love
An Open Letter to the people who have shared their stories and their lives with me lately–mostly strangers–but also a few friends.
Dearest Fellow Human –
You may know me, or we may have only met briefly in the Starbucks line, or through a drop-in flashpoint in a game, or from a comment made in a Facebook group we're both in, or standing in the sunshine on the sidewalk. But that's okay. However we came together, you were having a hard time, and you needed a friend. It's good we talked. I'm glad that when we parted you felt like you were heard and supported. I'm not always good at listening, so I'm glad I could be there for you in that time and place.
A lot of people I know are having a hard time right. They've lost loved ones, are struggling with health issues, have too little money, feel out of control, fear the future, struggle with who they are, or simply are so damn tired all the time. You're not alone in feeling this way. Truth.
After we parted, I wished I could have given you more. I wanted to wrap you in a warm blanket, hand you a mug of hot cocoa or lovely tea, read you a good story, and let you know things can be okay sometimes, even if they're not right now.
There are a few things I wish I could have shared with you, things I think you don't know how to believe in, or are forgetting just now. And I don't want to sound pushy, but I hope that you will believe me, even just for a little while, as I tell you:
- You are worth loving just as you are right now. You Are Worth Loving Just As You Are.
- Your story matters. You matter. I want to hear your story, in whatever way you want to share it.
- We can't save other people, no matter how much we want to. We can only love them for as long as they're in our lives, near or far. The only person you can truly save/fix/change is yourself, and that's where we need to start.
- You can only do your best. Some days your best will be excellent, and some days you'll feel it's not so much. Celebrate the good days, and forgive yourself the hard ones.
- You're allowed to feel whatever you are feeling, even the ones that others think are ugly.
- It's okay to ask for help. Some people won't be able to do much, but others will. We all suck at asking, but everyone needs a hand or a hug sometimes.
- Be kind to yourself and others as much as you can. You deserve kindness, and so do they. Sometimes kindness is hard to come by, but give and receive what you can, as you can.
I don't know if we'll ever see each other again, Fellow Human, but thank you for sharing your time and your story with me, and for including me in your life for a while. I hope it gave you at least the seeds of what you needed. I wish you gentle days and restful nights, and all happiness in the days to come.
With love,
The Stranger In The Coffee Shop / Online / In That Game You Love / At The Park
Review: Ink and Bone
03 Mar 2016 Leave a Comment
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Rachel Caine's new book, Ink and Bone: The Great Library, is the first in a trilogy set in an alternate world where the Great Library of Alexandria was never sacked, and information is truly power — in this case, the only power worth mentioning. In a life where everyone across the globe has magical access to every piece of writing the great Alexandrian Library deems worth reading, personal ownership of books is forbidden. Young Jess Brightwell grows up part and parcel of his father's London-based black-market business, literally running precious contraband of real books–not mere copies–to buyers with the deepest pocket. When his father sends him to train as librarian at the great library itself–becoming an inside source for original volumes, the rarest of the rare–Jess's priorities become tangled, and he questions everything he's ever known about knowledge and power, right and wrong, cowardice and courage.
I loved this book from cover to cover. It is considered suitable for grades 8 and up, but there is plenty there which skews older (characters you like die bloody deaths galore). The premise is fascinating and pertinent to our world of digital media and questions of ownership vs license. The alternate Earth is interesting, complex and well-devised and the characters are as interesting as they are diverse, with the women as unapologetically awesome as their male counterparts (people who know me will understand this is huge in my enjoyment of a story). Caine thoroughly explores the ideas of information, absolute power, and the corruption which follows hard on its heels, and cunningly weaves them into a plot which will hurl you forward like a feather in a hurricane.
For those of us who are audiobook inclined, I give the audio version of Ink and Bone, narrated by Jules Elfer, five gold stars all around. The story was conveyed so well, that I bought the hardback for my husband (who read it in a weekend–and likewise loved it), and immediately pre-ordered the next book in the series.
July needs to arrive so I can find out what happens next!
Rock Band Revelation
18 Feb 2016 Leave a Comment
in Daily Living Tags: family, fear, fun, kn, rock band
I love music. Most kinds. I love everything from 13th century chants to opera to bluegrass, big band, mainstream rock and even some metal–don't judge, I'm expanding my horizons. I love to sing, but only in my car or in the house when no one is around.
I used to love singing even when people could hear me. Then, someone whose opinion I held highly told me I didn't have a voice worth listening to. And that opinion was reinforced by being involved in musical theater where people are literally judged by how well they can belt a song. You want the best on stage. Totally understandable. But I, in my angsty teenage years, heard only that my singing sucked, rather than I simply wasn't strong (or clear or whatever) enough as a vocalist. So I stopped singing anywhere I might be judged, e.g. in public.
It's a common story. We're told that what we put into the world isn't worth someone's attention, as if our joy needs to equal a product for another to consume. No one ever tells us that the monetization of something doesn't nail down the only way of expressing or experiencing that something. The message we get is, if we can't sell it, it ain't worth shit.
Thirty years pass. No karaoke for me, no sing-alongs, just solos in my car–unless I'm super tired or tipsy and my guard is down.
Enter the XBox game, Rock Band 2.
Stick (my daughter), Red (her partner) and I started up a band, The Facehuggers (we'd just finished watching Alien and Aliens, and we're geeks–but you knew that). Red is our kick-ass guitarist. I'm usually on drums. Stick does a lot of the singing, except when the game tosses out a tune from before she was born … then it falls to me. That version of Rock Band was pretty forgiving about how you played, how you sang. Energy wasn't needed. You could whisper or meow your way through a song as long as you hit the beats and phrasing, so I could hide even as I was singing. It takes a certain amount of talent to be self-effacing when you've got a mic up to your face.
This winter, we splurged for the newest version, Rock Band 4, and everything changed. Now the score is based partly on how much energy you put into your performance. You can't tap the drums lightly, you have to play them HARD. You can't merely breathe your songs into the mic. The best scores come from rocking it like you mean it. And we're all competitive enough to want the high scores. We have a tour bus to earn and fans to win!
I had to put up, stop playing, or fail out of the game, and no one wants to be a loser in front of their kids. So I put up, let loose and belted out an old Pat Benatar rock ballad. And it was gloriously fun! In that moment, I had a revelation. We live so much of our lives ashamed for being normal, ashamed of not being what's reflected in our media. I know so many people who won't sing in public–it's not just me–or write, or draw, or garden, or sew, or anything, really, because they fear derision. They have joys they keep in the closet.
Who are these nebulous gate keepers who get to determine how we find our happiness? If we take joy in what we do, what we put into the world as play, as self-expression, isn't that what is important?
So sing out, I challenge you. Give yourself permission to do what makes you happy however much you can. Sing out loud and long. Paint, dance, yodel, write, role-play, act, build, create … whatever lightens your heart. And for your own joy's sake, break it out of the closet and rock it like you mean it!
See you on the high score list!
A PNW kind of day
11 Feb 2016 1 Comment
It's a typical Pacific Northwest kind of day.
The sky is that overcast grey that makes it difficult to tell whether it's 8AM, noon, or 3PM.
There's a promise of spring, but not yet, just wait a little longer.
In the meantime, have more rain.
Oh, and don't get too excited, in fact worry, because those daffodils and crocus that are peeking up may get frozen if there's a cold snap.
And everything that thinks it should be blooming right now will be sorry.
But all those weeds? Oh yeah, they'll be just fine. In fact, the cold will make them stronger.
And it won't be cold enough to kill the slug eggs.
The babies are out there right now, marching to war on the daylily buds.
So in the meantime, snuggle up in a blanket with a good book, and a cup of hot tea.
Take a nap.
A New Hope
04 Feb 2016 Leave a Comment
in Daily Living, Movies, Writing Tags: kn, plots
No, not that one, not Star Wars Ep. IV, though it qualifies.
I'm talking about the feeling that comes from experiencing a story with a Happy Ending™. Not even a Happily Ever After™ ending, but simply the heroine-prevails-in-her-quest ending, whatever that quest may be. It brings satisfaction that wrongs have been righted, justice prevails, and the worthy find love. In other stories, something intrinsic to the human condition endures, and we, or those important to us, will be able to partake of it.
I remember how terrible the last half of 2001 was. The US was attacked on September 11th, and then we took war to the Middle East. So much pain and national anxiety. At the end of the year, for the holidays, Warner Bros. released Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It was a fun movie, I'll grant you, full of good performances by actors I enjoyed. But what hit me like a blow was how much hope it instilled in me at the end. I wept as the credits rolled. It was all out of proportion to the movie itself, but I felt that if Potter could overcome his trials and tribulations, then we, as adults and as a country, could surely emerge from the pain and hatred and fear we were snarled in. I felt hope again for our world.
That's some good, heart-tugging storytelling.
Maybe at that time, I just needed to believe in the possibility of happy endings, and that–like young Skywalker, and the hope he embodied–the sunset would be followed by a new, better day.
Happy Endings aren't an American invention, but we do tend to eat them up. I sort of blame Disney–or maybe Frank Capra–and I'm sort of not kidding. They're hard to get away from, and I sometimes wonder if we do ourselves a disservice by not embracing more ambiguity as the curtains fall. Ambiguity makes us dig for the hope we want, makes us examine possibilities. Ending with uncertainty is less like hot chocolate and Milano cookies on a cold winter's night, and more like a meaty borscht–complex and nourishing, but we have to work to get it in the bowl, and we often are unsure of the ingredients. Ambiguity makes us wonder what's next? Happy Endings rarely do.
All this is to say that I wonder about the stories we, as a people, tell. I wonder in our communal psyche demands the reassurance and certainty of a Happy Ending, even when we know they're rarely "real". I wonder which stories give us the tool to find our way through this crazy world, and if it's simply a matter of having our Milano cookies along side our borscht.
What kind of endings do you crave? Which ones satisfy you? What do you want from your stories? Inquiring minds wanna know.
Put On Your Red Shoes
21 Jan 2016 Leave a Comment
in Daily Living Tags: death, joy, the lifetime channel, time
If this post was a car, imagine that I started it up, and while I left it to do its engine-warming thing, someone hijacked it and drove it clear out of town. The hijacker was Life … or really, her necessary-evil brother, Mortality.
Last week was rough, and not just for me. The world lost two icons, David Bowie and Alan Rickman, and I lost a dear friend. Almost lost my dog, too–no joke–but Alistair Rocket Dog is one very lucky pooch.
Everything that lives dies. We all face it. Parents, lovers, friends, children, strangers, pets. The deserving and undeserving. The old and the young and those in between. We who are left behind–and everyone has someone who is left behind–struggle with survivor's guilt, tangled in the darkness pouring through the gaping wound in our lives. We combat the darkness with only stardust and memories. Fragile, intangible things.
But this is the truth I hold to: We all get one life, whether it's brief as a flickering candle or as long as a century. We don't get to know in advance what our allotment will be, but we all get a portion of feeling air in our lungs, and hearing the susurration of blood through our veins. Sometimes life sucks. But we get one, and if we're lucky enough to make it to some semblance of adulthood, we get a say in how ours goes.
We have choice. Sometimes it's not much of one, but it is choice. And this is the question of all our lives: What do you choose?
To quote part of my favorite poem, "The Summer Day" by the sublime Mary Oliver:
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Read the full poem. Go ahead. I'll be here.
I think of Bowie and Rickman and my friend. Their day-to-days were very different, and yet all were full of creativity and courage. Despite whatever fears crowded their minds, whatever limitations were placed on them by others, they stepped into who they were from minute-to-minute and year-to-year. They did what they loved, and surrounded themselves with the people and work which gave them joy. Then they shared that joy with the rest of the world. What a fantastic legacy!
I hope that's what we do–step into our joy, and share that joy with others. We only get a brief time on this amazing ball of rock in this splendid galaxy, and there's only one of each of us. Whether you're a butcher or baker or candlestick maker, you're the only you that will ever be in the entire history of the universe. Live your life as richly as you can, with all the love and pain and wonder as you can hold.
I know it's easier said than done. I do, I know. But when my life is over, I don't want to sigh and regret and think, "I could have, but I was too afraid." I don't want to have merely existed, trapped in the shell that fear wrought.
Fear lies. It tells us we can't. It tells us we shouldn't. It feeds us reasons to not.
We don't have time to "not". Don't let fear win.
Shine on, my lovely, glorious friends. Be brave with yourself, be bold. Remember that everything starts small. Take one step, then take another. Shine your unique, weird and wonderful light, and I'll do my best to shine mine. I hope together we light up the sky for whatever time is given us.
My small step is to write every day, regardless of depression or mood or subject. What's your small step? What will you do with your one wild and precious life?
Put on your red shoes. Let's dance.
Digging to Hell
08 Jan 2016 2 Comments
in Daily Living Tags: jl
Heaven and Hell. When I was younger, I believed.
I had a friend, Erica, raised on fire and brimstone. Erica would come to school with terrifying stories from Sunday school about deluges, eternal damnation, glowing castles in the clouds, and people with wings. We decided to go see these things.
After long discussions (including diagrams), we determined Heaven was out of the question. Being up in the sky, we would need stacks of ladders, tied together one atop another. Ladders weren't practical to acquire or hide from the recess lady. But for down, all we'd need were a few sandbox shovels and pails. Hell it was.
Unable to convince the sandbox kids to give us their shovels and unwilling to explain to the teachers that we needed shovels because we were digging to Hell, we used sticks.
The site of our dig was behind the school lunchroom in a chain-link enclosed area where the grass never grew. Back in the corner, away from tree roots, we dug in peace.
Occasionally we'd measure our work. I'd lay down in the hole, and wiggle around a bit. Then Erica would lay in it and tried it on for size. Satisfied, we continued our frenzied digging. As we dug inches deeper and deeper, we discussed what we thought Hell looked like and what we'd do once we got there.
Once we got there, we needed special flame-retardant outfits to protect us from Hell's fire. On rainy-day recess, we designed paperdolls to model our patchwork asbestos jumpsuits. We talked strategy for hiding from demons (the jumpsuits had chameleon powers). We made demon paperdolls for identification.
At first, our activities went unnoticed. We were happy, content, and staying out of trouble. Two little kids digging in the dirt, no big deal. Then one day Cindy with her blond pigtails and pink jumper showed up at our hole. "What are you playing? I want to play."
We lied. "We're digging for dinosaurs. Don't need help. Go away."
She tattled.
Erica and I received a stern lecture about sharing, having more than one friend, and playing nicely together. With the recess lady watching we let Cindy play with us as we pretended to dig for dinosaurs.
Cindy talked constantly about her dinosaur. "Look at mine! It's the biggest one! Bigger than yours! It's a new dinosaur. No one knows about. It's purple. My dinosaur is the best dinosaur. Better than all the other dinosaurs. I'm going to be famous."
That was it. This was our hole. Not hers. She didn't get to be the best. So we told her the truth.
"We're not digging for dinosaurs. We're digging to hell. Yeah. HELL. And you're helping. When we get to HELL, we go first because we know how to fight demons. We'll try not to let them eat you, but they might. Your job is to close the hole behind us, so the demons, from HELL, don't come through and EAT EVERYONE YOU LOVE!"
Cindy's lips quivered. "Hell? Demons? Eat me?"
Cindy ran crying to the recess lady. "They're digging to HELL and demons are going to eat everyone I love and Idon'twanttogeteaten!"
Suddenly, half a dozen teachers stood around the hole staring down at as.
This was a semi-Catholic Montessori school. They couldn't have their kids digging to Hell! We could read about it in the Bible, learn about it in Sunday school, but we couldn't actually try and /get/ there! They immediately stopped all excavation.
At least at school.
Hell Excavation Site #2 at my house was a great success. But after a couple months we realized Hell was a lot deeper down than four feet and neither one of us really wanted to dig that far. So we filled the hole with water and played in the mud instead.


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A place called David Charles(Original post by SoNottingH)
Do you go to a chain like toni & guy or a local?
I've paid £150 for colours and everything in C. London salons.
Think its a chain but i dont know where the others are.
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(Original post by parry_93)
A place called David Charles
Think its a chain but i dont know where the others are.
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(Original post by SoNottingH)
Hope they treat you nicely for that money. The most expensive I've been to is Nicky Clarke in London, it was really lovely.
Tis lovely
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Ohh they do
Tis lovely
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I pay £28 with student discount of 10%. I think it depends on how experienced your hair dresser is and where you go!
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£15 for the model night at Toni and Guy
I get mine done twice a year at Toni & Guy for £35, but have a friend who will trim and colour for me in between. She used to have her own salon so she's good! Only do T&G when I want something quite drastic, as obviously mobile hairdressing has limited equipment.
£10 for mine. Though she is a family friend so she doesn't charge me any more
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I will pay more for good treatment. I love proper scalp massages with my feet up for example. Also I really like being fussed over gently, I can't bear salons where they bash you about.
Plus they would never do it blonde.
DC got it from red (my dp) to very light ash blonde in two sets of highlights and a bleach.
Its always cut so nicely too and they do such a good shampoo too.
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(Original post by such_a_lady)
9 times out of 10 yes I mean obviously it's always "not quite right" when a hairdresser does it and I enjoy washing it and styling it again myself and then it looks perfect. Only had one bad experience with a dreadful conceited girl who was too interested in talking to her mates than listening to what I wanted, who messed up my hair (the teaching stylist had to come and correct it ) and then cut my fringe stupidly short even when i'd already asked her to stop cutting Needless to say I kicked up a fuss via letter and got the Art Director to cut my hair I've also had qualified and experienced stylists cut my hair simply because they felt like joining in on the model night (the girl only did colours and missed cutting hair) so that was great Oh, and one time they'd made a mistake because the guy meant to be doing my hair hadn't learnt to cut yet, so the top top top guy (Star Director?) did it for me
(Original post by SoNottingH)
Haha, it sounds like you are good at getting your own way and getting things right for you.
£10 at my local hairdressers for being a hair model.
I get my hair cut by the senior stylist with about 3 trainees watching and taking notes, so it takes longer, but I still get a great haircut for £10 instead of £50
£35 ish ... paid same at little private salon at home and at supercuts in leeds (apparently its more for me because my hair is long... hhmph! i still only had it trimmed!!! surely short trimmed is same amount of work as long trimmed?! )
but i now get my mum to do the trimming and shape the front myself...
£35 I think for the decent one. I went to a cheaper one it was around £17 and I've never been so ashamed to walk for a taxi in my life. I asked for a half up/half down thing and they gave me a snooki bump, never again.
Also sometimes I like to go to the really expensive one before my birthday and stuff, it costs about £70, they do things like spending 30 minutes gently fluffing my hair till it looks slightly tousled lol. Also they have massage chairs, it's quite an experience. The owner of that one likes to do my hair because it's long and he has a thing for long hair, but it always turns out amazing. If I was rich I'd go there every week, definitely.
(Original post by parry_93)
Mine costs me £110 for whole head bleach, wash, cut, blow dry. I never do just wash cut and blow dry
Although considering ive got enough hair on my head to rival the hairiest yetti youve ever seen and its about boob length its worth it seen as they use so much product and it takes about 2 hours too plus they do a smashing job
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£20, she comes to my house and doesn't try to talk to me constantly. Don't know what I'm going to do when I'm at uni...
(Original post by Fires)
Seriously, you pay over £100 to have your hair done?? Bloomin heck, I'm in the wrong line of work. Can I interest you in a quick style? I'm very good with clippers and a razor. Yours for £90.
:') You wouldnt get anywhere with clippers on my mop.
And narrh im a lazy **** and not actually been since before i went skiing in December. So its not 'that' expensive really.
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Get down and dirty in the garden
by Ernie Allison
birds, bird watching, wildlife, hummingbirds, crabapple, Jacob's ladder, agastache, firebird, honeysuckle, Ernie Allison
If you are a friend of feathered visitors, love the diversity of the specimens found in your area, the palette of colors they display and love listening to their melodic sounds, there's some good news: You have many ways to lure specific fowl into your garden and make them feel at home. Besides setting up bird feeders with the appropriate food and offering water, you can influence their arrival in other ways.
First, you want to make sure the area you are targeting for the birds is low-traffic so they aren't constantly disturbed. This means no opening/closing doors and not a lot of walking by. Start by determining what breed of bird you are looking to attract. Each one has its preferences and knowing what they are can help you conclude how to make it more interesting for them to visit you.
Willow flycatcher; Photo By Kelly Colgan Azar/Flickr
Tyrant flycatchers, such as the Western Kingbird or the Willow Flycatcher, love plants that attract smaller insects, which they feed off, such as crabapple and Jacob's ladder. They also love berries. A mulberry tree would be a huge bonus for them. However, they do love seeds as well, so setting up that bird feeder would be sure to get you some quality observation time.
Rufous hummingbird; Photo By Rick Leche/Flickr
If you are more interested in the dainty hummingbirds i.e. Black-chinned Hummingbird, Calliope or Rufous Hummingbird, you should plant Agastache, also known as Firebird. Another hummingbird magnet is the honeysuckle. These are just a few examples of the plants that attract hummingbirds. Setting up a hummingbird feeder in a strategic position, possibly in close proximity to one of these plants, will help to keep them coming back even after the plants have ceased producing nectar. The good thing about hummingbirds is that they remember where they found food they liked and will be back next year to entertain you.
Bluebird; Photo By Henry McLin/Flickr
Then there are the beloved Bluebirds. They are beautiful to look at and just give you a good feeling. Now that's the kind of BLUEs we like. They will be grateful for the crabapple and Jacob's ladder as well. The good thing about them is they actually will nest in man-made nesting boxes. If you make the effort to supply one, you can watch the babies hatch, grow and take flight. Bluebirds usually have two, but can have up to three, broods in a year. They feed on insects and seeds and if you want to give them a real treat, soak some raisins in water. (Mmh, they love that.)
So you see, there's nothing to it. Just by planting the right flora and offering the right space you can attract various types of birds. You can also make your own bird feeding mix by adding various nuts (walnuts, pecans, peanuts) and dried fruits (preferably berries) to the mix. This way you are attracting different types of birds, and as they say "the more, the merrier." The best thing about it is your "LIVE" entertainment will be giving you encores on a daily basis throughout the year and for years to come.
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