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I just couldn't wait any longer to try this one. I bought the pattern several months ago at Quiltegården, and I just had to try to piece it together today. I didn't get it done, but I pieced the flying geese together, and tomorrow I'll handpiece the block together. This was quite time consuming, but very fun. The block is one from the pattern called "Gåsemor" by Sara Bolster. It is several of these goose blocks, and the other blocks is handpieced stars. It was not easy to find fabrics with the right colors, but I think these will do well together. Time flies so fast when you're having fun, and soon it's midnight, and I just have to jump to bed. It's work tomorrow for me and Hubby, and first day at school for the kids after a long and lovely Christmas vacation. It has been a cold day today like yesterday, but we did spend some time outside anyway. It started snowing again tonight, and I hope it will not snow too much till tomorrow.
Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite:o)
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Just had to try this...
Posted by Litamora's Quilt & Design at 11:29 PM
Labels: Reducing stash, table cards Gåsemor
8 comments:
- Julia said...
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- January 5, 2009 at 2:18 AM
- Julia said...
Laila it's lovely!
I have seen it done before, but have never tried it myself..great job!
I deleted my first comment because of my bad spelling ..
Julia ♥
- January 5, 2009 at 2:21 AM
- Kirsi said...
Hey, you are a master hand! It looks so difficult but I believe that it is fun to do it. I haven't seen the pattern before so I hold my breath for seeing it at the ready :)
- January 5, 2009 at 8:03 AM
- Elin said...
Just lovely, how many hours...?
- January 5, 2009 at 10:08 AM
- Hanne said...
Just one word to say Laila -- WONDERFUL !!
- January 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- Julie said...
That looks amazing, I bet it was tricky to do. Well done.
- January 5, 2009 at 2:03 PM
- Darcie said...
Oooh! I love the twisty flying geese. Very pretty! Your efforts are very evident...and must be quite rewarding! Will you be trying more variations of geese?
- January 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- Timotei said...
Å, så fin! Ser komplisert ut dette. Så flink du er!
- January 5, 2009 at 9:35 PM
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Almost 90% of adults have acne, so don't panic if you have them you are the majority. Both genders are equally affected based on family history. In women, it is common among people from teenage or from 20s. Technically, pimples are called acne vulgaris, and Propionibacterium acnes are the bacteria which stirs up all the trouble. Home remedies for acne, pimples and hyper pigmentation mentioned below are effective and completely safe to use.
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Skin produces plenty of oil called sebum. When too much sebum is produced, a follicle becomes blocked, allowing the oil, along with dead skin cells, to build up. When Propionibacterium acnes affects this skin and leads to swelling, redness, and inflammation. Inflammation increases oil gland production, making skin oilier and causes the growth acne bacteria and pimples.If the skin over the bump stays closed, it is called a whitehead. and when the skin over the bump opens, then turns black due to oxidation with air it is called a blackhead.
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Tips and Precautions:
- Keep your towels, makeup brushes, pillows and sheets clean as it may gather bacteria.
- Eat a balanced diet with nutrients and try to avoid junk foods as much as possible.
- Try not to touch or pick pimples and acne as much as possible as it may cause it to spread more.
- Always do a patch test before you test the above methods on your face.


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I'm from a family of four. There's 10 years between me and my brother. I've always had family around, the house was always busy with folk coming and going.
You always know you're gay but growing up in the 80s in a council estate in Aberdeen, life wasn't like it is now. Twenty, twenty-five years ago the whole gay thing was different. It wasn't as socially 'acceptable' as it is today. I didn't know there were gay bars where you could meet people and in my teenage years I wouldn't have got in, let alone got served anyway. There weren't any of the support groups around. There was the Gay Switchboard but it was only open once or twice of an evening during the week.
I had no gay friends to talk to about my feelings and I couldn't talk to my straight friends or any of my family about it, I didn't even know another gay guy. I lived under this cloud of 'I'm gay but what can I do?' So I did nothing, hoping it would all go away.
My family wasn't down on gay people but I remember the odd comment in the family about poofs – not derogatory but enough to make me feel it wouldn't go down well if I came out as gay.
I met Anne, this girl who I worked with and it all just sort of happened. I got engaged in 1990, aged 23, and a year later we got married. I lost my mum the year before to cancer so it had been a difficult time. She was only 58.
I went with the flow of get-engaged, get-married, have-children. It seemed a natural process and I thought the gay thing would go away, or I would hide it, or because I was married I wouldn't have any urges.
It's not that you don't want to be with a woman, it's that – at that stage, for me – you don't really know, because you haven't had your first gay sexual encounter. I felt under a lot of social pressure to get married and have children. And then you do that, and nothing changes – you're still definitely gay.
It wasn't until about a year after I was married that I had my first gay experience. I didn't have any gay friends or know anyone who was gay. I realised I couldn't sit on being gay anymore and that I'd have to do something about it. I stumbled across a gay chat line and arranged to meet someone. That was it. It just happened.
I'd thought that, because I was married, I'd be able to suppress it but once I'd done it and realised, 'I am gay,' I couldn't suppress it. Before, it had been locked up but now I knew what it was like to be with a man, I wanted more. I thought, 'It's not going to be easy to put these feelings away' but I kept trying.
Anne and I had been trying for a child but she wasn't pregnant at that stage. I knew that being with a man was what I should be doing but I was too chicken to do anything about it. So I just carried on with my wife, thinking, 'It will all go away. I'll just do it a few times and get it out of my system.' But that never really happened.
Anne fell pregnant but then she had a severe bleed, a miscarriage. It was fairly distraught stuff. No-one prepares you for that. You don't get a handbook. Although the doctor says it's nature's way, when nature says you're not going to have your baby when all your friends are having their babies, it's a difficult time.
I felt I had a decision to make – do the socially correct thing and carry on or stop, stop it all and come out as being gay. Despite thinking about it for days and weeks on end I couldn't do it.
When Anne had a miscarriage, I thought it was a sign, like a 'get out of jail card.' The right thing to do would have been to leave Anne then – but I didn't. There was an element of me wanting children but it was tied up in thinking that having children would make it (being gay) all go away.
Anne fell pregnant again and Marie was born in September '93. That turned everything upside down. The focus was on Marie and the gay thing was put on the back burner.
Marie was here and taking her round to see all the relatives, doing all the dad things that you do, felt natural. I was absolutely over the moon.
But you are what you are. You think getting married will make it go away and it doesn't. You think having babies will make it go away and it doesn't. You may think bungee jumping off the Eiffel Tower will make it go away but it won't. You're brought up to think you should do this and you should do that but another part of you is telling you it's not right.
Eventually I plucked up enough courage to tell my best friend Michael. I let him into my secret about four years after Marie was born because I'd started to get very depressed. I wasn't getting involved in family life. I wasn't interested in anything except myself – very selfish.
Michael was very supportive. He was a similar age to me but he had no experience of being gay so all he could do was listen.
Probably around April '95, I met a guy called Keith who was also not out. We started seeing each other on a casual basis every now and then. He wasn't married, didn't have any children. We got on really well, not just as casual partners but on a social level as well. We clicked. So I had that going on as well: being married, being a dad and for want of a better phrase, having a bit on the side.
Keith had been away for a month with work when I decided I'd tell Anne I was gay. I'd say to Michael, "I'm going to tell her tonight, I'm going to tell her tonight" and then I'd get a phone call from Michael saying, "Did you tell her?" – and, no of course not. How could I do that to her?
Anne and I used to work together but I'd left the job the year before. Once I'd started working for another organisation I had my own routine and that gave me more opportunities to meet men. The more I met, the more I wanted more and more.
Eventually the guilt got too much. I couldn't deal with the lies I had to tell on a daily basis. I realised, if I didn't do something about it quickly, I'd risk ruining not only Anne's life but Marie's as well.
I thought, 'If I get out now I won't ruin her life,' so I left in the summer of '96. I just came home one day and said I'd been to see a solicitor about a divorce.
I couldn't tell Anne I was gay. I thought she'd say I couldn't see Marie again, that I'd be shunned by my family. I didn't know how it would affect my work.
I left Anne, went through all the legal stuff and changed jobs again. It meant working away Monday to Friday. It got me out of the house during the week but I'd go back home at weekends to see Marie.
We made a separation agreement which said I'd have Marie every second weekend and continue to support her financially. It was all very difficult, very difficult for everybody. Anne wanted to know why I had left, Marie wanted to know why Daddy didn't live at home any more. I didn't have any of the answers. I didn't even know what was going on myself.
About three months later I was still working away but I'd come home one weekend to see Marie. I'd bought copies of 'Gay Times' and they were in my bag, which I'd left unopened in my room. It was a Saturday afternoon and Anne phoned while I was out shopping and said Marie had found something in my bag and did I want to go home and discuss it? Of course, Marie couldn't have got into my bag.
Anne's first question: "Why didn't you tell me?"
"Well, I didn't know how to tell you, how you'd react."
I think it was a bit of a relief for Anne because now she knew the reason, though she was still quite upset.
It didn't change things as we had agreed from the start that for the sake of Marie we didn't want to make things difficult for her. Looking back I was quite lucky really. The whole saga could have turned into a very nasty split but that didn't happen – no point – it would only have been Marie that would have suffered.
I eventually returned to Aberdeen to work and got myself a one-bedroom flat around December '96. Anne and Marie managed to get a nice council house where she grew up, so she had a lot of her friends and family around her. We started living as separate entities, with Marie staying with me most weekends.
Marie would have been three by then. It was difficult for her because once I had a flat, it wasn't a case of "Daddy's working away." It was, "Daddy's at his house, why's he not here?" I didn't have a proper chat with Marie about my sexuality until she was about 10. It was just, "Mummy and Daddy aren't living with each other anymore" and she accepted this.
I was finding my feet being a gay man, discovering the scene, meeting new guys, developing new relationships. Eventually Keith moved in with me but I wasn't openly gay and there was still a lot of pressure.
After about a year I tried to take my own life. It was an overdose. I can't remember much about it thankfully. But obviously it didn't work and I'm glad that I'm still here. I did it because I couldn't cope. I didn't want people knowing I'd gone from being married, being a dad to being a gay man with a child.
My boss came round to see me afterwards. I explained to him what had been happening in my life. He was very supportive and said if I had any trouble at work, to tell him and he'd sort it. (Ironically, about 10 years ago he came out but he made no mention at the time).
Eventually there was a work's night out and someone asked me if I was gay and it all came out. Surprisingly no-one had a problem with it. It was quite an eye opener. Obviously things had changed in the past five years.
As I became more confident about being gay, I started to tell more people about it. I told my brother and my sister. The only person I didn't tell was my dad. There was a 40-year age gap between us. I wasn't as close to him as I was to my mum. I took the view that it wouldn't make any difference to his life so he didn't need to know.
My sister died in the summer of '96 before Marie was born. If I'd been going to confide in anyone back then, it would have been her but it was not to be. Life just carried on.
I moved to Edinburgh with my job in 2001 and settled here. I still had the flat in Aberdeen and I went back every two weeks and Marie came to stay.
Keith and I had split up before I moved to Edinburgh and being a single man I was enjoying exploring the scene in Edinburgh. I joined a support group called Gay Dads as I wanted to get to know other people who were in my situation and how they coped. Marie was getting older and I thought, "How do I tell her about being gay?"
I was very nervous going to my first meeting, and for the first few months I just sat there and listened to what others had to say. There are a whole lot of different experiences and I was amazed at how, after all, I wasn't the only gay guy who had been through the getting married/having kids cycle in an attempt to make the gay thing go away.
Eventually, I plucked up the courage to say, "This is what I've been struggling with."
I went on to explain I was worried about how to tell Marie I was gay. What would she say or think? What if she didn't want to see me again? What if her friends at school found out and she got teased or bullied? Lots and lots of questions.
The advice the other gay dads gave me was: don't make it into a big deal; don't sit her down and say, "There's something I want to tell you" – just bring it up in conversation and see how it goes. So I did.
We were walking to the supermarket one day and I can't recall how I started the conversation but I said, "Normally boys fancy girls and girls fancy boys but now and then you'll get boys who fancy boys and girls who fancy girls. Those boys are called gays and the girls are called lesbians."
I said that sometimes people don't know who they fancy or they get a bit confused about girlfriends and boyfriends. I said I fancied boys but I didn't know that I fancied boys until just recently. I went on to say that no matter what happened I would always love her very much. I said it didn't change anything but it's not something to go telling everybody because not everybody would understand.
She said very little. She was: "Well, all right, I see."
I'd said, "You'll probably need to think about it and you may not know how to deal with it so if you have any questions, ask me or ask Mum because you don't want to keep any questions to yourself."
I think she did speak to Anne about it and since then she's slowly told her friends, who have all been quite accepting and supportive.
I met Ryan in 2005 and we moved in together quite quickly, within four or five months. Marie knew who Ryan was and what our relationship was but I'd take her out on my own or all three of us would do things together, rather than Marie and Ryan doing things on their own, until I was sure things were going to last.
When we realised the relationship was something bigger, we looked for a larger house with a spare room which Marie could use when she was down or so we could have friends to stay. I had given up work to go to university for the first time. It was time for a complete change.
We lived quite happily. Marie was a frequent visitor, coming down for a couple of weeks in the school holidays, bringing herself down on the train as she got older.
Ryan and I had been together about 18 months when he first mentioned wanting a child. It had never entered my mind at all, having a child again. I was graduating soon. I was happy with the lifestyle we had – no ties. We could do what we wanted, when we wanted, go on holiday, go out.
It was quite serious in that Ryan had always wanted to be a biological dad but I had reservations about it all. We spoke about it and spoke about it and spoke about it. I was very undecided. Two men bringing up a child on their own? Would we cope? Would we have support? Would they be bullied at school? What would Marie think? How would the rest of the family react?
All the ifs, buts and maybes just kept going round in my head and I didn't really have anyone other than Ryan that I could speak to about it.
At the back of my mind was, 'Well, I know what it's like to be a dad… but I can't deprive Ryan of that, it would be unfair.'
Ryan did a lot of research into the legalities and all the different methods of conception, like getting a friend involved or surrogacy. From there it was a case of, 'Surrogacy is probably the preferred option' and we met an agency.
I didn't say, "Let's do this," I didn't say, "Let's not do this." It just happened with Ryan's determination.
There were a lot of ups and downs, a lot of hoops to go through. I tried to support him through it the best I could.
As things went on, the process wasn't going to plan or how we had hoped, being let down by prospective surrogates and an agency that didn't know its arse from it's elbow.
I could see all the distress Ryan was going through and I didn't want to open myself up to that. I felt it was more important to support him than to generate another roller coaster.
I kept my feelings fairly locked up, even from Ryan, which in hindsight wasn't the right thing to do.
It all seemed to go on for years. Because of all the problems with the agency and then the surrogacy, part of me was a bit: 'This is never going to happen, we're never going to get there.'
Once I had met Samantha, the final surrogate, a few times and we had a confirmed pregnancy, it all became certain that it was definitely happening – that's when the realisation kicked in.
We hadn't been doing the happy 'going out and looking at prams or buying clothes' thing. We'd been through hundreds of ups and downs, then bang! It was going to happen.
And that's when I started to open up my emotions. Ryan had the excitement, I knew what it would be like in practical terms. But, how were we going to cope? How could we afford it?
And what would people think? The child growing up, nursery, school, becoming a teenager… I remembered what it was like for me, growing up on a council estate in the 80s when 'gayness' wasn't as accepted. I thought we would be shunned.
Samantha was somewhere between three and five months gone and I thought, 'There's going to be a baby here by the end of the year.' Time was progressing and it was becoming more real. Money was an issue. We were living in a rented house. Something was just not right.
The stress started to affect the relationship. We even split up for a while.
A lot of my fear was about what was going to happen in terms of becoming a parent.
I know that's strange because I was a parent but I knew what was involved.
I told Marie that Ryan and I had split. I was up in Aberdeen for the weekend and I didn't build it up, I just came out with it. I said we were splitting up, that we hadn't been getting on for some time and that Ryan was having a baby. I had to go into the details of the surrogacy arrangement and some of the story of what had been going on over the last few years. It was strange, I had gone from not really getting involved, then to getting involved and excited about it, to not wanting to be part of it at all.
I think Marie was quite taken aback and surprised by it all, because two guys with a baby is a fairly rare thing. It's not something she would have known about where she lived, even if she'd seen that documentary ( http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-weird-wonderful-family/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1. ) about the two guys down south who'd had children by surrogacy. It was a lot to take in.
Her reaction to the split was mixed. Ryan and I had been together five years and they got on well but Marie was older now. Being a teenager, it was difficult for her to express her emotions and for me to understand them.
Ryan and I spent May to September apart but we were still in close contact, in touch nearly every other day. We had the odd weekend away too, to celebrate a birthday. We gradually came back together again. I think that once we'd split, the pressure was off and we could talk about things again.
We moved back in together at the end of August, and then moved into a one-bedroom flat before going away on holiday for two weeks. Then it was me, Ryan and the dog in this small flat. It sounds a nightmare but we saved a fortune and one of the stresses, money, had been taken away.
After we got back together, it was only two months before Erin – the baby – was due. We didn't really have much time so it was all about getting the flat ready, getting stuff into storage and getting the place decorated, buying prams and all the other things you need. It was a fairly brisk two months but it was enjoyable, plenty going on to keep us occupied.
There was still a bit of nervous apprehension there – like how are we going to manage in a one-bedroom flat – but all the fears about how people were going to react had gone. It had all come out when we had split up.
When we split there was surprise, and when I mentioned the baby, there was more surprise – but nobody had had a bad reaction to it, which was a relief for me and made the whole process of telling people a lot easier.
One of the pressures I'd felt was knowing how Marie would react: would she reject the baby? How would my wife react? When Marie realised Ryan and I were back together and this was going to happen, she was like, "Right, fantastic, I'm going to have a sister." That pressure had gone. It was all out there. There wasn't the worry of being shunned.
The people at work were quite excited for us and with all the equalities nowadays, when I talked about paternity and parental leave, it was fine. In a normal couple, if there's a baby coming along, mum gets maternity leave and dad gets paternity and parental leave.
Despite equality laws, there was the fear that they would say I wasn't the father because my name wasn't on the birth certificate – but colleagues and senior management have been very supportive. I had normal paid paternity leave plus time off for antenatal appointments, scans, visits to hospital.
I didn't have to push very hard but the way I pitched it was that in normal circumstances, the father would get to go to antenatal and parental support but I didn't need all that, I just needed certain half days off to go to these particular things.
There weren't policies at work for what I was going through but there were policies for adoption, fostering etc. If your employer is not very supportive, it's worth mentioning that.
After that the worries were just about how we were going to cope with bringing up a baby, of taking her to nursery and saying, "Hello, I'm Erin's dad and he's Erin's dad." Obviously she's in nursery because we both work and we both hate that. If Erin's ill and has to be taken out of nursery, there's no problem if Ryan can't take time off and I have to.
Yes, there's the worry of what happens when she goes to school and what the people in the playground might say – but once we finally had Erin in her cot in the hospital, the biggest part of the apprehension was over.
There was a bond in the hospital. Ryan was there and he knew what to do as well as any new father does but I was able to step in if it all got a bit chaotic.
Marie was two-and-a-half or three when I left, so I have some knowledge of what it was like, before I left and only had her at weekends.
In the early days, Erin would just eat, sleep and poop as they do but as she's got older, if there's a night when she's not sleeping and Ryan's, "What shall we do?" – well, there's things they don't teach you that you just pick up. Like, when you're winding her and it's not working, you try a different position or leave it a while and try again. Or if she's crying and there's no reason and Ryan's like, "Why is she crying?" I say, "She's just crying."
Now we're like a normal family. The only difference is the difference that other people might make out of it – "Oh, you've got two dads" – but that hasn't happened yet. The fact that it's two dads doing the cooking, changing the nappies, it doesn't really matter.
Not long after Erin was born, a neighbour brought a present over for us and said something like, "Where did you get her from?" or "Who's she?"
I thought, 'You're just being a busybody and said, "Oh, she's ours" and kept walking.
That had been one of my fears, having to say about the surrogacy, "Well, we've not stolen her."
When Marie was Erin's age, it was new, it was my first child – and in the back of my head I had all the gay issues going on. It's different this time. It's just like having a baby but without that unexplained side of things. Maybe I'm an 'experienced' Gay Dad now compared to 18 years ago.
The other difference is that Marie is quite involved with Erin. She looks after her, sees her very much as a sister. You wouldn't know she wasn't a sister. From day one it was "my sister."
One of the whole psychological things for me is that if I'd known about being gay before I met Anne, I would never have got married and never have had Marie – but then I'd never be sat where I am today. It's been a hell of a roller coaster getting here but it's alright now. Marie comes down a lot which we all enjoy. I think it's a bit strange for Marie having her family life at home and her family life with us.
As the years have gone on, things have been more settled and relaxed. There's more support for gay men. It's more accepted and with famous people like Elton John and David Furnish doing the same as us, it's not as bizarre. I'm just glad we did it before they did.
My brother hasn't met Erin yet because of where he lives but he's seen pictures and my sister and my nephews and nieces are completely accepting of her, making a fuss of her and all the rest of it.
Anne dotes on Erin almost as much as Marie does. When we go up, we stay with her. Anne is very much a part of the family. Technically, we're still married.
We're not a disjointed family. We see each other a lot. We may not be the norm but what is the norm nowadays?


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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Of course with Diva being called out I whipped my head around. There were two women trying to get my attention at the motorcycle rally. One was sitting. She had the biggest, most genuine smile I'd ever seen. The other was standing. She was wearing big Jackie O. sunglasses and had an attitude to match.
They were dressed in biker gear. While they were both very feminine, they also looked like you wouldn't want to get on their bad sides.
The one standing said, "Come on over here Miss Diva!"
I walked over.
"Girlfriend, I LOVE that corset! You look HOT. I'm a clothing designer and that looks like something I'd design."
(I looked at her website when I got back to the room and was floored. Ms Biker Babe is a major designer, the woman designs couture! She's designed for some major people as well as a bike club, strange but interesting combo I think.)
These women and I continued our conversation.
Then the one standing sealed the deal for my attraction to these two.
She looked at the sitting woman and said "Girl, did you see the bike this Diva rode up on? It's white and pink! It's bad ass! Are you a Gemini?"
"No, Taurus."
"Close enough!"
Oh yeah, I'm loving these people.
We continued laughing and talking. They both rode their own bikes. These girls kicked butt. I could have stood there all day talking with them but the parts guy pulled me away. I was having this bad ass air cleaner installed on my bike. On our way over to ok the work my friend grabbed my arm.
"Teri, you can wipe the drool off your face now. And how in the hell did they know to call you Diva?"
"You've got to be kidding me? I EXUDE Diva!"
He shook his head and walked away. Meanwhile I was feeling pretty damn good about myself, at least for that moment in time.


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Nature was here something savage and awful, though beautiful. I looked with awe at the ground I trod on, to see what the Powers had made there, the form and fashion and material of their work. This was the Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night. Here was no man's garden, but the unhandselled* globe. It was not lawn , nor pasture, nor mead, nor woodland, nor lea, nor arable, nor waste land. It was the fresh and natural surface of the planet Earth, as it was made forever and ever, - to be the dwelling of man, we say, - so Nature made it, and man may use it if he can. Man was not to be associated with it. It was Matter, vast, terrific, - not his Mother Earth that we have heard of, not for him to tread on, or to be buried in, - no, it were being too familiar even to let his bones lie there, - the home, this, of Necessity and Fate. There was clearly felt the presence of a force not bound to be kind to man. It was a place of heathenism and superstitious rites,- to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we… What is it to be admitted to a museum, to see a myriad of particular things, compared with being shown some star's surface, some hard matter in its home! I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one, - that my body might, - but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
Ktaadn - Henry David Thoreau *handsel - v. To inaugurate the use of; to use for the first time; to be the first to test, try, prove, taste.
*handsel - v. To inaugurate the use of; to use for the first time; to be the first to test, try, prove, taste.


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- I'm Riding My Motorcycle to Argentina
- Official Press Release – Traveling Off the Grid, on YouTube
- Preparing the KLR before my Latin America trip
- What to take on a year long motorcycle trip
- My First Day on the Road
- YouTube Video Map
- Blogging Lacking But Video Logging Booming!
- After 40 Days on the Road
- Mexico City's Killing Me
- Departure
- The Journey Begins
- Chicago via Denver and St. Louis
- Leaving Chicago Behind
- My First Couch Surfing Experience
- Video of Mexican Police Shaking Me Down
- Interview With Overland Expo
- Entering Into Mexico – Extortion and Inviting Hosts
- News Coverage Over Extortion Video
- Leaving Mexico and Entering Guatemala
- Twisty Roads, City Labyrinth and a Dog Bite
- Unmaintained Motorcycles, Serendipitous Lodging and My Love Affair with Andre
- Lingering Paranoia and Meeting Another Solo Traveler
- Bug Zapper Skills
- Riding Beemers, Replacing Helmet, and Cricket Tacos
- How to be Alone
- Mexican Bus Ride, Riot Police and Church Irony
- Survivor's Guilt, a Shift in Perspective and the Overrated Mind
- Catching Up: Real De Catorce, Mexico
- Truck Blocking the Road, Guatemala
- The Schizophrenic Bolivian Vagabond [Day 178]
- Couch Surfing in San Jose, Costa Rica [Day 108]
- The Water Filled Vodka Bottle – San Jose, Costa Rica [Day 110]
- Creatures Stirring on Christmas Eve, Playa las Lajas, Panama [Day 125]
- Video Trio: Honduras Traffic, Mayan Temple Climbing, & Nalgene Hack
It's been hard to write, and easier to shoot video. I have been incredibly active on YouTube, so I wanted to give everyone a heads up that you can see updates on my trip on an almost daily basis on my YouTube channel. You can reach my channel at the following address:
Otherwise you can watch the series of videos I am uploading below or see the latest video in the sidebar to the right.
Things are going great BTW. I am a couple days away from the Mexican border and I'm really excited to cross over.


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This purchase includes an MP3, WAV, and PDF (lyrics) for Moor iLL's single "R.I.P.". "R.I.P." is a track on ArtByTrade's playlist where visitors can stream and download exclusive music.
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An issue that marketers and media specialists at car brands face every day, is the question if they can improve the return on investment (ROI) of their campaigns by allocating budget differently? With the vast changes in the media landscape this question is now more than ever relevant.
The average time spent using digital media per day will surpass TV viewing time for the first time this year, according to an estimate of media consumption among US adults by eMarketer. The average adult will spend over 5 hours per day online, including mobile non voice. The figure for watching television is 4 hours and 31 minutes. Daily TV time will be down slightly this year, while digital media consumption will be up 15,8%. In Europe TV viewing time differs somewhat per country. …Continue reading


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What is a stair lift and why use it?
Perhaps some readers have only seen these devices on TV shows of different varieties, whether they be serious dramas or favorite sitcoms. And these developments have so far only been seen fleetingly in upmarket homes. But in all seriousness these stair lifts serve a very real purpose. After a stair lift installation has been completed, people who for different physical and mental reasons can no longer walk or at least struggle to walk, will be able to utilize these chairs.
Physically challenged men and women, whether through advanced age, illness, physical trauma who still have limited use of their limbs will, no doubt, struggle to walk. You have seen the best of them, those old-aged folks without a care in the world, negotiate the shopping malls with their Rimmer frames. They are not shy to use them. It gets them around. Whether people have limited use of their limbs or can no longer use them (in which case many of them will be in wheelchairs) they will struggle.
So, how are they to get upstairs to their bedrooms at night or down for breakfast in the morning? They can use the stair lift. It is quite literally what it says it is. It is a mechanized chair that carries its passenger along a rail on the side of the staircase, or within its protective railing, from the bottom of the stairs to the top. The short journey is safe and comfortable. Users strap themselves in and the seats are ergonomically designed for correct posture.
Folks who can afford the service can have customized stair lifts built for them. But in terms of quality, comfort, convenience and intended use, the standard stair lift will not be far off.


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BiographyHana Krásná is a PostDoc scientist, working at the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Research Group Advanced Geodesy. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on determination of geodynamic parameters from Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), such as frequency- and latitude- dependent complex Love and Shida numbers. Hana Krásná is member of the VLBI group at the Department and develops the Vienna VLBI Software VieVS. She concentrates on deformation of the Earth - in particular solid Earth tidal displacement, determination of terrestrial and celestial reference frames and estimation of various global parameters from multiple VLBI sessions. She was the principal scientist in the FWF Project P23143 Integrated VLBI. Since 2014 is she the head of the Hertha Firnberg FWF Project Earth-based VLBI in the Galactic Frame (T 697-N29).
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Electronic giving fits comfortably into your congregation's daily lives. See the many opportunities members have to use eGiving options in their active church lives.
Your ministry isn't limited to what happens at your church on Sunday mornings. There's something going on in your church community every day of the week, and members of your congregation are often moved to contribute outside of their weekly pledges at services.
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Oh, Selena Gomez. Always pulling out the hijinks on tour.
Last time we reported on the emotional-yet-glitzy Revival Tour, Gomez was crumpling up a sign that said "Marry Justin Please." But during a stop in Washington D.C. over the weekend, Sel was a little less angsty. Only a little.
Gomez noticed that a fan in the front-row was FaceTiming with a friend, so she waved hello. Then, something overtook her and she borrowed the phone to take the far-away friend on a tour of the stage.
"Did you guys not buy a ticket, or..." Selena joked. "It's fine."
Watch a vintage interview we pulled from the Fuse archives of Selena, just for you:


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I can't login for some reason.?
I have updated the email records slightly, can you try logging into the direct URL for me at http://emailmg.homestead.com/roundcube/
Still not working
What email are you specifically using to try to login with?
firstname.lastname@example.com. I haven't tried any others as of yet.
I am able to log in to the mail box. Are you receiving an error? Have you tried any of the others yet? Perhaps the change Todd made took a little while to propagate.
Still can't login. Im getting my mail via pop mail or whatever I just can't login to the round cube thing. Let me ask this, does round cube have anti spam tools otherwise I don't care if I can login. I'm getting a lot of spam at one of my email addresses.
Yes. Roundcube has filters that can automatically remove messages that meet criteria that you set.
Are you able to still log in to Open Xchange? https://emailmg.homestead.com/ox6/ox.html
Are you able to still log in to Open Xchange? https://emailmg.homestead.com/ox6/ox.html
I was able to finally log in. Thanks for the assistance. If you have any tips for spam filters I would appreciate that.
Don't try to filter based on the from address as they spoof that and change it often. If the messages look like they have a common phrase or something that you would not believe would be in a legitimate email, you can filter based on that.
I want to block all incoming emails from the .us domain. What is the best way to do that? I set it so that from shows .us then to reject it with the reply not accepting from .us just in case and then send it to junk not sure if there is a better way.
You should be able to say From: contains (domain name), then Move to, Trash or other folder if you prefer.
Yes I did exactly that still some getting through from .us
Did you leave them in the inbox? We can log in and take a look to see why that might happen. Please give use the subject of the email as well. If you already manually deleted them, please leave the next one or two in there and let us know.
ok thanks
6 new pieces of spam just this morning all from .us still coming through in my inbox
I viewed the source from the most recent emails with the .us emails, and they are being marked as spam now. The problem is that emails deliver at a rapid rate, and often times spam can be delivered to an inbox before our spam filter recognizes and catches them from delivering. What I did notice however, is some of these spam emails have an option to Unsubscribe at the bottom. I do recommend you look for these options to "Unsubscribe" as this usually can help reduce the amount of spam mail being delivered to the box.
My understanding clicking to unsubscribe is something you should not do.
Probably time for a new email addresss
I don't think round cube spam filters work very well. I blocked a specific sender (from) using the spam filter and got another one from the same sender today.
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Please reference the new conversation here: Email filters are not working
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Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Papers
APRA AMCOS recently submitted an in-depth response to the Federal Government's Online Copyright Infringement Discussion Paper.
As an organisation that represents the interests of music creators, we welcome the Government's proposals. They are designed to reduce online piracy in Australia to ensure rights holders are fairly rewarded for their work.
The creative industry sector is committed to working with the Government and other stakeholders to develop a legal framework which ensures there are effective and flexible processes in place to protect copyright online.
We encourage our members and the wider public to read our submission and that of Music Rights Australia, which endorse the Government's proposals but suggest some legal fine tuning which we believe will make the proposals even more effective in achieving the Government's stated aims.APRA AMCOS Submission
You can also view all the submissions via the Australian Government website.VIEW ALL SUBMISSIONS


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The 2010 Spending Review: Implications for the state and its reach
The Coalition Government has said that the 2010 Spending Review 'will be a complete re-evaluation of the Government's role in providing public services'. 'It is time to rethink how government spends our money,' the Chancellor has said. On 30 July 2010, a British Academy Forum sought to address the 'big questions'. Professor Andrew Gamble FBA summarises the discussion.
The whole article can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Published in British Academy Review, No. 16 (October 2010).


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We've all heard someone saying it "I'm only doing the 10k" when there's a longer race involved. Or "it's just a 5k," as if that distance isn't worth racing. Only and Just - we toss those words around, not realized the impact they have on the athletes around us. Only and Just are as much four letter words as something I won't print here. But why? Why are those words inappropriate to use when discussing races or workouts? There's a few reasons.
They minimize the athlete and the distance - regardless if you are talking about yourself or something else. "I'm only doing the 10k" can easily be translated into "I'm not a bad-ass like you are," when someone is talking a runner doing a longer race. Any distance is a meaningful distance, regardless of what else is going on. Someone else might be doing the 50k race that same day, but that's their race - not yours. Are they looking down on you for doing the shorter distance? No. At least they shouldn't be! The race you are doing is your primary race on that day. And there's nothing only about the shorter races. A 5k run hard can be just as challenging as comfortably paced half marathon. That same half marathon all out can require as much recovery as a 50k. It all depends on the race and the athlete. Don't minimize the race you have chosen to do by comparing to other runners. Even if it's not the race you originally planned on doing, instead of saying "only doing xyz event" be proud of what you are doing. You trained hard for your race. Don't take anything away from that, regardless of everything else around the event.
Just another four letter word when it comes to racing. "It's just a training race," or "I'm just doing the half marathon" are the most frequent phrases we hear. Both phrases diminish the race itself or the athletes doing the races. They also minimize the training required for the different events. Yes, we as runners frequently jump into other races instead of doing our long runs or speed workouts. But that doesn't mean we should brag about that. Telling someone else that its just a training is like a slap in the face for all the work they have done for that event. It's their A race, their big goal race for the year and you are just training through. Imagine how that feels. So if something is truly a training race, or a supported long run - be respectful of the other runners. You don't have to toss that Just around as easily as you crank out the miles. The Just when it comes to distances works the same. You are telling everyone around you that the race they are doing isn't a big deal to you because it's Just a short little race. How would that make you feel? You've trained super hard for a big race and someone else comes around and knocks you down without realizing it.
So what am I saying? Run your race and be proud of the distance you are racing. Don't feel like you are anything less if you aren't doing the longest distance the events offers. It's your race and meaningful for you so enjoy every minute and every mile. On the flip side, if you are doing the longer race realize that the shorter distances are equally important. The runners in those races are working hard for their finish tines. Let them celebrate their finishes without degrading the accomplishments. It doesn't matter if a race really is "only" a short event for you or "just" a fun event. Be respectful of the other athletes around you. You don't know what that person you are talking to had to overcome to stand on the starting line. Don't knock them down before the race even starts. At the same time, if you are doing the shorter distance when you normally do a longer race, don't diminish the race because it's shorter. Go out and crush the 5k and develop a new respect for the shorter distances within events!
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Police: driver passed out in DWI
After police on Thursday responded to a report of a woman passed out behind the wheel of a car, they charged a Johnson City woman with drunken driving.
Johnson City police said they were told the woman had come to and was trying to drive away. Police said they found Luann Korutz, 51, of Johnson City, driving the vehicle, and said she was drunk.
Police charged Korutz with aggravated driving while intoxicated with .18 or higher blood alcohol content, driving with intoxicated with .08 percent or higher blood alcohol content, and driving while intoxicated.
Korutz is scheduled to appear Aug. 27 in Johnson City Village Court.
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