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Can you believe it's almost spring? Here in Portland, the rain clouds have been taking more frequent breaks to let the sun shine and people are preparing their gardens for the new year. One rainy afternoon I felt the urge to get out my watercolors and play. I had fun experimenting with a favorite subject (one that fits our DIY Craft Challenge theme this month), FEATHERS and decided to share a few of my favorite ways to paint one.
This is a great project for those who are just learning how to use watercolors. Be sure to check out my other posts on Watercolor Basic Supplies & Techniques and 8 Watercolor Techniques For Beginners.
Materials Needed:
• Watercolor paper
• Watercolor paints
• Small + medium size brushes
• Black fine tip pen (I use 0.3 Copic Multi Liner)
• Pencil
• White gouache
• Sea salt
• Feathers (for inspiration)
Prep Your Paper & Sketch
Start by cutting your watercolor paper to three pieces of equal size (I cut mine to be 4″ x 6″). OR you can simply paint all three feathers onto the same page. Then lightly sketch a feather shape with pencil. To do this, first draw an elongated oval shape. Then sketch a straight line down the middle (this will be the stem).
METHOD #1: Color Wash + Black Pen
Start by creating a color wash within the feather shape. To do this, first paint your feather shape with a thin layer of clear water only.
Then prep a few colors by wetting the pigment with water. While the feather shape is still wet, use your brush to drop color randomly onto the wetted surface (I like to use two or three colors for this). Allow the paint to flow together. You can even lift your paper slightly to help it run together.
OPTIONAL: Wait a minute or two, and while the paint is still wet, sprinkle some sea salt over the top. Let dry completely, then brush off any remaining salt from the paper.
Once dry you can decide whether or not you want to do a second color wash layer. I chose to add some more red/orange paint to the bottom of my feather to achieve a darker, more vibrant hue. Don't forget to paint a stem!
Next get out a fine tipped black felt pen. I use a 0.3 Copic Multi Liner. First draw two lines down the center. You want the lines to come to a point near the top of the feather to create the stem. Next you can begin drawing lines from the stem starting and at the top of the feather and working your way down.
Experiment with leaving space between the lines at different intervals. You could also try different mark making techniques like dots, dashed lines, or even illustrated patterns.
TIP: If drawing with pen directly onto your watercolor feather is too nerve-wrecking, you can lightly sketch your lines with pencil first and then go over with pen.
METHOD #2: Color Wash + Watercolor Details
Start by sketching your feather shape. I chose to sketch my stem in an arc/curve shape this time. Then create a light color wash by first painting the feather shape with a thin layer of clear water and then dropping paint at random onto the wetted surface.
TIP: To paint a lighter shade color wash, all you have to do as add more water to your paint to dilute the pigment.
OPTIONAL: Because I like texture, I chose to sprinkle some sea salt over the color wash (just like in Method #1). Let dry completely, then brush off any remaining salt.
Next create a second layer with feathery details. First choose a darker color (I chose a dark green) to paint the stem.
Using a small brush, begin to paint whispy lines starting at the stem going out to the edge of your color wash. Experiment by using a few different colors of the same hue.
Once you complete your second whispy layer, you can continue to add more color or detail (while the paint is still wet) until you achieve a look you like. Once finished, let dry completely.
METHOD #3: Color Wash + Gouache Details
Sketch your feather. This time I chose to create a slightly more detailed sketch. Start with the basic feather shape and then using your actual feather as inspiration, lightly draw 'more wild' feather shape.
Fill the feather shape with a color wash the same way we did in the last two methods. Paint the shape with clear water and then use your brush to drop in color at random.
Then while the paint is till wet, choose a darker color and add in some stripes. Do this by dropping in the dark color in intervals, leaving gaps in between each 'stripe'. You can keep adding color until you get a look you like. Then let dry completely.
Then add some white gouache to your palette and using a fine tip brush, paint a line down the center of the feather and add in some white dots. Let dry and you're done!


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The new first-time donor's super credit gives you an extra 25% non-refundable federal tax credit when you claim your charitable donation tax credit. This means that you can get a 40% credit for up to $200 in cash donations and a 54% credit for the part of the cash donations that is over $200 but not more than $1,000. This is in addition to the provincial credit.
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Thanks for dropping by! I'm Justin and Lifefroots is my portfolio.
"Why 'lifefroots'?" Well... justinwagner.com was taken. From there I thought it was a play on either the 'fruits of my life' or 'my life roots'. I thought this might linger in someone's mind longer than any other thought I had at the time. It was fine for the time being and it just stuck over the years. Getting that out of the way, my passion for design is most likely the reason you are here. If so, that's great, because it's a large part of who I am.
It all started with video...I had spent my childhood filming and editing BMX videos of my friends and I. That led me to my double major in video and photographic studies. From there, I fell into working on the web. I am a collector and a completest at heart, so I decided that I needed to learn how to code. I learned HTML,CSS,JS,PHP and worked as a lead front-end dev for a few years. Again as a completist, I moved from web to interface which then led me to focus on the importance of overall user experience. After checking all of those boxes, I returned to design and its role in the overall customer's experience. I am currently working as the Senior Art Director at Toll Brothers leading all interactive, digital, and video content.
Aside from brand and clean code, I love bicycles, my cats, technology (part-fanboy part audiophile), history, and anything vintage.
Thank you for your time, and I hope you found at least something interesting here. Now let's create something special together.
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Fullerton Interim Police Chief Kevin Hamilton says police officers frequently review video and audio tapes to ensure the accuracy of what happened in their reports.
"The inference seems to be that there was something sinister in that we were trying to help the officers falsify their reports in some way, or make the reports inaccurate, and I'm here to tell you that is absolutely not true," said Hamilton.
The Fullerton City Council held a special meeting Friday, followed by a closed session to discuss hiring an independent consultant to review the controversial arrest and death of Thomas. The council will vote on that officially next Tuesday.
During the public meeting, one resident brought up the acknowledgment by Hamilton that the officers involved in last month's altercation were allowed to view surveillance video of the incident before writing their reports.
LAPD's former inspector general, Jeffrey Eglash, told the Los Angeles Times that allowing police to look at video before giving evidence is a "bad practice."
After bringing the issue up to city council, that resident, Chris Thompson, called for three city council members to resign: Fullerton Mayor Richard Jones and councilmembers James "Don" Bankhead, the city's mayor pro-tem, and Pat McKinley, a former chief of the Fullerton Police Dept.
On July 5, six Fullerton officers responded to a report of a man breaking into cars at the Fullerton Bus Depot. They struggled with Kelly Thomas after trying to search his backpack. Thomas was homeless and schizophrenic. The 37-year-old was hospitalized with severe head and neck injuries and was taken off life support days later and died.
The Orange County District Attorney's Office is investigating to decide if the six officers, who are now on leave, used excessive force when they tried to arrest Thomas on suspicion of auto burglary. The FBI is also investigating the case.
Following much protest and outcry from the community, Fullerton Police Chief Michael Sellers took indefinite medical leave, saying he was under doctor's orders. Hamilton, who has been with the department since 1979, was appointed as police chief in Seller's absence.
Also on the agenda for Friday's city council meeting was the implementation of an outside review in the Thomas case.
Hamilton supports hiring consultant Michael Gennaco, who is also the chief attorney for the L.A. County Office of Independent Review. The OIR was created to monitor the L.A. County Sheriff's Department.
If hired, Gennaco would review policies and procedures of the Fullerton Police Department and oversee the internal affairs investigation of Thomas's death.
There has been immense pressure on the police department as well as city council members, including pressure to release city-run surveillance video of the incident to the public.
Thomas's father, Ron Thomas, is a former Orange County Sheriff's deputy. Ron Thomas spoke with Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas about the surveillance video during a meeting Friday. Ron Thomas has not seen the surveillance video, but he feels that the footage may not show police misconduct and he may not be happy with the outcome of the DA's investigation.
"My feeling is he's relying way too much on the video alone and not the witness statements and not the cellphone videos that are out there," said Ron Thomas. "I think too much attention is placed just on it."
Footage from a bystander's cellphone camera shows some of the bloody encounter. In the video, which was posted on YouTube, Thomas can be heard screaming for his father as he was being Tasered.
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英國,63 mm,約 1905
罕見,驚奇的鐘錶鑰匙,觀賞小孔"The Great Celestial Globe of the 1900 Paris World's Fair"
English, 63 mm, circa 1905
A rare and spectacular watch key with peephole "The Great Celestial Globe of the 1900 Paris World's Fair"
Case: silver, fluted, set with a green, red and blue glass ball. A mini-scene appearing in the peephole represents the "Great Celestial Globe", shown at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900.
The Great Celestial Globe at the World Exhibition in Paris was a huge blue globe with a diameter of 50 meters; the complete structure rose 60 meters in the air. The globe rested on four pillars displaying studies of space science. The inside of the globe had attractions showing the birth of the sun and the planets and their orbits.
Illustrated and described in: "The Keys of Time" by Yves Droz, France 2012, p. 314-315.
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Daily Prompt: Clean House
Is there "junk" in your life? What kind? How do you get rid of it?
Wow…what a co-incidence !
I was just cleaning up my room today and some of the things which my sister-in-law refers to as "junk" (but i refuse to believe so….! )
So the daily prompt asked about some of the Junk in my life and after cleaning up today, here is only a glimpse of junk that I've managed to keep in my room since my childhood! (And yes this is the junk that is present in my room after years of collecting them)
I've been meaning to clean up my room since three months, but every single time I put it on the next day saying I'll do it tomorrow but that NEXT day and that Tomorrow never came……until today…….!
After 3 months of putting it off i started to feel ashamed of myself. How lazy can a person be?
I must've broken some records of laziness !
Let me introduce you to some of the things that, I for some reason deemed USABLE and kept all those years or for days or months.
So this is a makeup kit which my friend broke about 4 months ago. For some unknown reason,4 months have passed but it was still sitting on my shelf.
Then there is this banana peel that was sitting on my computer table.(It has been here for five days, see the thing about me being lazy now?)
I have this CD player which doesn't work anymore (actually it hasn't been working since 2 years but i refuse to believe so, some day I'm hoping it'll MIRACULOUSLY start working by itself )
My socks have taken refuge on my shelf as well (since 4 months as well).
These magazines are of about 5 years ago but I have kept them all this time because…………………………………………………… (There is no good reason for it actually)
Same goes for these lights, There beauty has prevented me from throwing them out as they are too pretty (although these doesn't light up) !
I LOVE TO READ, I've had all these books which needed to be thrown out so this is me sorting them out in piles.
So……the thing is……I'm still cleaning up….room is in the same state as it was 4 hours ago….
Your prayers and support is needed ! (So lets join our hands on this festive occasion and pray, Thank you! )


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This chapter provides an overview of contemporary sentencing policy and practice.
Indeterminate Sentencing: Synthesising public protection, rehabilitation and human rights obligations
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England and Wales, like many comparable jurisdictions, has relied increasingly upon measures designed to protect the public from offenders perceived to pose a danger. Incapacitative sentencing is inherently problematic as ...


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I love these, I have three and they do everything from Belays to anchors and do it well. Never had the screw lock up. Price is great to.
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Cheap and stronger than any test you are going to put them through.
Review by: ontario_guide, 2004-09-07
At first I thought "hmm... a locking oval. Why?" I still think that but they work out ok. It's fairly cheap for a locking 'biner but because it's an oval there isn't a whole lot of room in this 'biner.
Review by: yay_chris, 2004-07-17
Locking biners should not cost a lot of money. I bought the Omega Pacific Locking Oval mostly because of its price, and, in the end, it was one of my better climbing investments. I have other, more expensive locking biners, but I always come back to these OP biners for anchors and belaying.
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A very cheap locking carabiner. Great for setting up anchors as it is oval and locking. The actions are all smooth on the gate and the screw lock. For setting up great anchors these are awfully handy.


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A rusted portcullis rises, concealed machinery rattling as sand falls from the bulwark's blunt durasteel teeth. Beyond, a pair of pinprick eyes gleam in the deeper darkness. Gnarled talons unfurl, and the snorting breath of massive lungs cuts through the laughter in Jabba's court above. The rancor, portrayed by a foot-tall rod-operated puppet designed by Phil Tippett and the artists of the Lucasfilm creature shop, appears for all of perhaps a minute and a half, but its impact on both the field of special effects and the minds of the millions of children who saw Return of the Jedi in the spring of '83—and the tens of millions more who've seen it in the decades since—has been tremendous.
But just what is it about the creatures of Star Wars that has so captured the world's collective imagination? To find out, we'll have to look back not just through the series' long lineage of oddities and terrors, but at the art that inspired it and the art which it has inspired in turn. From the gabbling tauntauns of Hoth to the freewheeling bestial carnage of the fighting pits of Geonosis, Star Wars has looked at creature creation from nearly every angle imaginable. Its progress through the art form has left the rest of us an atlas to pore over, and a way to both sharpen our visual sensibilities and understand the workings of our own psyches.
What a monster looks like is, in a visual medium, obviously crucial. The sounds it makes, both bodily and in motion, are just as important. But what about the rest? What about the coarse rasp of its scales and the thick, gluey consistency of its drool? What about the stink of rot on its hot, gurgling breath and the greasy roughness of its matted, bloodstained coat? You might not be able to feel or smell the monster, but in the flickering darkness of the theater, if the design is good enough, your brain will fill in the blanks on its own.
The monsters of Star Wars are textured. They drip and ooze and snuffle. There's a sense of raw, natural physicality to them, especially to the pre-CGI creatures. It can be frightening, as in the case of the wampa's dead black eyes and dripping jaws, but it's also played for comedy. The burping sarlaac in Return of the Jedi, the farting eopie in The Phantom Menace; Star Wars pays attention to the reality of its creatures beyond their utility to the story.
For the filming of the prequels, the LucasFilm creature shop's extensive pre-production design process for creatures and aliens involved selecting real-world textures to map onto the final CG models. Everything from the rinds of dried fruits and vegetables—studied to create the shell texture for the crablike acklay—to the earwig exoskeletons used to model the colo claw fish's flattened and elongated body found its way into the team's work.
In Return of the Jedi the rancor drools a viscous glycerin substance made in-house by the creature workshop and its pulsating hide was slicked with water between takes, giving it a greasy, sweaty appearance. It's the kind of thing that can make the difference between a neat effect and a really convincing creation.
An element of mess, of grimy reality, is absolutely essential to rendering the pulpy swashbuckling at Star Wars's heart immersive and believable. It's the same idea that led from the gleaming chrome rocket ships of the 1950s to visual flourishes like the carbon buildup on the X-wing fighters; the universe is lived in, a place where Jabba the Hutt eating squealing amphibians out of a fancy aquarium is as integral to the tone as lightsabers or the Force.
Think of the titular creature from Ridley Scott's Alien, that rubber and fiberglass monstrosity which stalks the crew of the interstellar freighter Nostromo and picks them off one by one. Its shape is familiar, but the details of that shape are chosen with great precision to frighten and unnerve. The creature combines features of the reptile (shedding skin, sinuous tail) with features of the insect (exoskeleton, egg-laying through implantation) in a recognizable frame, an approach with a history reaching all the way back to master animator Ray Harryhausen's eerily beautiful harpies in Don Chaffey's 1963 Jason and the Argonauts and the lizard-horse-crab-inspired gocko from Stephani and Taylor's 1936 Flash Gordon serial.
The elements of a memorable creature should suggest a certain emotion or combination of emotions. To continue with the example of Scott's alien, famously designed by Swiss painter H. R. Giger, its insectile qualities immediately invoke a fear of penetration. Insects tap into our primal aversion to things we know could transgress the boundaries of our skin, creeping in through mouths and ears and nostrils. At the same time, its reptilian traits touch on our fear of venomous snakes and being ambushed, while its humanoid frame heightens and complicates the threat it presents.
This positioning of monsters at the interstices of various familiar categories makes us work more intently to define and understand them. Without its hyena-like cackle, mane of quills, and arachnid brace of eyes, the nexu from Attack of the Clones is really just a tiger. With those touches, though, it becomes something uncanny and anxiety-producing. It's a sort of intentional short-circuiting of our ability to recognize and respond to common images.
Drawing viewers in with familiar visuals is also key to cementing belief in a creature, especially in a pulpy adventure series like Star Wars. Each design should pull us deeper into both the setting and the immediate action, texturing the fictional world with a sense of wonder and exploration. A confrontation with the truly spectacular and bizarre should happen only after that sense of immersion is established, providing a bedrock on which a genuine sense of wonder can be slowly and organically built up.
When the blast door of Jabba's beast pit—its control panel sabotaged by a desperate Luke Skywalker—drops onto the rancor's back and crushes it to death, it's both the climax of a tense and tightly-edited action sequence and a surprisingly poignant shift in mood. The hulking menace that had our hearts in our throats just moments ago is revealed as an uncomprehending animal. Watching it die in pain as its keeper looks on sobbing is hardly a rush; instead it plays into the film's themes of pacifism by treating the monstrous creature like a living, breathing, feeling thing.
A thread of empathy connects many of the more ferocious and unpleasant creatures found in Lucas's generation-spanning saga. The beasts paraded in front of cheering crowds in Attack of the Clones are hapless animals imported to kill and die for the entertainment of spoiled technocrats. If the series runs elsewhere on the swashbuckling coolness of its violence, here it understands the importance of slowing down to make room for a richer emotional palette.
The cave troll sequence in Peter Jackson's 2001 blockbuster The Fellowship of the Ring follows closely in this mold. The chain around the troll's neck tells us it's been dragged into the fray by its smarter orcish captors, and its death is treated more like a sad necessity than a triumph. It lumbers in a stupor through the ongoing skirmish around it, rubbing at its face with nerveless hands as its enormous body begins to fail. Details like this help audiences invest more fully in conflict by demonstrating its cost.
Giving audiences a chance to form emotional connections to creatures meant to amaze, frighten, and entertain can be the difference between B-grade shlock and a moving, thrilling film. Imagine James Whale's 1931 classic, Frankenstein, without actor Boris Karloff's bottomlessly sad stare, or Steven Spielberg's The Lost World without the bond between the infant tyrannosaur and its terrifying parents. A good monster shows us something exciting or cool; a great monster shows us a part of ourselves.
From puppetry and stop-motion to the advent of modern CGI, the Star Wars movies have always been nexuses of boundary-pushing visual talent. When A New Hope hit theaters in 1977, it changed the entire game of creature design, throwing every trick at its disposal at the wall in hopes that something would stick. Cheap costumes cut up and repurposed, Harryhausen-esque stop motion, even real elephants draped in hairy barding to create the banthas ridden by the Tusken Raiders. It took its giant lizards as seriously as its story about the struggle between good and evil, and revolutionized popular filmmaking by doing so.
It's easy to fall into the by now rote prequel-bashing that dominates so much of the discussion of Star Wars and its place in film history, but Lucas's wild and woolly CGI-fests left an indelible stamp on film. Turn on any of the more science fiction-angled Marvel movies and you'll see bargain basement ripoffs of everything from the rancor to Phantom Menace's crab-and-angler fish opee sea-killer, while big-budget pulp flicks like Andrew Stanton's 2012 box office bomb John Carter consciously echo the dusty grandeur and chaotic pacing of Attack of the Clones's underappreciated arena sequence.
While post-Revenge of the Sith the saga's creature work falls well short of its early highs, and while the modern dominance of paint-by-numbers superhero fare has led to a general creative slump in the field, the pioneering work done by Lucasfilm remains a bright spot in the history of movie magic. It's a body of creature design that stretches our imaginations, challenges our emotions, and fills us with breathless wonder and spine-tingling fright.
If the art form has a future—and no one following the work of creature illustrators like Tiffany Turrill, Brynn Metheney, and Natalie Hall could credibly say it doesn't—then that future is grounded in Lucasfilm's vision. What Harryhausen was to the generation of animators who succeeded him, Tippett and his colleagues are to the monster-makers of today. It's a hell of a thing, passing on the art of spinning substance out of light and rubber, slime and pixels. Wherever it goes from here, I'm looking forward to the ride.


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Two-time winner Contador crashed on the 161.5-kilometre 10th stage from Mulhouse and, after struggling on for 20km in an effort to play catch-up, gave up and withdrew to his Tinkoff-Saxo team car.
Tour organisers confirmed Contador sustained a fractured tibia (shin bone) in a statement on letour.com.
It read: "Alberto Contador suffered a shin bone fracture after his crash 95km from the finish of stage 10 between Mulhouse and La Planche des Belles Filles."
The Spaniard's departure deprives the race of another previous winner after 2013 champion Chris Froome (Team Sky) withdrew with fractures to his left wrist and right hand on stage five last Wednesday.
Andy Schleck (Trek Factory Racing), who inherited the 2010 title from Contador following an anti-doping infringement, quit the race with a knee injury last Tuesday, although the Luxembourg rider is a shadow of his former self.
None of the remaining riders have won the event, but Nibali took a significant step in his bid to succeed Froome as champion in Paris on July 27.
The action was expected to ignite on the concluding climb ahead of Tuesday's rest day and Nibali, who relinquished the lead on stage nine to Frenchman Tony Gallopin (Lotto-Belisol), surged to a second Tour stage win to take control of the race.
Nibali holds a lead of 2:23 from second-placed Richie Porte (Team Sky), who was 25 seconds behind in seventh on the day.
Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) is third, 2:47 behind.
Nibali's advantage is so commanding that three-time champion Greg LeMond believes it is unlikely the Italian will be beaten.
"Personally I don't think there's much of a challenge any more," LeMond told British Eurosport.
"If he does have a bad day, I think it's the only time anyone has a chance. I think it's wishful thinking, but it could happen."
Nibali refuses to take his lead for granted, knowing he too could crash out and that Porte and Valverde are lurking.
"This is a wonderful victory," Nibali said on letour.com.
"This was the hardest stage I've ever done in a Grand Tour, with seven climbs and so many crashes.
"I feel sorry for Alberto Contador. He crashed just in front of me and I've been scared that I'd go down as well but I don't know why he crashed.
"I'll try to keep the yellow jersey but I won't be left without rivals. Richie Porte and Alejandro Valverde are up there.
"I'll have to handle my advantage."
The race heads towards the Alps on its resumption on Wednesday with the 187.5km 11th stage from Besancon to Oyonnax, but without Contador as the Tour lost another leading protagonist following Mark Cavendish's crash on day one and the exits of Froome and Schleck.
Contador, the 2007 and 2009 winner, crashed on the descent of the Petit Ballon as he approached the third of seven categorised climbs, the Col du Platzerwasel, on a damp day in the Vosges Mountains.
He received strapping to his right knee, swapped bikes and lost four minutes as a result of the delay, falling nine minutes behind the day's breakaway, which held a five-minute lead on the peloton.
Nibali's Astana team led the main bunch and waited, but it soon became apparent Contador would not be returning and the pursuit of the day's breakaway resumed in earnest.
Contador's withdrawal could see him refocus on the Vuelta a Espana, which begins in Jerez on August 23. It could be Froome and Sir Bradley Wiggins also ride the Tour of Spain.
Froome wrote on Twitter: "Big loss for the TDF today. Recover well @albertocontador & I hope to see you at the Vuelta."
The finish at La Planche des Belles Filles was a reminder to Britons of the absent Froome and Wiggins.
Froome won at the summit of the 'climb of the beautiful girls' in 2012 as Wiggins took the yellow jersey he held until Paris, when he became the first British winner of the race.
Nibali finished third two years ago, won the 2013 Giro d'Italia and took a major step towards Tour victory by attacking with 3km to go.
He surged past Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha), the last of the day's breakaway riders, as Porte tried to follow.
Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) was 15 seconds behind in second and Valverde third.
Porte told ITV4: "I think I was the only one that responded (to Nibali's attack).
"Vincenzo goes you have to respond. He's got enough time already so you don't really want him to get any more.
"It's a shame to lose Alberto like that. I think it's definitely going to change the dynamics of the race.
"I think it probably would've been a harder finale had Saxo been there."
On his overall chances, the Australian added: "We'll take it day by day. I think we're in a pretty good position going into the first rest day."


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Comixology is one of the most dominant forces in digital comic distribution on Android, iOS and a myriad of other platforms. The company released a new infographic today that outlines its core markets and it is quite clear that 51% of their users live outside the US.
ComiXology was founded in 2007 and launched the Comics app as an iPhone app in 2009. I spoke to Steinberger shortly after the launch, and he was pretty excited that comiXology could offer 100 comics, with 40 more in the queue, and that readers could buy them in-app rather than having each comic be a separate app, which had been the paradigm up till then. And from the very beginning, comiXology was promoting brick-and-mortar stores, with a built-in comic shop locator and an affiliate program. Also, at the time of the interview, the app cost 99 cents to download (being an early adopter, I paid for it) and it was the top selling book app in the iTunes Store.
Not even five years later, comiXology has a library of over 45,000 comics from 75 different publishers, and they announced this week that they have downloaded over 6 billion pages of comics—4 billion pages in the past year alone. That looks like exponential growth, but it's interesting that they have switched from the number of comics, which is what they usually talk about, to pages: In September they announced that they had reached 200 million downloads. But maybe they just thought 6 billion was a more impressive number.
Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about audiobooks and e-readers for the past ten years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times.


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A blood test for Down's syndrome that could save the lives of unborn babies by reducing the need for invasive procedures should be offered on the NHS, according to new research.
A study, published in the Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology journal, found three in five pregnant women at high risk of carrying a baby with the condition opted for the blood screening rather than the intrusive tests.
The UK National Screening Committee (NSC), a panel of experts who advise the Government and health service, are expected to make a recommendation on the procedure , which is currently only offered privately.
Down's syndrome typically causes learning disability and characteristic physical features. All pregnant women are offered the chance to have a blood test to see if their unborn child is likely to have the condition, but currently only the invasive procedure is definitive.
The research suggests the cell-free DNA test, which samples foetal DNA in the mother's blood, is "highly reliable".
Adopting it in the NHS could see a small increase in the overall cost to the health service but also a major decrease in invasive tests, the researchers said.
Professor Kypros Nicolaides, director of the Harris Birthright Research Centre for Foetal Medicine at King's College Hospital, London, said: "Our research puts the case for offering the cell-free DNA test on the NHS. This would improve the performance of screening, and reduce the number of unnecessary invasive tests and miscarriages."
Women who are between 11 and 14 weeks are currently offered a blood test and ultrasound scan, known as the combined test. If they are too far along for this, they can still have the blood test between 14 and 20 weeks of pregnancy, but this is less accurate than the combined test.
If these show they have a risk greater than one in 150 of having a baby with Down's, they are then offered a choice of two invasive diagnostic tests to find out for certain - but both carry a one in 100 risk of miscarriage as they involve taking a sample from the womb with a needle.
The study involved 11,692 women with single pregnancies treated at King's College Hospital and the Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent. Some 395 women were found to be at high-risk for Down's syndrome.
A PHE spokesman said: " The UK NSC is currently consulting on introducing non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to the existing fetal anomaly screening programme (FASP). A recommendation is expected to be made at the next UK NSC meeting in November."


text: LSP_Kevin 30,281 Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Well, I need another build on my workbench like I need another kit in the stash, but with all the talk about this kit recently, I figured it was apropos to get it started. I'm planning for it to be largely OOB, with perhaps the addition of fabric seat belts. I'm still debating the extent to which I will leave the panels open, and am toying with the idea to button one side up, and leave the panels off on the other. The goal is to show off as much of the supplied detail as possible, but also road test the fit of the open panels in the closed position. One of the downsides to having all the panels off on this particular model is that, most of the interesting markings are wholly or partially on them. So if you're looking to feature those markings on your model, all the open panels will make that a bit of a waste of time. Since I'm planning to build "Snooks 2nd", and the personalised markings are repeated on both sides, I can have the best of both worlds. My main concern is that the result will look a bit artificial, a bit unnatural. We'll see what happens, I guess! Here's the obligatory box photo to kick things off: If you want to know more about what's in the box, check out my review. I'm hoping to cut plastic before I go back to work on Monday. Kev scvrobeson, rafju, Derek B and 7 others 10 Link to post Share on other sites


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Internet service providers may have better success at scanning their networks to actively seek out illicit images of child abuse, thanks to technology donated by Microsoft and Dartmouth College.
On Wednesday, the software giant and the well-known college announced that they had developed a software program to match modified images to the original by using a form of robust hashing that can ignore certain types of changes, such as resizing, cropping and the inclusion of text. The team donated the program, dubbed PhotoDNA, to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The NCMEC will make the program available to ISPs to detect the "worst of the worst" in child pornography -- those images that show pre-pubescent children being sexually abused, said Ernie Allen, CEO and president of the NCMEC.
The intent is to "use the technology very narrowly and very specifically," Allen said.
The agreement follows a number of other successful initiative in fighting child abuse online. In June 2008, three ISPs signed an agreement with the New York State Attorney General's office to police their networks for child pornography and donate money to the state and the NCMEC to fund investigations. In 2007, MySpace agreed with the attorneys general of more than 40 states to turn over information regarding sex offenders on its network.
While law enforcement has successfully prosecuted hundreds of cases of possession and distribution of illicit images, a small number of cases have underscored overzealous prosecutions. In one case, a Massachusetts government agency fired and reported one of its workers for having child pornography on his laptop, but a later investigation showed that the lack of functioning antivirus software resulted in his laptop being compromised and subsequently filled with illicit images.
Microsoft has already tested the software on its networks and plans to roll out the tool to scan public sources for images for child pornography, said Brad Smith, senior vice president and general counsel at the software giant.
"It is not enough to catch the perpetrators, we have to stop the images to prevent the subjects from being a victim again," Smith said.
While Microsoft will scan public sources for matches to a small database of the worst abuse images, the software giant will not scan private data nor communications, Smith said. ISPs, the government and privacy advocates should discuss the legal and policy issues of such scanning, he said.
Child pornography is a major priority of law enforcement and the detection of images of abuse has grown significantly, according to the NCMEC. Since 2003, the organization has viewed and analyzed 30 million images classified as child pornography, the group claims. Allen predict that the group will deal with another 9 million in 2010.
Much of the increase in child pornography is due to the Internet's ability to allow communities to form among traders of child pornography, he said.
"They (the criminals) no longer view themselves as aberrant," Allen said. "We made enormous progress on the commercial side ... but it has migrated to the noncommercial side."
In the latest announcement, a large scale test of the PhotoDNA tool found that less than one false positive occurred in every billion images scanned, said Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at Dartmouth and co-developer of PhotoDNA. In addition, the software recognizes about 98 percent of images derived from those in its database.
"We tested it over billions and billions of images," he said. "We tried very hard to make it very efficient ... and to minimize the false alarm rate."
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Mass suicide involves the simultaneous suicide of a group of people. It's also known as murder-suicide, since the act can be ordered by an authority figure – particularly a cult leader.
Mass suicides can be cult-led, religiously motivated or, in particularly sad cases, be driven by a desperation to avoid a worse fate at the hands of the enemy…
People's Temple
On November 18 1978, 909 people – including 276 children – killed themselves or, in the children's case, were 'helped' to die, in the Guyana town of Jonestown.
Members of cult group the People's Temple, they performed the final act by sipping on cups of fruit punch laced with cyanide. The children were injected with the poison. Others were helped along with a knife to the throat.
Led by 'Reverend' Jim Jones, the People's Temple built schools, cottages and grew crops in the tropical heat. Being an undeveloped area, Jonestown was the perfect place for the People's Temple to establish their commune – especially since their bizarre beliefs were blighted by criticism back in America.
Jones controlled his followers through a combination of isolation and brainwashing, promising (and seemingly performing) Messiah-like miracles. He'd also spy on people, and humiliate them when needed.
Jones split up families, sexually abused people and made them terrified of the outside world.
Former member Tim Carter says the cult relocated to the remote location from America as they were taught that the USA was developing a 'creeping fascism', 'religious extremism' and race and poverty issues.
But what drove several hundred people to take their own lives? What led to Gerry Gouveia, one of the first members of the military to see the bodies, to describe the sight as, 'The most horrific scene – it hasn't left me yet.'
The end came when a party declared they wanted to abscond, escape the commune. Jones allowed them to get as far as the local airway strip, and then had them shot. He then told the rest of the cult that the plane would crash, attracting unfavourable outside attention to the People's Temple.
The time for 'revolutionary suicide' had come, and the cyanide was handed out.
Gerry Gouveia and other rescuers were greeted with the sight of hundreds of corpses splayed around the commune. Dressed in bright colours, most lay face down in the dirt and grass, some lay in pairs.
Today, the site of the commune has been almost entirely reclaimed by the jungle.
Heaven's Gate
On March 26 1997, 39 followers of the Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The cult was led by Marshall Applewhite, who believed Jesus was an alien – and that he was related to the son of God.
Applewhite told followers that the planet was about to be destroyed, or 'recycled', and that suicide was the 'only way to evacuate the Earth' and move to the 'next level.'
He explained that once their souls had separated from their bodies, they could board a spaceship that trailed the comet Hale-Bopp.
On that day, the 39 faithful – dressed in identical black outfits – drank phenobarbital (a barbituate that depresses the central nervous system) mixed with pineapple and vodka. They tied plastic bags around their heads, just to make sure.
Each member carried money to pay the 'interplanetary toll', and the dead, aged 26 to 72, were found lying in their beds with a perfectly square piece of purple cloth covering their head and torso.
Due to the heady heat in California, many of the bodies had started to decompose before they were discovered…
Demmin mass suicide
Not all mass suicides involve dodgy cults. History provides tragic examples of mass suicides as a means to escape persecution.
Nearing the end of the Second World War in May 1945, between 1,000 and 2,500 (the exact number is difficult to pinpoint) residents of the town Demmin in Germany killed themselves by wrist-slashing with razors, gun shots, drowning and hanging.
The reason? They'd rather die than fall into the clutches of Stalin's notoriously brutal Red Army, which had been encouraged by the dictator to rape, murder and pillage freely as a reward for its success as it marched on Berlin.
Survivor Karl Schlosser was 7 when his townsfolk took their own lives. He recalls: 'As parts of the town burned, we fled into the woods and later made camp in a nearby field.
'One morning, after nearly a week, I woke up to see corpses floating in the river. Later I saw people hanged from trees.
'We moved into a house next door where the family had hanged themselves – they were still dangling from the tree in the garden as we moved in.'
Some mothers who had tried to be merciful and had killed their children by poison or drowning them in the freezing water, found themselves unable to do the same for themselves.


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Happy spring! Though depending on where you live, "Spring" may have a different meaning…
But no matter whether you are wearing boots or flip-flops today, Spring is always a time of renewal. Here at Virtuous, we are doing our part -- we've got some more new features that you'll see the next time you log in. Read on to learn what we have in store!
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How to build your Self-Belief?
Self-Belief is one of the 8 key qualities of REAL Leaders (ABC of REAL Leadership). It is extremely important in almost every aspect of our lives and especially for leaders but many people struggle to maintain a strong sense of self-belief. Sadly, this can be a vicious circle as people who lack self-belief can find it adversely affecting their performance which in turn reduces their level of self-belief making it difficult to become successful.
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Savage is an upcoming short film by directed by Rachel Fitzgerald and produced by Brie from Australia. The film is an inspiring story that is different and unique in its own way in order to entertain fans from around the world. It is the story about a man named 'David Savage', who does not fit in the world around him. Moreover, the short film covers his thrilling struggle in life while also bringing in some of the most exciting and sensational aspects to the storyline.
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Medibio (ASX:MEB), a mental health technology company, has confirmed the next tranche of clients to join its Corporate Mental Health Check-in.
Rio Tinto, AJJV (Aurecon Jacobs Joint Venture for the West Gate Tunnel project), and the Australian Football League, have joined MediBio's 4-week Mental Health Check-in campaign.
Rio Tinto's Growth and Innovations division will conduct a pilot for 400 people in Iron Ore Projects.
"After hearing about the Mental Health Check-in from a business partner, Rio Tinto approached Medibio Corporate Health. They have been thorough in understanding the program's technology, applicability and analytics, and we look forward to working with them" said SVP corporate health, Peta Slocombe.
The West Gate Tunnel Project is the largest infrastructure project in the Southern Hemisphere. The Check-in will be available to workers on and offsite.
The Australian Football League (AFL) and Australian Football League Umpires Association (AFLUA) are collaborating to provide a Mental Health Check-in for all umpires and football operations staff.
According to Medibio CEO, Jack Cosentino, "These partnerships with some of the biggest names in these sectors, position them as leaders in mental health care technology."
The Mental Health Check-in campaign is the entry-level offering to Medibio's annualised Corporate Health product. Collectively, they will contribute up to 1,400 participants to Medibio's data set, and paid pilots with two global mining and construction firms.


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Working with CWS and its partners, Winterbrook prepared a master plan for a 60-acre property in Washington County. Key components of the plan include restoration of riparian and wetland habitats, transformation of tree plantations to mixed upland forest, habitat enhancement for resident turtles and amphibians, and integration of a working farm with educational programs and a native plant nursery. When fully implemented, the property will be a showcase for sustainable farming practices and environmental education.


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My latest food love/discovery is tomatillos. I'm not sure how I lived without really knowing what these tangy little green husked fruit were. I never really knew it was tomatillos that made "verde" salsas green; I always figured it was peppers making it green. Oops. It just proves I have so much more to learn about food. I also didn't appreciate their true goodness till my husband and I started making spicy salsa verde ourselves. We wanted a new fresh way to use up our garden jalapenos. All we could say on our first taste was WOW! It was also unlike most salsas we've tried in restaurants.
Salsa Spice
I love all sorts of salsa, mild to super spicy. This salsa verde however I can not enjoy any other way but spicy. Seriously, our spicy jalapenos from our garden are just the perfect addition to this salsa. I don't think I would enjoy it as much without the heat in this salsa; the short list of ingredients, especially the heat of the jalapenos just compliment this condiment so perfectly.
If you do actually enjoy spicy jalapenos, unlike the mild ones you usually get in most grocery stores, Craig's Grande are the ones we grow and it's quite a prolific plant. Highly recommend them for spicy food lovers!
Salsa Verde Heat
Now, I don't want to scare away the mild salsa lovers out there. If you're not into spicy salsa of any sort, just keep the jalapeno seeds out and reduce the jalapenos to one at the most, especially if you already know your jalapenos are spicy.
Tomatillo Trial
If you've never tried tomatillos or made a green salsa with them, here's your chance. They're slight tangy, tart and give you a great new way to dress your tacos, burritos, carnitas or even scrambled eggs. Seriously, they're that good! We've tried this salsa verde on so many different dishes and just can't get enough of it.
Give this tangy "hot" green salsa a try and let us know what you think or what you like it on. Enjoy!
Yields 2 Cups
This recipe makes just slightly over 2 cups of salsa but we usually double it if we know we have multiple ways we want to enjoy it within the next week. Keep refrigerated and enjoy up to 1 week.
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- 1.5 lbs. tomatillos, husks removed and de-stemmed
- 3 small jalapenos, stems removed (2 if large) -if you don't like spicy remove the seeds and reduce to 1.
- 1/4 cup packed fresh cilantro leaves, roughly chopped
- 3/4 cup white onion, chopped fine
- 1/2 lime, juiced
- 3/4 tsp salt
- Preheat your broiler
- Place all tomatillos and jalapenos onto a dry heavy duty cookie sheet
- Broil for 5 minutes on each side, turning once. Place the oven rack on the second spot down from the top, this gives about 5" from the heating elements. The tomatillos will get a little charred but that's ok, don't panic. Watch them closely though, do not leave them.
- Place the roasted tomatillos, jalapenos and cilantro in your food processor (a blender will work but we have found the food processor gives a better consistency) and pulse only 5-6 times or until it is semi-smooth. You want a few small chunks so don't blend it into a liquid.
- Once cool enough to handle carefully pour the mixture into a bowl and let it sit for about 10 minutes to cool a bit.
- Then add the chopped onion, salt and squeeze in the lime juice.
- Stir together and refrigerate till chilled ( The flavor melds even more after been chilled a while and has even better flavor the next day)
If you like spicey, leave in the seeds, if you want mild then take them out. The heat level is completely subjective so I can't tell you exact amounts that will give you exact heat levels. I personally leave the seeds in, but I like it nice and spicy!


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The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen – REVIEW
Jessica thinks her life is over when she loses a leg in a car accident. She's not comforted by the news that she'll be able to walk with the help of a prosthetic leg. Who cares about walking when you live to run?
As she struggles to cope with crutches and a first cyborg-like prosthetic, Jessica feels oddly both in the spotlight and invisible. People who don't know what to say, act like she's not there. Which she could handle better if she weren't now keenly aware that she'd done the same thing herself to a girl with CP named Rosa. A girl who is going to tutor her through all the math she's missed. A girl who sees right into the heart of her.
With the support of family, friends, a coach, and her track teammates, Jessica may actually be able to run again. But that's not enough for her now. She doesn't just want to cross finish lines herself—she wants to take Rosa with her.
"It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily."
I love taking part in reading challenges as I know I'll come across books that I might have missed otherwise. I chose this book for this year's Read Harder challenge, to fulfil the 'read a book about sports' prompt. After searching Goodreads, I was initially planning to read Friday Night Lights and then I saw this and it seemed perfect. Aimed at young adults, this book explores the consequences for a high school track star who has to have her leg amputated below the knee. What I appreciated most about this story was how realistic it felt. The physical rehabilitation process seemed to be well-researched and thankfully wasn't glossed over as something too unpalatable to discuss.
"I realise something. That wasn't a finish line for me … This is my new starting line."
However, it was the exploration of Jessica's emotional state that felt even more authentic. This wasn't a story where the main character's never-ending optimism meant they wouldn't let an injury or disability 'stop them'. This was a story where the author acknowledges that something as traumatic as amputation and the subsequent permanent disability would certainly affect your mental health. The depression Jessica experienced was relatable and I appreciated that it didn't miraculously go away, never to be seen again. As someone with a long-term health condition, depression is something I regularly experience and even when you beat one episode, there will be another in the future.
"Don't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them."
Jessica's developing friendship with Rosa forms another main thread and it was realistically handled – Jessica's method of helping Rosa seemed like something a high school student would think of. The message this book successfully urges the reader to absorb is to 'see the person, not the disability'. This is particularly true in Rosa's case as she can't hide her wheelchair or speech difficulties. In some ways, it's easier for Jessica as, once she has a prosthetic leg, her disability isn't noticeable at first glance. I'd love to hear more about Rosa and what happened next for her. Overall, this was an inspirational book that ended on a beautifully hopeful note and one that I would definitely recommend.
An inspiring and hopeful sports book tackling disability and mental health.
(Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository)
|About the Author
Wendelin Van Draanen has written more than thirty novels for young readers and teens. She is the author of the 18-book Edgar-winning Sammy Keyes series, and wrote Flipped which was named a Top 100 Children's Novel for the 21st Century by SLJ, and became a Warner Brothers feature film with Rob Reiner directing. Her novel The Running Dream was awarded ALA's Schneider Family Award for its portrayal of the disability experience.


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For a more elegant touch, top this hearty soup with cooked shrimp or crabmeat.
How to Make It
Step 1
Sauté onion in hot oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat 8 minutes or until tender. Add garlic and next 4 ingredients; sauté 1 minute. Add pumpkin, 1 cup water, and broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium; add coconut milk, lime juice, and salt, and simmer, stirring often, 25 minutes. Remove from heat; cool.
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Process pumpkin mixture, in batches, in a blender or food processor until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides. Return pumpkin mixture to Dutch oven, and cook over medium heat until thoroughly heated. Garnish, if desired.


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28 January, 2016
2016 is Here
As for this year, Mike has decided that our One Little Word shall be "happiness" and I'm pretty good with that. Trying to find the happiness in any situation we're in, in the small and the large, and to encourage it in each other. I know he gets frustrated with my depression (as do I) because sometimes it's literally impossible for me to be happy. So I think it's a good idea to have it in the back of my mind to try to find happiness even in the darkest times.
I will admit that One Little Word hasn't ever really worked for us. Last year... well, last year was about "Change", or it was supposed to be, and yet we just ended up in an extended holding period which ended up with nothing. It's disheartening, and frustrating, and I think after an entire year of that maybe we *do* need to focus on happiness. Obviously change isn't going to come. Maybe we're not meant for it, I don't know, but no matter what we do, we're stuck. So maybe happiness where we are, how we are, with what we are... that's all we can hope for?
It's not all doom and gloom, of course. In this year I'm hoping that my art will continue to improve. Nearly a month in and I'm very focused and immersed in creating original works of art. Although, that might be detracting from using my extremely large collection of stamps, lol! I hope to keep my YouTube channel going too. I made 150 videos last year, that's super amazing! I never planned on that many. I hope I can get near that many this year. And I hope that I can at least refine *one* of my art skills and maybe be a bit more predictable in what I create. Consistency isn't exactly *required* in an artist, but it'd be nice for not *everything* I make to be a complete fluke or guesswork.
Anyway, this was long. I want to thank everyone for following me, continuing to support me by watching my videos, visiting this site (as well as my other social media platforms), and just generally for being you. Here's to a great 2016 for all of us!
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'HAPPY'New Year Aeryn, so glad to see a little e-mail from you today. I look forward to seeing your work as it is an inspiration to me. I even hopped over and subscribed to your You Tube and 'Liked' your FB page...so hopefully I can keep up with you and all that you do to create and make things 'happy' for your internet artsy/copic friends. I'm hoping I can go to Jennifers Boot Camp in May... but we shall see. Are you going to try and go? Last March I was visiting my daughter and her family in Austin, Tx, but Copic was doing one of their certifications classes in Dallas, so I detoured and did my Intermediate Certification. I am sooooooooo far from ever teaching. But It is a feeling of accomplishment to do that. I retired from the legal field in Oct and I am just now getting through all the holiday stuff, and trying to settle down and pull my Copics out. I have not touched them in months....not to mention no scrapbooking either. So....all this to say....take care and Be HAPPY!!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Aww, thank you! I always appreciate a new follower. :) I don't think I'll be going to another Boot Camp, no. I can't plan that far in advance anymore. I'm grateful I didn't go to the last one as I was very, very sick and would have lost a lot of money not being able to go. I agree about the teaching bit with the Intermediate certification. I'll probably never do it, but it's fun to be "allowed" to, lol! I hope you get to play with your markers more. I'm going to try to play with mine more too. Heck, February is that 30 (29) Day colouring Challenge thing. Why not try that?Delete
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Online Poetry Course with Jonathan Edwards – Someone Else's Shoes: Poetic Monologue
Expand your voice with the thoughts, lives and feelings of others
'You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'
– Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
From Robert Browning to Carol Ann Duffy, Patience Agbabi to Simon Armitage, a number of writers have explored the joy of how writing from the point of view of someone – or something – else can free the creative shackles and unleash poems of great power. In this online course, Costa Award-winning poet will help you will explore a range of things that the monologue can do, looking at poems which draw on characters from canonical texts, from history and from pop culture. Monologue can be a way of exploring different occupations and backgrounds, of looking at important themes such as gender, class and place, as in Alan Gillis's brilliant poem 'In These Aisles', but it can also be a way of seeing the world completely differently, through the eyes of an assumed object, animal, tree… You will spend some time reflecting on the nature of voice as a whole – the way in which every poem, by its language and framing, creates a voice which is independent from its author, to say what it wants or needs to. Lastly, you will consider how monologue can work with performance poetry and help give poems a life beyond the page. Through a mixture of close reading, written exercises and feedback, you will seek to develop your own monologues to surprise and delight, and to illuminate the world – and 'the rumoured existence of other people' (Timothy Donnelly) – with understanding and empathy.
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- Album: She Got Game
If you're rocking a fitted, now would be a good time to remove it: as Rapsody puts it on her new single, "You're in the presence of Kingship." Whereas its predecessor, Never Know, was a team effort, this cut finds the spotlight fixed firmly on the First in Flight State phenom. Over DJ Premier's deftly superimposed samples, Rap endeavors to show and prove her worthiness of the crown, delivering verses laced with pointed references to the reigning generation of rap royalty. On the hook, Primo showcases his skills behind the wheels of steel, flipping snippets from Game's Born in the Trap and Run-DMC's Peter Piper. Feeling it? Then be sure to cop Rapsody's She Got Game LP next Tuesday (8/20), hosted by DJ Drama.


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Outfit Diary of InStyle's Fashion Director: Day 1 #NYFW
Fashion week here we come ... I will be sharing 7 days of outfits with you during New York Fashion Week. All pieces are click-to-buy and available now! Price tag too high? There are similar items in the market. Get inspired and kiss the winter blues goodbye.
Styling Tip: Layering is key in this weather (Uniqlo heattech is brilliant!). Add colored leather and tailored trousers instead of jeans to make this look more fun than your usual black go-to version. Go ahead ... you can do it! Read on to shop the look.
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Finance astrology is a vital part of trading
Finance astrology is a vital part of trading
Work and money
When you have entered the field where money plays a very important role, then you definitely need the assistance of finance astrology. The main thing to do is to broaden your mind and to allow the vast world of horoscope and finance astrology to seep its knowledge into your entire being. There is no good replacement for financial astrology. Instead of spending hours of your valuable time on the various aspects like that of graphs and census and records of financial gains through several years, you should try something new. Graphs and charts are not always the answer to a good prediction. You need to seek the help of professionals in the field of finance prediction.
The complete parameters
This will really help you to go ahead in your life and also achieve complete success in whatever job you are currently pursuing. When that job relates to trading opportunities, you need astrology assistance. There are many supplementary parameters that really play a very vital role in predicting the future of your financial career. There are many parameters that can play a very important role in your life based on your sun sign and horoscope. When all of these parameters are taken together for proper calculation, they will provide you with a huge co-relation with the upcoming market trends in the modern world.
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There are various strategies in which you can make use of astrology ( work and money ) with the essential aspects of market investing with the help of stock markets. You always need to be aware of the primary data. This includes currency, information, stock etc. Now while you are comparing all of these with the help of various charts and much other information, you also need to get hold of the working information of your planetary interests. The great stress and work of the planets towards the well being of your financial career through financial prediction is extremely important.


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Mia Loves Jay
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This recipe is a great example of what happens when your best laid plans don't quite work out in the kitchen. My sister Nicole, brother-in-law Jon and friend Amanda came over, and I was planning on making a lemon chicken cordon bleu with … I honestly can't remember what the original side was now. In any case, I decided to change it to mac and cheese based on what was in the fridge (and I want to say I was missing an ingredient for the original side.) But I was trying to quickly defrost a whole heap of chicken breasts (I normally only freeze two at a time) and they did not defrost the way I hoped they would – aka, I didn't think I'd be able to butterfly them open to stuff the provolone and ham in them. So, change #3 – combine the chicken and the mac and cheese of course! And so, chicken cordon bleu mac and cheese was born. I'll tell you exactly what I used here (because it's what I had on hand) but I'll also recommend substitutions. This fed – well, technically there were 5 of us, but my brother-in-law should really count for three people with the amount of food he can eat – and made probably 4-5 lunch servings of leftovers. I served with a nice salad and a new cocktail (which I will save for another post.) It's a great, hearty meal to beat the cold – and the cocktails.
6 chicken breasts, cubed into bite-sized pieces (ok, really, you could use 3-4 and be FINE – I was talked into using all of what I had by the boys.)
1 onion, diced
5 cloves garlic, minced (again, I am obsessed.)
1 lb ham (whatever kind you can find – mine was lunch meat), diced (you could get away with about 1/2 pound here – I used 1/2 in the sauce and 1/2 as a topper)
3 T butter
3 T flour
2 cups milk (whatever you have)
1 8oz brick cream cheese
8 oz provolone, shredded
8 oz colby jack, shredded (Could switch to swiss for a traditional feel)
1 lb short cut pasta
Salt and pepper
Pinch nutmeg
1-2 T Thyme or Italian seasoning
Put a pot of water on to boil – once boiling, cook pasta until it still has a bit of bite. Drain. In the meantime…
Over medium high heat, season chicken with salt and pepper and brown in a skillet. Cook almost through, then transfer to a plate.
Add butter and melt, then add ham and onion. Saute about 5 min, until the onion is soft and the ham starts to get some color.
Add garlic, saute 1-2 minutes, until you can smell the garlic.
Add in flour and mix together – let flour cook about 1 minute or so.
Whisk in milk, let come to a bubble and thicken. Add nutmeg, salt, pepper and Italian seasoning.
Add cheeses and mix until melted.
Add in pasta and chicken and cook for about 5 more minutes, until chicken and pasta are cooked through.
At this point, you could make a breadcrumb topping and bake, or you could serve with ham for a topper. Guess which is easier? 😉
Eat. A lot. And drink. A lot. Trust me, this meal will let you handle it.