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|Last Saturday (27th Sept 2014): Shayne's final year-end graduation performance and ceremony. All the kids, including Shayne, had to get up at 7am and they rehearsed and performed till 1pm on that day! Hats off to all of them. Such great performers.
|All ready to enter Primary 1 in 3 months time... Time flies. :`(
|Unfortunately, Shayne had a high fever on the day of his graduation performance and he even vomitted a few times on Sunday and the night before. My poor sick child. :`((
|A photo taken this afternoon. Thankfully, he was finally feeling better after 3 days and he could even smile for the camera! Yay! :)
|Playing with his little toys: Mr Ninja turtle on a police bike, Mr Pizza and his fellow friend, and Mr Car-racer (which he pieced together all by himself!).
|Last but not least, a photo of (serious) Baby Nathan holding a spoon and doing a certain trick all by himself! Haha ;)
|1. First, you hold the spoon
|2. Next, you turn the spoon sideways slightly...
|3. Finally, you flip the spoon over using your fingers and balance it on your hand! TADAA!!
Haha my family actually sent me these 4 photos of baby Nathan performing the spoon trick while I was at work. When I'm at work and I feel bored or lonely, I'll look forward to the photos which my family will send to me. Sometimes they'll send some funny photos of my sons, or random GIFs/memes, and it really makes my day at work much brighter and enjoyable. ;)
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Today Flavorwire's Paul Hiebert visits the Outsider Art Fair in New York and asks various collectors, scholars and curators how they define outsider art. Their responses vary with some calling it a pejorative term, some claiming the art lumped together as outsider art is so disparate it can hardly be called a movement, and some finding magic in its lack of filters. Michael Moon's new book Darger's Resources examines the life and work of Henry Darger, considered an outsider artist by many. In this excerpt from the book's introduction, Moon explains that his project is to confront the myth of Darger as an insane loner.
Contemplating the "outsider artist" Henry Darger (1892–1973), we begin with the myth of a life and career that is in some ways already deep-rooted,despite his having become the focus of much public attention only in thepast ten years or so. The myth holds that Darger produced his work in something approaching absolute isolation, never showing it to anyone else, laboring over it continuously for sixty completely solitary years, coming homefrom his job as a janitor and writing and painting through the evening, perhaps far into the night, with nary a response from anyone else. Even in comparison with the lives of other so-called outsider artists and writers, Darger's sounds as though it may have been the loneliest ever.This book has been written to try to help dispel that myth. This is notto deny that Darger led an outwardly solitary existence, nor that he seemsto have succeeded in keeping his literary and artistic work to himself. It is,rather, to insist that although he appears to have strenuously avoided contact with his neighbors and fellow workers, he fashioned a populous other world for himself, in which he could live out a virtual existence replete with boththe intense excitement and the lively sociability that seems so conspicuously missing from his allegedly real life.Although the bare outlines of Darger's situation may look almost like a parody of the Romantic idea of the solitary, isolated, tragically misunderstood artist, his work, when one studies it, reveals itself as having been highly relational and even in some ways collaborative. One thing about whichalmost everyone who has reflected on Darger's work agrees is that it is appropriativein the extreme: he traced the figures that appear in his art out ofcoloring books, comic strips, newspapers, and magazines, and he collaged into his drawings images as diverse as Roman Catholic holy-card depictions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the little Coppertone girl having her swimsuit bottom pulled partway down by a playful cocker spaniel, and a celebratedlandscape painting of an ominous "calm before the storm" (a theme dear to Darger) by the nineteenth-century artist Martin Johnson Heade. Similarly, in his 15,000-page-long The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms ofthe Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion,he sometimes reproduces entire chapters, with only occasional changes of names and wording, from books as varied as John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and James Oliver Curwood's The Flaming Forest, a 1920s male adventure andromance novel about Mounties fighting fires in the wilds of Canada. Darger not only "borrows" characters and situations from novels, histories, piousdevotional works, newspaper comic strips, and children's serial books (The Wizard of Oz, Heidi, The Bobbsey Twins, The Banner Boy Scouts, and the sequels to all of these), at times juxtaposing Mutt and Jeff with Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva or Charles Dickens's Fagin and Bill Sykes. Far from living in some kind of historical and cultural vacuum, Dargerin his extremely productive—albeit invisible to his contemporaries—career as a writer and artist enacted and embodied a new set of possibilities for amember of his proletarian class, living as a working adult outside any family structure. Darger was literate in a highly absorptive way but also in a highly productive way—unlike most omnivorous readers, he probably wrote even more than he read. He may have received some elementary (but, given his talent, extremely stimulating and valuable) training in watercolor painting in the institution where he spent his adolescence. Learning to read as he may well have done from the blazing color pages of the Sunday comics (he and the Sunday comics were born the same year), Darger also grew up with the movies and an unprecedented tide of popular and cheap print—the illustrated children's books, devotional pamphlets and prayer cards, and pulp magazines that, taken together, offer the closest analogues to the kinds of material Darger wrote, drew, and painted. In retrospect, we can see him as, in his way, a heroic and inspired cultural worker participating (as manyof his contemporaries were) in an emerging proletarian public sphere that flourished for a few decades early in the twentieth century.
Excerpt copyright Duke University Press, 2012. Darger's Resources will be published in March.

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'Salish' the giant Octopus will 'graduate' from MaST Center on Sat., June 11
Salish, the MaST Center's resident Giant Pacific Octopus since October 2015, will "graduate" and be released back into the Puget Sound by a dive team on Saturday, June 11.
The release will happen between 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., and will also be broadcast LIVE from the MaST Center at https://mast.highline.edu.
Cake and light refreshments will be served.
This even is FREE and open to the public!
Highline MAST Aquarium at Redondo is located at 28203 Redondo Beach Drive S.
Here's a video of a previous "graduation":


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Homeowners use chainsaws to tackle many tasks around their home and yard. While sharpening a chainsaw's blade is a part of regular maintenance for the versatile tool, the upkeep of the chainsaw bar is equally important. The chainsaw bar is the piece that extends from the chainsaw's handle. The bar fits over the chain blade. Sometimes the chainsaw bar bends or breaks while handling heavy jobs. Severely bent chainsaw bars need to be replaced. However, a mildly bent bar can be straightened by following a few simple steps.
Things You'll Need
- Socket set
- Screwdriver
- Vise
- Flat work table
- Pliers
- Rubber mallet
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Lift the blade guard into the up position.
Remove the bolts or screws that hold the chainsaw's bar in place.
Slip the chain blade off the bar.
Remove the bar and examine the bend.
Place the bar inside a vise. Clamp the bar firmly in place.
Use pliers to pry the bar back into position.
Remove the bar from the vise. Place the bar flat on a workbench.
Tap the bar with the rubber mallet to help work the bend out. Repeat until the bar is straight and flat.
Slip the chain blade back over the bar.
Reattach the bar to the base of the saw by replacing the mounting bolts.


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LPI partners with Portuguese government agency on Linux certification and training
"This agreement demonstrates the growing need of academic institutions around the world to embrace professional IT skills certification in Linux and Open Source. LPI is ideally positioned to serve this need due to our vendor-neutral position and our acceptance as a recognized global standard in Linux certification," said Jim Lacey, president and CEO of the Linux Professional Institute. Mr. Lacey indicated that LPI's affiliate in the region would be providing "train-the-trainer" programs to certify instructors within participating academic institutions under this initiative in addition to recruiting LPI Approved Training Partners (LPI-ATP) and LPI Approved Academic Partners (LPI-AAP).
Luís Magalhães, President of UMIC, added that "with the inclusion of LPI in the ICT Academies on Higher Education launched and steered by UMIC, these academies can now provide training and certification of skills in key areas of open source technology and free software, which are having a growing demand both in the private and public sector in Portugal." He noted that LPI joins a number of other recognized IT training and certification programs that have been working with UMIC within higher education institutions in Portugal and include Microsoft, Cisco Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems and SAP. The announcement of LPI's inclusion within the EMIC program was made during the European Commission's 1st European e-Skills Week and included an additional announcement of EMIC's initiative with SAS on training and certification in IT management and business analysis.
The Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education through UMIC has also been working with Portugal's universities and polytechnics over the past five years to develop more than 60 professional training courses in ICT for more than 2,200 students. These courses provide for a nationally-recognized technological specialization diploma offered by 28 institutions--both public and private--and are in response to the growing need in both the ICT industry and user organizations for trained personnel with professional skills.
The Linux Professional Institute is globally supported by the IT industry, enterprise customers, community professionals, government entities and the educational community. LPI's certification program is supported by an affiliate network spanning five continents and is distributed worldwide in multiple languages in more than 7,000 testing locations. Since 1999, LPI has delivered over 230,000 exams and 75,000 LPIC certifications around the world.
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About the Linux Professional Institute:
The Linux Professional Institute promotes and certifies essential skills on Linux and Open Source technologies through the global delivery of comprehensive, top-quality, vendor-independent exams. Established as an international non-profit organization in September 1999 by the Linux community, the Linux Professional Institute continues to demonstrate recognized global leadership in the certification of Linux professionals. LPI advances the Linux and Open Source movement through strategic partners, sponsorships, innovative programs and community development activities. LPI's major financial sponsors are Platinum Sponsors IBM, Linux Journal, Linux Magazine, Novell, SGI, and TurboLinux as well as Gold Sponsors, HP and IDG.
UMIC - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento, IP is the Portuguese
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information society and mobilize it by promoting awareness,
qualification and research activities. As part of its mission, UMIC
promotes the formation and recognition of ICT skills. See
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Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Stump the Priest: When is an Icon an Icon?
Question: "When is an icon an icon? Do all depictions of Christ, even heterodox ones, deserve respect by not throwing them in the trash? Do Church bulletins that have crosses or even icons on them need to be put in the parish burn barrel? What about the Holy Scriptures? I would never throw away a Holy Bible, but what about announcements or periodicals that quote the Divine Scriptures?"
Fr. Steven Bigham recently posted an extensive article which argues that the practice of blessing Icons is not ancient, and presents a great deal of evidence that an icon was historically considered to be worthy of veneration simply by virtue of the holy image that is depicted on that icon. However, this same article suggests that the practice of blessing icons is something that is today only questioned by a "very few".
I would say that there is certainly truth to the statement that an icon is an icon by virtue of the image that is depicted. No pious Orthodox Christian would treat an unblessed icon of Christ, the Virgin Mary, or of the Saints with disrespect. And so, I think it is a good and pious practice to burn icons that would otherwise be thrown into the trash. Personally, I also burn non-Orthodox images of Christ or the saints, rather than throw them away, because even though the image is not Orthodox, it still depicts those whom I honor. So in my home, I keep a coffee can that is for holy things that need to be burned, and when the can is full, I burn its contents. You can also bury such things. I would treat a Bible that is no longer usable the same way. However, I think texts that simply have quotes from Scripture are not quite the same thing.
We should also be careful about who we give icons to, even if not blessed. Icon greeting cards have become very popular, but if you send one to someone who is not Orthodox, and not likely to show such images proper respect, and it ends up in the trash, this is disrespectful to persons depicted by these icons.
I don't share Fr. Steven Bigham's objection to blessing icons, however. For one thing, towards the end of his article, he recognizes the utility of doing a service that would put the Church's stamp of approval on an icon, and thus make clear that the image was a proper icon, and he also recognizes the utility of recognizing the beginning of its use and veneration in the Church. Fr. Steven even provides his own rendition of the kind of services he thinks should be used.
First off, in the Russian practice (which I believe is also followed by the OCA), there is an oath of ordination that a priest takes before he is ordained, and in this oath, the candidate promises "...to perform all liturgical services or prayers according to the rules of the Church...." and to perform the services as "prescribed by the rubrics," and he acknowledges to never "forget that a clergyman may do nothing without the sanction of his bishop." Therefore, a priest is obligated to serve in accordance with the services sanctioned by the bishops of his local Church. And so making up services on our own, or doing or neglecting to do services based on personal opinion is forbidden.
Secondly, there is a need we feel to bless and set apart those things that will be used for our services which we see as far back as the time of the Prophet Moses, who blessed and sanctified all the elements of the Tabernacle, most of which had icons of cherubim on them (Numbers 7:1). Fr. Steven himself acknowledges this to some extent when he proposes having services that recognize the beginning of the use of an icon by the Church.
Thirdly, we bless our churches and homes every year, liberally sprinkling Holy Water on everything, especially the icons. So I don't see any reason why we would not want to sprinkle Holy Water on icons when we first begin to put them into use.
The services for the blessing of icons are beautiful, and lay out why we venerate them, and how we understand them. They are a means of receiving these icons with thanksgiving, and setting them apart for their intended use. The fact that only a few would today object to them is also a good indication that there is nothing wrong with the practice.


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This is a fairly common problem for a number of painters. Many times we'll paint a miniature, and either the washes come out glossy and shiny, or the paint itself inherently dries to a candy-like finish. The common fix is to hit the model with a coat of matt sealer spray when it's done. Not only does the sealer spray tone down the shininess, but it also gives the model a transparent protective coat that helps defend it against some minor wear and tear.
While I've used matte sealer from companies like Games Workshop, Privateer Press, Armoury, Ral Partha, Army Painter, and others, I keep coming back to Testor's Dullcote for the flattest finish of all of them. My experience is that matte sealers from gaming companies are slightly more durable, but aren't quite as matte to the eye as ones from dedicated modelling companies (who aren't as concerned about durability). Testor's Dullcote (which comes in fairly small cans) has earned quite the reputation from numerous painters as the go-to matte spray sealer when you have a model with a shiny finish that needs killing.
However, spray sealers have their weaknesses. They often have a hard time reaching the deepest recesses of a model. They often go glossy when we get heavy-handed with them. Unless you mask off certain areas, they cover EVERYTHING on the model with the same finish (which stinks if you want your metallics to be shiny, and your gems to be glossy, but everything else to be flat). They can give a cloudy finish if the can is not shaken well enough, spray from too far away on a hot day (the spray can dry before it even hits the model), or if you are spraying in the cold. And often times, they just aren't matte enough to do the job, especially when the model is especially shiny. What's a model painter to do, if this is the case?
Well, that's when matte medium comes to the rescue. Normally, we use matte medium as a painting medium... which is to say that it's designed to be mixed in with our paints on the painting palette. It's slightly cloudy when wet, but dries clear, and most importantly of all, it dries incredibly matte. It's just the trick for thinning out your paints and inks, without getting the runny-ness of thinning with water alone (using water alone also dilutes the binders that make the pigments spread evenly, causing the colours to break up somewhat as you are painting). Mixing a tiny bit of matte medium with the paint and water on your palette allows you to create weakly pigmented paints that are great for glazing and translucent layering, but still retaining enough body and thickness to retain easy control over where you are laying it down.
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Years and years ago, shortly after I found some acrylic matte medium in the art stores (before they started showing up in gaming shops in the Vallejo miniature painting line), I thought of trying it out straight up, without mixing any paints in with it. I was using inks quite heavily at the time, which were great for creating washes for shading. However, inks have a tendency to dry very, very glossy. This created quite a problem, as the recesses of my models were catching more ambient light than the highlighted raised detail! The usual fix, spray matte sealer, wasn't doing a great job of countering this, as these were the areas that spray was least likely to reach as well.
I put some on my painting palette, thinned it with a tiny amount of water in order to get it to flow off the brush smoothly (it's a bit too thick straight from the pot), and then proceeded to lay it down like I would with a glaze (only this "glaze" was completely transparent when dry). To my pleasant surprise, it worked like a charm.
By applying it by brush, I had a level of control I wouldn't have had with a spray can. This was long before airbrushes really caught on in our hobby, and so I had to use a sable brush at the time. I could place the matte sealer precisely where I wanted it, avoid areas I didn't want to dull down, and also control the consistency of the matte glaze. And it dried MUCH flatter than any spray matte sealer out there... even more so than the much celebrated Testors Dullcote.
As with anything, there were some trade-offs. It was more time-consuming than a rattle can, of course, but this wasn't something I would do on an entire unit or army anyway. Also, if you brushed it on too quickly, or if it was watered down a bit too much, it would froth up and create bubbles on the miniature (this was fixed by brushing out the bubbles with a moist brush while the matte medium was still wet on the model... an easy but time-consuming fix). And in many cases, a second coat was needed as any missed spots wouldn't show up until after the first coat dried completely.
One more thing to note is that matte sealer is matte because it has a very fine texture to it that disrupts any light from bouncing off it in a reflective manner. Gloss sealer is glossy because it dries to a smooth, polished, mirror-like finish. If you are planning on putting any decals on AFTER using matte sealer, it's best to put down a layer of gloss sealer where you want the decal to go beforehand. If you have a matte medium or matte spray underneath a decal, the decal will trap tiny air bubbles underneath it due to the rough pebbly surface of the matte sealer. When dry, it will give your decal a "silvered" finish, which makes it extremely obvious that it's a decal, instead of giving the impression of something painted on. After the decal is set, you can always apply matte sealer over top to kill any residual shine.
By the careful use and placement of brush-on matte medium, satin varnish, and gloss varnish, you can control the types of finish you want on every part of your model. For example, you may use matte medium over the clothing, skin, etc., while using satin varnish over the metals, and gloss varnish over glass, eyes, and gems. This allows you add another level of contrast and realism to your models.
This became such a staple and fundamental part of my miniature painting techniques, that I didn't realize that there were a number of painters out there that relied solely on spray matte sealer to kill shiny finishes. The casual gamers that I hung out with didn't seem to mind this issue much, but more serious painters would. It wasn't until I started blogging, and following other people's blogs, that I realized that there were any high level painters that didn't figure this out for themselves.
Two painters that I follow quite religiously are Dave Soper and Jarrett Lee. Both have done what I never have, which is win Golden Demons, and in Mr. Soper's case, multiple Slayer Swords. Dave struggled with a Dark Eldar diorama that he had applied some of the new GW washes on, and Jarrett had some Zombicide models that came out pretty glossy after washing them with inks. In the comments section of their blogs, I suggested they try using Vallejo Matt Medium as a paint-on spot solution to their issues:
In both cases, this solution worked like a charm. I even joked on Dave Soper's blog that I would now be able to take partial credit for any Slayer Swords he won from then on... and then he went on to win multiple Slayer Swords!
This is probably the closest I'll ever get to winning a Sword. Sad, really. :(
Anyway, I think is a good example of how even the best painters in the world never stop learning. And that often the best tips come from newer or less experienced painters, who often come at an issue from a fresh perspective.


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Weight-loss surgery designed to combat over-eating and obesity can benefit the brain as well as the waistline, research suggests.
There is even some evidence that it may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, scientists believe.
Bariatric surgery is generally used as a last resort to help people who are dangerously overweight. It involves either reducing the size of the stomach or shortening the distance food travels through the digestive tract.
"We found some areas of their brains metabolised (processed to produce energy) sugars at a higher rate than normal weight women"
Cintia Cercato
The procedures, available on the NHS, are known to be highly effective in cases of serious obesity. But they also appear to have a positive influence on brain activity, according to the new findings.
A study of the impact of bariatric surgery on 17 obese women found it produced distinct improvements in mental functions linked to planning, strategy and organisation.
Professor Cintia Cercato, from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, said: "When we studied obese women prior to bariatric surgery, we found some areas of their brains metabolised (processed to produce energy) sugars at a higher rate than normal weight women.
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"In particular, obesity led to altered activity in a part of the brain linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease – the posterior cingulate gyrus," she said.
"Since bariatric surgery reversed this activity, we suspect the procedure may contribute to a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia," she added.
It was already known that obese individuals are 35% more at risk of developing Alzheimer's than people of normal weight.
The research focused on a procedure known as a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYBG) which combines the two types of bariatric surgery.
Positron emission tomography (PET) brain scans and a range of neuropsychological tests were used to assess its effect over a period of six months.
Results from the obese women were compared with those from a "control" group of 16 lean women who did not undergo bariatric surgery.
The scans showed that the excessive brain activity seen in the obese women disappeared after the procedure. Six months post-surgery, brain metabolism levels were similar in both groups of women.
In addition, bariatric surgery seemed to improve the performance of the obese women in a test of "executive function".
This is the brain's ability to connect past experience and current action, and is involved in planning, organising and making strategic decisions.
Other tests measuring various aspects of memory and thinking ability showed no change after bariatric surgery.
The results appear in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, published by the Endocrine Society.
Professor Cercato said: "Our findings suggest the brain is another organ that benefits from weight loss induced by surgery.
"The increased brain activity the obese women exhibited before undergoing surgery did not result in improved cognitive performance, which suggests obesity may force the brain to work harder to achieve the same level of cognition."
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As a slight aside, when investigating online pics of obesity, in most cases the 'official' images were of caucasians, unless the story related to a foreign country.
I feel this race-specific imagery is unhelpful as in several areas the population is predominantly non-caucasian, but obesity is still prevalent. It also contributes to racial and class-stereotypes that ignore the problem as a whole. There are many reasons why society now looks as it does, and that is true of all sub-sections of society, but the picture presented in the media is a partial one.
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Top of the World Drive is one of my very favorite locations in Manhattan, KS, because of the beautiful colors, great views, and diverse backgrounds that show off some of the amazing Flint Hills. And don't forget about the sunset views from up top!
As long as it's not too windy and the road isn't a safety issue (it's better to take small kids somewhere to safely run around and play), this is such a great spot for family pictures.
Enjoy this beautiful family's gallery as they enjoyed the gorgeous weather
up on Top of the World!