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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Samantha- Skittles + Grover
Top- Vintage top (no label) from Value Village store in Toronto
Pants- Blue leather Acne pants from Holt Renfrew in Toronto
Hat- Vintage leather motorcycle hat (no label)from Bouckville Vintage Fair in Upstate NY
Bracelets- Vintage celluloid rhinestone bracelets from Carole Tanenbaum Vintage collection and eBay
Necklace- Lanvin pearl and ribbon necklace from Holt Renfrew in Toronto
Sunglasses- H&M sunnies from H&M store in Toronto
Bag- Suede purple Etro bag from Etro store in NY
Shoes- Fendi flats from Fendi store in NY
The Look: Skittles + Grover
Fun Fact: Caillianne is healing from her surgery and we wanted to THANK EVERYONE for all of the sweet messages and awesome vibes! This vintage shirt is special to me because our BFF friend Danielle Hession found it at Value Village and said....."you need this, this is such a Beckerman shirt!" We couldn't agree more and it's been traveling around from sister to sister! Pin It Now!
13 comments:
- Maite said...
t shirt is amazing
great look!
- July 11, 2012 at 11:15 AM
- Rachel Lynne said...
LOVE that shirt! Amazing colors :)
- July 11, 2012 at 11:51 AM
- marina casapu said...
The pants are perfect!!!
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- July 11, 2012 at 12:13 PM
- Domonique Wilson said...
You always have thee most killer wardrobe, really wish that top wasn't vintage...such a killer find :)
- July 11, 2012 at 1:17 PM
- Andrea said...
you look fabulous! i love your sunnies :)
- July 11, 2012 at 3:26 PM
- Deppa said...
Oh wow! this outfit is wonderful! I love those colors, stripes, details, hat, shirt, the smile, the energy, everything <3
One of my favourites of today, congrats!
See you.
- July 11, 2012 at 8:38 PM
- Bri said...
Okay I'm in love with your blue leather pants, I saw some similar ones in Danier on the weekend and wished they would fit me!
How did C make out?
- July 11, 2012 at 10:53 PM
- SACRAMENTO said...
I am so glad Caillianne is doing well. I knew she would.
Loving and wanting the top and your gorgeous glasses, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
- July 12, 2012 at 4:59 AM
looks terrific mixing the bold lovely top with the elegant feminine bangles. A great mix!
- July 12, 2012 at 7:22 AM
- Absolutely Mrs. K said...
it is a beckermans shirt indeed, i saw it on instagram and i thought! oh this is why i love those girls! this outfit is so so you and i love the one where you are smiling (well actually i love every single one of them)! the shirt really pops up and i adore the shape! hope everything is fine with Caillianne
- July 12, 2012 at 3:07 PM
- Semicosmic said...
So glad that she's doing well and I absolutely love this outfit! The colours are so fun, too cute!
- July 14, 2012 at 8:24 PM
- Converse shoes said...
What a dash of colors! The title of the post should have been rainbow. Well I feel the tee is nice except for the golden touch in between. Is it some kind of a work or just print? Your sunglass looks funny. My favorite among the lot would be the shoes. I wouldn't pair it with this dress. But instead with a plain white or black dress. I feel the beauty of the shoes can be accentuated only if you wear it with plain dress. But here since your pant is plain the shoes look nice. The ribbon necklace looks interesting. But again I prefer wearing that with something without a print or pattern.
- July 19, 2012 at 3:01 AM
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This is amazing!!!!! x
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Wearside will be looking to the skies this weekend as the city welcomes its annual airshow spectacular.
We've compiled a guide to everything you need to know about the highlight of the calendar, from entertainment on the ground, to the high-flying stars of the show.
*The airshow begins at 6pm on Friday at Cliffe Park, Seaburn, featuring music from the The Rat Pack Boys, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (Lancaster, Hurricane and Spitfire) with live musical accompaniment from The Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines Portsmouth; Royal Air Force Aerobatic Display Team - the Red Arrows (9 x Hawk T1); RAF Typhoon (Typhoon FGR4); Twister Duo pyrotechnic display (2 x Silence Twister) and The brand new AeroSPARX display team (2 x Grob 109). The Friday event will close at 10pm with a firework display.
*Road closures are in place from 2pm on Friday from the Bungalow Café to Marriott Roundabout, as well as in surrounding streets.
*Flying will take place on Saturday and Sunday from 12.30pm to 5.15pm.
*Exact timings are available from the Airshow programme.
*The airshow is free to attend with the best viewing points along Roker and Seaburn.
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*Flying on the Saturday only will be Royal Air Force Aerobatic Display Team - the Red Arrows - 9 x Hawk T1
*Flying on the Sunday only will be Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 and Mitchell 320 - B-25 Mitchell
*On both days spectators can enjoy RAF Falcons Parachute Display Team, RAF BBMF - Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - Lancaster, Hurricane and Spitfire, Vortex 525 - Chinook, The Tigers Freefall Parachute Display Team, Royal Navy Swordfish - Fairey Swordfish, Royal Navy Black Cats - 2 x Wildcat HMA Mk 2, Red Bull Matadors - 2 x Xtreme XA41, OV-10 Bronco, Gyrocopter - Calidus Rotorsport, Twister Duo, Amphibious Beach Assault, Vampire Pair - de Havilland Vampires FB52 and T55, The Blades - 4 x Extra 300 , RAF Typhoon 35 - Typhoon FGR4, Strikemaster Mk82A and Hangar 11 Combo - P40 Kittyhawk and P51D Mustang.
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At this time of year, when many of us give and receive gifts for Christmas, it is appropriate to ask: where is the next one coming from?
As long as we have plenty of surplus energy, mainly in the form of crude oil and other fossil fuels, life may be expected to continue much as we are used to, but the decline of energy will see a decline in our standard of living. Where then will the next one come from? Where will the next plastic toy come from? What about the battery to power it? The packaging to attract our eye to it in the store? The paper to wrap it as a gift? The ink to print on the paper? What will we do for sellotape to make a parcel, when the plastics industries close down? Where will string come from?
All these things had their equivalents before the age of oil, but we have lost the ready access to skills and materials needed to bring them back. Where are the string makers? The paper makers? The toy makers? If these skills exist, they are not in the high energy societies like the United States, or England, or Australia. Those skills have been exported to China and India and Africa, in the name of Globalisation.
How much we have lost. How much we will wish we had seen the day approaching and had prepared for it. Our toys and technologies will be of little use, when cheap energy is a memory.
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|(Nanowerk News) mPhase Technologies, Inc. today released photographs of its six inch silicon based wafer that contains the key electrolyte separator membrane for the companys Smart NanoBattery.
|The slotted dark areas that can be seen on the wafer are the porous honeycomb membrane structures that allow the batterys liquid electrolyte to be controlled in each of the twelve battery cells. Each of the individual slotted dark areas (porous honeycomb membrane) contain approximately 17,000 extremely miniature pores that the batterys liquid electrolyte will eventually pass through. Each Smart NanoBattery is made up of twelve individual cells that are arranged in a 4 X 3 array. Each battery contains approximately 203,000 pores and each six inch wafer contains over 2 million pores.
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BELLINGHAM, WA, USA- 13 June 2008 - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has arranged for the SPIE Digital Library to become available free of charage to researchers and students in more than 90 countries served by ICTP's electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS). Through eJDS, ICTP distributes scientific articles via email to individual scientists in institutions with insufficient or unaffordable Internet connection.
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Originally Posted by t1sh
Thank you, Gyro.
I am glad you got your car back, finally!
I am going on Monday for them to check. I will defo tell them about the EGR coolant.
As soon as I know more I will let you know.
OK mate, just a bit more info - my car was in THREE times with the coolant leak before they had a proper look at it. The first time it was in (my wife took it in) they had a quick look and said it was fine and it was only going through more coolant as it was winter(!). Second and third time they pressure tested the system and found no leaks. They then said it was a leak in something called the "the map-controlled engine cooling system thermostat housing". But whilst waiting on those parts coming in, they noticed it was in fact the EGR cooler! I'm sure you will be anyway, but beware and ready for the BS that may come your way!
Can they not do a xray ?.
Are they 100% sure its the EGR and not the thermostat,the hose pipe and whatever else they had thought of before.I mean these guys are THE PROFESSIONAL and they have the TECHNOLOGY,thats how they created THE 6 MILLION DOLLAR MAN.
Originally Posted by t1sh
Thank you, Gyro.
I am glad you got your car back, finally!
I am going on Monday for them to check. I will defo tell them about the EGR coolant.
As soon as I know more I will let you know.
t1sh, how did it go at Audi yesterday?
Hello Gyro,
I tipped them to check out the EGR coolant! They checked and it turned that the leak was for there.
Few minutes I got a call that car is ready!
I do hope this was the issue and there would not be any further leaks.
Thank you once again for your post and I am certain that it helped to get my car sorted so quickly.
So I got the car and all fine!
Just to get bumped from the back of it while waiting at traffic lights.
Funny thing was that yesterday was 13.02 and other driver was born on 13.03!
Audi did not suffer much of a damage considering the hit!
Photos attached!
t1sh, glad you are OK after that, looks like the other car came off worst thankfully. I assume they have also admitted liability, having ran into the back of you?
Anyway, re. the EGR cooler. I'd be very surprised if they managed to fix it in a day? For me it was a couple of days of strip down and fitment, then a couple of days of rebuild/test/calibration (once all of the parts had arrive on back order from Germany). Just wondering what exactly they did re. the EGR cooler?
Thanks Gyro,
Yes, the driver admitted liability.
As far as I understood Audi techs changed EGR valve, exact translation from Polish, which is located into the engine block and was faulty meaning leaking.
I do trust them what they do as always get a call if I was happy and if there were any issues. I do give feedback and give permission to share my name back to the dealer so they know if I was not happy!
t1sh glad youre ok thats the main thing.
Gyro catching up on the thread is the car all sorted now or still some outstanding issues?
Originally Posted by Nemo78
t1sh glad youre ok thats the main thing.
Gyro catching up on the thread is the car all sorted now or still some outstanding issues?
Cheers mate, yes all good now thanks (touch wood), had the car back a couple of weeks and all seems to be fine. The wife drove from Edinburgh to Nairn on Monday, which is the car's first decent run since getting it back, and she is currently on her way back with no problems to report. This si good as it was long journeys where the coolant was leaking most.
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Donald Trump, erstwhile real estate developer, "reality" television icon, and general big mouth has been drawing an awful lot of attention in a somewhat quixotic bid to become the Republican Party nominee for president. Mr Trump does what he does best, which is draw attention to himself, making statements that are decidedly impolitic. It seems to me unlikely, at best, that he has any chance of being his party's nominee, or if, indeed, he actually wants to be, but he's selling a lot of cheap hats and likely, drawing a lot of people to the coffee, pizza, and ice cream shops at his property on Fifth Avenue in New York.
There is even a meme going around the social media sphere about "things that look like Donald Trump," including a bird, an ear of corn, an Eastern European truck overloaded with hay bales, and oddly, a doughnut with the filling exploding from the top, presumably following some time spent in a microwave oven.
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Presumably, the feline does not have access to the same resources as Mr Trump, so its "hair" is excusable.
Another favourite target (right now) is former surgeon Ben Carson - formerly the head of paediatric neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins University - not exactly Hollywood Upstairs Medical School (with apologies to Dr Nick Riviera).
Dr Carson is being lampooned mercilessly around the blogo- and twitter-sphere for outlandish remarks about the pyramids, stick-ups at Popeye's Fried Chicken restaurants, and, more substantively, whether he would support a Moslem candidate for president.
Dr Carson is being lampooned mercilessly around the blogo- and twitter-sphere for outlandish remarks about the pyramids, stick-ups at Popeye's Fried Chicken restaurants, and, more substantively, whether he would support a Moslem candidate for president.
Ben Carson is a gifted surgeon (he performed the world's first - and I believe still, only - operation to separate conjoined twins joined at the skull). That does not really qualify him to be president, which many have already pointed out. Skill in one field does not translate into another - Gary Cooper was a great actor; he was pitiful as a baseball player, as anyone who has seen him "swing" a bat or throw a ball in "Pride of the Yankees" can attest.
It all adds up to a running trope that the Republican primary is a sort of "clown car," which the Washington Post's Dana Millbank has declared this to be so months ago.
Pace Mr Millbank, the issue is that the Republican field is just too large:
There are far too many candidates (so many that there are concerns they won't all fit on a debate stage), and to gain attention they are juggling, tooting horns and blowing slide whistles like so many painted performers emerging from a clown car.
Now, I've personally referred to the race as a clown car, and I do not disagree that there are candidates (Donald Trump, or Ben Carson) who plainly come across as unqualified and unprepared. That adds a certain air of slide whistles and floppy shoes, as Dana Millbank says.
But really - is the alternative really better? Is the fact that the Democrats have really NO reasonable alternative offered up to Hillary Clinton what Millbank and others want?
I watched the Democrats' (thus far, only) debate. With respect to Bernard Sanders - who is running, I think, a principled but doomed campaign - this is a coronation.
I watched the Democrats' (thus far, only) debate. With respect to Bernard Sanders - who is running, I think, a principled but doomed campaign - this is a coronation.
And the dauphine is really an awful choice.
While people are laughing about Ben Carson's comments that the pyramids of Egypt were actually grain silos built by Joseph, no one is laughing about Hillary Clinton's blatant dissembling about the recently revealed Trans Pacific Partnership. The pact - perhaps the single greatest actual accomplishiment of her time as Secretary of State - and surely overshadows ANYTHING she accomplished in the senate - she is now rushing to denounce it. When asked why she called it "the gold standard" as Secretary, she offered the defence that she "hoped it would be the gold standard."
Does anyone believe this?
She is decidedly not being asked many difficult questions, and when she avoids them, there is no push back. When asked "What would be different about you as president compared to Mr Obama," her answer was that she would be a woman.
Yes; Mrs Clinton is a woman. And yes; Mr Obama is a man. But if that is the alpha and omega of what she brings in terms of new vision, why on earth would anyone vote for her? It's blatant pandering; "Vote for me because I am a woman."
Ben Carson, who has no chance of election, is a bit nutty about the pyramids.
Mrs Clinton, who is the odds-on favourite to be the next president, is lying about the trade deal.
Which is actually more of a problem?
The Republican nomination is a bit of a clown car; there probably are too many debates. Too many candidates. And as Dana Millbank points out, they often appear to be engaging in outlandish behaviour to draw attention. Mrs Clinon, however, appears to be doing whatever she can to avoid any attention at all - no press Q and A sessions, carefully managed and scripted meetings.
While one can laugh about Donald Trump's hair or debate "undercards," there is something far more sinister about what is going on on the Democrat side - where Mrs Clinton is basically eliding to the nomination with wink and nod from the press.
The Democratic coronation is tragedy.


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Lorrie Moore's "People Like That Are the Only People Here" may be the most ruthless short story I've ever read. Published in the New Yorker in 1997 and the next year in Moore's collection "Birds of America," it revolves around a family turned upside down after a mother finds a blot clot in her baby's diaper.
The mother, like Moore, is a writer: "Take notes," her husband begs. "We are going to need the money." But it is the direction these notes take us that gives the story its pitiless edge. While the father is befriending the parents in the pediatric oncology ward, the mother is keeping her distance; "Let's make our own way," she declares.
Finally, the baby is released from the hospital. "There are the notes. Now where is the money?" the mother snarls, in the story's brutal closing line.
What Moore is getting at is the way every poem, novel, essay or story walks a line between revelation and betrayal, between a character's sharing something about her inner life and selling out the ones she loves. Such a dynamic infuses "Birds of America," with its disconnections, its small defeats, and it also marks the eight stories in "Bark," Moore's first book of short fiction in 15 years.
Gathering work from the New Yorker, Harper's, the Paris Review and elsewhere, "Bark" is in many ways a continuation of her inquiry into the gaps, the silences between us, and how, as she writes in "Referential," "Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindnesses and mercies to emerge like kings and queens in an unexpected change of the game. … Tenderness did not enter them except in a damaged way and by luck."
"Referential" is my favorite piece in the collection, a homage of sorts to Vladimir Nabokov's 1948 story "Signs and Symbols," with which it shares a basic narrative. Revolving around a mother's visit to her teenage son in a mental institution, it is at heart an investigation into the impossibility of love.
"Mutilation was a language. And vice versa," reflects the unnamed protagonist, who is wrestling with both the difficulty of her son's condition and the dying embers of a relationship. On the refrigerator, photos of her son stare at her as if frozen: as a baby, looking "happier than most babies," as a 6-year old, "smiling and hamming it up."
The description is so matter-of-fact it makes your stomach hurt, the kind of pictures everyone has, and yet encoding the dreadful knowledge of what this boy, this family, has become. The mother is left to "understand anew the desperate place they both were in, though the desperations were separate, not joined, and her eyes would then feel the stabbing pressure of tears."
Domestic life — the relationships between mothers and children, or of one spouse, or lover, to another — motivates much of "Bark," which finds a sort of epic grandeur in the nuances of the day-to-day. In "Debarking," one of the two long stories that anchor the collection, a divorced man named Ira becomes involved with a woman who may or may not be unstable, but still he lingers, despite her occasional cruelties.
Here too we glimpse a strange (unnatural even) relationship between a mother and her teenage son, although more disturbing to Ira is his sense that the center is not holding, that the adults have forgotten how to be adults.
"Observing others go through them," Moore tells us, "he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star in a full-blown one of her own, he found the sufferers of such crises not only self-indulgent but greedy and demented and he wished them all unnatural deaths with various contraptions easily found in garages."
The progression there, the sequence of images, is vintage Moore; like Ann Beattie's, her writing comes imbued with the odd shift, the surreal juxtaposition, the bitingly humorous aside. ("Surrealism," she points out, "could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.")
"Paper Losses" frames a collapsing marriage as extended tragicomedy; "[T]ime," Moore writes, "was essentially a comic thing — only constraints upon it forced it to tragedy, or at least to misery. … Marriage stopped being comic when it was suddenly halted, at which point it became divorce, which time never disturbed, and so the funniness of which was never-ending." Implicit in this perspective is the understanding that love and loss, joy and sadness, are part of one continuum.
It's a notion Moore makes clear in "Foes," where a second-tier biographer finds himself arguing politics with a conservative lobbyist at a
"He saw now," Moore observes, after the lobbyist explains that she survived the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, "that her fingernails really were plastic, that the hand really was a dry frozen claw, that the face that had seemed intriguingly exotic had actually been scarred by fire and only partially repaired. He saw that she was cloaked in a courageous and intense hideosity."
Such a turn is about empathy, about seeing ourselves in the other — or seeing the humanity of everyone. This is why we come to literature, and it lights the stories in "Bark" as if from within. The people here are adrift, not alienated so much as worn out, unsure of their next move. Life has had its way with them, and yet, they are still living, trying to get from one day to the next.
"She'd been given something perfect — youth! — and done imperfect things with it," Moore notes of KC, the main character of "Wings," which like "Referential" is inspired by another work of literature, Henry James' "The Wings of the Dove." The message is simple: I can't go on, I'll go on.
"[Y]ou had to unfreeze your feet," Moore writes, "take a blind step backward, risk a loss of balance, risk an endless fall, in order to give life room." That this goes without saying doesn't mean that it should go without saying, which has been Moore's point all along.
Lorrie Moore
Alfred A. Knopf: 192 pp., $24.95


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I'm pretty sure the smoke alarm always goes off when my dad cooks.
I had to respond with:
I don't have a smoke alarm. It's just a loud timer alarm, telling me that the food is ready ;)
Is it usual to have a smoke alarm in the kitchen area, no more than about 12ft from the oven? If it is, is it usual to trigger the smoke alarm every time you cook? Even this evening, when I was simply grilling burgers, the smoke alarm blared as I was serving-up.
I hate to think what will happen when we have a real fire. When I set the frying pan alight this week, and the smoke alarm went off, no-one ran to assist me.
Hmm ... perhaps I should blog about setting the frying pan alight, but as I rescued it and no-one noticed that the food was charred, I didn't think it worthy of an entry. In itself, that might provide indications of my lack of cookery expertise.


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One of the many places in India I would like to visit before I die:
The Wagah border closing 'lowering of the flags' ceremony or The Beating Retreat ceremony is a daily military practice that the security forces of India (Border Security Force) and Pakistan (Pakistan Rangers) have jointly followed since 1959.
The ceremony starts with a blustering parade by the soldiers from both the sides, and ends up in the perfectly coordinated lowering of the two nations' flags.
It is called the beating retreat border ceremony on the international level. One Jawan (infantryman) stands at attention on each side of the gate. As the sun sets, the iron gates at the border are opened and the two flags are lowered simultaneously.
The flags are folded and the ceremony ends with a retreat that involves a brusque handshake between soldiers from either side, followed by the closing of the gates again. The spectacle of the ceremony attracts many visitors from both sides of the border, as well as international tourists.
Wagah is a town near the city of Amritsar.


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another new zealand thread
i dont know if any of you uys read my other post about me being in new zealand.....i am bored for an hour or two so i thought i would write another one
been out and about in auckland and the place seems well cool. i was so looking forward to getting away from the stresses of work and its great to be in such a cool country with boiling weather, with my best mate and plenty to do....but just being here has presented me with another problem/worry/something to bitch to myself about!
I look around this place and see some really good opportunities, a superb standard of living and people who are so friendly and relaxed....and wonder why i could never bring myself to move out here. i would love to have a crack at it but the security, familiarity and safeness of the UK would always win. I swear....i hate the winters in the UK...but i know if i came here i would kill to be in my house back in cardiff listening to the rain pissng down and the theme tune to eastenders on the tv.....arrrrgh, i hate myself a times!!! lol
still having a great holiday though!
i got mugged
when i was in auckland, true story.
but its still a great place, are you staying in auckland or are you gonna see other parts of NZ?
my mate
who i am staying with is a bit busy with work so i am off on a three day trip to paihia (bay of islands)...and cape reinga. apparently there is some kayacking, swimming with dolphins and sandboarding on the agenda! should be good!
this trip was meant to clear my head but i can see it being even more clouded when i get back!!


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Game 2 between the Rangers and Ottawa Senators was chippy and nasty from start to finish. Matt Carkner was a lunatic on his one shift, jumping Brian Boyle which led to Brandon Dubinsky to take a third-man in penalty and an ejection, along with Carkner.
Later in the game, Carl Hagelin checked Daniel Alfredsson, and his shoulder appeared to hit Alfredsson's head and was given a five minute major penalty. Alfredsson left the game with a possible concussion, and according to ESPN New York, Hagelin has a hearing with the league tomorrow.
Hagelin isn't the only one with a hearing tomorrow, as Chris Phillips elbowed Ryan Callahan in the second period, which resulted in a two minute minor.
A hit like Hagelin's gets a hearing, but Shea Weber smashing another players' head into the glass like he was fighting in the WWF gets a $2,500 fine? This league is so backwards.
Have to figure if Chris Kreider will be the guy to take his spot if anything does happen.
Game 3 is Monday night in Ottawa. The series is tied 1-1.
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I made this cute little treat using the Maid from SVG Cutting Files.
I stamped the sentiment "Thank You for your Service" on a banner from Candy Charms and Banner Dies. And put both of those on the Treat Tag Die.
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The company is prepared to a hold a conference tomorrow in which it will outline new business strategies that could include some content for mobile devices. Iwata says "how to utilise smart devices is the theme of our management policy conference (Thursday)".
Nintendo has been hit hard by terrible sales of the Wii U, which has been hurt by a limited game selection and now has brand new rivals in the Sony PS4 and Microsoft Xbox One.
The gaming company had expectations of 9 million Wii U unit sales for the fiscal year but just dropped that forecast to a lackluster 2.8 million. Sony and Microsoft have sold over 4 million consoles each in the last two months.


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SUGAR It's A-Pout Time! Vivid Lipstick: The Big Bang Berry Review
Candy Crow Tuesday, February 23, 2016
If you've been crushing over classic matte lips – the hottest lip trend on the runway – you'll totally adore SUGAR It's A-Pout Time! Vivid Lipstick. Creamy and moisturising, this lipstick combines the look of a classic matte lip with the benefit of incredible comfort. Enriched with micronized pigments and silica micro-beads, this matte lipstick glides on easily and settles to a gorgeous matte finish.
Blog Sale 2016 - PART 2
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Kama Ayurveda Pure Rose Water Review
Candy Crow Wednesday, February 17, 2016
KAMA Ayurveda Pure Rosewater is made from the roses of Kannauj, a region in North India, rich in white soil conductive to roses' growth. The Kannauj rose is considered special...it has the same specifications as the Bulgarian rose.The steam water distillation process used to create this wonderful rosewater ensures a high level of hygiene and unmatched purity.
Price: Rs 250 (50ml)
Kama rose water is one of the raved products of KAMA. It comes in a tinted spray mist bottle. It has the soothing fragrance of rose, it is free of chemicals (Non-alcoholic) and abtained through steam distillation. I spray it in my face after cleansing, it leaves my skin fresh and rejuvenated. It doesn't break me out or make my skin oily. It minimises the pore to an extent. It can be used as a toner, as well it can be mixed with any facial mask instead of water. It hydrates the skin and it's suitable for all skin type.
Kama rose water is a natural toner and astringent. You can go for it, if you are a fan of the natural product.
CC Rating: 4.5/5
Best 10 Skin Whitening Products For Men Available Online
Candy Crow Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Being a man does not mean that he is not interested in looking good and it is a fact that every man does care and worry about his skin. India is such a country where we see both the white and the dark and consider it as a genie factor as well. If anyone of you is anxious about the color of your skin or that your skin needs some pampering so that it looks fair and you look handsome, then you should be reading this article.
BBlunt High Definition Curl Defining Leave-In Cream Review
Candy Crow Monday, February 15, 2016
February 2016 Fab Bag Review
Candy Crow Friday, February 12, 2016
Blog Sale 2016 - LIVE
Candy Crow Tuesday, February 09, 2016
My vanity case is overflowing with beauty and makeup products, Here I am with my first blog sale.
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- Few of the products that are in the sale are unused, and they will be mentioned so.
- Sale of the items are in first come first served basis, If you are interested in buying any of the products leave a comment below and mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Candy Crow Monday, February 08, 2016
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Ramada Encore Domlur Bangalore Review
Candy Crow Thursday, February 04, 2016
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Ramada Encore Domlur, is located in Bangalore inner ring road. It is a contemporary style hotel. I stayed there for a couple of days. The location of the hotel is awesome; it has many restaurants within a walking distance of 10 minutes and couple of malls which are about 20 minutes drive from the hotel.
Maybelline ColorShow Glitter Mania Paparazzi Purple Review
Candy Crow Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Maybelline colorshow glitter mania polishes have a sand paper like texture effect; I have already reviewed Starry Nights and All that glitters from this range earlier.
Paparazzi Purple is a beautiful purple colour loaded with silver glitters of different size. It gives an opaque finish within 2-3 coats, it last without chipping for 3 days. Glitter mania polishes are a bit tough to remove when compared to the regular nail colours.
Overall, Maybelline glitter mania polishes are a good deal for the money we pay. Must try for glitter lovers.
CC Rating: 4.5/5
Maybelline Clear Glow Compact Review
Candy Crow Tuesday, February 02, 2016
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Being in a blogging frame of mind today, I would like to share my favorite chapter in a German textbook I once used. It addresses, of course, the mysteries of John Travolta. Note the Pynchonesque symbology utilized on the cover page. What are we to make of this?
This is followed by an equally intriguing diagram that seems to outline some kind of clandestine cabal led by Travolta's mother, involving Reagan, Superman, Germany and Englewood New Jersey. This can't be good!
Finally, a selection of doubtlessly coded phrases are provided, which if spoken in a precise order may persuade Travolta to share his hard-won secrets.
(Thanks to Mark Case, for mentioning "John Travolta" and "book" in the same Facebook post today and reminding me of this cherished tome.)


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This limited edition Acrylic Glass Print, designed by Lorna Moone, comes with a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity. Printed on archival-quality photo paper mounted on the back of a 1/8" thick, clear acrylic substrate, this artwork comes ready to hang on a wire attached to a wooden frame fixed on the back.
Heart of Gold is an abstract design featuring shades of gold, brown, and white wth a glasslike finish
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Host note: In our continuing series of information on the writing process, we offer this thoughtful and informative article on designing a quality book cover.
Hi, my name is Chris Coling and I'm one of the moderators for the writing group Writers Unite! I would like to promote a discussion about one of the most important parts of presenting your work to the public, namely the cover.
My writing name is Colin Gee, and I publish through Amazon on Kindle, and in paper through Createspace.
My credentials for this discussion are limited to being a relatively successful self-publisher who has been complimented on his covers; nothing more.
Admittedly, I spent quite some time on getting the concept correct [in my mind at least], involving research online and in bookshops, as well as driving my graphics man mad with tinkering.
The cover of your work is the first point of contact with a potential reader, and I believe an author should think long and hard about making sure that the initial contact draws the readers in, rather than pushes them away.
In my opinion, the cover is there to provide a strong visual clue as to the contents. I've seen books where the cover is a meaningless something that defies description. To me, no matter how nice it looks, or how much time it took to make, if it doesn't offer up something about the contents of your work, it's a waste of time.
I suspect most of us will start with the picture/graphic, against which we intend to set the other information.
This can be a dangerous area, as many images are legal minefields waiting to catch the unwary author.
My experience was helped by the genre in which I write, as there are many public domain photographs that are suitable. I also took my own photos and adapted them for purpose. Clearly, if you do that, then you know you are safe and sound and will not risk some legal interference later on down the line. Whatever you choose as your base graphic, exercise care and caution. That also applies to any other graphics you lay over the top.
Make sure you make the appropriate acknowledgments if you are using a work that is gratis, as some simply require that the owner/author be cited.
Having selected the right graphic, you can tinker with the presentation. Again, some pictures require that you record your alterations to the original.
You may decide to select a portion of a picture, rather than use the whole. It is important to remember that picture quality is very important and I would advise sticking to the original ratios to get the best display. If you cherry-pick a portion of a picture and then enlarge it, unless it is a super-duper HD image, you will lose definition.
In my case, the initial tinkering simply involved adding some colour to a B&W image. This also fitted in with my plan of using B&W images with coloured flags throughout, from different nations, using each cover to indicate which particular nation was the main protagonist within that book or was most central to the current story.
Perversely, that also backfired on me later in the series and my whole plan nearly fell apart. More of that down the page.
Adding extra images as overlays is no problem, provided you do it right. For my second book, my bro and I worked with some tank images, and trying to get the image quality the same as the picture on which they were mounted was a nightmare. I'm actually never really sure if we truly nailed it. If you're just putting an object on the original, it's less of a problem, but if you're trying to incorporate an overlay into the original image, it certainly is. Be careful here.
My titles to date are all chess terms, and I use chess as a back theme on all the covers, by fading a chessboard down from the top. Chess is an important game to the Russians, which also helps create a certain feeling. I also incorporate a red chess piece. Red has a clear and unavoidable association within my chosen genre. More of the piece later.
Clearly, text style is a major decision for you.
My research in bookshops quickly led me down the road of solid gold text. There was simply too much of it on display to ignore. Plus, I actually liked it. At the time you read this, there may be a different style favoured.
I did decide to have more than one text type on the cover, but again, the research showed that was a reasonable decision, so long as everything was legible and there was no confusion between font styles.
The layout suggested itself and followed reasonably conventional lines.
Title in large text at the top, followed by smaller text with the series info and author name, or vice versa for some of the titles. This may not work for your book, and you can see a number of different presentations on Amazon or in bookstores.
With the text, if you elect for a solid gold as I did, it clearly risks obstructing something in the image you may wish to fall under the reader's eye, so setting out your letters is important. Remember, with publishers like Createspace, there is a gutter zone into which you may not place any cover text. It's simple enough to launch their cover creator and experiment with that.
The decision to state that each book was part of a series was one I never foresaw as having any issues. It seemed quite reasonable to me. However, some of my feedback on 'Opening Moves' suggested that had a reader known it was a series of books, they would not have bought the first one. Weird of course, as it stated clearly in the synopsis and on the cover that they were a series, but interesting from the point of view that some people don't want to read a series of books. None the less, to my mind, it's fair to let a potential reader know.
During all of this layout work, I tended to have a mind towards the rest of the series.
To me, certain uniformity draws the series together. I would keep the same/similar font, text positioning, style, and the chess hints throughout, so whatever I decided for the first cover had to be a style that transferred easily to those that followed.
One thing that bugged me during my research was the extensive use of flowery fonts by some authors, many of whose books were traditionally published. Yes, some look very nice indeed, but I would suggest that, if a potential reader cannot read the cover without deep study at close quarters, then you will already have lost the cover browser type reader who, put simply, will move on as they are unable to understand the basic words of your title.
Back to the chess piece. It's a red queen. It's also damaged. It was a major clue to the overall story, hidden in plain sight. I think that it wasn't until book six came out that someone asked the question.
I incorporated the chess piece in the text [in the main,] occasionally in some other way. A bit-part character in book one is a Soviet intelligence officer who was wounded in the left foot. She, in the guise of the Red Queen, was sat on the front cover for the entire series. Whilst it was a risk, it certainly built up the 'you're a sneaky swine, Gee' kudos with my fan base. Such things may not be for you, indeed you may not have a story that supports similar efforts, but I enjoyed doing it, and the one I got over on thousands of readers. Perhaps that was nothing more than hubris on my part?
One way I was very fortunate was in having a graphics man in the family, namely my brother, Jason. It might have been easy to just accept something, in order not to annoy someone who had already invested hours in doing something for you free of charge, but I always felt it was worth getting right. The forbearance he showed in doing a whole piece of work again, simply to move something a fraction of a millimetre, was astounding.
I hope you are similarly fortunate, but my point is, do not let the cover go forward until it is, in your opinion, the best it can be. I reiterate, your cover is the first point of contact and therefore your best chance of hooking a potential reader in.
Back to the flags. I used a national flag on each cover, placing them on roads or rivers, each conforming to the lines of the original photo. It worked well and without problems, until I place the US flag on a road, over which US soldiers were running and a US tank was advancing.
Fortunately, I tend to post the covers in advance on my sites. There were rumbles about using the US flag in such a way, and having men trample on it. There had been no contrary views when using the Tricoleur, the German flag and others previously. Suddenly I was faced with a possible destruction of my overall flag plan. Fortunately, the books had just moved to the forming of NATO, so I thought on my feet and used the NATO flag instead, which was considered acceptable. I guess the lesson there is that, despite your best laid plans, there is always something that lies in wait to bite you in the backside. I was very lucky to get away with it. I've attached the US version of the cover so you can see what the fuss was about.
The spine is important if your book is to be sold through an outlet, less so if sold through Createspace or similar, and completely unnecessary if sold as an e-book. I simply used different colours and text displays on my Createspace offerings, alternating between a dark and light colour spine, and contrasting text. I wanted the name and author to be clear and easily read.
The rear cover has no worth in an e-book, but is clearly important for Createspace and bookshop sales. Remember to leave space in your design for the barcode, and remember the gutter policy of the company you are using!
I have tended to use the synopsis placed online in Amazon as the text for the back cover. Seems reasonable to me. A word of caution on the picture you choose to go underneath that text. The writing is likely to be smaller so the picture cannot be too busy, or words will risk getting lost. The pictures I have employed have supported the general theme of the book in question, but have never been intended to do anything other than form a relevant backdrop to the text that describes the book's contents. I have only ever used B&W photos on the rear covers, again to conform to the overall theme, and to make sure the text is clear and readable. I've included a single example to show you exactly what I mean.
You will now have a cover that you think is wonderful and extremely fantastic. Congratulations….. but….. Hold your horses, kemo sabay!
Show it to people you don't know, without them knowing it's yours. Friends and family can be notoriously unreliable when it comes to honestly and sincerity of feedback. I know from personal experience. Get opinions and listen to the criticisms. If you don't get any of that, I will be very surprised. Someone may see something very basic that you, in your glee, have missed.
Please don't let pride get in the way here. If someone else spotted it, take it on the chin and be happy that you have a better cover because of it.
Hopefully, by the end of your journey, you will then have a cover that is everything you hoped for, and that will entrap potential readers with its message.
If I have managed to give you some ideas, then that is great. If I've bored you to death, I apologise. This would have been 2077 words towards my latest tome… err 2085
Just remember to make good choices, and the best of luck with your covers.
Do feel free to critique my covers and destroy them openly! I'll cope.
These are the covers of the books that are presently out. I include an example of a rear cover for your information, and the US flag version of 'Initiative' that was never used.
Chris Coling is a retired firefighter and currently works at the local hospital. A part-time writer, he is presently working on his eighth and last book in an alternate-history series, with other ideas waiting in the wings. He writes for himself in the first instance but also enjoys the fact that his books are now read widely. He resides in England.


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As the title reveals it, I went ice-skating this weekend. It is one of my favorite winter sports. When I was little, I was a figure skater too. So I try to go ice-skating as much as possible in order not to loose my skills, to meet my friends and simply to have fun. I can`t wait to return to the skating rink ;)


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Can I ask you something – do you have trouble falling asleep? If YES, then please read on. Yes, in this article we're going to show you how to train your brain to fall asleep in less than 1 minute. But, before we do that, we would like to say a few words about insomnia.
Ladies and gentlemen, I really think that you'll be shocked when we tell you that than 30% of American adults suffer from insomnia, with 10% saying that it results in consequences during the daytime? This means that almost 1 in 3 of every American adult is not getting a sufficient amount of sleep, and it is severely affecting 1 in 10 of them – which is really bad. Almost half of Americans complain about not getting enough sleep, regardless of an insomnia diagnoses.
Insomnia is a common diagnosis for people who are unable to sleep. Insomnia can be caused by many different factors, such as: having a hard time falling asleep, frequently waking up during sleep, waking up too early or simply just not getting a deep, restful sleep. The experts also say that the causes of insomnia are either biological, psychological or social factors. These can also include anxiety, depression, high blood pressure or medical problems or illnesses.
Note that insomnia is slightly different from sleep deprivation. Insomnia is generally defined by having the proper resources and environment to sleep in, but having internal factors that keep you from sleeping. Sleep deprivation different because it can be caused by insomnia but can also be caused by external factors such as loud noises, being physically uncomfortable or being surrounded by too much light.
The causes of insomnia and sleep deprivation can be different, but the outcome is the same – a lack of sleep. Not getting enough sleep can cause a variety of unpleasant symptoms that can affect your daily life.
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- Irritability and anger
- Fatigue during the daytime
- Anxiety
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- Poor memory
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- Upset stomach
- Lack of coordination
But, enough talk. Let's get back to our subject. First, you should know that this amazing method was developed by a wellness practitioner, Harvard-educated Dr. Andrew Weil, who studies meditation, breathing, and how it can be used to counteract stress.
Here's what you need to do – it's very simple. You just breathe in through your nose for four seconds, hold it for seven seconds, and exhale through your mouth for eight seconds. This technique slows down your heart rate and it releases chemicals in our brains that soothe you. And, one last thing – by using this breathing method, you counteract the natural effects of adrenaline and your body is forced to slow down your heart rate. It simply doesn't have a choice! When you begin, you may feel a tad uncomfortable. But as you continue with it, you really do feel your heart rate slow and your mind clear. Take a look at the video below and don't forget to share.
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We have posted an installer for the old NIV Study Bible Complete Library. The installer requires that CD-ROM and Accordance version 6.0 or higher, and will install all the modules as well as Accordance 6.9.2.
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The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held a hearing Thursday on the much-needed draft bill to revise the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the 2008 law that has rolled a wrecking ball through businesses as diverse as motorcycle and bicycle manufacturers, bookstores, the fashion industry, ball-point pen companies, thrift stores, and home-based toy- and doll-makers.
The committee's background memo lays out the provisions of the draft bill. Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack discussed the legislation's goals in her opening statement. Excerpt:
The discussion draft aims to reduce the regulatory burdens of the law without undercutting consumer protection. A fundamental premise is that the Commission can actually protect consumers far better when it is allowed to set priorities and regulate based on risk. Where possible, we should spare the Commission from having to make time-consuming, case-by-case determinations, and let it spend more time on bigger problems. This is especially true in our current budget climate, where we have to make the most of scarce agency resources.
That emphasis on risk-based analysis is very important. The current CPSIA has forced the Consumer Product Safety Commission to enforce regulations on lead content, for example, that have no relation to risk — that is, no risk to consumer safety — causing the CPSC to misallocate personnel and resources that could be more effectively used in other areas.
It was gratifying to hear Robert Jay Howell, the CPSC's assistant executive director on hazard identification and reduction, endorse the risk-based approach toward regulation during Q&A. (Although, as he made clear in his prepared statement, he was testifying in his personal capacity.)
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Some 28mm Lancashire Romans I did years ago. Not the best quality figures but I was very fond of them because they were the first 28mm figures I actually got finished. They were old school gloss varnished.
Lancashire figures have quite varied poses.
These particular shields have an embossed design so easy to paint.
A unit of auxiliaries, hand painted shields again
All of them together. I sold them to a gamer in Australia.
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No, it isn't Saturday morning, but isn't this how summer is supposed to be? Lazy mornings, cartoons for the little one, video games for the big ones... not a care in the world. Days spent at the pool, making your own popsicles and eating them on the swing outside, sleep-overs, arts-and-crafts, and sleeping in. This is my idea of a great summer! If this keeps up, this will be our best summer yet. (I think I say that every year.)
For me, there is a very fine line between letting your kids enjoy their time off and spoiling them rotten. We haven't gotten to the rotten stage, yet. I will admit that I've bought them more stuff in the past month than I probably should have, I've spent more on their entertainment than was necessary, and I've catered to their whims a whole lot more than I normally would - all in the name of them thinking back and saying "this summer was AWESOME!" Throw in that we have all three birthdays in the summer and maybe I don't feel so guilty for all of their guilty pleasures.
I call myself offsetting this by making them do a lot more than their normal chores. I keep telling them that if they want me to take them for an entire day of fun then they have to earn it with SUPER behavior and lots of hard work at home. I don't know if that's the right way to do this stuff or not.. but for now it's the way I'm going.
Today we'll be going to see Toy Story 3 (because Madison's 9th birthday was yesterday and this was her special request for where she wanted to go) and Saturday I have a girls day out of shopping in Little Rock planned. (Daddy can plan a fun boys day in...)
Hmm.. maybe it is getting a bit excessive.. but if we're all happy and no one is turning into a greedy-monster then I think we'll just relax and enjoy it.
How do you decide where to draw the line with doing things with and for your kids, and buying them things? Do you let their behavior dictate what they earn? A set amount of money for the month? Let them earn more stuff by more work? All of the above?


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^The Gold BraceletSo, as you may or may not know, it is my immediate goal to accumulate wealth. So in the past month, I've been selling loads of stuff I've been hoarding in my room on eBay, which has been brilliant, to be put simply. If you want to buy from me, feel free... heh heh heh...
^ Top left antique silver, top right bronze, bottom left gold, bottom right chrome.
Yesterday I finally decided to buy these wraparound Dragon Claw bracelets that I've had my eye on for a while. I don't know why but I just really like the look of them. My Mama took one look and said 'Ohh nooo, that's HORRIBLE.' (-sigh- ... Thank You, Mother e_e ) Anyway, as it was an auction listing constantly renewed, being at home and at a computer to bid on it wasn't possible for weeks. Then yesterday, I saw two bids ending and suddenly thought, 'Hey, I can bid on them! DO IT DO IT DO IT' - so I bid on both the gold and bronze bracelets and to my total surprise I actually won them both! It was my first time ever bidding on eBay, and I was pretty damn chuffed.
^ From left to right: bronze bracelet, bronze bracelet, silver bracelet.
I bought them from jolinfashionjewel on eBay. They're coming from China so I've got to wait about two weeks for them, but I don't care. I'm beyond happy. So happy, I may even give the gold one to my luvly luvly Lizard as a present. In truth, I prefer the bronze one anyway and only bid on gold in case I didn't get it - but I think Liz would like gold. I adore Liz, haven't seen the girl in ages. Hey, the bracelet can be interest for the Christmas present that I have for her still sitting in my room. Ha, that'll make her laugh.
So, since then I've had the guilty thought of also buying the silver bracelet AND the dragon claw rings... plus there's this cute set of 8 rings that I want with positive words on them like Hope, Love, Peace and so on... but seeing as I currently have £0.19 in my current account, it might be more sensible to wait.
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This is the first part of a series that will (hopefully) explore what needs to be done in order to defeat terrorism.
The first item on the list that needs to be done is establish Unity. No, this is not holding hands, chanting "Oooooommmmmm" and being one with the universe. Rather, this is having a common national direction from the citizens of the United States and the elected representatives to our Government.
I look back to the days immediately following 9/11, where both political parties and the population were united in our desire to find, punish, & destroy the terrorist organization that inflicted such damage & casualties upon this country. I wondered at that time how long that desire, that single-mindedness was going to last. I didn't have to wait for long for the political opportunists to start their misinformation and spin campaigns.
What happened? Where did the desire, the "fire in the belly" go to? I have a few thoughts on this.
In one nutshell, the Democrat Liberals want power. They are desperate to show that the current Administration is inept, and cannot bring this war to a quick and successful conclusion. Of course, the Conservative Republicans want to hold on to the power that they have, and fight back with counter-claims that the opposition doesn't have a plan, as no idea what is at stake, and is out of touch with the wishes of the common man. It does not matter what facts have been presented or proven to show that (in my opinion) the current course of action is correct, the political war continues within our government. Political infighting is costly in more than one way.
In another nutshell, the average citizen has the attention span of a gnat. Our entertainment media has conditioned us to believe that crimes can be solved in an hour, Dr. Phil can mend a relationship in ten minutes, and a new American Idol can be selected in a matter of weeks. Mention that a war against terror will last years, and there is absolutely no comprehension. "Why can't we (the US) get this done & over with?" is the most common question I hear from various people.
Another nutshell is media related. Remember the videos of the first Iraq war? How many of us were facinated by bombs dropping on a certain building or bridge? How neat & clean was that? War in recent times has been shown to be relatively bloodless and extremely high-tech. I will be one of the first people to tell you that wars are far from bloodless, and technology has just made the battlefield all that much more deadly. Again, the general public has no idea that war involves bloody death until those pictures are shown on the nightly news (or every half-hour on CNN's Headline News).
The end result of the above examples is that our attention is diverted from the goal of eliminating terrorist threats to the United States and to the world. The more attention that is given to the political arguments & sniping and to the defense of those arguments is less attention given to defeating terrorist activities. For the average citizen to not understand that this war against terrorism is real and not a TV show subtracts from the long-term will to get the job done.
The problem is that this country is not fighting against another country as in World War II, but against a shadowy, unknown adversary who does not have a country. Rather, it is an ideology that most people have either no understanding of or faulty information about. It is incomprehensible for most people to understand that there are a bunch of radical people out there that want to destroy their way of life and them even after 9/11.
Bottom line: The politicians and the citizens of this country need to understand that this enemy will not go away by themselves. We must be committed from the highest government positions to the most humble citizen to defending this country from the threat of terrorism. And that is the first step in defeating terrorism.


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So glad everything was fine.
So glad everything was fine.
Thanks very much for the update!
Could you please let me know if your wife was arrested and had fingerprints taken?
Colin, read Reply #442.
Apologies Terry!
I did have a brief look and couldn't find the original post!!
I would be keen to hear any stories from anyone who may have travelled on the VWP after being arrested for assault, fingerprinted, released on bail and then all proceedings dropped!
Interesting one !!
Hello all from Dallas Fort Worth airport!
I posted (425 429) with a very long post about what I found throughout the whole thread and what my position was.
But today, I got a visa stamped and it all went smoothly without a hitch!
So as I' m an adult, with controlled substance convictions from 1995 and 1998 and a fraud conviction from 1999, I said no on the esta and got through.
I gave my electronic prints, my picture and now they should remain in the system, so continue to say no and hopefully continue to be allowed to enter the USA.
So unless they can do a more detailed spot check if they feel it necessary, Of which only 3000 checks per year allowed at present,( see ukba fcc document) i can only presume with confidence, that no paper and ink fingerprints were scanned from the uk and sent to the USA system, nor any crb or police computer data has been sent.
What I have done has defrauded the us border control and I have not answered honestly to the esta, but had I self reported a controlled substance crime I would not have been allowed in due to my convictions of possession, cultivation and supply of cannabis. Convictions with cso's not prison. But fraud is moral turpitude which could be considered negotiable with the us embassy, but drugs in my opinion from previous posts appears a non starter.
So my advice is say NO to drugs!!!!! And have fun in the USA!!
How my status will apply to Australia , New Zealand, Canada and South Africa is yet to be found out. So if anyone know any info about that then please post, perhaps on a clearer and more concise thread than most of the useless rubbish on this one.
Also I requested a freedom of info , this is what they replied after 6 weeks!
Information requested
I would like to know exactly what Data has been shared with the FCC, the US in particular. Please can you tell me exactly:
i) What Biometric Data has been shared with the US, old paper and ink fingerprints, digital prints, retinal scans, DNA etc?
We share sets of electronic fingerprint records, which have been anonymised by removal of biographic data.
ii) From what Date has this data has been shared?
We started to share data with Australia and Canada on 3 November 2009. The arrangement was extended to the United States on 1 July 2010 and to New Zealand on 26 January 2011.
iii) From what source, Police National Computer or data base has the data has been captured?
The data shared with FCC partner countries is obtained from records held within the Immigration and Asylum Biometric System operated by the Home Office.
This then appears to suggest that all biometric info is from UK immigration, so not internal criminal , unless you're a super bad criminal , perhaps!
Big up to cheers terry and all that posted relevant factual info here!
And I hope this gives hope to all the people out there who shouldn't be punished with their families for ever for stupid shit that everyone can do!
I've still got 6 hours and travelled since 10am from Manchester today so after 22 hours i'm getting emotional!
Safe travels
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"... Big up to cheers terry and all that posted relevant factual info here! And I hope this gives hope to all the people out there who shouldn't be punished with their families for ever for stupid shit that everyone can do!..."
All the best to you, Eyespy.
Happy travels!
I have conviction of theft from employer from 2002.
Should I get Visa?
Also - do the US and UK share finger prints?
Do the US and UK share crim record details?
Sarah, your question has been answered over and over and over throughout this thread.
In my personal opinion I would advise you to forget it ever happened and wipe it from your memory banks. Nothing is for sure though, you're always rolling the dice somewhat.
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To find the last numeric value in a row that may include blank cells, use this formula;
The row_lookup_range is the range of cells (A2:M2) in a single row or an entire row (2:2) in which we want to find the last value. The clever thing about this formula is the way it uses the MATCH function. MATCH(lookup_value,lookup_range,match_type)
If you are familiar with Excel's lookup functions, you will know that they can be used to find an exact match or a closest match. In the MATCH function, this is determined by the third argument of the function, which by default (i.e. if omitted from the formula) is 1, and finds the largest value that is less than or equal to the lookup_value. In most cases with the MATCH function, the values are required to be in ascending order. However, for this solution we are not required to have the values in ascending order but will instead use this to help solve our problem.
Explanation of MATCH(9.99999999999999E+307,row_lookup_range):
This is actually pretty simple (though very clever). Here we use a lookup_value (9.99999999999999E+307 – the highest possible value in Excel) that is higher than any value that will be in our row_lookup_range. In fact, you could use MATCH(1000000,row_lookup_range) if the maximum value in the range will always be less than a million.
When the MATCH function looks through the row_lookup_range for the lookup_value, it doesn't find it. Then by default (the match_type argument of the function is omitted) it looks from right to left in the row_lookup_range and returns the last numeric value that is less than or equal to the lookup_value, which turns out to be the last value entered in the row.
To find the last NUMERIC value in a 'column' we adapt the same formula to be:
To find the last TEXT value in a row we can use:
To find the last TEXT value in a column we can use:
If our row_lookup_range does not include blanks, we can take a simpler approach with these formulas…
For last value in a row that has no blank cells:
For last value in a column that has no blank cells: