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Very nice, Shannon. I like the lighting you have chosen for this one. I am not sure, but is the focus slightly off the eyes? I feel the hairs are tiny bit sharper than the eyes. I am sure the experts will come and tell you soon.
PS: The hands are there, but you have cut his right foot off! lol. Personally, it does not bother me, though.
Probably Abhi, Who knows where the focus ended up, Trying so hard to get everything I forget half of it.. I think eventually with practice it will all come together. Next time I will try and get hands and feet, but I might end up cutting off the head.. haha!
As you say, the PP classes start next week. So, look at what Thierry's done and take it on board, but don't criticise yourself for not being able to do that yet. You will.
Just celebrate the fact that you know how to set up a good pose.
Have you read Colin's set of portraiture tutorials. Something that you'd pay BIG money for elsewhere is available free from CiC by simply clicking here.
Thanks Donald and Thierry, I love the improvement.. I knew it could probably look better.. I have read Colin's tutorials they are excellent!! I have read them several times and will probably read them a lot more.!!
I think you did good on this shot, Shannon. I also appreciate Thierry's edit on the image adding some contrast and sharpening to give it some more detail. The pose was certainly interesting, if I may say.
Here's how I learn some new stuff about photography- I collect a lot of images from magazines or from the web and analyze them. First, I only collect those that catches my attention. Sometimes I like the pose, or the mood of the shot, the artistic rendition of it, or the sheer technicality on how the shot was executed. Then, one by one, I analyze them. What was the lens that probably was used on the shot? Was it shot with a wide aperture or small? Was it intentionally softened or did the sharpness helped to make the shot look nicer? Where is the main light coming from? Was there a secondary light that go with the image? Things like that. By understanding how these shots was able to make it and be published on the magazines, that means there is a technical and artistic merit to them for some companies to pay top dollars promoting their products using these images. Then, I imitate. Not on the exact way that these shots was made but by incorporating what I have noticed about them. Just like babies, we learn to speak by listening and by imitation. We also learn how to develop our motor skills by imitation and by experimentation. I think we could also apply the same thing with photography.
You have a good eye when it comes to taking images of people. Why not look at some good photos and try to see how they pose their subject and try it out, too. Then, when you have already developed that natural ability to analyze the shot using the viewfinder and composing your vision using the camera, you will stop imitating and developing your style. Small steps, Shannon. On a personal note I am really quite delighted to see your growth here at CiC. Looking forward to seeing more from you soon. Kind regards.
I hate to be picky, but....
That pose. His right knee is somehow hoisted up to almost chest height, with his right elbow resting on it. It looks to me as if he is leaning against something called his 'right knee' but it doesn't belong to him. Can anyone else see it? It's a pity, because he's a nice-looking model, and the general pose and attitude looks good. It's just that knee.
Shannon you are going well - each time you post you are stepping along nicely on the learning curve.
I am a portrait student as well and there are just so many things to think about and all at the same time, but as you are finding it is also very rewarding.
I can see lots of improvement in this one, I do agree with Rob though, maybe with the knee in this position we need to see what the foot is resting on to connect him all together.
Great work though - keep sharing
Thanks for the awesome advice Willie, I don't know why I didn't think of collecting some photos' that I like and figuring out how they were executed.. Thanks for the encouraging words
Rob, I agree! I was trying to think about making sure that the hands were in the pose I forgot about the feet .. eventually I will get it. It's good to be picky , that is how I will learn, So thank you for that.
Thank you Kay , I do totally agree, and yes there is a lot to think about. I just need to keep practicing.. I am not quite sure where to crop bodies yet, or what to put in the frame. I will do as Willie suggested and look at photos that catch my eye. Thanks for the encouraging words.
Everyone should be able to jump right into contrast/brightness, sharpening, red-eye reduction without too much tutoriing. It doesn't mean you'll get it right but as long as you make a copy of the original file, work in tiff format, and take notes of what you have done, self-learning will benefit you in the long run. There is nothing worse than to try to read a manual and press keys at the same time.
Hi Shannon. Hope you don't mind my version, I haven't ripped my photo CDs into new PC yet so I "borrowed" your shot which I like. I still use my old original Samsung digital so I have to do PP with my Corel on all my photos. I do everything "by hand", "painting" the soft/sharp, erasure of the BG, etc. Looks good to me on my PC, comments please...like many of us, learning from you all lighting contrast etc. Can't wait until you start editing Shannon, you'll be great!!!!
Holy Cow, Thanks so MUCH Henry!! That looks great with the fram and what you did I notice you took out the white spots on his suit too.. I can't wait until I learn how to do things like this.. it's fantastic. I really appreciate everyone's help and everyone's versions of my photo. Thanks for the encouraging words. I am really excited to start photoshop tomorrow.
So, I have been looking at some famous high fashion photographers photo's to get this hand and feet thing down.. I think this might just be a personal preference, or creative style because I came across many photos where there is only one hand, no hands, no feet.. etc. I think it just depends on the photo and how it is presented.. that is what I am getting from the photo's anyways. That being said, I still need LOTS of practice.. and Thanks everyone for all your help.. I love this forum!!
Don't worry Shannon the post processing is not the key issue. the main thing is a good initial shot and this shot was good.
Go ahead !
Thanks Theirry, I am trying.. lol, I don't know how everyone makes it look so easy. I think its kind of like when you see a ballerina, they make it look so effortless, it's not until you start dancing you realize how complicated it really is.. same with photography.. I actually used to think photography is not that hard you just point and shoot.. Boy was I wrong.. HAHA.
That looks pretty good to me. Try a different crop if you don't like the knee. Where is the halo coming from
I don't know where the halo is coming from, I think that is in the version Henry edited for me, added some lights. I don't mind the way the knee is.. I liked the pose and cropping as is. I just wanted it to have more 'ooomph" that I could maybe get when I learn how to use Photoshop. Thanks for viewing it Brian


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Lansdale Cannoneers Youth Football & Cheerleading: Field Locations
Also try SEPTA/Lansdale Station:
80 w. Main Street Lansdale PA 19446
All spectators should park in the Septa Parking Lot. All others will be towed at the owner's expense.
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400 w. 5th Street(visitor sideline entr)
(use alley-way, ONE-WAY begins
Lansdale, Pennsylvania 19446
(UM) Upper Merion Vikings
Take Route 363 towards Route 422....
The UM Vikings play at Heuser Park, located at :
694 W. Beidler Road & Geerdes Blvd.,
King of Prussia, PA 19406
Parking is only allowed in the designated slotted spaces. Parking on the grass surrounding the parking lot may result in your vehicle being towed without notice at your expense.
694 W. Biedler Road
King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
(WW) Warrington Warriors
START: W Main St & S Broad St Lansdale, PA 19446 21 min (10.6 mi) Head southeast on E Main St toward S Chestnut St // Turn left onto N Wales Rd // Turn right onto Knapp Rd // Turn left onto US-202 // Turn right onto Bristol Rd // Turn left onto Turk Rd FINISH 1585 Turk Rd Warrington, PA 18976
1585 Turk Rd
Warrington, Pennsylvania 18976
(WY) Wayne Wildcats (part 1)
The Wayne Wildcats host its games at two fields located on the Radnor High School Campus. Pike field is grass and Prevost field is Turf. Important: Please REFER the website for the field rules!! ______________________ Turnpike 276 West.... 476 South.... EXIT 20.... LEFT on King of Prussia Road.... (first) LEFT on Raider Road.
Radnor High school
130 King of Prussia Road
Rad, Pennsylvania
Cannoneers Sportsman Club
Our Chartered / clubhouse
501 west 5th Street
Lansdale, Pennsylvania 19446
(AB) Abington Field
The Abington Raiders play their games at Alverthorpe State Park in Jenkintown. From Lansdale take 309 South to the exit for Route 73, the 2nd exit past the PA. Turnpike. Take Route 73 East. Follow Route 73 for miles. After crossing Route 611 make a left at the second traffic light, Forrest Avenue. Follow that past traffic light at Jenkintown Ave. and Alverthorpe Park will be coming up your left. You will see the field on the right after entering the Park.
Click here for directions
500 Forrest Ave
(or 499 Forrest Ave, Jenkintown)
Elkins park, Pennsylvania
(HR) Horsham Hawks Field
The Horsham Hawks play their games at Dennis F. Landis Memorial Park in North Wales/Horsham PA.
Take Route 152 North (towards Route 611) aka Cowpath Road; turn LEFT on Lower State Road
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1288 Lower State Road
(try;1288 Lower Sate Road, North Wales)
Horsham, Pennsylvania
(LP) Lower Perk Longhorn Game Field
The Lower Perk field is located on Route 113 in Collegville, behind the Trappe VFW (look for the Army tank at the entrance).
201 W. 3rd Avenue (rear)
Collegville, PA 19426
Take 63 WEST/Sumneytown Pike, turn LEFT Route 113 South. (Continue RT 113 approx: 9.5 miles) .5 mile after crossing over Main St. (Trappe). Trappe VFW is on RIGHT HAND side, parking is the VFW parking lot. The field is in back/John T. Walsh Memorial Field.
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201 W. 3rd Avenue
Trappe, Pennsylvania 19426
(LV) Lenape Valley Indians Field
Take Broad St. to 309, go left then right at next light, Walnut St. Take Walnut St. to dead end. Go left onto Schoolhouse Road. Take next right Railroad Ave. Take Railroad Ave to Route 152. Make a left onto 152 and go about a mile to the top of the hill, the entrance to Tower Hill Field will be on your left. No parking is allowed at the water company. Also, no pets are allowed. Park in the gravel lot.
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522 N. Main Street
Chalfont, Pennsylvania
(MC) Marsh Creek Field
The Marsh Creek Eagles play at Fellowship Fields. Take Pennsylvania Turnpike (I76) West to Downingtown/West Chester Exit 312. Go through toll booth and bear right to Route 100 North (Pottstown Pike). Continue on Route 100 North approximately 2.5 miles. Turn right at the traffic light onto Fellowship Road (just past St. Elizabeth's church and just before the Lexus Dealership. Proceed about 0.5 miles, the fields will be on your left. Use the 2nd entrance to the lower fields.
Click here for directions
275 Fellowship Road
Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
(ME) Methacton Warriors Field
The Warriors play their games at Lower Providence Township Building, off Ridge Pike. Parking is located next to the field, diagonal from the Lower Providence Library.
Click here for directions
100 Parklane Drive
(try; Lower Providence or Norristown)
Eagleville, Pennsylvania 19403
(NH) Northampton Indians Field
The Northampton Indians play their games at the Northampton Civic Center, 345 Newtown-Richboro Road in Richboro. Take the Northeast Extension (476 South) to the PA Turnpike (276 East). Get off at the Willow Grove exit (Exit 343). Follow 611 North for approximately 5 miles to the light at Almshouse Road. Make a right at Almshouse Road and the field is 4 to 5 miles on the left side (1 mile after crossing Route 232 in Richboro).
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345 Newtown-Richboro Road
Richboro, Pennsylvania
(PD) Penndel Wildcats Field
The Penndel Wildcats play their games at Penndel Field on Hulmeville Ave. in Penndel. Take Route 309 south to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Take the Pennsylvania Turnpike east to Exit 28 (Route 1, Philadelphia). After paying the toll, bear left and to take Route 1 North. Take Route 1 north to exit for business Route 1 Follow Business Route 1 until the third traffic light Hulmeville Avenue, not Hulmeville Road, and make a right. The field will be about a half-mile on the right, just before the intersection with Bellevue Ave. A coastal gas station is across from entrance to field. Park in lined areas only, do not park in areas marked by yellow lines. Click here for directions
10 PFC John Delola Avenue
Penndel, Pennsylvania
(PE) Pennridge GreenJackets Field
Willard H. Markey Centennial Park
East Rockhill Township
309 North, EXIT Perkasie....
LEFT on Lawn Ave....
RIGHT on Ridge Road....
TRAVEL about 3.4 miles, ON Left-Hand side, "Golf-driving range in front"
1418 N. Ridge Road
Perkasie, Pennsylvania 18944
(QK) Quakertown Panthers Field
Take Route 309 North into Quakertown. At the light for Route 309 and Route 313 make a right onto Route 313. At the next light (Main St.) turn left. Main St. turns into California Rd. after you make this turn. Stay with California Rd. through the light at Mill Rd. After the light at Mill Rd., take the next right onto Cemetery Rd. Take that to 9th St. and turn left into the driveways that will take you to the field. Click here for directions
100 Cemetery Road
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
(SD) Souderton Braves Field
Romanowski Field
The Souderton Braves play at Romanowski Field. From Lansdale take 309 North to the Exit for Route 113. Take Route 113 south. Turn right onto County Line Road. Make the first right onto Cenrtal Avenue. Go appox 250 yards, parking will be on your right and the field on your left.
Click here for directions
20 East Central Ave.
Telford, Pennsylvania
(WY) Wayne Wildcats (part 2)
All tackle games are played at Wilson Farm Park on Reitnour Family Field. From Route 202 Southbound (From King of Prussia), follow Route 202 South and exit at Chesterbrook Boulevard. Make a right at the stop sign onto Chesterbrook Boulevard. Follow Chesterbrook Boulevard to second traffic light. Turn right at second light onto Lee Road. The entrance to Wilson Farm Park is at the end of Lee Road. Parking will be in the office park before the park entrance. Once at the main entrance, take a right. Reitnour Family Field is located after the baseball field on the left hand side. Click here for directions
500 Lee Road
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Trenton's Sovereign Bank Arena
From Lansdale Take 309 South to the Penna. Turnpike. Head East on Turnpike(route 276). Go to exit 351 Philadelphia(route 1). Stay to left after the toll booth for Route 1 north. Follow Route 1 to the Delaware river. Take first exit after crossing the bridge into New Jersey. Take Rte. 29 South to Cass Street (Thunder Road). Make a left onto Cass Street. Follow for three lights. At third light make a left onto Rte. 129. Take Rte. 129 to Hamilton Ave. Make a left onto Hamilton Avenue, and the Sovereign Bank Arena will be on the left. Click here for directions

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The second day of our babymoon had a lot on the agenda, so we got up as early as we possible could force ourselves into for a vacation day. La Jolla Cove Suites, where we stayed, had a great continental breakfast and I was very into the strawberry waffles with whipped cream. Plus, the bagels and apples made for easy snacks later in the day – shhh, don't tell!
We hopped in our rental car around 8 or 8:30 and headed to the San Diego Zoo. We had read that if you were trying to see the new baby panda, the morning was best because she's only out until about noon. Plus, that early you don't have to compete with school groups quite yet. It was a perfect day is Southern Cal with an expected high of 75. We headed straight to the panda exhibit which was quite a hike, but we were determined to see the ultimate cuteness at the zoo. We didn't have to wait in line at that time of day and got right in to see the famed Xiau Liwu. His name means "little gift", which of course with us anticipating our own little gift, we thought was pretty special:) He was pretty sleepy when we were there, but we were able to get some photos and watch his mama eat bamboo like it was going out of style. We actually went back to the panda exhibit to see them again a couple of hours later and Mom was flopped in a tree like it was a reverse hammock. It was pretty funny, and they are just the cutest things! Did you know there's only one 24-hour window each year that a female panda can get pregnant? Talk about pressure! No "I have a headache" excuse for that species.
We continued to explore the zoo until about 1 p.m. Our favorites in addition to the pandas were the rhinos, camel (seriously – obsessed with him), elephants, koalas and orangutans. Of course, the San Diego Zoo is known for being the best in the country, and it really was a treat. It was big and full of anything you could ever want to see, but we didn't find it overwhelmingly spread out or anything. Just stay hydrated and if you need a break, there are buses to take you through the zoo. Although we hoofed it (pun intended) most of the time, but we did hop on the Sky Ride once. Not only did we get a great view of the zoo from above, but you can see part of the San Diego skyline from there. Also, our little bundle got her first souvenir ever – a little stuffed panda to remember her first "sort of" trip to California. Savings tip: If you are a member of AAA, you can save 10% on admission!
After the zoo, we hopped on the very high, very wide and very busy bridge to Coronado. While we weren't staying too near Coronado Island, I was told I must visit it, so we thought after the zoo made sense. It was a bit of a nerve-racking drive for Luke across that bridge, as he's not overly fond of heights, but I thought it was kind of fun. You're over the harbor full or boats and the view of the city is amazing. Once we were safely across, we lucked out and got a very close parking spot to the beach, which I hear can be an impossibility on the weekends.
The shoes I had worn, thinking they were "sensible" for the zoo had actually giving me heal blisters at the zoo. So, I was eager to take them off and walk on the sand. However, I did find out that walking on deep sand while pregnant is a slow-going method of transportation. But, on this perfect 75 degree day, the sands of Coronado Beach and the sparkle of the Pacific Ocean were unbeatable. We accidentally made our spot on the dog portion of the beach, so be prepared for lots of love and slobbers if you're on that part. We decided since we're more cat people, we'd hop up and head to the human side of things. The water was still chilly, being mid-February and all, but it was nice to dip our toes in the water while walking hand-in-hand up and down the shore. If you're near Coronado for any reason – definitely make the pit stop and dip your toes in! It was lovely.
While I love beaches and could stay at them forever, Baby E. was telling my 2 p.m. was way past lunchtime, so we headed to the quaint downtown of Coronado to find a lunch spot. After our expensive seafood dinner the night before, we thought some casual cafe dining was just what the doctor ordered. We found Cafe 1134, an indoor/outdoor cafe and coffee shop. We decided to grab a table in front of the restaurant. They had a great wrap/side combo for less than $10 if I remember correctly. We both had the combo – me with Caesar and Luke with Greek (I think). We, as we often do, swapped halfway so we each had a little of both. They were very good, as was the pasta salad and the people-watching. People there seem so happy and it was amazing to me how Californians are all in such great shape. I guess when you have high temps year-round, there's not much time to watch TV and overeat like here in the Midwest:) Jealous!
On our way back to our car, we stopped at the Visitor Center, as Luke just loves to go to museum-type places. Me – just beaches:) But, anyway, they have a very nice Visitor Center. Luke especially enjoyed the display about The Kingston Trio, one of his dad's favorite bands.
After that, we drove back to La Jolla and took naps. Listen – pregnant ladies need their sleep! And, Luke was referring to my swollen feet as "hobbit feet", so I figured a little rest was in order after a day of walking. We enjoyed the sunset from our balcony again. Words really can't describe the majestic California sunsets. After a trip to the grocery store, we dined on pizza and ice-cream on our balcony. Such is the luxury when your suite has a kitchen! Stay tuned for Saturday's adventures on a mountain and at the aquarium…


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Global Air Freshener Market 2017-2021
About Air Freshener
Air fresheners are used to maintain pleasant and fresh indoor atmosphere. These contain synthetic or chemical components, natural materials, and odor removing fragrances. Air fresheners emit fragrance to eliminate unpleasant odor in residential and commercial places, especially in restrooms. These are produced from synthetic or chemical components and natural materials and contain odor-removing fragrances, which refresh indoor atmosphere with a pleasant smell. These eliminate unpleasant odor by purifying the air. Different air fresheners are plug-ins, beads, candles, oils, and sprays. Most people use air freshener for eliminating unpleasant smell, but some of them use it for fresh and pleasant odor.
Technavio's analysts forecast the global air freshener market to grow at a CAGR of 7.35% during the period 2017-2021.
Covered in this report
The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global air freshener market for 2017-2021. To calculate the market size, the report considers the sales, value and volume.
The market is divided into the following segments based on geography:
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Technavio Announces the Publication of its Research Report – Global Air Freshener Market 2017-2021
Technavio recognizes the following companies as the key players in the global air freshener market: Church & Dwight, Henkel, P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, and S.C.JOHNSON & SON
Other Prominent Vendors in the market are: Dabur, Farcent Enterprise, Hamilton Beach Brands, Jimmy Up, Julius Sämann, Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, and Rexair.
Commenting on the report, an analyst from Technavio's team said: "The latest trend gaining momentum in the market is Growing use of smart technology in air freshening devices. The use of smart technology such as smart homes, smart devices, and smart home appliances is increasing over time. With the help of smartphones, consumers can easily access, operate, and control their smart devices. Significant growth in automation technologies such as the Internet of things and increased global Internet penetration are some of the major drivers of the smart industries."
According to the report, one of the major drivers for this market is Product innovation and portfolio extension leading to product premiumization. Air fresheners help remove bad odor and create a pleasant atmosphere in houses or commercial buildings. Wax melts, candles, auto spray air fresheners, plug-in air fresheners, room fragrances and room sprays, gel air fresheners, and car air fresheners are the various types of air fresheners. Each segment offers products at varying prices. Some vendors offer air fresheners based on climatic conditions. Reckitt Benckiser is one of the leading vendors that manufactures air fresheners under the brand Air Wick. The company offers automatic sprays known as Air Wick Life Scents freshmatic refill winter moments. It is specially designed to control the bad smell coming from rooms due to damp climate.
Further, the report states that one of the major factors hindering the growth of this market is Performance standards set by regulatory bodies. Regulatory guidelines related to product labeling, materials used in product packaging, performance standards, and information regarding ingredients in products need to be obeyed by the manufacturers of air care products. Consumers suffer when products are not made as per the performance standards set by the regulatory bodies. For air care products, the risk of fragrance-related allergies is high due to incorrect dosages of ingredient mixing. In labeling, manufacturers should list the ingredients used in fragrance manufacturing.
Companies Mentioned
Church & Dwight, Henkel, P&G, Reckitt Benckiser, S.C.JOHNSON & SON, Dabur, Farcent Enterprise, Hamilton Beach Brands, Jimmy Up, Julius Sämann, Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, and Rexair.
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Why Do Bullies Bully?
We're all familiar with bullying - those deliberate, aggressive behaviors intended to cause harm to others. Chances are, if you haven't been the recipient or the doer of these hostile acts, you've at least seen bullying occur at some point in your childhood.
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Right now, Kibeom is wearing a new shirt that says, "I try to have a different perspective of my environment and take beauty from carp." Poor carp...they don't really have much beauty to spare.
For part of my post TKD dinner last night (dinner #3), my host mom fried up a puck-like slab of meat. Expecting salty meatiness, I was somewhat shocked to bite into a piece and find that it tasted exactly like a Christmas cookie (and I mean exactly. I had to keep checking it to make sure it still looked like meat). To top off this flavor surprise, my host mom proceeded to smother the remaining pieces of meat in a thick latticework of ketchup and sweet, kiwi-flavored mayonnaise. She then salted it down and made a big pool of mustard for dipping. This is one of the Korean meals I picture whenever someone tells me how fatty and unhealthy American food is compared to Korean food.
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enough already - we're still gagging over your wonderful picture of cow's foot soup! you are a gusttory heroine!
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Toyota 86 Base
This 2 door, 4 passenger coupe provides a satisfying ride for all passengers. Toyota made sure to keep road-handling and sportiness at the top of it's priority list. Under the hood you'll find a 4 cylinder engine with more than 200 horsepower, providing a smooth and predictable driving experience. Well tuned suspension and stability control deliver a spirited, yet composed, ride and drive It's equipped with tons of terrific amenities, but it won't break your budget. Such as remote keyless entry, a tachometer, variably intermittent wipers, front bucket seats, fully automatic headlights, power windows, cruise control, and more. Audio features include an AM/FM radio, steering wheel mounted audio controls, and 8 speakers, providing excellent sound throughout the cabin. Safety equipment has been integrated throughout, including: dual front impact airbags, front SIDE impact airbags, traction control, brake assist, ignition disabling, and 4 wheel disc brakes with ABS. Our team is professional, and we offer a no-pressure environment. We'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have. We are here to help you.


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Convention wrap-up
- Well, um, yeah. I thought the speech was pretty darn good.
- I like the pick of Joe Biden more and more. His delivery wasn't too sharp, but it was candid and honest, which was refreshing. His son's introduction of him was pretty impressive too.
- I thought there was a very effective attempt to tie the promise of an Obama presidency to the successes of the Clinton presidency, something which hadn't been done prior to the DNC.
- John McCain will apparently abandon the 'experience' argument he's trumping now since he's tabbed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential pick seeing how the depth of Palin's political experience is 18 months as governor of 47th-least-populated state and two terms on the Wasilla City Council. Again, it ain't that I'm opposed to that - fresh faces are a good thing, particularly in a change election - but it makes it difficult to criticize someone as too green for the job when you choose someone with less experience as your running mate.


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Gangland hero, trained by the police
As he snatched the constable's rifle, whirled around and shot him at point-blank range, gangster Ghanshyam Kewat was using skills he had learnt from the Special Task Force.lucknow Updated: Jun 19, 2009 00:14 IST
As he snatched the constable's rifle, whirled around and shot him at point-blank range, gangster Ghanshyam Kewat was using skills he had learnt from the Special Task Force.
And on Tuesday, his men fared better than the Chitrakoot police.
After an embarrassing eight-hour gunbattle in broad daylight, the dacoits had claimed one policeman and melted back into the hills. The cops, who had tracked down the dreaded Nan gang following a tip-off, had not made a single arrest.
For 42-year-old Kewat, who led the Nan gang, the climb to the top began four years ago, when rival gang leader Umar Kewat gunned down five Fatehpur policemen.
Desperate to catch Umar, the elite Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force approached his rival, then gang leader Shankar Kewat, for help.
Shankar offered them Ghanshyam Kewat, a junior but extremely talented dacoit.
All the police had wanted, really, was a guide through the dense jungles and treacherous ravines of Chitrakoot and Fatehpur. But in weeks, Kewat had helped the police set up a network of spies in the little villages along the way.
Now a prime target himself, the police decided to train and arm him — effectively giving him an intensive, five-month training course in weaponry and marksmanship from among the best on the state police force.
Kewat finally did track Umar down.
"I remember him firing at Umar, who was walking right up to me. It was his first exposure to real gunfire, but he handled himself like a pro," said an officer on duty that day, speaking on condition of anonymity as he is not authorised to talk to the press.
Kewat hadn't just learned how to fire their weapons, he had also been allowed to sit in on operational briefings during his time as police guide.
"He was a quick learner and nothing escaped him. I am not surprised he killed the cops with such ease," said the officer. "After all, he got the skills and training from us."
The honeymoon ended last year, soon after Umar was gunned down, when the STF changed gears and began chasing down Shankar's mentors, gangsters Dadua and Thokia.
The three joined hands and, with Kewat's help, looted rifles from the police stockpile and went on the rampage, killing eight villagers in one day and gunning down a constable with the Special Operations Group a few weeks later.
Now known as one of the most audacious dacoits in the Chambal region, Ghanshyam is also believed to be passing on all he has learned to the others in the gang — probably one of the reasons no one was arrested on Tuesday.
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This is not a question, just a place to record the answer to this question in case somebody else searches for it; or I forget again in the future. I wanted to know: What object do I use to set the heaviness of the lines in a chart point marker? Not the series line, the point marker eg the asterisk xlMarkerStyleStar In the UI it's right-click, Format Data Point Marker Line style, Width 2pt say. In VBA I can set oPoint.MarkerStyle = xlMarkerStyleStar but I can't find any reference to "Marker Line Style" and neither did this newsgroup - until now I guess. And of course the macro recorder in Excel 2007 is broken and does not record many chart object changes. The magic word to think of searching for is "Weight" the answer is for a weight of 2, set Point.Format.Line.Weight=2
Thanks for writing about this. I spent several hours trying to figure out how to reduce Line Width and it never once occured to me to look at Format. In my case I needed to change the Series line width. Series.Format.Line.Weight = 1 worked perfectly. (Excel 2007 offers 6 different chart styles with 8 different color combinations and I hate every one.)
One more wrinkle: Setting the marker weight draws a line from the previous point to this one (why? whatever for? is this documented anywhere?) oPoint.Format.Line.Weight = xlThin ' =2; xlthick=4 To then remove the unwanted lines that are added, do ' Finally remove the pesky lines that Excel adds to the star points oChart.SeriesCollection(1).Border.LineStyle = xlLineStyleNone ' Excel 2007 macro recorder does not record this "mischab1" wrote: > In my case I needed to change the Series line width. > Series.Format.Line.Weight = 1 worked perfectly.


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Brownstock festival: Two arrested over Australian's death
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after an Australian festival-goer was struck by several cars following an event in Essex.
Pedestrian Paul Wickerson, from Sydney, was hit by up to four cars on 31 August on the B1012, Lower Burnham Road.
He had attended the Brownstock festival in Stow Maries earlier that evening.
A 48-year-old from Ilford, Essex, and a 32-year-old from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, were both arrested and later bailed.
Mr Wickerson, 32, had been visiting friends and relatives in Surrey before attending the music festival.
Officers from Essex Police said they believed he had been evicted from the event and taken to North Fambridge shortly before the collision happened.


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You could see it in the way he did most anything. His manner of even holding a chair in his hands before sliding into it could made it a mesmerizing sight to see.
If you lived in the Rusty Springs Valley, many women were, of course, fascinated by him. The new cowboy had such a confident stride. If his blue-gray eyes glanced at you, it was plain to see there was an uncanny interest in them for you. An extremely effective gesture. It's a rare man who could do so, such a little thing, but, it could bring such remarkable feelings, such joy.
His lifestyle was fascinating, scary perhaps to a few, but one woman later said that he had been, "her hero."
Award-winning Western artist, Debbie Hughbanks, corralled him one day at work and captured this image.
His story and the adventures he took part in during his time in the Rusty Springs Valley appears soon on Amazon and Kindle. Perhaps it be read some day by Books in Motion, who will be releasing the audio book Rusty Springs, the first in a series of how the Old Wild West lives on there in that Valley.
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It might have been the casual attitude that he wore a long-sleeved blue-denim shirt, the well-worn cowboy hat, or the broken-in boots.


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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010)
|Directed By:
|Edgar Wright
|Written By:
|Michael Bacall
|Edgar Wright
|Michael Cera
|Mary Elizabeth Winstead
|Alison Pill
|Kieran Culkin
You've heard the story before. Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy has to defeat girl's seven evil exes in a series of intense, incredibly stylised fights in order to win her heart.
…wait, you haven't heard that before? Well that's the general gist of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Michael Cera (of Arrested Development and, more recently, Juno fame) stars as the eponymous hero of the film; a 23-year old slacker, permanently in a state of "between jobs". Indifferently dating high-schooler Knives Chau (Ellen Wong) despite his friend's protests, he soon meets mysterious delivery girl Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and falls head over heels for her. He learns that in order for him to be able to date Ramona, he must defeat her seven evil exes, who have all joined forces in order to control Ramona's future love life.
Now if this doesn't sound like the type of film you'd enjoy, I recommend you stop reading now, because (and I'm not going to lie, here), I enjoyed Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. A hell of a lot. And I fully intend on singing its praises for the next 633 words.
Despite having described the plot, I don't even know where to start to describe what the film actually is. Part rom-com, part postmodern parody, part comic book adaptation, part superhero movie, Edgar Wright manages to pull off the seemingly impossible; he seamlessly weaves all these different elements together to create something that barely ever seems schizophrenic or jarring. Because the film is set against the backdrop of Scott Pilgrim and his media-saturated upbringing, he becomes the unreliable narrator of legend; indeed, the basic situation he goes through is entirely commonplace and thus is almost worthless from an artistic perspective. Most of us have been there in at least one point in our life; running into a partner's ex and having to deal with the inevitable 'unfinished business'. This is, inherently, one of the main themes the film is exploring, but Scott's media-saturated imagination has exaggerated the situation into the one we actually see. This not just a film about a character named Scott Pilgrim; it's essentially Scott's film…and this is perhaps why it all seems to sit so coherently together.
Speaking of Scott, it's definitely refreshing to see Michael Cera play a character who is actually a bit of a dick. There are certainly aspects of George-Michael Bluth echoing around inside Pilgrim's psyche (if such a word can be used in reference to a fictional character), but for the most part, Scott's a douche. He's lazy, dispassionate and indifferent, and Cera actually handles it very well for saying how often he's been typecast as 'the affectionate awkward guy' in the past. Actually, the acting is a delight almost uniformly right across the board; though Alison Pill's sardonic Kim Pine, Chris Evans' self-important Lucas Lee and Kieran Culkin's sensitive-yet-libidinous gay roommate Wallace Wells stand out as particular highlights.
Stylistically, it's incredible. Wright and his team have assembled a film that truly is a comic book adaptation; complete with transcribed sound effect overlays, motion lines and that just that specific brand of comic book violence that has proven so popular. Although it's not entirely original in its aesthetic, I'm hard pushed to think of even three live-action films that look like Scott Pilgrim, and for that fact alone it is impressive.
The pacing may not sit too comfortably with people at times. Instead of the usual 'three-act story' we find in the majority of modern films, Scott Pilgrim seems to play out more like a video game than anything, with our hero battling his way through the seven levels of the film, taking on and defeating the bosses at the end of each level. For a film this may seem a little frenetic, but the rather charming subplot involving the development of Scott's band 'Sex Bob-Omb' help anchor the narrative firmly in place.
Having been a fan of Edgar Wright since Shaun of the Dead (I'm afraid to say Spaced followed later for me…), the main thing I appreciate in this movie is that despite its huge budget, it still seems to retain that 'indie' sensibility. It's a celebration of both film and filmmaking, the latter specifically. Despite being so audacious, it's also remarkably nuanced, and definitely stands up for repeated viewings (if only to pick up on all the pop-culture references and subtleties hidden within).
I fully acknowledge that this isn't the sort of film that everyone will enjoy. It's not perfect; there are some moments that don't sit quite right (the large majority of which stemming from Wright trying to condense so much material into a single film. Ramona wasn't being sarcastic when she mentioned the subspace highway going through Scott's head, folks), but to be honest I haven't had as much of a blast watching a film in a long, long time, and for that reason, I forgive it its flaws. Thoroughly, thoroughly recommended.
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For both balance, and so Phil doesn't feel picked on, I'm coming down on the TOP FILM side of things.
Like Phil, I think I fall into the demographic as it hit several spots at once for me. Admittedly, I do tend to throw myself into films and am often (rightly) accused of ignoring or failing to even notice glaring flaws in plot or execution. But having said that, I cannot think of one thing that bugged me about this film.
Yes, Micky C (we're close, so I can call him that) is a bit one dimentional when it comes to range. But the role could have been written for him (and may well have been).
I also have the added bonus of having lurked in arcades for sufficient years to appreciate many of the nods to game classics.
But all that aside, the pace and the humour worked for me. And yes, I will be dashing out to buy the DVD. I say good review (even if it's not exactly a horror film).
Late reply, but thanks for the support! Glad to hear that I wasn't the only one who enjoyed it so much. It's odd how much this film divides people…a friend of mine actually had to turn it off out of boredom! I can't see how that's possible…I found it one of the most exhilarating films I've ever seen…
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Pastitsio IV
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- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add macaroni pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
- Heat olive oil in a skillet and cook garlic, onions and beef until meat is browned; drain fat. Add tomatoes, pepper and oregano. Stir and cook about 5 minutes. Sprinkle in 1/2 of the Parmesan cheese.
- Lightly coat a casserole or baking dish with olive oil and spread 1/2 the cooked pasta in it. Add the meat sauce and cover with the remaining pasta.
- Melt butter in a saucepan and blend in flour. Slowly add milk, stirring almost to boiling. In a bowl, blend remaining parmesan cheese and egg yolk and slowly add to the milk sauce, stirring constantly.
- Pour sauce over macaroni and bake for 30 minutes. Top should be golden and a little crispy.
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My Greek boyfriend raved about this to his mother. Except he said I used the wrong noodles - his mother uses penne pasta instead.
I found this recipe to be a bit bland. I will add some nutmeg next time. I will also increase the amount of bechamel as I like my pastitsio very creamy.
My Greek boyfriend raved about this to his mother. Except he said I used the wrong noodles - his mother uses penne pasta instead.
I found this recipe to be a bit bland. I will add some nutmeg next time. I will also increase the amount of bechamel as I like my pastitsio very creamy.
We made this for the neighbors and served with a salad. Thought it was going to end up dry but really was not as you would think. Maybe could up the bechamel a little if you wanted an obvious sa...
I read reviews on this before starting so I did double the sauce. I used 2.5 tbsp of both butter and flour, then added 2 cups of milk. Then added it to 2 egg yolks. DO NOT throw out the whites, ...
Made this today, very carefully, and I'd have to say it's a failure: two dry pasta layers, a not-very-flavorful beef layer, and a bland bechamel layer. I'd recommend trying one of the other pa...
This was pretty good. It had a very nice flavor with all the Parmesan cheese. Next time, I do plan to use a little less macaroni, but overall it was good.
I'm giving this recipe a four because I think it would have been much better if I had followed the recipe more closely...I used crushed tomatoes (because that's what I had on hand) instead of di...
Used penne instead, 2 cans of stewed tomatoes chopped & drained, b/c it is what I had on hand. Also at least doubled the cream sauce and voila, my family loved this!!!!! My husband just keeps sa...
This recipe was very easy to make. Taste was OK, nothing special. Not sure which part makes this dish 'Greek', flavors were no different than other tomato-pasta bakes I have done in the past.


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Some Thoughts on Pop-Up Poetry and the Role of Art.
Department of English, Languages and Cultures
Pop-Up Poetry at the Converge 2017 conference in Ottawa was a hit. A big hit. More than once we – Micheline Maylor, derek beaulieau, and me from Mount Royal, and Steve Giasson from Université du Québec à Montréal – were told that the pop-up poem was one of the conference's highlights, and this was a conference visited by both the Prime Minister and the Governor General. You could see it was true in the faces of the people reading a page that had been blank six minutes before and now had a poem based on a word they had given us and sometimes the life story they offered along with it. You could see it in the way they held the little paper close with both hands, looked down at it, read it again, sometimes with tears in their eyes despite the size of the room and all the people in it, and held on. It was one of the most rewarding experiences with poetry I've ever had.
I really like my job. A lot of hard/fun work this week & the perfect poem by @mountroyal4u poet Richard Harrison. #PopUpPoetry #Converge2017 pic.twitter.com/8DYw4FrJvT— Rosella Chibambo (@Chibambo) February 7, 2017
And it went far beyond the bounds of everyone's expectations. Originally, the Pop-Up Poets were to be available during the lunch hours and the breaks between conference sessions. But those breaks were only about fifteen minutes long, and the areas in front of our tables were full of people by the score all wanting poems. Some came over because their friends had already gotten poems and shared the pleasure of reading them. Some came over because one poem wasn't enough: there were, after all, four writers. And some came over because of the typewriter sound, that snappity-snap-snap-snap that once meant the frustration of having to make a perfect page with your imperfect hands and a machine that didn't always strike the ribbon right, or space the lines evenly, or allow for the computer-style erasure that eliminates not just the error but the sign that an error was ever there. But now that the typewriter is gone as the technology of record, all is forgiven. It is now part of the sound-track to simpler times, and work warmly remembered because it's long since done.
So we all took requests, writing down words and jotting a few points of story so we'd know where to go with them. This is one of the things I learned: pop-up poems aren't poems about things, nor are they poems about the poet's mind alone; they are poems about the relationship between the poet at the keyboard and the person with a word to give. And once everyone had given their words and gone back to their conference rooms to talk about reconciliation and empowerment and inclusivity – the concepts through which political and social and educational decisions were, they hoped, going to be made – we stayed at our tables and typed. All day. And the people we wrote for weren't only the graduate students at the conference, and the university officials and professors, the representatives from industry and Parliament; they were the staff of Universities Canada, and the workers at the Rideau Centre itself.
I only started to keep a list about an hour in on the second day, so here are the words I kept track of (with a couple I remember): Resiliency (which became "Campfire"), Serendipitous, Security, Bon Appetit, Beard, Hallway, Scholarship Team, Gandalf, Ballet (which became "Giselle"), Grit, Dalek, Blue, "When It Hurts – for the People in Power", Impasse (which became "Settlement is Possible"), Crusty, Movies with Mom, Kiddo, Bilbo, Vimy, Obscurity, Congratulations, Flaneur, Panda, Sound, Customer Service, Pizza, Love's Road (which is a real place), Safe Journey, Miller, Humanities, Scuba, Skype, Snowboard, Diaspora, Undecided (which became "Doors"), Well-Endowed, Rock, Family (more than once), Micro-credentialling, and the name of the conference itself, "Converge 2017." That's roughly half of what I did, I expect I wrote between 60 and 70 poems in all. To my right and left, Micheline, derek, and Steve were all doing the same.
In love with my "Pop-Up Poetry" about Pandas done by Richard Harrison from @mountroyal4u pic.twitter.com/BfPxLlFSqa— Abigail Douglass (@AbigailDouglass) February 7, 2017
Most of those poems are gone – their only copies taken away by their owners. Some said they were going to frame them. Others took pictures and sent them into the perpetual publication of Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. derek's poem, "York University" was tweeted by the graduate students who'd requested it, and then retweeted by York's own president. "Converge 2017" ended up being read out loud from the stage as part of the introduction to the Governor General's closing remarks. The poems may be gone, but they made their mark as they went.
But the question that the poets started to talk about amongst ourselves about as Pop-Up became more of a part of the conference experience was, What did what was happening say about poetry? About art? Particularly about art made right in the middle of a high-powered and hopeful think tank on the future of the nation itself? And just as the pop-up poem is the relationship between poet and reader given shape through a single word, so what follows is what I think is worth discussing based on the conversation I had with Micheline, derek, and Steve. Consider the following words, then, as those of a reporter who took part in the story they came back to tell you.
In all of the pop-up poetry sessions we've done, there are requests for words like Daughter, or Family, or the names of people close to the person asking for a poem. This makes sense the moment you see it: poetry offers a concentrated expression of long and deeply held feelings, and Pop-Up is a chance to have them said once more: take it. As the poets on the other side of such words, we look for something material, a story, an image, around which to build the poem. Of course everyone at the centre of these poems is loved and beautiful in the eyes of their beholders, but you need something to look at, something only the beholders have seen, to make the poem both a real poem and a connection. So we, the poets, ask questions first, find the images, and type later.
Some people give us what we can work with pretty much from the word itself – words for concrete things like Snowboard or Penci, or words rich with cultural (pop and otherwise) connotations – Star Wars (also derek, who wrote a love poem to a Wookie), or Gandalf, or Bilbo (which was someone's nickname in school). Give us those, and away we go.
But the category that's more difficult to work with is the abstract noun: Happiness, Love, Peace, Intensity, and so on. We get a few of those every time, but the question for a poem is not, What does it mean?, but what do you see? Who are you thinking of when you say this? There's always someone or something behind such words, but finding who or what takes time, and digging – research. Pop-Up's work needs to be done fast. Sometimes we don't have time to be archaeologists of abstraction. One of us gave up on it after the second day, said, to "Equality" or "Compassion," "That's an abstraction. Give me a thing." Sometimes the answer would be another abstraction: "Fairness," and around it would go again.
Such a search for the word-for-a-thing behind the word-for-an-abstract-idea happens every time. But here it happened a lot. People would come out of their conference sessions with their minds full of Accessibility and Reconciliation, Empowerment and Engagement. And those they turned with and gave them to us. And we'd write no poems for them about those words, but poems about the people, or places, or objects, that came to mind when we pressed them. And sometimes that took a while, so many were the layers of abstract ideas piled on one another, so many the relations between concepts being the result of the presentations and discussions. That's what the conference was for: to gather to think big, talk the picture of the nation in national strokes. But just as the trees can be lost in the view of the forest, so the forest can be lost in the landscape, and the landscape be lost in talk of resources. How to get them back? Because we need to: abstract ideas write out their meaning in material consequences
I think now that poetry is at least part of the answer – and the explanation for how much poetry was asked for. Poems might inspire abstract thought, and they might have back stories in the poet's philosophy or political commitment, but they're not poems because of either thing. They are poems because they do something different. They are poems because they ask of everything we think of to be written about, "What do you really mean?" And the answer to the "really" isn't about what other ideas stand in relation to the one in question as defining terms, but what in reality, in experience, does this word bring us to look at, to touch, to see, to act upon, to heal or harm. Poetry is also about the consequences of abstraction; abstract terms defined in terms of other words are defined timelessly. They are the mind's reflection on its own work. The poem is about what you mean set down in terms of time and space: the body. If the pop-up poem is a poem about the relationship between speakers, it's so because, perhaps, all poetry is about the relationship between words we use for our own ideas and words we use for the things outside our minds. So our thinking was that the people who brought such words to us were seeking an experience in words to words they had spent so much time thinking about.
One of the big questions about the arts is, What are they for? What use are they? Indeed, people go to conferences to discuss exactly this, and there's always something of the Defence of Art in all of them. No one asks what something is for when it's a something they need and they know it. But this past two days, we were in a community where art itself played an active role – not talk about the arts, but art itself. I have no evidence for this in the way I'd need evidence to make a presentation at a conference like the one we were just at. This thought is new. Pop-Up poetry, a form of poetry that makes the poem on the page a kind of performance in itself, is new. But when I think of how lightly people stepped as they walked from the table, poem in hand that they had a hand in making, when I think of how often the themes discussed in intellectual rooms came out to where the food was, and people wanted to follow us from "empowerment" to "my daughter" or "dignity" to "my same-sex husband," or "gratitude" to "my mom, a refugee parent who worked the till at the corner store to get me to university," I think we're on to something. Something big.
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Over the last 365 days, the editors of Maxim have spent as many hours poring over thousands of photographs to select the world's most beautiful women who are equally as talented to present the 11th annual Hot 100—the definitive list of the world's most beautiful women.
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The Story Of My Life
There are two rules that I try to keep whenever I venture into a store. Number one is to never shop for groceries on an empty stomach unless you plan on purchasing the entire snack aisle, and two, never walk near the journal and book sections at your local Target unless you plan on buying a very unnecessary armful of items that will cost you a small fortune.
I broke my second rule and found myself naively skipping down the notebook and journal aisle at Target right next to all of the children's school supplies and the trendy office décor wide-eyed and ready to rack up the charges on my Target card. I ran my hands of books that gave writing prompts, listed lovely sayings for productivity and motivation, and ones that had pretty covers and empty pages. But I ended up resting my hands on a notebook with a cover that read, "The Story of My Life." (more…)


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What are we all trying to do?
Why are we blogging? Is there a point to all this social media hype?
Getting it out?
Well…Hell yes!
I've been thinking to long about just what it means to type down words.
They can be haunting, hurtful, helpful and loving…etc.
I was inspired by another fellow human, that is an inspiration to me to write.
This is not simply a blog about a bicycle business I started. It's about connecting to you, and being inspired by YOU!
After all, I have a lot to share with the world! And I bet you do to, so start communicating! It's all we have!


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More than Bettas
With well over several hundred fish, our bettas we raise for the shows take up a lot of our time and space. But, we do have others interesting critters we enjoy as well.
Because we get deformed as well as genetic wrecks in our breeding, we need a way to dispose of them that is humane. After considering many options, we decided to get a large fish eater. Having always enjoyed peaceful fish like guppies.. we did not know much about what was out there and so decided to get an Oscar. We picked out a lovely 3″ Bronze Oscar at a local shop and brought him home. At first we had to break up his pellet food.. now, 2 months later he eats 5 of them at a time. I'm amazed at the personality of this fish. He will follow you around the fish room. When I am photographing my fish I am by his tank.. and I look over and there he is watching the whole thing. And, if he is not getting enough attention, or food, he will jump up and hit the lid of his tank. Have started to weigh it down so he does not end up on the floor some day.
We named our Oscar Trash.. because when we have less than ideal fish we put them in the "Trash".. We had no difficulties buying minnows to feed him, but when you have raised a fish 8 weeks, even the deformed ones kinda become family. But, the fish do not suffer and they become part of the food chain.. just like in nature. So far we have not had to feed many. We prefer selling those we have no use for as often they are very nice fish, just not what we want to breed or show. So, another hobbiest can get very nice fish to enhance their breeding program.
The aggression this fish shows at feeding is amusing.. now that I keep my fingers safe. The day he came out of the water and got my finger kinda freaked me out. More shock than damage to my skin. So we now don't open the lid wide open, instead cracking an opening and dropping in his pellets. I have 20 fish nets perfectly sized for bettas.. nothing for this monster. If he comes out of the tank I'm not sure it would be fun to get him back in. But we do enjoy him and have come to really enjoy his personality.
This crazy critter is Bruce.. in the tank I guess he is a cat fish.. lol. He is about 2 1/2 years old and was my shop cat when I had my business. He loves people and officially greeted everybody that came into the shop. Now he kinda hangs out in the apartment and keeps me company in the fish room. So far, he has not gotten into the tanks except when they are empty like this one. I actually had a female betta jump out and he brought her to me and dropped her in my lap. She was a bit dusty, but eventually made it. And of course.. he has a fancy water fountain with a filter and it has r/o water in it.. and he prefers to drink fish water.
Our Fish Room
The fish room is still a work in progress.. but here is a tour so you can see what we are working with. My apartment has two bedrooms and a den or study on the other side of the kitchen. Having the fish room close to water makes changing the water a lot easier than lugging water back and forth. This picture is the view from the living room. I have four 6′ heavy duty wire racks in there and my Oscar tank. When I am done I will be able to house 190 individual bettas and have several areas to grow them out. I have arranged things to make working in the fish room easy.
This is the view from my kitchen into the fish room. You can see the hoses for my r/0 unit draped into the sink. I have an adapter on the faucet to inset the imput hose for the r/o unit. It takes most of a day to fill my 32 gallon storage can with r/o water so I can let it run as I go about cleaning the house. The red line is the waste water that drains back down the drain.
Another view from the kitchen, this time the left side of the fish room. The spice rack you see on the far wall is home to some of my medications and pellet food. The bar makes it easy to pass water back and forth for water changes. When I drain water from the tanks I can pour it over the bar and into the sink.. no toting water.
My r/o unit is in the window sill. The black line is the water into the unit. The blue line is the purified water that runs into that trash can next to the window. I fill that can and then pump r/o water into the other one till it's about 3/4 full. I top off the can with my tap water run through peat moss and add some Prime water conditioner. Run the pump a bit and I am ready for water changes. The small table my son built for me in his shop class in school.. and I am using it to photograph the fish we sell on Aquabid. I have small spot lights I shine through the light tent to try to show each fish we sell accurately so buyers can get a good look at them.
This wall has two racks. The first one will house my grow outs. There is a 30 gallon on the bottom and a twenty with some tens on the second shelf. That shelf will end up having two 20's and the top shelf will hold four 10's. I had my spawning tanks on here and a few of them remain. I won't be spawning so many at a time so will be setting up spawns somewhere else. Having them up so high also allowed a lot of vibration to affect the spawns. My males were good and did not eat fry.. but not going to take chances. Still thinking about where to set them up.. but will be closer to the ground. The rack to the right has beanie containers housing fish right now, but in time will have a barracks system that will house 48 bettas. The sump will go underneath.
The center rack lines up with the window. I have my 2 smaller barracks I made in Ohio line up back to back on the second shelf up. Dont have much on the other 3 shelves right now but will be making some double-sided barracks soon to house the amount of fry we have maturing right now. The sump for that system will go next to the 10 gallon I'm currently using. The green water in the gallon pickle jars on the top shelf are daphnia. The daphnia reproduce and clear the water in about 3 days. I siphon the water, through a net to catch the daphnia, down to about an inch. Then I top it off with green water from one of my tanks and have a harvest in a few days again. By alternating the harvest on different days I can produce a decent amount of daphnia for feeding the young fry.
At the end of the rack and facing the kitchen is my Oscar tank. He has gotten big enough he is starting to uproot the plants [fake] that are in with him. We may have to remove that big stone to the right so he can have some more room. We have had several Oscars and really enjoy them in the fish room. They are worse than puppies and beg.. to the point of jumping into the lid to get attention. I've also learned to barely open the lid and drop in his pellets. We started to do that after he came out of the water and got my finger. Scared the bejeebers out of me.. and I hadn't had my second Pepsi.. though I was plenty awake at that point. Under the Oscar is a 5 gallon tank for now. In time it will be a 15 gallon.
The shorter wall has a complete barracks system. I have had it up and running now for 3 months and love it. Each cell is 4″ wide by 6″ high and 9″ long.. plenty of space to grow bettas quick and keep the fins nice. I will have another setup like this on the other wall and will do some smaller double-sided barracks for the center. So far they have been easy to clean and maintain. Lighting is not fun.. I have a shop light on top and it lights up the other shelves fairly ok. Might need to add another shop light half way to light the lower shelves. For a sump on the bottom I'm using a 20 gallon I picked up on Craigslist.
My sister-in-law gave me this corner tank that is about 55 gallons and we placed it in the front corner of the kitchen. She told me it leaked so we filled about an inch at a time. This is my metallic spawn and it was huge. They went in at a few weeks of age and I just kept adding water. When I found the leak we drained the water down a bit and sealed her up. After letting it cure for a while we are now adding a bit more every few days. Don't want to have to drain quickly any large amount of water.
In my son's room we have two more 30 gallon tanks for grow outs. I like the 30 gal because they are the largest size tank I can comfortably carry and clean and are a good size even for larger spawns. The bottom tank with the green water feeds the daphnia when I do water changes. I just put some 4 week old fry in there and will turn lose some daphnia with them. They won't get the water clear before the fry get big enough to eat them all.. but it will clear it up a bit. That top tanks has two spawns in it.. my coppers and the cross with TB.. a multi colored spawn. Those guys are coming of age and getting pulled regularly. The fish in the 55 are also getting close to having the males pulled so it is time to get some more barracks built. I look forward to the day I get everything done and can sit and just enjoy watching the bettas.
Spawn Updates
Things in the fish room have smoothed out now that we are using the reverse osmosis water. We have imported a few new fish, like Hershey to the left, to start new lines and I am actively seeking more tanks to use as grow outs for all the spawns we now have. After losing 12 spawns we now have:
Spawn 17 – Storm x 13-2 – these guys are 12 weeks and many are on AquaBid for sale. We are keeping two pairs that carry a lot of black to start towards breeding black/melano. We have already bred one pair and got a large spawn.
Spawn 18 – Storm x TB – an outcross into a friends line. The spawn that TB came from produced BOS fish and several class winners. TB herself was 2nd in her class earlier this year. I'm expecting multi colors and some black in this spawn as well. Only got 4 fish from this spawn.. it was one of the last with the bad water.
Spawn 19 – 12-C x 12-1 This was a dark copper male with white fringe and a marble female that had great caudal edges and a nice, broad dorsal. We were looking for nice dark or light coppers to show in the metallic classes with this cross. About 8 weeks of age, we have started pulling some of the boys to keep fins intact and the fish growing. So far, I am happy with the quality. We have several boys with the sharp edges we want and others that are almost there. The ones that are almost there will probably be shown in the spring. I have a really nice female coming that is platinum white and will probably be bred as soon as is possible. Most of the colors are a medium copper.. have about 3 really dark ones, some that are starting to marble and a lot of the lighter platinums. We also have a number of double tails in this spawn that are developing well and 1 boy that looks to be a copper/red bicolor. Another few weeks will tell a lot more.
Spawn 20 – Storm x TB A repeat of Spawn 18.. see above.
Spawn 21 – Copper/Red BF x Copper/Red Another copper spawn that are siblings to the previous spawn 19. We were looking to get the copper/red color established. They are about 6 weeks right now and I'm seeing platinum and some with a hint of red in the fins. We still need a few more weeks to see color and how the fins are coming. They are in a grow out with the above spawn so there are a lot of fish in the 30 gallon. I combined the spawns as the coppers breed true. If it is a copper variation.. it is this spawn.. otherwise it came from the above spawn.
Spawn 22 – Royal x 13-2 This male came from a friend. He has huge fins and nice color. He was bred to a female from my 13th spawn that is green. I am hoping for some nice blues and greens in this spawn.. and will probably get some multi colors as well. I was looking to get the males color and fin length with the females sharp edges and broad dorsals. They are about a month now and growing out in a 30 gal about 4" off the ground. Kinda hard to get down there and look at everybody.. but they appear to be developing nice. Another few weeks and we will start to take a hard look at them.
Spawn 23 – Patches x 13-1 This pair are siblings. The male, a green and white marble, took 2nd at the first show of the season and got his fins tore up on the return shipping, thus ending his show career. These fish are about a month now but the colors I'm seeing are very nice.. blue, green, minty green and some multi colors.. and I'm seeing several of the nice wide dorsals and double tails. I am hoping some of them turn into grizzles as I love that coloring. I am also expecting some nicely patterned marbles.
Spawn 24 – Copper/Red x 11-2 This spawn is to get some nice metallics. My coppers have really balanced form and full finnage. The female I bred him with is a very nice female that has great 180 spread, nice branching, broad dorsal and took 2nd to some very nice competition last spring. She is a blue green multi.
Spawn 25 – Sunny x Pineapple. Sunny is the blue/yellow bicolor DT we imported from Thailand recently from GreatBettas and Pineapple is a yellow pineapple imported from the same breeder earlier this year. I honestly don't know what I was thinking when I crossed them. I wanted to get more of the blue/yellow bicolor. I am expecting multi color fry but hope to get a few that are decent bicolors. I don't know enough about the genetics behind the yellow.. and it may disappear for a few generations. This spawn will be a surprise. They are about 3 weeks now and are dull, no color has appeared as of yet.
Spawn 26 – 17-A x 17-1 These two are siblings from Spawn 17 that are mostly black with some green iridescence. Male has great dorsal and nice edges and the female has a nice 180 spread and good branching. I am hoping for more of the black color and good finnage. The anal fin of the male fish is too sloped for my tastes right now, so we will have to watch for that in the future generations and look for better balance in the offspring as we get the color we want. Breeding blacks is difficult as the melano females are sterile. I've loved the blacks from the beginning, but now feel I have the patience and experience to work them. The spawn is quite large so we will have a number of fish to choose from. We will also be crossing another black pair from this spawn. Will keep you posted.
Spawn 27 – Rags x Daisy. Two new imports from Thailand. Just got the male Tuesday and into the spawn tank he went Thursday. Friday I had eggs and removed the female. He is a blue and yellow grizzle and she is a blue and yellow DT marble. I am hoping to get more fish colored like the parents. I love the grizzle pattern and am very excited to get this pattern in this coloring. There are 4-6 weeks before I will be able to see the color and the form of the fry. This is the beginning of a new line for us so we have no idea what to expect. But, they are from the same breeder, GreatBettas, and am confident they will produce some outstanding Bettas.
On the horizon to breed are Hershey, the chocolate DT that we imported with Rags and our reds. Hershey will probably be crossed to one of the black females from spawn 17. He should bring better color and some broader dorsal bases into the line. The reds are being a real pain. They spawned when the water was real bad, got a huge spawn, and they all died after hatching. I tried to breed them again and no one is interested. Male build huge nest, female not interested.. when he get bored with the whole think she rips his fins almost all off. I may try crossing him with the Pineapple as they yellow is a related color. With so many spawns going right now I will have to wait a bit. I'm now acquiring larger tanks to grow out the 600+ fry I currently have. Time to get some more barracks built.


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Tea Time
Living amongst the world's second biggest tea drinkers...I've learned a few useful tricks of the trade.
* Always use freshly drawn cold water; then warm the teapot.
* It is better to have the chilled milk massed at the bottom of the cup, awaiting the stream of hot tea. This allows the milk to cool the tea, rather than the tea ruinously raise the temperature of the milk. This can cause milk curdling.
English prefer the english breakfast tea almost always and you are hard pressed to find an array of herbal teas as we are used to. It's best with milk and a bit of sugar. Esp. if beautifully presented with lovely little sandwiches, sweets and scones. On the scones, you are supposed to smear on the butter (or clotted cream) and jam...yum. If you come visit, I promise to take you to tea! Ritz anyone?


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You think the Toyota Prius or Chevy Volt looks like a door wedge? The Honda Kiwami concept takes the wedge-shaped transport cake, appearing out of the air at the 2003 Tokyo Motor Show like a dustbuster from the future. It was Honda's take on an ultra-luxury sedan for Japan with all the trappings of an alternative fuel vehicle to match. In 2003, despite cheap gasoline prices around the world, manufacturers got a little woozy on hydrogen. Every major carmaker started to show their special projects, hoping to capture the public's attention and get credit for being there first. As the decade wore on, hydrogen never took off the way the big companies told us it would, with a series of innovations in batteries actually making electric cars viable without the infrastructure leap required for a completely new hydrogen network.
Kiwami's most telling feature -- its low, wide stance -- was a result of the hydrogen powerplant on board. Remember, these cars have to carry around a lot of kit to store and convert hydrogen into usable mechanical power. The Kiwami was no different, lugging around an ultracapacitor (as opposed to batteries), a fuel cell stack, a hydrogen storage unit and a control unit to manage it all.
The Kiwami's low height and short nose was seen almost as a tribute to how small Honda had managed to assemble all those components. The state of the art thinking at that time was to encase it all in a low "skateboard" chassis below the driver and passengers. The layout for all the Kiwami's hydrogen storage and conversion is a sideways H pattern, with the middle truss of the H stretching down the entire length of the vehicle. This actually played nicely into the car's theme as a luxury sedan, allowing the interior to have perhaps the most luxurious cupholder and bar-top setup this side of the Mandarin Oriental.
For us, the Kiwami represents a bittersweet moment in time: it was around this time that Honda's design team started to give up on the incredibly clean, focused design you see here in place of today's harlequin found in the Accord Crosstour and CR-Z. We hold out hope that the clean, simple lines of the Kiwami will make their way to a future Honda people mover or crossover in the years to come.


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