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Advertising and marketing go hand-in-hand while being two very different areas of business. While marketing works to position the company for success, advertising is done with the goal in mind of getting the brand out there and promoting specific announcements, products, or services. Social media can be effectively used for advertising, and has been in the past to some success. Unfortunately, many companies try to use social media as a single-purpose tool instead of seeing the whole picture. Here are some tips on how to use social media for advertising:
Don't Advertise Directly
This seems like a complete counter to what many advertising executives have grown to know for decades. Explaining social media to someone that has been in advertising for a long time can be a difficult process, but the facts are undeniable.
Try to position your advertisement in a way that reflects the community you're trying to grab. For example, several major car companies were quick to jump on board Empire Avenue, a virtual social stock market game. They could have told everyone about their new vehicles and how they could get you from point A to point B, but they didn't. Instead, they invested in members of the community and carried on a conversation about the people they were speaking to, not their products. By doing so, each of these companies achieved an advertising value worth its weight in gold as each and every person they interacted with was left with a new appreciation for the brand.
People expect TV commercials to tell them about how great something is, or position it in a way that makes it look cool. Social media is a community and a direct ad is akin to a person with a giant sign screaming at the top of their lungs that you should try a product. Sometimes, it's what you don't say that matters most.
Create Something Entertaining
One of the most successful advertising campaigns in history came in the form of a man in a towel, standing in his bathroom answering questions in a humorous way. The Old Spice commercials were a hit on TV for their entertainment value and unique style of humor, but the real splash came when they took the campaign to the social space and started making videos on the fly to respond to questions and comments from their community. Their videos on YouTube achieved viral attention almost instantly, and what started as a good television campaign ended as a great social media campaign.
As to the previous point made about direct advertising, not one of the social media ads directly promoted their products. In fact, he hardly mentioned the brand name at all. People know what brand your message represents in social media by the user/page name and the discussion around them.
Build on What Works
If you find something that appears to be creating buzz, build on it. Generating positive community response is one of the best ways to kick off or accelerate a campaign. Be careful not to overdo it, though as people tend to recognize when the gimmick has past its prime faster than you may think. In cases of viral YouTube videos, sequels or attempted reconstructions of the magic often fall flat and fail miserably.
If something you say or do generates a lot of attention, focus on what made that happen and work from there rather than repeating the same thing exactly the same way over and over again.
Be Genuine
Being genuine with your message is essential and sits at the core of any successful campaign. Don't bother with covering up problems or smoothing over everything with a glossy finish. You're a company that has something to sell, and they know that. Put that aside for a moment and forget everything you know about advertising to this point.
If you're not genuine in your message, no one will be interested in hearing it. Saying you're the best and everyone needs your product is fine when you're on television or a billboard, but in the realm of social media it's connections with the community that matter more than any slogan or motto ever will. Connect with them, show concern for their problems when they express them and take actions to resolve them, publicly.
Be Quick
Passing everything through a legal team takes time, and causes you to lose the effectiveness of the message. If a point is raised in your community and you don't address it right away, you've already dropped the ball. Waiting sometimes two weeks for a team of layers to approve everything you say and do is like tying your feet together when you're trying to run a marathon. Don't be left behind.
For that matter, try not to let anything get past you if at all possible. Social media is easier to scale than you realize and even large companies are beginning to find that out. No, you can't respond to each and every person that asks you a question on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+. You can make an effort to address enough of them to show you care about what they have to say. Just because you may not be able to reach all of them doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
Be Open
Being open and being genuine go hand-in-hand. If someone relays a negative experience with your brand, product, or service, address it publicly and make an honest attempt to resolve the issue. Sometimes, just saying your sorry is enough to change their opinion and settle what might otherwise be a public relations nightmare while it's still small. This goes along with being quick, as well.
You might even need to take that extra step to provide customer satisfaction and ask them for a second chance, on the house. Too often companies take the road of not rewarding people for giving them a bad name. Taking the high road and asking for a second chance gives the impression that your company really cares and is willing to go that extra mile to make sure their customers are happy. Believe me, this speaks volumes about a company's character and has a much greater impact in the long-term than yet another post about how great your product is.
Interact with the Audience
If any of the previous points didn't drive in the importance of interaction, let me be absolutely clear on this. Interacting with people, no matter who they are, is key to a successful social media campaign. Social networks aren't supposed to be one-way megaphones that allow you to shout slogans at a large number of people. If you want to spread your message through social media, do it by interacting with people in your community. After all, that's what you're building here.
Television isn't a community. Audience members may yell at their screens from time to time but they don't expect a response. Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and other social networks are intended to give everyone a voice about practically everything. If someone spends enough thought and energy into mentioning your brand or reaching out to you, give them the courtesy of a response. As an individual, I don't have any personal relationship with any brands I see on television. I do, however, form a bond with companies and individuals I interact with online.
Utilize All of Your Available Tools
If there is one thing social media has brought to the table, it's a powerful set of tools that can help you gauge your effectiveness and extend your reach. For example, Ping.fm is a great way to make updates to multiple networks at once. URL shortening sites like Bit.ly allow you to not only cram a long url into a small space, but see detailed statistics on how many people are responding to the link, where they're from, and what they're saying about it.
Facebook has fan pages available so you can create a centralized hub for your brand and connect more directly with people interested in hearing more while breaking free of that 5,000 friend barrier present on normal profiles.
If a new network pops up, join it quickly and make an impact while the space is fresh. Being an early adopter has its advantages as you are capable of becoming easily recognized and better positioned as a small pool of people grows in to a mature social network.
Empower Your Community to be Your Evangelists
Empowering your community members is one of the best ways to gain what essentially counts as free advertising. Sometimes people just enjoy a particular product or service and want to tell their friends about it. Don't stop them from doing so, and give them the platform to let their voice be heard.
If someone has something to say about your product or service on Twitter, retweet it and thank them for their feedback. You may even want to keep them in mind for a future YouTube campaign or offer them a chance to test an upcoming product or service before it's released to the general public. If you think their positive feedback is handy now, wait until you launch the next big thing and they've got the chance to show it to the world.
Recognize your potential evangelists and make sure they know you're appreciative of their efforts.
Learn What Your Customers Want
At to points made previously, social media isn't a one-way conversation. Take time to listen to your customers and make sure their feedback is received. Sometimes, the best ideas come from your community. Think of a social network as a kind of focus group with a much broader range of experience and interests. Bouncing ideas to your community is a good way to let them know their opinion matters and save your research team a lot of time and expense trying to determine what people want. In many cases, your customers will be more than happy to lend their honest opinions, as long as you're willing to hear them.
This post is part of a series of social media "How To" articles. Links to other parts of this series are below:
How to Use Social Media for Business
How to Use Social Media for Marketing
How to Use Social Media for Advertising
How to Use Social Media for Sales
How to Use Social Media for Recruiting
How to Use Social Media for Recruitment
How to Use Social Media for Learning
How to Use Social Media for Job Search
How to Use Social Media for Health and Wellness
How to Use Social Media for Businesses


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governed by conscience; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled: She's a conscientious judge, who does not let personal prejudices influence her decisions.
careful and painstaking; particular; meticulous; scrupulous: conscientious application to the work at hand.
Origin of conscientious
1605–15; < Medieval Latin conscientiōsus, equivalent to Latin conscienti(a) conscience + -ōsus -ous
Synonyms for conscientious
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Examples from the Web for unconscientiously
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involving or taking great care; painstaking; diligent
governed by or done according to conscience
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Buitreraptor gonzalezorum is a newly exposed fossil species, a small rooster-size predatory dinosaur belonging to the dromaeosaurid family. The discover occurred in Argentina in 2005.
Buitreraptor gonzalezorum is the only known species of the genus Buitreraptor. The genus name means "Vulture-raptor", from the Spanish word buitre gist vulture.
Buitreraptor lived about 90 million years ago, when South America was a remote continent like Australia today. Buitreraptor has some different physical features than typical northern dromaeosaurs, like Velociraptor .From this scientists end that this dinosaur was not a big-game hunter like most other dromaeosaurs, but a seeker of small animals such as lizards and mammals. Its long bird-like arms confirm such a life of greedy fast-moving small prey. It has long legs and must have been an nimble runner. It most likely had feathers. This dromaeosaur occupied a niche like that of modern secretarybirds or even the dinosaur Troodon from North America.
Other than Buitreraptor, the only other known dromaeosaurs from the southern continents are Neuquenraptor argentinus from South America (discovered earlier in 2005), Rahonavis (once thought to be a primitive bird) from Madagascar, and nameless dromaeosaur-like teeth from Australia. The bones in both Buitreraptor and Rahonavis show that motorized flight likely evolved separately in two different groups of dinosaurs: birds and southern dromaeosaurs.
This discovery in the Southern-Hemisphere confirms that dinosaurs were more extensively dispersed around the world than previously thought. Scientists now believe that dromaeosaurs date back to Jurassic times, when all the continents were much closer together. Possibly they originated on the ancient continent Laurasia.
The fossilized bones were found in 2005 in sandstone in Patagonia, Argentina - by an dig lead by Peter Makovicky, curator of dinosaurs at the Field Museum in Chicago. The field research of Buitreraptor was led by Argentine paleontologist Sebastin Apestegua. Buitreraptor was discovered in the same fossil site that had earlier yielded Giganotosaurus, the largest carnivorous dinosaur known to science since 1995.
|Buitreraptor (Vulture-raptor)
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|Buitreraptor has a slim snout with teeth that lack meat-tearing serrations.


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I can't believe you are turning one. Where has the last year gone? This time last year I had no idea you would be here in less than 24 hours. Just the niggling worry that something wasn't right that you weren't happy. Waiting from when they confirmed you weren't happy to when I had you in my arms was terrifying. Lying there concentrating trying to feel you move, to know you were ok. The operating theatre was scary, your Daddy stroked my head and was there for both of us, worried too. You came out crying and calmed when they placed you on me, under my gown and covered with a towel to keep you warm. I tried to look at you, to see your face, but you were too high up. They had to squeeze you on me as the rest was being operated on. It didn't matter though. I could feel you on me, warm and breathing and the relief I felt is something I don't think I will ever feel again.
I made up for not initially being able to see you properly over the next few days, weeks and months. I will never get bored of looking at your beautiful face. I can remember watching you have a cuddle with your Daddy, I wasn't feeling great after the section, but watching the love between you melted my heart. It still does now. You are so lucky to have him as a Daddy. He loves you so much!
This last year has been tiring, emotional, amazing and beautiful. The hazy newborn days were full of cuddles and sleep and milk. I try to cling on to the memories and sometimes it seems so clear like it was only yesterday and others it seems like a lifetime ago. I look at pictures of you so tiny and want to pick you up out of the photo and breathe in that newborn smell again.
We have watched you grow and change so much this last year. You are no longer a tiny helpless baby. You are turning into a little girl before our eyes. Each moment, each first I treasure as you are our last. I will never again watch a baby learn to crawl, takes those first steps and say Mama.
As you wobble towards us with a smile on your face I'm so proud of you and I know I will continue to be proud of all of your achievements. I want so much for you, but most of all I want you to be happy, to know you are loved and to believe you are beautiful on the inside and out.
So my beautiful baby girl. I love you so much, Happy Birthday!


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So we've been having some pretty great weather this last week in the UK and to be honest its about time. So I spent some time up in the Peaks with my friend at Dovedale sunbathing, eating ice cream and paddling in the river. Heres some of the photos I took, it gives you an idea of the area I live, hope you enjoy!
Ashbourne had the bunting out for the Olympics
Clear Skies
Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream, with flake
Bridge over the river
Such clear water yet oh so cold!
My sunbathing vantage point
The Stepping Stones at Dovedale, so much fun, just make sure you don't wobble off into the river!
I love the sunlight on the water
A Mummy Duck and her babies
And then off to see Batman with me! I hope Bruce Wayne likes my outfit! Meow!
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Take a look at this SoHo loft. If you could decorate this space, would you go ultra modern, industrial country, vintage, eclectic, or something entirely different?
Are you thinking a cozy sectional? Bright colors or lots of neutrals? And what do you do with that odd corner under the stairs??
Unfortunately, we can't all fly to NYC to take measurements and visit the local furniture stores, but we can design this loft through the magic of Pinterest. Yep, I've created a collaborative pinboard called the SoHo Loft Project that we can all contribute to. So look through your pins– what couches, rugs, art, lighting or color schemes do you want to see here? What new pins can you find to liven up this space?
Here's how to join the pin party:
- Let me know your Pinterest username/handle by leaving it in a comment to this post or by sending me an email here; I will add your name to the SoHo Loft Board.
- Start pinning or repinning! You can use the "comment" button to point out a particular item you would use from an image or describe where you would put it.
- Invite some fellow pinners if you think they would enjoy collaborating. Just pass along my contact info or a link to The Waffler so I can add them to the list.
Now what are you going to add? This 3 bedroom, 3 bath loft with a private terrace costs $15,000 month to rent (see the listing here), but we can enjoy designing it for free!
Here are some of the awesome bloggers who have already joined the pin party and started the mood board going…
Kelly from refresheddesigns
Suzy from Worthing Court
Lorraine from Bread and Buttercups
Keridwyn from Seattle Pockets
Kelly from Restyling Home by Kelly
Amy from Blogging with Amy
Carol from TheDesignPages
Ange from The Blooming Hydrangea
Oh, and if this is your first time to The Waffler, make yourself at home! There are lots of fun waffles to look at under the Categories section on the right sidebar; you can also subscribe to The Waffler via email, sign up to follow me via Facebook, Twitter, or RSS Feed, and of course follow my other pins.


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I finally watched part 1 of Houdini & Doyle.
I enjoyed it and will watch more. I cannot do that on TV due to the insane decision to only broadcast it on ITV Encore but I have ordered the DVDs.
Mangan is badly cast as Doyle but he is watchable. Michael Weston is great casting as Houdini. He conveys the drive and arrogance of the man very well. The rest of the cast worked well and the pace of the episode was good.
The chronology is not ideal. The series has the two men meeting a good 20 years before they actually did meet and the people behind the show are clearly anti-Spiritualism. Despite this Doyle is not mocked for his belief and is presented as sincere which is a fairly balanced approach and better than other adaptations have managed.
Rebecca Liddiard is good as Constable Stratton but I think she is underused in this first episode. Her character doubles as a metaphor for the struggles of Edwardian women in what was still seen as a man's profession. It's amusing that the nuns in the episode also struggled briefly with the idea that she is a police officer.
Despite my expectations, I enjoyed it. I just hope that the ludicrous idea of broadcasting it on a pay only channel does not result in it getting such low viewing figures that it is not recommissioned.
Come on ITV. Wake up and put this on a channel we can all see. We're not going to buy Sky to watch it (or Now TV).
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Source: Congress Socialist, circa 1937
Conditions of Discovery: Research follow-up on folks who left Moscow in 1930s and went on to contribute to London's vibrant mid-century anticolonial scene. Held frail, flaky copies of CS magazine in my hands and tried to convince NYPL employees to prioritize this publication for microfilming/digitization.
Filed Under: Indian Radicalism Abroad--London/UK
Further Reading:
- Wikipedia on CSP
- Chowdhuri, Satyabrata Rai, Leftism in India, 1917-1947 (New York: Palgrave, 2007).


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It's a bit cruel, I think, so if you don't like this one do the beer thing (I'll mention that further down).
Keep you eggshells, wash them, dry them, grind them almost to a powder and spread around vulnerable young seedlings.
The sliders don't like it. It hurts their underbelly… SAY IT, LY… it cuts them up. Just a little bit. Then they get it and go home to all the other snails and slugs and say "Don't go to that person's house, she's the bitch who figured out the eggshell thing!"
The beer thing is more expensive. Several large plastic bottles with the lids on tight. Cut the base off. Bury them in strategic positions throughout your veggie garden. Buy beer. Add a little to each upturned bottle. Way to drown, slimers!
The other thing I do is go out at night with a disposable empty deli container and a torch. I'm like Indiana Jones when I do this. I pick one off the plant and put it immediately in the container. Then close the lid quickly. I do this till I get them all. Then I freeze them. They go gently to sleep. It's by far the most snailmane thing to do. Not like what I used to get up to, which was pick them off the baby broccoli and fling them over the fence onto the street to take their chances.
Does anyone know if ordinary garden snails are edible? Am I game to try? They're so kiddy cute though, aren't they? With their little eyes on stilts? If I continue down this track I will hate myself so no…
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Dining Awards 2016
We crown the best eats around town and spotlight the most innovative chefs
We crown the best eats around town and spotlight the most innovative chefs
Las Vegas Best Bars & Cocktails
We say goodbye to four Las Vegas staples.
We wish these food trends would just go away.
When you're a food writer, the whole world is your buffet. Here's what critic Al Mancini would like on his plate.
All the items from the restaurant world that we can do without.
Pubs are all the rage on the Strip, but none capture the quirky elegance of their origins like this one, designed by California-based EDG Interior Architecture + Design.
The term "Hakka" refers to the people who have migrated from the southeastern provinces of China, adopting their food culture wherever they landed.
Nick Hetzel of Sage has the rather impressive distinction of being the only one of 70 candidates in this country to pass this year's prestigious master sommelier exam, an honor he shares with one of our past winners in this category, Kevin Vogt of Delmonico.
Downtown has a new star in its ever brighter dining constellation. Joe Vicari, a Michigan restaurateur with dining rooms scattered around Detroit, is the genius behind this clubby, atmospheric restaurant at The D (short for, in case you didn't know, Detroit).
Imagine finding five of our best and most unusual Asian restaurants in one strip mall. That's the case with Mountain View Plaza, located on the east side of Jones Boulevard, just north of Chinatown's main drag, Spring Mountain Road.
You now need more than two hands to count the ramen shops in Las Vegas on your fattened-up fingers, so it's no wonder that a few of the establishments not in Chinatown or run by celebrity chefs are flying under the radar.
As if the roasted foie gras here wasn't bomb enough, chef Brian Howard somehow managed to make it dynamite.
There are incarnations of the traditional English dessert at all of Ramsay's restaurants here, each of which begins with rich, spongy date cake soaked with toffee sauce.
This burger-and-beer joint was unceremoniously shuttered along with its big sister, First Food & Bar, in favor of celebrity-chef burgers and beers.


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Are you getting ready for Veteran's Day in your classroom?
I feel we need to teach about this holiday to show our students how important it is for our military persons and their families. They work so hard to keep us safe and secure.
Here is a freebie I think you are really going to love... a Veteran's Day Computer freebie!
|Click on the picture or {here} to get this freebie.
You download this file and save it to your computer.
When you open it, you select VIEW IN FULL SCREEN.
Your students will have a few military features activities to go visit directly.
|Mary Amoson, Sharing Kindergarten


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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Just Breathe
I can't believe its been so long since I have written a blog. I guess I have been busy with work and life and stuff.
One of the things that I was busy with was going to Washington, D.C. to moderate a panel about social media and cancer survivorship. Most of my friends said that was perfect for me. I am on facebook and twitter talking to many of my survivor friends, and finding new and interesting guest for my show.
The group that I went to speak to were lung cancer survivors. I always thought well survivors are survivors, we all deal with the same issues.
While that is true for the most part, there are lots of things I had no idea other survivors had to deal with.
The one story that stuck with me was of one survivor who told us of how it took almost 9 hours to climb the stairs because she forgot her ipod upstairs soon after her surgery.
Another lung cancer survivor rides hundreds of miles a week on his recumbent bike. (and I barely get in a 10 mile ride a week!!)
Most of the lung cancer survivors at this summit were non smokers.
Lung cancer carries a stigma. Most people think because you smoke you deserve cancer.
No one deserves cancer. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. It has to suck to be asked "Well you must have smoked."
Like that should matter.
Cancer survivors don't take anything for granted. That is one thing that we all have in common.
Next time you are outside take in a deep breath of the summer air.
Some people don't have that luxury.
Lung cancer is the #1 killer over breast cancer and heart disease, yet it is the most underfunded.
What are you going to do about that?
Check out my podcast The Cancer Warrior on Empoweradio.com
Also available on Itunes.
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Senate passed the Give Act.
Things that frighten me...
"If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." (John 15:19)
"On the other hand, the Republican operatives, led by former Senate Majority Leader Dick Armey's Freedomworks organization, have been able to tap into a permanent anti-tax minority that, along with religious conservatives, libertarians, and other fringe groups, anchors the right wing of the GOP. These "drown government in a bathtub" zealots don't need a logical reason to protest taxes, they are against them on principle. Though constantly praising their good fortune for living in "freedom," they believe they have little obligation to support — through taxes — the nation that makes their life possible." From a columnist in our local paper.
I'm not ready to be called a zealot or an anarchist. But it's coming...
Things I am thankful for...
My hope is in Jesus!
Things I am thankful for...
My hope is in Jesus!
Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Sent to me from a dear friend via FaceBook.
I am thankful that I am not facing these things alone. God goes before me and He gave me a faithful husband and dear friends to share the burden.


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It's a film widely regarded as the stinkiest of turkeys, mainly due to openly-reported, clownish post-production tampering: the producers, wanting to ride the coattails of Alien's success, altered the film with "fancy" post-production tricks to make the creature an alien from outer space who can shoot lasers out of his eyes. But I found The Dark utterly charming in large portions - in its elaborate script, its style, and its narrative whimsy that informs said style. It all seemed very Hooperian to me... I may be stepping out of my bounds, to both Hooper who disowned the film fair-and-square (very reasonable, if you only shot two days of it), and to the credited director John 'Bud' Cardos, who took the film upon him fair-and-square, but it's a feeling I'll find hard to shake. More thoughts to come.
I could make a similar argument for Venom, citing its use of its London townhouse setting's enclosed, angular walls, and the heightened drama of interacting characters within those walls, but Venom seems clear to me much removed from Hooper's stamp. Having listened to this film's DVD Director's Commentary, British director Piers Haggard does indeed state none of Hooper's footage is in the final cut of the film.
But Venom is an interesting case. All in all, it is not a stand-out film, though the film's unfortunate production circumstances should be put to blame, Haggard being thrown into this production without the chance to prepare it and nurse its visual style to his own vision from the ground up (a disadvantage he explicitly laments in his commentary).
Anyway, here are salient bits from Haggard's DVD commentary:
* According to Haggard's commentary on the DVD, the film had shot for 9 days before the production stopped and he was brought on. Hooper was not up to it for reasons unspecified.
* Piers Haggard, in response to the question of whether any of Hooper's footage was kept in the film: "All of Tobe Hooper's material was in fact dropped, none of it was kept... I changed some of the costumes... he had Klaus [Kinski] as a grim Nazi and I thought that was quite wrong and outdated." "... Along with this thing of making Klaus into a kind of Nazi, he did a sort of Nazi lighting... and it was all sort of derivative of Fritz Lang, all lit from below... kind of a bit stereotyped... cliched." Haggard opted to go for a more realistic approach.
Without wanting to besmirch Haggard, who I am not familiar with as a filmmaker and whose decision regarding Kinski's character is certainly not a bad one, I of course cannot help but wonder what sort of vision was up Hooper's sleeve, despite Haggard's dislike for it.
The unresolvable mystery of what were Hooper's plans for the film continues to tease while one continues watching the film, as -- Haggard only being brought on at the shooting stage -- Hooper was the sole force involved in the film's pre-production, so all design and script decisions were made under his auspices. Haggard mentions often butting up against the established set design and dressing, completed under Hooper, and seeing the film's rather rich set design and location is another sad flag set off in the land of "What if?".
Finally, one cannot disregard casting, which Hooper's involvement in is a fascinating certainty. Venom arguably would have been his most spectacular and daring cast, even more so than Salem's Lot, which was filled with legendary veteran actors, but not current international superstars (and strong personalities) like Oliver Reed, Susan George, and the notorious Klaus Kinski.
In regards to the script, I did not find much too interesting about it - if Hooper had carried through, this would have been his most conventional (and conventionally exciting, conventionally effective) film, although I would not doubt him being attracted to the striking townhouse-interior setting, the British humor involving the head officer on the case (comedy involving no-nonsense men of authority seeming to be one of Hooper's fixations during this period of his career, it being a major element in the military milieu of Lifeforce and the cop story of The Dark - in fact, a combination of this element from The Dark and Venom's London setting seem to be direct feeds into Lifeforce, where Hooper seems to be recouping the losses of both his British film and his procedural film), and the film's revolving display of textured characters - the grandson and his grandfather (played by the great Sterling Hayden) and the warmth between them; a beautiful and trusted nanny (Susan George) revealed duplicitous conspirator; the lumbering and bullish chauffeur in sexual cahoots with her (Oliver Reed); a maternal toxicologist (Sarah Miles) thrown into the line of fire; and, of course, the mastermind international criminal played by Klaus Kinski.
A final tidbit gleaned from Haggard's Venom DVD commentary:
* Hooper was working with frequent Nicolas Roeg DP Anthony Richmond (who also served as DP for Bernard Rose's Candyman) before Hooper was dropped and Richmond also was replaced.
So, with the lost prospect of having Hooper working with the DP of Don't Look Now being a bit too painful to dwell on, and the fact that there isn't much more to say, that shall end my immediate notes on Hooper's "fired films": two films that would have been fascinating projects for Hooper, as Hooper really would never work on an air-tight, old-fashioned suspense piece/sturdy character drama quite like Venom, or a work of pulpy genre-noir like The Dark.


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Fade-up with high volatility in share market? Looking for safe source to invest some money to earn steady monthly income? If yes, than while searching for the most appropriate investment avenue you must have come up with Monthly Income Plans of Mutual Funds as you answer. But before investing in Monthly Income Schemes of Mutual Funds, you should know the pitfalls and limitations of these plans.
What is Monthly Income Plans of Mutual Funds?
Monthly Income Plans offered by Mutual Fund Houses are nothing but a debt oriented mutual fund schemes which give you income in form of dividends. MIPs invest about 70% to 80% in debt instruments such as government securities, corporate bonds, money market instruments and debentures and remaining 20% to 30% in equities and cash. The income you get in form of dividends can be taken out in various intervals such as monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly. Similar to every other mutual fund scheme MIPs too come in two variants.
- MIP with Dividend Option:
Under MIP Dividend Option you will be given an income in form dividend at regular interval, if any. You can choose the intervals in which you wish to receive dividend i.e. monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly. Please note the dividend received by you is tax-free but AMC paying out the dividend is required to pay the DDT @ 15% with cess and surcharge also which eventually reduces your dividend in the first place.
- MIP with Growth Option:
Under MIP Growth Option no money is paid out you. The profits earned from the invested amount will keep growing and you will get accumulated amount with all the profits only at the time of redeeming the mutual fund units. The benefit you reap in growth option is higher than dividend option because the compounding works wonders for longer terms but your profits may get reduced due to taxation. (Discuss later in the article).
Read: Top 10 Debts Mutual Funds to Invest
Pitfalls of Monthly Income Plans of Mutual Funds
You must have got the basic understanding of both the options of Monthly Income Plans of Mutual Funds. But there are few limitations or say myth which you should know before parking your money into MIPs. Below points are solely regarding Monthly Income Plans i.e. MIP with Dividend Option.
No Guaranteed Regular Income/Dividend
First of all, you cannot expect to get regular income aka dividend. Since MIPs invests in debt as well as equities, the certainty of profits are not sure. On top of it, regulation guiding Mutual Funds clearly states that dividend can only be paid only from the surplus/profits and not from the capital. For example, if the NAV of MIP increases from Rs.10 to Rs.13, than fund can declare dividends only out of the surplus of Rs.3. Hence, if the fund's NAV decreases due to market swings or rate reductions, there may not be any dividends.
Track records of the existing 26 Monthly Income Plans also shows that for the last five year (since September 2010) only half of them were able to pay regular dividends. This means the chances of receiving regular dividends is just 50%. In short it can be said you cannot only rely on MIPs for your basic living expenses.
Read: 6 Important Facts of Debt Funds
Not Zero Risk
As you have already read that MIP invests around 70% to 80% in debt instruments and remaining 30% in equities and cash, not only equity part offers volatile returns, debt part also exposed to volatility due to interest rate movements. For instance, if interest rates go up, the old bonds having bearing less coupon rate may become less attractive, results in reduction in their market price. Due to this MIP may show negative returns also.
Further, debt part of MIP also includes corporate bonds in its portfolio and in case these bonds makes default in payment of interest or capital, than there may be significant capital erosion in the fund.
Double Digit Return Figure
There are few misunderstanding/mis-selling happens in MIP. First one is due to lack of knowledge of investor and second one is due to high commission structure of agents.
Double digit return is the foremost lucrative point of buying MIPs. This is the only reason of picking MIP instead of Bank Fixed Deposits. But the returns of 10% to 20% as stated by the agents in recent times accrue to the growth option of MIPs not in dividend option. Since growth options bears the benefit of compounding with no withdrawals, the returns from Growth Options are far better than that under the same fund's Dividend Option. Remember, under dividend option, NAV gets reduced to the extent of dividend paid. So if NAV of the fund before paying out dividend of Rs.3 was Rs.25 than post payment, the NAV would fall to Rs.22 per unit.
Apart from the above, due to high commission structure of the agents particularly in case of MIP (as much as 1-1.5% unlike 0.5-.75% in Equity funds), these MIPs are tagged as "Safe Funds" and "Income Guaranteed Funds" which we have seen not the case.
Another heart breaking point is that most of the MIPs have higher expense ratio (around 2% or more) than other debts funds which eats into the overall returns.
Read: How to Calculate Mutual Funds Risks?
Taxation of Monthly Income Plans
MIPs are debt oriented mutual fund schemes and thus the tax treatment will be same as debt funds:
Short Term Capital Gains:
Redeeming MIPs units before 3 years (earlier 1 year) would be short term capital gains and attracts tax. The profits would be added to your income and taxed as per your slab rate.
Long Term Capital Gains:
In case the units of MIPs are sold after holding for 3 years, than the gains may be long term capital gains. The profits would suffer from flat tax rate of 20% (plus 3% cess) after indexation.
Short Term and Long term Capital Loss:
In case you have incurred short term or long term losses in MIP, you can set off it against capital gains in the same year or can carry forward in next 8 years to set off against future capital gains.
Tax on Dividends:
Dividends received by the investor are tax-free but company paying dividend is required to pay dividend distribution tax of 15% (plus cess and surcharge).
Read More on Tax Treatment of Equity and Debt Mutual Funds
MIP vs Fixed Deposits / POMIS
Investors with low risk-appetite i.e. retired or semi-retired persons or conservative investors can find Monthly Income Plans better than Bank FD but have to keep in mind that return of MIP is linked to market and thus exposed to volatility.


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Budding entrepreneurs are being invited to the biggest ever roadshow organised by a successful Barnsley business start-up programme.
SmartStart open days will be held in Barnsley town centre and across the borough in September.
Anyone interested in setting up their own business - or who has recently set up a new business - is encouraged to come along and find out more about the free business support available to them in Barnsley.
SmartStart, run by Barnsley Business and Innovation Centre (BBIC), has helped more than 200 new businesses set up in the last three years.
The programme provides one-to-one business mentoring plus an intensive eight-week course of business start-up workshops covering all aspects of running a business, including business planning, finance, marketing and sales.
SmartStart open days will be held in Barnsley town centre on September 4, 7, 8 and 9. They will also take place in Penistone town centre on September 10 and at BBIC in Wilthorpe on September 15.
Sarah Valentine-Bull, BBIC's SmartStart business development manager, said: "SmartStart is all about reaching out to people in Barnsley who are considering self-employment and setting up their own business.
"This is the first time we have taken our open days out of our home base at BBIC and into the town centre and to Penistone to the west of the borough. We hope more people with aspirations to run their own business will find it more convenient to come along and discuss their business ideas with one of our expert advisers."
Visit www.barnsleystartup.co.uk or call 01226 249590 for more details.


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For the main post on Nails Inc's 'My Nail Polish Diary', with links to all other months, click here.
It is the 1st of April, and we know what that means! No, I'm not talking about April Fools' Day, but rather the April polish from Nails Inc's Polish Diary, Sloane Avenue!
This is a lovely 'neon' coral/pink shade, perfect for Spring/Summer -- just a shame the weather doesn't reflect that. I mean really, I am so sick of rain/fog!
Anyway, I applied one coat to the thumb and index finger and 2 coats on the rest to give you an idea of the consistency. It is kind of thin as you can see, but 2 coats seems fine, and after 2 coats, it is nice and glossy (I am not using a topcoat in the pictures).
I'm rather busy so I'll just leave it there, but I definitely love this colour!
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CONCORD — A 2-year-old girl was in stable condition at Children's Hospital Oakland after being bitten by a dog Monday afternoon, authorities said.
The incident occurred about 5 p.m. in the 4300 block of Rose Lane, authorities said, and the girl was rushed to a nearby park, from where she was flown to the hospital. The girl was bitten on her face, head and right leg, according to fire officials at the scene.
Further details about the attack were not available late Monday, but a firefighter at the scene described the dog as a pit bull. Officials did not know if the girl knew the dog, but the animal was secured by Concord police and the case is now being investigated by Contra Costa County Animal Services.
The child was conscious when firefighters arrived, said Terry Stewart, a battalion chief with the Contra Costa County Fire Department.
According to a sergeant with the Concord Police, the girl was in stable condition and her injuries are not life-threatening.


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I am most often found in dimly lit areas, and flourish in cold climates. I'm not contagious, but am difficult to remedy when contracted. Sunlight is my enemy, but a bowl of ramen is my friend.
For the first four years, I was the only developer here at ThinkGeek. In early 2004 we brought on another Perl junkie, Buddy. Then, the unthinkable occurred: Buddy managed to convince me to make one of the most drastic religious conversions possible in the Un*x world. In the summer of 2004 I set Emacs aside (after over a decade of use) and started using Vim exclusively. I'm also the proud adoptive parent of a crazy beagle puppy, 5:30. You can see him trying to get Cisco to play, while our other office puppy, Dulcie, watches in the background.
For the curious out there who e-mail every so often asking what we use for our software development, here's the basics:
- 2 Developers
- Primary language for development is Perl
- Vim is used exclusively as our code editor (no stinking graphical IDEs here)
- Subversion for version control (plus a suite of utilities Buddy wrote called "VCTools")
- Current DB is MySQL 4.1 (one for development, and a pool in production using replication)
- Gentoo is our distribution of choice (not for the misguided "ricer" aspect, but because we just really dig Portage)
- Buddy and I share a room, sitting no more than six feet from each other, but we still communicate primarily over IM (taking off our headphones would require too much effort)
- Buddy uses Linux exclusively, I use a mix of Linux and Mac OS X
I'll leave you with the following little snippet:
sub ruleset_traverse { my ( $r_cond, $T ) = @_; unless ( exists $pr_hndl_cond{ $r_cond->{type} } ) { if ( $T->{errors} ) { $T->{errors}->add( BAD_CONDITION => "Unknown condition type." ); } return; } my @children = ruleset_children( $r_cond ); my $res = $pr_hndl_cond{ $r_cond->{type} }->( $r_cond, $T ); foreach my $child ( @children ) { next unless ruleset_result_match( $res, $child->{result} ); if ( $child->{TYPE} eq 'cond' ) { ruleset_traverse( $child, $T ); } elsif ( $child->{TYPE} eq 'action' ) { $pr_hndl_action{ $child->{type} }->( $child, $T, $res ) if exists $pr_hndl_action{ $child->{type} }; } last if $T->{stop} > 0; } }
There you have the inner core of our promotions/discount-code system. Sprinkle in some support code, top with a wrapper module, season the two main dispatch tables to taste and viola. Simple decision tree based promotions with unlimited nesting of conditions and chaining of actions. Of course, you'll need to use your imagination when duplicating our triggers code and coming up with the supporting dispatched routines. And for simplicity, the bulk of the exceptions handling was taken out of there as well.


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The predictions we're reviewing in this video are from "Part II" of "Back to the Future," released in 1989.
Sorry, Cubbies, you didn't win the World Series in 2015, but you were in the running. Whether by accident or shrewd prognostication, others of the movie's 1989 looks forward into 2015 produced more solid results. Whether your orientation tends to be historical or futurist, you can have fun letting this video remind you what turned out to be sort-of true. Click below or go to the original YouTube video.
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Home > Nuclear Reactors > Operating Reactors > Operational Experience > Japan Lessons Learned > Flooding Reevaluations
Flooding Reevaluations (ARCHIVED)
Note: This is an archived web page. For the most up-to-date information, see the new Post-Fukushima Safety Enhancements page.
Operating reactor sites are using present-day information to reevaluate the flooding effects—or hazards—that could impact their site. These newly reevaluated hazards, if worse than what the plant had originally calculated, will be analyzed to determine if plant structures, systems, and/or components need to be updated to protect against the new hazard. The NRC will review each step in the analysis process and take action to require plant changes as necessary.
Related Documents:
- NRC Request for Information letter related to seismic, flooding and emergency preparedness (March 12, 2012)
- NRC prioritization of plants for completing flood hazard reevaluations (May 11, 2012)
- NRC-issued guidance for performing an integrated assessment for external flooding (JLD-ISG-2012-05) (November 30, 2012)
- NRC-issued guidance for performing a tsunami, surge, or seiche hazard assessment (JLD-ISG-2012-06) (January 4, 2013)
- NRC letter to industry describing when an integrated assessment is expected (December 3, 2012)
- NRC letter to industry with guidance on the content of flooding reevaluation submittals (March 1, 2013)
- NRC-issued guidance for assessing flooding hazards due to dam failure (JLD-ISG-2013-01) (July 29, 2013)
- NRC staff proposed plan to integrate flooding hazards and mitigation strategies (COMSECY-14-0037)
- Commission response to proposed plans (SRM-COMSECY-14-0037)
- NRC Staff Action Plan to implement the proposed plan (COMSECY-15-0019)
- Commission approval for implementation of NRC Staff Action Plan (SRM-COMSECY-15-0019)
- NEI 16-05, External Flooding Assessment Guidelines, Revision 1
- NRC-issued guidance for performing focused evaluations and integrated assessments (JLD-ISG-16-01)
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wedding gift bag at TARGET!!!!
I was so excited to see this at Target this weekend. I went with my MIL, who also happens to be graphic designer and loves it as well. I even signed one ladies bag....how silly huh?
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you're AMAZING!!!! so much talent.
- March 23, 2011 at 9:52 AM
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HEY! I just saw your bag at a wedding we were at on Saturday...HOORAY, you're famous!
- March 23, 2011 at 12:16 PM
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[Ordi.] WinUAE (Public Beta) v2.0 Beta 12Posté le 29/08/2009 à 16:31
Une version Beta public de l'excellent WinUAE qui passe de la version 1.6.2 à 2.0.
– increased vertical filter display buffer size by 4 pixels (max PAL overscan fully visible now, again..)
– autovsync vertical resolution autoselection really works now
– more MMU fixes, Linux boots now. MMULib does not work but it most likely is a bug in MMULib which expects some undocumented behavior of 68040 (like how ATC caches work etc..) Commodore's 68040.library works. Note that native code (for example filesystem emulation) can't support MMU address translation (impossible to call bus error handler from non-68k code without some heavy black magic) -> any non-debugging MMU software most likely won't work without using IDE or SCSI emulation. MMU support is considered finished now. Enforcer and Linux working = good enough
– version number bumped to 2.0
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This Mango Avocado Smoothie is a delicious healthy, pick-me-up! My husband and I have a favorite Indian food restaurant in the town where we went to college. The last couple years we lived there we always went on my birthday. Delicious curry+gluten-free chickpea naan+mango lassi= all I could ever want for my birthday. Plus a gluten-free coconut layer cake, of course. So to me, mango smoothies taste festive and special!
Mangos are full of vitamin A, vitamin C, fiber, and antioxidants. They help to alkalize the body, boost your immune system, and even help clear your skin. Healthy and delicious. There's no better combination! The avocado in this smoothie makes it nice and creamy, but you can't taste it.
Green Smoothie Week:
Day 1 – Mixed Berry Mango Kale Smoothie
Day 2 – Strawberry Banana Spinach Smoothie
Day 3 – Mango Avocado Smoothie
Day 4 – Super Green Back-On-Track Smoothie
Day 5 – Cherry Almond Spinach Smoothie
Green Smoothie Week:
Mango Avocado Smoothie
- 1 1/2 cups frozen mango
- 1 cup orange juice (or 1/2 cup orange juice + 1/2 cup water)
- 1/2-1 cup almond milk
- 1/2 avocado
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened coconut flakes
- 2 tablespoons chia seeds
- Combine all the ingredients in a high-speed blender and blend until smooth. Enjoy!
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This outfit was just perfect on this day. The weather was lovely, the perfect temperature to go without a jacket in Ohio. My sister and I spent the day together, including a date with my grandpa and a walk on some pretty trails during sunset. Having a little time at home feels great. The best part so far is definitely the quality time to get to know my big sister and developing a great friendship with her.
These bold pants are nice and safe with these pops of color, but I'm looking for the perfect print on print action - a good top. I've yet to find the mate, but I will, I promise!
Top: Thrifted at Village Discount Outlet
Belt: Thrifted at Village Discount Outlet
Silver Necklace: Thrifted at Village Discount Outlet
Gold Necklace: American Vintage on Melrose
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The principles of conservation and development: do they apply in Malinau?
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Boedhihartono, A.K., Gunarso, P., Levang, P., Sayer, J.A. 2007. The principles of conservation and development: do they apply in Malinau? . Ecology and Society 12 (2) :2. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art2/. ISSN: 1708-3087.
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Attempts to reconcile economic development with environmental conservation in a forest area in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, are reviewed for the district of Malinau, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, an area of 42,000 km2 that is still largely covered in rainforest. The history of the region is described and the conservation and development impacts of external drivers of change are assessed. Both government and conservation organizations have subscribed to the rhetoric of pursuing development pathways that would be sustainable and would conserve the rich biodiversity of the area. Three distinct approaches to conservation have been attempted. First spatial planning has been used to attribute land to different uses and particularly to identify and designate protected areas. Second, measures have been taken to lessen the negative environmental impact of industrial logging and to promote the preservation of biodiversity in logged forests. Last, decentralized and community-based management has been promoted on the assumption that this would yield better environmental and social outcomes than large-scale industrial development. These conservation measures have been pursued during a period when the governance of the region has been weak. Corruption, political collusion, and nepotism have been major factors in decision making about natural resources. We argue that a sustainable future for the district of Malinau must lie in finding an appropriate balance between protected areas, forests managed at both industrial and community scales, and land conversion. However, there is little empirical evidence that allows the outcomes of these approaches to be measured. The problem of knowing how conservation investments can be made in ways that optimize sustainable benefits to local livelihoods remains largely unresolved. A number of possible conservation and development pathways for the district are discussed.
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New Year - 2010 by nuaHsWatch
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I love the fireworks And great job with the reflection in the water. Very well done!
Thank you! Happy New Year!
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Hello beauties!
It's been a while since I've done a recycling artsy post, so I figured I'd give it a go again today. All of us have old printed items that we want to get rid of, from newspapers to telephone books to heaps of outdated magazines. I bet you have at least one of these, and maybe even more laying around your house.
Some of these things may even be sentimental, like grandma's old Christmas cards, postcards you got from someone special on their worldwide trip or that first love letter from your better half. Why not make something with these, instead of having them clutter your home?
I've got a ton of ideas for you. (Not a literal ton, ideas don't weigh anything... :P ) All of these have a home on Pinterest and they're not mine.
Isn't it incredible what you can do with stuff you just have laying around in the house? Those angel wings are speaking to me. I can smell a shoot coming on. :)
Stay beautiful and be kind to animals,


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Description of problem:
During boot, the network init script is not called so eth0 is still down when
the system tries to start ypbind. Enabling the network init via chkconfig and
rebooting solves this problem.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Kickstart install current rawhide tree with NIS enabled
Actual results:
After boot, ypbind is not running even though the network is up. Inspection of
the log file shows that eth0 had not been inited at the time when ypbind was
started (it was started later by NetworkManager). Running "chkconfig network on"
and rebooting solves this problem.
Expected results:
The network is enabled early enough in the boot process for ypbind to run.
Additional info:
OK, with the combination of:
NetworkManager *should* be started earlier for apps to use. Moreover, loopback
is now brought up so that apps can bind even if the final network isn't there.
If you need to wait for NM to fully configure DHCP on boot before proceeding,
1) set NETWORKWAIT in /etc/sysconfig/network
2) file a bug about the application in question, so we can get it fixed
(after all, the network can come and go at any time)
Note: when upgrading to the new hal & NM, you may need to run:
/sbin/chkconfig haldaemon resetpriorities
/sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager resetpriorities
to have the new priorities take effect.
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Popping in to add a post about my September Scrapmatts Design Team Share.
So the DT prompt was 'Something New' (inspired by all the newness about us here in Australia as it is Springtime).
hmmmm! Well my new love is watercolor paints so I went with that!!!
Here is a layout I created and I also used some of my fav colours Blue, White and Green :)
I found this photo of Hugo the other day while searching for another photo.....I put it in a safe place as I knew I needed it scrapped!!!
{ My Happy Boy}
I've used the Scrapmatts word 'Happy' (SW007 Happy 01) & some of the pieces from the Ornate Frames 17 (CB4060)
I've coated the pieces in white gesso. I love using watercolors at the moment as they are so versatile, the softness of colour is so pretty. I even used it to colour my flowers more to my liking!
Blue, green and white are such great SPRING colours
I found the big blue beads, sequins and small beads amongst some old jewelery making stuff and really liked them...
I've also used flowers from Craft Queen and also
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Our other task was to create a set of Christmas Tags.
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Tag 2- I've used an Ornate Frame (CB6002), Ribbon Banners 01 (CB1204) and the Alphabet Flags 01 (CB6084).
I gessoed both tags, then added water colour. With the Noel tag I gessoed the frame then cut the Ornate frame (CB6002) in half and layered the pieces together. With the Noel (CB6084) alphabet flags I stuck them on top of one of the Ribbon Banners (CB1204) to give a great layered effect.
With the second tag I gessoed some Leaf Spray pieces (CB5082), then added some glossy accents.Craft Queen (except for the lace under the Reindeer) That is from a table runner from Pillow talk on a clearance rack.
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No one since white segregationist George Wallace has done more to stir up racial hatred in this country than Barack Obama and his "posse." The fact that Obama has been reluctant to disown these racial fear-mongers goes beyond disturbing. It is an indication of his complicity in their strategy of mobilizing black voters by attacking "whitey."
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While reading, sceptically, over a 9/11 'conspiracy' website (as if 20 people plotting mass-murder together doesn't constitute a conspiracy), I was struck by the vague plausibility of some of the structural inconsistencies. That maybe flying planes into buildings would damage them, and kill plenty of people, but would not be enough to bring them down. Those that believe this cite it as evidence of government complicity, but is that necessarily the case?
It could be argued that, assuming as I do that the two planes really were flown into the buildings by members of a small terrorist cell, it was actually right to use explosives to bring the towers down. Both towers collapsing straight down, as they did, was disastrous. But imagine the further loss of life, the further chaos and terror, if they had tipped over, or if the top had fallen off one and landed to the side of it. It is not too implausible that the explosives had long been placed there as a safety measure, for damage limitation, long before 11th September 2001.
If that were the case, the chilling part of this, perhaps more so than a villainous one-off government conspiracy (slightly more comforting than "A large, secret and vaguely defined group is still plotting to kill us) is that: someone had to make the decision to bring down the towers. Someone had to decide that destroying two buildings would minimise loss of human life. It would not take much for, amid the general panic, someone to make a mistake, to miscalculate, to err on the side of caution. But even more frighteningly, they could have been right. Peter Tatchell, amongst others alleges a cover-up. Is this to hide the kind of elaborate, comic-book conspiracy we're often treated to? I doubt it. It could simply have been to conceal a horrific, but necessary, worst-case scenario that would make every American hesitate even more before setting foot in a skyscraper.
I have to stress that my background is not scientific. I am neither supporting the controlled demolition hypothesis nor denying it, though I maintain a healthy scepticism for the convoluted explanations that surround it. I am simply saying, evidence of controlled demolition is no more evidence of conspiracy by the government than it is of conspiracy by hijackers.
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First major project after a bit of a hiatus from the hobby; a combination of being busy with the office job, busy working around the house and a focus on welding and fabrication.
I found this old treadle at a local church run thrift shops. At $50 it was a bit pricey; but here in Southern California, these are not easy to come by.
The top is scrub oak, (probably Quercus Xacutidens). It came from a tree on my property that burned and died in one of the large wildfires. It had been standing dead for a number of years before I decided to fell it and get the lumber milled.
This is my third piece of furniture from that tree. Nothing too complex about the construction. Used a router jig to flatten and get rid of the milling marks; then used my circular saw to joint the wood. The intent was for a reverse live edge. It took a bit too much out of the center, but that is how it goes sometimes.
For the finish, I sanded to 500 grit with an ROS, applied 2 coats of BLO, followed by a good 6 coats of wipe on poly. Felt good to be back in the shop and knock an easy project out.
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#1 posted 02-22-2015 10:01 PM
That's really nice! Lucky you to snag that sewing treadle. I've been looking for one here locally in CO for a long time now. Love the look of the scrub oak and metal. That combination is always nice, especially when the metal is antique in design.
Nice job!
-- Where The Spirit In Wood Lives On
#2 posted 02-22-2015 10:54 PM
looks really good
#3 posted 02-23-2015 12:54 AM
Beautiful! That looks like what we Okies call quartersawn blackjack. Great ray fleck in yours!
-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm
#4 posted 02-23-2015 03:07 AM
yeah, the book-matching is nice.
-- Tree, wood, and box lover from Pennsylvania
#5 posted 02-23-2015 03:45 AM
Nice work. My friend just pulled one of those from the scrap metal bin at the dump and wants me to make a similar top for it.
-- "He who has no dog, hunts with a cat" Portuguese proverb
#6 posted 02-23-2015 07:53 PM
Such beautiful figure I love it
-- Wood and Glass they kick (well you know) Have a great day - Dug
#7 posted 02-23-2015 08:21 PM
I made a desk for my wife out of a treadle sewing base, but it sure didn't have the character of that wood. Gorgeous pieces and love the bookmatch.
-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
#8 posted 02-24-2015 04:15 AM
Great job with a unique piece of wood. I also looked at your older project made from the same tree-equally awesome.
Thanks for sharing.
Bill in MI
#9 posted 02-26-2015 09:34 PM
I am making one of these for my wife for our anniversary. I honestly see the bases around Oklahoma City on a daily basis for about $25-$50 bucks. I had 2 offered to me for free, but I couldn't pick them up in time.
Great looking table though. I really like that wood.
-- Phillip- Measure twice, cut onc.... Hey look, it's rustic.
#10 posted 08-15-2015 06:07 AM
That is a nice repurposed table and amazing figure in the wood.
-- Allen, Colorado (Instagram @bobasaurus_woodworking)
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